RECAP

He came back to LA in part because he wanted to pursue things with her and so he finally introduced her to his mother. Nichelle came over for dinner one night. She got to meet his mother.

His mother also asked her if she wants kids and then several implications about how a woman her age shouldn’t wait too long else the grandparents might be dead or there could be complications. But during this awkward dinner, Hondo got a call. He got a call from work asking him to come in and he did. He joined his team in de-escalating an armed man in a liquor store. They stunned the gun with few volts and he was done. They were able to call for an ambulance for the injured store owner and he told them the full story.

Ali told them a young woman came in scared. She was nineteen perhaps twenty and she didn’t speak English. She spoke Spanish. This woman came in asking for help and then she tried to hide in the bathroom, but the armed men in looking for her and they got away with her. The team was looking at an abduction. The team’s only clue to finding the young woman is the man they arrested and he wasn’t talking. He was identified as Carlos Ochoa. He didn’t have a record or gang affiliation. He was keeping quiet about someone and so the team tried to find the woman using facial recognition. They didn’t have much luck there either. The woman was undocumented because she wasn’t in any database they had and they were out of options.

Then something happened. Luca lives in an area where people know he’s a cop and can be trusted and so of them approached him about the missing woman. The woman was Jenni Moreno. She was from Honduras. She was fleeing a bad situation there. Jenni was staying at a house for immigrant women and the woman who runs the place was called Mama Pena. Mama Pena was the one who identified Jenni from the security footage.

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