K-Ville

This week K-Ville opens with a dead body found in the water. The victim is identified as Councilman Clay Beelman, former DA. There was a blue fake nail with a magnolia painted on it found in the skin of the body.

Back at the station, Marlon gets into it with the current DA, Lyndsey Swann about the late Councilman. Lyndsey feels that he was a good man and helped train her, and Marlon is anti-Beelman because as councilman, he was trying to bulldoze an East NO neighborhood to make a park.

Marlon and Cobb trace the nail to one Elaine Rogers, a call girl who worked at Poplar House a very well known, well connected cat house. They call Capt. Embry to tell them that they are on their way and he balks. He tells them that Poplar House is only raided on Wednesdays and to hold on that he was on his way.

Of course they don't wait and Marlon gets into it with the madam, who is very ticked because she says that the NOPD always calls before they come over. I laughed when Marlon tells her that they will have a warrant in 20 minutes, then changes it to 25 minutes when he sees the judge in there. Meanwhile, Cobb was upstairs rousting all the girls and looking at their hands to find out which one was Elaine.

Cobb was yelling at this one girl when the Captain gets there and calls him off. It was very apparent that there is a relationship of some kind between the Captain and the girl. Once Cobb is gone, Embry talks to the girl, Sarah, who is Elaine's best friend and finds out that the councilman was a client of Elaine's, but was off the books.

Cobb tells Marlon about this and hears about how the Captain's wife died and his daughter hasn't spoken to him since the funeral. They talk about how hard it must be to be a cop's kid because their needs never seem to come first. That reminds Marlon that he's supposed to attend his daughter's school program that evening.

They use this information to get the address of Elaine's house call from the madam. Unfortunately, when they get to the address, they find Elaine dead and her john hanging from the fire escape. The john didn't see the killer, but said that he spoke to Elaine in Spanish.

Ginger and her partner, Jeff, in the meantime had been talking to the widow to find out if he'd been threatened or anything like that. They find out that some guy had been sending threatening letters to the councilman on a lawyer's letterhead. When they drive to the East New Orleans neighborhood to find this lawyer, they get fired at from the building.

Cobb and Marlon get there for backup and they disarm and arrest the lawyer for shooting at police. He tells them that he thought it was a gang trick. The neighbors tell them that the Latin Kings have been around threatening and trying to frighten them into leaving. For some strange reason, Marlon and Cobb go to Latin King territory to confront the leader, Mateo Cruz.

Back at the station, the john reveals that he heard the killer repeat the name “Sarah”. Cobb and Marlon send someone back to the Poplar House to pick her up and Embry goes off on them for going behind his back. They tell him that she's disappeared and he tells them to back off and to go home. When Embry goes home, he finds Sarah there. She's used the key he gave her to get in and he tells her that they need to talk.

Flashback to September 2005. The captain has opened his home to some of those made homeless by the hurricane and/or the flooding. Sarah is one of those he took in and this is when they bonded.

Back in the present, Sarah and Embry argue over her lifestyle. She tells him a story about Elaine calling her to tell her about the councilman. He fell out of her bed or something like that and was accidentally killed. Sarah tells him that she helped Elaine dump the body.

While this is going on, Lyndsey had been back in her office going through all of the murder cases involving Cruz, but didn't find any similarities between that one and this one, but she did find a drug case that involved him that was dismissed on a technicality. The DA on that case was Beelman, and he didn't make mistakes like that. Lyndsey and the guys find the connection. Beelman wanted that East NO neighborhood for his park, but couldn't get the people to leave, so he had his accomplice, Cruz to get his gang to try to scare the neighbors out.

They realize that there is no way those two could communicate directly, but must have had a go-between. But that go-between was not Elaine ... it was Sarah. Elaine was killed because she wouldn't tell where Sarah was.

Sarah confesses to Embry that she was the one that killed Beelman because he was too rough and said that Cruz was angry about it and was coming after her. She told him that Cruz thought that she'd make a deal with the police and turn on him in order to get off on the murder charge. She tries to make nice with Embry and expects him to fix her little problem. Unfortunately, they then find out that the Latin Kings have tracked her down.

They've apparently cut his telephone line because Marlon and Cobb are trying to call him, but get no answer. They've entered the house and Embry tells her to lock herself in that room and takes his gun and her cell phone. He calls for assistance and then returns the fire of the shooters in his house. Cruz somehow gets into the bedroom and has Sarah by the hair. Fickle female that she is, she turns on Embry and tells Cruz to kill him and then no one would be the wiser.

Marlon and Cobb answer the officer needs assistance call and arrive in time to stop Embry from killing Cruz. To her dismay, then Embry handcuffs and arrests Sarah for conspiracy to commit murder and she can't sweet talk her way out of it this time.

Later, Embry calls his estranged daughter for the first time in a long time and they talk and Marlon makes it to the end of his daughter's program that he was supposed to attend.

Next week the guys get involved with a voodoo killing and a part of Cobb's criminal past comes out.


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