Major Crimes s06e01 Episode Script
Sanctuary City Part 1
1 [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Hey, guys.
[CHATTER CONTINUES.]
Okay, let's go! Let's go in the museum.
Come on, everyone.
Hey, Lucas, Miguel! Wait up! Hey, Monique.
Let's go, everyone.
Stick together.
We're going inside now.
Hmm.
Right here! Right here, right here.
You want to take a picture? Are you serious, dude? All right.
Hello, I'm Ryan Rojas, inviting you to join us as we revisit how the American West was won.
Monique, can you text me that? WOMAN: Okay, let's go.
Watch your step on these stairs.
And go ahead and file in.
This way.
Come on.
Oh! Come on, this way.
[CHATTER CONTINUES.]
GIRL: Hey! You ruined my shot! Shh! And that's the last anyone saw of these three boys 11:03 a.
m.
this morning.
An hour later, when teachers discovered they were gone, we responded.
I had the folks in C.
I.
gather all the student and teacher - cellphone video and photographs - [COUGHS.]
And synched it with local surveillance footage, hoping to get a clue, but no luck.
PROVENZA: [CHUCKLES.]
Well, 11:03 this morning? Chief, you know, nine hours isn't missing for 15 year olds.
They're probably at the beach.
Yeah, maybe they planned to be back by the end of the field trip and just lost track of time.
Or just got lost, period.
Not a great neighborhood for that.
TAO: What about their cellphones? Turned off batteries out.
These three boys are off the grid.
Yeah, so their parents can't find them, or because of us.
I think what we're all wondering, Chief, is what makes this incident different from all the other teens who skipped school today? Buzz, can you find that video of all three boys posing outside? - Yes, sir.
- [KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
[SIGHS.]
These boys - [VIDEO REWINDS.]
- aren't troublemakers.
All three are honor-roll students and members of St.
Joseph of Nazareth's Campus Ministry, working hand in hand with the church's youth programs.
Three 15 year olds working hand in hand with the church.
Hmm.
Now where have I heard that before? My daughter and both of my sons attended St.
Joseph's, Lieutenant.
No priest in my parish has ever been accused of wrongdoing.
I assume, Chief, there's something else? - There is.
- Is this what you wanted, Chief? - [COMPUTER BEEPS.]
- Yes.
Thank you, Buzz.
That "something else" you're assuming, Commander, would be the boy on the far right.
His name's Lucas Garza, and he's been a Type-A diabetic since he was seven.
He may have an insulin kit in his jacket, but Nine hours missing Lucas could already be in shock.
Yes, which makes this disappearing act even more worrisome.
Plus, the middle boy, Ryan Rojas? Two months ago, his stepfather died, putting him and his mother in financial trouble.
And the other kid, Miguel Diaz, is a Dreamer.
Teachers say he would never bring unwanted attention on to his family, who are undocumented.
Also, I have at least one freaked-out parent of each of these kids in my office right now unusual.
Look, Chief, Julio lost his mom and has days of bereavement leave left, and the Commander, Nolan, and Mike are still getting over the flu.
Well, we can't just stop working till Julio gets back, and I-I'm almost well.
Well, better, anyway.
Excuse me, Commander.
I'd like to ask Chief Mason a question, for my own edification Why is this a Major Crime? If we were dealing with three missing white boys from Harvard-Westlake, and one of them had diabetes - and maybe - [STERNLY.]
This is not about race.
Right now? It's always about race, Lieutenant.
That's just the way it is.
By the time we investigate a full-on critical missing, sir, these boys will probably be back home.
And if that happens, Nolan, you have my permission to tuck them in and bawl them out.
But right now, I'd rather overreact than discover I didn't pay enough attention later.
So, if you want to know what makes this a Major Crime, I guess I do.
Well, that is all we need to know.
As of this moment, these three boys are a critical missing.
Chief, you said the parents are here? With articles of their sons' clothing which I hope to God we don't need.
SARA: As a diabetic, my son keeps a strict schedule.
It's so unlike Lucas to skip school.
He's never even left Mass early, much much less a field trip.
Well, there's a first time for everything, Ms.
Garza.
Do you have any idea where Lucas and his friends could have gone? Maybe he forgot his insulin, and he went back to school to get it.
Are you sure he didn't take an Uber or a Lyft - back to St.
Joseph's? - Well, we have officers in front of the school and in front of your house - in case Lucas shows up.
- [BEEPS.]
Now, to your knowledge, did any of these boys All this trouble and the boys are probably just at a double feature somewhere.
A double feature somewhere? Should we be looking for these kids in the 1950s? I mean, where do they have double features anymore? SHARON: I doubt they went to the movies, but they didn't just slip away.
They had a destination in mind - but where? - Should I call my husband? M-Mateo's been performing knee surgeries all day and Well, if you want to text your husband and see if he knows about all of this, please.
I need to separate Mr.
and Mrs.
Diaz, - and I'm out of bodies.
- Mike? Still checking their social-media sites - want me to stop? - No.
Stay there.
Buzz, looks like it's time to put your reserve detective skills to a test.
- Really? - Yes.
Okay.
Uh This is the break room, uh Visitor's Conference Center, and, uh Interview 2.
Remember, you ask the questions.
He knows that, Andy.
Good luck, Buzz.
- Thanks.
- Let's go, let's go.
- I think I need a tie.
- You don't need a tie.
promise.
Uh right.
Mateo says I-I don't if this is important, but when you're asked if anyone disliked Lucas, Mateo reminded me that he had received a very angry phone call from a Marvin Garret.
He's a next-door neighbor of Miguel's family.
Apparently, Marvin Garret was saying that he wanted Lucas to stay away from his daughter.
Uh [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
I can't remember her name right now.
Um I'm sorry.
I'm drawing a blank.
Well, was there ever any trouble between this girl and Lucas? Oh, there's a young lady in the mix.
- What a surprise.
- but apparently Mr.
Garret was extremely rude, saying that he wanted Kelly! Kelly That was her name.
He wanted Kelly to stop hanging out with Mexicans.
I think Mr.
Garret's daughter has a little crush on Lucas.
Maybe Lucas has one on her, too.
Mr.
Garret doesn't like it.
Did Mr.
Garret ever threaten Lucas or anyone in your family? ALEXA: No, but Marvin reported us to Immigration again.
He stopped me while I was coming out of my driveway to tell me that we should move before ICE detained us.
I don't get it.
Marvin Garret came after you because his daughter wanted to date someone else's son? Well, first, Kelly was interested in Miguel.
But both Lucas and Ryan They hang out at our place.
We live right by St.
Joseph of Nazareth, and Kelly knows all of them very well.
We treat them all like our own children.
Kelly Garret is 16 years old.
Ah, the older woman with a driver's license.
Maybe she was at the museum to pick them up.
- Did the boys ever argue over Kelly? - Oh, no.
- It was never that serious.
- Buzz, could you please ask Mr.
Diaz about his neighbor Marvin Garret who was trying to deport his family.
We could flip more houses, but you don't want to bid too hard against legal residents.
They can call Immigration it happens.
If you're worried about ICE, then your neighbor Marvin must make you extra anxious.
Oh, you know about Marvin? Yeah, Marvin doesn't like us, sure, but it it's mostly because of his daughter, Kelly.
My son and his two best friends are almost her age, and she kind of likes all of them - in different ways.
- BUZZ: Different ways? Is that a problem for your son and his friends? Oh, no, no, no.
No.
Miguel is very close with these boys.
Us, too.
Us, too.
We keep insulin around for Lucas, and we've tried to step in for Ryan.
You know, his family situation was - not great.
- Not great how? DANIELLA: My first husband was a worthless piece of crap cheated on me all the time, never paid child support for Ryan, doesn't let us know how to get in touch with him.
At least I got my son out of it.
Now, Hector Ay carajo.
[LAUGHS.]
Your second husband's supposed to be better.
Mine was worse I learned nothing.
And Hector passed away a couple of months ago.
Fell maybe jumped from our apartment balcony, drunk or high.
Look, Hector paid his own way and then some.
I'll give him that.
But he lied to me.
He hadn't left the gangs at all.
And he got physical with Ryan knocked him around a little.
Your husband fell off your balcony after beating your son? Don't worry about what Hector did to Ryan.
Worry about what I'm gonna do to Ryan.
Have you checked with my first husband Ian? He tried to take Ryan out of school two weeks ago without my permission.
And he's done that before, too.
Otherwise, I can't be missing work All right, it's time to hit everyone with consent forms to search their houses and devices.
We got to get moving.
Commander.
Father Stan.
- Sharon.
- Ohh.
Are you okay? Yes, I'm just, um I'm still shaking off the remnants of that terrible flu.
Well, hopefully, we won't make it worse.
I brought Father Jonas Alcaraz, - new head of our Campus Ministry.
- Hello, Father.
He spends more time with these missing boys than anyone on our faculty.
I'm feeling just [INHALES DEEPLY.]
Terrible that I wasn't at the museum today.
I'd have noticed they were gone much faster.
You pay that close attention to them? You're responsible for their commitment to Christ, not their science tests.
Sharon, thank you for what you're doing to find our boys.
- [COUGHS.]
- And for moving so quickly.
Well, maybe not quickly enough.
Father, may I? A teacher found Lucas Garza's backpack on the bus.
He didn't have it with him at the museum today.
[BACKPACK UNZIPS.]
Are those insulin kits? - Oh - [SIGHS.]
If Lucas doesn't have his meds, we might already be out of time.
Mike, I need you to gather all the boys' clothing from the interview rooms.
Chief, I'm going to need some extra personnel and some dogs.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
I'm going to need a lot of dogs.
All of their families have issues.
Miguel and his parents are undocumented.
Lucas' father has one of the most successful surgical practices in America, but he has health issues.
And though we didn't find out until after his stepfather died, Ryan was physically abused for two years.
Yet they're all doing well at school and, from this distance, seem relatively happy.
Well, I credit their friendship for that and Father Jonas, of course.
But I hate this happened while these boys were under St.
Joseph's supervision.
I Maybe if they'd been in school uniforms You know, we let them wear what they want on field trips.
Will we find them? Soon? If the boys stuck together and we have a little luck, I hope.
Oh, ah! [LAUGHS.]
And I talked to the young lady you met at Ascension Day, and she would be honored to sing at your wedding.
I gave her your number.
Oh, that's a bit of good news on a terrible night.
Thank you, Father, for arranging that.
And with everything else that you have to do.
In the middle of crisis, life goes on Something our work teaches both of us.
Oh! And here's her ring bearer.
[CHUCKLES.]
Yeah, well, one of 'em.
Hey, Father Stan.
I'd I'd hate to interrupt, but Mom has to eat.
I'm trying to get my appetite back.
Ah, yeah.
This was a tough flu.
At one point, almost a third of our students were out sick.
Poor Julio's mother.
I'm stopping by his house tomorrow.
Please remind him that we are here if he needs us.
And if you hear anything about these boys, anything at all [INHALES DEEPLY.]
Uh[SIGHS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
They didn't have the salad you wanted, so I got that, uh horrible broccoli-carrot-quinoa thing that you like and a little bit of chicken soup.
Maybe you'll be better by your doctor's appointment tomorrow.
[INHALES SHARPLY.]
All right.
Are you kidding me? They put mustard on my hamburger bun without asking me.
Why would anybody do that? Sorry.
Sorry, Sharon.
I just feel like nothing has been going right for me today at all.
Did Gus ever call you back or respond to any of your text messages? No, no, um but his boss, Aiden, posted four Instagram photos of them at a club in San Francisco, dancing.
You are following Gus'boss on Instagram? Yeah.
Yeah.
I am, and I'm not proud of it.
But those Instagram photos explain Gus' complete lack of communication with me over the past four days.
Clearly, there's stuff that he doesn't want to tell me, and now he doesn't have to.
Maybe call again anyway.
I want to, to hear him explain why he's been avoiding me, but I'm not gonna hunt him down.
So, they were last seen moving in this direction, past the yellow school buses, where the other kids did not go, so it gives us a fighting chance.
- Prep for search! - [DOG GROWLS.]
Let's start with our missing diabetic, see where that takes us.
SARA: I don't understand why you want to look in the one place we know he's not.
If Lucas were home, we wouldn't need you! Ms.
Garza, Dr.
Garza, if the boys made a plan to skip the field trip, we might find proof of that in Lucas' room - or on devices he uses.
- [SCOFFS.]
Lucas may have hid something in your house.
His situation is We feel it's urgent.
Sara, it's been 13 hours.
Okay, we have to help them.
Lucas' room is is this way.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
JONAS: Watch your step, Lieutenant.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
Check out these classrooms, please.
Let's see This is Miguel's.
Ryan's is over here.
I doubt you'll find anything but what other kids keep in their lockers.
[LOCK JOSTLES IN DISTANCE.]
They know we can open these at any time, so they're not really a safe place to stash Father, I'm conducting this search, not you stand aside.
Now.
- I'm just trying to help, Lieutenant.
- Mm-hmm.
No reason to be annoyed.
So, tell me, Father, would any other kid at your school have a Mexican drug cartel bracelet in his locker? DANIELLA: I told you already I had no idea Hector was a gangster.
In fact, part of the reason I married Hector was so Ryan could have a good guy around the house, and that was a mistake.
Where'd you think Hector's money came from? He had money, right? He said he was in the import-export business, which I don't know nothing about.
I [SCOFFS.]
I understand the codes hospitals use for billing insurance, and that's it.
Hector fell from here? Or jumped? One or the other.
The police weren't sure, a-and I wasn't here.
Uh-huh.
How tall was he? The Death Report says 5'7".
About.
Maybe, yeah.
So, he fell, huh? [CHUCKLES.]
How? Did he, like, get drunk, walk on the balcony's edge, hang from it by his feet? Ryan was here at the time? In his room.
He didn't even know anything had happened till the police knocked on the door.
Where was Ian, your first husband, Ryan's father? I have no idea.
What about a last name, a date of birth? We'd like to notify Ian that Ryan is missing.
Let me look.
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE.]
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[DOG GROWLS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
Okay, I need you guys to check the backyard, those hedges, the garage, the roof.
They're not here.
Excuse me, shouldn't you be out there, looking in the streets or or the trains or or something instead of our backyard? Sir? Sir? Oh.
Right.
Yes? You're finally deporting these people? I've only been calling 'em in for five years.
L.
A.
P.
D.
, sir.
I need you to get off the wall - and step away - I'm standing on my own property.
If you interfere with this investigation, you'll standing in front of a booking camera with a slate beneath your neck.
[LAUGHS.]
[SPEAKING SPANISH.]
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH.]
Excuse me, why don't you want us to look under the floor of your closet? Oh, you [STAMMERS.]
you speak Spanish? Claro.
Officers! [POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
SKYES: Ooh, this is This is a lot of oxy to keep in your garage, Doctor.
Do you have a prescription for all this? You swore to me that you had stopped, that you had gotten rid of everything! I did get rid of everything.
What is that she's holding then?! - I forgot that stuff was there, okay? - Oh, my God! Mateo! If you're using again after all that we have been through.
This is not the issue here.
You've only been out of rehab for two weeks.
- Does Lucas know? - Would you just shut up?! Good God, Sara! Just shut up! Can you concentrate on Lucas for just one minute?! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Do the two of your argue like this in front of your son? TAO: I don't see any signs of a struggle.
But the dogs say the boys were here.
[DOG WHINES.]
[DOG BARKS.]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
EMILIO: Hey Hey, look, it it's no crime to have cash in your house.
About how much? Close to a million dollars, sir.
It's exactly a million dollars, and every penny of it is legally ours.
Why are you taking the money instead of bringing back my son? [SPEAKS SPANISH.]
[TRUNK POPS.]
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[CAR HONKS IN DISTANCE.]
- [CELLPHONE CHIMES.]
- [SIGHS.]
Come on.
Let's get this over with.
[TRUCK UNLATCHES.]
Well, if the boys were here, they weren't in this car.
[CHIMES.]
- So, what do we have? - Not much.
All three boys were tracked to the same place, but their scent didn't go beyond the traffic circle.
So someone was waiting for them, picked them up, and drove them away.
NOLAN: It could have been Ryan's biological father, Ian Nuñez.
He's tried to pick his son up before.
FLYNN: Or some gang banger who knew that Ryan and his friends were rich.
BUZZ: But would whoever grabbed them have known how much Lucas needed insulin? Well, we have a lot more drug-related materials to discuss here a full bag of opiates, a dead cartel member, a million bucks in cash, and, oh, let's not forget the Catholic Church and Father Jonas, who was apparently very close to these boys.
Commander it's your call.
But I believe we need to get photos of these boys out to the media as soon as possible, 'cause they didn't just vanish off the face of the Earth.
No, they did not.
It's beginning to look like they were abducted.
It started as a yearly field trip organized by the diocesis High school.
When it was over, three teenage boys under the direct supervision of the Catholic Church were missing.
Only two months after the death of Ryan's stepfather a gang member with connections to a Mexican drug cartel The three teenagers vanished with so-called Dreamer Miguel Diaz, originally from Tamaulipas, the Mexican state with the highest kidnapping rate The boy who grew up here, Lucas Garza, is a Type-A diabetic and, without his insulin, could already be another casualty of the upswing in hate crimes against Latinos and Lots of different theories.
I don't care what the media says as long as they get the boys' faces out there.
The million in cash - That bothers me.
- We're already looking into it, Chief.
But what about my request for more specialized personnel? I have a young expert in your Murder Room right now catching up with the investigation.
One expert? But worth many times that.
Detective Camila Paige was a go-to utility hitter - when I headed C.
I.
- Mm-hmm.
She transferred to Missing Persons a year-and-a-half ago and has become exceptional at finding teenagers.
[INDISTINCT TALKING.]
Two cautionary things Detective Paige is still working out how to be a part of a team, and her manner is Excuse me, Commander, mind if I ask why no one here's trying to tap the phones of these families yet? And you must be Detective Camila Paige.
Oh.
Sorry.
I should've started by Yes, I'm Detective Paige.
Very happy that you requested me, Commander, and hopeful I can contribute so much at stake.
Yes, we have three young boys who may be depending on us to save their lives.
Warrants for wires take time, but Narcotics can get this done much faster than we can, Chief.
Well, let me push the process.
If someone makes a ransom demand or the boys call in, - we need to know.
- Thank you.
I'd also like to talk to the girl uh what's her name from next door to the undocumented family Kelly Garret's father won't let her talk to us, and we have no means of coercing him, so we are surveilling their house in case the girl steps out on her own.
- This way, please.
- Uh, Mom.
Mom! - Yeah? - Your doctor's appointment It's in 40 minutes.
- Oh, I'm gonna go in later.
- Wait! No, no, no! Look, I-I can call Andrea and just ask her if I can run you there and back really fast.
Rusty, if Lucas Garza hasn't taken his insulin, his situation is far worse than mine.
And I'm fine.
I'm better.
I am.
ALEXA: We only have so much capital.
A-And we have to buy whatever Lieutenants Flynn and Tao, Buzz, this is Detective Camila Paige from Missing Persons.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- She is an expert in locating teenagers.
- Hi.
- Greetings.
Miguel's parents are trying to explain the million dollars we found.
been taxed through our daughter's company.
Which she has a right to own, because she's an American citizen.
Yeah, well, let me tell you about the other four times that I found a million dollars hidden in someone's house.
The first time, it was drugs.
Second time, it turned out to be drugs.
The third time, well, we discovered that it was drugs.
The fourth time Hmm.
Was it drugs? You know, yeah.
[CHUCKLING.]
I think it was.
M-M-Maybe we we should get a lawyer.
Well, now, that's interesting, because everyone else I found with a million dollars, they wanted an attorney, too.
What a coincidence.
- This is just - You can't pay for a lawyer - with the money we found in your house.
- You listen The only drugs that we have are the ones that you take for a headache or a cold.
If someone knew you had a million dollars in your house and was demanding a ransom for your No one kidnapped Miguel because we have money.
We left Mexico because of all of the kidnappings.
Please, please, I'm begging you.
- You have to find our son.
- SHARON: She may have a point.
If you're looking for a kidnapping victim, Lucas Garza is the obvious target.
I looked it up, and if you're a professional athlete and need your knee fixed, Dr.
Garza or one of his associates is where you go.
BUZZ: Garza's rich, and if you know his parents have a million in cash, Miguel's valuable.
But why grab Ryan? His mom's got nothing.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that, too, and Ryan could have accidently set his friends up to be kidnapped just by talking about them to the wrong people, especially if he was dealing drugs on the side.
Well, we haven't found any gangster connections to Ryan.
Still, he had a cartel bracelet in his locker probably belonged to his stepdad.
It's Ryan's biological father we need to find now, if nothing else but to notify him.
Detective Paige, you get your wish.
I want you to go with Lieutenant Provenza Oh! I know him really well.
Hey, that's great news, Detective.
Now maybe you'd like to hear what the Commander would like you to do.
Oh, I know.
She wants us to try and talk to Marvin Garret's daughter, Kelly.
If the boys were planning something off-the-wall, then Lucas or Miguel might've told her.
She could have even picked them up.
Kelly has a driver's license, access to a car Detective Paige, thank you for so completely anticipating my orders.
Buzz, will you fill in for Julio again and go with the Lieutenant and Detective Paige? Sure.
Absolutely.
Great.
And I'll bring my camera, too, just in case Kelly talks to us.
Well, Mr.
and Mrs.
Diaz certainly seem genuine.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- Still, a million bucks in cash, well Cami? Cami! What are you doing here? [LAUGHS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
TAO: Good morning.
L.
A.
P.
D.
We need to search your offices, so buzz open the doors now.
I can't let those dogs in here.
Also, you can't look in any - Would you rather shut down for the day? - What? Look, you people don't understand.
- HIPAA protects - HIPAA doesn't apply to this warrant.
We can hold everyone here while your lawyers explain that.
That won't be necessary.
Hi.
I'm Dr.
Alan Redmond.
Is this about Lucas? Yes, it is.
Please, come in.
Right there.
[DOOR BUZZES.]
[DOG PANTING.]
Are you looking for something specific? The boys? Large amounts of cash? Where's Dr.
Garza's office? Right this way.
We don't keep large amounts of cash.
Most of our fees are collected from insurance companies, credit cards, checks.
- This is Dr.
Garza's office - Unh, unh.
Doctor, stand over there.
Okay.
TAO: When did you last see Lucas? Uh about three weeks ago.
Mrs.
Garza was working late.
Lucas came in and waited for her.
And where was Dr.
Garza at that time? His wife said he'd just got out of rehab two weeks ago, and he had a large stash of oxycodone at his house.
Any idea where that might have come from [DOG GROWLS, PANTING.]
It's clear.
The oxy? We encourage our patients to return the unused portion of their prescription painkillers.
I think that Mateo was You know, he was in a car accident three years ago, and he's been trying to recover, right? Look, he never operated on a patient under the influence.
And how does his opioid use have anything to do with why Lucas is missing? Did Lucas know his father had a drug problem? I'm not sure.
Mrs.
Garza is our office manager, and we thought She never talked about it.
All right, can you think of any reason why these boys might've stepped away from their field trip? PAIGE: Young love makes kids crazy.
He's a handsome, bright kid with a dangerous health problem.
She's trapped in the house with a father determined to keep them separated.
They had no choice but to fall for each other.
Their friends might've even helped them run off to get married.
You remember Elena, Lieutenant? I had to stop Elena from doing that very same thing when she was 16.
[CHUCKLES.]
Little Elena.
How is she? Not so little anymore sophomore at Stanford physics major, full ride.
Can you believe it? Now all five of them are either in or through college.
- You have five children? - No.
[SCOFFS.]
Five little brothers and sisters.
Cami's parents were killed by a drunk driver when she was 20.
She raised all the rest of her family pretty much on her own.
Uh I-I'm sorry.
I didn't know.
Lieutenant Provenza found the asshole.
Had three priors.
Can you believe it? Anyway, all the Paiges grew up happy and healthy, - and they still love you, Lieutenant.
- [CHUCKLES.]
And every Fourth of July, we talk about that barbecue where your clothes caught on fire.
[CHUCKLING.]
Never seen anyone so mad at a hot dog.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
[NORMAL VOICE.]
Oh, God.
This doesn't look good.
[INDISTINCT TALKING IN DISTANCE.]
Buzz! Buzz! Keep them away from us.
Yes, sir L.
A.
P.
D.
! We are not here to talk to you, so please just stay back, or I'm going to have to ask you to move to the end of block.
Officers, please.
Thank you.
We appreciate you being here.
Please, just keep moving back.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- Thank you.
[DOOR BELL CHIMES.]
- Yeah? - L.
A.
P.
D.
We'd like to talk to you about some boys who have gone missing.
I'll tell you who needs to go missing the whole Diaz family.
You should be over there, getting rid of them, not bothering me.
Mr.
Garret, we apologize for the inconvenience, but do you mind if we ask your daughter just Leave Kelly out of this.
And you, you rude son of a bitch, I don't want you on my property.
PROVENZA: Mr.
Garret, I don't think you understand, sir.
Your neighbor's son, Miguel Diaz, is missing with two of his friends Lucas Garza and Ryan Rojas.
Now, we're just here to canvass the neighborhood.
Oh, my God.
Dad, please! - We We We should talk to them! - Kelly! Kelly, my name is Detective Camila Paige.
Call the L.
A.
P.
D.
and ask for me, Camila Paige Go back to your room, young lady - and we can talk! - and stay there! Now! And you people, don't come back on my property - without a warrant! - We have three missing boys, sir.
This is a crisis.
You call it a crisis.
I call it a good start.
Cami I appreciate your initiative, but do not go around yelling things like "Call me" while I'm standing there unless I say so.
Oh! And neither of you open your mouths while I make this jerk's life as hard as I possibly can.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
Excuse me.
I am Lieutenant Provenza, L.
A.
P.
D.
, and I would like to announce that due to his refusal to cooperate with the L.
A.
P.
D.
's search for these missing 15 year olds, the Diaz's next-door neighbor, Mr.
Marvin Garret G-A-R-R-E-T just became a person of interest in the case of the St.
Joseph's Three.
- Lieutenant Provenza - [INDISTINCT CLAMORING.]
REPORTER: Does this mean the Catholic Church is no longer part of the investigation? We're not ruling out anyone, any place, or any organization.
REPORTER 2: What about forced deportation or hate crimes Any possibility of these I just answered that when I said we're not ruling anything out.
Next.
REPORTER 3: Is there any truth to the rumor that Ryan Rojas' stepfather, Hector Padilla, is a courier for the Mexican drug cartel? I have no idea.
Mr.
Padilla has been dead for two months, so we know these boys are not with him.
Excuse me, excuse me.
That's all.
[MONITOR CLICKS, BEEPS.]
Lieutenant, you care to explain why you took it upon yourself to brief the media without permission from me? Mm, not really.
[PAPERS RUSTLE.]
But since you ask, Marvin Garret was not just uncooperative.
He was obstructive.
There are lives at stake here, Chief, and if that jerk won't talk to us, let's see how he likes the attention of some of L.
A.
's finest journalists.
The hunt for these boys is an L.
A.
P.
D.
investigation, not a press opportunity, and so you know, I was just on the phone with Bishop Calhoun, who the press contacted after your little briefing, and he was furious that you didn't rule out - the Catholic Church.
- Well, how could I do that? These three 15 year olds have a very special relationship with a priest in their school.
Father Jonas actively tried to stop me from looking into the locker of Ryan Rojas.
I don't think Chief Mason objects to us investigating the Church, Lieutenant.
I think he objects to us saying that out loud to the media.
FLYNN: Good luck controlling the press.
We've got journalists staked out in front of every one of the boys' homes.
Typical death watch.
We're not there yet, Mike.
We're passed the 24-hour mark no ransom demands over our wires and no word from the boys.
And nothing on any of their devices or their e-mail servers, and nothing on any social-media platforms.
We're not at a dead end yet.
The Ian Nuñez brought in by Patrol is definitely Ryan's father.
Wes is bringing him up.
Where'd they find him? Working the counter at his father-in-law's - marijuana dispensary.
- Drugs again.
Mr.
Nuñez doesn't seem to know what's going on with his son.
According to Patrol, he came willingly - No questions asked.
- Why? What does he think this is about? Look, I can get her, like, a third of the child support.
That'd be, like, $20,000 almost a third.
But, I mean, there's no reason to arrest me.
That'd That'd make it harder on everybody.
SHARON: If you have $20,000 in cash, why not just give it to your ex-wife? Because it's never enough.
Yeah.
Like, with Daniella, when I see her, whenever I slip her some bills, she's all like, "What am I supposed to do with $500?" And, "Where are you? Why don't you ever see your son?" Which is not true, because I spent two whole days with him in Disneyland.
And you know what? She didn't thank me or anything.
Because you picked him up from school - without telling her? - No.
No, I'm not talking about that time.
No, um, that was when he was seven.
No, this is, uh more recent.
Yeah, like, I-I called, I set it up, I came to the house, I picked him up.
Yeah, the kid had a blast.
SHARON: More recently when? Uh, when Uh, wow.
That was a while back.
Uh, yeah, like, uh you know, Ryan was 12.
But you've seen him since, though, right just two weeks ago? SHARON: Let me jog your memory.
You when to St.
Joseph of Nazareth and tried to take Ryan out of class, - which caused a - Whoa, wow.
Really? That nosey priest said all that, huh? Okay, okay.
Well, look.
Let me tell you something about Father Jonas.
Oh, by all means, Ian.
Tell us everything about Father Jonas.
Yeah, that name keeps popping up.
Let me tell you the story from the beginning.
I went to St.
Joseph's because Ryan he was looking me up, like, online, and he posted something on my Facebook page.
And that's a problem why? [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Yeah.
Because All right, look, um I got three other kids with my new wife, Angela.
It's kind of funny.
[LAUGHS.]
I just haven't really gotten around to telling Angie about my other son.
I mean, she hasn't heard about Ryan at all, and if she found out on Facebook, you know Oh, my God.
Really? And just like that, we have another suspect.
At this point, who isn't a suspect? on my page again, you know, because I-I I can't be monitoring my Facebook all day.
He was posting shit like, "Yo, when are you gonna give Mom a little money," right? T-This was after, um Hector, he took that leap, you know, and he fell or whatever he did, and and they were hurting for cash.
So, Ryan posted on your Facebook page, then you came to school, then you tried to pull him from a class.
Yeah, to give the little man some money $300.
That is a lot of cash for a 15-year-old kid.
And Father Jonas stopped you.
Yeah, and he called the guards.
He called the guards, and he had me kicked out of the building, and for what? It ain't illegal to offer your own kid $300.
That is a good thing a good thing.
Okay, where were you yesterday between 10:00 a.
m.
and 3:00 p.
m.
? What were you doing during those hours? Why? [SCOFFS.]
What's the problem, Ian? What, you don't remember where you were? No, no.
Let me just Let me just think about that, man.
So You're just suddenly getting in my face, asking me where I was and all that, and just, it's, like, sounding serious.
It is serious, Ian.
Yesterday, your son and two of his friends went missing on a school field trip.
What? Your son has disappeared, sir, and we're trying to find him.
No, no, no.
He ain't disappeared, man.
He just ran away from Mama or he's probably with, - uh Father Jonas - No, he isn't.
Ian, no, he isn't! We need you to tell us where you were - Okay.
- yesterday morning.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Just hold on, all right? I was, um I was I was hanging out at the beach, okay? Yeah, I was hanging out at the beach.
It was my day off, my my wife was at work, the kids were were with their grandparents, and, um yeah, I was just chilling with a-a-a jug of mojitos at Matador.
Anyone see you at Matador? You speak to anyone while you were there? No.
I was by myself.
- Doing what? - Uh, doing what? Uh[LAUGHING.]
I was just watchin' waves, you know, laying back, reading a book.
What book? [STAMMERS.]
"Valley of the Dolls.
" Yeah, it was my wife's book.
I borrowed it.
It, uh, sounded like fun.
Who are some of the characters in that book, "Valley of the Dolls"? Characters.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
- Where is she? - Interview Room 1.
I need to talk to her.
Buzz.
Uh D.
D.
A.
Hobbs says she needs you to step out into the hallway, if you can.
All right, Ian, you know what? We want you to sign a consent form.
Let us search your house.
Wait, you got to what? No.
What for? What do you got to search my house for? To prepare you for the very difficult conversation you're about to have with your wife.
No.
No.
No way.
No.
You want to search my house, you get a warrant.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
I've come from a meeting at the D.
A.
's office, where we've ordered bodyguards for Emma Rios, and we're recommending them for Rusty.
What? Based on a death report of Carolyn Sayles from Scottsdale, Arizona, age 72 What? In perfect health until she lost her balance while hiking a canyon and fell down 400 feet.
Why is Carolyn Sayles so important to this case? It's not this case.
Ms.
Sayles was once stepmother to Phillip Stroh.
Ohh.
RUSTY: Five deaths.
Three could be coincidental.
But five makes a pattern.
Yes, I think so.
Andrea thinks so, too.
I don't get it.
Stroh made a clean getaway.
No one has spotted him anywhere, have they? No, but he's been known to work through third parties, or in concert with them, anyway.
So four accidents and a suicide equals protection for Emma, Brenda, and me.
And I may add Linda Rothman to that list, because she was Stroh's attorney for a while, and it didn't work out.
Look, all of these deaths were several months apart.
I-I don't think that I need an S.
I.
S.
security detail yet, but, Sharon, I can't just sit back and let this happen to me again.
- Meaning? - Meaning I'd like to be more proficient in protecting myself.
More proficient in protecting yourself in what way? FLYNN: Uh sorry to interrupt, but you have to go.
- I'll drive.
- I'll drive.
I'm back almost 100%.
Yeah, but I can't be in the field unless I'm with my commanding officer.
So let me take you.
"In the field"? What's happened? [BELL TOLLING.]
- How long? - [CAR DOOR CLOSES.]
I'm not sure.
The gardener called it in 20 minutes ago, but the body has obviously been here since sometime last night.
[TOLLING CONTINUES.]
[INSECTS BUZZING.]
PROVENZA: Well here's our diabetic.
Now, what I'd like to know is where are the other two boys? That, Lieutenant, is, um [VOICE BREAKING.]
It's an excellent question.
Hey, guys.
[CHATTER CONTINUES.]
Okay, let's go! Let's go in the museum.
Come on, everyone.
Hey, Lucas, Miguel! Wait up! Hey, Monique.
Let's go, everyone.
Stick together.
We're going inside now.
Hmm.
Right here! Right here, right here.
You want to take a picture? Are you serious, dude? All right.
Hello, I'm Ryan Rojas, inviting you to join us as we revisit how the American West was won.
Monique, can you text me that? WOMAN: Okay, let's go.
Watch your step on these stairs.
And go ahead and file in.
This way.
Come on.
Oh! Come on, this way.
[CHATTER CONTINUES.]
GIRL: Hey! You ruined my shot! Shh! And that's the last anyone saw of these three boys 11:03 a.
m.
this morning.
An hour later, when teachers discovered they were gone, we responded.
I had the folks in C.
I.
gather all the student and teacher - cellphone video and photographs - [COUGHS.]
And synched it with local surveillance footage, hoping to get a clue, but no luck.
PROVENZA: [CHUCKLES.]
Well, 11:03 this morning? Chief, you know, nine hours isn't missing for 15 year olds.
They're probably at the beach.
Yeah, maybe they planned to be back by the end of the field trip and just lost track of time.
Or just got lost, period.
Not a great neighborhood for that.
TAO: What about their cellphones? Turned off batteries out.
These three boys are off the grid.
Yeah, so their parents can't find them, or because of us.
I think what we're all wondering, Chief, is what makes this incident different from all the other teens who skipped school today? Buzz, can you find that video of all three boys posing outside? - Yes, sir.
- [KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
[SIGHS.]
These boys - [VIDEO REWINDS.]
- aren't troublemakers.
All three are honor-roll students and members of St.
Joseph of Nazareth's Campus Ministry, working hand in hand with the church's youth programs.
Three 15 year olds working hand in hand with the church.
Hmm.
Now where have I heard that before? My daughter and both of my sons attended St.
Joseph's, Lieutenant.
No priest in my parish has ever been accused of wrongdoing.
I assume, Chief, there's something else? - There is.
- Is this what you wanted, Chief? - [COMPUTER BEEPS.]
- Yes.
Thank you, Buzz.
That "something else" you're assuming, Commander, would be the boy on the far right.
His name's Lucas Garza, and he's been a Type-A diabetic since he was seven.
He may have an insulin kit in his jacket, but Nine hours missing Lucas could already be in shock.
Yes, which makes this disappearing act even more worrisome.
Plus, the middle boy, Ryan Rojas? Two months ago, his stepfather died, putting him and his mother in financial trouble.
And the other kid, Miguel Diaz, is a Dreamer.
Teachers say he would never bring unwanted attention on to his family, who are undocumented.
Also, I have at least one freaked-out parent of each of these kids in my office right now unusual.
Look, Chief, Julio lost his mom and has days of bereavement leave left, and the Commander, Nolan, and Mike are still getting over the flu.
Well, we can't just stop working till Julio gets back, and I-I'm almost well.
Well, better, anyway.
Excuse me, Commander.
I'd like to ask Chief Mason a question, for my own edification Why is this a Major Crime? If we were dealing with three missing white boys from Harvard-Westlake, and one of them had diabetes - and maybe - [STERNLY.]
This is not about race.
Right now? It's always about race, Lieutenant.
That's just the way it is.
By the time we investigate a full-on critical missing, sir, these boys will probably be back home.
And if that happens, Nolan, you have my permission to tuck them in and bawl them out.
But right now, I'd rather overreact than discover I didn't pay enough attention later.
So, if you want to know what makes this a Major Crime, I guess I do.
Well, that is all we need to know.
As of this moment, these three boys are a critical missing.
Chief, you said the parents are here? With articles of their sons' clothing which I hope to God we don't need.
SARA: As a diabetic, my son keeps a strict schedule.
It's so unlike Lucas to skip school.
He's never even left Mass early, much much less a field trip.
Well, there's a first time for everything, Ms.
Garza.
Do you have any idea where Lucas and his friends could have gone? Maybe he forgot his insulin, and he went back to school to get it.
Are you sure he didn't take an Uber or a Lyft - back to St.
Joseph's? - Well, we have officers in front of the school and in front of your house - in case Lucas shows up.
- [BEEPS.]
Now, to your knowledge, did any of these boys All this trouble and the boys are probably just at a double feature somewhere.
A double feature somewhere? Should we be looking for these kids in the 1950s? I mean, where do they have double features anymore? SHARON: I doubt they went to the movies, but they didn't just slip away.
They had a destination in mind - but where? - Should I call my husband? M-Mateo's been performing knee surgeries all day and Well, if you want to text your husband and see if he knows about all of this, please.
I need to separate Mr.
and Mrs.
Diaz, - and I'm out of bodies.
- Mike? Still checking their social-media sites - want me to stop? - No.
Stay there.
Buzz, looks like it's time to put your reserve detective skills to a test.
- Really? - Yes.
Okay.
Uh This is the break room, uh Visitor's Conference Center, and, uh Interview 2.
Remember, you ask the questions.
He knows that, Andy.
Good luck, Buzz.
- Thanks.
- Let's go, let's go.
- I think I need a tie.
- You don't need a tie.
promise.
Uh right.
Mateo says I-I don't if this is important, but when you're asked if anyone disliked Lucas, Mateo reminded me that he had received a very angry phone call from a Marvin Garret.
He's a next-door neighbor of Miguel's family.
Apparently, Marvin Garret was saying that he wanted Lucas to stay away from his daughter.
Uh [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
I can't remember her name right now.
Um I'm sorry.
I'm drawing a blank.
Well, was there ever any trouble between this girl and Lucas? Oh, there's a young lady in the mix.
- What a surprise.
- but apparently Mr.
Garret was extremely rude, saying that he wanted Kelly! Kelly That was her name.
He wanted Kelly to stop hanging out with Mexicans.
I think Mr.
Garret's daughter has a little crush on Lucas.
Maybe Lucas has one on her, too.
Mr.
Garret doesn't like it.
Did Mr.
Garret ever threaten Lucas or anyone in your family? ALEXA: No, but Marvin reported us to Immigration again.
He stopped me while I was coming out of my driveway to tell me that we should move before ICE detained us.
I don't get it.
Marvin Garret came after you because his daughter wanted to date someone else's son? Well, first, Kelly was interested in Miguel.
But both Lucas and Ryan They hang out at our place.
We live right by St.
Joseph of Nazareth, and Kelly knows all of them very well.
We treat them all like our own children.
Kelly Garret is 16 years old.
Ah, the older woman with a driver's license.
Maybe she was at the museum to pick them up.
- Did the boys ever argue over Kelly? - Oh, no.
- It was never that serious.
- Buzz, could you please ask Mr.
Diaz about his neighbor Marvin Garret who was trying to deport his family.
We could flip more houses, but you don't want to bid too hard against legal residents.
They can call Immigration it happens.
If you're worried about ICE, then your neighbor Marvin must make you extra anxious.
Oh, you know about Marvin? Yeah, Marvin doesn't like us, sure, but it it's mostly because of his daughter, Kelly.
My son and his two best friends are almost her age, and she kind of likes all of them - in different ways.
- BUZZ: Different ways? Is that a problem for your son and his friends? Oh, no, no, no.
No.
Miguel is very close with these boys.
Us, too.
Us, too.
We keep insulin around for Lucas, and we've tried to step in for Ryan.
You know, his family situation was - not great.
- Not great how? DANIELLA: My first husband was a worthless piece of crap cheated on me all the time, never paid child support for Ryan, doesn't let us know how to get in touch with him.
At least I got my son out of it.
Now, Hector Ay carajo.
[LAUGHS.]
Your second husband's supposed to be better.
Mine was worse I learned nothing.
And Hector passed away a couple of months ago.
Fell maybe jumped from our apartment balcony, drunk or high.
Look, Hector paid his own way and then some.
I'll give him that.
But he lied to me.
He hadn't left the gangs at all.
And he got physical with Ryan knocked him around a little.
Your husband fell off your balcony after beating your son? Don't worry about what Hector did to Ryan.
Worry about what I'm gonna do to Ryan.
Have you checked with my first husband Ian? He tried to take Ryan out of school two weeks ago without my permission.
And he's done that before, too.
Otherwise, I can't be missing work All right, it's time to hit everyone with consent forms to search their houses and devices.
We got to get moving.
Commander.
Father Stan.
- Sharon.
- Ohh.
Are you okay? Yes, I'm just, um I'm still shaking off the remnants of that terrible flu.
Well, hopefully, we won't make it worse.
I brought Father Jonas Alcaraz, - new head of our Campus Ministry.
- Hello, Father.
He spends more time with these missing boys than anyone on our faculty.
I'm feeling just [INHALES DEEPLY.]
Terrible that I wasn't at the museum today.
I'd have noticed they were gone much faster.
You pay that close attention to them? You're responsible for their commitment to Christ, not their science tests.
Sharon, thank you for what you're doing to find our boys.
- [COUGHS.]
- And for moving so quickly.
Well, maybe not quickly enough.
Father, may I? A teacher found Lucas Garza's backpack on the bus.
He didn't have it with him at the museum today.
[BACKPACK UNZIPS.]
Are those insulin kits? - Oh - [SIGHS.]
If Lucas doesn't have his meds, we might already be out of time.
Mike, I need you to gather all the boys' clothing from the interview rooms.
Chief, I'm going to need some extra personnel and some dogs.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
I'm going to need a lot of dogs.
All of their families have issues.
Miguel and his parents are undocumented.
Lucas' father has one of the most successful surgical practices in America, but he has health issues.
And though we didn't find out until after his stepfather died, Ryan was physically abused for two years.
Yet they're all doing well at school and, from this distance, seem relatively happy.
Well, I credit their friendship for that and Father Jonas, of course.
But I hate this happened while these boys were under St.
Joseph's supervision.
I Maybe if they'd been in school uniforms You know, we let them wear what they want on field trips.
Will we find them? Soon? If the boys stuck together and we have a little luck, I hope.
Oh, ah! [LAUGHS.]
And I talked to the young lady you met at Ascension Day, and she would be honored to sing at your wedding.
I gave her your number.
Oh, that's a bit of good news on a terrible night.
Thank you, Father, for arranging that.
And with everything else that you have to do.
In the middle of crisis, life goes on Something our work teaches both of us.
Oh! And here's her ring bearer.
[CHUCKLES.]
Yeah, well, one of 'em.
Hey, Father Stan.
I'd I'd hate to interrupt, but Mom has to eat.
I'm trying to get my appetite back.
Ah, yeah.
This was a tough flu.
At one point, almost a third of our students were out sick.
Poor Julio's mother.
I'm stopping by his house tomorrow.
Please remind him that we are here if he needs us.
And if you hear anything about these boys, anything at all [INHALES DEEPLY.]
Uh[SIGHS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
They didn't have the salad you wanted, so I got that, uh horrible broccoli-carrot-quinoa thing that you like and a little bit of chicken soup.
Maybe you'll be better by your doctor's appointment tomorrow.
[INHALES SHARPLY.]
All right.
Are you kidding me? They put mustard on my hamburger bun without asking me.
Why would anybody do that? Sorry.
Sorry, Sharon.
I just feel like nothing has been going right for me today at all.
Did Gus ever call you back or respond to any of your text messages? No, no, um but his boss, Aiden, posted four Instagram photos of them at a club in San Francisco, dancing.
You are following Gus'boss on Instagram? Yeah.
Yeah.
I am, and I'm not proud of it.
But those Instagram photos explain Gus' complete lack of communication with me over the past four days.
Clearly, there's stuff that he doesn't want to tell me, and now he doesn't have to.
Maybe call again anyway.
I want to, to hear him explain why he's been avoiding me, but I'm not gonna hunt him down.
So, they were last seen moving in this direction, past the yellow school buses, where the other kids did not go, so it gives us a fighting chance.
- Prep for search! - [DOG GROWLS.]
Let's start with our missing diabetic, see where that takes us.
SARA: I don't understand why you want to look in the one place we know he's not.
If Lucas were home, we wouldn't need you! Ms.
Garza, Dr.
Garza, if the boys made a plan to skip the field trip, we might find proof of that in Lucas' room - or on devices he uses.
- [SCOFFS.]
Lucas may have hid something in your house.
His situation is We feel it's urgent.
Sara, it's been 13 hours.
Okay, we have to help them.
Lucas' room is is this way.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
JONAS: Watch your step, Lieutenant.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
Check out these classrooms, please.
Let's see This is Miguel's.
Ryan's is over here.
I doubt you'll find anything but what other kids keep in their lockers.
[LOCK JOSTLES IN DISTANCE.]
They know we can open these at any time, so they're not really a safe place to stash Father, I'm conducting this search, not you stand aside.
Now.
- I'm just trying to help, Lieutenant.
- Mm-hmm.
No reason to be annoyed.
So, tell me, Father, would any other kid at your school have a Mexican drug cartel bracelet in his locker? DANIELLA: I told you already I had no idea Hector was a gangster.
In fact, part of the reason I married Hector was so Ryan could have a good guy around the house, and that was a mistake.
Where'd you think Hector's money came from? He had money, right? He said he was in the import-export business, which I don't know nothing about.
I [SCOFFS.]
I understand the codes hospitals use for billing insurance, and that's it.
Hector fell from here? Or jumped? One or the other.
The police weren't sure, a-and I wasn't here.
Uh-huh.
How tall was he? The Death Report says 5'7".
About.
Maybe, yeah.
So, he fell, huh? [CHUCKLES.]
How? Did he, like, get drunk, walk on the balcony's edge, hang from it by his feet? Ryan was here at the time? In his room.
He didn't even know anything had happened till the police knocked on the door.
Where was Ian, your first husband, Ryan's father? I have no idea.
What about a last name, a date of birth? We'd like to notify Ian that Ryan is missing.
Let me look.
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE.]
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[DOG GROWLS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
Okay, I need you guys to check the backyard, those hedges, the garage, the roof.
They're not here.
Excuse me, shouldn't you be out there, looking in the streets or or the trains or or something instead of our backyard? Sir? Sir? Oh.
Right.
Yes? You're finally deporting these people? I've only been calling 'em in for five years.
L.
A.
P.
D.
, sir.
I need you to get off the wall - and step away - I'm standing on my own property.
If you interfere with this investigation, you'll standing in front of a booking camera with a slate beneath your neck.
[LAUGHS.]
[SPEAKING SPANISH.]
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH.]
Excuse me, why don't you want us to look under the floor of your closet? Oh, you [STAMMERS.]
you speak Spanish? Claro.
Officers! [POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
SKYES: Ooh, this is This is a lot of oxy to keep in your garage, Doctor.
Do you have a prescription for all this? You swore to me that you had stopped, that you had gotten rid of everything! I did get rid of everything.
What is that she's holding then?! - I forgot that stuff was there, okay? - Oh, my God! Mateo! If you're using again after all that we have been through.
This is not the issue here.
You've only been out of rehab for two weeks.
- Does Lucas know? - Would you just shut up?! Good God, Sara! Just shut up! Can you concentrate on Lucas for just one minute?! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Do the two of your argue like this in front of your son? TAO: I don't see any signs of a struggle.
But the dogs say the boys were here.
[DOG WHINES.]
[DOG BARKS.]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
EMILIO: Hey Hey, look, it it's no crime to have cash in your house.
About how much? Close to a million dollars, sir.
It's exactly a million dollars, and every penny of it is legally ours.
Why are you taking the money instead of bringing back my son? [SPEAKS SPANISH.]
[TRUNK POPS.]
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[CAR HONKS IN DISTANCE.]
- [CELLPHONE CHIMES.]
- [SIGHS.]
Come on.
Let's get this over with.
[TRUCK UNLATCHES.]
Well, if the boys were here, they weren't in this car.
[CHIMES.]
- So, what do we have? - Not much.
All three boys were tracked to the same place, but their scent didn't go beyond the traffic circle.
So someone was waiting for them, picked them up, and drove them away.
NOLAN: It could have been Ryan's biological father, Ian Nuñez.
He's tried to pick his son up before.
FLYNN: Or some gang banger who knew that Ryan and his friends were rich.
BUZZ: But would whoever grabbed them have known how much Lucas needed insulin? Well, we have a lot more drug-related materials to discuss here a full bag of opiates, a dead cartel member, a million bucks in cash, and, oh, let's not forget the Catholic Church and Father Jonas, who was apparently very close to these boys.
Commander it's your call.
But I believe we need to get photos of these boys out to the media as soon as possible, 'cause they didn't just vanish off the face of the Earth.
No, they did not.
It's beginning to look like they were abducted.
It started as a yearly field trip organized by the diocesis High school.
When it was over, three teenage boys under the direct supervision of the Catholic Church were missing.
Only two months after the death of Ryan's stepfather a gang member with connections to a Mexican drug cartel The three teenagers vanished with so-called Dreamer Miguel Diaz, originally from Tamaulipas, the Mexican state with the highest kidnapping rate The boy who grew up here, Lucas Garza, is a Type-A diabetic and, without his insulin, could already be another casualty of the upswing in hate crimes against Latinos and Lots of different theories.
I don't care what the media says as long as they get the boys' faces out there.
The million in cash - That bothers me.
- We're already looking into it, Chief.
But what about my request for more specialized personnel? I have a young expert in your Murder Room right now catching up with the investigation.
One expert? But worth many times that.
Detective Camila Paige was a go-to utility hitter - when I headed C.
I.
- Mm-hmm.
She transferred to Missing Persons a year-and-a-half ago and has become exceptional at finding teenagers.
[INDISTINCT TALKING.]
Two cautionary things Detective Paige is still working out how to be a part of a team, and her manner is Excuse me, Commander, mind if I ask why no one here's trying to tap the phones of these families yet? And you must be Detective Camila Paige.
Oh.
Sorry.
I should've started by Yes, I'm Detective Paige.
Very happy that you requested me, Commander, and hopeful I can contribute so much at stake.
Yes, we have three young boys who may be depending on us to save their lives.
Warrants for wires take time, but Narcotics can get this done much faster than we can, Chief.
Well, let me push the process.
If someone makes a ransom demand or the boys call in, - we need to know.
- Thank you.
I'd also like to talk to the girl uh what's her name from next door to the undocumented family Kelly Garret's father won't let her talk to us, and we have no means of coercing him, so we are surveilling their house in case the girl steps out on her own.
- This way, please.
- Uh, Mom.
Mom! - Yeah? - Your doctor's appointment It's in 40 minutes.
- Oh, I'm gonna go in later.
- Wait! No, no, no! Look, I-I can call Andrea and just ask her if I can run you there and back really fast.
Rusty, if Lucas Garza hasn't taken his insulin, his situation is far worse than mine.
And I'm fine.
I'm better.
I am.
ALEXA: We only have so much capital.
A-And we have to buy whatever Lieutenants Flynn and Tao, Buzz, this is Detective Camila Paige from Missing Persons.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- She is an expert in locating teenagers.
- Hi.
- Greetings.
Miguel's parents are trying to explain the million dollars we found.
been taxed through our daughter's company.
Which she has a right to own, because she's an American citizen.
Yeah, well, let me tell you about the other four times that I found a million dollars hidden in someone's house.
The first time, it was drugs.
Second time, it turned out to be drugs.
The third time, well, we discovered that it was drugs.
The fourth time Hmm.
Was it drugs? You know, yeah.
[CHUCKLING.]
I think it was.
M-M-Maybe we we should get a lawyer.
Well, now, that's interesting, because everyone else I found with a million dollars, they wanted an attorney, too.
What a coincidence.
- This is just - You can't pay for a lawyer - with the money we found in your house.
- You listen The only drugs that we have are the ones that you take for a headache or a cold.
If someone knew you had a million dollars in your house and was demanding a ransom for your No one kidnapped Miguel because we have money.
We left Mexico because of all of the kidnappings.
Please, please, I'm begging you.
- You have to find our son.
- SHARON: She may have a point.
If you're looking for a kidnapping victim, Lucas Garza is the obvious target.
I looked it up, and if you're a professional athlete and need your knee fixed, Dr.
Garza or one of his associates is where you go.
BUZZ: Garza's rich, and if you know his parents have a million in cash, Miguel's valuable.
But why grab Ryan? His mom's got nothing.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that, too, and Ryan could have accidently set his friends up to be kidnapped just by talking about them to the wrong people, especially if he was dealing drugs on the side.
Well, we haven't found any gangster connections to Ryan.
Still, he had a cartel bracelet in his locker probably belonged to his stepdad.
It's Ryan's biological father we need to find now, if nothing else but to notify him.
Detective Paige, you get your wish.
I want you to go with Lieutenant Provenza Oh! I know him really well.
Hey, that's great news, Detective.
Now maybe you'd like to hear what the Commander would like you to do.
Oh, I know.
She wants us to try and talk to Marvin Garret's daughter, Kelly.
If the boys were planning something off-the-wall, then Lucas or Miguel might've told her.
She could have even picked them up.
Kelly has a driver's license, access to a car Detective Paige, thank you for so completely anticipating my orders.
Buzz, will you fill in for Julio again and go with the Lieutenant and Detective Paige? Sure.
Absolutely.
Great.
And I'll bring my camera, too, just in case Kelly talks to us.
Well, Mr.
and Mrs.
Diaz certainly seem genuine.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- Still, a million bucks in cash, well Cami? Cami! What are you doing here? [LAUGHS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
TAO: Good morning.
L.
A.
P.
D.
We need to search your offices, so buzz open the doors now.
I can't let those dogs in here.
Also, you can't look in any - Would you rather shut down for the day? - What? Look, you people don't understand.
- HIPAA protects - HIPAA doesn't apply to this warrant.
We can hold everyone here while your lawyers explain that.
That won't be necessary.
Hi.
I'm Dr.
Alan Redmond.
Is this about Lucas? Yes, it is.
Please, come in.
Right there.
[DOOR BUZZES.]
[DOG PANTING.]
Are you looking for something specific? The boys? Large amounts of cash? Where's Dr.
Garza's office? Right this way.
We don't keep large amounts of cash.
Most of our fees are collected from insurance companies, credit cards, checks.
- This is Dr.
Garza's office - Unh, unh.
Doctor, stand over there.
Okay.
TAO: When did you last see Lucas? Uh about three weeks ago.
Mrs.
Garza was working late.
Lucas came in and waited for her.
And where was Dr.
Garza at that time? His wife said he'd just got out of rehab two weeks ago, and he had a large stash of oxycodone at his house.
Any idea where that might have come from [DOG GROWLS, PANTING.]
It's clear.
The oxy? We encourage our patients to return the unused portion of their prescription painkillers.
I think that Mateo was You know, he was in a car accident three years ago, and he's been trying to recover, right? Look, he never operated on a patient under the influence.
And how does his opioid use have anything to do with why Lucas is missing? Did Lucas know his father had a drug problem? I'm not sure.
Mrs.
Garza is our office manager, and we thought She never talked about it.
All right, can you think of any reason why these boys might've stepped away from their field trip? PAIGE: Young love makes kids crazy.
He's a handsome, bright kid with a dangerous health problem.
She's trapped in the house with a father determined to keep them separated.
They had no choice but to fall for each other.
Their friends might've even helped them run off to get married.
You remember Elena, Lieutenant? I had to stop Elena from doing that very same thing when she was 16.
[CHUCKLES.]
Little Elena.
How is she? Not so little anymore sophomore at Stanford physics major, full ride.
Can you believe it? Now all five of them are either in or through college.
- You have five children? - No.
[SCOFFS.]
Five little brothers and sisters.
Cami's parents were killed by a drunk driver when she was 20.
She raised all the rest of her family pretty much on her own.
Uh I-I'm sorry.
I didn't know.
Lieutenant Provenza found the asshole.
Had three priors.
Can you believe it? Anyway, all the Paiges grew up happy and healthy, - and they still love you, Lieutenant.
- [CHUCKLES.]
And every Fourth of July, we talk about that barbecue where your clothes caught on fire.
[CHUCKLING.]
Never seen anyone so mad at a hot dog.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
[NORMAL VOICE.]
Oh, God.
This doesn't look good.
[INDISTINCT TALKING IN DISTANCE.]
Buzz! Buzz! Keep them away from us.
Yes, sir L.
A.
P.
D.
! We are not here to talk to you, so please just stay back, or I'm going to have to ask you to move to the end of block.
Officers, please.
Thank you.
We appreciate you being here.
Please, just keep moving back.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- Thank you.
[DOOR BELL CHIMES.]
- Yeah? - L.
A.
P.
D.
We'd like to talk to you about some boys who have gone missing.
I'll tell you who needs to go missing the whole Diaz family.
You should be over there, getting rid of them, not bothering me.
Mr.
Garret, we apologize for the inconvenience, but do you mind if we ask your daughter just Leave Kelly out of this.
And you, you rude son of a bitch, I don't want you on my property.
PROVENZA: Mr.
Garret, I don't think you understand, sir.
Your neighbor's son, Miguel Diaz, is missing with two of his friends Lucas Garza and Ryan Rojas.
Now, we're just here to canvass the neighborhood.
Oh, my God.
Dad, please! - We We We should talk to them! - Kelly! Kelly, my name is Detective Camila Paige.
Call the L.
A.
P.
D.
and ask for me, Camila Paige Go back to your room, young lady - and we can talk! - and stay there! Now! And you people, don't come back on my property - without a warrant! - We have three missing boys, sir.
This is a crisis.
You call it a crisis.
I call it a good start.
Cami I appreciate your initiative, but do not go around yelling things like "Call me" while I'm standing there unless I say so.
Oh! And neither of you open your mouths while I make this jerk's life as hard as I possibly can.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
Excuse me.
I am Lieutenant Provenza, L.
A.
P.
D.
, and I would like to announce that due to his refusal to cooperate with the L.
A.
P.
D.
's search for these missing 15 year olds, the Diaz's next-door neighbor, Mr.
Marvin Garret G-A-R-R-E-T just became a person of interest in the case of the St.
Joseph's Three.
- Lieutenant Provenza - [INDISTINCT CLAMORING.]
REPORTER: Does this mean the Catholic Church is no longer part of the investigation? We're not ruling out anyone, any place, or any organization.
REPORTER 2: What about forced deportation or hate crimes Any possibility of these I just answered that when I said we're not ruling anything out.
Next.
REPORTER 3: Is there any truth to the rumor that Ryan Rojas' stepfather, Hector Padilla, is a courier for the Mexican drug cartel? I have no idea.
Mr.
Padilla has been dead for two months, so we know these boys are not with him.
Excuse me, excuse me.
That's all.
[MONITOR CLICKS, BEEPS.]
Lieutenant, you care to explain why you took it upon yourself to brief the media without permission from me? Mm, not really.
[PAPERS RUSTLE.]
But since you ask, Marvin Garret was not just uncooperative.
He was obstructive.
There are lives at stake here, Chief, and if that jerk won't talk to us, let's see how he likes the attention of some of L.
A.
's finest journalists.
The hunt for these boys is an L.
A.
P.
D.
investigation, not a press opportunity, and so you know, I was just on the phone with Bishop Calhoun, who the press contacted after your little briefing, and he was furious that you didn't rule out - the Catholic Church.
- Well, how could I do that? These three 15 year olds have a very special relationship with a priest in their school.
Father Jonas actively tried to stop me from looking into the locker of Ryan Rojas.
I don't think Chief Mason objects to us investigating the Church, Lieutenant.
I think he objects to us saying that out loud to the media.
FLYNN: Good luck controlling the press.
We've got journalists staked out in front of every one of the boys' homes.
Typical death watch.
We're not there yet, Mike.
We're passed the 24-hour mark no ransom demands over our wires and no word from the boys.
And nothing on any of their devices or their e-mail servers, and nothing on any social-media platforms.
We're not at a dead end yet.
The Ian Nuñez brought in by Patrol is definitely Ryan's father.
Wes is bringing him up.
Where'd they find him? Working the counter at his father-in-law's - marijuana dispensary.
- Drugs again.
Mr.
Nuñez doesn't seem to know what's going on with his son.
According to Patrol, he came willingly - No questions asked.
- Why? What does he think this is about? Look, I can get her, like, a third of the child support.
That'd be, like, $20,000 almost a third.
But, I mean, there's no reason to arrest me.
That'd That'd make it harder on everybody.
SHARON: If you have $20,000 in cash, why not just give it to your ex-wife? Because it's never enough.
Yeah.
Like, with Daniella, when I see her, whenever I slip her some bills, she's all like, "What am I supposed to do with $500?" And, "Where are you? Why don't you ever see your son?" Which is not true, because I spent two whole days with him in Disneyland.
And you know what? She didn't thank me or anything.
Because you picked him up from school - without telling her? - No.
No, I'm not talking about that time.
No, um, that was when he was seven.
No, this is, uh more recent.
Yeah, like, I-I called, I set it up, I came to the house, I picked him up.
Yeah, the kid had a blast.
SHARON: More recently when? Uh, when Uh, wow.
That was a while back.
Uh, yeah, like, uh you know, Ryan was 12.
But you've seen him since, though, right just two weeks ago? SHARON: Let me jog your memory.
You when to St.
Joseph of Nazareth and tried to take Ryan out of class, - which caused a - Whoa, wow.
Really? That nosey priest said all that, huh? Okay, okay.
Well, look.
Let me tell you something about Father Jonas.
Oh, by all means, Ian.
Tell us everything about Father Jonas.
Yeah, that name keeps popping up.
Let me tell you the story from the beginning.
I went to St.
Joseph's because Ryan he was looking me up, like, online, and he posted something on my Facebook page.
And that's a problem why? [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Yeah.
Because All right, look, um I got three other kids with my new wife, Angela.
It's kind of funny.
[LAUGHS.]
I just haven't really gotten around to telling Angie about my other son.
I mean, she hasn't heard about Ryan at all, and if she found out on Facebook, you know Oh, my God.
Really? And just like that, we have another suspect.
At this point, who isn't a suspect? on my page again, you know, because I-I I can't be monitoring my Facebook all day.
He was posting shit like, "Yo, when are you gonna give Mom a little money," right? T-This was after, um Hector, he took that leap, you know, and he fell or whatever he did, and and they were hurting for cash.
So, Ryan posted on your Facebook page, then you came to school, then you tried to pull him from a class.
Yeah, to give the little man some money $300.
That is a lot of cash for a 15-year-old kid.
And Father Jonas stopped you.
Yeah, and he called the guards.
He called the guards, and he had me kicked out of the building, and for what? It ain't illegal to offer your own kid $300.
That is a good thing a good thing.
Okay, where were you yesterday between 10:00 a.
m.
and 3:00 p.
m.
? What were you doing during those hours? Why? [SCOFFS.]
What's the problem, Ian? What, you don't remember where you were? No, no.
Let me just Let me just think about that, man.
So You're just suddenly getting in my face, asking me where I was and all that, and just, it's, like, sounding serious.
It is serious, Ian.
Yesterday, your son and two of his friends went missing on a school field trip.
What? Your son has disappeared, sir, and we're trying to find him.
No, no, no.
He ain't disappeared, man.
He just ran away from Mama or he's probably with, - uh Father Jonas - No, he isn't.
Ian, no, he isn't! We need you to tell us where you were - Okay.
- yesterday morning.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Just hold on, all right? I was, um I was I was hanging out at the beach, okay? Yeah, I was hanging out at the beach.
It was my day off, my my wife was at work, the kids were were with their grandparents, and, um yeah, I was just chilling with a-a-a jug of mojitos at Matador.
Anyone see you at Matador? You speak to anyone while you were there? No.
I was by myself.
- Doing what? - Uh, doing what? Uh[LAUGHING.]
I was just watchin' waves, you know, laying back, reading a book.
What book? [STAMMERS.]
"Valley of the Dolls.
" Yeah, it was my wife's book.
I borrowed it.
It, uh, sounded like fun.
Who are some of the characters in that book, "Valley of the Dolls"? Characters.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
- Where is she? - Interview Room 1.
I need to talk to her.
Buzz.
Uh D.
D.
A.
Hobbs says she needs you to step out into the hallway, if you can.
All right, Ian, you know what? We want you to sign a consent form.
Let us search your house.
Wait, you got to what? No.
What for? What do you got to search my house for? To prepare you for the very difficult conversation you're about to have with your wife.
No.
No.
No way.
No.
You want to search my house, you get a warrant.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
I've come from a meeting at the D.
A.
's office, where we've ordered bodyguards for Emma Rios, and we're recommending them for Rusty.
What? Based on a death report of Carolyn Sayles from Scottsdale, Arizona, age 72 What? In perfect health until she lost her balance while hiking a canyon and fell down 400 feet.
Why is Carolyn Sayles so important to this case? It's not this case.
Ms.
Sayles was once stepmother to Phillip Stroh.
Ohh.
RUSTY: Five deaths.
Three could be coincidental.
But five makes a pattern.
Yes, I think so.
Andrea thinks so, too.
I don't get it.
Stroh made a clean getaway.
No one has spotted him anywhere, have they? No, but he's been known to work through third parties, or in concert with them, anyway.
So four accidents and a suicide equals protection for Emma, Brenda, and me.
And I may add Linda Rothman to that list, because she was Stroh's attorney for a while, and it didn't work out.
Look, all of these deaths were several months apart.
I-I don't think that I need an S.
I.
S.
security detail yet, but, Sharon, I can't just sit back and let this happen to me again.
- Meaning? - Meaning I'd like to be more proficient in protecting myself.
More proficient in protecting yourself in what way? FLYNN: Uh sorry to interrupt, but you have to go.
- I'll drive.
- I'll drive.
I'm back almost 100%.
Yeah, but I can't be in the field unless I'm with my commanding officer.
So let me take you.
"In the field"? What's happened? [BELL TOLLING.]
- How long? - [CAR DOOR CLOSES.]
I'm not sure.
The gardener called it in 20 minutes ago, but the body has obviously been here since sometime last night.
[TOLLING CONTINUES.]
[INSECTS BUZZING.]
PROVENZA: Well here's our diabetic.
Now, what I'd like to know is where are the other two boys? That, Lieutenant, is, um [VOICE BREAKING.]
It's an excellent question.