EPISODIO
XXVII: OF HIDEOUS CREATURES AND VALIANT MEN
Previously on CSI: NY
"Look
who it is! Detective Messer! I thought you would not come!"
Danny
didn’t answer and he sat down with Sheldon waiting for the trial to begin.
The clerk
of the court stepped forward "All rise! The Court enters! Judge Vander
presides over the judicial hearing!" he said.
Judge
Vander sat down in his place "Be seated!" he said, the room sat down
and he continued "The accused Ben Maxwell is here to be judged for the
crimes committed and for the possible conspiracy against the United States of
America!"…
Taking over this town, they should worry,
But these problems aside I think I taught you
well.
"Look
at the computer and hold the phone at your fingertips!" she said walking
in the hallway "When I’ll be back I’ll have to tell you something!"
"Cannot
you say it to me now?" Mac smiled accompanying
"No! I
can only tell you it's a beautiful thing! At least, I believe it can please you
and make us happy!" Christine smiled…
That we won't run, and we won't run, and we
won't run.
That we won't run, and we won't run, and we
won't run.
And in the winter night sky ships are sailing,
Looking down on these bright blue city lights.
"The
letter is proving to be interesting! I'm following your theory of names and
there's your last line! "
"How
it ends the letter?"
"To
cut short, you lose the Child of the handsome one who is no more strong like a
lion!"
Mac thought
about it "It would be the first time that a letter is not addressed to
me!"
"Yeah,
but who is the addressee?" Angela asked
"Check
it out while I am away!"…
And they won't wait, and they won't wait, and
they won't wait.
We're here to stay, we're here to stay, we're
here to stay.
"Did
you find anything?"
"Yes!
It is a clear message about where the body is and maybe it was the same murder
to leave it to us! I'm analyzing the traces of DNA found under one of the
letters attached to the sheet!" a noise call their attention
"We're
lucky! The CODIS also had this trace!" Jo exulted…
Howling ghosts they reappear
In mountains that are stacked with fear
But you're a king and I'm a lionheart.
A lionheart.
"I was
wondering when chloral hydrate would begin to effect you! It’s since we are
here that you have been above that manhole! It was not easy to make it
odorless!"
Mac blinked
more vigorously "I won’t let you to implement your plan!" he fell on
his back leaving his grip on the gun
"It's
already started!" J.J. he said approaching him…
"Where
is Lindsay? Why Flack told me on the phone to not move?" Jo said seeing Jamie
returning alone
"A
thing happened!" Jamie exclaimed while the street was filled with the
sounds of ambulances and police vehicles
"What?"
"Lindsay
was injured! The killer was in there! Flack shot, but the cleaver struck
Lindsay in the chest! Flack is with her now!"…
His crown lid up the way as we moved slowly
Pass the wondering eyes of the ones that were
left behind.
Though far away, though far away, though far
away
We're still the same, we're still the same,
we're still the same.
"Sheldon,
we will return to New York! You will see your daughter be born and I will see
my children grow up! We'll get to eighty years old to walk in the park
complaining about our wives and how the youth is immature and has no
values!"…
"The message
that J.J. had done to write to Christine was for her and not for Mac!"
Angela explained "The message says that Christine will die, Danny and
Sheldon will die and that she has lost Mac!"…
"You're
gonna pay!" Mac said spitting up blood "Don’t tell him anything
Christine!"
"Nine!"
Mac was
struck between his legs and his loud scream of pain filled the surrounding
space
"No,
Mac!" Christine screamed.
J.J. took
the gun and pointed it to Mac’s temple straightening his head because his
tearful eyes would been able to meet those of Christine "We got to ten,
Chris!" he said lowering the cock "Do you really want me to?"
"Stop!"
Christine screamed "I'll tell you everything! I promise!"
Howling ghost they reappear
In mountains that are stacked with fear
But you're a king and I'm a lionheart.
"He
shot the bomb that you've built up in your brain!" Mac said trying to calm
down "Is it true that you're pregnant?"
"Yes!
Who told you that?"
"Try
to guess it!" Mac said feeling the blood trickling from his nose "Was
it what you would want to tell me tonight at home?"
And in the sea that's painted black,
Creatures lurk below the deck
But you're the king and I'm a lionheart.
"Detective
Messer is critical and the next several hours will be decisive! While Dr.
Sheldon Hawkes is still in the operating room!"
Jo took a
deep breath "Tell me the truth about Dr. Hawkes!"
"Actually,
I cannot tell you more!"
"I'm
his wife!"
And as the world comes to an end
I'll be here to hold your hand
Cause you're my king and I'm your lionheart.
A lionheart.
Mac threw
himself on J.J. and he managed to disarm him "As I told you, it's
over!"
"For
you it's over!" J.J. smiled showing the ring of a grenade.
Mac looked
at the object with horror before to stand up and be thrown to the ground by the
explosion who brought down one of the walls.
Shortly
after, Mac coughed trying to figure out where his rival was, he instinctively
reached out to grab the gun next to him and he pointed it at J.J. who had been
crushed by the wall…
A lionheart
A lionheart
A lionheart
A lionheart
A lionheart
A lionheart
A lionheart
At that
moment the phone rang
"Detective
Hawkes!" Jo replied. She put her hand over her mouth and began to cry
"Tell me that's not true, Flack!"
"Unfortunately,
yes! Mac is with her now! He doesn’t want to leave her! I fear that if the
ambulance won’t arrive soon even for him..."
"How
much blood has Mac lost?" Jo asked
"Too
much!" Flack replied with sadness "J.J. has achieved his goal: he has
destroyed us and he escaped! I'll call you later when we get to the hospital I
have to help Mac!"…
Howling ghost they reappear
In mountains that are stacked with fear
But you're a king and I'm a lionheart.
And in the sea that's painted black,
Creatures lurk below the deck
But you're the king and I'm a lionheart.
A lionheart. [x8]
Mac, with
eyes full of tears, looked again at Christine’s face
"Don’t
leave me! Wake up! I implore you, Christine!" he stood on his knees with
difficulty.
The
policeman who was replacing him stepped aside, tired
"You
have to live! We have two children who are waiting for us!" Mac began to
squeeze back onto her chest as hard as he could do "If not for me, do it
for them! Breathe!"
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Christine
opened her eyes and found herself standing in the room that had been assigned
to her since she worked for the FBI.
She looked
around and she saw that the bed was perfectly in order
"Christine!"
a voice behind called her
"What
are you doing here in the room? You should be ready to come down now!" a
second voice added.
Christine
turned "Mom? Millie? What are you doing here?"
"Don’t
you remember anything?" Millie asked her
"What
am I supposed to remember?"
Her mother
approached her "Don’t get flustered, but you're dying!"
"No!
It isn’t possible! Mac is... he..."
Millie
approached her "Mac is knuckling down to it! Both he and Detective Flack
are trying! In a little while Mac will run out of steam and he will be in
life-threatening!" she took her hand
"Where
are we going?" Christine asked
"You
have to follow us! We want you to come back to Mac!" her mother explained.
The trio
descended the stairs and began to observe the hall, in which Mac and Christine
had danced, empty and flooded with light that resembled the sunrise
"Where
are all the people?" asked Christine
"Here,
there's just us!" Millie exclaimed "Let's go into the garden!"
The three
started walking and Christine was dazzled by the bright light of the sun on her
face as soon as the door opened
"Is it
May even here?"
"My
little one, here there is no time!" her mother said to her
"There’s
never been a fountain here!" exclaimed Christine
"Why
do not you look into it?" Millie suggested to her "You may find
something you don’t know!"
Christine
sat at the edge of the tub and she looked into it
"Who
are those kids? Whom does the voices I hear belong to?"
"Don’t
worry Christine!" her mother reassured her "It's all right! Keep
looking!"
Christine
stared at the water.
"Trinity
now I'll teach you a lesson!" the male one with light blue eyes yelled
climbing on the table and crumpling another sheet "Bomb coming!"
"I
will win the war Kenny!" the little girl with huge blue eyes screamed.
The door
swung open without warning
"What
are you doing in here?" Mac thundered
"Oh-oh!"
the girl said biting her lip "Are you already at home dad?"
"I
hope for you that you finished your homework!"
"We have
done that!" the boy replied
"What
is all this mess in the room?" Mac asked sternly
"We
were playing!" the girl replied " Kenny and I are at war! I'm
winning!"
"Liar!
You were beating a retreat!"
Mac smiled
"You really need someone to tell you about military strategy! This place
is hell! Not a battlefield!"
The two children
looked at him surprised "Aren’t you mad?!"
"Why
should I?" Mac answered by taking a ball of paper and throwing it against
the girl "I hit Faith!" he laughed.
The boy
picked up a ball of paper "I cannot forgive you for hitting my little
sister Take this!"
"Two
against one is not fair!" Mac retorted throwing paper balls against
children "Now I'll show you how a Marine fights!"
The door
opened and Christine came crossing her arms
"Well,
well, well! Who is the author of this chaos, my dear former Marine?"
Mac laughed
"Are you already at home?"
"I could
ask you the same question!" Christine said entering "Have you two finished
with your homework?"
"Yes
mom!" they chorused
"Can I
play too?" Christine asked gently
"With
me mom!" the boy rejoiced
"No
with me!" the girl retorted.
Christine
looked away from the fountain "Are those really and McKenna Faith? Is Mac still
with us?"
Christine's
mother approached her "Keep looking, don’t look away!"
Christine
leaned forward.
Mac had
bent over next to Faith in the bed below, while Christine settled the blankets
to McKenna in the bed above
"Daddy!
May you tell us about when you were Marine?" Faith asked
"I
have already told you everything!" Mac smiled
"Liar!
When we asked you about the scar on your chest today at the seaside you didn’t
want to say anything!"
"Kenny!"
Christine rebuked him "Don’t talk to your father like that!"
"One
day I'll tell you! Now you're too young!" Mac explained
"How
did you hurt your leg?" Faith asked
"It didn’t
occur when I was in the Marines! It is a story that one day is good for you to
know, but..."
"Not
today!" McKenna snorted "Is there anything you can tell us? Who is that
Danny you were talking about yesterday with mummy?"
"He is
the father of Sid and Lucy!" Mac explained
"Sid
never talks about his dad!" McKenna said "Not even Lucy does it! They
don’t say anything even about their mom!"
"Now
that we have told you who Danny is, do you want to sleep?" Christine asked
"Tomorrow Jo and Charlot will come to pay us a visit!"
"Okay!"
McKenna smiled "Good night!"
"Good
night!" Faith echoed
"Sleep
well!" Mac said kissing both on the forehead.
Christine
stood before the window of the living room and Mac hugged her
"Thank
you for helping to heal me!" Mac whispered "The opportunity to grow
them with you has been the greatest gift I could get!"
"In
good and bad times!" Christine whispered "Did you think that it would
have ended such as to your father?"
Mac kissed
her "You look tired!"
"Think
that today there could have been another earthquake in the house!"
“We could had
made it! Together we have been able to do so many things!"
Christine
looked away from the fountain
"Is it
going to happen for real?"
"Only
if you want to!" her Mother told her
"If
you wake up!" Millie told her.
Christine
put her hand on her chest and her eyes widened "What need is there to beat
so strong?!"
"Mac,
with the help of Detective Flack, is trying to let your heart beat and make you
breathe on your own! They are trying in every way to separate Mac from you! He
is persisting in it! Flack has immobilized him his ankle but he cannot do anything
for the blood he lost!" Millie looked at Christine fall to the ground
"You're
going to wake up! Go to him! Be happy!" her mother greeted her.
Christine
jerked up sitting coughing.
Mac looked
at her for a moment in disbelief "Christine?"
"My
God! Christine can you hear my voice?" Flack asked
"What
happened?" Christine asked in a faint voice "Whose is this
blood?"
Mac was
pale and he was crying "You're alive!" he exclaimed helping her to
lie down "For a moment I feared..."
"It
didn’t happen, Mac!" she smiled at him.
"I'm
going to see if there are paramedics and I’ll give them instructions to reach
you here!" Flack said "Soon it will be over!" he said walking
away followed by the agents.
Christine
looked at blood covered Mac’s face, who was lying next to her, and she twitched
her face into an expression of pain
"What
do you have, Christine?"
"A
terrible stab!" she turned to him crying "We have lost the baby while
I received the shock, Mac!"
Before Mac
could say anything, a grin broke in and both Mac and Christine shuddered
"J.J.!"
Mac exclaimed feeling the barrel of a gun against the temple
"I didn’t
escape after the explosion. I didn’t explained you completely how I had done to
divide you from your team, it seemed right to me to tell you it before shooting
you! I ordered a dwarf serial killer to kill a poor innocent!" he laughed
and cocked the gun "Then it's your turn Chris!"
Mac noticed
that Christine had something in her left hand leaning against his arm and she
was referring to him with her eyes a clear message
"I don’t
think you're in good shape J.J.: you're hurt!" Mac exclaimed nudging in J.J.’s
shin who fell upon them.
Christine
looked J.J. in the eyes with contempt "That was for my son!" she
pulled away the knife blade from his abdomen and she showed it to him
blood-soaked before plunging it into his shoulder "This was for my family
and my friends!" and after removing the knife from his shoulder she planted
it him in the chest "See you in hell J.J.!"
J.J. let go
and Mac helped Christine to take him away from her. They both remained
motionless looking at him, while he breathed His last breath.
Mac saw the
paramedics and Flack arrive, he sighed, thankful that it was all over.
Flack was
surprised to see J.J. on the ground and he approched to see if he was alive
"You
don’t have to explain anything now!" he said putting the index and middle fingers
of the right hand on the jugular of J.J. "You are safe once again!"
"What
about Sheldon and Danny?" Mac asked as paramedics lowered the stretcher
"Jamie
said that Danny is serious and Sheldon… I have no idea how he is!" Flack
became gloomy.
Christine
blinked for a moment and she sighed, Mac looked at her and closed his eyes
"Mac?"
Flack called him.
The
paramedics loaded him on the stretcher
"We
must take him to the hospital immediately!" the first said
"He
needs a blood transfusion!" the second pointed out "I think he
fainted because the adrenaline finished doing effect! The leg is in very poor
condition!"
Christine
looked at Mac’s waxen face while she was secured to the stretcher
"Don’t
worry Christine! Mac is a tough nut to crack! You saw him in worse conditions!
He will make out with it!" Flack said to her "On what happened while
none of us was here I need to know one thing: who killed JJ?"
Christine
looked into his eyes "Both of us, even if I knifed him!"
Ambulances
sped away fast in the middle of the night toward the hospital.
Adam was
with Peyton, Isabella and Angela in the hallway entrance to the ER
"I don’t
think it's a good idea Peyton!" Angela insisted
"The
best surgeons are busy with Lindsay!" she said putting on a coat
"Aubrey won’t make it by herself!"
"But
you're anymore a surgeon of the hospital!" Adam reminded her
"I
want to help!" she said "I have the skills to do it!"
"It
means that you will have to save the lives of Mac and Christine!" Isabella
said "I whant help you too!"
"Okay!"
Peyton smiled "Get ready, Isabella!"
Adam saw ER’s
door open wide "My God!" he exclaimed turning pale.
Angela saw
Christine with a weary face and Mac immediately behind her. Seeing them in that
condition she hissed seething with anger "What that bastard did
them?!"
Mac looked
around as he could and he saw the faces of Peyton and Aubrey
"How
are the values?" Aubrey asked the paramedics
"The
blood pressure is back to normal! We began to give him 550 milliliters of
blood!"
"Perfect!
Let’s go in radiology for X-ray at the leg and then rapidly in operating room!"
Peyton ruled
"There's
no time to lose!" Aubrey yelled slightly touching the leg of Mac
"Ouch!"
Mac yelled filling with his voice the hallway
"I
didn’t think it would hurt you so much!" Peyton exclaimed "I believe
that the tibia is fractured and tendons are torn!"
"The
x-ray will tell us which bones are involved!" Aubrey said going into
radiology.
Jo hung up
the phone and started to cry
"Mom!
What's going on?" Ellie said approaching
"Danny
didn’t... Danny didn’t make it!"
Tyler heard
his mother crying and he walked out of the bedroom "What happened?"
"Danny!"
Ellie whispered "Do you remember that you came to pick me up at his place
two weeks ago?"
"Oh
no! Isn’t his wife hospitalized Trinity General?"
Someone
knocked at the door of the apartment.
Ellie
detached herself from her mother and went to open it "Adam!"
"Hello
Ellie! I bring news from the hospital!"
"Come
in and sit down!" then she added in a low voice "Tell me that you have
only good news!"
"I'd
like that!" Adam sighed sitting down next to Jo "But what happened?
It seems that someone is dead!"
"Adam..."
Jo said looking up "Danny is dead!"
Adam
shuddered “Da-Danny? Danny! Danny is dead?!" he took his head in his hands
"No, my friend! Who will grow Lucy and Sid?!"
Ellie
shuddered "Something happened to Lindsay?"
Adam nodded
"She’s back in the operating room! While Christine is in a room now and
Mac is in operating room for the leg! He has torn tendons and few fractured
bones! Peyton said it was a miracle if they didn’t have to amputate him from
mid-tibia to down!"
"At
least he is safe!" Jo said "I hope that Sheldon will make out!"
"Have they
ordered an autopsy on Danny?" Adam asked in a faint voice
"Yes!
They will do it here in New York!" Jo couldn’t stop crying
"I don’t
think Peyton will be pleased and neither Isabella!" Adam said "God,
Danny! Why?"
Mac walked
in his old house in Chicago and he could hear the noises from the street
"Father?"
he asked looking outside
"Wow
Mac! You really changed!" the man told him approaching the front porch
"You're older than when I left! I'm sorry for everything that happened to
you in years!" he smiled at him observing him and he added "I met
Claire, she told me September 11! Now she went to look for her parents!"
"Haven’t
you seen my mother?"
"Your
mother is gone?" he asked surprised "I haven’t come to know it!"
Mac sighed
"She told me, on his deathbed, of my brother!"
McKenna
Boyd Taylor pointed to a child who was returning with a football and Sid
"He's your brother! I met your friend and pathologist, Sid shortly after
he was gone! Since then, I invited him to stay with us until we would have
found some of his relatives! Speaking of relatives, I think you should update
me on my grandson! Sid told me that Christine was in the seventh month!"
"In
fact they are twins McKenna Stanton and Faith Trinity!"
"I
know many things about your new wife thanks to Sid! Here- hence you can inform
yourself about the past of those who are still alive by those who arrive here
and then you observe people in the world of the living of you have heard, now I
can also see your children: Faith looks more like you than McKenna!" McKenna
Boyd Taylor looked Mac to blush "Christine has always been honest with
you! She has always shown for what she really is! Tell her that she can also
leave the mask of the brave and fearless agent that she has built over the
years! With the death of Jonathan Harris Jason she's officially out of any
humbug!"
"Was it
because of J.J. if she could not leave the FBI?" Mac asked noticing Sid
and the child he carried on his shoulders reach the front steps
"Mac!
How nice to see you again after so long! I met your father and your brother!"
he said placing the child on the ground "I know you're here only
provisionally and thankfully! In the world of the living things are taking
place! I have to go to pick Danny up and hope I don’t have to stop for Lindsay!"
Mac shivered
while Boyd watched him
"Mac!
Don’t you remember anything about the two of us?"
Mac looked
at the boy "I don’t remember anything! I'm sorry!" he observed him "You're
identical to me when I was your age!"
"Here
you cannot grow physically! Boyd makes the same reasoning of an adult and he
expresses himself as such, but because of the body as a child he cannot walk
fast!" McKenna Boyd Taylor explained
"Tell
me about Danny!" Mac exclaimed "Is he really gone?"
"Why
don’t you talk to him directly?" Sid said pointing to Danny stepped
forward "It seems that I don’t have to go looking for him..."
"Mac?!
Sid?!" Danny exclaimed "Where am I?"
"You're
just dead!" Sid said abrupt
"What?"
Danny was shocked "No! It’s not true! Please tell me that's a joke! Are you
dead too, Mac?"
"No! I
am in the operating room!"
"I
want to go back!" Danny began to cry "Lindsay and my children need me!"
"You
cannot Danny! We'd all returned!" Sid exclaimed "Do we want to show
Mac why he is here for?"
McKenna
Boyd Taylor looked at Mac "I know that my same disease is likely to kill
you! At the moment you still cannot be submitted to surgery! A hard time is
waiting for you!"
Boyd took
the hand of Mac "This way, brother!" he said pulling him towards the
street and taking him to a strange northern lights
"You
must know that it’s not over! The FBI mole will also be dead, but the Islamic terrorist
will find other Americans willing to betray their country if you do not stop
him!" McKenna Boyd Taylor explained to his son
"It’s
not for this reason which however now you have to look in there! It’s the
family that you've built with Christine the real reason and the fact that soon
you will have to help Lucy and the little Sid!" Sid explained.
Mac began
to look into the colors of the northern lights and shapes came alive within it,
until they become clearly distinct visions.
Angela was
sitting next to Christine
"How
are you feeling?"
"In pieces!
How are Kenny and Faith?"
Angela
patted her hand "They’re fine! Your father says that they don’t give any
kind of problem!"
"Mac?"
"He's
out of surgery! Soon he will wake up from the anesthesia!" she clouded
"Adam told me that Danny hasn’t make it! Sheldon is now out of the
operating room and no one knows if it will arrive until tomorrow!"
"Oh my
God!" Christine sighed closing her eyes
"I
grew fond of Danny and Sheldon is a trusted friend! If he also would have to...”
"Danny
is dead and Sheldon... I cannot stand that all these lives have been shattered
because of me! If only I had discovered that J.J. was... At this time nobody
one would get hurt and nobody would have died! Mac and I have lost our son and
he almost lost me! I am the only real responsible for this!"
"Don’t
charge yourself with faults not yours! You knew J.J. better than anyone, but not
his true nature! I'm not surprised that you didn’t notice anything!"
Mac saw the
Northern Lights McKenna surrounded by some kids at school and Faith huddled in
a corner of the yard
"Taylor
wanted to be a hero!"
"Taylor
wanted to help his little sister!"
"Taylor
now will learn a lesson!"
The
children began to grasp McKenna from all directions and they slid him to the
ground. One of them began to kick him and the others imitated him. Before one
of the teachers could arrive the children carted away McKenna and Faith and
they flung them at the foot of the fire escape
"The
twins took a tumble!" one of them laughed "Is it clear, scums of the
earth?"
A little
boy ran to the twins “Help me! Two of my friends got hurt!" he leaned next
to McKenna "Kenny! It’s Sid! Answer me!"
"Sid..."
Faith replied breathing hard "Help us!"
"Don’t
worry Trinity! Your father will fix everything!"
Sid smiled
to Faith and he took her hand, she squeezed the one of Sid and they sat in
silence looking at each other in the eyes.
The vision
blurred for a moment and the scenery changed: Mac was in a hospital room
watching the son lying in a bed unconscious
"I
know that you didn’t fall down the stairs under which they have found you! Your
sister goes on to say that this is so and also you will say that when you wake
up! It is useless because I know what the truth is and I also know the names of
those who did you this!" he patted him affectionately on the cheek "I'll
teach you how we protect yourselves, but forget to get your hands on oriental
arms, especially on my Katana!"
"I've
always preferred the Hamidashi that you keep over grandmother's furniture to
Katana!" McKenna whispered opening his eyes and reaching out a hand to his
father.
Mac gently
squeezed his son's hand "I'm glad you awake!"
The scenery
changed again: Mac was in the hallway of a hospital holding the hand of a black
girl pregnant.
"So,
Charlot? How are you?" Mac asked
"Bad!
Tell me that Ken is coming!"
"He is
with Christine, Faith, and your mother!" Mac reassured her
"Is
Faith on leave?" Charlot asked stopping.
Mac stopped
with her looking into her eyes "She said that it was important to see the
birth of his nephew!"
"To
think that I wanted to graduate in Biology! I finished my exams just in time!"
Charlot sighed
"You'll
see that you manage to do that too! You have a whole family ready to help you!
Anything yet?"
"No!"
he sighed and looked Charlot "At last they have arrived!" she
exclaimed seeing Mckenna rushing to them "You were at the Academy, wasn’t you?"
she asked seeing him in the cadet uniform
"Yes,
but now I'm here!" he replied turning to his father to greet him
"Chief Taylor, thanks for helping Charlot!"
"Hello
Daddy!" Faith greeted advancing "Taking a license has not been easy!
Sometimes it’s sufficient using your name instead! You still be one respectable
figure!" she smiled adjusting her blond and wavy hair.
Mac hugged
her daughter "The uniform flatters you!"
"Dad!
Everyone is looking at us!" Faith said jokingly "Don’t make me regret
to have enlisted the Marine Corps!"
Christine
went to the daughter and she took the hand of Charlot "Your mother stopped
by the doctor! How are you?"
"Bad!
Luckily there was Mac in the house! I don’t know how I would have done
otherwise!" the girl made an insincere smile and she took a deep breath "How
long it will go on like this?!"
Jo walked
over her daughter and took her hand "Honey!"
"Mom!
I thought you had stopped to talk with the doctor!"
"Indeed!
He said that soon you should be ready!" she turned to McKenna, who was
substituted to Mac alongside Charlot "You know that now you will have to
take responsibility of your son officially?"
"Yes,
Jo!" McKenna nodded
"Have
you decided how to name the baby?" Christine asked.
McKenna and
Charlot looked into their eyes, she was panting but she did not stop smiling
and together they exclaimed "Sheldon Mac Taylor!"
The vision
disappeared and Mac looked at those who had accompanied him there with surprise
"What
does all this mean?"
"They
are the shadows of your future!" Boyd explained "And I think now you
have to go!"
Danny
walked over to Mac and embraced him crying "I love you! Take a good care
of Lucy and Sid!"
"I will
deal with them as if they were my children, Danny!" he hugged him crying
"We shall meet again!"
Sid shook
hands with Mac "Thank you for my daughter!"
"I owe
it to you and then she really is a brilliant girl! You never told me that she
had graduated five years ahead of schedule!"
Sid crossed
his arms "Well, she has never wanted to boast of it! She considers herself
an ordinary girl and it's better this way!" he put a hand on his shoulder
"You must do in such a way as your stepson won’t make her suffer!" he
admonished him.
McKenna
Boyd Taylor hugged his son "Look at our house! There are a bunch of your
Boyd’s things! You must get back your memories!"
Mac nodded
"I'll do it! As soon as I retire I will move there!" he looked at
everyone one last time "Will we meet again?"
"We
hope as late as possible!" Sid commented.
When Mac
opened his eyes, he saw Jo beside his bed
"Jo!"
he called in a faint voice
"Mac!"
she said with tears in his eyes "How do you feel?"
"Dazed!"
he replied "What happened while I was not conscious?"
"Danny
and Lindsay..." Jo began to cry "They haven’t made it!"
"Then
I seriously talked to Danny!" Mac whispered without being heard.
Jo looked
at the phone "I want to know how Sheldon is! Why they don’t call me?!"
"Christine!"
Mac exclaimed seeing her to come in "You should be to rest! What are you
doing up?"
"Mac,
I'm fine!" she assured him sitting down next to him "It’s you who is
worse of the two now!"
"What
day is it?" Mac asked
"It's
May 3rd! It’s 23:50! Flack found out where the terrorists takes refuge this
afternoon! He is going with Jamie to catch him!"
Mac looked
down at his leg "I want to go to Lindsay!"
"With
that splint you're going nowhere!" Dr. Aubrey Hunter said entering
"I'd like to know how do you expect to get up! You have almost in danger
of losing the leg, Mac!"
"I
just want to see Lindsay before they do the autopsy!" Mac protested
"Please!"
"I'll
go to get Peyton!" Aubrey was about to leave the room "Do you want to
follow me, Mrs. Taylor? I must talk to you..."
Flack and Jamie
got out of the car and they looked around
"Nice
place to come to take refuge! It's been abandoned for years!" she said
"I
still cannot believe that who has planned all this was four and a half hours
from New York!" Flack said watching his men "Have you notified the
authorities of Willard city?"
"Yes, and
they sent some of their men!" the officer replied
"Let's
go!" Flack announced firmly.
Jamie and
Flack entered from one of the entrances while other cops covered other revenue
getting ready to shoot.
"Look!"
Jamie exclaimed "It's him!"
Flack looked
up at the stairs where Jamie indicated
"Wait
to take action!" Flack whispered "If there's a bomb ready to explode
we'll never know it!"
"It's
going to lower floors!"
"On
that side there’s the morgue!" Flack explained
"How
do you know?"
"As a
child I was obsessed with this place!"
Jamie and Flack
followed the man and when they saw that he had opened a cupboard to take a M-17
rifle they pointed guns at him
“Abdul al
Scherif! You're under arrest! Put down gun on the ground!" Flack shouted
The man
smirked "I knew you'd come! Now what will you do? Will you take me to New
York?"
"Yes!
The FBI and the U.S. government will take care of you!" Flack said approaching
to handcuff him
"Detective
Lovato-Flack! We have the subject! We will leave to New York immediately!"
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Mac was in
front of Lindsay sitting on a wheelchair
"I'm
so sorry Lindsay! I still cannot explain myself how this is possible! You are
one of the smartest colleagues I have ever had and an irreplaceable friend!"
the tears ran down his cheeks and he took her hand" I promise you I'll
take care of Sid and Lucy exactly as Danny asked me!”
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
"Mac..."
Christine called him coming closer "They have to take her to Isabella..."
Mac
tightened his grip on Lindsay's hand and he looked up at Christine, she was
crying.
Christine
approached him, she cuddled up to Mac bending over him and she sobbed
"It's not fair!"
Mac leaned
his head on Christine's shoulder and he left Lindsay’s hand "No! It’s not!"
he turned to Christine and then he looked at Lindsay one last time "We
miss you already!" he said covering her face with the sheet.
Mad world
Mad world
Flack made
Abdul al Scherif stepping into your car and he started the engine
"Do
you know? I thought that searching you we would have found explosives and bombs
ready to explode! I'm surprised that it’s not so!"
"Even
to me it seemed strange!" Jamie remarked at his side while the car left
the Willard Asylum.
Abdul al
Scherif laughed as soon as the car entered at full speed on NY-96A N / North St
"You can say goodbye to you!" the terrorist hissed from behind
"I have a bomb in my stomach that you weren’t able to find and in a few
seconds it will explode!"
"What?"
Flack tried to slow down "Get out immediately, Jamie!"
The car on
which they were exploded and the flames rose high into the sky.
Jo was in
Mac’s room, her eyes swollen and her cell phone on her ear.
Mac, in
bed, was waiting impatiently for her to hang up.
Jo hasn’t
yet opened her mouth and she listened with tears which were almost preventing
her from breathing
"Thank
you for letting me know it!" she sobbed and hung up. She turned her gaze
to Mac, she saw him worried "Flack and Jamie's car exploded just entered
on NY-96A N / North St!"
Mac
shivered "Tell me that they are still alive!"
Jo shook
her head and Mac began to cry silently.
Adam hugged
Angela out of the morgue
"Why
is this happening?"
Adam didn’t
answer Angela’s question and he held her even more.
Peyton
appeared from the hallway and sat down next to them "We ended up with
Lindsay! They will inform me as soon as Danny's body will come!"
Adam sighed
"Jo called us and she said that even Flack and Jamie...”
Peyton
looked at Adam, but by the expression he had, it was clear that he wasn’t
joking "How did it happen?"
"The
car in which they were traveling exploded!"
Isabella left
the building of the Crime Lab and she headed for the cabs stand
"Isabella!"
a voice she knew well stopped her
"Reed!"
The young
man hugged her "I came home recently and as soon as I could I called you,
but you didn’t answer! In the newsroom they told me that Mac is at the
hospital, they didn’t want tell me anything else!"
"While
you were in London, many things have happened! I'm going to the hospital by the
others before the arrival of Danny's body!"
"Danny
Messer?" Reed asked surprised
"Terrible
things have happened!" Isabella said sobbing in the arms of Reed
"I
have the car parked behind here! Let's go to the hospital together!"
Friday, May
16th, New York, at 8:50
"Mac are
you ready?" Christine asked leaning against the doorframe of the bedroom
and seeing him sitting on the bed lean forward she went into "Mac..."
she called him with gentleness stepping and kneeling down before him "We
have to go, you know it!"
"I still
don’t believe it!" he said with a blank stare "I have spent so many
years in that lab! The force that pushed me to solve cases wasn’t only my sense
of integrity and justice, it was my team!"
Christine
took his hands "Do you remember last summer when we went to the lake all
together that we had to come back in the afternoon because they had assigned a
case to you and Danny?"
"Yes!"
Mac nodded
"Remember
that moment today! Because that's what will give you the strength to utter the
speech!"
Christine
took with her right hand of the Mac crutches from the wall and she stared into
his eyes
"I'm
ready!" he said caressing her one cheek to wipe away a tear "Don’t
cry! It wasn’t your fault!"
"I
could make sure that half of what happened wouldn’t had happen! I have been an
idiot!"
Mac put his
crutches on the bed and hugged her "You're not an idiot! You are the
person that is giving me the strength to face all of this!"
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
Jo hugged
Mac as he walked with crutches in her direction
"Thank
you for having agreed to hold the speech, seriously I cannot go on with it!"
Mac looked
at the rest of the people around him in the meadow: Christine was with his
father in the front row and they had the twins in their arms. Two empty seats
next, there were Adam, the little Cristina, Angela and Isabella, sitting next
to them the father of Lindsay who was holding the hand of Lucy while Sid was in
the arms of Danny's mother. There were also Samantha Flack with her
grandmother and Jamie’s brothers, who had just arrived, they sat down beside
them.
Tears were
plentiful and no one could stop them.
Jo looked
at the five coffins on the lawn, each one wrapped in an American flag, and she
stroked the nearest one affectionately
"I
miss him, Mac!"
Mac let her
embrace him and he closed his eyes, giving free rein to silent tears.
It was
impossible to restrain himself and simply remain serious, even Sinclair was
crying a few rows back.
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
Mac came to
sit next to Christine and he tried to smile at Lucy, who looked at him with her
bleary eyes, and he squeezed her hand to give her courage while having a
disheartened face as her own.
Jo sat
down, standing behind her there were Tyler and Ellie, both shocked and hurt.
The priest
began to celebrate funeral ritual, all those words seemed muted. No one was
able to stay focused on the face of the priest, the coffins in front of them
were a strong magnet.
It was
impossible for Jo taking her eyes off, especially from one of them. Lucy had
been held in place by her grandfather, she had tried several times to reach the
coffins of her parents. Christine held McKenna in her arms who looked the scene
in silence while her father was holding Faith, more curious than his brother.
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
The priest
pronounced a sentence, "Now I'll let you pay tribute to the departed!"
Mac took a
deep breath and stood up, he took her to the center of green space, with
difficulty on crutches, for a while he stared at the coffins in silence, trying
to hold back tears, and when he was ready he turned , leaving the coffins
behind him.
No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you!
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through
Mac looked
at those present, all had turned their attention to him, he took a deep breath,
looking up and blinking back tears. His voice was the only sound that filled
the air in that moment
"You
all know what it means to be part of the NYPD, but I want to remind you that:
it means to be a protector of the city, of the people who live in it and to be
at the service of our own country to honor it!
For all my
life I followed a guideline of three points, three things that I'll protect at
any cost: the honor of this country, the safety of this city and the integrity
of the crime lab.
Today this
country is crying the loss of brave and honorable cops!
I’ll
pronounce their names because they won’t be never forgot: Det. Donald Flack,
Det. Jamie Lovato Flack, Det. Danny Messer, Det. Lindsay Monroe Messer!
They have
always reminded me that, as scientists, we have a great deal of power, the
ability to assign guilt or innocence. They perfect command this power in an
impeccable way!
They taught
me the value of friendship and it’s thanks to them that our team has done what
it has done all these years!" he looked at everyone staring him with tears
in his eyes "We see death in the face every day! Danny once had done a
thought about death, he told me: - I can't wrap my head around it, Mac. You get
up... go to work... see the people that you know... you talk, you laugh...
you're living your life. And then suddenly, boom. It's just over. Just like
that. And you never even saw it coming. -” he paused again to repress her tears
and maintain a serious and solemn voice “Their courage and their strength will
always be with us! Remember what they have done for us! Only in this way, they
wouldn’t have died in vain and they will always have a special place in our
hearts!"
Mac
returned to his seat and the bagpipes began to play, but for him it was all
silence.
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
The shots
that were fired to commemorate the departed didn’t seem to be heard by anyone
and Mac drifted to a flood of tears, like all those closest to the victims.
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
At the end
of the ceremony, Mac saw Isabella stop on the another grave
"I
miss your father too!" Mac told her behind her making her turn by jump
"I didn’t
hear you coming! I'm sorry!" she said "How's the leg?"
"Better!
It annoys me at any time, but I think the fact that in the end I'm still alive!"
Isabella
put her hand above his one "Promise me you won’t leave us too!"
"It's
a promise that I cannot make, Isabella! You are graduated in medicine, you
should know it!" he looked into her eyes "I can promise you one
thing: I won’t surrender and I will fight cancer!"
"The
others and I will be there to help you!"
"First
we have to help Jo! In September, the baby girl will be born and she needs our
presence!" he looked in the direction of the coffins and he saw an eagle
to land in front of them "I thought I would never see that eagle again!"
The raptor
rose into the air and landed alongside of Mac. The eagle and Mac looked at each
other: Mac’s blue eyes reflected the yellow ones of the bird of prey which did
not move.
Isabella
watched the scene with wide eyes.
From afar
Christine and Jo watched the eagle fly up and disappear among the skyscrapers
of Manhattan
"Thank
you for being here!" Jo said looking at the point where the eagle was gone
"If
only I had stopped J.J. when I could do it!"
"It
wasn’t your fault! Also you have risked dying and you lost your team, not to
mention that Mac owes his life to you!" Jo looked at Mac and Isabella
greet each other.
Christine
took Jo's hand "Mac and I'll be there forever! We won’t let you alone!"
"I
promise you I will help you! Mac will be healed!"
"We
all need Mac!" Christine asserted.
Adam came
up with Cristina to the coffins and Angela joined them
"The
speech of the Mac was touching!" Angela remarked
"Yeah!"
replied Adam "Jo’s gaze was a gaze so full of pain! I will do my best to
help her!"
"I'll
do it too! What will happen to Lucy and Sid?"
"They're
going to live at the home of Danny's mother and they will spend the summer in
Montana by Lindsay's father!"
Angela
shook hands with Adam and she looked Cristina looking at the coffins without
saying anything
"You
also need help, Adam! I want to be your friend! Whatever you need, I want you
to know that you can count on me!"
Adam
squeezed back "Thank you!"
That
evening, Mac, Jo and what was left of the team found themselves at the bar
"I
will miss those Danny’s hateful jokes in the lab!" Adam said.
Mac sighed
"I’ll miss Flack’s sadist humor and how Jamie silenced him!"
"I
will miss not seeing the smiling face of Lindsay, all the times that she could
carry a evidence relevant to the case and, of course, Danny’s -Boom!-!"
Angela said
"I
will miss the chats with Sheldon while arranging the paperwork! From
philosophical ones to those on the lives of every day!" Isabella decreed.
Jo lifted
his glass of water "I will miss to no longer be able to live experiences
with them, their smiles, their jokes..." she smiled bitterly "I'd
like to remind everyone here today that we are still a team and a group of
friends! We will find the strength to get up and, remembering what Mac said
today at the cemetery, they will have a special place in our hearts! We mustn’t
forget!"
After the
toast, they went out into the dark streets of Manhattan and they walked to the
lab.
Just
arrived down there, they hastened to enter and go into the Mac’s office where
everyone pulled out a letter from bags or jackets and Adam took a cardboard box
marked –Evidence- from under the table
"If
they know that we took a evidence box by the lab, they’ll fire us!" Mac
smiled
"It'll
be our secret! No one else but us and our families will know about this box!"
Jo explained "I will start!" she said by placing her open letter
inside the box
-Dear all,
When all this
happened I felt the Earth slipping off by my feet!
I used to
think that anything would have divided us, I thought that we would arrived to
our retirement and enjoy our time together! It didn’t happened and it won’t!
I hope that,
wherever you are now, you can be happy!
Lovely,
Jo-
Adam came
forward and he laid his letter in the box
-Guys,
What I want to say you is: thank you!
Thank you for the moments that we spent in and outside
the lab!
Thank you for your words and for the laughs!
Thank you to have been close to me in the hardest
period of my life!
Sincerely yours,
Adam-
"Looks
like it's our turn!" Isabella told to Angela
-Dear Guys,
When we joined
the team we felt immediately that you were more than simples colleagues!
It was a
moment where everything was changing in our lives and you welcomed us in the
best way possible!
We wished to
spend more time with you! We hope to be back together one day!
Best wishes,
Isabella
Angela-
Mac smiled
"I'm the last one!"
-Friends of mine,
What happened is so hard to face!
I never considered you like simple friends but like members
of my family!
I remember every moment spent with you: when for the
first time I worked with Danny, when Lindsay arrived in New York and she had to
manage with a tiger, when Flack was upgraded, when Sheldon used to work only at
the morgue and when Jamie came to our district!
To lose you is like to have lost a part of my heart!
This wound will never recover!
But I promise you that I would never surrender!
I’ll keep doing my job remembering you!
I’ll take care of Lucy, Sid and Charlot every day of
my life!
This is not a farewell! It’s a see you soon!
With all my love,
Mac-
In the box
was also placed a photo taken at the Christmas party at Isabella’s place.
The team
went on the terrace of the New York Crime Lab to hide the box, protected from
the weather.
An eagle
came by there and she stopped staring at them from the ledge before resuming
the flight.
Jo looked
at Mac move with crutches towards the ledge and follow the raptor with his eyes
"What
are you doing?"
Mac took
his eyes off the eagle, which was flying in circles above them, and he turned
to Jo
"I
think I've got it!"
"What?"
Adam asked
"A
Native American legend says that the Eagles live until seventy years, but to do
so, around forty years, they have to face one hundred and fifty days of
suffering due to the long beak and claws and swollen feathers! After those one
hundred and fifty days, spent to shorten the beak, to tear feathers and claws
and to wait for the new to grow, the eagle starts to fly again. After pain and
labor, the sky still belong to her!"
The eagle
landed next to Mac and looked into his eyes
"There
is something magical in that look!" Jo remarked.
The eagle
came over to where the box was hidden and she dropped a violet on the closed
lid and then taking flight and come up her scream in the night, between the
skyscrapers of New York City. The group looked at her disappear.
The members
of the team turned a last look at the box before leaving the roof and back onto
the streets
"See
you tomorrow!" Mac assured
"Wait
for us at your place!" Adam smiled "Be close to Christine, she's a
good woman!"
Angela and
Isabella walked away with Adam, while Jo stood side by side with Mac and they
reached a cabs stop
"Ellie
asked me to go to sleep by a friend's place, to not be left alone in the house!"
Jo said suddenly
"Then
come to my place! You won’t spend the night alone!" Mac hugged her
"I
will have the opportunity to see Kenny and Faith for a whole night!"
Jo put her
ear to Mac’s heart "Now I understand why Christine loves it!" she
closed her eyes "I have a request for when my daughter will be born!"
"Tell
me as well!" Mac whispered
"I
wish you and Christine to be there! I thought you could be her godparents! I
would like that after me to pick her up is you with Christine!"
"It
would be an honor for me to be the godfather of Sheldon's daughter!" Mac
said, coming down out of the cab with Jo.
When they
entered the apartment of the Mac, they were greeted by Christine who embraced
Jo and she kissed Mac gently on his lips.
Mac sat
down on the couch and Christine immediately set Faith, who was crying, in his
arms.
Jo smiled
and began to caress Faith while Mac was trying to calm her down. Soon after
McKenna woke up and Christine was helped by Jo to change his nappy.
The three
looked at the children to fall asleep and Christine put them in their cots.
Jo looked
at Mac and then at Christine "Thank you for letting me to stay here with
you!"
"Do
not joke around it, Jo!" Christine tried to hold back the tears "We
are pleased that you are here!"
"So,
will you be the godparents of Charlot Stella Claire Sidney?"
"I think
a godson more for Mac doesn’t make any difference, as for me is: yes! Yes, I
want to be the godmother of your daughter! Sheldon's daughter..."
Christine
sat down at the right hand of Mac and Jo to his left, he stretched out his arms
and the three embraced. They stayed that way for several minutes until they
fell asleep too, tired and heartbroken.
Meanwhile,
Peyton had just landed in London with little Aubrey
"You'll
see that you’re going to love here!" Peyton exclaimed looking towards a
man "There is also Grandpa!"
He stopped
for a second and she sent a message to Mac mobile:
-I arrived in London with Abbey. It's all right. I'm sorry to have had
to cross the ocean and leave you alone. I'll come back when my mother gets
better. Say hello to everyone from me.-
The cell
phone vibrated, but Mac went on to sleep on the couch with Christine and Jo.
On the
other side of New York, in his bed Adam clutched Cristina to himself trying in vain
to get to sleep when the cell phone vibrated
"Angela?
Cannot you sleep?" he asked trivially
"Neither
do you it would seem!" she retorted "Can I reach you? My house is too
empty!"
Adam wiped
his tears "I’ll wait for you!"
A several
blocks away, Lucy looked at the flag bent over the desk in her room from her
bed, she stood up and she took it like a teddy bear
"Mom,
Mom! There's a vampire under my bed!" she exclaimed in a low voice crying
"Will Daddy come to kick him out?"
Also this
Friday night draws to an end with the realization that life will never be the
same: the pain of the loss is a pain that will never fade.
The box of
memories is what has been and what will never be forgotten. Only Mac, Jo, Adam,
Isabella and Angela can access the content and re-read the letters.
That box
will continue to be there at the Crime Lab, it will be until the last of them
won’t retire, and it will remind to each of them what it means to be a cop and
CSI of New York City, what it means to be part of that family.
The End
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