Flack [to Sam Harris]: It's going to be a while before your brother wakes up. So in the meantime, I'm going to need you to help me catch the man who did this to him. Think you can do that? [shows Sam a small size NYPD shirt to get changed into] Make a real cop out of you.
“Unusual Suspects” · Season 6, Episode 20
In this episode: Mac Taylor (8), Don Flack (8), Stella Bonasera (7), Sam Harris (4), Sheldon Hawkes (3), Danny Messer (2), Lindsay Monroe (1), Sid Hammerback (1)
AAubrey
You know, all my time in Afghanistan, and I will never get used to a child being in one of those beds.
It's the worst part of our job.
The day we get used to it is the day we should walk out the door.
Danny [to Hawkes]: You find our smoking gun, Doc?
It's definitely been discharged. Won't know exactly when until I get it back to the lab.
Where did you find it?
Trash can. Over there, right on top.
Meaning whoever dumped it was in a hurry.
Or they were just plain stupid.
When something presses on an exit wound in a manner that restricts the expansion and tearing of the victim's skin, we call it a shored wound. Shored wounds appear smaller than usual and can be mistaken for an entrance wound.
Sam was there. Maybe he can point us in the right direction.
I don't think he's ready, Mac. You should've seen him in that room. That line-up took a lot out of him. He was looking directly at Cook, but he wouldn't identify him.
Then we'll have to find another way.
I think I can do it. I think I can show you guys what happened.
The stria on the slug that was lodged in Nicky's backpack matches Castro's gun.
Well, if Castro shot Nicky, then how did Johnny Cook's DNA end up under his fingernails?
AAubrey
(signing some medical charts) I swear, sometimes it takes me half an hour just to get out the door.
I know that feeling.
Castro was due to strike First Federation.
We believe that he was casing the branch, he saw Nicky and Sam robbing the bank, so he followed them into the alley and robbed them.
The gun I found on top of the trash can belonged to those boys, Flack.
But you have zero forensic evidence to prove that. And please, one of you tell me where those kids got a gun.
You got to let go of your feelings for this kid, Flack. Sam Harris was lying to you.
Sam Harris does not have it in his DNA to lie like that.
Unless he had a very good reason.
Mac [to Sam Harris]: Troy Castro didn't rob that bank, Sam. You and your brother Nicky did.
Nicky said that if I told anyone, we'd go to jail. (crying) I don't want to go to jail.
You're not going to jail. I promise. We know what went down, Sam. We just need to hear it in your words.
Nicky gave the bank teller a note asking for exactly $933.
HMrs. Harris
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Nine... $933?. That's our rent. Sam must have heard me on the phone saying I didn't have it.
I told Nicky we were going to get kicked out of the apartment. He said we had to look after you now, 'cause Dad was gone.
Mac [to Sam Harris]: The man who took your brother's watch, it was this man, wasn't it? (shows Sam a picture of Johnny Cook)
Yeah, that's him. He stole it three days ago.
That's why you created his face for the composite sketch, as opposed to the guy who really shot your brother, Troy Castro?
I was scared that if I described the man who shot Nicky, you guys would find out we robbed the bank.
Can you imagine the burden that little guy was carrying around? 12 years old. He's protecting his older brother and his mother.
Still can't wrap my head around the fact that they thought robbing a bank was their only option.
Luckily the D.A. and the bank president agreed not to press charges. And money's been pouring in from the public. Should be enough to keep a roof over their head for at least a little while.
I'm sure this isn't the only cap with Derek Jeter's number on it floating around the city. Doesn't prove anything.
Well, it proves that Nicky was in the bank with a gun and a note.
Come on, Stella. Troy Castro robbed that bank and the only reason he hasn't confessed to it is 'cause he's dead.
HMrs. Harris
I know Sam's a witness and you need his help, but he just lost his father, and now his brother's here in the hospital, and... he's just a kid. He can't handle all these questions. I think he needs a break right now.
My gut as a cop? Sam wants to help us, but he's too young and too messed up to remember what happened.
My gut as a CSI is that the wound was a through and through, so where's the blood spatter? Where are the impact marks? Where's the bullet?
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