While Simone, Sipowicz, Martinez and Lesniak work a brutal murder involving a woman being gutted and blood writing on the walls, Medavoy and Russell work a case involving a shot surgeon, his wife, and his personal assistant, and James and Adrienne become intimate.
- Control Freak: What Adrienne makes apparent after solidifying her relationship with James.
- Deadpan Snarker: Given the absurdity of the Herman case, Russell and Medavoy can't help but snark the whole way.
- Insanity Defense: What Clyde Fulmer tries to pass off in order to be institutionalized rather than jailed.
- Jerkass: Jessica Herman haughtily treats people like "they're something the cat dragged in," as Donna puts it.
- Obfuscating Insanity: Clyde killed Felicia in a drug-induced frenzy and only guts her and writes with blood on the wall to try to pass it off as insanity in order to be in a minimum-security institution rather than jail. Simone and Martinez turn the tables by having Andy pretend to be a crazy prisoner in order to scare Clyde into telling the truth.
