History Recap / CSINYS03E20

* LEGOGenetics: The rat with a human ear growing on its back, and the goats that produce spider silk. Both, as it turns out, are legitimate.

* SuicidePact: The second and third victims enter into a suicide with two additional people. All have terminal conditions and have decided to end their lives on their own terms.

* PhlebotimumOverdose: A couple of researchers do a hibernation experiment on a friend who'd volunteered. They start off with very small doses of an unusual chemical (that even stumps experienced M.E. Peyton Driscoll) and slowly increase it, trying to find a safe but effective amount. The friend gets impatient and, when they glance away, turns the dial way up, which knocks him unconscious and eventually lands him in a vegetative state.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted with the first victim. When the body is recovered, bruises on the chest make it evident that someone had performed CPR in an attempt to revive him.

* PowerfulPick: The hotel victim is stabbed with an ice pick.

* LEGOGenetics (but really AluminumChristmasTrees) : The rat with a human ear growing on its back, and the goats that produce spider silk. Both, as it turns out, are legitimate.

* NotQuiteDead: The man stolen from the van isn't quite dead yet...he had been part of a hibernation experiment and is revived before dying...for real this time.

* SuicidePact: The second and third victims enter into one with two additional people.

* MistakenDeathConfirmation: A body stolen just as the ambulance arrives at the morgue is later found by NY Harbor Patrol, still in the body bag. When they unzip it at the scene to identify the man, he starts gasping and is rushed to the hospital. When Mac asks M.E. Peyton Driscoll how this could've happened, she gets defensive and tells him she hasn't forgotten how to do her job. She explains that she always checks for a pulse AND uses a light to look for pupil dilation before declaring a person dead. They later learn the guy was part of a hibernation experiment. Peyton doesn't believe that's possible, but Mac recreates it with a rat in the lab to prove it to her.

!Synopsis:

!Tropes for the episode:

A body is stolen from the coroner's van; the case leads the team to a genetics lab. A man is found impaled while dressed in medieval armor. A third victim is found stabbed in the neck in an expensive hotel room. Stella asks Mac to approve the purchase of a kit that will provide her HIV results more quickly.

* LEGOGenetics (but really AluminumChristmasTrees) : The rat with a human ear growing on its back, and the goats that produced spider silk. Both, as it turns out, are legitimate.
* NotQuiteDead: The man stolen from the van wasn't quite dead yet...he had been part of a hibernation experiment.
* PowerfulPick: The hotel victim was stabbed with an ice pick.

-->'''Danny:''' You know, I can take dead bodies, decomp, little old ladies chopped up into bits, but this? Mac, I just saw a rat with an *''ear''* on it's back!

* SuicidePact: The second and third victims had entered into one with two additional people.

* SuicidePact: The second and third victims had entered into one with two additional people.

* LEGOGenetics (but really AluminumChristmasTrees) : The rat with a human ear growing on its back, and the goats that produced spider silk.

* LEGOGenetics: The rat with a human ear growing on its back, and the goats that produced spider silk.

"'''What Schemes May Come'''" is the 20th episode of Season 3, and the 67th overall.

* SuicidePact: The second and third victims had entered into one with yet another person.

* PunBasedTitle: "Schemes" for "Dreams"