Two maids in a hotel find one of the rooms completely covered in blood. Police are called, and now Briscoe and Curtis are looking for a body. Tracing a stolen credit card leads them to Christina Talbert and her boyfriend Tommy Horton, both students at a university near the hotel. The two deny any knowledge, but the forensic evidence shows that Christina gave birth in the room.
Christina and Tommy are charged with murder on the evidence of Christina forging a prescription for drugs to induce labor. The arraignment judge orders a psychiatric examination of Christina, but Skoda concludes she is just very selfish and didn't care about the baby. The defence gets the forged prescription excluded as evidence, so McCoy and Ross cannot prove premeditation unless Tommy testifies against Christina. However, he refuses because she would go to jail.
The case is difficult to prove because there is no body. Tommy and Christina are now saying they abandoned the baby in the hotel room, expecting that he'd be found and taken to hospital. McCoy can prove that they have repeatedly lied about what happened, and that the baby was born alive. They even went to a party right after Christina gave birth. The jury favors Christina - but then the baby's body is found on a construction site to which Christina's father, Warren Talbert, had keys.
Talbert says Christina told him about the baby, and he went to the hotel to look; but the baby died and Talbert hid the body. He is clearly lying - the autopsy shows the baby was strangled. Talbert won't testify against Christina even when offered immunity from prosecution, so McCoy has him jailed for contempt of court. When the trial resumes, Christina's lawyer Garnett posits that Talbert killed the baby. Since Talbert refuses to testify, there's reasonable doubt. Christina and Tommy are both acquitted, and there isn't enough evidence to charge Talbert with anything. The DAs are angry that no one will be held responsible.
This episode contains examples of:
- Constructive Body Disposal: The baby's body was hidden in a construction site.
- Death of a Child: The baby was murdered the night he was born.
- Interrupted Intimacy: At the start of the episode one of the maids walks into a room where a couple are obviously having sex, just to annoy them.
- It's All About Me: Christina and Tommy seem to have had no consideration of their baby whatsoever, and Skoda's assessment of Christina is that she is extremely self-absorbed.
- Karma Houdini: Both parents are acquitted and get away with everything. Christina's father, who at best covered up the baby's death and at worst killed the baby himself, is released early from his 30-day sentence for contempt and can't be charged with anything else.
- Kick the Dog: Garnett attempts to browbeat Christina's obviously devastated mother into implicating her husband.
- Left Hanging: While it's strongly suggested Christina killed the baby herself, there is a possibility her father really did do it, but the matter is never clearly resolved.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: Inverted. One of Tommy's friends describes Christina as a fat girl, causing the detectives to realize she must have been pregnant.
- No-Tell Motel: The hotel where Christina's baby was born.
- Offing the Offspring: What Christina and Tommy are accused of, and most likely did, although there is reasonable doubt that Christina's father killed the baby instead.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Based on the then-recent cases of "Prom Mom" Melissa Drexler, and Amy Grossman and Brian Petersen; all teenagers who hid a pregnancy and subsequently killed the baby.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Christina and Tommy act this way with each other, and even have to be told to stop it during their arraignment hearing.
