Finn woke early the next morning. Jim was sleeping on the couch in the living room. Finn picked up the bagel and the phone in the kitchen and called the Captain. "Hello, Finn, said the Captain.

"Captain, I need a few days off with the stomach flu."

"The stomach flu really?" Finn thought the Captain must know he was lying. "Okay, take a few days. I hope you feel better. Bye."

Finn let out his breath. For a minute he had been sure he was going to get caught, but now he felt better. He woke Jim up. "All right, let's go down to the Hood and see what we can find out." They decided to walk because parking was so bad.

Finn looked around at the building as he walked. They all seemed familiar, but not too familiar. Suddenly, there was a loud pop in a boarded up building. Finn shoved Jim into the ally and said, "Go back to my crib and hang. I'm gonna check this out."

Jim ran and Finn went into the old building with his gun. A kid was bleeding and running out the other door. Two other kids were standing in the middle of the floor, yelling at him. Finn said, "What's going on in her?"

The 2 kids turned around and pointed their guns at Finn. One said, "If you wit Shep, we gonna shoot you."

Finn saw that one of the boys was bleeding too and replyed, "Naw, I ain't with Shep. I'm a…" Finn stopped before he said cop. He didn't want to scare the kids. They were from the Hood and might have information he needed. "I just want to help."

They looked at him suspectly, but lowered there guns. "If you ain't wit Shep, you won't mind a little visit to G-Ford."

Finn nodded. "Okay." He followed them out of the building and down some allys until they got to a crappy little restaurant. They went in the front door and said, "G-Ford, we got a new guy! He helped us with some of Shep's guys."

A tall older guy stood up from his little table. "Well, anyone who don't like Shep's guys is a friend of G-Ford." He pointed politely at a chair.

Finn sat down. "Thanks. What are you and Shep fighting about anyway?"

"He don't give us no respect. And his daddy didn't respect my daddy and his granddaddy didn't respect my granddaddy. We been hatin' the Sheps ever since forever, cuz they don't know how to be decent and give us our props."

"Wow." Finn said. "So it's like a feud?"

"It's war. We be shooting them and they be shooting us and it goes on and on and on until they apologize and give us respect." The gang war made Finn a little sad. Rivalry in the Hood was one of the reasons he had stopped drug dealing. He suddenly remembered the reason he was here.

"Look, G-Ford, you obviously an important man with a lot to do, but I hope you might be able to help me a little."

G-Ford smiled. He obviously liked to be flattered. Finn made a mental post-it. "Well, since you helped my boys. What do you need?"

"I'm looking for some information on some cops that I think set my friend up for dealing. Names are Watson and Thatcher, detectives with the drug team."

"I ain't heard about them, but I'll send some people out to…" G-Ford suddenly stopped talking. A window in the restaurant broke and a man came flying through, shooting at everything. "It's the Sheps!"

People were shooting everywhere. Finn ducked and layed on the floor. Five minutes later, everyone was dead or had run away. Finn heard sirens and ran out the back door. He couldn't let other cops see him or they might tell the Captain he was playing hooky. After he ran for a few minutes, he heard a familiar voice say his name. Jim was hiding in the doorway of an abandoned building.

"Why didn't you go home, man?"

"I heard shooting and I was worried about you Finn."

"Thanks man, but some bad stuff just went down and we got to get out of here."

There were more sirens, and they sounded close. "Here, we'll hide in here for a few minutes." Finn kicked down the door of the building. They say in a dark corner and waiting for the cops to leave the area.