Tommy

Previously on "Tommy..."

This week, Abigail Thomas took office

as the first woman chief of police in the history of our city.

- Attention! - Okay, guys, we're not gonna do that

all the time, or you're all gonna need knee replacements.

Are you the new security detail?

- Abnar Diaz. Who are you? - Ken Rosey. I'm the speechwriter.

- Donn Cooper, chief of staff. - Good to meet you.

Blake Sullivan, our communications director.

Arturo Lopez. He's a great supporter of the mayor.

I launched an investigation into a friend of the mayor's.

If you're suggesting that I had any knowledge

that Arturo Lopez smuggled

an underage girl into this country...

I will call my daughter.

She is a school psychologist, married.

My marriage is falling apart.

I want you to come stay with us.

My late father always said

that it is the mayor who runs the city,

but the chief of police keeps it safe.

Our city could not be safer

than it is in the hands of the woman

that I am so proud to have brought here:

your new chief of police, Abigail Thomas.

Tommy, come on out here.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I wasn't hired for my public speaking,

which you will probably realize by the time I am done here.

As you might be able to hear,

I am not from these parts.

Some people even say I have an accent.

Who knew?

And as you

may have also realized, um, I am a woman.

Oops. I'm sorry, was I not

supposed to say that?

I am from New York, where I served

in the police department, like my father before me.

But being a cop today

is not, uh, the same as it was when my dad did it.

Times are changing,

and we have to change with them.

You cut the passage about neighborhood policing.

"Good job, boss. You did okay up there.

- You made us proud." - I mean, sure. You were great.

Did you not like the passage about neighborhood policing?

Uh, Channel 15 wants an interview.

What'd you think of the speech, Blake?

- Uh, it was good. - Okay.

I'm drowning in praise here.

If the passage were phrased differently, would that...

Listen, Ken, the speech felt long,

so I skipped some stuff.

Let it go or I'm gonna borrow a gun from somebody.

That was fantastic.

- You are a natural. - Oh, thank you.

- Are you running for something? - Car's waiting. Can we go?

Ah, Chief. I'd like you to meet my wife.

Oh. Hi. Roni, Chief Abigail Thomas.

Hello.

So,

you ready to kill my husband yet?

No, I... no, we have a good relationship.

Ah, lucky you.

I'll be in the car. Bye.

Anyway, good speech.

Seriously, you're not thinking of running for something?

Uh, no, Mr. Deputy Mayor.

Good.

Boss, call just came in. There's an officer down.

Oh, God. Uh, what's his status?

Has he been transported, or...?

He's dead on the scene.

- All right. How do we get out of here? - This way.

Fire department got a call about a car fire.

When they got down here,

they realized the car was one of ours.

Officer Edward Guzman.

Eight years, Hoover Division.

His father's retired LAPD, a sergeant.

Detectives say it looks like he's been shot in the chest

- multiple times. - Who's got the family?

The division commander and the chaplain are at his house.

So somebody shot him through the window and then torched the car?

That's what it looks like.

So is this somebody who wanted to kill Eddie Guzman

or somebody who wanted to kill a cop?

That is the question.

Hey. Who are you?

Easy. I'm with the boss's security detail.

- What are you looking for? - His phone.

You guys already bag it for evidence?

Yeah. There was nothing on it.

- It was turned off. - For real?

Boss, get down here! Boss, get down!

Get down!

Anybody hurt? Is everybody all right?

Officer Edward Guzman grew up in Torrance

and attended Sacred Heart High School there.

In February 2017, while responding to an armed robbery,

he was wounded in the arm and the shoulder

but continued to engage the gunmen,

killing one and disarming the other.

For this action, he received the department Medal of Valor.

He represented the best of what it is to be an LAPD officer,

and we are deeply saddened by his loss.

Questions? Vincent.

We've got reports there was gunfire on the scene

after LAPD responded.

Do you think it's connected to the killing?

There was gunfire.

It's not unusual for that neighborhood,

and, uh, nobody was hurt.

And as much as I admire you for trying,

I can't comment on connections to anything.

Six spent nine millimeter shells on the ground near the car.

More nines on the roof of a building

a hundred yards to the northwest.

Ballistics says they match.

So whoever shot Guzman on the street

also took the shots from the roof.

Got a name on the gun?

They're running the casings through the databases.

No matches so far.

How about security cameras? Decker?

There are none on that block. Buildings are abandoned.

We're looking at some in the surrounding area,

see what we can find.

- What do we know about Guzman? - Good cop,

strong record.

Some civilian complaints in the last few months,

but nothing that led to charges being filed.

We got to keep an eye on that.

If some civilian gets frustrated, we need to know.

They get too frustrated,

they may start thinking about getting a gun.

And stay on ballistics. Take a look at the older files

if the databases are coming up empty.

Any questions?

Ma'am. All due respect, what are we doing here?

What do you mean, Stan?

One of our guys got ambushed,

we're worried about some complaints

that didn't even get a charge filed?

We don't know for sure that it was an ambush.

Maybe it was, maybe not.

The shooter fired at officers on the scene.

What else do we need to know?

I would like to know what happened to Guzman.

We all know that right now, there are people celebrating

'cause a cop got killed.

We all know who those people are.

You can bet your bottom dollar the shooter

is right there with them.

We need to get in some faces, get some names

and make people understand that the LAPD

will not take this lying down.

Get out in the community and make some noise.

You mind explaining which community you mean there, Stan?

Anybody else got an idea to share?

We're done here.

Stan's been talking about putting in his papers.

That pension check he smells

gives him just enough courage to speak out.

But he's not the only one who feels that way.

I don't care. I'm not sending people out to bust heads

so some dinosaurs can feel good about themselves.

- Mm-hmm. - It's a sad day.

Yes, it is.

Your detail is running security at your house.

You asked me to remind you to remind your daughter.

I can give her a call.

No, I'll do it. She's gonna have questions.

You don't want to face those.

Look, I get it. People are scared.

And a scared cop is a dangerous cop.

A civilian's gonna get his head blown off

for asking for directions.

- What do you think happened to Guzman? - Looked weird to me.

- What? - Guzman's phone was off.

Guy was in his car, turns his phone off? What's that?

If my phone's turned off, you can put me in the ground.

The techs say he turned it off

right after he went out on patrol.

If you turn your phone off, you can't be tracked.

So maybe he didn't want anyone to know where he was going.

Maybe because he was going to meet somebody he shouldn't.

All right, I know it looks like an ambush.

Make sure Robbery-Homicide is putting time

into the possibility that Guzman knew his killer.

Tell the rest of the detail to get ready.

We got to go to the house.

What's up, Ken?

Anything you want me thinking about for the eulogy?

How many of them have you done?

A couple.

Leakey liked military imagery.

The fallen hero carried out on his shield,

that kind of thing.