Saigon Rose
Directed By: Nick Gomez
Story By: Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura
Teleplay By: Eric Overmyer
When the Nguyen family, owners of a Vietnamese restaurant, are murdered inside their restaurant along with the rest of their family (only their children Lucy (Vanessa Brown) and Tom (John Tran) escape because they were in the kitchen at the time), Lewis and Pembleton catch the case, and discover Officer Toinette Perry (Camille McCurty), who moonlighted as a bodyguard for the restaurant, may have been responsible. When Georgia Mahoney goes free despite the fact she tried to have Kellerman, Lewis and Stivers killed, Falsone continues to question Kellerman about Luther Mahoney's shooting.
This episode contains examples of:
- Actor Allusion: Ballard gets sick after she eats shellfish with Gharty, suggesting she's allergic to them. Callie Thorne apparently has the same allergy in Real Life.
- Benevolent Boss: Mrs. Nguyen appears to be in her brief scene at the beginning - she calls in the cop moonlighting as her bodyguard (the one who gets killed) to invite him to eat with the rest of the family, and good-naturedly chides him about his smoking.
- Dirty Cop: Officer Perry ended up killing the Nguyen family in order to rob the place. The fact she's a cop, as well as African-American, is why Lucy and Tom aren't inclined to trust Lewis and Pembleton at first.
- Mexican Standoff: Falsone and Kellerman nearly have one of these in the hallway, until they see another officer about to walk in.
- Ms. Fanservice: Discussed - Billie Lou (Ellen McElduff) says she's an avant-garde performance artist, by which she means she plays the cello while nude.
- Ripped from the Headlines: The massacre of the Nguyen family was based on the real-world case of the corrupt New Orleans police officer and murderer Antoinette Frank
, who, along with her lover, murdered three people, including a moonlighting fellow officer, while robbing a Vietnamese restaurant in 1995.
