- The Reagans weigh the rights and wrongs of vigilantism when a good Samaritan who has a police record takes action against a terrorizing subway criminal.
- On a subway train, a street gang comes aboard. One of the members takes out a cell phone and starts filming. The leader pulls out a gun and the gang starts robbing the passengers. Among the chaos on the train, three gunshots ring out as the train continues along the track. At the Reagan home, Danny is having trouble putting together a model car with Henry assisting him. Henry jokes that Linda could put the car together. Danny calls out to Frank for help, but Frank lets Danny know that a degree in mechanical engineering is needed to construct the car. Erin enters after sending Nikki on a trip to visit her father and Jamie appears to assist Danny in assembling the car as well. Frank talks with Erin saying that, if he was going through a divorce and sending his daughter away on a long trip, he wouldn't be fine with it. Frank gets a phone call along with Danny. Jamie announces that he has a midnight shift leaving Henry alone with the model car.
Danny arrives at the subway station where he meets his partner, Detective Ava Hotchkiss, which is now a crime scene. The street gang had fled after the train had been stopped by passengers pulling the emergency cord. Danny looks at the blood stains which lead to the tracks suggesting the gang escaped through the tunnels. Danny returns to the street to find Jamie and Sgt. Anthony Renzulli drive by. Sgt. Renzulli admits that he wanted to show Jamie what detectives do at a crime scene. Jamie asks them to take him to another station to check for more clues. Danny asks Sgt. Renzulli how Jamie is doing on the job and they trade jabs. When they arrive, they find the subway hatch popped and a blood trail. Danny follows the trail to somebody sitting on a bench. As Danny orders the person to put their hands up, they find that this person has died from a gunshot wound and was left behind. Jamie shows a look of shock.
Commissioner Frank Reagan is being led to his office by his assistant, Detective Abigail Baker, where he meets Chief Mike Jeffords from Brooklyn South to discuss the train robbery. They discuss the case with the deceased being identified as Lee Cranston. Chief Jeffords suggests that Cranston was a new recruit to the gang and probably did something wrong which caused him to be shot. Frank suggests a better theory: that the shooting was an accident. Two witnesses identified the leader of the gang as "Handsome" Steven Jackson. Chief Jeffords shows that Jackson has a record and that he enjoys the violence and uses the camera as a rush. Commissioner Reagan orders that more police need to be put on trains as a security countermeasure. Danny arrives at work where Detective Hotchkiss and others are interviewing witnesses. Danny finds a witness named Denise, who is Lee's cousin. Denise tells Danny that she knows of Handsome's antics and that everybody is afraid to ride the trains at night. Danny suspects that Handsome shot Lee, and even if he didn't, he left him there to die. Denise starts to cry and asks to leave. Danny allows it and tells her that, when she's ready to talk, Danny will listen.
Jamie meets up with Erin, buys her a cup of coffee and tells her that he saw his first dead body the night before. Erin wonders if everything is all right and Jamie says everything is all right with him and his girlfriend, Sydney. Danny and Ana are giving their boss, Sgt. Sid Gormley, an update on the case. Danny announces that the medical examiner had pulled a .38 mm bullet out of Lee, but Handsome had a 9 mm gun during the robbery. It is suggested that Lee could have accidentally shot himself in the stomach with a different gun. Sgt. Gormley questions this with Ana stating that half of the victims were face down on the floor of the train and not looking at the gang members. Danny suggests that one of the other gang members had the gun or one of the victims had the gun. Sgt. Gormley says that's a lot of maybes in the case. Detective Baker showed Commissioner Reagan the video that was filmed which had been posted on the internet. Ana is interviewing another eyewitness who claims that she saw the man who pulled out a gun and started shooting. Danny shows her the video and she identifies a passenger as the man who shot Lee. The man is identified as a good Samaritan shooter. Chief Jeffords and Commissioner Reagan focus on the good Samaritan and Frank deduces that it is the man's instinct to protect the witness and that he has a family and job. Frank orders that the man's picture gets released to the press and suggests to shut down the website.
As the case continues, Sgt. Gormley shows Danny and Ana that the good Samaritan has been identified as Oliver Young and that he has surrendered himself in the 65th precinct. Reporter Kelly Davidson had earned herself an exclusive interview with Oliver. Oliver declares that he was scared during the incident, but he felt what he did was the right thing to do. Frank watches the interview and immediately calls Kelly. Danny and Ana interview Oliver about the incident on the train. Oliver says that he was working with drywall and he had been previously robbed on the train. The gun that he had was for protection because he carried money that he had earned from working. Oliver had no intention of shooting Lee, but when things started to escalate he had to do something about it. Oliver also declares that he had a prior robbery arrest when he was 18 years old, but he had lived a proper life until the night of the shooting. Oliver was so filled with guilt that he had to confess and he didn't want to be dragged away from his family. Danny asks Oliver why confess to Kelly and not to the police. Danny deduces that Oliver felt that the police would not treat him fairly.
Ana claims victory on the shooting part of the case saying that Oliver's confession is enough to close that portion of the case. Sgt. Gormley assigns Danny to capture Handsome and to do it by the book which Danny agrees to. Denise shows up again and tells him that Lee didn't want to join Handsome's gang, but he was pressured into it by his friend Dante Vantos. Denise admits that she and Dante used to hang out and she gives up information on where the gang hangs out. Danny arrives with Ana and two officers at an apartment where the gang is having a party. The gang is arrested, but Handsome is nowhere to be found.
Dante is questioned by Danny and Ana and claims that, even if he knows where Handsome is, he wouldn't give him up because of loyalty. Dante asks for his lawyer which ends the questioning. At Sunday dinner, Henry brings up the conversation of people being allowed to carry a gun then the gang would have had a second thought before robbing a train. Erin reminds him that, if more people carried guns, more people would get hurt. Henry defends the law the saying that the reason he had the gun was to stop the robbery. Frank reminds him that nobody can choose what laws are enforced. Danny asks Erin if the defending lawyer is a tough lawyer which Erin concedes to. After dinner, Danny asks Erin if there were any mistakes in the prosecution's case. Erin claims that it's collusion, but Danny claims that it was an act of mercy. Frank agrees with his daughter and then reminds him that Handsome is still at large. Danny admits that is true, but it is now a Major Crimes case of which he is part of. Frank asks Danny how that is going and Danny admits that after the Campos case (from Episode 1 "Pilot) and the Internal Affairs investigation, he thought he would be assigned to the motor pool. Frank claims that interfering would've been received as favoritism. Frank also admits that he did want Danny in the motor pool, but deferred to his chief of detectives who claimed that Danny would bring something to the case.
Handsome sends out another video aimed at Kelly. Handsome is very arrogant in the video and claims that he is going to rob another train and this time nobody from his crew is going to be killed and that some exclusive footage is going to be sent out. The police ask for a copy of the footage, but Frank pleads that the footage is not broadcast. Kelly agrees under the condition that she gets the exclusive footage of the arrest. Frank declines her request saying that it would jeopardize the safety of police officers. Kelly leaves behind a flash drive with a prerecorded exclusive story. Frank orders more police officers to patrol the trains until Handsome is arrested.
Jamie and Sgt. Renzulli are out on patrol and he asks him what he sees on the street. Jamie shows off his skills by noticing broken glass on the sidewalk from a probable car theft. Jamie asks Sgt. Renzulli what he has against Danny. Sgt. Renzulli tells Jamie that Danny had done 3 things that a detective should never do: Leave his partner, not tell them where he was going, or call in the evidence. He praises him, but says that he has bad habits. Frank meets Erin at the courthouse as she is leaving to meet friends for drinks. Erin would rather go out than return to an empty apartment. Frank presents Erin with a letter that she had written when she was eleven years old and ran away to Henry's house. Erin understands that if a storm was weathered back then, the same would happen now. Erin thanks her father and gives him a hug.
Ana arrives at the prison to show Oliver some photos. As she is about to meet him, an alarm goes off and Oliver is brought out on a gurney having suffered a stab wound. In the hospital, he tells Danny and Ana that he knew something was up and when he asked around he found that a bounty had placed on his head. Danny asks Oliver if he can remember anything else from the train and Oliver confesses that Handsome never got on the train. Handsome had a plan where he would get on one car of the train, tell his crew where to meet up, and then fade away as his crew gets caught. Danny and Ana then try to figure out where Handsome would strike next. After going over his previous arrests on a map, they find out that Handsome is all over New York except for the Bronx and Staten Island. Since there is no subway in Staten Island, Danny and Ana travel to the Bronx to capture Handsome after calling Denise and finding out where Lee would hide from Handsome. Danny arrives at the subway station where Handsome is waiting alone and when confronted he runs away. But the chase is short lived as Danny catches Handsome and arrests him.
In a hotel room where Frank is meeting with Kelly, Frank gets a text on his phone followed by Kelly getting a text as well. Kelly says that she feels that Frank is mad at her, but he denies this. He explains that neither of them have involved their work when they meet, but he's not sure of that when she walked into his office. Frank doesn't want to cost Kelly her job. But Kelly admits that having both of them knowing information that no one else knows was dangerous enough. Kelly and Frank then share a kiss.
Jamie meets with Agent Anderson about the truth of how his brother Joe had died while being involved with The Blue Templar. Jamie denies this, saying his brother was a good cop. Agent Anderson reminds Jamie that she played the recording of Joe working with the FBI. She presents Jamie with Joe's Blue Templar pin and that she needs Jamie's help. Jamie says he is a rookie cop and going undercover against other cops is difficult as he is trying to be a cop himself. Agent Anderson tries to bring Jamie in by saying that, if Joe was her brother, she would help taking out other cops and what the right decision would be.
Erin meets up with Danny by the river as he is celebrating his victory in the case, but Danny doesn't feel it is much of a win because of Oliver. Erin then tells Danny that she had a meeting with the defense attorney and, because the public portrays Oliver as a hero for standing up to Handsome and getting stabbed is enough to drop the case, that Oliver would be looking at probation due to a gun charge. Erin then admits that she felt good doing something for Oliver and Danny and he takes her out to celebrate with a beer.
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