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00:01Previously on RJ Decker
00:04Levi Brenner just got out of Apalachee
00:06Well if he comes looking for me again, he ain't gonna find me here
00:08I'm going home
00:10You want a tour, I can tell
00:11Call it morbid curiosity
00:14When I tried to apologize for what I said at your trial
00:17You didn't want to hear it
00:18If you think I don't know, isn't it words from your father?
00:21It was, but it was still wrong
00:23I'm sorry
00:25That house where your pretty ex-wife lives
00:27With her pretty new wife and her pretty little daughter
00:30Never come within miles of me
00:31I didn't break in
00:33That's all
00:33I'm telling the truth
00:38Three, two, one
00:42The playground at Rosa Romero Elementary reopened today
00:46Welcoming students for the first time since Hurricane Martin
00:48Tore through the area six months ago
00:50Florida State Senator Victor Ochoa made the playground's restoration
00:53A key part of his broader storm recovery initiative
00:56Recovery isn't about bricks or budgets
00:59It's about investing in people
01:02In home
01:07Hey, just a couple more things
01:09Yeah, and then I'm gonna go to the lottery line
01:13Okay
01:40Thanks
01:40Thanks for shopping you with me
01:41Thanks
01:49sir
01:51excuse me sir
01:53i think you forgot to pay for the apps
01:55oh i'm sorry did i miss something
01:57yeah the whole card
01:59your friend in the lotto line she bagged him up to look paid for when you walked out
02:02dude how is this any of your business
02:04my name is rj decker
02:07loss prevention detective
02:09that sounds made up
02:10it's not made up i'm under contract with the whippies chain
02:13i blend in and i watch
02:15i make sure nothing goes out unpaid
02:17so you're a undercover
02:20supermarket cop
02:21most days i'm a pi
02:24produce inspector
02:26i'm a pro
02:28you know what
02:28i'm gonna go back inside we'll sort this out quietly
02:31no cops
02:32right yeah why wouldn't you call the cops
02:34because cops mean reports and statements
02:37and a court date six months from now where i gotta wear a tie
02:39and explain shrinkflation to a judge
02:41i don't want that you don't want that
02:44don't take the eggs man
02:45you take the eggs i'm gonna chase you
02:48please
02:49oh honey
02:50i haven't paid for those yet
02:54there she goes
02:59i'll just pay for the eggs
03:05you have a runner
03:07yeah
03:07weak morals
03:09but
03:09strong legs
03:10this is true
03:11leave everything here
03:12i'll put it back on the shelf myself
03:13okay
03:14okay
03:15thanks i'm sure
03:16now smile
03:17we'll catch the next one
03:18super market
03:20i can't no longer shop
03:22happy me
03:23i can't be here for the special out there
03:27a guarantee for some malady
03:32it's not here
03:35it's not here
03:36it's not here
03:44yeah
03:45you forgot about dinner
03:46i forgot about dinner
03:48i waited 30 minutes
03:51that reservation wasn't easy to get
03:54even for me
03:55a long day
03:56have a beer with me
03:58an apology beer
04:00please
04:03coming right up
04:08here you go
04:08so what happened
04:11grand theft
04:13avocado
04:13at work today
04:14no
04:15i was working on the robbery
04:16at mel and cass house
04:17i thought that was your old prison buddy
04:20the guy who robbed the armored truck
04:21well
04:22it turns out
04:23he and his partner
04:23they had an alibi
04:24he said someone else
04:26must be coming after us
04:27i think he might be just
04:28messing with my head
04:29because i've been at it a week now
04:30and everything says
04:31run-of-the-mill burglar to me
04:33not a work for
04:34run-of-the-mill
04:35well mel's daughter sophia
04:37she's been having nightmares
04:38since it happened
04:38so i figured
04:40catch the guy
04:40we uh
04:41we go sleep better
04:45is this a suspect
04:47to be determined
04:48yeah
04:49neighbor reported
04:50seeing a suspicious man
04:51in the neighborhood
04:52there's just the type
04:53who sees
04:53a lot of suspicious men
04:55in the neighborhood
04:55yeah
04:56so
04:56who knows
05:02you look amazing
05:03by the way
05:04i know
05:10oh this tastes like hot yoga
05:13yeah it's the uh
05:14it's the hops
05:15buy bitter beer
05:16at the supermarket tomorrow
05:19hey
05:20that's it
05:21let me make it up to you
05:22the dinner
05:23please
05:25good luck with your side quest
05:34night crew never tosses their boxes
05:36who closed
05:38wait
05:39let me guess
05:41terry
05:42man works hard
05:43all night
05:44making sure
05:44none of this
05:45gets done
06:02what the hell
06:03that didn't sound like boxes
06:22hey
06:24i know you weren't supposed to work today
06:25that's okay
06:26thanks for coming in
06:27yeah what happened
06:28heist
06:29not a smash and grab
06:30honest to goodness
06:32coordinated op
06:33clean entry
06:34and egress
06:35they got away with close to 10 grand
06:37in inventory
06:38look i
06:38that's a lot of cops for a robbery huh
06:40well
06:40the crew that did this
06:42they didn't just rob us
06:43they killed
06:44one of our employees
06:46what
06:47arturo correa
06:49arturo
06:49the sweet old guy
06:50that works at the front
06:51that killed him
06:5285 years old
06:53been with us for decades
06:55and get this
06:55he's just three weeks from retirement
06:57okay i'm confused
06:58why was he working at night
06:59can't wax the floors
07:00while stores open
07:02perps restrained him
07:03in an office chair
07:04killed him
07:05then threw his body
07:06in the baler
07:06the baler
07:07the thing that crushes up
07:08the boxes
07:10sarah the stock clerk
07:12found the body
07:13she worried that she killed him
07:14when she turned the baler on
07:15but i told her
07:16liver temp indicated
07:17he'd been dead for at least
07:19four hours prior
07:22how do you know all that
07:24i've heard a couple of csu guys
07:26talking about you
07:26okay
07:27also i watch bones
07:28of course
07:31there were ligature marks
07:32on arturo's neck
07:34strong evidence
07:35of strangulation
07:36as cause of death
07:37emmy still needs to confirm
07:39but
07:41bruising doesn't happen
07:42post-mortem
07:42sir
07:43step away from the table
07:44yeah yeah
07:44of course
07:45i'm not gonna warn you again
07:46my bad
07:46yeah
07:48kevin
07:50just to be clear
07:50my fee structure changes
07:52when the job goes from loss prevention
07:54to homicide
07:56oh
07:56you're not here to solve the murder
07:59you're here to find my stolen inventory
08:03oh
08:05okay
08:05so
08:07watch what happens
08:08at 11 56
08:11so i'm thinking
08:12emp device
08:14like an ocean's 11
08:15an emp device
08:17to rob a supermarket
08:19well danny ocean stole what
08:20a couple hundred mil
08:21retail theft is a hundred billion dollar industry
08:24okay
08:24well let's assume for a second
08:25this wasn't the work of danny ocean
08:27the cameras can only be shut down
08:29from the inside
08:29pull up the backroom feed
08:34we talked about this
08:35the cameras in the backroom
08:37and we talked about this day one
08:38i i know
08:39i know
08:39i've been waiting for corporate
08:40to approve the request
08:42and that takes time
08:44all right
08:44well what about arturo
08:45the guys who did this
08:47they coerced him
08:47he turned off the cameras
08:49first thing the cops and i checked
08:52yeah i see
08:53all right
08:55pull up all the feeds
08:56the sales floor
08:57all of them
08:58pull them up for me
09:01yeah
09:01yeah yeah yeah
09:10there
09:11watch the bottom shelf
09:12on the left there
09:16you said the police didn't find
09:17any evidence of a break
09:18taking this because it wasn't a break in
09:20it was a break out
09:31okay so he cams on the shuttle closing
09:34kills the cameras
09:35then signals his crew to roll in
09:37but they hit a snack
09:38they weren't alone
09:39and arturo stumbles onto them
09:41yeah
09:42it's the tidy version
09:43i checked out the electrical ring
09:45panels
09:46breakers
09:46circuit boards everywhere
09:47this guy's not finding the switch
09:49to cut the power by accident
09:50you think it was an inside job
09:52actually i know it was
09:53watch this
09:57mira if i didn't know a guy died last night
09:59i would have proposed that
10:00yeah but watch
10:01same time different part of the store
10:02see arturo hears the cans
10:04but he goes right on working
10:05check his face
10:06it's the same look you give me
10:07when i move the thermostat
10:08by like one degree
10:09irritation
10:10yeah
10:11you think our victim was the inside man
10:13i talked to the guy that hired me
10:15arturo was weeks away from retirement
10:17but i dug deeper
10:18he was getting pushed out
10:20arturo decided to stick it to the store
10:22and then his partner stuck it to him
10:24store closes at 10
10:269 50
10:28and then
10:31this was planned
10:32it was coordinated
10:33if arturo was involved
10:34we need to talk to his family
10:35see who's been hanging out with lately
10:42the supermarket
10:43thinks you're out looking for their groceries
10:45but the truth is
10:45you're just using that to go out
10:47onto a murder investigation
10:49you know what
10:50i knew arturo okay
10:51i liked him
10:52he was always working hard
10:53always smiling
10:54besides we find the groceries
10:56we find the killer
11:00uh excuse me
11:01we're looking for arturo's daughter
11:03maria
11:11i don't speak spanish either
11:23he's an old amargao
11:25can't joy be difficult
11:27we're just looking for maria
11:28she's inside
11:29in the kitchen
11:30thank you
11:34i hope you don't mind me saying
11:35but you don't seem all that surprised
11:37your dad might have been involved
11:38in a robbery
11:39i'm not
11:40not exactly
11:41i just thought this part of his life
11:43was in the past
11:44your father had a criminal history
11:45no
11:46not like you think
11:47he was an anti-castro dissident in Cuba
11:50he wasn't violent
11:51he wasn't about arson
11:53or
11:54or bombs
11:55he was about
11:56theft
11:58sabotage
11:58being a thorn in vide Castro's side
12:00one time he hijacked
12:01a government truck
12:02full of tvs and radios
12:04confiscated from families
12:05labeled gusano
12:06so um
12:07gusanos
12:08what's this
12:08maggots
12:09it was what Castro called
12:10anyone who opposed him
12:12and what
12:13did he sell the electronics
12:14he gave them back
12:15to the families
12:16all of his
12:17mischief
12:19was for Cuba
12:20and its people
12:22but by 1974
12:23he felt those walls
12:24closing in
12:25and he was worried
12:26that he would get
12:27disappeared
12:29so he came here
12:32but he always dreamt
12:33of going back
12:34but not until Cuba
12:35was free again
12:36how do you take the idea
12:38of retiring from the supermarket
12:40hated it
12:41exiles don't know the meaning
12:42of slowing down
12:43we think that frustration
12:44got him tangled up
12:45with the wrong people
12:47they killed him
12:47to get his cut of the profits
12:49um
12:53do you know
12:54who these guys might be
12:58the taller one
12:59no but the short one
13:00with the limp
13:01that's my father's
13:02oldest friend
13:03Baltazar
13:05did you say Baltazar
13:27those heels are gonna put you
13:28on your ass
13:29Sam
13:29this ain't a runway
13:31I was in the neighborhood
13:33why are you really here
13:37I'm here to talk about this
13:56can I help you
13:57uh
13:58Tony Cruz
13:59I'm Detective Abreu
14:00this is Mr. Decker
14:01we're looking for your father
14:02Baltazar
14:03is he home
14:04yeah
14:04uh
14:05hang on
14:06I'll just go get him
14:09Papi
14:11Papi
14:12Piazin
14:13Papi
14:13uh
14:14Mr. Cruz
14:14everything okay
14:15I don't know
14:16my dad just climbed out of the window
14:17in the back
14:29I'm
14:33I'll be there
14:39go
14:41go
14:41I got there right away
14:44We just want to ask some questions.
14:46The sidewalk ends about 100 yards.
14:48You're really going to take this onto the streets?
14:50Because I got to say, I do not like your chances.
14:55All we want to know is where you were between the hours of 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
14:59last night.
14:59That's it.
15:00Let me see.
15:02Ah, yes.
15:03With your mother.
15:05Was your mom hiding behind a bunch of paper towels on a shelf last night?
15:08Because we know you were Mr. Cruz.
15:10We have video.
15:11Foul.
15:12Deepfake.
15:13Why'd you run from us then?
15:15Guess I'm allergic to fascists.
15:17Funny.
15:18I'm allergic to guys who killed their oldest friends to take their share of the proceeds from a heist.
15:23Okay.
15:24I helped Arturo rub the store.
15:26But I did not kill him.
15:28Okay.
15:29Who did that?
15:32El G2.
15:33Habla en serio.
15:34Es verdad.
15:34El G2.
15:35What is this?
15:36Is this a gang?
15:36Sort of.
15:37It's the G2.
15:37Cuban intelligence service.
15:39It's like their version of the CIA.
15:41What do you mean?
15:42My spies?
15:42Arturo was not murdered.
15:45Arturo was assassinated.
15:56As all of us, it was a three-man crew.
16:01Arturo planned everything.
16:02I hide, wait for the store to close, go back, cut the power, reload the truck, leave Arturo tied up.
16:10Wait for the morning shift to find him and make it look like he's an innocent victim.
16:15You were right about Arturo not wanting to retire.
16:18But the store, they say, oh, you're old, useless.
16:22That's how the Cuban government would do it.
16:25Decide for you.
16:26No.
16:27You mean like when you were dissidents?
16:30Activistas.
16:31Fidel promised freedom, justice.
16:34Instead, we get fear, misery.
16:39The people who have money, they left.
16:41Arturo and I, we stayed.
16:44Somebody had to fight.
16:45One time, one time we even broke into El Banco Nacional.
16:53You robbed the bank?
16:54Only to take what already belonged to the people.
16:57For the homeland.
17:01Los militantes question us.
17:02They beat us.
17:03Gave me this stupid limp.
17:05They could prove nothing.
17:08But we knew, eventually, it wouldn't matter what they could prove.
17:14So you fled.
17:16Came here, you started over here in America.
17:18We resisted even here.
17:19We helped others escape.
17:21We rammed boats to save the balceros.
17:23But now, we're old.
17:27The fight is different.
17:29We work with other exiles to send donations.
17:33What about the donations you helped yourself to at the store?
17:36You did that?
17:37Where are those?
17:37On a Caribbean cruise to Havana.
17:42Arturo was like, it's like family.
17:47I yell at him for 50 years.
17:51But kill him?
17:54No.
17:56Nunca.
17:58It opened, Mano.
18:00It was the regime.
18:02They are finally coming for us.
18:05Give us the name of the third member of your crew.
18:08The guy that helped you hide behind the paper towels.
18:11You think I'm some crazy old man?
18:13You think he killed Arturo?
18:15Maybe we just want to make sure the G2, they don't get him next.
18:20The third man?
18:21He and I left together.
18:23He never hurt Arturo.
18:25The assassin.
18:27He must have been just minutes behind.
18:30Too late for us.
18:32But not Arturo.
18:38Hey, girl.
18:40I need to send a letter to Fidel.
18:42Right now.
18:43Yes.
18:48Come on, come on, come on.
18:52A letter to Fidel?
18:53That's an old Cuban expression.
18:55It means he has to use the bathroom.
18:57Hmm?
18:58No.
18:58No.
19:00No.
19:03No.
19:04No.
19:04No.
19:05So I don't think he killed Arturo, but all this spy and assassin stuff, you buying it?
19:09I mean, I believe he believes it.
19:13Yeah.
19:13Mi abuela, she would talk about the revolution.
19:16When Castro took over, neighbors turned on each other.
19:18You know, one accusation, one word.
19:20Luzano.
19:21Armed militantes would drag you from your home.
19:24Executions, they weren't just public, they were televised.
19:27Now, do I think a spy killed Arturo over powdered milk?
19:29No.
19:30I still like a tercer hombre, the third man.
19:32Yeah, Balthazar said they left together.
19:35Yeah, he could have circled back, strangled Arturo while he was still tied up.
19:39Odds of getting his name out of Balthazar.
19:42I'll charge him with theft, lean on him with jail time, but if he really withstood torture
19:47from the regime, odds are probably zero.
20:07Decker investigation, Salope.
20:09Mr. Decker?
20:10Yeah.
20:10I'm sorry to call so early.
20:12My name is Isabel.
20:13I am a friend of Arturo's.
20:15We met at his house yesterday.
20:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:17Hi, at the front yard.
20:18I remember.
20:19How can I help you?
20:19His daughter told me you're investigating what happened.
20:22She gave me your number.
20:23Sir, I may have information for you.
20:33I usually go all the way to Hialeah for a cafe con leche.
20:37It is perfect.
20:38The owner of Ventanita on Calle Ocho may have let his family recipe slip after one too
20:44many rum shots one night.
20:48So, you were saying on the phone you might know something about what happened to Arturo?
20:53I sometimes help out at an exile advocacy group.
20:57Is it the same one Balthazar and Arturo belong to?
21:00The last time we met, I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but sometimes old men talk louder than they realize.
21:08A few weeks ago, I heard them talking about un trabajito.
21:12A little job?
21:13You speak Spanish?
21:15We poco.
21:16Do you think they were talking about the Whitby's robbery?
21:20At the time, I didn't know what they meant.
21:23But now, yes.
21:25I heard them say they wanted to bring in Danny, Arturo's grandson, to help.
21:30The boy has trouble in him. Criminal trouble. Gang friends.
21:36He's been arrested for stealing.
21:38A few months ago, Arturo brought him to my house to help with repairs.
21:43Days later, things were missing.
21:45And I just knew.
21:47I told Arturo.
21:49But he didn't want to believe it.
21:51And now Arturo is dead.
21:53And according to Maria, Danny disappeared yesterday.
21:58What do you mean disappeared?
22:00Maria told him Arturo had died, and he just left.
22:04She thinks he's grieving, but...
22:06You think he may actually be on the run?
22:08I mean, the street value of what they stole is worth just under 10K.
22:13Do you really think Danny would kill his own abuelo to get his share?
22:16Ay, mijo. I've seen family turn on family for less.
22:23Is there something else?
22:26I know finding Arturo's killer is what matters.
22:30But if you find Danny, could you also look for the things he took from me?
22:37Of course.
22:39Yeah, I'll do what I can.
22:40Thank you, mijo.
22:43What do you got?
22:44John Doe.
22:45Spotted him during my regular patrol of the bike path.
22:47Thought he might have fallen asleep.
22:49But then I saw the wounds to his neck.
22:50No wallet, no phone.
22:52Probably stolen.
22:53Thought about canvassing the nursing home.
22:54See if anyone's missing any residence.
22:56Uh, no need.
22:56I can make the ID.
23:00His name's Balthazar Cruz.
23:02He was in the station last night.
23:05He even used our bathroom.
23:12His son Tony bailed him out last night.
23:14They got into an argument.
23:17Balthazar didn't like being lectured, so he left.
23:19Tony said he went to the park sometimes to clear his head.
23:21Any cameras in the area?
23:23I'm not caught anything useful.
23:24On the plus side, the Emmy did pull skin from under his nails.
23:28So Balthazar fought back.
23:30We're running it through CODIS.
23:32Any luck, we'll find a match.
23:34You might want to run it against Arturo's DNA, too.
23:37See if you get a familial hit.
23:39I met with one of Arturo's friends this morning.
23:41She thinks his grandson Danny might be our third man.
23:44She told me he's been in trouble with the law before
23:45and that he took off right after Arturo's body was found.
23:49Balthazar thought the stuff they stole was already on its way to Cuba.
23:52Maybe it wasn't.
23:53Maybe Danny stashed it somewhere.
23:55Now, with Balthazar dead...
23:57There's no one left to split the take.
23:59I'll put out an APB on Danny.
24:06Papi.
24:08The whole back patio.
24:10At lunch hour, no less.
24:12You know this isn't good for Joaquin's business.
24:16I like the quiet.
24:18You wanted to see me because...
24:21Actually, you set this meaning.
24:23Only reason to visit Ray at his shop is to summon me.
24:26So, tell me.
24:29How can I help?
24:33Ray wouldn't admit it, but I know he broke into a home owned by a Fort Lauderdale homicide detective
24:39and a journalist for the Broward County Herald.
24:42Just like I know you're the one who asked him to do it.
24:47Nothing to say.
24:50Sorry.
24:52I was just thinking about my old friend, Ed Carter.
24:56How he had a very honest conversation with you.
25:00Only to find out later you were wearing a wire.
25:04Do you think I would do that to you?
25:06These days, mija.
25:07The things you do.
25:09The company you keep.
25:12None of it makes much sense to me.
25:17Explain that.
25:19That journalist you mentioned, Catherine Delacroix.
25:22A few weeks ago, it becomes apparent she's taken an interest in our family.
25:26She starts making calls.
25:29Calls get made to me.
25:31I find out that she used to be married to someone we both know.
25:38Are you really gonna pretend that you haven't been in touch with RJ Decker?
25:43What we did to him?
25:45Was for what he did to Lucas.
25:46Lucas, who was in the commission of a crime that night.
25:49Lucas, who threw the first punch.
25:50No one hurts in Ochoa and gets away with it.
25:54It's done since you're going wise.
25:59The night Ray broke into the house.
26:03Was he looking for something or was it just to scare them?
26:08How many years have I protected you from the things you don't want to know?
26:13Are you really asking me to stop now?
26:18Maybe I am.
26:23Let's just say Ray won't be paying them a second visit.
26:32If you're thinking about telling your new friend, I wouldn't.
26:36You sound afraid.
26:38He has a temper, Mija.
26:40Just ask your brother.
26:43The last thing I would want is for things to escape.
27:02First my father now bought the son.
27:04Mm-hmm.
27:05And you have no idea who killed them?
27:07Specifically, no.
27:09But we think there's a good chance it was the people or person they were planning on selling the goods
27:13to.
27:14I can't believe those vehicles dragged my son into their stupid plan.
27:18You help me find him.
27:19I can keep him safe before the police get a handle on what's going on.
27:23He took his grandfather's death very hard.
27:27Danny fell into the wrong crowd after his father died.
27:33He made bad choices.
27:36But my father saw a bit of himself in Danny.
27:40You know, he pulled him back.
27:42He taught him the difference between good trouble and bad.
27:45When I told Danny he was gone, he couldn't even speak.
27:50He just drove off in his grandfather's car.
27:52He even forgot to take his phone.
27:57So Danny left his phone behind?
27:59I think it was the shock.
28:00And you have no idea where he might have gone?
28:02I'm sorry.
28:03May I?
28:06Your dad's wearing two hearing aids here.
28:09But I know CSU only recovered one from the scene.
28:12I'm not surprised.
28:13He was always losing one or the other.
28:15My ex-wife's grandmother, she had the same problem.
28:17But she had an app to help her locate them.
28:18My father's hearing aids were trackable too.
28:21He ever leave them in his car?
28:22All the time.
28:24Why?
28:29If I'm right, your dad's car is at the Starlight Sands Motel in Florida City.
28:34Does that mean anything to you?
28:37If Danny went there, I have no idea why.
28:40I'm not afraid.
28:41You're not afraid.
28:47That's right.
28:51How do you do?
28:53I'm afraid.
28:56Sorry.
28:57Yeah, hey.
28:57I'm afraid.
28:58I'm afraid.
29:00You're afraid.
29:02Maybe.
29:02No is afraid.
29:06You're.
29:06You're afraid.
29:09You're afraid.
29:10You're afraid.
29:15Hey, what's up?
29:17Report just came back from the lab.
29:18The DNA under Balthazar's fingernails isn't a match for his grandson.
29:22You're saying I just drove all the way to Florida City for no reason?
29:25What?
29:26Nothing, sorry.
29:27Here's the crazy part.
29:28The DNA is a match for DNA from an unsolved homicide back in 92.
29:3392?
29:34It was a Cuban defector.
29:35Gave up intel on Cuban operatives inside the U.S. in exchange for asylum.
29:38The case went cold, but the FBI always suspected the G2.
29:41And get this, the murder weapon was some kind of ligature.
29:45Same as Arturo and Balthazar.
29:47Yeah, exactly.
29:49Hey, I gotta go.
29:50That's my friend at the FBI.
29:52I gotta tell her there might really be a Cuban spy out there.
29:55Hey.
29:57Are you the guy?
29:58Come on, Brenner, do him.
30:00My name's RJ Decker.
30:01I'm a private investigator.
30:03I'm here because I think you might be in danger, Danny.
30:05Hey, I know you helped the grandfather and his friend rob that grocery store.
30:10They're dead.
30:11I'm worried you could be next.
30:12I heard about Balthazar on the news.
30:15How do I know you're not the one who killed him and me, Abuelo?
30:17You don't.
30:18But take this.
30:20I'll stand here.
30:20You call the cops.
30:21They come get us both.
30:23A minute ago you said, are you the guy?
30:25What did that mean?
30:26Are you supposed to meet someone here?
30:28I, uh, I don't know his name.
30:31Abuelo just told me that if anything ever happened to him, I had to get this, this lockbox he kept
30:36under his floorboards.
30:37In his room, bring it here, he said, to this motel.
30:40And wait for someone to come and pick it up.
30:42He said, why do you have to do all that?
30:43He just said, por la patria.
30:46For the homeland.
30:48This is gonna sound kind of crazy, but...
30:51I think maybe it's why him and Balthazar were killed.
30:54Where's the box now, Danny?
31:05You didn't open it.
31:06I didn't think I should.
31:08Uh, Abuelo back in the day, he was like a...
31:11I don't know, like a Robin Hood meets James Bond.
31:14He was a, uh...
31:15Dissident.
31:16Yeah, I know.
31:17Stories he told me, stuff he got out to.
31:20Could be anything in there.
31:21Like microfilm, or plants for some nerve gas, or tips to feed on the Russians, you know.
31:27Por la patria, that's all I know.
31:30Pour your knife.
31:43Well, it's very nice your grandfather wanted the Cuban people to have this.
31:47But of all the things I've heard are in short supply there.
31:52Baseball, they're not one of them.
32:04I can't believe Abuelo would do me like this, man.
32:08Punk me, or test me, whatever this whole thing was.
32:14Danny, Arturo, he was what?
32:16He was 85 years old.
32:17Maybe he...
32:18Maybe he lost a step.
32:19He got confused.
32:20No, man, no.
32:22He was...
32:22He was sharp as a tack.
32:24Your mom, she told me how close you guys were.
32:27Yeah, when I was, uh...
32:31Struggling...
32:32And making bad decisions...
32:35Abuelo, he didn't punish me.
32:37He didn't even lecture.
32:38He just, he gave me jobs to do, you know.
32:43The reason to show up and do better.
32:46I saw how I would have done anything he asked.
32:48Like rob a supermarket?
32:49We didn't steal from that store just for money.
32:52It was for the people struggling in Cuba.
32:54Let's pretend for a second this does matter.
32:56Did Arturo ever say anything about what was inside the box?
33:00No, just that...
33:01That he took it from right under Fiden's nose.
33:04And that he didn't want to return to Cuba until its people were free.
33:07You know, I figured some friend or some other dissident would show up,
33:11take it off my hands, but...
33:13I mean, the only person who showed up was you.
33:15Yeah, but say some guy was supposed to meet you.
33:17He could have been Arturo's age, older.
33:19Maybe the reason it didn't show is because he's been gone for years.
33:23So, so what do we do now?
33:25Well, we're gonna tell your mom you're safe.
33:27Then you should sleep here tonight.
33:29There's a fold-out cot in the storage closet.
33:31I'll, I'll, I'll get it.
33:32Tomorrow morning.
33:33We're gonna go to the police.
33:35We're gonna tell them everything, including how you helped rob that store.
33:38Okay?
33:41Yeah, I understand.
33:45Danny.
33:46Don't go disappearing again, okay?
33:49No, I won't.
33:51I'll probably raise me better than that.
34:07Hey, Decker Investigations.
34:08Mr. Decker, this is Claire at M.U. Choa's office.
34:12She asked me to set a lunch for the two of you for tomorrow.
34:14You're working pretty late, aren't you, Claire?
34:16I am, but she said it was important.
34:19If 12.30 works for you, I'll send you an address in the morning.
34:22Sure, you can pencil me in.
34:24Thanks.
34:25Have a good night.
34:26You too.
34:29How's our guest?
34:31Boy, he's out cold.
34:33Yeah, as soon as his head hit the pillow, that was all she wrote.
34:36Yeah, he's had a rough couple of days.
34:38Yeah.
34:39Um, you, uh...
34:41You're positive he's not a serial strangler, right?
34:44Oh, yeah, like 90%.
34:47Let me ask you something.
34:48Can you think of any reason why the Cuban government would kill two old guys over a baseball?
34:55Well, it's a fact Castro thought he was a hell of a ball player.
34:59He was not.
35:00But maybe he'd pop that baby over a fence one time because some scared pitcher lobbed him a meatball.
35:06Cubans want to put it in a museum or something.
35:15Do me a favor.
35:16Go stand over there for me, please.
35:19Okay.
35:24All right, what you got?
35:27Yeah, all right.
35:32Roll it back.
35:35All right.
35:38That way it rolls, that ball ain't regulation.
35:41The guy sits over there in the Jimmy Buffett tribute band.
35:44He works at an overnight animal hospital, doesn't he?
35:47Yeah, why?
35:50I'm just saying, Wish, a favor like this could be repaid with a gig at the bar.
35:55You know I've heard you play before, right?
35:58Yeah, man, but we're so much better now.
36:00Look, Jimmy himself couldn't tell the difference between his Bama Breeze and ours.
36:03Yeah.
36:04Baseball talk now.
36:06Gig talk later.
36:09Who cares?
36:12Who cares?
36:14Well, Orange, is that what I think it is?
36:18A literal baseball diamond.
36:19It's like the song, man.
36:21Diamond as big as the Ritz.
36:24It's like Jimmy's here with us.
36:26Well, if that thing's real, that's got to be worth, what, millions?
36:29Tens of millions?
36:30Well, in the morning, I'm going to ask the person who killed Arturo and Balthazar.
36:33You are, because I know who it is now.
36:46Hello.
36:47I'm back.
36:48Sorry to keep you waiting.
36:49This is my friend, Detective Abreu.
36:50Please, it was so sweet of you to bring me this café con leche, not to mention recovering
36:56some of the items Danny stole from me.
36:59Well, actually, it's only one item.
37:01We have it in another room.
37:02Follow me.
37:14My grandfather didn't get to bring much when he was exiled, but he brought this.
37:21He played for Equipo Cuba.
37:25This, this was from his last game.
37:30It meant everything to him.
37:32It's a great story.
37:34Can I tell you another one?
37:37Once upon a time, there was a 25-carat diamond.
37:41It was gifted to the First Lady of Cuba almost 100 years ago.
37:44In 1926, it was embedded into the floor of the National Capital Building in Havana.
37:49In the 40s, it was replaced with a replica.
37:52The real stone is, at least according to the government, locked away in Cuba's central bank.
37:57Now, imagine if two anti-Castro troublemakers, guys like your pals Arturo and Balthazar,
38:04managed to steal it in the 1970s and disappeared.
38:07The regime would never admit it, right?
38:09It's too embarrassing.
38:09But if a Cuban operative in Florida infiltrated in an exile advocacy group and overheard two guys bragging about robbing
38:16that bank,
38:17Havana might put two and two together and change their spy's objective.
38:22Get the diamond back.
38:31Is that...
38:32Is that my coffee?
38:33Mm, it is.
38:35My friend here, he didn't bring you a café con leche to be nice.
38:38He did it so he could get your DNA.
38:40Pretty sure it's going to tell you about the Czar's murder and the execution of a defector back in 92.
38:45You're both crazy.
38:47I'm an old woman.
38:48The other day, you told me you overheard Balthazar and Arturo playing in the Whippies' Heist, right?
38:54That part's probably true.
38:55But you also saw an opportunity.
38:57Arturo would be tied up.
38:58Cameras would be down.
38:59You could walk in, torture him, make him tell you where the diamond was.
39:04Maybe he told you it was in the baseball.
39:06Maybe it was Balthazar.
39:08By the way, you made damn sure it was on the list of things you said Danny stole from you.
39:13The list, by the way, it's where you slipped up.
39:16But nothing about Danny said he killed his grandfather.
39:19Nothing.
39:20So it made me wonder, who put me on his trail to begin with?
39:25You.
39:29Arturo and Balthazar were gusanos who stole what didn't belong to them.
39:35The diamond belongs to Cuba.
39:38Paid for in blood and revolution.
39:41Oh, my God.
39:42If I had more, you have the right to remain silent.
39:44Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law.
39:54Okay, so good news.
39:56Talk to my point person at Whippies.
39:58They're not going to press charges for the heists.
40:00Seriously?
40:00You are banned from ever visiting another Whippies location, but still, I think it's a pretty good deal.
40:06I just, I still can't believe it was Isabel out there killing people.
40:09She was always so nice.
40:10Yeah, she was my first spy.
40:13007, 29 years old.
40:16But I guess the good ones are good actors.
40:19I'm just, I'm glad she didn't know what she was after.
40:23How about that?
40:24According to the feds, the Cuban government is officially denying the diamond was ever stolen.
40:30Yeah, they're still claiming it's safe and sound inside their vault in Havana.
40:34I swear if Pablo was here, he'd laugh so hard at that.
40:38It gets funnier.
40:40The Cubans won't admit the diamond was ever stolen from them.
40:42They can't claim it.
40:44For now, the diamond's locked up in evidence until Isabel is prosecuted.
40:47But when the dust settles, there's a very good chance that diamond will be returned to you.
40:55What?
40:55That was your grandfather's.
40:57You were the last one in possession.
40:59What the hell am I supposed to do with it?
41:01For me, I would sell it very publicly.
41:04If the Cubans are going to send more spies, it won't be you that are coming after.
41:07You could buy yourself and your mom the future your grandfather fought to make possible.
41:14Or?
41:15Or you could use the money to honor his legacy.
41:18Find new ways to help the people he was trying to help.
41:22Por la patria.
41:28Por la patria.
41:44Excuse me.
41:44I have a reservation under my friend's name, Emi Ochoa, but it doesn't look like you guys are open yet.
41:50We are open, Mr. Dekker.
41:53Just for us.
41:56Pleasure to finally meet you.
42:00Emilia will not be joining us.
42:02It wasn't her office that set this meeting.
42:04It was mine.
42:05Yeah, kind of figured.
42:06I apologize for the subterfuge, but I thought it was time you and I had a chat.
42:11About?
42:12Well, I assumed it was obvious.
42:15I'd like to know.
42:17What exactly are your intentions towards my daughter?
42:24Well, I'm out.
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