AGENT_MYERS ANNA_KATE COLE CRISTINA DISPATCH_OPERATOR DIXON ELISA ESPADA FIT_GUY GINA HARLEE LOMAN OPERATOR_911 PRIEST RAMSEY RECEPTIONIST STAHL TESS TUFO VERCO WALLACE WOZNIAK HARLEE Previously, on “Shades of Blue”. Responding to shots fired at the Sunrise Café. I shot an innocent man. LOMAN You were on foot pursuit. He turned and aimed his gun at you. HARLEE Loman! Are you sure you chased a cop? LOMAN A cop who ran away from a massacre. WOZNIAK I’m not starting a war with the secret police. COLE You’re not crazy, it’s all connected. HARLEE If you really love me. Save me. STAHL Why would you do this to yourself? HARLEE Somebody! WOZNIAK She’s an escort, Stahl calls her “Harlee”. HARLEE Tell me what happened. GINA I saw him. HARLEE Saw who? GINA Stahl. AGENT MYERS Last contact was north of the Mexican border. HARLEE And that’s where you think he is? Mexico? WOZNIAK Is it possible that you’re using Stahl as a distraction? HARLEE A distraction from the fact the Intelligence unit killed the only decent man that I ever loved? Or that you helped cover their tracks? LOMAN At the funeral, Nate started asking questions about Nava’s murder. That thread could unravel Harlee’s bad shoot at the Sunrise. Mister Molina? Don’t contact Nate Wozniak. WOZNIAK Why would I want to be touched by some hipster fairy. FIT GUY Let me go! Uh! You’re dead. WOZNIAK Ah! Oh! HARLEE Did you ever really see Stahl? GINA I wouldn’t lie to you. HARLEE But you’re not sure. GINA I thought I was. HARLEE Somebody! OPERATOR 911 Nine-one-one what's your emergency? STAHL A woman, she's bleeding. She cut her wrist wide open. OPERATOR 911 Can you tell me where you are? STAHL Eight Seven Two Deerfield Road. Hurry up, she's losing a lot of blood. STAHL Ah! STAHL People, well, people fascinate me. I used to observe human behavior for a living. And I can tell you just about everyone walking around out there doesn’t have the first damn clue as to what motivates them. And, you know, I used to feel sorry for the poor bastards. They’d hit rock bottom without seeing a hundred different things they could have done differently. Or if they could, they were simply unable to control the impulses that sunk them greed, ego, pride, love, a woman. That was my downfall. But like all tales of that sweet sadness, there are two sides of the story, aren’t there? There’s a “she said” and a “he said”. It’s Robert. I need to call in that favor. I knew better, I knew being with her was impractical, dangerous even, maybe that was part of it. But once I was hooked, once this siren lured me into the rocky shore. She went in for the kill. She blamed me for things that I had nothing to do with. She cast me in a light that had my closest friends doubting me. COLE It was a mistake, he wasn’t supposed to be a part of it. HARLEE How would you know that unless you were there? COLE I wasn’t, I swear! HARLEE Who killed Nava? STAHL Worse, I let her in my head, into my wiring and once you do that, you give up control. The part of you that knows better is screaming at you to walk away, but the other part just can’t let it go. HARLEE Hello? Hello? STAHL It’s like, uh, gravity. The pull is too strong. HARLEE Hello? Is there something I can do for you? STAHL Some days I felt my sanity slowly slipping, stolen from me. HARLEE No. No more. STAHL And yet every time I see her, I feel the same rush.that same mixture of nausea and joy. ELISA I dated a guy like that once. Always judging me. Such a trap. How can you be happy if you can't just be yourself? STAHL Exactly. See? Now, you get it. But she's underestimated me. She thought I'd just give up. ELISA You don't seem like the kind of person to let someone walk all over you. STAHL I almost was. But then, that's why I came back. To show her that I am a man to be respected. Prove to her that I'm not the man she thinks. ELISA This one's on the house from a fellow member of the Broken Hearts Club. STAHL Thanks, doll. ELISA Yeah. COLE Hey. ELISA The usual? COLE Yeah. Thanks, Elisa. STAHL WOZNIAK Oh. Annie? ANNA KATE Dad, what did you do to yourself? HARLEE Woz, are you with me? WOZNIAK You haven't figured that out by now? HARLEE Where's your gun? WOZNIAK Under the dumpster. HARLEE Easier to fight back if you don't.disarm yourself. WOZNIAK Ow! Oh! HARLEE But that wasn't the point, was it? WOZNIAK I didn't think of an exit strategy. HARLEE Come on. Let’s go. WOZNIAK COLE Hey. STAHL Ah, "The Economist." A thinker's read. Speaks to a man who who makes his future. COLE Or I just like to stay informed. STAHL Ha. Oh, wait a minute. I remember.I saw you at Gracie's tavern.the other night, didn't I? COLE I didn't see you. No offense. STAHL None taken. Thought a cop who works for the Intelligence Unit might.be a little more attentive, but. COLE Can I help you with something, friend? STAHL If there’s anything you ever do want to share, it'll stay between you.and Internal Affairs. COLE You want dirt? Dig elsewhere. Preferably about six feet down.then jump in, and I'll do the rest. STAHL If I want dirt, I'll just stop by the six-four. Their detectives there.love to play in the mud, staining anybody nearby. Now is not the time to make new friends. HARLEE Cristina! You forgot this. CRISTINA I don't have physics today. HARLEE Don't you have lab on Tuesdays? CRISTINA That’s next quarter, you know that. If you want another hug, you just have to ask. HARLEE I'm so sorry, baby. I shouldn't have put all that on you baby. CRISTINA Mom, you've apologized, like, a million times. HARLEE You shouldn't have had to see me like that. Look, I want you to know, I'm putting Stahl and that whole nightmare in the past, where it belongs. CRISTINA Trust me, I'm happy to return to my bubble. It's much less stressful. Mom? HARLEE I mean it. I won’t let Stahl in my head again. CRISTINA Good. I'm gonna be late. I love you. HARLEE I love you too, sweetie. My house? Seriously? COLE Late for your Internal Affairs meeting? HARLEE I passed last week. Standard procedure for lethal use of force. COLE Did you tell them anything about me? HARLEE You think I survived ten years by blabbing to I.A.? COLE Well, I just got warned off talking to you by an I.A.B. Officer. HARLEE And he got you so rattled you came running to me? COLE My boss has friends in Internal Affairs. Ramsey has friends everywhere. HARLEE He’s probably fishing or sending you a message. Do you want me to check on a leak? COLE I want you to tell me if they know we've exchanged information. HARLEE One or both of us may be under surveillance, but I haven't been talking to I.A.B. COLE My partner Parker told me the same thing, right before my unit killed him for it. HARLEE If you think that you're next, then do something about it. Expose what Parker knew. Why was he talking to Internal Affairs? COLE You need to forget you know me. And if you have any kind of survival instinct, don't make any more moves. TESS That’s three shots. It’s excessive for a robbery. TUFO And more precise pattern than your average liquor store gunslinger. LOMAN I recognize the signature. TESS Do you think he went to a different reporter than Nate to defend his son's innocence in Nava's murder? LOMAN I thought I was pretty persuasive. WOZNIAK Someone finished your homework, Loman? TESS Geez, Woz. What? Did Linda get sick of you leaving the toilet seat up? WOZNIAK Domestic abuse funny to you, Tess? I thought you silenced him. LOMAN Not as permanently as Intelligence would have preferred. WOZNIAK Is that what you were discussing last night on your date with carrot top? LOMAN He thanked me for taking care of his loose ends. Probably already knew he was coming here in the morning. WOZNIAK Did this Intelligence officer ask you how you knew their patsy's father was talking? LOMAN He didn't know about Nate. TUFO But they seem to know just about everything else. LOMAN Do you think we led them here? WOZNIAK You find your ginger boyfriend and his pal and you sit on them. And you don't let them get near Nate. Both of you, keep eyes on my son. TUFO Yo, Woz, where you going? WOZNIAK To prevent World War Three. HARLEE Blatant vandalism and consumer theft. Wait until Internal Affairs hears about this. VERCO I'll cop to the vandalism, but it's not theft if you've already paid for it. Twice. HARLEE I guess the real issue is, if Internal Affairs knows about it, who else does? VERCO My ma would probably get a call. HARLEE I heard a rumor that your department has a leak. VERCO Victory. I love rumors. They always allow me to learn things about myself that I never knew HARLEE The Sunrise massacre, a dead N.Y.P.D. Intelligence officer, that’s not sufficient confirmation that you guys need a plumber? VERCO You're suggesting that Detective Parker set a rendezvous with I.A., and that’s what got him murdered? He wasn’t killed in the line of duty by the suspect you yourself put down? HARLEE I mean, isn’t that the kind of urban legend that keeps you guys in business. VERCO Not unless it runs into actual evidence. HARLEE So, Parker wasn't talking to you guys? VERCO Cop gets killed, I'm forced to entertain maleficence by other cops. What makes you go there? HARLEE Just working a hypothetical. VERCO Well, fortunately, we're beyond that stage. You know, ballistics confirmed that every bullet in the Sunrise Cafe not discharged by Officer Parker, including the one in his skull, were fired by the suspect that you put down. HARLEE So, all the slugs in the diner matched the ones in the parking lot where I shot Morris? VERCO And consistent with your story. That surprise you, Detective? LOMAN What's this? HARLEE You said you were starving. LOMAN Is this your way of calling me fat? HARLEE Everybody knows the first rule of a stakeout is get the food before you start. Do you recognize this nine-mil? LOMAN What’s so special about this that it makes you track me down on a stakeout? HARLEE It just morphed into the drop gun that you planted on Morris outside the Sunrise. LOMAN What? HARLEE It also matches every victim and slug in that diner, including the one in the dead Intelligence officer. LOMAN That’s not the gun I planted. I've never seen this weapon before. HARLEE Well, now it’s tagged in evidence and present in every single crime scene photo. LOMAN You know, I knew Intelligence had reach but, how many departments would a swap like that involve? HARLEE Maybe Woz is right. They are untouchable. LOMAN They’re still covering up their tracks. What if I told you the cover up didn't stop with Nava's murder suspect, Cesar Molina? HARLEE I thought Woz put you on a stakeout. LOMAN He did. HARLEE Woz has you tailing Intelligence? LOMAN Turns out I led them straight to another loose end. RECEPTIONIST Just one minute. Uh. WOZNIAK He's expecting me. I would have brought wine but the liquor store was closed for a shooting. RAMSEY Seems we frequent the same establishments. WOZNIAK The old man had given up defending his son's legacy. RAMSEY I appreciate Detective Loman's effort, but, as a rule, I'm not a fan of half measures. WOZNIAK Yeah, well, that’s one thing that you and I have in common. RAMSEY I like security and a good night's sleep which is why I'm glad you're here. WOZNIAK What’s this? An essay on the correlation between God-complexes and erectile dysfunction? RAMSEY Close. It’s an article being written by an intrepid young reporter named Nate Wozniak. I assume you counseled your son on the hazards of fronting a story about repentant felons. Ignore the typos, it's a first draft. WOZNIAK How did you get this? RAMSEY If it's written on a computer with a wifi connection, it's available. WOZNIAK Not without a warrant, it’s not. RAMSEY It's all zeros and ones. I could listen to your dinner conversation using the refrigerator if I were so inclined. All that matters is access. And I have it. WOZNIAK Was it you that said “God-complex” or was that me? RAMSEY The money's better down here. Remember what happened to God's son? Rough day. Tough on Dad, too. "Father, why have you forsaken me?" WOZNIAK You could probably have the Pope fired if you wanted to, but if you threaten my son again, the wall behind you is getting a new paint job. RAMSEY Our dead suspect's father gave Nate a second source, it’s quoted on page two. Anonymous for now, but it gives our man an alibi in James Nava's murder. WOZNIAK Not anonymous to you. You got the source out of the old man before you shot him. RAMSEY I could send one of my men. But as you always seem to trip over them, perhaps you'd like a chance to remedy this development. No more half measures. I need to know we're all rowing in the same direction. WOZNIAK I’ll take care of it. But then it's over. LOMAN A warrant, one witness interview and now lunch. For a couple of elite Intelligence detectives, they sure have a lot of free time on their hands. HARLEE When do you think it happened for them? LOMAN Ramsey strikes me as the kind of guy who cherry-picks his own crew. HARLEE Do you think they joined the force as cadets to murder lawyers and liquor store owners? LOMAN Harlee, I'm sorry. We thought spiking Nate's story was the best way to protect him, and our bad shoot at the Sunrise. HARLEE Yeah, that’s been my go-to for too. Gotta protect our own, right? LOMAN No one could've predicted that they'd go as far as to kill an A.D.A. HARLEE Do you think someone could've predicted how far you or I would go? LOMAN It doesn't feel like you have much of an option while you're in it. HARLEE It's not too late for you, Loman. You just have to reach back to that part of yourself that chose to wear the shield in the first place. LOMAN Their day just got exciting. HARLEE How do you figure that? LOMAN Those are five dollar shakes they just tossed. GINA I thought you preferred wine. STAHL It’s Mexican Brandy. I, I acquired a taste for it. I thought we could celebrate our reunion. GINA I, um, I, Robert, I don't have the wig anymore. STAHL I’ve actually liberated myself from that particular proclivity. GINA Is there, um, something else you'd like? STAHL Not that kind of visit, Gina. Try the Brandy. Savor it. See, you have to appreciate life's little pleasures while you can. The sources of our joy, the relationships, achievements that define us, can be ripped away from us at any minute. You've been spending time with Harlee. GINA But. STAHL It's a good thing, Gina. Potentially. GINA I only told her what she already knew. STAHL Ssh. I am more interested in what she's told you. She’s been coming over almost every week. That is a lot of girl talk. GINA I just listen. STAHL To her lies? It's okay. That is what she does to good people. Disorients, makes you need her. Then she extracts what she wants and tosses you away. GINA She can't stop thinking about you, why you let her live. She listens to the recording of your nine-one-one call that day, over and over. STAHL You need to be really careful here. Trust me, I speak from experience. Harlee Santos is a narcissistic psychopath and a murderer. And yet, she had me obsessed with her and you feeling sorry for her. And that's her power. But I think that together you and me can use that manipulation against her. We can get into her head like she climbed in ours, have her doubt her own sanity. And then we can both be free. You want to be free, don’t you? GINA Yes. STAHL That's my girl. TESS Nate came down for a cigarette break about forty minutes ago. Other than that, he's been tucked away in his office safe and sound. WOZNIAK Cigarette? Since when does he smoke? TESS Oops. WOZNIAK What did everything turn to crap while I was gone? TUFO You're asking the two in the patrol car? WOZNIAK That reminds me, you gotta roll back to the precinct. I set up a meeting for you with the new Captain so you can kiss the ring, so you can get out of these blues. TUFO About damn time. I mean, thank you Woz. TESS When, when is it? WOZNIAK You're, you’re already late. I’ll handle it from here. Yeah? LOMAN Still quiet. Our friends have taken to backing up Patrol calls. WOZNIAK All right, stand down. I’ll handle the situation. LOMAN Stand down? Have you talked to Ramsey yet? Woz! Hello? HARLEE We're leaving? LOMAN Says he has a handle on the situation. HARLEE You think he’s bailing Ramsey out again? Dispatch, tango ninety-three-zero-three arriving on scene at Embassy Hotel, two-hundred block of Prospect. Please confirm the nature of the call. DISPATCH OPERATOR I couldn't tell you everything before because Harlee was there.but, Harlee was as obsessed with Agent Stahl as she said he was with her. She told me she watched videos of Stahl. Of his bedroom. From a camera that she hid there. Video of, um, him with me when I was pretending to be her. She told me, that the day in the cabin with Stahl, she called him to her apartment first. She tried to drug him, to get him off her back. But she knew that Stahl would never just give up. She said that she knew the only way to stop Stahl would be to kill him. She's dangerous. I'm really scared of her. COLE What are you doing? Are you trying to get us both killed? HARLEE I'm not the one ordering the hits. COLE You arrested someone who’s under our protection. HARLEE Attempted bribery of a police officer. COLE You need to let this go. HARLEE Like you let your partner's death go? Does that look familiar? COLE That’s Bennett's plant gun. Now the murder weapon used by the man you shot at the Sunrise. HARLEE You knew. COLE Yes. I knew. I could do something about it or I could stay alive. HARLEE When was the last time you actually felt like a cop? COLE Your unit's not exactly collecting integrity medals. HARLEE Or dead bodies at your pace. COLE You sure about that? An entire gang could be wiped out today because of your raid on that beauty salon. HARLEE What beauty salon? COLE Your boss disrupted a, a drug mule outfit in Midwood with zero concern for the fallout. HARLEE More friends of yours? COLE Seriously, what is your plan? To expose your own bad shoot? To keep pushing Ramsey until he comes after you? HARLEE To be waiting for him when he does. COLE Well, don't shoot to kill. I'll be the one he sends. WOZNIAK Hey, Father. PRIEST I’ve never seen wind this violent. WOZNIAK When it kicks up like this, always made me think a judgment is coming. PRIEST Is that why you're here? WOZNIAK Nah, I know where I stand. PRIEST Most people who walk through those doors do so in search of something. WOZNIAK My son is in danger unless I do something unforgivable. PRIEST Even men I counsel in prison came to see that nothing is unforgivable. If you ask for forgiveness. WOZNIAK Did Cesar Molina ask for forgiveness? Did he find peace before that noose tightened around his neck? PRIEST Before he returned to his embrace, Cesar had found salvation. WOZNIAK Well, what about for you? What’s heaven like? PRIEST I think each of us has a vision of what Heaven might be. WOZNIAK Yeah, but for you. What’s your vision? Close your eyes. And I want you to tell me the, the first thing that happens. PRIEST Music. For me it's music. As it rises, it's as if every song and every note exist at once in harmony without chaos. WOZNIAK Go on. PRIEST Then the light comes. It's warm and full of comfort. I'm lifted off my feet by the power of it, and I know without reservation that I'm held in His arms. An eternity of peace and illumination in His grace. WOZNIAK Sometimes I envy your faith. But now, if you're not in a hurry to see that peaceful light, I'd stop defending Cesar Molina. And volunteer for some missionary work, out of state, tonight. PRIEST What do you see? WOZNIAK Darkness. WOZNIAK All right, if you two fellas worked out which one of you got more of mommy's nipple, let's keep this simple. TUFO Wallace, answer it. WALLACE What? No wire? TUFO You never want to have to explain a wire. I'll mute my end and you just keep it in your pocket with the line open. WOZNIAK Remember faces if you can. But what’s most important is to get a name. WALLACE Name. Got it. TUFO Keep your eyes open. HARLEE Feel good to type his arrest report? LOMAN Yeah, it'll have to be just the bribery. I couldn't get a statement out of the girl. HARLEE I'll swing back by the hotel, try to talk to her on my way home. John Johnson? LOMAN Don't hate. He “thunk” hard on that alias. HARLEE Prints in the system? LOMAN No, but he can rot over there until he gives us a name or calls a lawyer. HARLEE He’s banking on his Intelligence Unit sponsors to bail him out. ESPADA Paycheck’s kinda heavy this week, Loman. Been logging that O.T. LOMAN What are you, being hazed or something? ESPADA Penance. I owe Tufo a favor, so I decided to pick it up for him. HARLEE Penance? What'd you do? ESPADA Ask him. I ain’t saying nothing to anybody anymore. LOMAN You can't snitch to family, bro. ESPADA Yeah, you can. When family be keeping mad secrets from each other, bro. HARLEE Cue the snitch in three, two. ESPADA Wallace helped us I.D. a beauty salon cutting up drug mules like lab rats. So, now Woz has him posing as muscle for a dealer who's patching things up with the supplier. HARLEE Today? The meeting’s today? ESPADA Yeah, right now. Why? HARLEE Cole told me that entire gang could be wiped out. They’re not patching things up. WALLACE You want to know a secret about the bridge stunt? I was trying to impress you. DIXON Showtime. WALLACE Yo, who picked this place? DIXON I asked for something natural. WALLACE Something wrong with the park? TUFO You don't have to chat him up. LOMAN Think it's an ambush? HARLEE If Intelligence is as dialed in as they make us think they are. DIXON Everyone stay chill, let me do the talking. ESPADA Tufo’s not picking up. Are you sure this is a trap? HARLEE God, I hope not.