9. Happy Family

The bludgeoning death of a rich family patriarch Russell Connors ( Dennis Rees ) has the Major Case Squad detectives investigating several suspects of his family and inner circle, each with their own motives: his estranged wife Paula Connors ( Angelica Page ) whom he was about to divorce, her male friend and parolee Eddie Malloy ( Zach Galligan ), their children's nanny Helen Reynolds ( Anna Katarina ), the victim's sister Brenda ( Camilla Scott ) and brother-in-law Dr. Ralph Friedman ( Josh Pais ). Goren and Bishop learn that Paula is dying from cancer and the Connors' two sons, Jason ( Reiley McClendon ) and Sam ( Chris J. Kelly ) were adopted from a grim orphanage in Romania. They suspect the boys feared Russell would return them to the orphanage if Paula died, leading the detectives to realize that the eldest son, Jason, had the strongest motive to kill Russell.