Three years after Wes first decided to start work as a lookout, Tony is
furiously asking his younger brother where he got the money to buy so many
new pairs of sneakers. Wes tells him he’s become a popular neighborhood
DJ, which is the same story he’s been telling Mary. Unlike Mary, however,
Tony doesn’t believe him, and he asks Wes again and again. Wes keeps lying
until Tony takes a swing at him, punching him in the face. Mary walks in to the
sound of her sons fighting and asks what’s going on. Although Wes has been
arrested twice before—once for pulling the knife in front of the police and
another time for carjacking—Mary wanted to believe that Wes had been
staying away from drugs. Now she knows that both of her sons’ innocent
childhoods are truly over.