Some guy, doing his best Harrison Ford, climbs tries to move some really old train. He climbs down a hole and starts digging. He finds something (hence known as the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani) before hearing noises. He hides in the shadows as flashlights come towards him. He decides, “Hey, it worked in the movies,” and goes acrobatic. She climbs along a pipe which is coming apart. His hat drops off before the pipe lets loose a lot of steam. The guy is boasting to a party, claiming his find may lead to solving a cold case. So, it’s not the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani? I’m still calling it that. Flack introduces James Sutton, now shot dead.
Cue the Indiana Jones theme song! Or just stick to Baba O’Riley. John Williams is a bit protective of his music.
Stella and Mac go over the vic. Oh no, the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani is gone! And totally didn’t steal the $500 in Sutton’s wallet. Flack interviews the poor girl who found him, saying she thought the shot was a car back-firing. She was trying to find a cab but found her friend’s dead body instead. She recounts that Sutton was chased after finding the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani but doesn’t know why anyone would kill him. Flack tells her that jealousy is a big motive.
The investigation continues as Stella picks up a blood-soaked piece of parchment. Meanwhile, Sid and Hawkes go over Sutton’s body. They find plastic embedded on his skin. Sid pulls out the bullet, surprised that the bullet was very shallow. The wound would indicate a through-and-through, according to Sid. So Hawkes studies the bullet closer while Stella realizes the parchment was a map. Danny goes over Sutton’s Indy hat. Danny pulls one on Stella, saying they are looking a serial killer—before telling her the victims are rats. Stella remembers a fishing hook was found on Sutton and introduces Danny to a rat fisherman. I’d say I’d understand, but Manhattan is an island…Stella notes he has a new watch—I mean, the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani—and he took it off Sutton. He also provides a necklace worn by Sutton. Now important: the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani was open on the ground.
Stella and Mac talk before spotting Adam tossing paper airplanes. He noted the map was folded into a paper airplane which creates a new map. Adam goes to work on finding where the map is leading so he wouldn’t have to explain why he was flying the airplanes. Stella goes to Sutton’s apartment when she gets pushed down subway stairs. She converses with some guy in another language and fights him…Why does everything always happen to Stella? She gets up and can’t find her attacker.
Flack puts out the information as Stella says that the guy disarmed her and spoke Greek. (I thought so!) And from the accent, Northern Greek. Search Astoria! Wait…never mind. I’ve been to Astoria. Not as Greek as it used to be when I was younger. Hawkes asks after Stella and then goes on to the bullet which tells us nothing. He did find mineral oil on the vic, which may tell us more than the bullet. Which didn’t kill Sutton, who had an old gunshot wound. Someone tried to retrieve that bullet but Sutton didn’t report it. However, the fresh bullet nicked his intestine but an artery blew due to the original bullet wound.
Aww man, the Rat Fisherman got killed. He’s found in Central Park, rather beat up. Stella figures the guy who killed Sutton and the guy who attacked her/killed the Fisherman are two different people. Adam traces a piece of china to a set owned by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. They also find traces of Pullman trains, not used since 1930s. They go to track 61 at Grand Central, right beneath the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Roosevelt used it when staying in New York. Mac tells them that the press never photographed him in his wheelchair or braces out of respect. Danny’s impressed and wishes Mac had been in his history class. This is also where Sutton found the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani. Flack catches someone in Maureen’s cat burglar outfit running past them. It’s Laura, the friend who found him!
She insists they were lovers and rivals, but she didn’t kill him. Mac and Flack don’t believe it. Laura doesn’t know anything about the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani but that Sutton was looking for the remains of judge who disappeared years ago. Joseph Crater, appointed by Gov. Franklin Roosevelt, owned the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani (really a pocket-watch) and went missing in 1930. Stella figures the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani isn’t what her attacker was after, but the necklace Sutton was wearing. She and Danny find a coin hidden inside.
Sid finds a history of Sutton’s injuries, including a fall that resulted in his spleen being moved. However, the guy on the slab has a spleen. Now they have to figure out who the Indy-wannabe is!
Adam tries to find out who the guy on the slab is. They find a video from a web video. Apparently, after his fiancée treated him like crap, he auctioned his life away to someone else. Adam tracks him down to a lighthouse on Long Island. He says the winner was Mitch Hansen who put in 500,000 bid for Sutton’s life. Sutton hadn’t talked to the guy because of an agreement. He’s surprised to hear of Hansen’s death and takes Mac’s card. They realize Hansen had been shot both times as Sutton.
Laura runs in upset to find out that the person she knew as James wasn’t really James. Flack tells her his name but doesn’t give her anything. She’s understandably upset and reveals he was with her when he was first shot. Flack realizes what I already figured out—she shot him the first time. She was excavating a site in Cyprus for a job but James beat her there. She threatened him and then shot him in a struggle. She says that it was a good thing it didn’t kill him. Flack didn’t have the heart to tell her it did. Mac and Hawkes realize they have to figure out who shot at Hansen the last time.
And I think that Cyprus thing is going to come back to haunt us. They speak Greek in Cyprus, right?
Hawkes asks who is better than him. Mac’s like, “Umm, who you asking?” Hawkes realizes that the killer MacGuyver-ed a gun out of a pen. They fire a test shot, which leaves blue mineral oil. It was also why it was a shallow penetration. The pen is one of those where you can make the boat float on water. Stella notes that Apollo is shown on the coin. If it’s real, it would belong to the Greek government and belong in a museum. Mac pulls in the real James Sutton and finds the MacGuyver-ed pen. James Sutton is broke while Mitch Hansen was getting rich off of Sutton’s work. Hansen disagreed. So Sutton shot Hansen. And this had nothing to do with the Amulet of Rudy Giuliani?
Stella goes to the Greek consulate. The guy at the consulate introduces her to a Greek antiquities guy—who is the guy who attacked Stella. She pretends to forget the picture of the coin. She speaks to her attacker in Greek, gets her gun and leaves. Season arc? Set up for sweeps?
Someone killed drug dealers. And they are letting Adam go? NO! NO! NO!
Will you be mad if Adam goes? What will happen with the Greek guy? Do they speak Greek in Cyprus?
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