- I heard about Kev. - You don't know what really happened.
No? You didn't shoot and kill my baby brother?
Kev was my family too and I ain't got much left.
So we can squash this right here and right now.
He's going to use his connect and start at ten keys a week.
So you got him making money for you now?
- Makes the world go round. - And you trust him?
End of the day, he just wanna look out for his family.
I wanna buy directly from you.
- Franklin know about this? - No.
Franklin is the answer. In the end, only he can bring your enemies down.
There's gonna be a wedding.
Did you dose everybody with LSD?
You can't be a gangster and a family man.
In the end you'll have to destroy us all.
All you have to offer is lies dripped with honey.
You think you have to kill me one day.
But before you do, I'm gonna kill you.
There's only one thing you really need to know.
Once you press that button, there's no turning back.
You were right. I should've listened.
I should've treated you like a partner.
Well, it's not too late.
It is. I'm doing things my way now.
Hey.
How you holding up?
How would you be?
Kovacs is itching to talk to you.
Thought maybe you wanna run me through what happened here first.
You know, we got a tip that cocaine was being sold out of the pool hall,
so we came to check it out.
They just started shooting.
- And how'd you end up in the back? - One of them ran.
Warned him repeatedly to stop.
But he had a gun in his hand.
Was turning back to fire.
And...
1199, Perez is hit. I repeat, Perez is down.
That's when I saw him.
Okay,
Kovacs is wanting to hear that from you.
And then you got to go in, give an official statement.
Hey, the guy in the back, he make it?
He's barely hanging on. Took him over to King.
SNOWFALL
Who?
Yeah. Just send him up.
- What's up? - What's up?
Welcome.
Shit.
Look at this place.
Been meaning to have you over.
Been paging you all morning.
Yeah.
Trying to sleep, man.
You know, mind was just racing on me.
Felt like I've been carved out.
I was actually feeling pretty good.
Went to the crib, poured a drink, watched the sun rise on the roof.
Like I finally knew what I had to do.
Then I got word, cops at the pool hall.
Three of Kane people dead, Kane in surgery.
Wanna guess who it was?
She lied to us.
Said she was fine and went behind our backs and hit him anyway.
What you want me to do about it, Lee?
What?
What would you like me to do?
Yell and scream? Shoot up the club?
Go to war with Louie and Jerome? The cops?
There's what's right and there's what's wrong. And this shit is wrong.
Leon, Kane tried to kill us. Jerome and Louie hit back.
- We made a deal with Kane. - That's what's right in our world.
Look, I ain't saying I'm happy with any of it,
but there's other shit that's more important to me, man.
Like what?
Like surviving.
Surviving to take care of my unborn baby.
Like not going to war with my family.
But I can't tell you what to do any more than I can Jerome or Louie.
That's a first.
But I ain't going out a martyr.
Going out here, in your Wilshire penthouse.
If you're trying to make me feel bad, that's not the way, all right?
You wanna fight this, be my guest.
But I won't be there.
You ain't even open it up.
You are so beautiful.
Was it everything that you wanted?
All that and a chocolate fountain of LSD.
- It was probably Skully. - Yeah.
It probably was.
That shit could've gone all wrong.
Yeah, but it didn't.
Maybe it's a good omen.
Word is probably out about Kane by now.
Keep that up.
- Checked my pager this morning. - Yeah?
Five missed from Leon.
I wish we could just stay in bed all day.
We can.
- Let's stay in bed all day. - Yeah.
No.
No. Shit needs to be dealt with.
I'll tell you what.
I'll call downstairs,
extend our stay till Wednesday before the trip.
Then we come back here later tonight.
I like it.
You ever gonna tell me where we're going?
I mean, you're gonna know in a few days. That's all I know.
You just like seeing me squirm. That's all.
I fucking love that.
I like it when you say that. Say it again.
I like it.
Anything else I should know?
Nah. It's all there, just like I said.
And the cocaine you got the tip about in the first place...
You know, bad information, right?
It happens.
Yeah.
Come on in.
Kinda need to pull a tube of blood, Detective.
Are you serious?
As of right now, you are suspended,
pending results of IA's investigation into the shooting and the test results.
So you tell us to clean shit up
and suddenly you give a fuck about how it gets done?
An officer is dead and I wanna know why.
Or is it just me?
'Cause I ain't some 6'2", square-jawed Southern boy,
"Yes, sir. No, sir. Shine your shoes for you, sir"?
I shine my own shoes,
and I clean up after myself.
You should have done the same.
Fuck this. I want my union rep. I want my fucking lawyer in here.
Refuse to cooperate and there'll be criminal charges
to go along with the disgrace.
In the meantime, I'm gonna need your gun and badge, Detective.
All right.
I know you don't want to hear it,
but I understand why Louie did what she did.
Right thing the wrong way.
Who doses an entire wedding?
What if I'd have stayed? Eaten a strawberry?
I don't even want to think about it.
You could have called me, if you were in such bad shape.
We talked.
Had a whole conversation.
What did we talk about?
Hey, you wanna get out here? Like leave town?
I just wanna clear my head.
What'd you have in mind?
You shaved your beard.
In light of last night,
I thought it would be helpful to alter my appearance.
I thought those things you were saying are closer to the truth. They're not.
I was drugged. I was scared.
Fuck, I'm still scared. I'm sorry.
You know what you should be scared of, Cissy?
What the CIA is gonna do to your son if I don't help you.
Because when they're done with him, they will kill him.
That's a fact. Right now, you think you have two bad choices,
but I'm the only hope you have to save Franklin.
Ana told me what you were like when she recruited you.
Alone.
Desperate to find a man who was gone forever.
Okay. I don't need to be reminded of that right now.
I think you do.
And I think you need to put away these childish excuses
if we're gonna have any hope of killing Teddy.
- And getting you out of this alive. - Wait a goddamn second.
Short of incriminating my own son,
I have done everything that you have asked me to do.
You, on the other hand, have given me no reason to believe
that you can do what you said you were gonna do.
Now, both Teddy's drug runner and gun supplier were there yesterday.
Tell me you got something we can use.
Could've gotten more if you'd have kept your head.
But, yes, ultimately, it was incredibly helpful.
My people are digging into Gustavo Zapata, an avid wrestler, as we speak.
But whatever reservations you have,
you leave them here today.
Or I will leave you back the way you were in Cuba.
Avi.
Goodness.
Who might we have here?
Avi meet Parissa. It's an old acquaintance turned a new associate.
My dear, you're a vision.
- It's nice to meet you, Avi. - Persian?
Very good.
I spent some time in Tehran back in the '70s.
- What a city. - It makes me very sad, you know?
What's happening between our two countries.
Yeah. I couldn't agree more.
And I'd like to hear all of your thoughts on this matter.
And I would like to tell you,
but I think Theodore would like some time with your first.
Then I guess Theodore and I should chat.
Muir.
All morning, we've been enjoying my cellar.
- Help yourself to whatever you please. - Thank you.
- To be a young man. - You are a young man.
I kept the party going.
Someone spiked the entire Saint wedding with LSD last night.
Seriously? Was it you?
Not this time.
Okay. I'm not gonna take up too much your time.
I am about to be in a position
to triple the number of guns that are headed south.
I need to know that you can handle that kind of weight.
- When have I ever I let you down? - Honestly, Avi, all the time.
There were always good reasons for any hiccups.
This is it. It's the final push. The Sandinistas are hurting.
This will break their back. I want this war sewn up.
Onto bigger and better things.
Triple the guns in 60 days. Say you can do it.
You have the money, you'll have the guns. I swear.
But I do hope the end of this war will not mean the end of our business.
With everything you know about me,
you really don't think there's gonna be another war just around the corner?
- Come have a drink. Come on. - If you say so.
How is he?
He's fucked up. Bullet got his spine. Doc said he ain't walking again.
Fuck.
But he's gonna live?
I'm gonna assume that you don't know anything about this,
that this was just cops being cops.
Or was there some shit that you want to tell me?
You can't be fucking serious.
Okay. Okay, yeah. I came here for a little compassion.
Why did I think I'd get anything but a world of shit from you?
I'm sorry Eddie is dead. Okay? I am.
But I'm not letting you see them when you're in this state.
- What state, Sharon? I'm upset. - Come on. You're fucking high, Bo.
You think I don't see it? You think I don't know?
I wanna see my fucking kids and I'm not gon' say it again.
Or what?
You gonna hit me?
After they find cocaine or whatever it is you're on in your blood,
you want to make sure you never see your kids again?
That's the way to make sure it happens. And I know,
because I spend all day keeping assholes like you away from their kids.
Now get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out.
It's okay. I'll be out in a minute.
So this is how you move now? Say one thing, do another?
I told you how I felt.
You felt differently, so I did what I needed to do.
Just tell me why.
Make me understand how this is one thing that needed to happen.
I can try, but you ain't gonna hear it.
You think it's hard being a Black man in this world, Leon?
Try for five minutes living in it as a Black woman.
Every move I make gotta be iron fucking clad
or these niggas is gonna chew me up and spit me out.
And that ain't happening to me. So, yeah. I looked you in your face,
told you I was fine, and then I sent Buckley to kill Kane.
Because to be where I wanna be,
I don't got the luxury of somebody taking a shot at me and letting it go.
- Well, Black Diamond... - Him and Dallas could be bought.
Y'all killed Kane's brother,
so a little money gonna keep him happy for a little while,
but one day he gon' come back to finish what he started.
You don't know that.
What I know is I spent half my life getting fucked over by niggas like him.
And like I said before, that ain't happening again.
If you can't understand that, Leon,
it ain't nothing left for us to talk about.
I just left the hospital. Kane's people ain't gonna take this lying down.
Now, I didn't tell 'em it was you behind this
'cause I don't want more blood on my hands, but they're gonna find out.
And I hope you're ready for what's coming.
Good over there?
I don't know if this was such a good idea. Got any of those bags around?
You can use your purse.
Not this purse, nigga.
Take deep breaths, relax, focus on the view. We'll be down in a minute.
I said what?
That I couldn't be a gangster and a family man at the same time.
That I'll lose you.
That you'd betray me to save yourself.
That what you really think?
Think I haven't been honest with you, V.
And I don't want to lie anymore.
The truth is I've done terrible things.
I've killed people,
destroyed lives.
Whatever I had to. Not just to survive but to win.
And last night, I saw the simple truth.
And by any measure...
I'm a monster.
When I was 13,
my mom and I ran El Paso, running one of the usual scams.
Normally we were gone before the mark ever knew what hit him,
but this one guy, he sniffed it out and he flew into a rage.
You rob someone straight up? That's one thing.
Make 'em believe you care and then clean 'em out?
He'd already knocked my mother unconscious.
He had his hands around my neck.
And the world was going dark.
I didn't even see her get up.
I just heard the shot.
My mom, she helped me get up, told me to stop crying.
She made me change my clothes, and then we left the country.
I am the girl who lied and cheated
and stole and left a man dead on a hotel room floor.
I'm also the woman who went to college and law school,
who moved to LA and met a man I fell in love with.
It's not the same thing, V.
I knew you were a killer, Franklin.
But I also believed you when you said you wanted out.
- That you wanted to change. - I do.
But what if I was wrong?
What if it's too late?
Then you better win.
Right now, the northbound San Diego freeway...
Additional slow traffic. All of this because of...
- I heard it was a wild one. - Yeah. Things got a little out of hand.
Well, you don't look any worse for the wear.
It was one of the best nights of my life.
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
So, Jerome couldn't make it?
No. He had other business.
He probably won't be making a lot of these drops, to be honest.
I don't see him here, I don't want to see anybody.
- Don't go nowhere without my security. - You do now.
No security, nobody I don't know. And you can thank Franklin for that.
- You tell him yet, by the way? - Not yet.
Well, give me a heads up when you do.
- When do you leave for the honeymoon? - Couple days.
We'll be back in time for the next drop.
Have a good time.
Happy for you guys.
You drive?
You think it's smart selling to both sides of the family?
A blood feud is not good for anyone.
I'm sorry, a blood feud?
Franklin's not the kind of guy to start a blood feud.
What? Do you know something about him I don't?
He's young, has his pride, and this will wound it.
He'll get over it.
Or he won't.
Don't let Central America be another Vietnam.
Shit.
Yo.
Hey. Let me get 20.
That ain't me.
- The fuck it ain't. Let me get 20. - Nigga, fuck you.
Think I can't smell that baking?
Now walk your ass on out of here.
The fuck you doing, man?
I was gonna pay for it. Now I'ma just take it.
- Somebody shoot this motherfucker! - Hey, shut the fuck up!
Y'all gon' give me this rock?
Or do y'all wanna watch his head get blown off?
What's it gon' be?
Was that so hard?
Thought maybe Cissy would've moved back in by now.
I think she's still living at some hotel.
Well, maybe we should talk about last night.
Yeah? You was fucking on one.
- I said some things. - Sure did.
I came here to let you know that I meant every word of it.
- Which part, exactly? - Getting away.
Europe. Africa.
And you coming with me.
- I don't know, Lee. - Why not?
To start, I finally got a good job. Just getting my life back on track.
I bet if you ask, the job will still be here when you get back.
And if they say yeah, I ain't got no money saved up. Don't got a passport...
I got enough money for the both of us.
And you can get a passport in 24 hours. I checked.
Okay, yeah.
But why me?
- Lots of reasons. - Like what?
I need to do some thinking on what's next for me.
How I'ma help our people.
And you've been through it. You understand how people hurt.
So you want me to just leave everything here so I can help you?
I also wanna spend time with you.
'Cause you're embarrassed of being with me here.
You don't want to be with me 'cause of all the shit I done when I was high.
Truth is...
I still love you, Lee.
- But I can't... - Listen to me.
Last night, I saw everything clear.
You're the only girl I've ever loved.
Come away with me.
Then we can see if we can get back what we had.
Come here.
You think it's gon' come to that?
Hope not. I ain't taking no chances.
I think you should get rid of his ass either way.
I put a lot into that motherfucker.
If I gotta kill a cop and go get another one, I will.
But only if I have to.
Come in.
He's downstairs. Do you want me to send him up?
No, we gonna come down.
Auntie.
- Jerome. - Nephew. You good?
Better now I'm not tripping my fucking balls off.
Y'all? How's it feel, one day in?
About the same.
I know y'all technically on your honeymoon,
so, I just wanted to come through
and finish off the conversation we had last night.
I want you to know I understand about Kane and why you did what you did.
It was your choice.
I was wrong.
Man enough to admit that I was. And for that, I'm sorry.
I want us to come out of this in one piece.
And I believe the best way to do that is as a family, so...
- We want the same thing out here. - Good.
- But...
There's one thing you need to know before we can make that happen.
I approached Teddy, made a deal to buy my cocaine directly from him.
You went to the plug behind my back?
We told you we wanted to run our business our way.
By completely destroying my business in the process?
Ninety percent of what I move is through you.
We know that. But this country is big enough for all of us.
And most of our business is coming from other cities anyway.
- Saint Louis, Little Rock... - My expansion idea?
- We're trying to make it happen. - We understand your position.
And we agreed to give you one LA territory of your choice.
Inglewood, Compton, whatever.
You'd do that for me?
We're trying to be a reasonable.
And what if I say fuck your fucking reasons?
You wanted to be out in front.
Now you are.
Good luck.
You could've just went with Jerome.
It's fine. I'll just finish the schedule
and I'll put it up there in the office along with where we're staying,
in case you need anything at all.
I can handle it. You just have fun.
- Thank you, Chelle. - You're welcome.
Fuck, Bo.
Hey, Lou.
The fuck I tell you about being in my office?
Shit.
You mind?
Been paging your ass all day.
You've been ducking me.
- I've been busy. - Yeah? Doing what?
Enjoying the day after my wedding, for starters.
I want the rest of my money.
You'll get it, when the job is finished.
When the job is finished?
The deal was Kane dead, and he's not.
- My partner got killed. - That ain't my problem.
And they're gonna use this to kick me off the force.
Since when the LAPD give a fuck about niggas being killed in the streets?
Apparently when it's a nigga that did the killing.
So, you see, I'm in a spot now.
- And you put me here. - You put yourself there.
Now you gon' stand up there and say I'm not gon' get my fucking money?
Or maybe this whole thing was just a setup.
Maybe you were hoping that bullet would catch me.
- Why would I do that? - Who knows?
To get back at me for the projects?
Maybe you're just a fucking bitch.
But I lost my partner, I lost my job,
and I might lose my fucking kids.
Can't lose my kids.
You listen to me.
Everything's gonna be okay.
- How? - 'Cause you ain't lose nothing.
You just gained the life you were really meant to have.
You got friends on the force? Connections.
That makes you extremely valuable to me.
All right?
I'ma put you on payroll full-time. Double what you were making before.
You got a home. Right here with us.
So this ain't the end of nothing.
It's the beginning.
You want to see?
Nyet, spasibo.
You sure? Okay.
Do you know what is a playboy?
Well, the man who lives a life of travel, leisure and women.
We don't even have a word in Russian for such a man.
Okay. I think we're clear. Let's go.
Both of you, hands up in there air! Slowly, motherfucker!
I know you. I know you from some...
Here's the thing. A Sunday night in almost any other town in this country,
and everything's closed. Everyone's asleep in their beds.
Yeah. There's a lot of hustlers out here, man.
But New York's the city that never sleeps. It's Los Angeles.
City that sleeps in.
- Hi. Can I get a coffee, please? - Sure.
Thank you. Actually, sorry. Do you have pie?
Sure do. We have apple, pecan, chocolate cream,
and I think we still have a piece of blackberry cobbler.
- Apple pie would be great. - Yeah.
- Could you put whipped cream on top? - Sure.
Thank you.
You're in a good mood.
Yeah, I guess I... Maybe I am.
Think I owe you an apology, or at least an explanation
as to a certain phone call I may have made yesterday.
A phone call?
Are you talking about when you threatened to kill me?
Look, I was on drugs, man. Not in my right mind.
Yeah, I heard.
Please tell me that you had a little bit of fun
before the paranoia kicked in.
Yeah, actually. And the whole family was there.
Everybody happy.
No idea about the bomb that was about to drop in the middle of it all.
Yeah. See, now I'm not sure if you're talking about the acid
or about me agreeing to do business with Louie.
- Pie will be up in just a minute. - Thanks.
You know, I gotta say. I ain't see that comin'.
You should know that my doing business with her...
- It's not personal. - Personal.
Just business?
You know how many times I've used that line?
- I'm hoping you'll understand it. - Shit.
This ain't about me and you, right? It's about America's.
- Win in a war. - That's right.
And to that point, I did some thinking before I came here tonight.
Did you know in the last three years
I've made you almost $56 million to help win that war?
During which time I've been beaten, shot, imprisoned, killed people.
Not to mention unleashing a plague and selling out my own father.
To keep the gravy train flowing, of course.
And you wanted it. Remember?
- Yeah. That's true. - And this ain't charity work.
Taking home some really nice hazard pay out of the whole deal.
Yeah. So we are in agreement that this unlikely partnership
has been more fruitful and productive than either of us could have imagined.
We've even had what I like to think
were a few genuine moments of human connection.
And I do genuinely hope that you got everything you wanted out of it.
Squeezed every last drop.
'Cause as of this moment, our partnership is over.
- Anything else I can get for you? - We're fine. Thank you.
Just because I'm dealing with Louie does not mean that you have to quit.
You went behind my back, man.
Undercut me to my biggest customers. So, yeah, it does.
I've got my money.
Got my lady. Got a baby on the way.
And I've done my patriotic duty and then some. So I'm out.
And, shit, maybe nobody will know that a white boy from Kansas
and a Black kid from South Central changed the course of history forever.
Good luck to you, Teddy.
Same to you, Franklin.