Dark Blue (2009–2010): Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot - full transcript

Mm-hmm and this could
go on all night.

- 'Alright'
- 'It ain't gonna get any easy''

- No, it's not.
- 'Besides..'

...You don't want to find out
what's in the suitcase.

'Hey.'

'He ain't talking,
Mr. Franzine.'

Whoever put you up
to this isn't worth it.

You've done your job.
You can leave right now.

Just tell me who you really are.

'Cop, Fed?'

You better tell him.



Tell him.

'He's done.'

Dean, get rid of him.

We leave in the morning.

You guys are doing
nothing for the stereotype.

Hey.

This better be good, I haven't
seen 7 a.m. since 1992.

Sorry, Lt. Shaw,
Capt. Maynard told us to

to wait for you.

We found a guy,
Caucasian, mid 30s.

'Badly beaten and abandoned
on the road.'

'He had electrical burns
on the skin.'

It looked like
he had been tortured.

- Blind luck, really.



We were late,
so we cut across

Mission Street access road.
There he was.

Alright, I'll get back to you.

Lt. Shaw.

What can I do for the
Federal Bureau of Intimidation?

- Painfully so.

Special Agent Hollis,
Special Agent Boyle.

We're in from D.C.,
we liaised with LAPD

in conjunction
with an investigation.

Now, we need some help
putting names to faces.

- 'Capt. Maynard suggested you''
- Ah, captain is good that way.

You're familiar with the man
named Robert Franzine?

Only by reputation.

Kind of a Jack of all crimes,
right?

The untouchable crook?

That's Agent Brenner.

Robbery Division put him under
posing as a fence here in L.A.

'Took a month
of undercover work'

but he finally got to meet
with Franzine's new crew.

Turned out to be a setup.

What do the doctors say?

What they always say
when they've no idea.

'If he's a fighter,
maybe he'll make it.'

'Franzine doesn't ever like
to travel with the same crew.'

Likes to tap into
the local talent pool.

Anything?

L.A. is a big place
with lots of bad people.

And contrary to popular belief
I don't know them all.

This was taken off an L.A. river
surveillance camera last night.

'And we think..'

'...this is the newest guy
to join Franzine.'

I don't know him.

Why you guys
looking at Franzine?

Part of a broader investigation.

Oh.

It's a national security issue.

- It won't be if Brenner dies.

'Murder of a federal agent
is the death penalty.'

I will tear this city apart
to make sure that Franzine

and his crew get it.

I'm sorry about your man.

If anything comes to me,
I'll let you know.

- He's a weird dude.
- Yeah.

Let's find out why.

It's not a manpower issue,
Jim, it's jurisdictional.

Let me call you right back.

Where the hell have you been?

For 16 years we worked together.
You're supposed to know me.

'Did you think I was gonna
hand them over?'

I wanted you
to see how bad it is.

Do you have any idea what the
hell Dean's doing specifically?

I remember a conversation
where you said

"Carter you never have
to give me specifics."

As long as you
get results and--

I told you when we started
this was my group, no questions.

There's video
of one of your undercovers

leaving an FBI agent for dead.

You don't know
what that video was.

You've got to call him in.

No one has ever been
this close to Franzine.

Oh, God.
You can't?

You have to build the case
from the inside out.

Get in deep.

That's exactly
what Dean's doing.

Deep enough to flip?

You feeling okay?

When have I ever
said yes to that.

No, it's just, you know,
daylight and you're up.

- Something like that.

Tracy, what kind of backup
surveillance do we have on Dean?

Dean?

Monitoring credit cards,
ATMs and two transponders.

One in the tire well of his car
and the other under the hood.

And they're still offline.

Why

What's going on?

- 'Oh, do it.'
- 'Do it.'

- She got us the fondue set.

We could take that back
and get something we'll use.

She's old.

- I can't hurt her feelings.
- Wow.

- Yes, we have to do this.

Come on. We got
to send these out. Come on.

Yeah, yeah.

"Dear Aunt Rose, what makes your
old ass think we eat fondue?"

He's here.

Who?

The prince of darkness.
He's inside.

- This doesn't prove anything.
- Proves enough for the FBI.

Their agent dies,
Dean's up for murder.

- Franzine.

Alone?

He caught word that Franzine
was planning a job here in L.A.

It took some time,
but Dean got in.

- Dean, he always gets in.
- We don't know what the job is.

Whatever it is,
it's not gonna be small, Carter.

Not with Franzine.

Million dollar question..

...is it enough
for Dean to flip?

Last time he and I went under
together, City of Industry.

Something you forgot
to tell me, Ty?

Night before the bust
Franks calls us in.

He's high, he's drunk,
he's paranoid.

Asking us who we are,
where we come from?

Dean pulls out his gun, chambers
around, hands it to Franks.

He tells him if he thinks
we're cops he should shoot us.

Dean's face looked like

he was hoping he would
pull the trigger.

- I think you ask a lot of him.

Look, Carter, no offence,
but, um..

...you know some of us like to..

...sleep, eat..

Normal human behavior.

Yeah.

- It isn't a cover.

I'm putting you back in play.

I was just in.
Three weeks. Long Beach.

- I need some time off.
- We're on a clock.

How long before the FBI
figures out he's a cop?

Find Dean. Find out
what Franzine's planning.

- Use your old cover.

I closed that cover out.
Remember, Carter?

He shows back up,
a lot of questions.

We don't have time
to work up new credentials.

You had good contacts,
use them.

- This is a lot to do alone.
- I'll find you someone.

You ever get tired
of all of this?

It's starting.

Leave nothing behind.

'Just checked
with the hospital.'

Brenner is still critical.

This is Carter's file.
Listen to this.

'He's an undergrad at UCLA.
Third generation cop.'

'Eighteen years in.'

'He's worked everything
from vice to narcotics.'

He's got these-these huge busts.

He should have a penitentiary
named after him.

And three years ago
he just disappeared

right off the face
of the planet.

'No commendations, no arrests.'

The department has him listed
as an administrative liaison.

Maybe he's a burnout.
Park him behind the desk.

Yeah, but where's the desk?
I mean I've called around.

'This guy doesn't
even have an office.'

Guys like this don't just
fade quietly into the twilight.

I counted 48 rounds
before you scored a kill shot.

I'm clapping because at 50

they automatically move you
to the fire department.

Do I know you?

No.

But I know you,
Officer Allen.

How about I buy
you some dinner?

Lt. Shaw, I don't know why I'm
here, but if this is social--

You've applied to get out of
Valley Division 10 times

in the last 9 months.
Crash, metro, vice, anti-gang.

It takes two years
to transfer into those units.

'What's the rush,
Officer Allen?'

Just eager for
some real work, sir.

Your application says that
your family's from New Jersey.

Yes, sir,
Bergen County.

You haven't made one call
to the East Coast

in the past three years.

That's your best side,
by the way.

'Sealed file, not easy to get.'

Let me ask you
something, Jaimie.

Is there anything on your
academy application

that was true?

Must be hard work,
keeping it all straight.

Living a lie to your friends,
co-workers, boyfriends.

But if that were me
I'd lie about it too.

It's taken me a long time,
but I'm not that person anymore.

So was the LAPD
your repentance?

Not many people can
or want to see past

what's in the file,
lieutenant.

You're wanting me
to apologize for lying?

It's not gonna happen.

What do you see out there?

Cars, people.

I see the guy in need
of his next fix.

'The girl who just made her rent
in the backseat of a car.'

I see the mother who just
lost her son in a drive-by.

I see everything
that needs to be fixed.

I can teach you
to see that way too.

How?

I run a...how should I call it?
Special unit, deep cover.

Independent of standard
departmental jurisdiction.

That means no one knows
about us.

If you want some real work,
show me who you really are

and maybe,
possibly redeem yourself

here's your chance.

- We're about perception.

Or more accurately deception.

And you're one hell
of a liar, Jaimie.

That's something
I can really use.

'Dean's not
your responsibility.'

I brought him to Carter.

Doesn't mean that you've
to go chasing after him

every time he does
something stupid.

He can take care of himself.

You don't believe
that anymore than I do.

I hope Carter's losing sleep
over this too.

He would, if he slept.

You're supposed
to be on break.

I'll be back
as soon as I can, babe.

I'm not worried about
when you'll come back.

I'm worried about who
you are when you do.

Come here.

Come-come here, come here.

It's not forever.

But if I do well with Carter,
the sky is the limit for us.

You've been
saying that for a year.

I think you like this.

Detective, Chief

Mayor..

...Governor.

- Husband.
- Yeah.

Not yet. Not yet.

Ramone.

- Been a minute.
- Yeah. It's been long, man.

It's been long enough
that people were assuming

that you were either
dead or worse...arrested.

None of the above.

But I was in Florida,
which is damn near death.

Is that right

Check it out. I landed in Tampa
right the next day.

One of the cats gets picked up
on parole violation.

I'm stuck like Chuck,
laying low ever since in Miami.

So, uh...whose crew?

A Russian dude, Litchko.
You know him?

Yeah, five years
in Riverbend.

You mean Pelican Bay?

Look here, Ramone,
I need a big payday.

Okay. It's obvious you
don't watch the news, huh?

We're in a bit
of a recession.

I heard Franzine's
back in town.

Come on, man,
let me tell you something, dog.

You don't just send in
a resume to Franzine.

He picks you, man.

I'm on my last
leg here, man.

You know, anything I had
I lost in Florida.

If I don't get something soon,
Ramone, I'm done, I'm toast.

Alright. I'll tell you
what I'm gonna do for you.

This guy might
have some work.

I'll let him know
that me and you go way back.

'They call him Wade.'

- 'But you gonna do us a favor''
- Anything.

You're not gonna go around
asking about Franzine no more.

- Done.

We got an ID match
off the video.

'Dean Philips, state-raised
in Chino, carjacking, assault'

'and three years at Fresno
for armed robbery.'

Yeah, it sounds like someone
Franzine might recruit.

That's the thing.
It feels too much like that.

When I was in Miami,
one of the things we used to do

is help undercover
agents with false identities.

'You construct an alias,
so if anyone's looking'

they go right down that path.

This looks like
something we would do.

Can you try to find a match
with him on LAPD database?

You think this guy is a cop?

You catch Carter's face
when he saw that video?

Like he caught his kid
stealing from his wallet.

Yeah, yeah, I think
he's working for Carter.

- We're closed.

Keep it walking.

Come on.

Yeah, baby.

Where's Wade?

Hold up, homes.

Ramone says you got some skills.
Where did you educate?

Ah, you know, here and there.
Mostly Folsom five year program.

What type of gainful employment
you looking for?

I was thinking about,
uh, robbing Franzine.

Never heard of him.

Hey, I'll get in
contact with you.

Maybe.

You know, if I could, if I could
just know what the job was.

Well, then don't
think about the job.

Just think about life
the day after the job.

Or..

...you could just think
about the money.

I didn't believe it when Ramone
told me you were back.

Gina.

But there you are.

You just gonna walk away?

Is that supposed
to be ironic?

Pull up a chair.
I can explain.

The things you
said to me..

...before you left.

I thought that
there's more to you.

What you see is
what you get.

I see you got a way
with the ladies.

Come on.

Checked you out. Everyone seems
to like you. You a good earner.

I try, you know?

So when a small-time hump like
yourself starts asking around

about somebody
like Franzine

they either...stupid

or something else.

You something else?

Uh, alright.
Just be cool, man.

License and registration.

How you doing, officer?
Yeah, sure.

'Hey, man. Stop.'

Man, what the..

What'd you...man,
what'd you do that--

- You just shot a cop, man!

You was the only witness.

Do the math.

I want in with
Robert Franzine.

I don't know him.

You know what'll make this all
good? If I blow your head off.

And leave my gun
in your dead hands.

Then it's just another routine
traffic stop gone bad.

You feel me?

- Alright

Alright, alright, alright.

A man I do
business with

contacted me about a house
someplace untraceable, safe.

What this got to do
with Franzine?

Only time me and him do business
is when Franzine is in town.

Where's the house?

East LA, man.

On Torres.

Only two people know
this happened. Me and you.

If I hear you tried to cut
a deal on me or tried roll on me

I'll let the streets know
you was ratting Franzine.

Nod your head
so I know you heard me.

Now run.

We don't give out awards.

'You can get up now.'

- I'm good.

Where's the cell phone?

What cell phone?

I-I-I don't. I..

My cell phone.

'I said no outside calls.'

Anyone you talk
to outside this room

you're gonna have to lie to.

Lying brings suspicion
and suspicion compromises us.

- Shut up.
- That's right.

- I thought I was clear on this.
- You were. You were.

Who were you talking to?

I was lining up gear
like you told me to.

'Do you remember that?'

Okay, wait.
Okay, alright, fine.

I called my girlfriend. Alright.

That's it.
It's no big deal.

Okay, look, look.
Franzine, just--

'What else was he lying about?'

Anyone got a problem with this?

- No, sir.
- No.

Hold on.

It's a four way split
now, right?

Alright, they cleared
out the house already

but I saw Dean throw
this in the garbage.

- No.

Whose blood?

'In front
of the new girl?'

Come on.
You serious?

You and Tracy get
on this right away.

I want to know
everything about him.

Franzine shot someone.
I think one of their own.

Our boy did absolutely
nothing to stop it.

His face, exactly the same
as city of industry.

I'm telling you,
no fear, no emotion.

I mean absolutely nada.

I know what you're
thinking, but maybe

there was nothing
he could do.

I threw out
a smoke signal.

Same one you always
have us use. He ignored it.

- In the tire wall.

'Carter.'

'I think you've been followed.'

You parked in the red zone.

You guys skip stakeout class
at Quantico?

Try blending in, move around
a little, eat something.

Who says we're on a stakeout?

Ah, I forgot. All you Feds get
your porno DVDs down here.

That my file?

Am I as interesting on paper?

Yeah.

I was sorry to read
about your wife.

You knew that kid in
the video, didn't you?

Who is he?

Don't follow me again.

Or what?

I'll have you towed.

'
- A bank.

'I want to get him alone.'

I left him a message.
All he's got to do is look down.

Turn it, turn it, turn it.

'Okay, turn it.'

- First rule.

You never break
off communication.

Rules? Your rules
are gonna get me a bullet.

Tell me why I shouldn't
pull you out?

- Because I know what I'm doing.
- 'He was an FBI agent.'

The guy you left for dead, Dean.

He should've
had better cover.

They have you on video
dumping the body.

He dies, then you're up
for murder.

- Then no one can help you.
- Well, no one can help me now.

How long before the
FBI knows you're a cop?

Longer than Franzine,
would take to find this.

You think, he doesn't
sweep the car?

They shot someone in
front of you.

So what was I supposed
to do, break my cover?

We can take them
on the shooting right now.

- Right now.
- Don't have time for this.

You're not out
by the time we're--

- You watched him shoot him.
Okay. So what, Ty?

- I'm pulling you out.
- No. No, you're not.

'I have to finish this.'

You stay out of my way,
we'll all live a little longer.

'Get out of the car.'

Get out of the car.

Hope that wasn't
a big mistake.

His name is Warren Volt.

Consultant for a company
called Armitus.

They do corporate finance
in Riyadh, London, and New York.

Mostly manage portfolios
for wealthy individuals.

'What's the connection
between the bank and Volk?'

'That we don't know.'

Then we need someone
in the bank.

Is there some kind of...plan?

What did Carter promise you?

A promotion or something?

Maybe he thinks I have more
to offer than traffic cites.

Two things to know
about Carter.

There's nothing
he wouldn't do to protect us

and there's nothing he
wouldn't do to get his man.

What's wrong with that?

Sometimes you don't know
which comes first.

Is that what happened
to Dean?

Dean's a different story.

You know that family, Jaimie,
the one you see in the movies?

You know, the nice house,
white fence, cute little dog?

That's Dean's family.
Parents expect a lot from him.

Go to college,
meet a nice girl, get a job.

Except our boy Dean
wants more.

He decides he's got
a higher calling.

So he joined the police,
and then along comes Carter

with his big ideas.

He sounds like a poster boy.

What's the problem?

You start spending more time
as an addict or a thief

or even a killer
than you do as yourself.

Sooner or later, you'll forget
what parts are your cover

and what parts are you.

How long can you pretend
to be something

before you become it, right?

But that's just it.

And that's our boy.
Let's go.

Looks like a good evening
for you, Mr. Owens.

- Manager of Gulf Interbank.

So I guess you
must be Mrs. Owens.

Owens says Volk's been
in the bank four times

past three months.

Using the name Monroe, he goes
into a safety deposit box.

- That's the thing.

Owens never seen him come
or go with anything.

He says Volk's paranoid.
He uses bodyguards.

He's in and out
in a minute.

Why does Franzine need
to take him at the bank?

Private bank, no walk-ins.
Uh, more controllable.

What if Franzine wants
what Volk has in his box..

...but Volk is not planning
on taking it out.

Franzine would have to steal it
from his safety deposit box.

He would need the bank's key
and Volk's key.

Owens says Volk has
an appointment.

9 A.M. tomorrow morning.

Then we're gonna
be there too.

What do we do
about Dean?

'I know Dean means
something to you both'

but if he's turned,
how far do we go to stop him?

You shoot him.

Because if he has turned,
he'll shoot you first.

Okay, I've tapped into
the security camera feeds.

But I can't control them...yet.

Ten minutes.

- Hollis.
- 'It's Boyle.'

'We got a hit off
the LAPD database.'

'Dean Phillips is Dean Bendis.'

- 'He's a cop.'
- Okay.

Find Lieutenant Shaw right now.
I'm on my way back.

- Mr. Greene.
- Thank you.

'This way, Mr. Volk.'

Volk's here. Owen's taking him
into the vault.

No sign of Franzine, yet.

- Put your gun on the floor.
- 'Let's go.'

Get your hands in the air.

Get those hands up.
Go, go.

Hands, Hands, Hands, Hands.

Come on. Move 'em.
Keep them up.

There's nothing in here
you'd want.

I don't want that.

I want you.

They're out of the vault.
Franzine has Volk.

What's Dean doing?

Let's go.
Get your hands in the air.

- Dean's leaving with them.
- Damn it. Call it in.

Lieutenant Shaw just called
a 211 in progress

at the Gulf Interbank
here downtown.

- Yeah.

Let's go.

You ain't get no money, man?
Where the money?

You need to be straight with me.

Two dead, one kidnapping. You
should've been straight with me.

I keep asking myself why,
why would you chase

a bank robber
all the way from DC?

This was never
about Franzine, was it?

This is about Volk.

You need to tell me
everything you know, now.

Alright. Warren Volk works
for a guy named Tariq.

Tariq is a guy with money
in dark places.

Volk made a deal. He wanted
to turn against his boss.

So Volk goes into hiding.
Gets word to us

that he's gathering
evidence against Tariq.

And I'm guessing that
that evidence is right here.

How does Franzine
figure into this?

Tariq hired Franzine
to find Volk.

You follow me,
you check up on me.

You use me as bait..

...and in the infinite wisdom
of the FBI

you decide to keep all that
from me in my own backyard?

Your own backyard
is the Wild West.

We thought Dean Bendis was
a part of Franzine's crew.

It turns out it
wasn't an act. He is.

Oh, my God.

I'm telling you. Every single
thing Dean did in the bank

said he was in with Franzine.

I'm not sure.

Right as I left,
he looked at me.

He looked at you.
That's great.

He knew I wasn't a teller.
He made me.

He didn't do anything.
He's still playing this out.

- I don't know.

I can't explain it.
I've a feeling.

You've been with us half a day.
We should bank on your feeling?

They destroyed the evidence.

If they wanted Volk dead, they
could've killed him but didn't.

Something else is going on.

- Yeah.
- 'Carter.'

'Dean's transponder
just came on.'

Get in.

I was hired by your boss.

I know you're gathering evidence
against him for the FBI.

'Tell me what you told them.'

Tariq's a terrorist.

'He's financed bombings
in London and Madrid.'

He's used his charities to raise
money for extremist camps.

Right now he's laundering money

for a dozen terrorist
organizations.

That's all I needed.

Wait a minute.

I didn't sign on to be
a hired killer.

For $5 million, you'll be
whatever I tell you to be.

Shut up, shut up. Stop, stop.
Right there. Stop.

Don't move.
Don't move.

Disappear.

On the ground now.

Don't.

I'm a cop.

A cop?

You really believe that?

What do you make,

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You're wasting your talents.

- I can give you anything.
- Stop.

I've watched you.

'I know what you are.'

You're no cop.

Drop it.

FBI gets Volk,
LAPD Gets credit for Franzine.

Yeah, and they don't even
have to get shot at.

You sure you want
to do this?

What, I'm supposed to
go back to patrol now?

- No, I'm with you.
'

Everybody gets
what they want.

What do you want, partner?

Come on. You really think
I would have left that picture

of Volk if you
hadn't been there?

So you knew the patrol car was
gonna pick up that FBI agent?

Shift change 1 A.M.

Access road's the fastest way
back to the station.

That was the first thing
they teach you downtown.

There's going under

and then there's
stepping over.

I get scared when I don't
know the difference.

Maybe that's why
you got me, right?

Don't scare me again.

This is from Carter.
He said you can keep it.

Gina.

'Come on. Come on.'

Carter.