03x09 - Swallowed Alive

[bunniefuu]

(tense instrumental music)

- [Man] You've really
done it this time, guys.

Society's done everything
it can to rehabilitate you.

You've had probation,
juvie hall, work camp.

Now you're with us
in youth authority.

- (scoffs) Let the Samurai
Boys take care of them.

- We're supposed to
make one last attempt

at rehabilitating you.

But I'm gonna tell you
something truthfully.

The system's just about
b*rned out on your kind.

Now there are a lot of
people in this institution

who would like to help you.

And there are a few more
who wouldn't bad an eye

if you were found lyin'
with a blade in your back.

I want you to get
with the program.

There are a lot of rules here,

and the usual merit system.

Do good and you rack up points.

Things get easier.

Fightin', gettin' high,
punkin' out, smugglin',

it'll land your
butts in solitary.

This building is
known as the Dead Zone

or just a Zone.

It's real easy to sink
to the bottom here.

There are very few privileges.

Don't blow it.

- You want the
top or the bottom?

- This room's too small.

- Help me up.

- Welcome.

- Hey, hey, man,
get out of here.

You're breathing
up all the oxygen.

- The Samurai Boys
are waitin' for you.

- Rumble?

- Rumble.

- Rumble.

(tense instrumental music)

- Who's that?

- The Hammer.

He runs the Zone.

(tense instrumental music)
(men talking)

- [Man] Bustimotos.

- How you doin'?
- How you doin'?

- Long time, man.

(" Jump Street Theme"
performed by Holly Robinson)

? We never thought we'd
find a place where we belong

? Don't have to stand alone,
we'll never let you fall

? Don't need permission
to decide what you believe

? I said jump,
down on Jump Street

? I said jump,
down on Jump Street

? Your friends will be there
when your back is to the wall

? You'll find you'll need us

? 'Cause there's
no one else to call

? When it was hopeless a
decision's what you need

? You'd better be
ready to, be ready to

? Jump

? Jump Street

- What I'm saying is
I don't like returning

from a long weekend to find out

that without my okay, you
have placed four of my men

in a juvenile lockup.

Now are you out of your mind?

- Adam, those are the
best people for the job.

And it's just for a short time.

- Look, how do we know that
it's a m*rder at this point?

- 'Cause I just got the
final toxicology report.

Ricky Green d*ed of
a heroin overdose.

But evidence of multiple
contusions, cranial fracture,

and the puncture angle
of the antecubital vein

indicate the
injection was forced.

- Okay, okay.

So it's the m*rder
that we're looking at--

- I don't care about the m*rder.

Murders happen in those
stink holes all the time.

I wanna know how
the dope gets in.

- And I wanna protect my men.

Look, they run into one
guy that they busted,

my men are dead.

- I already checked that.

Nobody in there has been
busted by Jump Street.

- Line up.

- Class.

Class.

Shop.

Class.

- What's all this?

- Whoever holds the
Hammer runs the block.

Matty's the Hammer in the Zone,

he gets to decide who does what.

- What do you want, man?

- Shop.
- Class.

- Hope I get shop.

I wanna make a hedge clipper.

- You say somethin'?

- Yeah, he said somethin'.

- I didn't say nothin'.

- Toilet.

- You, too. Toilet.

And when you're finished, I
want you to polish my boots.

- Thanks.

- Okay everybody,
here's the deal.

Everybody did such a lousy
job on that last math test,

I'ma give you a choice.

Now we can go over
the math problems...

(students exclaim)

Or, we can discuss
comparative symbolism

of the Pre-Raphaelites.

(students exclaim)

Excuse me.

- Yes?

- I'm trying to talk up here.

- Well why don't you shut up

and let somebody else talk?

(students exclaiming)

- Stand up, man.

- Stand up?

- Stand up.

- [Dennis] Stand up?

- Please, stand up.

- Okay everybody the genius here

is gonna lead the discussion
on the Pre-Raphaelite brothers.

(students laughing)

- Eat it, Reg.

(student exclaiming)

- Eat it, Reg?

- [Dennis] Yeah.

- No, no.

We're waitin' for you.

(students exclaim)

- Come on man, is
that your best punch?

If it is, you better
develop your mind,

'cause your body's a joke.

(students laughing)

- Smokes are five bucks.

Pay the Hound and
get outta here.

Hey, have a chocolate
bar, stop whining.

What do you want?

- I want a phone call.

- Phone calls are bucks.

But for you, seeing as
you're new and everything,

price is .

(phone ringing)

- Hello?

- Hey, baby.

It's me.

- Dougie, why are
you talking so weird?

- (Laughing) I
ain't talkin' weird.

I mean, why don't
you cool out, baby?

- Don't you dare
talk to me like that.

- I'm sorry, don't hang up.

I'm really, I'm sorry.

- [Dorothy] That's better.

Now, give me a good night kiss
and tell me that you love me.

- I can't.

- [Dorothy] Yes, you can.

- No, no, I'm tellin' ya.

I can't.

- [Dorothy] Yes you can.

- Listen, girl, you
know, I'm in prison.

I can't do those kind of things.

- You better.

- I love you.

(men laughing)

- [Dorothy] I love you, too.

Now, kiss, kiss.

Mwah.

(clears throat)

(sucks air through teeth)

- Mm, I gotta...

Oh yeah?

Well then to hell
with you then girl.

- [Matty] Hey.

- Hey.

- I heard about your
scuffle with Reggie.

- Yeah, we'll take
him out later.

- You ain't takin'
Reg out with a U*i.

- Man, the brother
was karate champ

for seven straight years.

Ain't no three
dudes in this hole

can take out the Reg.

- We'll see.

- Forget it.

Reg is cool, I don't want
anybody messing with him.

- Hey, we mess with
whoever we want.

- No you don't, zip head.

- Don't call him zip head.

- Shut up.

- I'm the Hammer in the
Zone, I call all the sh*ts.

There's a lot of
good action in here.

Cigarettes, dope, phone calls.

It's easy livin' if you want it.

You want a taste of the
good side, get with me.

Sounds alright?

Hey, pudding.

- [Booker] Thanks.

I'm gonna drop those
two over there,

you got a problem with that?

- No, they're just
acquaintances.

- Good.

I want your dessert.

(scuffling)

- [Man] Hey, hey knock it off.

Anybody want a broken neck?

That's one demerit
for all of you.

Blood Hound, you get your ass
over to solitary right now.

(tapping)

- Why don't you go to sleep?

- Yeah, sure.

Man, it's still locked.

You tired?

- Yeah, I cleaned toilet
bowls all day, I'm tired.

- Do you wanna
talk or somethin'?

- [Hanson] Are you okay?

- Yeah, yeah,

I'm fine.

It's just this room is so small.

I don't know if I
can take it, man.

- Oh.

Just try not to think about it.

Let's just talk for
a little bit, okay?

- You know, if
the door was open,

I'd be alright.

Door's open, everything
would be cool.

(inhales)

- Yeah.

(slow, ominous music)

- It's kind of strange lookin'
at all these kid's faces,

isn't it?

- Why?

- Just that we busted
'em all before,

and now we get to see
what happens to 'em.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, well.

I never thought about it before.

It's like we're sending
these kids to hell.

- Well what are
we supposed to do

when they k*ll some
old lady in a drive by?

You wanna take 'em
out for ice cream?

- No.

It's this place.

What does this place do for them

except make 'em worse?

- The idea is to
scare 'em enough

so they don't come back.

- Yeah.

Maybe we scare 'em
so much, that they

ain't go nothin'
left to be afraid of.

(slow, ominous music)

- Dennis?
- Yeah?

- Let me borrow the soap, man.

- Sure, right here.

Sorry.

- Cover me.

(whistling and exclaiming)

- Listen, Matty and Blood Hound

are gonna burn you, so you
better watch your back, alright?

- I know.

Hear any buzz on who
k*lled Ricky Green?

- Well I overheard a couple
of the younger kids talking.

And it doesn't sound like
he was liked very much.

- Anything else?

- Not yet.

If we play cop in here, all
we're gonna get is dead.

The only way we're
gonna find the heroin,

is play the game.

- You think Matty's the source?

- I don't know.

I think he's strictly
nickel and dime.

- Yeah well I got
another problem.

- What?

- Penhall's losin' it.

- How?

- I think he's claustrophobic.

He can't handle the lock up.

- Well if Matty
comes down on ya,

I'll be there, alright?

- Thanks.

- [Blood Hound] Yo D.

- Yeah?

- I got that snooze for ya.

- Speedy delivery.

- Do siege?

- I'll take four.
- That's all?

- Unless you take credit cards.

- Fat chance.

- Thanks.

- Man, this is stupid.

We did not come here to get
degrees in house cleaning.

- Why don't you relax?

We've only been here
a couple of days.

- We are the McQuaid Brothers.

We should be out there
kickin' some butt

and grabbin' some terf.

- I know.

But right now, Ioki and
Booker got the inside track.

- So what are we supposed to do?

- We just wait and observe.

- Observe what?

There's nothin' goin'
on here except flushing.

This is bull.

(hip hop music)

- Hey come on, let a McQuaid
show you how it's done.

(hip hop music)

- Yeah, man.

- I scored these for Penhall.

- [Hanson] What are they?

- Sleeping pills to get
him through the night.

- What are you nuts?

You think I'm gonna
give Penhall dr*gs?

- If he starts cracking up
in the middle of the night,

he's gonna need some help.

- Yeah, well he don't
need these, man.

(hip hop music)

- You can't just stick
these guys on bathroom duty

and not give 'em any yard time.

- I give everybody their
fair share of yard time.

The first day these
guys hit the yard,

I spot 'em makin' a buy
with those Samurai dudes.

- What kind of a buy?

- I believe it was narcotic.

- And that stuff ends today.

I got those Samurai kids
a transfer out of here.

- You two.

Step outside.

Move.

That number you pulled today,

earned you each a demerit.

One more and you
get to try solitary.

You guys better get with
what's goin' on here,

'cause I'm gonna
tell you somethin':

This place can get
real bad for buttheads.

The Hammer gives you a
work detail, you cooperate.

This place functions on
cooperation, is that understood?

- Yes.
- Yes.

- Who do these belong to?

- Me.

- [Man] Get him out of here.

- Where's he goin'?

- Solitary.

- [Man] Get in there.

(slow, ominous music)

(door slams)

- Open the door, man.

Open the door.

(tense, high energy
instrumental music)

(scuffling)

- [Penhall] No lock
up man, please.

I'm claustrophobic,
I can't take it.

- [Man] Yeah, right.

- [Penhall] No, I'm
not faking, please.

- [Man] Shut up.

- [Penhall] Please
don't close the door.

No!

No!

No!

- Matty's doggin' you, man.

You better get outta here.

- Where's my brother?

- I heard he lost
it in solitary.

They shipped him off to
the county looney bin.

(slow, tense instrumental music)

(thudding)
(yelling)

(group yelling)

(thudding)
(smacking)

(group yelling)

(crying)

- What's this?

- You're the Hammer now.

You run the Zone.

Everything.

- I don't see nothin'.

- Open your eyes.

This is a good life.

You're it now, man.

Cigarettes, work
detail, phone calls,

cash, gettin' high.

You can have anything you want.

- Is it gonna open
that front gate for me?

- No.

But what the hell is out there

that you can't have in here?

- Uh, freedom.

- Freedom?

They lock you up for
everything you wanna do.

But in here, you can
do what you want.

And there's nothin'
anyone can do about it,

'cause we're already locked up.

- Women.

- Ah, yes.

You lay a across
blind Morty's desktop,

and he buzzes you into
the tunnel of love.

- The what?

- There's a tunnel that goes
through to the girl's lock up.

Dude with a little juice
can make an arrangement.

- Morty's runnin' whores?

- Nah, Morty just likes sittin'

on his butt, collecting coin.

- Yeah, right.

- You're in the jungle, man.

Better use the power before
some young lion tears you

apart and takes
it away from you.

- Yard, yard.

Shop.

Yard.

(scoffs) Toilet.

Yard.

- Hey flower girl.

You missed a spot.

(thud)
(groan)

(coughing)

- McQuaid.

Mick and Fruity here
deal the cigarettes.

Usual take for the Hammer
is two cartons, plus %.

- I don't smoke.

- What do you mean
you don't smoke?

- [Hanson] I don't smoke.

- Everybody smokes.

How else do you k*ll time?

- Mick.

Could you get some dope?

- Yeah, sure, what do you want?

- What do I want?

I wanna get high.

Bring me everything, alright?

That's how I k*ll time.

- Well go on, come on.

- You don't mind if
I take this, do ya?

(spits)

Thanks.

- What do ya got?

- A little Yukon
Jack in the bottle.

And in the lid:

Weed.

(sniffs)

- You get me somethin'
a little stronger?

- Hey, if you're talkin' powder,

that's your job to bring it in.

- From where?

- I think it comes from the
brothers over in C Building.

(slow, tense synth music)

- [Man ] No man.

- [Man ] Alright,
back off, you two.

(yelling)

(slow, tense synth music)

(laughing)

- Mick scored you a
little Mexican brown.

From a brother over at the wall.

- I don't wanna go through Mick.

You get the word out that
if it comes into the zone,

it goes through me.

- You cut Mick
out of his boogie,

he's gonna be
lookin' for revenge.

- Yeah, well.

I ain't goin' nowhere.

- This is true.

- Alright, that's it.

Hold on a second.

Let me say somethin'
before you go.

There are books in the library.

Nobody's using them.

- Have they got sex
books in the library?

- Oh, hey, man.

The library's filled with
some of the sexiest women

of all time.

You got Cleopatra.

Sherarazad.

Madame Bovary.

These broads'll
tear you up, man.

- Hey well if all these
broads are hangin'

out in the library, why
don't you send a couple

of 'em down to the Zone?

(all laughing)

- Why don't you
wake up Blood Hound?

I mean all you guys.

You're in the joint,

because you're not strong enough
to make it on the outside.

You wanna get outside?

You need power.

You want power?

You gotta read the books.

Man with the power
reads the books.

Man with the power, he
lives real good, doesn't he?

- Yeah, right, Reg.

Man's been doin' the Bolivians.

- What's up, Matty?

- Well Reg, I wouldn't
mind takin' out a book.

It would k*ll some
time, you know?

To get a good one.

- I can give you a book.

Take you out of
some of this garbage

I know you're
going through, man.

- I want somethin' those
power guys are readin'.

- This is a book

about a man who chases a widow.

Now you read this book.

And you can talk to any man.

(slow, sensual music)

- Tell him to give
me back my tins.

- Give him back his tins.

- I ain't givin' this
lyin' crud squat.

- He says no.

- Man, we had a deal.

I fix his radio for
two cartons of smokes.

- Contract dispute.
- I know what it is.

What would Matty do?

- Matty wasn't any good at this.

So people stopped comin'.

Now the Magic Rat, he was
two Hammers before Matty,

he was real good at this.

- [Hanson] Give him
back the smokes.

- I smoked 'em.

- Give me the radio.

Give me the radio.

Now you're even.

Thank you very much.

- That was great.

You might even be better
than the Magic Rat.

- Yeah, yeah.

Go ahead.

- I want you to k*ll Meat, man.

You gotta get him off my back.

- You want me to k*ll him?

- Yeah.

- Why?

- Figure it out.

(exhales)

- I can't do that, man,
you're on your own.

- You gotta help me.

Please, I'll do anything.

Hammer, please.

(slow instrumental music)

- Man in C building
wants to meet with you.

Talk about the new deal.

- When?
- Tomorrow.

- I don't get this part, Reg.

Why, at this point, doesn't he
just go after another whale?

- That's 'cause he's
not going after a whale.

He's going after God.

See, he's the man's man.

What he's saying is,

"I will not let you b*at me.

"I will not let you make
my life mean nothing."

- But he dies.

You saying you gotta die?

- No, no.

That's what makes it a tragedy.

See, you don't have to get
swallowed up by the whale.

See, Ahab was a great
man, he was bad dude, but

he didn't know when to stop.

He didn't know how to say,

"I can live without
that whale on my back."

(upbeat cartoon music)

- [Cartoon] Yipee, ya-hoo,
get off little doggy, get off.

Yippe ki-yay, let her rip,
come on, little doggy.

That's what I am.

Get on little doggy, get on.

Yipee ki-yay, let her
rip, get on little doggy.

- This is bull, holmes.

Turn the channel.

- Hey man, shut your face.

- You wanna get it on?

- Yeah, right now.

(shuffling)
(yelling)

(thudding)

(slow, tense instrumental music)

(thudding)
(yelling)

(thudding)

(slow, tense instrumental music)

(thudding)
(yelling)

(slow acoustic music)

- [Penhall Voiceover] It's
kind of strange lookin'

at all these kid's
faces, isn't it?

We busted 'em all before.

Now we get to see
what happens to 'em.

No lock up, man, please.

I'm claustrophobic,
I can't take it.

- [Man Voiceover] Yeah, right.

- [Penhall Voiceover] No,
I'm not faking, please.

- [Man Voiceover] Shut up.

- [Penhall Voiceover] Please,
please don't close the door.

No!

No!

No!

- You gotta help me out.

Please, I'll do anything.

Hammer, please.

Hammer, please.

Hammer, please.

(slow, tense instrumental music)

- Hammer's lonely tonight, huh?

- That's right.

- Right down this
hallway, turn left,

and wait at the end of the
tunnel by the yellow light.

I'll make a call and you'll
be king tonight, holmes.

(slow, tense instrumental music)

- Better get outta here.

Matty's doggin' you, man.

(slow, tense instrumental music)

- [Penhall Voiceover] It's
kind of strange lookin'

at all these kid's
faces, isn't it?

- No, no.

Don't do that.

Sit down.

I just wanna sit here.

Let's just sit, okay?

(slow, tense instrumental music)

- What's wrong with you?

Don't you wanna get it on?

- You wanna get it on?

(thudding)

- [Penhall Voiceover]
What does this place do

for them except make 'em worse?

(thudding)
(smacking)

Make 'em worse.

Maybe we scare 'em
so much, that they

ain't got nothin'
left to be afraid of.

Nothin' left to be afraid of.

It's like we're sending
these kids to hell.

We're sending
these kids to hell.

Kids to hell.

- You gotta help me out.

Hammer, please.

Hammer, I'm beggin' ya, please.

(slow, tense instrumental music)

- [Girl] You're a waste.

- [Booker] You okay?

- Yeah.

I'm the Hammer.

- The what?

- Nothin', look, um...

How did you get
in here to see me?

- I'm your social worker.

I'm pullin' you out.

- No, don't, listen.

I got a meeting with
the smack dealer today.

I'm almost there.

You wanna take a look?

I got it from one of his boys.

- I want a phone call
from you by tomorrow night

or I'm comin' in.

- You got it.

- (laughs) This is it?

- [Slimey] You got it, man.

- (laughs) Man.

I can't believe
you took out Matty.

- Do you got a
problem with that?

- Whoa, okay.

So what's the word?

- The word is that I don't
wanna go through Mick anymore.

I wanna go straight
to the source.

You cool with that?

- It's cool with me, but what
are you gonna do about Mick?

- I'll take care of Mick.

(laughing)

- I like your style, Hammer.

That Mick was a redneck
pain in my ass anyway.

- Can I talk to
you for a second?

Private.

I had a homeboy from th
street get k*lled last month.

His name was Ricky Green.

I wanna find out who
did it, 'cause, uh,

I'd like to take care of it.

- You already took
care of it, my man.

Matty was the dude who
took out Ricky Green.

- Yeah?

- Yep.

- [Hanson] I wanna talk to you.

- Get outta here.

- Hey listen I don't want
any trouble, alright?

I just wanna talk.

- You got lucky
once, don't push it.

- Why'd you k*ll Ricky Green?

- He a homeboy of yours?

- I knew him.

- He ran the Zone before me.

- So why'd you k*ll him?

- I took him out
because I was a sl*ve

and I wanted the Hammer.

- You k*lled him for that?

- Yeah, I don't feel
good about it, alright?

Green was a damned animal.

I wasn't gonna wash toilets,

and I wasn't gonna eat his crap.

- Well then why do you eat mine?

- I had somethin' real
nice planned for you.

- And what happened?

- I don't have to live
with a whale on my back.

- [Hanson] What are
you talkin' about?

- I'm glad you're
the Hammer now.

In three months I'll be
out of this stinkin' hole

and I'm not comin' back.

You'll just be looking
over your shoulder for

Blood Hound or Meat
or Frog to come

and take it away from you.

- Uh-uh.

Not me.

'Cause I'm quittin'.

- What do you mean by that?

- [Hanson] I just wanna get
out of here alive, you know?

- You can't quit.

- Hide and watch.

- Wake up, McQuaid.

That Hammer's God in here.

You give it up, this
place'll go crazy.

Every homeboy in the
Zone will be trying

to k*ll you for it.

- Yeah well you know what?

If they wanna play that
game, that's their problem.

- You're the game.

And unless you change it,

you're gonna have to
play it out 'til the end.

(slow, ominous music)

(thudding)

- Phone call Morty.

- What the hell you
think you're doin'?

Prisoners aren't allowed
to use the telephone.

- I'll pay for it.

- You get your
hand off that phone

or I'll break your
neck you little maggot.

And from now on, you call
me Mr. Gansman, you got it?

You listen up, punk.

I thought you were smart
enough to really run this Zone.

And that's important to me
because this is my house.

A kid goes into the hole,
he lives in my house.

See, we got laws, boy.

Same as up above.

You could've been the man.

Hell, I was even
thinking of giving you

Bruno's dope action,
but you blew it.

You were too big for the
law, weren't you, huh?

Too nice for the law.

Well now the law's
gonna make you pay, boy.

- I can get it back.

- Fine you take out
Blood Hound and Meat

and all the rest of the
homeboys and we'll talk again.

- Listen, what do you want?

You want a C note, man?

I got it right here.

Look.

- No phone calls.

Now you get your scrawny
little ass outta here.

- Hey Mr. Lewis.

There's something
wrong with Froggy.

He's lyin' in his
cell, lookin' real bad.

(thudding)
(scuffling)

Sorry Mr. Lewis.

Froggy, Dude, let's
waste these guys.

- [Man] I want some
of that fat boy.

(yelling)
(scuffling)

(thudding)
(yelling)

- [Man] Eat this, Hammer.

(yelling)
(scuffling)

(coughing)

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- He's dead.

- He'll be living
behind bars for a while.

- He already is.

They all are.

We're wasting our time.

- I can't really say that, Tom.

This is what we do.

- We throw these kids in jail,

they come out more screwed
up than they were goin' in.

What's the point?

- Look, Hanson, nobody says
this place is a country club.

If a kid really wants
to break out of this,

he can use the time
to his advantage.

He can learn to read.

He can

learn to trade.

- Yeah.

I found out who
k*lled Ricky Green.

Funny thing is,
he's the only one

who used his time to change.

What are we gonna do about him?

- He'll have to face his crime.

- He already did.

He's the kid they scooped
up off the floor back there.

- Hanson.

Look, I'm sorry you
had to go through this.

But I've heard what
you've been saying

about the system
a thousand times.

You worried about
these kids, Tom?

Then be there for one of
them when they get out.

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orchestral music)

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