It would be easy just to put Misty on leave and give her the free time to investigate on her own, but that wouldn’t be true to the character. Even in the face of widespread corruption and a captain who’d rather see her fired, Misty is such a firm believer in the criminal justice system that it would compromise her ideals to work outside the law. It would make her one of the vigilantes she’s been complaining about since the beginning. So go get him, Misty, even if he is the hero of the show.

Meanwhile, now-former Councilwoman Mariah Dillard attempts, futilely, to get out from under her late cousin’s criminal racket. She pays a visit to Domingo Colon (Jacob Vargas), one of Cottonmouth’s old business partners/frenemies, and asks him to arrange a meeting of the local crimelords so she can divvy up Cottonmouth’s assets accordingly. Diamondback crashes said meeting and kills all the dons except Domingo, declares himself in charge of all their criminal enterprises and tells Mariah she now works for him, and will help him pitch his alien-tech-infused Judas bullets to the police as a way to stop vigilantes like Cage, whom he revealed at the end of last episode to be his brother.