Season 10

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. Rispetto

After a young call girl Sarah Bell (Alice Callahan) is murdered, the investigation leads Detectives Goren and Eames behind the scenes of the fashion industry, with the resident star designer and hard-partying, "rockstar" Nyle Brite ( Jay Mohr ) who is about to launch an Initial public offering to institutional investors. When Brite is shot dead after a disastrous TV interview which sinks the IPO, the detectives look at who stood most to lose: his finance backer, Paul Keller ( Spencer Garrett ), his long-suffering wife Debra ( Noelle Beck ) who is having an affair with his psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Harper (Regina Schneider) and his long-time friend and designer Teddy Scola ( Neal Huff ) who was perpetually under Brite's shadow. The detectives eventually uncover that Bell was Bright's daughter who was seeking to blackmail him and that Scola murdered them both because they had sabotaged the IPO which would have given him the financial stake to launch his own fashion line. Inspired by the substance abuse and legal issues of Charlie Sheen.

2. The Consoler

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the apparent suicide of the devout Theresa Esperna (Elia Monte-Brown), an employee at the Salerno Bank who was processing the settlement accounts of the Catholic Church's abused victims. The detectives initially suspect her killer as Monsignor McTeal ( Neal McDonough ) with whom she had a sexual relationship which caused her immense personal conflict. Although the Monsignor does good works for the Church, consoling abused women, starting soup kitchens, orphanages and cancer wards he regularly breached his vow of chastity. Further investigation reveals that Esperna apparently redirected a $2.7mil payout meant for Alice Garvey (Mary B. McCann) to a secret trust however it was in fact her co-worker Johnny Apreda ( Jon Prescott ). He stole the money because he had been molested by a priest as a child and only received a meagre payout and killed Esperna to cover up his theft. This is the first episode in which Goren starts compulsory therapy sessions with Dr. Paula Gyson ( Julia Ormond ).

3. Boots on the Ground

Goren and Eames investigate the death of a brilliant hacker ( Aaron Mathias ) who is thrown to his death off a building. They uncover that he was a black hat hacker using two aliases, Matt Clark and Ian Masefield and had been working for two competing private security companies: Sun Tech run by Naomi Halloran ( Jeri Ryan ), and Ascalon Security run by Terrence Brooks ( Michael Kelly ). They also find that Matt's mother, Elise Clark ( Michele Pawk ) had been a member of the radical anti-capitalist "People's Liberation Brigade" and her son Matt and his friend Rebecca Landon ( Tala Ashe ), ex-Israeli army and a practitioner and teacher of krav maga, had similar goals - to leak confidential information to the press. Eventually, Elise Clark reveals that Matt and Naomi were having an affair and that Terrence knew Matt was stealing information. This enables Goren and Eames to prove that Terrence convinced Naomi to entice Matt to the roof where Rebecca threw him to his death on the threat that Terrence would kill her family in Israel if she refused. Inspired in part by the 2010 WikiLeaks scandal.

4. The Last Street in Manhattan

The shooting murder of a Wall Street investment bank CEO David Kellen ( David Alan Basche ) takes Detectives Goren and Eames on an investigative trail that leads into the world of high finance, mergers and acquisitions. It appears Kellen and his colleague Aston Skinner ( Eric Sheffer Stevens ) were in the habit of using a premiere match broker Stephanie Miller ( Julie White ) who runs The Swan Club to find high class women for them. They interview Kellen's date, Andrea Stiles ( Beatrice Rosen ), and his former girlfriend, Nikki Vansen ( America Olivo ), but find that Kellen loved Vanessa Colway ( Alexandra Silber ), a working class woman from the last residential street on Manhattan Island, 218th in Inwood. They uncover that Vanessa's father Shawn ( Jack McGee ) owed local thug, Jack Driscoll ( Nick Chinlund ), a large sum of money and she gave Driscoll inside information from Kellen on an upcoming merger to repay the debt. When Kellen found what Driscoll had done, he threatened to expose Driscoll who then murdered him. To persuade Vanessa to help them convict Driscoll, Goren and Eames pretend that he killed her father.

5. Trophy Wine

Wealthy wine importer Bing Cullman (AKA Arnold Binder) ( Michael Cumpsty ) is found dead of a heart attack after being locked in his wine cellar. Detectives Goren and Eames are informed that he was killed by a drug cocktail and begin to investigate his rare wine dealing activities including that was selling counterfeit product. Suspects include the butler Loy ( Juan Luis Acevedo ), wealthy wine collector Mason Kent ( Adrian Pasdar ), premiere sommelier Hutton "The Nose" Mays ( Bryan Batt ), wine auctioneer Ev Dilahunt ( Munson Hicks ), Bing’s wife Avery ( Andrea Roth ), her new boyfriend, male model Shane Berlin ( Scott Evans ) and budding actress and part-time escort, Emily ( Kay Copeland ). The detectives uncover that Cullman had planned to divorce Avery before their 10th anniversary so she would receive none of his estate and hired Shane to romance her to provide grounds for the divorce. However Avery found out about the impending divorce and engineered his heart attack.

6. Cadaver

Pharmaceutical philanthropist Ben Langston ( Steven Weber ) disappears after announcing funding for a research grant and later a medical cadaver from the institute is found dressed in his clothes. Detectives Goren and Eames are called in and they find Langston's that body was switched and cremated. They investigate contenders for the grant: the recipient Maya Zhuang ( Camille Chen ), disgruntled losers Theo Kendall ( Clayton Apgar ) who is having an affair with Langston’s wife Lauren ( Jenna Stern ) and Sam Harris ( Charlie Barnett ) a son that Langston did not know he had until the award night. As the investigation progresses, Goren and Eames uncover that Maya's "tiger mother" Mrs. Zhuang ( Rosalind Chao ) feared that Langston would withdraw Maya's funding and give it to Sam Harris. She killed Langston in a fit of rage then pressuered Maya into helping her dispose of the body. Meanwhile Goren's therapy sessions with Dr. Paula Gyson are not going well. Inspired in part by the "tiger mother" controversy.

7. Icarus

A blockbuster Broadway musical about the mythological Icarus is plagued by a series of minor accidents, but grabs another headline when the show's lead, sitcom star Marc Landry ( Billy Magnussen ), falls to his death during one of the play's highly choreographed stunts. When Goren and Eames rule out an accident, the façade of the tight knit theater family falls away to reveal the players for who they really are: understudy Brice Calder ( Matt Cavenaugh ) who resented being passed over for an untalented big name; former rock star Adam Winter ( Eion Bailey ) anxious that his songwriting doesn't pass muster; producer Evan Korman ( Christopher McDonald ) obsessed with upholding his family's Broadway legacy; visionary but highly strung director Amanda Rollins ( Cynthia Nixon ) who is coming apart at the seams; and Roger Porter ( Michael Panes ) Amanda's tireless assistant who was hired by Korman. Amid the lies, half-truths and deception, the detectives uncover that Korman pressured Porter to stage the "accident” so that the doomed play would be cancelled and he could claim on the insurance to pay off his investors. Inspired by the controversial Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, as mentioned within the episode.

8. To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murders of identical twin brother venture capitalists, Parker ( Thad Luckinbill ) and Thomas Gaffney (Trent Luckinbill) whose bodies are discovered in the office of KizMate, the web company they were suing for IP theft in a heated lawsuit. KizMate was formed by Danielle Magee ( Natalie Gold ) and her boyfriend PJ Edwards ( Pawel Szajda ) to connect strangers who have had brief romantic encounters. The detectives uncover a web of intrigue in which the Gaffney's business partner Samir Doss ( Manish Dayal ) and Danielle separately tried to work out a settlement while PJ and their drug addicted business partner Rex Tamlyn ( James Van Der Beek ) played hard ball with Parker Gaffney. The detectives uncover that when the twins went to the KizMate offices they fought and Parker accidentally killed Thomas who was having an affair with Danielle who killed Parker in a fit of rage with a pair of scissors. Meanwhile, Dr. Paula Gyson brings Goren to the realization that he needs to address his trust and anger issues. Inspired in part by The Accidental Billionaires written by Ben Mezrich and its 2010 film adaptation, The Social Network, which tells the founding of Facebook, a social networking website that connects friends, the creator Mark Zuckerberg, and its controversial lawsuit.