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Tonight, on The Fence.

I'm your mother.

I'm your father. I'm your god.

My name's Curtis.

You gotta name what I give you what.

I'm the creative writing teacher.

My name's Blair Sandberg. What did Camacho do? Nothing!

Then why is he on the list? Who said he was?

You can see it in his eyes.

All I know is they're the dead body, and they won't let me touch the paperwork.

Who, Michelle?

I know who you are.

Come. No, tomorrow will not do.

A policeman's life is at stake.

In the jungles of Peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses.

Now, Detective James Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice.

Seeing before others see.

Sensing what others can't.

An ever -vigilant watchman in the war against crime.

No, no, no, not another fumble. Come on, my six -year -old niece can do better

than that.

It is only a game. This is the modern -day equivalent of the gladiatorial

battle. I mean, you're the anthropologist.

With painkillers, timeouts, and product endorsements.

Could you get that?

Here we go.

Hi. Hi.

Hey, Kelly.

What brings you here?

What's going on?

Matt's dead.

What? I'm sorry. I didn't know who else to come to. What happened?

Some prison official said that Matt was shot trying to escape.

I just saw Matt like a month and a half ago. He had three months left to go. Why

would he try to escape?

I don't know.

Oh, my God.

All right. Let me go get changed.

Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. One of your best friends from high

school is now in prison for harvesting weed?

One of the smartest guys you'll ever want to meet. I mean, he did a really

stupid thing.

That guy had a gambling problem, so he tried to work his way out of it by

selling pot.

Not too bright, huh?

Excuse me, sir.

I've invited someone to sit in with us. Maggie Chandler, Detective Jim Ellison.

Nice to meet you.

Blair Sandberg. He's a consultant with the department.

Maggie was an assistant DA where she helped a certain rookie I know stumble

through more than one minefield.

Now she's with the State Board of Corrections.

Tell me what you know.

Well, I have reason to believe that an inmate was murdered at Starkville

facility and that the authorities there are trying to cover it up.

Matthew Temple.

You're familiar with the case?

Struck me as odd that a model prisoner whose sentence had already been reduced

would attempt an escape three months before parole.

The doctor's report says that he was shot in the act.

We recovered the body and performed our own autopsy. The M .E. confirmed the

bullet wound, but determined a different cause of death.

Are you positive?

The prisoner had ruptured kidneys and fractured jaw and ribs.

Basically, he died of a massive brain hemorrhage. Meaning? Meaning that he was

shot in the back after he was beaten to death.

I'm afraid it may just be the tip of the iceberg.

There's been a high incidence of serious injuries and fatalities to the inmates

at Starkville.

You have any evidence to back that up?

Dr. Spencer at the prison contacted me. He was going to give me some files.

He died on his way to our meeting in a car accident.

That's a hell of a coincidence, huh?

After that, we sent someone undercover.

A detective with the state police went in as a guard.

He was stabbed by a prisoner before he could find anything.

I'm going to go inside, sir.

Out of the question.

Not as a guard, sir. As a prisoner.

It's too dangerous.

Simon, we could transfer out anyone who might recognize Detective Allison. Any

previous arrest.

That's not it.

What if the authorities are involved?

They'll find out who he is. They won't. We'll keep what we're doing in this

room. No one else will know.

You really want this?

You go in as your backup, and I'll forget it, Chief. You don't want to go

this place.

Yeah, I know I don't want to go near it, but... It's all right. Herman already

has my backup.

Some new recruit from Detroit.

Queen. Nobody in the jail's going to know us. He's going to be teaching a

creative writing course that I'll take as part of my cover. I don't like it,

man. What if something happens to your senses? He's not going to know what to

do. I'm going to have to take my chances. Now, if you go anywhere near

place, I'm going to have to use your head as a football.

This is Warden Hanley.

The man has something he wants to say to you.

Okay, gentlemen.

It's no secret that you screwed up. That's why you're here.

For me, I don't care what you did. You already stood before a judge.

Now, I'm here to give you a chance to get your lives back together.

The choice is yours.

Did you all get that?

I own your asses.

I'm your mother.

I'm your father.

I'm your God.

When you close your eyes, you'll see me.

When you open your eyes, you'll see me.

I decide where you go, when you sleep, and when you get visitors.

Has anybody got a problem with it?

Hepatitis?

Tuberculosis?

Syphilis?

No, thank you.

Any history of heart problems?

No, but one of your former guests had said that there were some decent people

be found if you looked. Dr.

Spencer, for one.

Well, Dr. Spencer's no longer with us, but I'm his replacement.

Ah, you seem nice enough to act.

Next.

Here's yours, right here, Curtis.

Home sweet home.

Since you're here, you'll need it.

It's all yours, Turner.

What do you think you're doing?

Getting a bunk.

That's mine.

No problem.

I put down 15 years in here.

You just don't walk into my crib and act all comfortable, punk.

Name's Curtis.

You got a name when I give you one.

Look, man, I don't have a beef with you.

You get in my face.

We go to war.

You hear what happened to Frazier last night?

Oh, man, what'd that fool do? He hung himself in his cell.

That's not what I heard.

I'm talking to you.

I heard the screw dragging past from the cell, squeaking and screaming.

Take some advice, punk.

Don't hear.

to do some time on the weights.

You stare at me like that again, I'm gonna put your eyes out.

Yo,

Curtis.

Watch your back with Linson.

I got no problem with him.

I'll take him out as quick as I took out that cop.

You took out a cop?

I thought I was stupid.

What are you in for?

Held up a liquor store.

Dude was in the wrong place, man.

So was I.

What are you getting at?

Every year at my parole hearing, they trot out his widow.

Long as she cries.

You can find me here.

Light's out.

Shut it down.

What's the list?

Don't go there, man.

Leave it alone.

Or what?

I'll end up on a rope like Frasier.

Victorian Brotherhood runs a dump.

Must have seen a lot coming to go.

Who are you aligned with here?

Aligned with myself.

You know a guy who come through a while back named Matty Temple? What's it to

you, man?

I knew him on the outside.

What's up with all these questions?

Gonna get you in trouble.

Wreck time is now over.

Return to your assigned workstation.

Kitchen personnel, meet in the dining room.

Sullivan's death ball was happy with the roof molding, sir.

Good work.

Next order, mark it up 8%. Same as the orange with a cow.

We're one day behind in the metal workshop.

Maybe two. You're making me look bad, Burnett.

Now, do I have to come down here and do it myself?

No, sir. I'll push production. You see to it. Yes, sir.

I'm going to need from a well run.

I'm talking.

Why don't you just suck it up?

Pull your weight with the rest of us.

Sorry. I'm trying.

Not hard enough.

Hey! Back off, boy scout.

I'm just trying to keep things moving along, all right? Do you want to think I

need some help?

I'm talking to you.

What's your name?

I don't want to beef with you or anybody else. You already got one.

You too.

Dance on your own time.

On mine, you turn out product.

And then you're all right?

Yeah. Thanks for your help.

But I'm a dead man. Vincent keeps saying it's just a matter of time. What's the

deal? I was a trustee in the infirmary.

I sold overstock pills to these dealers outside.

You wanted a piece of the action. Yeah, but it wasn't mine to give. I had to say

no. What am I telling you this for? Who signed the requisition for the

overstock? What's with the Q &A, man? Trying to save your ass here.

Don't forget about it.

It's too late.

Good

morning,

gentlemen. I'm the new creative writing teacher.

My name is Blair Sandberg.

As you all know, this is a writing class.

And as writers, we tell stories.

So who out there wants to tell me a story?

Anybody?

How about you, sir?

Want to tell me a story?

Yeah.

I was born, I killed a cop, I went to prison. The end.

A guy from Detroit had an emergency appendectomy, so I volunteered.

Banks said no, of course, so I got Maggie Chandler to talk him into it. So

I am. I'm your new contact.

All right, look for the laundry bag from cell block B, Mark Curtis. You got

that? Okay.

Beat it.

School's over.

Thanks for the tip.

No problem.

Dr. Wilder?

Yes? Hi, my name's Blair Sandberg. I'm the new creative writing teacher here. I

just wanted to introduce myself.

Oh, so you're new here at Starkville. Yeah, actually, this is my first day.

How about you? Oh, I've been here about a month.

Look, I was wondering maybe we could get a cup of coffee sometime, you know, and

you could show me the ropes.

I don't socialize at work, excuse me.

Yeah, Jim saw trucks taking frozen meat from the prison kitchens and hardware

items are getting sold retail, stuff the prisoners are working on.

He thinks that there's some kind of black market going on. You know, I could

check out some of the delivery routes.

No, that sounds like detective work. Do I need to remind you that you were there

to receive Jim's dispatches? That is all I signed you on for. All right.

Dr.

Wilder.

Sandberg, right?

Yeah, yeah. How you doing? I prefer Blair, though.

It's the only place that I could find open besides the Dairy King.

Yeah, they roll up the sidewalks in this town.

You know what?

I hate eating alone. You mind if I join you?

Good.

It's good to get outside those walls every once in a while, isn't it?

Truth is, you never really get away from it. This is a real company town.

Yeah, I know what you mean. You wouldn't imagine where this place gets its beef

from.

I'm sorry. I'm so jumpy.

What are you so jumpy about?

Sounds like you need someone to talk to.

I treat some injuries.

From beatings. Bad beatings.

And knife wounds.

And I'm not talking about homemade shivs. These are wounds from hunting

You got any idea what's going on?

No.

The inmates won't talk to me.

Do you keep files?

Records?

Who are you?

Just a friend.

You know, someone you can talk to.

The guy driving the van?

Douglas? He's a prison guard.

Yeah, I recognize him.

Maybe he's moonlighting or something.

I see these bands every week.

Same ones?

Yeah.

I don't know where they go.

Tell you what.

I'm gonna give you my cell phone number. You call me anytime.

I'll be in touch.

call giving you some advice about asking questions.

Back off.

Hear what I'm saying?

Got no idea.

Excuse me.

This is my world, Curtis.

slipped under the radar.

Name's King Miller.

I don't know you. You busted my kid brother, Danny Raymond, in the

shootout. I was in the car with a truck, though. Every day I wanted to kill you.

Lock down. Move it out.

What do you want? I want out of here.

What are you in for?

I'm nothing big, broad, counterfeit, orgery.

All right, I'll see what I can do. If you don't, every car in this place can

know who you are.

If you had a problem with Leota, why didn't you come to me?

That was personal.

Wrong answer.

See, we have a system in place to deal with conflict resolution. What makes you

think we won't charge you with his murder?

Here's the con.

Life is cheap.

We decide who lives and who dies.

The prize bull's gonna feast on you, man.

Be smart, play the game, or you'll be next.

What do you mean next?

What's up with you? What's up with you? What did Camacho do?

Nothing. Then why is he on the list? Who said he was?

Nobody.

I can see it in his eyes.

Thanks for meeting me, Blair.

Oh, it's no problem.

I think an inmate was murdered today.

What? What happened?

All I know is there's a dead body and they won't let me touch the paper.

Did you find anything on the other cases?

Oh.

A few files.

But all the serious injuries that I treated, those files are missing.

What about Dr. Spencer?

The one who died in the car accident. Did you see his files?

No, but I'll look again.

We just need to find out if he saw the same injuries that you did.

That way we can link the evidence.

Who are you?

Just a friend.

It's like I said.

Hey, man.

What do you want?

Get up, Camacho.

You're coming with us.

No way.

I ain't going.

I said get up, huh?

Coming with us whether you like it or not.

Get your hands off me, man.

I can walk on my own.

Blackburn, where the hell have you been?

Well, I hooked up with a new doctor at the prison.

She said there's been a number of unaccounted for injuries that she's

document. She also said that someone was killed earlier.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Someone was killed? Did she say by who? Was it another inmate, a guard?

No, she didn't have a clue, but she thinks they're trying to cover it up.

Look, it's too late to pull you out. I'm going to leave you in there, but you

stick to teaching.

You could be jeopardizing yourself, not to mention Jim.

Yeah, I hear you, Simon.

I'll talk to you later, all right?

What have you got there, Doc?

Laundry!

Laundry!

Laundry!

Laundry, man, let's go.

You've got what I need, cop.

It's coming.

You've got tomorrow.

Or you're dead.

Hey, Ray, come here.

You working this weekend?

Yeah, I got it.

Making progress. Stay tuned.

P .S. The food sucks here.

I know what's going down here,

Turner.

What do you know?

I know Camacho died in a fight last night with Vincent and Jim.

I'm an audience.

If his number was up, he made his number on the list.

Who are you, man?

Ever since you got here, you've been asking questions, way too many

Just like this prison guard six months ago. He poked his nose around until he

got shanked.

Want to know why?

He was a cop.

Yo, Curtis, you a cop?

You ain't. I got nothing to say to you.

If you are, maybe I can help.

Why would you do that?

So you can put in a good word for me at the parole board.

I might be able to.

No guarantees.

What do you need?

I need evidence on the killings.

Matty Temple, Doc Spencer.

The way?

No guarantees.

Hey, Simon, what are you doing here?

I was a little bit nervous about leaving you on your own. Thought you might need

a little supervision.

What do you hear from Jim? Oh, here, check it out. See for yourself.

You see him today?

No, they canceled my class. Something about they needed more space to process

some new prisoners.

Cancel the class? I don't like that at all.

Whole purpose of the class was so you'd have visual contact with Jim.

I know I don't like it either, but you know what? I did see Dr. Wilder, and she

said that she might be able to get us some of Dr.

Spencer's old files.

Maybe that'll be enough and we can just pull them. How long did Maggie say it

would take to get them out of there?

An hour, maybe less.

What do you want to do?

If Jim says he's okay, he's okay.

Give him another 24 hours.

What's up, Turner?

Bro, me and Mr. Courtesy here need to have a little talk about him getting in

business with Leota. Looks like we got him first.

Yeah, right.

Time.

Soon.

Thanks, man. We're square, man.

He's all yours. Good luck.

We're moving. We're on our own.

I thought about what you said about the parole board.

Are you straight?

Absolutely. You can count on it.

Here's what you got.

High Roller's driving in 10 grand to pop the Bentley fights.

Nobody who comes is going to say a word because they're all accessories to

violent crime.

What about Matty Thompson?

Vincent killed him in the ring.

He was going to rattle the fight.

Right now you've got a bigger problem than making a case.

Vincent's coming for you.

You better get your people to pull you out. I know I put out the word they

should have been here by now. Something must have gone wrong.

I've got to get out of here, out of my house somehow.

You're crazy, man. Check it out. There's this open shaft in the back of the

metal shop. Where does it go?

Steam plant. And after that, where?

You're stuck. No way out.

I worked a crew that laid some pipe down there.

There's dozens of these tunnels and shafts all around the steam plant. You

the right tunnel for a straight run to the river.

Thanks, man.

You're going somewhere without me copying.

I'm working on it. Get out of here. I know what you're doing. You're taking

I'm going with you.

You just stay cool. I told you I'd take care of you, all right? You try leaving

me here. I will go right to the warden, man. I will wrap you up.

All right.

You screw up and we're both dead. Let's go.

Yeah, this is glory. We got two inmates in the tool shed.

This way.

There's something I've got to tell you about this guy.

David, get out of here.

What? The river's that way.

Go on before I change my mind.

You're going to work a little harder to die.

Vincent, figure out how you help me.

Yeah.

Same as Miller.

Same as Camacho.

Animals to the slaughter.

I guess in the end, it don't matter what you do.

Why did you help me?

To get out of here quicker.

Find a hero.

I missed the redemption train a long time ago.

It comes through every now and again.

I should have never messed with you, man.

Cut your ass the minute you rolled up into my cell.

Well, it doesn't matter what you did, man.

Matters what you do now.

Now I'm gonna pay.

With my blood.

The teacher's been suspended from his duties.

Good. Looks like we've contained our little employee, Upriser. What about the

doctor? Keep her around for the fight. Vincent may need a little patching up. I

hear Curtis has some stones.

After it's over, get rid of her.

You get Jim's latest drop?

No.

They canceled my class permanently, Simon.

What? Yeah, I don't know. They caught on to something, and I don't know how.

You think they put you and Jim together?

No, no way, but they probably connected me and the doctor.

Well, where is she now? They said she called in sick with the flu, but I went

her apartment.

She's not there.

This is no good.

Yeah, this is Captain Simon Banks. I need to talk to Maggie Chandler.

San Francisco?

I need to talk to her now.

No, tomorrow will not do. A policeman's life is at stake.

That's what!

If we don't fight, they'll kill us.

Told you, man. I ain't no hero.

in trouble at the gate, sir.

Handle it. The police are here with a warrant. What?

Where? Right outside.

Drop your weapon.

Drop your weapon.

Alfred.

You all right?

I'm happy to see you, sir. Just get me the hell out of here.

I'll see you at the parole board.

No guarantees.

We're going to do time in the same institution that they helped supervise.

No one does it make up for managing.

I was losing it, Simon.

All the hatred just eating away at me.

Look, let's get you out of here.

I think I'm going to take a little walk, sit out in the open somewhere.

Any place without walls.