After a woman's apparent murder is revealed to be a suicide, Goren and Eames take a look at her husband, whose disturbing past soon casts him under suspicion.
Examples:
- Ambiguously Jewish: Lena is revealed to be Argentinian Jew whose parents suppressed their Jewish heritage to avoid discrimination and to move up in the country's society.
- Foreshadowing:
- Lance visibly tenses when he sees a photo of a bruise on Lena's knee. He kills Jewish men by breaking their knee and then beating them to death.
- Bishop speaks Spanish, but doesn't recognize some of the words Lena would commonly use. Initially she chalks this up to being rusty at the language, but Goren eventually contacts a linguist friend who reveals that Lena was speaking Ladino, a dialect of Spanish spoken by Jewish people.
- Lance's own name could be considered one, as Brody is a common Jewish name.
- Freudian Excuse: Lance's past showcases that his mother had an affair with her Jewish boss and got pregnant by him. However, the story he was told by his abusive father was that the boss raped her and got away with it due to his connections. He believed it, but his older sister knew better.
- Fridge Horror: In-universe, Lena realizes Lance was targeting family members of the Jewish people she worked with at assisted living facilities. It's implied that this may have been a motivating factor in her suicide.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: A variation - Goren shows a photocopy of a note he says Lena recovered from Lance's coveralls containing the license plate number of one of the victims. Lance immediately declares it a fake, and smugly says it doesn't have the right number - when he has previously said he never met the man. Lance immediately realizes what he just said, which leads to a Villainous Breakdown.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Lance openly hates Jewish people and is horrified that his late wife was Jewish.
- Revealing Cover Up: Goren notes a number of unusual details in Lena's death - three different types of violence, defensive injuries that are inconsistent with self-defense, an excessive amount of painkillers in her system - that eventually lead him to deduce it was actually suicide.
- Thanatos Gambit: Lena stages her suicide to make it look like Lance murdered her, and included among the injuries a clue to Lance's MO.Goren: If she couldn't send you to jail for killing them, she was going to send you to jail for killing her.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Lance's abusive father and unborn half-sibling are mentioned in his backstory, but their fates in the present day are never explained.
