John Cariani

Alicia and Will each represent one-half of a couple accused of smuggling drugs, but the courtroom becomes mired in confusion and legal technicalities when they insist on separate jury pools. Meanwhile, Cary attempts to woo a Lockhart/Gardner client, Kalinda tries to repair a damaged relationship and Marilyn begins her investigation into possible voter fraud during the gubernatorial election. Victor Garber and Tom Skerritt guest star.

An aspiring actress, Lucy Dolan, is found shot to death in her apartment above a busy delicatessen. Missing is an elaborate plasma screen television. Lucy worked at a seedy comedy club in Staten Island but obviously lived beyond her means. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) search her locker at the club and find a stack of traffic violations, including a photo ticket. That leads them to the vehicle and intersection near the deli, where they see in the background, an out-of-town couple shooting videos. They track down the couple from Ohio, but they've already sold the footage to a local TV station. The cops get the tape and are able to track the vehicle, a beige Ford Explorer, and also in the photo see the suspects carrying the television. Tracking the vehicle through a Freemont Downs Racetrack VIP parking pass visible on the windshield, they have their suspects - Matt Carton (Omar Sharif Scroggins) and Harry Johnson (Malcolm Barrett). They get the third suspect, Daniel Otum (Dakoda Anderson), by sneaking around their high-end attorney's office.

Vance Grodie (Christopher Coucill) is a hotshot defense attorney, who is having a victory celebration after his client, Darnell Marbury (Curtiss Cook), is acquitted of attempted murder of police officer Chris Wilson (Chris Diamantopoulos). It's a hectic scene in the courtroom when the verdict is read, as the victim, now paralyzed, is present with his brother and numerous fellow police officers, who are outraged with the verdict. After Grodie leaves the restaurant for a smoke, his friends hear gunfire. Grodie is found lying dead on the sidewalk. The only thing missing is his palm pilot. Immediately the cops are forced to question their own colleagues, and even check out the blotter for the evening of the crime to see who might be considered a suspect.

Two hotshot young Wall Street executives think they are playing a prank on their buddy when they open the trunk of his Lexus. Little do they know it's the wrong car and there's a dead body. The deceased is Gordon Meeks, who runs a cash heavy bookie business. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jessie L. Martin) question his associate Steve Strelznik (John Rothman). He lives on the Upper East Side and is the last person you'd expect to be in the bookie business. Strelznik is shocked to hear about Gordon's demise. He explains that they are both employees of First Run Gaming, a company based in Costa Rica. So technically, the high-class clientele thinks they are not really doing anything illegal. They interview a few clients but neither had any motives for the murder.

An attractive young woman is found naked and stabbed to death in the elegant town house of Tony-winning composer John David Myers. His assistant, Margot Dalton, found the body and Myers is upstairs in complete shock. Briscoe and Green consider Myers a suspect, but also believe it could have been a burglar because of an unlocked window and dirt found on the carpet. The dead woman is an aspiring actress named Carrie Gunderson. She had attended a Broadway premiere where she met Myers, went to the after party with him, and then back to his place for drinks and sex.