Unsung – The episode begins with Officer Maria Delgado’s (Monica Raymond) funeral. After, Sergeant Lasman (Eriq La Salle) asks Officer Traci Harmon (Troian Bellisario) if she is going to the family’s house. She tells him that the Watch Commander is expecting them to clear. In their cruiser, Officer Alex Diaz (Brandon Larracuente) asks Harmon how she is doing. It takes her a bit to respond but when she does, she says let’s get some food first.

When Harmon takes Diaz to her favorite rib spot, he receives a text from Officer Holt (Robert Bailey Jr) telling him that the HIV test came back clean but he is going on IOD (Injured On Duty). Diaz and Harmon’s conversation segues into her sister who used to be a cop. Harmon tells him that she was injured in a high-speed chase that ended her career. Their meal and conversation are cut short when a domestic dispute call comes in on the radio.

When Diaz and Harmon arrive on the scene, they are flagged down by a lady who leads them to what looks like a prostitute situation where the John supposedly snorted 4 lines of coke after only paying for two. The John, Creeper (Francisco Pryor Garat), was just paroled three months ago, so he gets real talkative about some East Barrio members when he learns that he might be going back to jail. He tells them that he overheard them talking about sitting on a hot package. Despite what he tells them, Harmon has him sent back to jail for hitting Liana (Autumn Paige Cowan). She does however bargain with Liana to learn that a hooker named Baby Blue (Ashley Smith) was partying with the East Barrio members. It takes Harmon a minute, but she convinces Baby Blue to admit that Eddie ‘Maniac’ Watson (Ian Down) was with the East Barrio members. She also tells them that he invited her to a party later that night at Oceanside Motel.

While staking out the motel, Diaz and Harmon come across a vehicle registered to Norberto ‘El Monstro’ Vierya (Danny Rivera). Harmon and Diaz briefly debate about how to proceed and whether or not they can trust each other before Harmon goes Code 5 and enters the office to speak with the manager. The manager tells them Monstro is in Room 112 and checked in for 3 others. They haven’t left the room once. They go back to the cruiser where Harmon calls the order in.

When Sergeant Lasman and the cavalry arrive at the scene, he tells Harmon that he has good intel that Maniac is in Mexico. She tells him other and despite his doubt, he gives her the go-ahead. When they raid room 112, they only find a single female in the bathtub but as soon as they find her a gunshot comes through the wall and hits one of the officers. Harmon is the first in the room and takes out one of the East Barrios with a shotgun round. She gets another in her sights and tells him not to draw. As soon as he does, he is taken out by someone from outside the room through the window. Another suspect flees out the window and Harmon goes after him.

She chases him to an abandoned Wal-Mart where they get into a scuffle. At one point, Maniac ends up in full mount, choking her, but she manages to pull a revolver from her ankle holster and put it to his head. As soon as she does, he gives up. It isn’t long after this that Lasman and backup arrive. After the raid, Sergeant Tyson Koyama (Rich Ting) comforts Harmon by telling her that he can’t tell her how to process the shoot but from what he heard, everything sounds clean.

Back at the station, Lieutenant Bishop asks Harmon how she managed to track down Maniac when an entire task force couldn’t. Much to Harmon’s surprise, Bishop tells her that she just needs to know how to frame it when the brass asks. Harmon’s response isn’t shown and just seconds later she is outside being congratulated by Lasman. He even asks her to come celebrate with them but she turns him down. She is surprised once again when she finds Diaz waiting at her vehicle. He offers to buy her a beer or a shot and she tells him that she will catch up.

When Diaz is gone, Harmon cries in her vehicle while looking at Delgado’s photo. This is how the episode ends.

 

On Call Review

This was a fitting end to the Maniac case and I am glad that it’s out of the way so we can move on to something new. It’s not that the chase and hunt weren’t thrilling because they were, but I am just hoping for a newer, better story. Once again, an excellent episode, but the one thing I am finding troubling is how accommodating everyone is to Harmon. She supposedly has someone gunning for her but it seems everyone she encounters is willing to put that aside and work with her. Still, I’d have to give the episode an easy 6 out of 10.

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