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16. Mercy

Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the death of a cancer patient when a relative insists the hospice doctor killed him in a "mercy killing." Stivers and Falsone investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl outside a pizza shop on her way to school.

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When a terminally ill man dies at home, his sister becomes convinced that his hospice doctor deliberately gave him a morphine overdose. Pembleton and Bayliss learn that the doctor may have a history of euthanizing her patients - with or without their consent - and grapple with their own attitudes about mortality. Ballard and Gharty finally bring in the suspects in the drug-dealer murder from "Shaggy Dog, City Goat", and Falsone and Stivers are deeply affected as they close a double shooting in which one of the victims is a 12-year-old girl. Kellerman shares with Lewis a recording of statements by Judge Gibbons that may constitute evidence of his corruption, but Lewis thinks Kellerman might not want to act on it. Gharty buys perfume for Billie Lou, the Waterfront's bartender. Guest starring: Alfre Woodard as Dr. Roxanne Turner, reprising her role from St. Elsewhere

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