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Post by topbilled on Mar 11, 2023 9:08:20 GMT
075 Mother's Day Part 2
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
We start in Birdie’s hotel suite. Peggy is finishing tea with Birdie. During their chat, she has told Birdie about losing her little boy a year ago. Birdie has a flash of when she left young Adrian years ago, with his father and Cordelia. She knows she shouldn’t regret it, because her boy had a stable life, and Cordelia was a good mother to him.
Peggy takes her last sip and goes to her suite where Brett is just getting back from being with his girlfriend Claudia. She says she had spent some time with a nice elderly woman, who helped her talk through what she was feeling. Brett says that burdening a stranger with her loss is not wise, and that the meds will be what restores her to sanity. Peggy guesses he’s right.
Brett says he’s too tired for sex. The reality is he just had his fill with Claudia. He turns over and goes to sleep. Peggy hopes tomorrow will be a better day.
We cut to Birdie trying to get to sleep in her room. She keeps thinking about Adrian. She hopes tomorrow will be a better day as well.
Dissolve the next morning. Birdie is up early and she’s gone to the church to pray. She watches Adrian come in and was hoping she’d see him. He is preparing for a special mass the school kids will be having inside the church in a half hour.
Birdie wants to tell him something, about being his mother. But then she recalls the pact she made with Cordelia, and leaves without saying much. Agnes notices Birdie hurry off and asks if there’s anything wrong. Adrian isn’t sure. Agnes reacts.
We then cut to Claudia’s apartment. Per her promise to Brett, she is not taking Benjamin outside. He is being kept home from school today, under the pretense that he seems to be rundown after a recent virus.
A bit later, though, it seems as if Benjamin really is sick. He’s burning up with a fever. Claudia will have no choice but to take him out to a doctor.
At the same time Peggy is window shopping, trying to get her mind off what happened yesterday. As she is about to return to the hotel, she sees Claudia getting a cab with Benjamin. She waves down the next cab and tells the driver to follow the first cab.
In the next part, Peggy has followed Claudia and Benjamin to an urgent care facility. Benjamin’s fever has worsened, and he needs to be sent to the nearest hospital. When a physician’s assistant asks Claudia to sign some paperwork to admit the child to the hospital, Peggy rushes up and says she’s the child’s mother. There is a strange altercation that occurs which requires the intervention of a security guard.
While Peggy is trying to explain she’s not nuts and the sick boy is her son that she lost a year ago, Claudia sneaks out of the facility.
Amanda shows up, since the police have been called. She helps calm Peggy down. Meanwhile, Benjamin has been taken to the hospital. But the urgent care facility wants charges pressed against Peggy who went ballistic and threw something through a sliding glass door.
We cut to Jude who is at the precinct with the captain. The captain was up all night finishing the crib with Kokoy and he’s tired. He will be leaving work early to pick up Nenita and their son from the hospital.
This is interrupted when Amanda brings Peggy in. Peggy’s husband Brett meets them at the precinct. He plans to give Peggy a sedative, since she’s still visibly upset but she refuses. She says the boy at the urgent care place, now in the hospital, is their son.
Jude has come up and joined the conversation. Peggy still refuses to take the sedative, and she has figured everything out. She recognized Claudia as being familiar, and recalls Claudia as an old business associate of her husband’s. She knows Brett helped Claudia take her son away from her, and she wants him prosecuted.
Jude is now heading to the hospital to speak to the boy. At the same time Claudia has gone to try and take Benjamin from the hospital. She plans to go on the run with him and meet Brett later. But she’s apprehended at the door, when Benjamin collapses.
Jude arrests Claudia and takes her to the precinct. In the next part, Claudia agrees to a plea, helping incriminate Brett who’s also been arrested. Peggy realizes Brett and Claudia were lovers all along. Claudia admits the plan was for Brett to eventually commit Peggy to an insane asylum and divorce her, so they’d raise Benjamin without her.
Peggy wants nothing more to do with Brett. Amanda feels sorry for her and agrees to take her to the hospital to see Benjamin. In the last scene Peggy is reunited with her son. She explains that she is his real mother and they will never be separated again.
We cut to Holy Name Cathedral. Father Adrian is exiting the church and going to the rectory. He sees Birdie walking by and stops to invite her in for dinner. She accepts. As they set down at the table to have a meal, he says he thought she wanted to tell him something this morning. What was it? Birdie says she just wanted to say how special he is.
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Post by topbilled on Mar 13, 2023 15:07:33 GMT
Just a quick note...I will take a week or two off from posting the next episodes. This will give me a chance to polish the season 4 offerings, and for readers to catch up.
Again there are six seasons of 'Jude Anthony' meaning we are halfway through all 150 episodes.
Thanks for reading!
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Post by topbilled on Apr 12, 2023 14:17:25 GMT
I see it's been a month since I finished season 3. I have taken a longer break than I intended! LOL
But I will start posting the episodes for season 4 this coming weekend...so check back!
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Post by topbilled on Apr 16, 2023 14:41:44 GMT
(c) 2022-2023 Jarrod McDonald
Season 4 Index
Black and White
Justice Would Be a Crime
A Special Day
Nenita
Let’s Play Bang Bang You’re Dead!
I’m Going to Show You What It’s Like to Need Blood
While You Live and Breathe
The Return of Steve Cade
Tony, Part 1
Tony, Part 2
Christmas Miracle
Wanting and Needing
Tangled Web
Second Thoughts
Evasion
Ortiz
Recollections of a Shooting, Part 1
Recollections of a Shooting, Part 2
Ryan Gets Married
Pushed Away
The Salerno Legacy
Birdie’s Latest Engagement
Night Plane to Manila
Weddings
Jude Gets Married |
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Post by topbilled on Apr 17, 2023 14:54:31 GMT
076 Black and White
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
We see Sonja’s extended family for the first time in this episode. Over the summer Jude and Sonja have taken their relationship to the next level. Jude spends his free time off duty with Sonja and some of the Jablonskis.
The Jablonskis are a Polish (white) family in a racially divided neighborhood on the southeast side. Sonja’s father doesn’t like blacks moving into a community where they have lived all their lives, and nothing Jude says will change his mind.
Whites have been ‘forced’ to put their homes up for sale. Sonja’s father, Karl Jablonski, is upset property values have gone down and if they sell, they will not get a decent price. He holds another family, the Carters, personally responsible for all this. Jude thinks that’s a rather extreme view. Sonja asks Jude not to rile her father up during a Sunday picnic. So Jude tries to ignore Karl when the topic of black people comes up.
We then cut to a scene at a nearby home where the Carters, a black family, live. We learn they were the first black family to move here two years ago, and since that time, some of their relatives and other black families have moved into Hegewisch.
The smoke from Karl Jablonski’s grill is coming into the Carters’ yard. Earl Carter, the patriarch of the black family, thinks it’s intentional. He and Karl have had several vocal disagreements. Earl’s daughter Mavis is afraid that if Earl goes over and confronts Karl it will lead to another unpleasant quarrel. But Earl doesn’t care.
In the next shot, Earl’s shown up at the Jablonskis. Sonja sees Earl come up the walk and asks if she can help him. He says she most definitely can help by covering the grill so all that smoke doesn’t get into the air.
Karl hears this and rushes over to tell Earl he’ll just have to live with the smoke. Earl says Karl is rude, and Karl responds with a racial slur. Earl takes a jab at Karl and Karl pops him back. Mavis has now come over and realizes Earl has a bloody nose.
Jude intervenes, and Sonja is grateful when he manages to de-escalate the row between the older men. It ends with Mavis taking Earl back to their place. Sonja says she wants her father to apologize to the Carters the next day after tensions cool off. Karl has no intention of doing this.
At the same time we cut to a local bar where the oldest sons of the two families are playing pool. Their various friends look on. Karl Jablonski Jr. and Gregg Carter have just as much hatred towards each other that their fathers have. The game of pool gets intense, and it turns into a shoving match. The bar owner breaks it up and kicks them all out.
Back at the Jablonski home, Sonja’s mother Olga has returned with the Carter matriarch Leona. They were cleaning the church. They are friends and both belong to the altar society at St. Florian’s. The women learn their husbands were quarreling again. This is exacerbated when the oldest sons get home and describe what happened at the bar.
At the same time Sonja tells Jude she just wants peace, but it doesn’t seem likely any time soon.
Jude tries to have another talk with Karl (Sr.) that includes Karl Jr. This is intercut with scenes at the Carter home where Mavis tries to reason with her father Earl and brother Gregg that the fighting needs to stop. Leona interrupts Mavis to ask where Darnell is. Darnell is the Carters’ younger daughter, and Mavis says Darnell went out awhile ago and did not say whom she was meeting.
Back at the Jablonski home, Karl Sr. is asking Sonja where his other son Eric is. Sonja doesn’t know. He just went off without telling anyone.
We cut to Darnell and Eric and learn they are together. Despite coming from opposing families, Darnell and Eric are in love. They cannot tell anyone their plans to marry. They both return to their families’ homes and act like they were out with other people.
The next morning Karl Jr. finds out from his girlfriend Macey that she saw Eric with Darnell the previous day. Karl Jr. is upset and tells his father, who also fumes. Karl Sr. grabs a pistol he owns and he storms off to the Carters with Karl Jr. at his side. Eric trails after them, begging the men to stop.
A few minutes later there is a huge brawl in the Carters’ yard. Gregg picks up the gun Karl Sr. dropped, and he shoots it at Karl Sr. when another racial slur is uttered. Karl Jr. is in the way and takes a bullet in the chest.
We cut to Jude who is downtown, on his way to work. He stops by the coffee shop for his usual brew and can tell by Dewey’s reactions, that something is wrong. Dewey tells Jude about the shooting in Hegewisch, since he’d just gotten a call from Sonja.
In the next part Jude is on his way to the precinct, when he dials Sonja. She is at a southeast side hospital where her brother was pronounced dead. Jude will be there soon. They hang up as Jude enters the precinct.
Jude signs in and finds Amanda and Ryan. They already know about the shooting in Hegewisch from Ryan’s cousin Sean who works as a cop on the southeast side. Amanda will explain everything to the captain when he arrives and tells them to go.
After Jude and Ryan have left, the captain enters the precinct. He has baby pictures of his newborn son and says there will be a christening soon. Nenita and he would like Amanda to be Shannon’s godmother. Amanda is honored. She then tells the captain where Jude & Ryan are.
We go to Jude and Ryan, arriving in Hegewisch. They meet with Sean and learn that Gregg’s been charged with murder and is in a holding cell.
Jude admits he had stopped an altercation involving some of the men a day earlier. Ryan stays with Sean to help question Gregg, as Jude drives over to the Jablonski home.
At the Jablonskis’, Jude learns from Sonja the families and the whole community are more divided then ever over the recent turn of events.
The Jablonskis’ lawyer is filing a civil suit against the Carters for the wrongful death of Karl Jr. This is because Karl Sr. believes that Gregg Carter will get away with what he’s done in the criminal courts.
We leave the episode open-ended, though we do conclude this story on a note of bittersweet happiness. This is because Eric and Darnell have gone ahead and eloped despite receiving nobody’s blessing. Jude looks on as Sonja, Mavis and both mothers talk to the newlyweds about how hard their married life will be, especially with the upcoming court cases involving the two families.
But while Eric and Darnell appreciate everyone’s concern, they are still still hopeful for the future. They decide not to stay in Hegewisch because things are too toxic. They drive off to start a new life elsewhere.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 18, 2023 14:50:24 GMT
077 Justice Would Be a Crime
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
Blanca Chavez is a gangster’s wife, and this is just not her day. She came downtown to buy a new wardrobe for a special party tonight, but her credit was refused. In fact all of her credit cards were declined.
She tries to reach her husband Esteban on the phone, but he’s too busy to take her calls. So she has the chauffeur drive her over to the Chavez office. When Esteban finally is available to see her, she asks him why he stopped paying her credit cards. He says he is putting Blanca on a strict allowance because of her overspending.
It seems that since they were wed in a lavish ceremony some time ago, Blanca’s been wasting no time sending Esteban to the poor house with all her nonstop spending.
But Blanca doesn’t believe Esteban. She knows that his other woman back in Mexico is always asking him for money, too. Esteban doesn’t deny that both gals cost him money. He decided to put both of them on a budget. And Blanca getting used to a budget is a good thing. It will teach her responsibility. She angrily storms out.
Later that afternoon Blanca is at home on the phone. She is making excuses about why she cannot attend her neighbor’s party this evening. She says she is sick and needs to stay in tonight. But after the call ends, she looks at her closet and says it really is because she has nothing to wear. Of course, the closet is overflowing with things she could wear. But she is just sick to death of Esteban putting her on an allowance.
The doorbell rings downstairs, and the maid answers it. In the next shot Blanca is informed she has several visitors. She goes down to greet them. Standing in front of her are the widows of men her husband had killed over the past few years. The women show Blanca pictures of their children who are growing up fatherless. Blanca doesn’t get what any of this has to do with her.
In the next scene Blanca is having coffee with the women. They tell her they took up collections and put on a carnival to raise a lot of money. In fact, they had two carnivals. Then, they invested what they earned in the stock market. Blanca still does not see how this concerns her.
This is when one widow who seems to be the group leader speaks up. She is talking to Blanca on behalf of the others when she explains the money they invested in the stock market returned a big dividend—a very big dividend. The money has increased exponentially. They would like to offer Senora Chavez $1 million to rub out her husband Esteban.
When Blanca asks why they don’t hire a professional hitman, they tell her that nobody is as close to Senor Chavez as she is, and nobody has more reason to want him dead. She recalls the embarrassment of having her credit declined at Bloomingdale’s which has been gossiped about.
Blanca can’t argue with these women. She admits her husband cut her off financially. She hates him for how dehumanizing it is to have to buy economy items on a budget. So yes, she does want him dead. A million dollars is a lot of money they’re offering. She could buy a lot of new party dresses with this amount. So she decides they have a deal.
When Esteban is found murdered the next morning, the widows read about it in the newspaper and see it on the TV news. They are very pleased. They all meet at a certain time and go to the Chavez home to pay Blanca for a job well done.
But Blanca insists she didn’t kill Esteban. Jude has also been to visit her, and she tells the widows what she told Lieutenant Anthony. She says she woke up this morning determined to shoot her husband and collect the million dollars, so she could reinstate all her department store accounts. But then something strange happened. When she went to the bathroom to murder Carlos while he was shaving, she found him slumped over at the sink. He was already dead.
The widows think Blanca is just being modest and doesn’t want to admit what she’s done. The leader hands Blanca a suitcase full of cash. They thank Blanca again and leave. Blanca opens the suitcase and looks at the million dollars. She could definitely have a lot of fun with all this money at Bloomingdales, Lord & Taylor, Saks and Neiman Marcus.
The maid thinks Blanca did kill Esteban and asks why she won’t take the credit for it. Is it because she still loved the guy? No, Blanca says. When he canceled her credit cards, he canceled all the love she ever had for him. She is definitely glad he’s going to be six feet under. But the truth is that she did not murder Esteban. Someone else must have done it. After all, her husband had many enemies in Chicago and Mexico City.
Meanwhile, Jude has received a tip from an informant that places a Latina woman sneaking out the backdoor of the Chavez home shortly after Esteban was killed. Jude thinks it was probably Blanca going into the alley to dispose of the murder weapon. He has Ryan and another officer go through the trashcans in the alley, but they turn up nothing.
They learn from the maid the garbage collector came through an hour earlier. But then, when they speak to a neighbor, the one that gave the party, they get a description of the woman who was seen sneaking out earlier this morning, and the description does not match Blanca Chavez.
But a Latina woman who does match the description is detained at the airport while trying to board a plane to Mexico City with a fake passport. While she is being detained, Jude shows up to question her. She admits she is Esteban Chavez’s other wife, Yessenia. She flew in from Mexico late yesterday. She went to the Chavez home in Chicago this morning and killed Esteban. Blanca was in the other room sleeping, and Yessenia murdered Esteban while he started to shave.
Jude asks if this was a crime of passion based on jealousy. No, Yessenia, says it was not. She long ago accepted her husband having another wife in Chicago who spent money like it was going out of style. But she needed money too, and that is why she killed Esteban—because she has ten kids to feed and an eleventh one on the way. He cut off all her funds, and what was she supposed to do?
When members of a drug cartel that had been cheated by Esteban put a hit out on him in Mexico City, she decided to do it herself and collect what was owed her. She just wanted to give her kids a better life, including the one on the way. Jude says that one will have to be born behind bars. He has no choice but to arrest her and arrange for her to be sent back to Mexican authorities.
We then cut to the Chavez home in Chicago where Blanca is looking at all the stuff she never wears in her closet. Then she goes over to the suitcase of cash on the edge of the bed. She opens it and scoops up a few bills. She asks the maid to tell the chauffeur to bring the car around. It would be a crime for this money to just sit here and not be used. Besides she needs a new outfit for Esteban’s funeral.
In the last scene, Blanca has just come home from the funeral, and the maid informs her that she has visitors waiting in the living room. It’s the widows that paid her a million dollars. They have heard another woman was arrested for killing Esteban, and they want their money back. Blanca says she can’t give it back, because she has already spent most of it. But she is more than willing to help them out at their next carnival.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 19, 2023 15:26:58 GMT
078 A Special Day
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
We start with Ryan at the coffee shop. Dewey serves him a pastry and an iced coffee. Just as he’s about to leave, Ryan literally bumps into Schuyler and gets coffee all over him. In the next shot, he’s set his pastry down, taken some napkins and helps wipe coffee off Schuyler’s designer shirt.
Schuyler doesn’t seem too miffed, since he’s glad at the chance to interact with Ryan again. Since Ryan has a few minutes before he needs to be at work, he sits down with Schuyler and shares his pastry with him. He asks if Schuyler has been to see Tony lately. Schuyler says yes and apparently Tony’s condition has not changed. Ryan reacts.
We then cut to the precinct where Jude’s going over a case with Amanda. It is said the captain has the day off, and Amanda will be clocking out early since she’s heading to the church for the christening of the captain and Nenita’s son Shannon, for whom she will serve as godmother. Jude thinks that is nice. He asks where Ryan is, since Ryan is now late.
In the next shot, Ryan walks in and admits he’s late because he saw Schuyler and was discussing Tony. Jude guesses that’s okay. Amanda realizes that Ryan seems to light up when mentioning Schuyler, but she doesn’t make anything of it.
Jude and Amanda bring Ryan up to date on some surveillance they’ve been doing at a warehouse. Ryan finishes clocking in and he heads to the warehouse with Jude to continue their surveillance.
In the next part we see Jude and Ryan keeping tabs on the warehouse. Someone shows up a short time later, and it’s a person they know.
At the precinct, Amanda receives a visit from Bernice who has brought her daughter Heidi with her. Amanda is happy to see Heidi who hasn’t been in Chicago for awhile. She tells Heidi and Bernice that the captain took the day off. Bernice figured as much and wanted to talk to Amanda because she isn’t sure if she should go with Heidi to the christening. In fact, she doesn’t think it’s her place to be there, even though she and the captain have maintained a strong friendship. Amanda understands, and she offers to take Heidi to the church with her. Bernice is grateful.
We cut back to the warehouse surveillance. The person that Jude and Ryan have seen come and go is none other than the captain’s in-law Kokoy. Ryan asks if they should call the captain and tell him. Jude does not want to ruin the christening and says they will tell the captain later. Jude and Ryan then see another person exit the warehouse. It’s Shiro.
Kokoy heads to the church, after receiving a text from Nenita who says they are now there and wondering where he is.
In the next scene, it is a half hour later. Amanda has arrived at the church with Heidi, who is joyously reunited with the captain and meets her little half-brother for the first time. Amanda takes a picture of the captain, Heidi and the baby while Nenita talks with Kokoy off to the side. He tells her that Shiro just brought in a bunch more illegals. Nenita doesn’t want to discuss this now, she wants to focus on the christening.
We go back to Jude and Ryan who’ve entered the warehouse. They find ten illegal Filipinos, who were smuggled in late last night. They were all locked in a tiny room with very little food and water.
Back at the church, Adrian and Agnes have joined the others. The christening takes place. More photos are taken. After the ceremony, they all go to Biggie’s for lunch. Kokoy gets a call from Shiro who went back to the warehouse and found out the illegals were missing.
We go to the precinct, where Jude and Ryan have brought the ten illegals. They are afraid to talk, but Jude coaxes them into talking about Kokoy. They claim Kokoy was helpful, that it was the top man (Shiro) they fear.
At the bar and grill, Amanda gets a call from Jude. She pulls the captain aside and says she is needed back at the precinct. He asks what is going on but she wants him to enjoy his time with family.
When Amanda arrives at the precinct, she learns what is going on. Jude is sending Ryan to Biggie’s to pick up Kokoy for questioning. When Ryan arrives to get Kokoy, the captain demands to know what this is all about. Nenita has a pretty good idea but keeps quiet. The captain is going to the precinct with Ryan and Kokoy.
After the captain leaves with Ryan and Kokoy, Nenita hands the baby to Heidi. She slips off to call Shiro. “There’s trouble,” she says.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 20, 2023 15:31:33 GMT
079 Nenita
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
Nenita has put the baby into Heidi’s care, who takes Shannon to her hotel suite to look after him and get to know him better. Meanwhile Nenita has gone to meet Shiro at an undisclosed location. She tells him Kokoy has been hauled off for questioning. Shiro figures it is connected to the missing illegals. He wants Nenita to go to the precinct, act like nothing is wrong and to find out what the captain and the others know.
We cut to the precinct where the captain is now with Jude, Amanda and Ryan who are questioning Kokoy. At first Kokoy plays dumb but Jude plays hard ball with him and gets him to crack. Jude wants to know more about Shiro and the extent of Shiro’s criminal activities. Kokoy wants a lawyer before he does any more talking.
The captain steps off to his office with Amanda following. She says the christening and party were nice, but the captain doesn’t want to talk about that now. He wants to know if Kokoy is really involved in some sort of illegal smuggling activity. Amanda says it appears that way. The captain wonders what Nenita knows about this.
In the next shot, Nenita has shown up. Amanda exits to give the captain a private moment with his wife. The captain closes the door and asks Nenita everything she knows about Kokoy’s connection to a Filipino smuggler named Shiro. Nenita acts as if she is surprised and insists her cousin Kokoy never told her anything. She claims she doesn’t know anyone named Shiro.
There is a flashback to a scene from ‘Blackmailer’s Amnesia’ where Shiro had beat Nenita and ordered her to get close to the captain again, after the miscarriage of her first child.
Out of the flashback, Nenita asks her husband if Kokoy is in trouble. The captain isn’t sure yet. He asks where Shannon is, and Nenita says Heidi’s looking after the tot. At the same time a lawyer arrives and is taken in to meet with Kokoy.
A bit later, Nenita has left to pick up the baby. Kokoy is agreeing to a deal of immunity with his lawyer’s help. He will rat on Shiro, because he knows the illegals suffered under Shiro and there have been hundreds of them. As the deal is being finalized and the captain looks on, we cut to Heidi’s hotel room.
Bernice is there, having dropped by to find out about the christening. She is surprised to see the baby. It’s the first time she’s seen Shannon and admits the baby has the captain’s eyes. Heidi seems to adore her little half-brother, and Bernice supposes that is a good thing. Heidi gets a call from Nenita that she’s on her way over to collect the child.
We stay with Nenita as the call ends. She has been intercepted by Shiro whose car pulls up on the street outside the hotel. He tells her to hop in. She says she needs to pick up her son. He asks what is going on at the precinct. She claims she doesn’t know and insists Kokoy would not rat on him. For Kokoy’s sake and her sake, she better be right.
We cut to the precinct where Kokoy is signing the deal with his lawyer present. He then tells Jude and the captain everything about the smuggling ring. The captain asks if Nenita knew. Kokoy can’t deny it. He says Nenita was one of the people that Shiro smuggled into Chicago.
In the next part Kokoy explains how the real woman named Nenita that the captain had been corresponding with online had died in an accident, and that Kokoy’s cousin agreed to take her place because she was eager to come to America. This woman has been posing as Nenita, and she’s the one the captain married and had a child with. The captain’s in shock.
We cut back to the hotel where Nenita is picking up Shannon. She thanks Heidi and Bernice for looking after the boy. After she leaves, Bernice tells Heidi that Nenita seemed rattled.
Meanwhile Shiro has found out about the deal Kokoy’s taken. He learns that the captain has sent Jude and Ryan after him, while Amanda stays at the precinct to comfort the captain. The captain tries to get in touch with Nenita who is not answering. He calls Heidi, and Bernice answers since Heidi’s in the restroom. Bernice tells him about Nenita’s odd behavior when picking up Shannon a little while ago.
At the same time Shiro has tried to catch up to Nenita, because he thinks he can use her and the baby as hostages to broker a deal to get out of the country. However, Jude and Ryan reach him before he reaches Nenita and the baby. There is a standoff at the warehouse, and Shiro tries to get away in a helicopter.
Jude and Ryan shoot at the helicopter, hitting the gas tank. The helicopter starts to go down and it crashes into another building. Jude and Ryan run to the burning helicopter. The pilot is dead, but they manage to pull Shiro out and arrest him as the helicopter explodes.
Meanwhile the captain and Amanda are trying to figure out where Nenita and the baby have gone.
We cut to the airport and see Nenita getting on a flight to the Philippines with Shannon. The plane takes off and is long gone before the captain and Amanda arrive at the gate. Amanda tells the captain that he will get his son back, but he isn’t sure if he’ll ever see his son again.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 21, 2023 15:32:04 GMT
080 Let’s Play Bang Bang You’re Dead!
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
It’s a week after Nenita left the country with Shannon. The captain is still dealing with what happened and he’s taken a leave of absence.
Meanwhile Heidi has to return to her job in Boston. She has coffee with her mother and Amanda, before she heads to the airport. As Sonja looks on, Amanda promises Heidi and Bernice that the captain will get his son back. The ride share is now outside the coffee shop, and Heidi must go.
In the next shot Heidi hugs her mother, then Bernice watches her leave. Sonja asks Amanda what the chances are of getting the baby back. Amanda isn’t sure but they have to remain hopeful.
Amanda is now heading to the precinct. She will be in touch with Bernice, who plans to see the captain tomorrow. As Amanda gets into her squad car, Sonja calls Jude who is on rounds.
Jude is cruising down a street in a residential neighborhood. He goes past a home owned by a single mother named Barbara Donovan.
Barbara Donovan is a nurse who has a gun for protection. She has never used the gun but keeps it in her purse, because she works at a clinic in a bad part of town. Tonight she is distracted by her boyfriend Al. She doesn’t realize that her ten-year old son Tristan took the gun out of her purse to show it to his friend Jeremy. The boys are on the porch.
Jeremy is about the same age as Tristan, and has also taken a gun from home without permission, one that belongs to his father, Hal Dryer, who is a security guard at a local bank.
Tristan and Jeremy pretend like they’re trying to kill each other in a shoot-out they saw recently in their favorite action movie. They step down off the porch, and they go on the lawn. It’s dark. A faulty street light is not working again, and the only thing illuminating their actions is light coming on to the porch from a lamp inside the living room.
Nobody is walking by at this hour, since most people are inside finishing dinner. Tristan wants Jeremy to hide in some bushes, and he will play the cop and come find him, hiding as the criminal. But before they get a chance to conduct their role play, they hear an ice cream truck round the corner. Since neither one had dessert, they scrape together a few dollar bills from their pockets.
They set the guns down on the porch steps, and leave the yard to flag down the ice cream truck. A bratty neighborhood girl named Midge comes up the sidewalk pushing a stroller that has a doll in it. She’d like some ice cream too, but doesn’t have any money. They boys aren’t going to buy her any, and they tell her to scram.
In the next shot, the boys are paying the ice cream guy and enjoy their treats on the corner. Meanwhile Midge has found the gate to the Donovan property unlatched. She pushes her stroller inside and up to the porch. She sees the guns on the steps and thinks they are toy guns.
Midge decides to play a trick on the boys and hides them under the blanket inside the stroller. She then leaves the Donovan yard just as the boys are returning after finishing their ice cream. They chase her off.
We cut to the mother Barbara and her boyfriend Al getting hot and heavy inside the house. Al intends to take advantage of this time while the kids are playing outside. Barbara thinks she should check on Tristan, but Al keeps caressing her and succeeds in leading her to the bedroom.
We cut back to the boys. They have returned to the porch and realize the guns they left on the steps are gone. They quickly realize that Midge must have been here and took them. Midge lives a few houses up with her family. Tristan takes the wrappers from their treats inside the house and throws them in the trash. He hears his mother and Al in the bedroom and rolls his eyes.
In the next scene Tristan returns to the porch and tells Jeremy his mom is busy with Al. They will go to Midge’s place to retrieve the guns. Just as they exit the yard and start up towards Midge’s, Mr. Dryer comes on to the porch of the Dryer home and calls Jeremy home.
Tristan tells Jeremy to go, so he doesn’t get in trouble by his father. He will get the guns back from Midge. At the Dryers’ place, Hal Dryer has already discovered his gun is missing, and he beats the tar out of Jeremy, wanting to know where the lying boy put the gun.
Meanwhile, at Midge Xavier’s house, Midge is taking her stroller upstairs before she gets ready for bed. She trips and loses control of the stroller. It rolls back down the stairs and crashes below. One of the guns goes off and shoots Tristan who just came in the front door to get the guns back.
In the Donovan home, Barbara and Al are just reaching a climax. She is jolted by the shot and hears her son scream. She jumps out of bed, throws on some clothes and hurries out the door.
Soon she is at the Xavier home. Hal Dryer has also headed over there, thinking it was his gun that went off. Midge is screaming at the sight of Tristan bleeding. Her parents had been in the backyard cleaning a barbecue grill and have run inside. Mr. Xavier is now calling 911.
In the next part Jude has pulled up in his squad car. An ambulance is there, tending to Tristan's wounds. Since Barbara is a nurse, she is helping administer aid to her son.
Tristan is taken to the hospital, with Barbara also hopping into the ambulance. Back at the Donovan house, Al is hiding from the cops since he is on parole and wants to steer clear of cops. He takes some money that Barbara and Tristan were saving to go to Disneyland next year and runs out the back, leaping over a fence and vamoosing.
But as he rounds a corner, he runs into Amanda who is arriving to help Jude. She jumps out of her car, pulls her gun and tells him to freeze. Al keeps running with the money he stole. Amanda fires a warning shot, and Al finally stops. She rushes up to him, frisks him, finds the money he took and arrests him. Amanda calls Jude and tells him what’s happening.
Back at the Xavier house, Jude hangs up with Amanda. He asks Midge, her parents and Hal Dryer to tell him about the gun. Hal’s son Jeremy has joined them. He’s upset about what happened to Tristan. Midge is still sobbing uncontrollably until her father screams at her to stop.
Jeremy tells Jude that he took his dad’s gun and was going to play cops and robbers with Tristan, who was using a gun that belonged to Tristan’s mom. But Midge came by and took the guns. The Xaviers are mortified to learn their precious angel was toting guns up the street in her stroller.
Jude then gets another call from Amanda. She is back at the precinct booking Al Grady. She tells Jude they just got a call from the hospital. Tristan Donovan, the ten year old boy who used to like violent action movies, died in the emergency room.
Jude disconnects and tells the Xaviers and Dryers about Tristan’s death. Midge starts wailing again, and Jeremy also sheds some tears until his dad kicks him and tells him not to be a baby.
Mr. and Mrs. Xavier and Hal Dryer ask what will happen next to their children. Jude says that will be for a judge to decide.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 23, 2023 15:33:11 GMT
081 I’m Going to Show You What It’s Like to Need Blood
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
The episode starts with a shadowy figure following a wealthy woman named Renee Hopkins. She pulls up at the coffee shop and goes inside to buy a box of donuts from Dewey, which she then brings out to her car. She drives off and a short time later arrives at a factory in a rough neighborhood.
Renee finds her usual parking spot and gets out of the car with the donuts. She drops her keys, sets the box of donuts on the hood of the vehicle then bends over to pick up the keys. The shadowy figure is behind her and strikes her with a shiny metallic hook. She goes down.
A short time later Jude is on the scene with Ryan investigating. The woman is dead. The sharp end of the hook sliced her in the abdomen and she bled out. An employee at her factory found her. One of the donuts is missing from the box.
We cut to a studio apartment in another part of town. Someone is at the computer working. There’s a knock at the door. Vita Crowe puts herself on Personal Time and goes to the door. A guy named Celestino is there. He’s eating a jelly donut. This guy is the shadowy figure who killed Renee Hopkins a short time ago.
Vita quickly scans the hall to make sure nobody saw him come into the building and quickly ushers him inside. He’s here for his money. She goes to the freezer where there is a bag of cash. She returns to Celestino and gives him some of the cash. As he counts it, he realizes there’s more than what they agreed upon.
Vita explains to Celestino the extra amount is for a second victim she wants taken care of by the end of the day. Celestino waits as Vita goes to her computer then returns with info on how to find the next person.
We go back to Jude at the factory, questioning the workers about Renee Hopkins. She didn’t seem to have any enemies, and was always doing nice things like bringing donuts to work for her staff. Before Jude and Ryan leave, someone says that Renee did have a sometimes difficult relationship with her 16 year old son Myles.
We cut back to Vita’s apartment. Celestino is reading the info she gave him about the next victim. Vita says she heard on the news about Renee Hopkins and didn’t want her dead. Just injured. If they die, then it defeats the purpose, gets in the way of the message she’s trying to send.
Celestino promises that the next person won’t die, but will certainly require a trip to the emergency room. “Good,” Vita says. Celestino leaves and Vita returns to her work at the computer. She puts a few drops of lavender oil on her forehead. It’s been another stressful day.
We cut to the precinct. Jude is in his office. Amanda has come in and asks if there was any motive for the murder of Renee Hopkins. Jude says they’re tracking down leads. Ryan went to talk to the woman’s teenaged son. Jude had to return to the precinct because of a blood drive. He sits in a chair to give blood. The organizer asks if he completed the health questionnaire, and he says yes. The phlebotomist comes over.
We go to the nearby Catholic high school where Ryan has gone to find Myles Hopkins. Myles is devastated to learn that his mother was killed. Sister Agnes prays with him and lets him call his father who’s on his way.
In the next scene Jude has joined the others at the school office after donating blood. He looks faint but insists he’s fine. He is brought up to speed on the investigation by Ryan. Sister Agnes is allowing Myles to go home with his father. Before Horace Hopkins leaves with his son Myles, he answers Jude’s questions about his wife.
Horace says Renee was loving but overprotective of Myles. However, Myles wouldn’t have been angry to want his mother dead. Myles and Renee were fond of each other, even when they didn’t see eye to eye about his grades or his choice in girlfriends. Jude reacts.
We then go to Celestino who is now following the next victim. It is a bald hispanic man named Maclovio Torres. The man finishes a job interview at a fast food restaurant. He’s been unemployed for months and needs a job. However, his past criminal record makes it hard to get employment.
Maclovio sees Celestino and notes his attractiveness, rounding the corner into an alley. As Maclovio walks down the alley to a subway stop, he realizes Celestino is following him. He gets scared and tries running but trips. By the time he gets up Celestino is behind him and slashes him with the sharp hook. This time Celestino made sure not to kill the victim.
After commercial, we fade in on Maclovio the next morning in a hospital room. Jude and Ryan show up. Maclovio is now awake after surgery. It is said Maclovio was pierced in the spleen area. Jude wants details about the attack since the weapon (a hook) in this case matched the weapon used to kill Renee Hopkins a day earlier. It is hard for Maclovio to relive the experience but he does. Jude looks on as Ryan writes down answers.
This is intercut with Celestino at the coffee shop enjoying another jelly donut. He calls Vita to see if there’s anything else she needs him to do. She says no, people on the phone have actually been pleasant today.
At the same time Jude and Ryan are leaving the hospital. Jude gets a call from Amanda to return to the precinct.
At the precinct, another day of the blood drive is occurring. Sonja is there to give blood when Jude and Ryan arrive. Sonja and Jude have a moment while Ryan talks to Amanda about what Maclovio said. Sonja is unable to start her blood draw, since she gets a call from Dewey that a pipe burst in the coffee shop restroom. She needs to hurry off and tells the organizer of the drive she will reschedule her blood donation.
As Sonja leaves, Jude goes over to Ryan and Amanda. Amanda just got a call from the Greater Chicago Tourism Bureau. They were flying a drone over an area downtown to get images for an upcoming series of ads they are planning, and one of the images was a man (Celestino) striking another man (Maclovio) with a hook.
In the next scene Jude and Amanda are meeting with a tourism official and looking at the shots obtained by the drone. As they zoom in on Maclovio being struck by the hook, with Celestino’s murky shadow running off, we cut to Maclovio’s hospital room.
Ryan shows up. Maclovio called Ryan’s number after he remembered something that happened the previous day. He says he talked to a very strange telemarketer. Ryan writes this down. Before Ryan leaves, Maclovio tells Ryan he finds him attractive. Ryan is flattered but says he doesn’t swing that way. Maclovio figures something’s off with his gaydar.
We cut to Vita’s apartment. She is at her computer, wearing a headset. She is on a call, scheduling an appointment. We learn she works for an organization called UniBlood. She follows a specific script to entice a donor to make an appointment to donate life saving blood. She has just booked her 6th appointment for the day and lets others know in a team chat. She is proud of herself, since she’s half way through her shift.
Soon Vita is back on the phone. She reaches a voicemail and leaves a message. Then the computer calls another number. It is Sonja’s number. We see Sonja at the coffee shop with a plumber in the background fixing the pipe. Water is all over the floor. Sonja is not in a good mood. She picks up her phone and hears Vita’s voice on the other end of the line.
Vita does the first part of her script. Sonja interrupts her and says yes she knows all about the critical need and the national blood shortage. She had an appointment earlier but couldn’t keep it. Vita, sweet as sugar, asks if she can help reschedule Sonja. But Sonja says not now. She will call back or else use the app to reschedule.
Vita doesn’t like this because she’s anxious to get a 7th appointment. She tries a rebuttal and Sonja loses her temper with Vita. “Listen, I have an emergency I am dealing with right now and I don’t have time for this. I already told you I will reschedule later. You people are awfully pushy, and I don’t like how often you call!”
We cut back to Vita on her computer headset. She does not like how Sonja is talking to her and lays a guilt trip about Sonja not really wanting to help saves lives. One pint of blood that will only take a short time to donate. Sonja is furious about the unending sales pitch, because she can’t get off the phone and the plumber needs her attention. After Vita says something snarky, Sonja says “go to hell bitch” and disconnects.
Again we go back to Vita. The call has ended but she is now doing After Call Work. She writes down Sonja’s address, then picks up her cell phone and dials Celestino who is driving around somewhere. She says she has another one for him. She wants the woman taught a lesson right now and will pay Celestino later.
In the next shot Vita is texting Sonja’s personal info to Celestino. As soon as she sends the text, Vita looks at the computer screen with Sonja’s info and says: “I’m going to show you what it’s like to need blood.” Then she triumphantly closes that tab and goes on to her next call, happy with how she’s doing her job to educate people on the importance of life-saving blood donations.
At the same time Celestino receives the text that Vita sent to him. He recognizes Sonja’s name, since he goes into the coffee shop frequently.
We cut to the precinct. Jude and Amanda have returned from the tourism office and meet up with Ryan while the blood drive in the background is still in full swing with various officers and secretaries donating. Ryan tells them what Maclovio said, that he spoke to an angry telemarketer yesterday trying to schedule a blood donation, which he didn’t have time for since he was on his way to a job interview.
Jude walks to the organizer of the blood drive and asks if they have lots of teen donors. The organizer says yes, they are going to the Catholic school for another drive tomorrow. Jude has Ryan call Horace Hopkins.
In the next part Horace shows up with his son Myles. Horace has his wife Renee’s phone. Myles knows the password. Jude sees a number from UniBlood called Renee before she was killed. Horace says Renee should have been on a ‘do not call’ list since she recently had cancer treatments.
Myles speaks up and says he donated blood at the high school a few months ago and gave his mom’s number, since he’s a minor and needed parent permission to donate. Jude now realizes the hook attacks are now connected through UniBlood. He wants Ryan to call someone at UniBlood and find out the name of the agent that spoke to Renee Hopkins at the time that call came in on her phone.
We then cut to Celestino. He is hanging around outside the coffee shop. The plumber is leaving. Sonja follows the man out to the alley and thanks him. Then he hops in his van and drives off. Just as Sonja is about to go inside and help Dewey with customers she sees a figure lunge at her with a hook.
After the commercial, we fade in at the hospital. Sonja is there getting treated. Jude is at her side. It is learned that Sonja escaped grave danger by veering to the side when Celestino lunged at her. However, he did slice part of her arm, which required some stitches. She’s more shaken up than anything. It is said that Celestino was chased by Jude and Ryan then eventually apprehended. He is in police custody now.
A doctor releases Sonja, and she decides to go with Jude to the precinct to give blood. She is not going to let a crazy person stop her from doing something she likes to do, and it benefits other people. As they get into Jude’s car and drive towards the precinct, we cut to Ryan.
Ryan is now with another officer visiting Vita Crowe. Inside Vita’s apartment, she hears a knock. She thinks it is Celestino arriving for payment. She puts herself on Personal Time, takes the headset off and heads to the door. She looks through the peephole and sees two cops on the other side. She starts to panic.
Ryan’s voice is heard through the door: “Open up, Miss Crowe!” Vita runs to the window, and sees more cops below with Amanda. Vita could jump from the balcony, but it would surely kill her. She realizes the gig is over.
Vita then turns as Ryan and the other cop burst inside by kicking the door down, guns drawn. Moments later they start to arrest her. She asks if she can log off her computer before they take her away. Oh, and can she take her bottle of lavender oil with her? This is such a stressful day.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 24, 2023 14:45:01 GMT
082 While You Live and Breathe
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
We start with Bernice coming by the precinct. She talks with Jude and Amanda, saying she is worried about the captain who is still on an extended leave. She has gone by his place a few times, but he refuses to open the door to him. She recalls his past alcoholism and is afraid he’s turned to the bottle again.
Amanda doesn’t think they should jump to conclusions, but she agrees that she’s just as worried as Bernice is. She is going out on rounds and will stop by the captain’s place and get him to let her in. Bernice is grateful. As Amanda heads off, Bernice tells Jude she spoke to Sonja who seems very much in love with him. She asks if he plans on proposing.
Jude is caught off guard by the question and asks Bernice if Sonja has been hinting that she’d like him to pop the question. Bernice says Sonja hasn’t come directly out with it, but she knows how women in love think and she suspects that’s what Sonja would like. Jude reacts.
We then cut to Amanda on rounds. She pulls up outside the town home where the captain lives. She goes up to the front door and rings the bell. It takes a while before the captain answers, after he realizes who it is.
Amanda steps in side and notices he hasn’t shaved in a while. He says he thought it was Bernice come back again. Amanda admits she’s here because Bernice dropped by the station and was worried. They’re all worried. He leads her into the living room, and she asks if he’s heard from Nenita. He says no. It is mentioned that Kokoy’s no longer in legal trouble after testifying against Shiro. Amanda says she heard Kokoy got a job at Sugar’s motel. The captain could care less about Kokoy.
As Amanda looks around and inspects the room she sees empty pizza boxes and an empty bottle of whiskey. She asks if he should be drinking again. He gets defensive and says that is none of her business. He then hides the bottle out of shame. He sits down and asks if she will tell Bernice he’s hit the bottle again. Amanda promises she won’t, if he lets her get rid of any other unopened bottles he has. He reacts.
We then cut to a town home across the street. This is where the captain’s neighbors the Ibsens live. Mrs. Rhonda Ibsen is a young bride. She’s only 19 and miserable. We learn she married 70 year-old Dale Ibsen for his money, and is distressed that he is hanging on despite his bad liver.
A medical specialist, Dr. Chandler Raymond, has dropped by to see them. Dr. Raymond tells Rhonda that Dale won’t make it through the weekend if there is no suitable liver donor. Rhonda has flashbacks of how she met Dale and the last year of her rotten married life where she was responsible for the death of Dale’s disapproving son, Alex.
Out of the flashback, Rhonda is showing Dr. Raymond to the door. In the next shot he is getting into his car and driving away, as Amanda leaves the captain’s place. Amanda sees Rhonda on the front steps of the home across the street and recognizes Rhonda. She walks over.
We establish that Rhonda is a former beauty queen that Amanda’s mother Gisselle had sponsored in a recent pageant. They know each other. Amanda heard from her mother that Rhonda married an old man. Since she saw the doctor drive off, she asks Rhonda if everything is okay.
Rhonda says her husband Dale is in need of a new liver and the doctor is apparently doing all he can to find a suitable donor, but it may not be enough. Amanda has to get back on rounds and will say a prayer. She tells Rhonda to call her mother if she needs anything. Rhonda appreciates that. Amanda then hops into her car and drives off.
Later when Amanda is back at the precinct, she sees Dr. Raymond who came by to sign a statement about another case Jude’s been working on. Amanda recognizes Dr. Raymond and tells him she knows Rhonda Ibsen and how she heard Dale may not have long to live. The doctor admits that Dale Ibsen is a very sick man.
After the doctor leaves, Amanda dials her mother. She is sorry she hasn’t been in touch for awhile. She tells Gisselle she saw Rhonda Ibsen and that Rhonda might need support. Gisselle likes Rhonda and thought Rhonda had potential to become Miss Illinois. She will go see Rhonda.
As the call ends, Jude asks if Amanda visited the captain. She says she did and that the captain is back on the sauce, just like Bernice feared. But she poured out all the booze and the captain said he’d attend an AA meeting in the morning. Jude hopes so.
We then cut back to the Ibsen home. Rhonda can’t deal with Dale’s abusive tirades when he isn’t feeling well. She has grown even more impatient, and she wants it all to be over. A short time later, a drug dealer she knows comes by and gives her something in liquid form. She plans to put this into Dale’s coffee. The dealer leaves and Rhoda makes some fresh coffee and takes it up to Dale who’s hollering at her about something else she supposedly did wrong.
Just as Rhonda hands him the coffee, the doorbell rings below. She goes down to answer and is surprised to see Gisselle. Gisselle comes in and says she heard about Rhonda from Amanda. She is here because she cares. Rhonda offers her a cup of coffee (without anything in it). They sit down and chat, reminiscing about an old beauty contest.
Their chat is interrupted when they hear Dale get out of bed upstairs. He has come to the top of the landing, and he’s ranting and raving about something. He starts to accuse Rhonda of wanting him dead. Gisselle watches Rhonda calmly deal with the situation by going up the stairs and gently leading him back to bed.
Gisselle realizes Rhonda needs to focus on Dale, and she leaves. Before she goes, she tells Rhonda to stay in touch.
After Gisselle takes off, we track Rhonda back upstairs to the bedroom. Dale says he knows she put something in his coffee earlier, because he could smell something in it. And he did not take a sip of it. Rhonda is flustered. She confronts Dale and tells him that she is going to kill him this time, and nothing will stop her.
She takes some of the liquid drug she bought from the dealer and puts it into a syringe. She then advances over to Dale, who is sitting up in bed, very weak. He cannot get away from her. The camera zooms in on his eyes, horrified at what’s about to happen.
In the next scene, it is a bit later. Gisselle has come back because she forgot her phone. The front door did not latch all the way. She keeps ringing the bell and Rhonda’s not answering. She knows something must be wrong. She goes inside and finds her phone but doesn’t find Rhonda or Dale. She decides to go upstairs and check.
In the bedroom, Gisselle is surprised at what she finds. Dale is still alive, but Rhonda is dead on the floor. Gisselle dials Amanda, who shows up with Jude a short time later.
It is learned that when Rhonda had advanced towards Dale to kill him, she tripped and fell on the hypodermic needle, accidentally killing herself. Dale watched it happen but he was unable to get out of bed to do anything about it.
Dissolve to the next morning. Dr. Raymond has come by to check on Dale. He informs Dale that they found a donor. It seems that Rhonda was an organ donor, and her liver is a match. She did not die in vain, because in death, she will help save old Dale’s life.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 25, 2023 14:08:36 GMT
083 The Return of Steve Cade
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
Jude is more than a bit annoyed when TV personality Robert Arden starts hanging around the precinct again. He says that the folks at CrackerStax realized sales of their delicious snack food went down when he went off the air. They have struck a deal to bring his alter ego Steve Cade back for 13 new episodes. If the show is a hit with viewers again, then the order will extend to 22 episodes for a full season.
Jude is happy for Arden, but he is not happy that Arden seems to have gotten permission from the captain to hang around and do research about new crime solving methods.
When Jude calls the captain to vent, it’s obvious his concerns are falling on deaf ears. The captain is still out on leave, but claims he’s attending AA meetings and is getting back to his old self. He will have a short scene in the next episode of ‘The Return of Steve Cade’ so he and Bernice are going to an image consultant to make sure he plays himself correctly on camera. Jude wishes them luck and hangs up.
In the next part Jude is trying to get some paperwork done but Arden is still getting in the way. Jude tries to convince Arden to do his research at night when Amanda is running the precinct, but Arden wants to infuse certain Jude-isms into his portrayal of Steve Cade. If he tried to add any Amanda-isms, it just wouldn’t work. Jude knows Amanda will be crushed to hear that. Their chat is interrupted when a call comes in from a wealthy family that lives in the ritzy section of downtown.
A short time later Jude and Robert Arden (who is now in character as Steve Cade) arrive at the Logan home on Chestnut Lane. It seems the maid Hildegarde found some evidence in an otherwise locked bedroom that pertains to an old unsolved murder. It’s a diary that was left behind by the Logans’ deceased son, Calvin. Mr. and Mrs. Logan are a couple Jude knows (they appeared on ‘Acts of Violence and Contrition’). They are currently on a Caribbean cruise but due home soon.
The maid says she found a key to the locked room and went in to tidy it up. She found Calvin Logan’s diary and read some of it. She has it on dining room table. She gets it, opens it up and reads a few paragraphs to Jude and Robert/Steve. Since her English is not perfect, Robert/Steve helps her, showing her how to dramatically emphasize the passage.
In one of the paragraphs Calvin says he watched his father Arthur kill another man. He feared his father might kill him, too, and he’s having the evidence from his father’s crime sewn into the lining of the pants he knows his mother will bury him in, when the time comes. Jude tells Hildegarde she did a fine job reading. He takes the diary for evidence.
As they go up to bedroom to see if there’s anything else, Hildegarde recognizes Robert Arden as Steve Cade. She is from Munich and says Steve Cade’s old show is very popular in her native country. She teaches Steve some words in German that he says on the dubbed version of his program in Germany. Steve likes it and writes it down. He will have his dialogue writers include this in the new scripts so that he doesn’t always have to be dubbed. She is happy that he is going to be making new episodes. He says his agent, accountant and ex-wife are happy, too.
While they’re bantering, Jude calls Holy Name and asks if Adrian is available. Sister Agnes will get him. When the priest comes on the line, Jude asks if the Logan family has a burial plot with the church. Adrian says they do. In the next scene, we are at the burial plot and Jude is having the body of Calvin Logan exhumed. The lining of his pants are examined and just as it said in his diary, there is something sewn into the lining—a key. But Jude has no idea what it might open.
Of course, Robert/Steve has some idea, but his theories are substantially wacky and Jude is getting fed up. Finally, Jude loses his cool and tells Robert/Steve off. Jude may have gone too far and stops the car to apologize. But Robert says he loves it. Those are the kinds of Jude-isms he wanted. He’s going to use all of that in the next episode. He asks Jude to drop him at the hotel, so he can meet with his show’s head writer.
Meanwhile, the Logans have arrived home from their cruise. They are upset to learn from reporter Ashley Clark that their son’s body was exhumed. Arthur Logan goes to call his attorney, and his wife Gladys goes to the church to talk directly to Adrian and Agnes. They say they were following a court order. Just then, Jude comes in and says he’s sorry about what the Logans are going through.
Jude explains he had to look into everything, when the maid came to him with the new evidence. Gladys understands but she says Arthur is livid and that he’s thinking about firing Hildegarde. Jude says that Steve Cade would like to hire Hildegarde as a dialogue coach on his show. Gladys doesn’t fully understand. She’s never heard of Steve Cade. Jude tells Gladys not to let Robert Arden know that. She says she’s never heard of Robert Arden either. Jude wishes he could say the same.
The next scene occurs at the precinct conference room. Robert Arden returned from meeting with his writer, and he’s now back in character as Steve Cade but is playing it more Jude-ish. He is sharing CrackerStax with everyone. Across the table are the Logans and their lawyer.
As the scene in the conference room occurs, the key in Calvin’s pants pocket is mentioned and Jude shows it to the Logans and the lawyer. Gladys never saw it before, but Arthur did. Jude asks what the key opens. Is it something in the Logan home? Arthur says it’s a key to a metal box in a discrete location. He puts money in the box each month and a person who has another key comes and takes it out. He realizes Calvin must have borrowed the original key and had a duplicate made.
Jude wants to know what the key opens. He is getting impatient. So is Robert/Steve, who repeats what Jude just said but with more dramatic emphasis. However, the lawyer is instructing his client not to answer anything further. But Arthur Logan wants to get this out into the open.
Gladys wishes it didn’t have to be said at all. Arthur then takes a deep breath and says his son Calvin killed a young woman that had been abducted a few years earlier. The Logans had wanted to keep their deceased son’s name out of the papers. Arthur has been paying the woman’s family a sum of money each month so they wouldn’t file a civil suit against the Logans or talk to the media.
Arthur says he did not kill Calvin. Calvin committed suicide, but they didn’t want that revealed, because they were afraid their son wouldn’t be able to have a proper church burial. Jude asks how Calvin Logan killed himself. Arthur says they own some land in Wisconsin. He took Calvin up there hunting and Calvin shot himself with a rifle. Arthur says it happened on some property near Madison.
Arthur and Gladys Logan were glad their son died, as horrible as it sounds to say it. Then he couldn’t hurt any more young women. After they buried Calvin, they had his bedroom locked, because they just couldn’t walk in there; that is where the woman’s death occurred when they were on one of their cruises.
The last scene has Jude back at the Logan place once more. He’s up in Calvin’s old room and he makes sure the forensics people got everything they needed. As Jude goes downstairs, Hildegarde hands him his hat. He says danke schon, and she says auf wiedersehen.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 27, 2023 14:05:08 GMT
084 Tony, Part 1
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
At the beginning of the episode we learn that Berto Salerno has returned to Chicago from Vegas. He has breakfast with Schuyler and learns how Schuyler’s studies are coming along. Then he leaves to meet up with Tony at the long-term care facility in Schaumburg.
In Tony’s room they discuss how the time has come for Tony to leave this place, and that nurse Wendy Plout will help. Berto thinks Wendy is disposable and they can get rid of her afterward, but Tony needs Wendy for something else.
We then cut to Schuyler who has gone to see Naldo and Sandra at the Salerno home. He suspects Berto is going to help Tony evade justice, and he wants to see if Naldo and Sandra have any clue. During this scene Schuyler is shown how much Naldo and Sandra’s child has grown. The little boy is really Tony’s son, but that is not mentioned.
As Schuyler is about to leave, he’s surprised to see Ryan come by. Ryan asks what Schuyler was doing here, and Schuyler says he brought a gift for little Vito since they are family.
We cut back to the facility in Schaumburg after Berto has left. Wendy helps Tony put on a disguise, dressed as a maintenance man. Then he makes his getaway into a waiting vehicle that Berto’s provided. Inside Wendy has gone down the hall to another room, where a patient with Alzheimer’s disease is taken from his room into Tony’s room.
We go to the Salerno mansion in Chicago where Schuyler has left, and Ryan has a conversation with Naldo and Sandra. Sandra takes Vito up for a nap, and Ryan asks Naldo how often Schuyler comes by.
In the next scene Ryan has to get to the precinct. He will be in touch with Naldo. A woman is arriving as Ryan leaves. She is here to apply for a job as a nanny for Vito, since Sandra needs extra help.
Back at the facility in Schaumburg, Wendy has put the other patient in Tony’s bed, then told another nurse that “Tony” has a very contagious virus and is now quarantined. The other nurse seems to accept this. As Wendy goes off to complete some tasks, she gets a text from Tony and replies back, telling him nobody suspects he’s gone.
At the same time the other nurse realizes the Alzheimer’s patient is missing. He’s gone missing before. She gets someone to look out on the grounds for the old coot. Meanwhile Tony is using an alias and settling in at a hotel room in Chicago that Berto provided for him. The room is near Birdie’s room in the same hotel where she stays. Tony texts Wendy his location and wants her to come see him after her shift. She’ll be there.
We cut to the precinct. Ryan has arrived and is telling Jude and Amanda about his meeting with Naldo and Sandra. He plans to see Tony again tomorrow. In the background, the captain shows up to get something from his office. He tells Amanda he’s on his way to an AA meeting. Amanda is glad. But when Amanda goes off to take a call, we see that the captain is not really heading to an AA meeting.
As the captain drives off, Sonja stops by to see Jude. They step into his office and close the door. Sonja is upset. She tells Jude that her parents are arguing about the civil suit that her father insists on bringing against Gregg Carter for the wrongful death of her brother Karl Jr. She hates the idea of her parents quarreling so much. Jude says if Sonja’s father wasn’t such a racist trying to get back at the Carters, then her family might heal.
Sonja feels this is an insensitive remark, but Jude is not apologizing. Sonja thinks they need a break from each other and storms out. As she exits, Jude opens a drawer and takes out a small box. Inside is a ring. He had planned to ask Sonja to marry him but was building up the courage.
Dissolve to the hotel a bit later. Wendy’s just shown up to see Tony but can’t find his room. Birdie shows her where that room number is. The description Wendy gave of Tony, without saying Tony’s name, made the guy seem familiar to Birdie. But Birdie doesn’t dwell on this since she’s on her way to a church bingo game that Adrian is presiding over.
We then see Wendy arrive in Tony’s suite. She is glad he is living more comfortably now. She explains that she put the other patient into his old room, but that people are looking for the other guy and it’s a matter of time before they learn what’s happened. Tony says she won’t be working there long, because he has another job in mind for her.
Wendy asks what kind of job. Tony says he’ll tell her in the morning. Right now he starts to kiss her and says he wants her to spend the night.
We cut to the Salerno mansion. Naldo and Sandra discuss how the gal who came by for the nanny job earlier doesn’t seem like a good fit. There is someone else they will interview in the morning.
Dissolve to the next morning. Ryan has shown up early at the facility in Schaumburg. He learns from the other nurse that an Alzheimer’s patient was found in Tony’s room, and Tony’s missing.
Ryan calls the precinct and tells Jude that his father is missing. Ryan thinks Schuyler may know where his father might have gone.
Meanwhile Wendy is wearing her nurse’s uniform. Only she is not returning to the facility in Schaumburg. She goes to the Salerno mansion and meets with Sandra and Naldo about the job of looking after Vito. They are impressed that she’s a nurse, not aware she is using a phony name per Tony’s instructions.
They decide to hire Wendy on the spot and ask when she can start. “No time like the present,” she says.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 28, 2023 14:21:59 GMT
085 Tony, Part 2
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
Ryan is at the precinct telling Jude and Amanda how Tony disappeared and that a nurse, Wendy Plout, is also missing. Ryan met Wendy several times and isn’t sure if she is helping Tony, or if she’s his victim. He has an appointment with Schuyler in a bit to try and get info out of Schuyler.
We then cut to the Salerno mansion. Wendy is looking after Vito. Sandra and Naldo are very impressed with how well she’s instantly bonded with the tyke. She encourages them to go out for a bit, and she will get to know Vito better. After they leave, she calls Tony and says she was hired. She texts him some pictures of the boy, thinking it’s his grand nephew not knowing the boy is really his son.
We go to Ryan at the park meeting Schuyler. They walk and talk. He says Tony is missing, and Schuyler isn’t surprised. Schuyler says Berto went back to Vegas and admitted Tony wouldn’t need his help for awhile but didn’t say anything other than that. Ryan wants Schuyler to help find out where Tony might now be. Schuyler doesn’t like getting mixed up in this, though he does like flirting with Ryan. Ryan leans in for a kiss, hoping this will make Schuyler feel safe and decide to help him locate his father.
Meanwhile Jude’s gone to the coffee shop to find Sonja. He apologizes to her for their argument but says he still feels her dad is a racist. She says her father is a complicated man, but that he’s still decent. They are all continuing to grieve Karl Jr.’s death. Jude is aware of that.
Dewey comes in to start his shift. He encourages Sonja to go for a drive with Jude. He knows Jude wants to propose to Sonja.
In the next part Sonja has gone with Jude. They arrive at the park and walk for a bit. He finally proposes to her, after getting a bit tongue-tied, and she says yes. They kiss.
We cut to Ryan who is now with Schuyler at Ryan’s place. This is the first time Schuyler’s been here. They have just come inside and are kissing passionately. They go off to the bedroom.
In the next scene, Ryan is having a cigarette with Schuyler in bed after having sex. Schuyler says he will call Berto to get information about where Tony is. Ryan now seems to have Schuyler doing what he wants.
We then cut to Tony at the hotel, looking at the pics Wendy sent to him of his son. He is in the lobby and meets Birdie, who seems to recognize him. It isn’t until after Tony’s gone out to a newsstand that Birdie puts it together why he looks so familiar.
At the same time, Jude and Sonja have both returned to work. Sonja is showing Dewey her engagement ring, while Jude tells Amanda that he proposed and Sonja said yes. Karl Sr. shows up at the coffee shop to see his daughter and learns that she is going to marry Jude, which he’s not over the moon about. But he tries to be happy for her.
Meanwhile Sandra and Naldo have returned from errands and learn Vito is down for a nap. Wendy has been looking at old family photos. Sandra admits the house doesn’t have a lot of good memories, and that the place was owned by her uncle Tony for many years. Wendy acts like all of this is news to her.
At the same time Tony is returning to the hotel. He hears Birdie tell Jarrett that a very dangerous man is staying here, and she thinks he is probably wanted by police. Jarrett asks who, but before Birdie can tell him about Tony, Jarrett is summoned by Fronklin to the office to discuss something Jarrett fouled up with another guest.
Tony has overheard Birdie and he pays another guest to help lure Birdie out into the back alley. When Birdie goes out back, she comes face to face with Tony. She is surprised to see him, but should have expected it. She takes out her phone and starts to dial the precinct. But he informs her that she won’t be talking to anyone about him. He then shoots her.
In the next scene Tony has taken a car to pick Wendy up after her first day at the Salerno mansion. He doesn’t mention anything about Birdie but says he is leaving town for awhile to meet up with Berto somewhere. He wants her to continue working for Sandra and Naldo, and to keep sending him photos of Vito. He then kisses her passionately and drops her off at her place.
We then go back to the alley behind the hotel. Jarrett is coming outside to throw a bag into one of the bins. He finds Birdie on the ground bleeding out. She’s been left for dead, and he dials 911.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 29, 2023 13:05:47 GMT
086 Christmas Miracle
Outline written by Jarrod McDonald, c) 2023
We start with a recap of the end of the previous episode. Jarrett has come into the back alley behind the hotel to throw something into one of the bins. He notices Birdie on the ground. She’s bleeding out and does not seem to be breathing. He dials 911 and the dispatcher helps him perform CPR.
Inside the hotel, Fronklin is surprised to hear an ambulance pull up. He runs out to the back to see what is going on and learns that Birdie was shot and stopped breathing. But Jarrett seems to have revived her. The paramedics are taking over now. Jarrett tells Fronklin they need to call Father Adrian, in case Birdie takes a turn for the worse.
She is now being put into the ambulance, and the vehicle takes off for the hospital. Inside at the front desk, Fronklin is dialing the church office. Sister Agnes picks up and Fronklin informs her about Birdie. Agnes will let Adrian know.
We stay with Agnes after the call ends. Adrian is returning to the office after a walk on the grounds with Monsignor Duval. They can see by Agnes’ expression that something is terribly wrong. Agnes asks Adrian to sit. Then she fills him in about Birdie.
Adrian leaves for the hospital at once. After he’s gone, the Monsignor asks why a former homeless woman means so much to Adrian. Agnes says it’s complicated, but Birdie Conwell has a way of affecting people.
We cut to the hospital where Adrian arrives. Jude is there, and he talks to Adrian. It is said Birdie’s in surgery. Jarrett shows up and helps fill in some of the blanks, since Fronklin didn’t have all the information earlier. Jarrett says he did not see the assailant, but that after the ambulance hauled Birdie off, another guest was in a hurry to leave. The description seems to fit Tony Salerno.
While Adrian and Jarrett go into the chapel to pray, Ryan gets off the elevator and finds Jude. Jude tells him what Jarrett said about the guest who checked out, who was probably using a phony name. They both agree it had to be Tony. They hope Birdie pulls through and can verify it.
We then dissolve to a week later. It is revealed that Birdie made it through surgery but lapsed into a coma. Meaning she hasn’t woken up and provided any more information. But Jude and Ryan have been working with Fronklin and Jarrett going over hotel security camera footage. They see that Tony was the mystery guest, using a disguise. But the camera behind the hotel was not working, and they still cannot connect Tony with what happened to Birdie.
Meanwhile the shooting has brought Adrian’s mother Cordelia to town. She was at her ranch outside Houston, when she got a call from Adrian about what happened to Birdie. As Cordelia spends time at Birdie’s bedside, there are flashbacks when they both agreed to keep the secret that Birdie is really Adrian’s mother and that Cordelia would pay for Birdie’s hotel suite in exchange for this.
Adrian comes into the room, and he tells Cordelia that he’s been praying for Birdie to wake up. Cordelia knows Birdie had a hard life in recent years, and maybe she is just too tired to wake up. Adrian can see that there is something else on Cordelia’s mind, but Cordelia has to go when she gets a call from Fronklin.
We cut to Ryan who has gone to the university campus where Schuyler is just finishing his last exam before the winter holiday break. They walk from a lecture hall to a parking structure. Schuyler says he spoke to Berto, but Berto was evasive and wouldn’t tell him anything about where Tony might be. Ryan is frustrated.
We go to the hotel where Cordelia arrives to see Fronklin. He tells her that he can put Birdie’s stuff into storage and give her room to other guests, if she doesn’t want to keep paying for the room. But Cordelia says she will continue to foot the bill, as long as there is the remotest chance that Birdie will wake up and come back. Fronklin admires Cordelia and says she is a good friend to Birdie.
At the precinct, Jude is speaking with Amanda who says an officer found Wendy Plout at her home and brought her in for questioning. They go into the conference room where an agitated Wendy is waiting. She insists she never really knew Tony Salerno very well when she worked at the care facility in Schaumburg. She says she quit because she got a better job elsewhere. Nothing connects her to Tony’s disappearance.
Wendy says she can’t be late for her job and she is free to go, for now. After Wendy exits, Amanda agrees with Jude that the woman must have been lying. Ryan has just come in after meeting with Schuyler and he is brought up to speed. Jude wants Amanda and Ryan to go to the hotel and make sure Fronklin turned over all the existing security footage from the day Birdie was shot.
As Amanda and Ryan head to the hotel, Jude takes a call from the captain. The captain is at home and asks Jude how things are going.
We cut to the Salerno home. Wendy is on the clock looking after little Vito. She overhears a conversation between Sandra and Naldo, learning that Tony is Vito’s real father. She starts to realize Tony kept important information from her. Later, when she is taking Vito for a walk, she gets a call from Tony who refuses to say where he is. She asks if the baby is his child, and he doesn’t deny it. She doesn’t like being drawn into all of this, but he says she will be paid well for her help.
Back at the hospital, Cordelia finds Adrian by himself in the chapel. He’s just been talking to Birdie’s doctors. Cordelia says she is still paying for Birdie’s hotel suite. Adrian asks why Cordelia felt personally responsible for getting Birdie off the streets and giving her a second chance at life.
Cordelia is unable to lie anymore. She tells Adrian about the deal she made with Birdie, that Birdie is his biological mother. He’s stunned by all this and will need time to process it. They are interrupted when a nurse comes in and says Birdie just woke up and asked for Adrian.
In the next scene, it is a short time later. Birdie is sitting up in bed, acting like her old self. She wants to know what day it is, and she is told that it’s Christmas Day. She is glad to see Cordelia and learns about the suite. She has no idea that Cordelia just told Adrian the truth that Birdie is his biological mother. But Adrian can’t bring it up, since he’s still processing this revelation. He is just glad Birdie’s awake.
A bit later, Adrian has returned to the church office. Agnes sees the light on and comes inside. She learns that Birdie woke up. Adrian then tells her that Birdie, not Cordelia, is his birth mother. Agnes is surprised, but realizes this explains Birdie’s intense connection with Adrian. She asks what he’s going to do about it. He says Birdie doesn’t know he knows, and he’s not ready to get into it yet with her. Agnes reacts.
We cut to Birdie’s hospital room. Cordelia is telling her that she told Adrian everything.
Meanwhile a precinct Christmas party is held at Biggie’s. The captain shows up and tells them all he is coming back to work full time after the first of the year. He stays away from the egg nog, which has rum in it, to convince Amanda he’s really off the sauce. But later he stops by the precinct and goes into his office. We see him taking a few bottles of whiskey out of a sack and putting them into a desk drawer.
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