⋆° დ ༄ RISKY BUSINESS
chapter thirty three. the three g's.

"So Lexi, you have a college picked out yet?" Maxine asked Alvin's daughter, as they all have breakfast together.

"Actually, I was thinking about riding around with my boyfriends band for awhile" Lexi said, crossing her arms over each other on the table, "they're doing this tour from Chicago to portland"

Maxine smiles, "what does he play?"

"Whoa" Al cuts in, "this is—this is the first time I'm hearing about this"

"No it's not" Lexi states, "I told you about it, like two weeks ago. Remember?"

Al looks at the young detective and asks, "Max, how old were you when you first decided to be the police?"

"18. I got caught selling weed, the cop who arrested me was Voight. He gave me a second chance, saw something in me and took me under his wing"

"You went to college to be a cop?" Lexi asks.

"I went to CCU, but I had a lot of life experience as well"

Lexi looks at her dad and says, "so life experience is just as important as school"

Al looks at Maxine, who looks at him confused then looks back at the teenager, "I mean, well, it is important but getting a degree will definitely get you further in—"

Lexi looks at the time on her phone and says, "I gotta get to class" then she gets up from the table, "it was good seeing you, Max"

"Yeah, you too, Kid" the detective said, gripping her hands around the coffee cup.

"Bye dad" the teenager says before walks away. Maxine looks at the older man and says, "Alvin, I hate to break it to you but I don't think lexi's interested in being a cop"

"She wants to be a roadie with her boyfriends band"

"Yeah, she's a kid"

"I gotta go check this guy out"

"No. Alvin, no. Don't" Max said and Al sighs, "I'll do it"

"Be advised, any tac units in the vicinity of Cermak and Archer, a patrol officer is requesting the closest unit with breaching tools to respond"

"It's two blocks away"

"Alright, what the hell. Let's do our good deed for the day" Al says, taking money out from his pocket.

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Maxine and Alvin roll up to the location and see the patrol officer standing out front waiting for them.

"You the one that called for a breach?" Max asks.

"Yeah. ComEd guy was replacing a meter around back. Called in a foul odor" the officer says.

"Alright" Max says, popping the trunk as she and Al get out a pair of bolt cutters so the patrol officer can cut through the chain and then he presses the button, causing the warehouse door to open.

"Ooh!" Max says, covering her nose.

"Whoa!" Al says.

"Yeah, that stinks to high heaven" The uni says as the three walk through, clearing out the warehouse as much as possible.

With their flashlights and guns drawn, Al and Max followed by the patrol officer walk into a room, which smells even worse than when they entered the building and they find six dead girls, chained up and Maxine's heart falls to her stomach.

"Kirby, 5021" Maxine says, over her walkie, "I have multiple DOA's on scene. Send the corner to 2122 west Carmack"

"Al," Max says, putting her walkie away, "Al, we got to check the rest of the building"

As Maxine and Alvin check out the rest of the building. Max walks into a rather large room and sees a bag of chinese food on a table and she touches it and it's still warm, so she finds the back door and with her gun still drawn, she clears the area and sees a guy in a blue leather jacket walking away from the building.

"Hey! Excuse me" Maxine shouts, "Chicago Police!"

The guy ignores Maxine and reaches into his car and pulls out an automatic and starts shooting as Max ducks behind a car.

"Please. Help me" A lady says, holding onto her bleeding leg.

Max starts shooting at the offender getting in front of the woman as the offender flees in his car. She then takes her belt off and wraps it around the woman's leg to keep pressure on it.

A few minutes later after Max calls it in, Burgess and Roman pull up and run over to the detective and the woman.

"Bishop...Max, are you okay?" Kim asks.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Find the car yet?"

"No, they've issued a city wide manhunt" Roman says.

"It's gonna be okay, miss, promise" Max says, to the injured woman.

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"Figured the shooter was here to bring the girls food" Maxine tells Voight, "But he got here too late. The ME says the girls have been dead for at least two days"

"Anything on the shooter's vehicle?" Hank asks.

"No. Only got a partial plate. Waiting to hear back. Uh, landlord says he's been getting paid cashiers checks by a guy a year in advance"

"Well, the shooter ain't our guy, I can tell you that much. No businessman is gonna leave his investment for dead"

Max and Hank turn around to see a patrolman holding back an older, asian man.

"What's the problem?" Hank asks.

"He says his daughter might be inside"

"I need to make sure. Please" The man pleads.

"Sir, this is a crime scene.."

"It's okay, it's okay" Max says and Hank lifts up the crime scene tape and lets him through.

The older gentleman looks around for a second and he immediately breaks down and kneels next to one of the girls. "My daughter. It's Jun"

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"Mr. Chen, we're so sorry for your loss. Please, we're trying to help you" Hank says and he puts his hand on Mr. Chen's shoulder, "Just tell us who you paid to bring Jun over here"

"And you're not gonna get into any trouble" Maxine says, "You know, we just want to know what happened"

"Yeah"

"I paid them thirty thousand to bring Jun over. I got a call last week that she was in the city. They wouldn't tell me where and they demanded another thirty and I didn't have it"

"Please, just tell us a name" Hank asks.

"Dennis Lee"

"The Dennis Lee? Used to run Chinatown?" Voight asks and Mr Chen nods his head.

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Maxine pours herself a cup of coffee and looks over to see mouse getting a drink from the fridge.

"I uh, heard that uh, Chinatown was a war zone this morning. You know I've been involved in more than a few skirmishes myself. Mickey even saved me a bunch of times. And bullets flying, there's...there's gotta be a million things going through your head"

"Yeah, it wasn't pretty" she said, taking a sip from her coffee mug.

"Yeah" mouse said before walking away.

"Hey. Can I have you look into somebody for me? Consider it extra credit"

"Yeah sure. Who's the uh, who's the target?"

"Olinsky's daughters boyfriend"

Mouse chuckles, "alright"

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Jay rolls his chair over to his partner's desk, "hey, how you doin'?"

Max looks over at Jay and nods, "I'm good"

Al looks at one of the whiteboards with the victims on it, when Hank leaves his office, rolling over another whiteboard and taping a picture of Dennis Lee on it.

"Dennis Lee" Hank states, "He's been on CPD's most wanted fugitive list for over six years. He's wanted on more than fifty combined warrants, including firearms and human trafficking"

"I ran across Lee back in Vice" Dawson annonces, "He made his fortune supplying the south side with the three G's. Girls, guns and gambling machines. All three he brought over from China in shipping containers"

"So, he thinks six years is long enough for the heat to die down, and now he's back in business" Lindsay says.

"I got a hit on the burgundy Toyota Supra" Jay says, holding up a picture and goes over to the whiteboard to tape it up, "it's registered to this guy, Eddie Cao. Dennis Lee's nephew" then Jay tapes the picture onto the whiteboard next to Dennis Lee's photo.

"That's him. That's the shooter" Max states, standing up from her desk.

"Well, when he's not running errands for his uncle, he's a known counterfeiter, who does everything from knock off DVDs to Gucci bags. Runs a sweatshop down on Wentworth"

"Gear up" Voight says.

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"Alright, Halstead, Ruzek, Atwater and Bishop, you cover the exits. Everybody stay sharp. This guy won't think twice about lighting up cops" Hanks says, lifting up the elevator door, at an old warehouse.

Bishop, Halstead, Ruzek and Atwater draw their long guns in front of them and clear the exits while Voight, Dawson and Olinsky find Eddie Cao.

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Back on the unit, the team is at their desks, when Antonio hangs up his desk phone, "That was Interpol. They said Lee practically started a war in Shanghai. He stole money from his business partners and burned every contact that was protecting him"

"Eddie Cao said his uncle is unloading four thousand sks assault rifles at five hundred a piece. That's two mill, no wonder Lee's back. That's a huge payday" Jay says.

"Lee comes back to Chicago, bringing with him shipping containers full of girls and guns. Sells them all at once..." Dawson says and snaps his fingers, "then hauls ass out of town"

"Mouse and I were able to ID another of the girls from the warehouse luggage" Maxine says, walking from behind the whiteboards with a picture in her hand and then she shows the team and tapes it into the board, "her name was Mai Ling and she was fourteen"

"We're trying to track down family for the rest of the girls, and I've reached out to ICE to help with IDs" Erin states.

"Right, you know, the parents are probably scared to talk. Just stay on 'em" Voight tells Erin and Max.

"This nephew said Lee's gonna sell these rifles in two hours at the container yards" Al says, "That's the only way we're gonna get him, so what are we waiting for?"

"Alright, you help set up surveillance" Voight tells Antonio, who rounds up the others.

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Max leaves the break room when she hears her phone ringing and she smiles when she sees Wills contact pop up, "hey, my favorite doctor. What's up?"

"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to meet me at Molly's later. Grab a drink?"

"That sounds amazing right now but we're knee deep in a case right now. Not sure when it'll be over. Rain check?"

"Yeah, for sure"

"Okay, cool. I'll talk to you later, red" Maxine said, then hangs up her phone and walks onto the bullpen to hear Kevin say, "I guess my question is, what street crew has the bank roll to buy two million dollars worth of hardware?"

"Let's start running gang files. I can reach out to a few CIs" Dawson says.

"Al, Maxie there's some people downstairs who want to talk to you guys" Adam says, walking onto the unit.

"No, take a message" Al says quickly.

"Al, come on" Max says and Al sighs as the two detectives head downstairs.

"Detective Olinsky, Detective Bishop" Donald Chen says.

"Mr. Chen"

"They wanted to come forward" Mr Chen says, pointing to some parents,"Their girls, they were with Jun"

Max and Al look at each other.

"We're sorry for your loss" Al says.

"I know you're doing everything you can and we wanted to make sure you had these" Donald Chen says, as one of the mother's puts a couple bracelets in Maxine's hand and another mother does the same with Al.

"They belonged to our daughters. They are tokens of luck. To help you find the man who took them from us"

Max looks at Al with tears in her eyes and puts the bracelets she was given onto her wrist.

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Maxine walks into the tech room where Mouse was, sipping on a beer and asks, "hey you working on something?" Then she notices him watching traffic cams.

"Um no. No, I like to watch the lights come and go. Find it kind of relaxing."

"Interesting. Did you run the kid?"

"Uh yeah" mouse said handing Max a file, "it's uh, Jason Monahan. Guy has no arrest record. His mom is a physical therapist. Dad teaches music composition at the art institute. Jason posted some of his music on, uh, on vine. He can beat the hell out of a base"

"What kind of music?" The detective asks, reading over the file.

"Neo Punk. Not as good as the bad brains or anything. More like old ramones"

Maxine raises her eyebrows impressed, "Hmm"

"I can track him if you want. Tag his van, install a camera"

"It's alright. I got it from here. Thank you" she says, before walking away.

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Maxine and Al go to the house of Anna Tse and Al knocks on the glass door but no one answers.

"Anna Tse, open up!" Max shouts, but still no answer so, then she takes out a paton and breaks the glass door, then opens it.

Max and Al walk into the house with their guns drawn and max sees Anna hanging up the phone.

"Were you talking to Lee?" Max questions.

"Do you have a warrant for this?"

"Shut up" Al says, going to clear the house while max watches Anna Tse.

Once Al finishes, he sees a passport on the counter with Dennis Lee's face on it and shows it to Max.

"Turn around" maxine says, which Anna does and she handcuffs her, "Anna Tse, you're under arrest for aiding and abetting a fugitive"

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Back at the twenty first, down at the cage, Al, Hank and max question Reggie "Sticks" Daniels, after Adam, Jay and Antonio picked him up from some evidence Atwater found after talking with Anna Tse.

"I make music, man. I ain't got no interest in guns" Daniels says, "some crates get dumped at my studio, first thing I'm thinking is, must be the new sound mixers I ordered"

"Yeah, some mistake" Maxine says.

"The postal service, man. They always messin' up"

"Right" Voight says, "see, I don't think you're so stupid that you don't realize today is your lucky day. We don't want you. We want Dennis Lee. Cause while he was selling you guns, he let six teenage girls rot to death"

"Look man, I'm telling you, the only Chinese dude I know is the one that sells me fried rice down at the golden duck"

"Sarg" Mouse says.

"What?"

"I got something you wanna see" Mouse says and Voight, bishop and Olinsky follow him into the tech room with a video on the computer ready to be played.

"Check this out, remember that triad vehicle you had me wire up..." Mouse says pressing the play button.

"We got a hit on Lee. He's crashing out at the royal hotel on Michigan. Spread the word"

"When was this?" Al questions.

"Two minutes ago. Got the trackers up on Kong's car. They're heading to the hotel right now"

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The team heads to the hotel where Dennis Lee is supposed to be when they hear gunshots coming from inside.

"Get the long guns!" Voight shouts.

The intelligence team enters the hotel with their guns drawn in front of them, while the shooting continues. Al and Maxine quietly sneak up behind Lee and stop him from shooting.

"Put the gun down!" Al orders, which Lee does -not willingly of course- .

"Dennis Lee, you're under arrest-" Bishop starts to say when Al drags Lee away to the back and down a hall in the hotel. Max follows Al and sees him pointing this gun in between his eyes, "Al"

Then Hank and Antonio enter and Hank slowly takes Al's gun away.

"Get him outta here" Hank says, referring to Dennis Lee.

"Let's go! On your feet" max demands, walking away with Lee and Antonio.

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Maxine walks onto the unit and sees Al at the whiteboard, taking down the pictures of the girls. "Crossing someone off the most wanted list after six years, must feel good"

Al sighs, "yeah"

Maxine hands Alvin a folder and says, "Mouse and I looked into Lexi's boyfriend. He's spotless. She's lucky to have you looking out for her"

"Thanks"

"Al, don't go crawling under a rock after this, okay? You gotta focus on all the ones you saved getting Lee off the street" Max says, putting her hand on Al's shoulder then she grabs her coat from her chair and leaves.

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Honey opens her front door to find her sister on the other side and to say she was shocked was an understatement, "Maxine?"

"Hey Sis"

"What are you doing here?"

"Um, well, we just had a bad case and I wanted to know if we could hang out...maybe. Get to know each other"

"Uh, yeah. Okay" Homey said, standing to the side to let her twin in, "Ryder! Come here. I have someone I want you to meet" then she closes the door behind them.

authors note;

wait till you guys get to know honey, you'll love her 🫶🏼❤️❤️