New York Has Its Own Bermuda Triangle?

It’s been awhile since I did a recap. Sorry.

We hear a radio news broadcast as they show the Empire State Building. Some guy walks through midtown, talking about transmissions and listening to a busted iPod. Some guy’s radio goes out. Danny calls Lindsay that they changed his bus’ route and is running late. He then asks her about the baby. BABY? Lindsay’s pregnant? Is Danny the father? He says he has something important to say, but the call gets dropped. Everything goes haywire as an armored car suddenly gets electrocuted.

Credits! I am so excited for the Messer-Monroe baby…I hope it’s Messer-Monroe, that is.

Empire State Building! All done up in blue and white. Passover? High Holy Days? Hanukah? The armored vehicle driver is upset as he’s interviewed by Don. Mac and Stella investigate the dead guy. They spot burns as well as a wound. Stella talks but realizes Mac is no longer listening. Don says the victim’s name is Carl. His living partner is Greg. No consistent eye witness accounts. They try to spot Mac and Don wonders if it’s New York’s Bermuda Triangle, caused by the Empire State Building.

Sid gets Carl. He finds something lodged in the wound. He opens Carl up and microwaves something. He gives Hawkes busted metal fragments that were once Carl’s pacemaker. It was the thing that exploded. Sid is microwaving a pig’s liver to show that Carl’s liver was microwaved. Sid explains that communication devices that used to be at the World Trade Center were moved to the Empire State Building—causing the “Bermuda Triangle.”

Which gives Adam and Lindsay some problems with the video. Lindsay sneaks out to feed her cravings. Danny finds her and quizzes her on family history. When she passes, he asks her to marry him. She says no. LINDSAY! Why the hell not?

From baby drama to crime drama…Hawkes does some investigation and tries to put the pacemaker back together. Mac shows up and Hawkes confirms that it did explode. He gets a code and finds that Carl had remote reporting on his pacemaker. The maker knew he was going haywire at 4:56, same time the video conks out. Mac, Danny and Hawkes goes to the top of the Empire State Building. And I don’t mean the observation deck. They go to read the wires at the top. They walk around with devices, but most remain between 1 and 2, safety levels. Danny: “I can see the Poconos but I can’t see any dangerous microwave levels.” Mac rules out the building and turns to a possible microwave weapon. Flack calls but it is all crackling. However, Mac heard enough to know that no one stole any money from the armored car.

New York! Stella goes into Mac’s office to ask where he disappeared to. He responds he was with the FBI, Dean Walsh—we see in a flashback. Wished it was someone from Without a Trace. Remember the case with the person who had everything about everyone in New York on a flash drive? Remember how that drive disappeared? The FBI thinks Mac took it since he was the last to see it. The FBI threatens him not to use the drive. Mac flashes back to Hawkes giving it to him then goes to check the property room. Not there. Officer Kevin Cross vouchered the drive.

Lindsay goes to check in with Adam, who processed the armor car doors. He tried to figure out how someone opened the door. He gets a Satan ring, a very powerful magnet. He puts it over the lock, has Lindsay turns it and they crack the keypad. They realize the person who opened it had one. Don gets the picture and leaves immediately. He goes to see someone named Ernie Benton, an ex-con. Apparently, Ernie used the Satan’s ring. He pays off a young woman, saying he will lock up. He says he has cancer and didn’t do the robbery. He promises to be in the bar should Don need him.

Lindsay works on some trace—nameless the pineapple sticker found on Carl’s sleeve. She runs out of chemicals and hesitates getting some more—the fumes can’t be good for the baby. She does her best to protect the baby and load the chemical. Stella comes to check in. It is doused in fruit oils and zinc. Turns out Stella is also the Safety Officer. Lindsay asks about being a pregnant “friend” who is worried. Stella assures Lindsay it is fine and tells her that her “friend’s” coworkers will be understanding. And one has to wonder—does Stella see through this “friend”?

Hawkes and Mac talks about the microwave weapons while Danny comes in to say something is up with the armored car. The two go to the next bank on the car’s list. Some security car signs in and walks out with money, but signed in as Carl. Carl was dead. They figure the robber—not Ernie—had to know how to stop the real Carl from coming and know the schedule. Carl’s death probably wasn’t on the menu but it was clearly an inside job.

New York! Stella and Mac curse out the New York Bermuda Triangle. Danny can’t prove it’s an inside job. Mac remembers a sky-cam, one which shows the bank the guy robbed. They find our crazy guy who is a witness. Stella and Danny try to talk to him. The guy took something off our suspect. He goes back to detecting the frequency on the busted iPod. Adam examines the shoulder patch taken off the suspect. But it comes back clean for DNA and no scent. Lindsay suggests using the dogs. They collect a smell sample, give it to the dog. And run! He leads us straight to Greg—the driver.

Greg denies he was involved, saying Carl was like family. Mac and Don interrogate him but he swears he didn’t do it. He then tells them his spare uniform was picked up at his dry cleaners by someone who wasn’t him. They show him a picture of Ernie. He doesn’t know him. He storms out insisting he didn’t do it. Mac and Don believe him. Don theorizes that Ernie stalked the driver, disguised himself and did it. But Mac says he needed a partner to stop the car.

Hawkes gets a break. He tells Stella a lab in the city has a prototype microwave gun. He rushes off as Lindsay comes in. She says the pineapple was used to create a tantoo—a design created while tanning. Purposefully, not like that smiley face I had on my back all summer due to the tan lines caused by my bathing suit. Stella points out it isn’t tan weather but I come from the land of orange people—tanning salons are open all year round and very popular. Stella thinks the perp may have accidentally transferred. She got some DNA—which shows Ernie has a daughter. Probably that young woman.

New York. Stella and Lindsay give Mac a rundown about Ernie’s daughter. Hawkes says the gun could’ve been used, but someone had to know how to use it and wipe it down. She uses it to disrupt the traffic, killing the camera and then killing Carl’s pacemaker. Don and Stella go to ask Ernie were his daughter is. They figured daughter got greedy. He says he didn’t have anything to leave her so decided to do another job. He tries to attack Don, allowing Stella to get the daughter’s name. Jamie works for the lab and is seen taking a helicopter. The camera focuses on her pineapple design tantoo. She gets a text message and the helicopter leaves.

New York! Mac finds the dead body of Officer Kevin Cross, the property clerk. Mac sees some sneaky looking people in a black car. Meanwhile, Danny and Lindsay talk about her rejection. She says it’s the wrong time. He thinks that’s code for “wrong guy.” Lindsay assures him that she wants him to propose for the right reason. He agrees. They exchange “I love you’s” before going to tell Mac that they’re going to be parents. No words are said, but they get hugs. Aww…

Next time: A holiday episode. A rather interesting feast. And girl crying that she just wanted to see someone again. And images of blood.

Baby Messer-Monroe! I can’t wait! Anyone else as excited about this as I?