PAYBACK FOR A POST-MORTEM (A Short Story from the Messenger World)

Eileen Rendahl

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Frank meets with Potter, who tells him that he'll make everything go away if he fires Danny. But further investigation leads Frank and Danny to learn that Potter is now housing Ernesto's family, and that Ernesto has changed his story. They are able to get a warrant for witness tampering from Erin, and after assurances that they will not deport his family, Ernesto tells the truth to the press. Frank confronts Potter with the charges, but ultimately just warns him and lets him save face with his flock. Elsewhere, Eddie suggests that Jamie turn on the charm to get information from an attractive E.

After stern rejections, Eddie finally admits she was a little jealous. Jamie says they have something special going as partners and friends and hopes encounters don't "get weird" between them, after which they agree to keep matters neutral. Also, Gormley thinks he is being transferred after standing up for Danny and his precinct in a heated meeting. While out jogging, Jamie encounters a young woman with a black eye, sitting on a bench and weeping. She is afraid to say anything, so Jamie hands her his card and plans to get her into police custody. However, before he can, she suddenly vanishes.

The woman later ends up in the hospital hours later, severely beaten, with Danny and Maria paying her a visit. She dies before she can tell them the name of her killer, but not before she says that he will certainly be out to kill Jamie for simply talking to her.

Suspicion falls on the boyfriend, a club bouncer named Little G, but he seems genuinely upset when Danny and Maria tell him the news of the girl's death. He mentions an ex-boyfriend named Price, who continued to stalk and harass the girl after she broke up with him. Jamie refuses to accept a desk assignment for protection, and his car is fire-bombed that night, with he and Eddie narrowly escaping. Danny and Maria arrest Price at his auto shop, where he pushes Maria. With three charges now against Price, Erin tries to get him arraigned, but the judge declares all evidence circumstantial and lets Price walk.

After Price gives "the eye" to Jamie in the precinct, Eddie goes after him. The next day, Eddie is kidnapped by Price and his men, forcing Danny, Maria and Jamie to quickly try to save her. Elsewhere, social media affects both Nicky and Henry.

Nicky loses a chance at admission to Rutgers due to some disparaging Tweets she made about a rude teacher in her school though after meeting said teacher in person, Erin turns to her daughter and admits, "You're not kidding! This puts Frank in a difficult position when the clip gets posted to the Internet and he and Henry end up trading words at Sunday dinner.

During a road rage incident, an internationally-wanted crime boss named Zoran Brasha beats a truck driver with a tire iron. The case is of particular interest to Frank and Danny, given that Brasha has been arrested for other violent crimes in New York and has always been able to escape conviction by intimidating victims, killing off witnesses or getting others on his crime team to take the rap for him. As Erin prepares to prosecute Brasha, she meets his lawyer, a woman who was her college classmate.

When Brasha threatens his latest victim's family and is able to get bail, Erin confronts her friend, convinced she is aware of the witness tampering. Danny and Maria have to take another angle to produce evidence against Brasha, but are racing against the clock as he prepares to leave the country.

Meanwhile, Erin has been considering leaving the DA's office and getting into private practice, especially after adding up what Nicky's college will cost. For her part, Nicky chooses to stay in New York to attend Columbia and live with a friend who also got in, which will at least reduce her living expenses. Danny meets his new by-the-book boss, Lt. Dee Ann Carver LaTanya Richardson , and she says she's not particularly fond of what she's heard about his methods in working cases. Carver wants to ride along with each of her detectives, and Danny is first in line. While investigating a drive-by shooting at a playground, they find a young mother has been gunned down but her baby is unharmed.

A young man tries to flee, though in an interview with Danny later, he identifies himself as Rudy, the father of the now motherless baby. He says that the mother became a target when her ex-boyfriend got out of prison, knowing that the baby was too young to be his, and Rudy fears he is next.

Danny gets Rudy to I. Elsewhere, Jamie and Eddie find a young woman who has apparently hanged herself. But further investigation shows she was the victim of sexual harassment by her boss at her tavern job, and after she quit, the boss raped and killed her, staging it to look like suicide by hanging. Robert McCoy, McCoy states he doesn't plan to prosecute petty marijuana possession charges, and he asks what Frank thinks about that. Frank feels like he was ambushed, and when Erin is ambivalent upon being questioned about it by Frank, her dad correctly surmises that Erin and McCoy are or have been romantically involved.

As part of a deal made with the NYPD, a drug dealer named Javier Rojas, facing conviction for being an accessory to murder, testifies against drug kingpin Rolando Vega. Though Rojas has been promised witness protection, the feds find a technicality and says the deal is not legally binding, thus putting Rojas back on the street and in danger.

Carver tells Danny and Maria that they have no choice but to obey the Feds' decision, but the two detectives secretly protect Rojas anyway. After avoiding a reporter who wants an exclusive on the Vega conviction, Danny realizes he can use the press to put pressure on the Feds. Elsewhere, Erin meets with Hannah, the daughter of one of her old schoolmates. Hannah says she was raped several weeks ago at a freshman orientation party by a star soccer player, but did not report it because the dean of students said the school could act on the incident quicker than the cops.

The perpetrator walked free, and Erin cannot find any evidence to bring him to trial, but she does find a way to punish the dean and her office for deliberately ignoring evidence in a cover-up attempt. Frank deals with the case of an officer accused of knocking a suspect to the ground, causing a head injury. The officer was wearing a body camera as part of a pilot program, but the camera either malfunctioned or was shut off just prior to the incident.

To exonerate the officer, Frank has to convince an unwilling mother in the neighborhood to share a cell phone video that captured what really happened. Danny and Maria investigate the drive-by shootings of three prominent Jewish community leaders. A representative the Jewish community pressures that the murders to be investigated as hate crimes, but Frank says that the evidence has yet to be found for a hate crime finding. Eventually, the Jewish leader says they have hired private security officers to guard synagogues, and takes out a newspaper ad stating so.

Linda volunteers at a mobile free clinic at a housing project and is mugged. Danny angers her by demanding that she quit her time there.

Linda decides to carry a gun, attempts to secretly purchase one but is seen by Jamie when he walks into the gun store. Elsewhere, Erin finds that a gun that was used as a murder weapon disappeared from a locked evidence room and was swapped for another, threatening her case against a gang member. When all signs point to someone within the prosecutor's office being the culprit, Erin learns that her young intern has a brother who used to be in the gang.

Donald DeCarlo is a man accused of murdering a police officer in while Henry was on the job , but has been in hiding since then, attends the NYPD ceremony for his son's promotion to detective, along with Sgt. Gormley's promotion to Lieutenant. Henry and Frank watch Lt. He had changed his name years ago and his son was unaware of his involvement. DeCarlo tells Gormley he was on the scene, but says someone behind him pulled the trigger. Henry is certain he saw DeCarlo with the gun. Erin is interviewed and his recollection of events is sketchy.

Erin tells Frank she does not think Henry's testimony will stand up to cross-examination, so Frank reluctantly asks DeCarlo's son to try to get a confession out of his father. Danny and Maria investigate the death of a man they suspect was killed over debts to a loan shark. A woman turns up dead soon after and they are found to have worked for a local porn video operation; the investigation turns toward the parents of a young woman from Montana who committed suicide after being fired from the same production company.

Elsewhere, Jamie and Eddie are on the scene of a young girl who was struck by a passing van. They see a mob gathering to attack the driver who had returned to the scene. The girl has only minor cuts and bruises, the driver's blood-alcohol level is found to be 0. The detective on the case gets a confession from the man. Eddie has interviewed a witness who says there were two people in the van and the person driving was not the person that returned to the scene. Eddie irks the detective, who wants to close the case, while she also gets angry with Jamie when he hints that she may not have conducted the witness interview properly.

Danny and Linda go to their bank to refinance their home mortgage, but they are rejected. While figuring out why, the bank is robbed by a group of Army veterans. While investigating, Danny hears a waitress who sounds like one of the robbers.

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He later visits the woman's husband and find he has no legs and is also suffering from traumatic brain injury the result of combat. Danny and Maria realize the bank robbery was the "fundraiser", but they do not let on the soldier. Danny also finds out the woman was cheating on her husband; he gets photographic proof and he uses it as leverage to get her to confess.

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Each of the robbers ultimately receive five years in prison, while Danny and Frank are able to pull some strings with the VA to get the soldier treated immediately. Meanwhile, the work of a guerilla street artist named Spanky in the vein of Banksy is causing public scares in the form of pop-ups that emerge from unattended bags. This creates a rift between Garrett and Gormley on how to treat these actions while maintaining the image of the NYPD.

Garrett becomes annoyed when he thinks Frank is favoring Gormley. Ultimately, Spanky is arrested while trying to fly to the UK. Garrett realizes that Gormley was right to treat Spanky's actions as terrorism, and apologizes by asking him to be a speaker at an upcoming lecture series. Jamie and Eddie encounter on the street a homeless year-old boy, who flees from them. When they catch him, he reveals his name is T. His mother in Baltimore got in trouble with drugs and sent him to be with his aunt in New York. His aunt is a homeless addict and has been missing for three days.

Danny and Maria follow up, and find that the boyfriend has an alibi. Danny and Maria find the aunt very much alive, living in a cheap motel room and doing drugs. She complains about her sister always sending T. Jamie and Eddie follow up and decide to tell T. While he is disappointed, T. Elsewhere, Erin refuses to give a plea to a lawyer who is defending a Rikers warden accused of providing drugs to prisoners.

DA McCoy takes the case from Erin, claiming her rocky history with the defense attorney is clouding her judgment, and Erin becomes furious after McCoy accepts the plea. She investigates further and finds that several of the warden's colleagues have been involved in a drug ring, while another warden who refused to play along killed himself due to the pressure. She also finds that McCoy's family history with the head of that Rikers cell block played into his decision.

Meanwhile, Frank is laid up with an ankle injury, and has to hold a staff meeting at home. Henry becomes upset when Frank appears to shun his advice in front of the group. Danny and Maria investigate when a homeowner shoots an intruder in what appears to be a robbery attempt. Things get complicated when the detectives learn the intruder was a hitman with mob ties, while the homeowner and his wife both had affairs on each other. Elsewhere, Danny finds out Jack has his first crush, and he gives his son advice on how to ask her out. Erin challenges a young attorney who successfully scores a retrial for his mother, whom Erin put away on an accessory to murder charge 12 years ago.

While Erin does find that the detective on the case made many mistakes, her department's investigation ultimately finds that the mother was guilty and has been lying to her son for years. Meanwhile, Gormley has submitted Danny and Maria for medals of valor for their actions in "Partners", but Frank is reluctant to decorate his son for fear of backlash against himself and Danny. Henry reveals that he regrets not giving Frank the same medal for a collar, deciding not to for the same reasons Frank is contemplating.

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Danny and Maria investigate the death of Bobby Torres, a resident of the "poor" section of an otherwise upscale apartment building. Maria notes that, to get permits approved faster, developers sometimes offer to allocate 20 percent of a building to low-income housing. It is revealed that Bobby, a young school teacher, was dating Rada, whose father Ivan, a wealthy Russian immigrant, rents the building's penthouse. While Ivan has an alibi for the night of Bobby's murder, video surveillance shows him nodding to an unknown man in the lobby that same day.

Rada is shocked when she views the video and recognizes the man as someone who once worked for her father. Jamie and Eddie arrive on the scene of an armed robbery, and get involved in a shootout that injures both a fellow officer and a perp named Wally. Though Wally was unarmed, he is arrested for the robbery attempt and cuffed to his hospital bed.

After a doctor confirms that Wally will likely die from sepsis caused by the bullet wound, however, he finally confides in Jamie, who in turn offers to help locate Wally's estranged mother before he dies. It appears that Weams has been using his knowledge of what drug houses will be hit to purchase the properties soon after and flip them.

What Gormley views as "savvy", Frank views as "shady". It isn't until Gormley visits a family in a shelter that was displaced by one of Weams's schemes that he changes his mind about his former partner. When Erin loses a star witness in a case that will convict mob boss Victor Dano, she and McBride try to get Vincent Rela Dan Hedaya , a man currently in witness protection, to risk his life and come back to the city and testify.

Jamie and Eddie follow up on a tip from a civilian volunteer named Andy about a man selling drugs near a school. While the officers try to apprehend the perp, Andy approaches the man and is shot in the foot. The perp then turns the gun toward Eddie, who shoots and kills him. After the usual hearing, everyone agrees it was a clean shoot, but Jamie can see his partner is having a tough time dealing with her first kill; after lambasting Andy in front of several other cops, Eddie finally breaks down crying in Jamie's arms after asking him to stay at her place for the night.

Meanwhile, Mayor Poole asks Frank to "look into" an arrest that involves the husband of a favorite employee. Gormley and Garrett think Frank should invoke "quid pro quo" and use the request to get Poole to quit dragging his feet on increasing the police pension funding. A man named Anthony Drake is brought to the 54th precinct so that Maria can serve and explain a restraining order placed by the man's wife.

Realizing the order will allow the wife to keep him away from their daughter, Anthony takes Maria hostage in the room, demanding that his wife bring his daughter to the station so he can talk to her. When Maria creates a distraction, Danny intervenes and winds up being held in the line of fire himself. Garrett's stepson Sam is arrested trying to buy oxycodone during a sting operation, and Garrett asks Frank to release the young man into his custody so he can get him into rehab.

Frank later learns that Garrett has used the pull of 1PP twice before to get his stepson special treatment. Elsewhere, Jamie and Eddie try to raise funds for the funeral of an old man shot by gang members, after learning his wife of 50 years cannot afford a burial. In doing so, they stumble upon a young man who knows what happened but is afraid to say anything. Erin becomes unnerved when she sees that her apartment may have been burglarized, and her suspicions are confirmed when an unidentified assailant violently attacks a co-worker.

When a patch from a local biker gang is left behind at the scene of the attack, Erin tells Danny and Maria about putting away the gang's leader several months ago, and they investigate. Their investigation of that gang turns up nothing, but they later find evidence that a rival biker group had a run-in with the suspected gang, and is trying to frame them. Complicating things, the elderly woman shows signs of Alzheimer's disease and thinks Eddie is her estranged niece, making any testimony from her unreliable.

Elsewhere, Frank and Nicky are eating breakfast and get approached by a young man soliciting donations for a Local Heroes Fund. Frank is quickly suspicious because the fund is using the NYPD logo and he has never heard of them.

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Frank investigates the fund's director, a woman who appears to be sincere despite never submitting paperwork to become a licensed charity. At Frank's insistence, further investigation by Det. Gormley reveals that the woman is using an assumed name and is wanted for running similar fraudulent fundraising operations in three other cities. Danny and Maria learn of a sex slave kidnapping ring, which is luring in young Eastern European women with Web sites for phony hostels. Working with Federal authorities, the detectives determine that Eddie would be the perfect cop to go undercover and allow herself to be kidnapped, but Jamie worries that she isn't yet ready for such a dangerous assignment.

As the two discuss Jamie's first undercover assignment in the Sanfino crime family, Jamie reluctantly agrees when Eddie says she wants to prove herself the way he did. Sarah, a woman now in her 20s, comes to Frank after she receives a letter from the inmate who murdered her family when she was seven. The inmate, Donald Berry, wants to meet with Sarah, saying he's found God in prison, but Frank advises against it. Sarah agrees with Frank at first, but then decides she wants to confront Berry once and for all before she gets married.

Meanwhile, Henry introduces his new female companion to Erin, who immediately becomes suspicious after a brief conversation between the three of them. After meeting the woman for lunch and doing some background checks, it appears that Erin's suspicions have merit. A homeless man in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn is set on fire while he sleeps on a park bench, and he dies. When she came home, she went straight to bed, assuming her son was sleeping. Shanabarger has confessed to the horrifying crime to cops at least three times, telling the same story, authorities said.

Relatives interviewed by cops confirm that Shanabarger has continued to hold a grudge against his wife, Furrer said. Randy Maynard, a volunteer for Franklin police who accompanied authorities to the house. The Shanabargers both went to high school in nearby Martinsville, although Ronald was originally from Georgia, Furrer said.

It was unclear when they moved to their home, on a recently built street in Franklin, a town with about 20, residents. Shanabarger has no prior criminal record in Franklin, Furrer said. In fact, the only contact he had with cops was calling in minor complaints. They used to hang out by themselves. View author archive email the author Get author RSS feed. She found his body at 6 the next morning, and called police.

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