CSI: NY

A large laundry facility. Inside one of the bags is a dead girl, her neck ravaged by a blade. Mac, Stella and Flack are on the case. The facility is a place that caters to 70 thousand hotels. Hawkes arrives: he is examining her corpse and says it looks personal and pathological. The cuts on her arms are precise. No bruising, and no ligature marks: he had control over her somehow. The blood on the wrapping reads Linford Hotels- there about 12 in the city. Stella is going to start with missing persons. Mac says hell take the sheets.

At a park where there are performers, break dancing displays, pianist playing Mozart. Aiden and Danny are walking through, and they come up to a dead performer who was "acting" the part of a statue. They find some silver paint on the wall next to his corpse, Danny comments he was probably using the wall as help to stand. An officer walks up to them, Omar Lilly, and Danny asks what went on. A Swedish tourist was taking a picture with him and accidentally nudged him and he fell down flat. He was seen every day, but there was no id. It wasn't robbery, his tip jar was full. He apparently had some prime real estate for a performer. Lilly claims always seeing him on his beat, says he was very good at what he did. Danny examines him but he used braces- he cheated. Danny is with Hawkes, Danny is checking out his belongings, while Hawkes checks out the body. His pants reek and were too long for him. He has chronic tooth decay and lice in his hair, while Danny is looking at the clothes. Every sign of the receipts and his clothes hinted at poverty, but his tip jar hinted at the opposite. Danny leaves while Hawkes cleans off the rest of the silver paint.

Mac is with Chad, he asks what's up. Chad shows the thread, and says that's what she sleeps on. The reference sample, what he sleeps on, compared to the victims thread count, Egyptian cotton. And there are only 5 Linford hotels with those threads.

Stella is checking up missing persons. She hasn't had a hit yet; Hawkes comes up behind her and shows her a sample of caviar from the vic's stomach. It was some fancy caviar as it's about 682 dollars. Stella meets up with Mac and shows him what she's got. Only 1 hotel has both their findings in common. Stella, Mac, and Flack head to the hotel. Flack finds only one room ordered the caviar she had in her stomach. They go up to it, it's a Robert Costa.

They kick the delegate and the guard and they check out the room. They go through the clothes and sheets. Stella finds hairs in a brush in the room. They flip the mattress and find blood at the bottom, bleached out. but Mac cuts it up and finds blood on the spring.

At the station with Flack, Flack gives Mac and Stella some interesting information: 10 years ago when Robert Costa was a college student in NY he was accused of raping and murdering a girl- her body looks exactly like the body of the girl found in the laundry facility. His dorm mates provided alibis- they are the same people protecting him now, driver, chief of security and chief aid. And they all get 200 grand a year.

Flack and Mac interview Costa at the hotel, bringing up the case 10 years ago. He claims flack has an active imagination. But Mac says that he found the blood on his coils. And they say that they will track her back to him. He claims he doesn't know her name. And that the blood was menstrual, and that's what the blood was.

Hawkes and Aiden and Danny are in the morgue. All the make-up is off. They got prints, but there is no name to the man yet. COD was natural: cerebral aneurysm. He was dead long before they came by. The body was in full decomp. He was dead two days. The receipt Danny found was from someone else, the same guy who trimmed his beard. There were shaving cuts, post mortem. Aiden says case closed since he wasn't murdered, his death was natural. What happened was wrong, but not a crime. Danny however wants to continue the investigation. He gets confronted by Mac on this. He claims there are a lot of suspicious circumstances with it. Mac says while he's not condoning the behavior of the people who did this, he wants Danny to prioritize it. Danny won't let it go however.

Mac heads back to Chad who was dealing with the trash. Bottles of bleach, possible murder weapon and dress with blood matching the vic. Found a purse, with a name, Jenny Lee, a dancer at Julliard. Stella is already on it. We see her interviewing her roommate of five years. She is asked if Jenny was dating anyone and she comments, "lately she was dating Europeans I think?" Stella goes back to Mac who was rebuilding the wine bottle, there was no semen on the sheet, and he informs Stella. Tox came back: she had a high blood alcohol content as well a whole lot of roofies in her system. They check out the bottle fragment: possibly two bleeders as there are two distinct patterns.

Danny is checking out the prints- and gets a hit. It turns out the victim has many run ins with officer Lilly- 9 disorderly conduct charges.

We go back to Stella and Mac who are with Jane. There were two samples of blood on the bottle. One the vic, and the other Thomas Martin. Seemed Thomas martin knocked his girlfriend around years ago. Tom Martin is the driver. Apparently Tom was the man she was first dating, and then moved up to Mr. Costa. They have evidence that there was evidence he cleaned up after the fact. He says the last they saw of her was when she walked out of the building. He claims he did cut himself that night and says the garbage probably mixed everything up. This gets Mac angry at him and he promises he will stick it to both him and Robert Costa.

Stella and Mac are going over evidence and seeing how every bit is going to get thrown out with their lawyers. Flack comes in with how Tony Garcia was seen carrying roofies; he has a legitimate prescription for it, since he has a sleep disorder. Tony claims that back where he comes from, childhood friends are lifetime friends. And if you have friends you have nothing. Mac corrects him, cheesily saying, sure you do, you have the truth. We can tell he is getting fed up with the way these guys are getting away with… well murder.

Danny is back at the park, talking with Officer Lilly. Lilly claims he wants to be a good cop, and so he remembers people. He is shown the picture and Lilly says, "no way, that's not a performer, he's a homeless guy by Chambers St. He says it can't be him under all that paint. That he was a good guy, despite not being all there. Lilly's disorderly conducts on the guy was just a way for him to get him someplace warm to be with food and shelter on night's John, the homeless guy, would be particularly confused, flashback showing the situation. Lilly looks very upset at John's death. Danny is confused.

Hawkes is with Stella. Jenny Lee had a very unusual fizzy naval. Traces of champagne in the dermis of her umbilicus, and also traces of saliva. Traces of champagne were also found on her chest and pelvic region: flash to her drinking, and Costa licking. The champagne was heavily dosed with roofies. Whoever touched the stuff passed out in minutes. This confuses Stella as it makes her wonder, why would you drug it if you would ingest it yourself. But she immediately comes up with how roofies has an amnesia quality, so Robert Costa would have no memory of what happened that night. Hawkes sent the saliva trace to Julie. Stella goes to her, and the only person drinking from her navel was Costa, this implies, he was also drugged, which means he woke up with a dead woman in his bed, and the possibility of life without parole if he didn't get rid of her. The blood on the ring was the victim. And the epithilials on the ring come from his grandmother.

Danny comes up to Aiden in the lab. She has some image for him. The picture from two days ago was identical. It looks like the same person, so she uses a map to see how long he is. But there are two different rations- two different people. That means the mystery statue is their prime suspect. We see different sheets to see blood pattern samples, Chad is playing the role of Robert passed out, with a dummy spilling blood. They are doing the sheets to match different scenarios. The girl alone, the girl and robber side by side, Robert on top of her, and finally the girl on top of him. They finish, and let him get back to work. They examine the sheet, and it's a match, she was on top. So she passed out first, she was put there.

They bring the evidence to Robert. They show the images of the girl from 10 years ago. Mac mentions how Jenny was different, Robert cared about her. The ring was an heirloom, Robert, swallows when Mac says he actually loves her. Robert says finally, "I didn't kill this girl." Mac responds he knows, but that Robert knows someone who did.

We see Mac and Stella in the lab again, checking out a timeline, from before she had the roofies. They found a print on the champagne cork, but it's a match to neither Tom nor Robert. There was someone else in that room.

Aiden is with Danny in the lab. She found a hair, and there was another hair with silver paint. She is upset and reminds him how she had her back even though Mac said to drop the case. There were no prints on the buttons or the clothes. She reads ingredients found in the hair. And so he says he needs to face up to the facts, he checks out the shoes, and the insoles. An insole specifically fitted to a foot, with a serial number. They found the real performer and bring him for questioning. The man posed the guy, so he could get a day off. They ask what he did with his day and he said nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Mac and Stella are back at the hotel suite, examine the doorways. They find a hearing aid on the ground. They question the man with the hearing aid. The print on the bottle is his. He also had a sleeping disorder, for the last 10 years, as Stella says, because of a guilty conscience? The cork on the bottle was also his. She lays out the situation. He poured the roofies in, hid in the closet, killed her and placed her on top of Robert. He waited again in the closet. We see a flash of him doing it, and he hears the blood dripping, so he drops the hearing aid. He did this as revenge, for Susan Young. There was semen back in the day, but it couldn't be matched to anything. But it came back and matched to his hearing aid. He comes out with it. Robert killed Susan, because she didn't want him, so he raped and then killed her. And he claims Susan wanted him. He wanted to get back at him. He didn't want to kill the wife since he knew Costa didn't love the wife, he loved Jenny. He waited 10 years for this, that's why he didn't leave. He wanted to come face to face with what he did to the woman he loved.

In the end 2we see Aiden walking in, Danny saying she looks good, she comments she's way out of his league. Mac comes up to him angrily saying he thought they agreed to pass the case off. Danny stands up to him and says he stayed on track and closed the case. Mac reprimands him some more, and Danny grudgingly says he hears him loud and clear.