This is the United States Coast Guard.
You've enteredS waters.You
will be arrested.
Coast Guard ofcials have confirmed these men are
indeed Cuban rafters trying to reach dry land.
They've spent days,even weeksdrift,navigating
through turbulent shark-instedaters.
According to wet-foot/dry-foot law,anrafter
arrested before reaching dry land
will immediately be sent back to C Cub
Should they reach dry land,they
will be granted asylum.
Looks like the last one
is turning hself in now.
Dry land just a few feet away.
Gonzalo Luque trying to sal h
He dives!And he's safe!
My name is Jaime Reyes.
And for ose who know a little about Cuban
baseball,this is Gonzalo Luque,the Cuban Mickey Mantle.
And I'm happy to announce that he has just
sigd with the Pladelphia Phillies organization,
and he will report to the
Reading Phils next week.
Gonzalo would like to say sething.
Hello,Ameri.
Thank you.And I wa to play baseball.
ICE agent ys this guy's got
information on a coljob,October ' .
Those are all the poible matches.
A couple of gangotin,,robbery gone bad.
And two stone-cold whodunits.
- This guy fng for a deal?
- All
Aren't they al Agent Scarlli,Immigrations
and Customs Enforcement.
Eddy's in our country uninvited.
He got popped for an electronics store
smash-and-grab along with canbis possession.
The smwas for religious purposes.
Let me guess: you're lookingt a
boat ride back to rt-au-Prince.
Yes,sir.
Eddie'd rath spend a month in lockup
here than go back to the Haitian clink.
Look,I testify,I get to stay,right?
- Depends what you got.
- It was October...
Pretty good memory with all
that praying you be doing,Eddie.
It's the tth.
I rememb because of the pumpkins.
Start with locion.
That sandlot nearancast Avenue.
Wrong answer.
We got no unsolved murders hat area.
I warned ya about wasting our time.
It was that baseball player.He
was going to play for the Philes.
Guy's nameas Gonzalo Luque.
Only problem,Eddie,is Gonzalo wasilled
about five miles from Lancaster Avenue.
Body was found in the Badlands.
That's not what I sa
Yo,man.
I me out,the bodyone.
You couldn't swipe Jesus,so you
settled for the Louisville sluer?
You see the car?
No.
- What about the b
- Perfectly good bat.
I give it to mphew Patrick.
He hit real keen with it.
Bring us the bat,we'll see what we can do
about prolonging your jail time in America.
Play ball.
Gonzalo Luke, years old.
Found de in an alley off Elkhart in
the Blands,morning of October , .
Cause of death blunt-force trauma
to thchest resuing in cardi arrest.
Assigned back in theay figured that
'hood,Gonzalo was looking for dr*gs,g*ns,or tail.
Played for Double-A Reading.
Guy could rake.
Big league club invited
him to spring training.
Yeah,he'd have won a ring st season.
The bat Eddie the Haitian
sa was next to the ..
Bat d be a good match for
the contusion that k*lled hi
"ST."
Thproffer was asked out that.
He said the letters were theredy.
Lumberould belong to
one of his teammates.
Nobody with thos initials othe team.
So now we got a dead baseball
player's body being moved across town.
Maybe our doer didn't want
the lot connted to theody.
I didn't even know there
was a baball diamond there.
Detective back i' spoke to Jaime
Reyes,Gonzalo's agent and a usin,Juan de la Cruz.
Says here Gonzalo's wife Piedad and son
Andres washed nearey West day after his m*rder.
Wanna double-check thastory
along with this cousin.
Find out what Gonzalo
s doin on that field.
I'll s what the agent remembers.
Guy makeit all the way from
Cuba,ends up ad in an alley.
Oh,Cun Pete's all over this one.
Yeah,well... I'm lf Puerto Rican.
Maybe the doer's Puerto Rican.
All right,everybody,listen up!
Sign-up sheet for the annual softball
game against the fire department.
We won't get hosed
like we did last year.
To that end,they got a ringer in Patrol.
The guy is unhtable.
- Been a rule change this year: mandated coed tes,so...
- Sounds good.
Sign me up.
Can you catch?
Hell,yeah,I can tch.
You w like a girl?
Yodance likea white guy?
l right,pencil ya in alternate: bench.
You throw like girl?
- ya
- catch?
- Not so m
- All righou're our catcher.
And you're riding bitch with
me all the way to U City.
Located the victim'sife,Piedad Luque.
All right.
Seya later,Mom.
Me su youake the bus back.
I don't wanna hear about
you cutting through the park.
Okay.
Andres,n ac
Please,sit.
Does Andres know thrcumstances
around father's death?
No.
I ver believed what they said
Gonzalo was doing in that partf town.
He was a family man.
Wondering how nzalo could leave
you anyour son back in Cuba.
had no choice.
None of this would have haened ifhey
dn't takenaseball away from him.
Who's "the?
The Cuban gornment.
They said he and some other players
had contact with aAmerican sports agent.
That agent Jaime Reyes?
Yes.
ter the ban,it was a nightmare.
No money,no food,no friends.
That why Gonzalo left,toake a new start?
Hardest decision of his life,but once
he'd ma it,the was no turning back.
And that was it.
The last time I saw him.
You had plans to join him?
When the time was right.
Hell of a raft trip.
Would ha done anything to s him again.
You stay itouch with
him when he got to Plly?
It wasn't easy.
Our phone calls were
monitored; letters opened.
He mention any pblemto you?
No.
Juan said Gonzalo was very excited
we would be joing him in America...
- Juan,his cousin
- Yeah,he was my co.
But Gonzalito was more
like... like my little brother.
I came to-to America... two
months before he was k*lled.
RUSH Juan,where were you
the nit Gonzalo was k*lled?
You guys are not Internal Revenue,huh?
I was,uh,I was removing asbestos,off
the bo at Liberty Towers.
I worked my way up since then.
You ever go to that old sandt
near Lancaster Avenue withzalo?
Lancaster Avenue?
Yeahlot of pickup baseball gam there.
Familiar with it?
Not that one.But Gonzalito--
he-he loved baseball.
He would see a game and... stop to ask if
he could He always had s uipment with him.
Ishis Gonzalo's t?
No,not Gonzalo's.
It's too heavy.
Heas a contact hitter.
He could put the ball anywhere.
You kn anybody with those initials?
No.
You play ball?
A littleCu.
Pero olv^date-- when I
got here,it was all work.
Did u happen to
see Gonzalo the day hdied?
I was busy working.
He wasraining hard.
tting ready for spring
traing in October?
It what he loved.
Couldn't believe all thengs
this country had given him.
Oye,taff that garbage,huh?
Mira.
Takehat u wa,primo.
- Primo...
- It's all yours.
Oye,can've you looking
fresh off the boat.
You hungry?
You see this one?
This one's rerved for the day
that Cuba's free of its oppressor.
May it be on... and may it be inful.
en.
Juan de la Cruz,weome tohe
land the Yankee imperialistas!
Traid_r...!
uting in Spani
I still have that champagne.
It won't be e sa when can finally opeit.
On my father's side.
I was born here,though.
Heo?ChGringa.
No how much money did Gonzalo
stake when heot called up,an?
Gonzo made seven dollara
month playing baseballn Cuba.
He had no idea about milons.
His,uh,ant managed everything.
Jaime Reyes?
And his.agent manad hiney,t?
After he d*ed,Reyes ied to screw
Piedad ouof what money was left.
Detectives.
Bourbon water?
No.,uh,we have so questions about
yo former client Gonzalo Luque.
ke to Gonzalo'sidow.
She said it was your contact with hithat
got him banned om baseball in Cuba.
I offed him freedom
ana better way of life.
And what'd you offer
his widow after he d*ed?
Evhing Gonzalo had left,which
wasn't muc He did what they all do:
fancy cars,niceloth,jewelry.
We understand you managed his ney.
I run a ll-svice
agency.There's a problem?
His widow thought e should've
been more of that money left over.
Piedad never quite
grasped the probate proces
Exactly how much did she grasp?
Lay the money out for us,ime.
I'm gonna have to find Gonzalo's
cords.It cou take a day two.
I put everything in off-site storage
when we moved to our new offes.
Well,you've done quite well forourself.
I started with a desk in my garage.
Cun players are good for business.
Well,now,yeah,but..
Gonzalo was my first.
With his skills in today's market,forget
it,you're talking about top-of-league money.
Watch this.Watch this.
("Que Bueno Baila Usted" playing)
Savage,Gonlo,savage!
It's hard r a guy like that to see someone
who's beenouched by the basall gods.
- Who s he-
Eric Hynes--
he got ded to right field
to make room for Gonzalo.
That's him on theht.
This Hes emake it to the bigs?
No.
No,he popped a domestic asslt crge.
And heas arrested for waving
a g*n around in a nighlub.
Ericowtime" Hynes.
Showtime?
same inials on the bat.
Nothing ke having a signed mder apon.
Hell,ah,I mber Gonz.
Boy had wheels in center field.
Shame he got k*lled like that.
k*lled like w?
Messing ere he wasng.
You mean the Badlands or
that sandlot by Lancaster Avenue?
You tryings me up or something?
You're still on obation.
Getting ready to start a hitting clinic.
Pass on my techniq to
disadvantaged youths.
Oh,domestic as*ault oug to
go er big witbaseball moms.
Yeah,why don't you give us some pointe
on... how you take out your competitime.
Where'd you get thattick?
At the cri scene.
The giveaway..
the "ST" right here.
Technically,"showtime's"
one word,Einstein.
May time to change ur name to
Jailtime,just to get a jump on things.
I gave that him.
Toim he could grow into it.
You and Gonz buried the hatchet.
That's rht.
To tell you the truth,I
alwayselt a little guilty when..
heard they thought he was uptown
loing for a littleomething something.
u introduce him to some of yr bahabits?
Na NahGonz was a pret straight arrow.
I just showed him how to roll.
Hey,Ha.
Want a nippl for that
Cuba Libra nursing there?
We call it a mentira.
Translation,Havana.
It's a l.
Cuba's not lie.
Hey,how abo that?
That's Marisol.
Mm,she's bringing it tonight!
You want to take a cut at that,Papa?
NoI'm okay.
Uh,no,you ain't.
What youeed a dip in the Caribbean.
What's up,E?
Hey,Marisol,Masol!
I want y to et my man herfrom Havana.
Gonzalo.
Marisol.
Yeah,nzalo here is fresh ohe boat; he
needs someone to talk to him in his nattong.
Oh,my man!
Masol an eor the guys who
were gonna pull down the corn.
You know he had a and kid back in Cuba?
He never told me about that.
Gonz was real lonely.
Marisol helpelieve him of some
of tt loliness on a nightly basis.
You see them together
before Gonzalo was k*lled?
I don't exactly recall.
How abou
How about me wt?
Where were you the nighGonz
got k*lled,Octobe ?
Fall of ' .. I was patrling
center field for the ipei Gida.
Had a nice ltle run ov there in
Taiwan.. till I snapped a hammy.
Son of a bitch!
There he goesgain,diespecting
the fuhings.
I st my ringer.
Turns out thguy's wife fothose fire-dousing ferries,and
she reated to cut him off if he pitches for us.
Slow or fast pitch?
Slow.
played a little beer league.
Called me the Goldenrch.
Let's see it,Mickey D
Ready?
We'lsee you on the fie.
Marisol,yr name came
up in an investigation.
GonzalLuqu
Like a decade ag I've moved on.
Heard you had a thing for ballplayers.
In o line of work,we getadge bunnies.
Not intoops.
Too controlling.
Th's a shame.
Gonzalo another notch on youbedpost?
Okay,what is this about?
Your boyfriend's d dead,d you
don't come forward withnformation.
He wasn't my boyfriend.
Well,then,maybe another player in your ster took
eeption to the hours you were keeping with Gonzalo.
I told you we wen't
together whe was k*lled.
It was complated.
Uncomplicate it for usthen
Broke my rule... and fell for the guy.
How come every time I asyou about
them,you chge the subject,mm?
You know how things are over there.
I... wto know ab family.
Andrito looks just like you.
I write,I call.
She's being careful.
- Things are not so for her
- What?
She... she with soonelse?
She filed for die.
nzalito,what did you expect?
I'm losing myselhere,primo.
- I need to get my son bac
- No,no,no,Andrecito just a kid.
It-is todangerous.
Nothing is impossible here Juan.
I'm gonna do what have
to do to see my son.
He had this wholother
life I didn't know about.
ey split up,but he wanted
to get his son back.
He still needed her to bring him ove
Not what I signeup for.
That's when I knew it was over.
right.
AgenScarcelli's faxing
me Piedad's INS fil
Maybe shede light on what happened
in Cuba between Piedad Gonza.
must haveeen a pretty convincinguy,get her
chaperone his son across the Flori Straits.
It still a ticket out Cuba.
Can't say I blame her.
Evereen?
Nope.
n't you want to see it fore
there's a Starbuc on eve corner?
I'll lea thato the tourists and
hipsters sporting Che T-shirts.
I know t much abouwhatpens there
sip mimosas poolside in Havana.
Got something?
me see Gonzalo's immigration file.
Sunburneand blistered.
Look like she spent a week
at sea the way Gonzald?
Not on a raft,she didn't.
More like vernightpeedat
ride,point-to-pnt.
Divorce wasn't the only
thing Piedad was lying about.
How wait you got to America,Piedad?
I to you already.
You also told us you
re married to Gonzalo.
Failed to mention that you
filed for divoback iCuba.
Neighborho spies were watch.
The divoe made it
easier for us to escape.
Orbe u were pissed off 'cause he ditched you,ca
to Amica,gotic and dipp into who knows what?
No.
Whenonzalootpended from baseball
in Cuba,it destroyed him.
He had to e.
But you divorced him after efected.
had no choice.
When Gonzalo came to
America,thgovernmenthreated take our house.
I was protecting Andres.
Divorce meant survival.
We're trying to solve your
hband's m*rder,but you keep lyto u
You look pretty good for
just coming off a raft,Piedad.
If you tel aga how you brought your
two-year-old on a -mile raft trip,
Andres is gonna comeome to see
his mom being hauled awain cuffs
- I s af...
- Of what?
nzalo... Hello?Hello?
Gonzalo we to see this man.
In M?
No.
He was in Philadelphia.
He arranged the whole thing?
Yes.
You thinthis man ki your husband?
Yes.
We need name,Piedad.
All I have is my son.
They already took Gonzalo.
- You want tbe safe?
- Yes.
You makehis ght d tell us
who did this to Gonzalo.
The men caed h "Oz That's all I know...
intrecycling?
Nope.
But an old CI of mine
is.Goes by lifford.
- Dog
- As in bired As in ite boy with dreads.
Guy's a walking Ghettoages of
the iegal import/export biz in Py.
He colle can on theide?
Sells to the addts after
they get their returnable mey.
- Enterprising
- Yo,Clifford!
They t to do me liodney King!
Shut it,Cliord.
If I stroke out,the last thing
I gon do is sh**t your dumb a!
Yo,blue I ain'holding.
That's good 'cause we ed a na,Clford.
Oh,snap!
You looking tight,baby girl.
- Didn't know it was you.
- Calle "baby gi" again.
I apologize for triculating.
Cliffords at your service.
Guy's name is Oz.You heard of him?
You trying tsee the
Wiza?Why didn't ya say so?
(rio playing "Mil ngojas")
Here to see the Wizard.
Grab t rack.
Come on.
many Le n.
Take a walk.
Comen.Sit down.
Cafecito?
We're here about Gonzalo Luque.
You smuggled his family out of Cuba.
I don't evwn a boat.
Fence,mport/export contrand,'cause I'm guessing
fluff n' fd ain't the on thing youe into.
I'm a legitimate busiman.
I'a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Reprenti wha the llip Guild?
I'd hate to disrupt
your busineshere,Osmany.
Screw up your cash
flow,dingr name on the street.
You gonna shut me down?
Okay.
Or you could tell us why you held Gonzalo's wife and
ki in a motel room in Miami till hme up with more cash.
It's important to give
back to the community.
Reite families.
Long as they pay the freight charge.
Sounds like Gonzal
had a proble paying up.
Bish to D .
Mate in two.
Nice.
I'calling ine cavalry.
Have 'em toss th place.
Gonzalo Lue an had mutual interests.
He wanted to get his family back
and I wanted to send a message.
Tranquilo.
I diwhat I was told paid my money,and
now you tell mehere was a proem?
These are thople at your frie
arranged for me to pick up.
Piedad and Ares.
And...
no,no.
- Whe army pents
- You know tho two?
Teammates back in Cuba.
Look,this is stake.
I paid for my family!
That's right.
, was the family diount.
Ballplayers ara prm.
Reyes never to me about these plers!
ll,that makes two of us,Gonzalo.
You tell Reyes I need another K.
I want my family!Desgraciado!
ame.I get my money and
you get your wife and n ck.
The rest i een you and yo agent.
buenosoches,Gonzalo!
Gonzalo nted to
reunited with his family.
I respecat.
But Gonzalo thought Res was
nna get his enre family over.
We were both being gamed.
yes up with the mon?
That same night.
d I kept my wo.
I released nzalo's wife and son.
Who weresese pyers?
I like to look at the box scores.
Lots of interestg information.
Those are some b nes.
Gonzalo go to see Reyes?
uldn'tou?
*******
I'm in the middle of something here.
Yeah,you were.
This guy takes a whole
lot more than ten percent.
Please!
Butch,give me five minutes,okay?
Signed for $ d $ million apie.
That's tidmmissi.
They were worth it.
Worth having Gonzalo's wife
and kid held for ransom?
That's it.I'm llinmy attorney.
y?Oy thyou need tory about
right now is immratitionlatis.
But we'lleavthat up to the feds,huh?
Unless you k*lled him.
LookGonzalo wanted his famie.
I said to him that I
was gonna ke care of it.
I didn't want higetting
mixed up in thatess.
you mixed hiup real good,but
ycouldn'tool thgreat and powerful Oz.
I was gonna it...
By stealg Gonzalo's moneto
smuggle prs out of Cuba
Big leag talent.Can sewhy
you waed those players so bad.
Baseball playersre a
prized possession totro.
By liberating them,I stick
it to that bearded bastard.
You'reeal eedom fighter.
Using Gonzo's account
to stake your littleire.
Only one problem,Reyes.
You got caught.
I didn't k*ll Gonzalo.
But he wanted to kl me
I trusted you,Jaime.
Yore lking at this the wrong way.
Hoelse am I pposed ook at it,huh?!
My wife ansoe being held hostage
and parents are still in Cub
Don't worry about it.We'll get 'et.
And I'm gonna cut you in on the deal.
ong.cutting you out.
You fix this,and then wre done.
Come on,Gonzalo.Gonzalo,don't.Come
on,Gonzalo.
I got a scout coming.He's
going to try out your cousin.
We're goa make it work
I tried to tell Gonzal but
he didn'want to hear it.
I put the money back in his account.
His cousin Juan-- what did
he have to do with this?
Juan w the first C player
ever tried to contact.
His fastball used to
top off at -plus.
His change-up
was a de-cleater.
- Used to?
- Yeah,
by the time he came
over,guy had lost it.
But Gonzalo ided Juan.
k hands.
ce.
Checked out Juan's
story.Got some major holes.
Starting with his immigration file.
See,Juan was on Gonzalo's raft.
Wet-foot/dry-foot.
Gonzalo reaches dry land-- stay Juan gets arrested
in the water,sent back to Cuba the same day.
Bet you thatas warm homecoming.
months later,Juan takes
anoth raf Lands on Key Largo.
Picked up along with five oer
rafters begging fowate at a tbar.
That and Juan's alib has got
many holes as softbalteam.
Where'd you sa u we working again?
Thday Gonzals k*lled?
Liberty Towers.Construction a security.
I spoke to your boss.Said you were
working a jobsite off Lancaster Ave.
Next to the lo where Gonzalo was lled.
Esprate... you think I kied him?
Gonzalito was li my brother.
Didn't py just a "little"
ball in Cuba,either,Juan.
You pl with your cousin
inhe Cuban League.
Right with the Induss.
What did they call you?
- The cannon.
Must have d a hell of a fastball.
Till you and Gonzalo were
banned from playing in Cuba.
You were w Gonzalo on that raft.
Gonzalo made i to dry land.
u didn't.
Got yourepation order from immigtion.
April , .
Gonzalo got stay.They sent yoback.
You went bk to Cuba a traitor.
They tew you in prison,Juan.
This is my grandfather
d his older brother.
Thvolution split 'eup.
One to Philly,the
other to Castro's jails.
Decades go by.
My grandfaer ts word om
Cuba his brothes dead.
A month later,my abue's ne.
From what?
heart att*ck.
My father,workstiff
said,"His heartidn't stop.
It broke
What happens in ba stays with us.
I know what they do to
traitors in prison,Juan.
Ballplays?
Theyripple 'em.
Put u back out on the
reet,as a warning the others.
It isn't jt a game,is i Jua
If I would have ju made it
that day-- on the beach...
You'd be playing baseball right now.
Gonzalo would still be alive
All th time,we couldn't figure out
why his dy was moved from tt sandlot.
Then wrealized,Epispal'ly
a few ocks away.
Yowent to gethe car.
u were trying to get
yourousin to a hospital.
was trying to sa him.
Wenow you didn't mean
totourt your cousin.
You just... lost control.
We're trying to help you here,Juan.
Heidn't make it.
Eso,eso!Juan.
y.
Ca_n is resurrected!
I heard thcann from the
car,and I had to hit something!
What hapned?
In Miami?
- SO
- ye,primo,congratulati
No.Res screweme.
That son of a bitch-- he gave my
parents' spots a couple of ballplayers.
Hehoug I was stupid,but took
care of it,gogorid of him.
You did at?
I firehim.
Reyes was gonna t me tryt.
Scouts were gonna...- Hermano,I'll
get youhe tryout and scouts.-
When they see your fastball...
Hey,man,you know what?
This iyour firstout righnow.
Now,got to give me th canno Co on.
I know you got it,man.
Juan?
You okay?
You need to warm up more.
row more pches,man.
It's just that you don'tw.
Don't know what?
You don't know whatdid to me over there.
I'll pitch to eh?
Hey,uan,man.
- I can't.
- Yes,you can!
Mira,primo,no importa.
Don't worry about,huh?
- I'll take care of,alrigh
- What are young to take care of?
Miamilia?
My parents?
Primo.
If it wasn't for me,you
wouldn'tven be here.
Juan,what are you lking about?
I built that raft!
I know tt.
To get us here.
I know.
To get us he!Us!
They sent me back.
- Everhing's gonna be okay now,Jua
- No,it's not!
It's not.
You nt to know what they dido me in th
Every timehey broke my
arm,they laugh at me.
Se re^an de m^!
We g a single,and got a triple!
And we got a home run!
- Juan... Juan.
- They took arm
They took my arm away!
I haveothi.
I have n!I have nothing.
No tengo nada!
Primo,no tengo nad... Prim Primo?
Gonzalito?
Gonzalito!Primo.
Primo.Primo.Primo.Primo.Primo.Primo.
Somebody help me!
Primo. Primo. Primo. Primo...