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Instead of paying Gallegos, Jason and Stevens opt to kill him and steal a van storing over a $100 million of Gallegos' cash. Stevens sends Betty away for her safety and then collects the money and goes to meet with Gallegos. At the deal, Stevens exposes Felix as a police informant which results in him being killed by Jason as they flee from officers surveilling the deal.Īfter killing Felix, Gallegos comes to personally meet with Jason and Stevens and informs them they have inherited Felix's $1.8 million debt. Carver refuses to interfere with the bust when Stevens requests, forcing Stevens to violate orders and stop it himself. Detective Hernández pressures Felix into setting up a deal with Jason, Stevens and Betty and then selling them out to save himself. When one of Stevens' dealers is murdered by a rival dealer named Ivy, Stevens kills him in retaliation and is awarded a partnership in Jason's new business venture distribution of a highly addictive chemical variant of cocaine. Stevens develops a romance with Jason's associate Betty McCutcheon ( Victoria Dillard), the manager of an art dealership which serves as a front to launder Jason's drug money profits. Jason then introduces Stevens to Felix Barbossa ( Gregory Sierra), the underboss to Gallegos, who subsequently murders Eddie for his betrayal and enlists Stevens as Eddie's replacement. Stevens' attorney David Jason ( Jeff Goldblum), who is also a drug trafficker in Gallegos' network, rewards Stevens for not snitching by supplying him with twice as much cocaine as he purchased. At his arraignment, Stevens discovers that he was sold 'baby laxative' ( mannitol) not cocaine and his case is dismissed. Narcotics Detective Taft ( Clarence Williams III) and his corrupt partner Hernández ( Julio Oscar Mechoso) when he buys a kilogram in a set up by Gallegos' low-level street supplier Eddie Dudley ( Roger Guenveur Smith).

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He meets crack cocaine addict Belinda Chacón ( Kamala Lopez-Dawson), a struggling single-mother who tries to sell her son James to Stevens for money to buy drugs. Stevens relocates to a cheap hotel in Los Angeles and begins buying and selling cocaine in order to establish himself as a street dealer. Stevens poses as drug dealer 'John Hull' in order to infiltrate and work his way up the network of the west coast's largest drug importer, Anton Gallegos ( Arthur Mendoza). Cincinnati Police Officer Russell Stevens ( Laurence Fishburne) is recruited by DEA Special Agent Gerald Carver ( Charles Martin Smith) to go undercover on a major sting operation in Los Angeles.