Vigilante - Recap

Pole dancers are working out in a gym setting. A man walks on the street
and stops to watch through the glass. One woman is kick boxing. She
calls it a night, and he watches as she heads for the showers. He
continues to watch until she leaves the building. As she walks past him,
he ducks his head and then follows her. As he does so, we hear a 911
call telling the operator where to find a murder victim, and what
condition it's in. She asks when this happened, and he responds "It's
about to." The watching man grabs the kick boxer, and she screams.

Don fills Mac in on the 911 call. Mac points out that every victim of
the Prospect Park rapist was dumped within a mile of this locale. The
victim has every single MO of the rapist. But this time, the victim is
male.

Sheldon informs Mac that he got a hit on the fingerprints. Their victim
is definitely the Prospect Park rapist. They have a prints match, but no
name. The perp/victim is still a John Doe. Sheldon figures somebody
knows who he is, they used his signature against him. The body was
dumped where it was found. The team goes to work on the scene, bagging
and tagging.

Sid figured whatever the victim's sins in life, he paid for in death.
He's fractured and torn, and has three bullet wounds, two to the groin.
There's something really strange about his tongue, and it's not caused
by any disease or medical condition. Mac says they'll send a sample up
to the lab and run it through GCMS. There is swelling and irritation
around the eyes, looks like he may have been hit with pepper spray.

A voice over of a news report is heard as we see what the Prospect Park
rapist did to his victims. His victims are brought in for questioning.
One identifies his picture, and tells Jo she's been having nightmares
for months. She can't believe he's dead. The women are asked if they
have brothers or boyfriends who may have retaliated on their behalf. The
redheaded victim says nobody she knows would have the necessary balls to
retaliate.

Lindsay talks to Kate Price, she remembers speaking to her support group
awhile back. Kate doesn't want to look at the picture, but finally does.
She says she doesn't know, because she never saw his face. Lindsay
remembers Kate talking about getting a gun for protection, but she never
did. She got pepper spray instead. She's gotten rid of it since then.
Lindsay asks if there's a guy in her life, and Kate says no, and why is
Lindsay asking these questions. When Lindsay tells her that the man who
raped her was beaten and bound in the same manner in which he did his
victims, Kate says "Good." Lindsay tells her she's talked to a lot of
rape victims. Some are scared, some are angry. Kate's the only one who
ever asked Lindsay for a gun. She answers Lindsay's last question. She
doesn't have a boyfriend, her dad is deceased, there are no other male
relatives, and she was home alone last night. She doesn't get out much,
anymore. She's sure Lindsay can understand why.

Adam and Danny go over the 911 call. It came from a disposable phone
that was turned off after the 911 call. Wherever the call was made from
is probably their crime scene. Adam needs to isolate the background noises.

Jo says the test results on the John Doe tongue came back with high
levels of pyrethroids. He must have had frequent and long-term exposure
to insecticides. So either he worked in a chemical production factory,
or he was an exterminator. Jo took it from there and narrowed it down to
a certain company that did exterminations in the rape victims homes.
Only one employee didn't show up for work this morning, and he matches
the description of their vic. Garland Clarke.

Lindsay has big news. The duct taped used by the rapist comes from the
exact same roll as the tape used ON the rapist. Mac figures the
vigilante for brilliant, given how he handled the execution. Sheldon
says that the killer may have been female, since the hair found on the
tape was from a female. But the 911 call was from a man. He ran the DNA
from the hair against the victims, and got a hit in Kate Price. She was
his first victim.

Lindsay questions her again, and Kate reiterates that she has never seen
Garland Clarke. She trots out an instant replay of her story of being
home alone, so Lindsay tells her about the hair on the body. She remains
mute, so Lindsay shows her surveillance shots of Garland. "You searched
my apartment?" Lindsay says yes. They thought she was telling the truth,
until they found her file on Garland. Lindsay advises her that unless
she wants to spend the rest of her life in prison, she needs to tell the
truth.

Kate's attorney arrives, courtesy of the City Victims Network. They
informed her that Kate had been brought in. The attorney used to be a
public defender, so she knows what she's doing. She needs Lindsay to
leave, so she can speak to her client.

Danny and Don approach Garland's van. This may be their crime scene.
Sheldon confirms that, and he's already processing it. He finds all
sorts of bodily fluid proof that this was where the women were
brutalized and raped. Don finds locks of the victims' hair. This wasn't
mentioned as part of his MO, but they probably didn't know it was
happening. Only five victims came forward, but Don's holding a lot more
than five locks of hair. The three men start processing the van.

Five of the locks match the five victims they know of. The other five
never came forward. The fact that the same roll was used on the rapist
as on his victims could explain why Kate's hair was on the tape. It
wasn't necessarily from when she killed him. It could be from when she
was victimized. It's a long shot, but it could be how it happened.
Sheldon thinks they should be thanking whoever permanently interrupted
the rapist, but Lindsay disagrees. She's not a fan of vigilante justice.
He shares that he had a girlfriend who was raped. It didn't just change
their relationship, it ended it. The thought of killing the guy who did
that to her definitely crossed Sheldon's mind. Lindsay feels for him,
but she reminds him that Kate asked her for a gun. And since she's not
her priest nor her counselor? If Kate did this, she's going to help put
her away.

We see a 911 call happening. The woman who was kick boxing at the
beginning is wearing a headset and calling in the crime. This time she
didn't turn off her phone after the call, and they tracked her. Danny,
Don and Mac are on the scene. The signal is coming from the basement
level. They head inside. Mac and Danny catch sight of a single male
behind a pickup on the south end, and radio it over to Flack. Mac
announces to him, but he's dead. The phone signal was coming from there,
but it's not on the victim. The phone was under the truck.

The vic's name is Craig Tomlin, he's an ex-con. Did five years for
sexual assault and just got out a couple of weeks ago. Whatever unfolded
here, Mac doesn't think it went as planned. The blood-spatter pattern is
inconsistent with the head wound. Someone was underneath him when he was
shot. They're looking for at least two suspects. They go to work
processing the scene. Adam works on the evidence as it arrives. He
reassembled a voice distorter.

Mac, Danny and Jo run over the facts of the case, trying to brainstorm
the evidence. Nothing in the second case mimicked the original crime, as
happened in the first case. It appears that Tomlin didn't have an
adverse reaction to pepper spray, which caught his attackers by
surprise. Mac gets a call from a modulated voice, and it's Lindsay. Now
they know that it could be a woman or women making the calls. Knowing
that, they can bring the voice back to normal and possibly recognizable.
Mac notes that voice patterns are as distinct as fingerprints. Adam says
we have a database for fingerprints, but not voices. Mac says we don't,
but 911 does. They have records of every call for the past five years.
If the caller was previously a victim and called the crime in, 911 will
be able to match them. Mac tells Adam to narrow his search to rape
victims in Brooklyn in the last three years, and do it fast.

Jo has some good news for Danny. Tomlin was using a sweat enhancer,
athletes use it. It preserves sweat, too. They have DNA from one of his
attackers. So far, all they know is that the sweat is from a female.
Danny respects these women for what they did, even if he can't say they
did the right thing.

Lindsay joins Kate in a cell at Kate's behest. Her attorney is not
present. Kate has a question. What if she confessed? Maybe she could
claim self-defense. There's too many signs that it wasn't self-defense,
Lindsay tells her. Besides, another rapist was killed while Kate was in
custody. Lindsay doesn't believe Kate did it, but she thinks Kate is
covering for someone. Lindsay says that while Kate is keeping her mouth
shut, it could happen again. Kate gets all cold again and tells Lindsay
that if she spent half as much time on catching rapists as she has on
solving their murders, maybe nobody would have to kill again. Lindsay
asks if Kate thinks she doesn't care about the victims.

Kate wants to know if Lindsay knows why she remembers her. It was
because she kept checking her watch. She just couldn't wait to get out
of the rape survivors support group. Kate couldn't really blame her.
None of them wanted to be there, either.

Jo finds Lindsay ruminating on what Kate had to say. Kate was right.
Lindsay reached out to her after the meeting, and all she did was hand
her some pepper spray and a pamphlet on how to deal with trauma. Jo
gives her a good talk, and there are no easy answers. In all likelihood,
she can't explain it to Kate. "We meet these people on the worst day of
their lives, and all we can really do for them is listen."

Adam listens to all the 911 calls, and finally gets a match. Heather
Marist. The kick boxing woman. Lindsay and Don arrive to question her at
the pole dancing gym. When they announce themselves, Heather slugs Don
and kicks Lindsay. Neither of them stay down, and they arrest her.

Jo interviews her about the original 911 call. It took the police 30
minutes to get there. By then he'd broken her jaw and both her wrists.
Jo tells her that she has two more 911 calls, both of murders of
perpetrators before said murders took place. Jo wants to know who helped
her. Heather says "Screw you." Lindsay and Kate are watching. Lindsay
points out that Heather was in Kate's support group. Kate's attorney
joins them and runs interference. She wants her client released. Lindsay
is trying to give Kate a chance to help herself.

Adam looks at the crystal shard and shows it to Mac. He thought it was
part of the voice distortion software, but it wasn't. And when placed
under a microscope, it becomes obvious that it has a serial number on
it. Mac says "That's not a serial number" and pats Adam on the back with
a smile as he walks out of the lab.

He brings it to Kate, telling her it was at the site of the Tomlin
murder. Her attorney notes that Kate was in their custody when that man
was killed. He explains micro-technology to Kate. An identification
number is sprayed onto your jewelry in case it's lost or stolen. This
particular crystal is part of a pair of gold earrings that were
purchased a year ago. Kate doesn't own any gold earrings. Mac knows
that. He wasn't talking about her. He was referring to her lawyer, who
is now looking a tad apprehensive.

Kate's attorney, Annie Cartland, was Tomlin's public defender when he
was arrested six years ago. She cut a deal for Tomlin, quit the next day
and started working with the Victims Network. Kate fills in what she
knows with Lindsay. She was doing better. She wasn't scared anymore. And
then she ran into her rapist. He was an exterminator in her own
apartment building. She wasn't sure at first, she thought maybe her mind
was playing tricks. So she followed him, and took pictures. She needed
to know.

Heather picks up the story. Kate showed the support group everything she
had on Garland. She was sure he was the Prospect Park rapist. Jo wonders
why they didn't tell her to go to the police? Heather can't see why. The
cops were after him for a year, and nothing. They didn't even have a
description. She said that she and Annie used to fantasize about what
they would do if they ever had the chance to face one of these predators
themselves. Kate gave them that chance. Jo asked if Kate was part of it,
and Heather says no. They told her they'd handle it.

Kate doesn't have anything to do with it. All she feels now is relief.

Jo talks Heather through the killing. He followed her from the gym, and
Annie sprayed him with pepper spray. She clubbed him across the abdomen
and when he went down, they went to town. Heather beat him while Annie
was the lookout. She said she never felt better in her life. Jo asks if
that's why they went after Tomlin, to relive the thrill? No.

Mac finds out from Annie that Tomlin ruined a girl's life. And thanks to
Annie, he only served five years. He should have died in prison. So they
set him up, just like Clark. But since pepper spray didn't disable him,
things went bad. He was strangling Heather when Annie shot him. She's
not going to apologize. Rape is under-prosecuted, there's even a statute
of limitations. She got what the system couldn't. Justice. Mac says it
was retribution. Annie asks "Aren't they the same thing?" Mac says it's
not even close. The women are led off in handcuffs, and Kate gets to go
home.

Lindsay gives Kate her card. She'll be there if Kate needs her. Even
just to talk.



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