Chicago P.D. (2014) s08e13 Episode Script
Trouble Dolls
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I love this theater.
Yeah, great bones, right? - [CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
- Mm-hmm, totally.
I have.
Actually, I was here opening night.
Shh.
[WHISPERING.]
The show is starting.
[WHISPERS.]
I'm sorry.
- Lights.
- Okay, yeah.
I keep forgetting.
[MUSIC CONTINUES.]
Okay.
I have got a yummy lunch for you today.
You're gonna be [CLICKS TONGUE.]
Hey, let's practice, okay? - Go.
- My name is Makayla.
Hi, Makayla.
I'm Kimberly.
You wanna play on the swings with me? I do.
You seem very nice.
Okay? See you tonight.
Caller reports lawn mower missing from garage.
Units in the 13th, calls of a woman down.
221 South Mohawk.
Caller states GSWs to the head, possible fall from roof.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
5021 Eddie, plainclothes officer responding on Mohawk, Copy 5021 Eddie.
Hey.
What do we got? Two shots to the head, execution style.
Somebody took her up and pop, pop, she fell.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I don't think that's right.
You see that dent? Look where her body is compared to where she landed.
And her fingers, look at that.
They're dug in.
I think she survived the fall and then she was trying to move.
She was trying to drag herself.
That's when someone came and popped her.
We're gonna go ahead and turn her over if that's okay.
Yeah, go ahead.
Ready? Christ, she's pregnant.
This your homicide? Yeah, it's my homicide.
Gracias.
We got her fanny pack off.
Let's take a look.
Sofia Perez.
- What are those? - They're trouble dolls.
From Guatemala, I think.
Put 'em under your pillow when you go to sleep and when you wake up in the morning, they've taken away all your troubles.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Okay, so the DOA is Sofia Perez.
17, a Guatemalan national.
I'm thinking she was running from something or someone.
Came down here to this construction site, - but it's a dead-end.
- Huh.
I just talked to that resident.
She heard banging on the door but she hid.
Thought it was a robber, so we have Sofia, dead-end, can't get in the door.
I think she took the only other option.
- She went up.
- Yeah, she went up the fire escape to the roof.
Whether she was pushed or fell, she landed here and then whoever was chasing her found her, put two in her head.
Close range.
Shell casings? No.
So either the shooter policed them himself or we're looking at a wheel gun.
Sarge, security camera on this building right here has a pretty good angle.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
She's alive.
All right, let's just skip to what we need to see.
All right.
40 seconds later.
Wait, wait.
Freeze it.
- All right, zoom in.
- Mm-hmm.
His jacket.
Anybody recognize that logo? Murder weapon's a revolver, make unknown.
The slugs came back from the autopsy, .
38s.
Sarge, the street where Sofia died is right in the middle of the claimed turf of two rival gangs, Los Milagros and Los Payasos.
There's been some real beef.
Six murders in three months.
Homicide says two of those murders were female drug couriers.
Guatemalan nationals like our victim, Sofia Perez.
All right, so good chance Sofia was a drug mule.
All right, this man in the video, let's see if any other cameras picked him up.
And our victim, I want to figure out how she got here.
Check ports of entry.
See if she's got family here in Chicago.
Let's go.
- Play it.
- [PHONE BUZZES.]
[BUZZING.]
[SIGHS.]
- Another signature here.
- Okay.
Everything's moving along really well.
Your petition to adopt has been accepted by the court.
I think I told you, we were able to keep her social - Yeah, last time.
- When we can do that, we leapfrog some steps, so we were able to issue a new birth certificate.
The judge still has to certify it but here is the provisional.
Next steps, I need you to select your custodian.
Your backup, so to speak.
Oh, no.
I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.
This is the law, Kim.
Not optional.
You understand, this is the person that would take care of Makayla if something happened to you.
If you died.
Right.
All right, okay.
I'm gonna need a few days to think about it.
- Hey.
- Hey, that drug mule theory's - looking pretty good.
- OCD transpo ran our victim through inbound flights.
She arrived at O'Hare three weeks ago, direct from Guatemala city.
One-way ticket paid for in cash.
Now, the video footage shows this guy finding Sofia at baggage claim.
He walks her out, he even takes her suitcase for her.
Surely just being a gentleman.
Right, so the gentleman takes her to this car.
Plates come back to an Alex Alonzo, 22 years old.
He's got a different build from the guy in this video, but he's documented Los Milagros for a fact.
Scoop him up.
Quietly.
Los Milagros.
We know your people bring in fentanyl through O'Hare.
We've caught you five or six times.
Probably didn't catch you the other 30.
- Sir, I don't know - Alex, we know.
Kay? You use girls, young women, as couriers.
Mules.
See, this time, this time was different.
This time one of them got murdered.
- No, I'm nobody.
- Uh-huh.
I'm a driver, a runner.
No, no, no, I'll tell you who you are.
You are her first contact here in America.
You hearing what I'm telling you? You brought the lamb to the slaughter.
That makes you just as guilty as the man who pulled the trigger.
No, I swear, they tell me nothing.
I get texted - arrangements from some burner.
- Uh-huh.
Pick up this person, bring 'em here.
And my cousin, he gives me a little cash for it Sofia Perez.
Where did you bring her after you picked her up from the airport? [TENSE MUSIC.]
There's got to be some answers in there.
When I give a positive, you guys move.
Go get 'em.
We got you, Ruz.
We are seven blocks away from where Sofia Perez was murdered.
Hello? Meter man.
Hello.
Meter man.
I don't think there's anybody here.
Why don't you come in that back door.
What the hell? [WHISTLES QUIETLY.]
- Okay.
- I don't know what this is but it's definitely not what we were expecting.
Hell no.
Let's move towards the back.
Got an open door.
- Clear? - Yeah.
Clear.
This food is fresh.
I got women's clothing, underwear over here.
Yo, we got cuffs.
Another room.
- You ready? - Yeah.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Christ.
Babies were born here.
Recently.
Bars on each and every one of the windows.
Handcuffs on each and every one of the beds.
These women lived there, Sarge, or were kept there.
This was never about narcotics.
I mean, Sofia Perez, she was running from this.
Some sort of baby farm.
Then after they killed her, they abandoned the place.
Yeah, 'cause they knew there'd be heat.
So, who the hell are they? Where did they go? - And where are the other women? - Sarge, forensics ran the dried blood that we found on a towel, got a hit on CODIS.
Karla de Leon, 21, Guatemalan national.
- And she was in there? - And she had a baby in there.
Forensics found traces of amniotic fluid, too.
If I'm right about this, if these sons of bitches are selling babies, once these mothers give birth, they got no value to these people anymore.
I mean, if she's still alive, chances are they just turned her out on the street, right? So boots on the ground.
Karla de Leon, let's find her.
Copy that.
Okay, how do we do that? All right, I'm thinking I'm a young Guatemalan woman.
I'm alone, I'm in trouble.
I'm in a city I don't know.
I find a priest.
I'm gonna run all the churches in Brighton Park that offer Mass in Spanish.
Make a list.
I'll take the top, you take the bottom, we'll meet in the middle.
I like that.
It's a plan.
Anything? No, ma'am.
This is stupid.
Might as well knock out the last few.
I'll be happy to let you know you're wasted my damn time.
Let's go.
Her name's Karla de Leon.
You sure about that? I said I haven't seen this woman.
'Cause we think she's in real trouble.
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES.]
Hola, Padre Francisco.
Un dÃa bendito.
Well, I'll keep an eye out.
Esta es una iglesia santuario.
- A what? - No, no, you heard me.
This is a sanctuary church.
You know it's a crime to harbor undocumented immigrants.
Even here.
I've never had any trouble with ICE Yeah, well, that's a courtesy on our part.
We can notify ICE at any time so why don't you take a look at that picture again.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
She has nothing.
No one.
She said bad people had sold her baby.
Where is she? Please, only women inside our shelter.
Karla de Leon.
It's okay.
You're not in trouble, all right? I can help you find your baby.
Do you know this woman? Sofia.
She is okay? No, Sofia fue asesinada.
The the baby? [SOFT MUSIC.]
I need you to tell me everything.
Two months ago, I was pregnant.
At home, in Guatemala.
These men, they they bring me.
- Te reclutaron.
- To come to America.
Hmm, they paid you? I paid them.
Everything I had.
Because they were providing you with a service.
They promise you you'd give birth to an American citizen which would put you on the path to citizenship yourself, yeah? They were going to sell our babies.
And they told us of a mother who went back home to Guatemala and she she tried to To make noise about what had happened.
And they They made her disappear? So we were all too scared to do anything.
All except one.
Sofia.
She told me she would get out.
Somehow.
After I had my baby, they took me to the airport with a ticket home.
They said they would kill me if they saw me again.
But still, you couldn't get on that plane? Could you? Who did this? David Cardona, DOB 2 March '92.
Male Hispanic, 6'5.
He runs the day-to-day operations of the baby farm.
He's got a boss, goes by "Flaco.
" Now, Karla's only seen him a couple times but apparently everybody is scared of Flaco.
So we're thinking Sofia somehow escaped this baby mill - and these guys went after her.
- According to Karla, Cardona would have led the search for Sofia and could have pulled the trigger, too.
- You guys, I got him.
- He's in the CTA system.
Swipes his card every afternoon on the L and then transfers to the 52 bus at Midway either at Kedzie, St.
Louis, or California.
That's our window.
[TRAIN RUMBLING.]
Orange line's coming into Kedzie.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- Got eyes on Cardona.
- I think he made me.
David Cardona, Chicago PD.
Get your hands in the air.
Get your hands up.
- [GRUNTS.]
- Whoa, whoa! Get down 5021 Henry, 10-1, 10-1.
Shots fired at police, offender going northbound.
- Go get him, go get him.
- Two blocks, headed for you.
- Get back! - Cardona, drop your weapon! [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I'm in foot pursuit on the 4700 block of Homan.
Stop! Police! Cardona! Stop! [GRUNTS.]
[GROANS.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
[GASPS.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
[GUN CLICKS.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- [GUNSHOTS.]
Kim! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
5021 Eddie.
Shots fired by the offender and the police.
Offender down.
DOA.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- So you good? - Yeah.
- Hey, Kim.
- Yeah? You all right? - Yeah.
- Okay.
Talked to the street deputy? IRT? Yeah, I mean, they got to do their thing, but they made it clear this one's pretty cut and dry.
I vouched for that, too.
All right.
And Cardona's weapon? Not a match.
Whoever killed Sofia fired .
38s from a revolver.
Cardona fired .
45s.
So we got nothing we didn't already have this morning.
Got no confirmation on Sofia's killer, got no leads on where to find the other women.
One point of interest.
We pulled a burner phone - off Cardona's body.
- All right, well, press for any data you can get.
Text messages, pings that put Cardona at the scene of the crime Any breadcrumbs, 'cause we don't have a lot else going on right now.
Adam.
Yeah? Thank you.
Doing my job.
Look, I get it.
Clearly, you're still pissed at me.
But, come on, you are gonna have to find a way to let me back in at some point.
Gonna need a new jacket.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[SIGHS.]
[SCREAMS.]
Makayla? Makayla? - They're here! - Who's here? - They're here.
- They're coming to get me.
Hey, hey, it's just me.
Oh, my gosh, okay.
No one's here.
- No one's here.
- They are.
You're okay.
Nobody's here.
It's a nightmare.
[SOFTLY.]
Hey, it's me.
It's me.
It's just a nightmare.
You're here with me.
Can you go back to sleep? - [WHIMPERS.]
- I'll stay right here, okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
Okay.
It's okay.
[SOFTLY.]
You're okay.
You're okay.
[WHISPERS.]
You're okay.
She's had a couple of these episodes? Yeah.
Not like this, though.
Yeah.
Well, these aren't nightmares, Kim, they're night terrors.
Makayla, she's seen things kids should not see.
She watched her mother die, her father hunted her.
The level of trauma here is extraordinary.
This was her only mechanism to cope.
Well, we've both seen some things.
That leads me to my next subject, you.
Me? Makayla knows what you do for a living, Kim.
Knows, on some level, what you're up against every time you walk out the door.
I don't share any of that with her.
- Well, you don't have to.
- It's who you are.
Makayla's seen you with a gun in your hand, Kim.
She's seen you take on people who are trying to hurt you.
It's feeding this, because Makayla knows if something happens to you, what happens to her? You're all she's got.
[PHONE BUZZING.]
I have to go.
I'm sorry.
So techs busted into the burner - we found on Cardona.
- Kay.
We found an outgoing text setting up a meet three days before Sofia was killed.
Strip mall, Garfield Park.
So we scanned the site and we got David Cardona handing a bag of something off to this guy.
And we're thinking that's Flaco, the boss? That was the theory, but we got the guy's plate.
So we ran the plate and the car's registered to him.
Doesn't look like a "Flaco" to me.
Nope, it's Bruce Alan Wegner.
Date of birth 3/30/71.
He's a doctor.
Highly respected OB-GYN.
Or he was.
Got his license revoked last year.
Got caught prescribing opioids to himself.
Wow.
Pick him up.
[PHONE BUZZING.]
Your house is a gold mine, Bruce.
Was it the rats or the roaches? Gynecological instruments, which you're no longer licensed to use.
Prenatal vitamins, pregnancy meds, all the prescriptions written in the name of a Dr.
Adrienne Cross.
My former partner.
She was amazing to me.
Generous, kind, in my lowest days.
So, naturally, I stole her letterhead and used it to forge scripts.
Which you then used to provide late-term pre-natal care at an off-the-books baby farm.
You're an active participant in a criminal conspiracy that ended in the murder of a 17-year-old girl.
[PHONE BUZZES.]
- If If you work with me, - [PHONE BUZZES, STOPS.]
I'll get you into court-ordered rehab.
I can't do that.
Well, then you're looking at prison.
[CHUCKLES.]
Thing is, prison, I'm alive.
- I talk, I'm dead.
- [PHONE BUZZES.]
[SIGHS.]
Burgess.
What? Makayla fell asleep in class.
Yeah, she's been waking up at night.
- And then woke up, sort of.
- Sort of? - Woke up screaming.
- Oh, God.
I don't think the children were trying to be cruel.
It was startling, maybe a little scary, and some of them may have laughed at her.
She locked herself in.
Won't budge.
- Right through there.
- Okay, thanks.
Could I get [EMOTIONAL MUSIC.]
Hey, buddy.
It's me, okay? You don't have to come out or anything but can you let me know that you're okay? [PHONE BUZZES.]
I just want things the way they were.
I know.
I know you do.
I just want my mommy.
And it's not fair.
You got me and it's It's just not the same.
All I can tell you, Makayla, is that you're safe.
And you're so loved.
And I would I would really appreciate it if you would just let me see you? You know, let me know - that you're ok - [CLICK.]
Hi.
I keep telling everybody how brave you are.
But you shouldn't have to be brave.
You're too little to be brave.
I got pregnant last year.
Congratulations.
Hah.
Didn't work out.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah.
I got morning sickness really badly.
What saved me was this.
I found it at your house.
Promethazine.
Does the trick.
Yeah.
These drugs we found, nitro Nitrofurantoin.
For UTIs.
Everyone in this building they all think you're just some junkie.
You know, a doctor who betrayed his oath, make some quick cash, buy drugs.
I don't think that's right.
No? I think your marching orders from your employers are pretty simple.
You keep the women alive, you get the babies, and the rest But you treated these women, these throwaways like queens.
[SOFT EMOTIONAL MUSIC.]
I don't think you ever stopped caring, Dr.
Wegner.
I hate myself for being a part of this.
And so you worked and worked to make sure that these babies and these women were healthy.
But the end result [SOBS QUIETLY.]
There's no greater pain.
Dr.
Wegner, you can end this.
Right now.
[WEEPS QUIETLY.]
Sarge.
The doc doesn't know who Flaco is.
Never met him, never heard his real name.
But he gave us this guy.
"New Bond Family Services"? It's an adoption agency out in the 'burbs.
It's legit on paper.
Wilson Richards is the CEO.
Him and the doc go way back.
He's the one who recruited the doc into this thing.
Richards is the broker.
He's the bridge between the baby farm and the couples looking to adopt an infant.
Richards buys the babies from Flaco for 40 grand.
Charges 80 for adoption.
Pay him a visit.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- Can I help you? - Chicago PD, ma'am.
- Where's Wilson Richards? - In his office.
Put your hands on your desk.
Don't touch your computer.
Do you understand me? - Okay, I need you two to leave.
- We have an appointment.
I understand.
I need you to go right now.
Come on, let's go.
- Chicago PD.
- What is this? Wilson Richards, you're under arrest.
- On what grounds? - For financing the kidnapping of tender-age children.
Babies.
Dear God.
Turn around and put your hands behind your back.
- So Richards is talking? - Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he folded like a lawn chair.
This is Flaco, AKA Javier Ortiz.
Date of birth, 2/17/76.
This is the man that killed Sofia Perez.
Ortiz and Richards, that's the partnership.
The nexus of this whole thing.
We got receipts.
Ortiz forwards photos of the pregnant recruits from Guatemala to Wilson Richards, and we got all those emails off of Richards' laptop.
Ortiz is all over social media wearing the sweatshirt from the video of Sofia's murder.
It's a clear match.
Went down pretty much like we thought.
According to Ortiz, Sofia escaped, Cordona and some other low-levels, they give chase.
Cordona caught up with Sofia on the rooftop.
They struggled, she fell, survived somehow.
They panic and called Ortiz who was around the corner.
And Ortiz came in to finish it, and they shut the place down to cover their tracks.
So where did they go? New City.
Wilson Richards bought the property on a foreclosure couple years back.
Told Ortiz to lay low there.
And we believe the other women are being held there, correct? Correct.
All right, this could go down real bad, real fast.
Go get a schematic of that building so we can find the best way in.
You go in dark, you go in quiet.
Strap up.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Don't you dare, man.
Get on the ground.
How many more of you are there? - Two.
- Two including Flaco? - You got him? - Yeah, I got him.
I'll get your six.
Stand up.
[RAPID GUNFIRE.]
[GUNFIRE.]
Jay, moving.
Hey! [GRUNTS.]
- Jay, I got movement.
- Okay, I got him.
Go.
It's okay, it's okay.
PolicÃa, come on.
Come on.
Down the stairs.
Okay.
- Hay una más.
- One more, where? No se.
Flaco, he has her.
Chicago PD! Flaco, put it down! [RAPID GUNFIRE.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[MUFFLED.]
[WHISPERING.]
Kim.
Kim! You all right? Okay, move on three.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
One, two, go.
All right, go around.
No, no, por favor.
[SOBBING.]
No! - Por favor, mi bebé, no! - Let her go.
- Drop the weapon, Flaco.
- No! I'll kill her.
- That's on you.
- No! Drop that weapon, you let her go.
- Now! - Por favor! Drop the weapon.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- Drop it! [GROANS.]
Let her go Or I blow your head all over this room.
Kay.
Drop the weapon.
Get on your knees.
Hands above your head.
- Hi.
- Hey.
You heard from DCFS? I did.
They reached out to the family that bought Karla de Leon's daughter.
They picked up the baby earlier today, and they're gonna return her to Karla tonight.
Good.
The other mothers are safe, too, so Yeah.
Nice to see the good guys get a win.
Yeah.
You all right? Yeah, I'm fine.
We were taking fire and I just I I hesitated.
Just froze.
I mean, I could've lost the hostage, I could've got one of the guys hurt, - I could've - But you didn't.
'Cause I got lucky.
[WHISPERS.]
I got scared.
I mean, not for me.
I didn't get scared for me.
I got scared - Because of Makayla.
- Yeah.
You've given her a second chance at life and that is worth protecting.
And I wonder if this is why the universe is telling you to name your guardian.
Your backup.
I wonder if you'd hesitate the same way if you had that peace of mind.
Maybe.
- Burgess.
- What? Anybody would be honored to participate in what you're doing with her.
Thanks.
Don't even think about picking me.
Copy you.
Night, Sarge.
See ya.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Hey.
Thanks for coming.
Well, you said it was urgent, so That your shower curtain? It's my former shower curtain, yeah.
Hmm.
Makayla's asleep.
Do you mind if we talk out here? Not at all.
What's going on? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um I'm naming you as my custodian.
In the adoption.
Like, if anything happens to me, you're the one who's gonna take care of Makayla.
I'm a little confused.
I mean, you remember what's been going on? The questions you've had about me? I mean, things haven't been too good between us.
I know.
Okay, so is it about that or is it about this case? - What went down with Ortiz? - No, it's not about either of those things.
Okay, why would you do that then? Because we were supposed to have a baby together, dummy.
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC.]
Because we're family.
Because You and I are a lot of things, including pretty screwed up.
Hah.
Who knows if we'll ever really get our act together but Her last name is Burgess now, Adam.
And, um, one thing that we can be, you and I, is Is we can be this whole, big, round thing that can surround and protect her.
You know, even if Makayla doesn't know it exists.
And I need that.
That's the only way that I can do this.
Be a good mom and be the kind of cop that I need to be.
I need that.
Obviously, you can say no.
But I'm could you just think about it? I don't need to think about it.
The answer is yes, of course.
I'm honored that you'd ask me.
So, what, what do we do? Do I sign something? Do we shake on it? I don't know.
What's the next step here? Shake.
Cool.
Come here, bear.
Come on.
Actually, I got you something.
These are called trouble dolls.
And you are gonna put them under your pillow and when you wake up in the morning, you know what? They've taken all your troubles.
So your only job is to rest.
How cool is that? - Really cool.
- Yeah.
Thank you.
I think that's a good order.
Can I get one? You're nice.
And now, sleep.
Cozy? Good night, Makayla.
Good night.
Yeah, great bones, right? - [CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
- Mm-hmm, totally.
I have.
Actually, I was here opening night.
Shh.
[WHISPERING.]
The show is starting.
[WHISPERS.]
I'm sorry.
- Lights.
- Okay, yeah.
I keep forgetting.
[MUSIC CONTINUES.]
Okay.
I have got a yummy lunch for you today.
You're gonna be [CLICKS TONGUE.]
Hey, let's practice, okay? - Go.
- My name is Makayla.
Hi, Makayla.
I'm Kimberly.
You wanna play on the swings with me? I do.
You seem very nice.
Okay? See you tonight.
Caller reports lawn mower missing from garage.
Units in the 13th, calls of a woman down.
221 South Mohawk.
Caller states GSWs to the head, possible fall from roof.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
5021 Eddie, plainclothes officer responding on Mohawk, Copy 5021 Eddie.
Hey.
What do we got? Two shots to the head, execution style.
Somebody took her up and pop, pop, she fell.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I don't think that's right.
You see that dent? Look where her body is compared to where she landed.
And her fingers, look at that.
They're dug in.
I think she survived the fall and then she was trying to move.
She was trying to drag herself.
That's when someone came and popped her.
We're gonna go ahead and turn her over if that's okay.
Yeah, go ahead.
Ready? Christ, she's pregnant.
This your homicide? Yeah, it's my homicide.
Gracias.
We got her fanny pack off.
Let's take a look.
Sofia Perez.
- What are those? - They're trouble dolls.
From Guatemala, I think.
Put 'em under your pillow when you go to sleep and when you wake up in the morning, they've taken away all your troubles.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Okay, so the DOA is Sofia Perez.
17, a Guatemalan national.
I'm thinking she was running from something or someone.
Came down here to this construction site, - but it's a dead-end.
- Huh.
I just talked to that resident.
She heard banging on the door but she hid.
Thought it was a robber, so we have Sofia, dead-end, can't get in the door.
I think she took the only other option.
- She went up.
- Yeah, she went up the fire escape to the roof.
Whether she was pushed or fell, she landed here and then whoever was chasing her found her, put two in her head.
Close range.
Shell casings? No.
So either the shooter policed them himself or we're looking at a wheel gun.
Sarge, security camera on this building right here has a pretty good angle.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
She's alive.
All right, let's just skip to what we need to see.
All right.
40 seconds later.
Wait, wait.
Freeze it.
- All right, zoom in.
- Mm-hmm.
His jacket.
Anybody recognize that logo? Murder weapon's a revolver, make unknown.
The slugs came back from the autopsy, .
38s.
Sarge, the street where Sofia died is right in the middle of the claimed turf of two rival gangs, Los Milagros and Los Payasos.
There's been some real beef.
Six murders in three months.
Homicide says two of those murders were female drug couriers.
Guatemalan nationals like our victim, Sofia Perez.
All right, so good chance Sofia was a drug mule.
All right, this man in the video, let's see if any other cameras picked him up.
And our victim, I want to figure out how she got here.
Check ports of entry.
See if she's got family here in Chicago.
Let's go.
- Play it.
- [PHONE BUZZES.]
[BUZZING.]
[SIGHS.]
- Another signature here.
- Okay.
Everything's moving along really well.
Your petition to adopt has been accepted by the court.
I think I told you, we were able to keep her social - Yeah, last time.
- When we can do that, we leapfrog some steps, so we were able to issue a new birth certificate.
The judge still has to certify it but here is the provisional.
Next steps, I need you to select your custodian.
Your backup, so to speak.
Oh, no.
I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.
This is the law, Kim.
Not optional.
You understand, this is the person that would take care of Makayla if something happened to you.
If you died.
Right.
All right, okay.
I'm gonna need a few days to think about it.
- Hey.
- Hey, that drug mule theory's - looking pretty good.
- OCD transpo ran our victim through inbound flights.
She arrived at O'Hare three weeks ago, direct from Guatemala city.
One-way ticket paid for in cash.
Now, the video footage shows this guy finding Sofia at baggage claim.
He walks her out, he even takes her suitcase for her.
Surely just being a gentleman.
Right, so the gentleman takes her to this car.
Plates come back to an Alex Alonzo, 22 years old.
He's got a different build from the guy in this video, but he's documented Los Milagros for a fact.
Scoop him up.
Quietly.
Los Milagros.
We know your people bring in fentanyl through O'Hare.
We've caught you five or six times.
Probably didn't catch you the other 30.
- Sir, I don't know - Alex, we know.
Kay? You use girls, young women, as couriers.
Mules.
See, this time, this time was different.
This time one of them got murdered.
- No, I'm nobody.
- Uh-huh.
I'm a driver, a runner.
No, no, no, I'll tell you who you are.
You are her first contact here in America.
You hearing what I'm telling you? You brought the lamb to the slaughter.
That makes you just as guilty as the man who pulled the trigger.
No, I swear, they tell me nothing.
I get texted - arrangements from some burner.
- Uh-huh.
Pick up this person, bring 'em here.
And my cousin, he gives me a little cash for it Sofia Perez.
Where did you bring her after you picked her up from the airport? [TENSE MUSIC.]
There's got to be some answers in there.
When I give a positive, you guys move.
Go get 'em.
We got you, Ruz.
We are seven blocks away from where Sofia Perez was murdered.
Hello? Meter man.
Hello.
Meter man.
I don't think there's anybody here.
Why don't you come in that back door.
What the hell? [WHISTLES QUIETLY.]
- Okay.
- I don't know what this is but it's definitely not what we were expecting.
Hell no.
Let's move towards the back.
Got an open door.
- Clear? - Yeah.
Clear.
This food is fresh.
I got women's clothing, underwear over here.
Yo, we got cuffs.
Another room.
- You ready? - Yeah.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Christ.
Babies were born here.
Recently.
Bars on each and every one of the windows.
Handcuffs on each and every one of the beds.
These women lived there, Sarge, or were kept there.
This was never about narcotics.
I mean, Sofia Perez, she was running from this.
Some sort of baby farm.
Then after they killed her, they abandoned the place.
Yeah, 'cause they knew there'd be heat.
So, who the hell are they? Where did they go? - And where are the other women? - Sarge, forensics ran the dried blood that we found on a towel, got a hit on CODIS.
Karla de Leon, 21, Guatemalan national.
- And she was in there? - And she had a baby in there.
Forensics found traces of amniotic fluid, too.
If I'm right about this, if these sons of bitches are selling babies, once these mothers give birth, they got no value to these people anymore.
I mean, if she's still alive, chances are they just turned her out on the street, right? So boots on the ground.
Karla de Leon, let's find her.
Copy that.
Okay, how do we do that? All right, I'm thinking I'm a young Guatemalan woman.
I'm alone, I'm in trouble.
I'm in a city I don't know.
I find a priest.
I'm gonna run all the churches in Brighton Park that offer Mass in Spanish.
Make a list.
I'll take the top, you take the bottom, we'll meet in the middle.
I like that.
It's a plan.
Anything? No, ma'am.
This is stupid.
Might as well knock out the last few.
I'll be happy to let you know you're wasted my damn time.
Let's go.
Her name's Karla de Leon.
You sure about that? I said I haven't seen this woman.
'Cause we think she's in real trouble.
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES.]
Hola, Padre Francisco.
Un dÃa bendito.
Well, I'll keep an eye out.
Esta es una iglesia santuario.
- A what? - No, no, you heard me.
This is a sanctuary church.
You know it's a crime to harbor undocumented immigrants.
Even here.
I've never had any trouble with ICE Yeah, well, that's a courtesy on our part.
We can notify ICE at any time so why don't you take a look at that picture again.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
She has nothing.
No one.
She said bad people had sold her baby.
Where is she? Please, only women inside our shelter.
Karla de Leon.
It's okay.
You're not in trouble, all right? I can help you find your baby.
Do you know this woman? Sofia.
She is okay? No, Sofia fue asesinada.
The the baby? [SOFT MUSIC.]
I need you to tell me everything.
Two months ago, I was pregnant.
At home, in Guatemala.
These men, they they bring me.
- Te reclutaron.
- To come to America.
Hmm, they paid you? I paid them.
Everything I had.
Because they were providing you with a service.
They promise you you'd give birth to an American citizen which would put you on the path to citizenship yourself, yeah? They were going to sell our babies.
And they told us of a mother who went back home to Guatemala and she she tried to To make noise about what had happened.
And they They made her disappear? So we were all too scared to do anything.
All except one.
Sofia.
She told me she would get out.
Somehow.
After I had my baby, they took me to the airport with a ticket home.
They said they would kill me if they saw me again.
But still, you couldn't get on that plane? Could you? Who did this? David Cardona, DOB 2 March '92.
Male Hispanic, 6'5.
He runs the day-to-day operations of the baby farm.
He's got a boss, goes by "Flaco.
" Now, Karla's only seen him a couple times but apparently everybody is scared of Flaco.
So we're thinking Sofia somehow escaped this baby mill - and these guys went after her.
- According to Karla, Cardona would have led the search for Sofia and could have pulled the trigger, too.
- You guys, I got him.
- He's in the CTA system.
Swipes his card every afternoon on the L and then transfers to the 52 bus at Midway either at Kedzie, St.
Louis, or California.
That's our window.
[TRAIN RUMBLING.]
Orange line's coming into Kedzie.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- Got eyes on Cardona.
- I think he made me.
David Cardona, Chicago PD.
Get your hands in the air.
Get your hands up.
- [GRUNTS.]
- Whoa, whoa! Get down 5021 Henry, 10-1, 10-1.
Shots fired at police, offender going northbound.
- Go get him, go get him.
- Two blocks, headed for you.
- Get back! - Cardona, drop your weapon! [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I'm in foot pursuit on the 4700 block of Homan.
Stop! Police! Cardona! Stop! [GRUNTS.]
[GROANS.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
[GASPS.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
[GUN CLICKS.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- [GUNSHOTS.]
Kim! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
5021 Eddie.
Shots fired by the offender and the police.
Offender down.
DOA.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- So you good? - Yeah.
- Hey, Kim.
- Yeah? You all right? - Yeah.
- Okay.
Talked to the street deputy? IRT? Yeah, I mean, they got to do their thing, but they made it clear this one's pretty cut and dry.
I vouched for that, too.
All right.
And Cardona's weapon? Not a match.
Whoever killed Sofia fired .
38s from a revolver.
Cardona fired .
45s.
So we got nothing we didn't already have this morning.
Got no confirmation on Sofia's killer, got no leads on where to find the other women.
One point of interest.
We pulled a burner phone - off Cardona's body.
- All right, well, press for any data you can get.
Text messages, pings that put Cardona at the scene of the crime Any breadcrumbs, 'cause we don't have a lot else going on right now.
Adam.
Yeah? Thank you.
Doing my job.
Look, I get it.
Clearly, you're still pissed at me.
But, come on, you are gonna have to find a way to let me back in at some point.
Gonna need a new jacket.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[SIGHS.]
[SCREAMS.]
Makayla? Makayla? - They're here! - Who's here? - They're here.
- They're coming to get me.
Hey, hey, it's just me.
Oh, my gosh, okay.
No one's here.
- No one's here.
- They are.
You're okay.
Nobody's here.
It's a nightmare.
[SOFTLY.]
Hey, it's me.
It's me.
It's just a nightmare.
You're here with me.
Can you go back to sleep? - [WHIMPERS.]
- I'll stay right here, okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
Okay.
It's okay.
[SOFTLY.]
You're okay.
You're okay.
[WHISPERS.]
You're okay.
She's had a couple of these episodes? Yeah.
Not like this, though.
Yeah.
Well, these aren't nightmares, Kim, they're night terrors.
Makayla, she's seen things kids should not see.
She watched her mother die, her father hunted her.
The level of trauma here is extraordinary.
This was her only mechanism to cope.
Well, we've both seen some things.
That leads me to my next subject, you.
Me? Makayla knows what you do for a living, Kim.
Knows, on some level, what you're up against every time you walk out the door.
I don't share any of that with her.
- Well, you don't have to.
- It's who you are.
Makayla's seen you with a gun in your hand, Kim.
She's seen you take on people who are trying to hurt you.
It's feeding this, because Makayla knows if something happens to you, what happens to her? You're all she's got.
[PHONE BUZZING.]
I have to go.
I'm sorry.
So techs busted into the burner - we found on Cardona.
- Kay.
We found an outgoing text setting up a meet three days before Sofia was killed.
Strip mall, Garfield Park.
So we scanned the site and we got David Cardona handing a bag of something off to this guy.
And we're thinking that's Flaco, the boss? That was the theory, but we got the guy's plate.
So we ran the plate and the car's registered to him.
Doesn't look like a "Flaco" to me.
Nope, it's Bruce Alan Wegner.
Date of birth 3/30/71.
He's a doctor.
Highly respected OB-GYN.
Or he was.
Got his license revoked last year.
Got caught prescribing opioids to himself.
Wow.
Pick him up.
[PHONE BUZZING.]
Your house is a gold mine, Bruce.
Was it the rats or the roaches? Gynecological instruments, which you're no longer licensed to use.
Prenatal vitamins, pregnancy meds, all the prescriptions written in the name of a Dr.
Adrienne Cross.
My former partner.
She was amazing to me.
Generous, kind, in my lowest days.
So, naturally, I stole her letterhead and used it to forge scripts.
Which you then used to provide late-term pre-natal care at an off-the-books baby farm.
You're an active participant in a criminal conspiracy that ended in the murder of a 17-year-old girl.
[PHONE BUZZES.]
- If If you work with me, - [PHONE BUZZES, STOPS.]
I'll get you into court-ordered rehab.
I can't do that.
Well, then you're looking at prison.
[CHUCKLES.]
Thing is, prison, I'm alive.
- I talk, I'm dead.
- [PHONE BUZZES.]
[SIGHS.]
Burgess.
What? Makayla fell asleep in class.
Yeah, she's been waking up at night.
- And then woke up, sort of.
- Sort of? - Woke up screaming.
- Oh, God.
I don't think the children were trying to be cruel.
It was startling, maybe a little scary, and some of them may have laughed at her.
She locked herself in.
Won't budge.
- Right through there.
- Okay, thanks.
Could I get [EMOTIONAL MUSIC.]
Hey, buddy.
It's me, okay? You don't have to come out or anything but can you let me know that you're okay? [PHONE BUZZES.]
I just want things the way they were.
I know.
I know you do.
I just want my mommy.
And it's not fair.
You got me and it's It's just not the same.
All I can tell you, Makayla, is that you're safe.
And you're so loved.
And I would I would really appreciate it if you would just let me see you? You know, let me know - that you're ok - [CLICK.]
Hi.
I keep telling everybody how brave you are.
But you shouldn't have to be brave.
You're too little to be brave.
I got pregnant last year.
Congratulations.
Hah.
Didn't work out.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah.
I got morning sickness really badly.
What saved me was this.
I found it at your house.
Promethazine.
Does the trick.
Yeah.
These drugs we found, nitro Nitrofurantoin.
For UTIs.
Everyone in this building they all think you're just some junkie.
You know, a doctor who betrayed his oath, make some quick cash, buy drugs.
I don't think that's right.
No? I think your marching orders from your employers are pretty simple.
You keep the women alive, you get the babies, and the rest But you treated these women, these throwaways like queens.
[SOFT EMOTIONAL MUSIC.]
I don't think you ever stopped caring, Dr.
Wegner.
I hate myself for being a part of this.
And so you worked and worked to make sure that these babies and these women were healthy.
But the end result [SOBS QUIETLY.]
There's no greater pain.
Dr.
Wegner, you can end this.
Right now.
[WEEPS QUIETLY.]
Sarge.
The doc doesn't know who Flaco is.
Never met him, never heard his real name.
But he gave us this guy.
"New Bond Family Services"? It's an adoption agency out in the 'burbs.
It's legit on paper.
Wilson Richards is the CEO.
Him and the doc go way back.
He's the one who recruited the doc into this thing.
Richards is the broker.
He's the bridge between the baby farm and the couples looking to adopt an infant.
Richards buys the babies from Flaco for 40 grand.
Charges 80 for adoption.
Pay him a visit.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- Can I help you? - Chicago PD, ma'am.
- Where's Wilson Richards? - In his office.
Put your hands on your desk.
Don't touch your computer.
Do you understand me? - Okay, I need you two to leave.
- We have an appointment.
I understand.
I need you to go right now.
Come on, let's go.
- Chicago PD.
- What is this? Wilson Richards, you're under arrest.
- On what grounds? - For financing the kidnapping of tender-age children.
Babies.
Dear God.
Turn around and put your hands behind your back.
- So Richards is talking? - Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he folded like a lawn chair.
This is Flaco, AKA Javier Ortiz.
Date of birth, 2/17/76.
This is the man that killed Sofia Perez.
Ortiz and Richards, that's the partnership.
The nexus of this whole thing.
We got receipts.
Ortiz forwards photos of the pregnant recruits from Guatemala to Wilson Richards, and we got all those emails off of Richards' laptop.
Ortiz is all over social media wearing the sweatshirt from the video of Sofia's murder.
It's a clear match.
Went down pretty much like we thought.
According to Ortiz, Sofia escaped, Cordona and some other low-levels, they give chase.
Cordona caught up with Sofia on the rooftop.
They struggled, she fell, survived somehow.
They panic and called Ortiz who was around the corner.
And Ortiz came in to finish it, and they shut the place down to cover their tracks.
So where did they go? New City.
Wilson Richards bought the property on a foreclosure couple years back.
Told Ortiz to lay low there.
And we believe the other women are being held there, correct? Correct.
All right, this could go down real bad, real fast.
Go get a schematic of that building so we can find the best way in.
You go in dark, you go in quiet.
Strap up.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Don't you dare, man.
Get on the ground.
How many more of you are there? - Two.
- Two including Flaco? - You got him? - Yeah, I got him.
I'll get your six.
Stand up.
[RAPID GUNFIRE.]
[GUNFIRE.]
Jay, moving.
Hey! [GRUNTS.]
- Jay, I got movement.
- Okay, I got him.
Go.
It's okay, it's okay.
PolicÃa, come on.
Come on.
Down the stairs.
Okay.
- Hay una más.
- One more, where? No se.
Flaco, he has her.
Chicago PD! Flaco, put it down! [RAPID GUNFIRE.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[MUFFLED.]
[WHISPERING.]
Kim.
Kim! You all right? Okay, move on three.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
One, two, go.
All right, go around.
No, no, por favor.
[SOBBING.]
No! - Por favor, mi bebé, no! - Let her go.
- Drop the weapon, Flaco.
- No! I'll kill her.
- That's on you.
- No! Drop that weapon, you let her go.
- Now! - Por favor! Drop the weapon.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- Drop it! [GROANS.]
Let her go Or I blow your head all over this room.
Kay.
Drop the weapon.
Get on your knees.
Hands above your head.
- Hi.
- Hey.
You heard from DCFS? I did.
They reached out to the family that bought Karla de Leon's daughter.
They picked up the baby earlier today, and they're gonna return her to Karla tonight.
Good.
The other mothers are safe, too, so Yeah.
Nice to see the good guys get a win.
Yeah.
You all right? Yeah, I'm fine.
We were taking fire and I just I I hesitated.
Just froze.
I mean, I could've lost the hostage, I could've got one of the guys hurt, - I could've - But you didn't.
'Cause I got lucky.
[WHISPERS.]
I got scared.
I mean, not for me.
I didn't get scared for me.
I got scared - Because of Makayla.
- Yeah.
You've given her a second chance at life and that is worth protecting.
And I wonder if this is why the universe is telling you to name your guardian.
Your backup.
I wonder if you'd hesitate the same way if you had that peace of mind.
Maybe.
- Burgess.
- What? Anybody would be honored to participate in what you're doing with her.
Thanks.
Don't even think about picking me.
Copy you.
Night, Sarge.
See ya.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Hey.
Thanks for coming.
Well, you said it was urgent, so That your shower curtain? It's my former shower curtain, yeah.
Hmm.
Makayla's asleep.
Do you mind if we talk out here? Not at all.
What's going on? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um I'm naming you as my custodian.
In the adoption.
Like, if anything happens to me, you're the one who's gonna take care of Makayla.
I'm a little confused.
I mean, you remember what's been going on? The questions you've had about me? I mean, things haven't been too good between us.
I know.
Okay, so is it about that or is it about this case? - What went down with Ortiz? - No, it's not about either of those things.
Okay, why would you do that then? Because we were supposed to have a baby together, dummy.
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC.]
Because we're family.
Because You and I are a lot of things, including pretty screwed up.
Hah.
Who knows if we'll ever really get our act together but Her last name is Burgess now, Adam.
And, um, one thing that we can be, you and I, is Is we can be this whole, big, round thing that can surround and protect her.
You know, even if Makayla doesn't know it exists.
And I need that.
That's the only way that I can do this.
Be a good mom and be the kind of cop that I need to be.
I need that.
Obviously, you can say no.
But I'm could you just think about it? I don't need to think about it.
The answer is yes, of course.
I'm honored that you'd ask me.
So, what, what do we do? Do I sign something? Do we shake on it? I don't know.
What's the next step here? Shake.
Cool.
Come here, bear.
Come on.
Actually, I got you something.
These are called trouble dolls.
And you are gonna put them under your pillow and when you wake up in the morning, you know what? They've taken all your troubles.
So your only job is to rest.
How cool is that? - Really cool.
- Yeah.
Thank you.
I think that's a good order.
Can I get one? You're nice.
And now, sleep.
Cozy? Good night, Makayla.
Good night.