A man named McCreedy brings a woman a cup of coffee at work and she remarks the cup is made from paper and not Styrofoam. She spots a man and hides behind her desk. McCreedy tells his boss she needed air as she disappears. The man was Det. Beaumont from the NYPD and he wanted to ask Paige (Anna Belknap) some routine questions. Her room mate said she didn’t come home. Paige Hobson is a data analyst for Infomerge and has worked here for 2 years. Jack (Anthony LaPaglia) tells Martin (Eric Close) the NYPD told him Beaumont doesn’t exist.
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Paige is an activist. McCreedy wasn’t her type as he’s “too shallow.” They were working on something for Fit’n’Thin who has the potential to target 10 million customers in the 25-49 demographic. Paige says they target white women because they’re more concerned about their weight. She commented on the technology here whilst children are going hungry, have no textbooks and people are without healthcare. She doesn’t make a difference and he suggested she should get laid. Jack asks if she took his advice. He doesn’t know the man’s name.
The doctor tells Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) the procedure during her operation. Her heart will stop beating for an hour but the bypass machine will keep the blood circulating around her body. He’s carried out a lot of these procedures. Martin tells Jack the coffee vendor outside recalls Paige getting into a yellow cab. Jack has a stop to make before he gets back to the office.
Paige’s roommate tells Danny (Enrique Murciano) and Sam (Poppy Montgomery) that she doesn’t have any enemies and has a sister in Cincinnati. Danny checks her computer. Paige was dating a man 2 months ago, she was secretive about him but she was happy. Danny finds a photo of the mystery man. Julia Gomez (Shontae Saldana) came to see her here, she was one of her mentors from her high school. She told Julia she was pregnant a week ago and wants to keep the baby. The father wants her to have an abortion. He’s a policeman and he’s married. Danny thinks the policeman is probably the man who went to see Paige. Danny and Sam show Julia a photo of the man, Beaumont but he’s not her boyfriend. Paige called and she told her she was leaving. She gave her $50,000 for the baby. Danny asks for the money. Jack visits Viv, she doesn’t want him there and tells him her operation is at 3pm. He wishes her luck and wanted her to know he was thinking about her.
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Sam tells Danny, Internal affairs is investigating the policeman. The $50,000 was withdrawn from a bank account by a Sarah Reynolds from the Borough National Bank. The licence number matches a photo of Paige. Martin can’t help watching Sam talk with Danny. Martin finds the security software on Paige’s computer wipes everything, but finds a photo of the same man they found at her place. Martin and Sam question Paige’s sister.
She identifies the man as Adisa Teno (Jason George). Paige met him 4 years ago in Makeba, Africa when she worked for an aid agency. He was at her place 2 weeks ago. He arrived in New York 2 months ago as he’s not welcome in his own country. General Gamba (Frank Emeka) is in charge and there is nothing but famine, disease and death squads there. Paige expresses her abhorrence at the pharmaceutical drug companies which experiment on children there. Adisa changes the subject. They were in love and he wasn’t looking for a Green Card. Paige always had a soft spot for strays.
Danny finds Paige had a million consumer records a week on her computer; identity, socials. Sam thinks she was involved in identity theft. Jack says she sold the identities to fraud companies. He finds Adisa is part of the Makeba Liberation Front and is on the terrorist watchlist. $250,000 million were transferred to a JF Holdings. Jack asks Sam how she is and she thinks he’s checking up on her and Martin. Jack will wait outside the Makeban embassy and Sam heads back to put a name to the face of the fake detective. Viv undergoes surgery.
Sam deosn’t find any African names on the list and will ask at the State Department. Jack talks to a man. He’s the security attachment and asks what interest he has in Paige. Their Intel has told them Adisa is part of a terrorist group and will be making an attempt on the General. The MLF are a threat. He calls Adisa brutal and ruthless. Jack tells him that’s what people here also think of the General. He leaves and tells Jack he’s in the buffer zone, on African soil. Martin tells Danny Paige changed cabs at South Street and Fulton. Danny tells him JF Holdings have a warehouse 2 blocks away from there.
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The FBI raid the warehouse and Jack arrests Adisa.
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They confiscate their stockpile of weapons. Jack isn’t concerned about the General but only about Paige. Adisa tells Jack he works for the General because his colleague will want his deportation and he’ll listen, when he arrives at the airport he’ll be shot. The General gave the order and Jack obeyed it. He hasn’t seen Paige. Jack says being in love with her isn’t so noble. She took data from her work to fund their cause. Jack says this isn’t about love. Adisa betrayed her trust. She came to him for help when a man came to see her at work. Jack calls him a killer.
Danny and Martin question one of Adisa’s men. Danny says they can detain him alone on the weapons charges for an indefinite period. Martin tells him they’re helping him by not deporting him and that there won’t be bait on the General. Paige turned up at the warehouse and was told about the General. She thought the money was going to be used for relief supplies. The weapons were the relief. Deep down she knew the money was really for arms. Adisa told her of his family being murdered and he was the only survivor. Nothing can jeopardize their work. He couldn’t let Paige go. When the man returned she was gone. Danny asks what he did with her?
Jack speculates Paige knew too much so Adisa killed her. He apologized for deceiving her and said he loves her, he gave her a gun. Jack says it wasn’t for protection but he probably shot her with it.
Sam finds the man is Emil Dornvald (Charles Mesure). He served in the army and then was a mercenary and even worked for the CIA. Martin finds Paige bought a ticket from Grand Central station to Cincinnati. Danny thinks she’s going to her sister. The train leaves at 2:42pm and they have it held. It’s 3pm Jack looks at the station clock. Viv’s heart doesn’t start at the end of the operation.
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Danny looks at Viv’s photo with Reggie on her desk. Martin looks up the record on Paige’s phone. She had 2 calls at 2:38pm and a picture message. Jack and Sam are called to a crime scene in an alley where Julia’s body is found. She was shot through the head. The time of the 911 call was 2:42pm. Sam thinks she called Paige. Jack tells her it wasn’t Julia who made the call, but someone else. A black SUV was seen leaving the scene.
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Danny puts out an APB, Interagency alert and stop notices at the airport on Dornvald. Jack, Martin and Sam watch the embassy. Jack phones the hospital, Viv is still in surgery. An SUV arrives with the General. Jack says they’ll take Dornvald out of the buffer zone if they have to, but he’s not with them. Jack spots Paige but she shoots the General.
Paige tells Sam she wasn’t the shooter but she was about to leave when she got the phonecall and everything changed with Julia’s murder. Dornvald told her there wouldn’t be an assassination and wanted the names of all the MLF members, then he’ll stop killing her loved ones. She told him she’s at Hartford, Connecticut. Dornvald will pay for what he did. Sam tells her she’ll be charged with murder as the General’s dead. Paige wanted to make a difference, maybe she has now. Jack tells Adisa news of the assassination has reached the rebels and the government, they fortified the palace. Adisa tells him it’s a battle now. He asks about Paige. Jack watches him from outside the interrogation room. Martin removes photos form the board and leaves Dornvald’s on the suspect board whilst the news shows pictures from Makeba.
Sam takes Paige away as Danny and Martin take Adisa away in handcuffs. They watch each other. Jack visits Viv at the hospital. Her husband, Marcus (Joseph C Phillips) nods his head when he sees him. Danny and Martin transport Adisa in a car. Jack calls Danny and tells him Viv’s fine. A van pulls up and stops in front of their car. Dornvald and others get out and shoot at the car…
A routine episode in many ways as all the missing pieces all fall into place easily: i.e. the warehouse connection leading them to find Adisa so easily, Paige taking 2 cabs thinking no one will find her, they did. So you know something's about to happen , so much for Danny saying, “it’s over.”
A first for the show ending on a cliff-hanger – of course one of them will be shot! Danny being rather preminitious (ok my word) first he says “it’s over” which is far from the truth then his last words of the season : “at least we’re ending the day on an upnote…” Yeah, on a shoot out. Those were the highlights of this rather tedious episode, the last few seconds with Danny and Martin! But it is over for Viv who’s out of surgery, it’s also over for Paige and Adisa, but only just beginning for Makeba and it’s struggle. Though the story isn’t very original, African country being ruled by a despot whilst its people suffer disease, death and famine… There were some uplifting moments, such as the revolution being sparked, albeit by a plot twist , with Paige turning assassin which she wouldn’t have done if Julia hadn’t been murdered, if Adisa hadn’t given her the gun and the call to arms: "Sending rice is not the solution…it requires one moment to spark a revolution, to take action…”
Repeated by Paige when she tells Sam her reasons for the killing, “Sam: “you don’t seem the type.”
Paige: “I’m not…Adisa says there’s a moment that makes people take action – that was my moment.” Well it would have meant much more if the lines hadn't come from Lindsay from CSI:NY, so boring here and in that too!!
Jack having an empathetic moment when he tells Adisa about Paige, “she’s not the girl you first met.” Watching him on the other side; sympathizing with their predicament, kind of.
Martin: “So I have you to thank for all the junk mail.” A repetition of his from episode 18 when he mentions he gets so much junk mail from a certain bank.
Fit’n’Thin rears it’s head again from season 3 episode 5, American Goddess when Danny had a lot to say about it too.
Viv: “for that hour I’ll be dead.” Just like she was shot and died in episode 3.22, Jack’s dream.
Viv: “oh you think I want you to see me like this.” She’s worried about her operation but she could’ve been more appreciative of Jack’s visit, after all, he’s seen her collapsed on the roadside and in the ambulance. Also whatever happened to Viv’s brother, they don’t get on as mentioned in season 1 episode, but he is still family.
Danny: “She gets around.”
Martin watching Sam speak to Danny, jealous much maybe?
Danny: “She’s in deep.”
Jack: “How are you – how you doin’?”
Sam: “it’s not affecting my work Jack – me and Martin.”
Jack: “I’ wasn’t talkin’ about Martin. I was just trying to have a damn conversation!” Think Jack was trying to be more communicative with his team, i.e when he spoke to Sam, she was defensive for no reason – they are meant to be over. Ha, funny how they always say the wrong thing, whatever made Sam think Jack would bother asking about them too anyway?
Viv’s out of danger as Danny and Martin are entering into it...
Jack: “African soil, looks like Park Avenue to me.”
Jack: “you are taking our Second Amendment just a little bit too far.” The Second Amendment being the right to bear arms.
Ooh Danny making more threats of indefinitely holding…! Danny and Jack are the only ones who think of Viv, Sam doesn’t but Martin’s relieved at the end she’s okay.
Viv’s photo of her with her husband seems to have vanished from her desk.
Funny Paige’s last name being Hobson, re Hobson’s Choice, she had a choice and she made it. The wrong one but I can't sympathize with her, it's Lindsay after all!! Just think if Medical Investigations had continued she'd never have made it onto CSI:NY!!
Jason George was in Sunset Beach and Stargate SG1, to mention a few shows, and Lisa Sheridan was seen in the new alien drama series Invasion. With Eddie Cibrian, also Jason's co-star in Sunset Beach. Charles Mesure went on to Crossing Jordan and Desperate Housewives.
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Why did you stop the Without a Trace reviews?
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