Previously in this story: Lieu tells Faith that they have been receiving anonymous complaints about her behavior on duty, accusations which she adamantly denies happened. Sully and Davis respond to a call involving street vengeance, in which the foreign victims are being brutalized by a gang of white men in desert camouflage.
~Chapter two~
Bosco enters the bar. His mother is waiting on a customer so he wanders down to the end and hops on a stool. She walks over to him without looking up and says "What can I do for you?"
He answers, "How 'bout a hug."
"Maurice!" She leans way over the bar and grabs him by his shirt, pulls him towards her over the bar and kisses him on his cheek, smearing it with lipstick. A red-headed woman slowly walks up and slides onto the stool next to him. She watches them exchange hugs and then jumps in with, "If you're gonna keep all the cute ones for yourself, I'm gonna find another bar to hang out at."
His mother sets a glass down in front of her and says, "This is my son Maurice. Maurice, this is Allison." She pulls out a beer, opens it, and sets it down in front of Bosco. Then she starts pouring a drink in the empty glass. "You want a Scotch on the rocks, right? The drink is on the house if you can get my son to think about settling down and giving me grandchildren." To which Allison replies "Well I can try."
Soon, she and Bosco are sitting sideways on the stools facing each other. They are each leaning on the opposite elbow, with their faces within inches of each other. She is giggling like a school girl at everything he says. He looks her over. She is not bad looking. She is probably a bit older than him and wearing a little too much make-up, but he has picked up worse. They are on their second drink, and Bosco is getting ready to ask her if she'd like to leave and go to his place, when his cell phone rings.
"Don't answer it." She pleads.
"It could be important." He says, pulling it out and glancing at the number. "I gotta take this." He turns the phone on and says "Boscorelli here." A woman's voice on the other end says, "Be at my place in twenty minutes."...then hangs up. Bosco says into the dead receiver, "Un huh, when? Ok I'll be right there." He puts the phone back into his pocket and says, "Duty calls, I gotta go. I'm sorry."
She takes his hand and in a pouty voice asks, "Will you call me?"
"I will. I'll get your number from my ma, ok?"
[At the same time]
Davis stops at an ATM machine on his way over to pick up his date. He met her at the Y where he shoots hoops with his buddies. She had come to pick up her brother Jessy one night, and they were introduced. Her name is Jackie and she is pretty, slender, and tall. Her hair is long and straight with light streaks through it that accent her light brown eyes.
Davis was quite taken by her looks the minute he saw her. He struck up a conversation with her as she waited for Jessy to gather his things, and noticed she was a bit shy. He asked her if she was a model and that tickled her. She let out a small laugh, and told Davis that she worked at the post office. Davis thought to himself that even her smile was sweet. He wasted no time in asking her out on a date, to which she replied that she would like that, however, she works the B shift and it was hard for her to date because of the weird hours she has to work. Four to Midnight. When Davis told her that he works the same shift, they joked that it was fate, that they met.
Davis knocks at her door, and she lets him in. They kiss hello and she steps back, lifts her arms out to her side and says, "Do I look ok? I didn't know what to wear because I didn't know where we were going. Should I change?"
He looks her over and smiles. "You look fine." She is wearing jeans and a red sweater, pulled over a white t-shirt and very little make-up. Davis thinks to himself that she has simple beauty. She could be wearing sweat pants and a torn flannel, and she would still look great. He asks her where she'd like to go for their date.
Thinking it over she replies, "What if we go rent a movie and pick up some wine and a pizza, and just stay in tonight. I've been on my feet all day and it would be nice to just relax. What do you think?"
"That would be great. You pick out the movie and I'll pick out the pizza."
[Meanwhile]
Bosco is sitting on the steps to Cruz's apartment building. She said twenty minutes but it's been an hour since she called. He pulls out his cell phone, then reconsiders and puts it away. He decides it will make him look desperate if he calls her. He waits another ten minutes and looks at his watch. He thinks to himself that he should call her. Then changes his mind again. Doesn't he look just as desperate sitting here waiting for hours? He wonders to himself, why he is so obsessed with her? Is it love? He thinks not. Yet he thinks about her all day. Even when he was talking to the red head at the bar, he was thinking of Cruz.
She is not like anyone he has ever met. She is bossy and over powering. Controlling. Demanding. She doesn't just want things her way, she 'has' things her way. You do what she wants or get out of her way. Is that what draws him to her, he wonders? Or maybe it is the sex. God the sex is wild. Primal. Making love to her is like making love to a savage. It's like she can't get enough of you. She has to use you up. And when she does, you never know if she will ever call you again, so you have to take what she offers, when she offers it.
He considers leaving. He would love to see what her reaction would be if he wasn't there, but he figures that she probably wouldn't even notice. He will give her just ten more minutes. He could have been home by now with that red head. He was so preoccupied with Cruz that he can't even remember the red head's name. Finally Cruz pulls up in front of the building. She walks past him up the steps without a word and unlocks the door. He stands and says to her, "What took you so long?"
"What?"
"You said twenty minutes. I've been waiting over an hour."
"I'm here now. No body said you had to wait." She says casually.
"I was just worried, that's all." he lied. He follows her into the hallway and down to her door. As she fumbles for the key, he whispers in her ear from behind, "I've been thinken about jumping you all day."
She turns and grabs his face with both hands, pushing him backwards across the hall and they slam into the wall together. She starts kissing him hard, and scratching his neck and shoulders. They are rubbing hard against each other and groping wildly. They start pulling off each others coats. An old woman from the apartment they are pounding against, opens the door and starts yelling at them in Spanish. Panting hard, they shuffle to the door of her apartment and go inside, slamming the door.
[The next day]
A black girl in her twenties is using a public telephone on the sidewalk. She is wearing a dirty green wool cap pulled down tightly on her head. The glove on her left hand has holes in it and it doesn't match the glove on her right hand, which is holding the phone receiver to her ear. Her conversation ends with, "My name? I'm not gonna give you my name so that vicious bitch 'Yokas' can come and slap me around some more. You just better get her off the streets." She slams the phone down and before she can turn around, a hand grabs her by the collar of her coat and pulls her away from the phone, and slams her up against the building.
"Hey! I did like you said." She holds her hands up as if to ward off a blow.
"That's right, Sparkel. You did fine. I'm gonna over look that dime bag I found on you, but if you tell anyone about this I'm gonna have ta come back here and hurt your sorry ass."
"I ain't gonna tell no one. Can I have my dime bag back?"
Sergeant Cruz swings the girl around by the front of her coat and pulls her into the alley throwing her into a pile of garbage. "What dime bag?"
"Aw c'mon, I did you a favor. You owe me."
Cruz looks around the alley. There's a drunk holding onto the wall trying to stagger to his feet half way down. Cruz points her finger at the girl and says, "Make yourself lost, Sparkel, before I find a reason to mess you up." She then walks back to her car and peels away.
[55-Charlie hits the streets]
Ty is sitting in the RMP as Sully walks up to his window carrying two cups of coffee. Ty rolls the window down and takes a cup from Sully, thanking him. Sully walks around to the drivers side and slides in, being careful not to spill his coffee. "So how was your date last night?" Sully asks.
"It was great. We stayed in and cuddled on the couch with a movie"
"This is...how many dates with this girl?" Sully asks.
"This is our fifth."
"That's some kind of record for you isn't it?"
"I don't know Sully, I think I'm gonna be breaking all kinds of personal records with this girl. I really like her."
"I'll believe that in a few months if you two are still together."
Suddenly Ty says as he points, "Whoa, Sully...look over there."
"Where?" Sully says, looking in the direction Ty is pointing. "What am I looking at?"
"Across the street, one block up on the corner. There's a guy in camouflage. You think he may be one of the group we're looking for?"
"Won't hurt to ask him." Sully starts the car and looks over his shoulder to see if it is clear to pull away from the curb. There is a long line of traffic coming and they have to wait. "Keep an eye on him, this is gonna take a while."
Davis is watching and as a small delivery type truck stops at the light next to him, the guy in camouflage bends down, looking into the passenger window and starts talking to the guy in the truck. The driver glances over and then looks straight ahead again at the light, as if to ignore the young man on the corner. So the young man walks around the front of the truck, arms flailing and approaches the drivers window. Davis notices that suddenly there are four more guys in camouflage coming around the back of the truck.
"Oh my God Sully, it's them. We gotta go. Let's go."
Sully glances over and sees one guy pull the driver out of the truck, and the rest of them swarm over him, dragging him around the back of the truck and out of sight . He throws the lights and siren on. Davis grabs his radio and calls for 'immediate' back up, as Sully starts edging the car away from the curb, into on-coming traffic.
The approaching traffic finally stops and Sully shoots across the street diagonally and pulls up next to the truck. Davis jumps out and runs around the back of the truck as Sully jumps out and runs around the front of the truck.
The group of young men scatter and two of them run away from Davis and straight towards Sully. Pointing his gun, he yells at them to stop and put down the bats they are holding, but he ducks when one takes a swing at him with the bat. Bosco and Faith come screaming up and block their escape. One slides over the hood of the car, and tries to keep going. Bosco jumps out of the driver's seat and tackles him from behind.
The second one chooses to run around the car to the left, and runs straight into Faith, who wraps him up and spins him to the ground. Sully quickly hops onto the guy and cuffs him.
The other three run in the opposite direction, followed closely by Davis. He catches up to the slowest one and grabbing him by the back of the shirt, pulls him to the ground, and quickly cuffs him. The other two run down to the next corner, turn left and out of sight. Davis lifts his perp off the ground and leads him back to the scene. Bosco and Faith search their perps, while Sully looks around for the driver.
The victim is trying to climb back into his truck. Sully says to him, "Sir, I need you to stay here. I called an ambulance for you. You really need to get checked out."
The man looks at Sully with terror on his face and says, "No no. I am good. I go now."
"No...sir, you have to file charges against these guys. They have done this before." He can see the man is very scared. He is also bleeding. "The paramedics are on their way. Let us help you."
He grabs the door of the truck and takes the man by the arm. The man's eyes grow larger and he yells, "No leave me go. I want no help!" He shakes Sully's hand off, pulls the door of the truck closed and pulls away, leaving Sully standing there. Bosco offers to go after the guy, but Sully says, "No let him go. He's scared to death. We got other witnesses who should be able to identify these guys."
As the officers escort the camouflaged young men to the patrol cars, the victim in the truck slowly drives a block up the street, turns right, pulling onto the sidewalk and drives the truck right through the front doors of the army recruitment office, detonating the explosives he had hidden in the back of his truck, with an explosion that rattles buildings and breaks windows on both sides of the street.
The officers and their charge, duck as they are sprayed with debris and broken glass. Sully shields his face with his arm and then turns back staring in shock and disbelief. They are all bleeding from the shrapnel of tiny shards of glass.
As the falling debris and dust settle, the air is now filled with screams and car alarms. People are running out of buildings to see what happened and others are running away from the explosion. Some are making their way up the street, assisting others or calling for help. People are running, desperate and confused. Others wander slowly, in shock. Everyone is dazed and covered with glass. As the officers get to their feet, and survey the scene unfolding before them, they realize the magnitude of what just happened.
The officers place their prisoners into the back of the patrol cars and run towards the point of the explosion, calling in for help. As they approach, they encounter numerous people injured from the explosion, burnt and bleeding. All of them in shock. Fire trucks and EMTs start arriving. The officers start helping people to a spot on the sidewalk, to be used as a make shift triage for the paramedics to start assessing their injuries.
Sully finds a spot in the building where people are trying to climb out through the rubble. Davis and Faith start checking the people in their cars that were on the street when the explosion happened. Faith calls over her radio for EMS to hurry. Bosco helps a woman over to the triage, where Kim and Doc have arrived.
Soon the fire/rescue teams have arrived and set up a command post, and are organizing the different squads into position and assessing reports of the stability of the structures nearby. The police chiefs from three different precincts have arrived and lieutenant Swerski and sergeant Cruz also arrive. Lieu approaches the chief and tells him that two of their units, 55 Charlie and 55 David were on the scene when the explosion happened and called it in first. The chief tells him to radio them, and have them report to the command post.
Cruz walks away from them and radios in to Bosco and asks his location. He radios back to her that he is on the north side of the building, and within a few minutes she finds him. The radio sounds off for 55 Charlie and 55 David to report to the command post, but Bosco ignores it when he sees Cruz approaching. She asks him, "Are you alright?"
"Yah, I'll be ok."
"What happened? Lieu says you were here at the scene."
"We responded to a call for backup from Sully. They were trying to arrest a group of guys dressed in camouflage. We came up to help and one guy got in the truck and drove it right into the building. Then KABOOM...the building was flying at us."
"What happened to the rest of them?" She asked.
"I got two in my squad and Sully has one."
"Good work she says." She starts to run off then turns back and adds, "I'm glad you're ok."
It takes a while for the officers to work their way over, but the four officers finally report to the command post to be questioned by the chief. Sully starts explaining that Davis spotted the one guy in camouflage and that they were going to question him in connection with the other attacks. Before they could get across the street, there was a whole gang of them, and they attacked the man in his truck. 55 David arrived and they were all trying to round up the gang, when the driver got in the truck and drove off. He drove into the building and blew it up.
The chief says to Sully, "You mean you just let the guy drive away?"
Sully looks down at the ground in regret as Bosco jumps in. "We tried to stop him. Told him the EMTs were on their way...he wouldn't listen."
Faith adds, "The guy looked terrified, we thought, because of the beating. We had no idea what he was planning. As far as we knew, he was the victim, not a perp."
And Davis added, "We were out numbered, tryen to grab as many as we could."
"Ok. Where are these guys now?"
"In the squad cars." Bosco answers.
The chief says "Well, lets get them down to the squad right away and question them. Find out what they knew about this bomber...we can't afford to loose these guys."
They all walk over to the RMPs, still parked on the corner, and they discover the cars are both empty. The chief yells, "Where the hell are they?" The officers, shocked, start asking people nearby if they saw anyone let the suspects out of the car. No one saw anything. They look around desperately.
The chief begins yelling at them. How could they leave the suspects unattended. What were they thinking. How could they be so incompetent. He tells the lieutenant to go back to the house with them, have them make out detailed reports, and turn in their badges and weapons. They will each be docked a months pay and they are all being placed on suspension until further notice.
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~Chapter two~
Bosco enters the bar. His mother is waiting on a customer so he wanders down to the end and hops on a stool. She walks over to him without looking up and says "What can I do for you?"
He answers, "How 'bout a hug."
"Maurice!" She leans way over the bar and grabs him by his shirt, pulls him towards her over the bar and kisses him on his cheek, smearing it with lipstick. A red-headed woman slowly walks up and slides onto the stool next to him. She watches them exchange hugs and then jumps in with, "If you're gonna keep all the cute ones for yourself, I'm gonna find another bar to hang out at."
His mother sets a glass down in front of her and says, "This is my son Maurice. Maurice, this is Allison." She pulls out a beer, opens it, and sets it down in front of Bosco. Then she starts pouring a drink in the empty glass. "You want a Scotch on the rocks, right? The drink is on the house if you can get my son to think about settling down and giving me grandchildren." To which Allison replies "Well I can try."
Soon, she and Bosco are sitting sideways on the stools facing each other. They are each leaning on the opposite elbow, with their faces within inches of each other. She is giggling like a school girl at everything he says. He looks her over. She is not bad looking. She is probably a bit older than him and wearing a little too much make-up, but he has picked up worse. They are on their second drink, and Bosco is getting ready to ask her if she'd like to leave and go to his place, when his cell phone rings.
"Don't answer it." She pleads.
"It could be important." He says, pulling it out and glancing at the number. "I gotta take this." He turns the phone on and says "Boscorelli here." A woman's voice on the other end says, "Be at my place in twenty minutes."...then hangs up. Bosco says into the dead receiver, "Un huh, when? Ok I'll be right there." He puts the phone back into his pocket and says, "Duty calls, I gotta go. I'm sorry."
She takes his hand and in a pouty voice asks, "Will you call me?"
"I will. I'll get your number from my ma, ok?"
[At the same time]
Davis stops at an ATM machine on his way over to pick up his date. He met her at the Y where he shoots hoops with his buddies. She had come to pick up her brother Jessy one night, and they were introduced. Her name is Jackie and she is pretty, slender, and tall. Her hair is long and straight with light streaks through it that accent her light brown eyes.
Davis was quite taken by her looks the minute he saw her. He struck up a conversation with her as she waited for Jessy to gather his things, and noticed she was a bit shy. He asked her if she was a model and that tickled her. She let out a small laugh, and told Davis that she worked at the post office. Davis thought to himself that even her smile was sweet. He wasted no time in asking her out on a date, to which she replied that she would like that, however, she works the B shift and it was hard for her to date because of the weird hours she has to work. Four to Midnight. When Davis told her that he works the same shift, they joked that it was fate, that they met.
Davis knocks at her door, and she lets him in. They kiss hello and she steps back, lifts her arms out to her side and says, "Do I look ok? I didn't know what to wear because I didn't know where we were going. Should I change?"
He looks her over and smiles. "You look fine." She is wearing jeans and a red sweater, pulled over a white t-shirt and very little make-up. Davis thinks to himself that she has simple beauty. She could be wearing sweat pants and a torn flannel, and she would still look great. He asks her where she'd like to go for their date.
Thinking it over she replies, "What if we go rent a movie and pick up some wine and a pizza, and just stay in tonight. I've been on my feet all day and it would be nice to just relax. What do you think?"
"That would be great. You pick out the movie and I'll pick out the pizza."
[Meanwhile]
Bosco is sitting on the steps to Cruz's apartment building. She said twenty minutes but it's been an hour since she called. He pulls out his cell phone, then reconsiders and puts it away. He decides it will make him look desperate if he calls her. He waits another ten minutes and looks at his watch. He thinks to himself that he should call her. Then changes his mind again. Doesn't he look just as desperate sitting here waiting for hours? He wonders to himself, why he is so obsessed with her? Is it love? He thinks not. Yet he thinks about her all day. Even when he was talking to the red head at the bar, he was thinking of Cruz.
She is not like anyone he has ever met. She is bossy and over powering. Controlling. Demanding. She doesn't just want things her way, she 'has' things her way. You do what she wants or get out of her way. Is that what draws him to her, he wonders? Or maybe it is the sex. God the sex is wild. Primal. Making love to her is like making love to a savage. It's like she can't get enough of you. She has to use you up. And when she does, you never know if she will ever call you again, so you have to take what she offers, when she offers it.
He considers leaving. He would love to see what her reaction would be if he wasn't there, but he figures that she probably wouldn't even notice. He will give her just ten more minutes. He could have been home by now with that red head. He was so preoccupied with Cruz that he can't even remember the red head's name. Finally Cruz pulls up in front of the building. She walks past him up the steps without a word and unlocks the door. He stands and says to her, "What took you so long?"
"What?"
"You said twenty minutes. I've been waiting over an hour."
"I'm here now. No body said you had to wait." She says casually.
"I was just worried, that's all." he lied. He follows her into the hallway and down to her door. As she fumbles for the key, he whispers in her ear from behind, "I've been thinken about jumping you all day."
She turns and grabs his face with both hands, pushing him backwards across the hall and they slam into the wall together. She starts kissing him hard, and scratching his neck and shoulders. They are rubbing hard against each other and groping wildly. They start pulling off each others coats. An old woman from the apartment they are pounding against, opens the door and starts yelling at them in Spanish. Panting hard, they shuffle to the door of her apartment and go inside, slamming the door.
[The next day]
A black girl in her twenties is using a public telephone on the sidewalk. She is wearing a dirty green wool cap pulled down tightly on her head. The glove on her left hand has holes in it and it doesn't match the glove on her right hand, which is holding the phone receiver to her ear. Her conversation ends with, "My name? I'm not gonna give you my name so that vicious bitch 'Yokas' can come and slap me around some more. You just better get her off the streets." She slams the phone down and before she can turn around, a hand grabs her by the collar of her coat and pulls her away from the phone, and slams her up against the building.
"Hey! I did like you said." She holds her hands up as if to ward off a blow.
"That's right, Sparkel. You did fine. I'm gonna over look that dime bag I found on you, but if you tell anyone about this I'm gonna have ta come back here and hurt your sorry ass."
"I ain't gonna tell no one. Can I have my dime bag back?"
Sergeant Cruz swings the girl around by the front of her coat and pulls her into the alley throwing her into a pile of garbage. "What dime bag?"
"Aw c'mon, I did you a favor. You owe me."
Cruz looks around the alley. There's a drunk holding onto the wall trying to stagger to his feet half way down. Cruz points her finger at the girl and says, "Make yourself lost, Sparkel, before I find a reason to mess you up." She then walks back to her car and peels away.
[55-Charlie hits the streets]
Ty is sitting in the RMP as Sully walks up to his window carrying two cups of coffee. Ty rolls the window down and takes a cup from Sully, thanking him. Sully walks around to the drivers side and slides in, being careful not to spill his coffee. "So how was your date last night?" Sully asks.
"It was great. We stayed in and cuddled on the couch with a movie"
"This is...how many dates with this girl?" Sully asks.
"This is our fifth."
"That's some kind of record for you isn't it?"
"I don't know Sully, I think I'm gonna be breaking all kinds of personal records with this girl. I really like her."
"I'll believe that in a few months if you two are still together."
Suddenly Ty says as he points, "Whoa, Sully...look over there."
"Where?" Sully says, looking in the direction Ty is pointing. "What am I looking at?"
"Across the street, one block up on the corner. There's a guy in camouflage. You think he may be one of the group we're looking for?"
"Won't hurt to ask him." Sully starts the car and looks over his shoulder to see if it is clear to pull away from the curb. There is a long line of traffic coming and they have to wait. "Keep an eye on him, this is gonna take a while."
Davis is watching and as a small delivery type truck stops at the light next to him, the guy in camouflage bends down, looking into the passenger window and starts talking to the guy in the truck. The driver glances over and then looks straight ahead again at the light, as if to ignore the young man on the corner. So the young man walks around the front of the truck, arms flailing and approaches the drivers window. Davis notices that suddenly there are four more guys in camouflage coming around the back of the truck.
"Oh my God Sully, it's them. We gotta go. Let's go."
Sully glances over and sees one guy pull the driver out of the truck, and the rest of them swarm over him, dragging him around the back of the truck and out of sight . He throws the lights and siren on. Davis grabs his radio and calls for 'immediate' back up, as Sully starts edging the car away from the curb, into on-coming traffic.
The approaching traffic finally stops and Sully shoots across the street diagonally and pulls up next to the truck. Davis jumps out and runs around the back of the truck as Sully jumps out and runs around the front of the truck.
The group of young men scatter and two of them run away from Davis and straight towards Sully. Pointing his gun, he yells at them to stop and put down the bats they are holding, but he ducks when one takes a swing at him with the bat. Bosco and Faith come screaming up and block their escape. One slides over the hood of the car, and tries to keep going. Bosco jumps out of the driver's seat and tackles him from behind.
The second one chooses to run around the car to the left, and runs straight into Faith, who wraps him up and spins him to the ground. Sully quickly hops onto the guy and cuffs him.
The other three run in the opposite direction, followed closely by Davis. He catches up to the slowest one and grabbing him by the back of the shirt, pulls him to the ground, and quickly cuffs him. The other two run down to the next corner, turn left and out of sight. Davis lifts his perp off the ground and leads him back to the scene. Bosco and Faith search their perps, while Sully looks around for the driver.
The victim is trying to climb back into his truck. Sully says to him, "Sir, I need you to stay here. I called an ambulance for you. You really need to get checked out."
The man looks at Sully with terror on his face and says, "No no. I am good. I go now."
"No...sir, you have to file charges against these guys. They have done this before." He can see the man is very scared. He is also bleeding. "The paramedics are on their way. Let us help you."
He grabs the door of the truck and takes the man by the arm. The man's eyes grow larger and he yells, "No leave me go. I want no help!" He shakes Sully's hand off, pulls the door of the truck closed and pulls away, leaving Sully standing there. Bosco offers to go after the guy, but Sully says, "No let him go. He's scared to death. We got other witnesses who should be able to identify these guys."
As the officers escort the camouflaged young men to the patrol cars, the victim in the truck slowly drives a block up the street, turns right, pulling onto the sidewalk and drives the truck right through the front doors of the army recruitment office, detonating the explosives he had hidden in the back of his truck, with an explosion that rattles buildings and breaks windows on both sides of the street.
The officers and their charge, duck as they are sprayed with debris and broken glass. Sully shields his face with his arm and then turns back staring in shock and disbelief. They are all bleeding from the shrapnel of tiny shards of glass.
As the falling debris and dust settle, the air is now filled with screams and car alarms. People are running out of buildings to see what happened and others are running away from the explosion. Some are making their way up the street, assisting others or calling for help. People are running, desperate and confused. Others wander slowly, in shock. Everyone is dazed and covered with glass. As the officers get to their feet, and survey the scene unfolding before them, they realize the magnitude of what just happened.
The officers place their prisoners into the back of the patrol cars and run towards the point of the explosion, calling in for help. As they approach, they encounter numerous people injured from the explosion, burnt and bleeding. All of them in shock. Fire trucks and EMTs start arriving. The officers start helping people to a spot on the sidewalk, to be used as a make shift triage for the paramedics to start assessing their injuries.
Sully finds a spot in the building where people are trying to climb out through the rubble. Davis and Faith start checking the people in their cars that were on the street when the explosion happened. Faith calls over her radio for EMS to hurry. Bosco helps a woman over to the triage, where Kim and Doc have arrived.
Soon the fire/rescue teams have arrived and set up a command post, and are organizing the different squads into position and assessing reports of the stability of the structures nearby. The police chiefs from three different precincts have arrived and lieutenant Swerski and sergeant Cruz also arrive. Lieu approaches the chief and tells him that two of their units, 55 Charlie and 55 David were on the scene when the explosion happened and called it in first. The chief tells him to radio them, and have them report to the command post.
Cruz walks away from them and radios in to Bosco and asks his location. He radios back to her that he is on the north side of the building, and within a few minutes she finds him. The radio sounds off for 55 Charlie and 55 David to report to the command post, but Bosco ignores it when he sees Cruz approaching. She asks him, "Are you alright?"
"Yah, I'll be ok."
"What happened? Lieu says you were here at the scene."
"We responded to a call for backup from Sully. They were trying to arrest a group of guys dressed in camouflage. We came up to help and one guy got in the truck and drove it right into the building. Then KABOOM...the building was flying at us."
"What happened to the rest of them?" She asked.
"I got two in my squad and Sully has one."
"Good work she says." She starts to run off then turns back and adds, "I'm glad you're ok."
It takes a while for the officers to work their way over, but the four officers finally report to the command post to be questioned by the chief. Sully starts explaining that Davis spotted the one guy in camouflage and that they were going to question him in connection with the other attacks. Before they could get across the street, there was a whole gang of them, and they attacked the man in his truck. 55 David arrived and they were all trying to round up the gang, when the driver got in the truck and drove off. He drove into the building and blew it up.
The chief says to Sully, "You mean you just let the guy drive away?"
Sully looks down at the ground in regret as Bosco jumps in. "We tried to stop him. Told him the EMTs were on their way...he wouldn't listen."
Faith adds, "The guy looked terrified, we thought, because of the beating. We had no idea what he was planning. As far as we knew, he was the victim, not a perp."
And Davis added, "We were out numbered, tryen to grab as many as we could."
"Ok. Where are these guys now?"
"In the squad cars." Bosco answers.
The chief says "Well, lets get them down to the squad right away and question them. Find out what they knew about this bomber...we can't afford to loose these guys."
They all walk over to the RMPs, still parked on the corner, and they discover the cars are both empty. The chief yells, "Where the hell are they?" The officers, shocked, start asking people nearby if they saw anyone let the suspects out of the car. No one saw anything. They look around desperately.
The chief begins yelling at them. How could they leave the suspects unattended. What were they thinking. How could they be so incompetent. He tells the lieutenant to go back to the house with them, have them make out detailed reports, and turn in their badges and weapons. They will each be docked a months pay and they are all being placed on suspension until further notice.
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