Adam (AJ Buckley) sits next to his girlfriend Michelle (Melissa Fumero) and he's going to the hospital. She thinks he should spend longer in bed. She thinks he's volunteering there and he doesn't put her right. Mac (Gary Sinise) sits in the park with Christine (Megan Dodds) and tells her his condition is improving as we've seen thus far as he hasn't had any momentary lapses of memory, as his phone rings. A woman walks into a Speakeasy bar and later the owner tells the bartender business is great and is later found dead at a Christmas tree shop. Flack (Eddie Cahill) says some money is left behind and Jason Black's (Jake Sandvig) credit card and wallet, he appears to have been impaled on the back of a protrusion on a fence. Mac wonders why kill and leave most of the money behind.
Flack: "If a body falls in a fake forest, does it make a noise? Apparently not. Canvass of the area turned up zilch." Another line from Flack, ha. Recall those canvasses they used to show with him from past seasons, were funny! But we don't get them anymore. Also how he'd rather buy a beer than go to a fancy joint!
Mac speaks with Courtney (Christine Lakin) the exotic dancer who was also Jason's girlfriend who tells him there was nothing wrong. Eli (TJ Linnard) part owner, tells Flack they were good friends and decided to open up the place after Jason's grandfather told them stories about the old speakeasy bars. They like the nostalgia. Sid (Robert Joy) tells Jo (Sela Ward) that COD is exsanguination and he was hit by a gun. Jo notices a mark on his neck which Sid doesn't know the cause of.
Adam visits his father Charlie (James Handy) and he wonders why his son never comes to see him. We can see he has Alzheimer's and Adam is frustrated by him not being able to be recognized. He accuses a woman of stealing his money and Michelle shows up with coffee for him. She wanted to see where he works and help out. Just then Charlie vanishes.
Hawkes (Hill Harper) found blood on Jason's watch but his gloves and coat were covering his watch. A test reveals it belongs to Nathan Brody (Mac Brandt) who had a record for theft. Flack and Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) go to arrest him and we didn't get much of a chase this time! Darn, seeing as the show is almost over for us. As Danny just manages to knock him down, "catch of the day." He was just released from prison but was looking for a drink but he wouldn't be served by Jason. Flack wonders if that was all, and why out of "all the watering holes in New York, he walked into this one." Way to go Flack, paraphrasing Casablanca!
Adam arrives at the station to find his father there who is agitated and Adam tries to talk to him. Mac notices Adam going into the room with a drink as he talks with Flack. Mac tells him about the formic acid in Jason's stomach. Methanol converts into formaldehyde, which gets converted formic acid. Funny Mac giving Flack a science lesson, ha! Of course Mac would see Adam. Hawkes tells Jo the mark on Jason's face was an insignia for a ballistics company who manufacture starting pistols which only fires blanks. Maybe the suspect was only trying to scare Jason. Whereas Jo wonders what indigo, denim and boric acid all have in common. Jo throws the rag at the computer screen, "I was expecting more from you."
Danny: ""I love it when you talk science-y to me, baby." Something which Mac just did to Flack. Would've been funny if Flack had said this to Danny! ha.
Adam tells his father this is his son Adam when he gives him a chocolate milkshake, his favourite. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) tests the bottles at the bar and finds the vodka contains methanol. Oh not you again Lindsay, may as well finish the entire ep on her! Danny was a loose end again in this episode! As Lindsay accompanies Flack to the vodka supplier who tells them that's what they bought from him, cheap, fake vodka. But Jason wouldn't accept it anymore but it was the manager who ordered it. Courtney tells Mac and Lindsay (agh) Jason wasn't good at money and Eli told her they needed a way to save. Jason was just for the rewards.
Charlie tells Adam how their father had broken his arm when he was fifteen after they stole some beers o impress some girls, but Adam tells him that was him, his son, not his brother Brian. He recalled how his father would hit him and put him down. Hawkes tells Jo the trace is all found in denim insulation. So he narrowed down all the workers and associates leaving Brody with a connection. He admits he confronted Jason after he found the money hidden in his grandmother's house had been stolen. Jason fought him back and he was pushed against the fence. He wanted to start over for his son. Which doesn't impress Flack as to how he wanted to start over with stolen money, quoting, "the sins of the father are the shackles worn by their children." Ooh Flack! Mac hopes his son can break free of the shackles. What this episode was about really, Brody wanted a good start for his son whereas Adam tries to come to terns with his father and the sort of bully that he was. He wore his father's shackles cos Charles's own father used to beat him too and he just continued this shameful behaviour with Adam.
Mac waits for Adam outside his house and they have a talk. Mac tell him he should forgive so he can move on. Adam tells him he stood up to his father once when he pushed his mother against the wall. He picked up a piece of glass and threatened to kill him if he didn't stop. Flack returns Jason's hat to the bar and mentions the $10.000, just then Courtney tells Eli he lied about where he got the start-up money. Eli stole it from the roof job, so Courtney blames him for Jason being dead. So you can get away with stealing and keeping stolen money. Guess the statute of limitations had passed.
Adam tells Michelle she can leave him if she doesn't want the baggage but she's in for the long term. He plays her some music which his father used to play, the 1966 The Troggs, With a Girl Like You and they dance. A great Adam episode and he really hasn't had nay of those in along time. A follow up to Some Buried Bones where he talked of his father being a bully. The emotional tugging was apparent as he changes from one minute to the next when all Adam wants is some acknowledgement that he's his son and to call him by name. Even when he's the sorry excuse for a man in front of him, Adam still can't forget that he's his son but it all gets too much for him. Nice to see Mac actually being there for Adam for once with some words of wisdom showing he does mean something to him after all, more than just a nerdy, talkative lab tech!
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