The Closer (2005–2012): Season 4, Episode 9 - Tijuana Brass - full transcript

Through this anointing, may
the Lord, in His love and mercy,

help you with the
grace of the Holy Spirit.

May the Lord, who frees you
from sin, save you and raise you up.

Through this anointing, may
the Lord, in His love and mercy,

help you with the
grace of the Holy Spirit.

May the Lord, who frees you
from sin, save you and raise you up.

Yes, I'd like to report
two men shot to death

lying in the back of a pickup truck
under the Sixth Street bridge at Anderson.

- Morning, Chief Johnson.
- So what's all this?

Two Tijuana Police officers
shot to death in this pickup.

Jacinto Gonzales, Carlos Gomez.



Is that why you called Priority
Homicide, Commander?

Dead foreign police officers can
only be investigated by "the elite"?

Had nothing to do with the article in the
Times today referring to PHD as "elite,"

and you can tell, Flynn, because I'd never
used the word "elite" to describe you.

- Okay, okay, okay.
- Come.

We're gonna have to respond
to that article in the Times,

but everything Ramos
wrote was trash.

Well, Chief Pope seems
to be taking it seriously.

He wants me in his
office an hour ago.

Why is the coroner's
investigator just getting here now?

Lots of dead people on Monday.

And if no one's touched the
bodies, how do we know their IDs?

Wallets, passports, badges
were all laid out in plain view.

Also, in the
driver's seat, guns.



This isn't the crime scene.

So, wait, somebody
drove the bodies here?

Where's this vehicle from?

The vehicle is registered
to a San Diego address.

The police down there say
the owner, a Mr. Raul Llamas,

didn't even know the vehicle was
stolen till they told him this morning.

So two Tijuana Police officers
murdered elsewhere are driven underneath

a bridge in Los Angeles and
abandoned in a stolen pickup truck.

That's so strange.
Who found the bodies?

The guy who called it
in didn't identify himself,

but the cell phone's registered
to a Father Chris Donahue.

Oh. Great!

What was Father Donahue doing in a
place like this at 6:00 in the morning?

I have no idea, but there's a
Catholic church four blocks away.

- Our Lady of the Saints.
- Uh... Chief.

I think we got something here.

And it's seriously weird.

Now we got a whole list of
seriously weird stuff going.

Just another drug
murder in Los Angeles.

You recognize these
bracelets, Detective?

It's related to
the Ochoa cartel.

All their people wear them. It means
that our victims are probably dirty cops.

Both men dead
about six to nine hours

and showing multiple gunshot
wounds from what looks like a .45.

Okay, thank you.

Gentlemen. Thank you so much.

Okay, Detective Sanchez,

let's let the Tijuana Police know
that they've lost two of their officers.

Maybe they could tell us how
they got here in the first place.

Lieutenant Flynn, let's get a
dope dog to go over this truck.

See if anything floats its boat.
After which, Lieutenant Tao,

if you could take
it to the print shed?

Thank you. Sergeant Gabriel,
I want shots-fired reports

from LA County for last night. I need
a crime scene in the very worst way.

Chief, look here.

Olive oil.

Detective Daniels, that
priest that called this in,

he didn't just find the bodies.
He also performed last rites.

I'd like him in my
office, please, posthaste.

Father Donahue doesn't have
to talk to you if he doesn't want to.

And when you want to interact
with the Catholic Church,

you need to go
through a deputy chief.

I am a deputy chief.

Yeah, I mean, you know, a
real, grown-up deputy chief

with management and
administrative duties.

Like Dennis Murdoch, who is
LAPD's liaison with the archdiocese.

Have you read the Times today?

- This article by Ramos?
- I glanced through it, yes.

- Anything leap out at you?
- He misspelled my middle name.

What about this? Here.

Here.

"Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson
confesses that, 90% of the time,

"Priority Homicide Division
is deployed by her superiors

"in an attempt to
anticipate media coverage."

Did you actually say this?

- Of course not!
- You accused me of allowing...

- He took my words out of context.
- The press to run this department!

Wait a minute, Will.
Now, wait a minute.

The main point of this article

is that PHD handles
more white murder victims

than Robbery/Homicide, and
that has nothing to do with me.

That's how you assign
cases. In addition to which,

having a reporter popping in and out
of my division was your idea, not mine.

You want to know what
else was my idea? You!

You were my idea.

Priority Homicide was my idea.

And so imagine how much fun
it's been explaining your comments

to angry members of
the police commission,

all of whom are now demanding
that I dismantle your division.

Do you understand
what that means?

- Yes. Yes, of course...
- Come in.

We need... I need to
explain things better to...

No, no. No. No.

I admit we need to talk
to this asshole, Ramos,

because there's a big "Part 1,"
under the headline of this article,

and we don't want part 2, which
comes out next week, to end as badly.

But the time for simple
explanations has come and gone.

LAPD needs to get ahead
of this story, Chief Johnson.

Priority Homicide has established
the efficacy of team investigation.

We need to apply that lesson
to the rest of our force structure.

And, translated, that
means what, exactly?

Priority Homicide has run
its course. It's over. It's done.

I'm shutting it down.

What?

Because of this story? Really?

What's gonna happen to
my detectives? And when?

When? You want to
know when? Now! Today!

By the time Ramos
gets here this evening,

the Commander and I
will have reconfigured

LAPD's various homicide units

in such a way that they
will withstand both criticism

from the police commission as
well as any further media scrutiny.

You will retain your
rank and salary,

but you will no longer be in charge
of anything called Priority Homicide.

And for now, that's it.

You're dismissed.

Chief Murdoch spoke
with the archdiocese.

They say Father Donahue will
call us when he has a minute.

Okay. Um...

Well, we got a minute.

Um...

What do we know about
him, Father Donahue?

Well, he has a small church in
one of the poorer sections of the city.

Our Lady of the Saints.

Runs it alone, and he's been questioned
several times by Immigration officials.

They believe he provides
sanctuary for illegals.

Um... Sanchez, we
hear from Tijuana?

They're sending some comandante
to do their own investigation,

but our victims here, Jacinto
Gonzales and Carlos Gomez,

had no official business
here in Los Angeles.

But they had weapons.

Lieutenant Flynn, what
did our dope dog think?

Oh. He was unimpressed,

but there was some dried blood
behind the seats in the truck's cab.

SID's still working on matching
it up and isolating fingerprints.

And we may have
something here, Chief,

an unresolved
shots-fired report.

Last night at around 3:00
a.m., Central Division responds

to an anonymous call reporting a
gunfight just east of the train station.

Our guys drove through the area,

stopped and talked to security
guards, didn't find anything.

But all of them admit
to hearing something,

except for the night watchman
at Manta Chemical Company,

a Mateo Hernandez.

Yeah, I put a want on him
while you were in with Pope.

Now, as it turns out, the address
on his driver's license doesn't exist.

Also, Mateo's 40,

and it says he's
supposedly born here in LA,

but his social security
number is only two months old.

- What about vehicle registration?
- He has a car.

He left it at work last night.
Hasn't come back for it.

But we do have two
undercovers watching it right now.

So Mateo Hernandez is
either a deaf illegal immigrant or

his jobsite is our crime scene.

Let's head over to Manta
Chemical and have a look-see.

Good.

Oh. And...

Excellent work,
everybody. As always.

Really.

Always really excellent work.

Hey, excuse me for interrupting,

but DOJ says you guys made
an inquiry on Mateo Hernandez.

Are you saying that the
FBI has a flag on Mateo?

- Why? Where is he?
- We can't find him just this second.

But this want is a bad thing.

I'm not authorized to tell you
anything about Mateo, except

he's helped us roll up the American
side of some major drug trafficking,

and he is a seriously good guy.

Well, you should
come with me, then.

'Cause I don't want to cause
you any more problems at work,

but your "seriously good guy" just became
my chief suspect in a double homicide.

And I should say that all of
Mateo's paperwork was in order.

We filed it with the government.

That's all right, Mr. Gooding.
We're not from Immigration.

And he was a real self-starter,
too. Not just sitting around at night.

He burglar-proofed the windows.

He fixed our alarms.

He even double-bolted the loading
door at the end of business every day.

And this shelving...

Well, when I left
work last night,

this was all in rows in
the center of the room.

I guess Mateo must have
moved it up against the walls.

Oh. And this is his
desk right over here.

- Brenda.
- Hmm.

Look, I didn't know him
personally, but from what I was told,

Mateo was just not the
kind of guy who would cause

the sort of problem
you found this morning.

- I disagree.
- Why is that?

Because there's two casings
right here between the shelves.

From a .45.

For those in the know, nothing
better in the handgun biz.

Chief.

Wasn't something like this used
to tape down the tarp on the truck?

- Yes.
- Chief.

Look what I found. The water
in this bucket has blood in it.

Looks like he tried to mop
the blood up off the floor.

Yeah, but why not wipe
the walls down, too?

Why just put
shelves in front of it?

Maybe he ran out of time.

The lock on this door has
been taken apart from the inside.

Mr. Gooding, when
did that happen?

It wasn't like that
when I left yesterday.

So the bodies were already
here when the squad car

pulled up to check on
the shots-fired report.

Mateo actually went outside and
spoke to the responding officers,

tells them he doesn't hear a gunfight while
the victims are lying here on the floor?

When the police left, Mateo was
afraid that they might come back,

so he stopped cleaning up, he
pushed the shelves up against the wall,

he dragged his victims out into
the stolen truck and drives them

four blocks

from his church.

All right. This business about not talking
to the priest is getting ridiculous.

Father Donahue
has had his minute.

Chief! Look, just
hold on a second.

We can ask Father
Donahue to come visit us.

I mean, but walking into his
church and demanding to see him?

- That would raise holy hell right now.
- I don't think it matters anymore

what kind of hell
we raise, honestly.

Okay, okay, Chief.

We all read the article
in the Times this morning.

We understand.

It's not good.

So now is not the best time to pick
a battle with the Catholic Church.

Let's fight one Pope at a time.

The FBI's getting ready to
fax over some declassified stuff

- on Mateo to your murder room.
- See?

We got plenty to do.

What's going on? Is Pope really
giving you grief about this article?

I thought it had more
to do with his problems...

- I can't talk about this right now. Really.
- Chief,

eight sets of prints
inside the pickup.

Two match our victims, one
goes with the prints we found

on the car Mateo left at
work, and five still unknown.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

You want to summarize
this for everybody?

Sure.

All right, guys, Manuel Rivera,

a.k.a. Mateo Hernandez,

used to be a Tijuana comandante.

He refused to back
off as the Ochoa cartel,

when they moved in, started
buying up the local police.

Great. Now the cartels are
coming up here to shoot it out.

No, not Mateo. A year ago,

he abandons Mexico, he
drives up to Los Angeles

with enough
evidence to dismantle

half the Ochoa cartel's
American distribution system.

I think your two vics here were
sent by the cartel to kill him.

Okay, how did Gonzales and Gomez
know where to find your informant

if the FBI gave Manuel
this new identity, Mateo?

Well, Mateo's 18-year-old
nephew came to visit last week.

Two days after he goes
back to Mexico, he's murdered.

And Mateo said the cartel
went after his nephew

to find out where
we had put him.

Mateo's FBI case officer
talked to Mexican Federales.

They said the kid was collateral damage
in a random gunfight between gangs.

- What was his name, Mateo's nephew?
- Ramon Camacho. Why?

Well, Mexico posts all
its morgue photos online,

and I use it sometimes to locate
missing gang members on their database.

- There he is, Ramon Camacho.
- Are you kidding me?

Cause of death,
blunt-force trauma.

He was beaten, not shot.
Probably tortured for information.

And the investigating officers,

Jacinto Gonzales
and Carlos Gomez.

- Our victims.
- Great.

That's one way to get away
with murder, investigate it yourself.

So they grab the kid and
find out where the uncle is,

they beat him until he
talks, and then they kill him.

And Manuel, a.k.a. Mateo,

hears about this and realizes
that they're coming for him.

So Gonzales and Gomez sneak
up on him somehow at work.

Even have the tape out to put it over
his mouth, same as they did his nephew.

Yeah, but Mateo fought
back. I mean, self-defense.

Or maybe since he knew his
identity had been compromised,

he knew someone was
coming, so he was prepared.

He limited access to
only one entrance door,

so he knew exactly where
Gomez and Gonzales would enter,

- almost lying in wait for them.
- Is there anything we can do to help?

Well, that depends. Am I
finding Mateo so the FBI

can swoop down and
take him away from me?

Not if he committed murder, no.

Lieutenant Tao, that dried blood
on the back of the pickup's cab,

I keep bumping on
it for some reason.

Would you have SID
determine if it matches up

to any of our victims,
please? Thank you.

Chief Johnson.

- Yes, Commander?
- Deputy Chief Johnson,

this is Comandante
Martin Vasquez

from the Internal Affairs
Division of the Tijuana Police.

He's here to see
about your victims.

Thank you for
coming, Comandante.

Let me fill you in on
what I know so far.

- Chief.
- Yes?

Listen, I know how

things sounded this
morning, but trust me.

I'm working all this out.

Yeah. I can tell.

Chief, did it ever occur to you

that it may not be
Priority Homicide

the police commission
has a problem with?

Excuse me, Commander?

Chief Pope is in charge
of our race relations here,

and it's blowing up in his face.

So maybe instead of
getting all pissed off at me,

maybe you should
check out how long

an assistant chief
usually lasts at the LAPD.

I thought you'd want to help me
keep our friend from an early retirement.

By giving up my division?

Why am I supposed
to be the fall guy here?

You know what, Commander? I don't
want to talk about this with you now.

Pardon me. Excuse me.

This man you call Mateo,
I knew as Manuel Rivera.

How well did you
know Manuel Rivera?

We worked together.
I trusted him.

Do you have any reason to believe
that the officers he shot were corrupt?

The operating rule in Tijuana
right now is, "Trust no one."

I know the feeling.

And yet you stay.

To succeed,

corruption depends on
decent people either giving in

or giving up. And I
don't like giving up.

Now, Manuel, he was my friend,

but he abandoned his country,

he has a new name.

After changing so much, who
can say what he is like today?

I would like to think this is
self-defense on Manuel's part,

but it would be great to hear
someone say that out loud.

Is it possible to get a
report from your morgue?

Okay, squat down a little.

Down a little more.

And, Chief Johnson, if
you'll just stand there.

Um... Okay.

Now, Sergeant Gabriel, if
you'll just grab me from behind.

- Really?
- Around the neck.

Not too tight.

Okay, Chief Johnson,
walk towards me.

And bang, bang, bang, bang!

He shoots Gonzales. Bang!
He blasts away Gomez's elbow.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Oh, my God. What
is on that sponge?

Just water.

Oh. You know what? I'm not sure.

Here's an antibacterial wipe.

You'll be fine. Probably.

You know what? Take two.

So, our victims were killed
while attacking someone else?

The angle of his entry wounds
indicate the gun was probably fired

over the shoulder and
at extremely close range.

The other guy, just a few
feet away from the weapon.

Gonzales has four kids.

What am I gonna tell his wife?

I should call her, I suppose.

Now, I understand

that you still need to find Manuel
and get his side of the story,

but the doctor's explanation seems
to fit the theory of self-defense, yes?

But if Manuel was
just protecting himself,

why didn't he call the police and
report what happened or alert the FBI?

But he did alert the
FBI. According to you,

he told them last week what he thought
might happen, and they did nothing.

And if you're from Tijuana

and you know how much money
these cartels have to throw around,

you think to yourself, "Hey, maybe
someone from the FBI is giving me up."

That's being a little
paranoid, don't you think?

Manuel took on the cartels.

Paranoia is how you stay alive.

Myself, as well.

I must keep my schedule secret.

I sleep in a different
place every night.

Someone's house or
an apartment or a church.

- I put bullet proof glass in my office...
- I'm sorry.

- Did you say you sleep in churches?
- Well,

even the cartels are
a little afraid of God.

Chief.

We are not going to that church.
Lieutenant Provenza said...

Father Donahue's minute
has turned into hours.

Excuse me, Comandante,

are you up for a
little confession?

Are you sure you wouldn't like
to accompany me, Comandante?

If Manuel really has
sought sanctuary here,

seeing a Tijuana Police
officer may not be the best way

to convince him to come out.

All right, then. Wish me luck.

- Chief.
- Yes?

I just want to say
again, for the record,

that without the permission of the
archdiocese, this is a very bad idea.

Churches are like foreign embassies.
We can't just go storm into them...

Thank you so much for
the warning, Sergeant.

Now, if y'all excuse me, I'll
be back just as soon as I can.

Oh. Sorry.

- Father Donahue?
- Yes?

I'm Deputy Chief Brenda
Leigh Johnson of the LAPD.

The archdiocese said I could
pop on by and ask a few questions.

- Do you mind?
- Oh. Uh. Well...

- Okay.
- Thank you.

Who did you speak
to at the archdiocese?

Um... I couldn't pronounce his last
name, so I just kept calling him "Father."

I'm sorry. Were you eating
dinner with someone?

He was called away.

I was told that you
were the only priest here.

I am. Have a seat.

Can I get you anything?

Thank you. A glass
of water would be nice.

Do you watch a lot
of Spanish television?

Oh.

My congregation's
mostly Latino, so...

These programs improve
my language skills.

- I see.
- What can I do for you?

Well, first, I just want
to thank you so much

for calling in the
murders this morning.

You're welcome.

- Thank you.
- Sure.

And I was just wondering,

the street where you found the
bodies is several blocks away from here.

And unless you make
a habit of removing tarps

from the backs of stolen pickups,
it seems to me you went out looking

for the victims.

Which is why you
brought the oil for last rites.

You did perform last
rites on them, didn't you?

- Why is that important to you?
- Because you interfered

with my physical evidence,

and it's my responsibility to find
out how these men lost their lives.

And I take that very seriously.

And it's my responsibility to make
sure they don't lose their souls, as well.

And I take that very seriously.

How did you know about
the bodies in the first place?

I'm sorry. I can't share
that information with you.

Because it came to you
under the seal of confession?

- That's right.
- Was the person who shared this

with you a man or a woman?

Yes.

This isn't a guessing game.

All right, then, Father.

Let's have a
theological discussion.

Because you found out about
those bodies in confession,

doesn't that mean
a sin was involved?

Are you familiar with
how confession works?

I'd say so, yes.

And I wouldn't think that killing
someone in self-defense is a sin.

The commandment
reads, "Thou shalt not kill."

It's pretty unambiguous.

Now, whether those deaths
were murder or self-defense,

I'm not qualified to say.

I help the penitent find
forgiveness from God,

not from the state.

Did you help a man
named Manuel Rivera,

also known as Mateo Hernandez?

He attends church services here. I
know it because I found this on his desk.

Now, you're known
as a sanctuary church.

Immigration has been here
several times, and they...

And been turned away, yes.

God doesn't recognize
national borders.

I, however, am very good at
recognizing my parishioners,

and you're not one of them.

I'll tell the archdiocese
that we spoke.

- Look, Father, I need your help.
- I'll be happy to pray for you...

Manuel or Mateo or whatever
name you know him by,

he came to see you. I know it.

The FBI knows it, the
Tijuana Police know it,

and that means, sooner or later,
the Ochoa drug cartel will know it.

And this is what happened to the
last person who knew where Mateo was

and tried to keep it a secret.

Right. Okay.

What would you do with
Manuel if you found him?

I would hold him on homicide
charges until I checked out his story.

I celebrate mass three
days a week at the county jail,

and I take confession
from the Border Brothers

and the Sinaloan Cowboys and
members of every Latino street gang

in Los Angeles.

All of whom, in one way or
another, are connected to dope,

which means the Ochoa cartel.

They're waiting for
you to arrest somebody

named Manuel Rivera
or Mateo Hernandez.

They've been told a former
Tijuana comandante of that name

is gonna show up,

and whoever kills him earns
an instant $50,000 for his family.

Ms. Johnson, Manuel
has a price on his head.

He's not gonna last an
hour in the county jail.

Well, I'm certain that we could
find a safe place to hold him.

Fortunately, that's
not your problem.

Is it politically incorrect to suggest
that this is a Mexican stand-off?

Look,

if you're really serious
about protecting Manuel,

I always believe actions are
more powerful than words.

So the day that a negative
front-page article appears in the Times

about Priority Homicide,

- you seal off a Catholic church.
- We're not on their property.

Chief, we could have undercovers out
here stopping anybody from coming out.

But they wouldn't have stopped
people from going in. Pardon me.

Excuse me, Chief Johnson,

but, personally, I don't believe Manuel
would ever come out of this church

- with it surrounded like this.
- There's a bit of a negotiation going on,

Comandante. I'll admit that. But
we'll get through it. Pardon me.

Prints on this, I hope. Let's
see if they match Mateo's.

Okay, and I think I know why
you were bumping on the blood

in the back of the pickup.

Because, first of all, it
was several days old.

But the San Diego police
spoke to the owner of that truck,

and he said it just went
missing this morning.

I'm thinking that's not entirely true,
because the blood is AB negative.

Very rare. It doesn't type
out with either of our victims.

But I spoke to the
Mexican morgue,

and Manuel Rivera's
nephew, AB negative.

Thank you. Sergeant Gabriel,

I want the license, registration,
and insurance on that stolen pickup

- as soon as possible. Thank you.
- Okay.

I really think what we have here
is a gigantic misunderstanding

revolving around the word
"priority" and how it's applied.

Come on in, Chief Johnson.

- Hello, Ricardo.
- Hope you're not angry with me, Chief.

- I did call your team "elite."
- But, you see,

- that's part of the misunderstanding.
- Right, exactly.

Exactly what I was about to say.
You think that the word "priority"

means we're assigning greater value
to victims who are white and/or rich,

and we were never doing
that, were we, Chief Johnson?

- No.
- And as a matter of fact,

you've sort of jumped
the gun on us a little bit,

because we're already under way
with a major departmental reorganization,

and the first thing we are
dropping is Priority Homicide

because of the
misinterpretation of the name.

Okay, let me stop you right there. First
of all, I didn't misinterpret anything.

The racial statistics speak for
themselves, and Chief Johnson told...

- I can address that.
- Still talking.

Still talking.

And Chief Johnson told me
herself that you deploy her division,

which includes, what,
three lieutenants,

in anticipation of newsworthy crimes?
Which means in addition to race,

you're allowing the media
to determine your agenda.

No. No, no, no. That was never the
case. And Chief Johnson was mistaken

when she suggested that, and
I'm sure she'd like to tell you so.

I would.

I was irritated at the time
and I spoke without thinking.

We called the division
"Priority Homicide"

because we were experimenting
with the concept of team investigation.

And this experiment, which has
been completely successful, by the way,

was the main focus in our homicide
cases. Hence, the word "priority."

And we used our best
people because we felt,

given that the concept
was fairly new, innovative...

Right. Cutting-edge, really.

It wasn't something we wanted to
explore with less-experienced detectives.

And these were very tough cases,

featuring suspects
with greater resources,

who, as we find in
the greater population,

often turn out to be white.

Anyway, Priority Homicide
is now a thing of the past.

As of tomorrow, actually,
Deputy Chief Johnson

will be heading a new
division called "Major Crimes,"

which will incorporate homicide
units from across the city.

Major Crimes.

The DA's office has a department
with the same designation.

Well, if I can say that you
sped up this reorganization

in response to
part 1 of my article,

this definitely changes the
nature of what I'm writing in part 2.

Oh. Well, you certainly
deserve to take credit for this,

- don't you think, Chief Pope?
- Absolutely.

In fact, if you'd like to
come by tomorrow, we can

- show you what we're up to.
- And this isn't just

some cosmetic shake-up,
right? There's actually gonna be

- some change involved?
- Oh, no, no. It's going to be huge.

Major Crimes puts my division
in charge not only of homicide,

but also the larger fraud cases.

And kidnappings and rapes.

- Rape and kidnapping.
- Well, yes.

Those are major
crimes, aren't they?

I mean, does anyone think
that rape isn't a major crime?

Oh. And Commander Taylor
will be reporting directly to me,

coordinating my interaction
with the other divisions.

Of course, my elite team of
detectives will stay entirely intact.

- It's gonna be great!
- Mmm-hmm.

- Yeah.
- This is exclusively mine?

You're the first to hear it.

Now, if you gentlemen
will excuse me,

I have a murder to
wrap up. Pardon me.

You see, and I... Stupid me.

I thought you guys were
gonna be, like, all mad and stuff.

All right, well, what time
should I be here tomorrow?

- Uh... Whatever time works for you.
- Yeah. Yeah, we're here.

Actually, she's here. I'm
gonna call you back. Chief!

You ready for this?

License and registration
on the pickup truck.

Chief!

The prints on the fork you gave
me, Mateo's, a.k.a. Manuel Rivera.

Okay, so we know
he's in the church.

No one from Central moves from
there until I give the word. Thank you.

Lieutenant Tao, there
is one last set of prints

I want you to pick up for me,
and if you could match them

to one of the unidentified pair we
found on the not-so-stolen pickup,

I would be eternally grateful.

Okay. And from where would I
be lifting these prints from, exactly?

Chief, I pulled up the DVD
Agent Howard brought in.

Plus, we have stills.

Everything coming over the Mexican
border synced up to license plates.

So we went through
them manually,

and we started an hour
before the time stamp

on our victims' passports.

All right, let me go over this
quickly before I interview the suspect.

- Manuel's turning himself in?
- No, no,

but I've proven that
he's in the church,

and I've surrounded it with police
officers, so I'm pretty sure he's safe.

And here's our victims, Chief.

But I thought this truck
was stolen last night.

No.

That's just what you told the
San Diego police this morning

when you realized that your plan to
kill Manuel had gone terribly wrong.

Let's keep this rolling for a moment.
I think we're in for another surprise.

Comandante,may I have
your passport, please?

Gentlemen, may I have your help?

This is outrageous! You have
no right to treat me this way!

- I am assisting you!
- And what better way

to get away with murder
than to investigate it yourself?

Murder? You cannot
charge me with murder.

But we can for illegal
possession of a passport,

because you're
definitely not two people,

and yet you have
two official IDs.

And there's a time
stamp on this one.

- Oh, my God.
- Well, what a coincidence.

There you are crossing the border
right behind Gomez and Gonzales.

And what passport did you use?

Did you use Martin
Vasquez or Raul Llamas?

You know, the name the
truck's registered under?

Obviously, you spend the
money the cartel pays you

- living your other life in San Diego.
- No. No.

- The truck is not mine.
- Sir, we just matched your prints

off the pictures of the victims
that you handled in my office

to a previously unidentified
pair that we found in the pickup.

We also found a rare type
of blood in the pickup's cab,

which matches that of
Manuel Rivera's nephew.

Now, we have some
hard decisions to make.

And I need your help.

Or things are gonna go very
badly for you, sir. Very badly.

You have no idea how
things are in Tijuana right now.

Is this how you explain things
to people who don't understand?

How many people do you explain it
to the way you explained it to that boy?

The boy was killed in Mexico.

- It's not your concern.
- How do you know

he was killed in Mexico?
Doesn't say so on the photograph!

Look.

Let's be reasonable here.

You don't want to hold me
on this silly passport issue.

I'd be out of
your jail in hours.

But Manuel Rivera wouldn't
have been out in hours, would he?

You knew that if Manuel
successfully defended himself

against Gomez and Gonzales
that I would be forced to leave him

in the county jail while
I investigated his story,

where you put a
bounty on his head

so one of his fellow
prisoners would kill him!

Manuel put a bounty
on his own head

when he chose
to fight the cartels.

He will be a target
the rest of his life.

Prove I did that, put
a bounty on his head.

Prove it.

You can't even prove that I
sent Gomez and Gonzales

- to kill him in the first place.
- But if I could prove that,

you'd be responsible
for their deaths.

And we could arrest you on
two counts of felony murder.

Now, I'm gonna
read you your rights

and give you the opportunity
to confess your crimes.

Don't waste your time.
I have nothing to say.

We'll see about that.

Oh, no. Two passports.

I don't know which name to arrest
you under. That complicates things.

It doesn't matter which name.

All right, then.

I'll send you to the
county jail this way...

Mateo Hernandez,
a.k.a. Manuel Rivera,

you are under arrest
for the murder of

- Jacinto Gonzales and Carlos Gomez!
- What?

You have the right
to remain silent.

- You know that's not my name!
- Anything you say can...

What difference does it
make? You said it didn't matter.

If you can't afford one, one will
be appointed for you by the state.

Have you heard and
understood these rights?

- You cannot arrest me as Manuel!
- I can, and I have.

This is murder!

If it is, then you
planned it yourself.

And you can stop it.

Did you send Gomez and Gonzales
across the border to kill Manuel Rivera?

Did you offer $50,000 to
the person who could kill him?

No!

You! You must arrest
me as Martin Vasquez!

I'm so sorry, sir. I'm
changing your name

to protect the innocent.

Let her go!

Let her go, you son of a bitch!

I will kill you!

You will die for
this, all of you!

You will all die
for this, all of you!

All of you! You
will all die for this!

- Son of a bitch!
- You will all die for this!

Die for what, Comandante?

What's there to be afraid
of, Comandante? Huh?

If you're really innocent,
you'll be out of jail in no time.

Wait! Wait! I have...
I have access to...

I can make you
all rich, all of you!

- Hey, Vasquez!
- Wait!

If you see Gonzales and
Gomez, tell them we all said hi.

Hey, this place
is kind of beautiful.

Don't start.

Bless me, Father,
for I have sinned.

How long has it been
since your last confession?

Well, I almost got one last night,
but the suspect, Manuel Rivera,

a.k.a. Mateo Hernandez,
was killed in the county jail.

- You say Manuel is dead?
- Officially,

yes.

And it's been
reported in the press.

That's why I removed the
police from around your church.

You're safe now.

And so is your friend.

And what will become of the
man I know as Manuel Rivera?

Well, I have an FBI agent here,

if Manuel wants to be
supplied with a new identity.

But you're an
expert in immigration.

And if there's one thing our
government has successfully proven

that it can't do at all,
it's find illegal aliens.

I'll keep you in my prayers.

I'll take that in the spirit
it was given, Father.

Manuel?

Good luck to you, sir.

Bless you, señora.
I will need it.

English -SDH