Law & Order: Criminal Intent

- Hey. - Hey.

It's freezing in here. They didn't fix the heat?

Mmm-mmm. Called the super this morning.

Calling doesn't do any good. I'll go down and talk to him.

Hey, where's Sami?

Did you let him go out?

He doesn't do what I tell him.

You let him bring that in here?

Rico, don't make trouble, please!

If he comes in here, I'll send him straight home.

Okay.

Hey, hey!

Where's Sami, huh?

- I don't know anything. - You don't anything!. Then why you running, huh?

- I don't know! - Where you going off in a rush?

You don't know? Listen,

you tell your friends Sami's out of this.

If he isn't home in una hora,

I'm gonna call the cops and let them know what you're up to.

- Listen, I don't know... - Listen, you tell your friends what I said!

Hey. Hey, get away from me! Help, help!

We heard you were looking for Sami.

You got your pops to thank for this, little man.

Look at him, little man.

Look at the love in his eyes.

He loves you so much.

Welcome death, little man.

Look, the senator's bill's never gonna make it out of committee.

No, it's dead, gone, forget it.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

I didn't see him.

I didn't see him. He came out of nowhere.

I didn't even see him. Oh, my God.

Witnesses confirm the initial report.

This guy ran out into traffic.

This accident finished something someone else started.

His throat's been cut. It's not very deep.

Didn't go through the carotid artery.

There's dirt in the wound, in his mouth.

He's even aspirated some up his nose.

And there's dirt under the nails.

This man was buried alive.

He... He dug himself out.

This blood spatter on his pants,

you see how it moves across both legs?

It didn't come from his neck.

I didn't see any other wounds.

There's another injured out there.

Out there, somewhere in Prospect Park.

Guys, we're gonna have to check this whole perimeter.

Oh, damn.

This is Detective Eames. We have a body.

Male, juvenile,

about 50 yards in from the playground.

He was cut right through the carotid.

The boy died instantly.

And there's no mistake this time.

We ran the prints. We got a pop on the adult victim.

Enrique Iberra.

According to the blood tests, the kid's probably his.

I'm guessing Iberra's priors were for dope.

This MO's got dope written all over it.

Iberra's last conviction was 12 years ago.

He finished his GED while he was inside.

His parole reviews are stellar.

He had car grease on his jacket, calluses on his hand.

He was a mechanic. He was working for a living.

He and his kid were what, witnesses? Wrong place, wrong time?

Or it's punitive.

Someone was being taught a lesson.

The father?

Not necessarily.

Iberra had his son's blood on his pants.

His son was buried on top of him.

Which means Iberra was likely killed first.

Right in front of his son.

Was your husband in any kind of trouble?

Did he owe someone money or...

No. There was no trouble.

Not about Sami?

No. No.

When Sami didn't come home last night,

you weren't worried?

I thought he was with Rico.

And Rico came home after work,

he left his toolbox there

and then he left again. Why?

To have a beer.

But Sami was 12 years old. He didn't take Sami to have a beer.

No.

Sami, he was with his friends,

kids from the neighborhood.

Maybe your husband went out looking for him.

No. He just went out... That's all, he...

I'm just so upset. I'm sorry.

We're gonna have to look in Sami's room.

Sami was a fan.

Him and his friends,

they all wanna be basketball players.

Your husband took him to the games?

No, we can't afford that.

These are ticket stubs from 3 different games.

The last one was a month ago.

Someone from Rico's work got him those.

A rich guy. Rico worked on his car.

I don't remember his name.

These protein bars,

did you buy them?

Sure, I did.

How much did they cost?

I... A dollar something. I don't remember.

These are worth about $5, right?

I mean, these are about $5 bucks.

Did someone give them to Sami?

Maybe the same person who gave him the game tickets.

No, I told you.

I can't help you. Please.

We think you need our help.

Promise you'll give us a call, okay?

Did Sami work on cars with his Dad?

I'm wondering if this stuff's grease or oil here.

See?

Rico's work. Grease everywhere in the house.

It's okay, I'll clean it up. It's no big deal.

You should really listen to what my partner is telling you.

You're not alone.

Protein bars, Knicks tickets, this kid had expensive tastes.

Yeah, and the money to indulge them.

Move it over to the right, okay, because that's where the drum kit goes.

Where you been?

We got a booking in 20 minutes.

Yeah, sorry, Jojo.

- You know I count on you, right? - Yeah.

And after, Tomas needs help with his homework.

What? You know the rules.

You wanna hang out, eat my food, learn the board,

then you gotta get the homework done.

Frankie.

You create a problem, solve it on your own time.

Let's go.

Dead? Both of them? I didn't know.

Enrique's wife said you saw him last night.

Why would she say that?

Maybe because he said he was having a beer with you.

No way he told her that.

I was still here, right here, working ‘til 9:00.

How do you know it was before 9:00 when he went out?

Well, you just said that...

She didn't tell you what time it was, Mr. Ramirez.

Now you know because you saw him, right?

Maybe somebody told me they saw him.

Somebody who?

Somebody from where Enrique was having the beer, like Louisa said.

Where would that be, you being Enrique's drinking buddy?

Try La Taverna around the corner.

Hey, I wasn't that close to him.

He'd been in jail, you know?

See that bodega down there on the right?

I think the guy there, Ramirez, was friends with him.

Maybe he saw him.

But you're sure Mr. Iberra didn't come in for a beer last night?

Yeah. He hardly ever came in.

I don't know, maybe once, I don't know.

I never noticed him. Sorry.

Honest people, every last one of them.

You can tell 'cause they're such bad liars.

Hey, guys. Hey, no, no, wait up, wait up.

Listen, me and my partner, we need your help.

Did you know that a friend of yours from the neighborhood,

Sami Iberra, you know that he got killed last night with his...

We don't know him. We don't know what happened.

Wait, wait, wait. I'm not finished.

Who put the word out not to talk to us?

Who's everyone afraid of?

Come on, Sami grew up here

all his life with his Mom and his Dad.

Huh? You guys grew up with him.

You probably went to the same school, right?

You played video games, you shoot hoops.

You don't think you should stand up for him?

In this neighborhood, the Neighborhood Watch watches the cops.

It just breaks my heart.

Sami was one of our small victories.

He worked so hard to better his grades.

This year it all just clicked in for him.

How was he outside of class?

Any problems with the other kids? Fights?

No. He stuck mostly with kids from his own neighborhood.

They're all good kids.

That's the picture we're getting.

The local precinct said it's a low crime area, very little drug activity.

Protein bars seem to be the drug of choice.

All of Sami's friends eat those.

If you had to name Sami's best friend, who would that be?

It was Jamal Dupuis,

but Jamal moved out of state a few months ago to live with his father.

How did Sami take that?

He started acting out, but he got himself under control.

CD player. Noise reduction headphones.