Episode 85
Total Recall (10-30-05)

Play by Play Synopsis:

Opening Scene

In Jordan’s apartment, the camera is scanning the room and we see Jordan in the bed naked. JD brings in coffee and wakes up Jordan. They talk and Jordan comments on how she is not used to people doing things for her (like JD bringing the coffee). JD says that maybe she should think about getting used to it, and she agrees.

JD’s cell phone rings and has a call on a story. Jordan does not want him to leave yet…she jokes about how he must be too good for morning sex being that he was ready to leave already. She bargains with him and convinces him to stay for an extra 20 minutes.

The Police Station: Lu’s Office

Woody is in a session with Lu. They are talking about Cal. Lu comments on how Woody might feel responsible for Cal being a bit troubled, being as he basically raised him. Woody changes the subject quickly when he notices her Diploma on the wall and the fact that she just got out of “Psych School” two years ago. Lu jumps right back on track and tells Woody he needs to be serious and if he doesn’t look at some of his problems and dig deeper he is wasting both their time. Woody gets a call to a crime scene and leaves.

Crime Scene One

Woody is updating Macy on the case. The victims name is Robert Stockton, was 34 years old and went missing about 10 years ago. He was a teacher just about to get married. A hiker found the body. Bug is the ME assigned to the case. There is a knife found on the scene and Woody takes it from one of the officers. Just then he notices Jordan’s car pull up; she is dropping off JD. Thanking Jordan for the ride, JD comes to the drivers side of the car and gives Jordan a kiss goodbye. Woody is watching this whole time and Jordan and he make eye contact for a brief moment after JD walks away. Then Macy comes to get the knife from Woody and notices the media begging for a statement. He goes to give the statement, but Woody suggests that he keep the knife a secret for the time being. Then Woody runs into JD and “tips” him, telling him that the victim was stabbed with an ice pick.

At the Police Station

A young boy walks into the station and stops to talk to Woody. He tells Woody that the victim was his teacher, and he confesses to the murder, claiming that he did not remember he did it until he saw the coverage on the news.

At the Police Station, in the Interrogation Room

Woody and the boy are talking (while Lu is looking on through the glass mirror). The boy is telling him he doesn’t know why he did it. The man was his soccer coach, he helped him in school, and he stabbed him. Mr. Stockton was the one who encouraged him to try out for the team, and was the reason he played. Woody points out that the boy would have only been 10 years old when this crime was committed. The boy agrees, but still sticks to his story that he committed the murder. That is all the boy can remember. Woody thinks that the boy is making all this up because he could have just scene it on the news and is just looking for some attention, and he suggests to the boy that he just go get himself some help.

Woody leaves the interrogation room and runs in to Lu in the hallway. He asks her if she is watching him, but she jumps back and says she was just observing the subject (the boy) she was assigned. Woody does not think that the boy did it, and tries to convince Lu. She believes the boy represses the memory to avoid a traumatic experience or abuse. Woody disagrees and thinks the boy is just seeking attention. Lu wants to talk to the boy, and Woody is not so sure about that. Lu just says she will get the Captains permission to talk to the boy.

Crime Scene Two

Jordan and Nigel enter an apartment where there are two dead people (a husband and wife…Ben and Eleanor Doyle). The place is completely trashed. Jordan immediately notices all the pictures around; there are some of the Doyle’s together and also some of a little girl, even though the apartment did not seem to have a child’s room. Jordan also comes across an anniversary card from Ben to Eleanor. She tends to be more upset than normal at a crime scene, and Nigel notices.

The Morgue

Macy is in his office sneaking a drink into his cup. Just as he gets the bottle back in his drawer Bug comes in his door. He has information about the knife…it matches the incisions in the victim. Garret comments on how a man can fall off the face of the earth and no one blinks an eye. He comments on how everyone is dispensable and disposable. Bug disagrees.

While examining the body, Bug shows Macy that there is a cloth residue on the body different than any of the clothes he was wearing. Also, there was soap residue on the upper torso of the body. The question now is “Why did he have soap on his body if he was killed in the woods?”

The Morgue: Trace Evidence Room

Nigel and Jordan are now examining the bodies of Ben and Eleanor Doyle. Jordan notices some skin tissue from under Eleanor’s fingernails and believes this will help them find their killer. Nigel informs Jordan that the pictures she saw in the apartment of the little girl were of the Doyle’s daughter. She died of leukemia 10 years ago when she was 6 years old. Jordan comments on if they (the Doyle’s) could get through that they could get through anything.

JD enters the Trace Evidence room that Nigel and Jordan are in and wants to talk with Jordan. He comments on how Woody misinformed him on some information about the case involving the knife. Then JD starts to whisper to Jordan about wanting to ask her something, not sure if their dating is public information yet or not. Jordan assures him he can speak in a normal voice. JD continues to invite Jordan to a cottage at Martha’s Vineyard for the weekend. After a moment’s hesitation, Jordan accepts JD’s offer. JD leaves the room and as Jordan turns around she notices Nigel grinning at her.

Next enters Jeffery Brandau from the ADA’s office into the Trace Evidence room looking for Jordan. He basically just wants to know which one of them died first. Jordan says that does not matter, they just need to focus on finding the killer. Brandau informs them that they killed each other. Jordan says there is no way, what with the love letters and photos. Also, the screen in the upstairs window had been ripped into. Brandau informs Nigel and Jordan that there is a history of domestic abuse between them. Both of them filed restraining orders on each other, and they filed for divorce 6 times in the last 10 years. Jordan still does not believe this and thinks there is still a killer out there somewhere. Brandau continues to ask which one of them died first. Nigel’s computer beeps, and he informs Jordan that the hairs clutched in Mrs. Doyle’s hand were her husbands.

The Police Department

Lu is in an interrogation room with the boy. She confirms that it is really hard to believe that it is possible that he committed the murder because he was so young at the time. He sticks to his story that he is the one who murdered Mr. Stockton.

Woody is visiting with Mr. Stockton’s fiancée. He is trying to find out if Robert had any enemies, or if there was anyone who might want to hurt him. This entire time people thought he just ran away, and she was relived that he was found, and now she can try to grieve. Woody thanks her for taking time away from her family to visit with him, and she informs him that she never got married. Woody promises he will find out who did this.

Lu and Woody run into each other in the hall again. Lu tells Woody that she thinks that the boy (Bryan Haley) is telling the truth and that he killed Robert Stockton. Woody disagrees, but goes along with Lu’s idea to take Bryan to the crime scene to see if he can remember anything that happened. He scornfully tells Lu that it is probably a waste of time and that the evidence he is looking for he is not going to find watching her psychoanalyze anyone. That is when Lu figures out that to Woody, this is all about him being right and her being wrong….it has nothing to do with collecting evidence.

Robert Stockton’s Crime Scene

Lu is talking to Bryan, trying to help him recollect what went on the day that Robert was killed. Woody drags Bryan to the crime tape, where Robert Stockton’s body was found and pressures him to remember something. He comments to Bryan on how this is all a joke and that he did not do anything. Bryan sticks to his story that he killed Mr. Stockton. Lu calms everybody down and lets them know that these things take time. They all start walking away from the crime scene when Bryan stops and says he remembers the knife. He describes it to Woody saying that it was his grandfathers, and it matches the knife they found at the crime scene earlier that day. They know he must be telling the truth because that information was not released to the media.

The Police Station

In an interrogation room Woody is talking to Bryan’s mother telling her that Bryan remembers certain details of the crime. Woody shows her a picture of the knife, and she says that her father (Bryan’s grandfather) gave it to Bryan. She is obviously upset and begins to breathe deeply. Her other son, Craig, is there and tells her to calm down, and then informs Woody and Lu that she has diabetes and heart trouble. She goes on to tell them that Bryan was very upset when Mr. Stockton went missing. They were very close…apparently Bryan did not do very well in school and Mr. Stockton helped him get more involved. Mrs. Healy begins to breath heavily again and her son requests that they take a break.

In the hallway outside the interrogation room Woody and Lu talk with Craig. He does not think that Bryan committed the murder. He said that after Mr. Stockton went missing that Bryan started getting into fights and his grades started to fall.

Bryan comes out of one of the other rooms. Craig goes running to him to see if he is doing ok. He assures him that everything is going to be all right, and gives him a hug.

Now Woody and Lu have a discussion. Woody comments to Lu on how she is there to “rub it in his face” about how she was right and he was wrong. Lu, however, says that it is not about who is right or wrong…she thinks that because Mr. Stockton was so close to Bryan that maybe he was abusing him. This in turn would give Bryan a motive for murder. Woody is not buying it though. Woody gets a call on his cell from the morgue and they apparently have a clue.

The Morgue

Garret and Bug are working together and inform Woody that the reason Bryan can not remember the crime scene is because the location in the woods where Mr. Stockton’s body was found is not the crime scene. He had soap on the entire upper half of his body which indicates he was taking a shower. Bug narrows down the soap to distributors to the schools. The school where Bryan Healy went and Mr. Stockton worked was just a half a mile from where the body was found in the woods.

The Morgue: Autopsy Room

Nigel comes into an autopsy room where Jordan is working on Mrs. Doyle’s body. She finds that there is no hemorrhaging around the wound in her chest, so it is not the cause of death. Nigel says that the tissue scrapings he took confirmed that Mrs. Doyle’s had Mr. Doyle’s skin under her fingernails, and he had hers under his. So obviously they were fighting with each other….but Jordan is not buying it. She still believes there was someone else in their apartment. Nigel can not understand why she does not believe that they killed each other. Nothing seems to match the wound on Mr. Doyle’s head, so they think maybe CSU missed something. Jordan leaves the autopsy room, and Nigel is left just standing there. Jordan comes back in, wondering if Nigel is coming. Of course Nigel smiles, excited that Jordan included him in her adventure back to the Doyle’s apartment.

Ben and Eleanor Doyle’s Apartment

Jordan is still reading the cards and Nigel is looking for the murder weapon. They can not seem to find anything that matches the wound on Mr. Doyle’s head, so Jordan thinks that maybe the killer took it with him. Nigel does not really think that the killer would do such a thing. Just then, Jeffrey Brandau comes into the apartment. Apparently he went to the morgue and was told he could find Jordan and Nigel at the Doyle crime scene. He is confused as to why they are there and not in the morgue determining time of death for Mr. and Mrs. Doyle. Jordan tells him to take a look around at the trashed apartment. She asks Brandau if he still thinks they killed each other, and he says yes. Jordan sticks to her theory that the killer came in through the screen. She points out the anniversary card that Ben wrote to Eleanor, and the fact that they survived losing a child together. If they could get through that they could get through anything. Nigel finally asks Brandau why the DA’s office is so interested in this case. Brandau is hesitant so Jordan threatens to stall time of death for months. He cracks and tells them that his office has a pool going to see which one kills the other first, when, and how. Jordan is appalled that he has money on this. Nigel on the other hand cracks a smile and asks Brandau what he had his money on. Jordan just rolls her eyes and walks away.

John Adams Middle School

Garret, Bug, and Woody get information from a school official who shows them where the school showers used to be. It is now an equipment room that was redone after Stockton disappeared. Garret notices that the old ceiling tile is still there, and Woody gets a sledge hammer and breaks down the wall, uncovering the showers. Bug comes in and sprays, checking for blood stains with the UV light. They have found their crime scene. Woody starts thinking about how Bryan could have killed Mr. Stockton and dragged his body all the way out to the woods. They then notice a laundry bin, large enough for a body to be carried in.

The Police Department

Woody is looking though the old paperwork and finds that an old laundry bin was found stuck in the mud about 200 feet from where Mr. Stockton was found dead. Bug then comments that the towels they found in the locker room matched the fibers found on Mr. Stockton’s clothing. Macy states that there is a service road behind the school that they must have used to transport the body, and then ditched it when they were done burying the body. They still can not figure out how a 10 year old boy could have done this. Then Mrs. Healy shows up and says she wants to confess to the murder of Robert Stockton.

Police Interrogation Room

Mrs. Healy is telling Woody about how she thought Mr. Stockton sexually abused her son. Woody asks her if she has any proof of that, and she says she does not need any proof. She felt she knew her son. She said she called Stockton up the day he disappeared and made an appointment with him. She then confesses that she killed him. Woody asks where, but Mrs. Healy says she is done talking until after she talks to a lawyer. Woody thinks she is just trying to cover for her son. He tries to convince her that there is no way the DA is going to believe her story unless she can give them some details of the crime. So therefore, the DA is just going to go back to accusing Bryan of the murder. Mrs. Healy points out that Bryan was only 10 years old, and the jury is going to have a hard time believing he was able to kill a grown man. (Lu was on the other side of the class during this entire questioning)

At Woody’s Desk

Lu comes in and takes a seat in the chair next to Woody’s desk. Woody asks her if she is there to tell him she was right again. Lu comments that it is nothing to gloat about. She wonders why Woody does not believe Mrs. Healy killed Mr. Stockton. Woody goes on to tell her that Mrs. Healy is just trying to protect her son, and that she is trying to confuse the jury with more than one confession. Lu then points out that maybe Mrs. Healy did commit the murder and Bryan was a witness.

Woody’s cell phone rings and it is Macy on the other end. He says that they have Stockton’s blood from the laundry bin they found and someone else’s DNA on two hairs they found. Macy says the DNA is mitochondrial, which means it is passed on from mother to child. The problem is they can not tell if it is Lorain’s hair or Bryans.

The Morgue

Jordan is in an autopsy room with a brain saw cutting open Mrs. Doyle’s skull. Nigel comes in to report to Jordan what he found, even though he knows Jordan is not going to like what he has to say. He found that the tear in the window screen was made a couple weeks ago due to the fact that there was microscopic bits of rust on the ends of the severed mesh. Nigel comments this proves it has nothing to do with their deaths. Jordan on the other hand thinks it was just a way that the killer was able to get it. Nigel tries to tell Jordan that there is no evidence that anyone else was there, and that the Doyle’s has a history of pounding on each other. Jordan starts the bone saw back up again because she does not want to hear any more. Nigel backs up and yells at Jordan, telling her that she is not acting like herself. She is not one to ride hunches, she goes where the evidence points. Jordan then drops the saw and tells Nigel there is more evidence than broken glass and window screens. She points out the flowers, photos, and love letters. Nigel then comes back with more evidence pointing out the prosecutions, the divorces, and the restraining orders. Jordan then calms down and gets a sad look in her eyes. Nigel points out that he understands why Jordan does not want to believe they killed each other. Jordan pretends to not know what he is talking about, but Nigel comes right out and mentions her relationship with JD. Nigel moves in closer to Jordan in a comforting manner, and points out again that he really thinks the Doyle’s killed each other. Jordan, who is now fighting back tears, finally admits that deep down inside she knew that they did kill each other. She tries to figure out why she let herself believe it wasn’t true, and says that if she thought it wasn’t true that it meant that “things didn’t always have to turn to crap.” Nigel points out that it is just the extreme. Jordan then comments on how “love turns to hate.” Then, with sad eyes looks up at Nigel and asks why that is. Nigel does not have an answer for her. Jordan goes and leaves the autopsy room. Just before she is out the door Nigel stops her and says they still need to determine the time of death for the DA’s office. She just asks Nigel to take care of it…and he does.

The Morgue: Trace Evidence Room

Bug and Macy are working on the Stockton case and Woody comes in to get the update. Bug found that there was only one way that the knife could have entered the body; in a downward motion. Macy looks at Bryan’s height and weight at age 10 and with that and the arterial trajectory that Bug points out, they basically ruled out Bryan as a suspect in Mr. Stockton’s murder. They now turn their attention to Mrs. Healy.

The Morgue Hallway

Jordan is walking though with some coffee and runs into JD. He asks her if she would be ready soon enough to catch the 4:00pm fairy, but Jordan tells JD she does not think she can go at all because she has to work. She blames it on the case that she is working on…the DA’s office is really pressuring her to wrap it up fast. JD is obviously hurt, and tells Jordan that she is not a good liar. He tells her if she does not want to do this she should just say so. Jordan then goes back to the story that she has to work, and that JD should understand that considering his line of work. JD then tells Jordan that he gave up a story because he though they were more serious. Then JD walks away from Jordan and out of the morgue.

Nigel was in earshot of the entire conversation, so when Jordan continues down the hall he comments on how it is a little early in the relationship to be sabotaging herself. Jordan does not comment, but her face tells us that she agrees.

The Morgue Elevator

Lily is on her way to the elevator, and when the doors open Jeffrey is there. Lily gets a big smile and says how nice it is to see him. Jeffrey was wondering if Lily could help him with finding out the time of death of the Doyle’s. Lily says that she will go and try to find Dr. Cavanaugh, but Jeffery says that he was hoping to not have to deal with Jordan because he finds her a bit frightening. Just then, Jordan comes up behind Lily and Jeffrey and says that she is going to assume they are not talking about her. Lily then tells her that Jeffrey got a message about the Doyle’s time of death. Nigel then, from across the room, informs them that he was the one that left the message and direct them all into the autopsy room.

Nigel has concluded that they did not kill each other. Jordan is excited about it, and Brandau accuses her of putting Nigel up to this. Nigel then turns around, holding Mr. and Mrs. Doyles’ brains in his hands. He points out that neither of them are swollen. There are rim fractures at the base of their skulls indicating that they both died instantly. This proves that they did not kill each other because they both died instantly and they were not alive to hit the other. Lily questions that there was no way no one else was there, and Nigel points out that there wasn’t. Jordan then gets the idea they are all thinking about this in the wrong way.

The Doyle’s Apartment

Jordan, Nigel, Lily, and Brandau are all in the apartment trying to piece together what might have happened. Jordan directs Brandau and Lily in to playing Benjamin and Eleanor Doyle. Brandau and Lily role play and act out a fight in the apartment. The end up upstairs, and after thinking things through, they figure out that Mrs. Doyle pushes Mr. Doyle into the bookcase, and it starts to fall over. But he gets out of the way, and pushes Mrs. Doyle away and tries to save her. The both end up going over the railing and land on their heads, dying instantly. Jordan makes the comment that they tried to save each other.

Police Station: Interrogation room

Woody is questioning Mrs. Healy about the murder of Mr. Stockton. Her lawyer is there with her and says that she has given a statement. Woody tells her that he is giving her bad advice, and then all of the sudden Mrs. Healy collapses on the floor. Lu and Garret, who were behind the glass, come running through the hallway and into the interrogation room to help. Mrs. Healy’s other son is in the hallway and also comes running into the room to see what is going on. He points out that she is diabetic, and he grabs her insulin. Macy tells him that he is a doctor, so he administers the shot. Mrs. Healy comes around and is doing better. Garret then asks her how long she has been a diabetic, and she answers him, telling him 14 years.

Macy, Woody, and Lu all leave the interrogation room, and Macy tells them that there is no way she killed Mr. Stockton. He points out that there would have been evidence of synthetic insulin in the tox screen in the hair they found at the crime scene. This leaves only one other person other than Bryan who could have committed the murder….Bryans brother.

Police Department

Macy, Lu, and Woody are trying to figure out their next step. Lu tells Woody the reason Bryan can’t remember is because he blocked it out to protect his big brother. Woody is concerned that with so many confessions the DA is going to laugh him out of her office. Garret points out that Bryan is the key…that with the evidence of the knife and the hairs will be proof enough that his brother did it. Woody tells Lu that it is up to her to get Bryan to remember what happened.

In the interrogation room Woody is talking to Bryan, telling him that they know for a fact that he was not the one who killed Mr. Stockton. Bryan says he does not remember. Lu comforts him, telling him that he thinks he remembers doing it because something happened to his memory. He has blocked it out, and she assures him that it happens sometimes when people see painful things. Lu is going to try to help him remember. She takes him back to the day of the murder. Bryan is starting to remember that Mr. Stockton did not die in the woods. He remembers that someone else was there. He then goes on to tell them about what happened that day. Mr. Stockton had asked him to stay after soccer practice. He waited until everyone left. Mr. Stockton was in the shower, but then he saw that Bryan was there. He stopped him and told him that he was upset with his grades and the practices he had missed. He wanted to know what was wrong….he thought he could help. Bryan’s brother Craig was there, and Mr. Stockton was mad at him. Then when Mr. Stockton turned around, Craig stabbed him multiple times. Bryan had remembered what happened.

Now we come to Woody roughing up Craig in the interrogation room. He is pissed and accuses Craig of being the one who was abusing Bryan. Lu breaks them up and tries to calm Woody down. She starts talking to Craig, telling him that she had figured out that Stockton had found out about the abuse. And Craig was afraid that Mr. Stockton was going to go to his mother. Woody then chimes in about how older brothers are suppose to protect the younger brothers. He can not believe how Craig could do something like this. He is pissed because Craig was going to let Bryan take the fall for murder. Lu then has to jump in again to calm Woody down.

The Morgue: Lily’s Office

Lily is sitting at her desk doing some paperwork when Jeffrey shows up. He came to inform her that the bet that the DA’s office had was settled and was paid in full. He was not the winner, but pointed out that the winner of the money was the only one that wagered that the Doyle’s would die accidentally. He is acting a little nervous, which Lily finds kind of cute. Lily says she is just about to break for lunch, and Brandau asks her if she brings lunch in, or goes out to eat. They dance around the lunch topic for a bit, and just as Lily is going to ask him to join her for lunch he slams the door in her face and says good-bye. Lily is just a little stunned by this.

The Police Department: Lu’s Office

Lu is sitting at her desk working when Woody knocks and comes in. He asks her if she is going to admit it…and Lu is confused about what he is talking about. Woody points out that he was right and she was wrong. Lu wonders if it is really that important that he is right. She thinks they should just call this case a draw. Woody closes the door and starts to act serious. He mentions what they were talking about before about his brother. He says that all the crap that has happened to him has made him a better cop. Lu points out that it is not really about being a better cop. It is the stuff that he does not want to deal with that gets in the way of other things…his life for instance. Woody was just afraid it was going to jinx him one the job if he actually dealt with things. Lu comments that it is a good thought, and Woody seems to feel a little better.

Outside the Boston Chronicle

JD is just leaving work and Jordan chases him down. She asks him who this “Martha” is and why they named a vineyard after her. She is basically just trying to make up with JD and tell him that she is ready to take the next step in their relationship. She says that if they leave right away they could get there by dinner. JD jokes with her about wondering where her evil twin is. Jordan confesses to him that whenever she starts to get close to someone that this little voice in her tells her to run. She tells him that it will probably happen again. JD confesses that he never expected their relationship to go smoothly. He knew she was a bit crazy from the start. Jordan shows him the supply bag she got for him in case he decides to forgive her and go away for the weekend with her. There is not much in it and he asks her what he is to do if it gets cold. Jordan sweetly grabs his face and draws his lips to hers and gives him a nice, gentle kiss.