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What about this model?

It's one of our most popular.

Satin lining, oakwood finish, brass fixtures.

Not roomy enough.

I've got just the thing.

I like to call this the Cadillac of coffins.

It's designed to accommodate people of a certain stature.

I like it.

Does it come in green?

Green? Yes.

Jade green.

It is my favorite color.

Let me make a phone call.

Sure.

A green coffin?

Gonna be on the phone a long time.

How's it going in there, Samuel?

It's a very dead in here.

Looks like we've got some action out here.

Here's another.

Looks like the party's about to start.

Let's see what we have here.

Ooh!

Beautiful female.

Two ugly males heading through the front door.

Hey, Sam, I don't like these eyes, man.

Sammo, those are the buyers.

Sammo, do you copy me?

Sammo!

Amazing how Spencer Chino is out of his thing.

Check it out.

Oh, there he is.

L .A .P., don't even twitch. You think I'm kidding, man? Drop it. Be cool, man.

No, you drop it.

You're lucky.

I've got a casket just your size.

Keep going. We got them.

I caught them.

Did you recognize this gun?

No.

Well, how are you going to explain a casket full of assault weapons? I hope

have a real imaginative excuse that a jury will believe on that.

I'll take my chances.

Look at this girl.

Her name is Jenny Pazza.

She was 12 years old when she was shot by some gang members using your guns.

She had a closed casket.

You know why?

Because those semi -automatic boom sticks that you're selling have been

to shoot ten rounds per second.

Rip apart human flesh like a wet Kleenex. Of course, you're a mortician.

understand that, don't you?

Who was the woman at the funeral home?

Look at the picture!

Who was the woman?

Annetto Gatto.

That's a good start. Keep talking.

She handled the gun sales.

I'm merely paid to look the other way.

Where do we find it?

She runs a strip club out near the airport.

The nudie girls are censoring? No, the haunch pad.

Oh, oh, and supposedly used to be the lap lounge.

What?

I passed on the way to church.

Maybe you should wait outside.

I have seen naked ladies before.

But not like these in here, Samo. These women in here, they'll put your eye out

if you know what I mean.

Do you come here often?

No, no, no. See, I saw one of those undercover news stories, you know, where

they blew out everything with those boxes. And I'm glad they did because I

not want to see no women like this.

That's a good story.

Let's go find Annette.

Yo, Terrell.

She got me mixed up with somebody.

Yes.

Terrell, you say, have we ever popped in our name, huh? I owe you a lap dance,

Terrell.

Just for the record, I have no idea what she was talking about.

Oh, what can I get you, gentlemen?

She must be new.

We are detectives, LAPD. We are looking for Annette Delgado.

Oh, well, she's not around.

You know where Annette lives?

Um, actually, she's at her boyfriend's house.

She's taking care of the place while he's away.

Who's he?

His name is Carr or Conner. How do we find him?

That's an easy one. He's in Tri -County Penitentiary.

Uh, Ben.

Yeah?

I'm about to have my new business cards printed up. Mm -hmm.

I'm an environmentalist, okay?

Now, hear me out, Ben. I don't want to waste trees, man. What's the proper

for my cards?

Is it Terrell Parker, Lieutenant of Public Relations, or Terrell Parker,

Lieutenant Detective?

Okay.

As you know, the chief said it was up to the team.

Both Grace and Lewis have already weighed in.

And it's positive.

He's just got to my death this morning.

It's right here.

Family law.

Open it up.

You hear it?

Hey. About to enter the public domain.

Terrell Parker is a... Oh, my God.

Who's this guy?

Congratulations, man.

Wait, you mean I'm in? Yes, you're in.

Thank you, man.

Okay, all right, all right.

Hey,

big man.

I just wanted to thank you for your letter.

Promise I won't miss it.

I know.

Just out of curiosity.

When did I prove my high moral character to you? Was it when I saved your life?

No.

You have not proved that yet.

But you will.

So why did you write the letter, Simon?

You are an acorn.

I'm an acorn?

An acorn who will grow into a tree.

Oh, okay, so you're saying I have potential.

Yes.

I have had many students over the years.

But not many acorns.

Acorn. I like that.

I feel that.

Just don't call me Grant, huh?

Ha!

Warden, your visitor log shows an Annette Delgado visiting a prisoner

Hesman.

Hesman's one of the more serious sociopaths I own in there. He's got a

-sized gang.

What's this all about?

You think that Hesman may be running a gun -smuggling operation out of Tri

-County? Nobody's running guns out of my prison.

Wars, they keep prisoners in.

Also keep police out.

It's a prison. There's guards in there. And convicts. Which gives Hesman a free

labor pool and a huge network of distribution. I mean, it's a perfect

Okay, I'll humor you guys. I'll order a lockdown.

You can come into Hesman's cell with me personally and look around if you want.

No. He will be prepared for this.

What do you suggest he be in?

Yeah, what are we suggesting?

Turn around and I will go inside.

Are you crazy?

We're not going in any prison.

I mean, I know you think you've seen everything in China, but you ain't seen

nothing until you've seen an American prison.

There's a prison.

Can I be worse than in China?

That's not the point, Samuel.

My mother raised me with one specific purpose in mind, and that was keeping me

out of prison, okay?

I mean, I want guns off the street just as much as anybody else, but this idea

has dangerous potential.

I know.

I got a cousin named Carl. I had a cousin named Carl.

Got involved with gangs.

Went to Tri -County for six months. Got shanked over a bottle of shampoo,

Samuel. He's dead, man.

I have my own stories, too.

To grow in life, you must face difficult challenges.

Not if you're an acorn. If you're an acorn, all you need is sunlight and

Hey, Samuel, nobody's more game than me. You know that. But I ain't going to no

prison. That's insane.

Then I will go alone.

I bet she bestowed ice cubes under the mom bid.

Welcome to Tri -County.

I'm Assistant Warden Landers. You can feel free to hate me.

I sure as hell don't like any of you.

Okay. Dannon Maxwell, convicted of armed robbery and murder. He killed your

defense attorney.

Says here you held him down, sliced his throat with a weed whacker.

It wasn't edger.

No backdoor.

Sammo Chang executed three triad gang members in a Chinese casino. That

you life.

Let's be clear, Sammo. There is no gang violence in Tri -County.

We understand each other?

Understand what?

The correct answer is yes, ma 'am.

Yes, ma 'am. That's good.

And you would be Terrell Carpenter.

You're not a third strike for purse snatching.

Purse?

Snatching?

Yeah, that's right.

Purse snatching.

Poor little purse snatcher.

It happened to have been Dennis Rodman's purse, okay?

And it wasn't no purse. It was a clutch bag. Purse, clutch bag, female like you

wouldn't know the difference. Get out of my face.

What's your map?

Sniff him out later. Let's go.

Right here, guys.

Can we talk

now?

Yes.

You're a one -man Tarantino film and I'm a subplot from Baywatch Nights?

I thought one shit was gonna hook me up as a bank robber.

man or something. Something with some juice, man.

I think that was the only other identity available.

I didn't get to look at the cattle.

So be it.

I'm going to be the baddest person that you can try to count.

In Shanghai, they execute personages who use a gun.

Thanks for trying to make me feel better, but please, look at this place.

Not too bad.

Not too bad.

I don't need a strip of paper across the toilet seat, but I'll be damned. How am

I going to do my business on that?

It requires fighting.

Oh, stand up.

Okay, after I separate, then what?

White and hot, colors and cold.

White and hot, colors and cold. Okay, and how about snuggle?

Snuggle? Yeah, my mother always puts snuggle in there, and it makes my

smell real good and makes them real fluffy.

Your mother does your laundry?

Yes.

If I take my laundry to the cleaners, my mother gets mad at me, man.

That's what shirts were wrinkled.

Those shirts were perfectly pressed when they left here. I don't think I like

your tone.

Here, Pablo.

I love this.

It's the land of the brave down here in the laundry room.

Do you want to wash my clothes or should I kill it?

I don't care if you kill him or not, but I will be happy to wash your clothes.

It's a good answer. It's all yours.

You know, I like the way you people stick up for each other.

It's very touching.

Yo, uh, start, you know, start.

Did I speak to you?

Hey, I was trying to help, man.

If I want your help, go whistle.

You know what?

like a deal, man.

And you, you better clean up this mess or I'll come back and press you

personally.

I'm Samuel.

I'm Chew.

Thank you.

Forget it.

Carl Hesman is not a man you want to call.

I live in fear of no man.

I've been here...

30 years, and I've seen crime bosses come and go, but Hessman, he is the

30 years is a long time.

What was your crime?

Buying a Christmas gift for my wife.

She wanted the first store, and I saved my money and I went to the store to see

if I could buy it on time. Half hour after I left, the store was robbed and

ferry was killed.

An eyewitness picked me.

out of the lineup, and I've been paying for it ever since.

You have a good story.

Every con's got one.

Sammo, be careful.

You too.

I have some more.

What are these?

Uh, these are the, uh, football jerseys for the prison team.

Oh, you're trying to make him mad, aren't you?

Yes.

Wait, wait. Bleach, Samuel?

To catch the shark, you must chum the waters.

Chick's been waiting for a while.

Said she wants to audition.

Well, you certainly got the look.

Do you have any experience?

I used to work in clubs in Asia.

Here,

you're interested in a job.

Actually, I'm more interested in you and your boyfriend.

I don't think so.

Where are you going?

Come

on,

come on.

Whoa, whoa, what are you thinking?

Full contact pole dancing. If you ask me, I think it's going to be bigger than

karaoke.

I don't know what's going to be in it.

Look, these guns you're dealing with, they're not Saturday night specials.

They're high -powered killing machines.

Do you understand that you and your boyfriend are killing a lot of innocent

people?

I don't care.

Well, maybe you should care.

Little girl is dead because of you.

Maybe there's a chance that'll change her mind.

I said I don't care.

And I'm not rolling over on enhancement.

How can I have a cigarette?

Let go.

Look at the ink on her hand.

She's a hand jotter. I do it all the time when I don't have a piece of paper

I'm trying to remember a phone number.

I want a lawyer.

Now. 310 -555 -0145.

It's a direct line to Industrial Temp Agency.

They handle placements for heavy machine operators and truck drivers.

Find the connection.

This gun's useless.

George slipped away by accident.

I can't afford accidents.

The word is, Hessman is looking for you. Good.

He knows where to find me.

Yeah, you look good in pink, but he looks very ugly in pink.

I've got you like sushi, man.

You are very stupid to think so.

Waste of it!

Also sushi is from Japan moron You

think you're clever now You're nothing in here remember that

you from someplace?

I feel like we met.

It hurts, but at least I got Hesman's attention.

Attention? You were a nervous twitch away from getting your throat cut, man.

Why'd you do that?

He only respects violence.

That is how I can get him to admire me.

Admire you?

This ain't a Miss Universe pageant. What we need to do is get down to the

foundry.

I'm glad you're keeping a journal.

This is not a journal.

It is one of Jude's poems.

Why are you translating Chu's poetry into Chinese?

To say to my father, they have much in common.

Your father was in jail?

Yes.

During the Cultural Revolution.

What did he do, Samuel?

Nothing.

He was a teacher, like my mother.

He stood up against a corrupt district official and was sent to prison.

You were a kid back then, right?

Seven years old.

My mother was forced to work on a farm.

And I was sent to the Peking Opera School.

Wow, that must have been hard on you, man.

When he was released, they made an apology to him.

But he was never the same.

No such luck.

Just came by to see how you and Sammo were doing. Give me the heads up on the

case. You any closer to cracking Hesman's distribution system?

We've got Annette in custody.

Gracie's working on the lead. We'll have something pretty soon. Don't you worry.

Hey, you got a pencil or something?

I need you to check into another case for me. Actually, this is for Sammo. A

named Chu Zhao.

Convicted in 58.

Sammo met him in here, and he thinks this guy's in on a bum rap.

All righty. See what I can do.

In the meantime, what do you need? You all right?

Actually, I put together a list.

You want me to highlight the stuff? Hello?

Hello? Hello? What's the problem with the phone?

The phone ain't happening, man.

Lewis. I'll get back to you on the list. Okay.

I look like you guys forgot your tutu.

You want your face to be outreached?

Easy there, Sam.

Word's already gotten around.

Just here to deliver a message.

Hessman cell, ten minutes.

Now I know where I know you from.

You and that chop suey cop, you just threw that bus at me, man. You 5 -0.

Yo, why don't you scream louder so Janet Reno can hear you in D .C. with your

punk ass?

Were you undercover?

Okay, I hear that. I hear that. Okay, all right. So look, look, look, look,

look. You help me out, and I keep it a little secret under lock and key.

Here, here.

Some sticks.

Be great.

I was thinking more along the lines of you getting my parole hearing moved up,

or you ain't gonna make it through the next child line.

Oh, is that right?

Yeah, that's right.

Okay, looks like you got me over a barrel, bro. I tell you what, take these

now.

And I'll make some calls, man.

What are you up to, carpenter?

Lifting weights, minding my own business.

Grub man trying to give me a good old spot.

Congratulations, skunk.

Just bought yourself a week in solitary.

You turn around. What?

Turn around.

What?

I bet you used to give a good Swedish massage before you knew how fine you

looked in a uniform.

Hey, any more trouble from you, you're going to end up with him. Come on, let's

go.

I suppose you're wondering why you're alive.

No.

You're pretty cocky for a man who just had a knife to his throat.

You attacked me from behind.

It was not a fair fight.

Well, not that many things in life are.

Take a seat.

to make this real basic so there's no language barrier.

You come to work for me or I kill you.

It's a pretty straightforward deal.

I fight only for my own reasons.

Hurry up. Wait.

Well, that's very admirable.

You have to finish this lobster to decide. Just remember the knife in the

trumps a kung fu kick any day of the week.

How about I show you a different one?

Pick one.

Don't let me see it.

Then put it back into the deck.

Is this your cart?

It's not even close.

Spare me the bad tricks.

Look under your shoe.

The hand is always faster than the eye.

Don't forget it.

Thank you for your love.

Thank you for your love, sir.

Talk to me.

Well, let's see. So far I've been to a strip club, a cement factory, two

trucking firms, and an oil refinery on this case.

Yep. Join the LAPD. See the world.

What's the networking?

Well, Grace left out the best stop of all. Case rubbish disposal.

Guess who has a trash contract for prison?

So they're taking the guns out in the garbage trucks? Uh -huh. A cold case.

They're fixing over a prison pickup schedule as we speak.

All right. Keep me informed.

Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Not to jump. Not to jump.

worried about you. What were y 'all doing up there watching Oprah? No

What does that mean?

Lobster. You've been eating lobster?

Yes. From Maine.

I was hungry.

The Hessman cannot be walking out low. Ho, ho, ho. Don't move on the Hessman,

man. I'm down here fighting for my life, trading cigarettes, trying to get

information, and worried about your ass. You upstairs eating lobster?

That's cold, Sammo.

Don't show me where it went. Pull your shirt down.

Lobster salmon?

The ledger.

Oh. Okay, so we gotta figure out how to get to the ward.

Hit me.

I'm not hitting you, not without my gun.

Come on. Hit me now.

You must be out your mind, man.

Acorn. Remember, acorns are non -violent.

Okay.

You done lost your mind, man? First of all, it's mother. It's not mama. And

second of all, my mama ain't no damn cow.

Reaction.

Reaction.

Unfortunately, he's not feeling very well.

Someone put eye drops in his iced tea. Gives you terrible stomach cramps.

You'll never guess what a little birdie in solitary told me about you two.

How about if we come back some other time? I don't think so.

I think we found our inside man.

You're right about the man part.

It's nothing. Let me see what we got in store for you. Let's go.

Step it up.

Don't move.

Hurry up.

Come on, come on.

You got a lot of tricks up your sleeve, huh, Chinaman?

It's Mr.

Chinaman to you, and you ain't seen no tricks yet, brother.

All my business is in this journal.

You're in no position to be making any threats, my friend.

Take him up to the loading dock.

We'll send their bodies out with the trash.

I've been trying to call the warden for over an hour.

There's no answer in his office.

Well, the rat schedule just came through.

Looks like the next garbage pickup is already at the prison.

How long we got before the next trucks leave? Less than half an hour.

All right, round up some black and whites. We cannot let those trucks leave

gate.

Give me your hand.

Don't go nowhere.

Okay.

Finish loading the truck, and we'll shoot them and take them out with the

Okay, Houdini, get busy with your cook.

This is not a car trick.

Where'd you get a key, man?

In prison, you can buy anything from private.

Go take care of those two.

Sayonara, boy.

that true jail case you told me about?

Turns out the guy who picked you out of the lineup later arrested for a hate

crime. You mean some fool fingered Chu because of his race?

I'm afraid so.

He has lost 30 years of his life over some way's prejudice.

Were you able to get the DA to reopen the case? Better than that.

Both the DA and Judge Rubin have signed his release papers.

As of 11 o 'clock this morning, your friend Chu is a free man again.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I'm very grateful to both of you for your help. Thanks.

I'm only sorry the wheels of justice turned so slowly.

Now it is the time for you and your family.

I've been away so long.

Maybe my family...

Maybe they don't need me. Maybe I... They need you.

Trust me.

I know.

Here they come. Go on, Chu.

Oh, your grandkids are so beautiful.

Bye -bye, Chu. Good luck.

Hi, everybody.

Hi. Hi.

Come on. Bye -bye.

I'm glad you dragged me to Tri -County.

That's beautiful.

Yeah.

So, um, remember that gentleman's club?

How about if we go grab the buffet there?

Come on, man, let's just stop there and get a bite to eat. Oh, no, you don't

want nothing to eat. I'll buy it. Oh, no, no, I'm not buying it. A guy at

$12 .95 over there.

And never guess what a little birdie in solitary told me about you two.

Do we hate your ass?

I'm sorry.

We are here to see the fountain. The fountain.

China won.

USA won.

Welcome to Tri -County. I'm Assistant Warden

Lander. I hear somebody.

Give me the key. Just get out of here.

Oh, really?

Interesting. Welcome to television.

Both the DA and Judge Rubin have signed his release papers. Okay,

let's do it in English now.

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