Adam asks how Lucy's taking the news of a new baby and then tells Lindsay about his own older brother who was pissed over him but they worked it out. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) found the Vic was Paul Tortucci (Kanin Howell) and he bakes pizzas which Danny describes as good. He and Mac pay a visit over there and find Paul was the owner Ray's (Daniel Roebuck) nephew and was a good boy. He brought him up as his own after his parents died and promised he'd look after him. He lived above the pizzeria. They believe Paul was carjacked and his BMW was stolen but Paul drove a van. They find they have their story wrong and theorize Paul was now the carjacker and got shot, but he doesn't have a record.
Lindsay finds the BMW belonged to Rowena (Chasty Ballasteros) and Flack (Eddie Cahill) pays her a call along with Lovato (Natalie Martinez) yet more waste of space! Flack comments on her jacket and thinks it's fine, he paid her a compliment. Lovato only wants him to be honest with her, that's all women want. Rowena says she was here for three days and hasn't seen her car since then, it was stolen. Lovato thinks she's lying of course and wants to drag her down to the precinct! Agh! She shows them her leg in a cast. Adam shows Jo the simulation of the accident which he did using the data he collected from the CS. It shows the van tried to swerve the car but it was the car which caused the accident. The two vehicles are found and Hawkes (Hill Harper) measures the impact on both vehicles. It appears the van was weighed down when it hit the car so something is missing. Danny finds a hidden compartment under the floor and thinks something could have been smuggled. Paul did say he was going snowboarding in Canada.
Hawkes also finds some pellets on the floor of the car, as well as blood on the transmission wires and GSR on the driver's side of the door. He also finds the seat is pushed right back. Adam uses his simulation again to calculate the weight of the cargo which turns out to be 533 pounds. Mac and Jo get a warrant for Paul's apartment and Jo finds money hidden behind the grate on the wall. With Ray making the funny comment of how they don't know Paul from Adam! Ha. He's back at the lab!
Hawkes finds the pellets were from a welding torch and so the man in the passenger seat was a welder. Hawkes also gets a hit on the blood he found which belongs to Reno Martell (Myk Watford) and he's 6' 4" and has a record. They get his address from his parole officer and at the apartment Danny thinks he's hit paydirt, "boom." However the blocks turn out to be cheese. Mozzarella. Hawkes finds a clean corner in the kitchen which has been wiped of blood. Ray recalls the cheese incident when some men came over from Canada and said he could make money by smuggling it across the border into Canada. It's called white gold. But he didn't want any part of it. Paul took over the running of the books and they started to make a profit so he thinks maybe Paul was involved. Mac notices one of the men cut open the cheese and thinks it looks like drugs and someone could have mistaken it for drugs.
Outside Mac and Jo wonder who could have sat there and watched Paul. Then notice an auto shop. The owner, George (Leif Gantvoort) also has a record but says he has an alibi. Jo collects pellets from the ground and Mac finds cigarette butts on the floor by the door where someone had a perfect view of Paul. George tells them it was Felipe (Sam Situmorang) and he hasn't been to work today. He doesn't know much English. Felipe is found in a dumpster and Hawkes finds he was stabbed twice. He also has defensive wounds and Flack notices something stuck to his sleeve. It's a matchbook from the Blue Moon.
Flack and Lovato wait for Reno to show up and when they do he tries to escape. Lovato tries to take him down using her legs again, what is it with her legs? Reno tells them it was all Felipe's idea. He watched Paul and thought he was loading drugs late at night. That he drove the car and shot Paul after dragging him out of the van. Reno says he was having a bad day. When Felipe saw it was cheese he lost it and so Reno had to stab him in self defence, twice. Flack: "You're like a one man Ellis Island." When Reno says Felipe was new around here. Flack tells Mac he'd believe him.
Jo tells him they're the ones he's going to tell the truth to and then he does but this time Mac tells him of the seat being pulled back to his height position, the blood on the wire when he hotwired the car was his and GSR was on the driver' side of the door. He claims self defence again when Paul tried to grab the gun from him. As for Felipe, the neighbours heard yelling and Felipe didn't know English.
Mac pays a visit to Ray for a slice and gives him the photo of him and Paul when he was little, that Danny found in the van. Mac tells Ray he didn't let his brother down since he brought up Paul to be good when he could have gone either way.
A bit of a routine ep which I didn't find interesting at all. hey even Flack and Danny's scene together at Reno's apartment was rather flat, compared to their scenes throughout past seasons. It appears they really were scraping the bottom of the barrel, the cheese barrel, when they came up with this story, it was cheesy which is not a pun, not to mention most of this final season was hit and miss. CSI:NY used to be good and one of my fave CSI shows! What happened? At least Danny got more to do this ep than he has of late, even showing sympathy towards Ray after they break the news of Paul to him..
Danny: "If you had told me this morning we'd be investigating a cheese murder, you know what I would have said."
Hawkes: "Please don't."
Danny: "No whey!"
Danny finding the hidden compartment in the van like he did in a season 1 episode. If Jo was cold would've thought she'd have worn something warmer than a short jacket! She's been living in New York for three years now and before that was in Washington. Whoever wrote that line, well, you shouldn't have!
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