Blue Bloods

So me and Frank were on patrol up in Harlem, the 2-5,...

- Oh, yeah. - and we see this

- building on fire... - I remember... I remember that.

- I don't. - No.

That's before you transferred in.

Anyway, this woman comes running up to us

and she says “My baby's in there! My baby's in there”"

So Frank and I, we decide not to wait for the fire department.

We head right inside.

We get inside, it's smoky as hell,

we're coughing and choking.

I manage to get this woman and her mother

and the frickin' dog out into the street.

I run back inside. What do I see?

I see Frank coming down the stairs,

through the flames, carrying a baby.

Now, he's almost out the door of the building

when we hear somebody else screaming.

Well, yeah. So I hand Lenny the kid

and I head back upstairs.

I head out the door,

and all of a sudden, there's all these photographers outside,

snapping photographs of this white cop

cradling a black baby.

The crowd is cheering, Lenny's taking bows...

Two minutes later, Frank comes stumbling out,

covered in soot,

helping this old man in his underwear.

Now, nobody wants to see a picture

of an old man in his underwear with a cop holding him.

Well, maybe now they do, but...

Wait. It gets better.

So the next day,...

my picture is on the front page of every paper in the city.

They even used it for the recruiting poster.

Did I get a lot of women from that?

Oh, yes, I did!

Thank you, Frank.

What'd you name your sports bar

- in Florida? - Well, I-I

decided to keep it humble.

I called it The Hero's Den.

And what did you use as the logo?

Well, the picture of me and the baby. Iconic.

You know, somebody really should write all this down.

Write what down?

These stories.

Well, maybe somebody already did.

Nobody did.

No, somebody did.

I put it all down.

- Like in a diary? - No.

Like in a book.

I wrote a book. About us.

All the true stories.

It's called Back in the Day. It's coming out in the fall.

You guys are gonna love it.

- Am I in it? - Of course you're in it.

You're not gonna like what you see, but you're in it.

I'm home!

Hey. How was your day?

Same as usual.

Ridding the city of the forces of evil.

What's going on with you guys?

I'm just helping Jack with his homework.

I got you sesame chicken from that new Chinese place.

Great. You always order the best.

Aw, thanks, babe.

Where's Sean?

Went up to read.

Play video games, more like it.

I think I'm gonna go upstairs, too.

What happened to your eye?

What?

Your eye.

You got a shiner.

Yeah, I got elbowed playing basketball.

It's no big deal.

Well, I'm gonna put up your dinner for you.

Okay.

Hey. You know what's going on?

I fell asleep on my Barcalounger.

- What a way to wake up. - ADA Reagan.

Investigator Abetemarco. Thanks for getting here.

Sure. Why the call?

We got a double.

Looks like a robbery gone bad.

Man was high as a kite, demanding money,

then he just started shooting up the place.

What's it to us?

Well, one of the victims

was an investigator in your office-- Robert McQueen.

- McQueen? - Oh, man.

Detective?

We found something that tested positive for blood.

It blended in with the wood grain,

so we didn't see it initially,

but it leads all the way from the bar area

out into the street.

Could be where he got into his car.

Let's hope we have cameras out there.

You think it's the shooter's blood?

Witnesses say McQueen got off

one round at the suspect before he was killed.

Maybe it found its mark.

Yeah, well, you should check every hospital in the area.

Already on it.

So how can we help?

You know why your man was in the bar last night?

Is this his usual hangout?

Nah, he wasn't much of a drinker.

Could have been working a case, then?

The other Vic was a young woman, Jenny Egan.

She was with McQueen at the bar.

You think he was having an affair?

I guess anything's possible, but...

he's in Park Slope with his wife and kids.

Seems pretty happy to me.

Yeah, I was out at the house last week.

He worships the ground his wife walks on.

At least he did.

You want to make the notification?

Well, it's actually his case.

I know, but you knew him.

And so did you.

Flip a coin?

No.

We'll both go.

Ah, this is brutal.

Pop?

How much did you cooperate on The Boys in Blue?

Cooperate?

I threatened to sue.

They got every detail of our investigation wrong.

The dialogue was ridiculous,...

the characters cartoonish.

But what happened?

You threatened to sue; the book still came out.

Well, we made them fictionalize everything.

And then it turned into that horrible TV movie with Robert Conrad.

I kind of liked it.

Come on.

With these baby blues,

only one actor could've played me:

Paul Newman.

Right. Dead ringers.

That what kept you up all night?

My old partner, Lenny Ross,...

got it in his head to write a tell-all about the bad old days.

Lenny Ross. How is he?

Candid.

That bad?

Well... how many times you tell a story

and you leave a couple things out

'cause no one would believe it anyway if you left them in?

- Thousands. - Yeah, well, Lenny?

He leaves everything in.

Everything.

Yikes.

That's a polite way of putting it.

Robert must've been meeting someone that night.

I'm gonna tell you this from experience, Erin:

Nothing good happens in a bar after 3:00 a.m.

That's how I met my first wife,

and I'm still paying for that one.

You checking your Facebook?

I'm looking at the accounts of the other people in the bar that night;

seeing if any of them were friends with McQueen.

- Any luck so far? - Nothing.

What about the other victim, Jenny Egan?

Maybe she's got some photos of Robert on her page.

I don't think Robert's in that photo.

He could be deep background, by the water.

A little respect, Detective.

Hey,...

if we're not laughing, we're crying.

Keep scrolling.

Okay, Jenny's timeline.

Executive secretary at an accounting firm,

University of Michigan alum.

Oh, man.

Just got married six months ago.

That sucks.

Mitchell her maiden name?

So what?

Well, I've been going through Robert's other cases,

trying to find some link, and that is ringing a bell.

Okay.

People v. Hoff Construction.

It was a bid-rigging case

that our office was trying to bring last year.

And Jenny Mitchell is on the witness list.

Robert was the investigator.

That was about the Hurricane Sandy rebuild,

who was getting the contracts.

Yeah, it didn't even make it to the grand jury.

One witness... had an accident.

The defendant disappeared, presumed dead.

I remember that.

Robert thought it was a mob thing.