Directed by Gwen Arner
Written by Joe Viola & David Black
Greevey and Logan go to drug dealer Brutus Walker's home to arrest him for an armed robbery. Just as they arrive, Walker throws a man out of a window to his death. Walker escapes onto the roof, so backup officers Pete Rennick and Nicki Sandoval follow him. While Greevey and Logan search Walker's apartment, Rennick is shot and killed outside. Sandoval says it was too dark for her to see what happened.
Greevey and Logan eventually find the murder weapon and arrest Walker, but there is no evidence connecting him to the gun. Sandoval, who's clearly struggling in the wake of Rennick's death, refuses to speak to anyone about what happened. When Stone and Robinette begin to question Rennick's lavish lifestyle, they discover he'd been stealing seized drugs and having a dealer named Ricky Powers sell them for him. Rennick subsequently killed Powers for supposedly cheating him.
Rennick killed Powers in front of Walker, then forced him to call 911 so Rennick would be the first officer on the scene. Sandoval wasn't involved in the drug raids but she clearly helped him cover up the murder. She confesses Rennick tried to kill her on the roof of Walker's building to keep her quiet, so she shot him with an unregistered gun he'd encouraged her to carry. A tape recording verifies this story since she'd been secretly recording her conversations with him. Stone defends her actions to a Grand Jury as justifiable homicide.
This episode contains examples of:
- Clutching Hand Trap: Referenced by Stone as a metaphor for Sandoval's situation.
- Destination Defenestration: A man is thrown out of the window and killed at the beginning of the episode.
- Dirty Cop: Rumors that Rennik was this turn out to be true. It turns out he had been stealing sized drugs, sold them to Powers (a drug dealer), and at the beginning of the episode he murdered Powers for purportedly cheating him.
- Feet-First Introduction: This is done when Stone and Robinette interview Rennick's mistress, who's a model known for her long legs.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: When Rennick tries to kill her, Nicki turns the tables on him by using an unregistered backup gun that she only started carrying because he urged her to.
- Suspicious Spending: It quickly becomes clear that the rumors of the late Officer Rennick's corruption are true when it turns out that he has a child in college, fancy TVs, and two new cars. He told his wife that he was taking overtime to afford all of this, but he never actually worked a minute of overtime in his entire career and had been seeing another women during his supposed overtime hours.
