Something Sacred, Part 2
Directed By: Uli Edel
Written By: David Simon
While Pembleton and Stivers manage to apprehend Luis and Pedro after they run away, Ballard and Gharty trace a chalice taken from the house of the second priest to Roc-Roc, the dealer they had picked up. Because Gharty is too emotionally involved with the case, Ballard and Pembleton team up to get Roc-Roc to give up his two compatriots for the murder of both priests. Lewis returns to ask Falsone to investigate members of Georgia Rae Mahoney's organization.
This episode contains examples of:
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: When Bayliss and Dr. Cox demand Kellerman's car keys to stop him from driving home drunk, Kellerman impulsively throws them into the dock. The following morning he's seen shamefacedly preparing to break into the car with a wire coat hanger.
- Bad Habits: Various police officers, including Pembleton, Bayliss, Munch and Falsone, are sent out in the night dressed as priests to do some Serial Killer Baiting. Though it's Averted, as they're doing good, not bad.
- Batman Gambit: When Roc-Roc refuses to give up the murderers, Giardello tells Ballard and Pembleton they're approaching it all wrong, so they lock Roc-Roc in the morgue briefly to show him how awful death is, and then take him to the bay so he can see life's possibilities. It works.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Upset that Lewis seems to be avoiding him, Kellerman gets stinking drunk. Bayliss and Dr. Cox have to make sure he won't drive home.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Ballard and Gharty find out the address written on the pawn shop slip is for a house that was on fire a few weeks earlier, Ballard realizes the person(s) who pawned the chalice must be local, and when she flips the numbers on the street around, she finds Roc-Roc's location.
- Hallucinations: Kellerman gets so drunk, when he pulls a gun on a tall African-American male and cuffs him, he imagines it's Luther Mahoney.
- Mugging the Monster: While Munch is posing as a priest as a bus stop, two teens decide to try and mug him. They soon learn the error of their ways when he pulls a gun on them.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gharty almost does this to Roc-Roc when he refuses to give up the real murderers - Pembleton has to get between them, and Ballard and Stivers have to pull Gharty away.
- Two-Part Episode
- Vehicle Vanish: Lewis does this to Kellerman when Kellerman sees him through the window of the Waterfront, disappearing while a large lorry drives past.
- Yiddish as a Second Language: When approached by a worried passer-by while he's dressed as a priest and sitting at a bus stop in a bad area, Munch unthinkingly gives the guy a Jewish blessing in Yiddish, receiving a startled look in response.
