I thought that the writers threw me a little bit of a bone in this episode and gave me some good stuff for a Swarek/Callaghan showdown. It's late at night so please excuse any errors and I just had to write this!


"Where is she?" Luke Callaghan entered 15th Division's Parade Room to find Frank, Sam Swarek and Jacob Blackstone discussing the case.

"Who?" Frank asked.

Luke ran his hand down his face. "I heard that two female officers are covered in anthrax laced heroin from 15."

Frank looked at Blackstone, who then turned Sam and shrugged. "And you want to know if one of them is McNally?"

The look that Luke shot Frank was priceless. "Yes, I want to know. Is she in the hospital or what?"

"Why are you asking?" Blackstone asked. Jacob Blackstone was a narcotics detective and he had no idea what had transpired at 15. He had no idea of the engagement of Luke and Andy and what went down with Jo. He did know that she had been suspended for what happened with Sam on his UC.

"Because someone has to care," Luke said, anger in his voice directed towards Sam Swarek.

Blackstone looked at Frank and shrugged. Frank nodded towards him and them two exited the Parade room, leaving Sam and Luke to fight it out. "Where is Andy?"

"On a first name basis now, are we, Callaghan?" Sam spat out. "You think you can waltz in here and demand information about an ongoing investigation? I need to get to the bottom of this and you're wasting my time."

"If you'd just tell me, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Where is McNally?" Luke asked again. He really should have just called Frank and demanded answers. Of course he'd be having a pissing match with his ex-fiance's ex-boyfriend. How things came full circle again.

Sam looked at him, and then the whiteboard. "I'm not going go tell you because you don't need to know. You don't work here and it's not your case. You are a homicide detective, not a narcotics detective."

"Yeah, well the superintendent is going to be so happy when she finds out that you refused to answer phone calls and then made me drive down. And then refused to divulge information about a fellow officer and information that involves my informant and the guy who murdered my latest case."

Andy's most recent ex put up his hand. "What do you mean?"

"Nathan Barnes was an informant. And Goosh, who oh so lovely, shot and killed one of his top buddies. Now drug squad told me I couldn't make the arrest because you guys were planning to raid his place," Luke said. "But if you would have answered your phone in the first place I wouldn't having to demand information about McNally!"

"Great, that makes getting the search warrant even easier," Sam smiled smugly.

"I'm not leaving until you tell me who is with McNally and how she is doing and where she is," Luke said.

Sam looked at him. "Why do you care?"

"You dumped her in a parking lot and when she came back from a UC, you had a new girlfriend. Somebody has to help her pick up the pieces and help her move on," Callaghan explained.

"So that somebody is you?"

"Do you have a problem with that?" Luke asked.

Sam threw up his hands. "Oh I don't know, Callaghan! You cheated on her. You broke her heart first and now you want to put it back together?"

Luke took a pen and twirled it around. "That's stuff is in the past Sam. You can't be jealous that I'm the one to check up on her. You made your choice to her, loud and clear. But really Sammy, I didn't see Marlo Cruz coming."

His face went blank. "What about Cruz?"

"Not really your type."

"And I have a type?"

"She's not Andy. And Marlo… I think you can do better. But hey, good talking with you Sammy. I'm just going to call Superintendent Peck now and tell her how a detective with a lower rank than me won't tell me anything about a case. But hey, I'm sure Blackstone will be more than happy to tell me any news about Goosh. And let me interrogate him," Luke said and walked away. "Especially after the Superintendent phones Blackstone himself."

He was almost out the door before Sam's voice stopped him. Age old interrogation technique that had Sam telling the truth. "She's fine. Cruz is the other officer with her. They are doing the whole decontamination with them down there."

"Now was that so hard Sammy?" Luke asked and shut the door.

Frank stopped him on his way out. "Why are you here?"

"Swarek wouldn't answer his phone. Goosh shot one of his buyers. I don't know why or what because drug squad won't let me go and arrest him and charge him with murder 1. And Nathan Barnes was a CI for Dawn and I. And if I knew Blackstone was involved in this, I would have called him," Luke said, mad that he had to explain all this to Frank.

Frank sighed. "Okay. I will keep you informed and I will have whatever the fuck's face brought to 27. And about Andy?"

"What about McNally? I can't be concerned for another officer's well being?"

"I think she'd appreciate a phone call from you."


Sam and Marlo were on their way back to Marlo's place. As she had just transferred, her apartment was half way across town but her contract was up next month so they mainly just went to Sam's. Sam was stopped at a red light when he turned to the woman in his passenger seat. "What do you know about Luke Callaghan?"

Marlo shrugged. "Good cop."

"You've worked with him before?"

She nodded. "Yeah. Before SWAT. Why?"

"Just wondering."

"You don't just wonder," Marlo commented.

Sam pressed the gas as the light turned green. "Sometimes I do."


Luke knocked on Andy's apartment, late that night. He had phoned her and asked to see how she was doing and she seemed very happy that he called and expressed interest. She had told him on the phone that she'd be by his place if she felt like or not but Luke figured she'd probably want to just spent the night at her place. So here, he was at 2 in the morning, knocking on her door.

Andy opened the door, hair in a messy bun, tank top that revealed her bra and sweatpants on. "Reversing roles are we?"

Luke came in as she opened the door and Andy locked it behind him. "I wanted to see how you were doing for myself. My own eyes. And sorry for waking you up at two in the morning."

"I'm fine," Andy said. "I told you that on the phone." They walked to her bedroom and she stood in front of him and undid his tie. "You did not need to come."

"And sleep in my own bed when there's one here with a warm body in it?" Luke asked as he undid his dress shirt and pants and crawled into bed.

Andy smiled at him. "You do have a good point."

Luke wasn't really sure if he should tell McNally about his run in with Swarek but he decided against it. Some things were better left unsaid and he doubted Frank or Blackstone would say anything about the meeting so he was going to take his conversation to the grave with him. "I have the day off tomorrow."

"You are taking a day off?" Andy asked, slightly surprised. "Luke Callaghan is actually taking a day off."

He just looked at her. "Whatever, McNally. No, I was wondering if you wanted to go up to the cabin tomorrow. I was actually planning on taking a couple days off, shockingly enough."

A huge smile came over her face, even after being woken up at 2 in the morning by a certain detective banging on her door. "Well, it just so happens that Frank gave me the day off tomorrow because of all of this and I have the next two days off as well. So I will come to the cabin with you."

Luke grabbed Andy's hand beneath the covers and gave it a squeeze. "Good."


So Luke is coming back in the next episode of RB so hopefully I'll have some good stuff to work with... :)

And was my Swarek/Callaghan argument okay? I wasn't sure with how well it turned out. I know Callaghan sometimes isn't that forceful with information but I think he's pretty pissed off at Sam.