Who shot Joey Salvo?
The fifth season opener revealed that Lt. Shannon of IAB gunned down Salvo. From Alan’s summary review of the season five opener: Having Shannon be the shooter makes perfect sense and explains his motivation for suspending Bobby: he realized that someone was on to his extracurricular activities, and the only way to cover his tracks was to 1) Suspend Simone (which any clean IAB cop would do if a cop refused to cooperate to the extent Bobby did), and 2) Take out Salvo so he couldn’t cut a deal at a later date to give away Shannon. Shannon later tried to cover his tracks by trying to lure Andy alone with a phony phone tip so he could whack him in solitude (a cough-and-you’ll-miss-it line during the Gerald/Frankie bust that seemed to have been added in postproduction), and when that didn’t work, he panicked and made the dumb move Simone and Sipowicz were hoping for. As for why Andy behaved so strangely during the cliffhanger at the end of season four, try not to think about it so hard; som
