Episode 100
Don't Leave Me This Way (05-07-06)

Opening Scene: We hear the music “Don’t Leave Me this Way” playing as we see everyone partying and dancing at the rehearsal dinner.  Jordan is there dancing with JD.  They look like they’re having fun together.  Then we fade into Jordan sleeping.  There is a knock on the door and Lily calls out.  Jordan slowly wakes up.  She sees a gun in her hand and turns around to see JD lying on the bed dead.  Lily enters.  She is shocked.  She tells Jordan to put down the gun and asks Jordan what happened.  She can’t remember.

Nigel and Bug are in the break room talking about last night.  Bug is hung-over.  Nigel is all cheery talking about Jeffery’s mom and how she can dance.  Then they start talking about how they can’t believe Lily is leaving.  Garret comes in and comments how it won’t be the same without her then his phone rings.  He answers it.

At the scene of crime – Hotel room.  Jordan is talking to Lu.  She asks who’s gun was in her hand.  Lu says it was Pollack’s.  Garret shows up.  Jordan wants to know why she would do this.  Garret tells Jordan to stop talking.  He goes to take her to get evidence off her.  Lu says she thinks it’s better if CSU does it.  Garret tells her to don’t even go there.

He starts testing Jordan.  Bug goes over JD’s body.  He tells Lily she doesn’t need to be here.  She says she does for Jordan.  Jeffery is at their wedding breakfast.  She called him but only got his voice mail.

Garret is talking to Jordan.  He wants to know how she got the bruise on her arm.  Jordan is freaked.  She says she did it once before…Garret tells her that they’re behind her.  Lu is watching on.  She’s not too happy.

Morgue: Woody is making a huge peanut butter sandwich.  Nigel comes in.  Woody obviously has no clue what happened.  Nigel clues him in.

At Hotel: There’s gun shot residue on Jordan.  Lily comes in.  They’re taking JD away.  Jordan wants to go with him.  Garret tells Jordan she can’t and he asks Lily to stay with Jordan.  Woody comes in.  He wants to know what happen.  Lu pulls him aside and says she’s sorry but it looks like an open and shut case that Jordan killed JD.  Woody wants to know why.  Lu says she doesn’t remember.  He starts walking towards her.  Lu tells Woody he shouldn’t be there.  He had a relationship with her.  He counters by says and “You had a relationship with me.”  He goes to Jordan.

Lily goes with a police officer to get her statement taken.  Jeffery shows up.  He wants to know if she’s ok.  Lily says she’s find but she had to help Jordan.  Jeffery tells him to just let them (the police) do their job.  Lily tries to argue with him.  Jeffery tells her to let it be.  She just has to let it play out.

Jordan in a room.  Lu and Woody are talking to her.  Lu: You don’t remember how many drinks you had?  Jordan says she’s never drunk herself into a blackout.  Woody steps up.  He suggests they try to walk through what she does remember.

Jordan says Pollack got back into town yesterday.  She says she called him last week.  She didn’t think he’s show up.

Flashback:  Jordan comes into her office and JD is there going thru her desk.  He immediately turns around and says “I’m not snooping.  Looking for aspirin.”  Jordan give’s him a surprise look and gets him the aspirin.

She asks if he’s here on a story  He says: “Sort of.  Not really.”  He claims he’s here to see her. 

In morgue: Nigel and Bug are autopsying the body.  Nigel is coming to Jordan’s defense.  He claims there is no way Jordan would shot him down in cold blood.  Nigel says it had to be accidental.  Bug says one shot in the head and one in the wall.  It’s not accidental.

Garret comes in and gives Nigel Jordan’s blood.  Tells him to run a tox screen on it.

Hotel room: Woody-Lu-Jordan still walking through Jordan’s memories.  Jordan continues her story.  Pollack wanted to go out for coffee with her, but she still had work to do.  She says she invited him to the party after the rehearsal dinner.

Flashback:  At the party.  Jordan and JD talking.  JD says the party is great but he was hoping they could be alone.  Bug breaks up the party to make a toast.  He’s clearly drunk.  He wants to make a toast…to Lily and…he can’t remember Jeffery’s name.  Lily turns to Jordan.  She wants to know what’s going on.  Jordan tells her not to worry, it’ll be fine.

Bug makes a toast.  He talks about Lily in a loving and beautiful way.  Then he starts to go into a comparison about love and some bug.  He does okay.

Morgue:  Nigel comes back with Jordan’s blood-alcohol level.  It was only .002.  She wasn’t drunk.  The guys say that might not be good.  They can’t argue she was out of her senses.

Hotel: Woody is showing Jordan a surveillance tape taken of her and JD at 11:10 the night before.  It shows Jordan and JD arguing somewhat.  Jordan wants to leave. But Pollack grabs her arm and gets her in the elevator.  Jordan doesn’t recall any of the video.  Lu says it’s a half hour before JD died.

Morgue:  Bug remarks how Pollack had a lot more to drink than Jordan.  Nigel is pulling something up on the screen.  Garret and Nigel see it and aren’t happy.

Garret entering the precinct.  Jordan turns and sees him.  She wants to know what’s wrong.  He tells her he thinks he should talk to the detectives first.  Jordan grabs the file out of his hand.  She looks at the x-ray and says “Oh my God.  It couldn’t have been self defense.”  Lu and Woody want to know what they see.  Garret says JD was shot in the back.  It was murder.  Jordan gets her mug shot taken as she’s charged with murder.

Jordan is standing before a judge.  She enters a plea of not guilty.  The Commonwealth request that Jordan be denied bail.  Her attorney argues against this.  Jeffery enters and comes forward.  He says the Commonwealth will not oppose bail.  They judge sets bail on the condition that Jordan isn’t allowed to go anywhere near the morgue.

Hotel room: Elaine comes in with Lily’s wedding dress.  Lily isn’t sure about going through with the wedding but Elaine says she can’t call it off.  She says if she doesn’t do it today then her wedding will be in front of a Justice of Peace, with no family or anything—is that how she wants to remember her wedding day.

Jordan is at police station getting her belongings back.  Woody comes up.  He offers to stay with her, but Jordan says she’s okay.  He says he wants to help.  She tells him to find out what happened then.  Woody nods and walks away.  Jordan takes her keys out of her bag.  On the key chain is a flash drive.

Flashback:  JD enters Jordan’s room at the hotel.  Jordan is dressed in the fancy purple dress.  She’s obviously getting ready to leave for the party (having come from the rehearsal dinner.)  JD gives her a kiss.  She kisses him back then stops.  JD says maybe they could be late for the party.  Jordan apologizes.  Says ‘maid of honor duties’ and they have all night.  JD responds: More than that I hope.  Jordan looks at him—a bit surprised maybe but smiles to cover any uncertain feelings.  They kiss.  Then JD asks her to give him five minutes to get ready.  Jordan remembers him putting his keys down and the memory disk was on his key chain.

At morgue: Jordan gives Nigel the memory disk. She says it’s Pollack’s and wants to know what it on it.  Nigel wants to know why he put it on her key chain.  Jordan doesn’t know.  Jordan suddenly leaves the room telling Nigel she’s not here.

Garret enters.  He tells Nigel that Jordan is on bail and if she shows up here her bail is revoked so for his own good don’t let her come here.  Nigel says her would never…Garret doesn’t believe him.  Warns him again then leaves. 

Jordan comes back in and Nigel flips out at her.  Jordan says no one saw her.  She’ll leave as soon as he shows her what’s on the file.  He says they’re encrypted and he has to de-crypt.  He tells her to go and he’ll call her when he gets anything.

At precinct.  Woody is going over the file.  Lu comes up.  She wants to know what he’s hoping to find.  He says they might have missed something.  Lu says okay, then let’s go over it again. Woody gives her a look.  He doesn’t respond.  Lu says the evidence says she did it.  You have to find a way to accept it.  Woody responds by saying you don’t really know her.  Lu says he’s the one who wanted in on this case.  He has to accept it.  Woody says he made a mistake then.  He won’t help her bring him down.

Jordan walks into now empty bar where the party was last night.

Flashback: She remembers the dancing. 

Lily runs in, interrupting her memory.  Lily gives Jordan a hug.  She wants to know what she can do to help.  Jordan tells her to not call off her wedding.  She doesn’t want to screw it up for Lily.  Lily wants to know if tox was wrong maybe.  She had a couple of drinks…  Jordan turns around to look over the bar.

Flashback: She is picking up their drinks.  She takes a sip and goes ‘wow’ that’s strong. Pollack says she got his drink—not a girly drink—and goes to take it, but Jordan won’t let him.  She says she’s not girly and keeps his drink and he drinks hers.

Nigel comes into the bar bringing Jordan back to the present.  He got to the files.  They were photographs.  Nigel comes in with Bug and they explain how JD took Jordan’s access card to get into the morgue’s old cold case files.  He then copied the pictures of the files he did to a flash drive which he left on Jordan’s key chain.  He wanted Jordan to find them or someone NOT to find them.  Jordan then explains how she drank Pollack drink at the party—it was drugged.  She got knocked out instead of Pollack, which is why she doesn’t remember anything.

Bug, Nigel, Jordan and Lily are in her suit going over the autopsy files that were from four cases. They’re trying to find out what all these four random murders had in common.  Jordan is a bit resigned.  She thinks that JD was just using her to get access to the morgue and that that’s the only reason he came back.  Lily and Bug tell her that she doesn’t now that for sure.  JD could have come back for her.

There’s a knock at the door.  It’s Jeffery.  He calls out Lily’s name.  The guys look at each other.  They decide they don’t want Jeffery to know about what they’re doing yet.  Lily goes to the door and exits her suit.  She talks with Jeffery in the hall.  He wants to know what he should do.  The caterer is there and the photographer wants to start setting up.  Lily tells Jeffery she’ll be ready by six.  Jeffery smiles, relieve and walks away.

In the morgue.  Garret is autopsying JD.  Lu enters.  Garret says she didn’t have to arrest her.  Lu says “are you kidding?”  She goes over all the reasons that the case is open and shut case and how the clues all lead to Jordan.  He says JD has bruising on the chest.  He was in a fight about a week ago.  Lu agrees to look into it.

At the suite:  Nigel has found what the link between all four bodies where.  All four cases the evidence was clear cut it was murder but all of the accused were acquitted.  Lily wants to know what that means.  The same judge presided over all four cases: Judge Clarence Gordon of the Boston Superior Court.  He was recently appointed to the federal bench in Washington DC.  Exactly where JD has been these past months.  They figure that the judge had JD drugged (only Jordan drank the drink by accident) shot and killed him and framed Jordan.

Bug says they need to identify the drug used in the drink.  Jordan tells Bug to go back to the morgue and run every imaginable test he can to find it.  Jordan tells Nigel to come with her, and Lily to ‘go get married’.   Nigel and Jordan exit the room.

Bug is left with Lily.  She sighs.  This isn’t how she thought her wedding day would be.  Lily starts to explain how in Judaism a couple is supposed to say a cleansing prayer before they can get married so they can start with a clean plate.  She wonders how she can go through with that when she can’t even tell Jeffery what they were really doing.  Bug tries to comfort her.  Lily says she’s about to marry him.  “Why couldn’t she trust him?”  She tells Bug to go.

In the bar.  They’re going over  the martini glasses.  There’s no thing on them.  Jordan ask him about the bar tending last night.  She wants to know if anyone could have slipped something into the drinks.  The bartender says there were three hidden video camera in the place that could have captured someone slipping something into a drink.  Only the police have the tapes.  Nigel says there is no way they can get Lu to give them the tapes on a hunch.  Jordan gets a look in her eyes.

She’s at the precinct.  She walks in and finds Woody.  She wants him to get the tape.  He wants to know why.  She explains what they know.  Woody tells her he took himself off the case.  He didn’t want to help ‘them’ put her away.  Jordan pleads with him.  Tells him to get the tape for her.

Woody is in Lu’s office.  He’s going through an evidence box.  Lu walks in on him.  She wants to know what he’s doing.  He makes up a lame excuse about losing his cell phone and looking for it.  Lu tells him it’s on his belt.  She wants to know what he was doing with the evidence.  She says there is no way around it.  Woody gets mad.  He says he wouldn’t tamper with the evidence and that she can check everything with the inventory list.  Lu says she thinks he would do anything to protect Jordan.  Woody accuses her of being jealous.  Lu says she has bent over backwards to be fair to her.  Woody explodes.  He asks ‘Are we done here?’  Lu says yes.  Woody says “No are we DONE.” And walks out leaving Lu behind.

In the morgue.  Nigel wants to know how much trouble Woody is going to be in for taking this video.  Bug tells Nigel to worry about them.  Jordan stops Nigel as they come across the scene where Jordan and JD’s drinks were being made.  The waitress who picked up their drinks didn’t slip anything into their drinks so it could only be the bartender.

Garret comes in.  He asks Jordan if she’s out of her mind.  He wants to know where they got the video.  Nigel lies and says the hotel.  Garret tells him to think about changing his answer.  He takes the tape out and tells Jordan to get the hell out of there.  Jordan tells him they’re on to something.  He wants her to leave.  Jordan goes.  Garret starts to yell at Nigel and Bug.  He tells Nigel he’s not surprised about him being involved but Bug?  They shout back and ask him what he’s going to do?  Fire them?

Jordan goes into one of the offices and looks up the name of the bartender to get his address.

Lu walks in on Garret arguing with Nigel and Bug.  She grabs the tape out of his hand.  She wants to know where they got it.  Nigel says he stole it.  Lu doesn’t believe him.  She says she knows who stole it.  She wants to know how it got ‘here’ to the morgue.  She tells them if they don’t tell her they’ll tell a judge.  Garret tells Nigel and Bug to leave.  He turns back to Lu.  He tells her to calm down.  He’ll tell her what she wants, but she better not come into his morgue and threaten his people.

In other room, the information on Lance Cooke (the bartender comes up on the screen.  Jordan copies the info and goes to leave.  She sees Lu with Garret and heads towards the crypt.  When she gets in there, JD’s body is on the table.  She’s distraught.  She takes a moment to pause by it.

In lab: Lu asks Garret if Jordan was here.  He responds that it would be a violation of her bail terms.  Lu responds by saying when she runs prints on the tape Jordan’s prints won’t be on it right?  Garret tells her they’re all after the same thing here—the truth.  She gives him a look and goes to walk out.  She turns around to tell him the bruising on Pollack’s chest was from a car accident he was in last week—no one beat JD up.  She leaves and goes checking the rest of the morgue for Jordan.  She doesn’t find Jordan. 

At the wedding:  Everyone is there.  Nigel is pacing with Garret.  He doesn’t want to be there.  He’s worried about Jordan.  Garret tells him to suck it up for Lily.  And that he’s lucky he’s not in front of a judge right now.  Woody comes up.  He tells them that Lu has a warrant for Jordan’s arrest—for violating her bail.  Woody can’t find her.  He’s been to her apartment and left her messages.  Woody wonders where Bug is.  Garret says he decided he didn’t want to be here and is at the morgue.

Lily comes down.  She’s not dressed.  Elaine gives her a look-she’s not pleased.  Lily pulls Jeffery away.  She talks to him.  She says she sorry, but she can’t do this.  Jeffery thinks she means get married today.  Lily explains that she means ever.  She can’t marry him.  She gives him back the ring and says she’s sorry.  Then she apologizes to everyone else at the reception and leaves.

Jordan is waiting outside Lance’s apartment.  She tries talking to him.  She accuses him of killing her.  He says he didn’t.  Jordan roughs him up a little.  She wants to know who killed JD.  Lance says some guy paid him $1000 bucks to do it.  Suddenly shots ring out and Lance gets hit.  Jordan goes running.

Lily comes into the office.  Bug is surprised to see her.  She wants to know why he isn’t at her wedding.  Bug says he couldn’t watch her marry him.  Then he asks why she isn’t at her wedding.  She says she couldn’t marry him.  Bug asks why and she says: he’s not you.

In alley.  Garret and Woody are at the scene.  Garret tells Woody that he’s the bartender.  Lu shows up just as Nigel says there are plenty of prints on the body.  She tells Nigel to run them against Jordan’s.  Woody tells her it’s not her case.  Lu explains why it is, since he’s linked to Jordan.  She asks Woody where she is.  Says he’ll be an accessory if he doesn’t help.  Woody says he has no idea where she is.  The prints come back as Jordan’s.

Jordan is at a pawn shop.  She’s trying to buy a gun.  The guy insists he doesn’t sell guns.  Jordan puts $500 on the table.  He shows her a gun.  She goes to take it and he says it’ll be another $500.  She gives it to him.  Takes the gun.  Her phone starts ringing.  She pockets the gun.

Garret leaves a message on her phone.  He tells her not to do anything stupid.  That they’re there for her.

Jordan walks out of pawn shop and tosses her phone in a trash bin.  We see an image of the capitol behind her.