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22. My Good Name

Detectives Goren and Eames take heat from Captain Deakins when their murder investigation of a husband who was angry about his wife's affair connects them to Frank Adair, a celebrated and powerful ex-police brass member whose pushy P.R. adviser Janice has nakedly ambitious plans for him. But even Deakins has his doubts about his friend's squeaky-clean image when the probe exposes his secret affair with the dead man's widow -- who suddenly goes missing.

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Goren and Eames are called to investigate the body of a hospital maintenance engineer Walter Czabo ( Walter James Augustus Lee ). They discover that he beat his wife Anya Czabo ( Roxanna Hope ) who had been sleeping with a decorated former police officer and security consultant Frank Adair ( Michael Rispoli ). When Anya Czabo is found dead in a car in the bay, the detectives begin to focus on Adair after they find that is also having an affair with his ambitious and controlling publicist Janice Steiner ( Jenna Stern ). However, because Adair has close ties to Captain James Deakins and is considering running for governor, Deakins demands strong proof. While Adair's wife Marie ( Elizabeth Keifer ) is assisting police inquiries in police headquarters, Goren challenges Adair about his priorities, provoking him to turn on Steiner and he implicates them both in the two murders.

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