Directed by Alex Zakrzewski
Written by Samantha Corbin Miller
After the prosthetic arm of Dana Taylor, an Iraq war veteran, is found in the river, the team reinvestigates her disappearance and discovers that she had been traumatized during her service and had difficulties returning to civilian life.
Tropes:
- An Arm and a Leg: Dana used a wooden prosthetic arm.
- Bedroom Adultery Scene: Dana walks in on her husband in bed with their neighbor, whose own husband was currently off in Iraq.
- Finally Found the Body: Dana had been classified as a missing person for several years (although the audience has seen her body underwater and knows that she's dead) when her prosthetic arm was discovered in the river in the Cold Open. The rest of her remains are found by the end of the episode.
- If I Can't Have You…: A variation. Dana's killer turns out to be her friend and fellow soldier, who'd fallen in love with her. She's shocked when he tells her this, assuming that she was going to leave her husband after discovering his infidelity. When Dana tries to explain that she doesn't reciprocate his feelings, he snaps and pushes her to her death.
- Military Salute: The episode concludes with Lindsey saluting her mother's casket and Dana's ghost saluting back. It's also implied that she is saluting Lilly and Will for solving her murder.
- The One Guy: Dana's husband had trouble fitting in at the spousal support group meetings as he was usually the only man. One of the women reached out to befriend him, leading to their affair.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Dana was traumatized after her time in Iraq, both because orders told her to run over any Iraqi that stood in their path, even a girl as young as her own daughter, and because her friend and fellow soldier got killed by an Iraqi soldier when she didn’t follow through on said order.
- You Remind Me of X: Played for Horror for Dana. Orders told her she had to run over a little Iraqi girl, so young that she reminded Dana of her own daughter Lindsey back home, which is why she stopped the Jeep. This led to the death of one of her fellow soldiers and friend in an enemy attack.
