A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn (Third Watch)

Infobox Television episode
Title=A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn
Series=Third Watch


Caption=
Season=5
Episode=9
Airdate=December 5, 2003
Production=176759
Writer=Angela Amato Velez
Director=Gloria Muzio
Guests=Nicholas Turturro
Steven Randazzo
Brian Haley
Tibor Feldman
Amy Hargreaves
Prev=Fury
Next=The Spirit

"A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn" is the 97th episode of the television series "Third Watch" and the 9th episode of the 5th season.

Plot Summary

As Carlos desperately searches for a bone marrow match for Kylie, he digs deeper into his own past and discovers that he wasn't abandoned by his parents, but was found clinging to his dead father's hand after a car accident.

Plot Details

Bosco and Monroe attempt to stop a small-time mobster/restaurateur, Allie "The Actor" Nardo, who's trying to extort money from an honest businessman, Victor Tanzi, Sr., and his hotheaded son, but efforts at peacemaking only result in deadly recrimination, causing Bosco and Monroe to doggedly pursue the case. Meanwhile, Carlos desperately searches for a bone marrow match for his ailing baby daughter. With Doc's help, Carlos' plight gets national press attention, and Carlos receives a call from a crying woman claiming to be the mother who abandoned him.

Trivia

*In Season One, Carlos told Doc he was born in 1977, but in this episode he said his birthday was May 11, 1975.

Music

*3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone

Quotes

*Monroe: Tickets for bird feeding? Now that’s real police work.
Bosco: It’s a quality of life summons.
Monroe: All that’s gonna do is leave a bunch of hungry pigeons.
*Guy: Oh, come on Officer, that’s pretty close. Cut me a break, man. That’s close.
Bosco: Look, the law does not say "“pretty close.”" It doesn’t say "“somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 feet from a hydrant.”"

ee also

*List of Third Watch episodes

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/third-watch/a-ticket-grows-in-brooklyn/episode/276633/summary.html A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn] at tv.com