The Bridge

One sec, guys.

Let me bring you up to speed, detectives.

Doctor comes out of the theater,

Gives the valet his parking ticket,

Valet looks for the keys, finds the keys are gone.

And so is the doctor's car.

Yeah, exactly.

You run a description of the car out to everybody?

Yeah, first thing. All right.

Why don't you run the valet

And make sure he's not part of this thing? Okay.

Same deal as last night and last week --

Distract the valet somewhere,

Grabs the car keys, steal the car.

All right, let's go talk to the doctor.

Go ahead. I'll be right there.

All units, please be on the lookout

For a stolen high-end black S.U.V. --

Tags alpha, Yankee, Zulu, papa, 3-5-3.

I repeat -- tags alpha, Yankee, Zulu, papa, 3-5-3.

Over.

Hey, Detective.

The valet wants to talk to you.

Deena says she's down at the school

Because Joey got into a fight.

"a fight." he's 7.

Yeah, you believe it?

Anyway, I get there, Joey's got this cut on his lip,

And the principal's talking about suspending him.

I get Joey's side of the story.

It turns out he's just helping out some kid who got pounded on.

The principal doesn't believe him.

Said he's always questioning authority.

Same as me when I was his age.

Doesn't take crap from anybody.

Yeah, it's like he's got the strong sense of justice, you know?

Anyway, Deena and I are leaving,

Get into the parking lot there

Where the principal's car is parked.

Turns out, he's got a broken taillight.

No kidding?

All right, it wasn't exactly broken.

I'm just foreseeing into his future, you know?

Do you see what I see?

That's our stolen vehicle. Let's go.

Just sit tight a minute.

Pull your vehicle over!

Yeah, it's me.

Man, you're supposed to be behind me, man. Where are you?

Put your hands out the window!

The cops just pulled me over. Let me see your hands!

South street and Lowney, man. Put your hands out the window!

Open the car door from the outside and step out!

It's just two guys, man. Both got guns, man. Hurry up.

- Turn your face to me! - He's got a Bluetooth!

He's on the phone! Stop talking. Get off the phone!

No!

Aziz, you okay?

Oh, no. No, no, no.

No, no, no.

No, no! No, Aziz! No!

Aziz has got a wife and a kid.

I...I think he just turned 7.

I know. I was at his birthday.

So, the car thief calls for reinforcements.

Yeah.

The guy was on his cellphone.

We got a description --

Gang tats, three nines linked across his neck.

I'll put in a call with gang squad,

See if they can help us out on this.

From car thieves to murdering one of us --

These guys got a death wish.

Where's Mac? Where's his partner?

I.A. Grabbed him.

You're kidding.

What?!

I thought we had a rule --

Nobody could talk to us for 24 hours.

You said that Aziz was behind the vehicle passenger side, right?

Yeah, that's what I just said.

Well, that's not what we heard.

You told the first uniform on the scene

That Aziz was behind you.

No, I meant that he was --

He was behind the car on the other side.

So how does it happen he's got cover

But he's the one who ends up shot?

Yeah, I forgot that part.

The stolen car took off right away.

You didn't ask the driver to step out of the vehicle?

Yeah, but then Aziz noticed he was on the -- the Bluetooth,

And we were trying to deal with that.

But if you'd made the driver get out,

He couldn't have driven away, exposing your partner.

You don't understand -- everything just happened,

One thing after the other.

Doesn't excuse the fact that you got your partner killed.

What, you guys didn't get the message?

Oh, you mean how you're gonna get I. A. All promoted to white shirts,

Kick us out of the police union?

No, the message that I'm gonna kick your ass if you keep this up.

Take it up with the chief.

He's the one pushing us to interview cops

Immediately after an incident.

These are my guys, not the chief's. Get the hell out.

Take it up with the chief. We still got questions, and we're gonna get answers.

Do you really want to die on this hill today, Carillo?

Don't make us come looking for you.

Mother...

You okay?

They shot him, Frank. For what -- a lousy car?

I know. The car thief had gang tats.

I got friends in gang squad. I'm gonna reach out.

No, you're not.

You're gonna get yourself together,

You're gonna go for counseling --

I'm setting it up -- and you're gonna go, you understand?

Yeah, I'll go, but we're gonna get these guys, right?

Mac, of course we are.

I've got every cop in the city on it.

I find them, I'll kill them all myself.

Mac, what did I just say?

You got to set that aside. You need to go to Deena.

That's what Aziz would want.

Does she know yet?

No.

I thought you'd want to tell her.

Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

Deena comes first.

All right. Let's get you cleaned up.

No, I'm good. Let's -- let's just go do this.

Mac...

Look at your hands.

You've got Aziz's blood all over you.

Let's get you cleaned up.

You and Tommy were together over 10 years, right?

Yeah.

Still partners.

You know I'm an alcoholic, right?

I started drinking when I was 10.

Both my parents were drunks.

I was clean when I went into the academy,

And I was sober after that for 10 years.

Anyway, when my...

My wife left me, I started drinking again.

Deena and Aziz took me in.

This is how I get to pay her b-- back?

By getting her husband k-killed.

Hey, Mac, come on.

That's just I.A. Getting in your head, okay?

You didn't do anything wrong. Look at me.

You didn't do anything wrong.

Why can't I feel that way?

You will.

It just takes time.

Look...

It's gonna mean the world to her

That it's you coming to talk to her about it.

Yeah.

Let's go.

When I was seargent at Bridge division,

I had to give the bad news

To more cops' wives than I'd like to remember.

Yeah.

It's a good thing that Deena's got that kid to think about.

What about Mac?

Mac's not good.

He's got that thousand-yard stare going, you know?

Yeah, well...

You lose a partner, first thing, you blame yourself.

Put grief and guilt together,

And it's a short walk to getting payback.

I think my date is here.

I'll go out the back.

Thanks for doing this.

The place is yours for whatever you want!

I don't need to know about it.

Oh, this is rabbi's cop bar, hmm?

Imagine that peephole is to keep I.A. Out of here.

No, they don't come down here.

Ah, probably afraid they wouldn't get out alive.

Yeah, they probably wouldn't.

Do you want a drink?

Yeah, sure.

Bourbon, neat.

So what's this about?

I want to know why the hell you're pushing the 24-hour rule.

'cause sometimes, Frank,

The only way to get your attention is to piss you off.

Yeah, well, ed, right now,

I don't have time to play games with you.

There's a cop killer out there I need to find.

So what do you want?

Those cops who were running that escort service --

They had a list of clients --

Some very powerful people.

I can use those names for leverage, so I want in.

As usual, your strategy's not gonna work.