The Bridge

How's she doing?

No change.

Where are you guys on finding who did this?

We ran the plates that Billy called in to dispatch

when she made the stop,

and it turns out they were stolen.

Witnesses?

No. None at all.

It's a traffic stop.

Routine. She pulls some guy over, and this happens?

I --

Maybe she is cursed.

Oh, come on, Frank.

I think we're all cursed when it comes to getting shot at.

It could happen to any cop, any of us.

Yeah, but I know that this happened to her,

and I'm the one that put her out there.

You kill a guy, it affects you.

She's killed three in a year.

Instead of getting stapled to a desk,

I make it so she's back in uniform.

What the hell am I thinking?

Don't.

Don't.

We got Mike's parole hearing tomorrow. Yeah.

I got the word out. We're gonna fill the room with cops.

The parole board's got to know that we're not gonna tolerate a cop

who's gonna kill other cops out on the streets.

Okay, but listen, Frank.

If you get a chance, you got to ask the chairman

for a sidebar, okay?

Just you, the hearing officer, and Mike.

It's the best way to make your case and to keep Mike in prison.

I got to go. I'll see you tomorrow.

All right.

Yeah, I got to go, too.

Bye.

Why don't you go home?

I got two more things to do for Abby and one for you.

Then I'm going.

Okay. How's your dad?

You know him.

He's just happy I'm not in some alley shooting up again.

I got six months already.

Huh.

Well, if you're saying the same thing in 10 years,

I'll celebrate with you.

The bug's gone, like we thought.

They must have found it.

Yeah, I just got to get this, uh, this immigration file.

Okay, let's go.

Tommy.

Is she still in there?

Paramedics said it was enough to O.D. on,

but either the stuff wasn't very good,

or her tissue tolerance is so high,

it bought her some time.

I don't give a damn.

I trusted her, and she does this?

Frank, she's got a story.

Every junkie's got a story.

Frank, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

I don't want to hear it.

Get your stuff, and get out.

Listen, please, Frank, I didn't do this to myself.

I didn't do it. So, what is that?

Fairy dust just magically appears?

Frank, you need to calm down

and just listen to her for a minute, okay?

What?

I WA--

I was closing up, and someone grabbed me, and they --

Nobody can just walk in here.

Front door's locked, security system on -- never gonna happen.

Well, I wouldn't exactly say "nobody."

We found that bug in here two weeks ago, remember?

Which is why we changed the security codes

and put in cameras.

Well, maybe that's not good enough.

I checked the surveillance tapes, and they're blank.

The whole system shut down for two hours last night.

Tommy, she knows the system.

She could shut it down herself!

Look, I get why you don't believe me.

I been lying my whole life, and I'm damn good at it.

I'm damn good at hiding it.

I hid it from everybody, so if I wanted to get high,

I sure as hell wouldn't do it here

where you could catch me at it.

Come here.

All right, what do you think?

You know, if we hadn't had that breach,

I wouldn't have believed her,

but now I don't know.

All right, assuming this happened --

and I'm not saying it did -- does she have any idea who?

She says her ex-boyfriend, Finn.

He works for a Russian pimp.

The guy thinks she owes him a lot of money.

Want to check him out?

Yeah. What about Mike's parole hearing?

I'll deal with that.

Okay.

You know, maybe we should get our surveillance guy in here,

do another bug sweep. Why?

Well, it could be this attack on Iris

is just to throw us off our guard.

Tommy, if they wanted to bug us again,

why not just wait till she leaves?

Why bring attention to it? I don't know.

Something about this just feels wrong.

Fine.

Bring the bug guy. Find Finn.

Okay.

Good luck at the hearing.

Mike Bodanski used the protection of the badge

to rip off drug dealers,

and he was willing to kill any cop that got in his way.

I don't know what the hell else there is to know.

You tell me, Frank.

You and every other cop in that hearing room

objects to Mike's being released.

So, let's hear it.

All right, fine, how about this?

You let him out, one day, Mike will kill a cop,

and then I got to go to that dead cop's wife

and explain that Mike could have been stopped

if the parole board didn't put him back on the streets.

Sir, I understand how Frank feels about me. I do.

I betrayed him.

I betrayed my fellow officers.

And above all, I betrayed the badge.

But I don't make any excuses for what I did.

I was wrong,

but I think I have proved that I changed.

I joined Nick Babchenko's gang in here

just so I could bring him down.

He was into drugs, prostitution, you name it,

and all the profits were going to his father,

Yuri Babchenko, on the outside.

Now, if I was such a bad cop,

I would have just kept my mouth shut.

But with no thought to myself or my own benefit,

I chose to turn Nick in.

That's a great little speech.

All that proves is that you're a snitch and a liar

and the same low-life thief that you ever were.

You let him out,

every cop in this city's gonna remember you.

Sir, would you let Frank and I talk in private

for a few moments?

I was thinking the exact same thing.

What do you say, Frank?

All right. I want you to resolve this.

Take care of it.

You've got 10 minutes, or I will.

Your surveillance guy called here looking for you.

I told him you were at the parole hearing.

Did he find anything in the breakdown of security?

Yeah, he says the hard drive for the video cameras

that cover the union offices is corrupted.

That's why there's no image on there.

Can he retrieve the information?

He's gonna try, and he's gonna bug-sweep your office.

Hey.

How'd the hearing go?

They said we'll know tomorrow.

I thought you were out looking for Iris' ex-pimp-boyfriend.

Yeah, I think I got a line on him.

One of his hookers is meeting me in half an hour.

What?

Look, Frank.

I got some news about Billy that you need to hear, okay?

Is she all right? Yeah. Yeah.

It's not that, okay?

What?

Preliminary tox came back on her.

She's all doped up on oxy, Frank.

I don't mean "just 'cause of her back" doped up.

I mean really doped up.

The two patrol cops who were first on the scene --

they found some things in her car.

They didn't give them to I.A. They figured you'd want to have them.

What kind of things?

This is her bottle of oxy.

The prescription ran out on it two months ago,

but there's still some pills in there,

which means she's probably scoring them from off the street.

They also found this.

She was smoking it?

Yeah.

Billy's a full-on junkie.

She's high, and I'm putting her back on the street?

How the hell didn't I see that?

Not just you, Frank. None of us did.

Well, that's a different spin on her shooting, right?

What, she owes some dealer some money,

he gets pissed and takes her out?

Yeah, that's where my head's at.

Got to get that to Alex and Jill.