Briscoe and Green investigate the death of a man whose son was tortured and killed in Chile under the Pinochet regime. Later, the DA's office tries to prosecute Chilean senator Pantoya, who was a coronel at the time.
- Banana Republic: Chile gets this treatment, or at least it was at the time of the victim's murder
- Cold-Blooded Torture: This is what Pantoya's troops did to all their prisoners.
- Halfway Plot Switch: Begins with the killing of an old man. This is resolved, and the focus shifts to the murder of his son in Chile many years before.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Pantoya takes this attitude and argues he was protecting his country from communism. It does not go over well with the jury.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Pantoya is obviously heavily based on former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet.
- No Ending: The episode ends with a clerk walking up to the legal team, with the implication that they are about the find out the result of the Pantoya's appeal.
- Outliving One's Offspring: The episode starts with the death of a man whose son was killed years earlier. The mother of that son is.still alive.
- Unusual Euphemism: It comes up when the defense attorney is questioning Pantoya on the stand:Chiles: Many of these prisoners were tortured?
Colonel Emilio Pantoya: Ah, well, they... they were interrogated, let's say, vigorously.
