History Recap / LawAndOrderS13E10MothersDay

* OffingTheOffspring: Mrs. Payton ended up killing her own son in an attempt to protect others.

Briscoe and Green investigate the hit and run death of a high school student. The car that killed her is registered to a Diane Payton, who claims that at the time of the murder, her son Danny was using the car. But Danny himself has now been murdered. When the detectives work out that Mrs. Payton has not been honest with them, Van Buren lures her into admitting that she killed Danny. It emerges that Danny, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had recently stopped taking his medication. His mother lent him her car because driving usually calmed him; but Danny was now hearing voices telling him to kill, so he deliberately ran over the girl. Mrs. Payton felt she had to kill him before he harmed anyone else.

* OffingTheOffspring

[=McCoy=] is angry that the defence has, in effect, changed its plea (from not guilty, to guilty by justification) - but the judge won't throw out the defence case. In his cross-examination [=McCoy=] highlights the weaknesses in Mrs. Payton's story - asking why she didn't go to the police, and why she would let her obviously homicidal son use her car. The jury finds her guilty but is of the opinion that she shouldn't receive jail time.

Briscoe and Green investigate the hit and run death of a high school student. The car that killed her is registered to a Diane Payton, who claims that at the time of the murder, her son Danny was using the car. But Danny himself has now been murdered. When the detectives work out that Mrs. Payton has not been honest with them, Van Buren lures her into admitting that she killed Danny. It emerges that Danny, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had recently stopped taking his medication. His mother lent him her car because driving usually calmed him; but Danny, who had now been hearing voices telling him to kill, deliberately ran over the girl. Mrs. Payton felt she had to kill him before he harmed anyone else.

Briscoe and Green investigate the hit and run death of a high school student. The car that killed her is registered to a Diane Payton, who claims that at the time of the murder, her son Danny was using the car. But by this time, Danny himself has been murdered. When the detectives work out that Mrs. Payton has not been honest with them, Van Buren lures her into admitting that she killed Danny. It emerges that Danny, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had recently stopped taking his medication. His mother lent him her car because driving usually calmed him; but Danny, who had now been hearing voices telling him to kill, deliberately ran over the girl. Mrs. Payton felt she had to kill him before he harmed anyone else.

Briscoe and Green investigate the hit and run death of a high school student. It appears that this was an organized hit; the victim's father is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and was to testify against the company's directors in an FBI investigation. The car that killed Emily is registered to a Diane Payton, who claims that at the time of the murder, her son Danny was using the car. But by this time, Danny himself has been murdered. When the detectives work out that Mrs. Payton has not been honest with them, Van Buren lures her into admitting that she killed Danny.

It emerges that Danny, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had recently stopped taking his medication. His mother lent him her car because driving usually calmed him; but Danny, who had now been hearing voices telling him to kill, deliberately ran over the girl. Mrs. Payton felt she had to kill him before he harmed anyone else. [=McCoy=] is angry that the defence has, in effect, changed its plea (from not guilty, to guilty by justification) - but the judge won't throw out the defence case. In his cross-examination [=McCoy=] highlights the weaknesses in Mrs. Payton's story - asking why she didn't go to the police, and why she would let her obviously homicidal son use her car. The jury finds her guilty but is of the opinion that she shouldn't receive jail time.