04x05 - The Get Back

[bunniefuu]

I got that crazy m*therf*cker.

sh*t him myself.
You solid, saint?

If he's dead, everything's fine.

Skully: Find franklin saint!

I'm-a stone his bitch ass.

I'm-a stone him till he a
piece of sh*t on the concrete.

My name is tony marino.
You're looking for me.

You think you know the
story you're telling.

Who has the power to
derail a dea investigation,

then dissolve the m*rder charges

when the key witness
is a federal agent?

Is this real?
[Tony] Yes.

You called dfs on me?

To help us get fuentes.

And why the dfs would help us?

I'm with the cia,

which means that
you are now, too.

[Xiamara]
The people who did this.

Did you get them?

They ask about you.

Cedro especially.

Toma. Whatever you need.

What you want, saint?
Skully.

He both our problem now.

You the reason why
he coming after

me and mine in the first place.

Is that f*cking leon?
Skully's people right there.

[Khadijah] (screams) oh, my god!

(sobbing) My baby!

No!
[Fatback] Let's f*cking go, lee!

(tires screeching)
[khadijah] My baby!

(insects chirping)

[Ieon]
Aye, give me your lighter.

Hey, fatback, give
me your lighter.

Hey, you done this sh*t before?

Hell no, I ain't done this before.
(lighter flicks)

let's go.

Hey, we gonna have to split up.
Man, hell no.

I just k*lled a f*cking kid!

You got to get away from me.

This all I got.

Hey, look, I don't
want your money, man.

Can't go back to the
projects or anywhere else.

Less familiar the
better. Hear me?

Hey, maybe that
sh*t didn't wor...

Oh, sh*t!

(dogs barking)

♪ ♪

(footsteps)

Miss? Khadijah?

I'm going to ask
you one more time.

Can you tell me anything
about who did this?

Help me find who did this to your kid.
Where's my baby?!

(door closes)
baby?

My f*cking baby.

[Woman] Hospital security,
requesting assistance

in west, lower level.

(sobbing)

(skully yells)

Sir. Sir, you can't be here.
f*ck off, man!

(skully sobbing)

(continues sobbing)

♪ ♪

(siren wailing)

(tv playing indistinctly)

(lock clicks)

Whatever you done
got yourself into,

don't bring that mess in here.

I need the shovel.
It's not in the back.

You can go digging, but you
ain't gonna find nothing.

What the hell you talking about?

There was grand
buried back there.

There was. Now there ain't.

It's gone?

All of it?

Damn, mama, that was for
emergencies and sh*t.

I got plenty of emergencies.

I got to pay for
cookie's dialysis.

Precious got bit by a doberman.

Had to take her to the er.

So don't "damn, mama" me.

You ain't been around
here in months.

I'm the only reason why you got
this house in the first place.

You know I love you.

But I also love your
brothers and sisters,

and they are here
every night, so...

You can't stay here.

Just...

Here.

That's all I got.

You got some place to go?

(door opens, closes)

(siren wailing in distance)

How you feeling?

You need to go...

Before skully see you.

I'll leave.

Soon as you tell me
who k*lled my niece.

(lighter flicking)

I know I ain't been perfect.

Might've been a little
hard on you at times.

A little?

I didn't know what I was doing.

I was trying to raise
the three of y'all.

Stuff was messed up,
but I did my best.

n*gga, you sh*t up
my f*cking house.

I sh*t up the parking lot.

I knew you wasn't there.

What-the-f*ck-ever.

At the end of the
day, we still family.

You really think you 'bout
to use my daughter's death as

a get out of jail free card?
It ain't even like that.

Then sh*t, what's it like, drew?

I said I wasn't perfect.

Okay.

You know tianna so much,
what's her middle name?

(manboy sighs)

I shouldn't have came.

It's too soon, wound too fresh.

You ain't thinking straight.

n*gga, f*ck you.

All right.

Her middle name was
the same as mama's.

Shante.

But you right... I
really didn't know her.

Always felt like I had time.

I know how bad you
hurting right now.

I just want to make
sure whoever did this

feeling that same pain.

Just let me help.

(train horn blaring)

(indistinct chatter, coughing)

(chatter and coughing continue)

[Man] Man.

Colder than a penguin's
p*ssy out here.

You ain't cold?

That must be some of
that there terrycloth.

Man, I'm taking my
ass to the shelter.

Night, y'all.

Later.
All right, now.

Come on. Let's go.

(siren wailing nearby)

(woman coughing)

[Woman] Have some of that.

Got to get peaches back in
the mix soon as possible.

It's a bad time to lose muscle.

Well, we can push little rock
back a few days if you want.

(door opens)

What?

(door closes)

Ah.

Well, this must be important.

My five-year-old niece
was just m*rder*d.

You know, me and my sister,
we ain't that close no more

on account of my
falling-out with skully,

but it's funny how tragedy
can bring families together.

I just came from the morgue.

She still had
blood on her shirt.

Khadijah was right
there when it happened.

Imagine that.

Her baby girl dying in her arms.

One thing about it, though...

She got a real good
look at the sh**t.

Want to guess who it was?

Daffy m*therf*cking duck.

It was your boy...

Leon.

And when my people f*cked up,

I made it right.

I brought the transgressors
right to your doorstep.

I'm expecting that
same courtesy.

Y'all have a blessed night.

How you want to
play this, nephew?

(franklin sighs)

Uh...

Mm, before we do
anything, we got to know

what the cops know, right?

'Cause if this is true...
A dead five-year-old...

They're not gonna stop till
they get somebody in custody.

Louie: Look, we did
everything we could with leon,

but you can't save
people from themselves.

Yeah, but we the ones that
f*cked up with manboy and skully

to begin with... you
know that, right?

No, leon been
lighting his own fires

for the last three months.

If his ass had
just fell in line,

he wouldn't be in this sh*t.

He turned his back on
all of us, and for what?

As far as I'm concerned,
this is a leon problem.

Well, manboy just made
it all of our problem.

[Jerome] Look, way I see this,

we got two options right here:

We protect leon, go to w*r...

Or we give him up
and prevent one.

Man, look, I know
he your boy and all,

but... We go to w*r
with skully and manboy,

we ain't gonna survive that.

You got to hand
him over, franklin.

I got to find him first.

(clattering)
(dog barking)

(muffled voices in distance)

[Operator]
,what's your emergency?

(whispers) Hello?

I think there's someone in my house.

What is your address?

monument road, los angeles.

(laughter)

(gustavo speaking spanish)

Gustavo. What the
f*ck are you doing?!

(gustavo speaking spanish)

¿Verdad, carlito?

A story for you, carlito?

(laughter)

Take them back to my bedroom,
you all can sleep there tonight.

[Carlo]
Good night, uncle oso.

[Xiamara] Tío gustavo's leaving.

Go to sleep.
[Gustavo] Good night.

A la camita.
Ándale.

A la camita.

Carlito en la camita.

(laughs)

What happened to needing
to stay away from them?

Uh.

I missed them.

And I missed you, too, xiapita.

You drunken assh*le,
it is not fair to them.

Yeah, you're right.

Uh...

(laughs)

(clattering)
just

(muttering in spanish) stop.

Don't. Give me five minutes.
(continues in spanish)

(laughs)
(siren approaching)

Ay, ay, ay...
Gustavo.

Ya.
(laughs)

(laughs) Give me,
give me five minutes.

(both chuckle)
just

(knocking on door)
officer: Lapd.

Open up.
sh*t.

(whispers) It's your husband.

I thought you were a burglar.
(laughing)

(shushes) sit down.

Police.

Hola, police.
Shh.

We're responding to a
call about a break-in?

[Xiamara] Yes, sorry,
officer, it was just a mis...

(shouting in spanish)

Get the f*ck out!

Calm down, sir.
You want me to calm down?

(shouts in spanish)

Gustavo! (Gasps)

(shouts)

[Officer] Stop resisting.

You can't arrest me!

I am f*cking cia, putos!

(coughing, snoring in distance)

(dog barking in distance)

No, no, no, no.

Are you f*cking kidding me?

Come on, this is not a surprise.

Nobody could have turned
this limp d*ck paper

around in a year.
What did they expect?

(sighs)

You got something, didn't you?

I'll burn it. They can eat sh*t.
Oh, Jesus, irene.

I'm no martyr. This is the game.

Go do your job.

And thank you. Really.

Good luck.

Hey, I just found
out, same as you.

But you're getting promoted.
Well...

Temporarily.

Thank god.

Nine whole months of not
working for a white guy

(inhales sharply) I
was starting to forget

my place in the world.

Look, I'll be addressing
everyone in a few hours.

Just hang tight, okay?

No. I've got something.
It can't wait.

Charlie: But we're right
in the middle of this.

What do you want me to do,
kick the publisher out?

I don't know.

Are you in charge of
this paper or not?

(sighs)
[walter] Charlie?

Irene abe, meet walter brooks.

[Walter] Sounds like
you have something.

Well, come on, then.

(indistinct chatter)
(baby crying)

[Alton] (sighs) I came in this
morning, he was just here,

out cold.

(thumps)

What up, saint?

[Lab tech] We usually
hold these for evidence,

but I thought you'd want them.

What is it?

Tianna's personal items.

You really should go
home and get some sleep.

All of this will be waiting
on you when you get back.

She's right. We should just go.

f*ck that. I'm not leaving.

(exhales)

(siren wailing in distance)

[Franklin] I know
it ain't the ritz,

but our tenants
moved out suddenly,

so the utilities work
till the end of the month.

I'll be back with some
food in a little while.

Don't leave, don't call nobody.

Just lay low.

I'll be back with news soon.

All right?

Hey, saint.

I need a piece.

You know, for protection.

(franklin grunts)

(exhales)

(helicopter passing overhead)

How he seem to you?

Known that boy a long time.

I ain't ever seen him like that.

k*ll a kid?

Some m*therf*ckers never
come back from that.

(engine starts)

(indistinct radio chatter)

(siren wailing in distance)

(horn honks)

(grunts)

(exhales)

Want to tell me what happened?

No, la neta, no.

(car door closes)

All right, look

I know you're hurting here,
but this sh*t cannot happen.

(sighs) just drive, cabrón.

The kid needs to meet
up, says it's urgent.

Are you good or do I need to drop you somewhere?
No, I'm okay, I'm good.

I'm good.
(engine starts)

Hey, the f*ck?
Y'all ain't taking

my little girl nowhere, man.

What the f*ck is up, man?
I'm sorry... no, no, s-sorry.

We have to prepare
her for an autopsy.

Hey, you ain't finna cut up my little girl!
Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait.

By law, we have to perform an
autopsy on all m*rder victims.

It ain't no mystery!
She was sh*t!

Don't you see the f*cking
b*llet holes in her?

Be that as it may...
The f*ck you just say?

Hey!

Ain't no way...
You ain't about to do sh*t,

except let these people
do their f*cking job!

I can't do this anymore.

I need to get out of
these f*cking clothes.

Do whatever you want.

(indistinct radio chatter)

(brakes squeak)

(engine turns off)
(gustavo grunting)

(retching)

He all right?
Teddy: Yeah, he's good.

Where's your, where's
your body man?

Gave him the day off.

Okay. So what's up?
Uh...

A five-year-old girl got k*lled.

Yesterday afternoon in gardena.

I need to know
what the cops know.

k*lled by one of your men?

Can you help me out, or no?

Yeah. Yeah, just
give me a few hours.

Thanks.

They're really doing this.

Our own government,
bringing in cocaine.

I-I mean, this is huge.

Right?

Like, pulitzer prize stuff?

[Irene] I need to dig in

and I can't do it alone.

I need researchers.

Surveillance. Private
investigators.

The full resources of this
paper starting right now.

Look, that is a lot to ask for.

Really? You have a better plan
for how to save this paper?

'Cause I'm pretty sure this
story keeps the lights on

and then some.

[Walter] You don't have a story.

You have one source,
off the record.

[Charlie] Before we commit,

get some kind of
corroboration, all right?

A legitimate second source.

You think the dea agent
is, what, making it up?

Look, if the story's as
big as you say it is,

there's got to be
some other way of

confirming it before we
push all our chips in.

[Wilson] What about this
guy reed's ex-wife?

Julia? I mean, she's
cia, too, right?

Maybe she hates his guts?

She'll talk?
Cia won't talk.

He could've slept
with her sister,

she wouldn't give up
operational details.

It's not how they roll.

(exhales)

How do you guys feel about

the word of incarcerated
colombian drug lords?

(door creaks)

(insects chirping)

♪ ♪

sorry, lee.

(g*n clicking empty)

Click, click, click.

(laughs)

n*gga, you think I'm dumb enough
to give your ass a loaded g*n

after the sh*t you just pulled?

I'm the smart one.

Remember?

You just had to
do sh*t your way.

What you think, I'm
about to beg for my life?

'Cause I won't.

All right, n*gga.

(screams)
(khadijah screaming, crying)

(leon panting)

Khadijah: No!

(continues sobbing)

(laughing)

(continues laughing)

Iil' lee.

You's a dead m*therf*cker now.

(laughing)

(maniacal laughter)

(banging on door)

(dog barking in distance)

[Gloria (in distance)] Ms. Saint?

[Cissy (in distance)] Hey,
gloria. How you doing?

(chatter continues indistinctly)

[Gloria] I just can't thank
you enough for the apartment.

Cissy: You don't have
to thank me for that.

(continues indistinctly)

[Gloria] I'm sorry for
being late on the rent.

A couple of weeks late is fine.

Just don't let it
get any longer, okay?

Headed to a job
interview right now.

Well, all right, girl.

Go on.

(chuckles)
get 'em.

(keys jingle)

(door opens)

Sit down.

On the floor.

("Tell me more and more and
then some" by nina simone plays)

♪ I want more ♪

♪ more and then some ♪

♪ daddy, you know
what I want to hear ♪

♪ I want some more
and then some ♪

♪ that I love you only, dear ♪

♪ I want some more
and then some ♪

♪ of how you feel ♪

♪ and then ♪

♪ when you done told me
about a million times ♪

♪ how much you love me ♪

♪ and you're through ♪

♪ start right back in again ♪

♪ I've made the same mistake ♪

♪ I know the awful ache ♪

♪ but I never, no, no, no, no ♪

♪ no, I never will get enough. ♪

(knocking on door)
(door opens)

Yeah. Yeah.

Listen, thanks.

I owe you.
(phone clicks)

Bad news?

Franklin's in trouble.

And it's not the kind
I can help him with.

Hmm.

I'm sorry about last night.

Listen, I'll get
clean, be here for you,

but I need some things.

Feria.

I want feria, a lot
of f*cking money.

How much is a lot?

One thousand por
cada kilo we move.

It's not greed.

Money is protection.

No one is hurting
mi gente again.

That's fine. What else?

I want you to find lucia.

Cia can do that, no?

Look, you're talking
about cleaning up.

You really think digging
around in the past

is the way to do that?

I can't keep wondering.

Just need to know what happened.

You do that, then we're good.

You went to see him?

He's staying in my building.

Thought I should check on him.

See if he's okay.
Why?

'Cause he's no different
than you, franklin.

Thanks, ma.

I didn't do it for you.

(pager beeping)

I, uh, I got to go.

What are you gonna do?

I don't know.

I love you.

(knocking on door)

What's up?

What you want, to
rub it in my face?

Tell me "I told you so"?
Nah.

So why you got that
f*cking smirk on your face?

Ain't no smirk on my face.
Skully.

He trying to apologize.

For real.

You told me yourself, this
n*gga ain't about sh*t.

[Khadijah] Well, this n*gga
here trying to apologize.

For me.

And you gonna accept it for me.

f*ck you.

Hey, n*gga, that's still
my sister you talking to.

The f*ck you gonna do, n*gga?

You ain't her
m*therf*cking daddy.

Put that sh*t down.

You want to k*ll me? Go ahead.

That ain't gonna
bring tianna back.

Your baby.

My niece.

You told me not to have
her around this sh*t.

And now my baby girl gone.

You ain't the reason she gone.

Got to let that sh*t go.

It ain't on you.

Are you joking?

She can't be serious.

[Danilo] So are you joking?
Uh, no.

[Danilo] Do know how long we've been here?
[Diego] Too long.

Way too f*cking long.
No calls.

No lawyer.
No trial.

And you show up,
asking for our help?

It's not cool, chica.
Far f*cking from it.

Hold on. Are you serious?

Y-you never even
got a phone call?

(laughs) can you
believe this lady?

Maybe she's not a lady.

Maybe she's a parrot.

[Danilo] One minute we're at lax,

going home to see
our grandmothers.

Our sick grandmothers.

When all of a sudden,
we're arrested,

thrown in a cell and forgotten.

I thought this was america.

Isn't this america?

[Diego] We could have
stayed in colombia

if we wanted to be
treated like this.

At least there we'd
be with our nanas.

Listen to me.

This is exactly the kind of
corruption I'm trying to fight.

If you can confirm my story,
I promise I'll do everything

I can to see you get a fair trial.
[Diego]Mm.

You mean, if we snitch for you.

Like a couple of f*cking ratos?

It's not snitching if you're
getting the guy who gave you up.

Say that again.

According to my dea source,
reed thompson used you

as bargaining chips to get one
of his assets out of trouble.

He's the reason you're in here.

Help me, not only will
I get you a trial,

I'll take down the
man who put you here.

Sorry to be the
bearer of bad news,

but the cops have leon's prints

off of a b*llet they
found at the scene.

So they know he was there.

And I'll help out in any
way I can on my end, but...

Understand that you're all
listed as-as known associates.

Which means that the longer
it takes to find him,

the more heat you're gonna
feel coming down on you here.

I understand.

Look, I know that
you two are close.

Uh, but there's no
getting around this.

Said I understand.

Anything else?

No.

(door closes)

News reporter: According
to lapd sources,

this marks the third
h it-and-run accident

to occur at this intersection
I n the past year.

News anchor: Police have
now released the names

and the pictures of the two
suspects wanted in connection

with the gardena sh**ting
t hat claimed six lives,

including that of little
f ive-year-old tianna brown.

Take a look at these pictures.

That's leon simmons there

and thaddeus barber,
a ka fatback.

Both of these men are wanted
for questioning by the police.

We're told each of them has

an extensive
c riminal background,

and both are considered
t o be armed and dangerous.

If you have any information
a t all on their whereabouts,

you're being asked to
contact the I.A. Country

sheriff's department.

And remember, you
can remain anonymous.

[News anchor ]
TheI.A. City council today

approved new funding for...
(tv turns off)

If I'm with y'all,
it'll spook him.

Tell him you found him
another hideout, out of town.

When you get far enough
out, do what got to be done.

("Electric kingdom" by
twilight playing)

[Manboy] You should get
some birds added to it.

What the f*ck is this?

What it look like?

(tattoo g*n buzzing)

Out.

(buzzing stops)

I said get the f*ck out.

♪ Free, free from the
street, from captivity ♪

♪ break out, break in ♪

♪ it doesn't matter
where you've been ♪

♪ snake pit, lion's den,
you need someone... ♪

Why are you here
getting a tattoo

of our daughter(door closes)

When the n*gg*s that k*lled her

is out here walking around free
like sh*t is f*cking sweet?

Hey, you got to
calm down. We on it.

Y'all ain't on sh*t
but y'all's asses!

♪ Drop to... ♪

I don't give a f*ck
what y'all got to do

or how the f*ck
y'all got to do it.

But both of y'all owe me.

I want that
m*therf*cker leon dead.

And that fat n*gga
that was with 'em.

Already got stuff in motion.

(sighs)

Stay here with her.

I got her.

(door opens)

(door closes)

News anchor: Via an
e laborate delivery system

that includes trucks,
a irplanes, ships

and on foot, across
the vast border

between the two countries.

The fallout from the g*ng
r elated sh**ting in gardena

continues to reverberate
through the los angeles area.

Police have rounded up

dozens of known g*ng
members for questioning...

(continues indistinctly)

Police are still looking
f or two suspects

both believed to be
armed and dangerous.

(siren wailing in distance)

(keys jingling)

lee?

(panting)

f*ck.

Lee?

sh*t.

(dogs barking in distance)

(siren wailing in distance)

♪ ♪

(dog barking)

sh*t.

That's that n*gga right there.

[Woman] Get down! Get down! Help!

(indistinct shouting)
(g*nf*re)

Child: Mama! Mama!

(g*nf*re continues)

(tires screech)

Get your stupid ass in the car!

(g*nf*re continues)
ah!

(tires screeching)

(g*nf*re continues)

(exhales)

(siren wailing in distance)

You asked for corroboration,
these guys are it.

Not to mention the story of two

cali cartel kingpins who
apparently we've been

holding without due
process for almost a year.

I hear you, I just
think that if...

That if you f*ck this
up, you won't get to stay

in the big office?
Irene, can I talk for seconds, please? Christ.

You sold me, okay?

You sold me.

(inhales) it's
enough to keep going.

So whatever you
need, you got it.

Can I give you one
piece of advice?

There's a lot here. You
need to find a weak link.

Someone who wants to talk.

A jaded crew member,
a guilty conscience.

The better their credibility,
the stronger your source.

You get that person
on the record,

all the other pieces
will fall in fast.

(door opens)

[Manboy] I see a lot
of m*therf*ckers,

but ain't no leon.
[Franklin] Yeah.

No leon.

(sighs)

Well, the way I see it,
until you give leon up,

we ain't gonna be able to do no business.
(chuckles)

Well, it's a good
thing I'm not the one

who came hat in hand looking
to do business, right?

[Manboy] It's funny how
things change, huh?

I remember a time you
had compton. That's me.

Inglewood. That's skully.

And the projects.

That was until leon
f*cked that up.

What you got left, saint?

What I got?

(laughs)

I got the plug, n*gga.

(snaps fingers)
you right. You do.

You got the plug. You sure do.

All the cheap
cocaine in the world,

nowhere to sell it.

Look, I remember when you
asked me if there was something

you could do to stop this beef.

Well, this is it.

You give leon up, I
get skully to lay down,

everything go back
to the way it was.

Nah. Nah, can't do that.

You really want to go to w*r?

Over lil' leon?

You see, that's the difference
between me and you, drew.

I don't give up my people.

'Cause he family, right?
That's right.

(laughs)

Know what I always
respected about you, saint?

You was always about business.

It was never personal.

Even when I didn't like sh*t,

and he did some f*cked up
sh*t, but I could respect it,

'cause it was consistent.

But now... You breaking
your own rules.

And I can't respect that.

Hope you got a plan, n*gga.

'Cause when the
sharks smell blood.

They gonna come.

(chuckles)

Ain't nothing nobody
can do to stop it.

Until next time.

(car doors opening, closing)

(engine starts)

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♪ don't touch that stereo ♪

♪ don't touch that stereo... ♪

♪ Just get on the
floor and go, go ♪

♪ don't touch that stereo ♪

♪ don't touch that stereo ♪

♪ I like that part,
I like that part ♪

♪ right there, right
there, hey, mr. Dj ♪

♪ hey, mr. Dj ♪

♪ ow ♪

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♪ hey, hey ♪

♪ if you see a guy
about seven feet tall ♪

♪ it's iceberg slim
with a basketball ♪

♪ iceberg slim is gonna
serve it for real ♪

♪ re-rock, that's me ♪

♪ that's me, ow ♪

♪ take the long way home. ♪

♪ ♪