The Puerto Rican Day Parade is going on. A couple out on a rowboat finds a woman's dead body floating in Central Park. There is pressure to believe the woman's death is linked to several incidents of assault taking place during the parade. First, the detectives look at the victim's husband Ben Weber, as she had plans to force him to sell his business. Then they look at his partner, who he stood to lose quite a bit if the husband lost the business. He claims he was with her but went to get some help when he saw some Puerto Ricans coming his way. Eventually the investigation settles on a Brazilian young man who wanted to get into the spirit and ended up killing the victim. He is convicted of manslaughter.
Tropes present in this episode
- Brawn Hilda: The victim. The guy who groped her did so to impress his buddies, who were watching. She responded by beating the stuffing out of him, which escalated the situation towards her murder so the guy (in his view at least) wouldn't be humiliated by being beaten up by a girl. Briscoe and Green comment when they find her body that she has shoulders like a titan.
- Patched Together from the Headlines: In June 2000, several women claimed to be groped during the Puerto Rican Day Parade and the NYPD's response was criticized.
- Shout-Out: The episode title is a reference to Sunday in the Park with George
