[BASS DRUM]
[CLICK OF THE CASSETTE]
[TECHNO MUSIC]
Turn that shit up.
[TECHNO MUSIC]
So season five of Snowfall starts in 1986.
We start 15 months after where we left off in season four.
Franklin Saint has found love.
He has a baby on the way with a new character
by the name of Veronique.
DAVE ANDRON: Franklin has continued to grow his business.
He's now opened a real estate development company.
SAL CALLEROS: He's learned how to fly a plane,
he's pretty much living the dream.
So the rest of our characters have
obviously moved forward quite a bit in their lives as well.
We're glad you got your own dreams, we are.
But they're not ours.
Louie is for sure really going after her power.
She really feels strongly that she did a great job when
Franklin was away and she feels like she wants to hold on
to her reins, and even if she has to get her own horse
to do it.
I love that you came out here with me.
You still going to show me that Reverse cowgirl?
AMIN JOSEPH: She's proving that she's a boss, that she
can get things done her way.
And inevitably I feel like she's showing
that she's one of the main pieces on this board.
I mean Black folks everywhere.
We're making all this money.
Supposed to have some power with this shit and what are we
doing?
Instead of lifting them up we're putting
them in position to either get hurt, fall to the pipe
or arrested.
With Leon specifically, he's still
holding down the projects.
But because of everything he went through last season,
he's more on a more conscious wave of thinking now.
He's reading books.
He's watching interviews, he's studying.
He has a really complete different outlook on life.
It's right here.
This is what it's all about you know?
Family.
The major line that we're talking now in this season.
We're following how Franklin's desires
and ways that he sees himself are
at odds with what he's doing.
So Franklin is moving in two directions at once.
The direction he wants to be going in,
and the direction that his actions taken him.
The actions of his past are now catching
up to him in full effect.
His relationship with his family's fractured.
Cissy is MIA as our season starts.
Apparently she's still in Cuba but for quite a bit
this season we won't see her back in the world yet.
And she's been dealing with the fallout
of Alton's disappearance.
Something incredibly valuable was taken from her.
And she's going to do what she needs
to do to right the wrong done to her family, done to her people.
Whatever happened to Alton he did to himself.
Bottom line is whoever the CIA sends,
we got to do business with them.
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
There's an uncertainty of Alton's
fate, and a chess game between him and Teddy continues.
We can get back to doing things the way
they should be done.
Starting when?
I know.
CARTER HUDSON: He's got no leash on him now.
So it's kind of like Teddy, unrestrained.
He comes back and it's a little bit like dad was gone no one
cared, so he's pretty angry.
Reid's gone.
From here on, you can call me Teddy.
DAVE ANDRON: Gustavo has stayed sort of in his role, right?
And whoever was going to come in and replace Teddy,
it was going to be vital that Gustavo continue
bringing the product over.
Faced with the choice of pursuing Lucia or kind
of embracing the newfound family he has inherited
in LA with [INAUDIBLE] and those kids,
he's chosen to embrace that family.
Which is really what Gustavo wanted.
My family's here.
Gustavo is still someone who is not ambitious.
He's someone who wants to live, not only to survive,
but to live.
Being in the middle, It's not easy.
And nothing tears a family apart like money.
WALTER MOSLEY: People are moving apart.
Moving apart when you're a gangster drug dealer
can get you killed.
The CIA is still involved, other spy groups
are now getting involved.
It's a little hairy.
First time I met you, I said to myself,
this young man can do anything he wants,
that's the biggest curse a man can have.
I go from war to war, whereas a man
like you has the war inside.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[GUNSHOTS]
This morning I got a phone call--
[POLICE SIRENS]
--I thought was going to set my whole family up for life.
Now my whole family might be gone.
We're no longer kids anymore.
It's so crazy I was sitting in the makeup and hair trailer
and I was looking at our head shots
from when everybody first started,
season one, season two.
I was like "oh my gosh, guys we grew up on this show".
Like we look so young.
Everybody's grown up now.
They vets in the game.
Like now we are the drug game.
ISAIAH JOHN: I feel like we have some
of the best performances on TV.
The performances I've seen this season,
I would argue with anyone, about any show
and tell them that Snowfall is better.
Audiences should tune in to season 5 of Snowfall,
because you are viewing an authentic representation
of the human experience.
You're going to go on a journey with some characters
that you already love.
And more importantly, you're going to be entertained.
Tune in to season 5 because you're
not going to get what you've gotten
in the last four seasons.
GAIL BEAN: Season 5 is full of abundance.
One through four you've endured, like you was in the slums
with--
with Saint and the whole crew while
they hustled to become drug dealers and work for the CIA.
They made it through one through four, they deserve it.
They deserve this season.
You know people I love told me they had my back
and they stabbed me in it.
But you see the thing is all those people
today they're all gone.
DEVYN TYLER: And all of the beautiful work
that has been present for seasons one through four,
it continues and it grows.
And you get to just follow all of these characters.
It just keeps going.
You know, if you really just like good things
and you love yourself, you should probably watch
(LAUGHS) Snowfall, season five.
CARTER HUDSON: The stakes are so high.
The emotional realities are getting deeper and deeper.
And so I think that it'll be a really
emotional ride for people who care about these characters.
We might not all make it through.
[LAUGHS]
SERGIO PERIS-MENCHETA: Every single episode
is going to be a surprise.
[THUMP]
It's going to be a cliff.
Not only a cliffhanger.
A real cliff.
[CLANK OF METAL]
ANGELA LEWIS: Our show does get crazier and crazier
and more and more amazing.
MICHAEL HYATT: We spent four years building
a really strong foundation.
Trust us to get you to the end.
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