Major Crimes (TV Series)

Two Options (2014)

Lindsay Price: Gloria Lim

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• Gloria Lim : Hello, Chief Taylor and... everyone. Deputy City Attorney Gloria Lim here. Um, the L.A.P.D. is tracking a violent offender and Detective Julio Sanchez fired his weapon last week. Lieutenant Provenza killed a suspect during this calendar year. If they shoot anyone else, it could be problematic. My boss was wondering, since SWAT was first on the scene, if this investigation could be handled by them.

  Sharon Raydor : Miss Lim, SWAT is a tactical element. Doesn't investigate kidnappings or homicides. Major Crimes does that, and right now we are looking for two children under the age of ten, abducted by a murderer, and I suggest that you come back once we've found them.

• Jamey Perez : Because only two things that can be done in a situation like this.

  Sharon Raydor : A hostage negotiation or a rescue.

  Gloria Lim : Hostage negotiation, with SWAT.

  Ann McGinnis : Is that based on your vast professional experience? Because I think this is definitely a rescue operation.

  Russell Taylor : Uh, while we're evacuating building, why don't we run those options by a behavioral science professional?

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Oh.

  [pause] 

  Dr. Joe Bowman : I, I came to help the children afterward. If you're gonna profile an adult offender, maybe someone else...

  Jamey Perez : That's okay, Dr. Joe. Just listen to the two options and then give Miss Lim here your best bet as to which one we should pursue. Commander?

  Ann McGinnis : Do we try and negotiate with this murderer or do we rescue the hostages by taking him by surprise?

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Well, clinically, that's an impossible question to answer, but the suspect had several years in prison to plan what he'd do after release, so we have to believe that murdering his parents and kidnapping his children and wife are all constituent parts of that plan. Also, he found someone willing to help him, which suggests he's persuasive, organized and determined. I have to say, so far, he seems to have done everything he wanted to do, so... I'm worried by the absence of an exit strategy.

  Ann McGinnis : That's okay, doctor. As it turns out, I am a specialist in exit strategies.

  Louie Provenza : I say get your snipers ready, Commander.

  Gloria Lim : Snipers? Snipers endanger the children's lives.

  Sharon Raydor : We will only be firing non-lethal Arwen rounds through the window to distract him.

  Gloria Lim : Firing them from where? The top floor of your suspect's building is the highest point available.

  Ann McGinnis : No. It isn't.

• Gloria Lim : Doesn't Linda Lanier have a cell phone? Why don't we just call her and ask her where she is and the name of her fiancé.

  Mike Tao : Her phone is off the grid.

  Gloria Lim : Are you treating the mother as a suspect? Because we were told you were checking out sex offenders...

  Sharon Raydor : I have to take exception to the way we're being interrupted here.

  Russell Taylor : Gloria...

  Ann McGinnis : Allow me, Captain, Chief. I-I deal with all the city-attorney bullshit on a daily basis now. Gloria, is it? Listen. There was no forced entry at our victims' house, both of whom were shot in the head at close range. And though we can't rule out sex offenders, it sill means the Laniers were likely murdered by someone they knew. And if it was not an execution, it was probably a domestic dispute, making the mother and her unidentified fiancé suspects. And when children get abducted, the L.A.P.D. is not legally required to notify parents.

  Gloria Lim : The law may not demand it, but it's still actionable. And mothers do not need to abduct their own kids, which, if you had children yourself, you'd understand.

  Ann McGinnis : I'm sorry, what did you just say?

  Gloria Lim : That the reason you're against contacting Linda Lanier is that you don't have children yourself.

  Sharon Raydor : Anymore.

  Gloria Lim : What?

  Sharon Raydor : Commander McGinnis doesn't have children anymore.

  Gloria Lim : Um, I don't understand.

  Russell Taylor : The commander's daughter and husband were killed in a car accident four years ago.

  Gloria Lim : I, um... I thought, I-I was told...

  [pause] 

  Gloria Lim : I'm so sorry.