- The discovery of a dog fighting ring leads to an investigation of the disappearance of one of the participants' wives. A television reporter's testimony helps charge the husband, but did she conspire to frame him?
- When the police break up a dog-fighting ring in the home of Jay Carlin, the medical examiner finds a human finger in the stomach of one of the dead animals. Detectives Lupo and Green trace the animals to a kennel where the owner claims that Carlin is his partner. The wife of Carlin's friend Marty Vance, Lauren Vance, is missing but the police can't find any physical evidence linking him to his wife's disappearance or that the finger is hers. Her divorce lawyer tells them that she was concerned her husband was hiding assets. They find Lauren's body buried near the kennel but also learn that Jay Carlin may have been defrauding buyers of supposedly rare wines.—garykmcd
- A dog owner locates his missing dog (through the GPS transponder in the dog collar) in a closed building where they hear dogs fighting. He stops a NYPD cruiser driving by and the two officers are mysteriously able to gain access to the interior of the building where they discover a crowd of men watching a dog fight. The innocent owner's dog is found dead, used as a "bait dog" to get the two intended fighting dogs bloodied before their fight starts. The case takes a twist upon the Medical Examiner's necropsy on another dead fighting dog (no explanation why the ME is doing this and not a Veterinarian) which turns up a human finger in the dog's intestine. The finger appears to be from a female, with red (somwhere between pink and fuchsia) nail polish and traces of chlorine. The Detectives are able to obtain some cooperation from the fighting dogs' owner/breeder who was arrested at the dog fight, who tells them his kennel's location "upstate". The Detectives meet the local Sheriff at the kennel and verify that despite the horrible conditions they found the dogs, there is no sign of any corpse at the Kennel. The organizer of the dog fight is a "rich guy" who has a rare wine investment business; he points the Detective towards his "buddy", a real estate broker, who lives with his wife while they are divorcing. The wife was asking alot of questions about her husband's investments in the wine investment business. The real estate broker admits he hasn't seen his wife in a couple of weeks, suggesting she is visiting her sister in Florida, but upon being asked for the sister's name and phone #, he admits his wife is probably not visiting her sister - suggesting that she is probably staying with some new boyfriend. The Dectectives are able to secure permission to search the wife's bathroom, where they discover....red nail polish (really somewhere between pink and fuchsia). While the Detectives pursue the real estate broker husband for murdering his wife, with her pusuit of his hidden assets as a motive, a local TV reporter gets involved, and is soon found stepping topless into the husband's hot tub (which uses chlorine). She tells the detectives that she was only koosing up to the husband to get the details of the juicy story, but she did see a map to the upstate dog kennel in his waste basket. Based upon her recollection of the map, the wive's corpse is recovered - with her hands missing. The husband is arrested, but the detective realize that the rare wine investor shares all the same motives - so they need to clear him as a possible suspect. Low and behold, they discover he is defrauding purchasers of expensive rare wines by refilling empty bottles with cheaper wines and recorking the bottles with corks that must be processed with chlorine. They find the wine cad is also sexually involved with the female reporter! The DA sets them up by "letting it slip" that the dog kennel owner discovered foot prints outside the kennel's fence. The wine broker and female reporter go up to the kennel at night, are able to open the lock on the gate, trespass, and discuss how to destroy any footprints from when the wine broker was there before....only to have the detectives catch them and their discussion on a night-vision camera. The wine broker and reporter are brought back to the NYC trial courtroom where the husband is on trial, and the DA dismisses the charges against the husband who was set up by his "buddy" and girlfriend. The Judge states "I love it when the system works".
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