A famous singer is released from prison despite being accused of forty rapes and is quickly murdered. Detectives Bernard and Cosgrove must try to piece together who did it. After Price has a moral objection to the perpetrator's confession, he must try to get a conviction without it.
This episode contains examples of:
- Asshole Victim: Bernard insists that every victim deserves justice, even if the victim is a monster.
- Bittersweet Ending: The prosecutors win, but Maroun doesn't feel good about it and requests that Price pursue the minimum sentence.
- The Bus Came Back: Jamie Ross returns and apparently rejoined the District Attorney's office at some point.
- Hollywood Law: All of the characters point out that Cosgrove's interrogation tactics were legal. This is not true. While he was allowed to lie about what the surveillance cameras captured, and his comment that no one at the DA's Office wanted to prosecute her was technically true (no one wanted to), he crossed the line when he told the suspect that if she confessed she could go home. The prosecutors would never have been allowed to use that confession.
- Hypocrite: Cosgrove gets in Price's face saying "I catch em, you cook em" and getting indignant that Price would second guess his methods. It doesn't seem to occur to him that by mentioning a confession he knew he wasn't supposed to bring up while on the stand, he was second guessing Price's trial strategy. So Price can't tell him how to catch them, but he can overrule Price when he thinks he's cooking them wrong.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Jamie Ross takes the attitude towards prosecuting King with a questionable deposition.
- I Lied: Cosgrove promises to let the perp go if she confesses. She does and is promptly arrested. Price is rather annoyed by this and talks McCoy into letting him go forward without it.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Cosgrove is visibly annoyed when Bernard cracks a joke about caring about a black man's murder. Later, he expresses frustration that cops are under a microscope in the age of social media and cellphones, despite Bernard pointing out this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Dixon, his lieutenant, expresses similar indignation.
- Rape and Revenge: Nicole Bell's motive for killing King.
- Rape as Backstory: Maroun's sister was raped and murdered in Georgia, and she mentions this in the closing argument to sway the jury in favor of conviction.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Very loosely based on Bill Cosby and his release.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Price rejects the confession for just reasons—namely Cosgrove's outright deception in getting it—but the case very nearly slips away from him because of it.
- Sympathetic Murderer: The episode portrays Nicole Bell in a very pitiable light despite her possibly having committed premeditated murder against a man who raped her and 39 other women. Price is unable to wrap his head around the fact that people believe Nicole acted in self-defense, not because her story makes sense but because they find the victim to be a horrible man who got what he deserved. When Nicole is found guilty of murdering King, the gallery erupts in protests and demands for her release.
- Take That!: Both Cosgrove and Dixon take numerous shots at progressive police reform. Even McCoy suggests prosecutors shouldn't be second-guessing the police at a time when they're under constant attack.
- Title Drop: Mrs. King does this on the stand when she testifies for the defense.
