Mac’s on a plane, suffering through a gabby companion when he sees the flight attendants looking worried. He goes back and tells them he is a cop. They show him a dead body. Mac realizes he was stabbed but they didn’t see anyone suspicious. Dead guy is a federal air marshal with a missing gun. The flight attendant is worried about someone hijacking the plane. I admit when I saw this dealt with a dead guy on a plane, I thought “Didn’t CSI do this a bazillion seasons ago?” but this looks different.
Mac’s gabby companion is a nervous one. He hears a passenger is sick but thinks it is code for “engine about to explode.” Mac tells him the passenger is dead and the murderer took his gun. The guy’s like “Why are you telling me this?” but Mac explains gabby companion is the only one Mac knows DIDN’T do it because gabby companion was sitting next to him, telling stories, the entire time. He brings him to the back to watch the cabin while Mac looks at the manifest. Brunette flight attendant tells Mac our dead flight marshal sat in Seat 6A because she gave him a magazine. Mac tells her to have the pilot contact the Federal Air Marshal to find out more about our dead flight marshal. Mac notices a woman who is a sloppy eater, a guy who cut himself shaving and an empty seat with a spilled cup. Blonde flight attendant says there was a guy there, who was agitated and needed soda, but has since moved to row 12. He’s calmly reading the newspaper.
Brunette flight attendant comes back to tell us the Marshals said this isn’t the guy—Roger Stockwell--he claims to be. So Mac borrows the pilot’s satellite phone to take a picture of the guy’s prints (lifted with lipstick and airsickness bags) and of the dead guy. Meanwhile, Stella’s at batting practice and banters with a fireman how NYPD is going to stick it to FDNY during a ballgame. Mac interrupts this, tells her to have Lindsay run the prints, get a hangar and get ready for a crime scene that flies.
Lindsay says that the dead guy is Antoine, a convicted drug smuggler on his way to Sing-Sing who used to work at JFK as a baggage handler. Marshals say the real Stockwell checked into his hotel but not with them. Flack and Danny go to investigate. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you he’s dead, but he is. Guy was beaten but fought back. The bullet won though. Danny finds duct tape, Flack finds a gun. Flack wins! Danny finds a stuffed panda that may have been used as a silencer, making it so no one heard the shots. That bastard used a stuffed panda?
The plane lands at JFK. Hawkes, Stella and Adam meet it. The passengers, if returning for an emergency landing didn’t make them nervous, armed officers certainly did. Mac explains what’s been going on for the first 20 minutes and first escorts our friend from row 12, James Turner, off the plane. The officers escort everyone off row at a time. Stella says that the air marshals feel this is isolated and turn everything over to Mac, but they can’t get warrants to search everyone. So they have to hope people cooperate. Stella gets information about Turner, who is hostile. And he admits he has a second…family…in… Did they steal this off Fossella, my Congressman? Mac though wants the blood on Turner’s shirt tested.
Hawkes looks over Antoine. Stella finds blood, so they look for trace. But it’s worse than when they light up a hotel. But no blood. Adam is looking over airline garbage. But he does find gun in the bathroom trash. Mac wonders who would remove the gun but not use it? Adam only finds a cute pez dispenser and then Mac tells him to look in toilet waste. Remember the case from the first season where the guy died due to falling waste from an airplane? I wish there was a callback to that.
Hawkes finds a life vest stuffed with money, including Canadian money, and blood sputter. Stella and Hawkes figure it means a bad robbery occurred. Sid confirms that Antoine killed Stockwell. But he can’t tell Lindsay what killed Antoine, but knows that he had sex—most likely in the bathroom. Because joining the Mile High Club is more excited than he got laid before getting on the plane. They also find writing on his hand. Lindsay runs it.
Mac eliminates the gabby companion (Ed) and the pilots. Flack wonders why someone had sex then killed Antoine. Turner, our Fossella rip-off, is cleared. The blood was his own. Stella and Lindsay realize the writing is a GPS code—turns out to be an abandoned air field in Montreal, Canada. They realize Antoine WAS going to hijack the plane to avoid Canadian officials. Stella wonders: “Who would kill a hijacker and then return to their seat to watch the in-flight movie?” Who watches the in-flight movie?
Hawkes goes over Antoine’s jacket, discovering secret pockets to fit the money he found earlier. Hawkes also found cocaine and leopard hair. They wonder where the leopard hair, but Danny thinks Antoine had a partner. The gun had the prints of a Terrence Davis, a club owner who was busted. I’m guessing this is Nelly’s character. Danny and Flack go to the club and we learn Flack is allergic to cats. Danny spots the leopard. Oh look, it’s Nelly. Flack has Nelly bring them to his office. He and Antoine got chummy at JFK and Nelly tries to look surprised at hearing he is dead. Nelly says he saw Antoine the day before because he was holding letters for his buddy and leant the guy his old jacket. Nelly keeps insisting that he didn’t do it, he didn’t shoot anyone, and then “acts” surprised that his gun is gone. I don’t know if it is Nelly’s acting or the character is supposed to feign it.
Lindsay looks over Antoine’s wound. She has everything from the plane that could’ve done it. Lindsay marvels at her collection: “How do people get on board with this stuff? I had my toothpaste confiscated!” Ah, airport security. Adam runs in, with a condom wrapper and reeking of “eww,” but found lipstick. He found out what color and brand, then goes to shower. Flack talks to Nelly, breaking the news it was used to kill a federal agent. Flack offers to keep the charges local and to work off the time as an informant. Nelly doesn’t look too thrilled. He accepts but the camera gets all slow as Nelly nods. That’s never good.
Back at the hangar, it’s been 24 hours. The people have to be released. Turner asks for his clothes back, Mac says after the investigation is over. He threatens to sic his lawyer on them. Mac goes to try to find the murderer, because you don’t piss off Mac Taylor, when Stella calls with a warrant for the women’s lipsticks—two minutes, too late. They have the passenger manifest. Can’t they just rundown every woman on it?
Preview for tomorrow’s CSI premiere. Why Warrick? Why?
Hawkes calls and says he found nickel and brass in the wound, but it didn’t match anything taking from the plane. Mac realizes that the flight attendant’s wings may have been the murder weapon. Brunette flight attendant did it? Oh, wait, it was blonde flight attendant who is currently trying to hop a flight to Paris. Mac corners her on the flight and she lifts up her arms, knowing she is caught. Flack takes her off. So the one who found him, killed him. Of course. And they knew each other when Antoine worked there. And she converted the money into Canadian currency. She loved him, of course. But not enough to love him when he killed an air marshal and hijack the plane. She could’ve been a hero, but she chose to steal the money. So she’s a prisoner.
And the music came off Nelly’s new album!
Another CSI preview…where’s the CSI:NY preview? Guess there’s no new episode next week.
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