Truth Will Out
Directed By: Keith Samples
Story By: Noel Behn and Anya Epstein
Written By: Anya Epstein
Josephine Pitt (Brooke Smith) comes to the Homicide Unit to tell Falsone how when she was a young girl, she may have been responsible for the death of her infant brother Jeffrey, which was Giardello's first case as a Homicide detective. Giardello orders Bayliss to shut down his website, but the exposure causes many on the police force to shun him. Stivers tells Falsone she's seen him and Ballard together even though they supposedly called it quits.
This episode contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Turns out Madeline Pitt (Elizabeth Ashley) was the one who battered Jeffrey to death, and blamed Josephine for it.
- The Alcoholic: Harlow, the medical examiner who originally ruled Jeffrey Pitt was killed by his sister turned out to be this. Giardello tells Falsone and Stivers he was eventually fired when he was caught with bottles in the freezer where they keep the bodies.
- Bittersweet Ending: Giardello is able to get Madeline to admit to Jeffrey's murder (though whether she's charged is up to the state's attorney), but she and Josephine are no longer speaking to each other, and Giardello admits he blames himself for not seeing the truth when he first handled the case - he thought he might have been distracted by Charisse being in the hospital, but the timing was wrong.
- Call-Back: Josephine tells Falsone she wanted to speak to him in particular because she saw how Falsone had been involved in the Clara Slone case.
- Closet Gay: Roger, the sergeant at the crime scene Ballard and Bayliss are investigating, turns out to be this. He seems friendly with Bayliss when they meet at a gay bar, but warns Bayliss away from him at work when Bayliss' website gets exposed because he doesn't want to be exposed either.
- Desecrating the Dead: Bayliss and Ballard's case involves a dead drug addict found at a notorious shooting-up site, shot in the head. The pathologist declares that he died from a drug overdose and was shot after he died, speculating that some local thug found the corpse and decided to test his gun on it.
- Gayngst: Bayliss is ostracised by other cops and rejected by a uniformed cop who he flirted with, because he was open about being bisexual on his website.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Ballard and Bayliss talk about how no one in Homicide is allowed to have a private life, though Ballard is talking about the fact she's not allowed to see Falsone anymore, and Bayliss is talking about his website.
- Persona Non Grata: Bayliss becomes like this for most of the department, with only Ballard and Sheppard being sympathetic to him. When Ballard and Bayliss talk to a narcotics detective about the dead junkie they found, the detective won't even look at Bayliss, only responding to Ballard.
