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Episode recap: Danny, Aiden and Flack investigate a multiple homicide at a diner. Stella and Mac are called in to investigate an amputated leg found in an empty lot. The owner of the missing limb is tracked down and found dead in his apartment.

The crimes:

Victim(s): Octavia Figueroa- diner manager, Terrell Davenport, Gina Robson- waitress, Jared Perkins- cook,

Suspect(s): Guy to pick up Gina

Witness(es): Terrell ( but he didn't actually see the guy)

Whodunit: Octavia's boyfriend

The evidence:

From the field:

• Bag missing
  

From the morgue:

• Bags over heads
  

From the lab:

Turning point in the investigation: Matching the bags

Familiar locations in NY:

Personnel issues:

Guest stars: Jacob Vargas

Best episode quotes:

Mac Taylor: "I read your preliminary report. Good job Danny, you're on the promotion grid."

Danny Messer: "I can't wrap my head around it Mac. I mean you get up, you go to work. You see the people you know. You talk, you laugh. You're livin' your life and suddenly boom, it's over. Just like that and you never saw it comin'."

Hawkes: "Apart from the fact of it not being attached to a person, there's nothing wrong with this finger."

Mac: "The place was closed?"
Don Flack: "11 on the dot."
Danny: "Sounds like an inside job."
Mac: "Then that's where we'll start."

[Stella talks to wife of man obsessed with amputating his leg.]
Stella: "You'll have to make arrangements with the M.E's office for his body."
Wife: "He didn't want his body when he was alive. I certainly don't want it now that he's dead."

Danny: "This guy's shot in the head, carries someone else upstairs, and manages to call the cops?"
(flashback with Terrel dragging the body)
Aiden: "I'd say that qualifies for hero status."

Danny: "Criminals are like animals. They leave tracks, we follow them."


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