Fred Burrell

Karen Barrows is a lightning rod for controversy. She lies brain damaged, sustained by a feeding tube, and her husband, Robert Barrows (Timothy Smallwood), who has a girlfriend and two children, fights to have the feeding tube removed. Protesters surround the hospital, and when Robert gets in his car, it blows up, killing him instantly. The detectives have a tough time trying to find suspects because there were so many people outside the hospital. They talk to Karen's parents, Phil (Fred Burrell) and Pam (Beth Dixon) Lamar, who are visited by Reverend Dwyre (John Aylward). They are all fighting to keep their daughter alive...

When a forensic expert is the target of a botched assassination in a restaurant bathroom, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) must piece together the motive of a seemingly unassociated suspect. Later, McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Ross (Carey Lowell) stumble upon evidence that questions the ethics of the good doctor. S. Epatha Merkerson and Steven Hill also star.