CARLOS CARTER CAUCASIAN_REPORTER COBIAN DANIEL DOTSEN FEMALE_SIGNER FEMALE_SINGER GNOMO GOETZ GORDO GREEN JASON JAVIER JESSICA JOYCE_ELLIS KIM LINDSEY LOPEZ MAN NUNEZ PROCESSING_GUARD REPORTER_3 SAM TIO PROCESSING GUARD Place all your personal belongings inside the tray, please. Now your clothes. GORDO Here you go. PROCESSING GUARD Face the camera. PROCESSING GUARD Drop the boxers. Bend over and lift your junk. Now cough twice. Put your boxers back on and step forward. DOTSEN Okay, Cap needs you to fax Javier's arrest records to the DA's office right away, Cash. GREEN Well, I got my hands full. DOTSEN Figure it out. DANIEL Ryan. I called you six times, man! Why haven't you called me back? SAM Listen up, everybody! DANIEL Are you there? LOPEZ Listen, I'm here. I just don't have much time to talk. DANIEL Ryan, my father's in jail! What the hell did you do? SAM Everybody, stop what you're doing for a second. I have some good news. LOPEZ Just fly the kite, okay? I gotta go. DANIEL Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, don't-don't hang up. Damn it! SAM Our request to expedite Javier Acosta's bail hearing went through. The hearing is now scheduled for 8 00 a.m. However, that only leaves us four hours to get our paperwork in order, so we're gonna have to hustle. KIM Thanks to our golden boy. Good job, Lopez. DOTSEN Yeah. LOPEZ It was a team effort. SAM Yeah, well, don't crack open the champagne just yet. Arresting Javier was only the beginning. Even from a jail cell, he can still call the shots. And as long as he has a mole in the department, we can't necessarily stop that. LOPEZ Now that Javier's arrested, you don't think the mole will go into hiding? GREEN Well, actually, now that he's in jail, he's gonna need that mole more than ever. SAM Which is why I've asked the U.S. attorney for permission to wiretap the entire Acosta family, effective within the hour. DOTSEN That mole pops his head out... GREEN We'll lop it off. CAUCASIAN REPORTER It's been 12 hours since last night's shocking arrest of Javier Acosta. REPORTER 3 We're set up outside the courthouse waiting for the bail hearing on Javier Acosta. Now, we understand from the district attorney's office that... Captain Chapel, just one question. SAM No comment. DOTSEN Judge Cobian arranged for us to watch the trial in his private chamber. GREEN We got front row seats to watch 'em GREEN fry Acosta's ass. CARTER Paul Carter, IAD. I wanted to talk to you about the Javier Acosta bust. LOPEZ Hey, I'll, uh... I'll meet up with you guys in a minute. SAM All right. CARTER I'm sure you know ADA Chapel and I were running an investigation on Detective Lopez at that time. JOYCE ELLIS I read your report. Your theory that Lopez is the mole in the department. CARTER Then you know that just before Lopez arrested Acosta, he made a call to run our plates. JOYCE ELLIS He spotted your vehicle, thought it could be counter-surveillance. It was a good call, pulling you over. CARTER Yes, it was. That's how he knew we were on his tail. I also think that's the reason he arrested Javier Acosta. I think Lopez realized that the only way to protect his cover was to arrest Acosta. Let me continue my investigation so I can prove it. JOYCE ELLIS Let's discuss this after the hearing. Your Honor, Mr. Acosta must be denied bail. He's a clear threat to the community. He was arrested transporting arms with a street value of more than $20 million. If you let him go today, it's-it's a two-hour drive to the Mexican border, and this is a man who has built his entire empire on transporting drugs between Mexico into Los Angeles. Whatever dog and pony show my counterpart may put on with you today, Mr. Acosta's history makes it clear he is a threat to this community. He should be denied bail. GOETZ Your Honor, I respectfully request that, uh, bail be granted for Javier Acosta for the reason that Mr. Acosta was only in proximity to the arms at the time of his arrest... JOYCE ELLIS Objection. Hearsay. GOETZ ...not in possession of them. COBIAN Get to your point, Counselor. GOETZ Mr. Acosta drove himself there with no regard for his own personal safety when he got wind that Mr. Jesse Santos, the sole driver of the confiscated truck, had intentions of purchasing the arms. SAM They found a patsy. GOETZ Quite frankly, this was a selfless act committed by Javier Acosta, not a felonious one. Now, I have a-a video deposition from Mr. Santos... JOYCE ELLIS Objection, Your Honor. We have not been submitted this. GOETZ ...corroborating Mr. Acosta's statements of that night. JOYCE ELLIS We haven't even seen this video deposition. GOETZ I apologize, Your Honor, but Mr. Santos only decided to come forward and tell the truth an hour ago. SAM Son of a bitch is gonna skate. We're losing him. LOPEZ No, we're not. COBIAN In light of this new evidence, I have no choice but to grant a reprieve COBIAN so we can sort this whole mess out. LOPEZ Your Honor, wait. COBIAN Who are you, sir? LOPEZ Detective Ryan Lopez, Javier Acosta's arresting officer. JESSICA What are you doing? LOPEZ Trust me. JESSICA Your Honor, this is not Javier Acosta's trial; this is simply a bail hearing. We are here to assess whether he is a danger to his community, an argument I believe I can make if you allow me to put Detective Lopez on the stand. COBIAN I'll allow it. JESSICA You served two tours of duty in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger, is that correct, Detective Lopez? GOETZ Objection. Relevance. JESSICA Speaks to his expertise in the arms that were confiscated. COBIAN I'll allow it. LOPEZ Yes. I did. JESSICA And what kind of arms did you confiscate from Mr. Acosta when you arrested him in Lancaster last night? LOPEZ Military grade. Mark 19s. Surface-to-air missiles, including 5,000 rounds of armor-piercing bullets. JESSICA Why would someone need armor-piercing rounds? LOPEZ To shoot through Kevlar vests. To kill cops. I also found a dozen remote-activated claymore mines. JESSICA Do you have any first-hand experience with those kinds of explosives? LOPEZ I do. My convoy was hit with one while transporting gas to Kandahar. Half my platoon, those within the blast radius, were killed. The other half wished they'd been. I guess I was lucky. JESSICA Your Honor, in light of Detective Lopez's statement, I implore you to deny Javier Acosta bail, invoking Title Eight, Section 813 of the Patriot Act. GOETZ Objection! My client's not a terrorist. JESSICA In addition, Section 802 broadened the Act's focus to include domestic terrorism. It allows you to hold a suspect without bail. Now I urge you to make your ruling pursuant to that statute. LOPEZ Los Angelicos has been a cancer on this city for two decades. GOETZ Objection, Your Honor! The witness has finished his testimony. COBIAN I will allow it. GOETZ A question has not been asked! COBIAN Counselor, you are out of order. Please sit down. Please continue, Detective. LOPEZ Los Angelicos has been a cancer on this city for two decades, with Javier Acosta at the head. He is a constant threat. The sad reality is that if you grant Mr. Acosta bail, he will continue to wreak havoc in and around this city, and any blood spilled will be on your hands, not ours. COBIAN Bail denied. KIM Hey, great work in there, Lopez. DOTSEN Holy hell. You just buried Acosta. GREEN No, I would say the man just slam-dunked on the whole Los Angelicos. DOTSEN Oh, my God. JOYCE ELLIS Quick thinking. JESSICA Thanks. I learned from the best. JOYCE ELLIS Oh, I've got to stop teaching you. You might take over my job. CARTER District Attorney Ellis... JOYCE ELLIS Agent Carter, please don't tell me you still think Lopez is the mole. Especially after what he did in there. How do you explain that? CARTER I think he did it for me. To throw me off his trail. And if you let me continue my investigation, I'll prove it. JOYCE ELLIS You're asking me to continue an investigation on a hero cop who just pulled down the biggest drug kingpin in Los Angeles? No, absolutely not. The investigation is over. That's all. CARTER That could have gone better. You're not buying this whole Lopez-as-hero-cop thing, are you? JESSICA I didn't before, but Ellis is right. CARTER Come on. Wait, wait, wait. There-there are still so many unanswered questions here. JESSICA No, you need to let it go. You were wrong about Lopez. So was I. SAM This bail denial was a significant step in the right direction toward bringing Javier Acosta to trial. My task force, in conjunction with the district attorney's office, has every intention of trying Mr. Acosta to the fullest extent of the law. JESSICA Ryan, that was a hell of a move you pulled in there. LOPEZ Hey, sorry to surprise you like that. I, uh, couldn't just let him walk. JESSICA No, it was smart thinking. LOPEZ Saw Carter talking to the DA. Even after all this, he's still convinced I'm crooked? JESSICA What Carter thinks at this point doesn't matter. You're a hero. LOPEZ I'm no hero. I'm just a cop doing his job like all the rest, nothing more. Your dad. JESSICA I don't care. Do you? Look, I know you're gonna be really busy today, but we haven't seen much of each other lately. And it's my fault. I'd like to explain tonight. LOPEZ That could be tough. JESSICA I'm not taking no for an answer, so I'll see you tonight. LOPEZ Okay. Cap, uh... SAM Hmm? LOPEZ I was gonna tell you. I just wasn't sure how you'd take it. SAM It's okay. I've been a detective longer than you've been alive. I knew about that for weeks. LOPEZ And you never said anything? SAM Ryan, if I had to handpick someone for my daughter, it would be you. LOPEZ Thank you, sir. SAM Call me "Dad." I'm kidding. Listen to me. You took down Javier Acosta. That's a career-changer. But it also puts a bull's-eye on your back. Angelicos have taken out cops for a lot less than that. So I want you to stay on high alert and watch your ass. LOPEZ I will. DANIEL Dad. CARLOS Hey, Pops. JAVIER Lose the long faces. No one died, huh? CARLOS Not yet. DANIEL Don't even think about it, Carlos. CARLOS Think about it. I plan on doing it. You saw what he did. DANIEL There's got to be an explanation. Two weeks ago, he risked his life for me, for all of us. CARLOS Yeah, well, that's the thing. Maybe he got popped for real. Maybe he flipped to save his own ass. Maybe that's the reason why we're sitting here right now. JAVIER Has he contacted you? DANIEL No. He hung up before he had a chance to talk. CARLOS I don't get it, Pop. Why are you protecting him? The orphan, he showed us his true colors. JAVIER No, right now he could be the only thing that's saving us. Got to be a reason he's done this. CARLOS But if you're wrong, he knows everything about us. Everything. He could be getting ready to make a move on the rest of us. JAVIER Daniel, you need to talk to him. DANIEL I flew a kite this morning. CARLOS And if we don't hear back from that fool with an explanation of what he's done? JAVIER Then we do what we have to do. Not a moment before that, Carlos, entiendes? Where we at with the payment? CARLOS We got just enough. JAVIER Make the payment on time. Just 'cause I'm in jail, they don't expect any detour from our agreement. DANIEL If we make this payment, we won't have any money left for your defense, Dad. JAVIER Don't worry about me right now, mijo. Make the payment. We do that, we cover our backs. We can attack what's in front of us. Daniel, contact the orphan. That's first and foremost. I need to know exactly where we stand with him. DANIEL All right. MAN ¿Sí, señor? SAM Talk to me. What's going on, Tae? KIM Our surveillance detail shows Daniel Acosta's on the move. SAM Where's he headed? KIM Looks like Peacock Hill. GREEN Location in the middle of the night-- maybe he's gonna meet with the mole. SAM All right, let's roll. GREEN Lopez, where the hell are you, man? LOPEZ At home. What's up? GREEN Get your hands off the boss' daughter and put that Cold Duck on ice, man. It's going down. LOPEZ What is? GREEN Chapel placed an unmarked vehicle outside of Daniel Acosta's house to keep an eye on him. And guess what? Pretty boy's on the move. We think he's gonna meet the mole. LOPEZ Where? GREEN We're pulling up into Peacock Hill. We're about a quarter mile southeast on the corner of Solano and Amador. Tan vehicle on site with a handful of L.A.'s finest. Just hurry your ass over here, man. You're gonna miss the show. Cap and I are en route. LOPEZ All right. I'm on my way. I'll be there as soon as I can. DANIEL Damn it! Hey. JAVIER Well, what did he say, mijo? DANIEL He never showed last night. JAVIER Well, are you sure he got the message? DANIEL Yes. The kite was gone this morning. CARLOS Look, Pop, I know how much you care about the orphan, but we're your family. The ones sitting here right now. Not him. JAVIER Wait, wait, wait. There could still be a reason. We don't know for sure. CARLOS That's exactly why we ain't got no choice. If we're right about him, every one of us are gonna end up in jail. DANIEL We haven't seen eye-to-eye lately. This is crazy. CARLOS I don't like it any more than you do. We simply can't take that chance. We have to protect la familia. JAVIER Okay. SAM Acostas' mole never showed up? GREEN Nah, poor Daniel was dangling in the wind for, like, three hours on top of the hill last night. KIM Javier's gonna be pissed. DOTSEN That mole better hope we find him before Los Angelicos do. GREEN We got some good news while pretty boy was waiting, he text the same number, like, 22 times. LOPEZ We know who the phone belongs to? DOTSEN No, but we tracked it down. The number belongs to a SIM card purchased at a convenience store in Canoga Park six months ago. No paper trail, no video. KIM The SIM card's inactive, so the messages keep pinging back. LOPEZ Until the phone powers up again. GREEN Yeah, when that happens, then we got our man. LOPEZ I think I have a way to get that phone ringing. DOTSEN What do you mean? LOPEZ One thing we know about Acosta, good or not, is that he cares about his family, especially Daniel. If Acosta thought Daniel was in imminent danger, he'd do whatever he had to do to protect him. Probably means he'd need his mole's help. KIM Daniel's bank was busted, but the charges were dropped. He's in no legal danger. LOPEZ He doesn't know that. I could, uh, make a play that we found additional evidence on the SunnyLinks case. Enough to put Daniel into County. DOTSEN Javier knows Daniel won't last a night in there. GREEN That's one hell of a bluff. LOPEZ Come on. You got to let me play that card, Cap. Look, I busted him. He knows I'll do whatever it takes to hurt him and his family. Let me go see Javier, talk to him. We need to root out that mole once and for all. SAM Okay, but you remember what I said, and you watch your back. LOPEZ You got it. GORDO Armor-piercing bullets? GNOMO Just in case he's wearing his vest. CARLOS The traitor had it coming, Tio. He's ain't one of us. He never was. GORDO One should never dance on a man's grave, Carlos. Ryan did a lot for this familia. Now if Javier wants him dead, I'll do it, but I won't do it gladly. DANIEL Get the hell off my father's desk. GORDO They need to discuss your father's defense, Carlos. Let them. CARLOS Take a walk, Gnomo. DANIEL So... what's next? GOETZ Well, the prosecution's pushing for an early trial date. DANIEL Less preparation time means more lawyers, right? GOETZ Mm-hmm. CARLOS And how much more is that gonna cost us? GOETZ To get the right team, I'm gonna need a million as soon as possible as a retainer. Quarter million a month after that. DANIEL I have $4 million tied up in SunnyLinks. We'll sue 'em for that. GOETZ I already looked into that. Jason and his team dispersed the SunnyLinks money into untouchable offshore trusts. DANIEL What about his house, his cars? GOETZ None of those assets are in his name. They're listed under his own legitimate corporation. We got no legal recourse here. DANIEL So I lose everything, and Jason skates off scot-free? GOETZ I know it's unfair, Daniel, but it's the law. CARLOS The grass ain't always greener on the other side, huh, college boy? DANIEL Shut up, Carlos. There's got to be some way to get that money. No. JAVIER Mike, we're gonna need some privacy. JAVIER Mike's on my payroll. You can speak freely. I hope you have a good explanation for what you did, Ryan. LOPEZ I had no choice, Javier. JAVIER What happened? LOPEZ IA put a GPS tracker on my car. They believed I was the mole. Seeing what I was gonna do, if I was gonna let you get away again or not. I had to do my job. JAVIER Your job was to make sure that I didn't end up here in the first place. LOPEZ Without my badge, I can't protect the family! JAVIER ¡Yo soy la familia! Why didn't you meet with Daniel last night? LOPEZ I tried. Ever since the arrest, the GTF got permission to put wiretaps on the entire family. JAVIER And these charges... are they going to stick? LOPEZ Yes. They are. You're looking at real time here. LOPEZ But... we can use this to our advantage. We stick to the script that you wrote. Tio takes out the Metas in Colima while the GTF cripples them in Los Angeles. JAVIER Leaving El Mozo. LOPEZ To become king, you have to kill the king. You have to do this yourself, Javier. JAVIER You understand what it is you're asking me to do? LOPEZ Yes. And it's the only thing we can do to protect the family. We're running out of time. It won't be long till the Metas figure out you killed Salazar. JAVIER But he's in supermax. It would take months to get a transfer there. That's time we don't have. LOPEZ Not if you plead guilty. They'll transfer you from County immediately. I'm gonna do everything in my power to put you in the same supermax as El Mozo. JAVIER How can you be sure you can do that? LOPEZ I can't be. That's where I need your help. Despite the fact that I arrested you, IAD and the GTF are still hunting for this mole, and until they find that mole, I'm always gonna be under a microscope. I need them off my trail. You're the only one that can make that happen. JAVIER How? LOPEZ Carlos once told me that I wasn't the only cop you had under. I need a name. JAVIER And what, exactly, are you going to do with that information? LOPEZ I deliver that mole to the GTF, it takes all suspicion off me. It's either him or us. JAVIER Rafael Nunez. He's a Los Angeles County sheriff. LOPEZ Does he know about me? JAVIER No. LOPEZ How do I know he won't give you up when I find him? JAVIER Because he will no longer be alive once you find him. Like you said, it's either him or us. CARLOS What the hell was he doing here? JAVIER Says he's innocent. That he had no choice but to arrest me. CARLOS You believe him? JAVIER He's got a pretty good plan to get us out of this mess. I'm still not sure. CARLOS So what? You want me to lift the green light on him? JAVIER No. Not yet. LOPEZ LAPD. Is anyone here? NUNEZ Who are you? LOPEZ Put the gun down. NUNEZ Who are you? LOPEZ Detective Lopez, LAPD. NUNEZ What are you doing in my house? LOPEZ I had a shots fired call. 911 operator pinged the call to this address. I was in the neighborhood. Look, I'm gonna show you my badge, all right? Are you, uh... are you Officer Rafael Nunez? NUNEZ Yeah. But there wasn't any shots fired at this address. LOPEZ Well, it must've been a mix-up. Dispatch gave me this address. All right, look, I'm gonna holster my weapon, all right? All right, uh... just lower the weapon and I'm on my way. NUNEZ Hey, Lopez. If it was a shots fired call, you would've responded with backup. Where's your partner? Acosta sent you here, didn't he? LOPEZ Look, I don't know what you're talking about. NUNEZ Toss your weapon. Now. LOPEZ Put the gun down. NUNEZ No. You're here to kill me. LOPEZ I don't know what the hell you're talking about. NUNEZ I know what's going on. Javier's been covering up his tracks, tying up loose ends. LOPEZ Just put the gun down. NUNEZ Toss your weapon now! LOPEZ Here it is. All right? Putting it down. Here it is. LOPEZ Whatever it is you're thinking, it's not true, okay? You're high and you're paranoid. All right? Just... put the gun down. I promise you, everything's gonna be all right, okay? NUNEZ I knew this was gonna happen, once he was done with me. LOPEZ Rafael, don't do this. NUNEZ Tell Javier... none of it was worth it. Not a single day. LOPEZ No! DOTSEN Cap... the mole. GREEN Son of a bitch popped his head up. SAM I want an address, now. Now! Call in a warrant. LOPEZ Damn it! CARLOS Tio. Are you in? TIO Yeah, I'm checking it out. Ryan? You home? LOPEZ Yeah? SAM Lopez, your plan worked. We shook Acosta. The mole powered up his phone. LOPEZ You track it? DOTSEN Yeah, to a sheriff's deputy in Panorama City. Rafael Nunez. KIM We're en route now. LOPEZ Panorama City, that puts me about 15 minutes out. GREEN I'm gonna text you the address now, Lopez. Clear. DOTSEN Clear. SAM Clear. Son of a bitch. LOPEZ I, uh, I got the phone. SAM This is it. All these texts are from Daniel Acosta. Check the house. Look for anything that we can tie to Los Angelicos. LOPEZ Think I got something. LOPEZ A couple passports. A few thousand in cash. KIM We found Javier Acosta's mole. LOPEZ Yeah, too bad Los Angelicos found him first. CARLOS What the hell? GORDO I got this, Carlos. CARLOS It ain't Ryan. GORDO Who is it? CARLOS Looks like that lawyer that was at my dad's trial this morning. GORDO What the hell is she doing here? CARLOS I don't know, but we need to take her out before Ryan gets home. GORDO We're not authorized to do that. CARLOS If we don't, she could warn him. Take her out. JESSICA Ryan? Your door's open. Ryan? Ryan? JAVIER You hear from our contacts? GOETZ Yeah. As far as the police know, Rafael Nunez shot himself. JAVIER Police find anything that can hurt us? GOETZ No. Just enough to prove that Nunez was the mole. He killed him. Ryan passed the test. JAVIER You bring the burner? GOETZ Yeah. GORDO Sí, jefe? JAVIER Ryan passed the test. Lift the green light. GORDO Sí. JESSICA Ryan? CARLOS What the hell's going on? Did you do the bitch or what? GORDO Your father called off the hit. JASON Come on, kiddo. It's bedtime. Here we go. JASON Daniel, what are you doing here? DANIEL Hey. I need to talk to you, man. LINDSEY Jason? JASON It's not really a great time, okay? DANIEL I know, I-I-I just... I need a minute. JASON Listen to me, buddy, I am sorry about what went down, okay? But I don't even think I should be talking to you without a lawyer present. DANIEL Jason, come on, man. I've know you since we were 18 at Stanford. I just need a minute. Please. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't an emergency. JASON Okay. Five minutes. DANIEL Thank you. JASON Hey, sweetie, why don't you, uh, take him upstairs? Hey, it's all right. All right? You get up to bed, all right? Talk in my office? DANIEL Wow. Nicklaus used this club to win the '86 Masters. That's nice. JASON Someone gave it to me as a gift. Danny... why are you here? DANIEL I need my money back, Jason. The $4 million I invested with SunnyLinks. JASON I don't have it. DANIEL Jason, come on, man. JASON Look, the fund imploded. Okay? You're not the only one who lost everything. DANIEL "Everything"? I mean... it doesn't look like you lost everything. Look. We both know you took your money out. And I'm sure you're hiding it somewhere. But I did lose everything, okay? My savings, my reputation, my career. And you know what? That's okay. But now my family's in trouble. And my father needs that money for his legal defense. Money you stole! And that's not okay. I'm not asking, Jason. I'm begging. Please. Just give it back. Not a penny more, not a penny less. Just the $4 million you stole from me. JASON Danny, look. I'm sorry, okay? But it's like I said. I just don't have it. DANIEL Okay. Okay. JASON Danny? Hey, Danny! Hey... LINDSEY No! JASON Oh! DANIEL You have two hours to wire that money into my account. Two hours. Don't make me come back. DANIEL He's the criminal. Not me. LINDSEY Jason! FEMALE SINGER All this noise It fades away Hallowed ground And heavy haze These open streets In golden dust The hopes I hold become my past Wasted lines Fill the air FEMALE SINGER Hasty choices without A care All this noise FEMALE SIGNER It fades away Hallowed ground and heavy haze.