Season 6 opens with the investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl uncovering a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers.
Wolf and his writers have fallen into a sclerotic pattern of casting and character structure. It holds women in supporting roles, and traps male characters into predictable interactions. A once successful formula now verges on the tediously formulaic.
