The neighbourhood where Tommy Lewis (Austin Kane) disappeared is still talking about the news as seen in the newspaper and Mac (Gary Sinise) drives there with Lindsay (Anna Belknap) (huh of all people!) as he tells her about the case and how Tommy was 8 and his parents let him take the dog for a walk. A shoe store owner saw him and gave him a quarter for a lolly. He was seen there. The last person to see Tommy was Mitch Ventri (Jamie McShane) the deli owner and well yep you've guessed it, he was my suspect, the shifty looking guy behind the counter who has no personal hygiene, I mean would you buy anything from someone who just ran his hand through his hair! Besides the last person who saw him would have the most to hide in most cases and especially since he was also a man. Pity this investigation didn't lead anywhere 20 years ago, know there were different policing methods and none if any forensics, but surely someone must have slipped up. They suspected Keith Milner (Zack Ward) the boy who was the drug addict and who terrorized the neighbourhood, hanging around on the balcony. Of course he would have seen plenty from there. Yet again those who are seen as the dregs of society are the ones suspected.
Keith was seen in the park with Tommy's dog and with blood on his jacket. Keith is found dead and Lovato (Natalie Martinez) says he was beaten and his throat was cut. He was killed on the same day that Tommy disappeared 20 years ago. Lindsay analyzes Keith's jacket and uses ink to replicate the marks round a lab coat exactly where the blood was found.
It's Flack's (Eddie Cahill) day off and he cooks breakfast, but not for any old person, no, it's for his dog. Yeah we knew that!! So when did he get a dog? He then goes to the boxing ring for a work out with a parolee. Obviously we know Flack would be into boxing since it's something that Eddie is also into in real life, as well as baseball. He's a real sporting guy, is our Eddie! He gets a call from his grandmother, Irene (Elaine Kagan) and hey the way he greets her on the phone, she must be one lucky lady, ha. He goes round to her place for a leaky sink pipe but there's nothing wrong with it. His sister, Samantha (Kathleen Munroe) arrives later and they proceed to eat Gram's meatballs! She gives them a box of their father's she found in the attic and inside are baseballs and other photos and baseball memorabilia. She wants him to have it but Sam doesn't want it. She tells them to take the urn with his ashes too. Flack will have nowhere to put it and clearly she's still holding grudges against their father.
Sid (Robert Joy) tells Jo (Sela Ward) that Keith didn't show any signs of drug use. A slash wound cut his jugular. He also finds unknown trace in the wound. He was beaten before being killed but there are no defensive wounds so he didn't fight back. Mac tells Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) that the blood could have been transferred from the dog onto Keith's jacket, there's no way to tell, so they didn't have conclusive evidence that he was behind his disappearance. Jo finds that Nathan Lewis (Alex Carter) Tommy's father has vanished. She then talks to Mac and asks him what's wrong since he's been getting other people to appear in court for him. He tells her he's just delegating, what he should have done years ago and she tells him that she may be quirky and disorganized, but she's very perceptive.
Nathan's wife, April (Meredith Monroe) thinks he may have killed Keith. Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds the trace in the wound is ink from a printing press and also some from the green nettle plant. Nathan worked at the printing press. Also Danny says the signal from his phone is not moving. They find him passed out in the cemetery. He can't recall if he killed Keith or not, but did see him at the bar and knew who he was. He beat him up and left him in the alley.
Flack finds a letter in a magazine from their father, addressed to "Donny and Sam" which says how he loved them both but couldn't really tell them cos he didn't know how. Flack calls her and tells her how he worried about her when she didn't return from the prom. Before this Flack has a flashback to the baseball game where he held his father's police badge which he didn't let her do.
Keith's wife, Emma (Karina Logue) gives them his journal where he wrote how his parent's died thinking he'd killed Tommy but he wanted to put things right. He knows who killed Tommy since he wants him to confess. Jo talks with Christine (Megan Dodds) about Mac behind his back saying he may have problems identifying certain objects. Christine takes him lunch (The dish he couldn't recall in Reignited) and wants him to tell her what it's called. He says nothing is wrong and she's challenging his integrity. She isn't she's asking cos she cares. Oh just when there was going to be a major bust up, what happens, Hawkes interrupts, would've thought it would have been Lindsay, like she did with Jo and her hubby in season 7! Well she's the noisy one, always. Hawkes tells him the green nettles, green mould, microcrystalline wax and paraffin are found in a special kind of cheese, Flaming Nettle Gouda; leading to Ventri. No surprises then.
He confesses it was him and he hasn't hurt anyone since. He wasn't going to hurt him but he cried out for help. Keith heard all this from his balcony. Lindsay losing it, oh so macho Lindsay, not! Telling him he's an animal and worse than them, blah, blah. No really got no tolerance for her, she couldn't be so understanding of the Vics she has come across, but likes to throw her weight around, be they suspect or Vic! Keith confronted him cos he wanted him to own up and years before his parents didn't believe him when he told them it was Ventri who killed Tommy. His DB is still at his shop.
They find him buried behind a sign and Jo tells Mac he'll have to tell his parents, which he does and then has a moment on the steps. Before he leaves, he tells Jo to stay out of his personal life! Oh Mac hasn't had a fight or lost his temper with anyone since Stella! "Careful where you stick your nose." Flack and Sam go to the stadium and run with their father's ashes. Yeah we know, the dog scene and the eggs Benedict, cos they're implying he needs a real woman in his life and will pair him with Lovato, oh woe is me!! No!! Flack and his funny line of having an amazing night with some woman. Yeah, he talks to Grams like that! Ha.
Flack: "Hey baby, last night was amazing, I can't stop thinking about you, you were incredible..."
Sam isn't ready to forgive their father, even after the prom story. She knows he thought she was a stronger person than Flack and he's not bothered by this. He wanted Sam to become a doctor. When he couldn't find her, he cried for the very first time and Flack saw him do this. Flack recalls her old boyfriend, Zane and he works at the Yankee's stadium, she should contact him. It was a touching scene between bother and sister, that after all the misunderstandings between them, they have finally moved on too and become closer, like they were when younger. Of course, it's also relevant to the main story, of parents losing a child, Keith's unborn son who will never know his father and how Flack and Sam did know theirs and now she can put those past feelings towards him to rest. Something all three 'families' had to do.
Of course the other story is always a painful one when a child is involved, but you can't help but think it's all been done before, as cold cases often do revolve around missing suspects or those who don't seem to be suspicious at the time. That Tommy trusted Ventri also shows how 'close'the neighbourhood was, but doesn't attest to the dangers that are abound even with people they seem to know. Tommy running round after lollipops, when he should have known better.
Mac and Christine will come to terms with what's wrong with him eventually and he will apologize to Jo. Finally Jo realizes something's up with Mac, when Danny said this all along and she just dismissed it! Flack cooking in his vest, he seems to do everything in his vest!! Ha. Loving his blue colour scheme though, especially since in most cases, it's always green! Yuck!
Also Eddie's tattoo on his right arm has been faded out for the scene in his vest! As was done in 4.3 You Only Die Once. It came to our attention in 2.24 Charge of this Post. The tattoo being a heart with an arrow through it with a swallow on the top and his wife's name inside. As mentioned in my other reviews.
Funny Mac tells Danny how no one listened to the opinion of a young detective, back then since there were a lot of experienced detectives who suspected Keith. Yet Mac has on numerous occasions reprimanded Danny for following his mind and heart and not the evidence, see On the Job, A Man A Mile. He found himself in the same position back then.
Seems Det Vartaan, Alex Carter, got time off from CSI to appear here as Nathan, ha!
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