Dope (2017) s03e03 Episode Script
No Face, No Case
1 I love cocaine.
Hands up! Show me los manos! Hollywood to me mean money! No face, no case.
No name, no blame.
ÃÂ I'm a ghost.
There's some monsters out here so in order to be able to live with monsters, you have to be a monster.
LA never stops.
There's no time to sleep.
I'm gambling with the life that God gave me.
I'm gambling with it.
Flaco is making a run across the border from Tijuana to LA.
I do this to provide for my family.
What would you do for your family? You'd do anything for your family.
Tonight, he's carrying eight kilos of raw cocaine.
There's a high demand, and while there is high demand, there will always be people trying to bring it in to satisfy the demand.
Everything's changed.
The 9/11 attacks and terrorism have changed things.
Things are a lot stricter.
The cartel pays him $10,000 for every crossing.
I do what I'm told.
I don't ask any questions.
Many of my friends have died or they've disappeared.
As long as I don't overstep the boundaries, I'm fine.
Hitting the border during the dawn rush hour provides extra cover.
Seventy thousand vehicles enter the U.
S.
from here every day, making San Ysidro the busiest border crossing in the western hemisphere.
- Where are you going? - To work.
To work? What do you do, sir? We're looking for anyone that could be possibly smuggling in narcotics.
I spend a lot of time out here, and I look at the vehicles and I look at the subjects.
I mean, they something will always catch my eye.
Human behavior, things that that stick out, and that's how I select my target.
Morning.
Where you going? We're looking for, uh compartments.
I will check the seats, the glove compartment, the tire wall, the wheels, under the hood Just the areas of the vehicle that has a natural void.
Thank you, sir, that's it.
With a sense of smell 700 times stronger than humans, the canines are the CBP's most effective tool.
You know, a lot of times they can find stuff that, you know, other teams canâÂÂt.
And this one has just picked up a scent.
The officers begin a manual search.
It looks like a modified compartment underneath.
But it's tough to reach.
Then, a result.
It does so happen that it's empty.
We're trying to make sure for now that it's really empty.
Empty or not, itâÂÂs a good find.
When CBP bust a potential trafficker, they call Homeland Security investigations.
If the bust proves solid, agents may get a lead on the next link in the supply chain.
But for every trafficker they find, ten make it across the border safely.
And Flaco isÃÂ one of them.
His next stop, a stash house in San Diego.
Just 15 miles north of the border, San Diego is a key stop on the Tijuana-LA trafficking route.
How was the journey? I managed to get it here fine.
- Let's count them.
- Four.
Well, this is what you call yayo.
Some coco.
White gold.
It represents money.
It's Oso's job to test consignments for purity.
Come all you brothers Lay your burdens down And step into the night It's good Grade A quality.
You could say fish scale if you want.
I try it to see how long it takes for your mouth to get numb.
ThatâÂÂs one of the tests.
As long as your mouth gets numb, you're good.
In Tijuana, eight kilos of raw cocaine is worth around $80,000.
By the time it reaches LA, it's street value will rocket to $400.
000.
When it gets to where it needs to be, we get paid,ÃÂ boom, and then we wait for the next load.
When it comes to supplying LA with coke, the name of the game is frequency.
Flaco and Oso must get the shipment to LA tonight.
If not, they'll face the wrath of the cartel.
But 150 miles north, on the outskirts of LA, HSI agents are lying in wait.
Right now.
All right, it's gonna be a black, looks like a Honda, maybe a four-door Accord There's another trailer, or trafficker, that just drove into the yard.
The agents flipped a trafficker at the border earlier today who was carrying cocaine.
This started from a routine, uh, border inspection.
They have a number of different tools that they can use to screen a car.
You know, one is a canine, another is like an x-ray, and, uh, they noticed an anomaly.
The trafficker was due to meet his cartel contacts here, later tonight, for the drop.
So, we have surveillance units that have eyes on what's going on at the truck yard, and then anything that comes and goes, we have surveillance units surrounding the place, that way we can be able to follow that stuff off.
We got another car coming out, you guys.
A dark vehicle coming out pretty quick.
Two vehicles are leaving the truck yard.
Take 'em both if you can.
If you have both, take them both.
That's a traffic stop.
We had to make it with our unmarked units.
The cars are searched.
And finally let go.
They're not cartel operatives.
The agents will have to stake out the truck stop and wait.
- Yo, Dee! - Hmm.
Come here.
Can you open the door? Back in San Diego, Flaco is playing it safe.
He's collecting a different car to take the coke to LA.
I'll take out this cushion, put it all in, take it all in hereÃÂ and put it back.
Probably get this reupholstered, and you just wanna make it look like nothing's ever been tampered with.
Dee runs a specialist workshop, turning wrecks into trap cars with hidden compartments.
IâÂÂve used door panel seats, gas tanks, um, tires, making false floors in cars, sometimes.
You just want it to look normal.
Basically using old cars because they're not really looking at the factory stitching.
If the Feds have tailed Flaco from the border, a different car will put them off the scent.
You want the car to be 100% legit so it doesn't give them a reason to look.
WeâÂÂve got ways to get past dogs, uh x-ray machines, uh we know how to do it all.
We get it past.
Shit, it's the luck of the draw.
Sometimes you make it, sometimes you don't.
Dee puts the finishing touches on a secret compartment.
With the new car ready, it's time to head to LA.
When the devil comes When the devil comes to town He will appear dressed in black He shall arise upon white horses Fallen angels on their back Don't bother with forgiveness Salvation can't be found He will strike upon the righteous The most difficult part is already done.
I just have to drive carefully and get to Los Angeles.
God willing, I'll arrive safely.
When the devil comes Flaco avoids the shorter 5, taking the quieter 15 instead.
Long Beach, Santa Ana, where you find lots of Mexicans, that's where we go, that's where we do the drops, you know.
The drop is fast approaching.
Here, I just watch the road.
God willing, I'll arrive safely.
I'm not thinking about anything negative.
East of LA, HSI agents are staking out a truck yard where the cartel are due to pick up a massive shipment of coke, but it's been over four hours, and so far, they're a no-show.
We need to remix the San Diego team.
There are 12 agents in total, three on each exit.
We're a couple hundred yards, uh, south of where the the gate is.
And we're coordinating, so,ÃÂ when when we come in the front, if anybody runs or if anything happens, we'll have all four angles of this covered.
It's always a little dangerous serving a warrant.
You don't know how many people are inside of this place, if they have weapons, uh, sometimes criminals will booby trap or set upÃÂ things in case the cops do come.
Suddenly, a suspicious vehicle pulls into the yard, and the agents move in.
Now he's going south.
He started going south.
Two runners south.
Two runners southbound.
Two men are detained.
So, they have two guys arrested right now, uh, the two individuals that were offloading the narcotics.
But there could be more.
Agents fan out to secure the yard.
Because this yard is so big and there's so many places where somebody can hide, we have to make sure that, uh, everything is totally secured before we get into an in-depth search.
With the yard locked down, all that's missing is the cocaine.
Then, agents spot something.
Look.
They have, like, a paint gun here, resin.
So they probably use that to repair the hole that they made, and then they paint over it with that that paint gun there.
They begin looking for newly-painted body work.
- Is that the access panel? - Yeah.
Okay.
Hiding coke in a truck so close to LA suggests this consignment is bound for another city.
The haul is worth millions.
We're looking at approximately 54 packages of an unknown narcotic, what we suspect to be cocaine.
They have people that are really good atÃÂ building compartments.
- This one's a professional, for sure.
- Yeah.
This is somebody that's been probably doing it for years, has a background in bodywork or some kind of, like, repair mechanic or something like that.
It's kind of like a cat and mouse game.
We have guys that are really good at finding it, and they have guys that are really good at building it.
While Homeland Security are busy seizing this haul, Flaco arrives safely in East LA.
He delivers the cocaine to a stash house in the suburbs where the cartel will break it down before distributing it to independent dealers who cater to every level of LA society.
First stop, Skid Row.
Cavy, cavy, cavy, you good? Don't worry about them, worry about me.
I've seen people jump out of windows.
I've seen people get stabbed.
I've seen people get shot.
You're breaking the law! Some pure that I cooked.
You did? Yeah, I just got through cooking this.
Cavy, cavy, cavy.
It takes a special type of dealer to survive on Skid Row.
These crackheads that need that dope so bad, they'll come and kill you for it.
You would be a fool to think because this person lives in a tent, he doesn't have a gun.
There's some monsters out here.
So, in order to be able to live with monsters, you have to be a monster.
I became, out here.
Shadow is a crack slinger operating on the north side of Skid Row.
All right.
Don't worry about cameras.
You know who I am.
So what, you good? Yeah? You sure? Shit.
I gotta make a little move, do a little somethin' somethin'.
I'll be back.
I'm gonna catch you in a second right here.
I started out pretty small, but, um, I quickly grew.
I got to the point where I was I was selling half a bird pretty much every two, three days.
I got to where I was cooking enough to service 200 to 400 people.
Just just on the daily.
Profit on the weekly is 39 to 40 thousand dollars.
I was caught and I almost did some, uh, penitentiary time, so I found an easier way to do it, and I still make a nice earning.
I went from cooking nine zips down to just cooking as they order.
I have a gram of baking soda in here, and I have two and a half grams of coke.
I don't like to put too much soda onto my coke, so that way, it, uh it has a potency to it.
Once we add the water, start to cook it.
I came to LA to pursue my career in acting.
The dream slowly became a reality, because I was being able to fund it by selling the crack downtown.
The cocaine has melted, but right now it's just cooling down.
That will form the crack cocaine.
If you were to look at my social media pages, my Instagram, you'll see me hanging with stars.
I-I can't even watch TV without seeing someone that I know.
These are people that are in my phone logs, that I call.
I've done a couple hundred TV shows.
I'm still currently working in that industry, still trying to be a superstar.
But it's like what they say, you can't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
Well, imagine living that life.
Yeah, that's my life on the daily.
This is way stronger than this.
The high has intensified times 20.
One little small kibble of this about this size that little bitty piece your world is changed.
When all the king's men And all their horses Can't find a way to A way to save you You good? Man? What's your party favors looking like? I loved it.
I did it all.
White picket fence, all that old stuff.
I had three houses.
All of that.
As soon as this damn pipe thing came out, now everybody lose everything.
Out here, it's you go back to the fantasy land, you know.
Just one big old party.
Cavy, cavy, cavy, cavy.
Sup, OG? LA is the making and breaking of me.
Each day I wonder which way is gonna pull the hardest.
Will I fall more to this side, or willÃÂ I fall more to the side I don't want to be on? 'Cause this city does not care.
It does not care at all.
Just ten miles south of Skid Row lies the birthplace of the Bloods and the Crips, and another market hungry for the cartel's coke: Compton.
LA never stops.
There's no time to sleep.
Everybody's gonna get money.
And that's why I think it's becoming more popular and more open.
You can go to a party right now in LA, and it's fucking it's just on the table, you know what I mean? That's the moneymaker, right here.
And everybody's cool.
Nobody give a fuck.
I'm still, like, considered the lower level, you know what I mean? I'm starting off slow, baby stepping right now.
So, I'm only I only do ounces.
O's, you feel me? Gizmo has only been dealing for a few months.
I was working, I had two jobs, bought my first car, IâÂÂm booming, you know what I mean? Everything's going good.
And I caught a fucking DUI.
I lost my license, my car, and my job, all in like, three weeks.
I already had a lot of people hitting me up about it.
I was kind of like a middle man, and I'm like, "Fuck it.
Fuck sending you to somebody else, just come to me.
" And I just kind of started from there.
I'm preparing,ÃÂ I'm about to bust down this eight-ball, you feel me? I'm gonna do, like, two grams.
In doves.
One big gram, or two big grams, and then, the rest, like, 200 in doves.
There's gonna be a point in time where everybody's getting drugs, and I'm gonna be right there, you know what I mean? Like, boom, boom, boom.
Push Yeah Push Yeah Come on Come on, let's go See, I can break it down Like whatever you want Whatever you want Whatever you want When you're starting out, you have to grab every opportunity you can.
- Yo, bro.
- Yo.
Yo, I got you.
Got you.
I'ma break it down Like however you want Organically manufactured - What up, man? How are you? - Yo, bro.
Rat pack, dope sack, rumblin' thump Staying alive, survive Los Angeles Times Dropping-dropping-dropping dimes For protection Your word is your worth The glorified snitch Get it, get it, get it Any time I'm out the house, day or night, I'm looking for potential targets.
My eyes is always open, I see everything.
When it comes to robbing people, I don't necessarily care whether you're a Blood or a Crip.
It don't matter color to me.
Green.
Green the only color that matter.
Money is what matter to me.
If we get some product, we gonna sell it.
Get the bang for our buck.
I've been doing this about all my life.
We used to carry fists to beat people up.
Shit, we got a little older, and we got guns and things now.
I've been in a few shootouts.
It ain't like TV.
I have never been to jail before.
No face, no case.
No name, no blame.
I'm a ghost.
When T-Bone finds a victim, he calls in his gang.
Now I think about it I was born the same year Jordan jumped from the free throw, ha Now I'm up in Hollywood Ballin' in the club Texting shorty for the deep throat Yeah Man, social media is a motherfucker, boy.
This motherfucker right here, flexing.
His Rolex.
Rolex, bands, drink, drinking lean.
You feel me? Weed.
You know he got something else.
This video right here is very tempting.
This video right here has me doing a little bit more homework on this cat, you feel me? Find out where he at and get all of that.
I'll send a bitch in on a nigga, you feel me? Might make her fuck him or somethin', you know.
Suck his dick or somethin', then kick the door in, you know.
And take everything that pussy-ass nigga got, leave him asshole naked.
You see one of these at your face, you're not pretty much gonna fight it out.
It's like a roller coaster.
When you're going up, you're kind of scared, but then, once you're already at the top, going down, it's like party time.
It gives me a big thrill.
Once they've identified a target, they start to plan their stick-up.
We've been seeing an uptick of, uh, activity in general.
It's always an evolving game.
Back at the Mexican border, US Customs are still trying to stem the tide of cocaine flowing to LA.
Over the last four to six months, we've been seizing about anywhere from two to five boats a week.
Agent Nagel andÃÂ his team patrol the waters off La Jolla, California, all night, every night.
Their target, the cartel's smuggling boat of choice, the panga.
So a panga is a Mexican fishing boat.
They're lightweight, small, wooden boats, uh, made for fishing.
Um, 90% of the time, you know, it's legit fishing traffic from villagers and Um, but the cartels will buy them or steal them from the fishermen, and they use them because they're so small that it makes it difficult for us to pick them up on radar.
We've had them slip by us within a mile before and never even saw them, so, they're tough to spot and and pursue.
Yeah, yeah.
At around 2:30 a.
m.
, the team heads out to take up position two miles off the coast, just north of the border.
Here, these little blue dots, they're the target right off here, which is in the kelp, which the boats, when they're coming north, they can get stuck in the kelp.
So we stopped, we're looking.
I don't wanna get in the kelp if I don't have to, 'cause it'll shut down our engines too.
The wait begins.
3:00 a.
m.
is about the time that your body starts feeling it, and so, I think they take advantage of that, they know that, you know, there's probably less people working at that time, or their their head's not totally in the game at that time.
Just something about those hours between three and five, they love to they love to make that run for the border then.
The crew strains every sense, trying to probe the darkness.
Do you hear an engine? You hear that, right? I got one boat, no AIS.
Hands up! Show me los manos.
Los manos! Manos! Manos! Sit down, sit down! Don't move.
Got one, two, three, four, five, six in here.
Five up here.
Eleven.
And there's the vomit bucket.
It's not drugs, it's migrants.
Right now, we're getting hammered with, uh alien loads.
Illegal aliens, people trying to circumvent the, uh the legal immigration process.
They'll have us looking at an alien load over here while they run a narcotics load over here.
Once we've figured that out, they've moved on to something else, so it's always it's an evolving game that we're always trying to to stay one step ahead of.
If the migrant boat is a decoy, it's done its job.
Tonight's coke has gotten through.
Okay, now I don't mean to sound ignorant But a na out here tryin' to get it And I ain't trippin' off of these women Hollywood to me mean money! Back in LA, T-Bone and his crew are headed to Hollywood.
We just hit a lick, you feel me? To offload their stolen product.
We got grams of coke, we got a little bit of weed, and we got some pills.
Cocaine is the biggest drug in Hollywood.
It's a party drug.
We're in a party world right now.
People out here are living "la vida coca!" About to hit these clubs in a second.
Walk in with product, walk out with cash.
This the fun part.
All the hard part is done.
I'm about to be the other me.
It's time to blend in.
Usually, when I'm selling in the club, I walk in and I know a few security guards.
The ones that help me get my product out, I shoot them a little something.
You know, you know who doing coke.
You can spot 'em easy.
UsuallyÃÂ the white people jumping around and sweating, big happy.
You ask them one question, you ask them, "Do you party?" It's a code word: "You party?" That mean you do "you do cocaine?" Yeah.
But sometimes you gotta be careful 'cause there is undercovers.
They do come in there sometimes, but⦠What you need? What you need? I got it.
I'm talking to you! All right, fuck you then! Just get up in here, sell that shit.
- Yeah, man.
- You feel me? - Yeah.
- Get it off.
Let's do it, know what I'm sayin'? Get on some hoes.
- Get on some hoes.
- Leave with some hoes.
Leave with some hoes, you feel me? Probably keep like a gram for the hoes.
It's Saturday night, and all across the city, the party's getting started.
From Compton block parties to elite West Hollywood clubs, LA is jumping.
Come if you're curious to see Pull the tricks out of my sleeve All you find is yours to keep Brave Are you brave enough to meet The desires that you seek? Hold my hand, I'll set you free Welcome to the devil's playground You can tread where demons play Hey, are people fishing in town right now? Can you get it? All right, cool.
Thank you.
Love you, bye.
So, what it means is I'm asking for the highest grade product, which, you know, technically is fish scale.
In LA, if you're rich and connected like Indigo, you can order in high grade coke as fast as a pizza.
When I moved to Southern California, almost ten years ago, I was just constantly in a, you know, in a celebrity environment.
It was like a scene out of the movie Blow.
You know, there's times where I showed up to an after party and there's just a pile of cocaine on the table, and there's just lines, and there's naked people.
But then someone will walk into the room, who is you know, they've got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and youâÂÂre just like, "What?" And they'll just sit there and total Scarface the plate.
Come Pull up your throne and sit Holy shit! Two lines will get you high as shit! You're mentally aware, um, you're very focused, you feel really, really good.
If you were to ask me how much I've spent on cocaine, I couldn't tell you.
Probably upwards of two, three hundred thousand dollars.
Cocaine has totally changed me as a person.
You become manipulative and vindictive.
My lowest point, they use the term blown, where it's like you can't even see the color of my eyes, my pupils are so dilated.
At the time, in my head, because I was "blown" out of my mind, wanted multiple men.
So I had four men and myself.
It wasn't that I had been raped.
I remember every bit of it, and I it just It makes me sick.
I There's that little voice that keeps always telling me, "What the fuck are you doing?" Because you know, you see what it does to people, and you see how it's, you know, affecting their friends and families and But I'm so stubborn, and I don't give a shit half the time, that I just do it, anyway.
Ooh, shit.
- Early night, man.
- Shit.
Hollywood, man.
Hollywood.
Shit.
Half a night, what we get? Ooh, good night.
Good night.
Count that shit up, man, count that shit up.
About 500 right here.
And while the night's still young, 500 pretty decent right now.
Almost about time, we gonna have to get back out in a minute, you feel me? Might have to do it, man.
Shit it's getting cracking now, man.
It's popping.
Get back out there in the field, man.
Zombies coming out, you feel me? In the hour before dawn, T-Bone and Spider head out to make another sale.
When all the king's men And all their horses Can't find a way to A way to save you When all the The new day will bring another car, another boat, and more cocaine.
The dealers and cops alike will await its return, so the whole cycle can begin again.
Wake, wake, wake up, child Wake, wake, wake up, child Wake, wake, wake up
Hands up! Show me los manos! Hollywood to me mean money! No face, no case.
No name, no blame.
ÃÂ I'm a ghost.
There's some monsters out here so in order to be able to live with monsters, you have to be a monster.
LA never stops.
There's no time to sleep.
I'm gambling with the life that God gave me.
I'm gambling with it.
Flaco is making a run across the border from Tijuana to LA.
I do this to provide for my family.
What would you do for your family? You'd do anything for your family.
Tonight, he's carrying eight kilos of raw cocaine.
There's a high demand, and while there is high demand, there will always be people trying to bring it in to satisfy the demand.
Everything's changed.
The 9/11 attacks and terrorism have changed things.
Things are a lot stricter.
The cartel pays him $10,000 for every crossing.
I do what I'm told.
I don't ask any questions.
Many of my friends have died or they've disappeared.
As long as I don't overstep the boundaries, I'm fine.
Hitting the border during the dawn rush hour provides extra cover.
Seventy thousand vehicles enter the U.
S.
from here every day, making San Ysidro the busiest border crossing in the western hemisphere.
- Where are you going? - To work.
To work? What do you do, sir? We're looking for anyone that could be possibly smuggling in narcotics.
I spend a lot of time out here, and I look at the vehicles and I look at the subjects.
I mean, they something will always catch my eye.
Human behavior, things that that stick out, and that's how I select my target.
Morning.
Where you going? We're looking for, uh compartments.
I will check the seats, the glove compartment, the tire wall, the wheels, under the hood Just the areas of the vehicle that has a natural void.
Thank you, sir, that's it.
With a sense of smell 700 times stronger than humans, the canines are the CBP's most effective tool.
You know, a lot of times they can find stuff that, you know, other teams canâÂÂt.
And this one has just picked up a scent.
The officers begin a manual search.
It looks like a modified compartment underneath.
But it's tough to reach.
Then, a result.
It does so happen that it's empty.
We're trying to make sure for now that it's really empty.
Empty or not, itâÂÂs a good find.
When CBP bust a potential trafficker, they call Homeland Security investigations.
If the bust proves solid, agents may get a lead on the next link in the supply chain.
But for every trafficker they find, ten make it across the border safely.
And Flaco isÃÂ one of them.
His next stop, a stash house in San Diego.
Just 15 miles north of the border, San Diego is a key stop on the Tijuana-LA trafficking route.
How was the journey? I managed to get it here fine.
- Let's count them.
- Four.
Well, this is what you call yayo.
Some coco.
White gold.
It represents money.
It's Oso's job to test consignments for purity.
Come all you brothers Lay your burdens down And step into the night It's good Grade A quality.
You could say fish scale if you want.
I try it to see how long it takes for your mouth to get numb.
ThatâÂÂs one of the tests.
As long as your mouth gets numb, you're good.
In Tijuana, eight kilos of raw cocaine is worth around $80,000.
By the time it reaches LA, it's street value will rocket to $400.
000.
When it gets to where it needs to be, we get paid,ÃÂ boom, and then we wait for the next load.
When it comes to supplying LA with coke, the name of the game is frequency.
Flaco and Oso must get the shipment to LA tonight.
If not, they'll face the wrath of the cartel.
But 150 miles north, on the outskirts of LA, HSI agents are lying in wait.
Right now.
All right, it's gonna be a black, looks like a Honda, maybe a four-door Accord There's another trailer, or trafficker, that just drove into the yard.
The agents flipped a trafficker at the border earlier today who was carrying cocaine.
This started from a routine, uh, border inspection.
They have a number of different tools that they can use to screen a car.
You know, one is a canine, another is like an x-ray, and, uh, they noticed an anomaly.
The trafficker was due to meet his cartel contacts here, later tonight, for the drop.
So, we have surveillance units that have eyes on what's going on at the truck yard, and then anything that comes and goes, we have surveillance units surrounding the place, that way we can be able to follow that stuff off.
We got another car coming out, you guys.
A dark vehicle coming out pretty quick.
Two vehicles are leaving the truck yard.
Take 'em both if you can.
If you have both, take them both.
That's a traffic stop.
We had to make it with our unmarked units.
The cars are searched.
And finally let go.
They're not cartel operatives.
The agents will have to stake out the truck stop and wait.
- Yo, Dee! - Hmm.
Come here.
Can you open the door? Back in San Diego, Flaco is playing it safe.
He's collecting a different car to take the coke to LA.
I'll take out this cushion, put it all in, take it all in hereÃÂ and put it back.
Probably get this reupholstered, and you just wanna make it look like nothing's ever been tampered with.
Dee runs a specialist workshop, turning wrecks into trap cars with hidden compartments.
IâÂÂve used door panel seats, gas tanks, um, tires, making false floors in cars, sometimes.
You just want it to look normal.
Basically using old cars because they're not really looking at the factory stitching.
If the Feds have tailed Flaco from the border, a different car will put them off the scent.
You want the car to be 100% legit so it doesn't give them a reason to look.
WeâÂÂve got ways to get past dogs, uh x-ray machines, uh we know how to do it all.
We get it past.
Shit, it's the luck of the draw.
Sometimes you make it, sometimes you don't.
Dee puts the finishing touches on a secret compartment.
With the new car ready, it's time to head to LA.
When the devil comes When the devil comes to town He will appear dressed in black He shall arise upon white horses Fallen angels on their back Don't bother with forgiveness Salvation can't be found He will strike upon the righteous The most difficult part is already done.
I just have to drive carefully and get to Los Angeles.
God willing, I'll arrive safely.
When the devil comes Flaco avoids the shorter 5, taking the quieter 15 instead.
Long Beach, Santa Ana, where you find lots of Mexicans, that's where we go, that's where we do the drops, you know.
The drop is fast approaching.
Here, I just watch the road.
God willing, I'll arrive safely.
I'm not thinking about anything negative.
East of LA, HSI agents are staking out a truck yard where the cartel are due to pick up a massive shipment of coke, but it's been over four hours, and so far, they're a no-show.
We need to remix the San Diego team.
There are 12 agents in total, three on each exit.
We're a couple hundred yards, uh, south of where the the gate is.
And we're coordinating, so,ÃÂ when when we come in the front, if anybody runs or if anything happens, we'll have all four angles of this covered.
It's always a little dangerous serving a warrant.
You don't know how many people are inside of this place, if they have weapons, uh, sometimes criminals will booby trap or set upÃÂ things in case the cops do come.
Suddenly, a suspicious vehicle pulls into the yard, and the agents move in.
Now he's going south.
He started going south.
Two runners south.
Two runners southbound.
Two men are detained.
So, they have two guys arrested right now, uh, the two individuals that were offloading the narcotics.
But there could be more.
Agents fan out to secure the yard.
Because this yard is so big and there's so many places where somebody can hide, we have to make sure that, uh, everything is totally secured before we get into an in-depth search.
With the yard locked down, all that's missing is the cocaine.
Then, agents spot something.
Look.
They have, like, a paint gun here, resin.
So they probably use that to repair the hole that they made, and then they paint over it with that that paint gun there.
They begin looking for newly-painted body work.
- Is that the access panel? - Yeah.
Okay.
Hiding coke in a truck so close to LA suggests this consignment is bound for another city.
The haul is worth millions.
We're looking at approximately 54 packages of an unknown narcotic, what we suspect to be cocaine.
They have people that are really good atÃÂ building compartments.
- This one's a professional, for sure.
- Yeah.
This is somebody that's been probably doing it for years, has a background in bodywork or some kind of, like, repair mechanic or something like that.
It's kind of like a cat and mouse game.
We have guys that are really good at finding it, and they have guys that are really good at building it.
While Homeland Security are busy seizing this haul, Flaco arrives safely in East LA.
He delivers the cocaine to a stash house in the suburbs where the cartel will break it down before distributing it to independent dealers who cater to every level of LA society.
First stop, Skid Row.
Cavy, cavy, cavy, you good? Don't worry about them, worry about me.
I've seen people jump out of windows.
I've seen people get stabbed.
I've seen people get shot.
You're breaking the law! Some pure that I cooked.
You did? Yeah, I just got through cooking this.
Cavy, cavy, cavy.
It takes a special type of dealer to survive on Skid Row.
These crackheads that need that dope so bad, they'll come and kill you for it.
You would be a fool to think because this person lives in a tent, he doesn't have a gun.
There's some monsters out here.
So, in order to be able to live with monsters, you have to be a monster.
I became, out here.
Shadow is a crack slinger operating on the north side of Skid Row.
All right.
Don't worry about cameras.
You know who I am.
So what, you good? Yeah? You sure? Shit.
I gotta make a little move, do a little somethin' somethin'.
I'll be back.
I'm gonna catch you in a second right here.
I started out pretty small, but, um, I quickly grew.
I got to the point where I was I was selling half a bird pretty much every two, three days.
I got to where I was cooking enough to service 200 to 400 people.
Just just on the daily.
Profit on the weekly is 39 to 40 thousand dollars.
I was caught and I almost did some, uh, penitentiary time, so I found an easier way to do it, and I still make a nice earning.
I went from cooking nine zips down to just cooking as they order.
I have a gram of baking soda in here, and I have two and a half grams of coke.
I don't like to put too much soda onto my coke, so that way, it, uh it has a potency to it.
Once we add the water, start to cook it.
I came to LA to pursue my career in acting.
The dream slowly became a reality, because I was being able to fund it by selling the crack downtown.
The cocaine has melted, but right now it's just cooling down.
That will form the crack cocaine.
If you were to look at my social media pages, my Instagram, you'll see me hanging with stars.
I-I can't even watch TV without seeing someone that I know.
These are people that are in my phone logs, that I call.
I've done a couple hundred TV shows.
I'm still currently working in that industry, still trying to be a superstar.
But it's like what they say, you can't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
Well, imagine living that life.
Yeah, that's my life on the daily.
This is way stronger than this.
The high has intensified times 20.
One little small kibble of this about this size that little bitty piece your world is changed.
When all the king's men And all their horses Can't find a way to A way to save you You good? Man? What's your party favors looking like? I loved it.
I did it all.
White picket fence, all that old stuff.
I had three houses.
All of that.
As soon as this damn pipe thing came out, now everybody lose everything.
Out here, it's you go back to the fantasy land, you know.
Just one big old party.
Cavy, cavy, cavy, cavy.
Sup, OG? LA is the making and breaking of me.
Each day I wonder which way is gonna pull the hardest.
Will I fall more to this side, or willÃÂ I fall more to the side I don't want to be on? 'Cause this city does not care.
It does not care at all.
Just ten miles south of Skid Row lies the birthplace of the Bloods and the Crips, and another market hungry for the cartel's coke: Compton.
LA never stops.
There's no time to sleep.
Everybody's gonna get money.
And that's why I think it's becoming more popular and more open.
You can go to a party right now in LA, and it's fucking it's just on the table, you know what I mean? That's the moneymaker, right here.
And everybody's cool.
Nobody give a fuck.
I'm still, like, considered the lower level, you know what I mean? I'm starting off slow, baby stepping right now.
So, I'm only I only do ounces.
O's, you feel me? Gizmo has only been dealing for a few months.
I was working, I had two jobs, bought my first car, IâÂÂm booming, you know what I mean? Everything's going good.
And I caught a fucking DUI.
I lost my license, my car, and my job, all in like, three weeks.
I already had a lot of people hitting me up about it.
I was kind of like a middle man, and I'm like, "Fuck it.
Fuck sending you to somebody else, just come to me.
" And I just kind of started from there.
I'm preparing,ÃÂ I'm about to bust down this eight-ball, you feel me? I'm gonna do, like, two grams.
In doves.
One big gram, or two big grams, and then, the rest, like, 200 in doves.
There's gonna be a point in time where everybody's getting drugs, and I'm gonna be right there, you know what I mean? Like, boom, boom, boom.
Push Yeah Push Yeah Come on Come on, let's go See, I can break it down Like whatever you want Whatever you want Whatever you want When you're starting out, you have to grab every opportunity you can.
- Yo, bro.
- Yo.
Yo, I got you.
Got you.
I'ma break it down Like however you want Organically manufactured - What up, man? How are you? - Yo, bro.
Rat pack, dope sack, rumblin' thump Staying alive, survive Los Angeles Times Dropping-dropping-dropping dimes For protection Your word is your worth The glorified snitch Get it, get it, get it Any time I'm out the house, day or night, I'm looking for potential targets.
My eyes is always open, I see everything.
When it comes to robbing people, I don't necessarily care whether you're a Blood or a Crip.
It don't matter color to me.
Green.
Green the only color that matter.
Money is what matter to me.
If we get some product, we gonna sell it.
Get the bang for our buck.
I've been doing this about all my life.
We used to carry fists to beat people up.
Shit, we got a little older, and we got guns and things now.
I've been in a few shootouts.
It ain't like TV.
I have never been to jail before.
No face, no case.
No name, no blame.
I'm a ghost.
When T-Bone finds a victim, he calls in his gang.
Now I think about it I was born the same year Jordan jumped from the free throw, ha Now I'm up in Hollywood Ballin' in the club Texting shorty for the deep throat Yeah Man, social media is a motherfucker, boy.
This motherfucker right here, flexing.
His Rolex.
Rolex, bands, drink, drinking lean.
You feel me? Weed.
You know he got something else.
This video right here is very tempting.
This video right here has me doing a little bit more homework on this cat, you feel me? Find out where he at and get all of that.
I'll send a bitch in on a nigga, you feel me? Might make her fuck him or somethin', you know.
Suck his dick or somethin', then kick the door in, you know.
And take everything that pussy-ass nigga got, leave him asshole naked.
You see one of these at your face, you're not pretty much gonna fight it out.
It's like a roller coaster.
When you're going up, you're kind of scared, but then, once you're already at the top, going down, it's like party time.
It gives me a big thrill.
Once they've identified a target, they start to plan their stick-up.
We've been seeing an uptick of, uh, activity in general.
It's always an evolving game.
Back at the Mexican border, US Customs are still trying to stem the tide of cocaine flowing to LA.
Over the last four to six months, we've been seizing about anywhere from two to five boats a week.
Agent Nagel andÃÂ his team patrol the waters off La Jolla, California, all night, every night.
Their target, the cartel's smuggling boat of choice, the panga.
So a panga is a Mexican fishing boat.
They're lightweight, small, wooden boats, uh, made for fishing.
Um, 90% of the time, you know, it's legit fishing traffic from villagers and Um, but the cartels will buy them or steal them from the fishermen, and they use them because they're so small that it makes it difficult for us to pick them up on radar.
We've had them slip by us within a mile before and never even saw them, so, they're tough to spot and and pursue.
Yeah, yeah.
At around 2:30 a.
m.
, the team heads out to take up position two miles off the coast, just north of the border.
Here, these little blue dots, they're the target right off here, which is in the kelp, which the boats, when they're coming north, they can get stuck in the kelp.
So we stopped, we're looking.
I don't wanna get in the kelp if I don't have to, 'cause it'll shut down our engines too.
The wait begins.
3:00 a.
m.
is about the time that your body starts feeling it, and so, I think they take advantage of that, they know that, you know, there's probably less people working at that time, or their their head's not totally in the game at that time.
Just something about those hours between three and five, they love to they love to make that run for the border then.
The crew strains every sense, trying to probe the darkness.
Do you hear an engine? You hear that, right? I got one boat, no AIS.
Hands up! Show me los manos.
Los manos! Manos! Manos! Sit down, sit down! Don't move.
Got one, two, three, four, five, six in here.
Five up here.
Eleven.
And there's the vomit bucket.
It's not drugs, it's migrants.
Right now, we're getting hammered with, uh alien loads.
Illegal aliens, people trying to circumvent the, uh the legal immigration process.
They'll have us looking at an alien load over here while they run a narcotics load over here.
Once we've figured that out, they've moved on to something else, so it's always it's an evolving game that we're always trying to to stay one step ahead of.
If the migrant boat is a decoy, it's done its job.
Tonight's coke has gotten through.
Okay, now I don't mean to sound ignorant But a na out here tryin' to get it And I ain't trippin' off of these women Hollywood to me mean money! Back in LA, T-Bone and his crew are headed to Hollywood.
We just hit a lick, you feel me? To offload their stolen product.
We got grams of coke, we got a little bit of weed, and we got some pills.
Cocaine is the biggest drug in Hollywood.
It's a party drug.
We're in a party world right now.
People out here are living "la vida coca!" About to hit these clubs in a second.
Walk in with product, walk out with cash.
This the fun part.
All the hard part is done.
I'm about to be the other me.
It's time to blend in.
Usually, when I'm selling in the club, I walk in and I know a few security guards.
The ones that help me get my product out, I shoot them a little something.
You know, you know who doing coke.
You can spot 'em easy.
UsuallyÃÂ the white people jumping around and sweating, big happy.
You ask them one question, you ask them, "Do you party?" It's a code word: "You party?" That mean you do "you do cocaine?" Yeah.
But sometimes you gotta be careful 'cause there is undercovers.
They do come in there sometimes, but⦠What you need? What you need? I got it.
I'm talking to you! All right, fuck you then! Just get up in here, sell that shit.
- Yeah, man.
- You feel me? - Yeah.
- Get it off.
Let's do it, know what I'm sayin'? Get on some hoes.
- Get on some hoes.
- Leave with some hoes.
Leave with some hoes, you feel me? Probably keep like a gram for the hoes.
It's Saturday night, and all across the city, the party's getting started.
From Compton block parties to elite West Hollywood clubs, LA is jumping.
Come if you're curious to see Pull the tricks out of my sleeve All you find is yours to keep Brave Are you brave enough to meet The desires that you seek? Hold my hand, I'll set you free Welcome to the devil's playground You can tread where demons play Hey, are people fishing in town right now? Can you get it? All right, cool.
Thank you.
Love you, bye.
So, what it means is I'm asking for the highest grade product, which, you know, technically is fish scale.
In LA, if you're rich and connected like Indigo, you can order in high grade coke as fast as a pizza.
When I moved to Southern California, almost ten years ago, I was just constantly in a, you know, in a celebrity environment.
It was like a scene out of the movie Blow.
You know, there's times where I showed up to an after party and there's just a pile of cocaine on the table, and there's just lines, and there's naked people.
But then someone will walk into the room, who is you know, they've got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and youâÂÂre just like, "What?" And they'll just sit there and total Scarface the plate.
Come Pull up your throne and sit Holy shit! Two lines will get you high as shit! You're mentally aware, um, you're very focused, you feel really, really good.
If you were to ask me how much I've spent on cocaine, I couldn't tell you.
Probably upwards of two, three hundred thousand dollars.
Cocaine has totally changed me as a person.
You become manipulative and vindictive.
My lowest point, they use the term blown, where it's like you can't even see the color of my eyes, my pupils are so dilated.
At the time, in my head, because I was "blown" out of my mind, wanted multiple men.
So I had four men and myself.
It wasn't that I had been raped.
I remember every bit of it, and I it just It makes me sick.
I There's that little voice that keeps always telling me, "What the fuck are you doing?" Because you know, you see what it does to people, and you see how it's, you know, affecting their friends and families and But I'm so stubborn, and I don't give a shit half the time, that I just do it, anyway.
Ooh, shit.
- Early night, man.
- Shit.
Hollywood, man.
Hollywood.
Shit.
Half a night, what we get? Ooh, good night.
Good night.
Count that shit up, man, count that shit up.
About 500 right here.
And while the night's still young, 500 pretty decent right now.
Almost about time, we gonna have to get back out in a minute, you feel me? Might have to do it, man.
Shit it's getting cracking now, man.
It's popping.
Get back out there in the field, man.
Zombies coming out, you feel me? In the hour before dawn, T-Bone and Spider head out to make another sale.
When all the king's men And all their horses Can't find a way to A way to save you When all the The new day will bring another car, another boat, and more cocaine.
The dealers and cops alike will await its return, so the whole cycle can begin again.
Wake, wake, wake up, child Wake, wake, wake up, child Wake, wake, wake up