10x21 - New Life

[bunniefuu]

With the waters of baptism,
God makes an end of sin

and a new beginning of goodness.

Give him the new life of baptism

and welcome him into your holy church.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[BOTH SPEAKING SPANISH]

From church straight to work, cop?

Hey, Mia, Mia.

I just...

I just wanted to say thanks for coming.

I...

my... you know, my cousin, he...

he really loves your ma.

That's my church.

Those are my friends.
Of course I was there.

Okay, yeah. I just... I...

hold up, are you talking to me now or...

'cause I'd really love to be...

My brother, Quico, was baptized here.

[TENSE SOMBER MUSIC]

"How's Quico?"

Thanks for asking.

Menard prison is great.

If you're a service dog.

The dogs get heated cells.

Now so much for Quico.

I can see what I can do.

- I'm not asking you for a favor,
- I'm just telling you.

You shouldn't be surprised
to see me in my neighborhood.

♪

- [CAR HORN HONKS]
- [TIRES SQUEAL]

Did you see someone in my car?

No?

[SIGHS]

Listen, I have to go. But I...

♪

[SIGHS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Juan?

Juan! Do you hear me?

- Uh, Juan?
- [EXHALES]

Hey, hey! Can you hear me?

Juan!

J-Juan!

Yes, yes, this is Officer Torres.

My badge number is .

I need an ambulance right now,
North Ravine.

I have a victim that's been sh*t!

I'm yards off the road!
I need an ambulance right now!

Hey, Juan, Juan, hey, hey!
No, no, no, stay with me!

Who did this?

- Dante.
- Yeah?

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

No!

♪

We got an ID?

Juan Ariza. He was .

He used to be a major dealer in Pilsen.

Huh.

Did a year in
for distribution of dr*gs.

Lost some power
but still maintained control.

You know him?

- Yeah, I know him.
- Huh.

He used to run the
neighborhood when I was kid.

Ruled by fear.

I used to see him
at the diner on Cermak.

Tried to be every kid's uncle, you know?

But I maintained my distance.

Did he say anything when you found him?

He was mumbling.

Sorry, but I couldn't make it out.

Huh.

Patrol and techs
are searching for evidence.

Nothing so far, and there's
no cameras in the area.

No shells, either.

And the only blood
we got is in the trunk.

This was just a drop site.

Okay, the Camry belonged
to a Regina Foltz,

a retired engineer from Pilsen.

She was carjacked last night
around : p.m.

Offender wore a mask,
dragged her out of the car,

- and b*at her.
- All right, that's something.

I'm on it.

All right,
we know Ariza was dumped here.

Question is, where was he sh*t?

You got a home address?

His last known was on Demont.

Moved away three years ago,

no record of anything else since.

He's always around the neighborhood,

so he must have a property
under another name.

All right, so find it

and get forensics on that note
left for Torres.

Look, whoever wrote it
knew there was a body here.

They gotta know more.

- Let's go.
- I got it.

Wait, Dante. Hold up.

Why do you think
they left you that note?

'Cause I'm a cop.

Lot of cops in Pilsen.

Yeah, well, some people still
appreciate that I'm police.

They... they come to me.

Simple as that?

Yes, sir. Think so.

All right. Let's get to work.

Techs processed the note on Torres' car.

No touch DNA, no prints.

All right. Any luck on your end?

No, church doesn't
have security cameras.

No one's admitting
they saw it placed there.

- No one's coming forward to me.
- Huh.

This is Juan Ariza. Divorced, no kids.

Ex-wife lives in Cleveland.

Local police checked her alibi.
She's clean.

All she wanted is
to know if he had suffered.

All right. Must've made her day.

This is Ariza's crew,
or what's left of it.

They took over Pilsen in the mid-s.

They used young enforcers
to collect street taxes,

do the dirty work...
tortures to beatdowns.

They were organized and ruthless,

but they started making enemies
and losing power.

Kev.

So the main thr*at to Ariza's domain

is this young crew called
the Serpiente Letal.

Means "fatal snakes."

We got a lot of documented
territory conflicts, sh**t.

Led by Sergio Navarro

and his right-hand man, Thomas Vega.

Vega's got a long sheet.

Got a couple violent pinches
for agg as*ault

and a carjacking.

Dragged the driver out,
b*at him, nearly k*lled him.

- Sounds like our jacking.
- Exactly.

Same MO, no evidential proof.

These two have known each other
since little league.

In sixth grade, they robbed the
team concession stand together.

You can't make this stuff up.

Where one goes, the other follows.

You know, on paper,

they both look good for it, Sarge,

but like Burgess said,

right now, we got no evidential proof.

- Hmm.
- Hey, Boss?

What are you doing here?

- I told you to get some sleep.
- Yeah, I know.

I'll try. Just came to download my COH.

Platt handed me that on the way up.

Hmm.

CPIC got a hit on your guy, Ariza.

He's got a house in his niece's name.

Huh. Place is on Damen and Cullerton.

That's minutes from
where the body was dropped.

Might be where he was sh*t.

Secure a warrant.
Let's search the place.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

Chicago PD!

Anybody home?

Go ahead, Kev.

Chicago PD!

Chicago PD! Anyone home?

- All right, Kim...
- I'll take the basement.

Okay. Let's clear the rest.

♪

Got anything?

No.

Looks clean.

Guess Ariza had a lot of friends.

Mm-hmm.

You okay?

Yeah. I'm all right.

I'll check the back.

♪

Only thing I found

was this unregistered
-millimter in a drawer.

No sign of forced entry or a struggle.

Didn't toss the place,
nothing seems to be missing.

No blood, bleach, shell casings.

Ariza wasn't k*lled here.

Garage is empty, but I found
an extra fob for a Lexus.

Serial number matches
Ariza's ex-wife's vehicle.

Hmm. Could've been what
they were driving last night.

So get into the GPS.
Let's find that car.

Hank.

Ariza used to run Torres' neighborhood.

He tell you if he ever knew him?

He says he barely knew him. Why?

- No reason.
- Yeah.

[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC]

[BREATHING DEEPLY]

♪

[INHALES SHARPLY]

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

Car parked here at : last night.

All right, we run
the addresses on the block?

Yeah, but the only house
that really matters

is that one around the corner.

Loud music complaints,
multiple in-service calls.

It's a party house.

A stash house?

Could be, but I don't understand

why Ariza would visit
a rival stash house.

All right,
Upton and I will take the car.

You three, do a walk-by. Check it out.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

g*n!

[g*nf*re]

[TENSE MUSIC]

- David, -, -!

sh*ts fired at the police
at South Homan!

Copy that. sh*ts fired. Backup en route.

- Burgess!
- Kev!

I got you, Burg!

[GRUNTS]

Go.

Police. I got you, I got you.

- Ocean, I got a woman sh*t
at South Homan.

Send an ambulance.

It's okay, it's okay. I got you.

Going left.

♪

Chicago PD! Drop your w*apon!

[g*nshots]

♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Stay with her till her body's removed.

Yes, sir.

You okay?

No.

No, I'm not.

Sarge.

Got an ID on the sh**t.

Robert Castillo, long-time Letal member.

There's a reason he didn't want us here.

Uh-huh. . shells right here.

Same slugs
that were pulled out of Ariza.

And there's no visible blood,

but they were cleaning up a m*rder site.

Found the cell phone under the couch.

It's unlocked.
Looks like it belongs to Ariza.

Multiple text messages between
him and a woman named Loop.

Lots of flirtation back and forth

and then she said to meet her here

at : p.m. last night to party.

She said, "Let's have fun, get crazy."

She baited him.

It's a honey trap.

I know a Loop.

It's a nickname for Mia Ramos.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

We used to call her that
when we were kids.

Her middle name's Lupe.

Can I see?

♪

Yeah, sounds like her.

She lured Ariza.

She must have left me that note.

Dante, wait up.

Sure you want to go solo?
I can back you up.

No, it'll be better if I'm alone.

Mia wanted me to know.
I can get her to come in.

Okay, I...

look, I know you're still new to us...

But if you need something,
I'll be there.

Okay?

Is there anything else I should know?

About this case, Ariza?

No.

But thank you.

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

Dany, what the hell is going on?

I'm not talking in front of your ma.

Drop your hand off me.

The note, Mia.

The one on your car?

Don't do that. Don't play dumb with me.

I know you wrote it.

And now I have to bring you in.

- No. No, you don't.
- Yeah.

Did you think
we weren't gonna figure it out?

That you left it?

We know where Ariza was sh*t.
We know you texted him.

We know you lured him into it.

For all I know, you sh*t him.

Are you kidding me?

- Am I?
- I didn't sh**t anybody.

You know that. I wouldn't sh**t anybody.

What the hell's going on, Mia?

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

I just needed money.

Money.

I spent every dime
defending Quico because of you.

So I pushed you into m*rder?
Is that what you're saying?

I pushed you into the game?

I didn't know.

Navarro just paid me to flirt with him,

to text him to meet.

He said he was gonna shake him down.

I...

I didn't know he was gonna k*ll him.

Why the hell
would you write me that note?

Because it was Ariza.

And I hated him. You know that.

I know.

But I felt like you should
be the one to find him.

♪

My team, they don't know
about me and Ariza.

And when they do...

I'll lose my job.

I won't say a thing.

I'm not the one
who betrays people I love.

♪

I swear I wasn't in that stash house.

When's the last time you saw Ariza?

Earlier that night.

I flirted at a bar with him, took off,

texted him from a burner
a few hours later.

Okay. Where's the burner?

In a million pieces.
I drove over it with my car.

Yeah, well, here's a copy
of the text exchange.

That's you, right? Loop?

That's me.

And this plan came from Sergio Navarro?

Yeah.

But you claim you weren't there?

I'm not claiming. I wasn't.

And yet, you wrote a note
to Officer Torres

telling him exactly where
to find Ariza's body.

You understand
how that doesn't make sense?

I overheard some drunk dudes
with Letal tats

talking about a body drop
on my late shift.

You got names?

No.

They paid in cash.

I don't know him and I'm not lying.

Hmm.

Look, there's a lot of cops in Chicago.

Why go to Officer Torres?
He put your brother in prison.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

He's still the only cop
I've known since I was a kid.

I knew he'd find him.

Mia...

you're looking at first degree m*rder.

- I wasn't there.
- It doesn't matter.

Your texts lured Ariza
to the place he was ex*cuted.

I mean, you're staring at life.

♪

Or work with you.

Right? That it?

That's it.

Look, we don't have enough
to bust Navarro

on your testimony alone...
it's he said-she said.

We need more.

And I think you can help us.

♪

We'll be able to see
and hear everything.

Just get him talking,
get him vulnerable.

You known Dante your whole life?

Yeah.

What about Ariza?

What about him?

You know him too?

Saw him around,

heard the g*nshots now and then.

Dante know him?

What if I want to take off my jacket?

Try to keep it on.

[CLEARS THROAT]

- We good?
- Yeah, good to go.

It's not what we talked about.

You know what Pilsen needs?

A real sonidero bar.

DJs, lights,
no old men in matching suits.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

[SNIFFS]

Bump, changa?

We can bust him on coke if we have to.

No. I don't want a bump, Nava.

I heard Ariza was m*rder*d.

That wasn't a part of the plan.

That's not what I signed up for.

Vega, wake up!

Refill.

Coming up. Take it easy.

Hey, I got a man k*lled.
I ain't good with that.

What the hell happened?

My boys saw you talking
with Dante Torres.

Why don't you tell me
what the hell that was about?

Don't trip. They know you a cop.

That was about nothing.

That traidor put my brother in prison.

I heard of him.

You know he used to run with Ariza?

Torres was an enforcer.

Heard of a kid named Paco?

He was about the same age as you.

No.

I don't care about Torres.

I just want to know

- what the hell happed...
- Paco ended up dead.

Dude was waterboarded. Drowned.

- Guess who did it?
- Get out of there, Mia. Now.

What?

Walk away, Mia. Right now.

- I said...
- I gotta go. I...

Bitch, why you
asking me these questions?

Are you working for your
little cop boyfriend, huh?

Crash. Let's go.

Ocean, let's go! Let's go!

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Chicago PD! Nobody move!

Get 'em up! Move!

- Let's see your hands!
- Don't do it! Don't do it!

- Hands up.
- Let's see your hands!

Vega, we ain't done nothing wrong.

- Just chill out.
- Hands up!

g*n's registered to the owner.

Totally legal.

Hands up.

Sergio Navarro,

you are under arrest
for possession of cocaine.

- Turn around.
- Let's go.

Put your hands on the bar.

- Put 'em on the bar.
- Let's go, let's go.

You ain't fooling me!

You're a snitch!

Give me your hands.

I made a deal with Ariza when I was .

Not here.

Sarge, I know what you're doing.

No. Stop talking. Okay?

Unless you got something that
affects this case right now,

we are not talking about it here.
You understand?

We can talk about it
when the case is closed.

Have a seat.

The hell is this?

- I didn't k*ll Ariza.
- Mm.

You got a dumb, lying bitch
who's playing your cop,

playing you.

No, you played her.

You used Mia.

I'm guessing you used Vega too.

You lured Ariza to you...

then you k*lled him for his territory.

Got any proof of that?

A witness? DNA? Anything?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Even if you find something...

[CHUCKLING] Even if you
make something up...

I know you got a dirty cop
on your payroll.

Your guy, Torres?

He was Ariza's enforcer.

Did anything Ariza told him to,
so go ahead...

try to book me.

I'll take Torres down with me.

You think I'd let that happen?

I'll offer you help only once.

Talk to me. Now.

Now.

Then I won't be your enemy.

♪

Hell, no.

- Okay, what do we got?
- Nothing.

Nothing that puts Navarro
at the stash house,

nothing on PODs, nothing on his car GPS.

Okay, what about his little lackey?
What about Vega?

Okay, I got bus cam footage
from the jacking,

Camry used to dump Ariza's body.

Height and weight are a match for Vega,

but that's all I've got.

ASA said it's not enough
for an arrest warrant.

I mean, we could bring him in,
but I doubt he'll flip on it.

All right, listen to me.
There is no way that these two

are smart enough
to pull off a clean m*rder.

There is more evidence.
We need to find it.

Yo, Mia's refusing the safe house,

and she just damn near broke
a chair trying to make that point,

so unless we're gonna arrest her,
she wants to go home now.

Okay, fine. Torres, drive her home.

I can keep looking for new witnesses...

Drive her home.

It's just a few nights.

- I'm not staying with police.
- You'll be safe there.

I'm going home.

I just want to go home.

[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC]

♪

Your team knows about you now?

I guess.

You gonna lose your job?

I guess.

You were just a kid.

A tiny kid who just
wanted to protect your ma.

Ariza used you.
If anyone's guilty, it's him.

He was.

Yeah, he was alive when I found him.

And he could barely speak.

But he told me he was sorry.

♪

That's Officer Reid.
She'll be outside all night.

You call me if you need me.

[ENGINE REVVING]

Hey!

Down, down, down, down,
down, down, down!

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

- You good?
- Yeah.

Get her upstairs! Call for backup!

Yes, sir!

- Ocean, I got
sh*ts fired at the police!

West Mackenzie!

I'm in pursuit of a masked
offender in a red Honda Accord.

Lincoln Tom -- Victor.

Sarge, do you copy?

Yeah, go with your traffic, Torres.

I'm in pursuit of a red Honda Accord.

Driver took sh*ts at us.

It has to be one of Navarro's boys.

What's your ?

I'm northbound approaching
the block south of Racine.

All right, we're minutes out.

- Coming to you. Let's go.
- Copy.

[TIRES SQUEALING]

♪

[g*n CLICKS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

♪

If it isn't Ariza's little bitch

taking care of him once again.

[HANDCUFFS CLICK]

He owns you even in death?

♪

Car's coming back hot.

Stolen last night on the block...

♪

You know who I am?

You know what I've done?

Do you know who Paco was?

♪

Let's go. Come on, come on.

[VEGA GRUNTS] Let's go.

Answer me, Torres. What's your ?

[ENGINE REVVING]

He must've gone dark.

Kim, Kev, somebody,

I need Torres' car GPS right now.

♪

[SIGHS]

They keep the water running
in these old buildings

so the pipes don't freeze.

[WATER TRICKLING]

Let's talk.

♪

We should be right on him.

I'm not seeing anything.

There! That's his car right there.

Kim, Kev,
we're at Jefferson Junior High,

South Loomis.

Torres may be inside with the offender.

We're going in, we're going dark.

Just get here, set up a perimeter.

Copy that, Sarge. I'm ten minutes out.

What happened to Ariza?

♪

How long do you think
you can hold your breath?

♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[BUCKET CLANKS]

Ariza taught me this.

He liked his enforcers
to be waterboarding snitches.

Anyone who crossed him.

What happened to Ariza?

- Go to hell.
- Mm-hmm, okay.

[BUCKET THUMPS]
What do you think I do next?

I ain't afraid of you.

I will drown you.

Over and over and over and over

until you beg me
to have the water k*ll you.

And I know you will.

What happened to Ariza?

♪

[PANTING]

I didn't k*ll him!

[WET CLOTH SLAPS DOWN]

Who did?

- Navarro sh*t him.
- Where? What part of his body?

In his shoulder,
in his stomach, with his Ruger.

And you helped him?

Navarro called me to dump the body.

I stole the car and
I put the body in the trunk.

What about the g*n?

Navarro tossed it in the river.

Where?

I don't... I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know. I'm telling you the truth.

I don't know, I don't know!

Cherry Ave Bridge, Cherry Ave Bridge!

♪

[PHONE BUZZING]

[SIGHS]

Sorry, sir.

Divers recovered Navarro's Ruger.

Ballistic match?

Yeah, the CDOT cam caught him
walking away from that bridge.

Navarro's going away for a long time.

What about Vega?

Made a deal with conditions.

Paperwork will say

that the g*n evidence
came from an anonymous tip.

So what happened at that school
will stay there.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

♪

That's me and Ariza ten years ago.

I took it from his place
when we cleared it.

I was an enforcer for him.

He recruited me out of juvie.

He made a deal with me.

I did it to protect my mother,
my family.

I b*at people for him.

I did terrible things.

Unforgivable things.

But I never waterboarded anybody.

Then what happened to that kid?

I had Upton dig into it.

No record of Paco exists after .

Do you really think I k*lled him?

I think anyone can k*ll.

Ariza ordered me to k*ll him.

And I took Paco out of town instead.

He's in Miami.

He goes by Julio Montez,
has two baby girls.

I let Ariza believe I k*lled him,

- and then I was done with it.
- Mm.

g*ng like that,
you don't get out for free.

[SOFTLY] No.

You don't.

They waterboarded you.

I deserved it.

The things I did...

I deserved it.

You really
believe all of this, don't you?

Yeah, I do.

♪

Aren't I fired?

I'll see you at the district.

♪

What's this?

Leaving.

Where are you going?

My cousin in Des Moines.

I've always liked it there.

Navarro's in prison.

I can get you protected detail
around the clock.

No.

I'm leaving because I want to.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪

I helped Ariza get k*lled.

I had left you that note
'cause I felt guilty.

I had to do something about it.
I couldn't live with that.

This one isn't on you.

It's your home.

And I can keep you safe.

I'm sure you would, Dany.

♪

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[WOLF HOWLS]