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You taking me off active duty?

You're not in obvious distress, but whether you're ready to get back out

is another story.

My mom just mainly calls from Joe Jr. I was hoping that you could trace it. This

is still an active case with international implications.

Let's not say anything about this to my brother, okay?

I did not see who shot and killed Pietro.

But you believed at the time it was your son Eli Stabler who fired.

Yes. The whole squad is calling me Baby Stabler.

They're hazing you. It'll blow over. Maybe you should mind your own business.

What is he like going to be?

What do you mean?

Well, is he going to be a cop like you or a cop like your father?

Bye now.

The fuck?

Hey, it's me. Just landed a few hours ago. Thanks for the restaurant, Rex.

But you should have told me that these Italians drink at every meal.

Anyway, the Kimori case should be wrapped up in a few days. And Reyes and

both out.

Please, for God's sake, take some time.

And kiss that grandbaby for me. Okay, bye.

Hey, this is your weekly reminder to not skip your weekly therapist appointment.

I know, I know. I can sit and twist. Bye.

In what some are calling a freak accident, there is one casualty in what

to be an art protest on a ride. The CEO of the food delivery service, Zip Chow,

claims this company's robot... Hey.

Yeah, sorry for popping by, but I brought breakfast, so... You hungry?

I appreciate it. No bother. We're still getting set up.

Still a process.

I see that. Well, I'm here. Over to work.

Stop your hand.

It's nothing. What do you got?

Uh, Bernie dropped that off.

There? Mm -hmm.

This protest thing is wild. They said one of those delivery boxes straight up

exploded. I guess there were some things she couldn't get rid of when you were a

kid.

This used to hang above Joe Jr.'s crib.

We're not hanging that over Owen's crib.

Owen? Is that the name? Oh, we're workshopping it.

Eli, help your dad.

I'm watching this.

What's the matter?

Nothing.

IV?

Heard something?

Not yet, but Hunt doesn't think I have anything to worry about.

Take it seriously.

Take it seriously.

I mean, pull the trigger.

I'm here if you want to talk.

You said I'm good.

I know what you said.

And you're good until the day when you're not.

Someone's been going to therapy?

Hey. Guys.

You scared me.

What's with the suit?

Oh, just, uh, I have a thing.

Just have to give a presentation tonight about the dangers of artificial

intelligence. The dangers of the thing that you use every day. Interesting.

What are you watching?

Videos from the protest last night. Oh, yeah, I heard that's on

counterterrorism's radar now.

Something about it just doesn't get right.

What do you mean? What's that? Well, I mean...

They're calling it an accident. You know, just a malfunction with one of the

robots. But, I don't know, it just feels more intentional.

Like the delivery bot was tampered with?

Yeah, it wouldn't take much. Just some sort of trigger mechanism that was

activated.

I mean, it'd be the same way that you would access the navigation controls.

I could write that code in my sleep.

Sounds like you're already out.

Hmm.

Is that my Randall?

Yeah, look, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. Have you? Well, now we

have the opportunity. All three of us can talk about it. Great.

Put him on speaker.

Hey, Randall. Hey, Kyle. I got another lead on Joe Jr.

Yeah, I'm going to send the screen grabs over so you can run them through your

little mystery machine.

It's not a mystery machine. It's a magic box.

Shit.

I'm going to deal with you later.

Bye, Randall.

I swear, I only had the best intentions.

How long has this been going on?

Look, the important thing is that we found something. What did you find?

Your brother, Joe Jr.

He's been spotted in nightclubs overseas, clubs that are known drug

And the sightings are legit, but it is in the oddest collection of cities. I

mean, it's Amsterdam, Stockholm, Istanbul, Madrid, Berlin, and if you can

believe it, Baghdad.

Have you seen the news?

Otherwise I'd know why you're on the verge of freaking out.

Tyler Pearson's dead.

Shit.

Really?

We were going to send him a message, not blow him up. Hey, bring your voice

down.

He didn't deserve to die.

Sure he did.

It was a happy accident.

Beyond that, I don't know what else to tell you, Sky, unless...

You want to say something?

They're calling us terrorists.

Maybe.

Do you trust me?

I want to hear you say it.

I trust you.

Good.

But... No, no, no, no.

You either do or you don't.

and my mom's fighting for her life, and that's where my head's at right now.

I'm sure you understand.

I'm sorry.

Generative AI is a curse on creativity.

There's no denying. But we cannot ignore AI's potential for good in other

industries. Artificial intelligence cannot only make lives easier.

It can actually save them.

I want to thank you for the invitation to speak here tonight.

And remember, power lies in creation, not in the tape.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Could you sign my floppy disk? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Thank you so much for coming.

Have fun.

Take care.

You're Dr.

Carl Varga?

Uh, yeah.

Detective Tanner, Counterterrorism Bureau.

We need to talk.

Um...

Joey, Joey, Joey, what are you up to?

Detective Tanner, counterterrorism. We tried contacting Sergeant Bell, but

in a different time zone.

Well, Detective Stabler, you didn't contact me. Oh, we're doing that right

Can you find Vargas' desk? Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

Nobody moves until I understand what's going on here.

Dr. Kyle Vargas is currently in our custody. He's a suspect in the protest

attack two nights ago.

Dr. Vargas is an employee of the NYPD. He's not a terrorist.

I understand that you may have questions about your colleague's potential

involvement in our case.

I actually don't have one question. I'm just calling bullshit. Where is he?

He's in our custody. You've established that. I want to see him. Now.

I didn't do this.

So I hear.

Cybercrime analyzed the program that was used to remote access these delivery

bots and malware.

had a coded signature when they were able to trace back to its original

See something familiar?

I do.

Do you want to tell me why your fingerprints are all over this code?

I have no idea.

I wrote this on a lark years ago as part of a weekend coding competition.

And then you posted it to a black hat chat room. Somebody else uploaded it.

Who? I don't know.

Look, these things, they just, they float around cyberspace, and every once

while somebody stumbles across something and they find a use for it.

Terrorism, for example?

I understand why you brought me in. I do.

But this wasn't me.

I work for OCCB. I mean, I'm a white hat now, and this is why.

What were you doing a few nights ago?

I was at home.

You were online on anarchist chat boards.

I, I...

Saw the projections on my way home, and I was curious who was behind it. The

next morning, you were on the same boards again.

Because I was curious what went wrong.

Uh -huh.

Wait here.

You know, I... Does he always like

that? I told you, he's nervous. It's like watching someone kick a puppy in

there. This is nothing but a waste of time.

I agree with you. But look, at the moment, he's what we got in terms of

evidence. He's not going anywhere.

What we think is that the people behind this protest are a group that call

themselves the collective. They're anonymous, but they have this signature

that we've traced to similar demonstrations in Chicago and Los

is the first time anyone's gotten hurt.

So what you're saying is this is organized crime. You'd like our help on

task force. I did not say any of those things. We accept.

I think we should start with the manufacturer of the delivery bots.

have a better idea.

I know we've all heard about what happened the other night.

Is it what we wanted?

Of course not.

But is it what we need?

I say yes.

Our message.

has been heard all over the world. Because for the first time, people are

us seriously.

We all know that real change comes at a price.

If we have to set a few backfires to stop the world from burning, so be it.

Then let's get back to work.

We're the first of our kind in the city. How does it work?

We receive orders from the customer, and our bots deploy to the restaurant.

Food service workers put the order inside, and then the autonomous driving

software takes over. If it experiences any issues, our controllers step in to

take over manual control.

Your controllers?

Our programmers double as jockeys. The one who was working that night, you'll

want to talk to her.

The hackers tried to corrupt our backup files, but we're good coders, too. We

were able to retrieve most of them.

At this point, we'd already lost navigational control, but the cameras

still recording when they projected the images.

At some point, that bot made a course correction.

Show them.

That's the victim. That's Tyler Pearson.

Looks like it's following.

There's a single audio file.

Is that my darling Clementine?

Nice.

Nice? That's all I get.

I don't hand out compliments like candy.

You have to earn them.

Noted.

You late, Max?

Maybe because the cops were at my work for the last three hours.

Which we expected.

They're not completely incompetent.

Did they talk to you?

No. Exactly.

And they won't, because the code made sure none of this will ever trace back

you.

Everyone should be here soon.

We'll go green when we're all here.

I think we should give it a beat.

On that, too.

You want to be a revolutionary?

Then fucking nut up and continue the fight.

You want to cosplay this shit?

Then I'll get you a t -shirt of Che Guevara and you can go sell incense down

Washington Square Park.

What's it gonna be?

I'm in.

Okay?

I'm in. Then fucking get on it.

Has anyone heard from Skye?

No.

Fuck it. We'll roll without her.

Right now it only appears to be affecting electric vehicles.

Similar reports are coming in from all five boroughs. No one knows quite what

make of it.

We ran into three minor accidents on the way here.

We're at Brim Street and West Broadway and it's backed up for days. No movement

in any direction.

Cars are parked in the middle of the street and drivers are getting out of

vehicles arguing with each other. It's total mayhem.

Initial reports indicate that electric vehicles have stalled out and messages

are appearing on their touch screens. Witnesses we talked to claim their cars

have been hacked.

What's happening? The brakes aren't working either.

Turn off the engine!

I'm trying to do something!

No skid marks. No indication they even tried to brake.

Apparently, it just missed a reporter and his cameraman and then plowed into

news van.

Driver told first responders the car had a mind of its own.

She was airlifted to Greenpoint. Passenger died at the scene.

So why control this car and not the others?

It's a robot attack all over again. They try to send a message and then

something goes wrong.

Yeah. Something that seems like an accident. You use the protest as a

I doubt it's the collective.

Maybe a couple of their members, but I keep my eye on groups like this. They're

artists. Maybe they're pissed off artists, but they're artists at heart.

So they're terrorists?

Well, there's that.

Oh, look who's a free man.

Not a free man. More like downgraded to person of interest.

Did they use my code? My program again? Yeah, it looks like it.

Excuse me. Sorry, may I?

Looks like they pushed out a fabricated OTA.

The over -the -air software update allowed them to take over the vehicle's

controls.

You okay?

Look, I mean, it's definitely my code.

Part of it, anyway.

I mean, they built on it. They made it better.

By better, I mean worse.

Look, I know I didn't do this.

I can't help but feel responsible.

I get it.

Trust me, I get it.

Miss Powell?

Detective Stabler, Detective Tanner.

I'd like to ask you a few questions about the accident.

She's dead, isn't she?

I'm sorry, she is, yes.

I'm so sorry.

I know that this is very difficult.

But can you tell us what happened right before the crash?

We were going over my schedule.

And on the screen, it just started to fritz.

And then I lost control of the car.

You couldn't steer?

And the brakes, the windows, nothing was working. It was driving itself.

There was nothing I could do.

Do you remember anything else? Did you maybe see something or hear something?

Yeah, I thought maybe I was dreaming, but I could swear I heard a song.

It was something familiar. I don't know the name of it.

Yes, yes, that's one.

What does it mean?

That's what we're trying to figure out.

Miss Powell, can you think of any reason that someone might want to target you?

Me? I thought... They said it was happening to everyone.

Yours was the only car that lost control.

And we're investigating a similar incident from a few nights ago.

I don't understand.

Someone did this on purpose. They tried to kill me?

Hey.

We're just talking about how to incorporate your latest piece.

I, uh... Made a few adjustments.

Now, if you don't mind. Stop it. Just stop.

You're going to say that was an accident, too?

First Tyler, now Gemma?

We were supposed to be in this together, but you've gone off the deep end. I

don't even know who you are anymore.

They're the ones.

You're going through some serious shit right now.

But you can't take it out on the world.

Maybe you're right.

Maybe you don't know me anymore.

I can't do this right now. I've got to work.

Welcome home.

Tell me about Gemma Powell.

She runs an art gallery in Soho.

She's been there over a decade.

Very expensive one, by the way. Nothing in there goes for less than a hundred

grand. How about the other victim? Tyler Pearson.

He's a partner in a non -fungible tokens trading platform.

He made over 20 million last year in asset management.

From digital art?

I sure like to call it that.

So these two are basically the face of everything the collective hates.

But if the protests are targeted killings, why would the whole group be

along with it?

Sometimes all it takes is a charismatic leader to turn a vendetta into a cause.

I've been doing a deep dive on the collective's art.

And every city has different motifs and multiple signatures.

Except for New York. That's one motif, one signature.

6088.

Shit. I can't believe I missed this. This is an homage to Basquiat. Jean

Basquiat. He was a New York artist, big in the 1980s, even bigger on wealth

inequality. He was born in 1960, died in 88.

That's her signature.

See if you can connect it to any other protests or any exhibitions.

Got something.

It's an old social media post, an artist talking about how she came up with a

cool tribute to Basquiat using the dates.

Got a name?

And a photo.

Hmm.

Someone's here to see you?

I haven't picked up a brush in a year, digital or otherwise, other than to help

the folks here.

Once an artist, always an artist.

Isn't that what they say?

At some point you have to get honest with yourself and pay your rent.

Have you heard about the protests happening around the city?

Hasn't everyone?

Yeah, I suppose everyone has, but not everyone's had their...

art projected across the skyscraper or piped into a car's display screen.

I don't understand.

Does this look familiar?

Is that some of my old stuff?

Why is it part of the collective's stuff?

Ten years ago, I sold some of my old work to an online stock images company

pay the bills.

Anyone can download it for a fee. You can take a look yourself.

Okay. Excuse me one sec. I've got to take this.

Becky? Everything all right?

So what was the name of this?

One more, one more.

We still haven't talked to those pricks down in Internal Affairs yet.

May we get what we want.

May we get what we need.

Until then, I be asshole.

May you get what you deserve.

You get better handling your liquor. You want to hang with the big boys? I know,

I know, I know.

Hey. Oh, hey, hey, hey, Dad. Hey.

Yeah. I think I was worried about you. You were supposed to have dinner with

parents. Oh, um, just tell her I'm fine. No, you tell her. We're leaving.

No, I mean, you can't tell me what to do. I'm not 12.

I don't act like it. Stand up, say goodbye.

Hey, take it easy. Hey.

A kid died by his gun and you're out here partying like nothing happened?

According to IB, nothing did. It was a good kill. Sarge, get between me and my

kid again. I'll kick the living shit out of you.

It's funny how they don't tell you.

What's up?

How hard it is to feed a newborn.

Yeah, yeah. Kathy went through that with every one of our kids.

Then you're right. They don't tell you nothing.

They also don't tell you how difficult.

He killed someone, Elliot.

Eli doesn't drink.

I've heard him at night crying.

Look,

maybe that's a good thing. Maybe that just means that he still feels

It's going to be all right.

I don't know what Eli needs or wants.

He had changed.

Hey, hey.

What he needs and wants is you.

You and Owen.

He's going to see his way through this.

I hope so.

I want to help him, but I don't know how.

What does he think about us?

You don't talk about it?

It's like he has something to prove now.

I just want him back.

I just want the gentle soul I fell in love with back.

And I feel like this job is going to kill that part of him.

Can you hold him for a minute? Yeah.

you were the doctor.

How's she doing?

Same.

Worse.

I don't even know anymore.

You have to stop this.

We need to lie low for a while.

Please, I can't watch you do this anymore.

Let's get out of here.

Just you and me.

Start over somewhere else before it's too late.

I'm not leaving.

I'm not abandoning what we've built.

Then you're abandoning me.

I can't be a part of this anymore.

Hey, sorry I had to run.

Family emergency.

It's okay, we didn't get much after you left. She clammed up pretty quickly.

Yeah, but looks like your girl's been busy.

She's got four misdemeanor arrests for vandalism and a handful of violations

trespassing. She has an apartment in Queens. My team is working on getting a

search warrant. But at the moment, the evidence connecting her with the

collective is flimsy. At best, it's just some art from ten years ago. Which she

claimed was stolen.

Maybe it was.

If you recall, I was arrested three days ago for something similar.

With the possibility that she could be lying, I had Vargas pull folks that she

was arrested with, hoping maybe some of these names could start to put faces to

the collective.

Yeah, so far no direct connections, but I'm only halfway through.

Tanner? It's Skye.

He came to see me, gave me your card. Skye, yes.

I'm here with Detective Dabler. Are you okay?

Honestly, I'm not sure.

I'm ready to talk.

Where are you? We'll come get you.

What the hell?

Oh, my darling.

Oh, my darling.

Oh, my darling Clementine. You are lost and gone forever.

Dressel's horny Clementine. No. No, no, no, no, no.

Help!

Someone please help me!

Dressel's horny Clementine.

That hurt?

Hmm.

Suspected smoke inhalation.

The automatic doors were locked.

Couldn't get out.

I just talked to her.

Look, I'm sure this doesn't help, but just to let you know, you get an extreme

reaction like this, it means we're getting close.

We're getting closer, all right?

All right, I'm going to have my guys look into her next of kin. Maybe they

who she's been spending time with.

I'll have Vargas pull surveillance from the school and traffic camps.

Maybe we'll find something.

Yeah, you know, I used to be in education and intelligence, and I

to get out from behind that desk.

Not on nights like this.

Amen.

I remember the first time I met Skye.

Found her work online.

She was this gorgeous, crazy talented artist.

And me, just some pencil neck geek who wanted to

collaborate.

She wanted to challenge the way people think.

inspire others, to make the world a better place.

She was the best of all of us.

And greed has once again put a price on life and made us the problem, made us

the criminal.

She made the ultimate sacrifice.

Gave up her life to protect me, to protect you, and to protect our message.

She would want us to keep going.

To keep fighting.

Because this is a goddamn war.

They haven't seen nothing yet.

So? Right here, Mom.

Oh, my God, sweetheart.

Everything I've been through, every place

I've been, as long as it led me back to here, to see you, to tell

you I love you.

It was worth it, Mom.

You're in trouble, Johnny.

I'm fine.

Reach out to Elliot.

You can trust Elliot.

There's nothing Elliot can do for me now.

Trust.