Finch and Reese return to the library for the first time since Finch's encounter with Root. Reese receives the next number of Darren McGrady (Astro). However, upon arrival at Darren's home, Reese finds that Darren's older brother was murdered three days before, and their apartment a crime scene. With Carter's help, he learns that the perpetrators were three males tied to a local comic-book store owner, whose really a drug dealer, called Andre (Malik Yoba). Darren's brother was killed for kicking out the youths for harasing a waitress at a local chicken shop, they then followed him home and murdered him, Darren saw them leaving and called the Police but they didn't come for ages. In the present, Darren, desperate for justice, pawns his television set and trumpet to buy a gun, and is about to shoot one of the men (Jon Michael Hill) just as Reese finds him and calls Carter. The suspect is arrested by Carter as Reese and Darren rush off in her car, but due to a lack of evidence and at the insistence of a corrupt police captain (Michael Mulheren), is released in less than a day. Reese leaves him at a convent with Fusco, who is still trailing Finch, but Darren escapes. Reese finds him and Darren tries to hire Reese is then hired by Darren to avenge his brothers death, but Reese just keeps a dime and tells Daren he will work to put his brothers killers behind bars, which means no killing. Reese and Darren bond over Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Darren calls Reese a Ronin, A samurai who should have died but now travels the land helping people. Darren also asks Reese if he killed anyone to which Reese replies yes both bad people and good. Darren tells him it sounds like he was tricked into killing good people by his master, which reflexes Reese's back-story with the CIA. Reese uses the techniques from The Art of War to take down the baddies and captures them, he places one of them into a police car with a load of bottles and threatens the other one by burning the drug money until he discloses the location of the murder weapon. However, before he is able to send the gun off to the police, Darren takes the gun runs off in an effort to kill his brother's murderers. Reese and calls Carter and she and Fusco rush off to help Reese, who with the help of Finch, who cuts the power, uses a bean bag gun to take out the killers. Carter and Fusco arrive in time to save Darren and capture the killers but Fusco ends up getting shot in the ass when Andre tries to kill Darren. With Darren Safe Reese drives him to meet his new foster family, Reese gives him a trumpet and tells him his brother would want him to carry on playing. Darren gives Reese a drawing of them both as a sign of gratitude as Reese and Fusco watch him go to live with his new foster family.
Air Date: February 9, 2012
Written by Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski and directed by Chris Fisher.