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104 Sally in the Alley

Dets. Bryant and Moretta called to a murder scene in an alley. On the way to the call, Sammy ignores a call from his wife, who wants a $2000 camera. However, he admits her photography is really good. At the murder scene, Kenny updates the detectives about a group of kids hanging out around the body and impresses everyone with facts about the some scientific/chemical properties of ropes. Detective Lydia Adams is seen on a lunch date. The man she is with is very interested in her, but she feels awkward and leaves for call. Det. Clarke is seen at a writing class taught by a woman, Karen (ep 1.3), and ignores a call from Lydia. Adams and Clarke have to assist the gang detectives (albeit separately) because there is a strong belief that the homicide is not gang related. Bryant then grills one of the kids who was hanging out around the body. The squad found out that he was wearing a cross, that he stole from the yet to be identified victim. The boy says he saw some old white dude in a white van circle the block before dumping the body. Detectives Clarke and Adams are then called to a shooting of a tourist. When they inform another detective that they are about to identify a victim to a family, the detective smirks, "You know what? She'll still be dead in five hours." All the while, Detective Moretta must help his parents find his missing fifteen year old sister, who has been hanging out with the wrong crowd. Nate’s father gives him the name of the boy his sister has been hanging out with, Edwin, along with the boy’s phone number. Nate is shocked to learn Edwin is eighteen. He calls Edwin, who smart talks him. He asks Sammy to trace the phone number through a connection Sammy has. Adams and Russell visit Nicole's (“Sally in the Alley”) mother, who is caring for her daughter's son. Russell tells the child. When Det. Clarke apologizes to the boy, he says, "She was a whore." Russell says she was his mom, and that while he will always remember this night, he can build good memories about her, by remembering the nice things about her. He gives the kid his card and tells him to call and talk about it anytime. Clarke and Russell bring the rape kit to the forensics lab and ask it to be rushed. She is outraged to learn that they have a backlog of 3000 cases. She notices some of them are ten years old. On their way out, her date from earlier calls, and she says it's not a good time to talk. Russell jokes with her about no man not being able to get a second chance with her. Lydia asks Russell if he wants her to get drunk in a little outfit and stagger to her car (he smirks) and then she adds in, “and get raped and end up here for ten years.” At home, Russell’s wife, Dina (a writer), gets pissed off at him for wanting to write and accuses him of “f*cking that teacher.” The next day, Adams is called into her superior’s office to apologize to Cathleen (a police spokesperson at the earlier scene that Adams and Russell were forced to go to) for her behavior. Lydia acknowledges she was frustrated for being pulled off a case, then asks why no one's doing anything about the backlog of DNA. Cathleen asks Lydia, “What is it exactly you don’t like about me?” Det. Adams holds no bars and goes off on Cathleen. On the second day of looking for his sister, Mercedes, Moretta admits to Bryant that Mercedes is actually his daughter and that his parents raised her as their own instead of Moretta and his girlfriend putting her up for adoption. At the station, Clarke receives a call from the man at the lab and tells Lydia there was a hit on the DNA and that after thinking about it, Det. Adams is the person he would want on the case if something ever happened to his daughters. The DNA led back to Lester Brown, a sex offender. Moretta and Bryant storm Edwin's house during a party, finding gang bangers and then they see Mercedes. She fights Nate, but he catches her. As he takes her to his car she furiously screams at him. The next scene involves Clarke and Adams arresting the rape-murder suspect. An old white van sits quietly in the driveway. The officers knock on the door. Brown sees them and runs for it. The canine officer releases a dog that chomps down onto Brown’s arm and wrestles him to the ground. Lydia catches up, cuffs him, and forcefully says, "Lester Brown. You're under arrest for murder." Nate talks with Mercedes about why he lied and how she found out. Her natural grandfather (“Pops”) would change the subject whenever she asked for her birth certificate in order to get a learner’s permit. Bryant is then seen maxing out some credit cards to get his wife her camera. Detective Clarke visits the murder victim’s child and gives him his mother’s cross necklace. The last scene involves Lydia and her romantic interest at dinner. She admits that she is a cop.

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