Alison and Greg were cooking Henry and Frank dinner. Greg was sitting at the counter watching her drinking a cup off coffee. Nick Stokes had sent him some last month.
"Are you sure you don't want any help," Greg asked. Alison looked at him.
"If you want the comments on my cooking to stop then you have to stop cooking for me. Its getting embarrassing," Greg held up his hands.
"Well we haven't had a trip to the ER on a Sunday since he took over your turns. So its safe to say it was already emberising." Henry called out not looking up from his paper. Frank came in the door he hugged Greg and kissed Alison on the top of her head.
"Thank for doing this you guys." Frank said. Alison smiled.
"Sure thing." She said turning back to her cooking.
"How is it going" Frank asked Greg keeping his voice down.
"She has done nothing that can kill us…yet." Frank patted him on the shoulder.
"Good keep a close eye on her." Greg smiled looking over at his wife.
"Will do." After she was finished cooking they sat down at the kitchen table. Alison held her breath as they took their first bite. Greg smiled at her holding his thumb up.
"You did a good job honey." Greg said Henry smiled.
"This is really good you should make it for dinner Sunday." Alison smiled.
"I didn't follow the recipe so I don't know if its going to be exactly the same. But I know what I put in it." Greg leaned back in his chair laughing covering his mouth.
"Great now you brothers will never believe that you can cook." She looked down at her hands. Greg rubbed her arm kissing her. "Ally if your brothers are all I have to protect you from then I will happily defend your honor." Frank's phone rang and he stepped away from the table.
"I will testify that this was delicious." Henry said Alison smiled.
"Thanks Gramps but I don't know if even you could hold up under cross examination." She said her father came back into the room he looked pale.
"We need to call a family meeting it's Danny." Alison walked over to him.
"Is he alright." She asked.
"He has been arrested." They all turned pulling out their phones. Under and hour the enter family was siting around the table except for Linda and the kids. They had been at the movies and were hard to track down.
"Should we talk." Ally asked holding Greg's hand under the table.
"We wait until everyone is here." At that Linda and the boys walked in the room.
"Frank…What's going on?" Linda asked at the sight of the family sitting around the table.
"Well first of all Danny's not hurt." Linda sucked in a deep breath of relief.
"Why don't we all sit down." Henry suggested. They all slowly took their seats.
"Grandpa this is just like Sunday dinner." Sean said.
"Yeah except somebody's missing. Boy your dad's been arrested." Jack was doing his best to be strong. Greg patted Sean on the shoulder.
"For what?" Linda asked.
"Possession of cocaine." Frank said.
"Oh come on that is ridiculous. How?" Linda asked.
"Traffic stop. They found two kilos in the his trunk." Jamie explained.
"Okay guy you know what I think it's time you go upstairs now." Linda said they turned to leave but Frank stopped them.
"Boy hold on a minute. Linda I think they need to sit in on this. It's going to be in the papers, and their friends are gonna know and they need to be prepared." Frank explained and the boys went to sit back down.
"Does this have to be in the papers Frank. I mean cant you stop that." Linda begged.
"I wish I could." Frank said.
"Well where is he now." Linda asked.
"He's being held at his precinct. It's procedure." Erin said.
"Procedure we're talking about Danny Reagan here." Linda said starting to loss her composure.
"I know we are." Erin said.
"Well I'm going to see him." Linda said standing up.
"Linda, They don't have visiting hours." Jamie said.
"Okay so then get him out." Linda shot back.
"We cant." Frank said.
"You cant." Linda asked.
"Grandpa you're the commissioner you can do whatever you want right." Jack begged.
"Jack sometimes there's a difference between what you can do and what you should do and… sometimes that's a tough choice but." Frank trailed off.
"Like you can jump off the roof but should you." Nicky butted in.
"Nicky you know what we're not talking about jumping off a roof here." Linda said.
"Linda the department has procedures to hand situations like this. I believe in them. I helped write them And because I shouldn't get involved I cant." Frank explained.
"Danny will get out on bail in the morning." Jamie said.
"So we are just gonna let him rot in Jail." Linda asked.
"Nobody rots in my jails and nobody gets special treatment either." Frank said
"If we make the wrong step trying to help him we could end up hurting him." Alison said.
"Oh okay." Linda said in frustration.
"It has to be this way Linda." Jamie added.
"No it doesn't have to be this way. You're a cop go find out who's framing your brother. Alison you and Greg you could look over the evidence and prove that he was framed. And Erin I know your probably cant prosecute this right but you can find out who is and- and tell them that Danny didn't do this." Linda said.
"Of course he didn't do this and all of that will come out. But right now our hands are tied." Erin said.
"Linda being seen as a dirty cop is bad enough but a dirty cop from this family pulling strings for him that could go from bad to worse in a heartbeat. Think about it Erin is a ADA and Alison and Greg work with evidence every day." Henry said.
"There's a line here and we walk it every day." Frank added.
"We want this cleared up just as badly as you do but we have to stay out of it." Henry finished.
Greg walked down into Mac's office.
"Hey can I talk to you for a second." Mac set his file down pointing to the chair.
"What is it. You know that I can't talk to you about Danny's case. Stella is working it." Greg held up his hands.
"I know I just think that Alison and I need to be taken off the Bookies case." Mac prosses the information.
"Is there a particular reason you think you need to step back." Greg tapped his fingers.
"I just think that it might be best if we were put on a different case. You never know where a book like that leads you." Mac nodded.
"Alright I'll have Messer take it over." Greg stood up.
"Thanks." He walked out of the room meeting Alison in their office.
"Did you tell him." She asked.
"As much as I could. Are you sure that's what this is about. What about someone he locked up." She shook her head.
"No, I dint think so I have a bad feeling about this IA mess." Greg closed the door behind him.
"What type of bad feeling?" Alison took a deep breath.
"I looked into the detective that's on his case." Greg rubbed his forehead.
"Alison you said you weren't going to do that. You know what it would look like if we were digging into this. We could compromise the entire lab." Alison held up her hands.
"Everything I found was in public records. I was able to get it at the Library. Now if you're done jumping all over me can I tell you what I found." Greg let out a deep breath.
"Alright I'm sorry what did you find?"
"The IA that is looking into Danny's case. His old partner is the same ADA Danny went to for the warrant for the book." Greg tilted his head.
"You think their name is on the list." Alison shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know but it do know that Erin reminded him about ordering the cheesecake while he was there. He called me to complain and ask if I could do it." Alison closed her eyes shaking her head. "I couldn't we hand that robberly on 7th that I had to finish up." Greg hugged Alison.
"It's not your fault they would have gotten to him one way or another. It just happed to be this time."
Alison passed the salt to Jamie as they started to eat. Danny's name had been cleared the IA detective was the one behind the entire mess.
"Something sure smells good and it's not the sugar peas." Henry called out.
"Is dessert. Mr. Wojcik threw in a batch of kolaches with the cheesecake." Linda explained cutting her chicken.
"Well I don't care if he threw in a $100 bill I'm not eating his stuff." Jamie stated shaking his head. Danny looked over at him.
"Come on kid, Almost went to prison over this cheesecake. You got to eat some of it." Jamie shook his head. Frank picked up knife up buttering his role.
"What do you got against him?"
"He lied right to my face about Danny being there." Alison closed her eyes and the table went silent.
"Really." Linda said food halfway to her mouth. Jamie's mouth gaped open realizing what he had let slip.
"I mean no. Not right to my face. He um lied to somebody."
"Uh-huh." Linda lowered her fork. "Did you know I got a bill from you ex-husband for legal services rendered." She said looking at Erin.
"I don't know anything about that." Erin looked around the table.
"He was suppose to send that bill to me." Henry called out.
"He was…was he." Linda said.
"yeah I ran into him on the street."
"What street?" Frank asked.
"How much is he gouging me for." Linda smiled.
"One whole dollar." Danny shook his head.
"You know now that I think about it there are some things that I haven't been quite able to figure out how this all came together."
"I stayed a million miles away." Frank held up his hands. He had in fact been the one to mention the connection to the ADA.
"We just made sure we weren't on the Bookie case." Greg said holding up his hands.
"I'm sure." Danny squinted his eyes.
"let me get this straight. You all said that there was nothing you got do for Danny and nothing is what you did." They all agreed with a smile.
