Graffiti eventually gets the upper hand back and starts to beat him up. The prisoners suffer isolation in their cells while Graffiti continues to rape Dre.Īfter the lockdown finally ends, Dre starts injecting heroin and one day snaps and attacks Graffiti. His dead body is found in the prison laundry room, and the warden orders a lockdown to punish the prisoners. A corrupt guard named Perez who is on Graffiti's payroll warns the neo-Nazi not to retaliate but Graffiti and the gang kill one of Clean Up's men anyway. In a fight for the control of the prison drug trade, Clean Up successfully executes a plan to kill a rival drug dealer, a former professional football player working for Graffiti, and the man is killed with a barbell crushing his windpipe, which is made to look like an accident. Graffiti continues to successfully smuggle drugs into prison by swallowing packets of drugs brought by his girlfriends. Avery is resentful and resistant at first, towards both Pierce and Krista (at one point yelling at her to never come back because it "would do them both better") but eventually accepts their visitations and attempts to help. Meanwhile, Charles Pierce ( Bill Nunn), the college scout who Avery met on his fateful night, believes that Avery was wrongfully convicted and decides to help him appeal the sentence, along with his daughter, a lawyer. Cashmere begins to work for Graffiti's rival, Clean Up ( Master P), another drug trafficker who Cashmere knew pior to getting locked up. Each man experiences different events: Cashmere beats up and threatens his cellmate Dre is raped and turned to a prison sex slave by his psychotic White Supremacist cellmate named Graffiti ( David "Shark" Fralick), who controls much of the prison's drug flow and is the leader of a neo-Nazi gang and Avery meets and befriends an old cellmate named Malachi Young ( Clifton Powell) who has been in jail for 18 years and is nearing the end of his sentence. Cashmere pulls out the gun in anger, but is shot in the shoulder and knocked down.Īfter being wrongfully convicted of Broadway's crime, the three are sent to the same prison to serve a ten-year prison sentence. One of the officers orders them out of the car at gunpoint, which they obey, but a few moments later Cashmere's pit bull runs toward the officer, who shoots the dog dead. As they were arguing over how to get rid of it, some cops spot them and, thinking their car looks similar to Broadway's, pull them over. At a certain point, Dre, who is riding in the back seat, finds the gun, and questions Cashmere about it but Cashmere has no idea where it came from. Broadway happened to be short on money in his return, and it angered Cashmere, who proceeds to kick Broadway down a flight of metal stairs and pull out a gun to assert his power, threatening to kill him if he does not pay back what he owes.īroadway runs off, but vows to get revenge and, after an attempted robbery later in the day where he shoots and kills a woman at a drive-through, he wipes off his gun and tosses it into the backseat of Cashmere's open convertible when he is out of the car, which looks similar enough to Broadway's car to be mistaken for it.Īfter the swim meet, Cashmere and Dre, who are there to cheer him on, convince Avery to come out and celebrate his big victory. With their barber friend Andre "Dre" Wells ( De'aundre Bonds) who is also Krista's Brother, the trio have been friends since childhood.Įarlier in the day before the swim meet, Cashmere had a run-in with Broadway ( Sticky Fingaz), another dealer who works under Cashmere in the hierarchy. Avery is an avid swimmer and develops to a championship level, and as a result of a particularly impressive win which catches the eye of a scout, he gets the opportunity for a possible scholarship at a college.Ĭashmere (Casseus), a drug dealer, happens to be one of Avery's best friends, despite the fact that their personalities and lifestyles are quite different, Avery being the one who stays out of trouble. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Avery Montgomery (Jones) is taking time off from college to spend time with his girlfriend Krista Wells ( Melissa De Sousa), and help raise their young son.
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