The Cleaner (2008) s02e12 Episode Script

People do a whole lot of things in the name of love, more than I ever thought possible.
When we first made this deal, you and me, I remember thinking about that, about love.
I never really felt it even when it was offered to me, because I knew I didn't deserve it, so I could never understand it.
A pastor I know, one of the better ones, he pointed me toward a verse in the Old Testament, went something like this: There are three things that amaze me.
No, four things that I don't understand.
The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and a way a man loves a woman.
And once I got clean, I understood them all: The eagle, the ship and even the man and the woman.
But what I knew best, what I knew from my gut, was the way of that serpent and how he can destroy even the most beautiful love of all.
Anna.
Pick up.
Wait for me.
Wait for me, okay? Wait, okay? Hello? William, it's me, John.
Can you hear me? William, I need your help again.
It's not for me.
I swear I'm clean, but it's the girl.
She might Hello? William? William? Damn it.
Anna.
Hello? Hello? - John? - William.
William, she OD'd on cocaine and heroin.
- What? - Cocaine and heroin.
- How long? How long? - L - Get her to a hospital.
- No hospitals.
No one can know.
- How long? - Just stopped breathing.
You took a risk by not taking her.
Anybody knows she's alive, the odds get much, much worse.
Come on.
Breathe for her now.
Just keep breathing.
Don't you jam it into her chest? Her heart is beating.
Just do exactly as I tell you.
There.
Okay.
No.
Nobody can know.
You came to me.
My rules.
Swenton, get Akani.
Get down to the shop now.
- Let me take over.
Move.
- I love her.
I can't let her die.
You're not gonna be any help if you're sucking air yourself.
Okay.
Come on, Anna.
Anna, we gotta get out of here.
Come on, we gotta make it to Spain, baby.
- Okay, she's breathing.
- Yeah, that's it.
- Anna, good girl.
Good girl.
- Keep talking to her.
It's okay.
I told you I would come for you.
I promised.
Why didn't you believe? Anna.
Anna, can you hear me? - Anna.
- It's me.
It's John.
You're okay, you're alive.
It's okay.
You're doing great.
There you are.
- Hey.
Hey.
- You're gonna be okay.
Just keep breathing.
I promise you're gonna be fine.
Just a little pit stop and then we'll be on our way.
Okay.
All right, John, go outside.
Wait for me outside.
Come on.
You're in the way.
Go outside.
It will be all right.
Anna? Hey, hey.
- Papa? - Anna, welcome back.
- Papa? - No, I'm just a friend.
Tell me everything you see.
What do you see? - Anna, what do you see? - My father.
All right.
Okay.
- Don't call my father.
- All right.
Okay.
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
- No, it's all right.
Don't be sorry.
You're all right.
You're okay.
So, what have you got yourself into, John? She gonna make it? Look, let me talk to you outside.
You're gonna make it.
So why do you think she tried to kill herself? Supposed to meet her on the pier where we always meet, you know, and we were gonna get out of town.
Make a run for it, start over.
And? And I was late.
I wasn't gonna leave her, William.
I'd never leave Anna.
Yeah.
Look, there's bad people out there that wanna hurt her, but I'm the one they're looking for.
As long as nobody knows she's here, she's okay.
What about me and my crew? Nobody knows she's here, everyone's safe.
It's that simple.
You're using again, man.
You can do everything right, just like you preach, but the shit that was there when you started using, it's waiting for you when you step back out.
Look.
Look, just stay here, all right? Just give yourself another chance, okay? Don't worry about me.
Just take care of Anna.
Here's my number.
Let me know when she's safe.
You're all we've got.
Don't let anyone know she's here.
Boss.
Detective Baker is outside.
John Neville here? I sent him to you once before, William, courtesy of the taxpayers of this fine city.
I think we have a right to know whether he slipped up again.
He was here this morning, but he's not around anymore.
Get in.
You didn't keep him? He didn't want my help.
I'm sorry.
Was Anna with him? I don't know who you're talking about.
Anna Gonzales, daughter of Felix Gonzales.
The Querétaro Cartel that John had infiltrated before he blew his cover.
- Was she with him? - Taxpayers asking? I'm asking, William.
This is serious.
I need an answer.
You know what I do is confidential, right? Would you let me talk to her? I'm not saying that she's here, but like with any other client, unless you're family, you've gotta get a court order.
Eighteen weeks under deep cover and I could tell he was using again.
How did John look? Same as he did when you brought him in to me the first time.
High, paranoid, delusional.
Thought everyone was after him.
Well, the only difference is this time they really are.
And I told him not to go back undercover.
Yeah, I remember.
We asked him to take a desk job, but John wanted to go right back in.
I begged him not to, but there's only so much I could do.
Only so much anyone can do.
Look, if he comes back, will you help him out again? Look, it's not about the money, all right? Not anymore.
You've helped out more than a few of my guys, William.
I trust you.
I know you'll keep this confidential.
If he comes back, would you let me know? Stay dry.
Maybe your undercover cop really did snag a drug lord's daughter.
Toxicity levels are sky high.
She's definitely getting the pure shit.
Akani, you know how serious this is, right? I mean, no one in, no one out, until she's gone.
Yeah, of course.
Do you think John's gonna come back for her, or maybe her father? Her father is no joke.
If you want out, now's the time.
I don't have anywhere better to be.
You change your mind, anytime, I won't hold it against you.
Okay.
Come on, John.
Where are you? Who are you? My name is William Banks.
John hired me to help you.
Where is he? He left.
When is he coming back? Don't know.
Listen, you You OD'd on heroin and cocaine.
- Are you a doctor? - No, I'm not.
Police? I'm just someone who wants to get you sober.
- I am in rehab? - Yeah, it was pretty funny when you stopped breathing for a minute.
William saved your life.
I just measured wrong.
- Oh, is that it? - I just measured wrong.
Hey, William, we got the welcome wagon from the Medellin Cartel out front.
Don't talk to them.
They work for my father.
Can I help you? You called a cell phone earlier that belonged to a dead man.
That cell phone belongs to us now, along with something else he stole.
I represent Felix Gonzales.
I'm sure you know who he is.
So, then, you wouldn't mind if we came in and took a look around? Look, man, I don't know what angle you're working here, but you're not coming in today, all right? Tell Anna her father would like to see her back home.
Tell her father I'd like to see the same thing.
That's right, William, you know what it's like to be a father.
You have a little girl too, right? And a very beautiful home.
They might have killed John.
Now they're threatening my family.
I'll get two detectives.
Keep them out of uniform.
Tell them to keep a distance.
She'll never know.
Well, what's really going on here, Lawrence? After he picked up his 90-day chip, John went undercover again.
After a few weeks in, he stopped being reliable.
He started using.
He fell in love with Anna and they had plans to escape.
- And that's it? - Yep.
Two kids, they got high, they fell in love.
It's just a love story, William.
Well, a love story better not get my family hurt.
It won't.
Not with my protection.
I'll call the station and get detectives here and to your shop right away.
- Outside my house? - You won't even know they're here.
- You just told me that they're here.
- It's just a precaution, Melissa.
Against what? My old client has himself mixed up in some heavy shit and he walked back in my door.
So you're gonna let him walk into my door? - I'm not letting it.
- Good.
I don't want the cops out front scaring the kids.
- I made a commitment here.
- Then unmake that commitment.
This is what I do.
This is what I am.
There's no alternative here.
There's always an alternative.
Look, I need you and the kids away from the house for a couple of days.
- That's all I'm saying.
- I can't go out of town.
I have I need to know that you and the kids are gonna be safe.
If helping someone puts your family at risk, then maybe you need to - It is not that simple.
- Make it that simple.
Put your family first, William.
I'm sorry.
Look, we are not shaping our lives around your work anymore, okay? We're not doing it.
I don't want cops out front and we're not leaving.
Listen, Anna, I need your help.
Generally, I contact the families of addicts, see if there's any Does my father know I'm here? Yeah.
I need to go.
I need to go now.
- Where are you gonna go? - Anywhere but here.
Under normal circumstances, I'd put you in a psych ward on a 72-hour suicide watch.
- I didn't try to kill myself.
- Right, you just measured wrong? If I stay here, you don't understand.
Everyone here is gonna die.
There are cops watching the shop and my house.
Everyone is gonna die.
That's the shop.
Anna? - It's me.
It's me.
- John? I thought you were dead.
- They saw me.
- Let's go.
Let's go.
- Get to the back.
Get to the back.
- Get Anna.
What is this place? Where are we? It's a safe house.
- I need answers.
- We just need to get out of here.
- She's not going anywhere.
- I'm fine.
See, she's fine.
She's fine.
Swenton, get him out of here.
Let's go.
Out.
- John, don't leave.
- Look, I'm not - William, I asked you to help her.
- No, you didn't, John.
You wouldn't try to take her out of here if you actually wanted me to help her.
I'll be right outside, okay? I'll be right outside.
Come on.
I'll show you the gym and the spa.
Where are you going, Anna? Where do you think you're gonna go? I can't tell you that.
Well, wherever it is, it's never gonna work, Anna.
I mean, have you even thought about the consequences? It's all I have thought about.
- And you still don't see.
- John is helping me.
Helping you to get high ain't helping you.
Before I met him nothing mattered.
- Now - Now you're both high and on the run.
I mean, have you two ever spent a sober moment together? You don't even know each other.
I know I love him.
Well, something about him made you give up the other night, right? I didn't give up.
You thought he left you.
You thought he abandoned you.
You had your doubts.
Maybe, but my father, I have no doubts about him.
Anything is better than staying with him.
If you're on the run, it doesn't matter where you are.
It's always gonna be in a room like this.
Nothing is gonna change.
I can I can talk to your father.
Let me speak to him.
He would not listen.
You don't know what he's capable of.
You have no idea.
Oh, I think I do.
I think I do.
You know why? Because I'm a father.
I have a daughter too, just like you.
And there's nothing I wouldn't do.
There's There's no extreme I wouldn't take to keep my daughter safe.
So, yeah, you're right.
I don't know your father but I know what he's feeling right now.
He wants me to be a little girl forever.
He wants you to be safe.
And what's so wrong with that? Why do you wanna save me so bad? I thought you had someone watching the shop.
Where are you? It's not important.
We're safe.
- Where are you? - It doesn't matter.
But you have John? Look, my family was threatened.
My wife won't take my phone calls.
Someone just raided the shop, and we're in hiding.
I'm gonna ask you one last time.
What did John do? He stole drugs from Anna's father.
How much? Enough to create a lot of problems for a lot of people.
Enough to put anyone near him at a lot of risk.
Street value: $ 12 million.
All right, 11138 Hoover.
Come pick him up.
You're living in a fantasy, man.
You don't know.
You sold her a fantasy.
That's the only thing she cares about now.
It's a different one than her father sold her, but it's just as fake.
You know what's sad, man? Is that I actually thought that I helped you before.
You did for a while.
Well, it sure don't look like that now, does it? I changed, William, I did.
I really did.
It's just, the world didn't change with me.
Why Anna? I went back undercover.
I got scared.
I got hooked again.
But when I saw her, I had a reason, a real reason to get out once and for all.
All we needed was money to start a new life.
And you think stealing drugs is a good way to start a new life? Whatever it took to get a head start.
Whatever it took for love.
Right.
- Love? - Right.
Love.
True love.
John, just let her go.
Give her a chance.
No, we gotta get out of here, we'll get to a safe place.
We get ourselves well and then we got a chance.
- Sounds like you got another plan.
- I do.
Addicts with plans.
They never work.
This one has to.
You can't hold Anna against her will.
If she wants to come, there's nothing you can do about it.
John, as soon as you walk out of this building, you're dead.
You got that? Anna too.
It maybe takes a minute, maybe it takes a year, but either way they will find you.
And if they don't, the drugs will do you in, all right? Either way, you're done, man.
Either way, you're done.
Think about that.
It's okay, John, relax.
One second.
- Hey, hey, hey.
What are you doing? - The department needs John back.
He's lying.
John blew his cover and that's not all.
I thought you told me everything.
I told you everything that you need to know.
- This is - It's a setup.
Much bigger than Romeo and Juliet just getting sober.
- He's lying.
He wants Anna.
- John, no.
John.
Don't let her go back to her father, William.
William.
I mean, you want me to follow them? He's a cop.
There's nothing we can do.
Something doesn't add up here.
Anna? What were you gonna do with the drugs? I don't know.
You want John to live, you better stop lying.
Lawrence promised us he would get us out.
Pay us for the drugs, get us passports, plane tickets.
Okay, I'm listening.
It was his idea, the robbery, everything.
We just wanted a chance to get out.
John was supposed to meet him and trade the drugs for money, but he thought it was a setup.
Got scared.
That's why he was late for me.
A drug-addicted undercover cop, that's a pretty good mark to pin it on.
Wait, if Lawrence is dirty? Who's watching my house? Let's go.
Melissa.
Ben.
Lula.
What are you doing? Oh, God.
Okay.
- You're okay.
- Dad, what's wrong? - What's going on? - You scared us.
It's all right.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Lula.
Come here, it's okay.
It's all right.
All right, look, go to your rooms and pack something for the night.
- You too, Ben, right now.
- William? Everyone's spending the night at a hotel.
What is? Everyone is spending the night at a hotel.
Okay.
The main thing is get them situated and make sure no one's followed you.
- Of course.
- Okay.
We're ready to go.
All right, listen, Swenton is gonna take you to the hotel.
I'm gonna I'm gonna call you guys later.
- You'll be all right.
- I'll be right there.
Thank you, Arnie.
How bad is this? What about you, William? Are you safe? - Look, I'm gonna be fine.
- William, are you safe? I gotta put things back where they belong.
Make sure my part in this is understood.
Then what? Look, just take off, okay, please? It's gonna be fine.
You and the kids are gonna be fine.
I'll call you, okay? - I'll call you later.
- Yeah.
You risked your own family to help me? This all just happened, Anna.
- No, take me back to my father.
- No.
I can tell him what happened.
I can tell him to leave you alone.
- Listen, if you go home - Take me back to my father.
- You deserve a chance.
- It's time for me to go home.
Welcome home.
Where's my father? - You need to leave now.
- Leave him alone, Rodolfo.
Anna? You stole from me.
You lied to me.
You ran away from me.
You broke my heart.
Papi, he saved my life.
Come here.
Your daughter needs help.
Please listen to him.
I'll be back.
So, what is it you want? Let me help Anna.
Give her the same help you gave John Neville? She has a chance to get better.
Anna deserves a chance to get better.
And if I let you help, what is it you're gonna do? I'll encourage her to find a new life.
Without me? Without her father.
- That's up to Anna.
- Yeah.
But you would encourage her to do that? Yeah, I would.
You got a lot of balls, don't you? Yeah.
Yeah, I know about you.
I don't have a lot to hide.
I know all about your past too, about the people that you help.
Look, I'm not gonna lock my doors.
If you wanna come after me, I can't stop you.
You're just gonna have to take it on faith that all I wanna do here is help.
The only thing that makes sense to me is doing this for people like Anna.
So, please, let me Let me help your daughter.
Fine.
Anna begged for your life, otherwise you wouldn't be here, so consider this your only warning.
Stay away from her.
Stay away from Felix.
If we ever see you again anywhere, it doesn't matter.
If we ever see you again, you are a dead man.
John? Hey, hey, hey.
Where's Anna? Is she still alive? Yeah, John.
She's still alive.
Thank you, William.
All right, hang in there, pal.
Hang in there.
No, no police.
No, I gotta call an ambulance.
No, Lawrence will kill me.
He'll kill you, William.
I took him to the wrong car.
You did the right thing, okay? Let's Let's get you some help, all right? I need an ambulance.
Address is listed.
I got a young man with a gunshot wound to the gut.
No, I'm hanging up now.
Just hurry.
Now.
Okay.
I thought I could pick it all up and make it out of here with Anna.
Just hang on, okay? The ambulance is on the way.
Okay? Let me see.
Oh, it's not that bad.
You're gonna be all right.
Hang on.
Tell her Tell her I tried, William, okay? Tell her I love her.
You'll be able to tell her yourself.
You're gonna be fine, just hang on.
You'll be all right.
I'm gonna die.
I tried to listen to you, William.
You know, I did.
- Promise me you'll help her, man.
- I'll do whatever I can.
- Here, take these keys, okay? - Okay.
In the trunk, you can trade for Anna, okay? That's the only way to save her.
Okay? It's right out front.
I really messed up, didn't I, William? No, you did fine.
Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Remember Remember John.
Look, he's dirty.
That's all I know.
All right, you find Lawrence, you'll get all the answers you need.
Okay, thanks.
Got it.
Lawrence.
All right.
You know what? That car's been here for a couple of days.
It's been out in front of the shop the whole time.
That is not a small amount of cocaine.
Twelve million dollars worth.
You can't give that dope back to Felix.
William, stay out of it.
Come on, man, what are you doing? Felix is a businessman, all right? Everything has a price.
This goes against everything we do.
Puts all that shit back on the street.
Look, I'm gonna help the girl.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Let us help you for once.
Take your own advice.
Focus on what you can control.
Don't save Anna.
Save your family.
Save yourself.
You did it before.
Do it again.
Detox room.
You should take very good care of her.
Tell her her father said goodbye.
I got something you want.
I'm at Shoreline Pier.
I'm all alone.
Well, hand it over.
I got no beef with you, William.
The kids had it coming.
If I didn't shoot John, Felix would have.
It's all yours.
No! That's a recorded alarm, okay? There are four things that amaze me, even though now I finally think I've begun to understand them.
In fact, it's the very fact that I understand them that makes them so amazing.
The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a ship at sea, the way of the serpent on a rock, and the way a man loves a woman.
And, for me, there's a fifth thing more amazing than the eagle, more inspiring than the ship, more potent than the serpent, and even more beautiful than a man and a woman.
It's the way of the family, because without them there's nothing worth loving.