In the Name of Law and Order (Au nom du maintien de l'ordre)

In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented

by two separate, yet equally important groups:

the police, who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

I told you, this has to stop.

Please, just leave me alone.

Emily,

everyone's waiting to toast you.

You okay?

Gotta keep the bad energy far away, right?

Okay.

Emily!

Great work, Emily!

You're brilliant!

I wanna thank you all for coming tonight,

my fellow free thinkers,

- my passionate positivists. - Yes!

Tomorrow we get to share so many of the ideas

we've discovered together.

We get to help even more people embrace holistic wellness.

Here's to long, healthy lives ahead.

All right, what have we got?

Female, mid-30s,

gunshot to the back of the head.

Name is Emily Starr.

Close range, huh?

MLI said there was some stippling on the scalp

from the powder burns.

Time of death?

Body temp indicates between 10:00 and midnight.

Any witnesses?

A clerk at the bodega around the corner remembers hearing

a loud noise around 10:45 and seeing someone

rush from the scaffolding in a puffy tan coat with a tote bag.

- Man? Woman? - He couldn't say.

Perp had a hood and scarf on.

Guessing because of the scaffolding, no cameras?

Nothing functioning around here.

Thanks.

What have we got?

Right. Wallet, phone.

That's a pretty nice purse.

Emily Starr.

"Your Amazing Life."

Just got cut short.

How long had you been working for her?

Three years.

Emily was a wellness influencer?

TikTok and all that?

It started that way.

About ten years ago, she beat stomach cancer...

naturally.

She started a vlog about it, that caught on,

and pretty soon, she was recommending

homeopathic remedies for sleep issues, skin problems.

A few years ago she opened the center here

because so many of her followers

wanted to work with her in person.

Does Emily have any family that we should be notifying?

No... her mom split when she was young,

and her dad died of lung cancer.

That's what got her started on her health journey.

Emily was killed on 10th and 27th.

You know what she was doing there?

She was walking home from her book party here.

- Did she leave alone? - Yeah.

Were there any problems at the party?

Any arguments?

No.

It was a great night.

But she did get a call that kind of rattled her.

- Do you know who from? - No.

She stepped away to take it and looked worried.

The ME says the slug pulled from the vic

was from a.22 caliber.

The grate sweeps have not found a murder weapon,

so where are we at with this menacing conversation?

According to Emily Starr's cell records,

between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.,

she got seven calls from the same number.

And?

The number traces to

Skylar Gibson.

Oh, she's another health influencer.

And judging by her social media posts...

she's not a fan of Emily Starr.

She also texted Emily an hour before she was killed.

"Watch your back, bitch."

That doesn't sound healthy.

Emily and I used to be friends,

roommates for a couple years.

We planned to write a wellness book together.

And what, she went off on her own?

She wrote her book without even telling me.

Then last week I got my hands on an early copy,

saw my recipes, my pose sequence.

And that ticked you off?

The wellness market is a $2 trillion industry, detectives.

We all want a piece.

This was a serious business dispute.

"Watch your back, bitch"?

That doesn't sound very businessy.

Mm-mm.

You got an alibi for last night?

I was leading an online breath class...

the whole thing was recorded.

I never stepped foot outside this building until 11:00 p.m.

Look, I'm sorry she's dead, truly.

Okay.

But can you think of anyone who might want to kill her?

Well, her ex, Zane, loved her too much.

Trolled her after the breakup.

Dude had anger issues.

And I'm betting he didn't like that Emily wrote about him.

In her new book?

Chapter 13, "Cleansing Yourself of an Evil Ex."

Hi, Zane.

We're just gonna play a little show and tell, all right?

I'm gonna show you a video,

you're gonna tell me what the hell you're doing.

Sit down.

That's you at Emily's book party two nights ago,

trying to get in, while that nice gentleman with the iPad

is telling you to take a hike.

- That piss you off? - No!

I-I just wanted five minutes of her time.

I wanted to make amends.

Make amends for trolling her online for a year?

Look, I'm a better man now, okay?

I... I'm getting married next month,

and I credit Emily for motivating me

to get my act together.

Why the sudden need to unburden yourself?

I mean, do you really think she would have

wanted you at her big night?

I heard her on the radio this week.

She was reading from her book.

It's a bit about me, and I sounded awful.

So I went to apologize,

and then they wouldn't let me in, so I left.

Where'd you go?

Just a bar I know. It's a mile north of the event.

Hey, Zane's alibi holds.

Got surveillance from outside the bar.

He leaves six minutes after the shot was fired.

Okay.

Is that a city bus coming up 10th Ave

from the direction of the shooting?

It is, which means that it passed

by the area of the shooting just minutes prior.

Did you pull the dash cam?

Mm-hmm, and look what it found

a few blocks north of the shooting.

You run facial rec?

No luck. The face isn't visible enough.

But the figure does match the description

we got from the witness, minus the tote bag.

So the shooter must have ditched the tote bag

between the shooting and here.

Do you have a map of the area?

Yeah.

Okay, see right there?

That passageway that the shooter's coming out of,

that's a dead end.

So the shooter ducked in and ducked out.

Call the SRGs.

I'm sure there's a couple of dumpsters in that alley.

The gun was still in the tote bag,

so it wasn't contaminated with any trash.

- Any prints? - Nothing on the weapon.

But when we test-fired it, we found something interesting.

See those grooves?

Yeah. Any match in NIBIN?

Primer pin markings on this casing

are an exact match to a bullet pulled from a convenience store

armed robbery six years ago.

What happened to that gun?

According to the file, it was never recovered.

But they did get the shooter.

Got a conviction based on video.

Who was the shooter?

Eric Domingo,

from South Ozone Park.

Some narcotics priors.

Any idea where he is now?

Looks like he was up at Mid-State

but was released a month ago.

NYPD!

Domingo, open up!

NYPD!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, officers!

Stand back! Stand back!

- I... - You stand back!

There's nothing in the house, I swear.

All right, check the back room.

Make sure it's clear.

You're not gonna find anything.

We're not interested in your dope.