Human Target Episode 1.05 Run

"You can't run from who you are," says a mystery man in a car. He's meeting Assistant District Attorney Allyson Russo on a remote bridge. As she confers with his driver, Frank Murphy -- chief enforcer for organized crime family the Westland Gang -- two masked gunmen open fire. Murphy's hit but speeds away, and Russo escapes unharmed.

She meets with Winston. A police detail is guarding her, but she needs to root out these assassins. First, Winston has to round up Chance, who's hanging out upstairs, feeding Chinese noodles to Carmine the Rottweiler. Russo's not impressed with Chance. Well, he does have noodle on his shirt.

The mystery man is Whitey Doyle, who led the Westland Gang for 20 years and hasn't been seen in 10. He secretly approached Russo about helping her round up what's left of the gang. Someone definitely doesn't want that: Her car's also been broken into, her trash ransacked, and her email hacked. She's not sure why Whitey wants to talk now, and Chance wonders why Whitey picked her. She says it's because she's been going after his old soldiers.

To lure the assailants, Chance poses as Whitey's lawyer and arranges a second meeting. Later he asks Russo why, five years ago, $50,000 showed up in her checking account. Internal Affairs (aka IA) investigated but dropped the case. She says she's not on the take. He doesn't think she is, but what is she not telling him? She stonewalls.

As Russo's police guardians drive her to the "meeting," Chance tricks Inspector Wes Gibson into revealing that he knew the first meeting was on a bridge, even though Russo didn't report that. Chance says the two officers were the masked gunmen. The fight is on!

The sedan careens out of control. Chance tosses one cop out. Gibson starts firing and shoves Chance's head out the driver's door, toward the pavement. In the back seat, Allyson grabs the wheel. Chance finally pushes Gibson out and drives on.

Well, now they know who's after her.

In the sedan's trunk, Chance finds a GPS tracker keyed to Allyson. He hot-wires an SUV, and they speed off with police cars in pursuit. Now, where's that tracker? It's not her phone or in her clothes; it's inside her. Chance ditches the cops and picks up Guerrero, who determines it's a tiny GPS chip that stays in your system for about a week, dude. Guerrero goes to see a guy who might know how to jam the signal.

Chance tells Winston about the crooked cops, and Winston meets with Detective Al Jenkins, his buddy from IA. But Al says he can't help. Doyle had people on his payroll everywhere in City Hall, including some cops, and Gibson was their leader. Gibson's history was known around IA. So either the rank and file didn't want to believe it, or they're in Whitey's ledger too. Al also mentions multiple deposits, not just one, to Russo's checking account.

Chance presses Russo about the money. Finally, she confesses: Whitey's her father. He left when she was 2. She and her mother never talked about it again.

Winston phones Al and says Russo is Doyle's kid, not a crooked DA. Al decides to help. He says she should take the ledger to the courthouse. He'll call the trustworthy Judge Pamela Heard, then get his best man and escort Russo to her office. But Russo can't get to Doyle directly; last time, Frank Murphy reached out to her. They head to a nearby hospital, where the wounded Murphy is recuperating.

Russo explains her mom got lymphoma around the time she became a DA. Bills piled up. Then 50 grand appeared in her checking account. She returned it, every time, and reported the transactions as bank errors. Whitey's a bad guy, and she doesn't want anything from him. Chance says she spent her entire professional life putting people like him behind bars. Maybe it's OK to stop running from her past. She wonders what Chance is running from.

At the hospital, Murphy calls Whitey, who agrees to give up the ledger. The cops arrive, and Chance gives Murphy a gun. Chance and Allyson go out the window and drive off in an ambulance.

In the murdered Murphy's room, Al tells Gibson they're taking him in. But, sadly, Al's partner is also one of Gibson's guys, and he kills Al.

A bummed-out Winston tells Chance that Al's dead. They're going to pin the murder on Allyson, so the courthouse will be surrounded. Chance rigs the empty ambulance to barrel toward a police barrier, and they get into the courthouse. Gibson and crew close in on Russo's signal ... but it's not her. Guerrero used a more powerful microwave source of the same frequency to divert them. The cops battle Chance instead, but Gibson gets away.

In Judge Heard's office, Whitey Doyle hands over the ledger. He doesn't care about jail; he had to save his little girl. He's everything she thinks he is: a crook, a thief, a thug. And he's never accounted for it. Until that happens, he can never be her father.

Later at HQ, Russo worries that Gibson's still at large. Winston says his associate doesn't like loose ends. Elsewhere, Gibson enters a rundown hotel room ... where Chance is waiting. "You can't run from who you are," says Chance. "You can't run from me."