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When a young woman ends up dead, her uncle is the only suspect. It seems that there were several witnesses who saw him drinking that night, even though his family says that he has been sober for years, and knows that he isn't supposed to drink when he is on his medication. Further investigation finds that his computer contains more than 500 images of his niece on his computer, including her as the desktop wallpaper. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just a little odd for an older man to have pictures of a younger woman like that - even if none are inappropriate. He's arrested for the crime and offered a deal, but he doesn't take it.

Looking into his past, Annabeth and Maureen don't turn up much at first, and are starting to get discouraged as it seems that his lawyer is going to go after an insanity plea. Then they find his sister, who tells them that their mother didn't die in a car crash like they think. He killed her.

Sure enough, after they dig up the reports, it seems that all those years ago, there was a police report filed, but because he was a minor, he was never charged, though he did spend a year in a mental institution. They immediately try to file to get this admitted into evidence, but because he was a minor, it's excluded. In a surprise move, the defense then makes a motion to get it admitted in support of their insanity defense, to show that he's been sick for a long time. The evidence is admitted.

The rest of the trial actually proceeds pretty normally, except for the fact that the accused also has a brother who had no idea that his own brother killed his mother - a fact that he doesn't like much, since his family kept it from him all these years.

But then while they are looking through the evidence, they find that the jewelery that was claimed on an insurance report was given to the sister (the brother claimed that he had nothing to remember his mother by, so he's doubly hurt). I actually recalled this in the beginning of the episode when she said it. While talking to the sister about her things, they come across a ring with initials in it, and it turns out that the mother had a lover, who she saw on the day she died. They had an early lunch. Digging through the autopsy results, they find that she died earlier than they thought, meaning that the son who was accused of killing her could not have done it.

Doing a bit more research, they find that the father checked out a company car that day and had a wreck just two blocks away from the house. So he had a company car, so he wasn't seen in his own car, killed his wife, then blamed his own son for the murder. How sick is that? Of course, it doesn't get the son off for this killing, but in a way you can almost understand - for all these years, he's thought he killed his own mom and blocked it out. Turns out his dad did it to him. That's rough.