When Billy and Maddy arrived, Dignum was quite blunt "Sign these, punk". It was a police employment form, most of it already filled in by Dignum.

Not liking to be pushed, Billy procrastinated but Dignum for once was willing to explain in full. Sullivan was now in jail ... but only for now. With Maddy pointing out that Billy needed the job for both the money and a sense of purpose, Billy signed.

After the paperwork was completed, Maddy didn't want to go back to His house or Her apartment straight away. She told Billy that there was something she now had to do, down in the detention wing. In the detention wing, Maddy told Billy that she had to see someone, alone. If Billy were to see who she was meeting then Billy would get distressed and angry. She told the guards quite bluntly that they were not to tell Billy who she was seeing because it would be bad for Billy's state of mind; Billy would find out soon enough. Maddy then reminded Billy that He was soon to be a father. Left on his own, Billy was faced by amused glances from the guards. At least after the past two days going's on, they knew about Billy's undercover cop situation.

Billy fondled his new Police Badge, and, to get his mind off Maddy's house call, considered what Dignum had told him. Ellerby was supporting Sullivan to some degree, but only out off misplaced loyalty and shock. Ellerby was also worried about the press and politicians, some of whom were known to be less than wholesome. There were defiantly pro Sullivan cliques inside and outside the department. And Sullivan had hired the best crooked lawyer in town - Costello's lawyer, who even now was rubbishing the evidence and casting aspersions on Billy, hence the need to get Billy reinstated ASAP. As Queenan's files could not be unlocked until a replacement Captain was appointed, and getting the contract IT company to find Billy's deleted record from the backups might take weeks, Dignam was resorting to subterfuge to reinstate Billy. At least Billy was getting his back pay, the bonus would have to wait. Dignum had even mouthed the unthinkable about Sullivan's possible fate, which showed how difficult the situation could become.

Finally Maddy returned looking very unhappy, and said "Lets go to your place. There are some things I don't want you to know, about him, yet".

Billy, with a feeling that he did know, replied "My place needs a good clean, and some redecorating"

"OK, I understand. It will give us something to do".