Bad Country Page #3

This is today.

Is that your house?

That's your wife, right?

Who's this guy?

You know where he's taking them?

I got a pretty good idea.

Look at your wife, Jesse.

Look at her face.

And your son,

look at your f***ing son.

They look safe to you?

I'm all you've got.

I'm all your family's got.

The longer you're in here,

they're up for grabs.

Either you let that happen,

or I get the judge to allow bond.

This never sees trial

and you work for me.

You stand accused of

40 counts of felony theft,

possession of illegal firearms,

possession of a controlled substance,

and 17 counts of

receiving stolen goods.

How do you plead?

Not guilty, Your Honour.

Let's hear the arguments for bail.

Your Honour, this man is a habitual

felon as well as a flight risk.

Our office has

overwhelming evidence

that Mr Weiland poses a serious

threat to the community.

The State recommends

bail be denied.

Your Honour, my client

deserves a reasonable bail.

He has every intention to appear and

to answer to all these false charges.

In addition, he is the sole provider

for his wife and new-born son

who would suffer undue hardship

were he to be incarcerated.

Bond is set at $1 million.

- Thank you, Your Honour.

- You're welcome.

- Yeah.

- How's your family?

Hey, man, let's get

something straight.

I didn't turn because I'm scared.

I done what I did 'cause certain

people crossed the line.

They didn't keep their word.

My word counts.

You promised me a body, Jesse.

How many you want?

Cut 'em.

Cut it!

About time for a new

truck there, Jesse.

It's good to see you out.

A free man now.

What's going on, Fish?

On a Sunday drive, that's all.

The good Lord riding shotgun through

another glorious Louisiana morning.

Say, Jesse...

Lutin's been asking about you.

In fact, a lot of people are.

You tell Lutin I'm gonna

come by and see him.

That's good.

See you real soon then.

This organisation of yours

has become big business.

And professionally speaking, I feel you

need relationships now more than ever.

Now we've done some business

in the past successfully,

but this here is a

much larger scope.

I'm here today because I want

to represent you exclusively.

I feel that you need

someone lobbying for you

on the state level as

well as in Washington.

My company can

provide that service.

Hey, Mr Jesse.

How you doing, kid?

- Where's the old man?

- He's at a meeting.

But you can go on in and wait.

I'm aware that you have

multiple businesses.

However, I feel that you

need one go-to guy.

Somebody who's going to

coordinate those ventures

and see that those contracts

and transactions are realised.

That's my job, Mr Adams.

That's what I do.

What's this going to cost us?

Retainer would be $350,000

plus 10% of any economic growth

that I bring your organisation.

Dan, don't you think

that's a little excessive?

I'll give you 2%, Mr Morris.

That's what it's worth.

You know, Mr Adams,

my daddy always said

good things ain't cheap and

cheap things ain't good.

The advance would be

a drop in the bucket.

The real money is

in the percentage.

And it'd be in your

interest to agree with me.

Okay. Fair enough.

You got yourself a deal.

Okay.

Pleasure.

Maybe now he can

afford a new toupee.

Give us a minute, Kiersey.

I see you added to your collection.

I appreciate you making my bail.

It ain't nothing.

- You got a boy now, a son?

- Yeah.

He got a name?

I named him Tommy.

Nice.

Jesse...

You've been a busy boy

in more than one way.

Well, it looks like you

done just fine without me.

You have business rolling

through the door.

The last time I saw you,

you asked for time.

Time to raise a family,

time to straighten things out.

So, I gave you the time.

And then safe jobs popping up.

Lafayette. Clinton.

New Orleans. Baton Rouge.

All over the place.

The boys think it's n*ggers gone

widespread on a hunt for pig's feet.

But no.

Them's professional burn jobs.

So I says to myself, "This be the work

of a white, respectable burglar."

Jesse.

All that work,

a dozen safe cracking

jobs behind my back,

and never did you consider tribute

or a contribution to the cause.

Just like I said,

I needed a little time.

Well...

Even the prophets, they

stumble from time to time.

Welcome home.

Hey, it's a shame

about your brother.

Y'all wanna talk about crime?

I can tell you things.

Names. Locations.

What boat is carrying drugs,

which ones is guns.

I'm gonna tell you who's

going to get cut up and why.

What I got to know is,

if and when I do this,

if I wear your dog collar,

are y'all gonna do what's right by me and

keep my head from getting shot the f*** up

so I can go see my family again?

'Cause the truth is, y'all need me.

Y'all ain't got enough cops with

enough sense or enough time

to clear them crimes that

already been committed

and, as you well know,

the ones that will be.

I'm the one with the

devil's address here.

Okay, great.

Thanks.

Thank you, Mr Weiland, for that.

- And thank you, everyone, for being here...

- And why are we here?

And why are we focused on white power

prison gangs beyond prosecution?

I don't see how ATF's got any

long-term interest in this.

Hold the phone, gentlemen.

Their sophisticated,

criminal network

was born of a racist ideology

in the prison system.

Let's be clear.

They do not discriminate.

Their ruthless violence

extends to everyone.

Yeah, I'm afraid he's right.

There's no one off limits.

Sure. Yeah, sure. I...

John, if I may interject here

and speak freely for a second.

From a budgetary standpoint, I don't see

how Mr Weiland has enough to offer us

that would warrant sponsorship

or anything of the sort.

There's a list.

I'm sorry, what?

There's a hit list.

There's as much as 12...

Well, might be one or two less now.

A couple of them could

have already been gotten.

Now we're talking.

- And why these 12, Jesse?

- Different reasons.

It ain't so much why or what

they done that matters.

You pick any one of 'em off that list,

they gonna put you on salary.

And you, sir, if I ain't mistaken,

you're Mr Nukes, right?

- First US Attorney, John Nukes.

- That's right.

Well, last time I seen it,

you were number two on that list.

Can you fill us in on the

rest of that list, Jesse?

Yes, I can.

I'll sponsor him.

Jesse's welfare will

come out of our budget.

Anyone with pending cases or leads

for Jesse, see me, I'll loan him out.

Make no mistake, gentlemen.

We will put this criminal

organisation down.

And, Jesse, I'm number

two on that list.

Who the f*** is number one?

Okay.

I don't want to go alone.

You and Tommy,

y'all are everything

in the world to me.

For this to work,

I need you two to be safe.

So I got something to come home to.

It ain't forever.

Hey, look at me.

It ain't forever.

Okay.

- It ain't forever, baby.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- All right?

- I need you to be strong.

- Okay.

- I love you.

- I love you.

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