When a woman is found dead in the trunk of a car, detectives Ed Green and Lennie Briscoe follow a series of street art tags to a college student with whom the woman was having an affair. The victim's father-in-law, also her therapist, hired a private investigator to follow her and take incriminating photographs when he began to learn of the affair. The father was a proponent of surrendered wives as a form of couples therapy, and was concerned that the affair would hurt his professional image and sales of his book, which featured his son and the victim as an example. Jack McCoy and Abbie Carmichael determine that the father used his influence as a therapist to convince the victim to commit suicide, complete with a suicide note, then covered it up to look like a murder. For this, McCoy and S