Caine manages to graduate from high school. One of Caine's other friends is Ronnie, Pernell's former girlfriend, with home she has a son, Anthony.

Caine is very close with O-Dog and their friends Stacy, who is a teenage father, and Sharif, who has become a serious practitioner of Islam. At a very young age, Caine saw his father murder a friend during a card game and also saw his mother's deterioration and death due to heroin addiction.

Caine lives with his mother's parents but they are gradually realizing that Caine's increasingly violent habits are leading to his own destruction and that he can't live with them much longer without bringing Caine's criminal life into their own home. His neighborhood is a dangerous place to live Caine speaks about how many black, male teens are not expected to live into their 20s or how they could end up in prison, like Pernell, who became a big brother-type to Caine when his father died, followed not long after by his mother. Caine himself is a low-level drug dealer, having been taught by his dead father's business partner, Pernell, how to survive and make his money on the streets. Furious that there's less than $10 in the cash drawer, he rifles the dead man's pockets and his sock and finds several hundred dollars more. Several more shots are heard and O-Dog runs back out to empty the register, over Caine's objections. O-Dog grabs the screaming woman and forces her into the back of the store, demanding she turn over the tape from the security camera. O-Dog suddenly pulls out a pistol and shoots the man, startling Caine, who drops the beer bottle he'd been drinking from. As they walk out, the man mutters 'I feel bad for your mother' in O-Dog's direction. When O-Dog becomes confrontational, the woman and her husband tell them to select what they need, pay and leave the store. One of the Korean owners is immediately suspicious of the duo and watches them closely, afraid they might steal something. Just before his graduation from high school, he walks into a liquor/convenience store with his friend O-Dog to buy some beer. Caine is a black teenager living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Menace to society full movie 1993