My Name Is Mac Taylor 5.8

The second victim with the name Mac Taylor surfaces and the team becomes worried. Scott Wolf, Rumor Willis, and Nelly guest star. Read the BeeSight recap and review to find out what happened on the eighth episode of the fifth season of CSI New York on CBS and Join in the discussion.

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A man runs through a stairwell and tries to open the doors on each floor, but they are all locked. The team later arrives and finds the man dead at the bottom of the stairs. They find his ID and learn his name is Mac Taylor, the second victim with that name in the last week. The team wonders where their Mac is and they find out that he is swimming at the gym. They learn that the victim's real name was James Mac Taylor, but he just went by Mac. They see bruising on his face. They figure there was a struggle, he went over the railing, and fell to his death. Lindsay notices that the victims keys are far from his body and they couldn't have bounced that distance during the fall. They think the killer must have picked up the keys and moved them. They notice that the victim was holding on to something when he fell. They find that it was his key he was holding and think the killer was after his keys. They check the scene for more clues and bring the evidence back to the lab.

While Mac is swimming, he notices a man walk along the pool wearing dress shoes. He then sees two kids jump in the pool and the man with the dress shoes vanishes. Mac calls Stella and tells her that he thinks he is the next target because the killer was watching him swim. Mac tells Stella that the man didn't take anything, but his keys were moved. Mac figures the man was scared off by the kids and thinks he may be back later to finish him off. Mac says that they need to find all the other Mac Taylors in the city.

Stella talks to Sid about the first Mac Taylor that was killed. Sid says that he had no family and was shot in the head. Sid says that the second victim also had gun residue on his face, but no gunshot wounds. The figure the killer must have assaulted the second victim with his gun which caused the bruising on his face. Sid guesses that the killer's gun may have jammed, preventing him from shooting the second victim. Stella wonders if the killer didn't intend to kill the second victim, but may have accidentally thrown him over the railing during a fight.

Deputy Inspector Gillian Whitmore meets with Mac for the first time and asks him to have a cup of coffee with her. He tells her that he has to check his schedule, but she says now would be good. They walk and talk and he tells her that he knows she wants him to remove himself from the case. He tells her that he won't and she tells him to be careful. She jokes about how she read he was strong willed and stubborn. She then suggests that the killer might be using revenge as his motive and it could be someone he's convicted in the past.

The detectives see that Mac #2 had a broken ankle and they think he fell down the stairs and broke it. Sheldon thinks that the killer and Mac struggled over the keys and Mac accidentally fell over the railing. Mac tells the team that his car key was opened and on the floor at the pool, so maybe the killer saw his key and decided it was not the right one. The detectives wonder what happened with the first Mac that was killed, since he had no car. They think that maybe the killer killed the first Mac Taylor he came across, but when he read in the paper that he had no car, he knew it was the wrong guy.

The detectives locate all the Mac Taylors in the city and bring them into the station. Don gets into an argument with Mackinley Taylor (played by Scott Wolf) and says that he has to stay at the station for his own protection. The other Macs get annoyed at being held against their will, but Detective Mac tells them he knows what they are going through.

Stella gets a call about another Mac victim who survived. She learns that this Mac was a lady and she is in the hospital. Stella visits with Mackendra (played by Rumer Willis) and learns that she was walking to her car and a man asked her what kind of car she drove. Mac says that she ran to her car and the man struggled with her to see her keys. She regrets her actions and says that she should have just given him her keys.

The detectives now believe that the killer is looking for a specific car that belongs to a Mac Taylor. They believe that the car's windows were probably tinted, so the killer doesn't know what the Mac Taylor looks like. They also think that the killer is checking keys to make sure he doesn't accidentally kill the wrong Mac again. Detective Mac realizes that the killer already checked his key, so he believes he is off the target list.

Lindsay examines a print that the killer left on the bus stop plexiglass when he struggled with Mackendra. Sheldon examines a leaf found at Mac's pool. Adam finds that the bone that was found at the scenes of both murders had a woman's blood on it, but it wasn't human bone, it was a deer antler. The detectives examine the bone fragments closer and realize that they make up a button shape. They find out that there is a single distributor of deer antler buttons.

The detectives meet with Daniel Oka, the partner for a fashion company that is going out of business. He says that he doesn't have a customer list for the deer buttons and says that they gave away more than they sold. He says that his partner Melinda Kitano left town and didn't leave a forwarding address. He says that she was also his girlfriend, so he not only lost his business when she left, but his girlfriend too.