Linda Thorson

Picard finds himself in a race with Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans to solve a four-billion-year old genetic puzzle.

Virginia Boone looks like a bag lady but lives in a penthouse with a spectacular view on the Upper East Side. She is found stabbed to death inside her apartment building, but robbery is not the motive. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) talk to a tenant in her building, Stefan Havel (Conrad John Schuck), but he doesn't provide much information. They also talk to Martha Taylor (Linda Thorson), who owns the pricey custom dress shop on the ground floor. Taylor, it turns out, not only lives in the building but owns it as well. Virginia worked as a school cafeteria worker and had very little money. Her rent, $362 a month, was unheard of, even though it was rent controlled because she had lived there since 1969. Rents for an apartment like hers in that area run between $6,000 and $8,000 a month. Now the Detectives suspect someone killed her to get her out of the apartment.

The Strategic Response Unit is called when a mother and daughter are abducted, and the only clue they have about the culprit could expose a dark family secret.

It’s the day of Frank and Noelle’s wedding and everyone at 15 Division, especially Andy, is hoping for an easy shift, so they can get out early and start celebrating. But those hopes are dashed when Andy and Nick discover a casino-bound bus full of old people who’ve just been robbed at gunpoint. Things get messier with the case when they realize they may be looking for an “inside man” and will have to re-interview all the seniors involved. Meanwhile, wedding preparations are also getting messy -- in fact, the bride seems to have disappeared. Andy and Nick track down and stake out their bad guy, while Traci and Steve Peck find Noelle and try to convince her to tell Frank what’s going on. Andy’s hopes for a perfect day take a different turn while she & Nick wait for the bad guy and share a strangely intimate moment together.

SNL star Kevin Nealon tells a story about getting a live lobster and setting it free - in a forest. Charles Grodin and Linda Thorsen are also on the show.