Gabriel, Tommy, and Jackie were all wondering why Brenda didn't come to work.

"Should you call her?" Tommy asked Jackie.

"Gabriel should call her?" said Jackie.

"Why me?" questioned David.

"You're her favorite," Tommy answered. Jackie nodded.

Gabriel sighed.

FBI Office- Fritz's boss and his boss's boss confront Fritz's partner

What do you mean Fritz just left the building?

"His wife called. I told her over and over again he was busy. She said if I didn't get him, she would crash the meeting and make a scene. I gave him the phone, and he talked to her briefly. He said 'I don't have a son', then 'wait', then 'I'll be right there' and then he left."

"What do you want to tell the director?" The boss asked his boss.

"Call Fritz and tell him to get his ass back here."

Major Crimes

Gunshots rang out at the public high school. Jeremy had been in gym class when a masked shooter approached the gym with a rifle. Kyle was on his way to talk to the coach when he saw the shooter was in front of him. The shooter aimed at Jeremy and Kyle tackled him. The gun went off, a bullet went through the roof as they fought. Kyle punched him and put him in a submission hold. The shooter was taller but unable to get out of Kyle's grasp. The gym teacher grabbed the ropes from PE and tied up the shooter. He secured the gun.

The police were called as soon as the gunshot went off. The bullet almost killed a janitor who was just getting ready to mop the floor. Wounded, he called the police telling them a bullet came from the floor and struck him.

The police and the bomb dogs came immediately. They locked down the school, rushed to the janitor, apprehended the shooter and checked room by room. The principal canceled class for the day and sent all the students home, except for the witnesses. They were interviewed one by one.

They had taken off the shooter's mask, took his picture and circulated it to the school's staff and administrators. No one recognized him.

They all told variations of the same story. Gunman appeared, aimed in Jeremy's direction, Kyle jumped gunman and bullet hit the floor.

Parents descended, freaked out, demanding their children, Jeremy's father was screaming, demanding Quinn's father be jailed for this.

"He wasn't the shooter," Raydor told him.

"He hired him. I know it," he told Sharon.

"We will pick up Quinn's father."

Uniforms got to his work. He was in his office, drunk. They brought him downtown.

The shooter lawyered up immediately. They asked him if he already had an attorney. He said know. They got the phonebook and called one for him.

The janitor was in the hospital in critical condition. Chief Taylor called his wife and mother, telling them the bad news. They started balling. He was trying to save money to pay for his daughter's education. She was at the top of her class and hoped to go to Stanford.

Sykes waited for them at the hospital, told them they already caught the shooter, and they were working as hard as they could to close the case.

"What's to close?"

"The shooter was aiming at a student; one he didn't know. Why?"

Outside the gym, there had been a motorcycle. Apparently, the shooter planned to get away on it.

Flynn and Provenza interviewed Quinn's father. "Do you know why you're here?" Provenza started

"I'm being punished for exercising my constitutional rights, and I will file suit."

"You are here because you are a suspect in a school shooting that occurred at your daughter's former school this morning."

"That's ridiculous. Why would I shoot …."

"Jeremy was the target," Flynn interrupted.

"Is he dead?"

"No. He was uninjured."

"Then, it wasn't me.."

Flynn and Provenza looked at each other. "We caught the shooter."

"Why am I here?"

"He didn't know Jeremy. We think someone hired him. Someone with a grudge."

In another room, Tao had shown Jeremy an image of the shooter. Jeremy didn't know him.

The shooter's name was Hans. He had been kicked out of the military for going rogue on missions when he was in Iraq. He would lead campaigns without authority and was accused of causing the death of 3 innocent civilians on one of the raids. They couldn't convict him of murder but they did get him for dereliction of duty, unauthorized use of force and insubordination. He served 5 years before getting released 3 months ago. He currently has little assets/finances and lives with his mother. He somehow spent 5,000 on the motorcycle found at the scene. It was titled and registered in his name.

Sanchez called his mother and she said she could come in the afternoon. He did not tell her that they had arrested her son for attempted murder.

Bobby's Work

A fight broke out at the site, leaving men bruised looking like hell. One guy made one comment too many about his co-worker's wife's new breasts, and he got a fist to the face. He fell on another dude, with a short temper, and the fight was on.

Bobby would have none of his. He sent both men home for the day, no pay, and he docked the pay of all of the other men who escalated the fight for the hours they did that day before the fight and had them keep working. Construction zones could be dangerous. He did not need this kind of behavior in his office. He pulled the wife-commenter aside, and said, "If had said those things about my wife, you wouldn't have any teeth."

The men got to work. The conversations were sparse. No one wanted to be on Bobby's bad side.

Andrea's Work

Andrea was having trouble finding a reliable subletter. She got a few visits to the house, but she didn't want to rent to college kids or a couple that couldn't get through the walk through without fighting constantly. She sighed and tried to focus on her work. She got a phone call from Flynn. "Hey boo."

"Andrea, I need you to come to the station. We caught this jerk at school who tried to kill a student. He lawyered up and we need to figure out who hired him. His lawyer's on the way, perhaps to make a deal."

"I'll be right over." Andrea grabbed her work bag and was on her way.

When Hans's lawyer applied, his client claimed the police had beaten him. It triggered an immediate FID investigation, calling Sgt. Elliot an his lieutenant to the scene.

"We need to interview him first." He told Sharon. "Of course, you know the rules."

"He got beat up by a high school student, not the police."

"He claims otherwise."

"We have 25 witnesses."

"Then this investigation will be over quickly."

Sharon stepped aside.

Sgt Elliot let Hans tell his story. "I was minding my own business, riding my bike. I know I shouldn't have been on school grounds, but I just got the bike and was getting used to handling it. Anyway, the police showed up, yelled at me to get off my bike. When I did, they threw me to the ground and beat me. I complained about my injuries to an officer when I arrived but everyone ignored me until my lawyer got here."

FID knew when it was being played. They, however, needed to treat every investigation the same as to protect the integrity of their work. They had a doctor examine his injuries. His shoulder was badly damaged and he would need x-rays. They were done in the morgue.

"This is inappropriate," the lawyer complained.

"We need to know exactly how he injured his shoulder to complete the investigation. He has filed a complaint for excessive force. We need to see how the force was applied."

The doctor took the x rays and went to make her findings.

"Can you tell us which officer hit you?" Elliot asked.

"I'm not sure. It was a couple of them all at once. I only saw fists."

Buzz reviewed the tape from the interview with Hans. He saw that the guy kept ramming his shoulder into the wall for while before Flynn and Provenza arrived. Buzz showed the tape to Elliot.

"Hod did you hurt your shoulder?"

"They must have ripped it when they forced my hands back and cuffed me."

Elliot left. He had enough of this fool.