L.A.'s Finest (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 2 - The Lone Ranger - full transcript
As the team searches for the culprit behind the Koreatown crime surge, McKenna is triggered by memories from her past in Iraq.
♪♪ ♪♪
[CAR ALARM WHOOPING]
♪♪ Hand on the mast
♪♪ Watch me fly...
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Walker, you okay?
WALKER: Yeah. Yeah, I'm good.
♪♪ Over time... ♪♪
[DOOR OPENS]
This is Detective Walker
from Robbery-Homicide.
We have an explosion, fire.
Multiple injuries.
[SCREAMING, COUGHING]
NEWSMAN: Local business owner
and beloved community
activist Gi Choi died
in an explosion and fire
in his residence
in Koreatown this evening.
NEWSWOMAN: Police fear
that violence could escalate
if the individuals responsible
for this act of terror
are not apprehended soon.
[HORN HONKING]
NEWSMAN: LAPD has
contained areas around Koreatown,
but fear of widespread
violence has the city on edge.
Yeah, I'm leaving now. Okay.
One dead, several wounded.
Baines and Walker
were on the scene.
Thank God they're okay.
Jesus, a bomb?
This K-Town thing
is out of control.
You got a key to lock up?
I don't leave home without it.
[CHUCKLING] I'll
see you down there.
NANCY: All right, on our way.
[PHONE BEEPS]
Bens okay?
Yeah, a little banged up,
but they'll live.
Choi? Not so much.
Looks like another
fun night in Koreatown.
Yo. I forgot to tell you.
What? Frost is dirty.
Yeah, no shit.
I mean,
anyone that goes to a furry sex party...
What is that? In a,
in a horse costume?
I mean... Let me
put this another way.
Frost is corrupt.
What? Why?
She deleted a couple names
out of Jen's digital black book
and erased it
from the case file.
Whoa. That's huge.
Who was it?
I don't know.
Fletcher's working on it.
Man,
it had to be someone important
for her to cross
a line like that.
Important people have
important secrets. Man.
Could be what got Jen killed.
You know,
if Calloway catches you snooping around
before you find anything...
Like,
really find anything... You're done.
Don't worry about Calloway.
I mean,
he was been riding you so hard
since he has been
head of department.
Yes, he has.
[LAUGHS] So hard.
[LAUGHS] No. Oh.
You go ahead. [SIGHS]
Oh, he's a good time.
♪♪ Nobody's getting
in my way tonight
♪♪ And I'm-a light up
♪♪ 'Cause I know
that I'm a champion ♪♪
[SIRENS WAILING]
[SIRENS BLARING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
NANCY: Izzy's a stranger
around the house these days.
And when she is home,
she locks herself in her room.
SYD: [CHUCKLES] Yeah,
that's her job, McKenna.
She's a teenager. And she's
been through some stuff.
Yeah, well, she acts like the
kidnapping never happened,
and she doesn't even ask about
me and Patrick and all
the weirdness between us.
Well,
maybe she doesn't want to know.
This Izzy scares me.
She's different.
I mean,
she's making us breakfast.
Excuse me. Do you have any
of those Toy Story Band-Aids
for my boy? Dude,
you're talking really loud. Ow. Oh,
and lollipops!
He likes lollipops, too.
Sorry. He just escaped
from the nursing home.
You guys okay? Yeah,
he's deaf, and I'm good,
but Calloway's
waiting for y'all inside.
What the hell
happened? BAINES: Huh?
What the hell happened?
Oh. Word got out
that we liked Choi
for Reuben's murder.
So some of Leon's boys came
and vandalized Choi's place.
Yeah,
Leon found the kids who did it,
brought them here
to help clean up.
All these people came out.
Kind of turned
into a block party.
BAINES: But Leon
made peace with Choi
before he left, Choi goes inside
to open up a package, and boom.
Well,
maybe Leon's olive branch was just a ruse
to get the bomb planted
inside. WALKER: I don't know.
A ton of people were
in and out of there.
Anyone could've
dropped that package.
Leon showing up here would've
been trending on social media.
There's got to be a ton of
videos and photos out there, right?
Yeah,
we'll dig into it. Come on.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
♪♪ ♪♪
[SIREN WAILING]
MAN: Go back to
your neighborhood!
Go back to your mansion in the Hills,
rich boy!
And take your bangers with you.
This is our neighborhood!
What's wrong with you people?
I'm just trying to
save these kids...
Our kids... From
killing each other!
I lost my brother
in these streets!
Reuben didn't have to die.
Choi did this.
He burned down
the community center.
He doesn't want peace,
he wants power.
He wants to divide us!
He forgot what we came from!
MAN: Yo, man, Choi's dead.
WOMAN: Did you hear that?
What?
MAN: Yeah,
your boys blew up his house.
[SYD SIGHS]
CALLOWAY: Explosives
were concealed in a package.
Wow.
It's got to be Leon or his people,
right?
Getting revenge
for Reuben's death?
A bomb isn't his style.
Leon's whole persona is brash
and macho and in-your-face,
so... That's his brand.
Outside the ring, when the cameras are off,
he's not that guy.
Leon is a legend out here.
When he fights, bars are packed,
lines out the door,
kids standing on their toes
peeking in the windows to watch.
Reuben was like Leon's brother.
You come at the champ's boy,
you're coming at
the neighborhood.
NANCY: Well,
that doesn't exactly
narrow the suspect pool,
just widens it right out.
Whether it's Leon
responsible or not,
Choi's people will definitely
be coming to look for payback.
Agreed. We need to find Leon.
Last thing we need is a
dead middleweight champion.
That's what's left of
the box the bomb was in.
EFP IED with a
directional charge.
You see that on the
Discovery Channel?
No,
I was EOD Special Ops in the Navy.
"Explosive Ordnance
Destruction Unit."
It's the military's version of our bomb
squad. [WHISPERS] Got it. Yeah.
He knows about this,
and I'm just now finding out?
I read your personnel folders
when I took over the squad.
Your partner was awarded
the Navy Cross over in Iraq.
Really?
Is that so? I did not know that.
[FADING] You're doing some
old Hurt Locker type of thing
in the Navy,
and this is the first time you bring it up.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[HEAVY GUNFIRE]
MAN: On your six!
[GUNS BLASTING]
MAN: [OUTSIDE] Get out of here,
man!
What you doing here?
[CLAMORING OUTSIDE]
What you doing here?
♪♪ ♪♪
MAN: You don't
belong here no more!
Let me talk to you. DULCE:
You wanted him dead.
You know what you did.
How dare you
show your face here?
Can I just talk to you,
please? WALKER: Hey, Dulce, stop.
Just think about your son, okay?
Go back where you came from!
I didn't do it! Okay?
I swear I didn't do it.
You couldn't stand Gi
raising your son like his own.
You wanted him dead,
and now you got your wish!
Let me talk to my son. I
just want to talk to my son.
I didn't do it. I
didn't do this.
MAN: You're a dead
man! I'm a what?
You're a dead man!
I'm a what? You gonna kill
me? Huh? Ricky. Ricky, no.
Baines, get him of here! Go!
[CLAMORING]
Chill! All right?
Let's go. Walk away.
CALLOWAY: All right,
get him out of here, guys.
We got to find
Choi's killer fast.
NEWSMAN: The explosion
and fire that claimed
the life of community
leader Gi Choi last evening
has led to widespread
civil unrest in Koreatown.
NEWSWOMAN: Fire
ripped through the...
Crazy night?
Ugh, not fun.
You get any sleep?
I am running on fumes
and coffee. That's
two nights in a row.
You got to start
taking care of yourself.
I'll be fine.
It's Izzy I'm worried about.
What happened? Nothing.
I just...
Have you been giving
her extra money?
$20 here, $40 there. Why?
Mm, nothing.
Nance, if something's going on with Izz,
you got to tell me.
No, I mean, obviously, things aren't,
like, great between us,
and so, she's probably noticed.
I'm worried about what's
going on in her head.
You know? The
scars you can't see.
I guess with the campaign,
I've been a little checked out. Me,
too.
Maybe we should make an effort
to pay more attention?
Agreed.
You know we're gonna
have to talk to her about...
[INHALES]
[WHISPERS] ...us.
Yeah. [DOOR OPENS]
SYD: Yo! Y'all really got to
start locking your door. I got to go.
NANCY: Have a good one. You,
too.
What's up? Morning.
This was on the
stoop. It came for Izzy.
Oh. [SIGHS]
"Silver Strand Industries."
Sex toy website.
What?
It's a sex toy website.
No.
Look, y'all have some science
projects growing in there.
I know for a fact that mushroom
risotto is at least a week old.
No, no,
no. Don't do that. Don't-don't do that.
[GASPS]
[STAMMERS] Okay.
Okay. Here we go.
You were right.
It's leather.
These were expensive.
Where do you think
she gets the money?
She's got a new pair of shoe...
Actually,
two pairs of new shoes and a new backpack.
You don't think...
Think what?
Yo, you see that new show with the,
with the Disney girl,
the teens are crazy,
and there's, like,
a baby drug dealer
with neck tattoos.
Um,
and then the girl has a friend
that does, like, the webcam...
[GASPS] No. The thing...
Not Izzy. I mean,
she's-she's... She's not even 18 yet.
She's not an adult.
I'm calling her.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't-don't do
that. Don't do that.
What we're gonna do,
we're gonna do our
jobs. Detective McKenna,
we are going to investigate,
we will gather intel,
we will build a case,
and then bring Izzy in
and put her in the box.
We?
Yes, we. You versus Izzy
is like LeBron versus Kawhi.
I'm not missing that shit.
So pack all that stuff up
and go back to playing the
role of oblivious stepmom.
I am not oblivious.
You didn't know about a sex toy website,
so...
Well,
who knows about sex toy websites?
Yeah, like, people who have sex.
Not having sex with your
husband isn't normal, either.
What? What? Who said
that? I didn't say that.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Hey, the boys are waiting
for us in the conference room.
Oh, okay. I'll be right there.
Just a second. All right.
Yeah, okay, okay,
okay. Great. Thanks.
That was Frost.
And what did she say?
Just updating me on
Jen's case. No new leads.
Shocker. What's your
problem with Frost?
She's a pit bull.
A pit bull?
Are you shitting me?
A pit bull would've
vetted all of Jen's clients
as possible suspects.
She didn't do that.
And she took a good
run at every one of them.
Every one? Really?
'Cause I know for a
fact there's at least
two of Jen's clients whose names
are not listed
in that case file.
What did you do,
Syd? Doesn't matter what I did.
That woman deleted the names.
She's dirty.
No, she didn't.
She didn't?
I did.
One of those names was Garrison.
The m... The mayor?
And you covered it up?
Don't do that trust
issue bullshit with me.
I'm not Warren.
I made sure Garrison was clean.
His name needed
to stay off that list.
Oh,
it needed to be off the list?
Before you get up
on your soapbox,
he wasn't the only
one I protected.
Syd Burnett was the other name.
Look,
what happened to Jen was-was horrible,
but your obsession with this
is-is more than just the case.
I don't think I
understand it myself.
Stay away from the case, Syd.
WALKER: All right,
so this is every photo and video
collected at the party
before the bomb went off.
I.T. sorted them so
that the thumbnails
come up chronologically.
You're gonna hurt yourself.
You don't hear that?
The... [SCREECHES]
No. Listen. The loud... Listen.
No.
Partner,
do you hear that loud... [SCREECHES] noise?
Wait, wait, wait. It's kind of
like a muffled smoke alarm?
Yes. No.
I don't hear that. No.
What are we looking at?
WALKER: We're trying
to track the package
from the time it was delivered
to the time it went boom.
Wait, wait, can you, um,
zoom in on that one?
Yeah.
Move forward a little bit.
Freeze it right there.
NANCY: Focus on the
thumbnails with yellow shirts.
BAINES: We can see
his face on this one.
That's a kid.
That's Dulce's son, Junu.
BAINES: You don't think Leon
would use his own son to plant a bomb,
right?
WALKER: I don't know.
Who else could
he have given it to?
NANCY: Stop.
SOLDIER: [OVER
RADIO] Mother Theresa,
making another
community relations stop?
Yes, I am.
[NANCY SPEAKING ARABIC]
Hello, pretty lady soldier.
Wow. Your English
is getting pretty good.
High five, kiddo.
[SPEAKING ARABIC]
NANCY: I got a surprise for you,
but you have to promise
to share it with your teacher.
[WOMAN SPEAKING ARABIC NEARBY]
Ibrahim! [SPEAKING ARABIC]
Ibrahim.
[SPEAKING ARABIC]
WALKER: This is everything.
That's the only footage
we have of that package.
Somebody had to
have given it to him.
All right, well,
we will talk to Dulce and the kid.
Okay,
then we'll go pick up Leon.
Not till after they talk to
the kid. NANCY: He's right.
I mean,
Calloway will be very pissed
if we bring Leon in here
with nothing to hold him on.
Nice work, guys. Thank you.
Thank you? I put this
whole thing together.
You were just, like,
color commentary.
Wh-What? Did you
just call me "colored"?
What?
No. No, "color commentary."
It's... Dude, come on, man.
You ready to go,
sir? Ready when you are.
Hey,
thanks again for the opportunity.
This could really put my
little video blog on the map.
Happy to help. I do my job right,
we'll give
that millennial crowd a good
look at who you really are.
Got to get that millennial
vote. [CHUCKLES]
Okay... Patrick.
You're poised to be
elected one of the youngest
district attorneys in the
history of L.A. County.
Tell us how you got here.
Well, hard work, late nights,
lot of support from
my friends and family.
They call you "Mr. Integrity."
That's quite a name
to live up to. It is.
To be honest,
it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
As hard as I try,
I'm-I'm not perfect.
No,
none of us are. But that being said,
character and integrity,
you know, it's what I'm about,
it's who I am.
Well, they say you're only as
good as the people around you.
You know,
my old man used to say,
"Birds of a feather
flock together."
Yeah,
let's talk about that. Your wife,
LAPD Detective Nancy McKenna,
would you call her
a person of integrity?
What about your brother-in-law,
Nico Perez?
You know,
the guy who murdered what I guess
would've been
your mother-in-law.
The hell are you doing? He
got a pretty generous deal.
What do you know about
it? He killed his own mother.
This is done. And he didn't
even get one night in jail.
Get out of here. Tom,
get him out of here now!
Just answer the question,
Patrick. Get that...
You can't take the hard
questions? Get that out of my face.
Come on,
Mr. Integrity. Thanks for your time. Yeah.
Appreciate it. Get your blog,
and go back
to your parents' basement. What's
the matter, Patrick? Get off of me!
Get out of here.
Guys, let's just get back to work,
huh? Okay?
[QUIET CHATTER]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
I'll be right back.
What do you want?
We need your help.
You put a target on Gi's back.
He's dead because of you.
We think the
bomb that killed him
was brought into the
apartment by your son.
What?
Junu, honey, come here.
Who gave you this package, baby?
Did Ricky give it to you?
No.
DULCE: Where did you get it?
Tell me. It came from the sky.
BOY: Whoa, look at that.
What is it?
Whoa.
[KIDS LAUGHING]
Wow.
♪♪ ♪♪
SYD: That's some dark shit,
delivering a bomb to kids.
WALKER: A bomb, a drone? If
Leon was gonna kill Choi that way,
why would he
even show up at all?
BAINES: Good question.
Maybe we're looking
at this all wrong.
I mean, we don't even have
proof that Choi killed Reuben.
Or if Leon and his
crew killed Choi.
What if they didn't? SYD: Well,
somebody did
a damn good job of making it look
like it did. NANCY: Think about it.
The crime in K-Town was at
an all-time low three months ago,
then it spiked out of
nowhere. What changed?
Maybe the same people
are responsible for all of this.
Murdering Reuben, Choi,
I mean, the arsons,
burglaries, all of it.
But why? That's
what we got to find out.
Thank you. What?
No. That's so rude.
It's fine. Both of you.
TECH: Lightweight, stable.
Directional charge designed
to cause maximum damage
to the person
opening the package.
Wire mesh used as a top liner
fragmented into
multiple penetrators.
Kinky.
So what does that tell
us about the bomb maker?
Definitely wasn't made
in someone's garage
with fertilizer and a bunch
of crap from Home Depot.
You're looking for
a skilled technician.
NANCY: Have you
identified the accelerant?
You know your
stuff. You tell me.
Potassium chlorate. Yes.
The smell of chlorine
is the dead giveaway.
Very common in Middle East IEDs,
not so much here in the States.
[HEAVY GUNFIRE]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
You okay, Detective?
Yeah. Thanks. Let's go.
Thanks, Linda.
You okay? Yeah.
You know, this wasn't Leon
or some kid from
the community center.
That was a targeted
assassination
by someone with mad skills,
possibly even ex-military.
Well, look who's back.
Perfect timing.
So you got something?
BOTH: We do.
Crime map for Koreatown
for the last three months.
Serious felonies
and a serious uptick
since three months before that.
The crazy thing is,
most of the new crimes are unsolved.
No suspects, no arrests.
The clearance rate was so low,
the CO of, uh,
Olympic Division lost
her command over it.
All right. Right here.
This Koreatown barbecue joint
was firebombed
about two months ago.
Arson guys thinks that
it was insurance fraud.
WALKER: The
accelerant in this bomb
and the bomb that killed
Choi are identical and unique.
Potassium chlorate.
We're always two
steps ahead of you guys.
It's just the way it is.
Uh... Wh... Right. Anyway.
The point is, this stuff is not
easy to get your hands on.
Okay? And it's never
used in commercial arson.
That's the connection
we're looking for.
Okay, well, that proves that the
same person that smoked Choi
torched the Korean
barbecue place.
But what about Reuben?
Got to be the same guy.
Since potassium chlorate is a
controlled substance in California,
Homeland Security shares
a record of all the purchases
with our intel folks.
BAINES: So there
should be a list
of all potassium
chlorate purchases.
Back that up.
Hmm?
Right there.
Blue Slate Industries.
928 South Rampart.
That's K-Town. NANCY: Wait,
hang on.
This one on 6th Street.
Same zip code with the same extension,
4569.
There's another one on Vermont.
SYD: All right, so we got, what?
Three packages all
delivered on the same block.
It has to be the same buyer.
This reminds me of this Nigerian
credit card ring that we busted
when I was undercover
with Major Crimes.
The bad guys, they were using forged
credit cards to buy all this stuff online
and send it to, you know,
vacant buildings.
And they were just sitting there,
waiting to pick them up.
BAINES: Okay,
you might be onto something,
but our guy could have come from
anywhere to pick up the package.
That warehouse complex
has been shut down for years.
Maybe our guy didn't
have to go that far.
Our suspect's got to
be in that warehouse.
WALKER: Let's go.
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ Open up the door
that closes off your mind
♪♪ Lift up the astral veil
You know you are so blind
♪♪ Shattering perception... ♪♪
[BEEPING]
[MUSIC CONTINUES OVER EARBUDS]
[MUSIC STOPS]
♪♪ ♪♪
[WHIRRING]
♪♪ ♪♪
Buildings three
and four are clear.
♪♪ ♪♪
SYD: Heads up.
He's here. We got fire.
[GRUNTS]
SYD: Okay.
NANCY: Hey! LAPD! Stop!
Okay. There! There! Let's go.
Really? It's either that
or wait to see if he falls.
Well,
what goes up must come down. Come on.
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS, GASPS]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
You really put on some LBs. Oh,
shut up, bitch.
[GRUNTING]
SYD: Where'd he go?
Suspect's on the ground
running south towards Rampart.
White guy with a duffel
bag. That's all I got.
[TIRES SCREECHING,
HORNS HONKING]
[HORN HONKS]
[HORNS HONKING]
DRIVER: Watch out, man!
♪♪ ♪♪
BAINES: A guy just ran by here.
Where'd he go?
WALKER: Come on. Help us out.
One of y'all had
to have seen him.
Where'd he go?
He was just in front of me!
He couldn't have just vanished.
[ENGINE REVS]
We lost him.
BAINES: Aviation and canine
came up empty. He bounced.
SYD: Whoever that guy is,
he is no joke.
I mean, he was out of there
in less than two minutes.
And wiped the whole place clean.
Black light,
flash paper documents,
USB Killer that fries computers.
That's some real
James Bond shit.
Not to mention his ability
to just disappear into thin air.
Four of you,
and we don't even get a look at his face?
People want answers.
So,
somebody please give me some.
Our guy had a plan.
What about our plan?
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Followed it by the numbers. Well,
that's refreshing.
WALKER: I mean,
he had this whole escape planned out.
He must have rehearsed
it a hundred times.
BAINES: It was like
chasing a cyborg.
The guy never slowed down.
So we're looking for a cyborg.
Is that what I'm
telling the chief?
No. We're looking for
a well-trained hired gun.
SYD: So,
we think he killed Reuben and then Choi
and has been a... A
one-man crime wave
in K-Town for the
last few months.
NANCY: CSU is upstairs
tearing the place apart.
Hopefully,
they can find something.
CALLOWAY: Yeah. Let's hope.
Calloway.
I'd like to see you chase him
in those Lenny Kravitz boots.
You all right,
chief? No, I'm not.
This is a young man's sport,
and I have a hole in my ass.
Two!
Come on, man.
I missed my PT.
How do you do PT for your ass?
I need to ice this.
[STAMMERS] I don't
even want to know.
♪♪ Oh, baby,
you convey good vibes...
Let me get in this. Hey.
Good to see you.
Thank you for...
What do I owe you
for wearing that pin?
Means the world to me.
Okay, thanks for the support.
[LAUGHTER]
Okay. [LAUGHS]
Thanks.
♪♪ And why can't you
♪♪ If you find my place
and come alive... ♪♪
You're late. Oh.
Hey. Where'd you get that?
Uh, same place you did.
Izzy,
there's reporters and cameras everywhere.
Okay, I'll just get another one. Oh,
my gosh.
Where's your dad? Uh...
Probably schmoozing
someone. There he is.
Great turnout.
Hey. MAN: Hey, Patrick.
Hey, Glenn. How are you?
Nice to see you.
Thanks for the support.
What do you think of this song?
It's-it's supposed to help
with the millennial vote.
You're gonna need
a bigger playlist.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
So, uh, the Times, they, um...
Oh. Hey. Hold on.
Yeah... Oh, hi, Liz.
The Times wanted to
do a shoot at the house.
I told them I'd check with you.
Oh, uh,
d-do I need to be there or...
No. Sure. Whatever.
Okay. Can you drop
Izzy off at Letti's?
I got to get back to the office.
There's a problem with the case.
Oh. A-Are you gonna be home late,
or...
Could be all night.
Mrs. McKenna,
do you have a moment?
Yeah. Hey.
So,
how does it feel to be Mrs. Integrity?
Um...
[SIGHS]
[EXHALES]
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪♪ Well,
a man shouldn't be alone too long
♪♪ He needs a good proud
woman to make him strong
♪♪ Yeah,
someone he can bet his future on
♪♪ If he ain't got love
Then something's wrong
♪♪ I've tried
so hard to fight it
♪♪ I hope it's not too late
♪♪ I'm here going crazy... ♪♪
SOLDIER 1: I don't like this.
SOLDIER 2: Yeah,
something's not right.
Let's keep it moving.
[NANCY CALLS OUT IN ARABIC]
SOLDIER 2: [OVER
COMM] Let's move it out now.
Wh-What's the holdup here?
[CALLS OUT IN ARABIC]
SOLDIER 1: Gun!
McCarthy's hit! Hodgins is hit!
SOLDIER 2: Get
back in the truck!
Perez, get in there!
Come on, Perez!
SOLDIER 1: Delta 1!
Keep firing!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Taylor's down!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Cover!
[GROANING] Hang in there, man.
I got you. I got
you. Stay with me.
SOLDIER 1: Take the shot,
Perez! [GUN FIRES]
[SIGHS]
[PHONE CHIMES]
SYD: What was the boy's name?
Ibrahim.
His, um...
His father was... [SIGHS]
...killed in a
U.S. drone strike.
Innocent civilian or insurgent?
I don't know.
It doesn't matter. His mom...
Hated us.
But...
Ibrahim didn't know how to hate.
You know,
he was just like this sweet...
Sweet little kid.
I'd stop and teach him a
couple words in English,
and he'd teach me some Arabic.
You speak Arabic?
Oh, I mean, I... You know,
I can get by.
The things I learn about you.
He was so witty and smart.
I'd give him, you know,
a big piece of chocolate
if he promised to
share it with his teacher.
But, I swear to God,
the second that boy turned around,
he'd shove the whole
thing in his mouth
and just turn back
around right away,
this big, like,
chocolatey smile on his face.
Oh, that little face.
My squad thought I was crazy,
but I think I just
kind of felt like,
if I can change one mind
or open one heart,
you know, our time there
wouldn't feel so...
Empty.
That makes perfect sense to me.
Ibrahim's mom,
she never really
recovered from...
...when her husband was killed.
McKenna,
you don't have to tell me anything.
I know.
I want to.
I've actually never
said it out loud before.
We were ambushed, and two...
Two of our guys were killed.
Ibrahim's mom was
part of the ambush.
She was wearing a suicide vest.
She just walked right through
the middle of the firefight,
holding Ibrahim's hand.
He tried to run away.
She was...
But she wouldn't let him go.
She wouldn't let him go.
SOLDIER: Take the shot, Perez.
Take the shot. Come on.
Perez, go, go, go!
Take the shot, Perez.
Take the damn shot.
Come on, go!
[GUN FIRES]
[EXPLOSION BOOMS]
I took the shot, Syd.
I had to.
It was... It was us or them,
you know?
His little body
just... It blew apart.
It's okay. It's okay.
You did the right thing.
You did exactly what
you were supposed to do.
Exactly what you
were supposed to do.
And I'm so grateful
you are here right now.
I'm grateful you made it home.
It's okay.
That's why I never
talk about my...
My EOD or...
Navy Cross or anything.
You know what
might cheer you up?
How do you feel about
a little illicit activity?
[LAUGHS] No.
I need a bath and a blunt.
I understand. [BOTH CHUCKLE]
So why don't I take you home,
G.I. Jane.
[SIRENS WAILING]
[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE]
Off my car, man.
You need to relax, pal.
[SCOFFS]
Look who it is.
You don't remember me, do you?
Yeah,
what I remember from this morning,
I would like to forget.
I get it. It's the beard.
[LOCK CHIRPS]
Stress lines. The weight loss.
Eight years inside
will do that to a guy.
Nathan Baker.
2011, outside the Macaw Club.
There you go. Attempted murder.
Assault with a
deadly weapon. Mm.
No. No.
It was a bar fight
that some pansy-ass
politician's kid started
and I finished.
It was self-defense.
You knew that.
I'm not gonna do this
right now. I got to go.
See, now you're being rude.
All right,
you asked me what I wanted.
Payback.
I want payback.
Get home safe.
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪♪ ♪♪
[BEEPS]
♪♪ ♪♪
Oh, God.
[SIGHS]
[QUIET PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[QUIET CHATTER]
I just need a minute.
He's expecting me.
[LAUGHTER] Same old story,
right?
[LAUGHING] SYD: Mayor Garrison.
Looking well.
Do I know you?
No, I don't think so.
I'm Detective Syd Burnett.
Is that a merlot?
Smells delicious.
What the hell do you
think you're doing?
Mmm.
Jacoby, Meyers, take a walk.
Give us a minute.
What is this about?
We need to talk about Jen Striker.
[CAR ALARM WHOOPING]
♪♪ Hand on the mast
♪♪ Watch me fly...
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Walker, you okay?
WALKER: Yeah. Yeah, I'm good.
♪♪ Over time... ♪♪
[DOOR OPENS]
This is Detective Walker
from Robbery-Homicide.
We have an explosion, fire.
Multiple injuries.
[SCREAMING, COUGHING]
NEWSMAN: Local business owner
and beloved community
activist Gi Choi died
in an explosion and fire
in his residence
in Koreatown this evening.
NEWSWOMAN: Police fear
that violence could escalate
if the individuals responsible
for this act of terror
are not apprehended soon.
[HORN HONKING]
NEWSMAN: LAPD has
contained areas around Koreatown,
but fear of widespread
violence has the city on edge.
Yeah, I'm leaving now. Okay.
One dead, several wounded.
Baines and Walker
were on the scene.
Thank God they're okay.
Jesus, a bomb?
This K-Town thing
is out of control.
You got a key to lock up?
I don't leave home without it.
[CHUCKLING] I'll
see you down there.
NANCY: All right, on our way.
[PHONE BEEPS]
Bens okay?
Yeah, a little banged up,
but they'll live.
Choi? Not so much.
Looks like another
fun night in Koreatown.
Yo. I forgot to tell you.
What? Frost is dirty.
Yeah, no shit.
I mean,
anyone that goes to a furry sex party...
What is that? In a,
in a horse costume?
I mean... Let me
put this another way.
Frost is corrupt.
What? Why?
She deleted a couple names
out of Jen's digital black book
and erased it
from the case file.
Whoa. That's huge.
Who was it?
I don't know.
Fletcher's working on it.
Man,
it had to be someone important
for her to cross
a line like that.
Important people have
important secrets. Man.
Could be what got Jen killed.
You know,
if Calloway catches you snooping around
before you find anything...
Like,
really find anything... You're done.
Don't worry about Calloway.
I mean,
he was been riding you so hard
since he has been
head of department.
Yes, he has.
[LAUGHS] So hard.
[LAUGHS] No. Oh.
You go ahead. [SIGHS]
Oh, he's a good time.
♪♪ Nobody's getting
in my way tonight
♪♪ And I'm-a light up
♪♪ 'Cause I know
that I'm a champion ♪♪
[SIRENS WAILING]
[SIRENS BLARING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
NANCY: Izzy's a stranger
around the house these days.
And when she is home,
she locks herself in her room.
SYD: [CHUCKLES] Yeah,
that's her job, McKenna.
She's a teenager. And she's
been through some stuff.
Yeah, well, she acts like the
kidnapping never happened,
and she doesn't even ask about
me and Patrick and all
the weirdness between us.
Well,
maybe she doesn't want to know.
This Izzy scares me.
She's different.
I mean,
she's making us breakfast.
Excuse me. Do you have any
of those Toy Story Band-Aids
for my boy? Dude,
you're talking really loud. Ow. Oh,
and lollipops!
He likes lollipops, too.
Sorry. He just escaped
from the nursing home.
You guys okay? Yeah,
he's deaf, and I'm good,
but Calloway's
waiting for y'all inside.
What the hell
happened? BAINES: Huh?
What the hell happened?
Oh. Word got out
that we liked Choi
for Reuben's murder.
So some of Leon's boys came
and vandalized Choi's place.
Yeah,
Leon found the kids who did it,
brought them here
to help clean up.
All these people came out.
Kind of turned
into a block party.
BAINES: But Leon
made peace with Choi
before he left, Choi goes inside
to open up a package, and boom.
Well,
maybe Leon's olive branch was just a ruse
to get the bomb planted
inside. WALKER: I don't know.
A ton of people were
in and out of there.
Anyone could've
dropped that package.
Leon showing up here would've
been trending on social media.
There's got to be a ton of
videos and photos out there, right?
Yeah,
we'll dig into it. Come on.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
♪♪ ♪♪
[SIREN WAILING]
MAN: Go back to
your neighborhood!
Go back to your mansion in the Hills,
rich boy!
And take your bangers with you.
This is our neighborhood!
What's wrong with you people?
I'm just trying to
save these kids...
Our kids... From
killing each other!
I lost my brother
in these streets!
Reuben didn't have to die.
Choi did this.
He burned down
the community center.
He doesn't want peace,
he wants power.
He wants to divide us!
He forgot what we came from!
MAN: Yo, man, Choi's dead.
WOMAN: Did you hear that?
What?
MAN: Yeah,
your boys blew up his house.
[SYD SIGHS]
CALLOWAY: Explosives
were concealed in a package.
Wow.
It's got to be Leon or his people,
right?
Getting revenge
for Reuben's death?
A bomb isn't his style.
Leon's whole persona is brash
and macho and in-your-face,
so... That's his brand.
Outside the ring, when the cameras are off,
he's not that guy.
Leon is a legend out here.
When he fights, bars are packed,
lines out the door,
kids standing on their toes
peeking in the windows to watch.
Reuben was like Leon's brother.
You come at the champ's boy,
you're coming at
the neighborhood.
NANCY: Well,
that doesn't exactly
narrow the suspect pool,
just widens it right out.
Whether it's Leon
responsible or not,
Choi's people will definitely
be coming to look for payback.
Agreed. We need to find Leon.
Last thing we need is a
dead middleweight champion.
That's what's left of
the box the bomb was in.
EFP IED with a
directional charge.
You see that on the
Discovery Channel?
No,
I was EOD Special Ops in the Navy.
"Explosive Ordnance
Destruction Unit."
It's the military's version of our bomb
squad. [WHISPERS] Got it. Yeah.
He knows about this,
and I'm just now finding out?
I read your personnel folders
when I took over the squad.
Your partner was awarded
the Navy Cross over in Iraq.
Really?
Is that so? I did not know that.
[FADING] You're doing some
old Hurt Locker type of thing
in the Navy,
and this is the first time you bring it up.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[HEAVY GUNFIRE]
MAN: On your six!
[GUNS BLASTING]
MAN: [OUTSIDE] Get out of here,
man!
What you doing here?
[CLAMORING OUTSIDE]
What you doing here?
♪♪ ♪♪
MAN: You don't
belong here no more!
Let me talk to you. DULCE:
You wanted him dead.
You know what you did.
How dare you
show your face here?
Can I just talk to you,
please? WALKER: Hey, Dulce, stop.
Just think about your son, okay?
Go back where you came from!
I didn't do it! Okay?
I swear I didn't do it.
You couldn't stand Gi
raising your son like his own.
You wanted him dead,
and now you got your wish!
Let me talk to my son. I
just want to talk to my son.
I didn't do it. I
didn't do this.
MAN: You're a dead
man! I'm a what?
You're a dead man!
I'm a what? You gonna kill
me? Huh? Ricky. Ricky, no.
Baines, get him of here! Go!
[CLAMORING]
Chill! All right?
Let's go. Walk away.
CALLOWAY: All right,
get him out of here, guys.
We got to find
Choi's killer fast.
NEWSMAN: The explosion
and fire that claimed
the life of community
leader Gi Choi last evening
has led to widespread
civil unrest in Koreatown.
NEWSWOMAN: Fire
ripped through the...
Crazy night?
Ugh, not fun.
You get any sleep?
I am running on fumes
and coffee. That's
two nights in a row.
You got to start
taking care of yourself.
I'll be fine.
It's Izzy I'm worried about.
What happened? Nothing.
I just...
Have you been giving
her extra money?
$20 here, $40 there. Why?
Mm, nothing.
Nance, if something's going on with Izz,
you got to tell me.
No, I mean, obviously, things aren't,
like, great between us,
and so, she's probably noticed.
I'm worried about what's
going on in her head.
You know? The
scars you can't see.
I guess with the campaign,
I've been a little checked out. Me,
too.
Maybe we should make an effort
to pay more attention?
Agreed.
You know we're gonna
have to talk to her about...
[INHALES]
[WHISPERS] ...us.
Yeah. [DOOR OPENS]
SYD: Yo! Y'all really got to
start locking your door. I got to go.
NANCY: Have a good one. You,
too.
What's up? Morning.
This was on the
stoop. It came for Izzy.
Oh. [SIGHS]
"Silver Strand Industries."
Sex toy website.
What?
It's a sex toy website.
No.
Look, y'all have some science
projects growing in there.
I know for a fact that mushroom
risotto is at least a week old.
No, no,
no. Don't do that. Don't-don't do that.
[GASPS]
[STAMMERS] Okay.
Okay. Here we go.
You were right.
It's leather.
These were expensive.
Where do you think
she gets the money?
She's got a new pair of shoe...
Actually,
two pairs of new shoes and a new backpack.
You don't think...
Think what?
Yo, you see that new show with the,
with the Disney girl,
the teens are crazy,
and there's, like,
a baby drug dealer
with neck tattoos.
Um,
and then the girl has a friend
that does, like, the webcam...
[GASPS] No. The thing...
Not Izzy. I mean,
she's-she's... She's not even 18 yet.
She's not an adult.
I'm calling her.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't-don't do
that. Don't do that.
What we're gonna do,
we're gonna do our
jobs. Detective McKenna,
we are going to investigate,
we will gather intel,
we will build a case,
and then bring Izzy in
and put her in the box.
We?
Yes, we. You versus Izzy
is like LeBron versus Kawhi.
I'm not missing that shit.
So pack all that stuff up
and go back to playing the
role of oblivious stepmom.
I am not oblivious.
You didn't know about a sex toy website,
so...
Well,
who knows about sex toy websites?
Yeah, like, people who have sex.
Not having sex with your
husband isn't normal, either.
What? What? Who said
that? I didn't say that.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Hey, the boys are waiting
for us in the conference room.
Oh, okay. I'll be right there.
Just a second. All right.
Yeah, okay, okay,
okay. Great. Thanks.
That was Frost.
And what did she say?
Just updating me on
Jen's case. No new leads.
Shocker. What's your
problem with Frost?
She's a pit bull.
A pit bull?
Are you shitting me?
A pit bull would've
vetted all of Jen's clients
as possible suspects.
She didn't do that.
And she took a good
run at every one of them.
Every one? Really?
'Cause I know for a
fact there's at least
two of Jen's clients whose names
are not listed
in that case file.
What did you do,
Syd? Doesn't matter what I did.
That woman deleted the names.
She's dirty.
No, she didn't.
She didn't?
I did.
One of those names was Garrison.
The m... The mayor?
And you covered it up?
Don't do that trust
issue bullshit with me.
I'm not Warren.
I made sure Garrison was clean.
His name needed
to stay off that list.
Oh,
it needed to be off the list?
Before you get up
on your soapbox,
he wasn't the only
one I protected.
Syd Burnett was the other name.
Look,
what happened to Jen was-was horrible,
but your obsession with this
is-is more than just the case.
I don't think I
understand it myself.
Stay away from the case, Syd.
WALKER: All right,
so this is every photo and video
collected at the party
before the bomb went off.
I.T. sorted them so
that the thumbnails
come up chronologically.
You're gonna hurt yourself.
You don't hear that?
The... [SCREECHES]
No. Listen. The loud... Listen.
No.
Partner,
do you hear that loud... [SCREECHES] noise?
Wait, wait, wait. It's kind of
like a muffled smoke alarm?
Yes. No.
I don't hear that. No.
What are we looking at?
WALKER: We're trying
to track the package
from the time it was delivered
to the time it went boom.
Wait, wait, can you, um,
zoom in on that one?
Yeah.
Move forward a little bit.
Freeze it right there.
NANCY: Focus on the
thumbnails with yellow shirts.
BAINES: We can see
his face on this one.
That's a kid.
That's Dulce's son, Junu.
BAINES: You don't think Leon
would use his own son to plant a bomb,
right?
WALKER: I don't know.
Who else could
he have given it to?
NANCY: Stop.
SOLDIER: [OVER
RADIO] Mother Theresa,
making another
community relations stop?
Yes, I am.
[NANCY SPEAKING ARABIC]
Hello, pretty lady soldier.
Wow. Your English
is getting pretty good.
High five, kiddo.
[SPEAKING ARABIC]
NANCY: I got a surprise for you,
but you have to promise
to share it with your teacher.
[WOMAN SPEAKING ARABIC NEARBY]
Ibrahim! [SPEAKING ARABIC]
Ibrahim.
[SPEAKING ARABIC]
WALKER: This is everything.
That's the only footage
we have of that package.
Somebody had to
have given it to him.
All right, well,
we will talk to Dulce and the kid.
Okay,
then we'll go pick up Leon.
Not till after they talk to
the kid. NANCY: He's right.
I mean,
Calloway will be very pissed
if we bring Leon in here
with nothing to hold him on.
Nice work, guys. Thank you.
Thank you? I put this
whole thing together.
You were just, like,
color commentary.
Wh-What? Did you
just call me "colored"?
What?
No. No, "color commentary."
It's... Dude, come on, man.
You ready to go,
sir? Ready when you are.
Hey,
thanks again for the opportunity.
This could really put my
little video blog on the map.
Happy to help. I do my job right,
we'll give
that millennial crowd a good
look at who you really are.
Got to get that millennial
vote. [CHUCKLES]
Okay... Patrick.
You're poised to be
elected one of the youngest
district attorneys in the
history of L.A. County.
Tell us how you got here.
Well, hard work, late nights,
lot of support from
my friends and family.
They call you "Mr. Integrity."
That's quite a name
to live up to. It is.
To be honest,
it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
As hard as I try,
I'm-I'm not perfect.
No,
none of us are. But that being said,
character and integrity,
you know, it's what I'm about,
it's who I am.
Well, they say you're only as
good as the people around you.
You know,
my old man used to say,
"Birds of a feather
flock together."
Yeah,
let's talk about that. Your wife,
LAPD Detective Nancy McKenna,
would you call her
a person of integrity?
What about your brother-in-law,
Nico Perez?
You know,
the guy who murdered what I guess
would've been
your mother-in-law.
The hell are you doing? He
got a pretty generous deal.
What do you know about
it? He killed his own mother.
This is done. And he didn't
even get one night in jail.
Get out of here. Tom,
get him out of here now!
Just answer the question,
Patrick. Get that...
You can't take the hard
questions? Get that out of my face.
Come on,
Mr. Integrity. Thanks for your time. Yeah.
Appreciate it. Get your blog,
and go back
to your parents' basement. What's
the matter, Patrick? Get off of me!
Get out of here.
Guys, let's just get back to work,
huh? Okay?
[QUIET CHATTER]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
I'll be right back.
What do you want?
We need your help.
You put a target on Gi's back.
He's dead because of you.
We think the
bomb that killed him
was brought into the
apartment by your son.
What?
Junu, honey, come here.
Who gave you this package, baby?
Did Ricky give it to you?
No.
DULCE: Where did you get it?
Tell me. It came from the sky.
BOY: Whoa, look at that.
What is it?
Whoa.
[KIDS LAUGHING]
Wow.
♪♪ ♪♪
SYD: That's some dark shit,
delivering a bomb to kids.
WALKER: A bomb, a drone? If
Leon was gonna kill Choi that way,
why would he
even show up at all?
BAINES: Good question.
Maybe we're looking
at this all wrong.
I mean, we don't even have
proof that Choi killed Reuben.
Or if Leon and his
crew killed Choi.
What if they didn't? SYD: Well,
somebody did
a damn good job of making it look
like it did. NANCY: Think about it.
The crime in K-Town was at
an all-time low three months ago,
then it spiked out of
nowhere. What changed?
Maybe the same people
are responsible for all of this.
Murdering Reuben, Choi,
I mean, the arsons,
burglaries, all of it.
But why? That's
what we got to find out.
Thank you. What?
No. That's so rude.
It's fine. Both of you.
TECH: Lightweight, stable.
Directional charge designed
to cause maximum damage
to the person
opening the package.
Wire mesh used as a top liner
fragmented into
multiple penetrators.
Kinky.
So what does that tell
us about the bomb maker?
Definitely wasn't made
in someone's garage
with fertilizer and a bunch
of crap from Home Depot.
You're looking for
a skilled technician.
NANCY: Have you
identified the accelerant?
You know your
stuff. You tell me.
Potassium chlorate. Yes.
The smell of chlorine
is the dead giveaway.
Very common in Middle East IEDs,
not so much here in the States.
[HEAVY GUNFIRE]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
You okay, Detective?
Yeah. Thanks. Let's go.
Thanks, Linda.
You okay? Yeah.
You know, this wasn't Leon
or some kid from
the community center.
That was a targeted
assassination
by someone with mad skills,
possibly even ex-military.
Well, look who's back.
Perfect timing.
So you got something?
BOTH: We do.
Crime map for Koreatown
for the last three months.
Serious felonies
and a serious uptick
since three months before that.
The crazy thing is,
most of the new crimes are unsolved.
No suspects, no arrests.
The clearance rate was so low,
the CO of, uh,
Olympic Division lost
her command over it.
All right. Right here.
This Koreatown barbecue joint
was firebombed
about two months ago.
Arson guys thinks that
it was insurance fraud.
WALKER: The
accelerant in this bomb
and the bomb that killed
Choi are identical and unique.
Potassium chlorate.
We're always two
steps ahead of you guys.
It's just the way it is.
Uh... Wh... Right. Anyway.
The point is, this stuff is not
easy to get your hands on.
Okay? And it's never
used in commercial arson.
That's the connection
we're looking for.
Okay, well, that proves that the
same person that smoked Choi
torched the Korean
barbecue place.
But what about Reuben?
Got to be the same guy.
Since potassium chlorate is a
controlled substance in California,
Homeland Security shares
a record of all the purchases
with our intel folks.
BAINES: So there
should be a list
of all potassium
chlorate purchases.
Back that up.
Hmm?
Right there.
Blue Slate Industries.
928 South Rampart.
That's K-Town. NANCY: Wait,
hang on.
This one on 6th Street.
Same zip code with the same extension,
4569.
There's another one on Vermont.
SYD: All right, so we got, what?
Three packages all
delivered on the same block.
It has to be the same buyer.
This reminds me of this Nigerian
credit card ring that we busted
when I was undercover
with Major Crimes.
The bad guys, they were using forged
credit cards to buy all this stuff online
and send it to, you know,
vacant buildings.
And they were just sitting there,
waiting to pick them up.
BAINES: Okay,
you might be onto something,
but our guy could have come from
anywhere to pick up the package.
That warehouse complex
has been shut down for years.
Maybe our guy didn't
have to go that far.
Our suspect's got to
be in that warehouse.
WALKER: Let's go.
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ Open up the door
that closes off your mind
♪♪ Lift up the astral veil
You know you are so blind
♪♪ Shattering perception... ♪♪
[BEEPING]
[MUSIC CONTINUES OVER EARBUDS]
[MUSIC STOPS]
♪♪ ♪♪
[WHIRRING]
♪♪ ♪♪
Buildings three
and four are clear.
♪♪ ♪♪
SYD: Heads up.
He's here. We got fire.
[GRUNTS]
SYD: Okay.
NANCY: Hey! LAPD! Stop!
Okay. There! There! Let's go.
Really? It's either that
or wait to see if he falls.
Well,
what goes up must come down. Come on.
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS, GASPS]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
You really put on some LBs. Oh,
shut up, bitch.
[GRUNTING]
SYD: Where'd he go?
Suspect's on the ground
running south towards Rampart.
White guy with a duffel
bag. That's all I got.
[TIRES SCREECHING,
HORNS HONKING]
[HORN HONKS]
[HORNS HONKING]
DRIVER: Watch out, man!
♪♪ ♪♪
BAINES: A guy just ran by here.
Where'd he go?
WALKER: Come on. Help us out.
One of y'all had
to have seen him.
Where'd he go?
He was just in front of me!
He couldn't have just vanished.
[ENGINE REVS]
We lost him.
BAINES: Aviation and canine
came up empty. He bounced.
SYD: Whoever that guy is,
he is no joke.
I mean, he was out of there
in less than two minutes.
And wiped the whole place clean.
Black light,
flash paper documents,
USB Killer that fries computers.
That's some real
James Bond shit.
Not to mention his ability
to just disappear into thin air.
Four of you,
and we don't even get a look at his face?
People want answers.
So,
somebody please give me some.
Our guy had a plan.
What about our plan?
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Followed it by the numbers. Well,
that's refreshing.
WALKER: I mean,
he had this whole escape planned out.
He must have rehearsed
it a hundred times.
BAINES: It was like
chasing a cyborg.
The guy never slowed down.
So we're looking for a cyborg.
Is that what I'm
telling the chief?
No. We're looking for
a well-trained hired gun.
SYD: So,
we think he killed Reuben and then Choi
and has been a... A
one-man crime wave
in K-Town for the
last few months.
NANCY: CSU is upstairs
tearing the place apart.
Hopefully,
they can find something.
CALLOWAY: Yeah. Let's hope.
Calloway.
I'd like to see you chase him
in those Lenny Kravitz boots.
You all right,
chief? No, I'm not.
This is a young man's sport,
and I have a hole in my ass.
Two!
Come on, man.
I missed my PT.
How do you do PT for your ass?
I need to ice this.
[STAMMERS] I don't
even want to know.
♪♪ Oh, baby,
you convey good vibes...
Let me get in this. Hey.
Good to see you.
Thank you for...
What do I owe you
for wearing that pin?
Means the world to me.
Okay, thanks for the support.
[LAUGHTER]
Okay. [LAUGHS]
Thanks.
♪♪ And why can't you
♪♪ If you find my place
and come alive... ♪♪
You're late. Oh.
Hey. Where'd you get that?
Uh, same place you did.
Izzy,
there's reporters and cameras everywhere.
Okay, I'll just get another one. Oh,
my gosh.
Where's your dad? Uh...
Probably schmoozing
someone. There he is.
Great turnout.
Hey. MAN: Hey, Patrick.
Hey, Glenn. How are you?
Nice to see you.
Thanks for the support.
What do you think of this song?
It's-it's supposed to help
with the millennial vote.
You're gonna need
a bigger playlist.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
So, uh, the Times, they, um...
Oh. Hey. Hold on.
Yeah... Oh, hi, Liz.
The Times wanted to
do a shoot at the house.
I told them I'd check with you.
Oh, uh,
d-do I need to be there or...
No. Sure. Whatever.
Okay. Can you drop
Izzy off at Letti's?
I got to get back to the office.
There's a problem with the case.
Oh. A-Are you gonna be home late,
or...
Could be all night.
Mrs. McKenna,
do you have a moment?
Yeah. Hey.
So,
how does it feel to be Mrs. Integrity?
Um...
[SIGHS]
[EXHALES]
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪♪ Well,
a man shouldn't be alone too long
♪♪ He needs a good proud
woman to make him strong
♪♪ Yeah,
someone he can bet his future on
♪♪ If he ain't got love
Then something's wrong
♪♪ I've tried
so hard to fight it
♪♪ I hope it's not too late
♪♪ I'm here going crazy... ♪♪
SOLDIER 1: I don't like this.
SOLDIER 2: Yeah,
something's not right.
Let's keep it moving.
[NANCY CALLS OUT IN ARABIC]
SOLDIER 2: [OVER
COMM] Let's move it out now.
Wh-What's the holdup here?
[CALLS OUT IN ARABIC]
SOLDIER 1: Gun!
McCarthy's hit! Hodgins is hit!
SOLDIER 2: Get
back in the truck!
Perez, get in there!
Come on, Perez!
SOLDIER 1: Delta 1!
Keep firing!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Taylor's down!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Cover!
[GROANING] Hang in there, man.
I got you. I got
you. Stay with me.
SOLDIER 1: Take the shot,
Perez! [GUN FIRES]
[SIGHS]
[PHONE CHIMES]
SYD: What was the boy's name?
Ibrahim.
His, um...
His father was... [SIGHS]
...killed in a
U.S. drone strike.
Innocent civilian or insurgent?
I don't know.
It doesn't matter. His mom...
Hated us.
But...
Ibrahim didn't know how to hate.
You know,
he was just like this sweet...
Sweet little kid.
I'd stop and teach him a
couple words in English,
and he'd teach me some Arabic.
You speak Arabic?
Oh, I mean, I... You know,
I can get by.
The things I learn about you.
He was so witty and smart.
I'd give him, you know,
a big piece of chocolate
if he promised to
share it with his teacher.
But, I swear to God,
the second that boy turned around,
he'd shove the whole
thing in his mouth
and just turn back
around right away,
this big, like,
chocolatey smile on his face.
Oh, that little face.
My squad thought I was crazy,
but I think I just
kind of felt like,
if I can change one mind
or open one heart,
you know, our time there
wouldn't feel so...
Empty.
That makes perfect sense to me.
Ibrahim's mom,
she never really
recovered from...
...when her husband was killed.
McKenna,
you don't have to tell me anything.
I know.
I want to.
I've actually never
said it out loud before.
We were ambushed, and two...
Two of our guys were killed.
Ibrahim's mom was
part of the ambush.
She was wearing a suicide vest.
She just walked right through
the middle of the firefight,
holding Ibrahim's hand.
He tried to run away.
She was...
But she wouldn't let him go.
She wouldn't let him go.
SOLDIER: Take the shot, Perez.
Take the shot. Come on.
Perez, go, go, go!
Take the shot, Perez.
Take the damn shot.
Come on, go!
[GUN FIRES]
[EXPLOSION BOOMS]
I took the shot, Syd.
I had to.
It was... It was us or them,
you know?
His little body
just... It blew apart.
It's okay. It's okay.
You did the right thing.
You did exactly what
you were supposed to do.
Exactly what you
were supposed to do.
And I'm so grateful
you are here right now.
I'm grateful you made it home.
It's okay.
That's why I never
talk about my...
My EOD or...
Navy Cross or anything.
You know what
might cheer you up?
How do you feel about
a little illicit activity?
[LAUGHS] No.
I need a bath and a blunt.
I understand. [BOTH CHUCKLE]
So why don't I take you home,
G.I. Jane.
[SIRENS WAILING]
[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE]
Off my car, man.
You need to relax, pal.
[SCOFFS]
Look who it is.
You don't remember me, do you?
Yeah,
what I remember from this morning,
I would like to forget.
I get it. It's the beard.
[LOCK CHIRPS]
Stress lines. The weight loss.
Eight years inside
will do that to a guy.
Nathan Baker.
2011, outside the Macaw Club.
There you go. Attempted murder.
Assault with a
deadly weapon. Mm.
No. No.
It was a bar fight
that some pansy-ass
politician's kid started
and I finished.
It was self-defense.
You knew that.
I'm not gonna do this
right now. I got to go.
See, now you're being rude.
All right,
you asked me what I wanted.
Payback.
I want payback.
Get home safe.
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪♪ ♪♪
[BEEPS]
♪♪ ♪♪
Oh, God.
[SIGHS]
[QUIET PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[QUIET CHATTER]
I just need a minute.
He's expecting me.
[LAUGHTER] Same old story,
right?
[LAUGHING] SYD: Mayor Garrison.
Looking well.
Do I know you?
No, I don't think so.
I'm Detective Syd Burnett.
Is that a merlot?
Smells delicious.
What the hell do you
think you're doing?
Mmm.
Jacoby, Meyers, take a walk.
Give us a minute.
What is this about?
We need to talk about Jen Striker.