"Hey I got you"
Chapter Five: The Bigger They Are
3x07: A Dead Kid, a Notebook and a Lot of Maybe's
*Trigger warning*
Becklean was sitting in a booth across from Kevin, he was aggressively rubbing jelly on his toast. He called her here for breakfast and to talk about how to handle Voight.
"And, you know, really don't know what he thinks of me. I mean... I got bumped up a year ago. I still don't know where I'm at. I mean, you know Voight little better than me. You think he thinks I'm good police?" He sucks the rest of the jelly off his Thumb as Becklean sips her coffee.
She shakes her head at Kevin and takes a napkin to the side of his mouth. " I think Voight thinks everyone's got room for improvement. You know what I'm saying?"
" Yeah, I feel you." He continues to munch on his toast aggressively. " Is that James Whitaker?"
" Oh, he's the captain of the 31st, right?" Becklean looks back at the man behind them.
" Like the Black Pope of Chicago. Does a big card game. All the powerful brothers in the city are there. If you're in that game, you made it."
"Hmm. You know, the way you've got to handle Voight is you..." Kevin gets up starting to leave.
" Oh, hold on." he waves her off.
" Good talk."
Unfortunately there was a call from Burgess and Roman, a teenager was missing from his house and he was armed.
" Sarge. Just got word. Patrol found a body behind the school. By the fence."
They approach the fence and see a body Jay and Ruzek lean down to inspect the body.
"Well, body's cool. He's been here a while."
" He's still holding onto the gun, and there's a muzzle flash by the entry wound. It looks like a suicide." Jay explains.
" It's a .22 caliber. No wonder nobody heard the shot." Antonio says.
" All right, Burgess, I want you to hand deliver that pistol to forensics. Tell them I need a rush order to confirm ballistics."
"Got it." Burgess begins collecting the gun.
" And keep sweeping the school. We don't know if this kid was operating alone." Voight says as Becklean goes to look inside the backpack next to the body.
" Guys, nobody move! Don't key your radios. Just back up slow. We got a bomb."
They call in the bomb squad who loads up the bomb into a containment chamber.
" It's a very crude pipe bomb." Sully the bomb tech explains.
" Thanks, Sully."
" Crude bomb in the right place will do a lot of damage." Jay comments, the Trio and O go to talk with the Mother.
" Just doesn't make any sense. I don't know what happened to him. He was always such a happy kid." Becklean sits a glass of water down in front of her.
" I can't imagine how difficult this is, but I have to ask these questions. Colin went missing yesterday, but you didn't report it until this morning. Is that right?"
"Oh, I... I got home late. I fell asleep. Just assumed he was here."
" How was he able to get his hands on a gun?" Jay asks
" My ex left it for my protection." she gulps thickly.
" Did your son have any activities outside of the swim team?"
"Um vídeo games. Lots... lots of video games."
"So he was basically unsupervised?" Erin continues.
" It's hard when you work two jobs. It's not like I can afford a nanny."
" That wasn't an accusation, Ms. Blake." Becklean reassures her.
" Who was Colin's friend, EJ?"
" I'm not really sure. He, uh... he was an only child. He was used to being alone."
" So he didn't have one close companion?" O hands the notebook that Colin had to Jay so he can read it too.
" I wish I could tell you. I... I never knew that he was in so much pain."
//
"Colin Blake. Apparent suicide outside of his school. We're waiting on the ballistics, but the gun that was recovered at the scene is registered to Colin's father." Jay tapes photos up on the board.
" I questioned the headmaster. He said Colin was a loner. Scholarship student, swim team. He was the kind of kid who you saw around but never noticed."
" I checked Colin's phone. There's a few texts and phone calls, but nothing jumps out. You know, he didn't post much on social media. No manifestos."
" Except that in Colin's journal, he always draws his revenge fantasies with a partner. He talks a lot about a kid named EJ. "Talked to EJ at practice. He's the only one who gets it. I have to do this no matter what. I hope EJ is with me." Becklean reads a few pages from his journal.
"So maybe EJ wasn't with Colin. Something happened. He didn't show up. Colin got cold feet and decided he couldn't go through with it alone, and he took himself out instead of his classmates."
" If EJ is in fact a real person and they were in this together, he could still be planning to carry out the attack on the school." Jay continues.
" Well, there's no EJ at Webster, but there are four boys with those initials, and one of 'em is on the swim team. Ethan Jones."
" Find him. Get expedited search warrants, talk to teachers, students, anybody who knew Colin. I need to know if there's an ongoing threat at Webster Country Day." Voight says
Before long Burgess and Roman bring in Ethan Jones and Jay and Becklean decide to talk with him along with a youth detective who has to present.
"Hey, Ethan. I'm Detective Becklean West." Becklean smiles at Ethan leaning against the wall.
" I'm Detective Jay Halstead."
" And I'm Detective McCabe. I'm with the youth division. I'm here on your behalf."
Ethan rolls his eyes and sits back in his chair. " Why am I here? I'm the one who got beat up."
" Ethan, I think the kids at school were just scared. Not just about Colin. They're scared about you." Ethan scoffs as Jay sits down infront of him,
"Did you know that Colin kept a notebook? It's pretty interesting." Becklean opens the notebook. "Talked to EJ at practice today. He's the only one who gets it." EJ is you, right? "I want revenge. I want to kill." She tosses the book on the table and Ethan picks it up and laughs softly.
"Is there something funny to you in there?"
"If you knew what it was like, you wouldn't be too happy about it either." he places the book back down on the table.
"You're at a school with a lot of rich kids, and you didn't fit in, like Colin. The rich kids, they look down on you, bully you. You and Colin, you decide to take your revenge."
Ethan shakes his head and rolls his eyes again. " You really don't get it. I wasn't planning to kill the bullies."
" Then what were you planning?" Ethan just looks at him. "What am I not seeing?"
Ethan gulps thickly. " Nothing."
" Hey, Ethan, I'm here. All right? Tell me."
" Um..." Before he can speak his mom walks in. "EJ. Oh, baby, look at you."
" I'm all right."
" All right, Ethan, stay with me. Hey, stay with me. What were you and Colin planning?"
" You don't have any idea what you're talking about. All that stuff about Colin, that was his thing." Ethan snaps and Jay simply sighs.
Mouse was pinging Etahn's phone and they find it outside his swim coach's house they don't find Ethan there but they do find the swim coach's car graffitied with the word pedophile on the front. Of course they bring him in for questioning. Jay decides to bring Ethan in again and talk with him alone. Becklean watches with Erin And Voight from the viewing room.
" Ethan, you gotta help me understand. Why'd you spray-paint "pedophile" on his car?" Ethan sighs. "Maybe it's too hard to say out loud. So you spray-painted it knowing you'd get caught. Knowing that this whole thing would just blow up. And that... is fine. That's fine. Sometimes things like this, you just got to take a sledgehammer to 'em first. But now here we are. Tell me what's been going on. I swear to you, I'm gonna do everything I can to make it right." Ethan starts to cry. "It's okay."
" My dad told me... I was supposed to be a man."
" We just kicked a pedophile." Becklean says, hitting the wall with her hand.
" We don't let Sanders out of our sight"
". Got it." and with that the two sisters leave, oh if only Coach Sanders was prepared for thai blonde bombshell he was getting thrown.
//
"All right, Sanders did coach at a small prep school in Milwaukee, but he never had Jeff on any of his teams. There was one Jeffrey at the school, but he's black and he lives in London." Erin explains.
" I spoke to the Milwaukee police. Never any charges filed against Sanders, no victim reports."
" M.E. came back on Colin's death. Muzzle burn is consistent with suicide, but there wasn't enough gun powder residue on his hand, and the angle of entry doesn't make sense." Antonio explains.
" Colin was murdered."
"It looks like it. Time of death between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m." Antonio continues
"We know where Sanders was then? He was at the school with an airtight alibi for when Colin disappeared."
" Uh, guys? Guys, I just pulled the surveillance footage from the cameras around the Emerald City Cafe on the afternoon that Colin died. There's one next door." Mouse starts playing the video camera footage. "There we go, so there's Colin. And that's Jeff. I know it's not much, but, you know, he's 5'10", white, he's got a tattoo on the neck. They left around 1:15."
"So this Jeff lured Colin out pretending to be another victim and then killed him." Voight says.
" Sanders has to be the one pulling the strings." Jay continues.
" I accessed Coach Sanders's bank records. He liquidated a college fund a week ago for $3,200."
" Where's he gonna hire a hit man for that?" Becklean scoffs slightly offended.
" He volunteered at a juvenile detention center last year as a conditioning coach. You throw a rock in there, you're gonna hit somebody willing to pull a trigger for that price.
" Find this guy." Voight says as everyone gets to work. Jay walks into the breakroom where Ethan was. Becklenaw as standing in the doorway.
" Ethan, um... I got to go, but your mom's on her way in. Okay?"
" Can I ask you something?"
"Sure." Jay nods.
"Does my mom need to know?"
" Yeah, man. She does." Jay places a hand on his shoulder
" Can you be the one who tells her?"
" If that's what you really want." Ethan nods and Jay pats his shoulder before walking over to his Desk he sniffles as Becklean walks over to him.
"Are you okay?" she places a hand on his shoulder.
" Do me a favor and don't leave me alone with the swim coach, 'cause..."
" Hey, I got you."
" All right." Jay clears his throat, grabs his coat and leaves.
//
"Sergeant, we got rush hour coming. Are you gonna move the body, or do I have to shut the whole thing down?"
" We'll let you know."
The train manager sighs before walking off. They found the guy posing as Jeff his name was Jessie and he started rabiting after Jay saw him he then jumped off the subway train while it was still going.
"Backpack's clean. Just a bunch of clothes." Erin explains.
" Yeah, we searched his pockets. There's nothing to tie him to Sanders."
" Money just says the kid had money." Becklean continues.
"This guy got off easy." Jay says as everyone nods.
"Yeah? Our only connection to Sanders just died with that kid. I don't want any cameras near here. You understand? No media. Right now, we're the only people in this city who know Jessie's dead. Let's keep it that way."
They bring Sanders into interrogation and Jay is rolling up his sleeves which Becklena has to admit is hot she is waiting in front of the door with her sister.
"Okay. Sanders's lawyer is on his way."
" Well, hold him off. Just let me set the hook." Voight says as the two sisters nod.
"Sarge.:"
" Hmm?" He turns to face Voight.
" I want to do this." Voight looks Back at Erin and Becklean. Becklean is giving him her signature "No" look.
" Maybe a little too much." He pats Jay on the shoulder walking into interrogation.
" Hey, come on." They watch from the viewing room. Voight explains how he has Jessie in the next room and he does not understand how Sanders has nothing to do with it. Sanders doesn't say anything so Voight tells him if he leaves that he will be going with Jessie's version of the story.
"Jessie wasn't supposed to kill Colin! He was just supposed to scare him! JHe was just supposed to scare him to keep him quiet. That is all I told Jessie to do."
" Uh-huh. So Colin's death, that is on Jessie. Right?" Voight says as Sanders sighs.
Becklean just wanted nothing more than too break Sander's face but she kept her shit together. Long enough to go home and snuggle up with her niece. Malia had been over for a few days and jay said he needed to be somewhere.
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