Dope Thief episode 5 starts with a flashback into Ray’s past. It goes on to show how, often, one is born into the world of drugs and crime, and even if they try to avoid it, they end up becoming the man they feared as a child. Ray detested his father; days with him were laced with fear and anxiety. He remembered his father being stopped by the police and extensively searched, possibly because they had information that he was peddling drugs. Even though he was beaten up and harassed on the streets, Bart did not give away any information to the police, and he believed that was what a real man was supposed to do. We eventually discover that Bart had instructed Ray to hide the drugs, and the little boy did not protest. He was afraid of his father, and obeying him was his only option.

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