Plot summary
Detectives Goren and Eames are called to investigate when Amanda Dockerty ( Betty Gilpin ) the daughter of Deputy Commissioner Leland Dockerty ( Michael Biehn ) of the NYPD and his wife Elaine ( Fran Drescher ) goes missing on a Thanksgiving holiday. When Amanda, a soldier and Iraq war veteran, is discovered slain and stuffed into an oil drum, her murder appears to be related to her war service. Meanwhile, Goren struggles with a personal crisis when his ailing mother, Frances ( Rita Moreno ) (who we see for the first time in the series), is in a hospital being treated for cancer and paranoid behavior.
Torn between caring for his mother and being pressured to solve the case, Goren loses his composure and has a career-threatening meltdown in front of Detective Eames and Captain Ross. Nevertheless, Goren uses his interrogation skills to extract a confession from Wesley Burkhartz ( Shane McRae ) an officer from her outfit in Iraq who killed her on the suspicion that she would expose the murder of Iraqis in revenge for an ambush on American troops.
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