Writer:	Janet Tamaro
Director:	Deran Sarafian
Star:	Gary Sinise (Detective Mack "Mac" Taylor),  Melina Kanakaredes (Detective Stella Bonasera),  Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer),  Vanessa Ferlito (Aiden Burn),  Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes),  Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald "Don" Flack, Jr.)
Recurring Role:	Grant Albrecht (Dr. Leonard Giles)
Guest Star:	Craig Baxley Jr. (Lenny Cook),  Michael Irby (Eduardo),  Scott Valentine (Dr. Steven Rydell),  Bradley Stryker (Jason Walder),  Ranjani Brow (Rachel Camden),  Sidney Faison (Dwayne Meade),  Carmen Plumb (Sunshine),  Jamie Burton-Oare (Angela),  Heather Kafka (Ophelia Dichiara),  Nicholas Pratley (Ryan Mallone),  Heath Castor (Officer),  Corin Nemec (Todd Camden)

The first book that Stella examines from Ophelia Dichiara's bookshelf is Oh, the places you'll go! by Dr. Seuss. (edit) Music:
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z
Lean Back - Terror Squad featuring Fat Joe and Remy
Senseless - Kenny Inglis (edit)

Stella: You're never going to get any sleep in this lifetime, are you, Mac? (edit) Dr. Rydell (about sleepwalking): I've had patients drive cars, prepare meals, tend to gardens . . . (edit) Ophelia: I'm sorry to keep you up so late.
Mac: You're not keeping me up.
Ophelia: You look tired. I can see it in your eyes. You should try to get some sleep. (edit) Stella: That splinter I pulled out of your hand is a perfect match to the
murder weapon.
Jason: I fell in love with her ...
Stella: Trust me. You're going to get plenty of love where you're going.
(edit) (Flack notices Eduardo's stained knuckles.)
Flack: Looks like that drew blood. Just like the blood we found on one of Lenny's mannequins. Eduardo, I'll tell you one thing. For a guy with light fingers, you must have some heavy fists. We're gonna need to process your hands.
(edit)

Goof: When Ophelia is being processed by Stella at the hospital, she takes a drink of water from a glass on the hospital tray. When she puts it down, there is very little water left in it. Yet when Stella picks it up a couple of seconds later to get more water, the glass is half full. (edit) Goof: The Australian $100 notes were obvious fakes. They were missing the see-though window in the corner. (edit) Goof: The "NYC Pass" shown 29 minutes into the episode looks nothing like a New York City MetroCard. (edit)

Episode Title: 'Night, Mother

'Night, Mother is a play by Marsha Norman that was adapted for a 1986 movie of the same name starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. The story is about a suicidal woman who decides to spend one last night talking to her mother before she shoots herself. (edit) Name: Ophelia.

Ophelia's name alludes to that of Shakespeare's Ophelia in the play Hamlet. It is not just her name that the allusion portends to but also her story. In Hamlet Ophelia goes insane when he love interest (and some claim lover) kills her father (this was not the only thing to drive her insane eventually, but it is what sent her over the edge). And in this episode, it is slightly implied that this Ophelia starts to sleepwalk (something some mistakenly consider a habit of the insane, but is actually a quite normal occurrence of many people) because of her son's tragic death (as one thing she mimicked in her sleepwalk excursion was the attempt to save her son's life). (edit)