1 00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:02,752 Previously on R.J. Decker… 2 00:00:02,753 --> 00:00:03,920 Lead the way. 3 00:00:03,921 --> 00:00:07,340 Uh, actually, can I kiss you first? Just to get it out of the way. 4 00:00:07,341 --> 00:00:09,635 "Get it out of the way." 'Cause that's so romantic. 5 00:00:10,636 --> 00:00:13,596 Gabriel's already served ten years of life without parole. 6 00:00:13,597 --> 00:00:16,849 You're talking about a client who confessed to killing a police officer. 7 00:00:16,850 --> 00:00:20,311 I wouldn't have approached you if I wasn't convinced that Gabriel didn't do it. 8 00:00:20,312 --> 00:00:22,355 Where were you when Officer Werner was shot? 9 00:00:22,356 --> 00:00:24,440 In an alley somewhere, needle in my arm. 10 00:00:24,441 --> 00:00:26,400 They kept telling me I did it. 11 00:00:26,401 --> 00:00:27,652 I didn't do it. 12 00:00:27,653 --> 00:00:30,071 What I want is to hire you to find the real killer. 13 00:00:30,072 --> 00:00:31,781 What if I find out this guy really did it? 14 00:00:31,782 --> 00:00:33,616 My gut says he's innocent. 15 00:00:33,617 --> 00:00:36,994 Helping Gabriel Romero would be a mistake, 16 00:00:36,995 --> 00:00:39,665 and I'm here to make sure you understand why. 17 00:00:57,349 --> 00:00:59,725 You know, even on break, 18 00:00:59,726 --> 00:01:01,978 you're supposed to look like a cop. 19 00:01:01,979 --> 00:01:03,062 It's just… 20 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:06,524 I've been stuck on level 87 for three days now. 21 00:01:06,525 --> 00:01:07,693 Water or soda? 22 00:01:08,193 --> 00:01:09,194 Whatever's cold. 23 00:01:25,502 --> 00:01:26,503 Mmm. 24 00:01:27,129 --> 00:01:28,130 I know. 25 00:01:28,797 --> 00:01:29,880 The flan. 26 00:01:29,881 --> 00:01:34,261 Barbecue is on Saturday, Jessica's counting on me, yada, yada, yada. 27 00:01:35,178 --> 00:01:38,264 - You know, I don't even like flan. - Not my problem. 28 00:01:38,265 --> 00:01:41,559 This is your problem for telling Jessica that you can make one. 29 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,185 She is pregnant, you know. 30 00:01:43,186 --> 00:01:45,229 Yeah, well, you can't blame me for that. 31 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:47,023 Well, pregnant women get cravings. 32 00:01:47,024 --> 00:01:50,151 It is your civic duty to make the damn flan. 33 00:01:50,152 --> 00:01:51,235 Speaking of duty, 34 00:01:51,236 --> 00:01:55,573 I just spent the last three hours holding the rope for a fruit carton robbery 35 00:01:55,574 --> 00:01:59,368 while the brain surgeons interviewed witnesses I already questioned. 36 00:01:59,369 --> 00:02:01,038 It's gonna be us someday. 37 00:02:01,538 --> 00:02:03,664 Getting razzed by the jealous unis. 38 00:02:03,665 --> 00:02:07,585 You think I'd ever give up the blues and all the off-duty action they get me? 39 00:02:07,586 --> 00:02:08,878 No. 40 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:12,089 - Hey, can I get a bag, please? - Are you at the convenience store? 41 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:14,801 'Cause I could go for a coconut slushie right about now. 42 00:02:19,556 --> 00:02:20,931 Bobby. 43 00:02:20,932 --> 00:02:22,934 No! No, Bobby! 44 00:02:24,269 --> 00:02:25,896 Are you okay? 45 00:02:41,828 --> 00:02:43,622 Oh, hey, you can take these off. 46 00:02:47,376 --> 00:02:49,835 It's okay. They do this sometimes. 47 00:02:49,836 --> 00:02:51,380 Put me on close management. 48 00:02:53,674 --> 00:02:56,217 - Gabriel Romero. - R.J. Decker. 49 00:02:56,218 --> 00:02:58,844 Apalachee Correctional, class of '24. 50 00:02:58,845 --> 00:03:00,555 - No joke? - No joke. 51 00:03:01,973 --> 00:03:05,726 I've only ever seen close management for transport or temporary punishment. 52 00:03:05,727 --> 00:03:07,436 Depends on the guard. 53 00:03:07,437 --> 00:03:11,274 No rhyme or reason except for the fact that they think I killed a cop. 54 00:03:12,734 --> 00:03:13,985 And you didn't, right? 55 00:03:15,153 --> 00:03:16,654 Kill a cop? 56 00:03:16,655 --> 00:03:17,656 No. 57 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:21,450 - I thought you already knew that. - All I know is 58 00:03:21,451 --> 00:03:24,704 there were some pretty big holes in the case against you ten years ago. 59 00:03:24,705 --> 00:03:27,581 Holes that would have given you a good chance in an acquittal 60 00:03:27,582 --> 00:03:28,791 if you hadn't confessed. 61 00:03:28,792 --> 00:03:30,752 I'm here to talk a few of them out with you. 62 00:03:31,628 --> 00:03:34,171 I want to start with the place you were squatting back then. 63 00:03:34,172 --> 00:03:37,634 The abandoned house on Power Line Road. Okay? 64 00:03:38,844 --> 00:03:42,138 The hoodie. The one the shooter was wearing when he killed Officer Werner. 65 00:03:42,139 --> 00:03:45,933 The cops found it inside the house two days after you were arrested. 66 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:49,311 If you read all that stuff, you know I told them it wasn't mine. 67 00:03:49,312 --> 00:03:52,565 Your lawyer, Kelly, she says you think the hoodie was planted. 68 00:03:52,566 --> 00:03:55,693 The first 20-something hours when I was in that room with the cops, 69 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:58,071 I told them again and again they had the wrong guy. 70 00:03:58,822 --> 00:04:01,615 They needed something that would get me to stop fighting them, 71 00:04:01,616 --> 00:04:04,702 so they found a hoodie just like that one, put it in the house. 72 00:04:04,703 --> 00:04:06,705 Yeah, that's one possibility. 73 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:11,333 Another is it belonged to one of the guys you were squatting with back then. 74 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:12,668 Um, Dookie or Grey Worm. 75 00:04:12,669 --> 00:04:14,504 Ever get their real names? 76 00:04:15,338 --> 00:04:19,300 Ever hear their street names again? Maybe from an inmate in here? 77 00:04:19,301 --> 00:04:21,218 Anything that could help me find them now. 78 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:22,303 No. 79 00:04:22,304 --> 00:04:24,890 And I had to guess, they're not out there for you to find. 80 00:04:25,474 --> 00:04:28,267 They were junkies, same as me. 81 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:30,562 Guys living the way we were living, 82 00:04:31,146 --> 00:04:33,690 odds are better they've both been dead for a long time. 83 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:37,485 Okay. Let's talk about what the police didn't find back then. 84 00:04:37,486 --> 00:04:38,569 The murder weapon. 85 00:04:38,570 --> 00:04:41,155 The theory back in 2016 is you got rid of it somehow. 86 00:04:41,156 --> 00:04:43,325 You threw it in the ocean, down a drain, whatever. 87 00:04:44,242 --> 00:04:47,578 But Kelly tells me it popped up on the cops' radar a few months back. 88 00:04:47,579 --> 00:04:51,040 Somebody fired six rounds into a billboard off US 441. 89 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,042 Ballistics or whatever, 90 00:04:53,043 --> 00:04:56,212 they matched the casings to the gun that killed Officer Werner. 91 00:04:56,213 --> 00:04:58,464 Police don't find that as interesting as we do. 92 00:04:58,465 --> 00:05:00,758 Yeah, they think somebody just found your gun, 93 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:02,760 that the billboard shooting was unrelated. 94 00:05:02,761 --> 00:05:04,136 Me? 95 00:05:04,137 --> 00:05:05,429 It makes me wonder 96 00:05:05,430 --> 00:05:08,974 if the person who actually killed Bobby Werner never got rid of it. 97 00:05:08,975 --> 00:05:12,311 They just didn't use it to commit another crime until a few months ago. 98 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:13,855 I wondered the same thing. 99 00:05:14,606 --> 00:05:15,607 I hoped. 100 00:05:16,441 --> 00:05:18,610 But if you really did time, then you know. 101 00:05:19,277 --> 00:05:20,403 A place like this? 102 00:05:23,114 --> 00:05:24,449 Hope can hurt. 103 00:05:31,623 --> 00:05:32,624 Hey. 104 00:05:33,416 --> 00:05:35,209 How'd it go with Gabriel? 105 00:05:35,210 --> 00:05:37,962 I didn't get a lot more than what was already in the files. 106 00:05:37,963 --> 00:05:39,840 Well, what did you think about him? 107 00:05:40,507 --> 00:05:43,801 I mean, I-I think it's hard to get around the fact that he confessed. I do. 108 00:05:43,802 --> 00:05:47,221 But like you said… I mean, you almost took a plea deal in your dad's case. 109 00:05:47,222 --> 00:05:50,851 Yeah, and I wasn't sleep-deprived or going through withdrawal like Gabriel. 110 00:05:51,685 --> 00:05:54,770 My gut says you could be right. He could be innocent. 111 00:05:54,771 --> 00:05:57,147 If only gut feelings were admissible in court. 112 00:05:57,148 --> 00:06:00,109 We're gonna need a lot more if we're gonna get him out of that place. 113 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:03,696 Still, it's sort of a relief knowing you don't think I'm crazy 114 00:06:03,697 --> 00:06:05,072 for wanting to help him. 115 00:06:05,073 --> 00:06:06,116 Not crazy at all. 116 00:06:07,033 --> 00:06:09,577 There is one more thing you need to know about all this. 117 00:06:09,578 --> 00:06:11,245 Something I didn't wanna tell you 118 00:06:11,246 --> 00:06:13,248 until you could get your own impression of Gabriel. 119 00:06:13,832 --> 00:06:14,875 Okay. 120 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:16,960 It's about Mel. 121 00:06:20,630 --> 00:06:22,590 Mel, got a minute? 122 00:06:22,591 --> 00:06:24,759 For you? When don't I? 123 00:06:30,974 --> 00:06:33,475 I assume Emi told you about our little meeting the other night. 124 00:06:33,476 --> 00:06:35,853 Meeting's a funny way to describe an ambush in a parking lot. 125 00:06:35,854 --> 00:06:38,314 She said you warned her to stay away from the Gabriel Romero case? 126 00:06:38,315 --> 00:06:41,066 I didn't warn anyone. I just wanted to make sure she had all the facts. 127 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:42,860 If you wanted her to know Bobby Werner was a friend, 128 00:06:42,861 --> 00:06:44,320 all you had to do was pick up the phone. 129 00:06:44,321 --> 00:06:46,989 - Instead, you tried to intimidate her. - Sorry. Is there some sort of etiquette 130 00:06:46,990 --> 00:06:49,867 for telling someone to not help a guy who murdered a cop in cold blood? 131 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:52,661 - I get that this is personal for you. - "Personal"? 132 00:06:52,662 --> 00:06:54,788 I was on the phone with Bobby when he died. 133 00:06:54,789 --> 00:06:58,125 I heard the shots, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do to help him. 134 00:06:58,126 --> 00:06:59,460 Nobody could. 135 00:06:59,461 --> 00:07:02,171 Because right after Gabriel Romero shot Bobby through the back of the head, 136 00:07:02,172 --> 00:07:04,048 he planted two more bullets right here. 137 00:07:04,049 --> 00:07:07,134 Why? All because Bobby dared to arrest him a few times. 138 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:09,303 That's the kind of guy your girlfriend's trying to get out of prison. 139 00:07:12,057 --> 00:07:13,349 You're gonna help him anyway. 140 00:07:13,350 --> 00:07:15,851 I mean, if Emi's right about this guy… 141 00:07:15,852 --> 00:07:19,396 I have been where he has been, but he is not facing 18 months. 142 00:07:19,397 --> 00:07:21,565 He is facing the rest of his life. 143 00:07:21,566 --> 00:07:23,359 Mmm. Hmm. 144 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,987 Well, if he gets out, maybe he can become a PI too, 145 00:07:26,988 --> 00:07:28,489 and you can explain to him 146 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:31,825 how much of the job depends on you having friends who are cops. 147 00:07:31,826 --> 00:07:34,161 How often you need them to share information with you 148 00:07:34,162 --> 00:07:36,246 or get you access to a crime scene. 149 00:07:36,247 --> 00:07:40,542 And you can explain to him how they would never ever do those things for someone 150 00:07:40,543 --> 00:07:43,088 who tried to help someone who murdered one of their own. 151 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:46,716 Got it. 152 00:07:48,009 --> 00:07:51,721 And just in case you don't, stay away from this place. 153 00:07:52,347 --> 00:07:53,807 Stay away from me. 154 00:08:08,446 --> 00:08:10,156 I've seen Mel mad before. 155 00:08:10,990 --> 00:08:12,158 This was different. 156 00:08:14,119 --> 00:08:16,370 - I'm sorry. - I mean, it is what it is. 157 00:08:16,371 --> 00:08:20,250 If I find proof that Gabriel didn't kill Bobby Werner, she'll have to accept it. 158 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:24,545 But you get that if I find something that tells us he did kill him… 159 00:08:24,546 --> 00:08:27,047 No, you have to bring it to the police. 160 00:08:27,048 --> 00:08:30,467 Okay. The way I see it, there are two paths for us to go down. 161 00:08:30,468 --> 00:08:33,303 First, there's the street names of the guys Gabriel used to live with. 162 00:08:33,304 --> 00:08:34,805 Dookie and Grey Worm. 163 00:08:34,806 --> 00:08:37,391 The police never bothered identifying them because Gabriel confessed. 164 00:08:37,392 --> 00:08:38,767 There's no point. 165 00:08:38,768 --> 00:08:41,562 But if either of them could have been the shooter back in 2016… 166 00:08:41,563 --> 00:08:43,689 - We have to find them. - Yeah. 167 00:08:43,690 --> 00:08:46,400 Wish, he's in a Facebook group for ex-cons. 168 00:08:46,401 --> 00:08:49,194 He's been poking around, asking if anybody knows these guys. 169 00:08:49,195 --> 00:08:51,405 I might be able to help out with the names too. 170 00:08:51,406 --> 00:08:55,284 Ochoa Development's been chasing squatters away for a long time. 171 00:08:55,285 --> 00:08:58,454 It's sad, but it's dangerous to let them stay. 172 00:08:58,455 --> 00:09:00,164 I'll talk to the security guys, 173 00:09:00,165 --> 00:09:04,044 ask if anyone has ever had an issue with a Dookie or a Grey Worm. 174 00:09:04,627 --> 00:09:06,086 God, that sounds wrong. 175 00:09:06,087 --> 00:09:08,380 I'll go down the second path. The gun path. 176 00:09:08,381 --> 00:09:11,175 I'll try to find the person that shot up that billboard a few months back. 177 00:09:11,176 --> 00:09:12,676 The one for the accident attorney. 178 00:09:12,677 --> 00:09:15,304 Nick Nolan. "Don't get mad. Get money." 179 00:09:15,305 --> 00:09:19,016 I mean, if he's as sleazy as he looks, he's gonna have his share of enemies. 180 00:09:19,017 --> 00:09:22,687 The question is could one of them be the same guy that shot a cop ten years ago? 181 00:09:34,657 --> 00:09:36,034 Good. Yeah. 182 00:09:37,619 --> 00:09:38,827 Excuse me. 183 00:09:38,828 --> 00:09:42,665 Did you mean to say you'd start her case once you get her cheek in your hand? 184 00:09:44,876 --> 00:09:47,878 Lisa, call Mrs. Melendez. 185 00:09:47,879 --> 00:09:50,965 Tell her I meant to ask for her check, not her cheek. 186 00:09:52,842 --> 00:09:54,802 Damn AI translator. 187 00:09:54,803 --> 00:09:57,471 - Thanks, uh… - R.J. Decker. 188 00:09:57,472 --> 00:09:58,764 I'm a private investigator. 189 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:01,558 Well, you will be top of the list next time I need someone followed. 190 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:03,852 - Drop your resume with Lisa. - I'm not looking for work. 191 00:10:03,853 --> 00:10:05,229 I'm looking for a gun. 192 00:10:05,230 --> 00:10:06,772 Specifically the gun that was used 193 00:10:06,773 --> 00:10:08,732 to shoot up one of your billboards a few months ago. 194 00:10:08,733 --> 00:10:10,025 - That? - Yeah. 195 00:10:10,026 --> 00:10:12,694 Anyone you can think of that might have wanted to use your face 196 00:10:12,695 --> 00:10:13,904 for target practice? 197 00:10:13,905 --> 00:10:14,906 Pick a drawer. 198 00:10:15,573 --> 00:10:17,032 After three decades of suing people, 199 00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:19,451 beating them in court, and generally pissing people off, 200 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,954 the list of potential suspects is quite extensive. 201 00:10:21,955 --> 00:10:23,915 Ah. Got it. 202 00:10:29,712 --> 00:10:31,172 - Mr. Decker? - Yeah? 203 00:10:31,798 --> 00:10:35,844 Mr. Nolan may not be worried about the person who shot up his billboard, 204 00:10:36,511 --> 00:10:37,929 but some of us are. 205 00:10:39,055 --> 00:10:41,598 I'm no detective, but I did a little digging. 206 00:10:41,599 --> 00:10:44,726 I came up with a list of people who were really angry with Nick 207 00:10:44,727 --> 00:10:46,146 around the time of the… 208 00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:49,231 - incident. - Oh. 209 00:10:49,232 --> 00:10:50,650 Okay. Well… 210 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:53,861 Thank you so much. This is incredible. 211 00:10:53,862 --> 00:10:55,362 Uh… 212 00:10:55,363 --> 00:10:58,740 Are you sure you don't want to leave a résumé with me? 213 00:11:01,953 --> 00:11:03,121 Maybe next time. 214 00:11:17,802 --> 00:11:18,803 Mel. 215 00:11:19,637 --> 00:11:20,763 Oh, my God. 216 00:11:21,598 --> 00:11:23,307 This is a surprise. 217 00:11:23,308 --> 00:11:24,976 - Hi, Jess. - Hi. 218 00:11:28,313 --> 00:11:29,480 What is it? 219 00:11:31,357 --> 00:11:33,400 It's gonna start all over again. 220 00:11:33,401 --> 00:11:35,569 The lawyers, the reporters, 221 00:11:35,570 --> 00:11:38,822 anyone and everyone who ever had an opinion about Gabriel Romero… 222 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:40,909 just out there saying whatever they wanna say. 223 00:11:41,993 --> 00:11:44,536 I don't know what I'm gonna tell Bobby's parents. 224 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:46,873 Hey, if you want, I'll talk to them too. 225 00:11:49,959 --> 00:11:54,297 Danielle was so young the last time Gabriel tried to appeal his conviction. 226 00:11:54,964 --> 00:11:56,215 But now she's old enough 227 00:11:56,216 --> 00:12:00,470 to hear the kids at school talking about how her dad's killer might be set free. 228 00:12:01,054 --> 00:12:02,971 - I mean, he confessed. - I know. 229 00:12:02,972 --> 00:12:05,183 Why can't we have closure? Don't we deserve that? 230 00:12:11,648 --> 00:12:12,815 When Bobby died, 231 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:15,943 you dropped off food, 232 00:12:15,944 --> 00:12:17,570 you cleaned out Bobby's locker… 233 00:12:18,363 --> 00:12:20,156 You were there for us. 234 00:12:20,949 --> 00:12:23,076 Even after everyone else went on with their lives. 235 00:12:23,952 --> 00:12:24,953 Still am. 236 00:12:25,495 --> 00:12:28,747 And look, this thing with Gabriel, it might not go anywhere. 237 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:31,250 I just didn't want it to get sprung on you again. 238 00:12:31,251 --> 00:12:33,169 I wanted you to be ready. 239 00:12:34,629 --> 00:12:35,838 Thank you. 240 00:12:36,547 --> 00:12:37,715 For everything. 241 00:13:01,364 --> 00:13:02,906 Nice costume. 242 00:13:02,907 --> 00:13:04,366 You bring Higgins and TC? 243 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,370 Uh, is Griff Saunders working tonight? 244 00:13:08,371 --> 00:13:10,956 Yeah. Uh, green cape, selling shots. 245 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:12,208 Gotcha. Thank you. 246 00:13:19,841 --> 00:13:20,924 Plasma shot? 247 00:13:20,925 --> 00:13:24,595 Yeah, I am interested in shots, just of a different caliber. 248 00:13:25,471 --> 00:13:27,139 Nick Nolan, the accident attorney. 249 00:13:27,140 --> 00:13:30,435 A couple months back someone fired six rounds at one of his billboards. 250 00:13:31,394 --> 00:13:32,979 What are you talking about, man? 251 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:35,105 Nick deposed you three times 252 00:13:35,106 --> 00:13:37,357 as a witness against the restaurant you used to work for. 253 00:13:37,358 --> 00:13:38,984 Three times for a slip-and-fall. 254 00:13:38,985 --> 00:13:42,404 Great for Nick's billable hours, not so great for you. The restaurant fired you. 255 00:13:42,405 --> 00:13:45,575 A couple days later, someone perforated Nick's face on a billboard. 256 00:13:46,075 --> 00:13:47,784 Hell of a coincidence, don't you think? 257 00:13:47,785 --> 00:13:50,912 Griff, you can talk to me, or you can talk to the cops. 258 00:13:50,913 --> 00:13:52,248 I'm not Griff. 259 00:13:53,041 --> 00:13:55,543 I'm Marv. That's Griff. 260 00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:28,408 Oh, boy. 261 00:14:29,535 --> 00:14:32,329 Yeah. I thought it would take, like, all the Avengers 262 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:34,373 to take down Doctor Doom, but nope. 263 00:14:35,249 --> 00:14:37,710 Just took a cape that should have been hemmed. 264 00:14:39,128 --> 00:14:40,129 Okay. 265 00:14:45,635 --> 00:14:47,677 - How old are you? - Nineteen. 266 00:14:47,678 --> 00:14:49,430 You're 19? Prove it. 267 00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:57,270 Why do you look so disappointed? 268 00:14:57,271 --> 00:15:00,065 Because, Griff, unless you were very advanced for your age, 269 00:15:00,066 --> 00:15:03,027 I don't think you murdered a cop when you were nine years old. 270 00:15:08,282 --> 00:15:11,827 I can't believe it. A cop. My gun was used to kill a cop. 271 00:15:11,828 --> 00:15:16,248 Yeah, and look, Griff, I need to know where you got it, okay? 272 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:19,459 - Did you-- Did you buy it off someone? - No, no, I found it. 273 00:15:19,460 --> 00:15:20,461 Where? 274 00:15:21,170 --> 00:15:24,172 In a dumpster. All right, I was a kid. It was like ten years ago. 275 00:15:24,173 --> 00:15:27,217 I was looking for bottles to recycle, saving up for the new Minecraft. 276 00:15:27,218 --> 00:15:29,010 I thought it was cool, so I took it. 277 00:15:29,011 --> 00:15:33,015 - It was stupid, I know, but, like-- - Yeah, you were nine years old. It's okay. 278 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,477 My mom and I lived in a pretty sketchy area back then. 279 00:15:37,478 --> 00:15:41,189 I thought the gun could be used to protect us, you know, if any bad guys broke in, 280 00:15:41,190 --> 00:15:43,066 which never happened, luckily, 281 00:15:43,067 --> 00:15:45,318 and we ended up moving to a pretty good neighborhood. 282 00:15:45,319 --> 00:15:48,280 And I only held on to it 'cause, honestly, 283 00:15:48,281 --> 00:15:50,240 I didn't know how to get rid of it. 284 00:15:50,241 --> 00:15:52,075 And funny thing is, I never even shot it. 285 00:15:53,161 --> 00:15:55,871 Okay, look, not until Slick Nick cost me my job. 286 00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:58,833 I got angry. I got drunk, and I shot up his billboard. 287 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:02,253 - You still have the gun, right? - Yes, it's back in my apartment. 288 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:05,506 Just follow me home and I'll give you the damn thing. 289 00:16:08,092 --> 00:16:10,927 {\an8}Doing what I do, I've handled my share of murder weapons, 290 00:16:10,928 --> 00:16:12,346 but this… 291 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:16,267 this is the first one I've ever seen that took the life of a cop. 292 00:16:16,767 --> 00:16:18,185 Yeah. 293 00:16:18,186 --> 00:16:19,729 It's different somehow. 294 00:16:20,396 --> 00:16:22,607 And you wanted me to see it because… 295 00:16:23,274 --> 00:16:25,275 I need your help. 296 00:16:25,276 --> 00:16:27,861 I'm no crime scene technician, but I try to keep up. 297 00:16:27,862 --> 00:16:29,571 I know there's some kind of scanner 298 00:16:29,572 --> 00:16:31,615 that can find impressions left deep in gun metal, 299 00:16:31,616 --> 00:16:34,035 even after that metal's filed down. Uh… 300 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:37,204 The ghost of a serial number, for example. 301 00:16:37,205 --> 00:16:39,748 Yeah, you're talking about a magneto-optical scanner. 302 00:16:39,749 --> 00:16:41,750 - Yes. - So you want me to take it back 303 00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:45,795 to the crime lab and use our scanner to trace where it came from? 304 00:16:45,796 --> 00:16:49,174 Yeah, I mean, if this really is the gun that killed Bobby Werner, 305 00:16:49,175 --> 00:16:52,385 the serial number could lead us to the person that actually did it. 306 00:16:52,386 --> 00:16:55,972 'Cause that person couldn't possibly be Gabriel Romero? 307 00:16:55,973 --> 00:16:57,307 No, I didn't say that. 308 00:16:57,308 --> 00:17:00,060 If the serial number connects us back to Gabriel, okay, then we know. 309 00:17:00,061 --> 00:17:03,480 No, not okay, because then I broke a bunch of rules for nothing. 310 00:17:03,481 --> 00:17:05,941 All I'm trying to do is find the truth about what happened that night. 311 00:17:05,942 --> 00:17:08,902 So if I don't help you, I'm someone who doesn't care about the truth? 312 00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:10,029 No, no. 313 00:17:10,655 --> 00:17:12,822 No, I'm sorry. No, that's not what I meant. 314 00:17:12,823 --> 00:17:14,867 I may not be a cop, 315 00:17:15,576 --> 00:17:17,577 but I work with them. 316 00:17:17,578 --> 00:17:19,956 They treat me like I'm one of their own. 317 00:17:20,581 --> 00:17:23,959 Helping someone like Gabriel Romero, it's not just opening an old wound, 318 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,087 it's me digging in with both hands and ripping. 319 00:17:27,088 --> 00:17:28,798 Okay, I get it. I do. I get it. 320 00:17:29,465 --> 00:17:31,925 But just say for a minute, say Gabriel didn't do it. 321 00:17:31,926 --> 00:17:34,052 Say the serial number leads me someplace else. 322 00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:37,473 Wouldn't they appreciate an actual cop killer being brought to justice? 323 00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:39,392 I can't. 324 00:17:40,643 --> 00:17:41,935 I cannot help you. 325 00:17:41,936 --> 00:17:43,271 I'm sorry. 326 00:17:47,316 --> 00:17:48,317 But… 327 00:17:49,986 --> 00:17:51,653 Harbor Forensics might. 328 00:17:51,654 --> 00:17:53,238 They're an independent lab. 329 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:57,784 Sometimes we sub out work that we have when we're overloaded with cases. 330 00:17:57,785 --> 00:18:00,036 If you have the money, they'll run any tests that you want. 331 00:18:00,037 --> 00:18:02,665 But you didn't hear it from me, R.J., okay? 332 00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:04,500 Thank you. 333 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:12,049 Let's see now… 334 00:18:12,550 --> 00:18:13,551 There you are. 335 00:18:14,468 --> 00:18:16,261 Oh, babe… 336 00:18:16,262 --> 00:18:18,972 This is two mornings in a row now I've woken up at 5:00 a.m. 337 00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:21,391 to find your side of the bed empty. 338 00:18:21,392 --> 00:18:23,727 Weird, considering your shift's supposed to start at 9:00. 339 00:18:23,728 --> 00:18:28,315 I got a lot of work to do, so figured I'd hit it early, but this is gonna help. 340 00:18:28,316 --> 00:18:29,400 Thank you. 341 00:18:30,151 --> 00:18:33,153 This work, is it also the reason you jolted awake the other night 342 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,530 like you'd been electrocuted? 343 00:18:37,241 --> 00:18:38,242 Something's up. 344 00:18:38,909 --> 00:18:40,411 Wanna just tell me about it? 345 00:18:43,372 --> 00:18:47,500 It's been nice that up until now, you and R.J. have been such compatible work wives, 346 00:18:47,501 --> 00:18:51,254 but you're a cop who works for the people. 347 00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:54,841 He's a PI who works for the people who give him money. 348 00:18:54,842 --> 00:18:57,886 Something like this, you guys finding yourselves on opposite sides of a case, 349 00:18:57,887 --> 00:18:59,763 - it's sort of inevitable, right? - No. 350 00:18:59,764 --> 00:19:03,808 I didn't choose to be on the phone with Bobby the night he was killed. 351 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:06,519 R.J. did choose to try and help the guy who did it, 352 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,812 and he could have said no. 353 00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:11,483 He could have told Emi to go find some other PI, and it doesn't just piss me off. 354 00:19:11,484 --> 00:19:12,485 That… 355 00:19:13,402 --> 00:19:14,403 hurts. 356 00:19:15,821 --> 00:19:19,200 I'm sorry. Didn't wanna tell you about all this. Didn't wanna put you in the middle. 357 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:20,993 Middle? 358 00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:22,662 There is no middle. 359 00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:25,498 There's just us, you and me. 360 00:19:26,082 --> 00:19:28,125 Everything else is just noise. 361 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:30,044 I know what I got. 362 00:19:34,882 --> 00:19:37,176 I found Dookie. 363 00:19:39,053 --> 00:19:41,262 Sorry, not in here. 364 00:19:41,263 --> 00:19:42,681 It's someone's name. 365 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:44,349 This place is very clean. 366 00:19:47,978 --> 00:19:50,313 A former security guy remembered him. 367 00:19:50,314 --> 00:19:52,857 He had been kicked out of Ochoa buildings 368 00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:56,277 at least a dozen times in the years before and after the murder. 369 00:19:56,278 --> 00:19:58,738 His real name was Marco Duquesne. 370 00:19:58,739 --> 00:20:00,115 Was. 371 00:20:00,116 --> 00:20:01,741 He died four years ago. Overdose. 372 00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:04,661 Okay. If he was the guy that killed Bobby, 373 00:20:04,662 --> 00:20:06,663 proving it now just got a whole lot tougher. 374 00:20:06,664 --> 00:20:07,747 Yeah. 375 00:20:07,748 --> 00:20:09,958 - Who's Trudy? - Uh, what? 376 00:20:09,959 --> 00:20:13,670 I asked Wish how the hunt for the other squatter was going, Grey Worm. 377 00:20:13,671 --> 00:20:15,588 - I'm sorry. - He said not great, 378 00:20:15,589 --> 00:20:18,633 but he mentioned the lab Trudy told you to bring the gun to. 379 00:20:18,634 --> 00:20:20,885 She's like CSU or something? 380 00:20:20,886 --> 00:20:23,264 Yeah, or something. 381 00:20:24,515 --> 00:20:26,808 Oh. 382 00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:27,977 Oh! 383 00:20:29,603 --> 00:20:31,522 Trudy's a friend. 384 00:20:32,106 --> 00:20:33,774 - Kinda, yeah. - Hmm. 385 00:20:34,358 --> 00:20:35,860 Okay, it's okay. 386 00:20:36,485 --> 00:20:40,531 Seriously, I mean… …we're allowed to have friends. 387 00:20:41,031 --> 00:20:42,742 - I have friends. - You do? 388 00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:47,705 I mean, I have friend friends, not, you know, "friends." 389 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:50,082 At least right now. 390 00:20:50,583 --> 00:20:52,251 - Friends are good. - Yeah. 391 00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:54,461 Yeah. 392 00:20:54,462 --> 00:20:56,838 Oh. Uh, yeah, Harbor Forensics. 393 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:59,591 This is the lab where I took the gun. 394 00:20:59,592 --> 00:21:02,969 They successfully recovered the serial number. 395 00:21:02,970 --> 00:21:05,848 Last registered owner was a guy named Arthur Langford. 396 00:21:06,682 --> 00:21:07,766 Hmm. 397 00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:10,518 - What? - He died in 1997. 398 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:13,314 He couldn't have murdered Bobby Werner in 2016. 399 00:21:14,482 --> 00:21:17,317 According to this, his widow still lives in Boca. 400 00:21:17,318 --> 00:21:21,530 Maybe she can explain how her husband's gun ended up in the hands of a cop killer. 401 00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:28,620 You wanted to ask me about a gun that Arthur used to own? 402 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:29,871 Yes, I do. 403 00:21:29,872 --> 00:21:31,540 It's this one, a Beretta 92. 404 00:21:32,249 --> 00:21:34,751 I'm afraid it was used in the commission of a crime. 405 00:21:34,752 --> 00:21:38,838 I'm trying to figure out how it went from Arthur to the person who had it. 406 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:43,010 Well, if it's the gun I think it is, it went missing about ten years ago. 407 00:21:43,511 --> 00:21:46,597 I was modifying the house to make it easier to move around. 408 00:21:47,389 --> 00:21:51,560 Had to move all sorts of things around, including Arthur's gun locker. 409 00:21:52,186 --> 00:21:53,854 That's when I noticed it was gone. 410 00:21:54,438 --> 00:21:55,855 And did you report it missing? 411 00:21:55,856 --> 00:21:57,398 Of course I did. 412 00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:01,694 I told my grandnephew Flynn about it right away. 413 00:22:01,695 --> 00:22:03,280 He was a policeman then. 414 00:22:04,949 --> 00:22:06,032 I'm sorry. 415 00:22:06,033 --> 00:22:09,119 Did you just say y-your grandnephew was a cop? 416 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:11,329 Hey. 417 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:14,749 Hey, does the name Flynn Magnuson mean anything to you? 418 00:22:14,750 --> 00:22:17,962 Of course. He was Bobby Werner's partner in 2016. 419 00:22:18,629 --> 00:22:21,172 Yeah, well, he could be a lot more than that. 420 00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:23,801 He might be the person who orchestrated Bobby's murder. 421 00:22:34,395 --> 00:22:36,312 Hi, can I get your name and who you're here to see? 422 00:22:36,313 --> 00:22:38,732 Yeah, my name's R.J. Decker, and matter of fact, Flynn, 423 00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:40,734 I'm here to see you. 424 00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:45,030 You're sure it was my uncle's gun that killed Bobby? 425 00:22:45,990 --> 00:22:47,740 I think you mean your gun, right? 426 00:22:47,741 --> 00:22:51,035 At least it became your gun after you stole it out of your aunt's house. 427 00:22:51,036 --> 00:22:54,497 I mean, I know you're not a cop anymore, but possession is still nine-tenths. 428 00:22:54,498 --> 00:22:55,791 Am I right? 429 00:22:56,417 --> 00:22:57,917 Yeah, I looked into you. 430 00:22:57,918 --> 00:22:59,252 Six months after Bobby died, 431 00:22:59,253 --> 00:23:01,796 you were accused of excessive force against a shoplifter. 432 00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:05,174 You and the FLPD, you parted ways. 433 00:23:05,175 --> 00:23:06,634 What's that got to do with anything? 434 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:09,596 Well, it made me wonder if it wasn't a one-time thing. 435 00:23:09,597 --> 00:23:11,347 It was part of a pattern. 436 00:23:11,348 --> 00:23:12,892 Maybe a pattern Bobby didn't like. 437 00:23:14,143 --> 00:23:16,437 Maybe he was planning on reporting you, you found out, 438 00:23:17,146 --> 00:23:18,438 and you set him up to be killed. 439 00:23:18,439 --> 00:23:19,689 What? 440 00:23:19,690 --> 00:23:21,316 Why else would you steal your uncle's gun? 441 00:23:21,317 --> 00:23:23,318 Why else would you file the serial numbers down? 442 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:24,570 It was supposed to… 443 00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:27,740 It was supposed to be a drop gun. 444 00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:31,826 Something I could plant if me or Bobby ever had to justify a shooting. 445 00:23:31,827 --> 00:23:33,787 When I started bringing the gun out on patrol, 446 00:23:34,288 --> 00:23:36,080 it wasn't just me I thought I was protecting. 447 00:23:36,081 --> 00:23:37,583 I thought I was protecting Bobby too. 448 00:23:38,208 --> 00:23:40,084 But when I told him about it, he flipped. 449 00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:41,837 He said the gun went or he did. 450 00:23:45,758 --> 00:23:47,176 Man, after Bobby died, I just… 451 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:50,887 lost it. 452 00:23:50,888 --> 00:23:53,014 Eventually I was diagnosed with PTSD, 453 00:23:53,015 --> 00:23:55,351 but that wasn't until after I hurt that shoplifter. 454 00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:00,563 But you get how none of that explains how your gun ended up 455 00:24:00,564 --> 00:24:02,274 in the hands of a killer, right? 456 00:24:03,233 --> 00:24:05,777 After me and Bobby talked, I brought the gun home. 457 00:24:05,778 --> 00:24:09,614 Before I could figure out what to do with it, someone broke in one night. 458 00:24:09,615 --> 00:24:13,493 My laptop, some watches, the gun, all gone. 459 00:24:13,494 --> 00:24:15,495 My laptop and watches, I didn't care about, 460 00:24:15,496 --> 00:24:18,998 but the gun, knowing it was in the hands of some criminal, 461 00:24:18,999 --> 00:24:21,834 someone who might use it, terrified me. 462 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,921 Guess I was right to be scared, because now you're telling me 463 00:24:24,922 --> 00:24:26,298 it ended up with Gabriel Romero. 464 00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:30,010 It ended up in someone's hands. I'm not sure that person was Gabriel. 465 00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:31,803 I know one thing for sure. 466 00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:33,721 Romero wasn't the guy who broke into my apartment. 467 00:24:33,722 --> 00:24:35,431 Wh-What? What do you mean? 468 00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:36,975 I couldn't report what happened 469 00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:39,435 because if anybody but me found the guy who did it… 470 00:24:39,436 --> 00:24:41,646 Yeah, they could tell them about the drop gun. 471 00:24:41,647 --> 00:24:43,523 So I did my own investigation. 472 00:24:43,524 --> 00:24:45,316 Found some fingerprints, asked the lab to run them, 473 00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:47,735 said it was part of this other thing I was helping on, 474 00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:50,863 some store on Sunrise Boulevard that kept getting graffitied. 475 00:24:50,864 --> 00:24:52,992 - Okay. And? - No hits. 476 00:24:54,201 --> 00:24:56,786 Gabriel, he was in the system back then. 477 00:24:56,787 --> 00:24:59,331 His name would have come up, but it didn't. 478 00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:03,127 The store that kept getting graffitied, you remember the name? 479 00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:13,554 I take it you asked me to meet you here so Mel wouldn't see you? 480 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:17,306 Or what, instead of a gun, do you have a body for me to look at? 481 00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:19,309 No, no, no, no gun, no body. 482 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:21,228 Okay. 483 00:25:22,104 --> 00:25:23,105 But I need your help. 484 00:25:23,731 --> 00:25:24,814 Mm-hmm. 485 00:25:24,815 --> 00:25:27,442 Back in 2016, a week before Bobby Werner was killed, 486 00:25:27,443 --> 00:25:29,611 his partner asked the crime lab to run prints. 487 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:32,405 He said they were left by someone who vandalized a store 488 00:25:32,406 --> 00:25:34,073 called Sand Dollar Beachwear, but they weren't. 489 00:25:34,074 --> 00:25:35,867 They were left at the scene of another crime. 490 00:25:35,868 --> 00:25:38,703 The theft of the gun that was used to kill Bobby Werner. 491 00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:39,955 - What? - Yeah. 492 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,582 Ten years ago, there weren't any hits off the prints, 493 00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:45,918 but it's possible the guy that really did it has committed other crimes since then. 494 00:25:45,919 --> 00:25:47,837 If he got arrested for even one of them… 495 00:25:47,838 --> 00:25:50,339 Yeah, he would be in the system now. 496 00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:51,592 Yes. 497 00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:54,302 - Okay. - What? 498 00:25:54,303 --> 00:25:57,722 Just… I thought I made myself clear yesterday 499 00:25:57,723 --> 00:26:00,267 that I'm not comfortable helping you with any of this. 500 00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:01,851 You did. 501 00:26:01,852 --> 00:26:04,062 R.J., do you remember how we met? 502 00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:06,731 You asked me to run prints then too. 503 00:26:06,732 --> 00:26:08,901 Right? You were trying to help your ex, Emi. 504 00:26:09,485 --> 00:26:11,903 It makes me wonder your willingness to go against Mel 505 00:26:11,904 --> 00:26:15,699 to come and ask me for help again, even after I told you not to. 506 00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:19,286 I mean, how much of this is really about helping Gabriel Romero 507 00:26:19,870 --> 00:26:21,913 and how much of it is about helping Emi? 508 00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:27,710 What I'm trying to do here, free a guy who might be innocent, 509 00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:31,047 catch a guy who may have killed a cop, it has nothing to do with us. 510 00:26:31,048 --> 00:26:33,007 Nothing. It's bigger than us. 511 00:26:33,008 --> 00:26:36,804 Oh, I agree. The question is, is it bigger than you and Emi? 512 00:26:42,226 --> 00:26:43,227 Right. 513 00:26:44,311 --> 00:26:48,106 Yeah, I'll look into finding the Sand Dollar Beachwear report from 2016. 514 00:26:48,107 --> 00:26:51,360 I'll run the prints again. Anything comes of it, I will call you. 515 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,780 Anything doesn't, I won't. 516 00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:06,582 - Hey, buddy. - Remember Manolo from Apalachee? 517 00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:09,210 Yeah, he stole a horse trailer, 518 00:27:09,211 --> 00:27:12,004 ended up with a kidnapping charge 'cause there was a jockey inside. 519 00:27:12,005 --> 00:27:13,881 Well, Manolo's out now. 520 00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:18,178 He gave me a lead on that other guy Gabriel was squatting with, Grey Worm. 521 00:27:18,679 --> 00:27:20,596 Unfortunately, he didn't have a current address, 522 00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:25,060 but Manolo did know where Grey Worm's gonna be at 5:00 today. 523 00:27:26,436 --> 00:27:28,355 I ain't been called Grey Worm since I got clean. 524 00:27:29,857 --> 00:27:31,108 Six years. 525 00:27:31,942 --> 00:27:34,987 Folks used to think I looked like the guy from Game of Thrones. 526 00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:39,032 Skinny, quiet, dangerous. 527 00:27:40,284 --> 00:27:41,827 Drugs had a hand in all three. 528 00:27:42,452 --> 00:27:45,371 Did you have many run-ins with the cops back then? 529 00:27:45,372 --> 00:27:47,416 Uh, how many's "many"? 530 00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:55,756 Look, if y'all are here to ask me if I helped Gabriel kill that cop, then-- 531 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:58,384 Actually, we don't think anyone helped Gabriel. 532 00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:00,469 We don't think he had anything to do with it. 533 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:01,971 The gun that was used to kill Werner, 534 00:28:01,972 --> 00:28:04,140 it was actually stolen out of someone's apartment. 535 00:28:04,141 --> 00:28:05,725 Whoever did it left fingerprints. 536 00:28:05,726 --> 00:28:08,936 Those fingerprints are being run through the system right now. 537 00:28:08,937 --> 00:28:12,024 They won't be mine. Look, I never messed with no guns. 538 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,943 So if your next question is, "Well, where were you the night 539 00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:19,239 the cop got shot," my answer is Cypress Bay Medical. 540 00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:24,536 I OD'd. Almost died. 541 00:28:25,287 --> 00:28:28,123 I won't have the records, but they will, so you can ask 'em. 542 00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:32,753 Or you could trust me when I say Gabriel did do what they say. 543 00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:36,882 I'm sorry, how can you be so sure about that? 544 00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:41,636 You know where me and him were staying back then, house off Power Line? 545 00:28:41,637 --> 00:28:44,639 The night after I got out of the hospital, I went back. 546 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,934 I heard Gabriel got arrested, figured I'd go back and get my stuff 547 00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:50,102 before the cops found the place, turned it upside down. 548 00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:54,190 Only I walk in on someone, member of the Los Cuerpos de Sangre. 549 00:28:54,191 --> 00:28:56,567 - You know them? - Yeah, I do. Street gang. 550 00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:59,236 Next thing I know, I'm up against a wall with a gun to my head. 551 00:28:59,237 --> 00:29:01,280 Right? "Is this where Gabriel Romero crashes? 552 00:29:01,281 --> 00:29:03,532 Which room is his? Where does he keep his stuff?" 553 00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:06,119 - What was his interest in Gabriel? - Her interest. 554 00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:07,829 Isn't it obvious? 555 00:29:08,455 --> 00:29:11,291 Los Cuerpos put Gabriel up to shooting that cop. 556 00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:13,794 It was a hit. 557 00:29:14,378 --> 00:29:15,962 Only reason she would've been there. 558 00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:18,923 They heard he got scooped up, sent someone to the house to make sure 559 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,885 that there was nothing there to connect them to Gabriel. 560 00:29:22,928 --> 00:29:25,930 Yeah, what if she wasn't there to-to clean anything? 561 00:29:25,931 --> 00:29:27,807 I mean, what if she was there to plant something? 562 00:29:27,808 --> 00:29:31,018 The hoodie. The one with the skeleton hands on the back. 563 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:32,603 Los Cuerpos kills Werner. 564 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:35,439 Uh, the cops start zeroing in on Gabriel, 565 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,609 so the gang starts feeding them evidence that fits. 566 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,862 The woman you saw, can you describe her? 567 00:29:41,488 --> 00:29:42,656 Twenty something. 568 00:29:43,281 --> 00:29:44,824 Little thing. Latina. 569 00:29:44,825 --> 00:29:48,620 She cussed me out in Spanish before taking off on a red Ducati motorcycle. 570 00:29:51,123 --> 00:29:53,959 - Are you sure about the motorcycle? - Positive. 571 00:29:59,965 --> 00:30:01,174 Is that her? 572 00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:04,969 Yeah. Yeah, man, definitely. 573 00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:06,555 Guess who used to own a red Ducati. 574 00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:30,579 Breaking into a cop's house is a good way to get yourself shot. 575 00:30:31,455 --> 00:30:33,081 I have a key to this place, remember? 576 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:40,505 I didn't break in anywhere, unlike you, ten years ago. 577 00:30:41,256 --> 00:30:44,009 The abandoned house where Gabriel Romero was staying. 578 00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:47,679 I found the guy you put the fear of God into that night. 579 00:30:48,597 --> 00:30:51,600 He remembered you. He remembered your old motorcycle. 580 00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:58,273 Gabriel was scooped up just one day after he shot Bobby. 581 00:30:58,899 --> 00:31:01,442 The detectives who were handling the interviews, they were friends. 582 00:31:01,443 --> 00:31:05,821 They told me they knew he was the guy, but there was a problem. 583 00:31:05,822 --> 00:31:07,114 They didn't have a murder weapon, 584 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,785 no prints, no DNA, no physical evidence, period. 585 00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:12,454 So I went looking for some. 586 00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:15,164 I took a personal day. 587 00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:19,960 I hit the streets, asked around, found somebody who knew someone, 588 00:31:19,961 --> 00:31:23,589 who heard a rumor that Gabriel had been squatting in some abandoned house. 589 00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:26,550 So I went to that house, and I'm not there 60 seconds 590 00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:28,135 before some other junkie comes in. 591 00:31:28,136 --> 00:31:31,430 So I think fast, I tell him I run with Los Cuerpos, 592 00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:33,724 just anything to keep him from thinking that I'm a cop, 593 00:31:33,725 --> 00:31:35,810 and then he confirms it to me. 594 00:31:35,811 --> 00:31:37,478 I had the right place. 595 00:31:37,479 --> 00:31:39,439 This was where Gabriel had been staying. 596 00:31:40,148 --> 00:31:43,067 Meanwhile, Gabriel's on, what, hour 30 of being interrogated? 597 00:31:43,068 --> 00:31:46,195 At least. And he was still crying, still playing the victim. 598 00:31:46,196 --> 00:31:48,614 And just like that, anonymous tip comes in. 599 00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:52,076 It's about the house. The cops go there, they find the shooter's hoodie. 600 00:31:52,077 --> 00:31:53,202 No, they find Gabriel's hoodie. 601 00:31:53,203 --> 00:31:54,830 And that's the straw that breaks his back. 602 00:31:55,956 --> 00:31:58,082 - He confesses. - I know what you're thinking. 603 00:31:58,083 --> 00:32:00,501 You think I called in the tip, but you know what the funny part is? 604 00:32:00,502 --> 00:32:04,171 All that work for por nada, the tip came from someone else. 605 00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:07,926 That was fine by me because all I cared about was justice for Bobby. 606 00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:11,053 It's funny, you being inside the house 607 00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:13,430 the night before the cops found the shooter's hoodie there. 608 00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:14,765 I'm sorry, excuse me? 609 00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:17,434 Maybe when you heard there was no evidence to use against Gabriel, 610 00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:20,104 you didn't just go looking for some, you created some. 611 00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:22,941 You found a hoodie just like the shooter wore. You planted it. 612 00:32:24,568 --> 00:32:26,987 - You've lost your damn mind. - I came here as a courtesy. 613 00:32:27,904 --> 00:32:30,698 Remember the murder weapon nobody could find back then? I found it. 614 00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:32,616 I traced it to the person it was stolen from. 615 00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:35,871 Right now I'm waiting on evidence that could tell me exactly who killed Bobby. 616 00:32:36,413 --> 00:32:38,915 If it does, everything's gonna come out. 617 00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:40,792 Everything. 618 00:32:42,294 --> 00:32:44,587 So you can believe that I planted evidence, 619 00:32:44,588 --> 00:32:45,713 but you can't believe 620 00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:49,759 that Gabriel Romero is guilty of a murder he actually confessed to? 621 00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:52,220 You know me. 622 00:32:53,638 --> 00:32:55,056 Not lately. 623 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:08,361 Hi. 624 00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:10,946 Hey. 625 00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:12,407 - Hey. - Come on in. 626 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:17,411 - I was worried about you last night. - Oh, yeah? 627 00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:20,748 Everything you told me about your conversation with Mel… 628 00:33:20,749 --> 00:33:23,168 Well, had to be done. 629 00:33:25,670 --> 00:33:27,130 - Here. - Thank you. 630 00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:35,347 Still no word about the fingerprints from your, uh, friend? 631 00:33:35,972 --> 00:33:39,100 To be fair, that was a… that was a hard conversation too. 632 00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:41,894 If she doesn't find the report 633 00:33:41,895 --> 00:33:44,021 that Bobby's old partner says he submitted back then, 634 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:47,609 or if she does, but the prints still aren't in the system, 635 00:33:49,236 --> 00:33:53,281 she may not call me at all, so… 636 00:33:57,244 --> 00:34:00,413 Well, I wanted to thank you again for-- for doing this. 637 00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:02,666 I know, it's not easy. 638 00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:08,295 Yeah, I mean, if helping people like Gabriel were easy, everybody be doing it. 639 00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:10,799 No, I don't think they would. 640 00:34:13,218 --> 00:34:15,595 You're a good man, R.J. Decker. 641 00:34:17,847 --> 00:34:18,848 I'm glad you're… 642 00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:21,726 I'm glad you're my friend. 643 00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:30,777 Sorry. 644 00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:34,948 Ah. 645 00:34:40,370 --> 00:34:43,206 - Hey. - Hey. Can we meet? 646 00:34:52,007 --> 00:34:53,008 No one else is here? 647 00:34:53,508 --> 00:34:54,843 No. 648 00:34:55,427 --> 00:34:57,846 In case you're wondering, I have a key to this place too. 649 00:34:58,597 --> 00:34:59,931 What are we doing here, Mel? 650 00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:04,561 I'm about to owe a whole bunch of people apologies. 651 00:35:05,186 --> 00:35:06,688 I figured I should start with you. 652 00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:12,694 First, I want you to know that everything I told you last night was the truth. 653 00:35:13,278 --> 00:35:17,032 I did not plant that hoodie, and it matters to me that you know that. 654 00:35:19,993 --> 00:35:21,202 I believe you. 655 00:35:23,538 --> 00:35:25,874 I know everything now, or at least I know a lot. 656 00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:30,128 The gun you found, the one that was used to kill Bobby, he said someone stole it. 657 00:35:30,754 --> 00:35:32,212 The person who stole it, they left prints, 658 00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:34,215 prints that you think belonged to the killer. 659 00:35:35,884 --> 00:35:37,719 So you talked to Trudy? 660 00:35:40,472 --> 00:35:42,265 Hey, Mel, what is it? What's going on? 661 00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:46,978 She found something, something that has to go through channels now. 662 00:35:48,063 --> 00:35:52,192 And there's, um, still some things I wanna ask you about because I wanna understand. 663 00:35:53,610 --> 00:35:56,655 If it's gonna mean that I had it wrong, then you had it right. 664 00:35:57,864 --> 00:36:02,327 Then Gabriel Romero spent the last ten years of his life in prison for nothing. 665 00:36:10,919 --> 00:36:12,003 I-I just… 666 00:36:12,837 --> 00:36:15,256 I-I-I don't understand. 667 00:36:15,882 --> 00:36:19,468 All these years being told it was Gabriel, that it could only be Gabriel. 668 00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:21,179 I know, I know it's a lot. 669 00:36:22,472 --> 00:36:25,809 The gun, you-you said it belonged to Flynn Magnuson. 670 00:36:26,685 --> 00:36:29,353 You don't think he had anything to do with Bobby getting killed? 671 00:36:29,354 --> 00:36:31,063 No, he said it was stolen. I believe him. 672 00:36:31,064 --> 00:36:33,524 Respectfully, I don't know you, so I don't know why 673 00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:35,025 I should listen to anything you believe. 674 00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:39,114 I know it's hard, but all the evidence says Gabriel was framed. 675 00:36:39,781 --> 00:36:44,953 The person who did it, they were meticulous, evil. 676 00:36:46,371 --> 00:36:49,124 I'm confused. Are you saying you know who killed him? 677 00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:51,251 Don't you? 678 00:36:52,794 --> 00:36:54,671 I'm guessing Bobby told you about the drop gun. 679 00:36:55,296 --> 00:36:57,673 He was pissed at Flynn, probably talked it out with you, 680 00:36:57,674 --> 00:36:58,966 and knowing him, he was torn. 681 00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:00,592 He didn't wanna have anything to do with the gun, 682 00:37:00,593 --> 00:37:02,469 but he didn't want to jam up Flynn either. 683 00:37:02,470 --> 00:37:04,931 Yeah, Bobby told you about Gabriel too, didn't he? 684 00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:07,558 That Gabriel had threatened him a few times. 685 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,811 You went and did a little detective work of your own, looked into Gabriel, 686 00:37:10,812 --> 00:37:14,858 found out where he spent his nights, an abandoned house off Powerline Road. 687 00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:18,862 Gabriel was much smaller back then, barely out of his teens. 688 00:37:19,487 --> 00:37:21,071 Your build, his build? 689 00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:24,700 It would have been hard to tell them apart in a big, bulky hoodie. 690 00:37:24,701 --> 00:37:27,578 Flynn Magnuson, not a good cop, he'd tell you that himself, 691 00:37:27,579 --> 00:37:30,457 but he did do one smart thing after someone stole his drop gun. 692 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,291 He looked for prints. 693 00:37:32,292 --> 00:37:34,209 Ten years ago, when he tried to run them, 694 00:37:34,210 --> 00:37:36,004 you weren't in the system, but you are now. 695 00:37:36,713 --> 00:37:38,547 Thanks of all things to you volunteering 696 00:37:38,548 --> 00:37:40,758 to chaperone field trips at your daughter's school. 697 00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:42,301 Mel, this is insane. 698 00:37:42,302 --> 00:37:44,178 Why would I kill Bobby? 699 00:37:44,179 --> 00:37:46,513 Usually it's about sex or money. In this case we're thinking money. 700 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:49,475 Bobby's death came with a significant line of duty payout, 701 00:37:49,476 --> 00:37:52,603 lifetime benefits, tuition waivers for your kid. 702 00:37:52,604 --> 00:37:55,230 And there's the fact that Bobby wasn't your first husband to die 703 00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:56,691 under tragic circumstances. 704 00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,360 Jessica isn't actually your first name, it's your middle name, 705 00:38:00,361 --> 00:38:04,072 and you only started going by it when you came here from Michigan. 706 00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:08,327 Gladwin, to be specific, that's where you married your high school sweetheart, Kyle. 707 00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:10,621 He died in a car crash when you were both 19. 708 00:38:10,622 --> 00:38:14,542 Only three months after you convinced him to take out a big life insurance policy. 709 00:38:15,460 --> 00:38:18,212 A lot of people in Gladwin think you steered into that tree on purpose. 710 00:38:18,213 --> 00:38:21,007 Mel, we're friends. 711 00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:26,637 The only, and I mean the only thing about you 712 00:38:26,638 --> 00:38:29,890 I don't think is a lie is your love for Danielle, 713 00:38:29,891 --> 00:38:35,021 and you can spare her some pain and confusion if you just come clean now. 714 00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:41,653 No, I don't think so. 715 00:38:44,405 --> 00:38:45,573 There's a team outside. 716 00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,453 It's a warrant to search your house, your financials, your computer. 717 00:38:50,954 --> 00:38:54,123 Let's see just how many problems Bobby's death solved for you. 718 00:38:59,087 --> 00:39:01,089 An evidentiary hearing's been granted. 719 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:05,425 That fast? 720 00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:06,760 I pulled a few strings. 721 00:39:06,761 --> 00:39:09,346 I used some of my father's old connections 722 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,433 to get Kelly an immediate chamber meeting with your trial judge. 723 00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:15,227 Am I getting out? 724 00:39:15,228 --> 00:39:19,273 There's still work to do, but if the state attorney's office 725 00:39:19,274 --> 00:39:23,444 agrees to an uncontested motion, you could be out within 90 days. 726 00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:28,825 We saw your mom. 727 00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,202 We gave her the good news. 728 00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:34,205 She's doing well, she can't wait to see you. 729 00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:38,793 Thank you. 730 00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:47,342 Ten years, ten freaking years of holding that woman's hand, 731 00:39:47,343 --> 00:39:49,053 thinking she was my friend. 732 00:39:49,596 --> 00:39:51,638 You know, think of the stupidest you've ever felt 733 00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:55,268 multiply that times 1000, that's how stupid I feel. 734 00:39:56,019 --> 00:39:58,395 I don't want to turn this into a competition, 735 00:39:58,396 --> 00:40:02,357 but I've felt pretty stupid a few times. 736 00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:06,236 And whatever she is, 737 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:08,947 sociopath, psychopath, malignant narcissist, 738 00:40:08,948 --> 00:40:12,160 all of the above, she was a very good actress. 739 00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:17,789 You guys didn't happen to find any smoking guns after I left today, did you? 740 00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:20,501 No, I'm hoping it's just a matter of time. 741 00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:22,712 To Bobby. 742 00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:25,256 Hell yeah. 743 00:40:30,762 --> 00:40:32,471 Sounds like you really stepped in it with Trudy. 744 00:40:32,472 --> 00:40:33,555 No way. 745 00:40:33,556 --> 00:40:37,143 Yeah, Jessica's fingerprints weren't the only thing we talked about. 746 00:40:37,727 --> 00:40:41,521 Don't worry, you leave it to your hermana, I handle it. 747 00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:42,606 I take care of it. 748 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:43,941 Got it. 749 00:40:53,576 --> 00:40:55,160 Change your mind about confessing? 750 00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:56,371 No. 751 00:40:57,205 --> 00:40:59,958 I'm not worried about the things you took out of my house today. 752 00:41:00,583 --> 00:41:03,544 They're not going to help you prove this insane theory of yours. 753 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,007 There is one thing I can't get past though. 754 00:41:10,843 --> 00:41:17,225 Bobby's parents were granted emergency temporary custody of Danielle today. 755 00:41:19,143 --> 00:41:20,645 It happened so fast. 756 00:41:22,689 --> 00:41:28,403 It's almost like someone knew how preoccupied I would be. 757 00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:32,615 You know, most crazy people I've met, they don't know they're crazy, 758 00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:34,908 but even you have to see you're not the person 759 00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:36,911 she should be with right now, right? 760 00:41:40,123 --> 00:41:42,375 I don't know who I am without her, Mel. 761 00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:53,553 I wonder who you'll be without your family. 762 00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:55,888 What? 763 00:41:58,808 --> 00:42:01,436 Jessica, tell me where you are. 764 00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:04,063 Jessica. 765 00:42:05,857 --> 00:42:06,941 Jessica? 766 00:42:09,402 --> 00:42:11,529 Jessica? Jessica, please. 767 00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:14,782 Jessica? 768 00:42:16,701 --> 00:42:17,827 Jessica? 769 00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:23,374 Jessica, please tell me where you are right now, Jessica. 770 00:42:24,834 --> 00:42:25,960 Jessica!