Post by longislanditalian2 on Sept 7, 2008 14:52:32 GMT -5
BAD REPUTATION (5X16), originally aired on April 13, 2008
OPENING SONG: EVERCLEAR- SANTA MONICA
We see inside of a jail, while the date appears September 7, 1997 on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. A man with medium brown hair; Pete Doyle is speaking to fellow inmates speaking about how he used to be, but now being locked up for 12 years he is now sober.
He then pulls a note out of his pocket from when his son was five years old; said that’s what kept him going. Pete is now getting out of jail today, going back to see his son and get a job; wanting to do what’s right this time.
The entire inmates clap, as now the scene displays the gates opening up. Pete looks up at the sky which is very bright; a possible foreshadowing of what his fate would eventually be. As the camera pans down to an abandoned street, displaying Pete now deceased; with a gunshot to his chest. As the camera zooms away we are left to see his shamrock tattoo on his right hand before the gun.
Present day, Rush ducks underneath the yellow tape with Miller behind. We now notice a man standing there wearing blue jeans and a hat, when Rush tells him to leave the man states that it’s his. Eventually calling her Cagley (A detective on a show in the 80’s that was about female detectives), before Rush dubs him Serpico. The guy the snaps a photo of her from his camera phone as he leaves.
However Stillman now informs them that the man; is Eddie Saccardo who runs a narcotics taskforce that this is his bust. Miller states that she’s heard of him, that he is keyed into every corner and knows the crime going down before the crook does. Rush adds that Saccardo is a regular superman seeing that he’s looking at her from a far, probably because he likes her.
When Stillman mentions a man: Pete Doyle who is fugitive who had five of his prints pulled off five murders to match ten years ago. While they walk with him a man dressed a white t-shirt and underwear walks past them, until Stillman opens the door to the freezer pulling out a bag containing Pete Doyle’s hand the one with the shamrock tattoo on it.
ROLL USUAL CREDITS
Exterior shot of headquarters, before we see Lilly now walking into the interrogation room. Inside we see the same guy that was being shown just before the credits had rolled. The man Manny is being questioned about it, saying that his gimmick. From observation, Valens and Jefferies are watching Rush interrogation before Saccardo comes in while eating something.
As Manny speaks more about finding the body, we hear Saccardo saying it first before him. From inside the interrogation room, he then tells Rush that he’s on the walk to work when he found the whole body.
FLASHBACK TO FALL 97
Manny is walking along the same abandoned street, before noticing Pete Doyle dead with the gun resting nearby. Just as he’s about to head over there it cuts back to the present day.
He didn’t leave Pete’s body lying there because it would be back for business, but took the hand but disposed of the gun since it had a body on it.
Back in the Bullpen, We see Vera eating a breakfast sand which; while Rush, Valens, Jefferies and Saccardo speak about Pete Doyle.
When Jefferies asks about how much do they know about the victim, Saccardo cracks a joke prompting Rush to roll her eyes; before Valens informs them that he’s some kind of Stickup man in North Philly. In addition Saccardo states that “Pistol Pete” was the stickup man and a Jesse James types. Rush adds that Doyle went away for armed robbery in 1985, while we hear from Saccardo that he went away for robbing a check cashing place in Kensington.
Throughout the whole scene, Saccardo is somewhat trying to impress Rush by butting into everything that she’s says. When she mentions Pete’s partner Tommy, he goes on to say that he’s a career jag off and could find him at a tap house. We then learn that Pete used to have an ex; Jules Murphy but he then knocked her up then went away.
Jefferies heads off to pick up Tommy O’ Connell while Valens goes off to have a talk with the ex. That leaves Rush and Saccardo alone, as he flips open his phone laughing at the photo presuming of her. He’s acting kind of childish; until Rush then turns around asking why he’s still here. After he leaves, she shakes her head probably thinking not so nice thoughts about him.
Meanwhile Valens is having a talk with the ex who is remarried, but she states that she didn’t kill him that Pete was her first love. We find out that Pete’s son is also named Pete, but when Valens questions Jules about the day that Pete Sr., came back after an hour he had been released.
FREDDY JOHNSTON- BAD REPUTATION
Kind of odd that the name of the song is the same as the episode titled. We see a younger Jules handing her husband his shirt while he talks to someone on the phone, before she spots her ex: Pete walking up to their son.
Outside View we now see and hear their conversation, Pete stands there holding a bag while telling his son: Pete Jr. that he used to read a lot of crime novels to pass the time. When the son asks that he is him, his father nods stating that he’s just gotten released from jail; as the camera pans down to show his tattoo.
Pete tells him that he got it when he was his son’s age; his own decoration of independence. Upon pulling out a football from the bag, we now learn that Pete Jr. is now into soccer not football. He then says that he knows that he’s got a life but hopes to be part of it.
Just then the front door opens as Jules stands there, and gets her son into the house. Their whole conversation she’s angry at her ex, even goes on to inform him that Pete Jr. doesn’t get his letters. Next we see Jules new husband, before she tells Pete to leave before grabbing her son’s backpack.
Back at headquarters, both Jefferies and Vera are interviewing Tommy O’ Connell in the interrogation room. He tells the detectives that he heard about Pete’s death, that they both were like brothers. However goes on to elaborate further that upon his release he saw a different Pete Doyle then before.
EVERCLEAR- EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE
Tommy is walking down the street before waiting by a newspaper stand, while watching a conversation between Pete and a shop owner. He informs the guy that his counselor in jail told him that the man hired guys like him; nevertheless Pete is turned down on a potential job. Tommy then meets up with Pete, but is turned away regarding a beer or a crime.
When he mentions he’s being speaking to his son, Pete gets all defensive and tells his friend that he doesn’t want him talking to his son before walking away.
Sometime later Jefferies, Stillman are standing by a table in the bullpen when Vera comes over informing them that he has a police report from 1997 that Pete Jr. was arrested for a weapons charge. The scene ends with him biting into a slice of pizza.
After a commercial break, we see Vera, Valens and Rush walking down a hallway together. He tells the two of them that there’s no way that a hard con guy goes legit. Upon walking into the bullpen we see Pete Jr. looking out from a room before Rush says that he's like a real regular Al Capon.
Cut to Rush and Valens interviewing the son, but they learn that Pete Doyle wasn’t any kind of father to Pete Jr. He does admit that he brought the gun to school to show everything that they were right; about him being Pistol Pete’s son and got expelled. However Pete Jr. did in fact go out looking for him.
BUSH- SWALLOWED
Pete Jr. walks into a bar, seeing his father mopping up there are several bottles of beer on the table. Upon mention that this was the part that he had beat up the marines, that Tommy had told him the story. Pete Sr. says that it was only one guy seeing how already impressed his son is before telling him to get out of here since he is underage. Just then a bottle of beer crashes to the floor, as we now see a short stocky man sitting at a booth; Officer O’Leary.
This guy is already agonizing Pete Sr. to such a point but he doesn’t react with any violence especially in front of his own son.
O’Leary then tells him that he’ll be waiting for him when he slips up, after leaving both father and son glance over at each other.
In the present day, Pete Jr. tells the detectives that his father was a coward and a liar and the best thing he had done was get out of his life forever.
Later on both Miller and Stillman are having a talk with Officer O’Leary, but goes on to tell them how Pistol Pete got his name. He was fifteen and got caught doing his first crime; robbing a liquor store pistol whips a salesman and cracked his head open leaving the guy in a coma for a month. O’Leary informs them that Pistol Pete was back to his old tricks in no time.
FLASHBACK
At an AA meeting, Pete is standing in front of everyone after receiving a chip. However is big change then ends right then and there, after telling people a few things saying that he’s going to give in meaning he’s going to go back where he once was.
In the back both Pistol Pete and Tommy O’Connell hug as we see a gun hanging out of Pete’s back pocket; signaling that they both we back in business
Present Day
O’Leary gets up telling both Stillman and Miller that the word on the street was that both Pete and Tommy had a big score, riding around in stolen car gearing it up; but then Pete then dropped off the face of the planet leaving O’Leary stumped to regards of what they were planning.
Later on the door both Valens and Vera are sitting at their desks when Rush comes on over to the two of them. Valens informs here that Jefferies has been in the room eight hours with Tommy, before they now see Jefferies coming out. Just when everything seems to be quiet, Eddie Saccardo shows back up carrying a bag labeled: Bunk’s Barbeque.
After handing it out to everyone, he then spots Tommy sitting there in the interrogation room. Somehow he ends up heckling him, until Rush comes over before playfully pushing Saccardo out of the room, from this time she’s sort of flirting with him.
Once alone she tries to get a story out of Tommy, but he then tells Rush that Pete finally gave in regarding to what they were planning.
SEVEN MARY THREE- CUMBERSOME
At a bar, Tommy puts down three bottles of beer at the table before drinking out of one. Among their conversation he speaks about guns blazing about taking the money from the trucks. Just then Pete Jr. comes on over to their table; after being dubbed the brains of this operation.
Somehow Pete gets up to counsel his son, telling him that he’s better than this and needs to have a real job but his son doesn’t listen. As they all begins to have a few drinks, even Pete goes and has a beer also.
When Rush asks Tommy what has the score, he tells her that it’s been so long before Jefferies comes into say that his lawyer is here.
Upon coming out, Saccardo is sitting on top of her desk eating ribs out of a box. Rush tells him not to talk to a suspect without asking her first, before stating that this is her desk in which he gets off. She then goes on to ask him back to the guy that Saccardo had mentioned” Phil the Pill” who freaked Tommy out.
Saccardo says that he’s a friend of Tommy’s from the block, but when he went to arrest him he fell off the roof and crippled himself in which doesn’t impress Rush too much.
After that the two are pretty much flirting with one another, as Saccardo holds up a rib telling her that she ought to try one. Upon exiting she picks up the Styrofoam tray before throwing it down in disgust.
Next Scene, Miller and Vera reinter view Pete Jr., telling them that he had lied to them about never seeing his father after that time at the bar. He goes on to say that he was looking for a way to respect Pete, wanting to know the man that he had heard about growing up.
FLASHBACK
Behind a gate, Pete and Pete Jr. are sitting in a car together. He then teaches his son how to hold a gun, and show him but then him then grabs then gun out from his son’s hand and points it directly at his face angry.
Pete says that he has zero to offer and yells at him to get out of the car, Pete Jr. runs tucking the gun away while Tommy gets into the car. Pete Jr. then sees his stepdad driving the armored car before the flashback ends.
When Vera questions him about it, Pete goes on to say that he told his dad everything about it. The Heist then fell apart when his stepdad; Bernie called the cops but he didn’t know who was robbing him.
Next we see Rush and Valens interviewing Bernie in the interrogation room, finding out that two weeks after he had been robbed he had quit the job. He knew that Pete Jr. and his father had set it up but never bother to mention it due to the fact that he was looking out for the boy, but he would have killed Pistol Pete if it would have come down to it but it played out differently.
FLASHBACK
The Armored truck backs up before; Tommy now in disguise traps the two other men outside, while Pete also in disguise points a gun directly at Bernie. He then repeated over and over again” I think we hit the jackpot” but then nothing happens. Somehow Pete then tells Bernie to hit the panic button because it’s going to get pretty bloody soon. Outside we see Tommy beating the two men up while inside Pete tells Bernie that he’s got the boy to consider.
Rolling up his ski mask, Pistol Pete reveals himself tells Bernie that his son needs the right guidance and that’s on him. Bernie then presses the panic button, before Pistol Pete tells him to take care of his son as the sound of sirens are being heard in the distance.
After the interview, Miller informs them that phrase is used by undercover before the bust goes down but Rush tells them that robbery had no undercover back in 1997 didn’t know about the heist until it happened. However Vera says that there was a body microphone checked out on the day of the robbery, signed out by O’Leary but they can’t run it for prints since they had been thrown out a few years ago.
However O’Leary doesn’t know that, as Stillman places one that’s in a bag on the table in front of O’Leary while Jefferies sits. Who else but Lilly is Observing this from behind the window, as she too sits and listens to this conversation. Jefferies then informs him that they know that he was there on the day of the heist, before Stillman gets O’Leary to open up.
The story unfolds that Pete came to him for help, just as long as his son is left out. However O’Leary then decides to rip them off, stating that Pete wasn’t going to go to anyone thus cops.
FLASHBACK
Pete is running away from the truck, as O’Leary asks where the money is as Pete yells that Tommy had nearly killed a man back there. However he then left the money on the truck and had the guard hit the panic button, saying that he was supposed to stop it before anyone had found out. When Pete mentions that was his kid’s stepfather in there, O’Leary panics pulls out his gun before taking Pete’s.
O’Leary then orders him to shut up and get down on his knees, before Pete says that he feels sorry for him that at least he’s honest himself, that he did his second chances right and nothing now changes that. A shot then rang out from the gun, as Pete now falls to the ground dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.
After unbuttoning his chest, O’Leary then rips off the body microphone before leaving.
ENDING MONTAGE- COUNTING CROWS- RECOVERING THE SATELLITIES
The door to interview room B opens, as both Stillman and Jefferies exit before Stillman hands Rush the bag containing the body microphone. She then disposes of it in the garbage can next to her; we do see it in the can. Next Miller is escorting O’Leary to a holding cell, while he then passes Tommy who’s also behind bars showing his guilt up close. This also goes also for O’Leary seeing that guilt is spread all over his face as well.
In the bullpen, Saccardo’s there hanging out beer while they all standing around in celebration of solving a case together, all except for Rush whose now seated at a desk pretending probably to be working. She pauses to look up at presumably him before going back to whatever she’s really doing.
Camera fades out on her scene to the warehouse seeing Stillman now filing Pete Doyle’s case box away, complete with the word: Closed written on top of the box. Finally in another scene Pete Jr. looks at all the letters that his dad had written to him while incarcerated as his parents stand behind him before giving him sometime also.
While looking at one of the letters, Pete Jr. looks up to see his father standing there just like he had done back in’ 97, before fading away showing now that even his son has found his own peace with him.
END OF EPISODE
