Boston Blue (2025) s02e03 Episode Script

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JONAH: I got sisters, man. It's a thing.
SEAN: It's just dinner.
JONAH: No, it's not just dinner.
It's Shabbat.
It's the circle of trust, okay?
Next thing you know,
you guys are having sleepovers,
your toothbrushes are
getting nice and cozy
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
next to each other,
then half your closet's gone,
and, boom, you and Penny are standing at
the altar, and I'm handing you the rings.
You jump over my brother Jack
in this hypothetical as best man?
Well, I could be ring bearer.
That's your choice.
There's your boy on his bench.
Maybe today will be the
day he accepts treatment.
Well, keep bribing him with those
sandwiches from LaGrassa's. It's working.
Hey, Dermott.
Wake up, man. Rise and shine.
You know the drill. You got to move on.
Come on, man, I got you a sandwich.
Dermott.
12-Jake-101 to Central. We got a DOA,
sudden death, south end
of the Public Garden.
- DISPATCHER [over radio]: 10-4
- El Maleh Rakhamim
shokhein bamoromim,
hamtzei menukhah al
kanfei hashekhinah
I'm just saying, guys are
a funny species, you know?
Sometimes we have to leave in
order to find our way back home.
Yeah, it's not that simple, Danny.
He left for D.C.,
but I basically told Brian to go.
Well, you both experienced trauma,
and not for nothing,
you dealt with yours pretty well.
He's still running from his.
But if you and Rodgers love each other,
I know you will find your
way back to each other.
- Give me a second.
- Mm-hmm.
- [clears throat]
- SULLIVAN: Hey, boss.
Feet off the desk and put your shoes on.
It's not your living room.
Yes, sir, Sergeant Detective, sir.
It's 8:15 a.m. You clocked in at 0600.
Tell me three things
case-related you've done so far today.
I'll settle for two.
How about one?
You have six open cases.
What if one of the vics in those cases
was your mom or your sister?
How do you think they'd feel about
a detective sitting around
looking at TikTok videos all day?
I get it. You made your point.
Did I?
- I know.
- No, he was wrong.
But?
But praise in public,
criticize in private.
- That's right.
- I have been known
to lose my temper on occasion.
I'll fix it.
Well, maybe cool off a little
bit before you go back in there.
Yeah.
Can't believe Dermott's dead.
I'm sorry, man. You tried.
Whatever pain he's in, it's gone now.
JONAH: If it's gonna be like this,
maybe I should just stop trying.
Officers, one of those men
in the green caps has a gun.
I saw it.
[panting]
[screams] Hey, jerk.
- BPD. Move, move.
- BPD. Stop.
Hey! BPD! Stop running!
- [man yells]
- Hey, gun! Gun!
Get it, get it.
- [gunshot]
- [screaming]
Here, hold this. I got it.
[gunshots] - Hey,
this is 12-Jake-101 to Central.
I've got shots fired.
We're at Park Street station.
We've got shots fired.
BPD! Out of the way! Out of the way!
- [screaming]
- Hey.
[grunts]
Boston Police! Put your hands up!
Put the gun on the ground.
OFFICER: I'm on the job.
LENA: You still upset about
what happened in the squad room?
DANNY: Maybe.
Sullivan was working the Li case
around the clock last night.
- Yeah.
- He was running on fumes.
I know, but tired or not,
there's no excuse
- to disrespect the squad room.
- Right.
He's got his feet up on
the desk, no shoes on,
then a boss walks in,
and he keeps 'em there.
Oof. He deserves to be written up
for getting in your face like that, too.
Yeah. But it's not the Marines.
I shouldn't have gotten in his face either,
but I also can't let it stand.
But I encourage you to
channel Reagan royalty.
You know, what would Frank do?
- What would Grandpa Reagan do?
- [laughs]
- In this situation?
- What would Frank Reagan do?
That is a question.
[phone buzzes] - Right?
Detective Silver.
Shots fired at Park Street station.
- We got to go.
- Let's go.
[siren wails]
DANNY: Hey, boss.
Talk to me. What do we know?
- Jonah and Sean called it in.
- Jonah.
- You okay?
- Yeah. We're fine.
There were two shooters.
Two civilians shot. One critical.
One of the shooters was
Jason McGee, off-duty cop.
What?
Great.
We still don't know what happened.
[indistinct chatter]
Sean, you okay?
Yeah, but, Dad, that guy's
got two holes in his back.
I think he got shot after he fell.
Where's the shooter?
White cop, Black victim.
This looks really bad.
Bad just got a whole lot worse.
He's a cop, too.
[reporters clamoring] - Sir. Sir.
- Yeah.
Carson Wiley,
new at the Boston Dispatch.
Uh, Chief Lanigan, is there an update
on Detective Baker's condition?
He's in surgery, fighting for his life.
He's a tough man.
If anyone can pull through it,
- he can.
- REPORTER: Chief
Sir, Officer McGee fired five rounds
in a crowded subway. Were his actions
lawful or even in line with the
department's use of force policy?
- No comment.
- Chief. Chief.
- Yeah.
- I covered a story about a year ago,
about an Officer McGee and his
wife who were robbed at gunpoint
by three Black men in the
same station, the same train.
Could this shooting of Baker
have been some sort of
revenge for that past attack?
There are rumors that Baker
was shot in the back.
Let me tell you something
about Officer McGee
- Let me take it from here.
- [sighs]
This is an ongoing investigation.
When we know more, you will know more.
Until then, report the facts,
not rumors or speculation.
Tell the story, not just a story.
The people of Boston deserve that.
- Thank you.
- [reporters clamoring]
Chief Lanigan, one more
[over P.A.]: Attention, passengers
Yes, Chief. I understand.
I will.
My phone has not stopped.
Chief Lanigan's on the warpath.
We need answers.
Well, there were two
shootings down here.
Let's talk about the first one.
Sean and Jonah approached
two gunmen upstairs.
They apprehended the first one.
The second fled down these stairs
into this doorway, where he tried
to dump his shotgun between
the train and the platform.
He missed.
And that shotgun hits
the platform and discharges,
firing at a woman,
hits her leg here. At this point,
the second gunman is in the wind.
Now, there are five
cameras in this station.
That one there, which would have seen
everything, and one other were vandalized,
- out of service.
- DANNY: Now let's talk through
the second shooting,
the officer-involved one.
Officer McGee just
finished a midnight tour.
He was off duty,
sitting on the train over here.
He's got his face buried in his phone.
He hears a gunshot blast. He looks up,
he sees an injured woman,
sees the shotgun,
pulls out his gun, steps into the
doorway here with his badge out.
Now, on-duty DCU undercover
detective Tremain Baker
is right here
waiting for the train.
Now, he hears the blast.
He pulls his gun,
starts running toward it.
Obviously, people are screaming and it's
chaos. Everybody's running for their lives.
Officer McGee sees
Officer Baker approaching.
He's got a gun in his hand,
but he has no color of the day headband,
nothing to indicate he's a cop.
McGee fires.
He hits Baker with the first shot.
Baker stumbles, standing
right there where Lena is.
But now Baker keeps coming
and McGee keeps firing.
Four more rounds.
Baker ends up right here face down.
So Baker sees McGee's badge and thinks,
"He can't be shooting at me, he's a cop."
- DANNY: Right.
But McGee doesn't see any badge on Baker,
so assumes he's a perp.
LENA: And both thoughts make sense,
but we don't know.
We have not one single eyewitness
who saw what happened
after McGee's first shot.
The only thing we do know is,
those four additional shots
fired by McGee were at close range.
So it's possible two of them
were through and through,
which would explain the gunshot
wounds in Baker's back.
- Or
- LENA: Or
he shot him in the back
while he was lying down.
Now, we won't know until
Baker is out of surgery.
Danny, put together a task force.
Bring in Sean and Jonah.
They may have seen more
than they remember.
Have them do the video grunt work.
It might shake something loose.
- All right.
- We need answers
before the media turns this
into a racial firestorm.
JONAH: There were no prints
of value on the shotgun.
So what were our perps Simon Anthony
and the guy with the shotgun
doing with those guns?
Anthony lawyered up and isn't talking,
and shotgun guy's
nowhere in these videos.
- But he didn't just disappear.
- No, I'm thinking
he dipped into the tunnel and
then just ran to the next station.
Penny.
What the hell?
- Hey.
- I've been blowing up your phone
all morning. Why didn't you answer?
I've just been caught up
in a lot of stuff going on.
The news said a cop was shot,
and they weren't giving names,
and I just I knew you
were working the Common.
But when you weren't
answering your phone
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
You can't do that to me, Sean.
I know.
Look, I hate this, but I got
to get back to work right now.
There's so much to do.
We'll talk more about
this at Shabbat, okay?
- Yeah. Yeah, that's fine.
- Hey. Hey.
I'm safe.
Everything's okay. I promise.
- You gonna be okay?
- Yeah.
Uh, I mean, you-you got to work.
- Go.
- I'm sorry.
Bro, you got to start answering your phone.
- SEAN: I know.
I feel awful. She's really shaken up.
Yeah, she doesn't come from
a police family like us.
This is all new to her.
It can be scary.
Hey, come check this out.
What am I looking at?
That kid was right here.
He had a perfect view
of the whole shooting.
And look at this.
Muzzle flashes. He saw every shot.
Right now he's our best witness.
Now all we got to do is find him.
What happened out there, Mike?
It's not like you to let the
press get under your skin.
It didn't. I'm pretty sure
McGee shot Baker in the back.
Okay, it's way too early to say that.
We don't know what happened.
You don't know McGee like I do.
He's everything Baker isn't.
Angry, cynical, no discipline.
But every incident has
its own set of facts.
The most important thing is
what happened in that station.
White cop with a chip on his shoulder
shoots a decorated
Black cop in the back.
Only a matter of time
before the protests start.
That may be, but I make
my judgments based on evidence,
not on media narratives,
not on politics.
Be wise for you to do the same.
We'll see.
[indistinct chatter]
EDWIN: I offered to take
McGee to meet Baker's family,
but he's not ready yet.
Yeah. What do you make of Officer McGee?
I know you've been praying with him.
- What kind of guy is he?
- It's hard to tell.
The incident on the train last
year put him in a dark place.
He started drinking, his wife left him,
but it pushed him into the arms of God.
He was on a new path.
He got sober, started going to church,
letting go of that anger that
he's carried most of his career.
- Huh.
- He's fragile right now.
Well, I'm glad you're here.
Both of these families are
gonna need all the prayers
- they can get.
- Amen.
[sighs] So, McGee isn't talking.
- Huh.
He doesn't trust anybody right now.
He doesn't trust me,
which makes me not want to trust him.
Well, I'm sure McGee feels like
the loneliest person on the planet.
An officer is fighting
for his life right now.
- We got to get the truth.
- Yeah.
I have an idea, but I need you.
Okay.
- Thanks, Rev.
- Yeah.
Officer McGee.
This is Sergeant Detective Reagan.
Look, I shot a cop. I'm done.
My career is over.
What good could possibly
come from talking to you?
Hear me out.
Department rules actually
compel you to answer questions
from a supervisor in
regard to your duties
and the threat of
suspension or termination.
DANNY: Which means that anything you say
to me about the shooting cannot be used
against you in a criminal case.
Understand?
Okay, look. [sighs]
The reverend was telling me
about your spiritual journey.
I had a situation in my career
where I had to lean on my faith, too.
So I know what you're going through.
How could you possibly know
what I'm going through?
Because I shot an undercover cop, too.
Look, it was back in New York.
Different circumstances,
I wasn't facing what you're facing,
but I was a hothead cop.
And it seemed like the
whole world was against me.
But we're not here to hurt you.
We are here to get to the truth.
And the only way we can do
that is if you trust us.
LENA: McGee.
For you. For Baker.
You got to tell us what happened.
I was sitting on the train
I'm sorry, Carson.
I don't have an update if that's
- what you're looking for.
- It's not.
My source at Boston General tells me
the size and shape of the
wounds in Baker's back and chest
are consistent with Baker
having been shot in the back.
Doctors had to split open
Baker's chest to operate.
That alone could change the size,
shape, and appearance
of his chest wounds,
making it impossible to determine
entrance or exit wounds.
You need to kill that story, Carson.
People running, screaming.
Baker was coming at me with a gun.
I had no idea he was a cop.
What was I supposed to do?
Did you identify yourself?
My badge was already showing.
I just kept firing until he went down.
I don't remember how many shots I fired.
LENA: McGee, is it possible
that you kept shooting at
Officer Baker even after
- he went down?
- What? No.
I don't, I don't remember doing that.
I wouldn't do that.
SARAH: You run that story,
it will incite racial
unrest in this city.
We don't know what happened yet.
- We have a duty to report facts.
- Yeah.
These are facts without context.
- What's gonna happen to me?
- DANNY: I don't know.
But I can promise you that we will
conduct a fair investigation
- and we will find the truth.
- [knock on window]
MALONE: Sorry to interrupt, boss,
but, uh, you should turn on the news.
Everyone was running and screaming.
Then this white dude came by the door
with a badge around his neck,
and he just started shooting.
He had crazy eyes.
REPORTER: Did this officer identify
himself or shout a warning before he fired?
Nah, man. He just started blasting.
That brother fell down on
his face in front of him,
and the cop just kept shooting.
REPORTER: You're saying the white
officer shot the Black man in the back
while he was lying
helpless on the ground?
That's not what I'm saying.
That's what he did.
PROTESTERS: No justice, no peace!
No justice
These protests are only gonna get worse.
That's why we need to charge McGee now.
The alleged witness
Carter hasn't been vetted.
He was interviewed by a reporter.
LANIGAN: There's video of
him entering the station
- just before the shooting.
- Doesn't mean he saw it.
He has been collared for robbery,
assaulting a police officer,
and he's on parole.
That doesn't make him a liar.
His record does put his
credibility into question.
[Lanigan sighs]
An arrest brings the temperature down.
- We can sort the rest out later.
- Chief, since when
are you so cavalier about
taking away a man's freedom?
Especially one of your own?
We're not sending him to prison.
If you arrest McGee,
what's left of his reputation
will be destroyed forever,
guilty or not.
It was never good to begin with.
McGee is no cop of the year, but I
know that Baker is your friend and that
he worked for you in DCU, and it is
obvious that is affecting your judgment.
- What?
- MAE: Chief.
- Chief.
- Yeah.
You can arrest McGee,
but he will walk right back out that door,
and I will not write up a complaint
until that witness has
been formally interviewed.
[door opens]
[door closes] - You didn't
have to come to my rescue.
I didn't.
Mayor Shaw is in a reelection year.
The last thing he wants
is unrest in the streets.
I can bet you Shaw is in Lanigan's ear.
I didn't back you because
you're my daughter.
I backed you because you were right.
Sarah's really feeling the heat.
There's been looting and
rioting in the North End.
She thinks Lanigan is gonna shut down
the task force and give the case to IA.
You know if we let that happen, this goes
from an investigation into an inquisition.
Danny.
You have a soft spot
for McGee, don't you?
- [stammers]
- Because you shot that cop.
I do not have a soft spot for McGee.
I just don't want to see
the guy get railroaded, is all.
Well, if he's guilty,
he deserves to suffer the consequences.
If he is guilty, he should
be buried beneath the prison.
I'm just saying,
I-I've been where he is,
and nobody believed me either,
including members of my own family.
All I had to lean on was faith,
- same as McGee.
- Come on,
that trauma that he suffered
on that train last year
that could have filled him with
a rage that he cannot control.
What makes you think
McGee had that rage?
His words.
He literally said he doesn't
remember how many shots he fired.
At a decorated cop.
He doesn't remember if
he shot him in the back?
If he was in a state of rage,
he wouldn't.
You might be right.
Hey, boss. Simon Anthony,
the kid your son and his partner
collared in the subway, well,
he had a bunch of cash and
two cell phones on him.
This one didn't belong to him.
I'm thinking Anthony and
his pal with the shotgun
they were fleeing the
scene of a robbery.
I had the data sent to your computer.
All right, well, I'll check for
robbery complaints in the area,
and I'll, uh, get permission
to run facial rec on this image.
SULLIVAN: Thanks.
Okay.
Yeah, he's showing me
he got the message.
I just got to show him what
kind of boss I'm gonna be.
- Texting Sarah?
- Yeah.
All right, we need some good news.
What do you got?
Still nothing on shotgun guy.
But we may have found something.
Okay, let's see it.
JONAH: We have no idea who he is,
but this kid saw the shooting.
It's a witness.
JONAH: Yeah.
- Anything else?
- Yeah.
This is a screenshot
from footage from another
surveillance camera
before all hell broke loose.
But at the time of the shooting, this kid
doesn't have the backpack or this bag.
He left the bag on the train
when the shooting started.
Wait a minute.
The logo on this bag
that's Goddard Grocery.
This is a lunch spot from
my old patrol district.
Nice work. You guys are gonna
make great detectives one day.
LENA: Yes, you are.
Now, come on, come on,
let's go, let's go.
Grab that bag from evidence
and do not return without that kid.
- We won't.
- [phone buzzes]
Yes.
Sarah granted facial rec access
since this case is so high-profile.
DANNY: Great. Now if we can figure out
who got robbed before
the subway shooting
LENA: We might find the second shooter.
I just found our robbery vic.
That is our vic.
Preston Churney.
Let's see.
And there's the complaint.
Victim of a robbery
this morning downtown
on Adams, ten minutes
before the shooting.
Two Black males, green caps.
So they were running from a stickup?
You're really good at this, Detective.
Scrip says the second perp has a
gold grill with a scar on his left cheek.
Okay. Let's see.
That's our guy.
Miles Barton, one of Simon
Anthony's past codefendants.
Let's get some answers.
LENA: Let's roll.
JONAH: Excuse me, sir?
Is the owner here?
You're looking at him.
We're hoping you might know this kid.
Think he witnessed the
shooting in the subway
- this morning.
- That's Isaac.
Does Isaac have a last name?
I'm sure he does,
but not one that I know.
He's an orphan.
About a month ago, I caught him
trying to steal some fruit from my stand.
Instead of calling the police, I took him
inside and gave him something to eat.
He's been coming by every morning since.
We found some old textbooks in his bag
that he left on the subway.
Do you happen to know where
he lives or goes to school?
He lives on the street and
he don't go to school.
I gave him the books to
help him with his studies.
He's been in and out of foster homes
since his mom passed when he was six.
Yeah, well, is there anything
else you can tell us about him?
- Anything at all?
- A gang's trying to recruit him.
He's holding out, so
last week they roughed
him up pretty good.
Been ducking 'em ever since.
If he happens to come by,
please give us a call.
SEAN: If we can't find him,
we'll come back in the morning.
He's got a rusty old purple bike.
You find that bike, and you'll find him.
[tires squealing]
All right, Silver, 12 o'clock.
I got your six.
- Sullivan.
- Yeah.
Nine o'clock. Grab two detectives,
take 'em with you.
Curry, take two and get two o'clock.
Stay alert.
[indistinct chatter]
Barton!
Boston Police! Stop!
[groans]
[both grunting]
- [groans]
- Turn over. Why you running?
- Give me your arm.
- Hold on, hold on. Whoa, whoa, no.
Hey, he's swallowing something.
Spit it out.
- I didn't swallow nothing.
- Yes, you
- LENA: Give me your arm.
- He swallowed one of these.
He's been dropping 'em all over the place.
- Give me your arm.
Looks like crack. Who
knows what it's laced with?
I want my lawyer.
You're gonna spit that out
right now. Spit it out.
- Ah.
- Let's get him to EMS.
We're taking him to the hospital.
- Oscar-808 to dispatch.
- He's gonna be poisoned.
I need EMS at 26913 Benton
for a potential overdose.
[grunts] - Cancel EMS.
We got to get him to the hospital now.
- SULLIVAN: Come on, come on.
- DANNY: Come on.
LANIGAN: Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I'm confident that
this will help calm things down.
Yes, I certainly will.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
[Mary speaking indistinctly]
I thought we were on the same team.
I'm sorry, Chief.
Uh, it's okay, Mary.
Are you kidding me?
You snatch a witness,
pull the case from the task force,
give it to IA without even a phone call?
- I don't report to you, Sarah.
- Please, sir,
for the good of the case,
let the task force work with IA.
It'll take precious time
to get them up to speed.
- The city's a powder keg.
- It's IA's case now.
You are making a mistake here, Chief.
A man's life and
reputation are on the line,
but you've already made up your mind that
McGee is guilty, and he deserves better.
You'll do well to remember
who works for who here.
Maybe I forgot because
you no longer resemble
the man I thought you were.
NURSE: Incoming overdose.
Male, approximately 20.
Keep that kid alive.
- What else could go wrong here?
- I don't know.
Because even if Barton survives,
and he saw the shooting,
it's gonna be a long time
before he can tell us anything.
Yeah. That's Baker's doctor.
LENA: Yeah.
Detective Baker has a
long road ahead of him,
but he's going to make it.
- He's going to be okay.
- WOMAN: Thank God.
MAN: Oh, my God,
thank you so much, thanks.
LENA: Thank God.
[phone buzzing] - Looks
like your prayer was answered.
LENA: Uh-oh, this is Sarah.
And look at there. Hey, Sarah, yeah.
They're here now.
Let me call you back.
Whoa, whoa,
whoa. What are you doing here?
What's going on?
We have an arrest warrant with
Officer McGee's name on it.
Wait, no. This is our case.
Who issued the warrant?
D.A. Silver. And per
Chief Lanigan, the case
- is reassigned to IA.
- DANNY: You got to be kidding me.
Turn around. Turn your
hands up behind your back.
- DANNY: Just do what he says.
- You are under arrest
for assault and battery
with a dangerous weapon
and reckless endangerment.
You're just gonna perp-walk
him out of the hospital
- past all them cops?
- You bet I am.
So much for the truth, huh?
This, uh, brisket Sean's
been bragging about
really lives up to the hype. [chuckles]
Thank you.
Okay, I'll rip the Band-Aid off.
Really, Mom?
Not even a heads-up
that Officer McGee was going
to be arrested or that IA
- was taking over the case?
- MAE: I don't love it,
but his witness statement and the evidence
were more than enough to charge him.
Detective Baker might be able
to clear up this whole thing.
Can you just hold off on the grand jury
until he is well enough to be interviewed?
I can wait a few days.
Thank you.
I've read a bunch of
stuff online about it.
If McGee was a racist cop,
why would you want to cut him a break?
SARAH: We don't know that
this was racially motivated.
Yeah, Internet's all about
clickbait, you know?
It's what they do.
LENA: What we need to know is whether
the shooting was justified or if it
was because of something else.
SEAN: Some of the old-timers at
E-12 are saying that McGee should have
taken cover in the doorway
and ordered Baker to
put down his firearm
before he fired, but
Baker ran toward him
with a gun in his hand.
Did not identify that he was police
and wasn't wearing the color of the day.
Yeah, but he ran toward gunfire.
- He did.
- He was being brave.
You can't train courage.
But Sarah's right.
Mistakes were made, and it has
to be called out so other officers
don't repeat them.
LENA: The thing is,
a year ago, on that same train,
McGee was held at gunpoint
and forced to watch his wife be abused
while two Black men were trying
to cut off his trigger finger
so he wouldn't be able
to be a cop anymore.
And I don't care who you are.
That kind of trauma changes you.
We don't know what McGee was
thinking when he shot Baker.
It could've been racism.
Could've been vengeance.
Problem is, only McGee knows.
And now that IA stole the case,
we may never know the truth.
I mean, what would you guys have done?
In that position?
SEAN [stammering]: I don't know.
I don't think I would've shot him.
I don't know. I I might have.
[clapping]
Sorry.
But that was the sequence of shots.
Less than ten seconds.
Six shots.
That's how much time McGee and Baker had
to make all the decisions they made.
And I don't give a damn
what any politician says
or what any media person says.
They will never understand
what those two men felt in that moment.
What they were seeing,
what they were hearing,
what they were thinking, what they
were feeling amidst all that chaos.
They will never understand
the trauma that Lena was
talking about or the trauma
she's been through.
They will never understand the horror
of what it feels like
to shoot a fellow cop.
Like I did.
PENNY: Was he Black?
- The cop you shot.
- Uh, babe
DANNY: It's okay, Sean.
No.
Male, white.
Mid-40s.
Waving a gun around,
did not respond to a single order
that I gave him to stop.
In a perfect world it wouldn't
matter what color he was.
But this world is far from perfect.
I know the history of this city.
There is still work to do,
but we've come a long way.
What happened on that subway
Our duty is to find the truth
so justice can be served.
EDWIN: Mae's right.
No matter how bad things look,
we have a D.A.,
a police superintendent,
two decorated detectives,
and two uniformed
officers at this table.
If anyone can get to the truth,
it's this family.
[indistinct chatter]
SARAH: Mr. Carter, ready for
your morning show appearance?
I'm Superintendent Silver.
This is Detective Silver.
We need to have a chat.
- I don't chat without my lawyer.
- LENA: Okay, well,
you might need a new one
who spends more time in the courtroom
than on cable news.
Although all of the press appearances
did make it very easy to find you.
Why did you lie about
seeing the shooting?
I didn't.
SARAH: Falsely reporting an incident
is a felony and a violation of parole.
You're looking at three
years back in jail, minimum.
LENA: So it took all night to, uh,
comb through the footage to find this.
Image is kind of terrible, but
I don't see no face. That ain't me.
Thing is, nobody else
was wearing that jacket.
And the time stamp puts you three cars
away from the shooting
five seconds after it started.
You didn't see the shooting.
This case is national news.
You get on the stand and lie,
the D.A. is gonna go hard on you.
I'll make sure of it.
LENA: So this is your moment, Carter,
right here, right now.
You come clean, no charges.
You keep lying?
And you are gonna end up back at Walpole
having powdered eggs and stale bread
instead of that fluffy croissant.
I spill the truth right now,
I get no charges?
None.
DANNY: Okay, Officers, we've
been looking for this kid all morning.
Why isn't Isaac showing
at the grocery store?
I don't know, maybe he
heard that we were looking
- for him and got spooked.
- Look, can you pull over?
I'm gonna ask these kids if
they've seen Isaac around.
What's up, guys?
Boston Police Department.
Seen this kid?
- His name is Isaac.
- BOY: Uh, yeah, check the grocery
So, yesterday Penny
showed up at Command.
- Yeah.
- I didn't call her
after the shooting to let her know I
was okay, and she was pretty shaken.
I heard.
You know, your mom
used to worry about me
from the moment I left
the house in the morning
to start my tour until the
very second my key hit the lock
- when I got home.
- Yeah.
And if something big happened,
I always called your mom right away
so she wouldn't worry.
I mean, you got to put
yourself in Penny's shoes.
You invited her to Shabbat.
- That's a big step.
- Yeah, that's what Jonah said.
Got a feeling she cares about
you a lot more than you think.
It's not a bad thing.
Thank you. Thank you, guys.
[car door opens]
One of the kids said they saw
him by the park on Franklin.
Madam District Attorney,
we have good news.
Carter confessed.
He made up the whole thing.
He had a grudge against the
cop that sent him to prison.
MAE: Really?
You went around Carter's attorney?
Do you understand how bad that looks?
What does it matter if Carter was lying?
The case was reassigned to IA.
You interfered with their investigation.
Lanigan's hit men weren't looking
hard enough for the truth,
or they would have dug up
the same footage of Carter
- we did this morning.
- MAE: You know that Carter's lawyer
doesn't care about that stuff.
He doesn't care about the truth.
He's gonna spin it to make it sound
like you intimidated his client
to protect a fellow officer.
You kicked a hornet's nest, ladies.
You need to find another witness.
Otherwise what's going on in the streets
will go from bad to worse.
Can't believe nobody's seen this kid.
He's ducking a gang. He
doesn't want to be seen.
DANNY: Probably feels safer going
to the grocery store in the morning
- so he won't be seen.
- Wait, that's Isaac's bike.
Looks like he dumped it in a hurry.
- Park.
Three o'clock.
- JONAH: Oh, there he is.
- [indistinct arguing]
ISAAC: Stop. Leave me alone.
SEAN: Let's go.
[indistinct arguing]
- [both grunt]
- JONAH: BPD!
[coughs]
[grunting]
- BANGER: You're hurting me, man.
- JONAH: Stay down.
- Stay down.
- Stop.
- I got him. You help Isaac.
- Get off me.
DANNY: Go ahead. He needs you.
- Watch the knife.
- Ah, man.
DANNY: Come on, give me your hands.
- Hands behind your back, man.
- Stop resisting.
[banger groans]
- Hey, man. You're safe now.
- DANNY: Got any weapons on you?
Huh?
JONAH: You're safe. Isaac, right?
I'm with the Boston Police Department.
Okay? You're safe.
Let me see your arm, man.
Oh, that's not too bad.
You was putting the moves on 'em, man.
Left, right.
There you go. You're safe.
I got you.
I got you, okay?
Okay.
I saw this lady
she was bleeding
and a Black man running
at her with a gun.
It was scary.
You're doing great, Isaac.
I ducked behind a pole,
and there was another shot.
There was a white officer in a doorway,
and he had a gun.
He looked scared.
The Black man was running at him, and
the officer kept shooting
until they were this close.
The Black man fell.
He was moaning and making noises.
There was lots of blood.
Did the officer fire at the Black man
when he was lying on the ground?
No.
No, he, uh, stopped when he fell.
And you're sure, Isaac?
Yeah. I'm sure.
He didn't shoot him in the back.
Based on new evidence
that has come to light,
all charges against police officer
Jason McGee have been dropped.
The shooting of Detective
Baker was a tragic accident
caused by two criminals fleeing
the scene of an armed robbery.
The men responsible will be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law.
Sir, I know you're angry.
I am here to fall on the sword.
Damn right I'm angry.
You disobeyed my orders,
ignored the chain of command,
and continued an investigation
I assigned to IA.
With good intentions.
We arrived at the truth.
We exonerated McGee.
The truth would have come out
regardless of your antics.
There will be consequences for
what you've done. Bet on it.
EDWIN: So good to see
you back in church.
Thanks for coming.
Tell your mother hello.
- Hey, son.
- Grandpa. Yeah.
- Grandpa, this is Isaac.
- Well,
hello there, young man.
Great to finally meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Uh, I enjoyed your sermon.
That was for you.
Philippians 3:13.
"Forgetting what is behind
and straining toward what is ahead."
My grandpa's the one who
arranged for you to stay
with the Collins family for a while.
I've known 'em a long time.
They're wonderful people.
They've fostered many kids over
the years, and Sister Collins,
whoa, she gonna put
some meat on your bones.
[laughs]
And Jonah's mom's got connections to
the family court, so if you like it there,
we can pull some strings
to make it permanent.
You're not alone anymore,
Isaac. You got us.
Wh-Why are you guys helping me?
- It's who we are.
- It's what we do.
Well, my ride's here. I got to go.
- I'll see you, Rev.
- I'll see you.
- All right.
- Bye.
- SEAN: Hey, beautiful.
- Hi.
- Nice dress.
- Thank you.
I was, uh,
I was thinking about earlier,
when you
didn't know if I was okay
and and how worried you
must've been. I'm sorry.
You know what? Uh,
thank you for saying that.
I guess I just
I hope I didn't embarrass you.
You could never embarrass me.
It was sweet.
Come here.
But I am starting to think you like me
- or something. It's so weird.
- Oh, my gosh.
Guilty as charged, Officer Reagan.
Okay, let's go before
this gets any sappier.
[engine starts]
- Thanks so much. Appreciate you.
- You got it.
Thanks for your hard work.
Look at you and Sullivan, like old pals.
- Yeah
How did you end up fixing it?
Eh, we worked late,
around the clock, in fact.
We talked through the Li case,
then we cracked the Li case, and then we
cracked open a bottle
of whiskey to celebrate.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
It's "ling xiù."
"Ling" what?
I had an old partner
who spoke Chinese, and
he said that a boss
should be "ling xiù."
It means "collar and cuffs."
- Like collar and cuffs?
- Mm-hmm. So,
the collar it controls
the direction, right?
It dictates how the rest of the shirt
falls, so a leader should set the vision
and the guidelines for the team,
and the cuffs
it's the most worn part of the shirt.
When you work with your hands,
the cuffs do all the work.
So a leader should do the heavy
lifting and lead by example.
It's "ling xiù."
And that, Danny, is you.
If I knew how to say "thank
you" in Chinese, I would.
- So, thank you.
- So,
- while you're at HQ
- Yeah.
doing your sergeant paperwork,
us normal detectives are gonna
be out enjoying some drinks.
Sorry.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
[laughs]
Hey.
- How you holding up, Jason?
- McGEE: It's been tough.
So many emotions over the last few days.
Well, the good thing is,
Baker's doing really well.
- Thank you for arranging this meeting.
- Of course.
Guess this is it.
[door opens]
Thank you for everything.
And God bless you both.
You keep the faith.
I've been wanting to ask you, Danny,
that cop you shot
did he make it?
He did.
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
I never understood why I had to.
Until this moment.
So, you know, uh,
I could skip the paperwork and
go for drinks with you all.
- [laughs] Gotcha.
- What?
You really thought I was gonna leave
- Yeah.
my grammatically challenged,
three-finger-typing partner behind?
- I did.
- No, I was praying you wouldn't.
- [laughs]
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KIDS: The Brandons.