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* ADeadlyAffair: The episode starts with a man who shoots his cheating wife's boyfriend.

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* ADeadlyAffair: The episode starts with a man who shoots his cheating wife's boyfriend.boyfriend, which is a failed attempt at this.
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* RevisitingTheColdCase: The case of David's disappearance was closed with no results. It gets reopened after his body is found in the Hudson.
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* ADeadlyAffair: The episode starts with a man who shoots his cheating wife's boyfriend.


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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: David's mother was still alive after his death.
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* ShoutOut: a tape of Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand is found within the band. Curtis calls it "''Dr.'' Pepper's", though.

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* ShoutOut: a tape of Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand is found within the band.van. Curtis calls it "''Dr.'' Pepper's", though.
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David's file shows that he'd repeatedly provoked Grady in the weeks leading up to the murder. Grady accepts a lenient plea for manslaughter. He confesses he was so enraged by seeing David desecrate a war memorial (which was all part of orders) that he lost control. [=McCoy=] still blames the police for David's death, although Carmichael disagrees.

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David's file shows that he'd repeatedly provoked Grady in the weeks leading up to the murder. Grady accepts a lenient plea for manslaughter. He confesses he lost control because he was so enraged by seeing David desecrate a war memorial (which - which was all part of orders) that he lost control.David's orders. [=McCoy=] still blames the police for David's death, although Carmichael disagrees.
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David's file shows that he'd repeatedly provoked Grady in the weeks leading up to the murder. Grady accepts a lenient sentence for manslaughter. He confesses he was so enraged by seeing David desecrate a war memorial (which was all part of orders) that he lost control. [=McCoy=] still blames the police for David's death, although Carmichael disagrees.

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David's file shows that he'd repeatedly provoked Grady in the weeks leading up to the murder. Grady accepts a lenient sentence plea for manslaughter. He confesses he was so enraged by seeing David desecrate a war memorial (which was all part of orders) that he lost control. [=McCoy=] still blames the police for David's death, although Carmichael disagrees.

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A decades-old VW van is pulled out of the Hudson River, and bones are found within. The body is identified as a student activist from the sixties. It is later discovered that he was an undercover officer infiltrating student groups with instructions to make them commit criminal acts. His murder may be tied to a security guard whose current senility [[ObfuscatingInsanity may be nothing but an act]].

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A While looking for evidence against a man who shot his cheating wife's boyfriend, police divers find a decades-old VW van is pulled out of in the Hudson River, and bones are found within. River. Inside the van is the skeleton of someone who was clearly murdered. The body victim is identified as David Bernstein, a student activist from activist. He disappeared in 1968, the sixties. It day after he'd been arrested at a protest against the Vietnam War. The evidence suggests the killer is later discovered Darryl Grady, a security guard at David's university; who hated the protestors because his son was killed in Vietnam. Grady is now elderly and [[ObfuscatingInsanity seemingly]] senile.

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that he David was an undercover officer cop tasked with infiltrating student groups with instructions to make and provoking them commit into criminal acts. His murder may be tied When the police refuse to release David's file, she interviews his old co-workers. One of them says that his field handler, Ross Macmillan, saw Grady driving David's van after the protest. [=McCoy=] wants to use this as leverage to get David's file and find out what the police were really doing. But Carmichael, who sees the student activists as terrorists, is disgusted by his actions.

[=McCoy=] deliberately wrecks any attempt at
a security guard whose current senility [[ObfuscatingInsanity may be nothing plea and requests to subpoena David's police file. He convinces the judge to hold a hearing with Macmillan - who confirms he saw Grady driving the van. Macmillan told his superiors about it, but an act]]. they didn't care, since David was becoming uncomfortable with the job. They ordered Macmillan to pin David's disappearance on the Black Panthers to ensure he'd stay quiet if he ever returned. The judge agrees with [=McCoy=] that the police's actions were illegal. She allows the subpoena.

David's file shows that he'd repeatedly provoked Grady in the weeks leading up to the murder. Grady accepts a lenient sentence for manslaughter. He confesses he was so enraged by seeing David desecrate a war memorial (which was all part of orders) that he lost control. [=McCoy=] still blames the police for David's death, although Carmichael disagrees.


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* DirtyCop: Pretty much everyone in David's division qualifies as this. Their job was to provoke anyone considered too "radical" into criminal acts, and if that didn't work, make them look like criminals.
* ShiksaGoddess: David Bernstein was Jewish but preferred Gentile girlfriends.
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A decades-old VW van is pulled out of the Hudson River, and bones are found within. The body is identified as a student activist from the sixties. It is later discovered that he was an undercover officer infiltrating student groups with instructions to make them commit criminal acts.

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A decades-old VW van is pulled out of the Hudson River, and bones are found within. The body is identified as a student activist from the sixties. It is later discovered that he was an undercover officer infiltrating student groups with instructions to make them commit criminal acts. His murder may be tied to a security guard whose current senility [[ObfuscatingInsanity may be nothing but an act]].

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A decades-old VW van is pulled out of the Hudson River, and bones are found within.

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A decades-old VW van is pulled out of the Hudson River, and bones are found within. The body is identified as a student activist from the sixties. It is later discovered that he was an undercover officer infiltrating student groups with instructions to make them commit criminal acts.
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A decades-old VW van is pulled out of the Hudson River, and bones are found within.
* ShoutOut: a tape of Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand is found within the band. Curtis calls it "''Dr.'' Pepper's", though.

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