Deadlock

It was literally one of the most traumatizing

I"ve ever had in my whole goddamned life.

Turn that shit down. Ain"t gonna tell you guys again.

It was probably my 8th birthday. My mother was yelling at me.

She was like, "Hey, you clown. Why don"t you go to the fucking clown prison

or the circus is gonna come over here and take you away

"with all the rest of you and the rest of the clowns."

That"s what she kept telling me, because my mom was a clown,

just like you two clowns, playing this NSA bullshit.

That"s what it is, you clowns. Two fucking clowns!

Goddamn it, I gotta take a shit.

All right, you guys ready?

Rakestraw, you and me, we"re taking the front.

Bledsoe, Manningham, around the rear.Copy.

Let"s take these fuckers down.

Hey! Get down, get down, get down, get down!

Get down, get down, get down!

Get the fuck down! Get the fuck down!

Put your fucking hands in the fucking air!

Shots fired, officer down. Officer down.

Fuck!

Careful.

One more step.

Yeah.Yeah.

He had a gun.

Not on us.

No, wasn"t our fault.

We were just doing our jobs.

Just doing our job.

Yeah.

Breaking news coming out of Fitzgerald County.

Cops performed a drug bust on a suspected meth house earlier today.

A small team led by Sergeant Fulbright

found the tenants armed and were fired at upon entry.

Fulbright and his team returned fire,

killing three of the four occupants.

One officer was injured, but is in stable condition.

Located at 1308 Peach Avenue, officers say the drug

was one of several on their list of targets.

Sean Whitlock was taken into custody,

facing charges of drug possession

and assault with a deadly weapon.

Sean"s brother Kyle Whitlock

was among those killed in the gunfight.

Sources say they lived in a two-family home,

sharing it with the other two suspects killed on sight.

An investigation is ongoing.

Ronald Whitlock?

Maybe. I"m not sure if you heard,

but there"s been an incident.

Is there a problem, sir?

What kind of question is that, son?

There"s no need for the attitude.

Cops killed them.

A bit more complicated than that.

It"s crystal clear to me.

I think both of you should get the fuck out of here

before I... I do something really bad.

I got a wife and two kids.

So did I.

Oh, my head.

Ooh my, this is a bad one.

Hey, Cal, how much did we drink last night, baby?

You didn"t get in no fight, you didn"t make out with nobody.

And we didn"t drive.

That"s a win.

Ooh.

Oh, this is a bad one, Cal.

Oh, come on, man.

Fuck it.

What"s up, Mack?

Come on, Tanner.

You look like shit.

Said the crackhead on the front porch.

What the hell you want?

Seeing if I could bump a smoke, grab a few bucks.

You ever think of getting cleaned up?

Yeah. Did you hear the big news?

Nah, what?

The cops, they arrested the wrong guy,

Kyle Whitlock, he"s innocent, man.

And they killed Sean, dude.

Oh, yeah?

How you know that?

I was there. It"s a cover-up.

Right.

And the aliens are taking over the government.

Man, is it cool if I hang out here for a few hours?

Thanks, Mack.

You got it, Tanner.

Right, let"s keep moving it. Roll on, roll on.

Oh shit.

Hey, man. Morning, Mack.

Good to see you, man.

I heard you tied one on last night.

Well, good morning to you too, Decks.

Hey, you let me see your badge, man.

Let"s get you in here. All right.

There you go.

All right, let me see.

Okay, now... Oh, shit. Wait a minute.

It says your badge is expired today, man.

If you"re gonna stay on,

you"re gonna need to go see human resources

and get a new badge. Oh, come on, Decks.

Ah, you can handle that, man. That"s how it works.

All right.

Have a good one.

All right, next. Roll on, roll on.

Come on, let"s go. Here we go.

Good morning, Mack. You still here?

Oh yeah. Loving every minute of it.

Damn, girl, you about to pop.

Any minute, I"ll tell ya, just over here, having a ball.

I"ll bet. Hey, Paula.

You tell your old man for me, I ain"t paying that speeding ticket.

All right, Mack, I"ma tell him.

No, no, for real.

Asshole.

Oh, come on.

Well.Yeah.

Come on, let"s go. Keep it moving, keep it moving.

This is not your first rodeo.

There we go.

There we... Holy shit. Look who it is.

M-A-C-K Karr, Mr. Touchdown.

What up, baby? You know,

last night, you were ranting and raving

about how you"re about to light up for the territories.

I know what I said, Blaylock.

I was there, damn it. Just...

you know, had a change of heart. Change of heart?

Since when? Since last night? Oh. Ha-ha!

Come on, let"s go, keep it moving. This ain"t your first rodeo, there we go.

I did not think I"d see your ass in work today.

You were saddled up with me at the bar last night.

And I only remember drinking beer.

Oh no, brother, we went hard after that.

I didn"t know any better,

I"d think somebody slipped me a Mickey.

Why don"t you take the day off? Go home.

Oh come on, Boone. We"re cut from tougher cloth than that.

Rangers lead the way, brother.

All the way, baby.

Security. Hey, Skip. Cranbrook.

Fitzgerald Hydroelectric.

Cranbrook, how is it looking, man?

Good, really good.

Except one small school bus coming in.

That"s about it.

All right, I got eyes on you, man.

Great. Appreciate you.

Uh, look at that.

Bummed me with a pair of twos.

What"d you get, Cranbrook?

Goddamn.

Howdy, Mack. Oh hey.

What they got you on today?

Well, they got me over at Floodgate 8.

Did you hear back from UGA?

No. Guess I"m just gonna have to keep welding by day. Hey, Amy.

Did you hear back from GT?

I"ll see you around, Mack.Yeah.

I don"t know why she does me like that.

Well, GT is Georgia Tech.

So, Amy"s hoping for Georgia Bulldog Graduate School.

I heard you made a scene last night at the juke joint.

A scene?

Moi? No.

Hollering about leaving.

Mack, you"ve only been back for a month.

Did you get the box I sent? Yeah.

I mean, did you have to send all the pictures, Soph, I mean?

You know, didn"t you at least wanna keep a couple?

I kept one or two.

Just in case you don"t come back from one of those trips

you take with your old Special Forces buddies?

Well, we all can"t be silver-spoon-up-the-ass,

corporate types like Smith, now can we?

Mack, don"t start. Now I get it.

So if I had learned just a little bit less than you... Okay, stop.

About running this place... Mack, stop.

No, no, and gone head to head with you

for the position of plant director,

and beat you out...

then we"d be together.

Is that what you"re telling me? No.

If you had just stopped being a dick,

then we"d be together.

Oh.But we both know that"s not gonna happen, now do we?

I"m so much more qualified to run this place than him and you know it.

You left me, remember?

Is there a problem here?

No.

No, we all good.

Who ate your breakfast, Cranbrook?

Come on, now.

Have a great day. See you later.

Come on, hi.

Okay, welcome to Fitzgerald Hydroelectric.