THE GRAND THEORY OF OLIVO:

1. WHY OLIVO SHOWS UP

   Once the 1-5 starting tracking the murder of Yvonne in relation to the Citi-Wide drug ring, and not concentrating on Denby, that's when suddenly Olivo turns up and asks the 1-5 to get involved with running Denby to earth.
   My theory is that Olivo was upset that when Andy and Diane turn up at the loading dock, they do not even interrogate Denby, much less arrest him. They go for the other guy and his info about a drug ring. Even though Olivo has been leaving clues that implicate Denby, Diane has ignored them and gone straight for the drug-ring angle. That's when Olivo implicates Denby in the drug-ring, in the hopes that Diane and Andy will take Denby as a serious suspect. He also makes an effort to re-inforce the possibility that Denby murdered Yvonne. It is Olivo who wants to take Denby out, using the 1-5 as his method. Denby is some kind of thorn in Olivo's side, he is getting in the way of Olivo's plans. So it's true that Denby is getting in the way of Olivo's plans, but these are criminal plans, not police plans.

2. WHY DENBY SHOWS UP

   My theory is that Olivo set things up so that Denby arrives earlier than expected at the warehouse, surprising Jose and Manuel, who expected him the next day. I think this has to do with Olivo taking over this shipment of heroin, rather than taking over the whole drug-distribution operation--in other words, Olivo intended to do what Denby says he was going to do--steal this one shipment worth five million on the street and sell it to some dealer and make a big one-time profit. It seems as if Olivo set this up through information he got from someone associated with Yvonne--possibly Jose, possibly Manuel. So Olivo is using the info he got from the undercover Manuel not for police purposes but for his own purposes. Although Olivo obviously did not anticipate the hostage situation. I think he assumed Manuel would be dead, which would make it impossible for Denby to negotiate with Diane. Did he plan that, after the killing of Jose and Manuel, Denby would be apprehended and handed over to the 1-5? Or, more likely, that the invading platoon of armed-to-the teeth ESU guys would manage to kill Denby as well in all the confusion? Or was the confederate supposed to kill Denby, having demonstrated to the 1-5 that Denby was a bad hat? One has the feeling that, if Denby doesn't stage his own death, somebody else will see to it that he is dead for sure. So my view is that Denby had to do some fast thinking and some fast talking to outwit Olivo.

3. THE ROLE OF THE 1-5

   Jose obviously thinks Denby is taking over the distribution now that Yvonne is gone--he expects Denby the next day. Andy and Diane also assume that Denby is taking over for Yvonne, but it doesn't seem to concern them that much (as if they know he is undercover). Olivo, on the other hand, suggests Denby is not a big-time operator, but a small-time crook. But for that to be the case, then Diane and Andy were wrong in assuming Denby was taking over the distribution ring and they were wrong in not concentrating in on Denby as Yvonne's murderer. But the thing is, in the Blue world, the 1-5 is never wrong when it comes to their detective work. The whole idea of the show is that the members of the 1-5, while having sundry personal problems, still function as excellent detectives. So I assume the 1-5 was right and that Denby did not kill Yvonne and her husband, and that he did intend to take over distribution.

   When Olivo talks to Diane, Diane tells him that they are not 100 percent sold on the murder-suicide. Olivo is the one who introduces the name of Denby and says he was seen coming and going out of Yvonne's apartment. Diane counters by saying she thought Denby was taking over the distribution--she does not say they figured Denby killed Yvonne--she mentions him only as a drug-distributor not as a suspect in the murder. It could be that, as part of his continuing undercover work, Denby WAS taking over the distribution ring, which he would do to continue "widening the net" that will capture more and more players in the drug ring. Olivo, however, is determined to demote Denby to someone trying to make his move in the wake of Yvonne's death, and sets him up for a fall in the warehouse because Olivo didn't want Denby messing up his good deal. He needed Denby out of the way, and he needed the 1-5 to stop snooping around Citi-Wide, so he set things up so that both these factors would no longer be around to interfere with his plan to steal the heroin himself.

--Meg