(Magic Man" by Heart playing)
* Cold late nights so long ago *
* When I was not so strong you know *
* A pretty man can to me *
* Never seen eyes so blue *
* You know I could not
run away,it seemed *
* We'd seen each other in a dream *
* It seemed like he knew me *
* He looked right through me *
* Yeah Come on home,girl,he
said with a smile *
* You don't have to love me
and let's get high awhile *
* But try to understand,try
to understand *
* Try,try,try to understand *
* Try to understand,try to understand *
* Try,try,try to understand *
* He's a magic man *
Got to say,Scotty,not a bad cook.
Even learning to pick up after himself.
Forget it. I ain't taking Vera.
You want him out of your
place,man up and tell him.
How about just for a weekend?
Hey,Lil... Have mercy.
Colin Blake.
Embezzlement,fraud,as*ault.
Fresh out of the can.
- Here to tell us you're innocent?
- I wish I was.
I'm not making any excuses.
Stealing from dead and
disabled servicemen.Pretty cold.
And that got you years in Allenwood?
Ten to .
Tried to break out a few months in,and a
CO got hurt and the judge doubled me up.
You sound like an angry guy,Colin.
You'd've been angry,too.
The reason I tried to break
out-- my daughter,Sarah.
Found stabbed to death in an abandoned
lot two months after I went in.
years old.
Sarah was everything to me.
Her mom d*ed when she was .
Just the two of us.
Stood by me through the trial.
Up to the night before I went in.
You'll finish out your last
fe weeks of school here.
Uh,then I've made arrangements for
you to stay with your Aunt Laura.
Dad,I'm not leaving.
We're gonna fight this.
You're innocent.
Sarah... I'm not.
I can't forget that look--
her knowing I was a criminal.
Any suspects in her m*rder.
Nothing.
The detective thought she was a runaway.
years-- no leads,and then yesterday
I get released and I find this.
The Jackals.
Outlaw motorcycle g*ng.
Know who the guy in this photo is?
I was hoping you could tell me.
- Where'd you get this?
- Prison stored my checked belongings.
Somebody must have slipped it in
there,knowing I'd find it when I got released.
Jackals MC's hardcore--
dr*gs,g*ns,extortion.Sarah was a good girl.
An honor roll student.Good athlete.
The picture's from the Fourth of July.
A few months after I went in and
a few days before... she was k*lled.
You thinking she was tore up over
what you did,started acting out?
Sarah believed in me.I let her down.
She must have been desperate.
Detectives,I have to know--
what happened to my little girl?
Sarah Blake--
years old.
Stabbed over times.
Dumped in an shallow
grave near Hog Island Road.
Kn*fe blade broke off in her
sternum.That's a lot of rage.
Defensive wounds on the arms and
hands.The girl put up a fight.
The Philadelphia Jackals are still
around today--meth trade,prostitution...
It's less about riding than
running a criminal enterprise.
Who was the leader of that pack in ' ?
John Clark-- aka "Shameless."
And still at it today.
Rap sheet about ran
the printer out of ink.
What's a -year-old honor student
running around with these losers?
Betrayed by your dad,nowhere to
go... bad boys start looking good.
Said the girl who ran off
with a man on a motorcycle.
He was different.
Frank,are you able to get
anything off the photo?
Instamatic camera.
About as common as it gets.
See the one-percenter patch?That's
an outlaw badge of honor.
The one percent of the bikers
who cause % of all the trouble.
I got a buddy on the state police task force
watchdogging the Jackals.I'll see what he can run down.
We need to find out whop put
that photo in Colin's box.
Prison trustees with
access to the storage area?
Dad might have overstated
Sarah's good girl status.
School records have her
suspended for fighting.
Took a sh*t at some girl for
mouthing off about her dad.
Another girl jumped in and
wound up getting expelled.
Libby Traynor.
Partner in crime or a bad
influence on a good girl?
Might know about her
walk on the wild side.
I'll talk to her.
I'll hit the Jackals'
clubhouse,see what's what.
You're spitting in the
wind,Scotty.Bikers don't talk to cops.
Oh,that's 'cause nobody ever sent me.
Hey,don't worry.I'll be polite.
Yeah,just the same,take somebody along.
Watch your back.
Keep you from putting your foot in it.
You Shameless?
Couple questions about Sarah Blake,girl
you might have known back in ' .
Never heard of her.
All right,listen,jackass...
You want to talk to
me,you talk to the club.
I'd think real hard before you
make your next move,Shameless.
So much for polite.
Libby Traynor?
That's me.
You looking for highlights?
Looking for information.
You recognize anyone in this photo?
Freedom Run?
Can't say I remember that one.
Well,took a look into your record,Libby.
Uh,hung around with the Jackals
Motorcycle Club back in the ' s.
I wound up marrying one of those idiots.
Got k*lled on a bike in ' .
Best thing that ever happened to me.
Bygone days.
I bought this salon,left
all that behind.
Now I own three of them in Philly.
What about Sarah Blake?Remember her?
Her old man got in trouble,right?
About years' worth of it.
Prissy brats at school turned on
her,treating her like she was dirt.
There was nothing left
for Sarah but the outcasts.
("Show Me the Way" by
Peter Frampton playing)
Ah,dirtbag kegger.
Warm beer.
I mean,there has got to be a better
party than this somewhere And with ice.
Just... just another
minute.I got to find Libby.
Uh,there she is.
Sarah!
- Can't believe you showed up.
- Libby,did they expel you?
Don't care.Got a place
to stay-- this is better.
Screw 'em,right?
Who do I phone?
Hardtail.' Panhead. Rigid.
I built the pipes myself.
It's beautiful.
Nothing like it in the world.
That's the midnight howl,citizens!
You are now officially on Jackal time!
So,if you ain't patched MC or property
of the MC,time to get lost is right now.
Except you,darling.
You can stay.
We're leaving,Sarah.
Now.
Hell of a party.
Don't think I saw her much after that.
Not really her crowd.
Guy she was talking to with the
bike... he the one in this photo?
People came and went.
But what about this boyfriend,the
one who pulled her away?
Possessive jerk from school.
Mark... something.
Guy was a tool.Smacking her around.
How do you know?
Two things I know,sweetheart: hair
and guys who like to hit women.
Only one of 'em I can fix.
Nice-looking bunch.
Like a group photo from
the Scumbag Glee Club.
Well,Shameless was
sergeant-at-arms of the Jackals.
Took over the club when the
president got k*lled on a bike.
New regime got a lot more violent.
No matches for the Philly Jackals
crossing with Colin Blake in the pen.
Hunt down hang-arounds,ex-affiliates,any
insiders with an a* to grind.
Club women,maybe.
Only considered useful
for sex and running dr*gs.
Nice names.Come in as a "Sweetbutt" and work
your way up to "Sheep" and graduate to "Old Lady.
" Sarah went in with a blind eye towards her
place in the pecking order.Could have got ugly.
What about this kid,Mark,who
brought her to the party?
Will's talking to him now.
Libby was right about one thing.
Mark Callahan picked up a sheet for as*ault
in college,slapping around an ex-girlfriend.
This going to take long?
Somewhere you got to be?
Deposition in a beep-beep case at : .
Car accident.
Korean guy blows a stop sign,sideswipes
my client into a flower stand.
Everybody's suing everybody.Damn mess.
Civil litigation.Takes a special breed.
Balls of steel,my
fend.Nothing else will do.
You said this was about Sarah Blake.
You two have a thing back in ' ?
Hooked up in high school.
Long time ago.
- What happened,she dump you?
- Please.
Right.You don't get dumped.
Girlfriend tried it in college.Campus
security d to pull you off of her.
Not the way I remember it.
ter Sarah's death.
Didn't bother to mention taking her to
parties with the local motorcycle g*ng.
Sarah was the one who
was into those dirtbags.
Not me.
- Hardtail ' Panhead...
- A beauty and a love for bikes.
What are you doing here?
I saw the way you were looking
at my bike at the party.
I know that look.
Oh,you do,huh?
That's the look of somebody who wants to take off and
tell everyone to go to hell.Leave all this behind...
Thinyou can help me with that?
I know I can.
Bro,that's beautiful.
That is truly beautiful,Casanova.
- That is some really top-dollar BS
there.- Mark,I told you to leave me alone.
Oh,looks like you took a wrong turn,bro.
Never touch a guy's ride,bro.
Had to miss the rest
of the lacrosse season.
Jaw wired shut,lost two teeth.
Sarah turns up dead in ' .
You don't think to mention this guy?
Stayed out of it.She made her choice.
Remember a name,at least?
- Yeah.Darren.
- Darren what?
Darren who kicked my ass.
Tell you what,you find that guy,you
better bring along some backup.
No rap sheet on Darren.Whatever
he was up to,he never got caught.
Libby said people came and
went.Guy was just a hangaround?
Hangaround wouldn't be wearing
colors.Maybe got the name wrong.
Name's right.
Jackals' clubhouse was part of a
repair shop owned by Martin Malloy.
Founding president
of the Philly Jackals.
And Malloy was k*lled in
' .Left the clubhouse to his son,
who then signed it over in trust
to the Jackals Motorcycle Club.
- Darren Malloy.
- Son of a Jackal.
So Sarah wasn't hopping on the
bike behind some hangaround kid.
She was... riding straight
into the Jackals' inner circle.
The kid didn't know what
she was getting into.
Quite an operation,Darren.
Turn around two custom
rides a week, grand a pop.
Yuppie choppers.
percenters.Everybody
wants a piece of the road.
QuQuite a step up from
the garage your dad owned.
Jackals.
Stole it out from under
me,made me sign it over to them.
That don't seem rht,you being
blood to one of the original ten.
That's me,but I wasn't one of them.
Not the way your patch tells it.
Son of the fnder of the Jackals MC.
That didn't mean nothing to them.
Dad got k*lled,just meant I had
to work harder to prove myself.
I wasn't allowed to wear the logo patch.
My dad's jacket,they tore it
off,said I had to earn my colors.
Even though you were a legacy?
Still just a prospect.Pretty
much meant I was their bitch.
Considered me "righteous" 'cause I
knew how to fix bikes,like my dad.
- So,why the break?
- I wasn't cut out for that life.
Way too rough for me.
I was never as hardcore as they
were and they never let me forget it.
That's not how Mark Callahan tells it.
Remember him?Worked him over with
a chain behind Blessed Trinity?
Yeah,I went after that kid.
He was bigger than me.I didn't want
to get my ass kicked in front of Sarah.
Well,gotta wonder-- what's a nice girl like
Sarah doing with a biker thug like you,Darren?
My dad got k*lled on a bike.
Her dad was gone.
We just kind of found each other.
Man,she loved to ride.
Thought it was about me,but she was...
looking for more than a boyfriend.
So you brought her to the Jackals.
Jackals came with a dark side and
she was wearing blinders to it.
I can't believe you made me ride
this garbage wagon,man.What gives?
That's what gives,junior.
You had me running that
crap without telling me?
What the hell,man?
Don't you ever question us in
front of some sweetbutt,understand?
Ever.
- I got it.
- Good.
You gotta earn your keep,prospect.
Want you to run this package up to
Pittsburgh,represent the Jackals.
Got a problem with that?
- No.
- Get your ass on the road.
I'm going to get you
home,get you out of this.
Home?What home would that be?
I think I'm gonna stay.
You don't get it,Sarah.
These guys are running felony weight.
Everybody's a criminal.
At least the Jackals
are up-front abo it.
Sarah!
Nobody cares what my
father did here,Darren.
At least I know where I stand.
You just left her there?
That whole scene was
just too much for me.
I never made that run to Pittsburgh.
But Sarah wanted to stay?
This guy with the Kn*fe...?
Monster.
Shameless's chief
enforcer.Sadistic son of a bitch.
He loved to get his hands dirty.
I'm tellin' ya,the guy
has a place for everything.
Except you.
Situation's about to get
critical at Casa Jeffries.
If I could just... think
of somewhere else to stay...
Dude,been working together what,forever?
Just ask,man.
So,can I crash at your place for awhile?
- No.
- No. No.
Scotty,what's the
story on this "Monster"?
Chief enforcer of the Jackals,but
we got no jacket on him at all--
no name,no arrests,no prison,nothin'.
Don't make sense.
I had my guy at the state police
run the name,see if we get a hit.
Got something with Colin.
Storage room trustee at FCI
Allenwood was a former Jackal.
- Pittsburgh chapter.
- You recognize the guy?
Burke... never said anything
to me about being a biker.
Got popped in ' for kidnapping
and murdering a drug dealer.
Met him on his first day in.
Knew the guy years.
And he knew this was k*lling me
- why didn't he just tell me?
Probably scared.
's helping u now.
He could know more.If he
knows who k*lled Sarah...
Well,Burke's been in
Allenwood a long time.
Bet he'd love having some visitors.
Oh,man... What the hell is this?
No doc todayBurke; Just us cops.
Here about a photo you
dropped on Colin Blake.
His dead daughter with
your motorcycle crew.
I don't know anything about that photo.
And I don't appreciate you
ambushing my clinic time.
Well,how about I pretend I'm your
proctologist,and shove my foot up your ass?
Come on,Burke-- Jackals sold
you out,let you rot in here.
Sold you out for k*lling a drug dealer.
- That's cold.
- Yeah.
Some tweaker I kept in my storage
shed till he gave up his stash.
You know,I,I pass out,I forgot about
him a couple of days,he winds up dead.
Heatstroke.
The bastards sold me out when the feds started
sniffing around,protect their precious drug trade.
This is two weeks after the
photo you dropped on Colin.
Want to have a look closer?
Guy got you out of the hole.Jackals
didn't help you out; Colin did.
You know something,give
the man some peace.
I took that sh*t the Bicentennial Run.
You know,pretty girl on a
bike,somethin' to remember.
You see her after that?
Yeah,just one time.
I was in Philly as a connection
for the Pittsburgh boys.
- Where?
- Clubhouse.
She tried to act tough,but it was
obvious the kid didn't belong there.
("Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent playing)
She's jailbait,man,look at her.
She's just like all the other sheep,expecting
a free ride,offering nothing up.
What is it you're doing here,princess?
What is it you want me to do?
We're gettin' jacked by the fuzz every
time we roll colors outside the gate.
Need somebody won't attract attention.
I'll do it.
Carry the package for you.
Wherever you need it to go.
Listen to the prom queen.
But you gotta be straight with me.
If I'm carrying,I gotta know what it
is,what to expect when I get there.
No surprises.
You got a deal.
It's about time you started
pullin' your weight around here.
Girl had guts,and
Monster didn't like that.
Time she turned up
dead,Monster'd lit out.
Left the club?
Nobody ever heard from him again.
See,MC's real particular about who you
can and can't k*ll-- believe me,I'd know.
She was useful-- Shameless
wanted that girl alive.
You sayi Monster k*lled her?
Explain why he disappeared.
Maybe he hauled ass and maybe
Shameless k*lled him as an example.
Either way--
good riddance.
Excuse me.
Looking for Will.
- Will Jeffries?
- He here?
- Will?
- Who knows?
Staties found our Monster.
They got a sheet under an alias?
Better.Monster's real
name was James Drew.
Chief enforcer for the
Jackals Motorcycle Club.
Monster... was a cop.
There he goes.
James Drew,Philly PD.
Easy.
You dropped pretty far
off the grid... Monster.
I haven't heard the name
Monster in a long time.
Be about ' ,I guess.
Undercover inside the most violent motorcycle club in
Philly,then all of a sudden you drop off the face of the earth?
Blacked out your tats.Not
a Jackal,not a cop.
So what are you,Monster?
I didn't want their mark on me anymore.
What happened?What drove you out?
Shameless invited me to prospect into
the Jackals after we served in 'Nam.
Didn't know I'd hit the academy
in the meantime,got my badge.
First ever investigation of
an outlaw club anybody tried.
Well,easy to get lost
playing both sides.
You ever done undercover,Detective?
Um,somebody I know... he's
in right now.It's tough.
I were you,I wouldn't bet my
pension on ever seeing h again.
Seductive world--
power,freedom.
Mostly it was the dr*gs.
I got hooked and lost myself in it.
What about Sarah Blake?
Sarah was the reason I left.
- She didn't belong there.
- You knew her.
Girl was jacking up my investigation.
Most of those MC guys were idiots.
She was smart.
And smart was a liability for me inside.
Hello?
I told you you don't belong here.
Think this is a game,little girl?
I-I got the money in my car.
D-Did everything just like you
told me.Shameless said I'd be safe.
Shameless?
Girl,who do you think
put us together alone?
There's only way you got
any value around here.
No! I'm not one of your sheep!
You're nothing but an animal.
Sarah,get the hell out of here.
Now. Go!
She was right,I was an anil.
I got my gear,hopped on my bike and
blew the hell out of there that night.
You didn't know Sarah had been k*lled?
All I could think about was
getting clean and never look back.
If I had stayed,did my
job,she might've had a chance.
I messed up.
When she left that night,know
where she was headed?
She was riding the sofa of some girl who
was angling to be Shameless's old lady.
Libby something.
Libby Traynor.
Real operator,that one.
Cold as ice.
Well,how do we know you didn't
do her in yourself,Monster?
You don't.
Guess you're gonna be taking me in.
Looked hard at Libby
Traynor's financials.
Hinky all the way down.
The deposit slips don't jibe with her account
activity,and tax records don't jibe with her address.
Well,the DEA shakedown on one
of her shops six years ago--
popped the manager for
possession with intent.
Down payment on her salon comes from the
same trust that owns the Jackals repair shop.
Starting to sound like a front
for the club's meth trade.
Burke got shanked in his cell.
CO fou him dead this morning.
Jackals are closing ranks.
All we got against them now is Libby.
There she goes.
Need a reason to pull her over.
Well,now we got one.
She have that bag when she went in?
Nope.
Let her get a few
blocks,then light her up.
You lied to us,Libby.
Jackals are still using
you,after all these years.
Nobody uses me.
A pound of meth in that diaper bag.
Only hair you're gonna be
doing is your cellmate's.
Bring it.I got my people.
Well,Jackals already k*lled
Burke to protect their secret.
Think they won't do the same
to a used-up sheep like you?
I'll take my chances.
Don't kid yourself.
A woman in that club--
you're property,nothing more.
Property that can be
bought orold or eliminated.
Just like that.
You got to set me up outside
of Philly,away from them.
- First,tell me what happened to Sarah
- I don't know.
Oh,come on,Libby.She was
sleeping on your sofa.
You knew everything
going on at that club.
Tried to jump the line.
Figured running dr*gs for
Shameless'd get her in cheap.
Compared to what?
The way you and the other
sheep had to pay your dues?
Stupid girl didn't get it.
We were part of something.
We were family.
Only hurts the first time.
After that... they respect you.
Darren was right.
I don't belong here.
Destiny Where you gonna go,sweetie?
Your daddy's mansion?
Jackals are all you've got left now.
I gotta get out of this,Libby.
You still got Shameless' money.
Pull yourself together.Take it back.
- He'll talk sense into you.
- Shameless set me up once.
I'm not going back there.
I'll leave the
monehere.You take it to him.
Oh,honey.
Not my mess.
You made it you clean it up.
When she
left--
the look on her face... I figured
she might do something stupid.
Talk to the cops maybe.
- And you called Shameless.
- Only thing I could do.
She was going off the reservation.
With his money.
You're gonna do the right
thing now,Libby.For Sarah.
You're gonna give me
the Jackals,understand?
Or I'm gonna give you to them.
The ckals hold their chapter
meetings at the clubhouse.
Church,they call it.
They kept minutes of
every move they ever made.
Five minutes to sunup.
Ready to roll on these fools?
Right behind you.
let's do this
Drop your weapons! Get down!
Drop your weapons! Now!
Down on the ground!
Detective!
years of church meetings.
Every detail accounted for.Every
move the Jackals ever made.
A good read.
Know what I liked most?
There were surprises.
Digging through expecting to nail
Shameless down for Sarah's m*rder.
But what I found was you.
I told you,I quit the Jackals.
But not when you said you did.
Minutes show you came back from that
Pittsburgh run,the very night Sarah was k*lled.
Also shows you brought in the
take from Sarah's run to New York.
Now,howd you wind up
with her money,Darren?
You must have the dates wrong.
You said yourself you were a prospect.
Pretty much their bitch.
They told you something
needed to be done,you did it.
No questions asked.
No,I could never hurt Sarah.
So maybe you tried to help
her.Last time anyone saw her,
she... was talking about you.
Darren,you were the last
person she trusted in the world.
Don't let her down again.
She called me and said
she was in trouble.
I don't... I don't
know what to do,Darren.
I should have listened to you.
All right,I'm here.
I'll help you.
I still got Shameless'
money from the run.
I-I-I don't want to...
I can't see him again.
Wh-What am I gonna do?
Sarah,let's run.
You and me.We don't need anybody else.
Darren... w-we can't.
There's nothing left
for you here.Me either.
Let's just take this money
and go and never look back.
- But my father...
- ...Is gone.
He let you down.
I won't.I'll take care of you.
I'll be your family now.
You gotta trust me.
She wouldn't go with me,so
I just... I just rode away.
And took the money and
just... left her there alone?
Nowhere to go?
I can't believe you would do that.
I mean,you cared about her,right?
Yes,I cared about her.
So,she climbed up behind you
on that bike and you rode away.
And then what happened?
Did you realize how
much trouble you were in?
The only way to save yourself from
the Jackals,to redeem yourself--
- take care of the problem for them.
- No.
I would never ever hurt her.
Then who did?
You don't gotta talk,Shameless.
We'll lay it out for you.
Got testimony from ex-affiliates-- about years
of methamphetamine trade across three states.
That makes it federal time.
Got your club minutes,outlining every stupid,illegal-ass
activity you and your buddies ever engaged in.
Real smooth,Jack.We
love stuff in writing.
And we got your old prospect,Darren Malloy,in the
next room giving you up for Sarah Blake's m*rder.
Only ride you're gonna be
taking now... is upstate.
Punk will never sing.
- No?
- Prospect or not.
No Jackal talks to cs.
Oh,yeah.
You know everything
about the Jacks,right?
Everything worth knowing.
Recognize him?
That's your
boy-- Monster.
Your sergeant at arms.
- You know he was state police?
- You brought him into the club.
Vouched for a cop,across the board.
Man,rest of the MC finds out about that,it's gonna
be a cold winter watching your back in gen-pop.
See,you know everything about
the Jackals and now,so do we.
Want to take bets on your
boy Darren keeping his lid on?
You walked away from the
job before,and a girl d*ed.
Time for you to make it right.
What do you want?
Tell me everything
Shameless knows about Darren.
Shameless sold you out,Darren.
Shameless?
No way,never.
Your first bike was a Sportster ,'cause
you were too scrawny to handle an FLH.
A bitch bike.
That was no bitch bike.
- It was beautiful.
- And when your father got k*lled,you ran to Shameless.
You cried on his shoulder.
Remember what he told
you,Darren?********
He said,"Look around.
Every Jackal in this
room is your father now.
" Said they were gonna
raise you to have class.
You never cried again,did you?
Until the night you k*lled Sarah.
We were gonna run away together.
Just the two of us.
She trusted me.
But I let her down.
Because I was a coward.
Ofthe bike,prospect.
Your back warmer,too.
Let's go.
Thought you and your sheep could
just light out with my money?
- Shameless,wait.
- Your old man'd be ashamed.
He'd knock you on your
ass,if he were alive.
Shameless,we were gonna
bring you the money.
- I was on my way to see you.
- Is that right?
Last I checked,West Chester
Pike leads away from my door.
- No,I was gonna come...
- Hey,hey,hey,it's all right.
You're not the first brother
led astray by a woman.
Won't happen again,though.
Go get my shovel,prospect.
- Darren...
- Now!
Darren?Darren,Darren?
Darren!Don't let them do this Darren!
Darren!Darren!
Darren!Darren!
Darren!Darren!
("Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd plays)
* Mama told me *
* When I was young Come sit beside me *
* My only son *
* And listen closely *
* To what I say *
* And if you do this It'll help you *
* Some sunny day Oh,yeah *
* Oh,take your time
Don't live too fast *
* Troubles will come *
* And they will pass *
* Go find a woman And you'll find love *
* And don't forget,son
There is someone *
* Up above And this simple... *
* Kind of man Will be something *
* You love and understand *
* Baby,be a simple... *
* Kind of man Oh,won't you do this *
* For me,son,if you can... *
* Forget your lust For
the rich man's gold *
* All that you need Is in your soul *