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BACKSTORY:
DETECTIVE SERGEANT JOHN RINGO born 26 September 1975, on Chicago’s Southside and raised by his mother DARLENE whom he and everyone simply call,” Doll.” His father EDWARD, that his mother adored, had serious mental problems and committed suicide when Ringo was two. Doll worked the night shift at Nabisco Cakes as a flour mixer, a boring, low paying, hard job that required she be on her feet for seven hours. Like many black families they lived in an extended family, Doll’s sister LILL and her husband CHARLES owned a three-flat building at 4916 South Forrestville Avenue. They rented out the second and third floor and the family that consisted of Lill and Charles, their son RONALD, Doll and Ringo and his grandparents, FATMAMA and GRANDPA STEVEN lived on the first floor.
Ringo worked after school in the neighborhood Jewish store delivering groceries and doing other odd jobs. He also worked at a black owned fresh fish store as a counter man. When Ringo turned fourteen, Doll after talking with the owner of Gus Pool Room gave him permission to go to the pool hall and he became a pool hustler, his winnings supplemented Doll’s meager wages.
Ringo and ELIZABETH SWEETS were high school sweethearts. Ringo graduated in 1993 and in 1994 after Elizabeth graduated they were married. Ringo worked at the Post Office as a letter carrier for a year before taking the examination for police officer and entered the police academy on 1 July 1995. After graduating, Ringo was assigned to the 2nd District Police Station located at 51st South Wentworth Avenue.
EXT. 2ND DISTRICT POLICE STATION-MORNING
The second district sat just off the Dan Ryan Expressway and covered all of Bronzeville, an all black community on the south side of the city. The 2nd District covered a high crime area that consisted of drug dealers, gang-bangers and hustlers; and was considered the best place to learn how to become a police officer.
INT. 2ND DISTRICT POLICE STATION-MORNING ROLL CALL
After the Watch Commander had given out the assignments he called Ringo and EVETTA LUNDEN into his office.
CAPTAIN MORRIS
Officer Ringo Evetta Lunden will be your Field Training Officer.
Keep your mouth shut and do what she tells you. She’s one of the best officers on the watch.
Ringo and Evetta leave the captain’s office and head to the parking lot. Evetta was a big woman; over six feet and he estimated that she had to weight close to 200 solid pounds; she was twenty years older than Ringo and he guessed that she was getting close to the magical retirement age of fifty. Over the six months of Ringo’s probationary period he was impressed with her street knowledge and take charge attitude and they became good friends.
After Ringo’s probationary period Ringo and Evetta were assigned to the vice squad which required long and irregular hours and the assignment began to put a strain his marriage.
INT. RINGO’S BEDROOM- JUNE, 1997 EARLY MORNING
The telephone ringing wakes up Ringo and his wife.
CALLER
Hot tip my man big drug deal going down this morning at three under the 51st Street elevator should be a good bust for you and a little change for me.
Ringo gets out of bed, dress and call Evetta.
Ringo
Vet just got a called from our informer said that a big drug deal is going down this morning, pick you up in fifteen.
Elizabeth sitting up in bed.
ELIZABETH
Why you have to go at this time of night? ELLEN told me that EDDIE never works night.
RINGO
It’s my job baby and besides Eddie works straight days on a watch I don’t work a watch I work when things are happening that usually at night or early morning.
ELIZABETH This is a lotta bullshit leaving in the middle of the night and picking up you partner to make an suppose to be arrest, bull shit I think something is going on with you and that partner of yours.
Getting ready to leave.
RINGO
How can you think that Vet is damn near old enough to be my mother we’ll talk about it later.
Ringo rushes out the door.
Elizabeth didn’t believe Ringo when he would leave home in the middle of the night to catch a dope dealer or prostitute who usually worked at night and accused him of having a girlfriend and became suspicious of Evetta, they divorced in 1999.
Ringo enrolled in the Criminal Justice Program at Chicago State University but dropped out after September 11, 2001 and joined the United States Navy and eventually became a Navy Seal. In 2005 he was discharged from the Navy and returned to the Chicago Police Department and pursued his education he was awarded a PhD in Criminal Justice in 2007. Two years later he was promoted to Sergeant and assigned to the Special Crimes Division he convinced Evetta to join him.
FLASHBACK:
EXT. GARY, INDIANA- JANUARY 1991-AFTERNOON
For the next eight years Esau drifted between Gary, Indiana and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago. In Gary he joined the G’D’s street gang and began selling crack cocaine a block from a catholic all girls high school, he eventually got addicted to the drug and the prescription drugs Valium, Ativan and Librium.
EXT. CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL-AFTERNOON
STRAIGHT DOWN from above. Esau usually worked the afternoon shift and arrived at his spot generally about 3:00 pm just as school was letting out. He watched the young girls giggling and whispering as they walked pass their red and blue pleated short shirts blowing in the cold breeze and their starched white blouses straining to hold in their developing breast. One of the young girls, he figured to be about fifteen caught his eye. She was tall and shapely with dark hair that hung to her waist and she would often smile as she passed him, her name was MARY JONES, he knew she wanted him.
It was 10 January 1999 snow and ice covered the streets and the temperature was five below zero with a wind chill of ten below. His boss BILLIBOB told him that the weather was too bad and to take the night off. As Esau was leaving he saw Mary leaving the school with two other girls. The two other girls rushed to a black Ford.
MALE VOICE
Want a ride?
MARY
No thanks, I live just a block away.
Esau watched Mary as she pulled her scarf tighter around her neck and started walking. Bolts of lightning leaped across the dull gray sky as Mary walked quickly through the depressing neighborhood of boarded up houses and abandon warehouses. The streets were deserted as Esau took a hit of crack and followed her. A gust of wind blew her skirt up to her waist revealing her white panties. Esau got an immediate erection and took another snort of the drug, he was feeling good and his strong erection was beginning to hurt he knew he had to get it off. Unaware that she was being followed Mary walked into an alley behind a warehouse.
EASU
She wants me Esau thought to himself as he closed the distance between them. Suddenly, Mary turned around and smiled.
MARY
Hi!
Like a lion attacking his prey, Esau lunged at the girl striking her hard with his fist. The young girl fell to the ground unconscious. Esau dragged her into the abandon warehouse where he found some old rope and bound her hands and feet.
INT. WAREHOUSE-LATE AFTERNOON
As he was undressing her, Mary opened her eyes and saw Esau standing in front of her rubbing his erect penis. He moaned as he ejaculated over her body.
ESAU
Do you see my big dick, bet you would like to touch it or better still suck it wouldn’t you?
Mary tried to scream but was knocked unconscious again. Esau took off her panties and placed them into his pocket; he then removed her pantyhose and tied it tightly around her neck before raping her. Mary came too just as Esau was climaxing and pulling the pantyhose tighter, he stabbed her several times, carved an X into her chest and smeared a bloody X on the dirty walls and took a Polaroid picture.
The murder and rape of Mary Jones brought an increase in the police presence in the neighborhood, uniform police officers and detectives were everywhere, hassling the drug dealers and gang bangers. Billibob the gangs Regent told Esau that he was closing down the spot and he could hangout at the gang safe house until the heat was off.
INT. GANG SAFE HOUSE-EVENING
The safe house was a two bedroom apartment that contained a worn out couch, a table and two chairs. Esau didn’t like the other three drug dealers, MACMAN, SONNYBOY and SQATMAN but for the next two weeks they snorting crack, drunk gin and beer, slept on the floor and cooled out, but Esau was restless he remembered how good it was with Mary Jones, he wanted that feeling again. After his homeboys had passed out, he left and took a cab to Smith Street, a known hangout for prostitutes.
EXT. SMITH STREET-EVENING
Even though it was late January, cold and snowy the working girls were out in full force, many wearing miniskirts or very short dresses. Esau snorted a vial of crack paid the cab driver and began walking the street looking over the girls. The steam came out of the sewers and the street smelled of bar-b-que ribs, rotting garbage and unwashed bodies. Loud music came from the rundown bars and everyone looked cold. Esau was stopped by a woman who looked to be in her fifties, her red wig sat crookedly on her head and the fake eyelashes had started to drooped. She put her arms in his and looking down at him
WOMAN
(whispering)
Good fuck and suck, only fifty bucks little man.
Esau snatched his arm away and hissed, “No thanks,” and continued walking. He got numerous offers from the working girls some stomping their feet to keep warm others opening their coats to advertise their wares. Esau kept walking and saw a young girl standing against a wall with an older woman. She looked as young as Mary, but not as pretty. The blazing red lipstick was smeared on her lips and ice cycles hung from her weather beaten hat. He knew that her ragged coat could not be providing much warmth, he stopped.
OLDER WOMAN
Looking for some fun, two for the price of one.
The younger girl seeming to be in a daze said nothing.
ESAU
How ’bout you, you working?
YOUNG WOMAN
(dazed)
Fifty bucks for a blow, I don’t fuck.
ESAU
That’s kinda high for a head job.
OLDER WOMAN
Another fifty and you can fuck me
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