1 00:00:10,543 --> 00:00:13,307 WMD. Got that WMD. 2 00:00:13,980 --> 00:00:15,607 You got to move it on down. 3 00:00:15,715 --> 00:00:18,650 - It ain't pretty. - Doesn't have to be. 4 00:00:20,954 --> 00:00:23,946 Just needs to pull them from the places still worth salvaging. 5 00:00:26,826 --> 00:00:30,626 All right, I told the other shifts... 6 00:00:30,997 --> 00:00:32,726 now I'm telling you. 7 00:00:33,299 --> 00:00:35,767 When I ride my district at the end of this week... 8 00:00:35,869 --> 00:00:38,201 I want to see empty corners. 9 00:00:38,905 --> 00:00:41,931 They bring it here, or the other two free zones... 10 00:00:42,042 --> 00:00:43,839 or you bang them senseless. 11 00:00:44,544 --> 00:00:47,274 Anything you need to do, you do. 12 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:50,508 Up to a body that can't walk itself up out of the emergency room... 13 00:00:50,617 --> 00:00:53,381 I'll back up you and your men. You understand me? 14 00:00:53,486 --> 00:00:57,582 Now, I've detailed our I.I.D. Representative to the range for the entire week. 15 00:00:57,690 --> 00:01:00,420 All citizen complaints will be handled by Lieutenant Mello here. 16 00:01:02,829 --> 00:01:04,763 Whatever it takes. 17 00:01:05,298 --> 00:01:08,096 Man, I ain't even dirty. I got rights and shit. 18 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:10,431 Go with the one about staying silent. 19 00:01:18,278 --> 00:01:21,111 Shit like this don't happen in Hamsterdam. 20 00:01:22,248 --> 00:01:24,079 I'm up for just standing somewhere? 21 00:01:24,184 --> 00:01:26,175 Fuck y'all. We in America! 22 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:28,719 West Baltimore. 23 00:01:30,890 --> 00:01:35,122 I swear to God, Officer Herc, you unhook Babycakes... 24 00:01:35,228 --> 00:01:38,629 and my peoples be down where you want us. Swear to God. 25 00:01:43,837 --> 00:01:46,431 Fuck with a man's ride, you're gonna get his attention. 26 00:01:46,539 --> 00:01:48,564 - Babycakes? - Yo, yo, yo, hold up! 27 00:01:52,178 --> 00:01:54,942 Motherfuckers gonna hear from my motherfucking lawyer. 28 00:01:55,048 --> 00:01:58,347 - This right here is some outrageous shit. - You think? 29 00:01:59,352 --> 00:02:01,411 Fuck y'all, lying motherfuckers! 30 00:02:05,225 --> 00:02:06,487 Gentlemen. 31 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:19,638 That is outrageous. 32 00:02:21,608 --> 00:02:23,075 That's right. 33 00:02:56,543 --> 00:02:58,238 Come on, sweetheart. 34 00:02:58,478 --> 00:03:00,412 Bust your ass out of there. 35 00:03:07,387 --> 00:03:09,048 It's still Maryland. 36 00:03:09,322 --> 00:03:12,155 But if you all don't take that shit down to Hamsterdam tomorrow... 37 00:03:12,258 --> 00:03:14,249 next time it's gonna be West Virginia. 38 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,387 That little star right there, across from the Dipper? That's north. 39 00:03:18,798 --> 00:03:20,891 You wanna go the other way. 40 00:03:37,083 --> 00:03:38,311 Assholes. 41 00:05:41,474 --> 00:05:44,170 WMD. Got that WMD. 42 00:05:44,977 --> 00:05:47,741 Landfill, got Landfill, yo. 43 00:05:58,725 --> 00:06:01,558 WMD. Got that WMD. 44 00:06:04,797 --> 00:06:06,662 They all here, man. Landfill. 45 00:06:06,833 --> 00:06:08,960 We'll start the interior construction within the week. 46 00:06:09,068 --> 00:06:10,865 Which means we need to readdress the budget. 47 00:06:10,970 --> 00:06:12,130 Readdress how? 48 00:06:12,238 --> 00:06:14,103 Well, for one, the price of steel has doubled. 49 00:06:14,207 --> 00:06:15,572 It'll triple if we don't buy it now. 50 00:06:15,675 --> 00:06:17,905 - Ain't the steel bought already? - Not the bulk of it, no. 51 00:06:18,010 --> 00:06:20,808 Then there are the gutting costs. They exceeded our original expectations. 52 00:06:20,913 --> 00:06:25,043 You, know, he needs to wear that hat when he's on site. Code, you know. 53 00:06:26,819 --> 00:06:28,309 Gutting costs went up, huh? 54 00:06:28,421 --> 00:06:29,820 Well, that was due to your modifications. 55 00:06:29,922 --> 00:06:31,719 The changes you asked for in those loft units. 56 00:06:31,891 --> 00:06:34,553 - Necessitating new permits. - Which means another delay. 57 00:06:34,660 --> 00:06:37,288 Unless we expedite. Bring the architect and his people back in... 58 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,490 over the weekend and get something to the city on Monday. 59 00:06:39,599 --> 00:06:42,898 - Whoa, ain't that part of his original fee? - No, this was unanticipated. 60 00:06:43,002 --> 00:06:45,994 Look, y'all fucked up. So y'all supposed to take the hit, right? 61 00:06:46,105 --> 00:06:47,129 Excuse me? 62 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,333 I mean, my man here don't know shit about no gutting costs. 63 00:06:49,442 --> 00:06:51,376 He don't know nothing about no price of no steel. 64 00:06:51,677 --> 00:06:53,804 He just trying to get some shit built. 65 00:06:53,913 --> 00:06:56,245 And y'all supposed to have the expertise behind this. 66 00:06:56,549 --> 00:07:00,178 Only what I'm saying is, it seem like the expertise ain't where it supposed to be. 67 00:07:00,286 --> 00:07:03,847 Unfortunately, Mr. Barksdale, cost overruns are the nature of the business. 68 00:07:03,956 --> 00:07:05,719 And, well, we should discuss this over lunch. 69 00:07:05,825 --> 00:07:08,293 Hell no, man, I got elsewhere to be. 70 00:07:13,466 --> 00:07:16,094 And this is the Marlo kid. He's fresh blood for the organization. 71 00:07:16,302 --> 00:07:18,167 Bell's given him the best real estate. 72 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:19,932 The Barksdale people took what they needed... 73 00:07:20,039 --> 00:07:21,939 when the Towers came down, no problem. 74 00:07:22,041 --> 00:07:23,804 Stringer hasn't missed a step. 75 00:07:23,910 --> 00:07:26,401 - They're still selling drugs? - Lot of drugs. 76 00:07:26,579 --> 00:07:27,944 He's not dropping bodies. 77 00:07:28,047 --> 00:07:31,505 No, he doesn't need to. He's got all the corners he needs. 78 00:07:31,617 --> 00:07:33,141 And I'm supposed to give a shit? 79 00:07:33,252 --> 00:07:36,585 Lieutenant, two weeks, Bell looked insulated... 80 00:07:36,689 --> 00:07:40,056 like he had enough legitimate front to be able to be just the bank. 81 00:07:40,159 --> 00:07:43,026 What Kima's found out is he's still directly involved with the drugs. 82 00:07:43,129 --> 00:07:45,359 Otherwise, why the face-to-face with the Stanfield kid? 83 00:07:45,465 --> 00:07:48,161 He's still connected to the day-to-day. 84 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:50,769 We come back six, eight months... 85 00:07:51,003 --> 00:07:53,972 you won't even get him in a room talking drugs, much less handling any. 86 00:07:54,073 --> 00:07:56,064 It's now or never, Lieutenant. 87 00:08:03,583 --> 00:08:05,414 Stringer Bell is quiet. 88 00:08:06,219 --> 00:08:10,519 And if he's quiet, I don't give a fuck if we come back a year from now... 89 00:08:10,623 --> 00:08:13,148 and find out he's on the Greater Baltimore Committee. 90 00:08:13,259 --> 00:08:15,454 This unit is about the bodies. 91 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:31,534 Major Foerster, call 2462. Major Foerster. 92 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:40,414 What the fuck is this? 93 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,387 Ten-page report on the heroic police work... 94 00:08:43,956 --> 00:08:47,551 undertaken to retrieve Officer Dozerman's service weapon. 95 00:08:50,396 --> 00:08:54,196 Send that upstairs, keep the bosses out of your ass for a while. 96 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:56,593 You actually did all this? 97 00:08:58,437 --> 00:09:00,337 Would it matter if I had? 98 00:09:02,808 --> 00:09:06,574 Jay, I'm a murder police... 99 00:09:07,246 --> 00:09:10,682 I got a double on my plate. I'm gonna work it. 100 00:09:21,494 --> 00:09:24,361 We ain't got Fayette and Poppleton neither, what the fuck? 101 00:09:24,530 --> 00:09:26,589 I'm working on it, man. The avenue corners, too. 102 00:09:26,699 --> 00:09:28,098 What you mean you working on it, man? 103 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,794 Why we ain't at least got a shop set up down the block? 104 00:09:30,903 --> 00:09:33,804 - We did. - There was a setback. 105 00:09:33,906 --> 00:09:36,568 - Ran our boys off. - Who? 106 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,541 - Just some player, man... - Listen. 107 00:09:40,346 --> 00:09:42,610 Let him tell me. We hired him for muscle. 108 00:09:42,715 --> 00:09:46,207 - The boy, Marlo. - Marlo. Who the fuck is Marlo? 109 00:09:46,485 --> 00:09:47,884 He tied to one of the mobs? 110 00:09:47,987 --> 00:09:50,547 Young boy. Running it on his own, too. 111 00:09:50,656 --> 00:09:54,558 Got maybe 15 spots along here and the avenue. 112 00:09:56,162 --> 00:09:58,323 An independent with no fucking support... 113 00:09:58,431 --> 00:10:01,889 got all the prime real estate and we doing what exactly? 114 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:05,634 Young boy ran us off the corner? 115 00:10:06,706 --> 00:10:09,300 I'm losing my motherfucking mind, man. 116 00:10:14,213 --> 00:10:17,239 And I sincerely mean your girl no disrespect... 117 00:10:18,150 --> 00:10:21,278 but Tosha wasn't killed because she just happened by that mess. 118 00:10:21,387 --> 00:10:23,821 I think we all know that, right? 119 00:10:24,590 --> 00:10:27,582 She was a player. We know that much. 120 00:10:28,327 --> 00:10:31,592 Look, we got the science that says she fired a gun when it all went down. 121 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:33,892 Gun wasn't there for us to find... 122 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,833 but that just means somebody grabbed it up, right? 123 00:10:36,936 --> 00:10:41,396 I mean, your girl, she definitely had her say... 124 00:10:41,707 --> 00:10:44,733 when everybody else on that street was talking. 125 00:10:44,977 --> 00:10:46,444 Am I wrong? 126 00:10:48,614 --> 00:10:51,674 Well, I got witnesses on the scene that said she was there... 127 00:10:51,784 --> 00:10:53,445 right in the middle of a drug robbery. 128 00:10:53,552 --> 00:10:56,350 Boy by the name of Omar was in on it, too. 129 00:10:56,889 --> 00:10:59,187 Nobody saying Tosha was an angel. 130 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:01,486 Nobody saying that. 131 00:11:04,664 --> 00:11:06,632 But what are they saying? 132 00:11:07,366 --> 00:11:08,799 The crew Tosha was running with... 133 00:11:08,901 --> 00:11:11,563 maybe they didn't throw the shot that killed her... 134 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:14,105 but, if they don't come to me early and tell the true story... 135 00:11:14,206 --> 00:11:16,834 I guarantee they won't breathe a free breath... 136 00:11:16,942 --> 00:11:19,069 until them cicadas come back. 137 00:11:25,918 --> 00:11:28,682 You all get the word to the right people. 138 00:11:36,862 --> 00:11:39,353 And you've spoken to the medical examiner, correct? 139 00:11:39,465 --> 00:11:41,057 What's he say? 140 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:44,531 - He says it's lumpy. - Lumpy? 141 00:11:45,071 --> 00:11:48,063 He says that if an investigation can come up with a credible scenario... 142 00:11:48,174 --> 00:11:50,574 he's willing to change the cause of death to homicide. 143 00:11:50,676 --> 00:11:52,940 Do you even have a suspect here? 144 00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:55,238 No. 145 00:11:55,681 --> 00:11:57,410 Look, I don't know how you city guys do it... 146 00:11:57,516 --> 00:12:00,314 but down here in Annapolis we try to duck a punch or two. 147 00:12:00,419 --> 00:12:02,580 Not lean into every last one. 148 00:12:02,988 --> 00:12:05,582 My county doesn't need another murder. 149 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:28,940 I'm glad you could come. 150 00:12:30,049 --> 00:12:32,711 Ladies, Reverend Wright, I'd like you to meet my husband... 151 00:12:32,818 --> 00:12:35,082 - Cedric Daniels. - Nice to meet you. 152 00:12:35,221 --> 00:12:38,418 - Not that I've seen, no. - She was invited, right? 153 00:12:38,524 --> 00:12:41,493 Oh, of course. Eunetta doesn't make it too much nowadays. 154 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,255 Not even Council meetings. 155 00:12:43,362 --> 00:12:47,196 I think Eunetta's gonna have her hands full, come the primary. 156 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,093 Mayor will pull her through. 157 00:12:50,202 --> 00:12:53,069 - He still have coattails? - Shit, boy. 158 00:12:53,172 --> 00:12:55,504 You look up "incumbent" in the damn dictionary... 159 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:58,509 and you'll see Clarence Royce smiling back at you. 160 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:00,476 He gets his whole ticket through. 161 00:13:00,579 --> 00:13:01,841 The Mayor's got a new poll... 162 00:13:01,947 --> 00:13:05,906 showing his negatives have really jumped in the last year. 163 00:13:06,552 --> 00:13:10,283 Not that he's gonna be putting a press release out about that. 164 00:13:10,389 --> 00:13:13,825 I hear you took a swipe at His Honor the other day on that witness murder. 165 00:13:13,926 --> 00:13:15,450 Well, not at the Mayor directly. 166 00:13:15,561 --> 00:13:19,053 But we had the police brass in front of the subcommittee... 167 00:13:19,165 --> 00:13:21,963 and, I don't know, there's just no excuse for what happened. 168 00:13:22,067 --> 00:13:23,728 You keep on it, Councilman. 169 00:13:23,836 --> 00:13:27,237 A little smack here and there does this administration a world of good. 170 00:13:29,275 --> 00:13:32,005 That's why we need new blood on the Council. 171 00:13:32,111 --> 00:13:34,477 Keep everybody honest. 172 00:13:36,182 --> 00:13:37,240 Yeah. 173 00:13:45,791 --> 00:13:47,816 Yeah. Give me a Coors Light. 174 00:13:51,730 --> 00:13:53,664 Don't embarrass yourself. 175 00:13:56,769 --> 00:13:57,895 So. 176 00:13:59,071 --> 00:14:01,005 Your murder's never gonna be a murder... 177 00:14:01,106 --> 00:14:03,438 and Daniels' got his head all up in another case. 178 00:14:03,542 --> 00:14:04,600 I know. 179 00:14:04,710 --> 00:14:08,077 You know what the hardest part about being a police is? 180 00:14:08,581 --> 00:14:11,175 Yeah. Explaining to your wife why she has to take antibiotics... 181 00:14:11,283 --> 00:14:13,114 for your kidney infection. 182 00:14:16,488 --> 00:14:19,480 I was gonna say trying to make the job actually matter. 183 00:14:19,592 --> 00:14:20,854 That, too. 184 00:14:23,629 --> 00:14:27,497 - Speaking of your ex-wife, what's up there? - Nothing. 185 00:14:28,667 --> 00:14:31,761 She got her hooks in some lawyer. Money guy. 186 00:14:32,271 --> 00:14:33,966 Fuck it and fuck her. 187 00:14:34,673 --> 00:14:36,470 So what, you moving on? 188 00:14:40,012 --> 00:14:42,572 Yeah, I might have some fresh hope, now that you mention it. 189 00:14:42,681 --> 00:14:43,773 Yeah? 190 00:14:45,985 --> 00:14:49,216 Yeah, there was this woman at this thing for my kids. 191 00:14:50,022 --> 00:14:53,549 She, like, raises money for the school and all that, you know? 192 00:14:53,659 --> 00:14:57,254 She's got a face, a body, and a brain all working together. 193 00:14:57,363 --> 00:15:01,356 And she looks like the kind who might tell me when my shit stinks... 194 00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:03,628 which is probably what I need. 195 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:06,761 She's kind of like Freamon with tits. 196 00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:11,639 - So what, you get her number? - No, not exactly. 197 00:15:11,744 --> 00:15:13,371 Hey, what kind of detective would I be... 198 00:15:13,479 --> 00:15:16,812 if I couldn't track a white woman in Baltimore, right? 199 00:15:19,285 --> 00:15:20,752 There you go. 200 00:15:21,987 --> 00:15:23,784 See what she wants, okay? 201 00:15:29,194 --> 00:15:31,424 You were so smooth tonight. 202 00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:35,562 You had them eating right out of your hand. 203 00:15:36,101 --> 00:15:38,535 It's what you need from me, right? 204 00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:44,072 Anyway, it wasn't too bad. I'm getting better at it, I guess. 205 00:15:44,777 --> 00:15:45,937 You are. 206 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,052 Cedric, maybe we could... 207 00:15:58,524 --> 00:15:59,957 I don't know. 208 00:16:03,362 --> 00:16:07,230 Right now, you tell me where you need me... 209 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,966 and whether you want the Class A or the Class B uniform, and I'm there. 210 00:16:17,142 --> 00:16:19,508 More than that, I just don't know. 211 00:16:27,553 --> 00:16:28,577 So? 212 00:16:31,023 --> 00:16:32,047 So? 213 00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:35,883 I'm saying, what the fuck? 214 00:16:39,031 --> 00:16:40,931 Take a deep breath, man. 215 00:16:42,034 --> 00:16:43,899 I mean, take a long deep breath. 216 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:47,495 Know that if you call the shot, we at war. We at war. 217 00:16:47,606 --> 00:16:49,904 I'm there like I always been. 218 00:16:55,581 --> 00:16:58,482 Thing about turf, man, it ain't like it was. 219 00:16:59,051 --> 00:17:02,509 I mean, you ain't gotta pay no price of buying no corners. 220 00:17:05,691 --> 00:17:08,751 Since when do we buy corners? 221 00:17:09,328 --> 00:17:11,091 We take corners. 222 00:17:11,730 --> 00:17:13,891 Man, you gonna buy one way or another. 223 00:17:13,999 --> 00:17:17,526 Whether it's with the bodies we done lost or you're gonna lose... 224 00:17:17,636 --> 00:17:20,002 time in the joint that's behind us or ahead of us... 225 00:17:20,105 --> 00:17:23,734 I mean, you gonna get some shit in this game, but it ain't shit for free. 226 00:17:28,247 --> 00:17:30,647 I mean, how many corners do we need? 227 00:17:31,183 --> 00:17:34,118 - How much money can a nigga make? - More than a nigga can spend. 228 00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:36,983 And then we ain't gonna be around to spend what we done made already. 229 00:17:37,089 --> 00:17:40,354 Shit, I didn't think I was gonna be around this long. 230 00:17:41,427 --> 00:17:43,918 Yeah. Well, we here now. 231 00:17:45,464 --> 00:17:49,264 The fact is we got every mob in town, East Side, West Side... 232 00:17:49,368 --> 00:17:52,826 ready to pull together, share territory on that good shit... 233 00:17:52,938 --> 00:17:54,371 that Prop Joe putting out there. 234 00:17:54,473 --> 00:17:56,873 We take that shit downtown and we get in the money game and that... 235 00:17:56,975 --> 00:17:58,840 niggas ain't going to jail. 236 00:18:00,145 --> 00:18:02,443 I mean, we past that run-and-gun shit, man... 237 00:18:02,548 --> 00:18:06,644 like, we find us a package and we ain't got to see nothing but bank. 238 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,350 Nothing but cash. No corners, no territory, nothing. 239 00:18:10,656 --> 00:18:13,454 We make so much goddamn straight money, man... 240 00:18:13,659 --> 00:18:17,823 the government come after us, man, ain't shit they can say. 241 00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:20,222 Businessmen, huh? 242 00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:24,496 Let the young'uns worry about how to retail... 243 00:18:25,904 --> 00:18:27,565 where to wholesale. 244 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,175 I mean, who gives a fuck who's standing on what corner... 245 00:18:31,276 --> 00:18:34,040 if we're taking that shit off the top... 246 00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:38,113 putting that shit to good use, making that shit work for us. 247 00:18:39,351 --> 00:18:42,752 We can run more than corners, B. Period. 248 00:18:44,890 --> 00:18:46,357 We could do like Little Willie, man... 249 00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:49,154 back in the day, with all that number money... 250 00:18:49,261 --> 00:18:51,252 and run this goddamn city. 251 00:18:58,770 --> 00:19:00,397 Like businessmen. 252 00:19:05,644 --> 00:19:09,045 Man, just let me talk to the boy, Marlo. See if I can't smooth this shit out. 253 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:10,547 I mean, it ain't gonna be overnight... 254 00:19:10,649 --> 00:19:13,584 'cause the nigga only knows what he knows. 255 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:17,145 But I think I could talk some sense in his head. 256 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,752 Yeah, I ain't no suit-wearing businessman like you. 257 00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:28,328 You know, I'm just a gangster, I suppose. 258 00:19:29,668 --> 00:19:31,602 And I want my corners. 259 00:19:39,044 --> 00:19:42,104 I gotta tell you, I'm having a tough time... 260 00:19:42,214 --> 00:19:45,149 wrapping my head around the reality of you being paroled. 261 00:19:45,250 --> 00:19:49,209 Trust me, I won't fully comprehend it until I'm sipping my first martini. 262 00:19:54,326 --> 00:19:56,385 Homicide police went to Tosha people. 263 00:19:56,495 --> 00:19:58,986 Talking about how they know she was in the mix. 264 00:19:59,097 --> 00:20:03,090 Saying they got witnesses and shit. They called your name on it, too. 265 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:10,306 - So what they say? - They called me. 266 00:20:10,576 --> 00:20:13,044 - Hey, yo, I know this cop, man. - Yeah? 267 00:20:13,145 --> 00:20:16,444 Maybe we should help him out. Tell him who did what. 268 00:20:16,548 --> 00:20:18,106 Man, stop wilding, Kimmy. 269 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,775 All right, now I said I got this. 270 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:20,874 Tosha's people want to know from me... 271 00:20:20,986 --> 00:20:22,977 exactly what happened that day. That's all I'm saying. 272 00:20:23,088 --> 00:20:25,352 Well, tell them she caught one trying to take them boys down, man. 273 00:20:25,457 --> 00:20:27,891 Ain't no need to involve the police in none of this. 274 00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:30,120 Sound to me like he involved already. 275 00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,424 Kimmy, I told you, I got this. 276 00:20:46,478 --> 00:20:50,039 My husband worked for Mr. Cooper at the American Can. 277 00:20:50,482 --> 00:20:52,177 He made good money. 278 00:20:52,284 --> 00:20:54,718 We saved up and bought this house. 279 00:20:55,554 --> 00:20:58,921 There were some white families still living in the neighborhood then. 280 00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:01,720 The neighborhood has changed, Mrs. Hazel. 281 00:21:02,127 --> 00:21:04,755 This is a picture of the house. 282 00:21:04,863 --> 00:21:05,830 Oh. 283 00:21:10,168 --> 00:21:13,262 City-owned, taxes paid and all. 284 00:21:13,372 --> 00:21:15,101 It is very nice. 285 00:21:17,209 --> 00:21:18,642 But I can't afford that. 286 00:21:18,744 --> 00:21:22,646 You don't have to worry about the money. It's all taken care of. 287 00:21:22,814 --> 00:21:24,679 It's a special program we have. 288 00:21:24,983 --> 00:21:28,885 It's for people who are living... 289 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:31,313 in really bad situations... 290 00:21:31,423 --> 00:21:34,722 you know, with the drug trafficking you see outside. 291 00:21:35,260 --> 00:21:38,889 And this is a good neighborhood. 292 00:21:39,598 --> 00:21:42,931 It's safe and it's on the number 19 line. 293 00:21:44,536 --> 00:21:47,164 And it's walking distance from your church. 294 00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:51,572 Officer, this is the only home I know. 295 00:21:51,743 --> 00:21:53,574 It's all I've got. 296 00:21:53,679 --> 00:21:58,139 Now, you say you have a program that can place me somewhere else. 297 00:21:58,250 --> 00:22:01,777 But you ain't got no program for what's outside my door? 298 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,027 You weren't lying. 299 00:22:18,637 --> 00:22:22,733 Yeah, I told you. And I've been all over these blocks like you said. 300 00:22:22,974 --> 00:22:25,807 I haven't seen any cameras, nobody peeking. 301 00:22:26,712 --> 00:22:29,306 And Monk Man and his crew been here for grinding for days... 302 00:22:29,414 --> 00:22:31,211 and narcos ain't even blink. 303 00:22:31,316 --> 00:22:33,011 I'll tell you what. 304 00:22:33,618 --> 00:22:37,110 Put some of my people on it. Not too many. Just them young'uns. 305 00:22:37,456 --> 00:22:40,755 Make the package real small, just in case this a trap. 306 00:22:40,892 --> 00:22:44,623 - I wanna hear directly from you on this. - I'm on it. 307 00:22:46,631 --> 00:22:49,065 This shit is just bugged out, you know? 308 00:22:56,475 --> 00:22:58,272 String called, said to tell you he gonna be late. 309 00:22:58,377 --> 00:23:00,368 Behind something he need to see down the way. 310 00:23:06,451 --> 00:23:10,785 - So, what you telling me, we weak? - Boss, I reached out to Black Donnie. 311 00:23:11,256 --> 00:23:15,124 Okay, spit it out, man. Listen, stop fucking double-talking me. 312 00:23:15,827 --> 00:23:18,057 Black Donnie say he ain't having any of it. 313 00:23:18,163 --> 00:23:20,996 Say Brother Mouzone put a hex on all of us. 314 00:23:21,933 --> 00:23:23,195 What about Peacock? 315 00:23:23,301 --> 00:23:26,327 Peacock went and hired out with some Dominicans. 316 00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:28,304 What about Eggy Mule? 317 00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:32,070 Eggy locked up. Caught a nickel with the Feds for a pistol. 318 00:23:32,778 --> 00:23:34,575 What about Shorty Boyd? 319 00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:38,572 Shorty Boyd went and cleaned his whole act up. 320 00:23:40,452 --> 00:23:42,682 Yeah, I know. Fucked us all up. 321 00:23:43,789 --> 00:23:45,154 What we got? 322 00:23:45,957 --> 00:23:49,188 The soldier you sent at us, Cutty, he gonna work out... 323 00:23:49,294 --> 00:23:52,092 but the rest of them dudes, I don't know. 324 00:23:52,664 --> 00:23:56,828 All right, listen, big man, you about to earn your fucking keep around here, right now. 325 00:23:56,935 --> 00:23:59,733 You go out, you get Cutty and get the best of the rest... 326 00:23:59,838 --> 00:24:02,807 and you put a hurting on Marlo. I want my corners. 327 00:24:08,013 --> 00:24:09,071 What the fuck? 328 00:24:11,416 --> 00:24:13,281 - What now? - Problems, Mr. Bell. 329 00:24:13,385 --> 00:24:15,717 No, this ain't the time for problems, man. I got places to be. 330 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:17,220 We're being told it may take weeks before... 331 00:24:17,322 --> 00:24:20,553 we get the city inspectors back down here to approve these site changes. 332 00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:22,752 - Weeks? - Every day we wait, you lose money. 333 00:24:22,861 --> 00:24:23,850 Man, what the fuck? 334 00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:25,896 How does anybody make any money in this game, man? 335 00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:29,455 Every time I think we good, you back in my pockets. 336 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:37,408 - You need to make a call. - Again? 337 00:24:37,976 --> 00:24:39,500 He's the consultant, right? 338 00:24:39,611 --> 00:24:43,047 You're paying him a nice chunk of change to consult, right? 339 00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:46,549 This is why we have a politically-connected guy like that on the payroll. 340 00:24:46,651 --> 00:24:50,519 He goes downtown and does for us what we can't do for ourselves. 341 00:24:51,556 --> 00:24:53,820 Democracy in action, Mr. Bell. 342 00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:01,627 All right, look. Me and Slim, we're gonna work through the alleys... 343 00:25:01,733 --> 00:25:03,598 and hit them from the side. 344 00:25:03,702 --> 00:25:06,603 I want you to come through here. 345 00:25:07,606 --> 00:25:11,042 - Slow down, through the intersection. - Oh. 346 00:25:11,643 --> 00:25:13,076 Why don't we just come up this way? 347 00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:15,578 Then we ain't got to worry about crossing no intersection. 348 00:25:15,780 --> 00:25:19,978 Come that way? You putting your driver in the line of fire, man. 349 00:25:20,485 --> 00:25:24,979 Think on it. He getting taken out. Car gonna crash. 350 00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:26,552 Now, where that put you at? 351 00:25:26,658 --> 00:25:30,560 Besides you don't wanna be shooting across your driver, do you? 352 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:32,653 All right, so come in easy. 353 00:25:32,764 --> 00:25:35,995 They ain't gonna be looking for you 'cause we gonna have they full attention. 354 00:25:36,101 --> 00:25:39,559 And, look, pick your targets, drop them and move out quick. 355 00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:41,668 - Who driving? - I'm under the wheel. 356 00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:44,241 All right, you make sure you slow down at the end of the block... 357 00:25:44,342 --> 00:25:45,434 and toss your weapons. 358 00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:49,002 And get rid of any shell casings that kick back in the car. 359 00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:50,604 Police can trace them shits. 360 00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:53,445 - Toss the gloves, too, right? - No, hold on to them. 361 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,952 They're gonna have that DNA shit all on them. 362 00:25:56,054 --> 00:25:58,989 All right, look, it's gonna take us some time to get set up... 363 00:25:59,090 --> 00:26:02,184 so we need y'all to lay back about four or five blocks. 364 00:26:02,294 --> 00:26:04,956 And when we ready, we're gonna hit you on the burner... 365 00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:07,930 but y'all hold tight till I call you. You got it? 366 00:26:08,033 --> 00:26:09,625 We gonna handle our end. 367 00:26:09,734 --> 00:26:12,862 You just make sure there's some fucking work left out there for us... 368 00:26:12,971 --> 00:26:15,531 'cause I don't wanna feel like I'm just some damn decoy. 369 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,403 Damn right about that. 370 00:26:19,138 --> 00:26:21,538 It's just to relocate, no big deal. 371 00:26:21,641 --> 00:26:23,506 I'm not asking for round-the-clock protection... 372 00:26:23,609 --> 00:26:26,544 - or anything like that. - No big deal? Come on, Bunny... 373 00:26:26,646 --> 00:26:28,773 where the fuck am I gonna find a house for this old broad? 374 00:26:28,881 --> 00:26:30,610 I got one already. 375 00:26:30,716 --> 00:26:32,411 It's a foreclosure up on the Harford Road. 376 00:26:32,518 --> 00:26:34,543 All you gotta do is file the emergency petition... 377 00:26:34,654 --> 00:26:36,622 my boys'll move her in. 378 00:26:38,324 --> 00:26:40,952 And she's witnessing against a violent drug crew. 379 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:43,426 Without her cooperation, I doubt if it'll go forward. 380 00:26:43,529 --> 00:26:45,156 She's 73 years old. 381 00:26:46,365 --> 00:26:48,299 Brave old broad to be doing this, I guess, but... 382 00:26:48,401 --> 00:26:49,663 Come on, Ray. 383 00:26:49,769 --> 00:26:52,067 Look, we just lost a witness in a drug case. 384 00:26:52,171 --> 00:26:54,833 We don't wanna lose another one so quick. 385 00:26:58,644 --> 00:27:01,374 If Rawls gets wind of this, you forged my signature. 386 00:27:03,416 --> 00:27:04,849 Where is she living now, anyway? 387 00:27:04,951 --> 00:27:07,078 She's on Vincent Street, Sector Two. 388 00:27:07,186 --> 00:27:10,417 - It's a bad location, huh? - You wouldn't believe it. 389 00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:18,587 We should wait for the call. 390 00:27:18,698 --> 00:27:20,325 Man, what if that crew got lookouts? 391 00:27:20,433 --> 00:27:23,527 Motherfucker, if we wait, it'll be all over time we get there. 392 00:27:23,636 --> 00:27:27,402 Man, plus, look, man, I'm saying how's that gonna play with Avon, man? 393 00:27:27,507 --> 00:27:29,532 They taking all the credit. 394 00:27:41,420 --> 00:27:43,684 Yo, fellas, strap up. 395 00:27:55,701 --> 00:27:59,193 There go that motherfucker Nay-Nay, man. I say we take him. 396 00:27:59,305 --> 00:28:02,968 - We should wait for the call. - Man, we wait, he gonna get away, man. 397 00:28:07,146 --> 00:28:08,477 Go, go, go! 398 00:28:16,188 --> 00:28:17,917 Get out, get out! 399 00:28:18,024 --> 00:28:19,491 Motherfucker! 400 00:28:35,374 --> 00:28:36,807 What the fuck? 401 00:28:43,649 --> 00:28:47,415 Didn't I say something about waiting for a fucking phone call? 402 00:29:01,067 --> 00:29:04,230 You know how you blow off half the invitations you get to be somewhere? 403 00:29:04,337 --> 00:29:07,135 Ribbon cuttings, playground clean-ups and shit? 404 00:29:07,239 --> 00:29:08,206 I got to. No choice. 405 00:29:08,307 --> 00:29:09,865 I was gonna cut out on one the other day. 406 00:29:09,976 --> 00:29:11,568 It was a fundraiser for the Delta Phis, you know? 407 00:29:11,677 --> 00:29:13,838 But I drag-ass over to the Forum to show the flag. 408 00:29:14,046 --> 00:29:17,311 And who was there in his ironsides but old Odell Watkins. 409 00:29:17,617 --> 00:29:18,777 The rainmaker himself. 410 00:29:18,884 --> 00:29:23,048 Yeah, talking in public about being kind of disappointed in the Mayor. 411 00:29:24,523 --> 00:29:26,457 Disappointed. Yeah? 412 00:29:27,093 --> 00:29:30,392 - Like how? - Like sincerely disappointed. 413 00:29:30,663 --> 00:29:32,130 The way you'd be with one of your kids. 414 00:29:32,231 --> 00:29:35,462 Like he really wanted to see the Mayor pressed, you know? 415 00:29:35,568 --> 00:29:36,865 Got me thinking. 416 00:29:36,969 --> 00:29:39,460 Maybe somebody can take a run at Royce in next year's primary. 417 00:29:39,572 --> 00:29:42,006 Like who? Madam Council President? 418 00:29:43,242 --> 00:29:44,869 Well, Mickey Pepper would give him a fight. 419 00:29:44,977 --> 00:29:48,913 No, Mick's already said he doesn't want to leave the legislature. He won't risk it. 420 00:29:49,015 --> 00:29:51,381 Well, you gotta have someone with balls. 421 00:29:51,484 --> 00:29:53,179 And somebody black. 422 00:29:54,353 --> 00:29:56,412 This being Baltimore and all. 423 00:30:02,928 --> 00:30:05,192 - How many y'all take? - Two. 424 00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:08,624 Didn't get nearly a shot off. 425 00:30:09,902 --> 00:30:12,029 Speak to the quality of Barksdale people. 426 00:30:12,138 --> 00:30:14,402 He's gonna have to come back at you. 427 00:30:14,507 --> 00:30:16,099 You know it ain't gonna stop at this. 428 00:30:16,208 --> 00:30:17,675 I don't want it to stop. 429 00:30:17,777 --> 00:30:19,472 Barksdale weak today. 430 00:30:21,881 --> 00:30:24,941 And he ain't working with the ammunition I got. 431 00:30:25,084 --> 00:30:27,348 No doubt, you carrying a full clip. 432 00:30:27,453 --> 00:30:30,183 But what you gonna do when you sitting at the head of the table? 433 00:30:30,289 --> 00:30:33,190 Once you there, you got to hold it down. 434 00:30:35,394 --> 00:30:37,919 Sound like one of them good problems. 435 00:30:38,030 --> 00:30:39,054 Yeah. 436 00:30:39,165 --> 00:30:41,429 Prison and graveyards... 437 00:30:41,901 --> 00:30:43,664 full of boys who wore the crown. 438 00:30:43,769 --> 00:30:45,498 Point is, they wore it. 439 00:30:45,604 --> 00:30:47,595 It's my turn to wear it now. 440 00:30:50,276 --> 00:30:51,800 We're gonna do this, right, Chris? 441 00:30:51,911 --> 00:30:55,074 - Gonna do this, son. - It's ready like yesterday, dawg. 442 00:30:56,582 --> 00:30:58,049 Want a white T's, man? 443 00:30:58,317 --> 00:31:00,945 Need to get yourself a white T, dawg. 444 00:31:03,723 --> 00:31:05,691 So you working your plan, huh, Bubs? 445 00:31:05,791 --> 00:31:08,055 Dollar here, dollar there, Kima. 446 00:31:08,627 --> 00:31:10,527 So, what's up? Why you call? 447 00:31:10,629 --> 00:31:12,028 Was just checking in. 448 00:31:12,131 --> 00:31:15,066 You're still interested in that boy, Marlo, right? 449 00:31:15,701 --> 00:31:16,725 No? 450 00:31:17,069 --> 00:31:20,095 You wanna keep getting paid, you need to get your ass up to Park Heights... 451 00:31:20,206 --> 00:31:23,869 school yourself on that Jamaican named Kintel got them corners. 452 00:31:24,009 --> 00:31:25,442 Kintel, huh? 453 00:31:25,745 --> 00:31:29,841 My bosses don't give a fuck about Marlo. Stringer's people neither. 454 00:31:29,949 --> 00:31:32,110 - That's too bad. - Yeah. 455 00:31:32,351 --> 00:31:34,114 'Cause now we got a whole lot of drama. 456 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:35,209 What happened? 457 00:31:35,321 --> 00:31:37,255 That young buck, Marlo, ain't getting runned off. 458 00:31:37,356 --> 00:31:40,450 He just dropped two of Barksdale soldiers on the corner of Mount and Fayette. 459 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:42,459 - Two hours past. - What? 460 00:31:42,561 --> 00:31:44,529 Corners is all jumping bad. 461 00:31:44,630 --> 00:31:47,224 I thought Marlo had them corners for Stringer. We saw them meet. 462 00:31:47,333 --> 00:31:48,493 I don't know what you saw. 463 00:31:48,601 --> 00:31:51,069 All I know is Marlo is flying his own colors. 464 00:31:51,170 --> 00:31:53,502 West Side's about to be all Baghdad and shit. 465 00:31:54,940 --> 00:31:57,670 But y'all looking for Jake, what's his name? Kintel? 466 00:31:57,777 --> 00:32:00,610 Y'all are too fickle with Bubs, man. I swear. 467 00:32:01,947 --> 00:32:04,040 A little gift for you and your boys. 468 00:32:04,150 --> 00:32:05,378 Call me. 469 00:32:06,552 --> 00:32:08,486 Whitey sale! Whitey sale! 470 00:32:09,989 --> 00:32:13,390 Deputy, I am aware of the incident and my men are on it. 471 00:32:13,492 --> 00:32:15,653 We called in the 7-to-3 flex squad early... 472 00:32:15,761 --> 00:32:17,388 and my DEU is out canvassing. 473 00:32:17,496 --> 00:32:19,191 And what do we know? 474 00:32:19,832 --> 00:32:23,598 Only that it seems to be rival gangs. But, what does homicide have? 475 00:32:23,702 --> 00:32:25,101 Fuck homicide. 476 00:32:25,204 --> 00:32:27,263 I'm asking you for answers right now, Major. 477 00:32:27,373 --> 00:32:29,637 - Sir, my men... - And you damn sure have none. 478 00:32:29,742 --> 00:32:31,266 My men are out there... 479 00:32:36,715 --> 00:32:38,683 What do we know that we can actually tell the man? 480 00:32:38,784 --> 00:32:40,445 It's like you said. Rival gangs. 481 00:32:40,553 --> 00:32:42,077 No, which gangs? 482 00:32:42,221 --> 00:32:44,621 Gangs. Assholes who don't like each other. 483 00:32:50,663 --> 00:32:53,496 I'm sorry, Major, but we got nothing on it. 484 00:33:04,743 --> 00:33:07,268 Play it. It don't make me no never mind. 485 00:33:07,379 --> 00:33:08,971 It's all about trumps. 486 00:33:14,353 --> 00:33:15,786 Evening, Omar. 487 00:33:17,957 --> 00:33:19,549 Evening, Bruiser. 488 00:33:24,830 --> 00:33:26,923 Speaking of them trumps now. 489 00:33:34,173 --> 00:33:35,640 Hey, everybody. 490 00:33:38,010 --> 00:33:40,308 What's for dinner, Jen? I'm starving. 491 00:33:40,412 --> 00:33:41,879 It's working. 492 00:33:46,819 --> 00:33:49,811 - Hi, Daddy. - How you doing, beautiful? 493 00:33:50,122 --> 00:33:52,090 Daddy, we shared with you. 494 00:33:53,092 --> 00:33:54,354 That's nice. 495 00:33:54,526 --> 00:33:56,551 Hey, Jen, you seen that tape I was watching last night? 496 00:33:56,662 --> 00:33:58,596 I don't know what you're talking about. 497 00:33:58,697 --> 00:34:00,164 You gotta see this. 498 00:34:00,266 --> 00:34:02,734 Videotape from last Monday night's Council meeting. 499 00:34:02,835 --> 00:34:05,668 Keiffer tried to block my resolution, but I laid him out good. 500 00:34:05,771 --> 00:34:07,705 I was in rare form, baby. 501 00:34:08,140 --> 00:34:11,371 - You seen that tape? - Maybe you left it in the VCR? 502 00:34:13,913 --> 00:34:16,347 What? Son of a bitch! 503 00:34:18,751 --> 00:34:20,582 - Who the hell... - Daddy, Franky shared... 504 00:34:20,686 --> 00:34:22,313 his sandwich with you. 505 00:34:22,421 --> 00:34:26,084 We hid it so no one else could eat it before you came home. 506 00:34:34,566 --> 00:34:37,694 Can I get some chips and pickles with that, too? 507 00:34:40,806 --> 00:34:43,070 I don't want to disrespect you. 508 00:34:44,810 --> 00:34:46,971 String been good to me, you know? 509 00:34:47,079 --> 00:34:48,603 Not just my bills. 510 00:34:48,714 --> 00:34:51,512 Him and Avon probably think they owe me that much. 511 00:34:52,484 --> 00:34:55,317 And it ain't what people might be thinking or saying, either. 512 00:34:55,421 --> 00:34:57,150 What they saying, honey? 513 00:34:57,256 --> 00:34:59,349 It ain't like I don't miss D. 514 00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:01,285 I do. 515 00:35:02,428 --> 00:35:05,124 Yeah, well, I miss him, too. 516 00:35:05,998 --> 00:35:09,263 - But he's been gone a while now. - More than a year. 517 00:35:11,870 --> 00:35:13,462 Stringer's fine. 518 00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:15,898 No denying that. 519 00:35:18,344 --> 00:35:20,175 I feel safe around him. 520 00:35:22,815 --> 00:35:25,113 You asking to get with String... 521 00:35:26,552 --> 00:35:28,179 I'm okay with that. 522 00:35:29,221 --> 00:35:31,314 Thought you was gonna be mad. 523 00:35:34,426 --> 00:35:37,793 I mean, everything with D is so messed up, you know? 524 00:35:38,030 --> 00:35:40,658 I mean, every time I think about it... 525 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:43,359 And you know this one police... 526 00:35:43,469 --> 00:35:46,302 he came by here and brought it all up again. 527 00:35:46,739 --> 00:35:49,572 - Who did? - Police detective from the city. 528 00:35:50,175 --> 00:35:54,134 The one tried to turn D on Avon when he got pulled up in Jersey. 529 00:35:54,546 --> 00:35:55,774 White boy? 530 00:35:56,081 --> 00:35:57,878 - Bushy hair? - Yeah. 531 00:35:58,951 --> 00:36:00,475 What'd he say? 532 00:36:02,221 --> 00:36:03,654 What'd he say? 533 00:36:04,690 --> 00:36:05,987 He said... 534 00:36:06,592 --> 00:36:09,584 maybe D'Angelo didn't take... 535 00:36:10,729 --> 00:36:12,026 You know. 536 00:36:12,364 --> 00:36:13,956 Take his own life. 537 00:36:15,034 --> 00:36:17,468 He said maybe it was something else. 538 00:36:18,971 --> 00:36:20,996 And he came to you with that? 539 00:36:21,173 --> 00:36:23,334 Left his card here one day... 540 00:36:23,442 --> 00:36:25,433 but I didn't say nothing to the man. 541 00:36:25,544 --> 00:36:27,569 Just told Stringer, is all. 542 00:36:34,853 --> 00:36:36,980 She's gonna run for Council? 543 00:36:37,389 --> 00:36:38,549 She is. 544 00:36:39,391 --> 00:36:41,723 Probably win, too, if I know her. 545 00:36:42,961 --> 00:36:45,122 And you're the proud husband? 546 00:36:51,036 --> 00:36:53,368 Not sure how that makes me feel. 547 00:36:54,673 --> 00:36:57,699 It's just for show until the election next year. 548 00:36:59,111 --> 00:37:02,171 A city police lieutenant looks good on her arm. 549 00:37:02,548 --> 00:37:04,539 Who even cares anymore? 550 00:37:04,650 --> 00:37:06,049 Half the country are separated. 551 00:37:06,151 --> 00:37:08,517 The other half are getting divorced for the second time. 552 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:10,645 This is a favor. For her. 553 00:37:12,458 --> 00:37:14,255 It's hard to explain. 554 00:37:24,503 --> 00:37:26,767 Look, I disappointed her. 555 00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:31,305 She lived through me for a lot of years... 556 00:37:31,443 --> 00:37:34,310 telling herself I was tracked for Deputy Commissioner at worst... 557 00:37:34,413 --> 00:37:37,109 and past the police department, who knows? 558 00:37:37,483 --> 00:37:39,314 And there were some things that happened a long time ago... 559 00:37:39,418 --> 00:37:41,215 when I was in Eastern. 560 00:37:43,122 --> 00:37:44,790 I guess she wanted more out of me. 561 00:37:44,790 --> 00:37:45,449 I guess she wanted more out of me. 562 00:37:45,724 --> 00:37:48,693 And after a lot of years and a lot of plans... 563 00:37:49,194 --> 00:37:51,355 it turns out I have a better head for police work... 564 00:37:51,463 --> 00:37:53,363 than I do for climbing the ladder. 565 00:37:53,465 --> 00:37:57,561 She hung in there thinking my career was going to turn into some kind of big deal. 566 00:37:57,669 --> 00:38:00,968 And I probably let her believe it just to keep peace. 567 00:38:02,307 --> 00:38:04,639 Now she wants to be the big deal. 568 00:38:07,146 --> 00:38:08,738 What do you want? 569 00:38:14,620 --> 00:38:17,214 I just don't want to disappoint her anymore. 570 00:38:17,322 --> 00:38:18,721 And right now... 571 00:38:18,824 --> 00:38:21,190 I'm more help showing up at some chicken dinner... 572 00:38:21,293 --> 00:38:23,124 in my wedding ring and dress blues... 573 00:38:23,228 --> 00:38:25,093 than being the not-even-divorced-yet husband... 574 00:38:25,197 --> 00:38:27,427 with the white woman on his arm. 575 00:38:37,009 --> 00:38:41,469 I'm going to do what I can to see she gets what she wants this time around. 576 00:38:42,614 --> 00:38:44,104 Nothing more than that. 577 00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:49,086 Last seen Gerard, man, he was racing bullets up on Fayette Street. 578 00:38:49,188 --> 00:38:50,678 He appeared to be winning, too. 579 00:38:50,789 --> 00:38:52,757 Look, man, till he shows back up here... 580 00:38:52,858 --> 00:38:54,519 we ain't gonna know what happened out there. 581 00:38:54,626 --> 00:38:57,322 I damn sure know one fucking thing for sure. 582 00:38:57,429 --> 00:39:00,193 Two of our people chalked and we ain't got shit to show for it. 583 00:39:00,299 --> 00:39:03,496 Man, police gonna be real heavy on this, man. I say we slow down... 584 00:39:03,602 --> 00:39:05,194 take our time to build our muscle... 585 00:39:05,304 --> 00:39:07,670 No, I ain't got no more motherfucking time, man! 586 00:39:07,773 --> 00:39:11,265 When the word come out this boy, Marlo, punking me, what I'm gonna look like? 587 00:39:11,376 --> 00:39:13,003 I'm gonna go do this shit my damn self. 588 00:39:13,111 --> 00:39:14,908 No, man, you just this minute got home. 589 00:39:15,013 --> 00:39:17,777 Your name come up in a murder beef, man, they gonna pull your parole. 590 00:39:17,883 --> 00:39:18,872 Let me take care of this. 591 00:39:18,984 --> 00:39:20,349 We was thinking, man, me and Cutty... 592 00:39:20,452 --> 00:39:22,443 you know what I'm saying, we could hit at them ourselves, man. 593 00:39:22,554 --> 00:39:24,385 That way there won't be no fuck-ups. 594 00:39:24,489 --> 00:39:27,287 Look, you two niggas get on it, man. 595 00:39:28,894 --> 00:39:30,384 And get it right. 596 00:39:34,933 --> 00:39:36,560 You see how shit have to be handled, man? 597 00:39:36,668 --> 00:39:39,296 The game is the fucking game. Period. 598 00:39:39,705 --> 00:39:41,468 Same as it ever was. 599 00:39:42,541 --> 00:39:45,032 I don't know though, man. I mean... 600 00:39:50,749 --> 00:39:51,909 I mean... 601 00:39:52,017 --> 00:39:54,645 I don't know, I was just down the way with one of our young'uns... 602 00:39:54,753 --> 00:39:58,917 on Vincent Street where they got the, you know, the empty houses over there. 603 00:39:59,024 --> 00:40:00,992 And they got crews over there... 604 00:40:01,093 --> 00:40:04,085 twirling dope and coke like the shit was candy. 605 00:40:05,530 --> 00:40:08,090 Kids with a lemonade stand. It's a different world down there. 606 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,636 Like the cops was just standing around like that shit was... 607 00:40:11,903 --> 00:40:13,029 legal. 608 00:40:13,205 --> 00:40:14,433 I mean... 609 00:40:15,140 --> 00:40:16,334 every day. 610 00:40:17,075 --> 00:40:18,975 Now, that shit was business. 611 00:40:24,883 --> 00:40:27,147 What you saying, man? What's up? 612 00:40:30,956 --> 00:40:32,321 Nothing, man. 613 00:40:34,059 --> 00:40:35,526 Nothing at all. 614 00:40:38,297 --> 00:40:40,265 Our CI tells us those are Stringer's people. 615 00:40:40,365 --> 00:40:42,629 You want us to be about bodies, now we are. 616 00:40:42,734 --> 00:40:44,531 We had this kid, Marlo, working for Stringer... 617 00:40:44,636 --> 00:40:45,796 but that might be wrong. 618 00:40:45,904 --> 00:40:48,600 He might be going to war for those corners. 619 00:40:58,317 --> 00:40:59,841 Let me be clear. 620 00:41:00,319 --> 00:41:02,685 This is no longer about Stringer Bell... 621 00:41:02,788 --> 00:41:05,484 or Kintel fucking Williamson or any of them. 622 00:41:06,625 --> 00:41:08,923 What is my rank, Detective Greggs? 623 00:41:09,961 --> 00:41:12,555 - My rank! - Lieutenant, sir. 624 00:41:13,432 --> 00:41:15,866 What is my rank, Detective McNulty? 625 00:41:20,205 --> 00:41:24,574 If you can't remember that much, then you can go the hell back to narcotics. 626 00:41:24,676 --> 00:41:28,305 And you can go to whatever the hell unit will still have you. 627 00:41:28,413 --> 00:41:30,745 Now get the fuck out of my office. 628 00:41:59,111 --> 00:42:01,375 Your message said you'd be here. 629 00:42:03,014 --> 00:42:07,508 Still, kind of thought it'd be one of your minions showed up in the flesh. 630 00:42:07,886 --> 00:42:10,582 You called on some of my people's people. 631 00:42:12,290 --> 00:42:14,053 I was just working. 632 00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:17,894 Doing what a man is supposed to do. 633 00:42:18,230 --> 00:42:20,221 Well, I know you been busy. 634 00:42:20,565 --> 00:42:25,059 Caught some talk from them young men you rousted over there on the West Side. 635 00:42:26,238 --> 00:42:29,002 That was about a gun belonged to a police. 636 00:42:29,775 --> 00:42:32,403 Yeah, caught some talk about that, too. 637 00:42:34,446 --> 00:42:37,381 This here, it's about something else. 638 00:42:38,150 --> 00:42:42,280 Girl by the name of Tosha who got her head blown off in a firefight. 639 00:42:46,925 --> 00:42:50,258 If you're not here to cooperate, then why are you here? 640 00:42:53,432 --> 00:42:57,027 Okay, I could just pull up that other girl from your squad. 641 00:42:57,536 --> 00:42:59,333 She ain't gonna talk to you. 642 00:42:59,438 --> 00:43:01,269 Ain't nobody gonna talk to you. 643 00:43:01,373 --> 00:43:03,307 I just came here to make that clear, man. 644 00:43:03,408 --> 00:43:04,875 Ain't no thing. 645 00:43:05,277 --> 00:43:07,575 'Cause I already got me an eyeball wit. 646 00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:08,839 You do? 647 00:43:09,448 --> 00:43:10,881 I don't know about that. 648 00:43:10,982 --> 00:43:14,713 Old Bruiser, he be blind behind that fortified half the time. 649 00:43:14,820 --> 00:43:18,085 Shit, you gonna have to dry him out just to get him on the stand. 650 00:43:18,190 --> 00:43:21,159 Besides, he done had a change of heart to that story. 651 00:43:21,259 --> 00:43:23,022 That's what I heard anyway. 652 00:43:23,128 --> 00:43:26,131 Shit, past that, y'all gonna have to call this one of them... 653 00:43:26,131 --> 00:43:27,063 Shit, past that, y'all gonna have to call this one of them... 654 00:43:27,365 --> 00:43:30,892 cost-of-doing-business things y'all police be talking about all the time. 655 00:43:31,002 --> 00:43:32,264 You feel me? 656 00:43:32,370 --> 00:43:33,769 No taxpayers. 657 00:43:33,872 --> 00:43:37,308 Shoot, the way y'all look on things, ain't no victim to even speak on. 658 00:43:37,409 --> 00:43:39,138 Bullshit, boy. No victim? 659 00:43:39,244 --> 00:43:41,235 I just came from Tosha's people, remember? 660 00:43:41,346 --> 00:43:43,280 All this death, you don't think that ripples out? 661 00:43:43,381 --> 00:43:46,441 You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. 662 00:43:49,488 --> 00:43:51,456 I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson. 663 00:43:51,556 --> 00:43:54,855 But I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. 664 00:43:57,229 --> 00:43:59,424 We had some bad boys for real. 665 00:44:01,132 --> 00:44:02,929 Wasn't about guns... 666 00:44:03,201 --> 00:44:06,068 so much as knowing what to do with your hands. 667 00:44:06,171 --> 00:44:08,435 Those boys could really rag. 668 00:44:14,012 --> 00:44:15,343 My father... 669 00:44:17,082 --> 00:44:18,913 had me on the straight. 670 00:44:20,752 --> 00:44:23,880 But, like any young man, I wanted to be hard, too. 671 00:44:24,122 --> 00:44:28,081 So I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. 672 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,451 Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. 673 00:44:34,666 --> 00:44:36,429 Them hard cases would come up to me and say... 674 00:44:36,535 --> 00:44:39,402 "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." 675 00:44:42,507 --> 00:44:45,908 Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. 676 00:44:50,215 --> 00:44:52,877 As rough as that neighborhood could be... 677 00:44:54,486 --> 00:44:56,386 we had us a community. 678 00:44:56,488 --> 00:44:59,013 Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. 679 00:44:59,457 --> 00:45:02,290 And now all we got is bodies... 680 00:45:02,494 --> 00:45:05,019 and predatory motherfuckers like you. 681 00:45:05,130 --> 00:45:09,294 And, out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar. 682 00:45:10,001 --> 00:45:12,799 Calling you by name. Glorifying your ass. 683 00:45:13,572 --> 00:45:16,598 Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell. 684 00:45:38,496 --> 00:45:41,897 $25,000. You don't need more than that to get it done. 685 00:45:42,167 --> 00:45:43,259 The fuck you say? 686 00:45:43,368 --> 00:45:46,496 I'm just telling you how they do down at zoning and permits. 687 00:45:46,605 --> 00:45:48,539 They know you got a general contractor... 688 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,403 and his people out there sitting on they ass. 689 00:45:50,508 --> 00:45:52,772 They know you paying twice that every week they sit. 690 00:45:52,877 --> 00:45:54,936 $25,000 gets me the permits? 691 00:45:55,747 --> 00:45:57,806 $20,000 gets you the permits. 692 00:45:58,116 --> 00:46:01,608 $5,000 is for me for bribing these downtown motherfuckers. 693 00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:05,221 I mean, I'm the one got to risk walking up to these thieving bitches... 694 00:46:05,323 --> 00:46:07,314 with cash in hand, right? 695 00:46:07,626 --> 00:46:09,491 I'm telling you, String... 696 00:46:09,594 --> 00:46:11,619 the people running the city nowadays... 697 00:46:11,730 --> 00:46:14,290 they make the last bunch look sanctified. 698 00:46:14,399 --> 00:46:16,697 I mean, this some shameful shit. 699 00:46:27,445 --> 00:46:29,072 Permits come when? 700 00:46:29,481 --> 00:46:31,540 Monday. Latest. 701 00:46:43,028 --> 00:46:44,495 Spider bags! Green tops. 702 00:46:44,696 --> 00:46:45,993 Spider bags! 703 00:46:46,097 --> 00:46:48,395 Cut, that's him. 704 00:46:48,833 --> 00:46:49,993 Fool. 705 00:46:51,670 --> 00:46:53,103 Spider bags! Green tops. 706 00:46:53,204 --> 00:46:55,604 - Yo, I know that nigga, man. - Yeah? 707 00:46:55,707 --> 00:46:58,642 - Owe me money, actually. - Yeah? 708 00:47:02,347 --> 00:47:04,611 Spider bags. Green tops. 709 00:47:04,783 --> 00:47:06,910 - She ain't say it like that. - Spider bags. Green tops. 710 00:47:07,018 --> 00:47:10,181 No, she say it like she wanna get pregnant and shit. Hold on. 711 00:47:10,288 --> 00:47:11,550 You all right? 712 00:47:38,717 --> 00:47:39,775 Damn! 713 00:47:39,951 --> 00:47:43,182 I opened up too early, man. I stepped on your shot. 714 00:47:43,621 --> 00:47:45,384 Come on, let's roll. 715 00:47:49,027 --> 00:47:51,860 Hey, yo, there go five-o right there, yo. 716 00:47:52,230 --> 00:47:54,721 - Yeah, I know. It's nothing. - Huh? 717 00:47:55,266 --> 00:47:57,063 The cops be letting niggas grind down here. 718 00:47:57,168 --> 00:48:00,194 It's all... Get the fuck out of here, little hoppers. 719 00:48:00,305 --> 00:48:01,636 Get the fuck out of here, son. 720 00:48:01,740 --> 00:48:03,367 Who are these little niggas? 721 00:48:03,475 --> 00:48:05,705 Hey, yo, what if they lock us up? 722 00:48:06,044 --> 00:48:08,069 I hope y'all got toothbrushes. 723 00:48:08,179 --> 00:48:09,441 'Cause down in Boys' Village... 724 00:48:09,547 --> 00:48:11,276 you know what I'm saying, if you don't have no toothbrush... 725 00:48:11,382 --> 00:48:13,213 you gonna be using some other boy's brush... 726 00:48:13,318 --> 00:48:15,513 or rubbing your teeth with your damn finger. 727 00:48:15,820 --> 00:48:17,481 If you don't get locked up... 728 00:48:17,589 --> 00:48:20,183 y'all can keep an extra $20 each off the pack. 729 00:48:21,726 --> 00:48:22,988 All right. 730 00:48:25,530 --> 00:48:28,294 - Who got that fire, baby? That fire. - WMD! 731 00:48:31,236 --> 00:48:33,636 Come on, Tommy, give it up already. 732 00:48:33,738 --> 00:48:36,434 Look, Terri, you gotta do this for me. 733 00:48:36,708 --> 00:48:40,303 Tell me why you wanna be mayor. And why should I vote for you over Royce? 734 00:48:40,411 --> 00:48:43,471 'Cause something is wrong in that city and I think I can fix it. 735 00:48:43,581 --> 00:48:46,880 This guy, he don't give a shit about tackling the problems. 736 00:48:46,985 --> 00:48:49,146 Crime is out of fucking control. 737 00:48:49,254 --> 00:48:51,722 Last week, a kid witness in a drug case... 738 00:48:51,823 --> 00:48:53,757 turns up shot dead because of flaws in the system. 739 00:48:53,858 --> 00:48:55,621 I go to the Mayor who promises action. 740 00:48:55,727 --> 00:48:58,958 And then Mr. "Reform is more than the watchword of my administration"... 741 00:48:59,063 --> 00:49:01,531 pats me on the ass, thanks me for my concern... 742 00:49:01,633 --> 00:49:03,362 points me out the door. The end. 743 00:49:03,468 --> 00:49:05,993 So, with crime as the issue... 744 00:49:06,104 --> 00:49:08,732 the great white father rides to the rescue... 745 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,742 against a black incumbent mayor, in a city that's 65% black? 746 00:49:12,844 --> 00:49:15,472 Black, white, green, people are pissed off. 747 00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:17,445 What makes you think this is doable? 748 00:49:17,549 --> 00:49:21,451 One, I hear the Mayor's got problems in his base and with key supporters. 749 00:49:21,619 --> 00:49:23,678 Two, I got the Police Commissioner... 750 00:49:23,788 --> 00:49:27,349 Royce's own man, telling me all kinds of stuff about his fucked-up department... 751 00:49:27,458 --> 00:49:28,925 and about Royce's inner circle. 752 00:49:29,027 --> 00:49:31,518 And three, Tony Gray, from the Fifth District... 753 00:49:31,629 --> 00:49:34,757 comes pretty close to telling me he's thinking about a run for mayor. 754 00:49:34,866 --> 00:49:36,891 That'd split the black vote. 755 00:49:37,535 --> 00:49:40,095 You'd still need a player who gives the black middle class... 756 00:49:40,205 --> 00:49:42,230 permission to vote against one of their own. 757 00:49:42,340 --> 00:49:44,035 You got one of those in your pocket? 758 00:49:44,142 --> 00:49:46,110 Not many of those around. 759 00:49:47,045 --> 00:49:48,213 Elijah? 760 00:49:48,646 --> 00:49:51,513 Congressional Black Caucus ain't gonna save your skinny white ass. 761 00:49:51,616 --> 00:49:54,380 What about Odell Watkins? 762 00:49:54,485 --> 00:49:56,009 Well, it's funny you should mention him... 763 00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,283 'cause I don't think he's too happy with the Mayor right now. 764 00:49:59,390 --> 00:50:02,587 I don't know. I hear a new poll shows Royce's negatives pretty high. 765 00:50:02,694 --> 00:50:05,162 You'd have to raise a load of dough. 766 00:50:13,137 --> 00:50:15,605 He has to see it. I know he sees it. 767 00:50:17,141 --> 00:50:20,042 It's past that now. It's about us showing some respect. 768 00:50:20,144 --> 00:50:21,771 Oh, fuck respect. 769 00:50:22,647 --> 00:50:24,774 - He ain't right. - No, he ain't. 770 00:50:24,883 --> 00:50:29,149 But at this point, with you on the other side of the argument, he'd rather be wrong. 771 00:50:29,254 --> 00:50:31,984 Maybe if the word came down from on high... 772 00:50:32,423 --> 00:50:34,414 it might change his mind. 773 00:50:37,562 --> 00:50:38,790 I mean... 774 00:50:38,963 --> 00:50:42,399 if your friend Bunny Colvin's up to his ass in bodies... 775 00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:45,094 I bet he'd take all the help he can get. 776 00:50:49,340 --> 00:50:53,401 Not that you'd ever go behind anybody's back or anything like that. 777 00:50:53,912 --> 00:50:55,038 Right? 778 00:50:58,116 --> 00:50:59,276 No way. 779 00:51:00,151 --> 00:51:02,210 Two more murders yesterday. 780 00:51:02,587 --> 00:51:04,782 Another three today... 781 00:51:05,323 --> 00:51:07,257 including a 14-year-old. 782 00:51:07,358 --> 00:51:09,019 We're doing all we can. 783 00:51:09,127 --> 00:51:11,755 You're at 260 for the year... 784 00:51:11,863 --> 00:51:13,262 and it's barely October. 785 00:51:13,364 --> 00:51:17,095 You promised me 275 or under, Erv. I had that as a promise. 786 00:51:17,201 --> 00:51:19,999 - Sir... - We see 300 before the New Year... 787 00:51:20,104 --> 00:51:23,562 and I'm not sure that I can justify a full term for you. 788 00:51:23,741 --> 00:51:26,107 Now, I hate to say it, but there it is. 789 00:51:32,050 --> 00:51:34,109 Barksdale's people and who? 790 00:51:34,352 --> 00:51:36,912 Marlo Stanfield. It's the new kid. 791 00:51:37,288 --> 00:51:39,586 We've been on him a couple weeks. 792 00:51:39,924 --> 00:51:42,722 I thought Daniels' people are up in the Northwest. 793 00:51:43,328 --> 00:51:45,990 Look, your war's only gonna get worse, Major. 794 00:51:47,732 --> 00:51:50,360 Northwest has been quiet for weeks. 795 00:51:52,971 --> 00:51:56,407 You willing to backdoor your lieutenant like this, huh? 796 00:51:57,909 --> 00:51:59,877 You ain't changed, Jimmy. 797 00:52:01,512 --> 00:52:02,570 Shit. 798 00:52:03,715 --> 00:52:05,979 It's always about your case, huh? 799 00:52:07,285 --> 00:52:08,980 Do what you can. 800 00:52:14,659 --> 00:52:16,490 Keep my name out of it. 801 00:52:33,011 --> 00:52:34,273 How'd it go? 802 00:52:34,379 --> 00:52:36,813 We got one of the two of them motherfuckers, you know? 803 00:52:36,914 --> 00:52:39,747 You mean, you motherfuckers come strolling in here all walking tall and shit... 804 00:52:39,851 --> 00:52:41,409 Yo, B, man, I'm saying, man... 805 00:52:41,519 --> 00:52:44,044 we was blazing on them dudes. Man, you know what I'm saying? 806 00:52:44,155 --> 00:52:46,385 Just got in the heat, man. We was blazing, though. 807 00:52:46,491 --> 00:52:48,254 - It was like... - All right, all right. Relax, man. 808 00:52:48,359 --> 00:52:50,190 I already heard. Go sit down. 809 00:52:50,294 --> 00:52:51,693 I'm not tweaking behind none of this. 810 00:52:51,796 --> 00:52:54,321 That's one less motherfucker that's breathing than was yesterday. 811 00:52:54,432 --> 00:52:56,093 You know what I'm saying? So we all good. 812 00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,159 But I'm surprised at you, though, man. Shit didn't get by you back when. 813 00:53:00,271 --> 00:53:04,367 Wasn't my man's fault, man. I unloaded on the young'un too soon, man. 814 00:53:04,675 --> 00:53:06,734 Gave him enough room to buck and run, man. 815 00:53:06,844 --> 00:53:09,904 - I fucked that shit up myself, you know. - Hold on. 816 00:53:13,551 --> 00:53:14,848 It's on me. 817 00:53:15,887 --> 00:53:18,048 I had that kid in my sights... 818 00:53:18,356 --> 00:53:22,122 close enough to take off his Kangol and half his dome with it. 819 00:53:23,461 --> 00:53:25,622 Couldn't squeeze the trigger. 820 00:53:27,498 --> 00:53:28,658 Couldn't do it, man. 821 00:53:31,702 --> 00:53:32,862 Why not? 822 00:53:36,107 --> 00:53:37,870 Wasn't in me, I guess. 823 00:53:39,977 --> 00:53:42,775 You know, whatever it is in you... 824 00:53:44,115 --> 00:53:46,709 that lets you flow like you flowing... 825 00:53:47,518 --> 00:53:48,951 do that thing. 826 00:53:49,754 --> 00:53:51,619 It ain't in me no more. 827 00:53:59,397 --> 00:54:00,625 All right. 828 00:54:01,032 --> 00:54:03,626 So you done soldiering, but you ain't done. 829 00:54:03,734 --> 00:54:05,497 Could use you for what you got in your head. 830 00:54:05,603 --> 00:54:07,571 We're gonna put you on a corner, you could be inside... 831 00:54:07,672 --> 00:54:08,866 No, man. 832 00:54:09,273 --> 00:54:11,434 I ain't making myself clear. 833 00:54:11,676 --> 00:54:14,873 The game ain't in me no more. None of it. 834 00:54:27,058 --> 00:54:29,117 But you ain't done shit else. 835 00:54:29,293 --> 00:54:31,488 You know what I'm saying? So what you gonna do? 836 00:54:31,596 --> 00:54:32,927 I don't know. 837 00:54:33,564 --> 00:54:35,293 But it can't be this. 838 00:54:39,237 --> 00:54:41,364 All right then. We straight. 839 00:54:48,012 --> 00:54:49,912 - See you. - See you. 840 00:55:00,191 --> 00:55:02,785 B, he was a man in his time, you know? 841 00:55:03,928 --> 00:55:04,952 Yeah. 842 00:55:05,796 --> 00:55:07,263 He a man today. 843 00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,028 He a man. 844 00:55:21,546 --> 00:55:23,571 Any idea what this is about? 845 00:55:28,386 --> 00:55:29,717 Lieutenant. 846 00:55:39,197 --> 00:55:41,256 What's he got in his head, right? 847 00:55:44,635 --> 00:55:46,159 Here he is, Bunny. 848 00:55:49,173 --> 00:55:51,334 Cedric Daniels to the rescue. 849 00:55:53,244 --> 00:55:54,802 Man of the hour.