The Shield s03e09 Episode Script

Wheelchair to Admitting.
Wheelchair to Admitting.
- Cop's on the second floor - I'm on it.
I'm on it.
- Five-seven.
Short hair - Christ! - Are you okay? - You didn't have to come - What happened? - I was patching up this Asian guy and I saw he had a gunshot wound to the arm.
When I went to call it in, he freaked out.
- Damn it - Nothing's broken.
I'll be okay.
I got all the details.
- Any gang tats? - NoJust track marks He's either on something or off his meds I told you this place was a zoo Come on I'll take you home I can get a ride Uh no lectures I promise - He's still working with Matt? - Not now - What happened? - I'm okay Some guy just went off at the hospital - Jesus! - Calm down - You're gonna get Matt all worked up.
- Matt can handle big feelings - You an expert on my son? - Yes, I am - Vic - Mommy Mommy had an accident, and I'll be okay Cassidy, get your homework out.
I'll help you in a minute.
- I can handle things here - Because you're an expert on my whole family now? No You should come down to the Barn, look at the mug books Wha Is that a good idea? I mean, he knows where you work What's to stop him from coming back and hurting you again? I'm what's stopping him She picks him out I find him, make sure he knows going back isn't an option It's not worth it I mean, just leave it alone You know I wouldn't ask you to do this if I didn't think it was safe I'll call you We'll figure it out - Fine You let me know - Mm - Sir, Aurora's on the phone - Tell her I'm in a meeting Are you? Because I don't like lying to people I'm in a meeting Whatever you say Oh, there they are! - We heard dudes fighting or somethin' - Yeah? Saw the gate Merril always locks it - You guys did good calling us - Thanks Hey, hey, hey Wait here Wait here, all right? - I'll go right - All right I'll flank left No Danny! This is MerrilJindrich Runs the community center Says the name of the victim is KleeJones Local kid - Banger? - Kid had no ink No gang tags anywhere He painted this He's got others around the neighborhood - It's beautiful stuff - I always wondered who the artist was Maybe we could get the Strike Team and the Decoy Squad to help us run down leads We don't know if it's gang or drug related I want to give Walon some more cooling off time Right now, all we have is a homicide This boy wasn't just murdered He was lynched You better know there's a difference I know You two can handle it How's the stomach? Ah Doc's got me on scrips Listen I can understand you not wanting to say anything in front of the others - But if you took our missing cash for any reason - Vic.
I promise we'll make it all right Look I didn't take it Okay I just had to ask Well, you know what, man? Ask someone else Where's your mom and dad? Dead Me and Klee pretty much raised each other You know of anyone who would want to hurt your brother? People barely notice him He's so quiet Everybody loved his paintings We saw They're amazing Ask Gitana I bet she's got somethin' to do with this - Who's that? - This Mexicali girl Klee hooked up with Her ex-boyfriend, all his friends are straight-up gangsters Los Profetas.
Klee was different Not all about getting at my ass and tits We'd talk about stuff art, love, you know, life shit Just made me realize, you know, I could do better for myself.
- Better than Neron? - We understand your ex-boyfriend was a member of Los Profetas.
Neron's a Cristo boy - Didn't work out, huh? - He wanted me to go to church and shit.
Meanwhile, he's on the street thuggin' Klee's sister thinks your gang affiliations might have to do with Klee's death A lot of the gangs was pissed about him painting over their tags Maybe Neron got jealous you dating a black guy I'm fine, but I ain't killin' fine I gotta ask you something I counted right the first time I counted right the last time And I didn't take the money Lem said you asked You ask Shane yet? Sir, I have Aurora.
No I have her here Any leads on the lynching? Claudette and Dutch are on it Anyone in custody? Just witnesses Why? People are terrified The black leadership's convening a rally at the Hope Center You need to go It's a crime scene, not a photo op This isn't for the cameras You have to tell them that you have everyone protected - You make it sound like I'm checked out - The last thing we need is for a dark horse black candidate to capitalize on this run as an independent Crazier things have happened in this state Well, I'm not worried I've given you space to get through whatever this is.
If you don't want to tell me what the problem is, I'll find out another way Sir, uh, you need to take this call We heard some of the gangs were upset because his murals covered their tags He got some threats Talk mostly I think some of the gangs actually dug his stuff Just wasn't cool to say so Now what? Do I really want to know? Father Zavala Stabbed five times Must have come out of the sacristy Wounds are to the back and neck - Any witnesses? - Just the calling card - One-niner payback for KleeJones - Klee wasn't a banger.
- This is bigger than gang beefs - He was a black boy hanging from a tree.
The One-niners must think Los Profetas are responsible Zavala was their spiritual counsel Bring in the Strike Team.
Track down the Decoy Squad and use them too.
Now that we know it's gang related? - Vic, we got trouble - What's up? That's the money train fed He was asking me where Aceveda and Dutch are - What does he want? - Nothing we do They told him to wait upstairs Detective, your team's needed right away Any inside info on Los Profetas? Killers with a conscience Got their little piece of the street - Usually keep to themselves - It's biblical with these cats Which means eye-for-an-eye time You cover the priest Dutch and I will stay with the hanging Hey, look In this hood, black kid ends up dead it's 'cause a deal went bad and someone's pissed off Guilty until proven white? Yeah Maybe we should get the ACLU to solve it We'll look under our rocks You look under yours These guys can't hear anything right now Let's check out the Niners first That's a good decision, should take care of you guys.
What's up, Tob? What's this? Bring Your Daddy To Work Day? Community outreach Neighborhood's in mourning I see that Take the Shriners outside All right Let's go, pops Let's go Let's talk Give up the booth, Twizzy Where's Kern at? - I think he's in Prague - Touring One-niners funding that tour? - We're creative partners.
- Kern's put a lot of faith in you guys I bet he's gonna be pretty disappointed when he finds out you knifed a priest Oh, you gonna be disappointed when you find out we didn't No? Then who wrote "1-9" across his face? He was tagged, asshole.
What kind of crew are you runnin'here, Tob? One hand don't know who the other hand's stabbing? Look If one of mine did it, I'll find out Make sure you give him a medal for it Look, man.
People loved that kid's murals, all right? But I didn't order no hit on no priest At least now the Prophets know what it's like to lose a local hero.
You wanna tell me why you were breaking bread with the thugs? Like he said, community outreach You went to them for protection? Don't make me dig deeper.
You see that billboard? Can you read it? I can't Decade ago, this whole block was black owned.
Now me, Perry all that's left Latin gangs hit my liquor store You think paying out to the One-niners isn't robbery? Banger gets shot in a drive-by, that's one thing.
You put on the colors, you live and die the life But that boy, the painter, he was just trying to do good You know, we got grandsons coming up in this neighborhood One-niners might be the only thing keeping them away from the noose If you wanna feel safe, you come to me.
I heard that for the first time Been hearing it ever since from you boys, every few years.
Los Profetas didn't rope that guy Is that what the Niners think? Is that why they killed Father Zavala? Your ex-girlfriend had nothing to do with it? Gitana? Gitana was just a hit, like nothing real You think going to confession once a week exempts you from being a shitbag lowlife, Neron? KleeJones saw an ugly world, tried to make it a little more beautiful.
He gave back What did you give? What's everybody gettin' so torn up about? There's dudes gettin' dead every day This dude was lynched - I thought he was hung - Lynching is being hung.
- You ever read a history book? - I tried not to Lynching's what they used to terrorize the ex-slaves That's how the Klan dealt with race mixes Well, if I'm gonna do somebody, I ain't gonna waste time looking for no tree and a rope when there's a million guns lyin' around David, you're gonna shut down all their street trade and lock them up? How are you gonna follow up on that threat? We got a rally in two hours, and I don't want bloodshed Using that guy as your errand boy is a short-term fix That's all we got time for Now get him out of here, so he can pass on the message Look what crawled out of the gutter I thought you guys were neck-deep in that homeless torching thing Six days of undercover setup gone to shit - Why? What happened? - Claudette brought us out for this lynching.
Why? It's pure gangland It's not a Decoy thing Oh, I'm sure she's got a plan Why the hell did you pull us off? I want Trish and Annie inside this community rally You want my team pressin'a crowd? We've had two homicides that have created enough racial tension And three homeless dead, and a fourth one's gonna be toast because you can't keep your - Stop that right there! - Last week, you tanked a major case and now you want to turn us into mall security! - It's bullshit - I made a mistake.
I start digging into your jacket, I won't find a few? None that almost killed a cop.
If you can't find it within yourself to work with me, fine.
You're docked Catch up on paperwork You signing off on this? The job gets done when we trust the decisions of our superiors - If he's out, we're all out - There's a chair! There's six weeks of FI's to file Mr Rabinowitz? I thought you were a doctor I've been waiting here 40 minutes - You were mugged? - Corman Street.
This man Hejumps from out of nowhere with a pipe, yells, "Give me your money!" - And you did? - Yes And then he smashed my knee, took my streimel - He didn't have to hit you! - What did I say? When these things happen, we must be strong Can you, uh, give us a description? Asian.
Black hair.
Had a bandage on his arm.
Bandage? Our arrest percentages are down - We never had this kind of interference at Wilshire - Yeah, it's not right.
We gotta get free again This team is the assistant chief's baby Phillips'll listen to me I just need a witness Look I don't want to be the one responsible for letting you slip away It'll all be off the record.
Phillips just needs to know that I'm not, uh, overreacting.
- He does that sometimes - I can relate.
You can count me in as a witness Hold on Hold on You really want out? Okay I'll back you up But you gotta do the right thing.
I need Trish and Annie to work the rally.
My guys are the wrong shade of black - Hey, Vic, you got a sec? - They're all yours We just took a mugging call at Mission Cross - Sounds like the same guy who attacked your wife - Any leads? I'm tracking the stolen credit cards.
- Let me know - Okay This guy hurt Corrine He can't come in feeling good about that What's the favor? He turns up before you bring him in, you call me.
Okay - Ready? - You bet We appreciate your support and your concern Um Our purpose for being here today is notjust to talk about this travesty thatjust happened but to create a forum for our awareness, answers - Stand over here.
- Now I'd like to turn over the mic to Reverend Leeman Would you all be kind enough to join hands, please Lord Jesus, we ask you to guide our hearts and our minds.
Renew our faith, O Lord, and open our eyes I hear you're responsible for having Trish and Annie change their minds Walon was way out of line Thanks No problem for your care is the prayer of God.
- What do you guys got? - Not much conversation but I spotted six sporting One-nine ink - Couple of baby bangers - Four of them with unnatural bulges Okay Point 'em out to my guys They'll be the first ones we jump if this goes ugly Okay - It's all stirred up, ain't it? - Yeah Hey, Vic! Sorry, boys Crusade's been canceled Ain't no holy war, homes Just come to listen You're too smart for this, Suvuto You guys get in your cars and bounce on out of here Ladies and gentlemen, please stay where you are - Let the police officers do their job - Captain Aceveda is right Hey, you got balls tryin' to come here and break up our rally They're not lookin' for a fight, and neither are you! NahJust lookin' for a priest killer, homes - Get against the fence! - Get down! - Anybody hurt? Everyone clear this area now! Leave or you will be arrested! Clear the area now! - Hey, what's up with that? - You got a name for me? - Yeah, I got a lot of names for you - Keep that sense of humor Man, why you lockin' me up, man? We was there like anybody else No one else was jamming clips into semi-nines, asshole What you talkin' about, man? It was the thorn heads who came lookin' for blood and shit Why don't you guys talk through the fence Maybe some racial harmony will break out What's up? What's up? We found firecracker scraps That's what incited the shootings Pol Com and the archbishop have riot fears They're pressuring us to bring in the FBI Put the National Guard on standby That's a bad move.
Sends a message we've lost control.
- Oh, so we haven't? We'll solve these Calm the waters How much time before the feds show up? The chief wants me reporting in from here the next 24 hours That buys us some time.
Let's see where we are by then.
I sense some disharmony between you and Tobar - Kern keeps us civilized - Kern's in Europe.
I should've gone to you first Come to me about what? I gave Tobar the chance to give up the Niner who offed the priest He blew it I'm making you the same offer Okay, where's my upside? You give up the killer, with some proof I'll get you your boys out of lockup let you do business rent-free Come on, Mackey.
Everybody knows you've been shut down.
You're not on the street enough to landlord I'm getting the keys to the city back Spoke to Lem and Ronnie When are you gonna ask me about the cash? Don't have to None of us took it None of us spent it Trail won't lead back to us Yeah, I believe Lem and Ronnie too But that seven grand didn't just spontaneously combust And now Aceveda's pulling his marked money list from the safe He's hooking the Treasury guy up with Rodriguez Nothing's gonna lead back to us Okay But if those flagged bills have anything to do with our missing cash I'd sure like to know who the hell's spending it Rodriguez, I thought you were pulling those like-crime stats for me.
Sorry Wagenbach's working the hanging I got stuck working this Armenian mob thing I'll be in the car We'd better hurry It's a long trip Place closes at 4:00 - Where you headed? - Some bank in Indio - Where the hell's that? - Palm Desert Sounds hot How the hell did our cash end up in the goddamn desert? It's not from the 20 grand Diagur took Those marked bills were all scooped up What gang's running meth through that part of the state? I don't know Aceveda and the chief have had us out of the loop the last few months Street sweeps and dime-bag bust quotas have let us lay low Laying low has kept us in the dark.
We gotta get back to basics plug back into the street intel make ourselves indispensable to the department again Best defense is a good offense.
How are we gonna get Aceveda and the chief to unleash us? We won't have to Walon's gonna do it for us In the meantime, as long as there's no paper trail leading from the marked bills in Indio to us, we're golden Can you tell us how long Klee was painting that mural? About two weeks Did you ever see anyone harass him, complain about it? - No - You ever talk to him at all? - No - He was right across the street for two weeks You never spoke to him? He didn't come in? Buy a soda? Didn't pay the boy that much attention Not an art lover, huh? Oh, his painting's good and all that Just sends the wrong message And what message is that, sir? You know, in this neighborhood, you gotta choose a side I'm black That's my side Should've been his side too, hmm? Hey, Vic We pulled a match from the books Tung Yung? I wish I felt like laughing The other victim's in synagogue.
We're gonna need your wife to make a positive ID Okay Circulate this There's a steak dinner in it for the first one who gets me a face-to-face with this prick The Squad is being wasted here.
Aceveda twisted the chief's arm to get you guys He's got us reporting to Wyms, burying us in an extra layer of command - It's not workin' - I got my problems with Wyms too But Aceveda threw her in the deep end It's not her fault she's drowning You want me to unplug you, I'm gonna need a better argument than a personality clash Providing for the homeless is one of the mayor's pet projects, right? Yeah Might have a hard time explaining to City Hall why your crack Decoy Squad was pulled off the homeless torching case to file month-old robbery reports I'll need details That's my case We were embedded six goddamn days.
Perfect cover - What? - I figured out why Tobar was flaking on giving up the knifer - Why is that? - It was his boy, Link You'll find the blade and the bloody wear at his crib Good work Next thing I know, me and my team are ear-deep in Barn shit.
Hey, we got a break Murder weapon Blood-stained Yankee jacket - It's a slam dunk - Great This job's still only half done Where are we on the hanging? Uh, well, all of the likely suspects have come up clean He doesn't circulate in the usual world We're hitting dead ends Decoy Squad hit a dead end too? Father Zavala was killed by gang violence That's the Strike Team I know what the Strike Team does You have the Decoy Squad in your house also Why not put them on this? Because they were docked for insubordination.
- You docked them? - I did.
I'm trying to keep the lid on a racial pressure cooker - I know that - You put an entire special unit on a dead Latino priest and docked the team that could be solving the lynching of a black man? - That's not the truth - The truth is whatever it looks like and this looks like racial prioritizing, Councilman Come on - 'Bout time you let us outta here - Just long enough to do this Elias Linkletter, you're under arrest for the murder of Father Oleos Zavala - This is shit! - No This is proof Oh, Tob, man, I didn't kill him I didn't kill no priest, Tob! You can let this half go Except for that one Aiding and abetting Hey, man, you hurt us, you hurt Kern! Kern's licking caviar off a Czech whore's nipple He won't be too hurt I want you to tell me what's wrong.
- Aurora, I - I went to Rigoberto Spoke to him Whatever your secret is, he's keeping it.
There's no secret You tell your cousin but not your wife? A less secure woman might think there's someone else - Babe, I'm not screwing around - You're hiding something.
- Please let this go - What is it? Act like a husband - Please, just trust me - Trust me! Aurora! I'm very scared, David Hmm Those guys I fought One of them assaulted me But you're okay now They tied my hands and they made me get on my knees They made you suck? - Both of them? - Just one of them You didn't.
Oh! Wait You're a cop You're trained in I- I was alone I was in I was No, David How How could you let that happen? Because I wanted to live For you I wanted to live for you and Sophia I can't talk about this here I never saw that knife, and I'd never be wearing no Yankee rag I was born in Boston, man I'd rather take a knife than wear an "NY" I'm not sure if I'd use the Red Sox defense in a Dodger town That was a horrible thing they did to KleeJones.
Lynching a brother's some wrong shit Maybe you wanted to send them a message make sure it didn't ever happen again You got the right message but the wrong messenger No, we don't You stabbed Father Zavala five times this morning No! This morning? I was at my group - Group? - Anger therapy.
Kern's shrink Been learnin' to keep my emotions in check He's probably lying about the therapy session At least when he got there The parish raised bail for the Prophets.
One murder still unsolved, and now all the players are back in action Put Walon's team into the mix.
Let them spend the night on the street.
- You said you'd back me on that decision - Just do it already! Hey, whatever's been eating at you lately, don't take it out on her She's the main thing keeping this place glued together - That's enough, Dutch - No You've got her juggling a full detective load plus this supervisory post, and then you hang her out to dry - That's not leadership - How's your detective load, Wagenbach? Anything new on the sick bastard raping grandmothers? No Hey, Cobalt How's business? We're looking for a friend of yours an Asian guy trying to score painkillers - Aren't we all? - Mind if we take a look inside? Mind letting me see a warrant? That's okay We'll just wait for him here Greet your customers Who you lookin' for? He was around.
Junkie tried to give me a ton of Sudafed for a few dozen Percocet - This is a cash-only slot - Where'd you send him? This Thai cat sells scrips out of a clinic on Hanover.
Should be there in the morning Thanks His anger management alibi checks out He's got a shrink and eight fellow hotheads who can account for his time How did the knife and bloody sweatshirt get in his place? I'll follow up on that I need a minute - What is it? - I bet on the wrong scumbag - How did you do that? - You and Wyms have had me buried with bullshit - I'm outta touch - Oh, what? So it's my fault? - I'll bring in the right guy - Good But I'm never gonna let this happen again I'm no good half in, half out You gotta make a choice You either let me do what I do, or I'll pull the plug on the Strike Team Take my boys to another part of town Lose the hardware! Lose it! - Get on the table! Get on the table! - On the table! Drop it! - What the hell's goin' on, Mackey? - Closing time My first task as the new landlord: Get rid of the old tenants This was not a part of our transaction.
That deal went south the second you screwed everyone else in this room Screwed who? Oh, shit.
Seems you fingered a man with an airtight alibi - Pig's tryin' to turn us against each other, Tobar - Shut up, bitch I can see I'm in the way What are you talkin' about? You can't leave me with them I can't take you with me You're an innocent man Unless you got somethin' to confess, Twizzy - I didn't do nothin' - Okay.
Take care.
Vic, where you All right! All right, Vic! All right! How'd the knife and the Yankee rag end up under Link's bed? Not so sure if I remember all the details now Let me refresh you on the math You framed number two, which implicated number one which bounced you from number three to the new number one And that gets you zero.
All right, asshole Let's let Tobar and Link finish the interrogation Let's go clubbing Hey, man, look what we found at Twizzy's place It's the same rope Klee was hangin' from Oh, shit Shit Damn it Ain't no one gonna save your ass, Twizzy That camera hasn't worked in months Now, you talk to us, or you can talk to your boys between beatings I strung him You're damn right I did! Someone's got to be the martyr here It might as well be me Why? 'Cause that Rainbow Coalition shit was crushin' us Kern and Tobar caved on me.
They punked out.
Wanted to strike deals with the Lats.
So you decided to set off the racial bomb The priest? I wanted to see the Prophets cry - Fuel the war - Get the black back Farmtown, Jack Uzis, the local businessmen I got them all sitting down, talkin' about working together I did Black-on-black lynching Is that better or worse? Worse Hi What's up? Open it Locked It's funny, you know I never really lock my lockbox Okay The reason I never lock it is because I can never remember where I put the goddamn key But somebody locked it.
L- I was looking for some old photos Some stuff I don't know anything about your family I You know, I really know a lot about your family I called your mom in Indio.
She told me about the $7,000 care package that you sent You'd disappear at night I saw you take the key a couple of times So you decided that you would steal from me? I found a receipt for a storage facility with your handwriting and a fake name You've been lying to me.
What did you expect me to do? Jesus Christ! You have no idea what kind of trouble this is You know what trouble I've been going through? - Why are you hiding money from me? - You stole from me! You stole from me! That trunk was filled with cash! I just took what I needed! For us! Us! What happened to us? - You gonna lie to your child too? - Hey, don't turn this around My mother's a goddamn cancer She was being evicted She would've showed up on our doorstep I didn't want her to ruin this.
You shouldn't have looked into those trunks Is there money in all those trunks? - Is it drug money? - You don't get to ask that question - But it's from your job, right? - Just stop asking Should I ask Vic instead? Is it Vic's money? - Did you steal it from him? - No - Then where did it come from? - Just forget that you saw it How am I supposed to do that? You just do it Hey Look You don't take any more cash Don't breathe a word about this to anybody We gotta figure out what to have your mother say in case people start asking her questions Wh Who's gonna ask her questions? The money wasn't supposed to be spent When it comes to money, we can't trust her Then we're gonna have to find a way to control her Because if this money gets traced back to me this is life and death shit For all of us Is this the man who attacked you? - Yeah, that's him - Great.
The old Jew he mugged has been in temple lockdown Now we can finally arrest this prick I say something wrong? I'm sorry Are you Jewish? Someone keyed Owen's car They scratched "stay away" across the trunk - You think I did it? - It had to have been done last night before I left here If I wanted you to stay away, I wouldn't scratch it in your little Volvo - What? You'd scratch it across my face? - What are you tellin' this guy? Nothin'that I can't see for myself.
- You keep your mouth shut in front of my kids! - Don't yell at him! Stop it! I wrote it.
- Cassidy.
- I'll do it I don't want him here Owen makes your mommy happy, honey Why can't you make Mommy happy? I'd be hurt if I were you too I will always be your dad and your mommy'll always be your mommy That's never gonna change Everything is changing Yes? The Decoy Squad's being transferred to South Central - When? - Tomorrow - Who - It was the assistant chief's call.
I didn't fight it It wasn't gonna work We can still get done what we need to with the Strike Team Vic and his guys are going back to full-time anti-gang and vice status You're putting them back on the street I'm no longer running the team I had no time to consult with you.
It all went down pretty quickly You, uh You'll resume your regular detective rotation.
So strike one and I'm out It was my fault I had you half in, half out - I should've just let - You're the boss You don't have to explain your decision Charges against your boys have been dropped I heard You also hear that we know who did it? Tell Los Profetas no more retribution That's God's decision God's decided to put me back in business My streets, my rules - Niners ain't playin' by the rules - Twizzy was a rogue Kern, Tobar never would've let that happen We still got pain Twizzy will be in County till his hearing.
That'll give you a few weeks to get someone inside stop the pain Anything after that commit any sins I'll be nailing you to a cross Thank God you caught the guy Yeah People are relieved The election should be smooth sailing Good I just came home to change Okay He's early Tung Yung? Stay down! Stay down! What's the target? Blue house Russians Fresh from the Kremlin Movin' in Movin' weight China white I got some bad news, Boris The air just tastes better today, doesn't it? Yeah Vic, I, uh What? It's good to be back - Where do you want him? - Put him in two Knock, knock - On the ground right now! - Down! Now! Welcome to the neighborhood Sous-titres rippés par KB