their investigation comes to a halt when ershon's attorney, don beaman, learns of ershon's plan to cover his losses, leading wesley to kill him and make it look like a suicide. angered at their lack of progress, capt. gene mauch splits up allen and terry, sending terry to traffic duty and allen to beat patrol. despite terry's anger, allen still works the case on his own. after allen learns that danson and highsmith died investigating a staged theft during which wesley broke into an accounting firm next door, he finds credible evidence and earns his gun back from mauch. allen then convinces terry to rejoin him. they meet capt. mauch at bed bath & beyond, his second job, where the police captain admits he has been holding off on the case because ershon has high-profile connections that could ruin him, and he allows them to finish the case off-the-books.