Plot summary
When the body of a former school chancellor, Benton Williams ( Jay Patterson ) is fished out of the Hudson River, Detectives Goren and Eames find out that he was a high roller on a casino boat off the New York coast. They soon zero in on Joey Frost ( Lou Taylor Pucci ), a talented but arrogant young gambler who was owed $500,000 by the victim. But the police also cannot ignore the dead man's resentful brother-in-law Phil Lambier, ( John Pankow ) when they discover that he not only raised Joey, but taught him poker and intentionally placed him on the ship on the fateful night. When they convince Joey that Lambier killed his father so that he could exploit Joey's talent as a card player, he implicates Lambier in Williams' murder.
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