 Kima faces merciless teasing from her colleagues and is further embarrassed when she is ordered to take over the Braddock case - an investigation of a murdered state's witness - because of political pressure to slow the investigation.A further indignity occurs when the story of the reassignment is leaked to the press and the original investigator, Ed Norris, is reassigned as the primary.Kima, Norris, and Landsman are forced to attend a press conference intended to defuse the story with the facade that Kima and Norris were working together all along.