Mark Nelson

As Cary's case goes to trial, he considers a plea deal involving jail time. A joke gets Alicia in trouble as her campaign progresses.

Damning evidence leads Eames and Goren to believe that ex-police officers are responsible for the murder of a city auditor and his entire family.

When Dr Oscar Silva, an environmental scientist, is poisoned during a conference, Lupo and Bernard suspect competitors from Silva's field of study.

When a graduate is beaten to death, the detectives are led on a trail investigating strip clubs, pornography and neo-Nazis.

When a social worker is killed, his gambling habit and scam of the foster-care system are revealed. A drug-addcited mother desperate to reclaim her baby becomes a suspect, but her lawyer - former ADA Paul Robinette - proves to be a challenge to McCoy and Kincaid.

McCoy must determine whether charges should be filed in civil court or in criminal court when a novelist's death seems to have been caused by careless liposuction, but Branch finds a recurring pattern of negligence by the doctor.