L.A.'s Finest (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 13 - Bad Girls - full transcript

Carlene continues with her extortion plan and escape. Warren is given an ultimatum. The team search for Carlene to recover the kids.

Previously on "L.A.'s Finest"...

Carlene Hart is Gabriel Knox.

She knows we're after her.

We need to regroup and try
and figure out her next move.

Top grass at the DEA created a program,

we just came up with
a name, Gabriel Nox.

What we needed, was
somebody who was connected

to that criminal
underworld, Carlene Hart.

You were specifically told
the Knox thing was dead.

48 hours, that's all I'm asking.

I do this for you,
that's it. You disappear.



You guys are suspended.
Effective immediately.

MCKENNA: Carlene flees the country,
and Warren keeps quiet.

The Knox Cartel disappears.

We're not gonna let that happen.

So, we're dropping our rifles
and running? Surrendering?

You're unhappy, Mr. Doran?

I'm sure Mr. Knox would be
very interested in your opinion.

Would you like to speak to him?

Alice? The schoolteacher, right?

Last time I left this bar,
I fell asleep at the wheel...

Crossed over into oncoming
traffic, killed a woman.

Do you see her every night
when you close your eyes?

Because I do.

Put your hands up where I can see them.



Oh!

We have Carlene's money.

Phony passports, forged credit cards.

Dirt on everyone under
Carlene's control...

Without this fugitive starter
kit and the van full of cash,

Carlene's running out of options.

I can't talk right now.
Is everything okay, honey?

No. Everything is not okay.

You have something I want.
I'm willing to make a trade.

Carlene and Warren were there
together when I was shot.

They w... They were there together!

Finish her.

16 years ago...

... I was taken prisoner.

Held hostage by a drug cartel in Cuba.

I was so powerless.

I was just... I was just
waiting to be rescued.

I was a victim.

I swore I would never be...

anybody's victim ever again, and that...

brought this on us, on Izzy.

Stop.

You don't need your guilt
or remorse right now.

So tell me what you need.

Your cabinet full of guns.

If it costs me my life,
we're getting Izzy back.

We know it's not your fault,
but Izzy is in danger.

Did she say where she's going?

- She went to see Alice Kensler.
- What?

Alice started DM'ing
Izzy a few days ago.

She said she wanted to talk.

That's impossible. Alice is locked up.

- No, she got out last week.
- How?

Izzy wanted to tell you guys,

but after what happened the first time

she tried to see her...

And she didn't tell you
where she was meeting?

- Like, nothing?
- She didn't say anything.

Justice offered to drive her.

- Say what?
- Justice took her to meet Alice.

- I didn't go with them.
- Wait, wait, wait.

Justice took her to see the
lady that killed her mom,

- and you didn't tell nobody?!
- Hey, hey, hey, Baines.

Wait, wait. You don't know nothing?!

She didn't know.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I gotta call Faith.

- Carlene did this.
- I didn't know anything.

We know this isn't your fault,
and hopefully, they're okay.

We just have to find them, quickly.

I'm sorry, I don't know anymore.

It's okay. It's okay. Come on.

Come on.

Call me if you hear anything.

I'll find him. I promise.

Look, the kids are gonna be okay

as long as Carlene thinks
she's gonna get paid.

We have at least a couple hours
to find them before she calls.

Alright, I'll call O'Malley,
put a BOLO out on Justice's car.

Patrick, if Carlene used
Alice to... to lure Izzy,

- is there someone you can call...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm on it.

Patrick McKenna.

I need information
on a prisoner release.

Yeah.

Now what?

Justice's phone keeps
going to voicemail.

- Aah!
- Sit down!

My dad is going to
bury you under the jail

if you don't let us go!

You know, does it make you feel
strong to push kids around?

You better hope it's my dad
who gets you and not Nancy,

because she'll just
straight up kill you!

Are you crazy? Huh?

Why'd you get in his grill like that?

Okay.

What are you doing?

I need you to cut me loose.

We were taken for a reason
and dragged onto this yacht.

I don't know what these guys want,

but they won't hurt
us until they get it.

- Nice.
- What does that mean?

I mean, we...

- are invincible.
- Invincible?

White privilege much?

These dudes could kill us.

We just can't let them leave the port.

What you doing?

My dad's old boss

took us out on his boat once,

and we got halfway to
Catalina and it died.

How does that help us?

Move.

Uh, o-okay. What are you looking for?

A way out.

I don't know.

We'll leave the rest of it here

until we can come back to get it.

Should be safe until we get
back... if we get back.

We'll be fine. This is gonna work.

It's the Bens.

You sure you're up for this?

They brought the kids into it.

Got a hit on Justice's car.
Found it at a coffee shop.

No other evidence, just
Justice's cellphone.

They turned it off and
threw it in the bushes.

Alright, so what's the game plan?

We make that bitch pay
for what she's done.

She wants the money so
bad, let's give it to her.

- What?
- Carlene wants to feel like

she's in the driver's seat.

Once she's dug in is
when she'll call us,

but we're gonna get at her first.

We get the kids back, and
she doesn't get to spend

a damn dollar of that money.

I don't know, guys.
If this goes wrong...

- My kids are my life.
- And my family is mine.

Nobody comes at us without consequences.

I'm in.

I appreciate you coming with me.

Of course, man. Nancy told me what's up.

Oh. Not supposed to have that.

You being serious right now? Come on.

Ah.

Fine.

Okay, you're definitely
not supposed to have that.

We're in my world, man, not yours.

- You good?
- After you.

Alright.

Be careful with that.

- Listen, we need her alive.
- Okay.

Just here to scare her for information.

It's a little too late for that, bro.

Oh, shit.

Mm.

She's breathing.

Whoa.

What the hell is this?!

You know me.

You killed my ex-wife.

Carlene Hart... she got you out of jail.

She told you to lure my
daughter to an abduction.

Now where are they keeping Izzy?

- I don't...
- Come on! We are running out of time!

Ticktock, you nasty-ass bitch!

Do it.

Do it.

God!

I remember how you looked in court...

pink dress, flowers on it.

You know, trying to play up

the innocent schoolteacher angle.

See, I could tell.

I can always tell

when a defendant is truly sorry.

You didn't give a shit.

No, I don't remember it.

- You were drunk.
- She still is.

It wasn't even really me.

But this?

This was me. I did this.

I just...

I just wanted a way out, so I just...

Hey, you took Izzy's mom.
You can't change that.

But you still have
time to make this right.

Help me find my daughter.

Uh, there was...

A man came to see me in jail.

He said that I could get out on furlough

if I helped him do something.

I reached out to Isabel...

and, uh, set up... set up a meeting.

I'm sorry. How'd you contact him? Huh?

After you set up Izzy,
how'd you get ahold of him?

Um, he gave me... he gave me a number.

- Okay.
- There.

Nancy? Yeah, yeah.

Hey, we got a number for you to trace.

Wakey, wakey, Mr. Doran.

Looking for this?

You left it next to your
burner phone, dumb-dumb.

I'm gonna make this real simple for you.

You were the go-between
for Carlene and Alice.

I'm guessing you know where Izzy is.

You got the wrong guy.

Tell me where my daughter
is or I pull the trigger.

I've seen her do this
before. She's not bluffing.

You can't. You're cops.

Not tonight.

Yeah, your boss, she...
she got our badges taken.

Even coming in here, you
know, we were breaking the law,

so we might as well get
our money's worth, right?

You're full of shit.

Now you're blind and deaf on that side.

You're not who we're looking for,

but if you don't give us answers,

I'm gonna take you apart
one piece at a time.

I'll tell you where Carlene's
holding her, you let me walk?

Did I stutter?

Ah. What's it gonna be, left eye?

Agent Hendrix.

Glad you're still with us.

Oh, really?

Do I have a choice?

You here to finish me off or what?

Always looking for the easy way out.

No. I have a proposition.

Of course you do.

But I'm not listening anymore.

My life's been upside down
ever since you read me into

this damn Knox program.

I'm here to get you right-side up.

I gave Carlene 48 hours
for a quiet escape.

Since then, she's kidnapped two children

and left a trail of bullets
all over Los Angeles.

Word on the street is
Gabriel Knox is on the run.

What use to me is a kingpin gone soft?

Carlene's outlived her utility.

The best case scenario
for both of us now

ends with Carlene Hart dead.

Our man outside is gonna look
the other way in t-minus 5.

There's a car in the garage.

The location's in the GPS.

Take care of our mutual problem,
and your slate gets wiped clean.

And if I don't?

I lost a lot of blood, man.

I might just hang this whole thing up.

If you don't, Carlene
turns State's Evidence,

and I'll vouch for every lie she tells.

"Crooked DEA agent
poses as drug kingpin."

Should get you life in federal prison.

How much blood you
think you'll lose then?

Oh.

Got it.

So you were telling me
about being stuck on a boat?

Right.

So my dad almost started a fire

when he was trying to get
the boat to power back up.

All we got to do is find
a positively charged wire

and touch it to a non-grounded wire.

That's actually really smart...

if it wasn't so dumb.

- What?
- Izzy, we're on a boat.

I thought you wanted to cut the power.

You want to start a fire?

Yeah. Remember, they need us alive.

So if we start a fire, they
have to get us off the boat,

and then we can scream and yell for help

and hope that somebody hears us.

And if they don't?

Then at least we're off the boat

and they can't dump us in
the middle of the ocean,

'cause once this thing heads
for open waters, we're screwed.

Okay.

So, what do we do?

Which one's hot? Which
one's not grounded?

You're a guy, right?

Don't you know about
wires and... and stuff?

Have you met me?

Fine.

What's the worse that can happen?

Uh...

Okay.

Alright, you sure you're okay?

Look, I'd just feel a lot
better if you go see the doctor.

Please. Thank you.

Let me know when you're
all done. I love you.

What's up?

Michelle's having some bad cramps,

but she's gonna go see the doctor.

Uh, how you doing?

Faith is struggling with it.

I'm barely keeping it
together, but, you know,

I gotta focus on this
task at hand, you know?

Alright, man, it's all gonna work out.

See, I said it, now it's gonna happen.

That's how powerful I am.

You know, a pretty smart
guy told me that once.

Pretty smart

or pretty brilliant?

Hey, Carlene's guy says the
kids are being held on a yacht.

She's gonna try to flee
the country with her family

when she gets the money.

Over my dead body.

I thought we needed
Carlene alive to testify.

That's still the plan, right?

She touches Izzy, I'm-a beat her ass.

Look, we got an address.

We're gonna do it, we
gotta do it now. Let's go.

I know, baby.

Mommy just needs to
finish up a few things,

and then we'll all be together again.

Yes, yes, even Daddy.

We're gonna take the
boat out for a while.

I know. I know.

I love sailing, too.

Don't worry, honey,
it'll all be over soon.

Okay. Kissing hands.

Mwah! Mwah!

Now put them in your pockets
and carry them with you.

Okay. Bye.

Talbot...

I-I don't give a shit.

You can start over
when we get to Mexico.

This was always a possibility.

I'll see you in Point Loma.

_

It's time.

We want our kids back.

I want my money.

Long Beach aquarium. One hour.

Proof of life.

You're just gonna have
to take my word for it.

She wants to meet in an hour.

She has no idea we're on her already.

We have to go now, catch her off guard.

- Dad, you ready to go?
- Good to go.

Let's do this.

Get the kids in the truck.

Don't move until my signal.

The aquarium should be
swarming with children by now.

That'll stop them from
trying to pull anything.

Be smart,

or you lose the rest of your cash.

I'm confused.

Were you trying to say something,

or is you pulling a gun on me

supposed to mean something to me?

Not afraid to die?

Y'all tried that, remember?

It didn't take.

What about your friend's kids?

We know they're on the boat.

Let 'em go, and we'll talk business.

You're a planner, like me.

You're too smart to think that
I would just give the kids up.

So show me my money.

I know you brought the rest of it.

Fine. I'll do it your way.

_

Oh, my God.

I got it!

- I got it.
- Yes, yes, yes! Okay.

Ooh! Oh, my God.

Nice. Okay.

Please don't die.

Okay. Um...

Alright, Syd's got them distracted.

Let's move.

You've seen your money.

Now Izzy and Justice.

You'll see them once my
people verified it's all there.

Kids first, then you verify.

Look, you keep playing hardball,
this can go another way.

Hey, there's a fire!

- Hey, there's a fire in here!
- What the hell?!

You gotta get us out of here.

What did you do? What did you do?

- I don't know! It just...
- Huh?

Aah!

I know why you need the money.

You got the entire U.S.
government and every drug cartel

in the western hemisphere
looking for you.

You won't last a week without it.

This cash burns, you're as good as dead!

Are you really wiling

to gamble with your daughter's life?

You willing to gamble with yours?

They gotta be below deck.

- Izzy, run!
- Uhh!

- Justice!
- Dad!

Come on, let's go. Let's go.

Aah!

Get the money!

Get back!

Dad!

- Are you okay? Huh?
- Yeah.

- You sure? Huh?
- Yeah. Uh, yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, I'm good.
- Hey, hey, hey.

We gotta go. Let's get out
of here. Come on. Come on.

Get down!

- Baines! Yo!
- Dad!

Oh, my God.

Don't let him see me, okay?

I don't want my son to see this.

- Come on. It's okay.
- Unh-unh.

What? What?

They got me, man.

He shot me in the ass.

What?

Aah!

Alright, I thought we were in trouble.

Come on, man.

Promise me, no dick tubes.

I promise, no dick tubes,
alright? But we gotta go.

- Come on! Let's... let's go.
- Aah!

We gotta get out of here.

Justice, don't look.

- I'm not. I'm not.
- Come on.

Izzy! Izzy!

Drop your weapon!

You first!

This was not my intention!

Let Izzy go!

Aah!

You okay?

Yeah.

Uhh!

You missed a spot.

Come on, we've gotta hurry!

Aah!

- Let's go.
- Come on, hurry up!

Thing's about to blow!

I got her! I got her!

Izzy!

Izzy! Izzy!

We're okay!

You good?

- You good?
- Yeah.

A little toasty, but I'm alright.

- Oh, my God!
- Nancy!

Oh! I was so worried.

I-I blew up the boat.

Oh!

They got me, Syd.

It's a gusher. Feel it in my socks.

Feel it in your socks?

- You got no swag, man.
- I'm so sorry. I...

- It's okay.
- I didn't know where you were.

I'm just glad you're here. It's fine.

Looks like everybody's in
one piece, more or less.

- Yeah.
- Where's Carlene?

We can't let her get away! Come on!

Go kick her ass.

- Are you sure?
- Go.

We got her, we got her, We got her. Go!

- Izzy. Izzy, you good?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Are you good?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm good. I'm good.

- I'm so sorry that I brought you and...
- No, don't worry about it.

But next time, we should do the movies.

- I'm not good with this stuff.
- Yeah, probably.

Okay.

You're gonna be shitting
like a Play-Doh factory.

Hey, man, this is a serious injury...

not like when you got shot
in your little chicken wing.

You know how many muscles
are connected to the gluteus?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- I'm not gonna be able to sit down for a month.

M-M-M-Michelle's in labor.
We gotta go to the hospital.

- What? It's... It's too early.
- We gotta go!

We... We... Come on!
Let's go to the hospital.

Come on, let's go! Get!

Whose car is this?

I'm gonna run this
bitch into a brick wall.

Well, try not to kill her.

Oh, come on, really?

I said try. You know, best efforts.

Aah!

You should've killed me when
you had the chance, Carlene!

Who's on who now? Huh?!

This ends today.

Let her go, Warren!

Syd? Walk away.

Not gonna happen. I need her alive.

We want the same thing...
Gabriel Knox dead and buried.

Well, she's right here.

You've been wanting it for five years.

I wanted the person who shot me,

and that's you.

Is that what she told you?

'Cause that ain't the whole truth.

No more lies, Warren.

I remember. You were there.

You said you "got this",
and then you shot me.

It was the only way to save you.

I saved your life, okay?

'Cause Kobi was trying to kill you.

And if I even stuttered,
he would've shot me, too.

Listen, I gave you a fighting chance.

I did what I could.

- Carter.
- What?

Our baby... it was a boy.

I was gonna name him Carter.

But you killed him.

Don't move!

You're gonna get us all killed.

Because you wouldn't listen to me, Syd.

You never listened to
me. You left me no choice.

You made me do it.

Get on your knees!

Now.

Hands above your head.

Aah! You don't know what you're doing.

- Uhh!
- Shut up!

- Out of the way, McKenna.
- Not a chance.

McKenna, I'll put you down, too.

You do what you gotta do.

Uhh!

Syd...

Let's go.

Let's get out of here.

- Secure that woman.
- Yes, sir.

Come with me. Put your hands down.

- We good?
- Good?

You blew up the Port of L.A.

You're overreacting.

You're exaggerating. It
was... it was one boat.

And the van.

- It was our van.
- That's true.

Please, both of you, just shut up.

The Federal government insisted

that LAPD step away from this case.

Gabriel Knox, Bishop
Duval, fentanyl, all of it.

And I gave him my word that we would.

But then Carlene Hart went
and abducted the children

of two LAPD detectives...

my people.

As far as I'm concerned,
you two were doing your jobs.

If they wanna come after you,

they gotta get through me first.

Thank you.

What you doing here?

I went out to get these, and
now I'm just taking in the view.

What... what... what are you doing up?

Oh, man, I can't feel nothin'.

They gave me that good shit.

It's like watching your
heart walk outside your body.

And when you have more than one kid,

the heart grows and divides evenly.

It's crazy, right?

What's crazy is you
walking around this hospital

with half an ass.

I wouldn't miss this for the world.

- How they doing?
- Good. Good.

Michelle's blood pressure spiked.

They thought it was pre-eclampsia.

That's why they induced
labor, but no sign of apnea,

and the doctor thinks
we're clear of BPD.

Uh, I volunteered as a baby buddy.

- Whaaaaat?
- Yeah.

Picked up a thing or two.

Okay.

A'ight. Say what you got to say.

I got it coming. I bagged
on you about your arm.

Look, man...

I wouldn't be half the
cop I am without you.

And I wouldn't be standing here
if your ass hadn't saved my ass.

So the only thing I
got to say to you is...

I love you.

They got me in the ass, man.

- In the ass.
- Yeah, I know.

- Yeah.
- I know. I know. I know.

Hey! Congratulations.

Welcome to the club, papa bear!

Thanks.

Well, twins, huh?

Yeah. Am I in trouble?

No. No, just the opposite.

You're a lucky man.

What's going on?

I'm Special Agent Alber with the DEA.

We've never met, Syd, but I've
followed your career a while.

I've just started following yours.

Where's Carlene?

Carlene Hart is no longer your problem.

What the hell is this?

A chance to start over.

A clean slate for you and your friends.

In exchange for what?

Our silence.

The Gabriel Knox program,
Warren, Carlene...

never happened.

So this is you saving your own ass.

We still have a ton of evidence.

We could still blow up your
world with or without Carlene.

It's not my world that's at stake here.

It's yours.

You go public, we deny it.

It'll be the word of two suspended cops

against the Federal government.

Any evidence you have
was illegally obtained.

Inadmissible.

Sure, maybe there's an inquiry,

hearings in Washington.

But we've seen that movie before.

Important people want this
to go away, so it will.

We get a do-over. That...
that's what the offer is?

It's in all of our interests

that this stays out of the public eye.

And we're supposed to
believe you'll hold up

your end of the bargain?

That you won't come after us next?

We'll take it.

Syd.

They need this story to go away.

Anything happens to us, it
just raises more questions.

We'll take it.

Sounds like we're good.

Detective.

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Unh, yeah ♪

♪ Whoo! ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Put your hands up ♪

♪ Put your hands up ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Clear the runway,
this the theme music ♪

♪ Put the negativity aside,
chase the dream music ♪

♪ Move with the mood, let it
groove through your veins ♪

♪ Do it like nobody's done it before ♪

♪ Changing the game,
enraging the haters ♪

♪ Make like a baker, slick like Slater ♪

♪ "Saved by the Bell,"
step out of Hell ♪

♪ Like you met your savior ♪

How'd you find me?

Looking good, Detective.

Had him track my cellphone?

- Your watch, actually.
- Oh.

You've been really
getting your steps today.

- Not today, Fletch.
- Whatever.

You know black people
don't do well in the rain.

- Bye, Syd.
- Later, Fletch.

So we just gonna stand
out here in the rain

like a '90s R&B video?

I can give you a ride.

Come on.

Raid your dad's closet for that coat?

This you?

Yeah, I figured it was about time

I got something that had two seats.

- Why you gotta be so extra?
- Oh!

You mean like "taking a jog
in the rain" kinda extra?

So...

Alber held up his end
of the deal, and...

you've been dodging
me for a couple days.

What's going on? Are we good?

Yeah. I mean...

You saved Izzy. Of course we're good.

It's just...

Carlene's out there.

We don't know if... if she's dead.

Did they kill her? Maybe
they're protecting her.

We'll never know.

Syd, she... she came for my family,

and I just...

I felt so helpless.

I'm just trying to figure out

how to live with this
unfinished business.

Yeah.

Swish-swish.

- Oh, come on.
- Swish-swish!

- No.
- Yes!

You of all people.

You can't tell me to
keep it moving. Come on.

I didn't die in Miami,

but I sure as hell stopped living.

And that's not on them. That's on me.

You gave me back something
that Warren took from me...

A family.

So, yeah, I saved Izzy,
but you saved me first.

They tried like hell to
take everything from us,

but our family's still here.

So... we win.

It just, like, purrs.

She's a beauty.

Maybe I can...

- take her for a spin?
- No.

I'm, like, a legitimately good driver.

Have you seen the deductible on this?

Jen?

Jen, is that you?

You know, in this car,
we're like an official cop duo,

like Starsky and Hutch.

Tango and Cash.

Or Cagney and Lacey?

Turner and Hooch?

- I'm Turner.
- What?

- Why do I gotta be the dog?
- 'Cause you're sittin' bitch, bitch.

Oh, I hate you.

So rude.

Hello?

Syd, you need to hurry.
Something's happened.

Dad, what's going on?

Just get down here quick.

It's Jen.

She's dead.