Shark: Season 1 (2006-2007)

Episode: 17, Backfire
Original Air Date: March 29, 2007

Episode Recap:
When NARC officers open fire on two suspicious individuals in an SUV, one of the passengers who is cousins with the drug dealer but is a straight arrow high school student, ends up dead. The cops insist they only returned fire, and the suspect denies firing his gun at all. After hearing both sides of the story, Shark must determine who shot first and who is responsible for the student's death. A camera phone video surfaces and appears to support the cops story that they only reacted to someone in the car shooting, but then another video turns up that shows them tampering with evidence at the scene of the crime. Furious that he's been lied to by the police, Shark sets up a sting that he's certain will force them to tell the truth. Shark finally receives an honest account, but it's equally frustrating because the entire altercation was a series of unfortunate events. A car backfiring set off a nervous rookie who shot first, leaving his well experienced partner no choice but to plant evidence to avoid the scrutiny he was sure the shooting would lead to.

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Julie Stark: Dad, I need a lawyer.
Sebastian Stark: Look in the yellow pages under, "L".

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Sebastian Stark: How'd your hearing go?
Julie Stark: I got my licence suspended for 90 days and I have to do 180 hours of community service.
Sebastian Stark: But if you do all that, which you will, your arrest gets expunged.
Julie Stark: Huh, that's really comforting.
Sebastian Stark: It ought to be.
Julie Stark: You could have helped me , Dad.
Sebastian Stark: How?
Julie Stark: By getting me a better lawyer, at least.
Sebastian Stark: Lloyd's the best. If you had a bad lawyer, you'd be in jail right now.
Julie Stark: Wait a second. How did you know who I went to?
Sebastian Stark: Did you think I'd let you deal with all this, without checking up on you?
Julie Stark: Checking up on me? Dad! You could have made this whole thing go away.
Sebastian Stark: Easily. But you need to learn that actions have consequences.
Julie Stark: Oh, right. This from the guy who got rich letting criminals go free? Could you be a bigger hypocrite?
Sebastian Stark: Don't you dare speak to me like that.
Julie Stark: What? Now all of a sudden you're going to play father and give me some big lecture?
Sebastian Stark: Every time I take an interest in your life, every time, you push me away. You get in trouble, you run to your mum. You call Isaac, not me. You only want a father when it's convenient for you. But I got news for ya. It doesn't work that way. So when you decide you really want a father, you let me know.