The CSIs look into the killing of a Jane Doe and the kidnapping of her companion; a wealthy heir to a fortune. Things are not as they seem when it's discovered the two were on a scavenger hunt, part of a 'GO' Game.
A couple at a club win and leave after taking photos of the head honcho. She gets her dress caught in the door and once outside, they are confronted by two men in an alley with guns. The woman is shot. Mac (Gary Sinise) doesn't find any jewellery. Flack (Eddie Cahill) finds her FBI badge in the name of 'Natasha Fatale' and didn't get any hits on the name. Obviously it's not her real name, but hey at least he tried. She had a 38 starter pistol. Mac: "Fake ID, fake gun, real murder."
Mac and Jo (Sela ward) process the CS and she finds another fake ID badge in the name of Boris Badenov. Sid (Robert Joy) comments on the irony of Natasha's name. COD was a single GSW with a 9mm. Hawkes (Hill Harper) says she bled out in the alley. Sid also found a piece of a tooth on her dress with some soil attached, then asks Hawkes if he's a "T man or an A man." Hawkes was bemused and must have thought is Sid thinking dirty, ha. He's referring to toes or ankles. Hawkes is a toe man. She had micro-abrasions on her feet and chemical burns on her orange toes.
Mac looks at the Friend request on the computer from Christine (Megan Dodds) for which he holds off on returning a message and deletes it.
Hawkes posits the couple were gambling and with the wrong man, Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) adds. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) calls them both Cagney and Lacey and asks them what they have. Well for starters Cagney and Lacey weren't forensics specialists! My qualm why were Danny and Hawkes giving their findings to her, she's not the boss. Hawkes found traces of beef and curry in the tan, indicating there's a Jamaican restaurant next to the tanning bar. Hawkes and Danny: "Boom!" Nice to see Danny's catchphrase has rubbed off on everyone else.
Flack tells Mac about his female friend who jogs in bare feet and wants him to do the same. Never. He's as meticulous about his eating habits as he is about his body, good to know! Mac spots a red sequin on the ground from her dress and Flack sees some more, leading to the door of the club. There's another similar scene taking place as in the opening of this episode. The man thinks they're not real detectives and Mac grabs him. Flack takes the fake gun from the other one. The crime boss is Lonnie, (Jerry Kernion) an actor and this is all part of the 'Go Game.' A scavenger hunt and this one was titled, "Brooklyn 'Til I die." Which turned out to be the case.
They're all actors except for the two people who play. The money is also fake and Mac believes the killers didn't know it was. They are given IDs for the Vics, Michelle (Jamie Hill) and the man was Preston Seville Jr (Ben Bledsoe). Flack recognizes the name as his father's a billionaire. Cue father receiving his son's severed finger with his ring still on it. The ring is a family heirloom and Seville Snr (Richard Portnow) wears one too. Jo reassures they're doing everything in their power to get Preston back. Jo always gets that line for the family members. She had that one in 8.10 Clean Sweep too. He needs to be honest with her.
Seville has enemies and they're estranged. FBI Agent Brandon wants to help out and they also have monitoring equipment. Seville's hired personal security detail, whom no one seems to have checked out. Mac states if they "find our kidnappers , we find our killers."
The finger is Preston's and the blood lysis shows he's still alive. Lindsay has to being Lucy into the conversation about giving her right arm to get her back, which wasn't very tactful considering Preston's just lost his finger. Jo tells her they can only deal with one appendage. Lindsay discovered trace on the finger of egg shells and sea kelp. Hawkes comments that Michelle was a teacher and yet she wore an expensive dress. Well obviously it's cos of Preston. Danny finds the fragments that Sid found and the tooth belongs to a criminal, arrested twice, belonged to Sindy Allen and she was killed by Lambert, who's on Death row in Colorado.
A ransom demand is received for $4 million in two bags dropped off at four locations. Seville refuses to pay. He's earned his money and didn't inherit it. Jo posits the best chance to get Preston back is to pay and wonders why they didn't ask for more money. Mac agrees they must pay to get Preston returned. They place GPS sensors on the money. Danny sits in the taxi cab, whilst Lindsay looked so obvious sitting on the steps of the station. If I saw her, I'd run a mile or more! A man goes for the bag Danny's watching, just to give Danny his little chase and take down scene, cos it's not the kidnapper.
Mac realizes no one is coming as the deadline's passed and cos they're at the house. One of the security men demands money from Seville. Danny knows they were just a distraction. Jo didn't notice anything was wrong. Mac tells them the men were meant to be checked out, which is what I said from the outset. Jo realizes he had the entry code to the house. Seville gives his description to the FBI artist. They still need the money and demand $8 million.
Danny goes over Lambert's files. He buried DBs in his backyard but doesn't have any connection to NY. They need to find one between Sindy, Lambert and a store is located selling serial killer memorabilia. The soil came from here and she gives them a list of customers. Most of the alibis from the names on the list check out and Lindsay drops in, which is hardly surprising. The egg shells and sea kelp came from fertilizer which was sold by a greenhouse in Jersey. The employee's name matches Jake Williams, (Gene Farber) son of Mabel who was a manager at the store. Jake is on parole.
Preston is found at Mabel's apartment along with the kidnappers/killers and even Mabel has a gun. Lindsay interviews Preston who explains Michelle thought it was a game and used her gun, which got her shot. He asked her to play and got her the dress.
Flack questions Jake whose stupidity is unbelievable. He doesn't need a confession, he's just "doing this for my own amusement" and ours. Preston was at their apartment cos their mother is even more scarier than they are. Mac talks to Gerald (Patrick St Espirit) and the bullet matched the gun in his closet. They were only meant to rob them and she had a gun. Gerald explains they need a way out and so thought of the kidnapping and really thought he was an agent. Preston gave them the plan about asking for the money. They killed Michelle and he knew his father wouldn't pay, unless he had a gun to his head. Preston played the game to get away from his name and she lost her life, and he only lost his finger. Lindsay leaves him the ring. Yeah cos that's just what he wants right about now.
Mac agrees to meet with Christine and has a flashback to his partner's sister. They meet for coffee. She heard about the memorial Mac helped with and read about Claire, but didn't know she was dead. Mac's thankful for the time they had together. She recalls the party at Myrtle Beach and a lot has changed.
Mac looked quite uncomfortable meeting with Christine, know he's not really into dating, but she's not the first woman he's met after Claire and gone out with. He is reluctant to let go of the past and his life with Claire, as anyone would be, but he's only here cos of the web page, otherwise Christine wouldn't have found him. Conveniently Claire was mentioned here again for the season finale, also to show us whether or not Mac is ready to move on. Mac has cheated on Claire before with Quinn Shelby (Kristen Dalton). She was in season 4 episodes, Like Water for Murder and Taxi. However it was just a kiss and he didn't want to take it any further as he loved Claire. They can't have Mac cheating again, cos that's just not his character. Not to mention a little too obvious.
Could Mac have seemed uncomfortable cos he and Christine had something more than just friendship? Especially that party and she brings it up, when he looked like he'd like to forget it, when plenty of beer was guzzled. Otherwise why would he even think of meeting up again. Oh and they met whilst Mac was at the Police Academy so there can't be any possibility of him cheating on Claire.
As said, Mac has had other women in his life; Rose (Penelope Anne miller) in season 1.23 What You See Is What You See, Peyton (Claire Forlani), and Aubrey Hunter (Madchen Amick) but it didn't amount to much. This time has to be the same since his heart still belongs to Claire and always will.
One more question, why was his former partner mentioned as well? Is there something about him which made Mac feel uneasy about Christine?
So that was just about the gist of this episode and again, it was just another routine case. Have to admit this episode was not one of the ones that stood out for me. A bit of a shame as I pretty much like them all. It wasn't pleasant to see how Seville drove his son away and he had to to be threatened before he'd offer a ransom. What's he going to do with his billions, take them with him? If he couldn't use the money for his son, then for who? It almost appeared he thought Preston had faked his own kidnapping for the money to emotionally blackmail him. Clearly Seville had no compassion even in such a life threatening situation.
Not the first time a role playing game has been featured on the show. Also CSI also featured a severed finger from a kidnap Vic in The Finger. Hawkes has a different badge number in this episode, 8010, whereas in 1.23 What You See Is What You See, (funny I just mentioned that) it was 9786. Apparently it appears Mac was only at the CS for less than half an hour since he arrived at 7.20am and was in his office at 7.55am. Hmm, Superman?
Adam (AJ Buckley) was missing again this episode that's the second time this season without explanation. Ben Bledsoe was in CSI episode Young Man With A Horn and Gene Farber was in the episode Sin City Blue. Patrick St Espirit was in CSI: Miami episode Prey.
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