That party we just threw, there were over a thousand people there, bro.
No, way. Oh, my God I can't wait to get up there.
Yeah. You know I'm hooking you up, too.
Just help me move a little bit of candy,
I will put some serious paper in your pocket, man.
Oh, speaking of, I need a solid,
I'm bringing in about two boats to unload over the holiday break.
Two boats, man, that's like two thousand pills.
Okay, another seven Gs is what it is, all right?
And some of that could be yours.
No, I'm good, man.
Look, man, you don't got to do anything.
I just gotta ship the box to your house, okay?
I can't fly with this stuff.
- I don't know, bro.
Come on, it's for like a day until I get there.
You can even... You can even have some.
I know you said Amanda was dying to roll.
I'll talk to you later about it, all right.
- No, look, I'll text you the tracking number. - No, no, no, don't.
Hey,
why don't you answer the phone?
I was Skyping with Craig.
- Jason. - Sorry.
Hello. Hi, Maggie.
No, no, Nick said that the layoffs weren't happening in our division.
Mike, I understand, but the bottom line is
I need to buy all four rigs.
Anything less than that, there's no point.
I may as well just keep leasing.
Well, that's what they do.
Those haulers, they get together once a year,
then they raise the rates before the gas prices.
They do because they know they can get away with it.
See the contract?
Yeah, it's real. I just don't know when it's going to start.
How much money am I going to have to borrow?
All right, let's move some equity around.
I've been rolling the dice my whole life, might as well do it again.
I gotta go.
Solid week, boys, thank you.
Figured Analisa would have you putting up ribbons and balloons.
Oh, I'm still out getting Izzy’s cake.
Good luck with that.
I need it, have a good weekend, Wayne.
See you.
You know there's no O.T. unless it's authorized.
Not looking for O.T., sir, it's got a broken pallet,
I'm getting my bags out of the weather,
it's going to rain tonight.
Good heads up.
Oh, sir, I got this, seriously,
I don't want you to get dirty.
It's all right. Let's do it together.
I'm John Matthews.
Daniel James.
Good to meet you, Daniel.
Don't worry about it.
How long you been working here?
You mean working for you? About three weeks now.
Why, you thinkin' about givin' me that raise already?
- Fat chance, buddy.
- You gotta try, right? - Gotta give it a whirl.
I have a package for Jason Collins.
Uh, yeah, that's me.
All right, sign right there.
All right, thanks.
Have a good one.
Thanks, man.
Search warrant! DEA!
- Open the door.
- DEA!
Runner, back fence!
Freeze!
Get down!
Get on the ground!
Cupcakes.
Oh, thank you, that looks so good.
I love you.
Hi, baby.
You having fun on your birthday, Izzy?
Mmm-hmm.
Hey, Sylvie, hey let me call you back. I'm... What?
They tell you anything?
Just to wait here until we're called.
They're treating him like he's some kind of major criminal, John.
All right, we'll straighten it out.
Is he under my last name or yours?
You know he changed it to mine.
Why are you even asking?
Hi, my son, Jason Collins is...
Take a seat and wait to be called.
Can you at least tell me where he is?
Have you noticed anything different?
Like what?
With him, who he's been hanging with,
anything out of the ordinary.
No, John, I haven't noticed anything.
Oh, this is such bullshit.
I mean, he is a good kid.
Mike's sending a lawyer.
Good, you can afford it.
Didn't you quit?
Mr. and Mrs. Matthews?
Yeah, thanks for coming.
Where's Jason?
They're moving him from his holding cell to a courtroom.
He's scheduled to be arraigned this evening
that could take a little while.
That's all right, leave him in jail for a little bit,
scare the hell out of him.
No one's trying to scare your son.
This is a federal case.
The amount of MDMA, or Ecstasy, they found
means they've charged Jason with distribution of narcotics.
Jason said that a friend asked to have the drugs sent to the house.
What friend?
A friend by the name of Craig Johnson.
That's his best friend.
Christ, I have known Craig since he was little.
Mr. Johnson was arrested trying to mail the pills
and he agreed to work with the government.
What do you mean "agreed to work with the government"?
Both Craig and Jason are being charged
under federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
These laws were designed to ensnare high-level
drug traffickers to get them to snitch on other traffickers
in order to reduce their own sentence. However,
most of the convictions,
over half have been first-time offenders like your son.
So Craig is implicating Jason.
Yes. In order to reduce his sentence,
Craig told the DEA
that Jason agreed to have the pills sent to the house
- and also has agreed to help sell them. - What?
Now, Jason has denied both of these accusations.
- Do you believe him? - Of course I believe him.
He would never be involved in anything like this.
Are we talking about probation here or could he actually go to jail for this?
The mandatory minimum laws are very simple.
The amount of jail time depends upon the amount of drugs.
There are no mitigating factors.
What does that mean?
Jason is facing a mandatory minimum sentence
- of ten years in prison. - Ten years?
Are you out of your mind?
He just got accepted to college.
John, tell him.
Oh, God.
Jason.
United States v. Jason Collins.
How could they deny him bail?
He's never even been arrested before.
You want to know the truth?
I knew something like this was gonna happen.
I figured if I just got him off to college, but no.
Jason has no goddamn idea what real responsibility means.
Especially with Sylvie babying him all the time.
And when your own son
doesn't want to have anything to do with you anymore...
- That's not true. - That's not true.
That's not true at all.
It's just really hard for kids who go through divorces.
It was... I acted out when my father left.
Mmm-hmm. Yeah, well, he's not a kid anymore.
Not while he's sitting in that cell.
Are the sprinklers on?
Does everything have to go to shit?
Here's the situation. It's very simple.
You help them make trafficking arrests, and they will
reduce your sentence from 10 years to two. One suspended.
I told you, I don't know anyone else. Just Craig.
Bullshit.
Your mom told me she smelled marijuana on you before.
Where'd you get that from, huh?
Jason, this is serious.
Come on, honey, you gotta tell us who sold you the pot.
I didn't... I didn't have to buy it.
Amanda's dad grows it.
He has a medicinal license.
It's legal. We just took some.
I just wanted to try it.
Okay, are there any of your friends who
do drugs who might be interested in selling?
What, like setting someone up? Like Craig did to me?
No way. No way.
You better wake up.
You better wake up right now 'cause this is really happening.
You're gonna take that plea, and you're gonna help them make the arrest.
You hear me?
I'll take my chances in court.
No, you won't. No, you won't.
You do not work with the prosecutors,
and they can raise the minimum limit to 30 years.
Which means you'll be out
in time for your 50th birthday.
And they are batting over 90% on convictions.
Oh, God, Jason, baby, please, listen to him.
We don't have another choice.
I'm not setting anyone up.
Baby, please.
I'm not doing it. I won't do it.
Yes, you are.
- Listen to me, damn it!
You think you know what you're doing?
You have no idea until you spend
the next 10 years of your life in prison.
I'm not gonna let that happen to you, son.
You hear me?
You're not the one who'd have to do it.
Morning, John, hey,
I need to show you something. This is, uh...
Well, they're beauts, ain't they?
They said the other two will be ready next month.
Yeah, they're great. I gotta make a call.
Terry. John Matthews. Good.
No, we definitely gotta get out.
We'll hit a few. Very soon.
Hey, let me ask you something.
Do you have a connection to Joanne Keeghan?
The U.S. Attorney downtown?
Go ahead and have a seat.
Mr. Matthews. You have a lot of friends in this city.
I received four phone calls in the matter of an hour.
I'm sure you'd do the same for your kids.
I don't have any children.
All right, well, let's see.
Eighteen years old.
Well, you must have had him when you were quite young.
Sophomore in college.
Me and his mom were high school sweethearts.
Well, you have my sympathies.
But I believe in the mandatory minimum laws.
We're fighting a war right now not just on drugs,
but on the violence they bring.
And we are losing badly,
so it's time for all our sakes we have to turn this around.
Miss Keeghan, I agree. I do.
But my son, Jason, he's not a drug dealer.
He's a good kid,
and he just made a really dumb, naive mistake.
And he's willing to do anything he can to help out his situation.
But the only drug dealer that he knows is Craig Johnson
who you already have in custody.
Hmm.
Well, I'm really sorry to hear that.
Please, there's gotta be something I can do.
Well, now the laws are designed
to preclude any special circumstances
so it's really quite simple.
We need your son to help us make arrests
before we can help him reduce his sentence.
If he can't do that or isn't willing to do that,
then there's
really nothing we can do. I'm sorry.
And now, um,
I have to be somewhere else.
- What if I did it for him? - What?
What if I helped you make arrests?
It's not the way it works.
Please. I just want to help my son.
I understand. And I really am sorry,
but my hands are tied.
There's nothing I can do.
Thank you for stopping by.
How you doing?
Hi. Who are you here to see?
Jason Collins.
Okay. Just sign in.
Proceed to booth 3.
Thank you.
Got your punk ass in here, too.
Yeah, I see him.
What happened?
Nothing.
Tell me. It's okay.
Talk to me, son.
It's okay. Tell me.
Remember when someone kept teepeeing and egging your house?
That was me.
I would sit around the corner and laugh
and watch you try and clean it off.
Doesn't matter now, Jason.
The last time I did it,
I didn't know you were out of town.
I felt like crap watching Analisa just do it herself.
So I pretended I was just stopping by.
I helped her.
She told me.
I hated that you got to live in that big house. New family.
Me and Mom were just stuck in that old one.
I wanted you to live with me.
I wanted you in my life.
It was my fault.
Not yours.
I was always gone. I was always on those trucks.
I was always working.
I got so caught up in not failing you as a father,
that's exactly what I did.
I should've never taken that package.
I knew what was in it.
I should've just told the guy he had the wrong address.
But I didn't.
Because me and Amanda wanted to try some.
But I swear to you, Dad, I would never ever.
I wasn't planning on helping to sell that stuff.
I'm not a drug dealer.
You believe me, right?
Of course I believe you.
And I know I should be punished for what I did.
But not like this.
Jason, don't cry.
Don't cry, Jason. Not in here.
Listen to me, Jason.
You gotta show them you're gonna stand up for yourself in here.
You have to.
I promise you I'm gonna get you out of here.
How?
You just gotta trust me.
I love you.
- What you want? - Coke.
Crack is whack, man.
Who do you think we are, dude?
I'll just go to somebody else.
Look, man. If you real about it, money talks.
Get off me!
Get him, man.
Hey, let's jack this bitch's ride, too!
Here come the rollers!
We're gonna need additional backup.
What the hell were you thinking?
I know. I'm sorry I threw your name down at the station.
Your son is not gonna be better off if you're dead.
Okay, well, clearly what I did last night didn't work.
Clearly.
Please. What do I gotta do?
You are so stubborn, you're not gonna stop, are you?
No. I'm not.
All right, hypothetically,
I would need an airtight arrest
of someone in possession of narcotics in the amount
that would constitute conspiracy to distribute.
If we're talking cocaine,
that would be at least 500 grams or half a kilo.
What?
I'm in the construction business.
And we have ex cons who are working the yard all the time.
Maybe someone knows someone who knows someone.
You're their boss. Why would they trust you?
Let me worry about that.
Believe me, I am not worried because the risk is all yours.
Come on. I'll give you a lift.
Thank you. But I'm good.
Hey, I'm the boss. Get in.
How's the job treating you?
The fact that I got a job.
Look, I guess I'm just trying to say thank you.
Me and my family, we appreciate the opportunity, so...
I mean, it's gotta be hard for a...
Ex con.
So that, that's why we're here?
You need to talk to me about my past? 'Cause look,
I was completely honest on my application,
but if there's anything else...
No. That... That's not it.
Okay.
Couple of years ago, I caught two of my drivers,
they were transporting some stuff.
They know that the cops rarely stop semis,
and if they did,
they sure as hell didn't have time to search 'em.
Anyway, that was small time.
I was hoping that someone with a connection
into that world...
Are you accusing me of something, sir?
You think I've done something?
No. No, no, no, no, no, no.
With all due respect, sir,
why don't you just go ahead and tell me
what it is that you want from me?
An introduction.
Yeah, I can't help you with that.
You get me in front of the right people,
I give you five grand.
Something good comes out of it,
I'll give you another five. That's 10 Gs...
You know, I can count, man, I can count.
Like I said, I can't help you with that.
Why not?
You see,
John, I'm in the middle of trying to get my life in order, okay?
And I'm doing that for my family. That's why I work like I do.
That's why I sweat my ass off every day in that yard.
This little conversation, just this would,
see, this could be seen as conspiracy, all right?
And that gets me 25...to life.
I would...
I'd appreciate it if maybe we just pretend
that this never happened, okay?
I'll see you at work, sir.
I just need an introduction.
I think you oughta go home, and you oughta be happy for what you got.
Thank you for the coffee.
Daniel!
20 grand.
I'll double it because of the risk you're taking.
So right there? That's where you're staying?
Right up there.
Anthony. Anthony.
Why don't you go inside? Go on. Go inside.
Come on, Dad. I'm just hanging.
Go. Now.
Go. Go on.
Why you checkin' on peewee for?
Hold up, man. Hold...
Hold, hold, hold up.
I don't care if y'all sling what you sling.
Y'all smoke what you smoke.
You can blow holes in each other if that's what you want,
but I'm gonna tell you right now,
you're gonna stay away from my son,
- you hear me? You hear me? - All right. All right.
What are you, stupid, Flaco?
This guy's a shot caller from the east side, ese.
Hey.
Dad, why did you...
Anthony. Go play your game.
All right, what happened?
Nothing happened, V. Just father and son stuff.
Uh-huh.
What are you doing?
Going to work.
What do you mean, work?
Larry called, told me I have to be there in an hour.
Come on, V, he can't do that.
He can't just call you 7:30 at night and tell you to come to work.
He can do whatever he wants, Daniel. That is, if I want to keep my job.
Look, I'm already late.
There's food for both of you on the stove.
Lo siento. Lo siento.
What are you doing, babe?
Lo siento.
Listen, wait, wait, wait.
Let me ask you something. Let me run something by you.
What if me and my little partner over there,
before bed time, we cruise to the office, huh? Hmm?
We charm your guests. Fatten up them tips.
Make it work for everybody, you know what I'm saying?
I'd like that.
Yeah?
Mmm.
Okay, I have to go.
Don't go to work. Don't go to work.
- I love you. - I love you. I love you.
Hey, A, get on the couch, man.
Sit down, bud.
Why did we move here, man?
We moved so you wouldn't have to hang out with fools like that.
That's why. Right?
There ain't nobody else to hang with around here.
I want to go back to our old apartment.
You know we can't, so don't say it.
Look, man. I know it's hard. And sometimes life is.
But I promise you, one day, we're gonna move somewhere,
and you're gonna get real friends.
A real friend.
You ain't gotta prove nothing to him.
You ain't gotta do nothing for him.
But those punks out there, man, you're better than that.
Want me to tell you something else?
You better than me, man. You're so much better than me.
- Hey. - Yeah.
What's a shark caller?
Where'd you hear that?
Don't worry about that.
I love you, man. And I'm proud of you.
You need to be smart.
Go get your homework, man. We're gonna bang it out.
Just keep going, man.
All the way to the end. Don't stop.
- Right here? - You're good.
I need to go on alone first.
This guy in here, Malik.
If he sniffs you even a little bit full of shit,
I'm gonna tell you right now, man,
you're never gonna leave this block.
That's a promise.
All right.
What up, Cruizer?
What up, Malik?
Been a little while since I seen yo ass.
What house you was in last?
I was up at Sandstone, man.
That's right.
It was cold as hell up there, wasn't it, cuz?
That's the truth, man.
Boy, me and ol' boy right here,
we used to get it in.
Movin' product like we was the United Nations and shit.
'Cause you know when it comes to that paper...
Only color that matters is green.
So how long you been home, man?
You just now come to see me?
Come on, Malik.
You know I can't be associating
with no known-ass criminals now.
I hear you. That's why I be in here.
Two strikers like us, man, we can't walk the street.
No, man.
It ain't safe.
So I'm saying though, you back in the game, right?
How come you ain't cross town with your homeys?
Just can't have any of the old homeys getting any bright ideas, man.
I'm telling you, them days, they over for me, Malik. That's it.
Right here is a one timer.
Real smart, cuz. Real smart. Keep that bank to yourself.
Yo, homey, kill the beat.
I'm John Matthews.
Now, see, that's the reaction I was looking for, playa.
Ain't never had no iron in your grill before, huh?
Now see,
if you was the popo, then you'd be
the biggest pussy pig I ever seen.
Now let's have an honest conversation as to why you in my crib.
I don't have product
or distribution.
But I do know business.
If anyone needed transportation,
I could provide that with no risk.
There's always risk.
My way minimizes it.
See, what I want to know is
why a successful businessman like yourself
want to take any risk at all.
I'm in the construction business.
The way the economy is today, it's all gone to shit.
And I don't see any chance of it coming back.
And I'm willing to do whatever it takes to keep my business afloat.
I've worked too hard for too long.
So how much weight can you move?
My trucks, half a ton without attracting attention.
Half a ton?
Man, if I was in the thousand-pound business,
I wouldn't be sitting in this dump right now.
All I'm saying is, whatever you want to move,
it won't matter in my trucks.
You know they weigh them trucks
at the state lines though, right?
How you gonna cover that?
We offset the weight. Count's off all the time.
The police get lucky, they'll only get the driver.
We won't be there for the loading or unloading.
Sound like he ready for the game.
So what you talking, playa?
15% wholesale.
I don't give nobody over 10%.
I know I got something to prove to you.
If the first run goes good, then we renegotiate.
You gonna drive the first load.
Everybody know what game Malik in.
We need to see if you for real first.
Then maybe,
just maybe, we go back to talking.
Done.
Go and chill outside for a minute.
Let me and my boy Cruizer here have a word.
You gonna ride shotgun.
No, no, no, no, Malik. Maybe you misunderstood
- why I'm here. - Misunderstood?
Yeah, maybe you misunderstood.
I'm here for an introduction, Malik.
Hell no, Cruizer.
See you wouldn't be vouching for no fish if we was back in the yard.
You know how this work.
We ain't talking no hold time, homey.
We in the street!
That's three strikes, bruh.
And the third strike for me
is the third strike for you, my man.
So you better be convincing me right now, or he's smoke.
And we can act like none of this never happened.
It's your call, man.
This first round, I'm gonna be going with you.
But we do it my way. I say how it goes.
- What do you mean? - I wanna get paid today. Okay?
So I don't know if we have to go see your banker.
I don't care, man, go rob a store.
But I need to get paid.
Don't worry. You'll get your 10 grand.
No 10 grand, man. We said 20 grand.
That's what you said to me.
And then what? You skip town on me?
With all the money?
So you coming with me on this first run, that's fine.
The moment it's done, you'll get your other 10. My word.
Your word? Only reason this is going down
is because I went on the line for you.
Three days ago, man, I was working a job, I was staying clean.
I was doing everything I was supposed to do, and now here I am.
I'm back in.
Think this is some kind of thrill for me?
Would you just please take me to my money?
Y'all checked him out with them niggas in Sandstone.
They sayin' Cruizer's solid.
He's on the main line like he said.
Soldiering up. Putting in work like good wood should.
Even had keys to the yard for a minute.
That's the Cruizer I know.
What about our other player?
Bones say he live in the suburbs.
Fat crib with a wife, little girl,
he ain't 5-0, that's for sure.
He better not be.
Because he on us with El Topo.
No, the new TV spots are testing really well with your core.
Then why am I down by five points?
Because the liberals think you're a bitch.
Oh, maybe I should go to a gay wedding.
- It wouldn't hurt. - Oh, please.
Listen, we had 900 convictions last year alone.
They speak volumes to our core, right?
But to win this primary, the key to this primary
is getting some crossover votes.
Your next meeting is checking in down in security.
- Who is it? - John Matthews.
Ugh. I'll need a coffee.
Let's go over her press schedules.
Man, if I was in a thousand-pound business,
I wouldn't be sitting in this dump right now.
All I'm saying is, whatever you want to move,
it won't matter in my trucks.
So I looked at it as a business thing.
What do I have that they want?
I'm impressed. You're a natural.
You're lucky he didn't rip you open, man.
He's a heavy hitter.
Runs the entire Adams district now.
What's his jacket?
He earned his stripes on the corner
as a punk ass kid, did a nickel for ADW.
Three more for distribution.
Rivals robbed his bank last year.
Instead of sending out his posse to do a drive by,
he tracked them each down
and bled them out with a buck knife.
Personally.
All right. I'm signing off.
Cooper is my witness. We arrest Mr. Anderson,
and I will reduce Jake's sentence.
Jason.
Right, sorry, Jason's sentence.
By how much?
I'll cut it to a year.
Come on, I can't let him get off soot-free.
And with the time that he's already served,
Jason will probably be out in six months.
That is the best that I can do.
- Okay. - All right.
Rock and roll.
Is she going to keep her word?
Don't give her a reason not to.
- I like stuffing. - Ooh!
Hi, Daddy.
Hey, honey.
How long are you going away for?
Just two days. That's it.
Do you know how much I love you, Miss Izzy? All right.
Come here.
Are you sure you have to go now?
You know, with everything going on with Jason?
Yeah, we need the contract.
Especially after those new trucks we bought.
Come on, Iz. Let's go. We gotta go to school.
I want you to finish. Have your toast.
- Hey. - Hey.
You getting ready to go out on one of those trucks?
Yeah.
How long you going for?
Shit, I don't even know where we're going to.
It's a good thing your boss is giving you more responsibility.
Means he believes in you.
I'm proud of you.
- You proud of me? - Yeah.
That is a good thing.
I love you, too.
Come here.
Wires in the semi are in place.
We'll do the same to the warehouse once you're gone.
I know you've done this before.
Undercover.
Do you have any advice?
Just be yourself, John.
Try to be something you're not,
their bloodhounds will smell it right away.
You're a family man, you're trying to stay afloat.
You got means they could use.
That's it.
You hide in plain sight and you just keep doing what you're doing.
And they'll believe it because it's the truth.
All right. Audio's up. Here we go.
Truck's GPS is on his tail. Right?
You got it.
I'm here.
Where we going?
El Paso. Right by the border.
That's over a thousand miles.
What'd you think? We were just going around the corner?
If you don't mind me asking,
how long were you in prison for?
Just a little over a nickel total.
You never told me if you had kids.
What are you doing, man?
Just don't do that.
You don't need to ask me about my life, all right?
And I won't ask you about yours. Let's just...
Guy said we're about 150 miles out.
I got it, Daniel. I got it. I got it.
Shit.
No, no.
Come on, we gotta get this thing moving!
We can't! We can't! Check my right!
- Check my right! - You're good,
you're good, you're good!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop.
Keep moving! Go! Go! Go!
John, where are you going?
Shit.
Matthews left in the semi
hitting Torres' ride in the process.
Is Torres mobile?
Negative.
We got local PDs responding to shots fired.
Tell Torres to supersede PD. No one sets foot in that yard.
No one tips off Malik's suppliers.
Torres, talk to me.
Let's go. Let's go!