- The homicide detectives have to cope with some huge changes in their life. The squad room has been renovated and painted blue, Munch is dating Billie Lou, and Pembleton has resigned. Meanwhile a grisly murder arises, connected to Giardello.—Gasmaskproductionsbooks
- Detectives Munch and Bayliss and Lieutenant Giardello investigate the brutal murder of one of Little Italy's residents. The case becomes personal when Giardello's cousin turns up as a victim and his estranged son, Mike, now an FBI agent, turns up to help out. Back in the squad room, the regulars welcome a surprising new detective to the unit. © NBC/A&E Home Video DVD Season 7
A woman comes home to her apartment to find her carpet soaked with water and water gushing down from her bathroom ceiling. She goes to the upstairs apartment to investigate; the front door is open; she proceeds further into the bathroom and screams.
Bayliss, on his first day back since the shootout, waxes philosophical about life being an illusion. Lewis tells him to shut-up. Munch warns Bayliss not to talk like that to Gee, or Gee will make him take a psych test.
Bayliss takes a call and asks Munch to accompany him. Munch warns him that he (Munch) is bad luck, and that hes a poor replacement for Pembleton.
The officer on scene takes them to the bathroom where Angelo Faltisco has been cut up into pieces. (Munch : I guess we can rule out household accident.)
Gee knew Faltisco they went to the same grade school. He wasnt that close to Faltisco, but his cousin Mario was. Gee calls Mario and leaves a message.
Among the squadroom chatter is guessing whats wrong with Bayliss, why the men are eating pizza at the break of dawn, how the upstairs will keep them from decorating the new squadroom walls with their personal décor, that Sheppard was once Miss Anne Arundel County, and whether Ballard will work up enough nerve to ask Falsone to the Police Lodge Party.
To show how its done, Lewis asks Sheppard. Sheppard says yes. On the way to a call, Stivers encourages Falsone to pull the trigger and ask Ballard to the Party. Falsone says hes had his eyes on Sheppard, not Ballard.
At the crime scene, the front room is soaked with water emanating from the bathroom. The bathtub is filled with blood and body parts of Leo Grimaldi.
Grimaldis son, Joey, found the body when he came home from a late night. He tells Falsone and Stivers he was with his girlfriend. Bayliss and Munch come on the scene. Their crime scene is a few blocks away, their victims are in the same age range, and the method was the same. Gee knows the family and arrives and comforts the son. He will now go see Mario. Bayliss gossips with Munch : Gees father was Italian and his mom was black. Bayliss wonders how a young man growing up that way knew where to place his loyalties.
Gee is at Marios but no one answers. He tugs at the door and it opens, with water spilling from the frame. He goes in and finds Mario in the bathtub. Bayliss catches the case.
They go over the cases. The victims were stabbed and dismembered, all last night. No weapon has been found yet. Bayliss splits the squad : Ballard, Gharty, Lewis, Sheppard will canvas the neighborhood; Munch, Stivers, Falsone and Bayliss will question the victims families.
Gee visits his grandmother. She crosses herself and begs him to find the bastards.
Munch questions Marios sister. She tells him, when Gees wife was sick, Mario spent a lot of time helping care for her.
Ballard on the canvas has determined all three men were much loved. She asks Falsone if hes going to the party and suggests they go together. Falsone says hell be happy to drive her.
Leos son reminisces about how Mario was always very kind to Gees son Mike, and almost more of a father to Mike than Gee was.
At a funeral, Bayliss tells Munch of his death-experience. (Munch : This Zen-detective thing is starting to rub my rectum the wrong way.) They trade bits of trivia theyve learned about Gee including that he hasnt spoken to Mike since his wife died. Mike shows up at the funeral.
After paying his respects, he and Gee talk outside. Gee says they dont have any leads. Gee asks Mike about Arizona and the FBI. Mike asks why HE didnt call him to tell him about Mario (instead Gee asked Mikes sister to). Gee lies and says she wanted to.
Falsone asks Sheppard to the Party. She says Lewis already asked her. Falsone wonders aloud how Lewis could do that since he is married.
Mike finds Falsone and asks if he can help with the case. Falsone is hesitant but Mike brings up family and Falsone gives him the file to read.
Mike goes to see grandmother, but she doesnt want to break a promise she made to her husband Salvatore, sixty years ago. Mike presses and she tells him to ask Gee about Carlo Roletta.
Sheppard breaks it off with Lewis because hes still in a messy relationship with his estranged wife and that she and Lewis, as partners, should remain professional.
Mike comes into the squad looking for Gee (who has finally gone home to sleep) but finds Falsone instead. Falsone has found Roletta on the computer convicted of racketeering, sentenced to forty years, served twenty-five and was released this past Tuesday. Mike tells Bayliss and Stivers to interrogate Gee.
At the cemetery, after the funeral, they confront Gee. Roletta came from Chicago to Baltimore to take over the docks. Angelo and Leo were longshoremen. When Roletta tried to move in, Mario blew the whistle. Gee demands they bring Roletta in. Before Bayliss and Falsone walk away, Gee catches them and asks where they got the info on Roletta. Falsone doesnt tell him, but Gee asks that if they get similar info, to talk to him about it first. Theyve wandered to the part of the cemetery where Gees wife is buried. Gee pays his respects. Mike comes by with some flowers.
Bayliss and Falsone go to get Roletta. His daughter and son are there, but Roletta is laid out in bed, breathing tube and IV.
The doctor confirms Roletta had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and is brain-dead.
Gee insists theres something fishy and demands they go search the house. Falsone says they need probable cause and Gee says to tell the judge that at sentencing, Roletta says he was going to get them back. They find nothing.
Mike calls Falsone. Before they did the search, Rolettas son, Charlie, took a gym bag and left the house. Mike followed Charlie until he threw the bag away down a sewer grate.
Gee yells at Falsone for letting Mike see the file. They retrieve the bag and arrest Charlie. The bag contained a knife and a hacksaw but the fingerprints dont belong to Charlie but to his sister Mary Lynn. They question both but get nowhere.
The lab says the blood traces on the knife and hacksaw belong to Faltisco and Grimaldi, so they wont be able to close the case on Mario. Also, since Mike, a family member, was the one who led them to the weapons, the gym bag may be tainted, so they cant depend on the bag as evidence. Danvers tells Gee that they may never be able to close Marios case. When they leave, Gee sobs quietly in his office. On the board, Faltisco and Grimaldi are replaced in black ink. Mario Giardella stays red.
At the Party, Ghartys wife Flora doesnt want to dance and looks bored. Gharty goes to ask Billie Lou to dance, but finds out she is there as Munchs date. At the bachelors table, Lewis and Falsone put up with Bayliss as he continues to wax philosophical about returning to the squad. When he gets up to dance with Stivers, Lewis and Falsone see Ballard and Sheppard (wearing an extremely low-cut LBD) come in. Falsone thinks they are dressed that way to torture him and Lewis and that they should ignore the women. Lewis thinks they should frisk them.
Gee finds Mike at Marios house, cleaning up. Gee tells Mike Mario willed the house, free and clear, to Mike. Gee tells Mike he did good investigative work on this case but Mike says its just because he knows the rules of la familia. Gee apologizes knowing that Mike and his sister resented the time Gee spent away doing important things. Gee offers to tell Mike about Mario, but Mike already knows that when Roletta showed up, the three men knew he was bad, but helped him anyway because that meant money and side benefits. Mario eventually wanted out and went to Gee. Gee hooked them up with the Feds. Gee thought it was a good thing to do, but now, twenty-five years later, Gee thinks hes the reason the others are dead. Mike confesses he hates Arizona and that hes thinking of taking some time off or a transfer.
Gee wanders the station and touches the red name on the board. Mike scrubs furiously at the blood stains in the bathroom.
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