The Shield s02e01 Episode Script

I sent Corrine's picture to hotels with weekly and monthly rates.
Night manager called when he got the fax.
He said she checked in about a week ago as a Jan Murphy.
Which room? - She's not alone up there.
- I know, she's got my kids with her.
No kids.
There's someone else.
Ran the plates.
Guy's name is Steven Linfield.
He owns a yoga studio.
She's probably taking classes with him.
When my gash of an ex-wife ditched me first thing she did was got that ass real tight.
Manager said the guy's been up there every night.
- Which room? - It's 209.
Vic, wait.
Wait.
Vic, don't do it.
What do you want? Who are you? I'm I don't know.
Manager confirmed two different photos.
Swore it was her.
You were on this for a month.
Can't find three kids and a housewife? No money trail, the kids haven't been in school.
She's not with friends or relatives.
Look, if we don't expand our search beyond SoCal You know, maybe I should check hospitals, accident Look, they're alive.
Just find them.
Come on, hurry up! Fresh from Mexico.
- It still has its cherry.
- Crack the seal.
Two shipments in a week.
That's not bad.
- We're pregnant.
- Beautiful.
Wrap it up.
We'll follow you home.
We double up on shipments, sooner or later someone will notice.
Hey, Vic put me in charge.
All right? It's working.
Okay? So just roll with it.
Oh, Christ.
- A couple of salties.
- They're gonna rouse them.
- What if they find the coke? - It's 50 grand each, gone.
Can't three black guys with cocaine drive the speed limit? Oh, great.
- I knew this was a mistake.
- Shut up.
Let me think.
- Hey, you're in charge.
- Hey, we're in this together.
Hey, look here, Clark.
- Don't shoot.
- Hands where I can see them.
- I'm a brother cop.
- It's all right.
- It's cool.
We're cops.
- Here you go.
Look, you're not gonna believe this, but you just nailed my informant.
We're on our way to a bust.
That's our coke.
- Who's in charge? - Mackey's our team leader.
I'll call him and get him down here.
- Who's your CO? - Aceveda.
Well, I'm gonna call him too.
Sure.
If you don't mind waking up a captain.
I don't mind.
Burning necklaces have been gaining popularity in Central and South American drug cartels.
Only a matter of time before Se mueve al Norte.
South Africa's A and C also used tire necklaces to torture and kill impimpi.
- Impimpi? - Police informants.
- Since when do you speak Spanish? - I'm taking a class.
I work in Los Angeles.
Not knowing the language limited me from being the best detective I can be.
- Hi, I'm Detective Vic Mackey.
- Are these your men? It depends.
What'd they do? We pulled over these guys, found weapons and a sizable amount of cocaine.
These guys say it's for a buy-bust.
That's right.
They were supposed to meet me over in Farmington.
Nobody notified our department.
We're waiting on a Captain Aceveda to clear things up.
It's not necessary.
We're late.
By the time Aceveda shows up What's going on? We pulled over these men with several kilos of cocaine.
They claimed they were on their way to a bust you authorized in Farmington.
I didn't forward the C90.
I take responsibility.
Apologize to your CO for me.
I guarantee it won't happen again.
Sure.
- Sorry to hold you guys up.
- No, you have a right to call me.
Look, I'm sorry about - You're on your way to a bust, right? - Yes.
- Then go arrest someone.
- Yes, sir.
You and I need to talk now.
Thanks for cutting us some slack on that little paperwork snafu.
You've been logging less hours.
- Arrests are way down.
- Bad guys must be hibernating.
- Is everything okay with you? - Sure.
You're a lot of things, but sloppy isn't one.
Just give me a demerit and call it a night.
A civilian auditor has been assigned to the Barn.
She gets a whiff of what I've been smelling she's gonna slam a lid on this place.
- Well, that's your problem.
She won't be as understanding of your paperwork snafus as I am.
Which makes it our problem.
This drug business did not Shane and the boys are out making arrests as we speak.
You better find your game, and you better find it quick.
I never lost it.
The two victims were ID'd as Pablo Fernando and Christopher Reyes.
Street names are Bang-Bang and Cuca.
Two dead bangers, two different gang affiliations.
A Los Mag and a Torro.
Both high-level lieutenants in the drug racket.
I understand why they'd wanna kill each other.
- Who'd wanna kill them both? - That's the mystery, isn't it? Look for the tag.
Talk to your contacts.
Find out what's brewing.
Maybe it'd help to re-create the crime.
Ay Dios mío, I'm burning.
- Hey, Smitty.
- Yeah? Get these two to the morgue, ASAP.
Just a reminder, Lanie Kellis will begin observing activities today in the Barn.
She's a civilian auditor.
I know, but there was a riot, the whole Gilroy scandal.
Can't expect the city council to do nothing.
- Don't push, man.
- Say hello to fall guy one and fall guy two.
- Why are you turning in Tio's stash? - It's not Tio's coke.
It's theirs.
They had more on them? I thought they were smalltime.
- They were until tonight.
- You've made some arrests.
- Yes, sir.
- Good.
Finish the paperwork, return the coke to property and move on to your next case.
- Yes, sir.
That's a ton of weight.
He say who was running them? - Alvarez.
- Then you better go talk to him.
Find out why he's moving from the minors to the majors.
Goddamn it.
What now? Yeah.
Tio, I don't like being here, man.
What's the problem? That.
He's puking up blood, man.
- Why'd you call us? - Like I'd call paramedics to my drug crib.
- What's wrong with him? - I don't know.
He looks like he'll die.
Did he eat something, what? He snuck a few lines to check the stuff.
Snuck a few lines? What'd I say about that? - Is he allergic? - He's going into cardiac arrest.
- Give me a towel.
Towel, towel! - Here.
Oh, shit.
Come on! It's beating.
We gotta get him to a hospital.
Drop him off, don't answer any questions.
- Just get the hell out of there.
- Move.
- Hurry up.
- Let's go.
- How much did he do? - A couple of lines.
He's not allergic.
Was he mixing? Maybe the coke's bad.
The coke is not bad.
It's fine.
Tio needs to step on it a little more.
You're so sure, do a line.
Have the lab run a sample.
See if someone spiked it.
Who's gonna mess with my stash? Somebody with enough product to step in.
Oh, asshole, 1 2 o'clock.
Hey, Alvarez.
You're out early.
- What? - Tell me something.
How's a crack dealer like you suddenly start carrying high-grade coke? - I'm clean, brother.
- We picked up a couple of your guys.
Who gave you the coke? Who's trying to push their way in? - I don't know what you're talking about.
- Maybe a car ride jogs your memory.
I guess you don't get to visit one-niner territory that often you being natural enemies and all.
Mo, your sister's ass really tastes as sweet as Alvarez here says it does? He wants to know what your mom's putting in the corn muffins.
Excuse me? - You messing with Tio's coke? - What? No.
Who gave you the drugs? You don't help me out, you find another ride.
Those $ 1 00 pair of Cortezes help him run faster.
All right.
The Quintero brothers.
- Never heard of them.
- Armadillo and Navaro, from Tijuana.
They told me to get ready to flood the streets with blow.
They think they can come into Farmington and take over? - I guess so.
- You guessed wrong.
Hey, get me out of here, man.
Get out of the way! Claudette, your dead guys may have been cooked up by Mexican nationals.
- You got some names? - One.
Quintero.
They're brothers.
Navaro and Armadillo.
- See that guy with Vic? - Yeah.
He's been in a few times lately.
- Any idea who he is? - Nope.
- He signed in at the front desk, right? - That's the policy.
You wanna check the log? Love to.
I'm part of a network of private investigators.
For a fee, I can get your wife's info out to over 200 Pls throughout the U.
S.
- How much? - For 20 grand I can get to half the agencies.
It's good coverage, but less bodies.
- Things are gonna move slow.
- How much to make it faster? Fifty grand will cover the entire network.
If she's anywhere in the free 52 we'll find her fast.
- Do it.
They don't get started unless they have half the fee up front.
I need 25K, like now.
You'll have your money in an hour.
- Who wanted to kill your brother? - You know who Cuca was? Drug lieutenant for the Torros.
He was killed along with his counterpart from Los Mags.
- Were they doing business together? - Don't know.
Your brother was burned to death.
Is there anything you do know that helps? - Nope.
- Mrs.
Reyes? Does the name Armadillo or Navaro mean anything? - Armadillo? - Mayda doesn't know anything.
None of us do.
Again.
So sorry for your loss.
- Hey.
- What's up? I need to make an emergency withdrawal from our retirement fund.
You got your key, right? Vic, there's nothing in there.
- You gotta be joking me.
- No, we took it.
Me, Lem and Ronnie.
We took it to invest.
- Without telling me? - You put me in charge.
- A quarter of that stash is mine.
- I'm in the process of tripling it for you.
- It was gonna be a surprise.
- It is! A bad one! - I've been giving it a lot of thought.
- Yeah? And what's your plan exactly? I've been stepping up shipments.
- I've been overseeing distribution - Distribution? We're middlemen keeping the peace, not drug dealers.
What are you doing? Not anything that we weren't doing before.
- I'm just bumping things up a level.
- And what level is that? Prison? - All right.
Where's my investment now? - It's all tied up in the coke shipment.
That coke that had Tio's guy bleeding from every orifice? - We don't know that it was the coke.
- I need that money! - Yeah? Well, we all do.
- No.
I need it now to get back my kids! - What are you talking about? - They're gone, Shane! Corrine took them! They disappeared! What? - When? - Five weeks ago.
- Oh, Jesus - I need 25 grand right now to find them! - Why didn't you tell me? - You screwed me! I didn't screw you! - I was trying to make things up to you - Goddamn it! I didn't know! I lose my family, no wife and now this? What am I supposed to do now? What am I supposed to do? Cuca's friends say you were his girlfriend.
- You left him for Armadillo? - No.
Jessica Hintzel, senior at the Whedney School for Girls.
Father's a chiropractor to the stars in Bel Air.
How does your father feel about you trading down from west side cheerleader to barrio gang babe? That angel tattoo on your face, he must love seeing that in the family Christmas cards.
It's a dove.
Two weeks ago Cuca and I were walking down Olympic.
Armadillo and a few of his guys came up to us and asked Cuca if he changed his mind.
And Cuca said, "No.
" Armadillo took me away from Cuca to his house.
He told me to take my clothes off.
When he'd finished with me he held me down while another one gave me this tattoo.
A dove "to remember him by," he said.
When I went back to Cuca and he saw the tattoo he called me puta.
He wouldn't touch me anymore.
Can you have my dad pick me up, please? - Oh, God, I fell asleep.
- Yeah.
- What are you gonna tell your wife? - She's out of town.
- It's like the fifth time this month.
- Is it? We're not wrecking something that's working, are we? No.
We won't let it turn into a thing.
Good, because I don't mind a thing.
I just - I just don't want a thing.
You know? - Yeah.
Sure.
Hey.
I'll see you around.
Sit down.
The coke's worthless.
It's got rosary pea mixed in it.
It's poison.
- Well, he tested it.
- For coke.
Not if it was any good.
If this hit the street, God knows how many bodies we'd pick up.
That seal was intact.
These guys saw it.
- You messed with it earlier.
- I'm a customs guy.
I was making money off this stuff too.
If somebody screwed with it, it was in Mexico.
Well, who handles things on the Mexican side? It's Rosalina lmports in Tijuana.
It's a front for some guy named Navaro.
- Navaro Quintero? - Yeah, that's him.
Jesus Christ.
These guys are up my ass.
Better come out here.
I got the other Pls started on it.
Got the dough? Not yet.
There's a problem.
These guys started without the deposit as a favor to me.
Front me.
You'll have the money soon.
- It doesn't work like that.
- You make it work.
- Just keep them looking.
- I don't have that kind of cash on hand.
Gordie, these are my kids, man.
Please.
I'll tell them the money's coming tonight.
- Thank you.
- But this is my reputation, Vic.
You don't have that cash in my hands by 1 0 tonight l'm pulling them off the case, and I'm off it too.
Ditch your weapons.
We're headed south to get our money back from Navaro.
- What? - Just do as I say for once! Vic, we've been looking for you.
I'd like to introduce you to Lanie Kellis.
- I'm a little busy right now.
- Miss Kellis is our civilian auditor.
- I'd like to talk to you.
- I gotta go.
Don't worry, I'll handle this.
What the hell are you doing? - I don't have time.
- Why? Where are you going? - Tijuana.
- Mexico? What for? Someone's putting poisoned coke on our streets.
I'm gonna stop them.
You don't have jurisdiction there.
- Well, I'm taking the day off.
- I'm not authorizing it.
Well, if you want dozens of potential voters keeling over dead, so be it but I'm taking the day off.
Hi.
What's the nature of your visit to Mexico? A little bit of everything.
Go ahead.
Welcome to Mexico.
Okay.
Get out.
Go find some guns.
- They got gun stores? - It's Tijuana, use your imagination.
- Okay.
- Got it.
If we find them, we'll call you up.
Where the hell is Calle Mar Campio? Come on, hot girls.
Come on, come on.
Come in, inside.
Girls, nice.
Nice ones.
Come on.
- Over here, please.
- Let's go.
Rosalina lmports.
Might as well read "dead end.
" - Now what? - Goddamn it! - Police.
Is everything okay? - Yeah.
We're just looking for someone.
We're police too, from L.
A.
You should be more careful.
This part of town isn't so tourist-friendly.
- A lot of muggings.
- Oh, yeah.
Kidnappings too.
My friend's sister got nabbed here two days ago.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Did your friend file a report? He'd rather pay the ransom and get her back.
We're looking for a Navaro Quintero.
Navaro.
I'm not surprised.
He and his brother are our biggest problem.
Your own government has a federal warrant for Navaro but as long as he's here Look, you know where we can find him? - Where are we going? - To get your guns.
Keep following.
You know, this place used to be nothing but casinos and poontang and white sand beaches.
Instead, look at it.
It's the goddamn asshole of South America.
No, Mexico is in Central America.
Hey, where the hell are these guns? Right here.
Where is your money? Yeah, your money! Come on.
- Oh, this is bullshit.
- Shit, man.
Goddamn it.
Give it.
Come on, give it! Come on.
Now, get out.
Get out! Get out! - Detective Wagenbach? - Wagenbach.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Lanie Kellis, civilian auditor.
Oh, right.
Hi.
You were the lead detective in Assistant Chief Gilroy's case.
- Yes, I was.
- The hit-and-run or the land-fraud scheme? Knee-deep in both.
Could I get a look at your personal notes on that case? His bail hearing is in a few weeks, and I want no surprises.
I'm certainly the man to get you that file.
- I'll get it to you as soon as I can.
- Thanks.
I appreciate the help.
- Mayda.
- You forgot your notebook.
Thank you.
- Did you catch him? - Who? Armadillo.
He's the one who killed my brother.
Armadillo, he came to the house one day.
He told Cuca he could join him, or he could die.
He said that with you in the room? He was trying to scare me, but I'm not afraid of him, like Topo is.
Hey, sweetie, how you doing? Dutch.
Be right back.
- What's she doing here? - She came in on her own.
Where's the mother? The brother? You're interviewing a minor.
She implicates Armadillo directly.
He made threats to Cuca in front of her.
- What do we do with that? - Put her in front of a grand jury.
- Arrest him.
- Lf she leads us in the right direction.
Her family doesn't want her to testify.
- She wants to testify.
- And her family doesn't.
- So? - So if you had kids, you'd understand.
- Mayda - Yes? Okay.
Come with me, baby.
I'm gonna take you home.
- Oh, I left my barrette.
- I'll get you a new one.
- Is something wrong? - No.
I'm gonna take you home.
- Are you going to arrest Armadillo? - Oh, we are gonna try.
- You're a brave girl for helping us.
- I know.
Only two guys.
You'd think he'd have more firepower.
He thinks no one's crazy enough to mess with him.
Oh, great.
We're after the ugly one, up high.
- Give me a piece.
- We had a problem with the guns.
- What problem? - A Montezuma's revenge.
Oh, shit.
They're leaving.
We gotta go.
- What? They're packing.
- Boss, this is nuts, man.
Ronnie, go get the car.
Shane, Lem, you take the two big guys.
Take their guns.
I'll take el feo.
Easy, easy.
Hey, can you tell me where the donkey shows are around here? - Up against the wall! - Against the wall! Here we go! - He's here, get him up.
- Get up! Don't even think about it.
- Come on! - Okay.
Go! - Here you go.
- You got my boy in here? - Randall? - Are you his mother? - Yes.
Why is he locked up? - Buzz her in, John.
- What did he do? - A store owner caught him shoplifting spray paint.
- No.
He's seen him and his friends tagging other buildings in the neighborhood.
Is that true? Did you steal? Are you vandalizing now? We don't usually bring them in this young but we couldn't get a hold of you.
And this guy wants to press charges.
Look, I cut back on my hours, so I could be home nights.
I am active in his school.
We go to church, and still, he does this.
- What else can I do? - Let me see if I can help.
- She's pretty upset.
- She should be.
He's only 1 0, and already he's racking and tagging.
Next it'll be armed robbery.
Then we'll be mopping him off a sidewalk.
The mother is doing the best she can.
I think I can make a difference here.
Come on, you want me to tell you how this story ends? Okay, fine.
Knock yourself out.
Who knows? Maybe it could do some good.
- I ain't paying you nothing, ése.
- Really? You let me go right now, I'll let you get back across your border alive.
Toss me one of them.
This what your brother, Armadillo, does to people who don't cooperate? You're not cooperating! Douse him.
Last chance.
How much money we talking about, man? Three-fifty, American.
I can do that.
Plus 50 for ruining my day.
- Come on, Vic, don't push it.
- Shut the hell up! Armadillo Quintero? Yes.
You're a hard man to find.
We'd like to talk to you.
What are you doing in Los Angeles, Armando? You mind if I call you Armando? I have a hard time keeping a straight face when I hear the name, Armadillo.
I'm looking for new opportunities.
Does opportunities include moving the Torros and the Los Mags out of the drug business? - It's a little early in an interrogation to be showing all your cards.
Then where do you go now, when I say I don't know who the Torros or Los Mags are? - Our house, our rules.
- This hasn't always been your house.
This used to be Mexico.
And I've been reading about your rules.
Yes.
And so the law would set your place.
You can keep me for six hours without charging me with a crime.
You're a prime suspect in the fire murders of two men last night.
We can hold you for 2 4 hours.
And I can provide many people who will be happy to say I was with them when this awful crime took place.
Six hours.
You're not here to fight the Torros and the Los Mags.
You're here to unite them.
One gang, one leader.
You.
Uniting the Torros and the Los Mags.
Come on, think about it.
They stop pissing on each other and turn their guns on everyday folks.
- That's not good.
- So how do we keep him here? - Girlfriend won't testify.
- Mayda will.
I'm not putting a 1 2-year-old girl in the middle of this, not with him involved.
We'll find another way.
Here, man.
- I have a bad feeling about this.
- Keep it to yourself.
All right, no guns, no games.
- Drop your guns on the ground! - Okay.
What are you doing? Jesus Christ! Let's toss him! - Anybody hit? - No, man.
- Holy shit.
I just leased this car! - What are we doing? He's got a federal warrant.
The feds want him, I say we let him start doing his time.
- We can't make arrests here.
- Once we're back home it won't matter.
- This is insane! His buddies are looking for us.
We got our money, let's dump him and go.
This prick was willing to poison dozens of strangers.
If we left him, you think he won't come looking for payback? - How do we get him across the border? - In the trunk! That's if we even make it to the border! Look at the car! - How am I gonna pay for this? - He'll kick and scream.
There's 20 farmacias on every block.
We'll go and get a bottle of roofies.
- What, the date-rape drug? - Don't pretend like you don't know.
We're getting them.
Armando was an orphan on the streets.
I spoke to a woman who was his social worker years ago.
On a hunch she gave him an IQ test at age 1 1, and he scored off the charts.
She got him into a school for gifted children.
He lasted a week and a half.
- He didn't fit in? - He raped and beat his teacher.
- When he was 1 1? - Two years in Sinaloa juvie.
Back on the street after that.
If he hasn't been caught since, he's gotten a lot smarter.
I'll call INS.
See if the rape's a violation of his visa requirements.
- Do you have that file for me? - I'll get it to you soon.
When I ask for something, I ask politely because that's my nature.
But when you make me ask a second time, I lose my patience.
This squad has been the epicenter of police corruption, civil lawsuits and, most recently, a riot.
The people I work for want answers.
They expect me to get them.
I have the power to recommend changes, get people fired even shut down this entire building if it's warranted.
Do you understand what I'm saying, detective? Yes, ma'am.
Good.
If you could get me the Gilroy file I would really appreciate it.
- Sure.
Thank you.
Call for you on line three.
- Oh, man.
- Shut up.
How do we explain 400 grand in cash and a doped-out drug lord in our trunk? Nobody breaks a sweat, we won't have to.
Hold it right here.
Come on, boy.
Search.
Come on, move it, buddy.
- Any sign of Detective Mackey? - He's still in the field.
"In the field.
" Is that code for, he goes wherever he wants without any supervision? You're not after Mackey, are you? You're after me.
I'm not after anyone.
- You have enemies on the city council.
- Who? They don't like you parlaying a scandal and riot into a 1 5-point lead over Karen Mitchell.
- Seventeen-point lead.
- They take the heat.
They get bashed in the press.
- While you come out like a reformer? - I'm gonna be a reformer.
- Not if you don't get elected.
- I have a 1 7-point lead.
They're hoping I'll find something that will change that.
They know I'll be fair but they also know that, if there's something to find, I'll find it.
I'm glad you know.
Randall, the owner left it up to me.
He won't press charges if I vouch for you.
Let's go.
Okay.
Tell me why I should let you go.
- I don't wanna go to jail.
- I don't believe you.
- Henry and I needed some cans.
- Henry? Henry who? - Do I need to arrest him for coercion? - No.
- I won't do it again.
- Are you sure? Okay.
I'll tell you what.
I'm gonna give you this one.
But remember, I'm vouching.
And if this happens again, you will have to answer to your mother and me.
- You got it? - Yes, sir.
Go sit over there a minute.
- Is he gonna be okay? - He'll think twice next time.
- Thank you.
I'm so worried about him.
- You are doing your best.
It's tough these days.
- What church do you take him to? - Faith Temple.
I've heard good things about them.
I go to Coveny.
Reverend Cook.
Bad smoker, good man.
Yeah, that's him.
- So you gonna be home tonight? - I don't know.
Why? I'm not allowed to ask someone out on a date while I'm on duty and Come by.
Maybe I'll be home.
Here you go.
Thanks.
What's so funny? Nothing.
It's been six hours.
You're free to go.
I guess what I did when I was 1 1 doesn't stop me from visiting your country.
All right.
Stop right there.
Boy, work it.
- Come on, boy, work it.
- IDs, please, and pop the trunk for me.
Sure.
Busy day for you guys? - Work it.
Come on.
- You boys are cops? Farmington Division, L.
A.
You guys have a rough time on the other side? Bachelor party.
I can barely remember the last few days.
- Pop the trunk for me, please.
- Sure.
- The trunk latch is broke.
- Sir, stay in the car, please.
- I will take the key.
- Sure.
What happened back here? We were in Rosarito.
Madam Marie introduced us to some of her friends.
Came out this morning looking like that.
You're lucky you got off with just a few stickers.
Yeah.
Hey, you need some help back there? You need to get rid of that wire.
I think I got some pliers here.
No, that's all right.
- You guys have anything to declare? - No.
Just that it's great to be back in the States.
Welcome home.
Give me the Polaroid.
Quesadilla.
I just wanted to give your little brother something to remember you by.
- He's creepy.
- How? The way he laughed to himself, like something happened.
He was sitting alone.
What could've happened? - I don't know.
- Maybe he's just creepy.
No, he was reacting to something.
- Miss Kellis.
- Detective Mackey.
I'm sorry about hustling out on you earlier.
You did seem very abrupt.
We had a tip about a Mexican drug lord being in town.
Anyway, we just brought him in.
Got him just as he was about to cross the border.
Wanted by the feds on 1 5 different counts.
Pretty bad guy.
But I just wanted to sit with you and answer your questions.
It can wait until tomorrow.
Congratulations on the arrest.
- It's a team thing.
- So we'll talk tomorrow.
- I look forward to it, Miss Kellis.
- Me too.
And call me Lanie.
Unbelievable.
- Did anyone talk to him? - Who? Armadillo, when he was in interrogation.
- Nobody was supposed to.
- You checked the tapes? What was that? What is that? It's Mayda's barrette.
Oh, God, he knows.
Tio found someone with an emergency supply.
Enough to get him by.
- Give me the leftover cash.
- Here you go.
Even after writing off the car, we still come out ahead on this deal.
Asking for 50 grand for ruining your day was sweet, man.
- Give me your keys.
- What? I can't trust you with them anymore, so give them to me.
Come on.
Here you go.
- Where's Mayda? - A friend's house.
Why? Call and check.
- Mayda came to talk to us.
- What? - Told us about Armadillo.
- No.
- I told her not to.
- We think he knows she spoke to us.
- She never what? - She never showed up.
- I'll make the call.
- Where is she? - We'll find her.
- He's gonna kill her! Hey.
You okay? - Mayda.
- No! Topo, let us get her to a doctor! Stop! - Stay away from us! - Stop! Topo, please! Let us help her.
Topo, let us help her! My guy in Denver got a hit on Corrine's driver's license.
She got a warning for rolling a stop sign last week.
- In Denver? - Colorado Springs.
He tracked the license plate, the address she gave.
Long story short, he took this photo about three hours ago.
That's them, isn't it? Yeah, that's them.
My guy had lost them in traffic but if they're shopping for groceries there, they gotta be close by.
We're gonna get them, Vic.
- Can I keep this? - Yeah, sure.
I'll call you in a few.
Hey.
I didn't know you made house calls.
This PI you've been meeting with, has he found them? Found who? Your family.
If they were here, your place would be in a slightly better condition.
At least now I know what's been making you so sloppy.
By this time next year, I'm gonna be on the city council.
In six years, I'm gonna be the mayor.
By then, I'll have much bigger problems than you.
In the meantime, how do we solve this problem? - I don't see a problem.
- I do.
Her name's Lanie Kellis.
And as much as I'd love to see her take you down I don't need a scandal right now.
So you and I need to come to an understanding.
You and me? Right.
I don't see how you have much choice.
You don't want her and me gunning for you, right? You're smart enough to know that.
- You're gonna watch my back.
- Until the election.
In exchange for what? You get your head back in the game.
Get your boys under control and don't do anything to embarrass me.
- How do I know I can trust you? - How do I know I can trust you? I guess we have a deal.
Fine.
This doesn't mean I like you.
Try to screw me on this, I'll bury you.