One Saturday morning after a long week of hardly seeing each other, Jaime and Eddie were tangled up in the sheets when the phone wrung.
"Love Birds, come into the house, we have a situation," the voice of the Sargent came over Jamie's message machine.
Just as the message was ending, Eddie turned the TV on to find out that three prisons from Rikers Island had escaped over night.
" The escaped prisoners are Russell "Russ" Smith, Joe Gilmore and Steven "Stevie" Vale. These men are armed and dangerous, overnight there was reports of stolen cars and civilians attacked with their clothing and wallet stolen. At least one of the men has a knife he stole from the prison. We also have a report of at least one of the female victims having a loaded gun stolen from her purse. Be vigilant, stay together and no one rests until these guys are back in the cage." Renzulli advised when they were at the station before going out.
Jaime took one look at Eddie and suddenly got very scared. These men were violent murders who had taken the lives of three innocent college students 6 years ago in a robbery gone wrong just before Jaime had joined the force.
"Jaime lets go," Jenkins said, "We are working in 4 person groups, all calls must have 2 squad car responses. "You and Simmons stay behind us."
While driving around Washington Square, Jenkins caught a glimpse of a man fitting the direction of one of the men down an alley.
"We need to check this out," he said after he radioed in.
Jaime and Simmons were behind them when two shots were fired and Jenkins was shot.
"Officer Down, send a Bus Forthwith, Requesting immediate backup suspected prison escapes on the run shots fired, shots fired" Jenko yelled into her radio.
"I'm going after him," Jaime said.
"I've got your back, we stay together" Simmons said.
Suddenly three shots were fired and this time Simmons hit the ground, Jaime could here sirens in the background, back up was on the way, and from the shots fired, he knew the guy had one shot left in the barrel.
"Pull them to safety," he said to Eddie "And lets go, backup is on its way. You go and I will cover you, he's got one shot left in the barrel, if it goes off, I'm taking him out."
Eddie went first; Jaime followed behind her and had her back the whole time. When the final round was fired, it just missed Jaime's shoulder and he took his opportunity to shoot the man firing at them in the leg just as back up arrived.
Simmons and Jenkins were being loaded into the back of an ambulance when Jaime and Eddie walked out of alley with Stevie Vale in handcuffs. Both officers unharmed.
In the days that followed both Eddie and Jaime would have to tell the story over and over again. The words "commendations" and "valor" were tossed around. As far as everyone was concerned they had saved a lot of people that night.
The other two escapees were caught not far from where Vale was. The men were hiding out in a rented apartment one of the men used to live in. They had tied up the family that was currently living there. When Vale was seen, he had taken money from the family and was going to get food.
Jenkins and Simmons both had surgery to repair there gunshot wounds. Jenkins was shot in the arm and had one bullet in his vest by his heart and Simmons got shot in the leg and shoulder. Both would be back at work.