Secrets
Directed By: Ed Bianchi
Written By: Yaphet Kotto
Ballard and Gharty, and Bayliss and Pembleton, each get a case of a suicide. It turns out both were financiers who belonged to the same country club, and both received incriminating photos from Remington Hill (Remak Ramsay), who hired a photographer to document what he saw as the financiers' unsavory activities. Elsewhere, Lewis gets reinstated to Homicide and Judge Gibbons dismisses Georgia Rae Mahoney's lawsuit against the city.
This episode contains examples of:
- Brother–Sister Incest: One of the financiers who killed himself was having an affair with his half-sister.
- Call-Back: Bayliss brings up the time he and Ballard went on a date.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: When Bayliss asks Ballard if she's ever been with another woman, she assumes he's invoking this trope, and goes on a rant about how All Men Are Perverts. However, it turns out Bayliss has something else in mind (see Internal Reveal below).
- Internal Reveal: Bayliss admits to Ballard he's been seeing both men and women, which Ballard says he didn't need to tell her.
- Karmic Death: Remington Hill is murdered by the same photographer whom he hired.
- May–December Romance: Another one of the financiers who killed herself was sleeping with her 17-year-old babysitter.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After Judge Gibbons throws out Georgia Rae Mahoney's lawsuit, Kellerman follows him outside and brags to him how he knows the FBI has the judge under investigation - right in earshot of Mahoney's lawyers and associates. This will become very important in a later episode.
- Noodle Incident: A rare instance where it's Played for Drama - the photographer admits Hill was blackmailing him, but when Bayliss and Pembleton ask him what Hill, the photographer says, "I'll never tell."
- Sidetracked by the Analogy: When Lewis wonders why someone would murder the drug supplier to the Mahoneys, and says killing him is like killing Switzerland, Munch snaps that Switzerland stole things from his relatives, plus, he doesn't like their chocolate or cheese.
