10x13 - The Ghost in You

[bunniefuu]

Sergeant.

Been a while. Keeping safe?

Still here.

You good, Jimmy?

- Another day in paradise.
- Yeah.

[SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC]

♪

Al.

[PHONE BUZZES]

Right.

[SIGHS]

Counselor, Counselor,
it's called moving on.

Okay, this is me hanging up.

[CLEARS THROAT] Ugh.

Agg robbery offender trying to
walk back a very generous plea.

No good deed.

Thanks for coming in.

So what am I doing here?

Since you're a fan of small talk...

Arturo Morales.

- You know him?
- Indie dealer.

Runs half the West Side coke.

And he's also a k*ller.

, we had him
on a drug conspiracy charge.

His money launderer flipped.

- Yeah, I remember.
- We got him in...

Money launderer Tom Villar

disappeared at start of the trial.

Case imploded.

Yeah, it did.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Narcotics has kept me looped in
on any Morales leads.

Domestic v*olence victim just informed

on her boyfriend, Pedro Veloz.

Okay.

He's a suspected courier for Morales.

She says he's sitting on
kilos of pure, uncut cocaine.

Hmm.

Just waiting on delivery orders.

I'm hoping Intelligence
will take this over.

Yeah.

It's not my call to make.

Deputy Supe's already on board.

I wanted to clear it with you.

Look, I...

I'm not in the business of
pulling cases from Narcotics.

Narcotics won't mind.

Cleared it with them too.

- Why?
- What do you mean?

Chicago's full of high priority targets.

Not ones who m*rder*d my informant.

And where's the girlfriend?

She took off to Miami.

She's terrified.

This Pedro gentleman
broke three of her ribs.

There anything else I should know?

That's it.

Just please go get this son of a bitch.

All right, send over everything you got.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
You know it's bona fide.

Trust me, I got
the best seats in the house.

I'm watching Pedro right now
loading up these boxes.

Got to be the product.

Uh-huh.

I mean, but you tell me.

Whatever you wanna cook, I'ma eat.

I ain't ate all day.

Girl, dig.

When Pedro leaves,
let's parallel and anticipate.

Remember, we wanna catch Morales

taking control of the dope.

Uh-huh.

Keep wide.

Right.

Right, right, right.
No, man, we on the way.

You just give me a time and a place.

Okay, now we got a g*n.
Look alive. There's a w*apon.

Look alive. There's a w*apon.

He's getting in the truck right now.
Here we go.

♪

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

[SIREN WAILING]

What the hell?

- , mobile with - ,
what are you rolling on?

We're en route to a robbery in progress.

We're out in front of you on
a covert moving surveillance.

We cannot spook this guy.

k*ll the lights and siren.

Copy you, we're going silent.

We'll break off, go on Ogden.

God damn it.

All right, Pedro's taking off.
He's headed north toward th.

[TENSE MUSIC]

Got eyes on the truck.
He's blowing through stop signs.

♪

- Okay, car...
- Oh, my God, that...

All right, truck just hit a car.

Driver, turn off the vehicle!

Keep your hands where I can see them!

Get out of the vehicle!

Ma'am?

Ma'am?

Ma'am, can you hear me?

Oh, God.

- I got you.
- Belt's stuck.

You got your Kn*fe on you?

- Eddie, crash fatality.

Roll major accidents
to Ashland and th.

Hey, that's acetone.

Get back. Get back now!

- What?
- Hailey, back out now!

Now! Hailey, come on!

Come on!

Let's go!

[CAR ALARMS BLARING]

♪

How'd you know it was acetone?

Guess I've been
to too many rerock houses.

Found Pedro's phone on the street.

Must have popped free on impact.

It's working, but it's locked.

All right, get it to the lab.

All right, let's rip Pedro's life apart.

Knowns, addresses.

Just keep it quiet.

We don't want Morales thinking
this is anything but an accident.

I'm on it.

Jesus.

- Your team okay?
- Yeah, we're good.

Pedro not so much.

The driver?

Marie Tadeo, married,
mother of two, d*ed on impact.

And no dr*gs?

Girlfriend got it wrong.

It's just cutting liquid.

[SIGHS]

Listen, Pedro's still
a good lead, dead or alive.

It's not over.

Warrants, investigators in
the field, whatever you need,

I'll get you them.

What do we know about Pedro?

Well, there's nothing in his apartment,

save for a starved cat.

- His burner is a gold mine.
- Okay.

We got a ton of coded
text messages between him

and a stolen burner,

And we got pings all the way
from El Paso to Pilsen.

It's like eight runs a month.

Yeah, I mean, Morales has
more product than he can deliver.

And he's a smart marketer.

He doesn't sell product
that's laced with fentanyl.

Really?

Dealer finally realized k*lling
customers is bad for business.

All right, so where
does Morales operate?

He's a silent partner
at this bar called Umbra.

He's there damn near every night.

Okay, what else?

He's a loner, no family, self-made man.

Freelanced with gangs.

Went from being corner boy to
DTO boss in about three years.

Yeah, he is not flashy.

He moves product
very well and very fast.

Like, he loves what he does.

But if he wants to keep that love going,

he's gonna need a new driver, though.

All right, so how'd he recruit Pedro?

Pedro did two stints at Menard,

came up broke, got a job at Umbra,

recruited him from there.

Hmm.

I'll sweep the floors, bro.

I'll do the dishes, whatever.

I'll do anything. I just need a job.

Anything.

I'll do anything.

We ain't hiring.

[SPEAKS SPANISH] Big boy.

Or drink up. [SPEAKS SPANISH]

No, mira...

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Man to man...

I just did a nickel in Danville, okay?

If I don't get a job, my PO
is gonna send me back inside.

What'd you get put
in a penitentiary for?

I trusted my brother with a getaway car.

Yeah, like, hear this, yeah?

All we needed was snow tires.

Bank robbery in a blizzard, yeah?

Wintrust on Clark... snow tires.

That's all we needed, bro.

That's all we needed.

You on D-Block?

What is that? Never heard of it.

No, I was in a three-bunk X-wing unit.

Sounds like hell.

It was, but not really, though.

Guards were b*tches there.

Like, one fat white boy guard,

he lit the cigarette three days in.

Like that.

- Sit tight.
- Thank you, bro.

What is it again?

Dante. Dante Ramiro.

Thank you, bro.

Lit the cigarette?

Yeah, Torres done did his homework.

You know, it's against the rules for
a guard to light an inmate's cigarette.

Oh, okay.

- Learn something new every day.
- Mm-hmm.

Sorry. [SPEAKS SPANISH]

Oh, that is awful.

Sweetheart, I said a double, man.

- Come on.
- Hey, don't touch the bottle.

Well, could you top me off here, please?

I asked for a double.

Hey!

- Ass clown.
- Ass clown?

- Back off her.
- [LAUGHS]

And what are you looking at, pal?

What, what am I looking at?

- Yeah.
- What am I looking at?

I guess I'm looking
at an ass clown, homey.

You got a hell of a mouth on you, pal.

Oh, do I? Yeah?

Why don't you come here
and shut it, homey?

- Say it again, man.
- What's up? Yeah!

[PATRONS LAUGHING, CHEERING]

Yeah, like that, bitch!

Like that! Like that!

You stepped in it now, boy.

- Want some more?
- Keep your eyes open.

Want some more?

- Better leave like that!
- Manny Pacquiao in the house!

- Like that.
- [LAUGHS]

Hey, drinks on me, Pac-Man.

Thank you, bro.

Hey.

You got a license?

Yeah, I do. Yeah.

Set him up.

Thank you, bro.

Hey. Morales just texted me.

He wants me to deliver a package.

- Where and when?
- In two hours.

I got a car waiting for me
in a parking lot on Pulaski.

- You run the burner?
- I ran it from MUDs and tolls.

It was activated this morning
and then shut off,

but we're getting close.

Okay, good.

All right, listen,
this might be just a dry run,

so get on the snake cam.

Keep a low profile.

We don't wanna burn this.

Come on, Hailey, you're with me.

- Copy that.
- I gotcha.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

November Eddie ,
Illinois passenger.

- Plates are fictitious.
- Hmm.

♪

Car is clean. I got a package.

All right, take a look.

Well, it ain't dope.

It's books.

It's all right.
You play along, earn his trust.

Copy.

I got an address, West Adams.

So take us there.

Address is a vacated strip mall.

♪

Door's unlocked. I'm going in.

Someone's here.

Get on the floor.

I was sent here. Okay, I'm good.

Get on the floor.

Yo, I got a reason to be here.

Shut up. Where's the package?

All right, put your ears on.
Let's get closer.

Answer me!

Answer me.

Let the storm pass, bro.

Okay, let the storm pass.

Storm, he just used the safe word.

- The package.
- I left it where I came in!

Now we're getting somewhere.

Chicago PD! Drop the g*n.

Drop it.

- Turn around.
- You okay?

- Hank?
- Mike?

Jesus. This one of your guys?
I had no idea.

What the hell are you doing here, Mike?

Working, off-book.

For who?

ASA Chapman.

♪

Okay, let's review this
once more before we

bring it to the chief judge.

- Are you able to do that now?
- Mm-hmm.

Actually, give me a minute, Gerard.

Sure.

I pulled Cortez a week ago.
I had no idea he was...

He put a g*n in my undercover's face.

I know. I'm sorry.

Cortez is retired.

- This job's all he got.
- Let me be clear.

I got no problem with Mike Cortez.

I made a mistake. I apologize.

What else do you want me to say?

The truth.

What?

th Ward alderman seat?

[TENSE MUSIC]

Is that what Mike said?
I'm doing this for politics?

My own ambition... what,
I'm using you as a puppet?

Okay, believe what you want, Sergeant.

Look.

You need to back off
and let me do my job.

Fine. Understood.

Let's just hope to God we're not blown.

♪

Hey.

The dummy drop must have worked.

Torres got another text message
from Morales

to meet tonight
at a beauty salon at : .

Beauty salon.
Okay, what do we know about it?

We know it's a family-owned
shop in Little Village

with no real connection to Morales.

It could be a cut house, stash house,
place to launder money.

Well, we'll find out. Keep digging.

Yes, sir.

How's it looking?

Not bad, Sarge.
Pretty quiet on the East End.

♪

[TAPPING]

Yo, Pac-Man.

Let's go.

- What are we doing?
- Come on, come on.

Wait, what?

- I thought we were gonna...
- Game time, niñito.

Gonna go shopping.

It's gonna be fun.

That's a rip.

♪

Okay, we're good.

- Should we move in?
- We can't.

It's too risky. Torres is unarmed.

Everybody hold.

♪

Hey, hey, hey.

Somebody's working late.

- Please!
- Get down here.

- No problem.
- [SPEAKS SPANISH]

No, no. Hey, hey, hey, I got the bitch.

- What you say?
- You sh**t her, you draw heat.

Yeah? Is that why we're here?

Yeah. [SPEAKING SPANISH]

- No.
- [SPEAKING SPANISH]

Go get that. I got her.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Hey. [WHISPERS IN SPANISH]

I'm not gonna let you
get hurt, I promise.

I got her. Here.

You're lucky I like you, Pac-Man.

- Yeah?
- Don't step like that again.

All right, all right.

All right, they're moving out.

Kim, Kev, stay wide. Adam, get in there.

Help that lady. See if she's okay.

Copy.

[LAUGHS] God, I love this job!

Let's go, let's go.

♪

You keeping this here?

For a day or so.

Till the rest is ready.

You mean the product?

Yeah, I'm meaning the product.

Think we're making Jell-O? [CHUCKLING]

Think I ain't getting
paid enough, homey.

Hey, talk to Morales, not me.

[SIRENS WAILING]

Hey, don't worry.

Half the West Side
po-po's in his pocket.

Hear that?

[SIRENS FADING]

There you go. [SPEAKING SPANISH]

Cross your heart, thank your God.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

- Damn.
- [LAUGHS]

Wait, what do you mean in his pocket?

- Morales is smart.
- Yeah?

Customer he had turned out
to be a rookie cop's girl.

Psycho junkie, but the cop was in love.

He knew it, used it,
owned that cop like a dog.

Who was the cop?

You're asking me a lot of questions.

[LAUGHS] Just trying to learn, homey.

It's all chill, bro.

That cop is long gone.

But it doesn't stop there, bro.

You want a lesson?

Find a good secret
of someone you're gonna need.

Hold on to it.

Like what?

Back in ' , 'Rales was jammed up good

on some trafficking charges.

But this white bitch
prosecutor saved his ass.

Saved him how, though?

Secrets, secrets, secrets.

Without her,
'Rales would be dining tonight

with a plastic spoon and a sore ass.

[BOTH LAUGH]

If that's the kind of thing that's...

Is he talking about Chapman?

Must be.

Why would Chapman put us
on Morales if she was dirty?

Doesn't add up.

♪

How you doing?

Hank Voight, Intelligence.

What'd you guys go with?

CB and pastrami. Never fails.

We're all done here
if you want the table.

Actually, I wanna borrow
Officer Gant for a minute.

Is that okay?

You can keep him.

I love you, too, Lopez.

I'll see you out there.

Sergeant.

So how can I help you?

, you were on a protective detail.

Informant was Tom Villar.
It was the Morales case.

Villar disappeared from the safe house.

I thought we put that
to bed a long time ago.

Villar, he snuck out the window...

I'm not here
to point fingers, understand?

All right.

Look, I read your logs.

ASA Chapman visited Villar
times in two weeks.

I wouldn't know.

I was just trying to
protect the witness.

Mm.

I gotta get back out there. Sorry.

Hey, Bob. Bob.

Sit down.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Please, sit down.

Okay.

Something went down
with Chapman on that case.

You know what happened.

- I don't.
- Bob.

Whatever it is,

if you come clean with me,
I will have your back.

♪

She spent the night at the safe house.

You were there?

I did the math.

And that's why Villar snuck
out the night you lost him.

He was going to see Chapman.

Yeah.

♪

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

Sergeant?

It's late. Everything all right?

I needed a sec.

Yeah. Come on in.

You want something to drink?

No.

How well did you know Tom Villar?

How'd you find out?

It's true?

Yes.

He was your informant.

Yeah, I know.

And anything you wanna say to me,

I've already said to myself.

They don't teach you to screw
your star witness at law school.

I'm well aware of every
single line I crossed.

I was just gonna ask you what happened.

I had just been up
to first chair, -hour days.

I had murderers spitting
on me in the morning,

weeping victims hugging me at night.

I was single, I was stressed.

Lonely.

- Yeah.
- Okay.

We spent a lot of long nights

going over evidence, prepping.

[PENSIVE MUSIC]

He was a decent man, good.

He ended up working for Morales
because he was trying

to pay off his brother's drug debts.

[PHONE BUZZING]

Sorry. Keep going.

It was reckless and stupid,
but he made me laugh.

Made it okay to have
a g*dd*mn emotion, you know?

Spend every waking hour
shutting them off

so I can do this job, do it well.

And I... I was different with him.

♪

I'll resign.

No, you don't have to do that.

I'm not planning on telling anyone.

Why?

Look, I gotta go.

Okay? I'll loop you in with updates.

♪

Hi, what's up, Torres?

Yeah, Lonzo just called me.

He's bringing the acetone
to a car repair shop

on the West Side.
He wants me there in an hour.

What about Morales?

He said he's coming too.

It's gotta be the cut house. I know it.

Okay, get on a pin cam.

We need everything we can to put Morales

with that amount of dope.

Yes, sir.

You got an address?

West Grand.

All right, good work.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Hey, careful, ese.

Stop bouncing around, bro.

So, uh, what, Morales comes here

and inspects this
when we're done or what?

Just stick to the job, Pac-Man.

He'll be here when he gets here.

Three hours in. Where is this guy?

Kev, any sign of Morales?

No, we ain't got nothing
but some big-ass rats, Sarge.

♪

That's a lot of dope.

How much you think?

million minimum.

if they get greedy.

Enough for years.

All right, load them up.

We got four hungry crews waiting.

What about Morales?

What about him?

Is he coming?

I wanna show him I can do this.

He got busy.

Don't worry, I'll tell him you did good.

♪

We can't let this much dope walk.

Our only play is to bust Lonzo,
get him to flip.

What's up?

Are we moving?

All right, move in.

Take down Torres. Do not blow his cover.

♪

Chicago PD, put your hands up!

Put them up! I said, put your hands up!

Nowhere to go. Drop the bricks.

Put those hands up now.
Get up against the car.

- All right.
- Stay right there.

- Don't you move.
- All right, I got him.

I'll bring him in.

Log all this.
Handle that second offender.

Where are you taking me?

st District.

If you're smart, you'll work with us.

ASA Chapman gonna be there?

- Who?
- Nah, nah, don't play me.

I ain't stupid.
You all love to think that

criminals are stupid, but we're not.

I know if you're here, there's a reason.

You ain't after me.

You're after Morales,
and if you're after Morales,

I know why, 'cause that
little bitch is obsessed.

Shut up.

This way.

We're here.

Let me talk now or what?

Sit down.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Talk.

Your bitch was screwing her informant.

- I know she's why I'm here.
- Hmm.

Like I said, I ain't stupid.

One call to my lawyers,
and that woman's fired.

Every case she's ever tried,

every case PD's ever filed with her...

everyone involved, they all look dirty.

This case you got on my boss blows up,

and I walk right on out of here.

And you think people
are gonna believe you?

An ex-con looking
at trafficking charges?

I think they will.

You think they will.

Isn't that why I'm down here

with no cameras, no witnesses?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

I guess you are kind of a smart guy.

Does Morales know?

No.

Morales is nothing but the job.
He'd bury me in a heartbeat.

- Kept the secret for myself.
- Mm.

So how did you know
she was sleeping with him?

I'm not gonna tell you that, am I?

Lonzo.

The only way you would know that

is you were watching that safe
house the night he disappeared.

♪

You were there the night he was k*lled.

Smart guy.

Kev, get everyone up here.

Copy that.

Where's Lonzo?
He's not in the interview room.

- Did he roll on Morales already?
- No.

And we're not using him for that.

What?

He won't implicate Morales.

You have him on kilos.

He is not rolling.

We're gonna get Morales another way.

He knows?

It doesn't change anything.

It does.

He will expose you.

We've got evidence
to bury Lonzo today, now.

- We can get him to flip on this.
- You will be disbarred.

I don't need your protection, Hank.

I made my choices. I'll live with them.

And this case will get thrown out.

Not necessarily. I'll take that risk.

Just give me hours.

Hank.

hours.

Let me get him another way.

Look, if I don't, then do what you want.

All right, here's where we're at.

Lonzo is not gonna flip.

So with his number two in custody,

Morales will likely go dark.

I think our best bet is to get Morales

for the m*rder of Tom Villar.

All right, new evidence
has come to light.

I think Lonzo was involved.

Working theory is in ,

Morales discovered Villar's safe house.

Lonzo kept eyes.

He saw Villar sneak out
and scooped him up.

We have evidence of that?

Not yet.

But Lonzo was either the sh**t

or he delivered Villar to Morales.

And Morales wasn't in bracelets?

No.

Judge set a bail at $ million.

Morales paid.

He was out.

So dig into Lonzo June of .

Go through old case files,
re-interview witnesses.

Dig like hell.

We're on a clock.

Let's go.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

That's a zero on bus cams.

No Lonzo on any of them.

♪

Wait.

Does anybody else have a Daniel Pereda

in Lonzo's last knowns?

Who's that?

This dude that paid
Lonzo's bond in .

Lonzo got arrested for a DUI.

Daniel Pereda is Lonzo's
third cousin, clean sheet.

He teaches at Juarez Academy.

Yeah, but he also has a tax return

from a construction company.

- He worked there on weekends.
- ?

Yeah, he was working
on a parking garage in Pilsen,

Madison and Kostner.

That's half a mile from the safe house.

Right.

Were they laying a new foundation?

♪

So your cousin, Lonzo?

Look, I keep telling you guys.

I haven't talked to Lonzo in years.

Right, why is that?

What's was this about?

.

Construction site that you worked at.

First week of June, .
We talked to the foreman.

Y'all laid concrete
feet below the street.

You all right there, Daniel?

You look like you're gonna be sick.

No.

Lonzo know where you're working?

You guys take a drive there one night?

- I think I will...
- Whoa, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel.

Mm-mm.

Right now, you are not in any trouble.

But you gotta start talking, okay?

Lonzo, did he call you
for help one night?

Is that what happened?

- Yes.
- Okay, good.

All right, you just
keep telling the truth.

We're gonna protect you
'cause it sounds like

you got pulled into something bad here.

I didn't know.

I swear, I didn't know.

You didn't know. You didn't know what?

He...

He had a body in the trunk.

♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪

Sergeant.

Thanks, Bill.

M.E. says the remains
are five years old.

COD was a b*llet
to the back of the skull.

♪

That's Tom's.

[CRYING]

Tell me everything.

His right arm,
three fingers were broken.

He was beaten.

We recovered a Browning -mil,

which is a g*n we know Morales likes.

There's blood splatter on the handle.

If Morales did the b*ating,
his hand might have been cut.

It might be his blood on the g*n.

Let's get that to the lab.

Already on the way.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Chicago PD, let me see your hands.

Do you have a warrant?

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪

Lonzo just made a very good deal.

He knew Morales would bury him.

Your name won't come out.
I made sure of it.

You all right?

- Honestly, no.
- Yeah.

Closure... what a joke.

I owe you, Hank, for everything.

Mm-mm.

Why did you do it?

You could have let me resign.
You should have let me.

I know what this job can do to you.

I've seen a lot of good people break.

A lot.

You needed someone.

♪

You know, before we met, I heard

all of these stories about you.

"He's dirty.

He's cruel."

But you're decent.

Some of those stories are true.

Are you still that man?

I don't know. I don't think about it.

The man doesn't think about it.

Can I buy you a drink, Hank?

I owe you that much.

Maybe some other time.

♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[WOLF HOWLS]