Do Not Pass Go - Recap

Charles and Elizabeth Harris are sitting on a couch in an abandoned
building. He gets up and starts pacing, wondering why they are there,
and why they don't just go home. Not yet, she says. Not until we climb
the stairs. He rolls his eyes, but follows her.

Liz stops and asks what he's doing, loosening his tie. He says it's like
an oven in here. She reprimands him. They were supposed to hold the
railings, it was very clear. He tells her it's just another cruel prank
- but what if it's not? What if it's real this time. She needs to know
for sure.

They reach the roof, and can't believe their eyes. There's an old car up
there. Liz thinks they found Jeremy, and starts running toward the car.
The body in the car is decomposing. She falls to her knees, calling her
son's name.

Mac and Jo approach Sid, at the car. He says the decomp is quite
advanced. From the looks of it, he's been there quite awhile. Sheldon
adds that due to a great number of variables, there's no way of telling
a time of death.

Lindsay has two partial prints off the driver's car door. Mother Nature
took care of any rooftop evidence, so Danny goes to check the stairwell.
Mac and Jo talk to Don about this building. It was under renovation
until the developer went belly up three years ago. It's been a ghost
town with elevators ever since. Mac asks who called the case in. The
parents did, He's a dentist from Westchester. An anonymous voice mail
told them where to look for their son.

Mac asks Liz, the mom, how long Jeremy was missing. Seven days. Tomorrow
would have been his 19th birthday. Mac thinks maybe he's a typical teen,
checked out on his parents but she says no. They spoke almost every day.

Charles tells Jo that the police told him they'd do everything they
could, he should just go home and wait for Jeremy to contact them - but
he never did.

Liz says she posted his picture, online and off. When they didn't get a
response, they posted a reward. Once they did that, everybody was
calling in. This morning, there were two dozen voice mails, but one was
different. It said they would find what they were looking for, but only
if they followed his exact instructions. Charles wanted to ignore it,
but Liz was adamant. She knew it was real. She doesn't know how she
knew, she just did. Mac says he'll need the message, and Liz says she
has it. Charles realizes that whoever left that message, killed Jeremy.
He tells Jo it's just not fair. He was a good kid.

Sid and Sheldon remove the body from the car on the count of three. His
right hand was left behind, hanging onto the steering wheel. As Sid is
working on the body, he finds a leprechaun tattoo.

A young woman is wandering through CSI with a purposeful air. Mac is
asking her name, but she sees Jo over his shoulder and calls out to her
mom. Her name is Ellie, and she says this move to the Big Apple is not
working. they need to leave. Mac looks at Jo and tells her to take all
the time she needs. As she walks away with her arm around Ellie's
shoulders, she turns back and mouths "Thank you" to Mac. They chat it
out, and Ellie reluctantly agrees to give the stupid school another chance.

Adam is working on the phone call Elizabeth Harris supplied, that led
them to the rooftop. Adam has isolated the voice, and while the caller
gives step-by-step instructions, Mac maps out the route. Why did he put
so many hurdles in their way, if the point was to get them to the body?

Sid shows Jo the tattoo from the vic. He ran it through missing persons
and got a hit.

Lindsay approaches Mac. The prints on the car belonged to Charles and
Elizabeth Harris. She got a third, older print but it was inconclusive
for results. Jo walks in with good news. Jeremy is not Jeremy. The body
inside the car is not the Harris' son. Danny says he is 19 year-old
Craig Anderson of Boston. His parents reported him missing almost three
weeks ago. What was he doing in New York? Sheldon says studying. He was
a sophomore at NYU. Jeremy Harris attends the same school and is a
sophomore as well. Jeremy is a poly-sci major, Craig is a film student.
No overlap in classes. According to Mac, that doesn't mean they didn't
know each other. There's a connection between the two of them; find it.

Sheldon says that by the process of elimination, the COD (cause of
death) is looking more and more like poison. Tox screening brought up
nothing on the usual suspects, which means it would be something rare
and exotic. Poisoned and left to die? That means it's personal. The
killer wanted that body found by someone - but why the Harrises?

Jo breaks the news to the parents. The body in that vehicle was not
their son. Charles thinks they must have made a mistake. Jo gives them
the victim's name and asks if Jeremy knew him. Charles says that Jeremy
was in college. His circle of friends was different every time they
spoke. They're wasting time. Liz begs to be taken to him, but Jo can't
help her. The team needs access to his email and voice mail records.
Anything that could tie him to Craig could give them some direction in
the case.

Mrs. Anderson shows up early to talk to Don about Craig's death. He
suggests they take a walk. She shares that her husband, Mark, passes
away when Craig was still in elementary school. It was just the two of
them after that. She wasn't a perfect mom, she tried her best. Don tells
her she must have been pretty damn good, because Craig was at the top of
his class. He loved learning, and basketball. He tells her that they're
going to find the guy that murdered her son. She snaps at Don, then
apologizes. She doesn't know the right way to act around people. Don
tells her there is no 'right way to act'. Children aren't supposed to
die. She wants to see him. Don flashes on the body and tells her that
with all due respect, that's not a good idea. It's not how she should
remember him.

When Don arrives back at work, a very anxious and upset Charles Harris
is asking for him at the front desk. They got another call. He only
heard it once, he can't remember specifics. His wife is gone. If
anything should happen to her ... Don tells him to take a breath, calm
down. He recites as much as he can, and while he's talking, Don is
calling Mac.

Don, Mac and Jo arrive at the building. They smell smoke. Jo finds it
coming from the floor below. They call out for Elizabeth. She's alive,
coughing. Jo finds her. Don finds a fire extinguisher and does what he
can to put out the flames. They clear out.

Lindsay is taking pictures. The last voice mail plays while we see
Elizabeth following instructions to douse the place in gasoline and set
it on fire, including snakes. His next message will be the last one. Mac
puts everything together and realizes the calls aren't to help the
Harrises find Jeremy. He's making them destroy evidence. The basement is
an unofficial sublet to a company called Eastwick Receivables. It's
counter-intuitive, Jo says; why would you get someone to dispose of the
evidence, when you could easily do it yourself?

Sheldon works on the snakes, while Lindsay works on the apron they found
at the scene of the fire.

Mac and Jo talk about Ellie.

Lindsay says the blood on the apron doesn't belong to either of the
young men. It does have unusual DNA markers that she remembered coming
across last year in an unsolved murder case. Ryan Perisi is a perfect
match to the blood on the apron.

Adam's working on the second call. Everything was done exactly the same
as it was for the first call. Prepaid phone, sim card deactivated, etc.
The caller isn't as smart as he thinks, though. Adam found that the sim
cards were sequential. And since the caller said there'd be a third
call, then the third phone is currently activated. Adam finds the
triangulated location, and Don and Jo head out to see if they can find
their killer. Don thinks he'll go beat the bushes, but Jo has a less
obtrusive idea. She calls the number for the activated phone. The
bartender's phone rings, and he looks at it in wide-eyed alarm. He sees
Jo mouth "Gotcha!" and he jumps the bar and starts running. The kid
runs, with Don right behind him. They both slide under a stopped semi
and keep running. It looks like they're going to be separated by a
truck, but Jo intervenes, and the kid runs face first into a dumpster.

Mac questions Reuben, who announces that Mac is out of his mind. Mac
knows he made the calls. Voice analysis proves it. He claims a friend
asked him to make the call and read the instructions. He didn't ask why,
because he didn't really care. Mac asks him how he feels about 25-life,
and Reuben feels he wants an attorney.

Jo and Don are watching through the glass. She believes him. Body
language is too relaxed. He didn't have any connection to the boys, but
he knows who did. Reuben continues running his mouth, so Mac tells him
he should tell his attorney about last year's shooting victim, the
bouncer Ryan Perisi. Reuben retorts that they were all already
questioned and cleared. When Mac ran the special light over the apron to
show the blood, he noticed that Reuben had a Riker's Island visitor's
stamp on his hand. Reuben is a bartender. He really should wash his
hands more often.

The prisoner Reuben went to see was in the woman's facility. Allison
Scott is being held on a possession charge. She was engaged to Ryan
Perisi. Jo goes to visit Allison.

Mac, Sheldon and Danny are discussing the case. It seems that there were
two college kids being way too friendly with Allison the night that Ryan
was killed. He had to kick them to the curb. They were Jeremy Harris and
Craig Anderson. They were none too happy, and threatened Parisi. One
hour later somebody snuck up on him and put a bullet in his back.
Allison found him dying on the sidewalk, the MS had to pry him out of
her arms. That explained his blood on her apron. The boys were
questioned. Their alibis were weak, but there was no evidence linking
them to the crime. Allison needed somebody to blame, so she chose the boys.

Sheldon shares what he discovered about the snakes. Their toxin causes
near instant muscle paralysis in humans. If the boys were lucky, they
died quickly. If not, it took several days.

Allison Scott is very proud of herself for what she did to the boys.
Very cocky. Right up until Jo tells her that there was a partial print
on the bullet. And while it wasn't enough to find the killer, it was
more than enough to rule out Craig and Jeremy. She claims it's over. She
did what it has to do. Jo tells her to let the Harrises say goodbye to
their son, just like she got to say goodbye to Ryan. She gives Jo the
information so they can find Jeremy. When Don, Mac and Sheldon get
there, they find Jeremy is still breathing.

They're putting him in the ambulance when Jeremy's parents arrive. He's
responding to the anti-venom. He's not out of the woods yet, but his
prognosis is good.

Mac finds Jo going through her office trying to find the address for a
special burger place. She and Ellie are going to dinner and a game.
Ellie is adopted, Jo fills him in on the specifics while she searches
for the missing info. She finally finds it, and they enjoy their meal
and mother/daughter time. She gets a call from her son that he's passing
on their family time for pizza with his buddies. So they get to have
girls night.

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