A man's gunshot-induced amnesia causes Jones and Medavoy to concoct an unconventional way to nail his assailant. Meanwhile, a man Sipowicz put away twenty years ago for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl goes free after DNA testing exonerates him, and Ortiz and Ronson bust a gruesome underground network pre-teen prostitution ring.
Erin J. Dean played both Mandy Anderson and her own mother Harriet. "Ann Jeider," the actress credited with playing Harriet Anderson, is an anagram of "Erin J. Dean."