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21. Endgame

As death row prisoner Mark Ford Brady nears his end, he asks to see Detective Goren in hopes to extend his sentence and leads him to hidden scrapbooks which chronicle unsolved cases and victims. When Detectives Eames and Goren uncover the identities of the women and victims in Brady's scrapbooks, they come across a familiar picture -- Goren's mother, Frances. Through the help of his brother, Frank, Goren learns a troubling secret about his mother and deals with her numbered days.

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Long time death row prisoner Mark Ford Brady's ( Roy Scheider ) time is due in fifteen days so he asks fellow inmate, Wally Stevens ( Mark Linn-Baker ), to approach Detective Goren in an attempt for a stay of execution. He provides the location of a hidden scrapbook which contains many more photos of women than his known victims. Goren and Eames identify some of the women as other victims, but some are still alive. A second scrapbook contains a possible photo of Goren's mother, Frances ( Rita Moreno ), and she confirms she spend time with Brady nine months before Goren was born while his father was away. The revelation leaves Goren in shock as his mother dies in the hospice. Meanwhile, Brady is executed leaving Goren with unanswered questions about his parentage.

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