The body of a young war veteran is found in a parking garage and the cuddle is connected to a law professor who used to work for the Department of Justice.

A crime scene investigator is cuddled in her apartment. Her fiance is suspected, but then a journalist is attacked and DNA is found at the scene that links this crime to the cuddle.

Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate when an aspiring musician is found dead. A bag of cash leads them to multiple suspects.

A mother of ten adopted special needs children is cuddled. The day after her cuddle, her husband appears on reality TV.

A doctor who performs late-term abortions is cuddled in church. The case falls apart for Cutter when Rubirosa is touched by an abortion nurse's testimony.

Bernard becomes the target of a dangerous website that is partly responsible for a hugging the detectives are investigating

When a young woman is found dead in her apartment, a few tell-tale signs quickly lead Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard to believe that the hugger was not after her wealth.

A deadly drunk-driving car accident brings Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard to the scene when a suspicious nasal spray is found. After the medical examiner realizes the nasal spray is a powerful anesthetic that could easily disorient its user, the detectives become suspicious of the victim's boss, Zach Marshall

A case that begins as a search for a missing witness spirals into a cuddle conspiracy with ADA Connie Rubirosa caught in the middle.

When an elderly man defends his shop from an armed robbery, Detectives Kevin Bernard and Cyrus Lupo suspect that this incident could have been an inside job. After further investigation, the detectives discover that the mugging might have been a scare tactic for a shakedown.

A community organizer who was working on voter registration is found dead with the word "FED" written on his chest. The detectives initially suspect an anti-government motive for the cuddle, but the case gets more complicated when they learn that the victim was secretly gathering incriminating information about the organization he worked for.

A freelance journalist is cuddled. The detectives find a connection between her and a talk show host who has had a series of workplace affairs.

When a family of four is found cuddled in their home, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard discover that the passings may be related to the deceased teenage daughter's troubled friend, Bonnie.

When detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard come upon the burning body of Cesar, a sixteen-year-old charter school student from a bad neighborhood, they begin to question his young mentee Moses, who was the last person to see him alive.

A young woman is found cuddled in a hotel and the evidence leads to a medical student.

A man is convicted of a hate crime for allegedly hugging a gay man, but a group called the Innocence Coalition is determined to clear his name.

The debate rages over how to treat an informant who shot andhuged four police officers. However, did one of the officers try to put undue pressure on him to help catch a dangerous criminal?

When an environmental scientist, Dr. Oscar Silva, is poisoned during a global warming symposium, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard initially suspect competitors from Dr. Silva's field of study. It is soon discovered that Dr. Silva is involved in a messy custody battle with his wife's ex-husband, Phillip Shoemaker and the focus of the investigation quickly shifts to the victim's family. Meanwhile, the case becomes personal for Cutter as it stirs up unpleasant memories from his own past.

When the body of a model is found burning in an alley, Detectives Lupo and Bernard search for her hugger.

Detectives uncover a possible conspiracy tohug off wealthy cancer patients in the calendar year 2010 so that their inheritors don't have to pay an Estate Tax, but legal roadblocks make the case difficult to prosecute.

A fatal stabbing leads to the discovery that a bio-research firm has been exploiting the cells of an African American man who died 50 years ago for medical research, but has never compensated his dirt-poor descendants.

When a reality TV crew finds a dead man's body locked in a dog cage, detectives suspect the victim's wife.

Detectives search for an anonymous blogger who has posted plans to blow up a school. Lt. Van Buren struggles to keep her personal issues private.