Southland2009

Det. Nate Moretta:
I didn't want you to find out this way.

Mercedes Moretta:
When? On your deathbed?

Det. Nate Moretta:
...Look, I was young. I couldn't give you the home that you deserved. Mom and Pops, they could give that to you.

Mercedes Moretta:
What about my mother? Why didn't she take me?

Det. Nate Moretta:
Because your mother... fell in with the wrong group of people. OK? She got into drugs, she got into alcohol.

Mercedes Moretta:
Do you still talk to her?

Det. Nate Moretta:
No, Mija, I don't. By the time I came home from the army, she... she moved away.

Mercedes Moretta:
Do I look like her?

Det. Nate Moretta:
Sure do - a lot. You're beautiful - just the way she was.

Mercedes Moretta:
I want to find her.

Det. Nate Moretta:
...OK. We can try.

Mercedes Moretta:
For real?

Det. Nate Moretta:
For real.