History Recap / LawAndOrderS9E22Admissions

* NeverTheObviousSuspect: The Dr. Clemente B-plot takes up a significant chunk of the episode. He had nothing to do with the victim's death and was only indirectly related to it. [[spoiler: The victim had a one night stand with the real killer while distraught over Clemente ending the relationship.]]
* OneNightStandPregnancy: Assuming [[spoiler: Michaels]] is telling the truth, Sarah Kincaid's pregnancy resulted from one.

At the campus of Hudson University, a graduate student named Sarah Kincaid is found murdered. Briscoe and Curtis discover that Sarah had just found out she was pregnant, but didn't have an official boyfriend. The detectives become suspicious of the victim's professor Dr. Miguel Clemente. He was at risk of losing a $4m research grant because Sarah had found serious errors in a report he'd written. Clemente insists that Sarah was wrong about the report, and he's only being treated as a suspect because of his race. His dismissive attitude does nothing to change Briscoe and Curtis's suspicions.

Without concrete evidence against Clemente, the [=DA=]'s office has no case to pursue. Clemente is arrested when a witness reports seeing him near the library, where Sarah was killed, on the night of her death. But the librarian soon proves this witness was mistaken and Clemente was there the night ''before'' the murder. Clemente admits that he and Sarah had an affair, which he ended to save his job, but says she wasn't vindictive about it. A DNA test confirms he wasn't the father of her baby, and an independent verification shows that there were no errors in his report. Clemente had no motive to kill Sarah so the charges against him are dropped. The DNA test shows that the father of Sarah's baby was of Greek descent, which points to her classmate Dennis Michaels. Michaels says that he and Sarah slept together after Clemente broke up with her; but denies killing her.

Michaels' friend Peter Kelly gives him an alibi that is soon proven to be false. A little more digging reveals Kelly was actually present when Michaels killed Sarah. Michaels helped Kelly cheat to stay in school, and now Kelly is trying to repay the favor by covering for him. Michaels is engaged to Sarah's wealthy and well-to-do roommate, and when he found out Sarah was pregnant, he killed her to prevent his fiancée from calling off the wedding. Kelly won't turn on Michaels so [=McCoy=] gets Kelly's father, an influential CEO, involved. Under threat of having his bail withdrawn, Kelly admits he witnessed Michaels killing Sarah. The laws of New York State prevent the [=DA=]'s office from charging Kelly as an accomplice, but the prosecutors learn he was kicked out of Hudson. [=McCoy=] states that Kelly has basically got away with everything since his father will just give him a job.

* OneNightStandPregnancy: Assuming [[spoiler: Michaels]] is telling the truth, Sarah Kincaid's pregnancy resulted from one. su

* NeverTheObviousSuspect: The Dr. Clemente subplot takes up a significant chunk of the episode. He had nothing to do with the victim's death and was only indirectly related to it. [[spoiler: The victim had a one night stand with the real killer while distraught over Clemente ending the relationship.]]
* OneNightStandPregnancy: Assuming [[spoiler: Michaels]] is telling the truth, Sarah Kincaid's pregnancy resulted from one.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Very loosely based Jeremy Strohmeyer case. [[note]] Stroheymer molested and murdered a 7 year girl. His friend claimed to have witnessed part of the crime but didn't intervene.[[/note]]