After Gee was shot, Gaffney takes the side of a hotheaded younger detective over that of Pembleton and Bayliss when the long-inactive and retired detectives stop the younger detective from abusing a witness during a pointless interrogation. Gaffney outright says that he can do what he wants because power is arbitrary. Pembleton and Bayliss later ignore Gaffney. The new unit Lieutenant
Stuart Gharty (another less qualified commander who could have been promoted in accordance with the "fat Irish ass" theory, although he is much less obnoxious than Gaffney and was eventually written as a competent detective), who worked alongside Pembleton, dislikes him but respects his work. Since Gharty also despises Gaffney, he looks the other way as Pembleton and Bayliss work around him and solve the shooting (eventually murder) of Gee. ==References==