At the station Walsh is pleading for Lou to help him solve his case because they only have 3 hours left. Lou is quickly falling apart, sulking about being Trainwreck. Walsh believes the night before was a mistake. Tells him if anyone asks why he's there he's seeing Walsh about a case.
Alvarez is sitting at his desk researching Lou and the clown explains that he found his wife in bed with her pilates instructor and that turned him into a "joker." Alvarez confronts Walsh about the bloody tissue. Walsh warns him to mind his own business and take care of the clown. Alavarez says he's not afraid of Walsh. Walsh says Alvarez doeesn't get .He inks they're all a bunch of freaks. "You're the biggest freak of all," Walsh reminds him. "I'm watching you," is the best Alvarez can come up with. They seemed to have done away with the brief notion of using Alvarez's wife to make him likable, as she's only appeared in one episode. Odd, considering she's the DA, but again, whatever. Their cases are simple and don't need none of that fancy trial and lawyer stuff.
Casey and Walsh talk as they walk to the car. Walsh believes he has moved him way from Alvarez. Casey believes Alvarez might be right. She believes that Lou really did kill someone. Walsh is still holding out because onetime Lou talked a girl off a ledge. Casey points out that the phone and credit card records didn't show anything. Walsh believes that they can deconstruct Lou's night in another way. They call dispatch and ask if there was any "512's" the night before, 512's being a 911 incident involving an off duty officer. Dispatch informs them of a mugging so they head off to the site. Delahoy sees Karen as everyone in the station, all Being John Malkovich style. She reminds him that he can't ignore his tumor forever. He excuses himself, asks Banks to cover and leaves.
At the scene of last night's mugging Schraeger and Walsh question the officers who responded. They tell them that the guy had appeared cloudy and tried to rob 2 guys with a saw. He ripped his knuckles up in a fight with the two guys. He wouldn't take a ride to the ER. But the guy wasn't alone, he had a blonde with him with nice tits. (I'm not going into the stupid joke about names for boobs and penises that lasts the rest of the episode. Sorry ABC if I wanted to hear boob and penis naming contests I would sit in on a group of 6th grade boys.) They figure he kept drinking and met her at a bar. They notice across the street is a Tikki bar, and because of the umbrella in Lou's pocket they decide to investigate.
Alvarez finds Lou alone in the basement file room. He lies casually asking if Lou wants anything because Walsh asked him to check on him. "Mustaches have to stick together," he says as he introduces himself. He offers to throw away the bloody bandages that Lou is unwinding from his knuckles. He leaves the room and goes to Brown saying that they have a problem. Brown gets angry and tells Alvarez that Walsh has 90 minutes. Furious Alvarez says that Walsh is dirty. Brown is shocked. "Did the building exercise teach you nothing?" Alvarez continues to pout so Brown throws him out.
Banks brings Lowdown in for questioning. They speculate that he got his ID's from a dirty waiter at the coffee shop. Lowdown tries to make a deal with them that he'll either give them his buyers or his sellers. Banks ignore him and go through his files, commenting on how neat he keeps them. Who says all criminals are disorganized messes? Gotta have a system if you're any good. He discovers that Lowdown has Delahoy's ID, too,and sold it.
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