I love you, Jesse L. Martin. And yes, I'm insane.
He doesn't have it so bad.
A Lieutenant who's tough as nails and ready to dish out cases without extending the courtesy of even a well-deserved break—but she's fair and smart and non-elitist, unwilling to act like the cops at her precinct are below her. Better than a lot of possibilities.
A partner that he can respect as a policeman and like as a friend at the same time; Lennie, with years and years of experience under his belt, always with a wry comment or a warning hand to pull his intense partner back to the safe side of the line. Things started off bumpy, but he does count Lennie among those closest to him (not that he would ever tell Lennie that). After all, being a cop leaves little time for a social life. If you can't be friends with your partner, who can you be friends with?
A precinct he likes, enough talent to get the job done reasonably well. The drive that's made him somewhat famous, though not in an especially desirable way: he can still recall Lennie leaning close to a suspect and saying, "My partner here, he's famous all over the city for his temper."
Ed Green is an NYPD homicide detective. He comes close to being killed some days, and others he'll sit behind a desk like any other wage-slave. He barely gets any sleep, and his girlfriends never last very long when they realize what it's like to date a guy with his kind of hours. Still, he wouldn't trade it for anything. After all…
He doesn't have it so bad.
