Three women all named Sylvia Rossi are murdered. It becomes clear that this is a professional hit. The detectives trace the apparent killer, Troy Hendricks, who's now missing. But Hendricks left a hit list that includes [=McCoy=], and everyone on the list is connected to a mass shooting in 1996. [=McCoy=] prosecuted the offender, Leland Barnes; who killed his wife at her workplace and tried to kill everyone in the office, so there would be no witnesses. One of the three Sylvias was a survivor of the shooting, and another survivor has just been murdered too.

The apparent motive for the murders is that Barnes's murder conviction was overturned, and an appeal hearing is imminent. He represents himself, as he is a qualified lawyer. But the prosecutors cannot prove there's any connection between Barnes and Hendricks. Elaine Bowman, the only remaining survivor of the original shooting, is too afraid of Barnes to testify against him.

Barnes' old cellmate confesses that Barnes used another prisoner, Garfield, to pass messages on his behalf during prison visits. Garfield has now died too, in an apparent "suicide." Green and Fontana discover that in fact, "Hendricks" is Barnes' son Harlan. The real Troy Hendricks was his foster brother and died years ago. Barnes' other son Robert helps the police track down Harlan, who is arrested.

Without Bowman's testimony, there's insufficient evidence to sustain a case against Barnes. He is released, but as he leaves the courtroom, Robert shoots and kills him. Robert is arrested. [=McCoy=] tells Borgia that he panicked and thought Robert was there to shoot ''[=McCoy=]''.
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!!This episode contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
** Barnes claims he has the right to question the last survivor of his rampage, Elaine Bowman, since he is representing himself and is a qualified lawyer. He further argues his standby attorney is only there to help with legal advice and can't be forced to do it. The judge agrees and allows Bowman to conduct the interview, which he uses to intimidate Bowman, just as [=McCoy=] predicted. In reality, the fact that he is the defendant would override his interest as a lawyer and he wouldn't be let near Bowman outside the courtroom.
** Barnes gets the case dismissed and walks free, only stopped when his other son Robert shoots him on the courtroom steps. He argues that since his son Harlan committed the murders but didn't implicate his father, there is no conspiracy and the prosecution can't connect the two. While this may be true, it wouldn't work outside of fiction. If a defendant appealing a conviction, especially for mass murder, suddenly finds that many of the previous witnesses against him have suddenly been murdered ''and'' the killer is his own son who was caught red-handed, the circumstantial evidence would be more than enough to charge him and keep him in prison.
* AssholeVictim: Even though the show had to really stretch to allow Barnes to be freed (as noted above) he at least gets exactly what he deserves at the hands of his son Robert.
* CreepyMonotone: Barnes uses this to intimidate [=McCoy=].
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Harlan used Troy Hendricks' identity to cover up the murders.
* DomesticAbuse: Barnes was very violent to his wife and eventually killed her.
* DramaticIrony: Borgia is deeply concerned [=McCoy=] could be murdered on Barnes' orders. Just a few episodes later, she herself is brutally murdered as the result of another case.
* AFoolForAClient: Barnes chooses to represent himself.
* GottaKillThemAll: Harlan had a hit list that included [=McCoy=].
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The fact that Harlan had the list of names is proof that he had been in contact with his father; he had no access to this list.
* JuryAndWitnessTampering: Barnes sent his son to murder the primary witnesses against him. When the police prevented the killer from killing the third witness, he intimidated her so she wouldn't testify against him.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: This was Leland Barnes' modus operandi.
* NeverSuicide: Barnes has Garfield killed and made it look like suicide to cover his tracks.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Barnes' sons were sent to a foster family where the biological son--Troy Hendricks--had previously died.
* ParentalFavouritism: Referenced by Fontana who tries to get Harlan to talk by convincing him his father preferred Robert, and is just using Harlan to save his own skin.
* ProfessionalKiller: Subverted. It looks like Barnes hired one, but in fact, Harlan was the killer the whole time.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Robert kills his father at the end of the episode.
* SignificantNameOverlap: Harlan could not be sure which of several women with the same name was the right Sylvia Rossi, so he just killed them all.
* SmugSnake: Barnes is this to the extreme.
* SurvivorGuilt: Bowman blames herself for the shooting because she knew Barnes was abusing his wife, but didn't do anything about it.
* TattooedCrook: Harlan Barnes has tattoos all over his body.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Robert kills his father at the very end of the episode and like most cases in the show, what happens to him isn't revealed in the future. We can only hope (or imagine) he was given a lenient deal for keeping his dangerous Dad off the streets.
* WouldHurtAChild: Harlan would have killed Whittaker's toddler-aged son if the child hadn't hidden in a closet.
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