Written By Aaron Zelman
Directed By Steve Wertimer
When a hip-hop celebrity is implicated in a nightclub murder, McCoy and Southerlyn battle the flaks who attempt to insulate their client from any involvement or interrogation.
- Asshole Victim: Jerome Cabey was a cocaine dealer to support making his music, which wasn't very good. After his attempt to get a DJ job at the club failed, he threw money at Darryl Collins and called him a sell-out. Cabey then groped Allie Lawrence. Which lead to her shooting him.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Darryl Collins sadly speculates on this after we learn he is covering for Allie.Collins: Yeah, well, they tell me I have to be hard to sell records. If I hadn't listened to that... maybe none of this would've happened.
- Honor Before Reason: Jack says he is impressed by Collins' chivalry at protecting Allie. In some cases, it seems to be "street cred" before reason.
- Karma Houdini: Allie Lawrence gets away with the shooting. Darryl Collins gets away with covering for Allie.Jack: Apparently two careers are worth more than a person's life.
- Not on the List: Done by the bouncer during the Cold Open.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Amusingly averted with Lenny.Green: G-Train? The G-Train?Briscoe: Even I know who G-Train is.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: At the end, Jack jokes how the DA's office got "dissed."
- Ripped from the Headlines: This episode is loosely based on Sean Combs and the shooting at Club New York in 1999. In real life, rapper Shyne served 10 years in jail for the shooting.
- Slave to PR: Darryl Collins says he had to "play hard" in order to sell records. Once the public realizes he didn't shoot anyone, his record falls down the charts.
