03x05 - Iris

[bunniefuu]

♪ MTV ♪

I want to make a difference.

Thinking about transferring to SWAT.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

♪

You don't want to?
Yeah, baby, you want to.

[GRUNTS]

H-Help! Help!

[MIKE] Bunny's drugs were f*cked with.

Who is it, Mike? Who
f*ck' with my sh*t?

[MIKE] Don't know. But you're a target.

[IAN] b*mb set off at KPD
last night. Your people.

[MIKE] Say the f*cking shot caller.

Merle Callahan. Just
say the f*cking name.

Huh? You give him up?

All he f*cking did for you!

♪

How you gonna play
it, Mike, now I'm back?

I work with you, like we always did.

[MIKE] So, how do you know Noskov?

He was on a m*rder charge in New York.

I dated a judge.

Case went away.

It's him.

My friend. We are going
to do great things.

♪

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

All right, on my count.

Three, two...

one.

Breach.

[WOMAN SHOUTING]

- Oh, sh*t. It's the cops.
- KPD!

[OVER RADIO] Move, move, move.

- [HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYING]
- Clear.

Contact left.

[OFFICER 2] Unit 2, break left.

♪

- [g*nf*re]
- Target down. Clear.

[g*nshots]

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]
Target down. Left clear.

Stack on me.

[g*nshots]

Left clear.

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

- No! No! No!
- Shut up!

- KPD!
- [g*nshots]

[SCREAMS]

- Clear.
- f*ck!

[OFFICER OVER P.A.]
All clear, stand down.

My bad, man.

f*ck.

Better in here than out there.

[SIGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[OFFICER OVER P.A.]
Clear area. Clear it out.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Well done, brother.

You, too.

Feels good, yeah.

Really f*cking good.

Yeah, looked good.

Thanks.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

[OFFICER OVER P.A.] Next is Delta Team.

Be ready in 20.

Delta Team, 20 minutes.

[DRAMATIC, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]

♪

♪

[TRAIN HORN BLOWS]

Yeah, well, that's a f*cking
circle-jerk clusterfuck. I...

- [MIKE LAUGHS]
- I'll call you back.

I'll-I'll call you back.

Ugh! f*ck me!

- [MIKE] Uh, what now?
- Three more ODs last night.

That's 18 in the last two weeks.

Yeah.

Well, Bunny's gonna
fix that problem, right?

Yeah, here's the thing, Mike.

I don't think that Bunny Washington

- is the problem.
- What do you mean?

ME got the analysis back

for the exotics on the heroin.

Meth and opioid analogs from Russia.

This is the sh*t that
they gave cosmonauts...

f*ck.

... to stay awake in space.

[SIGHS] Yeah.

- Can you sit on that?
- No, I can't.

I mean, you kind of have to, okay?

We don't need Bunny with
another excuse to go warring.

- You know?
- It's out, Mike, it's too late.

KPD, DOC, DEA,

the local emergency rooms, the schools.

sh*t.

[SIGHS]

I can't risk more people
dropping dead on the street

because they don't know that
they're sh**ting speedballs.

Yeah, no sh*t.

I'll fix it.

Okay? I'll fix it.

You look beautiful.

I'll fix it.

All right.

I'm gonna go.

[DOOR OPENS]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

What a f*cking load of sh*t.

These f*cking DOC f*ck.

What'd they do now?

Thank you. Jesus Christ.

They release one of these
nonviolent offenders.

This f*ck caves in a shop owner's head

with a brick to score 15
bucks, so he can buy fentanyl.

- You believe that sh*t?
- Is "yes" the wrong answer?

Mm. That's not the thing.

Then the same f*ck
ODs on the fentanyl,

survives, now our f*cking
taxes pay this f*ck's medical

before he's thrown back

into the g*dd*mn system
where we pay more taxes.

- That is a circle of sh*t.
- Circle of sh*t.

And sh*t, we're overwhelmed by this.

g*dd*mn engulfed in this nonsense.

That's the f*cking
word, Stevie, "engulfed,"

- right there.
- Mm-hmm.

- That's the word.
- What's up, assholes?

You better have something good to say.

This is bullshit.

Newest member of the Swift,
Stealthy and Splendid.

- Yes. f*ck.
- Our boy made the cut.

- Awesome.
- Yes.

- Back in an hour.
- Ferguson.

- Yeah?
- Got to talk to you.

- What about?
- Just be here.

- Yeah.
- [STEVIE] Yikes.

Seemed pretty g*dd*mn official.

- What'd you do?
- Nothing, nothing.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[AUTOMATED VOICE] Your call has
been forwarded to an automated...

- [MIKE] Don't give me that sh*t.
- [LINE RINGING]

Come on, pick up your phone, Bunny.

- Your call has been...
- Don't go to voicemail.

Pick up your f*cking phone, Bunny!

- f*ck.
- [PHONE BUZZING]

It's too little, too late, Mikey Mike.

Let's get this sh*t right.

f*ck this up.

You're supposed to move
a little faster, let's go.

We good?

sh*t yeah, we better than good.

We diversified. [CHUCKLES]

Come with me, cousin.

Need you to show the
young bucks the hardware.

Yeah!

[EXHALES]

sh*t right here, this
gonna change everything.

See, our whole lives we
been on the back foot,

then they shot at us, they sh*t on us.

We can't react.

All this sh*t gonna change, all right?

And I ain't talking equal
and opposite reactions,

- you feel me?
- [ALL] Yeah!

You understand what the f*ck I'm saying?

- Hell yeah!
- Yeah. [CHUCKLES]

I got me a convulsion of the soul

that needs some soothing right here.

[LAUGHS]

[WHOOPS]

- Boot camp, baby.
- Hey, whoa, whoa.

These for sale, B.

- Aw, come on, Cole, sh*t.
- They're not for personal use.

You're sh1tting on my vibe right now.

They got a k*ll radius
of five to ten meters.

- Don't go metric on us.
- Word.

That's 15 to 25 feet.

Got a casualty radius of 45 feet.

Shrapnel can be launched
up to 750 feet away.

Now, yes, it will k*ll your
enemies in their target area,

but it's just a high probability
of civilian casualties.

Okay, Sergeant-at-Arms.

What you got that's gonna
be better for our purposes?

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

- This right here.
- Yeah.

This is SAW. It's fast, it's focused,

it's very lethal.



- per minute.
- This little p*stol here?

Oh, there ain't nothing
little about that.

[LAUGHS] All right.

Well, educate the brothers, then.

Lesson for today, fellas:

Shock and m*therf*cking awe.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

[LINE RINGING]

- [PHONE BUZZING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]

- Hey.
- [MIKE] Hey, can you get

patrol to do a 20 on Bunny?

What, he go to ground?

No. I just need to talk to him.

You know, the Russians
f*cked with his sh*t.

I know, Ian. That's why
I need to talk to him.

All right, copy. Uh, Kyle made SWAT.

Thought you might want to know that.

Yeah. Day keeps getting better.

[ENGINE REVVING]

[REPORTER ON RADIO]
... aimed at modernizing...

- [SIGHS]
- ... Michigan's commercial

fishing statutes, took
a step forward today...

♪

[CAR LOCK BEEPS]

- [LOCK BUZZES]
- [LATCH CLICKS]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[LINA] Hey.

- Welcome back to the coliseum.
- Good to be back.

- Suit up.
- [EXHALES]

[CLEARS THROAT] Morning.

♪

[EXHALES]

[DANCE MUSIC PLAYS OVER SPEAKERS]

♪

Little Bird?

[CHUCKLES] Wow. It's been a long time

since anyone's called me that.

I drove you sometimes in the city.

I remember.

Roman.

Wow.

Is he here?

Does he know you're in town?

No one does.

I gave Milo this place.

I gave Milo this
f*cking gift of a place.

What does he do?

He f*cking hijacks an armored vehicle.

Now, is that wrong? No.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

And then he slays two
guards. Is that wrong?

No. What is wrong is
that, in the aftermath,

he comes out with his hands raised,

waves a little white flag

and he surrenders.

Mm.

[INHALING SHARPLY]

Milo. Milo surrenders.

Milo surrenders like some f*cking serf

for having stolen a f*cking goat.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

And in surrender,

there is shame.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

- [ROMAN] Konstantin.
- And shame leads to betrayal.

[SPEAKS RUSSIAN]

Shut up!

[BRAKES SQUEAK]

[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]

[MIKE] Is this the nine-to-five now?

He ain't here, Mayor.

Yeah, he's not at the factory, either.

- The f*ck is he?
- He ain't been around.

So, what, you guys just stand here

with your d*ck in your hand?

- Is that it?
- Don't know what you

tripping about. We just minding our own.

But, hey, Rhonda's home.

She might have more to tell the mayor.

Yeah. You stirring
that pot, are you? f*ck.

Heart wants what it wants, Mayor.

- Yeah.
- [CHUCKLES]

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]

- [KNOCKING]
- [RHONDA] We're not open yet.

- Sorry, Mr. Mayor.
- I just... Rhonda, come on.

- I can't help you, Mike.
- It's f*cking freezing.

- Can't help me?
- [LAUGHS]

Gonna leave me out in the cold?

You look a little worse for wear, Mike.

Yeah.

- Well, how's business?
- Good.

Gonna expand.

Gonna take down this wall,
start offering spa services.

Oh. That's smart.

Oh.

I haven't seen him.

- Didn't ask.
- You're about to.

Yeah, well, you got
soldiers on your doorstep.

Make you feel safe?

That's business, not protection.

Yeah. Well, he's not
around so much, so...

you're a bit exposed.

Bunny got to do for himself.

He stakes for a lot of people.

People with no boots,

let alone straps to pull themselves up.

Bunny got to protect himself
so he can protect his.

Yeah, well, yeah.

[SLOW, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Glad you're doing good.

Good?

sh*t, I'm f*cking blessed.

Ladies walk in here all blue,

they leave...

laughing,

all prettied up.

Now that there is something.

Come on, I got to get
you in one of my chairs

- one of these days. [LAUGHS]
- Yeah.

Come on. I'll give you a good deal.

Yeah, get me prettied up, is that it?

That's right. Something,
something like that.

- Mike, come on.
- [LAUGHS SOFTLY]

All right, look, you hear from him,

let me know.

Tell him I'm looking for him.

Good to see you.

[CHUCKLES]

- Take care.
- You, too.

Let him know. Let him know.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[KONSTANTIN] I didn't think
they would allow angels

in this fresh hell.

Fallen angels, Konnie.

Only the fallen.

[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING]

Ooh, you've aged very well.

Really?

- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.

I feel old as f*ck.

[LAUGHS]

It's so good to see you.

Mm. Missed you.

- Drink?
- Mm-hmm.

Come.

- [SALLY] Oh, g*dd*mn.
- I know.

Motherfuck.

[GROANING]

This wasn't no problem
before you got back, b*tch.

- Give me my g*dd*mn medicine.
- Sure.

I'll do you five milligrams.

b*tch, 20.

This is textbook
drug-seeking behavior, Sally.

I'll write your RVR myself if
you don't stop wasting my time.

Of course I'm drug-seeking.
I feel like I got f*cking

barbed wire ripping
through my guts. I hurt.

You want to go to NA and get clean?

Or go to ad seg for pulling this stunt?

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

You skanky b*tch.
Don't turn away from me!

[SHOUTS]

[GRUNTING]

Stop it! Get off of me!

- f*ck you!
- f*cking addict.

- f*ck you.
- [COUGHING]

Hey, you okay?

- Yeah.
- Hey, Nurse... ?

- Tracy.
- Nurse Tracy. You good?

She hurt you? Here, let's take a seat.

[SALLY] f*ck you. f*ck you!

Take a seat.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

Hey. Hey.

How do you know when a
nurse is having a bad day?

Uh, what?

It's a joke. How do
you know when a nurse

- is having a bad day?
- [MOANS]

- She won't stop needling people.
- [SIGHS] You heard that one.

All right, all right. My bad.

- You sure you're okay?
- I'm good.

I'm fine, thank you.

Okay.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[SIGHS]

What... ? [LAUGHS]

Been trying to get
that man to look at me

the way he just looked
at you for months.

[STIFLED LAUGH]

- You good?
- Yeah.

All right, the-the pregnancy...

- Yeah.
- She's been in here

for three years.

Yeah, if that's what it says.

Okay, well, we don't do conjugal visits,

- so who knocked her up, Lina?
- [SCOFFS] I'm sure she'll be happy

to share the father's identity, Trace.

I heard you were here.

- Yes.
- And I heard he was gone.

Yes. Milo's gone.

[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE]

His unscrupulous ilk,

his cruelty, gone.

So I came back.

For better things.

That's good.

Milo wasted you,

like he wasted this place.

Why did you ever come here?

Milo called for me. No one stopped it.

Well, I would've
stopped it, had I known.

Well, it wasn't good
for me. [LAUGHS SOFTLY]

Milo wasn't really good for you.

Then why not run back to New York?

- He has people in New York.
- I am people in New York.

I know.

[DARK, ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]

[SIGHS]

- I'm sorry.
- No, don't apologize.

Not after all the things
you've done for me,

- all the gifts you bestowed on me.
- No, the gifts you taught me.

No. Don't diminish your
accomplishments, Iris.

They're-they're a
testament to your fortitude.

Really.

My-my grandmother was
a-an artist, a painter.

And so, under Stalin, she was considered

a Trotskyist, a traitor,

and so they sentenced her
to five years in a gulag,

in the Kolyma mines.

The food was scarce, so scarce

that they sent the prisoners
up the mountain to forage

for cedar needles that they would boil

in some kind of
concoction against scurvy.

So she was there, filling
her sack with needles

for her daily ration,
and what does she see?

A Siberian iris.

And it was at that moment

that she knew she was going to survive.

Because that flower that
she knew as a-a sword lily,

she had only seen it on the paintings

of Flemish masters.

Its leaves shaped like swords,

the flower is said to represent
the Virgin Mary's sorrows.

Each sorrow a heart-piercing sword,

as prophesized by Simeon,

and it's her suffering
that is said to...

soften our evil hearts,

give us "hope."

When you walk into a room,

you pierce the soul of any man,

lay bare his sorrows,

and that cannot be taught.

It's a gift that you earn through pain.

And it's that enchanting anguish,

in this lie of a life,

that gives you power.

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

That's why you named me Iris.

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

What's the good word, Captain?

[DOOR CLOSES]

Who says it's good?

[GRUNTS]

[DARK, ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]

♪

From the families, Ian.

- From what families?
- Cold cases in Ohio.

Letters of gratitude for
the closure you've brought.

Tell me something, Ian.

How do you connect with
that kind of monster?

Well, I, uh...

You know, it's-it's, uh, it's
all about respect, I guess.

It's, uh...

Look him in the eye,
shake his hand, you know.

Still...

you got to be careful, I mean,

Charlie likes the connection.

Right? But he's still
a f*cking serial k*ller,

any way you slice it.

Well, this has been a...

sorely-needed bright spot for us.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Some good publicity for once.

Hundred percent.

Count on me.

- You have a good day, Captain.
- Thank you.

[DARK, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

Knock, knock.

He has company.

♪

I'll just be a minute.

- [SPEAKS RUSSIAN]
- Yeah.

[KONSTANTIN] Breathe, Michael.

You must always remember to breathe.

- [MIKE] Yeah.
- Why are you always so agitated?

Uh...

Can we talk for a minute?

Yeah, you can speak freely.
There's no secrets here.

Okay, look, my job, my primary function,

is to create a balance in this town.

You understand? I can't do my job

if you keep poisoning the drug supply.

Do I look like I peddle in street drugs?

No, you look like you're
undercutting your competitor.

Okay? And I'm here to tell you, don't.

- There's plenty to go around.
- I move product, Michael.

I expand, I compete.

And if someone can't keep up,
well, that's for them to remedy.

Okay, well, I don't really care about

your business philosophies
here, Konstantin.

Back off Bunny Washington. Period.

Understand?

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[BRAKES SQUEAL]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[PANICKED SCREAMING]

♪

♪

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Mike, you could've just

f*cking bought it, all
right? You could've bought it.

How am I not f*cking picking
up Bunny Washington right now?

- He wasn't aiming at me.
- It's not a f*cking joke here.

- Okay?
- Okay.

It's not a joke, and I knew
he had more g*dd*mn g*ns

- than he dropped off in cr*cker town.
- Yeah.

- I f*cking knew it.
- Look, when I f*cking find him,

I'll deal with it, all
right? I'll handle it.

Meanwhile, why don't
you just get these people

- down to the station for some statements.
- [IAN] Yeah, I can't f*cking force them, Mike.

[MIKE] Well, you can't do
it in the f*cking street.

- Jesus Christ, Mike. Mike.
- It's not safe here.

It's gonna happen again, you know that.

So why don't you f*cking get
these people... the wounded,

the witnesses,
Konstantin, f*cking Iris...

- take them in.
- The f*ck is she doing here?

I don't f*cking know.

[SIGHS] So, you want me to
lay off Bunny Washington?

Yeah, look, I know. Look, I know.

I get it. I get it.

[SIGHS] Look, you've established
your territory, right?

You made your presence known.
You got your market share.

Don't hit back.

Are you giving me orders, Michael?

I'm just counseling
restraint, 'cause you're smart.

You know better than anybody,

eye for an eye just
leaves everybody blind.

And a tooth for a tooth,
and everybody's gums.

Exactly.

When I act, I do so with a purpose.

Look at what these street
animals have accomplished.

They k*lled cannon fodder. Hmm?

Discount meat marked for short sale.

I keep the best cuts behind glass.

That's one way to look at people.

These creatures, they
showed me what they are:

Reactionary, disorganized.

You know who is organized?

These, all these
m*therf*ckers with badges.

I'm telling you.

These cops are so deep in
sh*t right now, Konstantin,

they'd welcome a bull's-eye.

So if you f*ck around...

well, you'll find out.

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[QUIET, TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[DOOR CLOSES]

So you have a f*cking
death wish, is that it?

That's pretty rich coming from you.

- [LAUGHS]
- Yeah. Hey, knock it off.

It's kind of funny.

What the f*ck were you thinking, Iris?

That he's dangerous to you,

and I know him better than anyone.

Yeah? And?

And he wants me to work for him.

- Of course he does.
- Front of house only, Mike.

If I bail now, he's gonna wonder.

Mike, she got a point here.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

So, you're gonna be the
new Tatiana, is that it?

Remember what happened to her?

Ended up in a f*cking
dumpster. Is that what you want?

You said I could stay or I could go.

- Remember?
- Uh-huh.

Mm-hmm. So I'm staying.

This justifies me staying.

If they find out you're
connected to me at all...

they will k*ll you.

I bet anyone that knows that is dead.

[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE]

[BABY MITCH FUSSING]

[SIGHS]

Hey, babe.

- Hi.
- Hey, babe.

Hi.

- Hello. Mmm.
- [LAUGHS]

Did we get some good news?

Yes, we did.

Can I... Buddy.

Ah, come to Daddy.

Yes, we got good news
'cause Daddy made the cut.

[SINGSONGY] Daddy made the cut.

Daddy made the m*therf*cking cut.

[LAUGHS]

Yeah, I'm on the roster.

You tell Robert,

if anything happens to
you, a f*cking scratch,

I am coming for him.

Day care go okay?

Uh, yes. Seems to.

He's very popular with the ladies.

- [FUSSING]
- [LAUGHS]

You know, I know it's
counterintuitive, Trace,

but SWAT really is the safe move.

Baby, where we live and what we do,

there is no real safe.

Hmm.

Then why do we do it? Hmm?

- [FUSSING]
- Hey.

Mariam could've left 100 times.

Right? She never did.

Oh, yeah. It's okay, buddy. You're okay.

Oh... why?

I know. I know.

Service, that's what she'd say.

Mariam was a light in the darkness.

Yeah.

She knew that, so she stayed.

Yeah. She was. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

She'd be really proud of you.

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- [KNOCKS]

Knock, knock.

Hey, Mike.

Hey, Trace.

Hi.

- Hey, hey.
- [FUSSING]

- Ooh. This is your nephew.
- [MIKE] Yeah.

[LAUGHTER]

[TRACY] You want some food, or...

I'm good, thank you. I'm
gonna get something later.

All right. We'll come
back. [KISSING NOISES]

Ooh. No. Go ahead.

Okay. Yeah.

Yeah.

[MIKE] So, Iris, of course,

knows this guy from New York, right?

And so she wants to help out.

I don't know, maybe she can

help get a handle on him,
maybe she can't, I don't know.

But she can't have any
contact with me whatsoever.

That means you, means
Tracy, all that, okay?

So she's going back to Cavo? [STAMMERS]

Yeah, that's what I been saying, Kyle.

You been paying attention?

No, I'm f*cking listening.
I'm just processing. sh*t.

Yeah. I know, I know. I know.

- sh*t.
- f*cking...

[KYLE GROANS]

- You all right?
- Yeah, yeah.

Um...

I'll tell Tracy, you know.

f*cking we never knew
her, you know, whatever.

Heard Robert gave you the nod.

Yeah, I'm gonna get out in
front of this sh*t for a change.

Yeah, you are.

Tracy said Mom would be proud.

[MIKE] She would be.

Mom would be proud, brother.

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

[TENDER MUSIC]

[PHONE BUZZES]

Yeah?

[BUNNY] You're one persistent-a*s

- m*therf*cker, Mike.
- [MIKE] Hey,

m*therf*cker, I need to talk to you.

- Where are you?
- I know, I know, I know.

Corner of Fifth and
Western, five minutes.

Yeah. All right. f*ck.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE]

[BRAKES SQUEAL]

Mike, what the sh*t is this?

You really went and got
the same make and model?

Yeah, at least it's f*cking reliable.

You know nothing about
that, do you? Get in here.

And when don't you drive
an Escalade with 22s?

Upgrade every year.

Yeah, I can see.

Who says crime don't pay?

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

Look, you can do a lot of
things, m*therf*cker, all right?

But you can't ghost me.

You understand that?

Hey. Don't ghost me.

You disappear.

You roll on the f*cking
Russians with no warning,

and then you light them up

with an arsenal that sure as sh*t

did not come from that
g*n shop, are you crazy?

m*therf*cker spiked my supply.

- Yeah.
- You push me, I push back, Mike.

I know, I was there, at the club,

when you f*cking lit it up.

You almost took me off the board.

What the f*ck you hanging
with the Soviets for, then?

I was trying to remedy
your problem, Bunny.

I know what they did to your supply.

You got to let me do my job.

Don't f*cking sh**t at me.

Commie m*therf*ckers don't
know the rules out here.

- All right? They new.
- Yeah, well,

they think they f*cking wrote the rules.

Coming down like Moses with the tablets

and the Commandments,
whatever the f*ck it is.

[LAUGHS] Well, we better
send Moses right back

up that f*cking mountain, all right?

Ain't no tablets out here.

I'm the New Testament. Yeah?

Besides, I don't see them making
no f*cking moves right now.

- Yeah, well...
- So maybe my message done stuck.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe.

Maybe I threw a block on your behalf.

I don't know, either way, Bunny...

no one's resting easy.

[SNIFFLES]

[EXHALES]

I heard you talked to Rhonda.

Yeah.

I was looking for you, Bunny.

Oh, man, don't use me as an excuse

- to go see a sister, come on.
- I was looking for you.

- The f*ck out of here.
- Yeah.

- She's good, though, man.
- Yeah.

Yeah. She a real
entrepreneur right there.

She took that little shop I gave her,

she's turning it into
something f*cking...

real.

- Yeah.
- Hmm. [CHUCKLES]

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

You want remedy?

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Put your KPD g*ng on Noskov

before he get too close to where I live.

Pick up your phone.

[DOOR OPENS]

[SIREN BLARING IN DISTANCE]

[MIKE] Look, we need any information

that's gonna prevent
sh*t from exploding,

so who he's talking to,
what deals he's making,

sh*t from the past.
Thigs like that, okay? Anything.

Look, Iris, sooner we get this done,

sooner we get you out
of here, all right?

- [MIKE] Yeah.
- Which leads us to this,

- this is the most important part, okay?
- Oh, you can f*ck right off.

- [IAN] No, Iris.
- [IRIS] You want me to end up

in a f*cking dumpster?

Jesus Christ.

- This dude taught me how to wear a wire.
- [MIKE] Iris, uh, we can't...

- No.
- We can't send you in there.

- We got to have eyes and ears on you.
- Well, you're not sending me in, Mike.

I'm making this choice.
I'm going. This is me going, okay?

Trust me.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

All right.

Take this.

Got a second burner. Number's in there.

Do not call from any other phone, okay?

Don't use a landline, don't
use a room phone, nothing.

Don't call my f*cking office.

You go there, you come
directly back here,

and you call me from that.

We clear?

[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Okay.

You don't have to do this.

If he came after you
and I did nothing...

I'm doing it.

I'll be watching.

[DOOR OPENS]

[OMINOUS, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Hey.

You know you have a big f*cking mouth?

Mikey, let it go. Come on.

We can talk about
something else if you want.

Mike, I want you f*cking safe,

- she wants you safe.
- I'm fine.

- She's a civilian.
- She's not a f*cking civilian, she's a soldier,

just like we are, Mike.
You got a thousand people

gunning for you from all f*cking sides.

- She can fix that, so be it.
- Yeah, well...

that's to be seen.

["GARGANTUAN" BY BASS KLEPH
AND DJ BAM BAM PLAYING]

♪

[KONSTANTIN] What happened after you...

you left Kingstown?

I didn't know where it was safe.

Ended up in Detroit.

Worked the Cadillac.

[LAUGHS]

And the Henry.

Automotive executives.

- [SCOFFS]
- [LAUGHS]

There's tech babies there now, too.

Deep pockets. I did all right.

Did well.

You always do well.

[BREATHES DEEPLY] It still angers me,

what he reduced you to.

Hmm?

I survived.

You deserve so much more than survival.

Milo was myopic.

He devalued

what should be most treasured,

and valued what led to his fall.

I hate the taste of his sulfurous name.

We need to cleanse our palates.

Let me take care of that. Finish
your drink. I'll pour you a new one.

[IRIS CHUCKLES]

And then you tell me...

all the things that he

subjected you to, hmm?

The things that he, uh...

the things that he made you do.

Tell me.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

You remember that f*ck McDaniel?

Uh, motormouth?

Guy who used to serve with my dad?

Motormouth from Motor City,
and all those f*cking stories.

Detroit and the '70s and the heroin

and the f*cking bodies dropping.

- Mm.
- He was one crazy f*cking

- hardcore old-school cop.
- Yeah.

- What about him?
- I just could never figure out

how the f*ck do you walk away

from this kind of action
and take early retirement?

I just...

- You want to walk away?
- f*ck no.

You can't walk away
from this f*cking sh*t.

I sure as f*ck would like
to know how we end it,

this f*cking bullshit
back and forth, Mikey.

Yeah, I don't know how it ends,

outside of an earthquake or

a comet or something, right?

This city's built on revenge.

Biblical.

Real hard habit to break.

- [KONSTANTIN] Now, this stuff...
- [IRIS LAUGHS]

... is exceptional.

Right. [LAUGHS]

[KONSTANTIN] Oh, it's so f*cking good.

[DANCE CLUB MUSIC PLAYING]

♪

[SNIFFS]

[GROANS] f*ck.

[EXCLAIMS]

Almost as creamy as your skin.

- Shut up.
- Ah, f*ck. [SNIFFLES]

[SNIFFS]

Oh! [GROANS]

Oh. [SNIFFS]

- That is good.
- Ah, yeah.

Now what, Iris, what will you do?

Uh...

I'll work at Cavo.

Hmm.

- For now.
- Hmm.

A hostess.

Our new Tatiana.

No.

[SNIFFS]

Better than Tatiana.

Not a doubt in my mind. [SNIFFS]

But Kingstown is just a detour, eh?

Our home is New York, and
to New York we will return,

and this-this work we'll do here,

it will earn our return.

I missed you, Konnie.

I really f*cking missed you.

To burning our joyless days together.

Cheers.

You know, I get it.

- Get what?
- The whole Iris thing.

Good for you.

[CHUCKLES]

You don't have to be a d*ck about it.

A strawberry-blonde albatross.

- That's not what I mean.
- No? What do you mean?

You some kind of wizard, can see it all?

- You look like, what, f*cking Gandalf?
- [CHUCKLES]

Hey, what's up with you and Rebecca?

Huh? You still watching her cat?

You know, I can't say f*cking
anything to you, you know that?

Jesus Christ.

Mm.

I wish Iris never came here, man.

Now she's never f*cking leaving.

[SIGHS]

I know. I feel for her.

She's somebody your mom
would've taken under her wing.

Yeah, that's where you get
this whole f*cking savior sh*t.

- I ain't no savior.
- No, you're more of a pain in the a*s.

f*ck you.

Well, I will tell you
something, I do miss your mom.

Yeah.

Yeah.

[SNIFFS]

Oh.

Oh, wow.

[DANCE CLUB MUSIC PLAYING]

♪

Come along.

Come on, angel.

[CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC]

♪

Hey.

Something's up.

They're on the deck.

- What?
- I don't know.

♪

Hey, can you get eyes over there?

f*ck, what am I gonna
do, astral project?

[KONSTANTIN] Another
difference between me and Milo,

I keep an eye on my business.

You see that?

No weighing, no counting.

Just trust.

♪

They don't cheat you?

What would happen to
people who cheat me?

[KONSTANTIN] You and I have something

in common, Little Bird.

Something Milo never possessed.

We know the source of our rivers,

and if you know that, you
know where courage comes from.

Come.

[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Guess the party's over.

Thanks for doing this. Appreciate it.

Yeah, yeah.

[KONSTANTIN GIGGLING]

You think this is too much?

No. No, no, no, no, no.

[SNIFFS]

Oh, God.

How have you not had
a f*cking heart attack?

[GROANS] Good genes.

[SNIFFS]

Here, love.

I'm okay.

I got to start heading the other way.

Look what I got.

- Ah.
- Mmm.

Balance is everything.

[IRIS] Mm.

Oh, no, Iris.

No, this won't do.

Oh, it's fine.

It's got a good deadbolt.

Yeah, and also vermin, no doubt.

We'll address it in the morning.

Okay.

Right here's good.

Thank you.

Most fun I've had in a long time.

- Mwah.
- Mwah.

[KONSTANTIN] Old times, new beginnings.

[IAN] There she is, there she is.

- There we go. There we go.
- [CELL PHONE BUZZES]

Hey, I see you. You safe? You're good?

I'm in, Mike. I'm f*cking in.

That was so good.

[SNIFFS]

Do you trust me?

- You f*cking trust me?
- Yeah.

Um, I saw something.

What'd you see?

White Power cash,
Russian drugs. They traded

right in front of me. Konstantin

- and the f*cking Aryans.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait, Iris, Iris, you got to be sure.

You sure about that? You sure it was AB?

Yeah, I think I'd know, Mike.

Okay.

Okay. All right, you did good.

Glad you're safe.

[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

[SIGHS]

f*ck.

Get the f*ck out of here.

♪

[DRAMATIC, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]

♪