- What the hell is going on? - My money. It's all gone.
As of this morning,
I am in possession of over $70 million in seized cash assets.
Teddy McDonald. He's just a contractor now.
You might have to find another way to connect all the dots,
but I can help you do that.
Sorry, Avi.
I'm the only hope you have to save Franklin.
I wanna make sure my family is safe and then you can kill Teddy McDonald.
Parissa, someone's already here. Fuck.
I got to... I do one more thing, then I come back. We got $13 million.
- DEA! - Hands up! Remember me?
The game's about to change, all right? So it's time to get out the game.
Nigga, if you out, that mean I'm in charge?
Franklin is family. But I like to think that what you're doing is just business,
and I got your back, but I will not go to war against my own blood.
I approached Teddy, made a deal to buy my cocaine directly from him.
You gonna shoot me?
If it meant me getting my fucking money back, I would kill you ten times over.
If anybody has any doubt about what's about to happen, say it now.
Relax. Jerome and Louie, they asked me--
We're gonna have to burn this whole motherfucker to the ground, Mama.
Then let's go.
It's early morning in South Central Los Angeles
and it's anybody's guess who will be killed tonight.
Today, there's a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country
and no one is safe from it, not you, not me, and certainly not our children
because this epidemic has their names written on it.
Tisha. Baby, what's wrong?
- What's wrong? - Daddy never came home.
What? You been here alone all night?
Stay in the car.
Legitimate business.
Crime here is out of control.
This wasn't some drive-by or random gang shooting.
Those two were executed.
You two wanna tell me what the hell is going on or not?
- Hey, we the victims here. - Victims?
Yeah. Instead of interrogating us, why don't you go over there? Do your job.
- Is that my boy, Will? - I'm sorry, you have to stay back.
- Stop right there. - His name Will Daniels, it's him.
Are you saying you know one of the victims?
- Will Daniels, is that Will Daniels? - I'm not gonna tell you again, step back.
It's my son!
Hey! Get the girl!
- Forensic accounts, they can't help. - What'd they say?
The firm in New York appreciate our inquiry
but recovering illicit gains isn't what they do.
Folks in Dallas told me that without the assistance of federal authorities,
there's no chance they could recover the money.
And anyone who claimed otherwise is lying.
Okay. So what do we do?
I'm about to show you.
Yeah, this is Teddy.
Not over the phone, I'll come to you. Yeah, I know where it is.
Give me 30 minutes.
- Hey. - Jesus Christ, Gustavo.
- Bear! - What happened?
Where have you been?
- Who wants to go to the bowling? - Me!
Okay, I'm gonna get changed.
How much they get?
Between here and the warehouse?
I ain't sure yet. Three million, maybe more.
We both know who did this.
How you wanna handle it?
I'ma talk to the boy.
"Boy"?
This man shit.
- Where's this? - Stash house.
- Since when? - Since Peaches fucked my last one.
Told you the gloves had to come off.
I didn't realize that meant robbing your own family though.
I had to stop the bleeding, buy us some time until I could find Teddy.
- There is a problem. - Just one?
Well, we can't just walk up and hand the lenders dirty cash.
We need to get this money into a bank, one that'll take it, no questions asked.
I'm sorry. What are you asking?
I remember you mentioning an ex-boyfriend of your mother's,
he used to move cocaine from the Bahamas into Miami.
You mean Randy?
I could fly out to the Caymans if I have to.
But it'd be much simpler to keep the money here in the States.
In Miami? Well, that's our best bet for finding a bank
that's willing to take this money today.
You shouldn't have done this. You could've sold some of the buildings off.
We could've gotten legitimate loans.
We would've lost the downtown property.
We could've built it all back up.
- V, you're not listening-- - We still could.
Call Jerome and Louie, you tell them you made a mistake.
Jerome and Louie? This is done! Okay?
I need you to get on board with what comes next. Can you do that, please?
Do you know somebody that can help us or do I need to go another direction?
You need to go another direction. Now get me the fuck out of here.
Any update on Peaches?
Still no record he left the country.
Could be he used a fake passport.
Or, despite what you heard, he's still stateside.
Listen, I want that motherfucker found, you hear me?
Put the word out. I pay a quarter million to anybody who finds that nigga
and a 3% finder's fee of whatever's left of my five million when they do.
Yeah, that would get things moving.
Anything else?
Yeah. While back,
had you looking into family members of Teddy McDonald, you remember that?
Remember Owen had me looking into it.
Yeah, came up with his pops in Kansas City and a ex-wife and kid in D.C.
I need you to reconfirm their locations.
And find me any other pressure points he might have in his life.
Best to say it.
Last time it went down this road, it didn't turn out too good for your old man.
Listen, if you got a problem with this shit, I'll find somebody who don't.
You got your finger in a lot of pies these days, youngblood.
- You all right? - No, I'm not.
And they not pies, it's a dam and it's leaking.
- Y'all are late. - Sitter issues.
Here. Hire full-time help. Shit ain't gonna get easier.
So, where we headed?
PJs.
Full-time help.
I always wanted to be like one of them Dynasty bitches.
- Anyone shows up, you let me know. - Yes, sir.
Parissa, someone's already here.
Fuck.
No.
You remember me?
I do.
Yeah. You searched him?
- He didn't have to. - I'm sorry, what was that?
I lost my hearing in this ear. So I can't hear very well.
We have a common problem, I'm just here to help.
Yeah? Now how are you going to help me?
Avi had a lot of enemies. People wanted him gone.
So, you tell me who they were and I can use my resources to narrow it down,
and we will find out who did this.
You know what the worst thing about losing half your hearing is?
It's your balance.
Your ear regulates your equilibrium and without it, it's hard to stay centered.
So, for instance...
If I wanted to get revenge for what you did to me,
I can't promise you that I would fire the gun where I wish.
Avi is gone. Our business is finished. Get him out of here.
Go.
Whoever did this to Avi, they have my associate. Please.
And this person that they took, this person actually means something to you?
Come, come here.
In that case, fuck you.
I know what I told you, but you can't leave.
Why not? What changed?
- I can't talk about it. - You can't talk about it?
All that matters is, we live our lives like nothing's different.
What does that mean?
Everything is different.
You want me to just carry on all day as if our house isn't bugged?
- I got a strike. I got a strike! - Can you believe it?
Did Teddy call the house last night or this morning?
No. What?
Did you talk to him? Does he know that I was gone?
- No, I didn't talk to him. - Okay.
But if he's been listening in on us, he'll know that you weren't home.
It wasn't Teddy who's been listening.
I know. It's a lot.
I can't tell you any more than that.
I need you to trust me, okay?
Every guy who's ever asked me to trust them has fucked me over.
So it looks like all in,
Franklin walked with three point four million in cash and product.
And we got some more problems.
Mac Anteria is coming from St. Louis to make their pickup.
- And we ain't got no product. - Or no cash to buy more.
We put a freeze on our Panama accounts after what happened to Franklin.
Tried to call, free up some funds, but that's gonna take a few days.
And on top of all that, we ain't got access to the warehouse
because Franklin dropped a couple of bodies there, too.
So we ain't got no place to load the cars.
Who you calling?
Who you think?
Need a outside line?
Nah.
I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
Something required my full attention.
Franklin found out Avi's missing. It's got him spooked. Was that you?
You wanted to know if this will work if we go to Teddy.
Consider what happened to Mr. Drexler proves that we can.
If Franklin knows about Avi, Teddy knows too.
Yes, why we need to move quickly.
I need access to Franklin, and I need it now.
It is time to tell him. Arrange a meeting.
The longer we wait, the greater the chances Teddy will disappear.
And you will never get the answers you want.
Tomorrow morning, ten o'clock at the museum.
Bring Franklin with you.
Watch the...
All right, look, let's just... Watch the...
- Hey, this motherfucker broke, cuh. - Nah, look.
You gotta just not do these two at the same time.
Nigga, I'm not doing them at the same time.
- Hey, D. - Shit.
What's up, D?
Damn, she's pretty.
Yeah. Too bad up under the hood, she busted.
Just like your motherfucking security.
- This motherfucker... - Go wait by the car.
Now if you want, I know a guy off of Jefferson, could hook it up.
What, you in the motherfucking car business now, cuz?
Is that why you got up out the game?
Who told you I was out of the game? Lee?
Right before he grabbed that rock-headed ho
and said, "I'm going to Africa."
I swear to God, niggas is losing their motherfucking minds.
Hey, listen... Are we doing business here, or--
Motherfucker, I'm talking. Can't you see that?
- Yeah, I... - Goddamn.
You know what? Take your ass the fuck up out of here.
I ain't buying this piece of shit from y'all.
Come on, man.
And scene. Your little boy gone, and you out.
So, what the fuck were we even talking about?
I ain't out the game, D. I got the plug.
You a little late, cuh. I already got a new hookup.
Oh, yeah? Who's that? The Mexicans? Colombians?
Nah. Your motherfucking Uncle Rome.
Makes sense. I know y'all are close.
Probably got you a pretty good deal too, right? Twelve a key?
Thing is... I could give you the same product for ten.
Ten?
Same shit?
Same shit.
That's an extra 200,000 in your pocket for every 100 keys you move.
Hey, does this motherfucker math check out?
It does.
Pretty good.
Nigga, the price is right like Bob Barker. Shit.
But hear me, cuz.
I ain't trying to get in the middle of no little family squabble.
Of course. You won't.
Look, it's not personal, it's business. Jerome understands that.
Look, I'll tell you what, I'll send the girls by tonight with ten bars.
He ain't gonna do better than ten a key. Might as well pick it up, right?
Next time you see Jerome, tell him you got a better deal.
Give him a chance to beat it. If he can, then shit, continue to buy from him.
No hard feelings. But if not, well...
Two hundred thousand will buy you any car you want, huh?
Yeah, let me know.
- Where you been? - I told you.
I took Cedro to the ER.
That was 24 hours ago.
Yeah, we were waiting for a pinche doctor the whole night.
You never had a night like that with your son?
Should have called. We have problems.
So, I got Detective Han check in the jails and calling the hospitals,
so far there's nothing.
You really think someone took her?
Who would do that?
I don't know, but it's not thugs.
These people are trained, they would know how to extract information.
Have you slept?
I don't need to sleep. I need to find her.
Hey. How's he doing?
Shit took a turn.
He had to be sedated again.
Kane is a warrior. He'll be all right.
Is that right?
And I wanted you to hear it from me, Leon's out.
Left the country. I know you was buying from him.
I want you to know I'ma step up, take his place.
Now, this ain't the time. I mean, fuck.
Your family is the reason he in there to begin with.
I hear you and I am sorry, truly.
But if you want to hurt Jerome and Louie, there's a few ways to do it,
but a big one is to fuck with they business.
So let me know when you want to talk, all right?
- Okay. What's going on? - Like I said, we just wanna be up.
Oh, yeah. You canceled your honeymoon just to stay here and sling dope?
You wanna sell product. We wanna buy product.
- Why's it got to be more than that? - Okay, so here's the thing.
You can tell me what's going on here,
or I promise you this will be the last time that we do business together.
- We were robbed. - By who?
Franklin.
- Franklin robbed you. - Yeah.
Somebody cleaned him out. All his accounts.
He needed a life raft, apparently, we were it.
I'll have Gustavo give you the bricks. You prefer him to do it?
Yeah. But he also hit our cash reserves. So, I'ma need those on consignment.
Yeah, you're good for it.
What's gonna happen now between you and Franklin?
I don't know. But I'm guessing we not spending Christmas together.
Remember back on Catalina, what I told you?
The things I've done to make this money.
Yes.
So you could imagine after all of that, starting back at zero?
- That ain't gonna happen. - That's on you.
But this right here? This isn't what I signed up for.
- I know. - You know?
You're supposed to be out.
Now, I've worked so hard to leave my old life behind me.
But you're standing here
asking me to go launder millions of dollars in stolen drug money.
- Do you understand what that means? - I don't do it lightly.
- You don't do it lightly... - I don't.
That's great.
This right now, this is about survival.
What happens in the next few weeks
is gonna determine the course of the rest of our lives and our babies'.
Please, V. Please.
- What'd you tell him? - That I talk to you. Why I reached out.
I'd rather buy from you. You just gonna have to get it down to ten a cake.
OG, you know why he's able to sell you them bud so cheap?
Stolen from us.
Look, I told your little motherfucking nephew
I ain't trying to get in the middle of no family shit.
I'm just trying to get my bread.
You already copped them keys?
Two little bitches supposed to bring them by tonight.
Hey, look. You know I'd rather buy from you. If not, you know ain't personal.
- A nigga got to do what he gotta do. - Yeah.
How much does she know about you? And the operation?
Nothing that can hurt us.
But look, regardless of who is doing this, Avi's entire operation is burned.
So unless you want to shut the entire pipeline down,
we're going to need another gun connect.
I'm sure we have ideas, if that would be helpful?
Is there any word from the higher-ups? About the money I ask?
Let's get this all cleared up.
Then we'll talk about getting you your blue badge back.
Yeah.
I got to get the mud off my shoes before I step foot on Langley's carpets.
There is significant interest in the assets in your possession.
But, yes, we need to make sure you're clean
before you're officially welcomed back inside the walls.
Yeah, I reckon $73 million cleans a lot of carpet.
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be in the CIA.
My father and brother were army men, instruments of policy, blunt objects,
and I just wanted a seat at the table where the long arc of history is shaped.
I understand.
Franklin is going to war with Louie and Jerome. This fucking family, man.
It's like they don't even have the good sense not to tear each other apart.
- You need anything else from me? - No. You should go home.
Gus. So I...
never really said, I'm sorry. About Cedro getting hurt, you know.
The hospital, making you wait all night is unbelievable.
- What was the hospital? - Verdugo Hills.
I say, anything ever happens to the two of us,
let's not go to Verdugo Hills. You know what I mean?
V?
- What's this? - What?
This is the woman who goes to Miami to deposit stolen drug money.
You have something for me?
Yeah. It's in the back seat.
It's 1.85 million.
I'll be back by dinner time.
Love you.
Yeah, you do.
Well, officially LAPD has jack shit.
You're just the victims of some unfortunate violence.
And unofficially?
You're about to be the flavor of the month.
But they know it's drug-related, and that you got ties to Franklin Saint.
So, you gonna need to tighten up your shit.
Ain't that what we pay you for? Keep motherfuckers off our back.
Yeah, well, it's not gonna be that easy, now that I'm officially off LAPD payroll.
But you still get friends on the force, right?
Yeah. I still got a few of those.
So keep them close. And you keep your mind right.
Stay off that fucking powder. Goddamn junkie.
Give us a minute.
Finally this motherfucker.
Unc.
- Been paging you all day. - Yeah. I've been busy, man.
- Need to meet up. - What for?
Nigga.
I didn't want things to go this way. I went to Louie and asked for help.
You gonna blame it all on us now?
Your wife went behind my back and stole the plug, and that's business.
But I show up and take back what I made you and the staff.
So it's business when I'm bending over, but it's personal when you get it.
Is that how it works?
Nephew, if you don't bring back what you stole,
you gonna understand how this works, little nigga.
You wanna come after me, that's fine.
Came into this shit with my eyes open.
And they still are, nigga.
Listen.
There's something else you need to know about last night.
After I refused to help Franklin get to Teddy, he pulled a gun on me.
Said he was gonna kill me.
He might have done it too, if Buckley hadn't been there.
I heard you when you said you didn't wanna go to war with your family.
I tried to respect it.
But you need to know exactly who we dealing with.
It was either this or drop them off first and have you waiting even longer.
Or you could just give us the location to the safe house
and save us all a whole lot of time.
Stuff's in the trunk.
What's up, y'all? My name's Franklin.
Are you the one Mom is always complaining about?
- Proudly, yeah. - You want a french fry?
Sure, I'll have one of those.
Damn, that was good.
You not gonna take 'em to the drop, are you?
Yeah, we're just gonna leave them in the back seat with a Etch A Sketch.
McDonald.
Looking for Detective Rose.
What took you so long?
Fuck you doing here?
Make sure he wasn't followed.
We went over this. There are protocols if you need to meet.
- You can't just show up. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I forgot to tell you I told Teddy we took Cedro to the emergency room.
- You're worried he's gonna check? - I know he will.
Hospital records aren't easy to get, even for an intelligence officer.
- We'll take care of it right away. - Right away when? Tonight?
As soon as possible. Did you tell him a particular hospital?
- Yeah, Verdugo Hills. - We'll take care of it, okay?
But, Gustavo, listen to me.
Informants who do what we tell 'em, they make it out alive.
It's the ones that get flustered, panic
and don't follow protocol that get into trouble.
I had a long talk with my bosses today
and they want to see something now to justify what we're doing here.
You mentioned a tunnel at the border, how you're bringing the cocaine across.
- I wanna see it. - When?
As soon as possible. Tomorrow if it doesn't raise any alarm bells.
That a problem?
- No, should be okay. - All right.
Go home and get some rest.
You promise me you're gonna take care of this, right?
Absolutely. Good night.
I held back, but Ruben's impatient.
He wants to meet tomorrow.
What happened to burning all this down to the ground?
I'm about to side with the Russians, commit treason.
Forgive me if I need a minute to think before lighting a match.
You still believe, don't you?
Even after all of this? You want so badly to think America still cares about you.
Like some orphan child standing by the door, waiting for mama to come home,
no matter how long she's been gone.
We throw a lot in with the KGB now,
we may have to face the reality that we have to leave.
Face the reality?
Let me tell you something, Franklin.
Those hours, days and weeks after your father disappeared in Cuba,
were some of the worst of my life. I was completely alone in a foreign country,
didn't even speak the fucking language, didn't know what happened to him,
but knew almost for certain I'd never see him again.
And if the pain and frustration weren't enough, there was always the fear
that at any moment they could come and get me too.
Went on like that for months.
Until one night I realized why Teddy let me live.
It wasn't a moral decision or even convenience.
He could've killed me and gotten away with it.
Teddy spared my life because in his mind, I posed no threat to him.
None of us do.
He could take away one of the most important things in my life,
and I could do nothing about it.
I was just some nigger who'd never touch him.
Inconsequential to the point it wasn't even worth the effort
it would take to snuff me out. And in that moment, I knew.
Fuck Teddy, fuck the CIA, and fuck the government that supported them.
I was gonna do whatever it would take to not only destroy him,
but to make sure that he knew it was me, the inconsequential nigga who did it.
I am way past facing reality, Franklin.
I am done standing by the door waiting for mama to come home.
Now, are you with me, Saint? Or are you with them?
Okay.
Okay, tell Ruben I'll meet him tomorrow.
Hey. I've got a question I've been meaning to ask you.
What's that?
I know little bitches got little coochies,
but I ain't never been mountain climbing before,
so I don't know if big bitches got big coochies or not.
Why don't you fuck your mama and find out?
You got a little fight in you. All right.
We good.
I bet we are.
That thing is sitting like some bread fresh out the oven.
Shut the fuck up, nigga.
Get home safely.
Mountain climbing motherfucker.
So, who is he?
Because of Franklin and these hours, I ain't had no dick in weeks.
And he looked like he probably holding.
- You know who I think is holding? - Dallas, do not say it.
I got a peek once. You know he be wearing them tight jeans I like.
Dallas, stop. He's our boss and his lady's pregnant.
That ain't got shit to do with me. I would tear his ass up.
Fuck.
We ain't got no product and they can't legally search the car.
Since when the fuck legal got anything to do with it?
Stay cool. You hear me? If they wanna search the car, we let 'em.
Have Franklin call the lawyer.
Keep your hands where we can see them and step out of the car.
Ain't you going to tell us what we did wrong?
- I said step out of the car now. - Hey, fuck you. We ain't gotta do shit.
Out of the car now! Out of the car!
They ain't gonna tell you again.
Nigga, you're not even a cop no more.
Yeah, which will scare you more than if I was.
All right, we're coming out.
Open the trunk.
- You have no right-- - Does it look like I'm fucking asking?
Open it.
Don't move.
Where Franklin keeping my shit at?
He stole from me.
- I want it back. Now where is it? - This some bullshit.
We don't know, motherfucker.
- You think I'm playing with you? - We don't know.
He got us some place new. He ain't tell us where it is.
I'm gonna spill on you.
Motherfucker. Fuck, let go of me.
It's gonna get bad for you in a hurry if you don't tell me what I wanna know.
I swear, he didn't tell us. He didn't tell us. He didn't tell us where it is.
Nigga, she's telling the truth! She's telling the truth!
- Oh, yeah? - Yes!
Hey, stop fucking hitting her! We don't know!
You tell me where my goddamn money at!
Hey, stop. Stop fucking hitting her!
You can stop this all now. You tell me where it's at.
- We don't know. - Get the fuck back.
She doesn't know where it is. He didn't tell us.
She got a fucking kid, man. Stop hitting her.
I want my money.
You tell Franklin that I did this.
And I ain't gonna stop till I get all that's mine.
Beverly. Beverly! It's okay.
Are you okay? Bev, are you okay?
Somebody call fucking 911.
It's gonna be all right. You're gonna be okay. Stay with me.
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