<P> A few years earlier, Danny and Derek's father Dennis Vinyard was murdered by black drug dealers after being sent on a call to fight a fire in a drug den . In a television interview conducted after Dennis's death, Derek erupts in a long racist tirade . Shortly thereafter, Cameron Alexander and Derek form a white supremacist gang called the Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.). As a skilled basketball player, Derek is reluctantly dragged into a 3 - on - 3 game against several members of the Crips in which the prize is control of the recreation center basketball courts . After winning with his friends, Derek leads a large gang of skinheads to attack a supermarket owned by a Korean that included African - American and Latino workers . Derek's mother Doris invites Murray, whom she is dating, home for dinner, which turns into a full - blown argument between Derek and Murray, causing them to leave . That night, as Danny hears people attempting to steal Dennis' truck, Derek shoots and kills one of the thieves and curb stomps another, before being arrested . He is sentenced to three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter . </P> <P> Derek is given a job in the prison laundry and assigned to be the partner of Lamont, a black man who is serving six years for assaulting a police officer . The pair later develop a rapport over their shared love of basketball . Derek joins the Aryan Brotherhood, but after about a year, he becomes disillusioned because some members have ties to other prison gangs who are of different ethnicities . As punishment, he is beaten and sodomized in the shower by the Aryan Brotherhood members; Derek recovers and is visited by Sweeney, whom he asks for help to be paroled . Sweeney informs him of Danny's involvement with neo-Nazis, and warns that he is on the same path as Derek . Derek further distances himself from the Aryan Brotherhood and spends the remainder of his time in prison alone, reading books that Sweeney sends him . Finally realizing the error of his ways, Derek leaves prison a changed man . Upon arriving home, he finds that Danny has a D.O.C. tattoo and tries to persuade him to leave the gang . They subsequently go to a neo-Nazi party, where Derek tells Cameron that he and Danny will no longer associate with the movement; this causes Cameron, Derek's girlfriend, and all the other neo-Nazis to turn on him . After leaving the party, Derek tells Danny about his experience in prison, which seems to prompt a change in Danny . </P> <P> The next morning, Danny finishes his paper, which reflects on why he had adopted Nazi values and why they were deeply flawed . Derek walks Danny to school, and on their way they stop at a diner . Sweeney and a police officer tell Derek that his friend Seth and Cameron were attacked the previous night . At school, Danny is ambushed and killed in the bathroom by a young black student named Little Henry . Derek arrives at the school and mourns for Danny . </P> <Ul> <Li> Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard </Li> <Li> Edward Furlong as Danny Vinyard </Li> <Li> Beverly D'Angelo as Doris Vinyard </Li> <Li> Jennifer Lien as Davina Vinyard </Li> <Li> Ethan Suplee as Seth Ryan </Li> <Li> Fairuza Balk as Stacey </Li> <Li> Avery Brooks as Dr. Bob Sweeney </Li> <Li> Elliott Gould as Murray </Li> <Li> Stacy Keach as Cameron Alexander </Li> <Li> William Russ as Dennis Vinyard </Li> <Li> Guy Torry as Lamont </Li> <Li> Joseph Cortese as Rasmussen </Li> <Li> Antonio David Lyons as Lawrence </Li> <Li> Keram Malicki - Sánchez as Chris </Li> <Li> Giuseppe Andrews as Jason </Li> <Li> Christopher Masterson as Daryl Dawson </Li> <Li> Paul Le Mat as McMahon </Li> </Ul>

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