Blue Bloods s09e01 Episode Script
Playing With Fire
1 DANNY: You know, I want to be one of those people that spends their sunny days laying out at the beach.
We're at the shore, aren't we? Yeah, but we're in the wrong kind of suits.
What do you got? A floater.
A floater.
Great.
What's your least favorite thing on the job besides floaters? Well, that's number two.
I think ripe ones are worse.
Yeah.
I guess pedophiles, for me.
Mine's headless floaters.
Headless floaters? Yeah.
You find the body? Yeah, I was on a foot post and he was right over there, near the rocks.
The head wash up? Not yet.
Any visible wounds or bullet holes? Not that I could see.
It's gonna be a bitch to determine cause of death without the head.
I think the tattoo says it all.
The Black Hand.
Mexican Mafia.
Yeah.
Mexican Mafia.
600 square feet.
You've got east view, hmm? And you're right next to the elevator.
Nice, huh? Yeah.
Absolutely.
But why are you This is your new office, Erin.
I'm promoting you to bureau chief.
Congratulations.
(exhales): W I guess I have to ask.
Is this because of Monica? Why does that matter? Well, she was my friend and she was murdered and it just feels weird to just - Keep going? That's life, Erin.
There's no room for sentimentality in this office.
Meaning? Everyone knows you got two brothers on the job, your father's PC, you're sympathetic to law enforcement.
I have always followed the letter of the law.
I have no doubt.
But I just want you to know that people will be watching you more closely than they ever have before.
People? Me.
Let me know if you need anything.
Actually I'd like to stay in my office, and I'd like to keep Anthony ABETEMARCO as my investigator.
- There's that sentimentality creeping in.
- It's just the geography I'm used to.
Have it your way.
And thank you.
Very much.
Of course.
And the final item is the fallen heroes dinner with the mayor.
It's now moved to the 15th.
Anybody home? My son Jamie and his partner Eddie got engaged this weekend.
Whoa! Good for them! Congratulations! Great! That's great! Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And it is their plan to still keep riding together as partners.
Oh.
Boy, that's a problem.
It is? Why? Why? A million good reasons.
First of all, it's against regulations.
Well, technically, it's not.
There's nothing in the book forbidding it.
Really? Really.
Well, there ought to be.
If you feel that strongly, why not just issue an interim order against it? Draw one up, Sid.
MAN: Hey! Uh, please - What's going on with this guy? Someone! Hey, we got a problem here! Maybe he just had dinner with his fiancée's family.
How many times we got to do this? I'll let you know.
Hey, hey! Hey, hey! - Officers, officers, please, please, in here! - All right, all right.
Get back, get back, get back.
WOMAN: Help me! Stay back, stay back! Stay back, stay back! Hey.
Okay, ma'am, ma'am.
Help me, please! Take it easy.
All right, all right.
(screaming) Stay calm.
- Help me! - Ma'am, stay low! Get back! - You need to stay calm, okay? - Step back! Get down! I'm calling an engine.
We got you, okay? Central, 12 David, we got a 59 at a residential building.
Wait for FD.
I'll be right back.
(woman screaming) Like hell.
WOMAN: Help me! Stay inside, sir! Get back! Okay, I'm going back.
I'm gonna get the woman.
I got Grandpa.
Okay, meet right back here.
Okay.
(screaming continues) Hello?! Hello?! Hey! Hey! Is anybody in here? Anybody else back here? (coughing) Anybody back here?! (coughing continues) Hey! Hey! Anybody back here? Ma'am! Help me.
Ma'am, I got you.
Hey, I got you, I got you.
All right, we're walking out of here.
Can you stand? Can you walk? All right, just hold on to me, okay? We're leaving.
I got you.
(coughs) (coughing) Okay, stay with me.
Watch your step.
(glass shatters) Hold on to me.
(coughing) Anybody else back here?! Anybody else in here? No, no.
(coughs) Hey, Eddie! I'm right behind you! All right, let's go! (coughing) (grunts) (coughs) Eddie.
Sir, are you okay? Eddie! Eddie! Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Eddie! Eddie! Blue Bloods 9x01 Playing With Fire Eddie! Eddie?! Eddie! Eddie! Hey! Hey! My partner's inside.
We'll get your partner.
My partner's inside.
My partner's inside.
We'll get your partner.
Hey! Hey, hey! - Hey, we got this! - Eddie! Eddie! (glass shatters) Hey, hey.
Can you grab his legs? - You all right? You okay? - Yeah.
Yeah.
- I'm okay.
(coughs) - Okay.
Yeah.
(both grunt) Come on, come on.
Watch the step, watch the step.
Got the door.
(panting) Over here! We need help! - Over here! - We got him, we got him, we got him.
(grunts, panting) We got you, we got you.
Okay.
Yeah.
FIREFIGHTER: Hey! You're an ass! What'd you say? The hell's wrong with you, huh? Jamie.
- Back off! -Jamie! Come on, come on! Back off! FIREFIGHTER: Get over here.
What's that about? Nothing, nothing.
It's nothing.
(siren wailing) Hey, him.
- Let's talk to him.
Come on.
- Hey.
We didn't get your name earlier.
- What's your name? - Hey.
Justin Mathews.
Is everyone out? Did everyone get out? You know how this fire got started? Please.
I need to know.
Did did everyone get out? I-I think so, but we don't know everyone that lives in that building yet.
You smell like gasoline, Justin.
That hand looks like it's pretty burned up.
No one was supposed to be in there.
Is that why you started this fire, because there wasn't supposed to be anyone in there? You almost got us all killed! - All right, all right.
Hey.
- I didn't know.
Give me the bag.
You're under arrest for arson.
I didn't know.
Hands behind your back.
(panting, whimpering) Give me the bag.
Give me the bag.
The backpack.
Hey.
Am I gonna find anything in here, Justin? - No.
- I'm gonna take it easy, but I got to cuff you up, all right? (panting) (handcuffs tighten) Are you sure it was Manny? Yes, we're sure.
The M.
E.
used a DNA kit to identify the body.
Any idea who killed him? I have no idea.
Can I go now? No.
Sit down.
Look, why don't you stop with the innocent victim routine, okay? We know he bought and sold drugs.
We know he was a member of the Mexican Mafia.
You look at a couple of tattoos and you've got all the answers? That's why cops are dicks.
(chuckles softly) Okay.
Well, why don't you enlighten us.
So I end up like Manny, floating down the East River? Floating down the East River with a severed head.
Don't forget that part.
Just stop! You do realize that your son or daughter, when they grow up, is gonna want to know what happened to their dad, right? Manny was a drug runner.
But when I got pregnant, he wanted out of that life.
Manny's uncle even hooked him up with a job at the carpenters union.
Then, a few days ago, Manny gets a text that the cartel wants him to deliver 40 kilos of cocaine from a ship container in Red Hook up to a stash house in the Bronx.
Manny turned that job down.
You don't turn those kind of jobs down.
What cartel? What cartel? Mano Sangriento.
You know who it was who reached out to him? Manny always kept those things from me.
But there's a man.
He's in the gang, and he's the hit man for one of the cartels.
This guy have a name? La Pantera.
The Panther? Because he sneaks up behind you without a sound, and he's lethal.
You're facing serious felony charges, Justin.
There was two family members in that building at the time of the fire.
One of them is in critical condition-- a grandpa.
- N-No, no.
- Oh, you're so concerned about him, why'd you set the fire in the first place? 'Cause he said no one was in there.
Who's he? Who said?! (sniffles) No one.
But you just said, he said no one was in there.
I want a lawyer.
Get up.
Let's go.
(panting) DANNY: The Panther wasn't in the system, by the way.
Because he doesn't have a record.
His real name is Luis Delgado.
How do you know? I just got off the phone with a friend from the DEA.
Delgado's on their radar, too.
A friend at the DEA? This wouldn't happen to be the friend you were dating from the DEA, the one with the Mustang, would it? - Might be him.
- Oh, my God.
You're back together with that clown? No, but I do miss that Mustang.
- (laughing): Oh.
- Danny.
No.
Hey, date whoever you want.
I don't care.
(sighs) Come on.
I know the look.
(sighs) According to the DEA, Delgado's the one that set your house on fire.
(sighs) (elevator bell dings) The commissioner is waiting for you in his office.
Oh, you don't have to do all that.
Sit down, Officer Reagan.
I know you have reservations about me riding with Eddie.
A little more than reservations.
But as you've pointed out, there's nothing in the book that says you can't.
- That's right.
- There is one thing the book says has to happen, though.
Our C.
O.
has to be informed.
And has been? Haven't had the opportunity.
Then find one.
Or you want me to? No, I'll tell him.
We'll tell him.
Forthwith.
I promise you my riding with Eddie won't affect my performance on the job.
Why'd you get into it with the firefighter today? I was going back in for my partner.
- Your fiancée.
- Partner.
As I would for any partner.
Come on, Jamie.
Don't lawyer me.
I'm not lawyering you.
Yeah, you are.
There's nothing on the books about riding with a fiancée.
That's a fact.
I'm asking you to trust me, trust us.
No, you're asking me to bend the rules for you.
There are no rules, Dad! There isn't a commanding officer in this city who would keep two people who are engaged to be married as partners.
You know that.
- I don't know that, no.
- That's why you haven't told your C.
O.
Why can't you just trust my judgment? You're the commissioner's son, and you are waiting for me to make an exception for you.
That's not true.
So I look the other way, you get married, the two of you get taken out in the same action.
What do you want me to do with your kids? (scoffs) (door closes) (groans): Aah.
Congratulations on your promotion.
Thank you.
You really came all the way down here just to tell me that? Absolutely.
Not.
Why don't you tell me why you're really here.
Because God knows everyone in this family has an ulterior motive for just about everything.
I just wanted to know what's going on with Justin Mathews.
The tenant, Mr.
Fowler, the grandfather, died of smoke inhalation, so the charges against Justin are being bumped up to murder two and arson.
You can't charge him with murder.
I can, and I have.
Whether he thought the building was empty or not is irrelevant, Jamie.
It's a felony murder.
In commission of an arson, he caused a death.
I think someone put him up to it.
What are you talking about? At least give us a chance, before you charge him with murder, to look into it.
Okay, see, this is what you and Danny don't understand.
I can't just trust your gut every time you walk in here.
I've got a guy who admits to lighting a building on fire, I've got evidence that proves that.
I can't just sit on that.
You can charge him with arson.
Uh That's enough to hold him, and it'll give us six days before you have to indict him.
I cannot play around with murder charges because my baby brother has a hunch! - Thank you.
- Ugh! My detail ready? There's a ten-minute delay.
For what? Me.
Okay.
Look, you're married to a cop.
What do you think? That it's not the issue here.
We're not partnered on the job.
Thank you.
Okay, what do you think of the issue here? I think an interim order prohibiting partners from having a romantic relationship, coming from you, is a mistake.
Because? I know you know the answer to that.
Because I'd be singling out my son as much as if I looked the other way.
Exactly.
Maybe tell Sid to put a pin in that? No maybe.
And the moment I'm back at my desk.
(sighs) But there is no way, no way you are saying couples riding together is a good idea? There's a lot of valid reasoning in forbidding it.
Thank you.
But maybe to Jamie's side, there's also no data or evidence, much less an actual rule.
It's just a tradition.
Some traditions are born of common sense.
Yes, like Catholic priests being forbidden to marry, because common sense tells us you couldn't possibly tend the flock unless your personal life was utterly devoid of the comforts of human touch and companionship.
Not the same thing, Abigail.
No, it's not the same thing, but it's not that distant a cousin, either.
Tell my detail I'm ready.
Yes, sir.
(door opens, closes) Yeah.
I got it.
Thanks.
ABETEMARCO: Sauerkraut, onions, mustard and ketchup.
Thank you.
So, uh, what exactly does this bump mean? Well, I'll be supervising 50 attorneys, and more time with the D.
A.
, and any big press case-- it will go through me.
That's great.
Yeah, and you will be exclusive to me.
That's like hundreds of cases, Erin.
I can't handle that on my own.
Let me tell you something.
I've been with the D.
A.
's office for 15 years, and I have a lot of acquaintances, and a lot of coworkers, and there's only one person I truly trust, and that's you.
- How's that kale? - What do they do? Mow a lawn, rake it up and pour dressing on it? This is brutal.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
Congrats on the promotion.
I need a warrant.
I'm fine.
And you? For what and who? Luis Delgado.
He's the guy who set my house on fire.
How do you know? I know because a witness said that a drug runner and hit man from Mano Sangriento nicknamed "Panther," AKA Luis Delgado, set a cop's house on fire last year.
We also have reason to believe that this is the same person who killed Manuel Sanchez.
That's the floater.
Exactly.
Has that been ruled a homicide? No.
Without the head, it's technically "Causes Undetermined Pending Police Investigation.
" Until the M.
E.
rules it a homicide, I cannot give you a warrant based on a hunch.
It's not a hunch.
And you know that chopping off a guy's head is the preferred method of homicide of the Mexican Mafia.
Maybe it got severed by a boat propeller.
Really? It's possible.
Really? I don't think that's what happened, but - Exactly.
You gonna help me or not? It cannot look like I'm doing you favors.
The judge will never sign off on it.
Right, because getting a murderer off the street would be doing a favor for me.
The facts don't add up, Danny.
No.
You know what doesn't add up is that of all the times that I've had to come here and beg, plead and grovel, it would be when I was coming to get help to catch the son of a bitch who burned down the house where my kids and my wife slept! But I guess not.
Mr.
Delgado? We really can't come in here without a warrant.
Door was open.
Somebody could be in danger.
It's clear.
Come on, take a look around.
(Baez sighs) (gasps) DANNY: Police! Don't move! Don't move, or I'll blow your brains all over that wall.
Get your hands up! Now! Now! Come on, get 'em up! You okay, partner? - I am now.
- You can't arrest me.
- I haven't broken any laws.
- Yeah, you did.
You assaulted a police officer.
You didn't even identify yourselves as cops.
I'm Detective Daniel Reagan.
That ring a bell? Let's go.
- You have no right to keep me here.
- Yeah, I do.
You assaulted a police officer.
Now, sit down and shut up.
You guys came in my house without a warrant even.
But I get it, that's what you cops do: you lie to get what you want.
You're known as the Panther.
I've never heard that name before.
How about Manuel Sanchez? You ever heard that name before? - No.
- Where were you yesterday between the hours of 12:00 and 5:00? I was home, reading the penal code so I know when my rights are being violated.
You torched a cop's house last year.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Fine, then you can write down that you know nothing.
I'm gonna go get a legal pad and a pen.
(door closes) Your house went up like a stack of kindling.
(sighs) My only regret: that your family wasn't in it at the time.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Cut it out! Son of a bitch just admitted to burning my house down.
Knock it off! He just admitted to torching my house! - I didn't say anything.
- Yes, you did, you son of a bitch! Danny, I told you, we have to do everything by the book on this one.
(laughing) Did you admit to torching Detective Reagan's house? I never said that.
Yes, he did.
He's lying.
- Danny.
- We've already answered the question about your brother's house, Counselor.
Move on.
You attacked Detective Baez.
I thought she was a burglar.
Detective Baez and Detective Reagan were trespassing on my client's property without a search warrant.
They did not identify themselves as police.
Detective Reagan accosted him.
He murdered Manuel Sanchez.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
I missed the part where you have any evidence of that.
I've had enough.
You cannot hold my client with no evidence against him and an illegal search.
He has no priors.
We are not answering any more questions.
A moment, Counselor.
(door closes) It's your word against his.
Now, if you wanted to interrogate him about a murder, you should have videotaped it like you're supposed to.
Then we would have a confession on tape.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Somebody was in the box, so I had to talk to him in the boss's office.
- Okay.
What the hell's the difference? - He admitted it! - Okay, fine! Fine.
I can't do anything without a confession.
He did confess.
He told me he burned down my house.
- Prove it.
- I don't have to prove it; he admitted it! - I cannot go to the jury and ask them to take your word for it.
- Yes, you can.
- No, I can't.
I will not be able to find 12 people in New York City who is going to take a cop's word over a man who has no record.
Now, cut him loose.
(sighs) What are we doing here? - The detectives have the case.
We can't - You know what? I'm getting tired of people telling me what I can't do.
Excuse me.
Excuse me, ma'am.
Do you know anything about this building that burned across the street? All I know is that poor family went through the mill.
How so? Landlord used to turn off the heat in the winter, turn off their water and electricity.
What about the other tenants? The owner got rid of all the other tenants.
They were the last holdouts.
He really wanted them to vacate so he could sell the place.
That's a motive.
I talked to the prior tenants who lived in the building.
They were all harassed into vacating, because the owner wanted to sell the building.
The Fowler family were the last holdouts.
Do we know anything about the owner? See, that's where it gets interesting.
The building is listed as an LLC called Fergus Limited.
So I went to the Buildings Department.
It's owned by a Samuel Arpel, who used to be married to Linda Mathews.
Mathews? She was pregnant when he divorced her.
She had a boy she named Justin.
They shared joint custody, but he, uh he kept his mother's last name.
So the father put him up to setting that fire? It looks that way.
You think you can coax him into coming in? I can be very charming, you know that.
I have no doubt.
ALL: Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty.
Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.
Eddie, would you like any cornbread? Yes.
Thank you.
Eddie? Hmm? Welcome.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Frank.
Or "Dad.
" (chuckles) So, do you cook? Oh, me? - Yeah.
- Uh, yeah.
But not like this.
This is amazing.
Yeah, usually.
NICKY: Just don't use your phone or iPad at the table.
SEAN: Or curse.
They hate it when you curse.
I'm pretty sure she gets it already, guys.
Really looks great, Erin.
I love mashed potatoes.
Thanks.
It's my mom's recipe.
Do you have any actual proof that Mom actually made these potatoes? You know, evidence? - What? - I'm just saying.
Danny.
Well, Dad, should we just take Erin's word for it, based on, uh, I don't know, a hunch? My word on mashed potatoes does not need to hold up in court.
Whatever.
JAMIE: Well, from where I sit at this table, you can be accused of breaking rules that don't even exist.
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, a rule can exist without being in a book.
NICKY: But breaking an unwritten rule is pretty hard to prosecute, now.
ERIN: Legally, yes.
But not practically.
HENRY: All right, let's everybody just take a step back.
It gets like this sometimes.
JACK: Not always, but sometimes.
Most of the time.
Maybe you want to chime in, too, Pop, about whether Eddie and I should ride together, about breaking rules that don't exist.
Jamie.
Jamie, I happen to agree with your father.
Mixing romance and police work, never a good idea.
Romance? Seriously? Eddie, am I romancing you at work? I Mm JAMIE: Because as far as I could tell, all we're doing is our jobs, which is what we've always done.
All right, quit being so sensitive.
Gramps is just sayin'.
- Who's calling who sensitive? - Oh, so now I'm sensitive? Why? Because I want to see justice done? Oh, and I don't? (phone vibrates) No, you don't.
Not at the table.
Not my choice.
It's my victim's girlfriend.
Reagan.
Hello? Melissa? You okay? I don't think she's okay.
And do you know why? (quietly): You son of a bitch.
Because you messed with the wrong man.
Delgado (line clicks) We should have charged Delgado when you had the chance.
- You know I couldn't.
-You could've and you should've.
(door closes) This is really good.
What are the little green bits in the mashed potatoes? Is that parsley? Mmm.
Really gives it a zing.
So, I thought family dinner was more, like, a warm family get-together once a week-- catch up, break bread.
I didn't say we don't disagree about stuff.
(chuckles): Disagree? Don't you think it's a little more serious than just disagreeing? We need to think about not partnering together.
What? It'll solve the problems with your dad and Eddie, you don't want to ride together anymore? No, it's just your dad clearly has a problem with us riding together.
You can't just cave every time you don't agree with somebody in my family.
And you can't ignore it like this is gonna go away.
Do you really want to hide the fact that we're engaged from the department and fight with your dad just to ride together? I thought that's what we both wanted.
I just want you.
HENRY: Jamie feels strongly that since there are no rules, they should ride together.
I know my son, Pop.
I know the reasoning part of him would agree that riding together became a handicap when love and sex and all got in the car with him.
And love and sex and all tends to push reason out of the car.
So why is he being so stubborn? What am I missing here? More than usual.
You completely ignored the "new haircut" protocol when he brought her in and broke the news.
What are you talking about? (sighs) Say Baker shows up tomorrow morning with a radical new haircut that you think is terrible.
What do you say to her? I don't know.
"I'm sorry, it'll grow out"? - No.
- No? You say, "Nice haircut.
You look great.
" I do? Because what's done is done.
All you can do now is be kind.
Look, I'm happy for Jamie, I'm happy for Eddie.
But in the moment, you took their news like a bad haircut.
You went straight to what was wrong about them riding together.
And that's gonna take some time to fade away.
Anything else I'm missing? That we have another cop in our family.
That we now have another reason to stop our hearts when we hear "officer down" go out over the radio.
(sighs) I'm sorry.
Not your fault.
Warrant or no warrant, I should have had a radio car sitting on her place.
Come on, Danny.
Her boyfriend was part of Mano Sangriento.
She knew the danger going in.
Yeah, well, now this guy's got two bodies on him, and I got nothing.
I got no hair, no fibers, no DNA, no witnesses.
Well, Delgado is smart, and he knows the law, which is why he's never been caught, so we need to be smarter.
What do you mean "we"? What are you getting at? Well, we don't have him on the murders, but Melissa said Sanchez was killed because he refused to do a drug run.
- Right.
So, what if we intercept the next exchange, get him on drugs? - I mean, it's something.
-Well, that's great, except I don't know where it's going down, when it's going down, I got no way to find out how it's going down.
Here's a warrant for the text messages on Delgado's cell phone after the murders.
Get to work.
Black Escalade just pulled in.
Two males in front.
Silver Tahoe just pulled in.
It's him.
That's Delgado.
Move on my command.
Go.
Go! Go, go, go! Police! Get on the ground! Put your hands in the air right now! You heard me! Get on the ground with your hands in the air! Right now! (siren wailing) On the ground! Get 'em up.
Keep 'em up.
Gotcha, kitty-cat.
- What you think.
- That's what I know.
- No, you don't have that kind of luck.
- How's that? First, her house burns up, then her chopper goes down? (clicking tongue) That's some pretty bad mojo you're carrying around.
Get him on his feet.
Turn him around.
You're a real funny guy, Delgado.
Turn around.
We appreciate your cooperation, sir.
You're free to go.
What are you talking about? DANNY: We're done here, but we couldn't have pulled it off without you, so thanks for the help.
What are you talking about? What are you doing, huh? We're done here.
See you later.
(speaking Spanish) (man grunting) (shouting in Spanish) (man speaking Spanish) Yeah, that's right.
- (man shouting in Spanish) - Yup.
- You know what you're doing? - Hope so.
You had him.
You just let him walk.
Hey, everyone hates a snitch, right? We just got a confession.
Nice work, Counselor.
I knew he would fold in order to protect his kid.
In my experience, most dads, even criminals, would do anything to protect their kids.
Something you want to say? The only reason why Dad doesn't want you riding with Eddie is because he's afraid that will put you in danger.
He's not worried about department policy.
He's worried about your safety.
I just wish sometimes he'd cut me some slack.
Well maybe you should cut him a little.
WOMAN: I called the desk.
They said a supervisor is on the way.
It looks like there's a wallet in his pocket, but I didn't want to check for I.
D.
until the M.
E.
got here.
It's all right.
Pretty sure we know who it is anyway.
Delgado? Good a guess as any.
(sighs) You okay? Nothing is ever over.
You know, if there's one thing I've learned in the last year-- closure's overrated.
(knocking on door) This was meant for your new office.
Well, it will look good in this one.
Oh.
How about over here? Ah.
Yeah.
Perfect.
I saw the DD-5s for Mano Sangriento.
You applied for a warrant for Delgado's phone.
- And the judge signed it.
- And when the drugs were intercepted, six Sangriento members were arrested, the seventh went free.
It was my understanding that Detective Reagan and Baez were hoping Delgado would lead them to someone higher in the food chain.
Well, that's a theory.
Another is that it gave the impression that he was cooperating with the police, which led to his execution.
Or he was executed because he was a drug runner, and a hit man most of his adult life.
What do cops call that? Public service homicide? Something like that.
Don't overwater it.
That is the mistake most people make.
If you keep the balance just right, they last a lot longer.
I will keep that in mind.
And thank you very much.
Good night, Erin.
(door opens) (door closes) (sighs) - Hey.
- Hey.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
You owe me 68 bucks.
- I do? - Yeah.
It's a congratulations present from you to me.
Look, Jamie (sighs) I couldn't be more thrilled for you and Eddie.
If somehow you got the idea that No, not congratulations about that.
Okay.
Did you know that they, uh, posted the results for the sergeants exam today? Oh, yeah.
I think it's on my desk somewhere.
But you didn't look at the scoreboard? This about Eddie? She did okay, but, uh, no.
It's about me.
Number one.
You took it? Yeah, I took it, and I I came out on top.
Why didn't you tell me? With what we were going through over it? Well, maybe it could've saved us both some pushing and shoving.
Yeah, but maybe you would've thought that I took it on account of the pushing, which would've been a feather in your cap, one I didn't feel like giving you.
(sighs) Congratulations.
Thank you.
You know, you don't have to accept the promotion.
It is your choice.
And mine alone.
Yes.
I'm taking the promotion.
And you know that means you can't ride with Eddie.
You know that, right? I know that, yeah, and so does she.
So, does that mean that I have your blessing? I couldn't be happier for you.
I'm not talking about the promotion.
Neither am I.
We're at the shore, aren't we? Yeah, but we're in the wrong kind of suits.
What do you got? A floater.
A floater.
Great.
What's your least favorite thing on the job besides floaters? Well, that's number two.
I think ripe ones are worse.
Yeah.
I guess pedophiles, for me.
Mine's headless floaters.
Headless floaters? Yeah.
You find the body? Yeah, I was on a foot post and he was right over there, near the rocks.
The head wash up? Not yet.
Any visible wounds or bullet holes? Not that I could see.
It's gonna be a bitch to determine cause of death without the head.
I think the tattoo says it all.
The Black Hand.
Mexican Mafia.
Yeah.
Mexican Mafia.
600 square feet.
You've got east view, hmm? And you're right next to the elevator.
Nice, huh? Yeah.
Absolutely.
But why are you This is your new office, Erin.
I'm promoting you to bureau chief.
Congratulations.
(exhales): W I guess I have to ask.
Is this because of Monica? Why does that matter? Well, she was my friend and she was murdered and it just feels weird to just - Keep going? That's life, Erin.
There's no room for sentimentality in this office.
Meaning? Everyone knows you got two brothers on the job, your father's PC, you're sympathetic to law enforcement.
I have always followed the letter of the law.
I have no doubt.
But I just want you to know that people will be watching you more closely than they ever have before.
People? Me.
Let me know if you need anything.
Actually I'd like to stay in my office, and I'd like to keep Anthony ABETEMARCO as my investigator.
- There's that sentimentality creeping in.
- It's just the geography I'm used to.
Have it your way.
And thank you.
Very much.
Of course.
And the final item is the fallen heroes dinner with the mayor.
It's now moved to the 15th.
Anybody home? My son Jamie and his partner Eddie got engaged this weekend.
Whoa! Good for them! Congratulations! Great! That's great! Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And it is their plan to still keep riding together as partners.
Oh.
Boy, that's a problem.
It is? Why? Why? A million good reasons.
First of all, it's against regulations.
Well, technically, it's not.
There's nothing in the book forbidding it.
Really? Really.
Well, there ought to be.
If you feel that strongly, why not just issue an interim order against it? Draw one up, Sid.
MAN: Hey! Uh, please - What's going on with this guy? Someone! Hey, we got a problem here! Maybe he just had dinner with his fiancée's family.
How many times we got to do this? I'll let you know.
Hey, hey! Hey, hey! - Officers, officers, please, please, in here! - All right, all right.
Get back, get back, get back.
WOMAN: Help me! Stay back, stay back! Stay back, stay back! Hey.
Okay, ma'am, ma'am.
Help me, please! Take it easy.
All right, all right.
(screaming) Stay calm.
- Help me! - Ma'am, stay low! Get back! - You need to stay calm, okay? - Step back! Get down! I'm calling an engine.
We got you, okay? Central, 12 David, we got a 59 at a residential building.
Wait for FD.
I'll be right back.
(woman screaming) Like hell.
WOMAN: Help me! Stay inside, sir! Get back! Okay, I'm going back.
I'm gonna get the woman.
I got Grandpa.
Okay, meet right back here.
Okay.
(screaming continues) Hello?! Hello?! Hey! Hey! Is anybody in here? Anybody else back here? (coughing) Anybody back here?! (coughing continues) Hey! Hey! Anybody back here? Ma'am! Help me.
Ma'am, I got you.
Hey, I got you, I got you.
All right, we're walking out of here.
Can you stand? Can you walk? All right, just hold on to me, okay? We're leaving.
I got you.
(coughs) (coughing) Okay, stay with me.
Watch your step.
(glass shatters) Hold on to me.
(coughing) Anybody else back here?! Anybody else in here? No, no.
(coughs) Hey, Eddie! I'm right behind you! All right, let's go! (coughing) (grunts) (coughs) Eddie.
Sir, are you okay? Eddie! Eddie! Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Eddie! Eddie! Blue Bloods 9x01 Playing With Fire Eddie! Eddie?! Eddie! Eddie! Hey! Hey! My partner's inside.
We'll get your partner.
My partner's inside.
My partner's inside.
We'll get your partner.
Hey! Hey, hey! - Hey, we got this! - Eddie! Eddie! (glass shatters) Hey, hey.
Can you grab his legs? - You all right? You okay? - Yeah.
Yeah.
- I'm okay.
(coughs) - Okay.
Yeah.
(both grunt) Come on, come on.
Watch the step, watch the step.
Got the door.
(panting) Over here! We need help! - Over here! - We got him, we got him, we got him.
(grunts, panting) We got you, we got you.
Okay.
Yeah.
FIREFIGHTER: Hey! You're an ass! What'd you say? The hell's wrong with you, huh? Jamie.
- Back off! -Jamie! Come on, come on! Back off! FIREFIGHTER: Get over here.
What's that about? Nothing, nothing.
It's nothing.
(siren wailing) Hey, him.
- Let's talk to him.
Come on.
- Hey.
We didn't get your name earlier.
- What's your name? - Hey.
Justin Mathews.
Is everyone out? Did everyone get out? You know how this fire got started? Please.
I need to know.
Did did everyone get out? I-I think so, but we don't know everyone that lives in that building yet.
You smell like gasoline, Justin.
That hand looks like it's pretty burned up.
No one was supposed to be in there.
Is that why you started this fire, because there wasn't supposed to be anyone in there? You almost got us all killed! - All right, all right.
Hey.
- I didn't know.
Give me the bag.
You're under arrest for arson.
I didn't know.
Hands behind your back.
(panting, whimpering) Give me the bag.
Give me the bag.
The backpack.
Hey.
Am I gonna find anything in here, Justin? - No.
- I'm gonna take it easy, but I got to cuff you up, all right? (panting) (handcuffs tighten) Are you sure it was Manny? Yes, we're sure.
The M.
E.
used a DNA kit to identify the body.
Any idea who killed him? I have no idea.
Can I go now? No.
Sit down.
Look, why don't you stop with the innocent victim routine, okay? We know he bought and sold drugs.
We know he was a member of the Mexican Mafia.
You look at a couple of tattoos and you've got all the answers? That's why cops are dicks.
(chuckles softly) Okay.
Well, why don't you enlighten us.
So I end up like Manny, floating down the East River? Floating down the East River with a severed head.
Don't forget that part.
Just stop! You do realize that your son or daughter, when they grow up, is gonna want to know what happened to their dad, right? Manny was a drug runner.
But when I got pregnant, he wanted out of that life.
Manny's uncle even hooked him up with a job at the carpenters union.
Then, a few days ago, Manny gets a text that the cartel wants him to deliver 40 kilos of cocaine from a ship container in Red Hook up to a stash house in the Bronx.
Manny turned that job down.
You don't turn those kind of jobs down.
What cartel? What cartel? Mano Sangriento.
You know who it was who reached out to him? Manny always kept those things from me.
But there's a man.
He's in the gang, and he's the hit man for one of the cartels.
This guy have a name? La Pantera.
The Panther? Because he sneaks up behind you without a sound, and he's lethal.
You're facing serious felony charges, Justin.
There was two family members in that building at the time of the fire.
One of them is in critical condition-- a grandpa.
- N-No, no.
- Oh, you're so concerned about him, why'd you set the fire in the first place? 'Cause he said no one was in there.
Who's he? Who said?! (sniffles) No one.
But you just said, he said no one was in there.
I want a lawyer.
Get up.
Let's go.
(panting) DANNY: The Panther wasn't in the system, by the way.
Because he doesn't have a record.
His real name is Luis Delgado.
How do you know? I just got off the phone with a friend from the DEA.
Delgado's on their radar, too.
A friend at the DEA? This wouldn't happen to be the friend you were dating from the DEA, the one with the Mustang, would it? - Might be him.
- Oh, my God.
You're back together with that clown? No, but I do miss that Mustang.
- (laughing): Oh.
- Danny.
No.
Hey, date whoever you want.
I don't care.
(sighs) Come on.
I know the look.
(sighs) According to the DEA, Delgado's the one that set your house on fire.
(sighs) (elevator bell dings) The commissioner is waiting for you in his office.
Oh, you don't have to do all that.
Sit down, Officer Reagan.
I know you have reservations about me riding with Eddie.
A little more than reservations.
But as you've pointed out, there's nothing in the book that says you can't.
- That's right.
- There is one thing the book says has to happen, though.
Our C.
O.
has to be informed.
And has been? Haven't had the opportunity.
Then find one.
Or you want me to? No, I'll tell him.
We'll tell him.
Forthwith.
I promise you my riding with Eddie won't affect my performance on the job.
Why'd you get into it with the firefighter today? I was going back in for my partner.
- Your fiancée.
- Partner.
As I would for any partner.
Come on, Jamie.
Don't lawyer me.
I'm not lawyering you.
Yeah, you are.
There's nothing on the books about riding with a fiancée.
That's a fact.
I'm asking you to trust me, trust us.
No, you're asking me to bend the rules for you.
There are no rules, Dad! There isn't a commanding officer in this city who would keep two people who are engaged to be married as partners.
You know that.
- I don't know that, no.
- That's why you haven't told your C.
O.
Why can't you just trust my judgment? You're the commissioner's son, and you are waiting for me to make an exception for you.
That's not true.
So I look the other way, you get married, the two of you get taken out in the same action.
What do you want me to do with your kids? (scoffs) (door closes) (groans): Aah.
Congratulations on your promotion.
Thank you.
You really came all the way down here just to tell me that? Absolutely.
Not.
Why don't you tell me why you're really here.
Because God knows everyone in this family has an ulterior motive for just about everything.
I just wanted to know what's going on with Justin Mathews.
The tenant, Mr.
Fowler, the grandfather, died of smoke inhalation, so the charges against Justin are being bumped up to murder two and arson.
You can't charge him with murder.
I can, and I have.
Whether he thought the building was empty or not is irrelevant, Jamie.
It's a felony murder.
In commission of an arson, he caused a death.
I think someone put him up to it.
What are you talking about? At least give us a chance, before you charge him with murder, to look into it.
Okay, see, this is what you and Danny don't understand.
I can't just trust your gut every time you walk in here.
I've got a guy who admits to lighting a building on fire, I've got evidence that proves that.
I can't just sit on that.
You can charge him with arson.
Uh That's enough to hold him, and it'll give us six days before you have to indict him.
I cannot play around with murder charges because my baby brother has a hunch! - Thank you.
- Ugh! My detail ready? There's a ten-minute delay.
For what? Me.
Okay.
Look, you're married to a cop.
What do you think? That it's not the issue here.
We're not partnered on the job.
Thank you.
Okay, what do you think of the issue here? I think an interim order prohibiting partners from having a romantic relationship, coming from you, is a mistake.
Because? I know you know the answer to that.
Because I'd be singling out my son as much as if I looked the other way.
Exactly.
Maybe tell Sid to put a pin in that? No maybe.
And the moment I'm back at my desk.
(sighs) But there is no way, no way you are saying couples riding together is a good idea? There's a lot of valid reasoning in forbidding it.
Thank you.
But maybe to Jamie's side, there's also no data or evidence, much less an actual rule.
It's just a tradition.
Some traditions are born of common sense.
Yes, like Catholic priests being forbidden to marry, because common sense tells us you couldn't possibly tend the flock unless your personal life was utterly devoid of the comforts of human touch and companionship.
Not the same thing, Abigail.
No, it's not the same thing, but it's not that distant a cousin, either.
Tell my detail I'm ready.
Yes, sir.
(door opens, closes) Yeah.
I got it.
Thanks.
ABETEMARCO: Sauerkraut, onions, mustard and ketchup.
Thank you.
So, uh, what exactly does this bump mean? Well, I'll be supervising 50 attorneys, and more time with the D.
A.
, and any big press case-- it will go through me.
That's great.
Yeah, and you will be exclusive to me.
That's like hundreds of cases, Erin.
I can't handle that on my own.
Let me tell you something.
I've been with the D.
A.
's office for 15 years, and I have a lot of acquaintances, and a lot of coworkers, and there's only one person I truly trust, and that's you.
- How's that kale? - What do they do? Mow a lawn, rake it up and pour dressing on it? This is brutal.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
Congrats on the promotion.
I need a warrant.
I'm fine.
And you? For what and who? Luis Delgado.
He's the guy who set my house on fire.
How do you know? I know because a witness said that a drug runner and hit man from Mano Sangriento nicknamed "Panther," AKA Luis Delgado, set a cop's house on fire last year.
We also have reason to believe that this is the same person who killed Manuel Sanchez.
That's the floater.
Exactly.
Has that been ruled a homicide? No.
Without the head, it's technically "Causes Undetermined Pending Police Investigation.
" Until the M.
E.
rules it a homicide, I cannot give you a warrant based on a hunch.
It's not a hunch.
And you know that chopping off a guy's head is the preferred method of homicide of the Mexican Mafia.
Maybe it got severed by a boat propeller.
Really? It's possible.
Really? I don't think that's what happened, but - Exactly.
You gonna help me or not? It cannot look like I'm doing you favors.
The judge will never sign off on it.
Right, because getting a murderer off the street would be doing a favor for me.
The facts don't add up, Danny.
No.
You know what doesn't add up is that of all the times that I've had to come here and beg, plead and grovel, it would be when I was coming to get help to catch the son of a bitch who burned down the house where my kids and my wife slept! But I guess not.
Mr.
Delgado? We really can't come in here without a warrant.
Door was open.
Somebody could be in danger.
It's clear.
Come on, take a look around.
(Baez sighs) (gasps) DANNY: Police! Don't move! Don't move, or I'll blow your brains all over that wall.
Get your hands up! Now! Now! Come on, get 'em up! You okay, partner? - I am now.
- You can't arrest me.
- I haven't broken any laws.
- Yeah, you did.
You assaulted a police officer.
You didn't even identify yourselves as cops.
I'm Detective Daniel Reagan.
That ring a bell? Let's go.
- You have no right to keep me here.
- Yeah, I do.
You assaulted a police officer.
Now, sit down and shut up.
You guys came in my house without a warrant even.
But I get it, that's what you cops do: you lie to get what you want.
You're known as the Panther.
I've never heard that name before.
How about Manuel Sanchez? You ever heard that name before? - No.
- Where were you yesterday between the hours of 12:00 and 5:00? I was home, reading the penal code so I know when my rights are being violated.
You torched a cop's house last year.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Fine, then you can write down that you know nothing.
I'm gonna go get a legal pad and a pen.
(door closes) Your house went up like a stack of kindling.
(sighs) My only regret: that your family wasn't in it at the time.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Cut it out! Son of a bitch just admitted to burning my house down.
Knock it off! He just admitted to torching my house! - I didn't say anything.
- Yes, you did, you son of a bitch! Danny, I told you, we have to do everything by the book on this one.
(laughing) Did you admit to torching Detective Reagan's house? I never said that.
Yes, he did.
He's lying.
- Danny.
- We've already answered the question about your brother's house, Counselor.
Move on.
You attacked Detective Baez.
I thought she was a burglar.
Detective Baez and Detective Reagan were trespassing on my client's property without a search warrant.
They did not identify themselves as police.
Detective Reagan accosted him.
He murdered Manuel Sanchez.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
I missed the part where you have any evidence of that.
I've had enough.
You cannot hold my client with no evidence against him and an illegal search.
He has no priors.
We are not answering any more questions.
A moment, Counselor.
(door closes) It's your word against his.
Now, if you wanted to interrogate him about a murder, you should have videotaped it like you're supposed to.
Then we would have a confession on tape.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Somebody was in the box, so I had to talk to him in the boss's office.
- Okay.
What the hell's the difference? - He admitted it! - Okay, fine! Fine.
I can't do anything without a confession.
He did confess.
He told me he burned down my house.
- Prove it.
- I don't have to prove it; he admitted it! - I cannot go to the jury and ask them to take your word for it.
- Yes, you can.
- No, I can't.
I will not be able to find 12 people in New York City who is going to take a cop's word over a man who has no record.
Now, cut him loose.
(sighs) What are we doing here? - The detectives have the case.
We can't - You know what? I'm getting tired of people telling me what I can't do.
Excuse me.
Excuse me, ma'am.
Do you know anything about this building that burned across the street? All I know is that poor family went through the mill.
How so? Landlord used to turn off the heat in the winter, turn off their water and electricity.
What about the other tenants? The owner got rid of all the other tenants.
They were the last holdouts.
He really wanted them to vacate so he could sell the place.
That's a motive.
I talked to the prior tenants who lived in the building.
They were all harassed into vacating, because the owner wanted to sell the building.
The Fowler family were the last holdouts.
Do we know anything about the owner? See, that's where it gets interesting.
The building is listed as an LLC called Fergus Limited.
So I went to the Buildings Department.
It's owned by a Samuel Arpel, who used to be married to Linda Mathews.
Mathews? She was pregnant when he divorced her.
She had a boy she named Justin.
They shared joint custody, but he, uh he kept his mother's last name.
So the father put him up to setting that fire? It looks that way.
You think you can coax him into coming in? I can be very charming, you know that.
I have no doubt.
ALL: Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty.
Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.
Eddie, would you like any cornbread? Yes.
Thank you.
Eddie? Hmm? Welcome.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Frank.
Or "Dad.
" (chuckles) So, do you cook? Oh, me? - Yeah.
- Uh, yeah.
But not like this.
This is amazing.
Yeah, usually.
NICKY: Just don't use your phone or iPad at the table.
SEAN: Or curse.
They hate it when you curse.
I'm pretty sure she gets it already, guys.
Really looks great, Erin.
I love mashed potatoes.
Thanks.
It's my mom's recipe.
Do you have any actual proof that Mom actually made these potatoes? You know, evidence? - What? - I'm just saying.
Danny.
Well, Dad, should we just take Erin's word for it, based on, uh, I don't know, a hunch? My word on mashed potatoes does not need to hold up in court.
Whatever.
JAMIE: Well, from where I sit at this table, you can be accused of breaking rules that don't even exist.
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, a rule can exist without being in a book.
NICKY: But breaking an unwritten rule is pretty hard to prosecute, now.
ERIN: Legally, yes.
But not practically.
HENRY: All right, let's everybody just take a step back.
It gets like this sometimes.
JACK: Not always, but sometimes.
Most of the time.
Maybe you want to chime in, too, Pop, about whether Eddie and I should ride together, about breaking rules that don't exist.
Jamie.
Jamie, I happen to agree with your father.
Mixing romance and police work, never a good idea.
Romance? Seriously? Eddie, am I romancing you at work? I Mm JAMIE: Because as far as I could tell, all we're doing is our jobs, which is what we've always done.
All right, quit being so sensitive.
Gramps is just sayin'.
- Who's calling who sensitive? - Oh, so now I'm sensitive? Why? Because I want to see justice done? Oh, and I don't? (phone vibrates) No, you don't.
Not at the table.
Not my choice.
It's my victim's girlfriend.
Reagan.
Hello? Melissa? You okay? I don't think she's okay.
And do you know why? (quietly): You son of a bitch.
Because you messed with the wrong man.
Delgado (line clicks) We should have charged Delgado when you had the chance.
- You know I couldn't.
-You could've and you should've.
(door closes) This is really good.
What are the little green bits in the mashed potatoes? Is that parsley? Mmm.
Really gives it a zing.
So, I thought family dinner was more, like, a warm family get-together once a week-- catch up, break bread.
I didn't say we don't disagree about stuff.
(chuckles): Disagree? Don't you think it's a little more serious than just disagreeing? We need to think about not partnering together.
What? It'll solve the problems with your dad and Eddie, you don't want to ride together anymore? No, it's just your dad clearly has a problem with us riding together.
You can't just cave every time you don't agree with somebody in my family.
And you can't ignore it like this is gonna go away.
Do you really want to hide the fact that we're engaged from the department and fight with your dad just to ride together? I thought that's what we both wanted.
I just want you.
HENRY: Jamie feels strongly that since there are no rules, they should ride together.
I know my son, Pop.
I know the reasoning part of him would agree that riding together became a handicap when love and sex and all got in the car with him.
And love and sex and all tends to push reason out of the car.
So why is he being so stubborn? What am I missing here? More than usual.
You completely ignored the "new haircut" protocol when he brought her in and broke the news.
What are you talking about? (sighs) Say Baker shows up tomorrow morning with a radical new haircut that you think is terrible.
What do you say to her? I don't know.
"I'm sorry, it'll grow out"? - No.
- No? You say, "Nice haircut.
You look great.
" I do? Because what's done is done.
All you can do now is be kind.
Look, I'm happy for Jamie, I'm happy for Eddie.
But in the moment, you took their news like a bad haircut.
You went straight to what was wrong about them riding together.
And that's gonna take some time to fade away.
Anything else I'm missing? That we have another cop in our family.
That we now have another reason to stop our hearts when we hear "officer down" go out over the radio.
(sighs) I'm sorry.
Not your fault.
Warrant or no warrant, I should have had a radio car sitting on her place.
Come on, Danny.
Her boyfriend was part of Mano Sangriento.
She knew the danger going in.
Yeah, well, now this guy's got two bodies on him, and I got nothing.
I got no hair, no fibers, no DNA, no witnesses.
Well, Delgado is smart, and he knows the law, which is why he's never been caught, so we need to be smarter.
What do you mean "we"? What are you getting at? Well, we don't have him on the murders, but Melissa said Sanchez was killed because he refused to do a drug run.
- Right.
So, what if we intercept the next exchange, get him on drugs? - I mean, it's something.
-Well, that's great, except I don't know where it's going down, when it's going down, I got no way to find out how it's going down.
Here's a warrant for the text messages on Delgado's cell phone after the murders.
Get to work.
Black Escalade just pulled in.
Two males in front.
Silver Tahoe just pulled in.
It's him.
That's Delgado.
Move on my command.
Go.
Go! Go, go, go! Police! Get on the ground! Put your hands in the air right now! You heard me! Get on the ground with your hands in the air! Right now! (siren wailing) On the ground! Get 'em up.
Keep 'em up.
Gotcha, kitty-cat.
- What you think.
- That's what I know.
- No, you don't have that kind of luck.
- How's that? First, her house burns up, then her chopper goes down? (clicking tongue) That's some pretty bad mojo you're carrying around.
Get him on his feet.
Turn him around.
You're a real funny guy, Delgado.
Turn around.
We appreciate your cooperation, sir.
You're free to go.
What are you talking about? DANNY: We're done here, but we couldn't have pulled it off without you, so thanks for the help.
What are you talking about? What are you doing, huh? We're done here.
See you later.
(speaking Spanish) (man grunting) (shouting in Spanish) (man speaking Spanish) Yeah, that's right.
- (man shouting in Spanish) - Yup.
- You know what you're doing? - Hope so.
You had him.
You just let him walk.
Hey, everyone hates a snitch, right? We just got a confession.
Nice work, Counselor.
I knew he would fold in order to protect his kid.
In my experience, most dads, even criminals, would do anything to protect their kids.
Something you want to say? The only reason why Dad doesn't want you riding with Eddie is because he's afraid that will put you in danger.
He's not worried about department policy.
He's worried about your safety.
I just wish sometimes he'd cut me some slack.
Well maybe you should cut him a little.
WOMAN: I called the desk.
They said a supervisor is on the way.
It looks like there's a wallet in his pocket, but I didn't want to check for I.
D.
until the M.
E.
got here.
It's all right.
Pretty sure we know who it is anyway.
Delgado? Good a guess as any.
(sighs) You okay? Nothing is ever over.
You know, if there's one thing I've learned in the last year-- closure's overrated.
(knocking on door) This was meant for your new office.
Well, it will look good in this one.
Oh.
How about over here? Ah.
Yeah.
Perfect.
I saw the DD-5s for Mano Sangriento.
You applied for a warrant for Delgado's phone.
- And the judge signed it.
- And when the drugs were intercepted, six Sangriento members were arrested, the seventh went free.
It was my understanding that Detective Reagan and Baez were hoping Delgado would lead them to someone higher in the food chain.
Well, that's a theory.
Another is that it gave the impression that he was cooperating with the police, which led to his execution.
Or he was executed because he was a drug runner, and a hit man most of his adult life.
What do cops call that? Public service homicide? Something like that.
Don't overwater it.
That is the mistake most people make.
If you keep the balance just right, they last a lot longer.
I will keep that in mind.
And thank you very much.
Good night, Erin.
(door opens) (door closes) (sighs) - Hey.
- Hey.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
You owe me 68 bucks.
- I do? - Yeah.
It's a congratulations present from you to me.
Look, Jamie (sighs) I couldn't be more thrilled for you and Eddie.
If somehow you got the idea that No, not congratulations about that.
Okay.
Did you know that they, uh, posted the results for the sergeants exam today? Oh, yeah.
I think it's on my desk somewhere.
But you didn't look at the scoreboard? This about Eddie? She did okay, but, uh, no.
It's about me.
Number one.
You took it? Yeah, I took it, and I I came out on top.
Why didn't you tell me? With what we were going through over it? Well, maybe it could've saved us both some pushing and shoving.
Yeah, but maybe you would've thought that I took it on account of the pushing, which would've been a feather in your cap, one I didn't feel like giving you.
(sighs) Congratulations.
Thank you.
You know, you don't have to accept the promotion.
It is your choice.
And mine alone.
Yes.
I'm taking the promotion.
And you know that means you can't ride with Eddie.
You know that, right? I know that, yeah, and so does she.
So, does that mean that I have your blessing? I couldn't be happier for you.
I'm not talking about the promotion.
Neither am I.