Seeing Tapper snatch the kid - who he doesn’t want - obviously reopened some old wounds. But the treatment didn’t take and his kid passed away he abandoned moral decency as a defense mechanism, a way to avoid dealing with his grief. His child required an experimental treatment that medical insurance wouldn’t cover. He opens up about why he stole the money in the first place. When he and Tapper take Candace’s baby away, he later shows up at Dex’s house wanting to talk. We learn a bit more about Artie in Stumptown Episode 4 - he was a former cop who nabbed thirty grand from the department’s property room. Luckily, Lieutenant Cosgrove (Camryn Manheim) hates Artie’s guts and is perfectly willing to accept Dex’s obviously made-up excuse for taking a baseball bat to his car. To make matters worse, Artie gets Dex’s car towed and her arrested for the vandalism at the top of “Family Ties”. If she doesn’t, well, maybe her debts at the casino will resurface. She goes through the paperwork with Grey, and it doesn’t add up, but Sue Lynn (Tantoo Cardinal) arrives to let her know that Tapper’s project is being built on tribal land and will amplify Native voices with its prominence - as such, Dex needs to back off Tapper, who is threatening to abandon the project. Tookie manages to squirrel away some duplicates, but Artie sniffs that out too, offering Dex a sit-down meeting with Tapper in which he offers Candace a hefty sum of money to sign custody of the baby over to him.ĭex smartly reasons that if Tapper is offering a settlement he has something to hide. Dex enlists Tookie (Adrian Martinez) to pose as a janitor - a cover he finds racially insensitive - and steal the documents, but Artie is a step ahead and catches him in the act.
She starts with Candace (Shoshana Bush), who mentions a building project that she always thought seemed suspicious, but the details of it are kept in a fortress-like West Linn office. “Family Ties” juggles this plot with Dex’s attempts to dig up dirt on Tapper. He maintains a relationship with his widow, Denise (Zulay Henao), and an unhealthy obsession with Kane’s capture, which is complicated by the fact that he’s now a federal fugitive and the local police are only to assist in a manhunt officially conducted by the U.S. Detective Hoffman (Micheal Ealy) put Kane away for the murder of his informant, Darius (Clifford McGhee), and it’s clear he never got over convincing the young man to stay undercover.