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Angelwood

Angelwood - Rudy seemed like such a good kid when he was trying to get on the Notre Dame football team. Who knew he was going to end up as a scary minister turning children into religious fanatics?

Lauren S

Submission

Submission - When a dog-fighting ring is broken up, Lupo and Green are called in to investigate once a finger is found in one of the dog's stomachs. This then leads to murder and...wine counterfeiting? Okay, sure.

Lauren S

Betrayal

Betrayal - Moira Kelly has it rough when she finds out she's married to a psychiatrist who likes to sleep with his underage patients. But then she has it rougher when it turns out he only liked sleeping with her -- it's the hazard of blowing your husband's brains out before you've asked him what's going on.

Lauren S

Tango

Tango - Two pretty distinct stories this week -- the one about the drunk teenager who was brutally murdered, and the other about Connie's legs.

Lauren S

Executioner

Executioner - A guy decides to chicken out of having an affair, but then gets murdered in a totally unrelated event. Now that's just not fair.

Lauren S

Illegal

Illegal - One auxiliary cop, one inferiority complex, one gun, and one riot add up to the perfect recipe for disaster this week.

Lauren S

Quit Claim

Quit Claim - If you have a fairly well-known actress as a guest star, it's always a safe guess that she's not really going to be an incidental character the way she's first introduced. And the blonder and more innocent-looking she is, the worse her crimes will probably turn out to be.

Lauren S

Political Animal

Political Animal - When three young men are found shot to death, Lupo and Green get to wade through the world of political fundraising with a short stop in the men's room for a game of footsie to find the killer.

Lauren S

Driven

Driven - The ugly side of gentrification is revealed in yet another thought-provoking episode, which asks the important question: Who has the more deleterious impact on housing prices, child murderers or pretty racists?

LuluBates

Bottomless

Bottomless - The team follows a pair of pants from an attorney's murder, through a shipment of poisoned toothpaste, into the villainous heart of a corporation that most definitely is not Wal-Mart, no sirree.

Sars

Misbegotten

Misbegotten - Sometimes people can act really stupid when they mean well, but then again sometimes people act really stupid because they are just jerks. This episode features a little bit of both.

Lauren S

Called Home / Darkness

Called Home / Darkness - Cyrus Lupo comes home to investigate his brother's death in an assisted-suicide conspiracy, then joins the team permanently as a city-wide blackout leads to a kidnapping. McCoy gets the promotion.

Sars

Point Of View

Point Of View - It's a Mob hit! ...No, it's an attempted-rape case. No, wait, it's a Mob hit.

Sars