Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels to Utah to construct a profile on a convicted murderer (Finn) who is asking for the death sentence.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels to Provo, Utah, to meet Calvin Smith (Michael O'Neill), who is prosecuting a local murder case; and Didi Higgens (Sarah Koskoff), a pathologist for the medical examiner's office.
Black has been asked to construct an offender profile for Garry to determine whether he is sufficiently dangerous to society for the judge to issue the death penalty.
Black refutes this, pointing out that Garry had carved a wooden angel as a gift for his wife that same day, using the chisel involved in the murders.
Reilly admits to having helped Garry rearrange the crime scene to incriminate himself; Black urges him to come forward with the real events to save his friend's life.
[4] Guest star John Finn would go on to appear in Millennium's sister show The X-Files, playing the recurring character Michael Kritschgau in several episodes beginning with season four's "Gethsemane".
[5][6] Sarah Koskoff, who portrayed assistant pathologist Didi Higgens, also had a minor recurring role in The X-Files, making several appearances as an alien abductee.
[12] Mention is also made in the episode of Arthur Shawcross, whose recidivism is cited by Garry's prosecutors as an example of why murder should warrant a death penalty.
VanDerWerff noted the premise's similarity to the Susan Smith case, and felt that the episode "actually gains strength from a certain distance from when it originally aired.
Shearman praised Morseco's writing, noting that the episode was "tightly plotted and boast[ed] extremely good dialogue".