Synopsis  

Sara’s mysterious background becomes a bit more clear as she helps investigate the starvation death of a 5-year-old boy whose body is discovered near a trash dumpster. At the county lock-up, Warrick and Nick probe the beating of a prisoner in an overcrowded cell. Later, Catherine learns that being the boss isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when she has to reprimand Warrick for what she deems unprofessional behavior.

Review  

Sara consoles Greg at the scene, wondering if he’s okay. She gets confrontational with the child’s aunt, who was supposed to be looking after them. When Sara is talking to the foster kids, we learn that she was in the foster system herself, ‘for a while’. When Sara, Greg and Brass find the missing children, she tearfully holds them until help arrives. At the end, she looks up a case on Lexis-Nexis.

Notes  

• Sara was in a foster home as a child.
• At the end of the episode, Sara searches the Lexis-Nexis database for “THE PEOPLE VS. LAURA SIDLE W/2; MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, 1984”

Quotes  

Robbins I have to admit this seems especially cruel and unusual.
Sara: When kids are involved, it usually is.

Sara: I’m sorry, that was lame. I guess I was just trying to put you at ease. I know what it’s like.
Glynnis What?
Sara: Living with strangers. Your fate being decided by social workers, advocates, judges…
Glynnis You were in the system.
Sara: For a while.

Sara: To starve anyone is beyond me, but to do it to a child – a relative – that’s unfaithful.
Divine Wasn’t even like that. My cousin Candice left me with those bad ass kids and no money. How’m I supposed to feed them?
Sara: You don’t look like you’ve missed any meals to me.
Divine Know what white skinny bitch, go to hell. I just scrape by.

Brass: So Seattle PD has located Candice, uh, Malton, they put her on a plane tonight. They said she’s pretty broken up.
Sara: She left her kids with her hooker cousin. She should’ve known better. (pause) Where are you gonna take her first, the hospital or the morgue?
Brass: Guess we might as well get it over with. I mean, once she sees the kids she’s not gonna wanna leave them. What do you think?
Sara: Go with the living, Jim – the dead can wait. (walks away)