Somebody had to have seen something …
Summary: LAPD asks the FBI for help solving a seventeen year old murder of a police officer
Original air date: February 9, 2007 (US)
Teleplay by: Robert Port
Story by: Robert Port and Mark Llewellyn
Directed by: Michael Watkins
Opening numbers:
65.513: Gang members
250: Crash officers
561: Murders
1: Missing cop
Family Concepts: (character development)
- Don reportedly burned dead bugs with a magnifying glass as a child
- Alan receives a notice he’s being sued for a driving range project he consulted for
- Megan likes popcorn
- Amita is still having problems adjusting to being faculty and as a result she almost resigns her position on the Curriculum Committee
- Alan: When I hooked up all these lights I may have blown a circuit or two.
Charlie: Circuit or two?
Alan: Yeah. I hope you had the system backed up with that laptop of yours in the garage.
[Charlie runs from room.]
Alan: I was just kidding.
Kids playing in a vacant lot uncover the badge of a police officer missing for the past seventeen years. John Everett was a member of Lt Gary Walker’s Street Crime Team when he went missing; the other members of that team are convinced Calvin Bradley, a gang member and the brother of a man Everett shot and killed a few weeks before his disappearance, murdered Everett and hid the body. They were never able to gather enough evidence to prove this as the body wasn’t found.
Charlie works out a method for searching the lot for Everett, and the body is soon found. With this new evidence, the FBI and LAPD arrest Calvin Bradley and question him about the officer’s death. Bradley denies he had anything to do with killing Everett, even though Everett’s car was found near Bradley’s house. Walker is incensed when Bradley suggests Everett got what he deserved and is further angered when he finds out Don is going to release Bradley due to lack of evidence again. After Walker leaves, Megen finds out from a ballistics check of the bullet in Everett’s skull, the officer was killed with his own gun, leading the FBI to wonder if Everett committed suicide.
Charlie tries to figure out why the body was in the lot and shows the FBI and Walker there was no way Bradley or any member of his gang could have safely killed Everett in the lot because that area was controlled by a rival gang. Don and Lt Walker talk to Jimmy Lopez a member of that rival gang. He doesn’t know anything about a cop killing in his area and says gangs will work together to kill cops.
Charlie works out the probably driving pattern Everett took the day he was killed. Surprisingly one of the paths Charlie outlines would lead him to the block where Internal Affairs had a building in 1990. Don wants to know if Everett was dirty; Gary says no but that the shooting Everett had been involved in was getting closer attention at the time. It seems the man Everett shot, Stefan Bradley had been accused of multiple murders for knocking over rival gang drug houses and killing anyone inside. Stefan offered to give evidence against bad cops in a deal with IA. The FBI thinks Everett had gone to Calvin to apologize for the shooting.
Don and Lt Walker talk to Calvin again and find out Stefan had been given information on where rival gang houses were by cops. Megan looks at the areas Stefan hit and finds every local gang had been hit except one, the gang Jimmy Lopez belonged to in 1990. The FBI goes out to talk to Lopez, but they find him dead from a drug overdose. Charlie discovers the drug combination used to kill Lopez is identical to a blend made by a man arrested a year ago by a Lt Stevenson, a man on Walker’s old Street Crimes team. Stevenson is arrested for Everett’s murder; he claims Everett was going to turn him in and deserved what he got in the end.