19. Spanking the Monkey

Complete story — includes the ending

Wary of Lester Martin, the high-priced lawyer his father has found for Mikey and the deal he's attempting to broker, Bosco warns his brother to stay away from Cruz. Mikey decides to disregard his brother's advice and makes a deal to become her informant. For good measure, Bosco threatens to kill Cruz if anything happens to Mikey. Sully teases Ty about his budding relationship with Monroe. Faith and Bosco strike a deal with Laura Wynn of Narcotics, who also has no love lost for Cruz, to protect Mikey by helping her nab the drug dealers before Cruz gets to them. J.D. offers Kim a ride home, but stops off first at a rave that both Anti-Crime and Narcotics have staked out, thanks to information Mikey gave them. When some bad ecstasy begins to take a rapid toll, the paramedics call for backup, which prompts Cruz and her detail to storm the building. After an arsonist lobs a Molotov cocktail into the crowded building, Faith and Bosco give chase and capture him, while the firefighters rescue the ravers who are trapped in the fire. Recuperating in the hospital after J.D. rescues her from the burning building, Kim realizes that he is intimately involved with running the rave, and threatens to report him, but he resigns first. Faith threatens to report Cruz to I.A.B. after the sergeant assaults Bosco and Faith's handcuffed prisoner and breaks his nose. Lester reappears in the station house, this time representing the arsonist, who's also eager to work out a deal by giving up the head of the ecstasy ring. Faith picks out a photo of Joey Mann, who drove the arsonist to the rave, and Laura identifies him as the son of Donald Mann, the head of the ecstasy ring. Cruz spooks Joey as she's about to arrest him, and they head off in a high-speed pursuit which narrowly avoids a group of children and leads to Joey's death. Laura warns Faith and Bosco that Donald will be after them to avenge his son's death.