Aquarius (2015–2016): Season 2, Episode 4 - Episode #2.4 - full transcript
Previously on "Aquarius"...
I'm Dennis.
You know Dennis Wilson?
You got some good music in you.
Hiya, Bunchy.
By pushing out the
contradictions of racism,
you gave birth to me as a Black Panther.
The Panthers want to raise consciousness
in the community.
- It needs raising.
- "We" now, huh?
Where were you last Tuesday night, Roy?
He was with me.
She is just what you need.
Shooter was U.S. military.
Lucille said his name is Captain Welles.
I want to make a deal.
Mrs. Gladner, I can't
imagine how scared you are.
_
_
_
Hey.
Looks like your
boyfriend shut up Lucille for good.
Maybe it wasn't Roy. Could be Mob.
Either way, we're screwed.
No witness, no case.
We still have Roy. He trusts me.
He'll get me close to Welles,
and then sooner or later, I'll...
You're dead.
I can handle myself, Shafe.
- I sure as hell can handle Roy.
- No.
How are you gonna stop me?
Cut will stop you,
as soon as I tell
him we ignored his orders
- and you're still undercover.
- So don't tell Cut.
Then Hodiak will freakin' tell him.
- He won't tell him.
- Sure he will.
Oh, yeah, no. He became big daddy
as soon as you were in trouble.
Sam wants me to be a cop.
Sometimes I think he's
the only one around here
who's man enough to let me be a
real cop and not a coffee cop.
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. Has been shot...
They did it. They finally did it.
- They shot King.
- The civil rights leader
has been shot while
standing on a motel balcony
in Memphis, Tennessee,
shortly after 6:00
p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Dr. King was rushed
to a nearby hospital,
where doctors are operating...
He dies, and Watts is gonna burn.
King dies, America's gonna burn.
One witness reported
that he entered the
hospital with a towel over his face.
So much for nonviolence.
Fleeing from the scene,
but the Memphis Police have
released a statement
that they do not have
anyone in custody...
Bull. They got to know something.
Hoover made it open season on King.
Might as well have
loaded the assassin's rifle
and handed it to him.
There are unconfirmed
reports from witnesses
who were with Dr. King of a white man
running out of a
building across the street
from where Dr. King was shot.
Dr. King was rushed to St. Joseph's...
- I thought you went home.
- I was headed home when...
I-I called.
There's something
wrong with your phones.
FBI.
When I heard, I...
I wanted to be here.
And you're welcome, sister.
That left 1 dead, 62 injured...
I like that.
- Yeah, right, right, right.
- They shot King!
It's all over TV!
They shot King.
- They shot Martin Luther King?
- Who did it?
They don't know. It's all over TV.
There's a bunch of pissed-off Negroes
in the streets of DC, Chicago, New York.
They're gonna riot if he dies.
- That's far-out.
- Bummer.
Charlie, they shot Reverend King.
On the streets of
Washington, DC, New York,
and dozens of other American cities,
carrying portable radios
or watching TVs in display windows,
anxiously waiting for
word on Dr. King's condition.
Die. Die.
Die. Die.
Oh, wow.
He's praying for him.
NBC has learned moments ago
that Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is dead at the age of 39.
The son of a Baptist minister,
King was ordained in
1948 by his father...
- Resync by CyberPunk -
As night falls in the nation's capital,
there are reports of
angry and grief-stricken crowds
roving the streets.
They are the first signs...
They're rioting in DC.
That's just a few
blocks from the White House.
Opal. Opal, slow down.
You...
Why? They give you a reason?
Solitary? Solitary.
They must have given you a reason.
Opal, give me a reason.
Opal, I can't do this right now.
I have to... I have to call you back.
Hodiak. Shafe.
- Commissioner.
- I need your office.
I don't need you.
Will you shut the door on the way out?
The NAACP, Ron Karenga,
even Richard Tendaji and United Africa
have all agreed to get their
people to not riot,
but I can't get through to Bunchy
Carter or the Panthers...
thanks to the FBI,
who apparently think it's a good idea
to jam the Panthers' phone lines,
but not Tendaji and United Africa.
Tendaji and United
Africa... these are new to me.
Black separatists.
Self-governance or something.
Yeah, Bunchy Carter hates Tendaji
and the feeling is mutual.
UA and the Panthers
could start a war in the
ghetto all by themselves.
In order to stop a riot in LA,
I need Panthers on board with Tendaji.
You're telling me the Feds
won't unblock the Panthers' phone lines
so you can have a
conversation with Bunchy?
Well, you didn't hear me say that.
And you didn't hear me say this...
The FBI is not cooperating with
my office, for a change.
The irony is that they
share their surveillance files...
give me that... with
our very own Red Squad,
which is how I know
that Bunchy Carter trusts you, Hodiak,
and how I know that
Shafe over here's wife
is popular with Bunchy.
Shafe's wife is popular with Bunchy?
She volunteered for
the breakfast program
five days a week
and is highly regarded by
Bunchy... is that accurate?
I mean, she believes in
giving kids a good breakfast
- but she's not on board...
- Good.
So, that's why I need you guys
to go down to Panther HQ
now... right now, before it gets dark...
and get them to sign on to stop a riot.
Sign on to what? A pledge?
All due respect, sir, but
asking people not to riot
is only gonna goad them into rioting.
Why don't we organize a
memorial march for Sunday?
You know, Negroes and whites
m-mourning together peacefully.
Getting people to march and hold hands
isn't gonna put a lid on
it. Give this letter to Bunchy.
It explains what the other Negro
leaders have agreed to,
and it respectfully asks
him to cooperate.
Now, go. Now.
The sun goes down in a hour and a half.
Go ahead, make your dumb jokes
about Kristin and the Panthers.
I don't think it's funny.
If I were a Negro, I'd
probably be a Panther.
- Is Kristin a Panther?
- No.
She just believes in
the breakfast program.
She's gonna be pretty
upset about King, huh?
He was like a saint to
Kristin, the whole family.
- Did you call her?
- Tried the house.
Wasn't there.
Thanks.
For what?
For not giving me a
hard time about Kristin.
She likes you, respects you.
I respect her,
and I'm happy for you, you
know, 'cause after a kid,
things can get pretty
stale in the bedroom,
but Kristin in a beret and leather, oh.
Six William nine, respond.
Six William nine, over.
- Six William nine, over.
- Hold on.
Patching a phone call through to you.
Hodiak. Is this you?
Yes, Commissioner. It's Hodiak.
Southeast got a call about a body...
dead Negro girl, white suspect.
Exactly what we don't need today.
Shafe can deliver my letter to Bunchy
without your help.
It's your case.
Make sure it doesn't blow up
into an excuse for a riot.
It was called in to the
precinct at 4:13 p.m.
by a male who identified
himself as Jeff Snyder.
The body's been positively identified
as Louisa Burnside
by her cousin Steve Burnside.
He lives in the
building with his mother...
first floor, 1B.
The man who called it in,
Jeff Snyder, he
wasn't here when you arrived?
No, sir. Burnside told me
he and his mother saw a
man they identified as Snyder
running away into the back alley.
Who was Snyder to the victim?
- The victim's boss.
- He's not her boss.
He's her boss's
brat, just out of college.
I-I'll be with you in a minute, okay?
Why don't you finish up?
Snyder told the
officer who took the call
that when Louisa didn't report to work,
he came here to check on her.
Found her dead.
So Snyder came to
Watts after King was shot?
Yes, sir. And Mr. Burnside
told me Snyder's
father owns this building.
He also said the victim told him
that Snyder's son had a crush on her.
Crowd outside, they friendly to you?
My uniform's the wrong
color, but my skin's the right one.
Well, talk to them, real
friendly, all right?
Don't tell them Snyder's a suspect.
Just ask them if they've seen Snyder,
maybe saw his car come and go.
- That your partner there?
- Yes, sir.
Why don't you send him back to Southeast
with the coroner, all right?
Let's get rid of all the white unis.
Low profile today...
just you and good work.
- Yes, sir.
- All right.
Thanks.
- Nightgown, huh?
- Yeah.
Rigor's set in, so at
least two hours ago.
After I get a look at stomach contents,
maybe I can narrow it down.
My guess is she's been
dead at least since the morning.
Can you do the autopsy tonight?
Garrick wants a rush on this.
It's not me. It's Garrick.
Baby, that is not
gonna help your headache.
Well, it ain't gonna hurt.
I got to go.
To meet your headache?
How did I luck out with you?
Classy squeeze dig a dumbass like me.
I like my men dumb.
Dumb and long and strong.
I-I got to get going.
Yesterday he chewed me out
for being two minutes late.
Two minutes. Guy's got something hard
and sharp way up his ass.
My papa's like that... ex-Navy.
He used to keep time in 24 hours.
"Supper is at 1800 sharp, girls."
Huh.
I thought...
I thought you said your
pop was in the movie biz.
I said ex-Navy, dumbass.
Take me with you, baby.
Show the boss how much I love you.
A big square like that, he
judges a man by his squeeze.
I do like you riding with
me, but, uh, he don't expect you,
and this stick don't like surprises.
Well, every man likes
this kind of surprise.
- Well, surprise, surprise.
- Mm-hmm.
Except you are my fancy Harley.
Exactly.
Show off your fancy
wheels. He'll respect you.
- Oh, yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Look at this white boy
coming down here today.
Fellas...
my wife's inside... Kristin...
- Kristin Shafe.
- Excuse me.
It's okay, guys.
He's with me.
- What are you doing here?
- That's my question.
You serving
breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Don't worry about Bernadette.
Mama's home with her.
Bernadette needs her mother,
not your mother.
Go home.
- Hey, hey, why?
- Bunchy.
I'm here on behalf of
Commissioner Garrick.
Since he can't reach you by phone,
he sent me here to
deliver this letter to you.
- Your husband?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
I knew you were married to a
white guy, but your husband's a cop?
You didn't tell them I was a cop?
Why wouldn't you tell
them I'm on the force?
- Whoa, whoa, brothers, please.
- Why did they send you?
Does the
Commissioner know that I'm here?
- What do you think?
- Is that a yes?
- Krissy, just stay out of this, okay?
- No, I'm in it, Brian.
How did the
Commissioner know that I was here?
This is official police business.
Oh, it's official police business.
I can't blab to my wife
about the Commissioner's private...
Please don't. Don't.
You can tell the police all my business.
How about you both calm down
so I can read the damn letter.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life
to love and to justice between
fellow human beings.
Why is she here?
Roy thought maybe I
could help him move your stuff.
Hang out on the campuses
and be a lot less
conspicuous than a straight Satan.
Besides, you need to widen your net.
Ghetto's gonna be closed
for business for a while.
Why's that?
Because of King being killed.
Matter of fact, I
called you here to tell you
to shut down until King blows over.
I don't know.
People are scared.
Might be a good time to
give them a way to get mellow.
Huh.
Roy, I'm hungry. You... you hungry?
I'm always hungry.
Go fetch us three burgers all the way.
Um, you stay.
Okay.
Black people amongst
blacks and white amongst whites...
No. Tell the Commissioner we can't
work with Tendaji and UA.
- Why not?
- Tendaji's a provocateur
- working for the FBI.
- What does that mean?
He means that Tendaji's being
paid to stir up trouble
between the Black
Panthers and the other black group.
Baby, please stay out of this.
We will have nothing to do with Tendaji.
But you can tell your
boss the Black Panther Party
believes that riots will
only hurt the black community.
We will urge our people not
to destroy their own homes.
That's great. That's
all the Commissioner wants.
I don't care what the
Commissioner wants.
I mean, that's all the
Commissioner's requesting.
You so-called officers of the peace
don't make requests of my people.
You beat us, and you kill us.
Look, whatever this
is, the answer is no.
Come on...
I'll take you home to Bernadette.
No, you go home and take
care of our daughter.
- Baby...
- I'm busy.
So you were this Bri's chick?
No. Just friendly.
I helped him push his
stuff to college kids.
I think you'd like working
with Bri, though...
really like him.
Yeah? Why is that?
He served in Nam, like you,
and he has a lot of
customers among the vets.
Oh...
you're a clever girl.
Yeah.
You're too clever to
be with trash like Roy.
Come here. Right here.
Come on.
I like Roy.
I'm a one-guy girl.
Good.
Good.
I prize loyalty above all.
Stay.
Get your burgers while they're hot.
- You all right, babe?
- Yeah.
Just hungry.
Within an hour of
Reverend King's murder,
smoke began drifting toward
the White House.
You see this? Huh? See that?
The capital, our... our sweet cradle
of government is burning down.
It's burning, see?
You know who else sees it? Huh? Huh?
Cronkite, the father of all truth,
says that LBJ sees
it from the White House.
Let's go get high.
Charlie said no drugs today
on account of America dying.
Charlie says a lot of things. Come on.
Oh. Just think of the man's pain.
Sad-eyed Lyndon, it's killing you.
In Tennessee and Maryland...
The National Guard has
already been cal...
Detroit,
Ch... Chicago! Ha ha!
The Windy City is burning down.
So, Louisa was your first cousin?
- Nonconsanguineous.
- "Nonco"...
That's a... that's
a thousand-dollar word.
What? Nonconsanguineous?
What? Black people can't know big words?
No. No, I didn't mean that at all.
I'm just...
I like learning new words.
Nonconsangui...
guineous. What does it mean?
It means we're not blood cousins.
But she used to live downstairs
with you and your mom?
Yeah, in 1B,
until two weeks ago when Snyder
gave her this place.
- Gave her?
- It's not real rent,
what she was paying... $22 a month.
That's a token.
And I told her, "Snyder's gonna expect
for you to pay in some other way."
That's what he came for.
So you and your mother
saw Snyder running away?
- Mm-hmm.
- Which way did he run?
I don't know.
I saw him go down the back alley,
but I knew right away that he
had done something to her.
I bet you wish you could get your hands
on Snyder right now.
Damn straight, I do. Make him pay.
Okay.
Well, I'm sorry for
your loss, Mr. Burnside.
But if you can, uh, think of
anything else, here's my card.
You can call me at the
precinct, all right?
Thank you.
I know that look.
He's your suspect, not the white guy?
Snyder... the white guy... didn't
kill her this afternoon.
She's been dead since morning.
Although coming back to the scene
and pretending to discover the
body is the stupid kind of
that killers do all the time.
So Snyder is not eliminated.
How'd it go with, uh, Kristin and
her new best friend, Bunchy?
You're so... you're so funny.
It must be tiring being so charming
and... and funny all the time.
- It is. It's a little...
- Bunchy tore up the letter.
Wait. If Snyder came back here
to pretend to
discover the body, why run?
- It makes no sense.
- Did he run?
Maybe the cousin came
back, found Snyder with the body,
and killed Snyder.
I mean, for sure, he's
lying about something.
I'd take him downtown and
sweat him, but not today...
not when there's a mob out
there just longing to believe
we're covering for a white killer.
Hey, more good news...
Turns out Jeff Snyder
is Moses Snyder's son.
You know who Moses Snyder is?
Yeah. A millionaire slumlord.
Big donor to Reagan.
Right now he's sitting in
his Beverly Hills mansion
throwing lightning bolts at me
'cause his boy Jeff didn't come home.
I told Moses I had my best man on it.
Don't make me a liar.
What are you doing home now, anyway?
I ju... I came back to grab a shower
and... and change my clothes.
Get your butt to the precinct.
Moses is heading over there to see you.
I promised you'd have an update for him.
And what are you gonna do about Bunchy?
Shafe got nowhere.
Can't do anything about
Bunchy till daylight.
Uh-huh. I don't care if
Moses' son is the killer.
Find him and close it by tomorrow
and get the Panthers to sign on.
Tomorrow?
If I... if I don't actually
have to establish who killed her,
I-I could close it tonight.
Why not tonight?
Opal.
I like your outfit.
You know what they're
doing to our boy, Sam?
23 hours a day he's alone in a 6x9 cell.
And when they let him
out, he's in a yard
where the walls are so high they
can't even see over them.
24 hours a day, Sam.
He's alone.
Nobody speaks to him. No
one's talking to him.
Nobody is holding him, Sam.
My baby's alone.
Okay.
Now, you can't say
anything to anyone about this.
All right?
But I may have
something that'll give us leverage
- with the military.
- What?
Something that could embarrass them.
Maybe, just maybe I can get Walt out.
Why the hell didn't you warn me
that Bunchy didn't know you were a cop?
I didn't... I wasn't...
Thinking? Well, for the next
couple of days, I need
everybody to think.
Tell your wife to talk to Bunchy.
Get her to convince him.
Over 50 cities are rioting.
Businesses destroyed.
Homes gone. People dying.
So far, not LA,
but that won't hold without
the Panthers on board.
Tell your wife she can save lives.
Finally off the phone?
Good. I want you out of here tonight.
I can't stand to look at
your face, you damn fool.
Go on! Get! Get out!
Where do you expect me to go?
Go to Sam's!
Hodiak can take you in. He
already knows you're a fool.
I just found out today.
Reverend King was killed...
shot down like a dog,
and you show up like you God's gift
to the world ordering me around.
You think I'm your
nigger to boss around?
You think I'm your nigger?
I'm not your nigger!
I am your wife, the
mother of your child.
Baby, I'm sorry.
I need you.
I love you, okay?
I'm... I'm begging you. Please...
please forgive me.
Keep away from me tonight.
I'm going to the
bedroom. You stay on the couch.
And maybe in the morning,
I can stand to look at you again.
Shh, it's okay, baby. I got you.
I got you. I got you. It's okay.
Get your people in there.
It's my building.
Practically the whole block is mine.
Search.
Look, maybe the
schwarzes are torturing him.
Mr. Snyder, what
would help us find your son
is if we could go over his movements
before he disappeared.
All right, he was at
your house last night?
Birthday party for my wife...
200 guests.
Wasn't over till 1:00.
He slept there, and then we
went to the office together.
Then they shoot King, and
all of a sudden, he's gone.
Was your son in love with the victim?
Love.
He's thinking with his schmeckle.
He's a good boy.
I'm not a good person,
but he's... he's such a good boy.
He wouldn't hurt a fly.
Please, keep it out of the paper.
It'd kill his mother...
a colored girl.
Look what they're doing in DC,
in Chicago, all over the country...
burning down their own homes.
We're next. Mark my words... we're next.
Today dawn in Washington, DC,
was obscured by a layer of smoke
from fires that
continue to burn out of control.
Daylight revealed block after
block of destruction
in the capital and in
more than 40 American cities.
The pattern is becoming familiar
throughout the United States.
Tex! The cars ready yet?
Tex!
Naked.
Naked we arrive, naked we survive.
All right, uh, we need
to go to the desert.
Tex, we need to go to the desert today,
find a hidey hole... Are we ready?
Yeah, yeah. I guess.
Can we leave, Dennis?
Just go to Europe, maybe
Australia until it's over?
- Until what's over?
- The race war.
Now, now... we're cool here.
They ain't gonna riot in Beverly Hills.
Charlie's right.
He always said the black
man will get his revenge,
cut the white man's throat,
burn his towns, destroy
white civilization.
Cleanse the world for the
family to remake the world.
Are you saying that
Charlie wants a race war?
No. No, no, no, no.
He's just, you
know, like you... an artist.
He has visions, and...
some are beautiful, like dreams,
and some are nightmares.
Hodiak.
It took all night, but I was able
to establish she was killed
Wednesday night sometime
between 7:00 and 3:00 a.m.
Oh, and maybe here's your motive...
she was three months pregnant.
Between 7:00 and 3:00?
So he's innocent.
Glad I could help.
No reason to run.
You're welcome.
We're all clear.
And I was just getting comfortable.
There are two possibilities...
either he killed her...
Now there's only one.
Hi, ma'am. I'm Detective Hodiak.
I'm investigating your niece's murder.
I've come here to question a
young man you're sheltering,
Jeff Snyder.
Since yesterday at 3:00 p.m.,
it hasn't been safe for
a white man in Watts,
and yet yesterday at 4:00,
Jeff Snyder very bravely came down here
to check on the woman that he loves.
Only he found her dead.
And after he called the precinct
and your neighbors heard
the terrible news,
someone spread it to the
crowd gathering outside that Jeff,
a white slumlord, had killed her.
So, to protect him, you hid him.
Jeff Snyder, I presume?
Three months.
Louisa was three months pregnant.
I'm sorry.
Why didn't you tell me?
It would just make you sadder.
Friday was three months.
She was gonna tell you,
and I was gonna tell Mom and Dad.
Whatever they said, we
were gonna get married.
But you knew she was
pregnant, didn't you, Cousin Steve?
Cousin Louisa told you herself.
- No.
- No, no.
That's right. You're not really cousins.
How did you put it... nonconsanguineous?
That's an odd word to use,
almost as if you were
thinking about whether or not
you could marry and have children.
Sounds like maybe you mentioned
that you wanted to
marry her to your mother.
Maybe you told your friends too.
- I could ask around.
- No.
- You loved Louisa.
- No. I...
And the night she was murdered,
you waited for your
mother to go to sleep,
and then you snuck upstairs to tell her.
- That's not true.
- And that's when she told you
she was pregnant and
carrying Jeff's baby.
And that's when you strangled her.
- No! No.
- Stop lying.
Oh, God, Stevie, what did you do?
- I didn't hurt her.
- Don't lie
- to your mother, Steve.
- I'm not lying.
- Don't you lie to me, Stevie.
- I'm not lying, Mom.
- Don't you dare lie to me.
- I didn't hurt her.
I didn't mean to hurt her, I swear.
I just wanted her to stop,
stop saying she never
wanted to see me again.
- You son of a bitch.
- I didn't mean to.
I didn't mean to.
Relax. Relax.
I just wanted...
I just wanted her to stop.
I'm sorry.
Sam's got a black killer
and an innocent white man.
He can't get either
one out of Watts safely
without your help.
Why not?
Just call in the cavalry.
The cops show up to haul off a black man
for a murder everyone on the block
thinks a white man
committed and we will have a riot.
Detective, sometimes I think the LAPD
can't do anything
right without our help.
But isn't that the point of
the Black Panther Party...
to make sure the police do
their job the righteous way?
Tell Hodiak I have a condition.
The killer was
waiting for his mother's head
to be turned to lure
Jeff into the arms of the Mob.
Bunchy saved Jeff's life.
- Why do I hear a "but"?
- Not a "but," a promise.
I promised Bunchy that you
would persuade UA and Tendaji
to join the Panthers' boycott on Monday.
I also promised that Moses
would persuade white business owners
to give their Negro
employees the day off
in memorial for Dr. King.
Done. Absolutely, done.
Wait. I-I can't promise
that Tendaji's gonna
go along with Bunchy.
Yes, you can,
and you will if you want to
have a future in this town.
Richard Tendaji of United Africa,
seen here shaking hands
with Black Panther
leader, Bunchy Carter,
has agreed to join the Panthers' call
for Negroes to take the day off
and boycott white-owned stores.
It's beginning to look as if Los Angeles
will be spared the riots
that have ravaged more
than 150 American cities.
This Sunday, there will be a
city-wide display of unity,
a march of whites and Negro groups
to Pershing Square...
Hey, Charlie.
Why don't we just go
to the desert anyway?
We could drop some acid
and find out hidey hole.
Charlie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Do you want to go to the desert, Tex?
- All by yourself?
- Charlie.
Charlie, Charlie,
Charlie. Come on, be a good baby.
Dennis is here.
- Hey.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
Come here. Come on. You
don't want to do this.
You don't want to do
this. Baby, come on.
Come here, come here, come here.
Okay, okay. Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.
Look, Dennis doesn't want
a race war, okay, sweetie?
And he's really freaked out that you do.
He says maybe you're not
ready to play for Terry Melcher.
- Melcher?
- Yeah.
- Who's that?
- Um...
a big-time music producer.
Big-time. Yeah.
Yeah?
What did he say exactly?
He said Melcher
and all... all the
big-time record producers...
they're liberals, Charlie, okay?
They're liberals. They like Negroes.
Okay? They want peace between
all the races, okay?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, you're late.
Sorry. It's hard to sneak out on Roy.
This is Bri.
Go home to your boyfriend, Charmain.
Thanks for the introduction.
Have a seat.
Charmain tells me you
served, but didn't say where.
So fill me in.
- Did you hear?
- Hear what?
They're
charging him with mutiny.
He's in solitary.
How could he lead a prison riot?
You better use what you
have against them now
before they fake up
some way to kill him.
And after two years of
that crap, guess what.
I didn't re-up.
Even before Tet, I knew we couldn't win.
If you're gonna sell my product,
better sample it first.
I don't use.
You were in country and
you never tasted the honey
of the Golden Triangle?
No.
Well, I don't trust a salesman
who won't sample what he's selling.
It's just like riding a bike, isn't it?
What'd he say about Roy?
He said, "I'm letting go of Roy.
The Satans are disorganized.
Too big a risk.
Now that Watts is open for business,
I want you to assemble a new network
of your Nam buddies."
And then I asked about you.
He said, "Oh, no, Charmain's a keeper."
So, congratulations, I guess.
You know that Roy is not
gonna take getting fired lying down.
Charmain, have you suddenly gone stupid?
He knows Roy's not gonna
take a pink slip.
He's gonna kill him.
Are you positive?
Yes. Tomorrow at 4:00.
He arranged to meet at
the Satans' warehouse,
where Roy will be,
and I quote, "Relaxed, easy prey."
I can be there.
I'll arrest Welles first.
For what? Having an evil plan?
You need to let him get far enough along
till Roy sees he's about to frag him.
Then you step in, and maybe
we can get Roy to flip on Welles,
put him away for dealing.
Far enough along?
How far is far enough, Shafe?
Roy gets shot once, twice?
Girls, are your nails dry?
Look, I know you love to
gossip with your best friend,
but, uh, how about
closing Guapo's murder?
We're supposed to run this by him.
Don't stop him. Let him kill Roy.
You're kidding, right?
No. With Roy gone, you'll
be his main man.
You'll be his main gal. You'll
bag the whole operation.
No, we can't just let him...
Die?
Why not? He's scum.
It's a misdemeanor homicide.
Hey, I understand that Roy
is a human being to you now,
but sacrificing him will make your case,
and it'll cut off the
drug supply from Vietnam.
That...
No.
I need you to play it this way...
for me.
Do this as a favor to my son.
Your son?
What does Walt have to do with this?
- What's going on?
- Walt's in bad shape.
They added a mutiny charge.
I need you to
take your time with Welles.
Gather all the details you can
about how he used the
military to funnel drugs from Vietnam.
Without messing up your bust,
I think I can use the
threat of publicizing those details
to get Walt better treatment.
I'm afraid he'll die in there.
Sam, I am not gonna let another
human being be killed
just so that you can make...
maybe make a deal for your son.
You care more about some lowlife
who's murdered three people than my son?
- Walt did what he did...
- My son!
Knowing the consequences.
I'm sorry, but under the
law, he was a traitor.
I'm sorry, Sam.
In a show of unity and peace,
white and black leaders in Los
Angeles, including groups
that adamantly refused to
work together in the past,
marched together peacefully today,
honoring and mourning the
loss of Dr. Martin Luther King.
- There he is.
- You owe me, Commissioner.
I'm grateful.
You owe me, and I will collect.
United Africa.
- Black power.
- The motherland.
♪ How sweet the sound ♪
♪ That saved a wretch ♪
♪ Like me ♪
♪ I once w... ♪
Good news, capitano...
looks like Watts is back in business.
Yeah, but you're wrong about this place.
- We can't use it.
- Hey, it's perfect.
Looks like our hideout,
but, you know, we can move things
easy from unit to unit.
It's not secure.
Anybody driving by can easily see my car
and us talking, for that matter.
That's what's so cool, man.
We stand here, look
like we're doing nothing,
and then I just close her up.
We're invisible. Ain't that great?
It's nice and private.
Police.
Drop the gun.
Where'd you get
that... The five-and-dime?
LAPD!
Hey!
Get off!
You bitch.
Don't talk. Call an ambulance!
I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you!
- I'm so sorry.
- You lied to me.
Oh, you bitch. I'm gonna kill you!
I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!
I can't do this.
I can't. I can't.
You are doing it. You're doing it great.
_
_
Hodiak.
I'm in trouble, Sam.
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I'm Dennis.
You know Dennis Wilson?
You got some good music in you.
Hiya, Bunchy.
By pushing out the
contradictions of racism,
you gave birth to me as a Black Panther.
The Panthers want to raise consciousness
in the community.
- It needs raising.
- "We" now, huh?
Where were you last Tuesday night, Roy?
He was with me.
She is just what you need.
Shooter was U.S. military.
Lucille said his name is Captain Welles.
I want to make a deal.
Mrs. Gladner, I can't
imagine how scared you are.
_
_
_
Hey.
Looks like your
boyfriend shut up Lucille for good.
Maybe it wasn't Roy. Could be Mob.
Either way, we're screwed.
No witness, no case.
We still have Roy. He trusts me.
He'll get me close to Welles,
and then sooner or later, I'll...
You're dead.
I can handle myself, Shafe.
- I sure as hell can handle Roy.
- No.
How are you gonna stop me?
Cut will stop you,
as soon as I tell
him we ignored his orders
- and you're still undercover.
- So don't tell Cut.
Then Hodiak will freakin' tell him.
- He won't tell him.
- Sure he will.
Oh, yeah, no. He became big daddy
as soon as you were in trouble.
Sam wants me to be a cop.
Sometimes I think he's
the only one around here
who's man enough to let me be a
real cop and not a coffee cop.
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. Has been shot...
They did it. They finally did it.
- They shot King.
- The civil rights leader
has been shot while
standing on a motel balcony
in Memphis, Tennessee,
shortly after 6:00
p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Dr. King was rushed
to a nearby hospital,
where doctors are operating...
He dies, and Watts is gonna burn.
King dies, America's gonna burn.
One witness reported
that he entered the
hospital with a towel over his face.
So much for nonviolence.
Fleeing from the scene,
but the Memphis Police have
released a statement
that they do not have
anyone in custody...
Bull. They got to know something.
Hoover made it open season on King.
Might as well have
loaded the assassin's rifle
and handed it to him.
There are unconfirmed
reports from witnesses
who were with Dr. King of a white man
running out of a
building across the street
from where Dr. King was shot.
Dr. King was rushed to St. Joseph's...
- I thought you went home.
- I was headed home when...
I-I called.
There's something
wrong with your phones.
FBI.
When I heard, I...
I wanted to be here.
And you're welcome, sister.
That left 1 dead, 62 injured...
I like that.
- Yeah, right, right, right.
- They shot King!
It's all over TV!
They shot King.
- They shot Martin Luther King?
- Who did it?
They don't know. It's all over TV.
There's a bunch of pissed-off Negroes
in the streets of DC, Chicago, New York.
They're gonna riot if he dies.
- That's far-out.
- Bummer.
Charlie, they shot Reverend King.
On the streets of
Washington, DC, New York,
and dozens of other American cities,
carrying portable radios
or watching TVs in display windows,
anxiously waiting for
word on Dr. King's condition.
Die. Die.
Die. Die.
Oh, wow.
He's praying for him.
NBC has learned moments ago
that Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is dead at the age of 39.
The son of a Baptist minister,
King was ordained in
1948 by his father...
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As night falls in the nation's capital,
there are reports of
angry and grief-stricken crowds
roving the streets.
They are the first signs...
They're rioting in DC.
That's just a few
blocks from the White House.
Opal. Opal, slow down.
You...
Why? They give you a reason?
Solitary? Solitary.
They must have given you a reason.
Opal, give me a reason.
Opal, I can't do this right now.
I have to... I have to call you back.
Hodiak. Shafe.
- Commissioner.
- I need your office.
I don't need you.
Will you shut the door on the way out?
The NAACP, Ron Karenga,
even Richard Tendaji and United Africa
have all agreed to get their
people to not riot,
but I can't get through to Bunchy
Carter or the Panthers...
thanks to the FBI,
who apparently think it's a good idea
to jam the Panthers' phone lines,
but not Tendaji and United Africa.
Tendaji and United
Africa... these are new to me.
Black separatists.
Self-governance or something.
Yeah, Bunchy Carter hates Tendaji
and the feeling is mutual.
UA and the Panthers
could start a war in the
ghetto all by themselves.
In order to stop a riot in LA,
I need Panthers on board with Tendaji.
You're telling me the Feds
won't unblock the Panthers' phone lines
so you can have a
conversation with Bunchy?
Well, you didn't hear me say that.
And you didn't hear me say this...
The FBI is not cooperating with
my office, for a change.
The irony is that they
share their surveillance files...
give me that... with
our very own Red Squad,
which is how I know
that Bunchy Carter trusts you, Hodiak,
and how I know that
Shafe over here's wife
is popular with Bunchy.
Shafe's wife is popular with Bunchy?
She volunteered for
the breakfast program
five days a week
and is highly regarded by
Bunchy... is that accurate?
I mean, she believes in
giving kids a good breakfast
- but she's not on board...
- Good.
So, that's why I need you guys
to go down to Panther HQ
now... right now, before it gets dark...
and get them to sign on to stop a riot.
Sign on to what? A pledge?
All due respect, sir, but
asking people not to riot
is only gonna goad them into rioting.
Why don't we organize a
memorial march for Sunday?
You know, Negroes and whites
m-mourning together peacefully.
Getting people to march and hold hands
isn't gonna put a lid on
it. Give this letter to Bunchy.
It explains what the other Negro
leaders have agreed to,
and it respectfully asks
him to cooperate.
Now, go. Now.
The sun goes down in a hour and a half.
Go ahead, make your dumb jokes
about Kristin and the Panthers.
I don't think it's funny.
If I were a Negro, I'd
probably be a Panther.
- Is Kristin a Panther?
- No.
She just believes in
the breakfast program.
She's gonna be pretty
upset about King, huh?
He was like a saint to
Kristin, the whole family.
- Did you call her?
- Tried the house.
Wasn't there.
Thanks.
For what?
For not giving me a
hard time about Kristin.
She likes you, respects you.
I respect her,
and I'm happy for you, you
know, 'cause after a kid,
things can get pretty
stale in the bedroom,
but Kristin in a beret and leather, oh.
Six William nine, respond.
Six William nine, over.
- Six William nine, over.
- Hold on.
Patching a phone call through to you.
Hodiak. Is this you?
Yes, Commissioner. It's Hodiak.
Southeast got a call about a body...
dead Negro girl, white suspect.
Exactly what we don't need today.
Shafe can deliver my letter to Bunchy
without your help.
It's your case.
Make sure it doesn't blow up
into an excuse for a riot.
It was called in to the
precinct at 4:13 p.m.
by a male who identified
himself as Jeff Snyder.
The body's been positively identified
as Louisa Burnside
by her cousin Steve Burnside.
He lives in the
building with his mother...
first floor, 1B.
The man who called it in,
Jeff Snyder, he
wasn't here when you arrived?
No, sir. Burnside told me
he and his mother saw a
man they identified as Snyder
running away into the back alley.
Who was Snyder to the victim?
- The victim's boss.
- He's not her boss.
He's her boss's
brat, just out of college.
I-I'll be with you in a minute, okay?
Why don't you finish up?
Snyder told the
officer who took the call
that when Louisa didn't report to work,
he came here to check on her.
Found her dead.
So Snyder came to
Watts after King was shot?
Yes, sir. And Mr. Burnside
told me Snyder's
father owns this building.
He also said the victim told him
that Snyder's son had a crush on her.
Crowd outside, they friendly to you?
My uniform's the wrong
color, but my skin's the right one.
Well, talk to them, real
friendly, all right?
Don't tell them Snyder's a suspect.
Just ask them if they've seen Snyder,
maybe saw his car come and go.
- That your partner there?
- Yes, sir.
Why don't you send him back to Southeast
with the coroner, all right?
Let's get rid of all the white unis.
Low profile today...
just you and good work.
- Yes, sir.
- All right.
Thanks.
- Nightgown, huh?
- Yeah.
Rigor's set in, so at
least two hours ago.
After I get a look at stomach contents,
maybe I can narrow it down.
My guess is she's been
dead at least since the morning.
Can you do the autopsy tonight?
Garrick wants a rush on this.
It's not me. It's Garrick.
Baby, that is not
gonna help your headache.
Well, it ain't gonna hurt.
I got to go.
To meet your headache?
How did I luck out with you?
Classy squeeze dig a dumbass like me.
I like my men dumb.
Dumb and long and strong.
I-I got to get going.
Yesterday he chewed me out
for being two minutes late.
Two minutes. Guy's got something hard
and sharp way up his ass.
My papa's like that... ex-Navy.
He used to keep time in 24 hours.
"Supper is at 1800 sharp, girls."
Huh.
I thought...
I thought you said your
pop was in the movie biz.
I said ex-Navy, dumbass.
Take me with you, baby.
Show the boss how much I love you.
A big square like that, he
judges a man by his squeeze.
I do like you riding with
me, but, uh, he don't expect you,
and this stick don't like surprises.
Well, every man likes
this kind of surprise.
- Well, surprise, surprise.
- Mm-hmm.
Except you are my fancy Harley.
Exactly.
Show off your fancy
wheels. He'll respect you.
- Oh, yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Look at this white boy
coming down here today.
Fellas...
my wife's inside... Kristin...
- Kristin Shafe.
- Excuse me.
It's okay, guys.
He's with me.
- What are you doing here?
- That's my question.
You serving
breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Don't worry about Bernadette.
Mama's home with her.
Bernadette needs her mother,
not your mother.
Go home.
- Hey, hey, why?
- Bunchy.
I'm here on behalf of
Commissioner Garrick.
Since he can't reach you by phone,
he sent me here to
deliver this letter to you.
- Your husband?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
I knew you were married to a
white guy, but your husband's a cop?
You didn't tell them I was a cop?
Why wouldn't you tell
them I'm on the force?
- Whoa, whoa, brothers, please.
- Why did they send you?
Does the
Commissioner know that I'm here?
- What do you think?
- Is that a yes?
- Krissy, just stay out of this, okay?
- No, I'm in it, Brian.
How did the
Commissioner know that I was here?
This is official police business.
Oh, it's official police business.
I can't blab to my wife
about the Commissioner's private...
Please don't. Don't.
You can tell the police all my business.
How about you both calm down
so I can read the damn letter.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life
to love and to justice between
fellow human beings.
Why is she here?
Roy thought maybe I
could help him move your stuff.
Hang out on the campuses
and be a lot less
conspicuous than a straight Satan.
Besides, you need to widen your net.
Ghetto's gonna be closed
for business for a while.
Why's that?
Because of King being killed.
Matter of fact, I
called you here to tell you
to shut down until King blows over.
I don't know.
People are scared.
Might be a good time to
give them a way to get mellow.
Huh.
Roy, I'm hungry. You... you hungry?
I'm always hungry.
Go fetch us three burgers all the way.
Um, you stay.
Okay.
Black people amongst
blacks and white amongst whites...
No. Tell the Commissioner we can't
work with Tendaji and UA.
- Why not?
- Tendaji's a provocateur
- working for the FBI.
- What does that mean?
He means that Tendaji's being
paid to stir up trouble
between the Black
Panthers and the other black group.
Baby, please stay out of this.
We will have nothing to do with Tendaji.
But you can tell your
boss the Black Panther Party
believes that riots will
only hurt the black community.
We will urge our people not
to destroy their own homes.
That's great. That's
all the Commissioner wants.
I don't care what the
Commissioner wants.
I mean, that's all the
Commissioner's requesting.
You so-called officers of the peace
don't make requests of my people.
You beat us, and you kill us.
Look, whatever this
is, the answer is no.
Come on...
I'll take you home to Bernadette.
No, you go home and take
care of our daughter.
- Baby...
- I'm busy.
So you were this Bri's chick?
No. Just friendly.
I helped him push his
stuff to college kids.
I think you'd like working
with Bri, though...
really like him.
Yeah? Why is that?
He served in Nam, like you,
and he has a lot of
customers among the vets.
Oh...
you're a clever girl.
Yeah.
You're too clever to
be with trash like Roy.
Come here. Right here.
Come on.
I like Roy.
I'm a one-guy girl.
Good.
Good.
I prize loyalty above all.
Stay.
Get your burgers while they're hot.
- You all right, babe?
- Yeah.
Just hungry.
Within an hour of
Reverend King's murder,
smoke began drifting toward
the White House.
You see this? Huh? See that?
The capital, our... our sweet cradle
of government is burning down.
It's burning, see?
You know who else sees it? Huh? Huh?
Cronkite, the father of all truth,
says that LBJ sees
it from the White House.
Let's go get high.
Charlie said no drugs today
on account of America dying.
Charlie says a lot of things. Come on.
Oh. Just think of the man's pain.
Sad-eyed Lyndon, it's killing you.
In Tennessee and Maryland...
The National Guard has
already been cal...
Detroit,
Ch... Chicago! Ha ha!
The Windy City is burning down.
So, Louisa was your first cousin?
- Nonconsanguineous.
- "Nonco"...
That's a... that's
a thousand-dollar word.
What? Nonconsanguineous?
What? Black people can't know big words?
No. No, I didn't mean that at all.
I'm just...
I like learning new words.
Nonconsangui...
guineous. What does it mean?
It means we're not blood cousins.
But she used to live downstairs
with you and your mom?
Yeah, in 1B,
until two weeks ago when Snyder
gave her this place.
- Gave her?
- It's not real rent,
what she was paying... $22 a month.
That's a token.
And I told her, "Snyder's gonna expect
for you to pay in some other way."
That's what he came for.
So you and your mother
saw Snyder running away?
- Mm-hmm.
- Which way did he run?
I don't know.
I saw him go down the back alley,
but I knew right away that he
had done something to her.
I bet you wish you could get your hands
on Snyder right now.
Damn straight, I do. Make him pay.
Okay.
Well, I'm sorry for
your loss, Mr. Burnside.
But if you can, uh, think of
anything else, here's my card.
You can call me at the
precinct, all right?
Thank you.
I know that look.
He's your suspect, not the white guy?
Snyder... the white guy... didn't
kill her this afternoon.
She's been dead since morning.
Although coming back to the scene
and pretending to discover the
body is the stupid kind of
that killers do all the time.
So Snyder is not eliminated.
How'd it go with, uh, Kristin and
her new best friend, Bunchy?
You're so... you're so funny.
It must be tiring being so charming
and... and funny all the time.
- It is. It's a little...
- Bunchy tore up the letter.
Wait. If Snyder came back here
to pretend to
discover the body, why run?
- It makes no sense.
- Did he run?
Maybe the cousin came
back, found Snyder with the body,
and killed Snyder.
I mean, for sure, he's
lying about something.
I'd take him downtown and
sweat him, but not today...
not when there's a mob out
there just longing to believe
we're covering for a white killer.
Hey, more good news...
Turns out Jeff Snyder
is Moses Snyder's son.
You know who Moses Snyder is?
Yeah. A millionaire slumlord.
Big donor to Reagan.
Right now he's sitting in
his Beverly Hills mansion
throwing lightning bolts at me
'cause his boy Jeff didn't come home.
I told Moses I had my best man on it.
Don't make me a liar.
What are you doing home now, anyway?
I ju... I came back to grab a shower
and... and change my clothes.
Get your butt to the precinct.
Moses is heading over there to see you.
I promised you'd have an update for him.
And what are you gonna do about Bunchy?
Shafe got nowhere.
Can't do anything about
Bunchy till daylight.
Uh-huh. I don't care if
Moses' son is the killer.
Find him and close it by tomorrow
and get the Panthers to sign on.
Tomorrow?
If I... if I don't actually
have to establish who killed her,
I-I could close it tonight.
Why not tonight?
Opal.
I like your outfit.
You know what they're
doing to our boy, Sam?
23 hours a day he's alone in a 6x9 cell.
And when they let him
out, he's in a yard
where the walls are so high they
can't even see over them.
24 hours a day, Sam.
He's alone.
Nobody speaks to him. No
one's talking to him.
Nobody is holding him, Sam.
My baby's alone.
Okay.
Now, you can't say
anything to anyone about this.
All right?
But I may have
something that'll give us leverage
- with the military.
- What?
Something that could embarrass them.
Maybe, just maybe I can get Walt out.
Why the hell didn't you warn me
that Bunchy didn't know you were a cop?
I didn't... I wasn't...
Thinking? Well, for the next
couple of days, I need
everybody to think.
Tell your wife to talk to Bunchy.
Get her to convince him.
Over 50 cities are rioting.
Businesses destroyed.
Homes gone. People dying.
So far, not LA,
but that won't hold without
the Panthers on board.
Tell your wife she can save lives.
Finally off the phone?
Good. I want you out of here tonight.
I can't stand to look at
your face, you damn fool.
Go on! Get! Get out!
Where do you expect me to go?
Go to Sam's!
Hodiak can take you in. He
already knows you're a fool.
I just found out today.
Reverend King was killed...
shot down like a dog,
and you show up like you God's gift
to the world ordering me around.
You think I'm your
nigger to boss around?
You think I'm your nigger?
I'm not your nigger!
I am your wife, the
mother of your child.
Baby, I'm sorry.
I need you.
I love you, okay?
I'm... I'm begging you. Please...
please forgive me.
Keep away from me tonight.
I'm going to the
bedroom. You stay on the couch.
And maybe in the morning,
I can stand to look at you again.
Shh, it's okay, baby. I got you.
I got you. I got you. It's okay.
Get your people in there.
It's my building.
Practically the whole block is mine.
Search.
Look, maybe the
schwarzes are torturing him.
Mr. Snyder, what
would help us find your son
is if we could go over his movements
before he disappeared.
All right, he was at
your house last night?
Birthday party for my wife...
200 guests.
Wasn't over till 1:00.
He slept there, and then we
went to the office together.
Then they shoot King, and
all of a sudden, he's gone.
Was your son in love with the victim?
Love.
He's thinking with his schmeckle.
He's a good boy.
I'm not a good person,
but he's... he's such a good boy.
He wouldn't hurt a fly.
Please, keep it out of the paper.
It'd kill his mother...
a colored girl.
Look what they're doing in DC,
in Chicago, all over the country...
burning down their own homes.
We're next. Mark my words... we're next.
Today dawn in Washington, DC,
was obscured by a layer of smoke
from fires that
continue to burn out of control.
Daylight revealed block after
block of destruction
in the capital and in
more than 40 American cities.
The pattern is becoming familiar
throughout the United States.
Tex! The cars ready yet?
Tex!
Naked.
Naked we arrive, naked we survive.
All right, uh, we need
to go to the desert.
Tex, we need to go to the desert today,
find a hidey hole... Are we ready?
Yeah, yeah. I guess.
Can we leave, Dennis?
Just go to Europe, maybe
Australia until it's over?
- Until what's over?
- The race war.
Now, now... we're cool here.
They ain't gonna riot in Beverly Hills.
Charlie's right.
He always said the black
man will get his revenge,
cut the white man's throat,
burn his towns, destroy
white civilization.
Cleanse the world for the
family to remake the world.
Are you saying that
Charlie wants a race war?
No. No, no, no, no.
He's just, you
know, like you... an artist.
He has visions, and...
some are beautiful, like dreams,
and some are nightmares.
Hodiak.
It took all night, but I was able
to establish she was killed
Wednesday night sometime
between 7:00 and 3:00 a.m.
Oh, and maybe here's your motive...
she was three months pregnant.
Between 7:00 and 3:00?
So he's innocent.
Glad I could help.
No reason to run.
You're welcome.
We're all clear.
And I was just getting comfortable.
There are two possibilities...
either he killed her...
Now there's only one.
Hi, ma'am. I'm Detective Hodiak.
I'm investigating your niece's murder.
I've come here to question a
young man you're sheltering,
Jeff Snyder.
Since yesterday at 3:00 p.m.,
it hasn't been safe for
a white man in Watts,
and yet yesterday at 4:00,
Jeff Snyder very bravely came down here
to check on the woman that he loves.
Only he found her dead.
And after he called the precinct
and your neighbors heard
the terrible news,
someone spread it to the
crowd gathering outside that Jeff,
a white slumlord, had killed her.
So, to protect him, you hid him.
Jeff Snyder, I presume?
Three months.
Louisa was three months pregnant.
I'm sorry.
Why didn't you tell me?
It would just make you sadder.
Friday was three months.
She was gonna tell you,
and I was gonna tell Mom and Dad.
Whatever they said, we
were gonna get married.
But you knew she was
pregnant, didn't you, Cousin Steve?
Cousin Louisa told you herself.
- No.
- No, no.
That's right. You're not really cousins.
How did you put it... nonconsanguineous?
That's an odd word to use,
almost as if you were
thinking about whether or not
you could marry and have children.
Sounds like maybe you mentioned
that you wanted to
marry her to your mother.
Maybe you told your friends too.
- I could ask around.
- No.
- You loved Louisa.
- No. I...
And the night she was murdered,
you waited for your
mother to go to sleep,
and then you snuck upstairs to tell her.
- That's not true.
- And that's when she told you
she was pregnant and
carrying Jeff's baby.
And that's when you strangled her.
- No! No.
- Stop lying.
Oh, God, Stevie, what did you do?
- I didn't hurt her.
- Don't lie
- to your mother, Steve.
- I'm not lying.
- Don't you lie to me, Stevie.
- I'm not lying, Mom.
- Don't you dare lie to me.
- I didn't hurt her.
I didn't mean to hurt her, I swear.
I just wanted her to stop,
stop saying she never
wanted to see me again.
- You son of a bitch.
- I didn't mean to.
I didn't mean to.
Relax. Relax.
I just wanted...
I just wanted her to stop.
I'm sorry.
Sam's got a black killer
and an innocent white man.
He can't get either
one out of Watts safely
without your help.
Why not?
Just call in the cavalry.
The cops show up to haul off a black man
for a murder everyone on the block
thinks a white man
committed and we will have a riot.
Detective, sometimes I think the LAPD
can't do anything
right without our help.
But isn't that the point of
the Black Panther Party...
to make sure the police do
their job the righteous way?
Tell Hodiak I have a condition.
The killer was
waiting for his mother's head
to be turned to lure
Jeff into the arms of the Mob.
Bunchy saved Jeff's life.
- Why do I hear a "but"?
- Not a "but," a promise.
I promised Bunchy that you
would persuade UA and Tendaji
to join the Panthers' boycott on Monday.
I also promised that Moses
would persuade white business owners
to give their Negro
employees the day off
in memorial for Dr. King.
Done. Absolutely, done.
Wait. I-I can't promise
that Tendaji's gonna
go along with Bunchy.
Yes, you can,
and you will if you want to
have a future in this town.
Richard Tendaji of United Africa,
seen here shaking hands
with Black Panther
leader, Bunchy Carter,
has agreed to join the Panthers' call
for Negroes to take the day off
and boycott white-owned stores.
It's beginning to look as if Los Angeles
will be spared the riots
that have ravaged more
than 150 American cities.
This Sunday, there will be a
city-wide display of unity,
a march of whites and Negro groups
to Pershing Square...
Hey, Charlie.
Why don't we just go
to the desert anyway?
We could drop some acid
and find out hidey hole.
Charlie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Do you want to go to the desert, Tex?
- All by yourself?
- Charlie.
Charlie, Charlie,
Charlie. Come on, be a good baby.
Dennis is here.
- Hey.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
Come here. Come on. You
don't want to do this.
You don't want to do
this. Baby, come on.
Come here, come here, come here.
Okay, okay. Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.
Look, Dennis doesn't want
a race war, okay, sweetie?
And he's really freaked out that you do.
He says maybe you're not
ready to play for Terry Melcher.
- Melcher?
- Yeah.
- Who's that?
- Um...
a big-time music producer.
Big-time. Yeah.
Yeah?
What did he say exactly?
He said Melcher
and all... all the
big-time record producers...
they're liberals, Charlie, okay?
They're liberals. They like Negroes.
Okay? They want peace between
all the races, okay?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, you're late.
Sorry. It's hard to sneak out on Roy.
This is Bri.
Go home to your boyfriend, Charmain.
Thanks for the introduction.
Have a seat.
Charmain tells me you
served, but didn't say where.
So fill me in.
- Did you hear?
- Hear what?
They're
charging him with mutiny.
He's in solitary.
How could he lead a prison riot?
You better use what you
have against them now
before they fake up
some way to kill him.
And after two years of
that crap, guess what.
I didn't re-up.
Even before Tet, I knew we couldn't win.
If you're gonna sell my product,
better sample it first.
I don't use.
You were in country and
you never tasted the honey
of the Golden Triangle?
No.
Well, I don't trust a salesman
who won't sample what he's selling.
It's just like riding a bike, isn't it?
What'd he say about Roy?
He said, "I'm letting go of Roy.
The Satans are disorganized.
Too big a risk.
Now that Watts is open for business,
I want you to assemble a new network
of your Nam buddies."
And then I asked about you.
He said, "Oh, no, Charmain's a keeper."
So, congratulations, I guess.
You know that Roy is not
gonna take getting fired lying down.
Charmain, have you suddenly gone stupid?
He knows Roy's not gonna
take a pink slip.
He's gonna kill him.
Are you positive?
Yes. Tomorrow at 4:00.
He arranged to meet at
the Satans' warehouse,
where Roy will be,
and I quote, "Relaxed, easy prey."
I can be there.
I'll arrest Welles first.
For what? Having an evil plan?
You need to let him get far enough along
till Roy sees he's about to frag him.
Then you step in, and maybe
we can get Roy to flip on Welles,
put him away for dealing.
Far enough along?
How far is far enough, Shafe?
Roy gets shot once, twice?
Girls, are your nails dry?
Look, I know you love to
gossip with your best friend,
but, uh, how about
closing Guapo's murder?
We're supposed to run this by him.
Don't stop him. Let him kill Roy.
You're kidding, right?
No. With Roy gone, you'll
be his main man.
You'll be his main gal. You'll
bag the whole operation.
No, we can't just let him...
Die?
Why not? He's scum.
It's a misdemeanor homicide.
Hey, I understand that Roy
is a human being to you now,
but sacrificing him will make your case,
and it'll cut off the
drug supply from Vietnam.
That...
No.
I need you to play it this way...
for me.
Do this as a favor to my son.
Your son?
What does Walt have to do with this?
- What's going on?
- Walt's in bad shape.
They added a mutiny charge.
I need you to
take your time with Welles.
Gather all the details you can
about how he used the
military to funnel drugs from Vietnam.
Without messing up your bust,
I think I can use the
threat of publicizing those details
to get Walt better treatment.
I'm afraid he'll die in there.
Sam, I am not gonna let another
human being be killed
just so that you can make...
maybe make a deal for your son.
You care more about some lowlife
who's murdered three people than my son?
- Walt did what he did...
- My son!
Knowing the consequences.
I'm sorry, but under the
law, he was a traitor.
I'm sorry, Sam.
In a show of unity and peace,
white and black leaders in Los
Angeles, including groups
that adamantly refused to
work together in the past,
marched together peacefully today,
honoring and mourning the
loss of Dr. Martin Luther King.
- There he is.
- You owe me, Commissioner.
I'm grateful.
You owe me, and I will collect.
United Africa.
- Black power.
- The motherland.
♪ How sweet the sound ♪
♪ That saved a wretch ♪
♪ Like me ♪
♪ I once w... ♪
Good news, capitano...
looks like Watts is back in business.
Yeah, but you're wrong about this place.
- We can't use it.
- Hey, it's perfect.
Looks like our hideout,
but, you know, we can move things
easy from unit to unit.
It's not secure.
Anybody driving by can easily see my car
and us talking, for that matter.
That's what's so cool, man.
We stand here, look
like we're doing nothing,
and then I just close her up.
We're invisible. Ain't that great?
It's nice and private.
Police.
Drop the gun.
Where'd you get
that... The five-and-dime?
LAPD!
Hey!
Get off!
You bitch.
Don't talk. Call an ambulance!
I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you!
- I'm so sorry.
- You lied to me.
Oh, you bitch. I'm gonna kill you!
I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!
I can't do this.
I can't. I can't.
You are doing it. You're doing it great.
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Hodiak.
I'm in trouble, Sam.
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