Season 6

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. Blind Spot

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of a former ambassador's daughter, who is found brutally murdered in her uptown home. When another woman is similarly murdered, Goren recalls a serial murder case from the past. Jo Gage, ( Martha Plimpton ), the daughter of Goren's reclusive mentor, Declan Gage ( John Glover ), initially helps Goren with the investigation at the precinct. Much to the new Captain Daniel Ross's displeasure, her obsessive father Declan arrives with the theory the killer is the same one that wrecked his career. When the killer kidnaps Eames, Goren struggles to keep in control and slowly comes to the realization that Gages' neglected daughter, Jo, is the killer, desperately seeking the attention of her father. Eric Bogosian joins the cast as Captain Daniel Ross replacing Captain James Deakins ( Jamey Sheridan ).

2. Tru Love

Detective Logan and new partner Megan Wheeler ( Julianne Nicholson ) investigate the case of Dr. Grant Tyler ( Nick Gregory ) a womanizing plastic surgeon, who died as a result of a motorcycle accident. The apparent accident takes a turn when the motorcycle is found sabotaged, but further evidence leads the team to realize the victim slept with his son's high-school teacher Danielle McCaskin ( Anne Dudek ). At first, the detectives suspect the jealous and violent husband Jack ( Jonathan LaPaglia ), but they soon become suspicious of the victim's son Keith ( Anton Yelchin ) who is having an affair with Danielle and they planned to elope together. They discover that the Keith conspired to kill his father after he forced Danielle into having sex with him. Julianne Nicholson joins the cast Logan's new partner Detective Megan Wheeler replacing Detective Carolyn Barek ( Annabella Sciorra ).

3. Siren Call

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the brutal murder of a teenage girl from The Hamptons, Ashley Gardella ( Samantha Hahn ), who is found dead in her car after a night of partying in Queens. Early investigation leads them to Ashley's married boss, Jason Raines ( Joel Gretsch ), husband of supermodel Kelly Sloane-Raines ( Brooke Shields ), who had maintained an extramarital affair with Ashley but he is not the killer. Their attention then turns to victim's step-father, a local police officer Ray Wiznesky ( David Warshofsky ), who has had to deal with his rebellious step-daughter while trying to care for his youngest child Emily ( Mackenzie Jo Pardi ), and his wife Joyce ( Signy Coleman ) who is dying from cancer. Eventually it is revealed that Ray Wiznesky murdered Ashley because of the stress he believed her wild antics was causing her dying mother. When confronted, Wiznesky decides to kill Goren and then himself, although Goren manages to disarm him. However, as he's taken into custody, he grabs an officer's gun and kills himself.

4. Maltese Cross

Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate when a fireman Ian Duffy ( Jason Pendergraft ) is stabbed 22 times and collapses after managing to drive himself to the fire station. The ensuing investigation and Logan's questioning launches them into a brawl with the firefighters led by Charlie Hugo ( Chance Kelly ), resulting in a hearing before the Commissioner for Logan and Wheeler. The storyline arcs back to the fight as Logan and Wheeler retell their story to the Commissioner, giving perspective to the fight and underlying issues between the NYPD and the FDNY. The brawl proves to be a red herring when the detectives discover that Duffy was gay and it appears the crime was perpetrated by a possible repeat killer, Brendan Keele ( Geoffrey Nauffts ), who is also suspected of an identical murder twelve years earlier. Logan enlists the help of fireman Hugo into provoking Keele into proclaiming his relationship with Duffy and his murder.

5. Bedfellows

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate a 911 call made by the young son of a wealthy and prominent historian, Dr. Adlai Copeland ( Will Kempe ) stating that his parents will not wake up. The detectives arrive and find Adlai poisoned, with his wife Charlene ( Missy Crider ) still clinging to his corpse. He was poisoned with a pesticide leading Goren and Eames to look at the gardener with whom Charlene had been cheating but he is cleared. Suspicion then falls turns to Charlene who suffers a mental breakdown and then on Adlai's brother Ted ( Paul Fitzgerald ) who is virtually bankrupt following a series of failed investments and who has been sidelined by the family patriarch Jules Copeland ( Rip Torn ). When Ted is also found dead, the detectives turn their attention to the two men's wives, Charlene and Ted's wife Lena ( Carrie Preston ) both of whom had multiple reasons to want the brothers dead, although the calculating Lena is soon identified as the perpetrator of both murders.

6. Masquerade

Detectives Goren and Eames travel to Vietnam to bring back a suspect, Simon Fife ( Matt McGrath ), for trial in to New York for the murder of a child beauty queen, Amberleigh Harner ( Kayla Vanderbilt ), fourteen years earlier. Fife has confessed to the long-unsolved murder, however Goren is suspicious of Fife's confession, even though it mentions facts only known to the police and the child's immediate family. The investigation reveals that the dead child's mother Beth ( Liza Minnelli ) and Jamie Royce ( Dashiell Eaves ), son of her next-door-neighbor Nate Royce ( Bill Irwin ) (who has been making money off the murder with several books), both have possible motives for the murder. It is also revealed that the original investigation was botched by a rookie investigator and a new ADA Claudia Shankly ( Bridget Regan ) is pushing for a quick resolution to the cold case. Goren and Eames eventually uncover that, although Jamie rendered Amberleigh unconscious, it was his father Nate who killed her. Nate fed information to Fife, hoping that his conviction would prevent the truth about the murder from being revealed. Loosely based on the JonBenét Ramsey unsolved murder case made famous by media coverage.

7. Country Crossover

Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate when a prominent music producer Curtis Gold ( Luther Creek ), dies outside his recording studio, apparently killed by a drunk driver, however he died from an earlier beating because he had Gaucher's disease. As the investigation continues, the list of suspects include an eccentric nightclub bouncer, Goro ( Evan Parke ) and disreputable nightclub owner Sheamus Flaherty ( Griffin Dunne ) as well as an ambitious young singer, May Daltrie ( Agnes Bruckner ) who may have been sleeping with Gold, and her jealous husband Zach ( Kohl Sudduth ). Finally, Logan and Wheeler extract a confession from May that she manipulate Zach into killing Gold who had pressured her into having sex with him to advance her career.

8. The War at Home

Detectives Goren and Eames are called to investigate when Amanda Dockerty ( Betty Gilpin ) the daughter of Deputy Commissioner Leland Dockerty ( Michael Biehn ) of the NYPD and his wife Elaine ( Fran Drescher ) goes missing on a Thanksgiving holiday. When Amanda, a soldier and Iraq war veteran, is discovered slain and stuffed into an oil drum, her murder appears to be related to her war service. Meanwhile, Goren struggles with a personal crisis when his ailing mother, Frances ( Rita Moreno ) (who we see for the first time in the series), is in a hospital being treated for cancer and paranoid behavior. Torn between caring for his mother and being pressured to solve the case, Goren loses his composure and has a career-threatening meltdown in front of Detective Eames and Captain Ross. Nevertheless, Goren uses his interrogation skills to extract a confession from Wesley Burkhartz ( Shane McRae ) an officer from her outfit in Iraq who killed her on the suspicion that she would expose the murder of Iraqis in revenge for an ambush on American troops.

9. Blasters

When unknown bodies are about to be buried in a pauper's grave in Potter's Field, Logan and Wheeler stop the burial after one is identified as the former sitcom teen star Alvin "Skater" Stevens ( Noah Weisberg ). Their investigation soon leads them Skater's scam of selling bootleg DVDs, encroaching on an operation controlled exclusively by the Albanian mob. When Skater's former co-star, Willie "Kirk" Tunis ( Matt Keeslar ), is also threatened and almost killed by Albanian Ditmir Minojilj ( Stivi Paskoski ), Logan and Wheeler convince Tunis to cast off his child star reputation and identify Minojilj in a police lineup.

10. Weeping Willow

After popular on-line vlogger Lisa "Willow" Tyler ( Michelle Trachtenberg ) and her boyfriend Holden Foster ( Michael Goduti ) are kidnapped during a live broadcast, Logan and Wheeler investigate the crime that they doubt may have ever occurred. As they attempt to track down the real identities of Willow and her boyfriend, the kidnappers up the ante by asking for an online ransom for the couple, demanding fans donate to a website to save the duo. The detectives identify the kidnappers, Todd ( Trevor Oswalt ) and Reggie ( Pedro Pascal ), as part-time actors however the investigation takes a turn after Reggie is shot dead. Logan and Wheeler uncover that the entire kidnapping was scripted by Holden, and Reggie was accidentally killed by a "blank" bullet. Meanwhile, "Willow" uses the ransom to finance a movie deal about the kidnapping with her in the leading role. Inspired by the lonelygirl15 YouTube vblogs originally believed to be from a 15-year-old, but eventually uncovered as a professionally filmed hoax.

11. World's Fair

Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate the murder of Meena Hasni ( Mahira Kakkar ) a young Pakistani-American college student, found slain in front of the Unisphere. During the investigation, Logan and Wheeler learn she had a passionate, loving relationship with her Italian-American boyfriend Rudy Ventano ( Jason Cerbone ) and that she was pregnant with their child and wanted to marry him. When Rudy visits Meena's family, a fight breaks out and he is shot dead by Meena's father Kazi Hasni ( Erick Avari ), who also confesses to Meena's murder. However, the detectives conclude, and later prove, that it was Meena's brother Dani Hasni ( Maulik Pancholy ), who killed her for dishonoring their family.

12. Privilege

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate when a reporter, Isabel Harrington ( Margaret Laney ), and her yoga instructor Willem Vanderhoeven (John Walton) are found brutally murdered in her apartment. Isabel is the granddaughter of a prominent wealthy socialite bedridden with illness, Virginia Harrington ( Doris Roberts ), and former member of an aristocratic family from New York. The detectives find that the matriarch's illness has been induced by her philandering son Grant ( D.W. Moffett ) and his second wife Cheryl ( Kay Story ) who are slowly plundering the estate. As they dig deeper, the detectives discover that Isabel was about to expose her father Grant's financial dealings and her mother's suspicious death eighteen year earlier. Eventually, the detectives charge Grant's brother Ernest Foley ( Richard Kind ) for the murders which he committed in the mistaken belief that he was protecting the family name. Inspired by the Brooke Astor elder abuse controversy.

13. Albatross

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of a respected judge Thomas Layton ( Daren Kelly ) killed during a historical reenactment of the Burr–Hamilton duel which is also attended by Captain Ross. During the investigation, Goren and Eames turn their suspicion to the judge's dueling partner, George Pagolis ( Xander Berkeley ) who exchanged coats with the judge just before the duel. He is revealed as a corrupt womanizer who is married to the respected Maureen Pagolis ( Donna Murphy ), a candidate for the next New York mayoral election. The detectives suspect that he was the actual target of the hit from a long range sniper. Further investigation reveals that the Perogolis driver, Dave Oldren ( Mike Colter ) organized the hit to rid Maureen of her albatross of a husband, George.

14. Flipped

Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate the murder of hip-hop artist, Terrence "Fulla T" Smith ( Fab 5 Freddy ), shot to death while leaving a radio station. During the investigation, the detectives learn the victim was encouraging his fans to report crimes and not turn a blind eye. They later interview one witness identified at the scene, who reveals he is an undercover detective, Harry Williams ( Sticky Fingaz ) who specializes in crimes within the rap world. Logan and Wheeler decide to team up with Williams, but when one witness, Bobby Boyd ( Omar Evans ) talks to them he turns up dead and another, Carmen Rivera ( Aunjanue Ellis ), disappears. After they find Rivera, she reveals Gordon "G-Man" Thomas ( Bokeem Woodbine ) as Fulla T's killer because he accused Thomas of being a woman beater. Due to lack of evidence, the detectives are forced to offer a Manslaughter plea to Thomas, but while in custody, Williams murders Thomas to protect Rivera from retribution.

15. Brother's Keeper

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of Marjorie Riggins ( Christine Lindsay-Abaire ), wife of televangelist Rev. Calvin Riggins ( Tom Arnold ) following his fiery televised debate with evolutionist Dr. James Corliss ( Reg Rogers ). Initially, the murder appears to be connected to a possible blackmail attempt over Riggins' sexual intercessions with his masseur Diego ( Brian Letscher ), but this is ruled out. Eventually Corliss is identified as the murderer who accidentally killed Marjorie. Corliss could not understand why she chose to marry Riggins instead of him and why she told Riggins about his autistic brother Jimmy ( Todd Buonopane ). Meanwhile, Goren's attention to the case is hampered by his anxiety over his ailing mother and her concern for Frank, Goren's destitute and troubled brother.

16. 30

Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate when Josh Lemle ( Lee Tergesen ), a reporter friend who had backed Logan after he had gotten himself exiled years earlier, comes to Major Case to report his own murder as he is dying from polonium-210 poisoning. Both Hazmat and the FBI get involved as the search turns city-wide, with both the mayor and Homeland Security wanting answers. Lemle is reluctant to reveal the whole story but it turns out the true target was his long-time friend and sometimes lover, Rebecca Slater ( Miriam Shor ) who writing a story about the shooting of a US activist in the Middle East that no-one wants to be told. Inspired by the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and death of Rachel Corrie.

17. Players

Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate the murder of Jacob Fenner ( Brandon Thane Wilson, son of Judge Nicholas Fenner ( John Dossett ), who is found shot to death shortly after rap artist Calvin "Apokalypto" Liscomb ( Samuel Smith ) is sentenced to prison by the judge. After eliminating any connection to the musician's entourage, the detectives discover that Fenner was accidentally shot by an off duty court officer, Hector D'Angelo ( Joe Maruzzo ), while Fenner and his friends were on a wild night out. The detectives begin investigating victim's friends and focus on Riordan Grady ( Michael Stahl-David ), son of the judge's best friend and prosecutor, Thomas Grady Jr. ( Christian Hoff ), and grandson of convicted criminal Thomas Grady Sr. ( Harris Yulin ). Eventually the detectives establish that Riordan was responsible for dumping Fenner even though he was still alive after being shot. Meanwhile, Wheeler learns that her long-lost father could still be alive, and that he may have been involved in some shady business practices.

18. Silencer

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of the fiancée of ADA Claudia Shankly ( Bridget Regan ), the esteemed ear surgeon Dr. Jack Mallory ( Jack MacGruder ), who is found slain in his office. Antonio ( Raynor Scheine ), a peddler of prescription pads and drugs leads them to another ear doctor, Dr. Strauss ( Timothy Carhart ), but it is dead end. The detectives enlist the aid of Det. Peter Lyon ( Bill O'Brien ) to help them translate ASL members of the activist deaf community which include the playwright Larry Forseca ( Darren Frazier ), his leading actress, Malia Gallo ( Alexandria Wailes ), and her boyfriend Tommy Kellerman ( Garrett Zuercher ). After some difficulty in soliciting information, Goren and Eames eventually charge Kellerman with the murder, committed because he feared that if Mallory gave Malia a cochlear implant and recovered her hearing, she would leave him.

19. Rocket Man

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of a female astronaut Jessica Hart ( Kelly Sullivan ) who is found murdered in her hotel room on the morning of a press conference to promote an upcoming shuttle launch. The investigation leads the detectives to a jealous male colleague, Major Craig Hurley ( Peter Bradbury ), the flight trainer Sandy Delgado ( Charissa Chamorro ) and shuttle commander Luke Nelson ( Tate Donovan ). When an evidence trail points to a Nelson having affairs with both Jessica and Sandy, they begin to suspect Nelson's wife Edie ( Amy Ryan ) who had both the motive and the capacity to cause the downfall of the competitors for her husband's attention and affection.

20. Bombshell

Detectives Logan and Wheeler are called in to investigate the combined methadone / anti-depressant overdose death of Justin Holland ( Michael Ellison ), the adult son of former pinup model Lorelai Mailer ( Kristy Swanson ) and her billionaire James Edward Holland. Lorelai has just given birth to a daughter but she soon also dies of a lethal methadone drug cocktail. The detectives are led to suspect Lorelai's lover/manager, Ronnie Chase ( David Cross ) as they look into who will benefit most from the Holland estate, including Holland's previous children, Bessie ( Kathleen Chalfant ) and Clara ( Jill Larson ). Ultimately Chase admits to killing Justin and Lorelai's unassuming sister, Jolene ( Ever Carradine ), admits to killing Lorelai because she believed that she was the only one who could best care for the newborn child, Ava. Inspired by the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel Wayne Smith.

21. Endgame

Long time death row prisoner Mark Ford Brady's ( Roy Scheider ) time is due in fifteen days so he asks fellow inmate, Wally Stevens ( Mark Linn-Baker ), to approach Detective Goren in an attempt for a stay of execution. He provides the location of a hidden scrapbook which contains many more photos of women than his known victims. Goren and Eames identify some of the women as other victims, but some are still alive. A second scrapbook contains a possible photo of Goren's mother, Frances ( Rita Moreno ), and she confirms she spend time with Brady nine months before Goren was born while his father was away. The revelation leaves Goren in shock as his mother dies in the hospice. Meanwhile, Brady is executed leaving Goren with unanswered questions about his parentage.

22. Renewal

A police recruit, Kenny Li ( Telly Leung ), is named a hero after foiling a bodega robbery but is found murdered and soon afterward and his girlfriend Belle Duffy ( Brooke Tansley ) goes missing. Meanwhile, Detective Logan goes on a date with a charming woman, Holly Lauren ( Kelli Williams ) he met from his building. However, Holly does not appear for the second date and is found dead nearby after falling from the roof and Logan suspects foul play. Detective Wheeler is called abroad to oversee a past case and Detective Eames ( Kathryn Erbe ) steps in to help out. Logan involves himself in both cases, and with Eames he finds that Belle Duffy is really Patty Trebay, a serial killer targeting lonely and vulnerable young men. He also discovers that Holly's real identity is Kathleen Shaw who was trying to escape her abusive husband Julian ( Alec Von Bargen ), but sadly she suicided after he attacked and raped her in her apartment.