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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.
00:21It 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 it.
00:32I didn't break in.
00:33That's bold.
00:33I'm telling the truth.
00:38Three, two, one!
00:43The 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 hope.
01:07Hey, just a couple more things.
01:09Yeah, and then I'm going to go to the lottery line.
01:13Okay.
01:14I'll have that.
01:15Customer assistance in the dairy.
01:19Price check on item 217.
01:26Check out item 217.
01:26All fresh purchases.
01:28All fresh purchases!
01:28Off from the bank, take a band,
01:30get an advantage.com
01:30to date. Is
01:31that true? Oh,
01:32okay. Oh,
01:33okay. Thanks for
01:41shopping at Whippies.
01:51Sir, excuse me, sir, I think you forgot to pay for that.
01:55Oh, I'm sorry.
01:57Did I miss something?
01:58Yeah, the whole cart.
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.
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 an undercover supermarket cop?
02:21Most days I'm a PI.
02:24Produce inspector?
02:25No, man.
02:26I'm a prod...
02:27You 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?
02:34Because cops mean reports and statements
02:37and a court date six months from now
02:39where I gotta wear a tie and explain shrink-flation to a judge.
02:41I don't want that.
02:42You don't want that.
02:44Don't take the eggs, man.
02:46You 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.
03:08Weak morals, but strong legs.
03:10This is true.
03:11So leave everything here.
03:12I'll put it back on the shelf myself.
03:14Okay?
03:14Okay.
03:15Okay.
03:15Thanks Arturo.
03:16Now smile.
03:17We'll catch the next one.
03:44Yeah?
03:45You forgot about dinner.
03:47I forgot about dinner.
03:48I forgot about dinner.
03:48I waited 30 minutes.
03:51That reservation wasn't easy to get.
03:54Even for me.
03:55Long day.
03:57Have a beer with me.
03:58An apology to beer.
04:00Please.
04:03Coming right up.
04:07Here you go.
04:09So what happened?
04:10Hmm?
04:11Grand theft avocado 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,
04:20the guy who robbed the armored truck.
04:22Well, it turns out he and his partner,
04:24they had an alibi.
04:25He said someone else must be coming after us.
04:27I think he might be just messing with my head,
04:29because I've been at it a week now,
04:30and everything says run-of-the-mill burglar to me.
04:33A lot of work for run-of-the-mill.
04:35Well, Mel's daughter, Sophia,
04:37she's been having nightmares since it happened,
04:38so I figured, catch the guy.
04:41We'd go sleep better.
04:42Hmm.
04:45Is this a suspect?
04:47To be determined.
04:49Yeah, a neighbor reported seeing a suspicious man
04:51in the neighborhood,
04:52but she's the type who sees a lot of suspicious men
04:55in the neighborhood.
04:56Yeah.
04:56So, who knows?
05:02You look amazing, by the way.
05:05I know.
05:10Ugh, this tastes like hot yoga.
05:13Yeah, it's the, uh, 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.
05:26Good luck with your side quest.
05:34Night crew never tosses their boxes.
05:36Who closed?
05:39Wait.
05:40Let me guess.
05:41Terry.
05:42The man works hard all night making sure none of this gets done.
05:46Hmm.
05:48Ugh.
06:02The hell?
06:03That didn't sound like boxes.
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.
06:29Heist.
06:30Not 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 10 grand in inventory.
06:38Okay.
06:38That's what our cops were 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 was 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 about you.
07:26Okay.
07:27Also, I watch Bones.
07:29Of course.
07:31There were ligature marks on Arturo's neck.
07:34Strong evidence of strangulation as cause of death.
07:38ME still needs to confirm, but...
07:41Bruising doesn't happen post-mortem.
07:43Sir.
07:43Step away from the table.
07:44Yeah, yeah, of course.
07:45Not gonna warn you again.
07:46My bad.
07:48Kevin.
07:50Just to be clear, my fee structure change is when the job goes from loss prevention to homicide.
07:56Oh.
07:57You're not here to solve the murder.
07:59I'm here to find my stolen inventory.
08:03Oh.
08:05Okay, so...
08:07Watch what happens at 11.56.
08:10Mm-hmm.
08:11So I'm thinking EMP device.
08:14Like an Ocean's Eleven.
08:16An EMP device.
08:17To 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.
08:37Have we talked about this day one?
08:38I know, I know.
08:39I've been waiting for corporate to approve the request.
08:42And that takes time.
08:44All right.
08:44Well, what about Arturo?
08:45Maybe the guys who did this, they coerced him, he turned off the cameras?
08:49First thing the cops and I checked.
08:52Yeah, I see.
08:53All right.
08:55Pull up all the feeds.
08:56The sales floor, all of them.
08:58Pull them up for me.
09:01May I?
09:01Yeah, 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,
09:18and that's because it wasn't a break in.
09:20It was a break out.
09:31Okay, so he cams on the shuttle closing, kills the cameras,
09:35then signals his crew to roll in, but 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 at, 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.
10:24The store 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, you'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, always smiling.
10:54Besides, we find the groceries, we find the killer.
10:57Here we go.
10:59Uh, excuse me.
11:01We're looking for Arturo's daughter, Maria.
11:08What are you saying?
11:10What 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.
11:25It's always 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 it.
11:36You don't seem all that surprised your 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.
12:07Gusanos?
12:08What'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.
12:36How did he 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...
12:54Do 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?
13:27Those deals are gonna 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...
14:06Hang on.
14:06I'll...
14:07Just go get him.
14:09Papi!
14:12Papi, what are you doing?
14:13Papi!
14:14Uh, Mr. Cruz, everything okay?
14:15Uh...
14:16I don't know.
14:16My dad just climbed out of the window in the back.
14:27Go!
14:27Go, go, go, go!
14:33All.
14:34All.
14:34My.
14:35Friends.
14:36I'm a low rider.
14:39Senior's Anderson coming through!
14:41I got the right of way!
14:43He's a low rider.
14:44Baltasar.
14:44We just want to ask you some questions.
14:46Ha!
14:46The sidewalk ends at about 100 yards.
14:48Are you really gonna 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 PM and 1 AM last 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?
15:08Cause we know you were Mr. Cruz.
15:10We have video.
15:11Foul.
15:12Deep fake.
15:13Why'd you run from us then?
15:15Guess I'm allergic to fascists.
15:17Funny.
15:18I'm allergic to guys who kill their oldest friends who take their share of the proceeds from a heist.
15:23Okay.
15:24I helped Arturo rub this door.
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, like spies?
15:42Arturo was not murdered.
15:45Arturo was assassinated.
15:56As all of us, it was a three-man crew.
16:00Arturo 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.
16:14You were right about Arturo not wanting to retire.
16:17But 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.
16:31If you didn't promise freedom, justice, instead we get fear, misery.
16:38The people who have money, they left, Arturo and I.
16:42We stayed.
16:44Somebody 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 the 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.
17:17You 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.
17:28The 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...
17:44Was like family.
17:48I yell at him for 50 years.
17:52But kill him?
17:55No.
17:57Nunca.
17:59Erobermano.
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.
18:19The 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.
18:39I need to send a letter to Fidel.
18:42Now.
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.
18:56Hmm?
18:57Mm-mm.
18:59Mm-mm.
19:00Mm-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, 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.
19:33Yeah, Balthazar said they left together.
19:35He 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,
19:45but if he really withstood torture from the regime, odds are probably zero.
19:53Let's call it Dr. Dick.
20:04Hmm...
20:07Decker investigation, Sluhob.
20:09Mr. Decker.
20:10Yeah?
20:10I'm sorry to call so early, my name is Isabel, I am a friend of Arturo's.
20:15We met at his house yesterday...
20:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hi, uh, the front yard.
20:18I remember, how can I help you?
20:19His daughter told me you're investigating what happened.
20:22She gave me your number.
20:24I may have information for you.
20:33I usually go all the way to Hialeah for a cafe con leche this perfect.
20:38Owner of a 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 might know something about what happened to Arturo.
20:53I sometimes help out at an exile advocacy group.
20:57Is it the same one Baltazar and Arturo belong to?
21:00The 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?
21:14Ruipoco.
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.
21:33Criminal trouble.
21:34Gang 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, but 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.
22:12Hey, do you really think Danny would kill his own abuelo to get his share?
22:16Ay, mijo.
22:18I'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.
22:45I 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.
23:15They 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.
23:25On the plus side, the Amine 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 a lot 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, the 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.
24:28How 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
25:34to someone we both know.
25:38Are you really going to pretend
25:40that you haven't been in touch with R.J. Declan?
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 an Ochoa and gets away with it.
25:54Están sensi, o como es?
25:59The night Ray broke into the house,
26:03was he looking for something, or...
26:06Was 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,
26:34I 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.
27:13I can't believe those viejos
27:15drive my son into their stupid plan.
27:18You help me find him.
27:19I can keep him safe
27:20before 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...
27:48he 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?
27:59I think it was the shock.
28:00And you have no idea
28:01where 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.
28:12Oh.
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.
28:21He ever leave them 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.
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. Sorry.
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.
29:51I gotta tell her
29:52there might really be
29:53a Cuban spy out there.
29:55Hey.
29:57Are you the guy?
29:59Come on, Ben, are you him?
30:00My name's R.J. 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
30:06your grandfather and his friend
30:08rob 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
30:16the one who killed him and mi 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,
30:24are you the guy?
30:25What did that mean?
30:26Are you supposed to meet
30:27someone here?
30:28I, uh, I don't know his name.
30:31Abuelo just told me
30:32that if anything ever happened
30:33to him, I had to get
30:34this, this lockbox
30:35he kept under his floorboards
30:37in his room, bring it here,
30:38he said, to this motel,
30:40and wait for someone
30:41to come and pick it up.
30:42If you say why
30:42you had to do all that,
30:44he just said por la patria.
30:46For the homeland.
30:48This is gonna sound
30:49kind of crazy, but
30:51I think maybe it's why
30:52him 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, Wedlow back 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, uh...
31:15Dissident.
31:16Yeah, I know.
31:17The stories he told me,
31:18the stuff he got up to,
31:20could be anything in there.
31:21Like microfilm,
31:23or plants for some nerve gas,
31:25or tips to feed on the Russians,
31:26you know.
31:27Por la patria,
31:28that's all I know.
31:30Bore your knife.
31:43Well, it's very nice
31:44your grandfather wanted
31:45the Cuban people
31:46to 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
32:06like this, man.
32:08Punk me,
32:08or test 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, when I was,
32:28uh, struggling,
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 just,
32:47I would have done
32:47anything he asked.
32:48Like rob a supermarket?
32:49We didn't steal
32:50from 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?
33:00No, just that,
33:01that he took it
33:02from right under
33:03Fidel's nose,
33:03and that he didn't
33:05want to return to Cuba
33:06until its people
33:06were free.
33:07I figured some friend
33:08or some other dissident
33:10would show up
33:11to get off my hands,
33:12but the only person
33:14who 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
33:20he didn't show
33:21is because he's
33:21been gone for years.
33:23So what do we do now?
33:25Well, we're going
33:25to 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 get it.
33:32Tomorrow morning,
33:33we're going to
33:34go to the police.
33:35We're going to
33:35tell them everything,
33:36including how you
33:36helped rob that store.
33:38Okay?
33:41Yeah, I understand.
33:44Danny,
33:46don't go disappearing
33:48again, okay?
33:49I won't.
33:51I'll buy the
33:51worries me better
33:52than that.
34:07Hey, Decker
34:08Investigations.
34:09Mr. Decker,
34:09this is Claire
34:10at Emmy Ochoa's office.
34:11She asked me to set a lunch
34:12for the two of you
34:13for tomorrow.
34:14You're working pretty late,
34:15aren't you, Claire?
34:16I am,
34:17but she said
34:17it was important.
34:18If 1230 works for you,
34:20I'll send you
34:20an address in the morning.
34:22Sure, you can
34:23pencil me in.
34:24Thanks.
34:25Have a good night.
34:25You too.
34:29How's our guest?
34:31Boy, he's out cold.
34:33As soon as his head
34:34hit the pillow,
34:35that was all she wrote.
34:36Yeah, he's had
34:37a rough couple of days.
34:38Yeah.
34:39Um, you, uh,
34:41you're positive
34:42he's not a serial
34:44strangler, right?
34:44Oh, yeah,
34:45like 90%.
34:47Let me ask you something.
34:48Can you think
34:49of any reason
34:50why the Cuban government
34:51would kill two old guys
34:53over a baseball?
34:55Well, it's a fact
34:56Castro thought
34:57he was a hell
34:58of a ball player.
34:59He was not.
35:00But maybe he popped
35:01that baby over
35:02a fence one time
35:03because some scared
35:04pitcher lobbed him
35:05a meatball.
35:06Cubans want to put it
35:07in a museum or something.
35:15Do me a favor.
35:16Go stand over there
35:17for me, please.
35:19Okay.
35:24All right.
35:25What you got?
35:27All right.
35:32Roll it back.
35:37That way it rolls,
35:39that ball ain't regulation.
35:41Guy 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, why?
35:50I'm just saying, Wish,
35:52a favor like this
35:53could be repaid
35:54with a gig at the bar.
35:55You know I've heard
35:56you play before, right?
35:58Yeah, man,
35:58but we're so much
35:59better now.
36:00Look, Jimmy himself
36:01couldn't tell the difference
36:02between his Bama Breeze
36:03and ours.
36:04Baseball talk now,
36:06gig talk later.
36:09Who cares?
36:15Well, Orange,
36:16is that what I think it is?
36:18A little baseball diamond.
36:20It's like the song, man.
36:21Diamond as big as the Reds.
36:24It's like Jimmy's
36:25here with us.
36:26Well, if that thing's real,
36:27that's got to be worth,
36:28what, millions?
36:29Tens of millions?
36:30Well, in the morning,
36:31I'm going to ask the person
36:32who killed Arturo
36:32and Balthazar,
36:34because I know
36:34who it is now.
36:46Hello.
36:47I'm back.
36:48Sorry to keep you waiting.
36:49This is my friend,
36:50Detective Abreu.
36:51Please.
36:51It was so sweet of you
36:53to bring me this
36:54cafe con leche,
36:55not to mention recovering
36:56some of the items
36:57Danny stole from me.
36:59Well, actually,
36:59it's only one item.
37:01We have it in another room.
37:02Follow me.
37:14My grandfather
37:15didn't get to bring much
37:17when he was exiled,
37:18but he brought this.
37:21He played for a Kipo Kuba.
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,
37:38there was a 25-karat diamond.
37:41It was gifted to the First Lady of Cuba
37:43almost 100 years ago.
37:45In 1926,
37:46it was embedded into the floor
37:47of the National Capital Building
37:49in Havana.
37:50In the 40s,
37:51it was replaced with a replica.
37:52The real stone is,
37:53at least according to the government,
37:55locked away in Cuba's central bank.
37:57Now, imagine if two
37:59anti-Castro troublemakers,
38:01guys like your pals,
38:02Arturo and Balthazar,
38:04managed to steal it
38:05in the 1970s and disappeared.
38:07The regime would never admit it, right?
38:09It's too embarrassing.
38:09But if a Cuban operative
38:11in Florida infiltrated
38:12in an exile advocacy group
38:14and overheard two guys
38:15bragging about robbing that bank,
38:17Havana might put two and two together
38:19and 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,
38:35he didn't bring you a Café con Neche
38:37to be nice.
38:38He did it so he could get your DNA.
38:39Pretty sure it's gonna tie you
38:41to Balthazar's murder
38:42and the execution of a defector
38:43back in 92.
38:45You...
38:45You're both crazy.
38:47I'm an old woman.
38:48The other day,
38:49you told me you overheard
38:50Balthazar and Arturo
38:51playing in the Whitby's 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,
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 of things
39:11you said Danny stole from you.
39:13The list, by the way,
39:15it's where you slipped up.
39:17Nothing about Danny
39:18said he killed his grandfather.
39:19Nothing.
39:20So it made me wonder,
39:21who put me on his trail
39:22to begin with?
39:26You.
39:29Arturo and Balthazar
39:31were gusanos
39:32who stole
39:33what didn't belong to them.
39:35The diamond belongs to Cuba,
39:38paid for in blood
39:40and revolution.
39:41Oh, my God.
39:42Isabel Mola,
39:43you 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.
39:56Talked 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, she was my first spy.
40:13007, 29 years old.
40:16But I 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.
40:23About that.
40:25According to the feds,
40:26the Cuban government
40:27is officially denying
40:27the diamond was ever stolen.
40:30Yeah, they're still claiming
40:31it's safe and sound
40:32inside their vault in Havana.
40:34I swear if Pablo Loziri
40:36would laugh so hard at that.
40:38It gets funnier.
40:40The Cubans won't admit
40:41the diamond was ever stolen
40:42from 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.
41:04The 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 to help
41:19the people he was trying to help.
41:22Pour la patria.
41:28Pour la patria.
41:44Excuse me.
41:45I have a reservation
41:46under my friend's name,
41:47Emi Ochoa,
41:48but it doesn't look like
41:49you guys are open yet.
41:50We are open,
41:51Mr. Decker.
41:53Just for us.
41:56Pleasure to finally meet you.
42:00Emilia will not be joining us.
42:02It wasn't her office
42:03that set this meeting,
42:04it was mine.
42:05Yeah, kind of figured.
42:06I apologize for the subterfuge,
42:08but I thought it was time
42:09you and I had a chat.
42:11About?
42:13I assumed it was obvious.
42:15I'd like to know
42:18what exactly are your intentions
42:19towards my daughter.
42:49I'll see you next time.
43:01I'll see you next time.
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