However, as the episode unfolds, the Saint family and all its affiliates face the deadly consequences of the drug game. In Homer’s Greek tragedy The Iliad, empires fall, friends and foes are lost to violence and the impact is indelible. In the show's most harrowing episode of the season thus far, Franklin and his loved ones experience a similar fate. 

Jerome and Louie turn down Franklin’s offer to invest in downtown commercial real estate properties. Louie gently tells her ambitious nephew, “Glad you got your own dreams, but they are not ours.” Veronique, (increasingly the level-headed yin to Franklin’s raging yang), doesn’t give up. While Franklin handles the day-to-day drug operation, Veronique organizes a sit-down with Jerome and Louie. She invites Cissy to help close the deal. 

Things start to go awry when Franklin's routine task of buying large quantities of cocaine from Teddy is interrupted by a drive-by. Franklin and Oso escape the attempt on their lives relatively unscathed, but they lose a soldier: Peaches’ pinch hitter, Fetu. Teddy is not so lucky; he is shot in the chest.   

Franklin pages all the lieutenants in the Saint organization. While he’s waiting for a call back, a local gang approaches; they can smell the money. Jerome rings Franklin and he has just enough time to spit out he and Oso were hit at the drop. As the gang closes in on Franklin and Oso to rob them, the Veronique-led sit down is broken up by a second drive-by shooting. Franklin hears the melee on the other end of the phone, but he can't react, as he has to fight for his own life against the would-be thieves. He waves a gun at the gang, giving him and Oso enough wiggle room to run away. They find safety, but Franklin’s unsure if his pregnant girlfriend Veronique survived the attack he just heard on the phone.

Meanwhile, Leon—still on a mission to protect his people from state-sanctioned violence—meets with our favorite arms dealer Avi to buy handguns. This is clearly not the day for the Saint organization to close on any deal. There is a third and final drive-by shooting. The assailants kill one of Avi’s men, but Leon is able to take out one of the perpetrators as the cream van skirts off abandoning the body. But the corpse is identifiable. There are a few guesses, but no solid evidence pointing to who ordered the hits.

A still-profusely bleeding Teddy, the man with many lives, finds his way to Prissa, an attractive nurse with very little empathy. They have a strange love-hate (potentially informant-officer) relationship, but she has the medical know-how to save his life. Prissa will perform the necessary operation—in exchange for a quarter million dollars. Given he’s bleeding out on her kitchen floor, Teddy agrees. After inducing Teddy into a fever dream that involves masturbation and a criticism of the American medical system, she successfully extracts the bullet remnants.  

After the unexpected violence of their sit down lunch, the fearsome foursome of Louie, Jerome, Cissy and Veronique don’t suffer any injuries, but they are detained by the police. Louie pulls her "get out of jail free" card, and name drops Detective Buckley, who does ultimately prevent their arrest. Jerome isn’t very grateful and has some choice words for the corrupt cop. As they, along with Leon, As they, along with Leon, struggle to figure out who is trying to kill them, Franklin and Oso are still stranded. Although the duo has outsmarted the Bell Gardens street gang, they stumble into a far more dangerous situation. In an attempt to find another phone, they break into a house filled with taxidermy animals. If that’s not odd enough, the owner, an angry elderly white man, shoots them with tranquilizers and cages them next to…a tiger!

Truer words were never said.