With Lennox fronting the money for the new business, Tommy organizes a crew to travel to Omaha, Nebraska, to set up their distribution system. The money starts to roll in for the New Yorkers at the expense of the local crew led by Rico, who sports giant spectacles and styles his pressed long hair in a flip. Resenting the competition, Rico places an anonymous call to the FBI to rat out point man Knowledge and the rest of Tommy's crew. The feds descend on the headquarters of Tommy's business in Omaha, and the crew falls, landing Knowledge in jail.  
Meanwhile, Lennox calls in his favor from Tommy, and they travel together to Jamaica. As they are driven through the Kingston streets with Tommy coughing from the strength of the Jamaican spliff they are smoking, Lennox shows Tommy the 'pure sufferation' of Kingston's ghettos, and takes him to a  
dancehall session at the Jamaica Gates club (where Sean Paul is giving a live performance). There, he points out Kingston's top don, Sosa, who is so wellprotected that 'no one can touch him', Lennox says, 'not even me. It will have to be a man from out of the country'. That man, of course, is Tommy, and he is happy to oblige. By the time Tommy returns to New York, the FBI has seized his home (and imprisoned his girlfriend, Kisha), so he goes on the run.