You know, the view inside wasn't what I expected. After a while, targets stop looking like targets and they started looking like... ordinary people.
Ordinary people who sell drugs to kids and solve their problems with a chain saw.
“Blood Out” · Season 9, Episode 9
In this episode: Don Flack (16), Jamie Lovato (16), Mac Taylor (11), Jo Danville (7), Anita (4), Robert Hicks (4), Sid Hammerback (3), Benny Madera (3)
Boys like that get recruited as young as nine. Now, that's not an excuse for what they grow up to become and things that they do. They join 'cause they want to feel loved, accepted, safe. Things they don't feel at home. Things I didn't feel at home.
You found a better way.
I got lucky.
Somebody breaks the law, they get locked up. End of story. But not all offenders are the same. People can surprise you sometimes.
GMGang member
You want my money... you're gonna have to earn it the hard way.
ALAnita / Lovato
(Hits him on the crotch) Was that hard enough?
Interested in being my friend, Anita?
ALAnita / Lovato
Friends I got. A job's what I need.
HMHector (Toasty) Mendez
Cochina!
Hey! Moron, one more word out of you, and I'm gonna duct tape your mouth shut.
The beauty of a 1972 Buick is very few plastic parts. Means the fire spread nice and slow. Gave the FDNY plenty of time to put out the blaze before the car and its contents were completely burned.
So you're blaming Benny's murder on Carmen?
HMHector (Toasty) Mendez
Just keeping it real, Detective. Call me Honest Abe. I cannot tell a lie.
That was George Washington.
HMHector (Toasty) Mendez
Same difference.
L, want to talk about it?
No.
Hey, come on, you're gonna have to come clean with me sooner or later.
Is there something that you want to know? Go ahead. Ask me.
All right. Your relationship with Benny was more than professional, wasn't it?
Go to hell, Flack!
From where I stand, it looks to me like you're taking Benny's death a little more personal than maybe you should.
Damn right I'm gonna take Benny's murder personally.
Because you had feelings for him?
Because I owe him my life.
I know, Anita. I know what you really are. A cop.
ALAnita / Lovato
That's crazy. You know I would never front like that.
Stop. I'm not mad. I understand you did what you had to do. It's the way this game is played. I just wish it had been anybody but you.
ALAnita / Lovato
You're better than all this, Benny. You have to know that.
You have to walk away, chula. And never show your face around here again, 'cause if you do there's only one way out for either one of us... that's with blood.
How'd he make you as a cop?
He never told me. He didn't tell anybody else either. Because if he would have, I would've been hanging in that warehouse right next to him.
So the whole time you were busy playing Benny, he was busy falling in love with you.
That's why I was relieved to walk away. Different time, different place, something might have happened between us. But my job means more to me than just about anything. So if you think for one second I would do anything to jeopardize that, you're crazy.
This blade's covered in blood, tissue, bone fragments. I'll bet the farm, it comes back to Benny Madera.
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