Why did Officer Cooper use your weapon?
I tell my guys to keep their off-duty pieces at home when they go to the bar.
But you were armed.
Yeah, I wasn't drinking. And thank God I had my gun. Otherwise, we might be investigating a cop murder.
“Officer Involved” · Season 8, Episode 4
In this episode: Mac Taylor (13), Danny Messer (10), Lindsay Monroe (8), Don Flack (6), IAB Lt. Mitchell Adler (5), Jo Danville (4), Sheldon Hawkes (4), Adam Ross (3)
(About Danny) What do you think about him?
As a boss? He's excellent.
Officer Cooper, she's smart, she's got instincts. I think she'll be a good cop.
Well, she speaks highly of you, as well. Says you're a great boss.
Let's review your choices last night. You went out drinking with your patrolmen, you brought a loaded weapon into a crowded bar, got into an altercation with a patron. Ended up the night half-unconscious on the pavement as one of your officers shot the patron to death with your own weapon. You seem capable, Sergeant Messer. Things you did in that lab... way over my head. But as a boss, you're way over yours.
So, there were two guns. Pete Miller used one of them. Friends must have taken it when they fled.
Flack's trying to track 'em down, but all he has is the cops' descriptions to go by. No luck so far.
There's one thing I bet the friends didn't take when they ran.
Hmm?
The bullet Pete fired.
You ever dance with the green fairy?
I can't help you, Adam.
I'm talking about absinthe. It's the 19th century version of magic mushrooms.
Adam, what do you get when you have a sergeant involved in a shooting, his wife who works in the crime lab and an IAB investigation? Conflict of interest.
Oh, oh. I'm... Oh, I'm sorry. I... Is he okay?
Oh, yeah, he's fine. He's got a couple stitches in his head. He's gonna give a statement to Internal Affairs.
All right, well, you tell him that we're all thinking about him.
I will. Thanks, Adam. Tell EDNA I said hello.
Shoot to stop.
Hmm?
What you're taught at the academy. Fire in bursts of twos and threes.
Yet here we have a single gunshot wound to the chest, almost perfectly placed. Bullet lodged in the heart.
Could mean Officer Cooper kept cool. Took an opportunity. Lucky shot in an unlucky situation.
Of course, he may not have had a gun at all, Mac. In which case, she fired by mistake and killed an unarmed man.
Let me take you to the hospital.
I'm fine, babe. I got to stay here for them.
There's nothing you can do for them now, honey, except maybe bleed all over them.
She's right, Sergeant Messer. Can't mess around with a head injury. I'm Lieutenant Adler, Internal Affairs. How you doing?
It's not… it's not a head injury.
Great. Then you won't mind answering a few questions.
Actually, he does mind. We're on our way to the E.R.
You're not going to make me pull rank here, are you? You know you got to talk to me.
Look, Lieutenant. According to regulations, he has 24 hours before he can be compelled to make a statement. So he can talk to you then.
Run me through it, Danny.
All right, so, uh, we... came here for a drink after shift, just to blow off some steam. The guy in the white shirt, he's a sloppy drunk.
This was the victim?
Yeah. He got aggressive with Cooper. She said, you know, she told him to back off. He was reluctant to leave. So I showed him the door.
You identify yourself as a policeman?
No, Mac, I mean, the guy was wasted... I show him my shield, it makes things worse. The guy was a jerk. And I didn't give it a second thought... till a few hours later. Next thing I know, I'm looking up into the sky, my off-duty piece is in Cooper's hand and this guy is dead.
Why did Officer Cooper have your weapon?
I was the only one carrying.
It was three men that jumped you?
That's right, three of them. Foley and Cates, they start fighting with them. Vic pulls out a nickel-plated revolver.
Well, you didn't see that, Danny... you were unconscious.
That's what my people are saying.
I see what this is. It's an officer-involved shooting, talking three-ring circus... those cops are the main attraction, right?
Not just them. You're their supervisor. You were in the bar. Somebody got shot. The gun is missing. Bosses will want someone to answer. You're the one with the stripes, Danny. Get ready.
GSR field test came back positive.
Means the victim had a gun.
Maybe. Officer Cooper told Danny that she checked the victim's vitals after shooting him.
Maybe the GSR transferred from her hands to his.
They all had their stories straight. Just like they rehearsed it.
Makes sense. They'll be under so much scrutiny, one little detail's off and they're all screwed.
So we got no witnesses, no gun. There's four off-duty cops and a dead civilian.
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