In this Blue Bloods story Marissa Ramirez asks the question "do we always have to do our jobs so well?" That's because she and Donnie Wahlberg hate putting away this defendant.
In their place so would you. They collar Robert Sean Leonard a recent widower who lost a wife and child when a drunk driver mowed them both down and sped away. He got no justice because a smart lawyer got him off.
Because of 9/11 we are spied on everywhere and a surveillance camera caught a shadowy figure knife the drunk driver and then deliberately tried to make it look like a robbery. That's what his action told Wahlberg and Ramirez.
But a strange karma is at work here and the two detectives try to see some cosmic justice is done.
Anthony Abatemarco is seen outside on Foley Square talking to an old neighborhood pal who owes some big bucks to Russian mobsters in Brooklyn. They have him working the debt out after a fashion. Bridget Moynahan upbraids him and wants him to gain his confidence and rat him out.
Being a rat goes against his upbringing, but Abatemarco is a smart guy and he finds a much better solution all around.
Robert Sean Leonard is compelling as sympathetic collar and Abatemarco shows another reason why he's my favorite on the show.
