Shoot the Messenger

Lt. Carver wants to ride along with each of her detectives, and Danny is first in line. While investigating a drive-by shooting at a playground, they find a young mother has been gunned down but her baby is unharmed. A young man tries to flee, though in an interview with Danny later, he identifies himself as Rudy, the father of the now motherless baby. He says that the mother became a target when her ex-boyfriend got out of prison, knowing that the baby was too young to be his, and Rudy fears he is next. Danny gets Rudy to I.D. the drug-dealing former boyfriend, but Carver becomes irate over his techniques. Elsewhere, Jamie and Eddie find a young woman who has apparently hanged herself. But further investigation shows she was the victim of sexual harassment by her boss at her tavern job, and after quitting, the boss raped her. Meanwhile, in a TV interview featuring Frank and newly-appointed D.A. Robert McCoy, McCoy states he doesn't plan to prosecute petty marijuana possession charges, and he asks what Frank thinks about that. Frank feels like he was ambushed, and when Erin is ambivalent upon being questioned about it by Frank, her dad correctly surmises that Erin and McCoy are romantically involved.