Death Roe (S04E15)

Tommy Onerato (Chris Penn) is at the fish market and meets Freddy (Edmund Wilkinson), a fisherman who operates out of a van. He gives him a package, which he in turn gives to Josh (Alex Burns). Josh owns Apice Restaurant, and Tommy tells him that the patron who will get this "present" is wearing a goatee. Josh and his wife Beatrice (Monica Keena), who is Tommy's daughter, get together late that night, and are nervous that everything went OK. The next evening, Josh is alone at the restaurant when he gets a call that something bad has happened - he's furious. Meanwhile, Mr. Barry (the man with the goatee) is at a different restaurant, Grill Negril, whispering notes into a tape recorder. He leaves by himself, but feels as if he is being followed. Later that night, Mr. Barry is found beaten to death on the East River Walk overpass. It turns out, Mr. Barry is actually a woman; Sally Moore (Moira Driscoll), one of the top food critics in the city. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) talk to her editor, and discover that Sally was about to do a review of Apice, but she got food poisoning (no doubt from the secret package of fish that Tommy gave to Josh). (iTunes)