Plot summary
Detectives Nichols and Stevens investigate a professional hit on food franchise owner Ryan Foley (Mick Dempsey) who is found dead in the boot of his car. They find that he was having an affair with Angela Caldera ( Holley Fain ) who is married to Rick Caldera ( James Martinez ), the son of New York Senator Victor Caldera and Marta Castillo-Caldera ( Laura Harring ). As the detectives investigate the family, they uncover that Rick's parents knew about the affair, but also that the senator was the father of Angela's son. They speculate that Marta had manipulated the situation so that she would have a grandson, and arranged for her brother, Hernando Castillo, AKA Tio Nando ( Ramon Camín ) to kill Foley. The detectives convince Rick to help them obtain enough evidence to charge Marta and Hernando for Ryan's murder.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 9. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.