By Omar G
Previously on Third Watch: Sully introduces himself to his sexy, cute neighbor Tatiana. Alex walks in on Jimmy doing the desktop mambo with firefighter Lombardo's blonde girlfriend in the bathroom at his own engagement party. Bosco tells his mom how she always took care of the kids after his dad left. And my eyes must be deceiving me because Bosco's mom actually looks kind of cute. Oh, I guess it's to be expected. The Devil has good taste in women when finding vessels for his evil seed.
Some groovy techno music plays as we skim over New York rooftops. Bosco, for the second week in a row, delivers the opening voice-over. "I never put much faith in love," he says flatly. Suddenly, we see some guy running on the rooftops. Bosco voice-overs that love is okay for greeting cards and chick flicks, but in the real world, he doesn't have much use for it. He says he's said it a few times to girls when it looked like, if he didn't say it, he'd sleep alone. Bosco, in slow motion, leaps up into view and chases. Yokas, in even slower slow motion, hops up and follows. They should totally get Ang Lee in here and have them use wires to fly from rooftop to rooftop instead of jumping. And put Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in there. And give them swords. You know what? Screw all that. I should be watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon instead of this. "But mostly, I think it's just a load of sentimental crap women made up to keep men from following their instincts and chasing tail every waking minute of every single day," Bosco continues, interrupting my wishful thinking. More techno music. More chasing. Criminal guy leaps from one building to the and we get a taint shot looking up from down below. Bosco follows, leaping over. Yokas leaps too, but lands hard and rolls. Bosco voice-overs that, like the man says, (Uh, Dennis Miller, maybe?) that's just his opinion. He could be wrong. But he doesn't think so. Yokas gets up and tells Bosco to let the guy go as Bosco and Bad Criminal Man continue running. Sensing that Bosco's not gonna stop, Yokas gets up and radios him. "It's only J.J.," she says. "We'll get him later." Bosco continues chasing. Music continues playing. Leaping. Running. J.J. throws a bunch of tiny bags of drugs all over the place. Bosco says he can see J.J. and knows where the drugs are coming from. More rooftop leaping and running. This is like watching The Tick. J.J. finally stops at the edge of the roof. Bosco dares him to jump. Aw, Bosco, didn't you see The Fugitive? The guy actually jumps, and lands only a few floors below on another rooftop. But it looks like the guy hurt his leg. He starts moaning. Idiot. "Did you think you were gonna bounce?" Bosco calls out. J.J. gets up, moaning, and goes to the ladder. Bosco asks if he's going to climb down with one broken leg. "You're pissing me off!" Bosco yells. He walks back and collects the drugs from the roof. Bosco asks Yokas if her leg is okay. She says she followed her moron partner when he jumped over the Grand Canyon. Hee hee. Bosco laughs and runs downstairs. Yokas yells that the guy will be out on the street the day if they arrest him.
Downstairs on the street. "No way. No way," Bosco says looking up the fire escape. J.J. got away. Yokas says the guy may go to the hospital if he's hurt and he'll be out on the street anyway where they can find him later. "He's going down," Bosco says. Twice.
At the station. Kim is showing off her new big boots. Carlos asks if she's planning on climbing the K-2 anytime soon. She says she's keeping her feet warm. They're expensive boots, but they breathe, she says. Doc and Carlos rightfully make fun of her. She says they'll be begging for a pair when they're standing in the snow for two hours. Wait, don't they drive ambulances? When are they ever going to have to stand in the snow for two hours? Doc points this out. I laugh.
Some useless exposition about a Super Bowl party just to keep things current. Somebody's having a pool and Bobby wonders how somebody could get 33 points in a football game. Various combinations are thrown out, none of which seem plausible. Carlos even chimes in with a scenario involving eight safeties. Just then Lombardo walks in looking pissed. Jimmy is asking whether Lombardo is going to the Super Bowl party when Lombardo walks up and punches Jimmy in the face. Lombardo thinks he's Vince Lombardi all of a sudden. Lots of yelling. Lombardo yells out "Son of a bitch!" several times. Jimmy asks what's wrong with Lombardo. Well, for one thing his hand is sore now. Doc stands in the middle looking like a tiny man indeed. Lombardo tells Jimmy he's a big man coming over every weekend. "Why don't you tell 'em what you did?" Lombardo challenges Jimmy. "Your own engagement party?" he says. "My girlfriend Linda in the bathroom?" Except everybody already knows, as is evidenced by the looks of shame on Doc's and Kim's faces. "That's right, she told me," Lombardo says. Then he tells Jimmy he'd better grow some eyes in the back of his head. Why, so he can have sex with Linda in even more positions? Lombardo walks off. Jimmy walks off. Alex walks in, with her bad timing and her little elf hat, looking like the poor man's Meg Ryan (actually these days, maybe Meg Ryan is the poor man's Alex Taylor) and says, "What's goin' on?" We go to opening credits.
AOL 6.0 is the best version ever? That's like saying new poop-flavored Cheerios are the least poop-flavored Cheerios ever!
Some raspy guy is playing the guitar trying to sound like Springsteen, and before I know it, I'm on the floor because it's actually Sully in a pair of jeans pluckin' the acoustic. Damn, Sully! You're just full of surprises. He actually plays very well, playing some Dave Matthews-sounding chords. Doesn't sing too well, though. A knock at the door gets him up. He answers, and it's Tatiana in a cute blue wrap. She introduces herself, smiling way too much, and Sully says that of course he remembers her. She asks if his TV is out, which is to say the cable. Sully says he hasn't tried watching it. He invites her in to check it out. "Wow, it's big!" she announces, but it's only his apartment she's talking about. Sully says he's had the apartment for fifteen years, securing it before the rents went way up. She marvels that he's been there for fifteen years. I'm not even sure Tatiana is fifteen years old. "You're musician?" she asks when she sees the guitar. Sully says no, he just messes around. He can't find the remote either. Tatiana asks how long he's been a policeman. Too long, he says. Tatiana reveals she's a waitress at the Marriott. "But policeman has good benefits, right?" she says. That strikes me as an odd comment. Is she looking to get hooked up with some spousal benefits? Is that her little game? She says she has no benefits, but wears a short skirt and gets good tips. Sully looks sullied. He finds the remote on top of the refrigerator (the Hell?). He turns on the TV and the cable is out. Sully asks if she wants him to call the cable company. Tatiana says it's okay (signal to Sully: she just came over to check you out) and starts to leave. On her way out, she says she loves music and used to listen to it back home. Uh, anything specific? Sully asks where home is/was. She says the Ukraine. Cool. Ukranian babe. Sully says there're lots of places in the city to check out music. But of course, he doesn't offer to take her. "Yeah, I should," she says, and goes back to her lonely life. Sully goes back to his.
Fire station. Jimmy's outside brooding like somebody did him wrong. Ho-girl, I mean Kim, goes outside. "It's cold out," she says. But not as cold as your black heart. Jimmy tells her to go away. Then he asks why Linda would have told Lombardo about their pre-nuptial nookie session. "Probably had a fight or something," Kim speculates. Jimmy asks what the guys inside think. Kim says they don't know what to think. Jimmy says he always knows it's a bad idea when he's engaged in outside nookie. But he can't help himself. He's like a kid in a nookie store. "Pretty stupid, huh?" he asks. Kim doesn't say a word because she'd be the pot calling the kettle "nookie." "I have to tell Brooke, don't I?" Jimmy asks. Oh, crap. He says every time he has something good in his life, he has to screw it up. Yeah, just like that song, "Butterfly" by Weezer. Sigh… Kim looks sad. Hey, Kim. He wasn't talking about you. He said, "Something good." I end the paragraph with no more ways to work in the word "nookie."
Rap music thumpin'. Inside the cop car, some handheld shots are shown that look like they were cribbed from NYPD Blue. Bosco gets out of the car like he's Shaft or something and tells someone in a parked car to leave. He says, "Hey jagoffs!" to a group of possible drug dealers. He makes one guy take off his cap because, according to the Book of Bosco, the Islanders are the best hockey team in the world and you can't deal drugs wearing one of their hats. Good point. He asks where J.J. is. Bosco threatens to keep coming back, ruining their drug trade if they don't give him info. He makes fun of people, including a guy with "stupid hair." Some lame insults are traded, including one barb from a drug dealer that posits Bosco wearing a little red thong. Even if it's a lame joke, I have to laugh at that mental image. Bosco pushes Mr. Drug Dealin' Don Rickles up against a wall as Yokas tells the others to get back. Bosco finds drugs on the guy. "What do we have here?" Bosco asks. "Illegal narcotics? I am shocked. And dismayed!" That really is pretty funny. Bosco busts the guy.
In the car Yokas sarcastically asks if Bosco feels any better. Bosco tells the drug dealer that Yokas thinks drugs should be legalized. "That would cut into your livelihood, wouldn't it?" he asks the guy. Drug Dealin' Don Rickles shuts up for once. Yokas implores Don Rickles to tell them where J.J. is. Don Rickles says he needs his inhaler because he's got asthma. Damn. Life on the streets is hard. Now they have to take the asthmatic to the hospital. Yokas bitches about it.
In a fire truck. Jimmy looks uncomfortable. Lombardo looks pissed. Alex smiles a stupid, smug Mona Lisa smile. They arrive at a car fire. Jimmy starts to get out, but is pushed back by Lombardo. "Stay out of my way," Lombardo says menacingly. Jimmy slams the door shut in anger.
At the hospital, Yokas asks for a Band-Aid for her scraped leg. The head nurse asks if Boscorelli is a common Italian name. Bosco says it's not. The nurse says a woman was brought in who looked beat up but said she ran into a door. Angela Rose Boscorelli. Bosco turns, looks pale (well, paler) and heads down the hall without a word. Yokas follows him. "Mom?" he asks, pulling back curtains. He finds his mother in the second room, and says, "Ma?" looking and sounding like a little boy as he sees his beat-up mother. "Damn it. Steve?" he asks. She's got a black eye and bad bruises and scratches all over her face. She says immediately that it was an accident. Yeah, an accident that she didn't do a Burning Bed on his ass. Sad tinkly music plays. Bosco gets mad and asks if the guy even brought her in. Momma Bosco says it was her fault. He storms off as she calls after him, "Maurice?" He thunders down the hall looking pissed and Yokas asks him if his mom's all right. Bosco walks on without a word. Yokas cuffs Don Rickles to a chair and says it's his lucky day.
In the car, Bosco is driving very, very fast. Yokas says they should turn on the lights if he's going to drive like that. Bosco: silent. Yokas asks where they're going. Bosco says that if she wants out, he'll stop. Yokas hits gold by asking if his mom's boyfriend beat her up. No response. She asks whether Bosco wants to talk to the detectives. She says she thought Bosco's mom had left that guy. "Guess not," Bosco tells her.
At a warehouse, Bosco gets out of the car and storms in. Racks of clothes are everywhere. Bosco is Arnold as The Exterminator. A guy in a sweater who looks from far away like Dennis Farina starts to run away. Bosco chases and yells out the choice insult of the week, "You son of a bitch!" More chasing. The guy ducks into a freight elevator. Bosco runs down some stairs, but the guy is gone. Yokas follows. A car drives by and Bosco tries to stop it. He throws a bottle and misses. "Damn it!" he yells. And walks off mad.
Saving Silverman commercial. Jack Black. Steve Zahn. Pie-sex guy. I'm so there.
Diner. Ty is looking through the newspaper trying to help Sully find a suitable musical act for him and From Russia, With Love to check out. Ty suggests the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Sully always gets fed up with Ty when he's trying to help, and this is no exception. Hey, Sully, Ty is a playa'. Maybe you should recognize the pimp skillz and take some notes. Sully says there's no point looking because Tatiana's probably not even interested. Ty says that Sully is a nice guy and has a good job. Maybe she just wants stability. "You make me sound like a table," Sully moans. "D.J. Mind-X," Ty suggests. "That's romantic," Sully says. "What's romantic?" Kim asks. Shut. Up. Kim. Ty tells her that Sully's neighbor is into him. "Ooh," Kim says, and it's actually very funny. "Ta-ti-yawn-a," Ty says, in an even funnier line. Ty says they're looking for stuff to do on their first date. "Have sex," Kim says, in the least surprising line of the season. She says you can get it out of the way early and if it's no good, you don't waste any more time on a second date. Jeez, Kim. Slut, much? They start talking about how Tatiana is an exotic name. Kim does a Roy Orbison growl and now I'm just looking for a place to hide. Bobby tells the story of a Russian stripper and how they keep it real. Bobby tells Carlos, who just walked up, about it. "Does she got any friends?" Carlos asks. "Friends who are desperate?" somebody else says. Sully gets as fed up as I am and walks off. Everybody protests. Good for you, Sully. Don't take no guff. He wants to start singing New Editions' "Cool it Now," and say, "Bobby / Carlos / Kim and Ty -- I like the girl, who cares who you like!"
After Sully leaves, Carlos brings up the Jimmy situation. Carlos talks about how it took five guys to pull Lombardo off. "You were eating Cheerios," Doc reminds him. Hee hee. Kim notices that Sully left his fortune cookie. Okay, fortune cookie in a diner? I like you, scriptwriter John Wells, but you're stretching here. You know that, right? Kim reads it. "Love is priceless. True love, irreplaceable." Great. A Gold MasterCard commercial. "Well, that's profound," Doc sniffs. Shut up, Doc. You think Monday Night Football and Ti-Cheeze are profound.
Squad car. Night. Bosco and Yokas are staking out the old guy's house. Yokas says the guy's probably laying low and isn't coming home. She asks how long Bosco's mom and her beater have been going out. "A couple of years," Bosco says. Yokas tells Bosco maybe his mom should get an order of protection or something. Bosco gives Yokas a deadly serious look. "Okay," she says, dropping the subject. A call comes in of gunshots fired. After some hesitation, Bosco agrees to respond to the call. Yokas calls it in and they drive off.
At the station. Awww, poor sad widdle Jimmy. Did your peepee get you in trouble again? He sadly walks up the stairs and is stunned to see his closet / locker has been opened up. Clothes and his leather jacket are shredded up. Stuff's on the floor. What, does he live in a frat all of a sudden? He stares at a picture of Lombardo, Linda, Brooke, and himself. How could it have gone so wrong? Oh yeah, your peepee. Nice going. And how dare the Third Watch music editor play sappy sympathetic music here.
Outside the police station. In plain clothes, Bosco and Yokas emerge. You know, Bosco, it's not really getting out of uniform if you wear a ski hat that says "NYPD" in big white letters. Yokas asks Bosco if he wants to get a bite to eat or a drink. He says, "Nah." She asks if he's sure. Yeah, he seems pretty sure. She asks if he's gonna go home. He says he is. "Maurice?" someone calls. It's Bosco's mom. Yokas leaves. Momma Boscorelli comes up to Bosco and asks him not to hurt her boyfriend. "God," Bosco says, seeing his mom's puffy, swollen face. He shakes his head in disbelief. "Where is he?" Bosco asks. Momma Bosco is mad that Baby Bosco went to the factory. She says her boyfriend could lose his job. Baby Bosco doesn't give a damn. She says that they had a fight, she said terrible things, and basically it's her own fault for getting beat up. Bosco angrily asks if she's even looked in the mirror. Ouch. She says she hit the boyfriend first and was chasing the guy. "Do you think you deserved this?" Bosco asks. Momma Bosco says the guy loves her. Bosco definitely doesn't believe that. "He doesn't mean to hurt me," she says. I hear "Luka," playing in my head. "Please don't hurt him," she pleads. Bosco gets a lump in his throat and looks like he's gonna cry. She puts her gloved hand on his cheek and then her head on his shoulder. Baby Bosco looks like he's gonna explode.
Jimmy in front of his house. Brooke walks up. They kiss. She asks where his jacket is. It's at work, torn up, but he doesn't say that. She asks what happened to his face and whether it's one of those fire stories that's gonna keep her up at night. Jimmy tells her that he and Joe Lombardo got into a fight. About Linda. Uh oh. "What about Linda?" Brooke asks, oh-so-innocently. Jimmy tells Brooke about the sex at the engagement party. "Did you?" she asks. He nods. Brooke starts crying. She invokes God. She walks away. Jimmy tries to stop her. She tells him to stay away. Goes inside. Jimmy is left out in the cold, in more ways than one.
Anybody else think Papa John's is just gross? I used to love it, but something in that sauce just makes me cringe now.
Bosco back in his car on stakeout. Yokas knocks on the window, surprising him. "Did I scare ya?" she asks. She tried to call Bosco's house, but she got the machine. Bosco's busted. She says the beater probably is staying somewhere else. Bosco tells Yokas about the conversation with his mom. Bosco lets Yokas in on some family history: his mom pushes and pushes in arguments until she gets hit. And it's happened with other guys, too. "And my dad before that," he says finally. Wait a minute. I thought you said in another episode that their divorce came as a total surprise when you were criticizing Yokas. Continuity, please? Bosco goes on. He says beating women is as American as the Fourth of July. What about beating women on the Fourth of July?
Sully at home. He's on his way to work, hesitates, and then knocks on Tatiana's sweet, sweet door. He asks, lamely, if her cable is back on. Yes. Yes, it is. "Mine too," he says. Come on, stud, ask her out! He babbles, shakes his head, and then tells her that he hasn't seen live music in a long time. He finally asks her out. "Awww, kay!" she says. "That sounds nice!" Sully grins like a little kid. He asks when, and their conflicting schedules (she works weekend nights, he works weekday nights) becomes a problem. Sully says he gets off at 11, but that's okay with her because she stays up late. "How 'bout tonight?" he asks. She agrees. "Tonight would be good," she says slyly. Oh yes, it will be. Smiles, grins, chuckles. Sully, you dawg.
At the fire station. Guys are betting on a game and somebody says, "On any given Sunday," for no reason whatsoever except maybe John Wells is a buddy of Oliver Stone's. Jimmy walks in all mopey. "Did you talk to Brooke?" Kim asks him. He says he told her the truth. "What are you gonna tell Joey?" Kim asks. She says that if they're splitting up, she'd rather have him hear it from Jimmy than from her. Kim, you cold, heartless wench. Just shut up, okay? Jimmy walks off. Compared to Kim, he's an angel.
Upstairs, Jimmy sees Alex changing. He asks if she wants to leave since he's now a pariah. In the words of Livia Soprano, "Oh, poor you!" Alex asks what he expected. Then Jimmy goes on about how he introduced Lombardo and Linda and how he used to date Linda back in the day. Alex asks if that makes it any better. Jimmy bitches about Linda telling Lombardo, and Alex responds, "So it's her fault for telling the truth?" "Everybody's fault except yours, huh Jimmy?" Alex is in cross-examination mode and she's on fire. "I'm pretty sure I dated you a couple of times over the years," Alex says, slyly. Then she hints that Linda must have had strong feelings to hurt so many people and to have sex with him at his engagement party. Jimmy acts the fool. "For a guy who's had a lot of women, you sure as Hell don't know much about them," Alex says as a parting shot, and leaves. Ooh, burn.
Bosco and Yokas show up at the warehouse again. Yokas tells Bosco that this is a really bad idea. Bosco gets out of the car and storms on. He calmly goes to Mr. Girlfriend Beater's car and deflates one of the tires with a knife. Yokas follows after him like the Good Cop she is and asks if they're vandalizing private property now. As he walks purposefully, Bosco racially slurs some guy who was about to close the door. Poor guy. He looks a little like Ruben Blades. Bosco gets off the freight elevator looking down like he's a refined killing machine from the future. One that terminates people. Walking. Walking. Damn, I haven't seen this much filmed walking since Jackie Brown. He spots Girlfriend Beater standing in almost the exact same spot as last time. The camera zooms in on Bosco's pissed-off face. He sneers and starts walking. "Hey, Steve," Bosco calls out, and then he grabs and pushes the elderly gent. Punch. Punch. Punch. Kick. Kick. This is like old school Mortal Kombat. Yokas gets there and does nothing. Kick. Kick. Bosco throws a trashcan at the guy. Steve Girlfriend Beater tries to crawl away. Bosco drags him back and gives him another what-for. More punches. Yokas finally tells Bosco to stop it. Geez, Faith, what were you thinking about just then? Your problems with Fred? Way to uphold justice. She finally pulls Bosco off after yelling, "Enough!" Bosco gets up. Through clenched teeth, he says, "You touch my mother again, I'll kill you." The beater raises up his hands. "Somebody get an ambulance for this piece of trash," Bosco announces to the very frightened people standing around. Yokas and Bosco walk away. Commercial sign.
What kind of name is Sebring for a car? It's pretty, though. Wing, when the site goes IPO and you guys are millionaires, will you buy me one?
Sully and Ty in the squad car. Nighttime. Sully's poking through the newspaper looking for some live music for his date with Tatiana. Ty asks if she might not want to just go to Sully's place. Hey, that's an idea. "Get it on, so to speak?" Ty asks in a funny, singsong way. Sully clenches his teeth like he's got diarrhea. Ty then suggests that Sully take her to a hotel where they have piano music in the lobby. Sully is not convinced. "Is that all you ever think about?" he asks. "No. Yes," Ty says. Sully prattles on about how he wants to impress this girl, not scare her off by making a move. Ty insists that women expect men to make a move and are offended if they don't. This is logic? Sully puffs off. Ty goes on, saying that women get confused. He says, in a girl's voice, "Is there something wrong with me? Is my butt too big? Is he gay?" Damn, Sully, laugh already. You know it's funny.
Hospital: Bosco hurt his poor little hand knocking the snot out of the old guy. He thanks Yokas for coming with him. "I coulda stayed in the car," she says. Doctor Sadistic from earlier in the season walks in, telling Bosco he's got a minor fracture. The old guy has some broken ribs, assorted fractures, and a chin that needs stitches and a plastic surgeon. Ouch. The nurse tells Bosco and Yokas that they can wait in the nursing lounge. The nurse asks if it's the guy that beat up Bosco's mom. Then she tells Bosco that his mom is back in the hospital. Uh oh. But it turns out she's only visiting her boyfriend.
Bosco walks down the hall as the tinkly Music of Doom and Bad Childhoods plays. He looks through the window at his ma hugging the beater. Steve the Beater looks pretty upset. Bosco walks away, but not before Mom spots him. She runs out, slapping him about the shoulders. It was none of his business. She'd begged him. Worse than that, she calls out "Maurice" in front of everyone. Bosco is really about to cry now. He asks how she can let the guy treat her this way. "It's my life," she says. Bosco says it's his life, too. Yelling match. Bosco says that he couldn't stop his father from beating up mom, but he can stop this guy. Bosco then gets really emotional and talks about how growing up in their home was like watching a prizefight. He was ten years old, watching his dad get violent. Again, this is in total opposition to Bosco telling Yokas before that his parents had a happy marriage until right before they divorced. Maybe he was lying? Bosco brings up his brother, too, who was eight at the time. Mom suddenly gets misty and says she cares most about her kids. Bosco doesn't believe it. He asks if she's filed charges. "Or are you in there begging him to keep you around?" Mom is crying now. Bosco says he's not ten years old anymore. If somebody hits her, they're going to get a beating, he says. "Maurice," she calls out, but Bosco's already left. Yokas follows him into the nurses' lounge. He's crying, or very near to it. Yokas tells him that they're wanted back at the station: the old man is filing assault charges. Bosco nods. He expected it.
Fire station. Some happy revelry around the dinner table is interrupted when Jimmy comes downstairs and asks whether Joe's around. All merriment quickly ends. They say he's downstairs. Jimmy starts to walk away, then stops and says, "If it makes any difference, I'm sorry." Um, it doesn't, Jimmy.
At a bar, Sully and his date, both of whom are very dolled-up, are informed that the music's not going on anymore for lack of customers. Tatiana isn't deterred. She says the bar is nice and they should stay. It's an empty dive, but it's probably better than the bars in the Ukraine. She orders a 7 & 7. Sully orders vodka, chilled, no ice. They sit down and Sully is very apologetic. Tatiana doesn't seem to mind the lack of music, food, or entertainment. In fact, she looks giddy. They make small talk. She's been in the U.S. for two years. She asks Sully what kind of music he likes. She likes rock 'n' roll. He likes everything. A match made in heaven. She asks if Sully dances. He says it's been ages. Then a magical thing happens. She asks if Sully plays piano. Turns out he does and he did promise to give her music. So smooth man Sully hits the keyboard. And starts playing some Gershwin. She recognizes the Gersh and says, "Yeah, he wrote 'Rhapsody is Blue!'" Almost. She is so amazingly impressed. I think it's love, folks. L-O-V-E-4-S-U-L-L-Y. About damn time. She smiles and claps. Sully grins more than I've seen him do in the entire collective run of the show.
Guy moment. Jimmy walks up to Lombardo. "Hey, Lombardo. I slept with your sister, too." Not really. But all he does is say, "I'm sorry, Joe." Lombardo asks Jimmy if it was worth it. "No," he says. Damn right. Jimmy walks away all sad.
Bosco and Yokas at the station. Bosco acts like he doesn't plan to defend himself even though he might get fired. Bosco asks Yokas if she thinks the violence is hereditary. He wonders if he'll beat his wife if he gets married. Yokas says it doesn't have to be that way if it's not what you want. The woman handling the case comes in and gives them some good news. No charges are being filed. Bosco's mom stepped in and said if files were charged, she'd have the guy arrested.
The hallway to Sully and Tatiana's apartments. Tatiana says Sully is nice, but he protests. He says he'd rather be dangerous, mysterious, and virile. She says women like men to be nice and predictable. Is that true? She's wearing a big fur coat and looks lovely. Sully starts walking to his door and says he had a nice time. Awkward moment of a possible kiss. She asks if he's going to invite her to his place. He says of course, but he doesn't have much to drink. She says she's not thirsty, she just wants to go to bed. At the door, she kisses Sully. Wow. "Do you like sex, John?" she asks, "Because I like sex." Whoa! Sully closes the door hurriedly. Hanky panky, we assume, goes on.
Outside the station, Bosco asks Yokas if she needs a ride. She says no, plus he's got company. Mom's paying another visit. Bosco thanks Yokas for sticking around and goes to his mom. What follows completely changes my view of Bosco and Jason Wiles. Mom is crying. She says she'd never do anything to hurt the Bos. Bos starts to mist up. "I only wanted what was best for you and your brother. Will you please forgive me? Please? My baby? I love you so much." Bosco sneers. He sniffs. And then his heart grows two more sizes. He hugs his mom and starts crying. No. No way. I am not crying during a Bosco episode. No freakin' way. I… I… Damn. Tears. The song Sully played comes up again. As Bosco and his mother hug, a police cruiser drives away into the distance. We pan up to the night sky and go to blackout.
Bosco's a sweetheart? Sully's gettin' lucky? These are truly bizarre times. week: Sully is accused of corruption just as things are getting interesting with his new Russian sex magnet. Will Sully do it all for the nookie? Stay tuned and find out.