2.18: RAVAGED - Available!

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February 2, 1995

Fast-food restaurant, where we hear Sophie B. Hawkins’ ubiquitous “As I Lay Me Down.” A mom and her two kids pay for their meals and sit down at table. The daughter asks what Mommy’s going to eat, and Mom replies that she ate already, then starts to distributing the burgers. The daughter asks if they’re going ice-skating after, Mom says no. The little boy complains that his fries are too hot, and Mom tells him to let them cool. The daughter, Hayley, persists in asking about ice-skating, Mom is increasingly frazzled and insistent, then tries to open a ketchup packet. Noticing that Mom is near tears, Hayley asks her what’s wrong, and Mom says they make the ketchup packets so hard to open. Hayley asks again about ice skating, and Mom asks if she wants to be like “those awful girls Nancy and Tonya.” Hayley says no, “I wanna be like you.” Mom considers her for a moment, then resumes her battle with the ketchup, finally succeeding in opening It, and squeezes it out on the son’s plate. He protests loudly, and Hayley explains that Ryan doesn’t like ketchup, only mayonnaise. Mom gets up, and as she does, a drink gets spilled, and Hayley brats that Ryan took his lid off. Mom orders her to share her drink, and she whines, but Mom doesn’t want to hear it. Hayley grudgingly agrees, then reminds Mom that Daddy says she’s a good ice-skater, so why doesn’t she ever want to skate with them? Mom looks stricken, glances around, and finally tells them to finish their food, and she’ll be back in a few minutes. The kids watch as she leaves.

Mom lies dead in the snow next to a dumpster. From the typewriter, we see that her name was Sloane Easton, and West originally ruled it an accidental death due to exposure.

PPD kitchen. Vera comes in and greets Scotty, then opens the fridge and looks around for a minute. Emerging from the fridge, he glares at Scotty and accuses him of taking his Tasty Cakes. Scotty denies it, but Vera keeps giving him the stink-eye. Scotty protests that he never does, but Vera says he’s seen him do it. They stare at each other for a minute, then Scotty tosses him a plate of strudel and tells him to eat that. I am rolling on the floor laughing at this point, but Vera isn’t. He’s too busy staring at the attractive blonde that just walked in. He then hurries off, clearly trying to hide. Lilly walks in, and the blonde asks her where Nick Vera is. Lilly looks around for him, saying he should be here, and the blonde says she knew him in high school. Lilly thinks Vera might be in court, and says they could leave him a note, but the blonde says maybe she can talk to Lilly. Lil asks if it’s about a murder, and the blonde says it’s about her sister, who died ten years ago. Lilly lets her in, asking her name. The blonde says her sister was Sloane Easton, found in the parking lot of the bar where she worked, and the cops said she passed out and died of exposure. Lilly asks, somewhat bitterly, if Sloane was drunk at the time, and the blonde says Sloane was always drunk, and they figured she slipped and fell, but she met a guy last night who knew Sloane from the bar. The blonde explains that Evan was a student who was at the bar the night Sloane died. He saw her drinking with some college guys, and things may have gotten out of hand. While they’re talking, Vera peers open-mouthed around the corner and Scotty joins him, looking at Vera in confusion. Lilly asks if Evan knew the guys, and the blonde says they were his frat brothers, then says he’s staying at the Delaware and digs around in her purse for his number. The camera zooms in on the blonde’s gold wedding ring, and Scotty asks Vera who the girl is. Vera explains, in a dazed-and-confused sort of way, that the girl is Megan Easton, his former classmate at Immaculata High. He squints and asks Scotty if Megan’s wearing a wedding ring, and Scotty says he doesn’t have his binoculars. Heh. He then asks Vera what he did to her that he’s gotta hide from her like a kid, and Vera drops a bombshell. He was in love with her. Oh, my.

Credits.

Evidence warehouse. Lilly, Stillman, and Vera are digging through the evidence boxes, and Lilly fills us in. 32-year-old Sloane Easton was found dead in the parking lot of Sansom’s Tavern, and Stillman says the autopsy report lists an injury to her head, and a blood alcohol content of .24. “That’s pretty toasted,” Vera comments, and I am inclined to agree. Lilly says the original theory was that she slipped and fell, and Stillman says that cold was the ultimate doer, but Lil theorizes that maybe the frat guys gave the assist. Vera reminisces about Sloane, saying she was a regular All-American in high school, Homecoming Queen and everything, and Lilly says compassionately that she can tell Sloane was pretty. Stillman says they found blood on her coat, but never ran it. Lilly suggests they run it now, and Vera expostulates on Sloane’s family: separated from her husband, Seth, who was in New Jersey that night, and mother to two kids. Lilly says she’ll start with Evan and see if he knows how Sloane got knocked in the head. Stillman asks, by way of confirmation, if Vera knows the sister, and Vera says tersely that he does, but they haven’t been in touch. Lilly tells Vera that Megan asked for him, but Vera says he doesn’t want to see her. At their quizzical glances, he gestures to his gut and says softly that he’s kinda gone to the dogs. Awww. Stillman reminds Vera that he has a full head of hair, but Vera snatches Evan’s phone number out of Lilly’s hand and says he’ll follow that up.

The Delaware. Evan says he’s happy to help, but he’s in a rush to get back to Washington, and Vera says they’ll be quick, then asks about Sloane. Evan says he doesn’t know anything, and Vera wants to know why he was talking about it last night. Evan protests that he doesn’t really know what happened, and Jeffries suggests Evan tell them what he does know. Evan says all he remembers is that Sloane was pretty, drunk, and hanging out with Garrett King, the fraternity president, who was known to be rough with women. Jeffries asks if Garrett got rough with Sloane, and Evan says he spent four years with those guys and knows what the lead-up looked like.

Sansom’s, where Hootie and the Blowfish play “I Only Wanna Be With You.” Sloane sits at the bar, drinking, and a frat rat approaches her and compliments her on her very mid-90s hat, then asks if she’s a suffragette. She sarcastically says she’s going to go vote right after this, and Frat Rat extends his hand. She doesn’t shake it and turns away, only to be approached by another frat rat. She says she’s just here to drink, he offers to buy her one. Suddenly, a guy more Sloane’s age sits down next to her and asks how she’s doing. He asks how many she’s had, she tells him she doesn’t want to see him. He offers her a ride, and she now sees the Frat Rats as her escape. She asks one of them if he’s getting that drink, and she then tells the other guy, Rick, to make her night and leave. The frat rats invite her to sit with them, and she agrees, but not before Rick can hand her a card. She says she has his number, and he replies he’s not scared of a three AM phone call. The Frat Rats escort her back to their table, asking her if she likes the beach.

Evan says he knew where this was headed, and left, claiming he had to study. Jeffries asks Evan if he’d ever seen Rick before; he hadn’t. Vera asks if it was a “Town and Gown” thing; rich college boys slumming with the locals, and Evan says it was a frat thing called Beach Night. He explains that they had a room called “The Beach,” where a guy could bring a girl and do it with her while everyone else watched, unbeknownst to her, of course. Vera sarcastically says this sounds like a riot, Evan says they were jerks. At least he’s willing to admit it. Evan then says it looked like Garrett had chosen Sloane for Beach Night.

Garrett’s office. He cockily says they can’t hold a guy responsible for something that happened ten years ago; Lilly says, with a smile, that yes, actually, they can, and do, all the time. I love Lil. Garrett protests that it was a fraternity thing, but Scotty already knows about beach night. Garrett asks how he knew about that. “Oh, we pick stuff up,” Scotty says casually. Heh. Garrett says they thought Sloane was up for a walk on the wild side, and Lilly theorizes that they picked her up, plied her with drinks, and took her back to the house. Garrett doesn’t deny that this was the plan, but the detectives point out that Sloane never made it. They theorize that she resisted, and he got rough with her and left her in the parking lot. Lilly reminds Garrett of his reputation for being rough with women. Garrett denies it, saying they never closed the deal.

Sansom’s. Hootie and the Blowfish have switched songs, and now serenade us with “Time.” Sloane and the frat rats are playing a drinking game where they have to name an Olympic city whose name starts with L, and Sloane mentions Lake Placid. Most of the frat rats have never heard of the Lake Placid Olympics, but Evan insists that Sloane’s right, and she adds that she almost went there as a skater. They don’t believe her and start laughing, and she gets up to leave. Garrett invites her back to the house, she refuses. He plays the trump card: they have a keg. Strangely enough, this does not impress their thirty-two year-old target. He grabs Sloane and drags her back to the back, they fight, and the frat rats are about to assault her when an undercover police officer bursts in and orders them back to campus.

Garrett says that’s all that happened, and then they left. Lilly asks if Garrett knew Sloane ended up dead that night; he doesn’t seem to know or care. Lilly guesses that it’s because she was just a lush from West Philly, and Garrett doesn’t deny this. Scotty asks Garrett how Beach Night went for him, and says he’s not allowed to say, then slimily calls Scotty “amigo.” Scotty glares at him for a minute, and then they leave.

Squad room. Vera says lab results point to two types of blood on Sloane’s coat: one hers, one unidentified. Scotty doesn’t seem to think Garrett will be forthcoming with a blood sample, and says he’ll call the ME and get a rush job going. Stillman asks what we know about the guy who offered to drive Sloane home, and Vera says all they know is that his name is Rick. Scotty thinks Megan might know, and Stillman suggests that Vera talk to her. “Can’t someone else do it?” Vera pouts. “Nope,” Stillman replies. Hee.

They meet up with Jeffries, who has Julie Owen, the undercover cop from that night. She worked West in 1995 and knew Sloane: in an effort to expunge a 1994 DUI from her record, she was helping bust the owner of Sansom’s, who was selling drugs, and Sloane had a front-row seat to the action: she was Owen’s CI.

Exterior, PPD. Megan’s walking in, and Vera’s leaving, glancing around adorably, hoping to not be seen, but Megan spots him. They meet, and banter about how long it’s been. Megan points out that Vera never comes to the reunions; he says he’s pretty busy. She tells him he looks good, and he answers, reflexively, that he’s on a diet. Heh. He then says he’s sorry about Sloane, and motions for her to sit down. He asks about Sloane’s DUI, and Megan knew about it. Sloane ran into a newsstand while the kids were in the car, Megan says, and this was the last straw for her husband. Vera says Sloane started working for the cops; Megan didn’t know that, but she says there was a lot she didn’t know, toward the end. Vera asks about a boyfriend, Megan doesn’t think there was one, and Vera asks about Rick. Megan says Rick was Sloane’s sponsor, and she even knows where he can be found. She and Vera gaze cutely at each other for a moment, and he grins and says she looks exactly the same. She asks if she’d pass for a high school girl, and Vera says that to him, she would. Awwww.

Behind Sansom’s. Rick is telling the detectives that he gave Sloane his card every week, and every week she’d toss it. Jeffries points out where her body was found, and Scotty comments that it’s a crummy place to come to your end. Rick says a bar is the last place Sloane should have been working, and Scotty and Jeffries head in to talk to the owner. Lilly asks if Sloane seemed upset or scared that night, and Rick says she seemed like the stubborn drunk she was; he says he thought he could save her. Lilly says people have to save themselves, and Rick says it sounds like she’s been in the program. Lilly brushes it off, saying that they run into it all the time as cops, then asks what he knows about the bar owner, Powell. Rick says he knows he hired an alcoholic to serve drinks, which he deems shady. Lilly asks if Sloane ever made a real effort to kick the booze, and Rick says no, that she only came to one meeting. Lilly suggests that Rick was persistent with her, and Rick smarms at her that helping other people keeps him sober. Lilly smiles cutely at him, then starts to leave. Rick follows her, noticing that she didn’t answer his question about her experience with the program, and then hands her a card, giving her his I’m not scared of a three AM phone call catchphrase.

Inside Sansom’s. The corpulent, greasy-looking Powell is asking Scotty and Jeffries if something happened in the neighborhood. No, they tell him, something happened inside the bar, ten years back, then ask him if he remembers Slone Easton. He does, calling her a sorry case. He confirms that she worked for him, but drank more than she poured. Scotty asks if she did any of the drugs Powell was dealing. Powell says that’s ancient history, and Jeffries informs him that Sloane was working for the cops. Scotty adds that this gives him motive to hurt her, and Jeffries reminds him she was found dead in his parking lot. “Lousy drunk,” Powell comments. He says if he had known she was a CI, he would have hurt her. Scotty asks if they got into a lot of disputes. Powell says she was a pain in the ass, but he never touched her; says that that night, her ex had it out for her, but he can’t blame her after what she did.

Sansom’s. David Thiele’s “Fall For Love” plays as Sloane’s bussing tables and finishing the leftover drinks. Powell tells her not to do that, and tells her to just ask if she needs another. His dog, which looks to be a Rottweiler, although I’m not great with dogs, growls, and Sloane tells Powell that the dog is hungry. He replies that he needs him that way, then leads the dog away. Suddenly, Seth comes in swearing at Sloane, asking her if she has any idea where the kids are. She says she thought he had them, and he reminds her that she did, and left them at Rodeo Rob’s. She says she only left them for fifteen minutes; Seth corrects her, saying it was five hours. Sloane says she just needed one drink. Seth throws his hands up in despair as Sloane asks where the kids are. He bitterly tells her not to pretend she cares, but she persists, asking if they’re outside. He tells her to forget it, she protests that they’re her kids. He says she’s never seeing them again, she argues that he can’t do that. He pushes her away and orders her to stay away from them.

Jeffries is intrigued by this, saying he thought Seth was in New Jersey that night. Powell says Seth was right there, and Scotty notes that Seth was angry. “Wouldn’t you be?” Powell asks, saying Sloane was a disaster. Jeffries asks if Powell will give a blood sample. He asks what for, and Jeffries says it’s so they can eliminate him from the suspect pool. Powell refuses, and Scotty points out that his saying no looks pretty suspicious. “So suspect me,” Powell says.

Interview room. Lilly and Vera are chatting with Seth, pointing out that his alibi has him in New Jersey. He sticks to the story, and Vera tells him they have a witness who says otherwise. Lilly adds that their witness says he was at Sansom’s, giving Sloane hell for leaving the kids. Seth asks who said that, Lilly says that’s not important. Seth sighs and admits that they had a bad fight at Sansom’s, and he even put his hands on her, and she was dead the next day. He knows how that looks, he says. He says he went to Jersey later with his girlfriend, Rose, but asks why it matters; that Sloane died of her own drunkenness. Vera tells him they think otherwise, and Lilly adds that it looks like someone smacked her in the head. Vera reminds Seth that Sloane followed him out to the parking lot, and suggests that maybe they tangled there. Seth denies it. Lilly reminds Seth that he was pretty angry, and he says he was furious, but out in the parking lot, everything changed.

Sansom’s parking lot. We hear Hootie and the Blowfish once more, this time with “Let Her Cry.” These guys are all over this episode, just like they were all over the mid-90s, come to think of it. Anyway, Rose and the kids are in the car, and a dog is barking inside. Sloane follows Seth outside, hysterically asking to see the kids. Seth tells her to stay away, but she insists that she wants to apologize. Seth asks if she wants the kids to see her like this, and Rose shouts from the car that the kids are cold. He needs one minute. Hayley calls for Sloane, and Sloane calls out to her that she’s sorry. Seth tells Rose to close the window, and that he’s coming. He glares at Sloane, and she protests that she loves them, and that she cried when they were born. Seth says he cried, too, because now he had even more of her. Awww. They stand there for a minute, and then Seth asks how this happened to them. Sloane says it’s her fault, and he wants to know why he can’t help her; if he should have been harder on her, or easier. Sloane calls him “baby” and says it wouldn’t have been different; that that’s what they learned the second time, and the third time. “Why not?” Seth demands. Sloane says it’s because she can’t beat it. Seth realizes she hasn’t called him “baby” in years, and she caresses his face and tells him to go with Rose, and make a life with her. Reluctantly, he steps back and heads for the car. Man, what a great scene. You can tell that even though they’ve been through all this crap, they’re still madly in love. It’s so sad.

Seth says Sloane wasn’t much at the end, but there were moments when they could still connect, and in her good years…”I know,” Vera interrupts, then explains that he knew Sloane before Seth did from Immaculata High. “Wasn’t she something?” Seth asks. Vera responds that she was everybody’s All-American, and Seth wonders how booze could kill all that. Lilly looks down at the table sadly, and I can’t help but think that her mother has somehow sprung to mind.

Exterior, PPD. Scotty strolls down a walkway and runs into Frannie, who calls him “Vaylens” and says she’s got lab results for Stillman. Scotty says he’s reliable, and she can give them to him. She digs around in her bag, pulls out the results, then says she’s been meaning to tell him she’s sorry about his girlfriend. He thanks her, and she says sympathetically that it’s a tough illness, and it can get to be too much, but Scotty says they don’t know exactly what happened. Frannie’s confused, saying she thought it was suicide, but Scotty says they don’t know that. Frannie says she shouldn’t speak out of school, but Scotty thanks her anyway. Oh, Scotty. That denial of yours is still heartbreaking. Please….go to grief counseling. Stat. Anyway, Frannie opens the lab report and says she got a weird result that’s out of her jurisdiction. The predominant stains are Sloane’s blood, but the other spots are canine. The plot thickens! Scotty glances at her, confused.

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Squad room. Stillman asks Scotty how Sloane gets dog blood on her coat, and Scotty says that Powell had a Rottweiler (hey, I was right!!) and Vera adds that Seth’s girlfriend had a Doberman. Jeffries concludes that they have two dogs to follow up. Scotty adds that Powell refused a DNA sample, and he’s learned that the liquor board has five open investigations on him. Stillman asks about Rose, and Vera says she was in the car when Seth and Sloane went down memory lane. Jeffries and Stillman theorize that if she heard something, it could give her motive. Scotty says that Lil is with Rose, chatting woman-to-woman. Stillman then asks Vera how it went with Megan. “Fine,” Vera says tersely, then, after a long, awkward pause, adds that they’re going out to dinner at an old high school hangout. “Bow-chicka wow wow,” Jeffries starts, and Vera orders him to shut up. Jeffries, Scotty, Stillman, and I all crack up, and Vera shakes his head at all of us, clearly calling us idiots in his head.

Interview room. Lilly’s having her woman-to-woman chat with Rose. Rose says she heard Sloane’s death was an accident, and Lil says that’s one theory. Rose says she doesn’t know how she can help, and Lilly reminds her that she and her vicious dog were both there that night. Rose protests that her dog isn’t vicious, and Lilly says Rose saw them that night, how they were talking, and how Sloane touched Seth. Rose says they had history. Lilly’s getting a little annoyed now, and she says that Sloane had dog blood on her coat, that Rose was angry and had a dog. Rose protests that she wasn’t angry, but Lilly argues that she was with a guy who wanted to be with someone else. “That’s something you sense,” she says, and I realize that she’s probably speaking from personal experience. Poor Lil. Rose says bitterly that you’d think after Sloane, Seth would run to someone steady and responsible like her, but Sloane had his heart. “Hurts,” Lilly says softly, then asks if Rose knows how the dog blood got there. Rose does, but says it wasn’t from her dog.

Sansom’s parking lot, where we hear The Gin Blossoms’ “Found Out About You.” Rose looks like she’s heading in, but stops when she sees Sloane, kneeling in the snow, cleaning up some vicious-looking wounds on Powell’s Rottweiler. She’s crying into his fur, saying that they’ll be okay, that they just need a little help. Powell storms out then, ordering Sloane to get out of the way, and rants about one good crack and it’s all over, how the dog just cost him four hundred dollars. Sloane says she’ll take the dog, and she’ll take care of him, and Powell sarcastically agrees that she’ll take great care of him. Maybe she’ll leave him at Rodeo Rob’s, he says. He orders her again to move, and she refuses; threatening to report him to the cops for the dogfights and the bets. He tells her to stop running her stupid mouth, but she’s adamant. He has a bottle, and it looks like he’s about to hit the dog, but then relents and tells Sloane she can have him. She says she’ll make him better, but he doesn’t care, he just wants her gone. She protests that she works there, but he says not anymore, then orders her to leave or she’ll get cracked. He tosses the bottle away and goes inside, and Sloane comforts the dog, telling him that it’s going to be okay.

Rose said Sloane looked crazy with that blood all over her, and she just left. Lilly confirms that Rose never talked to Sloane, and Rose wonders what she’d say to her: “Make him stop loving you?” She says it wasn’t possible.

Sansom’s. Powell says the dog wasn’t worth the Alpo he fed him, and Scotty disagrees, saying Sloane thought so. Powell scoffs, saying Sloane and the dog were both good for nothing. He offers Scotty a shot, and to my pleasant surprise, he doesn’t take him up on the offer. Scotty reminds Powell that he was slinging a bottle around that night, and Sloane wound up with trauma to her head. Powell protests that all he did was fire Sloane, and Scotty isn’t quite sure. Powell finally admits that Sloane came back to beg for her job back. Scotty asks if she persuaded him, and he answers, “kind of.” Scotty’s getting cranky again, and asks Powell what “kind of” is. Powell says he’s not proud of it, but it happened.

Sansom’s. Sloane and the dog come back in, and Powell reminds her that he told her to beat it. Sloane says softly that Ravage is cold, and Powell says he’s her problem now. Sloane comes in and asks for a bourbon, he refuses. She says she’ll work a week for free, he reminds her that she doesn’t work there anymore. She starts crying and says she needs this job. He unsympathetically tells her that there are a hundred watering holes in West Philly, and she should pick one. She says she has to work there, and Powell says it’s a bad life, it’s for the birds. She says she’ll work for free, scrub the floors, but he still refuses. At the end of her rope, Sloane turns on the charm, and says she’ll do anything, and then tugs at the waistband of his pants.

Powell downs a shot as Scotty tries to wrap his mind around the fact that Sloane got on her knees for him. Powell says it wasn’t his finest moment, and Scotty surmises that Sloane got her job back. Powell says that in the middle of it, “in walks Richie Rich.” Scotty wonders who that is, and Powell scoffs that it was a college boy. Scotty realizes he might be talking about Garrett, and Powell confirms it, saying he thinks Garrett was watching the whole time. Scotty asks why Garrett was even there, and Powell says he sold Garrett drugs, then left. Scotty asks where Sloane was, and he says she was in the back room, locking up. Scotty concludes that when Powell left, Sloane and Garrett were alone together. He nods in agreement.

Vera’s car. He and Megan are lamenting the fact that Anna’s Kitchen is closed, and Megan guesses that’s not where it’s happening anymore. They giggle adorably at each other, and then Vera toasts her with a bottle of pop. He tells her the years have been good to her, then realizes shyly that he already told her that. She says they’ve been okay, and he asks about her husband. “Nice; works hard,” is Megan’s response. That’s never a good sign. She looks wistful for a minute, and then says they ran out of conversation. Vera sighs and says he and Julie haven’t been doing so hot, either. Megan asks why, and Vera says they wanted a baby for a long time, but no go. Megan asks if they talked to doctors, and Vera says they tried all the stuff. Vera says that somewhere along the line, it killed off the love. Megan says she thinks about him sometimes, in the summer, and he replies that he thinks about her, too. She wonders what things would be like now, and Vera chuckles and tells her they’d have a nineteen-year-old. Megan wonders if they would have made it, and Vera tells her that it should have been the two of them. She smiles at him. Wow. What an amazing scene. Who knew Vera could be romantic?

Interview room. Scotty and Lilly have Garrett in there, and Lilly casually says that Garrett likes to watch. “Got your beach night after all…amigo,” Scotty says. Nice one! Garrett asks what they’re talking about, and Lilly says they’re talking about him, peeping while the bartender got serviced. Lilly comments this is a little homoerotic, if you ask her; Garrett snaps that he didn’t ask her. Scotty jumps in, saying he knows Garrett went back there, and Lilly adds that he found Sloane all by herself, and a few hours later, she was dead. Garrett says he went to buy pot, and that’s it. Scotty doesn’t think so, and offers his theory: Garrett got shut down by Sloane, went back to campus to shake it off, but after the parties were over, realized he didn’t hook up, and where’s he gonna get some? Lilly reminds him of the trash from the bar, and Scotty finishes. “Figure, let me go buy some weed, bang the skank, and call it a night.” Heh. Garrett says he didn’t kill her, but Scotty says he did something. Lilly points out medical records from the student health center, noting that Garrett went in the next day for treatment for an ugly gash on her arm. He says that’s not against the law, but Lilly asks what happened, thinking Sloane fought back. She asks if Sloane bit or scratched him, and when Garrett’s silent, Scotty reminds him that he was the last to see, a cop saw him handling Sloane earlier, and that everything’s pointing at him. Garrett finally admits that he went to the restroom, and when he came out, he saw Sloane yakking on the phone.

Sansom’s. Sloane’s on the phone, tearfully telling someone that she did a bad thing, the worst she ever did, and that she can’t have this anymore. Ravage growls at Garrett as she hangs up, and Sloane asks him what he wants. He orders some of what Powell had, and she tells him they’re closed. He asks if it’s a private party, and she says someone’s coming for her and orders him not to try his crap. Garrett asks what crap that is, and his answer is a vicious bark from Ravage. Garrett says the dog is ugly, and Sloane tells him he’s hers, and his name is Ravage. Garrett smarms that that’s appropriate, and Sloane says Ravage got hurt, but he’s going to get better. Garrett doesn’t care about the dog story anymore; he grabs her and suggests they finish what they started. She protests, tells him to get off, they struggle, and then Ravage has seen enough. He charges Garrett, jumps on him, and takes that frat rat down. Garrett tells her to call him off, but she doesn’t. Garrett finally escapes and runs off, with Sloane taunting him as he leaves.

Garrett rolls up his sleeve and shows them the scar, saying the psycho dog chased him three blocks. Go, Ravage. Scotty observes, with a slight hint of cheerfulness in his voice, that Ravage chomped his arm pretty good. Garrett says he’s lucky he didn’t get rabies. Lilly’s more interested in who was coming for Sloane. Garrett says she was probably making it up, but Lil thinks it might have been the person on the phone. Scotty asks who she’d call that time of night, and Lilly concludes it was someone who’s not scared of a three AM phone call.

Squad room. Vera’s chatting with Megan, saying he could have called, but Megan says she didn’t mind coming in. I’ll bet she didn’t. Vera asks if she needs anything, she just wants to know what’s going on. Vera says Sloane had fallen real low that night and ran into trouble. Megan asks what she did that was so low; Vera tells her she doesn’t need to know that. Megan gets wistful again, saying she used to look up to Sloane. Vera tells her to remember her that way: skating, winning. He says we should remember people at their best, not how they ended up. Aw, Vera. You’re really tugging at my heartstrings tonight! Megan agrees, and they gaze at each other for a second. She gets up to leave, then asks him what if they had lunch. Vera says he couldn’t do that; not with her. They gaze at each other again, and she says she’s just sad so much, but last night, she wasn’t. “Me too,” Vera replies, and they smile sadly at each other before she leaves, and he watches her go. Wow. Just….wow.

Sansom’s, where Lilly sits, head in hands, looking dejected, listening to Messy Music’s “Long Cold Silence,” and I can instantly tell this is going to be another Lilly Rush Oscar Moment. Rick comes up and sits down next to her, calling her Detective, but she tells him to call her Lilly. She says she’s been staring at the little swirls in her scotch for about an hour. Rick says he’s been there. Lilly says she hasn’t had a drink in eight years, and he tells her not to start now. She picks up the glass, saying she never forgot how good it feels, knocking back a drink, but Rick stops her, saying it turns bad real quick. She turns to him suddenly, thanking him for coming so late, and he says people get into trouble all times of night, then brushes her hair away from her face. She scoots closer to him, smiles, and says she was wondering about that, and Rick says there was a pull when they met. She agrees, and he says it’s a bad place, and suggests that they leave. She giggles, and says she’s not sure they should. He’s sure. She asks if it’s against the rules, and he tells her not to worry.

Then, Lil flips the Switch of Utter Awesomeness, spins around, and asks Rick if that’s how it works. He’s caught off guard, and Lilly continues. A girl calls him in the middle of the night, weak, needy, and that’s when he scores. He says that’s not what’s going on here, but she’s not done yet. Lilly tells him she went to the meeting in his area, and they told her he hadn’t been there in years. Rick says he goes to a chapter near where he works, but she says they told her he’s not welcome at any meeting, because they don’t trust him with women. He’s knocked back by this, then tells her she’s obviously getting hostile. Lilly asks if Sloane got hostile that night, and he’s confused. She says Sloane called him that night, he denies it, she plays her phone records trump card. She says Sloane asked for help, and a good sponsor always comes running. He finally says he tried to help Sloane. “Like you tried to help me?” Lilly asks. Rick says yes, and Sloane was ungrateful, too. Lilly surmises that this is a good reason to bash someone in the head, and Rick says he doesn’t have to talk to her. Lilly coolly says her boss and partner are right outside, and asks if he wants to talk to them. He stands frozen for a moment, and Lilly gives him this fabulously casual shrug. He sighs, then says he didn’t know Sloane was going to lay there all night in the snow. “How could you?” Lilly asks. Rick says he didn’t mean for that to happen.

Sansom’s parking lot. Sloane’s calling for Ravage, and Rick gets out of his truck as Sloane begs Ravage and tells him that he’s her test. Rick tries to get Sloane to leave with him, she says she lost her dog. He puts his arms around her, and she protests that Ravage is her test; that if she can take care of him, then she can do it for Seth and the babies. He’s clearly not even listening to her, just tries to guide her back to his truck. She tearfully tells him that she did a bad thing, and he tells her that booze does that to us. She doesn’t know how she’s going to live with herself, and he tries to kiss her, but she says she’s sleepy. He suggests getting her to bed, but she insists that it’s freezing. Annoyed now, Rick reminds her that it’s freezing. She doesn’t care. Ravage took care of her, she says, now she has to take care of him. He finally succeeds in getting her in his truck, then says they’ll drive around and look for Ravage. He starts the engine, backs up, and we hear a sickening thud and then a dog whining, and Sloane screams for Ravage, gets out of the truck, and tells Rick that Ravage needs a vet. He’s thinking more along the lines of a warm back and a soft bed, telling her that soon, she won’t even be thinking about a dog, and she suddenly realizes how sleazy he is. She points out that she’s so drunk she can’t even see, and is incredulous that he still wants to screw her. He calls it “trying to help.” She says she just lovely womand herself for a drink, she’s in the gutter, and if he still wants a piece, he must be desperate. He reminds her that it’s freezing, and tells her that she’s starting to piss him off. Sloane, seeming to have an epiphany, says that Rick’s lower than she is. He scoffs at this, telling her she’s nothing, and she says softly, “And even I won’t have you.” He hauls off and smacks her in the head with a bottle, knocking her down, and orders her not to talk to him like that. She says she has to go to sleep, and he tells her to go to hell. She groggily insists on helping Ravage, but he won’t have it, calling her a sloppy, stumbly drunk as he gets back into the truck. Ravage gets up then and heads over to Sloane as she mumbles about sleep making it all better. Rick peels out, and Ravage goes over and lies down next to Sloane.

Bruce Springsteen’s “Secret Garden” starts up as Lilly escorts a handcuffed Rick out of the bar and hands him over to the uniforms as Stillman and Jeffries look on.

Powell walks down the street, leading another Rottweiler by a leash.

Garrett’s walking down the street, talking on his cell phone, and spies a pretty girl. He gives her the do-me eyes, but the German Shepherd she’s walking lunges at him, and he jumps back. Heh.

Scotty put’s Sloane’s evidence box back on the shelf and broods at it for a minute, then goes to another aisle, finds another evidence box, sets it on the conveyor belt, takes off his jacket, and starts looking at a file. I’m suddenly confused. Is this Elisa’s evidence box? Is her case even “cold” at this point?

Seth hugs Megan as Hayley and Ryan look on. She leaves, and Seth and the kids walk in another direction.

Megan crosses the street, and Vera watches her from the balcony, looking wistful. He smiles sadly and turns to leave, then sees Sloane standing there, watching him. She disappears, and he turns to go back inside.