Jeff Licon

In a nod to It's a Wonderful Life, two guardian angels, Clarence and Miriam, watch over the gang and protect them from a bus crash that threatens to kill them all. Meanwhile, Andrea gets accepted to Yale, and Cindy catches Brandon and Nikki in bed.

Rush reopens the unsolved 2000 murder of a prominent, ambitious Puerto Rican assistant district attorney who is posthumously linked to a scandal. The man's wife insists that recent reports of her late husband's connection to a large amount of missing money are untrue.

The body of someone extremely overweight turns up in the trunk of a car. When the team finally tracks down a witness, they get quite a shock.

The detectives search for a suspect who killed a businessman by blowing up his car; and Ortiz and Murphy investigate the beating death of a student.

After Walker is unable to prevent a young boy from committing suicide at school, he must overcome his feelings of sadness and anger by motivating the school to improve itself.