Sid (Robert Joy) finds the Tox screen was negative so Luke wasn't taking the drugs but he may have been dealing. But Nate's blood screen was through the roof. Hawkes process the plastic bag containing the drug and finds a fingerprint which matches Billy (Michael Welch). He attends the same school as Luke. Billy tells them the drugs were his but he didn't want to carry around a prescription bottle as he doesn't want people to know. He fought with Luke cos he accused him of copying his answers. Wouldn't be that easy. The fight was stopped by Principal Connors (Mark Moses) (a most obvious suspect, well when has Mark Moses not been involved in playing a criminal! ha).
The strand of hair Sid found on the DB belonged to Melanie (Abby Pivaronas) a swimmer since the hair was dry and tinged green cos of the chlorine. She was dating Nate and the wrist watch on Luke belonged to Nate and had her prints on it. She tells Jo (Sela Ward) she gave the watch to Luke cos it belonged to Nate. Adam (AJ Buckley) goes through Billy's phone records and finds he has simple algebra problems. Hawkes puts together the pieces from the mug but hasn't found any algebra texts or books in Luke's belongings other than a notebook. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) finds a page has been torn out and notices the imprints of the pencil can be seen on the next page.
SO we get the old working out what the writing says and Danny finds Luke was writing a letter to the NY Times exposing the incidence of drug taking at the school. SO with this much rampant drug taking, it's obvious the principal would be involved in covering it up. Flack and Mac watch Billy who meets up with some friends and is about to deal to them. Mac notices Frank arrive and he stops him from entering, thinking he may have a concealed weapon. He shows him a subpoena from a judge who owes him a favour which shows Billy was a patient with four different doctors and Mac tells him they don't have any proof of who killed Luke.
Adam tells Jo he cracked the code as the texts of algebra problems are really telling Luke where to bring the drugs and how much each person wants. One was sent by Melanie who admits she needed to take them just to keep up and Billy said he'd take care of it. Which he did by going straight to the Principal who covered it up cos he didn't want his academic achievements lost. Flack arrests Billy after a brief chase - yes saved this ep from being utter boredom, such as was Lindsay's (Anna Belknap) storyline, was it necessary??
Billy wants to deal, not surprising cos that's all he knows how to do and gives them Connors, but they have no proof. Mac tells Hawkes to work on the prints and they can use it to call his bluff. Connors admits to killing Luke cos he refused to stop the 'vendetta' and wanted go public. His job was in jeopardy and he mentions his family and daughter. Should have thought of that before and Luke was right, but Luke should have done the right thing and gone to the authorities or his father, not the papers. He certainly shouldn't have blabbed to everyone.
To the tedious storyline, Lindsay awakes to cows mooing as she's back in Montana, subtle hint, like we didn't know. She's back and sees her father, Robert (James Read) who takes her fishing on his boat but she doesn't do much of it. They have a father daughter heart to heart (yawn) and she has flashbacks to her friends and how they spent their time doing usual girl stuff. She wants to see the killer executed for the murders and visits him in prison. Asking how much he took form the till and she feels sorry for him. He insists he's innocent and that sole testimony was based on one eye witness. She watches him executed after he apologizes for what he did.
She goes home and Danny's waiting for her on the steps, wait it's that same mug on the ground next to him. (Quick use it, ha!!) They hug. Oi Lindsay, take your fingers off Danny's butt!! The flashback to Lindsay in the bathroom when her friends were being killed came from Sleight out of Hand and quite frankly I have no idea why this had to be revisited. Is watching someone die actually giving her closure, revenge, retribution. Everyone has their own thoughts on the death penalty but it's not something I advocate.
Anyway, she doesn't answer Danny's call but listens to his voice message in the beginning, which kind of harks back to that previous episode in season 3, since they weren't really communicating well and he want to Montana to support her through Daniel Katum's (Jason Dibler) trial. Also to show you why she wanted to name their daughter Lucy, after one of her friends who was killed. But it was actually Danny who wanted that name and Lindsay was against it, as we now know why. (Did anyone really care?!) See Greater Good ep.
Frank tried Mac's first case in 1995 which is about all the info we get on him, other than they seem to have been friends ever since. He was brought out of nowhere too for the purposes of the story. More Flack funny lines, when he opens Billy's locker; "Do a wash my man, cab drivers smell better than this." Hawkes having to piece together the mug cos he's got "surgeon's hands" as Danny reminds him.
James Read was wasted in this as her father and wouldn't he have liked to ave seen his grand daughter too, considering this is the first time he's been mentioned. Granted it may not have been a good time to bring her down but she could have stayed with him and spent time with her Gramps. She could have shown Lucy where she grew up.
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