Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Mac (Gary Sinise) process a CS and Mac believes the killer wanted money. Jan Knight was DOA and the gun is found. Danny notices high velocity blood spatter on the wall next to the window. He hears a noise in the closet and is hit by an assailant. He pursues (hot pursuit ha) and identifies himself, leading to a shoot-out in the subway. Danny fires the last two shots and a cop is killed. Mac takes Danny's gun. Flack (Eddie Cahill) identifies him as Officer Rodney Minhas (Gilbert Rosales). Stories of six witnesses are all consistent: a man came down the stairs ran to the middle platform and hid behind a pillar. He saw Danny and fired twice. Minhas came down the north stairs and starts shooting at the same man Danny was chasing.
One question I have to ask which no one did here, at least I can't recall if they did, but did no one ask why Minhas was there at the same time Danny happened to be chasing the perp? Seems more than coincidental. Can't be he happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Danny insists the cop fired at him first. Flack breaks it up, "I don't want anybody making their minds up about this until we know the facts." Mac asks what happened. He chased the perp in the subway: onto the platform and shoots at him, turns and runs and Danny fired twice. He's not sure if he hit the perp with both rounds. Danny: "I followed my training by the book, Mac." Minhas didn't ID himself. He was an imminent threat and he took him out. Mac warns IAB will want a statement so Danny mustn't say anything until they issue the preliminary report.
Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) finds a message recorder from an injured civillian who was standing next to the perp. IAB Chief Hillborne (Joe Morton) wants a statement from Danny. He has 48 hours before he talks to them. Only uniforms have privilege detectives have no right. Danny is insistent he has nothing to hide.
In story 2 Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) investigates a DB found in toilets in Central park. Sandra Lopez, 19. Matrice (Noureen DeWulf) and Glenda (Kimberly Dooley) were nannies. EMS says the Bureau of Child Welfare is locating parents. Stella processes Daniella, the baby who will be released when parents arrive. Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds blunt force trauma to her head and a single blow. Granular matter in the wound checked under autopsy scope coming up with feldspar, quartz, mica on a granite shaped rock. Evidence of burn trauma with singed hair in nose and throat. Sexual assault kit is positive. A print is found on the rock but there's no match to anyone.
Hawkes removes a round from Minhas's shoulder, which wasn't fatal. The second one entered his ribs and bled to death. There's no way to determine who fired the fatal shot. On the recorder shots are heard from three sources, one voice is heard to say, "undercover, I'm on the job, don't shoot." Then Danny's shots are heard. He fired after Minhas identified himself. Who was going to hear his ID through all that noise and commotion. He may as well have flashed his badge.
Bullets are recovered from the pillar. The perp fired twice and hit a civillian. Minhas has hit the wall near Danny and the round is recovered. Danny fired twice, one in the shoulder and one round is missing. Danny leaves hospital. Aiden looks at the platform and Mac takes Danny off the case. The audio tape story doesn't match the witnesses. Mac: "Evidence is damaging to you." Danny didn't hear anything. Mac thinks the missing bullet is the one that killed Minhas. Danny needs to call a lawyer and talk to someone and Mac didn't mean IAB. Flack says the bullet that skip-marked could have been fired by Danny or the perp.
The Myerson's butler tells Stella how Sandra was acting strangely. They had a robbery a month ago where a nesting doll was stolen and then anonymously returned. Bartender does some firebreathing at the bar named Steve Dark (Chris Tardio). She came onto him and breathed fire but couldn't' do it. His DNA doesn't match the rock. Hawkes runs the DB through the system. Sandra was a thief and Chad (Chad Lindberg) finds an address fro her. A blue sapphire necklace was stolen and there were prints on the jewellery box. They tried it on, jewellery went missing and Sandra was blamed.
Aiden finds a bullet in the stair without any blood. The round is matched to Danny's gun. Mac concludes Danny killed Minhas. His round wasn't found. Danny talks to Flack and about time to. He doesn't want to call a lawyer. Flack: "Don't start taking things into your own hands, listen to me." He and Aiden are returning to the apartment to look for answers. Danny still believes it was a good shoot and he has to do something about it.
Flack demands he should stay quiet and let Mac handle it. Danny: "Mac's worried about the reputation of the unit." He's always worried about the rep of the unit but in this case he was also worried about Danny though he didn't say as much. Flack: "You're wrong, he's got your back." Danny is too busy wanting to defined himself, er that's what lawyers are for. Flack tells him to trust the system but he knows what the system is like. Wonder what that was about, Danny's gripe with the system obviously relating to his past, but we're not told anything further. Flack: "Don't hang yourself Danny."
Stella finds there's no match to the prints in the system but those of Glenda are found in AFIS for robbery at Matrice's employer's address. She asks for a lawyer and Stella wants her prints. She checks the nesting doll for prints and there's a match to the stone of Matrice's prints. They steal from each other's houses and leave prints at each other's homes. All wiped clean but one. She took the doll and Glenda wiped it down. Sandra put it back, she confronted Sandra. They were all trying to make money for health insurance. Stella tells Mac the baby is everything anyone could want. She's the strongest person he knows. Yet throughout all this she didn't ask how Danny. She was too busy worrying about her own case and feelings for the baby.
Three men were in the room and one bled badly. Knight pulls a gun and the perp takes the bullet. Aiden says the window was open and the bullet is outside in the tree. Mac finds the through and through was positive for blood. Bullet in the tree was fired by Knight's gun. The blood spatter matches the bullet. Minhas was the mystery man from the apartment. He was shot here so Danny didn't kill him. He took another entrance down the block. There are tickets on the car and blood on the pavement. Minhas was the driver and was in the apartment with the perp. Flack runs the VIN.
Danny followed procedure and tells his story to Hillborne. The preliminary account of his statement is inaccurate. Minhas's behaviour was irrelevant. IAB will review if he's fit to be a policeman. Mac gave him an order not to talk. He had findings clearing Danny of the shooting and any responsibility in Minhas's death. Their info will be useless in his defence. Michael Armstrong (Maurice Compte) is the registered owner of the car and a gun is found in the apartment with his prints. Armstrong hid in the closet. Minhas wasn't trying to help him he was trying to kill him.
The DA refuses to prosecute Danny. Mac tells him you don't win in this situation. IAB isn't calling it a good shoot, just there isn't enough evidence to prosecute. Mac: "There's two things I wanna say to you....one I thought I'd never tell you. I was strongly discouraged against hiring you." The decision was Mac's to hire him and he followed his gut. Danny is adamant he can account for every second of the shooting. Mac says he can't cos Mac can't account for it. He's off the promotion grid. Mac gets a call from Hillborne. So who was bad mouthing Danny, not so that we knew. There must have been some Tanglewood connection here with Danny's past but it wasn't explored nor was it mentioned again, so really there was no point mentioning it just for the sake of this episode.
At least Flack showed he was there for everyone, especially Danny, but he chose to ignore his advice. So much for talking to him. He went 'rogue' and decided to do what he wanted even going against Mac's advice to keep quiet. But it wouldn't have hurt Mac to have told him he's got his back. But in a way he did, cos that's why he told him to go home. How could Danny have given a statement to IAB without all the facts being in and the evidence too? It was just supposition without proof and his version of events. Aiden and Flack were the only ones concerned for Danny. Stella was off gallivanting around, absorbed in her own case. Nothing new there then.
Appropriate title for this episode stealing whilst 'on the job' and besides, Minhas was a dirty cop which was nicely covered up by IAB. What happened to the policemen who were running behind Danny in the opening? They took their time getting to the subway. Stella only getting the names of the nannies and not their addresses. Was she going to contact all of them through their employers when she didn't know who they were either?
The character of Steve Dark in this episode is also the name Anthony Zuiker gave to the character in his Dark Origins digi-novel.
In CSI episode Play With Fire, Gil (William Petersen) defends Catherine (Marg Helgenberger)when her actions affected everyone and he's told by the Director that it's not Gil's job to protect his people but only the integrity of the lab. Gil: "Without the people there is no lab." Here Mac does have his back but Danny doesn't believe he does. CSI season 2 A Little Murder Catherine is attacked by a perp hiding at the CS still.
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