Writer:	Theresa Rebeck, Theresa Rebeck, René Balcer
Director:	Ed Sherin
Star:	Vincent D'Onofrio (Det. Robert Goren),  Kathryn Erbe (Det. Alexandra Eames),  Courtney B. Vance (A.D.A. Carver),  Jamey Sheridan (Capt. James Deakins)
Guest Star:	Polly Draper (Christine Wilkes),  Philip LeStrange (Det. Abramson),  Christopher Durham (Jerry Lafferty),  Marianne Tatum (Carol Lafferty),  Guiesseppe Jones (Len Jenkins),  Victor Truro (Murray),  Cyndi Coyne (Trixie),  Sal Mistretta (Jacobs),  Sondra Wymar (Nina),  Dariush Kashani (Attul),  Bill Raymond (Mr. Green),  Adam LeFevre (Toby Windemere),  Mia Dillon (Barb Windemere),  Remak Ramsay (Douglas Lafferty),  Matthew Sussman (David Cantler),  Steven Michael Harper (Police Assistant)

Special billing was given to Polly Draper (and) in this episode. (edit) Faith was initially advertised as the season finale. The actual finale was Tuxedo Hill, which aired twelve days after this episode. (edit)

Street Cop: Lucy Hot Pants there thinks the guy died of spontaneous combustion.
Robert Goren: Right after he was spontaneously hit in the head. I count three impact wounds in the right side of his skull. (edit)

Alex Eames: Someone defragged his computer to wipe out his hard drive.

This statement is incomplete. The idea is that the information of interest was deleted and then the disk was defragmented. A deleted file on a disk is recoverable so long as the physical space it occupied has not been written over by new data, because "deleting" a file really just tells the operating system to treat that area of the disk as available. Defragmenting the disk arranges all of the files around so that they are written in one continuous block on the disk. In the process, large portions of the data have to be moved to new locations often by way of other temporary stopping places, so there is a good chance the deleted files will be overwritten possibly several times. (edit)

This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Kaycee Nicole (Swenson) hoax. (edit)