Have a Conscience
Directed By: Uli Edel
Written By: James Yoshimura
Despite being vindicated by the grand jury, and being able to work his first case, Kellerman is still filled with rage. It doesn't help his first case involves a Korean shop owner who was killed because he chased off drug dealers working for Luther Mahoney, and that there are a number of people who still seem to think he was guilty, including Gaffney and Mahoney. In despair, Kellerman thinks about killing himself, and Lewis has to talk him down. Elsewhere, Pembleton tries to get Bayliss interested in an old case in the hopes of getting Bayliss to partner with him again.
This episode contains examples of:
- Accentuate the Negative: Kellerman is enraged when the newspaper that splashed his arraignment on the front page doesn't bother to mention his acquittal, and somewhat unjustly blames the ASA for it.
- Asian Store-Owner: The victim is a Korean-American storekeeper who was murdered because he chased away drug dealers who were selling outside his shop.
- Berserk Button: Lewis still gets upset whenever anyone insults Crosetti.
- Call-Back: Lewis admits he should have known Crosetti was going to kill himself.
- Dramatic Irony: Bayliss, Howard, Munch and Dr. Cox talk about Kellerman and what he's going to do when he's at the bar, unaware he's having a stand-off with Lewis at the boat.
- Driven to Suicide: Narrowly averted when Lewis manages to take Kellerman's gun away from him before he can use it on himself.
- May It Never Happen Again: Lewis is determined not to have another partner kill themselves because he didn't check up on them.
- Prelude to Suicide: Lewis becomes suspicious when he finds Kellerman scrupulously cleaning the interior of his boat late at night, with a pistol lying on the shelf near to him.
- Smug Snake: Gaffney and Luther in their scenes with Kellerman, especially when they both more than imply Kellerman was really guilty.
- Talking Down the Suicidal: The second half of the episode mainly revolves around Lewis trying to persuade Kellerman not to kill himself.
- Tuckerization: In an unsuccessful attempt to lure Bayliss into partnering with him again, Pembleton re-opens and solves an old case they worked on involving the murder of a man named Bianculli in a topless bar (the bouncer did it). This was a reference to David Bianculli
, the then TV critic for the New York Daily News, who had frequently praised the show.
