Aquarius

Previously on Aquarius...

I'm Dennis.

You know Dennis Wilson?

You got some good music in you.

Hiya, Bunchy.

By pushing out the contradictions of racism,

you gave birth to me as a Black Panther.

Well, the Panthers want to raise consciousness in the community.

-It needs raising. -"We" now, huh?

-Where were you last Tuesday night, Roy? -He was with me.

She is just what you need.

The shooter is U.S. military.

Lucille said his name is Captain Welles.

I want to make a deal.

Mrs. Gladner, I can't imagine how scared you are.

Hey.

Looks like your boyfriend shut Lucille up for good.

Maybe it wasn't Roy. Could be mob.

Either way, we're screwed. No witness, no case.

We still have Roy. He trusts me.

He'll get me close to Welles, and then sooner or later, I'll...

You're dead.

I can handle myself, Shafe. I sure as hell can handle Roy.

-No. -How are you gonna stop me?

Cut will stop you, as soon as I tell him

we ignored his orders and you're still undercover.

-So, don't tell Cut. -Then Hodiak will freaking tell him.

-He won't tell him. -Sure he will.

Oh, yeah, no. He became big daddy as soon as you were in trouble.

Sam wants me to be a cop.

Sometimes, I think he's the only one around here who's man enough

to let me be a real cop and not a coffee cop.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been shot...

They did it. They finally did it.

They shot King.

The civil rights leader has been shot

while standing on a motel balcony

in Memphis, Tennessee, shortly after 6:00 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time.

Dr. King was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors are operating...

He dies and Watts is gonna burn.

King dies, America's gonna burn.

One witness reported that he entered the hospital with a towel over his face.

So much for nonviolence.

...white man fleeing from the scene,

but the Memphis police have released a statement

that they do not have anyone in custody.

Bull. They got to know something.

Hoover made it open season on King.

Might as well have loaded the assassin's rifle and handed it to him.

There are unconfirmed reports from witnesses who were with Dr. King

of a white man running out of a building across the street

from where Dr. King was shot.

Dr. King was rushed to St. Joseph's...

-I thought you went home. -I was headed home when...

I called. There's something wrong with your phones.

FBI.

When I heard, I...

I wanted to be here.

And you're welcome, sister.

That left 1 dead, 62 injured...

I like that.

Yeah, right, right, right.

They shot King. It's all over TV.

They shot King.

-They shot Martin Luther King? -Who did it?

They don't know.

It's all over TV.

There's a bunch of pissed-off negroes

in the streets of DC, Chicago, New York.

They're gonna riot if he dies.

-That's far out. -Bummer.

Charlie, they shot Reverend King.

On the streets of Washington, DC, New York,

and dozens of other American cities,

carrying portable radios or watching TVs in display windows,

anxiously waiting for word on Dr. King's condition.

We have received few updates since Dr. King was shot shortly after 6:00 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time.

Die.

Die.

Oh, wow.

He's praying for him.

NBC has learned moments ago

that Martin Luther King, Jr. is dead at the age of 39.

The son of a Baptist minister, King was ordained in 1948

by his father and soon thereafter became the voice of the negro community.

As night falls in the nation's capital,

there are reports of angry and grief-stricken crowds roving the streets.

They are the first signs...

They're rioting in DC.

That's just a few blocks from the White House.

Opal.

Opal, slow down. You... Why?

They give you a reason?

Solitary. Solitary?

They must have given you a reason. Opal, give me a reason.

Opal, I can't do this right now.

I have to call you back.

Hodiak. Shafe.

-Commissioner. -I need your office.

Uh, I don't need you.

Will you shut the door on the way out?

The NAACP, Ron Karenga, even Richard Tendaji and United Africa

have all agreed to get their people to not riot,

but I can't get through to Bunchy Carter and the Panthers...

-Huh? -(LINE BEEPING RAPIDLY)

Thanks to the FBI,

who apparently think it's a good idea to jam the Panthers' phone lines,

but not Tendaji and United Africa.

Tendaji and United Africa, these are new to me.

Black separatists. Self-governance or something.

Yeah, Bunchy Carter hates Tendaji and the feeling is mutual.

The UA and the Panthers could start a war in the ghetto

all by themselves.

In order to stop a riot in LA,

I need Panthers on board with Tendaji.

You're telling me the feds won't unblock the Panthers' phone lines

so you can have a conversation with Bunchy?

Well, you didn't hear me say that.

And you didn't hear me say this.

The FBI is not cooperating with my office, for a change.

The irony is that they share their surveillance files...

Give me that.

With our very own red squad,

which is how I know that Bunchy Carter trusts you, Hodiak,

and how I know that Shafe over here's wife is popular with Bunchy.

Shafe's wife is popular with Bunchy?

She volunteered for the breakfast program

five days a week

and is highly regarded by Bunchy. Is that accurate?

I mean, she believes in giving kids a good breakfast but she's not on board...

Good. So, that's why I need you guys to go down to Panther HQ now.

Right now, before it gets dark,

and get them to sign on to stop a riot.

Sign on to what? A pledge?

All due respect, sir, but asking people not to riot

is only gonna goad them into rioting.

Why don't we organize a memorial march for Sunday?

Negroes and whites mourning together peacefully.

Getting people to march and hold hands isn't gonna put a lid on it.

Give this letter to Bunchy.

It explains what the other negro leaders have agreed to,

and it respectfully asks him to cooperate.

Now, go. Now.

The sun goes down in an hour and a half.

Go ahead, make your dumb jokes about Kristin and the Panthers.

I don't think it's funny.

If I were negro, I'd probably be a Panther.

-Is Kristin a Panther? -No.

She just believes in the breakfast program.

She's gonna be pretty upset about King, huh?

He was like a saint to Kristin, the whole family.

-Did you call her? -Tried the house.

Wasn't there.

Thanks.

For what?

For not giving me a hard time about Kristin.

She likes you, respects you.

I respect her, and I'm happy for you.

'Cause after a kid, things can get pretty stale in the bedroom,

but Kristin in a beret and leather...

-Oh! (CHUCKLES) -(STATIC CRACKLES)

Six William Nine, respond. Six William Nine, over.

-Six William Nine, over. -Hold on.

Patching a phone call through to you.

Hodiak. Is this you?

Yes, commissioner. It's Hodiak.

Southeast got a call about a body.

Dead negro girl, white suspect.

Exactly what we don't need today.

Shafe can deliver my letter to Bunchy without your help.

It's your case.

Make sure it doesn't blow up into an excuse for a riot.

It was called in to the precinct at 4:13 p.m.

By a male who identified himself as Jeff Snyder.

The body's been positively identified

as Louisa Burnside by her cousin Steve Burnside.

He lives in the building with his mother, first floor, 1B.

The man who called it in, Jeff Snyder,

he wasn't here when you arrived?

No, sir.

Burnside told me he and his mother

saw a man they identified as Snyder

running away into the back alley.

Who was Snyder to the victim?

-The victim's boss. -He's not her boss.

He's her boss's brat, just out of college.

I'll be with you in a minute, okay?

Why don't you finish up?

Snyder told the officer who took the call

that when Louisa didn't report to work,

he came here to check on her.

Found her dead.

So, Snyder came to Watts after King was shot?

Yes, sir.

And Mr. Burnside told me Snyder's father owns this building.

He also said the victim told him

that Snyder's son had a crush on her.

Crowd outside, they friendly to you?