"Detroit, Michigan." "Birth place of Motown and once the heart of the automobile industry." "Now, it has one of the highest murder rates in the country." "For the men and women of Detroit's homicide unit, every life counts, and every murder tells a story." "Due date was last week, so my first day on homicide could be his first day in the world." "It's crazy." "Yeah." "Oh, and I'll know when he comes, 'cause I got this ringtone..." "Most beautiful song in the world, ain't it, partner?" "Car four-four-two, this is dispatch." "Please respond to a double homicide on the East Side." "Miller's Pharmacy." "This is Fitch, copy that." "You know, I used to patrol the East Side in uniform, so coming out here on my first homicide is kind of poetic." "And with you?" "Highest closure rate in the unit?" "Look, I'm here to serve and observe." "Learning the ropes and taking notes." "So if there's anything you think I could be doing better..." "Stop talking." "Yep." "Ready?" "EMT has been notified." "He owned the pharmacy." "David Sung." "Shot once in the head." "Sneaker prints in the blood here." "Unless one of your guys was wearing high-tops, should be our shooter." "Second victim's behind the counter." "Shannon Burke, 28." "Worked the late shift." "Gave her time to study." "Used to come down here and meet my father on his beat." "We'd grab a Coney at American." "Line be out the door, but we'd walk right in." "Cop never had to pull out his wallet in them days." "Yeah." "When we moved here from India, my dad would drag us down here, like, three times a week." "I don't know, I guess he thought the more chili dogs we had, the faster we'd assimilate." "You can't put all that ketchup on there." "That's not a Coney." "I don't even know what you call that." "It's a free country, man." "I call it living the American dream, baby." "Longford." "Junction Rail Yards?" "Okay." "Somebody reported a dead vagrant on a train." "Here we go." "The night has just begun!" "Nothing like walking up on a crime scene." "I'm gonna miss that feeling when I retire." "Yeah, sure you'll miss it in winter when I'm freezing my nuts off and you're in your house in Tuscany sipping a Chianti, please." "How do you say, "Cry me a river" in Italian?" "Male Caucasian." "He was probably looking to catch a free ride." "Tries to jump the cars, loses his footing..." "Since when do hobos wear Hugo Boss?" "It is a pretty nice suit." "Whoa." "Check this out." "We got a gunshot." "What do we got?" "Another junkie looking for a fix." "But like my wife says, if we fight 'em here, we don't have to fight 'em in Ferndale." "Commuter cop." "Must be nice going home to the 'burbs every night." "You're telling me." "I grew up four blocks away." "Every time I come into one of these," "I'm praying it's no one I know." "Uh-huh." "Your shooter must have been jonesing pretty bad." "He threw up everywhere." "That wasn't the shooter." "No way." "Way." "Last credit card transaction was authorized at 8:23 p.m." "Card holder says everything was normal when she left." "The 911 call came in at?" "8:47." "Twenty-four minute window." "Yeah." "Two cases of OxyContin missing." "Looks like a drug robbery gone bad." "Male was shot once in the head, female victim was shot five times." "Maybe the guy was high." "Why doesn't she run?" "She had to have seen what happened." "She knew him." "She was trying to reason with him." "He came for her." "Morris Bachner." "Divorce attorney." "Yeah, they tend to create a lot of angry people." "Question is, where was he shot?" "How'd he end up on this train?" "Good evening, ma'am, we're detectives with the Detroit Police Department." "Can we have a minute of your time?" "So, you're her mother-in-law?" "Ex." "She and my son divorced about two years ago." "She kept his name." "But Shannon lives here with you?" "With the kids." "Honey, it's okay." "Just go back to bed." "I'll be there in a little." "It's okay." "Go check on your sister." "Uh..." "Ma'am, Shannon was found deceased this evening at work." "She was a victim of a homicide." "I know this must be incredibly difficult, but I'm going to have to ask you a few questions." "Okay?" "Are you aware of anyone who'd want to harm Shannon?" "No?" "No." "Had she been seeing anybody?" "Yes." "Alvin." "Alvin Green." "For about a year." "They're..." "They were very happy." "And Shannon's children, your son's their father?" "Yes." "And what's his name?" "James." "James Burke?" "And where is your son now?" "In prison." "Those poor kids." "I'm very sorry for your loss, ma'am." "What am I gonna tell 'em?" "What am I gonna say to them?" "Ma'am?" "How am I..." "Ma'am, look at me." "Those kids are going to be okay." "And I promise you..." "I'm sorry." "I'll step out." "No, no, no, no, I'm not mad, baby." "I want you to call me, it's just..." "I was in the middle of something, and, you know..." "Next time it'll be for real, for sure." "Okay, love you, too." "Bye." "I can't work like this, okay?" "This clown is taking cell phone calls in the middle of death notifications." "Sounds like an honest mistake." "It sounded like a damn clock radio went off in his pocket!" "The guy is incompetent." "Not according to his precinct captain." "He has the highest conviction rate two years running." "Well, he's not ready for this." "That's what you said that about your last partner." "What is it, Mrs. Dryden?" "She what?" "All right, hold on, hold on, please." "Look, Fitch, it's his first day, we're undermanned." "Just, please, give him a chance." "Oh, why the hell should I?" "Because I said so." "Shut the door, please." "She's a teenager, Mrs. Dryden." "They tend to listen to their music on a higher volume." "Oh, no, you ain't gotta call the police." "I am the police." "Keep it moving, let's go!" "Let's move." "Sixty-seven Mustang." "She's a classic." "Rear end damage." "Looks like our divorce attorney was in a collision." "Doesn't seem to be any blood in the vehicle." "So, somehow, this guy gets shot, and ends up on a train." "That's crazy." "Yeah, there was an incident last night out on the road." "What kind of incident?" "Wait a minute." "Is..." "Is this the bridge?" "Could you roll that back to last night?" "Hold it." "Play it from there." "There's the collision." "That's our victim." "Washington." "Having a baby." "Must feel really special." "Of course, there are over six billion people in the world." "Every one of them was a baby." "So when you put it in perspective, how special can it be?" "We've had serious infertility issues." "It's not..." "And I'm moved." "I truly am moved." "But if that cell phone goes off in my presence again, you're going to have serious career issues." "Also, I don't like you very much." "Check on James Burke?" "Uh, he's doing 14 months at Pine River." "Due out in three." "What about her boyfriend?" "Alvin Green." "I spoke to him." "He was at work all night." "Sanchez." " Hey." "Hey, John, listen, I'm working that pharmacy double." "Yeah, I heard about that." "Yeah." "Pretty brutal stuff." "We're looking for two cases of Oxy." "Anything hits the street, you'll let me know?" "You got it." "You owe me sometime." "I'll see you." "All right." "You, too." "Hi." "How you doing?" "What happened to your face?" "Oh, I was going after the jammer, but the four crossed over and C-blocked me." "Total rink rash." "Roller derby." "Right." "Oh, yeah." "It bounced around in there, but I found it hiding in the peritoneal cavity." "I really can't make out the caliber." "This looks like..." "Nine millimeter." "I was totally gonna say that." "That means we missed a bullet casing out on the street." "Let's go get it." "See ya." "Bye." "Thanks." "Hey, did he get that house in Tuscany?" "He finds out tomorrow." "It's a personality quirk." "He's not good one on one." "The guy's a mental patient." "I mean, he's sitting right next to me." "He can't speak to me like a normal person?" "Talk to him about it." "Damn right." "I'm gonna." "Let me tell you what I know about Fitch." "That's about it." "And I've been here for two years." "Nobody understands the guy." "But he gets results." "So if I were you, I'd just suck it up and be grateful that you have someone like Fitch watching your back." "Easy for you to say." "Where's your partner?" "He dropped dead two weeks ago of a heart attack." "Sorry, I..." "Oh, wait." "Here we go!" "I got it." "No, strike that." "It's a .45." "Here it is." "No, it's a .22." "This is what happens when you look for bullets in Detroit." "I say we call it a day." "What?" "Those who quit don't catch no fish." "Yeah, baby!" "Nine millimeter and fresh." "I can smell the powder." "If it isn't the model officer." "Literally." "Mr. February." "Hey, that was for charity, you know that." "February." "Isn't that the shortest month?" "You wanna give me a break?" "I brought you a present." "Marcus Mosier." "Thank you." "Come on." "Picked him up on a parole violation." "Found this on him." "Oxy." "Yeah." "Serial matches the same batch stolen from the pharmacy." "See?" "I told you it was a drug thing." "Well, let's find out, shall we?" "Tell me, where'd you get this?" "Found it." "In Elmwood Park." "Elmwood park." "And when was that?" "Yesterday afternoon." "Okay." "Let's review." "Yesterday afternoon you're skipping through the park in the hood, you've got junkies and dealers everywhere you look, and you just happen upon a full bottle of OxyContin, just laying there in the grass like a dog turd." "Yeah." "All right, well, on a scale of one to 10, 10 being totally believable," "this is how good that lie was." "We know that bottle wasn't in the park yesterday." "That bottle was stolen from the pharmacy last night." "You know where you are, Marcus?" "This is Homicide." "Homicide?" " Yep." "Two people were killed in that pharmacy." "And right now the only suspect we have is you." "But I didn't kill nobody." " Oh, right." "A junkie who broke parole and lied to the police." "How long do you think that trial lasts?" "Ten minutes, life sentence." "That's good." "Get to Hong's in time for lunch." "Sounds good to me." "Life sentence, Marcus." "Say it with me." "Come on." "Life." "All right." "Straight up." "Pooch sold it to me!" "Where do we find him?" "You gotta call him." "What's his number?" "I don't know." "I wrote it down on a napkin." "I swear, I don't have it." "On his arm." "There's something on his arm." "What up, dog?" "Pooch!" "Who's this?" "Yogi." "Listen, man, I'm gonna need some..." "Whoa, whoa, hold on." "Who gave you my number?" "Chicklet." "Chicklet?" "I don't know no Chicklet." "Well, you know Little D?" "Right?" "Yeah, everybody know Little D." "He's good." "Yeah, well, D said you got some Oxy," "I was thinking maybe you could hook me up?" "Quickie pickle on Jackson." "Gimme about an hour." "All right." "Cool." "Done." "All right." "We good?" "Any units in the vicinity..." "Units be advised, we've got a suspicious vehicle heading south down on Edgewood." "Two male blacks in the car." "Yeah, pimpmobile?" "Hard to miss." "Wait for it." "Hold it, we got metro." "Dispatch, I have a cruiser on Jackson and Edgewood about to interfere with an operation," "I need you to call him off imme..." "Stop, right there!" "Let me see your hands!" "I'm on it." "Get the drugs." "Put your hands up!" "Let me see your hands." "Where you going, Pooch?" "Man, I don't even know no Pooch!" "Really?" "Why's his name tattooed on your neck?" "'Cause that's my mama's name, man." "Yeah." "Give me your hand." "Um, come here." "Is that your phone?" "Stretch out, man." "Stay, Pooch." "You about to answer your phone?" "Honey?" "You sure?" "You feel any discomfort in your pelvic area?" "Then it's just a false contraction, you..." "Honey, I love you, but you gotta understand, this is my first day..." "No..." "I know it's our first baby, baby." "All I'm saying..." "All I'm saying is don't call me again until the water breaks." "Stop!" "Driver was a minor." "We couldn't hold him." "It's all up to you, buckaroo." "Oh, I don't know." "I mean, I haven't really..." "Your collar, your interview." "Okay." "All right." "Let's slay this fool." "Okay." "You sure about Officer Bobby, in there?" "We need a confession." "I know what we need." "Pooch." "How you doin' today?" "you." "You wanna tell me where you were last night?" "Thought you knew, Peaches." "Last night I was your wife." "After that, she my raw." "Hey!" "You know where you are ?" "I know where you are." "Nowhere!" "You ain't got on me ." "Look at you." "You green as aMartian." "Come on, man." "What is this, y'all, Training Day?" "Huh?" "You're a funny little midget." "We done." "We're not done until I say we're done." "You ain't calling the shots, G!" "Okay, you best start helping yourself." "Okay, you see this?" "Done!" "Three, two, one!" "I want a lawyer!" "Tell me you have a strategy." "Oh, my God." "I want this guy to think he's smarter than us." "Yeah, well, apparently he is smarter than us." "He just invoked his right to an attorney." "We can't question him anymore." "I don't need to question him." "Awesome, man." "Textbook." "Good job." "you." "You're not a lawyer." "You just drank the last of my soda." "What is this, the silent treatment?" "You wanna have a staring contest with me?" "All right, enjoy yourself." "Knock yourself out." "Go ahead." "Man..." "All right, dude, you're freaking me out." "If you gonna charge me, then charge me." "This is not where I was supposed to end up in life." "You got that badge and that little cheap tie you think you can do whatever you wanna do." "It's Christmas morning, we took that four hour drive up to the county pen, an old man comes to the window, guess what he saying?" ""Stay in school, son." ""Stay in school."" "I'm not going to cry." "That's what I'm not gonna do right now." "I'm not gonna cry." "You understand me?" "I'm not gonna sit in here and have a pity party for myself and all that, and break down in front of you, 'cause you don't even really care." "I can see it in your eyes, you don't really care, but I feel like you do." "I don't know, man, it's just crazy." "Oh, it's like..." "It's hard out there, man." "This ain't even real, man." "I'm doing bad." "You know what I'm saying?" "I'm just going..." "I'm just gonna keep it real." "I'm just gonna be straight." "I'm gonna tell you right now, I took the Oxys." "I took them." "I went in the store and I took the OxyContins." "I'm sorry, Daddy." "But..." "Wait, wait, wait." "Hold on, hold on." "Nice job." "I didn't kill anybody, though." "You know what I'm saying?" "Those people was dead when I came in there." "You heard me, I was not there." "They was dead already!" "I was playing basketball." "Go check the court!" "Yeah." "Gang members, they come out here, and duke it out on the courts instead of out there on the streets." "Pooch was here until about 9:00." "9:00 at least." "You sure about that?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah." "He hit the winning basket." "Three point at the buzzer." "Thank you, Father." "Yes, sir." "Washington." "You lost control in that interview." "It's not about what you know, it's about what they think you know." "The more you lose your cool, the more they know that you don't know nothing." "Hold on a second." "Pass the half-and-half, please." "Thank you." "Control is everything." "If you can't handle a suspect, you ask for help." "Don't ever forget that." "This place used to be a porno shop." "Mahajan." "Hey, we found a print on that shell casing." "Check your inbox." "Okay, I got it." "Thanks." "Hey." "There's our shooter." "James Burke, 28." "Burke." "Wasn't that the victim's surname in that pharmacy double?" "Shannon." "Shannon Burke." "Yeah." "There he is." "James Burke." "It says here he's in prison." "Eliminated as a person of interest." "Yeah, well, he just got a hell of a lot more interesting, didn't he?" "Okay." "Thanks." "James Burke's print just came up in another homicide." "I thought he had three months left on his sentence." "He made parole yesterday." "No, when the Department of Corrections tells me that a guy's in prison," "I gotta trust he's not down the street having a slice." "A 24-hour clerical backlog?" "Really, that's your explanation?" "We just had another homicide." "The victim was James Burke's parole officer." "Your clerical backlog just got somebody murdered." "At 7:13 last night," "James Burke tracks down his ex-wife's divorce attorney, Morris Bachner..." "Rams him on a bridge, shoots him, victim falls onto a passing train, winds up in the rail yards three hours later." "Okay, so, then around 8:30 p.m." "Burke enters Miller's pharmacy." "He kills his ex-wife, Shannon, and the pharmacy's owner." "Wrong place wrong time." "Which brings us to 40 minutes ago." "James Burke's parole officer pulls into his parking lot." "Burke commits homicide number four, leaving his pick-up at the scene." "It's hard to figure." "I mean, this guy was a two-time nonviolent offender." "Something made him snap." "Timeline's too precise." "He planned it inside." "You sit in a prison cell long enough, alone in your head, crazy thoughts start making sense." "He acted on them the second they let him out." "Longford, Mahajan, head over to the parole office, see what you can find." "Sanchez, distribute his photo to all of Detroit PD." "I want every uniform on the street looking for this man." "Got it." "Files just came over from the attorney's office." "Shannon was granted sole custody of their two children." "Parole officer testified at the hearing, probably sealed the deal." "Burke's getting his revenge." "Fitch." "I found an old family photo in Burke's truck." "It's of James, Shannon, and the kids." "And there's writing on the back, and all it says is, "Together Forever."" "James Burke's trying to get his family back." "Then why would he kill his wife?" "Murder-suicide, it's the only way they can all be together." "He's going after the kids." "Did you see Mrs. Burke today?" "June left with the kids early this morning." "Said she needed help looking after the kids." "Did she say where they were going?" "No." "But Shannon's boyfriend, Alvin, he would know." "He came and helped her with the bags." "Thank you very much for that." "145, Trent Avenue." "It's all the way across town." "We don't got time." "Mahajan, you still at the parole office?" "How quickly can you get to Alvin Green's house?" "No sign of Alvin Green." "I'm guessing Burke took him against his will." "Hey, we got blood here." "It's still wet." "They can't be more than five, ten minutes away." "He ran the light and hit me." "Calm down, sir." "All right." "I get out to see if he okay, he starts shooting at me." "Can you give a description?" "White and crazy!" "It was the same car my son drives." "A beige Neon." "And only one of those fools was white." "Beige Neon heading east on Mack." "Suspect may have a hostage in the vehicle." "Suspect is armed." "Repeat, suspect is armed." "Burke has Alvin Green." "He's using him to find the kids." "I got a beige Neon heading east on Temple, approaching Cass." "Copy that." "All units, we have him on Temple, approaching Cass." "Repeat." "Officer involved." "Detective Sanchez requires immediate assistance at 2423, Temple, all units!" "I need an ambulance on the 2400 block of..." "You okay?" " I think I'm okay." "Okay." "Hang on!" "I can't breathe in here." "I know!" "Watch out, okay, there's gonna be glass." "Watch yourself." "All right." "Look out." "Okay." "Watch your head." "You all right?" "Yeah, I think I'm fine." "You got some lint." "We found the beige Neon." "Well, who knows, maybe he stole another vehicle." "All right, thanks." "What'd Alvin Green say?" "Nothing." "He's barely breathing." "They lost James Burke." "We need to find those kids before he does." "We're asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of June Burke and these children to contact law enforcement immediately." "We believe they're in imminent danger." "Again, we're asking anyone with information on their whereabouts to please contact authorities at once." "Tips hotline, what is the..." "Boy and a girl?" "Thank you." "Do you have the exact location?" "Tips hotline." "Thank you for calling Detroit PD." "Okay." "Thanks." "Uh, caller just saw the news report." "Says June and the kids are staying at an apartment in the loft district." "Let's go." "Mrs. Burke, it's Detective Fitch." "Get down!" "No!" "Leave us alone!" "Get the hell out of here!" "Reporting here from the scene, the SWAT team is..." "James!" "We're gonna leave a phone by the door with some dinner." "I promise there're no tricks here, James." "We just want to talk, all right?" "Get inside!" "Leave us alone." "James, I can't do that until those kids of yours are safe." "Can't you see what you're doing to these children?" "That's his mother." "Sit down, June." "She isn't helping any." "Just go away." "They're gonna be with me forever." "It's over!" "This isn't working." "Let me do my thing, all right, Detective?" "Great, there's your phone." "Hey, are we forgetting what happened the last time you knocked on that door?" "I'm not wearing that." "Fitch." "We have a contingency." "Contingency?" "You can't send a SWAT team." "This man killed four people." "What about those kids?" "We don't work for the dead." "We work for the living." "Burke looks out that window at us, how you think he sees this ending?" "Maybe Fitch can talk him down." "Get him wired." "If anything goes wrong, we're coming in." "Lieutenant?" "James." "James." "James." "James." "My name is Detective Fitch." "I'm going to walk to the door, all right?" "Just gonna walk to the door real slow." "He's gonna get himself killed." "I'm on the stairs." "Can you see me?" "I'm at the door, and I'm going to come in." "And it's all right because we're just gonna talk a little, okay?" "He's going in the door." "Door's opening wide, he's going inside." "He's going inside." "This is crazy." "Move, move, move." "Stay back, stay back!" "Hey, James, why don't we put the gun down?" "It's not too late." "What do you want?" "James, you know what I want." "What do you want?" "Nothing." "It's too late now." "For God's sake, can't you see what you're doing to these children?" "Would you just shut up!" "Why don't we put the gun down?" "All right?" "It's not too late." " You don't know." "I do know." "Don't lie to me!" "Why are you doing this?" "Put the gun down." "Sit down and shut up." "Hey, June!" "June." "Let's give the man a break, okay?" "I know what it's like." "You love somebody so much you don't know why they caused you so much pain." "Right?" "And that pain builds and builds and builds until we snap." "It's like you're a passenger, all right, you're in a car that's speeding out of control." "But then you wake up, and it's you behind the wheel." "And it's you who did these things." "I did things." "I did things, James." "I hurt people." "I hurt my wife," "I hurt my kids." "When I think about the things I've done, sometimes I really think it'd be easier just to end it, end it all." "But," "I got these pictures on my wall." "I see my kids, and I can't do it." "I brought you something here." "Remember this?" "These are your kids, James, beautiful kids." "And I know, I know, all you wanted was to be there for them." "But now you're all they have." "And we can't change the past, James." "But we can choose what happens next." "Don't come any closer." "Give me the gun." "Stop." "I'm not gonna stop, James." "Give me the gun, all right?" "Here, you take this." "God, forgive me." "We got him coming out." "Take him down." "Take him down." "Take him down, now!" "Stay down!" "Kids, come on." "Kids, come on." "You wanted to see me, Lieutenant?" "You look like a drug dealer." "Yeah." "That's my job." "Remember?" "Not anymore, it isn't." "Your promotion came through." "Welcome to homicide, Detective Stone." "All right." "Thank you." "Oh, who am I riding with?" "Sanchez." "Okay." "Good." "Thank you." "So, what's up, partner?" "You didn't get the house." "No." "I did." "Hell of a first day, huh?" "Every day feels like the first." "That's one of the perks about working Homicide, it never gets old." "Al that stuff you said in that apartment, you know, about hurting the people you love and feeling like you want to end it, is it true?" "It was true when I said it." "Get them solved, make room for the next one." "We might be the last assembly line in Detroit." "You earned it." "Got one for lockup." " Stop him!" " Stop!" "Officer down!" "Get some help!"