A scantily clad woman comes out of nowhere and is runover by a truck. This forms the basis of the first story. There's bruising on her wrist and lacerations on her cheekbone. Mac (Gary Sinise) comments her injuries are not consistent with trauma from a car accident. Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) spots the inverted number plate: 73X on her DB.
In story 2, Gilbert Novotney, a Boston fan, is found dead in his car. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) posits his theory. That of theory number 2 where the baseball on the ground had ink on it which umpires rub onto the ball to remove the 'newness' of the ball. Mac needs to know what Margo, the dead woman was doing an hour before the game. Mac and Flack (Eddie Cahill) check out her apartment, owned by a sports management firm. The door has a hole in it and the bathroom window is open. She possibly climbed out of the window onto the ledge and received puncture wounds on her feet from the pigeon spikes placed there. Flack also finds a baseball in the bath. Now there's no doubt as to the first two stories being connected.
Gilbert's ticket was brought by a radio station in New York and there's a tape with Gilbert speaking with an angry fan, Tony (Jason Cerbone). Popcorn was thrown about at the game and Danny tells Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) the results of the DNA from the kernel, which Jane (Sonya Walger) ran on CODIS. These belong to an 'Anthony.' Aiden has a photo of him and when he sees them he runs. A chase scene ensues. He admits he threw the kernels, known as Crackerjacks, but denies killing Gilbert. He was thrown out of the stadium.
From the footage of the game they find the presence of a man between Margo and Gilbert who wasn't there before. His name is Reuben (Amaury Nolasco) who wanted to be a baseball player. Margo wanted to represent him as his agent. When Reuben pitched, the speed gun measured it as 94mph and he puts his saliva on the baseball. Danny catches the ball to analyze. Dry blood is found in Gilbert's nose and lividity in his lower body. He had an expensive seat which Aiden finds the ticket to. He died in his car and there's a brown hair on the ball. Danny and Aiden check out the stadium. Danny finds blood on the ground where Gilbert got his bloody nose when seated.
Danny posits Reuben threw the ball at Gilbert and at Margo's door. There's a piece on the Jumbotrom where Gilbert kissed Reuben on his mouth and Margo laughed at him over the kiss. That's no reason to kill, though as they say, people have killed for less.
In story 3 Mac is contacted by a man he sent to prison, Sullivan (Clarke Duncan) doesn't want to spend the rest of his life there for a crime he didn't commit. The murder weapon had a mix of his and Alyssa, the Vic's DNA. He needs to check the evidence. Mac feels he's made a mistake and Stella doesn't believe that. She doesn't make mistakes. Sullivan claimed not to have owned the hammer. Stella notices the evidence on Mac's desk. Mac only collects the evidence and analyzes it. He does not decide if Sullivan committed the crime or not. Sullivan is accusing the prosecution of profiling, as Mac tells Sullivan and Sullivan says he's the prime suspect as he's got big hands and a deep voice. But, says Mac, it's the DNA that finds the match. The hammer belonged to him but it was misplaced.
Stella in yet another confrontation with Mac wants him to tell her if he's looking over the evidence. He's the boss. He doesn't need to tell anyone anything. He knows there was no control sample for the hammer. Mac thinks if a suspects DNA isn't found on the murder weapon it doesn't follow they are guilty. He wants to believe Sullivan. If the hammer was his then his DNA due to his epithelials would already be on the hammer. Alyssa's blood spatter was on top, leading to a match for both when tested. Mac has to show the blood belonged to Alyssa only. He tells Stella about Claire and that he needs to do this.
Stella asks why he's not taken his ring off. Cos he doesn't want to. Mac must prove the hammer belonged to Sullivan in order to prove his findings, this the concept of reasonable doubt. DA Latham (Raphael Sbarge) refuses to let the defence have this evidence. So Mac testifies on behalf of the defence, saying the evidence was retested. Sullivan is released. There will be a civil trial but the evidence should help Sullivan. Mac liked changing things.
Oh no, Stella not admitting she likes to be wrong either and telling Mac he hasn't been this happy since losing his wife. What sort of a comment was that? So tactless. At least Mac was willing to admit he was wrong and made a mistake, as long as she wasn't included or named as being part of that mistake too. Mac: "Because a small mistake can be significant enough to change the dynamic of everything that happens."
Stella: "We don't make mistakes. Hell, I don't make mistakes." Stella calls the DB George and not Gilbert and he's referred to as this throughout the episode.
A case of the evidence tainting the truth. The part about Danny being injured, a wrist injury and wanting to play baseball was similar to Carmine's reasons for not being able to play baseball either. Danny graduated the police academy at the top of the class.
In CSI season 5 Mea Culpa, trace blood was found in the grooves of the wrench and the suspect's prints were on the handle. In CSI Cool Change, a partial licence plate was found in a bruise on the DB.
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