The Shield

Previously on The Shield.

I have an attorney for you. I'm Becca Doyle.

If everything hinges on her, I'd be a fool to give up that hammer.

Just like you were foolish for letting me know

how important she is to making your case.

You looking for more business?

Right now I'd like to go home and wash this place off.

Has anyone from the department come around asking questions?

Someone has been asking questions.

He said he was the parent of an autistic child.

That him? Yeah.

Pitarrio, where's your stash?

About six months ago, we found this kilo of pure heroin

in the glove compartment of your car, but you never logged it into evidence.

Lem got picked up by IAD. They got him wearing a wire.

I'm going after Mackey. And his team.

And I'm gonna be right here to make sure you don't blow it.

We got a CI next to him, and when he jumps dirty, we'll know.

Here. It's okay, I'm on the clock.

I thought you were Vic's CI.

Whoever's got the money.

Check, one, two. Check, one, two.

Good. That's good.

Hey. I need admissions from Mackey and the others

on crimes that they committed, all right?

Questions make cops suspicious.

You walk out the room every time he opens his mouth to say more than a good morning.

You think I haven't noticed this? I'm just doing my job.

Vic and I aren't attached at the hip. Well, then get attached.

Because dragging this out, trying to have it both ways,

you're torturing yourself.

You made your choice.

It was the right one.

Now you gotta start living with it.

Hold on a second, okay? Please.

I know it's your birthday.

You mentioned that you're a fly-fisher on one of the tapes.

Thanks.

We're gonna be working together for a while, and I just thought, you know...

I know this is tough.

But we're both gonna make our way through all of this, right?

I would have pegged you for a corner office.

First time a police officer's stepped foot in here.

I've got a case that'll interest you. My schedule's full.

And I've been finding my own cases since I was 30.

Not like this one.

Five minutes.

Everything I'm about to say falls under attorney-client privilege.

Yeah, but it doesn't obligate me to take your case.

IAD's launched an investigation into one of the guys on my Strike Team.

I don't represent cops. Especially corrupt ones.

We're good cops.

This is about the system turning its back on four of its own.

You'd be better off going somewhere else.

You shuffle gangbangers in and out of jail all day.

This is a chance for you to take a shot at the big boys.

What do they have on him?

Claim they found a brick of tar in his glove compartment.

It's bullshit. What else?

The only thing I know for sure is that they're going after my whole team.

Guy named Kavanaugh's in charge.

I'd dig into it myself, but it would raise too many red flags.

Now, there's the first real truth I've heard.

You wanna keep your knowledge of the investigation secret.

And no one would suspect I'm working for you.

So we agree that you work for me, then.

I've got an old boyfriend in the City Attorney's office.

I'll ask a couple questions, but that's it.

Fiji, Barbados, all those tropical vacation places,

you're talking typhoons.

I'm just looking out for you. Look out for the tape.

Angle looks car to car. Bumper's got a dent, could be fresh.

So maybe there's an incident out on the road,

someone in the other car shoots, victim veers off here.

Oh, Christ.

Get additional units down here. Tell Danny I said now.

Umbilical cord.

Checked the goddamn Amber Alert requirements. We don't have enough to file.

Somebody cut that baby out of a woman's stomach.

Well, then get me a witness, a description of the other car. Something.

If they wanted the child, why risk pumping the mother with bullets?

Someone wanted it to look random. Maybe the boyfriend.

What do we know about him?

Works nights in a machine shop. Hasn't been home since the murder.

I've got unis stationed at the house.

The vultures are gathering. I'll get rid of them.

Wait, wait. No, no, no. Let's use them. Somebody knows something.

We just need to pull the right heartstrings.

All right, good. You keep working, I'll do it.

Wilshire's not giving us any bodies for the search team.

Not if we can't prove the baby's alive.

That's bullshit. Call again. No, I'll call.

Who would do something like this?

What did the ex have to say? Absolutely nothing.

And I called a couple ADA's I went to school with.

Quiet on all fronts. Good.

Not good. None of them offered to look into it for me,

which means they know something major's in motion.

What haven't you told me?

David Aceveda's name come up with your friends?

The City Councilman?

He's assisting Kavanaugh with his investigation.

Why?

Because he used to be captain here.

Had me pushing the legal line a couple of times

when it meant getting a killer off the street,

making him look good to the voters.

Overseeing the investigation means he can steer it away from himself,

make me and my guys play the heavies.

Starting to get your blood running yet?

I'm interested in the true story of this heroin they caught Lemansky with.

What does he say about it? Haven't been able to ask him.

IAD's got him all wired up, listening to our every word.

Well, they wouldn't make that move unless they had a witness or corroborating evidence.

I'll find out what I can. Good. Me too.

So the kid's about, uh, well, here, right?

The knife goes in, goes straight down, gotta be careful about the depth.

I'd say it's intuitive. You wouldn't need medical training at all.

So I tell the newshounds we're not looking for Einstein,

just a garden-variety psychopath, possibly a woman.

Usually it's a woman who's recently lost a baby

or who's been claiming to be pregnant.

I'm never gonna be able to sleep until I have this kid.

Yeah, I'm here. You're not gonna sleep then either. Thanks.

911 received a call at 5: 17 this morning.

From a payphone one block from the scene. They hung up.

That could be our line to the baby. So how we gonna find them?

You've gotta convince them to come to us.

Need another cup? Two should do it.

Hey, we on that missing baby yet?

No, Dutch and Claudette are handling it.

Captain wants us available to round up all the other miscellaneous sickos.

Listen, man, I'll be back in a few. I gonna take a dump.

Smells like you already did.

All right, we got five minutes to hear what's going on with Kavanaugh.

Every detail. He suspects I'm protecting you.

I've been helpful, but not too helpful. Nothing he can check out.

Any chance he's got a witness? Someone who saw you take that tar?

Shit. Pitarrio.

Or Emolia. I mean, she was in the house too.

No, no, I got a six-month relationship with her. She's solid.

Pitarrio's the one with an axe to grind. Look, if they got Pitarrio, I'm screwed.

We don't know that yet, but we're gonna find out.

No, he puts that heroin in my car, makes IAD's case, what then?

First-time offender, you'd do, what, five years max, probably less?

Shane. Look, I'm just... I'm just saying.

Worst case scenario, you refuse to wear the wire,

you let Kavanaugh arrest you.

We'll work behind the scenes to undermine him.

And you'll seal us off from this, right? The shit you've done,

and I'm the one going to jail?

Are you kidding me? Nobody's going away.

Hasn't been a jam yet we haven't slipped out of.

Hasn't been a witness before, or an IAD cop wiring one of us.

Hey, nobody jumped ship when Antwon had your balls in a sling.

And I was willing to put a bullet into Antwon to keep it off the rest of you.

We got you out of that before you had to go through with it.

Which is exactly what we're gonna do for Lem. But if we can't...

you're gonna look out for us, right?

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

We're gonna get you clear of this.

Ronnie and I'll track down Pitarrio and we'll squeeze his balls.

I hate this.

Don't worry, we got you. Let's get the wire back on.

What kind of person cuts a baby out of its mother's stomach?

The kind that should have been an abortion.

There's the man.

Give me a sec. For what?

Aceveda's been updating me on a few things.

Be right back.

Councilman. A moment of your time.

What is it?

Some asshole dumped a few couches over on Benton,

I got a La-Z-Boy over on Scott. Bums find that out, it's a Motel 6.

You screeched up here to talk to me about trash pickups?

Six Paul 11, Six Paul 11.

Billings is too squirrelly to ask the city for an extra dime.

Someone's gotta do it. Hey, we got a 187.

Anyway, Farmington's garbage is your area.

That's a little below my pay grade. Call someone in Waste Removal.

Okay. But I'd hate to see your entire district become a fire hazard.

Get what you need? Yeah, he was very helpful.

The car was headed south. Down there.

Hank Preminger. Green Explorer came around the corner,

started blasting at him as he exited the diner.

Nice piece.

Let this be a cautionary tale. You find our heroin dealer?

Pitarrio cleared out of his house. He's a ghost.

Only sign of life was a couple of squatter crackheads.

Hey. Telephone worker got a bird's eye from the pole.

He get a plate for the SUV? No.

But he gave unis a partial plate on a witness who had a better view.

Another white guy, jumped in his ride after the shooting, took off.

All right. You guys work your angle.

Lem and I'll figure out who's got a problem with the Hair Club for Men.

All right, man.

That baby is still out there.

This disgusting crime occurred at approximately 5: 15 a.m. this morning.

So we beg you, while the baby can still be saved,

please call if you have any information