Episode 2 - The Dawn of a New Day

Date: October 1, 2001

MACKENZIE PHILLIPS GUEST-STARS AS WIDOWED WAITRESS -- Mackenzie Phillips ("One Day at a Time," "So Weird") guest-stars as a waitress whose unusual reaction to the shooting death of her cab driver husband makes Jordan (Jill Hennessy) curious about the real story behind the cabbie's killing. While at the crime scene, Jordan also encounters Edward "Eddy" Winslow (guest star D.W. Moffett, "Traffic," "For Your Love"), the homicide detective involved at the end of her father's career as a cop. Meanwhile, Garret (Miguel Ferrer) feels uncomfortable with the attention he receives from "the weird 'intake' girl," while Trey (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) enlists "Bug" (Ravi Kapoor) in a quest to identify "Mr. Stinky," an unclaimed corpse whose tenure at the morgue has become lengthy. Ken Howard also stars and two-time Emmy Award nominee Lois Nettleton ("Fear on Trial," "The Golden Girls") guest-stars.