History Recap / LawAndOrderS6E15Encore

[=McCoy=] picks up on this and realizes that it was extremely convenient that Cruz showed up in New York at exactly the right time they needed him because of a phone call made to Joy. He then calls the postal box company and says that he has some mail but can't pick it up for a while; he wants to know how long they'll hold it. They tell him that they'll hold his mail forever, so long as he pays his bill. Schiff wonders who called Joy to tell her that the mail would be returned. The cops bring Joy in for a voice lineup, and she identifies Margaret Nash as the caller. She attempts to break into the viewing room to assault Nash, and she's restrained while Briscoe leads Nash out.

[=McCoy=] calls the postal box company and says that he has some mail but can't pick it up for a while; he wants to know how long they'll hold it. They tell him that they'll hold his mail forever, so long as he pays his bill. Schiff wonders who called Joy to tell her that the mail would be returned. The cops bring Joy in for a voice lineup, and she identifies Margaret Nash as the caller. She attempts to break into the viewing room to assault Nash, and she's restrained while Briscoe leads Nash out.

* SequelEpisode: A rare example for the series and a direct sequel to season 5's "Coma."

* WhstHappenedToTheMouse: Cruz disappears from the narrative as soon as the prosecutors figure out what's really going on, and his reason(s) for lying about Giabone being behind the murder, when a man as powerful as Giabone could have Cruz killed, go unexplained.

* TilMurderDoUsPart: The second time Dobson has his wife killed. [=McCoy=] gets his girlfriend to turn on him by noting that he has done this twice, and she very well could be his [[SerialKiller third victim.]]

* TheBluebeard: Dobson

* RedHerring: Invoked. Dobson knew the money would point to an another suspect, so he deliberately arranged for the investigators to find it.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [=McCoy=] asks Dobson's girlfriend if she wants to be the third Mrs. Dobson.

--Jack [=McCoy=]

Jaffe says that he just got a $20,000 phone bill -- people placed calls in his name all over the world. Someone saw him punch his credit card number into a pay phone. The detectives talk to an officer who patrols the area near the pay phone, and he says that some criminals can read people's card numbers from how they move their fingers, and then sell those numbers to whoever wants them. He doesn't recognize Cruz, but he does have a list of the people who are known to sell credit card numbers in the area, and one of them is Francis Murphy. After slamming Murphy against a couple of walls, and threatening to arrest Murphy for the murder, he admits to knowing Cruz. He doesn't know where he is, but knows that he has a girlfriend, an Asian prostitute named Joy.

At his bowling alley, Giabone and his lawyer say that they'll cooperate in exchange for immunity. [=McCoy=] is surprised by their audacity, and says that there's no way that will happen, since Giabone is under investigating for a dozen major crimes. Giabone says he won't cooperate otherwise. Outside, Kincaid recalls that Cruz said that Giabone loan-sharked too. She wonders if Dobson might have borrowed money from Giabone and not paid it back, which would give Giabone a motive to kill his wife.