Damned If You Do - Recap

A man wearing sunglasses is pouring alcohol into a woman's upturned
mouth, at a party. The entire crowd around him is comprised of women
wearing pink mens shirts over bra and panties. There are men toward the
back of the crowd. A woman approaches him wearing a black shirt and hat.
They kiss, and he pours the drink into her mouth next.

A woman covered in blood calls 911 and drops the phone. She is in bed
with a man and there is blood all over both of them, as well as the bed.

Back at the party, the lady in black lets her hair down. She sits on the
lap of the man who was pouring the alcohol, and they begin kissing.

Police officers arrive at the blood-bathed couple. One checks the man
for a pulse, and the woman moans. The policeman calls in one DOA, one
heavy bleeder, and asks for an ambulance.

The couple starts having sex in the hall at the club.

Mac arrives at the bedside of the wounded woman. He asks her to raise a
finger if she can hear and understand him, and she does so. He has some
questions for her, and tells her how to respond for yes or no, still
only using her finger. He asks if she knows who did this, and the answer
is yes. She indicates that somebody in her family did this to her. They
show her the picture of her family, and ask if her son did it, and she
indicates yes again.

The son she pointed out is the one that was busy with the women at the
party.

Don shows up at the club with two police officers and a picture of the
son. They arrest him for the murder of his father, and attempted murder
of his mother. The woman in black calls after "Billy!" as they take him
into custody.

Danny, Sheldon and Lindsay arrive at the scene of the crime. Sheldon
goes back downstairs to check for forced entry. Lindsay takes the bed,
and Danny takes the floor. Evidence on the door indicates it's possible
there was a break-in.

Jo questions Billy. He doesn't believe that his own mother id'd him. He
concludes that Jo is lying to him. She says she wishes she was. She's
been a detective for a long time, and this is about as bad as it gets.
He doesn't understand why his mom would say he did it. He says he wasn't
even home, he hasn't been for a month. He asks if he can see his mom.

Don is questioning Billy's girlfriend, Jules. Instead of answering Don's
questions, she says Billy couldn't do it, he doesn't have it in him.
Don asks her how long she's been with Billy, and she says five months.
He says he usually likes to wait six months before he can attest to
somebody's lack of homicidal tendencies. She tells him he's kind of a
bitch, and he resumes the line of questioning. Jo and Don are both
following the same time line. They discover that there was a window of
time where Billy doesn't have an alibi, and it's three hours long. Jo
does the math and figures he would have needed considerably less time
than that to travel out to his parents, kill them and return to his room.

The ME is discussing what happened to Billy's dad, Walter. Jo asks him a
question about what kind of blunt force object, and Sid just stands
there and stares at her. Sheldon says his name, and Sid comes back to
reality. He puts the time of death at around 9:00 or 10:00 based on
liver temp. Walter's forehead has puncture wounds that look like they
would come from a hammer or crowbar, maybe a tire iron. Sid says he saw
Grace's hospital records, and she suffered no puncture wounds. They're
looking for a weapon with a clawed end.

Don shows up with some strange news. A guy over at Ryker's says his
cellmate confessed to killing a couple in their sleep last night. Mac
says he wants Don and Danny to head over to Ryker's and see if this guy
Manny is for real. Don and Danny tell him that they know his cellmate is
looking to get out of a 15-year sentence by rolling over on him, but
Manny says it's true, he killed the couple. He says the eyewitness is
wrong. He says he's already doing life, there's nothing they can do to
him. He escaped, he killed, he's back. Another life sentence is
meaningless. Manny tells them if this is a test, they should look in
the sewer at 104th Street and Leopard's Blvd. Then they can let him know
if he passed.

Adam and Lindsey work on the blood spatter patterns while Sheldon does
more work on the door. Lindsey finds a piece of broken glass.

Mac is on the phone with Grace's doctor, requesting permission to speak
to her again. It is granted.

Lindsey and Sheldon bring Mac up to speed with what they do know. He
asks for them to please give him something that puts Billy at the scene,
but Lindsey tells him they have nothing. The front door was definitely
jimmied open. None of the blood at the scene was Billy's. Mac points out
that the first response told him the door wasn't forced, but the
majority of the damage was between the door and the frame, where they
wouldn't have seen it. And the damage was most likely done with a
crowbar, which is consistent with the wounds that Walter Travers
suffered. The dirt at the house was not a match for the dirt found in
Billy's shoes. Lindsay says all they have to put on Billy right now is
his mother saying so.

Danny is in the sewer, and comes up bearing a crowbar. Sheldon gives him
the rust he found from the door, so they can compare. The crowbar they
found is not the one that was used to get in the door which begs the
question: Why did Manny confess to a murder he didn't commit?

Mac talks to Grace again. She doesn't remember calling 911. She doesn't
remember anything before she woke up in this bed. She can't believe Mac
thinks Billy did this, and she doesn't think she told him that he did.
She becomes very upset and adamant that Mac needs to leave Billy alone,
he would never do such a thing. She orders Mac to get out of her room,
and leave her family alone.

Mac and Sid discuss Grace. She is suffering retrograde amnesia. Most of
the damage occurred to the front left temporal lobe. It's possible the
movement of her hand during questioning was something other than a
response to his questions.

Danny and Jo are discussing the crowbars not matching. They figure that
since Manny was being processed while the cops were discussing the
Travers case, he had all the information he needed. Danny figures Manny
called a girlfriend and had her toss the crowbar in the sewer. They
still don't know why he confessed though. Danny wants to run a polygraph
on him, but both their operators are out of town. Jo wants Danny to
bring both Manny and his cellmate to the precinct. She's got an idea.

Lindsey tells Mac that the shard of glass is consistent with a beer
bottle, but the polyester fiber on the shard is from a security
laminate. Mac tells her to contact whoever makes the laminate and get a
list of places it's been installed.

Danny walks Owen past an interrogation room containing Manny. He appears
to be fearful of him. He asks Danny what the thing on the table is, and
Danny tells him it's a polygraph machine. He tells Owen not to worry,
he'll do fine. He says he can't give the polygraph, and they're bringing
in an expert - Adam. Owen panics and spills the whole story. If Manny
got another life sentence, he'd be moved to a prison closer to his
girlfriend. That's why he confessed.

Lindsey tracked down the fiber. There's a place called Glassphemy, where
people throw bottles at unbreakable glass to work out their aggressions.
and one employee in particular is of interest; Paul Benson. He grew up
in the victim's house. Don and Danny arrive to bring him in, but he
makes them, and runs. Don takes him down and they bring him in.

Paul had everything until he raped a woman, and then he was headed for
Ryker's. It seems like a classic case of "he said, she said" until they
discover that his own parents testified against him. When he got out of
prison, he went to his parents house. They didn't live there anymore -
but he didn't know that. In the dark, he attacked the couple sleeping in
his parents' bedroom, Walter and Grace Travers.

Mac is talking to Paul. For every excuse Paul makes, Mac comes back at
him. He wasn't just a kid, he was 18. They didn't betray him, he
betrayed them when he raped Sarah. Paul asks if Grace is going to be
okay and Mac tells him no. She lost her husband, her son lost his
father, and she's going to have permanent brain damage so no. She's not
going to be okay. Mac tells him he had a chance to get out and make
something of his life, but instead he destroyed another family.

Mac checks in on Grace, and finds Bobby and Jules at her bedside. She
gets to go home in a few days. Grace wakes up and doesn't remember Mac.
She introduces him to her son, Billy.

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