October 20th Wednesday 5:30pm—
After buying some scotch to drink so he could make his worries go away he gets home and makes dinner. While watching TV as he cleans up he begins drinking then continues while walking to the couch to sit while turning off the TV. He has the scotch bottle on the end table at his reach next to the couch and feet propped up on the table in front of him. When he finishes his glass, he sighs heavily while he puts his head on the top of the couch to think about his relationship with Denise, her actions. Why did she get a lawyer the night before? He looks up to see the reflection on the turned off TV as he reaches for the bottle, then pours more in the glass then puts it on the table. After a few hours of drinking Jack gets up, stumbles as he catches his footing, puts the bottle and glass away and drags himself to the bathroom as he brushes his teeth. After he finishes he flicks off the light and goes to bed.
Thursday, October 21st—
Detectives Green and Briscoe serve search warrants only for employees who own guns that was the same type of murder weapon used in the killing. While the bullets were being tested, Green went to the dealership to get his car back with a new engine since someone swung a sledgehammer on the engine with the hood down. Then both detectives went home for the day.
October 25th Monday morning—
A detective gives Lennie a few pieces of paper then walks away while Ed looks at him with the phone to his ear but has the speaker covered to see what his partner got. Minutes later Ed finishes the conversation.
"Okay. Let's talk to the Lieu," Lennie says while he and Ed gets up, they begin walking to her office.
Sitting at her desk in her office, Lieutenant Van Buren was busy reading reports while the two detectives stood at the doorframe began knocking.
She tells them without looking up, "Come in," They walk in and she stands up, takes off her glasses looking at them as Lennie hands her the paperwork.
She says after reading the information, "Well, let's get some arrest warrants."
Hours later that same day--
Briscoe, Green and other officers arrived at the Old Navy store where Paul works; he was just leaving the register area when they arrived.
"Paul Mathews, we have—" He looks at them then runs, "I hate it when they run, four of you stay near the doors," Ed says he runs towards the adult's side with a few officers while the senior detective with a few officers went towards the kid's side. Customers look at the officers then go back to shopping as some get out of the way when the officers run.
While hiding behind a table fixture in men's Paul sees the officers and Lennie pass by. He runs towards the baby side where Ed sees him pressing the security code for the back room. Ed instructs officers to go behind the store as well as stay near the front. Paul goes in the back; Ed follows through the small hallway with an office door open at the right, straight ahead a doorframe with merchandise in boxes. An emergency door is open so a manager and an employee can take out the cardboard trash, not knowing what was going on.
"Freeze! Police!" He shouts as he sees Paul step out from behind the boxes and run out the emergency door, he follows.
"Hey! You aren't supposed to go through there!" The manager yells very sternly.
"Don't worry, he won't be coming back." Ed tells him as he runs through the door and sees Paul pulling a driver of a FedEx truck out of it.
Paul kicks the driver in the guts after he drags him a few yards from the emergency door, but stops when he sees Ed and jumps in the truck. Ed then steps on the back of the long black step while holding a white handle as he sees a few police cars stop; as the truck drives off, a few cars follow.
He hears his CB radio squawk—
"We have a 10-10 in progress, a carjacking of a FedEx truck and now in a 10-60 I towards West 23rd street. Also we have an 11-99, officer holding onto carjacked vehicle that is going North on 6th Avenue."
"10-4, attention all units, attention, all units we have a car jacking of a FedEx truck with officer on back heading north on 6th Avenue, please respond."
The units closest to the chase respond immediately as Lennie notices his partner was on the back of that truck as Ed notices the sky was no longer blue. Dark gray clouds start to cover the skies then moments later it starts to sprinkle and he starts to shiver in cold since the truck was going 80 miles per hour while holding on for dear life.
Ed realizes the mistake he made in not waiting for a police car or for Lennie when he turns towards the cars going toward him and sees a very infuriated Lennie in the unmarked police car. Ed couldn't tell if Lennie had a sunburn or if his face was actually red from being angry at him but the truck starts swerving from side to side for ten minutes as Ed hung on then hearing his CB radio squawk again.
"Ed, you need to jump off that truck or I will be retiring since I don't want to have to train another partner pal! And I will be getting a new partner if he crashes the way he's driving!"
As the rain tapers off, Lennie gets in the next lane, rolls driver's side back window with an electric button he presses near the door handle so Ed can jump in. Ed kneels as he reaches for the handle just in the car on the ceiling near the doorframe. He then slides into the backseat when the FedEx truck swerves and crashes a few yards away on the side of the road near a convenience store where officers swarm to with guns drawn.
The suspect surrenders as Ed carefully slaps the cuffs on him while Lennie reads him his rights on the way to the patrol car. Lennie gives Ed a stern lecture about hanging on the back of vehicles and never do it again; Ed agrees not to.
About 4:30pm—
Jack sits at his desk from court for the day when Arthur walks in slowly in a somber way then Jack notices him looking sad.
"What's up Arthur?" He asks but felt it was a stupid question since he had a bad feeling when his boss walks in.
Arthur sighs, puts his hands in his pockets, his face etched with sadness as he sits down in front of the desk. Concerned, he looks at his EADA as Jack raises his eyebrows.
"I need to talk to you. You're not going to like what I'd have to say but Denise has been arrested and will be arraigned." He sits up then says, "I'm sorry, Jack." He turns then leaves.
Jack remains sitting, having doubts about her innocence or guilt as he takes some slow deep breaths since he was starting to get emotional. Since he is done for the day he heads for a bar to eat and drink since he would have to wait awhile till he could go home.
Meanwhile—
They arrive at Denise's house to serve a warrant; when she did not answer, they break in then moments later while checking through the house, and they realize she was not home.
A while after arriving at Jack's apartment she hears police sirens but as they get closer she gets nervous then while at his door, she looks out while standing on the walkway area she sees cars are coming to the apartment building. She grabs a pool scoop that was hanging on the fence then hides in the bushes away from the building but closest to the pool. She sees an older looking man with officers in front of him, a few feet from the pool. As he looks around for Denise, he notices the pool cover covering the pool. While most of the officers and Ed are way ahead of Lennie, Denise holding the pool scoop lunges towards Lennie as he sees her coming. He yells as she hits him causing him to stumble back near the pool then she kicks his shin and pushes him with the stick into the pool. He struggles to get afloat when he feels something covering him as he takes a gulp of water then props himself on his back with little room to pucker his lips to get air.
She runs towards the parking lot when she takes out her cell phone to call Jack when she is interrupted by Green and a few officers when they catch up to her.
"Freeze! Put that down and turn around!" Ed yells while he and fellow officers have their guns drawn on her as she hangs up, puts the phone and purse down. She was angry and annoyed when she backs away, puts her hands up then is arrested by the officers who put her in a patrol car while giving her the Miranda warning.
"Denise Bettis, you are under arrest for the murder of Brandy Crandall, You have the right to remain silent, if you give up that right, anything you say will and can be used against you in the court of law..."
Moments later, Ed turns his head looking around for his partner.
