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21. Finnegan's Wake

Bayliss is still having nightmares about the Adena Watson case, so Gee is reluctant to assign the case of another girl, murdered in 1932, to him. Therefore, Falsone is assigned the "oldest unsolved slaying still officially on the books."

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An old man wanders into the squadroom claiming to know who killed a young girl in 1932 - the oldest unsolved murder in BPD history. Falsone takes the case and visits Thomas Finnegan, a long-retired detective who was the last officer to investigate it. As they pursue the new lead, Finnegan charms the unit with stories from his years on the job but also unsettles them by displaying the prejudices of that past time. The case bears many similarities to the murder of Adena Watson, and Bayliss struggles not to let either of them haunt his mind. Guest starring: Charles Durning as Thomas Finnegan

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