The Assassin's Code Page #4

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I'm fine.

What about that bigwig

you had a line in with?

What'd you say his name was?

Why are you asking

so many questions?

I need to get paid.

I did a job,

I want to get paid.

I've got bills.

I didn't say his name.

Do me a favor, why don't

you lift your shirt?

What the f***?

I f***in' knew it,

motherf***er!

- Freeze!

- Jimmy, police!

- Sh*t!

- Jimmy, everybody relax.

- Hold it, Jimmy.

- Hey! Hey hey hey hey!

Relax, relax...

Gun! He's got a gun!

- Gun!

- [dramatic music]

Jimmy! Drop...

Drop the gun!

- [gun firing]

- [cries out]

- Freeze, motherf***er!

- [groaning]

Cuffs, give me the cuffs.

Shots fired,

one subject down...

Don't you f***in' move.

Requesting an ambulance

onsite.

What do we got?

F***.

[Jia]

You're quiet tonight.

Yeah, I just got a lot

on my mind.

What, work?

Oh, I got that big

holdup case.

Michael,

why didn't you say so?

I mean, I thought they

gave it to somebody else.

What happened?

Cap asked if I wanted

the case. I said yeah.

Well, aren't you excited?

No, it's just a lot of work.

Ah.

He teamed you up

with the other guy?

Kitchen?

Yeah, I'm on the same case.

[Jia] What time are

you going in tomorrow?

Eight o'clock,

organizing task force.

- [phone buzzes]

- Hey, your phones in here,

you just got a text.

What does it say?

"Internal Affairs meeting

in a.m.

about involvement

in tonight's shooting."

- I...

- You were in a shooting?

- Why didn't you tell me?

- I didn't want you to worry.

No.

You didn't want me to know.

I'm your partner, Michael...

not your backdrop.

There are two of us here.

You married a cop.

Right, I knew what I was

signing up for,

I knew the dangers.

I just thought that we

were a team, you know,

that you wouldn't hide things

from me.

It's my job.

This is our life.

It affects me too.

Here.

[door closes]

[shower running]

So the perp pulls a piece

just like this

on your dad, point blank,

twitchy as sh*t.

You're dad was as cool

as a Buddha.

- Do you know what he did?

- Hmm.

He asks the perp had he ever

killed a guy.

The perp says no,

and your dad said,

"It changes you, man.

Like, I take a bullet,

I'm done in a second.

My face will haunt you

in your nightmares.

Trust me. You don't want it."

Do you know what happened?

The perp freezes,

your dad whip-grabs the pistol,

kung-fu's him

to the ground,

cuffs him

while I'm pissing my pants.

[both laugh]

Your dad was one

stone-cold cop.

Yeah, he was one

stone-cold father, too.

Oh, Mikey.

He did the best he could.

Whatever happened

that night he...

You read the report.

That was paper.

I wanna hear you tell it.

You were there.

Drugs went missing

from evidence.

I got word that

Stevie was setting up a deal

with the Italians.

So I go down there, maybe talk

some sense into your dad,

the Wop pulls a piece.

Everything went to sh*t.

He shot him before I

could take him out.

It was over in a second.

I'd like to feel that maybe your

dad was setting him up somehow.

Yeah, well, that's not how

Internal Affairs saw it.

I fought them to pay

out his benefits, but...

Your mom didn't deserve

to lose 'em.

I have always felt responsible.

No, don't,

he did it to himself.

Mikey, you dad was a good man,

not a perfect one.

Anybody could have been tempted.

Anybody.

I mean, he had a wife and a kid

to take care of

on a cop's salary.

He always had

this wall of approval

that I can never quite

climb my ass over.

You know, I used to hate dinner

cause he'd grill me...

"Was that up to code, Mikey?"

And I spent my entire childhood

trying to get my ass up to code.

It was like running

through the desert,

chasing a...

- What are those things called?

- Mirage.

Mirage, yeah.

Turns out it was all

a bunch of bullshit.

Mikey...

I can say this

because I knew your dad.

Your father had a vision...

the man that

he wanted you to be,

and that wasn't a lie.

[sirens]

[Michael] Jimmy.

- Have a seat. How'd you sleep?

- F*** you.

Well, let's see how

our date goes first.

How'd you get involved

in a police holdup?

Yeah, I wasn't.

Well, Keller Abram

said otherwise.

Keller Abram is dead.

Well, you say that like

that's all I got on you,

but your parking lot adventure

the other night is enough

to cost ya ten years.

Listen, your only

bargaining chip

is to tell me about the holdup.

This guy that brought you in,

Ray Blaine...

Yeah?

What's his plan?

Where is he now?

Haven't seen him

in a few days.

So either he took off

with your cut

or something happened to him.

I mean, either way...

He said he got a better offer

on the stuff,

- Paris had hooked him up.

- Paris?

David Paris.

- Who's your buyer?

- He didn't say,

he just said he was going

downtown to a fish store.

Dinner fish or hobby fish?

Ya got me,

all I heard was fish.

Hmm. Well, I mean,

it sounds like

an awfully big score

for little Ray to mastermind.

Well, he didn't.

He put together the crew,

his boss is behind it.

Kenny Cohen,

how'd you know him?

I don't really know him.

Keller said you were bragging about

having some in with some bigwig.

Now listen, Jimmy, I can make

this whole thing dependent

on you telling me what

you're not telling me.

- Bullshit.

- If you're withholding information

that can tie together my case,

you bet your ass I can.

Sometimes I pass info on

to this guy,

he pays me,

what he does with it

is none of my business,

but sometimes...

sometimes after, the somebody

that's tied to it...

Look, any blowback lands

on me, it's over, you know?

No, I don't.

It's like a rumor around town,

you mess up, you disappear.

Jimmy, you're in police

custody, we can protect you.

No, you can't.

Alright, you know what,

the only other option

is to put out the word

you spilled the beans

and we release ya

onto the street

and then we see if your bigwig

and his bogeymen

decide that you messed up.

- I got him.

- [Captain] Him who?

Leonetti.

- Angelo Leonetti?

- That's the one.

Wait, is this based on

the testimony of that kid?

Leonetti pays him for

information, people go missing.

How do we play this?

Wait, Michael,

there's no "play this.

You're talking about one

of our city's patrons.

Marco's testimony is enough

to launch an investigation.

You're aware that

you're talking about

the guy who bankrolls

the police fund every year,

he plays poker with the mayor,

Michael.

So I can't request

a warrant...

There are people

that you go after

on the word of some scumbag

punk, and there's...

Michael, listen to me...

there's ones that you don't.

Cap, we can't let this guy

walk if he's responsible

for half the crimes

in the city

just because of all the commas

and zeroes

he has in his tax return.

Michael, you need to find

something

to back up the kid's testimony.

Otherwise, it's mitts off.

Here ya go, missy.

Don't forget to water him.

[chuckles]

- Thanks.

- Have a nice day.

Everybody goes for

the lionfish.

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