Crossroads - Recap

A police escorted bus pulls up to Zenova’s bakery. The officers in the led car pull up and park. They step out of their car as the bus parks behind them. The doors open and people begin to step out, talking amongst themselves. A boy lying on the floor of an apartment wakes up. He is confused; the TV behind him blaring, and beer bottles left everywhere. He looks at the clock; shocked, he quickly puts up his hood, grabs his schoolbag and leaves the apartment. Outside of Zenova’s people and police have gathered. A woman holds up a picture; she places it in front of her viewing both the bakery and the picture of the bakery on the picture. The picture is different. It was a picture of people in front of the bakery. People that had been killed. Now on his bike; the boy races down the street towards Zenova’s bakery. He continues past the police standing at the end of the street. They yell at him to stop. He ignores their screams and pulls out a gun. He quickly approaches the bus and the people gathered in front of it. He aims his gun forward and fires. He shoots towards the police standing guard at their car. He hits his target. The police fire at him as he rounds the corner and peddles away. The man who had gotten shot lies dying on the ground. His cigar trickles from his mouth. A white glove reaches down and picks it up. Mac examines it for a moment and looks up Don breaks it down; “A criminal court judge assassinated in front of a sequestered jury right under the nose of a dozen cops…The jury has to come out to take a look at the crime scene at the same time of night as the original murder.” Mac; “Brazen son of a bitch…He was presiding over the Victor Markov trial, triple murder in front of this bakery a year ago.” Danny steps in “Markov is like the Sammy the bull of organized crime. That’s why we got a dozen bodies on him.” Mac responds; “Looks like a baker’s dozen.”

A short time later crowds flood to the bakery to see the police investigate. Sheldon examines the buildings and street itself. He goes under cars and into store windows. Smashed bullets found in the windows. A few shells left behind by the shooter on the street. Lindsay checks the delivery van sitting out front. Its “Zenova’s Bakery” log tattered with bullet holes. She notices that the shootout took place in a very small area and the bullet holes were tightly grouped together. The officers told them they have fired four shots at the suspect. There were only 3 holes in the delivery van. Perhaps the 4th bullet was in the gunman. Lindsay walks down the alley the gunmen turned down. She followed it to Danny knelt down at a bike left behind, a car had hit it but the gunmen still got away. The CSI team now had to find the car that hit the bike, hoping that the driver could lead them to assassin. At a press conference Mac tells the news that Jo Danville will not be working the D.C. Rapist case and that John Curtis has a preliminary hearing the next morning.

In a “visiting cell” John Curtis sits and listens to Jo talk to him. She came there to make him a promise. “You will NOT walk away this time.” John makes a promise back. “You put that b**** on the stand, your case will fall apart faster than your career did in the FBI. Don’t count on Ally Rand.” “I’ll see you in court Mr. Curtis.” Jo says before she turns and leaves. Meanwhile in the lab Sid and Sheldon are going over the Judges injuries. Sid sees antifreeze in the Judges kidneys that meant he had been poisoned; the shooting was not the first attempt on his life.

In Mac’s office, he and Lindsay are talking to the Senator and his daughter. He assures the Senator that Jo will not be touching the case. Jo walks to see Danny sitting at his desk, he had investigated the bike and found that it had been used for food delivery and the bike had been hit by a grey car. They were looking in car shops to find cars with front end damage. Sheldon finds the gun, it is Russian made, rare and should be easier to find. Sheldon also found a finger print on one of the bullets. He had sent Don to go and arrest him. A couple pull’s up to the house as Don kicks the door in. The couple is pulled out of the car and arrested. Don continues in the house. He sees the place is a wreck; a floor safe is opened along with the window behind it. The breeze blowing through the curtains, as if the suspect had recently left. Don tells the other officers that they are going to need to investigate the house. Flash to Mac standing above the open floor safe, Sheldon checks the windows and notes that they are clean along with the rest of the house the people must have used gloves. The couple says that they had just come back from Disney land and they had the house cleaned before they left. The Varshays say that they were the only ones that knew the safe was there. Sheldon finds some crumbs on the counter so he checks out the trash. He finds a sandwich. They could investigate it and maybe find out who robbed these people and used their gun to shoot the Judge.

Outside the station Danny is playing with the computer in one of the cars that had been near the bakery during the shooting. Maybe it had a picture of the grey car that struck the bike. Jo walks up to the courthouse, Serena the Senators daughter comes walking out. She stops Jo and asks if she could apologize. She tells her she is sorry for her father forcing her out of the F.B.I. Serena tells her she needs John in jail. She can’t sleep at night. She had come to see him be found guilty.

Jo and Mac are once again in Mac’s office. Mac tells Jo it was not a very good idea to go and visit Mr. Curtis in jail. He hoped she had said what she had to. She did. Danny walks in and tells them that he has found the Grey Audi that had struck the bike. It was not an accident; the car was rented 2 weeks before by one of Markov’s goons. Pavel Danshov. The police had found the car and was waiting for the CSI team to get out there.

Don bends down and lets the air out of the car’s tire. He runs to his car and waits for Mr. Danshov to come out. He does, as he is walking to the car he looks down and sees the deflated tire and Don runs to him he and Danny arrest him. Jo looks down at the deflated tire. It gives her a great idea. The biker must have had to fix his tire. Maybe they could find a finger print on the inside; on the inner tube. Hopefully they could finally identify the shooter. Detective Flac talks to Danshov; He asks him what he thinks of the “guy on the bike?” Danshov tells him “he’s a bad driver.” He does not deny hitting the person. Danshov was parked down the street sitting in his car drinking a cup of coffee. He heard shots fired and started driving down the street. He gets halfway down the street when, “Ka-boom” he hit the biker. “He got up and ran off.” He did not see his face. “A dead judge is no good. A corrupt judge is better.” He was just investigating him for his boss. He says he was trying to dig up dirt on the judge. The judge could have been corrupted. Danny gets a print off of the bike tire. Nicholas Albertson, a young con. Danshov told them the judge frequented the place where Albertson worked. Maybe Nick had a grudge against the judge they were going to find out. He is arrested and Don begins to interrogate him. He tells Don he didn’t do it. He doesn’t know anything about it. His story is he doesn’t know anything. Anything at all. He says he was coming from the opposite direction on his bike and he got hit by Danshov. They find that the Judge gets money to send kids to correction. Kid that did not deserve to go and the copies of the court documents had been destroyed. Jo found the originals and discovers that Nick had been one of those kids along with his friend, Thomas Hill. Sheldon was able to extract a usable profile from the sandwich. It matches Thomas Hill. Danny pulls up to Thom’s house and Thom drops his bad and tries to run. Danny grabs him and Jo begins to go through the contents of his bag. She finds a crowbar with a bullet dent in it. They find the gun and the remnants of the bullet shot at him at the scene. As soon as he sits down he tells Mac “He did it” and he would do it again. He then tells Mac that he had overheard the Warden at the facility and the Judge talking over dinner. They remembered Nick and Thomas overheard their conversation. Thomas knew what he had to do. He tried poisoning his drink. It didn’t work so he was going to shoot him. Nick tried to stop him; he tried to catch up with Thomas. He heard the shots and then he got hit by the car. He could not stop Thomas from shooting the judge. He was very bitter over his life being taken from him.

Don walks up to Mr. Nelson’s apartment. He had been the Overseer of the correctional facility that Thomas and Nick had been sent to. He was the one making all of the money for every child sent to corrections. Thomas would have killed him too if he had the chance. This man had to be stopped. He could not be allowed to steal children’s futures for his own profit. “Mr. Nelson” Don calls, as he tells him to open the door. Mr. Nelson watches the news. He sees that Nick and Thomas had been arrested. He knew the police would be coming for him. He smelled the barrel of his gun. Don knocks again. A shot is fired and Don kicks Mr. Nelson’s door in. They are too late. Mr. Nelson sits in his chair dead, gun on the floor to the side.

At the station Don walks up to Lindsay sitting at his desk. Lindsay needs to talk to Ally Rand. The “Roofies” in her system do not match up. The drugs were not in her system at the time she claims. These timelines need to match or the case will be thrown out. They ask Ally if she does drugs, she admits to drinking and smoking pot. She is sure about what time she was at the bar and everything she had told them was true. Lindsay tells Don that the levels of GHB in her blood were not improbable…They were impossible. In court Lindsay tells the truth, the levels of GHB never matched up by the time she went to the police she still had too much of it in her to have been given the drug when she told the police she was. How could she have been drugged so long ago and still have the drugs in her system? The judge still finds the evidence sufficient enough to hold the trial. John’s bail is dropped and the trial is set. John looks at Jo and Lindsay as they sit behind him in the court room. They will soon have their day in court.

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