5. Bedfellows

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate a 911 call made by the young son of a wealthy and prominent historian, Dr. Adlai Copeland ( Will Kempe ) stating that his parents will not wake up. The detectives arrive and find Adlai poisoned, with his wife Charlene ( Missy Crider ) still clinging to his corpse. He was poisoned with a pesticide leading Goren and Eames to look at the gardener with whom Charlene had been cheating but he is cleared. Suspicion then falls turns to Charlene who suffers a mental breakdown and then on Adlai's brother Ted ( Paul Fitzgerald ) who is virtually bankrupt following a series of failed investments and who has been sidelined by the family patriarch Jules Copeland ( Rip Torn ).

When Ted is also found dead, the detectives turn their attention to the two men's wives, Charlene and Ted's wife Lena ( Carrie Preston ) both of whom had multiple reasons to want the brothers dead, although the calculating Lena is soon identified as the perpetrator of both murders.