Dope (2017) s02e02 Episode Script
You're Too Innocent for This Game
1 Hey boy Hey boy, don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep You hear voices.
You You see shadow people.
It took me to mass psychosis.
In the pines, in the pines This stuff is so cheap, so easy to get.
Where the sun don't ever shine I got the best pure crystal meth.
I feel like my emotions are going a little crazy right now.
It's like a war epidemic right now.
Hey boy, hey boy where will you go I'm going where the cold wind blows We're going to connect with the supernatural.
The demons are cast out.
Hallelujah.
There are a lot of guys out there that want to give you dope.
I don't know what the word "dope" comes from.
Maybe it comes from the word dopamine, because dopamine, when it's released through your body, it kind of gives your body like a level of a high.
This world will try to offer you all these type of things to help you cope with life, but I've come to tell you that I don't want to cope with life.
I want to thrive through life.
Each person in here has a war that they're fighting.
We're heading to a house in the northern part of the county.
Some individuals must be manufacturing methamphetamine.
Officers of the Vigo County Drug Task Force are about to raid a suspected meth lab.
Had a couple complaints come in through our office.
They said that there's a lot of traffic, coming in and out of the property.
And then there was a couple informants that had spoken with other detectives, and State Police had information on it also.
It's a lot easier to cook out in the rural areas, because the houses are spread more apart.
So the odor is harder to detect by your neighbors.
Vigo County has more meth labs than almost anywhere else in the state.
Beyond the towns, the county is struggling.
Thanks to low pay and poor prospects, people in rural areas are facing hardship.
And that drives some to seek refuge in oblivion.
Meth is toxic and volatile.
As police move in, they're taking a leap into the unknown.
You never know how somebody's going to react, especially if they're in the process of cooking methamphetamine.
If they're on the drug, if they're high, their paranoia level's gonna be elevated.
No plates on the cars.
The police search the house.
It's a dog.
Turn around! Turn around! You ain't gotta tell him nothing, okay? Shut your fucking jib.
- What's that? - Don't go back in.
Hey, Lorna.
Come here.
The house is clean.
Officers cautiously fan out to search the rest of the farm.
At least one shake and bake lab.
I'd say that's probably a cook vessel.
Old Nazi lab.
Old schoolers.
A meth cook can get going with a few simple ingredients bought from a pharmacy and a hardware store.
Resin from the pills.
But heating the mixture over an open flame is a dangerous procedure.
Pseudoephedrine pills that have been crushed up, soaked it's enough probable cause to go and charge somebody with a manufacture.
- Do you use? - Use? - Yeah.
Do you use methamphetamine? - No, no.
What I do is I drink beer.
- You know? - Me, too.
The farm's occupants will be taken in for questioning.
Home-based labs alone can't account for the scale of Indiana's drug problem.
In fact, since reaching a peak in 2015, the number of meth lab seizures in the state has almost halved.
Because users are finding ready access to a super-strength meth that's far more potent, and potentially far more deadly.
This is pure crystal meth, and it's rock form.
It's the bestÃÂ you're gonna get in this area.
It's straight from the cartel.
I don't deal with anybody from America.
My connect is the real plug.
I get pure quality clean crystal.
Kojak is part of a cartel supply chain that's outstripping the local competition.
It's not that fucking backwoods down south redneck meth.
That's the dirty stuff.
That's the stuff you see people's teeth falling out, getting allergic reactions, bad rashes and stuff, because that's the guy who's cooking the shit out in the backyard.
Who's doing up the garage.
That's that guy.
You're dealing with the cartel, they got busloads of it.
They got a guy who can take his time and cook it and make it right.
If it's not a good batch, they'll get rid of it.
They'll get only the quality stuff, and they'll ship that out, and it'll come to a guy like me from the Midwest.
Nobody can beat me.
Such is the demand that Kojak only deals in bulk.
This somebody's order right now.
Five pounds, five pounds, five pounds.
Just one five pound bag might generate $100,000, But I just want 25 a piece.
That's about 20 bucks over in a small town.
See the clarity of that? Very clean.
You touch it it's gonna be a problem.
You gonna be fucking with this shit forever.
Know what I'm saying? This is good stuff.
Keep you up 48 hours off one hit.
I had customers who didn't sleep for eight days.
You're gonna feel this in the tip of your toes to your goddamn eyelids.
You're gonna feel this in your eyelashes.
Your fingernails are gonna be high fucking with this.
Crystal meth is the drug of today.
It's the drug that everybody's using.
It's today's crack cocaine.
That's what this is.
Kojak is based here in the city of Gary, Indiana.
The empty streets and urban decay tell their own story of decline.
But as people moved out drug dealers moved in.
Because Gary has one thing the meth trade needs: Location.
I'm from Chicago.
I moved to this state just to sell this drug.
I'm laying low in Gary as an essential hub for my movement.
Kojak takes advantage of the roads running south of Gary to distribute meth to the small towns that lie deep in the heart of the state.
There's a lot of small towns where you make a lot of fucking money with crystal meth, like Muncie, Lebanon, Lafayette.
I'm gonna get this bread, and get the fuck out of here.
Oh my brother You've fallen from grace You took her love And hid your face I have been homeless and on the streets for about two months.
Yes, sometimes, I get lucky and find an abandoned house.
Other times I end up sleeping in a park or just walking Muncie until I can figure out what my next move is.
Now you're prone To walk alone But you can come home Diana is a meth user.
Tonight, she's made enough from her bar job to get a hotel.
I made the transition from shake and bake to crystal.
Or they also call it Tina, ice, ice cream.
At the time I was like, "It can't be that much different," then I tried it.
And if I thought shake and bake had a hold of me in an addiction form, I skyrocketed that.
When I first started getting ice, I was reminded of snow because it's still got that crystal-y look and stuff.
I was like, "Reminds me of snowball fights.
" Somebody was like, "You're too innocent for this game.
Don't even go there.
" Despite being relatively new to the drug, Diana has already progressed to the needle.
You can get what they call "fire breath," and it's almost like this feeling in your chest where you actually have to cough, 'cause it's heat, and people fall in love with that feeling.
And I include myself in that.
The trick is to have enough water that the ice dissolves.
Injecting meth dramatically increases the high, But it's more dangerous and more addictive than smoking it.
Yes.
Um Didn't quite have the rush that I was wanting.
But I feel better.
And there, the high hit.
I lied.
I'm good.
Um Hoo.
Sorry, I'm trying to find my words.
Um You get very hot, but it's kind of like a pleasant hot.
Things are a little wobbly.
Feel like everything that's been bothering me is nothing.
I feel like my emotions are going a little crazy right now.
I'mma, like, walk my ass to Walmart and get coloring books.
The initial euphoric rush gives way to a high that can last over 24 hours.
But come tomorrow, Diana will need more.
And that means relying on Kojak's supply operation back in Gary.
Gary's just gangster island.
That's the nickname we give it.
This city's grimy as fuck.
Can't trust nobody.
This is what most people would call a trap house.
Me, I call this my business office, and I got a few of these around the city.
Wiley's getting ready for a busy day's work.
He traffics meth across Indiana, and he takes pride in his job.
Gotta keep these police guessing.
Gotta keep these robbers guessing.
You never know who watching you.
People've been dealing with me for years, and don't even know my real name.
So whenever that trail come back, you looking for a motherfucker that ain't me.
I don't use at all.
This is straight profit.
Gotta keep a clear head.
Fuck being high.
I wanna get money.
I'm disciplined with how I move.
Hold up.
Yo, come back in one minute.
Yeah, my fault, man.
People here a little early, know what I'm saying? I'm doing this as a favor so people come in early to pick up their shit, so we can keep it moving.
I was in the military.
I'm a veteran.
I'm a Marine.
See, I didn't come home to no good paying job.
I came back to fucking America to fucking unemployment, so this is my business.
'Cause I tried to do it the right way, it didn't work.
But the moment I start doing it the wrong way money started coming in.
Wiley buys meth at $5,000 a pound, and sells it on to local distributors at a mark-up.
These are pounds.
My value is $6,000.
If I sell you this, I need $6,000 from you.
By increasing the price 20%, Wiley makes up to $15,000 per trip.
Most times, it's COD: cash-on-delivery.
You don't give me my money, it's an issue right away, 'cause I take care of my family with this.
If you steal from me, you're stealing from my fucking kids, and that's a problem.
That's a life-and-death problem, and I'm gonna live.
Today, Wiley's making a run.
He's taking a shipment of crystal to the small towns of central Indiana.
Sometimes I switch it up.
Take a scenic route.
Usually I like to travel during the daytime, 'cause at nighttime in Gary, county police saturated in the city.
The meth is stashed in a secret compartment fixed to the outside of the car.
We got a lot of people that do body work on vehicles, so I go pay him some money, he make a little piece that he can screw up under there.
It's kind of like a little hidden compartment up under the car.
You vacuum seal up the crystal.
Wrap it up, spray it in ammonia.
That way, if they do bring the dogs, the dogs don't get a scent.
He plans to stop for the night in Terre Haute.
But that means risking an encounter with the Vigo County Task Force.
That's pretty common, for people to stay at a hotel when they're dealing and they're in from out of town and have no other place to go; they'll come down to one of the hotels and stay and set up shop.
The Task Force suspects a crystal meth trafficker is operating out of a local hotel.
Generally, we're just looking for people that seem out of place.
Somebody that's going from hotel to hotel.
Anything that sticks out as suspicious.
Two-sixty-four.
I'll head over that way.
If we notice a room that sticks out like that where there's a lot of people coming and going, we'll concentrate on that room.
Keep an eye out for that other green Explorer pulling up here.
Oh, man.
That's him right in front of it.
The team's suspicions may have been confirmed.
They just got intel that someone is dealing out of one of these hotel rooms.
He's at his vehicle now.
We're just waiting in a holding pattern to see what he does, if he leaves.
He may be involved in prostitution, too.
The right and the left one.
The suspect has two adjoining rooms.
He went in this one.
They need to hit both simultaneously.
Can you step out with me? I don't wanna get attacked by your big ass dog.
While weâÂÂre out here, put your hands up against this wall and make sure there arenâÂÂt no Why? What's going on, though? When we information that says there's drug activity going on, there's guys and girls in and out of rooms, maybe some other activity going on like prostitution? Absolutely not.
Well, that's what somebody suspects it of, and they called us, so that's why we're here.
Where am I standing, here? - That's fine.
- Okay.
I'm gonna step outside.
Is anything in here gonna hurt me? No, honey.
Zero-seven, thirty-one.
1964, 0-7-31.
Looks like a meth pipe, maybe, and a plastic baggie.
Nothing in it? - It's residue.
- It's a clean pipe.
Clean pipe, clean bag.
Nothing much at this point.
The cops have drawn a blank.
But sales are going on somewhere in Terre Haute tonight.
I see the clouds they're rolling in At the side of the highway, the cops notice a man behaving strangely.
They hide the sun but not my sin The Judas kiss still on my lips You just smoke it? How much are you using a day? Don't know.
More than a quarter? Can't walk away from where I've been Oh Hear the calling A search of the man's car reveals a meth pipe, and half a gram of crystal.
Thirty years? Since the mid-'80s? Yes.
The user admits to three decades of meth abuse.
Thirty years.
I'm not sure if that guy will ever be able to get clean.
Oh Hear the calling Oh Hello there.
How may I help you? Hear the calling Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down, bro.
Walkin' on the water Darkness under my feet Gonna make the devil holler No, no, you're I can't see.
Put your shirt down.
I can't see.
When's the last time you slept? Tuesday.
So you've been up since Tuesday? Of course now it's Friday, about three in the morning.
He's been on a little bit of a binge I would say.
The cops arrest the user for possession.
But maybe a dose of jail time will help him kick his habit.
At least for a while.
I see the clouds, they're rolling in My brother, who's 13 years older, was involved in the drug culture.
In the meth game.
Unbeknownst to me when I was a kid, he did some petty crimes and stuff, and eventually got arrested for distributing meth.
I actually work with some of the detectives now that were involved in his investigation.
It finally took him going to prison, separating himself completelyÃÂ from the lifestyle and everybody within it for him to finally get clean.
I actually have a little bit of knowledge about addiction, just because of my background.
I was an addictions counselor before I got into law enforcement.
And I did that for about two years.
The recovery rate is not very successful.
The jails are overcrowded, and people within the society, people within the homes, the families are broken up.
You look in the inner city, you got fathers that are actually missing, the mothers are actually missing.
Everybody is on some form of medication.
There's so many people that are so used to being medicated, that they don't know it is to be without medication.
It's almost as if medication is now becoming the norm.
This right here is just a little over three ounces.
Crystal, ice, meth.
Wiley's consignment has made it safely to its first stop in Terre Haute.
This is supposed to be the real good shit, so Try to keep the good quality all the time.
Now, it's time for the local slingers to take over.
Weighing up a dime and 20 sacks Sell these all day long.
That's all I do.
I'm a little guy.
There's a dime-bag right there.
One of these go for $20.
This is probably like 3.
4 ounces.
I buy this for $1,500.
At the end of the week, I'll have $3,000 in my pocket, and I'll buy another one.
Around 15 go towards the bills and what-not, feed the family.
It's better than going to the office every day.
Even at this level, Ace is doubling his money.
I would say business is booming right now.
I'm on my fourth ounce by the end of the week.
That's a small wad.
Give it a day, it'll be four times as big.
I'm on duty 24/7, 365 days a year.
It's time to get out there and grind, make that money.
You let him in Let him in, let him in You feel it, you fight it He knows just how you like it He's your pusher man - What you got? - Twenty.
All right, you owe me ten.
Right on.
This is 24.
All right.
He's your pusher man - What do you got? - This is 40.
All right, drop it in my lap.
Right on.
It's hot.
It doesn't take long for Ace to shift his product.
Your screams from the That's four or five hours.
You know, I made $600.
It's been decent.
You know, once they get started on it, they just can't quit, so they just keep coming backÃÂ to you, keep coming back, keep coming back.
You fight it He knows just how you like it He's your pusher man 150 miles cross-state in Muncie, Diana has just scored.
O-M-G.
This is not ice.
I got ripped off.
These are rocks.
It's a sure sign the city is running dry.
And Wiley's consignment is overdue.
I'm pissed.
I am angry as all get-out.
'Cause it seemed a little heavy.
I get to really needing a hit within about 12 hours.
And if I don't get it, I get edgy, I get sick, I get a migraine.
You literally feel horrid.
I haven't had a hit in about 18 hours now.
And I feel miserable.
I have an awful headache.
I feel like I'm starving, but yet nauseous at the same time.
Diana is starting to withdraw.
I need you to call me right the fuck now.
Whatever shit was pulled needs to be fixed.
If you guys have any respect for me whatsoever, you will call me back.
I thought these people were my friends.
It's sad and it's ridiculous.
Oh my brother You've fallen from grace You took her love And hid your face Now you're prone To walk alone But you can come home There's a feeling of pressure until you get the product where it's going.
Wiley's on the move again.
He's left Terre Haute, and is heading for Muncie with the rest of his shipment.
I'm never comfortable when I'm transporting.
Like, I constantly got my head on a swivel.
Constantly worried about what's the next car behind me.
If anybody seen me, somebody told them I was coming.
Maybe this person got caught up and trying to get me caught up.
So, it's always a feeling of pressure and anxiety.
Until the moment you get the product out of your car, and get your money, you move on about your way.
Now that pressure is the next man's pressure.
The police, they're trying to figure out where this product was coming from, and how is it getting into these communities.
If the police pulled me over, they run my name and it comes back as a military veteran, but they ain't never expect that I'm the guy who's getting ready to drop this crystal off, and have the whole neighborhood walking around on cloud 20.
She's at home now.
I am sending her a text message.
She will not let me talk on the phone.
Has to be text.
As Wiley draws close to the drop point, the Delaware drug cops are working a case.
We're gonna do a buy/bust.
We're gonna purchase some narcotics from the target utilizing a CI, confidential informant.
The main goal with this target is to flip them and turn them into a CI.
I still get adrenaline rush.
Every buy/bust is different.
You never know what's gonna happen when you when you get there.
You don't know who all's at the house or who ends up getting in the vehicle, so you always have to be prepared for the unknown.
The bust is the first stage of an operation to lead them to the dealer's supplier.
Sometimes these things go fast when the dealer's ready or the target's ready, so we're trying to get mobile there as quick as we can.
- I think she's almost there.
- Okay, I got ya.
If I don't get there, she's gonna leave.
Get there.
We're ready.
Keep going.
Okay, we're in a hustle.
The target is getting close to being there.
And we're trying to get down there to get eyes on first.
I got headlights in front of the target location right now.
They take position outside the street dealer's house.
I got headlights in front of the target location right now.
We've got the female target walking out to the headlights on the main road here.
Witness the drop if we can.
Having made the sale, the dealer heads back inside.
All right, the vehicle traveling southbound is the one just made contact.
The CI drives off.
So the third roof is the target house.
The trap is set.
WeâÂÂre ready.
Get yourself in there.
When we tell you to go, go! But then, a problem: The dealer takes off.
All right, they're mobile, eastbound.
So right now, we are two cars behind our target vehicle.
Maverick, your tailgateâÂÂs open, so be careful.
All right, you wanna get ready to get out? Hands! Show me some hands! Show me your hands.
Hands up, hands up! Put your hands on the steering wheel.
Come out.
Let's go.
Step out of here.
Come out.
- Are you shitting me? - Hands on top of your head.
- What for, sir? - Top of your head.
- Please, just let us go.
- Watch your feet, please.
They need to get her off the street fast.
If word gets out about her arrest, it may spook her supplier.
This right here's what we purchased.
We consider this to be the stage one of this case.
We got the low The low dealer.
Every case we start out at, you know, ground zero, and we get the little dealers, then we try to work our way up to the top.
It's Maverick's job to flip the dealer and convince her to give up a name.
Listen, we've been watching you, and watching you.
You're watching me? Yes, watching your house.
This interview right here is to give you your chance to tell the truth, okay? How long have you been dealing with those people? Two or three years.
- Really? - Yeah.
They always come to your house? Where did the dope come from that we recovered today? Who else do you buy crystal from? Our target did decide to help herself out.
She gave up her supplier, so she's going to work with the Drug Task Force.
It's time to call in SWAT.
So tonight, line-up's gonna be Red Team, be Rambo, Alleycat.
Ninja will be carrying the shield.
'Pache, you'll be carrying the hooley.
Whiskey, you'll have the ram.
All right, go ahead and get your gear.
Hightower.
You guys make sure everybody's lined up.
Make sure everybody's locked and loaded, ready to roll.
Every kingdom in the Old Testament had its fair share of sorcerers and witch doctors.
Sorcery: as an ability to put a potion together.
And if the people take the magic potion, that magic potion is able to control them.
I've come to tell you that the reason why there is absolutely no cure for meth no cure for all these sorceries that they put out there, all these drugs and all this stuff is because it was never meant to be cured.
It was meant to put a curse on you.
The team moves in on the supplier's address.
On the ground.
On the ground! Open the door.
It's the police.
On the ground! Two suspects give up without a fight.
But a woman's still inside with a gun.
Oh, God.
It's a camera crew.
After a short standoff, she comes quietly.
Come this way.
She did have a firearm on her.
She had a handgun that was tucked in her bra.
Okay! Can you get the camera crew off me? Why you watching me, motherfucker? We've just received back from the judge a signed search warrant for this residence, so I'm gonna start searching to see what otherÃÂ criminal activities we can find.
Where am I going? You're going in the parked sheriff's truck down here.
It doesn't take long for Maverick to find something.
This safe was located in one of the bedrooms.
These two big baggies right here are both crystal methamphetamine.
We have approximately 70.
3 grams of crystal meth that was located in the safe in the in the bedroom.
$8,400.
I'd say she's a pretty good-size crystal meth dealer here in town, so I think it's a pretty big success.
But Indiana's crystal meth supply chain rolls on.
The winds are whispering a name And tears fall from the sky The devil's on my shoulder Singin' haunted lullabies A walk along the road Reveals a story full of pain I wish I'd never come to be So buried by the days Now it's a slow farewell My love I sing to you This lonely road runs straight to hell 'Cause it's a slow farewell My love I sing to you This lonely road runs straight to hell
You You see shadow people.
It took me to mass psychosis.
In the pines, in the pines This stuff is so cheap, so easy to get.
Where the sun don't ever shine I got the best pure crystal meth.
I feel like my emotions are going a little crazy right now.
It's like a war epidemic right now.
Hey boy, hey boy where will you go I'm going where the cold wind blows We're going to connect with the supernatural.
The demons are cast out.
Hallelujah.
There are a lot of guys out there that want to give you dope.
I don't know what the word "dope" comes from.
Maybe it comes from the word dopamine, because dopamine, when it's released through your body, it kind of gives your body like a level of a high.
This world will try to offer you all these type of things to help you cope with life, but I've come to tell you that I don't want to cope with life.
I want to thrive through life.
Each person in here has a war that they're fighting.
We're heading to a house in the northern part of the county.
Some individuals must be manufacturing methamphetamine.
Officers of the Vigo County Drug Task Force are about to raid a suspected meth lab.
Had a couple complaints come in through our office.
They said that there's a lot of traffic, coming in and out of the property.
And then there was a couple informants that had spoken with other detectives, and State Police had information on it also.
It's a lot easier to cook out in the rural areas, because the houses are spread more apart.
So the odor is harder to detect by your neighbors.
Vigo County has more meth labs than almost anywhere else in the state.
Beyond the towns, the county is struggling.
Thanks to low pay and poor prospects, people in rural areas are facing hardship.
And that drives some to seek refuge in oblivion.
Meth is toxic and volatile.
As police move in, they're taking a leap into the unknown.
You never know how somebody's going to react, especially if they're in the process of cooking methamphetamine.
If they're on the drug, if they're high, their paranoia level's gonna be elevated.
No plates on the cars.
The police search the house.
It's a dog.
Turn around! Turn around! You ain't gotta tell him nothing, okay? Shut your fucking jib.
- What's that? - Don't go back in.
Hey, Lorna.
Come here.
The house is clean.
Officers cautiously fan out to search the rest of the farm.
At least one shake and bake lab.
I'd say that's probably a cook vessel.
Old Nazi lab.
Old schoolers.
A meth cook can get going with a few simple ingredients bought from a pharmacy and a hardware store.
Resin from the pills.
But heating the mixture over an open flame is a dangerous procedure.
Pseudoephedrine pills that have been crushed up, soaked it's enough probable cause to go and charge somebody with a manufacture.
- Do you use? - Use? - Yeah.
Do you use methamphetamine? - No, no.
What I do is I drink beer.
- You know? - Me, too.
The farm's occupants will be taken in for questioning.
Home-based labs alone can't account for the scale of Indiana's drug problem.
In fact, since reaching a peak in 2015, the number of meth lab seizures in the state has almost halved.
Because users are finding ready access to a super-strength meth that's far more potent, and potentially far more deadly.
This is pure crystal meth, and it's rock form.
It's the bestÃÂ you're gonna get in this area.
It's straight from the cartel.
I don't deal with anybody from America.
My connect is the real plug.
I get pure quality clean crystal.
Kojak is part of a cartel supply chain that's outstripping the local competition.
It's not that fucking backwoods down south redneck meth.
That's the dirty stuff.
That's the stuff you see people's teeth falling out, getting allergic reactions, bad rashes and stuff, because that's the guy who's cooking the shit out in the backyard.
Who's doing up the garage.
That's that guy.
You're dealing with the cartel, they got busloads of it.
They got a guy who can take his time and cook it and make it right.
If it's not a good batch, they'll get rid of it.
They'll get only the quality stuff, and they'll ship that out, and it'll come to a guy like me from the Midwest.
Nobody can beat me.
Such is the demand that Kojak only deals in bulk.
This somebody's order right now.
Five pounds, five pounds, five pounds.
Just one five pound bag might generate $100,000, But I just want 25 a piece.
That's about 20 bucks over in a small town.
See the clarity of that? Very clean.
You touch it it's gonna be a problem.
You gonna be fucking with this shit forever.
Know what I'm saying? This is good stuff.
Keep you up 48 hours off one hit.
I had customers who didn't sleep for eight days.
You're gonna feel this in the tip of your toes to your goddamn eyelids.
You're gonna feel this in your eyelashes.
Your fingernails are gonna be high fucking with this.
Crystal meth is the drug of today.
It's the drug that everybody's using.
It's today's crack cocaine.
That's what this is.
Kojak is based here in the city of Gary, Indiana.
The empty streets and urban decay tell their own story of decline.
But as people moved out drug dealers moved in.
Because Gary has one thing the meth trade needs: Location.
I'm from Chicago.
I moved to this state just to sell this drug.
I'm laying low in Gary as an essential hub for my movement.
Kojak takes advantage of the roads running south of Gary to distribute meth to the small towns that lie deep in the heart of the state.
There's a lot of small towns where you make a lot of fucking money with crystal meth, like Muncie, Lebanon, Lafayette.
I'm gonna get this bread, and get the fuck out of here.
Oh my brother You've fallen from grace You took her love And hid your face I have been homeless and on the streets for about two months.
Yes, sometimes, I get lucky and find an abandoned house.
Other times I end up sleeping in a park or just walking Muncie until I can figure out what my next move is.
Now you're prone To walk alone But you can come home Diana is a meth user.
Tonight, she's made enough from her bar job to get a hotel.
I made the transition from shake and bake to crystal.
Or they also call it Tina, ice, ice cream.
At the time I was like, "It can't be that much different," then I tried it.
And if I thought shake and bake had a hold of me in an addiction form, I skyrocketed that.
When I first started getting ice, I was reminded of snow because it's still got that crystal-y look and stuff.
I was like, "Reminds me of snowball fights.
" Somebody was like, "You're too innocent for this game.
Don't even go there.
" Despite being relatively new to the drug, Diana has already progressed to the needle.
You can get what they call "fire breath," and it's almost like this feeling in your chest where you actually have to cough, 'cause it's heat, and people fall in love with that feeling.
And I include myself in that.
The trick is to have enough water that the ice dissolves.
Injecting meth dramatically increases the high, But it's more dangerous and more addictive than smoking it.
Yes.
Um Didn't quite have the rush that I was wanting.
But I feel better.
And there, the high hit.
I lied.
I'm good.
Um Hoo.
Sorry, I'm trying to find my words.
Um You get very hot, but it's kind of like a pleasant hot.
Things are a little wobbly.
Feel like everything that's been bothering me is nothing.
I feel like my emotions are going a little crazy right now.
I'mma, like, walk my ass to Walmart and get coloring books.
The initial euphoric rush gives way to a high that can last over 24 hours.
But come tomorrow, Diana will need more.
And that means relying on Kojak's supply operation back in Gary.
Gary's just gangster island.
That's the nickname we give it.
This city's grimy as fuck.
Can't trust nobody.
This is what most people would call a trap house.
Me, I call this my business office, and I got a few of these around the city.
Wiley's getting ready for a busy day's work.
He traffics meth across Indiana, and he takes pride in his job.
Gotta keep these police guessing.
Gotta keep these robbers guessing.
You never know who watching you.
People've been dealing with me for years, and don't even know my real name.
So whenever that trail come back, you looking for a motherfucker that ain't me.
I don't use at all.
This is straight profit.
Gotta keep a clear head.
Fuck being high.
I wanna get money.
I'm disciplined with how I move.
Hold up.
Yo, come back in one minute.
Yeah, my fault, man.
People here a little early, know what I'm saying? I'm doing this as a favor so people come in early to pick up their shit, so we can keep it moving.
I was in the military.
I'm a veteran.
I'm a Marine.
See, I didn't come home to no good paying job.
I came back to fucking America to fucking unemployment, so this is my business.
'Cause I tried to do it the right way, it didn't work.
But the moment I start doing it the wrong way money started coming in.
Wiley buys meth at $5,000 a pound, and sells it on to local distributors at a mark-up.
These are pounds.
My value is $6,000.
If I sell you this, I need $6,000 from you.
By increasing the price 20%, Wiley makes up to $15,000 per trip.
Most times, it's COD: cash-on-delivery.
You don't give me my money, it's an issue right away, 'cause I take care of my family with this.
If you steal from me, you're stealing from my fucking kids, and that's a problem.
That's a life-and-death problem, and I'm gonna live.
Today, Wiley's making a run.
He's taking a shipment of crystal to the small towns of central Indiana.
Sometimes I switch it up.
Take a scenic route.
Usually I like to travel during the daytime, 'cause at nighttime in Gary, county police saturated in the city.
The meth is stashed in a secret compartment fixed to the outside of the car.
We got a lot of people that do body work on vehicles, so I go pay him some money, he make a little piece that he can screw up under there.
It's kind of like a little hidden compartment up under the car.
You vacuum seal up the crystal.
Wrap it up, spray it in ammonia.
That way, if they do bring the dogs, the dogs don't get a scent.
He plans to stop for the night in Terre Haute.
But that means risking an encounter with the Vigo County Task Force.
That's pretty common, for people to stay at a hotel when they're dealing and they're in from out of town and have no other place to go; they'll come down to one of the hotels and stay and set up shop.
The Task Force suspects a crystal meth trafficker is operating out of a local hotel.
Generally, we're just looking for people that seem out of place.
Somebody that's going from hotel to hotel.
Anything that sticks out as suspicious.
Two-sixty-four.
I'll head over that way.
If we notice a room that sticks out like that where there's a lot of people coming and going, we'll concentrate on that room.
Keep an eye out for that other green Explorer pulling up here.
Oh, man.
That's him right in front of it.
The team's suspicions may have been confirmed.
They just got intel that someone is dealing out of one of these hotel rooms.
He's at his vehicle now.
We're just waiting in a holding pattern to see what he does, if he leaves.
He may be involved in prostitution, too.
The right and the left one.
The suspect has two adjoining rooms.
He went in this one.
They need to hit both simultaneously.
Can you step out with me? I don't wanna get attacked by your big ass dog.
While weâÂÂre out here, put your hands up against this wall and make sure there arenâÂÂt no Why? What's going on, though? When we information that says there's drug activity going on, there's guys and girls in and out of rooms, maybe some other activity going on like prostitution? Absolutely not.
Well, that's what somebody suspects it of, and they called us, so that's why we're here.
Where am I standing, here? - That's fine.
- Okay.
I'm gonna step outside.
Is anything in here gonna hurt me? No, honey.
Zero-seven, thirty-one.
1964, 0-7-31.
Looks like a meth pipe, maybe, and a plastic baggie.
Nothing in it? - It's residue.
- It's a clean pipe.
Clean pipe, clean bag.
Nothing much at this point.
The cops have drawn a blank.
But sales are going on somewhere in Terre Haute tonight.
I see the clouds they're rolling in At the side of the highway, the cops notice a man behaving strangely.
They hide the sun but not my sin The Judas kiss still on my lips You just smoke it? How much are you using a day? Don't know.
More than a quarter? Can't walk away from where I've been Oh Hear the calling A search of the man's car reveals a meth pipe, and half a gram of crystal.
Thirty years? Since the mid-'80s? Yes.
The user admits to three decades of meth abuse.
Thirty years.
I'm not sure if that guy will ever be able to get clean.
Oh Hear the calling Oh Hello there.
How may I help you? Hear the calling Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down, bro.
Walkin' on the water Darkness under my feet Gonna make the devil holler No, no, you're I can't see.
Put your shirt down.
I can't see.
When's the last time you slept? Tuesday.
So you've been up since Tuesday? Of course now it's Friday, about three in the morning.
He's been on a little bit of a binge I would say.
The cops arrest the user for possession.
But maybe a dose of jail time will help him kick his habit.
At least for a while.
I see the clouds, they're rolling in My brother, who's 13 years older, was involved in the drug culture.
In the meth game.
Unbeknownst to me when I was a kid, he did some petty crimes and stuff, and eventually got arrested for distributing meth.
I actually work with some of the detectives now that were involved in his investigation.
It finally took him going to prison, separating himself completelyÃÂ from the lifestyle and everybody within it for him to finally get clean.
I actually have a little bit of knowledge about addiction, just because of my background.
I was an addictions counselor before I got into law enforcement.
And I did that for about two years.
The recovery rate is not very successful.
The jails are overcrowded, and people within the society, people within the homes, the families are broken up.
You look in the inner city, you got fathers that are actually missing, the mothers are actually missing.
Everybody is on some form of medication.
There's so many people that are so used to being medicated, that they don't know it is to be without medication.
It's almost as if medication is now becoming the norm.
This right here is just a little over three ounces.
Crystal, ice, meth.
Wiley's consignment has made it safely to its first stop in Terre Haute.
This is supposed to be the real good shit, so Try to keep the good quality all the time.
Now, it's time for the local slingers to take over.
Weighing up a dime and 20 sacks Sell these all day long.
That's all I do.
I'm a little guy.
There's a dime-bag right there.
One of these go for $20.
This is probably like 3.
4 ounces.
I buy this for $1,500.
At the end of the week, I'll have $3,000 in my pocket, and I'll buy another one.
Around 15 go towards the bills and what-not, feed the family.
It's better than going to the office every day.
Even at this level, Ace is doubling his money.
I would say business is booming right now.
I'm on my fourth ounce by the end of the week.
That's a small wad.
Give it a day, it'll be four times as big.
I'm on duty 24/7, 365 days a year.
It's time to get out there and grind, make that money.
You let him in Let him in, let him in You feel it, you fight it He knows just how you like it He's your pusher man - What you got? - Twenty.
All right, you owe me ten.
Right on.
This is 24.
All right.
He's your pusher man - What do you got? - This is 40.
All right, drop it in my lap.
Right on.
It's hot.
It doesn't take long for Ace to shift his product.
Your screams from the That's four or five hours.
You know, I made $600.
It's been decent.
You know, once they get started on it, they just can't quit, so they just keep coming backÃÂ to you, keep coming back, keep coming back.
You fight it He knows just how you like it He's your pusher man 150 miles cross-state in Muncie, Diana has just scored.
O-M-G.
This is not ice.
I got ripped off.
These are rocks.
It's a sure sign the city is running dry.
And Wiley's consignment is overdue.
I'm pissed.
I am angry as all get-out.
'Cause it seemed a little heavy.
I get to really needing a hit within about 12 hours.
And if I don't get it, I get edgy, I get sick, I get a migraine.
You literally feel horrid.
I haven't had a hit in about 18 hours now.
And I feel miserable.
I have an awful headache.
I feel like I'm starving, but yet nauseous at the same time.
Diana is starting to withdraw.
I need you to call me right the fuck now.
Whatever shit was pulled needs to be fixed.
If you guys have any respect for me whatsoever, you will call me back.
I thought these people were my friends.
It's sad and it's ridiculous.
Oh my brother You've fallen from grace You took her love And hid your face Now you're prone To walk alone But you can come home There's a feeling of pressure until you get the product where it's going.
Wiley's on the move again.
He's left Terre Haute, and is heading for Muncie with the rest of his shipment.
I'm never comfortable when I'm transporting.
Like, I constantly got my head on a swivel.
Constantly worried about what's the next car behind me.
If anybody seen me, somebody told them I was coming.
Maybe this person got caught up and trying to get me caught up.
So, it's always a feeling of pressure and anxiety.
Until the moment you get the product out of your car, and get your money, you move on about your way.
Now that pressure is the next man's pressure.
The police, they're trying to figure out where this product was coming from, and how is it getting into these communities.
If the police pulled me over, they run my name and it comes back as a military veteran, but they ain't never expect that I'm the guy who's getting ready to drop this crystal off, and have the whole neighborhood walking around on cloud 20.
She's at home now.
I am sending her a text message.
She will not let me talk on the phone.
Has to be text.
As Wiley draws close to the drop point, the Delaware drug cops are working a case.
We're gonna do a buy/bust.
We're gonna purchase some narcotics from the target utilizing a CI, confidential informant.
The main goal with this target is to flip them and turn them into a CI.
I still get adrenaline rush.
Every buy/bust is different.
You never know what's gonna happen when you when you get there.
You don't know who all's at the house or who ends up getting in the vehicle, so you always have to be prepared for the unknown.
The bust is the first stage of an operation to lead them to the dealer's supplier.
Sometimes these things go fast when the dealer's ready or the target's ready, so we're trying to get mobile there as quick as we can.
- I think she's almost there.
- Okay, I got ya.
If I don't get there, she's gonna leave.
Get there.
We're ready.
Keep going.
Okay, we're in a hustle.
The target is getting close to being there.
And we're trying to get down there to get eyes on first.
I got headlights in front of the target location right now.
They take position outside the street dealer's house.
I got headlights in front of the target location right now.
We've got the female target walking out to the headlights on the main road here.
Witness the drop if we can.
Having made the sale, the dealer heads back inside.
All right, the vehicle traveling southbound is the one just made contact.
The CI drives off.
So the third roof is the target house.
The trap is set.
WeâÂÂre ready.
Get yourself in there.
When we tell you to go, go! But then, a problem: The dealer takes off.
All right, they're mobile, eastbound.
So right now, we are two cars behind our target vehicle.
Maverick, your tailgateâÂÂs open, so be careful.
All right, you wanna get ready to get out? Hands! Show me some hands! Show me your hands.
Hands up, hands up! Put your hands on the steering wheel.
Come out.
Let's go.
Step out of here.
Come out.
- Are you shitting me? - Hands on top of your head.
- What for, sir? - Top of your head.
- Please, just let us go.
- Watch your feet, please.
They need to get her off the street fast.
If word gets out about her arrest, it may spook her supplier.
This right here's what we purchased.
We consider this to be the stage one of this case.
We got the low The low dealer.
Every case we start out at, you know, ground zero, and we get the little dealers, then we try to work our way up to the top.
It's Maverick's job to flip the dealer and convince her to give up a name.
Listen, we've been watching you, and watching you.
You're watching me? Yes, watching your house.
This interview right here is to give you your chance to tell the truth, okay? How long have you been dealing with those people? Two or three years.
- Really? - Yeah.
They always come to your house? Where did the dope come from that we recovered today? Who else do you buy crystal from? Our target did decide to help herself out.
She gave up her supplier, so she's going to work with the Drug Task Force.
It's time to call in SWAT.
So tonight, line-up's gonna be Red Team, be Rambo, Alleycat.
Ninja will be carrying the shield.
'Pache, you'll be carrying the hooley.
Whiskey, you'll have the ram.
All right, go ahead and get your gear.
Hightower.
You guys make sure everybody's lined up.
Make sure everybody's locked and loaded, ready to roll.
Every kingdom in the Old Testament had its fair share of sorcerers and witch doctors.
Sorcery: as an ability to put a potion together.
And if the people take the magic potion, that magic potion is able to control them.
I've come to tell you that the reason why there is absolutely no cure for meth no cure for all these sorceries that they put out there, all these drugs and all this stuff is because it was never meant to be cured.
It was meant to put a curse on you.
The team moves in on the supplier's address.
On the ground.
On the ground! Open the door.
It's the police.
On the ground! Two suspects give up without a fight.
But a woman's still inside with a gun.
Oh, God.
It's a camera crew.
After a short standoff, she comes quietly.
Come this way.
She did have a firearm on her.
She had a handgun that was tucked in her bra.
Okay! Can you get the camera crew off me? Why you watching me, motherfucker? We've just received back from the judge a signed search warrant for this residence, so I'm gonna start searching to see what otherÃÂ criminal activities we can find.
Where am I going? You're going in the parked sheriff's truck down here.
It doesn't take long for Maverick to find something.
This safe was located in one of the bedrooms.
These two big baggies right here are both crystal methamphetamine.
We have approximately 70.
3 grams of crystal meth that was located in the safe in the in the bedroom.
$8,400.
I'd say she's a pretty good-size crystal meth dealer here in town, so I think it's a pretty big success.
But Indiana's crystal meth supply chain rolls on.
The winds are whispering a name And tears fall from the sky The devil's on my shoulder Singin' haunted lullabies A walk along the road Reveals a story full of pain I wish I'd never come to be So buried by the days Now it's a slow farewell My love I sing to you This lonely road runs straight to hell 'Cause it's a slow farewell My love I sing to you This lonely road runs straight to hell