 Russellmania
(Prior to Danny's suspension, which comes at the end of this episode: Fancy has just reprimanded both Diane and Danny and threatened to ship Danny out over the scene they made the day before. He's reassigned Danny to work with Greg and Baldwin, while Andy and Diane are to work on the Ruiz case.)
Andy: You want to fill me in on this?
Diane: You talkin' about the case?
Andy: Yeah, the case.
Diane: This Yvonne Ruiz worked dispatch at Citiwide Courier. She and her husband, they're an apparent murder-suicide. Denby came by last night talking out in front about how he'd been banging Yvonne but didn't know she was married.
Andy: That plus torturing Danny and you.
Diane: That's an added bonus. Yvonne's computer had Denby's email address on it. We sent it out to be checked out at TARU.
John: (introducing them) Detective Russell, Detective Gilmore.
Diane: (shaking his hand) I'm Diane Russell.
Andy: (shaking his hand) Andy Sipowicz.
Crow: Fred Gilmore. But, um, call me Crow, you know like Brandon Lee. Isn't that the coolest flick?
Andy: (dubiously) You're a detective.
Crow: Sure, yeah. A bunch of us over at MISD got shields behind the Y2K thing.
Andy: (grumpily) I thought you guys took a collar off that scam. How much the department spend in overtime on that?
Crow: Two million. But the clocks hit midnight, no disaster. One hundred percent compliance.
Andy: (argumentatively) Some of them other countries didn't spend a nickel on Y2K. How many problems they have?
Diane: (bringing them both back onto the subject) I'm guessing you found something on that computer?
Crow: I did. There's a secret file.
Andy: (dryly) Secret file.
Crow: It seems this Yvonne lady - she's been running some kind of covert distribution out of Citiwide.
Andy: Any clue what kind of distribution?
Crow: No, I haven't been able to figure that out yet.
Diane: You find anything in there on Harry Denby?
Crow: (Nods) Her email's been deleted. Oh, one of 'em is really sick, like perverse. Got printouts of everything in the file. (hands them out) Plus anything's been deleted off the disk.
Andy: (reading the files) Names and dates, could be names of employees. Leroy Jackson, Roberto Hernandez.
Crow: Yeah, cool, huh?
Andy: Thanks. (to Diane) Take a ride, see if any of these smuts work at Citiwide. (to Crow) Thanks for all your help, Crow.
end of scene
Denby: Hey, Diane. Good to see ya. I was just at your squad yesterday.
Diane: I heard.
Denby: I presume you're visit here's in regards to poor Yvonne Ruiz and her husband.
Diane: Yeah, we're asking questions.
Denby: Where's your Dannyboy?
Diane: He's out working something else.
Denby: Ah, so this is your case. I feel terrible, what went on with Yvonne. Jealousy is a powerful thing. Y'know, I don't think you're going to find out anything here aside from what you already know.
Diane: You know the job, Denby.
Denby: Of course. (She starts to walk away and he stops her) You know, please do tell Detective Sorenson that if I was out of line last night, I hope he'll accept my apology. As usual, I can't help myself where you're concerned.
Diane: That would be between you and Detective Sorenson.
Denby: Well like I said, jealousy's a powerful thing.
Diane: (noticing Andy talking to the suspect, Leroy) There's nothing to be jealous about. Danny and me, uh, we weren't good together.
Denby: So then the field remains open.
Diane: (smiles) If you want to put it like that.
Denby: (uncomfortable and clearly surprised at her sudden interest) I don't want to make any overtures until I can put together my best offer.
Diane: What does that mean?
Denby: (realizing he said more than he should have) Nothing. Maybe there's just too much water under the bridge for us.
Diane: This doesn't sound like you, Denby.
Denby: Considering Yvonne and all and you coming off a relationship too, maybe we should just give it a little time.
Diane: (seeing Andy gesture to her to come on) Y'know, I gotta go.
Denby: We'll talk
(Diane leaves and Denby goes back upstairs)
end of scene
Diane: Leroy, that was your name we took off Yvonne's hard disk.
Andy: You want to be out in front of this one, Leroy. This one's gonna be a freight train.
Leroy: You sayin' Yvonne got killed behind this?
Andy: It's you who's answering questions, Leroy. We're just laying it out.
Leroy: Man, I don't know my dick from a hole in my head. I'm just a cog in wheel in a big machine.
Diane: All the more reason you come clean with what you do know now. That's right Leroy, you decide. You want to help or you want to wind up in jail?
Leroy: You sayin' I could maybe avoid that?
Andy: You don't help you wind up there for sure.
Leroy: Us drivers those on the team, we made these deliveries that didn't have any tracking numbers so's they couldn't be tagged.
Andy: Drug deliveries.
Leroy: Don't know. (Andy stares him down) Yes, probably.
Diane: So what's the point if no one knew they were drugs except you?
Leroy: Well, the DEA worked with our company's security to look for packages with drugs. They tag certain loads and those get sniffed by drug dogs.
Andy: Where's Yvonne Ruiz fit in this?
Leroy: Yvonne's the dispatch. It shows on the computer - some code when a driver's shipment's been tagged with no tracking number. You just pull that sucker out.
Andy: So Yvonne was runnin' things.
Leroy: Runnin' things? I don't know. It was Yvonne gave me word the shipment was off the books. It was Yvonne who gave me my money. I can't believe she's dead.
Andy: I guess now you're out of business.
Leroy: (conspiratorially) Thing is, yesterday, this cat comes up off the cuff, some white guy, used to work with Yvonne in dispatch. He come up to me, says things are status quo.
Andy: You know his name?
Leroy: Darby, something like that.
Diane: Harry Denby?
Leroy: You got it. He come up to me like he knows he's the man.
Andy: He say anything about a delivery date?
Leroy: Just status quo. Mostly don't hear nothin' on a delivery day till the day of, anyway.
Andy: Okay, Leroy, how ‘bout you write down the other members of that team you were talking about. (passes Leroy a pad of paper)
Leroy: I got to?
end of scene
Olivo: Hey, Danny.
Danny: Hey, what's happening?
Olivo: Oh, working DEA, joint task force.
Danny: Oh, you're in the big time, huh? Get to work with the feds.
Olivo: (Laughs) Got someplace we can talk?
Danny: Sure. (They go into the locker room)
Olivo: Heard JB's dead.
Danny: Yeah. He OD'd.
Olivo: Junkies. It's tough when you get close to a snitch.
Danny: So you probably didn't come down here just to catch up.
Olivo: Thing is, you guys are getting in the middle of something we been working on for eight months.
Danny: What's that?
Olivo: Colombian dealers. DEA's got an agent who infiltrated their organization.
Danny: How are we in the middle?
Olivo: Some stuff goes in come out through Citiwide Courier.
Danny: Oh.
Olivo: Yeah. Big smack shipment just come in through JFK sitting in the warehouse. Joint task force is planing a controlled delivery to this Yvonne Ruiz.
Danny: Yvonne, who just turned up DOA.
Olivo: Plus all of a sudden there's a new player. Come up on a phone tap. Ex-detective named Harry Denby. That's the other reason I came to talk to you. Off the record.
Danny: You dug up Denby's personnel file.
Olivo: We also put an occasional tail on him. Took him here, last night.
Danny: Bein' as he's an ex-cop, you don't want to keep too close a tail, or he'll make it.
Olivo: We don't see Denby as a major player here. We're trying to figure out how he does fit in.
Danny: If Harry Denby's got to do with this, you can bet he's a major player. Thing is, I'm not working that case. It's best if I hook you up with my partner.
Olivo: Whoa, I'm here free-lance, Danny.
Danny: I'm working another homicide; guy's in mid-flip.
Olivo: You say I can trust your partner, I'm gonna take that to the bank.
Danny: Absolutely, I'll get him. (Goes out to Andy's desk) Andy, you need to come talk to this guy.
Andy: The guy that was sitting at your desk?
Danny: Yeah, he's a joint task force detective I worked with in Narcotics. He came in to talk to me off work over how we're getting in the way of an undercover operation.
Andy: Maybe off this Citiwide thing?
Diane: This about my case?
Danny: The guy'd prefer dealing with me. I told him I could pass him on to my partner.
Diane: Danny, no one's talking to this guy without me.
Danny: Fine, you can take your chances does he talk to you or not.
Andy: We'll take our chances.
(They go back into the locker room)
Danny: Ray, this is my partner, Andy Sipowicz. This is Detective Diane Russell, it's her case. Ray Olivo.
Olivo: I wasn't plannin' on a conference.
Andy: That's okay, we can just go back to runnin' our case.
Olivo: No I think we can work to our mutual advantage on this.
Andy: Glad you see it like that.
Olivo: Joint task force is planning a controlled delivery any time now on a shipment of heroin sitting in a warehouse in Brooklyn.
Diane: Controlled delivery.
Olivo: Task force's got a DEA agent's infiltrated the Colombian organization. Your murder-suicide Yvonne Ruiz - she was set up to distribute some of this smack. Now we don't know who's comin'.
Diane: That murder-suicide, we're not 100 percent sold on that.
Olivo: It got anything to do with Harry Denby? Our surveillance on the Ruiz apartment picked up Denby comin' in, goin' out that afternoon.
Andy: You saying we can have that?
Olivo: (nods) It's still not enough to lock him up. We ask you not to move on him till after delivery. You collar him then, you could persuade him to testify against the dealers.
Diane: We figured Denby was takin' over the distribution.
Olivo: You got evidence on that we'd like to see it.
Andy: Yeah, so we could set up with you on that warehouse?
Olivo: I think I could sell it to my boss. You in on this, Danny?
Danny: No, I gotta work on this other case. If you don't need me no more I should be getting back.
Andy: No, go ahead, Danny.
end of scene
Olivo: (introducing him) My boss, Lieutenant Gomez.
Andy: (shaking Gomez's hand) Andy Sipowicz, from the 15th.
Diane: (shaking Gomez's hand) Diane Russell
Gomez: There's 60 kilos of Peruvian heroin they're sittin' on in there. Warehouse has double steel doors. Agent Manuel there left an open one so we could get the place up. One with short hair, that's Manuel. Other guy, drug dealer called Jose. He thinks Manuel's legit.
Olivo: As far as we know, anyway.
Gomez: ‘Round the corner in the casse(?) we got ESU with flak vests and rifles ready to go as soon as the transfer goes down.
Olivo: Manuel's left the place open again, else we'd have a hell of a time gettin' in there. (to Gomez) These detectives got an angle on who could be makin' the pickup.
Diane: We figure it's an ex-detective named Harry Denby who whacked that Yvonne Ruiz you were expecting.
Gomez: S'what Ray was tellin' me.
Andy: Looks like it's Denby takin' over the distribution through Citiwide Courier. So we'd expect it to be him or someone he sent pickin' up the smack.
Olivo: These two have a personal issue with Denby.
Gomez: You worked together?
Diane: No, not exactly.
(Gomez and Olivo look at her with an "Oooohhhh!" expression).
Andy: Your man give you any sense when this pickup's going down?
Olivo: Shipment come through last night. Usually within 36 hours.
Gomez: What's the matter, detective, not enjoyin this? You should see some of the rat infested places we gotta set up.
Andy: That's cause you got the glamour position.
Diane: Got somethin' here.
(Denby and his associate enter the warehouse. They, Manuel, and Jose are visible only on the security camera)
Denby: Hey, what say, what's up?
Diane: That's Denby.
Gomez: Guess you were right about him making the pickup.
Jose: Hey, Denby, thought we were making this tomorrow.
Denby: Tomorrow? Oh right, I just stopped by to check on some things.
Jose: Check on what things? (Denby stands directly in front of Jose, draws his gun and kills Jose. His associate shoots and wounds Manuel. Denby shoots and kills his own associate).
Andy: Oh, geez!
Gomez: A ripoff. (To his men) Go, go!
Manuel: (to Denby) Don't shoot, I'm a cop.
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