Dicky's stuck with an inadmissible confession when a woman confesses to murdering her father, a prominent citizen, and uncovers a scandal involving the mayor and the district attorney. Kay argues with her father over her drinking.

Dicky awaits the outcome of the brutality investigation; Tess laments that things have hit the skids with Sean; Kay hits it off with her professor.

Tess starts the wheels turning in the neo-Nazi case, but Judge Booth's obsessive attraction to her throws a wrench into things.