Story 1: A bike messenger collapses and has a prior record for assaulting a taxi driver. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) asks "Is that still a crime in New York?" It's probably commonplace since there's an abundance of taxis in the city. He suffered a stab wound to his upper right side. It appears to be the secondary CS. Danny finds his delivery manifest, his boss was Michael Stalin. Speaking with him, Danny is told, the better the route, the more money they were paid. Danny: "I'm looking for the truth, you don't seem so eager to deliver." Danny questions another messenger, Brett (Aisha Hinds). So there would be plenty of suspects vying for his route.
The second story sees the death of a dog handler. Flack (Eddie Cahill) questions Emily Curtis who showed other dogs. The show's vet, Ross, (Zach Grenier) found the body, but he didn't hear anything. She had the key to the dog's case in her hand, the one containing the dog's medication and a knitting needle in her bag. Milly (Julia Duffy) wasn't well liked and a judge had to recuse himself. Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) finds bloody paw prints leading away from the CS.
Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds the bike messenger had multiple heeled fractures of the collarbone and ribs. A hairline fracture to his pelvis where he was stabbed. Part of the murder weapon was left behind. He lost a lot of blood and kept going due to the adrenalin. Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) says the Vic was stabbed in his right leg and there's blood on the left pedal, so blood transferred to the bike. Danny says the red mist is too fine to be blood spatter. There's a grey, granular compound on the back of his jacket. Stella finds the two grey fibres on the jacket are woollen. There's a second DNA sample. Danny thinks they can narrow down the path he went on using the heart rate monitor, which is interpreted wirelessly to his wristwatch showing where he was riding.
Mac (Gary Sinise) finds Hawkes in the freezer. The pipes were iced when a trainee left the door open, revealing a wealth of talents on the part of Hawkes. COD was a ruptured aorta. The needle should have passed through without any trouble, but it caught her aorta. There are no defensive wounds and foreign hairs are present under her clothes, a bite mark on her leg and piece of latex in her mouth. Milly has animal hair all over her. The paw prints in the blood belong to a Spaniel or a hunting dog. The dogs are lined up and their paws checked. Elaine and the handler were involved, she had a fetish and bit her on the leg.
The messenger's last delivery was on Wall Street, his heart rate spiked between Clarkson and Walker. Danny uses his jacket to provide a sequential time line, cement and red paint reveals he rode on the pavement through wet cement. The bike tyres match red paint on a sign. That is the primary CS, near a news paper vendor. A knife is found in the gutter. The DNA from the blood matches Brett Stokes and Danny sees the female bike messenger. Danny: "Think I might have spoken to her this morning."
Stella: "Really, she seem suspicious?"
Danny: "I didn't think anything."
Stella: "Cos she's a girl." Now Stella's getting Danny's lines. Well actually she did kind of take a shine to Danny. I liked the way Danny got the cryptic lines, kind of. It's the sort of reply he gave Mac in the earlier episodes when they spoke about the evidence and getting the job done. There's a residue on the tip of the blade containing aromatic hydrocarbons found in lotion.
Aiden's results from the Tox screen reveal anti-depressants. Serotonin suppressors, used for Serotonin Syndrome, which can cause nausea, hypothermia. Mac doesn't think it was accidental, but she fell onto the needle.. A DNA profile is carried out on the skin under the nails and matched to CODIS. Ross is a compulsive gambler and has a scratch on his hand from a dog. Mac: "Someone wears a nice shirt and that makes them a player." Elaine scratched him. He pretended not to hear her as he was gambling.
Danny doesn't find the DNA under the messenger's nails matches Brett. Danny has the time to joke though, "Don't kill the messenger. See what I did there?" Actually don't think so, since Stella feels she's the only one who can make jokes. It matches Theodore Gates (Brad Greenquist) who was convicted for sexual misconduct on an 8 year old boy. Danny flashes his badge. Stella tells him they're not here for a Megan's Law visit and Danny asks, "What's the matter, am I too old for you?" Theodore lost his knife and was at an airplane model convention for which he has a receipt. Yeah probably scoping out more younger Vics.
Danny checks the lotion. Stella: "If you wanted beauty tips all you had to do was ask." He tells her that water mascara dries out lashes. Don't think Stella would be the first port of call for beauty tips. The substance was actually hand lotion given away as a free sample in magazines. It was the news vendor who came into contact with it, again the apparent suspect and he also wears woolly gloves, thus the fibre. He used a box cutter. He's the sole worker at the CS. Danny tells him he took an innocent life. The messenger raced past him on the street and next time he did that he stabbed him. All for what, racing around when he knows what the streets are like.
Mac checks out the Ross's alibi and Elaine's stomach contents are examined. She ingested it in liquid form. Mac sees a woman drinking from the dog's feeding bottle. The dog's water is tested for SSRIs (the suppressors). The lock on the case was tampered with and the dog's hair sample is a match to the hair in the bottle. Elaine put the dog's depression meds in the dog's bottle. Milly was tired of her dresses and wanted to slow her dog down. Mac: "You had everything to do with her death." Aiden explains Elaine was on medication of her own and she reacted to the dog's meds which made her fall onto the needle. This wasn't Milly's intention.
Mac takes Stella to the dog show and they eat hot dogs, betting on which dog wins. Of course Stella wins the bet. Mac doesn't wear his tie which will become commonplace in the next seasons. Stella: "Some days you're the dog, some days you're the fire hydrant." So not funny, Stella calling herself a dog there. You know, every dog has its day.
This is Danny's second arrest. Stella got Danny to be her 'dog's body' this episode, making him fetch and carry for her. Both stories had Vics with trace under their fingernails. See CSI:Miami episode 7.7 Cheating Death where a suspect had a credit card receipt to provide an alibi, but she was actually the killer, so a receipt doesn't really prove much of anything.
Megan's Law was mentioned in a season 1 episode of CSI:Miami and relates to federal law which requires states in the US to tell communities if a sex offender is in a neighbourhood. Megan's Law was named after Megan Kanka, a seven year old who was assaulted and killed in New jersey by a neighbour who had previous convictions for child sex offences.
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