A dead woman is found in a laundry which washes sheets for hotels. Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) bets on a "71,000 -1" chance of finding out where she came from. Mac (Gary Sinise ) "I'll take those odds." Given up before she's even started. Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds it difficult to determine the weapon and thinks the killing was personal and pathological. Mac doesn't see any signs of bruising. Mac notices the unique arterial spray. She was lying on the sheet and there's a void present, as if blood dripped off the side.
In story 2, Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) looks into the death of a human statue, found by a Swedish tourist. There's money in the jar. Officer Lilly (Larry Gilliard Jr) didn't know him. Hawkes finds he wasn't shot or stabbed and he smells. COD turns out to be natural causes. He was dead about 48 hours before being found. His beard was trimmed and the shaving cuts were post mortum. Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) says it's not a felony so they've done their job. Danny can't let it go since everything that was done to him afterwords wasn't natural. Mac wants him to drop the case. Danny believes suspicious circumstances were involved since he was redressed. Mac calls it a misdemeanour. Danny: "Last time I checked a misdemeanour was still a crime." Mac still insists, "Prioritizing is something I shouldn't have to do for you. Stay on track." Danny tells Aiden they're still on the case, "When I say we're good, we're good."
Chad (Chad Lindberg) examines the sheet in story 1 and finds the thread counts leads to Egyptian cotton sheets used in five hotels. Hawkes finds caviar in her stomach contents: 'Almas' means diamond in Russian and the caviar was expensive. Ann a waitress told him. The Dunsmore puts up diplomats when the UN is in special session and Flack (Eddie Cahill) finds an order of caviar was made to the Trade Delegation: Robert Costa (Dominic Fumusa), Tony (Andre Kristoff) is his secretary and Tom (Kevin Alejandro) is in transportation. Frank (Steven Petrarca) is his chief aide, he suffers from partial hearing loss. Well that was a clue right off. The bed sheets are all clean, as you'd expect.
Mac: "I love the smell of a cover up in the afternoon." Stella takes some hair from a brush and Mac turns over the mattress revealing a blood stain on the spring coil. Ten years ago a college student, Susan Young was raped and murdered. This DB has the same COD. DNA analysis comes back to an unknown male and Robert. They all took the stand for him. Flack: "Crime may not pay, Robert Costa sure does." The blood matches the female Jane Doe DB. Robert claims he took her back to the hotel.
The prints of Danny's Vic match a John Hawkins. He was arrested nine times by officer Lilly for disorderly conduct.
Chad finds everything in the same bin, the bleach, dress, possible murder weapon, the purse with a Wyoming driving licence and a champagne bottle. Jane Doe is Jenny Lee (April Bowlby). Mac pieces the broken bottle together. Blood report shows she was roofied. There are two patterns on the bottle so there were two bleeders. Two DNA samples, one Vic. Thomas beat his girlfriend and the sketch Jenny's roommate made looked like Tom. He claims Jenny didn't mean anything to him and he cut himself that night. Mac: "Not my tactics you need to worry about, it's my results." The whole room was bleached, Tony had the roofies, which were prescribed by a doctor in Paris for sleep disorder. Hawkes finds the cuts on her body were consistent with glass shards. Jenny had a fizzy naval: the saliva and champagne contained roofies. She passed out in minutes. Robert was amnesiac and had no idea what happened. Blood is found on the rug from the Vic and epithelials with 1 allele in common: his grandmother.
The surveillance tape shows two days ago John was dead. Measuring the length of his arms and legs, he finds the image was of two different people. Aiden finds another hair on his clothes, silver paint and no skin tags. Danny tells her he'll take the blame for this. The paint was from an aerosol. Danny finds the statues stand still all day and insoles were fitted to a specific foot size which has a serial number, coming up with Scott (Silas Weir Mitchell). He says it wasn't a joke. He didn't thank him for the tip in the jar cos he was dead. He took the opportunity to dress him up as he needed a day off, where he could be a real person and not starve.
They replicate unique blood patterns, one sheet when they were alone in bed and one where they were side by side. One with Robert on top and one with Jenny on top. She was knocked out first and placed on him. Mac knows who killed her. Stella examines the timeline when the champagne was spiked, coming up with he an imprint on the champagne cork and the roofies so the killer was someone else. Mac notices traces of someone else being in the room.
Mac and Stella check the room again and a hearing aid is found at the side of the safe. Frank hid in the closet and waited. He put Jenny on top and killed her. He heard the blood dripping and knocked his hearing aid out. His motive was revenge. He cut her arms and legs in the same way Robert cut Susan's. He waited ten years for Robert to come face to face with what he did to the woman Frank loved.
Danny and Aiden share a moment where they would have had possibilities, but they're just friends, Danny: "You're lucky you and I work together, you know." Aiden: "...You're cute but I'm way outta your league." So much for the remark about working together, that didn't stop Lindsay pursuing him until he was cornered. Mac has words for Danny when he was meant to give his case away and didn't follow orders. Mac: "You've got to learn you're not a one man army, we're all connected. What you do affects everyone here." Danny turns around and looks at Mac.
So much for being connected, he'll say the same thing to Aiden in season 2 (in the episodes she was around for) and also to others too. Yet he never said that to Stella. She can get away with doing whatever she pleases. What was happening with Mac and Danny especially the way Danny turns around and looks at Mac? Mac and Danny's altercation of sorts, was just a taster of what's to come. This was Danny's case. Did Mac just expect him to hand it over without solving it? Doesn't say much about Mac's feelings for finding justice for the ordinary people.
Stella takes the credit for Hawkes telling her about the caviar as if she found this out by herself. Mac's line was an allusion to Robert Duvall's line from Apocalypse Now: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
In CSI episode Big Middle, to test the blood spatter on the sheet, Gil (William Petersen) used Greg (Eric Szmanda) as a guinea pig to determine how much body weight was on the DB. Also Gil and Sara (Jorga Fox) test spatter patterns on a sheet with blood, where the body left a void on the sheet. In season 2 episode of CSI, Cool Change Nick (George Eads) and Gil find a broken champagne bottle at the hotel.
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