Dragged Across Concrete

577 00:48:24,693 --> 00:48:26,103 This is sounding metaphysical. 578 00:48:27,780 --> 00:48:29,020 You got a tip on this? 579 00:48:29,657 --> 00:48:30,657 Yeah. 580 00:48:31,450 --> 00:48:34,863 My contact tells me that one lorentz vogelmann 581 00:48:34,954 --> 00:48:36,910 is looking for an invisible residence. 582 00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:40,785 And 633 in this tan stucco is where he landed. 583 00:48:45,589 --> 00:48:48,672 Vogelmann, I don't know that name. 584 00:48:49,552 --> 00:48:50,758 Well, he's not local. 585 00:48:52,012 --> 00:48:53,343 What line of work is he in? 586 00:48:54,265 --> 00:48:55,300 Distribution. 587 00:48:57,226 --> 00:48:59,763 Heroin, mostly. Large bundles. 588 00:49:01,814 --> 00:49:03,054 [Scoffs] 589 00:49:05,526 --> 00:49:06,766 What are we doing here? 590 00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:11,319 You asking me this question as a civilian? 591 00:49:11,407 --> 00:49:13,443 Because that's what we are right now, civilians. 592 00:49:13,534 --> 00:49:15,094 No different than kindergarten teachers 593 00:49:15,161 --> 00:49:17,777 or the bum that collects aluminum cans outside my building. 594 00:49:17,872 --> 00:49:19,737 I know where I flung my badge yesterday. 595 00:49:21,167 --> 00:49:22,657 What are we doing here? 596 00:49:22,751 --> 00:49:25,163 We're monitoring a suspicious individual 597 00:49:25,754 --> 00:49:28,996 to try and figure out if he's got any money he doesn't need. 598 00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:36,257 [Sighs] 599 00:49:37,850 --> 00:49:38,965 Anchovies. 600 00:49:43,314 --> 00:49:45,430 - If you don't wanna be part of this... - Christ. 601 00:49:48,527 --> 00:49:49,642 Are you insane? 602 00:49:52,698 --> 00:49:55,360 You get suspended, not for the first time in your career either. 603 00:49:56,368 --> 00:49:57,983 Now you decide to become a criminal? 604 00:49:59,538 --> 00:50:01,498 And what the hell are you even thinking with this? 605 00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:06,419 Well? 606 00:50:09,590 --> 00:50:10,590 Say something. 607 00:50:12,134 --> 00:50:13,249 Talk! 608 00:50:17,598 --> 00:50:19,680 I'm a month away from my 60th. 609 00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:23,096 I'm still the same rank I was at 27. 610 00:50:23,187 --> 00:50:25,803 For a lot of years, I believed that the quality of my work, 611 00:50:25,898 --> 00:50:29,265 what we do together, what I did with my previous partners... 612 00:50:30,861 --> 00:50:32,567 Would get me what I deserved. 613 00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:37,739 But I don't politic, and I don't change with the times. 614 00:50:37,826 --> 00:50:40,943 And it turns out that that shit's more important than good, honest work. 615 00:50:43,123 --> 00:50:46,581 So yesterday, after we stop a massive amount of drugs 616 00:50:46,669 --> 00:50:48,159 from getting into the school system, 617 00:50:48,254 --> 00:50:50,711 we get suspended because it wasn't done politely. 618 00:50:52,132 --> 00:50:54,373 Then I go home and I find my daughter has been assaulted 619 00:50:54,468 --> 00:50:56,333 for the fifth time in two years... 620 00:50:57,304 --> 00:51:00,592 Because of the shit neighborhood my shit wages force me to live in. 621 00:51:01,392 --> 00:51:02,882 And my wife can't help. 622 00:51:02,977 --> 00:51:05,389 She's barely getting through the day on her meds as it is. 623 00:51:07,231 --> 00:51:08,231 They okay? 624 00:51:09,608 --> 00:51:12,725 Yeah. Melanie's coping. Sara's doing okay. 625 00:51:12,820 --> 00:51:15,232 She's dealing with it better than most kids her age would. 626 00:51:16,782 --> 00:51:19,740 But who knows what kind of long-term damage is going on with her? 627 00:51:30,588 --> 00:51:32,704 There's been opportunities before, more than a few. 628 00:51:33,048 --> 00:51:36,540 Take a bribe, pocket a bundle, pilfer cash. 629 00:51:38,596 --> 00:51:42,680 I was a cop on active duty. Today, I'm a poor civilian who's nearly 60. 630 00:51:43,017 --> 00:51:45,850 I can accept that, but I'm not gonna ask my wife and daughter to. 631 00:51:48,814 --> 00:51:52,648 If we put all our collars together, every imbecile we ever nabbed, 632 00:51:53,193 --> 00:51:56,777 it'd probably fill two entire wings of the state prison. Maybe three. 633 00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:03,155 We have the skills and the right to acquire proper compensation. 634 00:52:03,662 --> 00:52:05,368 [Sighs] 635 00:52:08,626 --> 00:52:11,368 - Christ. - Weddings aren't cheap. 636 00:52:11,462 --> 00:52:13,828 Don't be an asshole. That's not what I'm thinking about. 637 00:52:13,922 --> 00:52:15,962 Do you think our wages accurately reflect what we... 638 00:52:16,050 --> 00:52:17,335 Enough with the justifications. 639 00:52:17,426 --> 00:52:20,168 I'm smarter than you by a yardstick. You're not gonna manipulate me. 640 00:52:21,430 --> 00:52:23,887 I saw how you looked at that duffel bag yesterday. 641 00:52:24,433 --> 00:52:25,639 Quiet. 642 00:52:26,894 --> 00:52:27,974 Let me think. 643 00:52:37,780 --> 00:52:38,780 Anchovies. 644 00:52:39,239 --> 00:52: