John C. Vennema

Lockhart & Gardner represents a client who suffered severe injuries and lost his wife when a snowmobile malfunctioned and struck a tree. However, Alicia and her legal team are opposed by the firm's nemesis, Louis Canning, who never gives in without a fight. Elsewhere, unable to raise enough money to make a down payment on her old house, Alicia starts to take Canning's offers of a lucrative job much more seriously.

A doctor is killed at his son's bar mitzvah, and the first suspect is his estranged wife.

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor that Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes.

A father's ambitions for his offspring are stretched to the limit when he pleads guilty to a murder committed by his son.

As Frank deals with a new threat to his candidacy, Claire has doubts about their plan. Claire faces a difficult decision concerning her mother.

Hank puts the attendants of a bar mitzvah party in quarantine when symptoms of a disease appear, and considers announcing a possible outbreak. Meanwhile, Evan learns more about Divya's personal life.