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man eventually admits to entering the room and touching Nicole, but nothing else. The chief
of staff comes to the precinct looking for Hawkes, furious because Green was interrogated. In
the argument that follows, Dr. Richards reminds Hawkes how hard it is to be a doctor. ”This
was not a mistake”, says Hawkes, ”it was murder.” To what, Hawkes’ old boss retorts: ”Nobody
ever accused you of murder?” The conversation with Dr. Richards brings back old ghosts, and
Hawkes sits alone in the locker room contemplating memories of his work in the hospital. His
lonely sulking is interrupted by Danny, who comes in complaining he just spilled his coffee all
over his shirt. While he changes, Danny notices the look on Hawkes face and tries to get his
friend to talk; Hawkes tells him about his decision to leave the hospital after losing one patient
too many and work in the ME’s office. ”You’re still a doctor, Sheldon”, Danny tells him. Adam
comes into the room searching for them. It turns out the list of staff names Hawkes gave him to
check didn’t turn out anything; but he established the last person in Nicole’s room was an ICU
nurse. They still have no suspects. A fingerprint in a bar of soap found by Stella may present
another lead. She tells Mac they’re searching the database, and he tells her something that’s
apparently intriguing him: when Nicole came out of the coma, she tried to squeeze her doctor’s
fingers, but not her mother’s. The soap bar print leads to young Matt Huxley, who’s also a likely
candidate for the doctor’s lounge break-in. Mac and Flack find Matt working in a repair shop;
the kid tries to run, forcing them to pursuit, running and jumping fences. When they catch
him, Flack finds a set of break-in tools in his pocket. Matt states he didn’t kill Nicole, at which
point the detectives exchange a knowing look. ”What makes you think we’re here for that?”, asks
Mac. Matt says he knows they came after him because he was ”sloppy” and left his prints behind.
According to him, the reason he had to break in was because Nicole’s mother didn’t like him, and
he broke in just to see her. He admits he went to the hospital because, after a friend’s accident, he
and Nicole had promised each other to ”take care of business” if one of them became paralyzed;
but he assures the detectives when the time came, he couldn’t do it. If Nicole made that deal with
Matt, she could have done it with somebody else as well, reasons Mac thoughtfully. Going back
to the evidence, Mac examines Nicole’s ECG, noticing a fluctuation by the time Matt says he was
there; it indicates she knew there was somebody in the room. He and Hawkes discuss the pact
Nicole and Matt made, confronting the idea of a dignified death and the possibility Nicole would
not want to live in a wheelchair. Mac points out to the ECG again, showing that Nicole’s her heart
rate went down right before she died, as if something was calming her; she might have known
her killer. At time of death, the ECG shows signs of anxiety, but nothing to indicate Nicole was
fighting for her life. At the lab, Stella discovers a plastic bag was used to smother Nicole. Hawkes
finds in imprint of a St. Christopher’s medal on the right palm bandage, with traces of flour.
Stella recalls seeing Nicole’s father with a medal like that in the hospital; but Frank Russo was
not on the list of people who had access to Nicole’s room. Stella and Flack find Frank Russo at
work – in a bakery – and he confesses he sneaked into her room with the help of one of the nurses
to say good-bye, since the thought she was not going to wake up. He took her a teddy bear from
the hospital gift shop, held the medal in her hand and prayed; that was it. Stella gives him the
heart breaking news: the bag the bear came in was the murder weapon. She suggests he might
have been the one responsible for taking her life; he strongly denies it. Frank Russo tells the
detectives he hadn’t seen his daughter in a long time, for her mother had custody and the family
moved a lot. ”Imagine that”, he tells them, ”finding out your daughter’s in a coma next to an ad
for big screen TVs.” Back at the lab, Hawkes and Lindsay examine Nicole’s ECG pads; there’s
four of them, when there should be only three. Mac pulled the three from Nicole’s body – where
did the fourth came from? At the same time, Flack shows Stella they might have found a break
through in the case: Nicole’s mother had an insurance policy on her daughter. That’s motive.
DNA analysis shows another person was wearing the fourth pad – a woman. That’s the solution
of the ECG mystery – Nicole’s heart rate never indicated she was fighting for her life because it
actually is the killer’s heart rate; she swapped the leads on the pads. A mother with a motive and
a female killer equals Ellen Garner in the interview room. Nicole’s friends told the detectives she
had had a fight with her mother, Flack points out. Stella reminds Ellen she spent most of the year
traveling and left her daughter behind. Ellen Garner tells about Nicole’s rebellion, her drug use –
”Nicole was self-destructive”, she says. However, she claims they loved each other; Nicole’s lack
of reaction to her at the hospital makes no sense to her either. Flack tries the assisted suicide
angle, suggesting Ellen may have killed Nicole because her daughter was so active, how was
someone who couldn’t ”stay still for two minutes” spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair? Ellen
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