At an exclusive department store called Bergreen's, the CFO Richard Spiegel is shot and killed. Bergreen's is owned by the victim's father-in-law; Spiegel's widow Kate and her sister Laura are joint CEOs. Briscoe and Curtis soon discover that Kate was having an affair with Paul Medici, a fashion designer who's involved in a lawsuit with Bergreen's over which of two stores has rights to his work. Spiegel now wanted a divorce, so Kate would have to pay him a lucrative settlement and risked losing custody of their daughter. But then it emerges Laura also had a reason to kill Spiegel. She had been mishandling company finances and Bergreen's is close to bankruptcy, so she wanted to keep Spiegel quiet to save her job. Forensic evidence shows Spiegel was shot with Kate's gun, and Laura's fingerprints are also on the gun.
Both sisters are charged with murder, but the defence gets a key witness's testimony suppressed. Ross interviews Laura's staff and is told that, the night before the murder, the sisters argued on the phone; the conversation suggested they planned to kill Spiegel. McCoy reluctantly agrees to grant Kate immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, since the evidence suggests Laura was the shooter, and he believes she was the one most invested in the murder. In court, Kate testifies that Laura was desperate to inherit Bergreen's. She believed her father would disinherit her if he found out she'd driven the company bankrupt; so she was desperate to keep Spiegel quiet.
McCoy questions Mr. Bergreen on the witness stand over the alibi he gave Laura. But Mr. Bergreen says it was Kate who lied about being with him at the time of the murder. She asked him to cover for her and then told him the following day that she'd killed Spiegel. Kate and her lawyer now insist Mr. Bergreen is trying to keep Laura out of jail to protect the company. McCoy requests a continuance to investigate. Mr. Bergreen says that he couldn't send either daughter to jail, so he had to implicate Kate because she'd already been granted immunity. With no evidence to prove perjury, Laura is acquitted. McCoy is angry that she's got away with murder but Ross says it's how the world works for rich people.
This episode contains examples of:
- Casual Kink: The episode opens with a store security guard and his girlfriend engaging in sexy roleplay in a dressing room; something they seem to do fairly often and don't see as out of the ordinary.
- Double-Meaning Title: Refers both to the store being run by the Bergman family, and the same family all being involved in the murder.
- Ethnic Menial Labor: Laura's housekeeper fits this trope.
- Granola Guy: One of these was to have been a key witness against Kate, but because he's the priest of a New Age church, the defence gets his testimony excluded as privileged.
- Morton's Fork: Mr. Bergreen points out he essentially faced this in having to implicate one of his daughters.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Ross tells McCoy not to blame himself for Laura being acquitted and points to this trope.
