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We see a busy, rainy New York. Then we see a man on fire in Chinatown in front of a bank. The rain douses him. Mac and Stella are on the scene. Stella finds something “gooey.” Upon entering the bank and entering the back they see that the robbers lasered into the safety deposit vault. Flack comes in and informs them that after two guards came to the rescue, shots were fired, and “boom Acetylene tank ignited.”
The security guard claims says he believes there were only two perps, but a blood trail Stella finds, makes them think there were three of them, as the blood trail leads to the back.
Stella questions a teller. She says how she called 911. The smoke detectors didn’t alert the fire company but just the people inside the bank. Mac and Flack question the security guard who is worried about his partner and friend. When Mac tells him he’s sorry but he died, he looks visibly distraught.
The entire team (Aiden and Danny included) investigate the vault. Many bullets are found and Aiden peels off a mask. They figure they worked that they did it between 8:30 and 9 since there was no way it could be open before then. But Aiden finds something confusing with it, they did things all over. They mostly hit vaults with the last digit being 8 (38, 58, 18, 28). The bank robbers are superstitious (8 is a Chinese lucky number) though there were others hit as well, (12, 14, 45). They add those to the list of unanswered questions. The other was how they broke in.
We next see Mac talking to Flack about Mr. Bloom, the leasing agent, who comes up behind them and inserts his two cents. No sign of breaking and entering. Seems suspicious. Mr. Bloom claims no one else could duplicate his key, and the only other person with a key is still in China.

Mac is looking around, and noticed a hole in the sign that says Please keep closed. It looks like a peep hole. It leads to the alleyway where there is the inside of an umbrella. They borrow Mr. bloom’s umbrella and break it. They find their key- the burglars used an umbrella.
Hawkes is telling Stella how the one perp has burns on 52% of his body. Most to the upper torso. He had pulmonary adema. The second perp had suffocated instantly. He was also holding something till the last minute, and wouldn’t let go. Hawkes is going to try and ID them, work from the inside out. We see Hawkes peeling off the burnt skin of the hands to print them. (taking them and placing them on the skin backwards.) As he processes them in the computer he flips them to get them right.
Stella works with items from the vault floor. The first one is a monkey charm. She compares it to the mark on the one victim’s hand. It fits perfectly. She next examines a clasp, with a partial print.
Aiden and Mac are together. She finds some images, it looks like they are the same guy but the wardrobe is different. They all wore the same mask, which explains why the security guard didn’t know how many there were. It’s just an ordinary face; they were made for their faces, so it looks like their face.
Aiden is lasering one of the masks so that the information goes onto a computer; she gets a digital image of it and searches a database.
One of Hawkes printings comes up as Carlton Himes, who was in the system for grand larceny. The other didn’t have anything to go with, so for now, he is a John Doe. All the items from the boxes were insured for up to 10 grand. However the monkey seems to be from a charm bracelet that only valued up to 50 dollars. The print comes back as a Joanne Cho. She was the bank teller. So Flack and Stella question her. Joanne has a daughter, 11 months old, and she is not married. Stella shows her the charm bracelet. Joanne says she doesn’t know who the robber was, but he had that charm in his hand, though it had her print on it.
After consulting with Mac, they figure out how the mother got involved with the robbers: they forced her to co-operate by threatening her baby’s life- the jade monkey bracelet was used as proof they had her. There is a phone number on the note. It turns out to be a payphone in Madison Square Garden. Flack is going to put a tap on the phone. Joanne is worried for her baby since they robbery went bust. Stella is going to take the note and the materials they left with it to the lab and tells her she will notify her as soon as she finds something.
Danny tests guns and bullets to compare with those found at the crime scene.
Flack and Danny question the security guard. The first shot struck his partner Tony. He saw someone moving in the smoke, so he shot at the person moving. He admits he was scared and fired without thinking about it. He asks about Joanna’s girl. Danny says he believes him, but there is the evidence.
Mac is examining the ransom letter when Aiden comes in. there was a hit from the mask. Luther Wilett, a guy who attempted a bank robbery twice in a week. He just got out. They find and question him. He says he was working his boss can vouch for him, but his boss isn’t there. He is very flippant about the situation and the fact that the masks look like him. He claims it’s a tribute, since “prison just ain't about punishment. It's about education. Go in there, guys start bragging about what got you in there. Then you're teaching it. Then, one day, you got a flock of disciples.” He tells them they should try figuring out who his disciples were.
A montage of Stella and Danny working show Stella is working on the baby’s clothes and Danny at the vault working on the gun shots. Trace on the clothes: diapers. She then puts some disposable diaper under the scope and compares. It’s very different.
Mac is walking with Stella, telling her his findings about the note. The letters could only have come from three magazines: "Gotham", "The Hamptons" and "Playbill". The bad news is that there are over 20,000 subscribers in Manhattan. Stella offers to help with the Playbill, and so tells him her finding about the diaper material on the baby’s clothes not being diaper material but something else: fake snow.
Mac and Stella are at a theater talking to a handyman. There is a hole in the door here too. They find the dead body on stage, complete with mask, and little bloody handprints. The baby was definitely here.
Mac and Stella investigate this crime scene. Mac takes pictures while Stella takes evidence. She finds a long hair on the bank robber. And a card in his pocket, positive for cocaine. They find the missing letter x, with a partial zip code. Flack comes in with news, “His name's Kevin Moretti. He's got a rap sheet longer than I am tall and he's spent time in jail with our good friend Luther Willett.” Flack says his parole officer is looking for him, the address for him on file is a Laundromat in the Bronx, no connection this place.
Hawkes and Mac. Gunshot wound to the neck. Might have been saved if he hadn’t run. There are no burns on him; there was residue on his lungs. Traces of mercury, glass fibers and lead in his trachea. But that is from ground zero, three years ago. Over time glass fibers absorb into the lungs, but they haven’t with him: so it was recent.
Mac is checking the scrap of paper found on the third robbers pocket for what is on it. A symbol of a dragon is found.
He heads over to Stella who says that Joanne Cho received a ransom note that was placed in the neighbor’s slot. It was written by hand. Stella is processing the handwriting. Same person who signed the letter to the leasing agent signed this ransom note. Gooey residue on the top shows it came from a notepad and that it wasn’t the first sheet. They attempt to raise the imprint from the page above it. It’s in a foreign language.
Flack informs Stella that Joanne Cho wants to pay the ransom. It’s raining again, Stella heads to a yellow newspaper box and places an envelope inside, Flack in a car watching. She wipes her prints and joins him. After a lady hailing a cab a man in a hooded sweatshirt pauses by. Just as Flack tells the cops the situation, there is a police terrorist response drill. In the confusion, he slips away, but during the process, drops a mask in a puddle. He didn’t get the money.
Stella shows Mac the mask. And she takes it back to swab it. Mac checked out the newspaper stand. He prints it to see if he can find anything. A print appears on the edge and he gets it.
Back at the lab we see Stella and flack with Joanne Cho. Flack leaves, and Stella explains they didn’t pick up the ransom and that they are going to continue. Mac is scanning the print. He gets no hit. But Stella finds him with some good news. They got a translation off the note pad: Nina Chang who happens to work as a makeup artist in the theater and is currently employed on 'Winter Retreat.'
Aiden Stella and Mac search for a Nina Chang. There are 45 in Manhattan. Narrowed by some of the zip code and it’s 12. so they do “6 degrees of separation” to solve the connection and narrow down which Nina they are looking for. After much going over evidence, using the facts from Hawkes (the debris from 9/11) they eliminate 9 Nina Changs. Then the use the logo as another factor. The area that the gang the logo is from narrows it down to one construction site, and one Nina Chang.
We hear Stella screaming outside Nina’s door. She looks like she is expecting them. Stella and Flack come in, she claims she doesn’t know what they are talking about, but they find the robber’s duffle bag. They cuff her.
Stella and Flack interrogate her. She continues to claim she doesn’t know about the baby. She says she went to go meet Kevin there, and left him there to die after he fell. She says she doesn’t know where the baby is. Mac joins in asks her to write the pledge of allegiance.
Danny is still figuring out how the shooting in the vault occurred. He goes over it with Mac while Mac looks at the guns. It appeared in a pillar which it shouldn’t have, and Danny couldn’t find a ricochet. What happened seems impossible.
Stella finds Mac who is going through the writing analysis. Only 13 of the loci matched. Mac got a match on the writing. It was Nina changes. But Aiden comes in with some exciting news. The print from the newsstand was not Nina’s but Marvin Hummel (the surviving security guard).
There is a chase scene involving Flack, Danny and Marvin. They capture him and cuff him against a car. Another officer retrieves the baby and hands it to Joanne Cho.
Mac is interrogating Hummel. He is stating that he was involved with it. He claims he shot at them, but he shot at nothing. Turns out he tried telling Tony to go home, but he didn’t. And that is why he ended up getting hurt.
It ends with Stella complimenting Joanne’s baby and Stella and Mac walking out of police headquarters together.