Bernard and Cosgrove must follow multiple leads when the chief financial officer of a Fortune 500 company is found strangled in her apartment. McCoy and Price have a conflict that could jeopardize the case.
Not to be confused with the season 2 episode of the same name.
- Bad Liar: Mr. Fletcher is a reporter who claims to not have known Alexis, until Cosgrove tells him she's dead.
- Fiction 500: Questarc is run by Ethan Merritt, whose CFO was Alexis Murphy.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Nolan is warned by Jack and Samantha that Colin's defense is rock solid, and that he should just offer Colin a plea deal rather than let the defense take the CIA to trial. He dismisses both of them though, Jack by claiming he's too focused on politics, Samantha by stating Havana Syndrome is not an excuse for murder, and both by telling them he has a rock solid case against him. His actions at trial, however, only end up reinforcing the defense's case, causing Colin to be acquitted by reason of Mental Instability.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When asked if electro-waves could cause someone to commit murder, the medical expert says, "I'm a neurologist, not a CIA operative." The perp in question was probably exposed to something along those lines while stationed in Cuba for the State Department.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Ethan Merritt is modeled after Elon Musk, with the business ventures in electric vehicles, all the way down to the initials.
- Patched Together from the Headlines: An eventually cleared suspect complains about apparent forced diversity quotas. It also touches on toxic workplaces. The focus then shifts to the Havana syndrome phenomenon of 2016.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: A brief, but poignant, one to Nolan by Jack. After Nolan loses the case, rather than accept that he lost, he tries telling Jack that he still thinks Colin was lying as Jack tries to walk out the door. So Jack tells him something his old boss used to say before leaving, while Nolan can only stand there.Nolan: I still think he's lying.
Jack: My old boss, he used to say: "Lawyers who need to be right, lose more cases than those that don't."
