Early morning at the hospital

Hailey slowly wakes up and sees Will looking over Jay's monitors, checking his IV line and his pulse for himself as Jay sleeps.

"Morning" Hailey whispers not to wake Jay.

"Early Morning" Will matches her volume

Hailey checks Jay's watch 4 am. "He seems to be sleeping soundly, looks more relaxed." She continues to whisper.

"Yeah." Will says with a mischievous smile. "After you two fell asleep I gave him some extra relief; more than what he was getting. It'll help him sleep in comfort, plus he'll need it when he starts doing his breathing exercises."

"Well played Dr. Halstead." Hailey smiles.

"He might be angry with me but he'll get over it. Sometimes you have to save him from himself."

Hailey gives a knowing nod. "I should be going. Questioning the offenders in a couple of hours." She looks at Jay.

"He'll be sleeping for awhile. I'll text you an update."

"Thank you."

At District 21 Adam, Kevin and Kim are in the bullpen:

Hailey walks in, Kim looks up and asks "How's Jay?"

Hailey puts her coffee down and takes off her coat, "Fine, considering."

Kevin interrupts with "OCD got this video off of James's phone. Sarge! Come see this."

Voight walks out of his office and the others hover over Kevin's desk. The video shows a street full of people walking forward, a man dressed in black, face covered, when a baseball bat comes into view swinging into the back of another man. As the man fails to his knees, a two-way radio he was talking into hits the ground. Chants of "Defund the Police" can be heard.

"That's Jay!" Kim says.

He is on all fours when another similar dressed person kicks into his midsection, the man with the bat joins in with several quick kicks. Jay is being pushed backwards with every kick. He looks disoriented when a big kick lands into Jay's chest; he's lifted backwards into a car and slides down. Both men rapidly kick into Jay as he's on his side and tries to protect head. One of the men can be heard saying, "How do you like it? Not much fun now, is it?"

"Look over there!" Kevin's voice can be heard. The man raises the bat and swings down onto Jay. The video goes blurry with motion, a glimpse of red sneakers and then ends.

"They knew he was a cop." Adam says

"Jay and I questioned James after that little girl was shot. He must have recognized him." Hailey responds. She is barely controlling her anger after seeing Jay attacked.

"Any forensics on the bat?" Voight asks

"Nothing that can be identified. Nothing we can trace back to the offenders, too many hands have been it." Adam explains.

"Yeah but he doesn't know that." Voight says as he walks to the interrogation room where Shawn is.

He bursts into the room. Shawn is lying down but sits up when Voight enters the room.

"We got the bat. The bat we found in your cousin's car. The same car that you all got into after attacking my officer. Fingerprints on it trace back to you. Do yourself a favor, tell me what happened- work out a deal."

"I don't need a deal. I didn't do anything. As far as the bat, I'm in a softball league, we play on Thursdays. I'm leading the league in home runs. I expect to get it back too." Shawn answers.

"You're telling me you weren't at the march?"

"I wasn't there. You got the wrong guy." Shawn deadpans.

Voight hastily leaves the room and walks into the bullpen. "He's not talking. Claims he's in a softball league."

"Sarge, look at this." Kim puts up a photo of a man on the white board. "This is Cooper. Doyle's partner. Same height. Same hair colour as Halstead. From behind they could be mistaken for each other."

"Wait. What are we looking at here? Payback?" Adam asks and continues, "Doyle and Cooper tune up Jordan and Shawn up on a trumped up traffic violation and years later, randomly run into a cop that looks like Cooper and decide to seek payback."

"You can hear on the video, "'How do you like it?'" Kim answers.

"What if James tipped them off?" Hailey starts. "He knows Jay from the questioning about the shooting and tells his brother and cousin. Hell, they may have been going to all the marches looking for this 'Cooper' and then yesterday they saw Jay."

Deputy Superintendent Miller walking in hears what Hailey has said. "You have enough to make a charge, Sergeant Voight?"

"We're working the case. We have a.."

"I know what you have Sergeant, two men up here that you claim were at the march and one in holding that had a video of Halstead's attack. That, by the way, he said he recorded to show the police in hopes of helping us find the assailants. You have no evidence and only a theory to go on. You better find something soon or kick them. The Press are starting to ask uncomfortable questions about Police looking to close this quickly without much to go on. The clock is ticking."

"Understood."

Miller leaves the bullpen.

"We gotta get out there and find something concrete that links these three to the attack. "Cause I really don't want this getting out that you can attack a cop and get away with it."

On the street where the march took place:

Adam and Kim are walking down a sidewalk towards Kevin and Hailey.

"We've been out here for hours." Adam starts "Most people weren't here when the march went through."

"What's that? A security camera?" Hailey asks

They look in the direction she's pointing. They start walking in that direction. Kim pulls out her phone and holds up a video of the original traffic footage of James Watson's car.

"This looks like where Watson's car was parked when they all got in it. You think that camera might have gotten it?" Kims asks

"Worth a shot." Hailey answers just as her phone buzzed with a text. She looks at it and a smile escapes.

"That Will?" Kim asks

"Yeah. Jay's awake."

"You should go. We got this." Kim adds.

"Thanks."

Afternoon at the Hospital:

Jay slowly awakes. Droopy eyes scan over his room. He's alone. He closes his eyes and slowly shifts in the bed, testing his movements, surprised when that piercing pain from before isn't there. Will walks into the room carrying drinks and sandwiches.

"Hey sleeping beauty." Will cheerfully greets Jay and moves a tray in front of Jay, placing a drink and sandwich on it.

"Hey." Jay responds

"Turkey on rye and iced tea."

"Thanks. What time is it? Aren't you working?" Jay questions

"Shift ended this morning. Caught a nap and thought we could have a late lunch. I have tonight off, dayshift tomorrow."

"Late?" Jay cautiously moves to get ready to eat. Testing the limits to see what hurts, small grimaces at certain movements.

"Just before 3."

Jay looks at Will raising his eyebrows.

"How are you feeling?" Will asks, starting to eat.

"Surprising well." As Jay takes a bite.

Will snickers.

"What?"

"Pain medication is your friend Jay."

Jay scowls at Will, anger flashes across his face "I told you no Will."

"But yet, you feel better and slept too." Will is undeterred by his brother's anger. "I didn't sedate you, if that's what you're wondering. Just up'ed the pain meds, your body did the rest."

Jay fidgets with his sandwich, "And this is a peace offering?"

"Jay, I can't in good conscience let you hurt yourself."

Jay starts to speak but Will raises his hand expecting a defense. "Refusing to take medication as prescribed is a form of self harm. Do you need Dr. Charles to explain?"

Jay nods 'no' and starts to eat.

"These are serious injuries. You can't tough it out, that will cause complications. And that means more hospital time."

Jay nods his understanding as he swallows then says, "I do feel better. I just don't like feeling detached, not in control….I don't want anything addictive."

"You won't be on anything that long for it to be addictive, something stronger at first then taper it."

Jay nods and continues to eat with his right hand. Will watches him.

"Good thing that you're right-handed. You'll be in a sling for weeks. Oh, when you're done." Will holds up a sample container. "Got to monitor that kidney." Will says with a smile.

"Wonderful."