Charlie Bishop, better known as Charlie the Kite when Malloy busted him close to ten years ago on paper hanging charges, gets a message through Mac that he wants to see Malloy. A despondent Charlie confides to Malloy and Reed that he, who has been out of state prison for a month, wants to "go home" to the only life he's known for the past ten years as he is having problems coping to life outside. While on patrol, Malloy and Reed come up with the idea of a half way house as a solution to Charlie's problem. They want to check it out before telling Charlie, but hope that he doesn't do anything foolish in the meantime. Next, they attend to a call of the burglarized and ransacked house of Harry Morrison, who reports only a stamp collection appraised at $31,500 missing. Reed takes an off the cuff statement from Morrison's neighbor, Georgina Ryan, a statement which Morrison probably wishes she didn't make.
—Huggo