ALICIA ALL ANTHONY ARLEN ASHE BECK BOYS BREELAND CALEB CAROLE CHILD CHILDREN GIRL GOVERNOR_EAMONS GUARD HASSAN HORACE JAVIER JESSE JOEY JOSH KERRY KIANA MAN MAN_IN_VIDEO MEN PASTOR_JANAE PRESTON RECORDING REPORTER REPORTERS RIVERA SANDRA SARAH SHAMEEKA SHAWN SHAYLA SHERIFF_PLATT SHIRLANE SILAS TREY PRESTON Previously, on Shots Fired. GOVERNOR EAMONS It's possible that all I've accomplished will be overshadowed by the deaths of these two young men. MAN IN VIDEO SHERIFF PLATT Beck was having a bad day, it doesn't make him a murderer. ASHE It makes him a liar. SHERIFF PLATT I heard this was your last week. Going out with a bang? ASHE Might as well. KERRY I'll follow when you are capable of leading. BECK Kerry! SHIRLANE I just spoke to Kiana- where. ASHE There's a young woman in surgery fighting for her life. KIANA It's nothing to do with me. PASTOR JANAE Why am I not surprised to see you here, Brother Terry? SHERIFF PLATT She's being charged with the murder of Joey Campbell. RECORDING JAVIER You recorded us? ASHE Drop this custody suit. JAVIER You're not fit to be a mother. BREELAND Assaulting an officer, resisting arrest won't get you your daughter back. ASHE PRESTON Ashe! PRESTON We got to get you checked out. ASHE I'm good. They beat your ass worse. Way, way worse. PRESTON Whoever "they" are. Nothing seems to be missing, though. Looks like you got here just after them. ASHE He was after Jesse's phone and the video on it. PRESTON Why do you think that? ASHE We just told Platt about it. Too coincidental. PRESTON Yeah, but we have files on The Tours. Notes, witness statements. Maybe they were after the safe house address. ASHE Whatever he was after, he was a professional. PRESTON Both our cases blew up tonight. We got to hit them hard. We have five days. SHAMEEKA Any of y'all seen Shawn? TREY No, ma'am. SHAYLA What, he ran off? SHAMEEKA We got into it. SHAYLA He'll turn up. SHAMEEKA You see him, you let me know, all right? I'm over there in 308, on the other side of the mailbox. TREY I know, Miss Campbell. SHAMEEKA I'm going to check the church. SHAYLA Oh, my God, you don't know. SHAMEEKA Know what? SHAYLA Cops came and arrested Pastor Janae last night. They're saying she's the one who killed your Joey. REPORTER You might remember, Pastor Janae first came to prominence after bringing together the mothers of Jesse Carr and Joey Campbell. She also called for more scrutiny on the Gate Station County Sheriff's Office and, following a dramatic arrest last night and the discovery of a gun, everybody out there is shocked. Mr. Terry, are you responsible for Pastor Janae's arrest, sir? Do you have any comment, sir? ASHE How'd you know the gun was in the church? SHERIFF PLATT Anonymous tip. ASHE You trace it? SHERIFF PLATT Serial number's been filed down. ASHE Ballistics? SHERIFF PLATT It's the gun that killed Joey Campbell. ASHE Take the shackles off. SHERIFF PLATT It's policy. ASHE My interview, my rules. How are you? PASTOR JANAE I spent my night counting civil rights violations. How about you? ASHE Been better. The gun found in your office was the same gun used to kill Joey Campbell. PASTOR JANAE This is so Gate Station- that ain't my gun. ASHE How do you explain it being there? PASTOR JANAE What motive could I possibly have for killing him? ASHE You didn't want drug dealers in the Houses. Maybe he didn't listen. PASTOR JANAE No. We had a break-in a few nights ago. They stole a computer and some speakers. Maybe that's when the gun was planted. ASHE Did you report it? PASTOR JANAE We'd be reporting it to the people who put it there. ASHE Why would they put the body on you, and not some petty lowlife? That'd be easier. PASTOR JANAE Do you know the origin of policing in the South? Slave patrols. White men given the authority to question, search, and harass us. Sound familiar? Policing in the U.S. wasn't created to protect and serve. It was created to control us. They are trying to control me. ASHE As protected as you think you are, folks are talking. Witnesses heard you threaten Joey Campbell. PASTOR JANAE His mama didn't have no problem with me getting in his face when he was messing up. ASHE Did she know you and The Hands got physical with him? HASSAN Don't answer that, Pastor. SARAH I'm having a hard time reconciling the woman we met is capable of murder. GOVERNOR EAMONS Yeah. People rarely show you who they really are. But I'm not going to rush to judgment. Let's hold a beat before putting out a statement. SARAH The press will ask you about it today. GOVERNOR EAMONS I want you to keep them at bay. I don't want anything clouding this event. We are badly in need of a win. SARAH I spoke with both men this morning. They're excited. And very grateful. GOVERNOR EAMONS You have the speech? You're confident about the timing of this? SARAH They brought Gate Station together 50 years ago. And I think that they can help do it again, ma'am. ASHE Hey, Shameeka. SHAMEEKA Hey. ASHE Sorry to bother you. We just need to ask you a few questions. SHAMEEKA I heard they arrested her. SHAMEEKA She say she did it? PRESTON No. ASHE How would you describe her relationship with Joey? SHAMEEKA What'd Pastor say? ASHE We want to hear from you. SHAMEEKA I found out Joey was selling weed. Told me he was doing it to help me out, and I nearly lost it. Pastor stepped in. ASHE Stepped in how? SHAMEEKA She told him she'd help him get into NC State if he stopped hustling. Took him on a tour of the campus and everything. He came home all excited about it. PRESTON Jesse Carr went to NC State. Any chance they knew each other? I don't know, I don't think so. ASHE If Pastor Janae was such a positive influence, why are you not surprised she was arrested? SHAMEEKA I heard Joey was selling again. I asked Pastor to take care of it. ASHE Take care of it? SHAMEEKA Look, I didn't know what else to do. He came home all roughed up, and. And I didn't ask no questions. So if it's true, if Pastor Janae had something to do with my baby's death, then it's my fault, too. We're supposed to protect them, no matter what. Here I am, two boys gone. PRESTON Where's Shawn? SHAMEEKA Ran away last night. Like he punishing me. ASHE For what? SHAMEEKA Losing Joey. PRESTON We've got to keep an eye out for Shawn. ASHE No doubt. ANTHONY They're setting her up. PRESTON Why? ANTHONY They're trying to assassinate the sister. You one of them or one of us? ASHE I don't trust them and I don't trust you. ANTHONY Better stay woke. KERRY Morning. CAROLE Morning. Which one of those boys don't like cheese in their grits? KERRY Mmm- Christian. I haven't had the energy to make them anything but cold cereal the past couple weeks. CAROLE Oh, they'll survive. So. You ready to talk now? KERRY Nothing to talk about. We had a fight. I needed space. CAROLE Space? You need space, you put his butt on the couch. You don't walk out. Thirty-one years, your daddy and I, we never went to sleep on a fight. Now, that don't mean there weren't a whole lot of nights that turned into morning. KERRY Mama, he's different. CAROLE Oh, baby, what do you expect? Of course he's different. He's a grown man who can't go to work, can't go out in public. KERRY You think this has been easy on me? CAROLE No, but this is not about you right now. The world is talking about your man like they know his heart. And now he's wondering if he lost his family. For better or for worse. This right here's the worse. KERRY We've never talked about it. CAROLE Talked about what? KERRY What actually happened- the shooting. CAROLE You asking him is the same as accusing him of murdering that man. Kerry, you know his heart. Do you think Josh is capable of something like this? KERRY No. CAROLE Then never ask him. PRESTON Used to be a Gate Station deputy parked out front. What happened? BECK I didn't need him anymore. PRESTON Your decision or theirs? RIVERA: What difference does that make? PRESTON I just want to make sure they're still being supportive. ASHE They ain't your family, Josh, never were. BECK Is there a point here? ASHE Why are you protecting them? PRESTON We know you know about the Tours. We believe you know what happened that night Joey was killed. RIVERA: What are the Tours? BECK I don't. ASHE Someone broke into our work space, sucker-punched me, and I'm still mad about it. They were after a video we recovered from Jesse's phone. He recorded your stop. They're afraid that if you go down, you're going to take the entire department with you. PRESTON We're giving you a chance to come clean. Tell us what you know, maybe we can help you out. RIVERA Show us the evidence. BECK They don't have a video- they're bluffing. We're done here, thank you. ASHE You lied, Deputy Beck. Jesse didn't open his door. You pulled it open for him after he threw his I.D. on the ground. I don't bluff. PRESTON We have an eyewitness, maybe two who says Arlen Cox killed Joey. ASHE But the murder weapon was found in Pastor Janae's office. PRESTON Which she says was planted there during the robbery. ASHE Alleged robbery- you think the Hands are going to let somebody jack the pastor? PRESTON So why be the loudest person in the room yelling, "What about Joey?" ASHE Takes suspicion off. PRESTON What are you arguing, Ashe? ASHE She beat him. A 17-year-old kid. We can't ignore that. PRESTON So we ignore everything else we know? Look. I know you believe Cory. And I know you believe this department is dirty. ASHE I need a look at that gun. BREELAND I know you all pulled triple shifts to make sure we had a strong presence out there, and the city is grateful. Now that things are back to normal, we got to get our numbers back up. So we need to go fish. Speeders, expired tags, anything you can pull in. These riots ain't going to pay for themselves. All right, dismissed. SHERIFF PLATT I feel like we've been here before. Like déjà vu, wouldn't you say? ASHE I want that gun. SHERIFF PLATT We're in the middle of the investigation. ASHE So are we. And federal trumps Mayberry. SHERIFF PLATT We'll turn it over as soon as we're done with that testing. PRESTON We'll take it now. PRESTON What more can the gun tell us? ASHE Who it really belongs to. PRESTON Platt said the serial number's gone. ASHE When I was in Mexico, we were tracking so many illegal guns coming in from the U.S. Cartels would shave the numbers off, but they were actually embedded three, four layers deep in the steel. The right person can still pull them up. PRESTON Who's the right person? ASHE I'll get it done. ASHE Hey.Appreciate you picking up. JAVIER What do you want? ASHE I'm sorry. I deleted the audio. I was never going to send it, anyway, you know that. JAVIER No. I know nothing when it comes to you. Not no more. ASHE It was a desperate move, Javi, but when it comes to Kai, you'd do the same. JAVIER That it? ASHE I need a favor. ASHE It's not for me, it's this case I'm on. They killed a 17-year-old black boy. I have the murder weapon, but the serial number's been filed. I need to get at that number. JAVIER I'm not the only one who can do this, so. Send it through proper channels. ASHE That'll take days- I need it now. This is what we do, Javi, get the bad guys. JAVIER Get it to me. ASHE Doj courier will be on the next plane. Thank you. CALEB Morning, sir. Your license and registration, please. SILAS I need to reach into my glove box. CALEB Go right ahead. SILAS Can I ask what I did? CALEB You have to signal at least a hundred feet before making a turn. SILAS You've got to be kidding me- how am I supposed to know that? CALEB It's the law. SILAS How much is the ticket? CALEB $150. SILAS $150? I already got a $75 jaywalking ticket I can't afford. And if I can't pay it, y'all will put a warrant out on me and I'll get locked up and lose my job, and I can't pay it no way.Can you let me off with a warning? Just this once, please. CALEB I'm sorry, sir. I'm just doing my job. SILAS Then can at least I go to mine now? CALEB Yeah, have a good day, sir. SHAWN You ready, Mom? SHAMEEKA Been ready for five minutes. SHAWN Mm-hmm. JOEY Last name Campbell, first name Shameeka Why you the best mom, we gonna teach ya You wake up, make us breakfast every day You make us do our homework so we can get an A Such a young and beautiful mommy You're so dang pretty, you're finer than Beyoncé It's your birthday, and we love you Happy birthday, you know you love us, too SHAWN Happy birthday You know you love us, too Happy birthday, you know you love us, too Happy birthday, you know you love us, too. JOEY Happy birthday You know you love us, too Happy birthday, you know you love us, too Happy birthday, you know you love us, too. SHAWN Happy birthday. JOEY Happy birthday, Mom. SHAWN All that! SHAMEEKA SHAWN Are you ready, Mom? SHAMEEKA I've been ready for five minutes. GOVERNOR EAMONS In 1962, segregation was a way of life in Gate Station. Most people accepted it. But not Horace Alvers and Darius Smith. These two men, one black and one white, went together to the Main Street Diner and sat down at the lunch counter. They were taunted, they were humiliated, and they were arrested. But they came back the next day, and the next, and the next, for seven days straight. And then on the eighth day, five people joined them at the counter. And the next day it was ten. And soon, that room was packed with black and white diners, eating together. These two brave men created a new normal. HORACE Governor, you might want to cut it short. GOVERNOR EAMONS It appears Mr. Smith is taking a well-deserved nap. ALL HORACE That's not the kind of nap you wake up from, Governor. SARAH Mr. Smith? Oh. ALL GUARD Governor. GOVERNOR EAMONS Oh, my God. GUARD Governor, we need to go right now. ALL CHILDREN CHILD Kick it! BOYS Daddy! Daddy! BECK BOYS Daddy! Ah! BECK What's going on, crazies? Mama Moore. CAROLE Josh. BECK Go ahead, go play. Hey. KERRY Hi. BECK Look, the way that I acted, taking out all my frustration on y'all. I'm sorry. KERRY The boys missed you. I missed you. BECK I missed you so much more. REPORTERS Pastor Janae Jones currently in custody at the Gate Station Sheriff's Office. Governor Eamons says she's really shocked by this arrest. Janae, who took to Governor Eamons to the Houses. ASHE Hey. JAVIER I'm faxing you the info. ASHE You got the number? JAVIER Yep. ASHE Thanks, Javi. JAVIER Ashe, we're not partners. We're not friends. If it ain't about Kai, don't call me. ASHE The gun used to kill Joey Campbell is yours. ARLEN Excuse me? ASHE You paid for it in October of last year. Old North Firearms. ARLEN Oh, my God. That's my gun. It was stolen. ASHE Really? When? ARLEN About two months ago. My son and I went for lunch after spending time shooting at the range and the gun was taken from my car. ASHE You file a report? ARLEN Of course I did! I know that stolen guns usually end up on the street. And I wanted to do things in a proper manner. MAN Gates Station Sheriff's Office. Yes, ma'am. ASHE Do you have a police report filed by Arlen Cox for a stolen Beretta 92? ASHE Gate Station, best department money can buy. PRESTON Cory and Kiana can be enough to indict. Even if we have to compel Kiana to testify. ASHE Except both are black. Poor. Don't speak the King's English. Justice is supposed to be blind, but she can be a racist bitch. We needed that gun. PRESTON Shirlane's out of recovery. We should find out what she knows. ASHE So where did that ten G's you gave her come from? I know first-year attorneys ain't rolling like that. PRESTON Borrowed it from my brother. ASHE You sure ain't the same cat I met six weeks ago. PRESTON For a minute, I didn't think you were the same person, either. ASHE I know. My head was messed up from the hearing. But I'm good now. PRESTON You know, it's like I want to do what's right, but nobody's playing fair. ASHE We all get into this wanting to ride in on the white horse. But you learn pretty quick you can't play a clean game against dirty players. But you're still good, Preston. PRESTON I think Beck could be guilty. But I don't want to put a brother away for this. And I want Arlen because he's a racist bastard. I don't want to see color, but I do. ASHE What no one seems to get, it ain't about seeing race. It's about seeing where people are coming from. We do that, we do our jobs. ARLEN You can imagine how shocked I was when I discovered that it was my gun that was recovered from the pastor's church. SHERIFF PLATT I was, too, Arlen. ARLEN I want to know how that happened. SHERIFF PLATT I'm finding out. ARLEN Those two people are aiming to blame that killing on me. SHERIFF PLATT They're gonna be gone in less than a week. PRESTON I'm so sorry. I didn't think I was putting you in any danger. SHIRLANE It was almost worth it. This is a hell of a story. PRESTON What did Kiana tell you? SHIRLANE She said she was coming around the corner to see who was hollering, when she heard the gunshot. She saw Arlen Cox kneeling over Joey, holding a gun. Arlen Cox. She said there were two sheriff's deputies with him. PRESTON Did she name the deputies? SHIRLANE She knew one of them. Derkin. He worked the Houses. Didn't know the other one, but maybe if you put some pictures in front of her, she might recognize him. ASHE Kiana went ghost again. SHIRLANE Well, even if you find her, she won't testify. She's too scared. She has good reason to be. SHAMEEKA Alicia? ALICIA I heard on the news. About Pastor Janae. SHAMEEKA I hope you like it. Some folk think I make mine too sweet, but. ALICIA No, it's good. SHAMEEKA Anyone ever tell you your voice go up a little when you lie? ALICIA SHAMEEKA I leave the bags in too long, though. Lord knows I don't need nothing else keeping my eyes open at night. ALICIA Oh, yeah. I can't even fall asleep without a little help. SHAMEEKA It's like I sleep, but I don't rest, if that makes any sense. ALICIA I listen to Jesse's old voice messages. You know, or I watch him. SHAMEEKA ALICIA Do you, uh. Do you want to meet him? SHAMEEKA Yeah. ALICIA Okay.Oh, boy.Let's see. ALICIA Okay, it's graduation, this is my beautiful baby! He's going away! I love you, baby, he's leaving high school! You're leaving high school, how do you feel? JESSE I feel good, ready. Ready, that's good. ALICIA Oh, good, ready for what? JESSE Uh, the world.Go out and conquer. ALICIA Conquer like Deadpool! ALICIA You're a superhero. ALICIA Shawn will be back. SHAMEEKA Play another one. ALICIA Okay. BREELAND Hi, there, boss, how you doing? SHERIFF PLATT Good, Calvert. BREELAND You want to come in? SHERIFF PLATT Maybe we could talk outside. BREELAND Sure. SHERIFF PLATT Okay, well, I guess I'll leave. There's nothing that, there's nothing I need to know. SANDRA Hey, everything okay? BREELAND Yeah, honey. I'm fine. GIRL 12! 12! MAN Just give me the backpack! Give me it! Give me the bag back! MEN CALEB Stay down! Don't move! What the hell are you doing in here? SHAWN Nothing. CALEB Stay down. Come with me. CALEB Now, why would you be in a place like that? SHAWN Nowhere else to go. CALEB What's wrong with home? SHAWN Not trying to be there right now. CALEB You think your mom might be worried about you? It can't be easy for her. Losing her oldest boy. SHAWN It's easy for y'all to kill black people? CALEB Now that's what you think we do? SHAWN I know that's what y'all do. You used to lynch us, and now y'all shoot us. Like we ain't even human, like my brother was a dog. CALEB I'm sorry about your brother. But there's nothing I can do to bring back your brother. Nothing I can do about the lynchings that happened before I was born. You know, I pulled over someone today. I gave him a ticket. He asked me for a break. The guy needed a break. That's all. You know, maybe I'm making you my do-over. SHAWN My brother doesn't get a do-over. CALEB Tell me something about him. SHAWN Why? CALEB Because I'd like to know. SHAWN My brother always used to walk around with a basketball. Like a baller. But he can't play. He thought he could, he was so bad. CALEB Now, you think he'd want you staying in abandoned buildings? Not being with your mom? SHAWN CALEB What? I just wish that she'd just stop trying to make me her do-over with Joey. ASHE Hey, Boogs. Wearing your bracelet. I never take it off. Reminds me I did one good thing. You are the most beautiful girl in the world. And the fastest, and the strongest, and the bravest. You ever feel down, you hear my voice telling you that. I know this is hard, but just remember, this is part of your journey, and one day, you'll be proud you made it through. You'll be like a superhero. You are the very best part of me. Embrace your fearlessness, okay? And your curls. And your pretty brown skin. And your butt.You got that from me, too. You are loved, Kai. So deeply.Don't ever let anyone take that truth away from you. If anything ever happens to me, I need you to know this. I love you, Boogs. GOVERNOR EAMONS I'm sorry about your friend. This was supposed to be a special day. HORACE Life doesn't always agree with our plans, so you have to stay open to new ones. GOVERNOR EAMONS How do you do that? See life so simply, after everything you've been through? HORACE My daddy raised me to be a 24-hour person. GOVERNOR EAMONS A 24-hour person? HORACE It means you're not the righteous preacher that cheats on his wife. You don't do right by the boss and then backstab your friends. A 24-hour person knows who they are. Consistent. Somebody you can depend on 24 hours a day. That's what Darius and I tried to be.I ain't been in that diner in... years. Mind if I go in and take a look? GOVERNOR EAMONS Sarah, you and Trevor take Mr. Alvers inside? SARAH Yes, ma'am. GOVERNOR EAMONS PRESTON So how come we're not just drinking at the hotel? ASHE Better music. PRESTON You want to tell me what the hell is going on here? ASHE I'll be back. Got a minute, Lieutenant? BREELAND Sure. BREELAND What? You looking for a heart-to-heart? ASHE I got your text. You're done messing with my daughter. You're done messing with my head. BREELAND You drove under the influence. You assaulted a police officer. I'm just telling the truth. ASHE So am I. You were there when Arlen Cox killed Joey. You covered it up. BREELAND Well. The difference is that I can prove mine. ASHE What you're missing, Lieutenant, is I'm smarter than you. BREELAND ASHE BREELAND You ever want to be a mother to your little girl again, you better start figuring out what the word "smart" means. You got that, you relentless bitch? Huh? ASHE BREELAND BREELAND PRESTON Ashe. Ashe! Ashe! BREELAND ASHE I just lost Kai. I lost her. PRESTON What? ASHE Breeland made a report. Assaulting an officer, drunk driving. PRESTON Did you? ASHE No, it doesn't matter. He's going send it to the judge and it's over. PRESTON Ashe, I will destroy him on the stand. ASHE I could've killed him. PRESTON Nobody's going to hurt you like that! ASHE I could have killed him, I wanted to. PRESTON But you didn't. ASHE I don't deserve her. PRESTON Don't say that. ASHE I killed somebody's child, why shouldn't I lose mine? I'm no good, I'm no good. I'm not good for anybody, I'm no good. PRESTON Yes, you are. Hey, yes, you are. You are. ASHE You don't want this. PRESTON Look at me. Ashe. Look at me. KERRY Was it self-defense, Josh? JOSH Yes. JESSE Great, po-po. Check this out.