At the burial, Mac tries to remember his past six months recovering when he was approached by Don Flack. The team investigates the cause of his death and the fire itself. They work with the arsonist Leonard Brooks (Rob Morrow; Numb3rs), who they think is behind the fire that killed FDNY Capt. Curtis "Smitty" Smith. He's been a suspect for 10 arson cases, but was only pinned on 1 of them. The NYPD has been keeping an eye on him for the past 15 years now and after the fire, he comes back to the burnt building, causing more suspicion from the CSI team. He denies such allegations, but offers his services to help track the person behind the fire. Brooks comes back to the scene of the crime and helps them find the right evidences to link them to the perp.
Lindsay checks on the evidences from the fire and finds out that the fire was aggravated by triethylaluminium, a compound that ignites when in contact with air and reignites when in contact with water. Turns out, the fire had traces of rubber and that there were evidences of water balloons at the area where the fire reignited, killing the FDNY chief. Aside from that they found evidences that the perp created a trip wire that could have been a trap to trigger the water balloons into falling to an entering firefighter.
While checking on the photos and videos at the time of the fire, Jo notices that one of the firefighters who responded is not a real firefighter. He was called in by the NYPD for questioning, but comes out clean. Flack interrupts and tells Taylor that he thinks Leonard Brooks is playing them and that there is another fire on 8th Street, Brooklyn.
FDNY responds to another fire. Don and Mac comes to check on it and see the firefighters beating arsonist Leonard Brooks. While trying to stop the men from beating Brooks, Don gets tangled into the fight. Mac rushes to help an injured Brooks. As the fight between Flack and one of the firemen breaks, they question the firefighter about why he beat Brooks when they don't even know if it was really him who set the fire. He answered that he got all the answers he need upon seeing a piece of note inside Brooks' pocket with the address of the burning building written on it (152 8th St.). Still mourning about Smitty's death, he then insults Taylor and the NYPD for "not taking care of business" that resulted to people like Brooks to be left at large. He blames the NYPD for Smitty's death. As a result, Mac arrests him, along with another firefighter, at the grounds of assault (against Brooks) and resisting arrest.
Upon checking the scene, Mac sees the water sprinklers' valve has been turned on and has probably helped extinguishing the fire in the building. Taylor and Flack suspects that the fire at 7th Ave. and at 8th St. have evidences that point to the same perp. They start to think that maybe Brooks was there not to witness the fire, but to set it. However, some of the evidences don't fit, like the part where Brooks (if he was the person who switched on the valve) may seem to have tried to put off the fire. If it was him, why would a pyromaniac then extinguish the fire he has started? And that if he was indeed involved, why then would he stay at the scene of the crime? The team investigates the scene as well and finds out that the same person, based on evidences, may have indeed set the fire on both 7th Ave and 8th St., just not sure if it was Brooks or someone else.
Mac and Flack follows Brooks to the hospital to interrogate him. They wanted to know how he got the address of the burning building at 8th St. and how did he knew which 8th St to go to, since there is one in Manhattan, another in Brooklyn and also in Queens. Unfortunately, he wouldn't say a word. They suspect that there's another person involved, not only Leonard Brooks.
Sheldon Hawkes approaches Mac regarding the fingerprints he found on a latex glove he found at the crime scene and tells them (Mac Taylor and Don Flack) that it belonged to another arson convict, Eva Mason. They think she may have worked with Brooks on both fires. They tracked her down at a motel and finds an empty room with a wall full of photos and clippings of articles about Leonard Brooks. They also find materials that she have used to set the fires at 7th and 8th in Brooklyn and a laptop in her motel room, showing a live feed from a camera at Brooks' home. They realize that she is not working with Brooks and she intends on killing him. Jo Danville calls Mac Taylor to rescue Brooks from imminent danger from Mason.
At Brooks' home, Mason confronts him on gunpoint upon knowing that he's helping them track down the person who started both fires. She was angry at him for helping the NYPD on both cases and for turning the water valve at the building on 8th St., that has extinguished the fire she has set. He explains that he was trying to save her from living the miserable life he had in prison. He tells her that although it's okay to feel that way (pyromaniac feelings), she could still get herself some professional help. She refuses help and tells him that she did all those things for Brooks to be proud of her. Puzzled, he told her that he doesn't even know her. Turns out he couldn't remember her when she was still visiting Brooks in prison while studying as a Psych major in college.
Brooks realize that Mason is going to set his house on fire to kill him. She used the old broken bulb, stove and light ignition technique to cause an explosion at his home. Mason fails to escape as Brooks' door lock was busted. So Brooks stops Mason from going out and jumps out of the window of his unit immediately, saving him from the fire and killing her instead. His home explodes as Mac and Don comes to rescue. They find an injured Leonard Brooks in the middle of the street and a burnt Eve Mason, who was thrown from Brooks' window at the impact of the explosion.
Back at the station, Mac and Jo talks to Leonard, while she hands him the only stuff that survived the fire at his home. Mac shows him the evidences that they found at Mason's motel room. He recalls his memories of Mason when she was still visiting him in prison and tells them of his plans of saving her from a life in prison. Knowing that Brooks may still have those urges of setting fires and his life old life as an arsonist, Mac and Jo advises him to never give in to those thoughts and that he can still try to turn his life around, starting over. He replies that it's way too late for him to live his life anew with a wife, two kids, a dog and white picket fences that he once dreamed of. That his past will always follow him and that he still have those urges. He admits to still fighting those urges and so long as his mind has never rested from those thoughts, he won't stop fighting his battle with pyromania. He thanks Taylor for treating him like a human being amidst his past and leaves.
Mac meets Christine at the NYPD lobby and he gives her a present. He thanks her for the six months that she took care of him when he was still struggling to remember parts of his life that he lost from the shooting. He hands her 2 dozen roses--one for every week she took care of him and they leave for a romantic dinner at a restaurant of Christine's choice.
The scene ends with Leonard Brooks finding a new place to stay, showing him contemplating while in front of a lit stove. Something tells me he's gonna be back...
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