Episode 97
Thin Ice (04-16-06)

Play by Play Synopsis:

Teaser: Jordan enters precinct.  She has a present in her hands.  She stops outside a door and there is Woody’s name on it.  Opens the door and walks into Woody’s office.  Woody and Lu are kissing.   Jordan stops.  She puts the package on the table and says congrats on your own office Woody.  Woody tries to break in.  Jordan’s phone starts ringing and she walks out.

At hospital:  Jordan meets Brandau.  He wants Jordan to do examination of a victim who claims she was raped.  Lu shows up.  Brandau says she and Jordan will be working together.  He wants them to do everything by the book.  This is a big case.  The person she claims raped her is Quentin the star baseball player.

Office/Room with Garret: See baseball player—Quentin.  He’s talking with Garret.  The player says he’s not a rapist.

Hospital: Lu talking with girl—Shannon.  Jordan is doing the exam.  Shannon is explaining how she followed him from the bar.  She was drunk.  She started talking with him, making up stuff.  He took to her and invited her up to his room.

Room: Quentin says tons of people were following him at the restaurant/bar.  He doesn’t like attention.  One girl he started talking with.  Invited her up to his room.  He’s not sure why he did that.  He’s married.  Now will have to deal with his wife.  He says it was a mistake, but it wasn’t rape.

Hospital:  Shannon says talked her way to him.  She remembers waking up and taking a shower.  And then he threw her out.

Room: Quinton says slept with her.  She didn’t say no.  She took a shower then left.

Act One: In Break room and they’re (Nigel, Bug, Lily, Jordan) all talking about Quentin.    They talking about how people of ‘high power’ or ‘big names’ seem to get away with these things.  And Nigel says maybe he is innocent.  Maybe the girl is lying.  Jordan is quite through all of this.

Woody comes in.  He wants to talk with Jordan.  She says there’s nothing to talk about.

Freight elevator:  Big block of ice.  There’s a man in there.  He was found on Mount Washington.  It’s a Fighter pilot from 1950.  Nigel and Bug do their thing to get the ice off the guy.  Woody is there watching.  They remove the ice and the body is preserved.  He’s missing his dog tags.  So they don’t know who he is.

Nigel takes closer look.  He sees something else in the ice.  It’s a picture—of a wife and a son.  They guess that the son is probably 60 by now.

Lily meets with Brandau.  Lily congratulates him on getting the big case.  He says it’s a nightmare.  He thinks Rene is just waiting for him to screw up.  Brandau’s phone starts ringing—to Beethoven.  It’s Walcott.

Jordan in lab.  She’s going over the evidence.  Lu comes in. Ask how she’s doing.  She has nothing on Quentin that proves he raped her.

Shannon was on antidepressants and drinking alcohol.  It explains why she blacked out.  Garret is testing the evidence.  He doesn’t get a match on the semen.  It’s not Quentin’s.  They research further and realize that Shannon slept with two people that day.

Lu interviewing Shannon again.  They want to know what really happen.  She says she slept with her boy friend Drew after she left the hotel.  She says he didn’t do anything wrong.  Lu gives the impression she doesn’t believe her.  Shannon goes off shouting how she thought she was supposed to stand up to her rapist.  That it didn’t matter who she was or what the circumstances where that she should still be taken seriously.

Morgue: Lily comes in.  She’s got nothing on the dead soldier.  Nigel is trying to take a dental x-ray.  Bug and Nigel are going at it.  Nigel says they can’t wait till he thaws.  They need to find out who this man is now so that they can find the son and let him see his father before he starts to decay.  He gets very emotional about it.

Lu comes into Woody’s office.  He’s playing with Jordan’s gift (a dart board).   Lu says he should have talked with Jordan.  Woody says he tried but Jordan didn’t want to discuss it…Lu comments that she meant he should have tried before today.

Jordan and Lu arrive at Shannon’s place.  She killed herself.  Jordan makes a comment to Lu: kind of tough when you feel like the world is against you (implying that Lu didn’t believe the girl).  Lu says she was just trying to get to the truth.  Jordan goes to look at body.  She looks at knot around neck and says this was staged.  She was strangled.  She didn’t hang herself.

Act Two:  Drew is talking with Lu.  He’s frustrated that they’re not doing anything.  Lu says whoever did it will pay.  Jordan informs Lu that she died about 3 hours ago.

Garret enters.  Wants to know what they have.  Jordan explains that the killer wiped down everything with cleaning agent.  Jordan and Lu want a warrant to go get evidence off of Quentin.  Brandau explains he has nothing to get a warrant with.  They need to get him some proof.  He can’t get them a warrant until they do.

Jordan and Lu say they can talk to Quentin and ask for his cooperation.  Hopper lets them in.  He explains he looks out for Quentin.  They’re friends.  Have been since grade school

Quentin says he wants to help.  His wife is there.  She defends him.  Says he didn’t do it.  She says Quentin was with her last night.  They went out to dinner.  Talked.  Jordan says she’ll turn over every stone.  If it wasn’t him she’ll prove it.  He lets them check him for trace.

Morgue: Woody is looking at the dead soldier. Bug comes in.  Nigel comes in, he knows who the guy was.   He was born in 1924.  Woody wants to know how he found out.  There was a registry for missing soldiers.  He’s Lt. Robert Nicolson.  The son is coming in, he already contacted him.

Conference room: Son is there.  Explaining how he was 5 when his father disappeared.  He says the air force told them there was a plane missing but didn’t know anything else.  They let him go see his father.  The man looks at the dead body and says that’s not him.  He freaks out and yells at Nigel for getting his hopes up.  Nigel looks crush.

Lab: Jordan going over evidence.  Brandau enters.  Jordan explains how Shannon’s cervix is bruised.  It’s not done by consensual sex.  Jordan says she was brutalized.  Brandau has no sympathy.  Says they have nothing.  A bruised cervix is not evidence.  Jordan accuses him of being afraid.  She starts yelling at him.  Brandau gets very uppity and suggest to Garret (who’s in the room with them) that Jordan be reassigned.  He walks out.  Garret says he thinks it best if he takes over.  Jordan looks frustrated.

Act Three: Lily looks out office as Jordan pass.  She stops her.  Lily heard what happen in the lab with Brandau.  Lily blows up at Jordan telling her how hard Jeffery is working and Jordan is not helping, instead Jordan of attacking Brandau.  Jordan looks shocked and just walks away from Lily.

Nigel in lab.  Bug comes in.  Nigel asks if Bug is okay.  Bug says he’s fine, but how is Nigel doing?  Nigel says he got carried away.  He wanted a happy ending.  But that’s not like real life.  Bug picks up that he’s talking about his father.  Nigel says hasn’t seen or spoken to his father in years.

The dead man in the morgue is Lt. Frank Rigroski.  Says they were both located from same division.  Nigel gets that the two must have been flying together and then Lt. Robert Nicolson must still be out there somewhere.

Garret comes into Morgue and Lu is there.  She seems upset.  She says she didn’t believe Shannon yet Jordan did.  Garret gives Lu new info.  There were cigar leaves—traces of it on Shannon.

Precinct: Lu brings Quentin’s friend (Cooper) into the interrogation room.  He says he offered her money to leave Quentin alone and drop the charges.  She wouldn’t take it.    He says that a pizza guy saw him.  When he rang he left.  A lawyer comes in.  Stops interview.

Morgue: Bug comes in says the government can’t do a search for Lt. Frank Rigroski for another 14 days. Nigel has been doing some research.  There were pine needles cause in the cockpit of the seat that was brought in.  Nigel says he was able to use them to determined where the plane was located (with in a 500’ area)  Nigel says Mr. Nicolson should be around here points to map.  He says they’re going up there.  Bug objects but Nigel doesn’t listen.

Woody comes into lab.  He asks Jordan what she’s doing.  Woody asks if he can help.  A beeper goes of. Jordan says there is a DNA match with the swab she took recently from Quentin’s mouth—that matches what was on Shannon the first time.  There was sperm in Quinton’s mouth (when the swabbed him the second time).  Woody asks how that’s possible.  They realize that maybe Quentin is gay.  Maybe he never had sex with the girl in the first place…

Act Four: Jordan and Bug in the wilderness hiking.  Bug says he’s not sure if he can feel his toes.  Nigel says not that cold.   Nigel throws snowball at him.  Bug says fine I’ll stop complaining. 

Nigel spots the plane.  There is no one there.  Belt seat is unbuckled.  Maybe Lt. Frank Rigroski walked away.  He could be anywhere.  Bug wants to go.  Nigel says go then.  He’s staying.  Bug tries to convince Nigel to leave.  Bug burst out: “Go back to the morgue pick up the phone and call your dad.”  Nigel looks sad.  He explains how his father got remarried a year ago.  Has a new son.  Frankie.  Nigel’s brother told him.  His dad never said anything.  Never even called him to let him know.

Bug looks at Nigel and says they’re friends where do you begin searching.  Nigel looks happier.

Woody’s office:  Lu wants to know how the talk went.  Woody stumbles.  Lu gets it.  She says he didn’t talk with her.  Woody makes up excuse that Jordan was working on case.  Lu says she’s off it.  Woody says you don’t know Jordan.  Then Lu explodes.  Says he thinks that he’s afraid to tell her.  That he’s trying to keep his options open.  She storms out of office.

Mountain: Nigel and Bug are climbing, exhausted.  He says there has got to be an easier way.  Nigel pulls out lap top/map.  They talk it out and conclude that he was probably heading somewhere flat.  Where he could set off flares.

Jordan at Quentin’s place.  She says she doesn’t think he did it, but she wants to know who he’s covering for.  Jordan pushes him.  She says he needs to come forward.  If he doesn’t come forward he’s just as guilty.  He says he’s worked his whole life for to get to this point to play baseball.  He can’t jeopardize that now.  Jordan wants to know at what cost…that he’d even sacrificed who he is?  That his secret was more important than doing what’s right.  Wife comes up.  Quentin tells Jordan to get lost.

Act Five:  Lu is pacing in morgue.  Garret comes up.  He asks if everything is ok.  She’s fine.  Wants to know what Garret has.  Garret says that there was digested pizza so Cooper was telling truth.  She had to have died a few hours after eating pizza.  They bring boyfriend in.  Drew says she slept with him after she slept with another guy—he didn’t believe that she was raped.  He got mad that she could do that to him. 

Morgue: Lily calls to Jordan.  She goes into her office.  Lily says sorry she took her head off yesterday.  Quentin comes in.  He wants to talk with Jordan.  Quinton explains what happened.  He says he called Cooper to come get Shannon and get her out of his room.  When he came back with his boyfriend they found him raping her.  That both him and boyfriend will testify.

Nigel in crypt with son.  There is a skeleton on the table.  Explains how they found his father and what happened to him out there.

Bug tells Nigel he did a good thing.  Nigel says should I call him?  Bug says yeah you could.  Bug says he learned something this year.  Sometimes better to just let go.

Precinct:  Cooper wants to know why arrested him again.  Lu explains how he’s under arrest for raping Shannon...his ‘friend’ came forward. 

Brandau and Jordan are in the other room watching Lu.  Brandau apologizes to Jordan.  He says if this is what happens when Jordan gets thrown off the case he wants her on his next one.  Since she never really gave up on the case and kept working on solving it.

Lily is standing with Bug outside of lab.  She tells Bug he did good thing, Bug says Nigel did the good thing.

Garret comes into Jordan’s office.  He wants to know what she’s doing if she has a date?  She looks sad and says no.  Garret asks if everything is okay.  She says yeah.  It’s not too bad.  Today she helped put a rapist away.  That kind of out weighs not having a date.  Garret says well you’ve got a date now.  Meet me at the place (restaurant) around the corner, my treat.