Freelancers (2012) Movie Script
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Life in the city
Street life is a hustle
Go on every day
This life in the city,
three strikes in the city
Childhood go hard, street
life ain't pretty
Young soldier
watching the block's vultures
Whips, women and paper
dominate the culture
Rocks, pills, weed, flocking,
pimping and pandering
Checks, credit, betting,
whatever hustle they handling
Lost morals for mayors,
undercover patrol
Scores of hos reside,
resident evil
Everyday sequels Sony reds with bird's-eye views or
hood blues Get pinched or shine through-- snitches
Street life is a hustle
Go on every day
This life in the city,
three strikes in the city
Childhood go hard,
street life ain't pretty...
is now in session.
Lucas Ryan, A.D. Valburn,
you're charged with criminal possession of
narcotics. How do you defendants plead?
Due to mitigating
circumstances, not guilty, Your Honor.
The defendants have no priors.
We request bail.
Bail denied.
In light of the new information
the three defendants are hereby
remanded to his custody.
Bailiff.
Street life is a hustle
Go on every day
This life in the city,
hood strife, it's a pity
Childhood go hard,
street life ain't pretty.
Come on, man. You see me trying
to give a speech here.
Some of you have known my best friends and l since
we were delinquent altar boys in grade school.
Hey look, you can keep your little
giggles to yourself, all right?
I know things about you too.
You know, it might've taken me a bit longer
to decide to join, but thanks to some help--
you know, I just wanna say
my pop-- if I could be
- half the cop my
pop was-- - Aww.
Well, I hope I can be half
the cop my pop was.
I just wanna thank everybody for
coming out and supporting me
and my buddies who are taking the plunge
with me-- and of course, other cadets.
Yeah, other cadets.
You know, um, let's party. - Let's have
a good time. - Yeah! Let's party!
- Hey you.
- Hey. What's up?
I'm very proud of you.
But it's been years.
Why did you invite me?
still trying to piss your brother off.
I'm just kidding.
I'm still crushing on you a
little bit. - Okay. - Is that okay?
Well, I was kinda hoping we could settle
some unfinished business tonight.
Coincidence.
I was thinking the same thing.
All right, here we go--
four shots of tequila.
- Remember what happened last time.
- Right.
- Uh-huh.
- Let me know if you need anything else.
- All right.
- All right, so may we be each other's eyes, ears and fists.
- To my boys.
- Hey, may we continue to stay on the right side of the law...
- for once.
- To the ultimate hustle.
- Hey.
- Cheers.
- Ooh.
- Hit me up.
Hey, who invited Lydia?
- Who's the cougar?
- The cougar's how we got
in the academy. I
mean she helped us.
Your dad being a
cop wasn't enough?
Remember when we were
wild little kids?
I remember my
brother not being too happy
about some thug trying
to be my boyfriend at 1 6.
I remember slinging rock
for your brother.
- I remember your brother whipping-- -
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down, he snitched us out to the pigs.
That feels weird wearing
this uniform right now.
Will you tell this fool
we're cops now?
- Law enforcement officers.
- What?
set us up with the police,
you know, while we was
carrying his product.
Mrs. V had her husband pull some strings to
get us out of jail and into the academy.
- Why would she do that for you guys?
- Dick for dollars.
- What's dick for dollars?
- Shh. Nigga, you crazy.
- Just-- shh shh. -
Yo, she was a freak.
She used to pay these
two to smash her once a week.
Now I never got to
tap the ADA's wife,
so I invited her.
I figure I'm due, right?
- You are an idiot. You know this.
- Maybe.
- Yeah, there's something wrong.
- Congratulations to all of you.
Oh God, you've still got
a fine ass, Mrs. V.
- Thanks for coming, Mrs. V.
- You didn't invite me.
- Can I please have a word with you?
- I got a word for you.
I got you here.
The least you could do is
sit down and talk with me.
I could speak to you.
I know some things
that you need to know.
We know it wouldn't be possible to be here without
you. We know what you and your husband did for us.
- How is he?
- Dead.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Now that I have your attention--
Why don't you just pull up a seat?
Just come grieve over here for a
second, Iike right in this area.
Call me.
Would you still bend that over?
No. You?
Liar. Me too.
- In a heartbeat.
- He fucking tells everything, man.
Compliments
from the gentleman in the back.
- Who's that?
- I don't know. I'ma go check it out.
Sit down.
- Ah.
- Thank you.
- No, you don't know me.
- But you know me.
- My name is Captain Joe Sarcone. I head the Street Vice Crimes Task Force.
Your dad and me were partners.
Now when you're done here, I want
you to be at this place-- just you.
God, you look
I'll leave a light on for you.
You like what you see?
Uh-huh.
For seven years, me and your
old man were as thick as thieves.
I promise this isn't some polished-up
hustle to entrap you.
It's all part of your
birthright. Welcome home.
Let me know if I can
get you anything else.
Thank you.
You know, I'm not the type of man to ask a big question
without knowing the answer already. Remember that.
Besides honoring the
memory of your father,
- why did you become a cop?
- I don't know. Get a little respect in the neighborhood,
maybe a little payback. Eh, one
look at you, I already know
- Right?
- Yeah, a little bit.
I'll ask you something else--
what's your life worth?
If you had to put a price tag on it,
what would you say your life's worth?
I don't know. I never thought about that.
- Would you say 46 grand? - I don't know.
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Well, that's what the city of
New York seems to think it's worth--
since you gotta go out
there and risk it every day.
Personally, I feel my life's
worth more than that.
A pat on the back and an extra
1 0-grand-a-year raise
for a job well done isn't worth my
life or any of the lives of my men.
Either way, we gotta get
the job done, you know?
What we do here...
Iet's just call it
the bonus system.
Corruption in this city,
let alone in this country,
is far beyond what
any of us can imagine.
You confiscate a large sum of money-- trust me,
everybody takes their piece as the money moves up the ranks.
All we do here is we take our
cut-- a finder's fee, that's all.
I spread it amongst my
men, everybody's happy.
Look, you wanna be on your own, nickel and
diming on the street, that's your business.
But know this-- we are deep and we are invisible,
all the way up to the mayor's office.
There's the
- You hungry?
- I can always eat.
Kitchen never closes and
everybody eats at my table.
You really trust everybody in here?
That door you just
walked through...
only works one way-- in. Once
you're in, the only way out
is to the sounds of gunshots and bagpipes.
Don't ever force my hand.
That's your FTO,
Be like him.
He's been my right hand
since your father left us.
I'll get your boys assigned
to the same precinct.
As for you--
no uniform, no beat.
You work for me starting
now-- if you accept.
Your father always said "Everybody's gotta
stash a bit of sock money for a rainy day."
To your father.
Tonight we celebrate.
Pick a girl. Have some fun.
- Thank you, sweetie.
- Yup.
What can I getcha? How you
doing? I'm the new guy.
Hi, new guy. I'm sure
you're really nice,
- but I don't fuck cops.
- I just got here. You're starting rumors about me already?
- What, you're not a cop?
- No, I'm not a nice guy.
- Ah.
like a Puerto Rican bad guy.
Well, my mom's black. My
father's Puerto Rican.
- I don't do Puerto Ricans either.
- Damn.
- Mmm.
- Where you from? What's your name?
Don't you have some nice girl
waiting for you somewhere?
- Come on.
- I don't want a nice girl.
- I want you.
- You're a charmer.
- Puerto Rico.
- You like peanut butter?
- Yeah, I like peanut butter.
- Me too. See, we got all this in common. Wanna fuck?
- Unbelievable.
- I know a place.
Yeah, where? For
peanut butter or for fucking?
- Both.
- Yeah, I bet you do.
I don't know why
you're playing hard to get.
Yeah, you
motherfuckers play too much.
- Arrest me, officer.
- Come back and get in your pocket.
Good morning.
Coffee? It's hot.
Man, you look soft.
What?
Badge ain't what protects us out here.
It's having the balls to use it.
You look like you're missing one.
Let's get on outta here, see if we
can find that missing ball, all right?
Hey.
What? What's going on?
Let me ask you something.
You think any of these young brothers out here got the
same good sense you got to try to better themselves?
I mean, most of them look
like they juvenile delinquents.
What you think? Right?
I mean-- l-- I don't know, sir.
You know? Well, maybe. I mean, l--
I don't know. Yes, no. You know?
No no no no no no no. No no no
no. Don't do that. Don't do that.
- Do what?
- Choke up. "l don't know. I don't know."
No. You know, you breathe
the same air as me, right?
- Yeah. That's right.
- You a black man just like me, right?
- Yes, sir.
- Learn to speak your mind, young blood. Don't be no stumblebum.
Now only thing I ask is that you keep
your eyes and your ears open, all right?
Maybe be careful.
You might learn something.
But you learn to speak your mind.
Come on, babe. Let it go.
Oh, damn.
You see the ass on that?
Who wouldn't hit that?
Who? Yo, I feel you on that.
Just gotta double bag in respect
for the wife, am I right?
No disrespect, but you
would nut in your pants,
- she let you get a whiff of the tasty.
- What?
Not like you'd do anything with her
man handcuffing her right now.
- This motherfucker--
- What, you mean the gorilla?
Watch this.
What's up?
- You got a problem?
- Come on, baby.
That's right, keep walking.
It's not worth it.
Enjoy your day.
That's some bullshit.
And that's how you keep
control of a filthy nigger.
Oh, it's like that?
Yeah, it's like that.
You got a problem
with that, rookie?
- You want a bump?
- No, I don't want none.
- You sure?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
Buy, break it, bag it, sell it
Buy, break it,
bag it, sell it...
- This is-- - Look at that.
Ain't got no home training.
Come on, sir. Kids are
gonna do what they want.
When I was a youngster, doing what you
want was a privilege reserved for grown folk.
You gotta remember that our
strength, our downfall, lies with these youth.
Who they mimic is who they become,
and you know what they show.
So we gotta be
aware of what we show,
stop giving them grays a
reason to hate our ass.
Hey, y'all, move. Let's go.
- What? - No, I said move.
Oh my--
Excuse me, sir-- the grays?
Yeah, the grays.
As in the gray-skinned, gray-haired
Caucasian crackers
that you see smiling they
smiles on the TV talk show,
talking the nonsensical bullshit about why
the Negros call each other the "N" word.
Huh? You heard that?
How they say it's because we
basically don't like ourselves
or each other. But that's all right that we
don't take responsibility for our actions
because, you know, we
don't know no better.
- Yeah, grays.
- Personally,
I've never had a problem
with the word "nigga," sir.
- You know, where
I'm from, we-- - Oh!
Oh, you-- so you must be one.
I knew I smelled something.
Oh, man, come on.
I'm riding in the car
with a full-blown nigga in a uniform.
- Nigga in the uniform.
- Hey. You play ball, Mr. Nigga?
Yeah, I play a little hoop.
You know, but football was my thing.
- I was a wide receiver in high school.
- Yeah? Good.
I want you to come down to a playground
where I coach some kids in the PAL team.
- They would love it, you know?
- Uh-huh.
You'd get a chance to meet
some proud young black men,
not like the ones you know.
Got some new shit.
Always need a backup.
Sometimes you need a
backup for your backup.
Go ahead, get something
for yourself, a'ight?
Hey, you can't use the N-word.
Why the hell not?
'Cause you ain't got a pass.
What, you do? Hell
yes, I got a pass.
Let me guess-- you got some
African-American buddies?
Some brothers?
Look, I was assigned as your
training officer to train you
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- so you don't have to learn the hard way.
I got 1 5 years in the cruiser.
You got five hours.
I'm trying to give you the
benefit of my experience.
Buddy, you can throw yourself under a bus to
save one of these fine African-Americans,
Puerto Ricans, lndians, Asians,
Muslims-- whatever.
Me, I'm gonna stay in the
car and I'm gonna live,
have dinner with my wife and kid,
bang my girlfriend and collect my pension.
I could care less
about these monkeys.
- Fuck.
- And understand--
these animals will eat you alive
if you give 'em a chance.
Are we gonna have problems, rookie?
When we're in this cruiser, you better have my back and
you better do exactly what I tell you. You got me?
Shit can get real crazy
out here really quick.
So when the time comes,
you better get down like I tell you.
All I got is this game
And all I got is my soul
I'll give you all I
got until it's gone...
Wait in the car, all right?
'Cause all I know
is just pain
Done lost it all but remain
'Cause truth be told, a nigga
know at the end of the day
You gotta lose before you could
gain That's how you grow
What the fuck you think you doing,
selling drugs to kids?
- Come on, man!
- Fucking punk! Forgot the rules of the block, huh?
Say it.
Say the rule.
- No candy for the kids. - Mm-hmm. - I should
book your little ass. - Hey! Yo, hey!
What are you doing?
Come on!
What the fuck do you think you're doing? - He was
selling drugs to kids. - I don't give a shit
if he was selling
crack to your grandmother!
If I tell you to wait in the car, then
you-- you wait in the car. A'ight?
A'ight.
I never left the streets.
It's a pretty easy first
day. Don't get used to it.
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Yeah, Pop. I love you too.
You're a good kid.
I like driving
around with you, Pop.
Oh, I bet you do.
Yeah, I figured you'd
be here today.
- So you remembered.
- How could I forget?
You haven't called.
Can we talk?
- About what?
- You don't think about me?
I do. All the
time. You know that.
I'm not gonna wait
on you forever.
Still working at your
father's diner? Yes.
If you'd come around
more often, you'd know that.
He needs me there. He doesn't
trust anyone else.
- What about your brother?
Please, don't even get
me started on that one.
Still trying
to be a tough guy?
I want you to be happy.
Why did you invite me
to your celebration at the bar?
It's complicated. I--
I can't even explain it.
Do what you feel
Officer requesting
backup, Parsons Boulevard.
- That's right around the corner.
- Yeah, I know where it is.
Put the pin. Pull it,
nigga, pull the pin.
- Shut up, both of you!
- Come on, nigga!
Hey, shut up, both of you!
Shut the hell up!
Hey, put the gun on the ground
and step away from it!
- Do it now!
- Fuck you, nigga! I'm ready to die.
- I know that guy.
- It's Felix.
- No no, Ricky.
- Shut the hell up!
- I'll shoot you and your fucking dog.
- What?
- Fuck you.
- Control that dog before I shoot it.
Three witnesses over here, son.
I run the block! You feel me?
And I don't need no pussy-ass
cops for this Puerto Rican bitch.
Hey, put the gun on the ground
and step away from it! Do it now! Now!
What is this?
- Trying to figure it out, Officer.
- I'm Morrison.
So we come around the corner, these two
come spilling out of the bodega, arguing.
Out of nowhere, the big-- the black guy takes a
swing at the little guy with a knife in his hand.
Little guy pulls a piece, we draw
weapons, you guys show up.
I didn't even see where the
gun came from, it happened so fast.
A'ight. I'm gonna
take it from here, uni.
Put the gun down.
Put it down.
It ain't going bad
today, not today.
Put the gun down, buddy.
Come on, put it on the ground.
Right there. Right there on
the ground. Put the gun down.
All right, it's your turn. Hey
hey! You next, let's go. Tie the dog up,
- lay on the street. Let's go.
- Fuck you!
If it's all the same to you, Officer,
I'll take it from here.
No, it's my
collar, my cuffs. No.
rank here, he decides.
He's looking at me like he wants to eat me.
I want this monkey in my car, my cuffs on him.
I'm not asking you.
I'm telling you.
Partner, draw your weapon on
Officer Redneck over here.
Right now, do it.
You out of your fucking
mind? The fuck you doing?
I'm in control here.
You holster your weapon
or my partner's gonna shoot
you where you stand.
You wanna die?
You wanna die?
- Billy, I think--
- Shut the fuck up!
You wanna die?
Tie your dog on the--
on the pole over there.
I want you to turn around and I want you to kneel
down and interlock your fingers behind your head.
Take the kid over here, then you
Let's go. On your knees.
On your knees!
Hands behind your head.
- Hey hey hey.
- Tough guy, huh?
You're lucky I didn't
haul your ass off, punk.
- Oh my God!
- What's up now, pussy? Huh?
- I ain't even do nothing, son.
- Fuck.
This motherfucker wanna eat me.
You think I'm a monkey, huh?
Ricky, you know me, man.
Don't do this.
Don't test me.
You're right-- dude
wants to end you.
I ain't gonna let
it go like that.
Easy, let the
OG take you in.
Put the gun down.
Come on, son.
It's gonna get bad for you out here.
You oughta be
locking up that cop!
You're welcome.
On your knees. Let's go.
- On your knees.
- Hey.
- Easy.
- Hands behind your head.
Hands behind your head!
Stand down.
Don't think I'm not
Yeah, we all watched you assault a perp
and my rookie bail your bitch-ass out,
so why don't you
put that in your report?
You're mine.
Get in the fucking cruiser.
Punk.
Do me a favor--
uncuff him, will you?
Uncuff him.
- Do you really want me to?
- Yeah.
- 'Sup?
- Yeah.
- You carrying?
You know I always got you.
You lucky that I showed up when I did, 'cause you know that redneck
was gonna rape you with a stick. You know that, right?
All right, you owe me.
This your stop. Get out.
- You sure you don't party?
- Not with that shit.
Yeah well,
when you've seen enough shit
and you've done enough shit,
you change your mind. Till then,
don't judge me if you're gonna be
- sitting right next to me.
- I'm not judging you.
You will soon.
Just once I'd like to know what it feels like
not to have a brown face in the back back there.
Now your mama gotta hide her face every
time she go out on the street, huh?
Uncuff him, Officer.
Excuse me?
I said take the shackles
off the young boy's wrists.
And give this to him.
It's his stuff.
Come on, man.
And look, keep your head on you, okay? -
We're letting you off this time. - Hey, come on.
It ain't always
gonna be like this.
I thought we were supposed to
keep cats like that off the streets.
- No.
- You know, I thought that--
No no, tell me, what would you have done,
Officer, if you had six guns pointed at your head
and a crazy-ass cracker
trying to take you in? Huh?
- Remember Abner Louima.
- Why did we let him go?
- I mean, he-- - No,
he's gonna be better off
out here than he is inside that system.
Trust me on that.
But that's not our
decision to make, sir.
- No. Look, let me tell you something. - You
know, that's-- A few years inside that system
and he would've been desperate enough to pull
that trigger just not to go back inside.
Now this lesson just ain't
for him. It's for you too.
Yes sir.
I'm getting money,
yeah, I'm getting money
You niggas 'bout a dollar,
I'm 'bout a hundred
I'm getting money,
yeah, I'm getting money
What?
I only met her a week ago.
Of course I did.
I knew that shit. Punks. Everybody in that
bar been trying to crack that ass ever since
she got up in here. Then you come in here in a
week, slinging your shit around and you got that.
Whoa whoa,
what we got up here?
- Let me get that.
- Sit down, rookie.
I'll make the first move, then
you show me what you've got.
Ladies.
You lose your keys?
Shit, I know you ain't trying to
holla. Y'all are too fine to be police, baby.
- What's going on, ladies?
- Her man crazy.
- He ain't my man.
- Your man crazy?
Yeah, so we was out here
last night just chilling,
smoking a blunt. So I need to holla at
my man, but my phone battery had died,
so I ask Eddie can I use his.
So he let me use it, but
then he's stressing me
on these minutes and shit, right? So we got to yelling. Then
po-po rolls up, talking about disturbing the peace and shit
and that they about to take us in.
Anyhow, Eddie got put in the system last night,
got locked up with the key to this
house and my shit's still in there.
You know what?
Enough of that, a'ight?
- Show me some lD.
- What you want my lD for?
Just give me some lD, all right?
Hey, shit.
Here.
What does Eddie
do? Eddie sling rock?
Answer my partner.
No, Eddie sells weed.
There's somethin' in here.
You smell it?
- Get your shit and get outta here.
- Hey, gimme a fucking minute.
Wait a motherfucking minute? Shit. Make
sure these ladies get outta here, a'ight?
God.
- Just a minute.
- Just get your shit and let's go.
Where is my fuckin'--? I don't
fucking know. Maybe he took it.
Yeah yeah, I don't
see my shit. Any of it.
Am I fucking seeing my man's shit, anyway?
I thought you said Eddie wasn't your man?
Hey, man, what the fuck you doing?
Oh shit. Oh shit.
I'm not gonna tell.
I ain't gonna say nothing.
I swear I'm not.
She ran off
with your balls, kid.
Help me!
Oh, no no!
Please!
Holy shit. Shit.
Grandma, is she dead?
Move back.
Somebody call 91 1.
First time seeing a face get split?
No.
Here's your cut plus
a little
cherry-popping bonus.
Another good day.
- How about my cut of the weed?
- Yo.
No no, we'll sell Eddie's stash to one of his competitors, we
make a bundle of cash-- unless you've got a better idea. I'm all ears.
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Let's bail Eddie out,
sell his product back to him.
We put him back in business working for us,
take a cut off the top. Win-win for everybody.
You know, I was right about you.
You're charmed. I love this kid.
Today was a good day. You guys
go out, have a good time, celebrate.
Welcome to my shade, here.
- This is your spot?
- This is it.
"D" is for the diamonds,
"O" is for the owes
"P" is for the paper,
"E" is for everything...
Hi.
Take a seat, all right? Relax.
Hi.
I see you brought a friend.
To the back. I'll get you set up.
Oh. Enjoy,
a'ight? It's on me.
Thank you very much,
you are very welcome
For not supporting
and never helping
I live the dream, so when I
sleep there's only nightmares...
- Thanks.
- Like when the police found That cocaine in my Nike Airs
I went from steel handcuffs
to diamond bracelets
When no one else would bail me
out My nigga Johnny Blaze did
That's why I take him
everywhere with me
Even let him blow my last 50
No problem
On my way to heaven
to fuck your goddess
And if we ever go
broke, pray to the snow gods
Here go some money,
baby, have a good time
I gotta go change the
world one pound at a time
Selling dope, "D" is for
the diamonds "O" is for the owes
"P" is for the paper,
"E" is for everything
Dope gave me everything
Dope, thanks for everything
I like driving
around with you, Pop.
Yeah, I bet you do.
Show me your hands.
It's dead out here.
We got a little carried away.
We didn't mean any harm.
- Have a safe night.
You're a good guy, Pop.
That's right.
This badge makes me bulletproof.
In this life, sometimes you
gotta take what should be given.
You understand?
Always keep sock money
around for a rainy day.
Come on in.
You want that respect?
It's not about the power, it's about
the form. Practice makes perfect here.
There you go.
that's nice for-- whoa!
Oh! What's going on, man? What's
up? Yo, what's up? What's going on?
- What y'all doing over here?
- Everything good?
Hey, watch your elbow, man. You gotta
make sure he get the forms right.
Hey hey, listen to this man. He
was a dope QB in high school.
Yo, this is so you right now.
It feels good. Hey,
let's get out of this sun, man.
- Oof.
- It's hot out there.
Yo, remember when we used to get out of doing laps by bribing
to her lately? - Nah, I ain't speak to her.
Yo, all I know is that your
TO is fucking crazy.
- Look who talking.
- Yeah.
Yo, would you have really shot
Morrison if your TO told you to?
Man, y'all got no idea what
goes on in my squad.
Dudes is eating, and
they're getting real money.
People in the mayor's office
answer my boss's calls.
- The shit is crazy.
- I thought we were supposed to be
- each other's eyes,
ears and fists. - Mm-hmm.
That's why I gotta get
y'all on this squad.
Yo, can you please make that
happen before my crazy TO gets me killed?
Yeah, I'm down.
I'm heading over there later.
Lemme see what I can do.
Yo, lemme get some.
Yo, I guess you didn't get the
message the last time, you little bitch.
Oh shit!
Fuck.
Fuck you!
Get up.
I'm doing right by this kid, right? Yeah,
you doing right by him. I understand.
Having junior around helps
keep your conscience clean.
You trust him, all right?
- Hey, what's that?
- Homework.
John Jay, student, criminal
psychology. Do you remember anything?
No.
- I wanna test him.
- Yeah?
Just give him something to do,
give him something small.
- Something small? Yeah. Mmm.
- Yeah.
This is why I don't date cops.
They're too self-absorbed.
- What? - Nothing.
So you arresting
thugs on the street now?
You can't call yourself a
man and deal drugs to children
and mothers pushing
strollers. That's a piece of shit.
You calling me a piece of shit now?
I'm fucking with you.
But don't fuck with our
representatives on the street-- that's most important.
- Huh?
- Cool.
You want a chance to move up?
No doubt. You know that.
Go here...
come back with my money. You
mind if I bring my boys with me?
That's how we do it here.
You vouch for 'em, sure, it's okay.
- They're like my brothers. - Okay.
It's the first time you're gonna meet this guy.
I want you to lean on him and be felt. Understood?
Yes sir.
Important.
- Go ahead.
- Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Go ahead. Go go.
Hold the fuck on!
Oh fuck!
- Whoa, fucking slow down.
- G'day, mate.
Do I look like a fucking
kangaroo to you, you prick?
- Who the fuck are you guys?
- We're the new crew.
- Is that right? - Whoa whoa whoa.
- Easy easy now. - I wish you would.
We're here to
- Like the man said,
- we're the new crew.
- Just tell us where the money's at.
On the table.
Yeah, we good.
Let's get out of here.
- Listen to your partner.
- Or what?
Or I'm gonna get really pissed.
You ain't scared, huh?
Are you some kind of tough guy?
I ain't hiding nothing
about him. So let me tell you this:.
fuck you, fuck
you and fuck you!
Oh shit! You're gonna go
fucking down, you fuckers!
- You're gonna pay for that!
- Come on, grab his foot!
- Get me up, you motherfuckers!
- Are you scared yet, motherfucker?
I'm scared for you.
- You gonna fly, motherfucker!
- I'm gonna drop your ass.
- You ain't talking shit now.
- Get me up, you fuckers!
- You ain't talking shit now, right?
- You motherfuckers! Help me get him in. Get your ass over here.
I'm gonna fly your ass out that window like a kite.
I'm more worried
don't know who the real boss is.
His boss, my boss, your boss--
- Everyone's got a boss.
product into the city for 20 years.
traffic route is all nice and friendly.
That's my job now. I pay
him on the back end.
I know spots of
- he doesn't even know about.
- Go check the other room.
Even got an old cop to rat on him.
It didn't stick. He's
still walking the streets.
The aftermath-- everybody
that was involved
- went to an early grave.
- You a cop?
No. You just don't get it.
You're his new trained dog.
He'll get you used
to the white powder.
And he'll use you just
like he has all his other dogs.
your friend. Jackpot, baby.
This ain't the half of it.
Who does this belong to?
Technically, my boss.
Come on, we did what we came to
do. Man, let's get out of here.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. New deal-- you're gonna
tell me where those cash spots is at, you hear me?
your new little side hustle,
and you already
know what he gonna do.
You work for me now.
What's the worst
The worst thing I ever did
was trust the wrong man.
How do you know when
you trusting the wrong man?
You're questioning
me? Huh? You little shit.
I always made my decision
with my head, not my heart.
I got to where I am in this world by taking advantage
of people's trust, and I'm not ashamed of that.
I have a question for you.
Are your boys loyal to you?
- Absolutely.
- Yeah?
I'm not asking you to vouch for them. I'm asking
for you to bet your balls, literally.
- I understand. I do.
- Yeah, do you?
'Cause usually it's the guy closest to your
balls who winds up kicking you in them.
I have a rat inside these walls. That's
the news straight from One Police Plaza.
Someone in my
confidence is cheating on me.
Don't make me
wrong to trust you.
I love you like a son, but if you
or anybody near you double-crosses me...
as long as I have breath in my
lungs, I will find you and I will cook you.
- You don't have to worry about me.
- I'm not worried, kid. You're confusing worry and concern.
Sometimes it's a woman who winds up
kicking you in the balls the hardest.
- Is that why you're not married?
- You're damn straight.
I don't trust no bitch, neither should you, especially
not some bitch shaking her ass for tips in a fucking bar.
- Understood.
- You gotta do what you gotta do, kid.
Use your head, always, and keep
your balls covered. Remember that.
- Am I clear?
- I hear you loud and clear.
- Shots!
- You got it.
Yo, what's the word?
Are we in or what?
when he's ready, man.
said - about an ADA from Queens-- - Yeah?
-
- Who the fuck cares?
- Gimme two.
lose by not bringing us on. Am I right?
I'll talk to Lydia tomorrow,
see what's up.
Yo, I seen this
fly Spanish girl. Whoa!
You talk to her lately?
Now you know she loves you.
How long you gonna make her
pay for her family's bullshit?
Let's move.
Yeah, whatever.
But just-- you know, just in case.
Hey. How you doing?
- I'm good. How are you?
- I'm good.
You come here with
these clowns?
No, my girlfriend knows one of the
guys. I just met them. Is that okay?
Yo, do I know you?
Yo, I'm talking to you.
- No, son, you don't know me.
- Wanna party?
- Ooh. A cop, huh?
- What the fuck?
Shit. His motherfucking badge
don't mean shit in here.
I think she liked it.
- Yo, who invited you here?
- Man, fuck you.
What?! Who the fuck you think you're talking to? - Whoa.
- Coming in here with that badge, thinking you running shit?
- I gotta go.
- You a punk, huh? You scared? You nervous?
You nervous?!
- Oh shit!
- Pop off! Why you pulling the gun, white boy?
We all got guns. Pop off!
- You nervous?!
- You gonna shoot all of us?
- You scared, white boy?
- You gonna shoot all of us?
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!
- Police! Get the fuck down! - What did you do?
What the fuck? Man, put this shit down. What the--
Stupid, man.
We gotta get outta here.
- Come on, man, get out of here.
- Yeah, fuck you!
- Let's go! Let's go! Come on!
- Fuck you!
- What do we do? - What they gonna
do? They gonna-- they gonna call the cops?
Hey, man, he's outta control, man.
It's always the same shit with this dude.
Mix some up.
You really think I wouldn't have found out
about your boy shooting two people at a party?
In front of witnesses? Huh?
- Huh?
- Answer the man. Your fucking boy's an idiot.
He's a fucking idiot.
You understand that?
He ain't under my protection like you.
He can get you fucked up. He can fuck me up.
- He got excited. I'll calm him down.
- He got excited? He got excited?
I made some calls.
Last night never happened.
I know you want him around because he's your friend,
but if I ever hear of him fucking up
again, that's it. It's over. You understand?
- Let me hear you say it!
- Yes, I understand.
Let me tell you something right now--
you work for me!
Only me, not yourself!
You do what I say!
Snort that line.
Snort the fucking line!
The other one.
- You just don't get it.
- Your boy's a fucking idiot.
- You're his new trained dog.
- He's a fucking idiot.
about an ADA from Queens.
He'll get you used to the white
powder. He ain't under my protection.
What are the chances he
He can fuck you up. He can fuck me up. I like you,
- Untranslated subtitle
- Only me! Let me hear you say it.
Get outta here.
This fucking kid.
I knew you'd call eventually.
You got your wish.
I appreciate everything you did for me, Lydia, but I called
because I needed to talk to you about your husband.
What happened to him?
How'd he die?
He was looking
for something big,
something that would
make him a legal rock star.
Then he'd be DA or mayor
or God knows what. Governor?
- So what happened?
- He got what he wanted.
He was approached
by a DEA agent
who wanted help in building a case
against corrupt New York City cops.
So how'd he die?
Not well.
They called it
a no-note suicide.
Not leaving a note for
me I understand, but...
nothing for his son, his
kept locked away in his office--
a dossier on one
Audio, video surveillance,
notebooks with names, dates, locations.
Basically, he was a
drug dealer in a uniform.
And he had two partners.
Baby, don't be naive. My
husband found your father's weak spot.
He convinced him that
you were in danger.
He got him to talk on record about
shit they'd been involved in.
That's why my husband got you into
the academy. He felt guilty.
Guilty for what?
How do you think your father died?
me. Yeah? How long is that gonna last?
detective for the New York City Police Department.
And the reason
you've come to us here today?
on duty, we transported cocaine, marijuana
- Untranslated subtitle
- and worked as bodyguards and hired guns
now I'm afraid for the life of my wife and my son.
- I love you, Pop.
trying to build a case against him, they'd fucking kill me.
Climb in the back. Climb in
the back and hide on the floor.
Come on.
And keep quiet. Not a peep.
- Oh yo, man. It's you guys.
- Get out of the car.
Come on, I'm just picking up
a little sock money. It's nothing.
Don't force my hand here.
Danny-- you crossed the line,
Danny. Now get the fuck out of the car.
Your dad and me were partners.
I love you like a son.
If this is about the money,
here, take a piece.
It's not about
the money, Danny.
If it ain't about the dough,
then what the hell is it about?
It's about loyalty.
You son of a bitch.
You son of a bitch.
Why? Wait! Wait a minute!
Pop, how can I get
you out of there?
I'm fine.
Everything's gonna be okay.
Don't worry about me.
Now get out of the car.
- No, Pop. No. I'm not leaving you!
- Get away from here!
Do it now!
So I want this recorded in case
something happens to me.
- Untranslated subtitle -
Thank you, Karen. Send him in.
Have a seat.
finally reaches out.
There's no such thing as coincidence, right?
Your phone number was in the file
That's right.
All those pictures, my
father's confession--
none of that was
Sometimes in my business, you do what you can...
- hope for the best.
- That's bullshit.
Something's telling me there's a little
more than hope involved here.
Your father was trying
to do the right thing.
So why are you here,
Tell me plainly.
I wanna serve
I just need to
know how to do it.
- Who is it?
What do you really want for us?
- What I want?
- Yeah.
I mean, am I really
what you want?
Come here.
Don't be like that. I want you,
Tell me.
Tell me.
that you love me.
I need to hear you say it.
Say it.
You're a piece of shit.
- Come here.
- Get out of my house.
- Come here.
- Don't you fucking touch me.
Get out of my house.
Get out of my house.
Morning, baby.
You want some coffee?
Coffee?
What? What's up? I just
don't trust many people.
I got a lot going on right now. a
lotta things I gotta get done, that's all.
A.D., what's up?
What you got for me?
launders money at the Queens Raceway.
Yo, you ain't gonna believe this. You know
for my call, all right?
- A'ight, I'm on it.
- A'ight.
- Hey.
- What's going on?
- I got something. Yeah, it's major.
about it. You trust me, don't you?
I'll pick you up in 10.
- Good luck.
- Thank you.
- Hey.
- How you doing? I've been really lucky today if you need any suggestions.
- Untranslated subtitle
- Well, I'm actually here on official police business.
I'm gonna need you to buzz
us into that back door.
Let me call upstairs about that.
Look, if you make that phone call,
you might as well be an accomplice to everything that
goes on here. Yo, they don't pay me enough for this.
Go around that counter - and I'm
gonna buzz you in. - All right
- Untranslated subtitle -
Brother, stay the fuck down. - Where
you going? Where you going? - Fuck.
- Untranslated subtitle
- Stay there or I'll kick you in your fucking head.
Chill. Yeah yeah.
What are you doing with these guys?
Especially this asshole right here?
- Yo, keep fucking with me, old man.
- You wanna try me?
I can make you vanish. Poof! You'll be
gone. Just say one more fucking thing, all right?
Yo, my deal, my crew. Fuck that.
This isn't good, kid. This isn't good.
I can't save you.
- Get your ass up.
- A'ight, man.
- I knew it was just a matter of time
- Wait, you know this guy?
- Yeah, I know him.
- Why you didn't tell me you know
- this guy? What the hell's going on? - My high school sweetheart--
He's the one got us started in the
game, hustling a corner, slinging.
- This is the thanks I get
- for starting you out?
- A real class act.
You think I forgot about that autograph you signed
on my forehead with that baseball bat? Huh?
You know who
this place belongs to?
You ever hear of him?
We work with this
guy, for God's sake.
A'ight, a'ight, look,
Iet's-- let's just get outta here. - Don't
touch a fucking thing. - Easy easy.
- Whoa whoa whoa.
- You gonna let 'em put guns in my face? You gonna put a gun in my fucking face?
gonna watch me fist you with this hand right before he kills you.
Are you high? Are you high?
- Do you hear me, kid?
- You're a cop?
That's funny.
to go around for all of us, man.
- You ain't gotta do this.
- Shut the fuck up.
- You still mad? That was years ago.
- Now look at you.
- For Christ's sake, do something!
- Don't do it.
- Shoot that pig!
- We ain't here for that, man!
- Shit!
- It's a big mistake, kid.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
What are you thinking about?
Yeah!
What the fuck, man?
Get some rope or something.
Tie him up.
- Take all that shit.
- Oh shit, man.
Adios, old friend.
I don't know, man.
- Of course I'm sure.
- You got something you wanna say?
- Yo, I don't give a fuck.
Come on, let's go.
We are exactly where we're
supposed to be, my friends.
The sky's the limit, right?
I don't think so anymore.
Hey, remember when we were kids and we used
to play cops and robbers in the rain?
Yeah, you never wanted
to be the cop. I do now.
For all the wrong reasons. Yo, what
the fuck is that supposed to mean?
I don't wanna do this anymore. What,
you ain't down for us no more?
No, I'm not down for this shit anymore.
- Oh yeah? Yeah?
- Yeah, you heard me.
- You got a problem with that?
- Shut up, man. Both of you just shut the hell up, all right?
Chill the hell out, man. Look,
if you want out, A.D., you can go.
- Untranslated subtitle -
It ain't gonna change nothing.
Badges ain't change us. We're still us.
You know, badge or no badge,
this is bullshit.
And the crazy thing is you like it.
And this asshole over here wants to grow up to be
just like you if you don't get us all killed first.
That's how you feel?
I'm done, man.
- I'm out.
- Was it really that bad?
You think I'd
leave if it wasn't?
Don't listen to that pussy.
You got it all under control
like you always do. Right, my dude?
You've been telling me what
to do since we was little kids.
I'm tired of it.
What do you think she'd do
for killing her brother?
do he knows you're stabbing him in the back?
Don't you play all high
and mighty with me, bitch.
'Cause you can't fuck with me,
but I can fuck with you though.
You remember that.
happen? Completely unacceptable.
Yeah yeah, I know,
I know, I know.
- You need to fix this now.
- Yeah, don't worry. I got it.
How could the racetrack get hit? - What
am I paying you for? - Yeah, I got it.
- You need to make this right.
- I got it.
- You have two days to find my money.
- Okay okay.
the beep, say it.
- I'm out.
- Oh yeah.
- Hey.
- Where the fuck are you?
Something very messy just went
- Have you seen your partner lately?
- No, why?
I'm in a spot
where I can get touched real bad.
An associate just got jacked for nine digits and that
just don't happen without me knowing about it.
can't find him and I don't know what to think now.
Sounds like you know
- How much did he steal?
- I can't cover it.
- But you think it is.
- Want me go find him?
- Nah.
If he don't wanna be found, he's got a
million places to lay up and stay high.
- That's what I'm worried about.
- Want me hit the streets,
- make some things happen?
That's right. You can always trust me.
Okay.
Are you wearing a wire,
- No sir.
It is disrespectful of him to
send a messenger in his place.
Speak, messenger.
you, but he sent me here to lie to you.
Please do choose your
next words very carefully.
Explain.
None of what went down was my idea. Are
you about to admit to stealing from me?
I was there, yes, but it's
He's trying to use me to do it and I don't wanna
be in the middle when you screw him back.
But you're still in the
Now where is my property?
- All of it.
These are the transcripts
from the DEA's wiretaps
He's over a barrel. He'll give
everyone up to save his own ass.
All they really want is you.
Robbing you is just his way of fucking
you a little deeper before he hands you over.
So are we in business?
First my property.
Half the money and the
Here's an address, key to a car--
half your stuff is in it.
I'll bring him out in the open so you
can deal with him how you see fit.
You're dismissed.
Stay close, man.
- Motherfuckers!
- You stay down!
You drive.
- Did you find him?
No, I ain't find him, but I found half the money
at his place. - It look like he did it. - Ahh.
- I know, I know,
don't know who jacked him.
He should be happy you
found half his stuff.
Maybe ask for a finder's fee.
- Remember who's doing who a favor.
- A'ight.
- Hello, this is Jude.
- Hello.
Agent Jude, I think all the pieces are falling
in place. I just need a few more things.
You know, I understand you wanting
to avenge your father's death and all,
but what happens
after that, huh?
I mean, you ever actually thought
about respecting the badge?
Perhaps aiming some of that
angst in the right direction?
No, I ain't thought about that lately.
So what do you need?
Kill me?
You wanna kill me?
You ain't got the balls to
face me man to man! Huh?
Oh, so you're
gonna take me out?
It's like that?
Well, come on then! Come on!
Piece of shit.
- Is that the rest of my property?
- It's right there, sir.
call-- add insult to injury.
You satisfied?
Remind me-- what is my incentive for
not shooting you or killing you right now?
I'm clever.
You just said it.
I will not.
I've proven my loyalty to you.
Not yet, but soon you will.
Oh shit.
What the fuck is going on here?
Hup! Take it easy.
What is this?
It's a test.
- Who's the girl?
- I know that your friend is a liability
to keep you close to him.
I really don't know why. I
don't deal with liabilities.
Unfortunately,
the girl was with your
friend when we picked him up.
She's an innocent bystander.
Now you're dealing with
You're gonna shoot one of them
or I'll kill them both.
What-- what's
up, man?
It's good what you're doing, man.
You know, my TO was right.
I've learned a lot about myself.
You could too.
I gotta go back to the
kids, man. You be good.
You look like shit.
Look sharp. This is it, folks.
Yeah. You know why
I trust you, kid?
- 'Cause you know I won't fuck you over?
- Yeah.
When's the last
Not long enough. I gotta
see that prick tonight.
As long as that money
come through nice
It takes a certain type of individual to do what we
do, to have the balls to be the type of men we are.
You gotta want it-- all of it. Good
guys, bad guys-- that's all bullshit
when it comes down to it.
It's about money, fear and respect.
Like you, I always
wanted all three.
Iike your father did
when-- when we started out.
Do not let them out of your sight.
Copy that.
Tell me the story about
that plane heist.
- I love that story.
- What, how me and your dad started?
- Attaboy.
- Me and your father used to pick up
and escort 'em through the city.
- Untranslated subtitle -
We'd babysit through distribution, collection around
the city, then we'd escort 'em back to JFK.
Easy-peasy, 1 0 Gs easy.
- Nice. - Yeah, 1 0 Gs
before skimming off
the top of cargo.
That's how I built my
empire, stealing dope from that--
you know, dope.
- So when did it go bad?
No, between you and my father.
I told you everything
you need to know, kid.
Tell me what you
think I don't know.
You know...
when it came down to it, your father
was afraid to make the tough decisions,
so he made the wrong ones.
Come on.
I've always done
right by you, kid.
- Like a father to me.
- Like a father.
And I wouldn't offer you my hand
if I thought you were gonna bite it.
I just wanna know the truth.
Attaboy.
I never ever,
not for one instant, thought your
father would or could rat us out,
but the facts are what they are.
He made a deal with an ADA.
We're talking serious jail
time for everybody, including me.
Everybody was gonna be shamed and
disgraced in the papers, the whole nine yards.
And the word came down on Monday
morning. It had to get done.
Why you?
Because l-- I was his partner.
It was a test of my loyalty.
Was it them or was it him?
What would you do?
It was a Wednesday.
We followed him
to Roosevelt lsland and--
All units, stand ready.
And he was pulled over by a
patrol car, of all things.
We waited for them to
leave and then we went over.
I made him get out. I...
Your father was a--
your father was a...
he was a rat.
Take him
when he exits the car.
Would you do it again?
Your father was afraid
to make the tough decisions.
Men like us are built to make
those kinds of decisions.
That's who we are.
Can you do that?
Can you make those
tough decisions?
I already have.
Take him. Go. Go go!
I'm gonna go.
Get your fucking hands off me.
Man down. Where'd that
shot come from?
Check the rooftops now!
Where'd that shot come from?
Everybody out there right now!
Get up on those rooftops,
all units!
Shut down everything!
I don't want anybody
getting out of this area,
not in a five-block radius!
- I want everybody to move now!
- Fall back. I'm going in.
What the hell happened?
I need a car on that end.
I need a car on this end.
Thanks for not giving
- You always get what you want?
- I did my part.
Oh, I know what you did
and I know what you're planning.
and now you get to take
That's very clever.
Why don't you try working for
the good guys for a change?
I know you got it in you.
You think you know me.
I'm not a good guy.
All right, part-time then.
Part-time good guy, like a--
a freelancer. Freelancer, huh?
If you're gonna wear the badge, take the
responsibility that goes with it, huh?
Who knows? You might even find
a little self-respect too.
Agent Jude, this is
an old friend of mine.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Agent Jude works for the DEA.
He's my new boss.
- Nice to have met you.
- Likewise.
I'll be going undercover.
What does that mean for us?
Look...
Trust me.
Life in the city
Street life is a hustle
Go on every day
This life in the city,
three strikes in the city
Childhood go hard, street
life ain't pretty
Young soldier
watching the block's vultures
Whips, women and paper
dominate the culture
Rocks, pills, weed, flocking,
pimping and pandering
Checks, credit, betting,
whatever hustle they handling
Lost morals for mayors,
undercover patrol
Scores of hos reside,
resident evil
Everyday sequels Sony reds with bird's-eye views or
hood blues Get pinched or shine through-- snitches
Street life is a hustle
Go on every day
This life in the city,
three strikes in the city
Childhood go hard,
street life ain't pretty...
is now in session.
Lucas Ryan, A.D. Valburn,
you're charged with criminal possession of
narcotics. How do you defendants plead?
Due to mitigating
circumstances, not guilty, Your Honor.
The defendants have no priors.
We request bail.
Bail denied.
In light of the new information
the three defendants are hereby
remanded to his custody.
Bailiff.
Street life is a hustle
Go on every day
This life in the city,
hood strife, it's a pity
Childhood go hard,
street life ain't pretty.
Come on, man. You see me trying
to give a speech here.
Some of you have known my best friends and l since
we were delinquent altar boys in grade school.
Hey look, you can keep your little
giggles to yourself, all right?
I know things about you too.
You know, it might've taken me a bit longer
to decide to join, but thanks to some help--
you know, I just wanna say
my pop-- if I could be
- half the cop my
pop was-- - Aww.
Well, I hope I can be half
the cop my pop was.
I just wanna thank everybody for
coming out and supporting me
and my buddies who are taking the plunge
with me-- and of course, other cadets.
Yeah, other cadets.
You know, um, let's party. - Let's have
a good time. - Yeah! Let's party!
- Hey you.
- Hey. What's up?
I'm very proud of you.
But it's been years.
Why did you invite me?
still trying to piss your brother off.
I'm just kidding.
I'm still crushing on you a
little bit. - Okay. - Is that okay?
Well, I was kinda hoping we could settle
some unfinished business tonight.
Coincidence.
I was thinking the same thing.
All right, here we go--
four shots of tequila.
- Remember what happened last time.
- Right.
- Uh-huh.
- Let me know if you need anything else.
- All right.
- All right, so may we be each other's eyes, ears and fists.
- To my boys.
- Hey, may we continue to stay on the right side of the law...
- for once.
- To the ultimate hustle.
- Hey.
- Cheers.
- Ooh.
- Hit me up.
Hey, who invited Lydia?
- Who's the cougar?
- The cougar's how we got
in the academy. I
mean she helped us.
Your dad being a
cop wasn't enough?
Remember when we were
wild little kids?
I remember my
brother not being too happy
about some thug trying
to be my boyfriend at 1 6.
I remember slinging rock
for your brother.
- I remember your brother whipping-- -
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down, he snitched us out to the pigs.
That feels weird wearing
this uniform right now.
Will you tell this fool
we're cops now?
- Law enforcement officers.
- What?
set us up with the police,
you know, while we was
carrying his product.
Mrs. V had her husband pull some strings to
get us out of jail and into the academy.
- Why would she do that for you guys?
- Dick for dollars.
- What's dick for dollars?
- Shh. Nigga, you crazy.
- Just-- shh shh. -
Yo, she was a freak.
She used to pay these
two to smash her once a week.
Now I never got to
tap the ADA's wife,
so I invited her.
I figure I'm due, right?
- You are an idiot. You know this.
- Maybe.
- Yeah, there's something wrong.
- Congratulations to all of you.
Oh God, you've still got
a fine ass, Mrs. V.
- Thanks for coming, Mrs. V.
- You didn't invite me.
- Can I please have a word with you?
- I got a word for you.
I got you here.
The least you could do is
sit down and talk with me.
I could speak to you.
I know some things
that you need to know.
We know it wouldn't be possible to be here without
you. We know what you and your husband did for us.
- How is he?
- Dead.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Now that I have your attention--
Why don't you just pull up a seat?
Just come grieve over here for a
second, Iike right in this area.
Call me.
Would you still bend that over?
No. You?
Liar. Me too.
- In a heartbeat.
- He fucking tells everything, man.
Compliments
from the gentleman in the back.
- Who's that?
- I don't know. I'ma go check it out.
Sit down.
- Ah.
- Thank you.
- No, you don't know me.
- But you know me.
- My name is Captain Joe Sarcone. I head the Street Vice Crimes Task Force.
Your dad and me were partners.
Now when you're done here, I want
you to be at this place-- just you.
God, you look
I'll leave a light on for you.
You like what you see?
Uh-huh.
For seven years, me and your
old man were as thick as thieves.
I promise this isn't some polished-up
hustle to entrap you.
It's all part of your
birthright. Welcome home.
Let me know if I can
get you anything else.
Thank you.
You know, I'm not the type of man to ask a big question
without knowing the answer already. Remember that.
Besides honoring the
memory of your father,
- why did you become a cop?
- I don't know. Get a little respect in the neighborhood,
maybe a little payback. Eh, one
look at you, I already know
- Right?
- Yeah, a little bit.
I'll ask you something else--
what's your life worth?
If you had to put a price tag on it,
what would you say your life's worth?
I don't know. I never thought about that.
- Would you say 46 grand? - I don't know.
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Well, that's what the city of
New York seems to think it's worth--
since you gotta go out
there and risk it every day.
Personally, I feel my life's
worth more than that.
A pat on the back and an extra
1 0-grand-a-year raise
for a job well done isn't worth my
life or any of the lives of my men.
Either way, we gotta get
the job done, you know?
What we do here...
Iet's just call it
the bonus system.
Corruption in this city,
let alone in this country,
is far beyond what
any of us can imagine.
You confiscate a large sum of money-- trust me,
everybody takes their piece as the money moves up the ranks.
All we do here is we take our
cut-- a finder's fee, that's all.
I spread it amongst my
men, everybody's happy.
Look, you wanna be on your own, nickel and
diming on the street, that's your business.
But know this-- we are deep and we are invisible,
all the way up to the mayor's office.
There's the
- You hungry?
- I can always eat.
Kitchen never closes and
everybody eats at my table.
You really trust everybody in here?
That door you just
walked through...
only works one way-- in. Once
you're in, the only way out
is to the sounds of gunshots and bagpipes.
Don't ever force my hand.
That's your FTO,
Be like him.
He's been my right hand
since your father left us.
I'll get your boys assigned
to the same precinct.
As for you--
no uniform, no beat.
You work for me starting
now-- if you accept.
Your father always said "Everybody's gotta
stash a bit of sock money for a rainy day."
To your father.
Tonight we celebrate.
Pick a girl. Have some fun.
- Thank you, sweetie.
- Yup.
What can I getcha? How you
doing? I'm the new guy.
Hi, new guy. I'm sure
you're really nice,
- but I don't fuck cops.
- I just got here. You're starting rumors about me already?
- What, you're not a cop?
- No, I'm not a nice guy.
- Ah.
like a Puerto Rican bad guy.
Well, my mom's black. My
father's Puerto Rican.
- I don't do Puerto Ricans either.
- Damn.
- Mmm.
- Where you from? What's your name?
Don't you have some nice girl
waiting for you somewhere?
- Come on.
- I don't want a nice girl.
- I want you.
- You're a charmer.
- Puerto Rico.
- You like peanut butter?
- Yeah, I like peanut butter.
- Me too. See, we got all this in common. Wanna fuck?
- Unbelievable.
- I know a place.
Yeah, where? For
peanut butter or for fucking?
- Both.
- Yeah, I bet you do.
I don't know why
you're playing hard to get.
Yeah, you
motherfuckers play too much.
- Arrest me, officer.
- Come back and get in your pocket.
Good morning.
Coffee? It's hot.
Man, you look soft.
What?
Badge ain't what protects us out here.
It's having the balls to use it.
You look like you're missing one.
Let's get on outta here, see if we
can find that missing ball, all right?
Hey.
What? What's going on?
Let me ask you something.
You think any of these young brothers out here got the
same good sense you got to try to better themselves?
I mean, most of them look
like they juvenile delinquents.
What you think? Right?
I mean-- l-- I don't know, sir.
You know? Well, maybe. I mean, l--
I don't know. Yes, no. You know?
No no no no no no no. No no no
no. Don't do that. Don't do that.
- Do what?
- Choke up. "l don't know. I don't know."
No. You know, you breathe
the same air as me, right?
- Yeah. That's right.
- You a black man just like me, right?
- Yes, sir.
- Learn to speak your mind, young blood. Don't be no stumblebum.
Now only thing I ask is that you keep
your eyes and your ears open, all right?
Maybe be careful.
You might learn something.
But you learn to speak your mind.
Come on, babe. Let it go.
Oh, damn.
You see the ass on that?
Who wouldn't hit that?
Who? Yo, I feel you on that.
Just gotta double bag in respect
for the wife, am I right?
No disrespect, but you
would nut in your pants,
- she let you get a whiff of the tasty.
- What?
Not like you'd do anything with her
man handcuffing her right now.
- This motherfucker--
- What, you mean the gorilla?
Watch this.
What's up?
- You got a problem?
- Come on, baby.
That's right, keep walking.
It's not worth it.
Enjoy your day.
That's some bullshit.
And that's how you keep
control of a filthy nigger.
Oh, it's like that?
Yeah, it's like that.
You got a problem
with that, rookie?
- You want a bump?
- No, I don't want none.
- You sure?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
Buy, break it, bag it, sell it
Buy, break it,
bag it, sell it...
- This is-- - Look at that.
Ain't got no home training.
Come on, sir. Kids are
gonna do what they want.
When I was a youngster, doing what you
want was a privilege reserved for grown folk.
You gotta remember that our
strength, our downfall, lies with these youth.
Who they mimic is who they become,
and you know what they show.
So we gotta be
aware of what we show,
stop giving them grays a
reason to hate our ass.
Hey, y'all, move. Let's go.
- What? - No, I said move.
Oh my--
Excuse me, sir-- the grays?
Yeah, the grays.
As in the gray-skinned, gray-haired
Caucasian crackers
that you see smiling they
smiles on the TV talk show,
talking the nonsensical bullshit about why
the Negros call each other the "N" word.
Huh? You heard that?
How they say it's because we
basically don't like ourselves
or each other. But that's all right that we
don't take responsibility for our actions
because, you know, we
don't know no better.
- Yeah, grays.
- Personally,
I've never had a problem
with the word "nigga," sir.
- You know, where
I'm from, we-- - Oh!
Oh, you-- so you must be one.
I knew I smelled something.
Oh, man, come on.
I'm riding in the car
with a full-blown nigga in a uniform.
- Nigga in the uniform.
- Hey. You play ball, Mr. Nigga?
Yeah, I play a little hoop.
You know, but football was my thing.
- I was a wide receiver in high school.
- Yeah? Good.
I want you to come down to a playground
where I coach some kids in the PAL team.
- They would love it, you know?
- Uh-huh.
You'd get a chance to meet
some proud young black men,
not like the ones you know.
Got some new shit.
Always need a backup.
Sometimes you need a
backup for your backup.
Go ahead, get something
for yourself, a'ight?
Hey, you can't use the N-word.
Why the hell not?
'Cause you ain't got a pass.
What, you do? Hell
yes, I got a pass.
Let me guess-- you got some
African-American buddies?
Some brothers?
Look, I was assigned as your
training officer to train you
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- so you don't have to learn the hard way.
I got 1 5 years in the cruiser.
You got five hours.
I'm trying to give you the
benefit of my experience.
Buddy, you can throw yourself under a bus to
save one of these fine African-Americans,
Puerto Ricans, lndians, Asians,
Muslims-- whatever.
Me, I'm gonna stay in the
car and I'm gonna live,
have dinner with my wife and kid,
bang my girlfriend and collect my pension.
I could care less
about these monkeys.
- Fuck.
- And understand--
these animals will eat you alive
if you give 'em a chance.
Are we gonna have problems, rookie?
When we're in this cruiser, you better have my back and
you better do exactly what I tell you. You got me?
Shit can get real crazy
out here really quick.
So when the time comes,
you better get down like I tell you.
All I got is this game
And all I got is my soul
I'll give you all I
got until it's gone...
Wait in the car, all right?
'Cause all I know
is just pain
Done lost it all but remain
'Cause truth be told, a nigga
know at the end of the day
You gotta lose before you could
gain That's how you grow
What the fuck you think you doing,
selling drugs to kids?
- Come on, man!
- Fucking punk! Forgot the rules of the block, huh?
Say it.
Say the rule.
- No candy for the kids. - Mm-hmm. - I should
book your little ass. - Hey! Yo, hey!
What are you doing?
Come on!
What the fuck do you think you're doing? - He was
selling drugs to kids. - I don't give a shit
if he was selling
crack to your grandmother!
If I tell you to wait in the car, then
you-- you wait in the car. A'ight?
A'ight.
I never left the streets.
It's a pretty easy first
day. Don't get used to it.
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Yeah, Pop. I love you too.
You're a good kid.
I like driving
around with you, Pop.
Oh, I bet you do.
Yeah, I figured you'd
be here today.
- So you remembered.
- How could I forget?
You haven't called.
Can we talk?
- About what?
- You don't think about me?
I do. All the
time. You know that.
I'm not gonna wait
on you forever.
Still working at your
father's diner? Yes.
If you'd come around
more often, you'd know that.
He needs me there. He doesn't
trust anyone else.
- What about your brother?
Please, don't even get
me started on that one.
Still trying
to be a tough guy?
I want you to be happy.
Why did you invite me
to your celebration at the bar?
It's complicated. I--
I can't even explain it.
Do what you feel
Officer requesting
backup, Parsons Boulevard.
- That's right around the corner.
- Yeah, I know where it is.
Put the pin. Pull it,
nigga, pull the pin.
- Shut up, both of you!
- Come on, nigga!
Hey, shut up, both of you!
Shut the hell up!
Hey, put the gun on the ground
and step away from it!
- Do it now!
- Fuck you, nigga! I'm ready to die.
- I know that guy.
- It's Felix.
- No no, Ricky.
- Shut the hell up!
- I'll shoot you and your fucking dog.
- What?
- Fuck you.
- Control that dog before I shoot it.
Three witnesses over here, son.
I run the block! You feel me?
And I don't need no pussy-ass
cops for this Puerto Rican bitch.
Hey, put the gun on the ground
and step away from it! Do it now! Now!
What is this?
- Trying to figure it out, Officer.
- I'm Morrison.
So we come around the corner, these two
come spilling out of the bodega, arguing.
Out of nowhere, the big-- the black guy takes a
swing at the little guy with a knife in his hand.
Little guy pulls a piece, we draw
weapons, you guys show up.
I didn't even see where the
gun came from, it happened so fast.
A'ight. I'm gonna
take it from here, uni.
Put the gun down.
Put it down.
It ain't going bad
today, not today.
Put the gun down, buddy.
Come on, put it on the ground.
Right there. Right there on
the ground. Put the gun down.
All right, it's your turn. Hey
hey! You next, let's go. Tie the dog up,
- lay on the street. Let's go.
- Fuck you!
If it's all the same to you, Officer,
I'll take it from here.
No, it's my
collar, my cuffs. No.
rank here, he decides.
He's looking at me like he wants to eat me.
I want this monkey in my car, my cuffs on him.
I'm not asking you.
I'm telling you.
Partner, draw your weapon on
Officer Redneck over here.
Right now, do it.
You out of your fucking
mind? The fuck you doing?
I'm in control here.
You holster your weapon
or my partner's gonna shoot
you where you stand.
You wanna die?
You wanna die?
- Billy, I think--
- Shut the fuck up!
You wanna die?
Tie your dog on the--
on the pole over there.
I want you to turn around and I want you to kneel
down and interlock your fingers behind your head.
Take the kid over here, then you
Let's go. On your knees.
On your knees!
Hands behind your head.
- Hey hey hey.
- Tough guy, huh?
You're lucky I didn't
haul your ass off, punk.
- Oh my God!
- What's up now, pussy? Huh?
- I ain't even do nothing, son.
- Fuck.
This motherfucker wanna eat me.
You think I'm a monkey, huh?
Ricky, you know me, man.
Don't do this.
Don't test me.
You're right-- dude
wants to end you.
I ain't gonna let
it go like that.
Easy, let the
OG take you in.
Put the gun down.
Come on, son.
It's gonna get bad for you out here.
You oughta be
locking up that cop!
You're welcome.
On your knees. Let's go.
- On your knees.
- Hey.
- Easy.
- Hands behind your head.
Hands behind your head!
Stand down.
Don't think I'm not
Yeah, we all watched you assault a perp
and my rookie bail your bitch-ass out,
so why don't you
put that in your report?
You're mine.
Get in the fucking cruiser.
Punk.
Do me a favor--
uncuff him, will you?
Uncuff him.
- Do you really want me to?
- Yeah.
- 'Sup?
- Yeah.
- You carrying?
You know I always got you.
You lucky that I showed up when I did, 'cause you know that redneck
was gonna rape you with a stick. You know that, right?
All right, you owe me.
This your stop. Get out.
- You sure you don't party?
- Not with that shit.
Yeah well,
when you've seen enough shit
and you've done enough shit,
you change your mind. Till then,
don't judge me if you're gonna be
- sitting right next to me.
- I'm not judging you.
You will soon.
Just once I'd like to know what it feels like
not to have a brown face in the back back there.
Now your mama gotta hide her face every
time she go out on the street, huh?
Uncuff him, Officer.
Excuse me?
I said take the shackles
off the young boy's wrists.
And give this to him.
It's his stuff.
Come on, man.
And look, keep your head on you, okay? -
We're letting you off this time. - Hey, come on.
It ain't always
gonna be like this.
I thought we were supposed to
keep cats like that off the streets.
- No.
- You know, I thought that--
No no, tell me, what would you have done,
Officer, if you had six guns pointed at your head
and a crazy-ass cracker
trying to take you in? Huh?
- Remember Abner Louima.
- Why did we let him go?
- I mean, he-- - No,
he's gonna be better off
out here than he is inside that system.
Trust me on that.
But that's not our
decision to make, sir.
- No. Look, let me tell you something. - You
know, that's-- A few years inside that system
and he would've been desperate enough to pull
that trigger just not to go back inside.
Now this lesson just ain't
for him. It's for you too.
Yes sir.
I'm getting money,
yeah, I'm getting money
You niggas 'bout a dollar,
I'm 'bout a hundred
I'm getting money,
yeah, I'm getting money
What?
I only met her a week ago.
Of course I did.
I knew that shit. Punks. Everybody in that
bar been trying to crack that ass ever since
she got up in here. Then you come in here in a
week, slinging your shit around and you got that.
Whoa whoa,
what we got up here?
- Let me get that.
- Sit down, rookie.
I'll make the first move, then
you show me what you've got.
Ladies.
You lose your keys?
Shit, I know you ain't trying to
holla. Y'all are too fine to be police, baby.
- What's going on, ladies?
- Her man crazy.
- He ain't my man.
- Your man crazy?
Yeah, so we was out here
last night just chilling,
smoking a blunt. So I need to holla at
my man, but my phone battery had died,
so I ask Eddie can I use his.
So he let me use it, but
then he's stressing me
on these minutes and shit, right? So we got to yelling. Then
po-po rolls up, talking about disturbing the peace and shit
and that they about to take us in.
Anyhow, Eddie got put in the system last night,
got locked up with the key to this
house and my shit's still in there.
You know what?
Enough of that, a'ight?
- Show me some lD.
- What you want my lD for?
Just give me some lD, all right?
Hey, shit.
Here.
What does Eddie
do? Eddie sling rock?
Answer my partner.
No, Eddie sells weed.
There's somethin' in here.
You smell it?
- Get your shit and get outta here.
- Hey, gimme a fucking minute.
Wait a motherfucking minute? Shit. Make
sure these ladies get outta here, a'ight?
God.
- Just a minute.
- Just get your shit and let's go.
Where is my fuckin'--? I don't
fucking know. Maybe he took it.
Yeah yeah, I don't
see my shit. Any of it.
Am I fucking seeing my man's shit, anyway?
I thought you said Eddie wasn't your man?
Hey, man, what the fuck you doing?
Oh shit. Oh shit.
I'm not gonna tell.
I ain't gonna say nothing.
I swear I'm not.
She ran off
with your balls, kid.
Help me!
Oh, no no!
Please!
Holy shit. Shit.
Grandma, is she dead?
Move back.
Somebody call 91 1.
First time seeing a face get split?
No.
Here's your cut plus
a little
cherry-popping bonus.
Another good day.
- How about my cut of the weed?
- Yo.
No no, we'll sell Eddie's stash to one of his competitors, we
make a bundle of cash-- unless you've got a better idea. I'm all ears.
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Let's bail Eddie out,
sell his product back to him.
We put him back in business working for us,
take a cut off the top. Win-win for everybody.
You know, I was right about you.
You're charmed. I love this kid.
Today was a good day. You guys
go out, have a good time, celebrate.
Welcome to my shade, here.
- This is your spot?
- This is it.
"D" is for the diamonds,
"O" is for the owes
"P" is for the paper,
"E" is for everything...
Hi.
Take a seat, all right? Relax.
Hi.
I see you brought a friend.
To the back. I'll get you set up.
Oh. Enjoy,
a'ight? It's on me.
Thank you very much,
you are very welcome
For not supporting
and never helping
I live the dream, so when I
sleep there's only nightmares...
- Thanks.
- Like when the police found That cocaine in my Nike Airs
I went from steel handcuffs
to diamond bracelets
When no one else would bail me
out My nigga Johnny Blaze did
That's why I take him
everywhere with me
Even let him blow my last 50
No problem
On my way to heaven
to fuck your goddess
And if we ever go
broke, pray to the snow gods
Here go some money,
baby, have a good time
I gotta go change the
world one pound at a time
Selling dope, "D" is for
the diamonds "O" is for the owes
"P" is for the paper,
"E" is for everything
Dope gave me everything
Dope, thanks for everything
I like driving
around with you, Pop.
Yeah, I bet you do.
Show me your hands.
It's dead out here.
We got a little carried away.
We didn't mean any harm.
- Have a safe night.
You're a good guy, Pop.
That's right.
This badge makes me bulletproof.
In this life, sometimes you
gotta take what should be given.
You understand?
Always keep sock money
around for a rainy day.
Come on in.
You want that respect?
It's not about the power, it's about
the form. Practice makes perfect here.
There you go.
that's nice for-- whoa!
Oh! What's going on, man? What's
up? Yo, what's up? What's going on?
- What y'all doing over here?
- Everything good?
Hey, watch your elbow, man. You gotta
make sure he get the forms right.
Hey hey, listen to this man. He
was a dope QB in high school.
Yo, this is so you right now.
It feels good. Hey,
let's get out of this sun, man.
- Oof.
- It's hot out there.
Yo, remember when we used to get out of doing laps by bribing
to her lately? - Nah, I ain't speak to her.
Yo, all I know is that your
TO is fucking crazy.
- Look who talking.
- Yeah.
Yo, would you have really shot
Morrison if your TO told you to?
Man, y'all got no idea what
goes on in my squad.
Dudes is eating, and
they're getting real money.
People in the mayor's office
answer my boss's calls.
- The shit is crazy.
- I thought we were supposed to be
- each other's eyes,
ears and fists. - Mm-hmm.
That's why I gotta get
y'all on this squad.
Yo, can you please make that
happen before my crazy TO gets me killed?
Yeah, I'm down.
I'm heading over there later.
Lemme see what I can do.
Yo, lemme get some.
Yo, I guess you didn't get the
message the last time, you little bitch.
Oh shit!
Fuck.
Fuck you!
Get up.
I'm doing right by this kid, right? Yeah,
you doing right by him. I understand.
Having junior around helps
keep your conscience clean.
You trust him, all right?
- Hey, what's that?
- Homework.
John Jay, student, criminal
psychology. Do you remember anything?
No.
- I wanna test him.
- Yeah?
Just give him something to do,
give him something small.
- Something small? Yeah. Mmm.
- Yeah.
This is why I don't date cops.
They're too self-absorbed.
- What? - Nothing.
So you arresting
thugs on the street now?
You can't call yourself a
man and deal drugs to children
and mothers pushing
strollers. That's a piece of shit.
You calling me a piece of shit now?
I'm fucking with you.
But don't fuck with our
representatives on the street-- that's most important.
- Huh?
- Cool.
You want a chance to move up?
No doubt. You know that.
Go here...
come back with my money. You
mind if I bring my boys with me?
That's how we do it here.
You vouch for 'em, sure, it's okay.
- They're like my brothers. - Okay.
It's the first time you're gonna meet this guy.
I want you to lean on him and be felt. Understood?
Yes sir.
Important.
- Go ahead.
- Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Go ahead. Go go.
Hold the fuck on!
Oh fuck!
- Whoa, fucking slow down.
- G'day, mate.
Do I look like a fucking
kangaroo to you, you prick?
- Who the fuck are you guys?
- We're the new crew.
- Is that right? - Whoa whoa whoa.
- Easy easy now. - I wish you would.
We're here to
- Like the man said,
- we're the new crew.
- Just tell us where the money's at.
On the table.
Yeah, we good.
Let's get out of here.
- Listen to your partner.
- Or what?
Or I'm gonna get really pissed.
You ain't scared, huh?
Are you some kind of tough guy?
I ain't hiding nothing
about him. So let me tell you this:.
fuck you, fuck
you and fuck you!
Oh shit! You're gonna go
fucking down, you fuckers!
- You're gonna pay for that!
- Come on, grab his foot!
- Get me up, you motherfuckers!
- Are you scared yet, motherfucker?
I'm scared for you.
- You gonna fly, motherfucker!
- I'm gonna drop your ass.
- You ain't talking shit now.
- Get me up, you fuckers!
- You ain't talking shit now, right?
- You motherfuckers! Help me get him in. Get your ass over here.
I'm gonna fly your ass out that window like a kite.
I'm more worried
don't know who the real boss is.
His boss, my boss, your boss--
- Everyone's got a boss.
product into the city for 20 years.
traffic route is all nice and friendly.
That's my job now. I pay
him on the back end.
I know spots of
- he doesn't even know about.
- Go check the other room.
Even got an old cop to rat on him.
It didn't stick. He's
still walking the streets.
The aftermath-- everybody
that was involved
- went to an early grave.
- You a cop?
No. You just don't get it.
You're his new trained dog.
He'll get you used
to the white powder.
And he'll use you just
like he has all his other dogs.
your friend. Jackpot, baby.
This ain't the half of it.
Who does this belong to?
Technically, my boss.
Come on, we did what we came to
do. Man, let's get out of here.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. New deal-- you're gonna
tell me where those cash spots is at, you hear me?
your new little side hustle,
and you already
know what he gonna do.
You work for me now.
What's the worst
The worst thing I ever did
was trust the wrong man.
How do you know when
you trusting the wrong man?
You're questioning
me? Huh? You little shit.
I always made my decision
with my head, not my heart.
I got to where I am in this world by taking advantage
of people's trust, and I'm not ashamed of that.
I have a question for you.
Are your boys loyal to you?
- Absolutely.
- Yeah?
I'm not asking you to vouch for them. I'm asking
for you to bet your balls, literally.
- I understand. I do.
- Yeah, do you?
'Cause usually it's the guy closest to your
balls who winds up kicking you in them.
I have a rat inside these walls. That's
the news straight from One Police Plaza.
Someone in my
confidence is cheating on me.
Don't make me
wrong to trust you.
I love you like a son, but if you
or anybody near you double-crosses me...
as long as I have breath in my
lungs, I will find you and I will cook you.
- You don't have to worry about me.
- I'm not worried, kid. You're confusing worry and concern.
Sometimes it's a woman who winds up
kicking you in the balls the hardest.
- Is that why you're not married?
- You're damn straight.
I don't trust no bitch, neither should you, especially
not some bitch shaking her ass for tips in a fucking bar.
- Understood.
- You gotta do what you gotta do, kid.
Use your head, always, and keep
your balls covered. Remember that.
- Am I clear?
- I hear you loud and clear.
- Shots!
- You got it.
Yo, what's the word?
Are we in or what?
when he's ready, man.
said - about an ADA from Queens-- - Yeah?
-
- Who the fuck cares?
- Gimme two.
lose by not bringing us on. Am I right?
I'll talk to Lydia tomorrow,
see what's up.
Yo, I seen this
fly Spanish girl. Whoa!
You talk to her lately?
Now you know she loves you.
How long you gonna make her
pay for her family's bullshit?
Let's move.
Yeah, whatever.
But just-- you know, just in case.
Hey. How you doing?
- I'm good. How are you?
- I'm good.
You come here with
these clowns?
No, my girlfriend knows one of the
guys. I just met them. Is that okay?
Yo, do I know you?
Yo, I'm talking to you.
- No, son, you don't know me.
- Wanna party?
- Ooh. A cop, huh?
- What the fuck?
Shit. His motherfucking badge
don't mean shit in here.
I think she liked it.
- Yo, who invited you here?
- Man, fuck you.
What?! Who the fuck you think you're talking to? - Whoa.
- Coming in here with that badge, thinking you running shit?
- I gotta go.
- You a punk, huh? You scared? You nervous?
You nervous?!
- Oh shit!
- Pop off! Why you pulling the gun, white boy?
We all got guns. Pop off!
- You nervous?!
- You gonna shoot all of us?
- You scared, white boy?
- You gonna shoot all of us?
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!
- Police! Get the fuck down! - What did you do?
What the fuck? Man, put this shit down. What the--
Stupid, man.
We gotta get outta here.
- Come on, man, get out of here.
- Yeah, fuck you!
- Let's go! Let's go! Come on!
- Fuck you!
- What do we do? - What they gonna
do? They gonna-- they gonna call the cops?
Hey, man, he's outta control, man.
It's always the same shit with this dude.
Mix some up.
You really think I wouldn't have found out
about your boy shooting two people at a party?
In front of witnesses? Huh?
- Huh?
- Answer the man. Your fucking boy's an idiot.
He's a fucking idiot.
You understand that?
He ain't under my protection like you.
He can get you fucked up. He can fuck me up.
- He got excited. I'll calm him down.
- He got excited? He got excited?
I made some calls.
Last night never happened.
I know you want him around because he's your friend,
but if I ever hear of him fucking up
again, that's it. It's over. You understand?
- Let me hear you say it!
- Yes, I understand.
Let me tell you something right now--
you work for me!
Only me, not yourself!
You do what I say!
Snort that line.
Snort the fucking line!
The other one.
- You just don't get it.
- Your boy's a fucking idiot.
- You're his new trained dog.
- He's a fucking idiot.
about an ADA from Queens.
He'll get you used to the white
powder. He ain't under my protection.
What are the chances he
He can fuck you up. He can fuck me up. I like you,
- Untranslated subtitle
- Only me! Let me hear you say it.
Get outta here.
This fucking kid.
I knew you'd call eventually.
You got your wish.
I appreciate everything you did for me, Lydia, but I called
because I needed to talk to you about your husband.
What happened to him?
How'd he die?
He was looking
for something big,
something that would
make him a legal rock star.
Then he'd be DA or mayor
or God knows what. Governor?
- So what happened?
- He got what he wanted.
He was approached
by a DEA agent
who wanted help in building a case
against corrupt New York City cops.
So how'd he die?
Not well.
They called it
a no-note suicide.
Not leaving a note for
me I understand, but...
nothing for his son, his
kept locked away in his office--
a dossier on one
Audio, video surveillance,
notebooks with names, dates, locations.
Basically, he was a
drug dealer in a uniform.
And he had two partners.
Baby, don't be naive. My
husband found your father's weak spot.
He convinced him that
you were in danger.
He got him to talk on record about
shit they'd been involved in.
That's why my husband got you into
the academy. He felt guilty.
Guilty for what?
How do you think your father died?
me. Yeah? How long is that gonna last?
detective for the New York City Police Department.
And the reason
you've come to us here today?
on duty, we transported cocaine, marijuana
- Untranslated subtitle
- and worked as bodyguards and hired guns
now I'm afraid for the life of my wife and my son.
- I love you, Pop.
trying to build a case against him, they'd fucking kill me.
Climb in the back. Climb in
the back and hide on the floor.
Come on.
And keep quiet. Not a peep.
- Oh yo, man. It's you guys.
- Get out of the car.
Come on, I'm just picking up
a little sock money. It's nothing.
Don't force my hand here.
Danny-- you crossed the line,
Danny. Now get the fuck out of the car.
Your dad and me were partners.
I love you like a son.
If this is about the money,
here, take a piece.
It's not about
the money, Danny.
If it ain't about the dough,
then what the hell is it about?
It's about loyalty.
You son of a bitch.
You son of a bitch.
Why? Wait! Wait a minute!
Pop, how can I get
you out of there?
I'm fine.
Everything's gonna be okay.
Don't worry about me.
Now get out of the car.
- No, Pop. No. I'm not leaving you!
- Get away from here!
Do it now!
So I want this recorded in case
something happens to me.
- Untranslated subtitle -
Thank you, Karen. Send him in.
Have a seat.
finally reaches out.
There's no such thing as coincidence, right?
Your phone number was in the file
That's right.
All those pictures, my
father's confession--
none of that was
Sometimes in my business, you do what you can...
- hope for the best.
- That's bullshit.
Something's telling me there's a little
more than hope involved here.
Your father was trying
to do the right thing.
So why are you here,
Tell me plainly.
I wanna serve
I just need to
know how to do it.
- Who is it?
What do you really want for us?
- What I want?
- Yeah.
I mean, am I really
what you want?
Come here.
Don't be like that. I want you,
Tell me.
Tell me.
that you love me.
I need to hear you say it.
Say it.
You're a piece of shit.
- Come here.
- Get out of my house.
- Come here.
- Don't you fucking touch me.
Get out of my house.
Get out of my house.
Morning, baby.
You want some coffee?
Coffee?
What? What's up? I just
don't trust many people.
I got a lot going on right now. a
lotta things I gotta get done, that's all.
A.D., what's up?
What you got for me?
launders money at the Queens Raceway.
Yo, you ain't gonna believe this. You know
for my call, all right?
- A'ight, I'm on it.
- A'ight.
- Hey.
- What's going on?
- I got something. Yeah, it's major.
about it. You trust me, don't you?
I'll pick you up in 10.
- Good luck.
- Thank you.
- Hey.
- How you doing? I've been really lucky today if you need any suggestions.
- Untranslated subtitle
- Well, I'm actually here on official police business.
I'm gonna need you to buzz
us into that back door.
Let me call upstairs about that.
Look, if you make that phone call,
you might as well be an accomplice to everything that
goes on here. Yo, they don't pay me enough for this.
Go around that counter - and I'm
gonna buzz you in. - All right
- Untranslated subtitle -
Brother, stay the fuck down. - Where
you going? Where you going? - Fuck.
- Untranslated subtitle
- Stay there or I'll kick you in your fucking head.
Chill. Yeah yeah.
What are you doing with these guys?
Especially this asshole right here?
- Yo, keep fucking with me, old man.
- You wanna try me?
I can make you vanish. Poof! You'll be
gone. Just say one more fucking thing, all right?
Yo, my deal, my crew. Fuck that.
This isn't good, kid. This isn't good.
I can't save you.
- Get your ass up.
- A'ight, man.
- I knew it was just a matter of time
- Wait, you know this guy?
- Yeah, I know him.
- Why you didn't tell me you know
- this guy? What the hell's going on? - My high school sweetheart--
He's the one got us started in the
game, hustling a corner, slinging.
- This is the thanks I get
- for starting you out?
- A real class act.
You think I forgot about that autograph you signed
on my forehead with that baseball bat? Huh?
You know who
this place belongs to?
You ever hear of him?
We work with this
guy, for God's sake.
A'ight, a'ight, look,
Iet's-- let's just get outta here. - Don't
touch a fucking thing. - Easy easy.
- Whoa whoa whoa.
- You gonna let 'em put guns in my face? You gonna put a gun in my fucking face?
gonna watch me fist you with this hand right before he kills you.
Are you high? Are you high?
- Do you hear me, kid?
- You're a cop?
That's funny.
to go around for all of us, man.
- You ain't gotta do this.
- Shut the fuck up.
- You still mad? That was years ago.
- Now look at you.
- For Christ's sake, do something!
- Don't do it.
- Shoot that pig!
- We ain't here for that, man!
- Shit!
- It's a big mistake, kid.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
What are you thinking about?
Yeah!
What the fuck, man?
Get some rope or something.
Tie him up.
- Take all that shit.
- Oh shit, man.
Adios, old friend.
I don't know, man.
- Of course I'm sure.
- You got something you wanna say?
- Yo, I don't give a fuck.
Come on, let's go.
We are exactly where we're
supposed to be, my friends.
The sky's the limit, right?
I don't think so anymore.
Hey, remember when we were kids and we used
to play cops and robbers in the rain?
Yeah, you never wanted
to be the cop. I do now.
For all the wrong reasons. Yo, what
the fuck is that supposed to mean?
I don't wanna do this anymore. What,
you ain't down for us no more?
No, I'm not down for this shit anymore.
- Oh yeah? Yeah?
- Yeah, you heard me.
- You got a problem with that?
- Shut up, man. Both of you just shut the hell up, all right?
Chill the hell out, man. Look,
if you want out, A.D., you can go.
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It ain't gonna change nothing.
Badges ain't change us. We're still us.
You know, badge or no badge,
this is bullshit.
And the crazy thing is you like it.
And this asshole over here wants to grow up to be
just like you if you don't get us all killed first.
That's how you feel?
I'm done, man.
- I'm out.
- Was it really that bad?
You think I'd
leave if it wasn't?
Don't listen to that pussy.
You got it all under control
like you always do. Right, my dude?
You've been telling me what
to do since we was little kids.
I'm tired of it.
What do you think she'd do
for killing her brother?
do he knows you're stabbing him in the back?
Don't you play all high
and mighty with me, bitch.
'Cause you can't fuck with me,
but I can fuck with you though.
You remember that.
happen? Completely unacceptable.
Yeah yeah, I know,
I know, I know.
- You need to fix this now.
- Yeah, don't worry. I got it.
How could the racetrack get hit? - What
am I paying you for? - Yeah, I got it.
- You need to make this right.
- I got it.
- You have two days to find my money.
- Okay okay.
the beep, say it.
- I'm out.
- Oh yeah.
- Hey.
- Where the fuck are you?
Something very messy just went
- Have you seen your partner lately?
- No, why?
I'm in a spot
where I can get touched real bad.
An associate just got jacked for nine digits and that
just don't happen without me knowing about it.
can't find him and I don't know what to think now.
Sounds like you know
- How much did he steal?
- I can't cover it.
- But you think it is.
- Want me go find him?
- Nah.
If he don't wanna be found, he's got a
million places to lay up and stay high.
- That's what I'm worried about.
- Want me hit the streets,
- make some things happen?
That's right. You can always trust me.
Okay.
Are you wearing a wire,
- No sir.
It is disrespectful of him to
send a messenger in his place.
Speak, messenger.
you, but he sent me here to lie to you.
Please do choose your
next words very carefully.
Explain.
None of what went down was my idea. Are
you about to admit to stealing from me?
I was there, yes, but it's
He's trying to use me to do it and I don't wanna
be in the middle when you screw him back.
But you're still in the
Now where is my property?
- All of it.
These are the transcripts
from the DEA's wiretaps
He's over a barrel. He'll give
everyone up to save his own ass.
All they really want is you.
Robbing you is just his way of fucking
you a little deeper before he hands you over.
So are we in business?
First my property.
Half the money and the
Here's an address, key to a car--
half your stuff is in it.
I'll bring him out in the open so you
can deal with him how you see fit.
You're dismissed.
Stay close, man.
- Motherfuckers!
- You stay down!
You drive.
- Did you find him?
No, I ain't find him, but I found half the money
at his place. - It look like he did it. - Ahh.
- I know, I know,
don't know who jacked him.
He should be happy you
found half his stuff.
Maybe ask for a finder's fee.
- Remember who's doing who a favor.
- A'ight.
- Hello, this is Jude.
- Hello.
Agent Jude, I think all the pieces are falling
in place. I just need a few more things.
You know, I understand you wanting
to avenge your father's death and all,
but what happens
after that, huh?
I mean, you ever actually thought
about respecting the badge?
Perhaps aiming some of that
angst in the right direction?
No, I ain't thought about that lately.
So what do you need?
Kill me?
You wanna kill me?
You ain't got the balls to
face me man to man! Huh?
Oh, so you're
gonna take me out?
It's like that?
Well, come on then! Come on!
Piece of shit.
- Is that the rest of my property?
- It's right there, sir.
call-- add insult to injury.
You satisfied?
Remind me-- what is my incentive for
not shooting you or killing you right now?
I'm clever.
You just said it.
I will not.
I've proven my loyalty to you.
Not yet, but soon you will.
Oh shit.
What the fuck is going on here?
Hup! Take it easy.
What is this?
It's a test.
- Who's the girl?
- I know that your friend is a liability
to keep you close to him.
I really don't know why. I
don't deal with liabilities.
Unfortunately,
the girl was with your
friend when we picked him up.
She's an innocent bystander.
Now you're dealing with
You're gonna shoot one of them
or I'll kill them both.
What-- what's
up, man?
It's good what you're doing, man.
You know, my TO was right.
I've learned a lot about myself.
You could too.
I gotta go back to the
kids, man. You be good.
You look like shit.
Look sharp. This is it, folks.
Yeah. You know why
I trust you, kid?
- 'Cause you know I won't fuck you over?
- Yeah.
When's the last
Not long enough. I gotta
see that prick tonight.
As long as that money
come through nice
It takes a certain type of individual to do what we
do, to have the balls to be the type of men we are.
You gotta want it-- all of it. Good
guys, bad guys-- that's all bullshit
when it comes down to it.
It's about money, fear and respect.
Like you, I always
wanted all three.
Iike your father did
when-- when we started out.
Do not let them out of your sight.
Copy that.
Tell me the story about
that plane heist.
- I love that story.
- What, how me and your dad started?
- Attaboy.
- Me and your father used to pick up
and escort 'em through the city.
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We'd babysit through distribution, collection around
the city, then we'd escort 'em back to JFK.
Easy-peasy, 1 0 Gs easy.
- Nice. - Yeah, 1 0 Gs
before skimming off
the top of cargo.
That's how I built my
empire, stealing dope from that--
you know, dope.
- So when did it go bad?
No, between you and my father.
I told you everything
you need to know, kid.
Tell me what you
think I don't know.
You know...
when it came down to it, your father
was afraid to make the tough decisions,
so he made the wrong ones.
Come on.
I've always done
right by you, kid.
- Like a father to me.
- Like a father.
And I wouldn't offer you my hand
if I thought you were gonna bite it.
I just wanna know the truth.
Attaboy.
I never ever,
not for one instant, thought your
father would or could rat us out,
but the facts are what they are.
He made a deal with an ADA.
We're talking serious jail
time for everybody, including me.
Everybody was gonna be shamed and
disgraced in the papers, the whole nine yards.
And the word came down on Monday
morning. It had to get done.
Why you?
Because l-- I was his partner.
It was a test of my loyalty.
Was it them or was it him?
What would you do?
It was a Wednesday.
We followed him
to Roosevelt lsland and--
All units, stand ready.
And he was pulled over by a
patrol car, of all things.
We waited for them to
leave and then we went over.
I made him get out. I...
Your father was a--
your father was a...
he was a rat.
Take him
when he exits the car.
Would you do it again?
Your father was afraid
to make the tough decisions.
Men like us are built to make
those kinds of decisions.
That's who we are.
Can you do that?
Can you make those
tough decisions?
I already have.
Take him. Go. Go go!
I'm gonna go.
Get your fucking hands off me.
Man down. Where'd that
shot come from?
Check the rooftops now!
Where'd that shot come from?
Everybody out there right now!
Get up on those rooftops,
all units!
Shut down everything!
I don't want anybody
getting out of this area,
not in a five-block radius!
- I want everybody to move now!
- Fall back. I'm going in.
What the hell happened?
I need a car on that end.
I need a car on this end.
Thanks for not giving
- You always get what you want?
- I did my part.
Oh, I know what you did
and I know what you're planning.
and now you get to take
That's very clever.
Why don't you try working for
the good guys for a change?
I know you got it in you.
You think you know me.
I'm not a good guy.
All right, part-time then.
Part-time good guy, like a--
a freelancer. Freelancer, huh?
If you're gonna wear the badge, take the
responsibility that goes with it, huh?
Who knows? You might even find
a little self-respect too.
Agent Jude, this is
an old friend of mine.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Agent Jude works for the DEA.
He's my new boss.
- Nice to have met you.
- Likewise.
I'll be going undercover.
What does that mean for us?
Look...
Trust me.