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Previously on "NYPD blue"...

Andy: What�s the matter?

Pop?

Come on.

15th squad to central "k"--

have an ambulance and a 4-5 supervisor respond

to 8412 Fordham road forthwith. We have a d. O. A.

The last time I saw him, we fought.

You did everything you could for him.

I turned him away.

This has nothing to do with you, John.

Yeah.

Mourn for him, grieve for him, but don�t take on the guilt.

This is strange for me, as i�m sure it is for you.

I�m sorry. I know this is wrong,

but I just don�t have any fight left in me anymore.

I love you.

Keep making me proud.

This is real fresh.

Uniform was right around the corner when this jumped off.

D.o.a.�s Kenneth Williams. One in the chest.

Witnesses?

Well, they�re saying they didn�t see anything,

but when uniform rolled up,

this guy, a local dealer, was trying to wheel away.

And she was standing there stunned

with a bag of garbage in her hand.

Uniforms also spotted a black female running this way.

We got a description, so we�ll check it out.

Take the girl. I got him.

I thought he was taking the week.

Hey.

Hey.

I was going stir-crazy.

Boss said it was okay to get back to work.

What we got?

D. O. A.�s Kenneth Williams.

Possible witness.

I�ll take him.

Lead the way.

Um, hi. Hey.

I just needed to get back into it.

We haven�t spoken in three days.

It�s a rough time.

What�s your name?

Clifton Shaw.

What�d you see? Nothing.

This your regular spot? No.

Yeah, it is, and you saw what happened, or you wouldn�t have been trucking away.

I was dozing.

Yeah, we toss that chair, we gonna find a stash?

Chump rolled up with a gun,

looking to take out my boy Todd and some dudes he was with.

But Todd got the jump on �em--

and shot him?

Let me finish, please.

He got the jump on �em, wrestled �em,

and the gun went off in the scuffle.

Where�d Todd go? No idea.

And the buddies? No idea.

How �bout the d. O. A.�s gun?

I didn�t see.

This wouldn�t be you lying to protect your boy Todd?

Man, you asked what I saw, and I told you.

If we start hearing a different account, we�re coming back.

Ooh, don�t scare me, now.

Hey, asshole--

todd�s last name and where he lives.

Grady, and I don�t know.

What�s he look like?

Black.

Tall, light-skinned dude with chin whiskers.

Your boy needs to chill his ass out.

Shut up, asshole.

You didn�t notice anyone sitting there?

I was carrying out a bag of garbage when I heard the shot.

You see who fired?

I ducked down, and I didn�t look up for, like, a minute,

and then all I saw was the guy lying there,

and the cop showed up.

Greg and Baldwin radioed.

A guy saw a black male sprint around the corner.

Said he was Todd Grady.

Said that Grady lives at 1203 Ridge street.

Who�s Todd Grady?

It could be the shooter.

Hey, Mr. Grady,

if you�re there, we just want to talk to you.

Let�s check with the neighbors.

Todd? Todd Grady?

Greg.

Gun!

My god.

You�re gonna be okay, kid. Just hold on.

15th squad to central "k"--

go ahead, 15.

Have an ambulance respond forthwith at 1203 Ridge.

Andy: Medavoy, Jones, you all right?!

We�re okay.

What happened? Who fired?

Both of US.

Bullet through the wall.

This one of yours?

I don�t know. Probably.

Baldwin: Put a rush on the ambulance. We got a serious bleeder.

Copy that, 15.

Back inside, ma�am.

Kid�s in surgery.

Prognosis going in was guarded,

which could land on either side of the fence.

Anything on the cameras? No one saw it.

What about the old lady?

All she saw was US standing over the kid.

With guns in our hands.

She recognize him?

Theodore Lawson. He lives in the building.

How old? 13.

Woman on radio: 15th squad supervisor, on the air.

Tony: 15th squad supervisor. Go ahead.

Connie and Rita are scouring the building.

We�ll find this Grady.

What the hell was this guy doing pulling a gun on US?

Wasn�t he the one getting robbed this morning?

That�s debatable.

D.O.A. on Oliver.

Call Connie and Rita. Have �em respond.

15th squad hospital to 15th squad base.

Woman: Go ahead, 15th squad.

Woman over p. A.: Wheelchair to cardiology checkout.

Wheelchair to cardiology checkout.

Kid died.

They get a slug out of him?

It�s on its way to ballistics.

So it�s intact enough for comparison?

Appeared to be. I need your guns.

Head back down to squad.

Don�t do a thing till you hear from me.

And don�t talk to anybody.

The parents been contacted?

The father. Get going.

Dig up everything you can on this Grady.

I don�t care what it takes. Get him in.

This is what we have so far...

Hey.

Who found him?

Occupant on his way to work. That�s his puke.

Hey. So you recognize him?

Any idea how long he�s been here?

I was in all night past 8:00,

and he wasn�t there then.

I-Is he really...

Yeah, he is.

I�m gonna be sick again.

Why don�t you wait across the street?

I heard about the shooting this morning-- 8-year-old kid?

More like 13.

Any wounds?

A little cut on the back of his head.

Past that, nothing.

I.d.?

Yeah, frank malvoyn, queens.

He�s a little out of his neighborhood.

The guys in this sector see anything?

They went around this block 10 times--didn�t see a thing.

Is it true the kid got it through the wall?

Would you mind keeping an eye on him?

Sure.

It�s gonna be a long day.

I need the chief of detectives on the phone.

Any word from ballistics?

Nothing yet.

Where is everybody?

Detective medavoy�s with the duty captain.

Detective Jones is writing up his notes.

The rest are on their way in.

This is rev. Harrison Walker to see you.

First pentecostal on rivington, lieutenant.

Have you got a minute regarding this shooting?

Literally one minute.

Chief of d�s as soon as you can.

I�m here on behalf of Jermaine Lawson,

father of Theodore Lawson, the boy who was killed today.

Please have a seat.

He�s got some questions, understandably.

And any information I can pass on would be helpful.

We�re early in the investigation,

but it looks like the boy was an innocent bystander.

Shot through a wall? That�s right.

Rumor is the bullet came from the gun of a white cop.

That�s not a rumor to float lightly, reverend.

Doesn�t come from me.

But I do need it to be confirmed or denied.

This could become something it has no reason being.

People want to know.

So this isn�t you looking to stir something up for publicity?

A grieving father came to me

with other scared and frustrated parishioners.

I need to give them the facts.

We don�t know whose bullet it was yet.

Do you know how many bullets were fired?

From my detectives? Two apiece.

And from the perpetrator?

We�re not sure.

I have to take this, reverend.

Better if folks get information from me

than rumors on the street.

I�ll keep you up to speed.

Yes?

What�s going on?

He�s on the phone with the chief of d�s.

I--i didn�t know you were back so soon.

I was going stir-crazy.

I got some info on Todd Grady.

Sorry I didn�t call you back the last couple days.

I was just calling to offer my help.

Yeah, it turned out to be easier

taking care of this stuff myself.

We should talk soon.

What do we got on Grady?

Two possession collars, another for sales,

and a collar for assault, but no outstanding warrants.

Where do we find him?

On two of his collars, he was bailed out

by a lashanda Harris-- long sheet for pross and heroin.

We showed her photo to the cop who was first on the scene.

He saw her running off.

P.o. Said she gets her methadone on "d" in an hour.

Anything on Kenneth Williams?

Another citizen, just did a year for dealing.

Any connection between him and Grady?

None so far.

Where are you guys?

D.o.a.�s frank malvoyn.

Pay stub in his pocket from lancer trucking.

A coworker said they went out boozing last night.

Frank split off to see his girlfriend, Helen calodner--

lives in park slope.

No answer at her place,

but a neighbor says the cops were there last night.

She lives in Brooklyn. He�s dead on the low east side.

That�s 5 miles.

The cops who responded to the girlfriend�s place

are on their way in.

Lieutenant, ballistics on three.

He�s on with ballistics.

Greg, Baldwin.

It was jones� bullet.

Clark: Son of a bitch.

Better him than medavoy.

Not for Jones.

I�m saying it�s better all around it�s a black cop.

But, yeah, not for Jones.

Anyone�d done the same.

Don�t let it get you down.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where you going, lashanda?

I can�t lose my place in line.

She�ll be back.

Where were you this morning? Getting ready for work.

You weren�t on the street with Todd Grady?

Hell, no.

We got a witness puts you there--a cop.

The line�s moving.

Let�s talk at the station house.

Todd owes me money. I went to get it.

He wouldn�t give it up. I split.

Talk about the shootout.

I didn�t see it. I swear.

I heard it over my shoulder, looked back,

saw something going down,

and did not want to get involved, so I split.

What�d you see going down?

Just Todd and his little pile of idiots

running out of the street.

And Kenneth Williams on the ground. That�s who it was?

How do you know him?

From the past. He�s been in jail the last year.

Any reason he might have come by to try and rip Todd off?

Only if somebody scooped out his brain and put a turd inside.

Explain that. Todd�s on his stoop, he�s dealing.

And if he�s dealing, there�s guns around. Kenny would know that.

Also, since Kenny got sprung, I heard he was clean.

So what was Kenny doing there?

Maybe same as me-- looking to get his money.

So they got an old beef, Todd and Kenny?

Kenny was a dealer.

Todd took a piece of his turf without paying no tribute.

They was gonna battle over it, but Kenny got pinched.

Now, can I please get back on line?

Who was with Todd?

Cost you 20 bucks.

Get in the car.

Dante kelly�s the only one I know, okay?

Can I take care of myself now, please?

I don�t need your damn money.

I�ll take it anyway.

Rita: Hey, thanks for coming in.

Was it Baldwin Jones shot that kid this morning?

Yeah.

My old partner knows him from the academy.

He gonna get jammed up?

It�s still pretty fresh.

Did you guys handle a job at 234 16th street last night,

Helen calodner�s residence?

Domestic dispute, but nobody there, and nobody had seen �em.

Them being?

Helen and her boyfriend frank.

Malvoyn.

Any details on the dispute?

Frank was drunk again, yelling, breaking furniture.

But, again, no one was home.

You get her callback number from the dispatcher?

They�re pretty busy. We should have checked up again.

But this isn�t the first time we�ve responded there.

There a problem?

Frank malvoyn turned up d. O. A. In our precinct.

Yeah?

He was a nasty drunk.

Well, during any of your visits to the girlfriend�s place,

you ever hear anything

about frank having business in the lower east side? Is that where he go it?

Oliver street-- it ever come up?

Sorry, no. Never came up.

Hey, the job can�t give him much for a mistake, right?

Jones, I mean.

Like I said, it�s still pretty fresh.

Well, we�re done, so thanks for your time.

We turned from the door to talk to grady�s neighbors

when I saw Grady turn the corner.

Where was detective medavoy?

Behind me.

I called to Grady, who turned in the direction he came in.

He went around the corner,

then came back a second later with a gun.

That�s when you fired?

Two shots.

And your partner?

I think he also fired twice.

What kind of gun the perp have on him?

It looked like an automatic.

Your partner said revolver.

All I saw was a gun.

Did you hit the perp?

I don�t know. There wasn�t a blood trail.

The boy around the corner-- did you know he was there?

Of course not.

So that shot was simply errant?

I fired twice.

I didn�t just spray the hall with bullets.

Still, you couldn�t have been aiming for the wall.

I�ve been thinking about this.

When Grady turned the corner, I followed his natural path.

So you aimed to shoot through the wall?

I�m saying, instinctively, I might have followed his trail.

That�d be awfully James Bond, shooting a guy through a wall.

Which I said I didn�t try to do.

I�m not trying to frustrate you, detective.

I wasn�t being fancy or careless.

It was an accident.

How far from the perp where you when you fired?

25 feet.

How�s your vision? It�s perfect. Why?

I need to know how certain you were that the perp had a gun in his hand.

100%.

All right.

Is there some question?

Not from me.

But you and your partner described different guns.

The perp never fired, and the gun hasn�t been recovered.

He brought the gun up and aimed at me.

Got it.

Dante Kelly?

Possession collar, sales collars,

warrant for parole violation.

Address over on Stanton. We�re gonna go sit on it.

You both do a left-right sitting.

You all right?

How�d it go?

What kind of gun you see in grady�s hand?

I thought it was a revolver.

I saw an automatic.

Didn�t the m.E. Get a .38 slug out of Williams?

That�s what they thought at first, but an hour ago,

crime scene found a 9-millimeter casing in the gutter. Maybe it was a 9.

Maybe we should have got our stories straight.

I--i just didn�t get that good a look at it.

But you did see a gun.

Of course I did.

I�ll grab some water, and we�ll head out.

What, medavoy?

You didn�t see a gun.

Backing him up--that was the right thing to do.

Did I jam US up with the discrepancy on the gun?

Just be vague from now on.

You�re Jones?

Yeah. Can I help you?

Just putting a face with the name.

Tony: Get going.

What do you need, reverend?

A moment of your time.

First thing, lieutenant,

I want you to know that I am very pro-police.

What�s on your mind?

When people shout "excessive force," I say,

"spend a day in a cop�s shoes, see what they see."

We appreciate that.

And people generally listen.

But questions are coming up,

and without answers, i�ll lose my credibility.

Is it true Todd Grady was robbed

prior to being shot at by your detectives?

The source for that was grady�s drug-dealing associate.

Do you have evidence to refute it?

Not yet, but we will. It�s also circulating

that Todd Grady never fired a shot at your police.

No, but he did aim a gun at �em.

I�ve heard that Grady may never have had a gun on him at all.

Don�t know who you got that from, but that�s a lie.

Tell me that you can prove it.

So far, all I have is the word of my detectives.

People are talking to Jermaine Lawson

about calling the press, calling in a team of lawyers.

If I have to stand in front of that wave,

I need your word that detective Jones didn�t do wrong.

You have it.

Again, thank you for your time.

All the relatives go home?

There were only a few-- pretty distant.

You been talking to anybody about what happened?

Like a shrink?

Anybody.

Not really.

Not Ortiz?

I�ve been handling things myself.

Our guy doesn�t have dreads, but that�s a shady-looking rasta.

I got my eye on him.

She�s a decent girl, Ortiz.

I never said she wasn�t.

I�m just saying consider letting her help.

With what, Andy?

The unpaid bills he left

or the questions from the insurance company?

Or how about the house I got to put on the market now

because I can�t step foot in it again?

Or should I have called her the day we found him,

because after the m.E. Took the body away,

I had a hell of time trying to find someone to come over

and clean the blood off the walls and floor.

Self-centered, spineless asshole.

Didn�t think for a second what he was leaving behind.

And, no, I can�t share it with anybody,

because the second I start talking about it,

I want to smash something.

That�s not a real rastaman. That asshole�s wearing a wig.

Hey!

Where you going?

Hey!

Get your hands up!

Don�t shoot me! Don�t shoot me!

Man, I can�t move! I�m stuck!

What are you running for, Dante?

I thought you were somebody else.

CIA, al quaeda, or just the rasta cops?

Can you please get me out of here?!

Where were you this morning?

Look, man, I didn�t shoot Kenny Williams.

Aah! Come on, man! It hurts!

Now that you brought it up, how�d Kenny wind up shot?

Talk to Todd Grady about that.

Since todd�s not likely to be honest,

why don�t we get your side first?

Look, I got nothing to say until I see a lawyer.

You want to know who killed Kenny, talk to Todd!

Now, please, get me out of here!

Now, can you help me, please?!

Man, this ain�t funny!

Come on, man! It hurts! John, push.

Aah!

All right.

Appreciate it.

Shut up. You all right?

Yeah.

A grave injustice has been done to this man,

Jermaine Lawson--

father of 13-year-old Theodore Lawson.

Mr. Lawson believes that his son Theodore

left the apartment in order to buy medication...

A turn for the worse.

What�s she doing here?

And this guy?

Yeah, you don�t want to be looking at me, asshole.

Hey, am I gonna be on TV? Shut your mouth. Come on.

Mr. Shaw saw Todd Grady robbed this morning

prior to being fired upon by police.

Eleanor Hewitt was on the scene seconds after the shooting

and never saw Todd Grady with a gun.

She poked her head out after he was gone.

From these eyewitnesses,

our only conclusion can be that Theodore Lawson,

an honor student with dreams of being a schoolteacher,

was gunned down in an act of negligence

and excessive force.

The reverend sold out.

We�ll get that old lady in, she�ll recant everything.

Andy: And that dickhead in the wheelchair--

threaten him with perjury-- he�ll fold.

The news is gonna play this over every 10 minutes.

We just got an anonymous call-- someone saying,

"talk to the Chinese girl. She saw it." Who�s this?

We talked to a girl who works in a restaurant

near the crime scene-- gave US a decent story.

We need a credible account of what happened.

Talk to the girl. Lean on her if you have to.

Connie, our d. O. A.�s girlfriend showed up.

And, lieutenant, there�s people here for you.

I.a.b.

All right, get going, everyone.

Don�t worry.

Yeah.

Take a seat, Mrs. Calodner.

What�s going on out front? It�s a madhouse.

Sorry about that. Let�s get to why you�re here.

Your card said "urgent." What�s urgent?

We got some questions about frank malvoyn.

My god. What did he do now?

Was he with you last night?

Part of it.

Tell US what happened.

He came over drunk.

Then he hit my liquor, and he got more drunk.

Then he wanted to screw, and I told him to go to hell.

It got him violent.

Did you call the police?

He smashed the dinette, gave me a pop on the chin,

so, yeah, I called the cops.

Where did he go then?

With the cops.

You were there when the police showed up?

Yeah, they calmed frank down, and they took him away.

Did the police arrest frank?

I asked them not to. I begged.

Frank�s not so bad when he�s sober,

and he helps with my rent, so I begged.

What did they look like-- the cops?

A black fella and a white guy.

What�s the problem? We got two different stories here.

Are you sure this was last night?

I might take a drink or two, but I got my facilities.

Am I in some kind of trouble?

Only if you�re lying.

I swear on the Bible they came and took frank!

Did they say where they were taking him?

To chill out. He wasn�t under arrest.

They were just gonna take him somewhere to chill out.

I swear to god. Swear to god.

Is frank okay?

Helen...

We�ve got some bad news.

Miss lu... We need a minute.

I�m working.

She needs to talk to US. You watch the register.

Come on.

I already told you I didn�t see anything.

We got information says you did.

I had my back turned, and then I ducked.

Clark: Do you know Todd Grady?

No.

He deals drugs on that stoop every day,

and you don�t recognize him?

We don�t pay much attention to them.

�cause if you did, they�d firebomb you?

We found out you got torched last year.

Just random.

Are you afraid if you talk, they�ll do it again?

I didn�t see anything.

Do you realize stonewalling US

just keeps a killer on the streets?

A decent cop�s career rests on it.

I wish I could help you.

If you don�t help US,

word on the street will be that you did.

You�d tell them?

That you cooperated with the police.

They�ll bomb US again.

They can�t if they�re in jail.

What�s it gonna be?

The one who was killed, he wasn�t doing anything.

What happened?

The light-skinned guy with the goatee walked up,

shot him, and ran.

So Todd Grady killed him for no reason?

And then he ran and pointed the gun at me.

We�ll do everything we can

to keep you and your family out of it.

Helen calodner says you came to her place last night

and left with her boyfriend, frank malvoyn.

Don�t look at him. Look at US.

You didn�t think we�d talk to her?

We hoped the case would clear without you having to.

Well, we did.

God.

What happened last night?

We got there, and she begged US not to lock him up.

She was crying her eyes out.

He smacked her.

She was begging.

It doesn�t matter. It�s a must arrest.

Start with when you got to the apartment.

Malvoyn had busted her table.

The woman had a bag of ice on her face, crying.

He gave it up pretty easy,

so it seemed like he was calming down.

And �cause she was begging US, we said--

we said we�d take care of it outside the system.

Where did you take him? Henry and pike.

Four blocks from where we�ve been canvassing.

Did you ever put your hands on him?

Not at all. How did he hit his head?

He was fine when we dropped him off.

We had nothing to do with that.

If you did, now�s the time to get in front of it.

When we put him on the street, he was fine.

Why did you lie before?

We�d already put the job back as gone on arrival,

and since we dropped him off healthy,

we didn�t think it was worth the hassle.

If you�d been honest with US up front,

we never would have thought of giving you one.

Henry and pike-- you sure?

Southwest corner. There�s a bar there.

You left an angry drunk in front of a bar.

They were closed.

Are we looking at a major problem here?

For now, worry about staying available.

Got your message.

Saw your news conference.

Yes.

Couldn�t find it in you to fight the tide?

Or did the camera lights draw you like a moth?

I believe you have questions to answer.

But you don�t have the Patience to wait for them?

We have a witness who saw Todd Grady

do a cold-blooded murder this morning.

I have one who says he was robbed.

Ours ain�t a dope dealer with a cop bullet in his spine.

This is a legit witness.

Grady and Kenneth Williams had an old beef.

Grady settled it and ran off with a gun in his hand.

Same gun he aimed at our colleague.

Same gun that we recovered out of a dumpster

two blocks from grady�s building with grady�s prints on it.

Eleanor Hewitt, the old woman, saw Grady wasn�t armed.

Clark: The old woman didn�t see anything.

She came out after the fact.

You backed the wrong horse, reverend.

You want to make up for it? Take US to Todd Grady.

How would I know where he is?

Andy: Find out.

I know where his mother�s staying.

I�ll see if she knows.

Then get moving.

You lied to a holy man.

I�ll live.

You following him, or are you sitting here talking?

Giving him a lead.

That�s enough lead. Go.

What is this?

Let�s go, Todd.

I didn�t do nothing!

Did you follow me here?

We�ll talk about it at the station house.

Don�t let them take me. They�ll kill me!

You talk to him, i�m in the room.

You had your chance to do the right thing. You blew it.

It�s our turn now. Out of the way. Come on.

I�ll be right down there.

Reverend!

I think I know why i�m here, and i�m glad you called me in.

Last night outside mcduffy�s, right?

We heard you left around closing time.

We got a report of an incident around then.

Right. I was assaulted. That guy assaulted me.

Tell US what happened.

I�m coming home from work, where i�ve been steady the last six months.

Since you got out of jail.

Steady and paying my bills.

My friend called, who�s having troubles at home,

wanted to talk.

I said, "mcduffy�s," but I didn�t drink.

Yeah, you were being a good guy.

Let�s move ahead to the assault.

I�m heading home. This guy runs into me.

Shoves me, calls me "asshole."

Did you put your hands on him?

I shoved him out of the way, he fell on his ass.

Did his head hit the ground?

Maybe, but like I said, i�m stone sober,

he�s wasted, and he ran into me.

What happened then?

Got up, called me an asshole again,

and he walked away.

Was he bleeding from his head?

No.

Maybe a little.

I don�t know what this guy is saying, but he assaulted me.

What�s he saying?

He�s dead, Pete-- brain hemorrhage.

From falling down?

From being pushed.

No. No, no, no. He ran into me.

He wound up dead.

I�ve been keeping clean.

I�ve been working, paying my bills.

I�m not out looking for trouble anymore.

Well, you need to put that in your statement.

I never even hit the guy.

I wasn�t even drinking! I quit drinking!

Put that in, too.

I got a witness who saw it. We left together.

Bartender said you left alone,

and you were alone all night.

He wouldn�t say nothing on account of we�re friends.

She�s married, i�m married. You get it?

This person saw you get attacked?

Her name.

Could you just take my word for it?

I mean, if her husband finds out... my god.

Pete, you�re looking at a manslaughter charge.

That�s prison time. Her name.

Lois Carmichael.

Where can we find her?

Hauling me in for nothing,

firing shots at me.

I got the people on my side, fellas.

Y�all gonna get bit.

Andy: People?

Sit down.

Did you forget about what happened

with Kenneth Williams this morning?

I defended myself.

From Kenny, who was living clean and holding down a job,

on his way to see his sister and baby nephew

a block away from where you walked up and shot him?

He tried to Rob me.

Well, our reliable, perfect-eyesight,

no-criminal-history witness says different.

You thought your tough-guy rep was gonna keep people quiet?

Let�s start tallying up the scorecard here.

Killing Kenny Williams-- that�s a big check on the negative side.

Another one�s Theodore Lawson getting killed.

You cops shot him.

You were sprinting from a crime and pulled a gun on police? That means you killed him.

Two innocent guys dead in your path,

and you pull a gun on cops?

Big checks against you.

The thing to do now

is start putting checks in the positive column--

things that will help you out at trial

and fool a judge into thinking you gave a damn.

You tally them up,

you got a good shot at doing minimal time.

Do you want to hear how?

Williams had a long sheet. You had a prior beef.

There�s an argument

that you thought he was still gunning for you.

And raising that gun at cops-- it was the heat of the moment.

You made a mistake.

You feel awful about that innocent kid getting killed.

I got the people on my side.

No "the people" in here. Just US...

Who got a witness. Get inside.

Good luck at trial.

Hey.

Hey!

Hey, damn it!

Just curious.

How�s it work if that kid wasn�t so innocent?

Is that positive or negative?

Like he was involved?

Like he was holding my gun.

Like that was his job for me.

That�s the right direction.

But we need to get the whole picture first

from the street to the hallway.

I�m on the stoop doing my thing.

See Kenny Williams roll up.

Now, you say he�s going to his sister�s.

I say he gunning for me.

I turn to Lawson, say, "give me the piece."

He�s a minor. He gets busted with it, it�s a slap on the wrist.

Y�all got him shot in his communion suit

with a Bible in his hand.

The kid was a thug.

Keep goin�. So I move up on Kenny--

because, like, what they say in football,

"the best defense is a good offense."

Sort of, yeah.

So you dropped Kenny?

And hit the road, Lawson behind me.

We run around the corner of my building,

down the alley, sit cool a while.

Then when the sirens die down,

we head up to my place to stash the piece.

I keep it with me at home for protection.

Now you�re gonna stash the piece.

Who�s holding it? Lawson.

But I turn the corner, there�s your boys.

I turn back, Lawson got the gun out.

I grab it, figure, "flash it and slow them down,"

but they fast.

They were probably under the impression

that you might actually use it to kill them.

Yeah, I could see that.

So...what I said-- positive or negative?

Clark: We�ll put all that in the positive column,

but you want to go big, you tell US where you�re keeping the gun.

Freezer where y�all grabbed me up.

Now, that�s, like, 6 in the positive column,

two negative. Maybe I won�t do no time at all?

You ready to come out, tally all this up?

I owe you both an apology.

You can let yourself out, reverend.

Heard you collared the guy who killed frank malvoyn.

Frank picked a fight with a patron at the bar

where you dropped him off.

We thought the bar was closed.

It was closing.

The patron was leaving, frank shoved him.

The patron was drunk?

Sober.

So we got frank malvoyn killed? Is that where we�re going?

Hard to deny you put the ball in motion.

Man.

How many years you got on the job?

Six.

Three.

You�re not that green.

If it�s a must arrest, how could you not?

We thought we were using our judgment.

You had a drunk, violent guy who smacked his girlfriend,

and you drop him in front of a bar.

That�s your judgment?

The guy who fought with malvoyn--is he locked up?

The patron had a witness who corroborated that frank picked the fight.

Gonna go to the grand jury, and he�ll probably get a walk.

That�s good.

And US? Is this gonna cost US our jobs?

It depends how clear it is you screwed up.

I think it�s pretty clear we blew it.

If we kept your side out of it

and you ran your mouths,

we could get flopped back to uniform.

That wouldn�t happen.

Beat it.

We owe you one.

Todd finish writing?

Yeah, they get him to central booking.

I�m gonna head down with them.

Rough day.

Ended right.

Way to hang in there.

I appreciate you backing me up this morning.

That�s what i�m here for.

I mean, about the gun.

You never saw it, did you?

I know you, Baldwin.

I didn�t have to see it to know he had one.

Thanks, Greg.

See you tomorrow, partner.

Good night, counselor.

Good night, Greg.

Hey.

Hey.

How you doing?

I�m all right.

Do you know what time i�m due at the grand jury tomorrow?

9:00. And you have nothing to worry about.

I know.

You�re not acting like it.

I got an image in my head I can�t get rid of.

Why don�t you let me take you out?

No, i�m not in the mood.

You know, a cop�s worst nightmare

is killing an innocent person--

or worse-- killing a kid.

If he was an innocent kid, he would have been in school.

He had a gun on him. He was a criminal.

Criminal or not,

13-year-olds need luck to get right in life.

That�s true,

but you can�t beat yourself up over doing your job.

I know.

You�re right.

Come home with me.

I�ll make you dinner, we�ll drink some wine.

Let me take your mind off the day.

Hey. Hey.

Come on in.

You cleaning up?

Yeah, I let the place slide last week.

You can guess why.

It�s a lot to deal with, a funeral and family.

I could have helped out.

I didn�t see the point of US both being miserable.

People who are together

help each other through things like this.

John, what�s going on?

A lot, Rita. You know that.

But where do I fit in? Or do I?

I haven�t thought about it.

Sure you have.

I just can�t share this.

Because you don�t trust me?

Or because you don�t love me anymore?

�cause...

This isn�t just about your dad.

It�s been creeping up.

I�ve had a lot going on recently.

And you kept it all to yourself, bottled up,

just like this.

Because this is how I handle things.

Not if you want to be with me.

And I get the feeling you don�t.

I wish I felt the way that you want me to,

but I just can�t.

Then be straight with me and be honest.

I�m not a kid. I can handle it.

Then maybe it�s a good idea...

If we stop seeing each other for a while.

I�m sorry.

I guess it�s a relief to get it out.

Yeah.

We gonna be okay at work?

I�ll do what you want. If--if that means transfer--

no. I�m fine.

We�ll be fine.

I�m gonna go.