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1Lupo and Bernard investigate the murder of Mark Burns, a doctor who was attending a convention. A large cash withdrawal prior to his death makes them suspicious. It eventually comes out that he had switched rooms with the intended target; Howard Garrison, a doctor who was present at an execution gone wrong in South Carolina that left a man in a coma. The man's cousin, Jamie Yost (Creator/MichaelRooker) had stalked the doctor.
2!!Tropes present in this episode
3* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Cutter's approach in this, with [=McCoy=]'s blessing:
4-->'''Cutter''': Yost killed an innocent man in our jurisdiction.\
5'''[=McCoy=]''': No shades of gray in this for you, Mike?\
6'''Cutter''': Nope.\
7'''[=McCoy=]''': Good.
8* BludgeonedToDeath: How the victim was killed.
9* AFateWorseThanDeath: The botched execution should have killed the accused, but instead left him in a persistent vegetative state.
10* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Goes to figuring out who killed Burns to whether Yost was justified in his attempt to murder the doctor who left his cousin in a coma.
11* MurderByMistake: The deceased was killed, but the intended target was a doctor who was present at a botched execution.

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