I want you to look at something. Letter Dwight Wise left me.
"When the system fails, righteous men rise up."
What do you think it means?
It means you got to do what you got to do.
...
That look like self-defense to you?
Detective, we have been through this. Dillon will do time. 11 years for a child's life. In exchange for his intel and his testimony, we have taken down a major human trafficking operation. Cruz is in custody, we saved three girls, and who knows how many more in the future. That's a win.
We didn't save that girl's mother.
A damn shame, a tragedy.
What about the other nine? I recovered a dozen IDs.
And we are working those names. Cruz and his crew are going down for a very long time. It's the greater good, Detective.
If we could prove Daisy didn't carry a knife, it wasn't self-defense, he's caught in a lie, his deal is dead. We can try him for murder and really get the greater good.
We have some measure of justice here, Detective. We have to live with that.
You know, somebody once said, "When the system fails, righteous men will rise up." But not here, I guess. Shame on us.
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