Baggage

Danny and Linda go to their bank to refinance their home mortgage, they are rejected and while figuring out why, the bank is robbed by a group of Army veterans. Danny sets out to find out why. He finds culprits lookout spot littered with cigarette butts. DNA matches a veteran not yet arrested for the robbery; he refused to speak with Danny and Maria. He makes a call; Maria traces it to a restaurant. Danny hears a waitress who sounds like one of the robbers. He later visits the woman's husband and find he has no legs and is also suffering from traumatic brain injury the result of combat. He tells the detectives he has had numerous delays in approval for treatment from the Veteran's Administration, but that his wife was able to come up with $100,000 in a "fundraiser". Danny and Maria realize the bank robbery was the "fundraiser", but they do not let on the soldier. Danny also finds out the woman was cheating on her husband, he gets photographic proof and he uses it as leverage to get her to confess. Each member of the group ultimately receives five years in prison, while Danny and Frank are able to pull some strings with the VA to get the soldier treated immediately. Meanwhile, the work of a guerilla street artist named Spanky (in the vein of Banksy) is causing public scares in the form of pop-ups that emerge from unattended bags. This creates a rift between Garrett and Gormley on how to treat these actions while maintaining the image of the NYPD. Garrett becomes annoyed when he thinks Frank is favoring Gormley. Ultimately, Spanky is arrested while trying to fly to the UK. Garrett realizes that Gormley was right to treat Spanky's actions as terrorism, and apologizes by asking him to be a speaker at an upcoming lecture series.