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CHARLES FALCO: After one particular vicious attack

in a Vagos bar, I was arrested for assault

with several other gang members.

Even though there was witnesses to confirm

I had nothing to do with the attack, we were all charged.

I assumed I would get released once authorities realised

their mistake.

Turned out it wasn't so simple.

The danger of infiltrating a biker gang

is nothing compared to a hell in prison.

My name is Charles Falco, and this is my story.

Going undercover in the Vagos was a bargain

that I struck to stay out of jail,

but look where that got me.

In here, if you're not in a gang, you won't make it.

1, 2--

It's all about survival of the fittest.

6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

In a place like this, it's eat or be eaten.

Thing about prison, it shows you who you really are.

What are you smiling at?

[theme music]

CHARLES FALCO: Nothing moves as slow as prison time.

We spend our entire first day waiting to be processed.

Four of us never laid a finger on the kid

that Schizo beat to a pulp, but we're all in jail for it,

at least until our next hearing in a week.

[prison cell opening]

STASH: What did your lawyer say?

We're screwed.

You damn step back.

STASH: What?

Step back, you dumbass, because if they

can prove that we're in a gang, you get mandatory extra time.

Damn it.

I gotta find some way of hiding this shit.

They can't prove I'm a Vago.

Come on, Schitz.

They know you're a Vago.

We got taken down in our cuts.

Yeah, but they can't prove it.

You know, from here on in, I'm not a Vago.

I'm a businessman.

I ride with you guys.

I hang out with you guys, but that's it, all right?

Don't worry, you guys are gonna be fine.

You're gonna walk, but you gotta back me up on this.

That's called perjury, Schitz.

That's called loyalty.

Loyalty?

You're talking about loyalty?

You want to sell out your own cuts.

I'm not gonna sell out my patch, you dumbass.

It's for show!

No, this is America, man.

These colours don't run, unless you're a punk.

CHARLES FALCO: Take it easy, Schitz.

Schitz!

Schitz, take it easy.

SCHIZO: What the hell are you doing?

What, are you with him now?

The hell?

GUARD: Break it up!

SCHIZO: Hey!

Hey, dude, I didn't--

GUARD: Hey!

All right!

Hey, just let go of me!

Hey, you see Suzanna, tell her I miss her.

STASH: We'll always have Reno.

CHARLES FALCO: Since we're all members of the same gang,

the prison authorities split us up and move us

to separate units, and I meet my new cellmate.

His name's Thor.

He's been inside for two years.

And this guy, he doesn't shut up.

She's so sweet, so good.

It's real love, man.

We were gonna get married.

But what happened?

I stabbed her mum in the throat, like 33 times.

Now why would I do that?

Bitch tried to give me a blowjob.

My fiancée's ma right there in the supermarket parking lot.

I'm like, come on, lady.

That's not how I was raised.

So I stick her a bunch of times, and she's, like, on her knees.

And there's blood everywhere, and she's gurgling.

Why, Thor, why?

Why?

Because I'm a virgin, and I'm trying to save myself

for your daughter.

What happened to purity, Chuck?

What happened to purity?

Someone tries to defile your love,

you're bound to do the righteous thing.

Isn't that right?

Anyway, when I get out of here I'm gonna be a serial killer.

At least Koz visits tomorrow.

Hopefully, he'll have a plan to get me out of this hell hole.

What do you mean it's been delayed?

DA says he needs more time to prepare the case,

so the hearing's been pushed back a ways.

How long?

A month.

Charlie, you want out, you say the word,

and we'll pull you out.

But the thing is when we tell the judge in The DA

you're a federal informant, local cops will find out, too.

And then it'll be leaked back to the gang,

and I'll be dead along with your case.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): If I choose to leave now,

my infiltration of the Vagos will have to end.

But I'm not done collecting evidence on these guys just

yet, so this is home for the next month.

The only time I see Schizo and Stash

are during exercise in the gym.

In prison, all the races stick to their own,

and Thor decides to stick to me.

Hey, welcome to the jungle, man.

Teach you a few ground rules.

See him?

That's the Rep, and them two's the Bullets.

We answer to the Bullets.

Bullets answer to the Rep.

Rep answers to the Key Holder.

Yeah?

Where's the Key Holder at?

Don't him just now.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): The Key Holder

is a part of the Aryan Brotherhood, a feared

white supremacist prison gang.

So if I want to stay out of trouble,

I gotta stay on the right side of the Rep and his Bullets.

Same thing with all the races.

Everyone answers to their own gang.

You wanna stay healthy in here, you stick with the Woods.

The Woods are white inmates, and Thor completely

believes that he's a wood.

Now I'm starting to see why others give him

such a wide berth.

There's one last prick you don't want to come down on you.

Oh, yeah?

Who's that?

El Toro Malo.

If he wasn't a guard, he'd be seeing hard time

for the shit he does.

Hey, yo, you heard this shit, man?

A month?

Yeah, I heard.

You a Vago?

You with the Woods?

Yeah, I'm freaking Danish, man.

Hey, can I be a prospect?

STASH: No.

No.

Listen, you talk to the punk?

Who's the punk?

STASH: Hey, do you mind?

Listen, I made a call, all right?

Schizo's done being in chapter P. You can take that

to the bank.

Who'd you call?

STASH: What the hell, man?

Hey, you got food in your cell?

STASH: I took a banana from breakfast.

Dude, do not do that.

El Toro Malo hates that.

OK, all right, man.

See you later.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): If Thor is good for one thing,

it's explaining all the rules of this place.

Meals are a minefield.

The slightest mistake can blow up on you.

It's your lucky day.

Let's go, come here.

1, 2, 3, 4.

Next, 9, 10, 13, 15, 20.

Next.

28, 30.

Next.

Next!

35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.

He's done.

Falco, right?

Heard you were a Vago.

Yeah.

My Bullets are moving to federal pens.

You and your local buddy here, you're my new Bullets

starting tomorrow.

No, I-- I--

I'm good.

I just got here, man.

You are what I say you are, Vago.

He gets it, Rep.

Yeah, I get it.

We're Bullets.

I'm good.

What the hell, Chuck?

We do what he says.

We're Bullets, yo.

A week in feels like a year.

Prison discipline is not much different to being a prospect

in an outlaw biker gang.

Most of the rules in this place are

ones devised by the inmates.

But our Rep, he takes it to a whole new level of brutality.

Hey, you prick, interrupt my game?

Check this guy.

[screaming]

But the Rep, he walks a fine line.

Oh, come on.

THE REP: Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

THE REP: Yeah?

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): If he takes it too far--

THE REP: You didn't make the rules, shit bag!

--he faces more time.

That was the last I saw of our Rep.

You know what this means?

Vacancy at the top.

It's my time.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): Thor's big dream is to be Rep,

but it's not his choice to make.

CHARLES FALCO: Hey.

SUZANNA: How are you holding up?

Aw, I can't complain.

It's kind of hard to wake up hung over there.

I should be out after the next hearing.

Now that there's witnesses that's

where I never had that kid.

You know I'm not like that, right, Suze?

Hey, Charlie, you wanna explain what this is to me,

Charlie?

No?

Is that because you only like to talk when it's turned on?

There.

Wasn't sure what it was at first, but this helped.

Thought you were screwing around on me

till I called the number for Samantha Kyles,

from the organised crime unit.

Well, if you know about that, then

you know why I couldn't tell you.

Because you needed to use me to get ahead in the Vagos.

Oh, come on.

All this time, I was just your cover.

- Suze, it's not like that. - No?

Then what is the word for the chick you've

been banging so you could rat out her closest

friends, Charlie?

Her closest friends?

Really?

Just how close are you and Schizo, anyway?

How close are friends were you and Reno, huh?

You wanna tell me about that?

Great, Suze.

What, are you gonna go visit him now, too?

Hey, you have no idea.

You have no idea.

And after all the bullshit that's come out of your mouth,

I don't owe you anything!

[slamming]

Suze, Suze, Suze, Suze, Suze, Suze!

Hey--

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): If Suzanna tells Schizo's wife,

Stella, about me, I'm as good as dead,

but there's nothing I can do except worry.

You know what, Chuck?

You gotta learn to chill in this place.

What's going on out there?

It sounds like they cornered themselves a pedophile.

Don't worry.

It'll stop.

Like I said.

Think it was that new guy who they beat.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): A group

of inmates forced him off the top mezzanine, 30 feet down,

solid concrete.

It's just another night in jail.

Inside the American justice system is a shadow system

with its own primal laws.

And everyday reminds me why I did

what I did to stay out of it.

Quick.

CHARLES FALCO: Hey, what are you doing over here?

Key Holder sent me over.

You see the guy out with the face?

CHARLES FALCO: Yeah, what'd I do?

Nothing, it's what you're gonna do.

He wants you to be his new Rep.

He said you're either down or dead, and you're going down.

Understand?

Mm-hmm.

You can just climb the ladder wherever you go, don't you?

You're the Rep?

You?

You haven't even been here two weeks.

It was my time!

It's not about seniority.

It's about authority.

And the Key Holder seems to think a Vago's mean enough

for the job.

CHARLES FALCO: You and you, you're my new Bullets.

THOR: Why aren't I your Bullet?

Because I don't want you killing someone on my watch.

Now run along.

Just like that, I'm someone to be feared.

If they only knew that I was more scared than any of them.

Oh, shit.

You know, you realise that anything goes too far, you--

you get charged.

I can't help you.

It's not like I had a choice, Matt.

Son of a bitch.

OK, I hate to bring this up.

We got another problem.

Go back to when you were busted for meth.

You gave up your partner, Bernard.

You remember that.

Yeah, of course I remember Bernard.

So after his arrest, he skipped bail to Mexico.

They finally caught up with him, and his trial's coming up.

And this-- this is your subpoena.

Looks like you're the prosecution's star witness.

Are you kidding me?

When?

A few months.

Now, trial's in LA, so it shouldn't interfere

with your cover.

Does Bernard's lawyer know that I've

been served to be a witness?

Does he know that I'm in here waiting my own trial?

He could.

Well, then Bernard could know where I am.

Yeah

'Cause if he knows, I am dead.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): Bernard

has contacts in the Mexican mafia.

If he wants to get rid of someone,

he just has to say the word.

If Suzanna tells Schizo's wife about me, same result.

1--

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): All the while,

I play the part of the unit Rep, punisher, feared by all

the Woods, except for Thor.

CHARLES FALCO: 6.

He thinks he deserves to be Rep, and now he's testing me.

As a Rep, I only have one option.

Good.

Hey.

What are you smiling at?

Now what?

KOZ: You might have been right about Bernard.

What do you mean, might have been?

We have an informant who tells us he knows you're in here.

Here, like here, the unit I'm in?

Yeah, and he might've paid someone to put a hit on you.

Well, has he?

Well, we can't prove it till it actually happens, so--

your hearing's in a week, then you'll be out.

You know what it's like in there?

You want me to wait a week?

They only need a minute, Koz.

I'm gonna pull you out.

What-- what if you put me in solitary?

Charlie, I had to--

I don't think you know what you're asking.

Solitary is not a--

Hey, hey, they can't get to me in solitary, right?

I'll be alone.

Look, I'll be safe until the hearing,

and I won't have to be the Rep.

Come on.

OK.

You know, it might take a day or two for me to put it together,

but um, you know, you can-- you lay low till then.

Thanks, man.

Don't thank me.

I gave up Bernard to stay out of prison,

and now I'm going into solitary to hide from him.

It's like a deal with the devil, and he's coming to collect.

Before Bernard, I was cooking three weeks out of the year.

I just stay high and work around the clock,

make, like, a hundred grand, and then

I just partied for the rest of the year.

I thought I was doing great.

And then I met Bernard.

I never knew anyone like him.

He was a big time dealer, way up the food chain.

When I told them my game, he just laughed.

He told me I need to think bigger,

and he promised to show me how.

All of a sudden, I go from working three weeks a year

to three weeks a month.

With Bernard as my partner, I also

go from making a hundred grand a year to a hundred

grand a month.

I start living larger than I ever dreamed.

I have this huge house, cars, clothes, friends,

and I owe it all to Bernard.

I also learned that owing Bernard is bad for your health.

Bernard thought I owed him for making him rich.

Now he thinks I owe him for giving up his name.

One thing I know for sure, he collects what he's owed.

Chances are there's someone in here who's

gonna do the collecting.

All right, let's go.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): It's hard enough as Rep

to keep a low profile.

2--

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): Thor has

decided to make it impossible.

6, 7-- what are you doing?

Get down.

I said get down.

Make me.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Oh, yeah?

You had enough?

I see right through you, Charlie.

I see the biker facade.

CHARLES FALCO: Hm?

You know what I see?

You don't see, and you don't say anything!

You got that?

You got it?

Get up.

Let's go.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): Prison is no place

to be isolated, unless you're undercover

with a price on your head if I don't get into solitary soon,

I may not make it out of here alive.

Two more days go by, still no word on solitary.

If it doesn't happen soon, I'm not gonna make it.

Sit.

What are you doing, Thor?

Sit.

Didn't you hear?

It's Opposite Day.

Sit!

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): And that's

when Thor decides he's no longer a Wood.

Bring this Wood to my table again,

you're gonna get shitted on!

I ain't a Wood.

My mum's mestizo, yo!

I'm more than half-Mexican.

He's your special case.

You take care of 'em!

Anyway, that's how the riots started.

Around then, it hits me.

This is Bernard's guy, And this is how he gets it done.

EL TORO MALO: Enjoy the party.

Koz came through.

I'm in solitary.

I told myself everything's OK.

I'm gonna make it.

I'm gonna make it.

You know how I said nothing passes slower than prison time?

Well, then there's solitary, where time just stops.

I have no idea how long I've been in here.

Food trays come--

I have no idea how often, once, twice a day?

I'm not counting.

I'm not eating.

I can't tell if it's day or night.

For all the quiet in solitary, the noise never stops.

Neither do your thoughts.

Solitary is just you and your memories, you and your guilt,

the stuff I try to think about and the stuff I try not to.

I try to think about my time in the Vagos as a ledger.

On the debit side, my 20-year sentence.

On the credit side, all the evidence that I racked up,

all the charges, all the criminals

who would be off in the street because of what I did.

Books almost balanced.

I paid my debt.

But I know I'm bullshitting myself, and so does Bernard.

CHARLES FALCO: Hi.

Hi.

CHARLES FALCO: You don't have a drink.

I don't have a drink.

CHARLES FALCO: Allow me.

OK.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): There's a stain on the ledger

that I can't ever erase.

CHARLES FALCO: And you are?

Her name's Natalie.

I loved her in the moment I saw her.

Bernard had warned me not to, really

didn't fit the lifestyle.

But I married her anyway.

I'm like I'm She wasn't like me.

She wasn't into drugs.

Maybe at first, I thought she saved me or something.

But in the end, she came my way, and I was glad.

So I was getting deep into it.

The more I cooked, the more money I made,

and the more I thought I was making my new wife happy.

But I was falling behind.

I couldn't afford this new life.

I was high the whole time I cooked,

and I was cooking full time.

Then Bernard had some bad news.

Don't care how.

Find me some more.

Our line on the chemicals dried up,

and the money was about to do the same.

But what happened next tore my world apart.

In solitary, there's no escaping yourself

and no way to outrun your past.

The empire I built with Bernard came at a cost.

[moaning]

I shouldn't have been surprised when I found them together.

I should have put up a wall to keep Bernard out, but I didn't.

And when things went sour, I pretended not to care.

Maybe I didn't.

BERNARD: What did you expect, Charlie?

You know your problem?

You don't fight for what's yours.

Sure, I do.

Yeah?

Then why are you doing this?

Always looking for the easy way out huh, Charlie?

That's how you end up in a place like this.

You can give up my name and play undercover hero.

Might have kept you out of prison for the long haul.

But in the end, you can't escape who you really are.

Don't you think it's time to stop hiding, Charlie?

Face it, Charlie.

You know what you did.

You know why I'm here for you.

[heart beating]

[heart monitor flattening]

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): I've done some bad things, committed

crimes.

I've lived life as a bad guy.

But some of the worst things you can do,

they're technically not crimes, like how can you love someone

so much and just destroy them anyway?

Because you're so afraid of losing, because you're

so afraid of winding up alone, because you can't live up there

on their level, so you drag them down to yours?

And you lose them anyway.

NATALIE (VOICEOVER): Charlie.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): Natalie survived,

but she left me not long after.

And now I know the truth.

I'm not here because I was a bystander at a beat down.

I'm here because I deserve to be.

[door opening]

And just like that, I'm getting out.

Koz had met the judge and the DA to approve my case.

When the judge heard how deep I was undercover with the Vagos,

he agreed to help keep my cover safe by throwing out

all the charges against everyone except Schizo.

Quick, would you look at this shit?

Told you they didn't have a case.

We're walking free, bro.

Yeah.

CHARLES FALCO (VOICEOVER): Walking out of there,

I should feel relieved, but I know.

I know it's only a matter of time

before the gang starts asking me questions.

And when they do, my time is up.

My reckoning will be at hand.

For now it's back to the game board.

SUZANNA: Hi, Charlie.

Hey.

But I can't see more than a move or two ahead.

Two months out of jail, I can't get enough of the road.

Whenever I can, I get on my bike.

Sometimes, I think how easy it would be to just keep

on going, just never come back.

Could that just be another kind of prison?

I don't know if we can ever make good on our past mistakes,

but my time in prison made me sure of one thing.

I wanna finish my job with the Vagos.

CHARLES FALCO: Hey.

SUZANNA: Hey.

Where you been?

Well.

How much longer is this gonna go on for, Charlie?

CHARLES FALCO: As long as it has to.

What more could they need?

CHARLES FALCO: They need more.

There's always more.

They need more on Schizo in particular.

They had 'em for a year or more on that assault charge.

Is there anything else that he could be charged with,

anything at all?

Hey, hey, you can tell me.

It's gonna happen to us, Charlie,

when this thing's over.

Have you even thought about that?

We have a future.

This whole time, I haven't thought passed my next move.

That move involves Schizo, who finally made bail.

Somehow, he's the guy I gotta know.

He calls our first church meeting in months.

Things have changed.

Where the hell is Stash?

You know I wouldn't expect him back.

Yeah, little bitch scared to show up after all the shit

he talked about me, right?

What about Darko?

Anybody hear anything about Darko?

What is it?

You know something?

I hear that he will be here.

The hell does that mean?

Maybe you should ask Felix about that.

The hell with Felix.

I care about Darko.

Well, because Felix just green-lit

Darko for his own chapter.

His own chapter?

And you didn't think that this was important enough

to tell me about it?

I just did.

Sounds like you're gonna be able to ask him yourself.

I'll deal with you later.

Looks like you heard.

I see you brought your little runt bitch with you.

Well, at least I'm not a punk.

You come and tell me that to my face.

Whoa, whoa, you lay a finger on anyone in my chapter,

I'll kill you.

Oh, you're gonna kill me?

Well, you came to say something.

Say it!

Anyone that doesn't want a punk as their chapter president

is welcome to join me in my new chapter.

Now or never.

What about it, boys?

I live here, man.

Quick, I hear you manned up in jail.

I could use you.

I'm gonna stick it out here, Darko.

Your loss, dude.

Any one of you shows your face again, I'm gonna kill you!

You ain't dead weight, right?

CHARLES FALCO: Yeah.

Did I sense a little hesitation there, hm?

I'm still here, Schitz.

Are you with me?

What I say next has nothing to do with loyalty.

I'm with you right to the end.

All right.