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9. Untethered

A young prison inmate is killed in an upstate New York facility's mental ward. Detective Robert Goren's nephew Donny, an inmate in the same prison, tells Goren he thinks the prisoner was murdered, Goren goes undercover. In order to determine if a crime was indeed committed, Goren manipulates his way into the same mental ward to either prove or refute his nephew's claims.

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Goren investigates when his nephew Donny ( Trevor Morgan ), a prisoner who is bipolar, claims that inmates are being abused to the point of murder. Goren gets himself admitted into the psychiatric ward of the prison without the knowledge of his superiors, in order to investigate his nephew's accusations that the corrections officers are harming the inmates. After Goren goes undercover without clearing it with his superiors, he is placed on suspension by Chief of Detectives Moran, Eames and Captain Ross getting notes placed in their files for being involved in Goren's undercover operation. Then he goes after his brother Frank ( Tony Goldwyn ) to demand he tell him where Donny is, after he escaped from the prison facility.

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