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Guide to the Bardverse

Part 1

Jacqueline Shaw killed. Crime Lab starts investigating case. Hamilton and Evelyn Taylor are there for a Taylor Industries publicity stunt with a bunch of other Fortune 500 companies. (Hamilton Taylor a judge...representing brother on short notice?) All the evidence points to Hamilton Taylor being the murderer...why? Was he having an affair with Jacqueline Shaw? Or did he think Jacqueline was Evelyn and kill her by accident? Mac's not coping well -- understandably, who would?

Lindsay shows up before Mac arrives at the scene. Mac didn't tell anyone (except Stella?) he'd hired another CSI -- takes Danny for Mac, Danny takes her for press. Stella recognizes her (?) and takes her aside. Mac shows up.

Someone (Lindsay) is leaking information to the press. Has Lindsay been here long enough, or should we wait for the next section? She's approached by a reporter (who? ooh! let's use Shep Newcombe). Lindsay doesn't know he's a reporter, just knows he's a nice guy that's interested in her. They talk. Shep worms case details out of her.

The LoD keeps investigating the case. Tom Mallory's name comes up (why?). Danny and Aiden go to bring him in for questioning.

Something Goes Wrong. Tom Mallory gets Aiden's gun away from her in the elevator, shoots Danny and leaves him for dead, takes Aiden hostage. Confronts Mac in lobby of Crime Lab with knife to Aiden's throat (why knife and not gun? More sensationalist). Mac agrees to go with him as long as he leaves Aiden alone. Danny's not dead yet -- he manages to get his gun out of his holster and fire at Mallory. (Does he hit or miss? If he hits, it's not serious -- just a flesh wound) Danny passes out. Mallory slits Aiden's throat and throws himself at Mac, roughs him up badly before Stella unloads her gun into him (Stella or Mac? Probably Stella). Aiden's dead. Danny's dying. Hawkes goes to Danny.

Part 2

Stella goes to see Mac in his apartment. Mac's drunk and guilty. Sex?

Danny's in surgery. Flack's out in the hall moping; Val Constantine and Ned Messer show up. Flack argues with Ned; Val and Eddie pull them apart. Ned leaves.

Stella and Mac lying in bed together. Stella's asleep (or having nightmares...wake up later?). Mac's awake. He's seen Mallory's name before.

Danny's still in surgery. Hawkes and Lindsay finally show up. Lindsay offers condolences; Flack freaks out and throws her against a wall, blames her for Aiden and Danny. Hawkes takes Lindsay away; they bond over green tea and sushi at an all-night Japanese place.

Something happens with the case...Mac's sure it's connected to him somehow and goes with Stella to confront his parents. Shocks them when he declares he won't be a Taylor anymore -- not a Chicago Taylor, not a Taylor Industries Taylor, not Hamilton Taylor's son. He's NYPD now.

Flack shows up at lab, edges around the yellow tape and confronts Mac and Stella. This is still his case -- Aiden and Danny were his people. Mac acquiesces. Shaw Case gets put on the back burner. This isn't about her -- it's about Mac and his people. Tom Mallory was a Mafia hitman. Not Commission -- Outfit. He went to the Crime Lab to kill Mac. Why? Mac's going to find out.

Mac, Stella, Flack investigate. Try and find out who Mallory was working for. They get confronted by the Brass (who, damnit? Look up) -- this isn't their case, it's Hawkes and Lindsay's. They're supposed to be working the Shaw Case. Mac says they're connected. The Brass says they're not.

Confidential information about the Mallory Case makes the papers -- crime scene photos, screenshots of security camera footage. IAB realizes there's a leak and starts investigating. Mac doesn't notice -- he's so wrapped up in trying to find who's behind Mallory.

Stella gets shot. How?

Part 3

Mac freaks about Stella. So does Flack. Val Constantine and Nick Bonasera show up at the hospital. Val's angry -- really, really angry. Some sonofabitch shot his nephew and heir. He's willing to cede control of his Family to Carmine to go after whoever was behind Mallory (he doesn't know about the Outfit yet) -- a big sacrifice, considering how much he's done for the Constantine Family. Carmine's not happy, but he'll go along with it; he understands the Commission better than Val does. Flack refuses to ally with Val -- "It's people like you that got us into this in the first place." Mac agrees -- this doesn't have anything to do with Constantine. Val argues that it does -- Danny's his nephew. His heir -- if he pulls that card, even the Commission will have to back him. He doesn't want to, though, because that puts Danny in a position he's been trying for years to get out of. Mac sends him away.

Val starts investigating on his own (with Carmine? no...Carmine's being very deliberately kept out of the loop. If he doesn't know what's going on, the Commission can't take the Constantine Family away from him. If they kill Val for taking justice into his own hands, the Family will have to go to Carmine -- he's underboss and they'll think they can control him -- he's from a Commission Family, after all. What about Joey or Ace? Probably not...he doesn't want any of his people hurt and if the Commission gets pissed off at him, they'll take out everyone they think was involved. He has to keep his people out). He finds out Mallory's connected to the Outfit, and this pisses him off. The Outfit's not supposed to have one damned thing to do this side of the Chicago River. This is Commission territory.

IAB narrows the leak in the LoD down to Hawkes or Lindsay. Mac, Stella, and Flack aren't working the Mallory Case (or at least aren't supposed to be); therefore, it has to be Hawkes or Lindsay. Surveillance is put on them.

Mac doesn't have a clue what's going on with IAB. He's obsessed with finding out who's behind Mallory and whoever shot Stella. Mac and Flack get an anonymous tip off and go to follow up on it. It's an ambush -- Mac is injured, but very obviously deliberately not fatally or seriously, but Flack is seriously wounded. He's rushed to the ER.

Part 4

Mac tracks down Val and demands to know what Val knows. Val tells him -- it's a boss in the Chicago Outfit that has a grudge against the Taylors, but he doesn't know why.

Mac confronts his parents again. Hamilton and Evelyn are preparing to go back to Chicago. Mac demands to know what Paul Coppola has against the Taylors.

Last year, Hamilton effectively destroyed the Coppola Family. Most of the Coppola high-rankers were sent to prison -- including Paul's son, Nicolo, who went to death row. Paul Coppola lost everything -- his Family, his power, his reputation, his wife (she left him), his son. Hamilton dismisses him as impotent and ineffectual. Mac tells his father that the one thing he's learned in the NYPD is that everything's connected, and that it's Hamilton's fault the LoD is falling apart. Mac leaves.

IAB arrest both Lindsay and Hawkes.

Val's used his connections in Chicago to find out more about Coppola -- including the fact that he's in New York right now, being harbored by a NY made guy from what's left of the Patriso Family. That's enough for him -- the Outfit's acting on Commission territory and he has proof; he can take it to the Commission and get official permission. But if he does so, the Patriso guy will find out and skip town (possibly with Coppola -- Mac doesn't think so, but Val has to factor it in). Mac and Val discuss things -- Val tips Carmine off about the Patriso guy. The Constantine will take care of him.

Mac and Val arrive at a Constantine safehouse to find Paul Coppola there, tied up. Aw. Carmine, Joey, and Ace left them a present. Val tortures Coppola to find out why he did what he did, tells him exactly what's coming to him for screwing around on New York Commission ground). Coppola spits in his face, reveals that Hamilton Taylor was in his pocket for years before Hamilton grew a conscience and a yen for political office. ("You're just like your father -- he'd leave the dirty work for someone else too.") Hamilton Taylor destroyed Coppola, so he'd destroy Hamilton. The roundabout way. Frame Hamilton for murder, destroy his marriage and his reputation -- Coppola didn't know about Mac until he showed up at the hotel, and then when Mac got sidetracked by Mallory (why? ...hiding out after another job), hired Mallory to destroy Mac, and through that destroy the Taylor family. Without Mac or Mac's people, there'd be no one to prove Hamilton was innocent. Mac's disgusted. "Why me?" he asks. Coppola shrugs. "Your father destroyed my son's life -- I'll destroy his." Mac draws his gun. "You're not really going to shoot me," Coppola says. Val tries to get Mac to let him shoot Coppola -- it's not that he doesn't think Mac can do it, he just wants to shoot Coppola himself. Mac jams the gun between Coppola's teeth.

Other detective (investigating officer form Mallory Case?) arrives on the scene. Val's gone. Mac's standing there with Coppola's corpse at his feet and his gun in his hand. Other detective doesn't arrest Mac, but takes his badge and his gun and tells him to get the fuck out of his crime scene.

Epilogue

Aiden's funeral. Flack and Stella show up on crutches. Danny's in a wheelchair, and his doctors aren't happy about that. Lindsay and Hawkes are in civilian clothes. So's Mac -- way in the back. He leaves early.

Mac talks with IAB. He expects to get fired -- he's already been suspended for a month. Instead, IAB hands him back his badge and his service revolver. Mac stares down at them. He's been demoted down to detective first grade -- but he's still in charge of the Crime Lab, partially because of extremely large donations from Taylor Industries and an anonymous source that Mac recognizes as the Mafia Commission. He'll return to work in a week.

Mac returns to the lab, his first day back. Stella meets him at the elevators. Flack and Danny are both there. So're Hawkes and Lindsay. They've been confined to the lab and unimportant work. Hawkes is innocent -- he was implicated by his acquaintance with Lindsay. The brass want to send him back to the morgue, but Mac argues he needs another CSI. Whether or not Lindsay gets to keep her job is up to Mac. He calls her into his office.

There's a picture of Aiden on the wall.

Flack has finally lost it. Um, beyond that, I'll get back to you.

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