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[camera clicking] hey, lieu... ballistics ran the slugs that killed detective carvahal. they're a match for an open nightclub shooting that happened last year. how many suspects? 40 yeah, something like that. but one of them stood out. this guy, jay sitrick, he's a bouncer. they didn't have enough to charge him, and they never found the gun. anything further on blanchard? he doesn't have a record. i take it he wasn't very helpful, that it wasn't a pleasant interview? it shows. he emailed the squad contact address. he was being disrespectful. and we don't have time for it. not with this case. so handle it better. talk to sitrick. nina. come on. last night i was bouncing at the beirut. 11th street, first ave. 10:00 p. to 4:00 a. check it out if you want. oh, we will, and that doesn't mean you couldn't have provided the gun for this robbery, mr. sitrick. a gun that never proved was mine in a shooting i wasn't a part of. yeah, but you were the only one interviewed with gunpowder residue on your hands. that test was inconclusive. guys, look, i understand. [motor runs] when one of yours gets killed, you gotta be out there and you have to-- [motor dies] sorry. couldn't hear you. [sighs] i had nothing to do with the robbery. you got anything to do with blanchard? [scoffs] he's a dirt bag. a guy did time because of him. did time for what? him and blanchard got drunk at a soho-ey art show and they stole a painting. the d.a. put one deal on the table. blanchard flipped first. the guy who got sent up just got out. i'd be talking to him. you know this ex-con's name? teddy gullo. he threw that painting in the river! i saw him do it! look, we don't think that you went by his place to kill anybod teddy. i didn't go to his place. so where were you, 10:30 last night? here! you checked in at 11:15. i was copping, all right? which is a parole violation. surprise, rprise. name of your dealer? i didn't kill anybody! so why'd you nearly take blanchard's head off at the bowery pool hall? he owed me some money for a job i did. he threatened to welch, so i convinced him to pay. what kind of job? he's getting into selling stalkerazzi photos pictures of stars with their hair in curlers, scratching their ass? the job was to sit outside chelsea palace and follow sky sweet. the actress? the holy grail being if she came out with her little baby. which she did. so i called him. he tailed her and offered 10% off of any photo sale. so how come he didn't want to give you the money? because she put an injunction against him selling the photos. i didn't care. i wanted my 10 grand. well...so the photos were worth 100 grand? photos doing what? something she didn't want in the papers, i guess. those photos are confidential. that's why we got the injunction. do you understand th they may have led to a police officer being killed? yeah. well, do i need to explain the importce of that to you? i was taking sophia for a walk in the park. she threw her noony. when i bent down to pick it up, she slipped. she was fine. right. blanchard caught that on film? i looked up and there he was, blasting away. she needs a change. yes, ma'am. there have been other photos in the press concerning your parenting? yeah, a scumbag in l.a. got pictures of her in my car alon five minutes, while i went for a frappuccino. it was, like, 60 degrees, and the windows were cracked. right, and we understand that that led to questioning from child services in los angeles? so what? ever occur to you that another public incident might lead to an interview from child services here in new york? a pointless one, yeah. that's why i wanted the pictures. they were out of context. was blanchard willing to sell? we're negotiating. how high's the number? you accusing me of something? look here... you and your baby daddy been running around town like you're bonnie and clyde. hanging out with hard core rappers. now, some of them... are real thugs. they have real history. including robbery. blanchard wanted 400 grand, which is about what i spent this year on sweatpants. so it was the principle. not the money. i didn't need them stolen. now, i'm exhausted. page six has you partying all over the city this week. i liked it better when you didn't talk. well, since the floodgates are open, you got an infant in the room. 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[laughs] i mention it because they were spotted at a restaurant in the city, so he's in town. all of which you know from the tabloids. but, lieu, j-train matches the general description the witness gave at the crime scene. young, white male. right. but mr. woodlief came to this photo on his own. he--he was sure about it. and you take the celebrity part out of it, it's a husband standing up for his wife, right? all right, what do you know about this j-train? he has a reputation as a hothead and seet thug. does his sheet support that? in his bugatti in miami. is there any connection between him and blanchard? blanchard said he'd gotten emails. all right. dcpi said word's out that you talked with sky sweet. so...press is gonna be camped out wherever this j-train is. cassady... do me a favor. keep your face out of the press. [hip-hop music] j-train up in this joint yo, cut the track, g. got it. [music stops] yeah, i wrote blanchard this email. so you threatened to "cap his bitch ass." [chuckles] that's just talk, you know what i'm sayin'? no. not when a police officer's been murdered, no. i don't know what you're saying. how's that on me? stealing photos from blanchard might have bolstered your street cred. that rep was invented by a publicist. i'm from orlando. about gunplay with you. smashing up hotel rooms. i got no gun. and trashing that hotel was staged. i'm trying to sell records. well, if everything's staged, why'd you get an injunction to freeze photos of your wife dropping your baby? because that wasn't staged. that was some scumbag taking advantage. but we get it. he's just looking to earn. everybody knows it's a game. it's a game. so why were you seen leaving blanchard's place la night after the shooting? [scoffs] whoever saw that, i wouldn't trust 'em. i was working last night. you better hope you're on the security cameras. no, i wasn't here. i was with our girl who runs the fan site and handles the mail, beth swailes. [chuckles] and any more for me? you can talk to our lawyer. but i'm sorry about your homey, yo! you might as well turn around. you've got someone to talk to. justin smolka's cell records show a bunchof text messages to a michael whalen. he's got a sheet a mile long. on the lower east side. yeah, well, it turns out he was also questioned at the nightclub shooting last year, where a murder weapon was used. he could be the source of the gun. he could be the shooter. beth swailes backed up justin's alibi. i don't know. a long-time employee as an alibi witness... she had her story straight. well, stick a pin in it. [police siren] i'll have uniformed backup meet you at whalen's apartment, just in case. you're staying here. boss, i know this whalen. i know his big rottweiler. we got rapport. if he's the shooter, i don't want you going through that door. i'll hang back. you'll hang here. how's that fit in with watch and learn? ed, they'll be waiting for you. watch out for the dog. all right. lieutenant... look, i'm sure you had a hand-picked replacement for when detective fontana retired. you're absolutely right. first grader. a lot of years on the job. and you gotta feel i was shoved down your throat because of all the press around me. you know, my only issue with you is that you're green. okay? i cop to it. i was in the wrong salon at the right time. but i did hold my gun straight, and i'm here now. you know, it's something that takes a police officer years to achieve. homicide is not about writing summonses or kping the peace; it's a skill. a skill learned from experience. which i'm hungry to get. fast. isn't that what you came in with? oh, much more. five years in the bag. seven undercover in narcotics. that's where you got your street chops. i'm getting mine here. and until you get those chops, you're a liability to yourself and your partner. you don't go through doors. 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[dog barking] just let me walk out of here, or i'm gonna sic him on you! you do that, and i'll blow his brains out. now call him off. i didn't do nothin'! you got two seconds to call him off. one...tw.. bubba! bubba, come here. clear. come out wh your hands up, whalen! can i just say good-bye to him, please? all right, get up. get up! up against the wall. detective! gun. come on. hey, lieu. the lab confirmed that it is the gun that killed carvahal. crime scene's running prints now. what do you know about him? dad was a drunk. beat him. when mike was 10, he found the old man hanging from a shower rod. then his older sister took care of him. and the mom's in a state mental home in albany. well, boss? just take it slow. listen, whalen... i'll put in a call to mrs. strasnik and ask if she can take bubba till you can sort this through. but only if you are completely honest, and stop actg like a baby. my mom called. she said she saw you in the paper, and that she's real proud of you. how proud would she benowing where you're at right now? hmm? how about lorraine? [crying] lorraine is dead. would she be proud after spending all that time teaching you right from wrong? but i didn't do anything wrong. then why is a police officer-- like me, your friend-- murdered, and the gun that killed him in your apartment? mike... all that time i spent with you... buying you food when you had nothing to eat. peeling you off the sidewalk and getting you home. you gotta stand up now, mike. do the right thing. earn all that kindness. or else you and bubba, you're done. [sniffles] his name is smolka. he's famous. why was it so hard to admit? because i was at the robbery. you were in the apartment? no, down the block. driving getaway. and you got the gun? no, he asked me for a gun, and i had one, so i lent it to him. wait, hold up. how do you know him? i met him at a club, and he parties with meth sometimes. no, i swear. he just said that he needed a piece and a wheel man. and i needed the $50. please don't tell my mom. 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[pounds gavel] [hip-hop music] i'm comin' hard from the prison yard with a untouchable squad maybe it's generational, connie, but this is incomprehensible to me. it's incomprehensible to anyone without a lobotomy. but he's famous? you know who he is? justrom what i've read in the checkout lines. he's a, uh, failed actor. failed singer. they actually met when he was doing a bit part in one of her films. she, on the other hand, makes $7 million a picture. so they could easily buy the photos of sky sweet dropping her baby. why stl them? the real question is, why keep them from the press? those pictures of her leaving her kid in the car, they made headlinesfor weeks. will the accomplice stand up, mike whalen? a lifetime drug addict with a lot to lose? i know i'd tear him apart on the stand. you may need a deal for his testimony regardless. now, you've got a decent eyewitness and smolka's prints on the gun. but smolka's got an alibi and a howitzer in his back pocket. you try any profile cases in c.c.? just workaday career criminals. straight "as" since first grad