The Shield

Previously on "The Shield".

There's money missing. We're 7 G's short.

We've been a team through all of this. Now, who took it?

I called your mom in Indio.

She told me about the $7000 care package that you sent.

I just took what I needed. For us.

You stole from me!

Hey, Mr. Mackey. How's it going?

Owen's here a lot lately, isn't he?

- Matthew's improving. - You date who you want,...

...but he's out of a job.

It's gotta be the Cuddler. Killed her,...

...finished his business, then murdered the older woman.

Anything new on the sick bastard raping grandmothers?

No.

- He's still working with Matt? - Not now.

Where's Diagur?

You don't tell me where your boss is at, you gonna be jumping back.

He's at Yolanda's. One street over.

Feds are buzzing around the money you gave to Aramis.

Get somebody to his place to pick it up.

And you disappear for a couple of weeks.

Let's see that mouth. Suck it!

Get your phone, man. I wanna get a Kodak of this.

- I got it. - Those guys I fought...

...one of them assaulted me.

How could you let that happen?

- What, you couldn't stop them? - I'm losing control of everything.

- Do you know who they are? - I could find out.

But even then, what?

If it was me, I'd kill them.

- You ready? - Yeah, let's go.

Detective Wagenbach? Craig Milne. Pleasure.

This is my partner, Claudette Wyms.

The minute I saw the scene, I thought of your case.

Strangled, sexually assaulted. Semen on the abdomen.

- It's him. - He's moved his hunting grounds.

We're canvassing but so far, nothing.

- Point of entry? - Back door.

I know your guy steals figurines, but this lady was a clean freak.

There's no dust. It's hard to tell if anything's gone.

I contacted her kids. They'll tell us about her movements tonight.

- Help establish a timeline. - Great. After you've done your...

Absolutely. I'll put a rush on the DNA, keep you posted.

We should crosscheck our notes for similarities.

Working on a name for the baby yet?

No. We're... We're gonna wait until we find out if it's a boy or a girl.

Let me look at your ring again.

You found yourself a good one this time.

I know.

A real southern gentleman.

Ma, I need to talk to you about that money that we gave you.

- You don't know how much it helped. - We're not asking for it back.

See, one of my clients gave it to me.

A 2 percent kickback for moving their bid to the front of the line.

People do it all the time in the real estate business. It's just...

It's just that it's not exactly...

- Legal? - Look, it's not a big deal.

What Mara didn't know is that this guy, he's a bit of a player.

I found out that the feds are investigating him.

And that money could be dirty.

So if anyone comes asking, you can't say that it came from me.

Because I could lose my real estate license.

Wouldn't be the first time I covered for you. Would it, sugar?

Do it now.

Put the money in the bag.

Let's go. I ain't playing. Hurry.

I swear to God, I'll blow your head off.

Stop screwing around.

Okay, okay.

What the hell, man? Move your ass.

And the coins too, damn it. And the coins too.

Okay, okay. Don't shoot.

Let's go, let's go.

- Now, damn it. - Police.

Get down.

Call 911.

Police, police.

- Two in the 10-ring. Nice. - Yeah.

Two got away and you hit one of them?

Yeah. In the arm or the shoulder.

I'm gonna have to take your weapon, captain.

It's my personal piece.

I was running errands when I saw the robbery go down.

When we get an ID, check your gang contacts.

See who his running mates are. They're Byz Lats.

I'll rattle a few cages.

You wanted back on the street.

Promised you'd be more valuable there.

I wanna know every pressure point this gang has by morning.

The dead guy watched me shove a bong down his buddy's windpipe.

Twenty says his buddy's one of the others.

Captain out here in the night and he runs into them?

It's a pretty big coincidence.

Unless it's not a coincidence.

What if these are the guys Diagur sent to get the money out of the freezer?

What? The ones you told him to send over?

If it's true.

Then they're the assholes who kicked the shit out of Aceveda, took his gun.

Which means he was tracking them here when this thing went down.

He might track them back to us and the marked cash.

Let's not get premenstrual until we talk to Diagur. Come on.

Jesus, Diagur. Who are these guys?

Every time I see you, you got your mouth wrapped around a clam.

Throw something on. We got problems.

Killing Ricky was payback for him from Juan getting his gun off him.

Ricky, Juan, those are the guys you sent for the marked money?

- Juan. He was in on this robbery? - Yeah.

What about the other guy?

Talking about Vido? One of my boy's cousin. He wanted in.

Nice initiation, shooting at a cop.

They told me they were gonna rob some slant-eyes.

- They check in yet? - No.

When they do, you tell them to get their asses out of here.

And I'm not talking about a long weekend in Eagle Rock.

I mean Mexico. I'll take care of the rest.

- Are you okay? - I'm fine.

You didn't call. I just saw it on the news.

I'm trying to track down the two guys who escaped.

David, you shot someone. They shot at you. Come home.

Whatever's happened...

...you need to come home now.

I'm not finished.

How's Matthew doing with his workshops?

Very well. His aptitude for cognitive reasoning's accelerated.

Ideas and thoughts are often clearer.

- How's he doing with other kids? - He's internalizing less.

So he's making friends?

He still keeps mostly to himself, but he's getting more curious.

These are great.

The children's assignment was to draw a picture of their family.

Where's Matthew's?

I took it down.

I didn't think you should see it without an explanation first.

What kind of explanation?

Matthew's picture was of his mother, his two sisters...

...and his therapist, Owen.

It's often common for autistic kids to become confused...

...during changing situations, right?

Absolutely. I can get you the drawing if you want.

Sure.

- Yeah. - My mom wants more money.

What?

She did the math. Two percent of a $600,000 sale.

She said that adds up to more than seven grand.

She said that?

- When? - As soon as you walked out the door.

She waits to get me alone to pull her shit.

Well, maybe you just misunderstood.

She asked me for another three grand.

- What did I misunderstand? - Your mother is blackmailing us?

Look, let's just give her the money, okay?

No.

Ronnie, could you close that door?

I know who took our cash from the storage locker.

It was Mara.

It was all the midnight runs we were doing. She got suspicious.

She thought I was hiding something from her.

I don't believe this.

Look, she found the key, she tracked down the storage place from a receipt.

She thought that the cash was mine.

Look, I'm sorry. I was careful...

Does she know about the money train?

No. She thinks that we've been skimming off drug busts.

We? She knows that we're involved?

We need her help with the marked bills in Indio.

Why? Who's in Indio?

- Mara's mother lives there. - Jesus.

She sent her a few grand before I knew she had it.

Wait, so the mom knows too?

No. But she thinks that there's more that came from.

This is beautiful.

We're already in deep shit with the marked money if Aceveda tracks down Diagur's errand boy.

Now we gotta sweat your future mother-in-law?

I'm trying to wrap her up.

But the broad is a piece of work, man. Mara's got horror stories.

How come every piece of ass you hit is more trouble than the last?

Hey, I'm marrying this girl.

I'm not. So unless she's got a xxxxx that cures cancer...

- Hey, shut your mouth right now. - Hey.

Look, Mara's having my child.

We can trust her.

You know what I would do if I had her in interrogation?

I'd tell her the only way to save her kid's daddy...

...is to give up the three guys he works with.

Take about 15 minutes to flip her.

Hey, we can trust her.

- Because you say so? - Mara's not the problem.

At the moment.

The mom is.

They don't get on to her, they can't get back to us.

- I will keep working on the mom. - No.

We have to erase the trail without her knowing.

Yeah, how we gonna do that?

We've got to think...

Juan Lozano. One of the guys I shot at.

Pretty quick ID.

I checked the dead guy's priors. Looked for known accomplices.

Follow me. I want you in on this too.

A lot of manpower for a robbery.