01x10 - Paid in Full

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Power Book III: Raising Kanan". Aired: July 18, 2021 – present.*
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Fifteen-year-old Kanan Stark is eager to join his family's growing drug business in 1990s South Jamaica, Queens.
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01x10 - Paid in Full

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[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[KANAN] Previously on Raising Kanan...

Little late to be asking
God for forgiveness

for all the sh*t you done.

I'm not asking for
forgiveness for what I've done.

Asking for forgiveness
for what I'm about to do.


[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[BURKE] Sorry about your friend.

Laverne, come on.

I ain't answering sh*t.

Maybe she could help us
trace it back to Kanan Stark.

I'm telling you to
leave this sh*t alone.

[RAQ] I need you to pick
up that dry cleaning


up in Harlem I mentioned a while back.

Tell Marvin that Toni can't be trusted.

So, what, you some kind of girl f*gg*t?

[SPITS]

[GRUNTING]

♪ ♪

- [g*nf*re]
- [GLASS SHATTERS]

[MARV] When they come for my
baby brother like they did,


m*therf*ckers gon' hear me.

Anybody down with Raq... gotta go.

This m*therf*cker 'Nique
got to go right now.

I want all Raq's people f*cking dead.

f*cking dead!

Your ma told me to pull
out the best gat for you.

- We at w*r, Kanan.
- I need to talk to my son, Raq.

I wanna help you.

Just let me know what I gotta do, Ma.

I'ma put the word out on the
block that he's a cop's kid.

[RAQ] I never wanted to
bring you into this, Kanan.

Hit a n*gga twice
where his heart b*at at

- and one where he used to think.
- That jacket...

- that ain't yours.
- [GRUNTING]

- [g*nsh*t]
- What's next?

Revolution, n*gga.

[RILEYY] ♪ I'm a hustler, baby ♪

- ♪ I'm a hustler, baby ♪
- [ CENT] ♪ Yeah ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks, setbacks ♪

♪ Bitch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪


♪ I been through the ups and
downs, you know I get around ♪


♪ So to me it's all a part of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke
man or the dope man ♪


♪ I'm almost for sure, man ♪
♪ I got to take it ♪


♪ No need to say sh*t I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turned homicide
it's nothin' to play with ♪


♪ Make money ♪
♪ Make, make, make money ♪


♪ When sh*t hit the fan
we'll take money, Southside ♪


♪ Beef with the best of 'em ♪

♪ Done sh*t at the rest of 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Checks, I'm collectin' 'em ♪
♪ Check, boy I'm finessin' 'em ♪


♪ Bag Supreme ♪
♪ Boy, you f*ck around ♪


♪ Put a big bag on your head ♪

♪ Before the weather break you're dead ♪

♪ Let's get to it, they
don't do it like we do it ♪


♪ Nah, cop it, whip it ♪
♪ Bag it, flip it ♪


♪ Re-up, we up ♪
♪ G'd up, what up? ♪


♪ Runnin' round this bitch
still not givin' a f*ck, hey ♪


♪ When it come to that paper
there'll be no complications ♪


Ha ha. That's right.

♪ Put a hole in a n*gga
right in front of you ♪


♪ Your heartbeat pacin' ♪

[RILEYY AND CENT]
♪ And it's all right ♪

[ CENT] ♪ That's how
we do it on this side ♪


♪ n*gg*s get to it on this side ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks, setbacks ♪

♪ Bitch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪


♪ I been through the ups and
downs, you know I get around ♪


♪ So to me it's all a part of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke
man or the dope man ♪


♪ I'm almost for sure, man ♪
♪ I got to take it ♪


♪ No need to say sh*t ♪
♪ I'm gon' take it ♪


♪ Robberies turned homicide
it's nothin' to play with ♪


♪ Hey, hey ♪

[RILEYY VOCALIZING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[GURGLING]

[HOWARD GASPING]

[SAM] Damn, they sh**t'!

[CAR ALARM BLARING]

[GRUNTING]

f*ck!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[GROWN KANAN] This sh*t a cash business.

Ain't no discounts.

Ain't no shorts.

Ain't no returns.

One way or the other...

... your ass paying full price.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Yo, get the f*ck in, n*gga.

♪ ♪

[KANAN] Where's my Uncle Marvin?

They told me to scoop you,
so that's what I'm doing.

Didn't ask about nobody else's schedule.

sh*t get real fast, don't it?

Different when you look
a n*gga in the eye.


- Do you know who that was?
- Don't know.

Don't wanna know.

That's your work, not mines.

Got your sh*t back there.
Change of clothes and whatnot.

You need to take off
that f*cking jacket.

[REVERENT ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]

Well, it's about time we
had a Raquel Thomas sighting.

My baby's come home...
to renew her faith.

How's that boy of yours?

- I forget his name.
- Kanan.

[MR. JOHNSON] That's right. Kanan.

- [JOYCE] Mm-hmm.
- [MR. JOHNSON] Genesis ten.

The land of Canaan was
named after Noah's grandson.


[CHUCKLES]

That boy must be a young man by now.

- He getting there.
- None of them ever get all the way there.

Am I right, Joyce?

- You know you are.
- [BOTH LAUGH]

[PAGER BEEPING AND BUZZING]

Meet you at the front.

[LAUGHS]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

You think all that's about me?

What you think?

How we do?

Yo, I thought you was picking me up.

Your ma got me on something
that need two eyes.

- Peripheral vision and sh*t.
- f*ck you, Marvin.

- [CHUCKLES]
- [SIREN WAILING]

Yo, five-O don't play when
one of they own gets put down.

It's like that?

[SIREN WAILING]

Yo, man, streets getting
wild. Gotta make these moves.

You n*gg*s get to where you going to,

and stay your ass there.

♪ ♪

[SIRENS WAILING]

[TIRES SQUEAL]

Damn.

They flooding the giddy-up right now.

f*ck, man! What the
hell we gon' do, man?

I'm supposed to be with my
grandmother right now. sh*t!

That sh*t ain't happening, n*gga!

We need to get off
these f*cking streets.


♪ ♪

Your moms was talking about
a plan B if it get too hot.

[SIREN WAILING]

sh*t's looking mad heated
out here right about now.

Sit tight.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SIRENS WAILING]

[NURSE] Right here.

[HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRRING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

- Come on, he's upstairs.
- [EMT] Stay with us, Detective.

Detective Howard, can you hear me?

Detective Howard?

Oh, sh*t. That's that cop.

[NURSE] I'm sorry, sir.
You have to wait in here.

You have to go over there.
Yes. Now, go in there.

We gotta get to Lou-Lou. Come on.

[FAMOUS] Oh, sh*t.

I'm sorry, sir, you're
gonna have to go this way.

- [EMT] Stay with us, Detective.
- [EMT] Watch your back.

- Coming through.
- Hang on. He's holding!

[OFFICER] What he look like?

[SAM] A young boy.

About my height, maybe taller.

Could have been shorter too.

- What was he wearing?
- [SAM] Jacket.

One of them white joints with
the words and sh*t in the back.

What did the words say?

[SAM] f*ck I'm 'posed to know, Officer?

Case you ain't notice,

I'm high as a m*therf*cking
Georgia pine right now.

Bring him in and hold him
until he starts making sense.

[SERIOUS MUSIC PLAYS]

[HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRRING]

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILING]

You shouldn't be up.

- [LOU-LOU] f*ck
happening? - Cop got popped.

Dude who was always
f*cking with us. Um, Howard.

- Detective Howard got sh*t?

[FAMOUS] Yes!
They brought him in all bloodied

and stretched out like a m*therf*cker,

looking like he about to die and sh*t.

- [JESSICA GASPS]
- Oh, f*ck.

[GRUNTS]

What the f*ck are you doing, Lou?

Raq must be out her g*dd*mn mind.

Lou, you cannot leave.

Your lungs are all f*cked up and sh*t.

They said you'll be here for
at least another five days.

You ain't got sh*t to
do with none of this.

You been in the hospital.

I got to get to my sister,

understand what the f*ck going on.

- Get my sh*t.
- [FAMOUS] I don't...

I don't think you should... whoa, whoa.

[JESSICA] Oh, my God.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Why are we here, man?

[SCRAPPY] Because your mom said so.

[SIREN WAILING]

[WHISPERING] f*ck.

♪ ♪

[CAR CHIRPS]

Whole hood's on lockdown.
No way out right now.

We need to get you washed
up and out of sight.

Hang tight.

Yo, I need to get this car
scrubbed clean of your boy

and get my ass off these streets.

- Ten minutes.
- Look.

You know I'm always down for whatever.

But this, this is
some other, other sh*t.

Kanan could have tracked in

all sorts of evidence and whatnot.

You don't want this to link back to me.

We need my sh*t
spick-and-f*cking-span.

All right, f*ck it. Go
do what you gotta do,

and then I want you to go home.

I don't want none of
our peoples out tonight.

Got you.

Hey, yo, Scrap. Thanks, man.

You one of the realest n*gg*s out here.

I ain't get that back at the stash.

But I do now.

[TAPS CAR]

Yo.

Don't matter who your mama is, my n*gga.

You a straight soldier all on your own.

[ENGINE TURNING OVER]

[KANAN] What we doing at Uncle Lou's?

Well, with everything
that happened tonight,

ain't nobody checking for a crime
scene they already wrote off.

Wait, wait. Where's the clothes
and the money I gave you?

Left it in the damn car.

- Damn.
- [DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

Well, you gon' wear some
of your uncle's sh*t, then.

Come on. Inside. Now.

- Ah!
- What happened to your hand?

[KANAN] I fell on the way out of there.

It's good. I'm fine.

You do everything I told you to do?

Broke it down, scruffed up the barrel,

- threw it in the pond.
- And?

[KANAN] Hoodie on as I walked past

the security camera at the bodega.

- So they seen the jacket.
- Yeah.

How many you give him?

Three.

Or two. Uh...

Okay, well, which one was
it, Kanan, two or three?

'Cause there's a big difference.

Um, I can't remember right
now, Ma. I don't know.

I said two to the
chest, one to the head.

- How you gon' forget that?
- Ma, does it matter?

Two, three, he gone.

I put him on his back,
and he gone for good.

[SIRENS WAILING]

[HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRRING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[NURSE] Excuse me.

- [BAPTISTE] Detective Burke.
- Where's Howard?

- Slow down.
- Who the f*ck are you?

Captain Louie Baptiste.

I just took over the
from Captain Peralta.

What the f*ck happened
to Captain Peralta?

The thinking downtown
is that a heavier hand

is needed here in South Jamaica.

I'm that heavy hand.

So where'd it go down?

Detective Howard was
alone in Baisley Park

when he got sh*t, and if the
first question you have is,

"What the f*ck was
he doing there alone?"

then you're asking the right question.

I'm assuming he didn't mention
anything to you about any meeting.

No, Howard doesn't tell me
sh*t. That's the f*cking problem.

That's what I kept
saying to Captain Peralta,

- but he wasn't listening.
- Well, I'm here now,

and I can assure you I'm all
f*cking ears, Detective Burke.

- So who's taking blood?
- [BAPTISTE] No one.

Unless you're AB negative
like Detective Howard.

It's rare.

And that's not all.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

Howard's f*cked up in
ways no one even knew.

♪ ♪

He's got leukemia.

You gotta be f*cking kidding me.

[BAPTISTE] If the brass finds out,

it puts him off the job.

He goes down from a b*llet,
whoever he leaves behind

gets a line of duty pension,
not a cancer pension.

- Big difference.
- Yeah, he doesn't have anyone anyway.

- But he's not dead yet, right?
- Not yet.

So let's stop talking
about him being dead.

So no one saw anything?

Some junkie from the
neighborhood said he saw a kid.

But he was so high, at first,

he thought he was in
Central Park, not Baisley.

Either way, Tactical Narcotics
is circling the wagons.

I know those streets better than TNT.

Let TNT do what they do.

And have 'em cr*ck a few heads
and see what they come up with.

I can cr*ck heads too, Captain.

Give me Detective Garcia over there.

Let me run these blocks.

My partner got sh*t tonight, Captain,

and you and I both know that
gets me a long f*cking leash.

Long leashes can get tangled
up in all sorts of sh*t.

You get anything,

you call it in.

Garcia. Let's go.

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILING]

sh*t.

What the f*ck, n*gg*s? It's me.

'Bout time, n*gga.

sh*t.

It's Howard. Got hit in the park.

A f*cking NYPD detective?

n*gg*s done lost they
minds out here, man.

Southside gon' burn like
a m*therf*cker tonight.

Any word on who pulled that trigger?

[WORRELL] Just talk right now.

Just f*cking talk.

sh*t's crazy.

Including some about you.

f*ck out of here. Who
the f*ck talking 'bout me?

All this money and work
I got on these streets,

and n*gg*s think I'm gon' sh**t a cop?

Whoever talking obviously don't know me

or what the f*ck it is I
got going on out here, man.

Don't make no sense.

I'm trying to protect these cops

more than they trying
to protect theyself.

I'm the last n*gga on the Southside

who wanna see a cop got.

Dead cops dead my work.

Which might be the f*cking point.

f*cking Raq.

You know, bitch told
me when the time came,

I wouldn't see it coming.

She was right.

I see her ass now, though.

Yo, I want anybody who's still
out off them streets, man.

And I want y'all to lay
low, keep y'all heads down.

And listen, 'til y'all hear from me,

keep y'all doors locked and y'all
mouths m*therf*cking shut, a'ight?

[SCOFFS]

Yo, I need you to spin the car around.

I need to get to my peoples ASAP.

f*ck! sh*t!

[SIRENS WAILING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[DOOR BELL JINGLES]

♪ ♪

[DOOR BELL JINGLES]

You know what to say
if anybody shows up.

I saw the man in the jacket.

And don't give up the
tape unless they ask.

Can't be overeager or too ready to talk.

Make these cops work for a minute,

feel like they doing they job.

Feel like they finding
sh*t on their own.

As soon as your Uncle Marvin
done with this other sh*t,

I'ma have him come get you
and take you out of town

- until sh*t cool down.
- Huh?

Ma, I handled that. I'm good. He's gone.

Well, until I know sh*t playing
out the way I want it to,

we not taking no chances.

I need you out of sight and out of mind.

Grateful to you for what
you did tonight, Kanan.

It was a lot to ask,
and you ain't hesitate.

I did it for us.

You did.

Love you.

Love you too.

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[OFFICER] Got something in your pockets?

You all hear things, man.
I wanna hear what you hear.

- I don't know nothing!
- He didn't ask what you know, homeboy.

- He asked what you heard.
- Where's Unique at tonight?

Who's Unique?

[GUEST] Thank you.

[SNEAKY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[MARVIN] Someone smelled gas on .

[DOORMAN] No one called me about it,

and I'd be the first to know.

All good, then.

Just need you to sign here
saying that you told me

there was no problem, in
case some sh*t explodes

or someone dies from inhaling the fumes.

Whoa, whoa, hold on. No one
said nothing about explosions.

We talking 'bout gas,
brother. Gas explodes.

Make up your mind, man,
because I got better sh*t to do.

Want me to go up and check or not?

What are you gonna do, exactly?

Go on , sniff around,

you know, uh, knock on
doors if I smell a leak.

Or not.

I mean, you sign this paper,

I can keep on stepping.

I mean, as long as no one
on lights a cigarette

or sparks up they stove, you good.

Elevator's there. How long?

Ten minutes.

- Unless I find something.
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

They should call me first.
I should be kept in the loop.

That's not on me, my brother.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

♪ ♪

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[BAPTISTE] So far, it's
just rumors right now.

Nothing solid. In the
meantime, we are taking down

everyone and everything.

If they're out on the
block, they're coming in.

Don't matter if they from Jersey

and they stopped to use
the Burger King bathroom.

Their ass is being pulled into
the precinct for questioning.

Give me a minute.

We're looking at least five
or six more hours of surgery.

It's likely we're gonna have
to remove one of his lungs,

his spleen, and a
decent part of his liver.

And the low platelet
count from the leukemia

is a further complication.

- He's lost a lot of blood.
- Is he gonna make it?

I have a team of surgeons in there

determined to answer that
question in the affirmative.

♪ ♪

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[PERNESSA] Come on, sweetheart.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[JEROME CHUCKLES]

Sweetheart, when we go upstairs,

you take a shower and you
get right in bed, okay?


[UNIQUE] Worrell, ten.

I'ma talk your dad for
just one second, all right?

- 'Nique?
- Hey, what's up, baby? Come on.

'Nique, sweetheart, what is this?

- Uh, just a little vacation, baby.
- What is this? What's going on?

- That's bullshit. 'Nique.
- Come on.

'Nique!

When we met, what did I tell you, huh?

What's the one thing
you don't ever, ever do?

- Huh?
- Don't ask questions.

A'ight, don't sweat me
right now, Pernessa, a'ight?

I need you right now,
okay? Come on. Come on.

Jerome, what's up, man? Come on.

♪ ♪

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

[CAR CHIRPS]

[SIGHS] Come on, Marvin, where you at?

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[PAGER BUZZING]

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

Look, we're just gonna
throw some sh*t in a bag

and be out, a'ight?

Got no time to...

no time to linger.

- [SIRENS WAILING]
- [OFFICER] Come on, buddy.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILS]

[BURKE] We need to talk.

Who told you someone
was out hunting cops?

[JUKEBOX SCOFFS]

[BURKE] Don't f*ck with
me, Laverne, not tonight.

- Why he going through my sh*t?
- [BURKE] Don't worry about him.

Focus on me and this conversation.

Look, I didn't want
nothing to happen to y'all,

so I told you to watch your back.

Turns out, I was right. You're welcome.

We're not friends, Laverne. I'm a cop.

And my partner got sh*t tonight,

and somehow, someway, you
knew it was gonna happen,

and I need you to tell me how.

You know what happen to
snitches on the Southside.

- [BURKE] We'll protect you.
- Right.

[SCOFFS] 'Cause y'all
so good at protecting us.

Look, like I said, Unique's been beefing

about a re-up y'all taxed a while back.

Yeah, you said that, but you didn't say

that he was gonna sh**t a cop.

- And I'm not saying that now.
- [BURKE SCOFFS]

I'm just saying what
people are talking about.

You can make up your own
mind about what that means.

What about your aunt? Your cousin?

Their names keep coming up

in almost every f*cking crime
we got on the Southside.


Aunt Raq and Kanan ain't
got nothing to do with this.

Your aunt's a drug dealer.

Aunt Raq sells hair.

Where are they right now?

sh*t, they probably hiding out

from all you wild-ass
cops with everybody else.

It's about to be open
season on n*gg*s for y'all.

Well, she's got clothes,

guys' clothes, and a couple
hundred bucks in cash.


Why you got guys' clothes?

I wear whatever the f*ck I wanna wear.

[BURKE] We're not worried
about her f*cking wardrobe.


What else is in there?

[GARCIA] This.

That ain't got sh*t to do with you.

Should I open it?

No.

We got what we need.

Go home, Laverne.

You're right. It's not
safe for you out here.

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILING]

[JESSICA] I'm taking you
back to the hospital.


f*ck that. Keep driving.

[BREATHES RASPINGLY]

["STREET LIFE" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

Yo, do y'all hear this?

Y'all f*cking hear this, right?

[FAMOUS] ♪ I'm too famous... ♪

Hell yeah, I do.

Yo, they playing my f*cking song!

They playing our sh*t, Lou.

Nah, this is crazy!

Yo, they playing my sh*t, y'all!

They must have copped
a tape or something.

Lou, they're playing our sh*t.

- [FAMOUS] Yo!
- Yeah, it is.

[SIREN WAILING]

[JESSICA SIGHS]

Get me to Baisley.

[FAMOUS] ♪ Streets need a body... ♪

What's up, y'all?

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

- We good? -
[BODY-MAN] Yeah.

[RAQ] This is everything from the spot?

[BODY-MAN] Mm-hmm.

Police getting stupid out there.

Which is why we moving it tonight.

'Bout to toss the f*ck
out of that bodega.


We needed our sh*t gone.

Five-O about to be tossing up
these projects tonight too.


When they show up, we
gotta do this okey-doke.

Sure you wanna be here for that?

Well, gotta make sure
our sh*t move right.

It's about to be the first
night of the rest of our lives.

- That dinner?
- Yeah.

♪ ♪

[KEYS JINGLING]

[LOCKS CLICKING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Relax, n*gga. It's me.

- n*gga, I almost... man.
- [JUKEBOX LAUGHS]

Look. Yo.

I'ma stay with him 'til he out.

- [LOCKS CLICKING]
- Your mom sent me

with some cash and some clothes.

[KANAN PANTING]

You know what I did?

How you feeling?

I had to do it.

Dude was coming after me and my family.

He had to go.

- You know that's how we do.
- Shut the f*ck up

with all that tough-guy
bullshit, Kanan.

I know you better than anybody.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYS]

You shook, n*gga. I
can see it all over you.

And you should be shook, by the way.

You just a dumbass boy.

I mean, everything you
touch, you f*ck up.


Dude, what?

But that's how it's supposed to be.

Look, you supposed to f*ck up.

See, you supposed to f*ck
up, dust your sh*t off,

and-and-and-and keep
being a dumbass kid.

Nobody's supposed to get hurt.

But that's not how it works for us.

We playing in this grown folks' world.

We can't just wipe our
fuckups off us like that.

We doing sh*t that's
gonna stay with us forever.

Look, we deciding who we gon'
be for the rest of our lives


without even knowing
who the f*ck we are now.

I know who I am, Juke.

You don't, n*gga.

You have no idea who the f*ck you are.

And you think you do.

And that's what makes sh*t so scary.

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[SIREN WAILING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

You two go home.

Hey, what about you?

I'll be a'ight.

- Where's Raq?
- Eight.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[HORN HONKS]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[HORN BLARES]

Yo, what the hell, man?

Dude!

[OFFICER] License and registration.

- Just heading home.
- License.

Check him out.

Where you been tonight, Mr. Thomas?

Uh, visiting a friend uptown.

- Been there all night?
- Why does it matter, uh, where I been?

Sit tight.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Hands where I can see 'em.

Yo, man, I ain't-I
ain't- I ain't done sh*t.

Step out of the car.

I don't know what the f*ck this is,

but y'all got the wrong dude.

[OFFICER] You got a
brand-new f*cking warrant


for felony drug possession
with intent to distribute.


- The f*ck I do!
- Get the f*ck out!

[MARVIN] Relax. Relax, man.

Don't need to be pointing no g*ns.

You don't tell me what
to do, m*therf*cker!

I'm sure it's just a
big misunderstanding.

Let's not lose our
f*cking heads, all right?

Only one here who's gonna
lose their f*cking head is you!

Get the f*ck out!

I'm-I'm-I'ma-I'ma-I'ma
step out the car

r-r-real-real
slow and sh*t.

[OFFICER] We'll see about
that. Get the f*ck out.

♪ ♪

Oh, sh...

[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]

[PAGER BUZZING]

[RAQ] Here we go.

Raise our peoples down on seven.

Soon as the cops done with them,

they gonna give us a heads-up,
and we gon' hit this drop

with everything we got up in here.

[WHEEZING] Have you lost your damn mind?

Let me talk to my brother
alone for a minute.

It's gon' take them some time
before they get up to seven,

but as soon as you get that page,

you get in here, and you start loading.

Howard. For real, Raq?

When you get out the hospital?

[LOU-LOU] Are you f*cking crazy, Raq?

You know what you started out here?

Hmm?

Was it Marvin?

- Does it matter?
- [LOU-LOU] It do.

Especially when they round
us up and start lying to us,

trying to get us to flip on each other.

Yeah, I think this sh*t f*cking matters.

Kanan.

No.

Oh, no.

I don't even know what
to say to you right now.

Well, then don't say nothing,

- 'cause I don't need to hear it right now.
- [LOU-LOU] Yeah, you do.

You need to f*cking hear it.

You had your only son
sh**t a f*cking cop.

It had to be done.

- They not gon' stop 'til they find him.
- [RAQ] Look, he's safe.

Marvin's gon' take him out of town,

soon as he answers my f*cking page.

What the f*ck are you doing, Raq?

I'm winning.

Win...

Well, I'm through with this sh*t.

I'm out the mix.

I'm out the business.

I can't do this sh*t no more.

I should have been done

when you had me put down young boy.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, but I stayed in it

'cause I thought we was in it together.

'Cause I love you.

But this is bigger than me.

It's bigger than us. I
can't do this sh*t no more.

I'm not doing it. I'm done.

Nah, ain't nobody ever done, n*gga.

You in, you always in.

- You threatening me?
- I'd never thr*aten you.

Just like I ain't never
gon' let you walk away.

We a team, Lou.

In fact, we way more than a team.

We family.

We share everything and everyone.

Nothing that's mine ain't yours.

And it works the other way too.

Your sh*t is my sh*t.

For example, your recording studio,

yeah, that's my recording studio.

It's a record label.

It ain't a studio.

And it's clean, and
it's gon' stay that way.

[RAQ] Clean, right.

Where you get the money
to pay for it, Lou?

Nothing we touch is clean, n*gga.

Just the fact your hands
on it make it dirty.

You can't scrub out what we do.

It stain everything.

And them stains, they
don't come out in the wash.

[LOU-LOU] We can walk away.

Make legit bread.

Both of us.

We got enough we could buy
up whole blocks in the hood


and turn them into
whatever the f*ck we want.

- Me and you.
- Look, we don't have enough yet, Lou.

But we will.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYS]

You gonna offer up your only son for it?

Ain't nobody offering up nothing.

This sh*t is an investment.

In Kanan, in you, in
Marvin, in all of our future.

I'm doing this for y'all.

But y'all don't see it,
'cause you don't want to.

Everybody, they want the reward,

but don't nobody wanna take on the risk.

So I take it.

I take it, I flip it,
and I turn the sh*t out.

♪ ♪

I'm about to be the last bitch
standing up in this m*therf*cker.

[OBJECTS CLATTERING]

- [OFFICER] No?
- [OFFICER GRUNTS] Nothing.

[OFFICER GRUNTS]

It's clean.

[SIGHS]

Keep moving, then.

Door-to-f*cking-door. No one leaves.

No one gets past us.

[OFFICER SCOFFS]

[INDISTINCT RADIO
CHATTER, MUFFLED YELLING]

Send the page upstairs.

[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

You done rung a bell
you can't unring, Raq.

I ain't trying to unring nothing.

In fact, I'm trying to get
our sh*t to ring the f*ck out.

Just got the page. They on their way up.

All right, move it.
All of it. Right now.

♪ ♪

Look, yo, I know you got
your sh*t with Marvin,

but my mother don't want
nothing to happen to us.

A'ight, we good. She got us.

You know this.

She just had you hit a cop.

♪ ♪

We need to know what
you saw or heard tonight.

Shh.

[BURKE] A cop got sh*t. Talk to me.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

[JULIANA] People don't like
it when you talk to the police.

[BURKE] Police don't like
it when people don't talk.

So take your pick: us or them?

What's this door back here
with all the locks on it?

♪ ♪

Has that camera been on all night?

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

You saw something, didn't you?

- I don't want any trouble.
- What'd you see?

I'll arrest you for
obstruction right f*cking now.

[TENSE MUSIC BUILDING]

♪ ♪

It was that man.

- The one with the jacket.
- What jacket?

The one he wears all the time,
with his name on its back.

Unique.

Seems like he's a f*cking
recurring theme tonight.

Was he running from the park?

And you got him on camera.

Gimme that tape.

Let's put it out on the Finest system...

Kadeem Mathis, street name Unique.

We're gonna need to take an
official statement from you.

And when we come back,
we're gonna search the spot,

so make sure we don't
find anyone running numbers

or a card game in the back there.

[DOOR BELL JINGLES]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[RAQ SIGHS]

[OFFICER] We got nothing here, boss.

Ah, yeah, it's gon' be
about another minutes.

Corn bread's worth the wait, fellas.

Ain't that right, Lou?

♪ ♪

Whatever you say, sis.

Little late to be eating.

[RAQ] Well, it's a little
late to be kicking down doors.

Besides, my guys, they always hungry.

I was told you just moved in?

Recently, yeah.

What the f*ck's up with him?

Car accident.

Lucky he's still here with us.

Yeah, all right.

You stay indoors.

It's not gonna be safe out there.

Thank you for the warning, Officer.

Yeah, f*ck it. Let's go.

[PHONE RINGING]

[RAQ] Hey, take it easy.

Slow down, Juliana.

Well, he was supposed
to be there by now.


I'll... I'ma call you back in a minute.

sh*t ain't going to plan, huh?

Got it handled.

Just getting Kanan out of town.

If you got it handled,

why Kanan need to go out of town?

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Yo, my lawyer's gonna
have all your asses.

Our confidential
informant says otherwise.

[LAUGHS]

Yo, who telling? Who you got?

They don't call it confidential
informants for nothing.

[PAGER BUZZING]

Hmm.

Someone's trying to really
get in contact with you.

Looks important.

Yo, f*ck you, Five-O.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ ♪

This n*gga could f*ck up a free lunch.

Answer my f*cking page, Marvin.

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[TOUCH TONES BEEPING]

I know you don't wanna hear from me.

But I wouldn't reach out if
I had anywhere else to turn.

'Nessa, come on.

Okay, come on. Get
the ones that you want.

You can't bring all of them, okay?

Come on. Hurry up.

♪ ♪

The f*ck?

Tricky-ass bitch.

What?

[DOOR CRASHES]

- [OFFICERS SHOUTING]
- Don't move! Don't move!

LAPD! Get on the ground!

- Move!
- Stay the f*ck down!

- [UNIQUE] I'm down. I'm down.
- [OFFICER] Search the rest of the apartment.

- [PERNESSA] Get off of him!
- Stay back!

Stop! Leave him alone!

[UNIQUE] Pernessa,
don't move, all right?


- 'Rome, stay where you at.
- That looks like blood.

- Sure as hell does.
- You know, k*lling a cop,

it's a capital offense.

We are gonna set you on
fire for this one, homeboy.


Man, I ain't do it. I
got ten m*therf*ckers

- who can vouch for me, a'ight?
- Shut the f*ck up!

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[MAN] Open it.

[LOCKS CLICKING]

♪ ♪

She sent me.

Come on.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

It's clear.

Come on.

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

[KANAN] Oh, sh*t.

Hey, man.

I love you.

Love you too, Juke.

Hey. Get in.

Go on.

♪ ♪

[CAR STARTS]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SCOFFS] That's who you got?

Toni your big CI?

Yo, Toni let you hit that ass
all night for an eight-ball.

Maybe less if you a brother.

[TONI] You're a f*cking pig, Marvin!

f*cking pig!

[MARVIN SMOOCHES]

[SCOFFS]

[SIREN WAILING]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

She's gonna die or go to prison,

and you're gonna be
right there with her.

You got the label.

It's all yours.

It's all you need.

So just go.

Bounce on this drug sh*t.

You don't need it.

Be done with your
sister and all of that.


Just like I told you
when I first met you,

you're better than that.

You're smarter than her,

and you're bigger than her, Lou.

Shut the f*ck up and drive, Jess.

[THE LITTLE BOY BLUES'
"SEED OF LOVE" PLAYING]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] I spent all
this time telling y'all


the rules to this sh*t,
the ways to the game.


How it works. How it don't work.

The truth is, though,
when the sh*t goes down,


ain't no rules.

♪ Please awake me now ♪

♪ ♪

♪ My heart is weepin' ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Seed of love ♪

[LAUGHS]

♪ Seed of hate ♪

[LAUGHS TEARFULLY]

♪ How can this be... ♪

[GROWN KANAN] End of the day,

it's every n*gga for himself.

Um, I just saw his jacket.

That is all. I-I-I
didn't see his face.

♪ I can't wait ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Night of fear ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I can't understand ♪

♪ ♪

♪ What this means ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Will I ever be able ♪

♪ To laugh again ♪

♪ Ever be able ♪

♪ To laugh again ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[MONITORS BEEPING]

♪ ♪

[GROANS]

Holy sh*t, you're alive!

Captain! Captain!

D-don't move. Don't-don't
do anything at all.

What happened? Do you remember?

Can you talk? Talk to me.

Malcolm? Can you talk to me?

Talk to me, okay? Who did this to you?

Who sh*t you?

Malcolm, who sh*t you?

♪ ♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[SIREN WAILING]

[GROWN KANAN] When it all goes wrong,

ain't nobody checkin' for you but you.

You on your own.

See, in this sh*t,

the only thing that you can trust

is that you can't trust.

Not nobody. Not ever.

Not even your own mama.

♪ Seed of love ♪

♪ Might have been ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Our seed of love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Seed of love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Oh, seed of love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Seed of love ♪

♪ ♪
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