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20. No Exit

In the bloody wake of a multiple suicide pact gone wrong, Detectives Goren and Eames consider the deaths of four young adults who parked their car on railroad tracks and waited for the inevitable . And while the cops probe a "suicide matchmaking" website, they discover that one of the victims tried vainly to escape. Backtracking, the investigators seek to learn what brought the four together that night, and they wonder if office politics and an illicit romance were factors in the tragedy -- and subsequent coverup.

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Five young people die in a car stopped on the railroad tracks in what appears to be a suicide pact, however Goren and Eames suspect one of victims, Carmine Ruggiero ( David Jenkins ), had no desire to be a participant. The investigation leads the detectives to the unsolved suicide of one of Carmine's co-workers, Eadie Elverson, who had once testified against the high-pressure finance company CEO Leonard Timmons ( Darrell Hammond ) in a harassment suit. They eventually illicit a confession from a guilt-ridden manager, Hubert Skoller ( Arye Gross ) who admits that he and Carmine did not support Eadie's valid complaint against Timmons who victimized her after she broke off their affair. Skoller confesses that he arranged for Carmine to be killed to protect Timmons and is arrested, however Goren promises him that Timmons will not escape justice. First episode with Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins shown wearing an eye-patch after displaying symptoms of Bell's palsy.

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