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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
01:25Thanks
01:26Thank you
01:42Customer assistance
01:43Gary
01:56I'm sorry, did I miss something?
01:58Yeah, the whole card.
01:59Your friend in the lotto line, she bagged him up to look paid for when you walked out.
02:03Dude, how is this any of your business?
02:04My name is RJ Decker, loss prevention detective.
02:09That sounds made up.
02:10It's not made up. I'm under contract with the Whippy's chain.
02:13I blend in and I watch. I make sure nothing goes out unpaid.
02:17So you're an undercover supermarket cop?
02:21Most days I'm a PI.
02:24Produce inspector?
02:25No. I'm a pro...
02:28You know what? I'm going to go back inside. We'll sort this out quietly. No cops.
02:33Right. Yeah, why wouldn't you call the cops?
02:34Because cops mean reports and statements and a court date six months from now where I got to wear a
02:39tie and explain shrinkflation to a judge.
02:41I don't want that. You don't want that.
02:44I'll take the eggs, man. You take the eggs, I'm going to chase you.
02:48Please?
02:49Oh, honey! I 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.
03:08Weak morals, but strong legs.
03:10This is true.
03:11Leave everything here. I'll put it back on the shelf myself.
03:14Okay?
03:14Okay.
03:15Thanks, Arturo.
03:16Now smile.
03:17We'll catch you next one.
03:18I'm stupid in my care.
03:20I can't no longer shop happy me.
03:24I can't be here for the special out there.
03:27I guarantee for someality.
03:32It's not here.
03:36It's not here.
03:37It's not here.
03:45You forgot about dinner.
03:47I forgot about dinner.
03:48I waited 30 minutes.
03:52That reservation wasn't easy to get.
03:54Even for me.
03:56Long day.
03:57Have a beer with me.
03:58An apology to beer.
04:00Please.
04:03Coming right up.
04:08Here you go.
04:09So what happened?
04:10Hmm?
04:11Grand theft?
04:13Avocado at work today?
04:14No.
04:15I was working on the robbery at Mel and Cass' house.
04:18I thought that was your old prison buddy, the guy who robbed the armored truck.
04:22Well, it turns out he and his partner, they had an alibi.
04:25He said someone else must be coming after us.
04:27I think he might be just messing with my head, because I've been at it a week now,
04:30and everything says, run-of-the-mill burglar than me.
04:33A lot of work for run-of-the-mill.
04:35Well, Mel's daughter, Sophia, she's been having nightmares since it happened,
04:38so I figured, catch the guy, we go sleep better.
04:42Hmm.
04:45Is this a suspect?
04:47To be determined.
04:49Yeah, a neighbor reported seeing a suspicious man in the neighborhood.
04:52There's just a type who sees a lot of suspicious men in the neighborhood.
04:56Yeah.
04:56So, who knows?
05:02You look amazing, by the way.
05:05I know.
05:10Oh, this tastes like hot yoga.
05:13Yeah, it's the hops.
05:15Buy bitter beer at the supermarket tomorrow.
05:19Hey, that's it?
05:21Let me make it up to you, the dinner, please.
05:25Good luck with your side quest.
05:34Night crew never tosses their boxes.
05:37Who closed?
05:39Wait, let me guess.
05:41Terry, the man works hard all night, making sure none of this gets done.
06:02What the hell?
06:03That didn't sound like boxes.
06:06Oh.
06:07Oh.
06:22Hey.
06:24I know you weren't supposed to work today.
06:26That's okay.
06:26Thanks for coming in.
06:27Yeah, what happened?
06:28Heist.
06:29Not a smash and grab.
06:31Uh-huh.
06:31Honest to goodness, coordinated op.
06:33Clean entry and egress.
06:35They got away with close to ten grand in inventory.
06:38Okay.
06:39That's a lot of cops for a robbery, huh?
06:40Well, the crew that did this, they didn't just rob us.
06:44They killed one of our employees.
06:46What?
06:47Arturo Correa.
06:49Arturo?
06:50The sweet old guy that works at the front that killed him?
06:5285 years old.
06:53Been with us for decades.
06:55And get this, he's just three weeks from retirement.
06:57Okay, I'm confused.
06:58Why was he working at night?
06:59Can't wax the floors while the store was open.
07:02Perps restrained him in an office chair.
07:04Killed him.
07:05Then threw his body in the baler.
07:06The baler?
07:07The thing that crushes up the boxes?
07:10Sarah, the stock clerk, found the body.
07:13She worried that she killed him when she turned the baler on.
07:15But I told her liver temp indicated he'd been dead for at least four hours prior.
07:22How do you know all that?
07:24I've heard a couple of CSU guys talking earlier.
07:26Okay.
07:27Also, I watched bones.
07:29Of course, there were ligature marks on Arturo's neck.
07:34Strong evidence of strangulation as cause of death.
07:38ME still needs to confirm, but bruising doesn't happen post-mortem.
07:43Sir, step away from the table.
07:44Yeah, yeah, of course.
07:45I'm not going to warn you again.
07:46My bad.
07:49Kevin, just to be clear, my fee structure changes when the job goes from loss prevention to homicide.
07:56Oh, you're not here to solve the murder.
07:59You're here to find my stolen inventory.
08:02Oh.
08:05Okay.
08:05So, watch what happens at 1156.
08:11So, I'm thinking EMP device.
08:14Like an Ocean's 11.
08:15An EMP device to rob a supermarket.
08:19Well, Danny Ocean stole what?
08:20A couple hundred mil?
08:22Retail theft is a hundred billion dollar industry.
08:24Okay.
08:24Well, let's assume for a second this wasn't the work of Danny Ocean.
08:27The cameras can only be shut down from the inside.
08:30Pull up the backroom feeds.
08:34We talked about this.
08:36The cameras in the backroom, and we talked about this day one.
08:38I know, I know.
08:39I've been waiting for corporate to approve the request, and that takes time.
08:44All right.
08:44Well, what about Arturo?
08:45The guys who did this, they coerced him, he turned off the cameras?
08:49First thing the cops and I checked.
08:52Yeah, I see.
08:54All right.
08:55Pull up all the feeds.
08:56The sales floor, all of them.
08:58Pull them up for me.
09:01May I?
09:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:10There.
09:11Watch the bottom shelf on the left there.
09:16You said the police didn't find any evidence of a break, and that's because it wasn't a break-in.
09:20It was a break-out.
09:30Okay, so he cams on the shuttle closing, kills the cameras, then signals his crew to roll in.
09:37But they had a snack.
09:38They weren't alone, and Arturo stumbles onto them.
09:42Yeah, it's the tidy version.
09:44I checked out the electrical ring.
09:45Panels, breakers, circuit boards everywhere.
09:48This guy's not finding the switch to cut the power by accident.
09:51You 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, I would have proposed that.
10:00Yeah, but watch.
10:01Same time, different part of the store.
10:03See, Arturo hears the cans, but he goes right on working.
10:05Check his face.
10:06It's the same look you give me when I move the thermostat by, like, one degree.
10:10Irritation.
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, but I dug deeper.
10:18He was getting pushed out.
10:20Arturo decided to stick it to the store, and then his partner stuck it to him.
10:24Store closes at 10.
10:269.50.
10:27Hmm.
10:28And then?
10:31This was planned.
10:32It was coordinated.
10:33If Arturo was involved, we need to talk to his family.
10:35See who he's been hanging out with lately.
10:42The supermarket thinks you're out looking for their groceries, but the truth is,
10:46you're just using that to go out and out to a murder investigation.
10:49You know what?
10:50I knew Arturo, okay?
10:51I liked him.
10:52He was always working hard, always smiling.
10:54Besides, we find the groceries, we find the killer.
10:57There we go.
11:00Excuse me.
11:01We're looking for Arturo's daughter, Maria.
11:05What are you saying?
11:10I don't speak English.
11:12Excuse me, sir.
11:13We're looking for Maria, the daughter of Arturo.
11:16Do you know where she is?
11:16I don't speak Spanish either.
11:20Baltazar.
11:21Don't be heavy.
11:22Don't mind Baltazar.
11:24He's an old amargao.
11:25And joy's being difficult.
11:27We're just looking for Maria.
11:28She's inside.
11:29In the kitchen.
11:34I hope you don't mind me saying, but you don't seem all that surprised.
11:37Your dad might have been involved in a robbery.
11:39I'm not.
11:41Not exactly.
11:42I just thought this part of his life was 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 or bombs.
11:55He was about theft.
11:58Sabotage.
11:58Being a thorn in Fidel Castro's side.
12:00One time he hijacked a government truck full of TVs and radios.
12:04Confiscated from families labeled Gusano.
12:07So, um, Gusano's, what's this?
12:08Maggots.
12:09It was what Castro called anyone who opposed him.
12:12And did he sell the electronics?
12:14He gave them back to the families.
12:16His, all of his mischief was for Cuba and its people.
12:22But by 1974, he felt those walls closing in.
12:25And he was worried that he would get disappeared.
12:29So he came here.
12:32But he always dreamt of going back.
12:34Not until Cuba was free again.
12:36How do you take the idea of retiring from the supermarket?
12:40I hate it.
12:41Exiles don't know the meaning of slowing down.
12:43We think that frustration got him tangled up with the wrong people.
12:47They killed him to get his cut of the profits.
12:51Um...
12:54Do you know who these guys might be?
12:58The taller one?
12:59No, but the short one.
13:01With the limp.
13:01That's my father's oldest friend.
13:03Baltasar.
13:05Did you say Baltasar?
13:08Baltasar.
13:27Those heels are going to put you on your ass, Sam.
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.
13:57Can I help you?
13:58Uh, Tony Cruz?
13:59I'm Detective Abreu.
14:00This is Mr. Decker.
14:01We're looking for your father Baltasar.
14:03Is he home?
14:04Yeah.
14:05Uh...
14:06Hang on.
14:06I'll...
14:07Just go get him.
14:09Papi!
14:12Papi!
14:12Piazin!
14:13Papi!
14:14Uh, Mr. Cruz, everything okay?
14:15Uh...
14:16I don't know.
14:16Might I just climb out of the window in the back?
14:18Help.
14:24I don't know.
14:27I don't know.
14:27Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
14:33All my dreams, number, no, fighter.
14:39Seniors, ain't it ain't coming through!
14:41I got there right away!
14:44What's that?
14:44We just want to ask some questions.
14:46The sidewalk ends are about 100 yards.
14:48Are you really going to take this onto the streets?
14:50Because I gotta 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?
15:15Yes, I'm allergic to fascists.
15:16Bonnie, I'm allergic to guys who kill their oldest friends to take their share of the proceeds from a heist.
15:23Okay.
15:24I helped Arturo rub this door, but I did not kill him.
15:28Okay.
15:29Who did that?
15:32El Hedos.
15:33Habla en serio.
15:34Es verdad.
15:34El Hedos, what is this? Is this a gang?
15:36Sort of. It's the G2, Cuban Intelligence Service. It's like their version of the CIA.
15:41What do you mean, like spies?
15:42Arturo was not murdered. Arturo was assassinated.
15:56As all of us, it was a three-man crew. Arturo planned everything. I hide, wait for the store to
16:04close, 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. But the store, they say, oh, you're old, useless. That's how
16:23the Cuban government would do it. Decide for you. No.
16:27You mean like when you were dissidents?
16:30Activistas. Fidel promised freedom, justice. Instead, we get fear, misery. The people who have money, they left. Arturo and I,
16:42we stayed. Somebody had to fight. One time. One time we even broke into El Banco Nacional.
16:53You robbed the bank? Only to take what already belonged to the people. Por la patria.
16:59For the homeland.
17:01Los militantes question us. They beat us. Gave me this stupid limp. They could prove nothing.
17:08But we knew eventually it wouldn't matter what they could prove.
17:14Mm-hmm. So you fled. Came here. Started over here in America. We resisted even here. We helped others escape.
17:21We rammed boats to save the balceros.
17:23But now, we're old. The fight is different. We work with other exiles to send donations.
17:33What about the donations you helped yourself to at the store? You did that. Where are those?
17:37I was on a Caribbean cruise on a Caribbean cruise to Havana. Arturo was like, was like family.
17:48I yell at him for 50 years. But kill him? No. Nunca.
17:58It opened, mano. It was the regime. They are finally coming for us.
18:05Give us the name of the third member of your crew. The guy that helped you hide behind the paper
18:10towels.
18:11You think I'm some crazy old man? You think he killed Arturo?
18:15Maybe we just want to make sure the G2, they don't get him next.
18:20El tercer hombre, he and I left together. He never hurt Arturo. The assassin. He must have been just minutes
18:29behind. Too late for us. But not Arturo.
18:38Hey, girl. I need to send a letter to Fidel. Now right now. Yes.
18:48Come on, come on, come on. Thank you very much.
18:52A letter to Fidel? That's an old Cuban expression. It means he has to use the bathroom.
18:56Hmm? Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
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. Yeah.
19:13Mi abuela, she would talk about the revolution. When Castro took over, neighbors turned on each other.
19:18You know, one accusation, one word. Lusano. Armed militantes would drag you from your home.
19:24Executions, they weren't just public, they were televised. Now, do I think a spy killed Arturo over powdered milk?
19:29No. I still like El tercer hombre, the third man.
19:33Yeah, and 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 from the regime,
19:48odds are probably zero.
20:07Decker investigation, Salope.
20:09Mr. Decker? Yeah?
20:10I'm sorry to call so early. My name is Isabel. I am a friend of Arturo's. We met at his
20:15house yesterday.
20:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi, uh, the front yard. I remember. How can I help you?
20:19His daughter told me you're investigating what happened. She gave me your number. I, I may have information for you.
20:33I usually go all the way to Hialeah for a cafe con leche. It is perfect.
20:38Owner of Ventanita on Calle Ocho may have let his family recipe slip after one too many rum shots one
20:45night.
20:48So, you were saying on the phone you, you might know something about what happened to Arturo.
20:53I sometimes help out at an exile advocacy group.
20:57Oh, is it the same one Balthazar and Arturo belong to?
21:01The 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.
21:11A 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.
21:39A 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.
21:59What 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 abuela to get his share?
22:16Ay, mijo.
22:17I'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.
22:51No 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.
24:07Papi.
24:08The whole back patio.
24:10At lunch hour, no less.
24:13You 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.
24:28How can I help?
24:33Ray wouldn't admit it, but I know he broke into a home owned by a Fort Lauderdale homicide detective and
24:40a 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.
24:49Sorry.
24:52I was just thinking about my old friend, Ed Carter.
24:56How he had a very honest conversation with you.
25:01Only to find out later you were wearing a wire.
25:04Do you think I would do that to you?
25:05These 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 taking 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.
25:51No one hurt Senochoa and gets away with it.
25:54It's not sincere, Gomois.
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 too.
26:48That's great.
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.
27:17You 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.
27:26Danny fell into the wrong crowd after his father died.
27:32He made bad choices.
27:35But my father saw a bit of himself in Danny.
27:40He 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?
27:58I 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, but I know CSU only recovered one from the scene.
28:12I'm not surprised he was always losing one or the other.
28:15My ex-wife's grandmother, she had the same problem, but 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.
28:44He doesn't know how to.
28:44He's my friend, but I'm not afraid of him.
28:46He's not.
29:02He's a doctor.
29:03He's a doctor.
29:05He never died.
29:05I bet he was so sick.
29:05He's not kidding.
29:06He's a real teacher.
29:10He's a doctor.
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, but, 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, and wait for someone to come and pick it
30:41up.
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 going to sound kind of crazy, but I think maybe it's what him and Balthazar were killed.
30:53Where's the box now, Danny?
31:05You didn't open it.
31:06I didn't think I should.
31:08Uh, well, back in the day, he was like a, I don't know, like a Robin Hood meets James Bond.
31:14He was a, uh, dissident.
31:16Yeah, I know.
31:17The stories he told me, the stuff he got out to, could be anything in there.
31:21Like microfilm or plans for some nerve gas or tips to feed on the Russians, you know.
31:27Por la patria, that's all I know.
31:30Bore your knife?
31:43Well, it's very nice your grandfather wanted the Cuban people to have this, but of all the things I've heard
31:48are in short supply there, baseballs are not one of them.
32:04I can't believe Abuela would do me like this, man.
32:07Punk me or test me, whatever this whole thing was.
32:15Danny, Arturo, he was what?
32:16He was 85 years old.
32:17Maybe he, maybe he lost a step.
32:19He got confused.
32:20No, man, no.
32:22He was, he was sharp as a tack.
32:23Your mom, she told me how close you guys were.
32:27Yeah, when I was, uh, struggling and making bad decisions, Abuelo, he didn't punish me, he didn't even lecture.
32:38He just, he gave me jobs to do, you know.
32:42You know, the reason to show up and do better.
32:46I saw Abuel had done anything he asked.
32:48Like rob a supermarket?
32:50We 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, that 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, take it off my hands, but the
33:13only person who showed up was you.
33:15Yeah, say some guy was supposed to meet you.
33:17He could have been Arturo's age, older.
33:19Maybe the reason he didn't show is because he's been gone for years.
33:23So, so what do we do now?
33:25Well, we're going to 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 get it.
33:32Tomorrow morning, we're going to go to the police.
33:34We're going to tell him everything, including how you helped rob that store.
33:38Okay?
33:41I understand.
33:44Danny.
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.
34:09Mr. Decker, this is Claire at Emmy Ochoa's office.
34:11She 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.
34:18If 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.
34:33As 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, um...
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.
35:37That way it rolls, that ball ain't regulation.
35:41Guy 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.
36:04Baseball talk now, gig talk later.
36:09Who cares?
36:15Well, orange, is that what I think it is?
36:18A literal baseball diamond.
36:20It'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.
36:34I know who it is now.
36:46Hello, I'm back.
36:48Sorry to keep you waiting.
36:49This is my friend, Detective Abreu.
36:51Please, it was so sweet of you to bring me this café con leche.
36:55Not to mention recovering some 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.
37:20He played for a kipokuwa.
37:24This.
37:26This 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-karat diamond.
37:41It was gifted to the First Lady of Cuba almost 100 years ago.
37:45In 1926, it was embedded into the floor of the National Capitol Building in Havana.
37:50In 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.
37:56Now, imagine if two anti-Castro troublemakers, guys like your pals, Arturo and Balthazar, managed to steal it in the
38:051970s and disappeared.
38:07The regime would never admit it, right?
38:09It's too embarrassing.
38:10But 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-hmm, 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 gonna 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.
39:17Nothing about Danny said he killed his grandfather.
39:19Nothing.
39:20So it made me wonder, who put me on his trail to begin with?
39:26You.
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.
39:42You 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 Whitby's.
39:58They're not going to press charges for the heist.
40:00Seriously?
40:01You are banned from ever visiting another Whitby's 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.
40:34And I 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 they're coming after.
41:07You could buy yourself and your mom the future your grandfather fought to make possible.
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.
41:45I 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. Decker.
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.
42:13I assumed it was obvious.
42:15I'd like to know.
42:17What exactly are your intentions towards my daughter?
42:20What are you in you, in God?
42:25What?
42:40What?
42:42What?
42:44What?
42:44What?
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