"What are you doing here?" Mac asked Jacquelyn Hayes
"Mac, I've been off work for a week I should have been back days ago"
"Are you sure you're ready?" Mac eyed her arm that sat painfully in a sling
"Yes I'm sure"
"Okay then, welcome back"
Jac walked into the lab of her friend, Adam.
"Jac!" Adam smiled hugging her
"Hey Adam" she hugged back with her one arm
"How's the arm?"
"I'm starting to get used to doing things with one arm"
"Are you sure you should be back?"
"Of course. I'm not getting much done sitting on my couch all day" Mac walked into the small glassed room
"Jacquelyn, Adam, we've got a case" Mac said telling them the address
"Wait does that mean I get to come to?" Adam asked but Mac never responded
"This is so cool" Adam gleefully said to Jac.
Jacquelyn and Adam walked into the club
"The victim was performing a Britney spears impersonation concert. Went out back for a smoke. Never came back. Whitney Houston over there found her"
Flack pointed with his pen to a woman who was dressed to look like the late singer.
"Her hands are abnormally large" Sheldon examined
"So are her feet" Flack said standing by her head.
Jac lifted up her skirt "Well boys, looks like we have a john doe."
Jacquelyn and Flack walked into the club to see the Whitney Houston impersonator
"Hi, miss….Houston, I'm Jacquelyn Hayes, did you know the real name of the victim?"
"No. We only went by our stage names"
"Did you know that Britney was more of a…Bryan?"
"Of course. We all are"
"You're a man?" Jac said shocked
"Sorry it's just you look amazing."
"why thank you, doll. You don't look so bad yourself" she laughed as did Jac.
"Just talked to the owner of the club, our Britney is actually David Smith but because we have no address or any other details. It may take a while to find our victim" Flack said
"These breasts are obviously fake so maybe Sid can get a match"
"Ah, Jacquelyn, Mac" Sid greeted the two who walked into the cold morgue "Here's the victim's ID" Sid said handing Mac a printed folder of information.
"David Smith, 35, Brooklyn, Organised for a sex change in four months but hadn't changed his name yet." Mac read from the sheet
"Is it possible you're looking at a hate crime?" Sid asked
"Most hate crime victims are beaten; David was shot"
"Hey, Jacquelyn, Lindsay going back to Montana do you know anything about it?" Mac asked once they were out of the doors of the morgue
"What? No I had no idea"
"She said it was her mother's birthday but I could tell there was more to the story"
"Yeah I'll check it out"
"Hey Linds" Jac said
"Hey. I'm going to Montana for a few days. It's my mums 60th
"Yeah I heard. Is that the only reason?"
"Yeah, of course."
"you just haven't seemed yourself lately"
"I'm pregnant"
"What? Is Danny the father?"
"Yes of course"
"Does he know?"
"No"
"So you're doing a runner?"
"I'm just going to be gone for a few days, when I get back, I'll tell him. I have to go to the airport now"
"You're not going to say goodbye to him?"
"That's what this is" Lindsay said holding up an envelope
"A letter? He deserves more than that, Lindsay"
"So does Flack"
"I'm not pregnant with Flack's child"
"What happened with you two?"
"We had a date. That's it"
"That's not what either of you want"
"It's unprofessional"
"Thanks" Lindsay laughed
"I'm sorry Linds it's just I've dreamt of this since I was a little girl, I don't want to ruin it because of some boy"
"Is he just a boy though?" Lindsay spoke the words that would haunt Jac for the next few days as she left.
"Well now I really have to go"
"I'll walk you out"
"Jacquelyn, Mac wants to see you in his office" Stella said to Jac who was standing with Lindsay by the elevator
"Okay, I'll see you later Linds."
"Hey mac" Jacquelyn said walking into Mac's office
"Jacquelyn, take a seat" Mac softly asked
"What's up?"
"I ran the ballistics on the bullet found in the victim"
"Cool. Did we get a match?"
"Yes and I would just like to say I personally ran the results four times"
"Mac what's going on?"
"The ballistics came back with a match to your dad's gun"
"I don't understand? Jersey P. D took his gun when he…. passed"
"It wasn't his service weapon it was his personal weapon"
"That's impossible, it's been locked up in my mom's safe"
"We're going to need to check that"
"Mac, you can't do that. She's still struggling with dad's death bringing it up wouldn't be a good idea. Please mac?"
"Jacquelyn, if it was anyone else we'd be over there now"
"Okay, but I promise you the gun is there"
Jac and Mac made the one-and-a-half-hour drive to new jersey where Jac grew up.
"Jacquelyn, Mac!" Jac's mother, Mary greeted her daughter and her late husband's old friend with hugs.
"Jacquelyn what is on your arm?!" Mary said seeing the sling on her arm
"It's nothing"
"really? Because It looks like you broke your arm!"
"I didn't break it, It's dislocated but we'll talk about it later. Right now we need to talk about something else"
"okay What are you two doing here?"
"Mom, we're here on a case"
"In Jersey? Isn't that a bit out of your jurisdiction?"
"Why don't we go inside and take a seat?"
"You're scaring me, Jac, what's going on?"
"Mary we found the body of David smith late last night he was shot with your husband's gun"
"that's impossible. The guns been locked in the safe"
"Mom I understand that this is difficult but we just need to see the gun in the safe"
"Sure"
Mary put in her eldest daughter's birthday and the safe popped open
"I don't understand I opened it at Christmas and the gun was here" Mary said looking at the safe with money and some memories but no gun.
"Who else had access to the safe?" Mac asked
"No one. Just me, Jacquelyn and Jayley" Mary said naming her two daughters
"We're going to need to talk to Jayley" Mac said talking of his goddaughter
"Okay but she's in New York"
"She's in New York?!" Jac seemed shocked
"She has a boyfriend down there; I'll find the address"
"Charlie Lucas, Jayley Hayes it's NYPD please open the door" Mac knocked
Jayley opened the door after two minutes of waiting while there was a flush in the bathroom "Jacquelyn, Mac? What are you guys doing here?" "We have questions that you can answer at the station" Jacquelyn ordered them.
Danny and Flack went into the interrogation room where Jayley sat, scared and lawyer less.
"What am I doing here?" She asked
"Do you know David Smith?" Danny asked
"No. Why?"
"Cause he's dead" Danny said showing a photo of the victim
"Oh my god" Jayley said genially shocked
"He was killed with your fathers' gun and your prints are on the safe where the gun was kept" Flack said
"Of course they are I lived there for 18 years"
"The thing is your prints and your mom and sister's prints are the only one on there and we know your mom and sister didn't do It"
"I want to talk to my sister"
"She's busy talking to your boyfriend"
Meanwhile Jac and Mac were in another interrogation room with Charlie
"Charlie you're a busy man, drug possession, possession of a weapon with intent to use and drug possession again" Jac said
"Yeah so what"
"So why don't we add murder to that list"
"Woah I didn't kill nobody"
"Your girlfriend's fathers gun killed the victim" Mac said
"How do you know it wasn't blondie over here" Charlie laughed pointing at Jac
"Because I don't sleep with scums like you"
"Are you high?" Mac asked knowing the answer
"No man I ain't stupid"
"Why did it take you so long to open the door when me and detective Taylor came over"
"I was in the middle of something if you know what I mean" Charlie laughed arrogantly
"Really? Because I think you were collecting drugs and flushing them" Jac said trying to control her anger
Meanwhile back in interrogation with Danny, Flack and Jayley
"here's the problem Jayley, so far all the evidence points to you but we don't think you did it" Danny said
"I didn't!"
"We think that Charlie killed David"
"He didn't"
"How do you know?"
"Because I was with him all night on Wednesday"
"How do you know the murder took place on Wednesday?"
"…. Because you said"
"No we didn't"
"Jac must have then"
"We'll check up on that"
Jacquelyn, Mac, Danny and Flack all came together after the interrogations
"How did Lucas go?" Flack asked talking of the main suspect Charlie Lucas
"We sent him off for a drug test which he'll fail" Mac said
"When you took your sister into custody did you tell her when the murder happened?" said flack
"No, why?"
"Because she mentioned the date of the murder"
"Oh god" Jac said feeling sick
Jac and Mac walked back into the lab
"Mac, Jac, Adam ran a full background check on David and up until 3 years ago, David Smith didn't exist" Stella told them
"David was in witness protection?" Mac asked
"It seems that way, Agents are on their way right now"
"Do we know why he was in there?"
"Connections to a major drug crime in Philadelphia. Whoever killed him most likely did it to keep him quite"
Jac's head went down in sadness and shame
"I'm so sorry Jacquelyn" Stella hugged Jac
Mac, Stella and Jac sat in Mac's office and waited for the agents.
A man and a women dressed in suits walked into his office
"Agents Henry and Tony" the woman greeted
"detective Taylor, Hayes, Bonasera" Mac greeted the two agents
"We need all evidence in the case involving David Smith. We will now be taking over the investigation"
"I thought we would be joining investigations" said Stella
"David smith was in our protection agency"
"And now he's dead" jac said wondering how they could possibly solve his murder if they couldn't even protect him.
"His murder happened in our jurisdiction" mac said
"We can do a joint investigation but the suspect is Detective Hayes' sister that could be a conflict of interest"
"My estranged sister's boyfriend is the suspect my sister is most likely a witness"
"Regardless you can't work this case"
"And Detective Taylor we also believe that you are the godfather of one of the suspect" The other agent said
"That's correct"
"And that's another conflict of interest" The woman agent spoke who was clearly the meaner one
"You can work with Detective Bonasera, Detective Messer and Dr Hawkes, they've worked this case since the beginning"
Agent Henry and tony went to talk to Flack, Danny, Stella and Sheldon in the conference room.
"We know that all of you are close to detective Hayes and detective Taylor but keep in mind this is another normal investigation. Any favouritism is prohibited and none of you should mention any details of the case to Detective Taylor or Hayes." Agent Henry said who was obviously the more superior agent
"Detective Flack can you stay back" Agent Henry ordered
Danny pat Flack's back and then left the room with Stella and Sheldon
"Detective, what is your relationship with detective Hayes?"
"Colleagues" flack shrugged
"You and detective Hayes were partners, went to crime scenes together, interrogations, suspects homes but then Jacquelyn got attacked by Neil Weir and wasn't your partner anymore" Agent Henry said with a tone that would make the toughest criminals confess.
"She was off work for two weeks this was her first case back"
"So you wouldn't tell her about the case because you're just colleagues"
"I would never tell information about an ongoing investigation"
"I hope that's true, detective"
"What did the feds want?" Danny asked flack
"Asking about my relationship with Hayes"
"What is your relationship?"
"Don't have one" Flack said toneless
Jacquelyn went to the police station where they were holding Jayley
""Jac! Can I go now?!" Jayley asked desperate
"No! you're a suspect in a murder investigation!" Jac said desperately
"But I didn't do it"
"The feds are here"
"What?! Why!'
"That's information I can't disclose"
"You believe me don't you?"
"I don't know what to believe anymore" Jac said walking away from the holding cell and over to flack's desk
"You know I can't talk to you" Flack said when Jac took a seat on his desk
"I'm not going to talk about the case"
"Then what's up?" Flak asked focusing on Jac instead of his computer screen
"What's the feds like?"
"How is that not talking about the case?"
"Because she's my sister and she might go to jail"
"Alright fine. Agent Alex Henry, she's mean, tough but she's a damn good agent. Agent Geno Tony is the "good cop" He doesn't do much Henry does it all"
"They're not going to arrest my sister are they?"
"Did she do it?"
"I don't know anymore" Jac said with tears brimming
Flack walked over to the cell where Jayley was
"Detective can I go now?" jayley jumped to her feet
"Your sister is freaking out; she's questioning whether you did it. How do you think her career is going to go with a sister in prison for murder"
"I didn't do it though"
"I believe you but the evidence doesn't. What I do believe is that you know something and you better tell me what it is"
"Charlie did it"
"What?"
"I needed money so I went to my mom's I distracted her while Charlie got the money. I know it was wrong but I was desperate. I swear I didn't know he took the gun. He took me to the club where David was he didn't tell me what he was going to do and then he shot him he told me if I told anyone he'd kill me" Jayley cried telling the details of the night.
Jac went straight to the station as soon as she heard
"Jac!" Her sister yelled running towards her and taking her into a hug
"Jayley are you ok?" Jac asked holding her face in her hands
"I am now" she cried
"what made you tell the truth?"
"Detective Flack"
Jac looked up and behind Jayley was Flack she whispered "thank you" to him.