There's a knock on the door and Sonny answers it "Hey. You must be Carmen." He smiles towards her.
"Hi." She shyly says back.
"Hi. Come on in." He moves aside to let her in. "Come in." He touches her hair as she walks past him. He locks the top lock on the door "You're so pretty." He says to her.
"He's playing the role, alright." I mutter under my breathe to Amanda as we watch the TV from the connecting room.
He asks the girl "so, what are you gonna do for me?"
She answers back in a small voice, broken English "whatever you want. Massage is 200."
He gets closer to her "massage? That's a joke, right? I didn't call you for a massage."
He goes in to grab her arms "just tell me what you want."
"Oh, yeah, that's better." She begins to fight him "I like the ones who struggle." He keeps his hands on her wrists.
"Please don't hurt me!" She begs. "Please don't!" She tries to run for the door.
"Where are you going? No, no, no." He blocks her as she tries to run to the door. The girl runs into the bathroom scared, we switch the channel to get the other screen up.
"I like it rough." He spits to her "that's what I want. You can't do that, you find someone who can. Because this ain't what I'm paying for, baby." The girl takes out her phone to dial who we all hope is Selena "Yeah, get out your phone." He yells to her. She drops it on the ground, and Sonny keeps his creepy John facade up "pick up that phone! Pick up that phone and call somebody right now!"
"Selena?" The girl cries out into the phone.
There's a knock on the door a by later and Sonny moves to answer it. We see from our camera feed it's a male and a women. We let it play out. "Whoa, whoa." Sonny backs up, his hand in the air. "I just wanted a new girl. You sent me the virgin Maria." He says to the man holding a gun to his face.
"Carmen." Selena comes into the room.
"You know what? Forget it. We don't gotta do this." Sonny shakes his head.
Selena yells at him "you hurt my girl. You need to pay."
He nods "okay. No problem, ma'am. No problem. Lower the gun. We're all friends." He keeps them all focused on him. "Nobody needs to get hurt here."
Finn rushes in from the front and I kick the door I'm behind open. I yell out "hands in the air!" as I walk in and quickly kick the gun away from the man on the floor.
Finn comments out "this one's done."
I move forward, keeping my gun trained on Selena "she's my cousin. I was trying to help." She tries to lie.
"Yeah, save it, sister." I spit back "let's go." I wave in an officer to handcuff her "Come here." The officer takes her away and Amanda goes to Carmen.
"Luna give us anything more?" I ask as we all sit around the television a few hours later. Amanda clicks a few things after Barba handed her something to plug in and we wait. He goes on to explain "Tenancingo is the epicenter for sex trafficking in Mexico. Pimping is their main industry. It is a very poor village, shack after shack after shack. Except for these mansions." He clicks over "they're five stories high, turreted, gates. Pagoda rooftops."
"I spoke to a federal task force looking into this. The traffickers make so much money, they build these huge houses. Their mothers live there, a few guards, and the children." Amanda elaborates.
"Children of kidnapped girls." I add on with a shake of my head.
"So there have mansions in Mexico. How's this help us take down this crew?" Finn asks, wanting to get to the point.
"I'm just getting to that. The task force was able to ID three owners. The first, shot to death in Tijuana last April. The second is a relative of a respected member of the town council. And the third they claim is somewhere in the U.S., possibly New York. Teodoro Juarez, 35."
Olivia interrupts once the photo is on the screen "son of a bitch."
"Am I missing something?" Barba asks not following.
I drop my head with more shakes "that's Angel." Sonny explains. "Must have vandalized his own office.
"Teodoro Juarez is known to us as Angel Perez." I say flatly. "He owns Quickride, the car service the girls use."
"So he wasn't just transporting, he's trafficking." Barba says, already working the lawyer angle.
"Problem is," Amanda tells him "no one's gonna testify to that. He's ruthless, he doesn't think twice about kidnapping young girls, raping them, and holding their babies hostage."
Olivia stops her "hold on. That might be our way in. These girls, they've given up on themselves. But what about the babies? Does the task force have eyes on the ground?" She goes over to the board.
"And in the air." Barba tells us.
"So can they tell us how many kids are hidden inside Angel's mother's house. And who they are?" She asks, hoping for a good respond.
Barba smirks "Mmmmhmmm." He leaves us, already pulling out his phone to make the phone calls he needs to make.
The next day we get ready to move in on Angel. We got statements from the girls, Tino, and Selena and all we need now is him behind bars. We all gear up and pull up to his house as he and his wife are packing up a car. Sonny yells out first "Police! Don't move."
I call out to the women "You! Hey! Put your hands up!"
Finn hollers to Angel "put 'em on that car!"
Sonny and I take the wife. Olivia sends Amanda and some officers inside "secure the house! Go around back!"
Angel spits out towards us "what is this? I told you, I'm not talking to you."
Olivia answers back to him "we have a warrant."
"Keep your hands up where we can see 'em." Finn directs him, pushing him up against the car.
"You can't do this. He's done nothing wrong!" His wife cries to him.
Sonny and I keep her away from them "don't make this hard." I tell her.
Olivia talks to him, let's him know what happened. "It's over, Angel. We arrested your mother in Tenancingo for kidnapping. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you" She starts to go over his rights.
"Mira, call the lawyers." He calls back to his wife.
"I will." She calls back to him, semi fighting us to get closer to him.
Although Angel lowers his voice, it's clear what he is saying "you know this is stupid, right? I know where you live. I know about that baby. From one parent to another, you don't want to do this."
Finn calls him out "you threatening my sergeant's kid?"
Mira gets away for a moment "you can't do this! He hasn't done anything!"
Sonny calls to her, both him and I grabbing at her again "Ma'am! - Get back!"
Within seconds we hear a gun shot and Sonny and I push his wife to the ground, protecting her. "Detective?" I call to Sonny next to me.
"I'm good, you good?" He asks me back.
"Good.' I say to him.
We both look up and see Angel slumped down on the ground, a bullet to his heart. Finn and Olivia have there guns drawn to him, but Finn's is the one with smoke coming off of it. His wife wails with tears as she realizes her husband is dead. Sonny and I lift her up, moving her away from the body and towards the front door.
"Everyone okay?" Amanda comes from inside the house.
I nod to her "We're good here, go help Olivia."
She leaves to go over things with our Sergeant while Sonny and I maintain control over the inconsolable women. More officers arrive, along with CSU and IAB. We finish whatever reports we have to there and make our way back to the precinct to start paperwork.
