Boston's Finest (2013) s01e01 Episode Script
Everything Is Personal
1 Rogers: If someone says do you got a gun Keep your hands Have him keep your hands down.
Put your hands on the steering wheel.
Get inside! Get them inside! Get down on the ground right now.
Give me your hands.
Man: Hey! [ Indistinct shouting .]
[ Dropkick Murphys' "Out of Our Heads" plays .]
Are we gonna take it? are we gonna let 'em know? are we gonna let 'em bring us down? hell, no we're gonna crash a party every night and every day, hey we got 'em on the run we are full either way here we go, here we go the roof is on fire, and it's ready to blow One.
Two.
Go ahead.
Circle out.
Ha! One.
[ Grunts .]
One, two, go.
[ Grunts .]
One, two.
Good.
Power.
Good.
Now shake out.
Shake them out.
Narrator: Jenn Penton served her country in Afghanistan.
Now she's a police officer, serving on the streets of Boston.
One, two.
One, two.
Penton: I am 5'3", 100-something pounds.
With that comes a fear that I'm gonna be faced with a 6'2", 250-pound, muscular guy, who doesn't want to go to jail that day.
When I don't want to get up at 5:00 in the morning and go to boxing, I think of being in a foot chase and losing.
There is that chance that you'll be fighting for your life on the side of a road where your backup is, you know, a minute away.
I have to stay on top of my game.
It could save my life.
It could save, you know, my partner's life.
[ Panting .]
Dig it in! Dig it in! That's a tremendous amount of responsibility that I take very seriously.
[ Grunting .]
Nice! [ Laughing .]
Yeah! Whoo! Good job.
Good.
Narrator: Even though they've only been partners for a few months, patrol officers Jenn Penton and Pat Rogers know each other well.
I eat some bad stuff.
You drink some bad stuff.
I do drink some bad stuff.
I've always wanted to do a cleanse.
Of that stuff? Dude, it's got romaine and spinach and parsley and lemon, like, six pounds of kale in this.
That's not food.
What do you think is so crazy about it, that I want to cleanse my body? Yeah, but you don't eat [Bleep.]
anyway, so what are you cleansing? I do the cleanse naturally.
- The natural way? - The natural way.
Coffee and chicken parm? Coffee works every time for me.
Coffee does work every time for you, and that's for sure.
Penton: We answer radio calls, and that's our primary function.
[ Siren wails .]
Gonna stop? Good morning.
How are you? And then secondary to that would be motor-vehicle enforcement.
And then did you square away your registration yet? You're on your way to the registry right now? Okay, sir, we're just gonna give you a warning.
Have a good day.
We're just a presence.
We're gonna be a deterrent to criminal activity.
Oh, can we get him? He has no front plate.
Oh, you want that guy? Yeah.
Narrator: Every traffic stop is different.
Some test your mettle, and some, your patience.
Do you think he knows that the speed limit over here is only 30 miles an hour? I can't even tell what plate that is.
Yeah, I can't even see it.
You've got to be able to read that plate.
Can't really tell Ohio.
Hi, how are you? Two things One, your plate is obscured.
I don't know if it's got a cover on it, but you can't have those, 'cause you can't read Do you want to understand why you got stopped? Part of my job is to inform you.
Yeah, but I want you to understand why I pulled you over, so that we can correct it.
Part of my job is to make sure you understand what's wrong.
Okay, so why did I pull you over? 'Cause what? You have your license on you? Thank you so much.
Huh.
Like, he was so rude.
I tried to explain why I stopped him, and he doesn't want to listen so now I'll put it in writing for him.
Get back in the car.
Get back in the [Bleep.]
car! Do you have an issue? I have to be somewhere.
All right, we can discuss that.
You don't get out of the car on a traffic stop.
Okay, you're welcome to do that, sir.
Okay.
Penton: Being a female police officer comes with certain challenges and obstacles.
There are people that just don't respect a woman in a role of authority.
I've dealt with quite a few people that just cannot handle the fact that it's a female telling them what to do.
Want to kind of [Exhales.]
for a second? No, I'm good.
I'm good.
Guys ready? Billy? Everybody? The first thing we want to do this morning is go down to an address over on River Street.
Narrator: The fugitive unit tracks down criminals on the run.
Oftentimes, the worst of the worst Cold-blooded, dangerous, and desperate.
And then we'll go from there.
Any questions? Man: No.
All right.
Narrator: Today, officers Greg Dankers and Winston Deleon will work together as partners.
They're going after Anthony Woodrum, a hardcore drug dealer convicted of selling crack cocaine in a school zone.
Woodrum escaped from a transitional facility called the Brooke House, where he was finishing a two-year jail sentence.
Greg: Well, he walked away from the Brooke House about a month ago.
Drug dealer, five-page record.
We've done search warrants on his house.
The problem is Woodrum has a lot of places to hide.
This his girl? Yeah, I mean, she visits him a lot in jail.
Okay.
The target's son.
This is the target's nephew.
He's also got a warrant.
It's a giant shell game, but Dankers gets an idea.
Maybe we'll go to everywhere, right? Except for her.
Except Peggy's house? And then, obviously, he'll get the word that the police are looking for him - And he gonna go to Peggy's.
- Yeah, right.
Hopefully we can get three or four people to call him and say, "dawg, the police were here.
The police were here.
" And then he'll reach out to Peggy, and Peggy will be like, "No, police never came here.
" And then, we can just focus on that, right? Safe house for him.
That's good.
How's that sound? Sounds like an awesome idea, Greg.
[ Laughs .]
Is that wicked cool? So you and I will do this case? All right.
Maybe we can get some lunch.
Yeah.
Where you want to go? I don't know.
Lunch is on you, so [Claps.]
Want to go to Sal's? Nah, nah.
I don't do Sal's.
You don't like South Boston, do you? - No.
- Ah, knew it.
Let's go to, like, Mattapan.
Well, that's probably not gonna happen.
You can have some jerk chicken or something.
Oh, man.
Can I eat that in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet? 'Cause that's what I'll need to do.
- You eat Sushi? - Where you gonna get Sushi? It's like five minutes from here.
No.
You're gonna go all the way to West Roxbury for Sushi? Not all the way To the city.
North end? - The north end? - Yeah.
Now you're talking crazy.
Dude, how are we gonna work together if we can't even [Bleep.]
agree on lunch? [ Laughs .]
Narrator: Across town, Jenn and Pat switch to an unmarked car for a new assignment Tracking down a warrant.
[ Police radio chatter .]
It's Mr.
Delacruz Elvis.
Elvis Delacruz is on probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, but he allowed the battery on his GPS monitoring bracelet to die, which is cause for immediate arrest.
Thing with the GPS is, you know, the thing makes a ton of noise if the battery's dying and stuff, so probably on purpose.
He could be out and about, running the streets, doing whatever.
There's a victim on the case.
Maybe they want to make sure he stays away from her.
Either way, you know, you go and cuff him up.
It's a big deal.
Jenn and Pat have a confirmed address for the pizza joint where Delacruz works.
But when serving a warrant, nothing is guaranteed.
We don't know how this kid's gonna be when we get down there.
Who knows if he's really gonna run, but he might.
[ Engine shuts off .]
He could be watching us from somewhere else, as well.
Could be.
So just keep an eye out.
Penton: Elvis? Penton: He could be watching us from somewhere else, as well.
Rogers: Could be.
So just keep an eye out.
Delacruz: Morning.
Penton: Elvis? You guys gonna arrest me? I want you to tell me what's going on with your bracelet, and then I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen with us.
Narrator: Jenn Penton and Pat Rogers are serving a warrant on Elvis Delacruz, who violated his probation for assault by letting the battery on his GPS monitoring device run out.
I was working all day yesterday.
I fell asleep.
I mean, I went home, fell asleep, forgot to charge my bracelet, woke up in the morning, put the charger on, went to work, that's it.
All right, just hold still.
Okay.
They faxed us a warrant this morning for you.
They want you arrested to go see a probation officer.
So I got to stay until tomorrow in jail? Narrator: Transpo takes Delacruz to the Hyde park Avenue police station.
Jenn and Pat follow behind to do the booking and to learn a little bit more about him.
Penton: How many hours a week do you work? Delacruz: Depending, between 40 and 50.
Then, you're staying away from the girl that you have issues with, right? Actually, the bracelet I've been feeling kind of comfortable in it, 'cause that's my only protection right now.
Keeping So they know where you're at? Yeah.
So she can't accuse you of stuff? Yeah, ever since I came home, I've been taking two classes Fatherhood program and a batterers program.
Really? What's the fatherhood program? It's just a class about parenting, and, like, it's guys All guys, so if you just talk about How tough it is being a father and stuff like that? Yeah, and things we got to do to take care of our kids, and all that, so And so, honestly, Elvis, you're doing the right thing.
You're working more than most adults I know, okay? You're trying to take care of your daughter.
You got to keep doing what you're doing.
I hope the best for you.
I hope you never see me or my partner again.
Unless we're picking up pizza down the street, okay? [ Laughs .]
So we'll get you situated.
We'll call a bail bondsman, and we'll go from there, okay? Thank you.
Step this way.
He made some bad choices, but he was trying to make up for it, and he was trying to do the right thing, which is important to see.
There is a lot more to policing than putting the handcuffs on someone and putting them in a jail cell.
Maybe they need someone to actually listen to them.
I have a twin sister, Melissa.
Growing up, we just always had different personalities.
She has made choices that I don't agree with.
She's been in some trouble with the law and drugs and battling addiction.
I Haven't seen her in like two years.
I struggle with the fact that I am not close with her.
About two years ago, she had a baby boy, Tristan.
She put him up for adoption.
It was really tough on the family.
But I'm determined to stay a part of his life.
[ Knock on door .]
Jen: Hi, Jenn! Come in! Penton: Hi, Jen.
Good to see you.
Thank you so much for inviting me, really.
Look who's here.
Hi, buddy.
It's your Aunt Jenn.
He is so big.
We're lucky enough where his adoptive parents, Jen and Paul, really do want us to be in his life.
So it's nice to see, now that he's a little bit older, you can see some of his facial features come in and stuff.
He looks like you.
And they want Tristan to have as many people in his life that he can that love him, and that includes my sister.
I was looking forward to meeting her, but then she just didn't make it.
Yeah.
I think she's just too sad.
You know, I wish to death that I could raise a child.
Well, you're working 70 hours a week.
I'm working a lot, and, you know, I live alone, but I think what you guys are doing is amazing.
We're thrilled, and we're very happy to have you guys be in his life and in our lives, as well.
And we appreciate it.
I think there's gonna be a ton of people that love him.
Yes.
Can I get a picture? Paul: There you go.
You press the little camera.
Penton: The end goal, for me, is to be happy and content and live a life that I'm proud of.
That includes my sister, and although I don't necessarily agree with how she handled being a mom and how she handled that responsibility, I have to move past that.
You know, she has to move past that, and with that, I think it would be good for her to have a relationship with Tristan, and if I can help that along and facilitate that Then I want to do that.
But first, I have to find her.
Narrator: Across town, Greg Dankers and the fugitive unit are just starting their shift.
Their target is drug dealer Anthony Woodrum.
Greg: He walked away from a halfway house.
Escapee Anthony Woodrum's got a long criminal history.
Call him "Drop Rock.
" A lot of drugs.
Always dealing drugs.
There was some information he might be at Regina Road, which is across from the KFC on Washington Street with some female that he might be with.
She's got a warrant for, like, assault and battery.
Narrator: Dankers' plan is to bang on the doors of all of Woodrum's associates, hoping someone will give up information on his whereabouts.
Greg: Boston police.
Man: Patrice, right? Is Anthony here? Okay.
Is there anybody else here? Open the door, Mary.
We are looking for this gentleman.
Call him "Drop Rock"? No? You sure? What's your name, dear? Do you have an I.
D.
? Just, like, kind of crashing here? Man: I wish you would just tell us where that guy is.
Narrator: Both women are wanted on drug charges, so Dankers gives them a choice They can either give up Woodrum or go to jail.
I think they know him.
They're just not saying nothing.
They're going to jail.
They're not gonna give him up, 'cause they probably buy off of him.
So then, you know, they wouldn't play.
[ Scoffs .]
[Bleep.]
Every day Anthony Woodrum is out on the street, there's a potential for violence and for people to get hooked on drugs because of him.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
I want you to see who's here first me.
I know.
I'm so surprised.
My mom is my best friend.
She is someone I go to with just about everything in my life.
Did you order? Yep.
Well, you know, they take a long time.
They do take forever.
So, what have you done this week? Work, work, work.
- How is Pat? - Good.
- Yeah? He's a good guy.
- Yeah.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, he is.
We had a really good arrest the other night.
- Oh.
- For drugs.
Oh, my goodness.
- Look at all that money.
- Look at this one.
Those are all hundred-dollar bills.
Yeah, look at that In a plastic bag.
Wow.
You and Pat must've been happy about that.
Yeah, we did, I think, a little high-five in the middle of the street.
[ Laughs .]
You're welcome.
Be right out with your nachos for you.
Thank you.
I saw Tristan for his birthday.
Yes, that's something good.
It couldn't have worked out more perfectly where he was in the foster home.
Oh, I know that.
I have the intelligence to know that.
And you remember, after she delivered him, I said, "So, what good are you to him?" "I can't believe that you thought it was a good idea to have him adopted.
" I said, "I think it's the best thing that could happen.
" I couldn't take him.
- I couldn't take him.
- I said, "I tried.
My doctor said I could not take care of him.
" Like, how can she be so selfish to not see that that was the best decision for him? Do you know what I mean, 'cause, mentally, she should know that she didn't have the means to take care of him.
She knows that she wasn't clean.
That's for sure.
You know, she didn't have a plan.
That poor baby had to go through withdrawal.
You know what? I know that he's in a good home.
To him, that's his family, even though it hurts.
Mom, it's the same.
I know, same We had this conversation, five years ago, seven years ago, like, it's the same thing over and over again.
It's She'll get on probation Exactly.
And then, she gets violated again.
Seeing her picked up for prostitution or in and out of the court system, given what I deal with every day, it just goes against everything I sort of kind of you know.
It's hard for me, because I'm her mother.
I know, mom.
And no matter what, at the end of the day, I still love her, I still worry about her.
My New Year's resolution this year was to try to have some sort of communication with her, but even talking to you, I'm just so pissed off.
Like, I hate to say it.
I'm just pissed.
Yeah.
I know you are.
And I'm hopeful, and I want to be hopeful for you.
And, you know, she's my twin sister, and, you know, a part of me feels that we should have somewhat of a relationship.
I'd like to have the lines of communication open, because I really want to be a part of Tristan's life, and I want him to be a part of our family.
I really would like to find her.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
Narrator: Meanwhile, the fugitive unit continues to search for drug dealer Anthony Woodrum.
They're pressuring all of his known associates, but so far, no one is talking.
Tonight's target Woodrum's nephew Davell, a reputed gang member.
Greg: No.
We knew that his bedroom was in the basement.
Davell? Man: Yo! Yo.
Yo.
[ Indistinct shouting .]
We go in there, we say, "show your hands.
" [ Shouting continues .]
You know, "you're under arrest.
" Stop resisting! If you're not dressed, you're getting handcuffed and then we're dressing you, we're doing everything for you.
It's out of your control.
[Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
I'm not resisting.
I knew what the [Bleep.]
y'all were doing.
Man, you crazy? We can't let people just walk around, you know, in a house where they might have weapons hidden or guns or knives or whatever.
Davell: Oh, you the same bitch ass cop.
You know what, though? I'm gonna help you out, 'cause you are an H-Block kid, right? Man: Yep.
All right.
That's cool.
This is crazy, mom.
You know he's in a gang, dear? I ain't in no gang.
You just said you was H-Block.
I'm not in no gang.
Why did you tell my grandmother I'm in a gang? I don't know.
You said you are.
I thought you were Sit back down.
That's disrespectful.
It's not disrespectful.
If you're in a gang, you got to be in a gang.
I'm not in no gang.
You just said you were H-Block.
Shut up, man.
I don't even want to talk to y'all.
You want to tell my grandmother I'm in a gang.
Narrator: They take Woodrum's nephew to the station for booking on his outstanding warrants.
He didn't rat out his Uncle, but Woodrum is bound to hear that the cops are after him.
Dankers hopes he'll take the bait and head to his girlfriend's house to hide.
[ Laughs .]
Penton: I'm not sure what my sister is doing with her life right now.
She kind of has had different boyfriends here and there and, you know, has been in different cities, and I don't always know what those cities are or where she's at.
When we're on patrol or I'm driving around, we're getting these calls for someone that O.
D.
'd or a prostitute that got beat up, it's difficult not to think of my sister.
It's difficult not to imagine that it could be her.
[ Police radio chatter .]
That's legit.
[ Siren wails .]
Narrator: A call comes in about a fight in Hyde Park.
Can you check with the caller? Any mention of weapons? It's on a dangerous block, where recently, a pregnant woman was shot to death at a party.
Penton: We have no idea who's at fault, who started it, what's going on, or who we're there to protect.
Back up! What are you [Bleep.]
doing? That's one of the most dangerous situations you can be in.
Man: She's still in the [Bleep.]
car.
Woman: Why are you doing this? Mother [Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
Penton: Hey, get out of there, ma'am.
- Where's that asshole? - Get out! Take the keys out.
Take the keys out.
Throw them right on the ground, all right? [ Clink .]
Someone says you got a gun, I got to do what I got to do.
Put them right on the steering wheel.
Take your left hand.
Slowly unlock the door.
Rogers: - Do not move.
Penton: - Get out of the car.
Get down on the [Bleep.]
ground right now facedown.
Go! Go! Put your hands behind your back.
Give me them.
Who saw the gun? Who saw the gun? Who saw it? [ Handcuffs click .]
Man: [Bleep.]
Woman: Where's that asshole? [ Indistinct shouting .]
I'm gonna lock you up! Hey! Come on! [ Indistinct shouting .]
Get out of the car.
Get down on the [Bleep.]
ground right now facedown.
Hey! Come on! [ Indistinct shouting .]
Man: [Bleep.]
I'm gonna lock you up! Rogers: Get inside! Get them inside! Did they all get patted down? Penton: I patted my guy down.
Who had the firearm? He did.
Okay.
All right, you just hang tight, okay? You seem the most reasonable guy here right now, okay? I was trying to trying to stop the fight when I got hit behind I know.
It's right.
Penton: You were here to see who? What's the fight about? Kid up there, they start smoking weed.
My nephew tells them they got kids in the house.
Rogers: Okay.
I get in the middle.
- The driver hits me.
- Yep.
The whole thing escalated.
The thing is now we're trying to find this gun.
We need to know if they ditched it.
What did you see or hear? Someone's telling us about a gun.
No.
No gun.
You didn't see anyone with No.
No gun.
Okay.
In the car.
In the car, yes.
He has a gun.
So you're saying he was in the car when he pointed the firearm at you? He was in the car? Narrator: While the K-9 team looks for the gun, Jenn and Pat head back to the station to book the two suspects.
Well, that was fun.
Yeah.
That was fun.
[ Engine turns over .]
Aw, I spilled the water everywhere.
I spilled the water everywhere.
[ Alarm blares .]
Did you spill the water on this? No.
I spilled it there.
Stop pressing buttons.
[ Alarm blares .]
[ Siren wails .]
The lights in the back are going on for no [Bleep.]
reason Shorted out the whole thing.
Was it the whole water? No, there's still some water left.
Not even touching it.
Look at this.
[Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
Blinking [Bleep.]
damn Christmas tree.
[ Sirens wail .]
[ Laughs .]
Whole thing just [ Alarm stops .]
[ Laughs .]
[ Laughs .]
Gonna have to get you a sippy cup.
[ Laughs .]
[ Siren wails .]
[ Laughs .]
Hello.
Oh, look who's home.
What's going on? Good morning.
Good morning.
- How was work? - It was good.
My wife right now works what we call the midnight shift.
She works 11:45 P.
M.
to 7:30 A.
M.
What time did they get up? We have 4-year-old twin boys who already have different personalities.
Greg tends to be a lot more outgoing, and Adam tends to be a little shyer.
I'm gonna get socks and shoes, boys.
Go.
Go.
Go.
You got to get ready for school, okay? My kids understand what we do for a living.
If you ask them, they say, "Oh, yeah, mommy and daddy are police officers" "and they catch the bad guys.
" But I don't think they, you know, have a complete grasp of what we obviously do when we go to work.
All right, bye, guys.
Give me a kiss.
Say, "Bye, Da-Da.
" First one to give me a kiss gets a doughnut.
[ Laughs .]
All right.
Bye.
See you.
Bye, Da-Da.
Greg: Joe, is that that dude from last year? He put out new stuff? Narrator: In the hunt for Anthony Woodrum, street name "Drop Rock," Dankers and the fugitive unit get an unexpected lead.
Some of his boys, when they shot a video, there was a whole bunch of license plates on the cars they were using.
This is good, because at least we know where he's hanging at.
Maybe we ought to get the gang unit to help us? Yeah.
Hit them all and see what we find? Narrator: A few hours later, the night gang unit steps in to assist in the hunt for Anthony Woodrum.
They have intel that some local gangs will have a big presence at a hip-hop concert on Lansdowne Street.
They're going there to shake up Woodrum's gang associates to help keep the pressure on.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
You're a pussy [Bleep.]
You're a pussy, my [Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
Let's go.
[Bleep.]
You.
Man: You're under arrest.
You're under arrest.
You're under arrest.
[ Indistinct shouting .]
Man 2: Stop resisting! I'm not resisting! Narrator: The gang members refuse to cooperate, but the word's out on the street that the cops are after "Drop Rock," and it's all part of Dankers' strategy to convince Woodrum that his only safe house is the one the cops Haven't visited yet The home of his girlfriend.
I'll be suing all you mother [Bleep.]
I didn't do anything.
On patrol in Hyde Park, you never know what to expect in the wee hours of the morning.
Dude, he is not taking a piss, right? Ugh, that would be his [Bleep.]
[ Scoffs .]
Get off the phone.
Why do you think it's okay to take your penis out of your pants on Hyde Park Avenue? It's not even partially, like, blocked off.
I.
D.
You been drinking? Where were you drinking? Uh, right there.
So you live right there? You just couldn't make it home? You couldn't piss in your own yard? All right.
We're good.
Let's go.
Okay.
[ Laughs .]
Don't say sorry to us.
Say sorry to the tree.
[ Sighs .]
Narrator: Assigned to night shift, Jenn Penton spends her days searching for her twin sister, Melissa.
A friend has seen Melissa in the city of Lynn, just north of Boston.
I'm gonna head over to Lynn PD.
To see if they have any information on her whereabouts.
I'm trying to find out some information about my sister.
Her name's Melissa Penton.
P, as in Peter, e-n-t-o-n.
Yep.
I can give you a view of the log.
That would be helpful.
Thank you.
- Okay.
Hold on a second.
- Thank you.
[ Sighs .]
She's in on the 24th The middle of the week.
So, it says that she was bailed out.
Does that mean she was arrested and then bailed from the station, or did she go right to court? She should have been bailed right here from the station, yes.
Okay.
Just trying to figure out right now if she has any warrants or if she's on probation kind of get track of her.
Is this her new address? That would be the address she gave at the time of booking.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
Penton: I'm very worried for my sister.
I'm scared for her.
Narrator: Using information from the Lynn Police Department, Jenn Penton has made contact with her twin sister, Melissa.
And today, they'll meet for the first time in almost two years.
Penton: There's things I want to say to her and things that I think she should hear.
I think it's gonna be difficult to swallow some of my anger and issues with her.
I can't go in there and take on my police stance of controlling the situation, because it's not like that.
There is this pit in my stomach right now, and I would say it's probably a lot of emotion, a lot of not knowing what to expect.
There's my sister.
Hi, Jenn.
Penton: Hi.
How are you? What's going on? Hi.
How are you? - Good.
- How about you? Good.
Hi.
I'm Lewis.
Jennifer.
Nice to finally meet you.
Thank you.
See, she does look a lot like me, doesn't she? - Just a little bit.
[ Chuckles .]
- Yeah.
Do you know where the Syl It's down the street.
- Is it Sylvan? - I think so.
Yeah, yeah.
We're gonna go there.
How does that sound? Let's go.
Awesome.
Bye, honey.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Woman: Those are our specials right up top.
Melissa: My hair's all gone.
Did you just cut it? Yeah, I cut it a little bit ago where I was.
Where were you, actually? - I don't know.
- Jail.
Oh, you were? I thought mom said you were, um, at a halfway No.
I just got out.
No, I was, but that didn't work out the way it was supposed to.
Yeah, I got six months suspended, two years probation.
I'd rather just do the six months and get it over with.
You'd rather go to jail for six months than stay on probation for two years? Like, four months.
That's nothing.
Tell me about the program that you're in.
It's a Christian based program.
We work 8 hours a day.
You know that's what most people work? I work 81/2 hours a day.
You know that's what most people work.
It wasn't a really good program.
But you've been to kind of a ton of programs.
I don't think you've ever completed any of them.
- No.
- Have you? No.
Almost.
I almost did.
Anyway, tell me what you've been up to.
You know I'm in Boston PD.
I know.
I've been up there.
Doing big things? I actually want to work in narcotics.
I want to do a lot of narcotic work.
Oh, see, I could teach you something.
I think [ Laughs .]
I think you're right about that.
Um, hopefully not from present experience.
Hopefully from past experience.
Yeah.
Anyway, where's my present? I want it.
Oh, my God! Look at my son.
He looks exactly like me.
See? Yeah.
So, I have some good news.
What? When I went to go see Tristan and his new family, they were amazing, and they were all about us being a part of his life and having you in his life and everything.
And I think that if you wanted to set something up or if you wanted to go with me or go with mom or whoever, we could go see him.
Oh! Yeah! I definitely do.
I want him to know me and not think that I abandoned him and just left him You know what I mean? I don't want him to be angry at me.
If you want that and you want to be a part of his life, they're very willing.
But you need to, like, want that.
Like, I think it would be really good for you to be in his life, Melissa.
I definitely want to see him, and I want to see where he lives, and, you know what I mean? When he gets older, when he's able to talk, like, I want him to have my phone number and call me anytime he wants.
I don't know, like, if they don't want me to call or You know what I mean? No, they do.
They're amazing.
Then you plan something out, and then, if it doesn't work, then you get disappointed, and I don't like disappointment.
I have enough disappointment in my life.
This time it's not okay when I fall Penton: I think addiction is a journey.
It doesn't solve itself overnight, and she could battle with this probably for the rest of her life.
And there's nothing I can do but I try She has to want it for herself.
I can't want it for her.
My mom can't want it for her.
Even her son can't want it for her.
To hold on Greg: I was in the U.
S.
army for four years.
I served in desert shield/desert storm.
The army definitely prepared me for the police department.
The military taught me that you have to be prepared, be ready.
You don't know what's coming.
[ Engine turns over .]
When I first started with the Boston Police Department, we got a call for a person with a knife.
[ Click .]
I remember looking to my left.
The suspect pulls his hands out from under his shirt, and I'm like, "Oh [Bleep.]
" Big rusty machete.
And he just started running towards me and never said a word.
And as I'm running, I cut to the right.
He wasn't even, like, two feet behind me.
He had the machete over his head.
He's gonna split my head open like a watermelon.
I had the gun straight out, pointed it right at, like, his stomach area, fired, and kept running.
And then he was just down on the ground.
That was it.
It was done.
One round.
Every day that I go to work, I think about that day, because I know how fast things can get out of control and how dangerous this job really is.
Narrator: It's D-Day for Greg Dankers in the hunt for drug dealer Anthony Woodrum.
Dankers has been carefully laying a trap, visiting every one of Woodrum's associates except for his girlfriend, hoping Woodrum will believe that her apartment is the only safe place to hide.
Greg: This next address She's the one that's been with him for years.
It's cold and rainy.
Maybe they'll be snuggled in, watching movies, eating popcorn, and we can grab him.
Bam.
Time to go back to the jail.
Narrator: With the fugitive unit's cars spread out across the city, today, Dankers rides alone.
Greg: It's the brown, tan one on the left the bricks.
She's supposed to be in there on the third floor.
So I'll just have to sit here.
This is the woman that visited him the most in jail.
Who's that dude? Oh, I like that.
Narrator: While staking out the apartment of Anthony Woodrum's girlfriend, officer Greg Dankers spots a man leaving the building.
Greg: Who's that dude? Oh, I like that.
Hey, Joyce, there's a black male walking out of Rockland.
He looks good, but I couldn't see his face.
Yeah, he's on Dale now.
He's got a black leather jacket, blue jeans, and, like, a scally cap.
Actually, he's getting in a black Mercedes.
Yeah, 37.
Anybody else close by to Rockland and Dale? How far away are you guys? He might take off.
[Bleep.]
Narrator: With no backup nearby, Dankers has to make a choice Whether to move on the suspect by himself or let him go.
Greg: Obviously, I know how dangerous this job is, but this guy's a bad-ass.
He might be trying to dust himself off.
All right, I'm just gonna stick with him.
Yeah, you see me? Anybody else close by? Anybody behind me? I need some backup now.
Taking a right on Warren, up towards Grove Hall.
Hey, Joycey, pull in front of him, too, why not, and stop him.
Boston police.
Don't move.
Stay in the car.
Put this window down.
Roll down the back window.
Anthony, right? Man: Can I get a license, please? You have no I.
D.
on you? Is your name really Andre Epps? You're 44 years old? Narrator: The guy in the car says his name is Andre Epps, but Dankers isn't buying it.
Pull your sleeves up.
Let me see your tattoos.
He didn't have any I.
D.
on him.
Your tattoos aren't gonna lie, because we're gonna have pictures of those tattoos.
Yeah, it's him.
We got him.
Come on, buddy.
Relax.
Stay right in this area.
Those tattoos can't hide those tattoos.
[ Police radio chatter .]
Greg: Grew us a little beard.
Put your glasses on, try to give me a fake name.
This is good.
Gonna move on to the next case.
Well, I can honestly say now I don't take it home with me, no.
I almost have to look at it like it's a game.
And I know I'm gonna be lied to.
I know somebody's gonna try to assault me.
I know someday, somebody might even try to kill me again.
But I can't let that bother me.
Check this thing out.
Let me know what it's like.
I can't go home angry or mad or stressed out that this guy hasn't been caught or that guy hasn't been caught.
Obviously, my boys help me a lot.
I get to escape through them, you know? All right, everybody in.
See how many people we can get in here.
My kids and my family are a big part of helping me stay sane.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
What are you doing over there? And just, like, from the years of doing this job, you realize how life, you know how fragile life is.
Penton: As a police officer, it is a struggle knowing that my sister is on the other side of that line The line I choose to stand on the right of.
Steve, what's going on? You miss a court date? Especially when I'm dealing with people in similar situations like my sister that might have a warrant, but I'm arresting them.
What are these for? Gonna be a L20 arrest on another Code 11.
When I talk to people that are battling with addiction, they look at you with the most sad, hopeless look, like they're outside of themselves, like they're doing it but they don't want to.
You been drinking this morning, last night? It's awful to think about and then put someone that you care about and put someone that is in your family in that situation.
It's really difficult to deal with that.
Out on the street, when we're dealing with people, they look at us, and they look at the police as these robot faces that just don't understand, and I get that a lot.
I get, "You don't understand" and, "What do you know about my situation?" I do know.
I've seen personally what drugs and crime can do to a family.
And there are things that you can do in life and choices that you can make to get you away from where you were brought up.
I know, more than anything, that you can change and that you can turn your life around if you want to.
Put your hands on the steering wheel.
Get inside! Get them inside! Get down on the ground right now.
Give me your hands.
Man: Hey! [ Indistinct shouting .]
[ Dropkick Murphys' "Out of Our Heads" plays .]
Are we gonna take it? are we gonna let 'em know? are we gonna let 'em bring us down? hell, no we're gonna crash a party every night and every day, hey we got 'em on the run we are full either way here we go, here we go the roof is on fire, and it's ready to blow One.
Two.
Go ahead.
Circle out.
Ha! One.
[ Grunts .]
One, two, go.
[ Grunts .]
One, two.
Good.
Power.
Good.
Now shake out.
Shake them out.
Narrator: Jenn Penton served her country in Afghanistan.
Now she's a police officer, serving on the streets of Boston.
One, two.
One, two.
Penton: I am 5'3", 100-something pounds.
With that comes a fear that I'm gonna be faced with a 6'2", 250-pound, muscular guy, who doesn't want to go to jail that day.
When I don't want to get up at 5:00 in the morning and go to boxing, I think of being in a foot chase and losing.
There is that chance that you'll be fighting for your life on the side of a road where your backup is, you know, a minute away.
I have to stay on top of my game.
It could save my life.
It could save, you know, my partner's life.
[ Panting .]
Dig it in! Dig it in! That's a tremendous amount of responsibility that I take very seriously.
[ Grunting .]
Nice! [ Laughing .]
Yeah! Whoo! Good job.
Good.
Narrator: Even though they've only been partners for a few months, patrol officers Jenn Penton and Pat Rogers know each other well.
I eat some bad stuff.
You drink some bad stuff.
I do drink some bad stuff.
I've always wanted to do a cleanse.
Of that stuff? Dude, it's got romaine and spinach and parsley and lemon, like, six pounds of kale in this.
That's not food.
What do you think is so crazy about it, that I want to cleanse my body? Yeah, but you don't eat [Bleep.]
anyway, so what are you cleansing? I do the cleanse naturally.
- The natural way? - The natural way.
Coffee and chicken parm? Coffee works every time for me.
Coffee does work every time for you, and that's for sure.
Penton: We answer radio calls, and that's our primary function.
[ Siren wails .]
Gonna stop? Good morning.
How are you? And then secondary to that would be motor-vehicle enforcement.
And then did you square away your registration yet? You're on your way to the registry right now? Okay, sir, we're just gonna give you a warning.
Have a good day.
We're just a presence.
We're gonna be a deterrent to criminal activity.
Oh, can we get him? He has no front plate.
Oh, you want that guy? Yeah.
Narrator: Every traffic stop is different.
Some test your mettle, and some, your patience.
Do you think he knows that the speed limit over here is only 30 miles an hour? I can't even tell what plate that is.
Yeah, I can't even see it.
You've got to be able to read that plate.
Can't really tell Ohio.
Hi, how are you? Two things One, your plate is obscured.
I don't know if it's got a cover on it, but you can't have those, 'cause you can't read Do you want to understand why you got stopped? Part of my job is to inform you.
Yeah, but I want you to understand why I pulled you over, so that we can correct it.
Part of my job is to make sure you understand what's wrong.
Okay, so why did I pull you over? 'Cause what? You have your license on you? Thank you so much.
Huh.
Like, he was so rude.
I tried to explain why I stopped him, and he doesn't want to listen so now I'll put it in writing for him.
Get back in the car.
Get back in the [Bleep.]
car! Do you have an issue? I have to be somewhere.
All right, we can discuss that.
You don't get out of the car on a traffic stop.
Okay, you're welcome to do that, sir.
Okay.
Penton: Being a female police officer comes with certain challenges and obstacles.
There are people that just don't respect a woman in a role of authority.
I've dealt with quite a few people that just cannot handle the fact that it's a female telling them what to do.
Want to kind of [Exhales.]
for a second? No, I'm good.
I'm good.
Guys ready? Billy? Everybody? The first thing we want to do this morning is go down to an address over on River Street.
Narrator: The fugitive unit tracks down criminals on the run.
Oftentimes, the worst of the worst Cold-blooded, dangerous, and desperate.
And then we'll go from there.
Any questions? Man: No.
All right.
Narrator: Today, officers Greg Dankers and Winston Deleon will work together as partners.
They're going after Anthony Woodrum, a hardcore drug dealer convicted of selling crack cocaine in a school zone.
Woodrum escaped from a transitional facility called the Brooke House, where he was finishing a two-year jail sentence.
Greg: Well, he walked away from the Brooke House about a month ago.
Drug dealer, five-page record.
We've done search warrants on his house.
The problem is Woodrum has a lot of places to hide.
This his girl? Yeah, I mean, she visits him a lot in jail.
Okay.
The target's son.
This is the target's nephew.
He's also got a warrant.
It's a giant shell game, but Dankers gets an idea.
Maybe we'll go to everywhere, right? Except for her.
Except Peggy's house? And then, obviously, he'll get the word that the police are looking for him - And he gonna go to Peggy's.
- Yeah, right.
Hopefully we can get three or four people to call him and say, "dawg, the police were here.
The police were here.
" And then he'll reach out to Peggy, and Peggy will be like, "No, police never came here.
" And then, we can just focus on that, right? Safe house for him.
That's good.
How's that sound? Sounds like an awesome idea, Greg.
[ Laughs .]
Is that wicked cool? So you and I will do this case? All right.
Maybe we can get some lunch.
Yeah.
Where you want to go? I don't know.
Lunch is on you, so [Claps.]
Want to go to Sal's? Nah, nah.
I don't do Sal's.
You don't like South Boston, do you? - No.
- Ah, knew it.
Let's go to, like, Mattapan.
Well, that's probably not gonna happen.
You can have some jerk chicken or something.
Oh, man.
Can I eat that in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet? 'Cause that's what I'll need to do.
- You eat Sushi? - Where you gonna get Sushi? It's like five minutes from here.
No.
You're gonna go all the way to West Roxbury for Sushi? Not all the way To the city.
North end? - The north end? - Yeah.
Now you're talking crazy.
Dude, how are we gonna work together if we can't even [Bleep.]
agree on lunch? [ Laughs .]
Narrator: Across town, Jenn and Pat switch to an unmarked car for a new assignment Tracking down a warrant.
[ Police radio chatter .]
It's Mr.
Delacruz Elvis.
Elvis Delacruz is on probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, but he allowed the battery on his GPS monitoring bracelet to die, which is cause for immediate arrest.
Thing with the GPS is, you know, the thing makes a ton of noise if the battery's dying and stuff, so probably on purpose.
He could be out and about, running the streets, doing whatever.
There's a victim on the case.
Maybe they want to make sure he stays away from her.
Either way, you know, you go and cuff him up.
It's a big deal.
Jenn and Pat have a confirmed address for the pizza joint where Delacruz works.
But when serving a warrant, nothing is guaranteed.
We don't know how this kid's gonna be when we get down there.
Who knows if he's really gonna run, but he might.
[ Engine shuts off .]
He could be watching us from somewhere else, as well.
Could be.
So just keep an eye out.
Penton: Elvis? Penton: He could be watching us from somewhere else, as well.
Rogers: Could be.
So just keep an eye out.
Delacruz: Morning.
Penton: Elvis? You guys gonna arrest me? I want you to tell me what's going on with your bracelet, and then I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen with us.
Narrator: Jenn Penton and Pat Rogers are serving a warrant on Elvis Delacruz, who violated his probation for assault by letting the battery on his GPS monitoring device run out.
I was working all day yesterday.
I fell asleep.
I mean, I went home, fell asleep, forgot to charge my bracelet, woke up in the morning, put the charger on, went to work, that's it.
All right, just hold still.
Okay.
They faxed us a warrant this morning for you.
They want you arrested to go see a probation officer.
So I got to stay until tomorrow in jail? Narrator: Transpo takes Delacruz to the Hyde park Avenue police station.
Jenn and Pat follow behind to do the booking and to learn a little bit more about him.
Penton: How many hours a week do you work? Delacruz: Depending, between 40 and 50.
Then, you're staying away from the girl that you have issues with, right? Actually, the bracelet I've been feeling kind of comfortable in it, 'cause that's my only protection right now.
Keeping So they know where you're at? Yeah.
So she can't accuse you of stuff? Yeah, ever since I came home, I've been taking two classes Fatherhood program and a batterers program.
Really? What's the fatherhood program? It's just a class about parenting, and, like, it's guys All guys, so if you just talk about How tough it is being a father and stuff like that? Yeah, and things we got to do to take care of our kids, and all that, so And so, honestly, Elvis, you're doing the right thing.
You're working more than most adults I know, okay? You're trying to take care of your daughter.
You got to keep doing what you're doing.
I hope the best for you.
I hope you never see me or my partner again.
Unless we're picking up pizza down the street, okay? [ Laughs .]
So we'll get you situated.
We'll call a bail bondsman, and we'll go from there, okay? Thank you.
Step this way.
He made some bad choices, but he was trying to make up for it, and he was trying to do the right thing, which is important to see.
There is a lot more to policing than putting the handcuffs on someone and putting them in a jail cell.
Maybe they need someone to actually listen to them.
I have a twin sister, Melissa.
Growing up, we just always had different personalities.
She has made choices that I don't agree with.
She's been in some trouble with the law and drugs and battling addiction.
I Haven't seen her in like two years.
I struggle with the fact that I am not close with her.
About two years ago, she had a baby boy, Tristan.
She put him up for adoption.
It was really tough on the family.
But I'm determined to stay a part of his life.
[ Knock on door .]
Jen: Hi, Jenn! Come in! Penton: Hi, Jen.
Good to see you.
Thank you so much for inviting me, really.
Look who's here.
Hi, buddy.
It's your Aunt Jenn.
He is so big.
We're lucky enough where his adoptive parents, Jen and Paul, really do want us to be in his life.
So it's nice to see, now that he's a little bit older, you can see some of his facial features come in and stuff.
He looks like you.
And they want Tristan to have as many people in his life that he can that love him, and that includes my sister.
I was looking forward to meeting her, but then she just didn't make it.
Yeah.
I think she's just too sad.
You know, I wish to death that I could raise a child.
Well, you're working 70 hours a week.
I'm working a lot, and, you know, I live alone, but I think what you guys are doing is amazing.
We're thrilled, and we're very happy to have you guys be in his life and in our lives, as well.
And we appreciate it.
I think there's gonna be a ton of people that love him.
Yes.
Can I get a picture? Paul: There you go.
You press the little camera.
Penton: The end goal, for me, is to be happy and content and live a life that I'm proud of.
That includes my sister, and although I don't necessarily agree with how she handled being a mom and how she handled that responsibility, I have to move past that.
You know, she has to move past that, and with that, I think it would be good for her to have a relationship with Tristan, and if I can help that along and facilitate that Then I want to do that.
But first, I have to find her.
Narrator: Across town, Greg Dankers and the fugitive unit are just starting their shift.
Their target is drug dealer Anthony Woodrum.
Greg: He walked away from a halfway house.
Escapee Anthony Woodrum's got a long criminal history.
Call him "Drop Rock.
" A lot of drugs.
Always dealing drugs.
There was some information he might be at Regina Road, which is across from the KFC on Washington Street with some female that he might be with.
She's got a warrant for, like, assault and battery.
Narrator: Dankers' plan is to bang on the doors of all of Woodrum's associates, hoping someone will give up information on his whereabouts.
Greg: Boston police.
Man: Patrice, right? Is Anthony here? Okay.
Is there anybody else here? Open the door, Mary.
We are looking for this gentleman.
Call him "Drop Rock"? No? You sure? What's your name, dear? Do you have an I.
D.
? Just, like, kind of crashing here? Man: I wish you would just tell us where that guy is.
Narrator: Both women are wanted on drug charges, so Dankers gives them a choice They can either give up Woodrum or go to jail.
I think they know him.
They're just not saying nothing.
They're going to jail.
They're not gonna give him up, 'cause they probably buy off of him.
So then, you know, they wouldn't play.
[ Scoffs .]
[Bleep.]
Every day Anthony Woodrum is out on the street, there's a potential for violence and for people to get hooked on drugs because of him.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
I want you to see who's here first me.
I know.
I'm so surprised.
My mom is my best friend.
She is someone I go to with just about everything in my life.
Did you order? Yep.
Well, you know, they take a long time.
They do take forever.
So, what have you done this week? Work, work, work.
- How is Pat? - Good.
- Yeah? He's a good guy.
- Yeah.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, he is.
We had a really good arrest the other night.
- Oh.
- For drugs.
Oh, my goodness.
- Look at all that money.
- Look at this one.
Those are all hundred-dollar bills.
Yeah, look at that In a plastic bag.
Wow.
You and Pat must've been happy about that.
Yeah, we did, I think, a little high-five in the middle of the street.
[ Laughs .]
You're welcome.
Be right out with your nachos for you.
Thank you.
I saw Tristan for his birthday.
Yes, that's something good.
It couldn't have worked out more perfectly where he was in the foster home.
Oh, I know that.
I have the intelligence to know that.
And you remember, after she delivered him, I said, "So, what good are you to him?" "I can't believe that you thought it was a good idea to have him adopted.
" I said, "I think it's the best thing that could happen.
" I couldn't take him.
- I couldn't take him.
- I said, "I tried.
My doctor said I could not take care of him.
" Like, how can she be so selfish to not see that that was the best decision for him? Do you know what I mean, 'cause, mentally, she should know that she didn't have the means to take care of him.
She knows that she wasn't clean.
That's for sure.
You know, she didn't have a plan.
That poor baby had to go through withdrawal.
You know what? I know that he's in a good home.
To him, that's his family, even though it hurts.
Mom, it's the same.
I know, same We had this conversation, five years ago, seven years ago, like, it's the same thing over and over again.
It's She'll get on probation Exactly.
And then, she gets violated again.
Seeing her picked up for prostitution or in and out of the court system, given what I deal with every day, it just goes against everything I sort of kind of you know.
It's hard for me, because I'm her mother.
I know, mom.
And no matter what, at the end of the day, I still love her, I still worry about her.
My New Year's resolution this year was to try to have some sort of communication with her, but even talking to you, I'm just so pissed off.
Like, I hate to say it.
I'm just pissed.
Yeah.
I know you are.
And I'm hopeful, and I want to be hopeful for you.
And, you know, she's my twin sister, and, you know, a part of me feels that we should have somewhat of a relationship.
I'd like to have the lines of communication open, because I really want to be a part of Tristan's life, and I want him to be a part of our family.
I really would like to find her.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
Narrator: Meanwhile, the fugitive unit continues to search for drug dealer Anthony Woodrum.
They're pressuring all of his known associates, but so far, no one is talking.
Tonight's target Woodrum's nephew Davell, a reputed gang member.
Greg: No.
We knew that his bedroom was in the basement.
Davell? Man: Yo! Yo.
Yo.
[ Indistinct shouting .]
We go in there, we say, "show your hands.
" [ Shouting continues .]
You know, "you're under arrest.
" Stop resisting! If you're not dressed, you're getting handcuffed and then we're dressing you, we're doing everything for you.
It's out of your control.
[Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
I'm not resisting.
I knew what the [Bleep.]
y'all were doing.
Man, you crazy? We can't let people just walk around, you know, in a house where they might have weapons hidden or guns or knives or whatever.
Davell: Oh, you the same bitch ass cop.
You know what, though? I'm gonna help you out, 'cause you are an H-Block kid, right? Man: Yep.
All right.
That's cool.
This is crazy, mom.
You know he's in a gang, dear? I ain't in no gang.
You just said you was H-Block.
I'm not in no gang.
Why did you tell my grandmother I'm in a gang? I don't know.
You said you are.
I thought you were Sit back down.
That's disrespectful.
It's not disrespectful.
If you're in a gang, you got to be in a gang.
I'm not in no gang.
You just said you were H-Block.
Shut up, man.
I don't even want to talk to y'all.
You want to tell my grandmother I'm in a gang.
Narrator: They take Woodrum's nephew to the station for booking on his outstanding warrants.
He didn't rat out his Uncle, but Woodrum is bound to hear that the cops are after him.
Dankers hopes he'll take the bait and head to his girlfriend's house to hide.
[ Laughs .]
Penton: I'm not sure what my sister is doing with her life right now.
She kind of has had different boyfriends here and there and, you know, has been in different cities, and I don't always know what those cities are or where she's at.
When we're on patrol or I'm driving around, we're getting these calls for someone that O.
D.
'd or a prostitute that got beat up, it's difficult not to think of my sister.
It's difficult not to imagine that it could be her.
[ Police radio chatter .]
That's legit.
[ Siren wails .]
Narrator: A call comes in about a fight in Hyde Park.
Can you check with the caller? Any mention of weapons? It's on a dangerous block, where recently, a pregnant woman was shot to death at a party.
Penton: We have no idea who's at fault, who started it, what's going on, or who we're there to protect.
Back up! What are you [Bleep.]
doing? That's one of the most dangerous situations you can be in.
Man: She's still in the [Bleep.]
car.
Woman: Why are you doing this? Mother [Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
Penton: Hey, get out of there, ma'am.
- Where's that asshole? - Get out! Take the keys out.
Take the keys out.
Throw them right on the ground, all right? [ Clink .]
Someone says you got a gun, I got to do what I got to do.
Put them right on the steering wheel.
Take your left hand.
Slowly unlock the door.
Rogers: - Do not move.
Penton: - Get out of the car.
Get down on the [Bleep.]
ground right now facedown.
Go! Go! Put your hands behind your back.
Give me them.
Who saw the gun? Who saw the gun? Who saw it? [ Handcuffs click .]
Man: [Bleep.]
Woman: Where's that asshole? [ Indistinct shouting .]
I'm gonna lock you up! Hey! Come on! [ Indistinct shouting .]
Get out of the car.
Get down on the [Bleep.]
ground right now facedown.
Hey! Come on! [ Indistinct shouting .]
Man: [Bleep.]
I'm gonna lock you up! Rogers: Get inside! Get them inside! Did they all get patted down? Penton: I patted my guy down.
Who had the firearm? He did.
Okay.
All right, you just hang tight, okay? You seem the most reasonable guy here right now, okay? I was trying to trying to stop the fight when I got hit behind I know.
It's right.
Penton: You were here to see who? What's the fight about? Kid up there, they start smoking weed.
My nephew tells them they got kids in the house.
Rogers: Okay.
I get in the middle.
- The driver hits me.
- Yep.
The whole thing escalated.
The thing is now we're trying to find this gun.
We need to know if they ditched it.
What did you see or hear? Someone's telling us about a gun.
No.
No gun.
You didn't see anyone with No.
No gun.
Okay.
In the car.
In the car, yes.
He has a gun.
So you're saying he was in the car when he pointed the firearm at you? He was in the car? Narrator: While the K-9 team looks for the gun, Jenn and Pat head back to the station to book the two suspects.
Well, that was fun.
Yeah.
That was fun.
[ Engine turns over .]
Aw, I spilled the water everywhere.
I spilled the water everywhere.
[ Alarm blares .]
Did you spill the water on this? No.
I spilled it there.
Stop pressing buttons.
[ Alarm blares .]
[ Siren wails .]
The lights in the back are going on for no [Bleep.]
reason Shorted out the whole thing.
Was it the whole water? No, there's still some water left.
Not even touching it.
Look at this.
[Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
Blinking [Bleep.]
damn Christmas tree.
[ Sirens wail .]
[ Laughs .]
Whole thing just [ Alarm stops .]
[ Laughs .]
[ Laughs .]
Gonna have to get you a sippy cup.
[ Laughs .]
[ Siren wails .]
[ Laughs .]
Hello.
Oh, look who's home.
What's going on? Good morning.
Good morning.
- How was work? - It was good.
My wife right now works what we call the midnight shift.
She works 11:45 P.
M.
to 7:30 A.
M.
What time did they get up? We have 4-year-old twin boys who already have different personalities.
Greg tends to be a lot more outgoing, and Adam tends to be a little shyer.
I'm gonna get socks and shoes, boys.
Go.
Go.
Go.
You got to get ready for school, okay? My kids understand what we do for a living.
If you ask them, they say, "Oh, yeah, mommy and daddy are police officers" "and they catch the bad guys.
" But I don't think they, you know, have a complete grasp of what we obviously do when we go to work.
All right, bye, guys.
Give me a kiss.
Say, "Bye, Da-Da.
" First one to give me a kiss gets a doughnut.
[ Laughs .]
All right.
Bye.
See you.
Bye, Da-Da.
Greg: Joe, is that that dude from last year? He put out new stuff? Narrator: In the hunt for Anthony Woodrum, street name "Drop Rock," Dankers and the fugitive unit get an unexpected lead.
Some of his boys, when they shot a video, there was a whole bunch of license plates on the cars they were using.
This is good, because at least we know where he's hanging at.
Maybe we ought to get the gang unit to help us? Yeah.
Hit them all and see what we find? Narrator: A few hours later, the night gang unit steps in to assist in the hunt for Anthony Woodrum.
They have intel that some local gangs will have a big presence at a hip-hop concert on Lansdowne Street.
They're going there to shake up Woodrum's gang associates to help keep the pressure on.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
You're a pussy [Bleep.]
You're a pussy, my [Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
[Bleep.]
Let's go.
[Bleep.]
You.
Man: You're under arrest.
You're under arrest.
You're under arrest.
[ Indistinct shouting .]
Man 2: Stop resisting! I'm not resisting! Narrator: The gang members refuse to cooperate, but the word's out on the street that the cops are after "Drop Rock," and it's all part of Dankers' strategy to convince Woodrum that his only safe house is the one the cops Haven't visited yet The home of his girlfriend.
I'll be suing all you mother [Bleep.]
I didn't do anything.
On patrol in Hyde Park, you never know what to expect in the wee hours of the morning.
Dude, he is not taking a piss, right? Ugh, that would be his [Bleep.]
[ Scoffs .]
Get off the phone.
Why do you think it's okay to take your penis out of your pants on Hyde Park Avenue? It's not even partially, like, blocked off.
I.
D.
You been drinking? Where were you drinking? Uh, right there.
So you live right there? You just couldn't make it home? You couldn't piss in your own yard? All right.
We're good.
Let's go.
Okay.
[ Laughs .]
Don't say sorry to us.
Say sorry to the tree.
[ Sighs .]
Narrator: Assigned to night shift, Jenn Penton spends her days searching for her twin sister, Melissa.
A friend has seen Melissa in the city of Lynn, just north of Boston.
I'm gonna head over to Lynn PD.
To see if they have any information on her whereabouts.
I'm trying to find out some information about my sister.
Her name's Melissa Penton.
P, as in Peter, e-n-t-o-n.
Yep.
I can give you a view of the log.
That would be helpful.
Thank you.
- Okay.
Hold on a second.
- Thank you.
[ Sighs .]
She's in on the 24th The middle of the week.
So, it says that she was bailed out.
Does that mean she was arrested and then bailed from the station, or did she go right to court? She should have been bailed right here from the station, yes.
Okay.
Just trying to figure out right now if she has any warrants or if she's on probation kind of get track of her.
Is this her new address? That would be the address she gave at the time of booking.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
Penton: I'm very worried for my sister.
I'm scared for her.
Narrator: Using information from the Lynn Police Department, Jenn Penton has made contact with her twin sister, Melissa.
And today, they'll meet for the first time in almost two years.
Penton: There's things I want to say to her and things that I think she should hear.
I think it's gonna be difficult to swallow some of my anger and issues with her.
I can't go in there and take on my police stance of controlling the situation, because it's not like that.
There is this pit in my stomach right now, and I would say it's probably a lot of emotion, a lot of not knowing what to expect.
There's my sister.
Hi, Jenn.
Penton: Hi.
How are you? What's going on? Hi.
How are you? - Good.
- How about you? Good.
Hi.
I'm Lewis.
Jennifer.
Nice to finally meet you.
Thank you.
See, she does look a lot like me, doesn't she? - Just a little bit.
[ Chuckles .]
- Yeah.
Do you know where the Syl It's down the street.
- Is it Sylvan? - I think so.
Yeah, yeah.
We're gonna go there.
How does that sound? Let's go.
Awesome.
Bye, honey.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Woman: Those are our specials right up top.
Melissa: My hair's all gone.
Did you just cut it? Yeah, I cut it a little bit ago where I was.
Where were you, actually? - I don't know.
- Jail.
Oh, you were? I thought mom said you were, um, at a halfway No.
I just got out.
No, I was, but that didn't work out the way it was supposed to.
Yeah, I got six months suspended, two years probation.
I'd rather just do the six months and get it over with.
You'd rather go to jail for six months than stay on probation for two years? Like, four months.
That's nothing.
Tell me about the program that you're in.
It's a Christian based program.
We work 8 hours a day.
You know that's what most people work? I work 81/2 hours a day.
You know that's what most people work.
It wasn't a really good program.
But you've been to kind of a ton of programs.
I don't think you've ever completed any of them.
- No.
- Have you? No.
Almost.
I almost did.
Anyway, tell me what you've been up to.
You know I'm in Boston PD.
I know.
I've been up there.
Doing big things? I actually want to work in narcotics.
I want to do a lot of narcotic work.
Oh, see, I could teach you something.
I think [ Laughs .]
I think you're right about that.
Um, hopefully not from present experience.
Hopefully from past experience.
Yeah.
Anyway, where's my present? I want it.
Oh, my God! Look at my son.
He looks exactly like me.
See? Yeah.
So, I have some good news.
What? When I went to go see Tristan and his new family, they were amazing, and they were all about us being a part of his life and having you in his life and everything.
And I think that if you wanted to set something up or if you wanted to go with me or go with mom or whoever, we could go see him.
Oh! Yeah! I definitely do.
I want him to know me and not think that I abandoned him and just left him You know what I mean? I don't want him to be angry at me.
If you want that and you want to be a part of his life, they're very willing.
But you need to, like, want that.
Like, I think it would be really good for you to be in his life, Melissa.
I definitely want to see him, and I want to see where he lives, and, you know what I mean? When he gets older, when he's able to talk, like, I want him to have my phone number and call me anytime he wants.
I don't know, like, if they don't want me to call or You know what I mean? No, they do.
They're amazing.
Then you plan something out, and then, if it doesn't work, then you get disappointed, and I don't like disappointment.
I have enough disappointment in my life.
This time it's not okay when I fall Penton: I think addiction is a journey.
It doesn't solve itself overnight, and she could battle with this probably for the rest of her life.
And there's nothing I can do but I try She has to want it for herself.
I can't want it for her.
My mom can't want it for her.
Even her son can't want it for her.
To hold on Greg: I was in the U.
S.
army for four years.
I served in desert shield/desert storm.
The army definitely prepared me for the police department.
The military taught me that you have to be prepared, be ready.
You don't know what's coming.
[ Engine turns over .]
When I first started with the Boston Police Department, we got a call for a person with a knife.
[ Click .]
I remember looking to my left.
The suspect pulls his hands out from under his shirt, and I'm like, "Oh [Bleep.]
" Big rusty machete.
And he just started running towards me and never said a word.
And as I'm running, I cut to the right.
He wasn't even, like, two feet behind me.
He had the machete over his head.
He's gonna split my head open like a watermelon.
I had the gun straight out, pointed it right at, like, his stomach area, fired, and kept running.
And then he was just down on the ground.
That was it.
It was done.
One round.
Every day that I go to work, I think about that day, because I know how fast things can get out of control and how dangerous this job really is.
Narrator: It's D-Day for Greg Dankers in the hunt for drug dealer Anthony Woodrum.
Dankers has been carefully laying a trap, visiting every one of Woodrum's associates except for his girlfriend, hoping Woodrum will believe that her apartment is the only safe place to hide.
Greg: This next address She's the one that's been with him for years.
It's cold and rainy.
Maybe they'll be snuggled in, watching movies, eating popcorn, and we can grab him.
Bam.
Time to go back to the jail.
Narrator: With the fugitive unit's cars spread out across the city, today, Dankers rides alone.
Greg: It's the brown, tan one on the left the bricks.
She's supposed to be in there on the third floor.
So I'll just have to sit here.
This is the woman that visited him the most in jail.
Who's that dude? Oh, I like that.
Narrator: While staking out the apartment of Anthony Woodrum's girlfriend, officer Greg Dankers spots a man leaving the building.
Greg: Who's that dude? Oh, I like that.
Hey, Joyce, there's a black male walking out of Rockland.
He looks good, but I couldn't see his face.
Yeah, he's on Dale now.
He's got a black leather jacket, blue jeans, and, like, a scally cap.
Actually, he's getting in a black Mercedes.
Yeah, 37.
Anybody else close by to Rockland and Dale? How far away are you guys? He might take off.
[Bleep.]
Narrator: With no backup nearby, Dankers has to make a choice Whether to move on the suspect by himself or let him go.
Greg: Obviously, I know how dangerous this job is, but this guy's a bad-ass.
He might be trying to dust himself off.
All right, I'm just gonna stick with him.
Yeah, you see me? Anybody else close by? Anybody behind me? I need some backup now.
Taking a right on Warren, up towards Grove Hall.
Hey, Joycey, pull in front of him, too, why not, and stop him.
Boston police.
Don't move.
Stay in the car.
Put this window down.
Roll down the back window.
Anthony, right? Man: Can I get a license, please? You have no I.
D.
on you? Is your name really Andre Epps? You're 44 years old? Narrator: The guy in the car says his name is Andre Epps, but Dankers isn't buying it.
Pull your sleeves up.
Let me see your tattoos.
He didn't have any I.
D.
on him.
Your tattoos aren't gonna lie, because we're gonna have pictures of those tattoos.
Yeah, it's him.
We got him.
Come on, buddy.
Relax.
Stay right in this area.
Those tattoos can't hide those tattoos.
[ Police radio chatter .]
Greg: Grew us a little beard.
Put your glasses on, try to give me a fake name.
This is good.
Gonna move on to the next case.
Well, I can honestly say now I don't take it home with me, no.
I almost have to look at it like it's a game.
And I know I'm gonna be lied to.
I know somebody's gonna try to assault me.
I know someday, somebody might even try to kill me again.
But I can't let that bother me.
Check this thing out.
Let me know what it's like.
I can't go home angry or mad or stressed out that this guy hasn't been caught or that guy hasn't been caught.
Obviously, my boys help me a lot.
I get to escape through them, you know? All right, everybody in.
See how many people we can get in here.
My kids and my family are a big part of helping me stay sane.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
What are you doing over there? And just, like, from the years of doing this job, you realize how life, you know how fragile life is.
Penton: As a police officer, it is a struggle knowing that my sister is on the other side of that line The line I choose to stand on the right of.
Steve, what's going on? You miss a court date? Especially when I'm dealing with people in similar situations like my sister that might have a warrant, but I'm arresting them.
What are these for? Gonna be a L20 arrest on another Code 11.
When I talk to people that are battling with addiction, they look at you with the most sad, hopeless look, like they're outside of themselves, like they're doing it but they don't want to.
You been drinking this morning, last night? It's awful to think about and then put someone that you care about and put someone that is in your family in that situation.
It's really difficult to deal with that.
Out on the street, when we're dealing with people, they look at us, and they look at the police as these robot faces that just don't understand, and I get that a lot.
I get, "You don't understand" and, "What do you know about my situation?" I do know.
I've seen personally what drugs and crime can do to a family.
And there are things that you can do in life and choices that you can make to get you away from where you were brought up.
I know, more than anything, that you can change and that you can turn your life around if you want to.