Cynthia Hayden

The body of a wealthy woman leads Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) to suspect that her husband (Stephen Shellen) or her daughter (Sarah Paulson) had something to do with her untimely demise.

While investigating a shooting on the shores of the Hudson River, a NYPD diver fishes up a 1968 Volkswagen bus with a young man's remains, including a skull with a gunshot hole. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) reopen a case that has long been closed and end up investigating controversial university protests from the 1960s. When new evidence and suspects surface, Assistant District Attorneys McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Carmichael (Angie Harmon) realize they strike a sore nerve with the Bureau of Special Services.

Beth Migram, an Italy-bound college student leaves her bon voyage party, but is later found with a crushed skull. A bloody lead pipe near her body leads Detectives Cerreta (Paul Sorvino) and Logan (Chris Noth) to the girl's friends and family -- many of whom were present at the going away party.