Original air date: November 16, 2005 Talk about this episode! Sign in or sign up and click EasyEdit to add to this page

Episode recap: When murder comes to play at a high-stakes poker game, Mac and his team work to find out why. As the evidence stacks up, they find that what they thought was a cheater's revenge was actually the result of a tragic misidentification. In Central Park's Strawberry Fields, Hawkes and Danny come across a body they instantly recognize- she's the popular weather girl at Channel 2. Who would want such a sunny personality dead?

The crimes:

Victim(s): Tara Stanzfeld

Suspect(s):

Witness(es):

Whodunit:

From the field:

• Cards From Poker Game
• Broken Glass Found In Central Park (Tara Stanzfeld's Location Of Death)
• A shotgun in the dumpster
• a blood-stained jacket
• blood stain on elevator up button
  

From the morgue:

• Glass Found In The Vic's Head
• Wooden Fragments From The Door In The Vic's Head
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From the lab:

• 911 calls from around the time of the shooting
  

Turning point in the investigation:

Familiar locations in NY: Central Park's Strawberry Fields

Personnel issues:

Guest stars:

Best episode quotes:
(Adam uses gadgets to straighten crumpled video tape as Danny watches)
Danny: Adam when you're done with that, I've got a pair of slacks that need to be ironed.
Adam: I have no response to that.

Sid: I did find trace amounts of blood sheltered between the real and fake fingernails, sent it to DNA. And I still have to take a closer look at the cross sections of the lung. (Hawkes glances over at Sid) Admit it, you're jealous.
Hawkes: Yeah, a little bit.

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