Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Dolls--Not Just For Little Girls Anymore

According to my sister: We see blood drops then zoom out to see a woman in a suit running into a street fair. She tries to get someone's attention before dying.

Credits!

Mac, Stella and Danny come to the crime scene. Danny finds trace before Mac sends him to get the surveillance videos. Stella finds a wallet with no cash or credit cards, so Flack assumes robbery. Mac wonders why the robber didn’t take the BlackBerry. Flack responds the robber could be stupid. Mac goes through the BlackBerry and finds Chief Wallace was Ann’s (the vic’s) last call. We zoom to Ann’s body in the morgue as Sid chases off someone lurking around the body. He calls Mac and Flack but they don’t have too much footage. And the security guards aren’t police officers due to budget cuts. Chief Wallace argues that while Mac worries about security and reputation. Chief Wallace tells Mac that more budget cuts are on the way and he is pissing off Mac Taylor. That’s never good.

Mac pulls the Chief in to question him about Ann. He said she made her living making connections and she knew more powerful people then him, but he could make her tickets disappear. The Chief says he’ll deal with the politics so Mac can deal with the science. And we go to the science as Lindsay and Stella work in the lab. Stella finds a synthetic fiber while Lindsay finds human hair in the stockings. Flack comes in to take Stella to the person using Ann’s credit card. They find a hair artist who took her credit cards when Ann died. Nice.

Danny and Hawkes watch footage of the street party. They spot a woman in a building who had a perfect view of the murder. They go to the apartment where the occupant says he picked her up at a bar. And they keep interrogating him. Flack, Danny, I don’t think he’s going to recall much. But they give him a card in case she calls back. Meanwhile, Hawkes runs into a lawyer friend of his. They swap updates—dad’s had bypass, Hawkes is now a CSI. Lawyer friend tells us Ann has files on important people and then invites Hawkes out to a bar. Maybe they’ll find drunk occupant’s friend!

Meanwhile, Mac’s been talking a lot. People are panicking. I guess those files are importing. Lindsay gets a match—to a missing girl from Connecticut. However, after finding that an analysis of the hair shows the girl had been living in Boston, Lindsay finds out from Boston PD that she died. From a drug overdose a year ago. Mac wants to know how a dead girl’s hair got on Ann’s stockings. Have you ever tried to get hair off stockings? It’s like Velcro! She might have met the girl a year ago and still have hair! Of course, I would like to know her secret for not getting a run after a week or two if that’s the case…

Adam finds cholesterol and oil—skin, synthetic skin from Japan—in the fiber pulled from Ann’s bracelet. He goes to figure out why it was there. Meanwhile, Hawkes puts together the plastic pieces Danny found. It was the cover of an USB drive. They realize they need to find that drive. Flack and Danny go to Ann’s apartment at the Wakefield, using her key car. They hear something and go in with guns drawn. Looks like someone tossed her place. Flack catches a guy trying to run and Danny cuffs him. He’s a Private Investigator named Anthony Martino. Flack hauls him into interrogation. Martino left for the money. Danny notices the shoes and Martino smart-asses his way with Flack and Danny. He says he’s working for people who will make sure he “doesn’t go down for this.”

Mac brings the Chief up to speed. He tells the Chief someone has to be pulling the strings. He mentions a sexual harassment charge that disappeared. The Chief says that he was innocent, has kids and good marriage. He tells Mac to not let the drive fall into the wrong hands. Meanwhile, Adam combines the fake skin and the dead girl’s hair. It turns out the mortuary in Boston where the dead girl was laid out was under investigation for selling body parts, including hair. And one of the companies found buying was one that creates designer dolls. And not the ones I played with when I was a little girl. Flack flirts with one as Stella and Lindsay look incredulous.

We cut back to the doll factory. The lady gives Stella and Lindsay a spiel as they try to get her customer list. The lady says there is a confidentiality issues but Flack produces a warrant. They go to meet a guy with three dolls. He assures Lindsay he doesn’t sleep with them. Flack notices that none of dolls are blonde. He says that was Tiffany who had an “attitude problem.” So he swapped her online for Melanie. Lindsay and Flack take her to get DNA from Melanie’s last owner. As they wheel her out, Lindsay pretends that Flack is her husband who is leaving her for a doll. It’s great to see them goof off.

Adam comes in and marvels at the dolls. I love AJ Buckley but I could totally see Adam buying a doll. They match a print off of Melanie to our drunk occupant friend—turns out the blonde mystery witness was Tiffany, a doll. Flack shows the warrant and tells him that if they match Tiffany to evidence found on Ann, they’d have to have a talk. Meanwhile, Hawkes and his lawyer friend go to a bar. Lawyer friend spots a cute brunette and then tries to pump Hawkes for info on Ann. Turns out Lawyer’s dad was a client and he wants daddy dearest’s files. Hawkes doesn’t like to tamper with evidence. The friend reveals his dad paid for Hawkes’ last year of medical school. Oh man, a moral conundrum. Looks like Hawkes is standing his ground—you go, Hawkes!

Flack talks to Trevor, our drunk friend. Tiffany matches the trace on Ann. Trevor remembers meeting her at a bar, brought her back to his place, went to get some wine and then Ann spotted Tiffany. She figures he’s a pervert and leaves. Trevor, who works for the Attorney General, notes that they can’t prove he killed Ann. Danny says “Not yet.”

And then Hawkes gets beat up! NO! But he gets hair.

Back at the lab, Hawkes runs the hair as Danny is worried about his friend’s wounds. Then he worries about Trevor walking. They try to find the drive and X-Ray Tiffany the Doll to see if he hid it there. Lo and behold, they find it. And a print! Hawkes finds a print and runs the drive. He gives it to Mac, telling his boss that he ran into a wall. Mac sees through it and Hawkes tells him about his lawyer friend.

Mac goes back at Trevor, pointing out that Ann purposefully picked him in the bar to get his files. Trevor continues to deny he killed her until Mac points out the print is his and the blood proved he picked it up after she killed him. Trevor is more upset that the people in Ann’s files will get off. But Trevor’s going down for murder.

Hawkes meets up with his buddy to give him a check—the amount daddy paid for Hawkes’ last year of med school. He tells his ex-buddy to give it to dad before going to jail. Back at the lab, the Chief asks where the file is. Mac says its at the warehouse since security is lax and gets mad at the Chief for covering up the sexual harassment. However, the Chief reveals he told his wife, who is filing for divorce. It was just the excuse she was looking for. Mac apologizes.

We then see a police officer put the evidence away but he takes out the drive. He puts it on a box. An arm takes it and disappears. Dun dun dun!

Next week: Indiana Jones! And Stella going down the stairs!

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