0 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Downloaded From www.AllSubs.org 0 00:00:00,105 --> 00:00:05,000 Shared by http://DJJ.HOME.SAPO.PT/ 1 00:00:10,042 --> 00:00:13,705 That's the witness all right, the one from the Barksdale case. 2 00:00:13,813 --> 00:00:16,543 Gant, William. 41 years. 3 00:00:16,983 --> 00:00:21,113 Single headshot, close range. Bullet pancaked on the inner skull. 4 00:00:27,059 --> 00:00:29,289 -Ain't necessarily what it looks like. -No? 5 00:00:29,395 --> 00:00:31,590 A man's walking down a street in West Baltimore. 6 00:00:31,697 --> 00:00:33,961 That'll catch you a bullet for a half-dozen reasons. 7 00:00:34,066 --> 00:00:36,762 -Yeah, that it will. -You run him for a sheet? 8 00:00:36,869 --> 00:00:38,734 Yeah, a couple of disorderlies is all. 9 00:00:38,838 --> 00:00:40,829 Guy works maintenance down at Poe Homes. 10 00:00:40,940 --> 00:00:43,135 Lives alone, no wife, no kids. 11 00:00:43,242 --> 00:00:45,767 Only time his name pops up on the courthouse computer... 12 00:00:45,878 --> 00:00:47,903 is for being a state witness in Barlow's case. 13 00:00:48,014 --> 00:00:50,539 Otherwise, I don't even make that connection. 14 00:00:53,886 --> 00:00:55,717 I mean, you've got to admit... 15 00:00:55,822 --> 00:00:59,053 it don't make sense to ace this motherfucker after he done testified. 16 00:00:59,158 --> 00:01:00,557 Sends a hell of a message though. 17 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:04,528 He's one hardheaded fuck in the Terrace you can't run off or buy out, right? 18 00:01:04,630 --> 00:01:08,760 If your audience is the high-rise projects, a move like this cuts right through the shit. 19 00:01:08,868 --> 00:01:10,301 What are you gonna tell the major? 20 00:01:10,403 --> 00:01:13,099 That I caught a stone fucking whodunit. 21 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:16,039 -Don't soft-sell the witness angle. -Come on. 22 00:01:16,142 --> 00:01:19,339 Why get the bosses riled before we know for sure? 23 00:01:19,445 --> 00:01:21,743 If I start talking shit that a witness got killed-- 24 00:01:21,848 --> 00:01:23,440 -Bunk, tell him. -Why? 25 00:01:23,549 --> 00:01:25,312 Just cover yourself on this. 26 00:01:25,418 --> 00:01:28,910 Jimmy, you ain't gonna do what I think? 27 00:01:31,324 --> 00:01:32,757 Listen to me. 28 00:01:33,326 --> 00:01:36,159 This shit is gonna jump up and bite you in your ass. 29 00:01:36,262 --> 00:01:37,991 Just cover yourself. 30 00:01:38,865 --> 00:01:42,767 -What the hell was that about? -Nothing. 31 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,234 Morning. 32 00:04:20,292 --> 00:04:21,919 Jesus Christ. 33 00:04:31,871 --> 00:04:33,566 Goddamn. 34 00:04:34,106 --> 00:04:37,564 Who do you got to fuck in this town to get a real office? 35 00:04:38,744 --> 00:04:40,473 At least that works. 36 00:04:51,991 --> 00:04:53,686 It was for McNulty. 37 00:04:57,296 --> 00:04:59,560 -I shouldn't be here. -Then you shouldn't. 38 00:04:59,665 --> 00:05:02,156 They killed a fucking witness out of your court. 39 00:05:02,268 --> 00:05:04,964 Yeah, you told me. You did your civic duty. 40 00:05:05,071 --> 00:05:08,404 Under the power vested in me by the circuit court for Baltimore city... 41 00:05:08,507 --> 00:05:10,941 I absolve you of all your sins, Detective McNulty. 42 00:05:11,043 --> 00:05:12,840 You are my sin, you know that? 43 00:05:12,945 --> 00:05:15,413 For talking to you, my major is ready to cut my throat. 44 00:05:15,514 --> 00:05:18,540 Jimmy, you knew I was gonna make that call. Admit it. 45 00:05:18,651 --> 00:05:22,587 I didn't think you would straight-up hang me out on the line in a shitstorm. 46 00:05:23,456 --> 00:05:26,118 Look, it's not like it was when I was a prosecutor. 47 00:05:26,225 --> 00:05:29,285 -I'm a judge now, the rules are different. -You missed a spot. 48 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:31,363 Yeah, what's done is done. 49 00:05:32,465 --> 00:05:34,933 Question is, what do you want me to do now? 50 00:05:35,434 --> 00:05:38,130 I think you can leverage the Deputy Ops with a phone call. 51 00:05:38,237 --> 00:05:40,467 -He's already detailed people. -Some detail. 52 00:05:40,573 --> 00:05:43,838 Asshole lieutenant thinks he can buy-bust his way to Avon Barksdale. 53 00:05:43,943 --> 00:05:45,342 You want leverage? 54 00:05:45,444 --> 00:05:48,140 We give the dead-witness angle to the newspapers. 55 00:05:48,247 --> 00:05:49,441 Stir some real shit. 56 00:05:49,548 --> 00:05:51,880 No, that tips Barksdale that someone's working him. 57 00:05:51,984 --> 00:05:54,214 -We don't want to go public. -No? 58 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,878 Just put it to the Deputy Ops... 59 00:05:55,988 --> 00:05:58,115 you lost a witness who testified in your court. 60 00:05:58,224 --> 00:06:01,022 That forces the department to commit to the investigation. 61 00:06:01,127 --> 00:06:04,858 And when you call Burrell this time, will you forget my fucking name? 62 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:16,103 -You missed a spot. -Why don't you fucking do it? 63 00:06:16,208 --> 00:06:17,505 Seniority. 64 00:06:33,526 --> 00:06:35,619 -You found us. -Wasn't easy. 65 00:06:36,529 --> 00:06:39,930 -You asked for these guys? -I asked for more manpower. 66 00:06:42,201 --> 00:06:43,566 Have a seat. 67 00:06:52,511 --> 00:06:54,103 What the fuck.... 68 00:06:56,248 --> 00:06:57,977 Sir, l-- 69 00:06:58,083 --> 00:07:00,517 He was showing me the trigger pull on his Glock. 70 00:07:00,619 --> 00:07:04,146 -And he was just-- -Detective? 71 00:07:04,723 --> 00:07:07,749 Officer Pryzbylewski shot the wall, Lieutenant. 72 00:07:08,727 --> 00:07:09,751 Why? 73 00:07:09,862 --> 00:07:12,592 Why did you shoot the wall, Officer Pryzbylewski? 74 00:07:12,698 --> 00:07:16,134 I was just showing Carv how my trigger pull is light, you know. 75 00:07:16,902 --> 00:07:20,065 -I got it so it's real light. -He took the clip out, boss. 76 00:07:20,539 --> 00:07:22,063 But not the one in the chamber. 77 00:07:22,174 --> 00:07:26,338 No, I forgot the one in the chamber, and.... 78 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,176 Shit, I'm sorry, lieutenant. 79 00:07:31,684 --> 00:07:34,118 -You want him to write on it? -Write on what? 80 00:07:34,220 --> 00:07:38,350 You let one go, you got to write. You got to justify the use of deadly force. 81 00:07:39,124 --> 00:07:40,989 Against a plaster wall. 82 00:07:42,595 --> 00:07:45,962 It's an accident, okay? Give me a fucking break already. 83 00:07:46,065 --> 00:07:49,057 -Your name is what? -Pryzbylewski. 84 00:07:51,670 --> 00:07:54,434 From Auto Unit, right? Cantrell sent you. 85 00:07:56,108 --> 00:07:57,473 Not exactly. 86 00:07:57,576 --> 00:08:01,910 Lt. Cantrell sent me to Casualty Section a couple months back. 87 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:04,912 And I asked out of Casualty. 88 00:08:09,054 --> 00:08:11,545 You came here from Casualty Section? 89 00:08:13,859 --> 00:08:16,054 Man, these shits is right, yo. 90 00:08:20,299 --> 00:08:23,530 -It's good with the hot sauce, too. -Most definite. 91 00:08:24,236 --> 00:08:27,603 -Dee, want some nuggets? -No, go ahead, man. 92 00:08:27,706 --> 00:08:30,766 Man, whoever invented these, he off the hook. 93 00:08:30,876 --> 00:08:31,934 Word! 94 00:08:32,945 --> 00:08:35,914 Motherfucker got the bone all the way out the damn chicken. 95 00:08:36,015 --> 00:08:38,916 Till he came along, niggas be chewing on drumsticks and shit... 96 00:08:39,018 --> 00:08:40,986 getting their fingers all greasy. 97 00:08:41,086 --> 00:08:42,849 He said "Later" to the bone. 98 00:08:43,322 --> 00:08:46,018 Nugget that meat up and make some real money. 99 00:08:46,125 --> 00:08:48,457 -You think the man got paid? -Who? 100 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,723 -Man who invented these. -Shit, he richer than a motherfucker. 101 00:08:51,830 --> 00:08:54,492 Why? You think he get a percentage? 102 00:08:55,134 --> 00:08:56,294 Why not? 103 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:59,563 Nigga, please, the man who invented them things... 104 00:08:59,672 --> 00:09:02,106 just some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonald's... 105 00:09:02,207 --> 00:09:04,767 thinking up some shit to make money for the real players. 106 00:09:04,877 --> 00:09:07,243 -No man, that ain't right. -Fuck right. 107 00:09:07,446 --> 00:09:09,778 It ain't about right, it's about money. 108 00:09:09,882 --> 00:09:12,373 You think Ronald McDonald gonna go down that basement... 109 00:09:12,484 --> 00:09:15,112 and say, "Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. 110 00:09:15,254 --> 00:09:17,882 "We selling chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. 111 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:21,824 "So, I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you." 112 00:09:22,561 --> 00:09:23,619 Shit. 113 00:09:24,663 --> 00:09:26,358 The nigger who invented them things... 114 00:09:26,465 --> 00:09:28,626 still working in the basement for regular wage... 115 00:09:28,734 --> 00:09:32,067 thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better. 116 00:09:32,371 --> 00:09:33,565 Believe. 117 00:09:37,876 --> 00:09:40,037 He still had the idea, though. 118 00:09:47,119 --> 00:09:48,108 Who? 119 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:51,314 Polk and Pat Mahone. A couple of drunks from Property. 120 00:09:51,423 --> 00:09:53,186 -I don't know them. -Why would you? 121 00:09:53,292 --> 00:09:55,760 They haven't made a case in 10 years. 122 00:09:55,861 --> 00:09:59,058 Also got handed some kid named Prezbelowski or Prezbelewski-- 123 00:09:59,164 --> 00:10:02,258 -Pryzbylewski, him, I know. -Yeah? 124 00:10:02,668 --> 00:10:06,160 -Why was he in Casualty Section? -He shot up his own car. 125 00:10:06,271 --> 00:10:08,603 -You remember? -He did what? 126 00:10:08,707 --> 00:10:12,143 He fired two clips into an unmarked car, somewhere out in West Baltimore. 127 00:10:12,244 --> 00:10:16,146 Called in a Signal 13 on the radio, like he was under fire from a sniper. 128 00:10:16,248 --> 00:10:18,079 You didn't hear about that? 129 00:10:18,183 --> 00:10:21,744 He stuck to his story for half a day, until Ballistics matched the bullet... 130 00:10:21,854 --> 00:10:23,253 to his off-duty weapon. 131 00:10:23,355 --> 00:10:26,119 -We almost indicted him for false report. -Why didn't you? 132 00:10:26,225 --> 00:10:29,456 He's got some kind of suction with the Mayor's office. I'm not sure. 133 00:10:29,561 --> 00:10:32,655 My point is, I can't build much with the garbage they sent me. 134 00:10:32,765 --> 00:10:35,859 So, go to the deputy, right? You've got his ear on this. 135 00:10:38,037 --> 00:10:39,095 Why not? 136 00:10:39,571 --> 00:10:41,402 I ask the deputy for manpower. 137 00:10:41,507 --> 00:10:44,965 He then tells Property to send me two men, and Special to send two more. 138 00:10:45,077 --> 00:10:46,339 And those shift lieutenants... 139 00:10:46,445 --> 00:10:48,538 they know it's a chance to dump their deadwood. 140 00:10:48,647 --> 00:10:50,911 The deputy, he knows this, too. 141 00:10:51,050 --> 00:10:53,746 He could have offered to let me pick but he didn't. 142 00:10:53,852 --> 00:10:56,412 -He sent me a message on this. -And the message is? 143 00:10:56,522 --> 00:10:58,717 Don't dig in, don't get fancy. 144 00:10:59,191 --> 00:11:02,024 Put a quick charge on this Barksdale and then get out. 145 00:11:02,127 --> 00:11:05,221 If he sends me good police, I might do good police work. 146 00:11:06,865 --> 00:11:10,357 -But if the state's attorney's office were to-- -No, no. 147 00:11:22,481 --> 00:11:24,108 Rhonda, darling... 148 00:11:24,716 --> 00:11:28,584 it's bad protocol for me to ask for help and then trash the help I'm given. 149 00:11:28,687 --> 00:11:30,587 -You, on the other hand-- -No way. 150 00:11:30,689 --> 00:11:32,520 My office doesn't play that way. 151 00:11:32,624 --> 00:11:35,218 You people staff your cases, you bring us casework. 152 00:11:35,327 --> 00:11:38,228 I cross that line, I only piss everyone off. 153 00:11:40,599 --> 00:11:43,500 Best I can do is tell my unit chief that you drew shit. 154 00:11:43,602 --> 00:11:44,899 He wants to take it upstairs... 155 00:11:45,003 --> 00:11:47,164 call the deputy for operations, that's his choice. 156 00:11:47,272 --> 00:11:49,638 -That won't happen. -Probably not. 157 00:11:52,244 --> 00:11:53,711 Make lemonade. 158 00:12:18,871 --> 00:12:19,929 Fuck! 159 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:22,469 Yo, Kima, where you taking us? 160 00:12:23,142 --> 00:12:24,666 -Get down. -What? 161 00:12:24,776 --> 00:12:27,836 Jesus. You all ain't got no creep to you. 162 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:30,238 Pair of goddamn elephants. 163 00:12:33,552 --> 00:12:36,146 A rusted nail just went through my shoe. 164 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:39,588 I'm gonna need a tetanus to get behind this bullshit. 165 00:12:43,028 --> 00:12:45,758 -Kima. -Hand me that bag. 166 00:12:51,203 --> 00:12:53,603 Kima, if you don't mind me asking... 167 00:12:53,972 --> 00:12:58,102 when was it that you first figured you liked women better than men? 168 00:12:58,677 --> 00:13:00,304 I mind you asking. 169 00:13:07,719 --> 00:13:10,882 Gentlemen, what's going on there, guys? 170 00:13:10,989 --> 00:13:13,480 -Testers, man, already out. -No. 171 00:13:13,592 --> 00:13:17,221 I'm not in need of your services, bro. I'm offering my services to y'all. 172 00:13:17,329 --> 00:13:18,694 What you got in the bag, man? 173 00:13:18,797 --> 00:13:22,927 One thing a gentleman of color like better than a new pair of downtown shoes... 174 00:13:23,035 --> 00:13:25,003 is a downtown brim, right? 175 00:13:53,465 --> 00:13:55,228 What's with the hats? 176 00:14:05,210 --> 00:14:07,610 -Five-o! -Five-o! 177 00:14:08,113 --> 00:14:09,546 Shut it down! 178 00:14:19,358 --> 00:14:20,484 Clean? 179 00:14:50,088 --> 00:14:53,216 You ain't gonna put that one on me. He a witness. 180 00:14:53,325 --> 00:14:57,193 You picked that shit up off the ground, so don't be trying to put shit on me. 181 00:14:57,296 --> 00:14:59,662 Is that what you think I'm about? 182 00:15:00,599 --> 00:15:02,863 Boy thinks I'm gonna dirty him. 183 00:15:03,068 --> 00:15:05,002 Like y'all won't do it. 184 00:15:05,103 --> 00:15:08,095 You Western knockos come here, picking shit up off the ground... 185 00:15:08,206 --> 00:15:10,174 putting it on whoever you damn well please. 186 00:15:10,275 --> 00:15:11,742 Do I know you? 187 00:15:13,045 --> 00:15:16,446 Let's understand each other. I'm not Western District. 188 00:15:16,548 --> 00:15:19,278 I'm not a knocko. I don't dirty people... 189 00:15:19,384 --> 00:15:21,511 because I don't care about a possession charge. 190 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:24,953 I'm a Murder Police, I'm here about the bodies. 191 00:15:26,224 --> 00:15:29,421 D'Angelo here knows that. He remembers me from the trial, right? 192 00:15:29,528 --> 00:15:33,464 I'm sitting in back there, behind Stringer, watching, listening. 193 00:15:33,565 --> 00:15:36,056 Y'all hassling me about that shit? 194 00:15:36,234 --> 00:15:38,168 I thought you heard what the jury had to say. 195 00:15:38,270 --> 00:15:40,261 -Fuck the jury. -Yeah, fuck the jury. 196 00:15:40,372 --> 00:15:41,839 This is just us talking, right? 197 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:45,467 Just you, me, my partner and.... What did you say your name was? 198 00:15:45,577 --> 00:15:46,874 I didn't say shit. 199 00:15:46,978 --> 00:15:49,845 Just you, me, my partner and Mr. Shit here. 200 00:15:50,349 --> 00:15:52,579 We're just talking about how things go, right? 201 00:15:52,684 --> 00:15:55,118 We are just sharing our thoughts here. 202 00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:59,486 -Bunk, a vial for your thoughts. -I'm thinking it's one thing for one of you... 203 00:15:59,591 --> 00:16:02,219 Iittle Terrace niggers to shoot somebody in the lobby... 204 00:16:02,327 --> 00:16:04,887 of the 221 building, you know? Who gives a fuck? 205 00:16:04,996 --> 00:16:07,021 -But when you ace a witness... -A working man. 206 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:09,293 ...who ain't even in the game.... 207 00:16:10,435 --> 00:16:12,733 You gonna act like this is news? 208 00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:17,670 I tell you this, I don't know shit about shit, but I do know this... 209 00:16:17,909 --> 00:16:21,436 anyone who spend time witnessing shit, you gonna get got. 210 00:16:22,481 --> 00:16:26,645 I know that sounds kind of harsh, but that's the way things go around here... 211 00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:27,946 officer. 212 00:16:30,522 --> 00:16:31,853 Let's roll. 213 00:16:43,468 --> 00:16:47,268 That how you see things, D'Angelo? Like your friend here? 214 00:16:53,011 --> 00:16:56,538 I'm here trying to outfit niggers with something to rile up some pussy. 215 00:16:56,648 --> 00:16:59,674 You don't want to know, Bubbles used to get that pussy. 216 00:17:00,585 --> 00:17:03,179 I reckon the pussy ain't worth what it used to be... 217 00:17:03,288 --> 00:17:05,313 if you can do it without a proper brim, right? 218 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:07,016 Come on, big man. 219 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,041 -Something's up. -What? 220 00:17:32,117 --> 00:17:33,448 Don't know. 221 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:38,546 Yo, Carv. Come here. 222 00:17:39,624 --> 00:17:41,922 Listen, you see Bubbs put a hat on anybody... 223 00:17:42,027 --> 00:17:43,494 you take some pictures, all right? 224 00:17:43,595 --> 00:17:45,586 -Yeah? -Especially the red one. 225 00:17:45,697 --> 00:17:48,825 If you see him put that red hat on anybody's head... 226 00:17:48,934 --> 00:17:50,595 snap your fucking fingers off. 227 00:17:50,702 --> 00:17:52,226 Where you going? 228 00:17:53,572 --> 00:17:56,268 Yo, Carv. Notice that most of the time... 229 00:17:56,374 --> 00:17:59,104 it's like Kima thinks she's above us or something? 230 00:17:59,211 --> 00:18:01,975 I mean, I don't see any stripes on her fucking sleeve... 231 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:03,547 I don't see that. 232 00:18:04,049 --> 00:18:06,074 All I see is some stuck-up dyke bitch... 233 00:18:06,184 --> 00:18:08,584 who ain't been in CID half the time of you or me... 234 00:18:08,687 --> 00:18:10,917 and she's fucking telling us what to do. 235 00:18:11,022 --> 00:18:14,389 It ain't right. You think it's right? 236 00:18:14,493 --> 00:18:18,327 Shut up for just a minute. I'm trying to concentrate on this shit here. 237 00:18:24,402 --> 00:18:25,733 Nice truck. 238 00:18:31,610 --> 00:18:34,204 No? Makes your breath minty fresh. 239 00:18:34,312 --> 00:18:37,304 Is you all gonna arrest me? Then go the fuck ahead and arrest me. 240 00:18:37,415 --> 00:18:38,473 If not, shut the fuck up. 241 00:18:38,583 --> 00:18:40,175 -You want to get arrested? -No. 242 00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:43,083 -Shut the fuck up your own self. -I'm out of here. 243 00:18:44,022 --> 00:18:47,048 Hey, D'Angelo. You better bend the fuck over. 244 00:18:47,959 --> 00:18:49,017 Shit. 245 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:53,990 -You ain't got nothing else to do today? -No, no, nothing. 246 00:18:55,066 --> 00:18:57,159 Y'all ain't got no charge. 247 00:19:00,272 --> 00:19:03,833 You're getting awfully close, man. You new on the force or some shit? 248 00:19:15,787 --> 00:19:17,277 All right, Dee. 249 00:19:44,416 --> 00:19:45,576 Move it. 250 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,468 It's Greggs. Get me the lieutenant. 251 00:20:02,808 --> 00:20:05,072 Prez? He's no good to anyone, he's a goof. 252 00:20:05,177 --> 00:20:08,374 How is he my problem then? How is he still carrying a gun and badge? 253 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,641 You know Valchek in Southeast? 254 00:20:10,749 --> 00:20:12,740 -Yeah. -Son-in-law. 255 00:20:13,585 --> 00:20:16,679 I can't carry him on this. You know who Special sent me? 256 00:20:16,788 --> 00:20:18,619 -Who? -Polk and Mahoney. 257 00:20:19,024 --> 00:20:21,584 Between the two of them I don't have a designated driver. 258 00:20:21,693 --> 00:20:23,388 I heard you have someone from Pawnshop. 259 00:20:23,495 --> 00:20:25,895 Lester Freamon? A cuddly housecat. 260 00:20:26,164 --> 00:20:28,826 I don't think he can even find his gun. 261 00:20:30,135 --> 00:20:32,467 Look, take Pryzbylewski back. 262 00:20:32,571 --> 00:20:36,098 You know I can't. I would, but I can't. I gave Valchek my word on it, okay? 263 00:20:36,208 --> 00:20:38,733 I can't help it that Prez is fucking the guy's daughter. 264 00:20:38,844 --> 00:20:42,507 -If not for that, he's gone, no question. -So, you got suction with Valchek? 265 00:20:42,614 --> 00:20:45,481 If I cross him, I'm fucked on the next round of promotions. 266 00:20:45,584 --> 00:20:48,883 For Christ's sake, I'm with you on the short list for major. 267 00:20:48,987 --> 00:20:51,785 Valchek has suction with the First District Democratic Club... 268 00:20:51,890 --> 00:20:55,826 and they got suction with the Mayor, and I'm the runt without a tit here. 269 00:20:56,061 --> 00:20:57,619 I owe you, okay? 270 00:20:59,498 --> 00:21:01,557 -So, give me Sydnor. -No way. 271 00:21:01,666 --> 00:21:03,065 Give me Sydnor and I'll keep Prez. 272 00:21:03,168 --> 00:21:04,999 He's my best man, you can't take him. 273 00:21:05,103 --> 00:21:08,163 -I'm taking your worst, remember? -How about Steinman? 274 00:21:08,273 --> 00:21:11,709 I'm working drugs in West Baltimore, I need a black guy for surveillance. 275 00:21:11,810 --> 00:21:13,277 I need Sydnor. 276 00:21:13,979 --> 00:21:17,437 -Jesus, know what Prez did this morning? -Tell me. 277 00:21:17,616 --> 00:21:21,108 He put a bullet through a wall, dry-firing in the detail office. 278 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,544 Look, no promises. 279 00:21:22,654 --> 00:21:25,452 You give me Sydnor, I'll carry Pryzbylewski as long as I can. 280 00:21:25,557 --> 00:21:28,424 Fine, Cedric, fuck, whatever. Jesus Christ. 281 00:21:35,467 --> 00:21:36,798 How did you handle the judge? 282 00:21:36,902 --> 00:21:39,871 I told him we were looking closely at the situation. 283 00:21:39,971 --> 00:21:42,735 I asked him not to say anything publicly. 284 00:21:43,842 --> 00:21:46,606 So, then he's not gonna go public, right? 285 00:21:48,413 --> 00:21:49,937 Judge Phelan called this morning... 286 00:21:50,048 --> 00:21:53,211 crying about a witness in his murder trial who was killed. 287 00:21:53,318 --> 00:21:55,548 Did the judge say where he heard it? 288 00:21:55,654 --> 00:21:58,054 He heard it from our man, McNulty. 289 00:21:58,356 --> 00:22:00,187 That's his pipeline on this crap. 290 00:22:00,292 --> 00:22:04,695 Pardon my French, but I got no problem giving that asshole up at this point. 291 00:22:04,896 --> 00:22:07,797 -I don't need people I can't trust. -Yeah, who does? 292 00:22:07,899 --> 00:22:11,062 The newspapers get hold of this, it'll be a complete clusterfuck. 293 00:22:11,169 --> 00:22:14,434 Okay, so the thing to do is reassure the judge... 294 00:22:14,639 --> 00:22:16,834 keep him off his damn soapbox. 295 00:22:17,342 --> 00:22:19,435 An arrest or two would help. 296 00:22:20,712 --> 00:22:22,339 What if it's true? 297 00:22:22,847 --> 00:22:25,509 What if Barksdale ordered the murder of a state's witness? 298 00:22:25,617 --> 00:22:26,606 Are you serious? 299 00:22:26,718 --> 00:22:29,448 Why would anyone do that after the witness testifies? 300 00:22:29,554 --> 00:22:32,489 -It has no effect on the case. -Payback, plain and simple. 301 00:22:32,591 --> 00:22:34,183 Bullshit, plain and simple. 302 00:22:34,292 --> 00:22:37,227 Look, I know there could be two dozen other reasons... 303 00:22:37,329 --> 00:22:39,559 for this man to be murdered, but what if-- 304 00:22:39,664 --> 00:22:43,191 No money for pretrial. No witness protection program. 305 00:22:43,802 --> 00:22:47,203 Look, this is a poor fucking city, gentlemen. 306 00:22:47,439 --> 00:22:51,535 The last thing we ever need to do is to announce we lost a witness. 307 00:22:51,843 --> 00:22:54,505 I mean, it's hard enough pushing felony casework... 308 00:22:54,613 --> 00:22:56,080 through that courthouse as it is. 309 00:22:56,181 --> 00:23:00,117 -You got to pull McNulty off this. -Who caught the murder case? 310 00:23:00,218 --> 00:23:03,483 -Bunk Moreland, McNulty's partner. -Then you'd have to pull him, too. 311 00:23:03,588 --> 00:23:08,048 No, we pull McNulty up, the judge will bring the press into this. 312 00:23:08,159 --> 00:23:10,218 I can see that a mile away. 313 00:23:10,562 --> 00:23:14,396 No, we're gonna sit tight, let McNulty take his best shot... 314 00:23:14,499 --> 00:23:17,059 and hope like hell he comes up short. 315 00:23:19,304 --> 00:23:22,535 How do you wanna handle this? We got nothing on him. 316 00:23:22,641 --> 00:23:24,575 We try to front, he'll see right through us. 317 00:23:24,676 --> 00:23:26,644 He's scared though. Soft. 318 00:23:27,612 --> 00:23:29,239 Go with the deuce? 319 00:23:30,615 --> 00:23:31,946 Hold up, hold up. 320 00:23:38,490 --> 00:23:40,651 -He part of my case? -No, sir. 321 00:23:40,925 --> 00:23:43,519 He's a potential suspect in my murder. 322 00:23:45,330 --> 00:23:47,594 Which might be part of my case. 323 00:23:50,468 --> 00:23:53,437 I could use some coffee. You want some coffee? 324 00:23:58,243 --> 00:24:00,609 -I need a word with you. -We're just about to go-- 325 00:24:00,712 --> 00:24:01,736 Now. 326 00:24:04,683 --> 00:24:07,982 You remember all that bullshit I gave you about keeping me informed... 327 00:24:08,086 --> 00:24:10,646 about nothing happening that I don't know about? 328 00:24:10,755 --> 00:24:12,052 -Lieutenant-- -Wasn't bullshit. 329 00:24:12,157 --> 00:24:15,615 My partner caught a murder. It may have nothing with Barksdale at all. 330 00:24:15,727 --> 00:24:17,627 I just came from Deputy Ops' office... 331 00:24:17,729 --> 00:24:20,254 where your own major's telling Burrell to do you. 332 00:24:20,365 --> 00:24:22,731 You hear me? Rawls is giving you up. 333 00:24:22,834 --> 00:24:26,099 -What the fuck did I do? -You can't shut your mouth. 334 00:24:26,671 --> 00:24:30,038 You think that downtown judge is gonna bail your ass out on this? 335 00:24:30,141 --> 00:24:33,304 You really think that? You should have come to me. 336 00:24:33,478 --> 00:24:36,208 We bring this business to the deputy first, we got a shot. 337 00:24:36,314 --> 00:24:38,680 But no, you're out there all alone, jumping bad. 338 00:24:38,783 --> 00:24:40,944 -You got the deputy's ear? -On this case, I do. 339 00:24:41,052 --> 00:24:43,850 Then how come they sent every worthless hump in plainclothes? 340 00:24:43,955 --> 00:24:47,186 You ask for men, they send you drunks and fuck-ups. 341 00:24:49,461 --> 00:24:51,292 I want to do this case. 342 00:24:51,429 --> 00:24:52,589 So do l. 343 00:24:52,697 --> 00:24:55,325 Then you're gonna get all the way in, Lieutenant. 344 00:24:55,433 --> 00:24:59,836 If I see you get all the way in, then I know who you are, what you're about. 345 00:24:59,938 --> 00:25:03,374 -Who is he? -D'Angelo Barksdale. 346 00:25:03,608 --> 00:25:06,805 -Nephew to the king. -That's the one that beat the murder? 347 00:25:06,911 --> 00:25:08,208 Yeah, him. 348 00:25:08,513 --> 00:25:10,879 What do you have to connect him to the dead witness? 349 00:25:10,982 --> 00:25:13,974 -Not a thing. -Why did you pick him up? 350 00:25:15,553 --> 00:25:18,317 Press him. See what kind of flex he shows. 351 00:25:20,091 --> 00:25:22,855 -She goes in with you. -We don't need her. 352 00:25:23,194 --> 00:25:25,162 Bunk and me, we got our own rhythm. 353 00:25:25,263 --> 00:25:29,029 You want me in, McNulty? I thought you said you wanted me in. 354 00:25:30,635 --> 00:25:35,265 You're along for this interview, but it's Homicide's play, so let him lead. 355 00:25:40,011 --> 00:25:42,639 You might want to run tag and title on these two trucks. 356 00:25:42,747 --> 00:25:46,012 -They scoped us when we jacked the kid. -Been there. 357 00:25:46,818 --> 00:25:48,877 Info's already in the file. 358 00:25:49,387 --> 00:25:52,356 Y'all weren't the only lawmen down in the Canyon today. 359 00:25:52,457 --> 00:25:55,517 -Really, where were you? -Where was she? 360 00:26:02,367 --> 00:26:06,303 I mean, the thing is, I can't see a reason for that man to be dead. 361 00:26:06,638 --> 00:26:09,505 I can't. I mean, hell, you beat us in court. 362 00:26:09,607 --> 00:26:11,575 -We don't take it personal. -Fuck, no. 363 00:26:11,676 --> 00:26:15,442 We get paid either way. And it's not like you did anything real bad... 364 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:18,048 throwing a couple of hot ones at Pooh Blanchard. 365 00:26:18,149 --> 00:26:20,083 No one's gonna miss that motherfucker. 366 00:26:20,185 --> 00:26:22,653 But you know the man who got killed this time? 367 00:26:22,754 --> 00:26:24,881 You know who that poor son of a bitch was? 368 00:26:24,989 --> 00:26:26,115 A citizen. 369 00:26:26,224 --> 00:26:29,455 Worked every goddamn day of his life. You know that? 370 00:26:29,694 --> 00:26:33,255 He would get up every day, go out and do maintenance work. 371 00:26:33,364 --> 00:26:36,162 Then on the weekends, he was driving a cab out to the airport. 372 00:26:36,267 --> 00:26:37,495 Two jobs. 373 00:26:37,602 --> 00:26:40,400 And he volunteers what little time he has left at his church. 374 00:26:40,505 --> 00:26:43,303 -Church-going man. -A bethel man, a deacon. 375 00:26:43,942 --> 00:26:47,605 Two jobs and three kids. Did you know that? 376 00:26:48,012 --> 00:26:50,242 Three kids. Young, too. 377 00:26:50,915 --> 00:26:53,577 Five, eight, eleven. 378 00:26:54,619 --> 00:26:56,917 Crying their little orphaned asses to sleep... 379 00:26:57,021 --> 00:26:59,319 'cause they lost their mama some years ago... 380 00:26:59,424 --> 00:27:01,915 and now they out there on their own. 381 00:27:05,063 --> 00:27:08,328 -He doesn't believe us. -I know he don't believe it. 382 00:27:08,533 --> 00:27:11,593 We've been here two hours, telling you what's true in the world... 383 00:27:11,703 --> 00:27:13,364 and you sit like nothing happened. 384 00:27:13,471 --> 00:27:14,563 Where my lawyer at? 385 00:27:14,672 --> 00:27:16,833 We called him. When he comes, we'll let you know. 386 00:27:16,941 --> 00:27:18,704 I got nothing to say. 387 00:27:18,843 --> 00:27:21,641 I mean, I'm sorry for the man, but I ain't got nothing to say. 388 00:27:21,746 --> 00:27:25,375 You sorry? You sorry for him? You fucking killed the man. 389 00:27:25,483 --> 00:27:27,212 -No. -Yes, you did. 390 00:27:27,318 --> 00:27:30,913 We don't think that you shot him, but if you weren't so busy... 391 00:27:31,022 --> 00:27:32,717 Iighting folks up in high-rise lobby... 392 00:27:32,824 --> 00:27:35,190 he ain't coming out of the elevator and see it happen. 393 00:27:35,293 --> 00:27:37,090 He don't see anything, he doesn't testify. 394 00:27:37,195 --> 00:27:39,891 He doesn't testify, those kids still got a daddy to lean on. 395 00:27:39,998 --> 00:27:41,727 -Why'd he testify? -How would we know? 396 00:27:41,833 --> 00:27:45,098 -He didn't have to testify. -No, he didn't, but he did. 397 00:27:45,203 --> 00:27:46,966 And you still beat the charge, didn't you? 398 00:27:47,071 --> 00:27:49,801 But that wasn't enough. It's not enough to beat the murder. 399 00:27:49,908 --> 00:27:52,536 They gotta send a cold message to everyone in the Terrace. 400 00:27:52,644 --> 00:27:56,307 Fuck the working man. Fuck his kids, that shit don't count. 401 00:27:58,816 --> 00:28:01,376 See, that's what I don't get about the drug thing. 402 00:28:01,486 --> 00:28:05,013 Why can't you sell the shit and walk the fuck away? 403 00:28:05,390 --> 00:28:08,689 You know what I mean? Everything else in this country gets sold... 404 00:28:08,793 --> 00:28:10,988 without people shooting each other behind it. 405 00:28:11,095 --> 00:28:13,996 In the Terrace, it's one body after another. 406 00:28:14,499 --> 00:28:16,467 You remember that little boy... 407 00:28:16,668 --> 00:28:20,331 got shot in the barbershop on West Lombard last summer? 408 00:28:21,506 --> 00:28:24,634 One asshole chases another into a house... 409 00:28:24,742 --> 00:28:26,334 empties a 9. 410 00:28:26,444 --> 00:28:29,345 Bullshit argument over 20 missing gelcaps... 411 00:28:30,448 --> 00:28:33,144 and that little kid, instead of getting his first haircut... 412 00:28:33,251 --> 00:28:35,048 he gets one in the eye. 413 00:28:35,653 --> 00:28:37,143 You remember that? 414 00:28:37,388 --> 00:28:39,324 -It's fucked up. -Yes, it is. 415 00:28:39,324 --> 00:28:40,154 -It's fucked up. -Yes, it is. 416 00:28:42,460 --> 00:28:44,519 They didn't have to do that. 417 00:28:44,629 --> 00:28:46,563 Shoot up a barber shop? 418 00:28:46,931 --> 00:28:49,331 No, they did not have to do that. 419 00:28:52,003 --> 00:28:53,800 That man was just... 420 00:28:56,341 --> 00:28:57,603 my thing. 421 00:28:59,644 --> 00:29:01,771 My thing, they ain't had.... 422 00:29:04,115 --> 00:29:06,106 They ain't had to do that. 423 00:29:15,326 --> 00:29:17,191 No mama and no daddy. 424 00:29:18,262 --> 00:29:19,627 Lord Jesus! 425 00:29:24,636 --> 00:29:27,969 I'll tell you what I think you should do, D'Angelo... 426 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,404 not because I think you wanted that man to get shot... 427 00:29:31,509 --> 00:29:34,034 or had anything to do with shooting him. 428 00:29:34,145 --> 00:29:37,512 But I think you could just sit here... 429 00:29:37,782 --> 00:29:39,841 for a moment or two, collect your thoughts... 430 00:29:39,951 --> 00:29:42,317 you know, get your shit together. 431 00:29:42,954 --> 00:29:44,922 And then I think it might be a good thing... 432 00:29:45,023 --> 00:29:48,356 for you to write a little letter to those children... 433 00:29:48,459 --> 00:29:51,121 and you let them know you're sorry... 434 00:29:52,697 --> 00:29:55,860 that they're not gonna have anyone left, you know? 435 00:29:57,335 --> 00:29:59,269 I mean, just say something. 436 00:29:59,370 --> 00:30:02,464 Tell them how you personally think your uncle... 437 00:30:02,573 --> 00:30:05,667 maybe he got it wrong this time, because it's wrong... 438 00:30:05,777 --> 00:30:09,406 that they lost their daddy behind what happened, you know? 439 00:30:11,816 --> 00:30:15,684 It might mean something to them to know that you're feeling for them. 440 00:30:22,527 --> 00:30:24,859 Man, I ain't got nothing to say. 441 00:30:26,297 --> 00:30:28,492 Just say what's in your heart. 442 00:30:50,054 --> 00:30:52,522 Church deacon? That was thick. 443 00:30:52,623 --> 00:30:54,887 Got good to me, what can I say? 444 00:30:55,526 --> 00:30:58,757 It's sad enough with the kids being orphaned and everything. 445 00:30:59,197 --> 00:31:01,324 Photo was from Bunk's desk. 446 00:31:03,201 --> 00:31:05,999 -They're yours? -Yeah, afraid so. 447 00:31:07,238 --> 00:31:09,832 Good thing they look like their mama. 448 00:31:10,007 --> 00:31:13,636 Maurice Levy just posted. He's by the elevators. 449 00:31:21,886 --> 00:31:24,116 -The defense never rests. -Shame on you, McNulty. 450 00:31:24,222 --> 00:31:27,089 Dragging me from the Levy family preserve on a Friday night. 451 00:31:27,191 --> 00:31:29,682 -My apologies. -Yvette made brisket. 452 00:31:29,794 --> 00:31:32,262 -Good? -When served hot. One or two? 453 00:31:32,864 --> 00:31:34,092 Your client. 454 00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:37,067 What the fuck! Stop writing! Now! 455 00:31:37,168 --> 00:31:38,863 -I'm just-- -Shut up! 456 00:31:39,570 --> 00:31:42,733 He calls his lawyer, that's supposed to be the end of the interview. 457 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,206 Your client gave no statement, we took no statement. 458 00:31:45,309 --> 00:31:49,109 He just decided, voluntarily, to write a letter to the victim's family. 459 00:31:49,213 --> 00:31:51,477 -To say that-- -Shut up! 460 00:31:53,351 --> 00:31:55,876 -Any charge here? -No charge. 461 00:31:55,987 --> 00:31:59,582 Good, get up. Go! Walk! 462 00:32:02,226 --> 00:32:04,387 Listen to me, you don't say anything... 463 00:32:04,495 --> 00:32:07,020 you don't do anything, you don't write anything. 464 00:32:07,131 --> 00:32:08,189 Do you hear me? 465 00:32:08,299 --> 00:32:09,493 Shut up! 466 00:32:09,634 --> 00:32:13,730 How many times do I have to tell you people the same fucking thing? 467 00:32:28,452 --> 00:32:30,079 What the fuck is that? 468 00:32:33,024 --> 00:32:37,017 Armoire. Louis Quatorze. 469 00:32:38,429 --> 00:32:40,454 I mean, what is it, a toy? 470 00:32:42,233 --> 00:32:45,361 Some of you I know. Some of you I will know. 471 00:32:45,703 --> 00:32:49,139 If you've ever worked with me before, you know I don't want cowboy shit... 472 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,003 and I don't want surprises. 473 00:32:51,409 --> 00:32:52,842 The task... 474 00:32:56,514 --> 00:33:00,245 is Avon Barksdale, and Avon Barksdale only. 475 00:33:00,818 --> 00:33:02,786 No sidetrips, no sprawl. 476 00:33:04,088 --> 00:33:07,785 Primary investigators are Greggs from my unit and-- 477 00:33:11,295 --> 00:33:14,458 Greggs from my unit and McNulty from Homicide. 478 00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:18,565 They keep the file. On the street, we work partners. 479 00:33:19,503 --> 00:33:22,131 Greggs and Sydnor. Herc and Carver. 480 00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:25,805 McNulty's with Santangelo, Mahone and Polk. 481 00:33:26,143 --> 00:33:28,111 Pryzbylewski and Freamon. 482 00:33:28,679 --> 00:33:30,579 To start with, we got nine-- 483 00:33:30,681 --> 00:33:33,081 How's that? Did that get it? 484 00:33:33,484 --> 00:33:36,453 What? Do you hear me? 485 00:33:37,121 --> 00:33:38,247 What? 486 00:33:40,591 --> 00:33:43,253 To start with, we have nine or ten open homicide files... 487 00:33:43,361 --> 00:33:45,488 to work back through for leads. 488 00:33:45,696 --> 00:33:48,494 McNulty and Santangelo, they're on that already. 489 00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:52,592 Herc, Carver, Sydnor, and me, we'll be targeting street dealers... 490 00:33:52,703 --> 00:33:55,263 and rolling them back up at Barksdale's people. 491 00:33:55,373 --> 00:33:58,536 Polk and Mahone are available to run down specific leads. 492 00:33:58,643 --> 00:34:01,043 Freamon, Pryzbylewski, are gonna start in-office... 493 00:34:01,145 --> 00:34:02,544 on clerical duty. 494 00:34:02,647 --> 00:34:06,083 -You need a prosecutor-- -No, turn the shit off! 495 00:34:06,717 --> 00:34:07,877 What? 496 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,951 You need a prosecutor. 497 00:34:11,055 --> 00:34:13,785 Rhonda Pearlman from Narcotics is assigned. 498 00:34:14,992 --> 00:34:18,189 Now, we don't have enough desks yet, so we gotta share-- 499 00:34:18,296 --> 00:34:20,696 -Y'all from Purchasing? -No. 500 00:34:26,938 --> 00:34:29,532 Like I was saying, we've been promised some computers... 501 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,471 and surveillance equipment. 502 00:34:31,575 --> 00:34:35,511 -Questions? -Yeah, who signs the overtime slips? 503 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,410 No OT, unless prior authorization. 504 00:34:38,516 --> 00:34:42,145 A case goes from red to black by way of green, Lieutenant. 505 00:34:42,653 --> 00:34:45,178 You people bring me something that needs OT... 506 00:34:45,289 --> 00:34:46,847 you'll get OT... 507 00:34:46,958 --> 00:34:50,450 until then, live on your fucking salaries. 508 00:35:02,707 --> 00:35:07,144 "I'm very sorry for your father. If I could've stopped it, I would have." 509 00:35:08,379 --> 00:35:10,074 What can you do with this? 510 00:35:10,181 --> 00:35:11,614 Nothing legally. 511 00:35:11,716 --> 00:35:15,277 He doesn't put himself in, or anyone else for that matter. 512 00:35:15,653 --> 00:35:17,314 You can't read that letter... 513 00:35:17,421 --> 00:35:19,753 and think that man was killed for any other reason... 514 00:35:19,857 --> 00:35:20,983 than he was a witness. 515 00:35:21,092 --> 00:35:24,493 Why apologize at all if you got nothing to do with it? 516 00:35:30,468 --> 00:35:32,493 We lost a state's witness. 517 00:35:32,737 --> 00:35:36,036 Even in Baltimore, that's supposed to mean something, right? 518 00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:38,370 Just go to the deputy, show him what's what... 519 00:35:38,476 --> 00:35:40,341 and let's put something real together. 520 00:35:40,444 --> 00:35:43,971 This case needs informants. It needs long-term surveillance. 521 00:35:44,081 --> 00:35:46,481 And eventually, it's gonna need a Title 3 wiretap. 522 00:35:46,584 --> 00:35:50,452 Most of all, it needs police who know how to work those things. 523 00:35:51,222 --> 00:35:54,055 You think it's good for business to put it out on the street... 524 00:35:54,158 --> 00:35:55,352 that our witnesses get killed? 525 00:35:55,459 --> 00:35:57,927 You think it's not on the street already? 526 00:36:00,664 --> 00:36:02,632 No grandstanding, no red balls. 527 00:36:02,733 --> 00:36:05,463 Like I said, we get in and out. 528 00:36:22,553 --> 00:36:23,815 Aunt June. 529 00:36:26,490 --> 00:36:29,357 Yeah, I hope you're hungry. 530 00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:30,688 Starving. 531 00:36:31,395 --> 00:36:32,657 Hey, Dee! 532 00:36:34,031 --> 00:36:35,225 What's up, baby? 533 00:36:35,332 --> 00:36:37,323 -That your uncle? -Yeah. 534 00:36:38,102 --> 00:36:39,763 I thought he'd look different. 535 00:36:39,870 --> 00:36:42,839 My man, Dee. What's up, man? 536 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:44,703 This the little man? 537 00:36:45,176 --> 00:36:48,634 Yo, you see how shorty favor your nephew here? 538 00:36:49,513 --> 00:36:52,607 What's up, little man? You ain't gonna be able to deny that child. 539 00:36:52,716 --> 00:36:56,652 You wanna come to me? I know you tryin' to come to me. 540 00:36:56,754 --> 00:36:58,517 -Been napping. -Yeah? 541 00:36:58,622 --> 00:36:59,680 Just woke up. 542 00:36:59,790 --> 00:37:01,690 You got a grip, let me see your grip. 543 00:37:01,792 --> 00:37:04,226 C'mon, give us a twirl, let's take a look. 544 00:37:06,697 --> 00:37:07,891 What you looking at? 545 00:37:07,998 --> 00:37:09,932 -Go fix her a hot plate. -All right. 546 00:37:10,034 --> 00:37:12,730 Put everything on it. She's the skinniest thing in here. 547 00:37:12,837 --> 00:37:14,395 Come on, girl, we gonna hook you up. 548 00:37:14,505 --> 00:37:16,666 Don't let that fool you, she can eat, man. 549 00:37:16,774 --> 00:37:20,642 -How y'all doing? You doing good? -Yeah, we all right. 550 00:37:20,744 --> 00:37:23,713 She want me to move in, I'm thinking about it. 551 00:37:24,381 --> 00:37:25,149 Let's walk. 552 00:37:25,149 --> 00:37:25,706 Let's walk. 553 00:37:27,852 --> 00:37:30,286 Here you come. You gonna take my man from me? 554 00:37:30,387 --> 00:37:31,445 Yeah. 555 00:37:32,423 --> 00:37:34,220 Be careful with my little soldier. 556 00:37:35,025 --> 00:37:37,289 -Got a name for that one? -No. 557 00:37:37,928 --> 00:37:41,159 But he's one of the boys they use in the stairwell. 558 00:37:41,265 --> 00:37:43,733 -What about him? -That's Little Man. 559 00:37:44,468 --> 00:37:45,833 He's muscle. 560 00:37:46,170 --> 00:37:48,070 You know his real name? 561 00:37:50,474 --> 00:37:52,908 -Cl? -Yeah. 562 00:37:53,344 --> 00:37:56,245 -You need some privacy? -No, it's all right. 563 00:37:57,481 --> 00:37:58,778 He's cool. 564 00:38:01,051 --> 00:38:02,814 What's with the hat? 565 00:38:03,154 --> 00:38:05,145 Go ahead, tell him, Bubbles. 566 00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:09,553 I go down the way with some hats that I'm selling. 567 00:38:09,660 --> 00:38:12,094 If someone is someone you need to know... 568 00:38:12,196 --> 00:38:15,393 I put the red hat on them and Kima here take the pictures. 569 00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:17,499 If they in the mix, they get another color. 570 00:38:17,601 --> 00:38:19,296 If they ain't shit, they don't get shit. 571 00:38:19,403 --> 00:38:21,803 Everyone in the hat's part of Barksdale's crew? 572 00:38:21,906 --> 00:38:23,396 At the Terrace. 573 00:38:23,774 --> 00:38:26,106 We haven't hit the low-rises yet. 574 00:38:27,144 --> 00:38:28,543 That's sharp. 575 00:38:28,913 --> 00:38:30,175 I like that. 576 00:38:30,281 --> 00:38:31,976 Bubbles does not forget a face. 577 00:38:32,082 --> 00:38:35,381 Ain't so good with names, but, you know, faces I keep in my head. 578 00:38:35,486 --> 00:38:39,183 I used to take him down to Escape Unit, let him look through the warrant books. 579 00:38:39,290 --> 00:38:43,659 He'd call me up that night, telling me to go to this corner, that corner. 580 00:38:44,795 --> 00:38:46,592 Yeah, paid $25 a pop. 581 00:38:47,231 --> 00:38:49,222 -That's good money. -Yeah. 582 00:38:49,767 --> 00:38:52,167 How much does the hat routine pay? 583 00:38:52,703 --> 00:38:53,897 Nothing. 584 00:38:54,438 --> 00:38:56,030 We free on this. 585 00:38:58,275 --> 00:39:01,506 -Motherfuckers beat my boy down. -Who? 586 00:39:01,612 --> 00:39:03,910 Little hoppers in the low-rises. 587 00:39:04,014 --> 00:39:05,447 Who's your boy? 588 00:39:05,549 --> 00:39:07,073 I got a friend. 589 00:39:08,385 --> 00:39:09,613 Younger white boy. 590 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,382 Used to come down to the corners, real green. 591 00:39:12,489 --> 00:39:14,354 I was schooling him, you know? 592 00:39:14,458 --> 00:39:15,925 What happened? 593 00:39:17,394 --> 00:39:20,158 -They stomped him. -You see it? 594 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,601 Fuck a man like that up for a couple dollars, you know? 595 00:39:26,704 --> 00:39:29,537 He still at University, tubes all up in his nose. 596 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,131 Can't say but a fucking word or two. 597 00:39:33,844 --> 00:39:36,506 But you know, that's how it goes, right? 598 00:39:37,414 --> 00:39:39,279 How you feeling, Bubbles? 599 00:39:40,084 --> 00:39:41,346 Restless. 600 00:39:43,487 --> 00:39:45,182 Yeah, I could tell. 601 00:39:45,489 --> 00:39:46,547 What the fuck? 602 00:39:46,657 --> 00:39:49,182 Can you hook a nigger up with $10 then till tomorrow? 603 00:39:49,293 --> 00:39:52,057 I mean, you know, just to carry me, Kima. 604 00:39:58,335 --> 00:39:59,427 Bubbles. 605 00:40:01,805 --> 00:40:03,067 Obliged. 606 00:40:05,009 --> 00:40:07,443 Stay out of the projects the next couple of days... 607 00:40:07,544 --> 00:40:08,772 just to be safe. 608 00:40:08,879 --> 00:40:11,143 Girl's always fretting over me. 609 00:40:12,683 --> 00:40:14,742 -Change it up, Bubs. -Yeah, yeah. 610 00:40:14,852 --> 00:40:16,251 Go Eastside. 611 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:17,851 Yeah, yeah. 612 00:40:20,190 --> 00:40:21,157 $20? 613 00:40:21,659 --> 00:40:25,595 -You gonna spoil him with that shit. -I respect the work. 614 00:40:28,132 --> 00:40:32,228 They used your name, Stringer, Wee-Bey... 615 00:40:32,736 --> 00:40:34,601 Savino, Peanut.... 616 00:40:35,739 --> 00:40:38,333 They knew a lot of names. They knew a lot. 617 00:40:38,442 --> 00:40:40,433 But you didn't say nothing? 618 00:40:41,378 --> 00:40:43,676 Shit, man, I don't know nothing. 619 00:40:44,148 --> 00:40:46,139 What was you writing then? 620 00:40:47,251 --> 00:40:49,685 Yo, they was talking about the man who got killed... 621 00:40:49,787 --> 00:40:51,379 and his kids, they asked me to write. 622 00:40:51,488 --> 00:40:54,616 -What you got to do with them, Dee? -Yeah, that's what I said. 623 00:40:54,725 --> 00:40:57,250 Then they cried about how the kids ain't doing so good. 624 00:40:57,361 --> 00:41:00,762 I'm like, it ain't gonna hurt for me to say I'm sorry the man got killed. 625 00:41:00,864 --> 00:41:03,264 Why the fuck you gotta say you're sorry? 626 00:41:03,367 --> 00:41:05,835 Motherfuckers tried to put your ass in the stir. 627 00:41:05,936 --> 00:41:08,131 Yeah, but it didn't turn out that way. 628 00:41:08,238 --> 00:41:11,537 You know, that's what I'm saying, it's a shame that y'all.... 629 00:41:13,777 --> 00:41:17,975 I'm saying, it's a shame what happened to that man, all right? 630 00:41:18,082 --> 00:41:20,607 'Cause he didn't do anything but come off the elevator... 631 00:41:20,718 --> 00:41:23,619 when I was doing that thing that I was doing. 632 00:41:24,722 --> 00:41:27,054 What you think, cuz? 633 00:41:28,092 --> 00:41:29,252 About what? 634 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,988 I'm saying, what you think about what happened to the man? 635 00:41:32,096 --> 00:41:34,530 You think we killed the motherfucker? 636 00:41:36,467 --> 00:41:38,025 Speak your mind. 637 00:41:41,205 --> 00:41:43,730 -Man, I don't know. -Exactly. 638 00:41:44,074 --> 00:41:45,974 You don't know, and you don't need to know. 639 00:41:46,076 --> 00:41:49,443 And if we did, we had a reason. And if we didn't, we had a reason. 640 00:41:49,546 --> 00:41:52,413 But either way, you ain't got shit to do with it. 641 00:41:52,716 --> 00:41:54,513 It ain't on you, cuz. 642 00:41:55,119 --> 00:41:57,280 You feel me? It ain't on you. 643 00:41:58,255 --> 00:42:00,519 Now, if you get jacked again... 644 00:42:00,624 --> 00:42:03,855 I don't want to hear shit about you writing nothing to no one. 645 00:42:03,961 --> 00:42:05,929 -Got it? -Yeah. 646 00:42:08,065 --> 00:42:09,999 Come on, let's have some good times... 647 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:13,558 and get some ribs before they done ate all the ribs up. 648 00:42:15,572 --> 00:42:18,268 -This case isn't shit, Carv. -I know it. 649 00:42:18,375 --> 00:42:22,038 We're dancing around with this motherfucker, typing shit out... 650 00:42:22,146 --> 00:42:24,376 taking pictures of assholes in hats. 651 00:42:24,481 --> 00:42:26,642 -What the fuck is that? -It's bullshit. 652 00:42:26,750 --> 00:42:29,617 I say we go down there right now. Right fucking now. 653 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,314 We go into those towers, and we let them know. 654 00:42:33,891 --> 00:42:35,188 I'm serious. 655 00:42:35,292 --> 00:42:38,523 You got to let these motherfuckers know who you are. 656 00:42:39,663 --> 00:42:41,028 You coming? 657 00:42:42,699 --> 00:42:44,894 -I'm with you. -Carv? 658 00:42:47,638 --> 00:42:49,128 What the hell? 659 00:42:49,873 --> 00:42:51,238 Let's do it. 660 00:42:56,647 --> 00:42:57,841 Come on. 661 00:43:10,761 --> 00:43:13,559 Shut it down. Five-O. 662 00:43:15,032 --> 00:43:17,159 Five-O, five-O, break out. 663 00:43:36,220 --> 00:43:38,552 Yo, come here, man. Come here, where you going? 664 00:43:38,655 --> 00:43:40,919 Don't act like you don't know me. Get your hands up. 665 00:43:41,024 --> 00:43:42,457 Put that down. 666 00:43:42,559 --> 00:43:46,256 -Drop that shit! Kiss the fucking ground! -Put your hands up. 667 00:43:47,231 --> 00:43:49,529 Don't look at me like I ain't talking English. 668 00:43:49,633 --> 00:43:53,296 You got a needle on you? Got anything in here that's gonna stick me? 669 00:43:53,537 --> 00:43:56,097 No? What's that? 670 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:58,598 What you got in your pockets? 671 00:43:58,709 --> 00:44:00,870 You know what? Put your pants down, man. 672 00:44:00,978 --> 00:44:03,003 Put your pants down and get down on the ground. 673 00:44:03,113 --> 00:44:05,411 Get down on the fucking ground! 674 00:44:07,451 --> 00:44:09,749 All right, spread your shit out. 675 00:44:10,354 --> 00:44:12,754 Nice shoes. Think a happy thought. 676 00:44:15,859 --> 00:44:19,090 Why don't you go somewhere else with that bullshit? 677 00:44:21,431 --> 00:44:22,796 No-good motherfuckers. 678 00:44:22,900 --> 00:44:25,198 Stay down, man, stay down. 679 00:44:25,302 --> 00:44:28,237 Y'all can let Barksdale and them know who owns these towers. 680 00:44:28,338 --> 00:44:29,737 'Cause we're coming back. 681 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,740 -I'm sick of this shit. -Kiss my ass! 682 00:44:31,842 --> 00:44:34,538 We roll out, come back in an hour, catch everybody dirty. 683 00:44:34,645 --> 00:44:35,737 You'll see how that goes. 684 00:44:35,846 --> 00:44:38,110 -That's bullshit, man. -Yo, stay down, man. 685 00:44:38,215 --> 00:44:41,275 That's fucked up. Man ain't did nothing. 686 00:44:42,553 --> 00:44:44,077 Want something? 687 00:44:49,059 --> 00:44:51,960 -Move, shitbird. -I ain't doing nothing. 688 00:44:54,431 --> 00:44:57,059 Really? I got nothing for you. 689 00:44:59,469 --> 00:45:03,064 -My eye, my eye. -Who you gonna eyefuck now? 690 00:45:05,509 --> 00:45:07,033 Are you serious? 691 00:45:07,144 --> 00:45:09,442 You bleed on my car? Don't bleed on my car. 692 00:45:09,546 --> 00:45:11,480 Get your shit off my car. 693 00:45:17,955 --> 00:45:20,219 What the fuck's the matter with you? 694 00:45:40,711 --> 00:45:42,144 Got a visual? 695 00:45:43,580 --> 00:45:44,604 Fuck. 696 00:45:45,215 --> 00:45:46,705 Get the radio. 697 00:45:48,051 --> 00:45:51,020 1 1 :35, Signal 13. 698 00:45:51,488 --> 00:45:53,752 771 Franklin, in the Court. 699 00:45:54,358 --> 00:45:55,586 Son of a bitch! 700 00:45:55,692 --> 00:45:58,684 Shots fired, shots fired. Officers need assistance. 701 00:46:00,263 --> 00:46:02,026 I'm hit! Signal 13. 702 00:46:02,132 --> 00:46:04,225 Officer down, Officer down! 703 00:46:11,808 --> 00:46:12,866 Shit! 704 00:46:33,563 --> 00:46:35,997 -Hello? -You seen the paper? 705 00:46:36,333 --> 00:46:39,063 -What? -The newspaper, get it. 706 00:46:56,887 --> 00:46:58,286 Hey, kids. 707 00:47:20,177 --> 00:47:21,735 Oh, no. 708 00:47:23,580 --> 00:47:24,774 You happy now, bitch? 709 00:47:27,651 --> 00:47:28,879 McNulty! 710 00:47:30,153 --> 00:47:31,745 Where in fuck is he? 711 00:47:31,855 --> 00:47:35,552 He's detailed, Major, to Narcotics-- 712 00:47:35,659 --> 00:47:39,060 I fucking know where he's detailed. I fucking already know that! 713 00:47:39,162 --> 00:47:40,129 Yes, sir. 714 00:47:40,230 --> 00:47:43,131 -Where is he right now? -I can page him, sir. 715 00:47:47,571 --> 00:47:49,596 Move that fucking desk out of my unit. 716 00:47:49,706 --> 00:47:52,573 I do not want that fucking man's desk in my unit. 717 00:47:52,676 --> 00:47:54,803 That's Crutchfield's desk. 718 00:47:57,180 --> 00:47:58,704 Crutchfield's? 719 00:47:59,149 --> 00:48:00,776 McNulty sits here. 720 00:48:07,858 --> 00:48:11,316 -What the fuck was that about? -Did you see today's paper? 721 00:48:11,428 --> 00:48:14,488 -Just sports. -You gotta check out the front page. 722 00:48:20,537 --> 00:48:23,700 -What do you think they'll do to him? -Let me tell you something. 723 00:48:23,807 --> 00:48:27,436 If he gets caught with his dick up the ass of the deputy's wife... 724 00:48:27,544 --> 00:48:32,379 he's still gonna have more of a career than if they find out he's behind that story. 725 00:48:53,904 --> 00:48:55,269 Lieutenant. 726 00:48:56,540 --> 00:49:00,977 I saw the story in the paper. I want you to know I had nothing to do.... 727 00:49:21,464 --> 00:49:24,160 -They jumped us, Boss. -Who? 728 00:49:25,202 --> 00:49:26,669 Fucking project niggers. 729 00:49:26,770 --> 00:49:29,762 What are you doing here at 2:00 in the morning? 730 00:49:31,107 --> 00:49:33,337 Field interviews, sir, police work. 731 00:49:33,443 --> 00:49:35,502 -Police work? -Yeah. 732 00:49:38,014 --> 00:49:42,212 I got a 14-year-old in critical but stable condition at University... 733 00:49:42,319 --> 00:49:44,378 and two witnesses who say one of you princes... 734 00:49:44,487 --> 00:49:46,455 cold-cocked him with the butt-end of a pistol. 735 00:49:46,556 --> 00:49:48,387 -No, sir. -I got his mother over at lID... 736 00:49:48,491 --> 00:49:50,550 filing a formal brutality charge... 737 00:49:50,660 --> 00:49:53,356 which for Herc will make an even four in the last two years. 738 00:49:53,463 --> 00:49:55,363 -None sustained. -But all of them true. 739 00:49:55,465 --> 00:49:56,523 We thought that-- 740 00:49:56,633 --> 00:49:59,193 I got one less Crown Vic than I had last night. 741 00:49:59,302 --> 00:50:01,770 I'm out two Kevlar vests that burned in the car... 742 00:50:01,872 --> 00:50:04,238 two hand-held radios, a shotgun... 743 00:50:04,341 --> 00:50:07,777 and I'm about to lose this idiot here for a week or two of medical. 744 00:50:07,878 --> 00:50:09,311 And for what? 745 00:50:09,980 --> 00:50:12,608 What did you all learn when you went to the Terrace... 746 00:50:12,716 --> 00:50:15,241 at 2:00 in the morning to conduct field interviews? 747 00:50:15,352 --> 00:50:19,118 What valuable information did we acquire from this situation? 748 00:50:21,992 --> 00:50:25,291 IID is gonna be on all three of you by afternoon... 749 00:50:25,929 --> 00:50:28,363 and if you don't get a story straight by then... 750 00:50:28,465 --> 00:50:32,834 you're gonna have a file thick enough to see the light of a trial board. 751 00:50:34,004 --> 00:50:37,701 Now tell me, who cold-cocked the kid? 752 00:50:46,583 --> 00:50:47,641 Me. 753 00:50:51,221 --> 00:50:52,279 Why? 754 00:50:54,357 --> 00:50:55,984 He pissed me off. 755 00:50:59,396 --> 00:51:02,593 No, Officer Pryzbylewski, he did not piss you off. 756 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,130 He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers. 757 00:51:09,205 --> 00:51:11,264 I'm guessing now, but maybe... 758 00:51:11,374 --> 00:51:14,639 he was seen to pick up a bottle and menace officers Hauk and Carver... 759 00:51:14,744 --> 00:51:17,975 both of whom had already sustained injury from flying projectiles. 760 00:51:18,081 --> 00:51:20,641 Rather than use deadly force in such a situation... 761 00:51:20,750 --> 00:51:25,153 maybe you elected to approach the youth, ordering him to drop the bottle. 762 00:51:25,455 --> 00:51:28,083 Maybe when he raised the bottle in a threatening manner... 763 00:51:28,191 --> 00:51:31,592 you used a Kel-Light, not the handle of your service weapon... 764 00:51:31,695 --> 00:51:33,822 to incapacitate the suspect. 765 00:51:36,166 --> 00:51:37,565 Go practice. 766 00:51:38,335 --> 00:51:41,133 You fuck the bullshit up when you talk to lnternal... 767 00:51:41,237 --> 00:51:43,797 I can't fix it, you're on your own. 768 00:51:52,382 --> 00:51:55,545 -Push the arraignments back to 3:00. -And the Gillette case? 769 00:51:55,652 --> 00:51:58,678 The Gillette trial goes back on the move docket. 770 00:51:58,788 --> 00:52:01,382 Come on, walk with me. I'm running late. 771 00:52:03,793 --> 00:52:05,988 -It wasn't me. -The story quoted you. 772 00:52:06,096 --> 00:52:09,156 Reporter has the story confirmed when he calls me about the quote. 773 00:52:09,265 --> 00:52:10,493 What am I gonna say? 774 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:14,366 No, he wasn't a witness? No, he didn't testify in my court last week? 775 00:52:14,471 --> 00:52:15,597 What? 776 00:52:15,872 --> 00:52:17,999 You don't think it's around about the witness? 777 00:52:18,108 --> 00:52:21,043 Lawyers, clerks, jurors, everybody talks. 778 00:52:21,144 --> 00:52:24,636 -I'm in the shit here, Your Honor. -What can I tell you? 779 00:52:24,748 --> 00:52:28,081 I called the deputy, not the newspapers. I gotta run. 780 00:52:32,789 --> 00:52:36,316 -You should have hung them. -If I hang them, I hang myself. 781 00:52:36,860 --> 00:52:38,851 I'm the man in charge, remember? 782 00:52:38,962 --> 00:52:41,954 Besides, you don't give your people up to lID. 783 00:52:42,232 --> 00:52:43,893 You don't do that. 784 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,333 Even if they put a 14-year-old kid into Critical Care? 785 00:52:51,441 --> 00:52:53,409 This case, it's just.... 786 00:52:54,077 --> 00:52:55,544 Get out of it. 787 00:52:56,679 --> 00:52:59,011 -How do I do that? -I don't know. 788 00:52:59,115 --> 00:53:01,640 But you can't lose if you don't play. 789 00:53:02,886 --> 00:53:06,322 I always heard it that you can't win if you don't play. 790 00:53:06,689 --> 00:53:09,180 The department puts you on a case it doesn't want. 791 00:53:09,292 --> 00:53:12,352 You're given people that are useless or untrustworthy. 792 00:53:12,462 --> 00:53:13,690 Correct. 793 00:53:14,130 --> 00:53:16,462 If you push too hard, and any shit hits the fan... 794 00:53:16,566 --> 00:53:18,500 you'll be blamed for it. 795 00:53:18,768 --> 00:53:19,894 Correct. 796 00:53:20,003 --> 00:53:24,497 If you don't push hard enough, and there's no arrest, you'll be blamed for that, too. 797 00:53:24,641 --> 00:53:25,869 Correct. 798 00:53:26,076 --> 00:53:27,771 The game is rigged. 799 00:53:28,411 --> 00:53:31,073 But you cannot lose if you do not play. 800 00:54:15,525 --> 00:54:17,254 In the hole, y'all. 801 00:55:22,859 --> 00:55:23,917 Hey! 802 00:55:25,094 --> 00:55:26,857 Hey, you fuckheads! 803 00:55:30,900 --> 00:55:32,299 Hey, police! 804 00:56:02,232 --> 00:56:03,756 -Hello. -Lieutenant Daniels? 805 00:56:03,866 --> 00:56:04,924 Yeah. 806 00:56:15,745 --> 00:56:17,178 Who was that? 807 00:56:17,347 --> 00:56:20,612 It was the duty officer down at University hospital. 808 00:56:20,717 --> 00:56:22,207 What happened? 809 00:56:23,686 --> 00:56:26,246 -He's blind in one eye. -Who? 810 00:56:27,724 --> 00:56:30,921 The kid. 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