

Before getting out of the car, Higgins instructs Reed to come in guns blazing if he's gone for too long. Marcus Reed and Higgins hurry to the contact point. A contact for a case he's working on has called a meeting in another part of town. The visit is cut short by a phone call to Higgins. After passing the test with flying colors, the head detective does not believe he is ready so Terry takes Reed out for a few basics, afterwards Reed and Higgins go to visit Reed's father in jail.

At the urging of Higgins, he applies to test for his detective's badge and a transfer to the Organized Crime Unit. As he does so, Higgins sighs and says, "Merry Christmas."įive years later, Marcus Reed is now an officer of the NYPD, having worked the beat for four years to become one of the precinct's best street cops with Higgins' mentoring and guidance. Reed agrees, and shuffles off to tend to his injuries. He says he's going to cover up Reed's involvement in the shoot-out, but this will be his final chance to clean up his act before he's left to the mercy of the NYPD. Although Reed willingly offers to allow Higgins to arrest him, Higgins refuses. Higgins tells Reed he should be ashamed of the level he's sunk to. Isaiah Reed (Marcus' father) and Higgins have been friends for a long time. Dropping his empty Uzi, Reed is almost shot by another gang member, but an NYPD detective named Terry Higgins saves Reed. After a bloody, running gunfight with gang members, Reed corners the betrayer in a building basement and guns him down. Covered in blood and injured, Reed shows up unexpectedly at the traitor's house to exact revenge. Several years later, Reed is betrayed by a friend and assumed dead after an ambush. Marcus Reed is a gang member who inherited his incarcerated father's criminal empire in New York.
