Blue Bloods

Ella was a sweet 18-year-old young woman.

She was a straight-A student.

She was working as a cashier in that deli.

You know why?

To help her parents with some extra money.

She was viciously attacked as she closed the shop.

You just heard her as she begged for her life,

begged for help, begged for mercy as he stabbed her

not once...

not twice...

but eight times in the chest

till she bled out.

Were her cries in vain?

That's up to you.

And you.

And you.

- (phone rings) You have the right

to consult with a lawyer and have that lawyer present during questioning.

- If you can't afford a lawyer... - Hey.

- Yeah, uh, we, we are, but I... - ...one will be appointed for you.

Get in.

I might be delayed at work.

I'll call you.

You got a date?

It's a hot guy from my yoga class.

Ugh, a granola cruncher?

No, a commodities trader.

Where are you going on this first date?

Well, nowhere now that somebody decided to make

a felony arrest ten minutes before end of tour.

Tell you what-- I'll take the collar, do the paperwork.

You can have the night off.

- Really? - Really.

Thanks.

This guy know you're a cop?

Come on, sport, it's a real romance killer.

But chicks like dating cops, right?

No, no, no, no, chicks like dating firefighters.

What?

You ever see a beefcake calendar with the NYPD?

You don't.

Maybe I'll start one.

You know where that old lady lived, you know,

the one that wouldn't give back the balls that went in her yard?

And smoked the Tareytons.

Yeah, that's her.

Her house just went up for $1.6 mil.

Brooklyn has become the new Manhattan.

Then, what's that make Manhattan?

I don't know, the new Hong Kong?

Yeah, you got the last one.

I won't argue with you.

You make a lot more than this civil servant.

Hey, when you quit that job, you can write your own ticket.

At what, corporate security?

Sounds like one of those euphemisms your clients use.

Hey, hey, hey, watch that.

Riding a desk is nowhere on my bucket list.

What is on your bucket list, Frank?

Kicking your ass at poker on a weekly basis.

Well, that is never, never going to happen.

We'll see.

So, um, you know, I'm skating along

and I hip-check this guy,

and he goes flying over the wall.

: I know, and we, we won the game.

That's great.

Yeah, it was awesome.

You didn't learn those moves on Wall Street.

Never know.

Uh, we play down at Pier 62.

You should come watch me sometime.

Yeah, okay.

The place has thinned out.

You want to grab a table, get so-- some dinner?

Um...

I would, but I, I got to be in work early

and I got a lot of stuff to do before I hit the sack.

Okay, that's fine.

- Oh, h-hang on, I can take... - No, no, no, no...

- Are you sure? - This is on me.

There you go.

- Thanks, Jake. - Yeah.

I'll walk you home.

Okay.

Guilty,

guilty... guilty,

guilty... guilty, and guilty.

So that's...

Wait a second.

That's only 11 guilties.

Who didn't vote?

That'd be me.

You know, this is supposed to be anonymous.

Anonymity is overrated.

: Okay.

Uh, so I take it we're all in agreement here?

All except one.

All but one.

Friday night at Primo's, 8 o'clock.

I'll give you a shot at that bucket list.

And I'll kick your ass.

Yeah, right.

Never gonna happen.

Look, see, everything's fine.

Thank you for the drink.

W-Why don't I come in, you make me a cup of coffee?

I can't.

Okay.

Well, thank you for the lovely evening.

Hey, Jake.

- Jake, you need to go home... - What's the matter? What are you doing?

- Stop, come on. - No, no.

- Get in there. - No.

He had two bullet wounds, was hit in the shoulder and chest,

but he is out of surgery and stabilized.

Prognosis?

When he wakes up, he will be moved from ICU to a general floor.

Good.

Read it and weep.

- Does it say I shot him? - Of course not.

He's going to be okay, by the way.

Good, but people are going to want to know why you're dining

with the most notorious mob lawyer in New York.

- Because I was hungry. - Who paid?

Cut it out-- we grew up together.

Well, then, why can't you just send him a card at Christmas?

And he's a lawyer, not a mobster.

I don't know many lawyers

who get targeted for a hit in Midtown.

He works for the acting head of the Rulanti crime family.

That's how he makes his living.

Frank, he's defending Phil Romano.

Baker, please notify me as soon as Mr. Gallo regains consciousness.

Yes, sir.

I'm advising you not to get further involved with this.

This how you treat your friends?

Hey, Janko, boss said you banged in sick today.

I didn't hear from you, you haven't returned my calls.

Just want to make sure you're okay.

I'm gonna keep checking on you till you answer.

The necklace was never recovered,

the murder weapon was never recovered.

So what? He ditched 'em.

This case is circumstantial at best.

What are you talking about, circumstantial?

Just what I said.

We heard from the eyewitness Shania Costa.

She saw the whole thing.

And she was convincing.

Was she convincing?

Okay.

What color is the necktie I'm wearing right now?

What?

What color is the tie that I have on right now?

Red.

Excuse me?

Point taken.

His prints were all over the scene.

He admitted to being there earlier in the day.

The D.A. thinks he did it.

The D.A. didn't do a good job of proving it.

The detective from the case thinks he did it.

The grand jury thinks he did it.

And I don't think he did it.

We've got an uptick

of robberies in the 5-1, year to date.

We've got Anticrime addressing it.

Has OCCB picked up any chatter on the wires

about the Gallo hit?

No, but they monitored Gallo telling Romano

that he's no longer representing him.

Really?

They had to minimize, so we don't know any more than that.

Thank you, Dino.

The D.A.'s office is in the pretrial phase

against Phil Romano, right?

Charges include racketeering, murder, and bid rigging.

Case solid?

Well, it was until the key witness

against Romano disappeared.

According to the D.A.'s office,

if that witness doesn't surface, they're going to be forced

to make a plea deal with Romano.

Gallo tells Romano he's not going to represent him anymore.

Romano would know that that ends attorney-client privilege.

Then he finds out Gallo is meeting with the police commissioner.

What do you think?

Sounds like a motive.

Sometimes a fresh set of eyes can make a big difference in a case.

I mean, look at the crime scene photos.

Look at all the blood at the crime scene.

Yet when DeShawn Williams was arrested, he didn't have a trace of blood on him,

not on his clothes, not on his shoes, nothing.

It's because he got rid of them.

He was arrested one hour after the murder.

How could he get rid of all that blood that quickly?

If you ask me, this looks a lot more like a crime of passion.

DeShawn Williams had no connection to the victim prior,

which would eliminate him as a suspect in a crime of passion.