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Yo, Carter, open up!

You bring the good stuff?

Don't I always?

On behalf of Ladder 12, breakfast burritos.

Plus, I grabbed some bear claws and those churros the kids love.

My man.

I tell you, this place wouldn't survive without people like you.

Make sure Chief Scott knows that.

Will do. Just do me a favor.

Save some for the next shift. I make no promises.

Wait, hold on, hold on. I got something, too. Come on in.

The 911!

Get in the car!

All

right,

so, I guess we can forget about easing into the day, people, at approximately 7

.13 this morning.

A shooter opened fire at a shelter in Astoria.

911 caller described the suspect as white, medium height, medium build,

in black.

NYPD, you put out a bolo, yeah?

All right, agent's on the way, so let's tee him up. What can you tell me? Well,

first responder on the scene was a firefighter, ladder 12. Guess he was

making a food donation.

Witness saw him run in after the shooting started. He didn't make it out.

Shelter is called Graceful Shepherd. Apart from combating homelessness, it's

also a food bank, a daycare.

So a pillar of the community.

Why then attack it? Is it religiously affiliated or funded by a political

Hey, boss, there may be an air there.

In limb for the win.

Now, Graceful Shepherd is donation -driven, but they do receive a city

That means they have to start taking in undocumented migrants, bust up from

other states, turn a quiet shelter into a lightning rod of controversy.

Right. Well, based on the location and victims, we're going to operate under

assumption that this is a federal hate crime. So let's dig into the usual

suspects.

Hate groups, extremists, NSA, you want to scrape online chatter for me? If the

shooter is ideologically motivated, that means there could be more targets.

You guys should be hunting for surveillance footage we can use.

All right. Clock is ticking, people. Let's roll up our sleeves.

I want this shooter in custody an hour ago.

Hey. Hey.

Tell me this is some kind of domestic combat.

I wish I could.

The jock's still digging in, but we're working this one like a hate crime.

Apparently the shooter entered through a side door.

Lucky guess.

Little Egypt's on the other side of 28th. My sister used to volunteer here.

one used it at the front door.

Can you take me to the shelter's director?

Hey, Special Agent Bell.

Donna Shelton.

The train I take to work was delayed this morning. I should have been here.

Thank God you weren't.

Now you can help us.

Besides this guard, do you have any other safety precautions here? Security

cameras? We can barely make payroll.

Fixing the cameras wasn't a priority.

You probably think that's negligent. Promise you the only thing I'm thinking

about is getting the coward who did this.

You knew him?

Yeah, he's worked here as long as I can remember.

Excuse me.

Hey, I'm so sorry.

I know the pit's closed down.

What do we know?

Well, the DAF and residents were gathering for breakfast when the

started. There's 11 dead.

Eight residents, two DAF, and then we've got our good Samaritan firefighter.

He was shot at the side entrance.

We're lucky that it's only 11 guys. You've got enough brass on the floor in

to start a foundry.

All 9mm.

We're assuming that it's the same weapon, but your teeth are trying to

out the type.

What is this going to say?

Overnight, DAF is dead.

Everyone else gathered when the shooting started.

I mean, if anybody else stayed, we're still too scared to talk.

Has anyone talked to her?

Who's that woman in the doorway?

That's Layla. She's a minor. If you want to talk to her, I'll need to sit in.

Where are her parents?

It was just her father.

And, uh...

I've been staying here about a week.

Dad said it was getting too cold to sleep in the van.

Maybe we can do this later.

Unfortunately, the shooter might not be done. And everything can count.

Layla, did you grow up around here?

So did I.

I used to hustle change on Steinway, tell me my sister would get fatigued at

Rafi's.

I also know what it is like to lose someone to violence.

But you can help us find this man.

Before anyone else gets hurt, do you think you could do that?

Did you notice anything?

Did he have a tattoo?

Did he say anything weird? Did he have an accent?

He didn't say anything.

He just... Some people tried to stop him, and he just started shooting.

The gun looked fake, like a toy. I thought it was a joke.

Where were you when it started?

I was over there.

Dad was helping me make the stupid video for science class.

He was recording when the shooting began?

Layla, where's that phone now?

This simple extract, Escoffalum nidosum, taken from seaweed, will improve water

use and... What's going on?

Pause it right there.

You've just witnessed the actions of a cold -blooded killer.

Whether we apprehend him before he takes more lives will be determined right

here, right now. Let's get to work. You heard the boss.

Got enough to run facial recognition. Hardly a slam dunk, but I'll try.

All right, while she's at it, can someone please tell me what's up with

gun? I've seen ghost guns before, but never anything like that.

Yeah, it's an FTP -6.

It's a 3D -printed assault rifle. The TP stands for the police. Yeah.

I can guess what the F stands for. Any chance we can trace the shooter through

the design?

Unfortunately, no.

Specs are open source. Anybody can download them. All you need is a

3D printer, some parts, and you have an untraceable gun capable of firing over

100 rounds per minute. When we said the Internet would bring us together, I

don't think they had this in mind.

Okay, I got an update on facial rec.

Who are we chasing?

Vernon Walsh, 34, affiliated with the outlaw biker gang The Lost Son. Did a

three -year bid at five points for aggravated assault.

Beat up a guy at a bar for being a race traitor.

Victim's wife was Asian.

Supports the theory that today's attack was ideologically motivated.

Yeah, where is he now? No registered phone or vehicle. Last known address is

with his cousin, Corbin Walsh, on Staten Island. 38, no priors.

Hey, guys.

Corbin works at an industrial supply warehouse on Wakefield. Any chance he

3D printer?

A Gen 3 block magic with dual extruder heads mostly used for custom tools and

fixtures. So Vernon could have used the shop's printer to create the gun used in

today's attack.

Let's reach out to the cousins, see if you can lead us to our shooter.

Tools, fixtures, molds.

I even got a guy who's using a 3D printer to rebuild his Mustang.

I got eyes on Corbin, southeast corner.

Finishing up with the client.

Here's the price list.

Give me a call if you're interested.

Corbin Walsh.

Copy with something.

You certainly can.

I work with the FBI.

I actually had a couple questions for your cousin Vernon.

Is he in trouble or something?

We're trying to determine that.

Can you call him for us? We're trying to locate him.

Huh.

Is it huh or do you work with him and know where he is? No, but I can, you

I can try him.

My phone's in the back.

Corbin, stop moving.

That's no problem. I'll be right... Oh, wait. He's running. Copy that.

Cover the front.

If he has another target, you need to tell me where he is now.

I ain't telling you nothing. Wrong answer. Wrong answer!

Away. Away.

Uh,

you guys need to see this.

Oh, God. They built themselves an arsenal.

He's an accessory.

He made those guns for his cousin. Now we get him to tell us where Vernon is

before he terrorizes another community.

I agree.

I'm going to take this interview with Skula.

I'm sorry?

I know you want to get in there, and I understand why.

But as your friend... He attacked my neighborhood.

Maggie, he attacked us. What are you talking about? You almost gave up our

leverage back there.

I'm going to find Vernon.

You have my word.

I know how this works.

You're going to talk tough.

Threaten to throw the book at me.

But I know what I did. I know what that means.

Do you now?

Serious assault with a deadly weapon.

Class C felony, 20 years. Be out in 10.

You can't scare me.

We're not trying to scare you.

We want to help you.

See, while you may have shot at federal agents, you didn't kill 11 people.

You're sitting on information that the AUSA might find helpful.

If you decide to talk.

They're just getting started.

And you?

I am just observing.

Better than meeting with OPR.

Don't worry, your partners didn't say anything.

The bystander recorded the takedown. You don't understand, Isabel. They were

attacking your community.

And for that, I am sorry.

But you almost crossed a line. You can't uncross.

What good would that do?

Is this when you tell me that I am too close to the case and my personal life

affecting how I do my job?

No. This is where I tell you I'm married.

You're what?

Mm -hmm.

Since when?

Two months.

His name is Philip.

He has three daughters, which means I now have three daughters.

I didn't know that.

Because I have learned to leave my personal life outside of this building.

It's what works for me.

I'm not telling you how to do your job, but what we do is too important to risk

jeopardizing over our personal life.

How you reconcile that is up to you.

So two months.

How's it going?

No complaints.

They're supposed to move me to tears or something.

They're thinking more sense of self -preservation might kick in.

Corbin, you manufactured a gun that was used to shoot up a shelter.

But I don't think you knew there were asylum seekers in there.

That's conspiracy to commit a hate crime with murder as an aggravated

circumstance. That's more than ten years.

That's the needle.

And it just so happens that the AG is looking to make an example out of

gun makers. So any chance at leniency for you is out the window if your cousin

keeps going around and shooting up shelters. There won't be another

How do you know?

This morning was a one -off.

We've been selling these guns to some guys who kick up to the Jalisco cartel.

Last week they pulled Vernon aside.

He said if he wanted to make real money, he could take a swing at an open

contract. Why would a Mexican cartel hire a biker gang to do the shooting?

I'd answer the question, Corbin.

Are there any chance that a deal's off the table?

They gave him a name, okay?

Vernon was just supposed to grab someone.

This was never part of the plan.

Those people must have gotten in his way.

Who was he supposed to grab?

Only Vernon knows.

But I can tell you where he might be holding him.

We got cops.

Got the gun

We

got bird

involves

Looks like it's kidnapping one, Pat.

All right, so the good news is Vernon Walsh can't hurt anybody anymore.

The bad news is we have no idea who killed him or what that means to our

level. So let's start at the center. What did the cartel just renege on their

deal? Well, Vernon's phone record shows several calls made to and from a cartel

front in Jalisco this morning. So at the very least, it means this unholy

alliance is legit.

Hey, guys.

ERT says the bloody print on the flex cuff matched the ones found on the

used to murder Vernon.

Oh, okay.

Whoever he kidnapped from the shelter used the pliers to break out of the

restraints and then killed him with it.

But wait, you said you have prints.

So the question is, who did the cartel send Vernon in to grab?

Well, prints don't match anyone in IAFIS or the Interpol database. Plus, there's

still 100 unaccounted for migrants at the shelter.

Right. So, another dead end.

Uh, not exactly. Warrant for the doorbell camera footage across the alley

Vernon's apartment went through.

This is approximately 30 minutes after the attack on the shelter.

Okay, so here's Vernon.

Freeze it.

Okay, who is she? Can we get a facial rec? Negative resolution is too low.

All right, but that is good enough to ask around. Get that image to Maggie

I'm sorry, but since we started taking in asylum seekers, it's policy not to

reveal the residents' identities for their safety. And we respect that, but a

woman was abducted here.

And she's in danger as we speak.

Legally, I can't reveal that list. Excuse me, I'm very busy.

Okay, we know that you want to protect your residence.

And so do we. But as long as she's out in the street, she's not safe.

So look again.

Look, I know you weren't here this morning.

But now you're in a position to help save a life.

I'm not 100 % sure.

But I think this is who you're looking for.

Checked in a week ago.

All right, look alive, people. We have an ID for the woman who was abducted

Graceful Shepherd this morning. Inez Madera.

Where have I heard that name before?

Probably from a DEA quarterly brief. Inez is the longtime mistress of drug

Jorge Ortega, heir to the Jalisco cartel, responsible for billions in

trafficking and hundreds of murders in Mexico and abroad. So the Jalisco cartel

hires a biker gang to kidnap this woman?

It appears that way, but why would the mistress of one of the world's most

dangerous men pose as a migrant in a New York shelter?

Jordan, what's the DEA know that we don't know?

We intercepted Thicket last week.

Apparently, Ines Madera stole from Ortega, then absconded to the U .S. We

have a location for her until now.

So Ortega's down a mistress.

It's a blow to his ego, but is it enough for him to actually hunt her down and

kill 11 people in the process?

It is for him.

Every little life in New York is talking.

He put a $5 million bounty on her, payable in cash or product to whoever

her to him alive.

Wow. Well, that's more money than Vernon or Corbin would ever make flipping

guns. Well, this is just the tip of the iceberg. If Inez Madera killed her

abductor, that means she is still out there on the run hiding. And that bounty

is still open to every gangbanger, sicario, and common criminal looking to

a buck. And until we find Inez, all of New York is caught in the crossfire.

I need a bead on our runaway mistress, people.

Every lowlife in New York has five million reasons to hunt down an

We want to avoid more bloodshed. We need to get to her first.

The walls are closing in on her, so where does she go?

Well, she wouldn't go home to Mexico.

Ortega would track her down for sure.

Yeah, but she could get around this community here.

Let's put a magnifying glass on Flatbush Sunset Park, Jackson Heights, known

associates, friends.

Nothing's coming up in our databases.

This might be something.

I had NSA filter calls made to Mexico from Telmex payphones here in the city.

Telmex, the international payphone. Yeah, before WhatsApp and Skype, it's

Mexicans living in the U .S. used to call home. You'd find them at bodegas,

check cashing stores.

Seems there are still a few left in the city, and get this. Over the last three

days, the Telmex in Sunset Park made calls to Inez's parents' home in

always at 2 p .m., never for more than 30 seconds.

Just enough time to let your folks know you're okay. I pulled up street cam

footage from outside the mini -mart where those calls were made. Check it

This is from yesterday.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's her.

What about the day before yesterday?

Every day for the last week, around 2 p .m. All right, that gives us 15 minutes

to get down there.

After today, Inez is going to want to let her parents know that she's okay.

Okay, you two, I got eyes on Annette's favorite bodega here.

It looks like we got a couple of teenagers tying up the phone.

Well, she should be here.

Gola, you got a red lowrider coming your way. Oh, yeah.

I got him.

Dollars to Donuts, they're looking for our girl.

I have eyes on an F.

I'm done.

Resisting. Well, with the FBI, we'd want to help you. I don't need your help.

Uh -oh.

I can see why.

All the time and resources that the agency has spent looking for you and you

were setting up a drug deal.

You people don't know anything.

We know that you were in possession of a kilo of uncut cocaine that bears the

stamp of the Jalisco cartel.

And you were the one who brought it into the United States.

We do what we must to survive.

To survive?

Miss Madera, we have seen the photos of you and Jorge Ortega, the homes, the

yachts. You are not surviving. You are living it up. And when it stops serving

you, you rob him, run away, and now the people of New York are paying the price.

These people are dead because of you. Look at them.

Look at them.

I was 16 the first time Jorge said eyes on me.

He followed me walking home from school.

He spoke to my parents and I had no say in it. I didn't understand the world I

was stepping into.

Yeah.

But you did understand that his world had money, right? And you knew where the

money was coming from.

I became his girl and he was good.

Until I grew up and I realized what it cost me. And the first chance I got, I

stole drugs from him.

To cross the border and start over. But what I don't understand is that a kilo

of cocaine is a grain of sand to a man like Ortega.

Yet he put a five million dollar bounty on you.

This isn't adding up.

You know, we want to help you.

But you're going to have to give us the full picture.

He doesn't want me back.

Or the drugs.

He wants Miguel.

Where's Miguel, your new boyfriend?

Our son.

We kept him a secret from the world so he'd be safe from Jorge's enemies.

But I had to take Miguel away from him.

Why now?

The day Miguel turned eight, Jorge took him to the stable.

He thought he was getting a new horse.

Instead, he found a rival bus tied up.

Jorge handed him a gun.

and said it was time for Miguel to be a man.

My son, he couldn't pull the trigger.

I couldn't let him turn our boy into a monster like him.

That's why I stole the drugs to sell and give Miguel a new life.

If Ortega is sending criminals after you, then your son is in danger, too.

I went to a shelter alone. Miguel is somewhere else, somewhere safe.

Inna, think this through.

Ortega already tracked you down.

How long before he finds Miguel?

Where is he?

My best friend from Jalisco, her brother, Daniel, he lives in Flatbush.

He agreed to hide Miguel from me.

Write down the address and we will do what you could not and keep your son

We'll do everything we can.

I know you're angry with her, but you need to remember that she's a victim.

You know that when someone like Ortega singles you out, you don't have a

And that may be true, but she had a choice when she came to New York, and

should have chosen to talk to the cops, not go to a shelter filled with innocent

people when she knew a cartel was after her.

I understand.

And it was in your old neighborhood.

That is filled with good people who just want what this country has to offer,

and then she brings in this violence, Maggie.

The people that died today are not the only ones that get hurt.

It's the owner of the halal market and the dry cleaner across the street.

They're all collateral damage, and now what are people going to say?

What do you expect from a Muslim neighborhood?

You're right.

But she still deserves her protection, and so does her son.

Okay, here's the most current photo of Miguel.

All right, I'll post up out here while you guys go talk to the babysitter.

Sounds good.

Clear. FBI.

He took him.

Derek.

Stop.

FBI.

Skola, somebody stabbed the babysitter and took the kid. South parking lot.

Copy. I'm on it, Maggie.

FBI, stop!

The special agent's goal, I got a child abduction in progress.

Hispanic male, age 15, moving east on Veronica toward Tilden. It's a blue

pickup. New York 3KRC 156.

Who took Miguel?

I tried to stop him.

Was it Ortega's men?

No, it was... El Diablo.

All right, so we have the full story now. Inez fled Mexico in her life with

Jorge Ortega, brought their son with her, and that was the real purpose of

Ortega's bounty.

He wants his kid back, and it sounds like he may have succeeded.

That was Maggie with an update. According to neighbors, our abductor had

canvassing Flatbush with a photo of Inez claiming to be her father.

Right, so someone pointed him to Nunez's apartment, inadvertently leading to the

boy. What do we know about the mystery man who kidnapped Miguel?

Well, according to OA, he's known as El Diablo, the devil.

He's a Hispanic male, 50.

Okay, well, if that's all we have, that's all we have.

Any hits on Iapis matching that descriptor? We need to track this man

before he hand -delivers this kid to his drug lord father in Mexico.

NYPD, Port Authority, State Police, and CBP have all been read in. There's a

dragnet around the city. Good.

Looks like El Diablo blew a red light while fleeing the scene. Traffic cam got

good look at his car, but...

Oh, ready for a curveball?

Plates are registered to a Nestor Cruz, born in Zacatecas, but legally living in

the U .S. for the past 10 years. No priors. He's an electrician. On the

this guy's a taxpayer.

What is a civilian doing wrapped up in a cartel bounty?

Because he's not a civilian.

He was part of a Mexican paramilitary group supported by a joint Mexico -U .S.

task force, highly effective in neutralizing narco elements.

What do you mean, assassinating?

Narco started calling him El Diablo.

Probably because he was the last faith they saw before he sent him to hell.

When the task force went after Ortega, the drug lord targeted El Diablo's

family, burned his wife and daughter alive in a junkyard, then texted him the

video. We're looking at this all wrong.

El Diablo has no intention of handing Ortega's son to him.

He's not interested in collecting a bounty.

You're right.

He wants revenge.

I'm Matthew Bush, Deputy Chief of Intelligence, DEA.

Someplace we can talk?

According to my source, El Diablo reached out to Jorge Ortega 30 minutes

He's trying to broker a trade.

The boy's life in exchange for the drug lord's.

Otherwise, an eye for an eye.

And this drug lord agreed to it. Well, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to

sanction a trade like this.

They can't turn the city into a war zone to settle in the old score. This isn't

the old west.

Which is why you're going to intervene.

My source gave me the location of the exchange.

I'm sharing it.

This is a win for you.

Your source is the drug lord, Ortega.

I can't confirm or deny.

You're telling me one of the world's most wanted criminals is working with

DEA.

Right. So our two choices are let this war play out on U .S. soil or have our

team run an errand for a drug lord.

And save Miguel's life in the process.

We'll take the intel.

We can't breach if your guy's got a hostage, not unless the boy's life is in

imminent danger. And even if it were, we don't have the intel to ensure he won't

get caught in the crossfire.

Don't you have spotters posted?

Cruz blocked the line to the site.

What about a throat phone? Can we talk him down? My guy dropped three through

the air vent. So far, hasn't picked up.

Okay, go update the jock. I'm going to establish a connection with Cruz.

We need to get Miguel out of here.

Nestor Cruz, this is Special Agent Maggie Bell. I'm with the FBI.

Please pick up and throw a phone so I can talk to you.

All right, Per Scola, we need eyes inside this building. Stats, no bad

here. We train crews.

We cannot send our agents into a buzzsaw. Uh, you said no bad ideas,

just hooked into the building's Wi -Fi. That help us confirm crews is in there,

how? Uh, something I picked up from Celeste on the flight team. We can run a

neural network similar to the one that developed the Carnegie Mellon. It maps

the phase and amplitude of Wi -Fi signals bouncing off whatever is inside

structure, including people.

Turns your Wi -Fi into radar.

Yeah, great.

Give it a try.

Downloading building specs cross -reference again.

And launching the neural network now.

Okay. What am I looking at here?

A blueprint of visualized images.

Live mapping the building El Diablo and Miguel are in. Yeah, that's a person,

right? Yeah, that has got to be Cruz.

And that's Miguel.

He's alive.

For now.

Hey, Maggie, we've confirmed they're both in there and the boy is still

Nestor, we know you're in there and you can hear me.

We just want to get Miguel out safely.

Special Agent Bell.

I have no interest in talking to you or anyone in the FBI.

Ortega and I made a deal.

Where is he?

The FBI wants to bring him to justice just as much as you do. But first, you

need to let Miguel go.

He shouldn't be a part of this.

Justice is not a prison cell. Not for him.

You want to negotiate?

Bring me Ortega or the boy dies.

We need to get in there now.

Everyone be advised. We just hit a tripwire. This place is booby trapped.

Number two, Cruz.

Cruz, stop!

Don't move.

Get back! Get back!

Put the gun down now!

I knew he wouldn't show.

This is his fault. What comes now?

We're not going to stand down and let more innocent people get hurt. You

justice for your wife and children. This isn't it. It could have been had you

not gotten involved.

America always protects her interests, even if it means working with a colonde

like Jim Vega. That coward is playing all of you.

No one else needs to die, including you.

Don't bother.

I died long ago.

Hey, I've got you. You're safe.

Suspect down.

Confirmed. Suspect is down.

Maggie.

We're okay. We weren't hit.

All right, let's go see your mom. Okay, let's go.

Special Agents Bell, Zedan, and Skola. This is DEA Deputy Chief of Intelligence

Matthew Bush.

His source tipped us off to El Diablo's hideout.

I personally wanted to commend you all for a job well done.

Your success directly led to Jorge Ortega providing critical intel on three

different cartels. As we speak, DEA is preparing to launch raids in New York,

Miami, and El Paso.

What did Ortega get in return?

You don't actually need me to spell it out, do you? So you're just going to

Miguel back to his father?

It's complicated.

No, it's not.

A lot of drugs will be taken off the street because of your heroics. All it

was one kid.

You were never going to find him without us.

We both got what we wanted. Let's leave it at that. And if you keep making deals

with the devil, you might forget what side you're on. My world isn't as black

and white as yours.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, right?

I don't know how he's not tired after the day he had.

Ines, I know, I know. I know I have to answer my parting today.

Thank you. Thank you so much. You brought my son back.

Give it the beat.

I've been threatened this far saying goodbye.

Do you think my son is going to be able to visit me while my case plays out?

He won't be able to visit you because he won't be in the United States.

He's going back to Mexico.

What do you mean?

How could that be? My parents, they're too old to take him.

He won't be with your parents.

Our country.

has a policy to reunite children with their rightful parents. No!

No, you can't send him back to his father! He's a monster!

He's a monster!

You promised me you would protect him! You promised that! I'm sorry.

Our hands are tied.

There he is.

Jorge Ortega, the heir to the Jalisco cartel in our headquarters because we

invited him.

And we're just going to let him drive off with his kid.

I really thought today would end differently.

Yeah, you and me both.

I never wonder why we do this sometimes.

When days end like this.

I guess for all the other days.

We're gonna head over to Casey's for a drink.

You wanna come?

Uh, I'm okay.

I got someplace to be.

Good night.

Night.

Agent Zidane, I got your text.

I brought dinner from Rafi's.

I hope you guys are hungry.

Come in.