CSI New York Episode V Season 10

EPISODE V: THE FIRST SPOUSE

Lindsay watched, Mac struggling with the victim's clothes in the lab "Good morning, boss!"

Mac looked up from the cloth and saw the sincere smile on her face "You're the first who greets me today! You're the first who does it after a week!" he said putting the evidence on the lab bench "I have to assume you do not know ..."

"Of that colossal rebuke Danny has made you in front of everyone?" she forestalled him "Do not worry!" she went on "When Danny gets angry is intractable. I try to deal with it in a different way: I admit the possibility of falling into error!"

"This is evidence complicated to analyze even for me ..." he said picking up the dress “How have you cataloged this stain?" he asked indicating a light green halo

"As plant DNA!"

"Obviously you have not found evidence ...” Mac snorted vigorously flapping his eyes to stay awake

"No, that plant sits in any park since it is difficult that it is planted because it is of Ailanthus altissima!"

Mac winced "Said commonly as -The Tree of Paradise-!" he tapped his forefinger and smiled "I saw that plant at Sandovall’s place! Near the beach just behind the hut!"

"Behind the hut there is a pier! I thought Danny had examined the tree!" Lindsay was amazed

"Well, I think I'll go back over there to take a look personally. Can you call me Angela?"

"She's working on the case of Beirut! Can I come?" Lindsay said self-confident

"Do you really feel it?" Mac asked approaching her

"Of course!" she took the clothes on the table and put them back in the envelope again "Begins to take the necessary for the analysis! I'll finish up to arrange here!"

"Thank you again for being a friend and colleague in spite of everything!" Mac smiled at her

"Did you go to your office this morning?" Lindsay stopped him before he left

"No, why?"

"I put a letter on the desk with regard to ..." she took a breath “... the evaluation of the laboratory! We are submitted to the judgment of the Committee again!"

"Do not tell it! It is for the cases we have going!" Lindsay just nodded "We will give the commission their resolution then! When the examiner arrives?" he asked Lindsay as she closed the door of the lab

"You were talking about me?” a woman with short red hair said crossing a look of defiance with the one not surprised of Mac

"Quinn Shelby! I wonder why they always send you!" Mac said with a forced smile

"Come on! After all are you happy to see me!" she winked

"Mac we have to go and you, Detective Shelby, if you want to follow us you're well accepted!" Lindsay said noting that Mac with that woman behaved in a strange way

«First, I want to see the office of Mac. Tell me where you are going, so I can reach you!" she said with a wicked face

"In what remains of Sandovall’s house!" Mac said briskly walked away with Lindsay "Normally I wouldn’t go out, but we have to hurry because maybe the resolution of the case is close!" he whispered to Lindsay.

Lindsay came to the hut with Mac and they saw the guardian of Sandovall on the pier staring at the sea

"She was there, she will not come back!" he muttered to seeing them arrive "She took me with him from her old house, all the other waiters and butlers ended up to Ludwig Ward’s place. Just me and the Mrs. Stewart followed her!" he kept muttering alone "Now I haven’t longer even the home of Mr. Sandovall to serve!"

"Excuse us, I know that our colleagues have already questioned you, but we need you to reply to us with sincerity" Lindsay said noting the confused state of man "You always kept order in the hut during all these years?"

"Yes , it was my job! Are you the police too?" he asked a bit impressed

"Yes!" Mac confirmed staring at the tree behind the house "Of that, what can you tell me? Do you take care of it too?"

"-The Tree of Paradise-? We have tried several times to convince Ms. Rebecca to eradicate it and that it would had destroyed  the house, but she would not . After her death, her husband left it on purpose due to demolish the house little by little with all the things about her!"

Mac went to the tree and saw a broken branch and a bloodied jacket inside a cavity "Lindsay, it seems that we have something here!" he said lifting the jacket and the branch.

Lindsay walked up to him with prudence and watched with a smile jacket seeing two initials in italics on the buttons  -L.W- "We already know of who is the jacket and I bet if we analyze the striations of the branch we will notice that they are compatible with those of the hull of the boat!"

"What are we waiting for?" Mac smiled

"My assessment!" Quinn thundered arriving on the site "It looks like you to resolve this case you've put a lot!" she smiled malignant "From you Mac, I would not have ever expected something like that!”

"We have to handle with two important cases! If one goes forward the other remains almost stationary!” Mac dismissed her walking toward the car carrying the bagged evidence.

Lindsay thanked the warden for the availability and followed his boss.

Quinn took her car to keep up with them "She won’t forsake us too easily today!" Mac said setting in motion "What other people are doing?"

"They're solving a murder that took place this morning! Danny came out with Flack to catch the culprit!" Lindsay said looking in the side mirror to Quinn’s car that was following them "If I were driving, I'd be tempted to nail down without warning!" Mac laughed heartily "Don’t tell me you're already on the point to do it!" she said laughing

"For a moment I thought it! Then I remembered that I’ve you in the car!"

Christine was sitting on a bench in Central Park with Erika. Both drinking a latte macchiato and they had two croissants with them.

"I am pleased to have breakfast with you! You're the only friend that stuck with me from when it was learned of the scandal of my husband!" Erika said taking the hand of Christine

"I care about our friendship and I'd love to do more!" she answered

"You're really doing a lot for me! Helping me to accompany children to school this morning and spending time together! I understand that I can trust and not only you but also your husband who greeted me with a smile without judging me when I went to the prison pay a visit to James!"

Christine smiled "Mac gave me his word that, despite your husband is convicted, he will try to have the least possible impact on you and on your children at the public level!"

"The Press today is even too much cruel!" she sighed with tears in his eyes "James will no longer serve the Marines!" she added after a short pause "Yesterday, the dishonorable discharge has arrived and when he’ll come out of prison I'm afraid of what he might do!"

"I'm here with you!" Christine said hugging her "You're not alone! The door to my house is always ready to welcome you!"

Mac and Lindsay had finished with the analysis "So, the body which was thought to be Rebecca, due to the ring, is actually Lara Jones, girlfriend of Rebecca’s cousin. It really seemed a case of suicide but actually even she was killed!" Mac began opening a folder on the touch-screen "We can prove the presence of her DNA on the jacket of Ward and from blood found on the branch of the plant that it is also compatible with the marks on the deck of the boat and on the hull!" he finished closing the evidence" What did you find?"

"I have calculated the possible currents of a year and a half ago from Staten Island" she said opening a map of New York "Sandovall’s house is facing the sea and the boat, although damaged, hasn’t sunk immediately and also it had certainly to be dark because no one noticed anything!" Lindsay concluded "Case closed! A double murder of passion...”

"One murder!" Mac concluded "Let's go pay him a visit!"

Quinn followed them like a shadow to the police department, the short path was unbearable for the two Detective, turning the corner without alarming the rest of the department was impossible. The uniformed police officers turned around in the direction of the colleague sent by the commission and some plainclothes agents of the Scientific gasped in terror.

Flack received Mac with a smile along with Jaime "Have you decided to focus on this case too then!” Mac froze him with a grim look and Quinn appeared from behind him, with a smirk she began to stab with a pen a sheet of paper "Jaime, would you take Ward in the interrogation room?" Flack said feigning calm the most absolute

"No problem!" she answered

"I'm coming too!" Quinn thundered "The measure of new staff is my responsibility!" and walked with her to the cells

"There's that woman?! Tell me that's a joke!" Flack pleaded

"Is that a joke? At the very least she will have even put a pair of negative notes now, Don!" Mac thundered

"I can’t stand her! I wish she would disappear!" Lindsay growled through clenched teeth "An evaluation of that woman puts the anxiety of giving birth!"

"Coming from you this, I trust you Lindsay!" Flack smiled "Without counting that she looks so strange at Mac... it almost seems she likes you!"

"What are you saying Flack?!” Mac immediately defended himself "I am married, and the work I keep it separate from my private life!"

Flack saw Jaime go with Quinn and the suspect "Have a nice job Mac!"

Before entering, Mac waited until Jaime let the prime suspect sitting on chair. Lindsay followed him soon after and both sat down at the table in front of him.

"Discover the truth has not been easy, but we know that it was you who killed Rebecca Ward, your cousin, and Lara Jones, at that time your girlfriend.» Mac waved the file he was holding with seriousness and professionalism "Evidences do not lie!"

Ludwig Ward sighed running his hand through his hair and smiled "I had been released last week! Now I am accused again! I did not do anything! I found the dead body of my cousin in the hut! We were supposed to meet because we had to talk about the child she was waiting and I had to return to her wedding ring that she had left in my apartment. When I got there she was dead and I went out in search of help!" he smiled and continued "For the agitation I left my jacket covered in blood near the tree. When I got home I put the Rebecca’s ring on the nightstand, Lara saw it, she became furious, she took it and she went out! I do not know who killed Rebecca and I had no idea that Lara would commit suicide!"

Lindsay shook her head "There was blood on your jacket, but it doesn’t belong only to Rebecca: that of Lara was present in lesser amounts. The branch of the tree then it had traces dried blood, belonging to Rebecca, and is compatible with the signs found on the boat" she concluded

"As you see, your story does not hold up so well" Mac said rising to his feet "You save us valuable time. If you confess, perhaps, the prosecutor will be more understanding!"

Ludwig Ward looked Mac approach him and crossing his eyes with his ​​he said "All right! you won!" he crossed his legs and began to talk "Ten years ago Maximilian Sandovall showed up at our house after the death of my uncle. He give users an agreement to us: he would have paid gambling debts made ​​by Rebecca's father in exchange for her hand! He hoped that she really fell in love with him!" he laughed "She always hated him, she loved me!" he looked at Mac who was sitting next to Lindsay again "I was already the lover of the housekeeper, she did not know it and when she knew, after the wedding , she became jealous. The history between us went on for years without Maximilian had never noticed it. One evening she tells me to be pregnant, that I could see the baby grow in luxury away from New York with the money of Maximilian! She told me to get rid of Lara and she gave me her wedding ring to make everyone believe that she had committed suicide. I threw Lara from a cliff of Staten Island and that night I went to Rebecca's hut. I found her bleeding on the ground and she told me she had never been pregnant, that her plan was to get rich at the back of Maximilian and that would not be successful because of my stupidity and she invited me to reflect on the fact that in that afternoon I had killed my girlfriend just because she told me so!" He took a deep breath "I was angry and, although wounded, she stood up and hit me with his fist. I reacted by pushing to the ground and she hit her head against the edge of a piece of furniture! She was still breathing when I dragged her out and I hit her with the branch! I did not know what to do... then I took her, I loaded her on her boat, I've tampered it always with the branch of the tree, and I pushed her into the sea hoping that it would never be found!"

"You killed two women because you got influenced by your cousin and her husband's money!" Mac said with seriousness and anger

"Thank the fact that the state of New York does not consider an incestuous relationship between first cousins​​" Lindsay concluded standing with Mac and headed for the door.

Quinn smiled "Congratulations on having solved the case!" she looked at Mac turning up his nose, he already knew that she would have been breathing down his neck until he solved the case of Beirut "Yes Mac! I will follow you everywhere and will write down each of your lowest, move!"

Jo finished her coffee sitting at desk in front of the case file of Beirut then she threw the empty cup in the trash in front of the wall opposite her "Basket!" said a woman's voice outside the door

"Hello Christine! What are you doing here?"Jo said rising and embracing the wife of Mac

"I came because they are two days that I do not see Mac and almost we do not hear each other... I wanted to know if something had happened or if he was just overwhelmed by the job!"

Jo invited Christine to sit on a chair and then began to speak "There was a –divergence- between Mac and slightly all members of the team because of the case of Rebecca Sandovall and I hope that the situation will somehow calm down a bit, that's all!"

"Will you take me to him?" she asked gently

"You did not go directly to him because his behavior seemed strange to you?" Jo asked rising

"He has never behaved like this! I did not know who else I could go! You know him best of all and you spend more time with him than anyone!" Christine said leaving the office with her

"Be quiet!" Jo assured her walking at her side in the hallway "Mac will be felt responsible for his behavior and he would done his best to move forward with the case!"

They stopped both at the beginning of the corridor leading to the office of Mac, they had just turned the corner, by the glass walls he was seen arguing with Quinn. She winked and smiled, he remained shifted and strict "Who is that?" Christine asked

"I have no idea!" Jo replied "But surely she knows Mac!"

"Why Mac is standing up?" Christine said afraid to see her husband to approach the woman. She saw in his eyes a serious look and when she stood up Mac pointed at her the door. She started to leave, but turned sharply pushing Mac against the wall and kissing him with arrogance, he pushed her away and pointed to the door angrily saying something. Christine was with tears in her eyes and leaned back to the incredulous Jo as not to fall while the woman came out and was about to walk down the hall toward the exit.

Mac put his hands through his hair and sat down at his desk, staring into space with a bewildered look.

Christine looked at him with Jo "I want to know who that woman is Jo! Now!" she said trying to recover "I want to know why she kissed Mac!"

"Judging from the way he reacted, I would say that the feeling is not mutual! I'm sure Mac won’t ever betray you!" she said holding her hand firmly "Let's go ask him about it!"

Jo knocked on the door of Mac and beside her stood Christine, with tears in his eyes yet, the Detective immediately rushed to open "Jo, what does Christine has?!" he asked fearfully.

He took his wife's hand and put his free hand on the shoulder of Jo letting in even her "My love, what’s wrong?" he asked directly to Christine, she sobbed strong in reply, the words died in her throat "Jo, close the door and the curtains! "

The curtains, which were rarely used in that office, obscured the view of any onlookers outside, while Mac did his wife sit in the chair and, knelt down in front of her, wiped away the tears that prevented her from expressing herself. Mac tried to keep a calm face, but his big blue eyes showed a concern that it was not possible to mask "Please tell me something, I beg you!"

"We saw you and that woman while ...» Jo could not even finish the sentence "Who is she, Mac?"

Mac remained kneel in front of Christine, gently stroking her blonde hair he turned to Jo "There is nothing between she and me, let me be clear about this!"

"It will have a name this –she-!" Jo urged

"Quinn Shelby! She is here as a member of the Committee to evaluate the laboratory for the umpteenth time, the first time we met was in 2000 and there was a kiss!" Jo glared at him "But it ended there because I was married and I loved my wife!"

"Apparently, however, she did not understand it!" replied Jo

"I made ​​it clear that the second time she's been here! She have had some trouble with Danny and Lindsay and I have bent over backwards to protect them and our work! She has informed me that the case of Russell became pertaining to the court-martial" Mac said looking at his wife "She has come upon me, she kissed me and I rejected her!"

Christine looked up at him "I was afraid, Mac! I was afraid that you did not want me anymore!"

"You do not even think about certain things!" he said wiping her eyes "For me there is only you! You and no other!" Christine put her arms around his neck and rested her head on his chest, crying. They were sitting on the dark floor and Mac smiled hugging her "Tell me that to make now you cry are the hormones of pregnancy!" he joked lifting her up

"Have you seen that I was right, Christine?" Jo said patting her shoulder "And you, introduce me to the redhead! I'd keep it to make clear a few things!" she said to Mac who smiled, but he suddenly changed his expression when he saw Quinn opening the door without knocking "Am I interrupting something?"

"The famous Shelby Quinn I guess!" Jo said sour

"The famous Jo Danville, the replacement of Stella Bonasera!" Jo struggled with all her strength to not retort "And who is she?!" she continued in a naughty way

"She is Christine, my wife!" Mac said holding her close to him

"That's why the wedding ring has reappeared!" Quinn grinned "I wonder if you'll never have a moment of weakness with another woman while you're married to her!"

"Quinn! You're going past the limit!" Mac warned her

"I saw your limit well!" she laughed "What has happened once it can also happen again!"

"Quinn, if you do not want to find yourself in trouble, stop it! End up to do your job and go back to Jersey City!"

"Mac, I have the knife by the handle!" she said waving the report “There is dissent against you! Know how it is, I do not want you to come ..." she said with a wicked glee looking upward "How to say it in a pretty way? -Relieved from office-!"

"What do you want?"

"A favor!" she exclaimed seeing in him a yield "In Jersey City they are going to appoint a new supervisor at the crime lab! Yours is the place that was to be mine so..."

"You want me to put in a good word for you!"

"You guessed it! Hurry up or I will cover that place!" she said pointing to the chair and the desk "I love the view you see from this window! Almost as much as that of Jersey City!" she said leaving

"I think you should call Mac! I don’t want that harpy in here!" Jo said angrily.

Mac picked up the phone breaking away from Christine and dialed a number "Hello, this is Detective Mac Taylor!"

Danny rubbed his temples in the laboratory, that morning he had begun to investigate a new case, Lindsay radiantly approached him "Hello Danny!"

"Hello! Are you in a good mood today, "he smiled kissing her

"If you solve the cases, of course!"

"And what would you have solved case?" He churches hugging her

"Mac and I have solved the case of Rebecca" Danny frowned for a moment and Lindsay get in alarm "Something wrong?"

"He does nothing for all investigations and solves the case! Here's what angers me more!"

"He double-checked all the evidence, he has re-analyzed again in record time and he saw something that we had cataloged as unimportant!" Lindsay smiled "Do not let it get to you! Everyone can make mistakes! Mac realized he was wrong to leave us alone on a case like this and wanted to correct the mistake!"

Danny smiled "Maybe I was too hard and impulsive with him, I was really angry and they were days that I was not sleeping or sleeping just a couple of hours..."

"He understood it! Don’t worry!" Lindsay said "I helped him... but now I think you should apologize to him!"

At that moment, Sheldon came close to the couple "Mac wants us in the office now! He has something important to tell us!"

Mac's office had gathered the whole team, including Flack and Jaime, waiting to hear what he had to say "Thank you for coming!" he began with his usual professional look

"Christine is here for any reason?" Danny asked worriedly

"There's no reason! She just wanted to see me! The speech I am going to do is for all of you present!" Danny nodded and remained silent "I wanted to extend to you my most sincere apologies for being far from the case and have left you at the mercy of difficult situations to deal with. I have caused a lot of trouble and I get done the committee in the lab again!"

"Wait, wait, wait!" Danny interrupted him, "We are under examination and you do not tell us?"

"She has come this morning to surprise Danny," Lindsay said, "Even if we wanted, Mac could not warn us all at once!"

"Thank you Lindsay! I continued!" Mac said "The one that first came under the judgment of the committee it’s me. I risk losing my job, I admit it! I want to warn you that if that were to happen in my place would be named Quinn Shelby!"

"No! Not the hag of Jersey City!" Danny complained

"Mac, tell us that you found the humor in you and that you're making fun of us!" Flack exclaimed

"No sense of humor, Don! Only the unvarnished truth!"

"Christine and I were present when she threatened him!" Jo said

"Well, then why not point this out to the Chiefs?" Flack asked

"You have the knife by the handle! We have no proof, "Mac remarked

"Why? The testimony of your wife and Detective deputy supervisor of the laboratory does not apply?" Flack objected

"You've said it by yourself, Don! My wife and the deputy head of the laboratory: two people who have a common interest to protect me!"

Jaime sighed "Okay, how do we help you to get you out of this unfortunate situation?"

"Doing your job to the fullest and if someone of the Chiefs demands it, tell that Quinn Shelby deserves to direct the laboratory in Jersey City!"

The team members nodded and left the room, Danny was the only one to remain "Mac, I wanted to apologize for how I responded to you. I was beside myself and I did not understand anything!"

"I had realized!" Mac said glimpsing a smile on the face of Christine who watched the scene sitting on the chair behind Danny "Just try to not get discouraged so much more in future! You're a good Detective!" he said patting him on the shoulder

"But now, I'd better go! I have a rape, I have to arrest the culprit and the evidence have already told me who it is!" he smiled leaving "Good lunch guys!"

Mac turned his attentions to Christine "Where are we going?"

"Far from that woman!" she said hugging him "I do not want to see her around you again!"

"You've also heard me make the call! We do not ever see her again, if all goes as planned," they kissed "Now we go to lunch!"

"Mac! Mac, wait!" Angela yelled blocking the elevator "Russell ended up in the hands of the military court, you already know this, what you don’t know is this!" she said passing him a letter "They put you among the suspects!”

"It says that I have to submit in Washington and that I am suspended from work for the entire duration of the investigation!" Christine took the letter in disbelief and watched Mac’s eyes darkening "I have to tell it to Jo!"

"Detective Taylor!" a voice boomed from the stairs "Hand over your gun and distinctive immediately!"

"Sinclair! You have troubled in person!" he said taking with her left hand his distinctive from the waist and with his right hand the gun

"Normal procedure!" he said taking the objects "You can’t come in here no more or follow any case, until further order by the military court!"

"I know that he has nothing to do, sir! You must believe me!" Angela interjected "He has a sign on his body that proves his innocence! Detective Taylor is not involved in this!"

"It is not for me to believe it, but the court!" Sinclair said before leaving.

"Mac, I alert Jo!" Angela said "Go! I am close to you!"

"The truth will out! Don’t be afraid!" Mac said pressing the number of the ground floor "Now we go out to lunch!" he said to Christine

"With everything that happened to you today?" she churches astonished

"I have nothing to fear because I know I'm innocent!" Mac smiled "Let's look on the bright side with the suspension I can spend more time with you!"

Angela bit her lip on hearing the screams of Jo “Suspended?! For a crime he did not commit!"

"I do not know how that could happen! My mother was not for sure!"

"No! Do not worry!" she said taking her by the shoulders "Now we have to say it to others! Try to remain calm and above all you must not make you feel by the redhead of the Committee!" Angela nodded "I hope to make it clear enough that Mac is likely to end up in the middle of the road!"

"I understand!" Angela nodded again.

She passed out of sight in the crime lab and told the news to Danny’s ear that he replied to her "I'm going to Sheldon who will report to Flack and then I also say it to Lindsay!"

"Well! Do not get caught that one there by the committee!"

Mac was in the one of the Italian restaurants in Manhattan with Christine “Spaghetti with meat sauce! They must be good!" he said looking at the menu

"I envy you, you know?" Christine said seriously "You can keep calm even in difficult times!" behind Mac there was a TV, accidentally tuned to a news report, and Christine was the only one of the two who could see it "Keep Calm and turned towards the screen!" she suggested worried seeing appear the title of the news.

Mac looked at the screen, without getting noticed too much, with the corner of his eye and some of the customers had already asked to turn up the volume to hear the news better "The dust continues to rise around what twenty-four hours was publicly called -the Marine scandal in Beirut!- Now in the crosshairs of the U.S. Army court-martial encompasses all the members of the battalion of Marines who served in Beirut in 1983! Among the names of the suspects, more or less known, from billionaires to the simple street vendors, stands undoubtedly to Mac Taylor" on the screen a picture of Detective appeared who at that time was staring at the screen with a cold stare "Detective of the New York Crime Lab, former Major of the Marine Corps, born in 1964 who, at the time, was Lieutenant! If you want to learn more, tune in tonight for the special of 21:00!"

Mac whispered "I think it's better to go, Christine!"

They vanished from the restaurant without being seen and arrived at the nearest taxi station

"The Sunglasses will not protect you for a long time, you know it?"

"I know! In fact I don’t think I'll go out of the house for a little more!" Mac said waving his hand and stopping a cab, he made Christine go first, then he closed the door behind him and the car started. He sighed, feeling safe from prying eyes.

The couple got out of the cab, it was Christine to pay while Mac was about to open the door of the building without taking off the sunglasses.

The road suddenly filled of the sirens of the police cruisers "Christine, enter the house!" Mac ordered

"What makes you think they're here for you?" she said taking his hands

"Do as I say, enter the house!" Mac ordered imperative

"But Mac!" she tried to argue

"Please, Christine! I do not want you to assist it!"

Christine shook her head "No! I'll stay with you!" Mac tried to push her in the hall grabbing her arm "-In joy and sorrow until both have life- don’t you remember anything about this?" Mac let her go and hugged her to himself tightly whispering to the ear "I promise that when I get back we will move to the new house, we'll think of a name for the baby and we'll spend time together!"

The first police car arrived nailing close to the front door  "Christine!" Mac said taking her face in his hands "Be strong! Remember that I love you!” other police cruisers rushed into the street "It'll be all right, you'll see it!" even two cars of the army arrived and from one of them got out a General of the Marines. From the last police car that had arrived Flack got off.

Christine shuddered at seeing the men advance towards Mac who stood still at her side, without giving any sign of nervousness, squeezing her hand.

"I am General Marshall!" the white young man in uniform said, climbing the stairs to the front door.

Behind him there was Flack, who was trying to stick to the rules and the normal procedure

"Are you the Detective Mac Taylor?" continued the Marine

Mac left Christine's hand and took a step forward "Yes I am!"

"We have orders to take you into custody to keep you from leaving the United States of America. Then You will appear in front of the military jury for the case of Beirut!" he said pushing him against the wall and pinning his arms behind his back to handcuff him

"Hey! What are you doing? Those are not necessary!" Flack shouted in defense of his friend

"Detective Flack, you were sent to us as a support! Now the person in question is under the responsibility of the army!" the General pulled away Mac’s face from the wall, from his nose a few drops of blood came down lens  "Come on Detective!" the general growled pushing him from behind

"Mac, I'm sorry! I was forced to do it!" Flack said crossing his eyes with him

"Don’t worry!" Mac said as he was being taken over by two soldiers "You and others now have to take care of Christine and my mother!" he was going to get on the car military, but he had time to turn around last time "It will be all right!" he said turning to his wife and his friend.

"At the airport!" General Marshall told the military at the drive then turned to Mac "At the Naval Consolidated Brig you will feel that the prison where you bangs the street criminals is heaven!" General Marshall said slamming the off-road’s door.

The military’s car left and they left Christine at the entrance of the house leaning against the wall with a blank look.

«Back to the department!" Flack told to the colleagues on the police cars climbing the steps to the threshold of the palace "Come on Christine! We need to get into the house!" he said trying to lift her up "I'll talk with the mother of Mac! You need to rest!" he picked her up and carried her to the elevator, on the seventh floor he went through the whole corridor until to get the door in dark wood, basically. He knocked a couple of times and Millie came to the door "Good afternoon, Mrs. Taylor" Flack greeted her forcing a smile

"You're Detective Flack! Good afternoon!" the woman exclaimed pleased "I remember when you helped Mac to cross the threshold the night before the wedding!"

Christine appeared with a blank look behind him and without greeting the mother-in-law, who lived with her and Mac since seven months, she locked herself in the bedroom with the key "What's the matter? Is she sick?" she asked worriedly "Has something happened to the baby? Where is Mac and what was that noise that I have just heard out here?"

Flack walked through the door "Let's sit down, it's a long story!" and they went into the kitchen

"I saw news programs and they say that Mac is implicated in the affair of Beirut! Tell me that my son is coming home after having worked overtime, Detective!" Millie continued sitting on a chair

"I wish I could do it!" he hesitated for a while uncertain about the words to use "Mac has been arrested and now they're bringing him in a military prison in California, then he will be transferred in Washington the day of the hearing!"

Flack's phone rang and he had to answer "Hello Jaime! It is not a beautiful moment!"

"Why does that happen?" she churches in a loud voice from the other side

"They arrested Mac!"

"Wh-what? How arrested? Why?" she asked puzzled by the news

"Listen, tell it to the others! If they ask where he is tell them that he is flying to the military prison in California!"

"Please, tell me that they do not carry it in Miramar!" the girl exclaimed

"I would say no!" Flack replied with a note of sadness in his voice and he hung up.

Lindsay trembled hanging up the phone of her apartment while Danny was playing with Lucy on the living room’s floor "Wait here a second treasure! I look at mom what she has and then we play the game!" Danny said rising "What's going on Lindsay? Are you sick?"

"They arrested Mac!" she said shocked

"Who told you that?" Danny asked

"Jaime! She said that Flack has intervened to support the Marines!"

Danny was shocked and could not speak until someone knocked on the door "I'll go see who it is!" he opened it and Flack entered with a look felled

Danny made him sit on the couch and Lucy was sent in the bedroom "When I was given the address I did not remember was Mac’s place, I realized it while I was going there. Four our patrols and two of the Marines, as if he were a common criminal!" Danny and Lindsay listened affected "He was at the door with Christine, holding her hand to calm her and then the General arrested him slamming him against the wall and handcuffing him! I can’t take off my head his eyes turned toward me and then passed on Christine and that -It'll be okay!- addressed to both. He said that now it's up to us to take care of Christine and his mother!" he said clenching his fists

"The place where they sent him can’t be so awful!" Lindsay commented

"They're taking him to the Naval Consolidated Brig in Miramar, San Diego, California! The penitentiary of New York in comparison is cruising the Hawaii!"

"A military prison divided into three levels and, coincidentally, a few days ago also Sergeant James Russell was transferred there!" Danny suddenly had an intuition "Two birds with one stone! The culprit certain and the potential culprit that has made more hype than any other suspects! They do not only want to make a big military trial!"

Flack completed with a sentence "They want their own justice!"

"Why would they do that if there is a big process that will decide their fate?" Lindsay asked

"Because the honor of the Marine Corps has been marred!" Danny explained "Probably I am wrong, but Mac could be treated for what he is not!"

"We'd better leave now!" Flack remarked "But who do you explain to Christine, why you and I start in a few hours for the military prison?" he asked

"I work out that affair!" Lindsay interjected "How time has passed from the take-off of Mac?" she asked to Flack

"About five hours ... why?"

"Don, you have to hurry! He's almost at destination!" she said taking a backpack and putting a couple of spare clothes for Danny and handing him the documents, the distinctive and the wallet. Danny made ​​sure the gun to his life, he kissed his wife and ran out with Flack

"I forgot!" he said turning back “Sid, you will be good until my return!" he bent down and kissed Lucy, who had left the room "Take heed mommy, darling!" and he left the house.

The helicopter landed at the military base and Mac was dragged, without too much kindness, out of the means of transport and made ​​to walk until to the building

"The suspect has arrived! We put him with Russell!" the General smiled tugging Mac that still had blood dripping from his nose

"Let me guess: he resisted arrest!" the prison guard said with a wink

"How did you guess?" General Marshall asked

"I know you well!" the guard laughed mockingly.

The second level was just inside the Marines Air Force Base.

Mac staggered down the hall and when he came to the cell where he would have -housed- the handcuffs were removed. With a kick to the stomach, he was shut down in the narrow space with walls that smelled of damp. He tried to rise up, but it was useless and with a gasp he fainted on the floor.