Blue Bloods Danny/Stephen Scene

STEVEN:

We argued, yeah. What she’s asking me to do is nuts.

DANNY:

Nuts, and the right thing to do, or just nuts?

STEVEN:

Risk loosing my shield over some career criminal doing another stint in prison? You tell me?

DANNY:

She’s in on a manslaughter rap, not just another stint.

STEVEN

I didn’t convict her. I didn’t sentence her. Neither did Ellen

DANNY:

You gathered evidence, you built the case, you testified.

STEVEN:

That’s what we do.

DANNY:

Hundred percent legit?

STEVEN:

What, the collar?

DANNY:

Yeah.

STEVEN:

I’ll stand behind it all day long.

DANNY:

Ellen wouldn’t. Ellen thought it was slanted.

STEVEN:

Ellen was slanted most of the time herself.

DANNY:

She got sober.

STEVEN:

And I’m happy for her! Doesn’t mean she gets to go through my drawers looking for —

DANNY:

What was her beef? Specifically.

STEVEN:

C’mon —

DANNY:

You want me on your side.

STEVEN:

Carise Parrish has a mole. (Points to chin) Here. When I showed the eyewitness a photo array, I forgot to ink little moles on the other five filler photos. So yeah, you want to stretch the perp’s rights all the way to Alaska, it could be considered a slightly slanted ID.

DANNY:

That’s it?

STEVEN:

As far as I know

DANNY:

I assume you know far.

STEVEN

That’s it. And not for nothing? Cerise Parrish has a record going back to twelve. There’s not a day in her life she didn’t break the law.

DANNY

She’s guilty of something, if not what she went away for.

STEVEN

Tell me you never say that to yourself.

END OF SCENE