Cross

Previously on Cross...

Anybody in here heard of Richard Helvig?

The man had three fingers chopped off.

Helvig introduced me to the people

that could reclassify my workers as essential.

Those undocumented children

are ferried from factory to factory

-like animals. -Would you like an attorney present?

With my son?

I'm here in the capacity of a detective Investigating a homicide.

I didn't work this long and hard to let a loose gun bring me down!

-Where are the records? -There was an archivist,

name of Ibrahim Mustafa.

I need you to tell me where I can find these files.

You and me were bound to happen. We just, uh...

-got it out of our systems. -Did we?

Your dirty agent killed our suspect.

Actually, your suspect killed our agent.

Why are you ready to die, Lincoln?

The light will avenge us all.

Luz. I found you.

We believe Lincoln Esteban

killed Agent Larsen in self-defense.

It sounds like you're implying

Agent Larsen made an attempt on Esteban's life.

Do you have any evidence to back that charge?

You mean other than illegally kidnapping a murder suspect

and driving him into the woods alone?

What I'm about to say is off the record

and will be denied if it ever comes back on me.

Larsen was already on our radar.

-For? -I'm not at liberty to say.

Well, we think he was protecting a smuggling ring

providing undocumented minors to employers.

-That about right? - Again,

I'm not at liberty to say.

Did Agent Larsen have any known connection to Crestbrook Industries?

I'm not at liberty to say.

A serial killer went missing on your dirty agent's watch.

Which is why my priorities now are ass covering and information gathering.

In that order.

Getting permission to read you two in will have to wait.

-Until when? -Until DHS finishes our investigation.

Hmm.

-You know you ain't shit, right? -

-Yeah. You know. -

-He's still out? -Mm-hmm.

-Wow. -Like he's never had a good night's sleep.

Find anything on that flash drive he showed up with?

The amount of information he's gathered

on Lance Durand and Crestbrook is unbelievable.

I mean, contracts, photos, documents, falsified employee logs.

Suspicious payments to government officials,

including OSHA and fucking DHS.

He's been busy.

The paper trail he gathered,

it proves that Crestbrook

knowingly and systematically used child labor.

But he didn't do anything with it?

He tried. Check this out.

He filed dozens of lawsuits

against Durand, his company, their affiliates.

All of them were stonewalled.

Hmm. Because Durand's been buying his way out of legal trouble

since the beginning.

This evidence could destroy Crestbrook if it got out.

Anything in there explain how he found you?

No, other than he's fucking good.

I have a pile of dirt on Lance,

but this Lincoln, he found a mountain.

I don't like it.

How he knows your real name, where you live--

Chasing a common enemy, it is just a matter of time

before you end up at the same place at the same time.

It's no different than how I found Donnie.

Maybe, but I like it better when you're the one finding.

Not the one being found.

Isn't your brother arriving today?

What did you say?

Your brother... Chucho.

He arrives today, right?

I hope so.

He texted right after he crossed.

But nothing since.

- - Go!

Let's go! Everyone out the back door, now!

Stop what you're doing and hide!

Stop what you're doing, get out!

Quickly! Quickly! Get out!

Javi?

Blanca! Hide!

Ándale, Javi.

Quickly! Get in the truck!

Get in! Hurry! Let's go!

Just get in and keep quiet!

Come here.

Are you the supervisor here?

Are you the supervisor here?

-No. -Can I see your ID, please?

Hey! Come here.

Now!

Identification.

Antonio Martinez.

That you?

This says that you're 43 years old, Antonio.

He look 43 to you, Brian?

-Mm-mm. -Shut down the run.

And someone call a Crestbrook supervisor.

We're gonna be here a while.

This is good.

Oh, hey, Nat. Good news.

The NGOs have decided to endorse the Prosperity Seed Initiative.

Why is your face like that?

Department of Labor just did a spot inspection on Plant 52 in Toledo.

I don't want to know that. Why are you telling me that?

They found underage workers.

I just said I didn't want to know that.

Where was Paul?

'Cause that is literally what we fucking pay Paul for.

Paul is dead.

-He-- -He was found murdered

in a public park, minus three fingers.

Oh, my God.

God is not gonna help us at this point, Pamela.

Okay, have-have the Feds connected us to Paul?

Not yet.

-Okay, good. - Maybe they won't.

We can distance ourselves from Paul.

But the raids are unfortunate timing.

You think?

There's no way we can afford any bad publicity.

Especially of this kind.

What we need is we need people to buy in.

How are we gonna transform the fucking world

if the fucking world won't let us in?

What do we now, Pamela? We need an action plan.

Get Miles. Get him on the phone.

Tell me that we need talking points.

And I need damage control strategy.

And I need that all by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Please.

DHS stonewalled us.

Oh, yeah, I heard. And trust, I already turned the heat up,

and I mean all the way up.

But you two interrogated Esteban, so what do we know?

Well, he's intelligent.

Yeah, he's well-spoken, he's detail-oriented, he--

He worships a female deity.

I could get down with that.

Did the conversation reveal anything at all

that might give us a clue as to where he would go next?

Not that I can see yet, but we might be able

to get some insight into where he's been.

Akbar says you owe him.

What's all that?

Cold cases where victims have had their fingers removed.

-Happens more often than you'd think. - How cold we talking?

Most in the past two years, but there is one in there

that goes back more than a decade.

Oh. Give me the oldie.

Thinking it could be a first kill?

The-the amputation's messier.

-Less precise. Like he was-- -Yeah. Learning on the job.

And who's the vic?

Um, Sheriff Mitch Morgan of Danton County.

Missing three fingers.

It was 12 years ago in Hollywood, Florida.

How does a sheriff from Iowa end up getting killed in Florida?

Maybe he likes to make his own gator jerky. Looks like the type.

Or maybe he likes the coeds.

The light will avenge us all.

What?

Hollywood, Florida.

I've seen that before.

Ah. Doubloons Casino, Hollywood, Florida.

So, if Morgan was his first kill

and he saved that chip--

Well, the casino could be a place where he goes when threatened.

-It's kind of like a-- -Like a holy ground.

Mm-hmm.

-Uh, can I have the jet, please? - Yeah.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah?

We'll get Sloane to gas it up and have it ready by tomorrow morning.

-Can you walk with me? -Yeah. I'll see you at the airport.

Yeah, the...

Yo, we wrap this up quick,

we find some time for me to whup your ass in blackjack.

Sorry, I'm gonna sit this one out.

I found a lead on that other investigation.