Quotes
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Jim Street : [meeting Hicks, Hondo, and Lynch in his hotel room] Sorry I'm late. Nate got into it with a neo-Nazi.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Gave them hell, I hope.
Jim Street : Of course. Nolan sold ten keys tonight to the Aryans. They're expanding into Wilshire, we should lay off up there, prove my intel's valuable.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : This is really good work, Street. Two weeks in, and you have uncovered Nolan's whole distribution network.
Robert Hicks : Maybe it's time we finally move. We hit now, get a hundred dealers off the street.
Lieutenant Piper Lynch : It won't mean anything unless we find the guy on top: Nolan's new supplier.
Jim Street : Nolan thinks he can become this supplier's main seller. The way he's been talking about this new shipment, it has to be any day now.
Lieutenant Piper Lynch : We still don't know how or where they're moving it in.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : If we got a pure sample of the heroin, it would tell us where it originated. We could start there.
Jim Street : The Aryans just restocked. I mean, you hit them before they dilute it...
Robert Hicks : The Aryans are one step from you in the food chain. We can't risk them connecting a bust back to you.
Jim Street : They're in the middle of a turf beef with the Forty-Twos. You stage it right, they don't have to know it's SWAT robbing them.
[Hicks sighs]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Sir, it looks like it's time to finally bring in the rest of the team.
Robert Hicks : If SWAT can find out how the drugs are coming in, can you get us a when?
Jim Street : Yeah, I'll do my best. I gotta get back to Nate's.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Street.
Jim Street : Yeah?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : How are you holding up?
Jim Street : Tan keeps texting me, checking in. Chris-- she stopped after a few days. I know I can't respond, it's just...
[sighs]
Jim Street : It's been the hardest part of this whole thing, you know.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : I hate keeping this from them, too.
Jim Street : It's all gonna be worth it when we get Nate out of there. I just hope they understand.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Street, he's your brother. I get it, and so will they. Let's just finish this thing.
Jim Street : Thanks.
[leaves his hotel room]
Robert Hicks : This is the longest we've ever had a SWAT officer undercover.
Lieutenant Piper Lynch : This type of work takes patience. And like I told the top brass, I bet my career on this op.
Robert Hicks : And Street's life.
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Victor Tan : What's with the 4:00 a.m. SOS?
David 'Deacon' Kay : We're not on early call. What's going on?
Robert Hicks : We needed the privacy.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : All right, listen up. There's something Commander Hicks and I have had to keep from you. Now, we wanted to tell you earlier, but the operation was only approved if we could keep the circle really small.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : What's this got to do with Street?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Two weeks ago, Street came to me and Hicks asking for help. His foster brother Nate found himself in trouble with a crew down in Long Beach. Turns out Nate was a witness to a large-scale heroin smuggling operation.
Robert Hicks : Though it operates in Long Beach, the reach of the network comes all the way up to here in L.A. And given his relationship with Nate, and his history both with Long Beach and SWAT, we agreed to plant Street within the organization as a disgraced member of the LAPD.
David 'Deacon' Kay : He's been undercover this entire time?
Victor Tan : We watched him quit. That was all theater?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Not so much for any of you, but for the civilians and non-SWAT crowd that was there that day. We needed word to spread that Street was truly done for good. That he had burned bridges.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : You could have trusted us with this.
Robert Hicks : It's an unfortunate necessity. Like it or not, your reactions to Street quitting helped sell his cover.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let me be very clear. Every call was authorized by me, so if you have a gripe, you take it up with me, but you do it later. Right now, we've got work to do.
Robert Hicks : Now, the bar Street worked is a way station between whoever's importing the heroin and the sellers on the street. The owner of the bar, Teague Nolan, sells to bikers, bangers, whoever. This guy doesn't discriminate. Once it's sold, it's out of his hands and in the people's veins.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : We've been on the sidelines, but we're about to get in the game. We're gonna raid the last crew that Nolan sold to. We're gonna grab the heroin, and we're gonna learn how this stuff is being brought in.
Victor Tan : Won't that risk Street's cover?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Not if we roll as a rival crew.
David 'Deacon' Kay : We're pulling a rip?
Robert Hicks : Warrant's already been signed.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Nolan's new shipment could arrive any day. And if we miss it, it could be months before we get another shot to topple this entire pyramid. So let's take these sons of bitches down and bring Street home.
