BEDFELLOWS
Aired 10/01/07

Music List
“Didn’t Have to Leave Me Alone” by Nelsen Adelard
“Gobiernos” by paco
“Blues For Tiny” by Smokey Hormel

Recap
At the water's edge, Cobb, Love Tap, and Glue Boy look on as a man's naked corpse is fished from the canal. Off to the side, Boulet sings into his cell phone to his daughter. Cobb plucks something small from the body's armpit area -- a light blue fingernail with a tiny pink flower. Boulet promises his daughter Tawni he will be at her school play later tonight. Boulet identifies the body as Clay Beelman, the former District Attorney of New Orleans.

At the police headquarters, the detectives learn that Beelman went missing after a fundraiser with a guest list of 500 people. ADA Lyndsey Swann tells them of Beelman’s involvement in the 'Green Space Initiative,' which tears down neighborhoods like Eastover and Lamont to use the land as parks for buffers in future floods. Two years after Katrina, Eastover is considered a ghost town. Boulet says that homeowners from Eastover have sent death threats to politicians about this idea.

Boulet takes the blue fingernail home to Ayana, who suggests it comes from Ma Cherie Nails. Boulet and Cobb talk with the owner of Ma Cherie, Fong Trang. She identifies the nail as belonging to Laine Rogers -- a call girl at the Poplar House, which is a high class brothel run by a woman named Marquetta. Embry, Boulet and Cobb raid the brothel looking for Laine but instead find Sarah Rogate, who Embry is familiar with. Embry is angry at Sarah for not telling him about Laine. Feeling two-timed by Laine herself, Marquetta gives Embry the address she has for Laine. Embry admits that Sarah is his confidential informant and her tips always check out.

Love Tap and Glue Boy interview Mrs. Beelman, who has a folder of hate mail written by squatters in Eastover. Some of the letters are from someone named William Herck, who wrote threats on his law office stationery.

Cobb and Boulet find Laine Rogers dead. Her fingernails painted Tiffany Blue, except for the middle fingernail. Also there is Thomas Macy, a middle-aged man wearing a T-shirt, boxers and women's garters. He is hanging onto the balcony railing. A red ball-gag is in his mouth, preventing him from speaking. Cobb dumps him on the ground. Macy says that the assailant spoke Spanish.

Glue Boy and Love Tap drive through Eastover, a storm-ravaged middle-class neighborhood in New Orleans East. William Herck fires at them with his AK-47 from his house. Cobb and Boulet respond to the incident and stop Herck, who thought they were from a gang. He claims that Latinos in low-riders drive up and down the street, trying to scare them out of their homes. The detectives accuse him of killing Beelman and Laine Rogers. Herck’s neighbors back up his story of the Latin Kings that come to harass them from Carrollton on the other side of the city.

As they drive to pay a visit to Mateo Cruz, the head of the Latin Kings, Cobb and Boulet discuss Embry. Embry's wife died six years ago and his daughter had just started college on the East Coast. They came back for the funeral and that's the last time they have talked. When they arrive, Cruz is running a shuttle service for day laborers headed for job sites around the city.

Back at headquarters, Boulet and Cobb interrogate Thomas Macy. He claims to have not seen anything but just heard the killer who used the word “Sera.” Boulet thinks it might mean “Sarah.”

They phone the Poplar House, but no one there knows where Sarah is. Embry is furious with them and suggests they break for the night. Embry comes home and finds Sarah waiting. Flashing back to the time of Hurricane Katrina when Embry took people into his home. One was Sarah, who reminds him of his daughter.

Sarah is worried that whoever killed Laine is looking for her. Two days ago, Laine called crying from the Maison Azur because there was an accident involving Clay Beelman. Sarah admitted she helped dispose of the body into Lake Ponchartrain.

Ayana calls Boulet from the school auditorium, asking if he is coming to his daughter’s play. He’s at the station, looking at the clues when ADA Swann tells him none of the m.o.'s in the other murders Cruz was suspected of matched Laine Rogers' killing. Yet she did find a drug case brought against Cruz a year and a half ago, and Cruz got off on a technicality in which Clay Beelman was the prosecutor. Boulet speculates that Beelman hired Cruz to intimidate the residents of Eastover. Cruz would then profit from the landscaping work when the neighborhood got bulldozed. He realizes that Laine, the dead hooker, was the go-between.

Cobb and Boulet ask Marquetta to find Mateo Cruz in her little black book. She is resistant, and tells them that Cruz only saw one of her girls -- Sarah Rogate. Laine wasn't the go-between. Sarah was.

Embry also found this out from Marquetta. He confronts Sarah at his house, and she confesses to killing Beelman. Cruz killed Laine because she wouldn't give Sarah up. Sarah’s cell phone rings, and it's Cruz. Sarah realizes that he and his gang of thugs are outside of Embry's house. Embry orders her to lock the door and get under the bed. Embry calls for help. Cruz drags Sarah from under the bed at gunpoint. He and Embry engage in a standoff. Boulet and Cobb get the call and quickly rush to the scene. They engage in a shootout with the gang members inside of Embry’s home.

Embry tackles Cruz away from Sarah, and wrestles for the gun. Cobb and Boulet grab Cruz as Sarah rushes into Embry's arms. Embry arrests her for conspiracy and the wrongful death of Beelman.

Sarah is put into custody at the police station. Embry looks at photos of his daughter and calls her up.

Boulet waits for his daughter to come out of the school auditorium among her classmates. He tells his daughter that he saw her show. He lifts her onto his shoulders and they go off for a celebratory banana split.