The daughter of close friend of Van Buren is killed, and her face partially burned, and Van Buren gets all over the case because of her personal stake in it.
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A girl is supposdely killed, but we soon learn that she had committed suicide, which I'm sure was brought on by depression because of the severe burn on a face. She told her mother that she was cleaning and she accidently splashed her face with detergent, but her mother learns later, that her ex boyfriend did it, but because of his threats on her younger daughter she did not pursue it.
The episode evolves with the victim's mother making a postive ID on the ex boyfriend, but because of fear, recants her statment to Van Buren, who dismisses it and encourages her friend to testify. This comes out in court and McCoy has to withdraw the charges because without a positive ID they had no case.
Van Buren sets up a stink to get Jason to confess to burning his ex, which he does, after the victims sister bursts through his door and splash him with vingear..
Overall, the episode tried to hard to get viewers interested in the storyline and in Van Buren's fight for justice which the own victim's mother was scared to do.