Rat Bastard (Third Watch)

Infobox Television episode
Title=Rat Bastard
Series=Third Watch

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Season=6
Episode=10
Airdate=December, 3, 2004
Production=177910
Writer=Charles Alfrazier Murray
Director=Matt Earl Beesley
Guests=Tawny Cypress
Joe Badalucco
Bill Walsh III
Joe Lisi
Yvonne Jung
Derek Kelly
Susan Kelechi Watson
Jason Shaw
Corbin Bernsen
Joe Urla
Pame Holden Stewart
Tobias Truvillion
Jamaly Allen
Michi Barall
Mackenzie Conelly
Ann Ducati
Michael Drayer
Alex Manette
Alex Greenzeig
Joe Scarpineto
Lori Martini
Prev=Sins of the Father
Next=Forever Blue

"Rat Bastard" is the 120th episode of the television series "Third Watch" and the 10th episode of the 6th season.

Plot Summary

Following the previous events, a "rat" is uncovered in the 55 Precinct, and an actor comes to do research for his movie.

Plot Details

As the episode starts, Sharon informs Officer Davis that John Sullivan is going to testify against Finney to re-open the case, but she realizes that Sully and Ty haven't spoken in a while, and recommends him to speak to Sully, as he has a pretty good case.
In the previous episode, Ty discovered that Sasha was working as an undercover agent for I.A.B. in the precinct, so he is shocked to see Monroe coming back to work a week later. While Swerzky is preparing to announce news, Ty interrumpts him and informs the rest of the squad about Sasha, and asks her why she has not been transfered. Sully immediately calls her a "rat bastard", and so does most of the platoon. Only Brendan Finney offers to ride with her (otherwise she would be sitting behind a desk according to Swerzky). This leaves Sully and Ty partenered up
As soon as Faith and Cruz find out that Monroe was a rat, they confront her. Faith asks her if all she asked to her was related to the case, and that she can't believe that Sasha went with her to her promotion ceremony. Cruz, on the other hand, explodes, and pushes Sasha against a car, telling her that she almost got killed at Rikers because of her. When Sasha returns to the precinct hours later, she finds a dead rat hanging from her locker.
Meanwhile, at the firehouse station, an ex-action star, Carter Savage, arrives and informs the station that he is doing research for his next movie. Stu tells Carter that he is his number one fan, and that watching his movies was the only moment when he and his father didn't argue. As Stu is explaining Carter about the "firefighter lingo", Carter explodes as he isn't able to understand the terms, but then allegates that it is a line from one of his movies (although Stu had never heard about it).
The firefighters soon get a 911 call from a young boy whose house is on fire. As soon as they get there, the boy recognises Carter, but calls him "Mulhouser" (after one of his characters), and Carter gets annoyed, as he claims they don't differentiate fiction from real life. Carter is called later by his rep, as he is not going to be hired because he was involved in a DUI scandal before, which leads Stu to discover that his boyhood hero is actually an alcoholic looking for a chance to revive his career.
As they are called to help out Momma Olegario, a woman whose hand got trapped in the garbage disposal, Carter feels sick and trips. After Stu asks him if he is okay, he steps out of the house and starts vomiting (for he is intoxicated from alcohol). The little boy living in the house asks what is wrong, and Stu takes him inside and tells him that he just got sick after fighting off some bad guys.
Jelly and Faith receive a case of homicide, but they soon discover that the dead man was the man who gave Sasha the real I.A.B. file on Ty's father, and that he was killed with a +P bullet (which only cops are allowed to use). As they visit his widow, they discover that under her telephone is a paper a number Faith finds familiar, and later realizes that it's Sasha's number.
While Sully and Ty are patrolling the streets, they almost crash into a speeding green van, and chase them, only to discover that they were speeding because their eight year old daughter was shot. At first, the girl's dad tells Cruz that he was arguing with his wife and got mixed with the streets and entered the wrong one, but as Cruz follows her wife, she discovers that the man was actually selling stolen prescripted drugs (he had been fired from his job). The man tries to deny this and accuses his wife, but he then admits he is guilty and is taken to the precinct.
Sasha and Brendan find the shooter, but they soon find themselves in dangerous situations. Brendan is hit with a metal stick and falls unconscious while Sasha asks for help as she is disarmed. Nobody answers her call, and when Brendan wakes up, he asks for backup, and Ty and Sully finally relent and come to their aid. They arrest the shooter and take him under custody.
In the end of the episode, Faith goes to talk to Monroe as she is being taken in an ambulance to the hospital about why her phone number was in the murdered detective's house. Sully is informed of the detective's death, and Ty tells him that the situation is getting out of control.

Quotes

* Swersky: Okay, listen up! I got a few announcements.
* Davis: Yeah, I got one too, Lieu. Um…Monroe made detective everybody. Actually, I guess you always were one, right? I got called down to I.A.B. yesterday, had a little chat with Captain Finney, all of a sudden our little community-oriented holier-than-thou Detective Monroe walks in, yelling at Captain Finney about her cover being blown. Her I.A.B. cover.

ee also

*List of Third Watch episodes

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/third-watch/rat-bastard/episode/373329/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;9] at tv.com