Task

Dark Hearts are getting info from someone, Tom.

How tight's your circle on this?

State Trooper Elizabeth Stover,

Sergeant Detective Aleah Clinton,

CD Anthony Grasso.

My advice? Suspect everyone.

...all comms as we speak,

and PSP will be puttin' their copter on standby for us.

There he is now.

Tom, this is my chief, Michael Dorsey. Mike, Tom Brandis.

- Tom Brandis. - Pleasure meeting you, Tom.

Did Grasso brief ya on what we got avail?

Yeah, CID, SWAT, and you got a copter standing by.

- Thanks. - Anything you think we missed?

Uh, I think we bring in County Forensics.

Once the scene is secure, we're gonna want to have it processed.

Alright, everyone, listen up!

This is Special Agent Tom Brandis

with the Tri-County Task Force.

He's gonna be, uh, handling the briefing this morning.

And I think most of you are familiar with this knucklehead.

Look at that shiny jacket.

Hey, do we all have to bow

when you walk in the room now, Lord Grasso?

- Uh, good morning. - Morning.

I appreciate you all jumping in to help us out tonight.

Inside your packets, you'll see your assignments.

Our target is this man, Cliff Broward.

He's wanted in the shooting deaths of three individuals

and the kidnapping of a six-year-old boy

named Samuel Nance.

Now, Cliff is coming to Bailey Park at 11 p.m.

to conduct what he believes is a drug deal.

We are the buyer.

Please note your positions on the map.

Where are my S-Units?

Alright, along with the boy,

there may be another individual inside that car.

What do we know about the other individual?

Well, we believe he's part of the crew

that's been raiding these drug houses.

Assume he's high-risk.

Now, once Cliff is in the park,

we're gonna shut down these access points,

here, here, and here.

TFO Grasso will be stationed...

...at the picnic area here and he'll be in contact with Cliff.

What's our line of communication with the target?

- Aleah. - We confiscated a burner

belonging to a felon named Ray Lyman.

Cliff believes he's been communicating

with Lyman about the meet-up.

When Cliff enters the park, I'll send him a message

instructing him to approach the picnic area.

Once he's outside his vehicle,

Alpha Team will take the target and Bravo will hit the car.

Now, assuming our six-year-old Sam's there,

TFOs Clinton and Stover will be responsible

for gettin' him away from the scene once he's secure.

Tom, we got any indication that this kid is still alive?

No.

But until we know otherwise, we're gonna act as though he is.

There you go.

- How you feelin'? - Couldn't sleep.

I just wanna get this money and get the fuck out of here, you know?

I called Bartosz.

He still drives that truck route up through Canada.

He's willing to take us?

He wants to meet this afternoon,

talk about payment.

I'm gonna drop the kids at school and head to work.

Alright.

Sam's still sleepin'.

What are you gonna do with him?

I'll figure somethin' out.

That father-daughter dance is tomorrow.

You better let Harper know you're not going.

What were you looking for in these old albums, anyway?

I'm just taking a stroll down memory lane.

Give me them.

Put a little more coffee on.

Yeah, you can put a little coffee on.

What?

You think you just show up here once a month,

you fuck me, and then I wait on you hand and foot?

I thought we had a nice time last night.

What are we going backwards for?

- "Nice time." - Yeah.

What would you call it?

Last night?

Um, about four and a half minutes.

My darling, sexy sweetheart, would you pretty please

put on another fuckin' cup of coffee for me?

Well, when you put it like that.

Good mornin'.

What's the latest?

- It's good to see you, too. - Mm.

We ID'd one member of the crew.

His name's Cliff Broward.

He's a trash collector out in Drexel Hill.

Put a car on his house last night, but he never showed.

You're telling me we're being robbed blind by a garbage man?

What's his connection to us?

The Feds came by yesterday.

Check this out.

What's it say, Perry?

It's a ballistics report confirming that the gun

that was used to kill Warren Clarke...

belongs to one of us.

Alright. One of us.

Yeah, they matched the slugs to a gun that was used

at the Zephyr Bar shootout in Reading.

Yeah, which members were out in Reading with you?

That's the thing, I was just goin' through the pics.

There was about 50 of us out there that weekend,

so any one of us could have pulled the trigger.

What are you thinking?

Business is good, you know.

It's quiet. So, why fuck with it?

Yeah, but someone is fuckin' with it.

Which means it's gotta be something fuckin' personal.

- Right. - Someone wants Jayson out.

You say that like you got an idea.

I'm sniffin' around.

Seems to me that you're sniffin' something else.

Mother Club met again this morning.

I wasn't aware of a meeting. Why wasn't I aware?

Because you were here dealing with this.

They want Jayson out.

I just need a little more time.

- I need a couple of days. - No.

- I can salvage... - Enough!

I'm done letting you protect this motherfucker.

The call's been made. It's happening Friday.

And knowing how you feel about him,

I wouldn't stick around to see it go down.

Now, get out.

I'm sorry you're caught in the middle of all this.

It's... it's fine.

I sort of expected it.

Sara and I haven't been close in a while.

At the time my mom died, they hadn't talked

in something like two years?

And what changed between them?

When things got really hard with Ethan,

Sara flew in from Chicago

and she gave my mom and dad an ultimatum.

She saw how Ethan's issues were affecting them,

and she said that if they continued to live

in Ethan's war zone...

that's what she called it, a war zone...

that it would destroy us,

and she wasn't going to stick around to watch.

So, she thought they were choosing Ethan over her?

And what did your parents say?

Just that they weren't gonna give up on him.

And I think she just wanted her parents back, you know.

Like how it was before us.

I suspect that...

Sara thought she'd have more time

to repair things with your mom.

Sometimes I think about their lives

without me and Ethan.

And what does that look like?

Happy.

And... and I'm not...

Like, I'm... I'm so grateful.

You know, I'm... really, I'm... I'm so grateful...

that they adopted us.

- But... - But what?

I don't know, some... sometimes I think that's...

Sometimes I think that's all I'm ever allowed to feel.

You know?

Gratitude?

Like...

God forbid I ever get annoyed.

Or seem unhappy, or... or get pissed off.

Like... like, I'm supposed to just always feel so lucky

that I've been given a second chance.

I don't know, man. I don't...

I don't feel... I don't feel lucky.

You didn't ask to be part of this family.

They chose to adopt you.

And Ethan.

Then why do I feel like I have to constantly apologize

for their decision?

You think the leak's comin' from inside Task?

Easley does.

I didn't ask about Easley.

I... I don't know this group.

I've spent all of four days with them. Did you vet 'em?

As well as we vet any of our teams.

When's the meet with Broward set for tonight?

11 p.m., Bailey Park.

Yeah, let's just stick with the plan.

No, I'm not convinced it's coming from our side.

Well, where else is it gonna come from, Kath?

Patrol. Informants.

PACIC bulletins posted across agencies...

We didn't put a bulletin out for this very reason!