Recap: Mac investigates a bank robbery and ends up being held hostage by…hey, it’s Joe! Oh, no, wait, it’s the guy who tried to shoot House back in the season 2 ender.
Stella is flying around, trying to find Mac. Who is trapped in a car sinking into Hudson River. Mac’s a former Marine. He’ll get out.
New credits! Hey, they finally added Robert Joy (Sid) and AJ Buckley (Adam). Great!
When we come back, Mac has gotten out of the car. Some bushes rustle menacingly but he glares at them and they stop. He rushes to a nearby road and stops a passing motorist, where the license plate reveals he’s in Jersey. He introduces himself to the driver. She debates whether or not to believe him or write him off as a crazy killer and speed off. She decides on the former and gives him a cell phone so he can make a call. Stella gets it in the helicopter. She and Flack meet him in Jersey, where news reporters are covering the scene. A body is pulled out of the water and Flack realizes it is their prime suspect. However, it is not Joe, who kidnapped Mac. He asks Mac what happened, but Mac’s suffering from a minor concussion according to the paramedic who even I, as a girl, have to admit is pretty cute.
Flack gives them the bad news. Jersey Brass won’t let them investigate the scene except for pictures. So they use their fancy, hi-tech devices to bring the scene back to the lab. Adam investigates tire treads while Sid investigates a 3-D hologram of our dead prime suspect. Meanwhile, Danny and Hawkes try to get Mac to go home. But he won’t. As they continue to investigate, Mac realizes he was shot. But the bullet didn’t hit him, just his shirt. Lindsay marvels at how Mac couldn’t have been hit. She and Mac believe it was slowed down by the passenger side window, something wrong with the load and Mac’s shirt material. And that’s because Mac ix-nays the idea of divine intervention, saying “God’s a scientist.”
Danny reveals that Stella found a child’s hair clip in the back seat. I think I had one just like it when I was little. New Jersey sent over the DNA and it had commonalities with Joe’s DNA and female. They conclude it is Joe’s daughter. Adam reveals Joe is still in New York and Hawkes gets a number the guy dialed in the car with Mac. Mac calls Joe, who is surprised but says he doesn’t want to go to jail. Mac realizes that Joe is working with someone as we cut to commercial break.
Flack is working the phones trying to get information on Joe. Adam pops in and asks if he can plug in his USB. Flack leads him to a room where Adam reveals he caught Joe on a river crossing tollbooth, dropping money. Facial recognition matches but the car doesn’t belong to Joe. We are left in the dark as to who it belongs to, except that it will upset Mac and Stella. Flack asks Adam not to tell them for two hours.
Mac flashes back to being trapped in the car and seeing Prime Suspect (Derrick) dead. Danny comes back and says a bullet matches one used in an earlier bank robbery but Derrick wasn’t killed by Joe’s gun. Danny believes Joe used Derrick’s gun which explains the upside down markings. Mac remembers his kit was left in the bank and asks for it.
We flash to a bar with dancing women as Flack shows up. He interrogates the bartender, Sam, about where her car is. She says she leant to a friend—Lauren—but doesn’t know said friend’s exact address. Just by sight. Turns out Sam is Flack’s sister as he says he won’t bail her out if she’s involved and neither will Dad. No wonder Flack didn’t want Mac or Stella to know. Lindsay finds a trace to run down.
A nervous Adam goes to Mac, apologizing for not telling Mac sooner. He reveals the car belongs to Flack’s sister and Mac says Adam should’ve told him. The lab assistant says he didn’t mean any disrespect. Mac gets a call and leaves in silence. Adam mutters, “That went well. Yeah.” He meets Flack, who has found the car. They jimmy open the lock and pop the trunk. There’s a dead woman inside, revealed to be the woman who helped Mac in the beginning. So she didn’t think Mac was a crazy serial killer…she was obviously in over her head in something else.
When we come back, Danny is questioning Sam. He asks why she leant Lauren the car and she responds she was just trying to help a friend. As she begs Flack not to tell their Dad as someone greets her. Looks like he’s a regular at both the bar and the precinct. Flack tells him to move as Sam asks him to let her live her life. He acts all big brother like and pisses her off. At poor Lauren’s autopsy, she was stabbed and tortured by near drowning. Joe did it, Mac speculated, because Lauren was his partner-in-crime. That’s why she was on the road and surprised to see Mac! Alive!
Stella and Mac go up to an old railroad track now covered in plants. The trace Lindsay was tracking down led them there. They find freshly dug dirt and start digging. They find Joe’s stash of fake IDs. Is one for a George Jurgens? They figure he’s stuck. Can’t go home and can’t leave New York. Joe calls, telling Mac he’ll get the money before the CSIs get him—no matter how good they are. As Stella gets Hawkes to trace the phone, Mac brings up the daughter. He tells Mac he’s trying to get a better life for her and explains poor Lauren’s death was an accident. She was dizzy from the near drowning, scared and ran into a pole.
Adam and Lindsay scan the fake IDs and find a real one. Joe’s name is Ethan Scott in this. Lindsay runs Joe’s background while it is revealed poor Lauren was a bank teller at the bank robbed in the season finale. She conveniently called in sick that day. Stella determines she was the inside agent. Stella says they found nickel shavings in Derrick. Danny explains a key was missing off the dead bank manager’s ring. Derrick swallowed it, which is why Joe killed him. So Stella goes back to the bank, where Joe is attacking a guard.
She chases after him, asking for back-up. They go to the roof, naturally, and continue their chase. Joe knocks Stella off the fire escape, leaving her dangling over NYC streets as the handle of the bag begins to rip. She gets her footing and climbs back up, ready to get Joe.
11:08 PM: I kid you not: “Tonight at 11…”
Lindsay finds Joe’s NYC family. Turns out they are on the run. Alerts are out on the entire family and Danny is tracking all forms of transit, including the SI Ferry. Adam finds out that the family is going to Toronto, leaving from Poughkeepsie. Po-Town! Love to Marist and my old Metro-North Stop. Mac says we’ll be playing by his rules. Stella approaches Mrs. Scott and her daughter. She’s shocked when Stella tells her about the bank robbery. Stella asks for her help. Joe lugs the money through the Amtrak station. I think they may be at Poughkeepsie as Mac calls Joe. They talk and it is revealed nearly everybody on that platform has a gun. I thought it looked a bit too crowded, but I figured it was because I usually took the Metro-North on Fridays.
Mac arrests Joe for murder, robbery, assault and battery. And pissing Mac Taylor off. Seriously, you don’t do that.
Next week: Maroon 5! Who would contaminate a Maroon 5 concert?
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