The Closer s06e11 Episode Script
Old Money
So I'm not saying that everything is great.
But I promise you, everything gets better.
Anyway, look, thank you for letting me share tonight.
If you get nothing else out of my qualification just remember this: don't drink, even if your ass is falling off.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.
Amen.
Keep coming back.
It works if you work it.
Hey, that was a, uh - What do you call it? It's a - Oh, oh.
- Qualification.
- Right.
Yeah, thanks, kid.
I'm glad you liked it.
You been in the program a while? A little over 14 years now.
How about you? Yeah, I just I was I was wondering how all this works.
This must be your first meeting, huh? I don't know.
I just feel like I'm in such a deep hole.
I don't know how to dig myself out.
- Am I taking up too much of your time? - No.
Not at all.
Keep going.
All right.
After my wife divorced me, she, like, turned my parents against me.
They think I've blown it, you know, losing my marriage and my career.
But, um I don't know.
I mean, never, ever, ever drinking again? I All right.
Listen, kid.
You don't think about it that way.
You just think, " I'm not gonna have a drink today.
" That's it.
Hey, why don't we go across the street I'll buy you a cup of coffee and we'll keep talking? Um, no.
No, I, um Thank you for the offer, but I just I don't know if I can do this yet.
- Sorry.
- Sure.
Nice meeting you.
And, uh, if you change your mind, I'm here next week.
- I'm really sorry.
- Not a problem.
Hey.
Keep coming back.
Captain Raydor.
It's Lieutenant Flynn.
Yeah.
This is your lucky day.
Lieutenant, sit down.
You've lost more blood than you know.
You're in shock.
I'm not going anywhere until I give my statement.
Let them do their job, lieutenant.
- Yeah, right after I do mine.
- Okay, hurry up.
He used this.
My attacker.
Was white, six feet.
Asshole.
I discharged my weapon.
So you're gonna want my gun.
Here.
Take it.
There's one in the chamber.
Six in the mag.
And two in that son of a bitch.
I double tapped, so he couldn't have gone far.
He ran off over - Whoa - Okay.
He better wake up.
Need that.
Thank you.
This is Captain Sharon Raydor.
Put out a hospital alert for Southern California.
So there is a hell.
You're not there yet, lieutenant.
- It's the only one they had in the shop.
- It's okay.
- Doesn't matter because I'm not staying.
- Yes, you are.
You've got 30 stitches in your side alone.
Lay back.
Are you comfortable? Yeah, I'm fine, chief.
Good, because I've got some questions for you.
- Like who would wanna kill me? - Lots of people, I'm sure.
- But who would go to the trouble? - I have no idea.
You're positive you didn't know the guy? I've never seen him before in my life.
I was leaving an AA meeting when this young man, around 30 came up to talk to me.
I mean, definitely not the attacker.
Now, I don't I didn't think anything of it at the time but, uh, this newbie, he hung out until everyone else was gone.
Okay.
Lieutenant, I'm gonna need to take a peek at the AA logbook or sign-in sheet - There is no sign-in sheet.
It's anonymous.
Hasn't your husband told you about how AA works? All right, then.
So the guy that was waiting for you did you at least get his first name? - No.
No, I didn't.
I watched him walk out.
Then I went out to my car and then - Oh, damn.
Look at me.
- You should see the other guy.
Captain Raydor.
Have you found Lt.
Flynn's assailant? The hospital alert didn't show anybody.
But a crime broadcast found a white male shot in the chest, left by the road in San Bernardino.
We've ID'd him as Bobby Harris.
Never heard of him.
All right, misdemeanor car theft, out on probation three days ago.
I had a detective in San Bernardino e-mail me his photo.
Is this the man who attacked you? I should mention that if you positively ID the victim then this case becomes mine right now.
On the other hand, if you don't recognize this man then this case will be investigated by Major Crimes.
So bearing all of that in mind, is this the man who tried to kill you? It is hard to say.
It all happened so fast.
Very good.
Uh, you will be needing this.
This is the knife from the crime scene.
Good luck, chief.
Thank you so much, Captain Raydor.
That's definitely the guy.
That gash on his face was from the wiper blade I No, no, no.
You've never seen that man before.
Yes, I have, chief.
That's the guy.
I don't want you to ID anybody until you're in a better state of mind.
Wait until Capt.
Raydor comes back with the results from Ballistics then you can ID him.
Hey, lieutenant.
Oh, hey, David.
- Oh, you don't look too bad.
- Heh.
Chief, I just ran into Captain Raydor out in the hallway and she said hello to me.
She's up to something.
Is there any, uh, leads on your attacker? - No.
- Yes.
Well, now that we've got that settled, I'm going to San Bernardino to search Dead Bobby Harris' home.
Come on, Gabriel.
- I'll fill you in on the way.
- Feel better.
Well I'm leaving too.
You take care.
And, um keep your hands off the nurses.
Chief? Dead Bobby Harris was living above his mother's garage.
Mom didn't want him under the same roof.
He didn't have a car either.
We checked his mom's SUV, no blood.
So how he got to San Bernardino, we don't know.
Maybe the guy who was stalling Lt.
Flynn at his meeting picked up Bobby after he was shot and dumped the body in San Bernardino.
- What's in the bag? - Oh, uh, $37,500.
Cash.
We found this in the closet in Bob's apartment.
This guy didn't need to rob Flynn.
He was lying in wait, chief.
Tao.
Tao, I already counted this.
- You heard Gabriel.
There's 37 - I'm not counting it.
- Then what? - Due to counterfeiting our currency got a series of facelifts over the past 12 years.
All these bills are from the old design from before 1998.
And when you take into account the Secretary of Treasury signatures all this cash might even be earlier.
See? This is a stack of Nicholas F.
Brady's.
Uh, 1988 to 1993.
Ohh.
A Lloyd Bentsen.
Very rare.
So an ex-con, three days out of jail, with a bag of cash from the 1990s.
- Someone paid this guy to kill Lt.
Flynn.
- I'm in violent agreement.
What? I was just thinking that maybe it'd be a good idea for me to come with you to some of your AA meetings.
Really.
You wanna spend time getting to know that part of my life? I do.
I do.
And I had a sketch artist sit down with Andy last night.
- Mm-hm.
- And they came up with a composite of the man that he was talking to after his AA meeting.
- I thought, you know, perfect timing.
- This has nothing to do with me and everything to do with work.
- Why can't it be both? I got a better idea.
If you're honestly, truthfully interested in spending more free time with me - I am.
That was the whole point of - Listen.
Listen.
Shh.
One second.
Listen.
As a liaison to the L.
A.
P.
D I could pass on some highly classified info to you.
- Mm-hm.
- But you'd have to get in bed with me for five minutes to hear it.
Five minutes? Well, this clearly isn't gonna be about me.
Oh, but that's how good the information is.
Uh-huh.
But, you know I'm not supposed to talk.
Okay, you broke me.
Heh.
- Now that Tommy Delk - Uh-huh.
has been sworn in as the new chief people are telling me, they're gonna offer you Pope's job.
That's why Captain Raydor let me go first last night.
You could be her boss.
She's doing some preemptive ass-kissing.
I know you don't like Will, but he's my friend.
I can never take his job away from him.
- You're not taking it.
You've earned it - It's horrible news.
Do you not think Will Pope would've walked over you if it meant he could've been chief? Hey, you promised me five minutes.
Well, I didn't say when.
Did I? I followed the money, double-checked it.
All old paper, 1988 to 1995.
So I pulled all of Flynn's convictions during those years.
Slide.
And since Dead Bob got out of jail three days ago we cross-referenced everyone else coming through the system.
Maybe someone on the inside sent Bob on a mission.
Slide.
Martin Lawson, murdered his mother.
He was convicted in June of '94.
He came at Flynn in court swore his brothers would get Flynn for calling his mama ugly.
That's what got him talking.
Flynn is the guy that broke him.
By the way, his mother was ugly.
What are you doing here? You've got over 30 stitches.
Look, if you're trying to find somebody connected to me don't you think you have a better chance identifying them with my help? Chief, don't worry.
He won't do much.
Like usual.
It's just until we make the guy and then Flynn is going home.
Lieutenant Flynn, you can stay.
As soon as you make the ID, you leave.
Slide.
Slide.
Whoa, whoa.
Back that thing up.
There.
That's Rick Zuman.
Yeah.
He dealt coke and laundered money in the 90's.
He offed two of his business partners.
I got his bookkeeper to flip on his alibi.
What was his m.
o? Oh, well, Ricky boy would, uh, find a mark get some front money from them for a big cocaine buy and promise to double their investment by selling it.
When his partners came looking for their share he'd make sure they died of an overdose.
The feds had an informant.
Gave him $400,000 in marked bills to make a deal with Rick.
Yeah, but the informant went missing.
They never found the body or the cash.
Rick went to jail in '96.
This money's from '95 and before.
Maybe this is some of the FBI cash.
How did Zuman get his conviction overturned? It's gotta be some technicality because this creep's as guilty as sin.
Still, on appeal, he would have been in county lockup waiting for his retrial.
Which means that Zuman and Dead Bob were there at the same time.
Lieutenant Provenza, would you please get Rick Zuman's jail movement records? I wanna find out who his friends might have been.
Maybe one of them was Dead Bob or the young man Flynn met at his AA meeting.
Lieutenant Flynn, did Rick have any special reason to hate you? - I don't know.
Did you assault, threaten or irritate him in any way? Uh, well, when we convicted Rick I told him that I knew that he'd killed that FBI informant and that I was going to dedicate my life to proving it.
And then what did you do? I don't know.
Something else came up.
If Zuman is in county, let me go down and talk to him.
No, no, no.
You are not going anywhere.
Detective Gabriel, Detective Sanchez, let's get Zuman down here for a chat.
Let's see how surprised he is to see Lieutenant Flynn standing upright.
Love the new place, guys.
Congratulations on winning that award for best new building in Los Angeles.
Do you feel this place makes you more, um, productive? Shut up.
Lieutenant Flynn.
Good to see you looking so well.
Oh, I spoke too soon.
- What happened? - Some guy brought a knife to a gunfight.
I gather you had the gun.
You know it's illegal to question me without my attorney.
I love that you guys are doing something illegal.
Always nice to meet someone who understands their rights.
Once you've had them taken away, you appreciate them more.
That's a waiver.
Now you're on the record, Mr.
Zuman.
Keep talking, Ricky, just keep talking.
Well, I'm glad you feel that way, Mr.
Zuman.
- But - Please.
Call me Rick.
All right, Rick.
You should know that you are my number one suspect in the attempted murder of Lt.
Flynn.
Well, I have a great alibi if it happened any time in the last 15 years.
But anything I can do to help You could let me knock that smug grin off your face.
Do you know Bob Harris? He was in county with you up until about three days ago.
I am horrible with names.
Much better with faces.
I try not to get too close to anyone.
One minute they're here and the next, poof.
Maybe this picture will jog your memory.
Yeah.
This is not really how people look in jail.
Maybe if you had something of him in an orange or blue uniform.
Orange is more lockdown, blue is kind of a general population vibe.
Besides, what motive would I possibly have for wanting Lieutenant Flynn dead? Other than the fact that he manipulated evidence, intimidated a witness and perjured himself to have me sentenced to death.
- Heh.
- Now, why would he do that? - Ask him.
Or the federal government.
You operate a successful business like mine and people assume you're laundering money and selling coke.
By the way, how do you like the cartels, hmm? Everything better now that the Mexican Mafia's running the show? I wouldn't know.
I deal mainly with homicide.
Why have you been back in county for so long? New trial.
My appeal was granted a couple years ago but the judge keeps extending the People's case so they can make up for the witness they lost.
What witness did we lose? Floria Stenzel.
Remember her, lieutenant? My bookkeeper you coerced into contradicting my alibi? Coerced? That is a hundred percent crap.
Well, bless her soul, Floria found God.
And, uh, as part of her amends You know something about amends, don't you, lieutenant? As part of her amends, she has withdrawn the wickedly false statements you pressured her into making against me.
No, no, lieutenant.
Let me.
I know a little something about amends too, Rick.
Rick.
That's AA language, which makes me think that you've been looking into Lt.
Flynn's life.
And I don't like that.
Let me tell you real quick what's gonna happen when you go back to county.
They're gonna put you straight into solitary confinement so you won't be able to communicate with anybody.
And while you're in there, I'll be out here looking for the person or persons that you paid to kill Lieutenant Flynn.
And when I find them, you're gonna come back in here.
You're gonna tell me everything I wanna know.
You understand me? Chief, Captain Raydor's here.
Don't let me keep you.
You knew about these charges claiming that Lt.
Flynn threatened a witnesses and you didn't say anything about it? By law, I can't tell you.
Forcefully intimidating a witness is a serious and confidential accusation.
We can't just tell the suspect.
I almost get killed and I'm a suspect? You've just been pretending to be helpful here so you can investigate Andy, right? No, that is not right.
I didn't know the Rick Zuman case was connected to the attempt on Lieutenant Flynn's life until today.
The minute you found out, you should have told me.
No.
I couldn't.
Okay, here is how it works.
Every time we get a defense request for a Pitchess motion we are required, by law, to look into the history of the accused officer's behavior without notifying him or his division.
Most officers' packages, lieutenant, are about this big.
Yours is huge.
It's crammed with accusations.
Exonerated of every charge.
But your history lends credence to Rick Zuman's case and to Floria's new testimony.
Well, Floria's lying.
She found God.
I bet she found him under a big wad of old money.
That may be so.
But in the meantime, we are going to precisely follow the law.
- Okay, here we go.
- Yes, here we go.
Ballistics came back.
Lieutenant Flynn's bullets did match those in Bob Harris.
So this is officially an officer-involved shooting.
Also, you can no longer participate in the investigation of Rick Zuman because he will claim that you will once again stack the deck against him.
I'm not leaving.
She's right.
You need to go home.
Get some rest.
Okay? Let me handle this.
That man, Rick Zuman, tried to kill him.
If you can prove that my witness tampering investigation of Lieutenant Flynn would be over.
Okay, good.
Then help me.
I want everything you have on Floria Stenzel.
This is her basic information and everything else is confidential.
And you cannot ask her anything about her upcoming testimony.
I'm not gonna ask her anything about anything.
- No? - No.
Floria Stenzel's gonna come talk to me.
- Come in.
- Why was I not informed about? How's Lieutenant Flynn? - He's home.
- Resting.
Good.
Proceed with your outrage.
Why was I not informed of Captain Raydor's investigation into Lt.
Flynn? Because I didn't know anything about it until you just said that.
Oh.
Why was I not informed about the DA's retrial of Rick Zuman? - Who's Rick Zuman? - A convicted murderer.
He's getting a retrial because he says Lt.
Flynn lied and intimidated a witness.
- He filed a complaint.
- Oh, that Rick Zuman.
Yeah.
Last year, there were 4999 complaints filed so I'm not on a first name basis with everybody who's awaiting a retrial.
Fill me in.
Oh, okay.
Uh, in 1995, Rick Zuman had a bunch of nightclubs he used to launder the money he made selling cocaine.
He also periodically killed his business partners.
Now, Flynn's brilliant police work helped put this creep behind bars for two of those murders.
But then suddenly, this Zuman gets a retrial because out of the blue, the witness against him, this Floria Stenzel she claims Flynn forced her to back out of Rick's alibi.
Did Flynn do that? Don't tell me.
I don't wanna know that.
So Zuman gets a new trial? Yes, but not because of Andy Flynn.
I'm telling you, chief, somebody paid this woman to change her testimony.
She has no job, she maxed out her credit cards but she's been spending money like crazy.
New car.
Elective surgery.
And this is after she changed her testimony.
- Can we prove somebody paid her? - No.
- Which is why I need a protection detail.
- For whom? Floria Stenzel.
- Protection from whom? - Us.
Hello.
This is Commander Taylor.
I'm Detective Gabriel.
We're from the L.
A.
P.
D.
Are you Floria Stenzel? Yes.
Our records indicate you're a witness in an upcoming trial.
California v.
Rick Zuman.
We're here to notify you that you might be in danger.
Why? I changed my testimony.
I recanted.
What reason would I have to be worried? I don't know too much about the case.
I just know you're the last witness we have left.
- We do not want to lose you.
- What do you mean "last witness"? The investigating officer was stabbed to death.
And another person connected to this Rick Zuman he was murdered a few days ago.
The good news is we do have a description of the suspect.
He is a Latino male, approximately 5'8 ", wearing a faded blue hoodie.
Was seen a few miles from here driving an old two-tone brown and tan Grand Prix.
You should be fully informed given the heinous nature of the recent murders.
If you don't mind, we need you to sign this form that states that you were notified and may be under threat of bodily harm, injury and even death.
Thank you.
- Here? - Mm-hm.
Thank you, ma'am.
And, uh, do you have any weapons in your home? Uh, no.
Should I? - No.
- No.
Um, absolutely not.
If you do have any problems or you see anyone matching the description we gave you please, for your own sake, give us a call.
All right? Well, thank you very much.
You have a good day.
Mm-hm.
That's her, Detective Sanchez.
Make sure you make eye contact.
- 911.
- Okay.
There is Ahem.
There is a man outside my house.
He is wearing a blue sweatshirt with a hoodie.
Calm down, say that again? I'm trying to figure out what your emergency is.
It's a Mexican.
It's a Mexican killer.
- Does he have a weapon, ma'am? - He is wearing a blue hoodie.
Okay, ma'am.
Please hold.
Ugh.
Hold on just a minute.
Lieutenant? - Provenza.
- This is L.
A.
P.
D.
We got a 911 call from a Floria Stenzel.
We were told to call before responding.
Yeah, don't send anyone over here and ignore her calls.
We've got Miss Stenzel's house under surveillance.
All right.
It's working.
Detective Sanchez, let's get into position for the big surprise.
It was him.
It was the guy with the blue hoodie.
It was him.
- It's a good thing we stopped by earlier.
- My God, he was right outside my door.
Oh, that's just terrible.
Horrible.
I'm sure.
You were right to call us.
Thank you for signing the consent form and allowing my detective to secure your home.
He'll make sure everything is safe for you and the $30,000 in old $20 bills we found in your dresser.
Look you can keep the money.
Yeah, I wanna go back to my original testimony against Rick Zuman.
I made a horrible mistake and, please, you have to help me.
There, huh? Happy now? She claims she was paid for her testimony but she's hardly the most reliable witness.
If I'm to close my investigation into Lieutenant Flynn I need to know who paid her.
I want to protect you, Floria, I do.
But until I know how you communicate with Zuman and where you got this money, there's not much I can do.
Okay.
There is this man.
Jeff.
He came to my house he offered me this money if I would go back to saying that Rick Zuman was with me during these murders.
That's it.
That's all I know.
There's a lot of people named Jeff in L.
A.
county.
Do you have a last name for me or a physical description? Maybe an astrological sign? That's all I know.
Okay.
Well, I heard you found God recently, Floria.
Maybe he'll protect you.
- I'll get an officer to take you back - Okay.
Wait.
Wait.
Jeff, the man who gave me this money, I have his cell phone number.
Floria gave up a name.
Jeff.
- Ring a bell? - No.
Thanks, Mike.
Excuse me, lieutenant.
Um, no offense, but I thought the chief said that you couldn't return to work.
- Well, we need Flynn to ID this guy - And then I'm out of here.
Fine.
I didn't see you.
But I would be looking out for Captain Raydor.
Raydor? Well, she knows we're here.
She's coming in herself in a minute.
Jeff, darling.
I hate to call you, but something has come up and, uh, I need to see you.
But you can't come to my house.
Yeah, you could meet me tomorrow at 4 p.
m.
in front of 412 Azalia Lane.
It's just, uh, two blocks from my house.
Yeah.
I'll be in a friend's Prius with the license plate El Buzzo.
I'll be wearing a scarf over my head, darling.
Bye.
- Floria, we can't keep me - Hi.
- Who the hell are you? You're not - Floria, I know.
But thanks for meeting me on such short notice, Jeff.
Yeah, she told me your name.
Floria told me things about you.
Oh, she's getting crumbs everywhere.
The car's self-parking, not self-cleaning.
That's the guy.
I'm Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.
L.
A.
P.
D.
That's the guy who I talked to after the AA meeting.
Well, thank you, lieutenant.
And as we agreed earlier, you can go home now.
Okay.
But I should tell you, I'm moving really slowly.
Floria told me you paid her to change her testimony in the Rick Zuman trial.
- I never gave Floria a dime.
- That's not even worth lying about.
But the real issue here is that someone tried to kill a friend of mine.
A police officer who's also due to testify in the Rick Zuman retrial? Lieutenant Andy Flynn.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Okay, before you completely freak out ask yourself this question first.
Like, why am I here instead of the back of a squad car? Why aren't I already under arrest for murder? I didn't kill anybody.
I wonder if Bob Harris would agree with you.
He's who you hired to kill Lieutenant Flynn? Isn't he? You know what I have in my purse? A warrant to search your car.
What if I used that warrant and found Bob's blood or his DNA in your vehicle? I didn't kill him.
I swear That cop shot him.
I just You just drove around for an hour.
Passed 30 hospitals until he bled out.
You dumped his body.
If it's not murder, it's the worst case of littering I've seen.
Okay, what do you want? - Okay? What do you want? - Now, that's the right question.
I want what you gave Bob and Floria.
Only I want a lot more of it.
A hundred thousand dollars.
- Oh.
- And then Rick Zuman goes on to retrial as planned.
Or I turn you in.
- I need time.
- You've got three hours.
You know what I don't understand, Jeff is why you care so much about Rick Zuman getting out of jail? You're free.
You know where the money is.
Some people care about more than just money.
Well, I'm not one of them.
You've got until 7 to get me that money.
Or the next time we talk, things will end differently.
Are the bags I gave him transmitting? Clear as day.
Good.
Then tell Lieutenant Provenza to swing by and pick up Rick Zuman.
See you later, Captain Raydor.
Drop the bag.
Put your hands in the air.
What's this about? Officers, please escort this gentleman downtown.
Special Agent Howard, would you like to examine those bills? Yes, I would.
Shouldn't we have waited until he delivered the money to Chief Johnson? If I were going to charge him with bribing a police officer, yes.
But under these circumstances, simply finding the FBI money ties Jeff to murder attempted murder and witness intimidation.
Not to mention a missing FBI informant who seems increasingly like a possible homicide victim.
- Some of these bills match up.
- Good.
I think this closes my case against Lieutenant Flynn for witness tampering.
And reopens a murder case of an FBI informant.
Ricky.
So sorry for all the boxes.
We're still moving into the new facility.
Have you met Andy Flynn's partner, Lt.
Provenza? He's been so looking forward to meeting you.
How's solitary been? Must be hard.
You don't seem to be a guy who likes to be alone.
- Now, why would you think that? - You're used to having company.
- While in county, you had 32 roommates.
- Some must have been special.
- Weren't they? - I'm not sure what you're getting at.
You wouldn't trust a stranger to kill Lieutenant Flynn.
Oh, my.
Has anyone ever explained to you the concept of ineffective repetition? Oh, I'm so sorry.
I forgot.
You're better with faces.
This is Jeff Darby.
He was your roommate for four months.
That's a long time.
Your next closest roommate lasted only three weeks.
Jeff must have been special.
Hmm.
Not really.
But you ate lunch together.
And he visited you, even after he got out.
You and Jeff roomed together as cellmates for 123 days straight.
In fact, you were more than just roommates.
Weren't you? You and Jeff formed a real bond between you.
If you're implying a physical relationship, okay.
- You were in love with Jeff Darby.
- Heh.
No.
But I'm in prison.
Jeff relieved the tedium.
Jeff feels differently.
In fact, he's been very cooperative.
Look, I'm not sure what lies Jeff's been telling you but he was obsessed with me.
At first, I felt sorry for him, but then he got all clingy.
To be fair, he's young and likes older guys.
I get it.
But in kind of the same way I feel about you I wish he'd just go away.
Now, can we wrap this up? I'd like to go now.
Okay.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute, Detective Sanchez.
How about? How about I bet you 20 bucks, I can get you to confess? Now you're embarrassing yourself.
Okay.
What if we raised the stakes? What if I bet you $100 you'd confess? I'd just be taking your money.
Hardly seems fair.
Chief, I think we should, uh, up the ante here a bit.
How about this? How about $10,000? You know what? Let's make it $400,000 I can get you to tell me everything I wanna know.
Fine.
I'll take that bet.
What do you got? Jeff Darby led me to your storage space.
Woo-hoo.
I'm a winner because I'm still not confessing.
Now, will you please pick up my money because when I'm free I'm going to count every single bill and make sure that you didn't slide a few of them into your cheap purse.
There's nothing illegal about a citizen keeping cash in a storage space.
Well, that's true.
Usually.
But all this money? It's marked.
You may not realize this, but in 1995 you took $400,000 from an FBI informant.
And every one of these old bills is completely traceable to him.
By saying this is your money, you confessed not only to money laundering, but to selling drugs and to bribing a witness and conspiracy to murder a police officer.
So woo-hoo, I win.
You owe me $400,000.
I'll tell you what, I'll give all this money back to the FBI you spend the rest of your life on death row and we'll call it even.
I thought that you might like this back.
Flynn's package.
He's completely cleared.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hm.
So, uh, what's been going on? Why have you been so nice? I could ask the same about you.
I've been nice? No, but cooperative.
I had a thought.
While Chief Delk is completing his transition plans maybe you and I could figure out a way for FID and Major Crimes to better share their cases.
Say, uh, over a I don't know.
Working lunch.
- Lunch? - Great, I'll set it up.
Oh.
Agent Howard.
By the way, nice working with you.
It was great.
And you, captain.
Is everything all right? I think so, yes.
I know you don't wanna hear this, but, uh you should really start thinking about which one of Pope's drawers you wanna fill up with candy.
That's not funny.
Brenda, come on.
It'd be great.
Besides, think about it.
Someone less qualified takes over from Pope, you'll be miserable.
So get ready.
Where do you wanna go? Where we going? One day, sooner than you think Chief Delk's gonna offer you the job of assistant chief of police.
What happened to chicken and waffles? I'm not going to that chicken and waffles place.
- So you better figure out what you want.
- Flynn.
So no chicken and waffles? I already know what I want.
What's that? Five more minutes.
But I promise you, everything gets better.
Anyway, look, thank you for letting me share tonight.
If you get nothing else out of my qualification just remember this: don't drink, even if your ass is falling off.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.
Amen.
Keep coming back.
It works if you work it.
Hey, that was a, uh - What do you call it? It's a - Oh, oh.
- Qualification.
- Right.
Yeah, thanks, kid.
I'm glad you liked it.
You been in the program a while? A little over 14 years now.
How about you? Yeah, I just I was I was wondering how all this works.
This must be your first meeting, huh? I don't know.
I just feel like I'm in such a deep hole.
I don't know how to dig myself out.
- Am I taking up too much of your time? - No.
Not at all.
Keep going.
All right.
After my wife divorced me, she, like, turned my parents against me.
They think I've blown it, you know, losing my marriage and my career.
But, um I don't know.
I mean, never, ever, ever drinking again? I All right.
Listen, kid.
You don't think about it that way.
You just think, " I'm not gonna have a drink today.
" That's it.
Hey, why don't we go across the street I'll buy you a cup of coffee and we'll keep talking? Um, no.
No, I, um Thank you for the offer, but I just I don't know if I can do this yet.
- Sorry.
- Sure.
Nice meeting you.
And, uh, if you change your mind, I'm here next week.
- I'm really sorry.
- Not a problem.
Hey.
Keep coming back.
Captain Raydor.
It's Lieutenant Flynn.
Yeah.
This is your lucky day.
Lieutenant, sit down.
You've lost more blood than you know.
You're in shock.
I'm not going anywhere until I give my statement.
Let them do their job, lieutenant.
- Yeah, right after I do mine.
- Okay, hurry up.
He used this.
My attacker.
Was white, six feet.
Asshole.
I discharged my weapon.
So you're gonna want my gun.
Here.
Take it.
There's one in the chamber.
Six in the mag.
And two in that son of a bitch.
I double tapped, so he couldn't have gone far.
He ran off over - Whoa - Okay.
He better wake up.
Need that.
Thank you.
This is Captain Sharon Raydor.
Put out a hospital alert for Southern California.
So there is a hell.
You're not there yet, lieutenant.
- It's the only one they had in the shop.
- It's okay.
- Doesn't matter because I'm not staying.
- Yes, you are.
You've got 30 stitches in your side alone.
Lay back.
Are you comfortable? Yeah, I'm fine, chief.
Good, because I've got some questions for you.
- Like who would wanna kill me? - Lots of people, I'm sure.
- But who would go to the trouble? - I have no idea.
You're positive you didn't know the guy? I've never seen him before in my life.
I was leaving an AA meeting when this young man, around 30 came up to talk to me.
I mean, definitely not the attacker.
Now, I don't I didn't think anything of it at the time but, uh, this newbie, he hung out until everyone else was gone.
Okay.
Lieutenant, I'm gonna need to take a peek at the AA logbook or sign-in sheet - There is no sign-in sheet.
It's anonymous.
Hasn't your husband told you about how AA works? All right, then.
So the guy that was waiting for you did you at least get his first name? - No.
No, I didn't.
I watched him walk out.
Then I went out to my car and then - Oh, damn.
Look at me.
- You should see the other guy.
Captain Raydor.
Have you found Lt.
Flynn's assailant? The hospital alert didn't show anybody.
But a crime broadcast found a white male shot in the chest, left by the road in San Bernardino.
We've ID'd him as Bobby Harris.
Never heard of him.
All right, misdemeanor car theft, out on probation three days ago.
I had a detective in San Bernardino e-mail me his photo.
Is this the man who attacked you? I should mention that if you positively ID the victim then this case becomes mine right now.
On the other hand, if you don't recognize this man then this case will be investigated by Major Crimes.
So bearing all of that in mind, is this the man who tried to kill you? It is hard to say.
It all happened so fast.
Very good.
Uh, you will be needing this.
This is the knife from the crime scene.
Good luck, chief.
Thank you so much, Captain Raydor.
That's definitely the guy.
That gash on his face was from the wiper blade I No, no, no.
You've never seen that man before.
Yes, I have, chief.
That's the guy.
I don't want you to ID anybody until you're in a better state of mind.
Wait until Capt.
Raydor comes back with the results from Ballistics then you can ID him.
Hey, lieutenant.
Oh, hey, David.
- Oh, you don't look too bad.
- Heh.
Chief, I just ran into Captain Raydor out in the hallway and she said hello to me.
She's up to something.
Is there any, uh, leads on your attacker? - No.
- Yes.
Well, now that we've got that settled, I'm going to San Bernardino to search Dead Bobby Harris' home.
Come on, Gabriel.
- I'll fill you in on the way.
- Feel better.
Well I'm leaving too.
You take care.
And, um keep your hands off the nurses.
Chief? Dead Bobby Harris was living above his mother's garage.
Mom didn't want him under the same roof.
He didn't have a car either.
We checked his mom's SUV, no blood.
So how he got to San Bernardino, we don't know.
Maybe the guy who was stalling Lt.
Flynn at his meeting picked up Bobby after he was shot and dumped the body in San Bernardino.
- What's in the bag? - Oh, uh, $37,500.
Cash.
We found this in the closet in Bob's apartment.
This guy didn't need to rob Flynn.
He was lying in wait, chief.
Tao.
Tao, I already counted this.
- You heard Gabriel.
There's 37 - I'm not counting it.
- Then what? - Due to counterfeiting our currency got a series of facelifts over the past 12 years.
All these bills are from the old design from before 1998.
And when you take into account the Secretary of Treasury signatures all this cash might even be earlier.
See? This is a stack of Nicholas F.
Brady's.
Uh, 1988 to 1993.
Ohh.
A Lloyd Bentsen.
Very rare.
So an ex-con, three days out of jail, with a bag of cash from the 1990s.
- Someone paid this guy to kill Lt.
Flynn.
- I'm in violent agreement.
What? I was just thinking that maybe it'd be a good idea for me to come with you to some of your AA meetings.
Really.
You wanna spend time getting to know that part of my life? I do.
I do.
And I had a sketch artist sit down with Andy last night.
- Mm-hm.
- And they came up with a composite of the man that he was talking to after his AA meeting.
- I thought, you know, perfect timing.
- This has nothing to do with me and everything to do with work.
- Why can't it be both? I got a better idea.
If you're honestly, truthfully interested in spending more free time with me - I am.
That was the whole point of - Listen.
Listen.
Shh.
One second.
Listen.
As a liaison to the L.
A.
P.
D I could pass on some highly classified info to you.
- Mm-hm.
- But you'd have to get in bed with me for five minutes to hear it.
Five minutes? Well, this clearly isn't gonna be about me.
Oh, but that's how good the information is.
Uh-huh.
But, you know I'm not supposed to talk.
Okay, you broke me.
Heh.
- Now that Tommy Delk - Uh-huh.
has been sworn in as the new chief people are telling me, they're gonna offer you Pope's job.
That's why Captain Raydor let me go first last night.
You could be her boss.
She's doing some preemptive ass-kissing.
I know you don't like Will, but he's my friend.
I can never take his job away from him.
- You're not taking it.
You've earned it - It's horrible news.
Do you not think Will Pope would've walked over you if it meant he could've been chief? Hey, you promised me five minutes.
Well, I didn't say when.
Did I? I followed the money, double-checked it.
All old paper, 1988 to 1995.
So I pulled all of Flynn's convictions during those years.
Slide.
And since Dead Bob got out of jail three days ago we cross-referenced everyone else coming through the system.
Maybe someone on the inside sent Bob on a mission.
Slide.
Martin Lawson, murdered his mother.
He was convicted in June of '94.
He came at Flynn in court swore his brothers would get Flynn for calling his mama ugly.
That's what got him talking.
Flynn is the guy that broke him.
By the way, his mother was ugly.
What are you doing here? You've got over 30 stitches.
Look, if you're trying to find somebody connected to me don't you think you have a better chance identifying them with my help? Chief, don't worry.
He won't do much.
Like usual.
It's just until we make the guy and then Flynn is going home.
Lieutenant Flynn, you can stay.
As soon as you make the ID, you leave.
Slide.
Slide.
Whoa, whoa.
Back that thing up.
There.
That's Rick Zuman.
Yeah.
He dealt coke and laundered money in the 90's.
He offed two of his business partners.
I got his bookkeeper to flip on his alibi.
What was his m.
o? Oh, well, Ricky boy would, uh, find a mark get some front money from them for a big cocaine buy and promise to double their investment by selling it.
When his partners came looking for their share he'd make sure they died of an overdose.
The feds had an informant.
Gave him $400,000 in marked bills to make a deal with Rick.
Yeah, but the informant went missing.
They never found the body or the cash.
Rick went to jail in '96.
This money's from '95 and before.
Maybe this is some of the FBI cash.
How did Zuman get his conviction overturned? It's gotta be some technicality because this creep's as guilty as sin.
Still, on appeal, he would have been in county lockup waiting for his retrial.
Which means that Zuman and Dead Bob were there at the same time.
Lieutenant Provenza, would you please get Rick Zuman's jail movement records? I wanna find out who his friends might have been.
Maybe one of them was Dead Bob or the young man Flynn met at his AA meeting.
Lieutenant Flynn, did Rick have any special reason to hate you? - I don't know.
Did you assault, threaten or irritate him in any way? Uh, well, when we convicted Rick I told him that I knew that he'd killed that FBI informant and that I was going to dedicate my life to proving it.
And then what did you do? I don't know.
Something else came up.
If Zuman is in county, let me go down and talk to him.
No, no, no.
You are not going anywhere.
Detective Gabriel, Detective Sanchez, let's get Zuman down here for a chat.
Let's see how surprised he is to see Lieutenant Flynn standing upright.
Love the new place, guys.
Congratulations on winning that award for best new building in Los Angeles.
Do you feel this place makes you more, um, productive? Shut up.
Lieutenant Flynn.
Good to see you looking so well.
Oh, I spoke too soon.
- What happened? - Some guy brought a knife to a gunfight.
I gather you had the gun.
You know it's illegal to question me without my attorney.
I love that you guys are doing something illegal.
Always nice to meet someone who understands their rights.
Once you've had them taken away, you appreciate them more.
That's a waiver.
Now you're on the record, Mr.
Zuman.
Keep talking, Ricky, just keep talking.
Well, I'm glad you feel that way, Mr.
Zuman.
- But - Please.
Call me Rick.
All right, Rick.
You should know that you are my number one suspect in the attempted murder of Lt.
Flynn.
Well, I have a great alibi if it happened any time in the last 15 years.
But anything I can do to help You could let me knock that smug grin off your face.
Do you know Bob Harris? He was in county with you up until about three days ago.
I am horrible with names.
Much better with faces.
I try not to get too close to anyone.
One minute they're here and the next, poof.
Maybe this picture will jog your memory.
Yeah.
This is not really how people look in jail.
Maybe if you had something of him in an orange or blue uniform.
Orange is more lockdown, blue is kind of a general population vibe.
Besides, what motive would I possibly have for wanting Lieutenant Flynn dead? Other than the fact that he manipulated evidence, intimidated a witness and perjured himself to have me sentenced to death.
- Heh.
- Now, why would he do that? - Ask him.
Or the federal government.
You operate a successful business like mine and people assume you're laundering money and selling coke.
By the way, how do you like the cartels, hmm? Everything better now that the Mexican Mafia's running the show? I wouldn't know.
I deal mainly with homicide.
Why have you been back in county for so long? New trial.
My appeal was granted a couple years ago but the judge keeps extending the People's case so they can make up for the witness they lost.
What witness did we lose? Floria Stenzel.
Remember her, lieutenant? My bookkeeper you coerced into contradicting my alibi? Coerced? That is a hundred percent crap.
Well, bless her soul, Floria found God.
And, uh, as part of her amends You know something about amends, don't you, lieutenant? As part of her amends, she has withdrawn the wickedly false statements you pressured her into making against me.
No, no, lieutenant.
Let me.
I know a little something about amends too, Rick.
Rick.
That's AA language, which makes me think that you've been looking into Lt.
Flynn's life.
And I don't like that.
Let me tell you real quick what's gonna happen when you go back to county.
They're gonna put you straight into solitary confinement so you won't be able to communicate with anybody.
And while you're in there, I'll be out here looking for the person or persons that you paid to kill Lieutenant Flynn.
And when I find them, you're gonna come back in here.
You're gonna tell me everything I wanna know.
You understand me? Chief, Captain Raydor's here.
Don't let me keep you.
You knew about these charges claiming that Lt.
Flynn threatened a witnesses and you didn't say anything about it? By law, I can't tell you.
Forcefully intimidating a witness is a serious and confidential accusation.
We can't just tell the suspect.
I almost get killed and I'm a suspect? You've just been pretending to be helpful here so you can investigate Andy, right? No, that is not right.
I didn't know the Rick Zuman case was connected to the attempt on Lieutenant Flynn's life until today.
The minute you found out, you should have told me.
No.
I couldn't.
Okay, here is how it works.
Every time we get a defense request for a Pitchess motion we are required, by law, to look into the history of the accused officer's behavior without notifying him or his division.
Most officers' packages, lieutenant, are about this big.
Yours is huge.
It's crammed with accusations.
Exonerated of every charge.
But your history lends credence to Rick Zuman's case and to Floria's new testimony.
Well, Floria's lying.
She found God.
I bet she found him under a big wad of old money.
That may be so.
But in the meantime, we are going to precisely follow the law.
- Okay, here we go.
- Yes, here we go.
Ballistics came back.
Lieutenant Flynn's bullets did match those in Bob Harris.
So this is officially an officer-involved shooting.
Also, you can no longer participate in the investigation of Rick Zuman because he will claim that you will once again stack the deck against him.
I'm not leaving.
She's right.
You need to go home.
Get some rest.
Okay? Let me handle this.
That man, Rick Zuman, tried to kill him.
If you can prove that my witness tampering investigation of Lieutenant Flynn would be over.
Okay, good.
Then help me.
I want everything you have on Floria Stenzel.
This is her basic information and everything else is confidential.
And you cannot ask her anything about her upcoming testimony.
I'm not gonna ask her anything about anything.
- No? - No.
Floria Stenzel's gonna come talk to me.
- Come in.
- Why was I not informed about? How's Lieutenant Flynn? - He's home.
- Resting.
Good.
Proceed with your outrage.
Why was I not informed of Captain Raydor's investigation into Lt.
Flynn? Because I didn't know anything about it until you just said that.
Oh.
Why was I not informed about the DA's retrial of Rick Zuman? - Who's Rick Zuman? - A convicted murderer.
He's getting a retrial because he says Lt.
Flynn lied and intimidated a witness.
- He filed a complaint.
- Oh, that Rick Zuman.
Yeah.
Last year, there were 4999 complaints filed so I'm not on a first name basis with everybody who's awaiting a retrial.
Fill me in.
Oh, okay.
Uh, in 1995, Rick Zuman had a bunch of nightclubs he used to launder the money he made selling cocaine.
He also periodically killed his business partners.
Now, Flynn's brilliant police work helped put this creep behind bars for two of those murders.
But then suddenly, this Zuman gets a retrial because out of the blue, the witness against him, this Floria Stenzel she claims Flynn forced her to back out of Rick's alibi.
Did Flynn do that? Don't tell me.
I don't wanna know that.
So Zuman gets a new trial? Yes, but not because of Andy Flynn.
I'm telling you, chief, somebody paid this woman to change her testimony.
She has no job, she maxed out her credit cards but she's been spending money like crazy.
New car.
Elective surgery.
And this is after she changed her testimony.
- Can we prove somebody paid her? - No.
- Which is why I need a protection detail.
- For whom? Floria Stenzel.
- Protection from whom? - Us.
Hello.
This is Commander Taylor.
I'm Detective Gabriel.
We're from the L.
A.
P.
D.
Are you Floria Stenzel? Yes.
Our records indicate you're a witness in an upcoming trial.
California v.
Rick Zuman.
We're here to notify you that you might be in danger.
Why? I changed my testimony.
I recanted.
What reason would I have to be worried? I don't know too much about the case.
I just know you're the last witness we have left.
- We do not want to lose you.
- What do you mean "last witness"? The investigating officer was stabbed to death.
And another person connected to this Rick Zuman he was murdered a few days ago.
The good news is we do have a description of the suspect.
He is a Latino male, approximately 5'8 ", wearing a faded blue hoodie.
Was seen a few miles from here driving an old two-tone brown and tan Grand Prix.
You should be fully informed given the heinous nature of the recent murders.
If you don't mind, we need you to sign this form that states that you were notified and may be under threat of bodily harm, injury and even death.
Thank you.
- Here? - Mm-hm.
Thank you, ma'am.
And, uh, do you have any weapons in your home? Uh, no.
Should I? - No.
- No.
Um, absolutely not.
If you do have any problems or you see anyone matching the description we gave you please, for your own sake, give us a call.
All right? Well, thank you very much.
You have a good day.
Mm-hm.
That's her, Detective Sanchez.
Make sure you make eye contact.
- 911.
- Okay.
There is Ahem.
There is a man outside my house.
He is wearing a blue sweatshirt with a hoodie.
Calm down, say that again? I'm trying to figure out what your emergency is.
It's a Mexican.
It's a Mexican killer.
- Does he have a weapon, ma'am? - He is wearing a blue hoodie.
Okay, ma'am.
Please hold.
Ugh.
Hold on just a minute.
Lieutenant? - Provenza.
- This is L.
A.
P.
D.
We got a 911 call from a Floria Stenzel.
We were told to call before responding.
Yeah, don't send anyone over here and ignore her calls.
We've got Miss Stenzel's house under surveillance.
All right.
It's working.
Detective Sanchez, let's get into position for the big surprise.
It was him.
It was the guy with the blue hoodie.
It was him.
- It's a good thing we stopped by earlier.
- My God, he was right outside my door.
Oh, that's just terrible.
Horrible.
I'm sure.
You were right to call us.
Thank you for signing the consent form and allowing my detective to secure your home.
He'll make sure everything is safe for you and the $30,000 in old $20 bills we found in your dresser.
Look you can keep the money.
Yeah, I wanna go back to my original testimony against Rick Zuman.
I made a horrible mistake and, please, you have to help me.
There, huh? Happy now? She claims she was paid for her testimony but she's hardly the most reliable witness.
If I'm to close my investigation into Lieutenant Flynn I need to know who paid her.
I want to protect you, Floria, I do.
But until I know how you communicate with Zuman and where you got this money, there's not much I can do.
Okay.
There is this man.
Jeff.
He came to my house he offered me this money if I would go back to saying that Rick Zuman was with me during these murders.
That's it.
That's all I know.
There's a lot of people named Jeff in L.
A.
county.
Do you have a last name for me or a physical description? Maybe an astrological sign? That's all I know.
Okay.
Well, I heard you found God recently, Floria.
Maybe he'll protect you.
- I'll get an officer to take you back - Okay.
Wait.
Wait.
Jeff, the man who gave me this money, I have his cell phone number.
Floria gave up a name.
Jeff.
- Ring a bell? - No.
Thanks, Mike.
Excuse me, lieutenant.
Um, no offense, but I thought the chief said that you couldn't return to work.
- Well, we need Flynn to ID this guy - And then I'm out of here.
Fine.
I didn't see you.
But I would be looking out for Captain Raydor.
Raydor? Well, she knows we're here.
She's coming in herself in a minute.
Jeff, darling.
I hate to call you, but something has come up and, uh, I need to see you.
But you can't come to my house.
Yeah, you could meet me tomorrow at 4 p.
m.
in front of 412 Azalia Lane.
It's just, uh, two blocks from my house.
Yeah.
I'll be in a friend's Prius with the license plate El Buzzo.
I'll be wearing a scarf over my head, darling.
Bye.
- Floria, we can't keep me - Hi.
- Who the hell are you? You're not - Floria, I know.
But thanks for meeting me on such short notice, Jeff.
Yeah, she told me your name.
Floria told me things about you.
Oh, she's getting crumbs everywhere.
The car's self-parking, not self-cleaning.
That's the guy.
I'm Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.
L.
A.
P.
D.
That's the guy who I talked to after the AA meeting.
Well, thank you, lieutenant.
And as we agreed earlier, you can go home now.
Okay.
But I should tell you, I'm moving really slowly.
Floria told me you paid her to change her testimony in the Rick Zuman trial.
- I never gave Floria a dime.
- That's not even worth lying about.
But the real issue here is that someone tried to kill a friend of mine.
A police officer who's also due to testify in the Rick Zuman retrial? Lieutenant Andy Flynn.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Okay, before you completely freak out ask yourself this question first.
Like, why am I here instead of the back of a squad car? Why aren't I already under arrest for murder? I didn't kill anybody.
I wonder if Bob Harris would agree with you.
He's who you hired to kill Lieutenant Flynn? Isn't he? You know what I have in my purse? A warrant to search your car.
What if I used that warrant and found Bob's blood or his DNA in your vehicle? I didn't kill him.
I swear That cop shot him.
I just You just drove around for an hour.
Passed 30 hospitals until he bled out.
You dumped his body.
If it's not murder, it's the worst case of littering I've seen.
Okay, what do you want? - Okay? What do you want? - Now, that's the right question.
I want what you gave Bob and Floria.
Only I want a lot more of it.
A hundred thousand dollars.
- Oh.
- And then Rick Zuman goes on to retrial as planned.
Or I turn you in.
- I need time.
- You've got three hours.
You know what I don't understand, Jeff is why you care so much about Rick Zuman getting out of jail? You're free.
You know where the money is.
Some people care about more than just money.
Well, I'm not one of them.
You've got until 7 to get me that money.
Or the next time we talk, things will end differently.
Are the bags I gave him transmitting? Clear as day.
Good.
Then tell Lieutenant Provenza to swing by and pick up Rick Zuman.
See you later, Captain Raydor.
Drop the bag.
Put your hands in the air.
What's this about? Officers, please escort this gentleman downtown.
Special Agent Howard, would you like to examine those bills? Yes, I would.
Shouldn't we have waited until he delivered the money to Chief Johnson? If I were going to charge him with bribing a police officer, yes.
But under these circumstances, simply finding the FBI money ties Jeff to murder attempted murder and witness intimidation.
Not to mention a missing FBI informant who seems increasingly like a possible homicide victim.
- Some of these bills match up.
- Good.
I think this closes my case against Lieutenant Flynn for witness tampering.
And reopens a murder case of an FBI informant.
Ricky.
So sorry for all the boxes.
We're still moving into the new facility.
Have you met Andy Flynn's partner, Lt.
Provenza? He's been so looking forward to meeting you.
How's solitary been? Must be hard.
You don't seem to be a guy who likes to be alone.
- Now, why would you think that? - You're used to having company.
- While in county, you had 32 roommates.
- Some must have been special.
- Weren't they? - I'm not sure what you're getting at.
You wouldn't trust a stranger to kill Lieutenant Flynn.
Oh, my.
Has anyone ever explained to you the concept of ineffective repetition? Oh, I'm so sorry.
I forgot.
You're better with faces.
This is Jeff Darby.
He was your roommate for four months.
That's a long time.
Your next closest roommate lasted only three weeks.
Jeff must have been special.
Hmm.
Not really.
But you ate lunch together.
And he visited you, even after he got out.
You and Jeff roomed together as cellmates for 123 days straight.
In fact, you were more than just roommates.
Weren't you? You and Jeff formed a real bond between you.
If you're implying a physical relationship, okay.
- You were in love with Jeff Darby.
- Heh.
No.
But I'm in prison.
Jeff relieved the tedium.
Jeff feels differently.
In fact, he's been very cooperative.
Look, I'm not sure what lies Jeff's been telling you but he was obsessed with me.
At first, I felt sorry for him, but then he got all clingy.
To be fair, he's young and likes older guys.
I get it.
But in kind of the same way I feel about you I wish he'd just go away.
Now, can we wrap this up? I'd like to go now.
Okay.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute, Detective Sanchez.
How about? How about I bet you 20 bucks, I can get you to confess? Now you're embarrassing yourself.
Okay.
What if we raised the stakes? What if I bet you $100 you'd confess? I'd just be taking your money.
Hardly seems fair.
Chief, I think we should, uh, up the ante here a bit.
How about this? How about $10,000? You know what? Let's make it $400,000 I can get you to tell me everything I wanna know.
Fine.
I'll take that bet.
What do you got? Jeff Darby led me to your storage space.
Woo-hoo.
I'm a winner because I'm still not confessing.
Now, will you please pick up my money because when I'm free I'm going to count every single bill and make sure that you didn't slide a few of them into your cheap purse.
There's nothing illegal about a citizen keeping cash in a storage space.
Well, that's true.
Usually.
But all this money? It's marked.
You may not realize this, but in 1995 you took $400,000 from an FBI informant.
And every one of these old bills is completely traceable to him.
By saying this is your money, you confessed not only to money laundering, but to selling drugs and to bribing a witness and conspiracy to murder a police officer.
So woo-hoo, I win.
You owe me $400,000.
I'll tell you what, I'll give all this money back to the FBI you spend the rest of your life on death row and we'll call it even.
I thought that you might like this back.
Flynn's package.
He's completely cleared.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hm.
So, uh, what's been going on? Why have you been so nice? I could ask the same about you.
I've been nice? No, but cooperative.
I had a thought.
While Chief Delk is completing his transition plans maybe you and I could figure out a way for FID and Major Crimes to better share their cases.
Say, uh, over a I don't know.
Working lunch.
- Lunch? - Great, I'll set it up.
Oh.
Agent Howard.
By the way, nice working with you.
It was great.
And you, captain.
Is everything all right? I think so, yes.
I know you don't wanna hear this, but, uh you should really start thinking about which one of Pope's drawers you wanna fill up with candy.
That's not funny.
Brenda, come on.
It'd be great.
Besides, think about it.
Someone less qualified takes over from Pope, you'll be miserable.
So get ready.
Where do you wanna go? Where we going? One day, sooner than you think Chief Delk's gonna offer you the job of assistant chief of police.
What happened to chicken and waffles? I'm not going to that chicken and waffles place.
- So you better figure out what you want.
- Flynn.
So no chicken and waffles? I already know what I want.
What's that? Five more minutes.