Boston Blue (2025) s02e05 Episode Script

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Come on and set them free ♪
Come on, start a-thinking ♪
- [laughter]
- LENA: So, Jamie,
you really regifted a
shirt that your wife
- bought you?
- JAMIE: Yeah.
And then you wore it to family dinner?
It was a nice shirt. I mean, I liked it.
Being Danny Reagan's younger
brother's no walk in the park.
Why you got to do Uncle Jamie like that?
- Thank you.
- JONAH: I don't know,
I feel like you got to be pretty clear
when you're regifting something.
Especially if it's from your girl.
Thank you. Jonah, right as usual.
- You should learn from him.
- [laughter]
- Look at that.
- They're roommates.
- Oh, okay.
- And by the way, I heard you got
a girl's number last night.
- I did.
- Casanova won't shut up about it.
[gasps] Does this girl have a name?
- Delilah.
- Oh, that's nice.
DANNY: Ah. And did you get Delilah's number
before or after Sean lost his wallet?
I didn't lose it, I left it at the bar.
There's a difference.
But we do have to go get it
before the afternoon shift, so
JONAH: Yeah, which means
we can't join you guys
on the duck boat. Sorry about that.
And no wallet, which means Sean won't
be chipping in for breakfast again.
Okay.
- Actually, I already took care of it.
- What?
Yeah, when I stepped out to
take that call from Eddie.
You did a sneak-and-pay?
You're from out of town.
You can't pay for breakfast.
Well, technically I'm here for
a lieutenant's conference,
- so NYPD paid.
- Yeah.
Breakfast on Grandpa.
- Cheers.
- I'm here for that.
LENA: Thank you anyway,
- Lieutenant.
- DANNY: Yes.
Lieutenant Jamie Reagan,
from Harvard Law School to NYPD
and climbing the ranks faster
than I ever possibly could.
My little brother couldn't let my promotion
have a moment to shine, could you?
No, I guess, I guess not. Not this time.
How about a selfie?
- Let's go. Reagan boys.
- Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah,
- yeah-yeah-yeah.
- Come together. Come together.
Aw, you look great.
- Okay, now all of us. Here's all of us.
- Aw.
[siren wailing in distance]
- [laughter, indistinct chatter]
- SARAH: Hi. Hi.
- SETH: Oh, there she is.
- I am so sorry to be late, Rabbi Siegel.
SIEGEL: Not at all.
I-I know how busy you are.
SARAH: Ah, thank you.
SIEGEL: Seth and I were just talking.
- SETH: Yes.
- He-he tells me
that, uh, he was raised Jew-ish?
- [laughter]
- Yeah. Yeah, I would say
that my family's Judaism
is probably casual at best.
Right? We were the
family with
we had the menorah and
the Christmas tree.
But all that to say,
I am very serious about
embracing my faith and having
a Jewish household with Sarah.
Which is why it-it pains me
to say this, truly,
but I won't be able to
officiate your wedding.
- I-I don't understand.
- I'm sorry?
Seth tells me that his
mother isn't Jewish, correct?
My father is, right?
But my-my mom's Methodist,
but, like, on paper.
Judaism is matrilineal.
By halakah, by Jewish law,
you are not considered Jewish
unless you complete a formal conversion.
Rabbi, I mean, I like, I had a bris.
You know what I mean?
We-we celebrate the Jewish holidays,
I went to Hebrew school
I'm not trying to erase that.
But when I stand under a chuppah,
I am acting on behalf of a tradition
that is older than all of us.
I can't pick and choose
where it applies.
You made an exception for my mom.
Mae officially converted.
She chose Judaism with full knowledge.
I was honored to stand with her.
And if Seth decides to convert,
I would be equally honored
to stand with both of you.
But without that
I'm sorry.
[overlapping shouting]
- Police! Go, go, go!
- Move in, move in!
- Hands! Hands!
- Let me see your hands!
Move, move!
Stay back!
- Get those hands up!
- Get down right now!
[man groans]
OFFICER: Tango, Code 10.
We have a man down.
Apparent heart attack.
Send EMS to our
MAE: John Malloy suffered
a fatal heart attack
as a result of a 911 call
made against his son Wesley.
Your client was playing
video games with Wesley,
called in a false threat, then Boston PD
sent a SWAT team to the Malloy house.
BLAKE [over recording]:
Yeah, this is John Malloy.
M-My son's gone crazy.
H-He's got a gun,
and he says he's gonna shoot me.
I locked myself in my room.
SEEVES: Madam District Attorney, we
accepted your invitation here in good faith
that you wanted a conversation,
not to make accusations.
- Just stating the facts, counselor.
- [Blake scoffs]
It was just a prank.
And now a man's dead.
SEEVES: If you seek charges, my client
is prepared to file civil lawsuits
against the Boston Police Department
for what was plainly an
aggressive overreaction.
You're scapegoating an innocent young
man to cover up police misconduct.
MAE: I did invite you
here for a conversation
because I was hoping to understand
what happened from Blake's side.
J-Just part of gaming culture.
I really didn't expect
anyone to take it seriously.
Like my lawyer said, cops overreacted.
SEEVES: Well, if that's all?
[clears throat] Let's go.
- CHARLIE: What a punk.
- I blame the parents.
I was talking about the lawyer Seeves.
- Threatening us with headlines?
- We're gonna press charges
in the wrongful death of
Wesley Malloy's father.
Put a team together to strategize.
What's the problem, Charlie?
It's the video, Mae.
All it takes is one juror to agree
that SWAT overstepped, and Blake walks.
It's gonna look like you're
trying to protect the BPD,
which Thad Longfellow
will use against you.
If my campaign is gonna
catch heat either way,
then it might as well be in the
pursuit of justice for the Malloy family.
Gather a team.
Yes, ma'am.
TOUR GUIDE: Off to our right
is the Old State House,
the head of the English regime
during the colonial age.
Boston was originally founded in 1625
by a man named William Blaxton.
He founded the area, and he
called it the Shawmut Peninsula,
which stood for "the living water,"
because it was all water.
It was one-and-a-half
square miles of land.
Boston today is more than
40 square miles of land.
So how's Eddie?
She's good.
- She sends her love, by the way.
- Mm-hmm.
You should see her with Joey Francis.
She's such a great mom.
Send her my love back. And
speaking of families, look at that.
That's Elena with her grandma Dania.
We introduced them a few months back.
She's been helping out
with babysitting and stuff.
It's been awesome.
That's cool.
"Cool?" That's it?
What?
Come on. What's going on with you?
- I didn't say anything.
- Uh
That's exactly the point.
You're not saying anything.
I mean, you're like a
blind date from hell.
And when you finally do say something,
it's like, "Cool," "What?"
- I'm fine, Danny.
- You're not fine.
- Okay, I'm not fine.
- Well, then what's wrong with you?
You left.
I left New York.
Erin said somebody in the
family was upset that I left.
It's you who she was talking about?
TOUR GUIDE: We thank you so much
for joining us today on our tour of Boston.
Enjoy the city and watch
your step on the way out.
DANNY: So, what, you've just been
quietly pissed since I moved to Boston?
- I'm not pissed.
- Of course you're pissed.
You left me stranded on a duck boat.
I thought we talked about this.
You talked to Dad about it,
you talked to Erin and Grandpa about it,
but you sure as hell never talked to me,
or otherwise I would've told
you how much it bothered me
that the second my son was born,
you skipped town.
I didn't skip town.
- I had to
- It's the same as always. You do whatever
you want, everyone else is just
supposed to be okay with it.
Hey. Hey!
[grunts, groans]
Come on. Come on!
Hey, Boston PD. Step back.
Hey! Hey.
Hey!
- Police! Hey!
- JAMIE: Don't try to move.
- Danny, we need a bus.
- I'm on it.
JAMIE: Don't try to move.
[groans] - DANNY:
This is Detective Reagan.
We need EMS at the Prudential Building,
duck boat departures.
Hey. You okay? Sit tight,
help's on the way.
And send backup.
Hit-and-run suspect fled on foot.
Male, white, mid-40s.
Brown hair, plaid shirt.
- License plate
- JAMIE: Don't try to get up.
Just stay put.
Actually, send CSRUs forthwith.
They can get the plate.
What's up? Is it bad?
DANNY: Trunk full of diamonds.
I think it's about to
get a whole lot worse.
Hey. I'm looking for Reverend Peters.
- Is he inside?
- Yep.
Thank you.
Grandpa?
- [knocking]
- Hey, Lena.
- Hey.
- Oh, thanks for coming.
- Of course.
- Oh
I'm sorry to bug you on your day off.
You are never bugging me.
What's going on?
Well, it would be
easier to just show you.
- Okay.
- This, uh, apartment
belonged to one of my congregants.
Eugene Platt. He operated the T on every
line in Boston until he was in his 60s.
He battled cancer for about three years
till the Lord called him home.
He lived alone, his nephew
Dennis was looking in on him,
taking him to his treatments.
Uh, some of the
volunteers from the church
offered to help pack up Eugene's things.
Okay.
Yeah, well, we've been packing
his things all morning,
but I found something that
just didn't sit right with me.
LENA: And do you know if these
were Eugene's belongings?
He had another cell phone.
Also, I packed a few tie clips.
Key chains, too.
I'm not sure why these were singled out.
LENA: And I'm guessing this
hair tie is not his style.
Turn the phone over.
LENA: Huh.
Did you ask Dennis about this?
The nephew?
Eh, he couldn't say, other than Eugene
was something of a pack rat.
Sorry if I'm overreacting.
No, it looks like it's a good
thing you called, Grandpa.
That is blood.
SARAH: The injured driver of
the crashed sedan is Armen Kola,
32, Albanian national.
He's in a medically induced
coma in Boston General.
The driver of the SUV
that nearly hit you
is Hasan Kola, 40, also Albanian,
with priors tied to an
Albanian crew in Brighton.
Okay, hold on.
- These two are brothers?
- SARAH: Appears so.
The diamonds that were found
in Armen's trunk match
a shipment that was reported stolen
last week in Downtown Crossing
by a wholesaler named Besnik Teliti.
Customs has the gems entering JFK,
then a truck got hit
between JFK and here.
Driver was killed,
crew disappeared with the stones.
JAMIE: NYPD Major Case has this
same crew tied to a homicide in Queens.
We've been chasing these rocks
since the truck robbery.
Which is why, when BPD logged "diamonds,
multimillion-dollar value,"
NYPD lit up my phone.
With NYPD's blessing, Lieutenant,
having you here to take custody
of the evidence and smooth over
the jurisdiction fight is
surprisingly convenient.
Kind of like you planned
to almost get hit by a car.
Point is, these diamonds are a
joint NYPD and BPD headache now.
So, we have Armen in the sedan,
Hasan in the SUV.
Were they chasing each other or working
together and something went sideways?
Do you have anything on
the whereabouts of Hasan?
We have Hasan's face all over the traffic
cams during the chase, then nothing.
He vanished. So, he either knows the
city or he's got some help. So, I'm having
the gang unit bring up everything
they have on the Kola crew.
- Happy hunting.
- You ready?
Yeah. It's my evidence. You ready?
- You two good?
- Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Never better.
SEAN: I just can't believe
nobody turned in my wallet.
Bro, if I was gonna return a wallet,
it would have to have
at least 20 bucks in it.
- I had cash in it.
- No, you had five ones
and a punch card for a free sandwich.
Who even has a wallet these days?
It's all about the phone case.
It's efficient,
- it's sleek.
- Not that you'd know,
but my mom gave me that
wallet before she died.
When I got my first part-time
job in high school,
she said, "Your own money
should go in your own wallet,"
- and I've had it ever since.
- I'm sorry.
I had no idea.
- We'll find it, okay?
- Nobody turned in my wallet, though,
which means somebody has it,
along with my credit card.
Dude, hit the app.
Worst-case, you dispute a couple charges
the bank eats it.
- Cost of doing business.
- Thank you.
Your financial wisdom is just amazing.
Are you kidding me?
Somebody's already using it.
They just bought $300 sneakers.
- That's perfect.
- How is that perfect?
Now we have a trail to follow.
DANNY: Look, is this
beef gonna be a problem
or are we gonna keep it professional?
JAMIE: I've never not been professional.
That's not an answer.
Yeah. Well, as long as
you can follow an order,
I think we'll be fine.
No. This is not New York, it's Boston.
Okay? I don't take orders from you.
It's my city.
Well, we're on a joint investigation.
Even though we work for separate
departments, your boss knows I outrank you.
Okay. Let's agree to disagree.
Here he is.
- Bes
- Besnik Teliti?
I'm Lieutenant Jamie Reagan, NYPD,
this is Sergeant Detective
Danny Reagan, BPD.
- You bring my diamonds?
- DANNY: Not yet.
They're in evidence for now.
First, we got to ask you
questions about the man
who was driving a car
with your diamonds: Armen Kola.
Kolas. Always the Kolas.
Their sister Vesa worked for me.
The best salesperson I ever had.
She's smart. Kind to my customers.
Kept my books straight.
Till they killed her.
You're trying to say her
own brothers killed her?
In a sense.
- What does that mean?
- She borrowed Hasan's car.
She gets in the car,
she turns key, and
boom.
They meant to kill the brothers,
- but they kill Vesa instead.
- Okay, enough
with the pronouns, who's "they"?
Serbs. They run a crew out of Brighton.
They think they own half the city.
After the bombing,
Hasan and Armen vowed revenge.
- Said the people who did this would burn.
- DANNY: Great.
Just give us Hasan,
and we'll be done with it.
Okay? We need address, location,
family, friends,
somewhere he might run to.
- JAMIE: Danny.
- And have Hasan think that I am a rat?
JAMIE: Is that better than the D.A.
thinking that you're an accomplice?
Because that insurance payout is
- gonna be pretty massive.
- Look, the bottom line here
is the police think
this was an inside job.
Okay? So, if it wasn't Hasan,
we're gonna assume it was you.
Unless you start talking to us now.
Hey. Why do you assume
it was inside job?
- DANNY: I'm talking to him.
- What do you think I'm doing?
Why do you keep interrupting me?
- But why are you assuming that
- We're assuming nothing.
Okay, stop whatever this is.
I will tell you what I know, but inside.
See?
You want to stop trying
to get the last word?
Well, if you would toughen up,
you might have got the last word.
Mae, we've got a problem.
Only one? Banner day.
Yeah, a civil suit was filed against
the BPD over the Malloy raid.
Wow, Blake Snyder's lawyer
didn't waste any time.
Yeah, only Snyder's isn't filing.
The plaintiff is Wesley Malloy.
The victim.
He must smell a payday.
The boy just lost his father, Charlie.
He's grieving. Rightfully so.
Huh. So, now our victim
and the one who harmed him
are both gonna drag the
BPD through the mud.
And we're stuck in the middle.
Okay, NYPD confirms that Hasan's E-ZPass
exited and entered the city in a window
that could account for the truck heist.
So, now the brother with the diamonds
is in the hospital in a coma
and the brother with the
grudge is in the wind.
I pulled up Besnik's insurance claim
and compared it to what Evidence
weighed out from Armen's trunk.
Numbers don't match.
There's about $50,000
unaccounted for in stones.
Do we think Besnik is padding the loss
or that he could be a part of it?
DANNY: Doesn't feel like fraud to us.
I mean, for one thing,
Besnik can't stand Hasan.
And his business is doing great.
Doesn't need a bailout.
The numbers look honest.
It's possible, though,
that somebody skimmed $50,000
in diamonds before or after the hijack.
JAMIE: Or Hasan's holding back
enough diamonds to buy something big.
Gangs has Hasan pinned
to an Albanian set
that's gone around with a
Serbian crew more than once.
A long-standing ethnic grievance
dating back to Yugoslavia.
Vesa borrows Hasan's car,
she parks in front of a Serbian bar,
the car gets bombed,
Vesa dies instead of Hasan.
I mean, if somebody came at me and Erin
got caught in the crossfire,
- we'd want revenge.
- [phone vibrates]
Agreed.
Oh, it's Boston General.
Armen is out of the coma
and stable enough to talk,
if we're polite about it.
I left my politeness back in New York.
I can see Boston hasn't
changed him all that much.
Good luck.
DANNY: Hey.
- Hey.
- You okay?
Yeah. I wanted to ask
your opinion on something.
Do you think it's okay if I use the
BPD system to track down my wallet?
Why?
I know we've gotten
whacked a couple times
for investigating stuff off duty, but
You got whacked a few times
because patrolmen do not investigate.
Come on, off the desk.
Dad, I know that, but this is personal.
It's the wallet Mom gave me.
Okay. Well, look, I know it hurts,
but you got a new boss.
Maybe this is a time when asking permission
outweighs begging for forgiveness.
And what if Sergeant
Ryan tells me to drop it?
Then you report it missing to me
and I'll find the wallet.
Son, it's just a thing.
Your mother is always with you.
I promise.
Hey, Sean.
- Hey.
- Danny, Armen's waiting. We got to go.
Yeah.
What, are you two working
a case right now?
- Mm-hmm.
- Is Uncle Jamie in charge?
I mean, was that an order?
We have somewhere to be.
[chuckles] Was that an order?
- It was totally an order.
- It wasn't an order.
Sounded like an order.
My dad had a scare, couple years ago.
A mild heart attack, they said.
We changed his diet, he quit smoking,
he even started doing yoga
at the community center.
He said, "If I'm gonna die,
I'm gonna at least be able to
touch my toes again first."
- [chuckles]
- [laughs, sniffles]
He sounds like a good man.
- And a good dad.
- He was my best friend.
He'd watch his shows,
I'd make us dinner.
It wasn't much, but it was ours.
Now you have funeral expenses
and a lawsuit you didn't expect.
I know it makes me look like a leech,
suing the cops.
I don't blame the guys
that busted in here.
They were just doing their job.
Somebody told them I was a threat.
Blake Snyder told them
you were a threat.
Blake told a dispatcher.
Listen, when you're gaming
at a level like this,
swatting's just
it's just trolling.
And Blake didn't like being beat.
What you're describing
is not just anything.
It's bullying, it's intimidation.
It's using a system that was set
up to protect people as a weapon.
When you beat Blake Snyder,
did he already know about
your dad's heart condition?
He used to make fun of it.
Called him Grandpa Malloy.
Look, Wesley, I am not here to
talk you out of your lawsuit.
You need money, I understand that.
But if you don't hold
Blake Snyder accountable,
I promise you will not
be the last person he does this to.
He's got a lawyer, he's got a following.
He's doing just fine.
I have a GoFundMe with 14 donations.
You have me.
I'm on your side.
If you want me.
I just want to be left alone.
I'll respect that.
Hey.
Whether or not you help me,
I will do everything in
my power to make sure
your father's death meant something.
So, I I-I talked
to Rabbi Siegel again.
Seems like there's a class, all right?
There's some readings
I don't want you to change.
But babe, mar-marriage is
about growing together.
Your family's actually helped
me appreciate my faith,
- so why not go all the way?
- Because "all the way"
should mean that we show
up and love each other.
Shouldn't just showing up matter?
Doing what is meaningful to us?
Yeah, but babe,
your dad loved Rabbi Siegel.
Because Siegel accepted Mae.
He presided over my and
Jonah's b'nai mitzvah.
He was a huge part of our Jewish life.
So, yes.
Yes, it would have been
nice for him to marry us.
Full circle.
But if the price of that is you
having to jump through hoops
to prove that you are worthy?
That doesn't honor my dad.
I'm happy you want to
do a formal conversion,
but I can't wait that long to marry you.
Even if Rabbi Siegel doesn't approve.
Where's my lawyer?
DANNY: You don't need a lawyer.
Technically, you haven't
even been arrested yet.
Well, you were unconscious all day.
We didn't want you to roll
out of bed and hurt yourself
- while you were asleep.
- Your brother's still out there.
This is your chance to
help him and yourself.
They killed my sister!
You don't know what it's like. Huh?
Your whole life, you're side by side.
Okay? Y-You fight,
you make up, you yell.
And then, one day,
somebody else decides that's it.
No more!
She's gone.
- Look, let me tell you
- Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
[sighs] Go ahead.
Actually, we do know what it's like.
Okay? We lost our older brother, Joe.
He was a cop, too. We loved him.
But someone took him from us.
Just like your sister
was taken from you.
And we miss him every day.
We love Vesa that way.
Hasan wanted blood.
Serbs took her, Serbs pay.
I told him, "You want to hit the guys
who planted the bomb, we find them."
But he wanted anyone near them, too.
When I heard this plan,
I tried to talk him out of it.
When that failed
I took the diamonds.
We found diamonds at the crash.
You didn't take all of 'em.
Hasan still has enough to get his hands
on some serious firepower.
I understand having a
brother like Hasan.
Guy who does whatever he wants,
lets everyone else
deal with the fallout.
You don't agree with the
decisions that he makes,
so you try to stay ahead of them,
you try to-to be better.
But deep down, you know that
it's your brother being who he is
that made you who you are.
So, you love him
and you do everything
you can to protect him.
That's why you took the diamonds, yeah?
Hasan is emotional.
- Quick to anger.
- So, do what you've done
your whole life right now.
Protect him.
You say you're the
reasonable one of you two.
Now it's time to prove it.
Tell us who the guy is
that Hasan gets his weapons from.
Our brother's gone.
But yours is still out there.
Help him.
Okay.
I'll tell you where
Hasan gets his weapons.
[scoffs] But you're too late.
LENA: So, we had enough DNA
in Eugene's place to run it
against the blood on that phone.
Grandpa, it's not his.
I ran the IMEI on the phone.
It's registered to Ellen McKenna, 65.
Deceased. It's her blood.
- I don't think I know her.
- She died of cancer.
And I dug into the records,
and she had the same oncologist
- as Eugene.
- You know
after my own health scare last year,
I couldn't help but see
some of myself in Eugene.
You know? We prayed together.
It sends shivers up my
spine to think that
I could have been
wrong about who he was.
It's not your fault, Grandpa.
People who have the capacity to harm
can wear masks so real
even their families
don't recognize them.
You brought me here
to show me something.
Yeah.
In addition to that,
Ellen McKenna and Eugene
were a part of the same chemotherapy group,
along with these three.
They were all treated for
cancer in the last five years.
And all of a sudden boom
cardiac events.
That's four deaths.
Eugene had four items in that box.
Grandpa, if Eugene
killed these people
their families deserve the truth.
Eugene could
he could barely get up
the stairs in the end.
That's the part that I
can't figure out, either.
'Cause if these were homicides,
Eugene was sick and frail.
You know, to murder four
people and tamper with meds
and then hide souvenirs
If it wasn't him, then it was
someone else who knew the group.
Someone who had access to their homes,
their hospital rooms,
to Eugene's apartment.
His nephew. Dennis.
But why would he want to hurt
- these people?
- I don't know,
but it's time I go ask him.
I-I found Blake Snyder's lawyer, Seeves.
He's been in court since lunch.
- You said you had something?
- We've been scrubbing Blake's
public streams for any
references to Wesley's father.
There's a lot of trash talk here, but
Here, these transcripts.
Wesley mentions his
father's heart condition
and Blake doubles down on mocking him.
CHARLIE: "Yeah,
my dad's in the other room,
he's got a heart thing,
I got to keep it down."
Blake: "Aw, does Grandpa
Malloy need his nap?"
Well, if snark was murder,
we'd be prosecuting half of Boston.
Blake knew about Mr.
Malloy's heart condition
before he even picked up the phone.
He knowingly weaponized
the police against a man
he understood was vulnerable.
This proves knowledge.
Wesley said that Blake
would do this kind of thing
for engagement, content.
But is it enough for intent?
Blake likes attention?
Let's see how much
attention he can handle.
JONAH: I can't believe Sergeant Ryan let
us go on call early to find your wallet.
I never know what she's thinking,
- but glad I asked.
- Same.
- Think they're gonna show?
- We triple-checked those charges.
They said they ordered same-day
delivery to those P.O. boxes.
SEAN: Unreal, man.
Wallet my mom gave me jacked
for a pair of sneakers.
Wait. No way.
- SEAN: What?
- That's Delilah.
- Your "digit pull last night" Delilah?
- Yes. Yes.
That's her. How could she?
What, now you care?
SEAN: Hey!
You enjoy your little shopping spree?
DELILAH: Oh. You two are cops?
Hey, guys. What's going on?
What's going on?
How about petty larceny
for starters, Delilah?
Shoes ordered to this P.O.
box, paid for with my card.
Same card that was in my wallet
when somebody stole it last night.
Look, it was just a couple of things.
The bank will cover it.
Nobody gets hurt.
Where's my wallet?
It was old and gross.
I tossed it in a dumpster.
Oh, my God.
JONAH: Okay.
Here's how this is gonna go.
Give me that. Thank you.
You're gonna take us to exactly
which dumpster you dumped it in.
And if you find the wallet,
maybe we'll tell the D.A.
you cooperated when it comes to
the mail fraud and identity theft charges.
Come on, Joseph. We could still
It's Jonah.
God, you are literally the worst.
MAN: Coming.
Dennis Trent, I presume?
- Uh, yeah.
- I'm Detective Lena Silver of the BPD.
I'm Reverend Peters' granddaughter.
Thanks for agreeing to meet with me.
Of course. I had to come by and see
to a few more personal effects anyway.
Uh, come in, Detective.
Can I get you something to drink?
- [door closes]
- There might be some sodas
- still in the fridge.
- Water would be great.
Thanks. So, listen,
I was sorry to hear about
your uncle's passing.
My grandfather said you were
a big help in Eugene's life.
Drove him around, sat with him at chemo.
Well, we took care of each other.
You know, on a lot of people's
paperwork as primary contact.
Eugene, Ellen McKenna,
others from the chemo group.
Well, a lot of them didn't
have much family around.
Somebody had to make sure
they got to appointments.
Yeah, somebody had to
have keys, too, right?
Bring in groceries,
water plants, check meds.
Don't take another step.
You want to tell me what that is?
You watch someone you love
disappear one piece at a time.
The pain, the bills.
Families going broke trying
to buy another week of misery.
They cried.
They begged. Not for more treatment.
For it to stop.
- You saying they begged you?
- They didn't have to.
I could see it.
Eugene was humiliated.
Couldn't get to the bathroom alone.
Couldn't hold a fork.
He told me he didn't want
me to see him that way.
He told my grandfather
something different.
He told him he was grateful for you.
That he didn't know what
he would do without you.
He said that?
And you took the choice away from him.
From all of them.
You didn't show them mercy,
or their families.
You stole time that they
will never get back.
I ended their suffering.
You ended their lives.
And you took trophies.
That's not mercy. That's something else.
And now this is the last
time I'm gonna tell you:
put the needle down.
[grunts, whimpers]
[groaning]
Stay down.
Give me your arm.
Aah! [groaning]
You're under arrest.
[pop music playing on speakers]
Boston police.
Anybody home?
JAMIE: Place is open, door's unlocked,
no one's minding a tray of loose stones?
DANNY: Jamie.
Looks like Besnik's missing 50K
in diamonds that Hasan took.
If Hasan brought these, he came shopping
for more than just guns.
And I think I just figured out
what he came shopping for.
Please tell me that's
not what it looks like.
DANNY: Well, it was an RPG.
And that was three rockets.
One's missing, Jamie.
He just used the diamonds
to get himself to the table,
but he didn't have enough to pay for
what he needed, so he kills them and takes.
And now we got a madman
running around town
there with a rocket
launcher and a vendetta.
DANNY: What do you got over there?
Sorry. Can't stand driving in this city.
It's nothing but cobblestone streets,
potholes and those screwy rotary things.
The Serbian set's got a handful
of spots in Brighton
cardrooms, nightclubs
but this car bombing
took place a half block
from their favorite bar.
Vesa borrows Hasan's car,
parks for a night out, and they
blow it before they even
check who's behind the wheel.
So, they see Hasan's car
parked on their turf,
they figure he's coming to start beef,
they pull the trigger on the vehicle not
realizing it's his sister inside instead?
- If Hasan blames them
- Which he does.
that bar is the symbol.
Same block, same target.
And an RPG would let him hit
the bar from a distance.
He doesn't have to get close up,
he just needs to be
high enough and clear enough.
He wants them to feel what he felt.
One second, everything normal,
next second, everything's on fire.
We're not looking for a
guy in line with a gun,
we're looking for a firing position.
[dance music playing]
DANNY: That's the bar.
We're looking for a window
or a rooftop with a clear shot.
There. Danny.
Rooftop, parking garage.
He's concealed and he's got
a clear shot at the bar.
That's got to be him. Let's go.
Hasan!
Boston police!
- Don't do it.
- You're too late.
You pull that trigger
you're not just hitting the
men who killed your sister.
You're hitting waitresses, bartenders,
innocent people on the sidewalk.
- They took my family!
- Hey, hey, hey! Look at me.
You still have your brother.
Armen told us everything
that happened, Hasan.
He's trying to help you.
He's trying to stop you from doing this.
Now, you can be mad at him
and you can swear that
you're done with him.
But there's a bond between brothers,
and you can't break it.
And one day, you're gonna realize
your brother was just trying to help you,
the best way he knew how.
Look at me.
Got a brother.
You don't want to throw it away.
Hasan, he's lying in a
hospital bed right now,
and he's still trying to help you.
Come on.
This is-is for Vesa!
No, no!
[people screaming, exclaiming]
- Hands behind your back.
- Are the people okay?
- Danny, tell me they're okay.
- [indistinct shouting, chatter]
DANNY: They're all right.
You missed, thanks to my brother.
You okay?
Yeah.
[sirens wailing in distance]
To what do I owe this visit?
Dropping the murderous
gamer fantasy, I hope?
I'm here to offer your client a deal.
- I'm listening.
- Your client didn't call in
a vague noise complaint.
He impersonated a man
with a heart condition
and told dispatch his son was homicidal.
He knew what kind of
response that would bring.
- You can't prove that.
- Transcripts from a live stream
show Blake mocking this
man's heart condition.
He weaponized SWAT against
a specific, vulnerable man.
The recording proves that he
knew exactly what he was doing.
So, here's my offer.
Blake pleads guilty to
involuntary manslaughter
and reckless endangerment and
waives appeal, or we go to trial.
The charge is murder
and I will win.
She expects your answer tomorrow.
I always pictured Joey getting to
grow up around his Uncle Danny.
You know? Sunday dinners, ball games,
you teaching him all your bad habits.
Aw.
I have some very excellent bad habits.
And then the second he was born,
you packed your bags.
You know, you could've
- talked to me about this.
- I was so mad.
You were always there whether
I wanted you to be or not,
and then, the second I wanted to ask you
about how to be a dad
what to do when Joey wouldn't sleep
or Eddie didn't want me to go
back out into the street
- you weren't there.
- I couldn't.
I had to be here.
Sean needed me.
I know he did.
He still needs you.
When Sean came by HQ, I saw.
You guys are close like
you never were before.
If that were me and Joey,
I know now I would do the same thing.
I get it.
I just needed to see it, I guess.
Uh
I'm sorry for taking it hard.
Don't be sorry.
I just never knew you felt this way.
And I'm always here for you.
Even from Boston.
They do have these things, they're new,
they're called cell phones.
- You can always call me on it, you know.
- Yeah.
I'm proud of you.
As a brother, as a cop
and now as a dad.
I'm just better at busting chops
than saying it out loud, I guess.
You just said it.
And if, hey, you leaving
New York was what
the Knicks needed to finally get a chip,
- Oh. Oh.
- I-I think it was worth it.
- I think it was worth it.
- Oh. Oh, my goodness.
- You don't think it was worth it?
- You know what?
I should make your drive
through these horrible streets.
[Jamie laughs]
EDWIN: To hear that
Dennis looked at Eugene
and saw a problem to solve
and not a man to love, to sit with?
You know, the hardest part of aging
is fearing that you'll end up like that.
Sick, a burden, in somebody's way.
- Grandpa
- I don't ever
want you kids or Mae
to feel stuck with me.
LENA: Never.
We would never feel that way.
Grandpa.
You are not a burden.
You're a blessing.
Remember what you used to tell me?
- We are all we need.
- "We are all we need."
If there comes a day where
you can't climb the stairs
then we'll carry you.
Now, I might have to hit the gym first.
- Like you do.
- [chuckles]
[both growl]
- [laughing]
- SARAH: Every time.
SETH: That's very funny.
[indistinct chatter]
So, don't keep us hanging, Sean.
Did you get it back?
This thing right here? Boom.
- Hey.
- SEAN: And I cleaned it, by the way,
it's disinfected, it's cologne-sprayed.
I still think we should've
burned your clothes
when you got back from the dumpster.
Never thought I would see
the day when I'd be proud
of my son for dumpster diving.
- [laughs]
- LENA: Mom.
Blake Snyder. He took the deal?
MAE: Yes. He'll plead guilty to involuntary
manslaughter and reckless endangerment.
There's no trial, no circus.
- But he still goes away.
- Exactly.
- Mm-hmm.
- And everything he did
will be on the record.
This way, we got justice for his dad
and we kept his privacy.
Any truth to the rumor
that instead of suing BPD,
Wesley's going after Blake
in civil court as well?
- I can neither confirm nor deny.
- Mm
- Got it. Got it.
- That's a yes.
- [laughing]
- SARAH: That is a yes.
[indistinct chatter]
I can see why you two love it here.
Family dinners, good food, bad jokes.
Yeah. Feels a little bit like home.
SARAH: So, we have news.
Rabbi Siegel is not going
to be able to marry us.
What happened?
Uh, well, because
my mother is not Jewish and I
never fully converted, so he can't.
SARAH: At first, it felt like rejection,
you know, of Seth.
Of you, Mom.
Of all that you and Lena did to join
this community that Dad loved.
Then I realized the
reason that Rabbi Siegel
mattered so much wasn't his title.
It was that he welcomed you and Lena.
He made synagogue feel like home.
And then I realized
that idea went both ways.
When you started coming to Shabbat,
Grandpa, you did that for me.
So, the rabbi's no
gave us an opportunity
to honor what Dad stood for.
So, Grandpa
will you marry us?
EDWIN: Uh
[chuckles]
I thought you always wanted
a traditional Jewish wedding.
- I'm a Baptist reverend.
- The most
traditional thing in
the world is family.
Having the someone who brought
this entire family together
up there with us
feels more right than anything.
What a blessing.
It would be my honor and
privilege to marry you.
- Let's toast to that.
- Hey, how about it?
[laughs] L'chaim. Amen.
- L'chaim.
- DANNY: L'chaim.
SEAN: L'chaim.
LENA: Amen.
JONAH: Sean?
Please get your wallet off the table.
- Now.
- Yeah, I cleaned
I told you. And it smells good.
JONAH: I've-I've told him four times.
- Four-plus times.
- [overlapping chatter]
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