Two of Falcone's people, Carl and Olga, take a bound and gagged Fish
to a warehouse and chain her to a gurney. She assumes that they'll be
the ones torturing her, but they say that Bob, one of their top guys,
will do the honors. Bob comes in and greets Fish.
Jim is called
to a homicide scene and meets Harvey, who knows that Jim and Leslie
were seen in the station locker room. Jim insists that there's nothing
between them and asks about Fish, and Harvey says that there's been no
sign of her. However, he insists that there was nothing between them and
he only looks after himself. The detectives go in and find the corpse
of a dead drug dealer, Pinky Littlefield. Arnold Flass, a detective with
Narco, is there and tells them that Littlefield worked for the Uptown
Assassins. He figures that Littlefield was killed after a drug deal gone
bad and leaves. As Harvey accompanies him out, Jim checks Littlefield's
corpse and notices a hidden compartment in the dealer's shoe. Inside
the compartment are several packets of drugs.
Harvey comes back
with a witness: night janitor Leon Winkler. Leon agrees to come down to
the station and describe who he saw to a sketch artist. They take him
there and as he waits, Leon calls his wife Louise and explains where he
is. A man comes in behind Leon and confirms that the janitor saw the
killer, and then stabs the man in the back.
When Jim and the
other officers discover that Leon is dead, Edward examines the body and
reports that someone killed Leon using an ice pick with a unique
hexagonal handle. The same weapon was used to kill Littlefield, and Jim
realizes that the killer is a cop.
As Bob prepares to torture
Fish, Fish asks if he has any family. The torturer proudly admits that
he has two daughters, and Fish says that they must be ugly. Bob slaps
her and Fish spits in his face, laughing.
Two of Falcone's men
take Butch to a factory with an incinerator. However, Butch escapes,
takes out one man, and grabs the other. He then demands to know where he
can find Fish.
Jim and Harvey report to Essen, and Harvey
warns Jim that they'll crucify him if he accuses a fellow cop. Essen
agrees but Jim refuses to let go of it. He plans to check the log book,
and Essen agrees but warns him to report to her before doing anything
big.
Alfred and Bruce return from Switzerland and Bruce insists
that his butler drive him around the area where Selina lives. Bruce
points out that the killers who came to the manor were after Selina, not
him, and he has nothing to worry about. The boy finally gets out to
look for Selina, holding a package for her. Alfred reluctantly
accompanies him and Ivy walks by. Bruce hails the girl and convinces her
to give a message to Selina in return for $20. Ivy agrees and takes the
money, while Alfred takes Bruce home.
Bob tries to asphyxiate
Fish using a plastic bag, but she's unimpressed. He prepares to break
her kneecap, but Butch arrives and beats him unconscious, and then frees
Fish.
When he discovers that the log is missing a page, Jim
questions the officers but they deny any involvement. Jim tells Harvey
that the officers are protecting his own and asks him to give him some
leverage. Thanks to Harvey's information, Jim questions one man, Grover,
and says that Alvarez accused him of taking the page. Grover says that
he cheated on Alvarez with the detective's wife and the man bears him a
grudge. Jim doesn't care as long as they have someone to blame, and
Grover finally says that Detective Derek Delaware took the page.
Jim finds Delaware in the basement garage and confronts him, and
Delaware puts up a brief fight. Jim knocks him out and searches his car,
and finds the same drugs in the trunk. He takes Delaware back to the
station room and the officers stare at him in surprise. As Jim drags
Delaware to the holding cell, Harvey tells his partner that he should
have brought Delaware in quietly. He wonders if Jim is trying to make a
statement, and Jim says that he damn well is.
Once she learns
what happened, Essen calls the detectives in and they discover that
Flass is there. He says that it's all part of an ongoing undercover
investigation and Jim put men in danger. Essen tells them that she's
turning Leon's case over to IA, and a smug Flass says that Jim is
welcome to investigate Littlefield's death.
In the records room, Edward gives Kirsten a greeting card. She reluctantly takes it and leaves.
Fish wakes up in a cheap hotel room and finds Butch watching her. She
thanks him for rescuing him, but tells her henchman that she isn't going
to leave town until she gets revenge on Oswald for betraying her. Butch
warns her that they're fugitives, but Fish insists on cutting Oswald's
throat.
Oswald takes his mother to Fish's former club and
finally admits that it will soon be his as soon as the ownership is
revolved. His bodyguard Gabe opens a bottle of champagne and Gertrud
tells Oswald that she's proud of him.
Harvey meets privately
with Jim at a diner and explains that Flass and his people in Narcotics
have taken over the drug trade from the dealers. The older detective
advises Jim to drop it, figuring that Flass is protected by important
men in City Hall. Jim begs Harvey to get him the location of one of the
crooked cops' stash houses. Harvey, realizing that Jim isn't going to
let it go, makes a call and soon the detectives are busting into a
warehouse. They find Delaware and his men unloading drugs and a fight
breaks out. However, Delaware tells everyone to relax because they have a
warrant to search the place and take any drugs that they find.
Back at the station, Essen informs the detectives that IA has
determined that Leon's death was a suicide. Jim sees Leon's widow come
in, crying, and Essen warns Jim that the corruption goes all the way up
to the commissioner's office. Jim is clearly not satisfied, and the
captain says that she and others want to help him. However, they've
learned that they'll need solid evidence against Flass. Once she leaves,
Jim tells Harvey that he'll be back in an hour.
Edward goes
back to the records room and finds Flass and several of his narcotics
buddies reading the card that he gave to Kirsten. Kirsten looks
embarrassed and Flass insults Edward until he leaves, humiliated.
At Fish's club, Gertrud shows Gabe how to dance while Oswald drinks
more champagne. Jim comes in and Oswald introduces his mother to his
friend. He then talks to Jim privately, and Jim asks for a favor. He
wants whatever Oswald can get on Flass, and figures that Oswald has
connections through Maroni. Oswald immediately agrees and promises that
no one will be hurt, and assures Jim that the police officer doesn't owe
him anything.
Zsasz and his henchwomen go to the warehouse and
finds Fish gone and Bob beaten. When Bob demands to see Falcone, Zsasz
shoots him dead.
Oswald sends everyone home, including his
mother, and Gertrud hugs him and says that she'll be bank. Oswald then
drinks and rubs his hands over the fixtures. He goes up on stage and
makes a speech about the grand opening of his club... just as Fish and
Butch come in. Fish is holding a baseball bat and says that he should
put more enthusiasm into it.
At the manor, Selina breaks in and
finds Bruce playing chess against himself. She got his message and
wonders why he wants to see her, and Bruce gives her the present: a snow
globe from Switzerland. Selina admires it and Bruce asks if she wants
to stay there. She stares at him and wonders why, and Bruce figures that
she can help him identify his parents' killer while he gives her a
better place to stay. Selina tells him to chill and claims that she
lied, and she didn't see the killer's face. She only lied so Jim
wouldn't lock her up. As Bruce stares at her in shock, Selina leaves the
way she came.
Gabe goes to Delaware's apartment and questions
him. The crooked cop finally admits that Littlefield didn't pay off
Narcotics, and Flass killed the dealer to send a message. Gabe is
holding Delaware's wife underwater in the bathtub, and threatens to keep
her there unless Delaware gives him proof.
Fish forces Oswald
to kiss her feet, and he suggests that they ally and fool everyone.
Disgusted, Fish says that she took a nothing like Oswald and made him
something, and Oswald boasts that he worked for Falcone as a mole in
Fish's organization and she never figured it out. Zsasz and his women
come in, guns drawn, and Butch shoots back, killing one woman. Everyone
ducks for cover and Butch gets Fish out through the basement. He helps
her escape through a window, just as Zsasz arrives and shoots him in the
leg. Butch refuses to tell him where Fish is, and Zsasz wonders if they
should kill Butch or take him to play.
Kirsten comes to see
Edward in his lab and apologizes. She explains that she didn't show
Flass the card and he found it on his own, and admits that the card was
thoughtful. Edward starts to ask her out, but Kirsten tells him not to
say anything else and leaves. Touched, Edward figures that there's hope
for him.
Gabe visits Jim at the station and gives him a bag
with the ice pick and a tape of Delaware's confession about Flass. The
bodyguard explains that Flass gave Delaware the ice pick and told him to
dispose of it, but Delaware held onto it as insurance. A surprised Jim
thanks Gabe and then looks around the squad room, considering his next
move.
Alfred goes to the study and finds Bruce crying, the snow
globe broken in front of the fireplace. Bruce tells Alfred that Selina
was lying, and Alfred asks if Bruce wants to sweep up the glass or cry
over his shattered ream. Bracing himself, Bruce tells Alfred to get him a
broom, and then goes back to his board.
Jim finally decides
and announces that he's arresting Flass. Flass says that he has nothing,
but Jim shows him the ice pick and the confession tape. Unimpressed,
the narcotics detective says that he's protected and his "friends" won't
let Jim arrested him. Addressing the entire room, Jim says that Flass
doesn't deserve his badge. He says that Leon trusted all of them to
protect him, and they failed. Essen finally steps forward and puts Flass
under arrest, and Alvarez helps her as Jim thanks them for their
support. However, some of his fellow officers still glare at him.
That night, Harvey drives down to the docks and meets with Fish. He
offers her his coat and tells her not to come back. Fish insists that
she's going to come back when the time is right and kill Oswald, and
she'll see Harvey again. Until then, she asks Harvey to find Butch and
help him if he can. Harvey agrees and kisses her, and then leaves.
As Jim leaves for the night, Delaware approaches him and begs him on his knees to keep his family out of it.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 26, 2019