Close to Home/Prodigal Son

Prodigal Son
Season 2, Episode 11
Airdate	December 15, 2006
Teleplay by	Antoinette Stella
Story by	Antoinette Stella, William N. Fordes
Directed by	Anthony Hemingway
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Close to Home — Season Two

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Prodigal Son is the eleventh episode of the second season of Close to Home, and the thirty-third episode overall.

Starring: Jennifer Finnigan (Annabeth Chase), Kimberly Elise (Maureen Scofield), Cress Williams (Det. Ed Williams), Jon Seda (Ray Blackwell)

and David James Elliott (ADA James Conlon)

Guest Starring: Wendell Pierce (Sam Carter), Debbi Morgan (Lizette Carter), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Jordan Carter), Deirdre Lovejoy (Ellen Porter), Pamala Tyson (), Freda Foh Shen (Dr. Perrin), Nigel Gibbs (Judge Crenshaw), Karl T. Wright (), Rafael J. Noble ()

and Richard Roundtree (Cyrus Carter)

Co-Starring: William Charlton (), Stacie Davis ()

Plot Overview

A young woman is stabbed to death after announcing her engagement, and her uncle is arrested for her murder. He insists that he got drunk and blacked out and has no recollection of the murder, and his family tells Annabeth that he drinks heavily on the anniversary of his mother's death, which the family says was due to a car accident, but the suspect's estranged sister drops a huge bomb...the mother didn't die in an accident, but rather was shot to death by the suspect, at the age of 14, and that he had a drinking problem at that time. Annabeth is led to believe that the man gets dangerously violent when drunk, but new evidence turns up, warranting a closer look at the mother's murder.