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[ Engine revs ]
-Everyone has heard of the Hells Angels,
but nobody knows what they're truly about.
[ Gunfire ]
-All hell breaks loose during a biker run in Laughlin, Nevada.
Dozens of Hells Angels swarm Harrah's casino
where the Mongols are staying.
-Bullets started flying.
Slot machines were blowing up around me.
-This riot was filmed
by hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras.
[ Gunfire ]
-The hatred between the two groups is so profound.
-They're out of control at this point.
-We had no choice but to investigate.
But if the Hells Angels discovered that we were cops,
they would have drug a straight razor across my throat.
-I've never spoken about my experience
with the Hells Angels before.
-When you put that patch on, you sign up
for everything they're gonna do.
-The Hells Angels will kill their own.
If you betray them,
if you violate their trust or their brotherhood,
doesn't matter if you have a Hells Angels patch on your back
or not, they will kill you.
♪
-Over and over, they say they are not criminals,
they're rebels rebelling against a society
for which they have no respect.
[ Engines revving ]
-We never gave a [Bleep] about what anybody else thought.
♪
-We're mostly a bunch of happy-go-lucky guys
trying to make it in this world, you know?
-They're misfits, they're outlaws,
and they defy the laws of attraction.
-I don't know, I like them, I adore them.
They're my whole life.
-"Angels forever, forever Angels."
Speaks for itself.
♪
-The Hells Angels are not a criminal organization.
-Why don't you people go home?!
It's an organization with criminals in it.
♪
-The Hells Angels run a massive propaganda scheme,
and the unknowing gulp down that Hells Angels Kool-Aid.
-Everybody just clear out!
Hells Angels, everybody.
-That is all designed to hide murder, rape, drug trafficking,
gunrunning, extortion, assault, arson.
♪
-I'm not trying to glorify my life,
but I'm certainly not going to apologize for it.
-I'm doing extreme stuff.
For what?
-I'm telling it the way it really happened.
I never thought I'd be talking openly about this stuff.
-Ready for this? -I'm ready.
[ Engines revving ]
♪
-My name is Jay Dobyns. I'm a federal agent,
and I infiltrated the Hells Angels
between 2001 and 2003.
♪
My cover story was that I was a gunrunner
and that I was a debt collector.
The Hells Angels decided, all on their own,
that I was a hit man.
By the time that I arrived on the Hells Angels' radar,
they had a 50-year history of violence and intimidation.
There's been plenty of biker infiltrations --
never in the most notorious motorcycle gang
that this planet will ever know.
People that do what I do for a living,
and treat it like a hobby, end up dead.
♪
When I first started interacting with the Hells Angels,
I asked the leadership,
"What are my instructions if I cross paths with a Mongol?"
And he said, "Their name doesn't cross our lips.
They're the girls.
And it's your job to kill girls."
♪
As long as there is life on Earth,
the Hells Angels and the Mongols are going to be spilling blood.
♪
♪
-I'm William "Billy" Queen.
♪
I'm a career ATF agent,
and I infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang
and rode more than two years with those guys.
♪
Mongols started in California, in Los Angeles.
It was an alternative to the Hells Angels.
The Mongols were predominantly Hispanic
and returning Vietnam veterans.
A lot of those guys
came from the gangster streets in Los Angeles.
They had a pretty tight group, and it just grew,
and that was a big deal to the Hells Angels.
[ Engine revs ]
-The whole name of the game is numbers, right?
They want to get bigger and bigger
and acclaim more and more territory.
-Territory, to a outlaw motorcycle club, is everything.
You got to go back to the '50s and '60s,
when these different clubs were city rockers.
The clubs progressed and got stronger.
They would take more territory.
Ultimately, the Hells Angels claimed California.
♪
-Each biker group has a set of colors.
A full member has a three-piece patch.
It's a top rocker.
♪
The centerpiece for the Hells Angels
is the death head.
Then, you have the bottom rocker.
♪
-The Mongols decided that they were gonna
put on the California bottom rocker,
which we felt we had an exclusive on.
It was basically "[Bleep] the Hells Angels."
♪
-The Hells Angels went to the Mongols
and they told them,
"You will not run that California rocker here.
We will annihilate you."
The Mongols said, "Bring it on."
♪
-By the end of 1977,
we were in an all-out shooting war with them.
[ Gunfire ] -Aaah!
-Ultimately, the control and identification of territory
led to 40 years of blood and violence.
[ Siren wails ]
-These confrontations are about egos,
about people puffing their chest out,
and not wanting to be dominated by another group of men.
♪
It was about power.
The Hells Angels have always been
the heavyweight champions of the outlaw bike world,
and everybody's looking for a title shot.
[ Engine revs ]
-Thousands of bikers are here in Laughlin, Nevada,
for an event called the River Run.
♪
-When we pulled into town, everybody knew it.
We would ride into town like,
man, like 120, 140 of us.
♪
-Hells Angels,
prospect or member,
you're looked at like you're rock stars.
♪
-We had so many great, experienced riders
that could do, like, phenomenal wheelies and burnouts.
-Put on an exhibition of riding skills...
[ Engine revs ]
...or lack thereof.
-The Laughlin River Run wasn't just the Hells Angels.
♪
It also attracted all kinds
of dangerous one-percenter biker gangs.
♪
The Mongols were the most violent gang,
next to the Hells Angels.
And they were the Hells Angels' mortal enemy.
[ Engines revving ]
-I hear a bunch of noise.
The walls literally felt like they were vibrating.
And I look out the window, and the first thing I see
is a whole line of Mongols.
♪
-We ended up with two blood-rival gangs there --
the Hells Angels and the Mongols --
and they were at two different ends of the Laughlin Strip,
with the Flamingo on one end
and the Harrah's casino on the other end.
♪
-I was a prospect at the time.
It didn't take me long to figure out
that we were staying at the Mongols run site.
♪
We can't leave, because if we leave,
we're gonna look like a bunch of punks.
♪
Part of me was like, "Oh, it's gonna be on."
You know what I'm saying?
And the other part of me was like, "Holy [Bleep],
what are we about to get into right here?"
♪
As the Mongols were getting settled in
and starting to do their thing in the casino,
I started noticing the way people were grouping up.
♪
There was no question that something was about to kick off.
♪
I said, "Listen to me, bro.
Ray, you need to get the hell over here.
It's all bad, bro. It's about to blow up, man."
[ Slot machine chiming ]
♪
-I was at the Flamingo Hotel,
working undercover,
trying to infiltrate the Hells Angels.
♪
And the Flamingo almost emptied out.
I was left to wonder, like, "What's going on?
Where did they all go?"
[ Engines revving ]
♪
-Ray Ray comes in with a group of members from the Flamingo.
♪
Ray had a ball-peen hammer.
♪
And he flipped the handle of the ball-peen hammer
and handed it to me.
♪
There was a drunk Mongol sitting against a post,
and he had a cocktail in his hand.
Ray, Mr. ex-kickboxer,
kicked the Mongol's drink out of his hand.
♪
The minute that kick happened,
it's just like everything erupted.
♪
[ Men grunting ]
[ Gunfire, glass shatters ]
♪
I'm in the middle of a shootout with a ball-peen hammer.
You know what I'm saying?
[ Gunshot ]
All of a sudden, I see this hand come around with a gun.
♪
I lunge myself forward.
[ Gunshot ]
I felt like I got hit by a truck.
I landed flat on my face.
It came out my chest,
and it blew the ink out of my tattoo.
I felt it, I smelt it, it sizzled.
♪
-All hell breaks loose
during a biker run in Laughlin, Nevada.
Dozens of Hells Angels swarm Harrah's casino,
where the Mongols are staying.
It's a bloodbath.
-Some of the major, most violent players
at the Harrah's riot were Arizona Hells Angels.
We had no choice but to investigate them.
But as I learned more about them,
I realized I was in over my head.
♪
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪
-Authorities are calling this the worst shooting
inside of a casino in Nevada's entire history.
Three men were killed at the scene.
Several are listed in critical condition.
♪
-The game changed for us after the Laughlin riot,
because it made our investigation very easy
to sell to the higher-ups.
The Hells Angels were operating violently with impunity.
They needed to be investigated.
♪
-I've never spoken about my experience
with the Hells Angels before.
♪
Jay was already established as this guy in Bullhead City
who rode around on a motorcycle, in a tank top,
with a double ray gun because it's open carry.
So he had already kind of set up his persona.
-The initial plan of Operation Black Biscuit
was to set up a biker gang to run side-by-side
with the Hells Angels in Arizona.
-So the ATF sets up
a chapter of a puppet club.
♪
Puppet clubs are very valuable to the Hells Angels
because they already know they've been vetted.
Maybe they've been to several runs.
So they know who these people are.
So it kind of bypasses a lot of the worry
that they're going to be informants or law enforcement.
♪
-We had an informant
that made some introductions.
We extorted our way in to the Solo Angels motorcycle gang.
♪
They were a nobody club in Tijuana, Mexico.
♪
We set up a charter
entirely made up of law-enforcement officers
wearing Solo Angel cuts
with Arizona side rockers.
Now we were existing and living in their world --
in the biker world.
-Setting up a legitimate puppet club
to infiltrate a legitimate biker gang
was incredibly novel.
It had never been done before.
This ruse was incredibly risky.
-I understood that as long as they believed my lie,
I was safe, but that if I slipped up,
there was going to be a price to pay for that.
♪
We just mimicked what we saw the Hells Angels doing.
If they were selling T-shirts, we sold T-shirts.
When they were handing out support stickers,
we handed out support stickers.
They were throwing parties, we threw parties.
And we invited the Hells Angels to come and be our guests.
♪
We ran an extensive
street-theater operation.
♪
Street theater is where we, in law enforcement,
would set up skits
that appeared to be crime events.
♪
Selling drugs, buying drugs,
selling guns, buying guns.
And we would allow
the Hells Angels to witness us,
creating inaccurate conclusions from accurate observations.
We did a full patch ceremony.
♪
We told the Hells Angels,
"We're gonna put a full patch on this prospect.
It would be an honor for us,
for you to witness us patching this member."
Before we give him his patch, we're gonna mud-check him.
♪
"You're gonna see that we handle our business
the right way."
We want to put some stress on him.
-Okay.
-We're gonna let him believe
that he's being actually kicked out of the club.
We need you to play along.
We want to see what his reaction is.
[ Laughter ]
Ultimately, we put his patch on his back,
and the entire event was witnessed
by a dozen Hells Angels.
-Jay Dobyns had this sort of innate ability
to stay in character 24/7 and live in that world.
♪
He had the persona, the charisma.
♪
He really convinced the Hells Angels
that he was this person.
♪
He was courted by every chapter in Arizona
to be their prospect.
♪
-I befriended
Mesa Hells Angels president "Bad Bob" Johnston.
All you had to do was mention that name,
and it struck fear in people.
Everyone knew Bad Bob.
He had a 25-man charter,
a beautiful clubhouse.
He would open doors for me in the Hells Angels world
that I wasn't capable of opening on my own.
He was mentoring me.
I said to him, "You are one of
the most powerful Hells Angels in America.
Show me how to run a charter.
Show me how to be the baddest biker on the planet."
[ Engine revs ]
The biggest challenge, from my perspective,
is, "Can you be an undercover agent,
and in that environment, in that world,
maintain your dignity and your integrity?"
because it's constantly being challenged.
♪
There's a rail of cocaine on a bar.
And I'm being told, "Suck up that rail of cocaine."
And then a gun is held to my head.
Now you have to make a choice.
Do you want to take a bump of coke,
or do you want a bullet in your brain?
It's not a hard decision.
♪
-If you're not exactly like them,
if you're not as violent as them,
if you don't do the dope, if you ain't laid up with women,
if you ain't stealing stuff,
they're gonna be looking at you, saying,
"Where are you coming from? What's your problem?"
-The situation with women being available
and being presented started to become distracting.
♪
-Jay Dobyns had a wife and two kids,
and so he was living this life as a biker 24/7.
But he also had to be the father and be the husband.
-I was spending as much time trying to defuse women
as I was investigating my case,
and we had to find a solution for that.
I needed an agent who could play a fake girlfriend.
♪
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪
-I wanted to try out undercover,
and this was a chance to
try and work some undercover
with one of the agents
that we all knew was one of the best at it,
so I was excited for this opportunity.
-Jenna Maguire was relatively freshly out of the Academy.
She was highly intelligent. She had street smarts.
But probably the biggest asset
was that she was absolutely fearless.
And so I slowly started introducing Jenna
and exposing Jenna to the Hells Angels.
♪
-I did not understand this world at all.
Jay and I worked daily on building our relationship.
It's probably like any relationship.
You had to work at it, so, every day,
we would discuss what made sense,
what we were both comfortable with,
how it would work.
-Jenna and I had private conversations
on potentially what to expect, potentially problem situations.
♪
-If you come to a Hells Angels clubhouse,
you know certain things are possibly going to happen.
♪
Your body is going to be treated like an amusement park,
and by several members possibly.
Sex could be consensual. It could be rape.
♪
One of the things that Jay and I decided to do from the beginning
was keep it as close to the truth as possible.
♪
We allowed the Hells Angels --
specifically, the Hells Angels wives and girlfriends --
to "train me."
[ Engine revs ]
♪
The old-lady training process was quite thorough.
Walk a step behind your old man.
♪
You don't touch the patch.
No speaking when he is speaking.
♪
Provide his food and drink.
You will be carrying the drugs...
his gun.
Whether you are a respected old lady,
or whether you're at the bottom or anything in between,
we are all just property of the Hells Angels.
♪
♪
During our investigation, I became aware
of the Cynthia Garcia case at the Mesa clubhouse.
♪
-She was a mother
who decided to go drinking with the Hells Angels.
♪
Cynthia had back-talked one of the members
while sitting at the bar.
♪
She was punched in the face and knocked to the ground.
Then, they proceeded to beat her...
so badly that they decided they needed to kill her.
♪
They took her out to the desert
and slit her throat.
♪
Just thinking about...
what must have been going through her mind --
her children and how terrified she must have been --
was a very scary reality for me at the time.
♪
♪
-In the Mesa clubhouse
and other Hells Angels clubhouses,
when you enter and they barricade the doors
and the windows, you're not getting out
until they give you permission, and no one's getting in.
♪
-Jay was being heavily recruited to prospect
for the Hells Angels,
and we understood at this point,
the game had become very serious.
-I was like, "Stay close.
If we have a problem,
we're gonna have a much better chance
of solving it together than apart."
♪
Our Solo Angels cover story has come under question.
♪
Members of the Solo Angels were telling the Hells Angels
that I had basically extorted my way into that gang,
bought my way into that gang.
We're surrounded by Hells Angels,
and they're playing 20 Questions.
♪
Guns are out,
and it's a pretty sketchy situation.
Your heart's beating a million miles an hour,
but your hand can't shake.
♪
I was accused of being a cop.
Jenna leaned into me and whispered in my ear,
and she said, "If you're going down tonight,
I'm going down with you."
♪
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪
-My cover story had been compromised.
I was under the assumption I'd be killed for it.
The Hells Angels had always believed
that they couldn't be infiltrated.
Their mentality was,
"A cop cannot run as long and as hard and as fast
as he would have to to gain membership in this club
before we can sniff him out."
♪
But in the end,
I was told, "Okay, if you want to prove yourself,
if you're really with us,
you're gonna drop that Solo Angel's cut.
You're gonna give it back or burn it,
and you're gonna wear ours."
♪
-The stakes were high.
It was now time to infiltrate
the infamous Hells Angels.
♪
-When you're a prospect, it's a nonstop test drive.
♪
Now I was at their beck and call.
I had to be where they told me to be,
and when they told me to be there.
There's everything from getting that call
to go to Las Vegas to kill Bandidos,
to your phone ringing at 2:00 in the morning,
with a patch member saying, "I want a chocolate milkshake."
You better respond. You better react.
You better perform, because it's all part of your test.
It's all part of your mud-check.
♪
Pages and pages of rules are written down.
♪
For a group, an organization
that doesn't want to live by rules,
they've got a lot of rules.
-It is a cult, in my belief.
This is not a club.
This is a gang that is closer to a worldwide cult.
♪
-I was told, "You will give up every single thing in your life
that you think is important to you --
your relationships, your money, your house,
your motorcycle, your dog.
It doesn't matter what it is,
nothing comes before the Hells Angels."
I wanted to be with the Hells Angels
more than I wanted to be with my own family.
I rarely got home.
Sometimes not for weeks, sometimes not for months.
And my wife confronted me and she said,
"You can't walk in this house after being gone that long
and speak to us like we're street people."
Then, in my defense, I was like, "Man, I am not a light switch.
I can't turn this off and on.
People that do what I do for a living,
and treat it like a hobby, end up dead."
♪
-Our day-to-day lives were not like a normal couple.
This was not normal.
Normal to the Hells Angels,
but not normal to most of the world.
We would go to work, whatever our fake jobs were,
which was our time to write reports
and do our stuff that we needed to do for ATF.
And then, after that, was the socializing
and the partying that the Hells Angels are known for.
This is why so many undercover officers are bat[Bleep] crazy,
because it's like they gotta -- "What do I do now
to get my, you know, crazy going?"
[ Chuckles ]
♪
-I was taking medicine to calm my nerves during the day.
I was taking medicine to go to sleep at night.
I was popping diet pills and energy pills.
-I describe it as the highs.
You know, you're up here, you're on it.
And then, when you are finished and you're decompressing,
you come down real low.
-At one point, I had a big handful of pills in my hand,
and I threw them in my mouth and choked them down.
And Jenna saw me,
and she's like, "Man, you are out of control."
-The deeper Jay gets into prospecting,
the more complicated
the investigation becomes.
♪
He's prospecting for chapters all over the state.
So it becomes this sort of logistical nightmare
for the ATF.
♪
-I still hadn't gotten
my Hells Angels patch,
and that was one of my personal, selfish objectives.
That was not part of the mission.
It was not part of the plan. It was Jay's part of the plan.
♪
I approached the Hells Angels and said,
"For the last two years,
all you've talked about is killing Mongols.
Well, I've got information that a Mongol down in Mexico
is saying that they kicked our ass in Laughlin,
and they're gonna start running Mexican methamphetamine
up into Phoenix,
right into Sonny Barger's backyard.
And there's nothing the Hells Angels can do about it."
♪
Then, I paused and said,
"This is my opportunity to prove myself.
I want to go to Mexico and find that Mongol and kill him."
♪
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪
-To the Hells Angels,
that name and that back patch,
that death head,
that's their religion.
It's more important to them than their wives or their kids
or their houses or their jobs or their finances
or their motorcycles.
[ Engines revving ]
I chased getting a Hells Angels patch,
for entirely selfish reasons.
I wanted to get it.
I wanted to be able to say that I was the guy
who got inside on them when no one else could.
♪
When I presented the plan to kill the Mongol
to my supervisors, there was justified reluctance.
The question was, "How are you
gonna not set off a brand-new gang war
that's gonna have retaliation involved?"
-The ATF really were very concerned.
There were all kinds of liability issues, danger issues.
-I was so focused on the mission
that I didn't really respect that opinion.
[ Gunshot ] I was gonna do this.
♪
The Hells Angels gave me a gun.
They gave me instructions on how to commit the murder.
According to Hells Angels protocols,
they wanted me to shoot him in a soft spot,
shoot him in the ear, shoot him in the eye,
shoot him in the mouth.
Shoot him somewhere where that bullet
is not gonna struggle to penetrate the victim's skull.
♪
So we had their permission to go kill the Mongol in Mexico.
♪
-Don't put it on my ear. -Keep it out of your ear.
-Yeah, that would -- that would be appreciated.
-I'm gonna put it on your face. -No problem.
What we're doing is
we're creating the illusion
that the victim of our hit
was hit over the head with a baseball bat...
-You might want to take your hand now
and do that in your hair.
-...dragged out to the desert,
where he was executed...
-We don't want him to look pretty.
-...with his hands behind his back,
shots to the head. -I'm scared.
-We took a member of our task force.
We took a Mongol cut that was seized.
Put it on our task force member,
took him out to the desert outside of Phoenix.
-I'm going to Hollywood, baby. [ Chuckles ]
-And then we had a homicide detective
that helped us build a crime scene.
He used bits
and pieces and parts from the butcher shop.
-I went and procured some real blood from livestock.
-That's -- That's enough, dude.
-Some tissue, which would be a lung.
Because of FDA rules and such,
you can't have brain because of the different diseases.
But the lung material will be placed around the location
of where the wounds will be on the head.
And it'll appear as if he took a shot to the head
and part of his brain matter is protruding out.
-What do you think?
-Longer. [ Camera shutter clicks ]
-They had to somehow make it convincing
that they had murdered a Mongol in Mexico,
and somehow get the bloody cuts
back to the Hells Angels.
-Well, we cut down this side.
-It was a very dicey moment for the ATF,
because it either meant
they weren't going to pull this ruse off,
and Jay and his group would be killed on the spot,
or they were going to pull it off,
and then they were going to have the problem of a biker war.
♪
-We brought our evidence...
...to an undercover trailer...
...invited the Hells Angels.
I handed them a FedEx box
sent from Mexico.
One of the Hells Angels members takes it.
♪
He starts taking out the contents.
And he shows everybody the Mongol cut with the blood on it.
♪
And they start looking at the pictures of this Mongol
with his head caved in...
...beaten...
...shot...
duct-taped...
...shallow grave.
♪
Shortly thereafter,
we were invited to the Skull Valley clubhouse.
This is it.
They're gonna make us members,
we're gonna become made men, or they're going to kill us.
♪
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪
-One of the members
put a Hells Angel cut on my back
and he said, "Welcome to the gang, brother.
Consider yourself a Hells Angel."
♪
-Would have went to the, uh, West Coast meeting,
and from the West Coast meeting, the United States meeting.
There's a bureaucratic ladder one has to climb
to be recognized as a Hells Angel.
♪
-I was pissed, like,
"What are you talking about, I have to wait?
I just proved to you that I murdered a Mongol.
I'm not waiting. I want my patch.
And I want it now."
♪
-There's always been a controversy.
Was he promised a membership?
Only Jay knows
and the people that he had that conversation with.
♪
-They were like, "Just give us some time.
We're gonna get you stitched up. Don't worry about it."
And I'm thinking to myself, "I don't have time."
I was so exhausted.
I was more gangster than I was husband
or father or federal agent.
That's a very dangerous place to be.
My wife had a conversation with me at one point.
She said, "You know what?
You're out there saving the world
and solving everybody else's problems,
and your own family's melting down before your eyes."
And it was true.
Um, and at the time, I'm not sure that I cared,
or at least cared as much as I should have.
♪
-Jay was very close
to becoming a full patched member.
He could only gather so much information
and evidence as a prospect, but as a full patched member,
he would then be given an invitation
into the inner sanctum.
But he was having trouble
extricating himself from that dual life.
He was living it and becoming it.
The ATF also had concerns
that he was almost at the point of no return.
They were losing control of their operative.
♪
Then, they were going to have the problem of a biker war.
What are you going to do about this?
If a Mongol is murdered,
surely the Mongols
are now going to want retribution.
What do you do when it's a fake Mongol?
I mean, how do you pull that off?
All of those three scenarios were problematic for the ATF,
so they had to make a determination quickly
if this was going to go south,
that they were going to do the raids,
you know, get them out of there.
♪
-700 cops in five states swept down
on Hells Angels' homes and hangouts
in California, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, and Alaska.
In all, 57 of the outlaw bikers and associates
are now under arrest.
♪
-With any investigation
that results in a criminal prosecution,
the government is going to have to expose
who was operating on their behalf.
The Hells Angels found out that
Jay Davis, the gunrunner,
debt collector, hit man,
was Jay Dobyns the federal agent.
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-There wasn't a plan for how they were going to
keep him safe, keep his family safe,
make sure that he would not worry about retribution.
-The death and violence threats
started flooding in.
"You are going to run for the rest of your life
from the Hells Angels. We know where you live.
We know your kids go to school. We know what buses they ride."
-He was literally moving every two weeks,
trying to find, you know, safe harbor for his family.
At one point, his house was burned down.
♪
-That was very frustrating for me and for my partners.
You commit two years of your life
and the blood, sweat, and tears,
to watch it fall apart on the steps of the courthouse.
I wanted to leave a legacy, and there is no legacy to leave.
I wanted to finish, like, with a reputation
and respect and dignity and admiration.
And it wasn't there.
♪
Black Biscuit has been over for 20 years,
and I'm still trying to, like, get back to my ordinary life.
[ Laughter ]
-[Bleep] Whoo!
-[ Laughs ]
♪
Jenna's career kept moving,
and she kept doing amazing things.
I think she came out of the back end of this
much better than I did.
-For me personally, it was an immense,
a fantastic, and exciting learning experience
that jump-started my career with ATF.
♪
-Jay Dobyns certainly came closer than anybody ever has
to infiltrating the Hells Angels.
And what that does is it creates a level of paranoia
that's really undescribable.
You know, you start looking at your fellow brother
and you start wondering what's going through this guy's mind.
"Is he gonna turn on me?
Is he working with the cops? Is he a cop?"
-In the end,
we were nothing more than a speed bump
in the history of the Hells Angels,
and they ran right over the top of me
and kept going.
They're bigger, stronger,
faster than they've ever been.
We're a part of their history,
but a small part of their history.
♪
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