Original air date: March 10, 2010 Written by: Directed by: Eriq LaSalle Talk about this episode! Sign in or sign up and click EasyEdit to add to this page

Episode recap:
In St. Patrick's Day Eve, while all the city turns green with celebration, the team faces two corpses of two young journalists drenched in red. They'll lead them to discover a big secret about the gold making operation fraud that could prove deadly for Reed's friend who saw the crime and was about to expose the secret.

The crimes: 2 men were murdered one was shot and the other was beaten with a gold bar.

Victim(s): Michael Paley and Charlie Cooper

Suspect(s): Tom Weir

Witness(es): Cam Vandermann

Whodunit: Finnegan Hansard

From the field:

• 4 leaf clover
• gold smear on ground
• container of water
• spoon
  

From the morgue:

• Cooper reasently traveled to an asian country and markings on Coopers head that lead to a gold bar
  

From the lab:

• Cooper had drank green beer before death
• the clover is from ireland
• the spoon and water was there to check the gold and learned that it was fake
  

Turning point in the investigation: When they found Vandermann with the gun and they were able to connect the gun to the bartender

Familiar locations in NY: Lab, warehouse and police station


Personal issues: Mac meets a girl and takes a chance tracks her down and invites her out to dinner

Guest stars: Reed Garrett as Kyle Gallner
Mädchen Amick ("Gossip Girl") Guest Stars as Aubrey.

Ian Ziering ("Beverly Hills, 90210") Guest Stars as Owner of a Precious Metal Firm

Best episode quotes:

Stella: Hawkes, this looks like the markings on gold bullion.
Hawkes: A ten thousand gram gold delivery bar, to be exact. Current value, half a million dollars.
Stella: And we found a pure gold impact mark on the warehouse floor right next to the second vic's head.
Hawkes: And get this: according to the treasury agent I just spoke to, a gold bar matching those exact numbers was deposited at the Federal Reserve just this morning.
Stella: Okay, what kind of killer goes from the crime scene to the bank?

[Adam and Hawkes are in the gold vault]
Adam: So this is what all the money in the world looks like, huh? [giggles] So pretty!

Adam: I got a golden ticket!

Danny: Ah. Are we talking about what I think we're talking about?
Lindsay : Turns out there's one pub in New York that uses algae to micro-brew its own green organic beer.
Danny : Ah. Bottoms up.

Flack: And hell hath no fury like an Irishman scorned.

Stella: Elemental Precious Metals.
Mac: That's the firm that made our gold bar.
Stella: They made a mint on reclaimed gold.
Flack: Reclaimed?
Stella: We're talking jewellery, dental fillings, circuit boards... you name it. They melt it then turn it into bars for sale on the open market.
Flack: Or to use as murder weapons.
Stella: The firm is owned by a third-generation broker. His name is Thom Weir.
Flack: So, if he could tell us who wanted Paley and Cooper dead...
Mac: We're golden.

Tom Weir: Detectives, are you aware there's now more gold being produced by reclamation firms like mine than there is coming out of the world's mines?
Mac : The point being?
Weir : I just think you're digging in the wrong place. My firm didn't have a hand in Charlie Cooper's death.
Flack : Except for the fact that he was beaten to death with one of your gold bars.

Flack: You believe him [Tom Weir]?
Mac : No. He's involved in this somehow. But his hands are way too soft for murder.

Danny: This is Kilkenny limestone. 300 million years old and it's made of fossils from the ancient Irish seabed.
Stella : Oh, come on. How is all this stuff making it across the Atlantic?

Reed: So, you, uh... you done for the day?
Mac : Yeah.
Reed : Hey, do you want to go grab, like, a green beer or something?
Mac : Uh, can we take a rain check on that? Somewhere I gotta be.
Reed : Yeah. Yeah, man.
Mac : We'll do it next time. All right.
Reed : Cool.
Mac : I look okay? Yeah?
Reed : You look good, man.

Aubrey: So, how exactly did you find me?
Mac : I'm a police detective. I was duty bound to investigate.
Aubrey : Mind if I join you?
Mac : I was kind of hoping you would.

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