The Shield s05e11 Episode Script
Post Partum
- Kavanaugh was here all morning? - Yeah.
He said he wanted to ask me a few questions to wrap up his case, but - Did he try to touch you? - Why would you ask that? What did he say? He was desperate and kind of lonely and I felt bad for him.
Out of nowhere, he said he was coming after you and wanted to make sure me and the kids would be okay - lf something happened to me? This is about Lem.
He didn't show up at court to turn himself in.
- Where is he? - Nobody knows.
He's a fugitive.
Kavanaugh probably figures I had something to do with it.
No, I didn't.
He's just pissed because his case against Lem tanked.
He's making it personal.
He wants to hurt me through you.
Please, don't let him in this house again, all right? Bye.
Be careful.
Always.
Where's Lemansky? I don't know.
Screwed him once, you've done it again, putting him on the run.
Didn't they kick your ass out? You aid and abet him, you communicate with him without reporting it, you'll be put in prison alongside him.
We had nothing to do with this.
My office will have eyes on all of you every second of every day until Lemansky's caught.
Thank you for bringing me back into your life.
Where are we with those errands? Spoke to our Federale buddy who took Doomsday off our hands.
He's gonna meet Lem in T.
J.
, get him to a safe house in Ensenada.
Wall-to-wall wetbacks, surfer boy will be obvious.
He'll be on the move.
Taco-cop's got a brother.
He owns a goat ranch in the mountains north of San Ignacio.
- It's a really good place to get lost.
- How much? It's 2 grand and a call on our services to be determined later.
I can't wait.
What about living expenses? Got a line of wire transfers to Guatemala.
- How secure? - Off lmmigration's radar.
Used to pay coyotes mostly.
He's gonna need cash.
It's gonna be his leverage.
Let me work on that.
Now all we need is a way to get him across the border.
- We were working something else.
- Not anymore.
You have history with these grenade-tossers.
- Any victims? - Just a half-dozen Crown Vics.
You've tangled with some well-armed Salvadorans before, right? The guy who imports the grenades is named Guardo.
We hit him hard, and his weapons stash, but he got away.
Looks like he didn't go far.
Agent Gallagher, DEA.
- Captain Wyms, Farmington Division.
- This is our lot.
Running an op on the El Salvadorans out of the travel agency.
Someone wants to move up to first class.
Detective Mackey and his team busted that gang a week ago.
Swept up a bunch of grenades, MP5s, few top lieutenants.
And let their playmaker slip out from under your nose.
- We're here to assist.
- Great.
Start directing traffic.
A grenade goes off on my turf, you get help whether you like it or not.
Don't step on our toes, we'll stay off yours.
What an asshole.
Well, Rawling did burn them.
So now's our chance to make it up.
Track down whatever you can, run everything by me.
Vic, that renegade shit's not gonna fly on my watch.
But you already knew that.
Looks like a new sheriff just limped into town.
She's smart.
She keeps tabs on us from her end DEA keeps an eye on us from the other.
I don't give a shit about either.
We'll follow up on this but finding Lem safe passage to Mexico is still priority one.
Hey, hello? Hey, open the door.
Open the door now.
Hey, it's okay.
It's okay.
Where's your mommy? Where's your mommy? She's gone.
Hey, buddy, what's your name? - What's your name? What's his name? - Wendell.
Wendell, do you want me to wash that out for you? It's okay.
It's gonna be all right, bud.
It's all right.
It's gonna be okay.
It's just a little cut.
There we go.
It's all right.
What the hell's going on in here? - It's okay.
It's all right.
- Lisa.
It's okay, I'm a cop.
- Lisa, there's a gun.
Call the police.
- Come here, come here.
- Lisa, are you calling? - Hold this tight till someone gets here.
Okay, buddy.
That's the guy.
He had a gun? That's the third Mexican that gave up that it's payback for Osorio.
Which means it can't possibly be true.
Souljahs have been fed their cover story, but what's the truth? - I think Kavanaugh found Lem's trailer.
- What? Sheriff's Department got called to the park on a disturbance.
Cliff says Kavanaugh's on his way.
- Your pal say anything about Lem? - Radio blackout.
If Kavanaugh's poking around, man, what else could it be? We'd have heard if they arrested him.
Maybe not.
Who knows with Kavanaugh? - Maybe they found him and he was - There's no way he'd eat his gun.
No way.
Well, we told him not to contact us at any cost.
We're in no-man's land.
Best-case scenario, he's on the run with Kavanaugh on his ass.
Look, man.
Lem knows the score.
He's gonna meet us and get supplies, which means we gotta pull our shit together and get his ticket out of here by then.
Truth is, this could be goodbye.
Come on.
What's this? Your former CI says she's got information on the demolished DEA cars.
- Well, give her to the feds.
- I tried.
She'll only talk to you.
Kavanaugh cut me loose, Vic.
I'm not working for him no more.
Now you've stabbed one of my guys with an indictment? It's real good intel.
It's not my dime.
Your call.
Give us a minute.
I know she's the one Kavanaugh had testify against Lem.
- It's all bullshit.
- She as inside as she says? See what the story is.
Make sure she sticks around the Barn, where I can see her.
Blowing up those DEA cars wasn't retaliation.
Nothing we don't know.
Guardo's play for protection paid off.
Colombians have a shipment coming from Mexico.
Hired him and his crew to guard it.
Feds feel like they were making a dent in the Salvadoran drug game meanwhile, something else is going on.
Yeah, Guardo's a crazy shithead.
- Any excuse to blow something up.
- When and where? Tonight.
Going through a grocery-import guy.
- Aldo Melchor.
- The importer, he Salvadoran? Mexican.
Need a place and a time.
That's That's all I got.
- That's real good information.
- Yeah, if it's true and not just another chance to help Kavanaugh to nail us again.
No, I never wanted to help Kavanaugh.
L Right, now, who's the source of your intel? - You never needed to know that before.
- I trusted you before.
Fine.
I wanna get paid up front, then.
I need money to get out of L.
A take Sebastio, head up to Seattle, be with my sister.
I'm so happy you got a little plan.
What about Lem? He gonna head up to Seattle, live with your sister too? Right, he can't, because he's gonna be in prison.
- I'm sorry.
- Vic took care of you.
He fed you and your kid for months.
You were sticking us the whole goddamn time.
No.
You see this? I slept with this scumbag, Ignacio, to get this info for you, okay? But then two of his buddies joined in.
Ripped me up pretty bad.
If you made different choices from the beginning none of us would be ripped up right now.
Becca? - Make it look like we're on a date.
- I can't help you escape the police.
All right, make it look like a lovers' quarrel, then.
Look, the only advice I can give you legally is to turn yourself in now.
- That's exactly what I wanna do.
- We're in the wrong side of town.
- Look, I need assurances.
- You're not exactly in a position to I need to do my time someplace where the One-Niners and Antwon Mitchell can't get to me.
- Federal prison, back east.
- The feds aren't calling this.
And going fugitive means the original deal's gone.
I'll plead to new federal charges.
I'll tell them all the shit I did.
You can't serve your head on a platter.
Kavanaugh's not gonna stop till he's carving me up.
Tell them that I ripped off an Armenian money-laundering operation stole cash that was part of a federal sting.
I'll plead to that.
- You did this by yourself? - Yeah.
Listen to me.
They're going to insist on Vic and the others.
- I got nothing to say about them.
- Then why are you running? I'm not running.
I'm giving myself up.
All right? I'm ending it.
You want a new deal, they'll want information.
I'm giving them new information on myself.
You are not hearing me.
There will be no deal until you give them more than you.
Curtis, please.
Listen to me.
You have got to think about yourself one time.
It's your only option.
Vic told me that you guys sometimes spread around drug money to keep peace on the streets.
I can spin Listen to me.
This Armenian thing was armed robbery.
People got killed.
They weren't the only ones.
You think it was just palming off some drug money to keep the streets quiet? I can't tell the truth about the others because they'll throw us away.
Open your goddamn eyes to who we are.
- People got killed? - This is all attorney-client privilege.
- Detective Terry Crowley - You've heard enough.
Just get me my deal.
Do my time back east.
Then I'll turn myself in.
I'll call you in a few hours.
Aldo Melchor.
Hey, let me see your hands.
Easy, easy.
- It's a knife.
- To cut my chorizo.
It's okay if I have my lunch? As long as it's finger food.
What can I do for you, officers? Well, rumour has it you import more than just chorizo from down south.
Everything in this store is legal.
Really? You won't mind if we stick around, monitor your import-export.
- I close at 7.
- Not tonight.
You'll stay open until that shipment of coke arrives.
We're just gonna hang out, provide a little after-hours security.
Salvadorans realise you snitched on them they're gonna grind you into chorizo sell you by the quarter-pound like the sausage you got there.
Is there something I can do for you? Tell us what time the shipment comes.
We'll keep you out.
Bust the Salvadorans after they leave, keep your pipeline up and running.
What else? Obviously you can import.
Your exporting skills better be just as good.
I've stayed in business 15 years.
We have a package we wanna overnight to Mexico.
How big is it? About 6'2".
Hey, yo.
Wanna tell me what Becca's doing? Talking to Kavanaugh and Aceveda.
You think of any scenario where that's a good thing? Curtis Lemansky is prepared to turn himself in.
If you talked to him, you have an obligation to tell us where he is.
I know my obligations.
I don't know where he is.
Curtis knows where the Barn is if he wants to turn himself in.
He couldn't, for reasons that involve his safety.
Any cop who's incarcerated faces those risks.
He knew that.
He made his choice when he broke the law.
We're asking for protection.
At least until I investigate his claims against Lieutenant Kavanaugh.
- After that? - He'll accept the deal.
As long as we can reasonably guarantee safety.
He can't have the same deal.
He ran away from that deal.
If the council signs off, they'll want more.
My client is willing to plead to new charges.
- But he wants his choice of prisons.
- What's he say about his friends? - Nothing.
- Not good enough.
I have to run this up a few ladders so give me till the end of the day.
Look, I'll find him first.
Then we can dictate the terms.
I need bodies, though.
I want two surveillance teams on Mackey and his guys in case they help Lemansky escape.
- You burned your bridges with the chief.
- I need my people on the street.
Becca? Becca, what happened with Lem? Is he all right? - Privileged information.
- Tell me he's okay.
Well, at least tell me what's wrong.
- Wait.
- Don't touch me.
Haven't you done enough damage yet? Becca, come on.
Come on.
- Let's go somewhere and talk.
- Talk about armed robbery of an Armenian money-laundering operation? Talk about murdering Terry Crowley? - I told you.
- Yes, you did.
And now I know the truth.
I let you touch me.
It makes me sick.
Becca, I don't know what Lem told you No more explanations.
It's all bullshit.
You know, I was worried about what I'd do if I had to choose between being Curtis' lawyer or your friend.
Not anymore.
Did you see the guy who attacked you? No, he just came up from behind me and started hitting me and I was trying to cover my face.
This area can get pretty rough, even in daylight.
What were you doing here, besides prettying up the place? Thanks.
I'm a volunteer tutor at the community centre on the corner.
I'm just trying to help some kids, you know? We're gonna have you come in, look at some pictures.
But why? I told you I didn't see him, so Maybe you saw more than you think.
- Is that really necessary? - Excuse us for a minute.
Send her home.
If she remembers anything, she can call us.
Why don't you figure out another way to get her number? Because I'm bringing her in.
I was acting captain, remember? I'm making the call.
- Hey, it's Curtis.
- Hi.
I'm kind of in a hurry.
What's going on? They're in a holding pattern.
Said they'd take your offer under advisement.
No indication when or what the answer might be.
Jesus Christ.
Okay, look, I need you to get a message to Vic.
- That would be breaking the law.
- Shit.
- All right, forget it.
- It's gonna be worse if they catch you.
Now that I've told them what you want, they know there's more to uncover.
Kavanaugh will show no mercy.
I know.
- There is one other option though.
- What? Witness protection.
And you tell them everything.
- Witness protection.
- The entire truth.
Imagine, you'd be free of the lies, the running.
People pay a price for what they did.
I can't.
I can't.
Curtis, you're the one with a heart, now use your head.
- This isn't about my goddamn heart.
- I'm just trying to help you here, Curtis.
No, you're trying to get me to turn on my family.
Please, just get me my deal.
- He held out as long as he could.
- Still holding.
- He didn't wanna run.
- He'd run before he'd rat.
How do they know about the money train? Educated guess.
There's always been suspicion, just never proof.
- Unless Lem gave it to them.
- We know Lem.
Look, if he had a change of heart, he would have tipped us.
Or he wouldn't if his deal meant us going down.
Look, I'm not saying that it happened.
Are we willing to bet that it didn't? - I'm not gonna believe it until I see it.
- Lem's not contacting us to protect us.
We're gonna meet him tonight at midnight and he's gonna travel tonight.
That's it.
Okay.
On whose nickel? Man, this spic cop doesn't take American Express.
It's already taken care of.
I told Mara that Lem was in trouble.
She felt strongly that we needed to help him.
So we pulled a little cash out of the house.
I mean, it's not a lot, but Hey, 5 grand ought to keep him in burritos and beer long enough.
All right.
Go get this cashed.
Keep half of it for tonight, put the rest on the wire.
Lem must have said something to Becca about Terry too.
All that gives Kavanaugh is a little more suspicion.
Doesn't mean we're gonna catch a case, let alone a needle.
Lem starts talking puts teeth in an otherwise empty rumour.
These people every time they look at us, they're gonna see two cop killers.
That's on me.
Terry was a decision that we both made.
I forced it on you.
Now you're in Kavanaugh's cross hairs.
That's on me.
Lem's gonna have to hide for the rest of his life.
That's on me too.
Skewering yourself is helping Lem how? How's it gonna help any of us? You made a call, and that call was to protect the team.
That couldn't have gone down any other way.
It's done.
It's done.
Now, is he still on our side against Kavanaugh? I'm gonna find out.
You.
What the hell was the powwow upstairs about? - Call me later.
- I'm running out of later.
Now, are you and me still allies against Kavanaugh or do I pull out my flamethrower and start that scorched-earth plan that I talked to you about? Becca's being a good lawyer.
Lem wants to turn himself in if he can get his original deal back.
Kavanaugh won't sign off.
He's gonna file new charges for him running.
- I thought Kavanaugh was out.
- He was until Lem didn't show.
And now the chief's believing that Kavanaugh was right.
- He's giving him back power.
- What about Lem? - Let him twist in the wind? - Claudette's gonna call the DA.
She's waiting to give Kavanaugh a chance to find Lem.
- That's all I know.
- You gotta throw a wrench in the works.
You know, you wanted an inside guy for intel, you got one.
You need help aiding and abetting a fugitive? Find someone else.
Witness says you attacked Tori Burke.
Also says you two had an argument first.
What was that about? You just think you can go around beating women on the street? Okay, your thing is knocking the shit out of random, total strangers.
- Works for me, Gilbos.
- So I picked up a hooker.
I'm not the only guy who's had to bust out of a slump.
Doesn't mean I deserve to get rolled and robbed.
- Say again? - She set me up.
Soon as I got my clothes off and my dick hard these two black guys ran in, started smashing me up took everything.
So I gave her a little payback.
Arrest her ass, not mine.
We talked to people at the community centre.
You volunteer three days a week? Yeah, I read to disadvantaged kids.
Are you a prostitute, Tori? Maybe in your fantasy I'm a prostitute.
All right.
You know what? If I'm gonna be insulted on top of assaulted, I think I'd like to leave.
Okay.
We need to ask you a few more questions.
You're a suspect in a separate assault and robbery.
I'd like to see my legal counsel.
They're moving the blow into the van.
Still no sign of Guardo? They'll lead us to him.
Hey, wire transfer went through.
Meet-and-greet in T.
J.
's confirmed.
- Now we just need to get Lem on board.
- Okay, good.
Almost home.
They're on the move.
Hey, come on.
Pairing me up with Billings? You know a guy like that's gonna throw me off my game.
You'll adjust.
I'm filing for a transfer.
- Dutch.
- No, I'm serious.
Things haven't been the same between us, even before you got captain.
There is no reason why we can't work this out in a new way.
The reason I was hanging around was because we were partners.
And that's gone.
I'd just like to move on.
- Okay, I'll prepare the paperwork.
- Okay, check this out.
Tori has an M.
B.
A.
From UCLA.
Worked as a manager at a brokerage firm until she was fired six months ago.
Excuse me.
This guy's here for Tori Burke.
I'm her legal counsel.
What are your credentials, Mr.
Wallis, Esquire? What I have is a client, and I need to see her immediately.
Now, do I get to see her now, or do I file for a dismissal? - She's in 2.
Show him up.
- Yes, ma'am.
I'll check him out.
Gallagher's DEA bozos are tied up on a sting in Compton.
They're short on cars.
Maybe in a few hours.
We can't wait.
We gotta meet Lem.
What about backups from the Barn? There's a manhunt on Curson.
Byz Lats shot a clerk.
There's no units to spare.
We gotta go in.
There are six of them at least.
- We don't know how many more inside.
- Lem's gonna be waiting on us.
Who's coming? - Get down! Down on the ground! - Get on the ground! Don't move! Get down on your knees! Hands on your head! - I got rabbits! - Let them run.
Get up! Let's go.
- You all right? - Yeah.
On the ground.
On the ground right now.
Search it.
Christ.
How many grenades do these guys got? Claudette's so hot for these guys, she can book them herself.
We gotta go get Lem.
Bomb Squad's on a crank call at some abortion clinic.
- They'll pick up the grenades later.
- I told you to call in.
- You were outnumbered.
- They were getting ready to bolt.
Split up in two vans.
We had no choice.
Sorry we missed all the action.
Good work.
Just wish we were able to nail Guardo.
He's been staying off the front lines, probably feeling the heat from you guys.
Two busts in as many weeks? He's feeling your heat.
And I've seen what they do when they get pissed.
Better watch your Crown Vics.
You should be warning him, not me.
Thanks.
- Glad you caught the guys.
- Actually, we didn't nail Guardo.
I'll see if I can find something out.
You find another tip, find another buyer.
Please don't be this way.
I'm sorry I made that deal, helped Kavanaugh.
You should go.
I did it for Sebastio.
You'd do the same thing for your kids.
- You would.
- Take your rat money, your rat baby and get on the first bus Don't you say that about my boy! What, you gonna let him talk about Sebastio that way? I showed you mercy once and it ruined my friend's life.
Not gonna happen again.
Get out.
The Police Committee is willing to consider a deal but they insist on adding more time.
- How much? - Maximum of 10 years parole in four if he turns himself in immediately.
What about the safety issue? He'll be held in protective custody until it's sorted out.
But there's no guarantee of location unless you can prove your claims.
What about the others? No condition about him giving us something on them? We wanna put this behind us.
Now, if he's caught before he comes in, all bets are off.
What's going on, man? - What was that? - It wasn't my choice.
It's what the Police Committee wanted.
If we don't find Lemansky before he comes in or gets out of the country we're gonna lose our last chance at nailing Vic before this case seals off.
- What do you want me to do, Jon? He trusts you now, right? When it comes to me? Maybe.
I want you to scare them.
I want you to make Vic lead us to him.
How? The way to get him is we gotta catch him in the act.
With Lemansky AWOL, Vic knows he's got eyes and ears all over him.
He's not gonna do anything stupid.
Unless he thinks he's got one last mess to clean up.
- What mess? - There was a detective I spoke to here.
He suspects that the Strike Team robbed an Armenian money train.
- Wagenbach.
- But he doesn't know it was Dutch.
You gotta make him believe that Lemansky gave it up for witness protection.
It'll put him in motion.
We follow, we catch them trying to help Lemansky escape.
And nail them for harbouring a fugitive.
It won't be the amount of time they deserve but it'll be enough to make them lose their badges and get them off the street.
Catching them in the act, that's gonna gives us leverage.
Lemansky may have held his tongue, but the other ones they might not be as strong.
Lemansky's talking.
- That's bullshit.
- Is the Armenian money train bullshit? Because that's what he gave them.
He's coming clean.
Nothing to come clean about.
That explains where your 65,000 unaccounted-for dollars comes from.
Look, he's tired, scared and he wants his freedom.
He doesn't wanna die at the hands of Antwon Mitchell.
The DA said to give them something on the team.
- I guess he's agreed.
- Lem would never agree to that.
DA gave him no choice.
He has to give you guys up.
Now all this bullshit could blow back on me.
You gotta get a message to your boy and tell him to shut the hell up.
Can you do that? If you can speak to him, can you convince him to keep his mouth shut? Yes.
Do it, for chrissake.
I don't know where he is.
You know, Kavanaugh is out of control but with Lemansky unaccounted for, he's got the chief's ear.
And now the DA's smelling blood, all of ours.
I shouldn't be telling you this but you threatened me.
So now I've told you everything I know.
Now it's time to clean this up.
You guys just see pimp and hooker.
That's not who we are.
Says the hooker letting pimp daddy drag her into the shit with him.
No, actually he dragged me out.
He dragged me out of the steaming shit piles of a superficial empty everything.
And then he hosed me off, and he held me and he made me whole.
I had nothing.
I was nothing before I met him.
According to your sister, you had a nice condo.
You equate a roof over your head to love? What exactly does equal love? Do you see the wrinkles on my face? - Do you see them? - Yes.
Well, Spank doesn't.
I understand you not wanting to be away from your boyfriend.
But what do you think's gonna happen when you go to jail? We both know that your man's just gonna set his sights on the next piece of Century City ass that comes his way.
Shut your mouth! Shut your goddamn mouth! Who do you think you are? You don't know us! You don't know us! - Get her off me, Dutch.
Get her off me.
- How dare you? - Now, let's just sit down.
- You don't know me.
- Sit down.
- Let go of me.
The girl just gave you up.
Says it was your idea.
You're the one who beat up the john.
I know that didn't happen.
She put the claws in you, right? Shouldn't let no woman do you like that.
Someone like Tori.
Smart, educated, good job.
How do you turn out a girl like that? Any punk can get some crack ho to go down on dick.
But how do I get a little pink toe from Westwood to do what I say whenever I say? Every chick's got a hole in her heart and it's connected to the one between her legs.
I just figure out how to fill it.
And then I feed it to her.
And I keep feeding it to her, until it's overflowing.
Until she can't live without it.
Then I take it away.
That makes me God.
Tori was easy.
Her fiancé left her last year for some young blood bitch.
I just kept telling old girl she was still the prom queen like back in the day.
And that white faggot dude, he didn't have eyes to see.
Sooner or later, all bitches break.
Every goddamn one.
That's if you got game.
And that's why she's your whore? If you born a woman, I can make you my ho.
Which is why she's saying I had nothing to do with no illegal shit.
Now that y'all got some pimpology, no charge my black ass is out of here, right? - Anyone here believe Lem cut a deal? - Maybe he felt like he had no choice.
He's out in the wind alone.
Becca's probably pushing it.
He has no idea about this ranch in San Ignacio or the money we'll be funnelling to him.
- Becca told you he took a deal? - No, Aceveda.
- Aceveda? - He's got a stake in this too.
- Not like we do.
- He could be full of shit.
We can't know what's inside Lem's head until we see him face to face.
We need an exit strategy.
- How are gonna get out of this? - We don't.
We need to fill Lem in, on the cash, the ranch, the lines of communication.
He's right.
You know, Lem he's been in the dark as much as we've been.
And if Lem is talking, it's because he believes that Antwon has marked him as a dead man behind bars.
Now, once he knows what we've pulled together for him he'll go along.
He will.
We go to the spot.
If he doesn't show assume he made the deal.
And then what? If he does show we'll take his temperature, make sure he's still solidly on board.
He'll be on board.
Lem trusts us.
He trusts us.
And I still trust Lem.
I do.
- Need to do the paperwork? - Yeah.
- Where's Vendrell? - Shit, they're taking different cars.
- I'll take Mackey.
You take Gardocki.
- All right.
- Kyle, keep your distance.
- Okay.
Ronnie, I got a tail.
I'm trying to lose him.
- You sure? - He's pretty far back, but he's there.
Watch your back, man.
Looks like I got one too.
Call Shane.
Give him a heads-up.
- Yeah.
- Vic and I both have tails.
Shit.
I'm looking.
We gotta lose them without looking lik e we're trying.
- We can't lead Kavanaugh to Lem.
- I don't see anyone on me yet.
Vic says whoever loses his tail, gets to Lem, moves him someplace safe until we can regroup.
- All right, I got it.
- Hey.
- Jesus, man.
I'm glad it's you.
- Hey, man.
Hey.
- What's up? - We gotta get out.
- What's going on? Kavanaugh's got a tail on Vic and Ronnie.
An eye up in the sky.
Follow me.
That body shop that closed down.
- The one on Mission, okay? - All right, man.
Never thought it'd come to this.
Hasn't come to anything yet.
What now? I'll go back and get Vic and Ronnie.
We got a way for you to get to Mexico.
What, like Gilroy? No, man.
The man died alone.
I'm not going that route.
You're not a miserable drunk.
- It's gonna be different.
- No, it won't.
It won't.
Look, I'm not going.
- No more running.
- So you'll spend your life looking over your shoulder for Antwon Mitchell? You in Mexico's the only thing that keeps us safe.
Especially you.
- How am I gonna live in Mexico? - We got it figured out.
- How? - San Ignacio.
- What the hell is that, some shit hole? - No, man, it's a ranch.
In the mountains.
We got a Federale that's gonna get you there.
It's beautiful, man.
It's gonna be peaceful.
We got money parked in an account for you.
It's all set up.
- Mara and I even kicked in 5 grand.
- I don't want that.
It's just a start.
We'll keep skimming off the street.
Keep you hooked up.
I can't.
I can't.
I can't do that.
It's all in play.
Trust me, man, it's gonna work.
It's gonna work.
There's a way for me to take the hit solo.
- No.
- There is.
No, there's not, man.
Kavanaugh? Aceveda? The DA? There's no other deal to make.
They're gonna make you give us up.
Maybe not now.
Maybe a year from now.
But, man, you got one chance to get out of here.
Take it, man.
Take that chance right now.
Take it.
I got it figured out.
Why did you even come back tonight if you weren't planning on leaving? Dude, I came to see you guys.
Don't do this, man.
Look, where's Vic? I wanna talk to Vic.
He'll call when he loses his tail.
We can't let Kavanaugh catch us with you, man.
Mara's pregnant again.
No shit? Yeah, yeah, almost Almost three months.
I wasn't supposed to say anything to anybody until next week, but - Hey, congratulations.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's another mouth to feed.
Mara's gonna be laid up near the end, so I'm gonna have to I have to step it up, you know? Man, I hope I get to see the little guy.
Or girl.
Little girl, huh? Yeah.
Yeah, a little girl.
Hey, I'm gonna be all right.
Shane.
- Yeah? - Shane.
I'm gonna be all right.
It's all about family, right? Look, what if Vic and Ronnie can't shake the tail? Maybe they doubled back to the Barn.
I'll go check it out, all right? Move your car.
Get it out of sight.
- Did you get enough to eat today? - No, I'm hungry.
- I bought you some food.
- Thanks.
Thanks, man.
My favourite, buddy.
Shane? Shane! I'm sorry.
Shane I'm sorry, buddy.
I'm so sorry, buddy.
Lem.
Lem, I'm sorry! But I had to, right? But you know I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, man.
Buddy.
Oh, God! Hey.
I had a tail.
- Took me a while to shake it.
- Yeah.
Lem hasn't shown, huh? He's late but he'll be here.
Hey.
It's your lucky day.
Cab driver can't ID you, she won't testify against you.
Only thing to testify about is my love for that girl right there.
I'm getting you out of here soon.
Yeah, get yourself out of here.
- Take him out, will you? - Let's go.
Dutch, I spoke to your ex-partner, the new captain.
She trusts your instincts so she wants me to increase the number of hours I trail you.
I just wanted to say thank you for putting in a good word.
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
Hey.
You know why you're gonna be such a great detective someday? Because most people don't realise how damn smart you are.
They just see the surface.
They can't get past your looks to see what you're really about.
I know, right? But you're not as smart as you need to be.
The help I'm offering doesn't come along every day.
And if I'm gonna spend my valuable time focusing it on you well, you better make it worth my while.
Sure.
Definitely.
Of course.
- What's going on? - I don't know.
Your transfer's denied.
I need my best detective on this.
Grenades.
The thing this morning.
The El Salvadorans.
The leader's missing.
His name is Guardo.
Start there.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Vic.
Vic, you can't touch anything.
You happy? Are you happy now, Detective Mackey? Stop it! Stop! Break them up.
Come on.
Lieutenant.
That's enough, come on.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Let him go.
- Break it up.
Come on.
Let's go.
Get off of him.
Move.
- Get off.
We got him.
- Come on.
- It's over.
It's over.
- It's all right.
Lieutenant, let's go.
Breathe.
Calm down.
Calm down.
Okay.
Okay.
We're gonna find who did this and we're gonna kill him.
He said he wanted to ask me a few questions to wrap up his case, but - Did he try to touch you? - Why would you ask that? What did he say? He was desperate and kind of lonely and I felt bad for him.
Out of nowhere, he said he was coming after you and wanted to make sure me and the kids would be okay - lf something happened to me? This is about Lem.
He didn't show up at court to turn himself in.
- Where is he? - Nobody knows.
He's a fugitive.
Kavanaugh probably figures I had something to do with it.
No, I didn't.
He's just pissed because his case against Lem tanked.
He's making it personal.
He wants to hurt me through you.
Please, don't let him in this house again, all right? Bye.
Be careful.
Always.
Where's Lemansky? I don't know.
Screwed him once, you've done it again, putting him on the run.
Didn't they kick your ass out? You aid and abet him, you communicate with him without reporting it, you'll be put in prison alongside him.
We had nothing to do with this.
My office will have eyes on all of you every second of every day until Lemansky's caught.
Thank you for bringing me back into your life.
Where are we with those errands? Spoke to our Federale buddy who took Doomsday off our hands.
He's gonna meet Lem in T.
J.
, get him to a safe house in Ensenada.
Wall-to-wall wetbacks, surfer boy will be obvious.
He'll be on the move.
Taco-cop's got a brother.
He owns a goat ranch in the mountains north of San Ignacio.
- It's a really good place to get lost.
- How much? It's 2 grand and a call on our services to be determined later.
I can't wait.
What about living expenses? Got a line of wire transfers to Guatemala.
- How secure? - Off lmmigration's radar.
Used to pay coyotes mostly.
He's gonna need cash.
It's gonna be his leverage.
Let me work on that.
Now all we need is a way to get him across the border.
- We were working something else.
- Not anymore.
You have history with these grenade-tossers.
- Any victims? - Just a half-dozen Crown Vics.
You've tangled with some well-armed Salvadorans before, right? The guy who imports the grenades is named Guardo.
We hit him hard, and his weapons stash, but he got away.
Looks like he didn't go far.
Agent Gallagher, DEA.
- Captain Wyms, Farmington Division.
- This is our lot.
Running an op on the El Salvadorans out of the travel agency.
Someone wants to move up to first class.
Detective Mackey and his team busted that gang a week ago.
Swept up a bunch of grenades, MP5s, few top lieutenants.
And let their playmaker slip out from under your nose.
- We're here to assist.
- Great.
Start directing traffic.
A grenade goes off on my turf, you get help whether you like it or not.
Don't step on our toes, we'll stay off yours.
What an asshole.
Well, Rawling did burn them.
So now's our chance to make it up.
Track down whatever you can, run everything by me.
Vic, that renegade shit's not gonna fly on my watch.
But you already knew that.
Looks like a new sheriff just limped into town.
She's smart.
She keeps tabs on us from her end DEA keeps an eye on us from the other.
I don't give a shit about either.
We'll follow up on this but finding Lem safe passage to Mexico is still priority one.
Hey, hello? Hey, open the door.
Open the door now.
Hey, it's okay.
It's okay.
Where's your mommy? Where's your mommy? She's gone.
Hey, buddy, what's your name? - What's your name? What's his name? - Wendell.
Wendell, do you want me to wash that out for you? It's okay.
It's gonna be all right, bud.
It's all right.
It's gonna be okay.
It's just a little cut.
There we go.
It's all right.
What the hell's going on in here? - It's okay.
It's all right.
- Lisa.
It's okay, I'm a cop.
- Lisa, there's a gun.
Call the police.
- Come here, come here.
- Lisa, are you calling? - Hold this tight till someone gets here.
Okay, buddy.
That's the guy.
He had a gun? That's the third Mexican that gave up that it's payback for Osorio.
Which means it can't possibly be true.
Souljahs have been fed their cover story, but what's the truth? - I think Kavanaugh found Lem's trailer.
- What? Sheriff's Department got called to the park on a disturbance.
Cliff says Kavanaugh's on his way.
- Your pal say anything about Lem? - Radio blackout.
If Kavanaugh's poking around, man, what else could it be? We'd have heard if they arrested him.
Maybe not.
Who knows with Kavanaugh? - Maybe they found him and he was - There's no way he'd eat his gun.
No way.
Well, we told him not to contact us at any cost.
We're in no-man's land.
Best-case scenario, he's on the run with Kavanaugh on his ass.
Look, man.
Lem knows the score.
He's gonna meet us and get supplies, which means we gotta pull our shit together and get his ticket out of here by then.
Truth is, this could be goodbye.
Come on.
What's this? Your former CI says she's got information on the demolished DEA cars.
- Well, give her to the feds.
- I tried.
She'll only talk to you.
Kavanaugh cut me loose, Vic.
I'm not working for him no more.
Now you've stabbed one of my guys with an indictment? It's real good intel.
It's not my dime.
Your call.
Give us a minute.
I know she's the one Kavanaugh had testify against Lem.
- It's all bullshit.
- She as inside as she says? See what the story is.
Make sure she sticks around the Barn, where I can see her.
Blowing up those DEA cars wasn't retaliation.
Nothing we don't know.
Guardo's play for protection paid off.
Colombians have a shipment coming from Mexico.
Hired him and his crew to guard it.
Feds feel like they were making a dent in the Salvadoran drug game meanwhile, something else is going on.
Yeah, Guardo's a crazy shithead.
- Any excuse to blow something up.
- When and where? Tonight.
Going through a grocery-import guy.
- Aldo Melchor.
- The importer, he Salvadoran? Mexican.
Need a place and a time.
That's That's all I got.
- That's real good information.
- Yeah, if it's true and not just another chance to help Kavanaugh to nail us again.
No, I never wanted to help Kavanaugh.
L Right, now, who's the source of your intel? - You never needed to know that before.
- I trusted you before.
Fine.
I wanna get paid up front, then.
I need money to get out of L.
A take Sebastio, head up to Seattle, be with my sister.
I'm so happy you got a little plan.
What about Lem? He gonna head up to Seattle, live with your sister too? Right, he can't, because he's gonna be in prison.
- I'm sorry.
- Vic took care of you.
He fed you and your kid for months.
You were sticking us the whole goddamn time.
No.
You see this? I slept with this scumbag, Ignacio, to get this info for you, okay? But then two of his buddies joined in.
Ripped me up pretty bad.
If you made different choices from the beginning none of us would be ripped up right now.
Becca? - Make it look like we're on a date.
- I can't help you escape the police.
All right, make it look like a lovers' quarrel, then.
Look, the only advice I can give you legally is to turn yourself in now.
- That's exactly what I wanna do.
- We're in the wrong side of town.
- Look, I need assurances.
- You're not exactly in a position to I need to do my time someplace where the One-Niners and Antwon Mitchell can't get to me.
- Federal prison, back east.
- The feds aren't calling this.
And going fugitive means the original deal's gone.
I'll plead to new federal charges.
I'll tell them all the shit I did.
You can't serve your head on a platter.
Kavanaugh's not gonna stop till he's carving me up.
Tell them that I ripped off an Armenian money-laundering operation stole cash that was part of a federal sting.
I'll plead to that.
- You did this by yourself? - Yeah.
Listen to me.
They're going to insist on Vic and the others.
- I got nothing to say about them.
- Then why are you running? I'm not running.
I'm giving myself up.
All right? I'm ending it.
You want a new deal, they'll want information.
I'm giving them new information on myself.
You are not hearing me.
There will be no deal until you give them more than you.
Curtis, please.
Listen to me.
You have got to think about yourself one time.
It's your only option.
Vic told me that you guys sometimes spread around drug money to keep peace on the streets.
I can spin Listen to me.
This Armenian thing was armed robbery.
People got killed.
They weren't the only ones.
You think it was just palming off some drug money to keep the streets quiet? I can't tell the truth about the others because they'll throw us away.
Open your goddamn eyes to who we are.
- People got killed? - This is all attorney-client privilege.
- Detective Terry Crowley - You've heard enough.
Just get me my deal.
Do my time back east.
Then I'll turn myself in.
I'll call you in a few hours.
Aldo Melchor.
Hey, let me see your hands.
Easy, easy.
- It's a knife.
- To cut my chorizo.
It's okay if I have my lunch? As long as it's finger food.
What can I do for you, officers? Well, rumour has it you import more than just chorizo from down south.
Everything in this store is legal.
Really? You won't mind if we stick around, monitor your import-export.
- I close at 7.
- Not tonight.
You'll stay open until that shipment of coke arrives.
We're just gonna hang out, provide a little after-hours security.
Salvadorans realise you snitched on them they're gonna grind you into chorizo sell you by the quarter-pound like the sausage you got there.
Is there something I can do for you? Tell us what time the shipment comes.
We'll keep you out.
Bust the Salvadorans after they leave, keep your pipeline up and running.
What else? Obviously you can import.
Your exporting skills better be just as good.
I've stayed in business 15 years.
We have a package we wanna overnight to Mexico.
How big is it? About 6'2".
Hey, yo.
Wanna tell me what Becca's doing? Talking to Kavanaugh and Aceveda.
You think of any scenario where that's a good thing? Curtis Lemansky is prepared to turn himself in.
If you talked to him, you have an obligation to tell us where he is.
I know my obligations.
I don't know where he is.
Curtis knows where the Barn is if he wants to turn himself in.
He couldn't, for reasons that involve his safety.
Any cop who's incarcerated faces those risks.
He knew that.
He made his choice when he broke the law.
We're asking for protection.
At least until I investigate his claims against Lieutenant Kavanaugh.
- After that? - He'll accept the deal.
As long as we can reasonably guarantee safety.
He can't have the same deal.
He ran away from that deal.
If the council signs off, they'll want more.
My client is willing to plead to new charges.
- But he wants his choice of prisons.
- What's he say about his friends? - Nothing.
- Not good enough.
I have to run this up a few ladders so give me till the end of the day.
Look, I'll find him first.
Then we can dictate the terms.
I need bodies, though.
I want two surveillance teams on Mackey and his guys in case they help Lemansky escape.
- You burned your bridges with the chief.
- I need my people on the street.
Becca? Becca, what happened with Lem? Is he all right? - Privileged information.
- Tell me he's okay.
Well, at least tell me what's wrong.
- Wait.
- Don't touch me.
Haven't you done enough damage yet? Becca, come on.
Come on.
- Let's go somewhere and talk.
- Talk about armed robbery of an Armenian money-laundering operation? Talk about murdering Terry Crowley? - I told you.
- Yes, you did.
And now I know the truth.
I let you touch me.
It makes me sick.
Becca, I don't know what Lem told you No more explanations.
It's all bullshit.
You know, I was worried about what I'd do if I had to choose between being Curtis' lawyer or your friend.
Not anymore.
Did you see the guy who attacked you? No, he just came up from behind me and started hitting me and I was trying to cover my face.
This area can get pretty rough, even in daylight.
What were you doing here, besides prettying up the place? Thanks.
I'm a volunteer tutor at the community centre on the corner.
I'm just trying to help some kids, you know? We're gonna have you come in, look at some pictures.
But why? I told you I didn't see him, so Maybe you saw more than you think.
- Is that really necessary? - Excuse us for a minute.
Send her home.
If she remembers anything, she can call us.
Why don't you figure out another way to get her number? Because I'm bringing her in.
I was acting captain, remember? I'm making the call.
- Hey, it's Curtis.
- Hi.
I'm kind of in a hurry.
What's going on? They're in a holding pattern.
Said they'd take your offer under advisement.
No indication when or what the answer might be.
Jesus Christ.
Okay, look, I need you to get a message to Vic.
- That would be breaking the law.
- Shit.
- All right, forget it.
- It's gonna be worse if they catch you.
Now that I've told them what you want, they know there's more to uncover.
Kavanaugh will show no mercy.
I know.
- There is one other option though.
- What? Witness protection.
And you tell them everything.
- Witness protection.
- The entire truth.
Imagine, you'd be free of the lies, the running.
People pay a price for what they did.
I can't.
I can't.
Curtis, you're the one with a heart, now use your head.
- This isn't about my goddamn heart.
- I'm just trying to help you here, Curtis.
No, you're trying to get me to turn on my family.
Please, just get me my deal.
- He held out as long as he could.
- Still holding.
- He didn't wanna run.
- He'd run before he'd rat.
How do they know about the money train? Educated guess.
There's always been suspicion, just never proof.
- Unless Lem gave it to them.
- We know Lem.
Look, if he had a change of heart, he would have tipped us.
Or he wouldn't if his deal meant us going down.
Look, I'm not saying that it happened.
Are we willing to bet that it didn't? - I'm not gonna believe it until I see it.
- Lem's not contacting us to protect us.
We're gonna meet him tonight at midnight and he's gonna travel tonight.
That's it.
Okay.
On whose nickel? Man, this spic cop doesn't take American Express.
It's already taken care of.
I told Mara that Lem was in trouble.
She felt strongly that we needed to help him.
So we pulled a little cash out of the house.
I mean, it's not a lot, but Hey, 5 grand ought to keep him in burritos and beer long enough.
All right.
Go get this cashed.
Keep half of it for tonight, put the rest on the wire.
Lem must have said something to Becca about Terry too.
All that gives Kavanaugh is a little more suspicion.
Doesn't mean we're gonna catch a case, let alone a needle.
Lem starts talking puts teeth in an otherwise empty rumour.
These people every time they look at us, they're gonna see two cop killers.
That's on me.
Terry was a decision that we both made.
I forced it on you.
Now you're in Kavanaugh's cross hairs.
That's on me.
Lem's gonna have to hide for the rest of his life.
That's on me too.
Skewering yourself is helping Lem how? How's it gonna help any of us? You made a call, and that call was to protect the team.
That couldn't have gone down any other way.
It's done.
It's done.
Now, is he still on our side against Kavanaugh? I'm gonna find out.
You.
What the hell was the powwow upstairs about? - Call me later.
- I'm running out of later.
Now, are you and me still allies against Kavanaugh or do I pull out my flamethrower and start that scorched-earth plan that I talked to you about? Becca's being a good lawyer.
Lem wants to turn himself in if he can get his original deal back.
Kavanaugh won't sign off.
He's gonna file new charges for him running.
- I thought Kavanaugh was out.
- He was until Lem didn't show.
And now the chief's believing that Kavanaugh was right.
- He's giving him back power.
- What about Lem? - Let him twist in the wind? - Claudette's gonna call the DA.
She's waiting to give Kavanaugh a chance to find Lem.
- That's all I know.
- You gotta throw a wrench in the works.
You know, you wanted an inside guy for intel, you got one.
You need help aiding and abetting a fugitive? Find someone else.
Witness says you attacked Tori Burke.
Also says you two had an argument first.
What was that about? You just think you can go around beating women on the street? Okay, your thing is knocking the shit out of random, total strangers.
- Works for me, Gilbos.
- So I picked up a hooker.
I'm not the only guy who's had to bust out of a slump.
Doesn't mean I deserve to get rolled and robbed.
- Say again? - She set me up.
Soon as I got my clothes off and my dick hard these two black guys ran in, started smashing me up took everything.
So I gave her a little payback.
Arrest her ass, not mine.
We talked to people at the community centre.
You volunteer three days a week? Yeah, I read to disadvantaged kids.
Are you a prostitute, Tori? Maybe in your fantasy I'm a prostitute.
All right.
You know what? If I'm gonna be insulted on top of assaulted, I think I'd like to leave.
Okay.
We need to ask you a few more questions.
You're a suspect in a separate assault and robbery.
I'd like to see my legal counsel.
They're moving the blow into the van.
Still no sign of Guardo? They'll lead us to him.
Hey, wire transfer went through.
Meet-and-greet in T.
J.
's confirmed.
- Now we just need to get Lem on board.
- Okay, good.
Almost home.
They're on the move.
Hey, come on.
Pairing me up with Billings? You know a guy like that's gonna throw me off my game.
You'll adjust.
I'm filing for a transfer.
- Dutch.
- No, I'm serious.
Things haven't been the same between us, even before you got captain.
There is no reason why we can't work this out in a new way.
The reason I was hanging around was because we were partners.
And that's gone.
I'd just like to move on.
- Okay, I'll prepare the paperwork.
- Okay, check this out.
Tori has an M.
B.
A.
From UCLA.
Worked as a manager at a brokerage firm until she was fired six months ago.
Excuse me.
This guy's here for Tori Burke.
I'm her legal counsel.
What are your credentials, Mr.
Wallis, Esquire? What I have is a client, and I need to see her immediately.
Now, do I get to see her now, or do I file for a dismissal? - She's in 2.
Show him up.
- Yes, ma'am.
I'll check him out.
Gallagher's DEA bozos are tied up on a sting in Compton.
They're short on cars.
Maybe in a few hours.
We can't wait.
We gotta meet Lem.
What about backups from the Barn? There's a manhunt on Curson.
Byz Lats shot a clerk.
There's no units to spare.
We gotta go in.
There are six of them at least.
- We don't know how many more inside.
- Lem's gonna be waiting on us.
Who's coming? - Get down! Down on the ground! - Get on the ground! Don't move! Get down on your knees! Hands on your head! - I got rabbits! - Let them run.
Get up! Let's go.
- You all right? - Yeah.
On the ground.
On the ground right now.
Search it.
Christ.
How many grenades do these guys got? Claudette's so hot for these guys, she can book them herself.
We gotta go get Lem.
Bomb Squad's on a crank call at some abortion clinic.
- They'll pick up the grenades later.
- I told you to call in.
- You were outnumbered.
- They were getting ready to bolt.
Split up in two vans.
We had no choice.
Sorry we missed all the action.
Good work.
Just wish we were able to nail Guardo.
He's been staying off the front lines, probably feeling the heat from you guys.
Two busts in as many weeks? He's feeling your heat.
And I've seen what they do when they get pissed.
Better watch your Crown Vics.
You should be warning him, not me.
Thanks.
- Glad you caught the guys.
- Actually, we didn't nail Guardo.
I'll see if I can find something out.
You find another tip, find another buyer.
Please don't be this way.
I'm sorry I made that deal, helped Kavanaugh.
You should go.
I did it for Sebastio.
You'd do the same thing for your kids.
- You would.
- Take your rat money, your rat baby and get on the first bus Don't you say that about my boy! What, you gonna let him talk about Sebastio that way? I showed you mercy once and it ruined my friend's life.
Not gonna happen again.
Get out.
The Police Committee is willing to consider a deal but they insist on adding more time.
- How much? - Maximum of 10 years parole in four if he turns himself in immediately.
What about the safety issue? He'll be held in protective custody until it's sorted out.
But there's no guarantee of location unless you can prove your claims.
What about the others? No condition about him giving us something on them? We wanna put this behind us.
Now, if he's caught before he comes in, all bets are off.
What's going on, man? - What was that? - It wasn't my choice.
It's what the Police Committee wanted.
If we don't find Lemansky before he comes in or gets out of the country we're gonna lose our last chance at nailing Vic before this case seals off.
- What do you want me to do, Jon? He trusts you now, right? When it comes to me? Maybe.
I want you to scare them.
I want you to make Vic lead us to him.
How? The way to get him is we gotta catch him in the act.
With Lemansky AWOL, Vic knows he's got eyes and ears all over him.
He's not gonna do anything stupid.
Unless he thinks he's got one last mess to clean up.
- What mess? - There was a detective I spoke to here.
He suspects that the Strike Team robbed an Armenian money train.
- Wagenbach.
- But he doesn't know it was Dutch.
You gotta make him believe that Lemansky gave it up for witness protection.
It'll put him in motion.
We follow, we catch them trying to help Lemansky escape.
And nail them for harbouring a fugitive.
It won't be the amount of time they deserve but it'll be enough to make them lose their badges and get them off the street.
Catching them in the act, that's gonna gives us leverage.
Lemansky may have held his tongue, but the other ones they might not be as strong.
Lemansky's talking.
- That's bullshit.
- Is the Armenian money train bullshit? Because that's what he gave them.
He's coming clean.
Nothing to come clean about.
That explains where your 65,000 unaccounted-for dollars comes from.
Look, he's tired, scared and he wants his freedom.
He doesn't wanna die at the hands of Antwon Mitchell.
The DA said to give them something on the team.
- I guess he's agreed.
- Lem would never agree to that.
DA gave him no choice.
He has to give you guys up.
Now all this bullshit could blow back on me.
You gotta get a message to your boy and tell him to shut the hell up.
Can you do that? If you can speak to him, can you convince him to keep his mouth shut? Yes.
Do it, for chrissake.
I don't know where he is.
You know, Kavanaugh is out of control but with Lemansky unaccounted for, he's got the chief's ear.
And now the DA's smelling blood, all of ours.
I shouldn't be telling you this but you threatened me.
So now I've told you everything I know.
Now it's time to clean this up.
You guys just see pimp and hooker.
That's not who we are.
Says the hooker letting pimp daddy drag her into the shit with him.
No, actually he dragged me out.
He dragged me out of the steaming shit piles of a superficial empty everything.
And then he hosed me off, and he held me and he made me whole.
I had nothing.
I was nothing before I met him.
According to your sister, you had a nice condo.
You equate a roof over your head to love? What exactly does equal love? Do you see the wrinkles on my face? - Do you see them? - Yes.
Well, Spank doesn't.
I understand you not wanting to be away from your boyfriend.
But what do you think's gonna happen when you go to jail? We both know that your man's just gonna set his sights on the next piece of Century City ass that comes his way.
Shut your mouth! Shut your goddamn mouth! Who do you think you are? You don't know us! You don't know us! - Get her off me, Dutch.
Get her off me.
- How dare you? - Now, let's just sit down.
- You don't know me.
- Sit down.
- Let go of me.
The girl just gave you up.
Says it was your idea.
You're the one who beat up the john.
I know that didn't happen.
She put the claws in you, right? Shouldn't let no woman do you like that.
Someone like Tori.
Smart, educated, good job.
How do you turn out a girl like that? Any punk can get some crack ho to go down on dick.
But how do I get a little pink toe from Westwood to do what I say whenever I say? Every chick's got a hole in her heart and it's connected to the one between her legs.
I just figure out how to fill it.
And then I feed it to her.
And I keep feeding it to her, until it's overflowing.
Until she can't live without it.
Then I take it away.
That makes me God.
Tori was easy.
Her fiancé left her last year for some young blood bitch.
I just kept telling old girl she was still the prom queen like back in the day.
And that white faggot dude, he didn't have eyes to see.
Sooner or later, all bitches break.
Every goddamn one.
That's if you got game.
And that's why she's your whore? If you born a woman, I can make you my ho.
Which is why she's saying I had nothing to do with no illegal shit.
Now that y'all got some pimpology, no charge my black ass is out of here, right? - Anyone here believe Lem cut a deal? - Maybe he felt like he had no choice.
He's out in the wind alone.
Becca's probably pushing it.
He has no idea about this ranch in San Ignacio or the money we'll be funnelling to him.
- Becca told you he took a deal? - No, Aceveda.
- Aceveda? - He's got a stake in this too.
- Not like we do.
- He could be full of shit.
We can't know what's inside Lem's head until we see him face to face.
We need an exit strategy.
- How are gonna get out of this? - We don't.
We need to fill Lem in, on the cash, the ranch, the lines of communication.
He's right.
You know, Lem he's been in the dark as much as we've been.
And if Lem is talking, it's because he believes that Antwon has marked him as a dead man behind bars.
Now, once he knows what we've pulled together for him he'll go along.
He will.
We go to the spot.
If he doesn't show assume he made the deal.
And then what? If he does show we'll take his temperature, make sure he's still solidly on board.
He'll be on board.
Lem trusts us.
He trusts us.
And I still trust Lem.
I do.
- Need to do the paperwork? - Yeah.
- Where's Vendrell? - Shit, they're taking different cars.
- I'll take Mackey.
You take Gardocki.
- All right.
- Kyle, keep your distance.
- Okay.
Ronnie, I got a tail.
I'm trying to lose him.
- You sure? - He's pretty far back, but he's there.
Watch your back, man.
Looks like I got one too.
Call Shane.
Give him a heads-up.
- Yeah.
- Vic and I both have tails.
Shit.
I'm looking.
We gotta lose them without looking lik e we're trying.
- We can't lead Kavanaugh to Lem.
- I don't see anyone on me yet.
Vic says whoever loses his tail, gets to Lem, moves him someplace safe until we can regroup.
- All right, I got it.
- Hey.
- Jesus, man.
I'm glad it's you.
- Hey, man.
Hey.
- What's up? - We gotta get out.
- What's going on? Kavanaugh's got a tail on Vic and Ronnie.
An eye up in the sky.
Follow me.
That body shop that closed down.
- The one on Mission, okay? - All right, man.
Never thought it'd come to this.
Hasn't come to anything yet.
What now? I'll go back and get Vic and Ronnie.
We got a way for you to get to Mexico.
What, like Gilroy? No, man.
The man died alone.
I'm not going that route.
You're not a miserable drunk.
- It's gonna be different.
- No, it won't.
It won't.
Look, I'm not going.
- No more running.
- So you'll spend your life looking over your shoulder for Antwon Mitchell? You in Mexico's the only thing that keeps us safe.
Especially you.
- How am I gonna live in Mexico? - We got it figured out.
- How? - San Ignacio.
- What the hell is that, some shit hole? - No, man, it's a ranch.
In the mountains.
We got a Federale that's gonna get you there.
It's beautiful, man.
It's gonna be peaceful.
We got money parked in an account for you.
It's all set up.
- Mara and I even kicked in 5 grand.
- I don't want that.
It's just a start.
We'll keep skimming off the street.
Keep you hooked up.
I can't.
I can't.
I can't do that.
It's all in play.
Trust me, man, it's gonna work.
It's gonna work.
There's a way for me to take the hit solo.
- No.
- There is.
No, there's not, man.
Kavanaugh? Aceveda? The DA? There's no other deal to make.
They're gonna make you give us up.
Maybe not now.
Maybe a year from now.
But, man, you got one chance to get out of here.
Take it, man.
Take that chance right now.
Take it.
I got it figured out.
Why did you even come back tonight if you weren't planning on leaving? Dude, I came to see you guys.
Don't do this, man.
Look, where's Vic? I wanna talk to Vic.
He'll call when he loses his tail.
We can't let Kavanaugh catch us with you, man.
Mara's pregnant again.
No shit? Yeah, yeah, almost Almost three months.
I wasn't supposed to say anything to anybody until next week, but - Hey, congratulations.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's another mouth to feed.
Mara's gonna be laid up near the end, so I'm gonna have to I have to step it up, you know? Man, I hope I get to see the little guy.
Or girl.
Little girl, huh? Yeah.
Yeah, a little girl.
Hey, I'm gonna be all right.
Shane.
- Yeah? - Shane.
I'm gonna be all right.
It's all about family, right? Look, what if Vic and Ronnie can't shake the tail? Maybe they doubled back to the Barn.
I'll go check it out, all right? Move your car.
Get it out of sight.
- Did you get enough to eat today? - No, I'm hungry.
- I bought you some food.
- Thanks.
Thanks, man.
My favourite, buddy.
Shane? Shane! I'm sorry.
Shane I'm sorry, buddy.
I'm so sorry, buddy.
Lem.
Lem, I'm sorry! But I had to, right? But you know I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, man.
Buddy.
Oh, God! Hey.
I had a tail.
- Took me a while to shake it.
- Yeah.
Lem hasn't shown, huh? He's late but he'll be here.
Hey.
It's your lucky day.
Cab driver can't ID you, she won't testify against you.
Only thing to testify about is my love for that girl right there.
I'm getting you out of here soon.
Yeah, get yourself out of here.
- Take him out, will you? - Let's go.
Dutch, I spoke to your ex-partner, the new captain.
She trusts your instincts so she wants me to increase the number of hours I trail you.
I just wanted to say thank you for putting in a good word.
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
Hey.
You know why you're gonna be such a great detective someday? Because most people don't realise how damn smart you are.
They just see the surface.
They can't get past your looks to see what you're really about.
I know, right? But you're not as smart as you need to be.
The help I'm offering doesn't come along every day.
And if I'm gonna spend my valuable time focusing it on you well, you better make it worth my while.
Sure.
Definitely.
Of course.
- What's going on? - I don't know.
Your transfer's denied.
I need my best detective on this.
Grenades.
The thing this morning.
The El Salvadorans.
The leader's missing.
His name is Guardo.
Start there.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Vic.
Vic, you can't touch anything.
You happy? Are you happy now, Detective Mackey? Stop it! Stop! Break them up.
Come on.
Lieutenant.
That's enough, come on.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Let him go.
- Break it up.
Come on.
Let's go.
Get off of him.
Move.
- Get off.
We got him.
- Come on.
- It's over.
It's over.
- It's all right.
Lieutenant, let's go.
Breathe.
Calm down.
Calm down.
Okay.
Okay.
We're gonna find who did this and we're gonna kill him.