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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 it 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.
03:41All right.
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 kind of wild back in the day.
03:51You really need to stop talking now.
03:53Sorry.
03:54Dad.
03:56A 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 primes.
04:19Mr. Fox, who else?
04:20Twelve years of marriage.
04:22All they want from me is a sound bite.
04:24I'm very sorry about your loss, Mrs. Vega.
04:27Do you know why he'd be in the park last night?
04:29Sometimes he'd go there to blow off steam, but...
04:32Look back at Mr. Castle, Tommy Zane, Cano's old teammate.
04:35It'd be hard to be a New Yorker.
04:36Not 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.
04:49Left about 7.30.
04:51I didn't really see him.
04:52I was with a friend.
04:54Excuse me.
04:55Yes?
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.
05:05A few months ago, the Cuban tourism department approached him.
05:10They wanted Cano to be the poster boyfriend of Cuba.
05:13You risk 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.
05:21Their 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.
05:33Did he get any threats?
05:34You bet he got threats.
05:36Hundreds of them.
05:38And all of them courtesy of Alfredo Quintana.
05:41Detective Bobby Fox, Cano's agent.
05:43Nice to meet you.
05:44Detective, could 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.
05:54Hey.
05:55Alfredo Quintana.
05:56J.D., PhD, and editor of Una Nueva Esperanza, a newspaper published by his foundation primarily for 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 who butchered thousands of their relatives.
06:19Quintana says if Vega's going to embrace the brutal regime he once escaped, he would do well to be reminded of its barbarous cruelty.
06:28Well, that sounds like a threat to me.
06:31I wasn't threatening him.
06:33You turned the local Cuban community against him.
06:36He turned his back on his people when he gave Castro his 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?
06:48You said it yourself in your editorial. Vega should pay.
06:51It's a free country, isn't it?
06:53I'm entitled to express my opinion.
06:56Your foundation, Cubans First, is on East 98th Street.
07:00That'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. Wives make such convenient alibis.
07:19My sons were there as well.
07:21As well as my brother.
07:23Do you have anyone who wasn't blood-related? Notary, perhaps?
07:27Look, what Cano 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.
07:51Well?
07:52Well, check his alibi, but my gut tells me it's not him.
07:54We should get a warrant, run 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? So tell me what I'm thinking.
08:13Ah! You'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 and model?
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.
08:54Salt and batter.
08:55I know.
08:56Right.
08:57The guy's been seriously a bad dude.
08:58Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
09:00I'm sensing something here that this guy might just be our killer.
09:04Mr. 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.
09:34So you can play dumb or you can play ball.
09:38Pun intended.
09:40All right, I was there, but 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 multi-millionaire.
10:05You're a petty loan shark.
10:06What's he doing borrowing money from you?
10:08My business, you don't ask, you don't tell.
10:10How much money did you borrow?
10:12Came 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.
10:23The kind of trouble that gets you killed.
10:25Or maybe he couldn't pay your Vig.
10:28And you pulled the little untouchables De Niro on his head.
10:31A guy owing you money, killing him ain't gonna get you paid.
10:34You take his bling, you jack him for his ride, you maybe even bust his kneecaps.
10:38But he made his last installment.
10:40Vega made his Vig.
10:41We were good.
10:42Vega's wife didn't know anything about the 200 grand.
10:48It 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.
11:19Just 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,
11:29and 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.
11:55Good idea.
11:56I'll bring the mojitos, you get the beach towels.
11:59Oh, I don't know, Cass.
12:00All me 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.
12:10Like the man who arranged the entire trip to Cuba.
12:14Bobby Fox, his agent.
12:16That's a good idea.
12:17But 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.
12:30Well, 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.
12:43Please 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.
12:59I just can't believe this whole Vega 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.
13:27By 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.
13:41His office is...
13:42He was a good guy, 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.
13:56What happened?
13:57He 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.
14:09And 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?
14:24No, 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?
14:33No.
14:34You'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.
15:02Because he had his tentacles around everybody.
15:06And just as we thought we were home free, boom!
15:09El Pulpo.
15:11We were caught.
15:12Sunk.
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.
15:24I gave him my shiny new Rolex.
15:27And he just looked the other way.
15:29Just 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.
15:55So what made him go to Cuba and then what made him change his mind?
15:59Maybe Vega worked for the State Department.
16:02Maybe he was sent to shake hands with Fidel in a secret attempt to release a biotoxin into his system.
16:08Well, the Russians sprayed sushi with radioactive poloni.
16:11But what's more far-fetched?
16:13Well, I just met Joe Torre, so I guess anything's possible.
16:18Beckett.
16:19The cause 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.
16:28But in this case, your attacker's first swing landed a little south of his head.
16:32How far south?
16:34Enough to make him a soprano.
16:36Oh.
16:38Should've won a cup.
16:40Lacerations 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.
16:50That'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.
17:06What's this shape right here?
17:08He 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?
17:46No.
17:48Why does it bother you?
17:49It'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?
17:59My first year of college, I went to a party, met this girl, Allison.
18:05In the space of six hours, we met, we talked, we danced, we fell in love.
18:10Next morning, she was gone.
18:11I 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.
18:19Your 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. Oh, 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, and he invented whipped cream.
18:44Dad, you're gonna spoil your dinner.
18:48It is my dinner.
18:49No.
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, the way he can, I would have wanted.
19:08Yes, nothing says I'm grieving like an appletini.
19:12You must be the forgive and forget type, Mr. Zane, especially after that beating that you gave Cano a couple nights ago.
19:17What are you talking about?
19:18We found the bruises left on Vega's body from where you hit him, including the imprints left by your championship ring.
19:24Twenty-five guys have this ring.
19:26Do 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? Was Cano tired of dumping money into this club?
19:37He didn't care about the money.
19:38Then what was it?
19:39His wife.
19:44His wife? You and she were...
19:46No.
19:48But he thought...
19:51Maggie was upset.
19:52Said she thought Cano was having an affair and wanted to know if I'd seen him down here at the club with anybody.
19:56What did you tell her?
19:57I 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.
20:05So 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 figured 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 before 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 that they just can't keep it in their pants?
20:39They're just overgrown teenagers with delicate little egos.
20:41It's not that deep.
20:43It's just simple math.
20:44They just have more opportunity.
20:46What are you saying?
20:47Men 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.
21:00Maybe it wasn't Cuba.
21:01Maybe it was the girl.
21:02That could explain the 200 grand maybe needed for the girl.
21:04And why he needed to borrow money from a loan shark without her finding out.
21:07But Maggie Vega did find out.
21:10So, she decides she's not gonna take it anymore.
21:12She considers divorce, but thought about the endless hours of scrutiny, the public humiliation in the media.
21:18Not 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.
21:26Alone.
21:27At night.
21:28She goes there.
21:29He trusts her.
21:30Lets his guard down.
21:32She moves in close.
21:33She smiles.
21:34Picks up a bat.
21:35Thinks of everything that he's done to her.
21:37Starts with the family jewels.
21:39And ends with the family fortune.
21:42This 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.
22:01Mrs. Vega, where were you on the night of your husband's murder?
22:03At home.
22:04Alone.
22:05You can check the security tapes if you want.
22:08So, it'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.
22:362-16.
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.
22:56Home security videos confirm Mrs. Vega's story.
22:59NCSU tested negative for blood at Tommy Zane's place.
23:03Where are we on the girl?
23:04He just finished combing through Vega's internet records.
23:06There 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 you're supposedly in love, he doesn't do a very good job keeping in touch with his girl.
23:21Some 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.
23:43Becky.
23:44Yes, sir.
23:45How are we doing on the Cuba angle?
23:46Nothing yet.
23:47Why?
23:48I just got a call from the Lou 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?
23:57The cops 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.
24:14On 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?
24:44I was minding my own business.
24:46Vega was the one who decided to pick a fight with me.
24:49Why?
24:50I 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.
25:01We 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 spoke to about Vega says he came back from Cuba a different man.
25:13What happened to him down there?
25:15He 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,
25:33help some of the locals out maybe?
25:34You're out of my watch.
25:36Yeah, 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?
26:00A girl.
26:03What girl?
26:05He 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.
26:16Her name was Lara.
26:19So Vega fell in love with a girl in Cuba.
26:22If you take Sanchez's word.
26:24Who couldn't have just pulled the name Lara out of thin air?
26:27According to the note that the wife found, Vega and Lara were supposed to meet the night before he was murdered.
26:32Now, 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 this all make sense.
26:41There is.
26:42The woman standing next to Vega in the picture is not Lara.
26:46A 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.
26:52Uniforms are bringing her in now.
26:53What's her connection to Vega?
26:55Cuba.
26:56She escaped six months ago.
26:58We 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?
27:34Ana, what did you tell Mr. Vega?
27:37I said my family knew a man.
27:39If, if you pay him lots of money, mi cariño comes and takes you to America.
27:45Mi cariño?
27:46His boat.
27:48It takes you to Jamaica and then you fly to America.
27:52It's important that you fly because if you come by boat, then they can send you back.
27:58That'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 on 2 16, 8.30 p.m.
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. That can't be a coincidence.
28:15Ana, you told Mr. Vega how to get in touch with the man who got you out of Cuba.
28:20Yes, he runs a newspaper.
28:22Una Nueva Esperanza on East 98.
28:26Alfredo Quintana, the editor.
28:29He lied to us.
28:33He lied to us.
28:34By first you accused me of killing Vega, then 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.
28:59I don't know what you're talking about.
29:01These 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.
29:15To make it harder for us to find.
29:16These were charitable contributions.
29:18Where'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?
29:38How 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.
30:09NYPD!
30:10NYPD!
30:11Police!
30:12Police!
30:13NYPD!
30:14NYPD!
30:15CLARE!
30:16CLARE!
30:17CLARE!
30:18CLARE!
30:19CLARE!
30:20CLARE!
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.
30:29I don't think she's sleeping here.
30:31Becky.
30:32Yeah?
30:33Looks like dirt.
30:34Good to see you down here.
30:35You guys?
30:37There's blood.
30:38It's definitely Vegas.
30:39And the footprint?
30:40That's harder to nail down.
30:41The composition of the dirt is pretty similar to dirt anywhere in the city.
30:44So we can't actually prove that she was at the scene.
30:45I just said it's harder.
30:46But there were traces of titanium dioxide.
30:47The field takes a little batting practice on Vega's head.
30:48Heads home, packs her things, heads the room.
30:49Giving a whole new meaning to the term hit and run.
30:50Backit B-E-C-K-E double-T badge 4-1-3-1-9.
30:51We need a TSA hold on a potential fugitive.
30:52Yes, I'll hold.
30:53It's definitely Vegas.
30:54It's definitely Vegas.
30:55And the footprint?
30:56That's harder to nail down.
30:57The composition of the dirt is pretty similar to dirt anywhere in the city.
30:59So 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.
31:02Peel.
31:03Takes a little batting practice on Vega's head, heads home, packs her things, heads the room.
31:07Giving a whole new meaning to the term hit and run.
31:10Backit B-E-C-K-E-Double-T badge 4-1-3-1-9.
31:15I need a TSA hold on a potential fugitive.
31:19Yes, I'll hold.
31:21Uniforms are circling that picture of Lara we got from Quintana.
31:23They're blasting her on every storefront within a mile of her place.
31:26So it 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,
31:38so they sent a beautiful spy for him to fall in love with.
31:42It works.
31:44He smuggles her back home, and bam.
31:46He's dead.
31:48Sounds like a castle story.
31:50I'll call it Corazon de Fuego.
31:52Yes, I need to detain and contain.
31:55All 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,
32:04then 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.
32:09Well, 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.
32:16I'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?
32:27Only within the scope of the law.
32:28The watcher becomes the watched.
32:31I'm a big fan of irony.
32:33Ask her.
32:33She'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,
32:45a country's consulate and its embassy have a different set of rights and privileges.
32:49This 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
33:02harboring a criminal on American soil.
33:04No, I did not kill him.
33:33At least you have to believe.
33:34Then why did you run?
33:35Why did you try to go back to Cuba?
33:37I was afraid the man will kill me too.
33:40What man?
33:41The one who come the night he died, he come to...
33:46El Piso.
33:47The apartment.
33:48Came to the apartment.
33:49There was a man who came to the apartment the night that Vega died,
33:52and that's why you were running?
33:53He killed my father.
33:56Your father?
33:57Vega.
33:58Cano Vega is your father?
34:00Okay, Lara, take us from the beginning, desde el principio.
34:05Vega and my mother...
34:07Vega and her mother were engaged when he defected.
34:20She was supposed to come, but she didn't.
34:24As punishment for what Vega did, they threw her mother in prison.
34:29She was pregnant with her at the time.
34:31Did Vega know about this?
34:36Until a couple of months ago, we heard a rumor that he had a daughter.
34:39Well, that's why Vejo went to Cuba, to see if he really did have a daughter.
34:47They didn't actually meet because the government was watching her.
34:52But he got her a message saying that he would get her out as soon as he could.
34:56She grew up believing that her father had abandoned her mother to get rich.
35:15But he told her that that wasn't true.
35:18He only defected because her mother said that she was going to as well.
35:24But she had changed her mind at the last minute.
35:27All those years, he had thought that she had turned her back on him.
35:32He never knew that the government had made an example of him to all the other players.
35:36He never knew that she had died in prison.
35:41My father is very upset when I tell him this.
35:47He said he needs to talk to someone.
35:49He, uh, uh, give me money for food.
35:51I never see him again.
35:53He said earlier that there was a man at the apartment.
35:57When I go to the market to go buy food,
36:01when I come back,
36:04I see a man at the, um, apartment.
36:07Not my father.
36:09I was so scared, so I leave.
36:13Then I hear Cano Vega is dead.
36:15So I run and I hide.
36:19I just wanted to go home.
36:22He killed my father.
36:25This man who came to your apartment,
36:28can you describe him for me?
36:31Yes.
36:34Let me get this straight.
36:36An illegal claiming to be Cano Vega's daughter,
36:39after being in this country for less than 24 hours,
36:42identifies someone who kind of looks like me
36:44from a distance at night.
36:47What, gee, guys?
36:48What, am I, will I sign my confession right now?
36:51Or after the big, uh, press conference?
36:54Well, now's good.
36:56Come on, kids.
36:58Come on.
36:59You know he was my friend.
37:01Not to mention a hefty commission.
37:03What's my motive?
37:04The thing about people who have a lot, Mr. Fox,
37:06is that they have the most to lose.
37:08I'm sure Vega felt betrayed when he learned the truth.
37:11The truth?
37:12About what?
37:14Your favorite story.
37:15Barcelona, 1992, only, you left out the part where you lied to Cano Vega about helping his fiancée defect.
37:22It's not my fault that she changed her mind, all right?
37:25Truth is, you couldn't get her off the island.
37:27But you didn't know that he'd rather be there with her than here,
37:30making big bucks for you in the majors.
37:31So you let him believe that she had changed her mind?
37:34And to keep him from ever finding out the truth, you had her put away?
37:38Put away?
37:39In Cuba?
37:41Oh, come on.
37:43I have a lot of pull, but influencing a military dictatorship isn't as easy as getting a dinner reservation at Le Cirque.
37:50You'd influenced their people before.
37:53Manuel Gutierrez, a.k.a. El Pulpo, the octopus.
37:57You walked away with the star player of the Cuban national team for a Rolex.
38:02We did a little research.
38:03He was the chief witness at her trial.
38:07Was denouncing Vega's fiancée always a part of your plan with El Pulpo, or did you have to pay extra for that?
38:12I've heard you're a killer negotiator.
38:14You can't possibly be serious.
38:17When Vega figured out what you had done, he called you from his club and told you to meet.
38:21I think he came after you and threatened to destroy you, and that's why you killed him.
38:26It's a hell of a story, kids.
38:28I paid El Pulpo to take care of my player's girl when the Cuban government is sending away people every day?
38:33Well, that's a hell of a tale.
38:35It's pure conjecture.
38:37You know what's not conjecture?
38:39The blood that we found on the driver's side floor mat in your car.
38:43That was Vega's blood.
38:45As much as you tried to clean those $5,000 pair of shoes you were wearing while you smashed Vega's skull in,
38:50you didn't quite get all of it.
38:59No, Cynthia, call my lawyer.
39:01You're telling me he's about to earn the outrageous, obscene amounts of money I pay him?
39:05Turn around.
39:10Turn around.
39:12Robert Fox, you're under arrest for the murder of Canovega.
39:15What's going to happen to Laura?
39:19She can stay in the States for a year and then decide whether she wants to apply for citizenship or not.
39:24Well, I can't imagine her staying.
39:26Her last bit of family is gone.
39:28I mean, the only person that she knew here is dead.
39:32Well, there is one more person that she should meet.
39:35So, you're Laura?
39:44She was born in Cuba right after Mr. Vega defected.
39:47She's not his girlfriend.
39:50She's his daughter.
39:51Cano had a daughter?
39:53My 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.
40:18Pero, yo espero, al igual que mi papá, que juntos podríamos formar una familia.
40:27And that she hoped and he hoped that together you could be a family.
40:38Yo soy Maggie.
40:42Mi casa es su casa.
41:04Hey, Dad.
41:05Hey, daughter.
41:06What are you doing up so late?
41:08Waiting for you.
41:10Did I do something wrong?
41:11No.
41:14I 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.
41:21Whip cream inventor?
41:22A whipped cream inventor.
41:24But there's one thing he can't be.
41:26What's that?
41:27A dad.
41:28Just a regular dad.
41:30Teaching his son 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.
41:40What if you could have it?
41:46You have a time machine behind the kitchen counter?
41:57What do you say, son?
41:59What about a game of catch with your old man?
42:05Yeah, I'd like that.
42:07Good.
42:07I don't want to be reminded.
42:12Oh!
42:13Ha ha ha.
42:17I no longer have the time to be free from all that's rising.
42:22You ready?
42:23Ready.
42:24Ready.
42:30Oh.
42:30Oh.
42:30Oh.