Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 2, Episode 17 - The Cost of Peace - full transcript
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hey mckenna how are you doing hello i'm
doing great have you seen gradients
what's uh
yeah he's in the background i think he's
waiting for you
oh my birthday's not for three months no
but your parole ended at midnight
last yeah
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you are now a law abiding yeah and the
law says
that uh anyone under age can't drink
alcohol so they're
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speech speech i'm thinking come on come
on you've never been in a loss for words
oh okay no no
there's something i want to say yes i
want to thank this man for keeping me
straight
and for for teaching me so much he's
like he's not too bad for him
nah dude a dude with the badge
we go i'm damn proud of you
cheers cheers
time for good news
case three boys have been running
without his top man for too long
but that's not the case anymore
because he's back in the set
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can i have a everybody's attention
please
thank you this is sergeant robert martin
from the youth gang task force
he's got some rather ominous news
gentlemen ladies
ominous is a good word for it it looks
like our streets are about to become
even more like bosnia
word is there been some major powwows
between the k-streeters and the g-rocks
i thought they got along like pork and
matzah well apparently that's about to
change
word is they're talking truce
what's so ominous about that sounds like
a little piece would be a good thing
it might be if the violence were to stop
but our information is
that if they stop the brutality against
each other they're gonna turn it on john
q public
or on us how do you know the violence
isn't just gonna stop altogether
for a number of reasons not the least of
which is
they've started to advertise kill the
enemy
kill the police next thing you know
they'll be taking out a billboard at 7th
and main
this doesn't fit excuse me
it's not like either of the gangs to put
out anything like that
no offense sergeant but uh why don't you
leave the gang expertise to the gang
task force
fine why are you here talking us
to warn you warn us of what
be extra careful out there folks watch
out for ambushes
never go in without a backup and always
wear your vest
always
why do i feel like like luis is looking
down on us from heaven and he's cursing
aye he's probably happy as you better
his best headphone
and some stranger right i hope
did you know that you have the most
beautiful madre
on the planet where else do you think
she gets her good looks from
definitely not from luis hi
do you think that he would approve of
this of us
miguel i can't think of anyone else he'd
want more to be the father of his baby
well er who said anything about father
did i say father or even husband
you just slow down singing like that you
hear me
okay we could go slow or we could go
fast
either way we end up at the same finish
line
what makes you so sure because i usually
get what i want
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uh they're um for me
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we'll uh continue this conversation
when i get back
be careful again
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i already lost one man to those colors
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wow
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my hey charlie
oh stay away from it adam stay away from
what that flyer that gangs
come on i know that look you want to do
your own digging
i know most of these kids from both sets
charlie i mean some of them since they
were born
flyers aren't their style man if i tell
you to stay out of it
you're only gonna get into it anyway so
how about i just don't say
anything
man don't you get it it's a trap why
don't you think they want us to come
with their weapons
it's a piece party stupid
you don't go make peace putting a gun at
someone
hey okay so we go to this party on the
g-rock turf
without our cats and they smoke all of
us without even breaking a sweat
they gave us a word
man you take g-rock's word i say we go
locked and loaded
yeah you say we do some g-rock hunting
man don't you get it
it's like one of the mergers the man
always does
ass g-rocks
together
yeah we would
we'd rule
but not to sell stuff to clean things up
to set things straight
you like we'd have a chance
you're right we wouldn't have a chance
holmes
neither would the g-rocks but
together together we can do anything we
want
yeah what about the man cops can't do
nothing for us
city can't do nothing for us
the only ones that can do something for
us
is us
want your kid brother to grow up scared
like you did his only hope to get out is
in jail
or in a pine box i'd rather that than
risk us getting taken out by the g-rocks
at this so-called peace party
nobody's taking out nobody homes i talk
to javier a lot
i know him i trust him he trusts me
he trusts me
this could be only chance man
okay so we go to the party we go unarmed
okay who's with me
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so in the meantime what are we gonna do
tonight
man oh i smell a party or something
really like to walk too close to the
cliff don't you my man
what do you want we're unofficially we
want to talk
talk talk of a what about your set
call it community relations
why me because you're the oldest og
no not anymore
you're saying somebody's coming and
taking over let's say the uh
set took a vote
oh how exciting who won prom queen this
year
hey clavo where'd you go essay
there you go
officers i'd like you to meet elder og
oh i'm sorry i forgot
you already met
hello
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now what the hell are you doing here and
why are you wearing colors again man i'm
back in my set when i'm needed
look you took a huge step forward now
you're taking ten giant steps backward
why
staying away from the set was the
condition of my parole my parole
that's right your parole is over because
i spent all that time steering you in
the right direction
this isn't about you homies about me
withdrawal i'm talking about you
i thought you'd gone straight i have
gone straight it doesn't look that way
to me
why because i'm back in my set and gang
banging
doesn't necessarily equal crime then why
join the gang i don't know why'd you
join one
uh-huh who do you think the cops are oh
so we're a gang now we're the new enemy
huh is that why they're trying to kill
us i don't know what you're talking
about
you don't i'm talking about this
i've never seen this before you sure
miguel
my boys did not put this aside and i
doubt the g-rocks did either oh and how
can you be sure of that because
the language is all wrong holmes when
you want to put the word on the street
you got to speak the language of the
street who the hell else would be behind
it
like i said there's a third game
oh yeah why would the department do this
sir that'd be suicide
remember some paranoid 5-0 put out the
fire of the troops
i don't buy it miguel why because the
cops are the good guys
and we're the bad guys see that's right
all right yeah something like that
you gotta stop seeing things so black
and white hey don't you walk away from
me
you owe me a hell of a lot more respect
than that you gotta give it
to get it like you always say
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sarge where they get virgin wool i'm
trying to do some work
from ugly sheep uh
do you ever take anything seriously i
try not to
that's what keeps me sane maybe you
should find a new form of
therapy whoa somebody got up on the
wrong side of the badge this morning
it's bugging you
yeah this is a mystery to me i have
never understood what the deal is
between you and miguel how did you meet
he was released from the farm to my
supervision two years ago
why you're not a parole officer
you tell jokes to keep sane i try
another approach
like what uh busting gang bangers and
then adopting them
doesn't it ever bother you that all we
do is bust them
and put them in jail for a while until
we let them out
then we get a chance to bust them again
that's an awfully depressing way of
looking at things
that is someone's got to break the cycle
someone's got to try to save one every
now and then
and you thought you'd save one with
miguel yeah i worked with him for a
couple of years and
got him a legit job i thought finally
he'd gotten on the right path
cancel any plans you got for tonight
guys we're about to do some overtime we
got a report there's a peace party
happening tonight k-streeters on g-rock
turf
sounds pretty incendiary that's the
understatement of the year we're putting
every man we can muster in the area if a
war starts i want it stopped
before it becomes a bloodbath
okay
do you have to go tonight
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i had to go back our heart is important
to me
i'm trying to help it you know
can you trust the g-rocks
we have to
they killed louise began
we killed a lot of their homies it'll go
on like that forever
if we don't stop it so why do you have
to be the one to do it
i'm the only case student they trust why
because i saved one of their homies when
i bought it last month
so so they think i don't want them dead
or i wouldn't let them get smoked
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i love you
don't you dare get me
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oh
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old man walks into a bar starts bragging
about his brand new top of the line
hearing aid 2500 bucks the bartender
says you're kidding 2500
what kind is it no man says over half
past four
rothman i am armed
let me go
nothing
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bruh
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okay
meet the cash twitters
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oh
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the shooter he's on the bridge
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oh
check out the bridge miguel the bridge
the coroner says javier's wound was
cleaned probably from a high-powered
rifle
25 30 maybe now the wound and the
trajectory imply
that the bullet came from that bridge
let me guess nobody heard anything
nobody saw anything
surprise surprise any of the homeboys
have a guess who did it
i haven't guessed all right
g-rock sink the k-street who's this you
know what this means
a gang and first prize goes the man who
kills
the k-streeter leader
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any luck finding mcgillian no i was
hoping he'd come here or contacted one
of you
no i haven't heard him no do you think
he's in any danger
she rocks when i'm dead what
why they think he killed their leader
nah he wouldn't do that no he wouldn't
doesn't matter we can't improve it if
he's dead
where you going i'm gonna uh i'm gonna
go look for him
good idea i'm gonna be at the precinct
give me a call if you hear from him or
get any kind of leads
all right you got it thanks
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the war on the street is uh with smoked
javier
you know maybe we should have why holmes
haven't you been to enough funerals
already no
i've been to too many it's all because
of these g-rocks yeah well they've been
to just as many because of us does that
mean that they should have killed me
they will now essay
might as well have a target to toot in
your head
it'll make it easier
we gotta find out who did this before
more people get smoked homes
oh maybe we should just do the smoking
before we get the smoking
do you mean to go kill the g-rocks
that's exactly what i mean
okay tell me the truth holmes did you
have anything to do with smoking javier
you left the party right before it
happened where'd you go
hey i went back to the crib oh yeah
maybe you were on that bridge holmes
oh man i went back to the crib man i
swear all right
get the who was on that bridge ask me a
gang war is the best thing that could
happen
how do you figure let them kill each
other it's a lot less trash we have to
deal with
they're people martin i get the feeling
they're a lot more human than you what's
your problem boudreau
you'd rather have him shooting at us
than at each other i'd rather not have
him shooting at all
nevertheless i think we should be
picking up as many k-streeters as
possible bring him in for questioning
why
see who did the g-rock how do you know
it was okay straight well who
else would it have been how about
another gang that didn't want the truth
to happen
or someone javier screwed on a drug deal
all right
fine check those things out too
why is this man giving the orders
charlie downtown wants us to supplement
the gang task force during this crisis
my orders are to follow his orders which
puts me in charge boudreau
you're gonna have a problem with that
why would i
because i figure your buddy mendes
probably planned this whole thing
and it's on that basis i intend to
proceed and it's on that basis i expect
you to proceed
okay folks you know your assignments
let's get back to work
where you wouldn't tell me to meet him
in your apartment
all right if anybody asks don't tell
them where i'm going you going somewhere
good man one more thing i got a feeling
about this detective martin
ditto i want you to check something
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don't move
grady you led me into a trap
you two needed to talk you wouldn't do
it any other way
you go what do you want talk you don't
need guns to talk
word is cops have a warrant off of my
arrest
you'd be a lot safer in jail than on the
streets g-rocks want you dead
well you don't think they can do me in
lock-up sorry joe's not for me right now
we talk we're out
you want to talk okay
we'll talk
let's start with why you got back in the
set you were free and clear man
i had no choice no choice then miguel
you had more choice than ever before in
your life
but you took the worst choice you could
i took the best choice i took the
opportunity to help my people
you call escalating these gang tensions
helping
we're trying to make peace the only way
it's gonna happen is if we do it
ourselves
not the cops not the government not the
city us
obviously you didn't do it here look at
what happened more bloodshed
well that's over here
we have an idea who did it yeah i hope
you're right
because the way things stand now you're
the prime suspect it might be somebody
you know
you're like who cop
really yeah you heard the men
i know there's no one from my set and i
doubt the g-rocks would do their own
who else has a reason how do you know it
was no one from your set
somebody could be lying cops don't want
us stronger
the cops don't want us bigger you know
it wasn't a cup
i'm a cop the apartment had nothing to
do with this
i didn't say the whole department i said
one cop
ah so you want me to find out which one
think about it patrol if a cop did do it
the only chance for peace on the streets
is for you to prove it
look i know you ain't exactly pleased
with me these days
i'm begging you one last favor look into
it
greater notifying me
what's your little baby
we've both been to enough funerals prove
me right and mine might not be the next
one
you two needed to talk was this way or
no way
sorry
as per your suggestion i've been
shadowing our good buddy detective
martin all day
yeah did you know that he runs a
printing business on the side
really yeah he works out of the precinct
copyright
he's been pretty very
interesting literature
what are you talking about this is what
i'm talking about
found in the trash can in the coffee
room you put it there so i threw one in
the trash that's why garbage like that
belong
you want to tell me where garbage that
prince garbage like that belongs what
are you trying to apply
how do you know i put it there because i
saw you put it there right after you
made about 50
copies you want to tell me why before or
after i read your rights
get out of my face maybe we shouldn't
bust him sarge maybe we just tell the
rest of the cops he's the one that
printed the flyer urging people to kill
them yeah maybe that's not such a bad
idea he wouldn't last the night you know
we really have very little to justify
and arrest
unless he confesses look i was never
really on the street so no cop's life
was ever in any real danger ah well i
feel better how about you sarge
i'm curious why would a man who wears a
badge
print crap that threatens the lives of
other guys who wear badges i did it to
protect them i did it to show the
bureaucrats downtown
the danger of letting that gang truce
happen or so you created a lie
it wasn't such a lie after all if that
truce had happened we would have been
the new targets
is that why you killed the g-rock what i
never killed anybody
come on mark you're wasting our time all
right i printed up a flyer i thought i
was doing the department some good
but there's a big difference between
printing some paper and killing a kid
in all my years on the force i never
drew my gun except a fire at a paper
target
i didn't kill anybody
detective
hey mcgill said you'd know how to find
him did you figure out how to kill the
g-rock
not yet i did find out who was behind
the flyer
i want to let him know that he was at
least partially right all right
uh the thing is i gave my word to miguel
you don't show up as a cop you gotta
lose the gun and badge
no way it's not gonna happen no you
gotta lose it or you miguel won't happen
whose side are you on i didn't think
there were sides
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isn't this the house where luis mcgill's
friend lived yeah
yeah uh miguel's kind of taken over his
buddy's
uh domain you know what i mean
andrew it's okay it's me grady who josie
hi
is he unarmed miguel
i give you my word the drill
do you remember andrea yeah
so what are you doing here i found out
who printed the flyer i thought you
might want to know
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now the streets are safe for cops again
but they're not too safe for me or my
homeboys look i'm working on that
michelle
the point is i understand what you're
trying to say uh
you turned to me you were wrong
partially
i'm trying to tell you i should have
listened
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all right all right can you do basement
okay andreas just be safe
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i'm packing a piece
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uh
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are you all right yeah it wasn't real no
no she's safe she's in the basement
she's okay
it's okay it's all over i couldn't let
them take another one
what happened
hey baby here we go
it's okay it's okay she's just getting
the baby
what's going on b it's a 25 30.
yeah it's at 25 30. so what javier vega
was killed with a 25 30.
so what are you trying to say pedro
after you convinced me that it wasn't
the case streeters i asked myself who
else had a motive
who else had something against the
g-rocks
g-rock's killed at least didn't they
andy
i can have a ballistics test run on this
rifle to see if it matches the one that
killed javier
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they killed the father of my child
they killed the only man i ever loved
until miguel and i don't
know miguel somebody had to teach them a
lesson
you backed down last year and what now
you're trying to make peace with them i
was trying to do some good
letting those killers go is not good
these history arrest all the others
attempted murder
miguel take the baby don't do this
i'm sorry i have to do this no don't let
him take my meat
let me get it andrea
they're under arrest for the murder of
javier vega
go first they take away her father and
now they take away her mother
no you took away her mother she needs
parents
my mother and me we've got my little
hermano fernando
good for him to have a little sister
you'd do that for me
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for luis
for the baby
take her outside me to her right
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you did what you had to padreal yeah
maybe some good can still come out of
this
i'll be you sure it's gonna be around
here this is the neighborhood to hang
out in
okay
there he is that's him all right i got
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him
huh you want me huh you want me huh [ __ ]
[ __ ] whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
yeah what is this man i didn't do
nothing yo b he didn't do nothing
you the new g-rock leader am i under
arrest or what huh
just make sure you don't bump his head
when you put him in the car okay got
nothing on me man i got nothing
nothing on you huh nothing
oops
man this is one of the dudes to try to
kill you what the hell is this man
cops and a g-rock they're here to assist
yes
i gotta agree miguel our two worst
enemies in our crib
come on
what the hell is this crap what are you
crazy woodrow huh you bring me to get
smoked
no i'm bringing you here to listen your
homie here has something to tell you
what is this jesse
he didn't do javier it don't matter
which case streeter did it
miguel has to take a pill man an eye for
an eye no case treater did it
then who did huh santa claus tell him
it was some chica when we went to do
miguel
i heard her admit it i didn't know you
didn't force him to lie huh i mean make
a deal or something
no deals no lie
the woman's man was killed by the
g-rocks last year it's true man
so what you want from me peace
but after what he and the homies done to
you huh
you can still tie up with us always
forgotten holmes
if you sit down and talk truth with me
what now i can't think of a better time
fatto
you want me to sit in the middle of the
k street crib alone
you're not going to be here long i'm
idiot
if we wanted to kill you you would have
been dead a long time ago
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you
hey mckenna how are you doing hello i'm
doing great have you seen gradients
what's uh
yeah he's in the background i think he's
waiting for you
oh my birthday's not for three months no
but your parole ended at midnight
last yeah
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you are now a law abiding yeah and the
law says
that uh anyone under age can't drink
alcohol so they're
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speech speech i'm thinking come on come
on you've never been in a loss for words
oh okay no no
there's something i want to say yes i
want to thank this man for keeping me
straight
and for for teaching me so much he's
like he's not too bad for him
nah dude a dude with the badge
we go i'm damn proud of you
cheers cheers
time for good news
case three boys have been running
without his top man for too long
but that's not the case anymore
because he's back in the set
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oh
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bye
can i have a everybody's attention
please
thank you this is sergeant robert martin
from the youth gang task force
he's got some rather ominous news
gentlemen ladies
ominous is a good word for it it looks
like our streets are about to become
even more like bosnia
word is there been some major powwows
between the k-streeters and the g-rocks
i thought they got along like pork and
matzah well apparently that's about to
change
word is they're talking truce
what's so ominous about that sounds like
a little piece would be a good thing
it might be if the violence were to stop
but our information is
that if they stop the brutality against
each other they're gonna turn it on john
q public
or on us how do you know the violence
isn't just gonna stop altogether
for a number of reasons not the least of
which is
they've started to advertise kill the
enemy
kill the police next thing you know
they'll be taking out a billboard at 7th
and main
this doesn't fit excuse me
it's not like either of the gangs to put
out anything like that
no offense sergeant but uh why don't you
leave the gang expertise to the gang
task force
fine why are you here talking us
to warn you warn us of what
be extra careful out there folks watch
out for ambushes
never go in without a backup and always
wear your vest
always
why do i feel like like luis is looking
down on us from heaven and he's cursing
aye he's probably happy as you better
his best headphone
and some stranger right i hope
did you know that you have the most
beautiful madre
on the planet where else do you think
she gets her good looks from
definitely not from luis hi
do you think that he would approve of
this of us
miguel i can't think of anyone else he'd
want more to be the father of his baby
well er who said anything about father
did i say father or even husband
you just slow down singing like that you
hear me
okay we could go slow or we could go
fast
either way we end up at the same finish
line
what makes you so sure because i usually
get what i want
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uh they're um for me
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we'll uh continue this conversation
when i get back
be careful again
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i already lost one man to those colors
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wow
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my hey charlie
oh stay away from it adam stay away from
what that flyer that gangs
come on i know that look you want to do
your own digging
i know most of these kids from both sets
charlie i mean some of them since they
were born
flyers aren't their style man if i tell
you to stay out of it
you're only gonna get into it anyway so
how about i just don't say
anything
man don't you get it it's a trap why
don't you think they want us to come
with their weapons
it's a piece party stupid
you don't go make peace putting a gun at
someone
hey okay so we go to this party on the
g-rock turf
without our cats and they smoke all of
us without even breaking a sweat
they gave us a word
man you take g-rock's word i say we go
locked and loaded
yeah you say we do some g-rock hunting
man don't you get it
it's like one of the mergers the man
always does
ass g-rocks
together
yeah we would
we'd rule
but not to sell stuff to clean things up
to set things straight
you like we'd have a chance
you're right we wouldn't have a chance
holmes
neither would the g-rocks but
together together we can do anything we
want
yeah what about the man cops can't do
nothing for us
city can't do nothing for us
the only ones that can do something for
us
is us
want your kid brother to grow up scared
like you did his only hope to get out is
in jail
or in a pine box i'd rather that than
risk us getting taken out by the g-rocks
at this so-called peace party
nobody's taking out nobody homes i talk
to javier a lot
i know him i trust him he trusts me
he trusts me
this could be only chance man
okay so we go to the party we go unarmed
okay who's with me
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so in the meantime what are we gonna do
tonight
man oh i smell a party or something
really like to walk too close to the
cliff don't you my man
what do you want we're unofficially we
want to talk
talk talk of a what about your set
call it community relations
why me because you're the oldest og
no not anymore
you're saying somebody's coming and
taking over let's say the uh
set took a vote
oh how exciting who won prom queen this
year
hey clavo where'd you go essay
there you go
officers i'd like you to meet elder og
oh i'm sorry i forgot
you already met
hello
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now what the hell are you doing here and
why are you wearing colors again man i'm
back in my set when i'm needed
look you took a huge step forward now
you're taking ten giant steps backward
why
staying away from the set was the
condition of my parole my parole
that's right your parole is over because
i spent all that time steering you in
the right direction
this isn't about you homies about me
withdrawal i'm talking about you
i thought you'd gone straight i have
gone straight it doesn't look that way
to me
why because i'm back in my set and gang
banging
doesn't necessarily equal crime then why
join the gang i don't know why'd you
join one
uh-huh who do you think the cops are oh
so we're a gang now we're the new enemy
huh is that why they're trying to kill
us i don't know what you're talking
about
you don't i'm talking about this
i've never seen this before you sure
miguel
my boys did not put this aside and i
doubt the g-rocks did either oh and how
can you be sure of that because
the language is all wrong holmes when
you want to put the word on the street
you got to speak the language of the
street who the hell else would be behind
it
like i said there's a third game
oh yeah why would the department do this
sir that'd be suicide
remember some paranoid 5-0 put out the
fire of the troops
i don't buy it miguel why because the
cops are the good guys
and we're the bad guys see that's right
all right yeah something like that
you gotta stop seeing things so black
and white hey don't you walk away from
me
you owe me a hell of a lot more respect
than that you gotta give it
to get it like you always say
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sarge where they get virgin wool i'm
trying to do some work
from ugly sheep uh
do you ever take anything seriously i
try not to
that's what keeps me sane maybe you
should find a new form of
therapy whoa somebody got up on the
wrong side of the badge this morning
it's bugging you
yeah this is a mystery to me i have
never understood what the deal is
between you and miguel how did you meet
he was released from the farm to my
supervision two years ago
why you're not a parole officer
you tell jokes to keep sane i try
another approach
like what uh busting gang bangers and
then adopting them
doesn't it ever bother you that all we
do is bust them
and put them in jail for a while until
we let them out
then we get a chance to bust them again
that's an awfully depressing way of
looking at things
that is someone's got to break the cycle
someone's got to try to save one every
now and then
and you thought you'd save one with
miguel yeah i worked with him for a
couple of years and
got him a legit job i thought finally
he'd gotten on the right path
cancel any plans you got for tonight
guys we're about to do some overtime we
got a report there's a peace party
happening tonight k-streeters on g-rock
turf
sounds pretty incendiary that's the
understatement of the year we're putting
every man we can muster in the area if a
war starts i want it stopped
before it becomes a bloodbath
okay
do you have to go tonight
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i had to go back our heart is important
to me
i'm trying to help it you know
can you trust the g-rocks
we have to
they killed louise began
we killed a lot of their homies it'll go
on like that forever
if we don't stop it so why do you have
to be the one to do it
i'm the only case student they trust why
because i saved one of their homies when
i bought it last month
so so they think i don't want them dead
or i wouldn't let them get smoked
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i love you
don't you dare get me
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old man walks into a bar starts bragging
about his brand new top of the line
hearing aid 2500 bucks the bartender
says you're kidding 2500
what kind is it no man says over half
past four
rothman i am armed
let me go
nothing
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meet the cash twitters
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the shooter he's on the bridge
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oh
check out the bridge miguel the bridge
the coroner says javier's wound was
cleaned probably from a high-powered
rifle
25 30 maybe now the wound and the
trajectory imply
that the bullet came from that bridge
let me guess nobody heard anything
nobody saw anything
surprise surprise any of the homeboys
have a guess who did it
i haven't guessed all right
g-rock sink the k-street who's this you
know what this means
a gang and first prize goes the man who
kills
the k-streeter leader
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any luck finding mcgillian no i was
hoping he'd come here or contacted one
of you
no i haven't heard him no do you think
he's in any danger
she rocks when i'm dead what
why they think he killed their leader
nah he wouldn't do that no he wouldn't
doesn't matter we can't improve it if
he's dead
where you going i'm gonna uh i'm gonna
go look for him
good idea i'm gonna be at the precinct
give me a call if you hear from him or
get any kind of leads
all right you got it thanks
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the war on the street is uh with smoked
javier
you know maybe we should have why holmes
haven't you been to enough funerals
already no
i've been to too many it's all because
of these g-rocks yeah well they've been
to just as many because of us does that
mean that they should have killed me
they will now essay
might as well have a target to toot in
your head
it'll make it easier
we gotta find out who did this before
more people get smoked homes
oh maybe we should just do the smoking
before we get the smoking
do you mean to go kill the g-rocks
that's exactly what i mean
okay tell me the truth holmes did you
have anything to do with smoking javier
you left the party right before it
happened where'd you go
hey i went back to the crib oh yeah
maybe you were on that bridge holmes
oh man i went back to the crib man i
swear all right
get the who was on that bridge ask me a
gang war is the best thing that could
happen
how do you figure let them kill each
other it's a lot less trash we have to
deal with
they're people martin i get the feeling
they're a lot more human than you what's
your problem boudreau
you'd rather have him shooting at us
than at each other i'd rather not have
him shooting at all
nevertheless i think we should be
picking up as many k-streeters as
possible bring him in for questioning
why
see who did the g-rock how do you know
it was okay straight well who
else would it have been how about
another gang that didn't want the truth
to happen
or someone javier screwed on a drug deal
all right
fine check those things out too
why is this man giving the orders
charlie downtown wants us to supplement
the gang task force during this crisis
my orders are to follow his orders which
puts me in charge boudreau
you're gonna have a problem with that
why would i
because i figure your buddy mendes
probably planned this whole thing
and it's on that basis i intend to
proceed and it's on that basis i expect
you to proceed
okay folks you know your assignments
let's get back to work
where you wouldn't tell me to meet him
in your apartment
all right if anybody asks don't tell
them where i'm going you going somewhere
good man one more thing i got a feeling
about this detective martin
ditto i want you to check something
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don't move
grady you led me into a trap
you two needed to talk you wouldn't do
it any other way
you go what do you want talk you don't
need guns to talk
word is cops have a warrant off of my
arrest
you'd be a lot safer in jail than on the
streets g-rocks want you dead
well you don't think they can do me in
lock-up sorry joe's not for me right now
we talk we're out
you want to talk okay
we'll talk
let's start with why you got back in the
set you were free and clear man
i had no choice no choice then miguel
you had more choice than ever before in
your life
but you took the worst choice you could
i took the best choice i took the
opportunity to help my people
you call escalating these gang tensions
helping
we're trying to make peace the only way
it's gonna happen is if we do it
ourselves
not the cops not the government not the
city us
obviously you didn't do it here look at
what happened more bloodshed
well that's over here
we have an idea who did it yeah i hope
you're right
because the way things stand now you're
the prime suspect it might be somebody
you know
you're like who cop
really yeah you heard the men
i know there's no one from my set and i
doubt the g-rocks would do their own
who else has a reason how do you know it
was no one from your set
somebody could be lying cops don't want
us stronger
the cops don't want us bigger you know
it wasn't a cup
i'm a cop the apartment had nothing to
do with this
i didn't say the whole department i said
one cop
ah so you want me to find out which one
think about it patrol if a cop did do it
the only chance for peace on the streets
is for you to prove it
look i know you ain't exactly pleased
with me these days
i'm begging you one last favor look into
it
greater notifying me
what's your little baby
we've both been to enough funerals prove
me right and mine might not be the next
one
you two needed to talk was this way or
no way
sorry
as per your suggestion i've been
shadowing our good buddy detective
martin all day
yeah did you know that he runs a
printing business on the side
really yeah he works out of the precinct
copyright
he's been pretty very
interesting literature
what are you talking about this is what
i'm talking about
found in the trash can in the coffee
room you put it there so i threw one in
the trash that's why garbage like that
belong
you want to tell me where garbage that
prince garbage like that belongs what
are you trying to apply
how do you know i put it there because i
saw you put it there right after you
made about 50
copies you want to tell me why before or
after i read your rights
get out of my face maybe we shouldn't
bust him sarge maybe we just tell the
rest of the cops he's the one that
printed the flyer urging people to kill
them yeah maybe that's not such a bad
idea he wouldn't last the night you know
we really have very little to justify
and arrest
unless he confesses look i was never
really on the street so no cop's life
was ever in any real danger ah well i
feel better how about you sarge
i'm curious why would a man who wears a
badge
print crap that threatens the lives of
other guys who wear badges i did it to
protect them i did it to show the
bureaucrats downtown
the danger of letting that gang truce
happen or so you created a lie
it wasn't such a lie after all if that
truce had happened we would have been
the new targets
is that why you killed the g-rock what i
never killed anybody
come on mark you're wasting our time all
right i printed up a flyer i thought i
was doing the department some good
but there's a big difference between
printing some paper and killing a kid
in all my years on the force i never
drew my gun except a fire at a paper
target
i didn't kill anybody
detective
hey mcgill said you'd know how to find
him did you figure out how to kill the
g-rock
not yet i did find out who was behind
the flyer
i want to let him know that he was at
least partially right all right
uh the thing is i gave my word to miguel
you don't show up as a cop you gotta
lose the gun and badge
no way it's not gonna happen no you
gotta lose it or you miguel won't happen
whose side are you on i didn't think
there were sides
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isn't this the house where luis mcgill's
friend lived yeah
yeah uh miguel's kind of taken over his
buddy's
uh domain you know what i mean
andrew it's okay it's me grady who josie
hi
is he unarmed miguel
i give you my word the drill
do you remember andrea yeah
so what are you doing here i found out
who printed the flyer i thought you
might want to know
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now the streets are safe for cops again
but they're not too safe for me or my
homeboys look i'm working on that
michelle
the point is i understand what you're
trying to say uh
you turned to me you were wrong
partially
i'm trying to tell you i should have
listened
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all right all right can you do basement
okay andreas just be safe
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i'm packing a piece
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are you all right yeah it wasn't real no
no she's safe she's in the basement
she's okay
it's okay it's all over i couldn't let
them take another one
what happened
hey baby here we go
it's okay it's okay she's just getting
the baby
what's going on b it's a 25 30.
yeah it's at 25 30. so what javier vega
was killed with a 25 30.
so what are you trying to say pedro
after you convinced me that it wasn't
the case streeters i asked myself who
else had a motive
who else had something against the
g-rocks
g-rock's killed at least didn't they
andy
i can have a ballistics test run on this
rifle to see if it matches the one that
killed javier
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they killed the father of my child
they killed the only man i ever loved
until miguel and i don't
know miguel somebody had to teach them a
lesson
you backed down last year and what now
you're trying to make peace with them i
was trying to do some good
letting those killers go is not good
these history arrest all the others
attempted murder
miguel take the baby don't do this
i'm sorry i have to do this no don't let
him take my meat
let me get it andrea
they're under arrest for the murder of
javier vega
go first they take away her father and
now they take away her mother
no you took away her mother she needs
parents
my mother and me we've got my little
hermano fernando
good for him to have a little sister
you'd do that for me
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for luis
for the baby
take her outside me to her right
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you did what you had to padreal yeah
maybe some good can still come out of
this
i'll be you sure it's gonna be around
here this is the neighborhood to hang
out in
okay
there he is that's him all right i got
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him
huh you want me huh you want me huh [ __ ]
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yeah what is this man i didn't do
nothing yo b he didn't do nothing
you the new g-rock leader am i under
arrest or what huh
just make sure you don't bump his head
when you put him in the car okay got
nothing on me man i got nothing
nothing on you huh nothing
oops
man this is one of the dudes to try to
kill you what the hell is this man
cops and a g-rock they're here to assist
yes
i gotta agree miguel our two worst
enemies in our crib
come on
what the hell is this crap what are you
crazy woodrow huh you bring me to get
smoked
no i'm bringing you here to listen your
homie here has something to tell you
what is this jesse
he didn't do javier it don't matter
which case streeter did it
miguel has to take a pill man an eye for
an eye no case treater did it
then who did huh santa claus tell him
it was some chica when we went to do
miguel
i heard her admit it i didn't know you
didn't force him to lie huh i mean make
a deal or something
no deals no lie
the woman's man was killed by the
g-rocks last year it's true man
so what you want from me peace
but after what he and the homies done to
you huh
you can still tie up with us always
forgotten holmes
if you sit down and talk truth with me
what now i can't think of a better time
fatto
you want me to sit in the middle of the
k street crib alone
you're not going to be here long i'm
idiot
if we wanted to kill you you would have
been dead a long time ago
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you