A taxi pulls up to the curb on a New York street. A woman exits, dressed like Holly Golightly, the character Audrey Hepburn played in Breakfast at Tiffany's. As she walks down the sidwalk, two carbon copies join her.
They enter a store and announce a robbery in progress. As one woman sprays black paint over the security camera, the others get busy. In the midst of their destruction, glass from the display cases shatter. By the time NYPD shows up, alerted by the bank's not-so-silent alarm, the women have escaped.
Det. Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes) and Det. Lindsay Monroe (Anna Belknap) arrive to begin collecting evidence. Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill), already on the scene, tells them there has been a fatality, the assistant store manager. Lindsay realizes the character the three women were portraying came from a movie about, not a jewelry heist, but rather a love story.
Between the three of them, they figure out the store gate came down and set off one of the weapons. It's possible that's how the store manager died. Flack makes sure the diamond industry knows about the theft.
Det. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) arrives, and Lindsay tells him that all of the glass lying around had no stress marks, which is unusual. It dawns on everyone the women probably escaped through the ventilation shaft. Lindsay has to go in, since she is the smallest. She finds a channel off the shaft, and Stella says that was the escape route. But where are the women now?
Across town, Det. Jessica Angell (Emmanuelle Vangier) and Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) process a mummified corpse found in the midst of demolition. Mac noticed Jessica is a little pale, and asks if she is okay. She says this is her first mummy. She adds a councilman's wife has been missing for a bit. Mac tells her not to share their discovery with the press since there is no positive ID.
When the body is brought to the morgue, Dr. Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy) asks Dr. Peyton Driscoll (Claire Forlani) if he can watch. He is thrilled to handle a corpse, so Peyton lets him help. Fingerprints are taken, and the body is digitally scanned since degradation makes testing tricky.
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