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Through this anointing, may the lord,
in his love and mercy,
help you with the grace
of the holy spirit.
May the lord, who frees you from sin,
save you and raise you up.
Through this anointing, may the lord,
in his love and mercy,
help you with the grace
of the holy spirit.
May the lord, who frees you from sin,
save you and raise you up.
Yes, I'd like to report
two men shot to death lying
in the back of a pickup truck under
the sixth street bridge and Anderson.
- Morning, chief Johnson.
- So, what's all this?
Two Tijuana police officers
shot to death in this pickup.
Jacinto Gonzales, Carlos Gomez.
Is that why you called
priority homicide, commander?
Dead foreign police officers can
only be investigated by "the elite"?
I had nothing to do with
the article in the times today
referring to PHD as "elite,"
and you can tell flynn `cause
I've never used the word "elite"
to describe you.
Okay, okay, okay.
Come.
We're gonna have to respond
to that article in the times,
but everything Ramos wrote was trash.
Chief pope seems
to be taking it seriously.
He wants me in his office
an hour ago.
Why is the coroner's investigator
just getting here now?
Lots of dead people on Monday.
And if no one's touched the bodies,
how do we know their I.D.S?
Wallets, passports, badges were
all laid out in plain view.
Also in the driver's seat, guns.
This isn't the crime scene.
So, wait. Somebodydrove the bodies here?
Where's this vehicle from?
The vehicle is registered
to a San Diego address.
The police down there say the owner,
a Mr. Raul llamas,
didn't even know the vehicle was stolen
till they told him this morning.
So two Tijuana police officers murdered
elsewhere are driven underneath
a bridge in Los Angeles and
abandoned in a stolen pickup truck.
That's so strange.
Who found the bodies?
The guy who called it in
didn't identify himself,
but the cellphone's registered
to a father Chris Donahue.
Oh, great.
What was father Donahue doing in a place
like this at 6:00 in the morning?
I have no idea, but there's
a catholic church four blocks away.
Our lady of the saints.
Chief.
I think we got something here.
And it's seriously weird.
Now we got a whole list
of seriously weird stuff going.
Just another drug ***
in Los Angeles.
You recognize these bracelets,
detective?
It's related to the Ochoa cartel.
All their people wear them.
It means that
our victims are probably dirty cops.
Both men dead about six
to nine hours and
showing multiple gunshot wounds
from what looks like a. 45.
Okay, thank you.
Gentlemen. Thank you so much.
Okay, detective Sanchez,
let's let the Tijuana police know that
they've lost two of their officers.
Maybe they could tell us how
they got here in the first place.
Lieutenant Flynn, let's get
a dope dog to go over this truck.
See if anything floats its boat.
After which, lieutenant Tao,
if you could take it
to the print shed?
Thank you. Sergeant Gabriel,
I want "shots fired" reports
from L.A County for last night.
I need...
a crime scene in the very worst way.
Chief.
Look here.
Olive oil.
Detective Daniels,
that priest that called this in,
he didn't just find the bodies,
he also performed last rites.
I'd like him in my office,
please, posthaste.
Father Donahue doesn't have to talk
to you if he doesn't want to.
And when you want to interact
with the catholic church,
you need to go through a deputy chief.
I am a deputy chief.
Yeah, I mean, you know, a real,
grown-up deputy chief with
management and administrative duties.
Like Dennis Murdoch, who is L.A.P.D's
Liaison with the archdiocese.
Have you read the times today?
This article by Ramos?
I glanced through it, yes.
- Anything leap out at you?
- He misspelled my middle name.
What about this?
Here.
Here.
"Deputy chief Brenda Lee Johnson
confesses "that 90% of the time,
"priority homicide division
is deployed by her superiors
in an attempt to anticipate
media coverage."
Did you actually say this?!
Of course not!
He took my words out of context.
You accused me of allowing
the press to run this department!
Wait a minute, Will.
Now, wait a minute.
The main point of this article
is that phd handles more
white *** victims
than robbery/homicide,
and that has nothing to do with me.
That's how you assign cases.
In addition to which,
having a reporter popping
in and out of my division
was your idea, not mine.
You want to know what else
was my idea? You!
You...
Were my idea.
Priority homicide was my idea.
And so imagine how much fun
it's been explaining your comments
to angry members
of the police commission,
all of whom are now demanding
that I dismantle your division.
Do you understand what that means?
- Yes. Yes, of course.
- Come in.
We need to, I need to explain
things better to...
No, no, no. No!
I admit we need to talk
to this ***, Ramos,
because there's a big "part 1"
under the headline of this article,
and we don't want part 2,
which comes out next week,
to end as badly.
But the time for simple explanations
has come and gone.
L.A.P.D needs to get ahead
of this story, chief Johnson.
Priority homicide has established
the efficacy of team investigation.
We need to apply that lesson
to the rest of our force structure.
And translated,
that means what, exactly?
Priority homicide has run its course.
It's over. It's done.
I'm shutting it down.
What?
Because of this story?
Really?
What's gonna happen to my detectives?
And, and when?
When? You want to know when?
Now! Today!
By the time
Ramos gets here this evening,
the commander
and I will have reconfigured
L.A.P.D's various homicide units
in such a way that they will
withstand both criticism
from the police commission
as well as any further media scrutiny.
You will retain your rank and salary,
but you will no longer be in charge
of anything called priority homicide.
And for now, that's it.
You're dismissed.
Chief Murdoch spoke
with the archdiocese.
They say father Donahue will call us
when he has a minute.
Okay.
Well, we got a minute.
What do we know about him,
father Donahue?
Well, he has a small church in one
of the poorer sections of the city.
Our lady of the saints.
Runs it alone, and he's been questioned
several times by immigration officials.
They believe he provides
sanctuary for illegals.
Sanchez, we hear from Tijuana?
They're sending some comandante
to do their own investigation,
but our victims here,
Jacinto Gonzales and Carlos Gomez,
had no official business here
in Los Angeles.
But they had weapons.
Lieutenant Flynn,
what did our dope dog think?
He was unimpressed, but
there was some dried blood
behind the seats in the truck's cab.
S.I.D.'s still working on matching it up
and isolating fingerprints.
And, we may have something here, chief,
an unresolved "shots fired" report.
Last night at around 3:00 a.m,
central division responds to
an anonymous call reporting a gunfight
just east of the train station.
Our guys drove through the area,
stopped and talked
to security guards,
didn't find anything.
But all of them admit
to hearing something,
except for the night watchman
at manta chemical company,
a Mateo Hernandez.
Yeah, I, I put a want on him
while you were in with pope.
Now, as it turns out, the address
on his driver's license doesn't exist.
Also, Mateo's 40,
and it says he's supposedly born
here in L.A,
but his social security number
is only two months old.
- What about vehicle registration?
- He has a car.
He left it at work last night.
Hasn't come back for it.
But we do have two undercovers
watching it right now.
So Mateo Hernandez is either
a deaf illegal immigrant or...
His jobsite is our crime scene.
Let's head over to manta chemical
and have a look-see.
Good.
Oh, and...
Excellent work, everybody...
As always.
Really.
Always really excellent work.
Hey.
Excuse me for interrupting,
but D.O.J,
says you guys made an inquiry
on Mateo Hernandez.
Are you saying that
the FBI has a flag on Mateo?
- Why? Where is he?
- We can't find him just this second.
But this want is a bad thing.
I'm not authorized to tell you
anything about Mateo, except
he's helped us roll up the american side
of some major drug trafficking,
and he is a seriously good guy.
Well, you should come with me, then.
'cause I don't want to cause you
any more problems at work,
but your "seriously good guy" became
my chief suspect in a double homicide.
And I should say that all
of Mateo's paperwork was in order.
We filed it with the government.
That's all right, Mr. Gooding.
We're not from immigration.
And he was a real self-starter, too.
Not just sitting around at night.
He... he burglar-proofed the windows,
he... he fixed our alarms.
He even double-bolted the loading door
at the end of business every day.
And this shelving...
Well, when I left work last night,
this was all in rows
in the center of the room.
I guess Mateo must have moved
it up against the walls.
Oh, and, this is his desk
right over here.
Brenda.
I didn't know him personally,
but from what I was told,
Mateo was just not the kind of guy
who would cause
the sort of problem
you found this morning.
- I disagree.
- Why is that?
Because there's two casings right
here between the shelves.
From a .45.
For those in the know,
nothing better in the handgun biz.
Chief.
Wasn't something like this used
to tape down the tarp on the truck?
- Yes.
- Chief.
Look what I found.
The water in this bucket
has blood in it.
Looks like he tried to mop
the blood up off the floor.
Yeah, but why not wipe
the walls down, too?
Why just put shelves in front of it?
Maybe he, ran out of time.
The lock on this door has been
taken apart from the inside.
Mr. Gooding, when did that happen?
It wasn't like that
when I left yesterday.
So the bodies were already here
when the squad car
pulled up to check
on the "shots fired" report.
Mateo actually went outside
and spoke to the responding officers,
tells them
he doesn't hear a gunfight while
the victims are lying here on the floor?
When the police left, Mateo was afraid
that they might come back,
so he stopped cleaning up,
he pushed the shelves up
against the wall,
he dragged his victims out into
the stolen truck and drives them...
Four blocks...
From his church.
Right, this business about not talking
to the priest is getting ridiculous.
Father Donahue has had his minute.
Chief! Look, just hold on a second.
We can ask father Donahue
to come visit us.
I mean, but walking into his church
and demanding to see him?
That would raise holy hell right now.
I don't think it matters anymore
what kind of hell we raise, honestly.
Okay, okay, chief.
We all read the article
in the times this morning.
We understand.
It's not good.
So now is not the best time to pick
a battle with the catholic church.
Let's fight one Pope at a time.
The fbi's getting ready to fax
over some declassified stuff
- on Mateo to your *** room.
- See?
We got plenty to do.
What's going on? Is pope really
giving you grief about this article?
I thought it had more to do
with his problems...
- I can't talk about this right now.
- Chief,
eight sets of prints inside the pickup.
Two match our victims,
one goes with the prints
we found on the car Mateo left at work,
and five still unknown.
Thank you, lieutenant.
You want to summarize
this for everybody?
Sure.
All right, guys,
Manuel Rivera,
a.k.a Mateo Hernandez,
used to be a Tijuana comandante.
He refused to back off
as the Ochoa cartel,
when they moved in, started
buying up the local police.
Great. Now the cartels are
coming up here to shoot it out.
No, not Mateo. A year ago,
he abandons Mexico,
he drives up to Los Angeles
with enough evidence to dismantle half
the Ochoa cartel's American
distribution system.
I think your two vics here
were sent by the cartel to kill him.
Okay, how did Gonzales and Gomez
know where to find your informant
if the FBI gave Manuel
this new identity, Mateo?
Well, Mateo's 18-year-old nephew
came to visit last week.
Two days after he goes back to Mexico,
he's murdered.
And Mateo said the cartel
went after his nephew
to find out where we had put him.
Mateo's FBI case officer
talked to Mexican federales.
They said the kid was collateral damage
in a random gunfight between gangs.
What was his name, Mateo's nephew?
Ramon Camacho. Why?
Well, Mexico posts all
its morgue photos online,
and I use it sometimes to locate
missing gang members
on their database.
- There he is, Ramon Camacho.
- Are you kidding me?
- Cause of death?
- Blunt-force trauma.
He was beaten, not shot.
Probably tortured for information.
And the investigating officers,
Jacinto Gonzales and Carlos Gomez.
- Our victims.
- Great.
That's one way to get away with ***,
investigate it yourself.
So they grab the kid to find out
where the uncle lives,
they beat him until he talks,
and then they kill him.
And Manuel, a.k.a Mateo,
hears about this and realizes
that they're coming for him.
So Gonzales and Gomez sneak up
on him somehow at work.
Even have the tape out to put it over
his mouth, same as they did his nephew.
Yeah, but Mateo fought back.
I mean, self-defense.
Or maybe since he knew his identity
had been compromised...
He knew someone was coming,
so he was prepared.
He limited access to only one
entrance door,
so he knew exactly where Gomez
and Gonzales would enter,
almost lying in wait for them.
Is there anything we can do to help?
That depends,
am I finding Mateo so the FBI
can swoop down and
take him away from me?
Not if he committed ***, no.
Lieutenant Tao, that dried blood
on the back of the pickup's cab
I keep bumping on it for some reason.
Would you have S.I.D determine if
it matches up to any
of our victims, please?
Thank you.
Chief Johnson.
Yes, commander?
Deputy chief Johnson,
this is comandante Martin Vasquez
from the internal-affairs division
of the Tijuana police.
He's here to see about your victims.
Thank you for coming, comandante.
Let me fill you in
on what I know so far.
Gracias, senora.
- Chief.
- Yes?
Listen, I, I know how
things sounded this morning,
but trust me.
I'm, I'm working all this out.
Yeah.
I can tell.
Chief, did it ever occur to you
that it may not be priority homicide
the police commission
has a problem with?
Excuse me, commander?
Chief Pope is in charge
of our race relations here,
and it's blowing up in his face.
So maybe instead of getting all
pissed off at me,
maybe you should check out
how long an assistant chief
usually lasts at the L.A.P.D.
I thought you'd want to help me keep
our friend from an early retirement.
By giving up my division?
Why am I supposed to be
the fall guy here?
You know what, commander? I don't want
to talk about this with you now.
Pardon me. Excuse me.
This man you're calling Mateo,
I know as Manuel Rivera.
How well did you know Manuel Rivera?
We worked together.
I trusted him.
Do you have any reason to believe
that the officers he shot were corrupt?
The operating rule in Tijuana
right now is "trust no one."
I know the feeling.
And yet you stay.
To succeed,
corruption depends on decent
people either giving in
or giving up.
And I don't like giving up.
Now, Manuel, he was my friend,
but he abandoned his country,
he has a new name.
After changing so much,
who can say what he is like today?
I'd like to think this is self-defense
on Manuel's part, but
it would be great to hear
someone say that out loud.
Is it possible to get
a report from your morgue?
Okay, squat down a little.
Down a little more.
And, chief Johnson,
if you'll just stand there.
Okay.
Now, sergeant Gabriel,
if you'll just grab me from behind.
Really?
Around the neck.
Not too tight.
Okay, chief Johnson,
walk towards me.
And ***, ***, ***, ***!
He shoots Gonzales.
***! He blasts away Gomez's elbow.
***, ***, ***, ***, ***!
Oh, my god. What is on that sponge?!
Just water.
You know what? I'm not sure.
Here's, an antibacterial wipe.
You, you'll be fine... Probably.
You know what? Take two.
So, our victims were killed
while attacking someone else?
The angle of his entry wounds indicate
the gun was probably fired
over the shoulder and
at extremely close range.
The other guy, just a few feet
away from the weapon.
Gonzales has four kids.
What am I gonna tell his wife?
I should call her, I suppose.
Now, I understand
that you still need to find Manuel
and get his side of the story,
but the doctor's explanation seems
to fit the theory of self-defense, yes?
But if Manuel was just
protecting himself, why
didn't he call the police and report
what happened or alert the FBI?
But he did alert the FBI.
According to you,
he told them last week what he thought
might happen, and they did nothing.
And if you're from Tijuana
and you know how much money
these cartels have to throw around,
you think to yourself, "hey,
maybe someone from
the FBI is giving me up."
That's being a little paranoid,
don't you think?
Manuel took on the cartels.
Paranoia is how you stay alive.
Myself, as well.
I must keep my schedule secret.
I sleep in a different
place every night.
Someone's house or
an apartment or a church.
I put bullet proof glass
in my office.
I'm sorry. Did you say you
sleep in churches?
Well,
even the cartels
are a little afraid of god.
Chief.
We are not going to that church.
Lieutenant Provenza said not
Father Donahue's minute
has turned into hours.
Excuse me, comandante,
are you up for a little confession?
Are you sure you wouldn't like
to accompany me, comandante?
If Manuel really
has sought sanctuary here,
seeing a Tijuana police officer
may not be the best way
to convince him to come out.
All right, then.
Wish me luck.
- Chief.
- Yes?
I just want to say again,
for the record,
that without the permission
of the archdiocese, this is...
a very bad idea.
Churches are like foreign embassies.
We don't just go storm into them...
Thank you so much
for the warning, Sergeant.
Now, if y'all excuse me,
I'll be back just as soon as I can.
Oh, sorry.
- Father Donahue?
- Yes?
I'm deputy chief Brenda Leigh Johnson
of the L.A.P.D.
The archdiocese said I could pop on by
and ask a few questions.
- Do you mind?
- Oh, uh...
well...
- Okay.
- Thank you.
Who did you speak to at the archdiocese?
Um, I couldn't pronounce his last name,
so I just kept calling him "father."
I'm sorry. Were you
eating dinner with someone?
He was called away.
I was told that you were
the only priest here.
I am. Have a seat.
Can I get you anything?
Thank you. Um, a glass of water
would be nice.
Do you watch a lot
of spanish television?
Oh.
My congregation's mostly latino, so...
these programs
improve my language skills.
- I see.
- What can I do for you?
Well, first, I just want
to thank you so much
for calling in
the murders this morning.
You're welcome.
- Thank you.
- Sure.
And I was just wondering...
the street where you found the bodies
is several blocks away from here.
And unless you make a habit
of removing tarps
from the backs of stolen pickups,
it seems to me you went out looking
for the victims.
Which is why you brought
the oil for last rites.
You did perform last rites on them,
didn't you?
- Why is that important to you?
- Because you interfered
with my physical evidence,
and it's my responsibility to find out
how these men lost their lives.
And I take that very seriously.
And it's my responsibility to make sure
they don't lose their souls, as well.
And I take that very seriously.
How did you know about
the bodies in the first place?
I'm sorry. I can't share
that information with you.
Because it came to you
under the seal of confession?
- That's right.
- Was the person who shared
this with you a man or a woman?
Yes.
This isn't a guessing game.
All right, then, father.
Let's have
a... theological discussion.
Because you found out about
those bodies in confession,
doesn't that mean a sin was involved?
Are you familiar
with how confession works?
I'd say so, yes.
And I wouldn't think that killing
someone in self-defense is a sin.
The commandment reads
"thou shalt not kill."
It's pretty unambiguous.
Now, whether those deaths
were *** or self-defense,
I'm not qualified to say.
I help the penitent
find forgiveness from God,
not from the state.
Did you help a man named Manuel Rivera,
also known as Mateo Hernandez?
He attends church services here.
I know it because I found this
on his desk.
Now, you're known as
a sanctuary church.
Immigration has been here
several times, and they...
and been turned away, yes.
God doesn't recognize national borders.
I, however, am very good
at recognizing my parishioners,
and you're not one of them.
I'll tell the archdiocese
that we spoke.
- Look, father, I need your help.
- I'll be happy to pray for you.
Manuel or Mateo or whatever name
you know him by,
he came to see you...
I know it.
The FBI knows it,
the Tijuana police know it,
and that means, sooner or later,
the Ochoa drug cartel will know it.
And this is what happened to the last
person who knew where Mateo was
and tried to keep it a secret.
Right. Okay.
What would you do with Manuel
if you found him?
I would hold him on homicide charges
until I checked out his story.
I celebrate mass three days a week
at the county jail,
and I take confession
from the Border Brothers
and the Sinaloan Cowboys and
members of every latino street gang
in Los Angeles...
all of whom, in one way or another,
are connected to dope,
which means the Ochoa cartel.
They're waiting for you
to arrest somebody
named Manuel Rivera or Mateo Hernandez.
They've been told a former Tijuana
comandante of that name
is gonna show up,
and whoever kills him
earns an instant $50,000 for his family.
Ms. Johnson, Manuel has a price
on his head.
He's not gonna last an hour
in the county jail.
Well, I'm certain that we could find
a safe place to hold him.
Fortunately, that's not your problem.
Is it politically incorrect to suggest
that this is a mexican stand-off?
Look...
if you're really serious
about protecting Manuel,
I always believe actions
are more powerful than words.
So, the day that a negative front-page
article appears in the Times
about priority homicide,
- you seal off a catholic church.
- We're not on their property.
Chief, we could have
undercovers out here
stopping anybody from coming out.
But they wouldn't have stopped people
from going in. Pardon me.
Excuse me, chief Johnson,
but personally, I don't believe Manuel
would ever come out of this church
- with it surrounded like this.
- There's a bit of a negotiation
going on, Comandante. I'll admit that.
But we'll get through it. Pardon me.
Prints on this, I hope.
Let's see if they match Mateo's.
Okay, and I think I know
why you were bumping on the blood
in the back of the pickup...
because, first of all,
it was several days old.
But the San Diego police spoke
to the owner of that truck,
and he said it just went missing
this morning.
I'm thinking that's not entirely true,
because the blood... is AB negative.
Very rare. It doesn't type out
with either of our victims.
But I spoke to the mexican morgue,
and Manuel Rivera's nephew...
AB negative.
Thank you.
Sergeant Gabriel, I want the license,
registration, and insurance
on that stolen pickup
as soon as possible. Thank you.
I really think what we have here
is a gigantic misunderstanding
revolving around the word
"priority" and how it's applied.
Come on in, chief Johnson.
Hello, Ricardo.
Hope you're not angry with me, Chief.
- I did call your team "elite."
- Ah, but, you see,
- that's part of the misunderstanding.
- Right, exactly.
Exactly what I was about to say.
You think that the word "priority"
means we're assigning greater value
to victims who are white and/or rich,
and we were never doing that,
were we, chief Johnson?
No.
And as a matter of fact, you've sort of
jumped the gun on us a little bit,
because we're already under way with
a major departmental reorganization,
and the first thing we are dropping
is priority homicide
- because of the misinterpretation...
- okay, let me stop you right there.
First of all,
I didn't misinterpret anything.
The racial statistics
speak for themselves,
- and chief Johnson... Still talking.
- I can address that.
Still talking.
And chief Johnson told me herself
that you deploy her division...
which includes, what,
three lieutenants...
in anticipation of newsworthy crimes?
Which means in addition to race,
you're allowing the media
to determine your agenda.
No. No, no, no. That was never the case.
And, chief Johnson was mistaken
when she suggested that, and
I'm sure she'd like to tell you so.
I would.
I was, uh, irritated at the time,
and I spoke without thinking.
Uh, we called the division
"priority homicide"
because we were experimenting with
the concept of team investigation.
And this experiment... which has been
completely successful, by the way...
was the main focus in our homicide cases.
Hence, the word "priority."
And we used our best people
because we felt,
given that the concept
was fairly new, innovative...
Right. Cutting-edge, really.
It wasn't something we wanted to explore
with less-experienced detectives.
And these were very tough cases,
featuring suspects
with greater resources,
who, as we find
in the greater population...
often turn out to be white.
Anyway, priority homicide
is now a thing of the past.
As of tomorrow, actually,
deputy chief Johnson
will be heading a new division
called "major crimes,"
which will incorporate homicide units
from across the city.
- Major crimes.
- Mm-hmm.
The DA's office has a department
with the same designation.
Well, if I can say
that you sped up this reorganization
in response to part 1
of my article, this...
definitely changes the nature
of what I'm writing in part 2.
Oh, well, you, certainly
deserve to take credit for this,
- don't you think, chief Pope?
- Absolutely.
In fact, if you'd like
to come by tomorrow, we can...
- show you what we're up to.
- And this isn't just some cosmetic
shake-up? There's actually gonna be
- some change involved?
- Oh, no, no. It's going to be huge.
Major crimes puts my division
in charge not only of homicide,
but also the larger fraud cases...
and, uh, kidnappings and rapes.
- *** and kidnapping.
- Well, yes. Those are
major crimes, aren't they? I mean...
does anyone think
that *** isn't a major crime?
Oh, and... commander Taylor will be
reporting directly to me,
coordinating my interaction
with the other divisions.
Of course, my elite team of detectives
will stay entirely intact.
- Oh, it's gonna be great!
- Oh, yeah.
- This is exclusively mine?
- You're the first to hear it.
Now, if you gentlemen will excuse me,
I have a *** to wrap up.
Pardon me.
You see, and I... stupid me.
I thought you guys were gonna
be, like, all mad and stuff.
All right, well, what time
should I be here tomorrow?
- Whatever time works for you.
- Yeah. Yeah, we're here.
Actually, she's here.
I'm gonna call you back. Chief!
You're ready for this?
License and registration
on the pickup truck.
Chief!
The prints on the fork
you gave me... Mateo's,
a.k.a Manuel Rivera.
Okay, so we know he's in the church.
No one from central moves from there
until I give the word. Thank you.
Lieutenant Tao, there is
one last set of prints
I want you to pick up for me,
and if you could match them
to one of the unidentified pair
we found on the not-so-stolen pickup,
I would be eternally grateful.
Okay. And from where would I be
lifting these prints from, exactly?
Chief, I pulled up the DVD
agent Howard brought in.
Plus, we have stills...
Everything coming over the Mexican
border synced up to license plates.
So we went through them manually,
and we started
an hour before the time stamp
on our victims' passports.
All right, let me go over this quickly
before interview the suspect.
- Manuel's turning himself in?
- No, no, but I've proven
that he's in the church,
and I've surrounded it with police officers,
so I'm pretty sure he's safe.
And here's our victims, Chief.
But I thought this truck
was stolen last night.
No.
That's just what you told
the San Diego police this morning
when you realized that your plan
to kill Manuel had gone terribly wrong.
Let's keep this rolling for a moment.
I think we're in for another surprise.
Comandante,
may I have your passport, please?
Gentlemen, may I have your help?
This is outrageous! You have no right
to treat me this way!
- I am assisting you!
- And what better way
to get away with ***
than to investigate it yourself?
***? You cannot
charge me with ***.
But we can for illegal
possession of a passport,
because you're definitely not
two people,
and yet you have two official IDs.
And... there's a time stamp
on this one.
- Oh, my God.
- Well, what a coincidence.
There you are crossing the border
right behind Gomez and Gonzales.
And... what passport did you use?
Did you use Martin Vasquez
or Raul Iamas?
You know, the name
the truck's registered under?
Obviously, you spend the money
the cartel pays you
- living your other life in San Diego.
- No. No.
- The truck is not mine.
- Sir, we just matched your prints
off the pictures of the victims
that you handled in my office
to a previously unidentified pair
that we found in the pickup.
We also found a rare type
of blood in the pickup's cab,
which matches that
of Manuel Rivera's nephew.
Now,
Now, we have some hard decisions
to make.
And I need your help.
Or things are gonna go very badly
for you, sir. Very badly.
You have no idea how things
are in Tijuana right now.
Is this how you explain things
to people who don't understand?
How many people do you explain it to
the way you explained it to that boy?
The boy was killed in Mexico.
- It's not your concern.
- How do you know
he was killed in Mexico?!
Doesn't say so on the photograph!
Look.
Let's be reasonable here.
You don't want to hold me
on this silly passport issue.
I'd be out of your jail in hours.
But Manuel Rivera wouldn't have been
out in hours, would he?
You knew that if Manuel
successfully defended himself
against Gomez and Gonzales
that I would be forced
to leave him in the county jail
while I investigated his story,
where you put a bounty on his head
so one of his fellow prisoners
would kill him!
Manuel put a bounty on his own head
when he chose to fight the cartels.
He will be a target
the rest of his life.
Prove I did that...
put a bounty on his head.
Prove it.
You can't even prove
that I sent Gomez and Gonzales
- to kill him in the first place.
- If I could prove that,
you'd be responsible for their deaths.
And we could arrest you
on two counts of felony ***.
Now,
I'm gonna read you your rights
and give you the opportunity
to confess your crimes.
Don't waste your time.
I have nothing to say.
We'll see about that.
Oh, no.
Two passports.
I don't know which name to arrest
you under. That complicates things.
It doesn't matter which name.
All right, then.
I'll send you
to the county jail this way...
Mateo Hernandez, a.k.a Manuel Rivera,
you are under arrest for the ***
of Jacinto Gonzales and Carlos Gomez!
- What?!
- You have the right
you know that's not my name!
What difference does it make?
You said it didn't matter.
If you can't afford one will be
appointed for you by the state.
Have you heard and understood
these rights?
- You cannot arrest me as Manuel!
- I can, and I have.
This is ***!
If it is, then you
planned it yourself.
And you can stop it.
Did you send Gomez and Gonzales
across the border to kill Manuel Rivera?
Did you offer $50,000 to
the person who could kill him?!
No!!
You... you must arrest me
as Martin Vasquez!
I'm so sorry, sir.
I'm changing your name
to protect the innocent.
Let her go!
Let her go, you son of a ***!
I will kill you!
You will die for this...
all of you!
You will all die for this...
all of you!
All of you!
You will all die for this!
Die for what, comandante? Hmm?
What's there to be afraid of,
comandante? Huh?
If you're really innocent,
you'll be out of jail in no time.
Wait! Wait! I have...
I have access to...
I can make you all rich...
all of you!
- Hey, Vasquez!
- Wait!
If you see Gonzales and Gomez,
tell them we all said hi.
Hey. This place is kind of beautiful.
Don't start.
Bless me, father, for I have sinned.
How long has it been
since your last confession?
Well, I almost got one last night,
but the suspect, Manuel Rivera,
a.k.a. Mateo Hernandez,
was killed in the county jail.
- You say Manuel is dead.
- Officially...
yes.
And it's been reported
in the press.
That's why I removed the police
from around your church.
You're safe now.
And so is your friend.
And what will become of the man
I know as Manuel Rivera?
Well, I have an FBI agent here,
if Manuel wants to be supplied
with a new identity.
But you're an expert in immigration.
And if there's one thing our government
has successfully proven
that it can't do at all,
it's find illegal aliens.
I'll keep you in my prayers.
I'll take that in the spirit
it was given, father.
Manuel?
Good luck to you, sir.
Bless you, SeƱora.
I will need it.