FBI (2018) s04e06 Episode Script

You said you was gonna drive home, man.
It's walleyes, Norm.
30 pounders, but you got to head upstream past the tourists to find them.
Count me in, Jimmy.
Need a ride? No, it's a 15-minute walk.
I could use the cardio.
Yeah, couldn't we all.
See you around.
Who's there? Tasting menu, huh? It's not really my speed.
All it means is, you put yourself in Chef Romero's hands.
What about a steak? Me and my accountant can really get behind the steak.
I thought you were a little more worldly.
- Really? - I'm a little disappointed.
Wait, how disappointed? Mm.
Practically inconsolable.
Yeah.
I understand.
We are all less safe when a detective is murdered.
The bureau will make this a priority, Chief.
Absolutely, absolutely.
As soon as I know anything I will let you know.
Detective James Gerrard worked major crimes out of the 2-7 in Flushing.
He was popped twice walking home after leaving a cop bar.
His personal effects were not touched, so it looks like a hit and not a robbery.
So are we assisting? No, we're taking the lead on this one.
NYPD reached out because of the anti-police climate.
They want to make sure that the investigation isn't obstructed by lack of public cooperation.
We're gonna make sure that it's not.
The first question is why was Gerrard targeted? Was it an altercation, a botched robbery, a vendetta? Tiff and Scola are on the scene.
We'll see what they dig up.
Gerrard's wife is a night nurse finishing her shift at Brixton Urgent Care.
NYPD is just making the notification now.
You guys want to see if you can grab a few minutes with her? - Yeah.
- Thank you.
All right, people.
Let's hit it hard.
Hey, what's the temperature at 1PP? Oh, cops are already on edge.
That means we bring NYPD into the loop early and often.
Consults, regular updates.
Yeah, copy that.
And stay on top of media outreach.
The city needs to know that a murdered detective is an FBI priority.
Will do.
Should we update the NYPD rep? - Mm-hmm.
- Hey.
Detective Walsh, sorry about Gerrard.
Tough day for the boys in blue.
So we don't know much, huh? There's not much yet, but we'll keep you updated.
- Appreciate it.
- Yeah.
Anything on canvass? Jogger heard the shot, but we held off on questioning 'cause they said you guys are stepping in.
- We'll be assisting, yeah.
- Great.
We'll crack it a lot quicker now.
There she is.
Hey, can you tell us what happened? So I'm doing my circuit, turn the corner, hear shots, and see this guy on a red bike pedaling off.
Did you see the guy on the red bike actually fire the shots? No, but there was no one else on the street.
Anything else about the biker? Big, short, Black, white? I couldn't say.
It was dark, happened fast.
All right, we appreciate you sticking around.
Yeah, sure.
Wow, New York's finest really knows how to roll out the welcome mat.
Cops been under siege these days, Scola.
I mean, with defund the police and every traffic stop posted online, they got their reasons to close ranks.
Yeah.
Not with us.
Let's just work the case.
Hopefully Maggie and OA have gotten something from Gerrard's wife.
Jimmy was 2 years from his 20.
We were gonna move to Tampa.
I'm sorry, Mrs.
Gerrard.
Did your husband have any issues with anyone? No, Jimmy got along with everyone.
Any problems at work? Nothing I heard about.
Jimmy was a great cop.
What about financial problems? No, nothing like that.
Okay, we're gonna need access to his squad car, check and see if the dash cam saw anybody casing him.
Do you know where it was parked? The repairs shop's got it.
Jimmy said something about a bird flew into his windshield a few days ago, cracked it.
- This happened a few days ago? - Yeah.
Ma'am, we understand how difficult all of this is, but sometimes our loved ones do keep things from us, and I'm not saying that that's true about Jimmy, but is there any chance that his behavior changed recently? Any unexplained absences? Maybe he met up with somebody that you've never seen before? What are you implying? Ah, we are just trying to see if Jimmy's movements can tell us His movements? 22 years we were married.
He was a good man, and I'm not gonna let you dirty his name.
Mrs.
Gerrard, that's not what we're trying to do here.
Please just leave.
All right, black Dodge Charger - with a cracked windshield.
- Right here.
Look to you like a bird did this? I mean, if the bird is packing.
The question is why Gerrard would lie about it.
Lieutenant, we saw someone shot at Gerrard's car two days ago, shattered his windshield.
You know anything about that? First I've heard of it.
You you surprised that he kept you out of the loop? Jimmy was a big boy.
He wouldn't have wanted to trouble the unit with his own stuff.
- So he was a good cop.
- One of the best.
Known him forever.
His uncle Joe was my CO.
Any cases you can think of where his collars were carrying a grudge? All of them 'cause he did his job, - but I'll send over his files.
- Appreciate that.
Knows the guy forever, but Gerrard doesn't tell him that someone shot up his car.
That sound right to you? Yeah, we'll see.
Yeah, well, you won't hear me complain about 26 Fed again.
Cop life.
In my squad, I used to sit beside this old heater, man.
That thing whistled all winter long, and it drove me crazy.
So let me ask you, why do you sound so nostalgic about it? You're always nostalgic about where you started.
I'm not.
That's 'cause you sold your soul to work on Wall Street.
True.
Door's that way, folks.
Is there a problem, Detective? A problem is when feds start asking a cop widow if her just-murdered husband was dirty.
Well, I know the agents that you're talking about, and there's no way that Look, it's all good, all right? Got what we came for.
Seriously? All right, so the video from the pawn shop opposite Sunny's Bar is clean, and we have not been able to run down any footage from the street where Gerrard was shot, but here is something that might raise a flag.
Our victim bypassed the NYPD's contracted auto repair joint and opted for his own shop.
So he came out of pocket for that repair? That's not a first choice on a cop salary.
Right.
Sounds like he's hiding something.
Well, yeah, we need more information.
Yeah, we get something from Gerrard's dash cam? The shooting wasn't captured, but I found something else the same day that happened.
- Things heat up fast.
- Yeah.
Okay, we get a visual of the guy he's arguing with? Nope, guy never steps into frame.
So theory is Gerrard's killer accosted him, shot at his windshield, and killed him two nights later? If the incidents are related, yes.
Let's vet his case files.
Prioritize recent collars.
Focus on threats.
Anything that got physical, yeah? We're gonna have to multitask.
Another detective was just ambushed and shot in Astoria.
Go.
Get down to the scene.
We need to figure out if these shootings are related.
Hey.
Detective Aaron Dane rushed to Eastern Ridge Hospital.
No word on his condition.
- Where's he out of? - 2-7, major crimes.
It's the same precinct, the same unit.
Yeah.
Any witnesses? Boulevard's a few blocks away.
So it's a pretty quiet street, but dog walker saw something.
- Hey, what can you tell us? - I'm across the street.
Benji's doing his thing.
Guy comes strolling out of the bodega with a coffee.
Dude in a ski mask pulls up on a red bike, blammo.
So it was a guy? White guy.
I saw his hand holding the gun.
- And he only fired one shot? - Yeah.
Dude went down like a sack of potatoes.
- Biker never stopped.
- Thanks.
Sounds like our killer's targeting detectives from the 2-7.
Yeah, if that's the case Might be more coming down the pike.
You don't need a plan to target uniforms, but our perp's ambushing plainclothes detectives from the same precinct away from their squad.
So assume a connection.
Unless ballistics says different.
Meantime, we are dealing with a serial shooter, so we are waiting on nothing.
Kelly, what did ERT dig up? A red bike found in a dumpster two blocks from the Dane shooting.
Seat puts the rider at 5'7" or so.
Okay, Ian, throw up the dash cam video of the Gerrard altercation again.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, there it is.
Okay, roll it.
Yeah, freeze it there.
Can you estimate The guy's height off of Gerrard's eyeline? - Sure can.
- Beautiful.
Approximately 5'7".
So the guy Gerrard was beefing with is the same height as the guy who shot Dane.
Meaning it could be the same shooter.
Let's narrow our focus to cases Dane worked with Gerrard.
We're looking for a short guy with an axe to grind with both detectives.
- Detective.
- Special Agent Bell.
This is Special Agent Zidan.
You doing okay? Yeah.
Through and through.
St.
Michael must've been looking down.
Uh, we have some questions for Detective Dane.
Can you guys give us a minute? Hey, you know, Yancey, he's my guy.
He can stay.
Ah, can you tell us about the shooter? Short, white guy, red bike, ski mask.
20s I got to peg it.
Okay.
Did he say anything to you? Yeah, he said, "Die, you son of a bitch.
" Anyone you know have beef with both you and Gerrard? Try the whole damn city 'cause the power brokers don't have the guts to back us up.
If you need to reach me.
Rest up.
All right, March 2018, Gerrard and Dane collared the head of the Sixth Street Posse, - Evander Fields.
- No, no.
Shot caller's not gonna wait five years to retaliate.
He'd do it right away to make a statement, right? They broke up a $20-million counterfeit ring in August.
Ah, unlikely.
Forgers deal in paper because they don't want to get their hands dirty.
Come on, people.
We're looking for fresh wounds that could trigger someone.
- Violent priors.
- Okay, okay.
I think I might have something.
Rafael Alvarez, 5'8".
Assault convictions.
Was arrested for fleeing a gun buy-and-bust last summer.
Beat it on a technicality, but he said the cops stole his money.
I read about that case.
200 grand at the crime scene went missing.
Okay, wait.
Throw him up.
This guy, Rafael Alvarez claims Gerrard and Dane stole his money? Were they ever charged? No, but another detective was.
- Guy named Rudinsky.
- Where is he now? Looks like he's doing a stretch upstate until he was killed in the prison yard three weeks ago.
Okay, so somebody is killing off the guys that stole Rafael's money.
Looks like we're tracking down this Rafael Alvarez.
I don't have a last known address, Jubal.
- There's nothing on file.
- Try his cell phone.
It's not pinging.
It must be off.
But get this, historical GPS has him near the bar Gerrard was shot the night of the murder.
Well, this just keeps getting better and better.
All right, if we can't track down him the modern way, let's use the old-fashioned way.
Find somebody that knows this guy.
File says a patrol officer named Ruiz was also at the scene of the Alvarez bust.
She's the one who actually made the collar.
Okay.
Hey, Tiffany, it's Jubal.
I need you to track down an NYPD patrol officer named - Michelle Ruiz.
- Michelle Ruiz.
Find out what she knows about a guy named Rafael Alvarez.
Elise will fill you in.
Yeah, I remember Alvarez.
You know anything about this missing money business? No, I mean, there was money supposedly in the apartment, but I never went inside.
Lucky you.
Three detectives who did haven't been doing so well.
Yeah, I know all about that.
- Gotta be a connection, right? - Don't know.
Like I said, I never went inside the apartment.
- But you made the arrest.
- Yeah.
By the time I got to the scene, Alvarez had taken off.
When he figured out he was selling guns to cops, he ran like hell.
Tracked him down 20 minutes later over at his grandmother's place up in Washington Heights.
You think you can dig up that address for us? Ground floor apartment, East 134th Street.
Drives a red Camaro too.
Across the street from Garvey Park.
Wow, is your memory always this good? Well, when the perp gives me something to remember him by, it is.
Two surgeries and five screws.
That's a hell of a collar.
Yeah, well, tell it to the brass.
I'm up for my shield again this year, fourth year running.
Hang in there.
It took me four years too.
- You were a cop? - Yeah.
- Jubal.
- Thanks.
We got a lead on Alvarez.
It's definitely his car.
Old-school alarm means old school sound.
Mr.
Alvarez, FBI.
We have some questions to ask you.
Oh! - Ow, what'd I do? - We'll tell you all about it.
I had nothing to do with no cop shootings.
Okay, so why did you throw a bat at us and take off running? My baby mama has been telling lies about a fight we didn't have.
It's a parole violation, so I got scared.
Or you had bad blood with those cops, right? Last night you were at the bar before one of them got shot.
You were stalking them.
- I wasn't stalking nobody.
- So why were you at the bar? I was just there to tell Dane and Gerrard that the money they stole wasn't mine.
It's the DeMarco brothers', and we're all dead unless they cough it up.
Yeah, okay, there's no way we're buying that.
They say they want their money or they'll do me like that cop Rudinsky they smoked in prison.
So you exchange words with either of these cops last night? No, I got tired of waiting, and I took off, okay? No, not okay.
I want you to account for every minute when you left that bar and we picked you up.
Every minute.
If he's telling the truth Then we are looking at some serious police corruption.
I'll brief the mayor, let him know what might be coming down the pike.
Are you sure you want to send up a flare right now? Meaning? We don't have any evidence, and our one and only witness is a career criminal.
I mean, we get in front of this and we don't have proof, we could get burned.
Right, but if we do find proof and we say nothing, he'll think we sandbagged him.
Hey, pull up security footage from the store opposite the bar Gerrard was at last night.
This time we're looking for Alvarez's red Camaro.
No, rewind.
Yeah, there it is.
- When does he drive off? - 11:34.
An hour before Gerrard was shot.
Unlikely Alvarez doubled back.
I mean, sitting on a place to whack someone, you stay put.
Yeah, yeah, pull up nearby traffic cams.
Let's see if we can figure out where he went.
On that.
Okay.
Here's a Camaro heading to the BQE a few blocks away at 11:36.
Heading away from the crime scene.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Guy on a red bike.
Industrial part of town that time of night.
Is there enough for facial rec? Profile shot, but might be enough.
Yeah, Ray Rudinsky, 19.
- Son - Of Pat Rudinsky.
The detective that was murdered in prison.
- So the guy shooting cops - Is the son of a cop.
I want his last known address and SWAT on standby! Let's go, people! FBI! We have a warrant! FBI! Show me your hands! Clear immediate! - Where's your son? - I-I-I don't know.
- Where is your son? - I don't know! - Where is he? - I don't know.
What do you want with my son? He's a suspect in two police shootings.
No, it's impossible.
When's the last time you saw him? And we know that he called you two days ago and that you transferred money into his account - the day before the shooting.
- I did not.
Ms.
Rudinsky, we understand that you want to protect your son, okay, but letting every law enforcement agent in the city hunt him down is not the way to do it.
Ray hasn't been home since his dad's funeral last week.
What did he say to you when he called you? He was in trouble and needed help.
And when your kid says that, you don't ask any questions.
Really? Sounds like a very good time to ask questions.
- Did he say where he was? - No.
- He and his dad were close? - Nobody closer.
Ray's been a wreck since his father's death.
And then when no cops showed up at Pat's funeral, Ray was furious.
He said everything was the NYPD's fault.
Okay.
Why did he say that? Ma'am? Because Pat told him the truth.
The truth about what? That damn gun bust.
Gerrard and Dane told Pat that they wanted to split all the money that was sitting there, 200 grand, but Pat was clean.
He wanted nothing to do with it.
He pled guilty to theft.
Yeah, because they pressured him.
They said cops have to stick together, you know? So they made him take $10,000 to dirty him up, and then and then IAB starts looking into Pat.
Runs his financials, so he cut a deal to avoid ratting out his fellow cops.
You know, blue wall, all that crap? Like he was ever one of them with a name like Rudinsky.
I still feel dirty about taking money from those lousy cops, but we needed it.
I'm sorry, what? Gerrard and Dane gave you money? Every week.
Because Pat ate the charge, so they said that they would take care of us.
Why did your husband suddenly decide to tell Ray all of this? Pat was having a hard time on the inside, and he was he was afraid, you know, if he was killed that his son would think that he was a dirty cop.
Okay, where's Ray? We need to know now! You got it all wrong.
My son would never hurt anyone.
- Mrs.
Rudinsky - My husband is dead, and now you want to take my son away from me too? I don't know where he is.
Okay.
Thank you.
We have a BOLO out on Ray.
We're up on his cell, but his phone's off - and his social media's dark.
- Son of a cop.
Is that him? Ray! Hey, stop! Oh, oh! Hey! Hey! Where you at, Ray? He's gone.
I'll call it in.
Damn it.
Hey, so after Ray slipped our containment, we were able to get footage of him entering Ditmars subway station.
So he could be in any of the five boroughs by now.
Just heard from the AUSA.
Jan Rudinsky lawyered up.
Okay, it doesn't mean she's going to stop helping her kid.
Where are we on the mom's accounts? I'm seeing ATM hits in Riverdale over the last few days.
Convenience store, fast food joints.
Okay, Riverdale, what's in Riverdale? There was a photo in Ray's room of him and his father outside of a red brick house.
Right, run a title search for any property under the Rudinsky's name in that area.
Nothing.
Try Jan Rudinsky's maiden name.
Roger that.
Jan Borkowski.
Got a hit.
Cottage on Cambridge registered to a Lena Borkowski.
Looks like Lena died earlier this year and left the place that her daughter, Jan.
Title still hasn't changed hands.
All right, great, go.
Elise'll send you the address.
- Got a second? - Yeah, sure.
Allegations of police corruption, cop's kid killing cops.
Means we've got some clarity now, right? - Agreed.
- So NYPD should take the con.
It's a department case top to bottom.
We know what we know because my agents have been busting their humps.
That makes it an FBI case, even without the police corruption, which triggers our jurisdiction.
This something maybe to run up the flagpole? In this case, I am the flagpole.
He doesn't look happy.
Yeah, they want to take over the case, control the narrative.
I told him we're holding the line.
Good.
My phone is burning up with press inquiries.
It's way more than usual.
- Okay, you want some help? - No, I'm good.
You stay on top of things here.
FBI.
Upstairs is clear.
All right, downstairs is clear too.
Tiff.
He hasn't been here in a while.
It's a list with Gerard and Dane's addresses on it.
Another name on here too.
Michelle Ruiz, beat cop from the Alvarez case.
Where are we? Yeah, just got off the phone with Ruiz.
She finished her shift and is heading home.
Tiff and Schola are on their way to her place.
Maggie and OA are circling back to Dane at the hospital.
I need updates, people.
What's going on? We've got ground surveillance and air supports up looking for Ray.
We also have traces on his phone and his mom's.
We got teams stationed at the cottage and outside the Rudinsky residence.
He's running out of options.
He's gonna be desperate.
Yeah, that's what worries me.
Three cops testified at Rudinsky's trial.
One's dead, one's shot, and the other is on the killer's hit list.
Let's find this kid.
If it's even half a lead, chase it.
Wait.
Oh, my gosh.
Hey, you all right? Hey.
Hang in there, okay? I'm gonna put pressure on it.
Scola! Gonna get you some help.
Hold on.
Just hang in there, okay? All right, all right.
Take it easy.
FBI! Drop your weapon! - I'll shoot her.
- Drop it now! I'll kill her! I'll kill them both.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
Okay, all right.
There's no need for that.
I'm leaving, okay? Easy.
Yeah, we got an officer down with a gunshot wound.
Send an ambulance ASAP to 1436 Quentin Street.
Officer and agent have been taken hostage.
Talk to me.
Where we at? He is not budging.
He's drawn the shades.
Snipers can't get a clear shot.
We need to open a line of communication.
Yeah, I've been trying, Jubal.
Yeah, well, keep trying.
Hey, Ray, Special Agent Bell again.
There's a way out of this, but only if you speak with me.
I'm gonna keep calling, so please answer your phone.
I wanna know what you want.
She needs medical attention.
She's gonna bleed to death.
Good.
She framed my dad.
She can suffer the way he did before she dies.
Come on, man.
You got the math on this all wrong.
Oh, yeah? Well, maybe I should just shoot her now.
Hey, okay, Ray.
But think, all right? You're a detective's kid.
This woman is a beat cop.
She wasn't in that room, didn't have access to that money.
There's no way she could have been a part of a plan to frame your father.
I don't care.
Yes, you do.
I know you want justice for your father, and I get that But you're not gonna get it by killing this woman.
Turn on your phone, Ray.
Look, I can't get you anything, but they can.
How long has it been since you've eaten? They can help with that.
Ray? - I just want food, okay? - We can definitely do that.
Just give us 20 minutes, and we'll get you some pizza.
What else do you need so that we can end this right now without anyone else getting hurt? Dane.
- You took Dane out.
- Don't lie to me.
I have my dad's old scanner.
I know he's still alive.
He's seriously wounded, Ray, and even if he weren't, you know we can't bring him here.
Yes, you can! - You have 30 minutes! - Ray.
30 minutes or I'm killing them both.
You hear me? Ray.
I don't know if I can talk him off the ledge.
Well, if we can't, we stall him out until we get a clean shot.
Ray, if you end this now, I give you my word, I won't rest until Detective Dane is brought to justice.
I have his justice right here.
He's tuning us out.
Hey, kid's pretty bunkered down.
The occasional peep from behind the shades, but not enough to give our snipers an opening.
Yeah.
Well, we got ten minutes until Ray starts shooting hostages, assuming Ruiz hasn't already bled to death.
We're gonna have to breach.
I'm not liking our odds here, Jubal.
Yeah, me neither, but we may not have another choice.
What the hell? Come on.
Get rid of these idiots.
- Guys, we got this, okay? - Yeah, the hell you do.
You're obstructing a federal investigation, gentlemen.
Yeah? 'Cause we're not leaving.
Hey, wise up! If this kid sees you, what do you think his demand is going to be? Are you ready to give yourself up, Detective? No? Then he'll start shooting, and the first targets he'll take aim at are in that house.
So please get the hell out of his line of sight.
Or don't, and you can explain to the commission you're hauled in front of how you heroes showed up and got both our hostages killed.
The second you screw this up, we're stepping in.
Let's go.
Seven minutes.
Dane's not coming 'cause nobody cares.
Just like nobody cared about my dad.
You have a right to be upset.
What'd you say? What I did to your dad, what we all did, there was no excuse.
Hey, hey, take it easy, okay? You lost a lot of blood.
You stop talking.
You.
You you said that that I have a right to be upset.
- Why? - Because I lied.
I testified that your dad got to the crime scene before Gerrard and Dane, but he had gotten there after.
Why? Why would you say that? When your dad was arrested, Gerrard and Dane told me that he was a dirty cop who had stolen all that cash.
They said that if I didn't back them, your dad was gonna to take us all down.
It was the only thing that I could do.
The only thing you could do? My dad could have cut a deal.
He could have stayed out of prison.
He'd still be alive.
Look, you wanted the truth, right? Now you've got it.
Now Dane can be prosecuted, and he will be, so let's just end this, okay? Yeah.
Yeah, because because she finally told the truth, right? And the truth is that that all cops are dirty stinking liars! All of them! And my dad He'd still be alive if it weren't for you.
He'd be here.
FBI! Show me your hands! - Federal agents! - Go! Go! Get the hell off her! I'm good.
She she needs to get to a hospital right now.
I'm on it.
EMTs, we need you in here right away.
- Wheels up.
- You're all set.
There you go.
Good work, Tiff.
Yeah, well, job's not done yet.
I have to go follow up with Ruiz.
You want me to come with you? Thanks, but I got this one.
- Hey, heard you wanna see me? - Yeah.
Mayor's office wants to huddle up tonight about the cop shootings.
DA, FOP, police brass.
I'm snowed in, so I'll need you to fly the flag.
Never hurts to get face time with the big boys.
Yeah, I'm happy to do it, but let's not kid ourselves about what's really going on here.
We elbowed the NYPD out of the way, made some enemies, and now I get to take the heat.
- Hey.
- Oh.
- Um, these are for you.
- Thank you.
How you doing? I'm okay.
New York strong, right? Look We have to talk about what you said to Rudinsky's kid.
You gotta come forward.
It's over.
There's nothing I can do about this now.
But you know the truth.
You know Dane's dirty.
I come forward, go after Dane, I'll blow my career.
Guy's a legend.
He has friends and family all over the department.
- Two cops are dead.
- I get that.
I do, but I'm good.
I'm gonna keep my mouth shut.
So if you're really that desperate about setting the record straight and letting the world know what really happened, then go ahead.
File a case.
One of what she's having.
Hey, how we doing? Okay, all things considered.
You know, you were right about Gerrard and Dane.
Maybe.
Thank you.
Nah, no maybes about it.
I did some digging.
Gerrard and Dane both opened up accounts under assumed names after the Alvarez bust.
Each deposited 95 grand and then bled it dry paying off Rudinsky's widow.
IAB didn't find this? Nope.
It's hard to find something you're not looking for.
Are you gonna come forward? To make this right, I'd have to ruin Ruiz's career.
I mean, she'd have to testify, go up against the blue wall and But I don't have a choice.
I have to do it.
Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.