Miami Vice s05e03 Episode Script

(PEOPLE CHATTERING) Ma Sek.
Tony Dimitri! Nice to see you.
How have you been? Very well.
Mai Ying, you are beautiful, as always.
Thank you.
Hell of a time to be here.
Tony, what a jet setter you are.
Where are you off to next? (CHUCKLES) Who knows? Maybe I'll try Brazil.
Ah, Tony, if I had a life like yours Ma Sek, if I had a wife like yours Excuse me.
(SPEAKING SPANISH) Ladies and gentlemen, it is such a great honor and privilege to introduce our new president! Let's welcome him.
I fear for this country with that man as president.
PRESIDENT: My friends, I will be brief.
You know me as a man of deeds, not words.
Once order is established, our country will continue to enjoy prosperity and abundance.
There are those who would jeopardize our country's prosperity MAI YING: Who was that man? That was Rivas.
(POP MUSIC PLAYING) Keep driving.
(SPEAKING SPANISH) (SPEAKING SPANISH) I'm afraid you've made a mistake.
We're not even Americans.
I said shut up.
(SPEAKING SPANISH) Stop! Now I'm going to have some fun with her before we do Rivas business.
MA SEK: What are you doing? Leave her alone! Leave her alone! MAI YING: No! Please! For God's sakes, no! (MAI LING SCREAMS) Don't tell me you're back! He never worked Sundays before.
And we were just getting used to the peace and quiet.
Lieutenant, look who's here.
We think it's Crockett.
Cute, Rico.
See you on the wanted posters, Sonny.
Charges have been brought against you.
In the murder of a detective James Yagovitch.
There's a number of homicides that are being investigated in the Manolo, Carrera and Gato families.
I don't know anything about that.
Are you saying that you didn't have a hand in the killings? I don't remember anything after the explosion.
All right.
(SIGHS) Lieutenant, you want to do me a favor? Yeah.
I'd like to just get back to work.
Even if it's desk work.
Not yet.
For now I want you to take some time off.
Rest.
I'll get in touch with you in a few days.
Mai Ying? (CRYING) (SHUSHING) I keep hearing that sound over and over.
The body hitting the car.
You had no choice.
You saved your husband's life and your own.
He's more worried for me than for himself.
We took separate flights over here.
Tell me, who were these people? Ma Sek isn't sure.
It could be a man named Rivas.
I see.
Does your husband know you've come to see me? No.
Do you know where he is? I'm supposed to call him at 6:00 p.
m.
To arrange where to meet.
You said if I ever needed help, needed a refuge Customs have cleared, it's loaded.
Where's your son? Who's taking care of him? He died, Martin.
I'm sorry Mai Ying.
How? It was a car accident.
I was taking him to the dentist in Rio.
A drunk driver.
I didn't see him coming.
He smashed into us, head on.
I couldn't do anything.
You can't blame yourself.
That's what everyone tells me.
MAN: Keep looking for them! (MAN SHOUTING IN SPANISH) (COP 1 SPEAKING IN SPANISH) COP 2: Here, either.
They're not here! Let's go.
(MUTTERING) (SLOW ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) I know this is hard for you.
It is for me too, asking my wife's ex-husband for help.
I can understand that.
I just have to know who and why.
Ten days ago, my boss from Miami came to Quito.
He told me to deliver a package to a man, Rivas, a businessman.
I gave it to him, just as he asked.
But the next day I get a visit from Rivas.
He told me he had not received what he expected.
I told him I knew nothing.
I was only a messenger.
Did you know what was in the package? No, I swear to you.
My boss, Mr.
Gray, he never told me.
What's Mr.
Gray's first name? Malcolm.
Mr.
Malcolm Gray.
I tried to reach him.
That is why I came to Miami.
But he's never in when I phone, and he doesn't call back.
I don't want to go to the company's office.
Rivas's men are everywhere.
I'll talk to Gray.
Right now, I just have to find a safe place for you and Mai Ying.
(YELLS) Mai Ying! (PEOPLE SCREAMING) You're all right.
This is the man I shot.
Noberto Fuentes.
He is a soldier in the Enrico Rivas family in Ecuador.
Then Ma Sek must be right.
It's the Rivas family that's trying to kill him.
We have to find Rivas.
Word is he's in Miami.
We just don't know where yet.
Let's find him.
Malcolm Gray.
He runs Phoenix S.
A.
Import-export business.
One of this trucks was taken down yesterday.
Driver killed.
What was he carrying? Strange toy birds.
Anything else? Yeah, the truck just picked up the shipment from an Ecuador cargo plane yesterday afternoon.
Ma Sek and Rivas came in from Ecuador.
I want to know every cargo plane and freighter that's come out of Guayaquil in the past week, bound for Miami.
Let's find Ma Sek.
I don't want anything to happen to this man.
That'll be it.
Funny you should call.
I was just thinking of you a couple of days ago.
Really? Yes.
At my age, the memory begins to sputter a bit.
What was the name of that restaurant in Bangkok, the one on the river near the oriental hotel? Their specialty was the ngu hau papet.
King cobra.
Chao Praya Residence.
Chao Praya.
Thank you.
I'm going back there, you know.
Our company's opening an office there.
Your company? Which one? Phoenix S.
A.
Import-export.
But I imagine you know that already.
I try to keep up.
I thought you were still active in the Southern Hemisphere.
Oh, I am.
But only in the private sector, these days.
You had a Thai by the name of Ma Sek that worked for you in Ecuador.
Martin, a lot of people work for me.
I only wish I had the time to meet them all.
You made this man your personal envoy.
I'm afraid that's classified, Martin.
Is Ma Sek a player? He's married to my ex-wife.
I want to make sure she stays alive.
Thinking about Ma Sek? Yes, I'm sorry.
Don't be.
He's on my mind, too.
(SLOW ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) I talked to his boss today.
There's a high possibility that he works for the CIA.
You knew.
Why didn't you tell me? I couldn't.
You know that.
When we were married, I never told anyone what you did.
You lied to me.
Mai Ying, I don't know what his involvement is in all this.
He's not involved! He told you! You don't understand him.
Do you still love him? Do you? Yes.
No.
What is it? You look natural here.
Yes, it feels that way to me as well.
Thank you.
Today, I want you to stay in.
I don't want you to go out.
I'm gonna leave a person with you.
To take care of you.
Now he said that Ma Sek often went to Guayaquil.
Did he ever mention a ship? A plane? No.
Why would he? You still think he's guilty, don't you? I'm sorry.
I just feel the earth is turning to sand beneath my feet.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR) That will be your police.
I better get dressed.
I worry about the Lieutenant.
He needs somebody.
(TELEPONE RINGING) Hello? Wrong number, I guess.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to pry.
But I know how he feels about you.
Not that he'd ever cop to it.
I have to find the ginger.
It's around here somewhere.
You know, years ago when I was a rookie cop, I had my first shoot.
Man, I was really racked up by it.
And the Lieutenant he was there for me.
You know? Mai Ying? Mai Ying? Mai Mai Ying! Mai Ying! Wait! Stop! Mai Ying! (TIRES SCREECHING) (SCREAMS) They just found Trudy's car.
They must have snatched Mai Ying out of the car in broad daylight.
Lieutenant, we've got every available unit surveying the area.
TRUDY: I blew it.
I just let her walk right out on me.
Let her go.
Was there a phone call? Yes.
A wrong number I thought.
But, of course it was Ma Sek.
I don't see how Rivas' men got so damned lucky, to find her on the street, before she could meet him.
There was no luck involved.
We know you're gonna meet your husband.
Where? When? You are going to look like a serious freak, and for what? Wait.
Let me talk some sense to her.
Rivas.
You shouldn't have to be here at all.
A girl like you should never have been exposed to my world.
But when you get greedy, you open Pandora's box and all the monsters come out.
I did nothing.
My husband did nothing.
(SCREAMS) Do you think I would disturb the rhythm of my life to come here to Miami to harass your innocent husband? Or to hear you lie to me? You could have made a mistake.
You could have picked the wrong man.
Your husband is a thief.
He stole my money.
He didn't steal anything.
He is a good decent man.
He's not like you.
You are going to tell me where you were planning to meet him.
Or I will have Cortez carve you up and eat you.
(GASPING) (GASPS) Martin, you startled me.
You should be afraid.
Now.
What is it you want? Mai Ying.
Do you have her? No.
It's your business to know in which hole men like Rivas are in.
(SCREAMS) Castillo, you're breaking my hand.
Where is she? Where is Rivas? That's classified.
All right.
He has a house in Harbor District.
We're not sure where.
Sit down.
Now, Mai Ying, just tell me the name of the warehouse.
Please, I'm sick.
I must use the toilet.
First the name! Warehouse four, 7:00.
We're in luck.
That's an hour from now.
I should have thought of that before.
No woman could tolerate you.
We're going to have a nice businesslike chat with her husband.
(CHATTERING ON RADIO) Hot food.
At my age, my last remaining vice.
Besides greed of course.
I am glad you came to your senses about the money, Ma Sek.
If he has.
You do not trust me, Perkins? Maybe I took all the money meant for Rivas, because I knew you two were planning to cut me out.
(MUTTERING) Both of you, listen to me.
Our past dealings have just gone through the shredder.
From now on, we deal with one another like businessmen.
Agreed? Agreed.
All right.
Try this.
It's wonderful.
Vintage 1968.
To the prosperous continuation of our partnership.
Spoken like a professional.
Excellent.
(CHOKING) Die like a professional.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR) (SPEAKING SPANISH) Walk out in the middle there.
Ma Sek, if you are waiting for us, rest assured we will shoot your wife.
Let me see your manifest.
We want the packages from Ecuador.
Phoenix S.
A.
This.
Where's this? That's in C sector.
Over there.
Gina? Nothing yet, Lieutenant.
I've got an all points out on Rivas, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant, I don't want to get your hopes up or anything, but You're gonna think I'm crazy.
In the bathroom on the mirror, there's these scratches.
They're not words exactly.
They're Can I show you? CASTILLO: It's Thai.
What's it say? Warehouse number four, 7:00.
Let's go.
I knew that.
Right, Stan.
I told you Rivas, you were wrong.
He stole nothing from you.
I found this.
You found it? Where? In the back.
They hadn't processed it yet.
You didn't tell us about that.
That was wrong.
Cortez, this is a great day.
And now I am going to claim eleven million dollars in bearer's bonds.
Hey boss, hey boss, let me open it for you.
(ALL SCREAMING) Mai Ying! Come back! Lieutenant! Are you all right? Yeah.
Rivas is finished, but there's no sign of Ma Sek, Lieutenant.
Martin, this bomb lf He must have given you false information.
I don't understand.
Was it Ma Sek who phoned you at my house? Yes, but he told me to meet him at When they kidnapped me, it must have been Ma Sek who told them where I was going.
And Ma Sek told you to meet him here, at the warehouse.
Yes.
Then he must have figured that Rivas would get the truth out of me.
Do you have any idea where he might be? No, no, I don't.
He must have been planning this for a long time.
He must have had an accomplice.
Think back to Ecuador.
Check Dimitri with Ecuadorian Airlines.
A.
T.
Dimitri flew to the Bahamas on Wednesday night.
Customs says he owns a registered cabin cruiser named Lady H.
That's it.
Check the schedule of Lady H.
I already did.
Nothing.
Check it again.
There's got to be something.
Lieutenant, we've already checked twice.
There's no boat scheduled to come into the port.
Well, check it again.
Maybe he would fly.
No, that's too risky.
He knows Rivas would be looking for him there.
No, he's got to come by boat.
(WHISPERING) Emergency lists.
Gina, do me a favor.
Call the coast guard.
Check the schedule of any emergencies that they've picked up on.
You're right.
You're right.
Martin, I have to talk to you.
It's very lmportant.
Yes, what is it? If there's any way I can help you, I need to get Involved in helping to get Ma Sek to justice.
No.
Bingo, Lieutenant.
At 23:00 a boat, the Lady H is coming into pier three with reported engine trouble.
The captain is a T.
Dimitri.
It's only two hours away.
Dimitri must be the accomplice.
They'll be leaving together.
You must let me help you.
It's too dangerous, Mai Ying.
I have to find out if Ma Sek set me up.
That's a personal reason.
I can't let you do it.
Excuse me, lieutenant, but what if Dimitri doesn't have the cash on him? The only way you can have him, is if I give him to you.
(CREAKING) I said I'll be right there.
You're so impatient.
Surprised? Yes.
Then you're all right? I'm not dead.
Rivas is.
I never meant for you to be hurt.
I thought you would give him the name and he would let you go.
Another lie you told yourself.
I was going to send for you once I had found a safe place.
Believe me.
You stole money from Rivas.
A gangster who could've slaughtered our whole family in revenge.
What family? That all died with our son.
That won't work anymore.
You can't blame his death on me forever.
You gave up.
You used his death as an excuse.
A cheap reason to steal, kill.
Not cheap.
Real! Listen to you, you who were protected by men all your life.
It's easy for you to have your glowing ideals.
Try and live where I do.
I wouldn't wish for that for the hell you have made of your life.
You know nothing.
Yes, I stole from Rivas money he stole from America.
From Gray and his partner.
Who were thieves themselves.
That's what the world is.
A million grubby hands grasping for money.
(SCREAMS) You, you betrayed me for him.
Castillo! Let her go! I said, let her go.
(SIRENS WAILING) (SLOW POP MUSIC PLAYING) I love you, my husband.
And I you, my wife.