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American Dreamers
Season 1
Episode Number: 3
Season Episode: 3
Originally aired: Wednesday October 6, 2004 on CBS
Writer:
Eli Talbert
Director:
Rob Bailey
Show Stars: Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes), Melina Kanakaredes (Detective
Stella Bonasera), Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald ”Don” Flack, Jr.),
Gary Sinise (Detective Mack ”Mac” Taylor), Carmine Giovinazzo
(Danny Messer), Vanessa Ferlito (Aiden Burn)
Recurring Role: Grant Albrecht (Dr. Leonard Giles)
Guest Stars: Julian Cain (John Doe), Johnny Sneed (Joel/Aaron Moreland), John
Ross Bowie (Lester Jayne), Susan Ruttan (Mrs. Moreland), Charles
Parks (Mr. Moreland), Thomas Kopache (Paul Danner), Frank Medrano
(Bruno), Latarsha Rose (Girlfriend), J. Kyle Manzay (Boyfriend)
Production Code: 104
Summary: After a skeleton is found on a tour bus and turns out to be over a
decade old, Mac and the team use the backpack they have found to
track the belongings to a young man named Aaron Moreland, only
to learn that the body they have cannot possibly belong to him. By
tracing the victim’s shirt, detectives are led to a youth center worker
who claims not to remember the boy, but is hiding an old secret of his
own.
A double decker bus tours Times Square. A young tourist wants her boyfriend to ask the man
at the back of the bus to take a picture of them, as he refuses she goes herself only to discover
that the passenger is in fact a dressed-up skeleton. Mac takes pictures of the scene as Stella
joins him. He seems convinced that this is a gang related incident, but Stella dismisses the idea
someone would have dug up the corpse if a rival. For her, it’s a practical joke to frighten tourists.
But closer scrutiny shows that the skeleton is not a prop-shop one. The bones are real. Back at
the NYPD, Hawkes is surprised by the little amount of bones. He tells them that the person who
assembled the skeleton had little knowledge of anatomy and used wire and adhesive putty. He
also left a partial on the putty. Hawkes indicates that the skeleton is male, Caucasian and the
victim probably was younger than 18 when he died. Homicide can’t be dismissed as there is a
fracture on the skull that hasn’t healed. Stella says that the decomposition tells them that he
died at least 3 years ago. Hawkes says that wherever the remains were, the bones are in good
shape, probably well shielded from Mother Nature. The most striking is the unusual color of the
bones. They should be brown, but they are black. Mac borrows a finger and leaves. At the lab, he
studies the bones. Aiden wants to know when she’ll get the skull to do the facial reconstruction,
but Mac tells her he wants to find the rest of the skeleton first. The analysis of the dark substance
on the bone shows that it is layered on itself and comes from diesel engine exhaust fumes. The
body was close to heavy truck or bus traffic. Danny analyzes the deepest layer and it is almost
identical except for the high benzene concentration. This proves that the teenager has been dead
for at least a decade as the diesel emissions standards changed in 1994. Meanwhile Stella works
on the partial. She finds 6 possible matches. She prints the reports and Mac chooses one man,
Lester Jayne, as he is working at Times Square Port authority bus terminal. Stella, Mac and
Flack search for him in the crowd at the bus terminal. They finally spot him near the newsstand,
reading about the incident in the papers. Lester tells them that it was a joke. When Mac tells him
that he skeleton had been the victim of an homicide, he sobers up and tells them he didn’t have
anything to do with it. Mac’s attention is caught by the passing buses and their exhausts. He
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