01x09 - Loyal to the End

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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01x09 - Loyal to the End

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[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[GROWN KANAN] Previously on
Raising Kanan...

[KANAN] She loved your
daughter, you know.


[OFFICER] Third body we've
found in the last day.


- He was holding one of these.
- [LIL' ROB] Blue caps.

- It was this Southside n*gga Kanan.
- Kanan Stark?

He cooked 'em and put
'em out on the block.

[JUKEBOX] That's what k*lled Nicole.

All you've done so far is give me mess

after mess to clean up.
Buck Twenty, D-Wiz...

- D-Wiz?
- I k*lled him.

[OFFICER] This is your stop. Get out.

[RAQ] What's the unit
underneath looking like?


Add a little stucco... ah!

I don't ever wanna talk to
you or ever see you again.

I need you to walk me through
Unique pressing up on you.


- [DOORMAN] May I help you, sir?
- My boy's ride, I left something in it.

Can I get in?

This is a m*therf*cking message.

Make sure that sh*t is loud and clear.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[g*nf*re]

Lou-Lou!

Come on, Lou. Come on, man.

Call an ambulance! Somebody help me!

[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]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

[GROWN KANAN] You all alone
up in this m*therf*cker.


You might have a crew next to you.

You might have some
peoples you run with,


some n*gg*s saying they got your back.

But when sh*t goes down,
it's every n*gga for himself.


Ain't nobody checking for you but you.

Not even that m*therf*cker by your side.

Because in this sh*t,
blood is everything.


As wild as the game is,

it can't never take away your
family if you don't let it.


Family's the only thing you born with,

the only thing worth dying for.

Well, okay, I guess
you, uh, would be like...

what, we stop at
McDonald's or something?

Hop in there.

♪ ♪

Get out of here, man.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

- [g*nf*re]
- [CHILD SCREAMING]

[CHILD] Daddy!

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

[CHILD SHRIEKING]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[CHILD SCREAMING]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

♪ ♪

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

I was going to go home to
take a shower and change,

but I wanna be here
for when he wakes up.

If he wakes up.

He gon' wake up.

He gon' be fine.

I know my little brother.
He's just resting up.


But he'll come back.

Now, go take care of yourself.

I'll hold it down here
while you're gone.


♪ ♪

You need anything while I'm out?

[DOOR CLICKS OPEN AND SHUT]

What the f*ck they did
to you, baby brother?


They forgot who the f*ck I am, Lou,

where the f*ck I come from.

But they 'bout to remember me.

They 'bout to know me.

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

Kanan told me you were here.

[CHUCKLES] Of course he did.

Two of you chatty m*therf*ckers
can't stop talking.

If I needed you here, I
would have called you myself.

- I couldn't find you. I got scared.
- Hmm, you got scared.

Yeah. That's how normal people feel

when someone they care
about up and disappears

and doesn't return
their calls for two days.

Yeah, and I guess I
ain't normal people, then.

I want you to be able to talk
to me about all of this, Raq.

Let me be here with you,

for you.

Our sh*t was never real, Symphony,

this thing between you and me.

I mean, you know it just like I do.

We were on some make-believe sh*t,

some bullshit we dreamed
up when our eyes was closed.

I forgot who I was.

But seeing my baby brother like that,

I ain't forgetting who I am ever again.

♪ ♪

I know who you are, Raq.

I love who you are.

♪ ♪

Don't worry.

You'll find some college
hos to f*ck soon enough.

f*ck you.

Finally, some heart on this n*gga.

I ain't even know you had it in you.

Tell Marvin that Toni can't be trusted.

♪ ♪

[LIL' ROB BREATHES DEEPLY] f*ck!

You know that n*gga's
sh*t was bulletproof, man?

Heard some chatter.

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYS]

It's like that?

You know how this sh*t works.

Them... them cops is
putting m*rder on me, Marvin.

And Kanan just a f*cking kid.

That little n*gga
wouldn't do no real time.

They ain't even grab him up
anyway. He's still out here.

Come... come on. I was doing
this to protect you, man.

You know I'd never give you up.

That sh*t don't move me, brother.

- Not at all.
- I... I hear what you saying.

[g*nsh*t]

♪ ♪

[FIRE WHOOSHING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[ENGINE TURNING OVER]

[expl*si*n BOOMS]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SIREN WAILING]

♪ ♪

Here she come.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Don't even breathe, m*therf*ckers.

g*ns on the bed.

[BURKE] I can't share any details

about any cases that might
involve a juvenile offender.

The police in Manhattan said
that you told them to let her go,

- that you ordered them to release her.
- Linda.

Laverne m*rder*d our daughter.

[BURKE] It's my understanding
that your daughter d*ed

- from a drug overdose.
- [LINDA] She got the dr*gs from Laverne Thomas.

Well, we don't know that to be true.

She had never done dr*gs
before she met Laverne.

- We don't know that either.
- Who's f*cking side are you on, James?

My only child is dead,

and the person who
k*lled her is still free.

Nicole wasn't some junkie ghetto addict.

She was beautiful and kind and generous,

and this girl introduced her to a world

she would have never known about.

Okay, Linda, this isn't
gonna bring Nicole back.

You think I don't know that?

You think I don't know that
my daughter is gone forever?

Okay, just stop, okay?
Stop making things worse.

- Ma-ma-making it worse?
- Yes. Would you...

Nicole is dead.

It can't get any worse than that.

My only child was m*rder*d by this girl,

and nobody cares but me.

And if you won't do something,
I will find someone who will.

Because I know powerful people,

people who will not
allow something like this

to happen to a family like ours.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Came to the hospital to
spit at you and your brother.

Next thing I know, I'm in the middle

of a f*cking assassination attempt.

Yo, you lucky I still smoke.

'Nique's guys.

[HOWARD] Won't be the last of 'em.

Look, I'm done waiting, Raquel.

I've asked.

I damn near begged.

I've threatened.

But you ain't taking me
serious. You not hearing me.

So I'm getting a warrant for Kanan.

Spofford's on notice he's on the way.

If you don't tell him who he is to me,

that's where he gon' end up.

♪ ♪

If I do this for you, you
doing something for me.

You stay out my business
and leave my people alone.

Go f*ck with the tailor
shop. Get him out my way.

I get a pass, Detective.

Within reason, yeah.

But if I need something else from you

as it relates to that kid,

you gon' come correct.

What does that mean?

Nothing.

Look, look, I... I'll come
up with a date and time

to get back to you, but
I'ma make myself clear.

If I peep you, Marvin,

or anybody else but Kanan at the meet,

they gon' get wet the f*ck up.

[GROWN KANAN] Ain't nothing more
dangerous than a desperate n*gga.


And this cop had "nothing left to lose"

written all over his f*cking face.

♪ ♪

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[BURKE] Sorry about your friend.

Those cops in Manhattan treat you okay?

They told me they were gonna let you go,

but they seemed like they
might have been assholes anyway.

I, uh...

I heard about your uncle.

You're dealing with a lot right now.

I can't even imagine how you're hurting.

You know, people never take high
school relationships serious,

like because you're young, you
haven't really lived long enough

to really know what love feels like.

But I loved the hardest
when I was in high school.

That's when it felt the most real,

at least for me.

Meghan Crowley was my first girlfriend.

Both our dads liked to get sh*t-faced
at Larue's on Lafayette Avenue.

We met when our moms sent us

to roll our fathers home from the bar.

I never loved anyone as
much as I loved Meghan,

because she showed
me who I really was...

... who I really am.

Look, I was gonna go
get one of those, uh,

Italian ices they got in Corona.
Do you wanna come with me?

It's on me.

[MONITORS BEEPING]

Why they move Uncle Lou room?

Guys came to the hospital to k*ll him,

finish what the f*ck they started.

For real?

Police got in the middle
of it before it went down.

We safe for now.

He gon' wake up, right?

They was keeping him asleep
until his lungs cooled down.

They saying he should be up by now.

With everything that's going down,

you and I haven't had a chance
to speak on our last conversation.

I did what I did.

You ain't gotta say nothing else.

I get it.

I wanna help.

I wanna help Uncle Lou.

I wanna help you.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Just let me know what I gotta do, Ma.

I'm here.

I ain't going nowhere.

♪ ♪

I can't believe you've never
had one of these before.

Why you following me?

I'm worried about you.

You know, my-my brother k*lled
himself when I was about your age.

Is this the part where we bond

over all the f*cked-up
sh*t that happened to us?

Your dead brother, your drunk father.

[BURKE SCOFFS]

I don't need to hear about
your f*cked-up family.

I got one of my own already.

You know, my brother's
the reason I became a cop.

My father always wanted
my brother to be police,

so when he k*lled himself,
I felt like I had to

step in and fill those shoes,

like I was forced into it.

And I'm thinking that maybe you
might know what that feels like too?

[CHUCKLES] I don't.

[SIGHS] Look, the cr*ck
that k*lled your girlfriend

also k*lled a bunch of
people on the Southside.

Do you know where she got 'em?

We spoke to a kid who pointed
at Kanan for the dr*gs.

That's bullshit.

Kanan had nothing to do with it.

Whoever said that's a f*cking liar.

[SCOFFS] Whatever.

If you had sh*t on Kanan,
he'd be locked up already.

What about D-Wiz?

Any idea who might have k*lled him?

Because the operating
theory is that his m*rder

is connected to Buck
Twenty's, that it was payback.

- [SCOFFS]
- Laverne. Laverne.

Laverne.

Come on, I got a job to do.
I gotta ask these questions.

I ain't answering sh*t.

Oh, and stop following me.

♪ ♪

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.

[MARVIN] Turns out,

'Nique's sh*t really is bulletproof.

Lil' Rob's head ain't, though.

Told you to stand down, Marvin.

I ain't want you to
f*ck with 'Nique yet.

And if you gon' take the
sh*t, you can't f*cking miss.

You complicating sh*t
I already got in motion.

You forget I don't work
for you no more, Raq.

And even if I did,

no one tells me how to defend
my family, not even you.

Okay, well, while you
was defending your family,

'Nique sent a crew here
to finish what he started.

Fortunately, the police got
to 'em before they got to Lou.

Yo, this m*therf*cker
'Nique got to go right now.

He bringing in crews from outside.

Saw a g*ng of 'em up close
and personal this morning.

We ain't gon' survive
this sh*t alone, Marvin.

I want you back.

[CHUCKLES]

You know, in a g*ng of
ways, my life's a lot easier

where I am right now.

I don't answer to nobody but me.

I'm living my own damn
life, make up my own mind.

You don't know what it's like
to have your little sister


come in and take your spot.

I been doing this sh*t before you.

I'm your big brother, but
you got me answering to you,

taking your orders.
That don't feel good.

You got f*cked up on
your own sh*t, Marvin.

I only stepped in
because you stepped off.

You're better at it than me, Raq.

- Marvin...
- [MARVIN] No, no, let... let me say my piece.

Let me get my sh*t out.

You better at it than me.

You see sh*t I don't see.
You think sh*t I can't think.

But I'm still a man, Raq.
I still need my respect.

I need to be heard.

And when they come after my
baby brother like they did,

m*therf*ckers gon' hear me,

and nobody gon' get me
to quiet the f*ck down.

I raised you and Lou-Lou myself

when Mom and Pop was on they sh*t.

- I know.
- [MARVIN] And I'd die for you and Lou.

And I'd die for you too, Marvin.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

I need you with me.

Can't do this sh*t without you.

♪ ♪

Fam.

Fam.

♪ ♪

Soldier up.

Get them boys strapped and
get back out on those corners.

We gon' need whatever loot we can
get to pay for what happen next.

What's next?

Revolution, n*gga.

I'm... I'm actually gonna, uh,

meet with him tonight
for the first time.

So we've moved beyond the hypothetical.

You actually have a son.

[CHUCKLES] Yeah, I do.

But it's delicate. Um,

his mother, she's complicated as hell.

Well, as I mentioned to you before,

you do need to get his
legal guardian's permission

before we can draw any
bone marrow from a minor.

You need to do this as soon as possible.

Every day that passes
is a day you get sicker.


The doctors said he
should be awake by now.

And what does it mean
that he's not awake?

Means he's f*cked up in ways
that they don't even know.

Hey, baby.

Jessica told me about your friend.

I'm so sorry.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Yeah. Come on.

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Some white lady detective
came to talk to me today.

Said she heard that Kanan put
that bad cr*ck on the street.

That sh*t's not going
nowhere. Don't worry.

She also thought there was a connect

between Buck Twenty and
D-Wiz both getting hit.

Why she stepping to you with all this?

She came to me once before.

Same sh*t.

[SCOFFS] Just hitting me with mad
questions and theories or whatever.

But I got outta there quick.

- Didn't say nothing.
- Mm. Course you didn't.

Sound like to me that
this police like you.

I ain't friends with no cop.

I'm not saying you are.

I'm just saying that...

sometimes the police
are good friends to have.

[THE MIRACLES' "MICKEY'S
MONKEY" PLAYING]

♪ All right ♪

♪ Yeah... ♪

Once you done with those numbers,

use that to scuff up
the inside of the barrel.

♪ This cat named Mickey came
from out of town, yeah... ♪


Look like your balls
about to drop, little man.

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

♪ In just a matter of a few days, yeah ♪

She wanted me to have a g*n?

Seem like you about to
get out on that corner.

For real?

'Nique flexing. Raq
said she needs soldiers.

Ain't many n*gg*s out there, so I'm sure

she wants you to strap the f*ck up.

We at w*r, Kanan. Everybody
on them front lines.

You Kanan Stark, Def Con kid.

Time to live up to that name.

Don't f*ck it up.

f*ck it up like you f*cking
up this music right now?

Watch your mouth, boy.

Smokey Black royalty.

That sound like Black history, honestly.

For real, man, you need to spin
something with some bass in it, a'ight?

I ain't trying to step out on
the corner for the first time

with this antique sh*t
playing in my head.

Jukebox, she got something in her room.

I know she do. I'll be right back.

You-you-you keep doing what you doing.

Whiny-ass n*gga.

Whatever, man.

♪ ♪

♪ Lum de lum de li ♪

♪ Lum de lum de li ♪

♪ Lum de lum de li... ♪

[SCOFFS]

♪ Oh, monkey see ♪
♪ Monkey do... ♪


[SCOFFS]

♪ Come on you can do the monkey too... ♪

[SIGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

[SONG CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

m*therf*cker.

[PHONE RINGING FAINTLY]

[VCR WHIRRING]

[BOTH] ♪ It just
intensifies my wants ♪

♪ To have a love that endures ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ 'Cause every time
I close my eyes ♪

♪ I think of you ♪

♪ And no matter what the season is ♪

♪ I still love you ♪

♪ With all my heart ♪

♪ And I wanna be with you ♪

♪ Wherever you are ♪

- ♪ I only think of ♪
- [KANAN] Yo.

Raq just called and said I need
to meet her and bring two gats.

- They on the coffee table.
- [KANAN] All right. Bet.

You wanna take the rest of
the g*ns out to the corner?

Don't worry about me, n*gga. Just go.

Damn, a'ight!

Later.

♪ But when the leaves are gone ♪

♪ Does that love disappear ♪

♪ I never underestimate
the true love of spring ♪

♪ But I'm glad at least in my heart ♪

♪ That my love is lasting ♪

[NICOLE] ♪ Oh ♪

[JUKEBOX] Ooh. [LAUGHS]

♪ 'Cause every time
I close my eyes ♪

[BOTH] ♪ I think of you ♪

♪ And no matter what the season is ♪

[JUKEBOX] ♪ I still love you ♪

[BOTH] ♪ With all my heart ♪

[JUKEBOX] ♪ And I wanna be with you ♪

♪ Wherever you are ♪

[SCOFFS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER, PHONES RINGING]

[MAN] Hey, Howard.

I was looking for you
earlier. Where you been?

Look...

... I know I've been a shitty partner.

I had some personal
sh*t I was dealing with.

But I'm getting past it.

I was talking to Laverne Thomas,

Kanan Stark's cousin, earlier.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

Why the f*ck would you do that?

A friend of hers from
the Upper East Side

d*ed from that same cr*ck
we found in South Jamaica.

I thought maybe she could help
us trace it back to Kanan Stark.

I told you the Stark kid had
nothing to do with that sh*t.

It was heads from
outside the neighborhood.

Yeah, that's what you told me,

but I did a little
bit of my own digging.

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

♪ ♪

You know, you tell me a lot of things.

That's pretty much all you do.

[HOWARD] But you don't listen.

You've been on the
job, what, ten minutes?

You already think you know better.

Leave this sh*t alone.

I don't get your thing with that family.

Who are they to you? Why do
you care about them so much?

Man, f*ck this sh*t.

If I can't trust you,

I don't wanna have
nothing to do with you.

We can't be partners no more.
I'ma tell the captain myself.

♪ ♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

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

Lebanese or some sh*t?

sh*t comes from your moms.

Her family got all the
fuckups and heathens and sh*t.

And who the f*ck is this white bitch,

and where the f*ck she come from?

She's dead.

[CHUCKLES] That's what God do
to b*tches who violate His will.

So... what does that mean
for you and God, then?

'Cause you ain't nothing
but a violation, Marvin.

White girl got what she deserves.

- World better for her not being in it no more.
- Mm-hmm.

♪ ♪

[SPITS]

[GRUNTS]

[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[YELLS]

Calm the f*ck down. sh*t.

f*ck off me.

[GRUNTS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

♪ ♪

Yeah, just 'cause you think you a n*gga

don't mean you can fight like one.

♪ ♪

[GASPING]

♪ ♪

Juke.

Juke.

Juke!

Like I showed you before,
don't pull the trigger.

You gotta squeeze it.

[g*nshots]

[DOG BARKING]

Two hands. Strong hand on top.

Extend and fire.

That's a GLOCK .

Semiauto, nine-milli.

Clip holds , with one in the chamber.

[g*nshots]

[DOG BARKING]

Don't mess with . s. They just BB g*ns.

And the . only good in the movies.

You buck that sh*t off, the
police in Jersey'll hear you.

All of them other g*ns,
like TEC- , the U*i,

the MAC- , they bullshit.

They jam. They don't aim right.

Garbage.

The GLOCK's for real work,

for n*gg*s who know what they gotta do.

When you put someone down,

you gotta make sure they stay down.

[SHELL CASING CLATTERS]

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

and once where he used to think.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

I never wanted to bring
you into this game.

Not even that night
when we was on the beach,

looking at those stars.

I never wanted to have the conversation

I'm about to have with you.

♪ ♪

Wish you went to that school. [SCOFFS]

I wish you wasn't here.

But wishes are just dreams.

Dreams ain't real.

We live in the real world, where we...

fire real sh*ts

with real gats...

... and real n*gg*s die.

♪ ♪

I'm 'bout to ask you
to walk up to a man,

look him dead in the eye, and
put him on his back for good.

I'm your mother.

And I'm asking you to k*ll a man.

♪ ♪

All right, listen up.

Y'all know why y'all here, right?

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

[UNIQUE] So I ain't gotta
spell it out for n*gg*s.

But let me be m*therf*cking clear.

This is a m*therf*cking
w*r, you hear me?

- Uh-huh.
- Yeah!

- [UNIQUE] We at w*r with that other side.
- [CREW] Yeah.

[UNIQUE] Now, I don't
care how old they are,

who they with, or where you find 'em.

Anybody down with Raq... gotta go.

The man you gon' have on
the other end of that barrel

is trying to take
everything from us, Kanan...

... everything we love,
everything we will love.

And this ain't some sh*t where
you running up on a corner

and you spraying some fool.

It's up close and
personal. It's gotta be.

And it's gotta be you
who pulls the trigger.

[UNIQUE] All that peace sh*t,

it's done.

Ain't no way back to peace.

I want the whole Southside to know.

You ain't with us, guess what.

You against us.

And they gotta go too.

I've been lying to myself, Kanan.

You can't grow up around this sh*t...

you can't be my son...

without having it run
through your veins,

pump through your heart.

Somebody said it a while
back, but I ain't hear 'em.

You was in this sh*t
before you was even in it.

But I hear 'em now.

- All them old scores being settled today.
- [CREW] Yeah!

All them old debts being collected,

repaid right the f*ck now, you hear me?

- Yeah!
- Yeah, man!

Man, woman, child, I don't give a f*ck!

They gotta go!

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

f*cking dead! You hear me?

- [CREW] Yeah!
- f*cking dead!

[CREW] Yeah!

And I see you now,

maybe even clearer
than you see yourself,

and I know you right.

You been right.

I'm not gonna lie to you no more, Kanan.

You deserve the truth.

And this here is the uncut, raw sh*t.

It's all on you... everything, everyone.

Our past, our present, our future,

it's in your hands,
and it's in your heart.

You my son.

And you the only one who can do this.

And I guess that's the
way it was always gon' be.

sh*t was always in our stars.

I just wasn't looking,
'cause I ain't want to.

[UNIQUE] These our f*cking streets.

- These our f*cking corners!
- [CREW] Yeah!

Go take them shits, man! Let's go!

You heard him. Let's go!

♪ ♪

I need you to squeeze that
f*cking trigger tonight

and save me, baby.

I need you to save all of us.

♪ ♪

[RASPING]

[GRUNTING SOFTLY]

Lou-Lou?

- Lou-Lou.
- [LOU-LOU] Loud. Too loud.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

They said you were
gonna wake up yesterday.

And when you didn't, they
didn't know why, and then...

Can I get you something?

Huh? What do you need, baby?

How you feeling?

Like deep-fried sh*t.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

[SIGHS]

Okay.

He's awake!

Where is everybody?

♪ ♪

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[SIREN WAILS]

You could have come inside, you know.

You didn't have to wait out here.

Yeah, that's a good look.

Me kicking it with a bunch
of cops in a police station?

[SCOFFS] Hood loves that.

Might as well wear a
sticker on my forehead

that says I'm a f*cking snitch.

What happened? Who did that to you?

I need to get off this block.

Let me get a car.

♪ ♪

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

Hallelujah.

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

♪ Ha-ha-hallelujah ♪

- ♪ Halle-hallelujah ♪
- ♪ Hallelu-hallelujah ♪

♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪

♪ Hallelujah ♪

♪ Hallelu ♪

- We are all born...
- [MAN] Hallelujah!

- ... into this earth...
- [PEOPLE] Amen!

[PREACHER] ... with the greatest gift

we could ever hope to receive...

[PEOPLE] Amen.

- [PREACHER] ... God's love.
- [PEOPLE] Amen!

God's love is a light
that shines in all of us.

[CONGREGATION MURMURS]

But, brothers and sisters,

where we choose to shine that light

will be the greatest,

most important choice
that we will ever make.


[SCATTERED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

Once you choose to shine your light

in the dark depths of sin...

- [MAN] Shine it.
- [WOMAN] Yes.

- ... there will be no guarantees...
- No guarantees.

... that there will be
enough light left...

- [PEOPLE] Yes.
- ... to show you the way back to salvation.

- [MAN] Yes, sir.
- [ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

Hallelujah.

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

[PREACHER] Mm-mm-mm.

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

♪ Ha-ha-hallelujah ♪

- ♪ Halle-hallelujah ♪
- ♪ Hallelu-hallelujah ♪

- ♪ Hallelujah ♪
- ♪ Hallelujah ♪


♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪

♪ The storm is passing over ♪

♪ Ha-ha-hallelujah ♪

- ♪ Halle-hallelujah ♪
- ♪ Hallelu-hallelujah ♪


♪ Hallelujah â™
♠Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪


So you gonna tell me what happened?

[JUKEBOX SIGHS]

I'm a'ight.

But you in danger.

All you police are.

Five-O hit Unique's re-up.

Now he gon' hit you.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

How do you know this?

Hmph.

[SIGHS]

Why are you telling me?

Just don't want nobody else to get hurt.

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

No.

What's going on with you today, Raquel?

Nothing, Ma. Just living.

Been over a year since
you've come to church.

And I know you didn't stare into
some burning bush this morning.

Something's happened.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

You ever think about how
I ended up the way I did?

Doing what I do?

You your own person.

Grown.

Made your own decisions.

None of that is on me.

So don't try to put it on me.

I'm not trying to put
nothing on you, Ma.

Just asking a question.

You gave me a answer.

That's right, I did.

So stop asking me questions.

Your mama ain't your problem, Raquel.

You are.

♪ ♪

[SCHOOLLY D] ♪ Once upon
a time in the ghetto ♪


♪ Lived a n*gga kinda
rough, kinda mellow ♪


♪ From the g*ng called
The Parkside K*llers ♪


♪ Smoked a lot of Js ♪
♪ Drunk a lot of Millers ♪


♪ On the corner sellin'
lleyo with the boys ♪


♪ Holdin' his d*ck, f*ckin'
with the young whores ♪


♪ You say, "Yo, n*gga,
what's your name?" ♪


♪ He say, "Suck my d*ck, tell
your mother do the same" ♪


♪ His mother and his
father said f*ck him ♪


♪ All the b*tches on the
block will suck him ♪


♪ If a n*gga owes him
money better duck him ♪


[MAN] Word.

♪ Because he just might
buck-buck-buck him ♪


♪ On his head is a
motherfuckin' bounty ♪


♪ If he caught, he go
straight to the county ♪


♪ Be another young
brother in jail, yo ♪


♪ For standin' on the
corner sellin' that lleyo ♪


♪ Ah, ah, yeah ♪

♪ Just another k*ller ♪

♪ Ah, ah, ah, yeah ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]

♪ Just another k*ller, baby ♪

♪ Just another k*ller ♪

♪ Just another k*ller, baby ♪

♪ Just another k*ller ♪

♪ Just another k*ller, baby ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

[g*n COCKING]

♪ ♪

[DOG BARKING]

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

What up, B?

♪ ♪

I spent the whole day thinking
about what I was gonna say,

how I was gonna say it.

Now that we standing here face-to-face,

truth be told, I can't remember sh*t.

That jacket...

that ain't yours.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

You don't wanna do that, son.

- Raq is setting you up.
- [g*nsh*t]

[DOGS BARKING]

[COUGHING]

[GROWN KANAN] Once heard someone say

that a friend will k*ll a n*gga for you

but a best friend will help you

bury the f*cking body.

And that makes sense to me.

'Cause the truth is,

k*lling a n*gga ain't that hard.

But are you willing to take the weight

for a hit that ain't even yours?

Are you willing to fall for your
m*therf*cking flag in the street?


[HOWARD GRUNTING]

[GROWN KANAN] I am.

[g*nsh*t]

[PUBLIC ENEMY]
♪ Welcome to the Terrordome ♪

- ♪ Come on down ♪
- ♪ Get down ♪


♪ Come on, you can get it ♪
♪ Get it, get it ♪


- ♪ Come on down ♪
- ♪ Get down ♪


♪ Come on, you can get it ♪
♪ Get it, get it ♪


- ♪ Come on down ♪
- ♪ Get down ♪


♪ Come on, you can get it ♪
♪ Get it, get it ♪


♪ Come on down ♪

Would you join me, please,

in welcome-in-ing...

So long, now. Have a good trip!

Yo, yo, who put this
thing together, huh?


Me!

Me, that's who!

Who I trust? Who I trust?

Me, that's who!

Yo, who you trust, man?

♪ Subordinate terror
kickin' off an era ♪


♪ Cold deliverin' pain ♪

♪ My ' was ' on a record ♪
♪ Yo ♪


♪ So now I go Bronco ♪

Oh, Chuck, they out to get us, man.

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, Chuck,
they out to get us, man.


Yo, we gotta dust these boys off.

♪ Crucifixion ain't no fiction ♪

♪ So-called chosen frozen ♪

♪ Apology made to whoever pleases ♪

[SCATTING]

Wow. [LAUGHS]

♪ Come on, you can get it ♪
♪ Get it, get it ♪


Boing.
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