you've been warned if you've been born or if you conform

[caballero]

Who: ~Tom~ and Kalinda.
What: A stake out that goes horribly wrong!
Where: UUhh. S..omewhere that counts as down town. I will tag it.
When: Presently.
Warnings: References to domestic violence/police brutality, action movie violence otherwise.

It's been a long day - longer night. A woman and her children have been running from their estranged husband and father, an abuser, in a position of extreme power over them. Or so it was thought, at the onset of this; a day's observation has uncovered enough threads to piece together a rope that's lead Bruce and Kalinda to a different, but worrying conclusion.

He doesn't usually work with anyone else, especially not like this - light tactical gear, leather jacket, not so much as a ski mask, passing as a civilian as easily as he blends in with the shadowy rooftop they're perched on. For all Kalinda knows, he's just another mystery backer at Thames, some weirdo. He can't afford to let anyone more than Logan and Vanessza know about anything else, it's too dangerous; he tells himself this is just keeping up appearances within the organization, because Kalinda is competent, and not because of how she looks when she's wielding a baseball bat.

(But seriously, stake-outs are fucking miserable, and she's not bad company.)

"He's getting his former co-workers to let him pretend to be employed still," he muses, watching the boys night out gathering across the way. Five men - three Militia agents, one ex-Militia agent, and one city lawyer - are gathered on the patio of a down restaurant after hours, their own private party courtesy of a business owner too terrified to say no. The ex-agent is the one they're after: a the aforementioned estranged husband and father, who everyone up until now had assumed was still employed by the Militia. But no, it appears that the higher-ups in the Spire actually did the right thing with this one. It's just the rest of them, enabling and covering up their buddy's habit of terrorizing his family.