NEW YORK! The Empire State Building is green, which can only mean one thing—it’s ST. PATRICK’S DAY! So, in honor, this post is in green rather than the usual blue. In a deli, the man behind the counter calls for #39. Slapping himself aware, Mac realizes it is him. He orders and meets a woman at the deli. He gets called to a scene but he gives her his second number. She orders a pastrami sandwich.
Out in Brooklyn, Mac joins our crime scene already in process. Danny is taking pictures. Flack tells us our vics are Michael Paley and John Doe. Stella notes blunt force trauma before showing Mac trace that is pure gold. Danny’s found a four leaf clover. Flack wonders if we are at the end of the rainbow.
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NEW YORK! Stella wonders if Michael Paley might be part of a prominent blog, which wrote about homeless in Battery Park. Embarrassed the mayor. They wonder if John Doe is Paley’s blogging partner. Sid gets the bodies and begins cleaning them off. He goes all high tech to clean up one vic’s face. Back in Brooklyn, IT’S LINDSAY! HI, LINDSAY! She finds a giant plastic bottle of water and a ladle. Danny finds footprints. As he takes pictures of them, Lindsay takes samples. Danny figures out the vic’s shoeprints. Another was a business shoe print and the fourth was a work boot. Lindsay thinks a gun was knocked under something but an accomplice grabs the gun. So Paley was shot, the possible Vanderman was beaten to death.
At Sid’s, Stella is told that yes, it is Michael Paley but no, it isn’t Vanderman. Who is played by Aaron Ashmore. Stella doesn’t know if he’s another victim or a perp. Sid reveals marks that may help find the murder weapon. Meanwhile, Lindsay runs the samples she took but no compounds were found in the water. Danny examines the four leaf clover while Lindsay gets the bloody clothes. Lindsay found algae in a vic’s shirt. There is a container of water and electic devices. Danny found out his four leaf clover is one that’s only found in Ireland. Someone been to the Emerald Isle lately?
Mac meets up with his step-son, who was worried about a friend. Named Vanderman. He tells Mac that he’s not guilty of murder but he’s afraid. Vanderman wants Mac to come to him. Reed shows his scar from the Taxi Cab Killer and says he knows how important the right help can be. Reed asks him to take a chance. He agrees to meet Vanderman and pays for Reed’s coffee. The owner gives him a take out menu with a message from the brunette in the opening scene. She wrote a note, thanking him for his kindness. Aww.
Hey, the Whitehall Station, I know that one! Used to get on and off there while working in downtown Brooklyn! As Celtic music plays, Sid continues to examine our dead guys while Hawkes fiddles on the computer with John Doe’s bruise pattern. He goes to Stella…oh, hey, the hair looks better this week. The bruise pattern is from a gold bar, deposited at the Federal Reserve this morning. Only in New York. Erin Cahill brings them into the vaults in hopes of finding their murder weapon. Stella and Hawkes have their work cut out for them.
LADY LIBERTY! Stella and Hawkes call in Adam to help. He has a “shiny” issue. They go over the stacks of gold bars. I don’t know, don’t you think the Federal Reserve would’ve noticed a gold bar with blood on it? Or one that looked like it had been cleaned with bleach? Adam declares, “I got a golden ticket!” He’s found the murder weapon. It even tests positive for blood. Erin Cahill says he came from its manufacturer straight to the Federal Reserve and hadn’t left.
Lindsay tells Danny they are going to the one pub that uses algae to brew it’s own organic green beer. Let the party begin! They enter it during a St. Patty’s pub crawl. The bartender IDs John Doe as “Charlie Cooper.” Charlie hooks him up with a cheap engagement ring, the girl dumps him and Charlie sleeps with her. So, he’s not sorry Charlie’s dead. Meanwhile, the pub crawl is still going strong.
Flack tells Mac that Vanderman and Paley’s apartment was ransacked but a uni is sitting on it. Stella tells us that Charlie Cooper not only travelled to China, he worked for the company that made the gold bar murder weapon. It was a company that melted old gold and turned it into gold bars. As Stella and Flack continue with their work, Mac finds a paper showing the same listing the mystery brunette had circled. We see her go into the apartment and the realtor gives her a note. Mac wrote it, inviting her on a date. Aww.
NEW YORK! Mac and Flack interview the owner of the company and everyone loved Charlie. He was a great employee. Mac asks for some information and the owner agrees to give it to him. Mac believes he’s involved, but his hands aren’t the ones of a murderer.
NEW YORK! At night! Mac goes to meet Reed in some godforsaken New York City alley. Vanderman joins them. He tells Mac that Paley and he were working on a story about fake gold. He and Paley were supposed to meet one more source to publish their story on their blog. He was late and saw the murder. How Paley was shot and the other guy was beaten to death by one assailant. When the guy ran off, Vanderman tried to get the gun. The assailant comes back but Vanderman threatens him with his own gun. Vanderman continued to run. Mac asks who the assailant and Reed tells him to tell Mac. He shows the gun to Mac, who asks him to put it down. Vanderman refuses and as Mac grows more adamant, he runs off. Reed reveals the assailant was a cop.
Flack reveals that the bullet isn’t one a cop would’ve used. He doubts Vandeman’s story. Mac pumps Reed for more information. He only knows what Vanderman told him. As he puts honey in his tea, the spoon gives Mac an idea. Hawkes and Mac test the bar using water, a lead spoon and a battery. The electric current transfers the gold onto the spoon. And it reveals…the bar’s a fake.
Danny reminds Stella about his native Irish four leaf clover. He also tells Stella that a stone Lindsay found in the alley is Kilkenny limestone. Stella wants to know where all these bits of Ireland are coming from. Danny’s found the answer—the Irish Hunger Memorial. I’ve been there. Everything in the memorial is from Ireland and happens to be near where Vanderman and Paley live. It is there that they find Vanderman casing the unis casing his apartment. Flack brings him in.
He doesn’t reveal much but the gun reveals more. It jammed, which is why the assailant decided to pummel Cooper to death. But they cannot raise the removed registration number. Mac uses some science magic to raise the numbers and the gun comes back to Finnegan AKA the Bartender. So as the parade goes down 5th Ave, Danny and Flack hit the bar. They call for Finnegan, who throws his tips into the crowd, jumps the bar and runs out the backdoor.
We cut back to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade as Finnegan runs right through it. Flack and Danny try to follow, Flack more successful than Danny. But Finnegan runs into a dead end and realizes that running into a parade where a THOUSAND COPS ARE MARCHING wasn’t a good idea. Finnegan is in with Flack who says the cops now filling out paperwork rather than partying at the Knights of Columbus aren’t too happy with him. Meanwhile, Stella and Mac confront the owner about his fake gold. He was informed about Charlie’s snitching by Finnegan, whom he then hired to kill Paley and Vanderman. He shot Paley, the gun jammed so he beat his enemy Cooper to death. Vanderman thought he was a cop but was threatened by Vanderman. Finnegan says he isn’t going down alone. The owner refuses to say anything. Stella brings in Erin Cahill to charge him with various FEDERAL offenses. He’s like “Oh, crap.”
In his office, Mac gets ready for his date with the mysterious brunette. Reed stops by, tells us that Vanderman is trying to rearrange his apartment and his life. Reed shows Mac Vanderman’s newest blog post—how the NYPD helped him and Paley reveal the gold scam. Reed apologizes in case he did something wrong but Mac thanks him for convincing him to take a chance. Reed invites him out for a green beer but Mac takes a rain check. Mac meets up with the mysterious brunette. I think she introduced herself as Aubrey. Not too sure.
A pretty good mystery, though not sure why they decided to do the St. Patrick’s Day episode a week ahead of schedule. But since there is no preview, I guess they were scheduled for a hiatus. And I’m curious about the mysterious brunette.
PS: Dear Sea World, the Manta isn’t the only rollercoaster like it. Facing down, flat on your back? Yeah, check out Superman at Great Adventure. Same position.
New York Moment:
Finnegan being chased down by Flack, joined by the cops from the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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