The Salton Sea

Danny Parker or Tom Van Allen: "You can decide who I am... speed freak. Speed... but first, a little background on the mad world of the tweaker. Methedrine was first distilled by a Japaneses scientist before World War II... This guy’s so tweaked he probably thinks he can survive this... 2% of the Japanese population had a meth problem after the war... A nuclear blast is just a minor nuisance to a determined tweaker. In the 50s, the housewives got ahold of it: Benzedrine, Dexedrine, Methedrine. Now that’s a classic speed freak for you... now anyone with a basic chemistry kit and the right ingredients can cook it up at home... a long-haired tattooed freak buying up all the cold medicine... ether, and of course, the cold medicine. That’s for the ephedrine, soon to become Methedrine. ." (0:01)

Partiers using a variety of drugs
Danny: ”... the crank compressing time... tweakers, lokers, slammers... only to wake up after the binge...”
A man insufflates a drug.
Kujo: ”We’re out of Gak.” (0:05)

Peter asks Jimmy the Finn, "Got a dealer in mind?"
”Well, Jimmy the Finn, let’s score some Gak.” (0:07)

Drug dealer Bobby appears to hallucinate spiders.
Bobby beats a woman in his bed.
Peter tells Bobby, ”That’s just your good crank talkin’.” (0:08)

Jimmy tells Peter, referring to Bobby, "He’s just juiced..." (0:10)

Jimmy, Peter and others insufflate through straws. (0:11)

Danny: "For the people that don’t do drugs, or just do them occasionally... You finally hit bottom, and you know who you are..." (0:12)

Cop Gus Morgan tells Peter, "Well you go, my little tweaker friend."
Peter: ”... I don’t want to have this conversation in the middle of Crankville.”
Referring to Bobby: ”He’s a tweaker, man.”
”... definitely a dealer...”
Gus: ”... you are one observant tweaker.”
Peter: ”I’m worried about the kid.”
Cop Al Garcetti tells Peter, ”... moron... low-life tweaker...” (0:14)

Bobby’s girlfriend reacts to his death. (0:16)

His wife tells Peter, now as trumpet player Tom Van Allen, "Tom Van Allen is nothing short of dazzling in his interpretation of Miles Davis’s haunting, moody piece..." (0:22)

A gun dealer tells Peter and Jimmy, "... This gun’s got mad power, mad kick, and mad reputation." (0:28)

Quincy asks Peter, "You mad-doggin’ me, bitch?" (0:29)

Jimmy insufflates.
Peter tells Jimmy, referring to Holland Dale "Pooh-Bear" Monty: ”... you know one of his dealers...”
”But he’s got the gak.” (0:31)

Jimmy insufflates while driving.
Jimmy tells Peter, ”Pooh-Bear did so much gak they had to cut his nose off... They say he hasn’t slept in, like, over a year...”
Referring to Queen Elizabeth: ”Is she a tweaker?” (0:34)

Pooh-Bear tells Peter, "Crank, huh?"
Peter: ”No, glass, the good stuff.” (0:36)

Kujo tells the others, "... better than drugs..."
”Don’t worry about it.”
”Focus...” (0:41)

His neighbor Colette Vaughan tells Peter, "I had a few medical bills." (0:46)

Gus kicks Peter in the head. (0:47)

Peter tells Al and Gus, referring to Pooh-Bear, "He’s a cook and a dealer in Palmdale."
Gus: ”... intent to buy and distribute... crank...” (0:48)

Gus tells Peter, "Looks like... Pooh-Bear scores dope and chips..."
Al: ”You don’t need to worry about anything...”
Gus: ”Dog, have you been tweakin’ with the higher education?”
Al: ”Man, you’re gettin’ paranoid too. Lay off the gak.” (0:49)

Verne Plummer tells Peter, "Billy is a narcotics officer now, you know."
Verne’s wife Nancy: ”Look, I know that everybody deals with grief in their own way... I have finally found it in my heart to forgive those people that killed my daughter. I gave my grief to Jesus Christ...” (0:51)

Peter tells Pooh-Bear, "That’s crazy..."
”This is crazy...” (0:54)

Peter tells Pooh-Bear, "... ten thousand worth of good glass..."
Pooh-Bear makes lines of drug in a tray.
Pooh-Bear: ”You’re makin’ me nervous.” (0:56)

Peter sees his wife killed. (1:02)

By telephone, drug dealer Bubba tells Peter, "I ain’t an idiot, asshole."
Al asks Peter, ”You nervous?” (1:04)

FBI agent Bubba tells the others, "... Mr. Van Allen’s wife was murdered in a meth lab out near the Salton Sea... perpetrated by rival drug dealers..." (1:06)

Danny tells Jimmy, "You’re insane."
Jimmy: ”We’re gonna lay out, like, a mile of crank...”
Danny: ”I quit... I’m goin’ straight...”
”Look, I’m not a dealer, okay?... I’m not a dealer...” (1:11)

Henchman Big Bill, playing cards: "Suicide king of hearts." (1:19)

Pooh-Bear prepares a syringe and begins to inject himself. (1:23)

In a flashback, Tom watches his wife die. (1:26)

Peter tells Gus, "... your wife’s about to be murdered..."
Gus: ”You’re a coward.”
Peter injects Gus’ neck.
Tom holds the muzzle of a pistol to his head as though planning to kill himself. (1:27)