Directed by Craig Ross Jr
Written by Tyler Bensinger
Tropes:
- Broken Pedestal: Jason Bowen idolized his surgeon father and aspired to follow in his footsteps. But then Grant became a gambling addict and blew away his son’s college money for Cornell University, and Jason had to go to community college instead, only gaining entrance to Cornell after his father's death. The pedestal is reassembled after Grant’s murder is solved, and Jason finds out that his father had a friend shoot him dead so that he and his mom could collect the life insurance and be taken care of.
- Chekhov's Gun: Cy’s good luck charm, a Chinese jade trinket.
- Continuity Nod: When they are reviewing Grant's case box in the archives, Kayla Odoms's case box can be seen just behind Stillman.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Scotty beats the ever-loving crap out of a supposed pedophile at a playground in the final scenes of the episode.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Grant’s murder could be seen as this, as he thought himself too far gone for getting back on track from his gambling addiction, and demanded his best friend to shoot him dead so that his wife and son could collect the life insurance, thinking himself more useful to them dead than alive.
- Like Father, Like Son: Both a negative and positive example.
- Grant's father was an alcoholic, Grant became addicted to gambling.
- Jason Bowen is a surgeon as an adult, just as his father was.
- The Gambling Addict:
- Cy was this to the point where his wife and kids left him.
- Grant nearly drove his family into financial ruin despite being himself a well-paid surgeon simply due to this.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Dr. Bowen commits suicide by having Cy shoot him so that it looks like he was the victim of a random street crime, thus enabling his family to collect his insurance money (although if enough time has passed between purchasing the policy and the person's death, many insurance companies actually will pay even if the person killed themselves)
- Mercy Kill: Although Grant wasn't suffering from any terminal illness, but to collect life insurance to support his family.
- Nominal Importance: The man falsely accused of Dr. Bowen's murder died shortly after his imprisonment, yet the show uncharacteristically never reveals his name, his face or his own story as to why he was blamed other than to briefly mention that a Black guy did it, despite (or possibly because of) the fact that it had focused on this very circumstance two episodes earlier.
- Red Herring: After a flashback reveals that Dr. Bowen's best friend had a crush on his wife, the detectives and the viewer are left to speculate if one or both of them is his killer. It turns out she rebuffed him because she didn't reciprocate and they're both innocent regarding his murder.
- Redemption Equals Death: After ruining his family's finances, costing his son a chance to go to an Ivy League college —and likely medical school—and destroying his wife and son's respect for him, Dr. Bowen commits suicide in a manner that looks like a random street crime, thus allowing them to collect on his hefty insurance policy and be solvent again.
