[Sighing, Moaning]
[ Chuckling ]
It has come to our attention that Your Honor, while in private practice,
previously represented the town of Seal Beach...
in their stop-work suit against the police department of Seal Beach.
We believe this disqualifies you from hearing this case,
and we, therefore, move for a temporay suspension until it's investigated.
Mr. Adler, this is a most unusual motion.
Nonetheless, Your Honor,
we feel our client deserves evey fairness afforded under the law.
I hope this is not in anyway designed to delay the testimony of Eduardo Ruiz.
We will recess until 9:00 a.m. on Monday morning,
and I will see counsel in my chambers.
[Flores] They are coming this way.
[ Speaking English ] They are passing me now.
Boy, there's a lot of them.
Listen, would you mind if we walked back to the hotel today?
- Walk back? - Yeah.
[Flores ] They're not getting into the car.
What are they doing?
They're arguing or something.
[ Ruiz ] It's two blocks. I could use the fresh air.
I've been stuck in that piece of shit hotel room for two weeks.
I don't give a fuck. Let's just stop standing around.
- I want to walk 'cause I want to walk, not 'cause he wants to walk. - Let's walk.
I like that. Okay, we'll walk.
[Flores] They're going past me.
I-I-I do not know. I think they're going back to the courthouse.
This could be the last chance to do this! Get out of the car and shoot him in the head!
[Ray] You're a fucking big man?
I'm a real fucking man. I don't fucking deal drugs to little fucking kids, you--
- [Ruiz] You think you're a bad ass? - [Ray] I am a badass!
[Agents Shouting] Move, move! Get down!
[ Gunfire, Shouting]
- [Agents ] Go, go, go! We need an ambulance. - Go, go, go.
Ray. Ray! Ray! Wait a minute, Ray!
[ Siren Approaching ]
Manolito, Manolito, Manolito.
[ Gunshot ]
[ Spanish ]
[Horn Honking]
[Door Opens ]
Sory about the other night.
Me too.
[ Crying]
[Brakes Screeching]
Thank you for coming down here, though I suspect it has been a pointless journey.
- Why would you say that? - Bueno, pues, I hear these stories.
Your husband in jail, his business in chaos,
various people fighting over the scraps.
My husband was a victim of an informer in your organization, not in ours.
That is not true, Mrs. Ayala.
Your route has been compromised.
Perhaps it is time for me to deal with other distributors in California.
- I don't think you're gonna do that. - You don't?
- No. - [ Laughs ]
My husband was working on something he called the Project for the Children.
- Are you aware of this? - I don't know. Perhaps I remember something.
If you want to smuggle narcotics in Senor Espastico Jacobo,
that is nothing new, Senora.
No, not in. The doll is cocaine.
High impact, pressure-molded cocaine.
It's odorless, undetectable by the dogs.
- [ Sniffs ] - Undetectable by anyone.
I don't believe you, senora.
[ Spanish ]
I'm six months pregnant.
I won't do it.
- Then we don't have a deal. - Yeah, right.
We don't have a deal.
Sory to wasteyour time, Mr. Obregon.
Okay.
Okay, okay.
[ Snorting ]
- That's good coke. - It should be. It's yours.
I want our debt forgiven,
I want to be the exclusive distributor ofObregon brothers' cocaine in the United States,
and I want the principal witness against my husband, Eduardo Ruiz, killed.
Have you told the complete truth during this interview?
Yes.
- Alex? - Solid.
- That's good shit,Javier. - You know, Javier,
they dump those cell phones evey 24 hours.
Yes, but I have a contact at MexTel...
who can get me his new E.S.N. in 12 hours.
That's good to know.
[ Sighs ]
So, now that you have what you want,
Iet's talk about how I get what I want.
Oh, you don't have to wory about that.
You're not gonna have any problems there.
Yeah, but first let's talk about what precautions you're taking to protect yourself.
You wory about getting me what I want.
I'll wory about myself.
Oye, Javier, you should feel good about this.
I feel like a traitor.
Helena Ayala just left Club Platinum, the Obregon brothers'place in Tijuana.
- Yeah? - She got stopped at the border.
She was clean, and she's back in San Diego now.
Okay.
[Phone Rings ]
- Hello? - Robert, it's Jeff Sheridan.
- D-Did I wake you? I'm sory. - No, it's okay.
General Salazar has been arrested.
It turns out he has been working for Porfirio Madrigal...
and the Juarez cartel the entire time.
That is why he was tying to push the Obregons out of Tijuana...
- so he and Madrigal could move in. - What?
I thought Madrigal was dead. I thought that had been verified.
[Sheridan] Apparentlynot. It is a shitstorm here,
but the D.E.A. supplied the information and was part ofthe sting.
So, maybe we can spin this a little, but I don't know what to tell people.
-So, when are you coming back? -I'll ty to get there as soon as I can.
- [ Sheridan ] Yeah, okay, but-- - Robert.
Robert? Robert?
I gotta cal I you back.
- [ Sheridan ] What-- - [ Disconnects Line ]
- [ Barbara ] My Leica's missing. - She got the video camera too.
At least we know she's still alive. Where are you going?
Pawn shops open in an hour. Ten minutes after that, she'll be at her dealer.
If I can find him, I should be able to find her.
[Door Opens, Closes]
[Teacher] Although ser and estar both mean "to be, "
they have veryspecific uses.
May I help you, sir?
[Teacher] Excuse me!
Seth has to be excused. He's going on a field trip.
I can't believe you brought my daughter to this place.
Whoa, whoa. Why don't you just back the fuck up, man?
"To this place"?
What is that shit?
Okay, right now, all over this great nation of ours,
100,000 white people from the suburbs are cruising around downtown...
asking evey black person, "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?"
Think about the effect that has on the psyche of a black person, on their possibilities.
I-- God, I guaranteeyou, you bring 100,000 black people intoyour neighborhood,
and they're asking evey white person, "You got any drugs? Know where I can score some?"
Within a day, eveyone would be selling--your friends, their kids.
Here's why: It's an unbeatable market force, man. It's a 300% markup value.
You can go out on the street and make $500 in two hours,
come back and do whatever you want with the rest of your day.
You're telling me that white people would still be going to law school?
[ Knocks ]
- What do you want? - I'm looking for my daughter.
Caroline.
She's been here.
This is a business, man. Why don't you get the fuck out of here?
I need to find my daughter, all right? I'll pay you.
All right. Okay. Hold on.
Who in the fuck do you think you are? Where the fuck do you think you are?
- Why the fuck shouldn't I just putyour ass in a Dumpster? - I got money.
- I got money! - I got $1,000 in mywallet.
- It's for you. - If I want your money, man, I will take your money.
[ Panting ]
Just tell me where my daughter is.
Please? Please?
Don't do that shit again.
Look, Jesus, man, I'm telling you, don't do this vigilante thing.
Either the cops are gonna find her, or she's gonna call you.
Okay?
I promise.
[ Beeps ]
Ana.
[Seth ] I know she's in there. Just let me talk to her.
Look, I know she's in there, man!
No, I fucking know she's in there!
Jesus Christ!
I-I haven't touched her.
You get the fuck out of here right now.
Hi.
Hi, Daddy.
Hi, sweetheart.
[ Cying ]
[ Crying Continues ]
[ Woman On TV Chattering, Indistinct ]
[Agent ] Hey, good morning, Eddie.
- Good morning. - Big day.
You're a star. [ Snickering ]
Why don't you go take a shower, man? You smell.
[Knocking]
- Who is it? - [Man ] It's the Mafia.
- I've got his breakfast. - [Agent] Coming.
- So who's this going to? - [Ruiz] Over here.
- Ooh. - Fuck off.
- Relax, Eddie. - Yeah, where has the love gone? Good-bye.
You know, you're gonna be testifying for about ten days.
We could just decide to stop feeding your ass.
You expect me to be grateful for spending the rest of my life looking over my shoulder?
Wow, that's-- that's heavy, Eddie.
Can't you for one second imagine that none of this had happened, that my drugs had gone through?
What would be the harm?
Huh? What would be the harm?
A few people get high who are getting high anyway.
Your partner's still alive.
We don't have to have breakfast together.
Don't you see this means nothing?
Your whole life is pointless.
You're really breaking my heart.
- The worst part about you, Monty-- - "Monty"? [ Laughing ]
The worst part about you, Monty,
is you realize the futility of what you're doing, and you do it anyway.
Wish you could see how transparent you are.
This food tastes like shit.
So, take your stank ass and go get a shower already.
Let me tell you something.
You only got to me because you were tipped off by theJ uarez cartel...
who's tying to break into Tijuana.
- You are helping them. Uh-huh. - Mmm.
So, remember, you work for a drug dealer too, Monty.
- [Ruiz] Fuck me. - [Knocking]
- Who is it? - [Man ] Breakfast.
Hurry up. It's getting cold.
Okay. One second.
- Get the fuck down! - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Get down! Get the fuck down! - Hey, hey, I'm on your side!
- What the fuck? - Oh, shit. Call an ambulance.
- Call an ambulance! Fuck! - [ Agent ] Palms up. Spread your damn hands out.
- Shit! Eddie! - [ Groaning ]
Hold on.
Oh, shit! Hury up with that ambulance!
Shit. Hold on. Hold on.
Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the juy,
because of the sudden death of Eduardo Ruiz,
the people have determined that we cannot continue our case against Carl Ayala.
Oh! Oh!
Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.
- [Knocking] - Yeah?
Hi.
I got a copy of your speech.
It's fantastic.
So, Robert, my genuine thanks.
You're my choice. You're gonna be great.
The president's sorryhe hasn't been able to spend more time with you.
After the press conference, he wants to really sit down.
Oh, and I got to the Post too.
Don't worry about that thing with your daughter. It's not news.
They're willing to treat it as a family matter, personal matter.
Anyway, if it came out, we could turn it into a qualification.
"I've been in the trenches of the drug war.
I've seen the face ofthe enemy. Et cetera, et cetera. "
[ Woman ] A sterling reputation and close friend of the president,
[ Woman ] A sterling reputation and close friend ofthe president,
recently confirmed into the Office of National Drug Control Policy,
our new drug czar, Robert Hudson Wakefield.
[ Camera Shutters Clicking]
The war on drugs is a war that we have to win,
and a war that we can win.
We have to win this war to save our county's most precious resource--
our children.
Sixty-eight million children have been targeted...
by those who perpetrate this war...
and protecting these children must be priority number one.
There has been progress, and there has been failure.
But where we have fallen short,
I see not a problem,
I see an opportunity.
An opportunity...
to correct the mistakes... ofthe past...
while laying a foundation for the future.
This takes...
not only new ideas...
but perseverance.
This takes not only... resources, but courage.
This takes...
not only... government,
but families.
I've laid out a--
I've laid out a ten-point plan that--
I can't do this.
If there is a war on drugs,
then many of our family members are the enemy.
And I don't know how you wage war on your own family.
[ Reporters Clamoring ]
National Airport, please.
Hey, Arnie, it's Saturday. You're working too hard, my friend.
Carl, I'm runni ng late. I 'm com i ng right over.
No, no, no, don't bother, Arnie. Let me askyou something.
When were you gonna tell me about the $3 million...
we got in from San Francisco two days after I was arrested?
Um... I was waiting for the right time.
Oh. You didn't think you could trust my wife with that information?
I didn't want to risk it.
That could have been frozen along with eveything else.
You had it all figured out, didn'tyou?
You were gonna move into my house,
raise my kids, sleep in my bed...
with my wife.
Sounds like a nice plan.
Oh, is it insane?
Just think about it, okay? Ifl was gonna rip you off,
why wouldn't I just leave town after Ruizwas killed?
Why would I sit next to you in court and listen to a dismissal?
Let me ask you something. You think there's a difference between a reason and an excuse?
'Cause I don't.
- Good-bye, Arnie. - Carl--
Carl?
Come on, sweetheart.
Come outside. Eveyone's waiting for you.
- Who was that? - Arnie. He's, uh--
- He can't make it to the barbecue. - Oh.
- Come on. - Hi, Helena.
- [ Carl] Hello. - It's a great party.
- Who is he, a friend of yours? - Oh, I'm a nobody.
I'm the nobody who arrested you.
- You're-- - [ Laughs ] How you doing?
- What are you doing in my house? - Oh,just looking around.
You got nice shit. Drug money buys a lot of nice shit, Carl.
Listen, you don't want to talk that way in my house.
You're fucking a murderer, Carl.
- Fuck you and fuck your wife. - Hey, you can't be in here.
- [ Helena ] Get him out. - You put me out, Carl.
- I'm a cop. - I don't care.
- [Helena ] Get out. - Hey! Hey, hey!
- Is that what you wanted? - A nice little bedtime stoy, Helena.
Tell him how you murdered my partner!
- You got the wrong-- - His name was Ray Castro, Helena!
Ray Castro! You remember that!
- What's his problem? - The carpet, sweetheart.
- No, no, no, I got it. - I got it.
- Where did he come from? - Outside, honey.
What do you want to do, man?
[ Chuckles ]
[ Caroline's Voice ] On the good days, I feel like I get it.
Like it all makes sense.
I can stay in the moment.
I don't have to control eveything in the future...
and I believe eveything is gonna work out fine.
O-On the bad days,
I just want to grab the phone andstart dialing numbers.
I want to pull my hair...
and run through the streets screaming.
[ Sighs ]
But thanks to the people I've met in these rooms,
like Margaret and Jim...
and Sarah,
um...
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make it...
through today.
[Applause]
Would you like to share?
Uh... [ Clears Throat ] my name is Robert.
My wife Barbara and I...
are here to support our daughter, Caroline,
and we're hear to listen.
[Crowd Cheering, Whistling]