Demetrius Flenory

**Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory** is a main character and the main protagonist on the Starz original crime drama *BMF*. He is portrayed by Demetrius "Lil Meech" Flenory Jr.

Meech is a charming and ambitious Detroit legend-in-the-making, who becomes the face of the drug trading operation.

## Biography

### Early life

Meech grew up in a very religious home, alongside his brother Terry and sister Nicole, but that didn't keep him out of trouble. During his adolescence, Meech began dealing for Pat at the rock house, telling his parents that he had started working at Wendy's to account for his money and time outside the house. After learning the truth about Meech's income, Terry sought to join him. Initially reluctant, Meech welcomed Terry along.

### Giving Up Territory to 12th Street

Meech and Terry arrange a meeting with 12th Street at Cobo Arena to discuss The 50 Boyz moving into their territory. Jay Mo warns them to fall back or else there will be war, and when Terry pulls a gun as a show of force, Meech rethinks his stance and decides to give them the area near the funeral home. Meech and Tee return home, where Meech confronts his younger brother for pulling a gun during a meeting and instructs him to get rid of it before joining their parents for dinner. After being advised by Pat to make a move against 12th Street as a show of force, Meech moves his crew near the rec center, which just so happens to be in 12th Street territory. Meech returns home to find his mother and father sitting in the living room with Tee's gun, which they've assumed belongs to Meech. Charles kicks Meech out the house, as he willfully takes on the blame and reveals to his father that their house is in foreclosure, which Meech could help with, but Charles refuses to accept his money.

Meech heads over to Monique's, where the two have sex, and afterwards discuss Meech's living situation. Later that evening, as he's leaves Monique's house, Lamar bumps him with his car and warns him to stay away from Monique. Meech and Terry organize another meeting with the crew near the rec center, where they decide to use the remaining shake they have to cook up a new batch. They'll step on it less and hit it with a new stamp to circulate. Later, Meech attends Pat's birthday party, where he approaches Pat regarding a re-up and even a brick of powder. However, he encourages the boys to slow down, as they're selling too fast, and he believes that they're asking for more than they can handle. And with that, Meech and Terry decide it's time to go in business for themselves.

### Searching for Terry's Shooter

Meech races to Downriver Memorial Hospital, armed with a submachine gun, after learning that Terry was shot. Suspecting that Kwame may have shot Terry, Meech tracks him to the parking lot of a liquor store and pistol whips Kwame, who claims that he and Terry had nothing more than petty beef and that he wasn't behind the shooting. Meech then heads to the stash house after learning that Kato was attacked and that they lost an eighth of dope. With the stash house compromised, they need to find a new location. Meech then cuts Kato's attacker loose and pays him to forget everything he's seen before learning from B-Mickie that the streets are saying that Jay Mo shot Terry.

Meech visits Terry at the hospital and jokes about him potentially only having one eye before revealing that Jay Mo allegedly shot him, though Tee isn't convinced, suspecting that it could've been Lamar. Nevertheless, Terry wants Meech to solely focus on the business and leave the street violence alone, but Meech is determined to avenge his brother's attack. Meech approaches Filmel with a proposition to possibly join forces to conquer the city, however, this would require him to take out Jay Mo, but Filmel insists that he isn't interested. After an incident with Nicole, B-Mickie informs Meech that they lost the rec center after 12th Street bought off their hired goons. Just then, Detective Bryant pulls up with Jay Mo restrained in the back. Meech pulls him out the car and confronts him for shooting Terry, however, Jay Mo insists that he had nothing to do with the shooting. When Meech becomes reluctant to pull the trigger, B-Mickie kills Jay Mo with a single bullet to the head.

### Paying back Pat

After being confronted by Pat for being late on payment and warned to bring him his money within six days with a 10% interest, Meech and Tee are forced to become a bit more creative, moving their business to the power plants, where they approach a food truck owner named Fonzo with a proposition to sell drugs from his truck in exchange for paying his permit to sell on the factory lot and paying him off weekly. However, they're forced to act fast when Pat moves their deadline up a day. After paying off the mortgage on the house and finally managing to hit their target to pay Pat back, it would seem as though Meech and Terry are in the clear, but then they are questioned by Detective Bryant about the whereabouts of Jay Mo, who Meech lies and claims was alive the last time he saw him.

Meech arrives at the shop with Pat's money and enters the back room to find Pat getting high off his own product, much to Meech's surprise. After a near confrontation with 12th Street, Meech shows up at Monique's unexpectedly. He wants to talk to her about Lamar, who unbeknownst to Meech is inside. Lamar then makes his presence known and warns Meech to leave before he gets hurt. When Lamar grabs Meech through the bars, Meech pulls out a gun, but Monique separates the two of them and tells Meech to leave.

### Finding new supplier

Meech and Terry have secured a new safe house just north of 8 mile, in the suburbs. Meech then heads over to the spot to buy three keys of powder from Pat, but he turns Meech down, instead giving Meech three bags on consignment and a brick out right. Rock leads Meech into the storage room and informs him that Pat has fallen off and that he doesn't have three keys of powder to sale even if he wanted to. Fortunately, Rock knows of another supplier should Meech be interested, however, Meech and Terry plan to meet with K-9's connect, Big L, at a nightclub instead, but when Big L never shows, they meet up with Rock.

The following day, after linking up with his baby's mother Lori, Meech and Terry head down to David Whitney Jr. Residence to meet with Rock's connect, Ron Batten, but upon their arrival, they are approached by two gunmen, who put them into the back of a truck and take them to a field, where Pat and Rock await with two shovels. He discovered their plan to meet with a new plug. Fortunately, Pat blames Rock for betraying him more than he does Meech and proceeds to bludgeon him with a shovel before instructing Terry and Meech to get rid of the body. Afterward, Meech and Terry meet with B-Mickie and Hoop, who reveals that Lamar got them for everything, leading to a fight between Meech and B-Mickie. After being confronted by Detective Bryant outside of baby Terry's christening, Meech decides to pay the detective a home visit, where he attempts to pay Bryant off, but he instead informs Meech their partnership is over.

After unamicably parting ways with Pat, Meech devises a plan to get their work back from Lamar by kidnapping Zoe. However, when Lamar calls Meech's bluff, he is forced to improvise, so the crew apprehend Slick and present him with two choices: Either he can reveal the location of the dope and take Zoe home or Meech will cut her head off and mail it back to Lamar with a note that says Slick had a chance to save her. And so, Slick reveals that their dope is on 12th Street and Harper Ave. Having recovered what was stolen, Meech meets with Tiny to supply him with drugs, as he isn't concerned with street politics despite being from Ecorse. The money he received from Tiny, Meech intends to give to Big L, but she will only work with Tee, as Meech is too flashy. Meech then goes to meet with Bryant, who returns his money and pulls off.

Following a close call at the local store with Lamar, who opened fire with a shotgun, Meech and Terry purchase a record store as a front for their business. On top of their street business, the brothers have to deal with the fall-out at home after their mother discovered they are selling drugs. However, they still need a way to distribute their product and ultimately agree to franchise out to their group and give them each a bag, which they can get their own people to move. Meech goes on to attend a gambling party along with Tiny. After scoring big, he links up with Que, who finally agrees to do business with Meech after he expresses his plans to take over Detroit, despite Pat attempting to sabotage their plans. He then returns to the record store, where he and Terry reveal that the 50 Boyz are no more, branding them as "The Family" moving forward, which raises concern with B-Mickie, who hasn't been consulted about any of the recent changes. Meech tells B-Mickie that while he's his boy for life, the structure of their crew will never change.

### Going after Lamar

Meech and Terry arrive at Downriver Memorial Hospital after learning of Darius' death and Nicole's near-abduction by Lamar. With no other option, the boys realize they have to take Lamar out, enlisting in Tiny's help with the promise of Meech showing love on their next re-up. Meech does a bit of searching of his own, leading him to Monique, who was beaten by Lamar and offers up a bit of information. So Meech and B-Mickie break into Lamar's cousin house only to discover he isn't there.

With the laws applying pressure to their guys, Meech and Terry are in desperate need to figure out their next move given that Big L won't allow them an extension. Rather than moving up the date, Meech and Terry decide to work the streets with them, which results in Meech being chased and tackled by Detective Lopez, who Kato bashes in the head from behind, allowing Meech to escape. And when confronted by Bryant later that evening, Meech claims not to know anything.

The entire crew has been arrested and placed in a cell. Meech is questioned by Commander Beckwith about the killing of Detective Lopez, but he refuses to speak and ultimately, the crew is released, at which point, Meech rides around with Kato and gets to know more about her upbringing. With re-up two days away, the Family decides to take their business to the Eastside, where they're confronted by a local crew, led by a guy named Saint, who introduces Meech to his boss, who ends up being Boom. After he turns them down, Meech asks if he's ever heard of an old head named C-Luv, which he has, but C-Luv wasn't BK, aka the Black Killers, as Kato claimed. He was with the Delray Boyz, Lamar's old crew.

Not long after learning that Kato lied about her father, Meech learns from B-Mickie that Kato has been working with Lamar. Meech neglects to tell Terry about Kato and then reveals the new crew name: Black Mafia Family. With more demand, Meech wants Terry to asks Big L for more weight and offers to come with him next re-up. But first, they have to deal with Lamar. When he arrives after being tipped off by Kato, Meech shoots him in the stomach. At the same time, B-Mickie chases down Kato and kills her as well. The following day, Meech and Terry go to meet up with Big L, who despite being enraged by Meech's presence, grants their request. Afterward, Meech hands Terry a brand new BMF chain. However, Terry reveals that he's out of the game and that he's going to use his settlement money to invest in the family business.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* See It... Touch It... Obtain It
* Rumors
* Love All, Trust Few
* Heroes
* Secrets and Lies
* Strictly Business
* All in the Family
* The King of Detroit

## Associated Murders

Travis- Shot in the head by accident

Mike- Shot in the stomach

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Season 1, Episode 1: ***See It... Touch It... Obtain It***
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2: ***Rumors***
3. ↑ Season 1, Episode 3: ***Love All, Trust Few***
4. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4: ***Heroes***
5. ↑ Season 1, Episode 5: ***Secrets and Lies***
6. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: ***Strictly Business***
7. ↑ Season 1, Episode 7: ***All in the Family***
8. ↑ Season 1, Episode 8: ***The King of Detroit***