"152, 2nd Ave? Are you okay?" he asks with confusion; nevertheless was hung up on.

Lennie hangs up the phone, picks it up again and dials his partner's cell phone number.

"Hello? Ed? Where are you? Oh you are? Okay. I just got a strange call just now that Van Buren said you were involved in a shooting at 152nd and 2nd Avenue and I needed to come down. Damn my head still hurts man!" Lennie asks then says with a painful groan.

"Really? Weird, let me make some calls, okay... I'll call Van Buren and see what she thinks. Just rest. " he tells his friend.

While hanging up the phone he turns off the lamp; lifting his covers to get under while he groans from the pain in his head. He hopes the Advil helps since he took it. It starts to go away when he was turning to his side, putting his arm under the pillow because he was falling asleep.

Thursday, July 21st 27th Precinct—

Ed began working on the call that Lennie got the night before. He, Morris LaMotte went to visit the place where the call was made from and finds out that a woman had been coming the last few days.

"What are you thinking Ed?" LaMotte asks him while they walk to the car.

"I'm thinking that the person who called is trying to get him to go in a trap and maybe have him killed. I, Van Buren, McCoy and Carver have been getting those calls, we have been smart enough to check it out first." After getting in, they drive off back to the precinct.

"True, so what do we do?" he asks while they arrive at the station and he starts getting out.

"Lets see if Van Buren would let us do a stake out there tonight, the guy says she has been coming with some friends and maybe those inmates will be dumb enough to come tonight."

Briscoe's apartment 5pm—

Lennie was sitting on the couch watching TV when he watches a juror talk about her service doing the case on the murder of Brandy Crandall then notices, it was that same juror who was looking at him.

He sits back with his hand behind his head, folds them while he thought about that juror.

"Oh boy. I hope she is not in love with me." He watches her being interviewed while he turns up the volume.

The reporter, Ed Lenderman interviews the woman in her home, she sits on the sofa. He sat on the chair next to her.

"I thought it was an interesting case and I'm glad to be in the process to judge my peers and both sides did a great job presenting their cases. It was the gun evidence that proved she did the murder but there wasn't enough evidence on that vandalism charge as well as the assault charge. I'm sure she did commit those acts too but I glad those officers were okay." She looks at Ed, he moves the microphone to his; mouth to ask her.

"What did you think was the interesting part of the trial or that caught your attention?" After he asks her, then he puts the microphone near her mouth.

She smiles saying, "Seeing Detective Briscoe in the witness chair and how he did his job no matter what," Ed then put the microphone to his mouth.

"Did you look at him admiringly at the same time as he got on the stand or when he stated what he did?" He put the microphone to her mouth.

"Before he said a word, he just seems like a really nice guy and great smile too," she says.

Lennie sits forward, put his elbows on his knees while putting his face on his hands at the same time in embarrassment; then she kept talking while he looks up.

"I think he is also sexy in some ways."

He puts his face back in his hands and says, "Oh my god, I didn't realize women thought I was sexy." He took his hands off his face because he was picking up the remote control he finishes, "I hope Van Buren doesn't think I'm sexy. I guess that is enough of the news now," he presses the off button on the remote while putting it on the table to get up.

He walks into the kitchen to make dinner since he opens the refrigerator, pulling out roast beef, cheese, milk, bread and mustard. Then at the same time he was pulling out a knife from the drawer, the doorbell rings so he puts the knife on the table to walk over the door.

"Who is it?" he asks then gets very bad feeling.

"It's the police! We have a search warrant! Open up now or we will bust in!" Lennie brings the chair to prop it against the door just while they start to bust in.

He grabs for the phone, dials it while running to his room, closing the door carefully. While he was talking, he got his gun and bullets ready near the nightstand away from the door.

"Dispatch, this is Detective Briscoe from the 27th precinct. I live in an apartment complex on the corner of Madison and Market, the complex is called Sorrento apartments and my apartment number is 4. The people have broken in. and are shooting. Please hurry. I am in my bedroom, hunkered down. They said they had a search warrant from the 13th precinct but something just doesn't seem right. Hold on," he tells the dispatch seeing that she makes her call to the nearest precinct when Briscoe pushes the nightstand in the middle away from the wall to use it as a shield.

Bullets near him, his service gun and a back up, he slips the bullets in the second gun and got ready when he picks up the phone again.

"Dispatch? Please get a hold of Lieutenant Van Buren of the 27th. Thanks. They are now breaking down the bedroom door." The door is broken into.

"Okay, just stay on the line we have officers coming." After she says that the three men and one woman break in, "Freeze! I'm a police officer, put your hands up!" but they ignore him and start shooting when Lennie ducks behind the nightstand and bed.

The door is wide open, lights are on, and Lennie is sitting on his knees with his back towards the wall while using the nightstand for protection. One of the men shot at him, he shoots back killing him as he tells dispatch he was hanging up and he does. Then when he needs to reload, he hurriedly put in the bullets in his gun and use it until he counts four shots then reloads. The woman shoots at him, he shoots back while she scampers out. The man shoots at him while skipping backwards when Lennie ducks.

The officers arrive and see the man while Lennie walks carefully with his gun in hand towards the door. He hears officers identify themselves; at that moment he hears gunfire while he looks carefully past the hallway into the living room; he sees the officers walk cautiously with their guns trained on him.

Suddenly at the moment he put his gun down, he notices one of the suspect's arm moving with a gun and quickly points it towards Lennie and a shot is fired--.


One chapter left after this one... find out what happens to Briscoe..