Roger (Training Day)

"Roger" is a minor villain in the 2001 film "Training Day". Roger is a former LAPD officer turned drug dealer and is good friends with Alonzo Harris.

He was portrayed by Scott Glenn.

Biography
Roger is a corrupt LAPD Narcotics officer like his friend, Alonzo Harris. Roger is also loyal to drug addicts and is often good at telling jokes that pretty much don't make any sense at all. Probably his most memorable quote in the movie is "You figure that joke out, you'll figure the streets out."

Meeting Roger
After Jake Hoyt, Alonzo's rookie officer gets intoxicated with PCP that was inside a joint of marijuana, Alonzo takes Jake over to meet Roger, one of his good friends who worked in the LAPD for a long time before deciding to become a drug dealer. Alonzo gives Roger a plastic bag full of Mexican marijuana and Roger sniffs it to find out if it's worth selling. Alonzo states that the marijuana he confiscated wasn't that good. Roger warns Alonzo that the Russian Mafia is after him and that he is going to look out for Alonzo. Both Roger and Alonzo plan on going to somewhere far away from Los Angeles. However, it isn't really told what drugs Roger sells, presumably marijuana.

Later
Alonzo orders a group of three men called "The Three Wise Men" to help him and Jake kill Roger and get some money that both officers confiscated from the LAPD many years earlier. Alonzo gets the money so he can pay the Russian Mafia since he owes them money after having shot one of their employees in Las Vegas years earlier. Jake is told to shoot Roger, but Jake refuses to. Alonzo and his friends shoot Roger multiple times. After that, Alonzo and his friends dig up the money that he owes to the Russian Mafia. Alonzo states that Roger was killed while serving a high risk warrant and is hoping to get Jake to lose his job. After encountering so many hostile individuals, Jake decides to go after Alonzo and take the money Alonzo and Roger stole back to the LAPD and make things better. After Jake confiscates the stolen money from Alonzo. Alonzo tries to escape for shooting Roger and not paying the Russian Mafia. Unfortunately, Alonzo is cornered by the Russian Mafia and gets killed.

Trivia
On the DVD commentary of Training Day, Director Antoine Fuqua stated that he wanted to make Alonzo's dying sound effects similar to Roger's dying sound effects to make him sound like a slaughtered animal.

Quotes
"You figure that joke out, you'll figure the streets out."

- Roger

"Here's a joke, boy. One day this man walks out of his house to go to work. He sees this snail on his porch. So he picks it up and chucks it over his roof, into the back yard. Snail bounces off a rock, cracks its shell all to shit, and lands in the grass. Snail lies there dying. But the snail doesn't die. It eats some grass. Slowly heals. Grows a new shell. And after a while it can crawl again. One day the snail up and heads back to the front of the house. Well, for a year, the little guy crawls back on the porch. Right then, the man walks out to go to work and sees this snail again. So he says to it, 'What the f*ck's your problem?'"

- Roger

"(Before getting shot by Alonzo's helpers) F*ckin' vampires want my pension!"

- Roger