EPISODE

7. The Heart of a Saturday Night

Survivors discuss, in a grief-support group, the circumstances of three murders one Saturday night in Baltimore: a girl strangled in an alley on her 16th birthday, a mother who dies as the victim of a carjacker who drives off with her 3-year-old daughter, and a man who was attacked in the Waterfront Bar in the presence of several uncooperative witnesses. One of the cases remains unsolved.

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At a support group meeting for family members of murder victims, three of the squad's cases are described: a carjacking in which a young mother is shot (worked by Lewis and Munch), a brawl at the Waterfront bar that leaves a man dead (Gee), and a teenage girl found strangled and dumped in an alley (Bayliss). Gee and Bayliss both close their cases, the latter with Pembleton's help. One was an accident while the other was a murder committed by a pedophile, with confessions obtained in both cases. Lewis works his case hard with little hope of catching the perpetrators, but the kidnapped child in the back of the stolen car is found safe and sound. Cox arrives late to the meeting and reveals that while her father was suffering from a terminal illness, he actually died of injuries when he was the victim of a hit-and-run car accident. Guest star: Rosanna Arquette as Caroline Widmer

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