October 25th at Jack's apartment pool—

Moments later Lennie appears drenching wet as Ed looks at him as well as a few officers near the car where Denise was in.

"What happened to you man?" Ed asks as Lennie looks at Denise with an angry look as she looks at him.

"I took an unscheduled swim and I want to say something to Denise." He tells his partner but Ed stops him since Lennie seems so angry.

"I don't think so man, she's been arrested and it wouldn't be right," he tells the senior detective.

Lennie looks into Ed's eyes with anger as he backs off then walks to the car and gets in as Ed shakes his head then gets in the car. They make out their reports, Ed finds out why Lennie was all wet and the charge was added to the incident of attempted murder on a police officer. Awhile later Jack calls Lennie to ask if they are finished processing the apartment, which they were and Jack goes home to several glasses of scotch.—.

October 26th, in Arthur's office—

While sitting on the chair in front of Arthur's desk, Serena looks on as he sits at his desk with glasses on his nose, sitting forward with elbows on the table and hands folded in a serious face.

"Well, I will assign you to the Crandall case, however, it is the murder of Mitch Crandall, I have read the reports and it looks as if there is no problem with you doing the case since Jack is no way involved,"

"Okay, how is he doing?" she says then asks.

"I think he will be fine, he seems to be taking it in stride but I sure hope he talks about it with someone because I don't want this to affect his work," he tells her.

May 16th

Serena was in her office working on stuff when she received a call-

"Hello, Southerlyn speaking, yes, let me see what my boss says first then we meet later on no matter what. Okay. Bye," As she hangs up, she sees Jack walk in from the elevator as he has a sad look on his face.

She gets up, walks to her doorframe, and sees Jack walk into his office while she walks towards Arthur's office to see him about her case.

At the DA's office that same day after lunch—

Serena was in Arthur's office sitting in the chair in front of his desk as he sat back holding his glasses.

"Well, that's one man behind bars for 15 to life and I'm going to see if I can get Carver to make a deal with Denise's attorney," he said sitting forward with his elbow on the table and his forearm laying flat on it as well.

"Yeah, I am glad I got the deal done and I'll work with Jack again on some cases."

At the courthouse after lunch—

After presenting motions to the judge in the morning, the judge rules on the motions as to what witnesses would testify, seeing that the list was shorter for both sides. The opening statements begin then the ME testifies as to the wounds of the victim as well as how long the victim was alive. Ron stands up, walks over near the witness stand with his arms at his side.

Ron asks, "How many times was the victim shot?"

"Twice" Rodgers answers as she looks at him.

"Was there a sign of a struggle?"

"Yes, the victim's wrist showed she was grabbed hard that made the bruise and bruise on the shin indicates the victim was kicked." she replies.

"So how long until she died?" he asks as he steps back towards his chair.

"After being put in the trunk she lived about 3 days after being shot," she says then Ron tells the court he has no further questions as he sits down while Danielle stands up.

She stands up, leans over a little as she asks, "if the victim went to a hospital could she have survived?"

"Yes," she replies then Danielle sits down and Rodgers is excused from the witness chair.

The crime lab technician comes to the stand after Rodgers is excused.

"Did bullets match the ones from the victim? Is this the gun?" Ron asks as he gets up and walks towards the stand.

"Yes the bullets were a match. Yes, that is the same gun," he responds.

"Was there any fingerprints on the gun?" Ron asks as he folds his arm around his stomach with his other hand on his chin.

"Yes, one set and a smudge fingerprint," he says.

"Who do the fingerprints belong to?" He asks while he brings his arms down, walks over to the jury box and leans on the ledge with his hand.

"It belonged to the defendant. The smudged fingerprint was not traceable."

"This sledgehammer, did it have any evidence that it was used on something?" Ron asks as he walks towards the table that had a sledgehammer nearby.

"Yes. It had traces of the dark paint as well as some shrapnel stuck to the sledgehammer that was from the car belonging to a NYPD detective."

"Were there any fingerprints on the pool scoop that is show on this photo known as exhibit 3?" Ron asks as he picks up the photo, walks over to the technician and gives it to him.

"There were only one set of fingerprints that were made but 10 of them were smudged. That set of fingerprints was from the defendant."

"Thank you, no further questions." Ron says as he walks to his chair, moves it back and sits down.

Danielle Melnick stands up, uses her cane to walk over to the witness stand as she asks, "Can you determine when the sledgehammer was used on a car?"

"No," the witness responded.

"Could a 150 pound person lift a heavy sledgehammer?" She asks as she leans on her cane while putting her hand on her hip.

"No."

"Can you determine when the fingerprints allegedly coming from my client got on the pool scoop pole?"

"No."

"So she could have used it earlier in the week to help a kid retrieve his soccer ball while leaving the apartment, right?" She asks as she walks towards her chair.

"Yeah."

"No further questions," she pulls it out and sits on the chair.

Night of the 16th, at evidence lock up—

Jack went to see the evidence against Denise as the evidence officer asks him to sign on a piece of paper on a clipboard; Jack signs it and looks at the gun in an evidence bag. He was thinking very hard about it with an anguished look on his face as the officer looks on trying to fathom what Jack is going to do.

I want to make this gun disappear, or taint it in some way but then I'll be in a lot of trouble. Looking at this gun, in a plastic bag with a white box to be signed on and red tear offs that says Evidence. Briscoe signed this, which was found in the living room under the couch. Wonder if Briscoe actually lifted this couch, I'd like to see that. Should I or shouldn't I.

Jack stands as he thinks to himself while he looks at it.

Meanwhile at the 27th—

The limping Danielle Melnick with her cane at her side went to see Lt. Van Buren who was sitting at her desk, Melnick knocks, and is let in. Danielle closes the door behind her as she sits down with a smile on her face, as does Van Buren.

"Hi, how are you doing?" the lieutenant asks.

"Good, good. I wanted to ask you something. My client had told me that you and Detective LaMotte went to visit her about setting up one of your other detectives, was there a police report on the alleged incident?" She asks

She folds her hands with her elbows on the table as she replies, "well, there is a police report on the alleged assault as well as the conversation with Ms. Betts who denied making the call but I didn't have it sent to One Police Plaza."

She gets up to get the file hands it to Danielle who looks over it.

She asks in a sympathetic tone, "Ah, okay. I take it the detective was too embarrassed to file a complaint, huh?"

"Yes, in fact he didn't show up for work the days after the incident I was getting worried and annoyed since he didn't call. Then when I got the report, I was glad he was going to be okay but not happy with the predicament he got himself into," Van Buren replies as Danielle gives her the file back.

"Okay. Well, we shall leave the report a secret, I didn't get any discoveries about it and I just wanted to know if you knew about it. Thank you, have a good evening," she says then gets up.

"Thank you, you have a good evening too," Van Buren responds as Danielle leaves.