"NARRATOR:" "Previously on The Shield:" "Knock it off!" "Got a goddamn lump." "I'm not gonna let you ruin my life over this vending machine thing." "Sure you are." "You are my hero." "Why is that?" "Hanlon." "Oh, I'm sorry, I just assumed, the way she talks about you." "So the Dutchman has a shot, then?" "HIATT:" "Dutch?" "Sure." "BILLINGS:" "He's been working that caring-mentor angle like there's no tomorrow." "Your loss, my friend." "Did you talk to Shane?" "He killed Lem." "I did what I thought had to be done at the time." "I see you again, and I will kill you." "SHANE:" "Just imagine every wrong thing we have ever done." "Anything happens to me or my wife or my son... that lands on IAD's doorstep." "I'm Kesakhian." "I need to speak to the real Kesakhian." "My father's out of town." "SHANE:" "How long do you think can keep this a secret?" "Long enough for a miracle." "In the meantime, you think you're running the show?" "You'll be my partner in this country." "Who's putting the most cash into the peasants' pockets?" "DIRO:" "Rezian." "He runs the ports." "SHANE:" "He's the one who's gonna be looking to take over." "You're under arrest." "My people won't let you get away with this." "You don't have people." "Kesakhian Jr.'s in charge now, so your crew ain't happening." "Sounds like Shane made a big bust today." "I don't know what kind of arrangement you two have, but just know when the chips fall, they always land on Shane's side of the table." "That cop knows what's going on." "We cannot be partners." "I have to be careful." "You just stay out of my way." "Looking to make you as miserable as I possibly can." "I'll stop by and say hi when you start your security job in Northridge." "Vic stole from your father." "Your Armenian money train?" "Got robbed a few years back?" "That was Vic." "They asked me to be a part of it." "When I said no, I became a threat." "I'm gonna have to deal with him too." "Wait a second, I didn't tell you that." "But you have told me." "I must finish the job." "CLAUDETTE:" "San Marcos is officially closed." "We got guys who wielded the machetes, but not the guys who ordered it." "Remember the one-armed man with the suitcase of cash?" "I'm a Mexican official." "Diplomatic immunity." "He was present at the San Marcos murders." "We want him to stick around, we make sure his $230,000 luggage gets lost." "And Pezuela shows up with his arm up Aceveda's ass." "Thank you." "Getting tips from prison, representing a company with the backing of Mexican interests?" "So now there's a conspiracy?" "VIC:" "Why'd you kill those people at San Marcos?" "Something big's coming up." "There's a dude by the name of Romero." "We were supposed to leave him alive." "So you just cut off his arm." "I understand you went to college with Cruz Pezuela." "I'm gonna use every second to find out what's going on here." "Why those people died and you didn't, where that money was going." "What Pezuela's angle is on all of this." "I solved this thing before the quarterly stats were due." "You're gonna tell me that saving this place doesn't earn me a spot here?" "Nothing that happened today is gonna change what I have to say to the panel." "I have one more picture." "VIC:" "That's Aceveda." "Gun to his head." "Rather than stand up like a man to his attackers, he takes a man's dick in his mouth." "Don't think that'll play too well with the voters." "Save your job." "But stop digging right now." "[PHONE RINGING]" "ACEVEDA:" "Hello." "VIC:" "I'm in your driveway." "Come outside." "What?" "Come outside." "Vic?" "You don't wanna have this conversation where your wife and kid could hear." "ACEVEDA:" "What?" "My appeals hearing's tomorrow night." "Last chance to save my badge." "If you're looking for a pep talk, you came to the wrong man." "No, I didn't." "This is you, isn't it?" "What is this?" "I think you know what it is." "You and your boyfriend." "It's a fake." "Photoshop." "This didn't happen." "Explain that to your voters." "You think you can use some shitty forgery against me?" "Man, I'm surprised whoever pasted this together on his computer didn't give me tits." "I'm just looking for a little help in exchange for bringing this to your attention." "Help with your review board?" "Just a nudge." "Enough to keep me at the Barn." "Well, if you're gonna blackmail someone, do it right." "This picture's a fake, and any other copies that you're gonna hold back are fake." "That your guy down at the end of the hallway too?" "I thought it'd be best." "Hospital doesn't mind the muscle?" "They acknowledge my father's generosity by being sensitive to our need for privacy." "He's gotten worse." "Put him on life support." "They say he has just a day or two." "I'm sorry." "For you." "Your information about the men who robbed our money-laundering operation is appreciated." "Put a lot of unanswered questions to rest." "Look, I been wanting to talk to you about that." "Things have been pretty quiet for your crew ever since the feet chopping ended." "You're off everybody's radar." "My father worked hard to establish that peace." "Well, I think it best if we lay low on any kind of retaliation." "You want me to do nothing?" "Look, a couple of cops end up hurt, that sets things on fire all over again." "My colleagues, the feds, they will jump in." "It will hurt business." "And we already shut down your port revenue temporarily." "I have no say in what the retaliation will be, or when." "I passed the information to my father's associates back home." "It's entirely in their hands." "Well, maybe you need to pass along a little more information." "You tell them that they can't just kill two cops without it wrecking everything that we're trying to do here." "Those men stole millions from my family." "I understand that, but we gotta play this game smart." "I am not playing a game, Shane." "Are you?" "I'm just trying to protect your family's long-term interest." "That's what a good partner does." "Detective Mackey." "Benjamin Webb." "Counsel for Mr. Aceveda." "How can I help you?" "My client so wishes you'd exercised better judgement earlier tonight, but you left him no choice in responding to your threats." "The truth's not a threat." "Our legal remedies will be two-pronged." "A laundry list of criminal charges for extortion." "Our civil suit will be seeking damages for defamation to be determined later." "Since you approached my client as a private citizen, the department will not provide you with counsel." "You'll be forced to foot the legal bills on your own." "You're ineligible for a police pension, and you'll be out of a job shortly." "So you'll have to liquidate your assets to fight this." "Look who's making threats now." "I'm just giving you a preview of the next seven years of legal hell you're in for, detective." "Have a nice night." "You know?" "I need a minute." "I'll get us another drink." "You branching out to the Orient?" "I didn't expect to see you so soon." "I need every copy of that picture, and I need the story that goes along with it." "May be impossible." "Well, then, so's our arrangement." "I guess I gotta go back to turning over those rocks on the San Marcos murders." "My connection is only tertiary." "Certainly nothing criminal." "Then why are you afraid of what I might find?" "Afraid?" "No." "I have larger interests I'd like to protect." "Things too big for me to follow?" "I understand you're a very effective officer on a street level." "I've made some arrests." "I hope many more." "But understand, you are nothing more than a fly on one of my many shits." "I'm offering you an opportunity not because I fear you, but to save myself the trouble of having to take more drastic measures in the future." "I'm sorry if I offended you." "I may have future jobs for you." "Ways you can help me." "Good." "Have you talked with our friend?" "Have you saved your job?" "Look, pictures can be copied." "Manufactured." "I need the original, all the copies, and the story that goes with it." "You understand I have to sell him an end to this, otherwise I won't have a badge to do those jobs for you." "You'll find I'm a very good man to work under." "SHANE:" "It's an unfortunate series of events down at the docks." "Orange isn't your colour." "What if I told you I was willing to help steer you clear of these troubles?" "Trusting you is what landed me in this shithole." "Importing untaxed gas landed you here." "You, uh... recognise your business ledgers?" "They disappear from our evidence locker," "DA'll be forced to cut a deal." "That means months instead of years." "I made a bad judgement call pairing up with Kesakhian's daughter." "She's got some bad intel about a couple of innocents she thinks robbed that Armenian money train and I gotta stop the bloodshed." "So I just need to know who the bosses in the homeland will send to do the job, and when." "You backed a woman in this fight." "You want these books lost or not?" "Is it true her father's near death?" "If Diro's smart, and she is, she'll handle the retaliation herself." "Hire locally." "When it's done, she'll make the call." "Tell our friends back home that she found the problem, solved it." "Who will she use to do the whack?" "Somebody that's been extremely loyal to her father." "Zadofian would be her choice." "Where can I find him?" "No idea, but betrayal like this?" "Your friends won't be first." "First she'll kill their children." "The wives." "When the pain of that suffering begins to fade, she'll kill the men involved." "[###]" "I got three DMV listings on Zadofian in L.A. county." "Yeah, looks like a father and daughter in Whittier, and a 45-year-old male in Glendale." "All right, give me Glendale's licence and registration." "Okay." "Ari Zadofian." "'03 Lexus." "Black." "Registered to a P.O. box." "Stake and notify on the Lexus." "It's urgent, so I want you to pass it along to Wilshire and Pasadena." "Sure thing." "VIC:" "I was buying your denial about the photo, but that Doberman you sent gave away your hand." "What now, huh?" "Pictures of me screwing the Bush twins?" "No." "The original memory stick that Juan downloaded the picture onto, and every existing copy." "Juan Lozano." "Low-level Byz Lat banger." "I had some run-ins with him." "So did you." "You shot his buddy during a hold-up." "Later on, Lozano got his skull crushed in County, but you knew all that." "He had a gun to my head, and my wife, my daughter..." "Stop." "I don't need to hear this." "Do you know where I got these pictures?" "Cruz Pezuela." "In exchange for not looking into his involvement in the San Marcos murders, and favours to be named later." "He spoke to me like I was one of his errand boys." "Wait, Cruz?" "You wonder how a photo from a Byz Lat banger winds up in his hands, why Mexican and American government officials tried to stop the San Marcos investigation." "Wait, Cruz?" "He's hip deep in 11 San Marcos murders." "His buddy he went to college with was the sole survivor, who lost an arm in the attacks." "So that's your price?" "My help?" "Oh, Cruz is into some dark shit." "I'm gonna need my badge more than three days to prove it." "The review board." "Well, I can't help with that." "It's too late, and it goes too far up the ladder." "You can do something to help me." "ACEVEDA:" "Claudette." "Yes." "You still have Eduardo Romero's briefcase of cash?" "All $230,000 of it." "I would like you to release it to Romero as soon as possible." "Why would I do that?" "The money's connected to the San Marcos murders." "Vic feels following it will expose a deeper cover-up." "You want me to put a quarter of a million dollars in play on the street for someone who's out of here in three days?" "I understand the case is officially closed." "Closing it saved this place." "There's no desire to open it back up." "And you know this goes higher than just three cholos with machetes." "Okay." "Off the books, and if this blows up, it's on you." "I'll call Romero's attorney and arrange it." "Just let Vic know the whens and wheres." "You make a new friend?" "No." "There gonna be a surprise at the review board tonight?" "Shouldn't be." "Hope not." "DISPATCH:" "All units, please be advised Detective Vendrell, Farmington Division, has issued a stake and notify for a black 2003 Lexus sedan, plate number 2-William-Queen Ida-332." "Driver is an Ari Zadofian, 45-year-old male wanted for questioning." "[PHONE RINGS]" "VIC:" "Yeah." "RONNIE:" "You hear that notify Shane just issued?" "More Armenian mob play?" "Whatever it is, it doesn't concern us." "Look, I gotta go." "Hey." "CORINNE:" "Hey." "Thanks for bringing it." "Sure." "Sorry I forgot it the last time." "Hey, you two kids have a good time at Grandma's this weekend, okay?" "MATTHEW:" "Yes, Daddy." "Love you, Matty." "You too, baby." "Oh!" "Who's a big girl?" "Listen, I shouldn't be home too late if you wanna give Cass a call." "Yeah?" "Thanks." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hello." "Hey." "I got a hit on your Lexus." "One-Tango-16 just spotted in Little Armenia." "Do you want me to have them intercept?" "No, no, no." "Just give me the address." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hello." "We need to talk." "Yeah, look, I'm a little tied up right now." "The man you're looking for is no longer where you are." "I want to discuss a solution to our problem." "PAULA:" "Two hundred and thirty thousand dollars." "I just need your signature." "With all your delays, you won't mind if we forget to say "gracias."" "DIRO:" "The doctors think it's best to turn off the machines." "Let him go peacefully." "I said no." "Look, what I told you about those cops," "Mackey and Gardocki, I was wrong." "The facts were wrong, or you were wrong to tell me?" "It's complicated, but the fight is between me and them." "Their families shouldn't be hurt." "We can't separate the ones we love from the choices we make." "It didn't have to be that way." "You're the one making the decisions now." "You need to accept the fate of your associates." "No, I can't." "I can't do that." "Now, you said you had a solution." "This is the solution." "They get punished for their betrayal, you get punished for yours." "You really thought I wouldn't find out you went to Rezian?" "You can't kill Vic's wife and kids." "Sorry." "DIRO:" "No." "No." "One step forward, I swear to God, I'll snap his goddamn trachea." "Don't hurt him." "We can't distance the ones we love from the choices we make, right?" "Give me my gun." "Now, or I swear to God, I'll end his life." "Give it to me." "Yours too." "Let's go." "Right now." "Hands over your head." "What's this?" "Thanks for the smokes." "No, no, no." "No, no, no." "Zadofian will finish him too." "Get a nurse." "Get a nurse." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Vic, come on." "Pick up the phone." "VIC [ON RECORDING]:" "This is Mackey." "Leave a message." "Goddamn it." "[HORN HONKING]" "DESDA:" "Hello." "Can I help you?" "Uh, yeah, I, um..." "I work right down the street, and I got this letter that was addressed to here." "Thank you." "Sure." "I didn't see a sign out front." "Didn't know what was in here." "We're a very small company." "Really?" "What do you sell?" "DESDA:" "We're more of a service provider." "Really?" "What kind of service?" "Oh, I just answer the phones." "Please." "Sure." "Mr. Aramboles, he owns the place?" "His name was on the letter." "Right." "Do you have a copier here?" "What?" "Copier." "That's what I do." "I sell copiers." "How's yours treating you?" "Mind if I take a look?" "Lt'll just take a second." "No." "Sorry, but..." "Listen, I'm so far behind on my sales this month." "You'd be doing me such a big favour, if I could just take a quick look," "I'll list you as a service contact." "Look, I'm really not supposed to have anybody here." "Please." "Ten seconds, 10 seconds." "Look, you need to leave right now." "I can give you a great deal on a Pantera 5150." "Staple, sort, auto fold, all the bells and whistles." "Please..." "[VIC CHUCKLES]" "I guess this isn't a copy room." "Come here." "Sit down." "I'm a cop." "See?" "What do you want?" "Everything there is to know about your jefe and what goes on around this place." "I just answer the phones." "Who calls?" "I don't know." "A few minutes ago a one-armed man was in here." "He dropped off a bag with $200,000 in it." "I don't know anything about that." "Money laundering, conspiracy, illegal transfer of currency out of the country." "You'll do time for just picking up the phone and saying "hola."" "Now, who is Aramboles and what does he do?" "I've only been here a month." "We're from Mexico City." "He was in military intelligence or something." "He offered me a job." "Answering phones?" "Better than swallowing verga gringo at the club I danced in back home." "So he keeps his oral recreation in-house." "What's all this for?" "The electronics." "All I know is that he's some kind of consultant." "Security or something." "Where was he just headed?" "To the bank." "He has an important meeting with a client tonight." "Who's the client?" "I don't know." "He doesn't say much to me usually." "I don't think listening's what you do best." "Here's how it goes." "You forget that you ever saw me, or I tell your boss that you took me on a little tour of his closet full of guns and goodies." "[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]" "[PHONE RINGING]" "VIC:" "Just in time." "Here's our guy Aramboles." "You see him?" "He's 200K light." "What did you learn about him?" "Aramboles was a Mexican intelligence officer assigned to investigate the cartels, but he was fired a year ago." "Speculation was he switched sides." "What's Pezuela's connection to him?" "I don't know." "What's your relationship with Pezuela like now?" "Strained." "When I heard your suspicions, I started to distance myself." "I didn't cash a large cheque he wrote to my political committee." "Pezuela never would've given me that picture unless he had something far more valuable to protect." "You have to get close to him again." "I'm already playing Russian roulette by not cutting all my ties with Cruz." "And you're going down the political toilet with him unless we do the flushing first." "Pezuela gave me the picture knowing I'd go straight to you." "Having the ammunition to screw you gave you one place to run for cover:" "Right back to him." "He needs something." "A favour." "Something that ties into all this." "This is the memory stick and every last copy of the picture." "It's all yours." "I can't tackle Cruz alone, so there's gotta be trust." "Right?" "You mind if I kill the a.c.?" "The Freon gives me a headache ever since I played peacemaker between Mackey and Kavanaugh." "So how was your night last night?" "Fine." "Yours?" "Entertaining." "Excuse me one moment." "The witness over here saw a white male, 20s, just dump the body from his truck and take off." "You get a plate number?" "No, peeled off too quickly." "ID on the victim?" "Joe Barnes." "It's Miracle Joe." "Oh, Jesus, no." "Yeah." "Really sucks." "Who's Miracle Joe?" "He lived on the streets of Farmington for 20 years." "Survived riots, earthquakes, gunshots, stabbings, beatings." "Always had that crazy grin, jokes never made any sense." "Uh, Ma'am, you saw who did this?" "Teenager works for Ray Stodds drove up, dumped his body from the truck like he was a bag of garbage." "Who's Ray Stodds?" "Charges us a fee to beg the freeway off-ramps." "You don't pay, his guy comes by, smacks you up, empties your pockets." "Thank you." "SHANE:" "Hey." "Got nothing to say to you or your wife, okay?" "SHANE:" "Where's Matt and Megan?" "CORINNE:" "None of your business." "Where are they, Corrine?" "Not here." "Look, I know this is gonna sound crazy, but you both, you need to come with me, okay?" "Why?" "What's going on?" "Shane, what are you doing here?" "Does Vic even know you're here?" "I can't tell you anything more." "CORINNE:" "Well, you better tell me more." "Get back in the van now or someone's gonna kill you and your goddamn kids." "Call Dad." "Call Dad, fine." "I've been trying him for the last hour." "He's in the field." "Fine, I'll call the Barn." "You're in danger because of Vic." "Bring the Barn into this, he will not just be losing his job, he will be going to jail." "Do you get that?" "This more of your shit, huh?" "SHANE:" "Hey, listen." "CORINNE:" "Jesus Christ." "It's all right, Mom." "Get in." "Now." "Please." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "Then put that away." "Corrine, get in the van." "Get in." "Get in." "Get in, Cass." "Get in." "DANNY:" "Hey, Dutch." "I got a composite of the guy the witness saw dumping Miracle Joe's body." "Uh, have some unis spread it around, huh?" "Hey, who's this?" "That is the nephew Miracle Joe was always talking about seeing someday." "I found it in his wallet." "I'll run his name through county register, see what matches up." "Great." "So I heard Tina and Kevin hooked up last night." "Really?" "Dutch... couple unis said you were there watching." "Okay, I was tricked into being there." "I'm sure Billings did it, but I can't prove it." "I'm sorry." "I thought maybe you had a thing for her." "It was a crush." "Nothing deep." "What about you?" "Maybe a little into Hiatt?" "No." "Not really, I just..." "I don't know," "I think I was just trying to prove to myself I could still get my girl on." "You know, now that I'm a mom." "Serves us both right for succumbing to our shallower instincts." "BILLINGS:" "I understand you're expanding your business enterprises, Ray." "Charging the homeless a panhandle tax." "That's real upstanding." "BILLINGS:" "Never underestimate how low people will stoop to make a buck." "[MEN LAUGHING]" "That can't be easy." "Everybody talking." "I just can't believe Dutch watched." "He was tricked." "Someone used you and Kevin to pull one over on him." "Oh, come on." "You knew what you were doing with Dutch." "Using him to get special favours even though he never had a chance." "He had a chance." "He just never took it." "Anyway, Kevin was an impulse thing, and judging by the way he's avoiding me, it was a big mistake." "Well..." "We all make a few." "DUTCH [ON MONITOR]:" "You know this guy?" "Yeah, that's Bones." "Runs errands for me." "DUTCH:" "Witness saw Bones dump his body." "You and Joe have a beef over off-ramp rent?" "No, I quit trying to get payments out of Joe." "Few months ago, I saw the old man get hit by a bus." "I mean, bam." "Just picks himself up, walks away." "It was freaky." "I figured it was some sort of sign." "Left him alone ever since." "SHANE:" "Corrine, get out of the car." "Corrine." "Get out of the car." "Come on, let's go." "Come on." "Hey." "Let's go." "Why are you doing this?" "Over there." "Come on, let's go." "Get in." "CORINNE:" "Shane, please, no." "Please..." "Goddamn it." "Shane." "Come on." "Shane." "Please don't hurt us, okay, please?" "Not Cassidy, okay?" "Just let her go." "You're gonna be safe here." "Leave us alone." "Just get in." "Come on, get in." "Just get in, okay?" "Goddamn you." "No." "No, no." "Come here." "Come here." "Come on." "Let's go, come on." "Cass." "No!" "[CORINNE SCREAMING]" "Corrine, just stay here, okay?" "God, don't." "No." "Just stay there." "Corrine, I've got my family hiding too." "It's not just you." "CORINNE:" "Shane." "Shane!" "Oh, my God!" "Hey, listen to me." "Look, as soon as it's safe, I'll come and get you, okay?" "Shane." "Shane." "Shane." "Shane, goddamn it, Shane." "Shane!" "I'm having trouble with a former employee." "He's trying to embarrass me." "How?" "It's not important." "I'm taking care of it." "But I may not be able to handle things exactly as he wishes." "May require some money." "I was beginning to think that you were growing allergic to my donations." "I cashed your cheque." "And again, thank you." "But you need more." "How much?" "Hundred and fifty thousand." "But it goes without saying that I would be tremendously indebted." "It's done." "And coincidentally, I have a favour to ask from you." "I'm going to add another cheque." "It'll be made out to a small private college in the area." "I'd like you to create a research grant, anonymously, in that amount." "Okay, what kind of research?" "Voter behaviour, demographic pattern shifts in Farmington and elsewhere." "I'll give you the specifics later." "But all the information comes directly back to me." "Yeah." "Cruz wants to fund a study." "Demographics, voter behaviour, things like that." "Why?" "Redistricting." "He can manipulate the votes to get me, others elected." "Let me see your map." "VIC:" "These were the areas highlighted on the map in Aramboles' office." "Cruz is the connection." "These are all his developments." "That's low-income housing." "Goes up next month." "And that's Eighth Street Medical Center." "This?" "Um..." "Office park for small businesses." "Hell, with me in his pocket and my influence on the city council, he's gonna be able to get contracts easier and expand." "And how does Aramboles and his Mexican mob money play into all this?" "Think globally." "All right, the money is coming into the U.S." "From the mob in Mexico." "Anti-terrorism laws have made international money laundering much more difficult." "So all their profit in Mexico." "What do they do with it?" "Their profit here, too hard to ship south." "So, what?" "The Mexican mob is buying up Farmington?" "Along with four or five other districts in L.A." "Legitimate businesses are the best front for organised crime." "They can run prostitution out of low-income housing." "Sell illegal scrips out of the medical centre." "Jesus Christ." "I gotta take a run at Aramboles." "His secretary said he had an important meet with a client tonight." "Wait." "And risk tipping Pezuela off that you've turned on him?" "That'll start a war, and we don't even know what army he's fighting with." "No, we need patience." "The review board doesn't go my way, I'm out of here in three days." "Vic, this thing can't come down in three days." "This will take three years." "Then don't let them take my badge from me." "Forget about our bullshit history already." "Help me so I can stay and finish this." "Look, I was serious when I said I couldn't help." "But listen, the board has three members." "The senior member is Howard Gregson." "Now, he..." "He has an autistic grandson." "Dotes on him." "Even serves on the board for Cure Autism Now." "What, you want me to bring my kids into this?" "Two autistic children." "Okay, you're the breadwinner." "There are doctors, therapists." "You know, you say you're sorry for past transgressions, but that you wanna change." "You want me to put my two sick kids on display?" "To use Megan and Matthew?" "Maybe you sway Gregson." "And maybe he sways a second vote." "I know, it's 20-to-1." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hi." "Hey." "How are you?" "I think we should talk about last night." "Um..." "I'm sorry I saw anything." "I don't know who's been spreading rumours..." "I never meant for you to get hurt." "I liked mentoring you, but I redirected those feelings into something that was unrealistic." "You have nothing to apologise for." "So let's forget last night and move past it." "Okay?" "Okay." "Thanks." "ASHER:" "Come on." "This way." "I gotta go, my suspect is here." "Oh, right." "Good luck." "So I got a hit on a Jimmy Barnes living in Whittier." "Says he's Miracle Joe's nephew." "He's driving down later." "Great." "Um, listen, Billings is AWOL, my suspect is here." "You wanna take a crack at him with me?" "Yeah, I'd love to." "Great, let's go." "Ray's innocent." "You can let him go now." "You admit to killing Joe yourself?" "Ray didn't order it?" "I didn't kill anybody." "Well, we have a witness who saw you dump his body at the convenience store." "Guess I need a lawyer, then, huh?" "Can't get a public defender down here till morning." "Yeah, but if these guys are innocent, real trail will be cold by then." "Coroner's preliminary report on Joe Barnes." "Systolic cardiac dysfunction resulting in heart failure." "He died of natural causes." "Guy's survived about every indignity and injury a man can suffer, lived his life alone." "In the end, his heart just quit." "Maybe he figured this place wasn't worth sticking around for any longer." "Hey, where you going, Ronnie?" "Just checking in with Vic." "Stick around, I found something to keep up busy." "Gang initiation on Hauser." "Street dealer passed it on to me." "Who's the dealer?" "HIATT:" "Guy named Burnout." "I know Burnout." "Why is he giving you intel?" "We thought he'd walk on a possession charge." "You guys are being too easy on these clowns." "So you burned a source for a gang-initiation tip?" "We're gonna stop four kids getting jumped into a gang." "Stop them while they're young, less problems when they're older." "Now, we might not see results tomorrow, but things are gonna look a lot better over time." "BO Y:" "Yeah, that's it." "Yeah..." "Hey, the cops are coming." "RONNIE:" "Come here." "Come here." "Come here." "OFFICER:" "Hold it right there." "RONNIE:" "Come here." "BO Y:" "Get your hands off me." "HIATT:" "What you doing, man?" "He ain't complaining." "HIATT:" "He doesn't need to." "I saw it with my own eyes." "What do we do with the little ones?" "Can't hold them on anything." "Take their names, call their parents." "He's good enough to travel." "I'm gonna take him to Mission Cross." "All right, take it easy." "What the hell is Burnout doing there?" "Hiatt squeezed him, Burnout gave him a tip." "Hiatt popped him anyway." "What was the tip?" "It was no big deal." "It was a gang initiation." "BURNOUT:" "Hey, man." "Call your boy off." "Keep it down." "This guy's a CI of mine." "Oh, yeah?" "Where's his paperwork?" "He's unofficial." "You won't be needing him anymore." "Three more days, right?" "Burnout gives decent intel." "What good does burning that bridge do?" "Listen, that door is always open." "So when he's ready to deal again, maybe he'll try a little harder." "These assholes banging on each other, it keeps the rage in-house." "Look, once these kids are in the gang, they're in for life." "I'd rather give them a chance now than a set of cuffs later." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "I'm with HTZ Security." "Had a bunch of silent alarms go off in your neighbourhood." "Need to talk to a Mrs. Mackey, get her to sign off so I can reset your system." "Sure, yeah." "Come on in." "I'll go get her." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[GUNSHOT]" "[GROANING]" "Oh, you dumb shit!" "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "All right, it's your lucky day." "I don't have time to bury a body, so you listen up." "Look, it's over for Diro." "Rezian pulled off a power play, taking control of the Armenian operation." "So you got a choice." "Listen to me." "Now, you either join him, I let you drive yourself to the hospital, or you bleed out here and die." "What is it?" "CLAUDETTE:" "What happened?" "Woman was assaulted by a kid with a lead pipe." "It's a simple assault." "Why are you here?" "We got a heads-up that the suspect was a kid that we had in custody earlier." "We broke up a Spookstreet gang initiation this morning." "This is round two." "We don't know that for sure." "These kids gotta earn their way in." "You take that away, they turn outside." "HIATT:" "Yeah, and anyone who skulls a woman like that is gonna do a lot worse once they join a gang." "Kids were getting assaulted." "We couldn't just let that happen." "CLAUDETTE:" "Okay, Well, how many were being jumped in?" "Besides him, one more." "Well, let's find him, see what he's doing to earn his stripes." "[SIRENS WAILING]" "Hey, any chance you can pick me up?" "Help me clean up Hiatt's mess?" "Heard your recruitment's been taking a few hits lately, Streetz." "I ain't heard of none." "First your gang initiation gets shut down." "Then one of your baby bangers bashes a woman's head in." "Woman's dome got cracked?" "I'd send flowers if I gave a shit." "Besides, I hear your ass ain't gonna be on the streets no more." "Maybe." "Maybe not." "If so, my hand-picked successor is Ronnie." "You, him, don't matter much if I can't bring in new talent." "Just to show I'm willing to be fair, schedule another jump in." "I'll make sure it doesn't get broken up." "Don't help us find this kid, we'll show you how we jump someone in." "Anything I can do for you on that thing you've been working on?" "No." "Guess I'm gonna have to cool my heels for a while." "Hey, you sure this kid is around here?" "Wetback shops on Alvarado." "Nothing more specific?" "They gotta think on their own some, right?" "The cream rises to the top." "Oh, I think that's him right there." "You think?" "He ain't even in the crew yet." "Hey!" "VIC:" "Don't move." "Give me your hand." "REBOUND:" "Get off..." "VIC:" "Don't fight." "Gun." "Sorry, kid." "Gang life will just have to wait." "Good news is, you've been cleared of all murder charges." "The bad news is, we can still charge you with desecrating a corpse." "When's my lawyer rolling up?" "Can't get a public defender down here today." "Which means you can spend a night in County with Ray, or come clean about what you were doing with Joe's body, go home." "Look, man, I found him cold." "Figured since he was just a bum, who would miss him?" "Why did you dump his body at the Fast Mart?" "BONES:" "Because the new owner's an asshole." "The old one used to let me hang inside and beat the heat." "This guy called cops, said I was loitering." "So you dumped a corpse on his front door?" "Who wants to step over a dead body to buy a Slurpee?" "He ruined my day, so I figured I'd ruin his." "That clear enough for y'all?" "What happened with the Miracle Joe thing?" "It's done." "Where've you been?" "It's nice to know I closed my last case." "I'm getting out of this shithole." "Here's the official paperwork confirming my disability." "My doctor just signed it." "I'm suing the department." "My lawyer's gonna have you subpoenaed." "Suing for what?" "Three-point-four million dollars." "Pain and suffering, for making me work after being seriously injured." "What injury?" "Don't you remember?" "I got knocked down trying to break up the fight between Mackey and Kavanaugh." "I've had headaches, neck pain and nausea ever since." "Don't act like I never mentioned it." "Steve." "You understand insurance fraud is a felony?" "Dutch knows all about the headaches." "I've got everything documented by my physician." "Go ahead and read it." "It was nice knowing you." "Who's Dr. Nero Yamamoto?" "REBOUND:" "I didn't do nothing." "Is that the last one?" "VIC:" "Yeah." "He was about to shoot somebody on a crowded sidewalk." "Nice save." "Uh, that Aceveda thing..." "Too big to solve in a day." "Or three?" "I'm not out yet." "Oh." "If you are, what next?" "Don't know." "Always thought you were three steps ahead." "Well, there's still the review board." "I have a few last words." "Are you gonna use those words to save yourself or burn this place down?" "You always wanted to do what was better for other cops." "What's next for you?" "With the San Marcos case closed, well, at least officially, thanks to me, there's no more threat of this place closing down." "You really gonna put your chips on Hiatt?" "He'll get there." "This isn't AYSO, everybody plays." "You need someone who can read the streets." "You brought him in here to move me out smoothly." "You really ready to ride him all the way home?" "Get his parents down here." "Call juvie." "RONNIE:" "Got it." "HIATT:" "Since when have you been working on this case?" "You took a shit out on the streets." "I'm just scooping it up." "Vic." "We just got a shots-fired call." "It's Corrine's address." "VIC:" "Asher." "Where's my family?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "The lady across the street made the call." "Place is empty." "Oh, Jesus Christ." "Did you look in every room?" "ASHER:" "Yes, we did." "There's a notebook full of family numbers in the kitchen drawer over there." "Start calling, see if anyone's heard from Corrine or Cassidy." "ASHER:" "Okay." "Okay." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Oh, my God." "My lawyer tells me the DA suddenly seems open to a lesser plea." "Yeah, well, I guess some evidence went missing." "How's your problem?" "It's solved." "Temporarily." "But you need a permanent fix?" "I do." "Here is my fix." "I offer it once." "No discussion, no negotiation." "I'll make sure that your cop friends and their families don't get hurt." "You tell me where Kesakhian is." "The old man and the girl." "I'll handle transfer of power." "The organisation lost over $2 million when that money train was robbed." "I need to be reimbursed." "Your favours and your protection will serve as ongoing payment." "You expect me to be your gratis snitch?" "Until we're even." "Yeah, well, I can't do that." "Sure, you can." "Because the moment you don't do something that I ask, get a shipment of mine into the country, warn me about a bust, whatever, first I kill the children, then the wives, then I kill your friends." "That's our deal." "Taxi's on the way." "That's it?" "No explanation, nothing?" "I'm sorry it had to happen this way." "CORRINE:" "You do not do this to me and my daughter." "CASSID Y:" "Mom, it's okay." "Just let him go." "No, Cass, this is not okay." "This is not okay!" "Do not walk away from me!" "Look, you know who you married." "That's the only explanation you need." "VIC:" "Hungry, honey?" "You want something to eat?" "Oh, here's Mommy." "Daddy." "VIC:" "It's okay, sweetheart." "Daddy's here." "Okay." "What happened to you?" "Shane pulled a gun on us." "He took us somewhere to East L.A., he locked us in a truck." "I thought he was gonna kill us." "He said he was doing it to protect us from something that you did." "Look, Shane's in business with some very dangerous people." "This is him trying to scare you to get back at me, okay?" "What are you gonna do about it?" "Hey, Asher." "Come here." "ASHER:" "Yeah?" "Take my family to my house." "Stay with them." "Come on, kids, here you go." "Come on." "Let me finish up here, okay?" "I'll handle Shane." "Okay." "You'll come home after?" "VIC:" "Yes, I will." "I got a work thing tonight, but I'll be there." "Found a shell casing." "Trail of blood leads to the street." "Whoever got shot walked away." "Also found a cigarette butt inside." "Armenian." "Shane's sending us a warning." "He and his Armenian friends can get to our families any time they want." "What do you want me to do?" "Watch him." "Figure out what he's doing, who he's doing it with." "And then we're gonna crush him." "You know, Vic should've called me with the lead." "You and Tina Hanlon." "Something you want to tell me?" "Uh, not especially." "Well, I can't keep ignoring everything I've been hearing about you two." "What about the rumour there's a witness?" "Okay, you can tell your old partner that I'm not pressing charges for peeping." "You're obligated to disclose a sexual relationship." "You outrank her." "It's not ongoing." "It was a one-time thing." "Which is a wink and a look the other way every other place I've been." "Not here." "This is about me and the Strike Team." "The circumstances you walked into were difficult." "I haven't even had a chance without Vic Mackey looking over my shoulder." "I don't want Vic." "Too much cost." "But I need someone with a little Vic." "The right kind, and that's not you." "I've got to look out for the Barn." "Hey." "I had departments fighting over me, I'm gonna land on my feet." "I guess somebody else just got lucky." "Hey." "CASSID Y:" "Hey, Dad." "CORRINE:" "Kids wanted to be here with you." "I guess they're running a little late." "You ready?" "I've got a plan." "Well, we're all here for you." "Yeah." "WOMAN:" "Detective Mackey." "The review board is ready to see you now." "CORRINE:" "Well, whatever the plan is, good luck with it." "Detective?" "Detective Mackey?" "CORRINE:" "Vic?" "DUTCH:" "Jimmy Barnes?" "They call me Jim now." "Uh, Detective Wagenbach." "This is Officer Sofer." "Hi." "We're very sorry about your uncle." "Thanks." "Sit down." "I appreciate you finding me." "He deserves a proper burial." "You should know, your uncle wasn't just a homeless guy." "He was a legend around here." "Everybody really liked him." "And, uh..." "I'm sorry that he was alone." "He always had that way with people." "You know?" "And alone is how he liked it." "So I guess this is you?" "We found it in his wallet." "DUTCH:" "When was the last time you saw him?" "Almost 12 years ago." "Joe was my dad's older brother." "They were really close." "And when my dad got sick, the doctors told him that he only had a year to live." "So Joe quit his job, dropped everything to take care of him." "Kept him alive for five years." "When my dad died..." "Joe just lost it." "And disappeared." "We finally found him living on the street." "And we tried a couple of times to bring him home, but he didn't want that." "He just asked us to leave." "I guess he's with my dad now." "[DUTCH COUGHS]" "I'm okay." "Um..." "I sometimes just get hit by the little things." "Give me a serial killer and I'm fine." "[SIGHS]" "Hey." "Hey, I'm okay." "I'm okay." "[SIREN WAILS]" "Hello, officer." "VIC:" "Hi." "Is there a problem?" "I don't know yet." "Keep a pretty clean car." "Wanna pop the trunk for me?" "Have I done something wrong?" "Yeah." "You didn't open the trunk liked I asked." "Okay." "VIC:" "Stop the car." "[GRUNTING]" "[TYRES SCREECHING]" "[GRUNTING]" "[CAR APPROACHING]" "[TYRES SCREECHING]" "I sent my men away so they would be safe." "Rezian sent you to kill me?" "Look, you need to leave right now." "His people are on their way." "Just go home." "Back to school in Germany." "Just leave before they kill you." "You didn't need to warn me." "Thank you." "Look, you can't stay here." "They're on their way here right now." "I'm not leaving his fate up to those monsters." "I will be with him for it." "Look, it needs to be fast." "Look, I'm sorry." "Your sentiment will destroy you." "Wanna tell me why I had to come in a taxi?" "Jesus." "That's some equipment." "Aramboles' car." "Pulled him over." "ACEVEDA:" "Is this Maria Echeveria?" "She's the mayor's financial adviser." "Well, someone's conducting a tongue audit between her legs." "ACEVEDA:" "This is a paternity suit for Rabbi Korman." "Drug-rehab receipts for Judge Quail." "Well, this one's labelled "Senator Bradwell and the Campfire Boys."" "Holy shit." "That's how Pezuela's getting everyone onboard the train to Cartel Town." "Blackmail." "Just like he did you." "You think this goes far enough up the ladder to save my job?" "Are you ready for this?" "Take my car." "I have a ride." "Uh, don't let this guy see your face." "[CAR ENGINE STARTS]" "VIC:" "All right, asshole." "Come on, let's go." "Get out." "Call Pezuela." "Have him give you a lift." "On the ride home, you can explain to him how you just lost his trunk full of leverage." "Buenas noches." "[###]"