- A murder case leads detectives to a mother/son team of con artists and accusations of incest.
- Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of Stuart Wattman, who was shot in an alley outside the theater where he was attending a concert. The 50-something Wattman was a "walker," a male escort who would accompany a woman to a concert or a soirée. Also shot was Liann Crosby, the woman he accompanied that evening. Forensics confirm that Crosby was shot first, but she denies anyone would want to harm her. The investigation, however, leads them to Dennis Pollock, who was seen on numerous occasions going on to Crosby's boat. The 27-year-old Pollock is married to 64-year-old Joyce Pollock, and the police suspect Crosby and Dennis Pollock may have been having an affair. In fact, they are mother and son and conning people out of their money isn't all they were up to.—garykmcd
- Stuart Wattman, a high-society escort, and Liann Crosby (Laila Robins), are shot in an alley behind a theatre. Wattman is killed and Lann is injured. After dismissing robbery as a motive and following some red herrings (such as a non-existent violent boyfriend of Wattman's), Briscoe and Curtis focus on people who might have wanted to harm Liann, a wealthy widow. They find out from a marina owner that she has been spending time on her boat with a young man--a vintage motorcycle owner--with whom she argued a week before the shootings. This person turns out to be Dennis Pollock (Matt Keeslar), the new husband of wealth widow Joyce Pollock. Dennis now works at the Hook-Stratton Foundation, which has given lots of money to New York City charities, so Schiff advises McCoy and Carmichael to tread lightly. After finding out that Dennis bought a gun that matches the murder weapon (.357 Magnum) from a criminal acquaintance of a motorcycle mechanic, the ADAs charge him with the shootings. The charges are dismissed on insufficient evidence, which is when Liann comes forward to say that she and Dennis had had an affair, and that he accidentally shot her in the alley. The ADAs re-file the charges, and Dennis pleads extreme emotional disturbance, as he was molested by Liann--who is his mother--since he was a teenager. Apparently, Liann and Dennis had been planning to fleece Mrs. Pollock and then kill her, but Dennis fell in love with her and tried to back out of the plan. In order to try to convince Dennis to plead guilty, McCoy threatens to charge Mrs. Pollock as an accomplice, figuring that Dennis will choose his wife over his mother. He does not. The jury finds him to be suffering from extreme emotional disturbance, and finds him guilty only of manslaughter in the second degree (for Stuart Wattman) and attempted manslaughter in the first degree (for Liann).
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