Kristen Shaw

The employees of a Brooklyn restaurant are the victims of a multiple homicide: three are dead but there are two survivors, and all the victims were tied up with plastic bags over their heads. Mac assigns Danny and Aidan to this tough case, with the clues pointing to it being an inside job.

Vice President Mackenzie Allen unites the nation in the wake of the president's death, quelling her critics, who wanted her to resign to allow the Speaker of the House to succeed to the office.

The detectives are on the scene of ex-con Lester Byrd's homicide when Sipowicz receives a call from his wife telling him that Theo didn't arrive at school this morning.

On the ground in California, a man holds Air Force One hostage and demands to speak directly with the president, or he will blow up the plane.

Mackenzie faces her first national crisis when nine DEA agents are killed in Latin America; Nathan Templeton is offered potentially damaging information on Mackenzie's nominee for vice president (Peter Coyote).

Nathan attempts to manipulate new President Mackenzie's first order of business, to pick a vice president.