A man chases another man on the street and catches up to him as he pushes him onto a taxi, just then a body falls from the top of a building and lands on the taxi. Sid (Robert Joy) arrives at the scene and Flack (Eddie Cahill) asks why they let him out on the weird cases. Sid says he asked for this one and came by himself. Mac (Gary Sinise) recalls the story of Wentworh who was a recluse and had an illness to the sun, thus he wore a leather mask to hide his face and this DB is wearing something similar. His girlfriend, Wilma killed herself shortly after his death. There are claims of a blonde woman mysteriously walking the building. Flack doesn't really believe in urban legends but he does in this one. The DB is the 37th person to have 'jumped' from the building after the first death in 1929. Sid finds a laceration to the DB's neck and believes it to be murder. Mac tells Flack he shouldn't give up the search for the blonde woman.
Lindsay (Anna Belknap) arrives to process the CS, regular as clockwork she's become so predictable you just know she'll be first on the scene. Sid tells her about a woman who jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building. She landed on a limousine and they found her clutching her pearls. Lindsay recalls it as "the beautiful suicide" coined by Life Magazine. Flack is unable to find any ID on the DB, some people knew him as Jason or Jake. He used to work the floors and take photos with tourists. The lipstick mark on his face could be from the killer and Sid also theorizes that the DB could have lost his bearings after being attacked and fell from the top. Which turned out to be the correct theory. He asks Lindsay why she looks so piqued and obviously it's cos she's preggers.
Sid examines his DB and finds black trace in the wound as well as some black flecks. Adam (AJ Buckley) processed his jacket and found a whole stash of valuables and jewels. Adam vents to Mac about the Vic even though he's not meant to about how he stole from unsuspecting tourists. Mac wants him to ID who the phones belong to since one of them could be the killer and specially a text from someone who says he will find him and get him back. Mac being terse with Adam as usual as if he doesn't do his job.
Jo (Sela Ward) picks up some clothes for her son from a store and notices a man picking out ties who seems to ask for help in choosing one. She comes over and tells him he needs to try one on and pulls it tight at his throat. She knows he's been following her and wants to know why. She tells him she's a Marshall, an FBI agent and carries a gun. He wants to talk with her in private but in a public place to explain. His name is Grant (Johann Urb) and finally tells her he was suffering from a heart condition and needed a transplant. He got her sister, Leanne's heart. After he tells Jo they're from the same place, Alabama. He looked for her but took him this long to tell her, cos he didn't know how to bring it up. Jo recalls the drunk driver and how her sister was dead before she even left the drive. She was so caught up in the driver that she didn't find out who the recipient was.
Jo is overwhelmed and has to leave. He follows her later and gives her the bag she left. Leanne wasn't married either, just like him but they both came close. He's a professor and Jo asks him if he's a good man. He thinks he is. She's glad he found her and he recalls September 13th was the date of his transplant and that it was a Friday. Just like 2013 had a Friday September 13th too. Not to mention the building number was also 913, the supposedly cursed building and this ep is 9.13. Jo asks him what he saw when he woke up and he tells her a woman. Seeing Jo he now realizes it was her sister. Jo wants to listen to his heart, as it beats strong.
Sid found a screwed up piece of newspaper from the Vic's mouth and also he was stabbed by some bent weapon. Lindsay is unable to get any results on the paper and is flustered. She returns form the toilet and has to count on her fingers, what how late she is or the number of testes she's done! Ha. Why was she acting so confused anyway after all it's not her first baby. Mac talks with her and he's so nice to her, as usual, even when she tells him she's come up blank on the paper. Mac calls Christine and tells her he's won the bet and she owes him $10. He will get proof.
Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds the black fleck were sequins. Wentworth would allow women to the building if they wore sparkly clothes so they would bring him some light. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) questions the man who left the text, Calvin (Robert Baker) and he claims he was looking for a woman but she probably stood him up cos he didn't have his phone with him. He has a right to be 'peeved', which Danny and Lovato (Natalie Martinez) find so funny. Did it really take two to question him, more like they were ganging up on him, which required the useless effort of Lovato. Really don't know why she was needed in this ep. Danny shows him the footage from the lift when he went to the nightclub and also the one from the street when he accosted the DB.
Danny and Adam go to building and Danny tells Adam they don't need to search the entire floors but between the 6th and 10th floors, as he read Sid's autopsy report. Adam doesn't think he read the report and he replies, Mac told him. They find the primary CS and Adam notices the blood spatter on the wall, which means the killer was facing the Vic and was the same height. He also finds a void in the spatter. Also Danny finds the blood pool showing the Vic bleed out in a spot away from the edge but the killer left behind footprints so came back to the Vic to put the paper in his mouth. Danny believes he tried to get up and was disorientated and fell over the edge when he walked in the wrong direction, which is what Sid said.
Hawkes finds the blade was probably made in prison. The killer took a gum wrapper foil and placed it against the two ends of the battery thus getting a flame. Then lit up some corn chips to prolong the burning of the flame as the fat ignited, whilst getting some plastic, such as a toothbrush or a fork and melted it down. This formed a long object and then was placed into water to harden it. Filed and then repeated. Thus the killer made a shank. Lindsay still gets nowhere with the paper and gives up. Adam tells them the Vic's name was Alex (Moneer Yaqubi) since one phone he found actually belonged to him. Mac thinks the date is relevant to the killer and a number of suspects who had cases with that date are found. Just then Danny notices the blonde woman in the mugshot and recalls she's the same one in the footage from the lift, Macy (Laura Vandervoort).
Flack and Lovato find her apartment empty but he finds the bloodied scarf and she sees her dyed hair in the sink, using a fork to pick it up, how ridiculous, what she didn't have a pen like Flack. She's reported to be seen at the station and after a brief chase where she has a leaflet stand fall on her she's arrested. She tells Mac she was innocent but no one believed her. Alex called her and told her to bring a bag from their apartment and she got run over, all the stolen items came out of the bag. Mac tells her she was an accessory but insists she had no part in the theft. She thought they just took photos and made money. She got him back for what he did to her and she's not remorseful since she was after revenge even if it means ending up back inside.
Jo arrives to find Sid winning his bet when Lindsay tells Danny she's pregnant. Took her long enough. Danny shouts it to the entire lab and it was funny Sid getting the bet money considering only last ep he'd given away millions. An episode which was clearly a bit of a mish mash with elements that were already done before in past episodes. The urban legend areas were already done in eps such as the eyeball in Stella's coffee in No Good Deed, the building where people were still stuck in, in Death House Flack's urban legends ep from season 1.15 'Til Death Do Us Part when Aiden and Stella tried to scare him with the ghost story about the haunted monastery. Also the ep where the money jewels fell from the sky and the woman became an accomplice in 7.5 Out of the Sky. Suppose there are a lot more eps but these were just from the top of my head.
This episode also had a little bit about Jo's past since everyone was getting personal stories this final season. Except we haven't had any for Danny or Hawkes yet.
Sid's story of Evelyn McHale clutching her pearls when they found her was reported in Life Magazine from the 12th May 1947 issue. A patrolman saw a white scarf float from the building and then moments later, Evelyn's body came down. Strange that a sequin scarf should be used here to give away Macy as the killer.
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