6. White Lies

Complete story — includes the ending

When an article on the corruption probe appears in The Baltimore Sun, Kellerman loses his temper and confronts Mitch Roland, the businessman who had been a suspect in the arson/murders that brought him into the homicide unit. Both of them take polygraph exams, but the results prove inconclusive after they both pass the test. Munch investigates the seemingly inexplicable death of a young woman, which continually frustrates him until Cox discovers the cause – a heroin overdose. The husband blamed himself for leaving the victim alone and disguised her death as an accident. Examining an old file, Pembleton's tenacity leads to a partial fingerprint that gives Bayliss a chance to clear his only open case of the year. Bayliss fails to obtain a confession from the suspect, which Pembleton believes he would have managed to extract before his illness. Mourning his old life, Pembleton ends the day by visiting the Box and reliving his glory days. After being thrown out by Lewis, Brodie turns down Howard's offer to stay with her, insisting that he doesn't want to jeopardize her reputation.