....but head CSI boss man Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his team have to track down a murderer who is getting his inspiration from that legendary board game from Milton and Bradley. It starts with nineteen-year-old ballerina Ellen White (Sierra Hoyle) who was found hanging by the neck above the stage where a ballet company was practicing at the Manhattan Conservatory of Dance. She had been an understudy to veteran dancer Alexa Holdman (Ariana Emnace) who might have made a good suspect, but she and the rest of the ballet troupe were not around at the time of the mysterious killing. Mac takes time to apologize to Christine Whitney (Megan Dodds) for his being a complete A-hole and not revealing that he has had a bad case of memory issues as a result of the shooting that felled him at the pharmacy, and it's called aphasia and Mac didn't want to come off as weak in front of his loving lady. Which was an issue because Christine had been acting like a giddy teenage girl in love for the very first time, with butterflies in her stomach and laughter in her voice. And now this. It's not fair. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) processed the rope from the stage, and found Civil War-era gunpowder. A frantic Adam Ross (A. J. Buckley) tells Danny that he's innocent of a prank played on his better half Lindsay Monroe Messer (Anna Belknap); she has rings around her eyes! Rings that look like they're made from ink! Somebody had inked the microscope used by Lindsay, and that's why she has rings around her eyes! The second murder victim had been strangled, as determined by that beloved pathologist Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy), and it looks like that Jane Doe was done in by the same malefactor who killed Ellen White. And Lindsay Monroe Messer is hell bound on trying to find out who would prank her. She is a cutie-pie, she gets along great, she thinks Danny hung the moon, so who would prank her? Police detectives Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) and Jamie Novato (Natalie Martinez) interview stick-up artist Sam Cross (Ben Ciaramello) who helped himself to Ellen's jewelry. Christine Whitney drops by to say hello and to let Mac that it's okay to be vulnerable about some things, and Lindsay drops by as well and is sporting sunglasses. To hide the dye around her eyes. The pistol used in the killing actually belonged to headshrinker Carly Emerson (Tara Summers), and the red-haired murder victim named Lisa Weston (Michelle Winters) was killed in Hell's Kitchen. The killer is playing a macabre version of Clue! The third murder victim is found on a Goofy Golf site on a carpet of green, murdered by a candlestick! In the middle of Central Park! At night! And Lindsay is still looking like somebody punched her in the eyeballs and blackened them. She is out for revenge. She and Danny arrive at Central Park and gaze upon a snow leopard, and declares that their daughter Lucy is going to be jealous that she didn't get to see the spotted kitty cat. But it turns out that there's another suspect: Steve Davis (Jake Thomas), a one-time patient of Dr. Emerson who is found tied up at her apartment, courtesy of Davis himself. And the next stop is a college library at Chelsea University! And Steve Davis is going after a faculty member. He'd been Dr. Emerson's patient being treated for obsessive compulsive disorder, until she stopped treating him when he became obsessed with her. Davis didn't take the turndown from the psychiatrist very well, of course, so he's been on a rampage. Mac chases Davis after the latter stabbed a faculty member, and nabs him. Don Flack declares "Mac in the lounge with the Glock." Jamie Lovato shakes her lovely head and smiles. The faculty member is going to live, of course. And Danny reluctantly admits that he worked up the prank, only Adam was the intended target. And Mac gets with Christine at her restaurant and bares his feelings by saying "I love you." A darned good episode all around.
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