A man beats a doctor to death for giving his child puberty blockers, and when Price and Maroun attempt to prosecute him, they find their case hampered by a series of witnesses who are reluctant to take the stand.
- Backfire on the Witness Stand: The lawyers worry this will happen if Taylor testifies and has a mental breakdown, since that could cause jurors to agree that Taylor was not mentally capable of deciding to have puberty blockers and that Robert Myers was thus justified in beating Dr. Bartell to death in order to stop the treatments.
- Big Secret: Congresswoman Bartell didn't want anyone to know that she knew about her husband providing puberty blockers, since that would wreck her image as a firebrand conservative. Debra Myers didn't want anyone to know that she authorized the puberty blockers for Taylor. One of the prosecutors' main difficulties in the case was getting both of those women to testify.
- Bittersweet Ending: The lawyers gather enough evidence to put Robert Myers away, but he threatens to compel Taylor to testify. Worried that Taylor might commit suicide due to the strain of testifying, the lawyers are forced to let Robert plead to manslaughter and serve only fifteen years, at least ten less than they thought he deserved. Furthermore, Congresswoman Bartell's career is destroyed and she predicts she'll be replaced by someone even more transphobic than she is.
- Conviction by Contradiction: Robert Myers, in order to argue against the prosecution's theory that he beat Dr. Bartell to death without legal justification, claims that Dr. Bartell illegally provided the puberty blockers without parental consent and then attacked Myers when Myers threatened to call the police, thus forcing Myers to kill him in self defense. The lawyers counter this argument when they get Debra Myers to testify that she authorized the blockers and also that she forged Robert's signature on a medical consent form, meaning that Dr. Bartell had the needed parental consent from Taylor's mother, had a good faith (though inaccurate) belief that he had it from Taylor's father too, had therefore not broken the law, and had nothing to fear from the police. Strictly speaking, this contradiction doesn't completely disprove Robert's argument — Robert could still have called the police even if he didn't have a good case, and Dr. Bartell could still have panicked and tried to stop him even if he was unlikely to be convicted of anything — but everyone acts as if Robert's self-defense claim is completely disproven, and the case then moves on to Robert threatening to make Taylor testify.
- Driven to Suicide: Debra Myers says she decided to allow Taylor to have puberty blockers for fear of this. The lawyers, worried about Taylor developing more suicidal ideation due to the strain of testifying, allow Robert Myers to plead out and end the trial early for the same reason.
- Meaningful Name: Or, in this case, meaningful district. Congresswoman Bartell represents New York's third congressional district, which at the time this episode aired was held in Real Life by Rep. George Santos, a congressman notorious for falsifying many details of his past. Sure enough, it turns out that Bartell was also lying about things — she claimed to be vehemently transphobic but in fact was more tolerant of trans kids than she let on, even allowing her husband to provide puberty blockers to Taylor in their shared house.
- Red Herring: The police initially suspect that Congresswoman Bartell was the intended target and investigate some of her enemies, including the drag queen 'Dwayne Washington' and the Antifa rioter Paul Koening. Both, however, are innocent.
