TRAINING DAY by David Ayer (filtered) There's a So tell me a story.

ALONZO You look, walk

REVISED DRAFT coffee shop at Virgil JAKE I don't think I and talk like a cop.
August 18, 1999 FADE IN: and Raymond. See you there at know any stories. Alonzo waves Grow your hair out. Alonzo stops
INT. BEDROOM - PREDAWN In a Simi ten. Be in civvies. Comfortable the paper in Jake's face. at: G-RIDE A narc-machine
Valley housing tract. It's dark. shoes. Got a back-up gun? ALONZO This is a supreme. A tired, candy blue 1978 Monte
CLOSE ON ALARM CLOCK 4:59 AM. Something pocket-sized? newspaper. And I know Carlo with mismatched rims, curb
WIDER ANGLE: Eyes glisten in the JAKE Yessir. I have a it's ninety percent bullshit but feelers, window tint.
clock's shine, patiently watching three eighty stainless it's entertaining. That's why I ALONZO Gimme that menu.
the time. BZZZZ! The ALARM with nine rounds of read it. Because it entertains Jake pulls a Chinese menu from under the
SOUNDS. A hand that's been hovering silver tips. me. If you won't let me read my wiper. Hands it to Alonzo, who
over the clock drops. Silence. JAKE ALONZO (V.O.) paper, then entertain me with your folds and pockets it.
HOYT, a fit young man, rolls (filtered) Bring it. bullshit. Tell me a story. ALONZO Get in.
over, throws an arm over his sleeping Cuffs, too. We're JAKE A real one or S'un1ocked. Jake's turn to smirk
wife -- gonna be in the office all day, should I make one up? as he climbs in. INT. G-RIDE -
JAKE It's time. but who knows, maybe we'll do some ALONZO (sighs) CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY Jake
-- she's not there, just empty blankets. business. Told you, we're an Where'd you do your probation? buries his shoes in beer cans and coffee
He sits up. HIS POV LISA, aggressive unit. JAKE Van Nuys. cups. He notes a car seat in
his wife, in a rocking chair in the JAKE I know, sir. ALONZO Right. The back. Alonzo twists a screwdriver in
corner. BACK TO SCENE Jake That's why I signed up. Valley. No cute little the shattered ignition, pumps the hell
is surprised. How'd she sneak off? I want to thank you for anecdotes about your time out of the gas. After forever,
JAKE What are you doing giving me the oppor -- -- CLICK! on the mean streets of Van Nuys? the ENGINE CATCHES -- VROOM!
up? She pulls back the blanket, Alonzo hangs up. Jake too. He stands Writing underage smoking cites at JAKE This is a piece'a
she breast-feeds their infant there. Nervous. Grabs his the shopping mall? Jake thinks. shit.
daughter. stomach. Bingo! He's got it. ALONZO Don't worry. My
LISA Mooooo. She LISA What's wrong? JAKE There was this baby puts out when she
lavishes kisses on her baby. JAKE Feel like it's D.U.I. stop. has to. Alonzo rubs the dash
CUT TO: CLOSEUP - BRASSO football tryouts. Wish ALONZO A D.U.I. stop. lovingly and backs out.
is squirted on terry cloth. A badge is it was tomorrow so I'd Wow. Go on. JAKE Where's the
rubbed against it in precise already know if I was on his squad JAKE We were on the office?
circles. WIDEN TO: INT. or not. mid-watch. ALONZO You're in it.
KITCHEN - DAWN Jake, scrubbed, LISA It's not tomorrow. ALONZO We? You and...? Jake reacts. Then smiles -- This is
shaved, in T-shirt and jeans, studies It's today. And it's JAKE Debbie. kind'a cool.
the gleaming badge, snaps it in gonna work out. I know ALONZO Debbie? The ALONZO Rover's in the
its case, clips it to his belt. it will. fuck's Debbie? glove box. Wanna ten-
He tosses a duffle on the counter. JAKE I gotta relax. JAKE My training eight us?
Searches through the police gear. (snuggles against her) officer. Debbie JAKE Yessir.
Lisa taps a police baton on his Don't have to show up until ten. Maxwell -- ALONZO Shitcan the
shoulder. He takes it. She breaks the embrace -- sore breasts ALONZO -- You're T.O. sirs. I'm not your
JAKE Thanks. -- Ouch! was female? domestic violence awareness
LISA Wrong day to JAKE Soon they'll be JAKE Yessir. instructor. Jake takes a Motorola
forget stuff. He shoves it in the mine again. Jake chases them with ALONZO She white? radio from the glove box.
bag. Zips it. cupped hands as she retreats, Black? JAKE What's our I.D.?
JAKE She go back to giggling. Their game. JAKE White. ALONZO Nora fifteen.
sleep? CUT TO: INT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY ALONZO She dyked out or JAKE (into
LISA Mmm-hmm. Ate like Jake struts through the door, she any good? Motorola) Nora fifteen,
a pig. She grabs a pack of confidently looks around. JAKE'S JAKE She's pretty good. ten-eight.
English muffins. POV DETECTIVE SERGEANT ALONZO, in ALONZO So you and DISPATCH (V.O.) Nora
LISA Want some eggs for a flannel shirt, reading the Debbie are pullin' a fifteen, ten-twenty. Jake checks
the road? paper in a booth. The gun leather tough mid-watch? the street signs -- Virgil and Raymond.
JAKE I gotta roll. LAPD vet is a hands-on, blue JAKE Right. It's a Before he can tell Dispatch, Alonzo
Gotta beat the traffic. He grabs collar cop who can kick your ass with a real quiet night. A snatches the Motorola.
his duffle and pressed uniform off a look. BACK TO SCENE Jake yawner. We're rolling on ALONZO (into
chair. He kisses Lisa's cheek, walks over. Slides in across. Alonzo's Vanowen. I'm driving. And this rover) Nora fifteen,
her neck, her lips. Heads to the eyes will never leave his Acura, just a beautiful car, comes South on Rampart at
door. The PHONE RINGS. Jake stops. newspaper. out a side street. In excess. 6th.
Lisa answers. JAKE Good morning, sir. All over the median. So I light DISPATCH (V.O.) Ten
LISA Hello? A young waitress pours Jake coffee, it up and hit the wailer. Guy four. Alonzo SQUEALS out of the
(beat, laughs) Hi! How offers a menu. Jake waves it drives on like I'm invisible for lot, tosses Jake the rover.
nice, thank you. away. ten blocks before he pulls over. ALONZO Bad guys are
(beat, giggles) Yes, JAKE I'm okay, ma'am. Plates ran clean. I approach. listening. Don't trust
sir. He's right here. Thank you. Debbie covers. Driver's this huge the radios. Never let
(to Jake) Jake. It's ALONZO Have some chow white guy. Can barely keep his anyone know where you're really
Alonzo. Jake takes the phone. before we hit the eyes open. I field test and at. Ever. Jake nods and smiles
JAKE Hello? office. Go ahead. It's my arrest and I'm belting him in our -- makes sense.
ALONZO (V.O.) dollar. unit. Debbie's tossing his car. CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING -
(filtered) Hoyt? JAKE No, thank you, She calls me to the vehicle and DAY Heading South on Alvarado,
JAKE Yessir. sir. I ate. shows me a snubbed .38 and two passing MacArthur Park. It could
ALONZO (V.O.) ALONZO Fine. Don't. shotguns, all loaded and locked. be San Salvador or Guatemala City. Jake
(filtered) Meet the Alonzo turns the page. A long beat. ALONZO No shit? is mesmerized by the crowds.
Lieutenant yesterday? Then: JAKE No shit. She JAKE This looks like
Get the welcome aboard speech and JAKE It's nice here. calls our supervisor the Third World.
all that? ALONZO May I read my and I keep searching. I find five ALONZO It's my world.
JAKE Yessir. paper? hundred grams of meth in the dash. Alonzo lights a smoke. Settles in his
ALONZO (V.O.) JAKE I'm sorry, sir... Turns out our D.U.I. was on bail seat.
(filtered) He's a good I'll get some food. for distribution. He was on his ALONZO Today's a
guy. Backs his boys. ALONZO No. You won't. way to smoke his ex-partner before training day. Gonna
You all checked in? Your sheet You fucked that up. trial. (proudly) show you around, give you a feel
signed off? Please. I'm reading. Shut We prevented a murder. Alonzo is for the business. I have thirty-
JAKE Yessir. up. Jake does -- Jeeez, sorry. astonished. eight cases pending trial. I have
ALONZO (V.O.) Pours a ton of sugar in his ALONZO ... amazing... sixty-three active investigations.
(filtered) You're not coffee. Jake beams -- some story, huh? There's another three hundred and
on the squad until I TIME CUT TO: INT. COFFEE SHOP - ALONZO You're driving fifty cases on the log I can't
sign it. And that depends on how DAY The waitress pours refills. around the Valley with clear. I'm supervising five
you do today. Alonzo reads. Jake fidgets. a fine bitch in your car for officers. That's five different
JAKE Yessir. I know. JAKE Where's the a year and the most entertaining personalities, five different sets
ALONZO (V.O.) office, sir? Back at story you got is a D.U.I. stop? of problems. You, Officer Hoyt,
(filtered) On your way Division? No response. Never hit her up for some Code X if you got the guts to succeed,
to roll call? JAKE Gonna be nice not in the back seat? will be number six. I don't have
JAKE Yessir. I'm not out the door roasting all summer in JAKE I have a wife. time to baby-sit or hold hands.
right now. a hot black and white. Alonzo ALONZO You also have a You have one day to show me who
ALONZO (V.O.) sighs, carefully folds his paper. dick. Alonzo shakes his head in you are and what you can or cannot
(filtered) Hoyt. Glares at Jake. disgust. Jake is crushed. handle. You can't hack narcotics,
JAKE Yessir? ALONZO Tell me a story, ALONZO Let's go. feel free to work a pussy desk
ALONZO (V.O.) Hoyt. Alonzo tosses a twenty on the table. pinching check kiters. Hear me,
(filtered) Patrol JAKE My story? OFF his heavy wedding band we: Officer Hoyt?
fairies go to roll call. ALONZO Not your story. CUT TO: EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY JAKE I hear you.
We don't go to roll call. A story. You can't Jake and Alonzo crossing. Alonzo sizes ALONZO Good. Gonna
JAKE Yessir. keep your mouth shut long Jake up, smirks at his dorky show you reality. Think
ALONZO (V.O.) enough to let me finish my paper. running shoes. you can handle it?
JAKE Yeah. ALONZO Where the hell the window! The Driver does, detective should have narcotics in
ALONZO Why you wanna be you hear that? quickly, as Alonzo jumps from the car his blood.
a narc? JAKE From a Van Nuys charges the Driver, shoves the gun in JAKE You going to smoke
JAKE I want to serve my Robbery Detective. Told his face. These are just scared that? Alonzo smiles devilishly,
community by ridding it me to ask you that. kids. The girl tries not to cry. offers Jake the pipe.
of dangerous drugs. Alonzo gives ALONZO (smiles, ALONZO Fork it over, ALONZO You are.
him a look -- Don't b.s. me. shakes his head) smartman. JAKE Hell if I am.
JAKE I wanna make Asshole. Alonzo pulls onto a DRIVER What, sir? ALONZO What? You a
detective. The boy is ambitious. street of dense apartments. Parks Alonzo grabs his ear, tugs violently. Mormon? A Jesus freak?
Alonzo likes that. along the curb. ALONZO The fuckin' JAKE No. I'm not
ALONZO Stick with me JAKE What's here? marijuana I just losing my job.
and you will. If you ALONZO Transactions... watched you purchase! The Driver ALONZO (re: the
can unlearn the bullshit See the Salvatrucha hands over the foil pack. pipe) This is your job.
they've filled your head with. one-cut on the fence, PASSENGER I'm very JAKE I can't do it.
You gonna be passing out baseball trying not to look like he's sorry, sir. I didn't ALONZO This isn't some
cards and carrying old ladies' slangin'? Jake looks, sees a know he was bringing me here. kind of test. Take a
groceries like the rest of the young, bald cholo, Neto, just hanging ALONZO Shut up, fuckin' hit.
newfucks Washington's flooded the out. dumbass. You're here JAKE I became a cop to
streets with? ALONZO That's Neto. now! Gimme that pipe! There's a keep people from using
JAKE Sergeant, I'll do Works for me. pot pipe on the floor mat. The that poison.
anything you want me to JAKE Informant? PASSENGER picks it up. ALONZO (laughs)
do. ALONZO I got eyes Reluctantly hands it to Alonzo. This ain't a review board. We
ALONZO Stand by, everywhere. He gets to PASSENGER My mom gave ain't doing rails. Just leafy
because narcotics ain't peddle reefer, make a little cash me that pipe. green bud. Jake stands firm,
about staying in the car and for the family. I get a heads up ALONZO What else you shaking his head. SCREECH!
looking good. I bet you write when shit goes down. The barrio got? Alonzo stops in the middle of the
great paper, Hoyt. on-line. DRIVER Cigarettes...? street, pulls his gun, jams it in
(before Jake can answer) JAKE And you trust him? ALONZO Gimme those too. Jake's ear. CARS behind them HONK.
You do. I checked it out. Cover ALONZO Fuckin' right I He gives him a squished packed of ALONZO If I was a
your area, cover your ass, but not trust him. Sprung his Marlboro reds. The girl lowers dealer, you'd be dead.
necessarily in that order, right? mom from I.N.S. detention. Alonzo her hands -- bad move. Turn shit down on the street and
JAKE Right. Are you watches his mirror, perks up. ALONZO Control your the Chief hands your wife a
going to teach me that ALONZO Here we go. suspect, Hoyt! crisply folded flag. Jake stares
old school hard-charging beat INSERT - MIRROR A new VW Beetle JAKE Miss! Palms on stubbornly at Alonzo. Alonzo pockets
up everything that moves Rodney pulls onto the street, moving slow. the glass! Alonzo sees her lip the gun. Lights the lighter.
King shit? BACK TO SCENE The VW passes the quiver. And takes a huge hit, blows smoke
ALONZO That's not G-Ride. Jake glimpses three people ALONZO Cry and I slap in Jake's face.
police work either. inside, two guys in front, a girl in the eyes outta your ALONZO I don't want you
We're the new breed. We use back. Hipster university face! Back to the Driver. in my unit. Not even
this... (taps students. ALONZO You aware this my division. Go back to
his head) This is our ALONZO Shit's going is a gang neighborhood? Valley. Get the fuck out of my
tool. Alonzo stops at a light. A down. JAKE'S POV The VW That gives him pause -- no kidding -- car. A staring contest. Jake
shiny new police cruiser pulls stops. Neto looks around, crosses to Alonzo grabs his ear again, decides to play the game.
alongside. The driver sips a Big Gulp, the driver's window, a drink cup shakes. JAKE ... Okay...
his female partner writes a in hand. Neto plucks a foil pack ALONZO I see you here He takes the pipe, takes an absolutely
report. They look more like co-eds than from the cup. Trades it for the again, I take your car. huge hit --
cops. Jake eyes the driver. Who driver's ten. Neto walks away. You can walk home while your ALONZO Alright. That's
gives him a smile. Then Alonzo BACK TO SCENE girlfriend pulls a homeboy how it's done, son.
looks at the driver. When their eyes ALONZO See the hand-to- train... Hear me, reefer addict? -- And is racked with a spasm of
meet, the Driver looks away, hand? DRIVER Yes, sir. coughing.
intimidated, and makes a right turn. JAKE I saw it. ALONZO Thank you for ALONZO Betrayed by your
Alonzo grins at Jake, his point The VW drives off, fast. Alonzo pulls your cooperation -- virgin lungs. Jake takes another
underscored. out. Follows it. Safe your iron. Jake holsters his hit -- a passing driver watches --
ALONZO How long you ALONZO When was your gun. Follows Alonzo to the G-Ride. blows the smoke in Alonzo's face.
been married? last felony stop? ON VW The kids trade shell- Alonzo laughs, resumes driving, takes a
JAKE A year. JAKE Couple weeks ago. shocked looks, grabbing glass. Then hit. They pass the pipe around a
ALONZO Gotta kid, ALONZO You need lower their hands. ON G-RIDE few times before Alonzo tosses it on
right? practice. Alonzo and Jake climb in. As they drive the dash.
JAKE (smiles) JAKE They look like away, the gir1 nails Jake with a ALONZO It's cashed.
A nine-month-old girl. college kids. look of revulsion. Jake reacts. They cruise in a strange otherworldly
ALONZO I got four kids. ALONZO They need a CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - silence. Jake is clearly messed
All boys. You want a lesson. I want these DAY Alonzo laughing. Jake didn't up, his head lolls from side to side.
son, lemme know. I'll do hemorrhoids grabbing glass. I got like what happened. It shows. ALONZO Shit, you took
your old lady up. I can't miss. front. You got back. Alonzo JAKE Was that training? some mansized hits. You
Jake angers, though he knows he is being pulls his gun. Jake reaches for the How to roust students gonna be okay? When's the
tested. Motorola. for dime bags? last time you smoked out?
JAKE Let's not talk ALONZO Stay off the ALONZO They have no JAKE ... Twelfth
about my family. rover. Jake puts it away, pulls business being here. grade...
ALONZO It's cool. I his gun. Alonzo stomps the gas. Sooner or later that little smart- ALONZO Left that out of
can respect that. I'm The G-Ride HOWLS. The VW is at ass white boy college puke is your service jacket.
married. I have my queen, the corner, about to turn -- gonna get jacked. I saved his Knew you had secrets,
too. I remember what it's like to SCREEEEEECH! -- Alonzo slaloms to a life. everyone does. Didn't know you
have a pretty young bride. Bet stop, blocking its path. His JAKE Taught him a real dig dusters.
you still fuck her face-to-face. pistol aimed through Jake's window at lesson. JAKE What are dusters?
JAKE (clenched the DRIVER. ALONZO Sure did, buy ALONZO You know, dusted
teeth) Can we not talk ALONZO Police! Lemme your shit on campus. bud. Dippers? C'mon,
about my wife? see your hands! Jake draws a bead (beat) I like your dipped in P.C.P. Primos.
ALONZO Kick back, on the girl in back. moves. Someone trained Sherm, Kool, P-dog, Angel dust...
kid... You're so in JAKE Police officers! you well. Jake smiles to himself. Didn't you smell it? Taste it?
love it's comin' out your eyes. Your hands! The kids gawk at the Alonzo opens the foil, sniffs -- JAKE (horrified)
The day you bring the old lady to two narcs for a stunned beat. ALONZO Shitty dime. ... I've never done it...
the office is the day you don't go JAKE Don't look at us! Check it out. -- hands it to ALONZO Now you have.
home. If you don't hide your love Look straight ahead! Jake. Who takes out a bud. Remember the smell for
deep inside, the maggots are gonna ALONZO Driver and right ALONZO See the small next time. Think I'd inhale
find it and chew on it. Jake front passenger! Palms hairs? The undeveloped that shit? Jake is scared as
realizes Alonzo is right. Alonzo hands on the windshield! seeds. How it's all hell, pale, sweaty.
him a card. JAKE You in the back! stems? Jake nods. JAKE Oh, no. No. No.
ALONZO That's our Palms on the side ALONZO It was picked No.
Chaplain, Lieutenant window! Look straight ahead! immature. See how flat ALONZO Gonna kick the
Hayes. Give him a call. Invite ALONZO Driver! Use it is? Classic brick-pack shit out of Neto.
him and his wife over for dinner. your left hand, put the Mexican. See how brittle it is? Motherfucker's lacing crappy bud
He's a good guy and no dumbshit. vehicle in park. The Driver is It's not bud season. It's from to get that unsuspecting return
You and your woman need any kind'a help, mortified because: last year. Jake is amazed. client. Hell with his mom, I'm
call him. I'm serious. Jake DRIVER ... it's a Alonzo snatches the bud, crumbles it in deporting the bitch.
takes the card. Kind of smiles. stickshift... the pipe, tosses aside seeds. JAKE I'm gonna get piss
JAKE Thanks. I will. ALONZO Shut up, ALONZO To be truly tested. I'm gonna get
They cruise a beat. dickhead! I'll shoot effective, a narcotics fired.
JAKE Who's Mr. Clean? your face off! Take the keys out detective must know and love ALONZO I told you,
Alonzo nails him with surprised look. of the ignition. Throw 'em out narcotics. A good narcotics Lieutenant's got our
backs. We know a week before we clicks) You play strong DAY South on Rampart. Jake Jake leans out, vomits onto the street.
piss. safety for North senses he passed a test. Alonzo He hangs there a beat, dry
JAKE (panicking) Hollywood High? smiling at him. heaving.
Shit. How could you do this to JAKE Yessir. How'd you JAKE What? ALONZO Okay, okay.
me? Shit. Shit. Shit! Alonzo know? ALONZO He liked you. Well's dry, kid. He yanks Jake in
slams an elbow across Jake's throat. ROGER I follow all the JAKE Who is he? One of by the collar. Keeps driving.
ALONZO Fuckin' chill good players. His BEEPER BEEPS. your snitches? JAKE Sorry.
and ride the high. He checks it, sighs. Dials a cell ALONZO He's no snitch. ALONZO Wipe your chin.
You're an adult. You chose to phone. He's a good man to Jake does, rinses his mouth with beer,
smoke. Live with your decisions. ROGER It's me. know. C'mon, let's find some spits out the window.
You cool? Whassup? (beat) action in Niggertown. JAKE I'm cool now. Had
JAKE I'm cool. Can't do a thing for you. Your (off Jake's look) N- to unload the
ALONZO Besides, no one mess. You clean it up. Don't be wordtown. What are you, Hoyt? groceries. He leans his head on
put a gun to your head. callin' me. He hangs up. You ain't pure whiteboy. You the window pillar. Jakes's eye
Jake shoots him a look. Freshens the drinks. mixed? absorb the street's tableau of unworldly
CUT TO: EXT. HOUSE - DAY A ROGER (to Jake) JAKE Italian, Irish and gliding by. Palm trees and sunshine.
well-tended craftsman on a steep hill of Here's a joke, boy. One day this Mexican. Paradise and hell in one.
fixer-uppers in Echo Park. The man walks out of his house to go ALONZO No shit? You're His lids begin to drift shut.
G-Ride parks out front. to work. He sees this snail on all fucked up. How's Then Jake sees a flash of movement in an
ALONZO Get your shit his porch. So he picks it up and the Espanol? alley. Suddenly alert, he paws
together. Alonzo and Jake cross chucks it over his roof, into the JAKE Mas o menos. at the doorhandle.
to the door. The steepness of the back yard. Snail bounces off a ALONZO Work on it. JAKE Activity on the
hill is disorientating to Jake. Alonzo rock, cracks its shell all to People'll be plotting right? Stop the car!
knocks. shit, and lands in the grass. the worst kind of shit behind your ALONZO Siddown, Hoyt.
ALONZO This is my Road Snail lies there dying. A BEEPER back. Alonzo parks in front of a Everything's fine.
Dog's pad. Wanna see BEEPS. Roger checks and ignores it. liquor store. JAKE Stop the fucking
what he thinks of you. ROGER But it doesn't CUT TO: EXT. LIQUOR STORE - DAY car!
JAKE What do I say? die. It eats some Alonzo crosses to the G-ride with a ALONZO C'mon, relax.
ALONZO You'll think of grass. Slowly heals. Grows a new sixer of beer -- INT. G-RIDE - You're trippin' -- Jake grabs the
something stupid. Someone peeps shell. And after a while it can CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY -- Climbs gearshift, throws it in reverse. The
through the peephole. A tall, heavy man crawl again. One day the snail up in. Sees Jakes's eyes are closed. transmission GRINDS, tires SCREECH. The
in a bathrobe with long, grey and heads back to the front of the ALONZO C'mon, man. engine stalls. Jake is out like a
hair answers. This is ROGER, old house. Finally, after a year, the Open your eyes. You'll shot -- EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS
before his time, a little sick. Happy little guy crawls back on the make it worse. Nothing. ACTION - DAY -- He dodges an
to see Alonzo. porch. Right then, the man walks ALONZO Sit your ass up. oncoming car.
ROGER Hey, brother, get out to go to work and sees this Hoyt! Jake locks bleary red eyes ALONZO Get the fuck
your ass in here. snail again. So he says to it, on Alonzo, jokingly: back here! Jake into the alley.
CUT TO: INT. ROGER'S LIVING ROOM 'What the fuck's your problem?' JAKE Who're you? ON G-RIDE Alonzo pulling to the
- DAY Roger and Alonzo hug. Jake stares at Roger a beat. Then ALONZO The fuckin' zig- curb.
ALONZO Did I wake you? starts laughing. Really laughing. zag man. ALONZO Dumb-ass kid.
ROGER No. C'mon in. Maybe too much. He wipes his eyes. JAKE Cool. I'm a cop. ON JAKE Running like a deer. He
Please have a seat. Alonzo and JAKE That's messed up. ALONZO You're a little enters the alley. Sees a book
Jake sit in big chairs. Three beepers, That wasn't funny. bitty boot. Alonzo cracks beers bag on the ground -- A dumpster ahead.
three cell phones on the coffee ALONZO Then why are you for him and Jake. Jake rounds it. Fast. HIS
table. Roger sits, takes a cackling like a jackal? ALONZO C'mon. It POV A devastatingly beautiful
bottle of whisky, three tumblers from a JAKE I dunno. helps. Believe me. Jake takes Latina SCHOOLGIRL, pinned against
liquor cart. Pours booze. ROGER Figure that joke one. Swigs. Alonzo lights a smoke, the wall by a tall CRACKHEAD. Her nose
Jake looks around at the modest out and you'll figure pulls onto Normandie. Does a dots blood on her uniform blouse.
traditional furniture. The Hummel the streets out. doubletake. BACK TO SCENE The Crackhead hauls
figurines. Photos on the wall. ALONZO Don't listen to ALONZO Oh, damn! back to smack her. Jake Charging.
ALONZO Alright. Time him. There's nothing Jake looking around wildly. JAKE Police officer!
to get my swerve on. to figure out. The JAKE Oh, shit! What? You're under arrest!
Roger gives Alonzo a concerned look. street's nothing more than What? What? The Crackhead punches Jake's throat.
ROGER Heard you had a senseless bullshit. ALONZO Relax. See that Stops him cold. Jake realizes how
beef in Vegas. JAKE Uh-uh. I got 'em savory Mexican mama? huge this guy is. Gulp.
ALONZO I'm cool. figured out. JAKE'S POV A beautiful Mexican CRACKHEAD Gonna fuck
People talk shit. ROGER You got the woman pushing a baby carriage. you too, cop. ANOTHER CRACKHEAD
ROGER You know I got streets figured out? CAMERA PLAYING OVER her in luscious SLOW dives from the shadows and tackles
your back. JAKE Yeah. It's all MOTION. BACK TO SCENE Jake Jake. Both go down hard.
ALONZO I know. Thanks. smiles and cries. stares, mouth open. Alonzo points out Crackhead #1 stomps Jake's head. Jake
They clink glasses, chug booze. Jake ALONZO Give up. You're more beautiful Latinas gracing gets his arm around Crackhead
doesn't. He stares into the too high, space the sidewalks. #2's neck, squeezes -- the forbidden
liquid, enraptured by its smoky captain. ALONZO Mmmm-mmmm. The choke hold. Alonzo enters the
patterns. ROGER Hold on -- smiles brown woman is the fine alley. And just stands there,
ALONZO C'mon. Be and cries. I hear you. woman. Give her ten more watching. Jake rides out
polite. Jake takes his tumbler, JAKE You gotta control babies to push around. Thick and Crackhead #I's vicious kicks as
sniffs, sips. Winces. Roger your smiles and cries. tasty. Love to get up in that... Crackhead #2 convulses from
runs a finger up Jake's crew-cut. Jake No one can take them away Your old lady white? Fuckin' hypoxia. And finally goes limp.
recoils. so... they're all we really have. Nordic cheerleader, right? Jake lets go, sweeps Crackhead #I's legs
ROGER Went and got Roger and Alonzo trade looks -- sharp JACK Wrong. She's out from under him and hops to
yourself a daisy- fresh kid. Alonzo pats Jake's Chicana. Light- his feet. Crackhead #1 stands too.
scuzz-headed rookie. Roger leans shoulder. To Roger: skinned. The Schoolgirl looks on, stunned.
back in the couch. Jake is looking ALONZO Think this ALONZO I like my meat CRACKHEAD #1 You're ass
around the room again. A BEEPER greenhorn can handle dark. C'mon, pound is doomed. Jake growls, snatches
BEEPS. Roger checks it. Dials a undercover? Roger scrutinizes that beer. Have another. Gives him up like a rag doll, spins him,
cell phone. Alonzo gesturing for Jake Jake a beat. Smiles and nods: yes. you ballast. Alonzo tosses his slams him hard. In a flash, Jake twists
to drink. He almost empties his ROGER You were just empty out the window. Jake too. him into a pretzel, drops a knee
glass. like him. Alonzo cracks two fresh beers -- Jake on his neck, grinds his head into
ROGER Wassup? ALONZO (laughs) takes one, drops it, soaking his the asphalt. Clicks on the cuffs.
(beat) Collect first. Fuck you. leg. CRACKHEAD #1 We didn't
Step to that cat with ROGER Same silly-ass ALONZO Dumbass. Don't do shit. Bitch is crazy
something to flash. He'll look and everything. spill it. You gotta and shit. Crackhead #2 coming to,
lay you down. Saving the fuckin' learn how to party. starting to stand. Jake crosses
(beat) Righteous. world. JAKE I'm fine. to him, pins his head with his knee.
Later, dude. Roger hangs up. ALONZO That lasted a ALONZO You gotta be Slips a pair of flexicuffs from
Studies Jake. week. Alonzo stands, shakes with able to handle a high. his sock, zips them on the man's wrists.
ROGER Jesus, Alonzo. Roger. It's a necessary job skill. CRACKHEAD #2 Man, you
He's high as a ALONZO Brother, I gotta I'm not kidding. It's an alcohol fuckin' up, slick.
motherfucker. The hell you give get back in my office. world down here. You gotta be Homegirl tradin' her ass for
him? Alonzo tosses the foil pack Thanks for the snort, able to hang. To get fucked up cookies.
on the table. Roger takes it, dog. What're you up to today? and talk shit with sketchy JAKE Shut the fuck up,
smells the PCP and shakes his head. Roger gestures at the phones and sociopathic dumbasses and not pass sir! ANGLE ON ALONZO
ROGER Where'd you grow beepers. out and get your shoes stolen. Smiling, impressed by his raw skill.
up? JAKE ROGER Think I get out JAKE I'm fine. Just a JAKE Thanks for the
North Hollywood. of the house? A BEEPER BEEPS. little dizzy. But Jake looks help.
ROGER What's your last Roger shakes with Jake. decidedly green. He sips beer. HICCUPS ALONZO Should'a shot
name? ROGER Take care, Hoyt. mightily. Alonzo brakes, flings open 'em. Jake crosses to the
JAKE Hoyt. You're gonna do okay. Jake's door. Schoolgirl.
ROGER (it CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - ALONZO Not in my car! JAKE We're police
officers. You okay? Punk-ass white boy. Now you in my JAKE I'm not smoking female Doberman. Beautiful dog,
You hurt? world, motherfucker. Jake stops crack. seven months old. Too Fine
SCHOOLGIRL (to and turns around. He stoops to pick up ALONZO Good. I'm glad
the Crackheads, a pink Hello Kitty change purse. to hear that. Toss 'em s whoopin' her with a
shaken but tough) You INSIDE CHANGE PURSE The in the glove box. Jake does, sees garden hose. This dog's
fucked up! My cousins are Schoolgirl's MIA bus pass and her several more rocks under some papers. just crying, shaking. I
from White Fence. They're gonna freshman ID from Immaculate Heart ALONZO Comes in handy. grew up with Dobermans. I was
blast you fools! Pinchi mayates! High School. BACK TO SCENE Like a debit card. pissed. I tell my T.O. 'I'm gonna
ALONZO Miss! Relax! Jake glares at the Crackheads. (offers Jake a beer) take him.' And my T.O. is like:
Are you okay? JAKE You assholes! You earned it. C'mon. Jake 'No, no. It's cool.' He fuckin'
SCHOOLGIRL What? No. She's fifteen! refuses. waves to Too Fine and this
No, I'm not okay. CRACKHEAD #2 ALONZO No matter what I motherfucker smiles and waves back
Lookit my nose... My mom's gonna (grins) She all woman. say, I want you to and keeps hitting the dog.
trip out. Alonzo gingerly Tax that ass for days. know, you did the right thing. Thought I lost my damn mind.
examines her nose. Man! Jake could kick his brains out. Reminds me of when I could chase Tells me Spooky gave him twenty
ALONZO Honey, it's just Somehow, he turns and walks away. down anyone and fuck them up. bucks to beat the shit out of it.
a nosebleed. Put ice CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - You're a good cop. You got fire. My T.O., this good 'ol boy, looks
on it. Don't be walkin' DAY Jake steams. Alonzo offers a That was some amazing shit back me in the eye and says: 'Teaches
around here alone. Tell your beer from a new sixer. Jake there. 'em to hate niggers.' Almost quit
cousins to get your back. You refuses. Alonzo counts and pockets the JAKE Thanks. right there. Almost got out of
know what those pieces'a shit were money he took. Notes Jake's ALONZO That the choke the fuckin' black and white and
gonna do. Probably got AIDS. Why stare. hold I saw you took the bus home. Jake looks at
aren't you in school? ALONZO Wanna book sixty applying? Isn't that a big no-no, Alonzo.
SCHOOLGIRL I was going bucks? Where're the procedure-boy? JAKE That's fucked up.
to a ditch party. suspects? JAKE Well... I was That's one of the most
ALONZO You almost JAKE (ice) getting my ass kicked. fucked up things I ever
became a ditch party. You let them go. ALONZO You did what you heard.
Go home. Go home. Now. She ALONZO Get over it. had to do. Alonzo gives Jake a ALONZO Just remembered
grabs her book bag and gets out of You wanna go runnin' beer and grins at him like a proud that. Every time I'd
there. and gunnin', stay in patrol. This dad. seen it all, the street'd show
JAKE I gotta get her is Investigations. Leave the ALONZO You got a magic me something even more fucked up.
statement. garbage for the garbage men. eye, Hoyt. You have a I know you didn't see no shit like
ALONZO Unhook em'. We're professional anglers. We magic fucking eye. Up your that in the Valley.
We're not racking up reel in the big ones. Should'a street I.Q. and you'll do some JAKE No, I haven't.
arrests. dished out some shoe leather. damage, crime fighter. They clink Jake takes a last look at the photograph
JAKE (shocked) You'd have a big 'ol smile on your cans. Jake smiles. of young Alonzo and replaces it
Kick 'em loose? face. CUT TO: EXT. NORMANDIE AND VERNON in the glove box. Alonzo enters
ALONZO No. Get some JAKE I get my shits and - DAY The G-Ride rolls through an alley cutting through several blocks.
shots in first. grins booking bad guys, the intersection. If you don't ALONZO Double-nickel
JAKE I have a punching not beating them. know the neighborhood, stay the hell Crips control shit
bag at home. I want ALONZO Man... The fuck out. here. They come up hard. Come in
them off the street. Alonzo you doing running alone CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - here running undercover shit and
squats by Crackhead #1. Searches him. into an alley full'a DAY The area fills Alonzo's eyes get made as a narc, the O.G.s'll
ALONZO Hear that, bro? cracked-out monkey-strong with memories. booty-bust you then some thirteen-
My dog, here, wants to motherfuckers? Those hemorrhoids ALONZO This is year-old wannabe'll curbstone you.
lock you up. Been to the wouldta killed you without mercy Southwest Div. Did my Feed your dead ass to a pit bull.
bootyhouse? Grabbin' ankles for or hesitation. probation here. Learned a lot Youngins here fight for the right
the big boys? JAKE That's why they here. Good things. Bad things. to dump a cop. Everyone wants a
CRACKHEAD #1 Suck my belong in prison. Kicked some ass. Had my ass name.
dick, bitch. I know ALONZO They lost their kicked. JAKE That really
people. money, their rock, got JAKE Back in the days. happen?
ALONZO Kick back, beat down and now the eses ALONZO Yeah, back in ALONZO No, Hoyt, I'm
who's-who. Alonzo finds rocks in from White Fence are gonna smoke the days. Today's my pullin' your dick.
one sock. Some twenties in the 'em. Jesus, what more do you want? date of employment. Know how Anything can happen. It's loony
other. He pockets the cash and crack. JAKE Justice. long I been a cop? tunes here. Keep an eye out for
Searches Crackhead #2. ALONZO Is that not (as Jake shakes his head) rock stars. Alonzo pulls on a
ALONZO Where's your justice? Thirteen years. Seven more and I side street where PEANUT, a young
horn? JAKE That's street cash outta the game. gangster, is ready to serve them.
CRACKHEAD #2 Ain't got justice. JAKE No shit. Happy ALONZO There's one.
no horn. Alonzo finds a glass ALONZO What's wrong anniversary. Jake holds out his Don't let him see your
pipe. with street justice? hand. Alonzo shakes it. Kills his face. And don't let anyone
ALONZO So what's this, JAKE Let the animals beer, cracks another. run up on us with a shotgun.
chief? Gonna make you wipe themselves out, ALONZO Thanks. Alonzo pulls out a twenty, stops near
eat it. Instead, he grinds it right? Thirteen's an unlucky Peanut, who crosses to his
underfoot. ALONZO If only they number but the seven to go cancel window.
ALONZO Ya'll lucky I would. But it don't it out. Alonzo turns on Adams. PEANUT What you want,
got pressing business work like that. They wipe out the He reaches over, digs in the homie?
today -- You, stand up. Alonzo good folks. Notice how it's glove box. Pulls out a photograph and ALONZO (flashes
hauls Crackhead #1 to his feet. Unlocks always school kids, mommies and hands it to Jake. INSERT - PHOTO twenty) Twenty. Gimme
the cuffs, tosses them to Jake. ass-bustin' family men catching A spit-and-polish, young cop in crisp a big-ass chip. Peanut takes a
Crackhead #2 strains against the stray slugs in their noodles. You blues, white gloves, holding his rock from his pocket, gives it to
flexicuffs. protect the sheep by catching the Beretta at inspection arms. BACK Alonzo, reaches for the twenty --
ALONZO (to wolves. It takes a wolf to catch TO SCENE Jake looks at the photo, CLICK-CLICK! Alonzo cuffs him to
Crackhead #2) You get a wolf. then at Alonzo. Realizing: the steering wheel --
to keep those. He steers JAKE What? JAKE You're Mr. Clean. ALONZO Let's take a
Crackhead #1 to a wall -- cocks his ALONZO You protect -- ALONZO I had a few ride, asshole. -- Stomps the gas,
fist. JAKE I heard you. misconceptions when I SCREECH! Peanut runs to keep up.
ALONZO Ain't the first Whatever. A beat. started out. Alonzo stops at the end of the alley.
honey ya'll pinned to a JAKE When do you lock (points out a house) On ALONZO You from double
wall, huh? Close your eyes. anyone up? Seems like the left. See that house? nickel?
Crackhead does. Alonzo knees his groin you're too busy keeping people Dude named Spooky lived there. PEANUT Ain't from shit.
-- oof! -- He falls to the out. Bad mistake. Alonzo slaps Mean old vato loco. Mexican ALONZO Again: Where
ground, whimpers in the fetal position. him. Glares at him. Mafia. No one fucked with Spooky. you from?
ALONZO Next time I cut ALONZO Shut up, boot! Even got respect from the cops. PEANUT My mom.
your dick off and shove Nothin' but shit 'tween We'd keep an eye on his house. ALONZO Your mom? From
it up your ass. your ears. They build You like dogs? her ass? You a butt
(pats Jake's back, winks) prisons cause'a me! Judges have JAKE Gotta six-year-old baby?
I'll leave you three alone. Gonna handed out fifteen thousand man Rottweiler. Not too PEANUT Fuck you --
grab some beer. Alonzo exits the years of incarceration time based bright, but I can trust -- SCREECH! Alonzo races in reverse
alley. Jake watches Crackhead #1 on my investigations. My record him with my kid. down the alley. Peanut is yanked
whimper, Crackhead #2 writhe in the speaks for itself. How many ALONZO Rotties are good off his feet. His legs drag in the
gutter. It's futi1e to beat felons have you collared? dogs. Dobermans are dirt. Alonzo stops, lights a squished
these men. Jake takes pity, walks away. Dickhead. Now that it's clear better. Spooky raised Marlboro. He has Peanut's
CRACKHEAD #2 Pussy who's the boss, they drive in tense Dobermans. On my second week of attention.
motherfucker. Gonna see silence for a long beat. Alonzo digs in patrol, when I was not knowin' ALONZO What do they
your ass again. Gonna fuck you his pocket -- shit, we roll by Spooky's one call you?
up, bitch. Won't see shit coming. ALONZO Here... night. I observe this old, black PEANUT Peanut.
Creep like a ninja and crack your -- hands Jake the rocks he found. A fool, named Too Fine, all drunk, ALONZO You in double
head open. Blow your house up. beat. beating the shit out of this nickel, Peanut? Peanut nods.
ALONZO See, respect me, wrapped rocks. that's the schoolbell. He slams shoves something big down his
I respect you. Talk ALONZO Lookie those. the trunk. Pulls his gun. They cross raidjacket. BACK TO SCENE
shit, I fuck you up. Ah'ite, DEALER That's corn. to the door. JAKE Siddown.
homie. ALONZO That's Jimmy JAKE Get a real WOMAN Gonna shoot me,
PEANUT Ah'ite. crack corn... One, two, warrant. boss? Kids, don't
ALONZO Who's the boss? three, four, five... six. ALONZO I wanna get shit look. The drunk policeman gonna
PEANUT You. How'd you swallow that shit done. They step onto the porch. shoot me now. Alonzo enters,
ALONZO No, dumbass. without water? Take sides by the front door. excited, grinning.
Who you slangin' for? DEALER Fuckin' ALONZO Don't get me ALONZO Didn't find
Peanut clams up. Alonzo grabs the bullshit! Fuck you, civil killed, new guy. He knocks on the shit. Let's go --
gearshift. rights violatin' motherfuckers. security screen. Sorry about the inconvenience,
ALONZO Gimme a name or Alonzo slaps him. ALONZO Police! Search ma'am. Thank you for your
your hand. Choose now. ALONZO Gonna act like a warrant! Silence. Alonzo knocks cooperation. He and Jake head for
Peanut stares at his hand, flexes it. man or a bitch?! Got again. Nods at Jake. the door.
Alonzo revs the engine. you cold. Gimme a name and JAKE L.A.P.D.! Open WOMAN I wanna see the
PEANUT Mr. Mighty. stay on the streets. The Dealer the door. Nothing. Then: warrant.
Alonzo shoves forty bucks in Peanut's mulls it over. WOMAN (O.S.) Kevin ALONZO Here. He
hand, unlocks him -- DEALER He in County. ain't here. He up at the hands her the menu as they exit.
ALONZO Back to work, ALONZO Who? Honor Ranch. CUT TO: EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY
poo-butt. -- and drives away. DEALER Sandman. He's ALONZO L.A.P.D.! At the end of the block, three big
Peanut flips him off. shot callin'. Please open the door or GANGSTERS buy popsicles from a
CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - ALONZO Unhook him, we kick it in! Ma'am?! CLICKING. Mexican vendor. ANOTHER ANGLE
DAY Jake adds Peanut's rock to Hoyt. Jake unlocks the cuffs. The door is unlocked, opened. An The Woman bursts out of the house,
the glovebox. Alonzo steps over the vomit. attractive black WOMAN stands on screams at Jake and Alonzo as
JAKE He was just a kid. ALONZO And collect the the other side of the security they climb in the G-Ride.
ALONZO Kids or not, evidence. screen. Alonzo waves the menu. WOMAN Fuckin' jackers!
gotta make 'em sing. JAKE Fuck you. ALONZO Search Warrant. You ain't no fuckin'
JAKE Who's Mr. Mighty? ALONZO You're learning. Unlock the door and police! Get the fuck back
Let's get him. CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - back away. She does, Alonzo snaps here with my money! She sees the
ALONZO Nope... can't DAY Jake keeps looking at Alonzo, it open, rushes in, Jake follows. gangsters.
catch that fish. half impressed, half appalled. INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION - WOMAN Why ya'll
JAKE Why not? ALONZO What? DAY Jake and Alonzo swinging guns standin' there lookin'
ALONZO Lives in the JAKE You don't give a around the room. There's two pretty?! Blast them fools! The
unincorporated part of fuck. Alonzo grins, dials a cell scared toddlers in a play pen. The gangsters trade looks. Start running
Lynwood. We don't wanna deal phone. Woman on the couch, pissed. towards -- G-RIDE Alonzo
with County Sheriffs. Fuck that ALONZO Afternoon, Bob. JAKE Stand up, ma'am. sees the gangsters. Tries STARTING the
headache. Wastin' our time here. It's Alonzo, Rampart He searches the couch for a weapon. CAR. The engine won't catch.
Let's head East. Narcs. (beat) ALONZO Anyone else in ALONZO C'mon, baby.
CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - Good, and you? the house, ma'am? Don't do me like that.
DAY The G-Ride cruising through (beat) Great. WOMAN My nephew, The gangsters getting closer.
an even worse area. Alonzo scans (beat) Yeah, that's Dimitri. He in the ALONZO Fuckin' bitch!
the urban wasteland for prey. Sees a right. I made it. The bedroom. The boy is ten. Start! Nothing. Alonzo piles
gaunt DEALER on a corner. Hands big one three. ALONZO Cover her. out. Raises the hood, taps the
Jake a twenty. (beat; laughs) 'Course Gonna clear the house. carb with the butt of his gun.
ALONZO Your turn. I'm on the street. Hey, JAKE You can sit. ALONZO Start it!
JAKE What do I say? partner, got your gang book? Please keep your hands Jake twists the screwdriver. No dice.
ALONZO Adlib, dumbfuck. (beat) Okay, I need a on your knees. Alonzo exits He sees a Glock pulled from a
He pulls over. The Dealer crosses to res. Alias is Sandman. through a doorway into the kitchen. waistband. Alonzo tapping.
Jake. If he's not in Ghetto ALONZO (O.S.) Kitchen's JAKE Gun! Gun! Gun!
DEALER What you want, Boys, try the Mobsters... might be clear! We HEAR Alonzo moving ALONZO Start it!
homie? in custody. through the bedrooms. VAROOM! Alonzo slams the hood. Climbs
JAKE Crack. Twenty (beat) No, I'll hold. ALONZO (O.S.) in. SQUEALS from the driveway.
dollars' worth. (to Jake) Bob Ramirez. Bedrooms're clear! Bringing out The armed gangster drops to one knee.
DEALER Fuck you, Intel coordinator for the kid! Alonzo marches Dimitri, The G-Ride tear-asses away in Glock's
rookie. He quickly walks away. Seventy-Seventh Div Crash. 10, into the living room. The sights. POP!-POP!-POP!-POP!-POP!
Alonzo smiles. (into phone) -- Yeah, youngster trembles. A ROUND SHATTERS a taillight.
ALONZO Fetch, boy. Bob, still here. Shoot. Alonzo ALONZO S'okay, son, ANOTHER pierces the trunk -- INT.
Fetch. Jake bolts from the car. jots the information on a notepad. we're the good guys. Go G-RIDE - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY
EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - ON DEALER - ALONZO Okay... Thank sit on the couch with your -- the back seat -- the front seat --
CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY walking. you, sir. That's gonna aunt -- House is code-four. Gonna the six pack -- and finally the
He sees Jake, starts running. do it. Have a good one. Alonzo start my search. Alonzo exits. dash. Jake reacting to beer
Jake gaining, tackles him. Gets the hangs up. The Woman glares at Jake. spray. Alonzo rounds the corner,
Dealer in a compliance hold and JAKE We go after the WOMAN I wanna read the tosses the wounded cans out the window.
cuffs him. Alonzo pulls up, sees Sandman? warrant. ALONZO Shit... Let's
Jake grinning. ALONZO We go after the JAKE (reacts) hit a liquor store. Jake fingers
ALONZO Love doing that, Sandman. Jake smiles. My partner has it. She looks out the hole in the dash.
huh? (searches CUT TO: EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREET - the window at the empty street. ALONZO Gun! Gun! Gun!
Dealer) Who you work DAY Graffiti on a wall: GHETTO WOMAN Where's your Jake startles, Alonzo laughing.
for, fuckstain? BOYS HOOD -- SANDMAN The G-Ride back-up? ALONZO First time you
DEALER Can't work. I'm glides INTO FRAME and OUT. ANGLE JAKE Ma'am, please be been shot at?
on disability. The G-Ride parks in front of a house. quiet while we conduct JAKE (lies)
ALONZO Bullshit. You Alonzo and Jake exit. Alonzo our investigation. No.
crackin'. Jake finishes pops the trunk. Inside is a microwave WOMAN You got the gun, ALONZO Yeah, it is.
searching. box, toaster, a boombox, a TV. boss. (sotto) JAKE That wasn't cool.
ALONZO No rocks? JAKE Gonna open a Crooked-ass motherfuckers. The That wasn't cool at
JAKE No rocks. Circuit City? kids stare at Jake like an occupying all. What the fuck were
DEALER ALONZO It's unclaimed soldier. He crosses to Dimitri, you doing in there?
(laughing) Aw, dang. shit from property. I smiles. ALONZO Looking for
See? Ya'll ain't got pass it out to informants, JAKE Hey, little man. narcotics activity.
shit. The man comin' up short victims, witnesses. Help their How's it going? Jake tries to Scales. Baggies. Guns. Coke.
again. Alonzo exits the car. families out. Alonzo fishes out shake. Dimitri crosses his arms, looks Bud. Etcetera.
Glares. an assault vest, tosses it to Jake and away. The Woman smirks. O.S., JAKE Cash...?
ALONZO I never come up dons an LAPD windbreaker, POLICE across the SOUNDS of Alonzo tearing apart the ALONZO Say it,
short, fool. (to the back. bedrooms like a hurricane. motherfucker.
Dealer) Open your ALONZO Intel says his Making a hell of a mess. The JAKE She was screaming
mouth. The Dealer does. Sensing mom's in the residence Woman stands. about money.
to not play with Alonzo. with two female JAKE Ma'am. Stay ALONZO Bitch was
ALONZO Lift your juveniles and a possible male seated. talking shit. Trying to
tongue. He does. juvenile. WOMAN Who you be get us blasted by her homies.
DEALER See. I ain't be JAKE If he's not here, thinkin'? Comin' in Jake's eyes fall to a brick-shaped bulge
gottin' shit. why are we here? Alonzo pulls a like you pay the rent. under Alonzo's raid jacket.
ALONZO Gimme a pen. paper out of his pocket, unfolds it. JAKE Ma'am, sit down. ALONZO What?
Jakes does. Alonzo grabs the Dealer's ALONZO We gotta serve WOMAN Both ya'lls JAKE I dunno. I'm just
neck. Forces the pen in his this search warrant. stink. Drinkin' all a new guy. A daisy-
mouth. Down his throat. He gags -- It's the Chinese take-out menu Jake day. Gotta get liquored up to do fresh scuzz-head boot. You
Urgh! Vomits. handed him earlier. business? Alonzo is suddenly tell me what.
DEALER Motherfucker! JAKE We can't do that. quiet. Jake backs to the doorway, ALONZO I don't deny my
Jake is stunned. Alonzo inspects the ALONZO Yes we can, peeks around it. Sees a dresser with a shit stinks. I will
spattered sidewalk. Sees Saran- supercop. Ding-ding, mirror. IN MIRROR Alonzo never deny that. So why do I
got the best arrest and conviction beat) You hungry? They shake. Kisses him.
record in the county. Why? Let's code seven. SARA Hi. How are you? ALONZO Hey. How you
'Cause I don't handicap myself CUT TO: EXT. CENTRAL AVENUE - DAY JAKE Good, thank you. been? Been good?
with bullshit. The G-Ride pulls onto a side street then SARA Come in, come in. Gettin' heavy, mister. Mama says
JAKE I thought that winds its way through a maze of Welcome to my house. you miss me. Sara watches from
bullshit served a shabby streets. Alonzo enters, Jake follows. the bedroom doorway. Seeing Alonzo
purpose. CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - CUT TO: INT. APARTMENT - DAY like this rips her apart more than
ALONZO You thought DAY Jake nervously glances around The living room is filled with anything he says.
wrong. There's one of the toughest parts of the Salvadoran kitsch. A 2- year-old CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING -
hemorrhoids walking free on the city. A strong point adorned with boy on the couch watches cartoons. DAY Near downtown. The noon sun
streets right now who've killed wrought iron and concertina wire. Alonzo motions for Jake to sit. high and bright.
fuckin' three, four, five people. JAKE What are you ALONZO You had a rough JAKE What about your
I know it, they know it, every doing? We'll be killed morning. Relax and let queen?
detective on payroll knows it. coming in here. her hook you up. He disappears ALONZO Sara's my
Why do these turds still float ALONZO Oh, you've heard into the bedroom. Sara hands Jake the princess.
around? The rules. I take down about this neck of the remote. JAKE I like her. She's
the duly deserving. I'm not woods? SARA Here. Take this. a really cool lady.
locking up Mr. Nine-to-five, Mr. JAKE No man's land. I have cable. You watch ALONZO So are her two
Family Provider. Jake shaking his (points) You got what you want. This is sisters. They look
head angrily. Broadway there, dividing your house. Don't be shy. She fuckin' good and they party.
ALONZO C'mon, the eastside-westside Hispanic crosses to the kitchen. Sounds of POTS, How'd you like to be in the middle
communicate. What aren't gangs. And Adams Boulevard there DISHES. Jake is about to change of a bitch sandwich? Come to
you saying? Talk to me. A beat. is the only thing separating the the channel. The kid gives him a Vegas with us.
Then Jake fixes Alonzo with a stare. Rolling Twenties Bloods from the look. He puts away the remote. JAKE No, thanks. I get
JAKE I think... I think Hoover Crips. They said never Sara returns with a massive tray of mine at home.
you're a rogue cop. come in here with anything less food, chicken stew, beans, rice, ALONZO You're missing
Alonzo laughs his ass off. Wipes his than a platoon. salad, tortillas, the works. She sets out. I should know.
eyes, he laughs so hard. ALONZO the mouth-watering spread before JAKE Her kid looks just
ALONZO Fuckin' Hoyt, (impressed) On top of Jake. like you. He's number
man. Know what? You're that, area's an SARA This is El five.
alright. You are alright. Jake administrative nightmare. Four Salvador food. I hope ALONZO Number six.
gives him an "I'm not stupid" look. L.A.P.D. Division boundaries meet you like it. JAKE Six kids. That's
ALONZO You're in a here. Rampart, Central, Southwest JAKE Thank you. This all? Or you holding
privileged position to and Newton. That makes everything is great. I'm royal court in a few more
learn a thing or two if you can that happens here the other guy's starving. She hangs a beat, houses?
keep your mouth shut and your eyes problem. Jake is really eabarrassed. ALONZO I'm only aware
open. If you're serious about uncomfortable. SARA I'm sorry. I have of six.
doing good out in the real world, JAKE I thought we were too... Jake knows. She runs off. JAKE It's easy to make
this is the place to learn how. going to eat. Alonzo gives him a CUT TO: INT. BEDROOM - DAY a baby --
If this shit shakes you up, go reassuring look and stops in front of Sara hands Alonzo a beer. Alonzo lays ALONZO -- And hard to
back to Division and cry to the a cul-de-sac of run down houses and back on the bed with a huge grin. take care of one. Fuck
Watch Commander. He'll find you a apartments. He HONKS. A She surveys him, smiles. you, okay? No one's going
nice job lighting flares and little kid runs out of the corner house. SARA Wow. That's hungry. Everyone gets plenty of
measuring wrecks. Decide now if He eyes Alonzo then hops on his something different. what they need: toys, shoes,
you want to be a wolf or a sheep. bike and rides OUT OF VIEW into You're smiling. clothes.
If you want on my squad, I'll sign the cul-de-sac. A beat. The ALONZO Wassup, woman? JAKE Love?
your card. Alonzo stops the car. little kid returns. Waves Alonzo into Lookin' good today. Alonzo shoots a look at Jake.
Reaches over and opens Jake's the cul-de- sac. Alonzo turns SARA (unties his ALONZO Let's not talk
door. onto the dangerous dead-end, driving shoes) Well, happy man: about my family.
ALONZO If not, get out around a poorly parked van. you didn't say 'hi' to CUT TO: EXT. LA GOLONDRINA - DAY
of my car. Jake looks at Alonzo, JAKE That little kid's your son. He's been A great place for lunch and cocktails.
he turns away and reacts. JAKE'S a lookout. asking for you. Alonzo and Jake cross to the
POV They are parked in front of a ALONZO Lots of eyes on ALONZO Yeah, well... I entrance. Alonzo, his raidjacket tucked
police station, steps lead up to us right now. Never will. She removes his shoes, underarm, hands Jake some Visine.
a pair of glass doors. BACK TO come up in here without me. massages his feet. ALONZO Use it.
SCENE Jake sits there a beat. He For your safety. I'm serious. SARA How's your wife? Jake does. Alonzo opens the door.
gives Alonzo a final look. Then JAKE Okay. Why do you ALONZO Why the fuck you JAKE Who's here?
gets out of the car. EXT. POLICE have a golden pass? comin' at me with all ALONZO Don't speak
STATION - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY ALONZO Because I'm this shit? Don't you have a unless spoken to.
Jake stiffly marches up the steps. Then square with 'em. But brain? I'm in a good fuckin' mood CUT TO: INT. LA GOLONDRINA - DAY
stops. And turns. Alonzo they know if the line is crossed, for the first time in who knows A lunchtime business crowd dines in
staring at him. Waiting for him to I'm leading the platoon in here. how the fuck long and you start burgundy leather booths amidst a
change his mind. A beat. Alonzo parks in front of some talkin' shit. Man. Just shut the forest of wrought £ron. Alonzo leads
Jake shakes his head: no. apartments. Jake and Alonzo get fuck up. Take that shit off and Jake into: INT. CORTEZ ROOM -
SCREECH! Alonzo is gone. out. An old woman sweeps her get your ass in bed. CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY Empty.
CUT TO: INT. POLICE STATION LOBBY doorstep and glares at Jake. SARA (crosses Save for the back table. Three scary
- DAY Jake badges the elderly ALONZO Buenas tardes, her arms, glares) I'm 40ish bruisers in nice suits,
sergeant desk and is buzzed into Dona Lucila. The old woman not a piece of something for DOUG, STAN, AND LOU, share a
the offices. smiles, nods. Jake and Alonzo you to bark at, mister. pitcher of beer. Doug and Stan
CUT TO: INT. POLICE STATION pass a long driveway as they cross to ALONZO I'm sorry. see Alonzo, react like they've seen a
OFFICES - DAY Jake stands just some stairs. JAKE'S POV At Please get your ass in ghost. So Lou turns around, sees
inside the door. Taking in station the far end of the driveway, gangsters bed. I gotta get back to work. Alonzo. And quickly stands.
life. HIS POV Station work out and drink. One of them She thinks it over. Slips off her dress It's tense. Like there could be a
queens of all sorts. Overweight cops is benching over 300 pounds. BACK -- Wow! gunfight. Jake's hand creeps
talk on the phones. Pension TO SCENE SARA This is because I near his gun. Alonzo and Lou
jockeys tap away at keyboards. This is ALONZO Don't look at want to. Not because converge, trading serious questions and
about as far from the action as you can them. Alonzo and Jake climb the you tell me to. answers with their eyes. Jake
get. BACK TO SCENE Jake steps. ALONZO Whatever. watches Stan and Doug. They watch him.
looks at a sign over a door: "WATCH ALONZO See that dude CUT TO: INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY Alonzo and Lou grab hands grimly.
COMMANDER". Instead of crossing benching? (LATER) Jake dozes, his plate LOU (softly)
to it. Jake looks at his hands, JAKE Yeah, Jesus. wiped clean, an arm around the I don't know why I'm meeting you.
dirty and scraped from fighting. Jake ALONZO Exactly, you run little kid, still watching cartoons. I don't talk to dead men.
turns around and exits. into him; you pray. Alonzo enters, invigorated, he ALONZO (smiles,
CUT TO: EXT. POLICE STATION - DAY Real quick hands for a big kicks Jake's foot. winks) Ain't dead yet,
As Jake descends the steps, the G-Ride guy. Used to make money boxing ALONZO Let's go. We're you prick. They shake vigorously,
pulls up. The passenger door but he fucked that up. Alonzo rollin'. Gotta meeting smile big. Everyone relaxes.
opens. Jake climbs in. Shuts the door. knocks on a door. in fifteen. Jake stirs, LOU (claps his
CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING - JAKE What's here? stretches. Stands. Alonzo shows him back) Fuckin' Alonzo.
DAY Alonzo holds out his hand. ALONZO A loving touch. the door. Heard you just tucked
Solemn. WOMAN (O.S.) Quien...? ALONZO Go to the car. lucky number thirteen under
ALONZO Welcome to ALONZO Policia, JAKE I wanna thank her your belt. Hey, man.
Narcotics, Officer senorita. The door opens, there for the food. It was Congratulations.
Hoyt. Jake beams, shakes his stands SARA, a ravishing Salvadoran great. ALONZO Thanks, Lou.
hand. in a housedress. She hugs Alonzo, ALONZO I'll tell her, What, marked your
JAKE I'm going to do my plants a big kiss on him -- don't worry. Jake tussles the calendar? Lou smiles, taps his
best. SARA Hi, papi. kid's hair. temple. Doug and Stan shake with
ALONZO You do and -- then notices Jake and backs off. JAKE See you later, Alonzo. It's clear he makes them
you'll run the unit ALONZO He's just my new little man. Jake exits. Alonzo uncomfortable.
someday. (a guy. She holds out her hand. picks up his son. Hugs him tight. DOUG Congratulations.
Good to see you. dunked it from a stepladder. grin knowingly. Alonzo is excited, happy, the raid
STAN Congratulations. Clockwork trial. Jury deliberates STAN You're an asshole. jacket underarm. He crosses to
You made it through half a day. Comes back guilty on DOUG Kid's gotta learn. the valet --
another year of this ten out of eleven counts. The ALONZO He sucks the ALONZO Gimme the keys
madness. fuckbag was looking at a twenty- shit down. Showing me for the grey one. -- receives a
LOU Who the fuck is five mininum. he can hang. We're in key ring. Alonzo crosses to one of
Ricky Rookie? Alonzo grabs Jake's STAN Mininum. Bye-bye, MacArthur Park and he starts three plush unmarked Crown
shoulder, pulls him into the huddle. toilet-licker. screaming and jumps out of the Victorias in the lot. Jake watches
ALONZO This is Jake DOUG Sentencing was fuckin' car. And runs down the him open the trunk and empty his jacket
Hoyt, first day on the today -- street. Omigod. I thought he inside. Alonzo returns the keys
squad. Jake shakes Lou's hand. LOU -- Judge is female. lost it. The detectives are to the valet.
Sees an LAPD Captain's badge on DOUG Right. Female hooked. So is... JAKE CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING -
his belt. Jake realizes these guys are judge. Listening, sipping beer. DAY Alonzo drives away. Dials
police administrators. ALONZO Who? ALONZO So I chase him his cell phone.
ALONZO Jake, this is DOUG Landers. The down this alley and, ALONZO It's me. We
Lou Jacobs, interagency stress-case brunette. holy shit, he's jamming two gotta green light. Fax
task-force coordinator. ALONZO I know her. huge crackheads and there's this the warrant to the clerk and
You ever have to talk Sharp lady. pretty girl with a bloody nose. tell her to get the judge to sign
to a fed, talk to this man DOUG Before this guy Kid stopped a rape. it. I want you and Paul to bring
first. He'll get your back. goes to the hearing, he STAN No shit. it to the van. And bring some
JAKE Pleased to meet gets a hold of some ALONZO No shit. picks and shovels. Sign 'em out
you, sir. peanut butter and packs his ass LOU Kid's got a magic from maintenance. Copy that?
ALONZO This is Stan crack with it. So there he is, eye. (beat) Good. Hurry the
Gursky, senior standing tall before the bench to ALONZO That's what I fuck up. He hangs up.
investigator for the L.A. County give his statement and he shoves told him. Kid's a JAKE How much was in
officer involved shooting team. his hand down his pants and comes prince. Jake beams with beer- your jacket?
Think about him before you pull a out with a gob of fuckin' extra- buzzed pride. ON DETECTIVES ALONZO Forty G's.
trigger, okay? Stan will rock chunky Jiff. Could'a heard a pin ALONZO His first day on JAKE What for?
your world if you make a bad call. drop. Bailiffs wouldn't come near the squad and know what ALONZO You wanna know?
JAKE (shaking him. He looks the judge right in he tells me? JAKE I wanna know.
with Stan) Pleased to her eyes and licks his fingers (pathetic voice) ALONZO Nothing's free
meet you, sir. clean. Holy shit. The judge, she 'You're a rogue cop.' Roars of in this world. Not
ALONZO And this is Doug screams. All these homeowners are laughter from the Detectives. Lou even an arrest warrant. Jake
Marcab, Metro Burglary. there to read statements, they run refills beers, holds up his glass didn't want to know.
Does high-dollar cases out of screaming. Alonzo is for a toast. JAKE Who's it for?
for the Poodle crowd. Your Van breaking up. Stan and Lou, too. LOU Okay. Okay, ALONZO A real bag of
Gogh takes a trip. Doug'll find ON JAKE laughing too. Julie ladies... Here's to the shit. A genuine bad
it. JAKE returns with a beer and a taco craziest, most bounce back, guy. Been investigating this vile
Pleased to meet you, sir. Lou plate. And walks away with a flirty nine lives cop to darken the bastard for ten years. He's a big
takes Alonzo's arm. smile. BACK TO STAN streets of this fine city. fish in a big pond. Today I fry
LOU Have a seat, guy. STAN No, wait, here's Congratulations for -- ahem -- him. The squad's gonna get some
Alonzo slides into the booth after Lou. the punchline... honorably completing thirteen glory. Talkin' name-making shit.
ALONZO (to Jake) DOUG Judge Landers, she years in the most fickle job a man We'll be getting handshakes from
Shoo, boy. Shoo. He points out says: (falsetto) could be married to. Glasses the Chief and Mayor. Wanna piece,
the adjacent booth. Jake crosses, sits, Oh, this poor man's insane, he clink. The men drink. Lou turns to new guy? A beat. Jake smiles.
his back to their table. can't go to prison. Alonzo, quiet, serious. Sounds good.
LOU Seems like a good (himself, grim) She LOU You should be at JAKE Hell, yeah. I
kid. An attractive tall blonde ordered him to psychiatric. Division hiding under a wanna piece.
waitress, JULIE, brings a fresh ALONZO (floored) desk. ALONZO Knew you would.
pitcher of beer. You are fucking kidding. She fell ALONZO Best way to fix CUT TO: EXT. ALLEY - DAY
ALONZO Fuckin' elbow for it? a problem is to look it In an old, hilly L.A. neighborhood near
benders read my mind. DOUG Time she found out in the eye. downtown. The G- Ride parks.
LOU Look's like you're it was sandwich spread, LOU I'm not the Alonzo and Jake exit. Cross to a
way ahead of us. the order was signed and problem. ON JAKE He turns, Pacific Bell repair van that
ALONZO I'm always a he'd been transferred. sees it's a serious pow-wow. Overhears: Alonzo knocks on.
step ahead of you guys. ALONZO Proceedings STAN Heard you had an VOICE Go away.
Julie smiles at Alonzo. closed. expensive weekend in ALONZO Daddy's home.
JULIE There's the DOUG Proceedings Vegas. How'd you fuck up so Open up. The door opens. Alonzo
mystery man. Thought closed. bad? and Jake climb in. INT. STAKEOUT
you gave up on us. What've you STAN Fucker'll do six ALONZO How could I VAN - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY
been up to? months in the puzzle know? Vegas ain't my Crammed with surveillance gear.
ALONZO Been good. factory before they say town. I'm not omniscient. Monitors show neighborhood
JULIE More bad than he's normal and kick him loose. LOU You should hop a streets, houses. TIM and JEFF, late
good, right? DOUG So a maggot gnaws jet outta here. 2O's, dressed in jeans but
ALONZO You know it. on a wrinkleneck. Real ALONZO Why? It's an obviously cops, play Streetfighter
JULIE Mmmm-hmmm. You or not, lock him up. easy fix. II. The stubbly pair has been holed up
need to eat. Combo He's repulsive not LOU (laughs) for two days. Jeff knocks Tim
plate? insane. How? out. TIM
ALONZO No. I'm good. LOU Little kids eat ALONZO I can cash out Jerk.
Toss the kid, there, a their own shit. an account. JEFF The chick always
taco and a beer. Alonzo grabs the STAN Not my kids, Lou. STAN Whose? wins. Jake and Alonzo sit on milk
pitcher, starts pouring. Julie walks ALONZO It's called ALONZO One of mine. My crates. Jake examines the
away. coprolagnia. People do first. The three suits shudder, fascinating gear. Tim opens the cooler
ALONZO Why the long it for sex kicks. trade looks. he sits on, tosses beers to
face, Doug? Feds seize STAN Bullshit. How do LOU You're fucked up. Alonzo and Jake.
your house or something? Chuckles you know? ALONZO Someone steps on ALONZO Guess what,
from Lou and Stan. ALONZO Had a case when his tail, he'll cry guys. Jake's joined
DOUG Fuck you, Alonzo. I worked vice. like a coyote. I can't keep the team.
STAN Doug had a bad day LOU Only in America. him off the radar forever. He's a TIM Great.
in court today -- Tell ALONZO If the asshole's security risk. (shakes) Here's my
him what happened. clever enough to play LOU Do your job and no official welcome to the
DOUG You tell him, the system like that, I say one steps on his tail. squad handshake.
think it's so funny. he earned his freedom. ALONZO Fuck him. I'm JAKE Thanks.
STAN He went to a DOUG I see him on the taxing him. A beat. Lou Jeff and Jake shake next.
sentencing hearing. On street, I'm gonna acquiesces. JEFF Welcome aboard.
a three strikes case against a fuckin' do him. LOU It's your call. How's the first day?
silk-suit catburglar type. ALONZO Take his Alonzo smiles. And the men speak in Don't worry. Gets worse. Tim
Fuckwad pulled fifteen Encino bullets, Stan. Laughs. Alonzo hushed tones. Jake turns to hits PLAY on a VCR.
burglaries. pours a fresh round. look. JAKE'S POV Lou, TIM Check this out.
DOUG Spent twelve ALONZO Hey, listen to Doug, Stan and Alonzo stare back at him. ON VIDEO MONITOR Two amorphous
months trying to catch this, my new guy, BACK TO SCENE Jake snaps his eyes human heat signatures hump with
the suspect, a real right? Been showing him around to his plate. The men murmur. Julie compeling intensity on infrared
slickster, gave up nothing. town. Scored some reefer for him arrives with a fresh beer. Softly: surveillance video. BACK TO SCENE
Captain rode my ass the entire to smoke. But he wouldn't. So I JULIE You should know ALONZO What's this
time. What broke it? Luck. run through the whole bit, the gun when not to listen. shit? TIM
Caught in the act by a fuckin' to the head. Everything. 'Okay,' She quickly exits. Infrared. Trained a thermal scope
patrolman. We had him. he says. I light up and it stinks CUT TO: EXT. LA GOLONDRINA - DAY on a house down the street.
It was the prosecutor's first like burnt rubber, right? I pass Alonzo and Jake exit. It's obvious JEFF Some Asian chick.
serial burglary case but he slam- it to him anyway. The detectives something big is going down. Lives alone. Everyday
some asshole from work
follows her home, throws in some
pumps and bails.
TIM This was too good
to pass up. You know
we love yellow-tail. Check
this out. ON MONITOR Same
couple, same intensity, clearly seen
through a window via a camera
atop a phone pole.
TIM I threw on the
climbing irons and got
a camera on her window.
JEFF This afternoon
we're spiking her wall
for sound. Tim and Jeff beam
proudly.
ALONZO No. You're not.
Erase that shit. They trade
looks.
ALONZO I'm not fuckin'
kidding! Erase that
shit. And any other horny
housewife tapes you made. Right
fuckin' now! Alonzo smacks the
back of Tim's head. Tim hits the VTR
buttons.
TIM Ow, man. I'm
erasing. Jesus. Alonzo studies a
clipboard. Hurls it at Jeff.
ALONZO What's this?
Day camp sign-in? Redo
the logs. Neatly.
(tapsblankmon
a
itor) Why isn't this us shit, we give him lead. Let's begin chopping. It's quick work to ALONZO Not gonna to do
on? TIM do this right so everyone can go tear a large hole in the wood. it? JAKE
Respect. I don't wanna watch the home and do the wife and girl ALONZO Hop in, Hoyt. Of course not. This isn't funny.
dude in his living room. Alonzo friend thing tonight. Couple'a of feet down, Alonzo smiles. Takes the shotgun from
CLICKS it ON. Rewinds the tape of the (checks his watch) Suit there's a locker. Jake jumps in. him.
VTR it's connected to. up, ladies. Time to punch in. Attacking dirt with his pick. ALONZO Man, youngsters
JEFF Why are you being CUT TO: EXT. ROGER'S HOUSE - DAY CUT TO: INT. BEDROOM - DAY (10 these days. Can't get
a dick? What's wrong? Five cops crouch outside the door with MINUTES LATER) Jake, Tim and Jeff shit done unless you do it
ALONZO What's wrong? shotguns, machine pistols. haul a trash-bag-wrapped footlocker yourself. Alonzo aims at Roger...
All you've done for two Assault vests and helmets worn over out of the hole. BOOM! Roger is punched ragged with
days is jerk off and play civvies. Jake and Jeff to one JAKE What's in it? BUCKSHOT, lifted off his couch,
sega. You pinheads even see me in side. Paul, Mark and Tim to the ALONZO Open it. knocked into the wall. Jake jumps
there this morning? other. Paul and Mark give the Jake tears away trash bags. Alonzo back. A peal of laughter from
JEFF No one went in door several quick, powerful takes a pick and snaps the lock. Tim. Contagious giggles from the
there this morning. kicks. Wood splits, hinges tear. It Jake opens the lid -- taped bundles others. Roger gurgles. Jake stares
ALONZO I should snap falls open. The five cops surge inside. wide-eyed at Alonzo.
your neck. Instead, he hits play. into: INT. ROGER'S HOUSE - JAKE It's coke? JAKE Holy shit!
INSERT - MONITOR A living room. CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY Roger ALONZO Go ahead. It Jake's shock elicits more giggles from
A familiar one -- Three beepers, three reads on the couch, the morning paper. won't bite. Jake grabs a bundle. the squad.
cell phones on the coffee table. Roger He's non- plussed to find himself Hefts it in his hand. PAUL Finish him.
in his bathrobe, having a drink surrounded by police, weapons. JAKE Hmmm. A good five Jake watches Alonzo cross to Roger,
with Jake and Alonzo. BACK TO MARK Freeze up! You kilos. Alonzo hands him a blindly gasping.
SCENE Jake stares at the screen, need to not move, penknife. Jake pokes a hole -- ALONZO He's finished.
stunned to see himself. Jake breath, think or blink. nothing pours out. Alonzo takes one of Roger's derringers
gives Alonzo a confused look. ROGER What are you ALONZO Cut the damn from the floor. Slaps it in the
JEFF Okay. I'm sorry. clowns doing here? thing open. Jake does -- it is a dying man's hand.
We haven't been PAUL Shut up! -- New brick of fifty dollar bills. Alonzo ALONZO C'mere, Jeff.
diligent. How can we take this guy! His hands move, is relieved to see the money. Jake You took fire coming
gig seriously? Who's gonna fuck blast him. Jake aiming his likes its heft. through the door. Jeff smiles,
with him? shotgun at Roger's head. JAKE This is sweet. gets in position so Alonzo can shoot
ALONZO We're gonna fuck JAKE I'm on him. ALONZO That's a hundred him. JEFF
with him. We're Roger, holding his newspaper, recognizes grand in your hot Alright. Gonna get some time off.
serving an arrest warrant. Tim Jake. little hands. There's four He braces himself. Alonzo aims Roger's
and Jeff trade serious looks. ROGER You know what million bucks in there. Alonzo hand. Pop! A BULLET THWACKS
JEFF We can't arrest you're doing, son? Jake nods: slaps Jack's back. harmlessly into Jeff's vest. He removes
Roger. Alonzo ejects the tape. yes. PAUL ALONZO First day on the his sunglasses from a pocket.
Tosses it to Tim. Drop what's in your hands. Before job and you're in on a JEFF Watch my Oakleys.
ALONZO Erase it. zero. Five. Four. Three. Two. three million dollar seizure. Jake looking at Roger, it's hard
Alonzo notices an unmarked police sedan CLUNK-CLUNK! Two tiny derringers hit JAKE You said four. watching him die. Again Jeff
pull up to the van. the coffee table. Roger had been ALONZO Told you, braces. Pop! The THWACK of another
ALONZO Here we go. palming them. Paul sweeps them aside nothing's for free. BULLET.
Least someone on the with his foot. The cops relax a Gotta grease the rails to make the ALONZO How's that?
squad has their shit squared away. little. Roger folds his paper. big moves. Alonzo grabs a Jeff probing his hand under the vest.
CUT TO: EXT. ALLEY - DAY Sets it down, takes off his pillowcase. Tosses bricks of fifties in JEFF Fine.
The sedan parks by th G-Ride. Out steps reading glasses. A principal besieged it. Hands it to Jake. Alonzo drops the gun in an envelope
MARK, a black clothes horse in by truants. ALONZO Here. Lucky to marked: EVIDENCE HANDGUN. Jake
Italian silk. And PAUL, a steely-eyed, ROGER Alonzo's gonna get this, day-one- can't believe what he just saw.
clean-cut chicano in a turtleneck. The kill you guys. Alonzo enters the motherfucker. ALONZO Listen up. This
van doors open. Jeff and Tim shattered door. Holding picks, JAKE What's this? is the scenario. Mark
climb out. shovels. He drops the tools. They ALONZO Sweet green and Paul kick the door. Jeff
JEFF Nice suit, Mark. crash to the floor. Roger crosses clean legal tender. is first through. Roger opens
TIM Beautiful suit. his arms and glares at his friend. Start the kid's college fund fire. Hits Jeff twice. Jeff
Now Alonzo and Jake get out. Six cops ROGER What's going early. Get the old lady a coughs -- bright foamy blood in his
huddled in an alley. Jake fits down, Alonzo? minivan. However pleasant the hand.
right in with the motley bunch. Paul ALONZO I had lunch with heft, Jake could never accept. He JEFF Oh, shit.
hands Alonzo the warrant. the three wise men. returns the pillowcase to Alonzo. ALONZO One go through?
ALONZO Thanks. My You gotta render unto JAKE No way. Only Jeff answers by coughing more blood.
picks and shovels? Caesar. Roger sees the tools and checks I cash say City Tim runs to him.
MARK In the trunk. knows exactly what they are for. of L.A. on 'em. TIM Siddown, dude.
Gonna dig a ditch? ROGER Those goddamn JEFF Someone didn't Jeff does. Tim opens the vest -- a hole
ALONZO You are. Great vampires want my sleep through Ethics. in a seam on the edge.
suit. pension. ALONZO You said you Underneath, bruised puckered flesh
MARK Fuck you. ALONZO No, man, it's wanted a piece. drools blood.
ALONZO (shakes not like that. You're JAKE Not like this. TIM You shot him!
with Paul) Howdy, just getting taxed. They ALONZO I understand. JEFF You fuckin' shot
killer. got their boat payments and God I'II hold on to it for me! TIM
PAUL Alonzo, what the knows what. I'm sorry. They're you. Not everyone's Call a rescue.
fuck's going on? makin' me do it. I'm just a lowly comfortable the first time -- ALONZO You're fine.
ALONZO Don't worry. I civil servant. Let's wrap up. Alonzo drops the You'll get a medal.
talked to the three ROGER Fuck you. You're pillowcase in the locker. Exits. Jake, JEFF Call the R.A.!
wise men. It's all good. His men their bitch. What Tim and Jeff follow. ALONZO Let me run the
trade looks, they have total trust in happens with me? CUT TO: INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY scenario and I will.
him. Jake is a little nervous. ALONZO Don't worry, Roger reads a Vegas odds paper. Alonzo, Okay -- Mark and Paul kick
PAUL If we can get away bro. I promised you'd Tim, Jeff and Jake enter. Roger the door. First through is Jeff.
with it, let's go for never go back to prison. I glares at Alonzo. Bang. Bang. Gets hit. Wounded.
it. Fuck Roger. got your back. You won't even ROGER What have I done Second through is our new guy,
(re: Jake) Who's this? miss what I'm gonna take. I hate to those guys? Are they Hoyt. He drops the suspect with
JAKE Jake Hoyt. First doing this. Orders is orders. nuts? Am I supposed to some fine shotgun work.
day in the unit. I'm Sorry, dog. stand still and let them horsefuck (points at Mark) Who
coming from Van Nuys patrol. He ROGER No, you ain't. me? shot Roger?
holds out his hand. Paul scoffs. Cop. ALONZO No. We can put MARK The new guy. Came
PAUL Why's he in on ALONZO (to Tim you out of your misery. in spraying.
this shit? and Jeff) You guys are Alonzo tosses Jake the shotgun. ALONZO Paul?
ALONZO Gotta pop his gonna work. Get the ALONZO Lemme tell you a PAUL The boot shot him.
cherry sometime. tools. (grabs secret, Hoyt. If you ALONZO What'd you guys
PAUL (to Jake) Jake's shotgun) Gimme kill someone on duty, they see? TIM
Stay outta my way, boot. Alonzo the boomer. Tim and Jeff gather have to be your slave in the Hoyt blasted him.
notes Jake's unease, shows him the the tools. Alonzo hands Jake a pick afterlife. JEFF Hoyt went for it
warrant. and leads the three men to a bedroom (points to Roger) There -- Now will you get me
ALONZO It's the real door. Roger pours a slug of you go. Start an entourage. a fucking rescue ambulance? Jake
deal. Signed by the Crown Royal as Paul and Mark guard him. JAKE You want me to looks at these guys. They look back,
judge. Thank the Sandman. ROGER Who's paying for shoot him? Paul, Mark, Tim and smiling, smirking. He feels
PAUL Roger's not gonna my floor? Jeff snicker, crack smiles. Roger dizzy, sick as the nightmare sinks
be too keen on going ALONZO The city. too. Jake plays along, points the in. Jeff coughs blood. Alonzo
back to the pokey. INT. BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY shotgun at Roger. tosses his rover to Paul.
ALONZO I don't care Alonzo flips the bed. Taps the floor ROGER You'd be doin' me PAUL (into
what Roger thinks. with his toe. a favor, kid. rover) Eleven forty-
(addresses everyone) ALONZO Open the floor. JAKE Bang -- There. nine. Nine-nine-
Our safety comes first. He gives Right here. Jake, Tim and Jeff He lowers the weapon. eight. Shots fired. Shots fired.
Man down. Fifty-nine fifty-one at all. I thought you were man PARAMEDIC (V.O.) there.
Baxter Street. enough to handle this shit. (filtered) Sixth wound: JAKE Fuck the team.
ALONZO (slaps Alonzo calmly pours himself a whisky. left lower quadrant, You guys are insane.
Jake's back) Good job, ALONZO Five proven, mid-clavicular line. Seventh I'll go back to Valley
son. Congratulations. decorated officers say wound: left lower quadrant, and cut parking tickets. And tell
Gonna get a medal of valor. you were the shooter. anterior axillary line. Paul: he comes near me again,
JAKE ... I didn't shoot Investigators are gonna pull a Eighth wound is an exit wound. I'll shoot him.
him... tube of your blood and test for Left lower quadrant posterior ALONZO I'm really sorry
ALONZO Roomful of cops intoxicants. Remember all the axillary line. ZOOM IN -- I exposed you to that
says you did. P.C.P. you smoked today? Jake Amidst the heat mirages, Alonzo talks to today. It was ugly but it
JAKE Fuck you. I don't does, wincing at his stupidity. a uniformed sergeant. Two more was necessary. Roger sold dope to
care. I didn't shoot JAKE You've been paramedics wheel Jeff outside on a kids. World's a better place
him. You did. Alonzo pulls his planning this all day. stretcher. Mark, Tim and Paul because he's gone. Never seen no
gun. Aims at Jake's face. ALONZO I've been following. one die before? You're too damn
ALONZO (as a planning this all week. PARAMEDIC (V.O.) soft. Bet you never missed a meal
newscaster) A Los You start talking crazy shit, I (filtered) There is a in your life.
Angeles Police Department will make sure the right sample sucking wound at the JAKE (glares at
narcotics officer was killed goes to the lab. Still first woundsite. Superclavicular Alonzo) Missed a lot of
serving a high risk warrant in wanna talk your babynuts in-drawing. Abdomen is rigid. meals growing up. Why?
Echo Park today. An L.A.P.D. around the block? You won't make Stand by for skin signs. (pantomimes shooting up)
spokesperson said the young it to the corner. But if you're Patient's skin is pale and cool Because the folks had to do their
officer was survived by his wife cool. You're a hero. A virgin and diaphoretic. Here's the shit. OFF Alonzo's amazed look:
and infant child. shooter above suspicion. Jake vitals: B.P. sixty and JAKE That's right. I'm
(himself) Shit gets looks at Roger, gasping like a beached palpitated. Respiration thirty- in the cop business to
deeper. Get the picture? carp. The SIRENS are getting one, decreased on the left with lock up the criminals
JAKE I got the picture. closer. Alonzo gulps his drink and -- hyper-resonance. Roger is lifted and poisoners. Not be one.
Jake strikes -- twists back Alonzo's gun Pfffffst! Spits the booze in Jake's into an ambulance. Alonzo dismisses Alonzo sizes up Jake anew, laments not
sharply -- sweeps away his legs face. Jake is blinded. Paul Jeff's paramedics and huddles with his knowing that earlier.
with a kick. Alonzo finds himself seizes Jake's wrists and aims the men. ALONZO What happened
on his back, Jake's knee on his pistols at the ceiling. Alonzo wrenches CUT TO: EXT. ALLEY - DAY today was --
neck, staring down the maw of his own the pistols from his hands. Alonzo crosses to the G-ride with an JAKE -- was murder and
pistol. Jake wipes his eyes, looks at the armload of gear. Pops the trunk. armed robbery. Wait.
JAKE That's the second roomful of crazy cops, scared. Dumps everything inside. He shuts the We had badges, it's
time you've stuck a gun Paul points at Roger's other derringer, trunk. Dials his cell phone and gets in different.
in my face. Won't be a laying on the carpet. the car. ANGLE ON JAKE ALONZO Dammit, boy!
third. Paul presses his Beretta PAUL Alonzo, there's leaning against a phone pole. Watching Why can't you open your
against Jake's temple. two shots in that as Alonzo pulls a clipboard from eyes and see? Jake can see. Too
PAUL Be my pleasure stinger. Let's kill your boy under his seat and puts on reading clearly. Softly:
putting a hydrashock in right now and say Roger dumped him glasses. Alonzo begins writing a major JAKE That man was your
your melon. Tim, Jeff, Mark gawk coming through the door. Mark, incident report as he talks on friend and you killed
at the Mexican standoff. Tim, Jeff like the idea. Jake doesn't. his cell. A beat. Alonzo STARTS him like a fly.
PAUL But I'm gonna be And lucky for him, neither does the G-RIDE. Motions for Jake to get in. ALONZO (ice)
cool. Open your hand Alonzo. He stands protectively in INT. G-RIDE - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY We weren't friends.
slowly. Drop the weapon. Jake's front of Jake. Jake gets in. Alonzo with his reading (consoling) All the
free hand inches to his holstered gun -- ALONZO No. We're not glasses, the clipboard on his shit you're feeling now,
JAKE (super- killing him. He's a steering wheel, filling in the report, it's going to go away. I know
calm) Hey, sorry, man. good guy. Man's got the magic. talking on his cell phone, laughing. you're scared.
Relax, okay7 -- and snatches it Just having a little freakout is ALONZO -- you're gonna JAKE I'm not scared.
-- He swings on Tim -- who swings his all. We've all been there. I say be scrubbing the ALONZO You're
.45 on Jake. A three-way standoff. he's cool. No one's gonna hurt bathtub, homie. Later. Alonzo terrified. I know you are.
JAKE Wanna shoot me, him. Jake and Alonzo trade a hangs up. Preoccupied with filling in Because I went through the same
Paul? Go ahead. look. The SIRENS are close. little boxes on the report as he shit. Everyone has. Jake,
Because these two are gonna be Alonzo returns Jake his gun. drives slowly down the alley. there's gotta be dirt on you if
wiping my ass in the netherworld. ALONZO Hoyt, you gotta ALONZO Why didn't you anyone's gonna trust you. After
A beat. Then: decision to make. In take off? this is behind you, a whole new
TIM Alonzo. This is thirty seconds, this place will JAKE There's nowhere to world will open up. I walk a
bad. PAUL be overrun with patrolmen. Go run. higher path. I can give you the
This dude's a fuckin' fed. outside and clear your head. Or ALONZO Roger was D.O.A. keys to all doors.
ALONZO He's no fed. shoot me now. Jake is only too at Good Samaritan. JAKE What are you
Just a choirboy with happy to get out of there. Jake crosses Let's get the paper talking about?
heart who got the drop on you to exit, pauses, an afterthought? rolling now. Alonzo looks at ALONZO I'm not the
fools. Everyone, let's take a JAKE Hey, Paul. Jake, sees his torment. asskicker I once was,
deep breath and defuse this -- Crack! Jake nails his jaw. Paul ALONZO Justifiable but you are. Want to run my unit?
Jake? You hear me? staggers, almost falls. To Jake homicide in the line of My guys are good but not one of
JAKE You can't just as he exits: duty. Anyone'd be proud to those clowns is a leader. You
spring this shit on me. PAUL You're dead! I'm have that in their jacket. are. Want my job? You got it.
I never signed up for this. takin' you out. I don't JAKE Not this way. Say Wanna lock up criminals?
ALONZO I hear you. I care. I don't play along? This is the best place to do it.
know you're angry -- ALONZO Kick back, Wyatt ALONZO At this point it Do your time and make detective.
Paul, Tim, please put Earp. Gotta respect a behooves you not to Play the game, grow wise and
down your guns. motherfucker who puts fuck around. That's the truth. change things from the inside.
TIM Hell no. you on queer street with one And Jake knows it. We can almost hear Jake looks at him. And realizes Alonzo
PAUL Choirboy first. punch. Alonzo catches his men his heart breaking. Jake stares out the is right.
SIRENS approach. Lots of them. trading looks. window a beat, clenching his jaw, ALONZO Let's get to the
ALONZO Both of you: ALONZO Kid's got more finally he looks at Alonzo, stares at hospital and talk to
guns down. Now. Paul and Tim balls than all you Alonzo's scary, empty eyes. Amazed to Stan. He'll tell you what to
reluctantly lower their weapons. Jake faggots combined. be utterly trapped by them. say to the D.A.'s guys.
lifts his knee off Alonzo's neck, CUT TO: EXT. ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD JAKE It can't be like CUT TO: EXT. STREET - SUNSET
stands and backs away, aiming - LONG SHOT - ROGER'S HOUSE - DAY this. A beat. A large hospital near downtown looms in
both pistols at Alonzo, who climbs to from a distant hilltop. The ambulances ALONZO It is like this. the distance. TILT DOWN --
his feet. and black and whites out front Jake has a lump in his throat as they to reveal the tough old barrios below
ALONZO Jake, use your shimmer in golden afternoon heat. OVER: drive in silence for a long beat. it. Cholos drink on the
ears and listen. PARAMEDIC (V.O.) ALONZO Look, the money sidewalk. Play grab-ass and listen to
Sometimes we take shit all the (filtered) Patient is a I gave you, keep it. MUSIC.
way. That's the nature of the white male JAKE Told you, I don't CUT TO: INT. G-RIDE - MOVING -
game. We don't do this every day. approximately forty years old, six want it. STREET Alonzo parks near the
No one will ever again ask you to one, two hundred fifty pounds. ALONZO Just take it. gangsters.
pull a trigger you don't want to Eight buckshot wounds in the Throw it in the ocean. JAKE What's here?
-- Mark, where're you torso. First wound: left chest Barbecue it. Just take Alonzo points out a well-tended, quiet,
transferring to? wall, fourth intercostal space, it. It would make the boys feel quaint house near the Cholos.
MARK Westside Homicide. anterior axillary line. Second better. ALONZO Informant of
ALONZO Westside and third wounds: eighth JAKE Fuck their mine's in Chino.
Homicide -- Only made intercostal space, mid-clavicular feelings. Promised I'd help out his family.
detective last test. Jake, give line. Fourth and fifth wounds: ALONZO Jake, they're Alonzo gets out. Opens the trunk.
me eighteen months and I'll give right chest wall. Tenth worried. Loads up his arms with
you a career. We make the big intercostal space. Posterior JAKE About what? appliances.
arrests. We make the big axillary line. Two distance- ALONZO About you. You ALONZO Sometimes I
seizures. When someone's in my distorted LAPD paramedics wheel out didn't make anyone feel bring food. Believe it
unit they're in all the way or not Roger on a stretcher. you were on the team back or not, I like to help out the
community whenever I can. Jake. already smoked out chance. I got like
(a box falls) Shit. JAKE No thanks. today. eighty strikes.
Hoyt, help me with this. SNIPER C'mon and play a SNIPER Shit. I'll step SNIPER Fuck cops. Cops
CUT TO: EXT. STREET - SUNSET hand. on that P-dog. Sniper takes it, turned out my little
Jake gets out, takes some boxes. And MORENO Don't be rude, inhales. Jake dealing cards. The joint brother. That went over Jake's
they cross to the house. With dude. One hand. rounds the table. head.
Jake following. Past staring Cholos. A SMILEY Don't sweat it. MORENO Lemme see your SNIPER You hear me?
drunk PeeWee maddogs Jake. Jake maddogs We ain't playin' for cohete. JAKE What? He got
back. money. SNIPER Your gun, dude. arrested?
PEEWEE You know where JAKE We gotta go. Let him see your gun. SNIPER No. Two fuckin'
you're at, fool? A VETERANO SMILEY Alonzo's Under your shirt. Jake is juras turned him out.
shoves the PeeWee aside. probably taking a dump -- outnumbered, outsized, outgunned. All They took his manhood. They
VETERANO The fuck outta Go ahead and have a seat. Sniper he can do is take the pistol from booty-tagged him in the back of a
the way, punk. It's finishes dealing. Jake looks at the his holster and show Moreno. black and white.
business. He shakes with Alonzo. cards intended for him. MORENO That's down. JAKE That can't be
VETERANO 'Sup, dog. JAKE Okay. One hand. What is it? A three true.
Thought you were Jake sits. Now he can see a shotgun eighty? SNIPER Do I look like
missing in action. against the wall by Moreno. The JAKE Three eighty I'm lyin',
ALONZO 'Sup, man. You three Cholos check their hands, signal stainless. Double motherfucker?
know I'm never lost. for more cards. Jake checks his action. Nine round mag. JAKE I didn't say you
Jake and Alonzo cross to the house. AD cards. MORENO Lemme see it. were lying. I just
LIBS of "Those're cops," spread MORENO How long you Ain't gonna blast no haven't ever heard anything
through the Cholos. At the been a cop? You look one. Jake hands it over. Moreno like that.
house's door, Alonzo knocks. A beat. A like you're in high school. examines it with skilled hands. SMILEY 'Cause you're a
little girl cracks it. JAKE Nineteen months. MORENO Fuck a vat up rookie. Put in a few
ALONZO Hi. Got some MORENO Like it? with this. He hands it back. To years' work and you'll know
stuff for your family. JAKE I should'a been a Jake's relief. what's up.
She closes it. A beat. The door opens fireman. SNIPER Gimme two cards. MORENO Makes me wanna
to reveal SMILEY, a huge, drunk MORENO My cousin's a Jake does. Dreamer enters. turn out a cop -- Ever
Veterano sleeved with prison tattoos. fireman. And his kid's DREAMER There's extra. had your shit pushed in?
He looks at the two cops. a Police Explorer. Gonna be SMILEY I know. That's JAKE What?
Massive, impassive. Smiley never our man on the inside. ours. Set it aside. MORENO I had my shit
smiles. SNIPER I'd love to be a Sure about the count? pushed in.
SMILEY Kitchen's this jura. Drive around all DREAMER You count it if SNIPER Me too. My
way. Alonzo enters. Jake day getting fucked up. you don't believe me. shit's been pushed in.
hesitates. Then follows. Talkin' to the ladies. Any heads SMILEY Okay. Thanks -- Smiley?
CUT TO: INT. HOUSE - LIVING ROOM that talk shit, fuck 'em up. Gimme three. Dreamer grabs a beer SMILEY (grins)
- SUNSET The little girl does SMILEY Listen to your and exits. Jake deals three. I'm always gettin' love from the
homework. Two fine Cholas watch the bullshit. You couldn't SMILEY Alonzo pulled homies. Smiley caresses Jake's
Spanish newscast. An old man dozes in a hack takin' orders -- off a miracle, huh? thigh under the table. He almost
chair. Family photos on the wall They order you around all the Times are tight. That's a lotta leaps from his chair. Everyone laughs.
-- A proud line of warfighters, time. You gotta do everything cash. SMILEY Jumpy
lots of military uniforms. Alonzo they say, huh? SNIPER Who'd he jack? motherfucker.
and Jake follow Smiley into: INT. JAKE Yeah, it's pretty JAKE (dealing SNIPER
HOUSE - KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS ACTION - strict. Especially when cards) I dunno. (disgusted) He's a
SUNSET SNIPER and MORENO, big and you're just starting SMILEY He jacked Roger. fuckin' buster.
intimidating like Smiley, have out. Blasted the dude. MORENO You never been
been playing poker around a beer-bottle SMILEY Sounds like the Moreno guffaws. Sniper chuckles. booty-busted? Jake tries to
covered table. Smiley, Alonzo and service. You serve? MORENO Damnnnn. laugh. But it's getting weird.
Jake enter. JAKE No. Never been in Alonzo's scandalous. SMILEY Hey, cop. Win
SMILEY Put it on the the military. But half SNIPER That's some cold this hand and we won't
counter. Alonzo and Jake place the guys I work with shit. Vato'll jack bust you out.
the boxes on the counter. Sniper, were. anyone. MORENO Unless you want
Moreno, ignore Alonzo. And vice versa. SMILEY I was in the MORENO Alonzo's a low- us to. Laughs. Sniper reveals
ALONZO Can I use the Army. Ranger Alert down dirty ruthless his cards.
head? Battalion. Carried a machine gun. vato. SNIPER I got two pair
SMILEY Go for it. SNIPER Kick back, Rambo SMILEY That's why I again.
ALONZO (to Jake) -- Waddaya got, dog? never shake his hand. MORENO (tossing
I'll be two seconds. We're JAKE Huh? He don't respect shit. his cards) Didn't get
already late. Alonzo exits to a SNIPER Your hand, (to Jake) Know what all shit.
hallway. Smiley opens a box. Pulls homes. Oh -- Jake lays down his the money's for? SMILEY (grins)
out a nice CD player. cards. JAKE No. Gotta straight.
MORENO That's nice. JAKE Three of a kind. SMILEY Alonzo's a SNIPER Uh-oh. This
Lemme get that. SMILEY Man... didn't hothead. Last week in jura's gonna be wearin'
SMILEY You get the get squat. He tosses away his Vegas some dude was talking shit a dress. Everyone looks at Jake
Osterizer. This is hand, Moreno, too. Sniper shows his so Alonzo beat his ass and killed -- well? He lays down his cards.
mine. Smiley opens a microwave cards with a grin. him. Turns out the dude was JAKE Full house.
box. Jake reacts. JAKE'S POV SNIPER Two pair. somebody. He ran a big game and SMILEY Lucky fucker.
The box is crammed with cash from Sniper collects the cards. Shuffles. owed big money. Now Alonzo owes SNIPER You won. Deal
Roger's locker. BACK TO SCENE SMILEY What are you the money. again. Smiley taps the deck.
SMILEY Dreamer! Got doing? The cop won. JAKE How do you know? Jake looks at it. At them.
your bony ass in here! SNIPER I got two pair. SMILEY I'm the man in MORENO Deal, homie.
DREAMER, 19, an attractive young lady, SMILEY Three of a kind the middle. I hear Jake picks up the deck. Starts dealing.
enters. Smiley stacks the heavy beats two pair, shit. They gave Alonzo till today SNIPER There's a new
packages in her arms. He tops it off dumbass. to pay up. His name's already on chick in the
with the pillowcase of Jake's money. MORENO See why we don't a list. There's a crew up from neighborhood.
SMILEY Count that shit play for money? Smiley slides the Sinaloa to do the mission. SMILEY Oh yeah? What's
in the bedroom. deck to Jake. They're gonna blast him. No one her name?
DREAMER Thanks, eh. I SMILEY Your deal. thought he could get cash like MORENO Vanessa...
was doing stuff. Learn Jake looks down the hall. Getting up: that. Vanessa Salguero. Everyone but
to count, math whiz. JAKE We have to go. SNIPER Dude made a pact Jake laughs.
SMILEY Wait up. I'm gonna get Alonzo. with the devil or some SMILEY I seen her
Smiley pulls a small electric money SMILEY Kick back and shit 'cause only a miracle around. Think she's a
counter from a drawer. Dreamer's party. Smiley pulls aside the could'a saved his ass. good girl or a bad girl?
hands are full. So he balances it on curtain. JAKE'S POV An JAKE It's no miracle. SNIPER She's a good
her head. empty street. The G-Ride is gone. SNIPER Alonzo takes girl. Innocent. Easy
SMILEY Don't drop it. SMILEY (O.S.) Ain't care of business. to play.
She gives him a dirty look and exits. nobody out there for you. ON JAKE SMILEY Cops get crafty MORENO How's she like
Smiley takes his seat and picks He feels like a toddler lost in a in a clinch. the neighborhood?
up his cards. He eyes Moreno. department store. He sits back MORENO And get away SNIPER Dunno.
SNIPER You looked at down. Moreno laughs. with it -- Been to (to Jake) How you like
'em. MORENO Alonzo played jail, cop? the neighborhood? Jake realizes
MORENO No I didn't. you like a booger. SNIPER That's a stupid he's Vanessa. Laughter. Jake finishes
Smiley tosses them to Sniper. SMILEY Deal. question. If he's been dealing. Sets down the deck. Smiley
SMILEY Deal again. Jake shuffles. Smiley lights a joint. to jail, he wouldn't be cop. arranges his hand.
SNIPER Play cards, cop? Offers it to him. JAKE You can be a cop SMILEY Gimme three.
JAKE Not really. SMILEY It's P.C.P. as long as you've never MORENO Fuck this
MORENO Beer? Wanna hit? been convicted of a felony. buster. Let's get this
Moreno offers one. Sniper deals in JAKE No thanks. I MORENO There goes my shit over with. Looks of
agreement are traded. Moreno grins at with the change purse. were you doing in and plunks into a seat. Passengers
his shotgun. Sniper shifts his SMILEY This, stupid. MacArthur Park? gawk.
weight. Smiley whiteknuckling Alonzo give it to you? LETTY I was just CUT TO: INT. MTA BUS - NIGHT
his beer. JAKE No! I found it! kicking back at my Jake thousand-yard-stares out the
SMILEY Hurry up, cop. SMILEY Where? friend's pad. There weren't no window.
Gimme three. Jake reaches for the JAKE MacArthur Park! guys or nothing. I swear to God. CUT TO: EXT. STREET - NIGHT
deck. This happens fast: SMILEY What? Bullshit! SMILEY Letty. The MTA bus FILLS FRAME. A beat. It
Jake flings the deck in Sniper's face. Snick! The curtain closes. Smiley take LETTY Yeah? rolls out to reveal Jake and his
Smack! Cards scatter. Jumps up the shotgun. Holds it to Jake's SMILEY You go there pillowcase. Just standing there on the
from the chair, flips the table into temple. Moreno angles for a peek. again, I'm gonna beat curb. JAKE'S POV The cul-
Moreno. Smiley SMASHES a beer MORENO Wait up. I your ass. I got your bus pass and de-sac. No man's land. And very dark,
BOTTLE on Jake's head. Moreno can't see. I.D. Gonna send 'em over. And the streetlights have been shot
grabbing the shotgun. Crack! SMILEY If you're we're gonna talk more about this. out. Deceptively quiet, except
Jake socks Smiley's jaw. He goes down, religious, go ahead and He hangs up. Looks at Jake a long beat. for the little kid riding away on his
amazed to find himself on his get in that last prayer. Soaked, bloody, shivering. bike.
ass. Crack! Sniper uppercuts JAKE (sobs) Click. He safeties the shotgun. Tosses CUT TO: EXT. CUL-DE-SAC - NIGHT
Jake. Smiley grabs Jake's legs, Omigod... she was going to be it to a disappointed Moreno. Jake enters, wary. He rounds the
yanks him to the deck -- raped. I was driving with Alonzo. MORENO Ain't you gonna misparked van. And sees the
kerchack! JAKE'S POV The These two crackheads were gonna blast him? street is quiet. The glow of a
bore of a 12 gauge and Moreno's leering rape her. I saw them hit her. I SMILEY The vato was cigarette on the roof of an
face. BACK TO SCENE Jake stopped them. They were gonna tellin' the truth. apartment building catches his eye.
gives up, his broken scalp gushing rape her. I swear to God. I Life's a fuckin' trip, huh? He looks at a building across the
blood. stopped it... I gotta kid -- SNIPER This is some street. Sees movement, a shadow,
JAKE ... uncle... SMILEY -- Shut up, trippy-ass shit. Smiley hands the like someone taking cover. ON
Dreamer pops her head in. faggot! Smiley opens the curtain change purse to Sniper. HOUSE A light turns off. The
DREAMER Dang! You guys -- stomps Jake's back -- closes SMILEY Get this to curtain in the window moves. Jake
fucked him up. it. Letty. Smiley stands, turns off swallows hard and keeps walking toward
MORENO Get outta here. SNIPER Fuck the fool. the water. He helps Jake to his Sara's apartment. The G-Ride
Take the girls next Blast him. Smiley aims, braces feet. Unlocks the handcuffs as Jake parked out front. ON DRIVEWAY
door. Or you're next. She gives for the recoil. Jake croaks: sways, woozy. Thirteen men pour out like hornets from
him the finger, pops out. Smiley pats JAKE ... I gotta little SMILEY Thanks for a hive. They are the gangsters
Jake down. Pockets the gun. girl... Smiley pauses. He eases getting my cousin's he saw earlier. The bench presser leads
SMILEY You fucked up, off the trigger. Pulls a cell back. Jake half-smiles, not the way, like a cat that has found a
fool. You know that. phone. Dials. really sure if he's alive or not. spider to play with. Jake stares
He finds Jake's handcuffs -- clicks his SMILEY We're gonna get Smiley tosses him a towel. unwaveringly into the man's eyes.
wrists together behind his back. to the bottom of your SMILEY Put that on your Bench presser looks at the pillowcase
He takes his badge, clips it on his bullshit. She's my cousin. head. You're gonna curiously -- Smack! --
belt. She's a civilian. Ain't right stain the carpet. Where the Jake threw a roundhouse at his throat,
SMILEY Look. I'm a involving her. He sits on the fuckers at? Where'd you book solidly connecting. Bench
cop. Gonna start toilet. Still holding the shotgun to them? presser drops on one knee. He struggles
taxing. Smiley commences kicking Jake's head, he waits for an answer. JAKE I didn't. for a breath. Clutches his
the hell out of Jake: INTERCUT: INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT SMILEY Why the fuck throat. His homies stare in
SMILEY You're under The Schoolgirl works out Algebra II not? JAKE disbelief. ON JAKE He
arrest. For being a proofs on a "Hello Kitty" Alonzo let them go. OFF Smiley's takes a deep breath. TILT DOWN --
cop. For being a buster. For bedspread in a pink T-shirt. She grabs scowl, we: Jake's police handcuffs orbit his fist
dogging me in the mouth in my own her RINGING PHONE. CUT TO: INT. HOUSE - KITCHEN - like brass knuckles. The
pad. And for bleeding on my clean SCHOOLGIRL Hello? NIGHT (LATER) Moreno and Sniper gangsters stare at him.
kitchen floor. You have the right SMILEY Wassup, Letty. help Dreamer pick up broken glass. JAKE I have business
to be kicked. And the right to be Whatc'cha don'? Jake sits in a chair holding a bloody with Alonzo. It's in his eyes, he
slapped. Smack! He slaps him. LETTY (SCHOOLGIRL) Hey, towel on his head. Smiley returns will not back down. A gangster with
Everyone laughs. Smiley finishes, Smiley! Just here doing his badgecase and gun. intelligent eyes, obviously next in the
panting. homework. Wanna talk to Tony? JAKE Thanks. chain of command, sizes up Jake.
SMILEY There. Get him SMILEY No. I wanna SMILEY You know this A beat. He gestures for Jake to
in the bathtub. Moreno grabs talk to you. Go to shit was just business. go ahead. Jake steps around the
Jake's hair, Sniper grabs an arm, they school today? JAKE I know. bench presser, only now getting air
jerk him to his feet. LETTY Yep. DREAMER Want some through his windpipe. Jake walks
SMILEY Gotta fuck this SMILEY All day? You coffee? into their midst. Their faces
vato up. They run him out of the didn't ditch? JAKE No, thank you. follow him. They are behind him, around
kitchen, Smiley follows. INT. LETTY I went to every Smiley tosses the pillowcase of Jake's him. He is outnumbered by these
BATHROOM Pink carpet and class... Why? money on the table. hardened streetfighters. Jake
porcelain kitties. They throw Jake into SMILEY I heard SMILEY Alonzo gave me prays he isn't bum-rushed. Now
the tub -- shove his face in the drain. different. that to take care of past them, he continues walking toward
Smiley turns on the water -- LETTY Nuh-uh. you. To burn you up on the Sara's building.
Jake's blood whirlpooling away. SMILEY Cops talk to you freeway by your house. I don't CUT TO: INT. SARA'S APARTMENT -
Smiley grabs the shotgun from Moreno. today? want his blood money. So... I NIGHT Sara sits on the couch,
Thumps the butt against Jake's LETTY (beat) don't know. I just don't want it. clutching her son. Watching TV
head, flips it, shoves the muzzle in his No. A beat. Smiley sighs. JAKE I'll take it. in the dark. Something is wrong, she's
ear. Snicks the shower curtain shut to SMILEY Tell me what Jake picks up the pillowcase and hugs almost catatonic. We hear MOANS
catch the spatter. happened. Don't it. and GIGGLING O.S. ANGLE to
SNIPER Fuckin' do it, bullshit me. CUT TO: EXT. HOUSE - NIGHT see Sara has a black eye. BANG!
eh. LETTY I got jumped by Smiley walks Jake past the Cholos, The FRONT DOOR flies open. It's Jake,
SMILEY It's gonna be two niggers. staring at the beaten, wet cop. his gun out. Jake and Sara
loud. Close the door. SMILEY You got jumped? Jake hugs the pillowcase. Out in the look at each other a long beat. Two
Moreno does. Sniper plugs his ears. LETTY Well... I think street: battered faces in a dead TV glow. She
Smiley braces for the recoil. they wanted to rape me. SMILEY I know Alonzo points at the bedroom.
Jake is dazed, like steer in a I kinda got hit. I mean paid off his debt, but Jake crosses, opens the door. Enters.
slaughterhouse chute. he just slapped me. But nothing I'm gonna wait till tomorrow INT. SARA'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION
MORENO Wait. Lemme get happened, okay? 'Cause this cop to make the call. His magic ran - NIGHT It's a bitch sandwich and
his money first. Smiley nods. came and kicked their butts. They out. Jake and Smiley shake hands. Alonzo's in the middle. Jake
Moreno searches Jake's pockets, takes almost killed him but he kicked SMILEY Sure you don't crosses to the foot of the bed. Stands
his wallet. Pockets forty bucks. their asses. A beat. wanna ride? there. From inside the writhing
Finds the Schoolgirl's pink SMILEY What did this JAKE I'm sure. flesh pile:
change purse. Opens it, reacts. cop look like? As Jake walks away: ALONZO 'Bout time you
MORENO ... dang... LETTY He was a white SMILEY You went Sega changed your mind and
He hands it to Smiley. boy. Brown hair. Tall. today, rookie. You're joined in. The two women stare at
MORENO Here, ese... You He looked young. Smiley looks at at that next level. Just Jake, naked and immodest. It
are gonna trip the fuck Jake. That's him. play their games and do what you takes a beat for Alonzo to recognize the
out. Smiley opens it. His face SMILEY Sure you're gotta do and you'll be cool. ghost before him. Jake
goes dead blank. He hands Moreno okay? They'll make you Chief. dumps the money on the blankets.
the shotgun. Whips aside the shower LETTY I'm fine. (beat) Hey, cop! JAKE Smiley didn't want
curtain. Starts slugging Jake. Nothing happened. Jake stops, turns. Smiley smiles. The the job. Alonzo's eyes bug in
Emphasizes each word with a kidney SMILEY That don't sound first time. horror at the mountain of cash. He
punch. like nothing. Wanna go SMILEY Remember me. ages a hundred years in a second. A man
SMILEY Pinchi... to the doctor? JAKE (smiles) who knows he will soon be dead.
game... playing... LETTY No. I said I'm I will. ON JAKE with eyes colder and
cop... where'... you... get... fine. CUT TO: EXT. BOULEVARD - NIGHT blacker than a shark's. Alonzo can
this? SMILEY Letty. Jake boards an MTA bus. Flashes his fool him no more.
JAKE Get what? Get LETTY Yeah? badge to the driver JAKE Know what I
what? Oh, God. Smiley slaps him SMILEY What the fuck learned today? It's
not about money. He turns, about CUT TO: INT. JAKE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
to walk away. And turns back around. Jake and his wife embracing. The SEDAN
The women shriek, dive out of the line HONKS. Jake steps back from her.
of fire. Alonzo braces for Her eyes search his.
bullets and instead hears: JAKE We served a
JAKE It's about warrant. I shot a man.
respect. Jake leaves. As he Lisa reacts.
crosses the -- INT. LIVING ROOM CUT TO: EXT. JAKE'S HOUSE - ON
ALONZO (O.S.) ... Oh, FRONT DOOR - NIGHT Jake opens it
God... Jake exits the apartment. and exits his house, ready for
ON SARA A smile slowly spreads absolutely anything. WIDER
across her face. He crosses to the sedan. The back door
CUT TO: EXT. CUL-DE-SAC - NIGHT opens, and Jake gets in.
As Jake descends the stairs, the porch FADE OUT.
lights of a house come on. Then THE END
the lights of another house.
Steel doors open. People tentatively
step outside. Women and children,
mothers with babies on their hips.
Blue-collar fathers in shop uniforms.
More porch lights come on. More doors
open. JAKE'S POV The cul-
de-sac has come to life. The homes are
lit, their occupants filling the
street, ready to bear witness.
BACK TO SCENE All eyes on Jake as
he walks down the street. Three
young boys follow him. The old
woman comes out of her house to watch
Jake pass. As do two pretty
girls. Jake nearing the
gangsters. They block the street. The
bench presser stands there, arms
crossed, Jake will have to go
through him again. Curious eyes
wonder what will happen. The
bench presser gives Jake a slight nod of
respect. The gangsters part for
Jake and he leaves the cul-de-sac.
ON JAKE As he walks, his
innocence is gone, a heavy burden on his
shoulders, but there is much strength in
his gait. Jake walks past the
aloof little kid, riding his bicycle
in tight circles. He smiles at Jake.
Jake smiles back.
CUT TO: INT. JAKE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Lisa watches TV on the couch, snuggling
with a cup of tea, worried.
Headlights sweep the curtains. A car
pulls into the driveway. Lisa
smiles, sets down her tea, sprawls on
the couch like she's sleeping,
opens her robe provocatively, arranges
it just right. We hear the
front DOOR OPEN O.S. FOOTSTEPS as Jake
moves through the house. Lisa
peeks, sees him enter the baby's
room in silhouette.
LISA (sotto)
Guess I'm second in line tonight.
She rises, crosses to the bedroom and
enters. INT. BEDROOM - LISA'S POV
Jake's back is to her, holding his
daughter tight. BACK TO SCENE
Lisa lays a hand on his shoulder. He
turns slowly, reveals his broken,
swollen face. And a look in his eyes
that says he will never be the same.
Lisa sees this and starts crying. She
holds him tightly in her arms.
He holds onto his wife and child for
dear life. PULL BACK, OUT OF the
room, HANDHELD THROUGH the house
to: TELEVISION Breaking
news. A helicopter shot of the G-Ride.
Crashed into a light pole.
Alonzo lies dead under a sheet,
hanging out of his beloved car. An
utterly impossible river of blood
flows from his head, into a gutter.
NEWSCOPTER REPORTER (V.O.)
-- has not been identified by name
but a police spokesman said the
thirteen-year L.A.P.D. veteran was
the victim of a failed carjacking
attempt near Los Angeles
International Airport. Gunfire
was exchanged with the suspects,
now being sought in an extensive
countywide manhunt, described as
four hispanic males in their mid-
twenties, with shaved heads,
wearing white T-shirts and driving
a dark late model sedan --
CUT TO: EXT. JAKE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
An unmarked police sedan pulls up. We
recognize the silhouettes of the
Three Wise Men inside.