A couple make small talk at dinner, interspersed with flashes of what is about to befall them. Their home is invaded and the husband is killed presumably during the attack. It was apparent their marriage is over. Flack (Eddie Cahill) says the wife called for help which must have been a feat itself considering she was bound, gagged and in the bedroom. There were two intruders and both wore ski masks, what we'd call balaclavas. The daughter Megan, (Heather Sossaman) was at the movie theatre. Mac (Gary Sinise) questions all the houses in the neighbourhood to find out "why the attackers chose this one?"
Lindsay (Anna Belknap) processes the CS as we get more flashes of the events from the night. She finds a ski mask under the husband, Ron's (Vincent Ventresca) DB and the empty box that was delivered. Jo (Sela Ward) finds a hair from a slashed painting. One obvious clue to the killer was how the wife, Elizabeth (Sandra Hess) got so much blood on her shirt. She opened the door for the package and they wanted the location of the safe.
Ron fought back and pulled the mask off and was beaten. She didn't recognize him. So if Elizabeth also saw his face why didn't she get killed too? Because they weren't out to kill anyone. Also she thinks she waited too long to call for help, Megan returns. Sid (Robert Joy) finds a piece of a playing card stuck to Ron's suit. Lindsay whiffs the empty box which was the scent of vanilla. Obviously it was used for candles.
Mac finds Megan's alibi checks out and Jo didn't think of her as a suspect (well she was wrong for once), She was a suspect but not in the murder. Mac hasn't seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jo suggests he should, "It ranks right up there with that 8 hour Reagan documentary you're always watching." Lindsay thinks she's the only one working. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) discovered the hair came from a vicuna and does a magic trick with playing cards. Lindsay picks the Queen of Spades which is the card from which the fragment came. Also Danny was the one who had to tell her the box was used for scented candles. She's getting the addresses for customers who ordered them in the city.
Flack had to take Lindsay along. He tells her her exact words were "one more stop than we'd get a bite to eat." Why is she driving anyway, just like Stella? Flack: "You're not saying what I think you're saying." Which is word for word what Danny says. Flack: "men and women." At least Flack got to mention food as is his trademark in this show, though he hasn't done an awful lot of eating, at least it was remembered after so long. Lindsay pulls out the artist's sketch and she had to play hero, pointing out the man and then driving and ramming the van into the suspects vehicle.
Surprised she wasn't in interrogation! Flack tells Mark (John Terardi) stolen property was found at his apartment and he refuses to name his accomplice. Mac tells him they have all the evidence pointing to him. Ron wasn't meant to get hurt but he broke free.
Sid finds his results are inconsistent with Ron's injuries. Jo thinks it's a slam dunk, blunt force trauma case. The injuries to his head weren't severe enough for death. He had peticuii in his eyes and the swelling of his brain wasn't enough to cause respiratory failure. Adam (AJ Buckley) ponders the significance of the playing card on the DB and wonders if someone else could have brought it in, something Lindsay didn't think of. He found sticky residue on the card and put it through GCMS and found it was rootbeer, manufactured in Wisconsin.
Hawkes (Hill Harper) says Mark had a second phone found in his apartment, which Jo thinks means Ron was hiding something. Voicemails were left from his partner, Phillip Roth (Robb Derringer). Danny finds vicuna hair is used for expensive suits and Phillip was wearing one in the photo with Ron. He left the messages to make a point and the same thing with the painting he slashed. The couple were divorcing and Ron didn't want Elizabeth getting any money. Hawkes also finds Ron had a mistress, Eva Hutton (Kate Lang Johnson) on an Internet site, where he left a message about Elizabeth "being gone for good." That really could have meant anything. Mac thinks he was planning on killing Elizabeth.
Eva doesn't know who Ron is and didn't set up the profile page. Mac informs Elizabeth of the affair and she lies again. She finally admits their marriage wasn't perfect. Mac believes her, how could he with all the suspects he's dealt with over the years. Also aren't they meant to suspect the spouse from the outset. Jo and Lindsay set up a profile page for Mac, why did Lindsay do this and not Adam, at least he would have had something to do, mot likely cos Mac wouldn't get angry at her. Jo posits someone else can build a profile page and Elizabeth sett up one for Eva. There are details on her laptop. Mac doesn't want a profile page and Jo calls what Elizabeth did entrapment. Lindsay had to ask the most obvious question again, as she used to in the past about why the page was needed involving a real person. Jo replies since a real person can be verified and she was using Eva in the divorce. Mac calls it evidence to support Elizabeth's story and he thinks Elizabeth "seemed so convincing."
Sid actually reaches his conclusion that COD was by smothering. He found a white cotton fibre in Ron's trachea, Elizabeth's white shirt and why she had so much blood on it. Lindsay finds this is the first time the movie was at the theatre in a year. Mac thinks the attacker brought the card into the house so there was a second attacker. Didn't Elizabeth say there were two before? This would mean it had to be Megan and thus explains why the mother wasn't beaten. Flack finds Megan on the surveillance tape from the theatre. She went in but didn't come out, claiming she used the back exit. Flack also tells her about the torn card. Megan wanted money and her father was just throwing it away. He wasn't meant to get hurt and Mark is her boyfriend. It was her idea but she loved her father.
Jo thinks she must have been so young and desperate to have done what she did and she believes she didn't kill her father. It was Elizabeth who smothered him with her shirt and that's why she took so long to call for help. Mac is disgusted that Elizabeth would let Megan take the fall for her father's murder. Mac: "That is cold." He found oils from his face on the back of her shirt. Mac says she should have just got a divorce, but she wouldn't get anything. Mac says she's got nothing now either. Which is what we said. So how will she live now and he wasn't going to kill her. Ron knew she was pretending to be Eva and sent the e-mail as a joke.
Mac gets a 'friend request' on his profile page which he opens up and he looks pretty angry or shocked as his expression changes. Is it from the new woman in his life, or from Claire? Anyway why did Jo and Lindsay set up that page for Mac and not one of themselves. Also why leave it when it was set up instead of just deleting it? Now the story will keep us guessing as to who it was. I'd like to say Claire but also there will be another woman in Mac's life, it's okay for those who are ahead. We just have to keep guessing for a bit longer.
This episode just appeared to be a routine one. Nothing much happened but got to see plenty of smug Lindsay! Whilst everyone else, such as Danny and Hawkes, even Adam, got relegated to the sidelines. Hawkes and Danny no longer have prominent roles in the show which isn't fair to their fans. Also don't know why they have to keep pairing her up with Flack when she was always the lab rat! It's too much to bare when she goes in all gung ho supposedly 'saving the day.' That's not her job and she's just upstaging our Flack! and I draw the line at that.
Knew Elizabeth was behind it she was acting suspiciously form the outset . Hey how many times has the spouse been the guilty party and the motive is always money? Surprised Ron stayed married to her for so long and if he was a real estate mogul, why no prenup? Also why was Mac so taken in by her? I know I've mentioned Very Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) from NCIS many times with his theory of "the spouse did it." He'd have been right here, just like me.
Come on who goes out to bring in an abandoned package at night? Mind you down here many delivery companies leave packages outside without even getting a signature.
Mac's profile: Employment: NYPD Crime Lab
College: University of Chicago.
High school: Lincoln High
Fave quotes: "A nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." Calvin Coolidge.
Music: The Who (for obvious reasons) and the Rollings Stones
Movies: A Bridge Too Far, Dirty Harry. For some reason I can imagine Mac watching Dirty Harry. Lindsay's awful impersonation of Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry with his 'feeling lucky' line.
Television: Survivor, NCIS, which must be mentioned. I've always wanted a cross over of CSI:NY with NCIS. Mac and Gibbs (Mark Harmon) both Marines would have a lot in common.
Flack: "Apparently he and his partner made a killing during the housing bubble." Jo: "Looks like the killing didn't stop there."
Carmine and Vincent Ventresca were both in The Learning Curve (2001) and Vincent was in Prey as well as The Invisible Man and in the CSI:Miami episode Invasion. Heather Sossaman was in CSI episode CSI Down and CSI:Miami Death Pool 100. Robb Derringer was in CSI Evaluation Day and in CSI:Miami episode Stalkerazzi. Kate Lang Johnson was in CSI:Miami Rap Sheet and Bolt Action. Sandra Hess was in CSI episodes Assume Nothing and All for our Country.
This episode reminded me of CSI:NY season 6.4 Dead Reckoning where a woman confesses to killing her husband who cheated on her. She stabbed him 17 times; but the DNA showed another woman involved. That had a scene with a couple at dinner too.
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