Minutes later, he watches as Stahl ushers NYPDs finest out of the building.
Its the look-alike escort from a few episodes ago, whom Stahl is apparently still seeing.
The gross-out factor with this guy continues to climb to new heights.
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Those bruises Cristina saw covering her mothers face?
She fell down the stairs.
Dumb-dumb that she is, Cristina falls for this one hook, line, and sinker.
Cristina replies that she does have family: Aunt Tess, Uncle Tufo, Uncle Woz.
That last name gets Zepedas attention.
Getting more and more trepidatious, she wants to confirm her fellow officers immunity.
Oh, and shell have to wear a wire again.
How many heist movies have been founded on that hopeful premise?
Woz starts to piece together why Stahl is keeping company with thisparticularlovely lady.
The hour is growing later, and the Feds are getting their team assembled for the sting.
Harlee calls Stahl once more to ask about her crews immunity.
Desperate and guilty, she finally gives up their ringleader: DEA agent Terrence Linklater (Stephen Lang).
No one gets immunity except Harlee.
NEXT: Slimeball Stahl
Despite Stahls (false) assurances, Harlee cant breathe easy yet.
Then, she goes and tracks down her ex herself.
This time, shes through playing games.
(Has Harlee not figured out that she doesnt get to keep the loot?
Later, Cristina checks up on Harlees story.
She calls Navas office, and learns Zepeda is, in fact, a free man.
Her distrust in her mother grows, just as shes getting closer to her father.
Then, its off to commit grand larceny.
Harlee drives Tufo to pick up the vans.
Feeling vulnerable on the way, they bare their souls.
Tufo shares that, according to his immunity papers, Saperstein was spying on them for two whole weeks.
Harlee knows that isnt true, he died the day after the Feds first picked him up.
Her wheels start turning.
Instead, Cristina goes out of her way to put both of them in danger.
At 16, shes old enough to understand why Harlee doesnt want Zepeda in their lives.
What does he gain by not bringing Harlees request to Baker?
Nothing, except more control over his asset.
Then, Woz calls Harlee into his office.
He has a revelation of his own to share.
The guys obsessed, he even pays extra to call the hooker Harlee.
Finally, our girl recognizes the depths of scumminess her handler has sunk to.
She digs up the monitor connected to the hidden cameras she installed in Stahls apartment half a season back.
She rewinds until she sees Stahls deranged fantasies for herself.
Hes been playing her.
Harlee shoves the monitor back in her closet.
(Props toShades of Bluefor pulling off a legitimately surprising and frightening moment.)
Right then, Stahl himself knocks on her door.
Hes there to wire her up before the robbery, but she has some questions first.
She calls him out on backdating Sapersteins deal and blames Stahl for her fellow officers death.
But the FBI agent isnt having any of it.
Hes certainly not responsible for the murder Woz committed.
Then, she asks him to teach her how to wreck a truck engine.
After the lesson, the whole crew meets up.
The big job is happening at last.
Espada, Tufo, and Tess take one truck, Woz and Harlee take the other.
So much for that plan.
As this saga unfolds, the Feds are watching the trucks movements via satellite.
When Baker sees Tess, et.
al.s vehicles go off-route, she gets spooked.
Her forethought is in vain, however.
When Chen gets to the warehouse, the prisoners throat has already been slashed.
Things are falling apart fast.
Hes spent the day tracking down his murder suspect, Joaquin, a.k.a.
one of the armored truck drivers.
Loman sees a robbery of some kind going down, so he approaches and calls for backup.
Everything is set to hand over the cash, until Tufo has a sudden, ill-timed moment of decency.
Mid-exchange, he confronts Joaquin about killing the owner of the bar.
Of all the times to start caring about right and wrong!
Things get tense, and everyones hands go to their guns.
Then, Loman the Oblivious chooses that moment to pop up, weapon drawn.
Then, Lomans backup arrives.
I think Woz put all our reactions best in the last line of the episode: Oh, shit!
Loman: 6 out of 10, a Tad Guilty
Maybe willfully oblivious is a better term than guilty.
