The Shield 4x5

1. I'm Sara.

2. David.

3. I'm interested in getting together.

4. Some precautions we need to take.

5. I need you to proposition me so I know I'm safe.

6. I wanna be with you. Sexually.

7. I'll pay you, just tell me how much.

8. We've been on your office shit list

9. for six months.

10. What if I promise to control her?

11. I need you to look at a guy.

12. A drug dealer named Maurice Webster.

13. I don't sell to children.

14. Now y'all wanna lock me up

15. for three plants.

16. Federal asset forfeiture laws

17. will now be enforced in Farmington.

18. A gang sells crack out of their back room,

19. we're gonna take that home.

20. The effectiveness and fairness

21. of these seizures aside

22. you're doing a bad job selling it.

23. If I set up a public forum

24. where you can present your plan,

25. will you come? Sure.

26. What are you hearing in juvie about Antwon Mitchell?

27. Shane's been cozying up to the guy lately.

28. Just takes one anonymous call to 911,

29. you feel me? Oh, yeah, I feel you.

30. Hey, hey.

31. Tell Antwon to come pick up his dogshit.

32. Antwon Mitchell, as I live and breathe.

33. Paid in full. With a little extra

34. to make everything all right.

35. No, no.

36. No, no.

37. Please.

38. No. No.

39. No— No, God.

40. Don't— No, don't do this.

41. Don't. Let me go, let me go.

42. Don't do this.

43. Shut up. Shut up!

44. Oh, God!

45. Let me go. Oh, God— Oh God, you're hurting—

46. You're hurting— No!

47. No!

48. No! You're hurting! No!

49. No.

50. No.

51. No, God! No!

52. No!

53. No.

54. Not so hard.

55. I told you, no bruises.

56. Stop. Oh, God.

57. Please, don't do this.

58. Please, don't do this. No.

59. No.

60. Oh, God, don't do this.

61. Please. No.

62. You wanna say Thursday?

63. I'm not sure.

64. Oh, uh,

65. before I forget.

66. I love Neiman's.

67. Well, I have the perfect pair

68. of shoes to go with this.

69. From now on, though,

70. get a gift receipt.

71. Um...

72. I'm sorry.

73. Don't be.

74. What we do together is important.

75. Whatever it is or why,

76. that energy has to come out.

77. Buying into the shame is what's wrong. Not what we do in there.

78. In there's what the gifts are for.

79. Not the small talk.

80. Next Thursday's fine.

81. I don't need to tell you what drugs do to our streets.

82. You live with it every day. The purpose of this meeting

83. is to outline new initiatives

84. that we're taking to change things.

85. To lay out the facts, dispel rumors and get your input.

86. I mean, if any of you have any ideas of how we can

87. be more effective, I'm listening.

88. So, what are you gonna do so different?

89. I mean, because all these years, I heard a lot of talking.

90. That's right. That's right.

91. And all I see is more sidewalk chalking.

92. Yeah. Right.

93. I agree with you.

94. For every dealer and banger we put in jail,

95. three more take his place.

96. It's because the culture of wealth

97. that's been created by the sale of drugs

98. has sent a very clear message to our kids: "Now hiring."

99. I think putting more officers on the street

100. will make it harder to do business.

101. Increased gang intervention.

102. Restored and expanded after-school programs.

103. I mean, kids have to have a place to go to.

104. They have to have things to do.

105. Also more aggressive drug education.

106. It all can work. It just requires patience.

107. How long we supposed to wait?

108. Yeah. That's right.

109. You know, we didn't have

110. the resources before that we have now.

111. These new policies allow us to confiscate property

112. that's been paid for with drug money.

113. We're taking the dealers' profits and using it

114. against them to improve your lives.

115. I think it's time that they pay the bill

116. for all the pain and suffering that they've caused.

117. Romeo Barnes.

118. Took a head shot, close range.

119. Romeo, poor Romeo.

120. Witness here works at the methadone clinic.

121. Says he saw our victim and a black female

122. arguing with another black male. Few minutes later, heard shots.

123. saw the shooter take off on a motorcycle.

124. All right, let's start up a canvass.

125. Have DWP check the storm drains

126. in case he tossed his piece.

127. Let's talk to methadone man.

128. So you saw the shooter book?

129. Yeah, I know I said that earlier,

130. but just to be clear here,

131. I didn't actually see anybody do any shooting.

132. Right. You recognize the guy

133. driving off on the bike?

134. Never seen him before.

135. What about the woman he was arguing with?

136. Never seen her before.

137. Victim?

138. Never seen him before.

139. Hope you're not counting on me to be more helpful than that.

140. Wouldn't dream of it.

141. God bless you. And thank you

142. for cracking down on these gangsters

143. so my kids can go to school one day

144. without being afraid of getting shot.

145. Yeah. That's right.

146. But aren't we creating a bigger problem?

147. White police officers

148. have been swarming on our neighborhood

149. since day one.

150. Yeah. And now they wanna take

151. the black and the brown man's property

152. if they think he's up to no good.

153. Now, it should be noted that Mr. Mitchell

154. is a convicted felon who spent 13 years in prison

155. for distributing crack cocaine.

156. Excuse me. So you don't believe in rehabilitation?

157. What you're saying is the police can change

158. but a brother can't?

159. Rehabilitation presumes

160. that a person's behavior has changed.

161. Oh. Tried and convicted again

162. by judge and jury.

163. See, but the problem with this is

164. the police aren't a jury of our peers.

165. I grew up in Farmington.

166. It was an okay place to live

167. until the summer of 1984.

168. That is when the crack cocaine epidemic hit.

169. Yeah. Turned this place

170. into something else overnight.

171. That's why I became a peace officer.

172. To help to bring Farmington back to the place that I remember.

173. Now, look, with God's help and your support

174. law enforcement is a solution.

175. We are not the problem.

176. Sell out. Keep talking.

177. David Aceveda, city councilman for this district.

178. When someone is arrested,

179. the law says innocent until proven guilty.

180. The reason for that is people make mistakes.

181. Under this policy,

182. that burden falls on you, sir.

183. And you, and you.

184. To prove that you didn't buy your house

185. by selling contraband.

186. Otherwise, they can take your property,

187. sell it to the highest bidder.

188. And they keep the money.

189. Which we funnel back into neighborhood programs

190. and into making this community safer.

191. There has been abuse and corruption

192. in nearly every city that this policy has been tried.

193. Which is why I cannot support it without strict regulations.

194. You're trying to fix something that isn't broken.

195. No. No, it's my duty to put

196. the best interests of Farmington

197. ahead of a social experiment, however well intentioned.

198. Councilman.

199. Getting me up there under the pretext

200. of soliciting public support

201. and then undermining me?

202. Thanks for the crash course in sandbagging.

203. I came willing to be convinced. I wasn't.

204. Congratulations, you pushed half that crowd

205. into Antwon Mitchell's hands.

206. Oh, that's a slippery slope.

207. Using the boogeyman to ride roughshod over people's rights.

208. Don't you have enough to do on the city council?

209. Or is this some power trip, doing my job as well?

210. Actually, my job duties now include

211. vice-chairing the police committee.

212. Helping oversee how these seizures are implemented.

213. Well,

214. I guess we'll need to figure out

215. how to get along, then.

216. Learn to do what I say and we'll be just fine.

217. Romeo did time for moving crack, possession, assault.

218. But he was clean the last 10 years.

219. Doesn't sound like he got shot for minding his own business.

220. Anything else on the motorcycle gunman?

221. Uh, not the most cooperative block.

222. Well, that's gonna change.

223. Pull in Vendrell to help you.

224. Shane?

225. Well, you're the one who sold me on his credentials.

226. Like I said, Shane's a good cop.

227. Maybe Shane's vice intel gets us to Antwon Mitchell.

228. We won't find Antwon anywhere near anything this low-level.

229. Small world.

230. Even 12 degrees of separation

231. between this and him will get us closer.

232. Hey. New girlfriend?

233. I got socks older than her. Look, she gave me something

234. on that methadone whack you're working.

235. She reliable? Yeah, I know her.

236. Talk to her regularly.

237. Bust her every couple weeks

238. for petty stuff like shoplifting.

239. She's just trying to keep her and her mom fed.

240. So tell us about Romeo.

241. Romeo wasn't using no more.

242. He's my mom's NA sponsor.

243. Her slanger was trying to get her back on the H.

244. Romeo's been stepping to him hard, leave her be.

245. What's this dealer's name?

246. All's I know, he ride a loud-ass motorcycle.

247. It shake the house.

248. Where's your mom now?

249. Probably tricking to get low.

250. Five or six places I usually find her at.

251. You think you could show us?

252. Can I get some Starbursts first?

253. I thought the deal was we'd be working our own shit.

254. Captain knows you got the street hookups. Smart to bring you in.

255. But first you gotta check this out, man.

256. We borrowed one of our Garage Sting hidden cameras

257. for a little personal use. Ladies and gentlemen,

258. the man who put the pimp in pimp juice.

259. Who's the babe?

260. Friend of Claudette's. Blind date.

261. We'll spare you the awkward hellos

262. and skip straight to the painful goodbyes.

263. Excellent.

264. You still cold? I'm fine.

265. I'm sorry again about cranking the air conditioning.

266. Oh, it's all right.

267. I guess, uh, cooler climes are just hardwired

268. to my northern European DNA.

269. Oh, this is me. Well, listen,

270. we should get together again.

271. Maybe, uh, this weekend?

272. Oh, I'm—

273. I'm gonna be in Kansas city.

274. Well, uh— Uh, call me when you get back.

275. Sure.

276. Bye. Good night.

277. Yeah, okay. See you.

278. It looks like his next date's gonna be with some hand cream.

279. No, no, no. Wait— Wait. This is— This is the big finish.

280. DNA like that, his parents should have

281. chlorinated the gene pool.

282. Come on, all right?

283. All right, look. We're looking for a horse dealer.

284. Works, uh, by the methadone clinic over on Seymour.

285. Wondered if you guys could track down a name

286. while we chase down the junkie mom who witnessed the killing.

287. You know anything else about this dealer?

288. Rides a wink-bike.

289. Loud.

290. He was, uh— He was whacked

291. by some slanger who works off a motorcycle.

292. Street soldiers are a little below my need-to-know, man.

293. That sound like Freebo. He got a rice rocket.

294. Temper too. Yeah, where can I find him?

295. Why? To lock his ass up

296. on this shooting.

297. Hey, we gave you a name

298. to keep our boy clear of this,

299. not so you can take him down.

300. Now, remember, you're paid to protect my business.

301. Look, some smoke goes and kills a fellow asshole,

302. I got no issue.

303. But he grudge-whacked a drug counselor.

304. Now, that shit ain't right.

305. Also, I'll make sure the investigation

306. seals off with him. Doesn't work its way

307. up the food chain to the big fish.

308. Someone else gives him up, there's no guarantee of that.

309. I'll make a couple calls, try and locate that cat.

310. Good boy. Holler.

311. Holler.

312. I got a murder for you two.

313. Sixty-five-year-old white female.

314. Shot during a home invasion. Run it through Vic.

315. We're reporting to Mackey?

316. On this one. Looks gang-related.

317. His domain.

318. That a problem?

319. Of course not. I just— I know he's got his hands full.

320. I understand you're confiscating Maurice Webster's house

321. over those three pot plants.

322. He was distributing drugs, selling them out of that house.

323. I guess even a hummer bust

324. like this brings in a chunk of change

325. for you and the DA's office to divvy up.

326. Why don't you and I go somewhere?

327. Can we have the room for a minute, please?

328. Sure.

329. Debate's fine, insubordination isn't.

330. The DA doesn't call over to ask for a detective

331. any more than you can tell them what prosecutor to use.

332. Why were we put on the Webster case?

333. I've enough on my plate without second-guessing

334. the DA's mood swings.

335. If I'm part of some back-room deal,

336. why don't you just lay it out for me?

337. Does my office down there look like a back room?

338. All that manpower thrown at a case,

339. the guy turns out to be a nobody.

340. But they grab his house anyway.

341. Detective in me wonders, who benefits?

342. Well, maybe the detective in you

343. should get down to your assigned crime scene

344. before a reprimand hits your desk.

345. Either she's lying or the DA's office is or they both are.

346. So it's not that she's another woman

347. who took the job you're supposed to have?

348. No. Just checking.

349. Shot in the back twice. No sign of forced entry.

350. Who found the body?

351. The husband and daughter.

352. Uh, Detective Wagenbach, Detective Wyms.

353. Our condolences. Could we ask a few questions?

354. You found the body? My father and me.

355. I picked him up at the library

356. and— And we came home—

357. What, uh—? What time was that?

358. Around 11.

359. Tell them— Tell them about the car.

360. Oh— Oh. This morning when we left

361. I saw a car full of Mexican kids parked across the street.

362. They looked like gang members.

363. What kind of car?

364. I don't know. It was old and beat up.

365. with grey spray paint. I got a good look

366. at the driver, though.

367. Daddy— Daddy, are you okay?

368. I'm just a little dizzy. Go on, I'll be okay.

369. We have to get him to a hospital.

370. He's got heart problems. One of our unis

371. can drop him off at Mission Cross. We can do this later.

372. I'll come with you.

373. Mama, these folks wanna talk to you.

374. Mama.

375. Sons of bitches, eat my ass.

376. Angie, come here.

377. Do you have other family you go to

378. when she's like this?

379. She's like this all the time.

380. Someone's gotta look out for her.

381. We'll get her into treatment. Last time I called,

382. it was, like, a half-a-year wait.

383. Me calling might make a difference.

384. Shit, stop getting at me, man.

385. Hoda, come on. Come on.

386. Where do you score your heyron from?

387. Come on, I got a sick friend.

388. All right, I can take me some grey dick.

389. Hey, hey, listen. I can't help you score

390. if I can't reach your main man.

391. You got a name and number for me?

392. Hell, any of them houses on the cul-de-sac

393. got a big bag.

394. What cul-de-sac? Hoda?

395. Hoda? Leave her be.

396. Mama, you talking about the houses on Hoover?

397. You used to party and play over there.

398. You know that dead end by the steps?

399. I know some kids over there.

400. Saw Mama copping a couple times.

401. Hey, check this out. House on the left.

402. Reinforced steel doors,

403. blacked-out windows.

404. Same as the place next door.

405. It's gotta be the house Angie was talking about.

406. Yup. Uh, no smoker traffic.

407. It ain't no rock house, but it's something big.

408. There, check out the guy over there.

409. A spotter.

410. Another one over there.

411. Ah, homeboy's doing more

412. than keeping the flat screen

413. from getting jacked. Yeah.

414. I think it's warrant time.

415. I'm gonna call my captain.

416. This was my tip.

417. You're not assigned to Farmington.

418. Look, after we close the book on this case and Angie—

419. You got Shane back in the house.

420. Having you there is gonna

421. drive him further away.

422. I need him close and you know why.

423. Yeah. Yeah.

424. Look, I know you want back in.

425. Look—

426. You keep showing up at the Barn

427. with juvie intel on all my cases,

428. I appreciate it.

429. Shane's still an issue. There's still a lot of history there.

430. Neighbors say they're nice people.

431. You know, keep to themselves.

432. Well, there's been a bunch of home invasions

433. in this neighborhood.

434. Yeah, we answered one of those.

435. Hey, uh, take a look at this.

436. Uh, find out if there was a car

437. parked across the street with a bunch of male Hispanics

438. around 9:30 this morning.

439. All right.

440. Go to the trouble of killing someone,

441. you leave the good stuff in plain sight?

442. Yeah. Not a very thorough home invasion.

443. Unless the victim put up a struggle,

444. got herself shot, they panicked, took off.

445. Well, I had a case. Two guys on crank.

446. Took multiple stab wounds from an 80-year-old

447. whose birdbath they were trying to swipe.

448. Old and stubborn. I guess all you

449. look for's a good fight sometimes, huh?

450. Daughter makes it sound like a home invasion.

451. Something off with the family though.

452. Neighborhood's Byz Lat turf. You should get with the OGs.

453. Scooby and Lucas are talking to them now.

454. Ese crews run a bunch of gank-and-goes

455. over there lately. Four in the last month.

456. Take a look at witness statements.

457. Read the reports, witnesses are being reinterviewed.

458. You got something big going down?

459. Yeah. Have you run a canvass of the area?

460. You know, I have run a murder investigation before.

461. Right, and I couldn't be happier having a seasoned

462. law-enforcement professional such as yourself

463. working the case under me.

464. Just attack it.

465. Like you're hungry.

466. Like the wolf.

467. Okay, everyone.

468. The target looks like a drug-distribution center.

469. Two neighboring houses that have security and communications.

470. One of their spotters calls himself TEC-9,

471. so we can assume the firepower lives up to the name.

472. We also want you to be aware that we're looking for a suspect

473. in an ongoing murder investigation

474. who operates out of this area.

475. Rides a motorcycle, his street name is Freebo.

476. High-risk warrant like this, shouldn't we go in at night?

477. Yeah, well, the bad guys have imbedded themselves

478. in a residential area where there's a lot of kids.

479. We hit while they're in school, minimize the risk.

480. The trade-off is we lose the element of surprise,

481. which makes our job harder.

482. Now, this will be a success if and only if

483. every one of you comes back in one piece

484. and no civilians are hurt. So let's do it right.

485. All right. Team assignments and target 20.

486. Shane, you're going in with me.

487. Army with Ronnie and Lemie's group.

488. Jesus Christ.

489. Is this part of Antwon's operation?

490. Yeah, this block. Yeah, it's gotta be.

491. Well, this is major. We gotta give him a heads-up.

492. Just take it easy, all right?

493. No cell phones. I just gotta let my wife—

494. Operational security. Right, okay.

495. Shane, let's move out!

496. I wouldn't.

497. Put you hands on your head.

498. Take another sweep.

499. Would you please step back here,

500. until we get the last car through.

501. Pick up. it's the cops. Police.

502. Stay on the ground.

503. Don't move. Don't move.

504. Let's bring it around back. Come on.

505. All right.

506. Move, move, move!

507. Police. Don't move.

508. Stay right there. Hands above your head.

509. You wait here. Back.

510. Pick it up. Pick it up. Police!

511. Get away from the window.

512. Hands up.

513. On the wall. Look at the wall.

514. You got him? Yeah.

515. Clear. Clear. Clear.

516. Hey.

517. Jesus.

518. I wish we had this kind of shit in Iraq.

519. Holy cow.

520. Well.

521. What I got here buys each of you entrepreneurs

522. a hard 20 in Pelican Bay.

523. Now, I'm looking for the dealer who capped a brother

524. over on Seymour last night.

525. His name's Freebo.

526. He rides a rice burner.

527. One of you citizens gives us a real name,

528. you walk away clean.

529. Up. Up.

530. Freebo was just here.

531. Real name's Freddie Bokamp.

532. Smart man. How long ago?

533. Half an hour maybe. I heard his bike.

534. Hey, hey, shit, no, man.

535. Take me down with everybody else.

536. Feed your ear there.

537. All right.

538. Captain, I got a strong chemical odor

539. coming from the back of that building. Could be ether.

540. Possible meth lab.

541. Let's get HAZMAT down here.

542. Got a lead on Freebo.

543. Frederick Bokamp, this is his DMV.

544. Where is he? Well, if he didn't split

545. before we locked this place down

546. he could be in any of those buildings,

547. but pulling a new warrant takes time.

548. This HAZMAT situation,

549. I think we better evacuate the block.

550. That's a good idea. A crank lab, the whole place could blow.

551. Attention all residents,

552. this is a mandatory evacuation order.

553. You must leave the premises immediately.

554. Again I repeat, please leave the premises immediately.

555. Okay, sir, step on out. I need you to evacuate the premises.

556. My son's got pneumonia.

557. We'll get him medical attention.

558. You can't stay here though.

559. You can't come in like this!

560. Come on, sir, step outside.

561. What the hell are you doing, man?

562. We'll take him to the hospital.

563. You need to clear out of here, though.

564. There's hazardous material in the area.

565. You need to clear out. Put him down, goddamn it!

566. Stop resisting. That's cold.

567. Did your mother have any enemies that you know of?

568. No. And she was my stepmother.

569. My mom passed nine years ago next month.

570. It was— Was like déjà vu finding Margo's body.

571. How's that?

572. Uh, my dad and I

573. found my mom in the same room.

574. We'd just come back from running errands

575. and she was just lying there.

576. How'd she die? Stroke.

577. My dad had a heart attack the next week.

578. Guess that happens sometimes when people

579. have been together a long time.

580. We found a jewelry box in your bedroom. It's beautiful pieces.

581. Oh, yeah, my mother's.

582. Thieves only took your stepmother's jewelry.

583. You know, I'm just—

584. I'm worried about my dad having

585. to go through this all over again.

586. I— I really need to get back to the hospital, be with him.

587. We can call over there, see how he's doing.

588. Send a car over if he's ready to go.

589. Hell of a day.

590. Wouldn't be a bad month.

591. Uh, evacuation didn't turn up Freebo.

592. But I'm not done yet.

593. Last chance for any of you cupcakes

594. if you ever wanna smell pussy again.

595. I can smell yours from here, bitch.

596. Yeah. Shit.

597. You get to come with me.

598. Easy, man. I was, like, acting down there.

599. You know, for the homeys.

600. Yeah, well, if you don't tell me where Freebo is

601. you're gonna be acting like a guy doing life in prison.

602. Hard to say. Brother gets around on those wheels, man.

603. He a free spirit.

604. Come on. Yo, man!

605. What you doing, man?

606. I'm acting for the homeys.

607. You think they got the message or do we need a second act?

608. Freebo stays with his twin brother, Weebo.

609. Freebo and Weebo?

610. Got a line on Freebo.

611. Hey, press conference hasn't started yet.

612. Still got plenty of time to figure out

613. how to take credit for all this.

614. 7661 Anholt. That's Freebo's crib.

615. You come back us up. He's a shooter.

616. An impressive bust from what I hear. Congratulations.

617. Why do I get the feeling that's the last

618. compliment I'll get in this conversation?

619. I just came from the crime scene.

620. You've got a lot of unhappy people out in the street.

621. HAZMAT's finishing up a threat assessment.

622. Why weren't arrangements made for emergency shelter?

623. We weren't anticipating

624. having to evacuate the area.

625. Next time you have an operation this size,

626. you should let me know.

627. I can put the resources of my office at your disposal.

628. Head off little snafus like these.

629. You say snafu, I say the biggest drug bust in Farmington

630. in the last 10 years.

631. Dutch, we're sure the murder weapon was a.38?

632. Pending confirmation from Ballistics.

633. They found a box of.38 ammo in the husband's closet.

634. Find a gun? Turned the place upside down.

635. Neighbors say gangs have been a problem

636. but no one saw this car full of Mexicans.

637. Take a gun and not the ammo. Swipe the cheap jewelry,

638. leave the good stuff. How much would it take to move you

639. off this home-invasion scenario? I'm not loving it.

640. Which leaves the husband and daughter.

641. Doesn't strike me he wanted out of the marriage.

642. What's in it for daddy's little girl?

643. I think you just answered your own question.

644. Do you own a handgun, Warren?

645. .38 Smith and Wesson. Why?

646. We're looking into the possibility

647. it could've been the murder weapon.

648. Where do you keep it?

649. On a shelf in the bedroom closet.

650. But— But it's— It's not loaded.

651. I make it a point to keep

652. the bullets in the drawer.

653. So it should be in the closet there now?

654. Sure. Because we've had

655. our people go all through the place. We can't find it.

656. Margo and Donna get along?

657. They ever argue?

658. They had opinions. You telling me,

659. all the time Donna's spent taking care of you

660. she wasn't upset, Margo wanting you to pull up stakes

661. move you to another state?

662. Uh...

663. Excuse me.

664. I'm having a— A senior moment. Um...

665. We had another break-in a little while back.

666. I didn't wanna tell Donna about it

667. because I knew she'd worry.

668. It's what she does best.

669. My gun was stolen.

670. You report the burglary to the police?

671. No. Uh, that was probably a mistake, wasn't it?

672. Captain, I need your officer to testify in this assault case

673. and I am having trouble serving the subpoena.

674. He's on vacation. He gets back on duty tomorrow.

675. I'll make sure he gets it.

676. I appreciate it.

677. Question for you.

678. How did your office decide to file in the Webster case?

679. Oh, it's still in play.

680. Trying to make a plea bargain?

681. Oh, I don't know where it is exactly.

682. I mean, I don't have the file in front of me.

683. Is there someone in your office I can call? To check on it.

684. The case is in the system.

685. What's the urgency?

686. We're moving to seize the property.

687. And this won't fly if it gets

688. kicked down to a misdemeanor.

689. Look, I'm not at liberty

690. to discuss specifics right now.

691. As soon as I know something, I will get back to you.

692. Thanks again.

693. You're welcome.

694. You got some explaining to do.

695. Hey, I was double-blind.

696. You didn't tell me what you had going.

697. Mackey threw this into high gear behind my back.

698. I didn't know it was going down until it was too late.

699. Hey, two rules:

700. don't complain and don't explain.

701. The only rule is that you don't set the rules.

702. And you need to explain to your people that it's bad business

703. to whack a citizen in front of a witness.

704. Now, there's a manhunt for your boy Freebo.

705. You better hope I'm the one who brings him in.

706. I got four layers of nigs don't even know who they work for

707. insulating me from that cul-de-sac.

708. Yeah, as long as your crew hangs tight.

709. But one of your boys rolls on one of your boys

710. to get out from underneath a murder,

711. you got a big hole in that insulation.

712. I'm still the best friend you got.

713. I appreciate the help.

714. It's what I'm here for.

715. And if you'd start listening,

716. this whole thing would go a lot easier on the both of us.

717. You know what?

718. I think the two of us should get together.

719. Work on our communication skills.

720. That way shit like this doesn't happen again.

721. I'll let you know when.

722. Where the hell is Shane?

723. Which one's Weebo and which one's Freebo? They're twins.

724. Shit, they're running.

725. Somebody tipped them off.

726. What if they take off in different directions?

727. We only got one car. Where the hell is he?

728. We gotta go.

729. Yeah, they're splitting up. We gotta go. Damn it.

730. Police. Move away from the bikes, now.

731. Hands on your head! Gun!

732. Down on the ground now.

733. Put your hands on your head. Get down on the ground now!

734. You all right? Yeah.

735. 911 emergency.

736. This is Detective Lemansky, badge number 27228.

737. I've been involved in a shooting at 7661 Anholt.

738. Notify paramedics and a supervisor.

739. Where the hell you been? What happened?

740. Goddamn it, we needed you. You, call for backup.

741. Look, I got this. Hands behind your back.

742. Look what you did to my brother.

743. Goddamn pigs. Shut up.

744. We got here quick as we could.

745. Nice try, Freebo.

746. Dutch says it's breaking different than home invasion.

747. Yeah, looks like the daughter. We just have to trap her.

748. I've stopped the forfeiture proceedings in the Webster case.

749. I did some digging.

750. Webster was on the witness list for the defense

751. in a separate murder trial.

752. The DA had other interests in that pot bust

753. beyond enforcing the statute.

754. Like ruining his credibility on the stand.

755. Well, it worked. He was dropped from the witness list.

756. The defendant pled.

757. You just find this out?

758. You smelled horseshit,

759. turned out there was a pony in the Barn.

760. Well, I appreciate your digging.

761. You know, what I don't get

762. is why did the DA choose the two of you

763. in the first place?

764. I mean, shady tactics like this,

765. I think you'd be the last ones they'd trust to make it work.

766. I guess we'll never know.

767. As far as it goes between us,

768. I expect to see change in your attitude.

769. Can you hook Freebo into Antwon?

770. Well, he's a little tweaked about losing his brother.

771. It's twin shit. Can—? Can I pull a favor?

772. Have you talk to IAD about this officer-involved shooting thing?

773. Oh, Lemansky's not under my command.

774. You know his CI broke this case for us. The whole cul-de-sac.

775. He had permission from his supervisor to roll with me.

776. Their first question's gonna be the same as mine.

777. Murder suspect, armed and dangerous.

778. Where was your backup?

779. Shane got stuck in traffic.

780. The brothers were taking flight.

781. We had no way of knowing which one was Freebo.

782. We had to roll.

783. Write up a report. I'll take a look at it.

784. I got you for killing Romeo Barnes.

785. We go for special circumstances, you'll be seeing

786. your brother again before you know it.

787. Don't talk like that, man, that boy was my heart.

788. You give up Antwon Mitchell.

789. That'll buy you a day pass

790. to ID your brother's body.

791. Jesus, man, I don't even know the cat.

792. I'm trying to keep your ass off death row.

793. If I had something, I'd give it up.

794. We— Uh, we may have caught a break.

795. We've got a suspect in custody apprehended

796. for ripping off a house down the block from you.

797. Multiple convictions for grand theft, history of violence.

798. You think he's involved? You tell us.

799. Is this one of the men you saw in the car outside your house?

800. Yeah, that's him. He was the driver.

801. Take your time. We—

802. We need to be sure. It was definitely him.

803. You're positive? Yeah, uh— a hundred percent.

804. I— I remember he was wearing that shirt.

805. Th— This man's a police officer.

806. He was patrolling with his partner

807. when you shot your stepmother.

808. You think that I killed Margo?

809. You dropped your dad off at the library,

810. went back and shot her.

811. No! Then you picked up your dad,

812. brought him home, two of you discovered her body.

813. Same choreography as when you found your mother.

814. See, that was the last time you had him all to yourself.

815. You tried to, uh, recapture that moment in time

816. when he needed you. When it was the two of you

817. against the world. You're— You wanna trick me

818. into admitting something that I did not do.

819. We've already got your father lying about what you did.

820. Any more, he's gonna be an accessory to murder

821. after the fact.

822. If you confess now, we won't give him the chance

823. to lie himself into a jail cell.

824. Oh, God.

825. If— If he moved to Arizona, he'd be dead in six months.

826. I cook his food. I— I— I drive him to the doctor.

827. I make sure he has all 17 of his pills

828. at the right time each day.

829. She didn't care about him.

830. Not like—

831. Not like my mother.

832. Not like me.

833. She said that they were going to Arizona alone.

834. After all I've done.

835. And so— She just turned her back on me, and so I—

836. Shot her in hers.

837. What'd you do with the gun and the jewelry?

838. Oh, I just threw it away.

839. Where?

840. If I tell you,

841. will you let me say goodbye to him?

842. So I'm in the can and I look over and I see two dreadlocks

843. hanging out of the cabinet under the sink.

844. This bad boy had to be 6'3".

845. How he folded his ass into a space like yay.

846. So living in a 6-by-9 with three other soul brothers

847. for a few years ought to be a cake walk.

848. Everyone, you have reason to be proud.

849. Today's raid netted the largest cache

850. of black tar heroin in Farmington history.

851. The chief asked me to convey his thanks. Each of you will receive

852. a letter of commendation from him personally.

853. So keep up the outstanding work.

854. This citizen that we took

855. to the hospital, what did you see?

856. The individual was informed of the evacuation order.

857. He just responded in a belligerent manner,

858. was restrained by the other officers present.

859. Anything to add?

860. That's pretty much how it went down.

861. He isn't even out of the ER,

862. he's already threatening a lawsuit.

863. I'll make it clear to the city attorney

864. that his case has no merit.

865. Good work.

866. Thanks a lot.

867. Next time those guys are gonna party

868. over busting some soul brother, it better be out of my earshot.

869. They were just blowing off steam.

870. Everybody's just happy to be in one piece.

871. Why is everybody treating this like we just won the big game?

872. Because that raid was a home run.

873. Yeah, well, I'm having a hard time

874. mustering team spirit over a beat down.

875. Get real, Julien, you were there. You saw what happened.

876. He was minding his own business until we showed up and started

877. dragging him and everybody else out of their homes.

878. If those folks were interested in getting thugs off the streets

879. instead of turning us into the enemy...

880. Yeah, well, why are we only doing this in Farmington?

881. What about Brentwood, where the crooked drug lawyers live?

882. And the bankers who wash the dirty money?

883. Why aren't we taking their houses?

884. If you think it's such a rotten idea,

885. why'd you help the captain sell it on that panel?

886. All right, let's get her out of here.

887. Got the gun, missing jewelry.

888. Three homicides we've caught the past two weeks.

889. Three for three.

890. You must be thrilled to be back in the saddle.

891. Aren't you? Wonder what changed?

892. What do you mean? I've been the DA's leper

893. for months. All of a sudden, I'm in his good books.

894. You certainly did your time.

895. These are not the type of people to let go of a grudge.

896. And I know I never apologized.

897. Well, maybe they finally realized there was no upside

898. in benching their two best detectives.

899. The buzz is that taking down Maurice Webster

900. gave the prosecution a win in some murder trial.

901. Where'd you hear that? Well, that would explain

902. the sudden change in attitude.

903. That would also suggest a quid pro quo.

904. I gotta get with Ballistics.

905. Confirm this is our murder weapon.

906. Ballistics can wait.

907. I'm busy.

908. And stop treating me like a suspect.

909. Did you have a chat with Beth Insardi?

910. If we carried the Webster case,

911. maybe they'd let us out of the doghouse.

912. Something along those lines?

913. Fine. I confess.

914. At least now we're getting confessions

915. from other people too. Real criminals. Killers.

916. What other errands do you have us running for the DA?

917. Nothing.

918. One of us needed to mend fences.

919. You went behind my back. After being ignored

920. head on for six months, you bet I did.

921. That wasn't your deal to make.

922. You're the best partner I ever had.

923. I hung in with you, waiting for you to see this through.

924. Instead, you just dug yourself in further.

925. I wasn't gonna sit on my hands and watch you wreck

926. your career and mine along with it.

927. I got dinged pretty good in this too, you know.

928. Look, this was my fight.

929. And you lost.

930. So I threw in the towel with the DA.

931. And I'd do it again. And if you wanna be pissed at me,

932. fine, go ahead.

933. You put one of my guys on ice

934. then used that leverage to turn him into your lapdog.

935. You do not want to mess with my people again.

936. A new captain is in no position to make threats.

937. Assistant DAs are judged by their conviction rate.

938. How's yours gonna look when my people show up

939. an hour late in court,

940. give witnesses wiggle room on their statements,

941. misplace evidence only on your cases?

942. Either our offices are working against each other

943. or working together. Which is it gonna be?

944. Together.

945. Good.

946. I keep hearing how good these seizures are

947. for the neighborhood. Can't help wondering

948. if they're making things worse. Okay.

949. This is where people live, raising their kids.

950. We're treating it like a battleground.

951. How far is too far?

952. Okay.

953. So why are you coming to me?

954. To get you to weigh in. With your seniority.

955. You have got a very popular new captain

956. who's got the chief's support

957. coming off a big success today.

958. Besides, my opinion doesn't seem to mean jack shit around here.

959. If people thought like you back in the day—

960. And don't lecture me about the struggle, son.

961. I am the struggle.

962. Breaking down black folks' doors to make the world safer

963. is not a new concept.

964. The difference is now you're the one

965. with the boot on your foot.

966. You got an opinion.

967. You got a voice.

968. Use it or lose it.

969. Hey, I'm getting my nuts twisted by IAD on account of you.

970. Oh, easy, quick draw. You, I don't know,

971. so stay out of this. You and I don't have

972. shit to talk about on any subject.

973. Hey, hey. Easy.

974. Unis just found Angie's mother.

975. Dead from an overdose. Oh, shit, no.

976. Angie's given Social Services the slip.

977. She's probably out there looking for her mom, doesn't even know.

978. I gotta go find her. Hang on, I'll come with.

979. Look, they may have grabbed your shit,

980. but the investigation is sealed off.

981. No roads lead back to you. You should say thank you, Antwon.

982. Do you know how much you cost me today, huh?

983. In product and in manpower? Do you?

984. If you'd kept me in the loop on your tar castles

985. then maybe I could have kept an eye out for you, homey.

986. Grab his piece. Grab his piece.

987. Give me both their guns.

988. Ah!

989. Payback, bitch.

990. I don't get played

991. and I ain't your homey.

992. Oh, man, you're gonna get—

993. Ah!

994. Shut up, bitch.

995. You knew they were taking down my shit.

996. My niggers saw you faggots on the goddamn raid.

997. So how you trying to tell me now

998. there was nothing that you could do?

999. Huh?

1000. You think you was ever making the rules around here?

1001. You're not stupid enough

1002. to bring that kind of heat down on your ass.

1003. I had a talk with her mom.

1004. Amazing what a bitch will give up for a little rush.

1005. Or in this case, a big rush.

1006. Jesus, you killed her mother.

1007. This is the little ho that gave up my block.

1008. She's just a kid.

1009. I know.

1010. And you two

1011. should be ashamed of yourselves.

1012. You found her on the street.

1013. Tried to bring her in for foster care.

1014. But she didn't wanna go.

1015. So she offered you a mouth bribe.

1016. One thing led to another.

1017. And then when she threatened to tell your boss...

1018. No! No, no!

1019. Give him to me.

1020. You got rid of your problem.

1021. And I got rid of mine.

1022. Now,

1023. her body shows up

1024. with bullets in it

1025. from your two gats.

1026. And your card

1027. in her burnt little pocket.

1028. One time, doing time,

1029. for a long, long time.

1030. From now on, I say, "Suck my dick,"

1031. you say:

1032. "You want me to lick your balls, Daddy?"