The episode opens with a hostage negotiator trying to work with a police officer named Scott Waylon, who accidentally killed Dr. Norman Lukovich to steal from him. Waylon eventually dies by suicide after finding the body of Ian Dryden. Lupo and Bernard investigate and find that Waylon had been hired by Dryden to steal Kennedy memorabilia by a salesman named John Jay McIntyre, who believes himself to be John F. Kennedy's illegitimate son. He is indicted for Dryden's murder, but due to a mistake during the interview with the detectives, the confession is tossed away. The Kennedy family request a gag order. So Cutter manipulates McIntyre, saying that a comparative DNA test proves his claim of being JFK's son, but nobody can find out due to the order. An ecstatic McIntyre confesses to his actions, validated by a test that never took place.
Tropes present in this episode
- 419 Scam: Waylon got into trouble after his wife lost too much money to a Nigerian email scam.
- Advertised Extra: Rue McClanahan appears as McIntyre's mother, claiming to have slept with JFK.
- Dirty Cop: Scott Waylon, a police officer, was driven into being this due to his wife losing money to a Nigerian email scam. He had a second job in a stripper club, and ended up trying to steal a lock of JFK's hair for Dryden.
- Historical Character's Fictional Relative: The entire plot originated from McIntyre believing himself to be the son of John F. Kennedy and trying to prove it. The DA office, as part of Bluffing the Murderer, claim falsely that a DNA test proved it.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: The fact that Waylon's wife fell to the Nigerian email scam was never released to the public; McIntyre gave away his involvement with Lukovich's death by revealing that he knew about this.
- Suicide by Cop: Despite the hostage negotiator's work, Waylon still goes out that way, upset at Lukovich's accidental murder and Dryden's death.
