McNulty misses this assembly because he is going to the jail crime scene wherever 'DAngelo's "suicide" took location. Man took you off a boat, Jimmy," states Freamon. We're police," suggests Landsman, "so no lies amongst us: He was not the finest detective and he wasn't the worst. The following working day, McNulty learns that Homicide Detective Ray Cole has died whilst doing work out at the gymnasium on a Stairmaster.