The drug-addicted daughter of a city politician survives a hit by "playing dead". Her black-mailing, dealer-boyfriend, isn't so lucky. Goren and Eames uncover a trail of deception that leads all the way to City Hall.

Two young brothers endure the insanity of their mother until she dies under questionable circumstances in a bathtub. Twenty years later, when the elder brother is confronted with the reality of a life he has sought to leave behind, he kills his brother. Detectives Goren and Eames follow the clues that lead them through a multitude of assumed identities.