CSI New York Episode III Season 10

EPISODE III: OLD SECRETS

Mac texted to Christine for the seventh time that night, he was leaving the scene with his car, but at driving there was Sheldon "Call Christine! You have a tremendous desire to hear her! It is a week that you continue to send you messages" he said noting that Mac's mobile phone rang constantly

"You're right, but I don’t feel I can speak on the phone with you that are driving"

"Then allow me to distract you for the last three minutes of the trip! It is from when we started doing site inspections in that stinking basement that I must confide to you something!"

"What?" Mac asked curiously

"I have a date but it has been postponed to a date to be fixed tomorrow night because of work!" Sheldon said satisfied by inserting the direction indicator to turn right towards the building of the Crime Lab

"If you want I can give you the night off, you never asked for permission!"

"Even at Jo you can give the night off?" Sheldon asked

"You have a date with Jo?" Mac said enthusiastically "I tell you what, we will give it the entire night to find out something about the murder and tomorrow, if we just have to catch the bad guy, you and Jo will have the night off!"

He parked in the garage Sheldon "You really allow us Mac?" he asked surprised

"Of course!"

The two got out of the car and with the badges unblocked the access door to the lift where Mac called Christine "Hey, hello!" he listened to her  "No, I'm so sorry! It's work’s fault! You all right there?" he listened for a few moments " You did well to call even your uncle, you'll be safer!" the lift opened "Now I must leave you! See you tomorrow morning! Do the guard duty and try to sleep! I love you too! "

"What’s going on Mac?" Sheldon asked

"Personal problems!" Mac said.

Mac and Sheldon walked side by side toward the meeting room where they were waited by Stella, Jo, Danny, Adam and Sid

"Welcome!" the pathologist began in tone tired by the work and time "The autopsy confirmed what I already had seemed clear as soon as I saw the body: he died as a result of dog bites. At least five samples of large size" he said by indicating the lesions on the radiographs at the bones of the head and legs in particular "The bites have also severed significant blood vessels: the femoral artery and the right carotid artery. The interesting thing is that the victim didn’t tried in any way to defend himself"

"Strange!" Danny chimed "You left voluntarily yourself torn to pieces by four or five dogs?"

Stella was puzzled "There are no signs of laces nor on the wrists nor on the ankles!"

"Flack and I have looked in the dumpster the night we discovered the body!" Adam added "I've found that they’ve disposed of his clothes and of his personal items before leaving him in the basement and there was even a disposable mobile phone. I tried to analyze it and I have not finished yet. We could find out if he met someone or if he had to do it!"

"Very well, Adam! I would say that you can examine and Stella clothes and mobile phone "Mac said, but before he could go over Sid interrupted him

"The tox screen and the other blood tests will come in a few hours. Due to technical problems, we didn’t manage to do faster. I'll let you know what the medical report says!" he said by taking leave

Mac looked at Adam and Stella getting up from the table directed to the computer the first and the second in the laboratory analysis

"Danny you and I will take care of the crime scene for the umpteenth time, while you, Jo, go to Flack!» Mac concluded "Ah, Sheldon! go with her! It will serve support in case of need! "

"Why? What happens Mac? "Jo said, in response Mac opened the message received from the unknown number "Where is Christine?" the woman added after seeing the text message

"At home with my mother, her uncle and her parents. I told her to use the gun to defend themselves!" Mac said

"What happened in Beirut, Mac?" Danny asked

"I'm not sure, but I think some of my comrades in arms raped the local in the tent camp infirmary!"

Sheldon was puzzled "How can you not be sure?"

"Because I was hurt!" said Mac "A bomb had exploded almost on top of me, I still have the mark of the splinter that came to me in the chest. That night I was on painkillers and sedatives due to the pain”

"Who can ask for your help to solve this crime?" Jo asked

"Anyone! No hypothesis is ruled out!" Mac commented confused "Before dealing with me, we have to solve this case! Get to work!"

Danny was sleepy, but he would not stop for a moment to look at the photos of the scene, without finding a clue. Mac looked of the computer trying where bettors of dog fighting community would gather until the day before, spacing out with the text message to Christine’s mobile phone, at home was still quiet.

Adam had finished to examine the phone and knocked on the office of Mac "The victim had set up a meeting with a man next to Central Park that never took place and now, if I may, I’ll rest for a minute!"

"Go for it Adam!» Mac allowed him

"Thank you," he said with gratitude coming out.

Tired and worn, Adam decided to take a shower. Under water the memories of his childhood came to mind about him: his father led him often in the family garage to beat him and his mother who was crying desperately in the kitchen. The sleep made ​​him look like those memories tangible, present and real. He turned off the water and stepped out of the shower more tired than before, he sat on the bench of the locker room with only underwear on him. Stella saw him entering the and approached him "Are you all right Adam?"

"Yeah, Stella! I have a bad memory crossed my mind and the fact that I haven’t found anything concrete on that mobile phone makes me crazy!"

Stella sat down next to him "Do you want to talk to me about your bad memory? Perhaps it may make you feel better!"

A little hesitant Adam replied "All right, get ready to hear the worst things about my childhood”

Mac had decided to take a pause from work, and go get a cup of coffee at the street corner. He came into the locker room to get his gun, which he usually left in the desk drawer. He came silently at the entrance of the locker room and when he entered it, he hid behind the door, there was someone who was speaking softly, he was surprised when he saw who was there between the two rows of lockers.

Stella kissed Adam one last time and then she pulled away and put on her t-shirt over her bra "Some time ago we said that was nice but that would never happen again!" she said sternly

"It is true!" Adam said pulling on his pants "But I never stopped thinking about you and that morning in the lab I lied when I mention that I was agree with you!”

"I lied too! I didn’t think it was right to take the next step, it seemed to me an act of irresponsible teenager! Since we are adults!" she took a deep breath, leaning back to one of the lockers "The truth is that in New Orleans I had another story that didn’t end well because I kept thinking you!" she looked at him in the eyes as if with her eyes had wanted to delve into his deepest thoughts over his astonished expression

"Wow!" Adam said "I also had a couple of stories and have not ended just fine ..." he smiled by pulling the shirt "Maybe we should have had more courage than!"

"Maybe ..." Stella smiled "It took us too much to understand that between us it could work!"

"It isn’t too late!" Adam said, approaching her

"As soon as this case is resolved, I'm going back to New Orleans!" she said stroking him gently on his cheekbone "We have repeated the same mistake as four years ago, Adam!"

"It isn’t a mistake! This is the second time that this has happened to us, so it's something more, or we would not be falling back!" he said kissing her "Because I realized that I love you and I know you feel something for me!"

"Adam ..." she tried to interrupt him

"Don’t do it! Please don’t hurt yourself!" Adam had the eyes as a child, afraid that he just wanted to be understood and loved, Stella looked at him and smiled pulling him to himself and kissing him" What about your job? I won’t allow you to abandon Mac! Where he can find another like you?"

Mac smiled watching the scene from his hiding place, she was a really incorrigible friend who loved to put work ahead of everything "And yours then? It is more important than mine! In New Orleans You cover the same role that Mac has here!" he said looking into her eyes " You have a promising career well underway! Offer me a job! "

"We'll talk about it some other time! It’s thirty minutes that we are here below, our break has just timed out!" Stella said leaving Adam alone in the locker room.

Mac and Stella crossed just outside the door "Wow Stella!" he smiled surprised "You and Adam! Truly a bizarre assortment!"

"Mac?! You ... how long you been out here? "she stammered confusedly

"Don’t worry! I only watched the final speech» Mac reassured her. Stella sighed and turned to leave embarrassed

"Anyway, Adam is right! Once is a mistake twice is something more!" Mac said catching up to her

"Yes, but ..." she started to object, but she was interrupted by Mac who put his hands on her shoulders

"But what? Were you, or not, the one who said that I would be returned to the Mac of the past?" Stella smiled at him "I'll talk to Adam and I’ll see what can be done for a move to New Orleans! However now we all go back to work! There is a case to solve!" he said leaving her go upstairs.

Mac walked into the locker room, where Adam was still trying to recover by the umpteenth disappointment "Adam!" he greeted him opening his locker

"Mac!" the other replied

"I was thinking ... and if you moved to New Orleans?" he said making sure the gun at the waist

"What do you mean? You do not want to fire me, so you send me to New Orleans? What have I done this time?! Do not tell me it's for a wedding gift!" he replied frantically and concern about

"Adam shut your mouth!" Mac ordered him in a firm voice "The reason why you would be sent to New Orleans is called Stella!"

"What? You ... I mean you were ..." Adam stammered confusedly

"I saw Stella right outside, I talked to her and I said that I would speak you too," Mac smiled

"Thank you, Mac! Whether for a transfer bid and for having interceded with Stella!"

"Imagine! You have a second chance with her, do not waste it! "He looked at him seriously

"Changing the subject, can I ask you a question about your past of Marine?" Adam asked gently, the Detective nodded "You were a character like Sergeant Hartman?"

"I've never played Sergeant Hartman with any of my men! There is dancing in a bet or something?" Mac exclaimed quite offended

"No, only personal curiosity: I was able to talk about your childhood and your youth with your mother at the wedding and she confirmed to me that you were transformed when you go from simple soldier to Lieutenant!"

"Now I'll tell you what happened to me once! At eighteen, when I was in the Marines with the rank of recruit: I had the courage to ask a personal question, exactly like yours, to my superior in private, you know what he made me do?" he asked the other

"I do not know ..."

"I had to sing the hymn of the Marines entirely doing pushups for every second of his duration and then clean the toilets of the camp for a month!"

"Damn!" Adam exclaimed stunned

"Go to work now! Thanks the fact that I was discharged since 1992 and I remind you that at the time was Major!" Mac said patting him on the shoulder toward the exit "Ah, and Hartman was a Sergeant Major!" Mac added by turning "Don’t remove the degrees to the big military of movies! "

Mac returned to the office with a cup of hot black coffee to take away, to take care of the photos of the crime scene. Jo had left a note saying that Flack would be ready at any time to intervene and the guys at the party were mostly drunk.

"I thought you quit with the coffee!" said Sid stepping into the office

"I have taken up again and not even recently," Mac said, sipping his coffee

"Anyway, I'm here for the tox" he said getting full attention from Mac "Our killer smuggler of New Orleans remained defenseless because of tetanus and not for a drug. I know it sounds absurd, but it is not so! "

"There is a vaccine against tetanus," thought Mac "Every ten years ago a call, who would be so careless not to do it?"

"He who has a lot of trouble with the law for sure!" Sid smiled "If the dogs had not attacked him, he would have died of suffocation or cardiac arrest, apparently the disease was already well advanced!" he said indicating a precise point on the analysis

"I'm going to inform Stella!" Mac said rising from his desk "After all, he was her murderess on the run!"

Sid smiled "I have met Danny and Sheldon who were coming out when I came to you!"

"Really?" Mac asked puzzled

"They said that there is a place where the fight with dogs is legal and it is here in New York! To be precise it is in Queens! A place apparently bizarre and opened only from a month”

"Why did Danny take Sheldon with him?" asked Mac

"If they find out that the teeth of the dogs remained residues of blood, they will take the samples and dental records to compare with the bites on the victim!" Sid concluded by leaving

Mac left the office and met Stella at the lab "The tetanus was killing your fugitive, those dogs have done him a favor because he was not in the hospital or he never would have come!"

Stella nodded and kept walking "Do we have any leads?"

"Danny and Sheldon are already following in the Queens!"

"Great!" Stella concluded

"I wanted to go and see the situation as it was at my house. Do you accompany me? "Mac asked her heading toward the elevators

"Willingly!" Stella said pressing the button to open the doors

Danny and Sheldon came into the room where the fighting between the dogs were kept, they were surprised to see the entire building organized and structured with a touch of class.

A girl dressed in a black fishnet dress that left abundantly see the white underwear worn underneath, stopped them at the entrance "You're not from around here are you?"

"No, indeed!" Danny said hasty trying to concentrate on work and not on other

"Well, here you will enter only if you are members, if you are rich and if you own a dog fight or an entire team of them and you ..." she said looking at them as if they were garbage "You seem to be tanned like bums! Come back when you’ll become someone!" she said snapping her fingers to draw the attention of bodyguards

"Does it matter if we claim to be of the Scientific Police?" Sheldon asked irritated

"I want to see the badges!" she ordered than, Danny took out his while Sheldon was able to prove to be a coroner and with the distinctive he also proved to be a detective third grade "Well! Now I want to see your warrant! "

"We don’t have a warrant because we don’t have to frisk nothing! We just want to have a chat with the manager!" Danny told  

"No warrant? No meeting with the owner!" she smiled slyly

Four arms grabbed Danny and Sheldon who were thrown out on the asphalt "This is assaulting an officer!" Danny shouted by getting up numb

"We are cops too flea!" the bodyguard of white complexion twice as tall as him barked in response

"Do not mess with us dwarf!" the mate with a dark complexion shouted.

Sheldon was still on the ground and couldn’t get up "I think I sprained my ankle Danny!"

"Damn! Hawkes!" the Detective muttered through clenched teeth "Hold on to my neck! I'll take you up to the car and then we go to the hospital!"

Mac drove home quiet by explaining to her friend what was going on when the mobile rang and he realized which wasn’t Christine

"Pull and answer!" Stella suggested

"Taylor!" he replied as usual

"Well! That was quick to respond,!"  the voice of a young woman said on the other end of the phone "I'm sorry for the message! I guess it sounded like a threat, but I want to get your attention!”

"I’m listening to you!"

"I'm here behind you, turn on the street corner! I want to talk to you, face to face, alone! Meet me behind here! "

Mac looked in the rearview mirror and saw a gray car carrying the red-haired girl

"She wants me to talk!" he said to Stella “Intervene only if you see that the situation is critical"

The woman on the seat of the passenger nodded "Be careful Mac! If this girl sent you that message, it is clear that she is not joking! "

Mac got out of the car and reached the one of the mysterious red-haired girl "Apparently you know me pretty well! You knew also the day when I got married!" he began approaching the glass

"Get in!" she ordered.

The girl waited for Mac to sit and then she went on "You're the last one left for me to check, so that you can’t be the one!"

"Can you be more clear?" he asked looking grim

"My name is Angela Meyers was born in Hope, Arkansas in 1984. My mother is an American journalist who until a year before my birth was sent to Beirut where my father, a Marine, he raped her after she tried to protect some local girls'

Mac looked at her puzzled "What have I to do with all this?"

"You were there too at that time! In a tent hospital! I know because my mother told me that you were there among the wounded in the bombing of the morning! "

"Exactly, I was hurt! I can’t  be the one that had raped your mother!" Mac said quietly

The girl next to him was on the verge of a nervous breakdown "But you have not even spoken! You could have punished the aggressors! You were a Lieutenant!"

"I was not even sure that what you're telling me had happened, until now!" he said

"I have done DNA tests with all who were in your battalion until his return to the United States, including the dead! You are the last one left for me to check! I wanted to be sure to do the verification test with you too, and so I wrote you that message! "

Mac looked into her eyes "You have sent me that message to get my attention, well you got it!" he sighed softly and then he said "If you want to be sure that I am not your father do the test! I do not pull back!"

"Thank you!" Angela sighed "You'd better go to check on how Christine is! She may be anxious!" she said opening her door to go down and reach the passenger seat. When the girl opened the door of Mac saw that her waist there was the badge of the city of New York "Look! A colleague!" he said satisfied

"Who got a place at the Scientific recently!» Mac eyed her suspiciously "Do not think about my ulterior motives, I only have a bachelor's degree in biology and I'm good with computers!" she pointed out "I love do the party to hackers!" she smiled triumphantly.

Mac smiled, peering at into her eyes "I'm glad I to have you in the team then! See you later for the test in the laboratory!" he said shaking her hand "Take also the list of people that you've already checked! Let's see if someone has escaped you!" he said walking to his car and watching Angela back in the car.

"So?" Stella said as soon as he was gone up Mac

"Her name is Angela Meyers, she is my new agent! She wants to be sure that I am not her father and she asked for my help to shed light on her past!" he said putting the car ignition on

Stella watched the road "It’s hard to believe!” she mumbled, then she turned to Mac "You're sure you're not her father?"

"Never been more sure!"

Sheldon was leaving the hospital with a bandaged ankle and crutches. Danny helped him with the steps "Damn bitch with fishnet dress! I will make end up in jail her as soon as we get the mandate!"

"Danny calm down! One that should curse it’s me! But I have learned that it is better to let it go!" he said trying to sit on the car of which Danny had just opened the door "Now let's go back to the lab!"

"Before I discharge you at home!" Danny said

"No! I want to work! " Sheldon said

 Danny shook his head and snorted "You heard the doctor! You do not stand holder and you want to analyze even the evidence in the lab!"

"If Stella has found something on the clothes, I want to be the first to analyze the evidence!"

"You're mainly a coroner! Your job will soon be fully substitute Sid!" Danny said leaving the parking

"Sid will be with us for a long time!" he said tapping the index to one of the crutches. Danny drew near the house of Sheldon "I told you that I do not go home!" he muttered

"Don’t make the baby!" Danny rebuked him "In your condition you wouldn’t be helpful to anyone!"

"All right! Let me first talk to Jo and then I get in the house!" Sheldon surrendered by dialing the number on the phone.

Jo watched the evidence gathered by Stella on the victim's clothing "Nothing that can be connected to dog bites!" she muttered to herself "But she has detected a DNA with fingerprint ... let's see if ..." she looked on the computer the data processed by her colleague "She has already found him! Michael Johnson, New Orleans, and she even asked her to track down him!" she smiled in satisfaction "Good job Stella!" the mobile phone rang at her "What happened? Don’t tell me that a dog has bitten you!" she replied ironic seeing that the number belonged to Sheldon

"Let's say that the two local watchdogs have launched us into the street and that I've sprained my ankle!"

"Let me guess, we do not have the DNA that would serve to us as evidence that the dogs in that space are implicated in the murder" she said

"Good girl! We do not even compare with imprint from the bites!" he complimented himself with her

"Are you at home now?" Jo asked worried

"Yes Danny does not want me to work!" Sheldon snorted on the other end of the phone

" Flack, Mac and I will solve the issue with a warrant, you have to rest, okay?" she said by sitting on a stool at the laboratory

"Okay! I wish you good luck!" he said before hanging up.

Mac had just arrived at home with Stella "We can rest assured, there was no danger."

Stella sat with relatives of Mac as he entered the bedroom, Christine soon as she heard him get turned to him "Hello!" she greeted him "I missed you"

"Even I missed you!" he said sitting next to her "I didn’t mean to wake you!"

"I have to work too, do you remember that?" she said stretching "Did you ever find out who sent that message?"

"A new co-worker, the same who was present at the wedding. She is looking for her biological father who raped his mother in the shipment of Beirut and she thought it was me!" he said smiling at her and stroking her cheekbone "We'll do the DNA test anyway to prove that what I say is true! "

Christine reached up and, by embraced him, she kissed him intensely "Then I'll go to work after breakfast!"

"And I'll go to work, to the doctor for a checkup and then back to work!" Mac said kissing him back "I'm so sorry I do not stop for breakfast!" he said getting up and moving a couple of steps toward the door closed

"I'm going to the doctor in the afternoon too, to know how the pregnancy is going ...”

"December is still a long way to Fortunately!" Mac exclaimed

"You aren’t been to all controls! How do you know that he will be born in December?"

"We need the date of conception, is not it?" he asked her "You got pregnant on March 8! Except if you aren’t expecting a child of someone else!" he smiled teasing with her

"It is not funny Mac!" she said getting up from the bed and reaching him on the door "Your bad sense of humor will get you to make a career in the police of New York, but not in your new family! Especially with Uncle Max and the cousins from Miami who do a lot of awkward questions!”

"Who's fooling who now?" his gaze brightened up "We will be a perfect family you'll see it!"

"Just tell me if it will be a boy he will be able to play football in the park like all the other children and not to prepare for a military career!" she said hugging him

"Not necessarily!" Mac held her "If one day he will want to become like his father or his grandfather I do not see why we have to stop him!"

"In that case I would not resist!" she said looking into the eyes of Mac "Actually it’s sure that it will go thus because even his uncle was a brave cop!"

"My colleague and friend, Stan! Who introduced me to my second wife! "

Husband and wife returned to embrace with no more talking on the door to which Stella and relatives knocked “Mac! Jo called! In the afternoon we have to go someplace" said the latter out of the door

"Well it seems that we really have to go!" Mac smiled to his wife

"Yeah!" she said opening the door "Hello Stella! Here to you Mac! Make sure he get there to the doctor! "

Stella smiled "Of course! Among five hours he will be at the doctor!"

"Good day sweetheart!" the Detective added to his greeting a kiss and then said goodbye to his mother and other relatives of Christine.

A few hours later, Jo was at the home of Sheldon "Do not worry for the job! I think about everything!" she smiled placing ice packs on the doctor’s sore ankle

"I just want to do something more!"

"Do not think about it! You have to recover before!" Jo's cell phone rang without her expecting it" Lindsay, what happened? "

"Jo ..." Lindsay tried to answer in a voice as calm as possible "Sid is sick! They took him to the hospital! I just got here! "

"Wait! How to the hospital?" Jo said with concern" What happened to him?! "

"He had fainted and according to the paramedics ...” Lindsay burst into tears “Come here at once! It might be the last time we see him alive!"

"I'm coming!" she said closing the call upset

"What happened?" Sheldon asked worried seeing her in that state

"Sid ..." she managed to say before bursting into tears

"Please tell me that is not true!" he said rising from the bed and taking the crutches "Let's go to the hospital immediately!"

Mac had gone to the doctor, waiting for him in the waiting area there was Stella "What did the doctor say, Mac?"

"For him it is a mild disorder and I do not have to worry. Apraxia is already disappearing, "he looked into her eyes, sensing that there was something wrong

"Mac, we have to go immediately in oncology. Sid ..." she bit her lower lip unable to continue and looked down

"No!" Mac said shaking his head "It can’t be true!" he began to run toward the elevator followed by Stella.

They got out of seven floors and they finally arrived in front of the department and found with ease the room where Sid was lying breathing heavily. Around the sufferer there were already Lindsay, Danny and Adam “Mac! Stella!" Sid whispered with a smile

"Hello my friend!" Mac smiled

Sid reached out a hand to him and Mac grabbed that carefully to avoid the touch with the ink tubes of drip "You know, Danny and Lindsay have decided that they will tell their son why they called him Sid” the sick man whispered, clutching the hand of his friend Detective "You instead? Have you already thought about a name for yours? In three months is also your chance!"

"Not yet! Christine and I will decide later!"

"My daughters are what I did of good in my life!" he looked at Mac and then Danny "Never disregard your children! They will be your greatest joy when they’ll grow up and you will see them choose their way! "

"Your daughters are coming up here in the hospital?" Jo asked

"Yes, they will be here in a few hours! They do not live near here and one must leave the College too! " he took a deep breath and held out his other hand to Jo who had approached the bed "I recommend you with Sheldon! He is different from your ex-husband: he is gentle, kind and he will soon take my place as head of the morgue”

"Are you kidding Sid?" Sheldon asked approaching with fatigue cause of crutches "Me as a leader? Absolutely not!"

Sid smiled faint "Why not? You deserve it!"

The nurse on duty came through the door and surveyed the situation "His wife is coming! She has just been warned! "and walked out without saying anything to those present.

Adam accompanied Sheldon out the door to talk to your doctor about Sid "Doctor, I'd like you to be sincere!" Sheldon began holding on to crutches "How much time is left to Sid Hammerback?"

"From two to three hours Dr. Hawkes! Not even his wife will come in time!" the doctor replied in a cold way.

Those three hours were endless. Sid was breathing less and less, but he clutched hands firmly with Jo and Mac and he had his eyes on all the other "In a moment like this, there's only one thing I can say!" Sid said with difficulty squinting at "I love you guys! "

"We too!" Jo said through tears

"You've always been a valued friend!" Mac added

"The best!" Sheldon said

"The laboratory without you will never be the same!" Danny added

"You will manage fine also without me!" Sid smiled with difficulty "I also wish that my family was here!"

"But they're coming!" Stella said

"But if you look around, most of your family is here!" Lindsay smiled

"I will never stop to remember when you offered me to become your partner some time ago, Adam!" Sid laughed weakly "Do you remember the story of the spaceship?"

"Of course!" Jo laughed

"I wish I could even say something!" Adam muttered and mumbled

"It's went on for quite some!" Mac chuckled with a melancholy tone, still referring to the old story.

From the door a woman came in with two girls on a twenty-five and the other on twenty-two years “Sid!" she whispered through her tears

"Hello darling! You really took your time to arrive!" then he looked at the two girls “Hello my girls!"

All shifted to the back of the room to make way for the daughters and the wife of Sid

"Hello, Dad!" the eldest daughter said trying to hold back the tears and approaching the bed "I wanted to tell you that I'm getting married! Leonard made the proposal yesterday and I would have liked that you had accompanied me to the altar!"

Sid looked at her smiling and moving a strand brown behind her ear "I'll be there for you anyway!" then  he turned to the other blonde girl "And what do you say? Have you decided what to do after graduating in medicine? "

"It's a bit that I'm thinking about it and every time I am more and more convinced! I want to be a pathologist!" she replied convinced to him

"Are you sure? You will be in constant contact with death every day of your life, you'll see things more macabre and gruesome and you have to be careful not to miss anything! "

"Dad!" she smiled that "It's all useless! Now I've decided! I'll be a pathologist! "

Sid smiled "Do you promise me" he said turning to his wife "That you'll always be close to the girls, that you will help them whenever they need it?"

"Of course, my love! Of course!" she smiled through her tears

"You know, they chose both a challenging walk!" Sid's breathing was getting shorter with each word pronounced "I love you girls!" he took a last breath and a tear drew a furrow on the cheek "I love you!" he narrowed his eyes and he froze for a second then he relaxed, that was his last breath.

Mac and the others left the room sad and disconsolate "My guys are here! I have to go to the laboratory!" Stella said wiping the tears

"I'll come with you!" Sheldon said hobbling on crutches "You'll need my help!" and before going he hugged Jo which was definitely the most shock of all and she wouldn’t stop crying in silence.

Danny took the hand of Lindsay "Someone has to say the Flack!" he said trying to stifle the pain that gripped him

"We’ll go to him!" Lindsay said tightening his grip on the hand and walking toward the elevator.

Mac was not crying, but he seemed in a trance, Adam had to revive him "Mac, I know that now it is difficult... but you have to come in the lab too to take the test and then you Jo and Flack have to go to that place!"

"The resolution of the case is close!" said Mac "I'll be right there, you start to go with Jo!"

Mac walked over to the relatives of Sid "I'm so sorry!"

"Dad was always talking about you!" the youngest daughter said "He used to say that you were an amazing person who never surrendered and that you would be there at any time!" she smiled looking at the face relaxed of her deceased father "And he was right! "she wiped her tears "If I will apply for a place at the scientific, it is likely that we will meet more often!"

"Surely!" the Detective smiled placing his hand on her shoulder.

He looked at Sid's wife and the other daughter "I'm so sorry!" and then he left the room with a look down.

Adam was sitting in the lab with Angela Meyers "Surely the odd way in which you met Mac it's amazing, bearing in mind that he will be from now officially your new boss ..." he said rolling his eyes and preparing the necessary "Are you sure you want to do equally the paternity test? "he asked a bit confused

"Absolutely! I want to know if he is lying to me or if he is telling the truth! "

"Look, I know him well! He never lies because it pursues justice! I ask you again: are you sure? "

"And again I say yes!"  Adam's attempt to dissuade her from her idea was really pathetic and useless result.

Mac went into the lab and came to Adam "Tell me that you've already prepared everything!"

"I know you have to go with Flack and Jo in that awful place! Don’t worry it is a snap!" he said taking the swab disposable "To you the honor!"

Mac ran the swab in his mouth and closed it in the test tube intended for the laboratory analysis "Now we have to wait 48 hours!" he said looking briefly at Angela and leaving the room

"Don’t worry Angela!" Adam smiled "He always does that when he has to do! He doesn’t have anything against you! You're just ... new! "

The girl sighed "We really have to wait so long?"

"Normal procedure of the analysis, you should know it!" Adam said writing on the envelope -To Detective Taylor, Urgent-

"If you write urgent, it means that we employ less than 48 hours?"

"Actually ..." Adam said smiling "It means that we employ 48 hours and not 72!"

The woman snorted crossing her arms "Nonsense!"

Flack and Jaime reached Mac out of the police department and the first waved an envelope "That's our laissez! Crisp, cool by the Judge!" he smiled in satisfaction

"Where is Jo?" Jaime asked to Mac

Jo’s SUV braked on the dry asphalt of the afternoon, producing a deafening hiss "You want to do night here, or do you come and do the party to the dogs?"

Mac mentioned to a smile, he knew that Jo was still badly for Sid, like all the other.

Flack and Jaime followed the SUV with the police car and they arrived in front of the local described them by Danny.

"He was right!" Flack said to his girlfriend "It really seems the American Moulin Rouge!"

"You dared to lay eyes on that sort of secretary with fishnet dress that'll give you a lesson!" Jaime addressed him before leaving him down the car "Is that clear?"

"Of course!" he smiled opening the door

Mac and Jo awaited their arrival outside the door "Stella is returning with her men to the laboratory, they have said that they want to interrogate the owner of the dogs themselves, even if we could find a match! Their main suspect admitted to have bought drugs from the victim, but he is not the murderess!" Detective Taylor said holding the briefcase for analysis

"After all, it’s her case!" Flack said gripping the handle and lowering it.

The loud music at the entrance invaded them and they were observed by all present in the room, sipping some unpleasant comments about their clothes too.

"It is just five pm and these people are already evening dresses!" Jaime pointed out to Jo

"They're all rich here!" Jo shrugged "Not even in a year I could to buy myself a dress like that!" she said alluding to a girl seated with a little black dress adorned with diamonds long the waist and shiny silk gloves.

Mac walked over to the hall table, where the woman of the night before was sitting with the two bodyguards at his side "What you want?" she said examining them

"Detective Taylor, New York Crime Lab!" he said showing his badge

"I guess you're colleagues of those of yesterday!" she noted while chewing a gum "What I told last night to your colleagues it is valid even now!"

"You should save your breath!" Flack intervened waving the mandate

"Well! I'm going to inform the boss!" she said getting up without question, but equally annoyed

"If you do not mind I'm coming with you!" Flack said pointing to Mac the radio and in response he nodded by understanding the message.

A few minutes passed and Mac started to climb the stairs, he heard Don knock on a door at the beginning of the corridor, without any replies from the inside, "I background the door!"

"Ok, but you pay the damages!" the woman who had accompanied him replied

Don broke down the door and he crept into the room, neat and clean with a desk in the center, the windows were closed, nothing had been touched

"Problems, Don?" Mac asked supporting him with gun in his hand

"It seems that our friend has scarpered!”

"No!" the secretary retorted "If it's not here it means that he is already in the ring!" she led the way through the corridor, they went down a flight of stairs that led to a different building "This is the entrance reserved for Mr. Anderson and his honor guests in the amphitheater!" she then pointed to another staircase that went down "Down there are cages”

Flack went with caution on stage "Clear!"

Mac glanced over sudden toward the stairs and below, he began the descent.

He saw two men arguing with each other "Your German Shepherds are a marvel Drew!" the first said observing the animals in the cage

"Thank you for the compliment Mr. Anderson! I hope they manage to beat the Pitbull of Jayden!" the other answered laughing

"Anderson!" Mac shouted approaching after having placed the gun "NYPD!"

"Oh shit!" the well-dressed man exclaimed pushing the owner of the dogs against the cage that got opened making the German Shepherds agitate inside. Mac was able to start the chase in the gallery below the amphitheater and Flack joined him immediately overtaking him. They were chased by the three dogs which had freed themselves "Don’t look back Flack!" Mac ordered him from behind "Keep running and try to take that bastard!"

"I think that soon I'll give up Mac!" Flack said with the view that already steamed up to him for the effort

"Do you want to torn to pieces or something?" Mac asked running faster to move closer to him.

Flack shook his head and he was able to set aside the tiredness for a few seconds, thanks to adrenaline as intruding into him, coming to land the fugitive with an inhuman effort and handcuff him.

Mac turned to the dogs with the gun in his hand and fired three shots, but only two went to sign. The third dog was not hit not even a smear and fell on him, grinding its sharp teeth, forcing him to fight with his bare hands to keep him away from his throat. It was a dog trained to kill and managed to bite Mac on the arm. Stifling a scream of pain, Mac took the opportunity to give a violent punch to the jaw of the animal by breaking it, the dog pulled away yelping and Mac finished it off with a violent kick in the stomach.

Flack was left powerless to watch the scene over the fugitive who still squirming in an attempt to escape. Mac stood up with the forearm blood-soaked and breathing hard "I'm calling Lovato and Jo to say that we are here!"

At the central Stella and her men interrogated Mr. Anderson "I know who you are!" she said by pulling out from one folder to one of his men a sheaf of papers "Your real name is Jason Moore! You are a professional drug dealer with Michael Johnson, the dirt money launderer, and since last month, you had able to open that place of great luxury where there are disputes between dogs, which among other things, it’s going to be closed!”

"It's not my fault if your colleague has been bitten!" he retorted laughing "For the other allegations, it is still all to try!"

Stella sat down with her agents and the same who had extracted the file exclaimed "We have the evidence! A technician of the Scientific compared your voice with a message on the answering machine of a disposable mobile phone that belonged to Robert Lewis!"

"You should meet yourself, but you have canceled the appointment!" the other officer to New Orleans went on

"This doesn’t prove that I killed him!" Anderson sneered

"Really?" Stella smiled "We checked all the dogs in your arena and we found five with dental records identical to those on the victim’s body!"

"Guess who belonged that dogs!" Mac said coming in and laying of papers on the table with his right arm bandaged "All five yours!"

Stella looked at Mac's arm and then Anderson "You make yourself lucky that Detective Taylor is vaccinated against rabies for practice!"

"Robert Lewis owed ​​me a lot of money, so I went to get him as soon as he arrived in New York under a false name!" he smirked "Maybe my dogs have been doing it out but ... I have nothing to do!"

The agents pulled out another evidence "We have found in your dogs’ cage traces of human blood, there is no need that we'll tell you who it belongs to, right? There was also your imprint as well on the lock of the cage!"

"They will have worn gloves!" Anderson said with a laugh

"Enough of this comedy!» Stella thundered "We know from your secretary that there is only one key and that you keep it on your neck!"

"You were wearing it even at the time of the arrest!" Mac pointed out "You've took Robert Lewis and you threw him inside the cage because he didn’t have all the money. He was already suffering from tetanus, he needed a doctor! That would still be murder, Anderson! "

The man remained silent and he was taken away by the officers of Stella.

Adam smiled as he saw Stella and Mac out of the interrogation room, the two were talking about the bite to the arm "Do not worry, Christine will make only a few questions on the wound! She saw me in the worst conditions!" Mac smiled "When do you come back to New Orleans?"

"Tomorrow afternoon I'm flying, Mac! It was fun to see you and work with you again!" Stella smiled

"The next time you come to New York, try to not take away any more of your former colleagues!" he said pointing his head to Adam that was coming toward them

"Hurray we got him!" Adam exulted laying his eyes on the arm of Mac "Well yes, in fact it could have been worse!" he said embarrassed

Mac smiled with a strange light in his eyes "I really think I'll miss you, Adam!"

"There is a newly in my place, that even I can stand, who want to be sure to not be your daughter!" Adam made note "For the test, you'll get the results on your desk tomorrow morning!"

"How will you do with your father Adam?" Mac asked

"I'll come to New York once a month to see how he is!" Adam sighed "I can’t abandon him he is still my father!"

"You didn’t tell me about the problem of your father Adam!" Stella said surprised

"I recommend you to go out to dinner tonight!" Mac suggested amicably "I'm sure Adam will tell you everything!"

"Thanks for everything Mac!" Adam smiled holding out his hand and then get to hug him "Really Mac! You're more of a chief, you're a friend!"

Mac released him patting him on the shoulder "Adam Ross: the best laboratory technician and hackers that I have ever met and a great friend!" he looked at him and Stella joining their hands and with a friendly smile he said "Every now and do yourself hear!"

"After your child is born come to us!" Stella smiled

"See you soon then!" he said by saluting them

"Be careful to not freak out with that crazy girl!” Adam smiled wile going out with Stella

“Yeah Adam, I’ll miss you very much!” Mac said to himself.