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RJ Decker - Season 1 - Episode 07: You've Got Bale
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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, it was under orders from your father
00:20It 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 it
00:31I didn't break in
00:33That's bull
00:33I'm telling the truth
00:37Three, 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
00:58Or budgets
00:59It's about investing in people
01:01In hope
01:06Hey
01:07Just a couple more things
01:09Yeah, and then I'm gonna go to the lottery line
01:13Okay
01:14Okay
01:15Customer assistance
01:16Dairy
01:19Price check on item until $17
01:40Thanks for shopping your whippies
01:41Thanks for shopping your whippies
01:42Thanks for shopping your whippies
01:51Excuse me, sir
01:53I think you forgot to pay for that
01:55Oh, I'm sorry, did I miss something?
01:58Yeah, the whole cart
01:59Your friend in the lotto line
02:00She 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, loss prevention detective
02:09That sounds made up
02:10It's not made up
02:11I'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 supermarket cop?
02:21Most days I'm a PI
02:24Produce inspector?
02:25No
02:26I'm a pro...
02:28You know what?
02:29I want to go back inside
02:30We'll sort this out quietly
02:31No cops
02:32Right
02:33Yeah, why wouldn't you call the cops?
02:34Cause cops mean reports
02:36And statements
02:37And a court date six months from now
02:39Where I gotta wear a tie and explain shrinkflation to a judge
02:41I don't want that
02:42You don't want that
02:44Don't take the eggs, man
02:45You take the eggs
02:46I'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 strong legs
03:10This is true
03:11Leave everything here
03:12I'll put it back on the shelf myself
03:14Okay?
03:15Okay
03:15Thanks, Arturo
03:16Now smile
03:17We'll catch the next one
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
03:55Long day
03:56Have a beer with me
03:58An apology beer
04:00Please
04:03Coming right up
04:08There you go
04:08There you go
04:09So what happened?
04:11Grand theft?
04:13Avocado?
04:13At work today?
04:14No
04:15I was working on the robbery at Mel and Cass house
04:17I thought that was your old prison buddy
04:19The guy who robbed the armored truck
04:21Well, it turns out he and his partner, they had an alibi
04:24He said someone else must be coming after us
04:27I think he might be just messing with my head
04:28Because I've been at it a week now
04:30And everything says run-of-the-mill burglar to me
04:33Lot of work for run-of-the-mill
04:35Well, Mel's daughter Sophia
04:36She's been having nightmares since it happened
04:38So I figured
04:40Catch the guy
04:40We go sleep better
04:45Is this a suspect?
04:47To be determined
04:48Yeah, a neighbor reported seeing a suspicious man in the neighborhood
04:52But she's the type who sees a lot of suspicious men in the neighborhood
04:55Yeah
04:56So, who knows?
05:02You look amazing, by the way
05:05I know
05:10This 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
05:22The 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
05:41The man works hard all night
05:44Making sure none of this gets done
05:46Hmm
06:02What the hell?
06:03That didn't sound like boxes
06:06Oh
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06:47Correa. Arturo? The sweet old guy that works at the front that killed him? 85 years old. Been with
06:54us for decades. And get this, he was just three weeks from retirement. Okay, I'm confused. Why
06:58was he working at night? Can't wax the floors while stores open. Kerps restrained him in an
07:03office chair, killed him, then threw his body in the baler. The baler? The thing that crushes up
07:08the boxes? Sarah, the stock clerk, found the body. She worried that she killed him when she turned
07:15the baler on, but I told her liver temp indicated he'd been dead for at least four hours prior.
07:22How do you know all that? I've heard a couple of CSU guys talking about you. Okay. Also,
07:28I watch bones. Of course, there were ligature marks on Arturo's neck. Strong evidence of strangulation
07:36as cause of death. ME still needs to confirm, but bruising doesn't happen post-mortem. Sir,
07:43step away from the table. Yeah, yeah, of course. I'm not going to warn you again. My bad, yeah.
07:49Kevin, just to be clear, my fee structure changed as when the job goes from loss prevention
07:54to homicide. Oh, you're not here to solve the murder. You're here to find my stolen inventory.
08:03Oh. Okay, so watch what happens at 11.56.
08:10Mm-hmm. So I'm thinking EMP device. Like an Ocean's 11. An EMP device to rob a supermarket.
08:19Well, Danny Ocean stole what? A couple hundred mil? Retail theft is a hundred billion dollar
08:24industry. Okay, well, let's assume for a second this wasn't the work of Danny Ocean. The cameras
08:28can only be shut down from the inside. Pull up the backroom feeds.
08:34We talked about this. The cameras in the backroom, and we talked about this day one. I-I-I know,
08:39I know. I've been waiting for corporate to approve the request, and that takes time.
08:44All right. Well, what about Arturo? You know, the guys who did this, they coerced him,
08:47he turned off the cameras? First thing the cops and I checked.
08:52Yeah, I see. All right. Pull up all the feeds. The-the sales floor, all of them. Pull them up
08:58for me.
08:58All right. May I? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:10There. Watch the bottom shelf on the left there.
09:16You said the police didn't find any evidence of a break, and it's because it wasn't a break-in.
09:20It was a break-out.
09:31Okay, so, he camps on the shuttle closing, kills the cameras, then signals his crew to roll in.
09:37But they had a snack, they weren't alone, and Arturo stumbles onto them.
09:42Yeah, it's the tidy version. I checked out the electrical ring. Panels, breakers, circuit boards
09:47everywhere. This 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. Watch this.
09:57Mira, if I didn't know a guy died last night, I would have proposed that.
10:00Yeah, but watch. Same time, different part of the store.
10:03See, Arturo hears the cans, but he goes right on working. Check 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. Arturo was weeks away from retirement, but I dug deeper.
10:18He was getting pushed out. Arturo decided to stick it to the store, and then his partner
10:23stuck it to him.
10:24Store closes at 10. 9.50.
10:27Hmm.
10:28And then?
10:31This was planned. It was coordinated.
10:33If Arturo was involved, we need to talk to his family, see who he's been hanging out with
10:36lately.
10:42The supermarket thinks you're out looking for their groceries, but the truth is, you're
10:46just using that to go out onto 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.
10:57Here we go.
11:00Uh, excuse me.
11:01We're looking for Arturo's daughter, Maria.
11:08What are you saying?
11:10I don't speak English.
11:16I don't speak Spanish, either.
11:22Don't mind, Baltazar.
11:24He's an old amargao.
11:25His joy is being difficult.
11:27We're just looking for Maria.
11:28She's inside, in the kitchen.
11:34I hope you don't mind me saying it.
11:35You don't seem all that surprised.
11:37Your dad might have been involved in a robbery.
11:39I'm not.
11:40Not 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, sabotage.
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, gusanos, 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.
12:16All 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.
12:34But not until Cuba was free again.
12:37How do you take the idea of retiring from the supermarket?
12:40I hated 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...
12:53Do you know who these guys might be?
12:58The taller one?
12:59No, but the short one with the limp.
13:01That's my father's oldest friend, Baltasar.
13:05Did you say Baltasar?
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.
14:01I'm looking for your father, Baltasar.
14:03Is he home?
14:04Yeah.
14:05Uh, hang on.
14:06I'll just go get him.
14:09Papi!
14:12Papi, what's up?
14:13Papi!
14:14Uh, Mr. Cruz, everything okay?
14:15Uh, I don't know.
14:16My dad just climbed out of the window in the back.
14:18Oh.
14:27Go!
14:27Go, go, go, go, go!
14:33All my friends, I'm a low rider.
14:40I got there right of way.
14:44We just want to ask some questions.
14:46Ah.
14:46The sidewalk ends about 100 yards.
14:48Are you really going to take this onto the streets?
14:50Because I've 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?
15:15Yes, I'm allergic to fascists.
15:16Funny, 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?
15:32Elje 2.
15:33Habla en serio.
15:34Es verdad.
15:34Elje 2.
15:35What is this?
15:35Is 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, like spies?
15:43Arturo was not murdered.
15:44Arturo was assassinated.
15:56As all of us, it was a three-man crew.
16:00Arturo planned everything.
16:01I 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.
16:14You were right about Arturo not wanting to retire.
16:18But the store, they say, oh, you're old, useless.
16:21Yes, that's how the Cuban government would do it.
16:25Decide for you.
16:26No.
16:28You mean like when you were dissidents?
16:30Activistas.
16:31If you didn't promise freedom, justice, instead we get fear, misery.
16:38The people who have money, they left.
16:41Arturo and I, we stayed.
16:43Somebody had to fight.
16:45One time.
16:48One time we even broke into el Banco Nacional.
16:53You robbed the bank?
16:54Only to take what already belonged to the people.
16:57Por la patria.
16:59For 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.
17:14Mm-hmm.
17:15So you fled.
17:16Came here.
17:17Started 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.
17:41Arturo was like, was like family.
17:48I yelled at him for 50 years.
17:51But kill him?
17:54No.
17:56Nunca.
17:59Ero, hermano.
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.
18:20And to say, hombre, he and I left together.
18:23He never hurt Arturo.
18:26The assassin.
18:27He must have been just minutes behind.
18:30Too late for us.
18:32But not Arturo.
18:39I need to send a letter to Fidel.
18:42Ahora mismo.
18:43Sí.
18:48Dale, dale, dale.
18:49Muchas gracias.
18:52A letter to Fidel?
18:53Oh, that's an old Cuban expression.
18:55It means he has to use the bathroom.
18:56Hmm?
18:57Mm-mm.
18:58Mm-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.
19:13Yeah.
19:13Mi abuela, she would talk about the revolution.
19:15When Castro took over, neighbors turned on each other.
19:18You know, one accusation, one word, gusano.
19:21Armed militantes would drag you from your home.
19:24Executions, they weren't just public.
19:25They 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.
19:33Yeah, and Baltazar said they left together.
19:34Yeah, he could have circled back, strangled Arturo while he was still tied up.
19:39Odds of getting his name out of Baltazar.
19:42I'll charge him with theft, lean on him with jail time,
19:45but if he really withstood torture from the regime,
19:48odds are probably zero.
20:07Decker investigation, Slope.
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.
20:14We met at his house yesterday.
20:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:17Hi, uh, the front yard.
20:18I remember.
20:18How can I help you?
20:19His daughter told me you're investigating what happened.
20:22She gave me your number.
20:24I, I may have information for you.
20:33I usually go all the way to Hialeah for a cafe con leche.
20:37It is perfect.
20:38Owner of Ventanita on Calle Ocho may have let his family recipe slip
20:43after one too many rum shots one night.
20:48So, you were saying on the phone you,
20:50you 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 Baltazar and Arturo belong to?
21:01The last time we met, I didn't mean to eavesdrop,
21:04but 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,
21:29Arturo's grandson, to help.
21:30The boy has trouble in him.
21:33Criminal trouble.
21:34Gang friends.
21:36He's been arrested for stealing.
21:38A few months ago, Arturo brought him to my house
21:41to 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 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.
22:38Yeah, I'll do what I can.
22:40Thank you, mijo.
22:43What do you got?
22:44John Doe.
22:45I spotted him during my regular patrol at 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 to see 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.
23:16Balthazar 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?
23:23None of them 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 tag.
23:59I'll put out an APB on Danny.
24:07Papi.
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 meeting.
24:22Only reason to visit Ray at a shop is to summon me.
24:26So, tell me.
24:28How can I help?
24:33Ray wouldn't admit it,
24:34but I know he broke into a home
24:36owned 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
25:24she'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 going to pretend
25:40that you haven't been in touch with R.J. 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 worse.
25:59The night Ray broke into the house.
26:03Was he looking for something?
26:05Or was it just to scare them?
26:08How many years have I protected you
26:10from 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...
26:26Ray won't be paying them a second visit.
26:32If you're thinking about telling your new friend,
26:35I wouldn't.
26:36You sound afraid.
26:38He has a temper, Mija.
26:40Just ask your brother.
26:43The last thing I would want
26:45is for things to...
26:48escalate.
27:02First my father, now Bata, sir.
27:04Mm-hmm.
27:05And you have no idea who killed them?
27:07Specifically, no.
27:09But we think there's a good chance
27:10it was the people or person
27:12they were planning on selling the goods to.
27:14I can't believe those viejos
27:15dragged my son into their stupid plan.
27:18You help me find him.
27:19I can keep him safe
27:20where 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
27:28after his father died.
27:33He made bad choices.
27:36But my father
27:38saw a bit of himself in Danny.
27:40You know, he pulled him back.
27:42He taught him the difference
27:42between good trouble and bad.
27:45When I told Danny he was gone,
27:47he...
27:47he couldn't even speak.
27:50He just drove off in his grandfather's car.
27:52He even forgot to take his phone.
27:57I'm sorry, 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,
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,
28:16she had the same problem,
28:17but she had an app to help her locate them.
28:18My father's hearing aids were trackable, too.
28:20Did he ever leave him in his car?
28:22All the time.
28:24Why?
28:29If I'm right,
28:30your dad's car is at the Starlight Sands Motel
28:33in Florida City.
28:34Does that...
28:35does that mean anything to you?
28:37If Danny went there,
28:38I have no idea why.
28:41Why?
28:43Why?
28:47Why?
28:48Why?
28:49Why?
28:49Why?
28:50Why?
29:16Hey, what's up?
29:16Report just came back from the lab.
29:18The DNA under Balthazar's fingernails
29:20isn't a match for his grandson.
29:22You're saying I just drove all the way
29:23to Florida City for no reason?
29:25What?
29:26Nothing.
29:26Sorry.
29:27Here's the crazy part.
29:28The DNA is a match for DNA
29:30from an unsolved homicide back in 92.
29:3392?
29:34It was a Cuban defector.
29:35Gave up intel on Cuban operatives
29:36inside the U.S.
29:37in exchange for asylum.
29:39Case went cold,
29:39but the FBI always suspected the G2.
29:41And get this,
29:42the murder weapon
29:43was some kind of ligature.
29:45Same as Arturo and Balthazar.
29:47Yeah, exactly.
29:49Oh, hey, I gotta go.
29:50That's my friend at the FBI.
29:52I gotta tell her
29:52there might really be
29:53a Cuban spy out there.
29:55Hey.
29:57Are you the guy?
29:58Come on, Brenner, you him?
30:00My name's RJ Decker.
30:01I'm a private investigator.
30:03I'm here because I think
30:04you might be in danger, Danny.
30:05I know you helped
30:06the grandfather and his friend
30:08rob that grocery store.
30:09They're dead.
30:11I'm worried you could be next.
30:12I heard about Balthazar on the news.
30:15How do I know
30:15you're not the one
30:16who killed him and me, Abuelo?
30:17You don't.
30:19But take this.
30:20I'll stand here.
30:20You call the cops.
30:21They come get us both.
30:23A minute ago,
30:24you said,
30:24are you the guy?
30:25What did that mean?
30:26Are you supposed
30:27to meet someone here?
30:29I don't know his name.
30:31Abuelo just told me
30:32that if anything ever happened to him,
30:34I had to get this lockbox
30:35he kept under his floorboards
30:37in his room,
30:38bring it here,
30:38he said,
30:39to this motel,
30:40and wait for someone
30:40to come and pick it up.
30:41He said why
30:42you had to do all that?
30:43He just said,
30:44for the homeland.
30:48This is going to sound
30:49kind of crazy,
30:49but I think maybe
30:52it's why him and Balthazar
30:53were killed.
30:54Where's the box now, Danny?
31:05You didn't open it.
31:06I didn't think I should.
31:08Well,
31:08back in the day,
31:09he was like a,
31:11I don't know,
31:12like a Robin Hood
31:12meets James Bond.
31:14He was a,
31:15uh,
31:15dissident.
31:16Yeah,
31:16I know.
31:17The stories he told me,
31:18the stuff he got out to,
31:20could be anything in there.
31:21Like microfilm,
31:22or plans for some nerve gas
31:25or tapes to feed
31:25on the Russians,
31:26you know.
31:27Por la patria,
31:28that's all I know.
31:30Bore your knife.
31:43Well,
31:43it's very nice
31:44your grandfather
31:44wanted the Cuban people
31:45to have this,
31:47but of all the things
31:48I've heard
31:48are in short supply there.
31:52Baseballs are not
31:52one of them.
32:04I can't believe
32:05Abuelo would do me
32:05like this, man.
32:08Punk me or
32:09test me,
32:10whatever this whole thing was.
32:14Danny.
32:15Arturo,
32:15he 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,
32:24she told me
32:25how close you guys were.
32:27Yeah,
32:28when I was,
32:28uh,
32:29struggling
32:32and making bad decisions,
32:34Abuelo,
32:35he didn't punish me.
32:36He didn't even lecture.
32:38He just,
32:39he gave me jobs to do,
32:40you know?
32:42A reason to show up
32:44and do better.
32:46I saw
32:47how I'd done anything
32:48he asked.
32:48Like rob a supermarket?
32:50We didn't steal from that store
32:51just for money.
32:52It was for the people
32:53struggling in Cuba.
32:54Let's pretend for a second
32:55this does matter.
32:56Did Arturo ever say
32:58anything about
32:59what was inside the box?
33:00Oh,
33:00just that,
33:01that he took it
33:02from right under
33:03Fidel's nose
33:03and that he didn't want
33:05to return to Cuba
33:06until its people were free.
33:07You know,
33:07I figured some friend
33:08or some other dissident
33:10would show up
33:11to get off my hands,
33:11but the only person
33:13who showed up
33:14was you.
33:15Yeah,
33:15say some guy
33:16was supposed to meet you.
33:17He could have been
33:18Arturo's age,
33:19older.
33:19Maybe the reason
33:20it didn't show
33:21is because he's been
33:21gone for years.
33:23So,
33:24so what do we do now?
33:25Well,
33:25we're going to tell your mom
33:26you're safe.
33:27Then you should
33:28sleep here tonight.
33:29There's a fold-out
33:30cot in the storage closet.
33:31I'll,
33:31I'll get it.
33:32Tomorrow morning,
33:33we're going to go
33:34to the police.
33:35We're going to tell them
33:35everything,
33:36including how you helped
33:37rob that store.
33:38Okay.
33:41Yeah,
33:42I understand.
33:44Danny,
33:46don't go disappearing
33:47again,
33:48okay?
33:49I won't.
33:51I'll bother
33:51me better than that.
33:57Hello?
33:59You know
34:00when it's trying
34:01to make the wrong
34:02to take
34:02you to make
34:03you to make
34:03you to make
34:03you to make
34:03you to make
34:05you to make
34:05you to make
34:05you to make
34:06you to make
34:06you to make
34:06you to make
34:07you to make
34:07Hey,
34:07Decker Investigations.
34:09Mr. Decker,
34:09this is Claire
34:10at MUOchoa's office.
34:12She asked me
34:12to set a lunch
34:12for the two of you
34:13for tomorrow.
34:14You're working
34:15pretty late,
34:15aren't you,
34:15Claire?
34:16I am,
34:17but she said
34:17it was important.
34:19If 1230 works
34:19for you,
34:20I'll send you
34:20an address
34:21in the morning.
34:22Sure,
34:23you can pencil me in.
34:24Thanks.
34:25Have a good night.
34:25You too.
34:29How's our guest?
34:31Boy,
34:31he's out cold.
34:33As soon as his head
34:34hit the pillow,
34:35that was all she wrote.
34:36Yeah,
34:37he's had a rough
34:37couple of days.
34:38Yeah.
34:39Um,
34:39you,
34:40um,
34:41you're positive
34:42he's not
34:42a serial strangler,
34:44right?
34:44Oh,
34:45yeah,
34:45like 90%.
34:47Let me ask you
34:48something.
34:48Can you think
34:49of any reason
34:50why the Cuban
34:50government
34:51would kill
34:52two old guys
34:53over a baseball?
34:55Well,
34:55it's a fact
34:56Castro thought
34:57he was a hell
34:58of a ball player.
34:59He was not.
35:00but maybe
35:01he popped
35:01that baby
35:02over a fence
35:03one time
35:03because some
35:04scared pitcher
35:05lobbed him
35:05a meatball.
35:06Cubans want
35:06to put it
35:07in a museum
35:07or something.
35:15Do me a favor.
35:16Go stand over there
35:17for me,
35:17please.
35:19Okay.
35:24All right,
35:25what you got?
35:27Yeah,
35:27all right.
35:32Roll it back.
35:35All right.
35:37That way it rolls,
35:39that ball ain't regulation.
35:41The guy sits over there
35:42in the Jimmy Buffett
35:43tribute band.
35:44He works at an
35:45overnight animal hospital,
35:46doesn't he?
35:47Yeah,
35:48why?
35:50I'm just saying,
35:51Wish,
35:52a favor like this
35:53could be repaid
35:54with a gig at the bar.
35:55You know I've
35:56heard you play
35:57before, right?
35:58Yeah, man,
35:58but we're so much
35:59better now.
36:00Look,
36:00Jimmy himself
36:01couldn't tell
36:01the difference
36:02between his
36:02Bama Breeze
36:03and ours.
36:04Baseball talk now,
36:06gig talk later.
36:07All right.
36:08All right.
36:10Who cares?
36:15Well,
36:16Orange,
36:16is that
36:16what I think it is?
36:18A little
36:18baseball diamond.
36:20It's like
36:20the song, man.
36:21Diamond as big
36:22as the Ritz.
36:24It's like
36:24Jimmy's here
36:25with us.
36:26Well,
36:27if that thing's
36:27real,
36:27that's got to be
36:28worth, what,
36:28millions,
36:29tens of millions?
36:30Well,
36:30in the morning,
36:31I'm going to ask
36:31the person who killed
36:32Arturo and Balthazar,
36:34because I know
36:34who it is now.
36:46Hello.
36:47I'm back.
36:48Sorry to keep you
36:48waiting.
36:49This is my friend,
36:50Detective Abreu.
36:51Please.
36:51It was so sweet of you
36:53to bring me this
36:54café con leche,
36:55not to mention
36:56recovering some
36:57of the items
36:57Danny stole from me.
36:59Well,
36:59actually,
36:59it's only one item.
37:01We have it
37:01in another room.
37:02You can follow me.
37:14My grandfather
37:15didn't get to bring
37:16much when he was
37:17exiled,
37:18but he brought this.
37:20He played
37:21for a quipocuba.
37:24This.
37:26This was
37:27from his last game.
37:30It meant
37:31everything to him.
37:32It's a great story.
37:34Can I tell you
37:35another one?
37:37Once upon a time,
37:38there was a
37:3925-carat diamond.
37:41It was gifted
37:42to the First Lady of Cuba
37:43almost 100 years ago.
37:45In 1926,
37:46it was embedded
37:46into the floor
37:47of the National Capital
37:48Building in Havana.
37:50In the 40s,
37:50it was replaced
37:51with a replica.
37:52The real stone is,
37:53at least according
37:54to the government,
37:55locked away
37:55in Cuba's central bank.
37:56Now,
37:57imagine if
37:58two anti-Castro
38:00troublemakers,
38:01guys like your pals
38:02Arturo and Balthazar,
38:04managed to steal it
38:05in the 1970s
38:06and disappeared.
38:07The regime
38:07would never admit it,
38:08right?
38:09It's too embarrassing.
38:10But if a Cuban
38:11operative in Florida
38:12infiltrated
38:12in an exile advocacy group
38:14and overheard
38:14two guys bragging
38:15about robbing
38:16that bank,
38:17Havana might put
38:18two and two together
38:19and change
38:19their spy's objective.
38:22Get the diamond back.
38:31Is that?
38:32Is that my coffee?
38:33Mm, it is.
38:35My friend here,
38:35he didn't bring you
38:36a café con leche
38:37to be nice.
38:38He did it
38:38so he could get
38:39your DNA.
38:40Pretty sure
38:40it's going to tie you
38:41to Balthazar's murder
38:42and the execution
38:42of a defector
38:43back in 92.
38:45You're both crazy.
38:47I'm an old woman.
38:48The other day,
38:49you told me
38:50you overheard
38:50Balthazar and Arturo
38:51planning a Whitby's heist,
38:53right?
38:54That part's probably true.
38:55But you also saw
38:56an opportunity.
38:57Arturo would be tied up.
38:58Cameras would be down.
38:59You could walk in,
39:00torture him,
39:01make him tell you
39:01where the diamond was.
39:04Maybe he told you
39:04it was in the baseball.
39:06Maybe it was Balthazar.
39:08By the way,
39:09you made damn sure
39:10it was on the list
39:10of things you said
39:11Danny stole from you.
39:13The list,
39:14by the way,
39:15it's where you slipped up.
39:17Nothing about Danny
39:18said he killed
39:18his grandfather.
39:19Nothing.
39:20So it made me wonder
39:21who put me on his trail
39:22to begin with.
39:25You.
39:29Arturo and Balthazar
39:31were gusanos
39:32who stole
39:33what didn't belong
39:34to them.
39:35The diamond belongs
39:37to Cuba,
39:38paid for in blood
39:40and revolution.
39:41Oh my God,
39:42you have the right
39:43to remain silent.
39:44Anything you say
39:45can and will be held
39:46against you
39:47in a court of law.
39:54Okay, so good news.
39:56Talk to my point person
39:57at Whitby's.
39:58They're not going to
39:59press charges for the heist.
40:00Seriously?
40:01You are banned
40:02from ever visiting
40:02another Whitby's location,
40:03but still,
40:04I think it's a pretty good deal.
40:06I just,
40:07I still can't believe
40:07it was Isabel
40:08out there killing people.
40:09She was always so nice.
40:10Yeah,
40:11she was my first spy.
40:13Double O seven,
40:1429 years old.
40:16But,
40:16I guess the good ones,
40:17they're good actors.
40:19I'm just,
40:19I'm glad she didn't get
40:20what she was after.
40:23How about that?
40:25According to the feds,
40:26the Cuban government
40:26is officially denying
40:27the diamond
40:28was ever stolen.
40:30Yeah,
40:30they're still claiming
40:31it's safe and sound
40:32inside their vault
40:32in Havana.
40:34I swear if
40:35Pablo was here,
40:36he'd laugh so hard at that.
40:38It gets funnier.
40:40The Cubans won't admit
40:41the diamond was ever
40:42stolen from them.
40:42They can't claim it.
40:44For now,
40:44the diamond's locked up
40:45in evidence
40:46until Isabel is prosecuted.
40:47But when the dust settles,
40:51there's a very good chance
40:52a diamond will be returned
40:54to you.
40:55What?
40:55It was your grandfather's.
40:57You were the last one
40:58in possession.
40:59What the hell
41:00am I supposed to do with it?
41:01For me,
41:01I would sell it
41:02very publicly.
41:04If the Cubans
41:04are going to send more spies,
41:05it won't be you
41:06they're coming after.
41:07You could buy yourself
41:09and your mom
41:10the future your grandfather
41:11fought to make possible.
41:14Or?
41:15Or you could use the money
41:16to honor his legacy.
41:18Find new ways
41:19to help the people
41:20he was trying to help.
41:22Por la patria.
41:28Por la patria.
41:28Por la patria.
41:32Por la patria.
41:33Por la patria.
41:39Por la patria.
41:43Por la patria.
41:44Excuse me.
41:45I have a reservation
41:46under my friend's name,
41:47Emmy Ochoa,
41:48but it doesn't look like you guys are open yet we are open mr decker just for us
41:56pleasure to finally meet you
42:00emilia will not be joining us it wasn't her office that set this meeting it was mine
42:05yeah kind of figured i apologize for the subterfuge but i thought it was time you and i had a
42:10chat
42:12how i assumed it was obvious i'd like to know what exactly are your intentions towards my daughter
42:45so
42:55you
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