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Castle Season 2 Episode 15

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00:00There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people, psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:05I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:07I'm Rick Castle.
00:08Castle.
00:09Castle.
00:10I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:12Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:14Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett. Nicky Heath.
00:17The character he's basing on you.
00:18And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:21I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:23And together we catch killers.
00:25Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:27Turner and Hooch.
00:28You do remind me a little of Hoot.
00:50Tell me, Sia, what do I hold in my hand now?
00:54You're holding...
01:02A wallet.
01:03Yes! Incredible! Ten out of ten!
01:06What's going on?
01:07Graham's teaching me how to read minds.
01:09And she is a natural. Much better than you were at her age.
01:12And I'm very proud. Why this sudden foray into the mysterious rooms?
01:16It's a genealogy project for school. Half of the assignment is to collect stories from family members.
01:21I had no idea that Graham Spokes had a mind reading act on Coney Island.
01:25No, they were very famous in that day.
01:27I love all their codes. How tell me means wallet and reveal to me means a pair of glasses.
01:33Yes. You come from a long line of hucksters and charlatans. Myself included.
01:37But we have high hopes for you.
01:42That must be Beckett.
01:44How did you know?
01:46It's after ten. On a weekday.
01:48Who else is it gonna be?
01:50Oh, she is good.
01:52Brilliant.
01:53Castle?
01:55I knew it was you.
01:56Victim of his Hispanic male. Mid-thirties.
01:59Local spotted him when he was out walking his dog around 10.30.
02:02His wallet's missing.
02:03If it was a robbery, I bet my week's salary that the killer didn't know who was wrong.
02:08You ID'd him without a wallet?
02:10Unfortunately.
02:11You know the guy?
02:12Everybody in New York knows the guy.
02:15Canovega. The baseball player.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Canovega? Are you sure?
02:20He was my first round draft pick in my fantasy league three years running.
02:23314 batting average, four gold gloves, and one championship ring.
02:31I almost caught one of his homers once.
02:33He just came to the States from Cuba, and my dad took us out to the bleachers over at Shea.
02:37I didn't know you were a baseball fan.
02:38It's genetic. On my dad's side.
02:41He's been taking me to games since I was three.
02:43Yeah, mine too.
02:45What about you, Castle?
02:46Your dad a baseball fan?
02:48I really can't say.
02:49Castle is famously fatherless.
02:51Were you adopted or something?
02:52No.
02:53Then how do you...
02:54It's complicated.
02:55It's not that complicated.
02:57Someone used his head for batting practice.
02:5936 ounces to the back of the head.
03:01By the look of the spatter, he was hit multiple times.
03:04Time of death?
03:05From his temperature, I'd say two, maybe three hours at the most.
03:09What's with all this bruising?
03:10Post-mortem.
03:11From the balls.
03:12Pitching arm.
03:13Ran for a while until he was dead.
03:15So, you'd think a guy like Cano Vega would have a batting cage in his basement.
03:19What would he be doing in a sketchy neighborhood in Spanish Harlem at this hour of the night?
03:25Maybe because it's Cano Vega Field.
03:27Local uniforms said they'd built it for the community.
03:30Wanted to give something back.
03:31So, our killer hit him from here.
03:35And he got blood on his shoe.
03:38Have CSU run a sweep.
03:39See if anything tracked outside of the field.
03:41Alright.
03:42So, your dad.
03:44What is it?
03:45Mama Mia thing?
03:46Early 70s?
03:47Free love?
03:48Yeah, I bet your mom was kinda wild back in the day.
03:51You really need to stop talking now.
03:53Sorry.
03:54Dad.
03:55A big athletic guy is swinging a two and a half foot club.
04:04He couldn't have been that easy to kill.
04:06Unless he didn't see you coming.
04:08On behalf of the Vega family, I want to thank all of Cano's loyal fans for their love and support.
04:14In this time of great sadness, we ask that you please respect his family's privacy.
04:19Mr. Fox, who else?
04:2012 years of marriage.
04:22All they want from me is a sound bite.
04:24I'm very sorry about your loss, Mrs. Vega.
04:26Do you know why he'd be in the park last night?
04:29Sometimes he'd go there to blow off steam, but...
04:32Becket, Mr. Castle, Tommy Zane, Cano's old teammate.
04:35It'd be hard to be a New Yorker, not no freight train Tommy Zane.
04:38So, you guys got any leads?
04:39We're looking into it.
04:41Mr. Zane, you said that Mr. Vega was at your club last night.
04:44Our club, actually.
04:45Cano and I owned it with a couple of other players.
04:47Do you know about what time?
04:48Dropped by about 7, left about 7.30.
04:51I didn't really see him.
04:52I was with a friend.
04:53Excuse me.
04:55Yeah.
04:56Mrs. Vega, do you know of anyone who would have wanted to hurt your husband?
04:59It used to be everybody loved him.
05:01Especially in the Cuban community.
05:03What changed?
05:04The trip.
05:06A few months ago, the Cuban tourism department approached him.
05:10They wanted Cano to be the poster boy for the New Cuba.
05:13You risked your life to escape Castro's Cuba.
05:15Why would you go back to visit?
05:17While Cano was down there, the locals treated him like a hero.
05:20Their hero.
05:22At a state dinner, Castro came over and shook his hand.
05:24When he got home, his friends called him a traitor for going.
05:27Said he was a lap dog for Fidel.
05:29The same people who cheered when he built that ballpark came up and told him to go to hell.
05:32Did he get any threats?
05:33You bet he got threats.
05:35Hundreds of them.
05:37And all of them courtesy of Alfredo Quintana.
05:40Detective Bobby Fox, Cano's agent.
05:42Nice to meet you.
05:43Detective, can you do something to get those jackals and their cameras away from Mrs. Vega's house?
05:48I'll see what I can do.
05:49Thanks.
05:50Who's Alfredo Quintana?
05:51He's the guy who killed Cano Vega.
05:53Thanks, Carlos.
05:55Hey.
05:56Alfredo Quintana.
06:01J.D., PhD, and editor of Una Nueva Esperanza, a newspaper published by his foundation primarily
06:08for the Cuban community.
06:09This is his column from two weeks ago.
06:11Cano Vega must pay?
06:13The article's about how Vega betrayed the Cuban community by shaking hands with the monster
06:17who butchered thousands of their relatives.
06:19Quintana says if Vega's going to embrace the brutal regime he once escaped,
06:24he would do well to be reminded of its barbarous cruelty.
06:28Well, that sounds like a threat to me.
06:30Threat to me?
06:31I wasn't threatening him.
06:33You turned the local Cuban community against him.
06:37He turned his back on his people when he gave Castro's nod of approval.
06:40If you want me to be sorry about what I wrote because he's dead, I'm not.
06:45I wrote the truth.
06:46Are you sure that's all you did?
06:49You said it yourself in your editorial, Vega should pay.
06:51It's a free country, isn't it?
06:54I'm entitled to express my opinion.
06:56Your foundation, Cubans First, is on East 98th Street.
07:01That's three blocks away from the field where Vega's body was found.
07:05You think I had something to do with his murder?
07:07Well, the pen is mightier than the sword, but a baseball bat can be pretty effective, too.
07:12Where were you last night between 7 and 10 p.m.?
07:14I was at home with my wife.
07:16Mm.
07:17Wives make such convenient alibis.
07:19My sons were there as well.
07:22As well as my brother.
07:23Do you have anyone who wasn't blood-related?
07:26Notary, perhaps?
07:28What Conal Vega did is inexcusable.
07:33But I am not a murderer.
07:35Are you sure about that, Mr. Quintana?
07:37You incited an entire community against him.
07:40So from where I'm standing, you might not have swung that bat,
07:44but that doesn't mean that you didn't kill him.
07:49Well?
07:51We'll check his alibi, but my gut tells me it's not him.
07:54We should get a warrant.
07:55Run his subscribers against any hate mail that the Vegas might have gotten.
07:58You sure you got no cop in the castle family tree?
08:00No, us castles are mostly con artists and circus folks, sir.
08:02No, I think there's a little cop in there somewhere.
08:07Con artists and circus people, huh?
08:09Yep, and mind readers.
08:10Really?
08:11So tell me what I'm thinking.
08:14Ah!
08:15You're thinking you don't care and you want me to stop talking.
08:20Ooh, that's uncanny.
08:22It's in the blood.
08:23Yo, Beckett.
08:24Yeah?
08:25Just got back from CSU.
08:26They managed to track the blood trail from the killer's shoe across the park.
08:30It dead-ended at the curb.
08:31So our killer was driving a car?
08:33Yeah.
08:34The area was a little muddy, so we were able to pull a partial on the tire.
08:36And you make it muddle?
08:37Better.
08:38The tire marks are distinctive.
08:39They've been patched in two spots.
08:41Now those same tire tracks match a car that was tagged in an aggravated assault last year.
08:45The assault was committed with a baseball bat by one Anton Wade.
08:49Lone sharking, blackmail.
08:51Plus assault with a deadly weapon and two AMBs.
08:54Assault and batter.
08:55I know.
08:56Right.
08:57The guy's been seriously a bad dude.
08:59Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
09:00Oh, I'm sensing something here that this guy might just be our killer.
09:08Mr. Wade, we have you at the baseball field.
09:26Your car was at the crime scene, not to mention your unfortunate history of hitting people with baseball bats.
09:32All of that's enough to send you away.
09:33So, you can play dumb or you can play ball.
09:37Pun intended.
09:40All right, I was there.
09:42But I didn't kill him.
09:43He was already dead.
09:44You're just paying the corpse a visit.
09:47He called me and asked me to meet up with him.
09:49And when I got there, I knew how it looked.
09:53So I bounced the hell up out of there.
09:54Why would Vega call you?
09:56He wanted to make a payment on his loan.
09:58He always paid the same way.
09:59Cash in a plain envelope.
10:01I saw it on him.
10:02I took it.
10:03The guy's a multimillionaire.
10:05You're a petty loan shark.
10:06Well, what's he doing borrowing money from you?
10:08My business, you don't ask, you don't tell.
10:10How much money did he borrow?
10:12He came to me a couple weeks back and needed 200 grand.
10:16In my experience, if you need that kind of coin, he got himself into some real bad trouble.
10:22The kind of trouble that gets you killed.
10:25Or maybe he couldn't pay your Vig.
10:27And you pulled the little untouchables De Niro on his head.
10:30The guy owing you money, killing him ain't gonna get you paid.
10:33You take his blame, you jack him for his ride, you maybe even bust his kneecaps.
10:37But he made his last installment.
10:39Vega made his Vig.
10:41We were good.
10:43Vega's wife didn't know anything about the 200 grand.
10:47It doesn't make sense.
10:49With his assets, a guy like Cano Vega could get a loan from any bank in New York City.
10:54So why go to a loan shark for $200,000?
10:56Because bank loans take time.
10:57Loan sharks give it to you right away, maybe he needed the money fast.
11:00Maybe he needed it kept quiet.
11:02Loan sharks don't require paperwork, credit checks.
11:04Maybe he didn't want his wife to know.
11:06Vega didn't want his wife to know why he was going to Cuba either.
11:09So you think it's Tripp and the money I related?
11:11Well, a week after he gets back, he suddenly needs $200,000.
11:15Stands to reason that the two were connected somehow.
11:18Yo, we just finished a search of Wade's apartment.
11:21We found a match to the partial shoe print.
11:23Yeah, but here's the weird thing.
11:25It tested positive for blood on the sole, but negative for blood on the rest of the shoe,
11:28and negative for cleaning agents.
11:30If Wade killed Vega, then his shoe would have been covered in blood.
11:33So, Wade's telling the truth.
11:34He shows up after the murder, tracks some blood outside of the park.
11:38While the real murderer gets blood on top of his shoe and leaves little or no trail behind.
11:44Let's find out why Vega comes back from Cuba and suddenly needs $200,000.
11:47Okay.
11:48So where do you want to start?
11:50You guys look into Vega's financials, see if we missed anything.
11:53Castle and I will start with Cuba.
11:54Cuba, good idea.
11:56I'll bring the mojitos, you get the beach towels.
11:59Oh, I don't know, Castle.
12:00Me in a swimsuit under the hot, blistering sun.
12:04I'd be happy to rub lotion on you.
12:06That's okay.
12:07I was actually thinking of something a little bit more local.
12:11Like the man who arranged the entire trip to Cuba.
12:14Bobby Fox, his agent.
12:16That's a good idea.
12:18But the lotion offer still stands.
12:20No, thank you.
12:21Very soft hands.
12:25What is it with professional sports?
12:27I mean, even the agencies are on steroids.
12:29Well, Fox's client list is a veritable who's who of star athletes.
12:33Five percent of their endorsements and salaries.
12:35They could pay for half of lower Manhattan.
12:37Did you just use the word veritable?
12:39Yes, I did.
12:40Sexy.
12:41You should hear me say fallacious.
12:42Bobby Fox Agency, please hold.
12:44Can I help you?
12:45I need to see Mr. Fox.
12:46Do you have an appointment?
12:48I think you can squeeze me in.
12:50Rick?
12:51Rick Castle.
12:52Hey, Skipper.
12:54I have not seen you since the big move.
12:56How are you, Joe?
12:57Pretty awful.
12:58I just can't believe this whole mega thing.
13:01I know.
13:02It's sad.
13:03And you two were friends.
13:04I'm sorry.
13:05Yeah, he was a great kid.
13:06He had the ability to be a Cuban, Roberto Clemente.
13:09It's just been very sad.
13:10We're actually here to talk to Mr. Fox about it.
13:12This is Detective Kate Beckett.
13:14Hi.
13:15Beckett.
13:16Kate.
13:17Detective.
13:19Very nice meeting you.
13:21Well, good luck on the case.
13:23And I'll say a prayer for you guys.
13:25Thanks.
13:26By the way, say hi to mom for me, okay?
13:30Will do, Joe.
13:31Okay.
13:34Smooth.
13:35That was Joe freaking Tori.
13:37I gotta call my dad.
13:39The office is over...
13:40Yeah, his office is...
13:42He was a good guy at Cano.
13:45He built that field because he wanted to give back.
13:48I think that's why he went to Cuba.
13:50He wanted to see if he could do something good.
13:53But I guess things hadn't changed as much as he had hoped for.
13:55What happened?
13:56He had spent some time in Nevada with the people.
13:59He came back pretty upset.
14:01And he told me to give the tourism guys back their signing bonus.
14:05First time I ever let a client give money back.
14:08And I figured, you know, Cano was reneging on a military dictatorship.
14:13These are not the people you want angry at you.
14:16Especially having defected from them 18 years ago.
14:19He risked his life to leave.
14:21Why would you want him to be the poster boy for the new Cuba?
14:24Oh, I didn't.
14:26I was just as surprised as anyone that he wanted to do it.
14:29After everything I did to get him out back then.
14:31Have you heard this story?
14:32No.
14:33You're gonna like this castle.
14:35It's like one of your books.
14:36It was the 92 Olympics.
14:38The Cubans had just won gold in Barcelona.
14:41Thanks mostly to Cano.
14:43And I wanted to get him to the States to play in the bigs.
14:47Now convincing him was the easy part.
14:50Getting him onto my plane, that was the hard part.
14:53We had to get past coaches, minders, and finally...
14:59El Pulpo, head of state security.
15:03Because he had his tentacles around everybody.
15:06And just as we thought we were home free, boom!
15:10El Pulpo.
15:11We were caught, sunk.
15:13A firing squad, I kid you not, was waiting for that kid back in Havana.
15:17You know how I got us past El Pulpo?
15:20Rolex.
15:23I gave him my shiny new Rolex.
15:27And he just looked the other way.
15:30Just goes to show you every socialist is a capitalist when backs are turned.
15:34Is it possible that he took the Cuba job because he needed the money?
15:37Well, it's possible, yes.
15:39God knows those guys know how to blow through money.
15:42And plus he has that club with Tommy that's just a money pit.
15:46So in regards to the Cuba job, who else went on this trip?
15:49Well, a couple of low-level Cuban diplomats.
15:52I'll let Cynthia get you a list.
15:54So what made him go to Cuba and then what made him change his mind?
15:59Maybe Vega worked for the State Department.
16:01Maybe he was sent to shake hands with Fidel in a secret attempt to release a biotoxin into his system.
16:07Well, the Russians sprayed sushi with radioactive bologna.
16:11What's more far-fetched?
16:12Well, I just met Joe Tori, so I guess anything's possible.
16:18Beckett.
16:20Cause of death was cerebral hemorrhaging as expected.
16:23Any way to estimate the height of the attacker based on the angle of the blows?
16:27Normally, yes. But in this case, your attacker's first swing landed a little south of his head.
16:32How far south?
16:33Enough to make him a soprano.
16:36Oh.
16:37Should've won a cup.
16:39Lacerations around the patella suggest Mr. Vega was on his knees when he was hit on the head.
16:44So our attacker could've been anyone?
16:47Man, woman, or child.
16:49That's not why I called.
16:51Among all the fresh bruising, we also found significant subdermal bruises that weren't quite as fresh.
16:59The contusions were all fist-sized.
17:03He was in a fight.
17:04Couple days ago.
17:05What's this shape right here?
17:07He was wearing a ring.
17:09Not just any ring.
17:12Championship ring.
17:13Left-hand ring finger.
17:15Just like his old teammate, freight train Tommy Zane.
17:28You know, Mom's family goes all the way back to the Mayflower.
17:30What, her persecution complex is genetic?
17:32Hey, those are my genes you're talking about, too.
17:34Well, look on the bright side.
17:36Now that you know you're genetically predisposed, you can seek early treatment, prevent future outbreaks.
17:43Doesn't it bother you that you don't know who your dad is?
17:47No.
17:48Why does it bother you?
17:50It's like, I have this family tree, and there's a whole chunk of it missing.
17:54There's a whole part of my history that doesn't even exist.
17:57I mean, really, how could Graham not know?
18:00My first year of college, I, uh, went to a party.
18:03Met this girl, Allison.
18:05In the space of six hours, we met, we talked, we danced, we fell in love.
18:10The next morning, she was gone.
18:12I spent a year trying to find her, but I never learned her last name.
18:16It's not a week that goes by I don't think about her.
18:18Your Graham told me that she loved a lifetime the night she met him.
18:24Don't you feel like you're missing out not knowing?
18:26No.
18:27Oh, no, that's the beauty of the mystery.
18:29Right now, my father could be an astronaut, a pirate, a humanitarian, winner of the Nobel Prize.
18:35I mean, what one man could live up to all that?
18:38You think he ate whipped cream out of a can?
18:40Yes.
18:41And he invented whipped cream.
18:43Dad.
18:45You're gonna spoil your dinner.
18:47It is my dinner.
18:48No.
18:57Mr. Zane?
18:59Detective Beckett.
19:01Mr. Gaston?
19:02You're in a festive mood tonight, Mr. Zane, honoring the dead.
19:05Celebrating a life.
19:07The way Cano would have won.
19:09Yes.
19:10Nothing says I'm grieving like an appletini.
19:12You must be the forgive and forget type, Mr. Zane.
19:15Especially after that beating that you gave Cano a couple nights ago.
19:18Who are you talking about?
19:19We found the bruises left on Vega's body from where you hid him.
19:22Including the imprints left by your championship ring.
19:2525 guys have this ring.
19:27Do they all wear it on the left-hand ring finger?
19:28Some of them, yeah.
19:29Do they all have abrasions on that finger that are consistent with assault?
19:34What happened, Mr. Zane?
19:35Was Cano tired of dumping money into this club?
19:37He didn't care about the money.
19:38Then what was it?
19:43His wife.
19:45His wife? You and she were...
19:46No.
19:48But he thought...
19:50Maggie was upset.
19:52Said she thought Cano was having an affair
19:54and wanted to know if I'd seen him down here at the club with anybody.
19:57What did you tell her?
19:58I told her no, of course.
19:59Was that the truth?
20:00Look, I've been through this before.
20:01Cano was having some kind of crisis.
20:03He wasn't gonna leave her.
20:04So why tell her the truth?
20:06So Vega was having an affair?
20:08I'd seen him with a girl.
20:09Young Cuban.
20:10And I figure after his visit, he was missing home.
20:13Anyway, he saw me leaving his house that night,
20:15and when he asked Maggie why I was there, she got evasive.
20:18So naturally, he thought she was having an affair at Maroon.
20:21Came after me swinging.
20:22Took a couple shots to his ribs to calm him down enough
20:24before I could tell him the truth.
20:26This girl that he was dating, do you remember her name?
20:28No, he never told me her name.
20:30But I might have a picture on my phone.
20:34What is it with professional athletes and politicians
20:37that they just can't keep it in their pants?
20:39They're just overgrown teenagers with delicate little egos.
20:42It's not that deep.
20:43It's just simple math.
20:44They just have more opportunity.
20:46But what are you saying, men are dogs?
20:48No.
20:49The greater the opportunity, the greater the likelihood.
20:51Which means the two of you have nothing to worry about.
20:53Ryan has nothing to worry about.
20:54Hey!
20:55Cano Vega, on the other hand...
20:57His wife said that he changed when he got back from Cuba.
20:59Maybe it wasn't Cuba.
21:01Maybe it was the girl.
21:02That could explain the 200 grand.
21:03Maybe he needed it for the girl.
21:04And why he needed to borrow money from a loan shark
21:06without her finding out.
21:07But Maggie Vega did find out.
21:09So, she decides she's not gonna take it anymore.
21:12She considers divorce, but...
21:14Thought about the endless hours of scrutiny,
21:16the public humiliation, and the media.
21:17Not to mention that she'd only get half.
21:19Assuming there's no prenup.
21:21But if she kills him, she gets everything.
21:23Mm-hmm.
21:24She knows where he's gonna be alone at night.
21:27She goes there.
21:29He trusts her, lets his guard down.
21:32She moves in close.
21:33She smiles.
21:34Picks up a bat, thinks of everything that he's done to her,
21:37starts with the family jewels,
21:39and ends with the family fortune.
21:46This is crazy.
21:47Why would I kill my husband?
21:49Because you thought he was having an affair.
21:52You know.
21:53How?
21:54It doesn't matter how we know.
21:55What matters is that you didn't tell us.
21:57It was a private matter between Cano and me.
21:59It's also motive.
22:00Mrs. Vega, where were you on the night of your husband's murder?
22:03At home. Alone.
22:05You can check the security tapes if you want.
22:08So...
22:10It's true then?
22:11He was seeing someone else.
22:13We don't know that for sure.
22:16I do.
22:21He was in love with her.
22:24Her name is Lara.
22:26Me Carino.
22:27It means my love.
22:29Who is she?
22:30I don't know.
22:31I've torn this house upside down looking for a clue.
22:34That note is the only thing I've found.
22:372-16.
22:38That's the day before the murder.
22:39Yeah.
22:40He went into the city that day.
22:41He didn't get home until 10-30.
22:44That's what I knew.
22:45Mrs. Vega, this woman is possibly involved in your husband's murder.
22:48Why didn't you tell us this before?
22:51Because I...
22:53I just didn't want it to be true.
22:54Home security videos confirm Mrs. Vega's story and CSU tested negative for blood at Tommy Zane's place.
23:02Where are we on the girl?
23:03Just finished combing through Vega's internet records.
23:05There are no IMs, emails or internet browser searches connecting him in any way, shape or form to a Lara.
23:11Phones are a dead end too.
23:12No one who called or was called by Vega in the last two months remembers him mentioning anyone named Lara.
23:17Well, for a guy who's supposedly in love, he doesn't do a very good job keeping in touch with his girl.
23:22Some guys are just hopeless.
23:24Hey, honey.
23:25Yeah, I was just thinking about you.
23:26Thought I'd call you.
23:27Well, I just wanted to call to say I miss you.
23:30Yeah.
23:31Some guys are just pathetic.
23:33Don't be jealous.
23:34He still loves you.
23:35Vega met with her the day before he died, so let's put photos out to all precincts and have uniforms canvas the area around the field.
23:41Maybe somebody saw her the night that he was killed.
23:43Vega.
23:44Yes, sir.
23:45How we doing on the Cuba angle?
23:46Nothing yet.
23:47Why?
23:48I just got a call from the Lua over in Union City, New Jersey.
23:50Vega was involved in a shouting match at a restaurant in Little Havana with one of their regulars.
23:54Apparently, the cops were called in to break it up.
23:56Why wasn't there an incident report?
23:57Cops kept it quiet at the time at the request of the Cuba consulate.
24:00Because of Vega?
24:01No, because of who Vega was fighting with.
24:03Mario Sanchez, head of the Cuba consulate in New York.
24:06He was one of the diplomats that took Vega to Cuba.
24:08What did they fight about?
24:09I don't know, but seeing that they were in Cuba together, I suggest you find out.
24:24Well, the night of the 17th, I was here at the consulate.
24:31You don't really think I killed Cano Vega, do you?
24:33Given his change of heart in Cuba, I can't imagine that the two of you were the best of friends.
24:37You could say the same thing about most of the Cuban community here.
24:40Yes, but how many of them ended up dead after fighting with you in a restaurant?
24:43I was minding my own business.
24:46Vega was the one who decided to pick a fight with him.
24:48Why?
24:49I was in charge of his schedule in Cuba.
24:52Guess he didn't like to be told what to do or where to go.
24:55Sounds like you kept him on a pretty tight leash.
24:57We did a counter-revolutionary the courtesy of allowing him back on our soil.
25:02We weren't about to just let him wander around.
25:04So you would know better than anyone else what Vega did on his trip?
25:07It was my job.
25:08Everyone we've spoke to about Vega says he came back from Cuba a different man.
25:13What happened to him down there?
25:16He was very emotional the whole time he was there, talking to the locals,
25:21feeling sorry for them because they were poor and he was rich.
25:25Truth is, he felt guilty.
25:27When Vega returned, he borrowed $200,000 in cash.
25:30Is it possible that he was trying to funnel money to the island, help some of the locals out maybe?
25:34Not on my watch.
25:35Yeah, you can't have that.
25:37Rich people sharing their wealth, that's like socialism.
25:40Please.
25:41The truth is that kind of Vega, like all Americans, was spoiled.
25:45When the poverty was before his eyes, it's an unspeakable tragedy.
25:49And then, out of sight, out of mind.
25:52He didn't know that I was aware.
25:55But do you want to know the thing that interested Vega most about Cuba?
25:59A girl.
26:02What girl?
26:04He met a lot of locals, kissed a lot of babies.
26:08I can only assume it was a pretty young thing he met while he was touring the island.
26:12Do you know her name?
26:14Lara.
26:15Her name was Lara.
26:17So Vega fell in love with a girl in Cuba.
26:21If you take Sanchez's word.
26:23We couldn't have just pulled the name Lara out of thin air.
26:26According to the note that the wife found, Vega and Lara were supposed to meet the night before he was murdered.
26:31Now, how are they supposed to do that if she's stuck in Cuba?
26:34If she's stuck on the island, how did she end up in that photo with Vega at his club?
26:38Man, there has to be an explanation that makes us all make sense.
26:41There is.
26:42The woman standing next to Vega in the picture is not Lara.
26:45A resident near the ballpark where Vega was killed, I deed her.
26:48Her name is Ana.
26:49Ana Rivera.
26:50She's a waitress in the neighborhood.
26:51Uniforms are bringing her in now.
26:53What's her connection to Vega?
26:55Cuba.
26:56She escaped six months ago.
26:57We met at a bar where I work near his field.
27:03He heard I just come over from Cuba last year and he invited me out for drinks.
27:08Did you know he was married?
27:09It wasn't like that.
27:11He just wanted to talk about home.
27:14He missed it.
27:15I think that's why he wanted to go.
27:17You were photographed with him after the trip.
27:20Did he still want to just talk?
27:22Yes.
27:23He wanted to talk about my trip here from Cuba.
27:26It was like he was obsessed.
27:28He wanted to know how I got out.
27:30And what did you tell him?
27:31Ana, what did you tell Mr. Vega?
27:36I said my family knew a man.
27:39If, if you pay him lots of money,
27:42Mi Cariño comes and takes you to America.
27:44Mi Cariño?
27:46His boat.
27:48It takes you to Jamaica and then you fly to America.
27:51It's important that you fly because if you come by boat, then they can send you back.
27:58It's the wet foot dry foot policy.
28:00Vega was looking for a way to get his new girlfriend out of Cuba.
28:03Mi Cariño, 2-16, 8-30 PM.
28:06It looks like he succeeded.
28:07Mi Cariño to Jamaica, 2-16, which means she arrived on the 17th.
28:12That's the same day Vega died.
28:13That can't be a coincidence.
28:14Ana, you told Mr. Vega how to get in touch with the man who got you out of Cuba.
28:19Yes, he runs a newspaper.
28:22Una Nueva Esperanza on East 98.
28:26Alfredo Quintana, the editor?
28:28He lied to us.
28:33First you accused me of killing Vega.
28:44Then you're saying that I'm helping him.
28:46So maybe you guys should make up your mind.
28:49Well actually we made up our minds once we saw the $200,000 in your bank account.
28:53That's the exact amount Count Vega borrowed from a loan shark.
28:56Since what you were doing was illegal, he didn't want there to be any record of it.
29:00I don't know what you're talking about.
29:08These aren't my accounts.
29:10This is the Foundation's account.
29:12My name isn't even on them.
29:13Which is why you hid the money there, to make it harder for us to find.
29:16These were charitable contributions.
29:19Where's the girl?
29:21What girl?
29:23Mr. Quintana, you and your Foundation are facing human smuggling charges.
29:28Do you really want me to add obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting a murderer to that?
29:35You like the press, don't you?
29:37How are you gonna like being linked to Cano Vega's murder?
29:42You know what they'll see?
29:44That I saved the girl from under Castro's regime.
29:47For a price.
29:48Yeah, I would have done it for free.
29:49Yeah, but you didn't.
29:50Are you really ready to stake your entire future on some girl you don't even know?
30:00Vega had an apartment for her.
30:04I took her there when I got her to the mainland.
30:06Where?
30:07Union City, Summit Avenue.
30:09N-Y-P-D!
30:10N-Y-P-D!
30:11Police!
30:12Police!
30:13N-Y-P-D!
30:14N-Y-P-D!
30:18Claire!
30:19Claire!
30:20Claire!
30:24Looks like nobody's home.
30:25This girl's in dire need of a trip to Ikea.
30:28This bed hasn't even been made.
30:30I don't think she's sleeping here.
30:33Beckett?
30:34Yeah?
30:35Looks like dirt.
30:37Good CSU down here.
30:41You guys?
30:48There's blood.
30:50It's definitely Vegas.
30:52And the footprint?
30:53That's harder to nail down.
30:54The composition of the dirt is pretty similar to dirt anywhere in the city.
30:58So we can't actually prove that she was at the scene?
31:00I just said it's harder.
31:01But there were traces of titanium dioxide.
31:03Peel.
31:04Takes a little batting practice on Vega's head.
31:06Heads home.
31:07Packs her things.
31:08Heads the room.
31:09I'm standing to the term hit and run.
31:10I'm standing to the term hit and run.
31:11Beckett.
31:12B-E-C-K.
31:13E-double-T.
31:14Badge 41319.
31:15I need a TSA hold on a potential fugitive.
31:19Yes, I'll hold.
31:20Uniforms are circling that picture of Lara we got from Quintana.
31:24They're plastering her on every storefront within a mile of her place.
31:26So was the girl.
31:27Evidence looks that way.
31:28We figure she honey trapped Vega into giving her tickets out of Cuba.
31:31And when she got here, he wanted a little more than she was willing to give.
31:34And things went south from there.
31:35Maybe it was the Cuban government all along.
31:37They hated Vega for defecting.
31:39So they send a beautiful spy for him to fall in love with.
31:42It works.
31:44He smuggles her back home and...
31:46Bam.
31:47He's dead.
31:48Sounds like a castle story.
31:50I'll call it Corazon de Fuego.
31:52Yes.
31:53I need to detain and contain.
31:54All no-fly protocols.
31:57Though we really should stake out the consulate.
31:59Way ahead of you.
32:00Surveillance has been there for about an hour.
32:02If she killed him out of self-defense, then she'd go back to the devil she knows.
32:05And yet I'm sensing skepticism on my theory.
32:08Yeah, thanks.
32:09My reader.
32:10Well, you're both geniuses.
32:11That was our guys at the consulate.
32:12They just spotted Lara walking right through the door.
32:15I don't know what to tell you.
32:17I've never seen that girl before.
32:18Well, then you should invest in some corrective lenses.
32:21Our surveillance team saw her coming in here not half an hour ago.
32:24Surveillance team?
32:25They're watching us now?
32:26Only within the scope of the law.
32:28The watcher becomes the watched.
32:31I'm a big fan of irony.
32:33Ask her.
32:34She's a Cuban citizen requesting asylum.
32:36She's a suspect in a murder investigation.
32:39And you expect me just to hand her over to the American authorities?
32:42Mr. Sanchez, as I'm sure you're well aware, a country's consulate and its embassy have a different set of rights and privileges.
32:50This is only a consulate.
32:52You do not have diplomatic immunity.
32:57Produce the girl now, or I will get a search warrant and make a public spectacle of your government harboring a criminal on American soil.
33:04No, I, I, I did not kill him.
33:05Please, you have to wait.
33:06No, I, I, I did not kill him.
33:07Please, you have to wait.
33:08Then why did you run?
33:09Why did you try to go back to Cuba?
33:10ematic
33:32Why, I, I did not kill him. Please, you have to believe.
33:35did you run why did you try to go back to cuba i was afraid the man will kill me too what man
33:41the one who come the night he died he come to
33:47the apartment came to the apartment there was a man who came to the apartment the night that
33:51vega died and that's why you were running he killed my father your father vega cano vega
33:59is your father okay lara take us from the beginning desde el principio vega and my mother
34:18and her mother were engaged when he was supposed to come but she didn't as punishment for what
34:25vega did they threw her mother in prison she was pregnant with her at the time did vega know about
34:32this until a couple of months ago he heard a rumor that he had a daughter well that's why
34:39we went to cuba to see if he really did have a daughter they didn't actually meet because
34:48the government was watching but he got her a message saying that he could get her out as
34:55soon as he could the first time i met my father was three nights ago and i want to tell him how much
35:05suffering he caused she grew up believing that her father had abandoned her mother to get rich
35:16he told her that that wasn't true he only defected because her mother said that she was going to as
35:22well but she had changed her mind at the last minute all these years he had thought that she had
35:29turned her back on him he never knew that they that the government had made an example of him to all
35:36the other players he never knew that she had died in prison my father is very upset when i tell him
35:46this he said he needs to talk to someone he uh uh give me money for food i never see him again
35:53he said earlier that there was a man at the apartment when i go to the market to go buy food
36:00and when i come back i see a man at the apartment not my father i was so scared so i leave then i hear
36:13canovega is dead so i run and i hide i just wanted to go home he killed my father this man who came to
36:26your apartment can you describe him for me yes let me get this straight an illegal claiming to be canovega's
36:38daughter after being in this country for less than 24 hours identifies someone who kind of looks like me
36:44from a distance at night well gee guys what am i when i sign my confession right now or after the big uh
36:53press conference well now's good come on kids come on you know he was my friend not to mention a
37:01hefty commission what's my motive the thing about people who have a lot mr fox is that they have the
37:07most to lose i'm sure vega felt betrayed when he learned the truth the truth about what your favorite
37:14story barcelona 1992 only you left out the part where you lied to canovega about helping his fiance
37:21defect it's not my fault that she changed her mind all right truth is you couldn't get her off the
37:27island but you didn't know that he'd rather be there with her than here making big bucks for you
37:31in the majors so you let him believe that she had changed her mind and to keep him from ever finding
37:36out the truth you had her put away put away in cuba oh come on i have a lot of pull but uh influencing
37:46a military dictatorship isn't as easy as getting a dinner reservation at lucerc you'd influenced
37:51their people before manuel gutierrez aka el pulpo the octopus you walked away with the star player of
37:59the cuban national team for a rolex we did a little research he was the chief witness at her
38:06trial was denouncing vega's fiancee always a part of your plan with el popo or did you have to pay
38:11extra for that i've heard you're a killer negotiator you can't possibly be serious when vega figured out
38:17what you had done he called you from his club and told you to meet him i think he came after you and
38:23threatened to destroy you and that's why you killed him it's a hell of a story kids i paid el popo to take
38:28care of my players girl when the cuban government is sending away people every day well that's a hell
38:34of a tale it's pure conjecture you know it's not conjecture the blood that we found on the driver's
38:41side floor mat in your car that was vega's blood as much as you tried to clean those five thousand
38:47dollar pair of shoes you were wearing while you smashed vega's skull and you didn't quite get all of
38:51it
38:58losentia call my lawyer you're telling me he's about to earn the outrageous obscene amounts of money i pay
39:08turn around turn around robert fox you're under arrest for the murder of canovega
39:18what's going to happen to laura she can stay in the states for a year and then decide whether
39:22she wants to apply for citizenship or not well i can't imagine her staying her last bit of family
39:27is gone i mean the only person that she knew here is dead well there is one more person that she should
39:34meet
39:41so you're lara she was born in cuba right after mr vega defected she's not his girlfriend
39:50she's his daughter cano had a daughter my father didn't know how you would like to have me here
39:58she said she knows her father loved you very much and he didn't want to hurt you
40:18but she hoped and he hoped that together you could be a family
40:31i'm sorry maggie
40:42mi casa es su casa
40:44thank you
40:56Hey, Dad.
41:05Hey, daughter.
41:06What are you doing up so late?
41:08Waiting for you.
41:10Did I do something wrong?
41:11No.
41:13I was just thinking about what you said about your dad.
41:17How he could be anything you imagined him to be.
41:19An astronaut or a pirate.
41:21Whipped cream inventor?
41:22A whipped cream inventor.
41:24There's one thing he can't be.
41:25What's that?
41:27A dad.
41:28Just a regular dad.
41:30Teaching us on how to ride a bike or helping him with homework or having a catch.
41:35Makes me sad he didn't get to have those things.
41:37Well, I can't miss what I didn't have.
41:43What if you could have it?
41:46You have a time machine behind the kitchen counter?
41:48What do you say, son?
41:59What about a game of catch with your old man?
42:05Yeah, I'd like that.
42:07Good.
42:07You ready?
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