The Closer

The Closer 7x11 Necessary Evil Original Air Date on November 28, 2011

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Captain Sharon Raydor. Good evening, officer.

I need to know what time this log was started

and the name of the first supervisor on the scene.

That would be me.

Lieutenant Provenza.

And my arrival time's in the log.

And I got here a minute after he did.

Lieutenant Flynn, that would put you here at 9:43 p.m.,

half an hour after the crime was reported.

That's well within the required response time.

Oh, it wasn't a criticism, Lieutenant.

Just keep your eye on the ball, everyone,

and ignore me like you usually do.

Uh, Detective Gabriel,

it says you made the coroner's first call,

but it doesn't have a time in the log.

Uh, it was around 9:50. I told them to respond.

- Kendall's with the victim right now. - Okay.

Excellent job, everyone, by the way,

of blocking the crime scene from the public.

Very nicely done.

Does, uh, anyone want to tell me when S.I.D. was notified?

Same time as the coroner.

Arrived at 10:17 p.m.

They're currently working on bullet trajectories.

Oh, I usually fill out the log after I've entered my --

Lieutenant Tao, the log is supposed to be filled out

concurrent with the actions taken.

And while this federal lawsuit

is proceeding through the courts,

we must be compliant with regulations -- period.

Sorry.

Detective Sanchez.

Any public-safety issues?

We haven't found the murder weapon yet. Patrol's looking for it.

And our suspect could still be

in the immediate area -- I can't say.

Have you put out a citywide information broadcast?

9:45 p.m. nothing's come back yet.

Has anyone notified Deputy Chief Johnson?

They have.

Oh.

I'm so sorry, Captain.

Have you been looking for me?

Chief Johnson, you didn't sign

into the log when you arrived.

I didn't?

Uh, Lieutenant, when did I arrive?

From Atlanta or tonight?

Ready?

Uh, she came with Gabriel.

1...2...3.

I'm so sorry.

Captain, that is the very last time I'll forget to sign in.

It's okay. I've got it.

You know what?

Uh, why don't we get as many of your questions

answered as we can right now?

Okay. I'm going to assume, as usual,

you are the incident commander.

Do you have an I.D. On the victim?

Uh, Kendall, do we have an I.D. on the victim?

Uh, driver's license says Mr. Jon Milton Reed.

School I.D. says he's the principal at Polk High.

It's not far from here.

Yeah, I assumed as much from what his wife told us.

Two gunshot wounds in the chest.

The marks on the face are bruises from the airbags.

Thank you, Kendall.

Was that the wife outside -- Mrs. Reed?

Uh, what time was she notified of her husband's death?

Uh, actually, she notified us.

Okay. Mm.

Mrs. Reed says that her husband

stayed late at the school tonight to meet with parents.

The victim called her when he was on his way home.

Told her to hold on for a second,

that he had to deal with someone.

The next thing she heard was gunshots

and her husband screaming.

So Mrs. Reed was the one that called 911?

Yes, ma'am.

She, uh, gave the officers the exact route

her husband took home every night.

They found him 10 minutes later.

Okay. Uh, please check Mr. and Mrs. Reed's phone records.

Make sure the calls between them actually happened

before she dialed 911.

- You got it, Chief. - Thank you.

And, uh, RACR Division's been notified?

Yes. Yes, they have.

Uh, Chief.

S.I.D. pulled a round out of the trunk.

Looks like our murder weapon's a 9mm semiautomatic.

You know a semiautomatic weapon was used

just by looking at a single bullet?

Well, Captain, a revolver has six rounds in it.

And adding up the bullet holes in the car

and the two in the victim, we make seven,

which means the murder weapon had a clip.

I wasn't asking for a lesson

in elementary ballistics, Lieutenant.

I simply want to know if you are assuming a single shooter.

Is that what you're doing?

Well, um, yeah.

Okay.

Where are the casings?

We haven't had time to look for them yet.

We assumed that, once Mr. Reed was shot,

he drove away as fast as he could.

Unfortunately, we don't know how far our victim traveled

before he passed out from blood loss,

which caused him to crash into our pole here.

Yeah, thanks. It's got everything right here.

Oh, according to RACR Division, Chief --

I thought you told me you'd already notified RACR.

We have a very special relationship with them, Captain.

Sometimes they call back. Go on, Lieutenant.

According to RACR,

there was another car-involved shooting about two weeks ago.

The driver escaped without injury. But get this --

the gun involved was a 9mm semiautomatic,

and the car involved was a dark-gray BMW 740iL.

- Just like this one. - Mm.

And the shooting took place around here?

Two blocks north of here

at the corner of Boyce and Forbes.

Okay. Uh, Lieutenant Provenza,

while we go look for the casings,

would you hold down the crime scene?

- Thank you. - Yes, ma'am.

And I'll make doubly sure

that all of our log entries are properly made.

See, okay. Maybe around here.

The driver of the last vehicle said the shooter

ran out of a driveway and opened fire in this area.

Was there a description of the assailant?

Uh, negative.

Hey, Chief. Found a casing.

Two more over here.

I've got four here, Chief.

All right. Detective Sanchez,

before Captain Raydor has a chance to ask about it...

I'll make sure the casings get entered in tonight.

Thank you very much.

Wow. This is interesting.

What?

There's information wanted

on a shooting at the corner

of Boyce Road and Forbes Avenue.

Contact the Los Angeles FBI office.

What?! Why is the FBI involved?

Eight shots were fired at a TSA Agent

as he was driving home from work one night

about two weeks ago.

That's why we're involved.

Oh. You mean why you were involved.

Excuse me, Special Agent Howard.

Did you find the casings from the attack on the TSA Agent?

Yes.

What do you mean "were involved"?

Well, I'm the one with the victim.

And were the casings entered in NIBIN?

Yes, Captain.

And by the way, I don't work for you.

So, Chief, we should compare the casings.

Detective Sanchez already entered our casings into NIBIN.

This is not your case, Brenda. This is ours.

Since when does the FBI care about high-school principals?

A TSA Agent was fired upon!

Driving the same type of car as my victim.

So, unless you think that the killer

just really, really hates German cars,

then your TSA Agent was mistaken for my principal.

Or your principal was mistaken for my TSA Agent.

Well, now you're just being silly.

Chief. Gabriel's ready.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Well, I'm not leaving.

Well, you can stay here as long as you like,

but it's still my murder.

And if you don't go home soon and get some rest,

you're gonna end up with a very bad case

of the grumpy-uglies.

Chief Johnson...

Mrs. Reed should be meeting with a grief counselor,

not Detective Gabriel.

We're all grief counselors here, Captain.

Besides, there's no better time to interview the wife

than when she's feeling this vulnerable.

If she's a suspect, then we need to Mirand--

No, she is a person of interest,

so we don't need to Mirandize her.

Look, Captain, this is the second time

somebody shot at a silver BMW on that corner.

And the killer's running around the streets of L.A.

with a semiautomatic weapon.

My first responsibility is to take him or her off the street.