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Previously on APB...

The Reeves TK421.

If you have an oil fire, it can do this.

Give me the 13th district to run.

I will upgrade the 13th

to the best technology money can buy.

I'm here to make it possible with this.

It allows citizens to call in

GPS located crime reports.

You know those people you're trying to serve and protect?

They just became your partners.

You are bleeding money with this new little cop hobby.

We are here to drum up new business

- and increase revenue, period. - Please.

Remember the strategic partnership with MilliScan?

Those boring gray boxes find guns.

We could own privatized policing.

I mean, this is not some small Chicago experiment.

I mean, this could go global.

This could be a billion dollar business.

Every 15 seconds,

an American home is broken into.

But with the innovations of Reeves Security,

you don't need to live or work in fear anymore.

For both residential and corporate clients,

Reeves Security is always there,

keeping you safe no matter where you go.

And now, for the first time ever,

Reeves Security is allowing subscribers

to select their own levels of protection,

working directly with police

to customize patrols in your area.

Whether you need them

or you just need peace of mind.

So, what do you think?

Do they all have to smile so much?

Oh, Gideon,

this is everything that we talked about.

No, no, no, it's everything that you talked about.

Ah, the subscribers

and levels of protection?

You can't make people pay to call the police.

All right, can we just skip this part?

We don't have time for it.

You have your annual shareholders meeting in two days.

So? I know the drill.

I go in and I give one of my classic speeches,

shake a few hands, see everybody next year.

No, no, this is not of your TED Talks,

where you can just "Gideon" your way through it.

You have to release your quarterly statements.

So, you can either show a $400 million write-down,

or a billion dollar...

new business.

It's just...

when I started all this, I thought

I was making the world a better place for everybody,

not just rich people like me.

Well, I knew you when you were just a scared,

scrawny little freshman at MIT.

Everyone knew that you were smart,

but I knew that there was more to you than just that.

Gideon, this...

this is the fix to our problem.

One second.

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They need me at a crime scene. It sounds urgent.

Yeah, sounds familiar.

Will you promise me that you will think about it?

If you promise to wear that...

that thing with the leather and the straps.

Yeah, make it happen,

and you can have anything you want.

Thank you for coming down, Mr. Reeves.

Hate to bother you, I know you had a big meeting today, but...

No, no, no.

... we got a real nasty situation here.

I need you to get on the horn with the mayor,

see if you can get him to shut down the streets of the 13th.

Oh, time for a block party or...

I wish. We need to impose curfew.

Well, not that I don't enjoy talking to the mayor,

but wha... why am I talking to the mayor, exactly?

Aren't fires the fire department's problem?

It's not about the fire. It's about the gang war.

See that guy in the red flannel?

That's Andre Coates,

leader of the Green Street Kings,

one of the two biggest gangs in the 13th district.

- Who's the other? - 38th Street Hustlas.

They had a building torched in their hood two weeks ago.

Couple of 'em still in the hospital.

So, this is retaliation.

That body in the bag, that's one of Andre's boys.

So, yeah, I'd say that's a safe bet.

There's nothing safe about this situation.

We need to get out in front of it

before someone else is hurt or killed.

Okay, but I... shutting down the district?

I don't like it, either,

but we can't round up every banger in a day.

And as hot as this situation's getting,

one day might be all we have.

These boys are out for blood. We need answers.

All right, let's get some.

- Gideon, we can't go in there. - To look.

- Gideon... - Just give me one second.

- Oh, yeah. - This is an active scene.

We can't be here unless fire gives us the all-clear.

Relax. Got what I need.

What's this?

It performs a chemical analysis,

telling us what was used to start the fire.

Well, it's acetone and petrolatum.

Basically nail polish remover and petroleum jelly.

That's great.

Can we get the molarity of the acetone before ignition?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Gideon, we're supposed to figure out

how to stop the fires, not start them.

That's exactly what we're doing.

- By doing a science project? - Yes.

When the going gets tough, the smart work backwards.

If we can identify the accelerant,

we could use our cars to sniff it out.

- Sniff it out? - Well, each of the D13 Caddies

is equipped with a chemical olfactory trace technology.

So, it can actually detect minute measurements

of TATP and TPH in the air.

Bomb stuff, they smell bomb stuff.

We're gonna me 'em smell fire stuff.

Can it sniff out a good Cuban restaurant, too?

I'm gonna work on that.

Then he hit me here, then he kicked me there,

and then he held me down and hit me again,

here, here and here.

And this was before or after

your altercation on the dance floor?

After, but I told you, that was a misunderstanding.

- The bastard you should be arresting... - The bouncer.

Yeah, you said that already.

I think we get the picture.

We'll look into it and let you know what we find.

That's it?

You'll look into it?

I was assaulted and I've been sitting here

all morning, telling the same story.

Hey, I understand that you're upset.

But see everybody running around here?

There was a quadruple homicide last night and right now...

I'd like a copy of that report.

We'll send it to you when we finish writing it up.

Yeah. Officer DeVoll here will show you out.

We'll be in touch.

Follow me, please, sir.

Hey.

What you doing?

Saving us time.

That crap about the report?

Kid's just looking for a lawsuit.

What, you think he did that to his own face?

No.

I think the guy he was talking crap to did it,

but he was too drunk to I.D. anyone,

so he's going after the bar.

Yeah, but he said the bouncer attacked him.

Yeah, and see, that's my other problem.

I know the bouncer, he's a friend of mine.

Guy named Vic Evans, we served together.

And I'm not buying that Vic couldn't handle

some entitled rich kid with a big mouth.

Yeah, well, you can't just throw out the report.

Might be nothing, but we still got to check it out.

I'm sorry, I know you're a genius and all,

but I don't like this.

What are you talking about?

I got half the guys in the department driving around

looking for fires and all we've found

is some guys stripping paint.

Yeah, technically, that means it's...

it's working.

Yeah, but I can lower the detection threshold a little bit.

I don't know anything about detection threshold,

but we're running out of time.

I feel like we're one fire away

from the whole district going up in flames.

It's a balance, okay? We just need to calibrate it

until we come up with the exact right combination of smells.

But an active gang war is not the time

to be working out the kinks.

I know, just give it a chance.

I promise you're gonna love this.

Ah, we got a hit.

Cobb and Reyes, on a residential street, outside Canaryville.

All right, let's go.

Squad, we got any idea which address it's coming from?

Not unless you can drive your Caddy

into all those houses.

That's actually something I should be working on.

Looks like we're knocking.