Avenge the Crows Page #5

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Who gave this to you?

You stupid b*tch.

You still don't get it, do you?

[Angel]

Why'd you do it, Joker?

Same reason as you, ese.

Nah.

Venganza.

Revenge for what?

Old deeds, Loca.

It was the last thing I had

to do to earn my crown.

For Casper...

he was much more... [chuckles]

But the crown,

is for life.

So both of you motherfuckers

are dead. [laughs]

Why you didn't finish it?

[laughs]

I'll let him know you failed.

A long time ago

I memorized this quote.

"The true gentleman...

is the one whose conduct

proceeds from good will...

and an acute

sense of propriety.

Whose self-control...

is equal to all emergencies.

Who does not make

the poor man...

conscious of his poverty...

the obscure man

of his obscurity...

or any man of his inferiority...

or deformity.

A man for whom honor

is sacred...

and virtue safe."

Are you this sort of man...

Angel Ferraro?

Nah.

Nah?

Wow. Well, that...

makes me curious.

Because most men say yes.

It's impossible to be both honest

and ruthless at the same time.

If you're asking

if you could trust me,

well, that's just something you're

gonna have to figure out on your own.

- Hmm. Hmm.

- Since we are, after all,

the remainder of a very large,

bloody equation.

There must be a reason

I'm sitting here.

Yeah.

Fair enough.

So let's go back

to the beginning.

And you must tell me...

what happened to my nephew...

Cuete?

He was murdered

by an RR soldier,

a guy named Joker.

He was an old friend

of Carlos Santiago

and went to him to try to set up a coke

business after a seven-year stretch.

A direct order from

an RR captain in CV.

A guy named Casper.

When Joker found out

that Cuete was Carlos'

connection to the blow...

there was a change of plans.

He set a meet and murdered him

behind Carlos' back.

Why?

Why did he do that?

The story I heard...

is that your nephew

did something to him

while he was in

the Youth Authority, locked up.

Way back.

Yeah, well...

he was always a sick boy.

And what about my men?

When Joker showed up at Carlos'

house and killed your men,

he must have figured out

it was just a matter of time

before you would do the same

to me and my crew.

Enough people knew that me and

Carlos were doing business together.

Sooner or later,

you would have figured it out.

Of course, I couldn't

let that happen.

So me and my people

hunted him down

and we got your stuff for you.

So now, they are both dead...

and I'm talking to you and you

apparently have my goods.

Is that a coincidence?

Nah. Not a coincidence at all.

It ended up this way so that

me and you can make a deal.

What kind of deal?

One that's based

on mutual respect.

And how did you

so eloquently say, huh?

"Where honor is sacred

and virtue safe."

[chuckles]

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

You have my attention.

What are you proposing?

Your boys killed an innocent man

who happened to be my friend.

To answer for this atrocity,

instead of avenging

him in blood,

I want you and your people

to stay away from our blocks.

Not just my blocks,

all of South Central.

You ask a lot.

I just don't want us

to kill each other anymore.

For that, I will forgive

the murder of my friend.

And I guarantee to move

500 keys a month

through my network.

You promise a lot, too.

I formed some unique alliances

with every major player

from Compton,

Inglewood, Watts,

all the way to the North Valley.

Everyone's on board with the ceasefire...

if this goes through.

What about my nephew?

What about his blood?

You'll just have to take that up

with Casper up at CV.

After all, he's the one that

went behind your back.

He caused all this mess

in the first place.

Here's a show of how important

this arrangement is to us.

Consider it a token of goodwill from the

newly-formed South Central Syndicate.

Suppose...

that I believe...

that it was you who

set up this whole thing,

and not some...

RR captain at CV.

Suppose that, but consider

for a moment the future.

We both lost a lot in this,

but I'm sitting right here,

ready to shake your hand,

and give you back what's yours.

Does it make any sense

that I would kill your men

and then come here

and return your goods, huh?

Does it really matter?

There's a lot of money

to be made if we work together,

starting now.

[sighs]

Tell me something...

Angel Ferraro...

Do you believe the world

is getting more civilized?

Probably not.

Probably not.

Yeah.

Probably not.

[gate buzzer buzzing]

Joker is dead.

After he raped my cousin,

I crewed up.

Because of what you've done...

your life is over.

When I met you, Loca,

you were 12 years old.

You remember?

Of course I remember.

Where were we?

I went to visit my cousin in YA.

That's right.

After I got out, the next time

I saw you, you were 15.

Most beautiful thing

I had ever seen.

Just...

perfect.

And you knew.

Even then I know you knew

the power you had over me.

[breathes deeply]

You used me. You f***ing

used me to do your dirty work.

- How did I use you, Hugo?

- Two black males, Franklin Ave., double homicide.

The ones you said robbed you,

which was

a flat out f***ing lie.

Franklin Avenue?

- You never got caught for those.

- Caught for them?

I have to live with them, Loca.

I see their faces.

Out of all the bodies...

those are the faces you see?

We were a team.

We were dealing together.

I was young and I

wanted those blocks.

- I never used yo...

- F*** that!

Just admit it.

Admit you knew

I was crazy about you,

that you manipulated me because

you knew I was in love with you.

In love with me?

You never said anything.

You f***ing coward.

Why my cousin?

It's not your style.

He wasn't supposed to rape her.

Just scare her,

so you'd come running.

He tried to kill her, Hugo.

It was just supposed to be you.

Why?

For Christian.

He was my half-brother.

My blood.

My dad had an affair

with his mom.

He tried to keep it secret,

but everybody knew.

And you killed him.

You shot him

right through his eye.

You think I'd forget that?

[speaks Spanish]

You turned on me

more than once.

In the end, I knew

it was my fault,

but that doesn't change

what you did.

I had every right

to take his life

after what he took from me.

You mean what I took from you?

When I got locked up in here,

I had to prove to the captains

that I still had power on the

outside, so they would accept me,

otherwise they were

gonna kill me, or worse.

One of them had

an old beef with Manny, so...

I asked Christian

to take him out.

And for that...

I earned my crown.

He did it to save my life.

He was my brother.

And it was almost perfect.

No one would have

ever suspected it was him.

But somehow...

you knew.

Clever of you

to give Joker my gun.

Where did you guys hide it?

My dad's garage.

And you knew without the gun

there wouldn't be any proof.

But I didn't need it.

You were there?

He whispered it

with his dying breath.

I would have never

believed it, either.

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