Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 3 - Loyalties - full transcript

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what

i'm sorry about that man

hey hit my car

yeah sorry huh do you think that's gonna

fix things

you know no harm no foul right yeah

yeah okay

ten bucks super

your buddy yo

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technical now for bonus points

you don't want to do this i do trump i

really do

i got worse you want to see worse

i'll get you next time

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i love a full service operation later

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so

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no no no i got it

i see the bookcase didn't get damaged oh

yeah

i think so let me use your car to haul

this thing huh

i sure hope it was worth 60 is that what

a headlight costs now

yep i'll take it out of your paycheck no

they got his paycheck i thought you

didn't get his name

i got a plate number okay

a partial one i think i got it in fourth

gear pretty fast

i see what the dmv kicks out you say he

was about 18.

yeah and crazy well you have to be crazy

to pick a fight with you now whitney

no it's not that he picked the fight

it's that he ever thought he had a

chance

you know what i like about you what

you're so humble i'll see who my friend

at the dmv finds on this uh

license plate i appreciate it

okay detective

ah morning do you have a minute

i've got this witness who's about to

skip town oh okay he can wait

doesn't sound like it can wait

and as it's my daughter

oh what's going on there are these kids

in the neighborhood

bad kids and christina's running around

with them

they get into some kind of trouble all

the time i can't get her away from them

and i thought maybe you could talk to

her

me what would i say to her

i don't know but you're out there it

would be more coming from you

i have had very little experience

talking to teenagers i mean as a nun

i can't reach her i don't know what else

to do

okay okay uh maybe i can tell her about

some of the cases i've had repeat

offender ratios that kind of thing

anything really i appreciate it so much

okay uh have i stopped by sometime next

week

sorry i'm late mom

i asked her to stop by on the off chance

hello

so how's the sandwich

i don't hear you

you're really tough you know that

i was going to tell you all about some

of the characters i've met on the street

but i can see that's not going to hold

any water with you

so why don't we just cut right to the

chase talk about your life

look you see it's like this

on the other hand you're not very good

at this

you notice that why don't you ask me if

my mother has anything to be worried

about

see that's good now that's very good

does she my friends are nice

sweet people aren't there any other nice

sweet people at your school

what motorheads and computer nerds i

don't think so

look i can't control what miguel and the

boys do

but they never tell me to do anything

wrong and they're really good to me

miguel miguel mendez yeah we went to the

same school since kindergarten

these are the guys you hang out with

we're seeing that that'll get you killed

okay

everybody knows i'm not in the gang

christina

bullets do not differentiate

find new friends adam

am i interrupting no just give me one

minute huh

okay would you just think about it huh

you're just like my mother

totally wrong i won't ask

lenski called your witness is back in

the loop

the day's looking up yeah even more dmv

kicked out five plates

this one matched the car belongs to luis

gomez

first lieutenant for the k street gang

that's a smile for providence come again

i have to talk to this young man's

leader

i do enjoy the upper half

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bullseye

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i win again you always play alone

my friends are on an errand how about a

game

another time maybe say in a building

that isn't condemned by the county

are you here to evict us no

miguel right that's right

a friend of yours made a mistake

recently

luis gomez a local luis what mistake was

that

he did a hank aaron on a car smashed the

headlights which is

you know no big thing really

unless that car belongs to a cop

and that cop is you

adam boudreau i'll speak to luis what

exactly would you like from him

thing is i want something from you and

then i don't arrest louise

i'm listening

it's about christina valence

let her go tina she's my little hermana

but you and your setter in a payback

game with the quattros right how long

before christina gets caught in the

crossfire

what is she to you her mother wants the

favor

i tell you what because i care for

christina's wealth and so you don't lose

face with a mom

i'll break things down to the girl

thanks

oh and louise owes me 60 bucks

send me a receipt and i'll make good on

the headlights

my man you could be an asset to a

legitimate organization

yeah that's what my parole officer keeps

telling me

when's malloy get back from vacation not

soon enough to wash those dishes

come on you really should have a

dishwasher in this right that one man

your electric one would be nice

christina hello hello you've ruined my

entire life

i take it should talk to miguel he won't

talk to me my best friend dumped me

because of you

i guilty

ah i got work to do i'll be over here

with the beer nuts

what kind of guy you think my mom's so

nice just because you work with her well

how well do you know her

like you said i work with her well did

you know she used to leave me home alone

all the time no

but that has nothing to do with today

huh hey miguel cares about me okay

he's the only one i could count on then

today cut a deal with me to let you go

this doesn't sound like somebody you can

count on christina i don't care i'm

getting my friends back okay and if you

get in the way again i'm gonna stop you

i don't care how but i will christina

okay everybody show's over next match is

at 1005 tonight

you don't like being interrogated

not when i don't have the answers

i think maybe she went out of here just

a little angry

i can't say i blame her examine your

priorities huh

i have maybe you want to look at yours

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but come on grady whose side are you on

uh why should that girl listen to you

because i'm right i'm older i'm a cop

take your pick

no no wait it's like this

look if someone told me

that you were bad for me i wouldn't buy

it

cause i'm not no because

you were there for me when i was a kid i

trust you

tina trust me gal

look this is different i mean miguel is

dangerous he's really dangerous oh

what and you weren't come on b

i was an eight-year-old kid and now i'm

without a family and you

were a u.s marine a train killer

right but see i

i didn't care who you killed i just

cared that you were good to me

christina's going through the same thing

i guess i really missed that one and i

didn't miss it

you're wrong you're older you're a cop

take your pick

look maybe you missed it because no

one's ever saved your life it was the

other way around

you know you're really up on this whole

thing you got a handle on it yeah

maybe she'd be able to hear you oh yeah

no come on

okay i can try but i can't promise

anything

you couldn't do any worse than i true

hey

you were wrong someone did save my life

he led me out of the jungle looked a lot

like you

i thought you look familiar get out of

here

thanks boss

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then why are you here um how much time

do you have

i'm going somewhere look is this cool

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k street girl's got a new friend i here

let's check out the clicker

parents used to run out on you a lot huh

mostly my mom

trying to find my dad used to drink yeah

yeah my parents left me two and away

a friend of mine thought he picked up

the slack you know the guy

saved my life if people started telling

me he was trouble

i wouldn't love him any less that's how

i feel

yeah but if they told me that running

with him would put me in the line of a

bullet man

i might have to move out of the way you

know

now you sound like boudreau actually

he's right sometimes look

christina it's like this you run with

miguel you're gonna get in the middle of

a gunfight

maybe i don't care oh you want to die

maybe

what's so great about life just one

thing it's better than death

oh like you know right

i saw my parents get killed different

country different gang

believe me you don't want to die

hey tina what are you doing here hey i

came to hang

on and now we talked about that i gave

boudreau my word

forget him you guys are my bud hey tina

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tina are you hanging with this buster

come on luis do you don't even know the

guy oh no this is the guy that faced me

in the gas station

come on man why don't we just leave that

behind us

see you kick your way out of this

who's next me

they'll kill each other before we get a

chance to

let's jam

tina you see what i'm talking about

miguel don't do this

tina go home

go on tina

better not miss

get out of here

you're not as dumb as i thought you were

wow

so you sent christina home what else

what else did you miss the part where i

took on an entire street gang

i heard all about what are you so upset

about

i tell a girl how dangerous her friends

are

and my friend just goes ballistic on him

see that's great i don't believe you

they put a gun in my face and i didn't

kill them i thought i did okay

better than okay you were supposed to

talk to the girl and that's it

what am i supposed to do four guys came

at me you have to control the situation

no you do

your cop i'm just a friend who was asked

to help out

i keep stepping in the delta

see i figure everything i know you know

because you were always there with me

even when i didn't know where the hell

you were well i apologize it's okay do

we have to kiss now

i'm not that sorry

so you have any progress with christina

look she's gonna get caught in something

yeah

she's got legal rights and bad judgment

and i can't touch her

how do you do this huh

i don't think i could be a cop i don't

think so either

i will see you later at malloys

a gang shooting off k street just came

over the radio i'm scared christina is

it's okay i'll go i'll go with you no

you've helped enough for one day

i'll radio you don't worry

what do we have dead puppy one of the

quattro's been shot in the chest

nobody knows anymore that's right any k

street boy scene running from the sea

not by the time we got here and no

weapons

nope

look i can't walk the police are gonna

pick me up for sure

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everything okay christine it's nice to

be drilled

your mother was worried i thought you

might be in danger

well no i was halfway home when i heard

the sirens are you sure you're okay

yeah i'm fine you don't look it how

about i drive you home no it's okay i'll

walk

hey i told you there was gonna be

trouble told you one way or another

they're gonna rope you into it

now have they look my only trouble is

you pedro

okay i'm out of here

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aj you guys said they don't have a

problem with you running this one since

you're already involved

yeah i thought i am that was unfair of

an edge to ring you in

okay i could have said no no you could

not you

all right one of the quattro gang

members is dead i assume we're rounding

up the rival guys

we arrested k street's leader this

morning he suddenly needed a doctor

which hospital city

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thanks

miguel my man how's the food

hey it's better than entertainment no

cable

i can always get you your dartboard you

did that for me

i see here you got a flesh one yeah i

fell

i don't suppose you fell anywhere near k

street plate or not no

in my driveway uh-huh the word is you

weren't carrying a piece when we picked

you up the gun

me no not you

but you know i got this feeling in my

gut that tells me you're guilty

and i'm gonna nail you for the shooting

i left your girl alone

you killed somebody i don't care if you

leave my mother alone you got nothing

on me not yet

stop by a little later visiting hours

until nine

but i'm gonna be zip locking your gun by

then

boudreau

what gun

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how's christina fine

i kept her home from school today that's

a good idea

you know the quattros are gonna be going

after anybody that's a friend of k

streets

she promised me she'd stay away from

miguel and his friends from now on

yeah i'd like to talk to her sometime

she told me she didn't see anything

yesterday

you answered before i asked

i knows it's nothing

let it go it's too late for that now

i want to do what is best for her

has she done something wrong

if she was holding a gun the gun that

was used

what would happen to her nothing good

but it'd be a lot worse if i have to go

after her for it

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she was hiding this in the attic last

night

give it to me now i'll count that as

returning yourself

i found the gun where

she answered that twice in our driveway

we ran a ballistics check on the gun you

found in your driveway

and it matches the one that killed the

quattro yesterday now do you want to

change your story

it's the truth the truth is miguel

killed the guy and left you holding the

bag

i'm not holding no bag no

yours are the only fingerprints found on

the gun

can we have a moment

if the d.a wants to make an example

what these guys have is circumstantial

but you could get charged with murder

or as an accessory

tell the truth

detective pedro

i found the gun what is this loyalty for

him

you and miguel live in the same

neighborhood that's all christina

my clients made her statement the rest

is up to the d.a

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fine

oh you must hate lawyers she's just

doing her job i gave the d.a away case

weak come on we know that miguel passed

christina the gun

what we know and what we can prove are

two different things

no so that's it right you're free

miguel gets off

bad judgment legal rights now you're

learning

yeah well i'm not sure that i want to

excuse me

thank you for all you tried to do

your mother's a brave woman i know you

should be thanking her

for turning me in yeah right

i'll be in the car

if you were a betting man i'm not

but if you were how long would you say

it'll take

for those two getting to world war three

conservatively somewhere between here

and home

where are you going same place she's

gonna be running to

yeah i don't suppose that you could use

a backup of course it's a policeman

i couldn't agree with you more

entertainment later boudreau

i'm gonna be heading on over to my voice

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ah

hey guys how's it going dina you running

from jail

no they released me how's gail i'm

taking his place

for now anyway what you doing here

i left home want a mother like yours you

should

she ratted on a homeboy why he's not in

any trouble

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and how'd you get out of jail i told you

they released me but what did you say to

get released that you're holding

miguel's gun

no that i found the gun not mine

just fool your mother

everything was clean another man has his

gun

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you're both gonna pay you and your

mother brought things bad

hold it police

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listen to me it's not your fault yes it

is mom i'm sorry

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i'm sorry mom

lady was a snitch the wrong person died

the wrong person died

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job

it's not worth it it's not worth it

you're just driving by

time is everything

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mom sorry mom

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okay

one of those quattros shot in us last

night except they all have alibis

you ever notice how alibi rhymes with

obvious lie

it's pretty flowers yeah

we wanted to send christina something

she staying at the house oh

she's gotten on who lives down the block

but she can't stay there

you have my full attention the k street

boy is considered an

her daughter enemies for turning in the

gun

yeah they're glad about inez now they

want christina dead too

you know this for a fact we got word

louise put out a hit on her this morning

well that makes me wonder what you're

doing here

christina wanted to try to fix things

her way

are you gonna be okay duck says yeah

don't worry about

me you got that right yeah i'm talking

to tina chump

so back off grady please

okay i'll be right out here

thanks for seeing me i'm so scared gail

oh you sound like you used to herman at

the time i found you hiding in the

garage

you built that tent until my parents

came home

i wish we were nine again

you know i'd never rat you out sure i do

will you tell luis

they say they're gonna kill me

what's wrong what is it

are you saying you won't

are you afraid of them no way

you are afraid you're afraid to go

against them

i can't go against them they're my

homeboys oh what am i

they're my own voice

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the drill

i bought the gun i want to change my

statement

you can say i told you so no desire

i'd rather tell you everything will be

okay

will it i'm going to talk to miguel

then we'll see hey scotty can i get you

to take a statement

all right look you did the right thing

so stay here okay

thanks

look what does that mean if he gets

tried as a jury it means if miguel is

found guilty of murder he gets out of

juvenile detention in a couple of years

you went to the hospital and you

promised him this and i do not get you a

lot

no wait no how not do a favor get a

favor

fine fine what does miguel do for you

he allows christina to live in the hood

with her aunt right

right his homies are going to go for

that i'm going over to talk to them

right now

you want to come along

what are we gonna do what's up to do

there's something you're not telling me

oh

i got a buddy of mine who works at the

fire department i know they're scheduled

to burn down a building today

condemn building just off k street just

off k street

but the k street boys don't know about

this do they not yet

police firearms without a permit to pile

over here now

no way man

am i where the hard way let's see him

do it

that's all of them

you sure

good

now everything's even

and you gentlemen are affiliated with

the k street gangsters correct

which is guys in the hood with a

tradition of honor what are you getting

at

just that you gentlemen keep your word

if for example you were to give me your

word that you would not harm christina

valens then i know you could keep your

word

she ratted out mcgill that she did

and now i want your word that you won't

have any payback

we don't get it oh you will

because nobody leaves this building

until you do

great

hey man you're crazy

like to find out

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give me your word luigi

that'll be the fire department now i'm

crazy okay

you you should be locked up that might

be nuts

just remember that if you think to go

back on your word release

boudreau can we go now boudreaux

can we

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you know you really had those k street

boys going yesterday

you think so yeah

i mean heck you and i believed that you

weren't gonna let them out

really yeah but i mean obviously i knew

you would

that's interesting you were going to

right where's the sugar

boudreau right i think i'll take two

b

i need that and that you wouldn't let

those guys buy it

it's all right

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so

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so

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you