Franklin walked LOUIE: with 3.4 million
in cash and product.
- How you want to handle it? - FRANKLIN: Told you
the gloves had to come off.
I didn't realize VERONIQUE:
that meant robbing your own family.
Call Jerome and Louie.
You tell them you made a mistake.
- Jerome and Louie? - Yes! This is done!
(grunts)
- (machine beeping) - It was Louie.
I had a long talk TONY: with my bosses today,
and they want to see something now.
You mentioned the tunnel at the border.
I want to see it.
The longer we wait, the longer the chances
Teddy will disappear.
Tomorrow morning, 10:00 at the museum.
Bring Franklin with you.
Whoever did this to Avi, TEDDY:
they have my associate.
Please.
Fuck you.
I don't need sleep. TEDDY:
I need to find her.
What took you so long?
(gate buzzes)
Fuck Teddy. CISSY:
and fuck the government Fuck the CIA,
that supported them.
Now, are you with me, Saint?
- Or are you with them? - JEROME: Where Franklin keeping my shit at?
We don't know. (grunts)
- DALLAS: We don't know! - You tell me where my goddamn money is!
Stop fucking hitting her!
You tell Franklin JEROME: that I did this,
and I ain't gonna stop till I get all that's mine.
you're gonna be all right. Beverly,
Beverly.
TEDDY (over walkie): Parissa, do you copy?
Parissa, you copy?
- (static crackles) - (door opens)
(Parissa panting)
(grunting)
(pants, grunts)
(Parissa muttering)
♪ ♪
(groaning softly)
- (brakes squeal) - Officer, hello.
I'm okay.
I'm okay, thank you. I'm okay.
Where are you headed? OFFICER:
I'm trying to get home. I-I just--
I-I'm trying to get home. Officer,
- Okay. Calm down. Just need you to... - I am calm.
- (indistinct chatter) - WOMAN: Listen here, dumb motherfucker.
You weren't even there. It was in a bag.
It wasn't an open container.
Fucking let me out.
Are you fucking stupid?
Fucking let me out!
I want to get out!
Asshole!
fucking get out of here? When am I gonna
It was in a fucking bag!
Let me the fuck out! What is wrong with you?
(indistinct chatter)
♪ ♪
(gate buzzes, shuts)
♪ ♪
(brakes squeal)
(engine shuts off)
(sighs)
Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital?
No. I just want to sleep.
Do you have any idea who he is?
Mm-mm.
did you get a good look at Before you ran, him?
Oh, yes.
♪ ♪
And you believed 'em? LOUIE:
they'd have talked. If they knew,
How ugly did it get?
I think I might've killed her.
(P.A. beeps)
Nursing supervisor 6624. WOMAN (over P. A.):
Nursing supervisor 6624.
Hi, uh , I'm looking for Black-- Um, Beverly Young.
Franklin.
Oh, shit.
Any word?
Big D and them did this?
Big D must've told him where we was gonna be.
Told who?
Jerome.
SURGEON: Ms. Ali?
Is she okay? DALLAS:
Her skull was fractured, SURGEON: and the blunt trauma had caused
intracranial hemorrhaging. extensive
We tried to stop the bleeding and relieve the pressure,
but I'm sorry.
(breathing shakily)
(takes deep breath)
- Get the fuck off me. - I'm sorry.
Fuck.
(crying)
(birds
Hey, Mama.
Hey.
What, no watchdogs to frisk me?
What's going on?
Nothing.
Late night.
if you're not ready to do Franklin, look, this,
- Let's... -It's fine. Let's go. - then let's just pause.
Wait, wait a second.
What's going on?
Where's your head?
(train rattling in distance)
Want some?
We should bring a dog next time. At least it'd smell better.
Woof.
- (engine shuts off) - (Amanda sighs)
TONY: Morning.
Amanda you know.
This is Oscar.
- They need to come with us? - Yes.
- Why? - Why?
Because maybe last night you're lying in bed,
start second-guessing your deal with the DEA.
Call some of your buddies,
an agent down to the tunnel, tell 'em you're gonna bring
and I get dragged off into the Mexican desert
never to be heard from again.
Now come on.
(dog barking in distance)
(takes deep breath)
TEDDY: Morning.
How you feeling?
(groans)
Like I have the worst hangover in history.
(groans softly)
Did you make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
You don't have a lot of food here.
Got you these, too.
I have something stronger Well, I think
in the medicine cabinet.
Gonna need you a little more alert than that.
(groans)
Something we should do right now, if you're feeling up to it.
Okay.
(dogs barking in distance)
(busy chatter)
Hey.
Leave it all out there. You understand?
Mm-hmm.
Here it is. GIRL:
Franklin.
Pleasure to finally meet you.
- Cissy. - Hi.
Franklin a nd I are gonna go for a walk.
You mind watching my case?
Sure.
My moms used to bring me here FRANKLIN: all the time
when I was a kid.
incredibly brave through all Your mother has been of this.
FRANKLIN: Mm-hmm.
for everything, you know. She blames the CIA
Would do anything to get back at them.
What would you do, Franklin?
How long have you lived in this country?
(sighs) A number of years now.
Can't be easy, right?
Living in a place that you hate.
who you can trust. Not knowing
I don't hate this country, Franklin.
But I do think it's criminal,
the hypocrisy of proclaiming devotion to freedom
while oppressing and murdering your own citizens.
And you want to expose that to the world.
Mm, I was under the impression you wanted that as well.
I want Teddy McDonald.
I want him alive.
I can deliver that to you.
But not until I have proof
importing and selling cocaine that the CIA has been
in the United States.
Is this something you can provide?
for pictures or him on tape, Look, if you're asking
then no, I don't.
What exactly do you need?
Ideally?
your law enforcement arrests Some branch of
in possession of cocaine CIA officers
and large amounts of cash.
where Teddy keeps his product. No, no, I don't know
But you two are still conducting deals, yes?
(sighs) As of two days ago,
I'm no longer buying cocaine from Teddy.
But I do know who's taken my place as his main distributor.
My auntie and uncle.
Okay.
everything you can tell me I need to know
about Teddy and his operation.
your interactions, How you met,
things you saw, what you learned.
of your relationship. The full scope
(busy chatter)
Your son is as you described.
and serious young man. An impressive
Uh-huh.
We're good.
Hey.
Oh.
will not come easily, I know trust
but I'm hoping we can get there.
(clears throat)
First time I met Teddy McDonald,
from one of our rock houses. I was driving home
♪ ♪
He T-boned my car,
tased me,
chained in a basement. and I woke up
did you two talk about? So, what else
Everything he wanted to hear,
which also happens to be the truth.
What do you want, Franklin?
How do you want this to end?
I want my money back.
want to have this baby. I want to marry V,
I was so close to having I want the life
until that motherfucker Teddy I could taste it
that's what I want. ripped it away,
fighting with Jerome and Louie And you think
is gonna help you get any of that?
Anybody coming after me is in my way.
And I can't have that.
Ever occur to you
that this is exactly what Teddy wants?
For us to wipe each other out so he doesn't have to?
Just like they used to do
and the field negroes, with the house
and the dark-skinned? and the light
We destroy ourselves for them.
Look, even if I wanted to,
I don't think I can stop it now.
If I can help open up a door,
would you be willing to walk through it?
♪ ♪
(Franklin sighs)
You and I are the only ones who have access to the accounts?
drawing on them at any time. Yes, and you can start
Good.
How's Dallas holding up?
I'm not sure.
Said I'd stop by later to check on her.
She's probably not good.
Black Diamond had a kid, right?
- So, what happens now? - Mm-hmm.
You hit them,
until everybody's dead? then we go round
(pager buzzing)
to sit down with Jerome. My mother wants me
Talk it out.
Your mother's not wrong.
(line ringing)
Yeah, it's me.
All right.
I'll be there in 30.
Kane's awake.
Wants to talk.
Sitting down with Jerome ain't gonna mean much
if you tell Kane how to kill him.
Listen, um...
for taking care of this, V. thank you
I love you.
You love me?
You want to stay t hank you for what I just did for us?
Swallow your pride.
Listen to your mother and make peace with your family.
Okay?
- (door opens) - (pager buzzes)
(door closes)
- (line drones) - (dialing)
(line rings)
Salut, maman.
Yo, he ain't happy. TERRY:
No shit.
What happened to the warehouse?
Had rats!
- Shit had rats. - Jerome.
- What? - Nigga.
Who gives a fuck about the rats?
Everything's fine.
We just need a couple days to find a place to load the cars
and get you on your way.
Son's birthday is Saturday.
Promised he'd be back in St. Louis by then.
this is what we gonna do. Here we go,
Go up to Sunset, check into Chateau.
All right? Chill by the pool,
get yourself a drink, some pussy.
Enjoy yourself, all right?
We handle all that shit, get you back on your way.
That cool?
Mack's about family.
Ain't into all that.
a little side snatch, right? Every nigga needs
The fuck are you talking about?
24 hours.
We'll have the cars, the carriers,
everything loaded, ready to go.
♪ ♪
(door opens)
(doors close)
How the fuck we gonna find a new spot in 24 hours?
I don't know, get your side snatch to figure it out.
Oh, bullshit.
- (pager beeping) - What?
- Aw, hell nah. - (scoffs)
You playing with me? Hmm?
They're your fucking family.
you don't kn ow where they at? Telling me
They're staying in a hotel.
I just don't know which one.
You know, since the shootings,
they can't go back to the club, the warehouses.
this shit ain't gonna be easy. I'm just saying,
Ain't gonna be easy?
(groans)
You know what ain't easy?
if you ever gonna walk again, Not knowing
if your fucking dick ever gonna work again.
in this goddamn hosp ital bed, Spending all day
doctors and your own people keeping shit from you.
But you telling me
where to find the bitch-ass motherfuckers that put me here,
in the fucking world, nigga! that's the easiest shit
(coughs, clears throat)
and I'm also hearing that You know,
maybe ain't a cop no more, that cop who shot me
that we can touch his ass, too.
the fuck they are, Frankie, So find out where
or I'm-a start thinking that you're having second thoughts,
on the wrong side of this and that puts you shit,
where you don't want to be, nigga.
♪ ♪
- (door opens) - (clears throat)
- (machine beeping rapidly) - (door closes)
♪ ♪
(indistinct chatter in distance)
(engine shuts off)
Teddy ever com e down here? Take the drugs down personally?
Not anymore.
Make no mistake.
He's the prize, Gustavo.
you're gonna help us get him. One way or another,
(indistinct chatter nearby)
♪ ♪
(door closes)
♪ ♪
Vamos.
(pager beeping)
Teddy.
What are you gonna tell him?
- That I'm with my family. - No.
Keep things as close to the truth as possible.
You're here, in the tunnel.
It needed routine maintenance.
You're just doing your job.
Helping him. Right?
My God.
what war we're fighting. We don't even know
(dialing)
(phone ringing)
Hello.
Sup?
Hey, where are you?
- Well, I didn't realize - At the tunnel.
we had a shipment coming through today.
No, there's not, uh...
last time I-I was here, The lights went out
and I'm fixing them.
Yeah. Hey, just, uh...
meet me at the warehouse. Leave right away,
Oh, okay. Okay.
Is there a problem? Why? There's--
No, I just need to talk to you about something.
(dog barking in distance)
(phone clicks)
Everything all right?
You take care of the hospital?
It was handled today.
It was handled? Not by you, cabrón?
One of my people.
"One of my people"?
You're gonna get my family killed, pendejo!
You need to calm down. Listen to me.
- You remember what I told you? - To calm down?
if I followed the rules, Yeah, you told me
I'd be okay.
But you don't fucking know!
I do know. TONY:
you'd better believe it, too, And I'll tell you this,
because this isn't gonna get any easier, Gustavo.
The paranoia, the fear, it only grows.
Teddy doesn't know anything.
He doesn't.
It's all in your head.
Chingada madre.
we can come back. If you busy,
Ey, we got stuff to do. Bring your ass on out, man.
I'm in here making one of my secret recipes.
- Y'all want to try? - Mm.
Our wedding had enough of your secret recipes
- to last a lifetime. - (pager beeping, buzzing)
I tried to give y'all a gift
to open the hearts and the minds,
and now you're all out here acting scandalous as fuck.
in that accusation. A lot of bass
- to shoot O. G. Kane? - You sent a cop - LOUIE: Came at us.
somebody trying to kill you. Hard to be enlightened when
Y'all got an ongoing situation here.
O.G. gonna have the city at your necks.
a motherfucking lion, And Kane is
"king of the jungle" lion.
(pager beeping, buzzing)
eat y'all asses up. And he's gonna
You want to get that, bro?
for how to take down a lion, You got suggestions
we're listening.
You got to join the pride,
- (pager beeping, buzzing) - become family.
Look, you might want to get that, bro.
It's just my sister. It's fine.
And you think SKULLY: that's a coincidence?
ignoring the universe. You better stop
That's divine ordinance, man.
(line rings)
Yeah.
You good?
- All right. All right. - (phone clicks)
She making Mama's Sunday dinner, invited me over.
What'd I say about family?
with your family and Kane Fix this shit
before karma fuck you all up.
That's all I'm gonna tell you. Be with y'all in spirit.
A token.
(indistinct chatter)
(siren wailing in distance)
How the fuck LOUIE: Kane know it was us?
That pig in a blanket you JEROME: used, word started getting out.
Mm-mm. Maybe could've thought, but to know?
Only people who know are me, you and Buckley.
And Franklin.
(helicopter passing overhead)
You think Franklin in it with Kane now?
♪ ♪
You still want to go to that dinner?
The fuck that mean?
My sister invited me to dinner, I'm-a go.
Ain't nothing else to that.
♪ ♪
(lively chatter)
♪ Got a job ♪
♪ That's okay ♪
- ♪ But they've got me working night and day - (laughter) ♪
- (speaking Mandarin) - Yes!
(conversing in Mandarin)
♪ What you gonna do, what you gonna feel? ♪
♪ I don't know... ♪
Salut, maman.
won't someone tell me... ♪ Ooh, ♪
(speaking Mandarin)
Oh, hi, uh...
Maybe she has beginner's luck, too.
(chuckling)
(conversing in French)
Slippery nipples. Two, please.
Just water for me, please.
(conversing in French)
♪ Won't someone tell me? ♪
♪ What you want to say, what you want to do? ♪
(conversing in French)
♪ That's just the way it goes ♪ -♪ That's life ♪
♪ Sometimes ♪
♪ C'est la vie, c'est la vie ♪
♪ That's just the way it goes ♪
(conversing in Mandarin)
We should go.
(distant indistinct chatter)
Whoa!
Hold up.
How y'all doing, you good?
There's an ice cream truck over there.
get yourself some, huh? Why don't you go
(ice cream truck jingle playing)
No, thank you.
You didn't have to come here. DALLAS:
Look, I want you to know,
whatever you need, I got you.
Money, time, it's all good.
I'm out, Franklin.
Yeah, like I just said, take all the time you need.
No, I'm out.
For good.
We had a pact.
- If something happened to one - (door opens) of us, the other had to leave.
No questions asked, no revenge,
just take the kids and go.
- Auntie? - Yes, baby.
When's Mommy getting here?
Soon, baby. DALLAS:
You hungry?
Want some Fatburger?
Sure.
- (quietly): Want some? - Okay.
(door opens, closes)
(sighs)
Come on in.
It's just us.
(Jerome scoffs)
Last time I saw these...
was after that fight about the car.
Mama cooked enough to feed a whole army.
(laughs)
what we pass on to our kids. It's amazing
I know she was furious about him not telling her
he bought it.
But I swear...
like he was ten feet tall Daddy looked
when he stepped out that Cadillac.
That's how you remember it?
What you want from me, Cissy?
the last two men standing. You and Franklin are
Last of the tribe.
Cissy, the boy stole from me.
Pulled a gun on my wife.
Dropped four bodies outside my club.
He turned you into a drug dealer.
But you don't want to desert him.
Cissy, when you ever had my back the way you have his?
You're right, maybe I haven't.
Why we're here.
And it might not be fair...
...but it is all on you.
You are my family, and I need you.
What are you gonna do?
FRANKLIN: Wait, you did what? We need help.
Yeah, but after everything you said about her,
I didn't think helping was something she did.
That money we just laundered,
it was her ex who pointed us in the right direction.
She made that happen.
She made that happen, huh?
She also took 200 grand off the mark that put me there.
Look, unless something else has changed in the past 24 hours
I don't know about, we don't have a lot of options here.
(sighs) But you can trust her?
I can trust her to be her.
Just sit with her.
Listen to what she has to say.
And if you think she can help, that's great.
we 'll send her on her way. (sighs) If not,
Hmm?
I don't know.
He could've altered his appearance.
I have no idea. Never seen him.
Okay.
if you think of anything else. Keep this copy. Let me know
Okay.
You understand that whoever this is,
they are out there,
and they're trying to bring
this whole operation crashing down.
Sí, señor.
- (dishes clattering) - (busy chatter)
Julius.
(bell dings)
(lively chatter)
Oh... Ah.
Oh, this looks so good. Thank you.
- Thank you. - Enjoy.
Hi, um, can I have a beer, please?
- MAN: Sounds good. - Thank you.
(music playing faintly)
You Cassandra?
Franklin.
Please.
If there's one thing you can't get in Paris,
it is a slab of ribs.
Help yourself.
I'll pass. Thanks.
Do you want a beer? You seem tense.
I don't drink.
V filled you in, on all of it?
She did.
Oh, thank you.
you brought my daughter into. Quite an impressive mess
that's what she said about It's funny, you.
Mm.
to force her back to me. And yet, you managed
V seems to think you can help.
But you're unconvinced.
Man we're up against is no joke.
smart, manipulative. He's trained,
And when the chips are down, a killer.
So I've been told.
So, let's get one thing straight from the jump.
This works, my fee is 20%.
20-- (scoffs)
You'd rather have 100% of nothing?
Yeah, I knew this was a bad idea.
Wait.
This man you're up against may be trained,
a killer,
but the person who helped him steal your money
most likely isn't.
What makes you think he had help?
he definitely had help. Oh, honey,
And he wouldn't have used someone in-house,
because the CIA would have to account for the money.
Got your attention, huh?
Mmm. You got to be kidding.
Are you sure you don't want This is so good. any?
No. How would somebody have helped him?
Well, lifting that much from overseas banks,
you need to set up dummy accounts,
forge documents, impersonate you.
Impersonate me?
Th ere is a very short list of people
a job of this scale. who can pull off
Just need to know where to look.
And you do?
Typical finder's fee is five percent. All right?
(chuckles)
but there is nothing typical Yes, Franklin,
about any of this.
Give me a week.
I'm gonna need to borrow your soon-to-be wife
a couple of tickets to Panama. for a few days and
If I find the person Teddy used, we settle on ten percent.
daughter and grandchild in my And a chance to have my life.
How does that sound?
Chingada madre.
(clicks tongue)
♪ ♪
FRANKLIN (on recording): I didn't know he was CIA at first,
just thought he was the plug.
Could get shit done.
until he got me out of jail But it wasn't
put it all together. that I really
I realized what it was I'd become a part of.
- How soon are you meeting - (recording stops) again?
- Two days. - Good.
approval to begin surveillance In the meantime, we have
on the Mexican, Gustavo Zapata.
to Teddy's warehouse. He should lead us
The Center also responded about
the material we took from Avi Drexler.
one last weapons shipment It appears there is
en route to Costa Rica.
It's on a cargo ship right now crossing the Atlantic
in about three weeks' time. and should arrive
The Center wants us to use our Sandinista contacts
to intercept the shipment.
Teddy and his people know Avi's missing.
So either they already rerouted the shipment,
or they'll be waiting for us.
Either way, we lose.
They're not asking.
(sighs)
- (crowd cheering) - (grunting)
- (bell ringing) - (clamoring)
(announcer speaking Spanish)
(clamoring, cheering)
Yeah!
(cheering)
- (bell ringing) - (cheering)
Been a while since I've been FRANKLIN: to one of these.
or just feel safe here? Feeling nostalgic,
I know what Teddy did to you,
and I'm sorry I-I couldn't help you, moreno.
You're sorry?
Listen to me, Oso,
if you called me all the way down here just to apologize,
then you're wasting everybody's time.
- (crowd clamoring) - (grunting)
(crowd booing)
(bell ringing)
(crowd jeering)
Where'd you find this? Teddy?
You know who he is?
What if I do?
What's it worth to you?
Listen to me very carefully, Oso.
That picture is radioactive. You know what that means?
I can tell you who he is.
The only way that happens is if you get me Teddy first.
You do that, and in return,
after I get back what's mine, I'll make you rich.
- (crowd cheering) - How rich?
$10 million rich.
(crowd groaning)
(bell ringing)
Okay.
First, you tell me who he is,
and you tell me why he's after us.
how this is gonna happen. No, no, that's not
You want to know, I get Teddy first.
And how do I know yo u're telling me the truth, cabrón?
Jerome and Louie's wedding.
Right?
Until then,
it poisons everyone who gets too close.
(crowd clamoring)
(grunting)
(bell ringing)
- MAN: Taste this shit! - Shit.
(man cackles)
(dog barking in distance)
(indistinct chatter nearby)
(dogs barking in distance)
(siren wailing in distance)
- (bell dings) - (busy chatter)
(bell dings)
You want something?
I'm a'ight.
Ain't got to worry.
Cissy wanted me to come here and talk.
Let's talk.
All right.
The way I see it, you know, shit's pretty simple.
Yeah. I hit you. You hit me.
Let's just call it square.
Stay out of each other's way,
everybody lives.
Call it square?
Uh-huh.
when I first came to L. A.? I ever tell you about
I don't know.
Couldn't get my mind right back in Texas.
Place wouldn't have fit no more.
Cissy was moving to the West Coast,
landed in the Bay.
I knew that peace, love, hippie shit wasn't for me.
L.A. sounded a'ight.
I realized the mistake. Minute I got here,
I ain't had no people here.
No way to fit in.
But I wasn't gonna run back home, stuck it out.
Got a job at the Chrysler plant.
Went out every night.
Pussy ain't help.
Liquor and drink did a little.
No matter what I threw at it,
the big hole inside me just kept getting bigger.
Then Alton fell off.
Panthers shit.
Drinking.
Cissy trying to save his ass while trying to raise yours.
She was drowning.
So I told her to come out here.
Told her I'd set her up.
Be whatever she needed me to be.
She came.
Suddenly you was here.
Instantly I had love, I had purpose.
the man that raised you. I was gonna be
For the longest time, I thought that by lifting you up...
...watching the young man that you were gonna become,
that that may be the greatest thing
to ever happen in my life.
And now I look at you...
...and I wonder how the-- how did I fuck up so bad?
Is it my fault
a scandalous, cutthroat, that you've become
that you are right now? bitch-made nigga
That's how you see it?
That's what the fuck it is, man.
(scoffs)
Well, uh, you kn ow, I guess another way of seeing it is
everything you have is because of me.
Right?
What I got? Hmm?
What I got, nephew?
Blood money?
Bodies on me?
Cops and CIA on my ass?
Your mama losing her goddamn mind?
You was going nowhere, doing nothing,
selling dime bags on the porch,
waiting for your bitch to come down from that sherm.
I'll crack your motherfucking jaw.
I tried to give you a legacy,
something more than asubwoofer and a weight bench.
And if you hadn't let yourself get played
by that trick you married, you might've had it!
Fuck you think you're talking to?
Y-You ever lay...
- Nigga, you ain't gonna do - (gasping) shit!
I ain't gonna fucking do shit?!
(War's "Slippin' Into Darkness" playing)
Do it.
Pull it, nigga.
Kill me.
End this shit right now.
Do it!
- (breathing shakily) - (screams)
♪ ♪
Do it!
♪ ♪
♪ I was ♪
- ♪ Slippin' into darkness ♪ - (brakes screech)
♪ Oh, oh, oh... ♪
♪ Hold me, Lord ♪
♪ When they ♪
- ♪ Took my... ♪ - (horn honking)
♪ Friend away ♪
♪ I was ♪
♪ Slippin' into darkness ♪
♪ When they took ♪
♪ My friend away ♪
♪ Slippin' into darkness ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ All my troubles ♪
♪ So I choose ♪
(song fades)