"Hey, Sonny, Rico, why are you out in this-" Noogie says, Sonny grabbing him by his shirt.
"Just what the hell were you doing giving Ali and Roni fake IDs?!" Sonny asks.
"That was Izzy's idea!" Noogie says, Sonny letting him go.
"Did Izzy give them out to any of the other kids?" Rico asks.
"He tried giving one to Amber but she looked at him like he was crazy." Noogie says.
"To be expected from her. She'll just walk through the door and give you hell if you stop her." Sonny says.
"That bar brawl on the news… was that Ali, is she alright?" Noogie asks.
"She's okay. It was her and Alicia, who was nearly blinded because Ali accidentally grabbed a bottle instead of Amber's staff." Sonny says.
"Damn it. Ali never hurts anyone unless they've hurt her or the others, poor kid's gotta be angry at herself." Noogie says.
"Yeah, she is but thankfully, Alicia will heal… it'll just take time." Rico says, him and Sonny leaving.
Rico headed back home and Sonny, following his instincts, decided to check on Amber.
"He tell you Izzy gave out the fake IDs?" Amber asks.
"Yeah… why didn't you go for getting one though? I would've thought someone your age would." Sonny says.
"I don't need one. People know who I am, I only go to the age restricted places that their security, managers or whoever else, are letting me go to." Amber says.
"Ali's more of the risk taker… it's like dealing with Gina when she and I worked together." Sonny says.
"The Frank Mosca case, right? Things like that only end one way, with someone dead." Amber says, Sonny knowing she was right as he glanced at an old picture of Eddie Rivera.
When the storm calmed down, Amber and Brady found Ali and Maurice at the arcade, the two distracting themselves with Streetfighter and Amber seeing Izzy trying to sell a diamond necklace to someone but the woman walked away.
"Amber, how can I help you today?" Izzy asks after Amber walked over to him, Amber examining a platinum bracelet.
"Are you going to tell me or do I have to tell you?" Amber asks.
"Okay so I did steal a few items…" Izzy says, Amber seeing the Versace logo on the bracelet.
"Yeah, I can tell. People aren't stupid, Versace don't do street sales and any enthusiast would tell you the same. And if they do, then it's not mixed with the products of about 5 other companies." Amber says.
"He tried to sell it to me an hour ago. I saw the scratch on the side from where the security tag was." Ali says after walking to them with Maurice and Brady following her.
"Izzy… how much did you steal?" Brady asks.
"$5000 worth." Izzy says, Amber slapping him upside the head. "They were just gonna chuck it all on the sidewalk, that's what I heard one of the employees say!" He says, backing away from Amber.
"These days, they auction it to the wider online audience if it's not selling in store! And even if they were chucking it out the door, until they actually have it's still their property and still, therefore, theft!" Amber says.
Meanwhile…
"Why isn't this case with the burglary unit?" Trudy asks after reading the report Martin handed to her.
"Because the main suspect is… well known to us, you might say. These days I don't even have to slap the photo on the desk." Martin says.
"Damn Moreno… should've locked him up after the McCarthy case." Trudy says, Martin chuckling slightly before the two left.
When the two reached the area at South Beach, they saw Ali holding Izzy against the wall like a cop would, Martin walking over and seeing zipties around Izzy's wrists.
"She always comes prepared." Ali says, nodding her head over towards Amber, who was sipping a milkshake through a straw while leant against a palm tree a few feet away.
"Appreciate the help kiddo but leave it to the police from now on." Martin says, Amber nodding as Martin cut the zipties and handcuffed Izzy before he and Trudy dragged Izzy away.
"Izzy Moreno… loveable but scam crazy." Ali says as Amber walked back to them.
"You chased him down though." Amber says.
"Had no choice when he started running." Ali says.
"Yeah… follow through with threats or they'll never be believed, I've had to tell myself that before." Amber says.
When they headed to the Castillo house, Ali saw the smashed windows in the living room.
"Damn it." Ali mutters as they walked in, Todd cowering on the floor and Miguel holding his baseball bat. "Todd, you jackass! You've really lost your damn mind!" She says after slamming her right foot into his face.
"Get these damn zipties off me!" Todd says as blood trailed from his nose, Miguel about to hit him again but Brady stopped him and Amber dialed Gina's number.
"What happened?" Gina asks.
"We've found a ziptied Todd in your house." Amber says.
"Windows are smashed in too, Miguel got him." Ali says.
"You break into someone's home and vandalize it, that's liable to happen… I'll be there soon." Gina says, her and Amber hanging up as Ali checked to see if anything was stolen.
"I'm not a damn thief, this was just a warning!" Todd says.
"Yeah… and so is this." Amber says before whacking her staff end into Todd's chest, knocking the wind out of him. "Now don't speak unless you're asked or you want to tempt me again!" She shouts.
Ali checked upstairs with Brady and both saw 'Whore!' spray painted on her bedroom wall and pictures of Ali's grandmother torn up in the photo album, Brady seeing the rageful look in Ali's eyes and following her downstairs.
"You were in my damn room, you really are a creep! And those pictures were irreplaceable!" Ali shouts after taking the bat and Todd screaming after it slammed into his back and left leg, Brady pulling her away.
After Todd was arrested and taken away, Amber walked over to Ali in the backyard and sat next to her.
"Those pictures were the only ones I had of my grandmother, I never even got to meet her… she was killed by a jealous ex lover when my mom was just a toddler." Ali says.
"Well… the best we've got is that a bit of glue and tape works wonders." Amber says.
"Yeah…" Ali says, Amber seeing a small and faded photo in Ali's hand but she could tell it was Elena and a 10 month old Gina in the photo and smiled slightly. "On the night she was killed… she'd accepted a marriage proposal from her longterm boyfriend who treated my mom like his own child. Then over 20 years later, the man came to Miami, looking for the killer… trying to get some kind of justice." She says, Amber having not know that.
"There never really is any justice when someone gets away with murder." Amber says.
"Damn right, pal." Ali says.
An hour later…
"What do you mean you got arrested, what did you do?!" Jake asks after Todd called him.
"I went and did a warning act to Ali, hurt something she treasures like she did to us!" Todd says.
"And…" Jake says.
"Miguel went berserk when he got home, basically held me hostage!" Todd says, Jake nearly dropping his phone.
Jake jumped out of his skin when he heard a sickening smash and stood up, running downstairs and seeing the glass doors broken.
"What the hell was that?!" Todd asks.
"Either that senile neighbor of theirs or one of the…" Jake says, jumping back when the phone was knocked out of his hand and break as it hit the wall.
"Think that was funny to do that?!" Brady asks, Amber's staff in his hands.
"That wasn't my idea, it was Todd's! He didn't even say what was destroyed!" Jake says.
"Pictures that Ali kept of her grandmother! She never got to meet Elena!" Brady shouts, slamming the staff into Jake's left knee and knocking him down.
"That was going a bit far… but Ali, she changed when we moved back last year! I didn't even want to leave but when we came back, Ali acted like she didn't care that we were gone!" Jake says.
"That was the only way she could keep her heart from breaking completely… she missed you and your sister more than you know." Brady says.
Leaving and returning to the Castillo house, Brady walked upstairs and saw that Ali had scrubbed the spray paint off with Simple Green cleaner and put the photo album away.
"You hurt him?" Ali asks after putting the cleaner away and throwing the latex gloves and paper towels in the trashcan before returning to the room.
"Yeah… but he's not angry for the reason you think. He's angry because you acted like you didn't care that they left." Brady says.
"I didn't think they'd come back… it hurt like hell when they left." Ali says, remembering the cracking sound that echoed from her right arm and Brady saw her flinch as she remembered Jake pulling her down.
Brady pulled Ali into his arms, the two hugging... but like before, comfort and calm was temporary.