Cruz left to go back out on the streets and take that call, where the robbers were headed. Faith looked over at Bosco and pointed towards the door that Cruz had just gone out of with her coffee cup, and said, "Your hero."
Cruz and Dade went back to the fur store that Phil owned.
"What's up?" Cruz asked, as they came in the back.
"Just stepped out," said Phil.
"Thought you were gonna keep them here," said Cruz, in confusion.
"They're coming back with the furs," said Phil.
"Is he by himself?" she asked.
"I don't know," shrugged Phil. "What do you want me to do?"
"Nothin," she said, shaking her head.
Phil looked and pointed at her and said, "You owe me for this one, Cruz."
Cruz gave him an amused look and said, "Me and uh, officer Dade..We've been over lookin' all your swag you got hangin around here today. So no, I think we're pretty much even."
The guys came in with the furs awhile later, and right away, the head honcho robber looked over at Phil and Cruz suspiciously, and nervously. "It's okay, we're okay," Phil lied to them. "Just put 'em over there." He pointed to a table, where the guys set the boxes of furs down.
"I want some cash," the guy said, impatiently.
"I told you, I'd give it to ya. I don't have any big bills on me right now," he said.
"As long as it's green it doesn't matter," said the guy. Cruz looked over at Phil, pre-tending to be an average "customer," and asked, "So you got any furs I could look at, Phil?"
"I have a little. I got an inventory to get," said Phil, casually, as he approached the boxes.
"Can I take a look?" she asked. The guy glanced at her suspciously again, so Phil said to assure him, "She's cool."
The guy shrugged and gave in. "We got some stuff you'd look really pretty in," he said, nodding towards the furs. She gave him this cute, innocent smile, and said, "Damn, look! These are like the real thing!" She said something in Spanish and then gave a cocky laugh as she turned around and told the guy, "Judge is gonna love these." She showed him her badge and smirked, "Cause you're under arrest."
The guy's eyes went wide, and he panicked, so he knocked all the boxes off on Cruz, making her fall momentarily. He sprinted for the doors, and Dade managed to tackle the guy's partner in crime.
Cruz got back up and started running, as she yelled to Dade, "Call for back-up!"
Cruz went outside, with her gaurd high up, and her gun held firmly in her hands, aiming forward wherever she turned. She turned a few corners, but didn't see the guy anywhere. She did however, see a young girl in a window, from an apartment building close by. She held up her badge so the girl could see from where she was, and know that Cruz was a police officer, and not just a criminal with a gun. She turned another corner, and just when she let her gaurd down, the guy came out of the darkness, and knocked Cruz in the face with a long, thick block of wood. She fell to the ground, but wasn't knocked out. She made a noise, and her gun went flying behind her. She tried reaching for it, but he grabbed her by her legs and started dragging her across the pavement. Cruz began screaming, "HELP!" over and over again.
Meanwhile, that night, in the squad car, Bosco was pretty angry at Faith for what she had done with Cruz at the hospital.
"We got that dying declaration," Bosco said, sneering over at her, "Why would you think we made it up??" He sounded disgusted with her. She didn't answer so he continued, "Tried to get into ESU, but I couldn't. I got this anti-crime thing goin, it's working out pretty good for me. But after what you did today!" And there was a pause, before he finished with, "I don't know, man."
"After what I did?" she asked, not believing he could say that. "A Sargent comes after me, wanting to fight, and I did something wrong?"
"She <just> lost her sister!" Bosco defended her.
"And?" Faith retorted, carelessly.
"And that isn't enough for you??" he asked.
"Bosco, she unfounded a 10-13, where a police officer was bleeding to death," said Faith.
"You know she didn't know he was there!" he argued.
"She never bothered to look!" Faith said, raising her voice.
"It was a judgement call," he said.
"Why are you defending her?" asked Faith.
"I'm not <defending> her," he said.
"Like hell you're not!" Faith told him, "I mean nobody should say anything about your little anti-crime girlfriend!"
Faith paused for a few seconds and then covered her forehead with her hand, like she had a bad headache. "Oh my God," she said, shaking her head a little.
"What?" said Bosco, giving her a strange look. "What??"
"Oh my God, she's the girlfriend," said Faith, still not believing it had happened.
Bosco hesitated and then said, "No."
"You're lying," said Faith.
"I wouldn't lie," Bosco replied, after another hesitation.
"You already lied," she said.
Bosco stopped the car to an abrupt halt and looked over at her. "Alright, you know what?" he said, "Stop saying that! I never lied to you! Stop!"
Just then, a call came through their radios. "Members of the 55. We have a 10-13. 10-13 at 108 and King. Plain clothes officer struggling with male suspect."
"55 David responding," said Faith, before giving Bosco another short look. He turned on his sirens and sped to the location.
