⋆° დ ༄ RISKY BUSINESS
chapter sixty. justice.
"How many shots?" Hank asks Burgess as he, Al, Maxine and Erin surround her after getting notification that someone shot at them, wounding Roman.
"Four. Maybe, five. And then Roman, he screams at me to go." Burgess states.
"He said that?"
"Yes. So I chased that little prick to that corner" Kim says, pointing behind them, "he fires at me. Two more times. I tell him to stop, and then he turns, looks over his shoulder. Something silver in his hand, so I fired"
"You kept sight on him the whole time?" Max asks.
"No, not when he rounded the corner. But I only had my eye off him for a few seconds, it's the same kid"
"You got a look at him, as he approached the car?" Voight questions.
"Maybe a glimpse. Mostly just an arm and torso, gun and muzzle flashes. Silver gun. It looked like a nine."
"Did you see where the asswipe tossed the piece?" Al asks.
"What?"
"We can't find it."
After a few seconds of silence, the rest of the team walk over to the group and Adam asks Kim, "Are you okay?"
"Yes. How is Sean?"
"He lost a lot of blood" Kevin says.
"Marine units en route to find the gun." Ruzek says.
Jay puts his hand on Kim's shoulder and says, "You got him twice from 40 yards away, in low light? Nice job" before walking away.
🪩🪩🪩
"Michael Vance Ellis, 17. No priors." Dawson says, as the team is now back on the unit surrounding the white board, "father, John Ellis is a plumber. Mother, Cecily Ellis, works at a bank. We're running their address for any historical in service calls."
"Roman and Ellis are both in surgery at Med. Ellis' parents are there" Adam says. Mouse raises his hand and Voight says, "you got surveillance footage?"
"Yeah. I'm uploading the pod footage right here." Mouse says, pulling up the footage.
They watch as the offender walks up the patrol car, shoots at them and runs away.
"It's unreal" Adam says. Kevin sighs and says, "just like Philadelphia."
Hank walks over to Kim who walks onto the unit and grabs the file from her and asks, "this is your statement?"
"Yeah"
"I'm gonna bring you to my office and I'm gonna close the door and I need you to memorize this. Every word" Hank says, guiding Kim to his office then closes the door.
Al walks out of the break room and says, "marine unit says no gun yet"
Hank sighed and said, "great"
"Hank" Trudy says walking into the unit.
"Yeah"
"Assistant State's attorney is downstairs."
"Who'd we get?"
"Peter Stone"
Hank looks at Antonio then leaves the unit and Kevin asks, "what was that about?"
"Stones the guy who sent him to prison" Dawson answers.
🪩🪩🪩
Maxine and Jay walk into Chicago Med where they see a crowd of patrolmen and they walk over to Michael's parents.
"Mr and Mrs Ellis. I'm detective Halstead and this is detective Bishop." Jay says.
"They're saying Michael shot the police?" Mrs Ellis says.
"Yeah, he did"
"That couldn't happen. It just couldn't" Mr Ellis states.
"That's what we're here to figure out." Maxine says, "Does your son have access to a gun?"
"No. No knife, no gun, no nothing. Not in my house." Mr Ellis says.
"You have to believe us. Michael doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He's a Chicago scholar, he's on the honor roll." Mrs Ellis states.
"There's no way he could have done this."
"My son didn't do this!" Mrs Ellis starts crying, and sits down on the bench, "he didn't do this"
🪩🪩🪩
Antonio, Maxine and a patrolman are over by the lakefront where the crime accord as a team of divers are in the lake hoping to find the gun.
"Hey" Kelly Severide says, followed by Capp, Cruz, Charlotte and a few other fighter fighters to help search, "we got here as fast as we could. how bad is it?"
"If we don't find a gun, then.." Max says.
"Right"
🪩🪩🪩
After finding the gun, and footage of the exact moment when Kim shot Ellis, who was seen throwing a gun into the lake. the states attorneys office filed indictment charges against Michael Ellis.
Maxine heads over to Romans apartment to talk to him and Kim.
"Union take care of you?" Sean asks Kim, who is at the kitchen sink wiping some dishes. Kim turns around and says, "yeah" then walks into the living room and sits across from the two, "the department put me in an administrative spot. Platt says it's like a time out."
"It's full pay. Union stepped up" Maxine says.
"I got the right guy" Kim says, "he had white nikes on, okay? And when I got out of the car and I started running, I saw how white they were against the street. Just...that just hit me last night in bed. That Michael Ellis, he had them on too"
"Kim. That guy tried to kill us" Sean says, sitting in his leather recliner, "you chased him down, you dropped his ass. I don't care what anybody else is saying. This is coming from your partner. You saved the lives of who knows how many other cops out there if that son of a bitch had gotten away. You did the right thing"
Burgess looks at Maxine who nods her head.
🪩🪩🪩
"What are these, officer Burgess?" Stone asks, handing two pieces of paper to Kim, who is on the stand. While the intelligence team and district 21 are in the courtroom to support her.
"Commendations for bravery."
"And why did you receive, say, this on?" Peter asks, pointing to the paper.
"My partner and I rescued a young boy from where he was being imprisoned in his basement. His own mother has held him there for years"
"And the other one?"
Kim looks at the other paper and says, "uh, that's the Lambert Tree Award. Um, I was shot in the line of duty while knocking on a door on a routine call. I took a shotgun blast to the head, neck, face and shoulder."
"Shot in the line of duty. And you came back to work and went back on patrol"
"Yes. As soon as I could. On the side of our squad it says, very simply, 'we serve and protect'. And that's why I do this job"
"The side of the squad car that Michael Ellis shot five bullets through"
"Objection" the defense attorney says.
"Sustained" judge Lurman says.
"No further questions" Stone says, taking the papers back and going back to his table.
The defense attorney gets up and turns the TV on to a video of Roman and Burgess getting a little cozy, then she pauses it and says, "officer Burgess, how long have you and your partner Sean Roman been in a sexual relationship?"
Kim looks at Adam then back at the attorney and says, "officer Roman and I had just begun to see each other."
"And just who were you 'serving and protecting' when you were stroking your partner's neck? Would you say that your intimate relationship with officer Roman clouded your judgement?"
"No"
"Would you say that your intimate relationship with officer Roman caused you to panic after he was shot?"
"No"
"Would you say that your intimate relationship with officer Roman caused you to shoot the first black man you came across? Nearly unloading your weapon into his back!"
"Objection! Badgering, inflammatory, and counsel is testifying!" Stone says.
"Sustained" the judge says.
"I'll restate your honor. Ms Burgess. What was the man who shot your lover wearing when you first saw him?" The defense attorney asks.
"Objection. Improper characterization" Stone says.
"Sustained"
"Apologies. What was the man who shot your partner wearing?"
"A dark hoodie, jeans, white nike shoes" Kim says.
"The same ones that are worn by 15,000 urban youth in Chicago."
"Yes! Because they wear the same clothes to make it harder for police to identify them."
"Hard to identify? No further questions"
🪩🪩🪩
After finding out the motive for why Michael Ellis shot into Sean and Kim's patrol car, which had something to do with Dewan Motley, a live in boyfriend to one of Michaels aunts. A lot went down in that same location between the CPD and Motley.
Peter Stone and his team do some more digging and on the last day of trial the defense attorney puts Michael on the stand.
After hours of debating the state's attorney's office accepts the defense attorneys deal and Ellis goes away for four years as a juvenile, so they don't risk Michael getting off or the jury coming back hung.
🪩🪩🪩
Maxine walks down to the lobby of the district when Platt calls her over, "What's up, Sarg?"
"Two words, bachelorette party"
Maxine sighs, "Sarg, we don't—"
"It's too late. Sylvie Brett, your sister and I already started planning it, just thought I'd tell you"
Maxine gives her a tight lip smile, "can't wait" then she walks away.
authors note;
Trudy planning Maxines bachelorette party? I'm thinking twizzler themed LMAO 😂