Blue Bloods
Season One, Episode Twenty-Two: The Blue Templar
Original Air Date: May 13, 2011
The Reagan family organizes to deal with the Blue Templar and find out who really killed Joe Reagan. Meanwhile, Jamie, who Frank doesn't want involved in the Templar investigation so as not to draw attention is assigned to protective duty to a young woman who was the victim of an attempted kidnapping.
Jamie and Danny take the news of Joe's involvement in the investigation of the Blue Templar to their father, Frank. Jamie tells his father, grandfather and brother what he's learned from conducting his own investigation and the evidence Lydia Gonsalves had assembled regarding Joe's death. She had arrived on the scene, Detective Malevsky had killed the two dealers then told her they shot Joe. She didn't believe Malevsky so the Blue Templar saw her to be a liability. Frank asks why Jamie didn't bring everything to the family when it started and he tells his father Joe kept it from him and he thought it was something Joe had left for him to carry on and he wanted to honor him. He admits he's in over his head now.
Two men are loading money into bags as two others stand guard. Outside, two men enter the building through the front while one goes up the fire escape.
Henry Reagan explains that after Serpico and the Knapp Commission and the static that came with it, the Blue Templar was started as a way to police the police. They thought it would be good to have a band of brothers keeping lookout from the inside. For a while, it served a purpose. There was a good man in IA who appreciated what they were trying to do but then after a while, the core group retired and the Templar became just a group telling war stories about the bad old days. Frank admits he was never much of a joiner. When Danny was tapped, it was to get new blood in the Templar. He thought they could do some good again but it dissolved into a bunch of cops sitting around strip clubs where the girls knew every cops name and the bill for the drinks never showed up so he got out quick.
The men continue to load the money under the watchful eyes of those standing guard. The door of the apartment bursts open and two men with guns raised enter, one yelling "Police! Don't move!" Other men enter the apartment and shots are fired killing all the men loading the money and those standing watch. The shooters grab the bags of money and leave the apartment.
When Frank began his tenure as Commissioner, he conducted a full audit of all the departments fraternal organizations with IA, including the Blue Templar. He never saw anything that would cause concern much less, alarm. He saw what he was supposed to see. He asks Jamie who his FBI contact was and is told it was a female agent, Henderson who made it sound like Joe was working with them. Frank then asks if anyone from IA was involved and Jamie tells him Lieutenant Bello interviewed him when he was seen in Chinatown with Henderson and that she came forward and backed up his story. Frank tells Jamie he should have come to him right away. Danny's phone rings and he tells the caller to go ahead and he'll meet them there.
Danny arrives at the scene of the shooting to find Jackie there. She tells him all four slain men were packing and none managed to get off a shot. Two ear witnesses heard some commotion then a lot of gunfire in a short amount of time. Both witnesses said they heard voices shouting 'police, don't move'. Danny looks outside on the fire escape and finds a kevlar glove, same as the police use. That, combined with the police commands lead him to theorize dirty cops. He cites an incident in Brooklyn South last weekend and that there might be a pattern. He tells her to canvass the building while he calls Frank to tell him they might have stumbled upon something there.
The next day, Frank is in his office with Don Sperling (Ezra Knight) where he is being told one of the men killed in the previous nights ambush was a confidential DEA informant and was also in business with some of his detective. Frank asks for proof and is told copies of the wire records are being made even as they speak. They have a voice but no name to go with it. Just one voice on tape. Frank asks how much money they are talking about and is told given the chatter leading up to the event he estimates around $12 million in cash and another twelve in pure heroin. Frank then asks what the DEA's stance is. They have almost two years in the operation and would rather not come out of the shadows for some rogue cops. They are pulling all their guys out clearing the way for Frank's department to move ahead. Don apologizes to Frank saying he realizes this is the worst kind of news someone in his position can get. Frank disagrees saying it's a close second.
That night, Danny brings his father, Jamie, Henry and Erin up to date on the facts of the shooting. Henry asks if Frank is talking to IA. He isn't, not even Bello. Frank trusts Alex but he won't know if the Templar has eyes and ears there and since Jamie was there on an un-related incident, he doesn't want to set off alarms. Erin points out that Frank cannot handle the situation on his own and he says he isn't as he has her and Danny. He asks if they can trust Jackie and Danny confirms they can. Jamie asks what about him and his father tells him he has to go about his business like nothing is out of the ordinary since they already have eyes and ears on him. Erin brings up the monumental task ahead of them and asks if there's anyone else they can trust. Frank says there is and he'll bring them in at the right time but they don't know how high up or how deeply the infection is at this point. For now, the operation stays in house, in the Reagan house.
While on his beat, after giving directions to a tourist couple, Jamie sees a woman running down the middle of the busy street yelling for help. He runs to her and pulls her out of harms way to the sidewalk where she tells him someone tried to kidnap her.
At the Reagan house, a new member has joined the team, Cliff Reacher (Mike Colter). Cliff was a former Marine who served with Danny. Erin is unsure about his involvement but Frank insists she listen to the DEA tape. As they are listening to the tape, Henry arrives with lunch and Frank receives a call. He answers and tells the caller to run the ballistic evidence through IBIS to see if the weapons were ever in their system. Cliff tells the Reagan's to make a cross-over comparison he needs a sample of the voice and asks where they want to start. Danny chooses to begin with Malevsky. Erin warns that's a leap but Danny insists Malevsky's name is one that's been leaping up over and over again. Erin can't get a warrant based on the tape they just listened to. Danny doesn't want her to do that and asks Cliff if they can use a call made to the house, which they can. Danny asks his grandfather about a charity he works with and suggests he make a call to Malevsky for a donation. Frank gives his consent and the call is made. As Henry is speaking with Malevsky, Cliff runs the comparison and comes up with a match. Erin still doesn't think they have enough to work with.
At the precinct, Jamie gives Laura Peck (Natalie Knepp) a cup of coffee as he takes her statement. He asks if she knew of anyone who might have a motive to kidnap her. She tells him about her father who was a CEO of a mortgage company and when things went south, thousands of people got slammed but he walked away with millions of dollars scott-free so if you throw a rock in Greater Boston you'll hit someone with a motive. She's in New York for a job interview with a museum in Abu Dhabi.
Danny goes to the Manhattan North Precinct to put a tracker on Malevsky's car and places it behind the drivers side mirror. Malevsky sees Danny and asks what he's doing up there. Danny tells him he came to close a few cases up with one of the detectives working there then they talk about his car a bit before Malevsky mentions the detective Danny said he was there to work with was off that day. Danny said the files would be left on the desk.
Jamie's captain (Robert Turano) asks if he's interested in some overtime and when he says he is he's told he can be stationed outside Laura Peck's hotel room as he had offered her police escort until they had a better assessment of the ongoing threats regarding her attempted kidnapping. Jamie escorts Laura back to her hotel room where he checks the room then asks for a chair to sit in out in the hall. Her phone buzzes but she doesn't feel like talking to anyone and doesn't take the call. He asks her to give him a heads up if she does have a visitor, which she agrees to. After looking at his Harvard jacket she asks which of the teams he's a fan of. He tells her he doesn't follow college ball but he went to school there, something that surprises her. As he's getting ready to go outside the room there is a knock on the door. Laura asks who it is and the visitor identifies himself as Billy. Laura opens the door and she embraces the man who is there. He enters the room and tells her he came the second he heard. She introduces him to Jamie as Billy Coffin (James Snyder) and he comments about her getting a bodyguard. Jamie says he's just a presence at Miss Peck's option. Billy thanks him for being there and Jamie goes out into the hall where he calls his father to ask what they have. Frank tells him they're making progress and have eyes and ears on Malevsky.
Erin tells Cliff if the subjects of the wire go for 30 seconds or longer without saying anything related to the investigation he needs to minimize the wire. Drop in 30 seconds or so later with hopes they change the subject to something they can use later. Cliff comments that's crazy but she tells him it's the law as they can't listen until they get what they are looking for. He says he misses Marine intelligence but Erin is a lot prettier. The phone on the wire rings and Cliff informs them there's an incoming from Malevsky's cell. Malevsky's caller, Damon Camia (Jordan Lage) tells him there's a guy in the scene they didn't know about, a spook and they don't know what law enforcement organization he's with yet. Malevsky asks what they do know and Camia tells him a guy got "Reaganed". Malevsky tells Camia to tell everyone to get ready as they are moving the party up. When the conversation is over Danny hits the table and Frank comments "they gave it Joe's name". Cliff's computer gives him the name Damon Camia and location of Rego Park, Queens. Danny recognizes the name and mentions that both Camia and Malevsky worked in Warrants with Joe. Frank asks what they have. Erin says they still don't have enough for what they want them for. Franks phone rings with a call from Baker. He asks who was the supervisor that signed off on it that day. He thanks her and hangs up and tells them to cover the guys from every possible angle. Cliff gets to working on setting up the tracking as Frank tells Erin to get the necessary warrants on Camia as he's going to see an old friend.
Frank arrives at the home of Gerry and Alice O'Brien (John Speredakos & Becky London). She's happy to see him and, after they exchange pleasantries he asks to see Gerry. When he arrives at the door, Frank asks him to take a walk. They talk briefly about their families until Frank comes out and asks about how on January 9th he signed off on a cache of confiscated weapons as being destroyed but a number of Glock 9's never made the trip to the furnace. He asks who he gave them to. Gerry immediately becomes overwhelmed and Frank gives him ten seconds or no deal. Gerry asks what deal and Frank tells him the only deal that's out there for you and begins to count back from ten. Gerry gives Frank the names Art Buchanan (Shaun Kevlin) and Will Atwater (Mark Armstrong) from Narcotics, Manhattan North. Frank asks if that is it and he says they were the two he dealt with. Frank tells him there's another name, whoever reached out and brought him in in the first place, and that he knows he'll find the match and begins counting back again. Gerry gives him the name Teddy Chapin. Gerry asks what the deal is and Frank replies that he wants his shield and guns on his chief's desk first thing tomorrow and his only pension is whatever he made working his little side deal and he doesn't want to see him at a precinct, a retirement party or even wearing an NYPD ball cap and not a word to anyone. Gerry thanks Frank who then leaves.
At the precinct, Danny speaks with Jackie confidentially to ask her to put a tracker on a guy as the warrant is on the way. She asks if they picked up a case she didn't know about and he tells her he's going to ask her to do something and he knows she won't want to do it. He tells her the guy is on the job and gives her Damon Camia's name. She doesn't want to do the job as it goes against everything she is. He tells her Camia and the Blue Templar killed his brother Joe. Jackie watches from her car as Camia gets into his own. She calls Danny to let him know and says she will stay with him.
Jamie knocks on Laura Peck's door to tell her the room service she ordered has arrived. She invites him in as she ordered enough for them both. Reluctantly, he agrees.
At the house, Cliff has nothing from his end of the operation. Frank wonders how he couldn't see everything and Danny advises him not to go down that road.
Jamie and Laura talk after dinner and he tells her about how he decided to become a policeman instead of a lawyer as he'd planned. As they're talking, her phone rings and she answers it telling Billy she'll call him back in a bit and tells him she loves him. When Jamie gets up to leave and thanks her for dinner she explains that Billy is gay. He tells her his relief should be there any minute and he should get back outside. She stops him asking if he'll be back tomorrow and he says he will if it's assignment. She kisses his cheek then the two kiss. They are interrupted by his replacement who knocks on the door.
Jackie continues to follow Camia. A car pulls out behind her and speeds up to hit the back of her car. It then drives up beside her and hits her car from the drivers side forcing her off the road and her car runs beneath a parked pick up truck. She calls Danny who asks where she's been. She tells him a black SUV followed her from the airport and she thought she lost him but he came up behind her and pushed her off the road. She's fine with just a few bruises from the airbag. She then tells him Camia dropped off his wife and kids at the airport with a lot of luggage. She got close enough to hear him tell them he'd be seeing them in a few days. He asks where Camia is now and she says it looks like he's back at his house but she feels the guys are getting out of Dodge. He tells her to keep her phone on and ends the conversation. Frank doesn't want to wait any longer. He tells Erin he can bring in Buchanan and Atwater for receiving the weapons out of Property and asks about Camia. She says if they assume his wife is traveling with a lot of money they can run the manifests and alert customs on the end and possibly sweat the wife. Danny asks where he should start and Frank tells him Malevsky.
As Jamie is walking home he stops and calls the detective to ask about Laura's case. He speaks with Detective Trotta (Michael J. Burg) and asks if DCPI has released any information regarding the kidnapping attempt. Her father is traveling in Europe and they haven't been able to reach him. They wanted to talk to him before releasing the information and possibly causing a scare among female tourists. Danny calls the hotel to speak with Laura but she doesn't answer her room phone so he turns around and runs back toward the hotel.
Danny finds Malevsky's car parked outside a church. He rings the bell and speaks with Father Duff (John Mainieri) about the car. Malevsky donated it for the church raffle. He dropped the car off about 10 minutes ago. Danny calls Frank to let him know Malevsky dumped his car and is off the grid. Frank tells Danny to go after Buchanan.
Laura and Billy are out walking as Jamie runs up and sees them from across the street. An SUV stops next to Billy and Laura and a man gets out, hits Billy and grabs Laura trying to put her in the car. Jamie runs across the street, yells to the man holding Laura and draws his weapon. He fires, hitting the man. Laura is able to escape and the SUV speeds away from the curb. Jamie cuffs the man he shot and asks Laura if she's alright. Billy says they should get inside but Jamie tells him to stay where he can see him and tells Laura to call 911.
Danny is sitting outside of Buchanan's house talking to Frank. It doesn't appear Buchanan is at home as there are no signs of anyone at the house. As he is telling Frank things don't look good, Buchanan leaves his house and gets into his car. Danny follows him to find out where the party is.
Detective Trotta tells Jamie that Boston PD had both the driver of the SUV and the man Jamie shot in their system. He asks Jamie for a theory and he tells Trotta he suspected Coffin when he first said he came to see Laura as soon as he heard. Coffin could have only heard about it through the men who tried to abduct her. Trotta asks if it was the first time he'd shot anyone and when Jamie says it is, he tells him to enjoy the paperwork. When he's gone, Jamie gets a call from his father. After the conversation, Jamie goes to Laura to tell her he needs to leave as his family needs him. She thanks him and gives him a hug. He tells her if she needs anything he works out of the 12th and to look him up. He continues that if Abu Dhabi doesn't work out they have a lot of nice museums there in New York.
Danny tells Frank that Buchanan just picked up Malevsky at a diner off the BQE and they're back on it heading north. Cliff informs them Atwater and Camia both just got off the BQE just north of the Pulaski Bridge and are on the side streets at Greenpoint. Danny will stay with Malevsky and call in the location. He feels if it's what he thinks it is they'll need backup and it will have to be guys that will actually back them up. Frank assures him he has guys and says Jamie is on his way and orders Danny to wait until he (Frank) arrives. Cliff wishes Frank good luck and tells him he'll coordinate with his driver.
At the party, everyone arrives carrying bags. Malevsky begins passing out the bundles of money to each man at the party starting with Alex Bello. Frank and his team arrive and assemble outside. Frank's trusted officers enter with guns ready ordering the men inside not to move. They all back away from the money or sit down the bundles they are holding. Danny enters gun drawn with Frank coming in last. He tells Alex "you I did not see" and Alex says that getting over on him was maybe the hardest part as Jamie searches and cuffs him. Frank addresses the entire group of men in the Blue Templar. He tells them before he takes thier shields there is a question he wants answered. He asks which one of them killed his son. None of the men answer. Frank walks to the bar and, in a rage, shoves a tray of bottles to the floor. He tells them he'll ask again "who shot my boy". Malvesky speaks up saying just so Frank knows, it isn't like Joe wasn't warned. Frank turns to face Malevsky who walks toward Frank saying 'just like the rookie over here again and again but you people just don't take a hint, do you?'. He tells Frank for what it is worth, he's sorry as it wasn't anything personal against Joe. Malevsky pulls a gun from his coat and puts it under his chin. Frank calmly looks to him and tells him we all die sometime it's just a question of when. Malevsky looks to his friends then kills himself. Danny orders a bus be called and Frank tells him to take their shields and walks from the room.
At Frank's house, before Sunday dinner he tells Danny and Jamie that he hopes they both never have to fire their weapon in the line of duty again. Jamie admits the paperwork is murder and Danny jokes to his father if there isn't something he can do about that as Commissioner. At the dinner table, Frank decides the discussion of who will say Grace by suggesting they all do.
Frank, Henry, Erin, Jamie, Danny and Linda go to the cemetery to pay their respects to Joe. Frank says he likes to think Joe was with them last night as he knows he's always with him.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
US Television: Blue Bloods, Episode 1.21 "Cellar Boy"
Blue Bloods
Season One, Episode Twenty-One: Cellar Boy
Original Air Date: May 6, 2011
The murder of a couple who lives on the same street as the Reagan's and were family friends cause the Reagan family to take special interest in the case and relive old memories of Joe. Meanwhile, Jamie Reagan faces his own problems when his service revolver turns up missing from his locker and the breaks on his car fail. He finally confides in Danny about Joe's work with the FBI against the Blue Templar.
Frank has a meeting with the Mayor about the budget and cannot sleep. He and Henry talk about Joe, who Frank has been thinking about as it's almost been two years since his death. Frank didn't personally enforce the warrant that Joe was serving when he was killed but he was his Commissioner and he sometimes finds himself left with an inescapable truth: his son was killed on his watch. As his father is telling him he can't think like that, Frank's cell phone rings and the house phone rings. Frank answers his and Henry gets the house phone. Henry's conversation ends first with him telling the caller "alright, I'll tell him". Frank asks his caller when the call came in then to tell his detail he will want to stop there on the way in. When Frank hangs up his father tells him it was Danny who called.
Frank arrives at the scene, his father following him. Frank enters the house while Henry remains outdoors. Kevin Cleary is slumped in an easy chair Danny is bent over the body of a slain woman, Eunice Cleary. Danny stands and tells his father he was on his way into work and had to ask twice when he was given the address. The victims are known to the Reagan's and live just down the street from Frank. Frank tells Danny the Chief of Detectives thought Danny would have the advantage since he's on his "home turf". From looking at the scene, Frank feels Kevin was killed first, then Eunice. The maid found them when she came in to work and called 911 from the Fitzgerald's home. There are no signs of forced entry or robbery and the M.E. puts the crime at sometime the night before. Danny tells his father he doesn't want to be thinking what he is. As they are talking, an officer arrives to inform them the Cleary's daughter has arrived. Outside, their daughter, Anne Cleary (Gretchen Egolf) runs toward the house but Henry stops her saying no one can go inside. She sees Frank and Danny leaving the house and asks them what is going on. Frank tells her he is sorry as her brother, Al (Sean Patrick Reilly) runs up to her. He wants to go in but Frank tells him he can't as it's a crime scene. Danny tells them their parents were attacked last night and found this morning and that is all they can say. Anne asks what happened but Danny again says they can't say. Al begs him to tell them and Henry tells him Danny would say that to anyone as it is an ongoing investigation. Al asks where their brother Ronnie (Nathaniel Marston) is and Frank tells them he isn't there.
Al tells Danny he knew something would happen ever since his parents allowed Ronnie to move back in but Annie warns him not to jump to conclusions. Danny informs them Ronnie didn't show up for work and asks if they know where he might have gone. Al tells him what friends Ronnie hasn't stolen from he cut off years ago. Anne says the only person who stood by Ronnie was his sponsor from meetings he attended at the Methodist church on Grove. Danny asks when the last time each of them saw or spoke with their parents. Anne stopped in to see her parents the day before on her way home from work. Danny asks Al where he was last night and, when Al is insulted by the question, Danny tells him he has to ask. Al tells him he was home. His wife and kids are in Florida as her father is sick and they are with him. Anne was home as well and her doorman can verify that. Al asks when they get to see their parents and Danny tells them one of them will have to identify the bodies at the morgue.
At the precinct, Danny and Jackie discuss the case. The K-9 unit is out looking for the murder weapon and there is a slot in the kitchen rack consistent with the knife used to kill the Cleary's. There are also distinct footprints in the blood made by one person. Erin arrives and asks Danny if he really thinks Ronnie killed his parents. Danny says he's definitely a person of interest along with anyone who had known access to the house. A neighbor puts Ronnie at the house as she saw him while she was walking her dog. Erin remarks there's been trouble there but this leading Jackie to ask about the trouble. Danny tells her Mr. Cleary rode the kids something terrible, mostly the boys and mostly Ronnie. Al ended up working at the car dealership with his father. Erin says that Al was always more resilient but Ronnie was sensitive. Danny adds that Mr. Cleary called Ronnie "cellar boy" and thought it was funny, something that made Ronnie cringe. Ronnie moved down to the basement when he was 14. Danny didn't know which came first: Ronnie moving to the basement or moving to the basement to drink and smoke pot. Jackie asks where the mother was in all this and Erin says "rose colored glasses, I guess". Danny says they had knock-down drag-outs at the Cleary home and just last year, a unit responded to a 52 with Ronnie and Mr. Cleary going at it again. Jackie asks about a 35-year-old living at home and Erin supplies the information that he was bi-polar, using and he would move out, switch states, switch jobs, get in trouble, move back in, get cleaned up. She asks if Danny knows where he is but he doesn't. They have a message out on his car and his AA sponsor said if he hears from him he will let them know. When Erin comments 'poor Ronnie' Danny hands her the file to look at the photos of the Cleary's at the crime scene.
As Jamie is arriving early for work, he is met by Sonny Malevsky (Michael T. Weiss). He comments that Jamie is now driving his brother Joe's car. Jamie asks Malevsky there and when questioned why he wants to know Jamie tells him no reason. Malevsky tells Jamie to be safe then walks away. Inside, Renzulli is getting ready for work when Jamie enters the locker room. They talk about how they spent their day off and Jamie tells him he worked on his car on his. Jamie reaches onto the top shelf of his locker for his service revolver and finds it missing. He asks Renzulli about it who asks if he's sure he didn't take it home but Jamie is sure he didn't as he swaps it out with his off duty weapon. Renzulli thinks it might be a prank one of the other guys is pulling on him and asks if he made anyone angry, which he didn't. Renzulli tells Jamie to take everything out of the locker and go through it then go back home and go over every square inch of his place for the gun before reporting it to the C.O. because then it becomes official and he's back under I.A. investigation. Jamie asks if Malevsky was back there and Renzulli says he wasn't. He was at the front desk talking with the guys when he came in and asks Jamie why. When Jamie comments how easy the locks are to bypass Renzulli asks if he thinks Malevsky stole his gun and Jamie brushes his comment aside.
At One NYPD Plaza, Frank is in his office and Baker (Abigail Hawk) enters with the Mayor (Bruce Altman). He comes into the office immediately telling Frank he asked him to cut 10% from the budget and missed by a mile. Frank tells him he did everything he could without crippling the department. The Mayor counters that his department is frozen and they will postpone the June Academy class. Frank warns if they don't bring the cops online they will be reduced to 1992 levels but the Mayor insists there is no money and he will not raise taxes because of him. Frank maintains he will not police the city with those kinds of reductions and no one, including the Mayor, will want the kind of pain it brings. When the Mayor asks if that was a threat Frank replies the threat is to the citizens and the $30 billion tourist industry they all depend upon. The Mayor, still unhappy with how Frank handled the tourist shooting tells him to stick to what he knows and Frank replies that what he knows is the force cannot be cut any further. The Mayor warns that he is going to the City Council with the budget, including all the others who worked with him, and with Frank standing beside him. If he tries to make him look bad he will be bringing a knife to a gun fight and leaves the office.
Jackie points out motive for Ronnie including a giant insurance policy and the house but Danny doesn't see Ronnie as the only one since all three of the Cleary kids stand to inherit. Anne's doorman confirmed her alibi but he says that doesn't mean she couldn't have left later so they will check for video footage. Al was home alone so they need to try and find someone to back that story up. Jackie notes that the car dealership was failing and two salesmen were let go in the past couple of months. Danny feels they should speak with them. Jackie thinks that with Mr. Cleary pouring all of his personal money into the business taking out of the inheritance Al cannot be too pleased about that. Danny brings up that the neighbor told him Mr. Cleary had booked an around the world cruise for he and his wife for their anniversary. The cost was close to $100,000. She looks through the files and sees that, while he might have booked it, he hadn't started paying on it. Both Jackie and Danny's phones ring. When they have both hung up, Danny tells Jackie Ronnie's AA sponsor called to say Ronnie called him from the Restwell Motel and sounds suicidal. Jackie's call was that patrol spotted Ronnie's car in the Restwell parking lot.
At the motel, an incredibly agitated Ronnie is holding an axe and fire extinguisher and telling the police to go ahead and shoot him. He throws the extinguisher at them and continues to yell at them. When Danny and Jackie arrive, he takes over since he knows Ronnie and feels he can get close to him. Danny calls up to Ronnie and the latter tells Danny to get out of there. He doesn't want to talk to Danny. Danny starts walking up the stairs toward Ronnie who is becoming more agitated by the second. When Ronnie starts to run toward Danny with the axe raised, the police raise their guns but Danny orders them not to fire. Danny gets within steps of Ronnie and asks him to talk like they did when they were kids but Ronnie isn't unwilling. Ronnie keeps saying "please just let them kill me, please" and tells Danny he's ruining everything. Danny manages to overcome Ronnie and he is taken into custody.
At the precinct, Jackie and Danny bring Ronnie into the interview room. Ronnie tells Danny he got up that morning to go to work. When he went upstairs to get some breakfast he saw his parents had been murdered. Danny asks why he didn't call 911 since he didn't kill his parents and Ronnie tells him he didn't want to go to jail. Danny asks if he and his father got into an argument again because his father found out he was using again. When Ronnie says 'no', Danny tells him he knows he's lying because they found the weed, prescription bottle and half empty bottle of vodka under his bed. Ronnie insists he isn't using heroin and Danny asks if he got high and slept right through his parent's murder. As Danny pushes harder Ronnie wants him to stop talking but Danny insists he won't stop until he finds out who killed the Cleary's. Danny asks who did it if it wasn't Ronnie. Ronnie doesn't know but he reminds Danny that outside the house his father was Mr. Popularity. Inside the house, he was a monster. Jackie comes to the door to tell Danny she needs to talk to him. She has a pair of shoes that K-9 picked up the scent on. They were found in a trash can in the corner of the park. Danny takes the shoes back in to Ronnie to tell him the blood will be matched to his mother and the tread will match the prints found at the scene. Ronnie begins crying as Danny tells Jackie to take him to Central Booking.
Renzulli and Jamie get a cup of coffee and Renzulli says they need to talk. He can tell when someone is trying to B.S. him. First, he caught Jamie looking into the Gonsalves file and now there is the Sonny Malevsky thing. How can he ride with him if he can't trust him and it works both ways. Jamie asks Renzulli if he's ever heard of the Blue Templar. When Renzulli says not in a thousand years Jamie asks what he knows about them. Renzulli says the world changed and they have a more professional police force now and there are no more cowboy posses and wants to know why but Jamie says he can't tell him. Renzulli asks if he can't or won't. Jamie points out they must trust each other and asks him to trust him on this one.
Garrett Moore brings Frank his speech for the Knights of Columbus dinner and Frank tells him the Mayor is insisting he publicly endorses the budget cuts. Frank has a problem. He can run the department with 1,000 fewer people and he can't prove that unless the crime rate goes up at which time it will be too late. He asks Garrett how they can get out in front of it and Garrett suggests the power of the press--headline "Mayor to NYPD: Drop Dead". Garrett asks Frank if he understands what he's proposing and Frank simply says he isn't proposing anything as he can't even remember the conversation and Garrett leaves to put the plan into action.
When Danny and Jackie take Ronnie into booking, Erin is there wanting to speak with him. She asks what happened as the more they know they more they can help him but he refuses to tell the assistant D.A. anything. She tells him she got him the best legal aid attorney there is and begs him to cooperate with them. Danny and Jackie take him into booking.
Erin meets Frank for dinner and he tells her he got beat up pretty good at his meeting. No one has won yet as they are in the middle rounds. She tells him about seeing Ronnie at Central Booking and how he got her thinking about Joe. They talk about old times when the kids were growing up. She asks her father if he thinks they'll ever stop missing Joe but he doesn't answer.
That night, Jamie meets with Yolanda Gonsalves (Andrea Navedo). He comments he knew that Lydia had a twin and they truly do exactly alike and asks how Lydia's daughter is. She tells him they are adjusting and the reason she wanted to see him is Lydia left a package for her with her things. There were insurance issues with the suicide and the estate only recently became available to her. She said if anything happened to her, she should give him this and pulls an envelope from her pocket. He tells her he doesn't think Lydia's death was a suicide, something Yolanda agrees with. Jamie promises he will make it right and she hopes what is in the envelope will help.
Danny arrives at Frank's house with ribs for Sunday dinner. Frank comments things look bad for Ronnie Cleary and Danny admits everyone's alibi's check out, even the sometimes boyfriend of Anne Cleary. Danny tells him they have enough to make an arrest but Erin says they probably don't have enough to get a jury to convict without the murder weapon. Danny comments that the sneakers were found in the opposite direction of the motel where Ronnie was found and it seems like they should have found the knife where the sneakers were found. Mrs. Cleary put up a struggle but she has no genetic material under her nails except for latex meaning the killer used gloves and could explain why Ronnie had no scratches on his hands from the struggle. That would point to the fact he planned the killings instead of it being an alcoholic rage. That bothers Danny because he feels it would be the first time in Ronnie's life he planned anything.
Danny pays a visit to Al Cleary at the dealership and tells him the thought out murders doesn't seem like Ronnie. Al tells him the heroin addict their family has had to deal with is a master of manipulation and lies. He played his parents. Danny finds it to be a well thought out answer. Al tells Danny that, at least now, Ronnie will get the help he needs and will stay on his meds. Danny says he keeps thinking about him, Al, being a 42-year-old man working under his father day after day. It can't be easy. Al comments Danny should know as he isn't the only one taking orders from his old man.
Jamie goes to see Lt. Alex Bello (Nick Sandow) of Internal Affairs. Bello tells Jamie the business of the missing gun needs immediate attention and Jamie informs him the gun was taken from his locker. Bello suggests Jamie sold it, something he denies and says again that someone stole it. Bello points out that a new officer makes $45,000 a year and Jamie has $85,000 worth of student loan debt. Jamie asks for proof the weapon was sold or if Bello is just making an accusation. Bello points out that whether the gun is lost or sold it could wind up in the wrong hands and show up in a crime which could be a real problem for Jamie. Bello warns if Jamie doesn't find the gun they will launch a full-blown investigation and they will be keeping a close eye on him in the meantime then sends him from the office. When he's gone, Bello calls Malevsky who asks what Bello thought. Bello feels Jamie is a liability. Malevsky calmly says "ok" and hangs up.
At Sunday dinner the subject of the budget comes up but Frank doesn't want that discussed. Erin brings up the subject of the Cleary's. She saw Anne there and it looked like she was packing up everything. Henry comments it had been an unhappy house for a while. Jack asks if they are talking about 'cellar boy's' house and Danny calls his son down. Both Frank and Danny point out that a father shouldn't call his son names. Henry brings up that now it's the parents fault what happened. Erin says Ronnie will end up in an appropriate facility but Henry remarks that Ronnie was able to run which, in his book, is an admission of guilt and sanity, something Danny agrees with. Frank says a big part of the problem was that Mr. Cleary couldn't accept that his son was ill.
After dinner, Frank walks Jamie out to his car and asks if he's alright. He asks Jamie if he's sorry about the choice he made to put on the uniform. Erin interrupts them commenting that their mother's tulips are looking great. Jamie takes the opportunity to excuse himself saying he has a reunion he must attend. Erin tells Frank she and Danny are making a condolence call to Anne Cleary and Danny points out it is a 'slash re-interview' and asks Frank if he wants to come, something he declines.
Erin and Danny go inside and see that she is, indeed, packing up the house. Anne tells Erin what she said to Al really upset him. Danny asks if it is a crazy thought that Ronnie didn't kill their parents. She asks him if her family was the subject of conversation at the famous Reagan Sunday dinner and comments that Ronnie used to rub it in to her folks why their family couldn't be more like the Reagan's. When Erin says that isn't fair, Anne comments that she should understand as her divorce can't be easy and her misery is the fodder for other peoples conversations. She excuses herself saying she has work to do and Danny stops her to apologize. He tells her the good news is they found the knife and are expecting lab results back tomorrow. They won't find much as they are sure the killer wore gloves and maybe they will get lucky. She says 'poor Ronnie' and walks away. Erin asks her brother if they found the murder weapon and he tells her they didn't but he's shaking the tree to see if anything falls out. She asks if that's why he subpoenaed all of Anne and Al's phone calls. He says if he's right, she's calling Al right now.
That night, when Jamie tries to stop at a yellow light he finds the breaks in his car do not work. He narrowly avoids a collision at the intersection and continues into traffic having a hard time controlling the car. He barely avoids hitting two pedestrians and finds himself on a deserted street. He ends up crashing the car into a barrier just feet from the water.
Jackie and Danny are staking out the Cleary dealership. Sure enough, Anne called Al as soon as Danny and Erin left the house. It isn't long before Anne shows up to meet with her brother. She drags him outside the dealership and the two are clearly arguing. Al and Anne run to an area next to the dealership and move a rock. Beneath it, is the murder weapon wrapped in a bloody cloth. As Al is wiping blood and prints off the knife, Danny and Jackie drive up. Danny orders Al to drop the knife as Al calls his sister an "idiot".
The next morning, Baker is giving Frank his daily schedule when the Mayor arrives, angry and carrying a newspaper. He reads a bit from the article and throws it down. Frank asks if the Mayor thinks he had something to do with that, which he does, something Frank denies. The Mayor informs him if he can't deliver a balanced budget the state will take over and asks if he has any idea what the hillbillies upstate will do to his beloved department if they get control of the finances. Frank asks the Mayor what he will do and the reply is that he will find the money somewhere but he forewarns Frank that he and his plausible deniability will not fly anymore. Garrett enters the office asking if the Mayor is cranky and Frank comments he was sensitive about an article in the morning paper. Garrett looks at the paper as Baker leaves the office. Frank gives him the Columbus speech back for further polishing.
Ronnie Cleary stops by Erin's office to see her. She welcomes him with a hug telling him she's sad about his parents but glad he isn't taking the fall for it. She tells him Anne confessed to the whole thing. It was Al's idea as the money their parents were going to spend on the trip was a tipping point for him. Ronnie keeps thinking about that night and it's a blank. Anne laced his grapefruit juice with sleeping pills and Al wore his shoes through their parents blood. They were going to plant the knife and shirt soaked in blood near his motel to seal his fate. She asks him what he's going to do now and he says "stay clean" with a smile. He tells her he can't live in the house anymore and asks what she thinks he should do and adds that he's single. He thinks he'll go down to Florida as he has a kid there somewhere. She asks him to stay in touch.
Jamie is outside Frank's house waiting for Danny. When he arrives, Jamie tells them there is something he should hear and plays the recording Joe made about the Templar. Jamie tells him the recording was made the night Joe was killed and he was working with the FBI investigating the group. Danny asks if their father knows and Jamie assures him he doesn't.
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Season One, Episode Twenty-One: Cellar Boy
Original Air Date: May 6, 2011
The murder of a couple who lives on the same street as the Reagan's and were family friends cause the Reagan family to take special interest in the case and relive old memories of Joe. Meanwhile, Jamie Reagan faces his own problems when his service revolver turns up missing from his locker and the breaks on his car fail. He finally confides in Danny about Joe's work with the FBI against the Blue Templar.
Frank has a meeting with the Mayor about the budget and cannot sleep. He and Henry talk about Joe, who Frank has been thinking about as it's almost been two years since his death. Frank didn't personally enforce the warrant that Joe was serving when he was killed but he was his Commissioner and he sometimes finds himself left with an inescapable truth: his son was killed on his watch. As his father is telling him he can't think like that, Frank's cell phone rings and the house phone rings. Frank answers his and Henry gets the house phone. Henry's conversation ends first with him telling the caller "alright, I'll tell him". Frank asks his caller when the call came in then to tell his detail he will want to stop there on the way in. When Frank hangs up his father tells him it was Danny who called.
Frank arrives at the scene, his father following him. Frank enters the house while Henry remains outdoors. Kevin Cleary is slumped in an easy chair Danny is bent over the body of a slain woman, Eunice Cleary. Danny stands and tells his father he was on his way into work and had to ask twice when he was given the address. The victims are known to the Reagan's and live just down the street from Frank. Frank tells Danny the Chief of Detectives thought Danny would have the advantage since he's on his "home turf". From looking at the scene, Frank feels Kevin was killed first, then Eunice. The maid found them when she came in to work and called 911 from the Fitzgerald's home. There are no signs of forced entry or robbery and the M.E. puts the crime at sometime the night before. Danny tells his father he doesn't want to be thinking what he is. As they are talking, an officer arrives to inform them the Cleary's daughter has arrived. Outside, their daughter, Anne Cleary (Gretchen Egolf) runs toward the house but Henry stops her saying no one can go inside. She sees Frank and Danny leaving the house and asks them what is going on. Frank tells her he is sorry as her brother, Al (Sean Patrick Reilly) runs up to her. He wants to go in but Frank tells him he can't as it's a crime scene. Danny tells them their parents were attacked last night and found this morning and that is all they can say. Anne asks what happened but Danny again says they can't say. Al begs him to tell them and Henry tells him Danny would say that to anyone as it is an ongoing investigation. Al asks where their brother Ronnie (Nathaniel Marston) is and Frank tells them he isn't there.
Al tells Danny he knew something would happen ever since his parents allowed Ronnie to move back in but Annie warns him not to jump to conclusions. Danny informs them Ronnie didn't show up for work and asks if they know where he might have gone. Al tells him what friends Ronnie hasn't stolen from he cut off years ago. Anne says the only person who stood by Ronnie was his sponsor from meetings he attended at the Methodist church on Grove. Danny asks when the last time each of them saw or spoke with their parents. Anne stopped in to see her parents the day before on her way home from work. Danny asks Al where he was last night and, when Al is insulted by the question, Danny tells him he has to ask. Al tells him he was home. His wife and kids are in Florida as her father is sick and they are with him. Anne was home as well and her doorman can verify that. Al asks when they get to see their parents and Danny tells them one of them will have to identify the bodies at the morgue.
At the precinct, Danny and Jackie discuss the case. The K-9 unit is out looking for the murder weapon and there is a slot in the kitchen rack consistent with the knife used to kill the Cleary's. There are also distinct footprints in the blood made by one person. Erin arrives and asks Danny if he really thinks Ronnie killed his parents. Danny says he's definitely a person of interest along with anyone who had known access to the house. A neighbor puts Ronnie at the house as she saw him while she was walking her dog. Erin remarks there's been trouble there but this leading Jackie to ask about the trouble. Danny tells her Mr. Cleary rode the kids something terrible, mostly the boys and mostly Ronnie. Al ended up working at the car dealership with his father. Erin says that Al was always more resilient but Ronnie was sensitive. Danny adds that Mr. Cleary called Ronnie "cellar boy" and thought it was funny, something that made Ronnie cringe. Ronnie moved down to the basement when he was 14. Danny didn't know which came first: Ronnie moving to the basement or moving to the basement to drink and smoke pot. Jackie asks where the mother was in all this and Erin says "rose colored glasses, I guess". Danny says they had knock-down drag-outs at the Cleary home and just last year, a unit responded to a 52 with Ronnie and Mr. Cleary going at it again. Jackie asks about a 35-year-old living at home and Erin supplies the information that he was bi-polar, using and he would move out, switch states, switch jobs, get in trouble, move back in, get cleaned up. She asks if Danny knows where he is but he doesn't. They have a message out on his car and his AA sponsor said if he hears from him he will let them know. When Erin comments 'poor Ronnie' Danny hands her the file to look at the photos of the Cleary's at the crime scene.
As Jamie is arriving early for work, he is met by Sonny Malevsky (Michael T. Weiss). He comments that Jamie is now driving his brother Joe's car. Jamie asks Malevsky there and when questioned why he wants to know Jamie tells him no reason. Malevsky tells Jamie to be safe then walks away. Inside, Renzulli is getting ready for work when Jamie enters the locker room. They talk about how they spent their day off and Jamie tells him he worked on his car on his. Jamie reaches onto the top shelf of his locker for his service revolver and finds it missing. He asks Renzulli about it who asks if he's sure he didn't take it home but Jamie is sure he didn't as he swaps it out with his off duty weapon. Renzulli thinks it might be a prank one of the other guys is pulling on him and asks if he made anyone angry, which he didn't. Renzulli tells Jamie to take everything out of the locker and go through it then go back home and go over every square inch of his place for the gun before reporting it to the C.O. because then it becomes official and he's back under I.A. investigation. Jamie asks if Malevsky was back there and Renzulli says he wasn't. He was at the front desk talking with the guys when he came in and asks Jamie why. When Jamie comments how easy the locks are to bypass Renzulli asks if he thinks Malevsky stole his gun and Jamie brushes his comment aside.
At One NYPD Plaza, Frank is in his office and Baker (Abigail Hawk) enters with the Mayor (Bruce Altman). He comes into the office immediately telling Frank he asked him to cut 10% from the budget and missed by a mile. Frank tells him he did everything he could without crippling the department. The Mayor counters that his department is frozen and they will postpone the June Academy class. Frank warns if they don't bring the cops online they will be reduced to 1992 levels but the Mayor insists there is no money and he will not raise taxes because of him. Frank maintains he will not police the city with those kinds of reductions and no one, including the Mayor, will want the kind of pain it brings. When the Mayor asks if that was a threat Frank replies the threat is to the citizens and the $30 billion tourist industry they all depend upon. The Mayor, still unhappy with how Frank handled the tourist shooting tells him to stick to what he knows and Frank replies that what he knows is the force cannot be cut any further. The Mayor warns that he is going to the City Council with the budget, including all the others who worked with him, and with Frank standing beside him. If he tries to make him look bad he will be bringing a knife to a gun fight and leaves the office.
Jackie points out motive for Ronnie including a giant insurance policy and the house but Danny doesn't see Ronnie as the only one since all three of the Cleary kids stand to inherit. Anne's doorman confirmed her alibi but he says that doesn't mean she couldn't have left later so they will check for video footage. Al was home alone so they need to try and find someone to back that story up. Jackie notes that the car dealership was failing and two salesmen were let go in the past couple of months. Danny feels they should speak with them. Jackie thinks that with Mr. Cleary pouring all of his personal money into the business taking out of the inheritance Al cannot be too pleased about that. Danny brings up that the neighbor told him Mr. Cleary had booked an around the world cruise for he and his wife for their anniversary. The cost was close to $100,000. She looks through the files and sees that, while he might have booked it, he hadn't started paying on it. Both Jackie and Danny's phones ring. When they have both hung up, Danny tells Jackie Ronnie's AA sponsor called to say Ronnie called him from the Restwell Motel and sounds suicidal. Jackie's call was that patrol spotted Ronnie's car in the Restwell parking lot.
At the motel, an incredibly agitated Ronnie is holding an axe and fire extinguisher and telling the police to go ahead and shoot him. He throws the extinguisher at them and continues to yell at them. When Danny and Jackie arrive, he takes over since he knows Ronnie and feels he can get close to him. Danny calls up to Ronnie and the latter tells Danny to get out of there. He doesn't want to talk to Danny. Danny starts walking up the stairs toward Ronnie who is becoming more agitated by the second. When Ronnie starts to run toward Danny with the axe raised, the police raise their guns but Danny orders them not to fire. Danny gets within steps of Ronnie and asks him to talk like they did when they were kids but Ronnie isn't unwilling. Ronnie keeps saying "please just let them kill me, please" and tells Danny he's ruining everything. Danny manages to overcome Ronnie and he is taken into custody.
At the precinct, Jackie and Danny bring Ronnie into the interview room. Ronnie tells Danny he got up that morning to go to work. When he went upstairs to get some breakfast he saw his parents had been murdered. Danny asks why he didn't call 911 since he didn't kill his parents and Ronnie tells him he didn't want to go to jail. Danny asks if he and his father got into an argument again because his father found out he was using again. When Ronnie says 'no', Danny tells him he knows he's lying because they found the weed, prescription bottle and half empty bottle of vodka under his bed. Ronnie insists he isn't using heroin and Danny asks if he got high and slept right through his parent's murder. As Danny pushes harder Ronnie wants him to stop talking but Danny insists he won't stop until he finds out who killed the Cleary's. Danny asks who did it if it wasn't Ronnie. Ronnie doesn't know but he reminds Danny that outside the house his father was Mr. Popularity. Inside the house, he was a monster. Jackie comes to the door to tell Danny she needs to talk to him. She has a pair of shoes that K-9 picked up the scent on. They were found in a trash can in the corner of the park. Danny takes the shoes back in to Ronnie to tell him the blood will be matched to his mother and the tread will match the prints found at the scene. Ronnie begins crying as Danny tells Jackie to take him to Central Booking.
Renzulli and Jamie get a cup of coffee and Renzulli says they need to talk. He can tell when someone is trying to B.S. him. First, he caught Jamie looking into the Gonsalves file and now there is the Sonny Malevsky thing. How can he ride with him if he can't trust him and it works both ways. Jamie asks Renzulli if he's ever heard of the Blue Templar. When Renzulli says not in a thousand years Jamie asks what he knows about them. Renzulli says the world changed and they have a more professional police force now and there are no more cowboy posses and wants to know why but Jamie says he can't tell him. Renzulli asks if he can't or won't. Jamie points out they must trust each other and asks him to trust him on this one.
Garrett Moore brings Frank his speech for the Knights of Columbus dinner and Frank tells him the Mayor is insisting he publicly endorses the budget cuts. Frank has a problem. He can run the department with 1,000 fewer people and he can't prove that unless the crime rate goes up at which time it will be too late. He asks Garrett how they can get out in front of it and Garrett suggests the power of the press--headline "Mayor to NYPD: Drop Dead". Garrett asks Frank if he understands what he's proposing and Frank simply says he isn't proposing anything as he can't even remember the conversation and Garrett leaves to put the plan into action.
When Danny and Jackie take Ronnie into booking, Erin is there wanting to speak with him. She asks what happened as the more they know they more they can help him but he refuses to tell the assistant D.A. anything. She tells him she got him the best legal aid attorney there is and begs him to cooperate with them. Danny and Jackie take him into booking.
Erin meets Frank for dinner and he tells her he got beat up pretty good at his meeting. No one has won yet as they are in the middle rounds. She tells him about seeing Ronnie at Central Booking and how he got her thinking about Joe. They talk about old times when the kids were growing up. She asks her father if he thinks they'll ever stop missing Joe but he doesn't answer.
That night, Jamie meets with Yolanda Gonsalves (Andrea Navedo). He comments he knew that Lydia had a twin and they truly do exactly alike and asks how Lydia's daughter is. She tells him they are adjusting and the reason she wanted to see him is Lydia left a package for her with her things. There were insurance issues with the suicide and the estate only recently became available to her. She said if anything happened to her, she should give him this and pulls an envelope from her pocket. He tells her he doesn't think Lydia's death was a suicide, something Yolanda agrees with. Jamie promises he will make it right and she hopes what is in the envelope will help.
Danny arrives at Frank's house with ribs for Sunday dinner. Frank comments things look bad for Ronnie Cleary and Danny admits everyone's alibi's check out, even the sometimes boyfriend of Anne Cleary. Danny tells him they have enough to make an arrest but Erin says they probably don't have enough to get a jury to convict without the murder weapon. Danny comments that the sneakers were found in the opposite direction of the motel where Ronnie was found and it seems like they should have found the knife where the sneakers were found. Mrs. Cleary put up a struggle but she has no genetic material under her nails except for latex meaning the killer used gloves and could explain why Ronnie had no scratches on his hands from the struggle. That would point to the fact he planned the killings instead of it being an alcoholic rage. That bothers Danny because he feels it would be the first time in Ronnie's life he planned anything.
Danny pays a visit to Al Cleary at the dealership and tells him the thought out murders doesn't seem like Ronnie. Al tells him the heroin addict their family has had to deal with is a master of manipulation and lies. He played his parents. Danny finds it to be a well thought out answer. Al tells Danny that, at least now, Ronnie will get the help he needs and will stay on his meds. Danny says he keeps thinking about him, Al, being a 42-year-old man working under his father day after day. It can't be easy. Al comments Danny should know as he isn't the only one taking orders from his old man.
Jamie goes to see Lt. Alex Bello (Nick Sandow) of Internal Affairs. Bello tells Jamie the business of the missing gun needs immediate attention and Jamie informs him the gun was taken from his locker. Bello suggests Jamie sold it, something he denies and says again that someone stole it. Bello points out that a new officer makes $45,000 a year and Jamie has $85,000 worth of student loan debt. Jamie asks for proof the weapon was sold or if Bello is just making an accusation. Bello points out that whether the gun is lost or sold it could wind up in the wrong hands and show up in a crime which could be a real problem for Jamie. Bello warns if Jamie doesn't find the gun they will launch a full-blown investigation and they will be keeping a close eye on him in the meantime then sends him from the office. When he's gone, Bello calls Malevsky who asks what Bello thought. Bello feels Jamie is a liability. Malevsky calmly says "ok" and hangs up.
At Sunday dinner the subject of the budget comes up but Frank doesn't want that discussed. Erin brings up the subject of the Cleary's. She saw Anne there and it looked like she was packing up everything. Henry comments it had been an unhappy house for a while. Jack asks if they are talking about 'cellar boy's' house and Danny calls his son down. Both Frank and Danny point out that a father shouldn't call his son names. Henry brings up that now it's the parents fault what happened. Erin says Ronnie will end up in an appropriate facility but Henry remarks that Ronnie was able to run which, in his book, is an admission of guilt and sanity, something Danny agrees with. Frank says a big part of the problem was that Mr. Cleary couldn't accept that his son was ill.
After dinner, Frank walks Jamie out to his car and asks if he's alright. He asks Jamie if he's sorry about the choice he made to put on the uniform. Erin interrupts them commenting that their mother's tulips are looking great. Jamie takes the opportunity to excuse himself saying he has a reunion he must attend. Erin tells Frank she and Danny are making a condolence call to Anne Cleary and Danny points out it is a 'slash re-interview' and asks Frank if he wants to come, something he declines.
Erin and Danny go inside and see that she is, indeed, packing up the house. Anne tells Erin what she said to Al really upset him. Danny asks if it is a crazy thought that Ronnie didn't kill their parents. She asks him if her family was the subject of conversation at the famous Reagan Sunday dinner and comments that Ronnie used to rub it in to her folks why their family couldn't be more like the Reagan's. When Erin says that isn't fair, Anne comments that she should understand as her divorce can't be easy and her misery is the fodder for other peoples conversations. She excuses herself saying she has work to do and Danny stops her to apologize. He tells her the good news is they found the knife and are expecting lab results back tomorrow. They won't find much as they are sure the killer wore gloves and maybe they will get lucky. She says 'poor Ronnie' and walks away. Erin asks her brother if they found the murder weapon and he tells her they didn't but he's shaking the tree to see if anything falls out. She asks if that's why he subpoenaed all of Anne and Al's phone calls. He says if he's right, she's calling Al right now.
That night, when Jamie tries to stop at a yellow light he finds the breaks in his car do not work. He narrowly avoids a collision at the intersection and continues into traffic having a hard time controlling the car. He barely avoids hitting two pedestrians and finds himself on a deserted street. He ends up crashing the car into a barrier just feet from the water.
Jackie and Danny are staking out the Cleary dealership. Sure enough, Anne called Al as soon as Danny and Erin left the house. It isn't long before Anne shows up to meet with her brother. She drags him outside the dealership and the two are clearly arguing. Al and Anne run to an area next to the dealership and move a rock. Beneath it, is the murder weapon wrapped in a bloody cloth. As Al is wiping blood and prints off the knife, Danny and Jackie drive up. Danny orders Al to drop the knife as Al calls his sister an "idiot".
The next morning, Baker is giving Frank his daily schedule when the Mayor arrives, angry and carrying a newspaper. He reads a bit from the article and throws it down. Frank asks if the Mayor thinks he had something to do with that, which he does, something Frank denies. The Mayor informs him if he can't deliver a balanced budget the state will take over and asks if he has any idea what the hillbillies upstate will do to his beloved department if they get control of the finances. Frank asks the Mayor what he will do and the reply is that he will find the money somewhere but he forewarns Frank that he and his plausible deniability will not fly anymore. Garrett enters the office asking if the Mayor is cranky and Frank comments he was sensitive about an article in the morning paper. Garrett looks at the paper as Baker leaves the office. Frank gives him the Columbus speech back for further polishing.
Ronnie Cleary stops by Erin's office to see her. She welcomes him with a hug telling him she's sad about his parents but glad he isn't taking the fall for it. She tells him Anne confessed to the whole thing. It was Al's idea as the money their parents were going to spend on the trip was a tipping point for him. Ronnie keeps thinking about that night and it's a blank. Anne laced his grapefruit juice with sleeping pills and Al wore his shoes through their parents blood. They were going to plant the knife and shirt soaked in blood near his motel to seal his fate. She asks him what he's going to do now and he says "stay clean" with a smile. He tells her he can't live in the house anymore and asks what she thinks he should do and adds that he's single. He thinks he'll go down to Florida as he has a kid there somewhere. She asks him to stay in touch.
Jamie is outside Frank's house waiting for Danny. When he arrives, Jamie tells them there is something he should hear and plays the recording Joe made about the Templar. Jamie tells him the recording was made the night Joe was killed and he was working with the FBI investigating the group. Danny asks if their father knows and Jamie assures him he doesn't.
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
US Television: Blue Bloods, Episode 1.20 "All That Glitters"
Blue Bloods
Season One, Episode Twenty: All That Glitters
Original Air Date: April 29, 2011
When a tourist to New York City is killed during an apparent robbery outside a trendy lower-east-side restaurant, Danny and Jackie begin an investigation into the extremely high-profile case. The evidence leads them to a Haitian immigrant who, by all means, looks perfect for being the suspect. However, things become more complicated when the immigrant, an ex-policeman himself, gives them evidence that very well could mean the murder was more than a crime of opportunity.
A couple from Iowa, Lance and Margaret "Maggie" Olson (George Merrick & Tara Westwood), are dining at a trendy lower-east-side restaurant and discussing the fun day of sightseeing they had. The waitress, Maya (Elizabeth Fye), comes to the table to close out for the evening. Lance pays the bill and gives her a very generous tip while discussing his business back home. He grows corn that is turned into ethanol. He mentions having his after-dinner cigar and the waitress tells him to not have it in front of the restaurant because the smoke gets in and the customers hate it but to instead go down a little way to the left. He promises Maggie he will be back before she can finish eating.
Erin Reagan arrives late to dinner with her father. She is out of sorts because an old case has come back to haunt her. Ian Boyd was shot dead that day by a convenience store owner he was trying to rob after he shot a young woman in the store who tried to warn the owner that she had seen a gun on Boyd. She feels guilty that because she lost Boyd's last robbery case he was able to be back on the streets to rob and kill again.
Lance is enjoying his cigar and doesn't notice a man wearing a hood walk up a few steps away. The hooded man takes a gun from his pocket while, inside, Maggie is speaking with another diner (Julia Haubner) about the cuisine at the restaurant. Shots ring out as the ladies are talking and Maggie gets up and runs outside. The hooded man runs past her and she sees her husband on the ground and begs for people nearby to call 911.
Danny Reagan and Jackie Curatola arrive to investigate the shooting. Danny gets the details from a uniformed officer. After the shooting, the diners inside the restaurant went back to eating their meals. Lance was shot three times and all of his money and credit cards were taken. He's at St. Benjamin's Hospital in critical condition. The gun hasn't been found and in the canvass, some residents were sleeping and the ones who weren't didn't think it was that big of a deal. Danny orders a second canvass in the event someone didn't answer the door and to widen the search perimeter for the weapon.
At the Reagan house, Frank and his father discuss Erin's bad news. When Henry suggests some coffee Frank tells him if he wasn't awake he would be now as a message came in on his phone about Lance Olson's shooting.
Danny and Jackie go to see Maggie Olson at the hospital. They ask if she saw anything and she tells them about hearing the gunshots and running outside. She blames herself for dragging him to New York as she enjoyed the city so much when visiting with a friend. After a second question of seeing anything from Jackie she mentions seeing the man wearing the hood that could have been blue walk past her as she came out of the restaurant. Danny asks about Lance paying the bill with cash and asks if he usually carried large amounts of money. She admits that her husband likes to pay with cash as he said businesses appreciated it. Jackie asks who might have known he had a lot of cash on him. She says they got into town, stayed at the hotel all night as this was kind of a second honeymoon for them. She mentions the bell man, the cab driver and the waitress at the restaurant.
Jamie Regan and Sgt. Renzulli are at the scene where a 74 year-old homeless man was found dead. Renzulli estimates he's been dead at least a day based upon the condition of the body. Jamie stops Dr. Laura Trent (Jennifer Restivo) to ask about the death. She found insulin on the body which indicated early on complications from diabetes but she found neon-green fluid in the mouth which could have been anti-freeze. Tests at the lab will confirm if it is truly a homicide. When Trent leaves, Renzulli, who has been watching the conversation teases Jamie for hitting on her over a dead body.
Garrett Moore (Gregory Jbara) arrives in Frank's office to point out that tourism is important to New York and is based on a sort of safari model. The tourists want to get close to the lions and tigers but don't want one of them to eat them. Moore insists Frank will have to play to the house on the Olson shooting just enough to show he shares the outrage over the incident. Garret tells him he can stall until Monday without looking like they are stalling. Frank wants a timely, but independent from case progress, press conference. He wants no rush to judgment.
Danny has cleared the cab driver Maggie Olson named as his GPS had him in Yonkers at the time of the shooting. Jackie is looking into the waitress, Maya. She has no record but cannot be found. She will not answer her phone or door. Danny sees her as a possibility as she saw Olson's money and could have called an accomplice. There were four armed robberies in the neighborhood in the past year. Two are unsolved, one suspect is in Rykers and the fourth, Brian Stratton (Marc Bonan) walked because the victim didn't show up. Jackie, who is still looking at Maya's information, sees that Brian Stratton is her emergency contact. She finds that Stratton's number was called from the restaurant phone just before Maya clocked out.
They go to Maya's address and hear loud music coming from the apartment and the door open. They go inside and find her and Stratton apparently on ecstasy and dancing to the music. Jackie gets the call that Lance Olson died and they take the two in on questioning in a murder.
As Erin Reagan leads Maggie Olson from the hospital, the press converges on the two women. Erin pushes them back saying Mrs. Olson has suffered a terrible loss and will have the full resources of the city at her disposal and gives them her word that the person responsible will be brought to justice. Danny and Jackie watch the exchange on television then go in to question Maya and Brian. Danny asks Maya what the plan was. She tells him there was no plan. They just went and scored some E. Brian maintains that all he did was go to pick Maya up from work but Jackie maintains that all the expensive things in their apartment and all they spend on drugs has to come from somewhere. He insists they didn't rob anyone. Danny continues working on Maya and she asks if he'll go easy on the drugs and everything. He tells her he'll see what he can do but she needs to tell him the truth. She tells him that every once in a while they will get a bunch of customer credit card numbers and sell them for extra cash. The guy she works with waits before using them so they won't track back to her. He asks about the shooting and she insists they had nothing to do with it. Brian picked her up from work and they went to East River Park to score some drugs. He asks if she saw anyone outside the restaurant. She says she didn't but admits that a couple of blocks away they saw a black guy tearing down the street in a hoodie that could have been blue and almost ran over him on Brian's Vespa. With Jackie, Brian confirms the story. Danny asks Maya if she can remember the face enough to work with a sketch artist and she tells him waiting tables you get a good memory for faces.
At the press conference, Frank reveals that extra uniformed officers and anti-crime teams have been rotated into popular tourist areas in the lower-east-side and other areas famous for nightlife destinations. A reporter asks if it is acting too little, too late. Frank replies it is acting appropriately to a tragic incident and stresses he's seen no uptick in the statistics they use that indicates Olson's death was part of a trend or wave. Another reporter asks if Frank can honestly say the effect of the murder and profile of the city and tourism dollars they depend on can be minimized by his departments comforting statistics. Frank lays things out plainly. A well-to-do white male was murdered and it could be said, with a slant, that New York is a city of roaming predators and mean streets to sell newspapers and advertising minutes. From his standpoint, all crimes, no matter what they are, are all equally unacceptable and the police try every day to do all they can to prevent them from happening again.
Jackie is able to confirm Maya and Brian's alibi as she found the drug dealer in the park and he identified them from pictures she showed him. Danny received the artists sketch of the man Maya described and has gotten it into the hands of every officer on the lower-east-side. Danny gets a call that a bodega owner (David Brown) recognized the sketch. When they speak with the man, he gives them the name Pierre (Gbenga Akinnagbe), a Haitian man who drives a cab 12 hours a day then jogs the neighborhood afterward. He gives them the name of the cab company Pierre works for, Steady Cabs, and says Pierre told him he only gets paid $80 for his full 12-hour shift and tells them that while most of his customers are a pain, Pierre is one of the good ones.
They go to the address given to them by the cab company and Pierre's wife answers the door. When she turns to tell him the police want to speak with him he runs. Danny gives chase inside the apartment and Jackie heads outside as Pierre goes through the apartment window. They finally corner him in a gated parking lot and he maintains he did nothing wrong. As they pull into the precinct parking lot with Pierre, the reporters begin swarming over the car.
In interview, Danny points out that innocent people do not run from the police and notes that he was thrown off the Haitian police force for stealing, something Pierre vehemently denies. He tells them he was trapped in the earthquake for three days and prayed to live. A man told him he was sent by God to dig and dug day and night until he found him and he knew from that point on he must always be a good man. When he saw the others on the force stealing he told on them. They made up the lies to silence him. Danny asks if he saw or heard anything near the restaurant at the time of the shooting. There was a man who walked past him quickly and turned his head away as if he didn't want to be seen. His clothes didn't match. He wore a big hoodie on the top and nice trousers on the bottom and shiny leather shoes, something he found strange.
The press runs with the story of Pierre's arrest. Jackie learned from Pierre's wife that since she lost her job, her husband was more and more desperate for money. Danny feels that Pierre was a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jackie thinks everything points to his guilt but Danny insists it doesn't feel right. Erin arrives at their desks asking about the good suspect she's heard they have in custody. Danny informs her it is a matter of opinion, which, at the moment, is split. Erin wants them to go back to Maggie Olson to see if she can identify the suspect, something Danny is reluctant to do since she didn't get a good look at the man at the time of the shooting and Pierre's face has been all over the television. Erin insists that Maggie Olson should have the chance to try and identify the suspect, if she can. Danny reluctantly agrees.
Jamie pays a visit to Dr. Trent to ask a favor. He says he misplaced his notebook from the homeless man's death scene and wants to know if she can log him onto the system from her end so his boss won't know. She does and, instead of researching the homeless man's case, he does a search for Lydia Gonsalves so he can read her death report.
Garrett Moore and Frank Reagan are under fire from the mayor's office about Frank's comments at the press conference. The mayor wants a clarifying statement but Moore maintains every reporter at the conference understood what Frank was saying and there is nothing to clarify. It's made clear the mayor requested the clarification, end of story. Frank replies with a comment that the Commissioner regrets not making it clear that tourists needed to exercise reasonable caution in emerging neighborhoods where the underprivileged are being pushed out. Where a bodega that still accepts food stamps sits next to a restaurant that gets $50 a plate for macaroni and cheese. The mayor's representative gives up but she informs them the mayor will not and leaves. When she's gone, Moore tells Frank he's an idiot and his position won't be compromised by embracing the fact tourism is good for New York City.
Danny and Erin go to Maggie Olson's hotel room and are met at the door by Maggie's sister, Leslie (Tracy Swallows). She introduces them to her husband Mark (Greg Connolly) and Carl Perry (John Patrick Hayden), a friend of the family. When she goes to get Maggie, Danny asks the men if they are from Iowa also. Mark says they are and tells them they haven't had a murder in his town for five years and criticises the city for luring people there with fancy advertising and putting a fancy restaurant in a hell-hole while armed criminals roam the streets. Leslie returns with Maggie and Erin tells her they could use her help if she's up to it. She asks if anything has come back to her about the man she saw running from her husband. When Erin says they'd like to put her in front of a line-up to see if anything jogs her memory, Maggie asks about them having arrested someone. Erin asks if she saw anything about it on the news and Maggie says she hasn't as she can't bear to watch it. Erin turns to give Danny a promising look then asks Maggie if she could handle a line-up. Maggie says she will do anything to put Lance's killer behind bars. At the precinct, five men walk into a line-up and Danny instructs Maggie to look at all the men and tell him if she recognizes any of them. She identifies #5, Pierre, and Danny asks where she recognizes him from. She identifies him as the man she saw running away from Lance. When she leaves, Erin is pleased she was able to identify Pierre, but Danny doesn't feel the same. He thinks they just served him up on a silver platter but Erin is pushing ahead.
At the Reagan family dinner, Nicky mentions reading eye witness testimonies are responsible for a lot of wrongful convictions. Jamie and Henry point out that eye witnesses are the best bet in criminal cases and carry a lot of weight. Danny points out that is fine as long as the witnesses saw what they say they did. He finds it strange that Maggie didn't see a face then, after Pierre's face was plastered all over the television she suddenly remembered it. Danny's kids say they saw Pierre on television and he just looked liked a scary bad guy. He explains that you can't tell if someone is bad just by looking at them. Jamie tells Erin she's in the worst position there but Danny disagrees and says the Haitian guy is the one in the worst position. In the kitchen, Erin hastily does the dishes and puts them away as Danny enters and takes a cup from the cupboard. Frank calls them down for their huffy behavior and asks Danny what makes him think Pierre is innocent. Danny says he doesn't know for a fact Pierre is innocent but he thinks with all the pressure on the case he can use a devil's advocate on the inside as he gave them a good clue that only a good cop would know about. Frank asks if that leads them to another suspect. Danny admits it opens the door to the possibility that maybe it wasn't just another street crime. Erin maintains Pierre has motive and opportunity and Maggie has identified him and she can't understand why Danny wants to complicate things. Frank advises Danny to not let the fact Pierre is an ex-cop with a hard luck story to cloud his judgment and he says he isn't. When Erin tells him he is, Frank interjects that she can't undo what happened with Ian Boyd with the Olson case, or any case. After some thought, she asks if Danny is going to back off Pierre. He assures her if he is the guy he wants him as bad as she does. He also promises she will have solid evidence by the book if Pierre isn't the guy. She quietly tells him she will hold off on the indictment.
Jackie and Danny go back to speak with Maggie Olson to tie up a few loose ends. She asks if it will take long as she needs to meet with people to sign transfer papers to take Lance's body home. Jackie tells her they are looking at the case from every angle before wrapping it up. Danny informs her they've been looking at the shooting as a crime of opportunity but they wanted to at least consider the fact perhaps it wasn't random. He asks if Lance had any enemies and she says he didn't. Jackie tells her they revisited Lance's phone records, especially while he was in New York, but they decided to go back a few months and found a lot of calls to Carl Perry. She explains Carl and Lance did business together. Danny urges her to be honest with them as when they accessed Carl's phone records they found a lot of calls to her home at times when Lance's business records shows he wasn't home and her credit card records show three weekends at a Hotel Mandolin and she wasn't there with her husband and they have the hotel confirming she was actually with Carl. She admits Lance was away so much and Carl thought he was in love with her. The affair was wrong and stupid but she broke it off and swore to herself she'd make it up to Lance. The trip was about that. She thinks it's impossible Carl could have killed her husband but Danny points out jealousy is a strong motive.
At the precinct, Carl sees Maggie arrive and Jackie take her into another room. Danny paces by his desk until Jackie comes back with what she learned from Maggie. She and Carl met at a dinner for one of Lance's bio-fuel investors and there was a spark she just couldn't ignore. At the hotel, she learned Carl was a junkie for champagne and breakfast in bed and bacon, extra-crispy. Danny goes in to speak with Carl hoping they can use something to get at the truth. He thanks Carl for the list of Lance's business associates then asks him about the fact he's a pilot. He asks that, since he does preparation and planning as a pilot, if he would do a dry run if he wanted to kill someone. He gets up to leave but Danny pushes him back into the chair. Danny reveals he knows about the affair and drops that Maggie is saying a lot of things about him including what she told Jackie about their time at the hotel. He also says she talked about the dry run he did. Danny shows him a receipt belonging to Carl from the same restaurant where Lance was killed. Carl explains the dinner as a meeting with Ray Lawrence on a business trip to New York and advises Danny to ask him about it. He did and Ray told him Carl chose the restaurant. Danny also knows that Carl asked a waiter where someone would go if they wanted to smoke, as Lance did. Carl asks what him eating at the same restaurant as Lance and having a smoke there proves. Danny tells him it proves everything Margaret is saying: Carl wanted to be with her and he wanted Lance's money, too. Jackie enters the room and asks how it's going and Danny tells her it is up to Carl. Danny and Jackie talk about Maggie's convincing story and he tells Carl it would be a real shame if Maggie was able to pull it over on him, too. Carl insists they are trying to manipulate him. Danny gets up to leave saying Maggie gets her freedom and Lance's money while Carl gets 25 to life unless he has some info that contradicts her story.
Danny and Jackie go back in to speak with Maggie who wants to get back to the hotel. He tells her to sit down and tells her Carl confessed to shooting Lance. She becomes upset and asks why he would do it. Danny shows her a phone which she identifies as belonging to Carl. He plays a message where she called Carl and told him to fly her sister there and everyone would feel so sorry for her and then they'll be home free. She claims the message isn't what it sounds like. Jackie tells her Carl had an ace in the hole: he kept a few choice messages she had left for him. When Danny tells her he hates it when people do bad things and blame it on his city, she tells him she wants a lawyer.
Frank meets with Garrett at a bar and takes out a paper and begins to read. It is a press release for Garrett's resignation. All it needs is Frank's signature. Frank tells him that, all-in-all, it's much better than the last one and asks Garrett if he has a pen. Garrett takes one out of his pocket and hands it to Frank who draws a big "X" over the paper and slams the pen down then orders a drink on Garrett's bill. Danny goes to visit Erin at her office, not to gloat, but to tell her Nicky was with Linda and the boys and they have a corner table at Chops. He helps her on with her coat and the two leave for dinner.
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Season One, Episode Twenty: All That Glitters
Original Air Date: April 29, 2011
When a tourist to New York City is killed during an apparent robbery outside a trendy lower-east-side restaurant, Danny and Jackie begin an investigation into the extremely high-profile case. The evidence leads them to a Haitian immigrant who, by all means, looks perfect for being the suspect. However, things become more complicated when the immigrant, an ex-policeman himself, gives them evidence that very well could mean the murder was more than a crime of opportunity.
A couple from Iowa, Lance and Margaret "Maggie" Olson (George Merrick & Tara Westwood), are dining at a trendy lower-east-side restaurant and discussing the fun day of sightseeing they had. The waitress, Maya (Elizabeth Fye), comes to the table to close out for the evening. Lance pays the bill and gives her a very generous tip while discussing his business back home. He grows corn that is turned into ethanol. He mentions having his after-dinner cigar and the waitress tells him to not have it in front of the restaurant because the smoke gets in and the customers hate it but to instead go down a little way to the left. He promises Maggie he will be back before she can finish eating.
Erin Reagan arrives late to dinner with her father. She is out of sorts because an old case has come back to haunt her. Ian Boyd was shot dead that day by a convenience store owner he was trying to rob after he shot a young woman in the store who tried to warn the owner that she had seen a gun on Boyd. She feels guilty that because she lost Boyd's last robbery case he was able to be back on the streets to rob and kill again.
Lance is enjoying his cigar and doesn't notice a man wearing a hood walk up a few steps away. The hooded man takes a gun from his pocket while, inside, Maggie is speaking with another diner (Julia Haubner) about the cuisine at the restaurant. Shots ring out as the ladies are talking and Maggie gets up and runs outside. The hooded man runs past her and she sees her husband on the ground and begs for people nearby to call 911.
Danny Reagan and Jackie Curatola arrive to investigate the shooting. Danny gets the details from a uniformed officer. After the shooting, the diners inside the restaurant went back to eating their meals. Lance was shot three times and all of his money and credit cards were taken. He's at St. Benjamin's Hospital in critical condition. The gun hasn't been found and in the canvass, some residents were sleeping and the ones who weren't didn't think it was that big of a deal. Danny orders a second canvass in the event someone didn't answer the door and to widen the search perimeter for the weapon.
At the Reagan house, Frank and his father discuss Erin's bad news. When Henry suggests some coffee Frank tells him if he wasn't awake he would be now as a message came in on his phone about Lance Olson's shooting.
Danny and Jackie go to see Maggie Olson at the hospital. They ask if she saw anything and she tells them about hearing the gunshots and running outside. She blames herself for dragging him to New York as she enjoyed the city so much when visiting with a friend. After a second question of seeing anything from Jackie she mentions seeing the man wearing the hood that could have been blue walk past her as she came out of the restaurant. Danny asks about Lance paying the bill with cash and asks if he usually carried large amounts of money. She admits that her husband likes to pay with cash as he said businesses appreciated it. Jackie asks who might have known he had a lot of cash on him. She says they got into town, stayed at the hotel all night as this was kind of a second honeymoon for them. She mentions the bell man, the cab driver and the waitress at the restaurant.
Jamie Regan and Sgt. Renzulli are at the scene where a 74 year-old homeless man was found dead. Renzulli estimates he's been dead at least a day based upon the condition of the body. Jamie stops Dr. Laura Trent (Jennifer Restivo) to ask about the death. She found insulin on the body which indicated early on complications from diabetes but she found neon-green fluid in the mouth which could have been anti-freeze. Tests at the lab will confirm if it is truly a homicide. When Trent leaves, Renzulli, who has been watching the conversation teases Jamie for hitting on her over a dead body.
Garrett Moore (Gregory Jbara) arrives in Frank's office to point out that tourism is important to New York and is based on a sort of safari model. The tourists want to get close to the lions and tigers but don't want one of them to eat them. Moore insists Frank will have to play to the house on the Olson shooting just enough to show he shares the outrage over the incident. Garret tells him he can stall until Monday without looking like they are stalling. Frank wants a timely, but independent from case progress, press conference. He wants no rush to judgment.
Danny has cleared the cab driver Maggie Olson named as his GPS had him in Yonkers at the time of the shooting. Jackie is looking into the waitress, Maya. She has no record but cannot be found. She will not answer her phone or door. Danny sees her as a possibility as she saw Olson's money and could have called an accomplice. There were four armed robberies in the neighborhood in the past year. Two are unsolved, one suspect is in Rykers and the fourth, Brian Stratton (Marc Bonan) walked because the victim didn't show up. Jackie, who is still looking at Maya's information, sees that Brian Stratton is her emergency contact. She finds that Stratton's number was called from the restaurant phone just before Maya clocked out.
They go to Maya's address and hear loud music coming from the apartment and the door open. They go inside and find her and Stratton apparently on ecstasy and dancing to the music. Jackie gets the call that Lance Olson died and they take the two in on questioning in a murder.
As Erin Reagan leads Maggie Olson from the hospital, the press converges on the two women. Erin pushes them back saying Mrs. Olson has suffered a terrible loss and will have the full resources of the city at her disposal and gives them her word that the person responsible will be brought to justice. Danny and Jackie watch the exchange on television then go in to question Maya and Brian. Danny asks Maya what the plan was. She tells him there was no plan. They just went and scored some E. Brian maintains that all he did was go to pick Maya up from work but Jackie maintains that all the expensive things in their apartment and all they spend on drugs has to come from somewhere. He insists they didn't rob anyone. Danny continues working on Maya and she asks if he'll go easy on the drugs and everything. He tells her he'll see what he can do but she needs to tell him the truth. She tells him that every once in a while they will get a bunch of customer credit card numbers and sell them for extra cash. The guy she works with waits before using them so they won't track back to her. He asks about the shooting and she insists they had nothing to do with it. Brian picked her up from work and they went to East River Park to score some drugs. He asks if she saw anyone outside the restaurant. She says she didn't but admits that a couple of blocks away they saw a black guy tearing down the street in a hoodie that could have been blue and almost ran over him on Brian's Vespa. With Jackie, Brian confirms the story. Danny asks Maya if she can remember the face enough to work with a sketch artist and she tells him waiting tables you get a good memory for faces.
At the press conference, Frank reveals that extra uniformed officers and anti-crime teams have been rotated into popular tourist areas in the lower-east-side and other areas famous for nightlife destinations. A reporter asks if it is acting too little, too late. Frank replies it is acting appropriately to a tragic incident and stresses he's seen no uptick in the statistics they use that indicates Olson's death was part of a trend or wave. Another reporter asks if Frank can honestly say the effect of the murder and profile of the city and tourism dollars they depend on can be minimized by his departments comforting statistics. Frank lays things out plainly. A well-to-do white male was murdered and it could be said, with a slant, that New York is a city of roaming predators and mean streets to sell newspapers and advertising minutes. From his standpoint, all crimes, no matter what they are, are all equally unacceptable and the police try every day to do all they can to prevent them from happening again.
Jackie is able to confirm Maya and Brian's alibi as she found the drug dealer in the park and he identified them from pictures she showed him. Danny received the artists sketch of the man Maya described and has gotten it into the hands of every officer on the lower-east-side. Danny gets a call that a bodega owner (David Brown) recognized the sketch. When they speak with the man, he gives them the name Pierre (Gbenga Akinnagbe), a Haitian man who drives a cab 12 hours a day then jogs the neighborhood afterward. He gives them the name of the cab company Pierre works for, Steady Cabs, and says Pierre told him he only gets paid $80 for his full 12-hour shift and tells them that while most of his customers are a pain, Pierre is one of the good ones.
They go to the address given to them by the cab company and Pierre's wife answers the door. When she turns to tell him the police want to speak with him he runs. Danny gives chase inside the apartment and Jackie heads outside as Pierre goes through the apartment window. They finally corner him in a gated parking lot and he maintains he did nothing wrong. As they pull into the precinct parking lot with Pierre, the reporters begin swarming over the car.
In interview, Danny points out that innocent people do not run from the police and notes that he was thrown off the Haitian police force for stealing, something Pierre vehemently denies. He tells them he was trapped in the earthquake for three days and prayed to live. A man told him he was sent by God to dig and dug day and night until he found him and he knew from that point on he must always be a good man. When he saw the others on the force stealing he told on them. They made up the lies to silence him. Danny asks if he saw or heard anything near the restaurant at the time of the shooting. There was a man who walked past him quickly and turned his head away as if he didn't want to be seen. His clothes didn't match. He wore a big hoodie on the top and nice trousers on the bottom and shiny leather shoes, something he found strange.
The press runs with the story of Pierre's arrest. Jackie learned from Pierre's wife that since she lost her job, her husband was more and more desperate for money. Danny feels that Pierre was a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jackie thinks everything points to his guilt but Danny insists it doesn't feel right. Erin arrives at their desks asking about the good suspect she's heard they have in custody. Danny informs her it is a matter of opinion, which, at the moment, is split. Erin wants them to go back to Maggie Olson to see if she can identify the suspect, something Danny is reluctant to do since she didn't get a good look at the man at the time of the shooting and Pierre's face has been all over the television. Erin insists that Maggie Olson should have the chance to try and identify the suspect, if she can. Danny reluctantly agrees.
Jamie pays a visit to Dr. Trent to ask a favor. He says he misplaced his notebook from the homeless man's death scene and wants to know if she can log him onto the system from her end so his boss won't know. She does and, instead of researching the homeless man's case, he does a search for Lydia Gonsalves so he can read her death report.
Garrett Moore and Frank Reagan are under fire from the mayor's office about Frank's comments at the press conference. The mayor wants a clarifying statement but Moore maintains every reporter at the conference understood what Frank was saying and there is nothing to clarify. It's made clear the mayor requested the clarification, end of story. Frank replies with a comment that the Commissioner regrets not making it clear that tourists needed to exercise reasonable caution in emerging neighborhoods where the underprivileged are being pushed out. Where a bodega that still accepts food stamps sits next to a restaurant that gets $50 a plate for macaroni and cheese. The mayor's representative gives up but she informs them the mayor will not and leaves. When she's gone, Moore tells Frank he's an idiot and his position won't be compromised by embracing the fact tourism is good for New York City.
Danny and Erin go to Maggie Olson's hotel room and are met at the door by Maggie's sister, Leslie (Tracy Swallows). She introduces them to her husband Mark (Greg Connolly) and Carl Perry (John Patrick Hayden), a friend of the family. When she goes to get Maggie, Danny asks the men if they are from Iowa also. Mark says they are and tells them they haven't had a murder in his town for five years and criticises the city for luring people there with fancy advertising and putting a fancy restaurant in a hell-hole while armed criminals roam the streets. Leslie returns with Maggie and Erin tells her they could use her help if she's up to it. She asks if anything has come back to her about the man she saw running from her husband. When Erin says they'd like to put her in front of a line-up to see if anything jogs her memory, Maggie asks about them having arrested someone. Erin asks if she saw anything about it on the news and Maggie says she hasn't as she can't bear to watch it. Erin turns to give Danny a promising look then asks Maggie if she could handle a line-up. Maggie says she will do anything to put Lance's killer behind bars. At the precinct, five men walk into a line-up and Danny instructs Maggie to look at all the men and tell him if she recognizes any of them. She identifies #5, Pierre, and Danny asks where she recognizes him from. She identifies him as the man she saw running away from Lance. When she leaves, Erin is pleased she was able to identify Pierre, but Danny doesn't feel the same. He thinks they just served him up on a silver platter but Erin is pushing ahead.
At the Reagan family dinner, Nicky mentions reading eye witness testimonies are responsible for a lot of wrongful convictions. Jamie and Henry point out that eye witnesses are the best bet in criminal cases and carry a lot of weight. Danny points out that is fine as long as the witnesses saw what they say they did. He finds it strange that Maggie didn't see a face then, after Pierre's face was plastered all over the television she suddenly remembered it. Danny's kids say they saw Pierre on television and he just looked liked a scary bad guy. He explains that you can't tell if someone is bad just by looking at them. Jamie tells Erin she's in the worst position there but Danny disagrees and says the Haitian guy is the one in the worst position. In the kitchen, Erin hastily does the dishes and puts them away as Danny enters and takes a cup from the cupboard. Frank calls them down for their huffy behavior and asks Danny what makes him think Pierre is innocent. Danny says he doesn't know for a fact Pierre is innocent but he thinks with all the pressure on the case he can use a devil's advocate on the inside as he gave them a good clue that only a good cop would know about. Frank asks if that leads them to another suspect. Danny admits it opens the door to the possibility that maybe it wasn't just another street crime. Erin maintains Pierre has motive and opportunity and Maggie has identified him and she can't understand why Danny wants to complicate things. Frank advises Danny to not let the fact Pierre is an ex-cop with a hard luck story to cloud his judgment and he says he isn't. When Erin tells him he is, Frank interjects that she can't undo what happened with Ian Boyd with the Olson case, or any case. After some thought, she asks if Danny is going to back off Pierre. He assures her if he is the guy he wants him as bad as she does. He also promises she will have solid evidence by the book if Pierre isn't the guy. She quietly tells him she will hold off on the indictment.
Jackie and Danny go back to speak with Maggie Olson to tie up a few loose ends. She asks if it will take long as she needs to meet with people to sign transfer papers to take Lance's body home. Jackie tells her they are looking at the case from every angle before wrapping it up. Danny informs her they've been looking at the shooting as a crime of opportunity but they wanted to at least consider the fact perhaps it wasn't random. He asks if Lance had any enemies and she says he didn't. Jackie tells her they revisited Lance's phone records, especially while he was in New York, but they decided to go back a few months and found a lot of calls to Carl Perry. She explains Carl and Lance did business together. Danny urges her to be honest with them as when they accessed Carl's phone records they found a lot of calls to her home at times when Lance's business records shows he wasn't home and her credit card records show three weekends at a Hotel Mandolin and she wasn't there with her husband and they have the hotel confirming she was actually with Carl. She admits Lance was away so much and Carl thought he was in love with her. The affair was wrong and stupid but she broke it off and swore to herself she'd make it up to Lance. The trip was about that. She thinks it's impossible Carl could have killed her husband but Danny points out jealousy is a strong motive.
At the precinct, Carl sees Maggie arrive and Jackie take her into another room. Danny paces by his desk until Jackie comes back with what she learned from Maggie. She and Carl met at a dinner for one of Lance's bio-fuel investors and there was a spark she just couldn't ignore. At the hotel, she learned Carl was a junkie for champagne and breakfast in bed and bacon, extra-crispy. Danny goes in to speak with Carl hoping they can use something to get at the truth. He thanks Carl for the list of Lance's business associates then asks him about the fact he's a pilot. He asks that, since he does preparation and planning as a pilot, if he would do a dry run if he wanted to kill someone. He gets up to leave but Danny pushes him back into the chair. Danny reveals he knows about the affair and drops that Maggie is saying a lot of things about him including what she told Jackie about their time at the hotel. He also says she talked about the dry run he did. Danny shows him a receipt belonging to Carl from the same restaurant where Lance was killed. Carl explains the dinner as a meeting with Ray Lawrence on a business trip to New York and advises Danny to ask him about it. He did and Ray told him Carl chose the restaurant. Danny also knows that Carl asked a waiter where someone would go if they wanted to smoke, as Lance did. Carl asks what him eating at the same restaurant as Lance and having a smoke there proves. Danny tells him it proves everything Margaret is saying: Carl wanted to be with her and he wanted Lance's money, too. Jackie enters the room and asks how it's going and Danny tells her it is up to Carl. Danny and Jackie talk about Maggie's convincing story and he tells Carl it would be a real shame if Maggie was able to pull it over on him, too. Carl insists they are trying to manipulate him. Danny gets up to leave saying Maggie gets her freedom and Lance's money while Carl gets 25 to life unless he has some info that contradicts her story.
Danny and Jackie go back in to speak with Maggie who wants to get back to the hotel. He tells her to sit down and tells her Carl confessed to shooting Lance. She becomes upset and asks why he would do it. Danny shows her a phone which she identifies as belonging to Carl. He plays a message where she called Carl and told him to fly her sister there and everyone would feel so sorry for her and then they'll be home free. She claims the message isn't what it sounds like. Jackie tells her Carl had an ace in the hole: he kept a few choice messages she had left for him. When Danny tells her he hates it when people do bad things and blame it on his city, she tells him she wants a lawyer.
Frank meets with Garrett at a bar and takes out a paper and begins to read. It is a press release for Garrett's resignation. All it needs is Frank's signature. Frank tells him that, all-in-all, it's much better than the last one and asks Garrett if he has a pen. Garrett takes one out of his pocket and hands it to Frank who draws a big "X" over the paper and slams the pen down then orders a drink on Garrett's bill. Danny goes to visit Erin at her office, not to gloat, but to tell her Nicky was with Linda and the boys and they have a corner table at Chops. He helps her on with her coat and the two leave for dinner.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
US Television: Blue Bloods, Episode 1.19 "Model Behavior"
Blue Bloods
Season One, Episode Nineteen: Model Behavior
Original Air Date: April 9, 2011
When Linda Reagan's niece, Sofie, an aspiring model, collapses on the runway during Fashion Week, and a former model turned reality television star dies at the same show, they find the two women were poisoned with the deadly death cap mushroom. While information about the dark side of the modeling world is revealed during the investigation, truths about the relationship between Linda and her sister, Wendy come to light as well. Meanwhile, Frank and Henry Reagan are distressed over news their parish priest is being transferred to Bolivia.
Linda (wearing a dress she plans to return the next day!), Erin and Nicki attend a fashion show where Linda's niece, Sofie (Sonya Harum), is modeling. Linda goes backstage with her sister, Wendy, to see Sofie as the models prepare for the show. An ex-supermodel (with a T.V. show), Milli Sky (Karolina Muller), comes through and warns Sofie not to fall down since it's her big day then huffs off after demanding a mineral water from her assistant, Cameron (Marina Squerciati). Sofie's mother advises her to not let the woman jinx her. Wendy sends Linda back out to the audience so Sofie can 'focus'.
Frank is on the phone over a photo in the newspaper of one of his officers behind the wheel of his cruiser while texting. He wants the officers boss to come to his office immediately. Henry Reagan brings lunch and word that he received some unsettling news while working the breakfast line of Comforting Community at the church that morning. The parishioner heard Father McMurray was leaving as he's being transferred to Bolivia. Frank finds it a bit of an odd move and Henry doesn't want to think about St. Luke's without McMurray as he's meant so much to their family.
The models take the runway amid loud music, lights and flashing cameras. Sofie comes out wearing a shimmering gown. When she turns to walk back down the runway, she pauses then collapses to the floor. Wendy and Linda stand and run to her. Linda tells Erin to call 911. Sofie is unresponsive. They hear a scream from the audience and Linda gets up and runs to where the scream came from. Milli Sky is on the floor, dead.
At the hospital, Wendy feels guilty for pushing Sofie knowing she wasn't feeling good but Erin tells her she shouldn't blame themselves. Wendy feels that Millie being dead cannot be a coincidence. Atlanta (Ann Markley), arrives at the hospital asking about Sofie, who is in a coma. Wendy introduces Atlanta, who has been a big sister to Sofie since her modeling career started, to Linda and Erin. Sofie's doctor (Stacy Yen) comes to speak with Wendy and tells her the tox screen of Sofie's stomach revealed a poisonous mushroom, amanita phalloides (death cap). Now that they know what affected her, they can focus on restoring her liver function. Milli had the same mushroom in her system, only in a larger amount than Sofie. Atlanta questions who would do such a thing and Erin remarks that is what the police will have to find out.
At St. Lukes, Frank lights a candle then goes into confession. His sins were losing his temper at Sunday dinner and swearing before his grandchildren as he was angry at his son (Danny, the priest provides his name). Father McMurray (John Dossett) tells Frank they've talked about the temper. Frank tells the priest he hears he's leaving St. Lukes. McMurray remarks "so much for keeping the transfer quiet". Frank asks if it is something he really wants and McMurray replies that he's had a good run at St. Lukes and would find Bolivia an invigorating challenge. Frank then asks if there's anything he can say that will change his mind. McMurray tells him he's a parish priest and goes where he is asked then closes the confession window.
Danny and Jackie arrive at the hospital and speak with Atlanta wanting to track Milli and Sofie's whereabouts for the past 12-20 hours, the length of time it takes the mushrooms to take effect. Jackie brings up information given by Wendy that Sofie was at a party at Milli's. Atlanta admits they all were there as it was an annual party given by Milli to kick off Fashion Week. She knows of no one at the party who would want to hurt Sofie as she's the sweetest girl in the world and hasn't even been in the business long enough to make enemies. Danny next asks about Milli to which Atlanta replies "everybody". Harry (Hank Chen), Atlanta's best friend and Sofie's hairdresser, arrives and asks if Dorian knows about Sofie being in the hospital. Dorian (Andrew Pastides) is Sofie's new boyfriend. Atlanta tells Harry the police want to know if anyone at the party would want to see Milli dead and Harry, too, says "everybody". At the precinct, Jackie expresses her doubts about the case as she knows nothing about fashion and models. Danny doesn't either but he's working the case for Linda and her sister (the sister Jackie notes she never hears anything nice about).
Frank pays a visit to Bishop Donovan (Peter Gerety) about Father McMurray's leaving St. Lukes. The Bishop tells him it's a hard times for the church. He's had to close six schools in the diocese, including St. Brendan's, the school Frank and his children attended. The Bishop asks Frank if he spoke with McMurray and Frank admits he did and that McMurray told him he was fine with the move. However, Frank thinks the issue is more what he didn't say and something is wrong. Bishop Donovan admits to Frank that a woman accused Father McMurray of inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature. Frank asks if the woman has any proof and the Bishop tells him in the current climate, proof isn't necessary. He reminds Frank it wasn't too long ago Frank came to him to say St. Lukes couldn't sweep anything under the rug so they are facing the issue head-on. Frank insists Father McMurray is a good man and the woman's allegations aren't possible and it is just as important to exonerate an innocent person as it is to convict a guilty one. Frank blatantly states to Bishop Donovan he isn't facing the problem head-on, he's using another way of sweeping things under the rug. Bishop Donovan makes it clear that McMurray leaves at the end of the month as ignoring the allegations would bring attention the Church cannot afford.
Jackie tells Danny the mushroom samples were sent to the DEA lab in Washington D.C. as they can tell what country they came from. The police lab is going over everything found backstage at the fashion show. Danny feels Milli's party is the best bet. Milli's loft was completely cleaned out and the caterers disposed of all the old food. A video from Milli's people arrived while he was out. She had every minute of the party recorded for her reality show by a professional camera crew. The footage contains every move Milli made that night. As they're talking, an officer brings Cameron Swanson, Milli's personal assistant in to speak with them. When she removes her glasses she has bruising around her eye. She tells them she knew they would catch her anyway so she's there to report a crime.
In interview, Cameron admits she stole from Milli, but she didn't really consider it stealing since she felt the money was hers anyway. The morning of the party, Cameron used soy milk for Milli's latte, as there wasn't any lactose free available, which caused her boss to scream at her. Cameron told Milli she was quitting and wanted her money but Milli didn't give it to her. Cameron tried to leave but Milli wouldn't allow her to go as she needed her for the party. When Cameron tried to leave anyway, Milli smashed her cell phone into Cameron's face. During the party, Cameron sneaked in and took the $1200 owed to her. Jackie questions why she was with Milli the next day at the fashion show and Cameron admitted that Milli threatened to tell her (Cameron's) parents she was bulimic. Danny asks if there was anything suspicious she noted when she was at the party. She saw Dorian, Sofie's new boyfriend, shaving something onto Sofie's risotto. Jackie and Danny leave the room to talk and he thinks maybe they have been focusing on the wrong victim. When Jackie asks what they'll do about Cameron, Danny thinks she would probably walk anyway since Milli isn't around to press charges.
Jamie logs onto the NYPD Intranet and searches for Lydia Gonsalves. A screen comes up telling him the information is restricted. He tries searching again but receives the same message. His partner comes in to get him and he quickly shuts the Intranet off, grabs his hat and leaves the office. When he's gone, Renzulli (Nicholas Turturro) goes to the computer and finds that Jamie was searching for Gonsalves.
Frank once again goes to see Father McMurray at the church. He tells him he went to see Bishop Donovan. McMurray tells Frank the woman was a member of the parish years ago and didn't have an easy life. She imagined she was in love with him. She sent letters and gifts then finally made a physical advance which he deflected and thought that was the end of it. It was until her marriage failed and she moved back into her parents home and into the parish. Frank asks if he told this to Donovan and McMurray says the Bishop is between a rock and a hard place. The woman has a history of psychiatric illness and if they use that information in their defense it will only focus on the Church's recent history of having turned a blind eye to legitimate claims of abuse. Frank insists the situation isn't right and McMurray falling on his sword isn't the answer. Father McMurray tells him he's at peace and Frank says he wishes the Reagan family could say the same.
Danny and Jackie watch the footage of Milli's party and comment that everyone hated her but were all at the party, like a nest of vipers. They see Sofie and her boyfriend, Dorian, at the party and he is indeed putting something on Sofie's food. Cameron can even be seen in the background. They continue watching and see Sofie take a bite of the food. Milli wants some of what was put on Sofie's food as well but Dorian doesn't give it to her. When Sofie sits her plate down on a table to talk to Atlanta, Milli puts hers down next to Sofie's then picks up Sofie's and eats from it.
They go to Dorian's apartment and hear loud music. When the door is answered, they go in, Danny showing his badge, and he tells everyone to put their hands where they can be seen and to turn the music off. They hear a toilet flush and Danny enters the room to find Dorian flushing something. Danny takes the baggie from Dorian and takes him to the other room. He holds up the back so Jackie can see: it's full of mushrooms.
In the interview room, Danny reads lyrics from Dorian's CD speaking of watching models 'die, die'. Dorian maintains it's just a song but Danny points out how convenient it would be if Dorian's new girlfriend, a model, died when his new video was about to be released. Dorian admits it would be "#1 with a bullet" bringing a slap from Danny. Dorian says the mushrooms were psychedelic mushrooms. Danny mentions the video showing him shaving something like mushrooms onto Sofie's risotto at the party. Dorian tells him it was a truffle he paid $2,000 for at a charity auction. He says he gave it to a lot of other people at the party and Danny should ask himself why they aren't dead too. Danny does want to know why Dorian hasn't asked any questions about Sofie. He says Sofie isn't really his girlfriend. It was an arrangement between his management and her mother. Wendy thought it would be good for Sofie's "rising star". Dorian got protection from rumors of him being gay from the deal. He was more interested in Harry than he was Sofie. Jackie calls Danny out of the interview to confirm the mushrooms Dorian was trying to flush were psychedelic. Danny wants to hold Dorian for possession until they figure the confusing case out.
At the hospital, Linda visits with Wendy and Sofie, who is breathing on her own. Linda tells her sister Dorian is no longer a suspect and Wendy admits to the 'arrangement' between Sofie and Dorian. Wendy becomes defensive and demands Linda leave the hospital room.
Around the dinner table, Frank explains the situation with Father McMurray to the family. He asks what they think. Danny feels the whole situation stinks. Erin feels it isn't an issue of legality; it isn't a question of due process, it's an ethical issue. Jamie asks the family if they are being selfish for wanting to lose Father McMurry and putting their needs before that of the Church. Henry thinks they should have faith that Bishop Donovan will do the right thing. Frank comments that "everything has a cost--even truth--but the reward for truth is a clear eye and a clear conscience", something Bishop Donovan said at St. Brendan's. Frank hopes Donovan remembers that.
Danny brings Jackie coffee the next morning. She has information that the mushrooms came from Morocco and were harvested no more than one month earlier. She pulled passenger lists from the last six weeks from Marrakesh and Casablanca. She gives Danny a list from Iberia Airlines. She hasn't found anything thus far on American but she's checking Air France. On the Iberia list, Danny finds a listing for Newark to Marrakesh via Paris for Harry Bell on seat 30A three weeks ago. They go to Harry's apartment and hear loud music but he doesn't respond when they knock on the door. They draw their weapons and Danny kicks the door in. Inside the apartment, they find Harry dead in the bath from an apparent suicide.
Jackie and Danny find Dorian doing community service in the park and question him about Harry. Dorian and Harry had 'their time' in Morocco but Harry said nothing to him about mushrooms. Jackie mentions they didn't see Dorian's name on the manifests and he tells them he doesn't fly commercial. He went to Morocco because Harry was working on a photo shoot for Atlanta's Marrakesh spread. She flew to Morocco on Dorian's private plane with him.
They go to Atlanta's place of business and find her on the roof. She warns them not to come any closer and threatens to jump. She feels that, at 25, her life is over as she went from booking a dozen shows a year down to just one. And she had to beg for that one. She didn't mean to hurt anyone and thought the mushrooms would just make Sofie sick and she could close the show instead of Sofie. She admits to putting the mushroom in Sofie's risotto when she wasn't looking but doesn't know what happened to Milli. She feels guilty for Harry as she said he suspected her even though he didn't see her buy the mushrooms. She told him if he said anything against her, she would say they did it together. Danny tries to convince her Harry killed himself and that everything can be worked out. He takes a few steps toward her and grabs hold of her hand, pulling her away from the ledge. He and Jackie place her under arrest.
At the hospital, Linda arrives in Sofie's room. Wendy apologizes for how she treated Linda the day before. She tells her sister that if Sofie comes out of her coma, she's going to be making a lot of changes. She feels guilty that she closed her eyes to the truth about the people surrounding her daughter but Linda tells her she was doing what she thought best, something every mother is guilty of. Wendy admits she always envied Linda because she's known exactly who she was and never once pretended to be something she wasn't for anyone while she spent her entire life trying to forget where she came from and be something she wasn't. The two sisters come to an understanding in their relationship and embrace. As they are hugging, Sofie awakens and calls to her mother.
Bishop Donovan pays a visit to Frank in his office. He makes small talk about knowing Frank had something great in him and how good their schools are. He tells Frank he reminded him of something when they last spoke: was he sacrificing truth for expedience in sending the problem elsewhere. He felt he was. Now, they will face the problem head-on. That night, Henry arrives home from a Comforting Community board meeting with news there's enough funds in the coffers for the charity to last another year. He also has news that Bishop Donovan changed his mind and Father McMurry will remain in New York.
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Season One, Episode Nineteen: Model Behavior
Original Air Date: April 9, 2011
When Linda Reagan's niece, Sofie, an aspiring model, collapses on the runway during Fashion Week, and a former model turned reality television star dies at the same show, they find the two women were poisoned with the deadly death cap mushroom. While information about the dark side of the modeling world is revealed during the investigation, truths about the relationship between Linda and her sister, Wendy come to light as well. Meanwhile, Frank and Henry Reagan are distressed over news their parish priest is being transferred to Bolivia.
Linda (wearing a dress she plans to return the next day!), Erin and Nicki attend a fashion show where Linda's niece, Sofie (Sonya Harum), is modeling. Linda goes backstage with her sister, Wendy, to see Sofie as the models prepare for the show. An ex-supermodel (with a T.V. show), Milli Sky (Karolina Muller), comes through and warns Sofie not to fall down since it's her big day then huffs off after demanding a mineral water from her assistant, Cameron (Marina Squerciati). Sofie's mother advises her to not let the woman jinx her. Wendy sends Linda back out to the audience so Sofie can 'focus'.
Frank is on the phone over a photo in the newspaper of one of his officers behind the wheel of his cruiser while texting. He wants the officers boss to come to his office immediately. Henry Reagan brings lunch and word that he received some unsettling news while working the breakfast line of Comforting Community at the church that morning. The parishioner heard Father McMurray was leaving as he's being transferred to Bolivia. Frank finds it a bit of an odd move and Henry doesn't want to think about St. Luke's without McMurray as he's meant so much to their family.
The models take the runway amid loud music, lights and flashing cameras. Sofie comes out wearing a shimmering gown. When she turns to walk back down the runway, she pauses then collapses to the floor. Wendy and Linda stand and run to her. Linda tells Erin to call 911. Sofie is unresponsive. They hear a scream from the audience and Linda gets up and runs to where the scream came from. Milli Sky is on the floor, dead.
At the hospital, Wendy feels guilty for pushing Sofie knowing she wasn't feeling good but Erin tells her she shouldn't blame themselves. Wendy feels that Millie being dead cannot be a coincidence. Atlanta (Ann Markley), arrives at the hospital asking about Sofie, who is in a coma. Wendy introduces Atlanta, who has been a big sister to Sofie since her modeling career started, to Linda and Erin. Sofie's doctor (Stacy Yen) comes to speak with Wendy and tells her the tox screen of Sofie's stomach revealed a poisonous mushroom, amanita phalloides (death cap). Now that they know what affected her, they can focus on restoring her liver function. Milli had the same mushroom in her system, only in a larger amount than Sofie. Atlanta questions who would do such a thing and Erin remarks that is what the police will have to find out.
At St. Lukes, Frank lights a candle then goes into confession. His sins were losing his temper at Sunday dinner and swearing before his grandchildren as he was angry at his son (Danny, the priest provides his name). Father McMurray (John Dossett) tells Frank they've talked about the temper. Frank tells the priest he hears he's leaving St. Lukes. McMurray remarks "so much for keeping the transfer quiet". Frank asks if it is something he really wants and McMurray replies that he's had a good run at St. Lukes and would find Bolivia an invigorating challenge. Frank then asks if there's anything he can say that will change his mind. McMurray tells him he's a parish priest and goes where he is asked then closes the confession window.
Danny and Jackie arrive at the hospital and speak with Atlanta wanting to track Milli and Sofie's whereabouts for the past 12-20 hours, the length of time it takes the mushrooms to take effect. Jackie brings up information given by Wendy that Sofie was at a party at Milli's. Atlanta admits they all were there as it was an annual party given by Milli to kick off Fashion Week. She knows of no one at the party who would want to hurt Sofie as she's the sweetest girl in the world and hasn't even been in the business long enough to make enemies. Danny next asks about Milli to which Atlanta replies "everybody". Harry (Hank Chen), Atlanta's best friend and Sofie's hairdresser, arrives and asks if Dorian knows about Sofie being in the hospital. Dorian (Andrew Pastides) is Sofie's new boyfriend. Atlanta tells Harry the police want to know if anyone at the party would want to see Milli dead and Harry, too, says "everybody". At the precinct, Jackie expresses her doubts about the case as she knows nothing about fashion and models. Danny doesn't either but he's working the case for Linda and her sister (the sister Jackie notes she never hears anything nice about).
Frank pays a visit to Bishop Donovan (Peter Gerety) about Father McMurray's leaving St. Lukes. The Bishop tells him it's a hard times for the church. He's had to close six schools in the diocese, including St. Brendan's, the school Frank and his children attended. The Bishop asks Frank if he spoke with McMurray and Frank admits he did and that McMurray told him he was fine with the move. However, Frank thinks the issue is more what he didn't say and something is wrong. Bishop Donovan admits to Frank that a woman accused Father McMurray of inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature. Frank asks if the woman has any proof and the Bishop tells him in the current climate, proof isn't necessary. He reminds Frank it wasn't too long ago Frank came to him to say St. Lukes couldn't sweep anything under the rug so they are facing the issue head-on. Frank insists Father McMurray is a good man and the woman's allegations aren't possible and it is just as important to exonerate an innocent person as it is to convict a guilty one. Frank blatantly states to Bishop Donovan he isn't facing the problem head-on, he's using another way of sweeping things under the rug. Bishop Donovan makes it clear that McMurray leaves at the end of the month as ignoring the allegations would bring attention the Church cannot afford.
Jackie tells Danny the mushroom samples were sent to the DEA lab in Washington D.C. as they can tell what country they came from. The police lab is going over everything found backstage at the fashion show. Danny feels Milli's party is the best bet. Milli's loft was completely cleaned out and the caterers disposed of all the old food. A video from Milli's people arrived while he was out. She had every minute of the party recorded for her reality show by a professional camera crew. The footage contains every move Milli made that night. As they're talking, an officer brings Cameron Swanson, Milli's personal assistant in to speak with them. When she removes her glasses she has bruising around her eye. She tells them she knew they would catch her anyway so she's there to report a crime.
In interview, Cameron admits she stole from Milli, but she didn't really consider it stealing since she felt the money was hers anyway. The morning of the party, Cameron used soy milk for Milli's latte, as there wasn't any lactose free available, which caused her boss to scream at her. Cameron told Milli she was quitting and wanted her money but Milli didn't give it to her. Cameron tried to leave but Milli wouldn't allow her to go as she needed her for the party. When Cameron tried to leave anyway, Milli smashed her cell phone into Cameron's face. During the party, Cameron sneaked in and took the $1200 owed to her. Jackie questions why she was with Milli the next day at the fashion show and Cameron admitted that Milli threatened to tell her (Cameron's) parents she was bulimic. Danny asks if there was anything suspicious she noted when she was at the party. She saw Dorian, Sofie's new boyfriend, shaving something onto Sofie's risotto. Jackie and Danny leave the room to talk and he thinks maybe they have been focusing on the wrong victim. When Jackie asks what they'll do about Cameron, Danny thinks she would probably walk anyway since Milli isn't around to press charges.
Jamie logs onto the NYPD Intranet and searches for Lydia Gonsalves. A screen comes up telling him the information is restricted. He tries searching again but receives the same message. His partner comes in to get him and he quickly shuts the Intranet off, grabs his hat and leaves the office. When he's gone, Renzulli (Nicholas Turturro) goes to the computer and finds that Jamie was searching for Gonsalves.
Frank once again goes to see Father McMurray at the church. He tells him he went to see Bishop Donovan. McMurray tells Frank the woman was a member of the parish years ago and didn't have an easy life. She imagined she was in love with him. She sent letters and gifts then finally made a physical advance which he deflected and thought that was the end of it. It was until her marriage failed and she moved back into her parents home and into the parish. Frank asks if he told this to Donovan and McMurray says the Bishop is between a rock and a hard place. The woman has a history of psychiatric illness and if they use that information in their defense it will only focus on the Church's recent history of having turned a blind eye to legitimate claims of abuse. Frank insists the situation isn't right and McMurray falling on his sword isn't the answer. Father McMurray tells him he's at peace and Frank says he wishes the Reagan family could say the same.
Danny and Jackie watch the footage of Milli's party and comment that everyone hated her but were all at the party, like a nest of vipers. They see Sofie and her boyfriend, Dorian, at the party and he is indeed putting something on Sofie's food. Cameron can even be seen in the background. They continue watching and see Sofie take a bite of the food. Milli wants some of what was put on Sofie's food as well but Dorian doesn't give it to her. When Sofie sits her plate down on a table to talk to Atlanta, Milli puts hers down next to Sofie's then picks up Sofie's and eats from it.
They go to Dorian's apartment and hear loud music. When the door is answered, they go in, Danny showing his badge, and he tells everyone to put their hands where they can be seen and to turn the music off. They hear a toilet flush and Danny enters the room to find Dorian flushing something. Danny takes the baggie from Dorian and takes him to the other room. He holds up the back so Jackie can see: it's full of mushrooms.
In the interview room, Danny reads lyrics from Dorian's CD speaking of watching models 'die, die'. Dorian maintains it's just a song but Danny points out how convenient it would be if Dorian's new girlfriend, a model, died when his new video was about to be released. Dorian admits it would be "#1 with a bullet" bringing a slap from Danny. Dorian says the mushrooms were psychedelic mushrooms. Danny mentions the video showing him shaving something like mushrooms onto Sofie's risotto at the party. Dorian tells him it was a truffle he paid $2,000 for at a charity auction. He says he gave it to a lot of other people at the party and Danny should ask himself why they aren't dead too. Danny does want to know why Dorian hasn't asked any questions about Sofie. He says Sofie isn't really his girlfriend. It was an arrangement between his management and her mother. Wendy thought it would be good for Sofie's "rising star". Dorian got protection from rumors of him being gay from the deal. He was more interested in Harry than he was Sofie. Jackie calls Danny out of the interview to confirm the mushrooms Dorian was trying to flush were psychedelic. Danny wants to hold Dorian for possession until they figure the confusing case out.
At the hospital, Linda visits with Wendy and Sofie, who is breathing on her own. Linda tells her sister Dorian is no longer a suspect and Wendy admits to the 'arrangement' between Sofie and Dorian. Wendy becomes defensive and demands Linda leave the hospital room.
Around the dinner table, Frank explains the situation with Father McMurray to the family. He asks what they think. Danny feels the whole situation stinks. Erin feels it isn't an issue of legality; it isn't a question of due process, it's an ethical issue. Jamie asks the family if they are being selfish for wanting to lose Father McMurry and putting their needs before that of the Church. Henry thinks they should have faith that Bishop Donovan will do the right thing. Frank comments that "everything has a cost--even truth--but the reward for truth is a clear eye and a clear conscience", something Bishop Donovan said at St. Brendan's. Frank hopes Donovan remembers that.
Danny brings Jackie coffee the next morning. She has information that the mushrooms came from Morocco and were harvested no more than one month earlier. She pulled passenger lists from the last six weeks from Marrakesh and Casablanca. She gives Danny a list from Iberia Airlines. She hasn't found anything thus far on American but she's checking Air France. On the Iberia list, Danny finds a listing for Newark to Marrakesh via Paris for Harry Bell on seat 30A three weeks ago. They go to Harry's apartment and hear loud music but he doesn't respond when they knock on the door. They draw their weapons and Danny kicks the door in. Inside the apartment, they find Harry dead in the bath from an apparent suicide.
Jackie and Danny find Dorian doing community service in the park and question him about Harry. Dorian and Harry had 'their time' in Morocco but Harry said nothing to him about mushrooms. Jackie mentions they didn't see Dorian's name on the manifests and he tells them he doesn't fly commercial. He went to Morocco because Harry was working on a photo shoot for Atlanta's Marrakesh spread. She flew to Morocco on Dorian's private plane with him.
They go to Atlanta's place of business and find her on the roof. She warns them not to come any closer and threatens to jump. She feels that, at 25, her life is over as she went from booking a dozen shows a year down to just one. And she had to beg for that one. She didn't mean to hurt anyone and thought the mushrooms would just make Sofie sick and she could close the show instead of Sofie. She admits to putting the mushroom in Sofie's risotto when she wasn't looking but doesn't know what happened to Milli. She feels guilty for Harry as she said he suspected her even though he didn't see her buy the mushrooms. She told him if he said anything against her, she would say they did it together. Danny tries to convince her Harry killed himself and that everything can be worked out. He takes a few steps toward her and grabs hold of her hand, pulling her away from the ledge. He and Jackie place her under arrest.
At the hospital, Linda arrives in Sofie's room. Wendy apologizes for how she treated Linda the day before. She tells her sister that if Sofie comes out of her coma, she's going to be making a lot of changes. She feels guilty that she closed her eyes to the truth about the people surrounding her daughter but Linda tells her she was doing what she thought best, something every mother is guilty of. Wendy admits she always envied Linda because she's known exactly who she was and never once pretended to be something she wasn't for anyone while she spent her entire life trying to forget where she came from and be something she wasn't. The two sisters come to an understanding in their relationship and embrace. As they are hugging, Sofie awakens and calls to her mother.
Bishop Donovan pays a visit to Frank in his office. He makes small talk about knowing Frank had something great in him and how good their schools are. He tells Frank he reminded him of something when they last spoke: was he sacrificing truth for expedience in sending the problem elsewhere. He felt he was. Now, they will face the problem head-on. That night, Henry arrives home from a Comforting Community board meeting with news there's enough funds in the coffers for the charity to last another year. He also has news that Bishop Donovan changed his mind and Father McMurry will remain in New York.
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
US Television: Blue Bloods, Episode 1.18 "To Tell the Truth"
Blue Bloods
Season One, Episode Eighteen: To Tell the Truth
Original Air Date: April 1, 2011
Danny Reagan, who is at the right place at the wrong time, tries to stop and then witnesses a murder. A routine investigation becomes something more when he is able to identify the shooter and the shooter turns out to be an important businessman, Raymundo Salazar, with suspected ties to a South American drug cartel. After Salazar is arrested, Danny's wife, Linda, is placed in mortal danger by Salazar's men to guarantee Danny will not testify against Salazar.
On his way home from a late shift, Danny Reagan receives a phone call from his wife, Linda. She called to tell him she loves him and to bring home milk. He stops by a convenience store he frequents and chats with the proprietor about cookies his wife bakes as he shops. Outside, two men are sitting in a black Hummer. The man in the passenger seat, Raymundo, has a gun and is waiting for someone, wanting to kill him. The driver tries to talk Ray out of the murder but Ray is unwavering. Inside the store, Danny continues collecting the items he is going to buy and as he rounds an isle, he sees Ray outside with the gun. He drops his shopping basket and orders the store owner to call 911 then draws his weapon and charges out the door. Ray fires three shots at a man walking along the sidewalk as Danny rushes out the door identifying himself as a police officer. Ray turns and fires in Danny's direction but misses him. The driver pulls the Hummer onto the street and Ray backs toward it, firing his gun. He gets into the vehicle and fires at Danny once more before it speeds away. Danny rushes to the side of the young man Ray shot and calls in the shooting but the young man is mortally wounded and dies in Danny's arms. Danny notices a yin-yang bracelet on the young man's wrist.
Frank Reagan awakens a few minutes after one in the morning with a feeling of dread. He knows something bad has happened. His phone rings and he is apparently given the details of what has happened involving Danny. After he hangs up, he sighs in relief saying "thank God" now that he knows his son is alive.
Police and rescue personnel have arrived at the scene and Danny orders them to check every bodega along the street for surveillance videos and to collect any that are found. He managed to get the last three digits of the Hummer's license plate but he wants to know if anyone on the street got a look at the plates or the men inside the Hummer. Danny's partner, Jackie, arrives. There was no sign of the Hummer yet but she did get an I.D. on the victim. David Taylor was a twenty-four year-old man who lived not far from where he died. As she and Danny are heading to David's home, Danny gets a call from his father who is concerned for his son. He wants Danny to have the EMT's check his blood pressure as he feels Danny is amped up. Danny declines saying he isn't amped up, he's angry, supporting Frank's point. He assures his father he wasn't shot and that he's fine and wants him to tell the family he's fine and not to call him as he wants to do his job. Frank tells Henry that Danny is alright but Henry's main concern is his son, Frank. He knows that Frank is going to be thinking about the son he did lose to a shooting.
Jackie and Danny speak with David's mother. She is positive her son had no enemies and wasn't into anything illegal. He was a good son who taught children with learning disabilities and autism. She didn't know where David was headed that night as she was sleeping due to having to work an early shift at the hospital. Her eldest son, Mark Taylor, arrives home to comfort his distraught mother. She introduces her son to Danny and Jackie and, after being asked, he tells them he didn't know of David having any problems with anyone then asks them to leave so his mother can have some time. Jackie gives them her card and she and Danny turn to leave. David's mother stops them and hands them David's favorite sweatshirt begging them to make sure it is put on her son as she doesn't want him to get cold. Danny assures her that they will.
At their desks, Danny tells Jackie David's shooting wasn't the killers first murder because of his actions and even the vehicle and how he was dressed. Jackie notes that David's phone dumps lead them nowhere. Danny has looked over every felony arrest in the precinct and none of the pictures match the man he saw shoot David. He had already checked the gang unit and suggests she check summons tracking on parking violations regarding Hummers as it isn't a common vehicle for that area of town. When she does, one match with the last three plate digits comes up. The Hummer is registered to The Peru Helps Foundation. She checks out the Foundation and a news article comes up with a photograph and Danny is able to immediately point out the man who heads the Foundation, Raymundo Salazar, as the man he saw shoot and kill David Taylor. Salazar, a self-described philanthropist who is believed to have ties to a South American drug cartel, donated $1 million to the Harlem Regeneration Project and is considered a "Harlem Savior". Danny is certain Salazar is no savior, he is the shooter.
The next morning, Erin Regan briefs Danny on the known details of Raymundo Salazar's criminal activities. He is a Peruvian drug lord that runs the largest cocaine smuggling pipeline into New York. The D.E.A. estimates Salazar's take is $400,000 a week. Lyle Green arrives at her office and she introduces him to her brother as a narcotics prosecutor who is very familiar with Salazar. Danny immediately foregoes any pleasantries and tells Green he is very familiar and very unsuccessful. Green informs them that Salazar has been on their radar for over a year when cheap Peruvian cocaine started flooding New York but they have not been able to directly link him to the drug supply or find a witness who will testify against him. Danny tells him today is his lucky day. Green makes a point of letting them know their Peruvian counterparts have given them information Salazar has a habit of torturing and killing potential witnesses in Peru and he shows them a photo of the body of one of Salazar's lieutenants in his organization who had agreed to testify against him. The man was killed in broad daylight in Lima by one of Salazar's men and no one would come forward. Green asks Danny if he's sure it was Salazar and Danny assures him it was even though it was dark and he was under fire. Danny is also positive he will be able to find and lock Salazar up despite Green's doubts. Green gives Danny the D.A. transcripts and tracking data on Salazar and the latter wonders why Salazar would go to the trouble of doing a hit on a clean kid like David Taylor. Erin provides information that Mark Taylor was suspected of funneling money from Salazar's organization into money market accounts on Wall Street. Green adds they never found proof of that and tells Erin to keep him posted then leaves her office. When Danny leaves his sisters office, he promises he will be nicer next time. She tells him she likes that he doesn't sugar coat anything and she's glad he's alright. He gives her a hug and jokes that all the playing Superman as a kid paid off as he's bullet proof still. She warns him that Salazar thinks he's bulletproof as well and he needs to be careful.
At the precinct, Jackie and Danny interview Mark Taylor after telling him they've identified Raymundo Salazar as the man who killed his brother. They want him to help them find Salazar as they aren't having much luck. He denies knowing Salazar but Danny confronts him about the money laundering. Mark still denies having any involvement with Salazar but Danny pushes harder asking what other motive Salazar would have for killing David. Jackie asks if he was stealing money from Salazar which he flatly denies. Danny tells him he watched Salazar kill David and he died in his arms. He asks if he wants to let Salazar get away with it. He reluctantly admits that if Salazar knew he told the police anything, he would be dead too. Danny tells him to do the right thing. If not for the police or for his dead brother, he should do it for his broken-hearted mother. He tells them Salazar sometimes stays with a girlfriend, Sylvia, in Harlem when he comes to New York. She works at a barber shop on 125th Street.
Danny is waiting for Sylvia when she gets off work. He identifies himself as a police officer and that he wants to ask questions about Salazar, who she claims to have never heard of. He puts her in the back of his car and Jackie shows her a picture of Salazar. She again claims to not know him. He shows her photos of some of Salazar's victims including David Taylor. She does recognize him and is visibly shaken by the photograph. Danny sees she is wearing the same kind of yin-yang bracelet David was wearing when he died. She admits she met David a few months ago at a party at Mark's place. She wanted to get her GED and David began tutoring her. Salazar starting asking questions about she and David and she told him David was only tutoring her but he told her not to see him anymore. She thought she and David could keep their relationship a secret. Danny wants her to tell them where they can find Salazar but she's afraid, fearing he will kill her. He tells her he's going to testify against Salazar in court so she will have nothing to fear. She tells them Lupino is Salazar's lieutenant and he called the barber shop that day to make an appointment for his boss. Salazar is scheduled to come into the shop the next day at ten.
That night at home, Linda tells Danny she noticed he changed the subject every time she brought up Raymundo Salazar. She is concerned for Danny's safety but he makes light of the situation. He can't not testify since he watched Salazar murder David Taylor in cold blood. He tells her that he will probably have to send her and their sons to Frank's house for a couple of days as a precaution. He hugs her telling her not to worry; everything will be alright.
The next day, Salazar arrives as planned for his appointment. As he's getting ready to leave, Jackie arrests his guard that is watching outside the barber shop and takes him away. As Salazar leaves the shop, Danny arrests him for David Taylor's murder. From the precinct, Danny calls Linda and tells her everything is going according to plan. There are two detectives at their sons school who will pick them up and take them to the location they discussed the night before. They will proceed with her pickup the same way they did in the 06 case. They tell one another they love each other and hang up. Danny goes in to speak with Salazar who Jackie has been talking with. Salazar is confident he will not be in jail long and tries to intimidate Danny, something Danny promises him he will not be able to do. Lyle Green is waiting on Danny as he, Jackie and Salazar leave the interview room. He tells Danny he is convening the grand jury on Friday and to secure an indictment he needs Danny to be there. Green tells him he doesn't put anything past Salazar but Danny calmly tells him Salazar has never run into a Reagan before.
Flanked by Lyle Green and other police officials, Frank Reagan holds a press conference announcing the arrest of Raymundo Salazar. He gives details of the arrest then takes questions from the media. A reporter asks if rumors the arresting officer was Daniel Reagan but Frank will not confirm that information. Another asks if the history of intimidation Salazar's crew has worries him and Frank quickly answers "no". It is asked when they expect an indictment. Lyle Green says he'll answer that question. He thanks the NYPD for apprehending Salazar and says that after Detective Reagan testifies Friday afternoon he expects the grand jury to swiftly indict Salazar. Frank ends the press conference after Green speaks. When he and Green walk away from the media, Frank tells Green that his grandstanding just confirmed the witnesses name. Green apologizes saying he understands Frank's sensitivity since it is his son. Frank makes it clear he is sensitive any time any of his people are put in harms way. Green points out the reporter already all but named the witness and Frank makes issue of where that information come from assuring Green it didn't from the NYPD. Green's office has a leak.
A car drives up in front of Danny and Linda Reagan's home and a man gets out. He goes to the door and knocks. When she answers, she sees a badge on his belt. He takes her luggage while she locks the door. She asks him what precinct he and his partner usually work out of and he tells her usually Midtown. She asks north or south and he replies 'north' to which she replies "up on 67th, right?" and he replies in the affirmative. His partner has gotten out of the car and Linda is clearly uncomfortable with the two men. She turns back toward the house saying she forgot her wallet and the man she was speaking with grabs her. As they struggle, the other man rushes up and grabs Linda and injects a drug into her then the men put her in the car along with her luggage and drive away.
At the precinct, Jackie receives a copy of the autopsy from the M.E. showing a 9mm slug was sent to ballistics. Danny is looking over Lupino's criminal record on the computer. Lupino was arrested in 2008 but the witness recanted. Danny's phone rings and it is apparently someone telling him things aren't quite right with Linda. He gets up from his desk to call his wife. When her phone rings, one of her abductors, Lupino, answers it. He tells Danny Linda is not available and will not be until he decides not to testify against Salazar. Danny demands to speak with Linda. Lupino tells him she's pretty and Danny should try to keep her that way and he shouldn't try to find her or they'll know about it. Danny tries to threaten the man against hurting Linda but he's already hung up. A drugged Linda is bound and duct tape put over her mouth then she is locked in a small bathroom in an old house.
At Frank's house, he and his father are preparing dinner. Frank asks what Henry told the kids when they were picked up. Danny bursts through the back door and asks where his sons are and his father tells him they are doing their homework and Henry assures his grandson the boys don't know anything. The boys run into the kitchen and Danny gives them a big hug. They ask where their mother is and Danny tells them she's spending the night at a spa as an early birthday gift. Frank, knowing there is a problem, sends the boys to play video games so the men can talk. When the boys have gone, Frank questions his son who says they got Linda.
The next morning, at his home, Danny tries calling Linda's cell phone but it goes to voice mail. He leaves a message stating he wants proof of life. They will call him back and let him speak to his wife or he promises Salazar will go down and he will then find them and make them pay. Frank meets Jamie and Erin at a restaurant and tells them Linda has been taken by Salazar's men but the boys are safe with Henry Reagan. Erin asks what they will do. Frank feels if the information gets out to the media Linda won't have much of a chance of survival.
Danny and Jackie arrive at lockup but she doesn't understand why they are there. Danny tells her he just wants to have a conversation with Salazar. He goes in and asks where his wife is but Salazar plays dumb. Danny promises him that he will testify and Salazar will spend the rest of his life in prison. Once he finishes with him, he will round up the rest of his crew then spread the word that Raymundo Salazar cooperated. Salazar warns Danny he's playing a dangerous game but Danny assures him he isn't playing then leaves. Jackie asks what is going on and pushes for an answer. Outside the jail, Danny tells her what has happened with Linda.
Baker enters Frank's office with the information he had requested. He immediately questions her if the phone dumps were isolated from the throwaway phone. They have and she places several thick folders down on his desk--the phone dumps from the phone confiscated from Salazar. She places several more thick folders down--cross-reference data from all of Salazar's known associates. A final pile of folders is pertinent data from all personnel involved in the Salazar case. She begins to give him the rest of his daily schedule but Frank interrupts her to confide in her that Linda has been abducted. She tells him she will clear his schedule and leaves his office.
Jackie is working but having trouble focusing when Danny arrives back at their desks. None of the leads he had been following panned out but one did confirm their suspicion that Salazar is getting his information from the inside but he didn't know who it was. Jackie was able to pinpoint the pings from his calls to Linda's cell phone, however, they lost the second ping. A detective walks by and asks what the two are working on and Danny immediately becomes defensive since he has no idea who the leak to Salazar might have been and trusts no one. Frank calls to tell him Salazar's Hummer was found under the 59th Street Bridge and there is a female body in the car. Danny and Jackie leave immediately and Frank leaves his office for the scene as well. Danny and Jackie arrive and he goes to the Hummer to find it burned out. Frank tells him the woman's body isn't that of Linda's. Preliminary information indicates the woman in the Hummer is Sylvia Montoya, Salazar's girlfriend.
At Frank's house, Henry and Erin are going over the numerous cell phone records Frank acquired for the case. When he arrives home, he sits down to help go through the records. Erin has an idea about researching where the phones were purchased. At the precinct, Jackie brings dinner in for her and Danny.
The next morning, Frank and Jamie talk about the case over breakfast. Jamie tells him he got the 5's with the information about the Hummer. The vehicle had very high-end security features on it. Of all five boroughs, Jamie could pinpoint the work to only one shop that does that sort of work for high profile people and he gave that information to Danny. Frank congratulations his son on his good work and says he thought Jamie was working a tour that day. Jamie says he called in sick.
At the body shop, Danny and Jackie question the man who worked on the Hummer but he claims he didn't do the job. Danny wants to know where dropped the Hummer off after customizing it. The man turns on his blow torch not wanting to speak with them further. Danny grabs the torch and holds it close to the man's face demanding to know the address. He gives them an address for a Benz he dropped off at 36 West 128th. Danny turns off the torch and tosses it to the man warning him if he's lying he will be back to finish the job. As he and Jackie are leaving the shop, Danny calls Frank to let him know they have a good address in Harlem. Frank assures him he'll have back up standing by. He gives the order to execute the raid if the location looks good. The police, including Danny and Jackie burst into the location and Danny asks a man they find where Linda is. He tells Danny she isn't there. Danny hits him and again asks where she is. The man gives him the address 2064 5th Avenue. Danny and Jackie move out to the new address. As they search the premises, Danny is jumped by Lupino and the two men struggle for Danny's weapon. Danny gets the upper hand and holds his gun on Lupino while more police move in. He calls out to Linda and he and Jackie can hear her trying to yell to them. Danny finds her and removes the tape from her mouth and unties her.
At the courthouse, with Salazar present, Lyle Green tells the grand jury he is sorry to have inconvenienced them but the witness is a no-show. As he is preparing to release Salazar due to lack of evidence and witness testimony, Danny enters the room to testify.
Erin and Frank are in his office when Baker escorts Lyle Green in. Frank tells him he and Erin were going out to celebrate and Green agrees the indictment was a great thing for the NYPD and the D.A'.s office. Erin is confident there will be many indictments out of the Salazar investigation. Frank tells Lyle he's proud of his daughter. Erin explains the phone calls made from Lyle Green's throwaway phones, which he claims to know nothing of. She reminds him of the phones he bought at Bleecker Street Electronics. Green paid cash but the owner was able to make an identification. She was able to track the phones to him by finding the location of purchase for the throwaway phones used to call Salazar. When they found the proximity to Green, they concentrated on him. Frank assures him they'll get an indictment and, at trial, they will produce a key witness against him: Raymundo Salazar. Green gets up to leave but Baker enters with two officers and places him under arrest for bribe receiving and official misconduct. Erin does the honors of reading him his rights.
That night at Frank's house, the family brings dinner in to the table. Danny and Linda arrive late. Everyone welcome's Linda back warmly and her sons ask how her time at the spa was. Keeping a brave face for her children, she tells them fabulous. After some chit-chat between the boys and Henry, Frank tells his family he feels very lucky to have them all there and he knows his late wife would feel the same way. He knows people don't make time for family dinners these days but he is glad they do as family is what makes them strong. He tells Linda he's glad she had a nice time at the spa and he thought she might like to say grace, which she does.
Blue Bloods airs on Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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Season One, Episode Eighteen: To Tell the Truth
Original Air Date: April 1, 2011
Danny Reagan, who is at the right place at the wrong time, tries to stop and then witnesses a murder. A routine investigation becomes something more when he is able to identify the shooter and the shooter turns out to be an important businessman, Raymundo Salazar, with suspected ties to a South American drug cartel. After Salazar is arrested, Danny's wife, Linda, is placed in mortal danger by Salazar's men to guarantee Danny will not testify against Salazar.
On his way home from a late shift, Danny Reagan receives a phone call from his wife, Linda. She called to tell him she loves him and to bring home milk. He stops by a convenience store he frequents and chats with the proprietor about cookies his wife bakes as he shops. Outside, two men are sitting in a black Hummer. The man in the passenger seat, Raymundo, has a gun and is waiting for someone, wanting to kill him. The driver tries to talk Ray out of the murder but Ray is unwavering. Inside the store, Danny continues collecting the items he is going to buy and as he rounds an isle, he sees Ray outside with the gun. He drops his shopping basket and orders the store owner to call 911 then draws his weapon and charges out the door. Ray fires three shots at a man walking along the sidewalk as Danny rushes out the door identifying himself as a police officer. Ray turns and fires in Danny's direction but misses him. The driver pulls the Hummer onto the street and Ray backs toward it, firing his gun. He gets into the vehicle and fires at Danny once more before it speeds away. Danny rushes to the side of the young man Ray shot and calls in the shooting but the young man is mortally wounded and dies in Danny's arms. Danny notices a yin-yang bracelet on the young man's wrist.
Frank Reagan awakens a few minutes after one in the morning with a feeling of dread. He knows something bad has happened. His phone rings and he is apparently given the details of what has happened involving Danny. After he hangs up, he sighs in relief saying "thank God" now that he knows his son is alive.
Police and rescue personnel have arrived at the scene and Danny orders them to check every bodega along the street for surveillance videos and to collect any that are found. He managed to get the last three digits of the Hummer's license plate but he wants to know if anyone on the street got a look at the plates or the men inside the Hummer. Danny's partner, Jackie, arrives. There was no sign of the Hummer yet but she did get an I.D. on the victim. David Taylor was a twenty-four year-old man who lived not far from where he died. As she and Danny are heading to David's home, Danny gets a call from his father who is concerned for his son. He wants Danny to have the EMT's check his blood pressure as he feels Danny is amped up. Danny declines saying he isn't amped up, he's angry, supporting Frank's point. He assures his father he wasn't shot and that he's fine and wants him to tell the family he's fine and not to call him as he wants to do his job. Frank tells Henry that Danny is alright but Henry's main concern is his son, Frank. He knows that Frank is going to be thinking about the son he did lose to a shooting.
Jackie and Danny speak with David's mother. She is positive her son had no enemies and wasn't into anything illegal. He was a good son who taught children with learning disabilities and autism. She didn't know where David was headed that night as she was sleeping due to having to work an early shift at the hospital. Her eldest son, Mark Taylor, arrives home to comfort his distraught mother. She introduces her son to Danny and Jackie and, after being asked, he tells them he didn't know of David having any problems with anyone then asks them to leave so his mother can have some time. Jackie gives them her card and she and Danny turn to leave. David's mother stops them and hands them David's favorite sweatshirt begging them to make sure it is put on her son as she doesn't want him to get cold. Danny assures her that they will.
At their desks, Danny tells Jackie David's shooting wasn't the killers first murder because of his actions and even the vehicle and how he was dressed. Jackie notes that David's phone dumps lead them nowhere. Danny has looked over every felony arrest in the precinct and none of the pictures match the man he saw shoot David. He had already checked the gang unit and suggests she check summons tracking on parking violations regarding Hummers as it isn't a common vehicle for that area of town. When she does, one match with the last three plate digits comes up. The Hummer is registered to The Peru Helps Foundation. She checks out the Foundation and a news article comes up with a photograph and Danny is able to immediately point out the man who heads the Foundation, Raymundo Salazar, as the man he saw shoot and kill David Taylor. Salazar, a self-described philanthropist who is believed to have ties to a South American drug cartel, donated $1 million to the Harlem Regeneration Project and is considered a "Harlem Savior". Danny is certain Salazar is no savior, he is the shooter.
The next morning, Erin Regan briefs Danny on the known details of Raymundo Salazar's criminal activities. He is a Peruvian drug lord that runs the largest cocaine smuggling pipeline into New York. The D.E.A. estimates Salazar's take is $400,000 a week. Lyle Green arrives at her office and she introduces him to her brother as a narcotics prosecutor who is very familiar with Salazar. Danny immediately foregoes any pleasantries and tells Green he is very familiar and very unsuccessful. Green informs them that Salazar has been on their radar for over a year when cheap Peruvian cocaine started flooding New York but they have not been able to directly link him to the drug supply or find a witness who will testify against him. Danny tells him today is his lucky day. Green makes a point of letting them know their Peruvian counterparts have given them information Salazar has a habit of torturing and killing potential witnesses in Peru and he shows them a photo of the body of one of Salazar's lieutenants in his organization who had agreed to testify against him. The man was killed in broad daylight in Lima by one of Salazar's men and no one would come forward. Green asks Danny if he's sure it was Salazar and Danny assures him it was even though it was dark and he was under fire. Danny is also positive he will be able to find and lock Salazar up despite Green's doubts. Green gives Danny the D.A. transcripts and tracking data on Salazar and the latter wonders why Salazar would go to the trouble of doing a hit on a clean kid like David Taylor. Erin provides information that Mark Taylor was suspected of funneling money from Salazar's organization into money market accounts on Wall Street. Green adds they never found proof of that and tells Erin to keep him posted then leaves her office. When Danny leaves his sisters office, he promises he will be nicer next time. She tells him she likes that he doesn't sugar coat anything and she's glad he's alright. He gives her a hug and jokes that all the playing Superman as a kid paid off as he's bullet proof still. She warns him that Salazar thinks he's bulletproof as well and he needs to be careful.
At the precinct, Jackie and Danny interview Mark Taylor after telling him they've identified Raymundo Salazar as the man who killed his brother. They want him to help them find Salazar as they aren't having much luck. He denies knowing Salazar but Danny confronts him about the money laundering. Mark still denies having any involvement with Salazar but Danny pushes harder asking what other motive Salazar would have for killing David. Jackie asks if he was stealing money from Salazar which he flatly denies. Danny tells him he watched Salazar kill David and he died in his arms. He asks if he wants to let Salazar get away with it. He reluctantly admits that if Salazar knew he told the police anything, he would be dead too. Danny tells him to do the right thing. If not for the police or for his dead brother, he should do it for his broken-hearted mother. He tells them Salazar sometimes stays with a girlfriend, Sylvia, in Harlem when he comes to New York. She works at a barber shop on 125th Street.
Danny is waiting for Sylvia when she gets off work. He identifies himself as a police officer and that he wants to ask questions about Salazar, who she claims to have never heard of. He puts her in the back of his car and Jackie shows her a picture of Salazar. She again claims to not know him. He shows her photos of some of Salazar's victims including David Taylor. She does recognize him and is visibly shaken by the photograph. Danny sees she is wearing the same kind of yin-yang bracelet David was wearing when he died. She admits she met David a few months ago at a party at Mark's place. She wanted to get her GED and David began tutoring her. Salazar starting asking questions about she and David and she told him David was only tutoring her but he told her not to see him anymore. She thought she and David could keep their relationship a secret. Danny wants her to tell them where they can find Salazar but she's afraid, fearing he will kill her. He tells her he's going to testify against Salazar in court so she will have nothing to fear. She tells them Lupino is Salazar's lieutenant and he called the barber shop that day to make an appointment for his boss. Salazar is scheduled to come into the shop the next day at ten.
That night at home, Linda tells Danny she noticed he changed the subject every time she brought up Raymundo Salazar. She is concerned for Danny's safety but he makes light of the situation. He can't not testify since he watched Salazar murder David Taylor in cold blood. He tells her that he will probably have to send her and their sons to Frank's house for a couple of days as a precaution. He hugs her telling her not to worry; everything will be alright.
The next day, Salazar arrives as planned for his appointment. As he's getting ready to leave, Jackie arrests his guard that is watching outside the barber shop and takes him away. As Salazar leaves the shop, Danny arrests him for David Taylor's murder. From the precinct, Danny calls Linda and tells her everything is going according to plan. There are two detectives at their sons school who will pick them up and take them to the location they discussed the night before. They will proceed with her pickup the same way they did in the 06 case. They tell one another they love each other and hang up. Danny goes in to speak with Salazar who Jackie has been talking with. Salazar is confident he will not be in jail long and tries to intimidate Danny, something Danny promises him he will not be able to do. Lyle Green is waiting on Danny as he, Jackie and Salazar leave the interview room. He tells Danny he is convening the grand jury on Friday and to secure an indictment he needs Danny to be there. Green tells him he doesn't put anything past Salazar but Danny calmly tells him Salazar has never run into a Reagan before.
Flanked by Lyle Green and other police officials, Frank Reagan holds a press conference announcing the arrest of Raymundo Salazar. He gives details of the arrest then takes questions from the media. A reporter asks if rumors the arresting officer was Daniel Reagan but Frank will not confirm that information. Another asks if the history of intimidation Salazar's crew has worries him and Frank quickly answers "no". It is asked when they expect an indictment. Lyle Green says he'll answer that question. He thanks the NYPD for apprehending Salazar and says that after Detective Reagan testifies Friday afternoon he expects the grand jury to swiftly indict Salazar. Frank ends the press conference after Green speaks. When he and Green walk away from the media, Frank tells Green that his grandstanding just confirmed the witnesses name. Green apologizes saying he understands Frank's sensitivity since it is his son. Frank makes it clear he is sensitive any time any of his people are put in harms way. Green points out the reporter already all but named the witness and Frank makes issue of where that information come from assuring Green it didn't from the NYPD. Green's office has a leak.
A car drives up in front of Danny and Linda Reagan's home and a man gets out. He goes to the door and knocks. When she answers, she sees a badge on his belt. He takes her luggage while she locks the door. She asks him what precinct he and his partner usually work out of and he tells her usually Midtown. She asks north or south and he replies 'north' to which she replies "up on 67th, right?" and he replies in the affirmative. His partner has gotten out of the car and Linda is clearly uncomfortable with the two men. She turns back toward the house saying she forgot her wallet and the man she was speaking with grabs her. As they struggle, the other man rushes up and grabs Linda and injects a drug into her then the men put her in the car along with her luggage and drive away.
At the precinct, Jackie receives a copy of the autopsy from the M.E. showing a 9mm slug was sent to ballistics. Danny is looking over Lupino's criminal record on the computer. Lupino was arrested in 2008 but the witness recanted. Danny's phone rings and it is apparently someone telling him things aren't quite right with Linda. He gets up from his desk to call his wife. When her phone rings, one of her abductors, Lupino, answers it. He tells Danny Linda is not available and will not be until he decides not to testify against Salazar. Danny demands to speak with Linda. Lupino tells him she's pretty and Danny should try to keep her that way and he shouldn't try to find her or they'll know about it. Danny tries to threaten the man against hurting Linda but he's already hung up. A drugged Linda is bound and duct tape put over her mouth then she is locked in a small bathroom in an old house.
At Frank's house, he and his father are preparing dinner. Frank asks what Henry told the kids when they were picked up. Danny bursts through the back door and asks where his sons are and his father tells him they are doing their homework and Henry assures his grandson the boys don't know anything. The boys run into the kitchen and Danny gives them a big hug. They ask where their mother is and Danny tells them she's spending the night at a spa as an early birthday gift. Frank, knowing there is a problem, sends the boys to play video games so the men can talk. When the boys have gone, Frank questions his son who says they got Linda.
The next morning, at his home, Danny tries calling Linda's cell phone but it goes to voice mail. He leaves a message stating he wants proof of life. They will call him back and let him speak to his wife or he promises Salazar will go down and he will then find them and make them pay. Frank meets Jamie and Erin at a restaurant and tells them Linda has been taken by Salazar's men but the boys are safe with Henry Reagan. Erin asks what they will do. Frank feels if the information gets out to the media Linda won't have much of a chance of survival.
Danny and Jackie arrive at lockup but she doesn't understand why they are there. Danny tells her he just wants to have a conversation with Salazar. He goes in and asks where his wife is but Salazar plays dumb. Danny promises him that he will testify and Salazar will spend the rest of his life in prison. Once he finishes with him, he will round up the rest of his crew then spread the word that Raymundo Salazar cooperated. Salazar warns Danny he's playing a dangerous game but Danny assures him he isn't playing then leaves. Jackie asks what is going on and pushes for an answer. Outside the jail, Danny tells her what has happened with Linda.
Baker enters Frank's office with the information he had requested. He immediately questions her if the phone dumps were isolated from the throwaway phone. They have and she places several thick folders down on his desk--the phone dumps from the phone confiscated from Salazar. She places several more thick folders down--cross-reference data from all of Salazar's known associates. A final pile of folders is pertinent data from all personnel involved in the Salazar case. She begins to give him the rest of his daily schedule but Frank interrupts her to confide in her that Linda has been abducted. She tells him she will clear his schedule and leaves his office.
Jackie is working but having trouble focusing when Danny arrives back at their desks. None of the leads he had been following panned out but one did confirm their suspicion that Salazar is getting his information from the inside but he didn't know who it was. Jackie was able to pinpoint the pings from his calls to Linda's cell phone, however, they lost the second ping. A detective walks by and asks what the two are working on and Danny immediately becomes defensive since he has no idea who the leak to Salazar might have been and trusts no one. Frank calls to tell him Salazar's Hummer was found under the 59th Street Bridge and there is a female body in the car. Danny and Jackie leave immediately and Frank leaves his office for the scene as well. Danny and Jackie arrive and he goes to the Hummer to find it burned out. Frank tells him the woman's body isn't that of Linda's. Preliminary information indicates the woman in the Hummer is Sylvia Montoya, Salazar's girlfriend.
At Frank's house, Henry and Erin are going over the numerous cell phone records Frank acquired for the case. When he arrives home, he sits down to help go through the records. Erin has an idea about researching where the phones were purchased. At the precinct, Jackie brings dinner in for her and Danny.
The next morning, Frank and Jamie talk about the case over breakfast. Jamie tells him he got the 5's with the information about the Hummer. The vehicle had very high-end security features on it. Of all five boroughs, Jamie could pinpoint the work to only one shop that does that sort of work for high profile people and he gave that information to Danny. Frank congratulations his son on his good work and says he thought Jamie was working a tour that day. Jamie says he called in sick.
At the body shop, Danny and Jackie question the man who worked on the Hummer but he claims he didn't do the job. Danny wants to know where dropped the Hummer off after customizing it. The man turns on his blow torch not wanting to speak with them further. Danny grabs the torch and holds it close to the man's face demanding to know the address. He gives them an address for a Benz he dropped off at 36 West 128th. Danny turns off the torch and tosses it to the man warning him if he's lying he will be back to finish the job. As he and Jackie are leaving the shop, Danny calls Frank to let him know they have a good address in Harlem. Frank assures him he'll have back up standing by. He gives the order to execute the raid if the location looks good. The police, including Danny and Jackie burst into the location and Danny asks a man they find where Linda is. He tells Danny she isn't there. Danny hits him and again asks where she is. The man gives him the address 2064 5th Avenue. Danny and Jackie move out to the new address. As they search the premises, Danny is jumped by Lupino and the two men struggle for Danny's weapon. Danny gets the upper hand and holds his gun on Lupino while more police move in. He calls out to Linda and he and Jackie can hear her trying to yell to them. Danny finds her and removes the tape from her mouth and unties her.
At the courthouse, with Salazar present, Lyle Green tells the grand jury he is sorry to have inconvenienced them but the witness is a no-show. As he is preparing to release Salazar due to lack of evidence and witness testimony, Danny enters the room to testify.
Erin and Frank are in his office when Baker escorts Lyle Green in. Frank tells him he and Erin were going out to celebrate and Green agrees the indictment was a great thing for the NYPD and the D.A'.s office. Erin is confident there will be many indictments out of the Salazar investigation. Frank tells Lyle he's proud of his daughter. Erin explains the phone calls made from Lyle Green's throwaway phones, which he claims to know nothing of. She reminds him of the phones he bought at Bleecker Street Electronics. Green paid cash but the owner was able to make an identification. She was able to track the phones to him by finding the location of purchase for the throwaway phones used to call Salazar. When they found the proximity to Green, they concentrated on him. Frank assures him they'll get an indictment and, at trial, they will produce a key witness against him: Raymundo Salazar. Green gets up to leave but Baker enters with two officers and places him under arrest for bribe receiving and official misconduct. Erin does the honors of reading him his rights.
That night at Frank's house, the family brings dinner in to the table. Danny and Linda arrive late. Everyone welcome's Linda back warmly and her sons ask how her time at the spa was. Keeping a brave face for her children, she tells them fabulous. After some chit-chat between the boys and Henry, Frank tells his family he feels very lucky to have them all there and he knows his late wife would feel the same way. He knows people don't make time for family dinners these days but he is glad they do as family is what makes them strong. He tells Linda he's glad she had a nice time at the spa and he thought she might like to say grace, which she does.
Blue Bloods airs on Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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