Chicago P.D. (2014) s07e12 Episode Script

1 That's definitely our baby.
We're not meant to be together.
But we're meant to be a family.
Darius, it's time to start working for the police.
I get it.
I'm a snitch.
I got something good, girl.
Your new CI, Darius 10-1, 10-1.
Shots fired at the police.
We're still going to use him even though he might have just offed a CI? We got to keep him in play.
He's valuable.
He was my guy.
I put him out there.
I'm sure his death is the cost of the game, but you're the one who has to carry.
How do I do that? Pregnant and undercover.
It's a good name for a reality show.
Ha.
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to you, man, this whole thing makes me nervous, but she loves the job.
She wants to get as much time out here as she can before she's got to go on light duty, so here we are.
- It's badass, no doubt.
- Thanks, man.
Yeah, can you imagine the stories we'll tell this kid? - Ross, fill us in.
- All right.
Our target is the DTO we've been jamming on.
Finally getting a chance to buy up.
I'm fronting as an in-between for a big player.
I mean, today is step one, a test ride, quarter brick of H.
I take it to my boss, make sure he likes the product, we do a major sale next week.
At least that's what my guy thinks.
Instead, we take down my guy today, flip him.
Great, we'll have eyes on you inside and out.
I'll be up top, Kev and Kim will be right there with you.
Adam and Jay will take your guy down as soon as he hits the street.
- Dibs.
- All you, dawg.
All right.
Okay, it's show time.
So what's the takedown signal? Raspberry.
- Cute.
- Let's roll.
I like that.
- Thank you.
- Next? Here we go.
- Hi, you.
- How are you doing? - Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
So, um What? What do you think about having dinner next week? Well, I'm a big eater.
Fair warning.
Raspberry.
Let's go.
South side.
Leather jacket, jeans.
No, do not approach.
What's the story here, Hailey? He's coming right at me.
What's the play? I repeat, do not engage.
Yo, what the hell was that? It took me weeks to get in there, we had a plan.
Yeah, we didn't plan for one thing.
Your dope dealer? He's a cop.
- Damn.
- Yeah.
What happened? My dealer.
One of us.
Kelly Tyler.
PO.
Assigned to Area South Mission Team, TAC.
11-year veteran.
Nothing but standard beefs.
- And we're sure it's him? - Yeah.
We went to the Academy together.
He might've asked me out on a date.
I might've said no.
Well, maybe he was just doing what we're doing.
Got our wires crossed.
Could've been detailed to DA, Customs We deconflicted before we got here.
And now we were going through the list of all the agencies, checked A and A records.
There's nothing that suggests he's here in any official capacity.
You're saying he's dirty? We're saying what we know to be true.
We have no reason to believe Kelly Tyler was here working today.
He was selling heroin.
Okay.
Tell me something I don't know.
Well, we scrubbed Tyler's personal financials.
Dude lives well.
"Well.
" He lives in Portage Park.
- With the rest of the cops.
- Sure.
And then a couple of years ago, he bought this in cash.
Door County.
Lakefront property.
He also rents a storage unit.
Which is the corporate address of a cash-only LLC that does absolutely nothing.
And it's run by a shell corporation, which somehow was founded by his mother.
Three years after she died.
All right, the way we left things at the bus depot, Tyler thought we had a successful exchange, right? Got a good thing going.
Well, I texted him, you know, just to keep the vibe alive.
Told him my boss enjoyed the product, we're ready to do this.
Dude left me on read.
Just ghosted me.
He's spooked.
He's a pro.
- 'Cause he's a cop.
- Yeah, a veteran cop.
So he's gonna think like us and move like us.
We exercise extreme precaution.
But I want a sneak and peek on that storage unit.
Off the books.
Invisible.
So no fingerprints, real or digital.
All clear.
We're set up at the south.
Almost there.
Come on, man.
Let's go.
Yo.
Tyler must be using this like some kind of stash house.
Damn.
I know he's a TAC guy and they gotta bend the rules here and there, but that's a hell of a lot of product.
You got company.
Copy? - Tyler is here.
- Yeah, copy.
- We gotta go.
- Yeah.
What are you doing? He's right on top of you.
Get out now.
Jay, I can hear the elevator, man.
Yeah, all right.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Go.
All right, let's move.
I hate to say it.
I hate to do it.
But we're there.
Roll him up.
Hey, Sarge.
We can't move just yet.
I think there's another cop involved.
Shut the door.
So remember about a year ago? We did a drug case where we seized six half-bricks of H over in Lawndale? The guy with the fake bread truck.
So after he pleaded out, I put in the destroy order for the dope down at the South Side Drug Vault.
I did the paperwork with ERPS and Forensics Yes, incinerated in the big burn, dope's gone.
Except it wasn't.
I found some of it last night in Tyler's storage unit.
So I went down to the Review Officer, and I pull up stuff from the old case.
It's the same dope.
This is like a baseball thing.
The guy was using it as a signature, putting it on his packages like a company logo.
Look at this.
That's your writing.
Who signed the order said the dope was destroyed? Sergeant Jake Gibbs.
Apparently he's worked in the drug vault for, like, a thousand years.
But guess who took a turn in the vault when he was a rookie? Kelly Tyler.
If Tyler's dirty and he's got someone inside the drug vault Yeah, it's like a buffet.
It's free dope.
If this is what it seems, it's a whole new thing.
I got to loop in Crawford.
And we can't move on anybody till we know exactly how deep this thing really goes.
So just widen the net.
Gibbs, Tyler, and whoever the hell else comes our way.
- Trackers? - Do it.
Both of their personal vehicles.
Here we go.
That's Jake Gibbs, the guy from the drug vault.
Well, there it is.
Confirmation they're working together.
- Yeah.
- Guys, we got a bogey.
Unknown third vehicle headed your way.
It's a silver SUV.
That's Darius Walker.
Holy crap.
You got that right.
You planning on telling me you're in business with cops? What? You think I'm stupid? Hold up, wait a minute.
What do you expect from me? You think I'm gonna volunteer to a cop who's got a fat prison term hanging over my head? That there are dirty cops out there selling me dope? How long have you been in business with them? Maybe four years.
They're good suppliers.
Reliable.
I mean, they should be.
They got everything right at their fingertips.
They're just They're just the help.
Bag men.
All right, man.
Don't get me wrong, they're dirty as hell, but they got a boss, somebody big.
- Bigger than you.
- Who is it? - I don't know.
- Who is it? I don't know! It's part of our deal, so I got nothing left to offer you.
You gotta be kidding me.
Darius, you're gonna help me figure it out.
- Oh, that ain't happening.
- Oh, yeah, it is.
Darius, you work for me.
That's how this goes.
Bro, I'm the only reason you're out here, not doing burpees in a prison cell.
Correct.
And I ain't gonna jump off a building for you neither.
You think these gang bangers out here are dangerous? Try dirty cops.
Name your price.
Come in.
- You can leave it open.
- No, shut it.
What's up? We got two bad cops out there.
Kelly Tyler, some TAC guy.
And Jake Gibbs, sergeant.
Runs the South Side Drug Vault.
What? I got solid evidence they're selling drugs on the street.
Maybe others too.
Protocol says you take this to IAD.
No way.
Case like this, the only people I trust are the ones I can see from my desk.
Okay, so what are you doing here then? Well, I got a way in.
- But I need your co-sign.
- Uh-huh.
Turns out Darius Walker has been buying narcotics from these guys for years.
That's that's perfect.
Yeah, well, Darius is willing to help us participate in a significant drug buy, which we will document.
Sworn testimony, the whole thing.
But? But the only way he's gonna do it is if it's his last case working for us.
He makes this case, Darius has met his burden, and then some.
Even a documented sale to Darius, it might not be enough.
These are cops.
They can claim plausible deniability.
I mean, Hank, for all we know, they build case initiatives for everybody they sell to.
They create a record.
They make it look legit.
Yeah, that's what I do.
Let me remind you, a case this big, showing you're not afraid to take on corruption, that's a hell of a bullet on a résumé.
It won't be easy.
All right, everybody here? Okay, let's walk through the steps one last time.
Okay, so we believe the key to this whole thing is the South Side Drug Vault.
Cops seize narcotics off the street, and they put them into the vault, where it's stored until it's needed as evidence.
All right, once a month, they do a huge burn.
They take all the drugs they don't need as evidence and they bring it to a blast furnace.
All right, and that's really the loophole.
The big burn is how they cover their tracks with fake paperwork.
Destroy orders come into the vault, orders from cops to incinerate narcotics.
Gibbs signs off on those, so there are no checks and balances.
There's no system in place to make sure that the stuff that actually goes into the burner is really gone.
And why would there be? Okay, how do we prove it? It all starts with the manifest.
There's a running list of each type of narcotic stored in this drug vault.
A key of coke, half-key of MDMA And we know how much heroin is in there right now.
Like two keys, give or take.
So we're gonna ask Darius to ask for a lot more than that on purpose A bigger score, bigger payday.
And that's how we flush them out, figure out who else is involved.
The play is, we escalate the amount of the buy.
It should press Tyler and Gibbs to kick the deal upstairs to whoever they're working for.
The third cop.
Right, that's where Sergeant Platt comes in.
She's gonna bring them the product based on her relationship with Gibbs.
Yeah, I've known Jake for almost 30 years, or thought I did.
All right, so we got 10 bricks of heroin, two bricks of coke.
We got tracers in the heroin? They have their own chemical footprint.
So when they sell it to Darius, we'll be able to test them and make sure it's the same stuff, even if they change the packaging.
Sarge, we're gonna need you to front like the dope isn't tied to any active cases.
That nobody's gonna need it for court or evidence.
It can go straight to the furnace.
And if we're correct, it'll go straight into their pockets instead.
They'll tell us it's been incinerated, and they'll sell it to Darius Walker.
And that's the trap.
Hailey.
You okay with this? With what? This play's tough enough without triggering an old beef.
Can you work with Darius Walker? Last time I checked, this wasn't a democracy.
- Hey, Jake.
- You kidding me? - Been way too long, Trudy.
- Uh-huh.
You and Mouse, you tied the knot, right? - Yes, we did.
- How's he doing? Well, you know, dashing, dastardly.
- So same as ever.
- Yeah, how about you? It's been what? Two years since Helen passed? You know, Jake, we're always here for you, no matter what.
I know.
Part of the blue code.
Yeah.
Somebody's been busy.
Nice hit.
Not me.
Some of my patrol guys.
That's a destroy order, 10 keys of heroin and two of coke.
You got a court case number attached to this? No, straight to the oven.
Well-being call, out near Midway.
Dead guy, dead case.
No one to charge.
Sometimes just getting it off the street is the win.
Amen.
- Good to see you again, Trudy.
- You too.
I'm not hearing anything new.
I gotta go.
- Darius make the ask? - Yup.
He asked Tyler for six keys of 10, 50 gram per.
You think they bought it? We'll have to find out the hard way.
I got it.
They just did this month's big burn.
Confirmation signed by Jake Gibbs.
The narcotics I checked into the drug vault have been incinerated.
- Allegedly.
- Great.
Huh.
Right on time.
Talk to me.
Yup.
No, we'll bring it to you at the motel.
We're on.
I need to test your wire.
Talk to me for a sec.
I understand you have plans for going straight.
Heard you bought a mall.
A strip mall, big difference.
It's a urban renewal kind of thing.
- All about access.
- Yeah.
You're a real hero, Darius.
Give me that back.
Do you remember a guy named Cameron Balow? Yeah.
He was my CI.
Like you're Voight's CI, he was mine.
Sort of like we came up together.
Two sides of the same street.
He saw your face, so you had him killed.
He died right in front of me.
So you tell yourself whatever story you want to about the life you think you're living.
But don't forget the truth.
The truth is, you're the kind of man that has people killed just because they saw your face.
Wrong place, wrong time.
Mm.
Just some bad luck.
Well, now, if you believe in luck, that means you believe that the universe gives a damn about your fate.
There's no luck on the streets.
Only choices.
One after the next.
Young Cameron, he made a bad choice.
- Mm.
- He wasn't unlucky.
He was foolish.
Fascinating.
Are we good with the overhear? All set.
All right, here we go.
You ready to do this? Yeah.
- Cash is in the bag.
- Yeah.
I just want to get on the other side of this game.
Hmm.
And that means I'm trusting you on this.
We all got skin in this one, Darius.
Come on.
Wire's up.
Remember, they walk.
The rules are different on this one.
We're building a case.
We need warrants.
If we don't play it right, none of this matters.
Here we go.
It's Tyler.
Guys, I can't get a read on the second subject.
I'm in the same boat.
Is it Jake Gibbs? It's not Jake Gibbs.
Here.
It's Lieutenant Mike Packer.
Mike Packer? How you doing? If you don't mind, I'd like to get this over with.
I'm just here for the tan.
When I get that home and open it up, I'm not gonna find any scag in there, right? I'm here for the quality stuff.
All right? Thunder.
My name is my business.
I don't like change.
This is an escalation.
This is change.
This is an opportunity.
For both of us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But before we get there, I just want to look you in the eyes and make sure we have good communication.
I've been doing good business with your boys for a long time, brother.
Hey, you don't deal with them anymore.
You want to make this kind of product on a regular basis, you deal with me.
And I'm not your brother.
And just for the record, you don't deliver The last thing that comes out of that mouth is a bullet.
Message received.
We have a positive delivery.
It's done.
All right.
That's it.
All right, grab the dope from Darius.
Print it.
Confirm the tracer.
We got these guys dead to rights.
The best part is, I gotta sit next to this guy at a CompStat meeting tomorrow morning.
Hey, Pack.
Hey, Johnny.
Hey.
How you been, Voight? Still out there pounding the pavement.
- I can't believe it.
- Well, you do what you know.
Hey, you're gonna be the only one awake in there.
It's why we became cops, right? - CompStat meetings.
- Yeah.
Hey, maybe this one won't be so painful.
I heard the new numbers are pretty good.
The lowest rate of gunshot victims in four years.
Homicides, one of the biggest drops among large cities.
Now I'm gonna ask you to dig deep.
Major crime clearance rate, 36%.
And that is being generous measured over multiple years.
We've got to get that number to 40.
Guy will do anything to get rid of - the interim part of his title.
- Mm-hmm.
Lieutenant Mike Packer sold your CI bricks of heroin? Packer's real police, sir.
I never would have thought in a million years You know that I just promoted him? I just made him head of the fugitive task force.
We need to bury these guys loudly and publicly.
Now, before we get up there, do you know Elena Becerra as prosecutor? By reputation.
She's tough, right? Well, that's one way to look at it.
Doesn't take a case she can't win, is another.
But she's what we get, okay? Comes to public corruption cases, she is the gatekeeper.
She's also fiercely protective of the police, which is normally a good thing.
Sir, all I need is her signature on some warrants.
- I'll handle the rest - No.
The minute you get in there, you make her your equity partner.
You need her buy-in, okay? Search warrants, arrest warrants, indictments.
The standard is high.
We're not talking preponderance.
We're talking above and beyond, Hank, way beyond.
- Okay? - Uh-huh.
Did the tracer check out? The narcotics Darius bought are the same ones we checked into the vault.
State Crime Lab confirmed it.
All right, well, you did it, Hank.
I mean, these cases, they are as hard as it gets.
And I know you wouldn't have picked this, but you're there.
So let's do it.
And they just had a big payday.
They're sitting on $300,000 in 1505 funds.
We're ready to move.
We don't want them to take it and run.
Have a seat, gentlemen.
Let me ask you something, Sergeant Voight.
Ma'am? What happens after you make these arrests? I put away three bad people.
Probably have a nice scotch.
Get back to work.
Yeah, well, that's what happens to you.
What happens in the community is a bit more complicated.
Defense attorneys will trip over themselves challenging past cases won by these officers.
And they'll succeed.
You might put three bad people away, but many more will have their convictions overturned.
They'll walk.
Yeah, well, that's unfortunate.
It's also exactly why we have to go after guys like this.
I appreciate your passion in this case and your hard work I don't need medals.
I need warrants.
Yes, you have a case.
But with those stakes, is it enough? These are TAC officers.
And what you have isn't that different from what our officers do every day all over the city.
Buy-bust, a UC flash, whatever.
Manipulate the drug market.
Okay.
Yeah, take a look at that.
Look at the signature.
That's confirmation from Sergeant Gibbs that the drugs we just bought from him were incinerated.
Which any defense attorney worth his salt will challenge as a paperwork error.
Yeah, well, we scrubbed their finances too.
Let me ask you something.
How many cops you know got a second home on a lake looks like that? Sergeant, what you have, mostly, is the sworn testimony of a CI.
That's your case.
It's the most compelling stuff you've got.
But he's also a drug dealer.
And he's not the first to allege the cops are dirty.
And if he's a liar, he's not the first of those either.
To move forward, I'm gonna need to know your CI is credible.
So name him.
You gotta be kidding me.
You know I can't do that.
I gave him my word.
It's not gonna happen.
Hank.
Sergeant.
Name him, or I cannot sign your arrest warrants.
I came here as a courtesy, Darius You want a thank you? You hung me out to dry.
Look, if I didn't name you as my informant, we couldn't make the case.
They wouldn't move forward.
What's that mean for me? There's no way of knowing that yet Try.
If the case goes to trial, you're gonna have to testify in public using your name.
As a snitch.
So everyone's coming after me.
And I'm gonna do everything I can to avoid that.
Look, most of these cases, they never even make it to trial.
The State's Attorney has agreed to push for a plea.
We're gonna pit these guys against each other, okay? Let the lawyers do their thing, hopefully you never get called.
Your name will never surface.
- Hopefully.
- Hopefully.
Look, the goal was to get you out, right? It still is.
Just not as pretty as we wanted.
So I'm no longer anonymous.
And I'm not a free man.
- I had no choice.
- Of course you did.
You traded me for them.
Well, now you know.
I wanted to tell you face-to-face.
Listen.
Until the dust settles, it's probably best you get out of town.
- You know, lay low.
- I guess you're right.
I can't get to the other side if I'm dead, can I? Yo.
All right, warrants are in from the State's Attorney.
- Time to get this done.
- We just got ping orders too.
Get up on their cell phones.
Figure out where they are.
Yeah, I'm already working on it.
17 minutes ago, Packer, Tyler, and Gibbs converged on the south side.
It's significant if they're all together.
Another exchange, maybe.
Something real.
- Where are they? - Off Vincennes.
Hold on, it takes a second to triangulate.
86th Place.
Same spot we set up for the heroin exchange.
All right, Kim, you stay here on the pings.
Any movement from any of them, you call me.
Copy.
Warrants against guys like this don't stay secret for very long.
All right, so strap up.
It's game time.
Let's arrest these pricks.
Psst.
Looks like he was in a hell of a battle.
Get down! 10-1, 10-1.
Shots fired at the police.
300 block of 86th Place.
Offender down! Who was it? It was not one of us.
Let's move.
Let's move.
Oh, my God.
That's Gibbs.
And Tyler.
Sarge.
I got Packer.
We got another body over here.
What the hell happened here? Call it in.
5021, George.
We need the Crime Lab.
We got six victims.
Gunshot wounds.
- An ambush.
- Had to be.
We know what these cops are capable of.
- They could take on an army.
- And this was war.
Semi-autos.
Extra clips.
They were lured there and assassinated.
And we know exactly who was behind it.
That's exactly why I didn't want to name Darius as my CI.
Come on, Hank.
It was all we had left.
You think I was just trying to protect Darius? That's what it looks like from behind that desk.
Man, you get out there in the muck, you'd know.
I didn't want to name him because I know what he's capable of doing.
So now what? Now we got no good answers, is what.
I could scoop up Darius, try and connect him to the shooting, but we got no case.
And it would expose everything.
Now we got three dirty cops, one dirty informant.
You got the force pissed.
You got the community pissed.
Okay.
We got three cops, right? Gunned down, by thugs, for the sin of trying to make Chicago a safer city.
Packer, Tyler, and Gibbs, they're heroes.
What about Darius Walker? - That's it? - Yeah, that's it.
Crawford declares them heroes? And everyone washes their hands of it? And Darius? Darius? They're cutting him loose.
- What? - He's a free man.
He screwed us.
- He screwed you.
- You got that right.
After all of this, the only winner here is Darius Walker.
Well, there's an old saying.
Some cases are better left unsolved.
Not this one.
Yeah, this one.
- So that's it? - That's it.
We're done.
You're a free man.
You know, I am wondering one thing, though.
Did you even have the guts to show up for it? - For what? - Don't do that.
When you took out Packer, Tyler, and Gibbs, were you even there? If you don't find a way to beat the house once in a while, you crap out.
Hmm.
Well, like I said, we're done.
You're a free man.
But you should probably understand what that means, Darius.
See, what we had, it was a relationship, a partnership.
A partnership? Mm-hmm.
You put me here.
Bro, you put yourself here.
And you got no protection now.
I survived out here a long time before you showed up, Voight.
Yeah, that's true.
You did.
- Hey.
- Hey.
We get an ID on the guy we took down at the forging plant? Yeah.
Here we go.
South side hustler.
One of Darius Walker's guys.
And the other two? The ones that were already dead.
We got addresses on them, right? - South side hustler turf? - Right.
They all lived around Ogden Park.
- Okay.
- Why, what's up? Nothing.
Thanks.
All right.
No, no, no.
I just want to talk.
We don't talk to cops.
I want to talk to you about your people that got killed.
Y'all are the ones that killed them.
I didn't.
But I know that doesn't matter.
I was there.
I want to know why they were there.
Who hired them? Why the hell you think I'm gonna help you figure out that? Because I think the guy that got them killed was working with us.
You following me? What the hell are you doing, Hailey? - Doesn't concern you.
- Yes, it does.
Good or bad, right or wrong.
You know it does.
Okay.
I'm investigating the murder of three police officers.
We were told to stand down.
You were given a direct order by the superintendent of police.
This could destroy your whole career or worse.
So yeah, this concerns me.
I'm gonna figure out what the hell happened.
And then I'm gonna take that case to Crawford and he can tell me to my face to stand down.
20 different times, you have figured out a way to tell me don't get too close.
I'm telling you, you're too close.
I'm okay, Jay.
Go home, okay? - Hank.
- Hey, Trudy, what's up? We got a call.
Hmm.
You had to know.
Ask those questions in that neighborhood, you had to know there's a good chance something like this would happen.
I was just working a case.
Investigating the murder of three police officers.
Someone misinterpreted one of my statements.
I can't help that.
And if it worked out that a bad thing happened to a bad person because of that misinterpretation, well I learned from the best.
Hailey.
Want to know what keeps me awake at night? Nothing.
I do what I do because I can.
Something inside me I turned it off, a long time ago.
Hailey, you do something like this, you don't turn that part off It will eat you alive.
Have a little faith, Sarge.
I'll get there.
That's what I'm afraid of.