Adam (AJ Buckley) relays the story of how Flack (Eddie Cahill) arrested a murderer and he leaves Flack hanging in mid-air when he's chasing the suspect. That was a nice touch having Flack hanging there like that and if you left your recording on pause, you could have left him there even longer! ha Adam changes his mind and then continues, the suspect says he threw the gun in the Turtle Pond by the dock and Flack tells him he better be right cos he just pulled his hamstring jumping like that. The pond which also resembles a lake in which Adam goes diving but finds nothing. Mac (Gary Sinise) tells them to drain the entire pond and search it. Adam finds a gun and so does Mac. Jo (Sela Ward) finds a sequin slipper and a DB.
The girl is wearing a ballgown and so the girls, Karma (Alexis Apple) and Dee (Tayler Buck) call her a princess, well the castle overlooks her. Jo rules out suicide cos of how she was dressed and it's not a mugging cos she's still wearing her earrings, so it's murder. Mac adding this fairytale has an "unhappy ending." She was tied down in the boat and drowned. Adam finds a piece of shiny metal in the mud. Funny how Lindsay (Anna Belknap) wasn't around to go searching in the mud and for a moment there I felt like she wouldn't be in the ep but no such luck!
Sid (Robert Joy) processes the Vic and finds COD was blunt force trauma. Hawkes (Hill Harper) is able to get some prints and finds a match in the system to Ashley (Madeleine Hamer) a meth addict but she was clean now. Hawkes narrowing down the murder weapon to Manhattan schist, but there's plenty of it about in New York. Sid also says she ate an expensive meal of puffer fish on the Saturday so they need to find out where she was before her death. Sid: "...her last meal was to die for."
Jo analyzes her clothes and finds a piece of flora in one of the sequins of her shoe. Her dress is expensive but the tag was still on so she was going to return it, the rest of her clothes were from thrift. Jo also manged to find a trace of blood on Ashley's dress, under her arm so it was still preserved since her antiperspirant had aluminium sulphate. Jo tells Mac this means she was dragged along the ground, she ran the blood and it comes up a match to Joseph Skiver (Niko Nicotera). Mac apologizes to Jo for his behaviour last week but she says it's all forgotten. He also calls Christine but doesn't get her.
Adam is taken by the metallic object and finds space dust on it so tells the girls it's from an alien ship and he has made first contact. They aren't that interested and are more interested in the princess story. He tells Mac the same who isn't impressed, telling him next time he shouldn't come up empty and slaps him on the back of the head, hey no Gibbs' slaps NCIS here! Flack finds Skiver at his place of work and shouts out "NYPD" then asks why that never seems to work. Skiver is stopped by some men when he runs. He tells him he's not packing which Flack says may be a first but he believes him.
Jo and Flack question him and the cut on his hand was from a vicious toucan, which they don't believe. He's shocked to find Ashley is dead but he didn't kill her. He loved her but she broke it off for some rich guy, but he was happy for her. The blood must have transferred when he hugged her. He doesn't know the name of the boyfriend. Flack asks Jo if she believes him but she's not convinced by the toucan story, Flack does says they can be vicious since he knows a friend who works with them. They're going back to the CS.
Jo uses Danny's (Carmine Giovinazzo) word of "boom." Danny: "Did she just use my word?" Here they find the drag marks and Hawkes finds a jewellery clasp. Danny finds a torn piece of paper. Flack tells Mac they were over 300 elite guests at the party but no one noticed Ashley or reported her missing. Lindsay arrives (Agh!) finding a trace of blood on the ground and also a shoeprint. She finds the shoe print belonged to a size 11, also the circular divets around he scene were from an umbrella, someone was standing and could be a possible witness. The shoe prints have a stitching which is only made by one manufacturer and is an expensive pair of shoes. They could only belong to someone who is 5' 11". Danny fits together the pieces of the cheque and finds the amount is $50,000, also the signature ends in an 'ello' or 'ilo' and just then Flack calls to tell Mac the man Ashley was with, was a Matthew DiBello (Alex Ashbaugh) part of the Coronation Group.
Matthew says he received a text from Ashley that she's in Kansas City on Sunday night and just then his mother, Krista (Kathleen York) arrives - the wicked stepmother or rather here, the wicked would-be mother-in-law. Of course it's obvious she was behind it and finally Matthew consents to giving his DNA. The scratch on his palm was caused when he grabbed her wrist but he didn't kill her. The blood on the ground matches his as does the blood on the clasp. Flack and Danny approach their building when they see Skiver shoot Matthew.
Adam brings in Sid to ask about the piece of metal and says this could mean big movie rights, he wants Sid to invest and Sid tells him not to ask someone for investment who could fire him. The signal from Ashley's missing phone is located and Jo and Adam find the phone in the rubbish truck, well Adam does after he goes truck dumpster diving! See no Lindsay again to do the dirty work. When they reach the SUV, Adam finds it's gone and Mac is gonna be angry. Adam also suggests they could cross reference the route the truck took and could find the suspect's address. How dumb was that and why leave the phone on too. Leading the to DiBello. Matthew is about to be taken in the helicopter, but it's Krista who they arrest.
She denies having anything to do with it and Jo tells Matthew he was there and was a witness. He talks to his mother who finally tells him she didn't approve of Ashley, who was just a commoner. He tells her she only got dressed up to impress her. After Matthew and Ashley's argument, she followed them out an bribed her to leave, but she tore the cheque up. She hit her and put her into the boat and Matthew was watching. He didn't realize until after they told him about Ashley. Jo tells him she hopes her son will do the same for her, but also that he will show his principles and do the right thing.
Mac calls Christine again telling her something's wrong but he doesn't send the message. He also tells Adam, "Mikael Gorbachev." Adam finds the metallic piece was from a Russian spacecraft from 1988 and so a piece made it back to Earth. Jo recalls the '80's had some good music and the song, "Be Happy." Which is played at the end. Adam finishes his story to the girls.
Some great on location filming features in the ep with the backdrop of Belvedere Castle in Central Park to add authenticity to the Cinderella story here. Karma and Dee were happy to listen to the story and it was good to see Adam get some major airtime this season since it was to be the last, considering he only got one scene last episode and it wasn't even a speaking part. Adam parked in a red zone without even realizing, he had that metal on the brain, ha! But it was Adam to a tee getting into yet more scrapes and ones that will make Mac angry. Though with Mac not being able to recall the word 'lab'when he speaks with the officer, it's a wonder he could recall Mikael Gorbachev and the space probe, Phobos 1.
Seems he's still not ready to tell anyone about his condition and will go it alone for as long as possible. That scene with Flack and Danny just wasn't long enough and they didn't get much interaction either like they used to in the past. At least that awful Lovato wasn't around either! Also Hawkes gets to 'steal' Danny's "boom" too in Mac's office!
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