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( slow, dramatic hip-hop intro
fades in )

♪ You ready? ♪

♪ Let's go! ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ For those of you that want
to know what we're all about ♪

♪ It's like this, y'all,
come on ♪

♪ This is ten percent luck,
20 percent skill ♪

♪ 15 percent concentrated
power of will ♪

♪ Five percent pleasure,
50 percent pain ♪

♪ And 100 percent reason
to remember the name ♪

♪ He doesn't need
his name up in lights ♪

♪ He just wants to be heard... ♪

( thunder rumbling )

Hey, my phone...

♪ It's not about the salary,
it's all about reality ♪

♪ And making some noise... ♪

( gunshots )

( tires squealing )

( sports broadcast
playing on TV )

Donny, when did you get here?

Just now. Thought I'd watch
to the end of the game.

Where you going?

He's going on a date.

DON:
Oh, yeah?

Yeah. You know
that girl, Donna,

- from Val's wedding?
- Yeah.

- You know, the, uh, caterer?
- Mm-hmm.

Yeah, her.

Oh, hey, listen, I wanted
to ask you guys something.

Uh, it's her birthday coming up,
and I wanted to get her a gift.

You know, something...

( stammering ): I don't know,
I just... don't know what.

It's just a question
of what you want to say.

Well, how about,
"Happy Birthday?"

You know, two mathematicians
from University College in London

actually recently addressed
this very same question.

Mathematicians?

English mathematicians?

They used game theory to analyze
the best characteristics

of a courtship gift.

Yeah. Well, no offense, Charlie.

It sounds to me like two
math geeks who don't date much.

I do take offense.

Yeah, all right, shut up.
So, keep going.

Well, assuming that the goal is
the female's receptiveness...

Yes.

They found
that an extravagant gift,

one that's costly to the man,

but of no real financial value
to the woman,

offers the best chance
of success.

So, why don't you buy her
some flowers?

You know what? Take her
to dinner in a fancy restaurant.

Okay, that's doable.

See? You guys still doubt
the power of math?

Yeah, well, when it comes to
female receptiveness, yes.

- ( phone ringing )
- Huh.

Eppes.

Right. On my way.

- What is that?
- Shooting. Got to go.

Hey, have fun with, uh...

- ALAN: Donna.
- Right.

( siren blaring,
indistinct radio transmission )

( helicopter hovering )

Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

DON:
Hey, what's going on?

Looks like a drive-by.

What, are you kidding me?
Why'd they bring us in?

Just got down here myself.

Cops on the scene say they
were told to sit tight and wait.

- For what?
- For me.

Lieutenant Gary Walker,
LAPD, Gang Impact Team.

Hey. Don Eppes, FBI...

No badges. U.S. Attorney
doesn't want the locals

to know FBI is on the scene.

Oh, yeah? And why is that?

Well, apparently, they don't
want anyone to blow his cover.

Though personally, I think
it's a little late.

But I'm not calling the shots.

( sighs )

His name is Anton Rhimes.

Worked an extortion case
together down in Long Beach.

Don, he's FBI.

We all use math every day,

to predict weather,

to tell time,

to handle money.

Math is more than formulas
and equations.

It's logic...

it's rationality.

It's using your mind to solve the
biggest mysteries that we know.

WALKER: Agent Rhimes was part
of a multi-agency task force.

He'd been working undercover
for ten months.

As a gang member?

Yeah. He'd infiltrated
the 23rd Street Syndicate,

and was providing information
regarding their leadership.

So, they took him out?

That'd be my guess.

You find any casings?

No, but that's not unusual.

They tend to stay
in the car in a drive-by.

All right, I'm gonna talk
to the U.S. Attorney.

Meanwhile, you guys should just keep
taking care of the evidence, all right?

Yeah.

Restaurant was pretty busy
all day.

You couldn't pull
a single witness?

Well, it's kind of the way it is
with these people, Agent.

It's kind of us versus them
out there.

I meant lawmen versus civilians.

Right.

I know what we're waiting on.

An undercover FBI
agent gets whacked.

We all know what happened.

23rd Street bangers found out
his identity and had him killed.

In my opinion, we ought
to hit them back hard for it.

The longer a thing like this
goes unanswered,

the more dangerous it gets
for all of us out there.

I appreciate your sense
of outrage, Lieutenant,

but we need to confirm
that Agent Rhimes' cover

really was blown
before we make a move.

You guys, this is Robin Brooks.

She's the Assistant
U.S. Attorney

running the task force
that Rhimes was on.

What I was suggesting was
that we grab as many

of these 23rd Street bangers
as we can for questioning.

Which would be as good as telling
them that Rhimes was a federal agent.

COLBY: Look, Counselor,
let's not forget.

We have a man down.

Where I come from,
that means something.

Look, the 23rd Street Syndicate is
responsible for dozens of homicides,

extortion, drug trafficking.

I'm sorry, but I am
not about to blow

a 14-month investigation
to make you feel better.

DON:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let's just take
a breath here, okay?

I mean, an agent did give
his life for this case.

But I agree.

There's no point jeopardizing
what he was working on

until we absolutely have to, right?

Let me see what you got.

Like a lot of gangs,
23rd Street's branching out.

They've set up shop
in over nine states.

We've had to turn to federal
racketeering provisions to stop them.

So you're building a RICO case?

Same way we've gone after
traditional organized crime.

Take down the leadership.

It was Agent Rhimes' job
to identify the "shot callers"

within the 23rd Street
Syndicate.

This is a map
of local gang territories.

None of the
boundaries are exact,

as they vary
as bordering gangs battle.

They're random
and unpredictable.

Actually,
they're-they're neither.

Economists have several
math models that we can apply

to analyze how gangs
partition territory.

Now, one of them was actually

originally designed
to predict plant growth.

In situations
of dense population,

plants struggle
against each other.

They fight to obtain sunlight,
to establish dominance...

And it turns out,
that the same equations designed

to predict plant growth
apply themselves remarkably well

to borders between rival human
populations, as well.

Wh-Wh-What are these flags?

These are gang-related
shootings.

Now, over what time frame?
How many years?

- Years?
- Mm-hmm.

This is just six months.

Six... Six months?

There's almost...
There's almost 100 shootings.

BROOKS: And those
are only the shootings

that are related to the
23rd Street Syndicate.

WALKER: You want total gang shootings,
we're talking more like 1,000.

I'm sorry. In six months?

Yeah.

Wow.
Well, I'm assuming the LAPD

hasn't analyzed this
with a regression tree

or run it through
a Poisson Clumping analysis.

Well, considering that I have no idea
what that means, I'm gonna say no.

DON:
He's a mathematician.

You know,
they have their own language.

Charlie, what, do you
see something here?

There is a lot
of information here,

and I'm already detecting
a pattern.

Now, if I could just get
all files on the shootings,

I might be able to tell you
if Agent Rhimes' murder

was part of a pattern,
or an anomaly.

Don, we have the video
surveillance from the restaurant.

DON:
All right.

DON: All right, so that's Rhimes
on the right, but who's that?

( remote beeping )

( electronic whirring )

BROOKS:
That's Travis Watts.

He's high up
in the 23rd Street structure.

He's a suspected shot caller.

COLBY: Well, it looks to me like
he took Rhimes out for a last supper,

set him up for execution.

I... I don't know.

What about a warrant sweep?

I mean, you do it all the time.

We could play it low-profile,
you know?

DAVID: So, we run down
23rd Street members

on open warrants,
use that leverage to find Watts.

That way, no one knows
about Agent Rhimes' cover.

Okay.

( hip-hop music playing )

( music fading out )

( sighs )

( sneezes )

Oh, this garage.

Do you have any idea how many
deadly forms of mold live out here?

Do you have any idea
how many gang-related shootings

there were in Los Angeles
in the past four years?

Obviously, I don't have
that exact figure,

but something tells me you do.

Well, take a guess.

Just go ahead -- all shootings,
non-fatal and fatal.

Go ahead, take a guess.
How many?

Okay. Over the last four years?

I don't know.
Let's say a thousand.

Almost 8,000.

- Really?
- Yeah.

2,000 of those resulted
in deaths,

and most of them occurred ten
or 12 miles from here.

Gee, those numbers
are overwhelming.

They are. There's a lot
of data here, Larry,

but the police know
who the players are.

And if I can just find
the key attributes

to connect one crime to another,

I can write an algorithm
to connect the shootings

to the gang members involved.

But Charlie, these issues --
they're just so complicated.

And you know, I mean,
what you're describing --

that seems like a lot to ask,
even for Don.

Well, Don did only ask for help
with this one case, but, uh,

don't all these other victims
deserve justice?

( hip-hop playing )

Guys.

Game over.

Take it back, man.
We'll let you get winners.

Nah, that ain't gonna
work, bro. We got now.

I need you all
to get down on the ground. Yo!

Hit the ground.

WALKER:
Come on.

You know the drill.

I got him! Hey!

Get back here!

Hey! Stop...!

Hey, you, stop, you.

Stop right there.
Stop... Hands up.

Turn around.

Hands up. Hands on your head.

What the hell's going on?

I said, what the hell's
going on?

Ma'am, I've got everything
under control, okay?

You've got what under control?

DAVID:
Ma'am, everything is fine.

I'm just doing my job.

Do you have a warrant?

Excuse me?

I'm the director
of this community center,

and I'm responsible for
what happens in this building.

No, I don't have a warrant,

and I don't need one
to pursue a suspect.

John, take the kids back
in the room.

Come on, guys, let's go.

This doesn't have anything
to do with us. Come on.

Are you all right?

Uh, he ran after me.
I ain't do nothing.

He was told to stop, and he ran.

Well, maybe the gun
had something to do with it.

Kids come here to get away
from violence.

You need some help?

Everything's under
control, Lieutenant.

Ma'am, I have a job to do,
and you need to let me do it.

DAVID:
Everything's fine.

You see what I'm talking about,
about the lack of cooperation.

So, guess what.

Anthony here has got not one,
but two outstanding warrants.

Isn't that right, Anthony?

If you say so, man.

Yeah, man, I say so.

Only good news is, today we might
give you a chance to change your luck.

How is that?

We're looking
for a friend of yours;

somebody you might roll with:
Travis Watts.

Anthony, you help us,

maybe we worry about
these warrants another day.

COLBY: What's it gonna be,
Anthony?

MEGAN ( on speaker ): Where were
you the night before last, Travis?

TRAVIS:
I don't know. A lot of places.

I get around.
You know how it is.

DAVID: This is you
and Anton Rhimes at 6:20.

Only at 6:45, Anton's dead.

Yeah. So, I was with him.

And not when he got shot.

I went back for my cell phone.

That's kind of lucky for you.

Why are you asking me
all these questions anyway?

You were there
when he was murdered, right?

And what happened
to him will be dealt with.

What's dealt with?

I'm not saying anything
that would incriminate me.

But right about now,

some shaved heads in Hoover
Park are getting a message.

DAVID:
So, 23rd Street's retaliating.

Take one of mine,
I'm gonna take five of yours.

DAVID: If 23rd Street
really is retaliating,

there's no way
they knew Rhimes is FBI.

Just got off the
phone with Walker.

A gang unit in Hoover
Park just confirmed

three separate
drive-by shootings.

23rd Street's suspected.

So, Rhimes' cover
was still intact?

But if his cover wasn't blown,

why the hell was he killed?

DON: If Rhimes' cover
wasn't blown...

MEGAN: Then on the street,
he was just another gang member.

What got him killed then?

Turf dispute? Wrong tattoos?

23rd Street retaliated
against Hoover Park

because they think that
they killed Rhimes.

WALKER: These two gangs have
been going at each other hard,

ever since 23rd Street
ripped off a drug shipment

from Hoover Park's supplier.

Yeah, but your guys keep track
of all gang rivalries, right?

An enemies list.

Every time a name comes up in
a beef with a rival gangbanger,

we write it down.

DON: I'd like to take a
look at those field reports,

see if Rhimes was targeted for
being 23rd Street or it was personal or...

Maybe we should look
into the personal side.

Maybe he had a concern that he
didn't tell the prosecutor,

but maybe he told his wife.

Definitely worth checking out.

Don, Charlie's here.
He's got something to show you.

CHARLIE: Now what you're seeing
is a behavioral sequence analysis.

It's a sequential representation of
shootings over the past four years.

DON:
And what does it get us?

Well, this kind of dynamic graph
is an amazingly good predictor

of what I've been calling
shooting chains.

AGENT:
Shooting chains?

Shootings that are linked -- one
to the next, then to the next.

You mean retaliation shootings.

We already know about all those.

Well, what I'm saying is
that it might be possible

to follow these shooting chains
back to the original shooter.

Without witnesses
and without testimony?

Visualize a tabletop
covered with dominos.

The first domino to fall is
the start of a shooting chain.

Shooting chains can be short,
shooting chains can be long.

Some shooting chains initiate
other branching chains.

Now we're looking at these
shooting chains after the fact,

after all the dominos
have fallen.

And reconstructing these chains
is going to be difficult.

But there is a way.

By using hierarchical
network graphs

in combination with
Poisson Clumping,

we can work our way backwards,

back to the original dominos
that started the chain.

DAVID: Which means we could
identify the inciters --

gang members most prone
to violence.

CHARLIE: That's correct.

And if we could somehow
remove them from the loop...

Theoretically,
we stop future shootings.

You got it. That's it.

Well, that's
an interesting notion.

Interesting,
yet you don't seem interested.

Well, it's a matter
of priorities.

18 percent of these shootings

killed or injured
innocent bystanders.

I think some of those people
were ten years old.

35 percent of the victims
were 16 years old or younger.

Yeah, I know.

I'm at those crime scenes,
and I don't like it.

But no matter how many
gangbangers we pull in,

more are gonna come
to take their place.

And frankly, to most people,

stopping bad guys from killing
bad guys isn't a major priority.

Yeah, again, some of these
shootings involve innocent people.

All right, Charlie, hey...

That's fine.
Excuse me. That's fine.

You know, you'll just
have to forgive me

if I feel that citywide gang
violence isn't something

that one mathematician can stop.

I'm gonna have to run.

Brief the next team.

I'll talk to you later, Gary.

Look, hey...

Hey, I'm not here
to start trouble with anyone.

Listen, listen, all right?

Let's just concentrate
on Rhimes for now, okay?

You got to give the guy a break.

He's been at this for,
you know, over 20 years now.

We were planning a family.

It was gonna happen right after
Anton's undercover assignment was over.

I'm really sorry.

It's funny, you know,
he hasn't been home

all that much
these last few months, so...

not having him around,
it really hasn't hit me yet.

I was hoping I could
ask you a couple of questions.

Sure.

Has your husband mentioned
being afraid of anyone

or anything in the
last couple of weeks?

Anton afraid?

He didn't have the gene.

( chuckles )

I'm the one
who did the worrying.

So he never mentioned anyone.

We didn't talk very much lately.

Like I said,
he hasn't been around.

I'm in my last year
of architecture school,

and there just...

never seemed to be enough time.

I understand.

But I could tell he was excited.

You know, he'd get that way
whenever he was getting close.

I think the people he was after
were starting to trust him,

starting to let him
make decisions.

I can't even give him
the funeral he deserves.

Can't even bury him with honor,

because they still
don't want to blow his cover.

It's quite a job you have.

AMITA:
This is another FBI project,

judging from the references
to firearm violence.

Yeah, well,
an FBI agent was killed.

I'm trying to identify
possible motives.

By identifying all the links
and patterns, is that it?

So many of these murders
are connected

that I'm having trouble seeing
past the initial relationships.

Looks like
they're chain reactions.

I'm calling them
shooting chains.

You're trying to solve all the
shooting chains, is that right?

Not just one.

Uh, yeah.

Oh, Charles, consider Galileo.

Now he was interested
in a single specific problem --

getting a closer look
at the planets.

So he built the most powerful
telescope of his time.

That's right,
and he saw the moons of Jupiter,

thus proving that not everything in
the universe revolved around the Earth.

The point, Fleinhardt,
the point.

The point, Mr. Eppes, is that
formulating a grand theory

is often best done by focusing
on a single, small question.

Why did you print out
all these photos?

I don't know.

I was looking at the ages
of the victims,

and I wanted to see their faces.

MAN:
All right, Daryl.

Bye, David.

( hip-hop blaring )

Let me give you a hand there.

Thanks.

You're the one that was
chasing that kid earlier.

That's right.

Who are you after now?

I'm not after anyone.

Don't get me wrong, those
that run need chasing.

It's the kids I worry about.

They can still be saved.

John Owens.

David Sinclair.
Nice to meet you.

The lady
I was talking to earlier...

Olivia?

She still around?

Olivia's always around.

She's probably inside.

Thanks.

Hope you didn't come by
to make more trouble.

No, I just wanted to ask
you a few questions, that's all.

About Anthony?

No, we cut Anthony loose.

Turns out he really
didn't do anything.

At least you admit
when you make a mistake.

There was a murder
down here the other night.

Been a bunch of murders
down here.

This one had
a few witnesses though.

I thought maybe

you could help me
get someone to come forward,

give us some more info.

( chuckles )
Help you?

Wait a minute.

Just hold on for a second.

You have a problem with
trying to solve a murder?

People get shot
around here every day.

Never much effort
finding witnesses.

It just makes me wonder,
why all the interest now?

Who was it that got shot?

Look, whatever you think
about me, okay,

about the police,

people around here
seem to listen to you.

And I am asking for your help.

You mean you're asking me
to trust you.

Yeah. I guess I am.

And I'm supposed to do that
because you have a badge?

I'm sorry.

You haven't been down here
enough for me to trust you.

A man lost his life.

I'm not here to restore
your faith in the system.

I am just trying
to find his killer.

If you think you want to
help with that, call me.

Donny.

- Dad.
- What's going on?

Not much.

Things are just not
coming together on this one.

Yeah, I know.

I saw some of what
Charlie's been working on.

Charlie.

He's looking
at every gang shooting

for the last four years,
which is a lot.

Well, he follows the numbers.

The more something
seems unsolvable,

the more he wants to solve it.

Well, he's wasting time.

He's looking at way too much.

Look, I don't think he expects
to solve something

that's been going on that long.

I mean, with decades
of bad urban planning,

racism and economic blight,

gang violence
doesn't go away overnight.

It's just that it's Charlie,
you know?

He has to get to understand
the entire picture.

Hey. Don, hey.

I got news for you.

Yeah? On Rhimes
or the 4,000 other shootings?

Both.

I was able to discover
a pattern.

Nine shootings,
all of them connected, right?

With Agent Rhimes,
you've got ten.

Connected, as in
all part of the same chain?

No. Each one of the ten is the
start of its own shooting chain.

And Don, I think they're all
the work of the same killer.

So you're saying Rhimes' killer
is responsible for ten murders?

No, far more.

I mean, he may have pulled the
trigger on those ten murders,

but they aren't
his only victims.

ALAN: Right, because of all the
retaliation shootings, you mean.

Right. When you include all the
victims from these ten shooting chains,

you've got yourself one person
setting off over 60 murders.

Hey, guys, listen up.

I got nine separate gang
shootings over the last two years.

Charlie thinks they are all
related to Rhimes' murder.

- Related how?
- All the same shooter.

- The same shooter?
- DON: That's right.

WALKER:
Ten kills?

I don't care how hard-core a
gangbanger we're talking about,

this guy would be a legend.

He's right.

Plus, the shootings are spread

throughout completely
different gang territories,

exploiting totally
different rivalries.

Trust me, if Charlie's math
says they're connected,

the odds are
they are connected, okay?

I have three different
files here.

All three victims
are different races.

They also all have
a different weapon.

.25 cal. -- what's this, .44...
that's a nine millimeter.

Yeah, same here.
They're all different.

That's why we need to look at
this stuff fresh, right?

We need to run the prints again,

the ballistics,
anything we can, okay?

Hold on a second.

You see something?

MEGAN:
All three of these --

four, if you count Rhimes --

are single homicides;

the victim is isolated.

Yeah, this one is,
too. How about these?

- Same.
- Yeah, here, too.

Yeah, this one as well.

So?

So, that doesn't happen
by accident.

MEGAN: It might just be
something about opportunity,

or it might be part
of a bigger plan.

But either way,
it supports Charlie's theory

that there's a single killer

with a specific method
of finding his victims.

All right,
let's check into this; let's go.

Professor Fleinhardt.

Oh, Agent Reeves.

- Hey, Amita.
- Hi.

- Charlie.
- Hey.

Wow, you have
a lot of victim photos.

CHARLIE:
Lot of victims.

Charlie, Don told me your theory,
and, assuming you're right,

I'm trying to figure out how
the killer is finding his victims.

And I don't have
a behavioral model yet,

but it seems that it has to be
more than just opportunity.

And I can tell you mathematically,
yeah, it has to be.

What does that mean? Why?

Each of the murders started an
exceptionally long shooting chain.

Now, the average for a shooing
chain is about 2.8 shootings, right?

Well, these are all much higher.

Look -- four, five, six,
seven shootings, even.

Statistically, that wouldn't happen if
he had chosen the victims at random.

The chains would have conformed
to the overall average.

So, there is definitely a method
to how he's choosing his victims.

In other words, the killer's
choosing his victims

specifically to maximize
retaliation.

So he's trying to take out as
many gang members as possible.

But wouldn't that also endanger
members of his own gang?

I mean, they're surely going to
be the target of the retaliation.

You see, now you're making
this rather large assumption.

I mean, how do we know that
the shooter is a gang member?

DAVID:
A serial killer?

MEGAN: Targeting gang members
for the same reason

other serial killers
target prostitutes.

Because nobody really
cares about the victims.

Exactly. And then they
can go on killing for longer

without anyone noticing.

I mean, this guy's been
out there for like two years.

And if he hadn't killed Rhimes,
we still wouldn't know who he is.

( cell phone rings )

Charlie says he's been
maximizing retaliations.

He'd have to know
a lot about gangs.

I mean, about their structure,
how they function.

You're right, that's
how he knows who to go after.

All right, yeah.
Yeah, I got you.

That was Ballistics.

One of the slugs we've been
testing hit on the computer.

Turns out the same gun
that fired it

was used in a liquor store
robbery-homicide.

Well, let's run down the guy
who owns the gun --

find our shooter.

The problem is, this gun's not
even supposed to exist anymore.

What does that mean?

It was turned in to one of those
buy-back programs three years ago --

turn in your gun,
get a free gift at Christmastime.

And those guns are
supposed to be destroyed?

Yeah, they're supposed to be,
but obviously this one wasn't.

- You got this? Thank you.
- Yep, got it.

( hip-hop blaring )

Yo, Hoover Park!

( tires squealing )

( helicopter circling )

( siren wailing )

This is part of the shooting chain
related to Anton Rhimes' murder.

23rd Street retaliated against
Hoover Park this afternoon.

Tonight, Hoover Park
strikes back.

It's probably not over, either.

DAVID:
No.

Ah, man, that's Anthony, huh?

Been better off
if you'd locked him up.

Hey, David, let me talk
to you for a second.

Did some checking into that gun,

the one that went missing
from the buy-back program.

Yeah...

Dug up some paperwork.
Take a look at this.

The signature on the
bottom of that receipt.

"Lieutenant Gary Walker."

Could be completely innocent,
but at some point or another,

the gun that killed Rhimes
passed through Walker's hands.

I don't think I like
what you're suggesting.

Well, it's not a question
of whether you like it,

because your name
is on the form, right?

That's your name,
it's not a forgery,

so the investigation brings
us to you; I'm sorry.

My name's on about
a thousand forms.

I've been working the buy-back
program in my division for six years.

Collecting weapons that were
supposed to be melted down.

You know how many guns
we take in off the street?

How many lives we save
because of it?

Then why don't you tell me
how a gun that you signed for

ends up back on the street
in the hands of a killer.

Who the hell knows; security's
not perfect at these things,

a lot of people
come through here.

Now, we probably took 50 guns
off the street that day.

If one of them slipped through,
got back out,

that's still 49 others
that we took in.

I don't care about them,

because they're not
in the hands of a murderer.

Oh come on, Eppes,
we're talking about

a motivated individual
out there killing.

If it hadn't been this gun,
it'd been another one,

and you and I both know that.

- All right...
- COLBY: Don? Excuse me.

The guys upstairs
ran a full audit.

More than a dozen guns
from the buy-back program

never made it to the furnace.

( scoffing laugh )

Okay, then, just tell me
how the program works.

What is the exact
chain of possession?

There's usually maybe
five or six drop-off locations:

churches, community centers...

DAVID:
Community Centers?

Is there any way
to check each weapon

against the location
it was turned in to?

COLBY: Well, just by the
responsible police officer's signatures.

And, it turns out, all these guns
were signed for by you, Lieutenant.

DAVID: Which means they were
all turned in at the same location.

Right.

Which is the
23rd Street Community Center.

You do see the obscene irony here,
don't you, Agent Sinclair?

We're one of the few places
in the neighborhood

that's really trying
to do some good,

and you're coming down on us.

Ms. Rawlings, I am not
coming down on you.

The gun buy-back is
a good program.

That may be, but we still need
to see those records.

We need to know
everyone who was working here

the day the guns were collected.

These are people
who try to help out.

People who contribute.

Do you have any idea how hard
it's going to be to get volunteers

if they can't lend a hand here
without getting a visit from the FBI?

Ms. Rawlings, I want
those names and addresses.

Anyone who had access
to those guns.

I know you do background checks.

What if I won't
give them to you?

We can get a court order
and make this public.

And, I suppose,
the community center

could find itself liable
to the victims' families

if it came to that.

I hope you're
really proud of yourself.

You're doing a whole lot
to give back to this community.

Ten people had the opportunity
to get their hands on the guns

that were turned in at the
23rd Street Community Center.

Those are the background
checks they ran.

Well, we can probably
rule out the priest, huh?

These six here strike me
as possibilities.

They could have the necessary
gang knowledge,

and the ability to pull
something like this off.

All right, so we just
need to find a way

to connect one of them
to the victims.

Specifically, the first victim.

Because with serial killers,

the first victim
almost always has significance.

It's the first kill.

It's a really big step.

Means it's personal,
or someone close, accessible.

So, victim number one is where
we're looking to find our link.

This is Omar Brice.

He was shot outside
of a party two years ago.

All right.
Well, I'll take the family.

You want to pull his record,
talk to his P.O.?

I'll see what Walker's
gang unit has on him.

Has to be a link between him
and one of our suspects.

CHARLIE:
Hey.

Are you still working?

Yeah, I just needed a break.

- Where's Dad?
- He's upstairs.

He just got home from
his date with, um... Donna.

Oh, yeah?

So? How'd it go?

ALAN: Fine.

The date went fine.

DON: Yeah? What'd
you end up getting her?

Well, according to
those London mathematicians,

you should have sprung for
the very expensive dinner, Dad.

Nah, I disagree.

I think women want
something that'll last.

Something they can remember
the night by, at least.

That would be ideal.

I'm afraid to ask.

What did you get her?

- Soap.
- Soap.

Very expensive soap.

Yeah?

How'd that go over?

Well, uh...

Honestly speaking,
she wasn't wowed.

I mean, she was
very polite about it,

but she, uh,
wasn't, uh... wowed.

Ruined the whole date,
didn't it?

It didn't ruin the date.
The date was fine.

You're home at 9:30.

I didn't say
it couldn't have been better.

You look exhausted,
you know that?

I'm just killing myself trying to
find a link between our suspects

and his first victim.

Well, at least
you have suspects.

Hey, Don, why are you...

why are you looking to link

your suspects
to the first victim?

Because when it comes
to serial murders,

there's always significance
to the first victim.

Well, I understand that,
but what I mean is

why aren't you looking at
the whole first chain?

What do you mean?

Now, remember I compared
the shooting chains to dominos?

Right? Okay.

So, let's say I'm the killer,

and I have reason
to want this gang member killed.

We'll call him "Bob."

Now, I could just
shoot Bob myself.

The smarter move:

Assuming I know the gang
structure well enough...

instead of shooting Bob,
I shoot "Tim,"

knowing that shooting Tim
will set off a chain

that ultimately results...

in the shooting
of my real target, Bob.

That is smart.

You're never involved
in the shooting of Bob.

So, since you don't have
a motive for killing Tim,

then you're not
a suspect there, either.

Check the whole first chain,

your target's going to be
in there.

Charlie, thanks.

What are we working on?

First shooting chain.

We only looked
at the first link, Omar Brice.

But what if Brice
wasn't the real target?

What if the real target was
someone further down the chain?

That makes sense.

At the time of Brice's murder,
LAPD focused on three suspects.

They're all Hoover Park
gang members.

They had all made threats
against Brice.

Carlos Alvarez,
Jesse Orosco, and Peter Mendez.

I have the murder file on Orosco
and Jesse right here.

He was gunned down one week
after the Brice slaying.

So Orosco was victim
number two in the shooting chain.

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

Where's the file on
the community center volunteers?

It's right over here.

Why? What do you got?

This kid, Orosco,
at the time of his murder,

he was a suspect
in another drive-by --

one that killed a 15-year-old
kid named Brian Owens.

Kid's father John works
at the community center.

Really?

He was present
at all the gun buy-backs.

So this guy's son
gets shot in a drive-by.

He sets off a shooting chain
that ends up

killing the gangbanger
that's responsible.

Only the killing
didn't stop there.

( indistinct police radio
transmission )

( helicopter circling )

Spotter says Owens
is inside alone.

I tried calling, but
he's not picking up.

COLBY:
The dude's armed for sure.

Talked to one of his neighbors.

Says he sees him out on
his porch at night with a rifle.

He's pretty sure it's an AK.

Plus all the guns he got
from the buy-back program.

What we need is to lure him
near a window,

give one of my snipers
a clean shot.

Shoot first, ask
questions later, right?

Lives are in danger here,
Agent Sinclair --

lives of the people
who live here.

Don, I met this guy.

Let me see if I can talk to him.

Just give me a shot.

Maybe it doesn't end
with a sniper's bullet.

All right.

DAVID:
John Owens, can you hear me?

It's Agent Sinclair.

I helped you with the tables the
other day at the community center.

You remember?

Hold! Hold! Hold!

Calm down, John!

Calm down!

Easy.

Lower that rifle.

Get our man in position.

I got nothing to say
to you, Sinclair.

Okay, maybe you
could just listen.

I know about your son.

I know what happened to him.

He was 15 years old.

Fifteen.

Only I couldn't protect him.

I know.

John, it should have
never happened.

But what you're doing,
more people are gonna get hurt.

It's too late for all that.

What about the kids?

Remember the ones you said
could still be saved?

What about them, John?

They still need you.

I'm going to jail;
we both know that.

John, listen to me.

You put that gun down,
and you come on out here.

Nobody else has to
get hurt today, okay?

John.

DAVID:
John! Talk to me.

John, keep talking to me, man.

I'm right here!

John!

Hey, John!

John, talk to me!

David!

You come back out here, John!

- David, get down!
- Come back to the window!

( gunshot )

Roll call.

You okay?

He shot himself.

I heard.

How's David?

I sent him home.

Colby's with him.

Your man, Sinclair,
did himself proud today.

He's got nothing
to feel bad about.

We all went home safe, and...

that's about as much
as you can ask.

I was gonna go see Rhimes' wife

and tell her what happened.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Hello!

ALAN:
Yeah, we're coming down.

Yeah? Where are you going?

CHARLIE:
He's got yet another date.

Yeah? With -- what's her name --
Donna?

I thought that wasn't
going to work out.

Well, your brother came
to my rescue.

CHARLIE:
I bought gift number two

on that courtship
study list: theater tickets.

According to those matheticians,
you know the British ones,

this is a sure thing.

Well, maybe not a sure thing,

but it's certainly
better than, you know, soap.

I don't need math
to figure that out.

Uh, thanks for your insights,
my little Don Juan.

So what are you up
to tonight, Donny?

Well, I thought I was going
to hang with you boys, but...

CHARLIE:
Oh, man, I wish you'd called.

I'm going to Amita's for dinner.

Larry's going to be there --
why don't you join us?

I think I'll just grab something
to eat here and head home.

Yeah? All right.

- You sure?
- Yeah, go ahead, have fun.

I got stuff to do, anyway.

Have a good time.

( mumbling ):
All right, all right.

( door shuts )

♪♪

DAVID: Say someone
steps right up to you,

all up in your grill.

What are you going to do?

I know what you want to do,
but what are you gonna do?

The first thing you're
gonna do is think.

What I'm trying to get you guys
to see is there are other ways

to keep your respect
than just resorting to violence.

You got more options than that.

All right, y'all give me second?

Hey, how you doing?

My assistant told me someone
was going take over for John tonight.

I didn't expect it
was gonna be you.

Yeah, um... conflict resolution.

Class like that really helped me
out when I was a kid, so...

Oh, yeah?

Yeah, you know, I was a bit
of a hard-ass.

Was?

( chuckles ):
You really do like to fight.

( laughs )

Maybe you want to sit in.

You know, you could learn some
good ways to work things out.

- And I won't even call on you.
- ( laughs )

I'll let you sit there
and just watch me.

If you want to.

Let them know when you're done,

so they can turn out the
lights when you leave.

Yes, ma'am.

And I assume an
FBI agent like you

can figure out
how to find my number.

What are y'all looking at?

All right, where were we?

Talking about options --
options to violence, right?

Say you're at the bus stop,
you're in line,

somebody steps -- boom! --
right on your sneakers.

What are you gonna do?

♪ It will be all right ♪

♪ And maybe love
will save you. ♪