Bronx SIU (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Archangels - full transcript
[ominous music]
- [Yolanda] Can you
lock up the whole alley?
Thank you.
- [yawns] More coffee, brother?
Thank you.
What we got?
- This one is a doozy, Jimmy.
You're gonna be up all day.
48 year-old WF, gunshot
wound right side of the head,
no struggle, straight through.
Jimmy, it's a woman of the cloth.
- [Jimmy] A nun?
- Yeah.
Meet Sister Rogers, St. Joseph's
Church, missing 48 hours.
- Any witnesses?
Anything?
- No, looks like she was dumped here.
Not a soul around for three miles.
A representative from
the church did come by
to identify her, though.
Crime labs processing.
What else do we need, boss?
- Let's go talk to that church rep.
[somber music]
- Ha.
Detective Rodriguez,
this is Detective Blue.
Thank you.
- Dexter Ferguson.
I run the community outreach
center for youths in The Bronx.
We finance the convent
next to St. Joseph's.
- [Jimmy] Thank you.
- I fielded the call tonight.
I thought I'd spare the
pastor or one of the sisters
from having to come identify the body.
What's happening in this city?
I mean, how can something
like this happen?
- If I could answer that question
I wouldn't need this job, sir.
- Yeah.
- Did you know anyone
who wanted to hurt her?
- No, Sister Rogers was an amazing person.
She wouldn't hurt a soul.
I should tell you that
there's a local gang
that pushes drugs on the youths
and, well, lately there's
been some friction
because the church has pushed back hard
with anti-drug and anti-gang messages.
This is what I hear from the pastor.
What are you gonna do?
- We're gonna find who did this
and we're gonna destroy them, sir.
- We'll be in touch.
- [Dexter] Thank you.
- I know.
Yes, sir.
It's all over the news,
why wouldn't it be?
I know.
I know.
Chief is all up my underarm
and wants this solved now.
- Yeah, what else is new?
Okay, I'm gonna take the
church, see what I can see.
- All right, stay in touch.
I'ma put Tessa on Derrick Ferguson.
Hey, who runs the local
bangers around here?
- 18th Street Boys.
Just small time, drugs, theft.
- All right, you push them hard.
Makes no sense, a church and
gang bangers goin' toe to toe?
- Yeah.
[dramatic electronic music]
[somber music]
[Yolanda sighs]
- [Father Evans] Detective Rodriguez?
- [Yolanda] Ah, Father Evans.
- Ah, welcome to our church.
- Thank you for seeing me.
- Please, sit.
- It's been a while since I've been
in a place like this, Father.
- Oh.
Well eventually everyone
finds their way home.
- Home's not really a place
I wanna go back to.
- Is that so?
- I'm sorry. [chuckles]
- No need to apologize.
It's the garb.
People tend to feel more open.
I have the time if you'd like to talk.
- I'd like to talk about Sister Rogers.
[Father Evans exhales]
Can you tell me more about her
and why anyone would wanna hurt her?
[Father Evans exhales]
- You know, this church
was built in the 1700s,
withstood the test of time.
[inhales] No matter what
has happened around it,
it is still here.
- Who wanted to hurt her, Father?
- I don't know.
I always thought that
she, like this church,
would always be here.
She had such a spirit, you know?
Such and indomitable spirit.
She was gentle and
kind, firm in her faith.
- I'm told you've been having
trouble with a local gang?
- Hm, Kiki and the 18th Street Boys.
[Yolanda grunts] Well
I'm a man of the cloth,
but I'm not blind to the outside world.
I think I see as much of
the underbelly as you do.
- Then I don't envy you, Father.
- One thing I can say for certain
is that we have always had a very strong
youth outreach program.
It's been our philosophy
to not ask, but help.
Now, we are taking the kids off the street
that the gangs are trying to recruit.
Sister Martha can shed
more light on this for you.
She worked hand in hand
with Sister Rogers.
- [Yolanda] Is she around?
Can I speak with her?
- I'll have her come
out and speak with you.
They're just finishing
up the afternoon prayers.
- Thank you, Father.
- No, thank you for
helping us find justice.
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord,
but I am thankful for an earthly justice.
- We'll be in touch.
- [Father Evans] Detective Rodriguez?
- [Yolanda] Yes?
- Once you decide that you have the time
to find your way home, our
doors are always open to you.
I do hope that you find
what you're looking for.
- Thank you, Father.
- Thank you for having lunch with me.
It's hard to find time between duties
and the outreach program.
You gotta get it in when ya can.
- Absolutely.
No, I was starving.
You'd have had to pick
me up off the street
if we didn't eat.
- Oh, I don't think I should
be able to manage that.
- Are you callin' me fat, Sister?
- Oh. [chuckles]
No, not all.
As a matter of fact, Sister Carissa and I
were admiring your coke bottle figure.
- Oh God.
I'm so sorry.
- No, no.
Nuns are human, too.
Everyone wants to look
and feel their best.
[Yolanda chuckles]
Come on, let me show you around.
- [Yolanda] Sister, I'm just
tryin' to get a clearer image
of Sister Rogers in this place.
- [Sister Martha] We run an
after school tutoring program,
free to inner city kids.
Father Evans started it 10 years ago.
- [Yolanda] Wow.
- One kid in particular,
Felix, a bright kid.
Father abandoned him,
mom's a heroin addict,
unfortunately an all
too familiar tale here.
- Felix would come in
once or twice a week.
A hot meal, safe place to stay.
He's a good kid.
He deserves our help.
- [Yolanda] And what about Kiki?
- [scoffs] The lure of easy
money, the illusion of power.
Kiki had Felix and others
do some short runs for him.
- [Yolanda] Did you report this?
- Well perhaps we should have,
but it's not like the gang was hiding
and I knew the police knew about them.
Besides, if we had gone to the police
we would have lost the trust and the faith
of the very children we
were trying to win over.
It's a lesser of the evils.
- Sister Rogers had a
strong liking to Felix.
Like, that woman feared nothing.
- And when she found out
Felix was working for Kiki,
she went and, pardon my expression,
she went to put the fear of God into him.
- Guess it didn't work.
- You stay away from my boys.
Keep your drugs and your
guns away from the church.
- Your boys?
They came to me.
That makes 'em my boys.
- If I find out that you have Felix
running for you after
today, I will report you.
- Is that a threat, Sister?
- No, it's a promise.
Stay away.
Let those boys have a future.
Don't take it from them.
- [Sister Carissa] And when
she told me what happened,
I couldn't believe it.
- Do you think Kiki would've hurt her?
- It's not our place to judge,
but to help those in need.
- If I had to guess, I'd say yes.
You know it's true, Sister.
Please let us know if there's
anything we can do to help.
She was our sister, and my friend.
- Thank you for everything.
We'll be in touch.
Thank you.
- Yola, look at this.
Who on Earth would do this?
- Word on the street is
our altar boy Kiki's got
10 bodies under his belt,
mainly the Carmona shooting
in High Bridge last month.
- That was brutal.
- Three closed caskets.
- You know, I think we
have at least enough
to bring him in.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Let's do it.
Mm.
- Hey!
Bring that back, you little shit!
- Where you goin'?
Come on, let's do the thing
that you know is right.
Okay? Come on.
Let's go.
Now listen, let's put it back.
Sorry about that.
I got it from here.
- You're not gonna bust
me for some M&Ms are you?
- Who do I look like,
the candy police to you?
- Nah, a DT.
- You're a pretty smart kid.
Are you thirsty?
- I can go for something.
- What you want, a Coke or Pepsi?
- Coke.
- Coke?
I woulda pegged you for a Pepsi person.
You need to stop drinkin'
that river water.
Look, let me brighten
your horizons, all right?
Come on, sit down.
Ah, this is good.
Told you it was good.
Look, I've been investigatin'
the 18th Street Boys
and I think I've seen you
hangin' out with them.
- Kiki's a good dude.
He wouldn't do no nun.
- A nun?
- He looks out for me.
- I'm sure Kiki's a good dude
and probably wouldn't hurt
a fly, but I need you to
tell me about this nun.
- Sister Rogers, she was good to me, too.
I don't know what happened to her.
She was different, she actually cared.
- Listen, I care as well and I wanna do
a little bit more investigation on this.
- If they see me talkin' to you
I'm gonna be in serious trouble.
- Well the trick is you
tell me the information now,
we can get outta here.
- [sighs] Listen, he said
she was hurting his business.
I heard him say that
and that's all I know.
You can't look weak, in
this neighborhood at least.
- Well you got right
and wrong all mixed up.
Real bad, kiddo.
- All right, I gotta head home.
- That's fair enough.
Let's get you outta here.
Hey, can't forget the good stuff.
Can't forget those.
I paid for them.
What'd you say your name was again?
- Felix.
- Felix.
Felix, okay.
Well listen, Felix, you
need anything, anything,
give me a call.
- All right.
- All right?
Hey Felix, stay outta trouble.
- [Felix] Yes, sir.
[soft ambient music]
- [Jimmy] NYPD, let me see those hands.
Gun!
[gun fires]
[dramatic music]
Shots fired.
- Hands on the wall.
- 3604.
- Hands on the wall!
- [Jimmy] Send backup immediately.
- Get outta here.
[suspenseful music]
[guns firing]
[man shouts]
[guns firing]
- Drop it.
Who the hell are you?
[fist thuds]
[man grunts]
[man grunting]
[fist thuds]
[Yolanda grunts]
[gun thuds]
[kick thuds]
[man grunts]
[fist thuds]
[man grunts]
- [Yolanda] You good? You okay?
- [Jimmy] Yeah.
Where the hell did you learn to do that?
- Rough childhood.
[Jimmy laughs]
You found Kiki.
- That's Kiki?
- Shit.
- All right.
You take your boy in.
I'm gonna escort Kiki here personally.
Wake up! [laughs]
Now you're one heavy motherfucker.
But you know,
[exhales] you can not beat
this view, am I right?
[soft ominous music]
- Where the hell are we, man?
You can't do this, man.
I didn't do anything.
- Yeah, I know, I can see your halo.
Now see, I know there are
rights and rules and regulations
and all that and I respect that,
but see if there's one
thing that I learned
in the Middle East it's
sometimes you gotta
get your hands a little dirty
if you wanna reach higher ground.
- What do you mean?
I'm not tellin' you anything.
- No.
That's okay, I didn't think you would.
But my friend, that is fine.
So you sell heroin
30 feet from a school
and you ordered at least
three people killed
that I know about.
As far as I'm concerned
your ass can die right now
and I will sleep like a fuckin' baby
'cause all I care about
is poor Sister Rogers.
But see, you don't know
nothin' about that.
And here we are.
- I didn't do anything,
man, I'm tellin' you.
- And I'm tellin' your
ass, I don't give a shit.
See, I'm tired of bein' a good
man in a bad fuckin' world.
No one's gonna miss your ass.
Nobody.
And all I care about is a
sweet little fuckin' nun
that caught a bullet.
- You a cop, man.
- Mm-hm.
Yeah, man, and I'm a goddamn good one.
[Jimmy grunts]
- Ah, what the fuck?
Ah, fuckin' help me!
- You know Socrates once said nothing
is preferred before justice.
Nothing!
- I don't know who that is, man, come on!
Yeah, I wanted to.
I did, I thought about it, but I couldn't.
I'm an altar boy, man.
- Felix?
- I gave him a gun to protect himself.
I didn't do it.
I don't know who did.
I could never do such a thing.
- Yeah?
All right. [grunts]
[Kiki cries out]
Stop fuckin' screamin'.
Felix is off limits.
Say it.
- Felix is off limits.
- Now your ass is under arrest
for assaulting a police officer.
- Fuck you.
- What's up, baby.
You called, talk to me.
- Yeah, you got a dead cop, Jimmy.
IE is callin' us cop killers.
That what Zakia is
tryin' to stick us with.
- What you sayin'?
- I'm sayin', how you feelin'?
- Live together, die together.
- Okay, okay, okay.
I need another treatment.
Yeah.
- How is she?
- She's good, but she needs another round.
[suspenseful music]
- Anything else?
- Nah, I got good news.
I talked to the guy over at 1st.
- Are you fuckin' crazy?
- I said I wanted to help
find whoever done this.
He said the bullet pulled
from the undercover cop
matched the gun on one of the Albanians.
- But that is good.
- Yeah, yeah, the money was clear.
It wasn't city money.
The money is clean, we're good Jimmy.
So, we just stay low,
stick to the story, Jimmy.
- Hey, this is all gonna
blow over.
- Yeah,
it's gonna blow over.
- We'll get back to our normal lives.
- Yes we will.
I heard about that nun, man.
It was a tough call.
- Yeah.
Hey, you ever heard of a
guy named Derrick Ferguson?
- Yeah, he did a land
deal a few years back.
Wasn't quite on the up and up.
Public records should have it.
He was cleared.
- Thanks.
Stay strong.
- Bye Jimmy.
- All right.
[cell phone buttons clicking]
[Jimmy whistling]
- Officer.
- Hey, naw, call me Jimmy.
You know you gotta love New
York this time of year, right?
Can almost smell the money in the air.
- If you say so.
Excuse me.
- Oh come on, Dexter,
you know about the smell
of money, don't ya?
- That land deal was a sure thing.
I don't know anything about
what the city officials
or whoever they were connected
to were doing behind my back.
I have nothing to hide.
- We did some diggin' on you, sir.
All those shady backroom
deals with politicians,
all those [hand thuds] pats on the back,
the favors from the city and the state
for some of the most
sought after land deals
just a few miles from Manhattan.
Russians, Chinese buyin' 'em up, right?
- That was then, this is now.
Look, I've committed no crime.
Anyone can develop land in this country.
What I'm doing now is for
the good of the community.
- Mm, yeah.
And it's your time to shine, right?
- Yeah, it's my time to shine.
The racist sins of the past, if you will.
Isn't that what we all want, Detective?
- Yeah, yeah it is, but here's the thing,
and it seems to be goin' around.
Where the hell are the other 2.3 million
in development funds?
- I don't know.
If I did I wouldn't be where I am today.
- Well, you've got yourself a
public relations dream here.
You're workin' with the archdiocese,
you're fundin' this place.
That looks really good for you.
A little too good to be true.
From shady backroom deals
to honest businessman?
- People change.
I just wanna make sure that
what happened to Sister Rogers
doesn't happen to anyone else.
Look, I'm not quite sure
I like the direction
of where this friendly
conversation is going,
so I'm gonna make an exit.
Enjoy your day, Detective.
- You better hope your
house is in order, sir.
- Have a good day, Detective.
- Tessa.
Keep digging on Derrick Ferguson.
Follow the money.
Thanks.
Dick.
- Dexter, I prayed for you.
For us both.
For all we're trying to do.
- I could use all the
prayers I can get right now.
- Everything okay?
- Well, I'm 25% over
budget on development.
I desperately need those funds
in grants from the government
to finish the project.
We worked so hard on this.
It would be so good for the community.
I already pulled more than I should
from the construction drawers.
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
You'll fix it.
Just keep your faith.
And remember, sin no more.
- By the way, I had some new ideas
for the outreach program, Sister Martha.
Are you free tonight to
read over some new ideas?
I mean, after I get them organized?
[soft ominous music]
- Here you go, kiddo.
- [Felix] Hey, where's your badge?
- I'm off duty right
now, it's the weekend.
You playin' hooky?
[Felix laughs]
Look, are you still hangin'
out with that Kiki guy?
- I'm in trouble.
- You wanna talk about it?
- [Felix] Well, it's...
- You wanna go somewhere?
- [Felix] Hot day today, huh?
- Oh man, it seems like
nowadays it's a lot more hotter
than it was when I was a little kid.
They say global warming's a joke.
I beg to differ on that one.
- Everybody has an opinion these days.
You don't know who to believe.
- Yeah.
Seems like nowadays everything's
about smoke and mirrors now.
- I hope you're real.
- What's goin' on, buddy?
Who's after you?
- What if you had a secret
and it's just so big
that you can't let it out?
- Sometimes things like
that can eat you alive.
You have to ask yourself,
Felix, can you live with it?
Look, I grew up a couple
blocks from down here.
I remember I used to ride my
bike over to the candy store
and get my favorite candy.
Now, I love Nerds, love 'em.
And that's exactly the same spot
where my Big Wheel got stolen.
- What's a Big Wheel?
- [laughs] Before your time.
But I tell ya one thing, my
mom bought me that Big Wheel.
You know, my mom, she was the glue
that held everybody
together before she passed.
But you know, now it's me and my dad
and he's always taught me one thing,
that family is important and
you can always trust family.
So if you have a secret, it should be okay
to talk to your family about it.
If you can't, I'm here for you, all right?
You can depend on me.
- Take me home, I'll tell you.
- Let's do it.
Come on.
[text alert chimes]
- Yeah, I'm really sorry that I'm late.
It's just this case has
got me workin' double time.
- It's okay.
- You all right?
- Mm-hm.
- The ex?
- Yeah.
- [Zakia] It's okay.
Watch your feet.
[Zakia exhales]
- Sorry.
- No, it's okay.
- I'm excited to get out of the city.
- Me, too.
- I still can't believe you're a cop.
I mean, of all the gin joints
in all the towns in all the world.
- You just had to walk into mine.
- [Gloria] So where are we going?
- Oh, no, no, no.
You gotta wait, it's a surprise.
- No, I hate waiting.
[laughs]
You have to tell me.
- I'll tell you what, I'll make
it up to you later tonight.
- You know I'm not there yet.
I told you.
- Ah.
It's okay.
Unlike you, I don't mind waiting.
[text message alert chiming]
Here we go.
[soft ominous music]
[Sister Carissa sighs]
- Sister?
- Sister.
What troubles you?
- How's Felix?
- I would hope well.
And you?
- All these troublesome
things, how do you cope?
- I pray.
- As do I.
- If you need anything, I'm here.
Come to me.
No need to suffer in silence.
- [Jasmine] Yolanda?
Yolanda, are you listening to me?
- Did you hear about the dead nun?
- Yes.
Are you working that case?
- Special Investigations Unit, yeah.
Takes a fuckin' special person, so yeah.
Sometimes I don't know
if I'm even any better
than the people I'm tryin' to bust.
You know that the
preacher actually told me
it's never too late to come home.
- Well, there's actually
a lot of truth to that.
Home is supposed to be the place
that we're always welcome, always loved.
- Always loved.
Yes, I was very loved
at home, a lot of love.
- Home is also where we choose to make it.
- God, are you serving rice
with your fortune cookies?
- Yolanda, it's true.
Honey, not everything in life
has to be so complicated.
How are you holding up?
- Oh, you mean am I out
fucking everything that moves?
Am I out fucking everything I see?
No, 'cause I'm not a whore
no matter what anyone says.
- Who says that?
- I see the absolute worst in people,
like, the most terrible things
that you would never understand,
and I am trying to be good
and I am working at it, but
I am just angry all the time.
The things that people do to each other
with no pause and no
regard, no matter how much
anyone begs, no matter...
No pause and no regard for
another human being and--
- Yolanda, who says this?
- I don't know.
I don't know.
- Yes, yes, you do.
You look into that mirror
and you face the truth.
It's the only way you're going to heal.
- Can I get a glass of water?
[somber music]
- [Jasmine] Okay.
- Where have you fuckin' been?
I've been lookin' for your
stupid ass all damn day.
I've been lookin'--
- Hey, un-uh!
You do not wanna do that in front of me.
- Who the fuck are you?
I have a right to discipline my son.
What did he do?
I don't care, whatever.
- You know, Felix is a good kid.
All right?
I just wanna ask him a couple questions.
- Suit yourself.
Where is it?
That juice in the fridge is mine.
Don't touch it.
- Mother of the year, right?
Come on, I'll take you to my spot.
[soft ominous music]
[Father Evans sighs]
- Sometimes inner peace, not so easy.
- Sometimes I wonder
if it's only for those
we provide it for.
- All have sinned and
come short of the glory.
- Is a small act of bad
evil if you do it to help?
If it's for the greater good?
- Heavy thoughts.
I think since Sister Rogers' death
we've all had some pretty
hard questions to answer.
Sometimes when we fall
short, we fall short of who
we think we really are.
It's called being human.
And other times through God's grace
He gives us the power to make
better decisions next time.
Would ya like to make confession?
- No, no, Father, thank you.
- You know, it's never too late
to make the right decision,
whatever it is.
- [Officer] This is a nice
spot you got here, Felix.
- Thanks.
There's no other place
in The Bronx like it.
- True.
- Do you miss your mom?
- Hm.
Absolutely, man.
Absolutely.
Sometimes I think about it all the time.
You know, sometimes I'll
be walkin' down the street
and I'll see people's facial expressions
and also hear her laugh.
And she does this thing with her eyes
where she squints 'em really,
really tight, you know?
I miss that.
Sometimes I don't see it at all.
You know and sometimes I
feel like I've lost her.
- Ever get sad?
- [exhales] Actually it scares
me more than it makes me sad.
Sometimes it also pisses me off.
What about yourself?
- Well,
I just...
[Felix sighs]
My mom, she needs me here.
She can't survive without my help.
- [Officer] I get it.
Felix, I get it.
Tell me what happened.
- Okay.
I got into some beef with
some kids on East 233rd
and they jumped me and so I thought...
- Get a gun, huh?
- Yeah.
One day Sister Rogers,
she found it in my bag.
I knew I shouldn't have it,
that she was just looking
out for me, just [sighs].
I let her down and I've been
a part of something horrible
this entire time.
- No, not yet.
And she's still watchin' over you.
- [sighs] But then she took it.
- Did Sister Rogers take the gun?
- No, not Sister Rogers.
[ominous music]
- [Father Evans] You
must be Detective Blue?
- Yes, sir, pleasure to meet you, Father.
I believe you spoke with my partner?
- Oh yes, a nice girl.
Any word yet?
- We're getting close, sir.
- It seems so strange
not seeing Sister Rogers.
She liked to pray at night.
She couldn't sleep.
"There's too much to do," she'd say.
- Did she spend any nights
at the community center, sir?
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
She and Sister Martha, both night owls,
especially lately with
all the new developments.
- And where is Sister Martha now?
- I think she's at the center.
You're welcome to wait.
- Thank you.
You know, this is my first
time back at the church,
any church, since my mother's wake.
[exhales] I just realized that.
- You'd be surprised
how often I hear that.
But at the end of the day, you know,
it's just a building.
What's in your heart, Detective?
- Was that like a personal question?
[Father Evans laughs]
- Sorry.
Occupational hazard.
[Jimmy laughs]
- Um,
well, um...
Well in my heart she's fine with it.
- [Father Evans] Hm.
- But I'm not.
I'm just numb.
- [Father Evans] Go on, my son.
- [Jimmy] [laughs] Are we like
really doin' this right now?
- Another moment is
expected but never promised.
- Wow, did you just make that up?
- I surprise myself sometimes.
[men chuckle]
[Jimmy exhales]
- You know, all right,
here's the thing, man.
I lie, I cheat,
I hurt those closest to
me, and I hurt strangers.
I mean, I'd do it again.
I've killed people, Father.
I've been ordered to shoot people.
There was this kid.
[pew bangs]
What kind of man shoots
a child, his father?
Just, I...
[somber music]
I just don't know where
the line is anymore.
I don't even know if I care.
- You know what I think?
[pew bangs]
Bullshit. [laughs]
People who don't care
don't say they don't care.
They just simply stop caring.
You, you're a fighter.
You're still fighting.
You know, God loves all of his children,
even those that consider
themselves lost causes.
Why don't you do yourself a favor,
open up your heart, let
Him in a little bit.
Come and feel the healing,
and sin no more.
- I can not promise you that, sir.
- Eh, I figured, but it was worth a try.
- And please ask the sister to call me?
- Yeah.
[church bells ringing]
Detective.
You know, the archangels were warriors.
People don't remember that.
They did some questionable
things, in my opinion.
But at the end of the
day, they cast evil out
of the kingdom of heaven.
- You're callin' me an angel?
- Oh God, no.
What I'm saying is even the
Almighty needed somebody
to go out there and fight
for the right thing.
You, you go out there and
fight for the right thing.
- I'm tryin', Father.
I'm tryin'.
- God knows that's all you can do.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Amen.
- Amen.
- [Father Evans] Amen.
- Kiki gave me a gun, yeah.
I never used it, but I
carried it everywhere.
Even to the church and
the community center.
One day Sister Martha found it in my bag.
- And then what happened?
[cell phone buttons clicking]
[Jimmy grunts]
- Sister Martha?
- Yes?
- I know that Sister
Rogers and Sister Martha
were just looking out for me, but--
- You wanted it back.
- To get rid of it.
I didn't want no heat coming down on me.
I'm sure the gun was hot.
- But it wasn't there.
- Yeah.
- You spoke with my
partner, Officer Rodriguez?
- Yes.
How can I help you?
- Jimmy.
- Carissa.
- I need to tell you something.
[soft ominous music]
- I came here to avoid things like this.
We wanted to help everyone.
Sister, I need to talk to you.
- What's wrong?
Are you all right?
- I'm worried about Felix.
I found a gun in his bag.
- What is he doing with a gun?
- [Sister Martha] Kiki gave it to him.
- That man infects everything.
- Can you help me?
Take it and bury it.
- [Sister Carissa] No police?
- Felix has come so far,
I don't wanna abandon him.
- I understand.
- Thank you, Sister.
We were going to change things.
Carissa.
- I need to tell you something.
- Hey, Cap.
Hey listen, I think I stumbled
across another unit's case.
I don't know, somethin' about a dead nun.
- Hey, Boss, I just got off the phone
with a detective from the 10th Precinct.
They just found a missing
gun buried in Central Park.
I'll tell Yolanda.
[door bangs]
- Hey!
How you doin'?
- Am I under arrest?
- Derrick Ferguson, you're under arrest
for the murder of Sister Ann Rogers.
- I want my lawyer.
- I don't give a shit what you want.
- We were in love.
[Sister Martha groans]
I'm in love.
[Sister Martha groaning]
Oh, Sister Rogers!
Sister Rogers.
- [Dexter] Shit.
- Sister Rogers.
Stop, stop, stop.
Sister Rogers, wait.
[Sister Rogers thudding down stairs]
- You told me everyone
was gone until noon.
It was an accident, I saw.
- It doesn't matter.
We'll lose it all.
Everything.
- [Dexter] I know what to do.
- So do I.
Get the body.
One more time.
- [Dexter] I'll get the car.
- [Sister Martha] I'll stay with the body.
- When it's clear.
- We'll take her and put her in the alley.
- And then home.
We have to make it look like it's a gang.
- You'll need a gun.
- Right.
- Go.
- It's clear.
[gun fires]
- Get cleaned up.
We wait until night.
I'm in love.
That's not a sin.
- No, but murder is.
Call it in.
You did the right thing by calling us.
[soft somber music]
[footsteps thudding]
- My heart is heavy with these events.
- Father, did you know about them?
[Father Evans inhales]
- I did.
Of course.
I just thought that she
would find her way back
or it was love.
A true test of faith, Detective.
- Well luckily there's still forgiveness
for lost causes, sir.
- God forgives.
I'm human.
I need more time.
[soft ominous music]
- How did you know?
- [Jimmy] Just a hunch.
- Agent Blue, I got
your ballistics report.
99.9% match and that was the same gun
that they used to murder the nuns.
- I mean nothin' fit.
I don't know, I guess I was just hopin'
she'd listen to her better angel.
- Yeah [chuckles], right, 'cause
that happens all the time.
- You finally got me to
drink your river water, huh?
- It's pretty good, though, right?
- This is good.
- It is.
- How's your appointments goin'?
- You mean rehab?
Call it what it is.
- Don't worry, I got this.
[mumbles] six weeks, [mumbles].
- That's what I love to hear.
That's what I love to hear.
So, my dad used to do this for me
so I'm gonna do it for you.
He got me my first wallet,
I'm givin' you yours.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Ma, there's money in here.
- Slow down, kiddo.
Don't spend it all in one spot, okay?
- Okay, okay, I'll try to be responsible.
- [chuckles] All right.
Hey, what you got there?
- This?
- Yeah.
- Nothin', just a pic
of me and Sister Rogers.
- Oh.
Yeah.
That right there, that's a dude
with a bright future. [laughs]
Good.
Jump in here 'cause this
pizza's not gonna eat itself.
Go ahead, grab yourself another one.
- Another one.
- Another one.
[soft ominous music]
[cell phone buttons clicking]
[dramatic music]
[creature growls]
[creature cackles]
- [Yolanda] Can you
lock up the whole alley?
Thank you.
- [yawns] More coffee, brother?
Thank you.
What we got?
- This one is a doozy, Jimmy.
You're gonna be up all day.
48 year-old WF, gunshot
wound right side of the head,
no struggle, straight through.
Jimmy, it's a woman of the cloth.
- [Jimmy] A nun?
- Yeah.
Meet Sister Rogers, St. Joseph's
Church, missing 48 hours.
- Any witnesses?
Anything?
- No, looks like she was dumped here.
Not a soul around for three miles.
A representative from
the church did come by
to identify her, though.
Crime labs processing.
What else do we need, boss?
- Let's go talk to that church rep.
[somber music]
- Ha.
Detective Rodriguez,
this is Detective Blue.
Thank you.
- Dexter Ferguson.
I run the community outreach
center for youths in The Bronx.
We finance the convent
next to St. Joseph's.
- [Jimmy] Thank you.
- I fielded the call tonight.
I thought I'd spare the
pastor or one of the sisters
from having to come identify the body.
What's happening in this city?
I mean, how can something
like this happen?
- If I could answer that question
I wouldn't need this job, sir.
- Yeah.
- Did you know anyone
who wanted to hurt her?
- No, Sister Rogers was an amazing person.
She wouldn't hurt a soul.
I should tell you that
there's a local gang
that pushes drugs on the youths
and, well, lately there's
been some friction
because the church has pushed back hard
with anti-drug and anti-gang messages.
This is what I hear from the pastor.
What are you gonna do?
- We're gonna find who did this
and we're gonna destroy them, sir.
- We'll be in touch.
- [Dexter] Thank you.
- I know.
Yes, sir.
It's all over the news,
why wouldn't it be?
I know.
I know.
Chief is all up my underarm
and wants this solved now.
- Yeah, what else is new?
Okay, I'm gonna take the
church, see what I can see.
- All right, stay in touch.
I'ma put Tessa on Derrick Ferguson.
Hey, who runs the local
bangers around here?
- 18th Street Boys.
Just small time, drugs, theft.
- All right, you push them hard.
Makes no sense, a church and
gang bangers goin' toe to toe?
- Yeah.
[dramatic electronic music]
[somber music]
[Yolanda sighs]
- [Father Evans] Detective Rodriguez?
- [Yolanda] Ah, Father Evans.
- Ah, welcome to our church.
- Thank you for seeing me.
- Please, sit.
- It's been a while since I've been
in a place like this, Father.
- Oh.
Well eventually everyone
finds their way home.
- Home's not really a place
I wanna go back to.
- Is that so?
- I'm sorry. [chuckles]
- No need to apologize.
It's the garb.
People tend to feel more open.
I have the time if you'd like to talk.
- I'd like to talk about Sister Rogers.
[Father Evans exhales]
Can you tell me more about her
and why anyone would wanna hurt her?
[Father Evans exhales]
- You know, this church
was built in the 1700s,
withstood the test of time.
[inhales] No matter what
has happened around it,
it is still here.
- Who wanted to hurt her, Father?
- I don't know.
I always thought that
she, like this church,
would always be here.
She had such a spirit, you know?
Such and indomitable spirit.
She was gentle and
kind, firm in her faith.
- I'm told you've been having
trouble with a local gang?
- Hm, Kiki and the 18th Street Boys.
[Yolanda grunts] Well
I'm a man of the cloth,
but I'm not blind to the outside world.
I think I see as much of
the underbelly as you do.
- Then I don't envy you, Father.
- One thing I can say for certain
is that we have always had a very strong
youth outreach program.
It's been our philosophy
to not ask, but help.
Now, we are taking the kids off the street
that the gangs are trying to recruit.
Sister Martha can shed
more light on this for you.
She worked hand in hand
with Sister Rogers.
- [Yolanda] Is she around?
Can I speak with her?
- I'll have her come
out and speak with you.
They're just finishing
up the afternoon prayers.
- Thank you, Father.
- No, thank you for
helping us find justice.
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord,
but I am thankful for an earthly justice.
- We'll be in touch.
- [Father Evans] Detective Rodriguez?
- [Yolanda] Yes?
- Once you decide that you have the time
to find your way home, our
doors are always open to you.
I do hope that you find
what you're looking for.
- Thank you, Father.
- Thank you for having lunch with me.
It's hard to find time between duties
and the outreach program.
You gotta get it in when ya can.
- Absolutely.
No, I was starving.
You'd have had to pick
me up off the street
if we didn't eat.
- Oh, I don't think I should
be able to manage that.
- Are you callin' me fat, Sister?
- Oh. [chuckles]
No, not all.
As a matter of fact, Sister Carissa and I
were admiring your coke bottle figure.
- Oh God.
I'm so sorry.
- No, no.
Nuns are human, too.
Everyone wants to look
and feel their best.
[Yolanda chuckles]
Come on, let me show you around.
- [Yolanda] Sister, I'm just
tryin' to get a clearer image
of Sister Rogers in this place.
- [Sister Martha] We run an
after school tutoring program,
free to inner city kids.
Father Evans started it 10 years ago.
- [Yolanda] Wow.
- One kid in particular,
Felix, a bright kid.
Father abandoned him,
mom's a heroin addict,
unfortunately an all
too familiar tale here.
- Felix would come in
once or twice a week.
A hot meal, safe place to stay.
He's a good kid.
He deserves our help.
- [Yolanda] And what about Kiki?
- [scoffs] The lure of easy
money, the illusion of power.
Kiki had Felix and others
do some short runs for him.
- [Yolanda] Did you report this?
- Well perhaps we should have,
but it's not like the gang was hiding
and I knew the police knew about them.
Besides, if we had gone to the police
we would have lost the trust and the faith
of the very children we
were trying to win over.
It's a lesser of the evils.
- Sister Rogers had a
strong liking to Felix.
Like, that woman feared nothing.
- And when she found out
Felix was working for Kiki,
she went and, pardon my expression,
she went to put the fear of God into him.
- Guess it didn't work.
- You stay away from my boys.
Keep your drugs and your
guns away from the church.
- Your boys?
They came to me.
That makes 'em my boys.
- If I find out that you have Felix
running for you after
today, I will report you.
- Is that a threat, Sister?
- No, it's a promise.
Stay away.
Let those boys have a future.
Don't take it from them.
- [Sister Carissa] And when
she told me what happened,
I couldn't believe it.
- Do you think Kiki would've hurt her?
- It's not our place to judge,
but to help those in need.
- If I had to guess, I'd say yes.
You know it's true, Sister.
Please let us know if there's
anything we can do to help.
She was our sister, and my friend.
- Thank you for everything.
We'll be in touch.
Thank you.
- Yola, look at this.
Who on Earth would do this?
- Word on the street is
our altar boy Kiki's got
10 bodies under his belt,
mainly the Carmona shooting
in High Bridge last month.
- That was brutal.
- Three closed caskets.
- You know, I think we
have at least enough
to bring him in.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Let's do it.
Mm.
- Hey!
Bring that back, you little shit!
- Where you goin'?
Come on, let's do the thing
that you know is right.
Okay? Come on.
Let's go.
Now listen, let's put it back.
Sorry about that.
I got it from here.
- You're not gonna bust
me for some M&Ms are you?
- Who do I look like,
the candy police to you?
- Nah, a DT.
- You're a pretty smart kid.
Are you thirsty?
- I can go for something.
- What you want, a Coke or Pepsi?
- Coke.
- Coke?
I woulda pegged you for a Pepsi person.
You need to stop drinkin'
that river water.
Look, let me brighten
your horizons, all right?
Come on, sit down.
Ah, this is good.
Told you it was good.
Look, I've been investigatin'
the 18th Street Boys
and I think I've seen you
hangin' out with them.
- Kiki's a good dude.
He wouldn't do no nun.
- A nun?
- He looks out for me.
- I'm sure Kiki's a good dude
and probably wouldn't hurt
a fly, but I need you to
tell me about this nun.
- Sister Rogers, she was good to me, too.
I don't know what happened to her.
She was different, she actually cared.
- Listen, I care as well and I wanna do
a little bit more investigation on this.
- If they see me talkin' to you
I'm gonna be in serious trouble.
- Well the trick is you
tell me the information now,
we can get outta here.
- [sighs] Listen, he said
she was hurting his business.
I heard him say that
and that's all I know.
You can't look weak, in
this neighborhood at least.
- Well you got right
and wrong all mixed up.
Real bad, kiddo.
- All right, I gotta head home.
- That's fair enough.
Let's get you outta here.
Hey, can't forget the good stuff.
Can't forget those.
I paid for them.
What'd you say your name was again?
- Felix.
- Felix.
Felix, okay.
Well listen, Felix, you
need anything, anything,
give me a call.
- All right.
- All right?
Hey Felix, stay outta trouble.
- [Felix] Yes, sir.
[soft ambient music]
- [Jimmy] NYPD, let me see those hands.
Gun!
[gun fires]
[dramatic music]
Shots fired.
- Hands on the wall.
- 3604.
- Hands on the wall!
- [Jimmy] Send backup immediately.
- Get outta here.
[suspenseful music]
[guns firing]
[man shouts]
[guns firing]
- Drop it.
Who the hell are you?
[fist thuds]
[man grunts]
[man grunting]
[fist thuds]
[Yolanda grunts]
[gun thuds]
[kick thuds]
[man grunts]
[fist thuds]
[man grunts]
- [Yolanda] You good? You okay?
- [Jimmy] Yeah.
Where the hell did you learn to do that?
- Rough childhood.
[Jimmy laughs]
You found Kiki.
- That's Kiki?
- Shit.
- All right.
You take your boy in.
I'm gonna escort Kiki here personally.
Wake up! [laughs]
Now you're one heavy motherfucker.
But you know,
[exhales] you can not beat
this view, am I right?
[soft ominous music]
- Where the hell are we, man?
You can't do this, man.
I didn't do anything.
- Yeah, I know, I can see your halo.
Now see, I know there are
rights and rules and regulations
and all that and I respect that,
but see if there's one
thing that I learned
in the Middle East it's
sometimes you gotta
get your hands a little dirty
if you wanna reach higher ground.
- What do you mean?
I'm not tellin' you anything.
- No.
That's okay, I didn't think you would.
But my friend, that is fine.
So you sell heroin
30 feet from a school
and you ordered at least
three people killed
that I know about.
As far as I'm concerned
your ass can die right now
and I will sleep like a fuckin' baby
'cause all I care about
is poor Sister Rogers.
But see, you don't know
nothin' about that.
And here we are.
- I didn't do anything,
man, I'm tellin' you.
- And I'm tellin' your
ass, I don't give a shit.
See, I'm tired of bein' a good
man in a bad fuckin' world.
No one's gonna miss your ass.
Nobody.
And all I care about is a
sweet little fuckin' nun
that caught a bullet.
- You a cop, man.
- Mm-hm.
Yeah, man, and I'm a goddamn good one.
[Jimmy grunts]
- Ah, what the fuck?
Ah, fuckin' help me!
- You know Socrates once said nothing
is preferred before justice.
Nothing!
- I don't know who that is, man, come on!
Yeah, I wanted to.
I did, I thought about it, but I couldn't.
I'm an altar boy, man.
- Felix?
- I gave him a gun to protect himself.
I didn't do it.
I don't know who did.
I could never do such a thing.
- Yeah?
All right. [grunts]
[Kiki cries out]
Stop fuckin' screamin'.
Felix is off limits.
Say it.
- Felix is off limits.
- Now your ass is under arrest
for assaulting a police officer.
- Fuck you.
- What's up, baby.
You called, talk to me.
- Yeah, you got a dead cop, Jimmy.
IE is callin' us cop killers.
That what Zakia is
tryin' to stick us with.
- What you sayin'?
- I'm sayin', how you feelin'?
- Live together, die together.
- Okay, okay, okay.
I need another treatment.
Yeah.
- How is she?
- She's good, but she needs another round.
[suspenseful music]
- Anything else?
- Nah, I got good news.
I talked to the guy over at 1st.
- Are you fuckin' crazy?
- I said I wanted to help
find whoever done this.
He said the bullet pulled
from the undercover cop
matched the gun on one of the Albanians.
- But that is good.
- Yeah, yeah, the money was clear.
It wasn't city money.
The money is clean, we're good Jimmy.
So, we just stay low,
stick to the story, Jimmy.
- Hey, this is all gonna
blow over.
- Yeah,
it's gonna blow over.
- We'll get back to our normal lives.
- Yes we will.
I heard about that nun, man.
It was a tough call.
- Yeah.
Hey, you ever heard of a
guy named Derrick Ferguson?
- Yeah, he did a land
deal a few years back.
Wasn't quite on the up and up.
Public records should have it.
He was cleared.
- Thanks.
Stay strong.
- Bye Jimmy.
- All right.
[cell phone buttons clicking]
[Jimmy whistling]
- Officer.
- Hey, naw, call me Jimmy.
You know you gotta love New
York this time of year, right?
Can almost smell the money in the air.
- If you say so.
Excuse me.
- Oh come on, Dexter,
you know about the smell
of money, don't ya?
- That land deal was a sure thing.
I don't know anything about
what the city officials
or whoever they were connected
to were doing behind my back.
I have nothing to hide.
- We did some diggin' on you, sir.
All those shady backroom
deals with politicians,
all those [hand thuds] pats on the back,
the favors from the city and the state
for some of the most
sought after land deals
just a few miles from Manhattan.
Russians, Chinese buyin' 'em up, right?
- That was then, this is now.
Look, I've committed no crime.
Anyone can develop land in this country.
What I'm doing now is for
the good of the community.
- Mm, yeah.
And it's your time to shine, right?
- Yeah, it's my time to shine.
The racist sins of the past, if you will.
Isn't that what we all want, Detective?
- Yeah, yeah it is, but here's the thing,
and it seems to be goin' around.
Where the hell are the other 2.3 million
in development funds?
- I don't know.
If I did I wouldn't be where I am today.
- Well, you've got yourself a
public relations dream here.
You're workin' with the archdiocese,
you're fundin' this place.
That looks really good for you.
A little too good to be true.
From shady backroom deals
to honest businessman?
- People change.
I just wanna make sure that
what happened to Sister Rogers
doesn't happen to anyone else.
Look, I'm not quite sure
I like the direction
of where this friendly
conversation is going,
so I'm gonna make an exit.
Enjoy your day, Detective.
- You better hope your
house is in order, sir.
- Have a good day, Detective.
- Tessa.
Keep digging on Derrick Ferguson.
Follow the money.
Thanks.
Dick.
- Dexter, I prayed for you.
For us both.
For all we're trying to do.
- I could use all the
prayers I can get right now.
- Everything okay?
- Well, I'm 25% over
budget on development.
I desperately need those funds
in grants from the government
to finish the project.
We worked so hard on this.
It would be so good for the community.
I already pulled more than I should
from the construction drawers.
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
You'll fix it.
Just keep your faith.
And remember, sin no more.
- By the way, I had some new ideas
for the outreach program, Sister Martha.
Are you free tonight to
read over some new ideas?
I mean, after I get them organized?
[soft ominous music]
- Here you go, kiddo.
- [Felix] Hey, where's your badge?
- I'm off duty right
now, it's the weekend.
You playin' hooky?
[Felix laughs]
Look, are you still hangin'
out with that Kiki guy?
- I'm in trouble.
- You wanna talk about it?
- [Felix] Well, it's...
- You wanna go somewhere?
- [Felix] Hot day today, huh?
- Oh man, it seems like
nowadays it's a lot more hotter
than it was when I was a little kid.
They say global warming's a joke.
I beg to differ on that one.
- Everybody has an opinion these days.
You don't know who to believe.
- Yeah.
Seems like nowadays everything's
about smoke and mirrors now.
- I hope you're real.
- What's goin' on, buddy?
Who's after you?
- What if you had a secret
and it's just so big
that you can't let it out?
- Sometimes things like
that can eat you alive.
You have to ask yourself,
Felix, can you live with it?
Look, I grew up a couple
blocks from down here.
I remember I used to ride my
bike over to the candy store
and get my favorite candy.
Now, I love Nerds, love 'em.
And that's exactly the same spot
where my Big Wheel got stolen.
- What's a Big Wheel?
- [laughs] Before your time.
But I tell ya one thing, my
mom bought me that Big Wheel.
You know, my mom, she was the glue
that held everybody
together before she passed.
But you know, now it's me and my dad
and he's always taught me one thing,
that family is important and
you can always trust family.
So if you have a secret, it should be okay
to talk to your family about it.
If you can't, I'm here for you, all right?
You can depend on me.
- Take me home, I'll tell you.
- Let's do it.
Come on.
[text alert chimes]
- Yeah, I'm really sorry that I'm late.
It's just this case has
got me workin' double time.
- It's okay.
- You all right?
- Mm-hm.
- The ex?
- Yeah.
- [Zakia] It's okay.
Watch your feet.
[Zakia exhales]
- Sorry.
- No, it's okay.
- I'm excited to get out of the city.
- Me, too.
- I still can't believe you're a cop.
I mean, of all the gin joints
in all the towns in all the world.
- You just had to walk into mine.
- [Gloria] So where are we going?
- Oh, no, no, no.
You gotta wait, it's a surprise.
- No, I hate waiting.
[laughs]
You have to tell me.
- I'll tell you what, I'll make
it up to you later tonight.
- You know I'm not there yet.
I told you.
- Ah.
It's okay.
Unlike you, I don't mind waiting.
[text message alert chiming]
Here we go.
[soft ominous music]
[Sister Carissa sighs]
- Sister?
- Sister.
What troubles you?
- How's Felix?
- I would hope well.
And you?
- All these troublesome
things, how do you cope?
- I pray.
- As do I.
- If you need anything, I'm here.
Come to me.
No need to suffer in silence.
- [Jasmine] Yolanda?
Yolanda, are you listening to me?
- Did you hear about the dead nun?
- Yes.
Are you working that case?
- Special Investigations Unit, yeah.
Takes a fuckin' special person, so yeah.
Sometimes I don't know
if I'm even any better
than the people I'm tryin' to bust.
You know that the
preacher actually told me
it's never too late to come home.
- Well, there's actually
a lot of truth to that.
Home is supposed to be the place
that we're always welcome, always loved.
- Always loved.
Yes, I was very loved
at home, a lot of love.
- Home is also where we choose to make it.
- God, are you serving rice
with your fortune cookies?
- Yolanda, it's true.
Honey, not everything in life
has to be so complicated.
How are you holding up?
- Oh, you mean am I out
fucking everything that moves?
Am I out fucking everything I see?
No, 'cause I'm not a whore
no matter what anyone says.
- Who says that?
- I see the absolute worst in people,
like, the most terrible things
that you would never understand,
and I am trying to be good
and I am working at it, but
I am just angry all the time.
The things that people do to each other
with no pause and no
regard, no matter how much
anyone begs, no matter...
No pause and no regard for
another human being and--
- Yolanda, who says this?
- I don't know.
I don't know.
- Yes, yes, you do.
You look into that mirror
and you face the truth.
It's the only way you're going to heal.
- Can I get a glass of water?
[somber music]
- [Jasmine] Okay.
- Where have you fuckin' been?
I've been lookin' for your
stupid ass all damn day.
I've been lookin'--
- Hey, un-uh!
You do not wanna do that in front of me.
- Who the fuck are you?
I have a right to discipline my son.
What did he do?
I don't care, whatever.
- You know, Felix is a good kid.
All right?
I just wanna ask him a couple questions.
- Suit yourself.
Where is it?
That juice in the fridge is mine.
Don't touch it.
- Mother of the year, right?
Come on, I'll take you to my spot.
[soft ominous music]
[Father Evans sighs]
- Sometimes inner peace, not so easy.
- Sometimes I wonder
if it's only for those
we provide it for.
- All have sinned and
come short of the glory.
- Is a small act of bad
evil if you do it to help?
If it's for the greater good?
- Heavy thoughts.
I think since Sister Rogers' death
we've all had some pretty
hard questions to answer.
Sometimes when we fall
short, we fall short of who
we think we really are.
It's called being human.
And other times through God's grace
He gives us the power to make
better decisions next time.
Would ya like to make confession?
- No, no, Father, thank you.
- You know, it's never too late
to make the right decision,
whatever it is.
- [Officer] This is a nice
spot you got here, Felix.
- Thanks.
There's no other place
in The Bronx like it.
- True.
- Do you miss your mom?
- Hm.
Absolutely, man.
Absolutely.
Sometimes I think about it all the time.
You know, sometimes I'll
be walkin' down the street
and I'll see people's facial expressions
and also hear her laugh.
And she does this thing with her eyes
where she squints 'em really,
really tight, you know?
I miss that.
Sometimes I don't see it at all.
You know and sometimes I
feel like I've lost her.
- Ever get sad?
- [exhales] Actually it scares
me more than it makes me sad.
Sometimes it also pisses me off.
What about yourself?
- Well,
I just...
[Felix sighs]
My mom, she needs me here.
She can't survive without my help.
- [Officer] I get it.
Felix, I get it.
Tell me what happened.
- Okay.
I got into some beef with
some kids on East 233rd
and they jumped me and so I thought...
- Get a gun, huh?
- Yeah.
One day Sister Rogers,
she found it in my bag.
I knew I shouldn't have it,
that she was just looking
out for me, just [sighs].
I let her down and I've been
a part of something horrible
this entire time.
- No, not yet.
And she's still watchin' over you.
- [sighs] But then she took it.
- Did Sister Rogers take the gun?
- No, not Sister Rogers.
[ominous music]
- [Father Evans] You
must be Detective Blue?
- Yes, sir, pleasure to meet you, Father.
I believe you spoke with my partner?
- Oh yes, a nice girl.
Any word yet?
- We're getting close, sir.
- It seems so strange
not seeing Sister Rogers.
She liked to pray at night.
She couldn't sleep.
"There's too much to do," she'd say.
- Did she spend any nights
at the community center, sir?
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
She and Sister Martha, both night owls,
especially lately with
all the new developments.
- And where is Sister Martha now?
- I think she's at the center.
You're welcome to wait.
- Thank you.
You know, this is my first
time back at the church,
any church, since my mother's wake.
[exhales] I just realized that.
- You'd be surprised
how often I hear that.
But at the end of the day, you know,
it's just a building.
What's in your heart, Detective?
- Was that like a personal question?
[Father Evans laughs]
- Sorry.
Occupational hazard.
[Jimmy laughs]
- Um,
well, um...
Well in my heart she's fine with it.
- [Father Evans] Hm.
- But I'm not.
I'm just numb.
- [Father Evans] Go on, my son.
- [Jimmy] [laughs] Are we like
really doin' this right now?
- Another moment is
expected but never promised.
- Wow, did you just make that up?
- I surprise myself sometimes.
[men chuckle]
[Jimmy exhales]
- You know, all right,
here's the thing, man.
I lie, I cheat,
I hurt those closest to
me, and I hurt strangers.
I mean, I'd do it again.
I've killed people, Father.
I've been ordered to shoot people.
There was this kid.
[pew bangs]
What kind of man shoots
a child, his father?
Just, I...
[somber music]
I just don't know where
the line is anymore.
I don't even know if I care.
- You know what I think?
[pew bangs]
Bullshit. [laughs]
People who don't care
don't say they don't care.
They just simply stop caring.
You, you're a fighter.
You're still fighting.
You know, God loves all of his children,
even those that consider
themselves lost causes.
Why don't you do yourself a favor,
open up your heart, let
Him in a little bit.
Come and feel the healing,
and sin no more.
- I can not promise you that, sir.
- Eh, I figured, but it was worth a try.
- And please ask the sister to call me?
- Yeah.
[church bells ringing]
Detective.
You know, the archangels were warriors.
People don't remember that.
They did some questionable
things, in my opinion.
But at the end of the
day, they cast evil out
of the kingdom of heaven.
- You're callin' me an angel?
- Oh God, no.
What I'm saying is even the
Almighty needed somebody
to go out there and fight
for the right thing.
You, you go out there and
fight for the right thing.
- I'm tryin', Father.
I'm tryin'.
- God knows that's all you can do.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Amen.
- Amen.
- [Father Evans] Amen.
- Kiki gave me a gun, yeah.
I never used it, but I
carried it everywhere.
Even to the church and
the community center.
One day Sister Martha found it in my bag.
- And then what happened?
[cell phone buttons clicking]
[Jimmy grunts]
- Sister Martha?
- Yes?
- I know that Sister
Rogers and Sister Martha
were just looking out for me, but--
- You wanted it back.
- To get rid of it.
I didn't want no heat coming down on me.
I'm sure the gun was hot.
- But it wasn't there.
- Yeah.
- You spoke with my
partner, Officer Rodriguez?
- Yes.
How can I help you?
- Jimmy.
- Carissa.
- I need to tell you something.
[soft ominous music]
- I came here to avoid things like this.
We wanted to help everyone.
Sister, I need to talk to you.
- What's wrong?
Are you all right?
- I'm worried about Felix.
I found a gun in his bag.
- What is he doing with a gun?
- [Sister Martha] Kiki gave it to him.
- That man infects everything.
- Can you help me?
Take it and bury it.
- [Sister Carissa] No police?
- Felix has come so far,
I don't wanna abandon him.
- I understand.
- Thank you, Sister.
We were going to change things.
Carissa.
- I need to tell you something.
- Hey, Cap.
Hey listen, I think I stumbled
across another unit's case.
I don't know, somethin' about a dead nun.
- Hey, Boss, I just got off the phone
with a detective from the 10th Precinct.
They just found a missing
gun buried in Central Park.
I'll tell Yolanda.
[door bangs]
- Hey!
How you doin'?
- Am I under arrest?
- Derrick Ferguson, you're under arrest
for the murder of Sister Ann Rogers.
- I want my lawyer.
- I don't give a shit what you want.
- We were in love.
[Sister Martha groans]
I'm in love.
[Sister Martha groaning]
Oh, Sister Rogers!
Sister Rogers.
- [Dexter] Shit.
- Sister Rogers.
Stop, stop, stop.
Sister Rogers, wait.
[Sister Rogers thudding down stairs]
- You told me everyone
was gone until noon.
It was an accident, I saw.
- It doesn't matter.
We'll lose it all.
Everything.
- [Dexter] I know what to do.
- So do I.
Get the body.
One more time.
- [Dexter] I'll get the car.
- [Sister Martha] I'll stay with the body.
- When it's clear.
- We'll take her and put her in the alley.
- And then home.
We have to make it look like it's a gang.
- You'll need a gun.
- Right.
- Go.
- It's clear.
[gun fires]
- Get cleaned up.
We wait until night.
I'm in love.
That's not a sin.
- No, but murder is.
Call it in.
You did the right thing by calling us.
[soft somber music]
[footsteps thudding]
- My heart is heavy with these events.
- Father, did you know about them?
[Father Evans inhales]
- I did.
Of course.
I just thought that she
would find her way back
or it was love.
A true test of faith, Detective.
- Well luckily there's still forgiveness
for lost causes, sir.
- God forgives.
I'm human.
I need more time.
[soft ominous music]
- How did you know?
- [Jimmy] Just a hunch.
- Agent Blue, I got
your ballistics report.
99.9% match and that was the same gun
that they used to murder the nuns.
- I mean nothin' fit.
I don't know, I guess I was just hopin'
she'd listen to her better angel.
- Yeah [chuckles], right, 'cause
that happens all the time.
- You finally got me to
drink your river water, huh?
- It's pretty good, though, right?
- This is good.
- It is.
- How's your appointments goin'?
- You mean rehab?
Call it what it is.
- Don't worry, I got this.
[mumbles] six weeks, [mumbles].
- That's what I love to hear.
That's what I love to hear.
So, my dad used to do this for me
so I'm gonna do it for you.
He got me my first wallet,
I'm givin' you yours.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Ma, there's money in here.
- Slow down, kiddo.
Don't spend it all in one spot, okay?
- Okay, okay, I'll try to be responsible.
- [chuckles] All right.
Hey, what you got there?
- This?
- Yeah.
- Nothin', just a pic
of me and Sister Rogers.
- Oh.
Yeah.
That right there, that's a dude
with a bright future. [laughs]
Good.
Jump in here 'cause this
pizza's not gonna eat itself.
Go ahead, grab yourself another one.
- Another one.
- Another one.
[soft ominous music]
[cell phone buttons clicking]
[dramatic music]
[creature growls]
[creature cackles]