Two men watch a woman perform on stage, she is the girlfriend of one of them. The man is later found shot. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) is on the scene after Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) has already arrived. Lots of lines follow about being busy and now she's looking for her husband, a police sergeant; scenes which always seem forced and oh so not romantic. Miranda, (Aly Michalka) the girlfriend found Michael (Sean Davis) shot to death and didn't know what to do as she tells Flack. (Eddie Cahill) Her dress is covered with his blood. Mac (Gary Sinise) returns and Danny says he knew he'd be back, then Lindsay has to get the final word in saying it was her who told him Mac would return.
Mac suspects Michael was shot through the back and there's $20 notes lying around him. Miranda thinks Michael was doing fine for money since he bought her an expensive guitar, a Gibson from the shop where she works. Her boss looked suspicious in the flashback and he was immediately my suspect. His roommate, Josh (Sean Marquette) is nowhere to be found. Hawkes (Hill Harper) wins the bet with Adam. (AJ Buckley) Hawkes bet he would return before November 30. Adam tells Jo (Sela Ward) he bet Mac would never return. He'd have been a sure fire winner if the show hadn't returned. CSI:NY seems to be getting off on a slow start after last episode. This one seemed to have been done before in places.
Jo has a meeting with with her son Tyler (Cody Longo) who tells her he's getting another roommate. So naturally she's weary of this since the present case involves a murdered roommate and the missing one, Josh is a suspect. Actually come to think of it, Jo never had much to do this episode or on this case. Adam analyzes Miranda's dress and wears a shirt with which he climbs through a broken glass window in the lab - something Mac missed when he was away. The fabric caught on the broken glass at Michael's apartment. Jo talks to Miranda and believes she's hiding something and suffered some sort of trauma. Eventually Miranda opens up to her and tells her how her father's loss has affected her. She loved Michael as he was different and her father would have approved of him.
Miranda explains Michael lost his keys and she climbed through the window after she broke it. Josh had $12,000 in his account and was throwing money around at the club where he brought everyone drinks. Hawkes shows Mac a photo of a tub found at the apartment used as aftercare lotion for tattoos. Sid (Robert Joy) found no evidence of Michael having a tattoo so it must have been Josh's. Sid tells Mac how he was the first one to get out, he was free and now he's back in the "institution" once more. Sid discovered the entry wound on Michael's armpit so the wound in his back was the exit wound. Thus Mac infers there's still a missing bullet - so much for Lindsay's thorough investigative forensic gathering. She missed a bullet. She was too busy going one better over Danny.
Flack interviews Chad (Preston Jones) who gave Josh the tattoo. He wanted a dolphin across his back and thinks he had some sort of animosity towards Miranda. Hawkes finds the smudge Sid found on Michael's cheek consisted of glass cleaner, mineral oil, ink, auto degreaser, something we were lead to believe could have been from the tattoo parlour. Lindsay analyzes the money and finds it's fake. She takes a $5 from Mac and he obliges since she's his pet and converts it into a $20. Josh gave Michael the money for the guitar and Mac concludes he ended up as collateral damage. The snake skin found on Michael's clothes was from a boa constrictor and Hawkes found. It was discoloured by certain pigments which contain methlacylates and phenyl ketones. The mixture also crystallizes under UV light. Jo states acrylic paint and UV compounds are found in gel nail polish and recalls Randy's (Jake Busey) painted black nails when she and Flack questioned him earlier. He claimed to be home, alone and asleep.
Josh has been tracked down by Danny as he was spending more fake money, this time he bought a gun. Jo gets Alex's sealed record and Hawkes notices the remarkable artwork and admits he used to do graffiti when he was younger. Adam tells Jo he had 12 roommates. Josh is found holding a gun on Randy and Mac talks him out of shooting. Randy owed money to his bookie and was beaten by him cos the money he got for the guitar was fake. Michael called Josh when he was being attacked and told him to run. Even at the moment of death, Michael was thinking of his best friend's safety and not his own. Randy calls it an accident and Flack tells him he should remove his nail polish before he gets to prison. Flack telling him Jo is from down south, Alabama.
Jo meets Alex and finds she's a woman and she wasn't too shocked at that, a very attractive woman she calls her. That was obvious she already knew from her file cos normally there would have been a photo in the file, even if the record was sealed. Tyler calls her his roommate. Mac's back and he's looking forward to the future and solving many more cases (as are we.) Jo telling Mac she never believed he was gone for good, so she doesn't need to welcome him back, as last episode she called herself interim boss. Hawkes' admission he was into graffiti surprising Jo since he's a doctor now, showing that sometimes not all people who get into trouble when younger evolve into hardened criminals or any sort of criminals. (Though we're not told if Hawkes did get into any sort of trouble.)
Miranda sings Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones, whom she mentioned in the store in the flashback. Aly Michalka and her sister, AJ sing in 78 Violet. Flack still continues with his understanding streak - good to see as he doesn't immediately think of her as a suspect but as someone who's suffered loss and he can relate. Anyway, we know Danny will return to the lab eventually as he too is "institutionalized" in the same way Mac is. Keep It Real - the love Miranda felt for Michael was natural and not forced; she didn't want him to buy her expensive gifts. Should have kept the money real and Mac ends by telling Josh he should keep innocent people away from his schemes. Yet he doesn't berate him anymore than that. He'll have the guilt of losing his friend cos of his greed and stupidity as punishment.
Notice the Post-its on Jo's computer which read: "Call soon need goat gel" and "Find out why my goat walks funny." Also "Rupe Rocks," "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Call "Supreme Re NJT;" "Pick up body suit for Penny." What's with the goats then or did she use to keep some? Ha!
Sean Marquette was in CSI episode Internal Combustion and Jake Busey was in CSI:Miami episode Internal Affairs. This episode of CSI:NY was another one involving fake money as in the season 1 finale, What You See Is What You See. Also CSI:NY episode 1.20 Supply and Demand involved a missing roommate who was engaging in drug dealing; whilst his roommate was killed.
Sid: "...back inside. Means you're institutionalized. You realize that don't you? These walls are funny you know? First you hate them, then you get used to them, pretty soon you start to depend on them." Quoted from movie The Shawshank Redemption; explaining when an old inmate preferred to stay in prison. Not that the lab is a prison (well with Lindsay around it could be, ha). But the allusion is the same -- it's all that Mac knows and even leaving for a while: one episode - which was really four months, he's back again. A newer and changed Mac, maybe with some closure. He displays a plaque on his side shelf, with the image of two firemen, a thank you for his work on the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance.
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