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4. Maltese Cross

When a New York fire fighter is found stabbed to death, the ensuing investigation and questioning launches Detectives Logan and Wheeler into a brawl with the fire department. Through flashbacks, the Detectives learn that the victim, fire fighter Ian Duffy, helped break up a hate crime but was subsequently found stabbed to death right afterwards. As they investigate Ian's past through his wife Claudia and colleague Brendan Keele, the Detectives learn that Ian's sexuality may have cost him his life.

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Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate when a fireman Ian Duffy ( Jason Pendergraft ) is stabbed 22 times and collapses after managing to drive himself to the fire station. The ensuing investigation and Logan's questioning launches them into a brawl with the firefighters led by Charlie Hugo ( Chance Kelly ), resulting in a hearing before the Commissioner for Logan and Wheeler. The storyline arcs back to the fight as Logan and Wheeler retell their story to the Commissioner, giving perspective to the fight and underlying issues between the NYPD and the FDNY. The brawl proves to be a red herring when the detectives discover that Duffy was gay and it appears the crime was perpetrated by a possible repeat killer, Brendan Keele ( Geoffrey Nauffts ), who is also suspected of an identical murder twelve years earlier. Logan enlists the help of fireman Hugo into provoking Keele into proclaiming his relationship with Duffy and his murder.

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