We suit up and get ready to go into the house. Nick already met with the John, planting the seed of his deception. Amanda takes the lead, directing the cops to bust the door open "Police!" She shouts once it's open.
The officer who opened the door shouts back "we're clear!"
Carisi yells out from behind Amanda, in front of me "nobody move! Let's see your hands!"
We move forward towards another room "clear that room." She directs the officer.
I spot a women in the kitchen and quickly go toward her with my gun aimed up "stay where you are. Hands in the air! Hands in the air! Come on, come on." I tell her and she does as I say.
Amanda see's where I am and she shouts "go, take her." She tells me to take her to the truck in the front.
I put her hands behind her back, not putting any cuffs on them and I tell her "you're okay, we're gonna take you out of here." She pants heavily, probably freaked out and doesn't say anything back to me.
A few moments later Finn comes out from behind the house and tells me "he's in."
I nod to tell him I understand what he means and he radios over to Olivia the same information. We clear out the rest of the house and take everyone into the precinct.
I go into the interrogation room with the blonde Rollins found with Sonny. We sit on either side of the table. Sonny places a cup down in front of her "chocolate milk. The real kind, with syrup, not powder."
I look to him, hiding an eye roll. The girl mutters back "I don't want that. I'm not a kid." She looks to me next "and I'm waiting for my lawyer to come."
Sonny answers her "you think Joaquin is sending you a lawyer? He's downtown right now, he's claiming he had no idea you were turning tricks."
"That's not true." She argues to us back.
"You're how old, 14?" I ask. She doesn't answer. "Just tell us what he's done to you, how you got here."
"I don't need your help." She spits back to me.
"No?" Sonny asks, puling out her cell "we got your phone." He opens the screen "so how about your daughter? Does she need our help?"
"They raided a house last may, and there were children inside." I explain to her "not so tonight. Where's your baby, Missy?"
She looks down at the phone, holding back tears. "Can I have something to eat?"
I nod and stand up "I'll order you something."
Olivia comes out of the other room "I'm oh for three."
I keep myself near the window, watching Sonny talk with Missy. "These girls have been through so much, they are scared to death."
"And these idiots in D.C. want us to send them back because they're "terrorists bringing over ebola." Olivia sighs out with frustration, clearly strained from all of this. "Did you get anything from Missy?" She asks eyeing the girl through the glass.
"No, not yet. But cowboy's in there talking to her about her baby." I return.
"Her baby?" She asks kind of shocked. "She's, what, 15?"
I give her the details "in foster homes, she ran away. She got seduced by some Romeo pimp, and got turned out, and then sold to Joaquin's gang."
"Just like Ellie." She breathes out shaking her head.
Finn calls over to us "tour setup worked. After I let Joaquin go, he called up Amaro and told him he owed him a favor. Said he'd put him on retainer."
"Well, I'm glad Joaquin's happy. Did we get anything out of the raid?"
Amanda comes over to answer her question "Look, Taru is going through the girls' cell phones. The numbers match the ones on the craigslist ads. And lots of phone calls from midtown hotels.?
Olivia seems defeated "oh, great."
Amanda keeps going though "and another thing. All the girls had the same app for a same car service, Quickride."
Finn goes further "you've seen the signs. "Drive for us, make four grand a month."
Olivia's eyes light up just a bit "I bet they're making a lot more than that driving around out-calls. Finn and Rollins, go talk with the company. Grey, get in there with Carisi and make sure he stays calm." She directs us all and I nod, walking over to my phone to order Missy some food.
All the girls get out on bail after the lawyer shows up and shuts down our interview. We come in the next day and continue working different angles. "Amaro just left his meeting with Joaquin." Finn tells us hanging up his phone.
"Guess we'll see what happens." I comment back, going back to the computer to go through social media feeds of the girls.
About an hour goes by when Olivia runs out of her office "Little Tino just got shanked in prison.
She looks to Finn "do we still have eyes on Joaquin?"
"I'll call Amaro." He quickly comments picking up the phone.
Sonny's phone goes off and he picks up. Amanda adds on to the news "that was Bellevue Prison Ward. Diego, the guy that shot at us, he just got hit in his hospital room." She drops her cell on the table "he's gone."
"When it rains, it bleeds." Sonny also comments "Missy, that kid, shot dead in a car with a John."
"Somebody's cleaning house." Olivia breathes out.
"Ya, and fast. All that within 5 minutes of each other."
"All right. Go, go, go." She directs "Bellevue" She tells Rollins, "Attica" she directs to Finn, "the shooting" she points to Sonny and I. "I'm going home to check on Noah."
"What do we have officer?" I ask as we pull up to the crime scene.
"Young female, shot point blank in the head trying to exit the car. Male, 42, shot in the temple. Looks like one shooter." The CSU quickly goes over the basics.
"Any cameras?" Sonny asks, eyeing around us.
The women shakes her head "not in this neighborhood."
"We should canvas the area, see if anyone heard anything." Sonny tells me, taking out a notebook and going to start to walk off.
"Hold up!" I call out to him "no one here is going to say anything, look at these buildings-" I point around to the few that are around us "they are run down and empty. This girl was working, she knew where to take her John's for some privacy." I tell him, knowing there won't be anyone around to interview.
He sighs, lowering his head for only a moment "alright, let's see what we have then." And we go back over to the crime scene to get all the information we can on the shooting.
Sonny and I are the last one's back at the precinct to go over everything. Olivia puts everything on the board and Barba comes over from his office to go over whatever we have. "Diego Ramirez got a hotshot in Bellevue." She points to him on the board. "Missy Brooks, executed along with a John. Looks like he was just collateral damage. And Little Tino, critical. Still in surgery, shivved nine times."
Amanda quickly reminds "And Noah. And Lucy." She looks to Barba "A shooter opened up at the playground."
He asks "you okay, Liv? We should get them out of the city."
She tells him "there's a detail on them and we've already picked up Luna. Now, what we need to do now is find out whoever ordered these hits, starting with Joaquin."
"We know how this started." Sonny starts off "Amaro met with Joaquin and an hour later the knives come out? Somehow he got that message to his boss."
"How?" Amanda asks. "We had Joaquin's phone tapped, he was under surveillance."
Olivia ignores the questions, moves forward with a plan "tell Amaro to set up a meet with Joaquin. The second those two sit down, you bring them both in."
"You wanna arrest Nick?" I ask her.
Barba looks to her "it has to look good" he says under his breathe.
She nods to him "I know. Anything else?"
Sonny speaks up "Missy was killed in Richmond hill in a John's car. I'm wondering how she got there. How about I go talk to Quickride?"
Olivia says "how about we do?" And the two of them go off to meet with Angel while I stay behind with Finn and Amanda to keep things going here. I get a call from Olivia a few hours later as her and Finn leave Attica "Get ready for a sting, tell Carisi he's going in as a John. Pull up an add on craigslist, her names Carmen. Get it set up for tonight, I'll call Taru."
She doesn't let me get a word in before hanging up on me to finish setting things up "Sonny!" I say to him. He sits across from me and looks up from his computer screen to see what I want "you're going in as a John tonight. Girl named Carmen." I tell him, pulling up craigslist to start searching for the girl.
"Click on that one." He points to a link from over my shoulder. "That's her, Carmen." He picks up a burner cell and dials the number. "Yea, yea I'm looking for a date. Yea, she'll do just fine." He says into the phone like he's having a casual conversation. He keeps his eyes trained on mine while he talks "Carmen. Okay. I have a room at the Richmond Hill Motor lodge in Queens." He nods "That's the one. Room 315." He hangs up the phone "we're all set."
"I'll call Taru, let him know to get moving on the set up." Amanda says picking up her phone.
"Someone should call Barba too, let him know what's going on." I say out loud, looking to Finn. He nods, picking up his phone to dial out. "You sure your ready for this?" I ask him.
"These scumbags are going down." He affirms to me.
I smile "let's get you lookin like a John then!" I stand up and make my way to the break room closet to get him changed out of his suit and into something more suitable for the job. I pull out a pair of khaki's and a button up shirt for him to change into. "This is more like it." I say handing it over to him. "And that awful mustache of yours will help a lot too." I smile as he takes his jacket off.
He kind of chuckles "Aw come on, it isn't that bad." He starts to unbutton his under shirt.
I turn from him, looking for some shoes he could switch too "you look like somebody's creepy father." I tell him honestly. He just laughs a little at my comment and puts his white shirt over the bed and starts to button up the new flannel. "Better?" He asks.
I nod "yea, just remember to be sleezy and creepy from the start. We need her to get Selena there." I move to the door to allow him to finish changing.
"Sleezy, yah. I can do that." I hear him hyping himself up while I leave the room.
