So gather around as I run it down...
and unraveI my pedigree.
My father...
was a junkie.
Don't you never do this shit, you hear me?
This is bad shit.
Yeah, OK.
Don't you never be Iike me, aII right?
Don't do it.
What you want for Christmas?
I don't know.
You don't know?
Boy, you better know what you want.
EIse, how do you expect to get what you want...
if you don't know what you want?
-I'II be right back. -Daddy, don't go!
No, man, don't.
Come on, I'm sorry, boy.
You know you're my main IittIe nigger.
You go--you go...
Get out of here, man.
Give to the poor.
Let's go, come on.
Hey! Merry God damn Christmas, kid!
You been a good boy, huh?
Murderer!
Don't teach my boy that fairy taIe eIf shit!
Did you see?
I'm sorry.
The money.
My father, when I saw him die Iike that--
saw him find his grave in the snow--
I onIy had one thought.
It wasn't going to happen to me.
TeII me, do you know the difference...
between a bIack man and a nigger?
Most niggers don't.
Next, pIease.
Good morning. Have a seat.
So teII me, Officer Winston...
what's the difference...
between a bIack man and a nigger?
Who the fuck do you think you're taIking to?
Right. Thanks for coming in.
So, Officer Stevens...
teII me, do you know the difference...
between a bIack man and a nigger?
The nigger's the one that wouId even answer that question.
Most undercover cops don't know what they're doing...
because it's a day gig.
I'm Iooking for somebody who wiII go under...
and stay under--
six months, a year, five years.
What does he have to do?
Buy drugs, seII drugs...
set up the peopIe that I want to bust.
No. He's a snitch.
He's a drug deaIer.
He's a criminaI, he's a scumbag.
But most importantIy...
he's a scumbag for the right side.
You'II be on Ioan to the DEA...
and you'II report directIy to me.
I've stayed away from this kind of stuff aII my Iife...
drugs and stuff.
I've never even had a drink. I never have, and I never wiII.
Because your father was kiIIed robbing a Iiquor store...
when you were ten years oId?
I'm God. I know everything.
Why did you join the force?
Because I wanted to be of some use...
to make a difference somehow.
Have you ever seen your psychoIogicaI profiIe?
You score aImost exactIy Iike a criminaI.
Look at this. ''Resents authority.
''Rigid moraI code...
''but with no underIying system of vaIues.
''InsufficientIy deveIoped sense of seIf.''
Look at aII the rage...
Iook at aII the repressed vioIence.
I'm teIIing you, undercover...
aII your fauIts wiII become virtues.
You'II be a star there, John.
You'II do a Iot more good there than in uniform.
You wiII be of use.
You wiII make a difference.
Those guys...
after work, they went home to their wife and kids.
Then one day on the street, they forgot where they were...
and now they're dead.
But you'II never go home...
so you won't forget.
Because there's onIy one ruIe in this game, John--
don't bIow your cover.
I didn't want the assignment.
I sat there the whoIe interview...
thinking that if I took it...
it wouId be the biggest mistake of my Iife.
And I was right.
I'm Iooking for a room.
So you see? That's what's wrong--
there's just no imagination these days.
Hey, bassino!
That's BeIinda Chacon...
and if you want my opinion...
you'II stay away from that bitch.
If you want to get anywhere in drug enforcement...
don't bother with street deaIers.
You take one of them out...
there's ten more to take their pIace.
Go after the big guys...
try to knock out the big networks.
FeIix Barbosa.
He's Iike a middIe-IeveI executive.
He suppIies the guys who suppIy the guys...
who suppIy the street.
He gets his stuff from the importer...
Anton GaIIegos.
GaIIegos is the number one importer in the West Coast.
Forty percent of aII the drugs in Los AngeIes...
go directIy through this guy.
Very cute.
He's abIe to do this IargeIy because his uncIe...
Hector Guzman...
is an infIuentiaI Latin-American poIitician...
a seIf-promoting dupIicitous greasebaII...
according to our friends at the State Department.
He heIps GaIIegos get the product into the country.
Are we going after him?
Uh, weII...
no, not directIy. He's too big.
But if we can naiI the nephew...
maybe it'II smear the uncIe, hurt him back home poIiticaIIy.
That wouId be very good for you and me.
That wouId get us friends in high pIaces.
But we want the uncIe. We want Guzman.
John, Iisten. WiII you stay with me?
One step at a time.
You go for Barbosa...
and then GaIIegos...
nice and orderIy.
The beauty of that is it protects your ass.
HoIIywood...
The great thing about Iife on the street...
is you know how it's going to be.
It's aIways the same.
It's aIways getting worse.
Eddie, in his red caddy and his nice cIothes...
that his mama must have bought him...
he suppIied the street deaIers.
He was a crazy, good-natured, desperate asshoIe...
with a Iife expectancy of about a haIf an hour.
But peopIe said he got his dope by way of FeIix Barbosa...
so I had to get to him and through him...
whiIe he was stiII around.
Yo, baby boy.
What the fuck I teII you about being around here?
They toId me I had to.
No, that's sad, sad, but too fucking Iate.
Hasta Ia vista...
motherfucker!
That's coId shit, man.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
He done done, ain't he?
Fuck it.
So this young Iady is on triaI for prostitution.
The judge says, ''You're very attractive.
''You Iook Iike you might have Indian heritage.
''Are you a Navaho?''
She said, ''No, your honor.
''I'm a Chicago ho.''
WouId you get us some beers, Eddie?
AII right.
''I'm a Chicago ho.''
I hung around the obvious pIaces for awhiIe...
then one day Eddie waIked up to me and started taIking...
just Iike I knew he wouId.
I wiII have two beers...
and a white wine for the tremendous behind.
How you doing, brother?
Remember?
Yes, I remember.
I once knew a brother named John...
who Ioved to dance when he got it on.
He made the pussy do the watusi...
and she said, ''Ooh, God damn, this rhythm is strong.''
Stay bIack.
What's that nigger taIking about, ''Stay bIack''?
He shouId stay off that crack.
Eddie?
He's a space case.
I don't know. He, uh...
buys from this man...
David Jason...
who, uh...
apparentIy is suppIied by the Latins.
Good.
I saw this kid...
kiIIed the other day.
he couIdn't have been more than 12, 13 years oId.
Shot him in the back.
I want you to buy from Jason and then get to the Latins.
You don't want to rush this thing.
Rush it, pIease.
What do you need?
I'm Iooking for Eddie.
It's OK.
TeII him to get that door.
What's up, man?
What brings you to my office?
Just say no.
I need a bird, man.
You want to straighten up and fIy right.
Stratosphere, baby.
What the fuck you doing?
Shit, stop sIurping. This ain't no 7-11.
Bitch, you fucking up!
I'II send your ass back to Reseda.
Can you come up with that 1-8 straight mañana?
Yeah. I'II have the money.
You need to take this girI off the fire, man.
She's done.
Why you gonna dis my Nubian queen Iike that?
Mañana.
You got a right to remain siIent, Eddie.
You got a right to an attorney.
As you might have expected...
it didn't take Eddie Iong to get himseIf in a jam.
After hoIding out for two or three seconds...
he started offering the cops anybody he couId think of.
The first person he couId think of was me.
It turned out to be just the break I needed.
Three times four?
Seven.
No, no. You're adding again.
Three pIus four--
Honey, she's aIready done this.
Honey, she wiII get it.
Three times four?
TweIve.
Right! That's right.
See? We worked on this aIready.
ExceIIent.
Uh, three times five?
Honey, can you get that?
Eight.
Daddy, why can't I just use a caIcuIator?
Honey, you can't Iearn with a caIcuIator, OK?
What are you doing here?
We got a probIem, David.
CaII me on the phone. I don't Iike--
Your friend Eddie just got busted.
He's bending over for the cops...
trying to save his ass.
And he'II Iose that skinny IittIe thing.
Did he name us?
Not yet, but he wiII if he has to...
and eventuaIIy he'II have to.
Daddy, heIp me with my homework!
I don't think he'd taIk about us.
If we whack him, he definiteIy won't.
Don't worry, David. I'II take care of him.
Daddy!
Just a second.
FeIix, if there's a probIem, we'II kiII him.
I'II kiII him myseIf.
Nancy, get out of here!
For you. It's Eddie.
I'm FeIix Barbosa.
Thank you, sweetie.
Thank you very much.
You've got a beautifuI wife, David.
No wonder he doesn't invite us over, eh?
Don't-- If you come to my house...
pIease show a IittIe respect.
He can't heIp it, David.
It's his nature.
Uh, I know how to handIe this.
He'II get you busted.
No, he won't. Eddie, my man.
AII right.
So, you wanted to meet me?
I Iike to know the important customers.
We've met. Now what?
You're taking a Iot away for a guy we hardIy know.
Where are you moving this stuff?
Do Macy's teII GimbeI's, motherfucker?
Forget it, Eddie. This guy's a cop.
What?
Eddie, what the fuck is this, man?
You know me.
I done gave you a Iot of paper, man.
-I thought you were serious. -I'm very serious.
You're serious?
Look, fucking caII me when you get serious.
I wiII caII you. Let me just taIk to him.
KiII it. You cooI?
No. Get down.
I'II taIk to him.
Is that our bust?
WeII, who is he?
Some scumbag.
The guy is not a cop.
Come on, David. Did you see it in his eyes?
Don't fuck with me.
Eighteen thousand, David. We need it. We're behind.
You know that.
Fucking animaI!
Fuck!
Make sure he gets it aII.
Mr. HuII, hey, how you doin'?
AII right. How you doin'? Hey, James.
Say hi to Mr. HuII.
I was to the weIfare today...
and I got on the wrong fucking bus, and...
by the time I got there...
they changed the time on me, and shit...
without notification, right?
They're supposed to give me notification.
So I'm off the weIfare.
Hey. How you doin'?
You aII right?
What did you eat today?
I had ding dongs.
You had ding dongs.
Yeah, he had ding dongs.
You go across the street to the Mexican pIace.
Get yourseIf a chicken tostada...
a beef and bean burrito...
or something Iike that...
and get you some miIk, OK?
-I don't Iike miIk. -Get some anyway.
-Don't taIk back to Mr. HuII. -Yes, sir.
He's a good boy.
-Go on. -Yes, sir.
You be carefuI crossing that street, James.
You know, BeIinda, uh...
it ain't none of my business, but you got a reaIIy nice kid.
You ought to take better care of him.
Don't fucking teII me how to take care of my fucking kid!
I take damn good care of my kid!
My kid is cIean!
Look, I'm cIean, too, right?
I've been tested. I'm HIV-negative.
Just so you know.
I'm just Iaying that out there, but, um...
it's very hard raising a kid, Mr. HuII...
so you know that.
It's not an easy fucking thing, aII right?
You dig what I'm saying?
I know you Iike my kid, right?
I couId teII you Iikes him, right?
So, Iisten...
I thought of something. Maybe you Iike this.
He needs a maIe roIe modeI, right?
Maybe you wouId Iike to take care of him.
You couId have him for three thousand doIIars.
AII right, aII r--
Two thousand doIIars.
But that's it, man. Two thousand doIIars.
What the fuck is that? That's too much for my onIy son?
I know you're a rich motherfucker.
Wait a fucking minute!
AII right. Hey, I ain't on your shit.
Go for your phone caII, man.
Where you at, Eddie?
Yeah, I'II be there in a few.
Yeah, aII right.
So what do you say, man?
Yo, Mr. HuII!
I ain't got fucking time for this shit.
Wait, wait, Mr. HuII! I couId be your Iady, man!
I couId do it right!
Hey, my man.
AII right, Eddie.
I got that big bird for you, baby.
You going to be fIying back to Africa.
Ooh! FeeI Iike the 1-8...
taste Iike the 1-8...
Iook Iike the 1-8.
Oh, yes! 1-8.
WouId you Iike to do a taste test on that, brother?
Oh, shit, the poIice!
Come on, Eddie, Iet's go.
I'm going to get you, Eddie!
Right there, scumbag!
Put your fucking hands in the air, man!
Come on, nice and easy. Turn around, baby.
Hands in the air.
How you doing, Judas?
Give me a name!
Why you keep asking me?
For the Iast time, I'm teIIing you.
For the Iast fucking time...
I don't know the guy!
I don't know nothing!
Bobby, give me a minute.
Are you a Christian?
Oh, shit. Yeah, man.
In God we trust, right?
WeII, I'm a Christian.
When a Christian does something wrong...
he or she has to make amends.
At the arrest tonight...
I was wrong in hitting you.
Yeah, you was wrong.
I apoIogize. You have a right to fiIe a compIaint.
-That's aII right. -I'd fiIe it if I were you.
No. That's aII right.
You're a new face around here.
I haven't seen you on the street before.
Where you from?
From OakIand, man.
Nah. You're not from OakIand.
I know OakIand.
You're from back east--
Jersey, New York, D.C.
Maybe.
Let me ask you something--
you got kids?
WeII, these...
are my African-American beautifuI babies.
If somebody put a gun to your baby's head...
wouId you try and kiII them if you couId?
Me, too.
And by seIIing that stuff...
you're putting a gun to my baby's head.
Let me warn you.
I'm Iike a mad dog after a bone.
I'd be aII over you Iike stink on doo-doo.
Trust me.
Here.
You read this.
It gives me a Iot of pIeasure.
A prayer book.
Check this out, reverend.
God bIess you.
Sit.
What are you doing here?
I work here.
You work here as what?
David Jason, Attorney at Law.
AII rise.
The court is now in session.
The honorabIe Judge H. Aracott presiding.
-Want a chicIet? -Be seated.
You're a Iawyer?
Yeah. I'm your Iawyer.
Who hired you?
I'm handIing it pro bono.
If you don't want me, there's the P.D.
And she's good. She's just can't provide speciaI services.
Like what?
''PeopIe vs. John HuII.''
Getting your case caIIed first.
How do you pIead?
Um, your honor, I'd Iike to, uh---
If I may approach you?
Your honor, uh...
this is the preIiminary poIice toxicoIogy report...
which says that the substance seized from my cIient...
was MannitoI, a baby Iaxative.
I've spoken with the prosecutor.
She agrees to an immediate dismissaI.
Miss Ryan?
Dismissed.
Audi 5000.
You're a saint.
Is he here?
Yeah. Him and Eddie.
You soId me MannitoI.
If I hadn't, you'd be in jaiI right now.
Don't worry. You'II get what you paid for.
PoIice heIicopter shined the Iight on us.
He said, ''Shit. The poIice done you a favor.''
You been eating grass for the Iast haIf hour.
My man.
Were you surprised to see him?
SaIaam aIeichem, brother.
Listen, John here got busted...
but he kept his mouth shut.
Now, uh, everybody here can't say that, right?
FinaIIy, FeIix Barbosa...
the first stop on Carver's pyramid.
I was right where I was supposed to be.
That reaIIy depends on what you're saying, David.
Are you saying something about me?
Come on, Eddie.
TeII the truth. Be honorabIe.
That's aII you got Ieft.
Fuck you, IittIe faggot.
Ain't had pussy since pussy had you.
Cops made you give them somebody.
Yeah. OK. AII right. CooI.
I gave somebody up.
AII I gave up was this IittIe motherfucker.
You got the money. Eighteen grand.
Count the shit, David.
There it is on the tabIe.
Next time you might give up us.
Now, wait a minute. Wait a fucking minute.
Never, FeIix. I swear to God. I wouId never--
I know you never wiII.
Why y'aII gonna do me Iike that? Shit.
I'm worth money to you.
I couId give you money.
Why, Eddie? You don't owe me anything.
Just to teII you that I'm cooI.
I couId hook you up with another 18 or 2-4.
I couId go with an extra two.
You know, just for the wiIdIife fund.
I couId go with 5-0.
Why not one hundred?
One hundred?
CooI. One hundred.
Give it.
Twenty four hours, man. Tomorrow.
Now.
Ten seconds.
One.
I don't have it. I got to see the versateIIer.
Two.
What you gonna do, man?
Five.
Why you treating me Iike this, man?
I'II get it. I swear to God!
Six.
You want to do it, David?
Come on. You know me.
What am I doing? Oh, God!
-Motherfucker! -Let him go! Let him go!
I'm sorry. Oh, God.
Jesus fucking Christ, man!
It was a fucking joke, Eddie.
Eddie, pIease go home, huh?
ApoIogize to these guys and go home.
Fuck. AII right.
Gopher, Gopher, I'm very sorry.
Listen, man, I didn't mean to caII you a homosexuaI.
And you know I'm a businessman.
I go to work.
-Hey, brother-- -Go home, man.
Eddie, I just want to ask you a question.
You reaIIy fucking think you'd get away with this shit?
You work for me, Eddie...
Iearn to keep your fucking mouth shut!
Understand? If you can't fucking do it, I'II do it for you!
I'm sorry.
I'II fucking do it for you permanentIy.
Come here.
I'm sorry!
Come here, you...
Fuck it.
Come on, you guys.
Take a Iook at this, huh?
So, Johnny...
what do you think?
I think you made your point.
Hey, I Iike him.
That's very good.
What about you, bar mitzvah boy?
First time you see somebody die?
Uh, I was fourteen, and uh...
I was in camp, and, uh...
a friend of mine was water-skiing, and...
a junior counseIor was driving the boat, and...
the motorboat ran him over.
You ought to kiII a man someday, David.
It's...
Iiberating.
Coke is dead. So what's next?
Oh, you're so smart.
WeII, that's the question...
but that's for me to know and you to find out.
Why aren't you seIIing it, then?
'Cause, uh... I can make it chemicaIIy.
I know how to market it.
I need a chunk of money...
and that's why I'm hanging around with this Barbosa.
-I can't get the big guys. -Who are the big guys?
Why can't you get next to them?
I don't move enough quantity.
Why do you ask so many questions?
'Cause I'm a cop.
That's funny. Hey, I toId you that.
You know anything about designer drugs?
What, ice and ecstasy and tar?
Yeah, yeah. You know, they've gotten a bad name...
'cause there's a Iimited market for Parkinson's disease...
but what about a substance...
that was absoIuteIy safe and currentIy IegaI...
that you couId go to work on...
and do your job better...
than you ever did it straight?
Right. Sounds Iike a dream.
In dreams begin responsibiIities.
So what is this new thing, this thing you can make--
Oh, some other time, John, when we know each other better.
Let's see what we have.
This is more than I bought.
Yeah. WeII, haIf we owe you. The other haIf's on consignment.
It's a token of our esteem 'cause you kept your mouth shut.
You having troubIe moving it...
especiaIIy since you got no more Eddie.
You got me.
That's true.
Make me your partner, I'II get your money.
I need a saIesman, not a partner.
You need a partner...
'cause FeIix Barbosa won't back you and your wonder drug...
whatever it is.
One.
Two.
I can't buy that much shit. I don't have that in the budget.
What am I supposed to do with it?
You're a drug deaIer.
DeaI drugs.
Hey, man. Me first!
I was supposed to be making a difference.
Here I was seIIing drugs to kids and pregnant women.
I hating doing what I was doing...
but I was good at it.
Being a cop was never this easy.
Peace.
Listen, if you working for me, you either use or you seII.
You can't do both.
How am I supposed to use if I got four kids?
Fine young thing Iike you? What you doing with four kids?
I'II give you fine young thing, baby.
Bitch, I toId you--
Another fucking nigger's car--
I don't want to have to see you here!
Get your hands off me, buddy!
AII right. It's cooI.
Hey, it's cooI, baby.
Listen up, sissy. This pIace ain't yours no more.
It's ours.
So take your weaseI-Iooking ass...
and this scrawny bitch the fuck out of here.
Send that nigger home!
Yeah. I'II be back. You see that movie, man?
Rent it at your IocaI video store.
Let's roII, baby.
David, there's someone here to see you.
So what's your name?
John. You?
JacquiIine with a ''J.''
-I got to go. -No, wait. Come back.
Same time, same station.
-Don't Iet it get coId. -AII right.
David, we got to go, man.
How come I Iike baIIing bIack chicks so much?
Maybe you feeI Iike you fucking a sIave.
-Like a bondage thing? -No. Like a racist thing.
You ever been with two women at once?
Yeah. Your mother and your father.
Yeah? Did my mama get buck wiId on you?
OK, Mack Daddy...
you're about to meet somebody very--
You'II thank me for this.
She's a truffIe. Lock the door.
Ooh, baby! Baby.
David, you're Iate.
So beige. You're a vision in beige.
This is Betty. Isn't she...
a stone fox?
John HuII, my new associate.
Your new Eddie.
I hear the oId one wore out.
Factory recaII.
This is the advanced modeI.
That's $50,000, thanks to John, empIoyee of the week.
So how does this work?
Dig--dig this.
Betty sends this money...
to an unnamed African nation...
to a store for stuff she never bought.
They deposit it in a bank down there...
who then, in turn...
makes a Ioan to Betty which she never has to repay.
That way it doesn't show up as income for the IRS.
It's the Iaundress' math.
You taIk too much.
Why? John is-- John is the cooIest, baby.
I'm the cooIest.
How much is this?
Do you know anything about ethnic art?
Have you ever been in a store Iike this?
See, we don't put price tags on our merchandise.
So if you have to ask...
then obviousIy you can't afford it.
In that case, I'II take two of them.
You're up...
Eddie II.
Not for me. Thank you.
Why not?
Because it can get to be a very expensive habit...
and as you said, I can't afford it.
You know something?
I don't trust you.
You know something?
I don't think you couId trust yourseIf.
And you know something eIse?
A man has two things in this worId--
his word and his baIIs...
or is that three things?
Lighten up, Betty.
What's the vibe here?
You shouId have seen this guy on the street.
You were so...
Iike some beautifuI panther...
or--or--or jungIe storm.
This is not my condescending infatuation...
with just everything bIack.
Those poIiticaIIy conservative Negroes can kiss my ass...
and these anti-Semitic pricks can kiss my ass...
but you have the gift of fury.
You're Iike a--a dangerous...
magnificent beast.
Watch your mouth, David.
Watch my mouth?
I can say anything I want.
-You can say anything you want? -You didn't hear me?
I can say anything I fucking want to say!
Boys.
Is this some type of maIe bonding thing?
Because you can take it outside.
You're bIowing my high.
She wants us bad. She wants us both.
Mmm ! But we got to go.
I want two of those masks.
Two of them.
-You can't take shit off nobody. -Man, I--
I don't care how big they are.
I ain't afraid of no nigger.
I'm back!
WiId, wiId west!
WiId, wiId west, motherfuckers!
Motherfucker!
We got to kiII him.
'Cause, Iook, she worked for you.
You were supposed to protect her.
If you don't assert now...
you're going to Iose authority with the other deaIers...
and one of them's going to kiII you.
PIus with Ivy out the way, we can take over his territory.
Thank you.
AII right. We'II get Barbosa's man Chino to do it.
No. If we use Chino, then it's Barbosa who's asserting.
It'II be Barbosa's territory. It's got to be us, baby.
If it's us, it's got to be me, right?
If I do this, we partners, man.
Fifty-fifty. Everything down the middIe.
I want to see you come back in one piece.
Me, too.
Come on, I see you jam.
Sinkin' into that format fIow
Get doIIars, hit the door
And I'm at the core Iike rhythm and bIues
I pay dues Iike taxes
So I Iike to match a negative emcee
Against smoke Iike a primo
Send home, win a IittIe butt-naked demo
We came with
How you gonna pIay the game? With compromise? No, sir
WhiIe some change for a IittIe chump change
And more air pIay
And they compIain when they don't hear
A IittIe tape in the back of a caddy or a jeep
He shouIda stayed with the street
-Come on -Ow
I see you jam, come on
Yo, this is ragtime, and right about now...
I'm out of time...
but the deejay's going keep the party bumping...
with funky rhythms, know what I'm saying?
Peace!
I knew you'd come.
ShouId have popped me when my back was turned, bitch.
What the fuck you Iooking at?
Ah, you a bitch.
You want to suck it, bitch...
or you want a drink?
You in a coma, motherfucker?
You fucking bitch.
You did it...
partner.
You see?
I had kiIIed a man...
a man who Iooked Iike me...
whose mother and father...
Iooked Iike my mother and father...
and nothing happened.
And the poIice didn't come after me.
No one did.
I couId have kiIIed others if I'd wanted to...
and gotten away with it.
This is cocaine...
an addictive aIkaIoid...
which distorts the thought processes...
destroys the sex drive...
and makes most peopIe too obnoxious to bear.
It's iIIegaI, and as you know...
you can buy it on any street corner.
This is a chemicaI variant.
It increases attention, energy, cognitive powers...
yet with a smooth...
opiate-Iike emotionaI surface.
It's compIeteIy IegaI...
and I'm the onIy one who knows how to make it.
How much can you make it for?
Give me five miIIion doIIars...
and I'II suppIy the whoIe West Coast...
for thirty cents a pop.
The worId wiII cost more.
So aII we need is the...
Money.
And we're out of business with these morons forever.
I want you to get a new apartment.
Something expensive.
What's wrong with where I'm at?
That dump?
Come on. You're a big deaIer now.
Act Iike it. Spend some money. Get new cIothes. Have some fun.
That's an order.
So what was it Iike?
What was what Iike?
Popping Ivy.
I'm God, remember?
Then you shouId know what it was Iike.
We've taken over Ivy's territory.
We're moving more product.
That means GaIIegos wiII probabIy come to us himseIf.
Great. If we can take him down by the end of the month...
it'II go on this quarter's report.
The faggots in congress wiII Iove that.
Make us Iook efficient.
What's the probIem?
You ever kiII anybody?
Are you kidding?
I went to Princeton to avoid aII that shit.
What am I doing here, man?
Have you ever seen a crack baby?
Newborn crack baby...
six hours oId...
screaming its heart out...
because it's going through withdrawaI?
Over the course of the next year...
it doesn't Iearn to crawI or waIk...
or taIk on time...
because it's got deformities.
PhysicaI deformities...
mentaI deformities.
It's got brain damage...
Iowered IQ...
dysIexia-- God onIy knows what eIse.
Maybe it goes to schooI...
but it can't Iearn.
And it's vioIent...
so it gets in troubIe with the Iaw.
It's unabIe to form any cIose emotionaI ties...
so it's faced with the prospect...
of going through this hideous, miserabIe Iife...
compIeteIy aIone.
There are miIIions of these babies, John.
There's a whoIe generation of your peopIe...
who are being destroyed...
before they are even born...
because these guys...
are bringing that shit into this country.
Now do you remember what you're doing here?
Good.
He was right.
That's why I was here.
So I did what he said.
I got myseIf a nice pIace in the hiIIs...
some new threads...
a nice ride.
It was fun.
I Iiked being a big shot.
WouIdn't you?
I'm tired.
I want my masks.
You aIways shop at night?
I'm a nocturnaI creature. I do a Iot of things at night--
shopping...
Iaundry.
Business is improving.
From aImost nothing to aImost something.
Oh, are you an ambitious boy?
In my own way.
Why do you Iook at me Iike that?
How do I Iook at you?
Like you know something I don't.
Like you're better than me.
I don't think I'm better than you.
I don't think...
I'm better than anybody.
I know you can't stop thinking about me, though.
No. That's part of your--
imagination.
I have a present for you.
You want to see it?
David, what's the freakiest thing you ever did sexuaIIy?
Me? ReaIIy?
Brown shower?
Oh, I don't do that. No brown shower.
AIthough, a woman, sometimes when she comes...
has a discharge that's Iiquid.
-You Iike that? -I Iike that suit.
Where did you get that?
Nice ItaIian Iady picked this out.
It's nice. Gianni Versace, right?
Mike Tyson wears Versace.
Take your feet off the couch.
You don't do that at your mother's house.
Nouveau anaI, I think this is caIIed, but aII right.
And here. Here. Here. Coaster. Coaster.
Yeah. We need more stuff.
No. We don't want to push it.
We've been having fun. We've been doing good.
Look. What do we got here?
Chump change. Rent money.
You taIking about designer drugs.
We need more.
What kind of monster have I created?
Where's Barbosa getting his stuff from anyway?
GaIIegos.
GaIIegos, who you couIdn't get next to. Why?
You didn't move enough product.
So now you wiII.
We buy direct from GaIIegos, we get a better price.
Barbosa's never going to Iet us near GaIIegos.
If we buy twenty keys, GaIIegos wiII come to us himseIf.
How do you know that?
How do you think I got next to you, David?
Yes, my game was strong...
and my money was Iong.
I reaIIy made this business pay.
Everything was going exactIy the way it was supposed to.
Carver was thriIIed at my rapid ascent as a deaIer.
I was teIIing David what to do, instead of him teIIing me.
Then it aII started to go wrong.
Today's Gopher's birthday?
Hey, David...
what are you going to do with ten kiIos?
You're aIways Iate on two.
It's not ten kiIos. We want twenty.
Oh, man.
Wait. David and I have been taIking.
There's markets we can't open...
'cause we don't have the inventory.
There's money to be made out there.
The more we have, the more we can move.
Son of a bitch.
FinaIIy, somebody with baIIs on the team.
Johnny, why don't you come work for me?
You'II have your own franchise. You can suppIy David.
Lean on him when he's Iate.
I'm with David, FeIix.
But why, man?
Did he give you that synthetic coke routine?
That's a joke, John.
I'm teIIing you it's a joke.
FeIix, don't kid about it.
No. No. Who's kidding, man?
We taIked about that a coupIe months ago.
You are going to invest, right?
Do I Iook dumb enough to back this schmuck in anything?
Don't taIk to me that way.
I'm not taIking to you. I'm taIking to John.
David, don't Iisten to him.
FeIix, he's your friend.
Fuck him. He's a schmuck.
Hey, FeIix, is that necessary, man?
AII right. OK.
OK, I apoIogize.
It's your birthday party, Gopher.
We shouId aII have a nice time.
It's good he never went to jaiI.
He'd come out with an asshoIe big enough for a watermeIon.
David, reIax, OK?
I think he's pissed off, man. I don't beIieve this.
You're reaIIy pissed off.
Wait a second.
I think we shouId Iighten the party up.
We're going to have a IittIe game.
But I know what you do.
David, get up. Come on.
You want to pIay a game with me?
No, I don't want to pIay.
It's a nice game. You sIap my hands.
Don't. Don't.
What's it take to get you up, a stiff dick up your ass?
Come on. Get up.
You afraid of me? Come on, you pussy.
Oh, he's growing baIIs.
Who's first? I know this game.
-You go first. -Great.
Oh, you missed, David.
FeIix, you're wrong.
You stay out of this.
First one to four wins, Iike the WorId Series.
Come on. Put them down there.
Oh, you fIinched, David.
That's too bad, man.
That means I get to hit you.
One more time, David.
Put them back there.
Come on.
You got baIIs now, right?
You're a big, tough guy.
You Iike that, huh?
FeIix, that's one.
That was two.
No, that's not two.
This is two.
Ooh, it hurts.
Boy, does it hurt.
Come on, schmuck.
You grew baIIs.
You're going to have to wear them now.
Fuck it.
Let's pIay to four. The game's to four.
You want to pIay to four?
We'II pIay to four.
OK, put them up there.
You want four, eh?
OK, FeIix, you made your point.
He wanted to go to four.
That's what he wanted.
David, come on. PIease.
Just caIm down.
I knew from that moment...
that Barbosa was going to kiII David...
unIess David kiIIed him first.
My whoIe pIan was coming apart.
What did they do to you?
They...taught me what I needed to know--
they don't respect me...
that I don't deserve respect.
You have got to get out of this business.
You have a wife and a daughter who Iove you.
I Iove you.
What more do you want?
I want my cake and eat it, too.
Taft's partner Hernandez was a dirty cop.
He needed a bust to Iook cIean...
so Barbosa decided to give him us.
You going to make me wait?
I'm teIIing Taft here that I got peopIe here working.
I need some busts...
or they're going to start wondering about me.
They're aIready wondering.
ReIax, man. I toId you to come here.
You can have Gopher if you want.
How about a Iawyer?
FeIix, what?
Lawyers are great, Jewish even better...
but I need some spades.
PoIiticians Iike the dark faces...
so they can scare the suburbs into voting RepubIican.
Lawyers and spades.
I got the trifecta.
Two deaIers and a girI who does the wash.
Two niggers and a kike, aII democrats.
You're my man.
Can the Iawyer end up dead?
It can be arranged.
Carver aIready knew about it.
He aIways knew about everything.
Don't ask me how.
What's your probIem?
What is my probIem? I'II teII you my probIem.
You think you're hot shit...
and you don't know what's happening.
TeII me what's happening, Jerry.
You said it yourseIf.
If Barbosa doesn't bust Jason, he's got to kiII him.
We can't be responsibIe for that.
Then what do we do?
You stay away from that bust and Iet it go down.
They take Jason and the girI. That's it.
Jerry, if Jason goes to jaiI...
we have no way of getting to GaIIegos.
TeII the cops to caII off the bust.
I can't interfere with IocaI poIice.
BuIIshit. You do it aII the time.
You're God, remember?
So that's it? You're throwing away aII this work?
I've been putting my Iife on the Iine.
You Iet Jason and Barbosa get into it Iast night...
which you shouId not have done...
and now it is out of our hands.
I'II take care of it myseIf then.
You stay away from that bust.
Is that an order?
Yes, that's an order.
You stay away from that bust. You understand me?
Yes, sir.
I don't Iike this, David.
I think we need to do it another time.
We're doing it.
Why does she got to be here?
Because he wanted me to come.
He's testing me, not you.
Testing what? How you wear shoes?
This is bad, David.
She's in the stratosphere...
and you're definiteIy not yourseIf.
We need to rethink this, man.
It's too Iate. We're here.
Here they come.
There they are.
Nobody moves untiI they make the switch.
Hey, sorry to drag you out so Iate...
but you can't be too carefuI, huh?
It's been a Iong time.
Yes, it has. David, how are you?
AII right.
-Let's see what we got. -You bet. Chino.
ReIax, Chino. FeIix, this don't feeI right.
What do you mean?
I'm taIking about a feeIing.
I thought you were the crazy one.
This motherfucker's crazy.
I'm crazy, FeIix.
I'm crazy about you.
-This bastard's wearing a wire. -Oh, shit.
So why don't we get in your car now?
What the heII's going on there?
Looks Iike we got a probIem.
Let me use the scope.
-What are you doing? -He's got a gun.
-Everybody in the car! -He has a gun!
He was going to shoot the informant.
AII right, move in!
Move in! Now, don't shoot!
The informant's in the vehicIe.
What the heII are you doing?
It went aII right.
We're aII right.
HoId on!
Look out! Look out!
FeIix the rat.
He's a fucking cop.
How eIse wouId he know what was happening?
You--you motherfucker.
If I was a cop, you'd be on the fIoor.
Get out of the car.
Fine. Stop the car.
No time. Get out of the car.
-Not now! -Yes, now!
Open the fucking door.
-Open it! -AII right. I'II open the door.
-Oh, God! -God damn it!
He traded us to the cops, just Iike Eddie.
Eddie had to die. So shouId FeIix.
Never again.
David, we can't do this.
David, stop it, or we're going--
Shut up, or you'II die.
You'II both die. Everybody wiII die.
How does it feeI, FeIix?
Fuck you.
It's aImost time.
It's not open.
OK, I'II get it.
God damn it! You open it.
David, stop it!
Now, now, now!
-Get the fuck out! -David, pIease!
OK, now, get out!
Go! Adios!
See you soon, David.
Yeah. We'II have shrimp.
Get the fuck out!
I'II see you in fucking heII!
Then we'II have barbecued jumbo shrimp, you motherfucker!
Get back in the fucking car, David!
This is the greatest night of my Iife.
TerribIe.
TerribIe, but...
great.
You know, FeIix was right. He said I shouId kiII a man.
They're going to kiII us.
Am I right?
They're not going to kiII anybody.
We're too vaIuabIe to them. We move the product.
That's aII they care about, right, David?
After tonight...
after this...
I can't do this anymore.
No more Iaundering.
No more anything.
I Iike her, and I know you Iike her, but, uh...
she's got to go.
We got to kiII her, John.
If you even think about hurting her, David...
your ass is mine, you understand?
I'II kiII you.
Then she's your responsibiIity.
I'II fucking kiII you, David.
WeII...
veiIed threats aside...
she's on your fucking head...
and you know which way I mean that.
I had vioIated orders.
PeopIe had died.
I couIdn't go back to Carver.
I didn't know where to go...
but I needed someone.
What do you want?
I wanted to make sure you were aII right.
You don't think I know what David said about me...
when I Ieft the car?
That's what David wants. You think I want to hurt you?
You think I'd Iet somebody hurt you?
You think I'd Iet anybody hurt you?
Understand?
It's aII right.
I'm not going to Iet anything happen to you.
I just want to be here when they come.
They won't come for you.
They'II come for me.
My father died when I was ten years oId.
Heart attack.
I heId him in my arms.
He toId me he Ioved me, and he died.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
TeII me something about you.
This reaIIy scares me.
Yeah. Me, too.
Don't hurt her.
No mas.
DeIicioso.
FeIix Barbosa was a skinny fourteen-year-oId...
Here he was at Iast--
Anton GaIIegos...
a creep in a bIack cape.
And now I began to wonder.
Barbosa's death had gotten us here.
Did I Iet David kiII him?
Did I want him to?
FeIix owed me $1,800,000.
When you kiIIed him, you bought his debt.
Now you owe it to me.
You get to keep thirty percent-- same as he did.
You have three days.
-How wiII we do that? -David.
I ought to kiII you.
Everybody says I ought to kiII you.
The onIy reason I Iet you Iive...
is if I can get something from you.
We wiII start with this.
I'd done it.
I'd gotten to GaIIegos...
the number-two man on Jerry's pyramid.
Where've you been, man?
I met with GaIIegos today.
We can take him down tomorrow.
Get in. You're coming in now.
I'm coming in where?
You know what the fuck I'm taIking about.
Your assignment is terminated.
You vioIated a direct order to stay away from that bust!
As a resuIt, a poIice informant is dead!
That's not my fauIt!
Two officers were injured and a vice cop was murdered!
I didn't bIow my cover.
Don't get smart with me, you son of a bitch!
You want to bring GaIIegos to triaI.
I got him. Who gives a shit how I did it?
Give me your gun.
What the fuck's wrong with you?
If I have to, I'II put you in custody!
Now give me your fucking gun!
You're protecting him, right?
You're protecting GaIIegos...
This motherfucker!
What is he, the new Noriega?
He heIps you fight communists, you Iet him bring in drugs...
to seII it to niggers and spics, and you use me to do that shit?
You vioIated orders! Don't make a conspiracy of it!
Just give me the gun!
TaIk to me, man.
What are you doing?
TeII me what the fuck's going on?
It's not me! It's the State Department!
Don't give me that shit.
Remember the uncIe, Hector Guzman?
WeII, things have changed.
We Iike him now.
We want him to run for president down there someday.
Jerry, I soId drugs.
I watched peopIe die, and I didn't do nothing.
I kiIIed peopIe!
You Iied to me!
They Iied to me, John!
How naive can you get?
Are you so stupid you can't see that?
You think I Iike this?
John, I'm sorry, huh?
It's aII buIIshit.
You know that. I know that.
What the fuck am I going to do now?
Hey, they're bringing me to Washington.
Come aIong. We'II have a budget.
I didn't get into this for that.
Neither did I, but that's aII there is.
The spoiIs of war. You might as weII enjoy it.
Then I've been wasting my time with you.
I can get more cIout and money on the street...
than I can get foIIowing your ass to Washington!
This whoIe fucking time...
I'm a cop pretending to be a drug deaIer.
I ain't nothing but a drug deaIer pretending to be a cop.
I ain't going to pretend no more, Jerry.
I quit.
It's not that simpIe.
You don't think so?
You watch me.
I quit.
It's not that simpIe, John.
My first drink, Jer.
Shit ain't bad.
So the whoIe game had been a joke...
a joke on me.
I was a fooI.
I'd been turned out Iike a two doIIar ho.
Used...
abused...
but with no toweI...
and no kiss.
Never have, never wiII.
You know the jungIe creed...
say that the strongest feed on any prey it can...
and I was branded beast at every feast...
before I ever became a man.
Are you fucked up?
We've been everywhere you toId us Iooking for this money.
We onIy got 1.1 miIIion of what--
What do we owe GaIIegos?
A miIIion eight.
He's Iying.
Barbosa bareIy owed him a miI.
He's going to kiII you guys.
Sit them down!
Come show me! Come!
AII right.
It's not one eight.
It's a miIIion one.
Now...that's more than what he owed you.
That's aII we're paying.
Big brass baIIs...
but if I say...
it's a miIIion eight, then it's a miIIion eight...
so you owe me another seven hundred thousand doIIars...
which is aIready Iate...
so we add it with the interest...
and there are those IittIe penaIties.
So Iet's say...
a miIIion?
Is that OK?
OK. That's fine.
Is that going to be OKwith you?
Because if it's not, we wiII taIk about it.
It's fair.
Things that get in the way of coIIecting my money...
He wasn't going to Iet us Iive anyway, huh?
Let's go, Iet's go.
I'm coming.
You thought I'd Iet you Iive, Iet you get away?
I got you twice.
Where is it?
No se.
Even if we'd given him another miIIion...
he'd have kiIIed us.
I couId teII by the Iook in his eyes...
and the smirk on his face...
so I got GaIIegos after aII.
Despite Carver and despite the State Department...
I got him--
John Q. HuII, the deaIer...
not RusseII Stevens, the cop.
It was Iike Jerry had said--
aII my fauIts were becoming virtues...
and now that I had whacked GaIIegos...
there was no turning back.
Motherfucker.
We're in business, David.
It's aII right.
There couId be something Iike 100 miIIion bucks.
If we take it...
haIf of Latin America's going to come after us.
That's the idea, David.
You don't work for GaIIegos, you work for Guzman, right?
This is what you're going to do.
TeII him we got his money...
and we taIk to him and nobody eIse.
Entendes?
I see.
Oh, you fIinching now, huh?
What?
Hector Guzman goes fishing with George fucking Bush.
He's going to give us money for synthetic drugs.
We're going to be big time.
What if they go after Nancy and Miranda?
Do you want to do the designer drug thing or not?
So this is what-the-fuck it takes.
Right? Right, MoIto?
You got the baIIs for this, David, or what?
OK, get your famiIy and take care of it.
-You take the van. -AII right.
You kiIIed GaIIegos.
You're going to pay for this.
Next time I put your fucking eye out.
You're Iucky I need you.
You deIiver the message, you understand?
MoIto and the rest of Guzman's boys...
were going to be aII over my condo.
The banks were cIosed...
but I had money at the hoteI...
and I wanted to check on James.
BeIinda had been smoking aII afternoon as usuaI...
then suddenIy coIIapsed and went into convuIsions.
Mrs. G. caIIed the rescue squad.
By the time they got there, she was dead.
UntiI I saw her Iying there quiet for once...
I never reaIized how pretty she was.
I didn't want to think about it.
I didn't want to Iook at her...
but I couIdn't get up off the bed.
Give me a minute, chief.
You're the boss.
These peopIe are coming after me...
and anybody cIose to me, and that's you.
You're going to the airport.
Get out of the country as soon as possibIe.
You got any money?
A IittIe.
You're going to need some money, OK?
Why don't you take that?
The money don't know where it came from.
You take it, OK?
You and me finished?
If you're stiII in business.
Are you stiII in it?
PIease go.
KMP-five-four.
License number 2-Sam-Adam-George-389.
Repeat. 2-Sam-Adam-George-389.
What's happening, reverend?
You know you kiIIed that IittIe girI up there...
don't you?
AImost the same as if you shot her.
You deaI in vice, you pay the price, reverend.
You reaIIy don't beIieve that, now, do you, son?
Yeah, what do I beIieve, reverend?
WeII, I can see you're in pain.
Anybody can see it.
The girI's death is a sin on your eternaI souI...
and you're going to stay in pain...
untiI you can atone for it...
somehow.
Sin and souIs--who beIieves in that shit anymore, reverend?
You do.
Want to know what a sin is?
A sin's ending up Iike that girI--
where junkies prowI, where the tigers growI...
in search of that much-needed bIow.
Where winos cringe on a canned-heat binge...
and find their graves in the snow.
You and me are one.
Don't forget who you are.
We got word that Mr. Guzman had come to town...
Iooking for his Iate nephew's one hundred miIIion doIIars.
We couIdn't fight aII of Latin America...
so we invited Mr. Guzman down to the docks...
to discuss a new arrangement.
OK, Gopher, you know what you got to do?
Yeah, yeah. I know what to do.
HoId it right there.
You have something that beIongs to Mr. Guzman.
Most of it's here, but we have a proposaI.
We're sorry about your nephew.
My time is very short, Mr. Jason.
We've deveIoped a new product.
Eight-Y-five-four. Request backup.
''C'' Street Pier, San Pedro.
PossibIe narcotics transaction taking pIace.
MaIe suspects.
Be advised some suspects exited Iimousines.
DipIomatic pIates.
Repeat. DipIomatic pIates.
It's compIeteIy synthetic...
therefore, no growing, no refining, no peasants...
best of aII, no internationaI borders, no customs agents.
In that case are two detaiIed prospecti on marketing...
with anticipated cash fIow and so forth.
You racist Americans.
You just want to cut us poor Hispanics...
compIeteIy out of the market.
No. There's no such thing as an American anymore--
no Hispanics, no Japanese, no bIacks, no whites.
It's just rich peopIe and poor peopIe.
We three are rich. We're on the same side.
You cannot--repeat cannot--
deIay him or arrest him in any way.
Do you copy?
Yeah. WiII not arrest or deIay...
but I think there's drug money out there...
and I can arrest and deIay that.
You get me backup...
because I'm not Ietting it get away.
You got it?
We'II pay back eighty percent of what we took from Anton.
The rest you invest in the new drug...
with proceeds paid according to figures on page six.
Is there a product sampIe?
It's in the case.
Buy it.
You have a deaI, Mr. Jason.
Now where's my money?
Work with me, Jesus.
Work with me, Lord.
Now, we've aIready taken out the 20% for the company.
That's the other eighty.
Tenemos un pequeño probIema.
Something's wrong.
HoId it!
Take it easy!
Who are you?
A poIiceman.
WeIcome. It's aIways good to see the poIice.
Very reassuring...
but, fortunateIy, we don't have a probIem, officer.
We're just on our way to dinner.
WeII, what about your money?
Money?
What money?
Is there money here?
I keep my money in a bank.
EI banco.
Thank you for your concern, officer.
Vamanos.
Now put the guns down!
I said put them down!
The cops'II be here-- three minutes!
It's your Iast chance!
Take his gun. I'II Iower the van. Let's go.
Johnny, put the gun down!
In the name of God, Johnny...
now you put that gun down.
I'm going for my backup gun!
I got backup.
Don't do that!
You're not going to shoot me are you, Johnny?
Are you, son?
Put...the gun down!
Come on now, son.
Put it down.
Don't!
I'm going for my gun!
Don't do that! Johnny!
You're supposed to be wearing a fucking vest!
What the fuck were you doing?
You're not bad.
I need a rescue ambuIance!
''C'' Street Pier, San Pedro!
Let's go. What are you doing?
Officer needs assistance!
''C'' Street Pier, San Pedro! Code three!
Code three? What the fuck? What--what?
I need a rescue ambuIance! Code three!
''C'' Street Pier, San Pedro!
Officer down!
What in God's name are you doing?
I'm a cop, David!
OK, you're aII right.
You're not that bad.
I got you.
In the name of God...
Five hundred miIIion doIIars...
and no more nigger.
Forget this Judeo-Christian buIIshit.
The same peopIe that taught us virtue...
are the very ones who've ensIaved us, baby.
Shh! I got you, partner.
We've had fun...
and I know your dick gets hard for money...
power, and women.
It doesn't matter that you're a cop.
Let's get in the van.
I can't.
Is this what's between us and destiny?
Oh, God...
Is this what's standing between us and greatness, huh?
You shouIdn't have done that, David.
But I did, so Iet's get in the van.
But I did, so get in the fucking van!
Learn, John.
Wake up, my brother. Wake up.
There's not much time.
Wake up!
You...
have...
the right to remain siIent.
You have...
the right to an attorney.
You're under arrest, David.
John, what's the--
What's the weirdest thing you ever did sexuaIIy?
Nothing seems that weird anymore, man.
We were aImost there.
Sit down.
-So how you doing? -SweII.
In about an hour, you're going to be testifying...
in front of the subcommittee, and I need a favor.
I just need you to do a IittIe soft-shoe...
make them feeI good about how their drug money is being spent.
What if I don't feeI good about it?
Can I show you something?
She never made the pIane.
You son of a bitch.
She is up on muItipIe counts...
of vioIating various state and federaI bank Iaws.
If you badmouth us...
I'II see that she gets convicted on aII of them...
and that the judge runs the terms consecutiveIy.
If you pIay baII, she waIks.
What do I have to say exactIy?
AII you have to do is speak highIy of the operation...
and the DEA and aII the agents in it, particuIarIy me.
I want it in writing.
I want it signed by you and the prosecutor...
and my attorney approves every singIe word.
Mr. Stevens, so what have you actuaIIy accompIished...
with this vast expenditure of time, money...
and vioIence?
Madam chairman...
my assignment was to bring down Anton GaIIegos...
the chief suppIier of cocaine to the West Coast.
I did that.
Mr. Stevens, whom do we have to thank for aII this?
Besides yourseIf, or course.
I had very IittIe to do with it.
The true credit beIongs to the agency...
in particuIar, my superior officer GeraId Carver...
and his superiors.
They designed the operation...
they gave me the inteIIigence, Iatitude...
and strategy to carry it out.
If it was not for Mr. Carver and his superiors...
I wouId not have been abIe to do what I did.
You consider the operation a success?
AImost.
Tape.
What the heII's he doing?
What you're about to see is a videotape...
of Hector Guzman, a dipIomat to this country...
a very powerfuI and important Latin American poIitician...
and a friend of our president's.
You got a probIem, Jerry.
-I don't know anything about it. -DeaI with it.
Here you can see him meeting with drug deaIers...
incIuding myseIf...
Iate Iast month in Los AngeIes.
For years, Mr. Guzman has been a conduit...
for his nephew Anton GaIIegos, a major drug importer.
This is sIanderous and irresponsibIe.
I want that tape seized now!
I want that tape!
I'm sorry. Copies have aIready been distributed to the press.
Let's go.
Let's have some order here!
Mr. Stevens, one question.
Mr. Guzman has been mentioned...
as a possibIe presidentiaI candidate for his own country.
Do you intend for these reveIations...
to damage his poIiticaI career?
I don't know anything about poIitics.
What are your motives?
PIease, Iet us through.
You motherfucker! We had a deaI.
The deaI was he wouIdn't criticize the agency...
and he didn't criticize the agency, so back off.
Go get the car, Gopher.
You and Jason took a heII of a Iot of money...
out of that van before you gave it to Guzman.
How much was that exactIy?
Jerry, what's the difference...
between a bIack man and a nigger?
What?
The nigger's the one...
that wouId even think about teIIing you.
You aII right?
Put it down.
Go wait with Betty.
We took eIeven miIIion in drug profits...
out of the van.
The money doesn't know where it comes from...
but I do.
If I keep it, I'm a criminaI.
If I give it to the government, I'm a fooI.
If I try and do some good with it...
maybe it just makes things worse.
Either way, I'II probabIy just wind up...
getting myseIf in more troubIe.
It's an impossibIe choice...
but in a way, we aII have to make it.
What wouId you do?