A ballerina finds the DB of a fellow ballerina hanging from the balcony after a feather falls on her. Flack (Eddie Cahill) tells Mac (Gary Sinise) she was doing one of those "twirly things" which Mac recalls is a pirouette, cos it's not an easy word to recall. Hawkes (Hill Harper) tells them she was strangled and then hanged from the rope. The Vic was Ellen White (Sierra Hoyle) and her understudy, Alex found her DB. Danny (Carmins Giovinazzo) processes the rope from the CS and also Ellen's belongings. He finds trace of black powder, the type manufactured before the Civil War, used in an antique gun.
Mac tells Christine (Megan Dodds) about his aphasia and she wonders why he didn't share this before, but knows why, cos she knows him; he very thing that she likes about him is why he couldn't tell her. His pride as I said previously. Sid (Robert Joy) quotes Martha Graham, "a dancer more than any other human being dies two deaths." He tells them Ellen was bulimic and also self-mutilated. She doesn't have any defensive wounds, so she knew her killer.
Adam (AJ Buckley) runs from the lab (and I don't blame him!) telling Danny to tell his wife he didn't do it. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) has blue circular marks around her eyes after falling for a prank, she looked through the microscope. What would be even better is if black was used instead giving her dark circles, ha. Oh Lindsay you're so dumb, call yourself a CSI, who said that would have been intended for her, well she did, cos everything's about her. She promises to get to the bottom of it. But it's obvious who it was, Danny of course, if you hadn't already guessed. But obviously he wouldn't have meant it for her! SO she goes around wearing a large pair of sunglasses, as if everyone hasn't seen it by now! Ugh!!
As Hawkes tells her, he's more interested in the case, as were we and not her pathetic little 'crusade.' Lindsay was testing a gun, also an antique which was used to kill a Jane Doe in the alley. The powder from the rope matches the powder from the gun, but how did it get there? A man points a gun at a woman in an alley and he's arrested. It's the murder weapon. Did we really need Lovato (Natalie Martinez) present in the interrogation again, not like she was needed or contributed anything, aside from face pulling that is! Oh and mumbling her lines! The suspect is Sam Cross (Benjamin Ciaramello) who left the gym and saw her in the alley, with his record he didn't call the police, but he took some jewellery, cos she wouldn't be needing it and also the gun. He doesn't know Ellen and he was with a woman at the time.
Lindsay tells Jo (Sela Ward) she found methylated blue was used on the microscope and also found some letters on the side of the bench. Obviously from a shield, but took her ages to figure it out! She found anti-depressants in Jane Doe. Christine tells Mac she wants to help him and regular as clockwork, Lindsay arrives wearing those shades! Trioxiphil was the drug and it is in the clinical stage, the FDA is working with selected psychiatrists to try it out. Carly Emerson (Tara Summers) is one such doctor and identifies the Vic as Lisa who had bipolar disorder. Ellen was also her patient.
Sam's alibi crosses him off the suspect list nd Adam finds the gun was brought by Carly, but she really couldn't have been the killer. Except for that Brit accent she was murdering! ha, even if she is British. Mac was so impatient for Adam to tell them about the gun, but it was okay for Lindsay to go on and take forever. Also if it had been anyone other than Lindsay getting pranked, he'd have gone ballistic! Especially if Adam was involved as seen from past behaviour.
Flack finds Carly is missing and also Polaroids on her desk. Hawkes finds the photos only had Carly's prints on them. Mac puts the clues together and works out White was killed in the conservatory with the rope. (Well she was actually strangled first, so the killer was adapting the game to fit his own version). Lisa was killed in (Hells) Kitchen with the gun and she had scarlet hair. Thus she was Miss Scarlett from a game of Clue or Cluedo as we call it here. (They call it Clue, cos they don't have a Cluedo, ha.) They find the next Vic should have been Mustard but he's missing and so the next Vic after him will be Green. Lindsay shows up at the next CS where a man has been killed on the golf green with a candlestick holder. But she tells Mac she can't figure out the room, well if you had looked, you'd have seen the ballroom, love. Ugh strike that love part ha!
Mac follows the blood trail showing the Vic was dragged. Flack tells him Carly couldn't have lifted him and dragged him all that way here. He was struck from behind . Lindsay finds a piece of hair-like trace besides the Vic and it turns out to be a hair from a snow leopard. Prompting Danny and her to end up at the zoo. She thinks Danny could be behind the prank since the letters show it could only have been a detective. The leopard keeper, Robby (Joe Nieves) is the only who who handles it and he doesn't own a car but hires one. The next person who hired the car could be the killer. It was Steve Davis (Jake Thomas).
He was Carly's patient since he was 12 and he suffered from OCD and depression. Carly no longer treated him since he fell in love with her. At his apartment they find Carly tied up and the board all laid out and his next Vic will be Plum at the library. Also finding a schedule which Carly recognizes as her fiance's, Clayton (Jay Boyer). Blood stains in the rented car match Shane's the golfing Vic. In the library the students are made to leave but they find nothing. See Lovato undo her hair to go suspect hunting! Huh! Jo says the university was built in the 1800's so there's another library. Adam finds the location on the old maps. They find Clayton already stabbed and Mac gets to Steve before Flack does. Yeah Lovato slowed him down!!
Steve is surprised Clayton is still alive. He told Carly he loved her but she told him she didn't feel the same way. He saw the photo of the two of them together. When he was her patient, Carly told him to pick any game to play so that they could get to know each other. He chose Clue. Why would she have such a game in her office anyway?! Carly was Mrs Peacock and he was Col Mustard.
Danny brings Lindsay roses to take her to dinner and confesses it was him, but it was meant to be Adam in ballistics, not her. She was too overly pissed so he didn't tell her. Mac tells Christine he loves her.
Flack's remark of not needing a white coat to determine what happened, "I may not be the owner of a wonderful white lab coat, but it sounds to me you're saying somebody strangled her and then strung her up." Kind of funny him mentioning the colour 'white, seeing as the Vic was called Ellen White and the ep was about the game, well based on the game. Also he couldn't resist adding, "Mac Taylor in the lounge with the Glock." Even Lindsay had to get in on this when she says it was Messer in the ballistics lab" Danny adding, "with the methylene blue." Since it was Danny she forgives him, poor Adam he'd never have heard the end of it if it was him and she'd be getting her own back on him too!! To quote her, "whoever did this is going down," and he would have too! Bigtime.
Flack had to finish Mac's word of "building" this ep and Christine later mentions the "blue" in the lab for him. Clearly Flack saw something was wrong but Lindsay didn't, too caught up in her own world. Jo also notices how he's struggling but of course she can't say anything.
Martha Graham was a modern dance pioneer and the quote is from her 1991, 'Bloody Memory' memoir. Parts of this episode reminded me of the one with Stella when her 'stalker' Drew kept leaving those clues behind which turned into a puzzle. He also turned out to be Mac's '333' stalker. In 4.10 The Thing About Heroes, he had the team on the subway train which went on a ride of its own. Always loved that part. Especially how Stella was the first to run through the train both times, thinking of herself first! Ha and how Danny saved them cos he got left behind.
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