A cage fight ensues, where Petrov (Tito Ortiz) is beaten by Ryan. He accuses Ryan of cheating and they make it seem like he holds a grudge against him and will be up to no good. A burned DB is found. Flack (Eddie Cahill) asks Mac (Gary Sinise) if he's skipped breakfast. A melted driver's licence was found which Ided him as Ryan (Alex Nesic). Mac believes the DB was burned here and accelerant was used. The body was allowed to burn. Mac: "Somebody wanted to destroy the evidence."
Sid (Robert Joy) is out of autopsy again and gasoline was used. Hawkes (Hill Harper) wonders why it kept burning, not being pedantic but he was an ME before and they didn't need for him to ask that question, though it was for our benefit. Sid believes it was the candle wick effect. His clothing kept on burning like an inside out candle wick. With a "continuing supply of fuel in the form of melting human fat." Hawkes thinks that's disgusting. Flack comments Ryan was an up and coming cage fighter which he thinks is "an excuse for two grown men to beat the bloody pulp out of each other." Flack is a fan nonetheless. He would be, well he's into sports though some people would have difficulty defining this as a sport.
A reporter, Julie Walsh (Vinessa Shaw) arrives at the scene wanting to interview Mac over the NYPD's "inability to police themselves." She brings him coffee and a blueberry muffin. Mac gave up coffee a year ago, which is news to us and he's allergic to blueberries. Suppose Flack wanted the coffee and the muffin. Flack thinks it's a joke. Mac: "I am a big fan of the rules." Mac doesn't have any personal or other comment. He does the job to the best of his ability and expects others under his command to do the same. Where has she come from now and why the idea for the story? There was publicity over the John Curtis trial and over Jo and how he stands by her, but it's a bit late to be coming up with this now isn't it.
Sid finds fracture's on the Vic's cranium meaning he was exposed to flames before the actual fire. Hawkes found lead and antimony in the nugget Sid discovered fused to the base of his skull. Hawkes calls it, 'death by GSW.' Mac posits the Vic was shot at the back of the neck, hit on the head and set on fire. Which Sid refers to as "overkill." Jo (Sela Ward) speaks with his wife, Lisa (Laura Breckenridge) and she tells of a stalker back in Oklahoma. Jo reassures they will do what they can to find out who's behind this. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) compared the reference sample Lisa gave to the blood at the CS and it's a positive match for Ryan.
Jo says the stalking stopped when they moved. Smug Lindsay (Anna Belknap) turns up and the way she gives them the info she's found with a permanent grin on her face is awful, like it's really something to smile about. She found e-mails from the same person and has a photo from the fight which was sent to Ryan. Adam (AJ Buckley) tries to work out who took the photo. Jo spots a VIP badge around his neck. The serial number was issued to Petrov, who sold it. Jo finds peanut shells where the man was standing during the fight and she recalls the tin of peanuts in his hand.
Flack deals with a man reeking of gasoline and covered in blood at the precinct. He thinks he killed someone. Flack was a bit rough on Marty (David Gallagher) since he hasn't got the full story yet and so treats him like a suspect. It was his twenty-first and he got drunk. Flack; "I've had my fair share of rough nights." Especially in season 6 when he was drinking. He could have killed Ryan.
Mac finds flowers on his desk and no card. They're not from Jennifer who has a pass to the lab, wanting him to read her draft of the article and she's free for dinner. He doesn't fell obligated to read it and he's not interested if she's free or not. Mac takes her pass and Lindsay had to walk in calling her cute. She's so nosy, did the same thing we Jo and Russ (David James Elliott) last season. Hasn't she got a life of her own? She finds the blood on Marty's clothes doesn't belong to Ryan and the gasoline doesn't match, but there was asbestos on his clothes. She makes another crack about the flowers and cos it's pet Lindsay, she's allowed to get away with it.
Jo asks Mac how he eats his peanuts cos down South they boil them so they can break the shells with their teeth. What and eat the skin too? She finds DNA from the saliva which is a match to Aaron Collins. He's found by Danny and Flack at the store where he works cos this was going to be the shortest chase scene in CSI:NY history. They didn't even get out of the store! Not so much a chase scene as one involving destruction. Flack: "Why do they always run?" Cos then we wouldn't be able to get our Flack/Danny chases. Danny: "Don't know, must be brain damage." Danny picks a chip off Flack's head and eats it, doesn't Lindsay feed him. Ha.
Aaron took the photo Since he knew Ryan from school and he took a cheap shot at him, breaking his knee. Mac accuses him of killing Ryan. He sent the photo and the death threat to frighten Ryan and has an alibi. Sid's X-rays of Ryan's leg shows screws in his ankle but the medical records show his ankle wasn't broken, so it's not Ryan. Mac comments the blood was gravitational and Jo thinks Ryan could have planted it and she was right. Which is what I said. He would have needed a body so he could have still killed someone. Sid removes a screw and matches the serial number.
Danny says Ryan took out life insurance, but Jo finds he was rejected cos of his profession. He volunteered to help the homeless which was a clue as to how he got the body. Sid explains how the FDA requires documents of surgically implanted medical devices and Hawkes finds one DB from the Naval Medical Centre, matching Vet Charlie Hunt. USMC. He was shot nine months earlier which was the bullet Sid recovered. In walks smug Lindsay again to tell about Marty's dorm room being near a condemned building. Jo thinks the two cases are connected.
Marty recalls knocking over a heater which is why he smelled of gasoline and Jo takes him through a relaxing technique to help him remember. He heard a noise and the beams fell on top of Charlie. He left him here. There's blood on a beam and Jo and Mac follow a blood trail, so Charlie was still alive. Adam called Mac a genius before and Ryan contacted Lisa by sending her a postcard. He analyzed the DNA from the stamp which belongs to him. Adam: "I know..." in congratulating himself for being a genius, but wait, was that what Mac was going to say.
Ryan told her what he was going to do and the postcard is the motel where he proposed. She leads them to him since it's her turn to protect him now and look out for him. He found Charlie and tried to take him to hospital but he died in his car and so he got the idea to burn him. Said a prayer, took his dog tags for Charlie's sister. Mac tells him there's no scientific way to confirm TOD so they can't say if he was killed by him or not. Mac gets full military honours for Charlie so his family can say goodbye.
Jo understands why Ryan made that choice, "Love makes you do crazy things." She can plead temporary insanity when it comes to love on many occasions. She talks about Jennifer, and Mac accuses Lindsay of having an overactive imagination. No she's just plain nosy. Jo asks if that's all Jennifer was chasing, i.e. a story since Flack believed otherwise. Mac: "Flack is dead." Jo: "You're a charming, sexy, single man. There's no hiding from that." Jo's seductive goodnight in her dulcet tone. Some would like to see Jo and Mac get together but that's not going to happen. Mac isn't really one for dating co-workers. Look what happened with him and Peyton.
Not one of the best CSI:NY episodes in my opinion though it did have some great character moments.
Flack tells Mac he hopes he hasn't eaten. Mac was a Marine before joining the NYPD and his service/tour took him to Beirut which would have exposed him to such sights. No one should have to go through that and end up being treated in that way. Blatant disregard for human life and death, to have burnt his body in that way. Suppose it came back to haunt Ryan since he has to face the possibility of jail since TOD can't be determined so they can't say whether Charlie was dead or not at a specific time. For all the hype over his appearance, Tito Ortiz didn't get much of a storyline.
There have been plenty of CSI episodes with burned bodies such as CSI season 11 A Kiss Before Frying, but this burned body turned out to be alive. CSI episode 7.14 Meet Market where a DB was burned and organs removed. CSI Miami's Slow Burn episode. The one that sticks out in my mind is CSI:NY Heroes episode from season 2 when Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) was killed - a burned out car was found with a DB inside which was Aiden. She'd also been beaten before being burned.
Alex Nesic who played Ryan was also in CSI:Miami episode Cop Killer. Laura Breckenridge was in CSI Blood Moon and David Gallagher was in CSI ep Tressed to Kill.
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