- Hey, look here, mama. Hey, man, look here.
I got the best rolexes.
You ain't gonna find a rolex cheaper than mine.
$1 rolex, $1.
[latin hip-hop music]
♪
- 30¢ rol--
♪
- Miralo. [chuckles]
- That's him.
- Are you sure?
- You expect I could ever forget that man's face?
First he shot daquan carter through his head,
And then when my grandbaby looked up and spotted him
On the roof, he shot michael, too.
Only 14 years old, coming home from school.
And that man shot him down like target practice.
- We have positive I.D. On soriano.
♪
- My man, my man, my man, look here.
Let me holler at you for a second.
Look, hey. Hey, brother.
Let me holler at you.
- Yo, man, get away. Beat it!
- No, no. Hey, look, look, look.
That's genuine faux rolex, there.
That's a cut above fake.
Look here. Come on, now.
- Let me see. Let me check 'em out.
Let me see what you got.
- I'm gonna let you peep the goods.
I'm not gonna let you see the whole bronx zoo now.
Come on over here.
- Let's see what you got, man.
- See that gold inlay right there?
- Let's see, what's this?
- Oh, this?
♪
- Hey, help a girl out with directions, honey?
I get so lost up here.
- Where you going, rubia?
We got everything we need right here, baby.
- Ain't that the truth.
Turn off the car.
You know what to do.
♪
- We sitting at a chicken shack,
But I smell pork.
[laughs]
- What's that there, your hit man phone?
Drug kingpins call in and tell you
Which bodies they want dropped?
- This one?
Just bitches and hos.
- Look out, yo.
- Thank you.
Keep that change, yo.
- Put your hands behind your head
And get up from the table.
- But I'm still hungry.
- I'll buy you a candy bar on your way
To central booking, how about that?
What do you make it, 20 feet from here to that
Twin turbo v-12? Go 0 to 60 in what, 4.5?
Leave a porky pig like me way behind.
If you get there, that's a prisoner attempting to escape.
You might just catch a bullet...
Like michael wade.
[echoing gunshot]
- Where you keep a piece?
You're not strapped.
You just fronting.
- Try me.
[chuckles]
- Hey!
- Police. Don't move.
- You moved.
- Hey, yo, primo, call my lawyer.
- Carlos soriano,
You're under arrest for the murders of michael wade
And daquan carter.
- Thank you again, miss lillian.
We'll be in touch.
- Yeah, I heard that from police before.
- She's got a lot of guts.
- Yeah, she still doesn't believe
She'll get justice for michael.
- We just slapped bracelets on soriano.
- He's wriggled out of more handcuffs than houdini.
[phone ringing] a dozen bodies' worth.
- Yeah, cap, what's up?
Yes, sir, copy that.
- What's ed want? - You're right.
Soriano's lawyer already called the house.
[elevator dings] - absolutely no statements
Until my client and I have a chance to confer.
- We got to process him first. Make sure he doesn't have
A razor up his sleeve, or drugs up his nose,
Or a piece up his butt. It could take a while.
- Come on. This way, hot shot.
- Good collar, sarge. - Thanks, chief.
- Bob, let's talk in my office.
- Since when does the chief of detectives
Give a damn about a double in the bronx?
- Do you recall that nyu student that was shot and killed
On 24th street last month?
- Yeah, was that, um, mei-ling yeung?
- Chinese national, honor student.
No apparent motive, no witnesses.
- All over the media every day since.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Well, soriano's lawyer says he can give us the shooter.
- In exchange for what?
My good--my good collar?
- Decision's with the d.A., but yeah.
We're exploring our options.
- Boy, how hard did you even press him?
Was soriano at the scene, or is this just some rumor
He's using to jam up a rival?
- You know, when I got up this morning,
I knew today was gonna be different.
You know, just shaving, coffee with the wife,
Driving in on the grand central. There was just--
There was something in the air.
Now I know, today's the day
When a sergeant told me how to do my job.
- Just two more uptown murders, right?
- No one said that. - Lowlifes from the badlands.
No press, nobody but the families
Mourning the victims,
No hack politicians expressing outrage.
It's just--it's like it never happened at all.
- When the job gets a debate team, I'll let you know.
Hey, sergeant!
Some of us thought that after you got your settlement,
And your hand-picked team, and your tree house,
That maybe those edges on that boulder
You lug around on your shoulder might round off.
- Not when you let soriano deal the cards.
He'd sell his own mother to cannibals to save his hide.
- Well, we're gonna hear what he has to say,
See if it checks out.
[door closes]
- That's the last time you smile at me.
Count on it.
[hip-hop music]
♪
- You got a needle you forgot to jab me with there, sarge?
- Tayshaun ramsey.
You were just a gold shield working brooklyn south.
- I did six murders a day back then.
I drew my own line in the sand.
- And how many bosses told you to stop?
Wrote you up, cut off your o.T., tried to transfer you out,
But you made that case despite them.
- We don't have that kind of time on this one.
- Give me 72 hours
To clear mei-ling and take soriano down.
- I'll give you 24.
- I'll take it. - Hey, sergeant!
I already told your captain to get an a.D.A. Down here.
While they deal, you can hunt,
But this case closes tomorrow.
- All right.
- This is the only video we have of the mei-ling shooting.
Picasso here had his buddy recording
His exploits for posterity.
[gunshots, shouting]
[tires screeching]
- Says "drive-by" to me.
- College girl drive-by?
- Who was in the car with mei-ling?
- Her roommate, charlotte bowman.
- Night watch interview her? - Yep, night watch,
Manhattan south homicide,
And danny azores, from the 10th.
- Story never changed. They went to a club in chelsea--
- Which club? - Swami, on 10th and 23rd.
- Anything happen there? Beefs with anybody?
- Not according to charlotte.
They danced, met some boys from columbia
Who invited them to a party at morningside heights.
They were heading west on 24th street when,
"some maniac started shooting at them."
- A maniac she can't I.D.
- It was night time, dark out. Only took a second.
- And by the time she realized what had happened,
Her friend was dead. - All we have to do is solve
A murder that 26 detectives have struck out on.
- In 24 hours or less,
And the uptown murders stick to soriano.
Let's get it.
- Detective.
Robert ironside, anti-crime.
That's my uncle kenneth.
- Close to your uncle, bobby?
- He was around more than my dad.
He taught me how to play ball,
Talk to girls, steal cars.
- Is that so? - But I fell in
With the wrong crowd...
Cops and such.
- Like a moment alone with him?
- You want to know where to start, who to look at--
- Or how to hit the curve.
- Last couple of years,
Uncle kenneth was on this corner,
Getting his buzz on.
Sketchy company and whatnot,
You know what I mean?
- Somebody you like for this?
- A wino named fishbone,
Always messing with a flick-knife.
- You see fishbone, you let me know.
- The yeungs were due to arrive at jfk tonight
After a long journey from their small town
In southwestern china.
- What am I supposed to tell her parents?
"oh, hey, I'm your daughter's roommate,
And it's my fault that she got shot"?
- Not unless you shot her.
- You really don't understand.
Mei-ling never went out until I made her.
- Nothing else happened at swami?
No fights, no incidents, no drugs?
- No. Nothing like that.
- Did mei-ling have any boyfriends?
- No.
[scoffs] no.
She was pre-med and really serious about it,
And I felt bad because we lived in new york for over a year
And she'd never done the nightlife thing.
- So you pushed?
- I was pretty positive that she was gonna say, "no."
This time, she said, "yes."
She was really happy on the way there.
[crying] like, laughing and, like,
Singing along to the radio.
- Charlotte. Charlotte!
Now, I know you've told this same story over and over again,
But the only part of your story
That didn't sound rehearsed to me
Was right then, when you cried.
- What are you saying? - I just said it.
I don't think you're being as helpful as you could be.
- Okay, well, detective azores said that I didn't really
Have to talk to anybody else.
- All right, that moment where she broke down?
- Right before she got to the shooting?
- Yep, that was it.
That's what she's holding back.
- So why are we letting her go?
- She's been sitting with the lie for a week.
Now that she knows we know,
Gonna take a little while to push her over the edge.
We go back at her too soon and...
She might just shut down all over again.
- All right.
- So you came home from the market
And found it this way?
- Fools think they gonna scare me off.
- We should move you to a motel, for your own safety.
- Turn tail and run? Uh-uh.
- If you insist on staying,
I can notify the precinct.
They can set a fixed post out front of your apartment.
- Wait, I get a say-so on a police at my door?
- Of course you do. - Well, then I say "no."
Police sit out here around the clock, and then what?
Day he leaves, they burn me to the ground.
- Miss lillian, if you stay here,
We can't guarantee your safety.
- [scoffs] "guarantee"?
You must be new to the bronx. - No, ma'am.
I was born three subway stops from here, morris park.
- Oh, and then your block commence to turn,
And your folks snatched you up
And ran out to long island, correct?
- Rockland county.
- Same place where you bring up your own young ones now.
- Yeah, you're right.
I don't live here.
I don't own all the troubles you do.
But I do come down every day
And try and do something about it.
- I supposed I would have done just like you, if I could.
Get michael out.
Fresh air, tall trees.
Ain't nothing left to protect, now.
Just some old bones and cheap furniture.
No, baby. I ain't going nowhere.
- Where's the ballistics report on mei-ling?
- 7.62 caliber copper-washed, steel-jacketed rounds.
- That's high-powered military ammo.
- And check out that headstamp, 278.
It's from the factory in afghanistan.
- What's it doing here?
Have ballistics cross-reference that ammo with any other
7.62 caliber rounds, including soriano's double.
- What, you think there's a connection?
- Soriano can't deal without a hold card.
It might be the murder gun.
- We don't have ibis on the double yet.
Ballistics says sometime next week.
It's all hands on deck-- - that downtown press case?
- Yes. - You got to be kidding me.
- Holly, call ballistics, now.
Tell them it's the chief of detectives.
- Uh...
Chief callahan calling. Hold, please.
- This is chief callahan. Who am I speaking with?
Sergeant kramer, where in the hell
Is the ballistics report on voucher number 22673?
It isn't red-flagged?
Have it on my desk by 1600.
Cross-reference with the mei-ling yeung homicide,
And any other 7.62 caliber rounds
In your index, is that clear?
All right, and kramer, copy that pain in my ass,
Sergeant ironside, in selected crimes.
Very good.
- How's your eddie murphy? - Hey, guys.
Bob, you got a sec? - Gary.
No, no, no. Come on in.
- Termites.
Exterminator's got to bomb the place,
So penny decided to head up to syracuse,
See her mom, which, frankly,
48 hours of my mother-in-law, I'd rather be fumigated.
- In other words, she threw your ass out again.
- She did request I "diddy mao" the premises,
With extreme prejudice.
- I don't even want to know why, but...
Why don't you lend us a hand here for a couple hours first.
- Doing what? - Could you, uh,
Put together a working profile on the mei-ling shooter?
- Me? - Yeah, you.
Since anti-crime, you always had a way
Of getting inside the heads
Of the--the angry ones.
- Eh, I didn't have far to go.
- That looks like rage to me, not premeditation.
Break it down for me. - I don't know if this
Is a healthy place for me to go right now.
- G. G, I need you.
Come on, I'm fighting for my murders here.
I need you.
- [sighs] yeah, yeah, okay.
- Listen, you can set up in the other room,
Near ed's office.
[hip-hop music]
♪
- Why choose? I'ma treat both y'all right.
- [laughs] - I mean,
Why not get lucky twice?
- Hey, papi. What's up, bro?
They call you "platano," right? How come?
Is that 'cause you like bananas or something?
- No, but they do. - Oh, that's good.
Showing off for the ladies, huh? Soriano's number two.
Did he brag to you about how he terrorized an old woman?
- [scoffs] - I mean, that's some real
Badass stuff right there.
Let me ask you a question.
Soriano get a message to you?
Trash miss lillian's place?
- Think that vieja stay a mystery
Behind that tinted glass?
- Or are you dumb enough to threaten her on your own?
- Hey, why you bring that to me?
I didn't lose no bullet, officer krupke--
[grunting]
- Guess what.
Your skin's no thicker than hers.
Leave her alone.
♪
Soriano's cousin from, the same town in the d.R.
- What's on his sheet?
- Shoplifting, smoking weed in the park.
One collar for boosting cars. Charges dismissed.
No weapons violations. No violent crimes.
- What about this?
Pulled it out of miss lillian's apartment.
It's got the same 278 headstamp as the others.
- Ballistics from the double.
Copper-washed, steel-jacketed, 7.62 caliber rounds.
- The same as mei-ling.
- Yeah, different riflings. Different weapons.
- The bullets all came from the same place.
Maybe the guns did, too.
- And how does soriano know who shot mei-ling?
- We find the gun dealer, we answer both questions.
Hey, ed.
This is the connection between uptown and downtown
We've been looking for.
- You've been looking for.
- Soriano's grandstand play is gonna boomerang.
We're already closer on mei-ling than
A week's worth of detectives typing up fives.
- I wouldn't run that past the chief,
Or take his name in vain again.
He wasn't too pleased with that. - I got the report.
I need more time. - Mm-mm.
No chance. For the chief...
[knock at door] all roads lead to nyu.
- And what about you?
- I'm not the enemy here, bobby. - I don't know.
- That a.D.A. Who's supposed to cut a deal with soriano?
I sent him on the scenic route, all the way up to the 4-5.
With a decent amount of traffic, that should kill half a day,
But when your time is up,
If you can't close that downtown murder, we lose 'em all.
Thank you.
- This--this is harassment. - Detective.
This is bernard harris, aka "fishbone,"
And this is that arkansas toothpick I took off him.
- You don't expect me to walk naked
In the streets now, do you? - Gold star, kid.
Write him up for the knife. I'll go at him hard.
- Thanks. - No, no.
I should thank you for doin' my work for me.
- My uncle, he wasn't perfect.
He had his fair share of faults and more,
But he meant a lot to me.
- None of us is ever just one thing, are we, kid?
- My uncle kenneth said there were three things
A man could always find if he looked hard enough.
A woman, a bottle, or a bullet.
Michael, daquan, mei-ling.
All of them found bullets from 10,000 miles away.
- So, these bullets all trace back to a batch
That was manufactured exclusively
For afghan security forces.
- How are they getting here?
Is it some inside smuggling operation?
- I don't know. A.T.F. Has nothing.
College friend of mine did a couple of tours in the 'stan.
- "in the 'stan"? - Yeah, afghanistan.
C.I.A. - Yeah, I got that.
- Like, a yalie, boola-boola, skull and bones type friend?
- Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
- Oh. - Careful who you kill off.
If she's gone?
You might just wind up riding with me.
- Wild goose chase?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know that I can go along
With that kind of inflammatory language here.
Look, dave, they told me he was being moved uptown.
If they rescinded that order--
Come on, am I that guy?
Okay, well, where are you now, just walking out of the house?
Whenever. Soriano will still be here.
- [grunts]
- [sighs]
Ah.
[sighs]
[gunshots]
- Hey, what are you up to in here?
You're still on modified.
- Ah, bobby asked for a favor.
- How's that going? - [sighs]
Down some bumpy roads.
- Did you tell him that?
- When's the last time you said "no" to him?
- I said "no" or he listened?
Look, maybe it's too tough.
You're not ready yet.
- [sighs]
It's the easiest thing in the world.
[siren wails]
[tires screeching] - let's play, already.
- How in the hell did you make the bricks?
Huh? Huh?
- [grunts]
[bottle shatters]
- The cops cut me loose, boss, like I said.
- Say it again. - The cops cut me loose.
- Get up. - [coughs]
- Hey, where's detective bludso? - I don't know.
- Who cut this mope loose? - All right, calm down.
- Get him on the phone.
Tell him bobby ironside wants to talk to him.
[phone ringing] come on. Come on.
[phone ringing]
[sighs] yeah?
What?
I'm on my way.
[urgent chatter]
- Hang in there, miss lillian.
I had patrol cars checking on her.
I-I had sector cars passing by.
10:00, the neighbor heard her go out,
Apparently for cat food.
There was two cans found at the scene.
She got shot coming out of the bodega.
There was no witnesses. - She was our witness!
- Emts said she took a round through the midsection.
She's lost a ton of blood.
I'm gonna go pick up platano.
- For what, suspicion of mopery?
How do you tie him to the shooting?
- I don't know. We--we go at him.
We get something! - You already did that.
- We repaired her aorta,
But she suffered cardiac arrest during surgery.
- How long did her heart stop?
- About four minutes. We were able to revive her.
- Is she likely?
- She's 66 years old, in critical condition.
I mean, she'll be on a monitor in I.C.U. On a ventilator.
Beyond that-- - yeah.
Thanks, doc. - Yeah.
- I didn't go there to push him.
I was just trying to scare him.
- There is a difference
Between a strong hand and a heavy hand.
- Miss lillian wasn't budging,
So I figured I'd go at the punk a little bit harder.
Jack him up a little bit-- - in front of his own people?
If this job was all about brute force, how in the hell
Could I be better at it in this damn chair?
- She's not gonna make it, is she?
- She's not gone yet!
Now, you stop pissing and moaning,
Get your head out of your ass,
And you sit here and you be her guard dog.
And when I say nobody gets to see her, I mean nobody.
You understand me?
- Yeah. - What?
- Yes, sergeant.
- Dave! Where the hell are you?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down.
When you shriek like that, it kind of turns to white noise.
Towed from right in front of the precinct?
Wow, that is bad luck, yeah.
Uh, what kind of car is it?
[angry shouting over phone]
Okay, okay. No need to shout, dave.
Grab a cab, it's on me. Bring me a receipt.
Is it hard to get a cab in the south bronx after dark?
Still?
Dave, you still there?
Rita, do me a favor.
Have the tow yard release
Assistant district attorney's prius, please.
Thank you.
- I can handle riding with him. He was joking, right?
- His eyes didn't crinkle up at the corners when he said it
Like they do when he's laughin'.
- When did you see him laughing? - Don't know.
Must have been when I was riding with him.
- But actual laughter? - Does that surprise you?
- No, I hear you laughing in my dreams.
Not those kind of dreams.
My nightmares.
- What do you got? A mei-ling update?
- New area surveillance video with some electronic enhancement
From the guys at t.A.R.U.
Now, our best timeline says that one of those men is our shooter.
- The driver looks kind of, maybe, middle eastern.
- Yeah.
This other guy? Not so much.
- Let's go.
[siren wails]
- What is wrong with you?
Her parents are on their way over here
Right now to pick up all of her stuff.
I told them that I was gonna get it ready,
And it's not ready yet.
I already told you everything that I know.
- Time's up. Come on, look at the picture.
This is how you honor your friend's memory,
Not on facebook.
Do you see anyone here that you saw at the club?
Can you point him out to us?
- I lied.
- Can you point him out to us?
- Yeah.
- It's worse than that, isn't it?
You recognized him in the car that night, didn't you?
And you were too scared to tell us the truth.
- [crying] I'm sorry.
- What happened?
- He came up to me when I was in line for the bathroom.
It was too loud to hear me talking to him over the music,
So he took my photo and I put my number in his phone.
He knows what I look like.
He can find me at any time.
- Was he the shooter? - I think so.
I saw him laughing.
I don't understand how anyone could do that.
I don't understand why.
I don't want to find out-- [cries]
So I lied. - Okay.
- What can you tell us about the other guy in the car?
- I don't know.
- Are you sure? - I really don't know.
- Okay. Hey.
[phone rings] - cardiac I.C.U., line four.
Cardiac I.C.U., line four.
- Excuse me.
Do patients get take-out?
- Intensive care patients? No way.
- Thank you.
Hey, bro.
Where you going with that?
Police! Don't move!
- Hey! - [screams]
He's got a gun! [screams]
[shouting, screaming]
- Stay there!
Get down! Get back!
[grunting, fighting]
- [grunts]
Unh!
[grunting]
- Come here, come here. Come here.
Come here!
- All right, all right. Virg, virg, that's enough.
That's enough. That's enough.
- Give me your hands!
- Let's talk about a downtown murder.
I was beginning to worry it'about you.Me.
- 63 bucks. Up yours.
- What's that all about?
- Good-natured ribbing between colleagues.
- What, he's here now to cut a deal with soriano?
- Less than eight hours until the chief's deadline.
[keyboard clicking]
- [sniffs]
[printer humming]
- You didn't inherit your primo's natural talent,
Did you?
Two cracks at an old lady
And you look worse than her.
- I'll have your badge for this.
- Take a number, lightweight.
- Why come back to finish off miss lillian yourself?
Why take that risk?
- Abogado.
- 'cause he was ashamed of himself.
Isn't that right, manny?
He was embarrassed because he couldn't
Kill an old lady in the street.
- He's no soriano. - Nah, it's too bad, too,
Because his hit man career
Was off to such a promising start.
- We have you at the scene. Mei-ling yeung.
All you need to tell us, who was your pal
And who pulled the trigger?
- Abogado.
- Hey, you hit on a girl at a nightclub
And then you slaughter her roommate an hour later, why?
- [ala law & order] doot-doot.
"in the criminal justice system..."
All you can do is call my man, korman.
- You made your share of mistakes, manny,
But the one that's really gonna bite you on the culo
Is that you think your cuz, soriano, gives a damn about you.
Your o.G., your mentor, your blood.
See, he didn't need you to take out our witness.
His whole deal is based on sellin' you out.
When he gives you up for mei-ling,
The michael wade and daquan carter murders
Are swept under the rug.
Wake up, homey.
You think he's gonna come visit you upstate?
- You trying to play me, right?
[speaking spanish]
- Hey. Hey! I want to know,
Why was fishbone kicked loose?
- Kid, relax. - Don't tell me to relax!
I busted my ass to get that collar,
And you just gonna let him walk?
- Now, come on, come on, come on.
Son, before you make a mistake...
Listen, we talked to him. He didn't confess.
- He ain't gonna confess. What--
What about the knife?
- No prints. - Did you run it for dna?
- For a misdemeanor homicide?
- What?
- [sighs]
Your uncle was a mope, same as fishbone.
It was a public service killing
And not worth another hour of my time.
- [sighs]
I hope I turn in my shield before I become so damn useless.
- Hey, kid. - [grunts]
- Fishbone's day will come.
Bleeding out on another corner, stuffed in a dumpster,
Or stinking up some elevator shaft,
And we won't have to lift a finger.
- [sighs]
- The chicken joint is owned by omar najibullah.
Emigrated from afghanistan sometime in the late '90s.
Opened the chicken shack in 2004.
He sponsors a little league team, the free birds.
- He's got bank accounts here,
In grand cayman island, and in cyprus.
- That's a lot of drumsticks, right?
- He also has an older brother,
Mohammed, who's a staff sergeant
In the afghan national security forces.
He's stationed at a base outside of kabul,
Right next to the local munitions factory,
Headstamp 278.
- Platano's gun and the rounds we got from the uptown
And the downtown murders
All show high traces of polyunsaturated trans fat.
- And that stuff will kill you.
- They've been using cooking oil from the chicken shack
Instead of gun oil to lubricate their guns.
There's no c.L.P. Black market,
And they can't buy ten gallons without attracting attention.
- Then we bring in a.T.F.
They have the expertise we need--
- To do what? A classic long-term
Federal investigation with c.I.S and wiretaps?
Come on. By then, soriano will be living in a mcmansion
Back in the dominican republic, where we can't touch him.
I've got less than five hours.
- And not even enough p.C. For a warrant.
- But, hey, we got this.
This guy, that's omar, in the car with platano.
He's gonna tell me what happened.
- You have no idea what you're walking into.
You've got automatic weapons,
Military ammo.
Omar gets barricaded in, you've got yourself a bloodbath.
- Then we call e.S.U.
- No, not without a search warrant.
- Copy that, boss.
Standing down. - Hey, where are we going?
- Out to breakfast. - I'm hungry, too.
Any place you have in mind?
- Yeah, I know a place uptown.
- Okay, in that case, get me a fried egg sandwich on a keiser
And a coffee, black,
And a foot post in rosedale
If this goes straight in the toilet.
- [knocking]
- 2025, 2026, 2027. - [knocking]
Your math skills have come a long way.
- I swear to god, if omar doesn't show up soon,
I'm gonna cap teddy.
- Surprised that virgil knows how to count.
- Okay, go! [tires screeching]
- Police! Don't move!
Police!
- I have gun in here. Who are you?
- Police! Drop that weapon!
- Real police?
And if you aren't, I kill you all!
- Put that weapon on the ground!
- I'm gonna count to three and then I'm gonna light you up!
- I have a gun here! I kill you all!
- One! Two! - Put that weapon on the ground!
Show me your hands!
Slide the weapon to me.
Show me your hands.
Come on out. Come on out!
- Put your hands on your head.
- Face the wall!
- Okay, okay, okay.
Ow. [handcuffs click]
- All clear.
- What are you doing, huh?
Oh, what do we got here, omar?
Hope we don't find guns in there.
Bird in the hand. Chicken man, down.
- Honest mistake, boss.
Can we do business?
- Mei-ling yeung.
- Who?
- The girl you and platano murdered on 24th street.
- I don't shoot nobody.
I'm the chicken man.
- You knowingly sold illegal guns to killers,
Loaded with ammo stolen from federal stores in afghanistan.
Now, I can charge you as a combatant
In the war on terror.
You can forget about life in supermax.
I could put you on a one-way plane trip to guantanamo...
Unless you give me what I want.
- Hey, gary left this for you.
Said you would know what to do with it.
- Ah.
- That's it?
- Got all I need. - I hope so.
Dave just shook hands with korman.
He's on the fifth floor of one hogan place
Right now getting the d.A.
To rubberstamp soriano's deal.
You have maybe an hour to blow it up.
- Got it.
Hey, my man, omar. [laughs]
You like girls, omar?
They like you? - [laughs]
I'm grown man, not pretty boy.
- Yeah.
It's got to bother you sometimes when you know
All the action that platano gets with the real girls,
Flesh and blood, while you settle for pin-ups.
- I have family.
Too old for texting bitches.
- But not too old for strip clubs.
We found all these in your wallet.
We got, uh, flashdancers, cougar club, pink kitty.
You're not too proud to pay for it,
But then there you are, in the club,
Rollin' with your boys.
You got soriano and platano.
Got the bottle service flowing.
They got all the honeys crawlin' all over them, but poor omar.
I guess chicken fat ain't no aphrodisiac.
So, you look around and you find the one girl
Who doesn't attract a crowd.
Less competition, so you make your move.
Turns out, she's the shyest girl in new york.
Your dumb luck.
She shot you down.
That's just an expression though, right?
Until you see platano get her girlfriend's number.
Now, for him, it was so easy.
- Do you try to hang this on me?
I told you. I'm no shooter.
- Come on, omar. You want to deal?
Let's deal, baby.
You saw them leave the club and you followed them.
You're packing heat.
What could be easier than a little payback?
- No. - No?
- It was platano's idea.
All his idea, not mine.
His gun, not mine.
He wants to be a killer like his cousin.
He--he tells me to pull up.
He wants to pop his cherry. That boy's crazy!
- Don't leave anything out.
Now, of course, I can't ask you
Any questions without counsel present.
- Chicken man fronting.
He begged me to take her out.
He got mad guns, and gave me the iron for free.
I was just gonna scare them.
Look, I wa--I was--I was just gonna scare them, but I--
But I didn't--
I ain't never blast on full auto before, you feel me?
- Excuse me.
I got a call to make.
- And a deal to kill?
- [laughs nervously]
- ♪ I've seen better days
- Don't come around here cheating!
- ♪ drippin' down your face
[shouting]
♪ let's dance
♪ for all the times
♪ you felt alone
♪ dreaming better
♪ I see better
- [groans]
- ♪ too dumb to say good-bye
♪ now that's some cliche
- [chuckles]
- ♪ just know that every time
- Guess I finally made it to rockland county.
- Welcome back, miss lillian.
- ♪ yeah, I see better
♪ better days
♪ try to remember
- What's up?
- Hey.
- Thanks for crackin' platano, partner.
You showed me how to go at him.
- [laughs] spare me.
We both know you need my help like you need hemorrhoids.
- What?
- Ease me back in. Throw me a few bones.
Get me thinking I'm good to go in the street again.
I know what you're doing.
- If that was my game--
And I'm not saying it was--
If it was...
Why not?
- Why do you think I'm sleeping on your couch?
'cause I'm a functioning husband?
You know, you bring me water instead of a beer
'cause you know one drink could throw me off,
But you bring me those files?
- You gonna compare going back to work
With falling off the wagon?
- You don't get it!
I don't want to pick up another file
Because I don't want to pick up a gun
Because I don't want to pick up a drink.
- And I don't want to see you turn into a giant jellyfish
The rest of your life.
Maybe you need to go on craigslist
And go find yourself a nice security guard job,
Or go on down to coney island and sell hotdogs.
What do you want, gary?
- I just want a place to sleep.
Is that still okay? - [sighs]
Sure. Of course, it's--
Of course, man.
- Thank you.
[tv clicks on]
♪
- ♪ yeah, I see better, better days ♪