Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) wakes up in the street with blood on his head and still hazy. He reaches for the gun in his leg holster but it's missing. Cooper (Jeananne Goossen) has his gun. The other rookies tell him what happened. Cooper had to fire after Danny was hit with a bottle and the DB had a gun. Mac (Gary Sinise) tells Danny about Cooper being by him and Danny didn't ID himself as a police officer as this would have made matters worse. The rest of his story is based on what he's been told by the others.
Hawkes (Hill Harper) and Adam (AJ Buckley) arrive at the scene to collect evidence and Lindsay tells IA Adler (Dean Norris) she's taking Danny to the ER and he doesn't have to make a statement yet.
Sid (Robert Joy) removed glass from the DB's hand, which matches Danny's headwound. The Vic, Pete (Michael Alperin) had been drinking elsewhere before getting to the bar. Sid also found stones in his stomach. Mac recalls at the academy they're taught to "shoot to stop." To fire more than once and yet Cooper only fired once. Sid thinks Pete may not have had a gun at all and so she killed an unarmed man. Adam analyzes Pete's shirt and finds a hair-like trace on his shirt which has him stumped. Adam asks Lindsay (Anna Belknap) if she's "danced with a green fairy." I.e absinthe was found on his shirt, which causes hallucinations. Lindsay can't work the case, but she tells him to try Edna.
Adam and Hawkes are all thinking about Danny. Hawkes finds the GSR on Pete's hand matched Cooper and there was more GSR on the upper part of his hand and shirt sleeve. Mac says the gun was different, they may not have the gun, but he left the bullet behind. Thought they would have automatically conducted a search for the bullet anyway. Jo (Sela Ward) and Hawkes search for the bullet on the street and Jo notices the sign and they use a laser to follow the direction the bullet ricocheted off the sign, into a window pane.
IA Adler tells Danny that Lindsay's more on the ball than the union rep. Danny says there was no fight at the bar and he showed Pete out. They left the bar and were attacked. He was assaulted with a bottle. Cooper drew cos the Vic had a gun. He's told them to leave their off-duty weapons at home, he had his cos he wasn't drinking but was running a bar tab. Cooper describes Danny as an excellent boss and Danny knows she has good instincts and will make a good cop. Yeah that's why she lied about what happened. Adler tells him Danny is capable but he's the boss now and he's over his head.
Jo mentions when they reconstructed the bullet bounced off the sign, so when did they do this, since Jo didn't spot the sign until they went out looking for the bullet? They didn't rush back to the lab and then return later did they? Hawkes now needs to find the gun. A man shoots a 'Live Human target' Tommy with a real bullet through his head instead of paintballs. Jo tells Flack that the shooter didn't understand the rules of the game. Flack: (Eddie Cahill) "Maybe he told his mother he was in showbusiness." Hawkes asks about Danny again. Lindsay wants to know about the case and he obliges. Lindsay finds another hair-like substance on the ground and is off this case too. That was a relief, ha.
Adam gets a match to the sample on Edna. Jo finds the bullets match so there was a second gun. Mac wonders why the shooter would keep the gun when it's already used in a shooting. Jo: "Guy's not playing with a full deck." Mac: "But he's got a loaded gun." Danny talks to Cooper and she's not meant to be talking to him. She's okay but Danny tells her she will feel it," take a life - messes you up." Speaking from personal experience. She's called way by the other two, so much for loyalty to the boss!
Mac tells Adler the gun was used in a homicide but it's still missing and asks if there's any question of it being a good shoot. Mac: "Who's whispering in your ear about him?" He'd be naive not to see politics are behind the investigation; as in 1.21 On the Job. That's what I was thinking about too and it's mentioned here twice. Mac adds Danny didn't fire the weapon in the shooting. Adam goes through the names the trace has in common and Jo mentions nymph flies. She went fishing with her father. Mac also mentions rooster feathers. Adam demonstrates reeling fishing tackle and Mac gets an idea. He test fires a gun and analyzes the GSR on the shirt sleeve and swabs his wrist for GSR too, cos the cuffs on the shirt move back when arms are extended to fire a gun. Thus cooper is lying.
Mac tells her about the GSR from the cuffs to the shoulder, but he'd have to move his arm and the wrist would be exposed so Pete was standing next to the shooter. Adler asks if it was a good shoot then why did she lie. She lies again and tells them Danny told her to lie. Adler shows Danny surveillance from the bar and Cooper is all over him. He posits the fight was over a girl. She's Danny's driver and he's married. He's not dating her and won't answer his questions. Danny's relationship isn't inappropriate. He didn't tell Cooper to lie.
Jo tells Hawkes the stones contained cinnamon, peppermint and absinthe. They're still looking for the bar. They were kind of slow in analyzing all the evidence they had. Adam tells them about a gunshot Vic at hospital. Ray (Joey McIntyre) lost up to 20% of his blood so he was shot before the morning. Flack has to inform him gunshot Vics are reported to the police, duh, thought everyone knew that. Mac tells him he can talk now or at Rikers. Flack: "Where I guarantee the nurses are not so cute." So that's what Flack did when he was in hospital in season 2! Ogle the nurses. Mac looks at Flack when he says that line. Pete called them about the fight and Travis (Jeff Leaf) too. Travis had an argument with his girlfriend. They ran after the shot was fired and Travis shot him to keep quiet. He worked with Pete. Jo thinks Travis is looking for someone specific, i.e his girlfriend, Crystal. Lindsay talks to Mac about Danny's hearing and his career is on the line so they need to help him.
Adam finds the rooster feathers were used at a boutique which makes dancer's clothes. Jo says it's burlesque. Known to her from season 7.6 Do Not Pass Go episode when she told Mac she used to work as a weekend accountant in a burlesque club. Flack and Mac find the bar and pause to take in the attraction, ha, well they did. Mac was a little useless in subduing Travis, who tries to shoot himself but runs out of bullets. Lindsay confronts Cooper about lying and for stabbing Danny in the back. If he was in their place he wouldn't have done the same thing. Mac comes to speak on behalf of Danny. Danny's a good boss and not make mistakes which he did last time. Mac called him in his office. Mac knows he's grown up since then and if he was his sergeant he'd follow him anywhere. Cooper retracted her statement. Danny was standing up for them and they threw "me to the wolves." He treated them like family but he wants to work with people he trusts.
2 weeks later. Danny spoke with Sinclair and is back in the lab as a detective, but Lindsay still has to salute him every morning. Danny belongs here. Lots of references to 1.21 On the Job and again Mac wants to know who's been in Adler's ear about Danny. They did that then too, but that didn't really go anywhere and again Mac mentions it here. It's just so they have something to say rather than something actually coming of it. Pity Flack and Danny didn't have any screen time this episode. No, it was Lindsay instead, boring in some ways as she's his wife. Of course she'll bat for him. Didn't much like the way she came over all strong when Adler was questioning him about going to the hospital first and having 24 hours to make a statement. They did that in 1.21 too. Yet Danny spoke to IA anyway even after he was warned by Mac. Lindsay wasn't around then but this episode made it look like she was or at least knew what happened back then, so she doesn't want Danny to do the same again.
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