Flack (Eddie Cahill) calls in Mac (Gary Sinise) and Jo (Sela Ward) to a warehouse where the torso of a man is found cut into half, with plenty of blood spatter about. Jo IDs gang markings after Flack finds his tattoo, from a Dominican street gang, the Trinitarios, DPL. His phone rings and Flack gets it from the DB's pocket, he answers and it's Lovato on the other end who just hangs up. Oh man, didn't she think he would know the number. More fool her for using the same number too! He later confronts her cos he knows it's her number and how irritating was she. Scratch that not a question. She tells him the story of being undercover and how fast was she relaying that, to get it all out in one go, not to mention her irritating voice too! Time was when you'd get an actor who could actually speak their lines coherently! His name was Benny (David Fumero) and she knew him from a drug case she was working undercover. Her cover was blown so she had to leave and ended up here. Worst luck for us!
Anyway why give such exposure to an ancillary character, a guest star and a boring one at that too. Yes I keep repeating myself but it's true. Whilst the regulars get precious little screen time, especially Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) thought he wasn't going to turn up this ep!
Anyhoo, she tells Flack she told her supervisor, Robert Hicks (Bill Smitrovich) about Benny and that Flack shouldn't jump to conclusions about her actions. Boring! When the woman saw her on the bus and she was a cop, she had to warn Benny his life was in danger. Well she was slow off the mark, not like she didn't have her phone with her on the bus. She worked undercover for 17 months and Benny took her under his wings when she impressed him at a game of pool where she again beat up on the hustler! So what's new? She blames herself for Benny being killed since he was in league with an undercover narcotics cop.
Lindsay (Anna Belknap) walks in with her usual interruptions and tells them the bus was impounded cos of the knife attack and Adam (AJ Buckley) processes the bus where he finds the Carman's disgarded drink cup and lipstick on it so he can get DNA from it. Hawkes (Hill Harper) and Lindsay processed the CS as Sid (Robert Joy) and Hawkes now work the DB. Sid IDs marks from a saw narrowing it down to a chainsaw. He was in a kneeling position as he was tortured several times. Hawkes finds flecks of trace inside Benny's wound where he was tortured. So he was still alive when he was sawn in half. Adam calls Jo on the video monitor and sees the half torso on the table. He exclaims she could have warned him of the slasher flick. He matched the DNA to a Carmen.
As Flack and Mac approach to arrest her, she climbs to the roof and thinks she can scale the roof to the next building. Of course she slides off it. Jo and Mac meet with Hicks who tells them she probably killed herself cos she was involved in Benny's murder, or even killed him. He's been working this case and arrests are almost imminent when they go in front of the Grand Jury. Hicks has a CI, Raymond (Juan Gabriel Pareja) who meets with Mac and tells him he heard Hector 'Toasty' (Jorge-Luis Pallo) was responsible for Benny's murder. Hawkes finds the flecks of green belong to a car and Mac asks if Toasty owns a green car. Raymond tells him he has a '72 Buick. So helpful so obviously he knows more than he's letting on and is probably a suspect.
Flack and Lovato stake out a bar in wait for Toasty and she talks of how she could have ended up on the other side of the law. That the children are recruited as young as 9 to find meaning and somewhere to belong. Flack saying they do wrong and so have to be punished. Lovato taking a long look at him. Oh give it up woman, you can't have him!! Toasty shows up and he arrives ditching the drugs as he runs. Flack arrests him and he tells Mac he didn't kill Benny. Carmen borrowed the car. Mac tells him the car was found but cos it's not all made of plastic then the fire was put out before all the evidence was burned. Lovato walks out and Flack thinks it's cos she had feelings for Benny and wasn't professional. She replies he saved her life and told her to leave when he found out she was a cop. Umm, how was that saving her life, when she could have just walked out of there anyway.
Adam finds a print on the door of the car and Danny finds the chainsaw handles were plastic so there's no prints. He also finds jump cables with blood which were used to torture Benny. He finds a wad of melted looking plastic and analyzes it and find a glove inside, as well as a rag and on the rag he finds an eyelash. This matched to Raymond! Obviously. Lindsay also found whoever used the saw was left handed and used it straight in front of him so would have to be of a specific height. Raymond tells Jo Benny betrayed him and he had to become an informant but Jo tells him he was the only one who betrayed the gang, not Benny. Hicks doesn't want Mac to arrest Raymond as he's the star witness but Mac tells him he must do the right thing. Especially since Hicks knew about Raymond and killing Benny since that night, when Raymond was driving the green car which Hicks got into. Hicks's print was found by Adam.
Flack buys Chinese for Lovato and waits outside her apartment (how romantic, not for her though!) She tells him he really wants to know if she slept with Benny and she replies no and tries to get really close to him! He leaves, good, cos we don't want them down that road. Flack can do so much better!! So they tried to make Lovato different from Angell in that Angell hailed from a cop background, as did Flack, which made them really understand each other and gel, whereas Lovato has a more hard done by story, doesn't make her any the more interesting.
Lovato: "I think you're jealous."
Flack: "I think you're delusional." Yes isn't she, ha!
I like how Flack's character has really changed and evolved especially since he thinks everyone should be punished if they do wrong and he's changed quite a bit since 3.8 Consequences, where he thought Truby should be given a 'pass' of some sort for wrongdoing (though he was a cop) since his convictions would be called to question. But Mac wasn't taking any prisoners then and he isn't now either, when he tells Hicks Raymond is a cold blooded killer and will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. No passes for him even if he is a witness, or would have been. Shows how much Mac is and always will be a stickler for the law and doing the right thing. It's his job and he doesn't forget that or draw the line anywhere other than doing right and getting justice for Vics irrespective if they're good guys or bad.
As for Lindsay did we need another Montana reminder since she was there last ep, when she tells Mac she could have been a lumberjack, we wish! Funny Mac always manages a smile for her or her comments, whereas someone like Adam is treated like a nobody! Hate that!
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