All language subtitles for The SHIELD - S04 E09 - String Theory (720p - BluRay)

Previously on The Shield:

This is the little ho
that gave up my block.

[GUNSHOTS]

Like to get that little
girl's body back?

Body for a body.

Who?

Vic Mackey.

His body for hers.

Let me know when it's done.

Tomorrow morning's news

will have a big picture
of Mackey's kids

crying their eyes out.

Or a picture of your
son, crying his.

Get it done. Tonight.

I negotiated a deal between
you and the Los Mags.

One condition: Antwon goes away.

What you win?

A little girl's body.

I'm gonna tell
Antwon we chatted.

I didn't mean that!
Jesus Christ!

Where's that girl's body?

The crapper on the right.

Buried underneath,
wrapped in plastic.

Jesus.

I'm in some serious shit.

What the hell's the matter?

Bugged your car.

It's you or me, right?

Look, Antwon killed Angie
right in front of me and Army.

He did it with our guns.
He's squeezing us.

Look, I need you.

Will you help me?

[CLICKS]

CARL: Wait,
the guy was just screaming,

so I look down

and I see in his hand

his nipple ring and his nipple.

[SCOOBY LAUGHS]

It's all true.

Fortunately, the guy was drunk.

DANNY: Yeah,
but sooner or later you sober up,

and you're still
missing your nipple.

How'd you guys log that into
evidence, anyway?

Oh, shit, with gloves on.

[LAUGHING]

I'll be in the car.

CARL: Thought he got benched?

His PBA rep appealed,

he's on the street
till the hearing.

CARL: You know,
he's pissed a lot of people off,

not being with the captain.

DANNY: He's got a
right to take a stand.

CARL: And to remain silent.

Okay. Hey, you with me, Scoob?

Damn straight.

WOMAN [OVER RADIO]:
1-Tango-17, 242 just occurred.

762 Whitney Avenue, code two.

[CARL GROANS] DAN NY:
Talk to you later.

Yeah, I guess second
roll call's over.

Yeah.

Look, you had a gun to his head.

He's gonna tell you anything.

It wasn't like that.

How can you know
what's in his mind?

If Shane wasn't telling me the
truth, you trust me,

things would've gone
down differently.

He was never coming after me.

He's been lying for months,

leaking all that
intel to Antwon.

He didn't get Angie killed.

Her own mother gave
her up to Antwon

before she OD'd.

He had to watch Antwon shoot
her, for chrissakes.

He's sick about it.

Yeah,
so sick all he's worried about

is covering his own ass.

I told him to come clean

with everything that
happened with Antwon.

Will that buy him some trust?

We should hear him out.

Boys.

SHANE: And once he had
us on the hook for Angie,

he twisted us pretty hard.

You've already seen
the highlights.

[SIGHS]

And after that, everything else

just seemed like small
potatoes, you know?

We tipped off the El
Salvadorans in that church raid.

Uh, muled some China White
from San Pedro to I.A.

Antwon was pretty
pissed off you took down

those drug dens of his.

And to help ease the
pain, we, uh,

busted his competitors.

You know,
gave him half the product.

And that's most of it.

Antwon have any relationships
I should know about?

Not many that work.

Beaners hate his ass.

El Salvadorans are losing faith.
ROC, they ignore him.

Asians tolerate him.

Outside the brothers,
he ain't too popular.

His injunctions and seizures
are hitting him harder

than he wants folks to know.

That's why he needed me.

LEM: What about Army?

He follows my lead.

So he won't blind-side us?

No. No, he's... He's down.

Look, I'm sorry about
that little girl.

But it's not too
late to get her back,

to give her a proper burial.

So basically you need our help.

Right?

He came clean.

Now it's time for
us to do our part.

ARMY: What?
SHANE: I told them everything.

What everything? All of it.

How 'bout bouncing
that shit off me?

I don't know these guys.

Well, I do.
We can't handle this alone.

All right, banger spotters
are there around the clock.

Lost souls usually
shuffle in after dark.

Place closes around midnight.

We find an excuse
to roust the muscle,

bring 'em to the Barn.

SHANE: But they're One-Niners.

Bust them on an
injunction violation.

How you plan on
getting Angie's body?

SHANE: We wait till it's dark.

I just don't know how
deep she's buried.

If they planned on having
the shithouse on top,

probably not very deep.

We dig her up,
extract our bullets.

And find a really good
place to bury her.

Once we have the girl's body,

Antwon doesn't have
any more leverage.

We go at him hard,
put him away for good.

Or we shoot him for resisting.

This is bullshit, man.

Or we can do this
just the four of us.

No, he's good.
Don't worry. Let's go.

WOMAN [OVER RADIO]:

Respond to 4556
Alexandria Circle,

Apartment 7.

1-Tango-17 has been code
six on a domestic dispute

for a while now,

and they're not responding.

JULIEN: Roger,
this is 1-Tango-13.

We're on the scene.

DANNY: Ma'am,
are you the one that made the 911 call?

Yeah, but I told them
other cops they missed him.

How long ago did the
other officers come by?

About a half hour ago.

Why“ You ca“?

Gideon Mazell, my ex's kid,

he was trying to break in.

Said he was gonna rape me.

Asshole's been
trying to get at me

since I dumped his old man.

Did you see where the
other officers went

after they left here?

Figured they went
looking for Gideon.

JULIEN: I have to take a look.
1-Tango-17, you copy?

Carl, Scooby, you guys on foot?

Anything?

Canvassed the whole area.
There's nothing.

Oh, Shit.

Half the people weren't
answering their door,

the other half were sleeping.

Let me see your radio.

Staff, 9-Tango.

I'm code six on
Alexandria Circle.

Be advised we have two
officers unaccounted for.

Requesting a tac alert.

All watches will be held over.

WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Copy that.

We should notify the families.

[TIT]

Carl and Scooby
have been missing

at least an hour.

I'm on my way over
there right now.

Could be the same hunt.

Antwon sending a message.

If that's true,
they aren't missing.

Retribution for not
killing the cop he wanted?

We know where he
likes to bury bodies.

Jesus Christ.

VIC: All right.

You, Army and Ronnie
stick to the plan.

Find our missing cops.

We also gotta get a 2O on Antwon

so we can scoop him up as soon
as we find the girl's body.

You come with me. Let's go.

You go to the end of the block

and keep knocking until
you wake people up.

Yes, ma'am.
Where do you want us?

We're tracking down
this Gideon Mazell,

he's the subject
of the 911 calls.

Steve Billings is
on his way down,

so pass on to him what you find.

Captain.

Steve's good at what he does,

But we've got officers missing.

If they're alive,
they won't be for long,

and your two best detectives
are right here right now.

You haven't seen our best
game because of the DA thing.

This is too important.

Okay, you're the primaries.

We'll contact the sheriff,

see if they can loan
us some bloodhounds.

Tracking Gideon Mazell.

Danny, you talked to the
woman he was threatening,

$0 you guys get together.

Vic and his people can
work the gang angle.

DUTCH: Where is she?
Number 7, upstairs.

Julien, I want you to
be department liaison.

Sit with Carl's wife.

I heard what happened.
I wanna help.

Tonight your reserve duty?

No.

But I'm still part
of this family.

Who can I ride with?

I'll see who's available.

Captain, look,
I knew both those guys.

I should be out there
looking for them.

Well, I'm more comfortable
if you're at Carl's house.

I don't have time to worry about
whether you'll follow orders.

Danny, I want you to take
Aceveda on patrol with you.

If there are problems,
I wanna hear about it.

Absolutely.

You ever consider this might
be Antwon Mitchell's work?

It's his hood, isn't it?

Yeah,
I sent unis to pick him up.

Call 'em back.
I'm all over it. He's MIA.

With our two cops?
That's convenient.

Give me those unis.

I'll sweep up some of his crew,

maybe find Antwon or our guys.

I can only spare a
couple of bodies.

Look, if I wasn't put

in the backseat on
this task force,

maybe I could've stopped
this from happening.

You did what you had to do.
I know that.

I just wanna find these guys.

Okay. I'll have
Zerkow call them back,

and assign them to you.

Appreciate that.

I'd like to help out.
You got any gaps here?

Yeah,
check with Dutch and Claudette.

They're up there.

VIC: We wanna talk to Antwon.

PIPES: He ain't here.

What do you assholes know

about two missing cops, huh?

Can I see?

You know there's an
injunction, boys.

Ain't no violation, man.

Franklin here's a citizen.
He ain't claiming.

Really? WOMAN: That ain't Right.

MAN: Sweating me for Twon.

What are you gonna do,
drop my drawers too, faggot?

OFFICER: Hey, Vic!

VIC: Take this piece
of shit punk-ass.

Get them inside, out of sight.

Okay, go to work.
Back in the Barn in an hour.

DUTCH: Gideon Mazell's address.

Captain... I mean, councilman.

It's just officer tonight.
What can we do?

Pick Gideon up.
And take plenty of backup.

Don't worry, we'll be careful.

LUCAS: Detective!

I just talked to a
neighbor who called 911

an hour before the other call.

What was the complaint?

Homeless man rooting
through the trash.

And when they tried
to run him off,

he seemed unstable,
threatened violence.

Get a description.

He's homeless, he's not far.
Okay.

I'll tip it up,
you push it up and over, okay?

Okay.

[GRUNTING}

Oh, goddamn it.

That is rank.

[GRUNTS]

You can do the digging.

Okay, fine.

SHANE: No sign of our cops,

and the girl's
body wasn't there.

What do you mean?

Shallow grave, empty.

Somebody moved her.

Halpern tipped Antwon.

No way. We've been taking
turns watching that place

around the clock since
he showed it to us.

Halpern lied?

And maybe the body
was never there.

Nah, he moved it and
didn't tell him about it.

Well, now what?

Can't find the Don,
you go visit Fredo.

Yo, what are you working?

Same as you.

Captain talked to
Dutch and Claudette,

put 'em onto Antwon.

They got me tracking him down.

Hear something,
give us a head's up.

Yeah.

Look, I'm trying.
He's not making it easy.

Keep trying-

Why you got me locked down?

Officers who brought you in
said you got a little physical.

'Cause I didn't do
nothing to deserve this.

Twice arrested for intent
to distribute steroids.

That your One-Niner connection?

You and a couple of them

run into two of our
police officers tonight?

Shit, no.

Maybe you went over to
Lydia Qualls's place

looking to get a
little physical too?

Lydia? She the one trying
to get physical with me.

CLAUDETTE: With you? Yeah.

She's dating your father.

Left him, thinking she
could have the 2005 model.

I told her I was straight.

If she's the one chasing you,

how come she's calling 911

trying to stop you from
breaking into her house?

What you talking about?

Officers respond,
they go missing.

Takes somebody pretty strong
to corral the two of them.

What time we talking?
Few hours ago.

No, no, no.

I was over at Greg
Hockler's place all night.

Shooting up with stanozol.

Steroids?

Got fresh track marks
in my ass to prove it.

[LAUGHS]

Looks like you could use
a little juice, buddy.

DUTCH: You lied to us, Lydia.

We have two officers missing.

So we don't have time
for goddamn liars.

Gideon was nowhere
near your place

when you called 911.

You lured those officers there,

you told them some
bullshit story

about some guy harassing you,

and when they left your place,

there was somebody
else waiting for them.

No!

Where are they, Lydia?

We are gonna lock
that fat ass of yours

in a cage for the
rest of your life

unless you tell us right now.

I didn't lure no one!

I was just trying
to set up Gideon.

Figured if I got him into
some trouble with the law,

then he'd have to talk with me.

And I'd drop the charges

if he got a little
friendlier, you know?

I was looking to get
the man in my bed,

not mess with no cops.

Thank you. We'll return the
favor if you ever need it.

Goodbye.

Sheriff's office is sending
over six more officers.

What'd you get upstairs?

The body builder and his
paramour weren't involved.

So we're back to square one?

No. We've ruled some people out.

We have to rule some people in.

We knew whoever did this

had a reason for
being on that block.

Mm-hm.
Statements from neighbors?

Oh, yeah.

Look, I... I've been over this.

Nothing stands out.
I was gonna go through 'em again.

RAWLING: Well, do it in person.
Knock on the doors yourself.

We might have something.

Like I told the other
law enforcement agents,

uh, one was tall.

Um, African-American.

The shorter of the two
appeared white initially.

Then I realized

he was Asian.

[LAUGHS]

Marco Polo.

Did you see the officers go
into the apartment building?

Yes, ma'am.

DUTCH: Did you
see them come out?

[C LEARS THROAT]

CLAUDETTE: Can you answer
the question, Roger?

May I see a badge
number, please?

CLAUDETTE: Did you see the officers
come out of the building, yes or no?

I am going to need one of those

before I can be debriefed
in the category.

Civilians don't have badges.

When I get my badge,

all things will be made known.

Peace officer to peace officer.

Hey, Corrine. CORRINE: Hi.

What's going on?

We're looking for
a black banger,

20's, came in here last night.

This tied to those missing cops?

Might be.

You got any gunshot
wounds in here?

Only about a hundred.

Check for a Halpern White.

Give me a sec.

Gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Lost lots of blood.

Stabilized this morning,
moved to the fourth floor.

Talking?

On a morphine drip.

He'S happy-

Not sure how much
talking he's doing.

So any word on
those missing men?

Uh, no, but we could
use a favor with that.

That felt creepy.

It's for a good cause.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hey, see you got
that lift to the ER.

WHITE: The hell you want?

You said Angie's body was
under the goddamn outhouse.

It is. No, it ain't. We looked.

Antwon must've hauled it out.

[GROANS]

Question is, where to?

Same place he's
stashing the two cops?

What cops?

You best be coming
up with some answers

or a copy of this Cl
contract you just signed

gets nailed to the door of
Antwon's community center.

Next time you sign
insurance waivers,

you should read the fine print.

Some paper, signed or not,

ain't gonna make my
clique turn against me.

[MOANS]

You just took a
bullet, almost died.

Now you found Jesus,
saw the error of your ways.

Started giving it up to Mr. Man,

get a fresh start.

[COUGHING]

You know the thug code.

Trust no one.

Kill your buddy
before he kills you.

That's what separates
us from you.

Antwon wouldn't use his own crew

for that kind of shit.

He farms it out.

I got a contract with
the El Salvadorans.

With you laid up,
who would he reach out with?

Doubt he went direct.

I don't know who he'd
use as a middleman.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hey...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You won't be able to make

any phone calls.

But you won't care.

Um...

Would you do the honors?

What happened after the officers

came out of the
apartment building?

[C LEARS THROAT]

Uh...

The officers in
question were approached

by a series of individuals.

CLAUDETTE: How many?

Three to seven.

Difficult to say with accuracy,

low luminous environment.

Where were you in relation
to the police car?

Oh, I'd say, uh,

40 meters east-southwest-.

CLAUDETTE: What were
you doing there?

Uh, routine surveillance.

Um, monitoring

bursts of non-visible light

in the 800 angstrom range.

High dispersion and so forth.
DUTCH: Roger.

I need you to be honest with me.

Detective to detective.

[C LEARS THROAT]

DUTCH: Did you have
anything to do with this?

No, sir, I did not.

What happened to
those police officers?

Hm.

DUTCH; These men have families

that are very
worried about them.

We all have, uh,

level three clearance
here, correct?

CLAUDETTE: No.

I'm still at level two.

Roger...

Level three.

Foreign operatives

are using the fault lines

to destabilize
the gravity shelf.

9/11 all over again.

So these people you
saw, they were, uh,

foreign agents?

Uh, they, uh...

They travel along
the fault lines

to evade detection.

Um, there are easier ways
to, uh,

knock down a skyscraper

than flying aircraft into it.

Subduction,
slip-strike manipulation,

mantle failure and so forth.

That building is coming down.

It's coming down, all right.

Yeah, got it.

Officer, deploy the swing
shift without roll call.

Everyone on the street.

And no petty busts.

I don't want anybody holed
up with paperwork here.

Yes, ma'am.

So did he give us anything?

Alien abduction
is more plausible

than anything he had to say.

He studied string
theory at Cal Tech

before going off the deep end.

Send him to County
for observation.

The o... One thing we
know is he saw our cops.

We should keep him here.

The man's psychotic.

He's our only witness.

When does INS send
your ass back?

Supposed to be three days ago.

Behind schedule. Why?

I can keep you off that bus.
Keep you in the U.S.

Two cops have gone missing.

INS is helping the police.

What do you need me for?

Information. Antwon Mitchell.

If he wanted to grab some cops,

who would he use from your set?

You can really get
me out of here?

Free pass comes
right from the top.

Chief signed it himself.

Name's Pitarrio.

Knew Antwon in prison.

He's his go-to on
all the ugly shit.

Where can I find him?

I need to look for him.

You need to stay here
in case Carl calls.

You know, he's been

coming home every night

talking about how things are
more dangerous out there.

I mean, what did your captain

think would happen?

You push people long
enough, they push back.

Things weren't working before.

She's just trying
something different.

Things were working fine before.

Carl came home every night.

He's out there.

Alive.

I can feel it.

Then we'll find him.

VIC: What's up, Queenie?

Daddy, am I glad you here.

Ducked in the alley
for a quick bowl.

You know, take the edge off.

Dude grabs me from
behind, puts a knife to me

tell me to dime po-po and
give you all an address.

What is it?

Sister needs to be
about her paper.

That blade on this pretty face

scared my ass to death.

Here.

2711 Heliotrope.

What am I gonna find there?

Didn't say.
What's the guy look like?

Told me if I turned around,

he's gonna cut out my implants.

Did he sound black or white?

Honey, I wasn't trying to know.

I just finished paying
for my new kitty-cats.

Another dub,
buy you some bomb-ass skully.

You know I'm gonna
take care of your piece

better than any other female.

I'm gonna have to
take your word for it.

Go.

[BANGS]

Oh, Jesus.

ACEVEDA: Oh, Jesus.

[GROANS]

Everyone outside until
the detectives get here.

OFFICER 1: Come on.
All right, let's go.

OFFICER 2: Come on, let's go.
OFFICER 1: Let's go.

Stay behind the line.

REPORTER: Can you just
tell us the names?

As soon as I get down there.
All right, it's okay.

OFFICER: Out of the way.

They were killed somewhere
else, dumped here.

Forensic's job just
got harder by half.

Gotta find the murder scene.

We seized this house last month.

Somebody's certainly
making his point.

Antwon Mitchell was
hit the hardest.

Partnered with the
Salvadorans at Lompoc.

Likes to use them
for the dirty stuff.

You remember that Salvadoran
broker, Spider,

from the church bust?

I had a little chat with him.

The INS hasn't sent him
back to El Salvador yet?

They're not the most
efficient bunch.

But anyway, he put me onto a guy
who does dirty work for Antwon.

Let me know.

Yeah.

It's a foursome.

Easy way to wash drug money.

Bottles come in the front,
the big faces come out the back.

Go around. Yeah.

Freeze! Hands on the table!
Don't move!

Which one of you is Pitarrio?

Pita rrio?

Pitarrio.

Pitarrio? Talk!

Get out.

Get out!

Who paid you to kill the cops?

I didn't kill no cops.

[SCREAMS]

Antwon Mitchell
gave you the order.

No. I didn't do no cops, man.

Spider says you did.

[GROANS]

I was at the movies last night.

Ticket's in my jacket-.

[PANTING AND GRUNTING]

Sylmar.
Eight-thirty show last night.

Shit.

[MOANS]

No.

[SCREAMS]

You didn't kill the cops,

but you did something for Mitchell!
What was it?

[PANTING]

What?

The body.

Antwon told me to move a body.

COps?

No.

I think it was a girl.

Where?

Where? [G ROANS]

Griffith Park, man.
By the horses.

Need to interview the
suspect Billings brought in.

ROGER: Psst. Psst.

Surveillance has been
non-productive thus far.

MAN: Yeah, that's right here.

I have been monitoring
the chatter and so forth.

Sorry to hear about
those two officers.

They deserved better

than getting dragged
down like that.

Why don't you start without me?

What do you mean, dragged down?

I... I need you to
really concentrate

on everything you
saw last night.

See it in your mind like it's a...
A movie.

And you're looking at
it one frame at a time.

Can you do that for me?
I'll try.

I've got, uh,
one of those brains

that skips around a lot, it's...

My condolences to the
Marco Polo family.

♪ In a cavern ♪

♪ In a canyon ♪

♪ Excavating ♪

♪ For a mine ♪

♪ Dwells a miner, forty-niner ♪

♪ And his daughter ♪

♪ Clementine ♪

CLAUDETTE: I'm in a hurry,
so I won't waste your time.

I'll do the same.

People say not a lot
happens on your block

if you don't sign off on it.

I look after my peoples.

We had two cops

murdered and dumped

in the house on your street.

That had to have been outsiders.

Really?

Mean you and your neighbors
weren't pissed off

the police seized that
house on your street?

It wasn't my house.

Owners cooked meth.

Street's been safer
since you done it.

We need to do another
canvass of this whole area.

Figure out how Carl
and Scooby disappeared.

What are we looking for?

I'm not sure.

But it may involve
a geological anomaly

in the earth's crust.

Just something to keep in
mind as you do your search.

Vonda,
I'm Captain Monica Rawling.

He's dead.

I'm so sorry.

He believed in
what you're doing.

He was proud

to put on his uniform every day.

He was... But what you're doing

here in Farmington is
what got him killed.

You need to know that.

Carl was a hero.

You need to know that.

I need you to leave now.

Both of you.

Please, just...

Just go.

Hey, uh,
give me a hand with this.

Here.

LEM: Yeah, Southwest.
That's cool.

All right, we'll pick him up.

Thanks, man, we owe you one.

Was that about Antwon?

Well?

Yeah. That was, uh, Walon Burke.
Decoy Squad.

I know Walon.
What did he give you?

An FBI pal of his in Westwood

just got a hit on
Antwon's credit card.

He charged a plane
ticket from Vegas.

Due into LAX at 7:30. Southwest.

I'll send some unis
to pick him up.

Nice work.

DUTCH: I got something!

Found at the bottom of a manhole
near our original crime scene.

There's blood
everywhere down there.

How do you get two
cops in a sewer?

"Officer,
my daughter just fell down there,

can you help me?"

Blinged-out dog tag

the hip-hop kids wear.

Initials, J.P.

Found it in the blood.

Too untarnished to have
been down there long.

Get the owner, got a killer.

MAN: Uh, yeah.

So how many guys do
you think it took?

You know,
to get Carl and Scooby down there?

A few. There's a lot of
anger about what's going on.

Yeah, well,
they're angry 'cause it's working.

A lot of us are
behind the captain.

That's understandable.

Sometimes street level

isn't the best
vantage point to...

[BANGING]

DAN NY: What the hell was that?

Holy shit!

CLAUDETTE: This look familiar to
you, Yancy?

Don't think so.

It was ripped from the neck

of one of the people

who killed two cops last night,

whose bodies were
found on your block.

You're hip-deep in this shit.

You're the mayor on that block.

You either did it or
you know about it.

Don't come near me with that.

You're saying you've never
seen this jewelry before?

Name's Yancy Backus, remember?

J.P. belongs to somebody else.

So it belongs to
one of your friends

you did the killing with.

Y'all took my cell
phone downstairs.

Check my friends and family.

Or you could check
with Leimert Jewelers,

the people who made this.

See who they sold it to.

Stupid-ass.

MAN: He didn't even do nothing.

He didn't do nothing.

[SIRENS BLARING]

MAN: What's wrong with you?

Who wrote this?

He ain't seen nothing.

He was out back
unloading the truck.

Yeah, bullshit.

What's bullshit,
brothers out here dying,

ain't none of you turning over.

One of these cops was a brother!

A cop ain't a brother.

Maybe you saw something
then, huh?

Man, get the...

Hey, come here.
Get your ass over here.

Where you going? Come here.

You don't have shit.

MAN: We need to get
the pastor down here

with video cameras.

You okay?

[GROANS]

You know,
you might wanna get that x-rayed.

I got the wind knocked
out of me is all.

Comes with the territory.

Along with getting shot at.

Don't single yourself out.

Three other officers got
their cars fired on today.

Everybody okay?

Thank God.

Not that you're asking,

but I've lost cops
under my command.

It's easy to shit your pants,
but it accomplishes nothing.

I wasn't going down that road.

What I'm saying is,

a thing like this,

especially if there's
no good news right away,

can paralyze you.

But those people out there
need to feel your confidence.

RAWLINGI Vic!

You're empty-handed.

Where's the guy who does

all of Antwon's dirty work?

He had an airtight alibi.

[SIGHS]

Well, it's going around.

Antwon just happened to
be in Vegas last night.

Got his flight info.

I have some unis posted at LAX

to grab him when he
gets off the plane.

Some good news, finally.

Yeah, well,
conversations with Mitchell

tend to go around in circles.

I don't wanna keep
the community waiting

while I find the straight line.

Dutch and Claudette
have come up empty too.

Maybe it's time to, um,

bring in a person of interest-.

Lay it off on someone?

Just a couple of days.

Give us a chance

to try to squeeze the
truth out of Antwon.

Makes people think twice

before they take
a shot at a uni.

You have anyone in mind?

No.

Just so long as
he fills the bill.

One unsympathetic
asshole coming right up.

Captain's arranged a
welcome wagon for Antwon.

He's flying into LAX tonight.

So I hear.

You knew?

What part of us getting
information first

didn't you understand?

Captain was standing right
there when I got the call.

I had to tell her.

She doesn't have
anything on Antwon.

No. But he's got plenty on them.

We haul in Antwon,
push the wrong buttons,

how long it's gonna take
him to point at me and Army?

I'll make sure it takes

long enough for us to
get our leverage back.

Look, we gotta find a goat
to pin these murders on.

To calm the streets before
another cop gets killed.

This captain won't go for that.

It's her idea.

All we need is a
face and a name.

Anyone in Antwon's
circle fit that bill?

Well, there is this young cat.

Earned his cred by supplying
clean guns to the black sets.

Whatever he was doing last
night, it wasn't legal.

Guppy got a name?

Street name's Urkel.

[CHUCKLING]

Swear to God.

All right, good.

You and Ronnie go pick
up our cop-killer.

Now you want us to haul
in an innocent guy?

No, he'll have a
car full of guns.

Bring him in for that.

We'll figure the rest out later.

Let's go.

Rise and shine, big pimpin.

Better get ahold of
our thick friend.

Give him a heads-up.

About what?

Our captain likes him

for killing those cops.

Sending a blue crew
to LAX to pick him up.

SHANE: He needs to fly
into Burbank instead.

We'll surprise him there,

tell him how to play
this out with our bosses.

Think he's gonna drop his ass

into whatever jackpot
you got planned?

No more games. No more threats.

We wanna stop beef and start
doing business the right way.

This guy wants you dead.

He ain't getting into
a car with y'all.

He's not gonna have a choice.

Now, make the damn call.

Hell, yeah, that's my shit.

So you're admitting
you were present

at a crime scene last
night, Jamal?

Crime scene?

Those two dead cops.

DUTCH: Friends of
ours, actually.

No, I was not there.

But your necklace was?
How do you explain that?

Necklace got itself stolen.

[LAUGHS]

Right.

When? Six, seven months ago.

They took the TV too.

You, uh, report it?

I spent three G's getting
this thing custom-made.

You best believe your
ass I reported it.

Go check your records.

Police have any
idea who took it?

I kept trying to check
back with you cops

every couple weeks

to see if they
heard anything new.

No one seemed real interested.

Y'all real interested
now, though, huh?

RAWLINGI Dutch.

You two come up, please.

So the trail just stops?

DUTCH: Well,
even with the necklace stolen,

we're thinking

it probably ended up

in the hands of somebody
with the initials J.P.

RAWLING: That's reaching.
What else do we have?

No witnesses,
but we're waiting for lab work.

So that's the plan?

We just get lucky,
something falls in our laps?

It's only the first day.

Every day will just get harder.

Meanwhile, I've had four
different squad cars shot at.

Two brawls with
civilians and officers,

and one instance in which
my own men lost control.

It's gotta stop.

Vic and his guys have
brought in a suspect.

Great. What do we have on him?

Carload of stolen guns.

Our guys were stabbed.

He's a gang member,

we've got him on
weapons charges.

But nothing related
to our murders?

I want you to make
the press believe

that we have a
killer in custody.

DUTCH: Oh, you're kidding me.

You want us to lie?

Save your high and mighties

for a time when the lives
of my cops aren't at stake.

You've had a chance
to solve this.

It's only been one day.

You've been doing your best,

but we're not far enough.

We tell the community
that we have a killer,

it sends a message that
there's a price to pay

for coming after us.

Makes whoever
really did it cocky,

gets them laughing
with their friends

about what idiots we are,

and if they tell
their friends...

DUTCH: Their friends tell
someone who tells us.

You wanted the case.

So take the bad with the good.

ANTWON: So five-0 was
waiting for me at LAX?

How's this an improvement?

My little gift to you,
running interference.

I didn't know I made
your Christmas list.

We want a truce.

You know, there's a much
bigger upside for you

me being alive and kicking.

ANTWON: I don't see it.

Truth is, my captain's made a
serious dent in your business.

How long before someone

in your organization

decides to play
king of the hill?

Nobody's taking me down.

Not without my backing.

You been stepping on
my game since day one.

That earns you dead.

Yeah, that didn't happen.

My boys saw you gaffing me
up at the airport, so...

Now what?

You back off me and mine,

Shane and his family.

We work out fair percentages,

you get to do business
uninterrupted.

That's the deal.

[LAUGHING]

Either you smoking
crack or you think I am.

Our captain pulled him off
lead on the gang task force.

He lost his pay bump.

There's no upside for me to
play by their rules anymore.

I got two sick kids.
I gotta earn.

And I ain't got
time to hear no more

of this crackerwood bullshit.

Look, I know you've been looking

for a new tar importer.

Ever since you lost
that cul-de-sac,

the El Salvadorans.

VIC: I got a hookup

with a Jamaican
crew out of Miami.

They call themselves
the Splash Posse.

Yeah, I heard of them niggas.

They're looking to move
weight out of the West Coast.

I'm their broker.

We need a retail outlet.

So you a...
A baller all of a sudden now, huh?

Always was.

But I just took a step back

from the game for
a little while.

So what's your captain
gonna sweat me on, huh?

These dead cops?

I don't kill for no reason.

And I don't know nothing
about merking no police.

SHANE: They got nothing on you.

They'll hold you
for a few hours,

then they'll cut you loose.

I'll be in the room.

I'll steer the questioning

away from anything sensitive.

That is,
if we're working together.

You lucky your boy
got mad love for you.

Oh, yeah.

We're all about mad love.

[LAUGHS]

The suspect's name
is Donzell Prince.

REPORTER: you've arrested
him for the murders

of Officers Haimes and Miller?

DUTCH: He's being held
on weapon charges,

but we're confident
we have our man.

REPORTER: If you're confident,
why don't you file murder?

DUTCH: We don't
wanna make mistakes.

No one wants to take chances.

REPORTER: Do you
believe he acted alone?

Doesn't the crime itself

suggest that there were
multiple assailants?

I really can't go into

our theory of the
crime at this time.

Has the suspect indicated
any accomplices?

I can't talk about the specifics
of what the suspect revealed.

All I can say is

our investigation
is bearing fruit.

And we'll have more for you
in the coming days. Thank you.

WOMAN: Can you tell us
what led you to Mr. Prince?

MAN: Detective...

[CHATTERING]

WOMAN: What's the motive?

Danny, bring him up to 1.

DAN NY: Sure.

We frisked him, he's clean.

DAN NY: All right.

He gave us the slip at LAX.

How did you find him?

One of his crew told
us he got a heads-up.

Figured he only had one
of two choices left,

Burbank or LB.

We got him at Bob Hope.

Nice.

Don't know what we're
gonna throw at him yet.

I have a couple of
aces up my sleeve.

See you up there.

Yeah.

Help yourself.

All known city gang members
with the initials J and P.

I hope you got a four-leaf
clover in your pocket.

We should start with One-Niners.

In Farmington.

Want some dinner?

I had dinner four hours ago.

Yeah, I mean another dinner.

Whatever you want's
fine with me.

We have nothing to
charge Antwon with.

It means we can only
hold him for 12 hours.

She's buried in Griffith Park,
somewhere near the horses.

In three holes. Christ.

VIC: All right,
I'll tie up Mitchell.

Make sure he does doesn't
dime anyone to move her again.

You three have to
find the graves.

Yeah.

LEM: I'll do it too.

Look for fresh digging.
Let's find her.

Don't need that.

[CUFFS JINGLING]

Thanks for coming in, Antwon.

[TIT]