The badly burned corpse of a Jewish diamond dealer is found in an alley. Before being burned, Ezra Shore had been beaten to death. In the beginning, suspicions turn toward a a group of black youths hate crime. As the investigation proceeds, the detectives look into the victim's brother Isaac and business deals.
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!!Tropes present in this episode

* BackfireOnTheWitnessStand: When Stone tries to call up a witness who had claimed to have seen a group of his friends kill Ezra, the witness winds up recanting on the stand to actually seeing the boys kill him, causing Stone to withdraw the case.
* BuffySpeak: According to the cop, the victim was "wearing one of those... those Jewish beanie things." He has to be told that's called a yarmulke.
* TheDogBitesBack: At the end of the episode, Tashjian himself is shot by Issac after the jury finds Tashjian not guilty of killing Isaac's brother, Ezra.
* TheMobBossIsScarier: Isaac at one point attempts to falsely confess to murdering Ezra himself, due to having had his family threatened by Tashjian.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The 1991 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Heights_riot Crown Heights riot]].