Post by CC Fan on Apr 19, 2004 23:12:40 GMT -5
Part 1
Recap by TVFan
Opens in July 1973. Two patrol cops, Butch and Joe,
are discussing their wives. Joe's wife is pregnant.
They get a call about a domestic disturbance, and Joe
goes alone so his partner Butch can get home to his
family before it gets too late. The next shot is of
Joe lying dead by a bridge. There were three gun
shots heard. The case box is filed under Washington,
Joe - July 1973.
Present day, a woman brings a tape recorder from the
70s to Lilly. She says her name is Denise Funderbunk.
On the tape, we hear "runner, runner, runner!"
followed by three gun shots. The woman claims she
found the recorder in a dumpster at the Raymond
Jennings projects. Lilly and Vera take the recorder
and tape to an audio expert in the department. She
cleans up the audio, and Lilly hears a train and a PA
system. She makes out the PA system to say
"Shanning," and she realizes that it's the old
Shanning Station that closed in the early 80s.
Lilly and Vera head down to the case vault, but can't
find any matching cases. Jeffries tells them that the
case is kept on a shelf upstairs because it was one of
their own who was killed. They pull the box down, and
find that Officer Joe Washington was killed by three
bullets to the heart. He had only been on the force
for one year, and was raised in an orphanage in North
Carolina. He never responded to the domestic call he
was called out on. Joe's body was found by the
railroad tracks at Shanning Station a few hours later.
According to the file, blood matching Joe's was found
in an abandoned stolen car left on the turnpike two
days later. There was a fingerprint on the
windshield, but it turned up empty in 1973. Jeffries
decides to work with Lilly since he knew Washington
and his partner Butch.
Lilly and Jeffries talk to Butch. He tells them that
Joe's wife Diane was hysterical when she came to the
scene. She lost the baby a few weeks later. He tells
them that he left Joe shortly before midnight. Based
on his account and the old train schedules, they place
time of death around 1am (1 hour after Butch left),
but the train station is only five minutes away.
Lilly believes that Joe responded to a drug call at
Raymond Jennings that night instead of the domestic.
Lilly and Jeffries speak with a former resident of
Raymond Jennings. She tells them that she called 911
that night because of some drug activity. She says
Joe showed up and got into a fight with the drug
dealer. The dealer called the cop "Joe," meaning he
knew him well. She also says that Joe seemed familiar
with the area because he parked up the street where
the drug dealer wouldn't see his car approaching. The
drug users called the dealer "Runner." Lilly realizes
that Joe and Runner knew each other well.
Lilly and Co. can't find anything on Runner. They
suspect that Joe might have been involved in drug
activity. According to his bank records, there was
unaccounted for cash going out every few weeks. Lilly
goes to talk to Joe's widow Diane. They had only been
married 10 months when Joe died. She doesn't know
anything about the unaccounted for cash. The day Joe
died, they were trying to decide on baby names for
their daughter - nothing unusual.
Recap by TVFan
Opens in July 1973. Two patrol cops, Butch and Joe,
are discussing their wives. Joe's wife is pregnant.
They get a call about a domestic disturbance, and Joe
goes alone so his partner Butch can get home to his
family before it gets too late. The next shot is of
Joe lying dead by a bridge. There were three gun
shots heard. The case box is filed under Washington,
Joe - July 1973.
Present day, a woman brings a tape recorder from the
70s to Lilly. She says her name is Denise Funderbunk.
On the tape, we hear "runner, runner, runner!"
followed by three gun shots. The woman claims she
found the recorder in a dumpster at the Raymond
Jennings projects. Lilly and Vera take the recorder
and tape to an audio expert in the department. She
cleans up the audio, and Lilly hears a train and a PA
system. She makes out the PA system to say
"Shanning," and she realizes that it's the old
Shanning Station that closed in the early 80s.
Lilly and Vera head down to the case vault, but can't
find any matching cases. Jeffries tells them that the
case is kept on a shelf upstairs because it was one of
their own who was killed. They pull the box down, and
find that Officer Joe Washington was killed by three
bullets to the heart. He had only been on the force
for one year, and was raised in an orphanage in North
Carolina. He never responded to the domestic call he
was called out on. Joe's body was found by the
railroad tracks at Shanning Station a few hours later.
According to the file, blood matching Joe's was found
in an abandoned stolen car left on the turnpike two
days later. There was a fingerprint on the
windshield, but it turned up empty in 1973. Jeffries
decides to work with Lilly since he knew Washington
and his partner Butch.
Lilly and Jeffries talk to Butch. He tells them that
Joe's wife Diane was hysterical when she came to the
scene. She lost the baby a few weeks later. He tells
them that he left Joe shortly before midnight. Based
on his account and the old train schedules, they place
time of death around 1am (1 hour after Butch left),
but the train station is only five minutes away.
Lilly believes that Joe responded to a drug call at
Raymond Jennings that night instead of the domestic.
Lilly and Jeffries speak with a former resident of
Raymond Jennings. She tells them that she called 911
that night because of some drug activity. She says
Joe showed up and got into a fight with the drug
dealer. The dealer called the cop "Joe," meaning he
knew him well. She also says that Joe seemed familiar
with the area because he parked up the street where
the drug dealer wouldn't see his car approaching. The
drug users called the dealer "Runner." Lilly realizes
that Joe and Runner knew each other well.
Lilly and Co. can't find anything on Runner. They
suspect that Joe might have been involved in drug
activity. According to his bank records, there was
unaccounted for cash going out every few weeks. Lilly
goes to talk to Joe's widow Diane. They had only been
married 10 months when Joe died. She doesn't know
anything about the unaccounted for cash. The day Joe
died, they were trying to decide on baby names for
their daughter - nothing unusual.
