Blood Wedding
Directed By: Kevin Hooks
Story By: Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura
Written By: Matthew Witten
Danvers is out shopping with his fiancée for a wedding dress when the shop gets held up and she gets murdered. This is Pembleton's first case as primary since he suffered his stroke, and Danvers doesn't believe he's up to finding the murderer, so he keeps interfering. Giardello tries to help Kellerman by interrogating the other detectives in the Arson Unit to see if they're going to give up Kellerman to the grand jury.
This episode contains examples of:
- Comically Missing the Point: When Lewis brings up how he, Bayliss, Munch and Kellerman kicked out Brodie from living with them, and wonders whether Brodie will try Pembleton's walk-in closet next, to which Brodie responds, "Frank has a walk-in closet?"
- Cooldown Hug: Near the end of the episode, when Danvers is in full throes of his Heroic BSoD, talking about all the cases he let go to Plea Bargain, and how he should have brought them to trial (after the man who murdered Meryl gets a plea bargain), Howard finally calms him down with one of these.
- Driven to Suicide: After Danvers visits Cummings in the holding cell, and Danvers promises he'll live to see Cummings dead, Cummings hangs himself in the cell.
- Heroic BSoD: Danvers suffers this throughout the episode after Meryl gets murdered in front of his eyes.
- Miranda Rights: Bayliss and Pembleton go through the Miranda Rights sheet with Cummings, the man suspected of killing Meryl Hanson, though they warn him none of the public defenders will be willing to defend him since Hanson was a public defender herself.
- Tempting Fate: Danvers insists on going into the bridal shop with Meryl (though he promises he won't look at her) even though she insists it's bad luck for the groom to see the bride in a wedding dress before the wedding.
