05x01 - By Blood

[bunniefuu]

[FUNKY HIP-HOP BEAT LAYERS IN]

[MAN] Previously on Raising Kanan...

In Chinese mythology,

there's a monster called Hundun.

A blind, deaf, faceless demon.

Hundun is chaos.

[SHARP, JARRING g*nshots]

- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- [g*nf*re]

Evil.

Corrupting and polluting

all that it touches.

Raq hired some dirty police
to k*ll your friend.

[IRWIN] What's most scary
about Hundun's true evil...

- We in business, Hafiz.
- ...isn't what it does...

You gon' do what they won't?

Where is it?

...but that it can't see itself.

Just 'cause you didn't see me

didn't mean I didn't see you.

[IRWIN] It doesn't know
that it's a monster.

[g*nsh*t]

Just like you.

We both got family, 'Nique.

I'm a street n*gga
who do street n*gga sh*t.

I'm ready to go back to w*r
next to y'all.

If you want work, I got work for you.

Both of you get in the f*ck' car.

Come on, baby. It's gon' be all right.

Let's go, n*gga.

But you need to step up

and take care of your daughter.

I know... You don't think I know that?

[KRYSTAL] And I am worried
you're gonna do

somethin' crazy about Famous.

Famous was my brother.

But he wouldn't want you

to f*ck yourself up for him.

[CAPTAIN BAPTISTE] There's no world

where the m*rder of a cop
goes unanswered.

Squeeze hard on anyone you can.

[GARCIA] I'm police.

She's safe with me.

They found the Jane Doe

in a stairwell over at Edgemere.

One of the tenants had said
that they saw

a Black woman leaving the apartment

where we think your friend
was m*rder*d.

- [g*nsh*t]
- Call the police,

tell 'em some white boy
with tattoos came in here

and did all of that to these people.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Phil Russo and his f*ck' g*ng
of misfits in Jersey

think they can go toe-to-toe
with me now.

I overstepped, and I apologize.

[GRUNTING]

We look out for ours on this side.

You got the streets wired
with these bike n*gg*s.

You and me join forces?

[SNAPS] We want a bigger piece
of the pie

out on Southside, Jamaica.

And we got our own supplier.

[SNAPS] We bring together
you and Unique

and then connect you with our nephew.

n*gg*s call me Breeze.

Word.

You don't know that it was Raq, Kanan.

If you ain't with me, you against me.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Why'd you k*ll Krystal?

I didn't k*ll your girlfriend.

I know you k*lled Fame too.

I'm done making excuses for you
and for me.

Tonight, I'ma do what I shoulda done.

I would never hurt you
like that. I love you.

Only person you ever loved is you.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

♪ I'm a hustla, baby ♪

- ♪ I'm a hustla, baby ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪

♪ b*tch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through The ups and downs ♪

♪ You know I get around ♪

♪ So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪

♪ No need to say sh*t
I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Make money Make-make-make money ♪

♪ When sh*t hit the fan
We'll take money, Southside ♪

♪ Beef with the best of 'em
Done shot at the rest of 'em ♪

♪ Checks, I'm collectin' 'em
Check, boy, I'm finessin' em ♪

♪ Big bags of bread ♪

♪ Boy, you f*ck around
Put a big bag on your head ♪

♪ 'Fore the weather break
You're dead ♪

♪ Let's get to it ♪

♪ They don't do it Like we do it ♪

♪ Cop it, whip it Bag it, flip it ♪

♪ Re-up, we up G'd up, what up? ♪

♪ Runnin' 'round this b*tch
Still not givin' a f*ck ♪

♪ When it come to that paper
There'll be no complications ♪

♪ Ha-ha, that's right ♪

♪ Put a hole in a n*gga
Right in front of you ♪

♪ Your heartbeat pacin' ♪

♪ And it's alright ♪

♪ That's how we do it On this side ♪

♪ n*gg*s get to it On this side ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪

♪ b*tch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through The ups and downs ♪

♪ You know I get around ♪

♪ So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪

♪ No need to say sh*t
I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Ayy, ayy ♪

[RILEYY VOCALIZATION]

[KANAN] That's why you k*lled 'em all.

D, Fame, Krystal...

even my own f*ck' father!

[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

That's why I gotta do this right now.

So you can't take nobody else
away from me.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

♪

[MUSIC BUILDS DRAMATICALLY]

[g*nsh*t]

[CASINGS CLATTER ON FLOOR]

[DARK AMBIENT NOTES PLAY]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[ECHOING THUD]

What'd you do?

What the f*ck you just do?!

- Lou.
- [GRUNTING SOFTLY]

- [CRYING] Please.
- [GASPING, MOANING]

[GRIM, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS, SWELLS]

f*ck, no!

Lou!

I'll call a ambulance.

f*ck you gonna tell 'em, Ruben?

[TENSE, SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

Breathe, baby.

[WHIMPERS]

[RAQ SOBBING]

- [LOU GASPING]
- [RAQ CRYING]

I love you, Lou.

[GASPING LAUGHS]

I love you.

[MUSIC DARKENS]

[SOBBING]

Go, Kanan.

Now!

[GRIM, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[BREATHING SOFTLY]

Gonna clean this up.

[PHONE LINE RINGING]

♪

[RINGING CONTINUES]

[PHONE BEEPS]

[CRICKETS CHIRRING]

- [MUSIC FADES]
- [PLASTIC RUSTLING]

[GENTLE, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[TRAIN HORN BLOWING IN DISTANCE]

[RUBEN] We gotta go.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[CAR DOORS CLOSE, ENGINE STARTS]

[CAR PULLS AWAY]

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[MUSIC FADES]

I wasn't gonna sh**t Kanan.

I was just tryin'
to get his attention.

What's done is done.

sh*t don't even matter no more.

All that matter is that
you can't tell nobody

about what happened here tonight.

Not ever.

And I'm not just talkin' about police.

That sh*t go without sayin'.

Talkin' about your nearest
and f*ck' dearest, n*gga.

Can't tell nobody.

That sh*t gotta go to the grave
with you.

I'm sorry about it.

[WINDOW WHIRRING]

Yo, Ruben.

Let me hit you off
for this extra work tonight.

I'm good.

Nah.

Nah, this sh*t was above and beyond.

[SIGHS]

- [g*nshots]
- [RUBEN GRUNTS]

[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]

[SIREN WAILING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[OLDER KANAN] I ain't got
regrets in my life.

I just got sh*t
that's uncomfortable...

that don't ever go away.

- [MUSIC FADES]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[CRIES OUT]

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[SOBBING]

[INHALES SHARPLY, EXHALES]

I was calling you last night.

There was some wild sh*t
happening with Kanan,

but you weren't picking up.

I'm busy on some bullshit.

What's the word with your cousin?

He was on one about Aunt Raq.

Was going over there real angry.

I got worried.

Reached Uncle Lou.

He said he was gonna run through
and check on sh*t.

I ain't heard nothin'
about any of that.

Been callin' Kanan
and Uncle Lou, but...

neither one of 'em pickin' up.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

That's you.

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Police.

Marvin Thomas?

Is Louis Thomas your brother?

[MUFFLED CHATTER IN DISTANCE]

♪ I told you ♪

♪ That I would never Betray you ♪

♪ But you ♪

♪ You took my trust
And left me in the dust ♪

♪ So when it's going down
Where do I run? ♪

[MICHELLE] What you want?

["TORN" BY TAMAE
AND SLEEP DEEZ CONTINUES]

Friends of Rilla's.

From the, uh, studio.

[CHILD WHIMPERS]

Rilla know Lou Thomas, right?

- Yeah. Shh.
- [CHILD WHIMPERS]

Well, we just tryin' to track
him down on some business.

I've been lookin' for Bryan too.
Oh, it's okay.

He was supposed to come through
and watch the baby.

We met up yesterday so I could
get some stuff from him,

but I ain't heard from him since.

Where'd y'all link?

Outside some raggedy-looking
mall on Merrick.

[CHILD CRIES]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

A'ight. Well, if you see Rilla
before we find him,

tell him Unique came callin'.

All right?

How y'all know Bryan again?

[SUCKS TEETH, SIGHS]

We don't.

But now we know you.

And we know where you
and your baby live.

[CHILD WHIMPERS]

I-I gotta go.

That mall's Raq's spot.

Tool the f*ck up.

[MUSIC FADES]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Is that your brother?

Is that him?

Yeah, that's Lou.

[MUSIC FADES]

[TRAFFIC HUMMING]

[CHATTER]

Was it him?

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

Oh, my God.

[MARVIN SOBBING]

[WHIMPERS]

Oh, my God.

[SOBBING]

♪

- [MUSIC FADES]
- [TELEPHONE RINGING]

Hey. Good luck, captain.

See ya, captain.

[CHATTER]

About to head out.

[SIGHS] You're gonna be missed.

By everyone.

You do this job long enough,

you gonna make a hell of a lot
more enemies than friends.

Just because they got me riding
out into the f*cking sunset

doesn't mean that your work
is done, Garcia.

You wanna get
on the commissioner track,

find who put down Malcolm Howard.

I'm still pressing on the Thomas girl.

Yeah, Burke's old CI.

You need to dig deeper, Garcia.

I'd like to believe I did
more good than harm here.

But that's gonna be God's call.

Getting justice for Howard

would sure help my cause

at them pearly f*ck' gates,
though, Garcia.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Don't let me down.

[B-RILLA] Where the f*ck
is this n*gga Lou?

[PERNESSA WHIMPERING, CRYING]

I ain't sign up for this
babysittin' bullshit.

[PERNESSA WHIMPERING]

n*gga, f*ck this.

[PERNESSA SOBBING]

I'm telling you...

if you don't shut the f*ck up,

I will k*ll you and that boy.

- No!
- b*tch.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

[SOBBING]

Finally.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Yo, Lou, that you?

Yo, Lou.

[RAPID g*nshots]

You all right, baby?

They hurt you?

No, no. Just scared, that's all. sh*t.

Well, you ain't gotta be scared
no more

'cause I'm here, all right?

I got you.

I always got y'all.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[RAQ] Juke know?

She over at Kanan's, telling him.

You gon' want to reach out to him.

He gon' be all f*cked up.

Police got thoughts on what happened?

Had to be this m*therf*cker 'Nique.

He dumped Lou.

Like he was a-a piece of trash.

Like he wasn't even a person.

'Nique must be out his f*ck' mind

comin' after us and Stefano like this.

Juke spoke to Lou.

He was on his way over here

to get in between some sh*t

you and Kanan was havin'.

He never got here.

And the thing with me and Kanan

wasn't nothin' but the usual drama.

Maybe Ruben saw something
when he was out front.

I ain't talked to him
since last night.

I'll reach out.

You handlin' this
a whole lot better than me.

'Cause I'm ready to k*ll any n*gga

who even breathe in my direction.

sh*t.

I'm not handlin' anything.

f*ck you want me to do, Marvin?

You just told me that
our baby brother is gone.

I'm f*cked up.

I just lost a piece
of my f*ck' heart.

I'm just sayin', you ain't...
you ain't cryin' or nothin'.

We all deal with this sh*t different.

Don't tell me how to hurt.

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[INHALES DEEPLY]

[SIGHS]

Where 'Nique people at?

Pernessa and that boy
is the only leverage

that we got right now.

Where they at?

You can't, Marvin.

I know you want to,

I do too, but you can't.

Tell me where the f*ck they are, Raq.

[MUSIC DARKENS]

They at the mall.

But you do this...

there ain't no turnin' back.

Lou gone.

Already ain't no turnin' back.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[SIGHS]

I called him.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Told him about you goin' to Raq's.

He said he was gonna go over there.

I never saw him.

All the f*cked up sh*t
this family into...

[SCOFFS]

...and I still can't believe
he's gone.

You think I'd expect it,

or be ready for it,

or some sh*t,

but I guess I just thought...

for all our bullshit

that we was untouchable.

Nobody's untouchable.

[HEAVY, GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

Word.

♪

[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]

[SNAPS] How you settin' up, Breeze?

Southside ain't no different
from East New York.

Blocks change, work stay the same.

You just make sure you get yourself

a few safe spots out there.

Somewhere where you can post up
when sh*t gets perilous

'cause sh*t will get perilous, nephew.

I ain't heard from Kanan or Unique.

They'll come around.

sh*t, they ain't got
nowhere else to go.

Still don't understand why
I gotta f*ck

with this n*gga Unique.

Kanan's a special case.

We know this.

But this other m*therf*cker
redundant as hell.

Why we need him when we got me?

He still got soldiers
out on those streets.

We take him out, they gon' turn on us.

Gotta finesse this sh*t.
Smooth it out.

Y'all finessin' when you bum-rushed

all them banks back in the day?

We ain't bum-rushed sh*t.

We come right through
the front f*ck' door, n*gga.

Look, you gon' move this work
outta our old pawn shop

on Guy Brewer.

We got police on payroll

who know to leave that spot
the f*ck alone.

[SNAPS] And no side hustles
this time around, Breeze.

Your work is our work.

For old retired heads,
y'all stay real busy.

Game needs us, n*gga.

With Raq and Unique and all them

runnin' around like damn banshees,

we gotta ride in like the cavalry

and calm them the f*ck down.

We got money on those streets.

We need to protect it.

You gon' make more money with me

than you ever would
with them other n*gg*s.

[CHUCKLES] Why half-step

when you can put
your whole foot up that a*s?

Huh? [LAUGHS]

♪ Ooh, baby Come back to me ♪

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

f*ck!

[MUSIC FADES]

[GARCIA] Just heard about your uncle.

Trouble really does seem
to follow you and your family.

- Only sh*t following me is you.
- All right. All right.

I helped you out with that girl
we found in Edgemere,

now you need to help me.

I don't know nothin'
so I can't do sh*t for you.

When you were working with Burke,

did she ever say anything to you

about Howard and what he was into?

You really askin' me
about what one cop

was sayin' about another cop?

f*ck outta here.

I wasn't workin' with Burke.

I ain't workin' wit' you neither.

I've been playing good cop
with you for a while, Laverne.

You're about to see bad cop.

Y'all the same to me.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[SUCKS TEETH]

You put down Lou Thomas?

'Cause that's gonna blow back
on me, man.

What the f*ck I tell you?

I'm done with South Jamaica.

Well, maybe one of your peoples

took matters into they own hands

and dropped him behind your back then.

Anybody takes matters
into their own hands,

I cut their f*ck' hands off

one finger at a f*ck' time.

Look.

You're on your own from here on out.

I'm in a fight for my f*ck' life.

All due respect,

I ain't got time for your bullshit.

Carmine will show you out.

[INTENSE, FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

[WOMAN] This is bullshit.

Tell Hafiz I have a schedule
to keep to

and not to keep me waiting next time.

I have another date across town
in forty five minutes.

[WOMAN SIGHS]

I need to talk to him.

I'll see if he's available.

[CAR SHIFTS INTO GEAR]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[UPBEAT, TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC SOFTENS]

[SIGHS]

♪

[MUSIC DARKENS, INTENSIFIES]

[MUSIC FADES]

I ain't gonna sugarcoat it.

We're in a f*cked up spot, Hafiz.

We're gonna get out of it,
but for right now, sh*t's tough.

You assured me that your demand
would meet my supply.

And it will.

I just gotta get my ducks in a row.

But that ain't gon' take long.

I can promise you that.

In my country, we're defined
by the promises we make,

the vows we keep,
and the oaths we take.

Where I'm from,
it is better to be dead

than to betray a promise.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC FADES]

Amber, we want you to know

that you're not in any danger
or in trouble.

We just wanna find out
what happened to the Lovetts.

Yeah, we're gonna keep you safe.

I told you, it was a white guy
with tattoos.

But like these police officers
said, Amber,

one of the neighbors
said they saw someone

who looked very different

from the person you described

run out of the house.

Yeah, they said they saw a Black man

leave the home after the g*nshots.

It was a white guy with tattoos.

Why don't you tell me

again what you saw, Amber.

[SIGHS] I was in the bedroom
with the baby

and we heard a noise...

She's scared.

And she's lying.

Give me a week with her.

I think I can get her to open up.

She really likes this family
she's with.

So if I tell her she won't
be able to stay with them

if she doesn't tell the truth,

she'll start talking.

This guy came in with a g*n

and he was white and he had tattoos

and he started sh**ting everywhere.

Where were his tattoos?

All over.

His arms and his body.

Well, this is new information.

So his shirt was open
so you could see his body?

♪ CPT, off to other cities and
sh*t. No longer just... ♪

f*ck the West Coast.

We got Pete Rock.

Who the f*ck they got?

Uh... Dre?

- [LAUGHS]
- Whatever, man.

Yeah, whatever.

Whatever.

♪ And the sh*t That I been through ♪

♪ Like fightin' and shootouts
And bangin' and sh*t... ♪

f*ck y'all doin'?

I can tell you what we ain't doin'.

Making that f*ck' money.

["JUS LYKE COMPTON"
BY DJ QUIK CONTINUES]

You ain't the only one, n*gga.

That gonna change anytime soon?
'Cause I need to get paid.

Or I'm gonna need to get
into some other sh*t.

[KRANK] I heard this new guy,

Wheeze or Sneeze or some sh*t,

puttin' n*gg*s on over out
that pawn shop on Guy Brewer.

Breeze.

Yeah. Him.

♪ And for every n*gga We done shot ♪

♪ They done shot two ♪

What he payin'?

Whatever it is,

gotta be better than what you givin'.

Just give me a day or two.

I'ma figure some sh*t out.

♪ Oakland ♪

♪ Is just like Compton ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm telling y'all Oakland ♪

[DEMONIC LAUGH]
♪ Is just like Compton ♪

How many more times
I gotta rebuild this sh*t?

[SUCKS TEETH]

Fixing my f*ck' face cost way less

than replacing
this f*ck' display case.

Greetings, brothers.

They a'ight.

Love what you've done with the place.

Chinese got they feng shui,

this right here my feng sh*t.

At least you ain't lost
your sense of humor.

It's all I got.

Appreciate you two comin' through.

Can we talk alone for a minute?

Lead the way.

[GLASS CRUNCHING UNDERFOOT]

Look, I ain't get as far as I have

by not being able
to read the f*ck' weather.

Without them Jersey dagos
looking out for me,

sh*t gettin' real dark
and stormy out here.

Y'all was talkin' 'bout
a partnership of sorts.

That's a conversation
I'm willing to have.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

That's the right choice.

But you gonna need to talk
to our nephew first,

see if the Southside's
big enough for the both of you.

[SIREN WAILING]

[MUSIC FADES]

How's your dad doin'?

f*cked up.

Yeah, I bet you feelin' the same too.

I just don't want you
to start thinking that

just 'cause all this bad stuff
keeps happening

that everything is bad.

So...

I should think everything good?

No.

None of it's good.

It's all horrible.

And...

[SIGHS]

...I'm so, so sorry, Juke, but...

you shouldn't think things
are never gon' get better.

They will.

How you know that, Iesha?

[LAUGHS UNCOMFORTABLY]

How you know that what happened
to my uncle

ain't gon' happen to my father?

Or Kanan?

Or me?

Don't even say that out loud, Juke.

[SCOFFS] Oh, so I shouldn't say
out loud

what's the most obvious sh*t
in the world?

All these people around me are dying.

Why wouldn't the same happen to me?

'Cause you not like them.

I am, though.

That's the thing.

That's what I keep trying to tell you.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC FADES]

[SIGHS]

[BRIGHT HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

[JUKE SINGING, DISTANT, ECHOING]
♪ Do ♪

♪ What you gotta do ♪

♪ My ♪

♪ Wild, sweet love ♪

♪ Though it may mean ♪

♪ That I'll never ♪

♪ Kiss those sweet lips ♪

♪ Again, yeah ♪

♪ Uh, huh, la-da-da-da ♪

♪ Uh, la-da-da-da-ah ♪

[SINGING FADES, ECHOES]

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[INHALES SHARPLY, SIGHS]

- [MUSIC FADES]
- [CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

["HARD CORE" BY ARMANDO
"MANDO BEATS" COLON PLAYING]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[GRUNTING]

[MAN] Yeah!

[GRUNTING]

♪ You a Blow Pop n*gga
I ain't never been a sucker ♪

You wanna get paid,

you gonna have to put
a n*gga's head to bed.

[SCREAMING]

♪ I'm outta my mind crazy
Have you ghost like Swayze ♪

♪ I'm the real deal
You dudes is fugazie ♪

[CROWD SHOUTING]

[GRUNTING]

[CROWD SHOUTING]

I'm out, man. I'm done. He got it.

Like Breeze said, that ain't
how this sh*t work, son.

You only get that money when
you put this n*gga on his back.

Yo, but he said he done.

Ain't about whether he done.

It's about whether I'm done.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Put him down...

or I put you down.

Yeah, it's like that, n*gga.

[CROWD SHOUTING, JEERING]

[CROWD SHOUTING]

[GRUNTING]

[CROWD JEERING]

[BREEZE] Yeah!

Check out the champ, y'all!

[CHEERING]

We on some gladiator sh*t!

- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [BREEZE] That's how we do!

Two n*gg*s walk in...

only one walk out!

[CROWD CHEERING]

[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

[OLDER KANAN] For all them
smiles and charms,

this n*gga right here the most
cold-blooded m*therf*cker

I ever known.

He don't give a f*ck.

[CROWD CHEERING]

[MUSIC FADES]

It's not safe no more, 'Nique.

Not for me.

Not for Jerome.
Definitely not for you.

It is what it's always been, Pernessa.

Ain't nothin' changed.

All these rewards we got
come with risks.

sh*t, you knew that

since you pushed up on me
in the seventh grade.

In the seventh grade,
we didn't have a child, 'Nique.

In seventh grade, nobody was
putting a g*n to my head

and grabbing me up outta my home.

You get bigger, n*gg*s get bolder.

All this time we been together,

I think you thought I was doin'
what you said

because the sh*t made sense.

'Cause I thought you was right.

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

'Nique, I been following you
because I f*ck' love you.

Not because I believe
any of the bullshit

that come outta your mouth.

It's not about you and me
anymore, baby.

It's about Jerome.

About giving him what we didn't have.

f*ck you think I'm doing, P?

[SIGHS]

All this for you and Jerome.

Stop it. No, it's not.

It's not. This is about you.
This is what you want.

'Cause I'd give up all this sh*t
right now for you to be with us.

You're what we want, 'Nique.

You're all we want.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I love you.

I always gon' love you.

But I'm a mother.

And mothers protect their sons.

Against everyone and everything.

Even they own daddies.

Still trying to figure out
what sh*t might look like

if you and me linked.

Ain't much to figure.

We join our crews
and expand your sh*t.

Ain't just gon' be about
bikes for you no more.

You gonna have corners,

buildings, and territories.

You was a business before...

now you a corporation.

♪ Makin' moves on the turnpike
Blacked out Lincoln ♪

♪ Body in the trunk... ♪

I still don't get why me, though.

Snaps and Pop talkin' 'bout legacy

and history with DefCon and all that.

This about money.

It's always about money.

You a earner, my n*gga.

Tried and true.

And yeah, you-you got a pedigree

which mean more than you think.

That hustler DNA is real.

At least it is to me.

What about the competition out here?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Ain't no competition.

Your moms is out the game.

We got this whole sh*t
wired and workin'.

Snaps, Pop, and the Italians,

they all down wit' us.

All we missin' is you, brother.

So what you think?

Ready to run the table
on the Southside?

[STEFANO] Doc says if my c*ck
wasn't so big

I'd be dead right now.

f*ck' knife nicked it on the way in

and saved my liver.

[LAUGHTER]

Christ.

I must have been really close to dead

'cause that wasn't that funny.

[GRUNTING]

[GROANING]

Now, look.

I know you all got, uh,

questions as to what I was doing

meeting with Phil Russo alone.

And those are legitimate concerns.

But they're for another time.

Because as much as this is about me,

it's not about me at all.

I mean, this...

this thing of ours...

it's far bigger than me and you...

and certainly Phil f*ck' Russo.

That's why I want his head
on a f*ck' pike.

I want everyone who's come before

and all our friends
who come after to know

that when our code was threatened

by this piece of sh*t,

that we hit back

in the strongest and clearest terms.

And if it starts a w*r,

so be it.

'Cause this will be a just w*r,
my friends.

A righteous...

f*ck' w*r.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

A w*r for everything
we believe in and...

and stand for.

'Cause we are nothing

if not men of honor

and character and commitment.

Let Phil Russo's f*ck' blood

be a testament to that.

[GROANS]

[MUSIC FADES]

Wish you'd come wit' us.

I can't do that. [SUCKS TEETH]

You can do whatever you want, 'Nique.

I'ma get my sh*t in order here

and then I'ma come see y'all.

Look, I know you may not
always believe me,

but you still believe in me, right?

Always.

You should get goin'
before it get dark.

Okay. I'll call you
when we get up there.

Gonna see you soon, J, a'ight?

[DARK, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[MUSIC FADES]

I held

Louis Thomas in my arms

the day he was born.

I went to the hospital
to pray with his parents,

Joyce and Elijah.

Joyce handed him to me

and told me to ask God

to take care of him.

And I did.

And yet, here we are,

laying Louis to rest
far, far, far too soon.

And we have to ask God, why?

Why have you forsaken Louis?

And why have you ignored our prayers?

And yet, it is our prayers

and God's love for the Thomas family

that has brought Lou into God's arms.

[GRIM, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC FADES]

You gotta make sure they get
re-upped over on Archer.

They ran out yesterday.

That's loot we lost
that ain't comin' back.

You f*ck up that supply chain...

you f*ck' up everything, Taz.

♪ ...adjacent to the telly
You stayin' in ♪

♪ One tough cookie, rookie
What you must take me for ♪

You really 'bout to give
that kid corners and all that?

Worry about your business.

Not his, n*gga.

[DOOR INTERCOM BUZZES]

[LOCK BUZZING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[UNIQUE] Hey, yo, man.

I'm in the market for one
of them dookie chains.

What y'all n*gg*s got?

[LAUGHS]

If we don't have what you want...

just point out the n*gga who do

and we'll tax that fool.

Kadeem mufuckin' Mathis in the house.

Only police and my mama
call me that...

I know you ain't my mama.

If I am police...

you're under arrest, n*gga,
for stealin' my style.

Can't be stealin'
when I had that sh*t first.

Yo, Taz.

Might have met my match right here.

Nah. I'm unmatched, my n*gga.

If you don't know,
you better ask somebody.

Been expecting you, my brother.

Have a seat. Let's talk.

♪

[MUSIC FADES]

I know we in a church.

And when you here, it's about...

forgiveness and-and all that...

but I won't never forgive

whoever did this to my brother.

Pastor Evans, you said you-you pray...

pray to protect Lou.

[SNORTS SOFTLY]

But you also gonna need to pray...

[CLEARS THROAT]

...for the m*therf*cker
who did this to him

'cause he gon' meet me
before he meet God.

[ALARMED CHATTER]

Marvin...

I- I know.

I know. I-I-I'm sorry.

I'm...

a n*gga hurtin' right now.

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

And I know my pain ain't any worse

than the hurt other people feel
who been through the same sh*t.

But I'm not them.

I'm Marvin Thomas.

Lou-Lou's big brother.

♪

And this sh*t too much for me.

[COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]

[SIGHS] Yo...

f*ck it. I...

I can't do this. [CLEARS THROAT]

[MUSIC FADES]

You need to know
that this sh*t right here

ain't the only opportunity
I'm considering.

I got options.

Just tryin' to figure out
which one is... best for me.

Let me be clear, brother.

I ain't tryin' to sell you on sh*t.

Snaps and Pop feel like
there's a lane for us to link

and do some big things
on the Southside.

I agree with 'em, by the way.

But I respect you too much
to try to twist your arm.

I'm sure you aware that

I been beefin' with Raq Thomas,

and that sh*t been gettin'
extra hot recently.

I'm very aware.

For the record...

I ain't had sh*t to do with
Lou Thomas gettin' put down.

The n*gga snatched up my family,

so given the chance
I woulda dropped him.

But it wasn't me.

Point is, Raq and hers

gon' be gunnin' for me
over some sh*t I didn't do,

and I know you might be f*ck'
with Kanan Stark.

♪ ...lyin' on his d*ck All the time ♪

♪ I can see straight through ♪

It's not a concern.

I met with Kanan.

He ain't even bring up his uncle.

Kanan only thinkin' 'bout
this business.

♪ Yo, I can see Straight through ♪

["STRAIGHT THROUGH" CONTINUES]

So how would this sh*t
work between us?

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

We all got dreams of what we gonna do,

who we gon' be.

Those dreams are not just about us.

They about you
and everyone around you.

So when you lose someone,
you lose a part of yourself.

Part of your dream.

You lose what mighta happened, or...

coulda happened, or...

shoulda happened
for the person who gone.

We don't know what kind of music
Lou coulda made.

And we're never gonna find out
what kind of man

he coulda been to his woman.

And we're never gonna see

what kind of father
Lou-Lou coulda been.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

All that's gone.

All those things and people...

they not never gonna happen now.

When we lost Lou...

we lost those dreams.

We lost everything.

[MUSIC DARKENS]

Don't have to be complicated.

We link our operations,

we grow this sh*t out.

Beauty is that the more work we move,

the deeper the discount
from the connect,

the more money we make.

Who's Snaps and Pop
gettin' all this product from?

♪ Hittin' goals
At a all-time high wit' it ♪

♪ Move wit' ya heat... ♪

[BREEZE] That ain't
our concern, brother.

As long as the price is right,
we good.

So you and I will be partners, right?

Ain't like I'm workin' for you, or...

you workin' for me.

Partnership mean...

ain't no reason to start no sh*t.

[SUCKS TEETH]

[SOMBER ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING IN CHURCH]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

You okay?

I'm not.

Me neither.

I'm so sorry, Marvin.

I don't even know what else to say.

You said it all when you
said that, though, Shirley.

[RAQ] Kanan.

Haven't heard from you
this whole time.

And as usual, I clean up your mess

and you don't even look back.

Ain't nothin' to look back at.

It's over, Kanan.

You and me.

This whole sh*t we been doin'.

[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm washing my hands of all of it.

You on your own.

You and me, we don't mean
nothin' to each other no more.

Okay.

My heart too broke to ever
be put back together again.

You expecting me to say I give a f*ck?

I don't.

You ain't never had a enemy
like me, Kanan.

I've had you as a enemy
my whole f*ck' life.

♪

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

[ENGINE STARTS]

♪

[OLDER KANAN] n*gg*s
always tryin' to fix sh*t

after they break it.

But some sh*t can't never be fixed.

Especially when you
the sh*t that's broken.

♪ Shame on a n*gga who try
To run game on a n*gga ♪

♪ Wu buck wild With the trigger ♪

♪ Shame on a n*gga who try
To run game on a n*gga ♪

♪ Wu bucks-I'll f*ck your a*s up ♪

♪ Yo, hut one, hut two
Hut three, hut! ♪

♪ Ol' Dirty b*stard Live and uncut ♪

♪ Styles unbreakable Shatterproof ♪

♪ To the young youth
You wanna get g*n? sh**t ♪

♪ Blaow! How you like me now? ♪

♪ Don't f*ck the style Ruthless wild ♪

♪ Do you wanna get your teeth
Knocked the f*ck out? ♪

♪ Wanna get on it like that
Well, then shout ♪

♪ Uh, yo, RZA, yo, razor
Hit me with the major ♪

♪ The damage, my Clan
Understand it be flavor ♪

♪ Gunning, humming Coming at ya ♪

♪ First I'm gonna get ya
Once I got ya, I gat ya ♪

♪ You could never capture
The Method Man's stature ♪

♪ For rhyme and for rapture ♪

♪ Got n*gg*s resigning Now master ♪

♪ My style? Never, I put the
f*cking buck in the wild, kid ♪

♪ I'm terror Razor sharp, I sever ♪

♪ The head from the shoulders
I'm better than my competta ♪

♪ You mean competitor
Whatever, let's get together ♪

♪ Shame on a n*gga who try
To run game on a n*gga ♪

♪ Wu buck wild With the tri... ♪

- ♪ Blaow! ♪
- ♪ I react so thick, I'm phat ♪

♪ And yo, Rae came blowing
And blew off your headphones ♪

♪ Black, rap from, yo, Cali to Texas ♪

♪ Smoother than a Lexus
Now's my turn to wreck this ♪