Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and Briscoe and Green go searching for a woman who killed and dismembered her boyfriend, and instead find a man who murdered his wife. When McCoy fails to win a murder conviction against the eccentric cross-dressing millionaire, he redoubles the effort to convict the man for murdering his second wife years earlier by demonstrating that he murdered a witness to the crime.

The District Attorney's Office is set on its ear when the investigation into the death of an A.D.A. uncovers a scandal that could imperil hundreds of cases.