102 Mozambique

This episode begins with Detective Adams removing the clothes of baby. The focus then changes to officers Cooper, Sherman, and Brown inside a diner. Cooper explains the meaning and history of a “Mozambique” to Sherman. A Mozambique is two shots to the body and one to the head. Detective Clarke is then seen pulling out of his house, which happens to be across the street from Detective Salinger. While driving, Sherman spots a “2-11” or robbery in progress. Sherman then rushes into the store being robbed. Cooper and Brown enter the scene and Cooper explains to Sherman every single mistake he made while blindly rushing into the store. While driving, the patrol officers see a baby in the middle of the street. An investigation ensues by Adams and Clarke. The detectives find out that the father, Skyler, dumped the baby. After a short foot pursuit, the suspect is apprehended after a beanbag is fired at him. The rest of the episode involving this storyline focuses on Adams’ attempts to not have the baby become a ward of the state and to reunite it with its mother. Other stories in the episode center on Salinger’s daughter being stranded on the Hollywood Strip and Officer Dewey’s retirement party (he was shot in the series premiere). Jamila, witness from the first episode, returns with more information for Detective Bryant and he tries to get her into the Explorers program for young people interested in becoming cops. Hispanic gang members target her for her police involvement and stage a drive-by shooting of her home (she lives with her grandmother). While at Dewey’s retirement party, Sherman explains to Cooper what it was like growing up with a scumbag defense attorney for a father. The episode ends with Adams talking to her ex-husband (?) about her desire to have a child.

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