- When the CFO of a Fortune 500 company is found strangled in her home, Bernard and Cosgrove work to connect multiple dead ends to find her killer. The prosecution is faced with an uphill battle as McCoy and Price butt heads over a choice that could cost them the case.—NBC
- When a female CFO of a fortune500 company is found strangled, Bernard and Cosgrove investigate. They learn the woman was not popular especially with men cause she liked to butt heads with them. They eventually learn that she was going to tank a deal worth hundreds of millions. They learn that someone she worked with went to see her and killed her because he could be liable for deal going bad. They arrest him but st the arraignment he has a breakdown which he claims was cause during his time working for the State department wherein he got exposed to something that caused him to have periodic breakdowns which he feels what happened to him during the murder. His defense plans to use it as a defense but Price doesn't buy it. He decides to go forward despite McCoy and Mahoun telling him it might work.—Rcs0411@yahoo.com
- Three colleagues arrive at parking garage to pick up their car. A brunette woman is also in the parking garage. While one of the colleagues, Ms. Moskowitz, makes a phone call, someone shoots the two others twice each and screeches off in a black rental van. The parking garage clerk recognizes that the van is from Canada and Ms. Moskovitz tells the police she had a glimpse of its driver, a white man. Logan and Cerreta suspect a professional hit because of the silencer and quick killing.
The van is found through an APB, next to a post office. Phil suggests the driver/killer dumped the van and took the train back to Canada. He and Logan rush to the train terminal to search the next train heading to Montreal and find a man who fits the description in one of the cars. He also has a firearm and a knife in his bag. His name is Kemp and they arrest him.
Kemper, who is calm during the interview, tells the police he was in town to sell his mother's large clock to an antiques dealer. He doesn't remember the man's name or address and the clock was in the van. He says the van was stolen while he had breakfast at a diner earlier that day.
Lab reports show that Kemp's firearm wasn't used recently but the knife had recent human blood. They also find gunpowder in the van. The detectives visit the diner where Kemp had breakfast, and he had made a point of being remembered.
The detectives interview Ms. Moskovitz at her office. They search the victims' apartments which don't give any indication of crime. Phil remembers that there was a brunette woman at the garage. They speculate that Kemp came there to kill the brunette with the knife, but was interrupted by the two victims so he shot them quickly.
The detectives return to the garage and the attendant shows them a car that a brunette woman left there and hasn't returned for. In the car, they find ID for a 27-year-old Janet Torrens. Interviewing Janet's parents, the detectives learn that Janet had been working with the FBI against her former boss, Charles Martine. An FBI agent tells them that Martine was involved in a corrupt deal regarding defective military planes and the federal government. He is currently being held in jail awaiting trial. Janet was likely to be a witness in a trial against Martine someday.
Kemp, in the interrogation room, denies knowing Janet or Martine. Robinette says they can't hold Kemp much longer. The detectives interview Martine in a room at the MCC jail. He says he's just a middleman in the corruption and he's not worried about a trial. He denies knowing Kemp.
Cragen suggests the detectives look at Kemp's phone records. They see that Kemp had talked to Martine's lawyer, Teasdale, the day before the killing. Teasdale denies knowing Kemp. Kemp had also phoned a woman who lives in the east village a few times, Ms. McManus. The detectives visit her; she's packing. She says that she dated Kemp a bit but she's done with him. Logan notices she has messages on her answering machine; he plays it and hears a message from Teasdale, Martine's lawyer, reminding her not to talk to anybody.
In the interrogation room, Ms. McManus says she started seeing Kemp a few months before; she says he had lots of money. She knows he deals drugs but doesn't know anything about Janet or a killing. She said that Teasdale called her and said that he would pay her $25K if she provides Kemp an alibi. She agrees to meet with Teasdale in person wearing a wire. Teasdale incriminates himself on record. The detectives arrest Teasdale for bribery, tampering with a witness, and murder.
Teasdale, Kemp, and Martine are arraigned together and plead not guilty. Robinette requests keeping Martine in prison and $500K bail each on Kemp and Teasdale. In Ben's office, Robinette tells Ben that Arthur Gold is the Martine's lawyer; he's a powerful attorney known for producing more paper than any prosecutor can manage, and Ben's adversary. Ben is convinced he can hold his own against Gold and his colleagues as he tries the three defendants together.
Ben offers all three defendants' various deals but they all refuse. Robinette and Stone talk about the challenges they're facing: they need to prove that Cerreta had permission to search Kemp's bag on the train and also that the recording of Teasdale by Ms. McManus was fair. The judge allows the bloody knife to go in to trial but keeps the recording of Teasdale out. Gold submits more motions: a change of venue and Stone's recusal since he and Stone have worked on a committee together. The judge convinces Gold to withdraw the change of venue request, but agrees with Gold there could be a conflict with Ben and Teasdale. Stone offers to sever the case; he will prosecute Kemp and Martine while Robinette prosecutes Teasdale. Everyone agrees.
Privately, Robinette tells Ben that the severance weakens their case and that Gold probably wanted the severance and made It seem like it was Ben's idea. Arthur Schiff raises his voice as he tells Ben he made a big mistake. He also tells Ben that maybe the tape, which was excluded from using against Teasdale, could be used against Kemp and Martine. In the jail, with the possibility of the incriminating recording being used against him, Kemp agrees to Manslaughter 1, 15 years. He says that Teasdale hired him to kill Janet Torrens with a knife in the parking lot and make it look like a mugging and had to shoot the two men who saw him. He also tells him where to find Janet's body. Cragen and the detectives find Janet's body near a river. Teasdale pleads guilty and takes the same deal as Kemp.
In court, Martine and his lawyer request mercy in his sentencing. He gets the maximum: two consecutive life sentences in Ossinging, the most severe sentence allowed. Outside the jail, Gold tells Ben that it was his idea to sever the cases. Ben shrugs him off, pleased that all three defendants are going to prison.
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