"Is it true about Munch?" the narcotics detective asked his new partner.

"What?" Cassidy replied.

"That his cronies in Baltimore Homicide let him walk on the cold-blooded murder of a guy named Gordon Pratt."

"Bullshit, John Munch would never murder anyone," Brian snapped.

"Yeah, not even a guy who shot three cops, including Munch's partner, and then walked because of insufficient evidence?"

Brian didn't have a ready answer; he'd never heard this rumor while he was John's partner, maybe - there was a reason.

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Brian walked in to the SVU squad room and sat on the corner of John's desk.

"Did you do Pratt?" he asked.

Author's Note: Whether John Munch killed Gordon Pratt was always an open speculation on Homicide: Life on the Streets. Richard Belzer has said in interviews that he believes Munch did it.