1 00:00:27,127 --> 00:00:28,992 I got to hit the head. 2 00:00:53,787 --> 00:00:56,017 I can't take this shit, Bunny. 3 00:00:56,189 --> 00:00:57,213 Hey. 4 00:00:58,058 --> 00:00:59,423 It'll pass. 5 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,521 They're just riding you now. Next week it's somebody new. 6 00:01:05,298 --> 00:01:07,766 They can't take away your E.O. D, Marvin. 7 00:01:08,401 --> 00:01:11,768 The worst they can do is bust you back to lieutenant. 8 00:01:12,405 --> 00:01:16,535 I don't even wanna think about the worst these motherfuckers can do. 9 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:18,669 You don't either. 10 00:01:22,816 --> 00:01:25,785 You're still not connecting the dots, Marvin. 11 00:01:27,454 --> 00:01:28,819 Have a look. 12 00:01:30,757 --> 00:01:33,385 - Hoffman and Holbrook, sir. - Very good. 13 00:01:33,927 --> 00:01:35,724 But you had a body dropped there last week... 14 00:01:35,829 --> 00:01:37,990 and this is what the fuck it looked like yesterday. 15 00:01:39,099 --> 00:01:41,465 Bond and Preston, for the record. 16 00:01:43,236 --> 00:01:44,863 Ashland and Wolfe. 17 00:01:46,206 --> 00:01:47,798 Chase and Durham. 18 00:01:48,374 --> 00:01:52,037 Sir, I deployed my resources per your instructions. 19 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:54,447 We've beefed up foot patrols... 20 00:01:54,547 --> 00:01:57,675 we have our plainclothes squads on 12-hour shifts. 21 00:01:57,784 --> 00:02:00,651 - And the corners stay full? - They move, sir. 22 00:02:00,887 --> 00:02:04,618 Every day. They're gonna sell their drugs somewhere. 23 00:02:04,924 --> 00:02:09,827 Major Taylor, I look at your numbers, I see the intel reports, the photos. 24 00:02:11,464 --> 00:02:14,456 It all tells me that you lack a fucking clue. 25 00:02:15,235 --> 00:02:16,998 If you'll permit me. 26 00:02:18,104 --> 00:02:21,301 - Is your Deputy Major present? - Yes, sir. 27 00:02:24,444 --> 00:02:27,004 You now command the Eastern District. 28 00:02:27,647 --> 00:02:29,911 Major Taylor, you are relieved. 29 00:02:30,517 --> 00:02:32,075 Take the podium. 30 00:02:41,794 --> 00:02:45,230 Anyone else having trouble with the writing on the wall? 31 00:02:45,965 --> 00:02:47,296 Dismissed. 32 00:04:25,965 --> 00:04:30,026 And I'm like, "Nigga, if you want to sell me a new car... 33 00:04:30,136 --> 00:04:31,899 "you better really sell it to me. 34 00:04:32,005 --> 00:04:35,441 "'Cause otherwise, I'm sitting back and I'm watching." 35 00:04:35,541 --> 00:04:37,304 What you want with a new ride for? 36 00:04:37,410 --> 00:04:40,379 Ain't like you can't get a new car anywhere you want... 37 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,708 anytime, in this whole city. 38 00:04:41,814 --> 00:04:43,782 - I'm just saying. - Saying what? 39 00:04:43,883 --> 00:04:45,942 - In case. - In case what? 40 00:04:46,052 --> 00:04:48,486 In case I ever want to buy a new car. 41 00:04:48,588 --> 00:04:52,524 - Damn, is that too much to ask for? - Girl, you crazy. 42 00:04:52,625 --> 00:04:54,525 Shit, shit, get down, get down. 43 00:05:16,349 --> 00:05:20,547 - Yeah, they feeling it now. - They protecting the fuck out of it, too. 44 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,688 You see what you wanted? 45 00:05:23,089 --> 00:05:26,217 Yeah, man, but they got the whole second floor boarded up. 46 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:27,725 Got a little porch around back. 47 00:05:27,827 --> 00:05:30,625 Couple of the boys out there now smoking on them menthols. 48 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:32,925 So we slide up from the back? 49 00:05:33,766 --> 00:05:36,758 - That barred up, too. - No way through the front? 50 00:05:36,969 --> 00:05:38,800 Not now. But come tomorrow morning... 51 00:05:38,905 --> 00:05:42,341 they gonna scale back down to a three-man skeleton crew, you feel me? 52 00:05:42,709 --> 00:05:44,506 Not sure I like this. 53 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:48,343 Why we got to keep hitting up the Barksdale people? 54 00:05:48,481 --> 00:05:52,247 Ain't like this whole motherfucking city ain't got stashes all over it. 55 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:53,683 True that. 56 00:05:53,786 --> 00:05:55,014 So why? 57 00:05:57,523 --> 00:05:58,854 Because. 58 00:05:59,225 --> 00:06:00,453 Because? 59 00:06:01,828 --> 00:06:02,988 Indeed. 60 00:06:11,137 --> 00:06:13,105 So that's a cop-shooter? 61 00:06:13,339 --> 00:06:15,204 Yeah, not much to him. 62 00:06:15,675 --> 00:06:18,075 But he did that job on the Dozerman kid last week. 63 00:06:18,177 --> 00:06:19,838 Gave it up in a full statement. 64 00:06:19,946 --> 00:06:23,006 Before or after you knocked the shit out of him? 65 00:06:25,585 --> 00:06:28,952 "Injuries were sustained while patrol officers... 66 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:31,785 "were effecting pursuit and arrest of aforementioned suspects." 67 00:06:32,125 --> 00:06:34,355 - He was caught East Side, right? - Yeah. 68 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:36,724 But the wagon made a stop at the Western District... 69 00:06:36,829 --> 00:06:38,888 for an unscheduled tune-up. 70 00:06:40,099 --> 00:06:42,124 It's dark on that back lot. 71 00:06:43,269 --> 00:06:45,897 Western boys mistook him for a piñata. 72 00:06:47,006 --> 00:06:48,268 So what do you think? 73 00:06:48,374 --> 00:06:52,242 I think this is a tragic motherfucking miscarriage of justice. 74 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:55,006 I think it deserves a special grand jury... 75 00:06:55,114 --> 00:06:58,242 and if not, the President should appoint an independent prosecutor. 76 00:06:58,351 --> 00:06:59,340 No, no, no. 77 00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:03,013 Actually, I think, Kofi Bryant and the United fucking Nations... 78 00:07:03,122 --> 00:07:04,749 should get involved. 79 00:07:04,891 --> 00:07:07,587 - It's a murder, Bunk. - The word from upstairs... 80 00:07:07,693 --> 00:07:09,684 is that we're supposed to be having less murders, not more. 81 00:07:09,796 --> 00:07:12,560 This is Anne Arundel County. Why should they care about that? 82 00:07:12,665 --> 00:07:13,757 Why should you? 83 00:07:13,866 --> 00:07:15,390 Hey, Bunk. Hey, how's it going? 84 00:07:15,501 --> 00:07:18,993 Listen, Deputy wants to know, have we recovered Dozerman's service weapon? 85 00:07:19,105 --> 00:07:21,073 No, sir. The kid said he sold it on the street. 86 00:07:21,174 --> 00:07:23,005 Gave only the street name of the buyer. 87 00:07:23,109 --> 00:07:25,100 A certain Peanut, whereabouts unknown. 88 00:07:25,211 --> 00:07:27,304 - They want that gun back. - Sir? 89 00:07:27,413 --> 00:07:29,779 They don't want to have a departmental weapon on the street. 90 00:07:29,882 --> 00:07:31,406 You know, as a principle. 91 00:07:31,918 --> 00:07:34,352 Look, the great white deputy has spoken. 92 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:37,514 This case is not down until that gun comes home. 93 00:07:37,657 --> 00:07:39,386 Fine, don't get up. 94 00:07:39,492 --> 00:07:42,188 One of the most heavily armed cities in the gun-loving world... 95 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:43,922 Why should those ignorant motherfuckers care... 96 00:07:44,030 --> 00:07:47,090 about one goddamn semi-auto more or less? 97 00:07:57,343 --> 00:08:00,107 What'd you bring me downtown in this shit for, man? 98 00:08:00,213 --> 00:08:01,976 Police don't get wet. 99 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:06,149 Talk to me, big man. 100 00:08:06,252 --> 00:08:08,186 Thought you should know, my boy, Cheese... 101 00:08:08,287 --> 00:08:10,721 he went into the box with a couple of police. 102 00:08:10,823 --> 00:08:12,757 - He stood tall? - No doubt. 103 00:08:12,859 --> 00:08:15,555 Kept his mouth shut and waited them out. 104 00:08:16,028 --> 00:08:19,088 The way it turned out, they the ones that fucked up. 105 00:08:19,398 --> 00:08:20,524 How come? 106 00:08:20,633 --> 00:08:23,761 Police let it slip Cheese played in on some talkies. 107 00:08:23,936 --> 00:08:27,303 Tried to pin a hit on him. Said they heard it all over. 108 00:08:27,607 --> 00:08:29,905 - Who got hit? - A dog. 109 00:08:30,376 --> 00:08:33,903 - What kind of dog? - Kind mistake your leg for pussy. 110 00:08:37,650 --> 00:08:40,084 So, they had phones tapped? 111 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:43,745 Don't matter to me none if they did. 112 00:08:44,056 --> 00:08:47,958 Me and the people I keep close, we don't talk on the phone none. 113 00:08:48,060 --> 00:08:50,255 You talk on the phone, String? 114 00:08:51,130 --> 00:08:52,620 So we good then. 115 00:08:52,732 --> 00:08:55,724 What we know is they still looking hard at us. 116 00:08:57,770 --> 00:09:01,604 You wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? 117 00:09:01,807 --> 00:09:04,776 Boredom. They just can't handle that shit. 118 00:09:06,512 --> 00:09:08,605 You keep it boring, String. 119 00:09:09,248 --> 00:09:11,512 You keep it dead fucking boring. 120 00:09:21,761 --> 00:09:23,251 You're serious? 121 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:24,855 I am. 122 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:27,227 What's the closest school to here? 123 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:29,267 Stuart Hill Elementary. 124 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:31,597 That's at least eight blocks. 125 00:09:37,843 --> 00:09:39,936 - Three sevens. - Three sevens? 126 00:09:41,747 --> 00:09:43,112 Five eights. 127 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:46,280 Bullshit, let's see it. 128 00:09:46,385 --> 00:09:48,717 Five eights. Read them and weep. 129 00:09:49,088 --> 00:09:50,487 You're cheating. 130 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:53,753 - I just can't catch your ass is all. - It's just luck, Tony. 131 00:09:53,859 --> 00:09:55,520 Yeah, it's just luck. 132 00:09:55,628 --> 00:09:59,428 - You called my desk looking for me? - Yes, I did. Come on in. Grab a chair. 133 00:09:59,532 --> 00:10:01,523 But watch your wallet if you do. 134 00:10:02,935 --> 00:10:04,493 Make it quick, Tommy. 135 00:10:04,604 --> 00:10:08,335 The new city editor wants a 40-inch weekender on liquor board reform. 136 00:10:08,441 --> 00:10:11,774 - They're going to reform the liquor board? - Yeah, with a hand grenade. 137 00:10:14,914 --> 00:10:16,779 So what's on your mind? 138 00:10:17,650 --> 00:10:19,174 We're off the record? 139 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,889 There's going to be no academy class of police cadets this year. 140 00:10:23,990 --> 00:10:25,480 Mayor's orders. 141 00:10:25,758 --> 00:10:30,024 Homicide rate's climbing, felonies are up, we got patrol vacancies out the ass. 142 00:10:30,129 --> 00:10:32,393 Even more coming at the year-end retirements. 143 00:10:32,498 --> 00:10:35,467 And this is coming from His Honor? To what end? 144 00:10:35,568 --> 00:10:36,899 Keep some money. 145 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:38,300 Money's in the budget... 146 00:10:38,404 --> 00:10:40,770 but even a six-month delay in hiring saves a couple million. 147 00:10:41,173 --> 00:10:43,733 You think there's some paper? Something the Mayor signed? 148 00:10:43,843 --> 00:10:45,367 No, but you call the personnel office... 149 00:10:45,478 --> 00:10:48,174 and they'll confirm that the class is delayed until next year. 150 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,181 You get that much, you can come back to me for a couple of quotes. 151 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:57,252 - You want in on this? - No indeed. I love my Mayor. 152 00:10:57,390 --> 00:10:59,255 Councilman, thank you. 153 00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:03,591 - Stirring up some shit? - Just a little bit. 154 00:11:04,196 --> 00:11:06,960 For the good of our fair city by the bay. 155 00:11:08,567 --> 00:11:09,966 Three twos. 156 00:11:15,574 --> 00:11:18,509 Housing authority has this slated for demolition, right? 157 00:11:18,611 --> 00:11:20,636 But no money to do it yet. 158 00:11:21,380 --> 00:11:25,111 Boss, you sure it's a good idea not to tell anybody about this downtown? 159 00:11:25,217 --> 00:11:27,378 Ignorance is bliss, Lieutenant. 160 00:11:27,486 --> 00:11:29,147 Anyone ever tell you that? 161 00:11:29,255 --> 00:11:31,655 Once, but I beat the dog-piss out of the guy with a nightstick. 162 00:11:33,526 --> 00:11:35,289 Anybody seen McNulty? 163 00:11:37,329 --> 00:11:39,388 Catch him up when he posts. 164 00:11:40,232 --> 00:11:44,225 New target. Kintel Williamson, goes by Prince K. 165 00:11:45,004 --> 00:11:47,973 Has a string of corners from Park Circle to Woodland Avenue. 166 00:11:48,074 --> 00:11:51,635 And he's dropping bodies, too. Three in the last four months. 167 00:11:51,744 --> 00:11:54,338 Or so say our friends in the Northwestern District. 168 00:11:54,447 --> 00:11:56,347 So we're off Proposition Joe's people? 169 00:11:56,449 --> 00:11:59,282 We're gonna ship all the mid-level arrests downtown to C.I.D. 170 00:11:59,385 --> 00:12:02,980 Let narcotics work up those prosecutions. After that, we're on to new business. 171 00:12:04,056 --> 00:12:06,923 - He don't look like much. - He's dropping bodies. 172 00:12:07,026 --> 00:12:09,790 And with everybody pressed to bring the murder rate down... 173 00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:11,658 that's the new mandate for this unit. 174 00:12:11,764 --> 00:12:14,528 - Bell has bodies on him, too. - Not lately. 175 00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:16,965 And Prop Joe hasn't made much noise either. 176 00:12:17,069 --> 00:12:20,835 They're still running product. Still got kids banging out there. 177 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:24,000 And now, 'cause we blew a wire over a fucking dog... 178 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:26,738 we have to let them just walk on, go about their shit... 179 00:12:26,846 --> 00:12:29,872 like we were never anything to take seriously in the first place? 180 00:12:41,961 --> 00:12:45,522 I want an investigative strategy mapped up by week's end. 181 00:12:49,969 --> 00:12:52,301 Well, McNulty's here in spirit anyway. 182 00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:55,031 What? 183 00:13:19,765 --> 00:13:21,130 Right there. 184 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:15,682 This will work, too. 185 00:14:16,322 --> 00:14:21,225 There's a couple occupied in the 200-block and that one over there. 186 00:14:22,061 --> 00:14:24,962 But otherwise... 187 00:14:27,166 --> 00:14:28,497 we're good. 188 00:14:32,137 --> 00:14:33,729 Good shit, right? 189 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:35,935 Let's go. 190 00:14:36,075 --> 00:14:38,339 - Commissioner Burrell, please. - Who's calling, please? 191 00:14:38,444 --> 00:14:41,038 - It's Councilman Carcetti. - Hold, please. 192 00:14:41,447 --> 00:14:43,847 - Hello. - Erv, I'm giving you a heads up. 193 00:14:43,949 --> 00:14:45,849 You're gonna get a call from a Sun papers reporter... 194 00:14:45,951 --> 00:14:48,181 - about the academy class. - What the fuck, is this a joke? 195 00:14:48,287 --> 00:14:50,687 Calm the hell down, Erv. You just "no comment" the fucker. 196 00:14:50,789 --> 00:14:52,848 You tell me my name will be nowhere near this... 197 00:14:52,958 --> 00:14:55,119 - and then send a reporter my way? - Exactly. 198 00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,422 Then you call the Mayor yourself and you tell him... 199 00:14:57,529 --> 00:15:00,692 you got a reporter nosing around about the academy class getting pushed. 200 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:02,630 You tell him you have no idea how it leaked. 201 00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:04,168 I knew this shit'd come back to me. 202 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:06,033 - Trust me, you're covered on this. - God damn it... 203 00:15:06,138 --> 00:15:08,163 you can't hang me out there like this with the Mayor. 204 00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:11,334 - My ass is flapping in the breeze, for... - You want that class, Erv? 205 00:15:11,443 --> 00:15:13,274 - You got to trust me. - Shit! 206 00:15:30,729 --> 00:15:32,492 How you even find me? 207 00:15:32,698 --> 00:15:35,531 - Ran into Lucas. - Don't even call his name. 208 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,926 Nigga still owes me money. 209 00:15:38,037 --> 00:15:40,733 He just told me how to find you, that's all. 210 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,865 He tell you how I'm doing? 211 00:15:45,878 --> 00:15:46,845 Yeah... 212 00:15:47,913 --> 00:15:50,040 I know what you're thinking. 213 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:53,715 You ain't looking all that yourself. 214 00:15:53,819 --> 00:15:55,650 You look just fine, girl. 215 00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:58,154 Just trying to find your sister, that's all. 216 00:15:58,257 --> 00:16:00,316 She ain't for you no more. 217 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:03,924 She ain't for none of our kind. 218 00:16:06,065 --> 00:16:07,498 Gone out County way. 219 00:16:07,599 --> 00:16:11,467 Picked herself up County clothes, County car... 220 00:16:13,272 --> 00:16:16,605 County nose to look down on all us city niggers with. 221 00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:20,011 She a teacher. 222 00:16:21,180 --> 00:16:24,172 - Where at? - Don't be rushing me, motherfucker. 223 00:16:28,854 --> 00:16:33,814 I know you looking to tip on out of here, get your aftershave on, get yourself correct. 224 00:16:42,201 --> 00:16:43,793 She teach speech. 225 00:16:45,104 --> 00:16:49,040 Make it so every nigga sound like Condoleezza. 226 00:16:55,848 --> 00:16:57,577 Up Ida B. Wells. 227 00:17:08,460 --> 00:17:11,520 Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, have you seen this little girl? 228 00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:14,428 This my baby. Can you just take that picture with you? 229 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:16,194 Thank you so much. God bless. 230 00:17:16,301 --> 00:17:19,168 - Excuse me, have you seen this little girl? - Lady, you gonna have to back up. 231 00:17:19,271 --> 00:17:21,068 She's my little girl. Please, she's only four years old. 232 00:17:21,173 --> 00:17:23,471 I ain't seen your little girl. You're gonna have to back up. 233 00:17:23,575 --> 00:17:26,203 - Please, just take a look at her! - I ain't seen your girl, you... 234 00:17:26,311 --> 00:17:27,471 How do? 235 00:17:52,704 --> 00:17:53,966 Let's go. 236 00:17:54,306 --> 00:17:55,933 Where it at, man? 237 00:18:00,012 --> 00:18:01,343 Back there. 238 00:18:11,223 --> 00:18:13,123 So, what up, man? You don't value my time? 239 00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:14,715 Nigga, please. 240 00:18:15,194 --> 00:18:18,163 Hand me that screw gun and calm the fuck down. 241 00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:19,617 Go! Go! 242 00:19:20,926 --> 00:19:22,052 Clear! 243 00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:23,859 Yo, Tosha, go! 244 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:26,358 - Dante, go, I got your back. - Go, Dante. 245 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,326 I got you, baby. I got you. 246 00:19:29,735 --> 00:19:30,793 Go! Go! 247 00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:33,795 Go, Dante, go! 248 00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,372 Yo, y'all ready? 249 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:22,042 Let's bang out. 250 00:20:31,530 --> 00:20:33,521 Go, go, go! 251 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:04,561 Come on, Kimmy, get in the car. Get in the car, man. 252 00:21:16,842 --> 00:21:19,709 Your department leaks like a fucking sieve. 253 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:24,238 It could be someone over here at the Hall. Someone on your staff. 254 00:21:24,349 --> 00:21:27,079 - Someone on the Council. - It doesn't matter now. 255 00:21:27,185 --> 00:21:28,948 We got to spin it the best way we can... 256 00:21:29,054 --> 00:21:32,182 which means we need you to step up and take this one for the team, Erv. 257 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:33,485 - Me? - Yeah. 258 00:21:33,592 --> 00:21:37,221 Tell the newspaper that the academy class has been delayed for some reason. 259 00:21:37,329 --> 00:21:40,492 Lack of recruits, problems in your personnel division. 260 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:41,759 Keep it in your shop. 261 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:43,494 After which, the Mayor steps in... 262 00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:47,038 announces we'll have an academy class in January come hell or high water. 263 00:21:47,139 --> 00:21:49,437 Do it like that, it's a one-day story. 264 00:21:49,541 --> 00:21:52,567 Mr. Mayor, this was a budget question. 265 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:55,469 I was directed to delay that class. 266 00:21:55,580 --> 00:21:58,640 Yeah, you took the hit then and you're taking the hit now. 267 00:21:58,750 --> 00:22:01,412 And I thank you for both, Commissioner. 268 00:22:12,864 --> 00:22:13,888 Eighty-nine? 269 00:22:15,067 --> 00:22:17,194 And that's just the ones with West Side addresses. 270 00:22:17,302 --> 00:22:19,202 Man, you got to narrow that shit down. 271 00:22:19,304 --> 00:22:21,431 Find some way to work with all them Peanuts. 272 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:24,065 Motherfucker, do I look like George Washington Carver? 273 00:22:27,112 --> 00:22:28,170 Shit. 274 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,148 Cocksuckers got me chasing one gun through a city full of them. 275 00:22:32,384 --> 00:22:35,410 - Homicide. Yeah. - Two down, Pall Mall and Pimlico. 276 00:22:35,554 --> 00:22:38,216 Pall Mall and Pimlico. Got it. 277 00:22:42,294 --> 00:22:44,159 Two down in the street. 278 00:22:44,830 --> 00:22:46,525 Ray Cole's up. 279 00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:52,432 Cole is in court today and I caught that cutting in Cherry Hill last night. 280 00:22:55,073 --> 00:22:56,631 Don't look at me. 281 00:22:56,742 --> 00:23:00,109 I'm in the haystacks, looking for Dozerman's prodigal gun. 282 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:02,772 You gonna make me go back-to-back as a primary? 283 00:23:04,182 --> 00:23:06,173 That's some cold shit, Bunk. 284 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:15,986 Agg assault with a two-by-four? I don't think so. 285 00:23:16,094 --> 00:23:17,994 Put that with the part twos. 286 00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:21,224 This one, too. Assault by pointing. 287 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,661 If you don't use a handgun, you don't get credit for waving it, right? 288 00:23:25,771 --> 00:23:29,764 Larceny here. Hump wrote this up as a daytime B and E? 289 00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:31,406 Fuck this. 290 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:35,044 Do it clean. 291 00:23:36,481 --> 00:23:39,382 Don't massage anything, don't sex anything down. 292 00:23:39,484 --> 00:23:41,042 We give them the fucking truth. 293 00:23:41,153 --> 00:23:43,348 What about COMSTAT, boss? They'll rip you. 294 00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:45,946 There's five months to my 30, right? 295 00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:51,452 Fuck them if they can't take a joke. 296 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:57,929 The major no doubt has some explanation, some excuse, if you will... 297 00:23:58,036 --> 00:24:01,472 for a weekly felony tabulation that's going in the opposite direction... 298 00:24:01,573 --> 00:24:03,165 from the other eight districts. 299 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:04,902 I have none, sir. 300 00:24:05,510 --> 00:24:07,179 You are content with this? 301 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,414 No, Deputy, I'm unhappy. 302 00:24:10,649 --> 00:24:14,642 I wish we were making more of an impact. But doing what we're doing... 303 00:24:16,388 --> 00:24:18,686 it's clear that's not the case. 304 00:24:19,024 --> 00:24:23,222 Major Colvin, I am under the impression crime is down in the Western. 305 00:24:23,829 --> 00:24:26,559 Perhaps you misfigured your felony stats this week. 306 00:24:26,665 --> 00:24:29,156 No, sir. We were very accurate. 307 00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:33,400 Sometimes the gods are uncooperative. 308 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:35,272 Uncooperative? 309 00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:39,966 This is a cooperative effort, a cooperative department. 310 00:24:40,278 --> 00:24:41,905 Why, in the Eastern District... 311 00:24:42,013 --> 00:24:45,244 Lieutenant Daniels exemplified this new spirit just the other day. 312 00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:47,841 And because of that, we got two fresh homicides in the black... 313 00:24:47,953 --> 00:24:50,251 and a lot less bodies on the streets than could have been... 314 00:24:50,355 --> 00:24:51,788 had that drug war been allowed to drag on. 315 00:24:51,890 --> 00:24:54,916 Mayor has me taking the hit in public for the late academy class. 316 00:24:55,026 --> 00:24:58,484 - You're kidding me. - Where's the fucking loyalty, I ask you? 317 00:24:58,597 --> 00:25:01,930 But in the Western, what do I get from a veteran commander? 318 00:25:04,569 --> 00:25:06,799 You're just having a laugh, aren't you, Bunny? 319 00:25:06,905 --> 00:25:09,601 You got the real stats and projections somewhere else. 320 00:25:09,708 --> 00:25:12,302 Someone's just outside the door with them, right? 321 00:25:12,410 --> 00:25:15,641 A stripper, maybe? That would be nice. 322 00:25:16,081 --> 00:25:19,016 She comes in, flashes a little tit gives us a whiff of that muff... 323 00:25:19,117 --> 00:25:20,584 and delivers my fucking stat sheets... 324 00:25:20,685 --> 00:25:23,711 with the reduction that matches just what we promised the Mayor. 325 00:25:23,822 --> 00:25:28,486 That would be beautiful. That would be crème fucking brûlée. 326 00:25:30,462 --> 00:25:35,297 But what I got instead is some half-assed "I wish we were doing better" platitude... 327 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,337 that's meant to fool maybe a six-year-old girl into thinking you're doing your job. 328 00:25:40,639 --> 00:25:43,335 Well, she's left the room, Major Colvin. 329 00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:45,699 She's out there right now asking the stripper... 330 00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:47,607 if she can have her job when she grows up... 331 00:25:47,712 --> 00:25:49,907 because she sure as shit doesn't want yours. 332 00:25:50,916 --> 00:25:52,349 You know why? 333 00:25:53,685 --> 00:25:56,677 Because there isn't gonna be a goddamn Western District in 20 years... 334 00:25:56,788 --> 00:25:58,346 if this shit keeps up. 335 00:25:58,456 --> 00:26:01,687 I don't care how many years you have on this job. 336 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:06,126 If the felony rate doesn't fall, you most certainly will. 337 00:26:07,432 --> 00:26:10,924 The gods are fucking you, you find a way to fuck them back. 338 00:26:11,036 --> 00:26:15,370 It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you. 339 00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:25,640 I ain't on nobody's team. I'm not playing that... 340 00:26:27,385 --> 00:26:29,785 Come on. We're on the same team. 341 00:26:32,958 --> 00:26:34,425 Give me that. 342 00:26:36,561 --> 00:26:38,426 She look like a player? 343 00:26:39,531 --> 00:26:40,862 Bystander? 344 00:26:40,966 --> 00:26:42,160 Come on, let's go. 345 00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:44,633 Right in the middle of it all if she was. 346 00:27:04,322 --> 00:27:07,689 - Yo, my turn to be Omar. - No. Give it to me. 347 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:15,963 Look, I'm telling you, I was there. 348 00:27:16,067 --> 00:27:18,228 White folks was on the stoop by the 909 Club... 349 00:27:18,336 --> 00:27:20,065 and Apex just standing over his ass... 350 00:27:20,171 --> 00:27:22,503 pumping more holes in the boy than a motherfucker need. 351 00:27:22,607 --> 00:27:25,508 Shit, I ain't lying. Soon as that motherfucking nine stopped talking... 352 00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:28,704 White folks look up at Apex, say, "Bitch, that the best you got?" 353 00:27:28,813 --> 00:27:30,110 Man, I'm just saying... 354 00:27:30,215 --> 00:27:33,582 a boy got that much white blood, he got to be a punk. 355 00:27:35,687 --> 00:27:40,522 - You want me, boss? - Your numbers way down, Fruit. Way down. 356 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:43,686 Man, it's Barksdale's people. 357 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:46,888 They clipping the dope fiends coming up Fremont. 358 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:52,136 You know, when I ran a shop and my numbers dropped... 359 00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:55,439 I damn sure did something about it. 360 00:27:56,641 --> 00:27:59,508 - Yeah, I hear that. - I just want them moved. 361 00:27:59,978 --> 00:28:03,072 Take the young 'uns with you, give them a workout. 362 00:28:03,882 --> 00:28:05,213 All right. 363 00:28:07,218 --> 00:28:11,780 So, Lieutenant, you got an "attaboy" from the Deputy today, huh? 364 00:28:13,358 --> 00:28:15,349 It cost me my wiretap, though. 365 00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:19,224 Still, it's good work over in the Eastern. 366 00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:21,456 Knocking down a drug war. 367 00:28:21,566 --> 00:28:24,501 Yeah, he's gonna do the same thing for me up on Park Heights. 368 00:28:24,602 --> 00:28:28,231 I got this Kintel Williamson character who needs some fixing. 369 00:28:28,339 --> 00:28:32,036 And Rawls promised me Daniels and his unit for about a month or so. 370 00:28:32,143 --> 00:28:34,839 You're getting quite the rep there, kiddo. 371 00:28:34,946 --> 00:28:37,244 So, Stan, what's your plan for the Southeast? 372 00:28:37,348 --> 00:28:39,373 How you gonna give Rawls his numbers? 373 00:28:39,484 --> 00:28:42,385 I don't know. Flex squads on the corners... 374 00:28:42,754 --> 00:28:46,781 foot patrols in the Perkins Homes, overtime out the ass. 375 00:28:46,925 --> 00:28:50,156 And if that don't work, cheat on the stats. 376 00:28:50,962 --> 00:28:52,259 So what say you? 377 00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:55,889 Shit, me? I'm going to 12-hour shifts on the weekend, man. 378 00:28:57,202 --> 00:28:59,067 What about you, Bunny? 379 00:29:00,271 --> 00:29:01,738 I don't know. 380 00:29:04,042 --> 00:29:06,408 I thought I might legalize drugs. 381 00:29:09,681 --> 00:29:12,741 So they hit the goddamn alley. And we on them. 382 00:29:13,284 --> 00:29:16,185 That cocksmoking motherfucker with the big-bitch gun? 383 00:29:16,287 --> 00:29:19,222 - We was running hard on his ass, but... - I think I hit him. 384 00:29:19,324 --> 00:29:22,384 - Nigga, you ain't hit nobody. - I might've hit him. 385 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:24,860 Yo, String, we hit the one girl. 386 00:29:24,963 --> 00:29:28,455 But after that, man, I ain't seen nobody catch no lead, man. 387 00:29:28,566 --> 00:29:30,727 - Except for Tank. - Yeah, Tank gone. 388 00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:33,998 The other broad dropped him. So I guess we're even now. 389 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:37,631 - So you get one, right? - Yeah. 390 00:29:37,809 --> 00:29:41,074 That's good. That's like a 40-degree day. 391 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:45,181 Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. 392 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:48,476 Fifty. Bring a smile to your face. 393 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:52,022 Sixty, shit, niggas is damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. 394 00:29:52,857 --> 00:29:55,519 Go down to 20, niggas get their bitch on. 395 00:29:55,627 --> 00:29:57,060 Get their blood complaining. 396 00:29:57,162 --> 00:30:01,428 But 40? Nobody give a fuck about 40. 397 00:30:01,533 --> 00:30:05,765 Nobody remember 40, and y'all niggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days. 398 00:30:05,870 --> 00:30:06,996 What the fuck? 399 00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:17,077 Now, we gonna cover that bitch's funeral, her fucking wake. 400 00:30:17,182 --> 00:30:20,276 We're gonna be all over that motherfucker, till the bitch hit the ground. 401 00:30:20,385 --> 00:30:22,683 And if the faggot roll up to pay his respects... 402 00:30:22,787 --> 00:30:24,345 we're gonna be on that motherfucker. 403 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:26,047 Who the fuck you talking to, man? 404 00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,455 It's Donette, String. She been calling. 405 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,120 No, put the phone down. 406 00:30:33,898 --> 00:30:35,866 - Are you all feeling me on this? - Yeah. 407 00:30:35,967 --> 00:30:37,332 - Yeah. - Yeah. 408 00:30:37,468 --> 00:30:39,698 He show up, we on him like a motherfucking... 409 00:30:39,804 --> 00:30:41,362 Like a 40-degree day. 410 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:20,977 So overall, felonies are down. 411 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,147 But murders are still up. What's our next move? 412 00:31:25,250 --> 00:31:29,778 Let me bump overtime and court pay for homicide and district ops. 413 00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:33,289 Cases go into the green before they go into the black. 414 00:31:33,524 --> 00:31:34,491 Done. 415 00:31:34,592 --> 00:31:38,255 And of course, if we could get some help at the courthouse, it would go a long way. 416 00:31:38,363 --> 00:31:40,524 Hey, if you're going to try and dig your way out of this... 417 00:31:40,632 --> 00:31:41,758 don't make me your shovel. 418 00:31:41,866 --> 00:31:44,266 My department is bringing you casework that goes nowhere. 419 00:31:44,369 --> 00:31:45,802 The cases are thin. 420 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:48,930 Most wouldn't make it past a prelim in the court of a freshman judge. 421 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,565 Well, maybe if your personnel weren't so goddamn concerned... 422 00:31:51,676 --> 00:31:54,736 for their goddamn conviction rate, they'd chance a whodunit or two. 423 00:31:54,846 --> 00:31:55,835 For Christ's sake... 424 00:31:55,947 --> 00:31:59,041 Jesus, at least pretend you're on the same side. 425 00:32:00,652 --> 00:32:03,849 Stephen, you and I are both going to be counting votes this time next year. 426 00:32:03,955 --> 00:32:06,048 Do something to help our sorry asses. 427 00:32:06,157 --> 00:32:09,092 And Erv, if you want to do more than just finish out Walker's term... 428 00:32:09,193 --> 00:32:11,252 show me something more than just a pass of the buck. 429 00:32:13,097 --> 00:32:16,589 I don't think any of us wants to have to get a real job. 430 00:32:23,641 --> 00:32:26,075 - Mr. Mayor. - All right. 431 00:32:26,244 --> 00:32:29,372 - I'll see you both in here on this next week. - Thank you, sir. 432 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:34,441 They're like children. 433 00:32:35,353 --> 00:32:37,412 Demper's always been a hack. 434 00:32:37,522 --> 00:32:39,990 But he's an elected hack, so we're stuck with him. 435 00:32:40,591 --> 00:32:45,085 But Burrell, though. You're vulnerable on crime, Clarence. 436 00:32:45,196 --> 00:32:47,357 You need to set some deadwood adrift. 437 00:32:47,465 --> 00:32:50,730 - Burrell's got friends. - The ministers? 438 00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:54,837 Well, he might be their man, but so are you. 439 00:32:55,006 --> 00:32:57,566 You fire Burrell, you get some new blood in here... 440 00:32:57,675 --> 00:32:59,472 the crime rate drops, huh? 441 00:32:59,577 --> 00:33:01,875 The ministers will live with it. 442 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,080 So you're tough on deadwood, huh? 443 00:33:06,050 --> 00:33:08,416 In the new 11th district, too, I hear. 444 00:33:09,854 --> 00:33:13,654 Mr. Mayor, it's time for Eunetta to go. 445 00:33:13,758 --> 00:33:17,159 She's had her time. There are better people out there for the Council. 446 00:33:17,261 --> 00:33:20,958 She's on the team, Odell. Just like my police commissioner. 447 00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:25,133 I value loyalty. Don't you? 448 00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,965 Bunky Bunk, where's my Bunk? 449 00:33:32,377 --> 00:33:34,072 Cole was up, not you. 450 00:33:35,179 --> 00:33:37,238 You're on Dozerman's gun, remember? 451 00:33:37,348 --> 00:33:39,748 Cole was at the courthouse. Sue me. 452 00:33:40,084 --> 00:33:42,518 Rawls and Foerster have crawled up into my backside... 453 00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:45,180 and they're gonna stay there until you find Dozerman's gun. 454 00:33:45,289 --> 00:33:49,783 Now, I would like it very much if I could unclench my ample ass cheeks... 455 00:33:50,094 --> 00:33:53,530 if you don't mind, and rid myself of that discomfort. 456 00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:58,431 Jay, I just caught one that pushed its way all the way to the top of my stack. 457 00:33:58,603 --> 00:34:01,731 - A victim, Jay. On the real side. - Do tell. 458 00:34:03,641 --> 00:34:05,575 Second body in a double. 459 00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:09,371 Girl in her 20s, caught in the middle of a firefight. Takes one in the dome. 460 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,677 But she's still dead in a zip code that does not fucking matter. 461 00:34:12,784 --> 00:34:15,617 And you still owe me a departmental-issue nine. 462 00:34:17,255 --> 00:34:19,348 Find the fucking gun, Bunk. 463 00:34:28,433 --> 00:34:29,627 Fuck me. 464 00:34:29,967 --> 00:34:31,662 Kintel Williamson, who the fuck? 465 00:34:31,769 --> 00:34:34,431 - He has corners in Park Heights. - But Jesus, who doesn't? 466 00:34:34,539 --> 00:34:38,407 So all day we're calling you, Jimmy, wondering where you're at. 467 00:34:38,509 --> 00:34:40,443 Kima, maybe you can enlighten us. 468 00:34:40,545 --> 00:34:41,978 Don't look at me. 469 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,675 My running buddy don't even tell me where he's off to these days. 470 00:34:45,783 --> 00:34:47,910 - I was at the library. - Bullshit. 471 00:34:48,019 --> 00:34:49,714 I was at the library at M.C.I. Jessup. 472 00:34:52,890 --> 00:34:55,450 D'Angelo Barksdale was not a suicide. 473 00:34:55,726 --> 00:34:57,751 - The M.E. Tell you that? - He didn't need to. 474 00:34:57,862 --> 00:34:59,454 The physical evidence didn't match up. 475 00:34:59,564 --> 00:35:03,261 Look, I don't like coming up off of Stringer or Prop Joe any more than you do. 476 00:35:03,367 --> 00:35:06,029 But, McNulty, this shit is kind of weak. 477 00:35:06,137 --> 00:35:08,002 Cedric is under a lot of pressure... 478 00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:09,767 to use this unit to get the murder rate down. 479 00:35:09,874 --> 00:35:13,002 So for now, Stringer Bell's jacket belongs in narcotics. 480 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:15,011 Man took you off a boat, Jimmy. 481 00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:18,276 He want to peel his unit off, his unit, Jimmy... 482 00:35:18,549 --> 00:35:21,916 and go after the target of his choice, baby, it's his call. 483 00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:26,780 Lester, I thought you were all about the best case possible. 484 00:35:27,358 --> 00:35:29,189 When it's there, I am. 485 00:36:25,583 --> 00:36:27,915 Yo, I need y'all to hear this, man. 486 00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:33,615 It was my fault. 487 00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:36,291 You hear me? 488 00:36:36,994 --> 00:36:38,518 I'm sorry, yo. 489 00:36:41,966 --> 00:36:44,127 That don't do nothing for me. 490 00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:07,285 How come... 491 00:37:08,392 --> 00:37:11,657 they know you're police when they hook up with you... 492 00:37:11,963 --> 00:37:14,932 and they know you're police when they move in... 493 00:37:15,633 --> 00:37:20,002 and they know you're police when they decide to start a family with you... 494 00:37:20,304 --> 00:37:23,831 and all that shit is just fine until one day it ain't. 495 00:37:24,942 --> 00:37:28,207 One day it's, "You should have a regular job... 496 00:37:29,547 --> 00:37:31,879 "you need to be home at 5:00." 497 00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:35,108 - "You need to call more." - I'm saying. 498 00:37:35,686 --> 00:37:38,314 "You need to stop fucking waitresses." 499 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:45,260 I wanna come down here tomorrow to Western. 500 00:37:45,363 --> 00:37:48,298 See what's what since those Towers came down. 501 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,227 We're supposed to start on Kintel tomorrow. 502 00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:52,893 Fuck that chump. 503 00:37:53,037 --> 00:37:55,801 - He can wait a day or two. - Yeah, okay. 504 00:37:56,073 --> 00:37:57,597 What the fuck. 505 00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:07,782 When you were humping a radio car in the Western, was this your hole? 506 00:38:07,885 --> 00:38:09,045 Yeah. 507 00:38:09,587 --> 00:38:12,021 Here and down on Winchester, under the bridge. 508 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:16,059 Bet there were a lot of nights you didn't go home to the missus. 509 00:38:18,229 --> 00:38:22,427 - Don't tell me I'm the same kind of asshole. - Pucker up, girlfriend. 510 00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:24,427 Jesus! 511 00:38:24,902 --> 00:38:26,893 I'm turning into McNulty. 512 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:08,444 Hey. I'm getting ready to go now. 513 00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:11,776 No, Mee-maw, you know I can't. 514 00:39:11,882 --> 00:39:14,783 Times like these, honey, you have to shine. 515 00:39:14,985 --> 00:39:19,684 In your face, in your clothes, and in your pocket. Now, go on. 516 00:39:20,958 --> 00:39:24,394 - Make sure you get something to eat, hear? - Go on, now. 517 00:39:33,904 --> 00:39:36,031 - You know them? - Not a clue. 518 00:39:39,910 --> 00:39:42,003 The crew on that corner looks familiar. 519 00:39:46,817 --> 00:39:48,546 A couple old faces. 520 00:39:50,154 --> 00:39:51,416 Not many. 521 00:39:52,123 --> 00:39:55,251 You go away for a year and the whole world changes up. 522 00:39:56,327 --> 00:39:57,794 Quiet, though. 523 00:39:58,763 --> 00:40:03,530 Barksdale loses the Towers and he's able to stretch out without bodies falling? 524 00:40:04,301 --> 00:40:07,759 I wonder what the Western guys have been seeing lately. 525 00:40:11,776 --> 00:40:13,835 Yeah. Hey, Jay. 526 00:40:13,944 --> 00:40:15,775 - You have a minute? - Yeah. 527 00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:23,011 - What the fuck happened? - He just collapsed. 528 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,212 When? 529 00:40:25,556 --> 00:40:26,887 How is he? 530 00:40:30,227 --> 00:40:31,319 Shit. 531 00:40:35,833 --> 00:40:38,199 - You're gonna let me know, right? - Yeah. 532 00:40:39,703 --> 00:40:41,068 Okay, yeah. 533 00:40:41,739 --> 00:40:42,899 Thanks. 534 00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:48,535 - You know Ray Cole? - Homicide, right? 535 00:40:50,481 --> 00:40:54,110 Collapsed in the gym at the Central District this morning. 536 00:40:54,485 --> 00:40:57,943 - On a fucking Stairmaster. - Well, how is he? 537 00:40:58,689 --> 00:41:00,281 A Stairmaster. 538 00:41:08,399 --> 00:41:10,162 Hey, Poot, check it out. 539 00:41:10,468 --> 00:41:11,867 - Where they at? - I don't know. 540 00:41:12,570 --> 00:41:13,935 Shit! Go! 541 00:41:14,505 --> 00:41:15,733 Go! Look out, man! 542 00:41:25,249 --> 00:41:27,342 Break it, break, motherfuckers. 543 00:41:28,185 --> 00:41:29,584 Man said break. Come on. 544 00:41:29,687 --> 00:41:31,314 I was working that bitch. 545 00:41:32,022 --> 00:41:33,683 Yeah, shorty, you hard. 546 00:41:34,725 --> 00:41:35,919 Go. We out of here. 547 00:41:47,137 --> 00:41:49,867 "The Commissioner acknowledged that money had been budgeted... 548 00:41:49,974 --> 00:41:51,271 "for the academy class... 549 00:41:51,375 --> 00:41:53,775 "but said the department was awaiting approval... 550 00:41:53,878 --> 00:41:57,439 "of a federal training and education grant before scheduling the program." 551 00:41:57,581 --> 00:41:59,276 Burrell can talk some shit, can't he? 552 00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:03,547 Downtown in the house. 553 00:42:03,654 --> 00:42:05,884 - Hey, Kima baby. - Hey, Ellis. 554 00:42:07,658 --> 00:42:08,750 Herc. 555 00:42:09,860 --> 00:42:11,521 So, what do we owe the pleasure? 556 00:42:11,629 --> 00:42:14,530 Cruising your district, seeing what's up since the Towers fell. 557 00:42:14,632 --> 00:42:18,227 We see Barksdale crews on a few corners, but no one seems to be beefing with them. 558 00:42:18,335 --> 00:42:19,825 What's up with all this brotherhood? 559 00:42:19,937 --> 00:42:23,100 We keep the lid on tight. You know, they know we're not their friends... 560 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:26,176 and they damn well know that we'll take it to them if they don't behave. 561 00:42:27,611 --> 00:42:29,670 What do your C.I.'s tell you? 562 00:42:29,847 --> 00:42:32,008 Fuck C.I.'s. We don't need no stinking C.I.'s. 563 00:42:32,116 --> 00:42:34,676 We tune them up, we beat them down, we lock them up. 564 00:42:35,019 --> 00:42:37,214 It's the Western District way. 565 00:42:38,589 --> 00:42:42,525 Sergeant, you're wanted in roll call for a supervisor's meeting. 566 00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:45,623 Gotta go. 567 00:42:49,533 --> 00:42:53,629 Remember what I told you? Police is only as good as his informants. 568 00:42:53,737 --> 00:42:56,763 Yeah, well, we ain't downtown no more, Kima. We're in the trenches here. 569 00:42:56,874 --> 00:43:01,004 You want information, you go get your own C. I. And you shoot the shit. 570 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:08,783 You're late, Sergeant. 571 00:43:08,886 --> 00:43:10,945 I had a couple of downtown detectives in my shop. 572 00:43:11,055 --> 00:43:13,455 They were confused and required assistance, sir. 573 00:43:17,928 --> 00:43:19,896 Well, I'll catch you up. 574 00:43:21,332 --> 00:43:25,598 The new strategic plan for the district is to move all street-level trafficking... 575 00:43:25,703 --> 00:43:27,271 to these three areas. 576 00:43:27,538 --> 00:43:30,098 - We want to push it. - Push it, boss? 577 00:43:30,207 --> 00:43:32,573 If they don't go easy, then they go hard. 578 00:43:32,676 --> 00:43:35,941 But we let these knuckleheads know... 579 00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:40,077 that if they move to these areas, away from the residential streets... 580 00:43:40,184 --> 00:43:42,812 away from commercial areas, away from schools... 581 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,445 if they take that shit down the road... 582 00:43:45,556 --> 00:43:48,548 they can go about their business without any interference from us. 583 00:43:49,026 --> 00:43:51,517 It's going to be hands-off in the Western District... 584 00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:53,688 - for the foreseeable future. - Bullshit, man. 585 00:43:53,797 --> 00:43:55,788 - No fucking way. - Wait. 586 00:43:55,899 --> 00:43:57,958 You're saying you want us to give them a free pass? 587 00:43:58,068 --> 00:43:59,899 - How're we going to look them in the eye? - Yeah. 588 00:44:00,004 --> 00:44:02,472 They'll shit all over us, tell their kids to shit all over us. 589 00:44:02,573 --> 00:44:04,666 Hey, the Major wasn't finished. 590 00:44:06,744 --> 00:44:09,212 You got to take the long view here. 591 00:44:10,014 --> 00:44:10,981 Once... 592 00:44:11,949 --> 00:44:15,749 Once they're all comfortable, once they are all rounded up... 593 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,949 once they've been down there a bit and they're used to putting their feet up... 594 00:44:20,057 --> 00:44:23,993 and playing with the remote, then we move. 595 00:44:24,628 --> 00:44:27,563 Then we go back and we do police work. 596 00:44:28,132 --> 00:44:30,191 Look at it this way, gentlemen. 597 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:32,666 Would you rather shoot at fish in the ocean... 598 00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:37,264 or would you rather gather them up in a few small barrels... 599 00:44:38,042 --> 00:44:39,634 and start emptying your clips then? 600 00:44:39,743 --> 00:44:42,712 Not to mention, you still get to kick the shit out of all the mopes... 601 00:44:42,813 --> 00:44:44,110 that don't move off our corners. 602 00:44:45,749 --> 00:44:47,546 So it ain't all bad. 603 00:44:54,358 --> 00:44:55,825 Slow up, girl. 604 00:44:56,393 --> 00:44:57,860 Come on, now. 605 00:45:02,866 --> 00:45:04,561 So this your ride? 606 00:45:05,436 --> 00:45:08,030 - It's nice. - I suppose you got a Lex. 607 00:45:08,138 --> 00:45:10,834 No, girl. Got a bus pass. 608 00:45:11,642 --> 00:45:13,507 You out the game, then? 609 00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:18,109 Doing a little landscaping right now but trying to figure things out. 610 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,450 - So what's your boy's name? - Allen. 611 00:45:25,622 --> 00:45:28,090 - After lverson? - After his daddy. 612 00:45:32,996 --> 00:45:34,088 What? 613 00:45:34,198 --> 00:45:36,723 I'm trying to picture you mowing a lawn. 614 00:45:37,668 --> 00:45:40,637 Yeah, I don't be wearing this suit. 615 00:45:41,672 --> 00:45:44,368 - You look good in it, still. - You look good, too. 616 00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:49,208 You know, they bought a lot a folks out with early retirement in Parks and Rec. 617 00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,413 I could maybe hook you up with someone to talk to. 618 00:45:52,516 --> 00:45:56,452 A man at my church is helping the city fill a lot of those jobs. 619 00:45:56,553 --> 00:45:58,885 That would be... Thank you. 620 00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:04,093 Write your number there. 621 00:46:04,795 --> 00:46:06,319 He'll call you. 622 00:46:11,368 --> 00:46:12,596 I gotta go. 623 00:46:12,903 --> 00:46:14,803 It was good seeing you. 624 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,766 Grace. 625 00:46:19,510 --> 00:46:21,171 Looking at you... 626 00:46:21,645 --> 00:46:22,737 What? 627 00:46:23,347 --> 00:46:24,507 Hurts. 628 00:46:25,115 --> 00:46:26,742 You shouldn't look then. 629 00:46:38,362 --> 00:46:40,626 A food blast will take your mind off it. 630 00:46:40,731 --> 00:46:42,790 I'd rather my mind on it, Bubs. 631 00:46:44,134 --> 00:46:46,432 I swear, I'm sick of all of this, man. 632 00:46:46,570 --> 00:46:48,731 Wondering when I got so old. 633 00:46:48,839 --> 00:46:50,534 Some more mac and cheese, huh? 634 00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:52,939 - Hey, Bubs. - Kima. 635 00:46:53,043 --> 00:46:56,479 - Hey, Bub. - McNutty, man. My mainest man. 636 00:46:56,980 --> 00:46:59,471 - You ready to put some work in? - Born ready. 637 00:46:59,583 --> 00:47:02,450 - Snitching? Fuck that, Bubs. - Hey, no, man. 638 00:47:02,586 --> 00:47:06,682 Better than lifting 500-pound radiators. I'm up for these two, Johnny. 639 00:47:06,790 --> 00:47:08,018 That's easy money, man. 640 00:47:08,125 --> 00:47:10,650 Come on, let's grab a burger. 641 00:47:12,729 --> 00:47:16,722 You mind if I bang out of here early? I ain't right with this Cole thing. 642 00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:20,201 There's gonna be a detectives' wake at Kavanagh's tonight. You gonna come? 643 00:47:20,304 --> 00:47:23,967 I barely knew the guy. You all laying him out at the bar, huh? 644 00:47:24,341 --> 00:47:27,435 Tradition. Tomorrow night, he goes to the funeral home for family. 645 00:47:27,544 --> 00:47:29,671 Tonight, Ray drinks with the boys. 646 00:47:31,014 --> 00:47:33,608 Come on, Bubs. We ain't got all day. 647 00:47:37,354 --> 00:47:38,446 He's up for re-election... 648 00:47:38,555 --> 00:47:41,956 and he's never had a single one of his goo-goo bills pass the committee. 649 00:47:42,059 --> 00:47:44,186 So, he's got one for all-day kindergarten. 650 00:47:44,294 --> 00:47:46,194 I mean who's gonna argue with more kindergarten? 651 00:47:46,296 --> 00:47:47,923 I mean, this guy has got a bill... 652 00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:50,966 which is the legislative equivalent of kissing a baby. 653 00:47:51,068 --> 00:47:53,764 So, right, he goes to his chairman, pleads his case and says... 654 00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:55,771 "You know, this don't go through, I'm torched... 655 00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:58,535 "and I'm going to be back in that hardware store, mixing paint." 656 00:47:58,642 --> 00:48:01,634 So, the chairman takes pity and agrees. He gets the bill to the floor. 657 00:48:01,745 --> 00:48:05,772 But the house speaker, he hates this bill. So, it gets loved to death, you know. 658 00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:08,579 Slap on an amendment for another $150 million in costs... 659 00:48:08,685 --> 00:48:09,845 subsidies, handouts... 660 00:48:09,953 --> 00:48:12,547 and the bill goes down in flames. 122 to 10. 661 00:48:12,656 --> 00:48:14,749 The delegate, he can smell those paint cans. 662 00:48:14,858 --> 00:48:17,224 And the chairman says, "Hey, sorry, brother. 663 00:48:17,327 --> 00:48:19,557 "I fought like a tiger for that bill." 664 00:48:20,831 --> 00:48:22,093 With friends like that... 665 00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:24,861 You want friends? In this racket? Get a dog. 666 00:48:26,169 --> 00:48:28,330 - What? - Look, we're real busy. 667 00:48:28,438 --> 00:48:31,134 - I need to talk to him. - I gave him the message. 668 00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:34,142 - Look, just tell him it's Donette. - You're sure he knows you? 669 00:48:34,244 --> 00:48:36,303 Yeah, he know who the fuck I am. 670 00:48:36,413 --> 00:48:38,438 - Yo, String, she said... - Not now. 671 00:48:39,483 --> 00:48:41,747 Look, he say not now. I got to go. 672 00:48:48,425 --> 00:48:50,655 Marlo? It's a problem, String. 673 00:48:54,231 --> 00:48:55,960 Club soda and lime. 674 00:48:56,633 --> 00:48:58,965 You'll never get there that way. 675 00:48:59,469 --> 00:49:00,800 Get where? 676 00:49:04,908 --> 00:49:06,205 Excuse me. 677 00:49:10,013 --> 00:49:13,505 How the hell was I to know the Mayor was gonna put the screws to you? 678 00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:16,848 You read the paper? I look like shit. 679 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,213 Hey, you got your class. 680 00:49:19,823 --> 00:49:23,782 And probably scored points with Royce out of sheer loyalty, right? 681 00:49:53,957 --> 00:49:56,755 We are police. 682 00:49:59,262 --> 00:50:01,127 So no lies between us. 683 00:50:02,666 --> 00:50:06,432 He wasn't the greatest detective and he wasn't the worst. 684 00:50:07,704 --> 00:50:11,231 He put down some good cases and he dogged a few bad ones. 685 00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:15,706 But the motherfucker had his moments. Yes, he fucking did. 686 00:50:16,646 --> 00:50:21,083 You remember the Mississippi extradition? The arson murders? 687 00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:23,118 - Right. - He brought that case home. 688 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:26,417 And the triple at the after-hours over on Hudson Street... 689 00:50:26,523 --> 00:50:28,855 that was Ray Cole at his best. 690 00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:33,652 And Fayette Street in '93, the drug wars. 691 00:50:34,264 --> 00:50:37,165 He took a lot of hot corners and cooled them. 692 00:50:38,468 --> 00:50:39,867 Yes, indeed. 693 00:50:42,339 --> 00:50:45,638 He won as much as he lost. 694 00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:48,037 Much as any of us. 695 00:50:53,984 --> 00:50:57,647 For Christ's sake, Hugh, play the fucking song, already. 696 00:50:59,456 --> 00:51:01,720 Did he piss off a wife or three? 697 00:51:02,759 --> 00:51:04,351 No fucking doubt. 698 00:51:05,328 --> 00:51:08,422 I think the last one actually kind of got used to him, thank God. 699 00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:12,031 Did he say the wrong shit now and then? 700 00:51:12,135 --> 00:51:14,467 Did he bust balls and cheat on his taxes... 701 00:51:14,571 --> 00:51:17,267 and forget to call his mother and fuck the wrong broad... 702 00:51:17,374 --> 00:51:19,638 for the wrong fucking reason every now and then? 703 00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:21,301 Who fucking doesn't? Christ! 704 00:51:22,045 --> 00:51:27,005 Was he as full of shit as every other sad-sack motherfucker wearing a badge... 705 00:51:27,117 --> 00:51:30,678 of Baltimore City Police? Abso-fucking-lutely. 706 00:51:31,188 --> 00:51:33,554 His shit was as weak as ours, no question. 707 00:51:34,691 --> 00:51:36,852 But Ray Cole stood with us... 708 00:51:38,628 --> 00:51:39,925 all of us... 709 00:51:40,797 --> 00:51:42,230 in Baltimore... 710 00:51:42,866 --> 00:51:47,269 working, sharing a dark corner of the American experiment. 711 00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:54,933 He was called. 712 00:51:57,781 --> 00:51:59,112 He served. 713 00:52:00,150 --> 00:52:01,617 He is counted. 714 00:52:02,252 --> 00:52:03,446 Old King Cole. 715 00:52:03,553 --> 00:52:05,248 Old King Cole! 716 00:53:25,969 --> 00:53:28,631 I'm sorry, but I gotta get these guys home. 717 00:53:29,606 --> 00:53:32,734 But all things considered, I think they did pretty well. 718 00:53:32,842 --> 00:53:36,175 They were great. And you were great, really, Jen. 719 00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,072 Besides, I think they got all the family shots they need. 720 00:53:40,183 --> 00:53:42,208 So, you'll be a while, though, huh? 721 00:53:42,752 --> 00:53:44,845 Got to work the crowd, you know. 722 00:53:44,955 --> 00:53:47,651 - Make them think I'm worthy of their faith. - You are... 723 00:53:47,757 --> 00:53:49,520 - Well, thank you. ...most of the time. 724 00:53:49,626 --> 00:53:50,752 Bitch. 725 00:53:53,630 --> 00:53:56,224 Not too late if you can help it, okay? 726 00:54:17,621 --> 00:54:18,815 Jimmy. 727 00:54:20,123 --> 00:54:21,681 Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. 728 00:54:24,961 --> 00:54:27,122 Shit is fucked. 729 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,436 You fucking wake up like any other day. 730 00:54:35,839 --> 00:54:39,400 You fucking eat and think about bills... 731 00:54:39,509 --> 00:54:41,568 and dry-cleaning and shit... 732 00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:47,241 and fucking vacation and your fucking retirement plan and what? 733 00:54:49,552 --> 00:54:50,883 Like that. 734 00:54:52,622 --> 00:54:53,953 Like that. 735 00:54:55,725 --> 00:54:57,716 He checked out of here... 736 00:54:58,428 --> 00:55:01,363 with you still owing him a clearance on that Omar thing. 737 00:55:01,464 --> 00:55:03,625 I know, I know. I fucking know. 738 00:55:04,968 --> 00:55:06,265 Like that. 739 00:55:13,677 --> 00:55:15,645 On a fucking Stairmaster. 740 00:55:18,348 --> 00:55:20,578 On a fucking Stairmaster. 741 00:55:26,022 --> 00:55:27,751 Wake up and die right, you cunts. 742 00:56:50,707 --> 00:56:52,504 What's going on, man? 743 00:56:55,478 --> 00:56:58,914 That whip is pretty. I gotta get me one of them joints one day. 744 00:56:59,249 --> 00:57:00,739 Shit, yeah.