It's been 15 years since season 9 of CSI: NY.
Mac has been married to Christine for 14 years and they had a daughter named Brianna Claire Taylor who is 12.
Jo left the crime lab after her daughter was kidnapped and almost killed because of a case she was working. She still talks to mac and is the godmother of Brianna.
Jo was replaced by a woman named Cassie Woods who has a daughter named Belle Audrey Woods who is 16.
Flack finally found true love with Cassie. They have been married for seven years and have a six-year-old daughter named Selene Jessica Flack and a 3-year-old son named Nick Donald Flack.
Sid died two years after his diagnoses and donated half of his fortune to the Crime Lab.
Sheldon fell in love with Tara Richards, the corner who replaced Sid. They have been married for 12 years and have a daughter named Cheryl Krystal Hawkes who is 12 and best friends with Brianna Taylor and a six-year-old daughter named Kelsey Cherry Hawkes who is six and friends with Selene Flack.
Adam married Haylen Becall after she helped work on a case between the crime lab and the FBI she applied for a job at the crime lab to be closer to Adam. They have been married for 5 years and have a 2-year-old son named Taylor Mac Ross. They are both sometime CSI's if they are running low on staff.
Lindsay and Danny had their son Ruben Messer who Is 15. When Lucy was 17 she was killed in a car accident. Lindsay and Danny divorced a year after her death.
Danny was fired after he was charged with a DUI. He's been divorced from Lindsay for 1 year.
A horrid beeping sound rang through Flack and Cassie's bedroom in the final minutes of a Tuesday night.
"What is that sound?" Cassie groaned awaking from a peaceful sleep
"It's my new ringtone" Flack turned on his bedside lamp and sat up
"Flack" He simply answered
"Detective Flack it's officer Murphy I thought I'd let you know we've arrested Danny Messer
"Why?"
"He was driving under the influence of alcohol and god knows what else"
"Ok, I'll be right there" Flack put his phone down and rubbed his eyes
"What is it?" Cassie asked with her eyes still shut
"Danny" Was all flack had to say for Cassie to understand
"Don! I knew you'd come!" Danny drunkly slurred
"What the hell are you doing"
"Waiting for you to unlock this cell so I can head back to the bar, think I've got a chance with this blonde"
"No I mean what are you doing with life! You're driving and drinking!"
"It was a onetime mistake"
"No it wasn't. This isn't the first time Danny"
"Ok I'm sorry I'll try harder"
"That's what you say all the time and I'm not sure if I should believe anymore"
"Oh come on Flack! What are you going to do? Let me rot in this cell with all the drunks?"
"You are the drunks, Danny!"
Danny had his arm around Flacks shoulder as Flack carried him into his house.
"I'll get you some coffee" Flack said dropping Danny on the couch.
Flack handed Danny a warm mug
"I can't keep doing this" Flack said. He'd always get calls from bars, clubs and even the police about Danny and Flack would always drive to wherever and pick him up, bring him back to his house and let him stay on his couch but Cassie had told Flack not to keep bringing him over because he always reeked of alcohol and it wasn't a good environment for the kids to be around.
Danny looked around to see pictures of the Flack family. All five of them smiling, happy. Something Danny hadn't felt in 2 years since Lucy died. He started crying.
"She would have been 19" Danny cried
Flack remembered the date. It would have been Lucy's birthday.
The same sound woke up Cassie each day at exactly 6:30 AM she rolled over and slapped it so it would stop. Usually Flack would wake up with her but then she remembered that he had been out getting Danny, probably from another bar.
She got up to make breakfast for her family. She rolled her eyes when she saw Danny passed out on her couch.
"Mom, I'm going out" Belle said
"What? Breakfast is almost ready and school starts in an hour"
"I know. I'm going with Emma and Jake to see the new diner and Emma's going to drive us"
"Ok. Be safe" Cassie was reluctant. She knew yesterday was Lucy's birthday and Lucy was killed in her friend's car after driving home from a movie. She remembered the day because every year on that day since Lucy's passing Lindsay took the day off to spend with her son, Ruben.
Flack came into the kitchen holding his son, Nicky.
"Don, Nicky, put on some shirts you'll get a cold" Cassie ordered
"What? It's pretty warm You're only cold cause you were raised in California" Flack teased taking a pancake.
"Can you go get Selene dressed, Sheldon will be here any minute to take her to school"
"I thought it was Mac's turn to carpool?" Flack fed Nicky
"No, He got called on a case"
"So I guess that means we'll be working together today"
"Hopefully if it isn't too busy. Now please go get Selene ready"
"Cassie" Sheldon said behind her making her jump
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you, the front door is open" Sheldon laughed with his two daughters with him.
"No it's fine, I guess belle left it opened this morning" Cassie laughed
"Where's Selene?" Young Kelsey asked
"She's getting dressed now"
"Cheryl, why don't you take your sister up to see if she's ready?" Sheldon said
"Yes, we bought her a new doll yesterday I'm sure she'll love showing you"
Cheryl took a break from texting and took her younger sister up to see her best friend
"So I saw Danny" Sheldon said once the girls were gone
"Oh god I completely forgot he was there. Don got a call at about 1"
"Where was he this time?"
"I'm not sure"
"Daddy we're ready to go!" Kelsey came running in with Selene next to her
"See you at work" Sheldon waved goodbye
"so you wanna talk?" Flack said once everyone had left
"Yeah I do. I thought we agreed not to bring him around anymore
"It was Lucy's birthday what was I supposed to do?"
"Take him back to his apartment! Not to our home, not around our children!" Cassie started to scream
"Remember how I told you about my girlfriend, Jessica? I was exactly like Danny and he helped me even when Danny was paralysed! He still helped me! Even when he had Lucy he still let me stay on his couch!"
"I'm sorry" Danny interrupted the argument
"No don't be. Come on, I'll drive you home" Flack said
Since Flack had taken Danny, Cassie had to take Nicky to kindergarten making her late for work.
"I'm sorry I'm late" Cassie said to Adam, kneeling next to the victim
"It's ok. I've photographed most of the scene and collected DNA and Haylen has fingerprinted"
"Wow, thanks you guys"
"That's ok but you owe us" Haylen smiled
"I think I owe you two lots" Cassie laughed
Mac walked through the halls of his lab he looked at all the workers and all the equipment none of which wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for changing times but the only reason why he had one of the best crime labs in the country was because of Sid, he thought of Sid often because the Lab was his legacy. Equipment named after him, rooms named after him, his picture hanging through the lab. Even though he only became a father 12 years ago he always felt like a father to his team.
"Hey Mac" Cassie, his second hand woman said
"Yeah" He said turning around to see her
"I'm worried" She said
"What's wrong?"
"Danny came to our house last night, drunk, and I can't have him around my children and I have no idea what to do and Don was meant to drive him home this morning but he's not answering his phone and he didn't turn up to the scene this morning"
"Ok, I'll have a look"
"Thank you" Cassie smiled
"Adam" Mac said coming into Adam's work space where he was listening to his IPod
"Some things never change" Mac smiled
"Uh yeah sorry boss" Adam quickly turned off the music just like he always did when Mac caught him listening to music
"I need you to do something but it stays between us, ok?"
"Of course, boss, whatever you need"
"I need you to trace Danny's phone"
"Uh wh-"
"No questions"
"Sure boss" Adam traced Danny's phone to a local bar
"thanks Adam"
Mac walked in to the bar that even at ten o'clock in the morning it was busy. He walked over to Danny who had a beer in his hand and Flack who wasn't drinking.
"Mac" Flack was first to see him
"Hey, Danny, you want to go home?" Mac patted Danny's back
"Is that a question or a command?" Danny questioned
"It's a question. Do you want to stay here and be a barfly? Do you want to set this example for your son?"
"Alright, alright, I'll go home" Danny surrendered
Flack put Danny in his car, ready to dive him back to Danny's house this time
"Hey, Don, call your wife" Mac said
"Hey, where are you going?" Adam asked Haylen who was waiting for the elevator
"Taylor's got a cough"
"But what about the case?"
"Adam, It's a prostitute, high with gang ties, these cases rarely end with an arrest"
"But we owe it to the victim"
"And we owe more to our son" Haylen told Adam as the doors closed in his face.
Adam walked into Cassie's office to show her results from a fingerprint search
"Got a match" He said handing her a manila folder featuring a finger print match to a thug.
"Sam Gopelio. I think Don's arrested him a few times"
"Wouldn't be surprised, this kids been in and out of jail since he was 14"
"I'll contact Don. Thanks Adam"
"Hey I was just about to call you" Flack said to Cassie on the other end of the call
"Sure you were"
"I swear I was"
"We'll talk about it later, right now we need to talk about Sam Gopelio"
"Sam? Why?"
"His fingerprints her found at a gangbang murder"
"Oh god. I arrested Sam for the first time when he was 16. When he was 19 I started helping him get on the right track but then, A few months ago, he stopped answering my calls, he moved. I haven't seen him since"
"Do you know where he could be?"
"His buddy, Callum Hughes, he'll know where he is, he may even be involved"
"Okay thanks"
"Be safe, Cassie" Flack ended every phone call the same way
"You too" Cassie smiled. She loved her husband's voice. The thick New York accent along with the deep voice.
Cassie and Adam went to Callum Hughes' apartment in a neighbourhood that had more drugs than a snoop dog party.
Cassie knocked on his door
"Yeah I'll be there in a minute" Callum called from behind the door
"Do you think cases like this are worth it?" Adam asked his best friend, Cassie.
"Of course. Every case, every victim they all deserve a happy ending no matter how they lived their lives or how they died"
"You cops?" Callum asked interrupting the conversation
"CSI's" Adam corrected
"Yeah whatever" Callum pushed them inside his apartment
"They can't see cops outside my door" Callum explained
"And who is "they"?" Cassie asked
"The skull crushers. They run this neighbourhood"
"Do you know where Sam Gopelio is?"
"No" Callum avoided eye contact and stuttered his words and rubbed his neck
"Are you a poker player?" Adam asked
"No"
"I can tell. Where is Sam?"
"He's at his girl's place, Georgia Perez"
"Georgia Perez, Sam Gopelio" Cassie called. It took about three minutes for Georgia to open the door
"Where is he?" Cassie asked flashing her badge and pushing her way in
"Where's who?"
"Sam"
"I ain't seen him in days"
"We know he was here. tell us where he went" Cassie was always a tough cop
"I'm tellin' ya I haven't seen him! Now get out of my place!"
"Sam is a suspect in a gang rape that resulted in murder of a girl your age. are you sure you want to go down as an accessory after the fact to protect him?"
"He went in the ally next to here"
Cassie and Adam raised their guns and walked down the ally
"Sam Gopelio, NYPD" Cassie called and Sam ran from behind a trash bin and jumped on a fence. Adam grabbed him and dragged him to the floor.
"I didn't do anything!" Same yelled and punched the table that sat between Sam and Cassie and Flack.
"You sure got a temper" Flack said
"Only when I'm being accused of something I didn't do!" Sam crossed him arms quite like their daughter, Selene, would when she was told she couldn't have any sweets before dinner.
"So someone just planted your fingerprint at a scene of a murder?" Cassie sarcastically said
"If that's the only explanation" Sam said
"And who might want to do that" Cassie humoured him
"I don't know man. Everyone loves the Sam-man"
"I don't think Elaina Harper was your biggest fan" Flack commented
"Who's that?"
"The woman you raped and killed with your buddies!"
"As I keep saying, I never saw that bitch and I sure as hell never killed her"
"If you tell us the names of your buddies we'll make sure to tell the D.A that you corporated" Cassie tried to struck a deal
"I ain't no stich, bitch"
"Hey! Watch your mouth!" Flack banged his hand on the table and yelled
"Oh yeah, I'm the one with the attitude" Sam laughed
"Your girl, Georgia, will go down if you don't tell us who else was with you" Cassie threatened
"Georgia didn't do anything"
"If you don't tell me I will take her down"
"Oh yeah I'd love to see that" Sam joked with Flack
"This is serious, Sam" Said Flack
"If I tell you, you keep Georgia out of it"
"We promise"
Sam gave Cassie and Flack the names of all the men who were involved in the crime and the NYPD arrested them and kept another gang from hurting others.
"It's time to go home, you ready?" Flack put on his jacket and asked Cassie
"Sorry, I've got so much paperwork. I won't be home till after you put the kids to bed"
"The one downside to being the assistant supervisor: Paperwork" Flack badly joked
"Yes but I have cool office" Cassie kissed his cheek and made her way back to the lab.
The elevator doors opened to the 35th floor which was home to the crime lab. There were a few lab techs and Mac who was doing paperwork in his office just like Cassie was heading to do.
"Hey, Mac, you're here late"
"So are you"
"That's because I'm your assistant"
"You're assistant supervisor not assistant to the supervisor"
"seriously Mac, go home soon"
Cassie sat in her office doing the paperwork which had been on her cluttered desk for months. The elevator beeped signalling someone was getting off Cassie looked up from her desk to see A man in a suit with lots of men and woman wearing "FBI" jackets behind him.
"May I help you?" Cassie asked
"Agent Tom Price" Agent Price said to Cassie before turning back to his agents and telling them what to do
"Excuse me, Agent Price, what are you doing?" Cassie asked nicely.
He didn't say anything back he just handed her a warrant for the lab.
Cassie needed Mac here, to tell her what to do.
"Hello?" Christine answered the phone
"Hey, Christine, it's Cassie. Can I speak to Mac?"
"Sure" Christine was always nice
"Hello" Mac said being handed the phone
"You need to come down here, Now"