Blue Bloods s06e17 Episode Script
Friends in Need
1 Thinking about getting my hair cut short.
That so? Real short.
So I could take my cap on and off, like you can.
Uh-huh.
No more pinning it up and sticking it in there.
That's a pain.
Plus a perp could grab it.
So it's also a liability.
Except when you're off duty, which is when it's just a great head of hair.
Thank you, Jamie.
And Eddie, believe me, when I say that really, truly, that's all I got for the hair.
That's more than I expected, actually.
Okay.
Hey, Steve got a new partner? Yeah, a newbie, still on probation.
Hey, Jamie, Eddie.
This is Marcus Beal.
He just transferred in from the 2-7.
Hey.
Hey.
Welcome.
How's it going? Hey.
Nice to meet you.
Give me a sec.
All right.
I'll meet you out front.
All right.
Not wearing your vest.
Yeah, I know.
You should probably go put one on.
Naw, I'm good.
No, go put one on.
Am I missing something here? I I thought my boss was that Renzelli guy.
Renzulli.
It's department policy.
Everybody wears a vest.
Policy huh? All right, so you're one of those? Yeah, it's policy.
And also, it's maybe life and death, yours and your partner's.
All right, well then, you know Steve can say something, or the sarge can, but, you know, there's no policy that says I gotta answer to you.
All right? Rough Tough Creampuff.
Above my pay grade.
Never thought I'd actually hear you say that.
Lived and learned.
Have you seen Anthony? I think he went down to the break room.
Break room? He owes me a mountain of paperwork.
You want me to go get him? No, I'll go.
And get the paperwork.
Two birds, one stone.
Harry, you're not listening.
Oh, no, no.
We're listening, okay? We're hearing him loud and clear.
He doesn't have our money.
I have what you signed I don't care what I signed! You said the end of the month.
Come on, he's dead to rights here.
No, I told you that I can't flip the property until after the closing.
Now, you get your profit when I flip, that's how it works.
Profit?! Profit?! That's what you signed! Forget about profit, Joe.
Forget about profit, okay? I just want the money back.
I can't believe you vouched for this idiot.
I can't believe you forgot to tell us what a lying scumbag he is.
Okay, Harry, that's enough! What's with the fingers, huh?! Hey! What's going on here? Small misunderstanding.
100 grand ain't small.
The situation's exactly what he said it was.
What is your problem? My problem? You're ripping off cops.
You got it coming.
The both of you.
Oh, really?! Yeah! Now it's a threat?! That was a threat! You're going to threaten me?! (all shouting) Break it up! Both of you, upstairs.
Hey.
What are you doing here? Oh, I was thinking maybe we could hit the range.
You know I figured I owe you a chance for a double or nothing.
Double or nothing? Last time was a scratch.
Not a chance-- I had you by three on the last sheet.
I can't anyway.
I got plans.
Plans with who, your couch? (laughs) All right, fine, whatever, rain check.
You really came all the way down here to settle a bet? Actually, no.
You remember me telling you about a Corporal Jimmy Beal? Yeah, he saved your life in Iraq.
More than once.
His family's in Virginia.
His widow is, but his son's up here now.
And I want you to mentor him.
Mentor him? Yeah.
He just graduated the Academy a couple months ago.
All right, well how come me and not you? 'Cause he was transferred to your precinct.
There he is right now.
Hey! Uncle Danny! What are you doing here? Just checking up on you.
Marcus this is my kid brother, Jamie.
Jamie, this is Marcus.
He's your brother? Oh, you two have met.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, whatever the hell happened between the two of you, let's say we take a mulligan, okay? Okay? Okay.
Okay.
Good.
(indistinct chatter) (quietly): Thank you.
Please, sit down.
Well, let's see.
Deputy Director Harold Kellen of MI5, Deputy Commissioner Roger Thornton, Metropolitan Police, Commander Sloane Thompson, of the City of London Police.
Welcome.
You are, uh, going to be seeing things out in the field over the next couple of days.
You're going to have questions answered and perhaps even suspicions confirmed that go to the heart of how we protect our city and our way of life from the terrorists who would stop at nothing to destroy it-- or your own London as well.
Any pictures that you take, any notes that you make, electronic or otherwise, need to be vetted thoroughly by us, are we agreed? Of course, Commissioner.
I prefer to keep it all up here in my head.
Photographic memory? I've always found that the really vital stuff tends to stick.
Commander Thompson? Agreed.
Good.
Thank you.
And quite clever, that, if I may say so.
That what? That for-your-eyes-only bit just then.
As if we're going to be privy to your drone-strike protocols and electro-shock treatments.
Well, I assure you, we don't have those capabilities, Commander.
But we're not really going to see the capabilities you do have, now are we? Commander? I would like to go on record here As being presumptuous? As having been promised straight whiskey, but fearing that I'm being served with weak tea.
And what makes you think that, Commander? I've done some homework, Commissioner Reagan.
I've spoken to a number of private-sector security heads who've attended your SHIELD program.
Another program we're very proud of.
But the breadth of access to your department and its works appears to me to line up almost exactly with that of the SHIELD program Sloane, for God's sake.
No.
Let her go.
As if London and her citizens and her landmarks deserve no more of your insight and expertise than a hotel chain or an investment bank, a pharmaceutical firm, the entities for whom SHIELD is designed.
Well, your homework's incomplete.
That's just not true.
I sincerely hope that by the time we leave here tomorrow night, you will have shared with us what you truly dread, what you're prepared to do about what you truly dread, what you know that no one else does.
Well, I can tell you one thing the Irish in me truly dreads.
Ultimatums delivered in British accents.
Blue Bloods 6x17 Friends in Need @elderman (sighs) Thanks for waiting.
Look, what you walked in on was between me and Anthony and his Bernie Madoff wannabe.
Don't start.
What I walked in on was a beef about money, and I want it settled in-house.
So start talking.
Anthony here got me to go in on a real estate deal with his pal, Joey.
Only I'm starting to think these properties don't even exist.
You saw them yourself.
I saw some condos, yeah.
What I haven't seen is any money.
You agreed to tie it up until the closing, the date of which is out of his control.
I asked around.
Joey messed with some charity funds at the 6-4 precinct.
You got proof? I got word.
You ask them yourself.
I will.
You're just trying to run out on the contract you signed.
What, your, uh, self-respect retire when you did? You know, if you want to talk to me, you give me a call.
But I'm done sitting here with this Judas.
Joey's digits? Erin, this guy's not a crook.
How long you know Joey? All my life.
He's my cousin.
He's family? Close as brothers.
Closer even.
(sighs) Uncle Danny? I could be wrong, but I think the kid even wears the same aftershave.
(chuckles) So why is your brother trying to pawn him off on you? His way of spreading the love around, I guess.
Reagan! Ooh, I don't envy your day.
Ready to go? Ready as I'm gonna be.
I got my vest on, so I'll protect you out there.
Good to know.
Lighten up, man.
Come on.
Look, you're the one who requested me, remember? Because he's trying to help you.
Well, I don't need help.
Right.
You got it all figured out.
Eddie.
I'm gonna go and try and find Steve.
You guys be safe out there today.
Now her I wouldn't mind riding with.
That right? What's her deal? She single? Why don't you ask her? I'm asking you.
Next subject.
Are you really Danny's brother? 'Cause you guys are some kind of opposite.
We have our differences.
You've known Danny a long time? Yeah, yeah, since I was a kid.
He helped my mom out a lot when my Dad didn't come back from Iraq.
That's good.
Danny's a stand-up guy.
Yeah.
But you're riding with me today, so I'm not gonna lecture you or tell you what to do, but I got six years on the job.
I can share some experience.
Which is your way of telling me you're gonna school me.
Just trying to make this day productive for both of us, all right? Harry was telling the truth.
There are allegations your cousin scammed a fundraiser at the 6-4.
Allegations aren't charges.
He made good.
Three months late.
And only after serious threats were made to his health and well-being.
That's just talk.
Once bitten, twice shy.
What does that mean? It means I'm gonna dig into this.
And I'm telling you because I don't want you to think I'm going after family behind your back.
But you are going after my family.
I am going after an individual who may be using his connections in this office to scam other people in this office.
You think I'd do that? I'd allow that? No.
I'm not certain that you are aware.
Oh, so now what? You're calling me stupid.
Did you hook Joey up at the 6-4? No.
No? Our second cousin Ralph's a sergeant up there.
You'll stay out of this.
No.
It's not really a question.
I want in.
He's your cousin, Anthony.
And I'm 100% certain he's innocent.
But if one of my family's accused of something like this, then I think another one of my family deserves a chance to clear his name.
And what if the facts fall otherwise? I'd arrest my own mother if I thought she was scamming cops.
Your own mother.
Well, with a lot of back-up.
Please, Erin, don't insult me.
I won't.
Okay, yeah, this place is legit.
This place is legit.
Yeah, that's all Eddie-- she's like a walking Michelin Guide for cheap eats.
Oh, yeah? See? Now that's the kind of experience I can learn from.
Yeah.
DISPATCHER (over radio): All units, be advised.
We have a 10-20, corner of Houston and Jones.
Perp is a male, white, wearing a red hoodie.
That's up the block.
Yo, there he is.
Wait, hold on.
Sit tight.
We'll spin around and get him Stop! Police! I said sit tight! Move it! Stop! MARCUS: Stop! Police! (grunting, shouting) Hey! Hey! Watch out! Hey! (gasping, girl shouts) (grunting, shouting) Don't move! Ow! Okay, okay! (sobbing) Okay! Turn over! Turn over! (grunting) (baby crying) JAMIE: I'm going to turn you over, okay? (girl crying) Where you going, bro, huh? Hey, call a bus! (sobbing continues) FRANK: The fact is that Edward Snowden set us way, way back in terms of our ability to harvest Intel.
How much of that setback do your open sources shore up? Hard to, if not impossible, to put a yardstick on that.
Could you try? Well, say we get a call.
Guy buys X amount of fertilizer.
A guy who's address is an apartment in the city who has no normal need for X amount of fertilizer.
He also buys nine pressure cookers in the next state over, and we get that call, too.
You want that guy.
And we'll get that guy.
But the guy we'll miss drove an SUV packed with AK-47's up the east coast.
And we will miss him because we do not have a cooperating merchant or a CI to call it in.
Pretty big hole in the net.
Thank you, Commander Obvious.
Well, it is a pretty big hole in the net.
But I expect it's more our problem than yours.
From what I can tell, your telecoms don't have the same restrictions put on them as ours.
You can scrub communications that we can't touch without miles of red tape.
Too little too late.
In the name of what? Privacy? Not gonna go there.
KELLEN: Commissioner, we want to thank you for this most illuminating couple of days.
Just-Just a minute here.
Commander Thompson.
Commissioner? (sighs) You asked me what I dread the most? Yes.
The Paris attacks.
How low tech they were.
A handful of actors whose whole plot consisted of synchronizing their watches to the tick of the clock on a nothing Friday night.
But you still think I'm holding back? Yes, I do.
Really, Sloane.
Excuse us, Commissioner, we're late for a meeting at the consulate.
Wouldn't want to keep them waiting.
You say that you're restricted by law from scrubbing cellular communications, from a take-no-prisoners approach to the surveillance of Muslim communities, of their mosques, and you just stop there? You're asking us to believe that you haven't found ways under and around.
You don't have black-ops procedures that, uh, might aid our efforts were you to share them? That's a very smart question.
And so you're smart enough to know that that is a question that I cannot answer.
So there we are.
THORNTON: Very well, then.
Sorry to disappoint you, Commander.
Not at all, Commissioner.
Just trying to do my job.
Safe travels.
So Rough Tough Creampuff made a collar.
Yeah, and ignored my directions to sit tight and sent a little girl to the hospital in the process.
MARCUS: All of a sudden, so I'm booking down the street, mad fast, I'm running full speed, people coming out, pushing people out of the way, all of a sudden, this woman with a stroller just comes out of nowhere, just comes straight out of nowhere, man.
I'm going so fast, though, so I just jump right over the stroller.
(chuckling) Cab comes, knocks the perp onto the hood, I dive, crack him over the hood like T.
J.
Hooker.
Boom.
Take him down.
Done.
Track star.
Hand to God.
Hand to God.
Good job, partner.
MARCUS: Yeah, you feeling lucky to have me? STEVE: I don't know about that.
But congratulations on your first collar at the 12th.
Huh? Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We gotta talk.
(sighs) No, I'm guessing you're the one that needs to talk.
Yeah, because you put a little girl in the hospital today.
Oh, man.
It was an accident.
She got, what? A stich? A dozen.
Because of your recklessness.
Are you seriously trying to teach me lessons? Now? I'm not teaching, I'm telling.
I was the senior officer, I made a call, and you ignored it.
'Cause it was the wrong call.
The perp would have got away.
What if he had a gun? There was a whole crowd of people standing right there.
You know what? I acted, you didn't, okay? You're just mad because the rookie made the collar and not the six-year veteran.
Hey, this isn't about me.
You know, whatever you say.
Hey, why don't you listen to someone besides yourself for a change?! You gave that kid's family a hell of a scare.
The only one who was scared was you! Now get out of my face! All right! That's enough! That's enough! (chuckles): Ooh I seriously can't believe you're Danny Reagan's brother.
That? That's above your pay grade.
You got that right.
Screw it.
HENRY: Hi.
Hi.
Sunday dinner.
Ooh.
What are we having? Turducken.
Really? Yeah, Nicky's idea.
Ordered it special from New Orleans.
I've always wanted to try that.
And Sunday you will have your chance.
I'll get these.
(sighs) Give me an honest answer.
Never.
Have I become too cynical? Of course not.
I think my job makes me assume the worst in people.
Nah, you're a realist.
Goes with the job.
But maybe to a fault? What's going on? (sighs) I have to investigate a detective's cousin.
A detective I work with closely.
Anthony? His cousin's been accused of scamming cops with bogus investments.
And you're just looking into it.
That goes with the job, doesn't mean you're a cynic.
Yeah, it's not that part, though.
See, Anthony has insisted on digging into it with me, even though it's his cousin, and one that's like a brother.
And you have doubts about his real intentions.
Yes.
Now, I know this man.
Anthony is a good guy.
But there's something in me that just (sighs) assumes the worst.
Well better to be teaching the hard way than learning the hard way.
No, and I should have called ahead.
He should be here any minute.
If you could let the commissioner know that I'll Hello.
BAKER: Oh, no need.
Sorry, I was out at a crime scene.
Yes, um, and, uh, sorry to just pop in like this.
Well, here we are.
Indeed.
I've come to apologize.
You don't have anything to apologize for.
Apparently I do.
Apparently I was rude and interruptive, and apparently I overstepped any number of boundaries.
And judging from all these âapparentlysâ, apparently this apology is an order from above.
A suggestion, sir.
Where are Frick and Frack? Washington.
I've been disinvited from that leg of the trip.
Because of your lack of manners.
Look, uh I know how I come across.
I'm passionate about police work, and police work has a ticking clock on it, as lives are at stake, and that makes me impatient to get what I need, which often results in my having to apologize.
Anyway, I don't want to waste any more of your time, so (elevator bell dings) All right.
Okay.
Uh So again, uh, sorry.
And thank you.
It's been informative.
ANTHONY: Erin, I hear what you're saying, but maybe ERIN: You wanted in on the investigation, this is what it is.
ANTHONY: Yeah, I understand that.
But maybe Ramus was in on a dozen developments with Joey.
Yeah.
Until the car crash.
Yeah, so, if anything was going on, maybe she knows about it.
Just seems a little dark, you know? Digging into this widow on a whim.
It's not a whim.
But with all the money he was moving, I'm a little surprised the house isn't nicer.
Just go easy, okay? Please? Erika Ramus? Yes? ADA Erin Reagan, this is Investigator Abetemarco from the DA's office.
We have some questions about Joey Ruscoli.
You know him? Yeah.
He's a family friend.
We understand that he and your late husband were business partners.
They were.
I'm sorry, what's this about? Well, there's been some unsubstantiated allegations over Joey's business practices.
Fraud, in fact.
I don't know anything about that.
So, in all your husband's business ventures you never noticed anything suspicious or illegal? Reagan.
Wait.
Is this about Joey or my husband? Maybe both.
Will you excuse me a minute? (door opening) Look, it's been hard losing Andrew, but Joey's been a light.
Whatever Whoever you think he is, I'm telling you you're wrong about it.
And my husband was the most honest man I ever knew.
Thank you for your time.
(door closes) Well, I guess we're gonna have to look elsewhere.
Really, Erin? What? You know, it's okay to be wrong once in a while.
(echoing gunshots) Hey.
Hey, I didn't hear you.
Double or nothing still? Sure.
Heard you and Marcus got into it.
Yeah, he knocked a little kid down.
Sent her to the hospital while he was making an arrest.
Bad luck? Bad policing, Danny.
Only happened because he ignored the plan of a more experienced police officer-- namely, me.
Huh.
He told me it was a good collar.
Did he? Yeah.
We both know how you can be.
How I can be? Yeah, you know, Mr.
By-The-Book.
Like you wrote the Patrol Guide yourself.
Something wrong with that? I'm just saying the kid's got good instincts.
You shouldn't hold him back.
Are his âgood instinctsâ why you had him placed in my precinct? (chuckles) What do you mean? That means you knew he was a liability, Danny.
You-You're trying to protect him.
You're damn right I'm trying to protect him.
Yeah, at my expense.
What are you worried about anyway? You worried about your golden boy reputation being tarnished? Is that it? Whatever, Danny.
Whatever? Look, you don't want to help the kid, don't help him.
There's a reason there's a Patrol Guide, Danny.
Keeps guys alive.
Yeah, you know what doesn't keep guys alive? Hesitating.
Weighing the options when there's only one option.
To act.
You know, you're part of his problem, Danny.
Maybe you're part of the problem.
Your example's made him reckless.
He's gonna get somebody killed.
Are we even? Not by a long shot.
(door opens) (knocking) There's a woman here to see you-- Erika Ramus? Send her in.
Cameron? Get Anthony up here, please.
I didn't sleep a wink last night.
If I overstepped yesterday You didn't.
You were looking for the truth, and I didn't give it to you.
What's this? Records.
Cancelled checks, bounced checks, receipts, bogus receipts-- anything my husband kept on his transactions with Joey.
Are you saying None of it was real.
Andrew didn't realize until it was too late.
We lost everything.
I mean Well, everything.
He couldn't live with it.
The car accident? (door opens) Wasn't an accident.
What's the word, E? Oh, excuse me.
Why didn't you tell us? After my husband died Joey helped.
Believe me, I wanted nothing to do with him, but the kids need to eat.
As long as I kept quiet, the money kept coming.
Quiet about the scams? Uh, but you said he was a family friend.
He told me to say that.
He also told me to expect a visit from you two, but I can't sleep at night thinking he could do this to another family.
I hope it helps.
That lying son of a bitch! I think it's time you stepped off the investigation.
Listen, if Joey thinks you're on to him, there's a good chance he's in the wind.
And if he is, who do you think he's gonna pick up the phone for, you or me? It doesn't matter.
Sure it does.
I'm your best bet to find him, and you know it.
(sighs) This is really delicious.
How do they make a turducken, anyway? They feed a chicken to a duck, and then feed that duck to a turkey.
Really? That's so gross.
NICKY: Mom.
They debone the birds and then layer them smallest to largest.
LINDA: Well, however they make it, boy, it's good.
HENRY: So, Francis, did the Brits actually listen to what you have to say, or were they just being British? One of them sure did-- kept pushing for more.
More what? More of the secret sauce, as the kids say.
Kids don't say that, Grandpa.
Oh, I thought they did.
SEAN: Some do.
Yeah, I think I've heard that.
Thank you.
I think it's more of a marketing buzzword.
Well, anyway, she keeps wanting to know things I can't tell her.
Like? Like, things I can't tell anybody.
Things we do, preparations we make that I can't risk becoming known.
Because they're illegal? No.
Well, why else? Because if they become known, they would cease to be effective.
Hmm.
JAMIE: Well, I got kind of the opposite thing going on.
How's that? I've been asked to mentor a newbie who doesn't give a damn about what I say.
Uh-uh, language.
Gosh darn about what I say.
DANNY: Maybe if you just try talking to him instead of talking down to him.
I've tried talking up, down, sideways.
Is he talking about Marcus? Yeah.
You know, âmentorâ doesn't mean âbe just like meâ.
It means, âlet me find your strengths, and help you grow themâ" Well, Marcus' strengths all seem to be in the chip on his shoulder.
Look deeper.
Not everybody's cut out to be a cop, Danny.
And you don't get to make that call, Jamie.
In this instance, I do.
He's got no discipline, he's got no regard for the rules, and he's an accident waiting to happen.
Says the guy who's still in uniform because he's a Because I choose to be! Let's keep it civil.
(sighs) For dessert, I made a Piecakey.
A what? It's a cookie baked into a pie baked into a cake.
I invented it.
Tough crowd today, Pop.
E-mails and voicemails and texts.
None of them returned.
You call around? Of course.
No one's seen him since Friday night.
Well, you did what you could.
(sighs) Yeah, but I haven't done what I said I would, which was to draw him in.
I've got enough to get a warrant for his arrest.
We'll just kick it over to the NYPD.
No.
I want this.
I should've seen this coming.
We can all be blind when it comes to family.
You're right.
There's one thing I haven't tried.
What? All Italian men have one weakness.
Yeah, wine, food? Well one above all the rest.
According to her office, she is still in New York, sir.
Oh, good.
I got her mobile number.
That's what they call it.
Not âcell,â âmobile.
â Right.
Do me a favor.
Would that be a favor with a U? Sorry.
Call and ask and see if she's available for an 8:00 meeting tonight.
You mean dinner? (pen clatters) A meeting that could include dinner, yes.
A working dinner.
Isn't that a call you'd want to make yourself, sir? Do I ever schedule my own meetings, Baker? No, sir.
I just meant that if I know what you meant.
Please schedule the meeting.
Should I ask her what kind of cuisine she prefers? I don't know.
Sure, okay.
That'll be all, Baker.
Yes, sir.
(door opens) I'm just saying, that's sort of what you signed up for.
Babysitting punks like Marcus? Mentoring rookies, like me, and yeah, some like Marcus.
Most rookies have a sense of respect for the job.
You did.
Well maybe Marcus does, too, in his own way.
He thinks he knows more than he does.
It's all an act.
I don't think so.
The kid lost his father really young.
That can change a person.
Maybe I don't have my dad's patience after all.
Trust me, you do.
DISPATCH: All units confines of the 12th precinct, be advised.
We have a 10-30 Borough Bank, Union and Grand Streets.
Two suspects, armed.
(siren wailing) (rings) There's got to be another way.
Not as fast and as sure as this.
Joey's very close to his mom.
(sighs) (squeals): Anthony! (laughs, kissing) Look at you! Aunt Sophia, beautiful as always.
(laughs) Come in, come in.
It's so cold! Anthony's aunt Sophia.
Hi, Erin Reagan.
Nice to meet you.
Let's get you something to eat.
Come on.
What do we got? Two armed perps inside with weapons on the clerk.
We gotta move in.
No, we gotta wait for ESU to get here.
Hey, Eddie, request HNT.
Central, 12-David The perps look real jumpy; I don't think we should wait.
There's four of us, let's take 'em.
No.
Steve, you and Marcus cover the front.
Eddie and I'll work our way around the back, see if we can get in there and talk 'em down.
Want to make sure we don't scare 'em into doing something even dumber.
Hey, Eddie.
Come on.
Everyone stay down! Come on, come on, just shove that money through! Hurry up! I said, hurry up! Come on, bitch, just throw the cash! Don't make me shoot her! Let's go, let's go, faster! Police! Don't move! JANKO: Drop your weapons! JAMIE: Nobody has to get hurt! Just get down on the ground.
Okay! What are you doing, man? Just put the gun down, man.
Calm down.
Listen to your partner.
Come on, let the lady go.
Don't be stupid.
All right, all right.
Put your gun down.
All right, all right.
Easy does it.
That's it.
Put down the gun.
Stop, police! (gunshots) (hostages screaming) JAMIE: Are you okay? JANKO: Yeah.
JAMIE: Okay.
JANKO: Show me your hands.
Give me your hands! Eddie, call it in.
JANKO: We need a bus forthwith on the corner of Houston and Jones.
I take it back.
That kid's a menace.
Take it easy.
You told him to wait outside! Yeah, trust me, I know.
He could've got us killed.
Oh, there he is.
You know, I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind.
Hey, hey.
Eddie, wait.
Listen.
I don't think yelling at him is gonna do anyone any good.
Well, it might do me some good! Just let me take this one.
You holding up? (sighs) Came here to say âI told you soâ? I don't really care, to be honest.
They almost killed me, man.
They almost killed all of us.
And no one had to get shot today.
Ah I don't know what to do.
You're in shock.
I've been there.
You'll be okay.
What's on the paper? My letter of resignation.
That may be the first smart thing you've done since you got here.
Ma? Ma, are you okay?! Ma, where are you? She stepped out, Joey.
She called me.
She told me she fell and couldn't get up! What the hell's going on, Anthony? She's fine.
Oh, thank God.
What is she doing here? No.
No, no, no, no! You son of a bitch.
You should've returned my call.
You did this? You set me up and used my mother, your aunt, as bait? After you used me to scam cops? You bet your skinny ass I did! You got nothing.
Story of your life.
We got plenty, Joey.
And what we don't have, you're gonna give to us.
I ain't saying nothing without a lawyer.
I already called Uncle Sal.
His guy's meeting us down at the DA's office.
Wow, thank you.
What a guy, Anthony.
Hey, you're family.
It's the least I could do.
You got the right to remain silent.
Anything you do or say may be used against you in a court of law.
Hey! Too tight! Hey, they're new.
They'll stretch when you break 'em in.
THOMPSON: So now you go.
No, I can't top yours.
And someone might overhear.
I can't get my voice down as low as you can.
You promised me a secret.
Fair's fair.
Dessert and coffee? Uh, no, not for me, thanks.
Commissioner? No, we'll just finish our wine.
Thank you.
Okay.
Confidential informants, uh, in radical mosques have worse odds of paying off than a Tijuana slot machine.
Really? Well, you get a huge percentage of them going double agent, you waste thousands of man-hours and put lives in danger in the bargain.
But everybody uses them.
You don't? As little as possible.
And you don't.
You don't have mosques in the Financial District.
No, but Thornton and Kellen certainly have informants in mosques.
You didn't share these doubts with them.
No, I didn't.
You were holding back.
No.
I couldn't warn them off of something that I can't prove.
I couldn't convince them that a disaffected young Muslim set up with a charismatic imam might not make for a reliable narrator.
And if I did, and they acted on my warnings, I might have compromised a valuable operation.
The known unknown.
The damned if you do, or damned if you don't thing.
I'm so sorry.
That wasn't editorial.
I'm still on UK time, and it's got to be, what? 4:00 in the morning? No offense taken.
No, I It's the truth.
I-I mean it.
Really, Frank.
I'll drop you at your hotel.
Where we might have a nightcap.
Uh, the hotel doesn't actually have a bar, but my room has a mini-bar.
Oh.
Oh (sighs) And there I go again, um, overstepping boundaries.
I think I'm just going to powder my nose.
(loud music playing inside) You might be getting better at the range, but I own you here.
Pride goeth before the fall.
Okay, Dad.
(whoops) Come on, double or nothing.
Drinks first.
You're buying.
Hey! I heard you did have a close one today, though.
Didn't have to be.
I know.
You were right about Marcus.
He's always been a pain in the ass.
Oh, really? Yeah.
But don't give up on him.
I don't think it matters now.
He turned in his letter of resignation.
I heard about that.
I spoke to his C.
O.
already.
I'm asking him to wait a few days before doing anything.
Danny, why are you trying to protect him? Because.
The kid's had a tough life, and he's trying to make it better.
I owe his old man, so I want to help.
So you're just going to keep transferring him from precinct to precinct forever? You know, for somebody as smart as you, you sure are thick as a brick sometimes.
I wanted him transferred to your precinct right out of the Academy so he could be close to you.
Why? Because you're the best mentor I could think of.
And you're the best cop I know.
That's why.
(sighs) And honestly, you could teach him things that I can't.
Let's talk to the kid, all right? Me and you.
Together.
But mostly you.
What do you say? Okay.
Thank you.
Good night.
Shall we? Shall we what? Do what you said.
Have a nightcap.
The Irish in you okay with that? Very okay with that.
@elderman
That so? Real short.
So I could take my cap on and off, like you can.
Uh-huh.
No more pinning it up and sticking it in there.
That's a pain.
Plus a perp could grab it.
So it's also a liability.
Except when you're off duty, which is when it's just a great head of hair.
Thank you, Jamie.
And Eddie, believe me, when I say that really, truly, that's all I got for the hair.
That's more than I expected, actually.
Okay.
Hey, Steve got a new partner? Yeah, a newbie, still on probation.
Hey, Jamie, Eddie.
This is Marcus Beal.
He just transferred in from the 2-7.
Hey.
Hey.
Welcome.
How's it going? Hey.
Nice to meet you.
Give me a sec.
All right.
I'll meet you out front.
All right.
Not wearing your vest.
Yeah, I know.
You should probably go put one on.
Naw, I'm good.
No, go put one on.
Am I missing something here? I I thought my boss was that Renzelli guy.
Renzulli.
It's department policy.
Everybody wears a vest.
Policy huh? All right, so you're one of those? Yeah, it's policy.
And also, it's maybe life and death, yours and your partner's.
All right, well then, you know Steve can say something, or the sarge can, but, you know, there's no policy that says I gotta answer to you.
All right? Rough Tough Creampuff.
Above my pay grade.
Never thought I'd actually hear you say that.
Lived and learned.
Have you seen Anthony? I think he went down to the break room.
Break room? He owes me a mountain of paperwork.
You want me to go get him? No, I'll go.
And get the paperwork.
Two birds, one stone.
Harry, you're not listening.
Oh, no, no.
We're listening, okay? We're hearing him loud and clear.
He doesn't have our money.
I have what you signed I don't care what I signed! You said the end of the month.
Come on, he's dead to rights here.
No, I told you that I can't flip the property until after the closing.
Now, you get your profit when I flip, that's how it works.
Profit?! Profit?! That's what you signed! Forget about profit, Joe.
Forget about profit, okay? I just want the money back.
I can't believe you vouched for this idiot.
I can't believe you forgot to tell us what a lying scumbag he is.
Okay, Harry, that's enough! What's with the fingers, huh?! Hey! What's going on here? Small misunderstanding.
100 grand ain't small.
The situation's exactly what he said it was.
What is your problem? My problem? You're ripping off cops.
You got it coming.
The both of you.
Oh, really?! Yeah! Now it's a threat?! That was a threat! You're going to threaten me?! (all shouting) Break it up! Both of you, upstairs.
Hey.
What are you doing here? Oh, I was thinking maybe we could hit the range.
You know I figured I owe you a chance for a double or nothing.
Double or nothing? Last time was a scratch.
Not a chance-- I had you by three on the last sheet.
I can't anyway.
I got plans.
Plans with who, your couch? (laughs) All right, fine, whatever, rain check.
You really came all the way down here to settle a bet? Actually, no.
You remember me telling you about a Corporal Jimmy Beal? Yeah, he saved your life in Iraq.
More than once.
His family's in Virginia.
His widow is, but his son's up here now.
And I want you to mentor him.
Mentor him? Yeah.
He just graduated the Academy a couple months ago.
All right, well how come me and not you? 'Cause he was transferred to your precinct.
There he is right now.
Hey! Uncle Danny! What are you doing here? Just checking up on you.
Marcus this is my kid brother, Jamie.
Jamie, this is Marcus.
He's your brother? Oh, you two have met.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, whatever the hell happened between the two of you, let's say we take a mulligan, okay? Okay? Okay.
Okay.
Good.
(indistinct chatter) (quietly): Thank you.
Please, sit down.
Well, let's see.
Deputy Director Harold Kellen of MI5, Deputy Commissioner Roger Thornton, Metropolitan Police, Commander Sloane Thompson, of the City of London Police.
Welcome.
You are, uh, going to be seeing things out in the field over the next couple of days.
You're going to have questions answered and perhaps even suspicions confirmed that go to the heart of how we protect our city and our way of life from the terrorists who would stop at nothing to destroy it-- or your own London as well.
Any pictures that you take, any notes that you make, electronic or otherwise, need to be vetted thoroughly by us, are we agreed? Of course, Commissioner.
I prefer to keep it all up here in my head.
Photographic memory? I've always found that the really vital stuff tends to stick.
Commander Thompson? Agreed.
Good.
Thank you.
And quite clever, that, if I may say so.
That what? That for-your-eyes-only bit just then.
As if we're going to be privy to your drone-strike protocols and electro-shock treatments.
Well, I assure you, we don't have those capabilities, Commander.
But we're not really going to see the capabilities you do have, now are we? Commander? I would like to go on record here As being presumptuous? As having been promised straight whiskey, but fearing that I'm being served with weak tea.
And what makes you think that, Commander? I've done some homework, Commissioner Reagan.
I've spoken to a number of private-sector security heads who've attended your SHIELD program.
Another program we're very proud of.
But the breadth of access to your department and its works appears to me to line up almost exactly with that of the SHIELD program Sloane, for God's sake.
No.
Let her go.
As if London and her citizens and her landmarks deserve no more of your insight and expertise than a hotel chain or an investment bank, a pharmaceutical firm, the entities for whom SHIELD is designed.
Well, your homework's incomplete.
That's just not true.
I sincerely hope that by the time we leave here tomorrow night, you will have shared with us what you truly dread, what you're prepared to do about what you truly dread, what you know that no one else does.
Well, I can tell you one thing the Irish in me truly dreads.
Ultimatums delivered in British accents.
Blue Bloods 6x17 Friends in Need @elderman (sighs) Thanks for waiting.
Look, what you walked in on was between me and Anthony and his Bernie Madoff wannabe.
Don't start.
What I walked in on was a beef about money, and I want it settled in-house.
So start talking.
Anthony here got me to go in on a real estate deal with his pal, Joey.
Only I'm starting to think these properties don't even exist.
You saw them yourself.
I saw some condos, yeah.
What I haven't seen is any money.
You agreed to tie it up until the closing, the date of which is out of his control.
I asked around.
Joey messed with some charity funds at the 6-4 precinct.
You got proof? I got word.
You ask them yourself.
I will.
You're just trying to run out on the contract you signed.
What, your, uh, self-respect retire when you did? You know, if you want to talk to me, you give me a call.
But I'm done sitting here with this Judas.
Joey's digits? Erin, this guy's not a crook.
How long you know Joey? All my life.
He's my cousin.
He's family? Close as brothers.
Closer even.
(sighs) Uncle Danny? I could be wrong, but I think the kid even wears the same aftershave.
(chuckles) So why is your brother trying to pawn him off on you? His way of spreading the love around, I guess.
Reagan! Ooh, I don't envy your day.
Ready to go? Ready as I'm gonna be.
I got my vest on, so I'll protect you out there.
Good to know.
Lighten up, man.
Come on.
Look, you're the one who requested me, remember? Because he's trying to help you.
Well, I don't need help.
Right.
You got it all figured out.
Eddie.
I'm gonna go and try and find Steve.
You guys be safe out there today.
Now her I wouldn't mind riding with.
That right? What's her deal? She single? Why don't you ask her? I'm asking you.
Next subject.
Are you really Danny's brother? 'Cause you guys are some kind of opposite.
We have our differences.
You've known Danny a long time? Yeah, yeah, since I was a kid.
He helped my mom out a lot when my Dad didn't come back from Iraq.
That's good.
Danny's a stand-up guy.
Yeah.
But you're riding with me today, so I'm not gonna lecture you or tell you what to do, but I got six years on the job.
I can share some experience.
Which is your way of telling me you're gonna school me.
Just trying to make this day productive for both of us, all right? Harry was telling the truth.
There are allegations your cousin scammed a fundraiser at the 6-4.
Allegations aren't charges.
He made good.
Three months late.
And only after serious threats were made to his health and well-being.
That's just talk.
Once bitten, twice shy.
What does that mean? It means I'm gonna dig into this.
And I'm telling you because I don't want you to think I'm going after family behind your back.
But you are going after my family.
I am going after an individual who may be using his connections in this office to scam other people in this office.
You think I'd do that? I'd allow that? No.
I'm not certain that you are aware.
Oh, so now what? You're calling me stupid.
Did you hook Joey up at the 6-4? No.
No? Our second cousin Ralph's a sergeant up there.
You'll stay out of this.
No.
It's not really a question.
I want in.
He's your cousin, Anthony.
And I'm 100% certain he's innocent.
But if one of my family's accused of something like this, then I think another one of my family deserves a chance to clear his name.
And what if the facts fall otherwise? I'd arrest my own mother if I thought she was scamming cops.
Your own mother.
Well, with a lot of back-up.
Please, Erin, don't insult me.
I won't.
Okay, yeah, this place is legit.
This place is legit.
Yeah, that's all Eddie-- she's like a walking Michelin Guide for cheap eats.
Oh, yeah? See? Now that's the kind of experience I can learn from.
Yeah.
DISPATCHER (over radio): All units, be advised.
We have a 10-20, corner of Houston and Jones.
Perp is a male, white, wearing a red hoodie.
That's up the block.
Yo, there he is.
Wait, hold on.
Sit tight.
We'll spin around and get him Stop! Police! I said sit tight! Move it! Stop! MARCUS: Stop! Police! (grunting, shouting) Hey! Hey! Watch out! Hey! (gasping, girl shouts) (grunting, shouting) Don't move! Ow! Okay, okay! (sobbing) Okay! Turn over! Turn over! (grunting) (baby crying) JAMIE: I'm going to turn you over, okay? (girl crying) Where you going, bro, huh? Hey, call a bus! (sobbing continues) FRANK: The fact is that Edward Snowden set us way, way back in terms of our ability to harvest Intel.
How much of that setback do your open sources shore up? Hard to, if not impossible, to put a yardstick on that.
Could you try? Well, say we get a call.
Guy buys X amount of fertilizer.
A guy who's address is an apartment in the city who has no normal need for X amount of fertilizer.
He also buys nine pressure cookers in the next state over, and we get that call, too.
You want that guy.
And we'll get that guy.
But the guy we'll miss drove an SUV packed with AK-47's up the east coast.
And we will miss him because we do not have a cooperating merchant or a CI to call it in.
Pretty big hole in the net.
Thank you, Commander Obvious.
Well, it is a pretty big hole in the net.
But I expect it's more our problem than yours.
From what I can tell, your telecoms don't have the same restrictions put on them as ours.
You can scrub communications that we can't touch without miles of red tape.
Too little too late.
In the name of what? Privacy? Not gonna go there.
KELLEN: Commissioner, we want to thank you for this most illuminating couple of days.
Just-Just a minute here.
Commander Thompson.
Commissioner? (sighs) You asked me what I dread the most? Yes.
The Paris attacks.
How low tech they were.
A handful of actors whose whole plot consisted of synchronizing their watches to the tick of the clock on a nothing Friday night.
But you still think I'm holding back? Yes, I do.
Really, Sloane.
Excuse us, Commissioner, we're late for a meeting at the consulate.
Wouldn't want to keep them waiting.
You say that you're restricted by law from scrubbing cellular communications, from a take-no-prisoners approach to the surveillance of Muslim communities, of their mosques, and you just stop there? You're asking us to believe that you haven't found ways under and around.
You don't have black-ops procedures that, uh, might aid our efforts were you to share them? That's a very smart question.
And so you're smart enough to know that that is a question that I cannot answer.
So there we are.
THORNTON: Very well, then.
Sorry to disappoint you, Commander.
Not at all, Commissioner.
Just trying to do my job.
Safe travels.
So Rough Tough Creampuff made a collar.
Yeah, and ignored my directions to sit tight and sent a little girl to the hospital in the process.
MARCUS: All of a sudden, so I'm booking down the street, mad fast, I'm running full speed, people coming out, pushing people out of the way, all of a sudden, this woman with a stroller just comes out of nowhere, just comes straight out of nowhere, man.
I'm going so fast, though, so I just jump right over the stroller.
(chuckling) Cab comes, knocks the perp onto the hood, I dive, crack him over the hood like T.
J.
Hooker.
Boom.
Take him down.
Done.
Track star.
Hand to God.
Hand to God.
Good job, partner.
MARCUS: Yeah, you feeling lucky to have me? STEVE: I don't know about that.
But congratulations on your first collar at the 12th.
Huh? Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We gotta talk.
(sighs) No, I'm guessing you're the one that needs to talk.
Yeah, because you put a little girl in the hospital today.
Oh, man.
It was an accident.
She got, what? A stich? A dozen.
Because of your recklessness.
Are you seriously trying to teach me lessons? Now? I'm not teaching, I'm telling.
I was the senior officer, I made a call, and you ignored it.
'Cause it was the wrong call.
The perp would have got away.
What if he had a gun? There was a whole crowd of people standing right there.
You know what? I acted, you didn't, okay? You're just mad because the rookie made the collar and not the six-year veteran.
Hey, this isn't about me.
You know, whatever you say.
Hey, why don't you listen to someone besides yourself for a change?! You gave that kid's family a hell of a scare.
The only one who was scared was you! Now get out of my face! All right! That's enough! That's enough! (chuckles): Ooh I seriously can't believe you're Danny Reagan's brother.
That? That's above your pay grade.
You got that right.
Screw it.
HENRY: Hi.
Hi.
Sunday dinner.
Ooh.
What are we having? Turducken.
Really? Yeah, Nicky's idea.
Ordered it special from New Orleans.
I've always wanted to try that.
And Sunday you will have your chance.
I'll get these.
(sighs) Give me an honest answer.
Never.
Have I become too cynical? Of course not.
I think my job makes me assume the worst in people.
Nah, you're a realist.
Goes with the job.
But maybe to a fault? What's going on? (sighs) I have to investigate a detective's cousin.
A detective I work with closely.
Anthony? His cousin's been accused of scamming cops with bogus investments.
And you're just looking into it.
That goes with the job, doesn't mean you're a cynic.
Yeah, it's not that part, though.
See, Anthony has insisted on digging into it with me, even though it's his cousin, and one that's like a brother.
And you have doubts about his real intentions.
Yes.
Now, I know this man.
Anthony is a good guy.
But there's something in me that just (sighs) assumes the worst.
Well better to be teaching the hard way than learning the hard way.
No, and I should have called ahead.
He should be here any minute.
If you could let the commissioner know that I'll Hello.
BAKER: Oh, no need.
Sorry, I was out at a crime scene.
Yes, um, and, uh, sorry to just pop in like this.
Well, here we are.
Indeed.
I've come to apologize.
You don't have anything to apologize for.
Apparently I do.
Apparently I was rude and interruptive, and apparently I overstepped any number of boundaries.
And judging from all these âapparentlysâ, apparently this apology is an order from above.
A suggestion, sir.
Where are Frick and Frack? Washington.
I've been disinvited from that leg of the trip.
Because of your lack of manners.
Look, uh I know how I come across.
I'm passionate about police work, and police work has a ticking clock on it, as lives are at stake, and that makes me impatient to get what I need, which often results in my having to apologize.
Anyway, I don't want to waste any more of your time, so (elevator bell dings) All right.
Okay.
Uh So again, uh, sorry.
And thank you.
It's been informative.
ANTHONY: Erin, I hear what you're saying, but maybe ERIN: You wanted in on the investigation, this is what it is.
ANTHONY: Yeah, I understand that.
But maybe Ramus was in on a dozen developments with Joey.
Yeah.
Until the car crash.
Yeah, so, if anything was going on, maybe she knows about it.
Just seems a little dark, you know? Digging into this widow on a whim.
It's not a whim.
But with all the money he was moving, I'm a little surprised the house isn't nicer.
Just go easy, okay? Please? Erika Ramus? Yes? ADA Erin Reagan, this is Investigator Abetemarco from the DA's office.
We have some questions about Joey Ruscoli.
You know him? Yeah.
He's a family friend.
We understand that he and your late husband were business partners.
They were.
I'm sorry, what's this about? Well, there's been some unsubstantiated allegations over Joey's business practices.
Fraud, in fact.
I don't know anything about that.
So, in all your husband's business ventures you never noticed anything suspicious or illegal? Reagan.
Wait.
Is this about Joey or my husband? Maybe both.
Will you excuse me a minute? (door opening) Look, it's been hard losing Andrew, but Joey's been a light.
Whatever Whoever you think he is, I'm telling you you're wrong about it.
And my husband was the most honest man I ever knew.
Thank you for your time.
(door closes) Well, I guess we're gonna have to look elsewhere.
Really, Erin? What? You know, it's okay to be wrong once in a while.
(echoing gunshots) Hey.
Hey, I didn't hear you.
Double or nothing still? Sure.
Heard you and Marcus got into it.
Yeah, he knocked a little kid down.
Sent her to the hospital while he was making an arrest.
Bad luck? Bad policing, Danny.
Only happened because he ignored the plan of a more experienced police officer-- namely, me.
Huh.
He told me it was a good collar.
Did he? Yeah.
We both know how you can be.
How I can be? Yeah, you know, Mr.
By-The-Book.
Like you wrote the Patrol Guide yourself.
Something wrong with that? I'm just saying the kid's got good instincts.
You shouldn't hold him back.
Are his âgood instinctsâ why you had him placed in my precinct? (chuckles) What do you mean? That means you knew he was a liability, Danny.
You-You're trying to protect him.
You're damn right I'm trying to protect him.
Yeah, at my expense.
What are you worried about anyway? You worried about your golden boy reputation being tarnished? Is that it? Whatever, Danny.
Whatever? Look, you don't want to help the kid, don't help him.
There's a reason there's a Patrol Guide, Danny.
Keeps guys alive.
Yeah, you know what doesn't keep guys alive? Hesitating.
Weighing the options when there's only one option.
To act.
You know, you're part of his problem, Danny.
Maybe you're part of the problem.
Your example's made him reckless.
He's gonna get somebody killed.
Are we even? Not by a long shot.
(door opens) (knocking) There's a woman here to see you-- Erika Ramus? Send her in.
Cameron? Get Anthony up here, please.
I didn't sleep a wink last night.
If I overstepped yesterday You didn't.
You were looking for the truth, and I didn't give it to you.
What's this? Records.
Cancelled checks, bounced checks, receipts, bogus receipts-- anything my husband kept on his transactions with Joey.
Are you saying None of it was real.
Andrew didn't realize until it was too late.
We lost everything.
I mean Well, everything.
He couldn't live with it.
The car accident? (door opens) Wasn't an accident.
What's the word, E? Oh, excuse me.
Why didn't you tell us? After my husband died Joey helped.
Believe me, I wanted nothing to do with him, but the kids need to eat.
As long as I kept quiet, the money kept coming.
Quiet about the scams? Uh, but you said he was a family friend.
He told me to say that.
He also told me to expect a visit from you two, but I can't sleep at night thinking he could do this to another family.
I hope it helps.
That lying son of a bitch! I think it's time you stepped off the investigation.
Listen, if Joey thinks you're on to him, there's a good chance he's in the wind.
And if he is, who do you think he's gonna pick up the phone for, you or me? It doesn't matter.
Sure it does.
I'm your best bet to find him, and you know it.
(sighs) This is really delicious.
How do they make a turducken, anyway? They feed a chicken to a duck, and then feed that duck to a turkey.
Really? That's so gross.
NICKY: Mom.
They debone the birds and then layer them smallest to largest.
LINDA: Well, however they make it, boy, it's good.
HENRY: So, Francis, did the Brits actually listen to what you have to say, or were they just being British? One of them sure did-- kept pushing for more.
More what? More of the secret sauce, as the kids say.
Kids don't say that, Grandpa.
Oh, I thought they did.
SEAN: Some do.
Yeah, I think I've heard that.
Thank you.
I think it's more of a marketing buzzword.
Well, anyway, she keeps wanting to know things I can't tell her.
Like? Like, things I can't tell anybody.
Things we do, preparations we make that I can't risk becoming known.
Because they're illegal? No.
Well, why else? Because if they become known, they would cease to be effective.
Hmm.
JAMIE: Well, I got kind of the opposite thing going on.
How's that? I've been asked to mentor a newbie who doesn't give a damn about what I say.
Uh-uh, language.
Gosh darn about what I say.
DANNY: Maybe if you just try talking to him instead of talking down to him.
I've tried talking up, down, sideways.
Is he talking about Marcus? Yeah.
You know, âmentorâ doesn't mean âbe just like meâ.
It means, âlet me find your strengths, and help you grow themâ" Well, Marcus' strengths all seem to be in the chip on his shoulder.
Look deeper.
Not everybody's cut out to be a cop, Danny.
And you don't get to make that call, Jamie.
In this instance, I do.
He's got no discipline, he's got no regard for the rules, and he's an accident waiting to happen.
Says the guy who's still in uniform because he's a Because I choose to be! Let's keep it civil.
(sighs) For dessert, I made a Piecakey.
A what? It's a cookie baked into a pie baked into a cake.
I invented it.
Tough crowd today, Pop.
E-mails and voicemails and texts.
None of them returned.
You call around? Of course.
No one's seen him since Friday night.
Well, you did what you could.
(sighs) Yeah, but I haven't done what I said I would, which was to draw him in.
I've got enough to get a warrant for his arrest.
We'll just kick it over to the NYPD.
No.
I want this.
I should've seen this coming.
We can all be blind when it comes to family.
You're right.
There's one thing I haven't tried.
What? All Italian men have one weakness.
Yeah, wine, food? Well one above all the rest.
According to her office, she is still in New York, sir.
Oh, good.
I got her mobile number.
That's what they call it.
Not âcell,â âmobile.
â Right.
Do me a favor.
Would that be a favor with a U? Sorry.
Call and ask and see if she's available for an 8:00 meeting tonight.
You mean dinner? (pen clatters) A meeting that could include dinner, yes.
A working dinner.
Isn't that a call you'd want to make yourself, sir? Do I ever schedule my own meetings, Baker? No, sir.
I just meant that if I know what you meant.
Please schedule the meeting.
Should I ask her what kind of cuisine she prefers? I don't know.
Sure, okay.
That'll be all, Baker.
Yes, sir.
(door opens) I'm just saying, that's sort of what you signed up for.
Babysitting punks like Marcus? Mentoring rookies, like me, and yeah, some like Marcus.
Most rookies have a sense of respect for the job.
You did.
Well maybe Marcus does, too, in his own way.
He thinks he knows more than he does.
It's all an act.
I don't think so.
The kid lost his father really young.
That can change a person.
Maybe I don't have my dad's patience after all.
Trust me, you do.
DISPATCH: All units confines of the 12th precinct, be advised.
We have a 10-30 Borough Bank, Union and Grand Streets.
Two suspects, armed.
(siren wailing) (rings) There's got to be another way.
Not as fast and as sure as this.
Joey's very close to his mom.
(sighs) (squeals): Anthony! (laughs, kissing) Look at you! Aunt Sophia, beautiful as always.
(laughs) Come in, come in.
It's so cold! Anthony's aunt Sophia.
Hi, Erin Reagan.
Nice to meet you.
Let's get you something to eat.
Come on.
What do we got? Two armed perps inside with weapons on the clerk.
We gotta move in.
No, we gotta wait for ESU to get here.
Hey, Eddie, request HNT.
Central, 12-David The perps look real jumpy; I don't think we should wait.
There's four of us, let's take 'em.
No.
Steve, you and Marcus cover the front.
Eddie and I'll work our way around the back, see if we can get in there and talk 'em down.
Want to make sure we don't scare 'em into doing something even dumber.
Hey, Eddie.
Come on.
Everyone stay down! Come on, come on, just shove that money through! Hurry up! I said, hurry up! Come on, bitch, just throw the cash! Don't make me shoot her! Let's go, let's go, faster! Police! Don't move! JANKO: Drop your weapons! JAMIE: Nobody has to get hurt! Just get down on the ground.
Okay! What are you doing, man? Just put the gun down, man.
Calm down.
Listen to your partner.
Come on, let the lady go.
Don't be stupid.
All right, all right.
Put your gun down.
All right, all right.
Easy does it.
That's it.
Put down the gun.
Stop, police! (gunshots) (hostages screaming) JAMIE: Are you okay? JANKO: Yeah.
JAMIE: Okay.
JANKO: Show me your hands.
Give me your hands! Eddie, call it in.
JANKO: We need a bus forthwith on the corner of Houston and Jones.
I take it back.
That kid's a menace.
Take it easy.
You told him to wait outside! Yeah, trust me, I know.
He could've got us killed.
Oh, there he is.
You know, I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind.
Hey, hey.
Eddie, wait.
Listen.
I don't think yelling at him is gonna do anyone any good.
Well, it might do me some good! Just let me take this one.
You holding up? (sighs) Came here to say âI told you soâ? I don't really care, to be honest.
They almost killed me, man.
They almost killed all of us.
And no one had to get shot today.
Ah I don't know what to do.
You're in shock.
I've been there.
You'll be okay.
What's on the paper? My letter of resignation.
That may be the first smart thing you've done since you got here.
Ma? Ma, are you okay?! Ma, where are you? She stepped out, Joey.
She called me.
She told me she fell and couldn't get up! What the hell's going on, Anthony? She's fine.
Oh, thank God.
What is she doing here? No.
No, no, no, no! You son of a bitch.
You should've returned my call.
You did this? You set me up and used my mother, your aunt, as bait? After you used me to scam cops? You bet your skinny ass I did! You got nothing.
Story of your life.
We got plenty, Joey.
And what we don't have, you're gonna give to us.
I ain't saying nothing without a lawyer.
I already called Uncle Sal.
His guy's meeting us down at the DA's office.
Wow, thank you.
What a guy, Anthony.
Hey, you're family.
It's the least I could do.
You got the right to remain silent.
Anything you do or say may be used against you in a court of law.
Hey! Too tight! Hey, they're new.
They'll stretch when you break 'em in.
THOMPSON: So now you go.
No, I can't top yours.
And someone might overhear.
I can't get my voice down as low as you can.
You promised me a secret.
Fair's fair.
Dessert and coffee? Uh, no, not for me, thanks.
Commissioner? No, we'll just finish our wine.
Thank you.
Okay.
Confidential informants, uh, in radical mosques have worse odds of paying off than a Tijuana slot machine.
Really? Well, you get a huge percentage of them going double agent, you waste thousands of man-hours and put lives in danger in the bargain.
But everybody uses them.
You don't? As little as possible.
And you don't.
You don't have mosques in the Financial District.
No, but Thornton and Kellen certainly have informants in mosques.
You didn't share these doubts with them.
No, I didn't.
You were holding back.
No.
I couldn't warn them off of something that I can't prove.
I couldn't convince them that a disaffected young Muslim set up with a charismatic imam might not make for a reliable narrator.
And if I did, and they acted on my warnings, I might have compromised a valuable operation.
The known unknown.
The damned if you do, or damned if you don't thing.
I'm so sorry.
That wasn't editorial.
I'm still on UK time, and it's got to be, what? 4:00 in the morning? No offense taken.
No, I It's the truth.
I-I mean it.
Really, Frank.
I'll drop you at your hotel.
Where we might have a nightcap.
Uh, the hotel doesn't actually have a bar, but my room has a mini-bar.
Oh.
Oh (sighs) And there I go again, um, overstepping boundaries.
I think I'm just going to powder my nose.
(loud music playing inside) You might be getting better at the range, but I own you here.
Pride goeth before the fall.
Okay, Dad.
(whoops) Come on, double or nothing.
Drinks first.
You're buying.
Hey! I heard you did have a close one today, though.
Didn't have to be.
I know.
You were right about Marcus.
He's always been a pain in the ass.
Oh, really? Yeah.
But don't give up on him.
I don't think it matters now.
He turned in his letter of resignation.
I heard about that.
I spoke to his C.
O.
already.
I'm asking him to wait a few days before doing anything.
Danny, why are you trying to protect him? Because.
The kid's had a tough life, and he's trying to make it better.
I owe his old man, so I want to help.
So you're just going to keep transferring him from precinct to precinct forever? You know, for somebody as smart as you, you sure are thick as a brick sometimes.
I wanted him transferred to your precinct right out of the Academy so he could be close to you.
Why? Because you're the best mentor I could think of.
And you're the best cop I know.
That's why.
(sighs) And honestly, you could teach him things that I can't.
Let's talk to the kid, all right? Me and you.
Together.
But mostly you.
What do you say? Okay.
Thank you.
Good night.
Shall we? Shall we what? Do what you said.
Have a nightcap.
The Irish in you okay with that? Very okay with that.
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