That's it.
[BRENDA GRUNTS]
Thank you.
Gave us a visitor's pass.
[DOOR BUZZES]
[INMATES CHATTERING]
[INMATES CHEERING .AND WHOOPING]
DEPUTY: Stop! Eyes left!
- Man, I hate being in here. - And without a gun too.
Ray Diamond?
I'm Deputy Chief Johnson. This Is Detective Gabriel.
- About time you showed up. BRENDA: Why?
Did you have other plans for the evening?
Where's your attorney, Mr. Diamond?
Yeah, I'm pro per.
- Representing yourself? - I can spend all day In a law library...
if I want, which is where everyone thinks I am right now.
Come on, let's get this thing started.
That's an excellent idea. What do you have to tell us?
Okay, I got some information on a murder-for-hire...
.which I'm willing to give up In exchange...
for the DA dropping his third strike against me. So go, come on back...
- ...tell you everything. - You crazy?
- We just got here. - Did you hear the clanging on the pipes?
Bing, bang, bingity bang. Whole joint knows you're In the house.
What's gonna happen when they find out that I'm the person talking to you?
Have you already been attacked? Your face looks like a mess.
I got that when y'all arrested me The toughest bust I ever took.
That was a stupid car chase.
No, I'm safe for now. You all better hurry.
Get the DA back with a deal because it's worth it.
Mr. Diamond, this evening already ranks as one of the low points of my life.
I'm not coming back.
If you've got something to tell me and you want my help...
go ahead, fascinate me.
Maybe you can start with the victim in this murder-for-hire.
- Who was it? - Not “Who was the victim?”“Who Is?”
I'm talking about stopping a murder from happening.
We're listening.
See, whenever I come back here...
I'm a trustee, which means I get to move around a lot.
One day, I'm spooning chili in the mess hall.
Next, I'm mopping in high-power.
See, everybody knows me or knows of me.
I can get visitors, which means If you need...
to get word out to the street to someone, I'm the go-to guy.
So last night, I get a kite to pass on.
And because it's from this powerful cat, I take a look...
and I read the message...
ordering a hit on the outside.
And it all goes down tomorrow.
- Tomorrow. - Okay, let me see this kite.
I had to let it fly.
You passed on orders for a murder?
If I hadn't, I'd be dead myself already.
Okay, all right, who's the target?
A DA and a deal. I That's what I want.
On paper, legitimate.
Mr. Diamond, it's interesting you use the word “legitimate.”
I've been studying your jacket...
.and you have been convicted of perjury twice...
the last time for providing false information about a homicide.
Here you are now, having violated your parole and facing a third strike...
and you've got a story about another murder? I
DAIMOND: I know. You want a show of good faith, right?
I'm gonna give you something, but y'all better hurry...
because you only got till tomorrow.
The murder has something to do with...
case number BA-I 20368.
Look it up.
[NDCORDING]:
BA-I 20368.
It's a case before the Superior Court California v. A Robert Curtis.
Alleged banker for the Garcia Drug Cartel's American operations.
Curtis is facing so many counts of money laundering...
he could go to jail for the rest of his life or be cooperating with the DA.
Which would explain why the cartel would want him dead, but this...
This Diamond guy, who, by all accounts, Is a pathological liar...
is in jail, where this might all be common knowledge.
What makes you think he's not looking for a target, trying to game the system?
Diamond gave his case number from memory.
Doesn't that warrant a follow-up? We've been trying to prevent a murder...
All right, who's prosecuting this banker guy, Mr. Curtis?
DDA Hobbs.
Great. You know Hobbs. Give her the information
The DA's office and the sheriff's department have plenty of resources...
- ...to take over this investigation. - Why would they take over?
What happens in jail Is the sheriff's problem, not ours.
But this case was brought directly to the L.A.P.D.
Yeah, by a snitch in the county jail, with Information about a county case...
looking to make a deal with the county prosecutor. County, county, county.
Chief, sir, with all due respect...
.Ray Diamond took a huge risk reaching out to us last night.
We promised him that we would follow up.
Which you will do by telling DDA Hobbs all about It.
I'll share a secret with you.
The city and the L.A.P.D. are broke, out of money.
If this snitch had come to you In our jurisdiction...
it would be different, but he didn't, so It's not.
He is physically and financially the problem of the district attorney...
of the county of Los Angeles...
.to whom Major Crimes will Immediately...
hand off this investigation.
TAO: Chief, we have updates .on the Ray Diamond case.
As a trustee, Diamond has access to all parts of the jail, Including high...
Including high-power, where six known associates...
of the Garcia cartel are housed.
High-power detainees don't get calls and they don't get out-of-cell time...
so they'd use a guy like Diamond to get their messages out.
Captain, Ray Diamond is a prisoner that we're holding In county.
- Here's his jacket. - Good.
The L.A.P.D. and the FBI have been investigating the Garcias for years.
They're like Dirtbag, Inc. It's not just drugs.
They traffic in people and guns, and they're really rich.
That's where the banker, Robert Curtis, comes into play.
According to this indictment, it was his responsibility to manage the money.
Yeah, he probably set himself up a great pension plan.
You're not too far off.
The Garcias do run the cartel like a major corporation.
They have themselves subpoenaed from all over the prison system to county jail...
where they have these board-of-directors meetings.
And it looks to us like your banker, Robert Curtis...
had sole control over their American finances.
If he's looking to make a deal, we could use his testimony...
to help track and confiscate the cartel's money worldwide.
Okay, so we have a Garcia cartel board-of-directors meeting...
going on now In L.A. county jail's high-power.
They heard that the banker's turning against them.
So they send out the order to kill him with a kite they pass through Diamond.
Where's Mr. Curtis right now?
In an undisclosed location and his hearing Isn't listed.
It's sequestered for his own protection.
So he is making a deal.
Chief, your snitch is starting to look a little more credible.
[SCOFFS]
What? What's the matter?
Well, according to Chief Pope, this Is the county's case.
He wants us to hand over our information...
- ...to DDA Hobbs. Let her run the show. - Captain Raydor?
- Chief Johnson. - I have a complaint.
- When have you not? - In our interview with Mr. Diamond...
he said after leading the police on a car chase, he was beaten.
FLYNN: Come on, chief...
Diamond probably dumped the car and tried to run away.
- When you tackle a suspect like that- RAYDOR: Lieutenant...
this bruise under his eye and the cut on his forehead indicate...
a possible categorical use of force by the L.A.P.D.
And, you know, Ray did say that this was his toughest bust ever.
I think that I should go to county jail and Interview Mr. Diamond Immediately.
While you're taking his complaint, would you let him know...
.that I am in communication with DDA Hobbs?
Great.
BRENDA: See if you can get him to confirm that Robert Curtis...
really is the intended target.
Also, if, while you're conducting your F1D investigation...
.Diamond has anything more to say about this kite, I'd love to hear it.
Chief? Looks like Ray Diamond won't be filing a complaint after all.
STANTON. We've secured the scene.
It's all yours. Feel free to take over.
- Any questions? DEPUTY 2: No, we're good.
Sergeant.
Stanton. Sergeant Stanton, do you have any idea...
- ...who murdered Ray Diamond? - This Is high-power, ma'am.
A dozen guys to choose from and all of them love killing people.
RAYDOR: Such a secure wing.
How did they manage to stab him to death without a guard noticing?
All due respect, ma'am, the county owns this investigation.
We don't answer to you.
In fact, we have our own questions.
Why all this interest in Ray to begin with?
Ray made allegations of police brutality during his arrest.
I can help you out with that.
Before he died, Ray said the cops didn't do it.
- Really? What good luck. KENDALL: Especially considering...
the guy was stabbed in the throat.
Yeah, he had to repeat it, twice.
Look, first you guys send down a deputy chief...
then you follow up with a captain?
This isn't about some brutality beef.
- If there's something we need to know- - Tell me...
other than the L.A.P.D...
.did Ray Diamond have any visitors In the past 48 hours?
DIAMOND: Hey! -Hey, yourself.
I came by this morning. Where were you?
DIAMOND: I'm a busy man. What can 1 say?
-What happened to your face? -This?
High-speed chases never end good, you know?
I've never been in one.
What are you looking at?
Nothing. You're pretty.
- Well, it was good to see you. - Oh, so that's it?
- Just do it? - Don't say nothing.
Right on.
RAYDOR: Stop right there.
Buzz, please play it back again slowly and blow It up If you can.
- You really wanna watch it again? - Bigger and slower.
- There's your kite.
Ray Diamond passed it through a kiss.
- Who is that woman? - Her name is Maria Flores.
And under “relation,” she put down “girlfriend.”
Girlfriend? She's, like, half his age.
Hey, the heart wants what the heart wants.
Apparently, Miss Flores visits a variety of prisoners...
at the county jail and each time she lists herself as “girlfriend.'
If Diamond was telling the truth...
that kiss contained the orders to murder the banker.
Which means the killer or killers may be on the move.
- The hit's supposed to happen today. - I sent two sergeants to Flores' home...
.but she hasn't been seen since last night.
Excuse me, chief. DDA Hobbs Is in Pope's office.
They asked for you.
Pope's still trying to hand this over to county
But on the tape, chief, Ray Diamond told Maria Flores...
that he was injured after a high-speed chase with the police.
So you still have an open use-of-force complaint?
And Chief Pope cannot shut me down.
Then Maria Flores may be an excellent witness for you.
If I can find her.
GAVIN: Hello, everyone.
FLYNN: Hey, Gavin. BRENDA: Oh, Gavin. Urn...
I'm so sorry. I forgot you were coming.
We've just been hit with a possible murder-for-hire case.
We're going to have to reschedule.
What's the point In confirming appointments...
- ...if you're not gonna keep them? - I have no control over...
when people are killed. This case has a ticking clock on It.
You wanna see a ticking clock?
This is my schedule today...
and these are the hours for which you will be billed.
- Someone's life is in the balance. - Well, I'm not paid to care about that.
I am paid to care about you by the hour.
Hey, Gavin. Chief, come on.
We know information is being leaked to the Baylor family's attorney...
by somebody in your division. Gavin needs to Interview everyone here.
But I haven't prepared everybody for this.
- You haven't told your detectives? - No.
Well, now may be a very good time to do it.
All right, everyone, may I have your attention just for a moment, please.
I know that everyone's been through the wringer on this Shooting Newton case...
.and all of you saw my attorney, Gavin, at your depositions.
Some of you may know him from his days as a city attorney.
FLYNN: Of course, I do. Heh, heh.
Gavin defended me In my favorite case ever.
I was driving my car...
and I ran over some dirtbag who was shooting at me, okay?
So his parents sued me.
Now, at the end of the trial, Gavin turns to the Jury, and he says...
Turned to the jury and he said, "The lieutenant was being shot at
through his windshield. I What'd you want him to do?
Honk if he loved Jesus?”
[PROVENZA CHUCKLING]
Yeah. “Honk if you love Jesus,” I was just gonna say that.
Yes, yes. Good times, indeed.
- I take it Gavin wants to talk to us. - To make a long story short, yes.
Has this been cleared with our union reps?
Well, I'm not swearing anyone and It's completely confidential.
And I just have a short list here of five questions.
See? One page.
Gabriel, this won't take long. I'll even go first.
Mind if we use your conference room?
- No, no, not at all. TAYLOR: Thank you.
HOBBS: I can't wait any longer.
Robert Curtis' attorney has been slow-walking us for three years.
It's already cost the taxpayers millions.
The preliminary hearing is set for today, .after the judge's regular court hours.
Curtis will be there.
The murder Is supposed to happen today.
According to a jailhouse snitch and convicted perjurer.
- Who was killed. - People get knocked off...
.for all kinds of reasons In county jail.
This threat can't have anything to do with Curtis.
His hearing is being held In a secret location.
Where?
In a police substation off Olvera Street...
which absolutely nobody knows about, not even the judge.
Maybe the cartel has sources the Judge doesn't.
The death of a potential informant would suggest a delay might be prudent.
No, no, no. The testimony of Robert Curtis...
will help defund a narco-terror organization...
that's been operating with impunity across our border.
I won't risk getting him scared into backing off.
What if Curtis gets assassinated on his way?
We have an enormous security team around him.
- Want me to make it bigger? - By at least one.
- I wanna join the security detail. - I don't want you involved.
The last time I failed to prevent a murder, we got sued.
All of us. You really wanna go through that again?
Fine. You can speak with Robert Curtis...
.but you will not mention
He goes to court today.
And I'll send your boss the bill for Chief Johnson's services. I
- I'm coming too. - Fritzy, I don't think that's a good Idea.
You can't just invite yourselves into my case.
The FBI's been working this investigation too, Hobbs.
If the cartel wants Curtis, his security detail Is the perfect place to start.
And you are not going anywhere without me.
Oh, God. Both of you, really?
We'll blend in perfectly.
Regarding Turell Baylor...
a few hours before he was killed...
Mr. Baylor confessed to the Shooting Newton murders.
But he had an immunity deal, so we had to cut him loose.
It's all in the deposition.
And you have nothing to add to that?
Good. We're already 20 percent done.
So when Chief Johnson and Detectives Gabriel and Sanchez...
returned from dropping Mr. Baylor off at his house...
what did they say?
I don't know. Nothing, really.
You know, I guess Detective Gabriel...
may have said something about It being a lousy day.
And can you elaborate on what was meant by “a lousy day”?
“Lousy” as in “not good”...
“day” as in it started off investigating a triple homicide...
of U.S. servicemen at 1:30 am...
and ended with letting off a double murderer 18 hours later.
So, yes, it was a long, exhausting, I crappy, lousy as In “not good” day.
Next question.
CURTIS: Who are you?
- Part of my security detail? - Yes, we are, sir.
I can't believe we never met before. Must be new.
Rob.
I'm Brenda Leigh Johnson and this is Fritz.
Really, really nice to meet you.
You too, you too.
I'm gonna go check the street.
Andrea, who is that guy? I don't like him.
We'll keep him away.
Yeah, but you, stay close.
Oh, don't go too close to the door.
CURTIS: You've got pretty good eyes as well as a firm grip.
So, tell me, Brenda Leigh Johnson, do I look crooked to you?
- Sir? - My tie, does It look crooked?
Don't wanna give the wrong impression on my day In court.
No, flop flop you look like a billion, bucks.
And from what I understand, that's chicken feed to the cartel.
The Garcias run a large business, that's true.
A business? Is that what you call it?
It's a market-driven response...
that operates on the principle of supply and demand.
People want drugs.
The cartel distributes them.
So, yes, it's a business.
Except the cartel kills people.
Tell me, how many American lives have been destroyed...
by Wall Street traders in the last few years?
How many homes lost, pensions wiped out?
How many related suicides?
Who gets arrested when an oil rig blows up in the Gulf?
The only difference between those guys and the cartel...
is that the Garcias know their victims by name.
Now you're testifying against them?
Well, I was caught, wasn't I?
But you get to walk away.
That's just the way it is, sweetheart. The banker always walks away.
Mr. Curtis, please gather your things. Your attorney's arrived...
- ...and we'll be heading out. - Gotcha, boss. Tsk.
Just one second. I just...
Oh.
- Thank you. - Oh, my pleasure.
I was just wondering, in all your dealings with the cartel...
.did you ever come across a woman named Maria Flores?
Oh, yeah, the kiss of death.
That's a little joke.
Maria, she has an odd habit. Every time she visits a guy In jail...
the next day, somebody on the outside turns up dead.
She's on the Garcias' payroll. Low-level.
NICK: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Who are you? Who is she? - Nick, It's all right. This is Brenda.
- One of the good guys. - That's not for you to decide.
- I didn't say a thing. - What's wrong?
My client cannot be questioned without me.
- What game are you playing, Andrea? - No game.
I was a deputy DA for 15 years. I know all your tricks.
- Who do you work for? - I work for the L.A.P.D.I
- I'm just here to protect your client. - Hmm.
Nobody's going around your back. Don't use this as another excuse to delay.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Pardon me, gentlemen.
- Nick, hey, are you listening to me? - What?
I want you to shut up Do you understand?
You're making me nervous. And I'm getting tired...
- ...of your mouth. - All right.
- Hello? - I've found Maria Flores.
Oh, thank goodness. Where?
Is there any reason she'd be on Olvera Street?
BRENDA: Did you say Olvera Street? RAYDOR: Correct.
I caught up with her and I've been following her...
around the plaza here for the last 20 minutes in some kind of holding pattern.
I think Maria knows the location of the secret court.
- Is she alone? - Yeah.
Although she could be circling In order to pick someone up. I
We need to find where Maria leads you. I'm gonna send my detectives to help.
Don't pick her up unless you absolutely have to and do not lose her.
Why would I lose her?
Mr. Curtis cannot go to court today. It's not safe.
- The location has been compromised. - How do you know that?
Flores is driving around looking like she's waiting to pick someone up.
- Damn it. - What's going on?
A change of plans. Curtis isn't going to testify today.
- I'll ask for a continuance. - No. You'll represent him at the hearing.
The judge just needs to know Curtis has agreed to a deal with the DA.
You don't think His Honor will wanna hear from my client himself?
You can give the judge the broad strokes.
We'll see.
You better know what you're talking about.
FRITZ: No, no, no. You stay here.
I like the thought of you being surrounded by a protection detail.
Besides, Curtis would miss you.
Oh...
TAO: There's nothing to say, really.
I have not discussed the case with anyone outside Major Crimes.
That's the answer to number three.
Number four...
yes, I was aware that Turell's family was under FBI protection.
And number five...
no, I am not on the team Investigating Turell's murder.
I hear they don't even have a suspect yet.
Good. And you're sure that no one who was In the car with Turell...
at the time he was dropped off at his house ever spoke to you?
The only thing I can tell you Is what I told the Baylor's lawyer...
the same thing city attorney.
And that is?
My name is Detective Julio Sanchez, Major Crimes, badge number 58323.
Is this how you intend to answer all of my questions?
I have some questions of my own.
Okay. What would you like to know?
FLYNN: How about this one?
Say a cop comes across a pile of cash Just lying In the street...
small bills, non-sequential.
Hypothetically speaking, Is he obligated...
to look for the person who that cash originally belongs to?
Flynn, Raydor found Maria Flores. Chief wants us to back her up.
- Good talking to you, counselor. I - Always an experience, lieutenant.
Gavin, punch out. Grab a coffee. We got a problem.
Lord, have mercy.
Well, that was frustrating, not to mention embarrassing. I
I jumped through hoops to get the judge so Rhodes could get another continuance.
I don't know how much longer I can keep Curtis on my side..
You're already relocating him. He's not going to jail.
Realistically, what more can you give him?
- Money? - Curtis Is the only one who knows...
- ...where the Garcias put all their cash? - Exactly.
Which makes it even more ridiculous to me that they'd kill him.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
- Hello? - Flores just picked up a passenger.
- Latino male. We're gonna roll them up. - Good.
Whatever deal you make, the FBI will end up with the money.
I don't care who has the cash, as long as it isn't the cartel.
- Where are you? - Hang on. She's turning.
HOBBS: Now I have to set up another hearing.
How do we know they won't figure out where that is too?
If this was ever an assassination attempt to begin with, which I doubt very much.
Oh, let me call my office. What time is it?
[GUNFIRE]
PROVENZA: Stay on them. Stay on them.
Captain, what happened? Where's Fritzy?
Everyone all right?
[SIRENS WAILING]
- Okay, paramedics are coming. - I'm not hit.
- You are. You are.
Oh, my God.
Go left! Left! Left! Left!
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
FLYNN: Right there. There.
- Out of the car now! - Out of the car!
MARIA: Oh, my God! FLYNN: Hands where we can see them!
MARIA: Don't shoot! - Hands where we can see them now!
Toss your weapon now! Do it now!
Toss your weapon out of the car and get out with your hands In the air!
You, up against the building right now! Right now!
On the ground!
[SANCHEZ SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
On your knees!
Down on your knees! Stop!
GABRIEL: Stop moving!
Clear out of the way! Move!
GABRIEL: Stop moving, sir!
Clear out of the way! Get out of the way!
Nobody shoot. I've got him.
What are you gonna do, lady? Shoot me?
Jesus.
Holy crap. You got him right between the eyes.
RAYDOR: I Lucky shot.
The recoil on these bean-bag guns is awful.
BRENDA: Oh, Fritzy. - Hey.
I'm fine. I'm fine.
Good job, everyone.
- Andrea? - I'm okay. Just a scratch.
Chief, Robert Curtis and his attorney are In Interview Room 2...
and they are not happy. Join the club.
Flores invoked, but we took her Into federal custody.
TAO: We don't need her. We found all the info...
on the secret court down to the room number...
and pictures of DDA Hobbs In the trunk of her car.
Plus $15,000 in cash...
which I'm guessing was the down payment on killing you.
Good to know what I'm worth.
- Where's the shooter? - In the hospital, unconscious.
- He'll live. - Can't have everything.
We ID'd him as Hector Medina, Mexican national.
Probably sent over the border Just for this job, chief.
That explains why Maria was driving him around.
- Didn't know the area. - Or have a license.
Chief.
Visitors logs from county going back two weeks..
Oh, wonderful.
- Thank you. - Mm-hm.
Oh, and if you're interested...
Ray Diamond was not beaten up by the officers who apprehended him.
I found a witness in jail who says that Mr. Diamond admitted...
that he ran Into a telephone pole face-first.
You still working Diamond's use-of-force investigation?
Of course. What'd you think I was doing?
I'll be back before Gavin leaves.
Why would the cartel wanna kill me?
I'm replaceable.
I think you just answered your own question.
Thank you, gentlemen.
- Brenda, is Andrea okay? - Yes, yes. She's fine. Thanks for asking.
That could've been me.
Well, remember, Mr. Curtis. It's just business.
We will not be taking questions anymore from the L.A.P.D. or DDA Hobbs.
With this brazen act of violence...
.we now feel the state can no longer protect Mr. Curtis from the cartel.
Is that true, Rob?
Until you guys work this thing out, yeah. I don't feel safe.
But you weren't the target of this assassination attempt. I
- It was DDA Hobbs. - Andrea Hobbs? Come on.
- They may be seriously psychotic... - You're still off the clock. Have a seat.
N IC K: Suggesting they'd deliberately try anything against a DDA...
is completely unbelievable.
They may shoot a cop now and again, but never a prosecutor or a judge.
You're a little behind, Mr. Rhodes. .We already caught the shooter.
I'm more interested in Maria Flores.
The woman that your client here called “kiss of death.”
She was driving around the would-be assassin.
That got me to thinking about something that you told me earlier today, Rob.
- Something I told you? - You said she was on the payroll.
And from what I understand, you handle all the Garcias' money.
You can't think that I paid Maria...
- ...to hire a hit man to kill Andrea. - Shut up.
- Hey, do not tell me to shut up again. - My client Is a government witness.
It's his ass on the line here.
Your attorney is right, Rob. You are In danger.
Which is why your trial was secured.
And yet Maria Flores knew all about it.
I didn't tell her. I didn't even know myself.
Your attorney here told you.
Oh, wait. Hold on a second. I never told Curtis the address.
You are a sworn officer of the court.
Are you telling me that you did not reveal to your client...
the address of the secret courthouse?
We never discussed it. I swear.
How did the cartel's leaders, who are all In county right now, know the address...
and where to wait for DDA Hobbs?
I don't know, but this is just the kind of lapse In security...
that I've been worried about since this whole trial began.
Two weeks ago, the cartel's board of directors...
.had a board meeting In county lock-up.
And according to the visitors log, Mr. Rhodes, you were there.
And under “relationship to prisoner”...
you wrote “counsel.”
“Counsel”?
- What the hell, Nick? - Look, no, no, no.
This is what she's trying to do, make you talk. I'm leaving.
If I were you, I wouldn't agree to stop talking. Your life depends on it.
Your attorney was sitting with the board of directors for almost an hour.
Nick, wait. Wait. Wait!
Why were you at the jail, Nick?
Look, the Garcias are representing themselves in this trial.
As the counsel for a separated co-defendant...
I'm entitled to ask about their defense.
And you so happened to tell them that you could no longer keep Curtis...
- ...from making a deal with the DA? - Not true.
The cartel couldn't kill you without losing access to their money.
- They decided to kill DDA Hobbs instead. - That is clearly Insane.
Your lawyer is trying to put you in jail where the Garcias can do what they want.
- She's lying. - I'm not lying.
NICK: She's lying. - I'm not. I'll prove It.
Nick Rhodes, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say...
You're reading me my rights Have you lost your mind?
I've done nothing wrong.
So if I check your personal and business accounts...
I won't find a transaction where you paid Maria Flores $15,000?
- No. - Hang on. Wait.
- What? - Oh, my God. Nick, you had...
He told me to sign off on a $15, 000 cash distribution yesterday.
- Stop talking. - You're still handling the cartel's money?
He told me to so they wouldn't know I was flipping on them.
- You're incriminating yourself. - I'm Incriminating you.
He's been telling me what to do ever since we started this deal.
Including paying for my defense.
- That's my cue. Excuse me. BRENDA: Is that true, Mr. Rhodes?
Even if I wanted to answer you, .I'm constrained by privilege. I
My first and only concern must be Robert.
You have been running Curtis for the cartel all along.
Makes you part of a criminal enterprise. Privilege doesn't cover that.
Criminal enterpri... Look, it's no secret Robert had money from these guys...
- ...but it's not my money. - How much, Nick?
To hand me over? You know what they'd do to me in jail.
NICK: Robert.
Mr. Curtis, you remember Special Agent Fritz Howard of the FBI?
- FB1' FRITZ: Since you Just confessed to paying...
for the assassination attempt on Hobbs...
twelve customers of the coffee shop, and, of course, me...
I'm here to take you into federal custody.
No. This is not right. I had a deal.
The state can have you when we're done in about 14 lifetimes.
- Bye, Rob. It's been fun. - You bitch!
I told you to shut up, Robert. Now they don't need you anymore.
They need me.
Look, I'm not the bad guy here.
How did you become the criminal you used to put In jail?
Oh, I don't need a lecture on morality...
from Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.
You're the one who put a guy on the street to be beaten to death, not me.
Oh, yeah, I looked into you.
Don't forget, I represent criminals.
And you hear everything in jail.
Just because you didn't beat Baylor to death...
with your own two hands, doesn't mean you didn't kill him.
You're no different from me.
Oh, my. This is taking a nasty turn, isn't it?
So...
this is what happens next.
You get me a deal.
And I get you back all the cartel's money that I tricked Curtis into giving me.
I have a better idea.
How about you write down how you paid Maria Flores $15,000...
to help assassinate DDA Hobbs?
And, in return, I'll arrest you on 14 counts of attempted murder.
That's the deal you're gonna get. Take it or leave it.
What? Seriously? Look, that Is not a deal.
Listen, Johnson...
without me, you will never, ever find the cartel's money.
- Understand? Never. - I don't care about the money.
I care about all the people who nearly died today, including my husband.
I have enough probable cause to arrest you and send you over to county...
where you can live it up with all your cartel friends.
I'm sure they'd be thrilled to see you.
Especially considering how cooperative you just offered to be.
You know, they hear everything in jail.
Wait, hold on. Wait a minute. You wouldn't dare.
When you see Turell Baylor in hell, you ask him what I wouldn't dare to do.
Oh, my God.
She doesn't mean it, Gavin.
Baylor's caused her a lot of grief.
If she can get a little mileage out of him, why not?
As much as I'd like to kill him myself, I'll put Rhodes In protective custody.
So don't worry, Gavin.
Thank you, dear. It would be a big help.
My God, this woman.
No, no, no. Look. Wait, wait...
Put that pen to paper. Be quick or be gone.
BUZZ: I heard the chief agree to protect Turell's mother and sister.
I don't know who's looking into his murder.
I'm a civilian tech. I'm not a police officer.
And did the chief or Detectives Gabriel and Sanchez...
.speak to you after they dropped Turell off at his house?
Yes.
Chief Johnson asked me If I had any Ding Dongs.
- Excuse me? - She sometimes has Ding Dongs...
on rough days, and after she came back, she ran out.
Hm.
Always tough running out of Ding Dongs.
Okay, so, let's just go over these questions again...
and make sure we got them all right.
I can save you some time.
Number one, no. Number two, no.
Number three, we'll come back to.
Number four, I don't know and I don't care. Number five, also no.
Now, back to number three for a second.
“Have I discussed this case with anyone outside Major Crimes?”
Have you?
Love you, love your work, but I'm out of here.
All right. All right. Listen up, everyone.
Now, I know we've all been through hell because of this damn witch hunt...
but these questions imply one of us is cooperating with the Baylors attorney.
And I find that insulting to my character...
and to that of everyone else in this room.
For the record, I find it insulting too.
RAYDOR: For the record, as well...
there's simply no way that Mr. Goldman knows...
.what he knows about Major Crimes without Inside Information.
So somewhere in this division, there's a leak.
Okay, then.
Well, it was really nice spending time with all of you today.
We'll be meeting again soon.
FLYNN: Wait up, Gavin.
Did you learn anything?
Nothing I didn't already suspect.
See, everyone here talks to everyone else here about everything.
So if one person knows something, you all do.
So to that leak that you don't think exists...
can you please tell Mr. Goldman...
that he can sneak around all he wants to...
but if this case ever gets to a courtroom...
I win.
No matter what he thinks he knows...
I win.
No matter what lies he gets passed...
I win.
But in the meantime, please be safe, everybody.
It is a rough world out there.
And it's getting rougher every day.
Synced & Corrected by Shadowmoon