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Chapter 11
Sharon was sitting in her office when Amy and Julio came back from Hollywood Traffic Division. As they sat down at their desks, Sharon stood up and walked out of her office to join them. As she passed Andy's desk she lightly touched his back as her way over to the Murder Board. Andy looked up at her as she did that and then followed her over there. "Captain I'm glad to see you are alright" Amy said to Sharon as she walked over. "Yes, thank you Amy" Sharon said to her as she stared at the Murder Board. Sharon hesitated there for a moment. Provenza looked at Mike who shrugged his shoulders. Provenza then looked at Andy who was looking at Sharon. Andy moved closer to where Sharon was standing. "Sharon?" he said quietly to her. She then started to take down the pictures of Dan Miller and Jimmy Caputo and left Ricky D'Angelo's picture up on the board. "Okay, we all know that Jimmy Caputo works for Ricky D'Angelo" Sharon started to say as she turned around to the team and held his picture up. "Right" Mike said and then Sharon placed his picture on Provenza's desk. "And we know that Dan Miller was involved with Ricky D'Angelo but he refused to 'fix' D'Angelo's business books" Sharon continued and then placed Dan's picture on Provenza's desk. "Yes, he recanted everything he said to us basically" Provenza said. "Right" Sharon said to Provenza as she turned around and looked at the board. "So that leaves us with Ricky D'Angelo" she said as she walked away from the board and leaned up against a nearby desk.
"Can we get any communication between D'Angelo and Jimmy, Mike?" Sharon asked him. "Um, well Captain, since Jimmy was arrested for aggravated kidnapping and grand theft auto, we should be able to search his phone and personal computer" Mike said to her. "Yes, but what would his lawyer say to that?" Sharon said as she wondered. "Let's get a warrant to search those things, meanwhile I will call DDA Hobbs and discuss it with her" Sharon said as she walked back in to her office. Mike picked up his phone and started to dial a number. Provenza sat back in his chair and looked at the Murder Board. Andy went back to his desk and continued to fill out the paperwork for the motor pool. "Oh, Lieutenant almost forgot. Here's the information on the car that hit you and the Captain" Julio said to Andy. Andy took the paper from him. "Thank you" he said to Julio as he returned to his desk. He then picked up his phone and called the motor pool to see how long his car would be in the shop.
Andrea entered the Murder Room a little after one o'clock in the afternoon and knocked on Sharon's office door. "Come in" Sharon said and Andrea entered her office, shutting the door behind her. "So, now that I'm finished with my court appearance, what would you like to discuss" Andrea said to Sharon. "Ricky D'Angelo" Sharon said to Andrea as Andrea looked at her. "We all know that he was involved in the kidnapping of Tommy Miller yesterday, but we need more concrete evidence for it" Andrea said to Sharon. "Besides, Tommy's father recanted his statement to you and Jimmy Caputo confessed to everything saying he was alone" Andrea said to Sharon. "Do you really believe all of that, Andrea?" Sharon asked her. "Well, no but" Andrea started to say. "So, would it hurt your case if we ask for a warrant to search Jimmy Caputo's phone and personal computer for evidence of Ricky D'Angelo's involvement?" Sharon asked her. Andrea thought about it. "No, I don't think it would hurt my case Sharon" Andrea said to her. "But, we are going to have to run it past Judge Grove and Linda Rothman" Andrea added as she sat back in the chair. Sharon nodded and then looked over at Andy who was sitting at his desk on his phone.
"Yes, I'm still holding" Andy said over the phone to the person in the motor pool. "The accident occurred this morning. At Western and Beverly" Sharon heard Andy say over the phone as her door was opened. "What accident?" Andrea asked Sharon as she turned back to her. "Oh, Andy and I got into a small accident this morning involving a car hitting us" Sharon said. "Wow, are you both okay?" Andrea asked her. "Yes, we're fine. Andy took me to St. Catherine's because my head hurt afterwards. I just have a mild concussion, that's all" Sharon said to Andrea as Andrea looked concerned. "Thank you" they heard Andy say and then hung up his phone. He stood up and started walking in to Sharon's office when he noticed Andrea there sitting. "Oh, Sharon" Andy said as he entered and then stopped. "It's okay, Lieutenant, I was just leaving. I need to get back to my office" Andrea said to Andy and Sharon as she stood up and left Sharon's office. "Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt the two of you" Andy said to Sharon as he entered her office and stood next to her at her desk. "It's okay Andy, so what were you going to say?" Sharon asked him. "The motor pool can give me a loaner car while mine is in the shop. I will just need to go down there and transfer Matthew's car seat and some other things I had in the car to the new one" Andy said to Sharon. "Good, what kind of car are they giving you?" Sharon asked him. "A Ford Explorer" he said to her and then handed her the paperwork from earlier. "I just need you to sign these forms and then I will take them downstairs for them to process" Andy said to her. She took the papers and signed them where Andy had pointed out and then handed them back to him.
"How are you feeling?" Andy asked Sharon as he leaned up against her desk. "I'm fine, Andy" Sharon said to him. Andy had a concerned look on his face and then lowered his head down to hers. "Does your head hurt?" Andy whispered to her as he looked at her. Sharon sighed. He knew her well, even when she tried to be strong. "Take some Tylenol, Sharon. The doctor said you could take it" Andy said to her as he lifted her purse up from the floor and dug inside to get the bag of Tylenol they got from the ER. He handed the pills to her and a water bottle he got from the fridge inside her office. "Please take this" he said to her. She took the two pills from him and then drank some water as she swallowed the pills. "Thank you" he said to her as he gently caressed her hand. "I'm going to go hand in these papers now. I will be right back, okay?" Andy said to Sharon as he moved towards the door. "Yes, thank you" Sharon said to him and then he left her office.
"Captain, I just got off the phone with the office of Judge Grove, since he is the attending judge for the case. I should have our warrant by the end of the day" Mike said to Sharon as he came up to her office. "Great, thank you Mike" Sharon said to him and then she sent Andrea a message informing her. She then received a text message from Rusty. 'Mom, is everything alright? Are you okay?' it said as she read it. She shook her head. Andy must have told Rusty this morning when they were at the ER. 'Yes, I am fine. Just a mild concussion, that's all. No worries' she texted back to him.
Andy came back in to the Murder Room with a new set of keys. He walked over to his desk and placed the keys inside his drawer. He then glanced up at Sharon's office but she was not there. He then looked around and saw Provenza coming out of the electronics room. "Is Sharon in there with you?" he asked him. "No, it's just myself, Buzz, and Mike in there looking at surveillance footage from before" Provenza said to him as he walked over to his desk to grab his coffee cup. "Do you know where she went?" Andy asked him, almost in a panic. Just then Sharon walked back in to the office, but the back way. "Lieutenants, I was just in Chief Howard's office speaking with him regarding Ricky D'Angelo" Sharon said to them. "Where are we with the surveillance footage?" Sharon asked Provenza. "Currently going over it now. Mike said he should be getting the warrant soon for the phone and computer" Provenza said to her. Andy looked back at Sharon. She had a worried look on her face. "Everything go okay with Chief Howard?" he asked her as he walked with her over to his desk. "Yes, we just discussed some issues that might arise with D'Angelo, that's all" Sharon said to Andy and then proceeded inside her office.
"What kind of issues?" Andy asked her as he and Provenza joined her in her office. "If our investigation leads to the connection and involvement of D'Angelo in the kidnapping, bigger things might come in to play such as RICO charges" Sharon said to Andy. "RICO charges?" Provenza said to them. "Yes, if that occurs, then the FBI would charge him and we would hand everything over to them" Sharon said. "But first, we need to see if we can support that connection we all know is there" she added as she sat behind her desk. Julio and Amy then showed up with the food order that they took. Amy passed out the food to everyone. Andy took the food but didn't remember ordering anything. "I ordered you the same thing as mine" Sharon said to him as he looked at his food. They all ate their lunch and around 2:45, Mike's warrant finally was faxed over to them. "I got the warrant!" Mike said as he picked up the paper at the fax machine. "Good, let's see what we can find then" Sharon said to the team.
The team then headed back over to Jimmy Caputo's apartment in the Lawndale neighborhood and when they pulled up, they noticed a car further down the street, parked. Andy got out of the car and headed around to open the door for Sharon. She stepped out and joined the rest of the team gathered at the front of the apartment. "Looks like someone is watching Jimmy's apartment" Andy said to Provenza and Sharon as he nodded over to the direction of the car down the street. "Let's all be careful" Sharon said to the team and then knocked on the apartment door. The door opened and an older woman was standing there. "Hello, I am Captain Sharon Flynn with the LAPD, are you Jimmy Caputo's mother?" Sharon asked the woman. "Yes, I am. I heard you arrested him yesterday, what do you want now?" the woman said to Sharon. "We have a warrant to search Jimmy's apartment for his phone and his computer. He did not have these items when we arrested him and now we need them" Sharon said to the woman as she showed her the warrant they had. The woman then stepped aside and they all stepped inside the house and looked for the items.
Meanwhile, there was a knock on the door, and before Mikey got up from his chair, D'Angelo waved to another guy standing at the door to open it. "Mr. D'Angelo, sorry to interrupt but we may have a problem" the man said as he entered D'Angelo's office. D'Angelo waved him over and the door was shut behind him. "What kind of problem are you talking about, Frank?" D'Angelo asked him as he leaned back in his chair behind his desk. "I was going over the computer logs you told me to look at and it seems that there may be some information still left on Jimmy's emails" Frank said to him. D'Angelo looked at Frank and then at Mikey. "What do you mean?" D'Angelo said. "Well, sir, the computer program I used to wipe out the emails that were sent didn't send properly and" Frank started to tell D'Angelo. "Enough" D'Angelo interrupted him. "How many emails are we talking about here?" D'Angelo said to Mikey as Frank handed him the report. "All of them, sir" Mikey said as he read the report. D'Angelo slammed his fist on his desk. "Dammit!" he shouted. D'Angelo adjusted his tie as he stood up from his chair. "Did you resend the program?" D'Angelo asked Frank. "Yes sir" Frank answered. "There you see Mikey, nothing to worry about" D'Angelo said to Mikey as he made his way around his desk and stood in front of Frank. Mikey stood back. D'Angelo then punched Frank in the stomach and Frank doubled over. "Don't let this happen again, Frankie" D'Angelo said as he waved to another guy to pick up Frank and escort him outside his office. Mikey's cell phone rang and he answered it. D'Angelo then walked over to the wall of windows looking outside. "Sir, John is on the phone right now" Mikey said to D'Angelo as he handed him his cell phone. "Yes, John. Please tell me you have something" D'Angelo said over the phone.
"You're not going to like it sir. The LAPD just showed up to Jimmy's residence and they are speaking with his mother right now" John said over the phone to D'Angelo. "What!" D'Angelo said. "Why are they there, he's been arrested and charged already" D'Angelo said back to John. Mikey just stood there as D'Angelo grew madder. D'Angelo then handed the phone back to Mikey and he sat down at his desk. Mikey then spoke to John over the phone as he walked away. "What are they doing, John?" Mikey asked him. "From what I can tell, they are searching the house for something. That Lieutenant and Captain are here as well" John said over the phone. "Alright, call me back" Mikey said and then he hung up. "Did Johnny say who was at the house?" D'Angelo said as Mikey placed the phone back in his pocket. Mikey nodded and walked closer to D'Angelo's desk. D'Angelo knew that the Captain and Lieutenant Flynn were there just by the body language of Mikey. "Alright, can't worry about it now. We don't even know what they are looking for" D'Angelo said back to Mikey.
Back at Jimmy's apartment, Mike came out of a bedroom with the laptop computer and phone. "Found them" he said to Sharon and everyone else. "Good, let's head back" Provenza said as he was the first to exit the apartment. "You in a hurry or something?" Andy asked Provenza as they walked down the stairs with Sharon. "I just don't like being here, out in the open, with the mob watching us" Provenza said to Andy as he turned around. "You really think something's going to happen right here?" Andy said to Provenza as they neared their cars. "Flynn, haven't you seen The Godfather?" Provenza asked him. "Yes I have" Andy answered. "Well, then you know how they operate. Plus, wasn't your mother Italian?" Provenza said as he got into the car with Julio and Buzz. "What's that supposed to mean?" Andy said back to him. Sharon patted his arm and she got in the car. Andy went around to the driver's seat and the team headed back to the office.
TBC
