While driving one night, he and Sharif are pulled over and beaten by cops. Caine also meets a local girl named Illena and eventually has sex with her. Caine, nevertheless, ignores all advice.Īfter buying a Ford Mustang from a chop shop, Caine carjacks another young black man for his gold Dayton wire wheels and his jewelry, then purchases a large quantity of cocaine, planning to sell it as crack. Caine's fingerprints match those taken from a beer bottle he dropped in the liquor store on the night of the murders, and though he is interrogated by a detective who tricks him by changing the times to confuse him, he soon walks free nonetheless as the police fail to link him.Ĭaine's friends, Stacy and Sharif, try to convince him to leave with them to Kansas, and both his grandfather and Sharif's father warn him that he will either end up dead or in jail if he doesn't change his ways. After learning the carjackers' whereabouts, O-Dog, Caine, and their friend A-Wax, an OG, hunt them down and kill them, avenging Harold's death.Ĭaine and O-Dog are arrested after a failed car theft attempt. Later, Caine and his cousin Harold are carjacked en route from a party, with the former being wounded and the latter being murdered. O-Dog shows off the surveillance tape to his admiring friends, much to Caine's annoyance & warnings. This led to his grandparents raising him in the crime-ridden Jordan Downs housing projects.

After their purchase, the cashier inadvertently insults and provokes O-Dog by saying, 'I feel sorry for your mother.' As a result, O-Dog argues with him, fatally shoots both him and his wife, takes the surveillance tape, robs the clerk's wallet and the cash register, and flees with Caine.Ī voice-over reveals that Caine's father Tat, a drug dealer, was killed in a drug deal gone wrong when Caine was 10, and his mother Karen, a heroin addict, died of a drug overdose. Kaydee “Caine” Lawson and his best friend Kevin 'O-Dog' Anderson enter a liquor store to buy some malt liquor, where a Korean cashier and his wife rush them to pay for their drinks and leave, suspecting that they might be trying to steal something.

Kane from menace to society