All language subtitles for The Commish s03e04 Burned Out Case

I had no idea chaperoning was going to
be so much work.

Look at these kids.

Were we ever really that young?

No.

Hi.

Hey. Have you guys seen Judy?

Judy Sherman?

She's in high school. Why would she come
here?

A lot of high school kids are here.

They causing trouble?

No. I just thought, you know.

Judy might come too.

Hey, you're three years older than me.

I know, but she tutored me in math last
semester.

She was always real nice.

There she is.

She's a little out of his league.

I don't know.

He is a scally.

Hi. Hey, David.

Hi.

I was just wondering.

Want to dance?

Yes, sir.

Great music, huh?

I feel like I could dance all night.

You want to dance all night, David?

Yeah.

Sorry.

I wish they'd play that music louder,
don't you?

It's such good music, but it's got to be
louder.

I can barely hear it.

Judy?

Let me through.

Call 911.

She just collapsed. I can't feel a
pulse.

Somebody get a blanket.

I can't tell for sure yet, but it looks
like she got a hold of some bad crack.

Any idea where?

We don't know anything about any drugs.

Look, I'm not accusing you, but your
friend is dead.

Help us.

She went for a drive just before the
dance.

Alone? Yeah.

Where?

I don't know.

She said she was meeting some guy.

By the name of Johnny B.

She didn't say what the B stands for.

He's a dealer.

Probably.

Judy liked to live dangerously.

That's all we know.

Honest.

Thank you.

It helps.

Make sure they get home okay.

Found a gas receipt in a car.

Time -coded for two hours ago.

$421 ,000.

That's Morgan Heights.

Her friends think she was buying from a
guy named Johnny B.

I'm not familiar with the name. He's
probably a new player.

Okay, I'll check my sources.

While you're at it, subpoena the
electric bills for every house within a

-block radius of the gas station.

Call me the second you know anything.

She was the prettiest girl in school.

But she wasn't stuck up at all.

One time, she was supposed to tutor me.

And Bill Eubanks asked her out.

He's the captain of the football team.

And she told him that he'd have to pick
a different night.

Her parents split up last year.

It's not fair, Dad.

I know she made a mistake by buying
crack, but... She didn't deserve to die.

Of course not.

Do you ever remember her talking about a
guy named Johnny B?

No.

That's the guy?

Johnny B.? We think so.

We think he operates in Morgan Heights,
maybe out of a crack house.

Well, did you find the crack house?

Not yet.

I'll let you in on a little trade
secret.

See, crack houses cook cocaine in
microwave ovens around the clock.

We check the bills.

Look for sudden surges in power.

Dad, you don't think... I mean,

she was dying and... I went up to her
like a doofus and asked her to dance.

And I didn't even notice.

David. I mean, maybe if I wasn't so
stupid, a few minutes might have made

difference. There's no way you could
have... She might!

He'll be alive.

I need stakeout teams at every high
school, a junior high school in the

I want you to work your sources to find
a guy with a street name of Johnny B.

This is a top priority.

And finally, I need three volunteers for
an undercover assignment which involves

the protection of a great American
institution.

Stan, John, Mike, you're on.

So, uh, what institution are we
protecting, boss?

The hamburger joint.

Specifically, the Wild West Burgers on
Wallace and Oak.

That place is a dump.

A dump that's been robbed four times in
the last two months. You guys are gonna

be working there. And I do mean working.

You mean like flipping burgers?

How many times did Pop tell me?

Son, never.

Volunteer. It's not going to be that
bad. You get to wear these neat outfits.

Giddy up.

Tony.

808 Hawthorne.

The electricity bill tripled in one
month.

I've talked to the neighbors. People are
in and out all night, every night.

Get a warrant.

Up against the wall. Up against the
wall. All right, you. What's your name?

Abe Lincoln. What's yours?

Cuff him. Check his ID.

Name.

What's your name?

John Blackwood.

Hey, Johnny B.

Nice to meet you.

Get him out of here.

How long have you known John Blackwood?

Who?

The guy you made the buy from?

Calls himself Johnny B?

The buy.

Officer, you think there's drugs in this
bag?

I don't care about you.

I want him.

Then this is my lucky day, then.

That's right.

Testify against him, I'll let you walk.

I'm getting chills.

Are you in or not?

Don't you just hate having to cut deals
with slime like me?

Yeah.

Commissioner Skelly?

Jamie Watt, it's DEA.

This is my partner, Barry DeWitt.

Hard to believe, ain't it?

They're legit.

They confirmed it. Why didn't you say
something?

When you were having such a good time
putting the pressure on, it would have

been rude.

He needs to practice.

That's enough, Barry.

I'm sorry, Commissioner.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

I need a statement about John Blackwood.

I'm afraid that that's not possible.

Why? John Blackwood is an informant.

We're making a case against a man named
Felipe Diaz who works for a drug cartel.

He's in town for a while and he probably
wants to use the harbor to ship some

drugs. We need Blackwood's help to bring
him down.

Blackwood sells drugs to kids.

It happens.

Look, you may be some hotshot fed, but
if you worked for me, I'd fire you. If I

worked for you, I'd quit. Down, boy.

Blackwood is scum, Commissioner.

Trouble is, we need him to catch even
worse scum.

What's worse than selling bad crack to a
16 -year -old girl?

She died in my son's arms last night.
Why didn't you bust him then?

I can't prove he sold to her, but I can
prove he sold to you.

Not without my testimony.

Then I'll get him on possession.

Now, you do that and you'll blow our
case.

We spent three years building it.

You expect me to let him walk out of
here?

You let him go.

He helps us get Diaz. We get Diaz, we
cripple the whole operation and save

hundreds of 16 -year -old girls.

Am I going too fast for you?

I'm sorry about the girl, Commissioner.

And I'm sorry my partner's such a pain
in the butt, but he's right on this one.

Buff Blackwood for possession and he
probably won't even do time.

Let him go and he can do a lot of good.

You're a cop act like one

Did

you get the guy

We checked the bills.

We found the crack house up in Morgan
Heights.

We got a warrant. We went in.

The guy was sitting at a table, see,
with this other guy. So you got him?

Yeah.

But I had to let him go.

Why? Turns out the guy's an informant
for the DEA.

They need him to get an even worse deal.

I'm sorry, David. It's just a really bad
break.

Bad break?

What are you talking about?

The other dealer, he works for a big
cartel.

And the feds have been building a case
against him for years.

You're not a fed.

This way we can save a lot of kids, not
just one.

And I made him promise that he'd keep
them away from the schools.

You had the guy who killed Judy and you
let him go.

I had no other choice, David.

You've told me a million times that you
always have a choice between right and

wrong. It's not that simple.

Then why'd you say it if you don't
believe it yourself?

Now listen.

Maybe things aren't that simple for me
either.

Maybe I'll choose not to do my homework
from now on. David. Maybe I'll skip out

of school. Maybe I'll do drugs myself.

That's enough. David, listen to me. Stay
away from me.

David.

David.

David!

We're not being fair to your father.

Believe me, he feels just as badly about
this as you do. But he had to do his

job.

Okay to come in?

Better get a move on. Can't go dressed
like that.

I'm not going.

Why not?

What's the point?

The point is to pay your respects.

You want to pay your respects, catch the
guy who killed her. David.

Honey, I bought a really nice flower
arrangement you could put on the grave.

Or we can all do it together.

The world must really stink if a creep
like that goes free because there are

guys around who are so much worse.

David, we're not going to force you, but
I think it would help if you went to

the funeral.

You put the flowers on the grave.

That'll make you feel better.

Okay, people, listen up.

This take -out to work, you guys have
got to look and act like real burger

jockeys.

So for the next few days, Sammy here
will be your boss.

Do just what he says, just like you work
here for real.

Got it? Yeah.

Good luck.

So, I suppose you guys think this is
going to be light duty, huh?

Oh. Joke?

Well, I'll have you know that this job
pays for college.

And a college education is something I
have every intention of being educated

with. Which?

So don't mess up.

College is your problem, pal. We're here
to catch armed robbers.

Well, my public doesn't know that you
guys are cops.

And they will expect the same level of
quality and service from which Wild West

Burgers has always been expected from.

Which?

What? This, gentlemen, is 100 % beef.

Round, round.

Each package makes eight patties.

Not seven.

Not nine.

Eight.

Outlaw fries.

The hydrometer measures specific gravity
and must not vary by more than 1%.

Here at Wild West Burgers, we do

not get... free donuts we do not nap in
squad cars we do not fill out reports

we do precision work and we do it at the
top speed in which the human mechanism

is capable of being capable of in

other words channel welcome to the real
world

Looks like we got another guy who likes
dealing with kids.

Van's been there all morning.

Let me know when the deal goes down.

Bingo. Let's move.

Johnny B?

You're wasting your time. You can't
touch me.

I thought we had an understanding,
Commissioner.

So did I.

You were supposed to keep Blackwood away
from the schools, remember?

We don't have the manpower to follow him
around all day. Well, I do.

We need him.

You need him so much, he thinks he can
go back to setting up shop at the

in my town. He's wrong, and so are you.

You really think I'm going to stand for
this? I really don't think about you at

all. Well, maybe you better start. Hey,
we're on the same side here, guys.

No, we're not.

You and I are trying to fight drugs.
This guy's trying to be a hero for the

citizens of Podunk.

Now, the name of the town is Eastbridge.

We're federal agents, Jamie.

Even Eastbridge is part of the U .S.,
isn't it? Not necessarily.

If it helps, you can think of this place
as Tonyland.

And I'm going to protect the children
here, whether you like it or not.

We'll see.

How did he become a cop, anyhow?

You ought to take a look at his file
sometime.

He spent five years in Colombia, deep
cover.

He received the highest service award
three times, two medals of valor, an

attorney general's award.

Build him a statue. Just get him out of
my town.

Drug lord found out he was DEA.

They tortured him on and off for about a
month, but he never told them a thing.

He escaped even though he could barely
walk.

And it took him a year to recuperate.

The day he returned to active service,
he volunteered again for deep cover

He's still a jerk.

And we still need John Blackwood.

Look, I've already seen one child buried
today. I don't plan on seeing any more.

Blackwood's mind is going to stay that
way. You want to take me to court, be my

guest.

David's gonna be really happy.

I can't wait to tell him.

When's he get home from band practice?

Oh, any minute now.

Right now, I only got the guy for
selling to a minor. But who knows?

I might be able to tie him to Judy's
death and get him for murder.

Her friend said she was gonna meet a guy
named Johnny B., right?

That's just hearsay. We need something
more.

Hi.

Hello. I got a surprise for you.

Good or bad?

Good. Tony.

Sit.

Hello. Tony.

The lab report came back.

The bag of powder we took off the kid
today tested out as soap.

There's got to be a mistake.

No, there's no mistake. I went over
there myself.

Somebody must have switched the evidence
before the test.

We've got to let Blackwood go again.

Dad?

What's the surprise?

Tony, are you saying a federal agent
bribed the lab?

A good cop bad -caught me like I was a
rookie.

Juarez was so nice, I figured they were
giving up.

Meanwhile, his pal Barry must have paid
somebody off.

Maybe the drug people did.

There's nothing I can do about it
either.

At least not in time to do any good.

There's administrators, technicians,
drivers, janitors, not to mention the

all over the county. Could have been
anyone.

He called for a threat.

I let David down again.

I wanted so much to see the expression
on his face when I told him Blackwood

back in jail.

Honey, don't underestimate him.

I have a feeling David understands a lot
more than we think he does.

Yeah.

He understands a friend of his died in
his arms, and I didn't do a damn thing

about it.

I hate to see him hurting this bad.

What you hate is the idea that David
might not think you're perfect anymore.

Easy, I'm unarmed.

What do you want? We're about to have
dinner.

Official business, poor duck. Won't take
long. Name is Scali.

We have children.

Heard Johnny B's back on the streets?

Big surprise to you, huh?

I'm not losing Diaz over some penny
-ante beef.

I don't consider dead 16 -year -old
girls to be Penny Annie.

You got a nice little town here, Scali.

What people in nice little towns don't
get is this drug war is not like any war

that's ever been fought.

Look, I understand you've had some tough
luck.

Luck had nothing to do with it.

You won't find this in the official
version, but the truth is I was set up.

Betrayed by my own partner.

A fellow cop who traded my life for a
villa in Rio.

Can't trust anybody for a second.

Half the time there's no difference
between us and them anymore.

If you believe that, why are you still a
cop?

Habit.

Anyhow, on with the reason for this
little visit.

Diaz is bringing in a shipment tomorrow.
Jamie and I need some local backup.

Are you serious?

I don't like it any better than you,
okay?

But I gotta have bodies.

Anyhow, you can't have Blackwood. You
might as well help us get Diaz. Give me

one reason why I should help you do
anything at all.

Because even though you can't stand me,
I'm a fellow cop in need of assistance.

You're the kind of guy that can't ignore
that.

Right?

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

You don't put a Jesse James chicken
sandwich in a Billy the Kid wrapper.

He's done.

He's new.

The guy in the baseball cap.

Yeah. Then watch.

Hey, the specific gravity is off again.

Where's Rose? In the john.

Is that okay with you? No, it is not
okay with me. Your break is not until 3

.15, pal.

This is real life, and you guys better
start acting like it.

We know real life, and it ain't about
putting a chicken sandwich in the right

wrapper. We need service on it.

Where's my food?

Come on, I wasn't going to hurt you.

Sammy, calm down.

I'm sorry.

It's just that my bonus, it depends on
profits. No bonus.

No college.

See, when my father died, I promised him
that I

could... It's just not going to happen.

It's just I'm... Be here forever.

Never knowing the great world of which
my father so desperately wanted me to

know of.

Which... This kid definitely needs
college.

How can we help?

Well, I don't know.

I mean, there's only three days left
till the end of the quarter. I mean,

profits are right on the edge.

So you need a lot that can push to get
your bonus.

Now, this is not your problem.

That bonus is as good as in your pocket,
Sammy. Don't give it another thought.

Sam, why don't you reset the hydrometer,
and I'll flip the burgers, okay?

I'll make sure all the wrappers match up
with all the right sandwiches, okay?

Thanks, guys.

No problem.

There's Jimmy now.

There's a note with the number 5553123.
I'm dialing it now.

I hope you guys are reading me.

The last wire I wore didn't work.

We risk our asses. They don't even give
us decent equipment.

It was Diaz.

He said drive east on Ball Road.

He'll contact me.

Here, use this.

These guys monitor local police bands.

This is C -1.

Target will be on Ball Road.

X -ray 5, take up a position on the
Jefferson Cut -Off. X -ray 2, stay put.

He's breaking up.

Damn it.

All right, I'm moving it to intercept
the thief.

It's your show.

But I wouldn't send my partner in with a
bad wire.

We've been after this guy for three
years.

And a few more days shouldn't matter.

All right, Bale.

All right, let's flag them down.

Where's Jamie?

We were set up.

They must have made him.

Abort! Repeat, abort!

Find the agent on a fourth width.

Backup units, pick up a black van.

Apple, Queen, Charlie, 422.

You caught the plates.

We get the job done here in Podunk.

I don't see him, Scali.

Keep moving.

It's been 18 minutes. Where the hell can
he be?

He's got to be inside this circle.

We're doing a grid search. We'll find
him any minute now.

Take the northeast corner.

Let's do it. C -1, this is X -ray 5.

C -1, go ahead. We found the agent.

Two shots to the head, close range.

Size of the entry wounds, I'd say .357s.
A couple of tire tracks by the left

bumper. Get your boys to make a mold.

You find the van that cut us off?

No, but I ran the plates.

We came up empty.

Maybe I read the numbers wrong.

Or maybe it was the government car.
Sometimes they use bogus plates.

Government car?

Why let our own people cut us off?

I don't know.

But it's like I've been trying to tell
you, Skyler.

These days, anything's possible.

Go easy, hot shot. I'm an arm.

Sorry. Get a lot of interesting house
calls.

Packing up?

Case is closed.

Says who?

Powers that be.

Made a few calls last night. Seems
commies are out as the big threat to

security.

Terrorists are in.

Some creep feeds the feds a few anti
-terrorist tips from time to time. We

keep our hands off them.

And Diaz is one of those creeps?

Someone in the great bureaucratic maze
decided that Diaz shouldn't be busted,

only nobody bothered to tell my little
corner of the maze, so we went after

We got Jamie.

To quote the powers that be?

Terrible tragedy, of course, but these
things happen.

Kind of like Judy Sherman.

The dead girl?

Too bad about her, but these things
happen.

Tuesday. They did unto me like I did
unto you.

Satisfied? I won't be satisfied until
Diaz and Blackwood are both behind bars.

You're a slow learner, Scali. I told
you, I've been ordered to lay off. I

haven't.

I don't answer to the feds.

I've got every road out of this city
blocked off.

Every bus and train is being searched.

It's hopeless.

We've got no leverage.

You know what?

I explained all that to my son the night
I let Blackwood walk.

He didn't get it.

Too young and naive.

He still thinks you should do what's
right just because it's right.

You and I, we both know better. We're
men of the world.

Dead girls, dead partners, they don't
mean that much to us. We're more

sophisticated. Forget it.

You're not deep to bury me. I disobey a
direct order.

You're already in podunk.

in Tony land. How much worse could it
get?

You're pretty sure these guys are still
around?

Gotta be.

Very good work, guys.

Oh, don't forget to clean the griddle.
Sure thing, Sammy.

Cut them, guys. Look alive.

All right.

Clean up the register.

Pull this punk's head off.

Come on, move it. All right.

All right.

I'm just going to back up nice and easy.

Don't make me do anything of which we
will all be... be regretful of.

Which?

I'm beginning to see a strategy.

Keep Diaz in East Bridge long enough
he'll die of boredom.

Just a joke.

Maybe that's the problem. We're keeping
him in East Bridge.

He needs an escape hatch.

Don't use that.

I told you, these guys monitor police
bands. Yeah, but our small -town cops

don't know that.

This is C -1.

We got a head -on collision at the
corner of Spring and Lexington.

Bay Street units respond immediately.

Boss, that'll leave Bay Street wide
open.

Can't be helped.

I got serious injuries over there.

That's not bad.

200 bucks apiece. So how much we got
altogether?

Enough to get me through three years at
the state.

I figure a couple more jobs will pay for
my tuition, and then we'll start on

yours. What do you say, bro?

Well, maybe we should wait till the cops
are gone.

Cops are no harder to fool than anyone
else.

Trick is just keeping them busy, you
know, taking them by surprise.

Dad would be proud.

Don't count on it. You're under arrest.

Hey, I thought you said these guys were
easy to fool, huh?

Let's just say there were several clues
of which we took notice of.

Which? Gotta admire your entrepreneurial
spirit, though, boys. One brother works

in the place, the other robs it. Very
good.

Well, listen.

Guys.

Just wanted an education.

Hey, cheer up. They got correspondence
courses in prison. You can graduate

together. Come on, let's go. Actually,
that doesn't sound so bad.

If he took the bait, he should have
passed by already.

Maybe we should try something else?

There he is. There's the S.

This is C -1, suspect vehicle, a blue
sedan heading east on Bay Street, just

across Corbin.

I went through the warehouse, cut him
off.

You killed Jamie Juarez.

Is he the one that begs for mercy, huh?

Goes on about his two little children.

That's the one.

Hey, hey.

Barry, you said there was no difference
between us and them, and there is. And

this is it, right here.

I didn't know him, so I'll leave it up
to you.

What would Jamie do?

There he goes. Second floor. Move it.

Figures. Somebody didn't want him
talking.

Could have fingered a lot of people.

So could he.

He's probably next, then.

Yeah.

Uncuff him.

Get up. You're free to go.

What?

We never wanted you. You're small fry.

Wait a minute.

These guys are gonna kill me like they
killed him.

You just said so yourself.

So?

Look, I'll plead to possession.

Or sell him to this guy. He turned out
to be a fed, right? Oh, well, I can't

testify. I gotta leave town.

They're going.

Wait a minute. You're a cop. You gotta
arrest me. Gotta have a crime.

Name one.

How about dealing to minors?

You're talking about that girl that
died.

Listen, I didn't know that stuff was
bad.

We'll let a jury decide that. You admit
to selling it to her?

Okay, I sold it to her.

That's a start.

So we not only got him, got him for the
right crime, selling to Judy.

I really believe he didn't know the
stuff was bad.

No. Neither will any jury. He's going
away for a long time.

That's good.

Don't you think so, honey?

Sure.

I thought maybe you'd feel a little
better about things knowing he's behind

bars. Well, I do.

It's just... I wish there was some way I
could tell Judy.

Nice to meet you, David.

Mrs. Kelly.

Nice meeting you, Mr. DeWitt.

You got no leads on the guy who shot
Diaz? No, and you won't.

He's a pro, whoever he works for.

What do you mean, whoever he works for?

Well, Diaz worked both sides of the
street. Maybe someone on our side didn't

want him talking anymore, and his drug
bosses did.

You think the government assassinated
him in broad daylight?

I don't know.

What do you think?

That despite whatever you've been
through, the world may not be as dark a

as you think.

I wish I believed that.

So long, Podunk.

It's been an education.

Likewise, Hotshot.

Hope you don't get in too much trouble.

If I do, I'll know who to call.

Anytime.

I got something to do.

Would you mind giving me a ride?