After reviewing the weeks of footage that she received from Jada, Monika and Carla were able to confirm that the man was Pablo Garza. Monika wasted no time in calling Rain to let her know. When she did, Rain only had one question. “Do you know where to find him yet?”
“No, Rain, nothing yet,” Monika replied.
“I understand that y’all just got back to the city, but I need you to find him.”
“We’ll do our best.”
“You always do,” Rain said and ended the call, and then she called Black.
Since she and Black had agreed that watching them and waiting was the best way to proceed, she decided to call and ask him what he wanted her to do.
“I’m tired of waiting,” Black told her.
“Me too.”
“When you find him, kill him, then we’ll see what Rodrigo Iñíguez’s next move will be.”
“I love the way you think,” Rain said and ended the call. Just then, Yarissa called on the intercom.
“Yes, Yarissa.”
“I have Carter Garrison here to see you.”
“Send him in,” Rain said and she turned the big screen from watching Mr. Marcus in Head Game 2 to the security feed before Carter came in her office.
“You busy?” Carter asked as Yarissa escorted him into the office.
“No, what you got?”
“I just got a call from Babygirl.”
“What that two-dollar ho want?”
“She says that she got information about where we can find Pablo Garza. She’s gonna meet me at Jimmy’s in an hour. Wanted to see if you wanted to ride?”
Rain stood up and holstered her guns. “Let’s go.”
When Rain and Carter got to Jimmy’s, they looked around for Babygirl. They saw her and Knives sitting at a table near the back of the spot and they started making their way through the crowd to get to her. The second Knives saw them coming, she got up from the table and walked toward the bar.
“You go ahead and see what Babygirl’s talking about.”
“Where you going?”
Rain smiled. “I’m going to fuck with Knives,” she said and walked away.
Carter shook his head, Women, and kept walking toward the table where Babygirl was waiting.
“What’s up, Baby Boy?”
“I’m good.” Carter sat down. “What’s up with you?”
“You know me, Baby Boy, I do what I do and I do it better than anybody else.” Babygirl leaned forward and pointed with her eyes. “You see the big gorilla lookin’ mutha fucka over there?”
Carter cut his eyes in the direction Babygirl was looking. “What about him?”
“He don’t know it yet, but he’s about to give me all his money. And you wanna know what the best part of that is?”
“What’s that?”
“He’s too stupid to realize it before it’s too late,” Babygirl said and she and Carter both laughed about it.
“I remember when that was y’all’s plan for me.”
“Yeah…it was, but you was too real a nigga to fall for our game.” Babygirl looked at Knives. She was at the bar and Rain was in her face. “Turned it around on my girl and busted her heart.”
“What can I say, Babygirl, I do what I do and I do it better than anybody else.”
“I know that’s right.”
“So what you got for me?”
“You can find Pablo Garza and four of his boys on the third floor of a gray building on 45th Street in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn.”
“Figures.” Carter laughed.
“What’s funny?”
“We found his boys in a house a few blocks from there,” Carter said and was about to give Babygirl some money for her efforts.
“This ones on me, Baby Boy. Call it a coming home present. Now come here and give this hustler a hug.”
Carter leaned over and hugged Babygirl.
“Now go on and get your girl, before Knives does something stupid and Rain shoots her.”
“Thanks, Lillian.”
“All right now. Only Mike Black gets to call me by my government name.”
“Yeah, but you’ll make an exception in my case,” Carter said and then he walked away.
When he got to the bar, he walked up to Rain. Whatever she and Knives were arguing about seemed to be getting heated.
“Would you stop playing and come on,” he said and kept walking. “Good to see you, Lisa.”
Rain immediately stopped yelling at Knives and smiled in her face. “It really was good to see you too, Lisa,” she said and walked away laughing.
When they got to 45th Street, Carter drove by the house, parked the car, and then they walked back toward the house. Rain cracked open the door and stuck her gun in first. When nothing happened, Rain pushed the door open and she saw two men on the steps. They opened fire when their targets were in view and started backing their way up the stairs.
Rain began firing shots from the doorway and then she hit the floor and fired at the men. She shot one in the back as he turned to run. Carter hit the other with two shots to the chest to clear the stairs.
Rain got up and started running up the stairs, with Carter right behind her. Garza stuck his head out of the apartment, and when he saw Rain and Carter coming, he began firing, and then he closed the door. Carter kicked in the door and then he quickly stepped aside as Garza began firing.
While Carter kept firing to cover, Rain went in low and Carter opened up on them. When Carter got in there he saw Herminio Leoncio, Garza, and two other men. Leoncio fired at Carter, and Carter took aim and returned fire. He hit Leoncio with two shots, one in the shoulder and the kill shot to the head.
With a gun in each hand, Rain stood up and hit one with two shots in his chest. The other started to run, but Carter shot him before he made it out the door. He walked up to him and kicked the gun away.
When the shooting stopped, Carter and Rain looked at the bodies on the floor; Garza wasn’t one of them.
“Where is he?” Rain asked.
“Behind you, Rain,” Carter yelled as Garza fired at her.
Rain turned in time to see Garza going out the window and down the fire escape. By the time Rain and Carter got out on the fire escape, they could see Garza running down the steps on the floor below. He fired a couple of shots at them and then he jumped off the fire escape.
On the way down the steps, Rain changed the clips in her guns. When Garza got up from the ground, he fired a shot at them and started running. Both Carter and Rain jumped off the fire escape and went after him, firing shots as they ran.
Garza stopped, turned, and fired shots until his gun was empty. He continued to run, but both Carter and Rain were fast so it didn’t take them long to catch up with Garza and Carter grabbed him. He slammed Garza to the ground and Rain put her gun to his head.
Carter looked at Rain and then down at the pumps she was wearing. “How do you run in those things?” he needed to know.
“Practice.”
Carter pulled Garza up from the ground and hit him in the mouth with the barrel of his gun. “Who ordered you to shoot those men at Mar Y Tierra?”
“Herminio Leoncio.”
“Where the fuck is he?” Carter shouted.
“You killed him.”
“Why?” Rain asked and then she hit him with her gun.
“It was a favor for Damián Custodio.”
“Who the fuck is that?” Carter shouted and hit him again and Rain shot him in the arm.
“Stop fuckin’ around and tell us what we want to know or I’ll spend the next two weeks killing you slowly and painfully,” Carter threatened.
“Custodio is the head of El Decreto de Guerra. They smuggle guns from the U.S. to Mexico and South America for Rodrigo Iñíguez. After Malcolm Molson was killed, Iñíguez wanted to use your organization to take over for him, because you have influence with the DEA and the ATF.”
Carter looked at Rain. “That’s all I needed to know,” she said and Carter pressed the barrel of his gun to Garza’s temple and pulled the trigger.
“Rest in peace, Reese,” Carter said and crossed himself.
On the ride back from Brooklyn, Rain called Black on her satellite phone to inform him of what Garza said.
“Exactly what I thought it was,” Black said.
“So what do we do now?”
“Like I said, it’s his move now.”