- Rodriguez mediates when Sipowicz and Sorenson clash with detectives from another squad anxious to solve a multiple murder case; Medavoy and Jones try their hand at making extra cash by cleaning up murder scenes.
- Andy and Danny are the primary detectives at the murder scene for Kat McElroy, an 18-year old who was found naked and strangled to death in the apartment she lived in with her alcoholic father Jimmy. Jimmy wakes up while the cops are there and has no idea where he is or what happened, and he's brought in by the uniformed officers for questioning. Andy finds out that there was a disturbance call a few weeks earlier involving an argument between father and daughter. At the 15th, Kat's mom (Jimmy's ex-wife) is devastated to learn of her demise, and believes Jimmy is responsible for her death. She tells Andy and Danny that Jimmy used to regularly beat her and she threw him out when Kat was young. Kat later left home so she could drink and party as she pleased at her father's place, but told her mom she hated it there only a week before she was killed and that she wanted to move back home. When she sees Jimmy, she screams he's a murderer and should be executed. Andy and Danny are initially harsh with Jimmy, citing his violent and drunken history and suggesting he was in a blackout when he killed Kat, but Jimmy says he'd never hurt his daughter. He admits that his former life as a decorated soldier and a veteran policeman were ruined by his alcoholism, and that he and Kat had fought over his failed efforts to be a real parent to her; they also fought over Carlo, a creep who got Kat hooked on drugs and was probably her pimp. Carlo is worthless in a talk, but Andy makes it clear to a dubious ADA Heywood that he's not sure Jimmy is the perpetrator and he's not going to arrest him yet. Connie and Diane do some research and find that Kat's murder resembles a series of rape-homicides in Brooklyn, and they reach out to the detectives at Brooklyn North who were investigating those. Throughout this entire set of events, Andy has been grousing at every attempt by Lt. Tony Rodriguez to try and discuss the case with them in any way and even snarls that Tony shouldn't have a goatee as a boss, but the other cops are impressed by his past as a legendary Narcotics officer and his handsome visage. Connie and Diane are shocked while out canvassing to find Shorty Bone, the gay hustler who cut off half of an obnoxious client's penis the previous week. Shorty tells them that the guy was GLAD to be rid of his schlong and refused to press charges, so Shorty's free and in fact ready to head out to provide some information on their case that he heard about. The detectives are understandably dubious, but Shorty does come back with a name: Vance Davis. They give him $100 and tell him he'll get another 100 if his data's solid. The BN detectives and their blowhard boss try to muscle Tony and the 15th out of the investigation but he bluntly tells them that Andy and Danny will run things. They arrest Vance Davis while he's having sex and bring him back to the 15th for interrogation. However, the BN guys ruin any flow of the interview and leave Vance a second away from lawyering up. Andy castigates them, and Tony tells the rude BN men that the next interview will be run without them. Once there, a mix of sympathy and lies (they pretend they have solid DNA evidence on hand) leads Vance to cave, as he sadly admits an early childhood of sexual abuse led him to become a crack addict who killed the women out of rage. Tony tells off the BN boss when he tries to insult him, and mends fences some by letting the BN people have the public filming stage to bring Vance to Rikers. Shorty Bone gets his extra $100 and is told by an amused Connie that he'll be their on-call snitch for any case in the future that involves deviants. Andy sincerely tells Tony he appreciates the work he did, acknowledging the new boss as a good guy. Andy also tells Jimmy McElroy that he's in the clear and offers to help Jimmy go to AA meetings, but Jimmy isn't ready. Andy earlier was annoyed first when Eddie Gibson pressed him about his dying relationship with his niece Cynthia, and when Cynthia pathetically grovels to Andy he tells her they should break up. Andy later tells his ex-wife Katie he wants her to stay with him and Theo and be a family, and she happily agrees to do so.
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