CSI New York Episode VI Season 10

EPISODE VI: I DON’T NEED TO FIGHT TO PROVE I’M RIGHT

Jo, on hearing the news of the arrest of Mac, found herself with the entire lab to handle.

Among evidence to analyze and new cases to follow, she found time to enter the empty office Mac and look at the pile of cold cases till then, one was left, just one. She imagined him sitting there working with the inquiring gaze fixed on the evidence.

She blinked and sat staring at the empty room. She had once lived the experience of the lab without Mac and other memorabilia made ​​their way into her mind "I do not want you to be replaced for real this time!" she he said closing her eyes for a second.

Sheldon saw her look at old photos of Mac on the walls and entered the office "With all the times I've been here, I have never stopped enough to be able to see a picture!" he turned away Jo from her thoughts "How gosh he was skinny!" he exclaimed approaching the only wall that wasn’t made of glass

"You mean that now he isn’t it anymore?" Jo said with a laugh

"No, but ..." Sheldon paused for a second on a color photo visibly old "Look at him! It is the only one that relies on a rifle and seems to have a bulge under his camouflage shirt..." he remarked to Jo indicating "As if he were struggling to stand up! Let's look what year was!" he told Jo who was peeling it off from the wall.

Jo, turning it, noticed the writing down -Beirut, 1983- she turned it over and, taking a magnifying glass, observed Mac more closely "What he has bandages under his shirt!"

"He told us of the bomb and the mark it has left!" Sheldon remembered "This picture, if I'm right, was taken a few days after the defeat of the Marines to survivors. Mac could walk, but not fight!"

"It's the evidence that can exonerate him!" Jo smiled, but Sheldon seemed to have seen something out of the office that worried him "Something wrong?"

"Why there are the Marines in our building?" he asked seeing coming out the soldiers dressed in the uniform of service.

One walked into the office and looked the two "Are you colleagues of Detective Taylor?"

"Yes! Has something happened? "Jo asked

"I am General McNamara, I deal with the protection of witnesses for the maxi trial which that will be held in a week" he said extending his hand to the two that shook it "I came to pick up Detective Taylor to ensure his protection!" Jo and Sheldon jumped "You have very confused faces! Where is your partner?"

"You have arrested him as a suspect and brought him to the Naval Consolidated Brig!" Jo said

"Damn!" the general growled "I'll go over there in person and I hope to get there in time!"

"What do you mean?" Jo asked

"This means some Marines do not like the military tribunals, especially in these cases, and prefer their own justice!"

"General!" one of the soldiers shouted approaching "Taylor is not at his home and his wife says that we have already arrested him!”

"Have you reassure her?" the general McNamara asked sternly

"Yes sir!" the Soldier replied still at attention

"Go to the airport! We depart immediately!"

"Sir. one last thing! We have been informed that it was the General Marshall to perform the arrest!"

"Do not waste time!" General McNamara yelled

"Wait!" Sheldon shouted chasing the general "Two of us will join you, they have already left a week ago and they are on the site! They still haven’t been granted leave to meet with Detective Taylor!"

"The names?"

"Detectives Danny Messer and Don Flack!" Sheldon said noting the general to move towards the stairs "Wait! Promise me that Mac Taylor will come home!" Jo said

"We'll do our best!"

Danny was standing there with Flack the landing strip, they had received a phone call from General McNamara and awaited the arrival of the Marines “Where are they? Why they bring so much?" the first whispered between anxiety

"Danny! I see them they're coming! "Flack assured him

From a plane just landed a jeep came down. The General McNamara got out of the car and introduced himself "I am General McNamara and I'm here to bring Detective Taylor in a safe place until the trial!"

"And we are here to help you!" Danny said.

Mac was once more on the ground, but not because of the military, “You bastard infamous! You ruined my life!" Russell shouted hitting him with a kick to the stomach "I hope you have greeted your wife as it should be done!" he said to him taking his head with the palm of the hand and lifting it up from the earth "You won’t see her never again!"

Before Mac could touch the ground with his face he took an elbow to the Russell’s ankle causing him to fall forward. However, Mac slammed his face to the ground, but more gently as he would have done if his cellmate had beaten him with a push down. In one swift movement, he sat on top of him and began to tighten the pressure on his neck with one arm. Under him, Russell tried to break free, but after exactly thirteen seconds he fainted. Mac sighed, exhausted, he appealed to his energy one last time and, after dragging Russell for less than one meter, the lift and laid him on the bed. He took the laces of his shoes and those of Russell and tied his wrists and ankles to the bed rails.

With difficulty, Mac, crept up to his bed and he opened his shirt, he had a purple bruise on the coasts and was struggling to breathe, he lay down on the cot in the throes of pain. The nose began to throb and felt his head turn accompanied by a feeling of nausea, he closed his eyes and tried to stay calm.

He coughed, he felt the blood trickling from a side of the mouth and felt slightly better. The nausea was gone and he could close his eyes to rest.

Jo and Sheldon were still in the office of Mac, it was two o'clock in the morning "General McNamara shall be arrived and he will solve the situation!" Sheldon said

"We hope that Mac is okay!" Jo said holding back tears

"If this were not, the General who arrested him will respond! Remember also that we are talking about Mac!"

Lindsay called Jo on the phone "You do not know anything yet?" she asked worriedly

"No, nothing! Are you okay?" Jo said walking back and forth to the office of Mac

"Yes, don’t worry! Angela has decided to pass me by! There is also Reed and they have a plan to give importance to the history of Mac and gain the support of public opinion!" she said placing the speakerphone

"We hope that it works!" Jo said

"Trust me! Reed is a good journalist and a computer whiz!" Angela interjected "I think we should go out to dinner one of these days!"

"Why not! You're a bright girl!" he replied "But now I would say to focus on Mac!"

"Right!" Angela said returning serious "Jo, General Marshall is the son of one of the most illustrious members of the Marines, guess where was his father in 1983!"

"Do not tell me that he was in Beirut!"

"Not only that! I entered illegally in possession of a document that brings up the names of those hospitalized in the camp hospital October 23, 1983, immediately after the bombing, and his name is not among the sixty I have here, but there is that of Mac !"

Jo sighed happy "Another evidence to clear him!" she saw Quinn Shelby get to her and hung up.

Sheldon shuddered at seeing her enter the office of Mac "I heard right, or even news bulletins are crazy?"

"Depends on what you heard!" Jo said

"Mac arrested for mass rape in Beirut!" the red-haired woman said crossing her arms "I guess it's a hoax or he would not have got away with a hold!"

"He was among the injured!" Sheldon said keeping calm

"It is thanks to him that I am in charge of Scientific Jersey City! I do not want the last words we said to each are the ones of that absurd argument!"

"It was all an act that half threat that you did?" Jo said shocked

"Mac, occasionally, needs a little push!" Quinn smiled "You who work with him instead of Stella Bonasera should know how he is done!"

"I have deep respect for Stella!" Jo said "And my working relationship with Mac is based on mutual trust!"

"I see!" she began the relationship that she had drawn up that day and smiled "I put it also pen to paper! I want Mac back soon to his work!" she walked toward the glass door peering also Sheldon "He is lucky to have a team like yours! In the future, if we have the pleasure of working together, I hope we can do it in harmony!" she went leaving Jo and Sheldon speechless.

Mac awoke shaken by the arm "Hey! Hey! Please Taylor, tell me you're alive!" he turned toward the voice and saw in front of him a man in a suit and tie "Fortunately! Maybe you do not remember me, I was a friend of Corporal Stan Whitney!"

Mac sat without speaking and looked the newcomer in the cell "I remember you perfectly! You are Rupert Grey! Why are you here in a cell for two people?"

"They say they want to keep all us together, there are seven other people who expect to be able to enter into this cell out there!" he said worriedly

Mac rubbed his temples with his right hand "What time is it?"

"Eight o'clock in the morning!"

"So, soon we will have the hour of fresh air and we will not be forced to stay all crammed from the beginning!" Mac smiled "That means that we will be in ten!" he observed General Russell squirm tied to the bed yet "More later I'll untie you, don’t worry!"

"You know that I am innocent!" Rupert Grey said "I was beside you with wounds similar to yours!"

"I know, but we have to convince the court!" Mac replied sadly "We'll make it!" he said by giving to the former fellow Marine a pat on the shoulder.

A guard came up to the bars "Taylor! We're taking you for a ride on the top floors! You have a visitor!"

Mac stood up unsteadily from the bed "If you want you can untie Russell now!" he said while were passed clean clothes. He was escorted into the bathroom to wash himself at the sink.

Finished to settle down, he was escorted to the level one and made ​​to sit on a chair in a large room. As had been washed the residue of blood, the marks of beatings on his face were clearly visible.

He saw Danny and Flack enter. As soon as they saw him they showed worried "My God! What did they do to you, Mac?" the first one said approaching his friend

"A few scratches between me and Russell ... do not worry!" he said trying to hide the other wounds under the clean clothes

"Mac, you're shaking! What do you have?" Danny asked seeing him pale

"It's nothing Danny, do not worry!" Mac concluded "Why are you here?"

"Because they wouldn’t arrest you, but you would have taken custody to protect you! The general McNamara is out there and he is trying to resolve the situation!”

"I'm doomed anyway, Don! One of my former comrade told me that in total the defendants in the trial are ten, counting me, Russell, and they are all putting in my own cell!" Mac informed them

"So it is advisable to act now!" Danny said "Don let's do it and let Mac with the General!" his friend said as a sign of understanding

"We'll leave you alone!" Flack smiled giving way to the General, just come in, and then going out with Danny.

The General looked at Mac "You know why you're here?"

"Yes!" he whispered "I'm glad someone is working to help me!" he smiled

"I do not think you look good!" the General said reaching out a hand towards the front Mac "You have fever! Surely it is due to some infection going on!"

Suddenly, a pain struck Mac in his haunch, as if to remind him of his presence, and he could not help but bite the bullet and begin to tremble in front of the General "I have cracked the coast, I think, and I think it will get worse if I will not be visited!"

"You should not give up! You have always fought! You just have to keep doing it!" the General whispered softly "In the meantime I will try to get you out of here! The judge might be understanding in any case!"

"I do not need to fight to prove that I am right and I am certain that I am innocent!" Mac said forcing a smile "I wish I could write a message to my wife!"

"Write something on this sheet! I will provide to send it to her!"

Mac took up a pen and began to write with a trembling hand

-Dear Christine,

This night I wasn’t able to sleep, so I started to think a name for the kid. I think that Stanton is a perfect middle name. You already know the first name since we discovered we were waiting a boy: McKenna III sounds good! Isn’t it?

It will be strange to call him Mac… Maybe it’s better to use Stan as a nickname!

I’ll be fine! Don’t worry for me! I’ll be with you soon!

Lovely,

Mac-

The guard on duty came "Time's up, I'm sorry!"

"Corporal, please! Give me five minutes more!" Mac implored

"I'm sorry, I have orders to execute!" he said grabbing his arm

"You brings me back in the cell?" Mac asked

"No, in the back yard with the other nine! There is an arena that awaits you!"

Mac looked at the General alarmed "You know very well what will happen now! Please do something!" he hissed as he was dragged away" Take that message to my wife!"

Flack and Danny were out "Let's go into the yard to stop the Marines!" the General said "Your colleague will fight in the arena with the other nine! He is not able to do it! He is too weak!" he said starting to run towards the courtyard "I'll go ahead!" the general McNamara said "General Marshall is going beyond the limit!"

"There’s no need for you to go anywhere! I have already told my men to take them to court only for the air time!" General Marshall said appearing from behind the corner and McNamara stopped to look at him with cold air

"Which way do we go for the backyard?" Danny asked agitated

"Down the hall to the right! You will be right behind the fence of the yard, you is not granted access!" the General McNamara said disappearing with General Marshall in the opposite direction.

Flack ran to the courtyard, leaving Danny behind him, he opened the door abruptly and saw one gruesome spectacle take shape before him: the Marines were mistreating the prisoners within the human arena. The prisoner had to deal with two soldiers, the one who was fighting at that time was lucid and focused, Mac was the next in line.

Flack looked at his friend: the lost look, eyes, shiny and dull, and his trembling informed him that he was quite ill and that he might not have had the strength to defend themselves.

"Who is the next motherfucker?" one of the executioners shouted spitting on the ground after having knocked the prisoner who was fighting and leaving him agonizing covered in blood.

Danny appeared behind Flack in time to see that Mac was pushed to center of the arena "That's our lucky -key witness-!" the first executioner said "Do you know that it was you who set up this mess and spoil yourself all alone?"

"I did the right thing by telling the truth!" Mac said looking up "I'm not going to fight against you!" the first of two tried to hit him in the stomach, but Mac dodged the hit and grabbed him by the arm by rotating it backwards "But if I'm attacked and I will be forced to defend myself, I will!" he hissed at his ear.

The other Marine intervened trying to free the companion and he managed to hit the shores of Mac with a kick. Mac gasped lying on the ground, fortunately remained vigilant enough to be able to rotate on the other side and avoid a direct kick to the stomach. He managed to bring down with a kick from below his first assailant turning supine thus exposing themselves to an attack of the second Marine: a powerful straight punch against his chest, a blow that Mac could not afford to cash in and so it was that with his hands grabbed his fist and pushed it away from him and inadvertently managed to break the arm of the Marine letting the bone out from the meat.

Danny and Flack were trying to catch a glimpse behind the soldiers arranged in a circle round the fight if Mac was all right, but their view was almost completely obscured.

The first Marine returned to the attack with a kick to the nether regions, Mac could not avoid it and he let out a piercing scream that filled the courtyard. He was paralyzed from the pain while the opponent was about to rage on him "You do not do more blustering, eh!" the other Marines who were watching laughed and cheered.

Flack had the blood boiling and beating down against the metal mesh to draw the attention of the Marines who were still unaware of his presence.

"Stop it!" the general McNamara cried appearing from a door with General Marshall "Soldier, I order you to immediately leave the prisoner!"

The Marine pulled back "Sir, yes, sir!"

"Take him to the infirmary immediately and make sure it receives the necessary treatment as everyone else that you've narrowed in his state!" he turned to all Marines present "I understand that the situation is delicate! I commend you for having transgressed the command of General Marshall and for giving the show in front of two members of the NYPD!" he said pointing Detectives beyond the fence.

The Marines were surprised by the presence of two people over the safety net "You're lucky if I don’t write a report to send to you in front the military court in the place of these ten people!" the General ended "Break the lines!" he ordered and walked to the safety net turning to Flack "Come in! I bring you to your friend!"

Mac was lying in the infirmary cot and smiled at the two members of his team, he tried to say something, but was too weak and shivered.

"Detective, consider you lucky!" the doctor said "Another kick and now you would have the left ribs broken and a punctured lung! Another good news is that the nose isn’t broken! There is a slight trauma to the stomach, but it will be completely resorbed within a few weeks!"

"Will I recover completely?" Mac asked passing to the point

"Yes, tomorrow should already be able to walk normally! Your body temperature is already going back to normal! The fever only appeared as a defense mechanism against possible infection!"

"They won’t get away Mac!" Danny snarled

"When we go back to New York I personally take care of General Marshall!" Mac said weakly.

Flack looked at his wounded friend "Now I understand why the Marines are seen as evil characters! They arrive almost killing each other! By the way Mac, happy forty-ninth birthday! This certainly you'll remember for all your life!" the chilling gaze of Mac made disappear from the face of the Flack the smile that had just formed

"To say that this birthday is good seems excessive to me! I call home to see if there is any news!" Danny said before exiting.

Just outside he dialed a number and put the phone to his ear "Hey Lindsay! How are you? Mac is in safe! He doesn’t have anything broken, even if it led him to the infirmary! Tell me what you found!" he said gently to his wife smiling and leaning with his back against the wall "The father of General Marshall? Are you sure? I see! Mac will be happy to know that you will open an investigation!" he smiled changing the subject "The children?" he saw Flack coming towards him while he was finishing to listen at the answer "I must go! You need to tell Christine to be quiet! I love you!"

Danny smiled and exclaimed to his colleague "Get ready to interrogate the General Marshall! His daddy was worshiped with Mac in 1983!"

"Uh! Something tells me that there is more of a skeleton in the closet!" Flack grinned mischievously.

Jo sighed in relief knowing from Lindsay that Mac was fine and was recovering "About the father of General Marshall did you find out more?"

"Only that he was discharged in February 1994 and, to our dismay, with honor!" she said banging on the table of Jo the military curriculum record detailed "I have also picked up the Mac one! If you want to look at it later to find more evidence of his innocence! I have to go at Mac’s home to give the news to Christine!" and she left

"Come on Mac! Five days and eleven hours and it's over!" Jo smiled sifting into the curriculum of Mac finding there the second name she had heard from Christine in the hospital the day he was shot "What went through the head of your parents forty-nine years ago when they gave you that name? If for no other, I now know how to spell it!"

"It's been ten hours since we've heard the last time! Invented a better excuse of -mobile phones don’t have the line-!" Lindsay said irritated on the phone while holding in her arms Sid

"But I assure you it is so!" Danny tried to convince her "Listen, the process is in less than a week and we need evidence to nail the father of General Marshall, who is not among the ten who will be in front of the military jury!"

"Jo is investigating and we are helping! Angela should have other material on which to do research ... I go to her now!" she said walking toward the kitchen "I'll call you as soon as I have something! There is to trust the general McNamara?" she asked doubtfully

"Not even Mac trusts too much ... he made ​​no mistake about the people!" he sighed "But he says we must take the risk to exonerate two other defendants who were lying near Mac that night!"

"I understand! I’ll talk to you later and keep your phone on!" Lindsay ordered placing in the cradle Sid

"Okay Montana! Just tell me one thing: how are you and the kids?"

"Fine! They are doing a bit of whims and Lucy asks when you come back, but I have the situation under control! Now I'm going back to work! Rosita has just arrived!" she said greeting her with a wave of the hand

"How Lucy goes to kindergarten?"

"Well! Your mom is going to take her at the exit later!" she sighed" I miss you!" she said with a sad tone

"I miss you too!" Danny sighed "You were not supposed to go to Angela?" he interjected after a short break

"Right!" she said leaving the house "I'll call you later!"

"I love you!" Danny said in earnest tone

"I love you too!" Lindsay smiled hanging up.

Angela was printing documents and when she saw Lindsay enter exclaimed "Ah! You've come at last!" she smiled and went on "There is everything you need to continue here from New York, I'm going to work on the field" she smiled

"What should I do with all this paper?"

"Pass it to Jo when you find something! In it I'm sure I left you all!" she said slipping into a bag a laptop

"I have not figured out where you go...” Lindsay intervened by taking the bundle of sheets

"At the military prison with Reed!" she smiled proud of the plan drawn a few hours before "It's time to give a boost to public opinion in the way we want!"

Mac had just been discharged Infirmary when Reed and Angela came up in front of him

"Succor have arrived!” the Stepson of Mac began "I'm glad to see you still in one piece!"

"And above all you can tell us all in the details!" Angela concluded

"You should not be in New York to carry out investigations about Albert Marshall?" he asked Angela "And you're not supposed to take care of the move in the apartment that you are getting?"

"While it is important for me to leave home and have my own life, I thought that the work and family come first!"

Mac smiled "There's something else ... something that you don’t want to tell me ..." he stared at them for a moment "Among you what is the relationship?"

"A relationship that could be called -occasional colleagues-!" Angela replied hastily.

The look of Mac was unconvinced.

"You have bruises quite evident in face!" she went on to change the subject

"I am in a military prison! What do you expect? That they offer me cotton candy?" Mac asked ironic

"But you didn’t have end up here! You had to be in Washington awaiting trial under protection!" Reed intervened

"So it was told, but things are different!" Mac said by seeing Danny and Flack arriving, he smiled and greeted them with a wave of his hand.

Soon after, the General McNamara came "We leave detective Taylor! We are facing a long journey!"

"We all go back to New York and we will send the documentation on General Albert Marshall!" Flack concluded

"You'll live on TV the day of the trial!" Danny said clutching the hand of Mac "Lindsay and I are with you, like everyone else!"

"Hey Mac! There is someone on the phone who wants to talk to you!" Angela said passing the mobile phone

"Hello!"

"Mac! Finally I can talk to you! "

Mac smiled euphoric "Jo! How things are going in the lab?"

"You'll see that by yourself four days from!" she smiled happy to hear the voice of Mac 'We love you! We look forward to see you back in your office!"

"Even I cannot wait to get back to you!" Mac admitted "What about Quinn? She has created a problem?"

"Not at all! Indeed, she thanks you for having secured the place!" Jo smiled "We got rid of its assessments forever!"

"Mac!" Christine cried happy "There are me and I got your message!"

"Christine! My love! Soon it will all be over!"

"Jo came up to me and said you were better! What happened to you?" she asked

Mac looked at the general McNamara command him to hurry up pointing to the clock "Now I have to go, but I hope to hear you soon Christine! Greets to me you Jo!"

"When you come back we'll get a coffee! At least, I know exactly how you like: black with two lumps of sugar!" Jo smiled wiping away a tear

"You wait me!" said Mac hung up and giving back the phone to Angela "I would say that we can go!"

"Good luck, Mac!" Reed greeted him "Have you finally decided what name to give to your child?" Mac smiled and whispered in his ear it to him "Prepare yourself to be hated!" the young man replied.

Mac walked toward the airstrip “Even the other prisoners will be transferred?" he asked to General McNamara

"Only you and the other two! The others will remain here until two days before the trial!" he replied.

A few hours later, the forensic team in New York was back to full strength in the city.

Angela looked nervously at his cell phone tapping her nails on the desk of the lab "At last you have decided to write to me!" she said displaying the number of Reed

-The article is OnLine! Now you just have to wait! You're sure to be a cop is your way? I would love to have you as a colleague!-

She hastened to reply -Dumb! I do my job to help others and to serve my country! It is not excluded that might arise between you and me a good cooperation, but more than that there will never be anything!- she pressed the enter key and visualized on the computer the blog of Reed "Not bad at all! In a few hours it will be the public to show an opinion!"

Jo, seeing Angela smile, walked into the lab and saw the article on the monitor «Mac Taylor the scapegoat de-The scandal of Beirut-»

"Reed has given in!" she exclaimed scaring Angela "And I bet you have helped him !"

The young woman turned to her "It was necessary do something! It was unfair that they painted him as a rapist after he had appeared as -The Hero of New York!-"

Jo sat down and began to read the article "He has really chosen McKenna Stanton III as the name for his son?!"

Angela leaned toward the computer and began to read between the lines  -... to give him the strength to go on are his wife, friends and the little McKenna Stanton III, not born yet...-

"How is it compelling!" she shifted her gaze on Jo "I swear that I did not know anything!"

At bottom of page appeared the photos taken with the mobile and Jo smiled seeing also the audio recording of the phone call "The next link is a picture, I do not know how much you need to watch it! I was sick to see him live, but I masked my emotions well!"

Jo clicked on the photo and saw the face of Mac "Damn! The nose, cheekbone, the lip! It is impossible that he may have been reduced in this way!"

Mac had arrived at a military base near Washington "General McNamara!" he said extending his hand "Thanks for helping me!"

"You can imagine Detective!" the General smiled shaking vigorously Mac’s hand "The dossier on General Albert Marshall arrived without a hitch! You need only bear witness! You've just been cleared and you don’t cronies among the defendants accused" he beckoned to the Marines “I saved you on time it seems!"

"Thank you again!" Mac concluded heading for a small and narrow room.

He saw the phone on the table and dialed his home number "Hello? Christine, it's me! I arrived and I was cleared! All the evidence have come!"

"You can go home then?"

"First I have to bear witness!" he smiled

"I was so afraid of not seeing you again! What have they done to you? Your face is bruised! I saw the article online!"

Mac smiled "Don’t fear! They will pass soon!"

"Happy Birthday, even if late!"

"The greatest gift I could receive this Birthday was to be sure that I would come back to you!"

Christine began to roll up the telephone wire "Tell me that it will not always be like this!”

"Like what?"

"All forced to fight as if we were in a jungle!"

Mac laughed "But we are in a jungle of skyscrapers and asphalt!" he heard her cry "Do not cry!"

Christine touched his belly "You know that the baby started kicking!"

"He will miss me for sure!” Mac looked at the wall "That's why are you crying?"

"Yes and no! One day maybe I'll explain better! It's something that I just told your mother and she still has to process it!”

"It's about the baby?"

"No, my job! You will understand Mac! When I can say it to you, I'll tell it you!"

Christine hung up without leaving to Mac the opportunity to reply or add a greeting.

General McNamara knocked on the door "Your colleague, Angela Meyers, will be present at the trial!"

Mac replied politely "Thank you for having communicated break the news to me!"

The General left the room and Mac lay back on the bed staring at the ceiling "What do you want to tell me Christine? Why are you so mysterious?"