play. emmylou harris says, if you want to hear about country music, get a merle haggard album. put it on a track, any track, and you will learn what country music is. your playlist, which is available on the interwebs to the folks watching tonight, is so extraordinary. tumbling tumbleweeds, by the way, michake nesmith has an excellent remix. patsy cline singing crazy. emmy lou, waylan, kristofferson. you mentioned roseanne cash, and her masterpiece, seven-year ache. if you hadn t done pancho and lefty, i would have lost hope. our entire seventh episode resolves around pancho and lefty moving through the snake of
and he shook his hand. he gave his number, said call me whenever you need anything. you need to have a good friend when you re doing this. if you re nervous, paranoid, that s how things are going to come off. if you re relaxed, you know, you re doing good. with one successful buy under their belts, investigators blan to do many more with poncho s help in order to build a conspiracy case. but they want to send out his partner lefty next on an undercover buy before he gets any second thoughts. right now there s only been one guy working. the other guy can still hold that against him. obviously you can t always get along with somebody. it s pretty we ll see. everything hinges on the relationship between the two informan informants. and want matter of days, an unforeseen event will put that relationship to the test. 13 miles north of chicago
anybody out of their mind, especially shooting in the park. he s got to pay for it. he s popped. as the maniac latin disciples wait for the dust to settle, their drug sales dry up with all of the heat on their neighborhoods. they also expect their rivals, the latin kings, to retaliate since they were the intend eed targets for the shooting. for both poncho and lefty, the stakes couldn t be higher. because it just happened just like that. i was like, oh, my god. what did i get myself into. but then i said you could definitely have been caught with the sweep that s going down. you could be sitting behind bars. investigators sand dl oval and carpenter decide to strike
pancho and lefty claim they left a day before the police arrived. and only found out after the fact. you get called up? in certain respects, both informants weather the storm better than anyone else. timing and luck were on their side. kind of worked out better for them, they re not worried about anybody thinking they re going to be up here working with the police when everybody is trying to hide from the police right now. they have a bond right now, i mean the code of silence between them will be real strong. as long as chicago police continue to crack down on the maniac latin disciples, the gang will stay on its heels, losing status and money in the drug trade. you know, to connect the one we needed, you know, they re hot right now.
highly involved decides to help us out, it s so much easier to take everybody else down. sandoval and his ciu colleague share the intel with chicago police who launch a mass i crackdown on the gang. within two weeks of the shooting, the chicago pd arrests 120 maniac latin disciples, many of them on bis misdemeanor charges and outstanding warrants. when the cops come and sweep up the area, not only did you send a message at maniac latin disciples, you sent a message to all gangs citywide. investigators go to meet with one of their informants lefty in the meantime. everybody is scared right now. superintendent of the chicago police, so he come after all maniac t latin disciples. everybody heard him, so everybody s scared. lefty claims the shooter acted alone without authorization from the gang. he had been fight with some latin kings, but now not only his own gang will defend him.