Day Break s01e03 Episode Script

My name is detective Brett Hopper, and this is the day that changes everything.
Freeze! You're under arrest for the murder of assistant D.
A.
Alberto Garza.
I will be framed for murder Who the hell are you people? My girlfriend Rita will be in danger.
I know all this because I am living the same day over and over again.
The day is the same, but different things happen.
Every decision I make has a consequence.
I could save a stranger's life or not.
I didn't go for coffee.
I could try to run or hide.
But the next morning, I feel the pain of the day before.
Every day I get another chance.
This mess you're in have anything to do with the fact you been looking - into the Latin disciples? - We flipped Damien Ortiz against the disciples, now he's on the run.
Every day, I get another clue.
Hopper, you should've received a package today.
It's important.
Today, I have to get that package.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
due to an overturned semi.
it spilled over a hundred cases of diapers.
Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
right around there, due to the rubbernecking.
What are you doing? - Just a sec.
- Brett.
I'm just gonna take a shower.
- Me, too.
I'll scrub your back.
- Sounds great, baby.
Will you just let me in? Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Open up.
What? I thought we were gonna take a shower together.
I was We were, but I was thinking maybe I would take the day off today.
Really? You never take the day off.
Yeah, well, I thought maybe we could We could hang out.
Baby, I gotta work.
Well, you could take the day off, too.
I can't do that.
Come on, come on.
It'll be fun.
Come I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- No.
It's not okay.
I know that your mother gave this to you.
Okay.
I'm gonna make this up to you.
I promise.
We can go anywhere you wanna go today.
Anywhere.
Okay.
Okay? I'm just gonna drop by my place and pick up a package, and we'll be good.
Let's go.
You said anywhere, right? Yep.
Yep.
- Okay.
Mexico.
- Mex - What? - Let's go down to Rosarito beach.
I know this great lobster shack right off the highway.
Six beers for a buck.
Okay.
Sure.
Sounds great.
Miss you dropped this.
You want some coffee? Yeah.
- the most incredible by far.
- Excuse me, ma'am.
- L.
A.
P.
D.
- Hold on.
- What's the problem? - Can I see some I.
D, please? - What for? - Just a police investigation.
We're questioning potential witnesses.
I didn't see anything.
And I have a super important morning meeting.
- I'll get a coffee - He'll be OK.
Could I please see your I.
D? Hello? Wait.
Just calm down.
What's wrong? Look, I can't.
Not today.
Not now.
Just please just stop calling me.
I just I can't.
I'm sorry.
I just I can't.
Okay.
And this judge, Nitzberg - But, he's your supervisor.
- Look, I've given you my address, my cell phone.
What more do you want? Thank you.
That'll be all, ma'am.
My car! My car! - Where you going? - To the bus.
I'm gonna go help 'em.
- Rita - Call 911, okay? - Wait.
We had plans.
- Okay, I'm sorry, honey.
We're gonna have to escape another day.
Okay, but wait.
We don't have to cancel.
The E.
M.
T.
S are gonna come.
They'll take over.
Brett, what is going on? - Nothing.
- Nothing? First you take the day off, Then you don't want me to go to work.
Now you want me to leave a major accident scene? You are acting really strange.
What has gotten into you? They played some voice mail A woman talking about some package they sent to you.
They think it's tied to Garza.
I'm gonna go help those people, and then I'm going to the hospital.
Okay, but stay there.
Don't leave.
Okay? I'm gonna meet you after I go to my place.
Don't leave the hospital! - Mr.
Hopper.
- Mr.
Zeitoun.
- I need to speak to you.
- I know.
The dog's been barking.
There's a leak upstairs, a plumber came, right? Yes, that's Yes.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
What is this, a joke? You think this is funny? Is he talking to us? Nah.
No way he made us.
Is this what you want? Come and get it! - No, he's definitely talking to us.
- Yep.
Let's start two large-Bore I.
V.
S, - normal saline.
- Wide open.
And I want you to page Dr.
Kim.
I think she might have tension.
Rita, you've got a visitor.
- Chad.
- You changed your hair.
- Six months ago.
- It looks nice.
But I liked it when you had the other thing.
I'm working.
What are you doing here? Can't a guy stop by check on his ex-wife? Well, then I'll cut right to it.
You seen Hopper lately? How's that any of your business? It became my business when your boyfriend murdered Alberto Garza.
What are you talking about? Assistant D.
A.
got hit last night.
Hopper's the prime suspect.
There's a warrant out for his arrest.
There must be some mistake.
Yeah, kinda hard to believe, you think you know someone and then they go and do something crazy.
Brett didn't kill anyone.
I hear different.
Sorry to be the one to tell you.
Hopper's in real trouble.
A couple of guys downtown wanna talk to you about it.
Look, you don't have to go, but it might be helpful.
For Hopper's sake.
- Hiya, Hopper.
- I know this is a reach for you, But don't do anything stupid.
Rita, we need to leave.
Yeah, good plan! She's gonna go on the run with - a fugitive.
- You gotta come with me, it's the only way I can protect you.
The only one she needs protection from is you.
Hey, sweetheart, call 9-1-1.
- I got a guy with a gun in my back.
- Whatever he says, I didn't do it.
I didn't kill Garza.
You gotta believe me.
Brett, just put the gun down.
Listen to her, Hopper.
- Hole's getting deeper.
- Shut up! Honey, listen, I know this looks crazy.
I know I don't have the right to ask you this, but I am.
You gotta come with me.
I'll explain everything later.
Please, now come with me.
Brett That was real sweet, but you're under arrest.
I have to take you in.
Not today.
Whiskey sour.
A little early for that, don't you think? - Hopper, what are you doing here? - I'm here looking for you.
- They say you killed - Garza.
Yeah, I know.
I also know that they offered you a deal to flip on me in exchange for amnesty on your I.
A.
Investigation.
I never agreed to Hell, how did you know Just hear me out, all right? That's all I'm asking.
Message eight Hopper, you should have received a package today.
It's important.
Don't let anyone know you have it.
You'll be contacted - Homicide already played me that.
- Who, the Hardy boys? Well, they're excited by that package.
- They think it's tied to Garza.
- Yeah, well, so do I.
- And this is what was inside? - Yeah.
Why would someone send you a busted up hourglass? Yeah, I don't know.
But that's why I need you to run a trace on my home phone.
Incoming calls for the last 12 hours.
If I find the woman who left that message, maybe I can get some answers.
How do you know I won't just turn this into them, Make all my problems go away? Hopper! I don't know.
I just got a feeling.
Shelton, heard you had Hopper but you let him go.
But you brought his girlfriend in, right? Yeah, where is she? She's busy.
She'll come in on her own time.
Busy? I thought you said you had an in with her.
Guess not.
- Give the guy a break.
It's his wife.
- Ex-wife.
- Right, that's gotta suck.
- Keep laughing.
You two are heading into a wall.
Oh, yeah? How's that? You'll never get Andrea Battle to flip on Hopper.
Really? Well, who do you think she'd rather deal with, I.
A.
or us? Message on your answering machine Came from a blocked number.
What kind of a block? - Law enforcement.
- Did you bypass it? Gimme some credit.
The call came from the home of a U.
S.
attorney, Nathan Baxter.
- What happened at the safe house? - Focus, Baxter.
Is he a friend of yours? What's going on, Hopper? That U.
S.
attorney's putting together a case against the Latin disciples.
Yeah, I heard about the rumors.
What's that got to do with you? Baxter contacted me about an I.
D.
informant I'm running.
Damien Ortiz.
I got him to flip against the disciples, had him all holed up in a safe house, but something happened and the whole thing went south.
Turned me against my own only to sell my ass out? I didn't sell you out! And what, you thought you'd just tell me about it at trial? No.
I know I shouldn't have kept you in the dark.
I know it was a mistake.
Yeah, damn right, it was a mistake.
Anything else you're not telling me partner? Yeah, but you wouldn't believe me.
You got an address on Baxter? I got blood.
I do, too.
- You know her? - No.
But I think she's the woman who called me about the package.
The killer shot her once in the back.
She was running away.
Yeah, if I can get here earlier tomorrow, I might be able to help her, - maybe get some information - What the hell are you talking about? Something's happening today, something big, and I'm at the center of it.
I don't know how.
I don't know why.
I don't know who's pulling the strings, but somehow, all of this is tied together.
Damien, Baxter, Garza, and now this dead woman.
- You think this is a conspiracy? - Yes.
And I'm the fall guy.
Two years we've been together, right? Two years? I've never even had a boyfriend last that long.
We used to finish each other's sentences.
Now you're running investigations behind my back, talking about some conspiracy against you.
- I wanna believe you - You don't believe me, do you? You lied to me.
I'll give you a half-hour before I call this in.
All right.
Hey, Hopper? Who else you been lying to? I told you, I won't go to the station.
- I know.
- And I won't talk to anyone about Brett - least of all you, Chad.
- Yeah, I got that loud and clear.
I'm not here on police business.
Then why are you here? Well, it's been a rough day.
I thought you might need a ride home.
You're kidding, right? Yeah, forget it.
Bad idea.
I'll call you a cab.
Just wanted to make sure you're okay.
Are you okay? Just let me take you home.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, no problem.
Chad, don't.
I'm not gonna try anything.
I thought you might want me to check your place.
Why? I'm worried about you, - What, with Hopper out there somewhere.
- Chad No, I'm just saying, he's armed and dangerous - Brett would never hurt me.
- Not on purpose.
Things can go sideways.
I mean, I've seen it.
A couple years ago, cops were serving a warrant on this cripple in Tarzana.
- The guy pulls a gun - And they shot him.
Turns out they had the wrong address, right? You forget, I know all your stories.
- Yeah, I guess you do.
- Yeah, I do.
Well, look, if you want, I can stay over.
On the couch, of course.
Thank you for the ride, Chad.
Let's just leave it at that.
Shelton.
Hey, Buck.
Yeah, I think I can still make it.
Where'd you say that bar was? It's the place on Los Feliz.
I'll see you there.
What happened to your shoulder? I'm okay.
I'm okay.
- You're bleeding.
Let me see.
- Rita, I'm fine.
I just came by to make sure that you got here safely.
Chad drove me home.
Chad? Yeah, he was He was worried that maybe you'd get - angry or something.
- Listen, I promise I will tell you everything.
I just I don't have the time right now, all right? Then you're gonna make time.
I have been worried sick, and Chad says you've been accused of murder? Since when do you start believing everything Chad says? When you put a gun on him.
You came to the hospital, a place where I work, and brought a gun.
And now you don't wanna talk about it? You won't understand.
God, I want to understand! But you are scaring me, Brett.
I just wanna know what happened to the man I went to bed with last night.
Look, I know that I shouldn't have come here tonight.
And I'm sorry, but I just I wanted to make sure that you You were all right.
I'm not all right.
Please Please just go.
Please.
Stop! Stop! If you think that first step's a bitch, - wait till the next one.
- Damien Oh, hell no.
Fellas, look, I know I forgot to call Damien.
I know that.
You know, I missed my 9:00.
I realize that.
I just I've been, like Like, crazy, crazy busy.
He'll get that, right? So we cool? I know.
Damien! I can explain.
- I can explain.
- Too bad.
The time for explaining's over.
I thought we had a deal.
I help you, you help me.
- Win-win for everyone, right? - Yes, and you - I put myself out there for you! - You did the right thing! You think so? You wanna know what happened to the last dude who snitched on a rival banger? Let me guess.
He got taken to an abandoned parking structure? No, man.
He got territory.
Got rid of the competition, scored 12 blocks all his own.
Upped his production by 150%.
The dude was making five figures a week.
He got treated right.
Me? I let you talk me into ratting out my boys, you stick me at some safe house, and then? - I almost get my ass shot off.
- Damien, you gotta believe me.
I wanna believe you, Hopper, I really do! Only I can't find you, you don't return my calls, and when I reach out to you, you blow me off! I'm sorry.
I've been a little busy! - You've been busy? - Yes.
The city's about to go up in flames, Hop.
There're deals being cut right now that I'm not even What deals? What deals? You have no idea how big this is, do you? Well, tell me.
You haven't earned that.
See, on the street, all you got is your word.
There's no contracts, no lawyers.
You break your word, there's a price to pay! Simple.
What's in the back? That? You remember Baxter, right? You two chotas were the only ones to know about that safe house.
So one of you is gonna die tonight.
- You're making a big mistake.
- You made the mistake! Somebody gave you up at the safe house, But it wasn't Baxter, it wasn't me! All right? We've been set up, man! - Set up? - Yes! - By who? - I don't know but I'll figure that out.
I just need a little bit more time.
Just a little bit more time, Damien.
Can you do that? I'm gonna find out who's behind this.
Alright? You got my word on that.
You know what, Hop? I believe you.
We're done.
I see you again, and you're dead, too.
Hey, you're up early.
- Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm fine.
What's wrong? Are you mad at me? Nice grab.
Yeah, I was just Just lucky.
Look, I'm sorry.
I just got I got a lot going on right now.
You want to talk about it? Yeah, yeah, I do, actually.
I have this This case, And there's a witness and the witness has a hit out on her.
And I need to protect her.
But if I do, then I won't have time for the case.
Don't you have help? No, it's complicated.
So if you don't protect her, will she get hurt? I don't know.
Well, I think it's obvious.
The only way to protect her is to get to the bottom of it, right? Solve the case.
Wouldn't that make her safe? I hope so.
Solve the case.
What was that for? Just for being you.
If Chad calls, talk to him.
Okay, and this judge Nitzberg This is Margo.
Hey, where the hell are you? Who's this? The meeting got pushed up.
You're late! I didn't hear about this.
No, Nitzberg is looking for you.
He's really upset.
- Okay.
Give me 20 minutes.
- You gotta get here - and don't stop for coffee! - Okay, I'll be right there.
I said, don't stop for coffee! Yes, sir, will do.
So? So we wait.
Was he pissed about the guy in the tub? What do you think? You know what a one-Bedroom runs in this neighborhood? I don't know, $1,200? That's ludicrous.
- What, are you moving here? - No.
So what do you care? Morning, boys.
Don't do that.
- Can we help? - You can start by putting your hands where I can see 'em.
Now why are you following me? We're just sitting here.
- And videotaping me? - We're tourists.
Yeah, know any good places to eat around here? Now I know you've been following my girlfriend and my sister, and I know about the guy in the quarry.
I wanna speak to him right now.
All right, listen, you got us, okay? I'm just gonna reach for my phone.
Yeah, it's me again Hey, who the hell are you? - Move, I got a shot! - Don't shoot! - I can get him! Just move! - Don't shoot! Get out of the way! Drive! The balls on that guy.
Wanna go back? No, we gotta call it in.
Where's your phone? An assistant D.
A.
got hit last night.
Hopper's a prime suspect.
There's a warrant out for his arrest.
There must be some mistake.
Yeah, it's hard to believe.
You think you know someone, then they do something crazy like that.
Brett didn't kill anyone.
I hear it different.
Sorry to be the one to tell you.
Hopper's in real trouble.
There are a couple guys downtown wanna talk to you about it.
Look, you don't have to go, but it might be helpful For Hopper's sake.
Okay.
Just let me get my bag.
- Hopper, what are you doing here? - Where is she? - Where's who? - The girl, Baxter.
What? I don't know what you're talking about.
legs that won't quit.
How do you What, are you following me? Hopper! Hey, did you call me? Was it you? What? You called and left me a message about this package.
You said it was very important.
- You're Hopper? - Yeah.
He told me to call you.
He said you'd understand.
Who? Who told you to call me? Garza.
Garza? Did he send me this package? Yeah.
He's here.
Hopper, he's at my house right now.
Come on.
I don't know how he found out, but he's upstairs right now.
Hello? Hello? Did you hear what I just said? Hopper is here.
Those guys are yours, huh? They work for you? - Who? - The guys you were calling.
The ones who have been following me.
What? No, those guys are squeezing me.
- You're gonna tell me everything.
- They'll kill me.
I'll kill you! Cálmate! Estuvo! Cálmate! Just answer their questions truthfully.
They're not after you.
Remember, I got your back.
I'll be all right, Chad.
You're Jennifer, right? Brett's sister.
Yeah.
Rita, right? Yeah.
I just want you to know that everything'll be okay.
Brett was with me with last night.
With you? But I thought So you two - It's complicated.
- Yeah.
I've been trying to get a number for your mom.
That's not a good idea.
She and Brett don't really talk anymore.
Real tight family you got there, huh? Listen, if I hear anything, I'm gonna give you a call.
I'm sure he's okay.
Thank you.
You gotta call Damien.
You're making a big mistake.
You're mak Call Damien! Help! Where are they taking us? What are they gonna do? - You don't wanna know.
- We gotta get outta here, Hopper! - We gotta get out! - Damien knows you sold him out.
- What? No, I'd never do that.
- Shut up.
Don't waste your breath.
He knows.
Now your only hope of getting out of here is me, so you better start talking.
I never got their names.
They came to me a 2 days ago.
Two men said they wanted information about Damien.
Why Damien? Why Damien? The Latin disciples are getting into contract killings.
Damien knows names.
What does that have to do with Garza or me? I have no idea.
I swear.
Damien was my informant, and you used me to get at him.
I didn't want to.
They held a gun to my head.
Me or him? I'm gonna pick me.
I vouched for you, man.
I guaranteed Damien his life.
Damien knew exactly what he was getting into.
In case you forgot, Hopper, Damien is the bad guy.
I don't care who he is.
I gave him my word.
Will you grow up, Hopper? Damien's a killer and a drug dealer.
He's getting exactly what he deserves.
Well, you're gonna get exactly what you deserve.
Because when we reach that parking structure, Damien's gonna put a bullet in your head.
So you're telling us you were with Hopper last night? Yes.
And he never went out, maybe went for a walk? I was with him all night.
Well, I appreciate that.
And I wanna believe you, I really do.
You know, when we ran your driver's license, some interesting information came up.
- That's not relevant.
- We were just wondering if Ms.
Shelton could clarify a few things.
This isn't the first time that she's been involved in a questionable incident.
Not going there.
Move along.
Chad, if this is all too much for you, you can go.
I go, she goes.
Next question.
Any idea where Hopper is now? Who was she? Who? The girl.
You seem pretty upset about her.
Of course I'm upset about her.
I got my own problems to deal with right now.
What was her name? Ava.
Her name was Ava Reese.
I met her at the courthouse two weeks ago.
What's her connection to Garza? She worked for him.
What the hell does it matter? Thank God it's you guys.
Sorry, Hopper.
You took my phone.
Thank you for the ride, Chad.
And thank you for sticking up for me back there.
What's in your background is your business, not theirs.
Your secrets safe with me.
And yours with me.
What secret is that? That you're not always such a hard-ass.
Look, if you want, I could stay over On the couch, of course And keep an eye on things.
Let me at least walk you up.
If you feel okay, I'll go.
No, I don't want to keep you.
I'm sure you have plans tonight.
No, I'm just gonna meet this guy in a bar.
I can reschedule.
Hello.
Hey, it's me.
Oh, thank God.
Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
Where are you? It's probably best I don't say.
They could be tapping your phone.
They asked me a lot of questions.
They said terrible things about you.
None of it's true.
I'm sorry they put you through all that.
I just called to make sure you were safe.
Rita Everything okay? I love you.
I love you, too.
When will I see you again? Tomorrow.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Rita? Hopper, I need your help.
I've done something terrible.
Andrea? Andrea!