Tommy

Previously on Tommy... Whose house is this?

A friend.

Come here.

How was the house?

You have a good time last night?

You going there? I'm just asking

if you enjoyed the use of my residence.

It's Lovell. You know what he knows.

What he could do to us.

I'd like you to move on

to a different subject of investigation.

Blake, right?

I collect private intelligence.

I wouldn't want you to getin any trouble, Blake.

I was threatened last night.

I'm having an affair with the mayor.

And this man

had pictures.

Is there more? Yes.

I have asked for an ethics inquiry

as to whether or not Chief Thomas has violated

the city's conflict of interest rules

by providing information to sports agent Kiley Mills

about the Jovani Perez case.

According to a fire department spokesman,

the fire spread quickly after starting earlier this evening.

Firefighters say the blaze already covers

over 100 acres in the hills above Hollywood,

which is just five percent contained.

Chief Thomas.

How's it going?

We've gotevery available unit up there.

Haven't made a dent.

Any idea how it started?

Well, with the rain we've had,

ground cover's still too wetfor a natural cause.

Maybe a cookfirein a homeless encampment.

All right, we have all our people on, uh,

traffic control, evacuations.

You need anything else, you let us know.

Thanks.

You don't see thaton Long Island.

You don't.

Thank you.

Hey. Wait here.

Mr. Mayor.

Not even a phone call? Talk tomorrow, Tommy.

There's a lot going on.

Yes, I can see that. But unless you got a-a big hat

and a fire hose, I think you can spare me a minute.

What's up?

I had to find out on the news

that I'm under an ethics investigation?

Whoa. Look...

No. Whoa. I know you have a phone.

I saw you just using it.

Tommy, I didn't create this situation.

You did.

I did? How?

By making itappear...

And I emphasize "appear"...

That you were using your officeto help your friend,

the sports agent.

Now, everything's gotto be transparent.

No back channels.

Back channel? How 'bout a phone call?

You-you don't think I did anything wrong.

You're making too much of this. It's an issue of perception.

Okay? It lookslike you did something wrong,

so now a whole big show has to be made of looking into it.

It's theater. Just go through the process.

You're gonna be fine.

No, feels like more than a show.

Tommy, it's politics.

All right? It's exactly what it appears to be,

no more, no less. Ever since I got to L.A.,

nothing has been as it appears to be.

What can I tell you?

Welcome to our fair city.

I heard you talked to the boss.

How much did you tell her?

Everything.

The mayor?

Yeah.

Everything.

Oh.

Well, it got her attention,

because she wants us in her office now.

Really looking forwardto that.

Did you sleep here last night?

Uh, yeah. I was, uh, too scared to go home.

Go to a hotel. That feels less safe

than my apartment.

Then why don't you just come to my place?

I have a spare bedroom.

You can stay as long as you want.

I offer this as a brother.

That's really sweet of you, Ken.

I appreciate it.

Uh, quick question.

When was the last timethat you cleaned your bathroom?

My... W-Well...

See, if you have to think about it, it's too long.

Thank you so much, but I'm good.

Let's go.

Okay.

I want you allto hear some things

that Blake told meabout yesterday.

And for the moment, what she says

stays in this room. Is that clear?

Okay.

Blake?

Um...

some of you know Vincent Siano.

Metro reporter.

Kind of a friend.

A little while ago, Vincent told me he was looking

into the death of Arturo Lopez.

That guythat got killed in jail.

Friendof the mayor.Right.

Vincent asked me to get some information

related to the death,

and I did.

And then he disappeared.

Disappeared how?

He never showed up to collect the information.

I haven't heard from him since.

W-When I started looking for him,

I-I felt like I was being followed.

And I-I thought I was being paranoid.

Then, um,

two nights ago,

this thug came to my apartment and threatened me.

Threatened youwith what?

Personal information.

The-the details don't matter.

It-It's private.

The point is that this man was trying to blackmail me.

What information did Siano want?

The autopsy report for Edward Wilson,

the last victim of the Crenshaw Fireman.

What did he have to do with Arturo Lopez?

Who's the Crenshaw Fireman?

He's a serial killer we locked up a little while ago.

"Crenshaw" because most of the bodies were found

along Crenshaw Boulevard.

"Fireman" becausehe burned his victims.

But what does he have to do with Arturo Lopez?

Hold on. There's more.

The evidence this guy was usingto blackmail me,

I think it came from Jonathan Lovell.

The developer? Okay.

So we got a dead friend of the mayor's,

the most powerful developer in the city,

a serial killer, and a missing reporter.

Oh, as much fun as a cop could ask for, huh?

I mean,

there's a lot of holes in this.

There's more holes than anything.

I want you to look into Siano.

What did he find out, what happened to him...

Anything you can learn.

But keep it quiet.

I don't wanta formal investigation just yet.

You got it.

Answer any questions Diaz has

and then walk away. I don't want you

anywhere near this thingfrom now on.

That's okay by me.

Cooper, stay on the fires.

Ken, I need some help, uh, getting ready

for this, uh, ethics hearing.

Terry Simmons from Legal Counselis gonna help me prep.

I want you inon that. Sure thing.

And, remember, what you just heard stays in this room.

Some advice?

What?

Don't do this on the down-low.

Open up a missing persons file.

Start a formal investigation.

This is no time for secrets.

Everything Blake just described, that didn't sound

like a cover-up to you?

Maybe.

One that might even explainthis ethics thing

I'm suddenly havingto deal with?

Not impossible, I'll grant you.

And the people behind this,

you think they don't have contacts in the LAPD,

ones that they would call

the second they hear we've opened a case file?

Maybe. But that's a few people.

You can trust the department as a whole.

You have to right now.

Do I?

Or you have to make them believethat you do.

Someone has been following me.

You've seen the pictures.

Now they are threatening Blake.

Who knows what they did to this journalist?