..Nightfall was setting when detectives Ed Green and Lennie Briscoe were in the northeast part of Manhattan, a few blocks from Long Island City; speaking at a witness' home about a crime. While they were walking out of the complex they noticed two men talking to two women who didn't want to be bothered. They watched as the women had pushed them back as one of them grabbed one of the women by the arm then the two detectives intervened.

Green yelled out as they both started jogging towards the women and the two men.

The men ran off, "Hey! Police! Stop!" The detectives started running after them.

Damn! Lennie thought to himself as he started after one of the men with his partner.

While running, Detective Green called on his cell phone, "Hello, 2-7 dispatch this is Detective Green, in a foot pursuit near the Long Island City going south west to 44th Avenue. One suspect is 6'0" Hispanic, slim build, wearing a dark colored baseball cap, black hair, blue shirt with a logo of the San Diego Padres, black cargo pants. Detective Briscoe is on a foot pursuit after a Hispanic man, stocky build, between 5-7 and 6'0" with dark blue jeans, white t-shirt, wearing a blue baseball cap and is heading South West on 44th Avenue towards 44th Rd towards the cross section of 21st St." Detective Green then put his cell phone in his pocket and called out to the suspect to halt and he was a police officer.

Lennie was huffing and puffing as he ran as fast as he could after the suspect, who had gone a little different direction than the other suspect and Ed. The suspect went around the corner, jumping on a trash bin that was closed to get over the chain link fence, as sirens wailed. A few minutes later Lennie used a closed trash can to stand on to pull himself up on a 10 foot brick wall the suspect jumped off of. Lennie jumped as he heard sirens wail. The sirens then stopped—

"Hey, thanks for catching him. He and his partner were harassing some women coming out of a building a few blocks North of Long Island City and as we walked up, they ran. Can one of you guys take me to my car so I can drive over to where the cross section of 21st street since the second suspect has been captured?"

"Sure." An officer told him as another officer read him his rights and had him lean on the patrol car.

While he was driving up, he noticed the suspect interviewed on 44th road then as he got out of the car he was told both men had warrants for their arrests. The women who were hassled were being interviewed by other officers while Detective Green waited for the Lieutenant from the 20th precinct to arrive but he noticed something; which was that his partner wasn't around.

"Hey, ask him where he went as to when he ran?" Det. Green asked the officer as the Lieutanant arrives.

"Sure." He said as he turned towards the suspect and asked which way he went.

"I gotta tell you, that cop needs to retire, I think I lost him at that brick wall. He sure looked like an old man. HAHAHAHA!"

"You son of a bitch! You better—." Green got angry and started to grab the suspect when the other officers intervened.

"Calm down. Look I know what he is talking about; there is a brick wall around here. We will find him, don't worry." While the lieutenant walking up, the officer told him then Green went to look for his partner.

Ed and a few officers went looking for Lennie while the suspect was showing the way he ran. They then saw the brick wall, but no Lennie. Green got a flashlight from the glove compartment and then got out of his car; while a few officers looked around in their police cruisers. Green got on a trash can, stepped up to the top of the wall and looked around with the flashlight, scanning on the ground from west to east. Then he saw a body that resembled his partner lying on his side.

"Lennie! Stay right there! I'll be right there!" Green yelled out to him then told the officer who was below him, "We got an officer injured, request ambulance."

"Requesting ambulance, injuries unknown to the west side of 44th road near the cross section of 21st street."

Getting into his car so he could drive to the West side of 44th Road where he could see that it was his partner, then got out.

Oh god, I hope he is okay. I should have given him the keys to the car so he could get the suspect. Why didn't I do that? Green thought to himself while running to his partner.

"Lennie, are you alright? Please talk to me?"

"Detective, I'm afraid an ambulance is unavailable since they are on route to a bad accident." The officer told him.

"Okay, thanks."

Lennie took a few breaths as he winced in pain, felt someone's hand on his shoulder as he was holding his stomach. He slowly opened his eyes to see a goatee faced black man and a few officers looking at him He rubbed his eyes then proceeded to sit up. He felt a lot worse when he sat up and his pain came back as he turned away from Ed and threw up. His partner looked at him worried.

"What is it? Where does it hurt? Do you think you can get up?" His partner asked him.

"Not really, my stomach really hurts, I feel tired, hot and I feel like throwing up." He said in a painful tone of voice as he wiped his mouth and nose on his jacket sleeve.

Green and another officer picked up Lennie in a Fireman's carry stance as they walked to the car. An officer opened the passenger side door; then went to the driver's side, put his knee on the seat as he helped Ed put his tired and very weak partner in the car. The car door was closed. Green thanked the officers for their help then got his friend to the hospital.

"Ed, I'm sorry I lost him." He told his partner.

"No, it's okay. The officers got him and I'm sorry I didn't give you the keys to the car, I should have done that. I didn't want you to feel insulted if I did that. How do you feel?"

"I feel like hell as well as having a fever with a very painful stomach." He laid his head back on the headrest as he felt the motion of the car move.

Fifteen minutes later they arrived at the hospital. Ed parked near the emergency room and ran in to get a nurse so Lennie could be brought in to get looked at, while he started parking the car Lennie was being looked at.

After being called by Ed, Lieutenant Van Buren walked in to the waiting room where she saw him while approaching him.

"What happened and has there been any word?" She asked worriedly as she and Ed sat down.

"I don't know what happened. I hadn't noticed him in pain but he didn't have an appetite and said his stomach was hurting even when he had food in front of him then ran to the men's room to throw up. Then when I went to find him he was on the ground, said his stomach hurt worse and he threw up. And no they haven't told me anything."

"I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation for what happened to him."

"Yeah, I hope so." They both waited in the waiting room, watching the TV.

McCoy's apartment at 9pm—

Jack was sitting at the table pouring from a bottle of scotch in a shot glass then putting the bottle down when he took a drink. After setting the half empty scotch glass down he wiped tears from his eyes and with Kleenex near him, grabbed one to wipe his nose. He poured himself another one and drank it again; then after two more drinks, set and started twisting the cap on the bottle, stumbling with bottle in one hand and cup in the other to the kitchen. He set the glass in the sink, trudging over to the liquor cabinet to put it away. Flipping the switch made the kitchen dark, taking a box of Kleenex, while stumbling into the hallway while turning off the living room light. After he turned off the living room light and walked into his room closing the door.

He took out Kleenex to wipe tears from his eyes while he trudged into the bathroom to brush his teeth. Once finished, he started to flip off the light as he slid into bed on his stomach as tears still streaming. He put the pillow over his head. It took him an hour to get to sleep.

A/N: Thank god for Yahoo Maps of New York City!