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On the butt side, so fit.

I was hoping to never feel wool on my skin again.

There he is.

Welcome back.

Thank you, sir.

Happy to be here. Ran to ace my second chance.

It's just, for the long sleeves, not fair.

You fell as far as you could without getting about. You have to earn your way

back to short sleeves.

I know it's a bummer, but I'm excited to have you back on patrol.

For a little while.

So, what's happening? Am I writing solo, or are you pairing me with someone?

It's not really my call to make.

But you know the answer.

I don't really have time to tell you. But you won't, because UCs have a blood

bond of honesty that will last until the apocalypse. So, fill it.

I'm just the messenger.

I don't understand.

You won't be riding with me anymore.

Then who?

You're going to be training Penn.

Are you kidding?

Not only do I have to go back into the suck that is uniformed police work. Not

only do I have to walk a high wire act of perfection every minute of the day

for the next six months.

I'm getting paired with a training officer so legendarily can't tinker as

she makes Tim Bradford look like Mr. Rogers. I'm getting stuck with a Texas

lemon who should have been fired for a multitude of reasons.

Yeah. Yes.

And

you

heard the mechanic say that he would get it done today. He said those actual

words. Yes. Even the last time it took him over a week to order the part.

Hey, I put the fear of God.

It'll be done by fire.

Luna, my favorite, room 314 is imploding. Of course it is. I knew we

were in trouble as soon as the third estranged child showed up.

I prescribed antibiotics for his pneumonia and therapy for the rest of

them. I'm sure they'll get right on that.

I don't think we've met.

Right. Oliver Ashton, this is my husband, Wade.

Nice to meet you. Good to meet you.

I don't think I've seen you around here before.

I just started a couple months ago. Spent the last five years working for

Doctors Without Borders.

Noble. It's nothing compared to what you do every day.

I'm doing assessments at 314. Ask for me. Tell them I got carried off by a

twister.

Nice guy.

He makes us all look like underachievers.

Thank you for the ride and for taking my car in, which you should probably go do

now or else he's going to blame us for not getting it finished today.

Look, Nolan and I have thought about how to train Miles going forward. Keep him.

You both had your chance.

What are you going to tell me that I don't already know? He's a cowboy

because he's insecure? That was clear to some of us on day one. Now he is a hot

mess who's going to hit the street so scared to make a mistake that he will

panic freeze the second the adrenaline hits. So, no, I will chart my own

course. Thank you.

I think he's got it handled.

What? Good morning. Did you mean to get off here?

Task force floor. I'm sorry. I'm just a little distracted.

Everything okay?

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

I found this in Luna's car and a pair of fancy men's sunglasses.

That doesn't necessarily mean anything.

No, of course not.

I'm sure it doesn't mean anything.

You have heard this.

Sir,

if I may, there are two paths you can take here. The first is talk to your

wife. Odds are there's a very simple explanation.

The second is, you know, snoop. I highly recommend the first.

Thank you.

Just had to see me or is there a problem?

Your mom.

Now what did she do?

Well, have you not been following our group chat?

No, I muted that thing. It's like you set it up in three of us. I know I have

a problem with communication. This is not funny. Your mom has texted us 11

times in the past hour and you're being radio silent. So I have to answer. No,

you really don't. You don't. It's not your job to fill the silence.

In fact, the sooner you stop.

The sooner she'll abandon the thread and stop sending blurring pictures of

relationship quizzes from ancient Cosmo magazines she has lying around.

So you are following the thread?

I may have seen one or two.

Mm-hmm. I'll text you, okay?

Not your way to carry.

She was my mom.

Okay. Thank you. Yeah. I'll ask.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, howdy, Detective Harper.

I want to say how thrilled I am to be training with you. You want your

nickname to be asked, yes, sir?

No, ma'am. Then rethink your approach.

Yes, ma'am.

So what is your goal for the next six months of training?

Learn from my mistakes.

Try not to get myself in situations I can't handle.

So play it safe?

I'm one screw up away from getting bounced.

What am I supposed to do?

Okay, so here's how today is going to go.

You are the CO.

I am the rookie.

I don't know, sir.

You will teach me the job as if I were a day one rookie and take the lead on

every call we get. And at the end of shift, I will decide whether you are

worth my effort.

Yes, ma'am.

I'm just going to stick with it.

This is nice.

Back together again.

Is that the pressure of being evaluated?

I can really let my freak flag fly.

No, not that I have one. Like a freak flag. No hidden freak agenda over here.

Uh-huh.

Don't worry.

Here's freak red tape with me.

Wait, what?

Oh, I see.

No, no, but seriously, I have no freak red.

7-9-15-2-11 at 4-7-1-6-3 San Vicente.

Copy that. Two is responding.

Hit it, super freak.

Yeah, why don't you come out where we can see you?

We were just in the middle of filming when two guys with guns came in, stole

all of our equipment, and shot the place up.

Okay, filming what?

Minion erotica. Heck, not the time.

It's called dropout TV. We do shows based around improv comedy. I own the

company. Oh, there he goes. He owns the place. He owns the place.

There's like a weird power dynamic, but we're friends, but either Bob... Jacob.

I act like I'm pet to myself.

Okay, can we just stay on track? Doubtful. Sorry. No. Sorry.

We won't.

Right. I think the path forward here is to take witness statements from each of

them separately.

Mm-hmm.

And you can put your hands down.

Oh, thank God.

All right. In your own words, just tell me what happened.

Wow. Okay, yeah.

I first got into comedy after being bullied in middle school.

Okay, so where were you when the robbery took place?

Your Honor, let the record show that it could not have been me before I was at

the studio when the crime occurred. Oh, well, this isn't a courtroom.

You're a witness, not a suspect.

I could have committed the crime.

I could have been, you know, like, colluding.

Were you? I thought you said it wasn't the suspect.

Okay, you're making me nervous. I did the crime. No, I didn't. I'm panicking.

I'm panicking. Yeah, I can't believe we lost all the footage that we shot today.

I probably did some of my best, most important work of my career.

My Dame Judy butthole bit?

Killed. Did the suspects have accents or any distinctive vocal qualities? Yeah,

when you say accents, do you mean like, hey, I'm a guy from, like, Birmingham?

I'm here to rob your plate. Or maybe he was an appellation here, Billy, with a

sinus infection.

I promised to answer your question, but can I just ask you something first? No.

Okay, so I just need like a regular, not funny person's opinion of this. Like,

which version is funnier? A guy who is trying to give a eulogy, but he's

holding in a sneeze?

Or a guy who's giving a eulogy, but he's being attacked by invisible egress?

And don't answer yet. I have to show you.

Perhaps it was a vampire from down under who has really bad anxiety.

I want to suck your blood, but I'm a little scared.

Oh, it's kind of coming back to me. The suspect's license plate? No, my Dame

Judy butthole bit. Do you mind if I do it real quick so it doesn't escape me?

Ooh, record me on your body cam and then text it to me. And then I started

Dropout TV? What was your question again?

Hey, hi. I don't know how helpful this is, but one of the robbers must have

dropped their wallet when they were robbing the control room. Wait, I know

you.

You're the drone kid.

Dax, Dan.

Dash, but close enough.

He let you use the drone? He straight up told me no.

Okay, well, you wanted to film Mr. Rice in his backyard doing yoga for blackmail

purposes. Am I the only one that went to the HR meeting? We had an HR meeting?

I need a background check on Mark Wyatt.

I thought you were moving to Vegas with your mom. Yeah, that didn't work out, so

we moved to L.A.

My mom always wanted to be a hand model, which is going as well as you would

expect. So I got a part-time job with these lunatics. Lovely people.

Well, I went to graduate high school. We're suspect Mark Wyatt has prior

assaults and for public nudity. At the same time, what would that look like?

I've been thinking about it. I feel like... No, no, no. It's an emergency.

All right, we're going to go pick him up.

And we'll be in touch.

Lots of luck.

Aw.

Um, tell me the six rules of a trap cut out.

Why'd you do that?

Because my training ops are asking why a patrol officer would listen to a police

scanner and not just wait for dispatch calls.

Yes?

When evaluating a rookie, a training officer wants to see how they respond to

different scenarios. With a rookie who is looking to get into trouble, the

calls they choose can be illustrious. Armed suspect just abandoned his car on

freeway. He's shooting! Watch out, he's running!

The foot pursuit heading east on Benedict. And that's the record.

Penny, why wouldn't we want to respond to that call? Travel time to call is

approximately 15 minutes. A shots fired call means that every available unit in

the area will respond.

As last arrivals, we will likely miss the action and be tasked with looking

for shell casings in the hot sun for the next five hours.

Right. I mean, uh, good answer.

Let's look for a closer call.

All units, silent alarm at Lincoln Bank and Trust.

211 in progress.

Bank robbery? Hot damn, we're taking that one, right? Yes, sir.

Although... Although what?

A thoughtful CO might inform his rookie that most bank robberies can be measured

in minutes. And given our proximity and the units that are closer, it might be

prudent to focus on the bank robber's possible escape route and intercept.

In case they manage to get away before police arrive.

So the route they would take to escape would be?

They would head for the 10-110 freeway exchange and try to get lost in the

chaos of Los Angeles District.

Which means that they would have to drive up? George Street.

Please. Please help.

I think she's dying.

I think she's dying.

Okay,

we have two GSW victims.

Patient number one, GSW, in the left upper quadrant abdomen.

Now, worstly descended and firm.

Critically unstable. Recommend OR stat.

I'll stay with them. Sounds right. You investigating this one?

No, we are.

That is sweet, but you are the hot shot detective. I'm just a lowly patrol

officer. You're still a detective, but I get your point.

Did either of them mention the third bank robber?

No, I didn't realize there was one. Yeah, security guards said there were

three of them all masked and armed. Their robber disappeared when the

shooting started, must have laid low as the other two escaped and snuck away

into the chaos afterwards.

We're pulling security footage now. Hopefully we can get a before and after

the mask came off.

How's your rookie?

I don't know yet.

You know you can't bounce him from the program, right?

What? I was looking forward to it. He's not the only one being evaluated, Nyla.

You need to be made of wins while you're back on patrol.

Firing a rookie will be seen as a loss, and you can't give I.A. a reason to

punish you more or worse, fire you.

Lieutenant.

Hey, um, you all right? I mean, other than uniform.

Yeah, we caught two bank robberies thus far. Penn is in there watching over them

while they get prepped for surgery.

You here to see Luna?

Yeah, I'm on. Take her out to lunch.

Sweet.

Excuse me.

Luna.

Hey, what are you doing here?

Thought I'd take my wife to lunch.

Oh, that's so sweet, but Oliver is about to do his assessments, and I accompany

in case any patient advocate questions come up. You can join us, but it's going

to be a lot more bodily fluids than a normal person wants to see in a day.

You'd be surprised what a cop sees in a day.

Good point.

I shouldn't be too late. Why don't we go to dinner?

I'll make a date you can't keep.

I can keep it.

All right, good.

It really was sweet you came to take me to lunch.

Um, look, Luna, um... Hey, we need help.

Let me guess. You're glued together.

You say that like it happens a lot?

More than you know.

Did you drive here like that?

Well, we didn't take the bus.

Hey, I can't help but to notice by the position of your hand that you were

engaged in a domestic dispute gone sticky.

No, no, no, no.

She was just caressing my face.

Why, you choked her.

Not all joking is non-consensual.

I'm going to go get the doctor.

Wait, wait.

Please tell me there is not glue on your hand.

I wish that.

Why can't you just come in here? Because I'm mad at you.

It's not enough that I have a busy day, I have to run damage control on your

dysfunction. I was trying to take my mom off your plate.

By telling her to not contact me?

I want to have a relationship with your mother, but not whatever this has

become.

Alright, I'll text her. No, hey, come on, please.

Call her.

Today, okay? An actual human conversation.

I'm telling you, I lost my wallet yesterday.

How convenient timing, given we found it at the scene of an armed robbery this

morning.

Convenient? It's such lazy framing.

The universe is an infinitely complicated place.

You show your ignorance acting like coincidences are impossible.

The sheer amount of things happening on a single day.

Number in the sextillion.

Okay, that's a made-up number. No, it's not.

The sextillion is a thousand trillion.

And given that the world is populated with over 8 billion people, I'm probably

way underestimating.

No, I'm definitely underestimating.

There's over 10 quintillion insects in the world.

It's over 1 billion per person.

So given that scale, me losing a wallet, a criminal picking it up, and then

dropping it at a crime scene isn't unlikely.

Statistically, it's almost a given.

We're still going to put you in the lineup and see if the victims can

identify you.

That's fair.

How many of that quintillion?

Quintillion insects are spiders?

Oh, at least a quadrillion.

There's 53,000 species.

They're on every continent except Antarctica.

We might have to move to Antarctica.

Not today, though, right? No.

Today we see if Mark loses the lineup lottery.

It's just like the movies. With as much diversity.

Check test.

All right. We are about to show you a lineup of six men. The person or persons

involved in the robbery may or may not be among them.

Afterwards, I'm going to ask you individually if you recognize anyone.

But do not compare notes and do not discuss the suspects amongst each other.

Do you understand?

Yes, Daddy.

Okay, the guy that's number one looks like a tech bro that speaks about

himself in the third person, and he probably kisses his immediate family on

the phone.

Okay,

wait, but number three is sort of giving like, hey, I'm Chad. I completely

misunderstood the message of Fight Club, and I don't understand why my Native

American Halloween costume shows this.

Number five looks like he spends his Friday nights chugging beer loaded with

protein powder.

Stop drinking alone if your two snakes are in the house.

Okay, guys, let's try to focus.

I mean, this should be fairly easy.

Do you guys recognize anyone or not?

Well, they were all wearing masks, but these guys are the same basic size.

You know, I feel like I might recognize the guy's voice that yelled at us.

Yeah.

Number one, could you please repeat the phrase?

Shut up and get on the ground.

Okay. I'm going to press with the performance.

Could use a little more pizzazz.

I don't want to give a line read, but there's like a hundred guys in L.A. that

could do a better job than that.

So, question.

Can you just sort of make them say whatever you want? No. They're only

going to say what was said at the robbery.

You guys thinking what I'm thinking?

Contestant number one, can you please recite Tommy Lee Jones' speaking of the

fugitive? No. Contestant number one.

Suspect number one, you do not have to do that.

I would like it if you did.

I would like it if you did. I'll do it.

I love the fugitive.

Floor's all yours.

What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search.

Of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse,

outhouse, and doghouse in that area.

He's really good. Absolutely good. Bravo.

Can we see a chemistry rate between four and two?

Okay, okay, okay.

Do you recognize any of these individuals from the robbery? I mean, if

we say yes, can we get them to say more weird stuff?

No. Can we make them kiss? Ooh, can we make them kiss?

Can we see a kiss between four and two?

That would equal six.

It's odd.

Super glue usually comes off with a bit of acetone. Do you remember the brand

you used? Yes.

I think it was like an acetone-resistant blend.

Heavy-duty stuff.

Yeah. I can't really remember the exact name. Well, surgery is a last resort,

but without identifying the exact adhesive you used, I'm not sure how else

to proceed.

Can someone go by your house and get it?

No, not really.

I'm happy to do it. Give me your address.

No, that's not necessary.

That's super nice, though. Oh, my God, the nicest. Thank you. But we just, we

could not thought of you. Listen up. You are glued to my wife.

The only person I'm supposed to touch her this long is me.

So give me your address.

Unless there's something at your house you don't want me to see.

Something that has to do with this, perhaps.

I swear, I don't know what that is. It's a firing pin for a handgun. Oh, my God.

Crazy. The question is, are the two of you covered with them?

So, Finley is out of surgery. We should be able to talk to her soon. But the

girlfriend, Ava, she died on the table.

Damn.

Hard way to learn not to rob a bank with a former Green Beret working as a

security guard.

Hey, as my rookie, shouldn't you be doing the paperwork?

Yeah, had to give it a shot.

All right, I requested an officer to come watch over Finley. We should get

back out on patrol.

Actually, we have been asked to take a first run at interviewing Finley.

Lopez is tied up with the feds, combing through Bankfoot and trying to figure

out how the third robber escaped.

And as our former partner, future partner, she trusts your detective

skills. Exactly.

And unfortunately for you, I still need my T.O. to show me how it's done.

Not to break the fourth wall here, but you're a literal expert at interrogating

suspects, and I'm not.

Only way to become an expert is to do the work. And as someone whose instincts

are to turn everything up to an 11, I am curious to see how you handle something

that requires nuance and delicacy.

Hey. Hey. How long's she been awake?

A couple minutes.

Anyone tell her about her partner?

I know I didn't.

Can I ask you one question?

Sure.

What's the worst mistake I can make in that?

Don't make it a competition.

You versus her.

You guys are on the same side.

Yes, ma'am. Got it. Thanks.

Finley?

I'm Officer Penn. This is Detective Harper.

We brought you in? Yeah, I remember.

Josefa, no one will tell me.

I'm sorry, but she didn't survive the surgery. She had lost too much blood.

No.

Why did he have to shoot her?

He didn't have to shoot her. Her guns weren't real.

But they looked real.

People were terrified.

It's not fair. She only did it because of me.

Why?

I've seen your history. It's spotless.

I couldn't even dream of getting into Stafford.

Be grateful.

You want to know why we robbed that bank?

I am $200,000 in debt.

And that's after spending the last three years trying to pay off the loan.

It's higher now than it was when I started.

What hope did we have at a happy life together?

Working two jobs just to barely stay above water.

Listen, I get it.

I lived in my car until a few months ago. Debt is no joke.

And it could impact how the DA's office decides to prosecute you.

But if you want any hope of leniency, any, you need to tell us who your other

partner was in the robbery. It was just me and Ava. We know that there was a

third person that got away.

We're going to find them eventually.

But you have an opportunity to help yourself here.

I strongly urge you to take it.

I don't deserve help.

Dave is dead because of me.

Hey, what are you doing here?

Hey, a dropout guy's made me drive him. Something about a lineup?

Right, but they left.

Are you kidding?

That's why Sam asked for the...

Minivan, please. Okay.

Sorry, can your mom pick you up? Yeah, I can call her.

Did they help you at all with the lunch?

No? Stupid question. Those guys would have gone down with the Titanic because

they were too busy making fun of the orchestra to get on a lifeboat.

Look, don't take this the wrong way, but why do you work with those guys?

They pay me surprisingly well.

Uh, Nolan, I'm sorry. Are you free? Yeah, I can be. I'll see you later?

Yep.

So, great call.

Luna is currently glued to a couple who appears to be manufacturing and selling

ghost guns.

The judge just signed off on a warrant for us to go inside and take a look at

their house. While they remain glued to Luna? That's going to have to be our

secondary assignment, identifying the adhesive they've been using to assemble

the ghost guns so we can get them all separated.

And who are these people?

Uh, Poppy and Jasper Watterson. Neither of them have a criminal record, but at

one point or another, they've both filed restraining orders against each other. I

checked out their social media. They are both gun enthusiasts, obviously in a

toxic relationship who share an inability to think things through.

Wow. Yeah. Today is an odd one. Right? Wait, why? What's going on with you? I

can't even explain, not without crying.

Juarez, we're on the move.

Coming.

I, uh, let Mark White go.

His girlfriend corroborated his story of him losing his wallet yesterday, and he

was very understanding about our confusion and happy to get his wallet

back once we had it fingerprinted.

Hey, you want to ride with me?

Can I?

Traitor.

So did he call his mom?

I don't know.

I don't think so.

I don't have much confidence that even if he does, it'll make things better.

Okay, we're coming up to it.

What's

up?

Three guys are moving stuff out of that greenhouse around the corner.

And by stuff you mean guns among other things so do we want to go right at them

or try something more cuddle a little bit of both

All the legs spread.

That could not have worked out better.

Looks like we found our adhesive.

Oh, I wouldn't touch that.

Good idea.

Hey, guys, I got this down here.

Go inside and clear the house.

Nolan sent a photo of the glue. Thank God.

Oh, did he see anything else while he was there?

Hey, I just got the exact epoxy that he used. Great.

By the way, earlier that day, I found these in the bathroom. You wouldn't

happen to know who they belong to, would you?

Yeah, I've been looking everywhere for these.

What would you say you found them?

I don't know.

I'm sorry. You can't go there. You can't go in there. The hell I can't. You're

going to have to shoot me to stop me. Ma'am, ma'am, hold on one second. Your

granddaughter has been arrested for a very serious crime. My granddaughter has

also been shot.

And I am the only family she's got, so you are going to let me into that room.

Yes, ma'am, we can do that. But I need you to do something for me.

Finley can help herself by telling us the truth about what happened.

Finley needs a lawyer.

I've got one on the way. Now let me see her. Of course. But Detective Harper is

going to pat you down and hold on to your purse.

Whatever.

Arms up.

Oh, baby.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. What's going on?

Uh, Finley's grandma just got here.

Great. I don't need to make a separate trip. When the feds finished processing

the prints from the bank, one set set out.

Although the last bank she robbed was in 1983.

Get out.

Finley's mama?

Yeah, she did a nickel for it.

Got out and never robbed another bank.

Until today.

Maeve. It's all my fault. They did everything right in life, and still,

they were struggling so much.

It wasn't right.

Put your hand behind your back. No, please.

No.

It wasn't right.

No.

Finally. So much better.

All right.

Good news is that you're free.

And this is the bad news.

All right.

If you could just turn around.

Turn around.

Hands on your head.

Hands behind your back.

Huh. Must have missed them.

Bruh.

Hey.

Are you still waiting for your mom?

Yeah, she's busy.

Said she'd get me when she's free. She couldn't think of a safer place for me

to wait.

Okay. What about your dad? Oh, he's on the break glass in case of emergency.

Right. Well, I just finished with an arrest, so I can give you a ride home.

Great.

Can we go with the lights and the sirens?

No, but I'll let you use the radio to tell Dispatch she has a sexy voice.

Really? No.

Is that your mom?

No, it's Sam.

Where's our equipment? You weren't supposed to steal it for real. I'm not

paying you unless you bring it back.

Second text.

Haha, whoops, sorry, that message wasn't for you. Please don't share it with

anyone. Prayer hands emoji.

Do I need a lawyer?

That is your right. Do you have one?

Yes, but he only does entertainment law.

That's not going to help you.

Look, not only did you make false statements to police, which is

punishable by up to six months in prison, but you also endangered yourself

and your employees.

Look, I am so sorry. We do crazy stunts for our shows all the time. I thought I

was hiring actors to play robbers.

They were supposed to interrupt our game show with a fake robbery and then return

all of our stuff a few hours later. I never thought a casting breakdown for

armed robbers would attract actual armed robbers.

And then I was too embarrassed to say anything.

And now I fully realize the error of my ways. Which is great. But it will still

be up to the DA's office as to whether they want to press charges.

I can't go to jail. I couldn't even handle sleepaway camp.

Let's just start with arresting the two men that robbed you. I'm assuming you

have names and numbers.

I have their Venmos. Let's start with that.

Okay.

Robber 88.

Okay, well, I should have seen that one coming.

What a way to end shift.

As a thank you, paperwork can be turned into the top of the day tomorrow. I'll

even add an hour of OT for those who want to come in early.

That's great. Hey, did you call your mother?

I'm gonna... Yeah, don't we have a... Right behind you.

I'm sorry.

I think I just need to get some closure.

That's okay.

Why don't we clock out and talk about it at home?

Okay.

I don't know about you, but all I'm thinking about is a hot bath and 12

hours of sleep. Sounds nice.

Are you okay?

I thought I could broach this in a more delicate way, but after the day

we had, I think it's better just to come out and say it.

Is there something going on with you and Dr. Ashton?

Are you accusing me of cheating?

I'm not accusing you of anything.

But after seeing the way you two act together and finding his things in your

car, that's one little truth.

First of all, you have to believe me when I say that nothing has happened

between us.

Second of all?

I do feel something for him.

I wasn't looking for it.

In our whole marriage, I've never even thought about anyone else. But this past

year, the world has opened up for me. I finished school. I got this job.

You met another man.

It is not that simple.

Am I attracted to him?

Yes.

But that doesn't mean that I was planning on acting on it. Doesn't mean

you weren't.

Otherwise you would have said that.

Wait, please. I'm trying to be honest and I'm making a mess of it because I

don't really know how I feel.

If you hadn't confronted me about Oliver, there's a good chance I would

have worked through all of this without you ever knowing. I do know.

It's breaking my heart.

So what you need to tell me is that whatever it is you feel for this man,

it's over as of now.

And your hesitation gives me my answer. Here, take this.

Wait. I need to take a walk.

And then what?

I don't know.

So, officially end of shift?

Did you decide whether or not I'm a lost cause?

I want to hear your thoughts, Kurt.

Okay. Well, I think I made some real progress today.

Even though it wasn't close to perfect.

Stop.

You do know not everything is about you, right? I don't want to hear your own

self-analysis. I want to hear what you thought about me, your rookie.

Oh.

Can I not do that?

All right.

I'd say you're pretty knowledgeable for a rookie officer.

You have natural instincts.

Though I can sometimes feel your urge to take over, I appreciate that you don't.

Your willingness to trust your T.O. and give him a second chance, even when you

think you might know better, when you most definitely do know better, is

admirable.

Okay, thanks.

Now it's your turn, right?

Wait, so what does that mean? Do I pay or should I go home?

See you tomorrow.

Happy birthday!

We wanted to do something special to celebrate your first day back on patrol.

You guys, you are terrible, wonderful people, and I love

you. We love you, too, and you're going to get through this. Thank you. You guys

really did not have to do this.

I am glad that you did. It's not something I ever would have thought to

celebrate. To be fair, you were not big on festivities of any kind. I only found

out when your birthday was because I called your mama. And I am still kind of

mad at you for that. Me too, and so is Wesley.

Okay, so I assume that this is not just decorations, that there are some sort of

sustenance and possible adult beverages.

I'm on it. Thank you guys for being here.

But just to clarify, I do want to be in my bed in an hour. Oh, yeah, we'll be

long on. Yeah.

Okay.

All right, Mom.

Bye.

I did it?

It is handled.

That took too long to happen easy.

Is he okay? Are you okay?

Yeah, no, I'm great. Okay. Actually, no, it went a lot easier than expected.

She understood the whole boundaries issue pretty quickly and acknowledged

that she can get overexcited. Doesn't blame you or me. Just blames technology

for being too fun to experience alone.

Wow. Okay. It sounds like it went great.

What took so long then?

We started talking about a lot of other stuff.

Like what?

Melody. If you want to tell me.

Work.

Childhood memories.

You. It was nice.

Yeah. I bet you guys have a lot to catch up on.

Yeah. Yeah, she did. She told me all about her weekly trips to the farmer's

market. Oh, and she told me all about her friend Linda, who has been acting

like, and this is in my mother's words, a shrewd bitch with a stick shoved so

far apart.

Yeah, I heard about Linda, and honestly, I agree with your mother. She has to go.

How'd you hear about that? That was not on the group chat.

Nope.

I...

I am on a separate group thread with just your mom and Jenny.

You are unbelievable.

No, stop. To be fair, I did not start that one. Jenny did. But now I have two

of my main sources for vintage Tim photos in the same place. So that's very

nice for me. Oh, God. Okay, so do I have to talk to Jenny now, too? No, no.

But if you have that powder blue prom suit lying around, that would be nice.

Okay, I'm sure I could dig it up from somewhere. Wow. Yeah.

I'm in the bedroom.

I thought you couldn't be home for another week.

I moved some things around.

Are you naked under there?

100%. With the caveat that I have to go back in 36 hours.

We can get a lockdown in 36 hours. We can.

Just one.

Yes, sir. Is everything all right?

No.

Luna and I are in a bad place.

I don't know what our future looks like.

I'm here at a hotel bar where I'll be staying for who knows how long.

Sounds like you need some company. I'll be right there. Thanks.

Maybe not right there.

Hey, John.

He won't be any more sad in 40 minutes than he would have been in 20.

This is your phone.

Damn it.