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Tonight, on The Sentin. My ears are fine, really.

Easy, easy.

I knew my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, Simon. That was a police chopper.

Cops killing another copper. Pretty heavy duty charges to be thrown around,

unless you can prove it.

Well, I intend to, sir.

I never stopped wondering if what Nowotny said was true.

Stop wondering.

In the jungles of Peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses.

Now, Detective James Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice.

Seeing before others see.

Sensing what others can't.

An ever -vigilant watchman in the war against crime.

We have to talk, Dave.

So she finally told you, huh?

Leave her out of it.

Let's cut to the chase.

So, what do you want?

End it.

Now.

Not a chance.

You're supposed to show up for your yearly physical over three months ago.

No, I can't keep putting them off forever. What's up with you anyway?

My sentinel abilities.

I mean, you know.

Oh, yeah. I see.

You mean what if the doctor figures out you're not normal?

I thought everyone knew that.

All right, all right. I get your point. But isn't that the whole reason why you

have to put up with Sandberg?

Let him figure out how to deal with it.

Have a nice time.

It's very kind of you, sir. Very kind of you. I knew this time was coming. I

mean, you put it off for as long as you could.

Excuse us.

We're just going to have to do the best we can. What do you mean by we?

You know, I've got something at stake here, too.

What if the world finds out about this sentinel prematurely? I mean, that was

thesis, my book. I mean, the movie writes alone for crying out loud.

You're kidding me.

It can happen.

Hi, my name's Jim Ellison. I have an appointment. Take a seat. The doctor

be with you shortly.

Both sides.

Stay calm. Your body should respond normally to the test as long as your

don't get over... Stimulated.

Right. Well, how do I guarantee that's not going to happen?

A mantra.

A mantra?

Yeah.

Like what those people with the orange robes at the airports do?

Come on, Jim.

Meditation is not only about spirituality. It affects the body in

ways, including the senses.

All right? But don't fight me on this one.

Just work with me. I'm trying to help you.

Now, first off, take a deep, cleansing breath.

He's here for ongoing therapy.

Repeat after me.

I am... I am... Relaxed.

Relaxed. Yeah.

Is it working?

Yeah. Yeah.

Sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let's start over again.

Detective Allison.

I'm Dr. Grant.

Hi, Dr.

Grant. Hi, how are you feeling today?

No complaints.

Well, that's good.

We're just going to do a little routine physical here.

I'm sure you've been through this before.

Yeah, more times than I care to remember.

Then again, real deep.

Do your eyes match your dress?

They are.

Very good.

Stand up for me, please.

It's my favorite part.

Mine too.

It may hurt just a little.

Turn your head to the side and cough.

Chest looks great.

Thanks.

Considering your age, you're in perfect shape for one thing. What's that?

Your ears.

They've always been kind of sensitive.

Really? With all that wax in them, I'm surprised you can hear anything at all.

Wax? Haven't things been sounding kind of underwater lately?

Oh, yeah, now that you mention it.

Well, when I get through with you, it's going to be a whole new world. Have a

seat. No, my ears are fine, really.

I'll tell you what. You don't hear a difference, I'll owe you dinner.

Focus for me.

Easy, easy.

What's going on? Do you have to write so damn loud?

Jim.

Hey,

man, get a grip. Use those earplugs I gave you.

I am wearing them.

Oh, baby.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sometimes I got to remind myself to stop studying and go

to bed.

Jim, you suffered from impacted wax.

It's no big deal. So do a lot of other people.

It's just in your case, though.

Your sentinel hearing compensated, and we just never knew how powerful it

actually was.

We're just going to have to start at the beginning again.

Oh, that's great. That's really encouraging.

Come on, Jim. It'll be fun.

I mean, your hearing is one of your greatest assets, and if you've only been

using it at half speed, think about what you can do.

Yeah, I'm going to spend the rest of my life being tortured by dog whistles.

for a second. Is this really worth it?

Yeah!

What's going on? You didn't hear that.

What, the chopper? They're flying over us all the time.

There were screams and... What?

Down! Get down!

It's landing.

Jim!

Come on, I think it's over here.

What? Take it off.

What are you talking about?

Screams. What's going on?

They just threw a body into the bay.

What are you talking about? It was a police chopper. I couldn't make out the

numbers. Are you sure?

The body was right here.

Jim, come on. How can you tell that?

The heat pattern. It's still warm.

Ellison!

Ellison!

Ellison!

What's up with him?

He hasn't taken his eyes off the recovery operations.

He's totally zoned out.

Yeah, make sure you get a sample of that. I got the tweezers in the bag.

Jim!

Jim!

Jim!

You okay?

Yeah. My ears are just a little sensitive today.

You were right about the body. Yeah, I know, sir.

Any ID?

Undercover cop by the name of Brent Martin.

Worked narcotics.

I knew my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, Simon. That was a police chopper.

Hey, hey, back off on that, all right?

Cops killing another cop are pretty heavy duty charges to be throwing around

unless you can prove it.

Well, I intend to, sir.

Listen to me.

You just don't go off half -cocked.

I'm not saying I don't believe you.

Well, what are you saying?

Say it.

I checked the flight records.

No department choppers were in the area at the time.

Simon, you know as well as I do that records can be tampered with.

Yeah? Well, I talked to the watch commander personally. He's a friend of

beyond reproach.

All I know is I saw what I saw, sir.

Somebody called his wife.

All I'm saying is you better have some hard evidence or we are dead in the

on this thing.

Like our friend here.

Okay, let her through.

I'm sorry.

They shouldn't have called you.

I had a wife.

And 1 ,100 brothers in uniform.

And one of them murdered him.

is for one extra day with my son.

Look, Simon, Daryl has the analyst.

It's my birthday, for God's sake.

Got to know his brother better, you know?

Is it working?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I'm all ready to wax my board and hit the surf.

You're kidding with this, right? What is this?

What else do you hear, Jimmy?

Office sounds.

That normal volume.

Yes! It works!

That's a white noise generator.

People use it to block out unwanted sound, like if you live near a freeway

have trouble sleeping in it.

Or if you have subtle hearing unfits.

Exactly.

Try these.

Each one of these is more than just an air plug. It's a white noise generator.

These are attractive.

Yeah,

just put those on in there.

Nice. Uh -huh.

Not bad.

Now I can get some work done.

Were you able to get in contact with Martin's wife?

You know, I think you'd be nice.

Thank you.

I'll remember to send you a card, okay?

Anything? You're welcome.

Nothing. We'll keep trying.

I'm sure she's going to be able to tell us something.

All right, all right. What's that?

Lab reports from the blood I found on that glove last night.

It's type O positive.

DNA typing takes a couple of days, but it's useless without someone to match it

to. What about Martin?

He's type A.

Blood probably came from one of the killers.

Type O positive is a pretty common type. It'd be like looking for a needle in a

haystack. Exactly.

Well, I want to try and find out everything we can on this guy.

What do you got so far?

Well, he was a highly decorated officer. By all accounts, he was some kind of a

hero cop.

That sounds like there's a lot of people out there that would want him dead.

Criminals, yeah. But why would another cop want him dead?

He was ordered to report before internal affairs, but it never states why he was

ordered to report.

Maybe he was testifying against another cop. Or he was being investigated

himself.

Tommy, come on.

I'm working on a murder case here.

He was one of your guys.

Any information you can give me, I will... Yeah.

Yeah. No, no, no. Absolutely right.

All right.

No, thanks.

Sure thing.

Bye -bye.

Sounded like a waste of time.

Martin's captain wants me to keep him up to speed on the case.

But he won't confirm or deny Martin's involvement in an IAD investigation.

Absolutely not.

Refused to discuss it. And he sure got defensive when I brought it up.

So we're going to have to contact Internal Affairs ourselves.

You want me to make that call?

No, I can... Yes, Louise.

Allison Tersey. Okay, send him in.

Have a seat. I'll be with you in a second.

I sent you over a report on the death of a detective, Brent Martin.

Were you able to take a look at it?

Mm -hmm. You believe he was thrown out of a police chopper by other cops?

And I'm guessing it has something to do with your investigation.

What investigation?

Come on, Sheila, you don't have to be coy with me here.

We're on the same side this time. Maybe.

But I'm not at liberty to confirm or deny an internal affairs investigation.

know that.

According to my scorecard, you kind of owe me.

Yes.

But that has nothing to do with this case.

And for your information, Detective, I don't trade favors.

All right.

I'm sorry. That comment was out of line.

After the Pentagraph case, I left you a dozen messages.

I wanted to clear the air between us, to apologize for making you a suspect.

You never returned my calls.

I... Was rather busy.

You were unforgiving.

And under the circumstances, I don't blame you.

But that's why I'm being careful now.

I don't throw around accusations anymore.

Not without substantial evidence.

Was Martin under investigation at the time? Can you at least tell me that?

No. But if he was, I'd only be legally compelled to give you access to my files

if you gave me evidence the two cases were related. Something more concrete

a fantasy of seeing him tossed out of a department chopper.

It happened a half mile out over the bay at night.

Collectively, they've got about 200 years of experience on the job.

They've had more convictions and confiscations than any unit in Cascade

history.

So what, do you think some of them are dirty?

Anything's possible, especially when you've got overworked, underpaid cops

handling millions in undocumented dope and cash.

Okay, people, listen up. Remember, it comes down to you or him.

Make it you.

I'm not losing any more guys this week.

Let's do it!

Do it! Do it! Do it! Oh, God.

Oh, man, that's reminding me of this warrior tribe in New Guinea. They used

get so pumped up that they'd kill everything in their path on the way to a

battle. Okay, teams, assemble at your vehicles in ten. And on the way back

Jim Ellison, Major Crimes.

This is Blair Sandberg.

Tommy, you want? Tommy?

Frankly, I resent the implication that any of my men are dirty. Come on,

Captain. As far as I'm concerned, everybody in this room is a hero.

Bet your ass.

Now, I'd love to stay and chat with you, but as you can see, this is kind of a

bad time.

I've been working on this bus for six months.

Expect to haul in at least $30 million in heroin.

Well, that's a lot.

What did you say his name was?

Blair Samberg.

He's an aide to the department.

You mind if we come along and watch?

This is a tight operation.

No place for spectators.

I understand, Captain.

Thanks. Call me when you find out who killed Martin.

Right.

Wow, it's so dark in there. I can't see anything.

No, I can.

That looks like 30 million with a conservative. That's true.

Oh, man, my eyes. That light.

What the hell happened?

Whoa, that's a new one.

You okay?

Yeah, I just whacked out my senses for a moment there.

Wow.

I could get in there with my hearing, but if I take out my white noise

generators, I'm screwed.

No, I got an idea.

See what just happened to your sight there? It was kind of like a zone out,

right? I'm still aware of my other senses.

Right.

Let's try a little experiment.

When you take out your white noise generator, see if you can consciously

your hearing piggyback on your sight into the warehouse.

See if you can get the two to link up.

Let your eyes guide your ears.

Hey, it's all there, buddy.

You trust your brother, but there's other people I gotta answer to.

What are you doing?

Let's get out of here.

You all

right?

Yeah, that wasn't so bad, Ben.

Were you able to see through that glass and hear what they were saying?

Yeah, yeah, until the shooting started, and I just lost my bearing.

It worked.

All right, we're learning something today, so we're starting to get back to

normal. Yeah, I guess we don't need these anymore.

I don't think that's such a good idea right here. Cold turkey?

Take off.

Jim, I think you should get yourself off gradually.

No, no, I'll be all right.

There goes the limo.

They're getting away.

There's at least 12 kilos of heroin in that car.

It's never locked in.

Come on.

Jim, I don't see the limo.

There he is, up on the overpass.

Where's he going?

You okay?

Put the earplugs in.

The white noise generator.

You okay?

You alright?

I can't ID anybody here.

And what's with the duffel bag?

For all we know it could be his laundry.

You were in the numbers on the chopper?

Yeah, it was officially down for service.

And no police units were supposed to be in the area.

Just like the night Martin was killed.

Yes, for something more than fantasy.

I guess it's qualified.

As a start.

Well, good.

So maybe now you can give me something.

Look, the rules say I can only share information with another cop.

Jim, look, it's all right, man. I got some papers I can grade.

I'll catch up with you later.

Ellison. Jim.

Jim.

Do you think we can do this without coming to blows?

I don't know.

Can we?

As long as you stay on your side of the desk.

That would be the right thing to do.

I've had my eye on the crew since the Nowotny bust.

Sixteen million in drugs and cash, right?

Nowotny decided to rat out his suppliers in Mexico and became a government

witness. One of the things he claimed was more drugs and money should have

recovered. That's why Martin was interviewed. That's why they all were.

But nothing concrete ever turned up, so the file was closed.

Maybe it was just their arrogance, but I never stopped wondering if what Nowotny

said was true.

You can stop wondering.

All we have to do is prove it.

We?

I'm going to reopen my investigation.

I want to run it concurrently with the Martin case.

I don't want to...

Getting in each other's way.

What about Sandberg?

He's in.

Are you sure about that?

No.

Maybe we can discuss the details over dinner?

You like Italian?

Sure.

Good morning.

Hungry? Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Thanks.

Hey, Jim.

Morning.

You didn't come home last night.

Nothing happened, Chief.

Is that officially or unofficially?

We went out to dinner.

We started to talk about things. She's a very interesting woman once you get to

know her.

She invited me over to her drink.

Got late.

Fell asleep on the sofa.

Thank you.

She'd come over to start work on the case.

She's going to share her information with both of us? However, if you talk,

be forced to kill you.

What could you do to the real Sheila?

Thank you for putting this together. It's very nice.

You're welcome.

Check this out.

Personnel files on the crew. I stopped by records last night on my way home to

see if you could identify the guy on the bridge.

Impossible. Your tape's too blurry, even with computer enhancement.

Brooks. You sure that's him? 99 .9%. How? That bridge is a half mile long and

you were at the other end.

Process of elimination.

Right. We saw everyone else. He must have been working undercover.

You ever any luck reaching Martin's wife?

Zero. It seems the last time anybody saw her was when they were pulling Martin's

body out of the bag. This is interesting.

When we interviewed Martin and the others, we did complete background

them. Martin's wife, Barbara, her last name used to be Brooke.

Brooke's his sister.

Ex -wife.

She married Martin six months after the divorce.

That's pretty incestuous.

Actually, that's fairly common in closed social structures, you know, like in

police departments.

She dropped out of sight because she knows something.

There's some property out in the country, a cabin. Barbara got it from

the divorce settlement.

There's no phone listed.

You know where it is?

Martin? Detective Ellis from Cascade PD.

Mrs. Martin?

She's dead.

Take the truck.

Wait until you can get in. Get to a pay phone and call the local authorities,

all right?

Do you hear that?

What?

Dig. What are you digging?

Where?

Over here in these woods.

I don't know what you're talking about, sir.

You stay here and just wait until Sanford comes back.

I'm going to go check it out.

it right there. It's all right, babe.

We got you surrounded.

Put it down, Lieutenant.

Now.

Damn, it's busted

Say

anything

yet nothing worth repeating sir get any information on the helicopter Fuente,

the watch command, is checking on it now. Looked down like there was a

with their computers.

What a surprise.

Suddenly, all the schedules got fried.

Detective Ellison!

You'd better take a look at this.

It was hidden in a jar of coffee.

What are their names?

Tommy Juan, David Brooks.

Members of the squad.

Plus this Rob Jennings.

Well, he could be a helicopter pilot.

Fuente's on his way up here to pick us up. I'll have him check it out. Captain

Banks? Looks like you.

He pets them from getting away with their stuff. When Brooks owned this

property, he probably stashed his drugs here. Why would he do that?

Safekeeping, most likely.

The odds are that we never figured his ex -wife would rat him out to her new

husband. You think that's what happened?

Well, Martin isn't on this list.

I'd be willing to bet that Barbara told him what was going on and got them both

killed.

Tried to handle it himself.

Like a code of silence.

I mean, it makes sense, you know, a tightly knit unit.

We're constantly in dangerous situations that depend on each other to stay

alive.

What? They've been teaching the kid all our secrets, huh?

Jim.

Jim.

You hear that?

You hear something?

You don't hear that.

It's working.

You can totally control it.

Wait a minute. What's working?

Here comes Fuentes now.

Chief.

having a good year.

Only question is, why didn't you unload the stuff before this?

People like you, lady.

I'm flattered.

Personally, I don't think I'm that scary.

I don't know.

Cops like to bring the heat down on other cops, scare the hell out of me.

Look, if you think you can use me to make some kind of deal, just forget it.

They'll never deal on a cop, Kelly.

Most you can do is buy me a little time, but I might let you go once we're done.

If?

Somehow you and Ellison found out about Brooks.

What else do you know?

Everything. Who your buyers are, the numbers of all your offshore accounts.

Oh, by the way, they're all being frozen right now.

Nice try.

Okay, guys, let's wrap it up. What do we do about her?

I'll drop her off on the way to the boat. She can swim home.

Good news is that all our units have tracking devices.

His was still activated up until about three minutes ago. We lost him somewhere

downtown over this area here.

All right.

Well, now what?

How far could he have gotten in three minutes?

Six, seven miles?

What's our visibility?

Maybe 12.

But they're already too far away for visual contact.

It'd be like picking a speck of dust off your TV screen.

Uh, hey, can you just keep circling?

Do it.

Use the piggyback effect like we did at the drug park.

How'd I do that?

Locate that speck of dust with your hearing, then try to find the sound.

In this racket?

It's like white noise, man.

You can cut right through it. And anyway, that chopper keeps getting

away, and I don't see any other options there than it's in the face.

All right, you got a point.

Still got nothing to say?

Get this on the ground.

Now.

Oh, nice shoot, detective.

All right.

Let's take it home. Good job, my bitch.

How the hell am I going to explain this? Four carrots?

Yes, I should try it sometime.

See, that was the beauty of it. What was?

Well, there's no offshore account.

There's no buyers.

They knew if they tried to spend the money or sell the dope, somebody would

eventually bust them, right?

So they put it all in a cold storage.

They figured in a year or two, they'd be retired.

They'd sell off the drugs, split the money, and go their own separate ways.

Split. By bank. Right.

Oh, no, that's great. He'll be happy to hear that. Thanks.

It just caught the other three guys trying to board a plane to Mexico.

Vamanos. Good work, guys.

Thank you.

So, Jimbo. Yeah.

What did I hear about you and Sheila Irwin doing a little internal

investigating? Who told you this? All right, all right, all right, all right.

Let me set the record straight here. Jim.

Hi. Hey.

Thanks for today.

You're welcome.

This is Jim Ellison, the man who saved my life.

Literally. This is Stan Roberts, my fiancé.

Nice to meet you.

Fiancé?

Stan the man.

Nice to meet you.

This cost me a buck.

Need those for books, you know.