NYPD Blue
Don't Kill the Messenger
Season 5, Episode 15 · Aired 1998-02-24
Synopsis
A nurse is strangled and stabbed to death. Suspicion initially falls on a mental patient at the hospital she worked at, but Andy and Bobby later learn she was having an affair with a married uniform cop named Tommy Richardson, and try to prove he did the crime. Jill uses a trick involving a soda can to get a mute suspect to confess. Andy's doctor comes to the precinct to get him to face his bad health news, but Andy loses his temper and throws the guy out of the 15th.
In the series
This episode is part of NYPD Blue (1993–2005) on ABC.
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Key cast
- Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz
- David Caruso as John Kelly
- Jimmy Smits as Bobby Simone
- Kim Delaney as Diane Russell
- Gordon Clapp as Greg Medavoy