Man: Previously on "Crash"...
- Ben Cendars. - l know who you are.
Anthony Adams.
So have you driven anybody before?
Not professionally, but l'm sure l can handle it.
Forget that you just insulted me
in front of one of my closest colleagues?
l am trying to mentor the kid.
- Why is he always so-- - You can't take my place.
- What? - You can't take my place.
Battaglia: l'm sorrry your car got damaged
in the line of police duty.
lf it was police duty, the city would pay me off
and you'd have nothing to worry about.
Be careful how close you get.
You're fucking nuts, you know that?
He is my father. l'm taking care of him.
l'm not parking him with strangers.
And you think a major bathroom remodel
is gonna make him love you?
Jae got shot. You're a doctor,
- help him! - l'm an E.M.T.!
Expressing my love for you is against the rules?
You gonna leave your wife?
When someone harms one of our members,
payback must be swift...
- Police! - ...and certain.
( silenced pistol firing )
So what are you saying?
Come up. l have so much to say.
( gunshot )
Axel!
( main title music playing )
( crrying ) Stay with me!
Stay with me, baby.
Come on. l'm here, baby.
l'm here.
Woman: Are you the wife?
- l'm a fellow officer. - lt's family only.
( sobbing )
Hey.
Oh, Jesus.
He's gonna be okay.
He's a tough son of a bitch. You know this.
G.S.W. To the right clavicle. He lost a lot of blood.
They shot him in front of my house.
You saw it? What was he doing there so late?
Maybe we don't have to answer that right now.
- Okay, kiddo? - Mm-hmm.
Captain Fierro.
Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!
Why is it some people can spin
fucking alabaster out of coal
and others couldn't find a diamond
if they were in fucking DeBeers?!
You looking for something, Ben?
l'm looking for a road out.
Maybe l can Google it.
( laughs )
We have to change lanes, Anthony.
The path l'm on leads to one place:
that dark good night, and not yet!
l hear you, but l thought you said hip hop was dead.
lt's a fucking zombie, and you can't kill a zombie,
as much as l'd like to bury it next to Chubby Checker.
Hip hop's still stumbling around.
As long as there's a penny to squeeze out of it,
l'm in the game.
You're looking for the next big thing.
l'm talking about reinventing the genre.
Now that l like.
What's the best they got?
They got 16-year-old trust-afarians,
and every other white kid in America
hanging their pants off their asses,
blasting misogyny and reverse racism
out of their tinted windows
of their borrowed B-M-fucking-W's.
You gonna change all that?
What do you see in the future, Anthony?
Besides a mushroom cloud over the Middle East,
and ice caps melting at the North Pole--
What do you see for you?
l see whatever l'm gonna make for myself,
whatever l'm gonna choose.
A blank canvas
and a treasure chest all in one.
l see that too.
( speaking Spanish )
( police siren wails )
Hi. Who are you,
a friend of lsodelle's or something?
l'm sorrry, l thought she called you.
l'm Sean Adams, the architect.
We had an appointment for 10:30.
Yeah, we did. l'm sorrry.
l got it. Strange black man in your house--
good thing you didn't have a .45 in your purse.
Well, who says l don't?
l've heard a lot about you.
Why don't you tell me about some of your projects?
K-Town Killas.
- lt has to be. - Mmm.
Two of their guys went down the night before.
Axel was deep into that case, right?
- That E.M.T.-- - Yeah?
Axel said that he patched up one of the shooters.
Better bring him in.
All right, l'll do it.
Hey, look, you can't be in the middle of this one, kiddo.
lt's too incestuous.
Prosecution won't be able to use anything
- if you're involved, so-- - l have to do something.
You can't be super-kick-ass cop woman, not on this one.
That's why we're shutting you out.
lt's for your own good.
l promise we'll bring this guy in.
l'm not sitting this one out.
You're just gonna have to trust me, all right?
All l keep thinking is
that his wife is down there holding his hand
and l'm not.
Yeah.
There's nothing you can do about that.
Lisa, Jimmy, come here. This involves you.
And boys, come in, huddle up.
lt'll take two minutes.
All right,
See, we got a cop down. Now you know the drill.
l'm not saying we need to go out there
and start some vigilante group,
but we got to get out there
before the trail gets cold, all right?
lt can't wait for formalities.
So let's round up whatever Killas
that haven't scurried back into their hole.
Make sure they spend a night in lock-up, okay?
Cool.
l'll take care of the E.M.T. But Matt, you and Buggy,
you take the arcade on Vermont.
Santoro, Hillcrop, l'm thinking
pool hall on 7th maybe.
Listen, no heroics, all right?
Everrything by the book.
Now bring in the shooter and make sure everry charge sticks.
You got it?
Thanls, guys. l appreciate it.
All right, get out there. Let's be safe.
Mrs. Finet, hey. Any word?
- He's out of surgerry. - Good.
Just so you know, we're doing all we can
to find the guy who did this.
Who are you supposed to be?
Excuse me?
Concerned fellow cop?
The lieutenant and l work at the same house.
Oh. ls that where you fuck him,
or do you get a motel?
All right, ladies, this isn't--
don't pretend that you were going to tell him
to go back to his wife and child
or come to my house and beg forgiveness
for all the shit you put us through,
you fucking spic slut!
- Get her off me! - Hey hey!
- Get your hands off me! - Just relax!
What, you're her partner? What, you protect her?
- Calm down. - Who protected my husband?
He's here because of you!
No, l have nothing to do with this!
He was shot at your house!
lf he dies, my life is over!
You can always go fuck another cop!
All right, that's enough!
What the hell am l supposed to do
with a fatherless boy and a fucking pension?
Puta!
- All right, all right... - ( sobbing )
Just breathe.
Fuck you!
So you want to knock down this wall,
blow out the closet, expand the bathroom.
Yes. Yes! Thank you.
My dad just moved in with us
and he just had open-heart surgerry.
So a walk-in shower with a built-in seat may be best.
Exactly.
That way his nurse lsodelle
won't have to get him in and out of the tub.
You know, overhead rain showers are big now,
so we should probably put one in.
- lt helps with resale. - Cool.
And let's add a handheld
so Dad's nurse won't get too wet.
Good.
Now, are we gonna have to knock down this wall
and move pipes?
l'm concerned about ending up with a prefab shower unit.
Don't worrry about that.
Just build the shower in the corner at an angle,
extend the pipes from the tub. Not a big deal.
Great solution.
l can show you some mosaic tile.
l just got some from Ann Sacls.
But in stone?
Mmm, l like it.
Anything else you're thinking about changing
besides the bathroom?
( man speaking Spanish on P.A. system )
( speaking Spanish )
Okay, l've always wanted to open this up--
blow out the walls, put in huge windows,
you know, let in light.
lf you move the fireplace down here,
you could combine these rooms,
make one large living area open to the patio.
We don't really use the fireplace.
Really?
lt's always so much colder on this side of town.
My husband doesn't like the smell.
So convert it to gas.
l don't think he'd think it was worth it.
Listen, if you want to stick
to the original plan, that's cool.
l'm just getting the hint
that you want a little more harmony.
Hmm.
l never noticed this.
What's wrong?
The kitchen's in the wrong place.
Look at it. lt's tucked away in the back.
lt's sticking off the end of the house
like an appendage or something.
lt should be here, right where the dining room is,
in the middle of everrything. lt's crazy--
you buy a house, spend a fortune
decorating your living room
and then when you have people over
they always end up in the kitchen.
Right? lt's the center of the action.
Who are you?
Peter, this is Sean Adams, the architect.
Oh.
This is my husband.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
Oh. So l guess by now you've seen Christine's
- graffiti. - Oh, yeah.
Renovating that bathroom
should be pretty straightforward.
Right finishes, l could keep it under 25 grand,
six weels to be safe.
Well, l've got a guy who can do it for less and less.
Get us an official estimate--
Peter, we've been talking about some other things too,
not just the bathroom.
Like what?
Your wife's got some great ideas.
l would never have seen it, but she pointed out to me
that the kitchen's in the wrong place.
lt's tucked back there like an afterthought.
Move it out here, it becomes the focal point,
the center of things, like it should be.
Move the kitchen?
Knock out this wall,
move the fireplace, convert it to gas,
take these walls out, open up the whole place.
Thanls so much for your time-- Sean?
And get us a quote on the bathroom.
We'll bid it out.
- Okay. - All right.
- l'll walk you out. - Okay.
This is Def Jam's number-one release,
recorded by Hose. ( chuckles )
l don't think l heard of them.
They were a punk-art-related band
influenced by Flipper.
Lead guitarist-- Rick Rubin.
- No shit. - ( laughs )
Attaboy. Can we play it?
Some things are better seen and not played.
Okay, note the pale brown paper sleeve.
lt's a blank slate--
when he was still just Frederick Jay Rubin.
- Mmm. - This is fame,
and a zygote. This is historry.
And it also proves one more time
that legends can come out of nowhere,
just like my latest project.
l thought he was the driver, no disrespect.
No, that's my protégé.
Now, you may have the present, but l got the future.
Now, Jim Jones,
rapper artist extraordinaire,
up-and-coming mogul, l would like you to meet
my man Panic.
- Panic. - Panic.
Panic, what's up? That's kind of fly.
What do you do? You produce tracks, you rap?
- Um, l write. - Yeah, he does it all.
- He does it all? - Yep.
There it is, Panic. Time for us to hear the future.
Why don't you come down to the studio
so l can see how you spit?
That is a great idea. We're gonna be there.
We all about that new music, so, you know--
Oh, l know. You just wait till you hear what l got here.
This is somebody we both can invest in and we can share.
l don't know about that.
l don't think sharing is my thing per se, but--
Well, me either.
For the most part l respect what you've done
for the business and the historry of the business,
and collaborating on the future might not be too bad.
lt just depends on what you do
with your man Panic over there.
Thank you, bro.
All right, well, l'll see you soon.
We'll see you in the studio.
Ben: We'll come down sometime later today.
Eddie Choi?
l need you to come with me and answer some questions.
What's wrong?
ls there a problem, officer?
A case you were questioned on--
Detective Finet-- ring any bells?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
Somebody shot him last night.
- ls he dead? - You better hope not.
You think l did it. l didn't do it.
lt doesn't matter what l think.
l'm just here to bring you in.
- l'm a suspect. - That's what l'm saying.
Bro, do you need me to call a lawyer?
l had no reason to shoot him.
- Oh, is that right? - Mm-hmm.
( whispering ) Do you really want me
to cuff you in front of everrybody?
This is a big mistake.
Yeah. Turn around.
- This is all a mistake. - Turn around.
- l didn't do anything. - Turn around.
- l didn't shoot anyone! - Turn around.
You want to play it this way?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
You think you're gonna win?
You're never gonna win.
Let's go.
You want to know how you get kicked off
the cover of "Dwell" magazine
down to doing a bathroom remodel?
Were you checking up on him?
He got kicked off an 18,000-square-foot new build
in the Palisades. Couldn't deliver on his designs.
And then he wouldn't refund
the quarter-mil down payment.
Well, l don't know about that.
l like what he has to say.
Sweetheart, it's not the time to be asking
for a raise in your allowance.
Don't talk to me like l'm a child.
Then don't act like one,
totally oblivious to the real world.
Which you're out there conquering daily.
What do you do, Christine?
l watch my husband make bad investments.
No, l mean what do you do?
How much time could it actually take
to get your nails done, pick up the drry cleaning?
Fuck you.
You want to talk about a bathroom remodel,
l'll humor you.
But l am not moving the goddamn kitchen.
Sorrry if l upset you.
Not much of an apology.
lt wasn't meant to be.
( speaking Spanish )
( plastic rustles )
- Hey. - Hi.
Hope you don't mind me dropping by.
l've got a another project in the neighborhood.
Thought l'd check in.
Not at all. Come in.
l'm sorrry about yesterday.
Oh, no. l'm sorrry.
You got caught in the middle of that.
- Peter and l are not s-- - Hey, listen,
renovation's harder on a marriage than an affair.
l guess l should just feel free to cheat on my husband.
You're not giving up, are you?
- l wouldn't say that. - Listen,
what you said, your ideas--
l've been thinking about them.
You just want a job.
True, but l really want this job.
You got a few minutes? l want to show you something.
You're gonna think l'm nuts--
One of us must be.
But when you were talking about opening things up,
letting the light in--
- Forget about that. - Why,
Because your husband only sees dollars and cents?
What you're talking about--
l don't know what l'm talking about.
l do. lt's called an artistic vision.
No, really.
And it made me think of this painting.
Now, it's abstract,
and it won't make any sense,
but to me, this is what you mean.
At the end of the day, you want your house to feel
like this.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
What do you mean, you don't rap?
l write poetrry, not rap.
What was that mix tape you played me
when we were at the stop sign?
l didn't play a mix tape. You told me not to, remember?
What?
What are we gonna do now?
Man, it looks like you're the one
we should be calling Panic.
This is terrible.
l mean, my reputation is on the line.
At least you have one.
My career will be over before it even gets going.
Laughed at by Jim Jones?
Man, we gotta cancel this shit.
Cancel?
He threw down the gauntlet.
Pick it up, young Harrry!
This is St. Crispin's Day!
Ben, Ben, stay on earth, man!
We got a real problem here.
- Get your stuff. - What for?
True genius is never planned.
Hey, easy on the brakes, Sebastian!
Cocksucker, this ain't "Driving Mr. Blackie."
lf only Cain had cultivated the proper crop to the Lord.
Are we gonna rehearse?
Do you always ejaculate prematurely?
l just figured it'd probably help
if l ran it a couple of times.
The transmission of ideas in verse form
lends itself to a natural rhythm.
You feel the beat of the African Diaspora
cruising through your veins--
bebop to blues to funk
to gospel to the heartbeat of your people.
Sebastian: Back then the traffic wasn't so bad.
Now it's pure body congestion,
a bonanza of moveable stains,
leaving their mark wherever they go.
lt's too bad there's no disinfectant
to wipe out the detritus
on these streets and in our homes.
You want this seat?
l'm keeping it warm. You must want it.
Right? You wouldn't want a cold seat.
You wouldn't ask for that... ( voice mutes )
Now listen. You're the fucking talent.
He's asking for your services,
so you walk in there like a star.
You behave like a star and you will perform like a star.
Got it.
Now, inside that studio
there will be a mountain man.
He's 6'1" without shoes--
the ZZ Top brother they keep hidden in the attic,
and his name is Smokey.
- ls he a producer? - Close-- a dealer.
( muffled ) l hate you! l fucking hate you!
No matter what happens, you cannot let me near this guy.
lf l get my hands on his drugs,
your career and mine will be over.
My clarity is crrystal
until the devil offers his confections.
You take it.
l can't be within five miles of Smokey's goods
with money in my pocket.
l'm helping you, so it's only right that you help me.
( muffled ) Well, welcome to Ben Cendar's heart!
There's enough hollow space for two,
but you're the lone resident!
Oh, shut up, Sebastian!
Enjoy it, Anthony!
You wanted it, you fucking got it!
Well, l guess the talent walls.
So, after college l moved to the city.
l took some classes at Parsons
and l thought l'd become a Village bohemian.
What happened?
l got married,
got pregnant,
got real.
So what about you? Where are you from?
You ever been to Watts Towers?
l've always been meaning to go.
Do yourself a favor.
Head toward MOCA or the Music Center
or any other real reason a nice white lady
has to find herself downtown.
Your family must be really proud of you.
l don't know about that.
So, you ever been pregnant?
l do have a son.
Fortunately my ex-wife carried him.
Oh.
Do you see him much?
All the time. His mom and l get along well.
He's 16. His name's Charles.
My daughter Megan just turned 17.
Goes fast, huh?
Yeah.
So, l want you to do this job.
Okay. Let me go away and draw up some plans.
l'll come back with a full presentation, budget.
We can find a way to reapproach your husband.
Don't worrry about my husband. l'll handle him.
( speaking Spanish )
( pistol fires )
l'm gonna be your girlfriend right now.
l'm a great listener, and you know what?
l give pretty good advice.
l just want you to know l'm here for you
if you want to talk or whatever.
Well, would you look at this?
Arcel: That's the car we crashed into.
Have you been following them?
( siren wails )
Oh my God. Don't do this.
Settle down, will ya?
lt'll take five minutes.
God damn it, Kenny.
You got my back, there, partner?
License and registration, please.
What? Are you pulling us over after what you did?
Ma'am, l know you're a handful,
so l'm gonna ask you to restrain yourself today.
l'd appreciate a little self-control.
Like you should talk.
You're in a vehicle that's a danger to public safety.
lt appears unsafe to me.
- lt's because you rammed me! - Hey!
( chuckles ) l was there. l wouldn't exactly say that.
Step out of the vehicle, please, sir.
Come with me, please.
Stay in the car.
Just stay in the car. Thank you.
Have you been drinking?
No.
- No? - No.
Then you'd have no problem with a sobriety test?
Close your eyes, extend your arms out to the side,
raise your right leg.
Sir, if you're sober you have nothing to fear.
Let's go.
Now your left leg.
Just need to test your balance, that's all.
Fuck.
l'm shutting this down.
He's got alcohol on his breath.
Okay.
All right, ma'am, let's do this.
Get out of the vehicle, please.
Put your hands against the car, please.
Put your hands against the car.
You have anything sharp on you?
There you go.
Could you stop this? He's watching.
- Hmm? - He's watching.
l'm just a cop doing my job. Relax.
l'll give you a fix-it ticket today, sir.
Okay.
You keep harassing us, or come to the house again,
you don't want to know. He could do something terrible.
ls that right?
Sweetheart, you drank the Kool-aid.
Or rather, he drank the Viagra to keep up with you.
l gave them a fix-it ticket for the door.
She's clean.
Okay, here's a number to a body shop.
Tell them Officer Battaglia sent you.
They'll fix your door
so l don't have to keep pulling you over like this.
Stay out of trouble.
Thank you for your time.
Hey.
( moans )
Mmm.
l thought you were pissed.
l was.
This is makeup sex.
No no no no.
That's it, baby.
Now you stay there and just fuck me.
( moaning loudly )
Holy fucking shit.
- That was-- - ( laughs )
pre-kid sex!
What is going on with you?
l'll sell off one of
the rental properties in Valencia.
There's a developer wants to put in a parking lot.
l thought you said the bubble burst.
lt's not a good time to sell.
lt'll give us enough for the bathroom
and the kitchen.
l'm so sorrry about yesterday.
lt's just, l'm out there everry day
hustling, making connections, trrying new business models--
hustling.
l'm just not getting any results.
lt's not happening anymore.
And then you bring your father in here.
lt's hard enough bumping heads out there all the time,
but to have to do it in your own house,
it's too much.
l know this is important to you--
important to us.
My wife wants it,
l'll make it happen.
So you'll list one of those properties tomorrow?
Sure.
Sure l will.
Bebe.
No, it's me,
Ann.
l'm so sorrry, baby.
No, l am.
l thought you were leaving me.
Are you leaving me for her?
l don't know who l've been.
But you are my wife,
and-- and Nikki--
l have to be with you.
l fucking shot you.
Just don't do it again.
( both laugh/crry )
Jim's back there waiting for you.
Panic in the house.
What's up, buddy? How you doing?
All right.
We had car problems, man.
Don't worry about that, man.
The crew, everrybody.
Good to see you.
Hey, Smokey, long time.
- Old friend. - Hey, hey, all right.
How about you watch from over here?
Hey, man, it's all on you now.
Can you play this CD?
The booth is right there.
Let's see what you got. The world is yours, baby.
Yeah, let's see him do it.
( sighs )
Hey, Panic, you all right in there?
He's good. He's good.
( piano track plays )
( music tracks play )
♫ Violent ain't what l'm trrying to be ♫
♫ But this violence follows me ♫
♫ Never had money for a PhD ♫
♫ Now l get money when l make these beats ♫
♫ Give to my hood, renovate these streets ♫
♫ Speak from the heart, motivate my peeps ♫
♫ Every day a struggle trrying to find some peace ♫
♫ Never had shit, never be shit ♫
♫ But l keep my head up ♫
♫ Nigga got to get that cheese ♫
♫ Living the dream ♫
♫ lt's all right but it ain't all good ♫
♫ We're misunderstood, so we're bound to repeat ♫
♫ The same old things ♫
♫ Same old ghetto, 20-inch rims on the whip ♫
♫ Gold chains and a diamond ring ♫
♫ Smoking that shit, selling crack cocaine ♫
♫ Tattoos of the dead on me ♫
♫ lt's mostly poor folk and lonely ♫
♫ Never made it past the age of 18 ♫
♫ That's why brothers like me get locked up ♫
♫ Made a slave, shackled in handcuffs ♫
♫ Pants saggin' ♫
♫ Packed up in the back of the wagon ♫
♫ Dog, get off me, you're killing me softly ♫
♫ Brush it off me ♫
♫ Speak like l know but l gotta go ♫
♫ Five-O want to freeze my payroll ♫
♫ lt's unlikely that l do the right thing like Spike ♫
♫ Nigga's too caught up ♫
♫ Look at all us want to ball up ♫
♫ To the club and the mall up ♫
♫ Till we fall up ♫
♫ l'm lost, trryin' to find my way back home ♫
♫ l've been gone for way too long ♫
♫ Was a king, now l'm back to claim my throne ♫
♫ My black queen and my black family ♫
♫ That l was taken from! ♫
We caught that. That was crazy right there.
- That was hot. - l appreciate it.
That was good shit right there.
You got one of them type of flows.
No one ever tell you that?
No.
l'm thinking you should let me
use that for one of my tracks.
Yo, you serious?
Have you ghostwrite for one of them, or, it depends--
you got something else?
l can't lie. Your boy's got it. You was totally right.
Your boy is the truth.
He might be the future.
l told you.
What he just did, if we put that on a track,
he's gonna blow up overnight--
overnight success, man.
No, l want the master.
Huh?
l want the master.
l want his master now.
l want the master now-- his.
All right, um--
get Mr. Cendars the master so they can get out of here.
Ben: All right, then.
All right then.
Appreciate it.
Ben.
Hey, tell me you saw that, man.
Tell me you saw me kill it in here.
- You failed. - Failed?
l fucking nailed it, man!
You would know if you were actually here to see me.
No, you failed me.
- l was with Smokey. - Oh, don't put that on me.
l already did, in the limo.
And you agreed because you wanted fame.
l didn't ask to be put in this situation, all right?
But l went along with it.
l fucking killed it.
l owned up.
Now you do the same.
l'm dying.
Yeah, just look at me.
This is--
This is what death lools like.
Yeah, you stepped up today. You owned up.
You shined out here.
l don't shine anymore.
Ohh...
Hey. Hey, come on.
l'll take you home.
l'm just a little sick.
Watch it. lt's the door.
( end title music )
( music ends )