Jojo
18-05-2006, 23:45
Detective Flack and Lindsay join Mac at a West Village office building where a security guard, Darwin Judge, has been stabbed to death. Lindsay goes outside to retrieve a special print lifter while Flack and Mac follow a blood trail...straight to a massive amount of C-4. The two men go through the building, telling people to get out, while Lindsay clears the street near the building. As she looks on in horror, the bomb goes off--with Mac and Flack still inside. Stella, Danny and Hawkes arrive with the bomb squad, and Danny and Hawkes join the Search and Rescue team, hoping to find their colleagues alive. Ellen Fielding from the Department of Homeland Security arrives with a large team, including an eager bomb expert named Dean Lessing. Inside the building, Mac awakens and looks for Flack. He finds another survivor, a young man named Smith, before coming across a badly wounded Flack. Mac looks into Flack's gaping chest wound and spots a bleeding artery. With Smith's aid, he ties it off, but Flack's grave condition brings back memories of the 1983 bombing of the marine barrack in Beirut and a man Mac tried to save in vain. He tells Flack to hold on as Danny and the Search and Rescue team arrive.
While Flack is rushed to the hospital and Mac is treated on site, Danny photographs the remnants of the bomb, but isn't able to find the detonator. Mac realizes it may be in Flack's chest wound and tells Dr. Barnes, the surgeon about to operate on Flack, that the debris needs to be retrieved from Flack's chest. Among the remnants are pieces of a charred cell phone, and Mac realizes it must have been the trigger. He sends Lindsay to recover the phone's SIM card just as his own cell rings--it's the bomber, greeting Mac by name and promising another demonstration at 1600 hours. Lindsay and Danny access the SIM card and are surprised to find the last number that came into the phone was from a DHS line. Mac confronts Ellen Fielding--she says she answered a page from her office just before the bombing, and Mac tells her that her text code response was the trigger for the bomb. She's shocked, and reveals to Mac that a few weeks ago several laptops were stolen from DHS. Mac realizes anyone could trigger the next bomb by answering a page.
The bomber starts paging Mac with the number 10231983, the date of the Beirut bombing. Mac doesn't respond; instead he remotely turns on the bomber's cell and traces it to a library at Chelsea University. The bomber calls Mac from a pay phone, saying the bombings are a wake-up call and that Mac is part of the demo. Mac and Danny race to the library where they find a backpack full of C-4 by a payphone. Mac manages to disarm the bomb, and the bomber calls again, telling Mac that Mac is doing what he wants. Back at the lab, Mac traces the C-4 back to Fort Wadsworth, a military armory. Jane Parsons analyzes a hair found at the scene, and has found traces of a medicine used to treat schizophrenia in it, but the youngest part of the hair shows diminished amounts, suggesting that the bomber is off his meds. Mac learns the C-4 was expired and Fort Wadsworth had hired a civilian company to dispose of it. The man who picked it up had all the right papers and appropriate transportation. The CSIs find the van the bomber used in the garage of an abandoned house, along with some explosives and files on Mac and his military career, along with his badge from the first bombing. Mac gets another call from the bomber, who promises a demonstration in an hour.
Mac and Stella return to the original bomb site, where Stella notices blue ink on Lessing's shoes--evidence he was in the building, when his detail, blast analysis, should have kept him outside. He's their bomber. They pursue him to the nearby Goodmanson Theatre. He opens fire at them and aims his gun at Ellen Fielding. Lessing tells Mac that DHS isn't prepared for another attack and that his attacks are warnings. It's a tense standoff, until Mac realizes how he reach Lessing: he addresses him as a marine, tells him his warning has been heard, and orders him to stand down. Lessing responds to Mac's order and lowers his weapon and is taken into custody. The threat neutralized, Mac heads back to the hospital with Stella to check on Flack and are met there by the rest of the team. Stella reassures him that the doctors are being cautiously optimistic about Flack's condition. Mac tells her about the marine that died in his arms in Beirut, and tells her that while Lessing's methods were flawed, his message may not have been. Mac goes to Flack and tries to get the unconscious detective to squeeze his hand. To his relief, Flack does.
While Flack is rushed to the hospital and Mac is treated on site, Danny photographs the remnants of the bomb, but isn't able to find the detonator. Mac realizes it may be in Flack's chest wound and tells Dr. Barnes, the surgeon about to operate on Flack, that the debris needs to be retrieved from Flack's chest. Among the remnants are pieces of a charred cell phone, and Mac realizes it must have been the trigger. He sends Lindsay to recover the phone's SIM card just as his own cell rings--it's the bomber, greeting Mac by name and promising another demonstration at 1600 hours. Lindsay and Danny access the SIM card and are surprised to find the last number that came into the phone was from a DHS line. Mac confronts Ellen Fielding--she says she answered a page from her office just before the bombing, and Mac tells her that her text code response was the trigger for the bomb. She's shocked, and reveals to Mac that a few weeks ago several laptops were stolen from DHS. Mac realizes anyone could trigger the next bomb by answering a page.
The bomber starts paging Mac with the number 10231983, the date of the Beirut bombing. Mac doesn't respond; instead he remotely turns on the bomber's cell and traces it to a library at Chelsea University. The bomber calls Mac from a pay phone, saying the bombings are a wake-up call and that Mac is part of the demo. Mac and Danny race to the library where they find a backpack full of C-4 by a payphone. Mac manages to disarm the bomb, and the bomber calls again, telling Mac that Mac is doing what he wants. Back at the lab, Mac traces the C-4 back to Fort Wadsworth, a military armory. Jane Parsons analyzes a hair found at the scene, and has found traces of a medicine used to treat schizophrenia in it, but the youngest part of the hair shows diminished amounts, suggesting that the bomber is off his meds. Mac learns the C-4 was expired and Fort Wadsworth had hired a civilian company to dispose of it. The man who picked it up had all the right papers and appropriate transportation. The CSIs find the van the bomber used in the garage of an abandoned house, along with some explosives and files on Mac and his military career, along with his badge from the first bombing. Mac gets another call from the bomber, who promises a demonstration in an hour.
Mac and Stella return to the original bomb site, where Stella notices blue ink on Lessing's shoes--evidence he was in the building, when his detail, blast analysis, should have kept him outside. He's their bomber. They pursue him to the nearby Goodmanson Theatre. He opens fire at them and aims his gun at Ellen Fielding. Lessing tells Mac that DHS isn't prepared for another attack and that his attacks are warnings. It's a tense standoff, until Mac realizes how he reach Lessing: he addresses him as a marine, tells him his warning has been heard, and orders him to stand down. Lessing responds to Mac's order and lowers his weapon and is taken into custody. The threat neutralized, Mac heads back to the hospital with Stella to check on Flack and are met there by the rest of the team. Stella reassures him that the doctors are being cautiously optimistic about Flack's condition. Mac tells her about the marine that died in his arms in Beirut, and tells her that while Lessing's methods were flawed, his message may not have been. Mac goes to Flack and tries to get the unconscious detective to squeeze his hand. To his relief, Flack does.