Maggie Hayes, who was going to testify in a murder trial is found dead outside her hotel room. Lupo and Bernard investigate their initial suspect, the defendant. Eventually, this leads to Marcus Woll, a former prosecutor who now works as a defense attorney and has been dealing with witnesses in his trials by getting them killed. But the evidence against Woll also points at Rubirosa, who had been working for him and is now implicated in a murder simply because she took a phone call. Woll taunts Cutter and Rubirosa by reminding them that if he goes down, all 102 of his convictions will be appealed. A case he worked with Rubirosa is brought up, where the witness didn't show up and turned up two years later at a construction site. Rubirosa takes a gamble on announcing herself as a co-conspirator. Cutter manages to get the pattern of dead witnesses in. Preferring to make a deal with Bart Rainey (who shot Maggie) for 12-14 years, Cutter gets Woll convicted and sentenced to life without parole.
Tropes in this episode.
- Amoral Attorney: Woll is an attorney who has the habit of opponent witnesses being killed. Thos patern also had an appearance in "Boy Gone Astray", where Woll was also the defense attorney.
- Batman Gambit: To get Woll for conspiracy, Rubirosa announces that there is a co-conspirator who is alive and willing to testify: her.
- Caught on Tape: Woll gets caught trying to make a deal, offering Bart Rainey to Cutter in exchange.
- Depraved Bisexual: Paige Regan who was seeing Maggie on the downlow and didn't want the boyfriend to know, lies about knowing where she was. But surveillance tapes show her at Maggie's room and them kissing.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The first part of the plot is about the murder of Maggie Hayes, the scond about the general practice of Woll.
- Innocently Insensitive: Cutter denies being involved or even interested in Rubirosa, because she is a co-worker:Cutter: We're supposed to be smarter than that here, aren’t we? I mean, who'd put themselves in a situation like that?
McCoy: You mean besides me? - Unwitting Pawn: Rubirosa made a phone call that inadvertently led to a man's death
