A serial killer refuses to tell Jack McCoy the names and locations of all of his victims. The killer's defense attorney has the information too, but refuses to disclose it because of attorney-client privilege.
When the body of a seventeen-year-old teenager is found in an alley, Detective Lennie Briscoe and his partner Jesse Detective Ed Green are assigned to investigate the case and soon they capture the psychopath Mark Bruner. Jack McCoy and Serena Southerlyn are assigned to prosecute the killer and soon they learn that his public defender is feeling uncomfortable with Mark and refuses the case. Defense attorney Tim Schwimmer accepts the case that will be his first one. Soon McCoy and Serena learn that Schwimmer knows where the corpses of fifteen of his victims are and they ask Schwimmer to disclose the information to give peace to the relatives and friends of the victims. But he refuses claiming attorney-client privilege and the D.A. Arthur Branch decides to prosecute Schwimmer.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil