1 00:00:09,442 --> 00:00:12,741 Got that reddies, son. Two for one, two for one. 2 00:00:12,912 --> 00:00:15,779 I got that Rasheed and Beno. Rasheed and Beno. 3 00:00:16,516 --> 00:00:18,347 Put some ice on his nuts. 4 00:00:18,451 --> 00:00:21,318 Tried and true, that shit always bring a nigga back. 5 00:00:21,421 --> 00:00:23,651 Where we gonna get ice from down here? 6 00:00:24,424 --> 00:00:28,087 - Walk him up to Bon Secours. - Rasheed and Beno. Rasheed and Beno... 7 00:00:33,033 --> 00:00:36,366 - Can you give me an eight-ball? - A eight-ball, huh? 8 00:00:37,804 --> 00:00:39,567 So, how you doing today? 9 00:00:39,672 --> 00:00:42,232 No offense, but can you just get the eight-ball? 10 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:44,339 All right, all right. Just being social. 11 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:46,275 Got it right here, yo. 12 00:00:48,648 --> 00:00:49,774 Thank you. 13 00:00:50,483 --> 00:00:54,510 You hear Mack Man jewelers got took off last night? 14 00:00:54,621 --> 00:00:57,215 Got all this shit in the row house. Down yonder. 15 00:00:57,323 --> 00:01:00,554 Like a must-move situation. Fifteen on the dollar. 16 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:04,994 Y'all want some slamming ice, go inside and tell my man Rafik sent you. 17 00:01:05,498 --> 00:01:08,661 Lighters, pipes, matches. Pipes, lighters. 18 00:01:08,868 --> 00:01:11,496 You need them, I got them. Right here, pipes. 19 00:01:11,938 --> 00:01:15,738 Reddies. Two for one, two for one. 20 00:01:17,343 --> 00:01:19,538 Ask me if it's loaded, bitch. 21 00:01:22,682 --> 00:01:24,650 Reddies, son, two for one. 22 00:01:28,922 --> 00:01:31,356 - Anything up? - Just a good package. 23 00:01:31,825 --> 00:01:33,053 Three OD's. 24 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:35,719 Last one didn't look too good before the ambo came, neither. 25 00:01:45,705 --> 00:01:46,933 Oh, shit. 26 00:01:47,207 --> 00:01:48,504 Hey, I'm a cop. 27 00:01:51,444 --> 00:01:53,002 There's more inside, Carv. 28 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:54,936 Goddamn! 29 00:01:55,048 --> 00:01:58,711 Can't you ever get a fucking police around here when you need one? 30 00:03:39,452 --> 00:03:40,942 Okay, on that burner? 31 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:43,352 I called Trac, gave them the serial number. 32 00:03:43,456 --> 00:03:45,981 Trac Corporation told me that they sent it to Northland... 33 00:03:46,092 --> 00:03:47,457 a purchasing corporation. 34 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,223 Northland tells me they sent it to their distribution center in Hagerstown. 35 00:03:51,564 --> 00:03:54,863 Hagerstown tells me they sent it to Buddy's Mondo Mart... 36 00:03:54,968 --> 00:03:59,234 at 1440 Propane Road, Falls Church, Virginia. 37 00:03:59,472 --> 00:04:01,736 That's where it went out into the street. 38 00:04:01,841 --> 00:04:02,830 What? 39 00:04:02,942 --> 00:04:07,276 Did Buddy have them on display to the left or the right of the cash register? 40 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:10,113 How would I know that? 41 00:04:13,953 --> 00:04:15,147 All right. 42 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:18,247 As for the numbers in the phone's speed dial... 43 00:04:18,358 --> 00:04:19,825 we got one local number. 44 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:22,292 One number that tracks to Bodie's grandmother's house... 45 00:04:22,395 --> 00:04:23,692 on West Baltimore Street... 46 00:04:23,796 --> 00:04:26,162 and six other numbers that are all assigned... 47 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:28,427 to Trac disposable cell phones. 48 00:04:28,534 --> 00:04:31,503 And those phones were all purchased outside the city. 49 00:04:31,604 --> 00:04:35,973 One each in Catonsville, Laurel, Bethesda... 50 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:37,906 and stores in Virginia... 51 00:04:38,011 --> 00:04:41,572 at Springfield, Dumfries and Lakeside. 52 00:04:42,148 --> 00:04:46,744 Everything's along l-95, from here to almost Richmond. 53 00:04:47,654 --> 00:04:51,750 They're driving 200 miles every couple of weeks out of sheer caution. 54 00:04:51,858 --> 00:04:53,348 It's beautiful. 55 00:04:55,828 --> 00:04:57,295 What is? 56 00:04:58,831 --> 00:05:00,162 The discipline of it. 57 00:05:03,336 --> 00:05:04,735 In your life, did you think... 58 00:05:04,837 --> 00:05:08,238 you would ever again see Mount and Fayette like this? 59 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:10,373 Those ain't touts you're hearing, brother. 60 00:05:10,476 --> 00:05:12,239 Those are birds chirping. 61 00:05:12,345 --> 00:05:15,610 - How? - I'll show you. 62 00:05:16,449 --> 00:05:18,747 You said no whistles, no muscle, no flexing. 63 00:05:18,851 --> 00:05:20,284 You supposed to be all over that shit, man. 64 00:05:20,386 --> 00:05:22,980 You even said it's supposed to be like the Valley of Eden. 65 00:05:23,089 --> 00:05:26,684 - To serve and protect, motherfuckers. - Call it poetic injustice. 66 00:05:26,793 --> 00:05:28,055 I want to file a report. 67 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:29,822 - Say what? - You heard me. 68 00:05:29,929 --> 00:05:32,898 You want to make a complaint to us that you were selling drugs... 69 00:05:32,999 --> 00:05:34,830 - and someone took your money? - Fuck, yes. 70 00:05:42,275 --> 00:05:44,140 - Here. - Fredericksburg? 71 00:05:44,410 --> 00:05:46,571 They're going all that way to buy cell phones? 72 00:05:46,679 --> 00:05:48,909 One here, two there. No wholesale purchases. 73 00:05:49,015 --> 00:05:51,677 They've been dumping phones every two weeks or so... 74 00:05:51,784 --> 00:05:55,049 and still they're worried about catching a wiretap. 75 00:05:55,154 --> 00:05:59,022 Just 'cause you're paranoid doesn't mean someone's not out to get you, right? 76 00:05:59,726 --> 00:06:02,786 Lt'd be nice to know who's buying all those cell phones, though. 77 00:06:06,933 --> 00:06:07,957 I'll drive. 78 00:06:31,124 --> 00:06:33,456 Yo, yo, yo, yo. You up, old man? 79 00:06:33,726 --> 00:06:35,956 They do have a point though, right? 80 00:06:36,062 --> 00:06:38,292 I mean, we tell them to come down here without the guns... 81 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:40,263 and then we fall down on providing protection. 82 00:06:40,366 --> 00:06:42,129 It's like the stickup crews have these hoppers... 83 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:44,795 feeling like they live in a lamb pen. 84 00:06:44,904 --> 00:06:48,965 They see one more gun, Gandhi-world falls apart, this I guarantee. 85 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:50,967 So what are you doing about it? 86 00:06:51,077 --> 00:06:53,409 I sent a few of the vics over to the district with Herc. 87 00:06:53,513 --> 00:06:56,505 Let them play with an Ident-A-Kit, but you know how that goes. 88 00:06:56,616 --> 00:07:00,677 Can I be honest? It's not just the wolves circling the corral. 89 00:07:00,987 --> 00:07:03,512 We got 50, 60 kids on the inside... 90 00:07:03,623 --> 00:07:05,386 been fight or flight since they popped out the chute... 91 00:07:05,491 --> 00:07:07,459 and right now they're just thumb-up-their-ass hanging. 92 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,085 All these ex-runners, ex-lookouts. 93 00:07:10,696 --> 00:07:14,257 That shit worries me as much as any carnivores out there. 94 00:07:15,034 --> 00:07:19,061 If you want to neutralize a threat, give it a job. 95 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:22,840 - As? - Auxiliary cops. 96 00:07:23,409 --> 00:07:25,502 Keep an eye out for the predators. 97 00:07:25,611 --> 00:07:28,603 You got the dealers paying them to do nothing no-how anyway. 98 00:07:28,714 --> 00:07:31,706 - Kill two birds and all that. - Right. 99 00:07:31,818 --> 00:07:34,150 Throw them some bikes, maybe police radios. 100 00:07:34,253 --> 00:07:38,349 - We could do that. - I was being... You're serious? 101 00:07:38,724 --> 00:07:41,215 What in God's name did you do here? 102 00:07:42,428 --> 00:07:44,692 WMD. Got that WMD. 103 00:07:49,268 --> 00:07:50,633 Hey, how you doing? 104 00:07:50,736 --> 00:07:53,466 We're looking for a guy who came in here, ten or eleven days ago... 105 00:07:53,573 --> 00:07:55,734 dropped cash on a couple of disposable phones? 106 00:07:55,842 --> 00:07:57,935 - Ten or eleven days ago? - Yeah. 107 00:07:58,044 --> 00:08:01,445 - Black, most likely. - That really narrows it down. 108 00:08:01,781 --> 00:08:04,443 How about we just check on some of your security tapes? 109 00:08:04,550 --> 00:08:06,040 From ten days ago? 110 00:08:06,152 --> 00:08:09,815 Unless there's an incident, we reuse those videotapes every week. 111 00:08:09,922 --> 00:08:12,720 - Every week? - It's Mondo Mart policy. 112 00:08:13,593 --> 00:08:15,117 That went well. 113 00:08:16,429 --> 00:08:18,522 - Yeah? - Briana Barksdale called for you. 114 00:08:18,631 --> 00:08:21,532 - Who? - D'Angelo Barksdale's mother. 115 00:08:21,801 --> 00:08:24,395 - You get her number? - You got a pen? 116 00:08:25,738 --> 00:08:29,731 410-718-9433. Got it? 117 00:08:30,877 --> 00:08:31,901 All right. 118 00:08:32,011 --> 00:08:33,478 - You gonna call her? - I don't know. 119 00:08:33,579 --> 00:08:35,877 - It's all yours. - Thanks, Jay. 120 00:08:35,982 --> 00:08:37,449 Hey, check it out. 121 00:08:37,550 --> 00:08:41,316 Mondo Mart, Mondo Mart, Mondo Mart, Mondo Mart. We're fucked. 122 00:08:41,420 --> 00:08:45,288 Until we get here. BaBa Jani Food Mart, Dumfries, Virginia. 123 00:08:45,858 --> 00:08:50,192 We're gonna go 100 miles on the off-chance this guy has a memory or a camera? 124 00:08:50,296 --> 00:08:54,255 Do you really wanna go home early and disappoint Lester Freamon? 125 00:08:55,401 --> 00:08:56,800 Who was that who rang? 126 00:08:56,903 --> 00:09:00,464 Guess who's calling Homicide looking for me on D'Angelo Barksdale? 127 00:09:00,573 --> 00:09:02,200 - His mama. - Yeah? 128 00:09:02,308 --> 00:09:04,640 Shit, I forgot I even tried to press that thing. 129 00:09:04,744 --> 00:09:06,712 Now she's calling up asking questions. 130 00:09:06,812 --> 00:09:08,746 Waste of her time as it was mine. 131 00:09:10,883 --> 00:09:13,010 Kind of like this road trip. 132 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:21,187 He do look natural. 133 00:09:24,697 --> 00:09:26,665 That motherfucker Marlo. 134 00:09:27,733 --> 00:09:30,531 We gonna have to get deep on this nigga. 135 00:09:33,739 --> 00:09:38,472 I mean, it feels like ain't shit changed except for a growing lightness in my wallet. 136 00:09:38,578 --> 00:09:41,775 Where's my letter of approval, man, from the Preservation motherfuckers? 137 00:09:41,881 --> 00:09:44,873 - My right-of-way agreement, my sign-offs? - Hold on, hold on, hold on. 138 00:09:44,984 --> 00:09:46,952 Everything's right around the corner. 139 00:09:47,053 --> 00:09:50,545 We got both the plumbing and the electrical inspectors on for tomorrow... 140 00:09:50,656 --> 00:09:52,521 Tuesday, the fire department's coming out... 141 00:09:52,625 --> 00:09:55,992 and that should do it, String, you'll be on your way. 142 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:59,895 And by the way, congratulations. 143 00:10:00,933 --> 00:10:03,094 You are now a minority contractor... 144 00:10:03,202 --> 00:10:05,898 for the light bulb supply to the Board of Education... 145 00:10:06,005 --> 00:10:07,666 City of Baltimore. 146 00:10:08,674 --> 00:10:10,869 What the fuck I know about light bulbs, man? 147 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:14,435 Do you know how to put the words on a B&B letterhead? 148 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:18,142 Come on, man, relax, white guy's doing all the work. 149 00:10:18,317 --> 00:10:20,649 You're just his beard for the Empowerment grant. 150 00:10:20,987 --> 00:10:24,684 That's an extra five Gs a month for just laying in the cut. 151 00:10:25,057 --> 00:10:26,456 See how it work? 152 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:31,155 I'm gonna bring you along, String, but it ain't gonna be an overnight thing. 153 00:10:31,864 --> 00:10:34,424 We spend this year dealing with the city... 154 00:10:34,533 --> 00:10:37,297 the next doing business with the state. 155 00:10:37,503 --> 00:10:39,903 However, year three... 156 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,974 Then we go for the gold. Then we go federal. 157 00:10:45,077 --> 00:10:48,478 Then we see the man with his hand on the faucet. 158 00:10:48,581 --> 00:10:53,382 - What faucet? - The HUD faucet, the money faucet. 159 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:56,785 Look, man, I don't know why we got to wait three years for that shit. 160 00:10:56,889 --> 00:11:00,222 - I'm ready to run now. - No. You're not. 161 00:11:01,193 --> 00:11:02,660 I mean, forgive me... 162 00:11:02,762 --> 00:11:06,323 but you still showing a little bit of that street corner mentality. 163 00:11:06,432 --> 00:11:08,662 Bugging about every dime you spend... 164 00:11:08,768 --> 00:11:12,363 about the permits, about setting up a PAC... 165 00:11:12,471 --> 00:11:16,134 about dropping cash into re-election war chests... 166 00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:19,307 which, by the way, is how I get my gravy. 167 00:11:19,845 --> 00:11:22,177 Look, it takes money to make money, String... 168 00:11:22,281 --> 00:11:24,749 otherwise, hell, every pauper'd be a king. 169 00:11:24,850 --> 00:11:28,251 And I'm saying I'm ready to run now. 170 00:11:28,587 --> 00:11:29,918 Three years. 171 00:11:30,022 --> 00:11:35,153 Crawl, walk, and then run. 172 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:38,960 - No, man, nappy up there a little bit more. - Yeah, yeah. 173 00:11:39,065 --> 00:11:42,125 And the eyes... He had little beany eyes. 174 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:45,264 What the fuck is beany eyes? 175 00:11:45,671 --> 00:11:50,608 - You know, little rat-eyes. - Yeah, all right. Yo, put a mole on there. 176 00:11:51,143 --> 00:11:53,407 - He didn't have a mole. - He did, too. 177 00:11:53,512 --> 00:11:56,606 You was just too busy shitting yourself with that whistle to your dome... 178 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:59,617 - to see the motherfucker. - Shit, fuck I did. 179 00:12:00,486 --> 00:12:04,445 - How do you know how to do this? - Man, how you don't know how to do this? 180 00:12:05,224 --> 00:12:06,623 Make his ears stick up. 181 00:12:06,726 --> 00:12:08,387 - Why? - 'Cause I told you to. 182 00:12:10,629 --> 00:12:13,996 Oh, shit, okay. Give him light eyes. 183 00:12:14,266 --> 00:12:16,757 - Why? - 'Cause I fucking told you to. 184 00:12:18,771 --> 00:12:21,001 Okay, can you make them crossed? 185 00:12:23,709 --> 00:12:24,835 This is fucking cool. 186 00:12:24,944 --> 00:12:28,038 Check out these knuckleheads on the Make-A-Face. 187 00:12:29,782 --> 00:12:30,749 Bring that down. 188 00:12:32,685 --> 00:12:34,175 Yeah, hang on. 189 00:12:35,121 --> 00:12:36,918 - My brother, I'm telling you... - Fuck this shit. 190 00:12:37,022 --> 00:12:38,319 ...that is not what this is all about. 191 00:12:38,424 --> 00:12:41,257 Look, I'm just trying to make my district livable. 192 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:45,363 I write off a few blocks in a few places, but I save the rest. 193 00:12:45,464 --> 00:12:47,955 No offense, but you're like the blind man and the elephant. 194 00:12:48,067 --> 00:12:50,058 It's a lot bigger than what you got your hand on... 195 00:12:50,169 --> 00:12:52,160 - you just can't see it. - See what? 196 00:12:52,271 --> 00:12:55,172 A great village of pain and you're the mayor. 197 00:12:56,408 --> 00:12:58,376 Where's your drinking water? 198 00:12:58,477 --> 00:13:01,844 Where's your toilets, your heat, your electricity? 199 00:13:03,182 --> 00:13:04,945 Where's the needle truck... 200 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:08,315 the condom distribution, the drug treatment intake? 201 00:13:08,687 --> 00:13:10,416 Half these people are dying on their feet... 202 00:13:10,523 --> 00:13:12,491 and the other half's gonna catch what's killing them. 203 00:13:12,591 --> 00:13:16,049 Look, they ain't no worse off than when they was all over the map. 204 00:13:16,162 --> 00:13:19,529 - Now they're just in one place, is all. - And that place is hell. 205 00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:30,604 Look, I'm a police. 206 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:34,440 So I can lock a man up or I can move his ass off the corner. 207 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:39,650 Now, you want anything more than that, you're in the wrong shop. 208 00:13:41,187 --> 00:13:44,384 Hey, yo, make her hair a little bit more straight. 209 00:13:44,623 --> 00:13:47,091 Make it long. With bangs. 210 00:13:47,860 --> 00:13:50,226 Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. 211 00:13:50,329 --> 00:13:53,059 Now Chinese up them eyes, like Beyoncé. 212 00:13:53,365 --> 00:13:57,699 - Get them cheekbones up a little bit. - No, man, that's too much. 213 00:13:57,803 --> 00:14:00,203 She's starting to look like a pie tin with hair now, yo. 214 00:14:00,306 --> 00:14:03,173 - Hang on. - Yeah, all right. 215 00:14:03,275 --> 00:14:07,405 - Pillow those lips a little bit. - Oh, yeah, hook me up with that. 216 00:14:08,547 --> 00:14:10,708 Yeah. 217 00:14:10,816 --> 00:14:13,341 Yo, you got one of these does asses? 218 00:14:15,054 --> 00:14:18,387 - What? - Yeah, that's what's up. Hey. 219 00:14:24,096 --> 00:14:25,427 Hey, guys. 220 00:14:26,899 --> 00:14:29,766 How you doing? We're looking for a cash purchase in here. 221 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:33,396 Maybe a couple of Trac phones. Week or so back. Black guy most likely. 222 00:14:33,505 --> 00:14:36,030 Oh, sure, that guy. Every two weeks for him. 223 00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:39,201 Last time, eight phones. Almost $900. 224 00:14:39,511 --> 00:14:41,479 That's a lot of Ring Dings, no? 225 00:14:42,248 --> 00:14:44,113 - Ring Dings? - A joke. 226 00:14:48,854 --> 00:14:51,618 You got some kind of transaction record? 227 00:14:57,196 --> 00:14:59,130 Seek and you shall find. 228 00:15:00,499 --> 00:15:01,727 Hang on. 229 00:15:02,034 --> 00:15:03,626 Hang on. 230 00:15:06,171 --> 00:15:09,106 $927.24. 231 00:15:09,508 --> 00:15:13,467 - Can we have the tape for that day? - No tape. I rewind every day. 232 00:15:17,416 --> 00:15:19,008 - Keep this? - Sure. 233 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:23,787 What the fuck do we do now? Buy this guy a box of videotape? 234 00:15:24,189 --> 00:15:28,148 Or camp out in this shithole for a week, hoping our boy runs the same route? 235 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:37,794 I just know I got to put my mind on something or I'm gonna slide back. 236 00:15:37,903 --> 00:15:40,463 Need to be in control of myself, you know what I'm saying? 237 00:15:40,572 --> 00:15:42,870 - Take command of your life. - Something. 238 00:15:43,042 --> 00:15:46,034 - Cultivate some self-discipline. - Or whatever. 239 00:15:46,312 --> 00:15:50,078 What if I told you that there's a certain liberation... 240 00:15:50,683 --> 00:15:54,278 not in command or in self-control, but in surrendering? 241 00:15:54,386 --> 00:15:57,514 Well, that depends on who you surrendering to. 242 00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:01,759 Oh, that. Hey... 243 00:16:01,860 --> 00:16:05,660 all due respect, you can stow that patter right here and now. 244 00:16:07,266 --> 00:16:10,997 Look, it ain't about me doing for me, I don't think. 245 00:16:11,270 --> 00:16:13,329 Might need to be about more than that. 246 00:16:14,306 --> 00:16:17,833 So you're bringing in an overall decline of 2 percent for the month... 247 00:16:17,943 --> 00:16:20,741 but if I read this correctly, almost half of that's coming... 248 00:16:20,846 --> 00:16:22,871 from an eight-percent drop in the Western District? 249 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:26,315 Major Colvin is himself willing to acknowledge the possibility... 250 00:16:26,418 --> 00:16:29,819 of a statistical variation from the mean in his monthly stats. 251 00:16:29,922 --> 00:16:31,287 Variation, huh? 252 00:16:33,058 --> 00:16:35,686 Gentlemen, if I look through the Western incident reports... 253 00:16:35,794 --> 00:16:38,194 am I likely to find less crime, or more incidents... 254 00:16:38,297 --> 00:16:40,288 which have been downgraded or unfounded? 255 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:43,960 Because this kind of variation screams manipulation to me... 256 00:16:44,069 --> 00:16:47,095 and if I'm wrong about that, if indeed there is no manipulation involved... 257 00:16:47,206 --> 00:16:49,367 I would like to know exactly what it is that Major Colvin... 258 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:52,239 has learned about police work that eludes the rest of your commanders. 259 00:16:52,344 --> 00:16:55,006 Councilman, I assure you, these stats are not massaged. 260 00:16:55,114 --> 00:16:56,547 We don't do that. 261 00:16:56,648 --> 00:16:59,617 I don't do that. And I won't allow my people to do that. 262 00:16:59,718 --> 00:17:02,585 Our feeling is that it's genuinely an aberration. 263 00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:05,282 And if it repeats itself next month... 264 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:07,551 then it bears closer examination. Otherwise... 265 00:17:07,659 --> 00:17:10,753 Moving on to new business, then. How are we fixed for witness assistance? 266 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:14,094 Does the Department have sufficient funds to ensure pre-trial security... 267 00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:16,064 for any endangered witnesses? 268 00:17:17,870 --> 00:17:21,863 We have the resources that the city can afford, I'm sure. 269 00:17:21,974 --> 00:17:24,238 I understand you're in no position to criticize the Mayor. 270 00:17:24,343 --> 00:17:27,039 - Nor would I. - Nor would you. 271 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,538 So allow me to ask the question. What is this city willing to pay... 272 00:17:31,650 --> 00:17:34,551 to make it possible for ordinary people to come down to the courthouse... 273 00:17:34,653 --> 00:17:36,314 and perform the civic duty of bearing witness... 274 00:17:36,422 --> 00:17:38,413 against gangsters and criminals? 275 00:17:39,191 --> 00:17:41,682 What resources are commensurate with that kind of commitment? 276 00:17:44,496 --> 00:17:46,794 You can play the good soldier if you want, Commissioner... 277 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:48,093 but I want to go on the record here... 278 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,761 in saying that this administration has passed the buck time and again... 279 00:17:51,870 --> 00:17:53,531 and failed to protect those citizens... 280 00:17:53,639 --> 00:17:55,197 who demonstrate that kind of commitment... 281 00:17:55,307 --> 00:17:58,242 and put their lives and livelihood at risk. 282 00:17:59,311 --> 00:18:01,643 I would only like to add that I feel as my colleague does... 283 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,545 that this administration has failed this community. 284 00:18:04,983 --> 00:18:08,180 Miserably. And we need to do something about this. 285 00:18:16,228 --> 00:18:17,525 Hey! 286 00:18:20,866 --> 00:18:24,165 Y'all are friends. You're like brothers. 287 00:18:26,071 --> 00:18:29,438 You lose that, you lose every damn thing. Go on. 288 00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:37,104 Kids messed up a good hoop. 289 00:18:37,216 --> 00:18:40,014 Now they got one looks like the original peach basket... 290 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,246 and they hanging onto it like a tit. 291 00:18:43,755 --> 00:18:44,949 I don't know. 292 00:18:45,858 --> 00:18:48,452 Maybe I should get up some kind of tournament. 293 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,227 You play basketball? 294 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:54,092 Never was much for balls and sticks. I was all about my hands. 295 00:18:54,199 --> 00:18:55,689 - Boxer? - Yeah. 296 00:18:56,702 --> 00:18:57,896 Boxing? 297 00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:01,295 I know a place where some of the kids go... 298 00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:06,277 - but it ain't near close enough to here. - I wouldn't mind taking a look at it. 299 00:19:06,378 --> 00:19:08,278 Get a mental picture at least. 300 00:19:08,847 --> 00:19:11,338 Hey, yo, what the hell's going on here? 301 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,949 Police pushed all the action down here and a couple other places. 302 00:19:15,053 --> 00:19:17,419 The deacon thinks that maybe some people should come in here... 303 00:19:17,523 --> 00:19:19,388 and take over the situation. 304 00:19:19,491 --> 00:19:22,255 - Are you that people? - One of them, maybe. 305 00:19:23,529 --> 00:19:25,861 - Roman, man. - Dennis. 306 00:19:38,110 --> 00:19:39,338 You should lay back on this one. 307 00:19:39,444 --> 00:19:42,538 Let me go talk to Buford Pusser in there alone. 308 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:44,012 Excuse me? 309 00:19:45,684 --> 00:19:48,152 And what it shows people is that I know my business. 310 00:19:48,253 --> 00:19:51,279 That I will hold people accountable based on the facts. 311 00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:54,254 - This is about what's right. - There you go again. 312 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:55,383 What? 313 00:19:55,494 --> 00:19:58,258 Do you think politics is only about winning the argument? 314 00:19:58,363 --> 00:20:01,491 That whoever has the right fact at the right moment wins? 315 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,827 Clinton had facts. Kennedy had facts. Yeah, but Reagan? 316 00:20:05,938 --> 00:20:08,498 He couldn't have summoned a fact if his life depended on it. 317 00:20:08,607 --> 00:20:11,075 It's not just facts, it's how you use them. 318 00:20:11,176 --> 00:20:12,973 And Tommy, when you get hold of a fact or two... 319 00:20:13,078 --> 00:20:15,137 you go smart-ass and start beating on people. 320 00:20:15,247 --> 00:20:16,544 - Yeah, that's... - Clinton and Reagan... 321 00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:18,138 when they got up to speak... 322 00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:21,708 they gave everyone in the room comfort and confidence. 323 00:20:21,954 --> 00:20:23,285 You liked those guys. 324 00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:25,788 You were happy to think that they even liked you. 325 00:20:26,658 --> 00:20:28,626 You're saying I'm not likable? 326 00:20:30,128 --> 00:20:31,152 Jen? 327 00:20:32,497 --> 00:20:34,761 When you're at home talking with me... 328 00:20:34,866 --> 00:20:38,996 not the Council, not the cameras, you're great. 329 00:20:39,638 --> 00:20:44,041 When you tell me what's really important to you, I believe. 330 00:20:44,209 --> 00:20:48,441 You're smart, and you're ambitious, and you've got a sharper tongue than most. 331 00:20:48,547 --> 00:20:50,879 You can hold court and you can tell a good story... 332 00:20:50,983 --> 00:20:53,679 and you can win the argument if you want. 333 00:20:54,019 --> 00:20:55,850 All of that shows, Tommy. 334 00:20:55,954 --> 00:20:58,582 And at a Baltimore City Council meeting, it shows well. 335 00:20:58,690 --> 00:21:03,457 But if you want to be Mayor, or Senator, or Governor one day... 336 00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:06,297 Show them something more. 337 00:21:09,401 --> 00:21:11,028 Baltimore, huh? 338 00:21:11,136 --> 00:21:14,333 Went up there to the Harbor with my wife for our anniversary. 339 00:21:14,439 --> 00:21:19,240 - Charged us $12 for two beers. - Shit, that's the least of it. 340 00:21:19,344 --> 00:21:22,370 The whole damn town's going to hell in a handbasket. 341 00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:24,881 - And guess who's running the show? - Who? 342 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:29,750 Who do you think? The Department, City Hall, the courts. 343 00:21:29,855 --> 00:21:32,050 Shit, the courts? You know what they call it... 344 00:21:32,157 --> 00:21:34,785 when judge, jury and perp all go to the same family barbecue? 345 00:21:36,228 --> 00:21:39,026 - Catch and release. - No shit. 346 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:41,827 May God have mercy on any poor white boy going to trial. 347 00:21:41,933 --> 00:21:44,902 That's when everybody's got their ass in the air talking about justice. 348 00:21:45,003 --> 00:21:47,062 Can't wait to throw away the key. 349 00:21:51,276 --> 00:21:54,370 I mean, they're not all so bad. 350 00:21:55,547 --> 00:21:57,777 Actually, there's a lot of good ones. 351 00:21:59,518 --> 00:22:01,816 I'm on the radio if you need me. 352 00:22:05,757 --> 00:22:07,952 My wife, Carol-Ann. 353 00:22:09,528 --> 00:22:12,361 - Some very good ones. - Is there anything specific... 354 00:22:12,464 --> 00:22:14,523 I can help you with while you're down here, Detective? 355 00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:16,965 Or is this just a courtesy call? 356 00:22:17,402 --> 00:22:20,735 You know, you should meet my partner. You'd like her. 357 00:22:21,273 --> 00:22:23,400 Can't go through the front on this boy. 358 00:22:23,508 --> 00:22:26,375 So I'm thinking we're gonna have to creep around the back. 359 00:22:26,478 --> 00:22:28,105 Get Devonne on it. 360 00:22:29,314 --> 00:22:31,748 I got this for that other problem. 361 00:22:35,887 --> 00:22:38,412 - Who this? - Remember Fatface Rick, right? 362 00:22:38,523 --> 00:22:41,424 Been going to them co-op meetings with String. That's his cousin, Trina. 363 00:22:41,526 --> 00:22:44,689 - Oh, you mean, Trina with the big old ass. - Yeah, you on it. 364 00:22:44,896 --> 00:22:48,127 That's her work number. You know where she working at nowadays? 365 00:22:48,233 --> 00:22:51,066 She over at the Department of Social Services. 366 00:22:51,169 --> 00:22:53,069 So you think Omar getting a check? 367 00:22:53,171 --> 00:22:55,639 No, not now. But, I mean, once upon a time... 368 00:22:55,774 --> 00:22:59,073 before some fool gave little Omar Little a shotgun. 369 00:22:59,177 --> 00:23:01,668 I mean, cocksucker was somebody's child, right? 370 00:23:01,780 --> 00:23:03,509 So I'm thinking, somewhere down in them records... 371 00:23:03,615 --> 00:23:06,778 is one or two names of Omar's people. You feel me? 372 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,679 You sure you want us on Marlo and Omar both? 373 00:23:10,122 --> 00:23:13,580 I mean, Omar ain't come back on us since we got his bitch. 374 00:23:13,692 --> 00:23:17,025 - So maybe... - Look, I'm home, Charles. I'm home. 375 00:23:19,264 --> 00:23:22,358 What's up? Taking care of business, String? 376 00:23:25,670 --> 00:23:28,104 Me too, man. Me, too. 377 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:50,589 - East Side wasn't ready for us, huh? - That's what I'm saying. 378 00:23:58,670 --> 00:24:02,299 Yeah, I know all about BaBa Jani and his 24-hour turnover. 379 00:24:02,407 --> 00:24:04,671 It's a real pain in my ass, too. 380 00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:06,801 He's got a real problem with the school kids there. 381 00:24:06,912 --> 00:24:08,971 Every afternoon come 3:00, they go in there... 382 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,345 crowd him at the counter, boost all the car and gun magazines. 383 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:13,918 That surveillance tape's so grainy now... 384 00:24:14,019 --> 00:24:16,647 it's like watching a herd of buffalo in a snowstorm. 385 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:19,724 But my insurance man, Bob... 386 00:24:19,825 --> 00:24:23,158 I got him to turn this camera here right on BaBa's parking lot. 387 00:24:23,328 --> 00:24:27,321 Now, anytime I have a real problem, I just come to Bob and pull his tape. 388 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,996 I can get a copy of that for you in the morning. 389 00:24:34,005 --> 00:24:36,701 Your partner there. 390 00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:39,506 Bit of an asshole. 391 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:43,379 - For real? - Yeah. 392 00:25:15,213 --> 00:25:17,181 Yeah, right hand up. 393 00:25:26,391 --> 00:25:29,292 You know what this is? It's moral midgetry. 394 00:25:30,262 --> 00:25:31,729 Turn the fucking world upside down... 395 00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:34,628 and treat these brain-dead corner yo's like princelings. 396 00:25:34,733 --> 00:25:36,530 You see how clean the corners are? 397 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:39,160 In every sector, street traffic is half what it was. 398 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:41,671 Fuck that. It's wrong, and it's wrong. 399 00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:44,333 Like the other way was right because we were doing so well. 400 00:25:44,442 --> 00:25:46,000 And Colvin's answer is what? 401 00:25:46,111 --> 00:25:48,477 Ride shotgun for hoppers? Drown them in cash money pay? 402 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:50,548 Colvin? He's always been good police. 403 00:25:50,649 --> 00:25:52,480 Then he's got to know what a fucking heartbreaker it is... 404 00:25:52,584 --> 00:25:54,518 to wake up every morning, suit up for this shit. 405 00:25:54,619 --> 00:25:56,678 He's got to suit up too, man. 406 00:25:57,022 --> 00:25:59,684 Somebody should dime the brass about this shit. 407 00:25:59,858 --> 00:26:02,452 - Or the Sun papers. - Let me ask you something. 408 00:26:02,861 --> 00:26:06,661 Anybody here ever get jammed up and not have Colvin go to the wall for you? 409 00:26:06,765 --> 00:26:10,462 The man is trying something. It may be hard to stomach, but it's working. 410 00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:14,096 After 30 years, don't you think he's earned the right to some elbow room on this? 411 00:26:14,205 --> 00:26:17,106 What the fuck. This thing is on borrowed time, anyhow. 412 00:26:17,208 --> 00:26:20,268 And when we do decide to jump on Hamsterdams... 413 00:26:20,378 --> 00:26:22,869 they're just gonna go back to their regular corners, right? 414 00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:26,417 If we ever jump out on it. I don't know that we're gonna. 415 00:26:26,518 --> 00:26:30,511 All I'm saying is let's give the guy the same backup he's always given us. 416 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:32,814 That's all I'm saying. 417 00:26:38,063 --> 00:26:41,794 I swear, as soon as the sun comes up, we grab that damn tape and go. 418 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,891 This place makes me want to cry. 419 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:47,367 Hey, I spent half my marriage in rooms like this. 420 00:26:49,074 --> 00:26:52,441 - How could you do it? - What? 421 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:57,810 - Go nonstop hound on your ex like that. - It's easy. 422 00:26:58,083 --> 00:27:01,109 Just tell her I was on the road working an extradition. 423 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:03,247 Lots of extraditions. 424 00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:08,016 Brought back something like 500 fugitives in a three-year period, I think. 425 00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:11,152 - That's not what I meant. - Right. 426 00:27:17,602 --> 00:27:19,570 So, you're back in the house, huh? 427 00:27:21,773 --> 00:27:24,207 Ate some shit and she took me back, yeah. 428 00:27:25,710 --> 00:27:28,235 I ain't sure I even want to be back, though. 429 00:27:33,752 --> 00:27:35,481 Extraditions, huh? 430 00:27:37,455 --> 00:27:40,856 - Cheryl would see right through that shit. - No, it's easy. 431 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,957 You just keep your cell off, make sure she can reach your partner. 432 00:27:45,063 --> 00:27:48,055 Partner tells her, "Kima's in court" or whatever. 433 00:27:48,199 --> 00:27:50,394 Partner calls you in the motel, gives you the heads up... 434 00:27:50,502 --> 00:27:53,164 you call her back later like, "Hey, what's up?" 435 00:28:00,545 --> 00:28:03,605 Ain't even got a quarter box for the Magic Fingers. 436 00:28:05,817 --> 00:28:08,308 Maybe you don't need a quarter box for that. 437 00:28:09,287 --> 00:28:12,779 - For what? - Magic fingers. 438 00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:22,998 You know me. 439 00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:47,850 - You hustling? - Educating. 440 00:28:50,361 --> 00:28:52,625 Are you charging for it or tuition-free? 441 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:56,258 Tuition will come back to him tenfold in acquired wisdom. 442 00:28:56,367 --> 00:28:59,495 Besides, nothing in the world's more expensive than "free." 443 00:28:59,604 --> 00:29:01,094 That's all she wrote. 444 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,566 Let's double it. 445 00:29:03,675 --> 00:29:06,576 No, man, I don't like taking money from a churchgoing man. 446 00:29:06,678 --> 00:29:08,839 - Triple it. - Your break, Deacon. 447 00:29:14,219 --> 00:29:16,414 We need to talk some more about Hamsterdam. 448 00:29:16,521 --> 00:29:18,421 Look, man, I never said it was pretty. 449 00:29:18,523 --> 00:29:21,185 Pretty doesn't even come close to the problem. 450 00:29:21,926 --> 00:29:23,257 We need to talk. 451 00:29:27,232 --> 00:29:29,223 I've got a COMSTAT meeting. 452 00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:31,693 I'll drop by later on. 453 00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:39,240 - So we good with the permits? - Yeah, this week, so far, so good. 454 00:29:39,344 --> 00:29:42,677 - All right. - Look at you. 455 00:29:42,847 --> 00:29:45,008 - Who? - Chunky Coates. 456 00:29:45,850 --> 00:29:48,182 - Who's that? - You don't know Chunky? 457 00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:51,687 He's got the properties down the block and over on the even side of Paca Street. 458 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:54,884 When I first met that fat man, he had an office so small... 459 00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:56,824 you had to leave the room to change your mind. 460 00:29:56,928 --> 00:30:00,420 Then two years ago he started running with your man, Clay Davis. 461 00:30:02,367 --> 00:30:04,767 Look at you now, you big sassy bitch. 462 00:30:06,171 --> 00:30:07,297 That better? 463 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,472 Hey, Special Agent Fitzhugh, if that is in fact your real name. 464 00:30:15,413 --> 00:30:16,903 FBI in on this? 465 00:30:17,849 --> 00:30:21,546 I am only loved for my toys. Lester called and I delivered. 466 00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:22,984 You got the tape? 467 00:30:24,355 --> 00:30:28,416 Date of 10l10l04. 15:04 hours, 30 seconds... 468 00:30:29,027 --> 00:30:30,858 by the register tape. 469 00:30:36,234 --> 00:30:37,633 Mama Barksdale? 470 00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:41,335 D'Angelo's mother. 471 00:30:41,506 --> 00:30:44,998 She cold-called McNulty about her son on the jailhouse hanging. 472 00:30:45,443 --> 00:30:47,775 She's calling us on that weak shit? 473 00:30:47,879 --> 00:30:51,474 Is this Briana? Right. 474 00:30:52,584 --> 00:30:55,781 You called about your son. I'm returning that message. 475 00:30:58,823 --> 00:31:00,313 Nothing there. 476 00:31:01,092 --> 00:31:04,493 It's so tiny. No mere mortal can... 477 00:31:06,998 --> 00:31:08,966 You see what he just did? 478 00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:12,666 What? He did it again. 479 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,772 Who is this man? Where does he come from? 480 00:31:16,074 --> 00:31:17,439 Can anybody stop him? 481 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,409 Please don't hurt us, please. My eyes! My eyes! 482 00:31:20,511 --> 00:31:23,207 It's so big and clear and bright. 483 00:31:23,514 --> 00:31:24,981 I'll be at Homicide. 484 00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:28,484 Sometimes you still scare me, you know that? 485 00:31:35,793 --> 00:31:39,490 In my world, do you have any idea what I had to do... 486 00:31:39,597 --> 00:31:41,588 to get where I am today? 487 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:45,399 And when I say I'm ready, you best believe it. 488 00:31:49,607 --> 00:31:53,441 Through the effective use of resources, and increased police presence... 489 00:31:53,544 --> 00:31:56,707 and an intensive reach-out into the community... 490 00:31:57,448 --> 00:32:00,349 we've been able to have a significant impact on these areas... 491 00:32:00,451 --> 00:32:03,579 to the effect of a 12-percent decrease overall. 492 00:32:03,888 --> 00:32:06,254 - Twelve percent. - Cumulatively. 493 00:32:06,691 --> 00:32:09,990 - Over four weeks. - Major, I know I gave you shit... 494 00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:13,325 when your stats took a jump a few weeks back... 495 00:32:13,631 --> 00:32:16,657 but now you're gonna shove the numbers right up my ass? 496 00:32:17,835 --> 00:32:19,530 It's kind of pouty of you, isn't it? 497 00:32:19,637 --> 00:32:23,437 Twelve percent. I didn't cook them then, I ain't cooking them now. 498 00:32:23,541 --> 00:32:26,476 Seriously, Bunny, I already got the City Council asking questions... 499 00:32:26,577 --> 00:32:28,943 about the eight-percent drop you posted last week. 500 00:32:29,414 --> 00:32:33,441 We just want to please the Mayor, not go to jail behind this shit. 501 00:32:34,585 --> 00:32:36,450 You know, sometimes the gods do listen, sir. 502 00:32:36,554 --> 00:32:39,546 Not in the Western, they don't. Lieutenant Daniels? 503 00:32:39,757 --> 00:32:42,726 - Sir? - You want to take credit for any of this? 504 00:32:43,161 --> 00:32:46,324 Your unit's been working in that district a couple of weeks. 505 00:32:46,431 --> 00:32:48,228 We're barely up on anything. 506 00:32:48,399 --> 00:32:52,165 In fact, the crews we're looking at are still beefing, still dropping bodies. 507 00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:56,229 Amazing. Crime is down and no one wants to take any credit. 508 00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:58,639 What is wrong with this picture? 509 00:32:59,344 --> 00:33:01,107 You don't mind if I have Planning and Research... 510 00:33:01,212 --> 00:33:02,941 pull all your CC numbers. 511 00:33:03,047 --> 00:33:06,107 Make sure there's not a decimal point missing between the one and the two? 512 00:33:06,217 --> 00:33:09,243 Pull everything, Deputy. That number will stand. 513 00:33:21,899 --> 00:33:24,993 I called because I heard you went and visited Donette. 514 00:33:25,937 --> 00:33:28,303 Told her my son's death couldn't have been no suicide. 515 00:33:28,406 --> 00:33:31,739 - Is that right? - I did do that. 516 00:33:33,611 --> 00:33:35,704 D'Angelo hung himself. 517 00:33:37,882 --> 00:33:40,146 Not with the belt they found around his neck. 518 00:33:40,251 --> 00:33:43,345 Not at that distance between the doorknob and the floor. 519 00:33:44,655 --> 00:33:46,520 So what are you saying? 520 00:33:47,825 --> 00:33:50,589 - What am I saying? - No. 521 00:33:51,963 --> 00:33:53,521 Nobody would've dared. 522 00:33:54,565 --> 00:33:58,001 - My brother, his uncle, would have... - I agree with you. 523 00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:00,694 Nobody would've dared. 524 00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:03,398 Unless... 525 00:34:05,343 --> 00:34:08,744 - Avon and D was family. - Family, right. 526 00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:16,183 This is just you talking, right? 527 00:34:16,287 --> 00:34:19,085 - I mean, anyone else saying it? - No, just me. 528 00:34:19,757 --> 00:34:22,692 - No one else cares. - Right. 529 00:34:23,761 --> 00:34:26,423 It's just, I don't know, on the inside... 530 00:34:26,931 --> 00:34:31,391 if somebody's going after you, has got a beef, sees red, they use a shank. 531 00:34:32,036 --> 00:34:34,004 It's quick and it's over. 532 00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:39,002 D'Angelo was strangled, which is planned. 533 00:34:39,343 --> 00:34:42,141 You need the time, you need the isolation. 534 00:34:44,515 --> 00:34:47,109 Look, I'm just sorry I brought this whole mess up to begin with... 535 00:34:47,218 --> 00:34:50,153 'cause frankly, no one's gonna do shit about it anyhow. 536 00:34:50,788 --> 00:34:53,484 Whoever killed him wanted to pass it off as a suicide... 537 00:34:53,591 --> 00:34:56,492 and the cops are happy enough to have one less murder to investigate. 538 00:34:56,594 --> 00:34:59,324 On top of that, the Anne Arundel State's Attorney doesn't give a fuck. 539 00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:01,694 I'm not supposed to give a fuck, so... 540 00:35:03,868 --> 00:35:06,803 I guess your son just got squeezed between the sides. 541 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:09,964 Squeezed between what sides? 542 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:12,341 Look, two years ago... 543 00:35:12,443 --> 00:35:16,311 we hung more wire on your brother's crew than AT&T... 544 00:35:16,414 --> 00:35:18,439 and at the end, D'Angelo was this close to flipping... 545 00:35:18,549 --> 00:35:22,007 giving up everybody, everything. But you know all that, right? 546 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,054 You were the one who went down to that detention center... 547 00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:26,248 and talked your son out of a deal. 548 00:35:30,027 --> 00:35:32,495 I kind of liked your son, you know? 549 00:35:34,232 --> 00:35:36,826 All things considered, he was a pretty decent kid. 550 00:35:36,934 --> 00:35:40,165 And it grinds me that no one ever spoke up for him. 551 00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:42,731 Seems to me that nobody ever will. 552 00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:46,705 But, mostly at this point, I'm sorry I bothered his girl... 553 00:35:46,811 --> 00:35:48,779 and I'm sorry she bothered you. 554 00:35:50,748 --> 00:35:52,215 Why go to her? 555 00:35:53,451 --> 00:35:56,648 - Why not come to me first? - Honestly? 556 00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:01,281 I was looking for somebody who cared about the kid. 557 00:36:01,392 --> 00:36:05,590 I mean, like I said, you were the one who made him take the years, right? 558 00:36:20,244 --> 00:36:24,613 Red leader to red boys. Red two come in. 559 00:36:25,616 --> 00:36:27,675 Cheese steak has a problem, bitch. 560 00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:30,750 Save me some fries, yo. 561 00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:33,824 You want fries? I suggest you bring some cash up here. 562 00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:36,356 Can you believe this? 563 00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:40,797 No muscle, it's all out in the open. 564 00:36:42,366 --> 00:36:46,393 No, no, no, man. This right here, boy. 565 00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:48,796 This too good. 566 00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:53,743 Hey, yo, this some kind of full-tilt setup, man... 567 00:36:53,844 --> 00:36:56,813 to catch a master scoundrel. Capone and whatnot. 568 00:36:57,148 --> 00:37:00,311 Boy, they probably got police behind every one of them row house windows. 569 00:37:00,418 --> 00:37:03,512 Hit this? You must be tripping. 570 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:06,022 Home, James. 571 00:37:07,592 --> 00:37:10,425 I'm gonna tell you, boy, you better keep your head back in the game... 572 00:37:10,528 --> 00:37:13,224 or you gonna land us both in the pokey. 573 00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,429 - What you looking at? - You. 574 00:37:53,904 --> 00:37:54,962 Yeah? 575 00:37:55,539 --> 00:37:59,339 I like your eyes. They're like cat eyes. 576 00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:02,412 - Who you here with? - Them. 577 00:38:03,981 --> 00:38:05,278 That's it? 578 00:38:06,083 --> 00:38:07,675 What kind of cat? 579 00:38:08,319 --> 00:38:11,117 - What? - What kind of cat are my eyes like? 580 00:38:13,658 --> 00:38:15,091 A big cat. 581 00:38:18,095 --> 00:38:21,030 - You here with them and no one else? - I said that. 582 00:38:21,666 --> 00:38:23,998 - You want to dance? - Hell, no. 583 00:38:24,669 --> 00:38:27,661 - You want a drink? - No, I don't do that neither. 584 00:38:28,739 --> 00:38:30,366 What do you do? 585 00:38:51,762 --> 00:38:53,525 Gene, this spot I'm telling you about? 586 00:38:53,631 --> 00:38:56,964 We're talking TB, HIV, syphilis... 587 00:38:57,568 --> 00:38:59,297 herpes, lice. 588 00:38:59,603 --> 00:39:01,400 It's like a five-acre petri dish. 589 00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:03,029 You get in there now... 590 00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:06,439 you can run every health program or social program you want. 591 00:39:06,544 --> 00:39:10,742 Hell, every kind of liberal-ass project never got off the page it was written on. 592 00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:12,145 Jurassic Park. 593 00:39:12,249 --> 00:39:14,740 So, you're saying that this is a sanctioned open-air drug market. 594 00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:18,811 No, it's not officially sanctioned. It's more like it's tolerated. 595 00:39:19,523 --> 00:39:21,650 That's why we came to you and the Public Health School... 596 00:39:21,759 --> 00:39:23,192 not the City Health Department. 597 00:39:23,294 --> 00:39:28,231 Needle exchange, drug outreach, condoms, HIV testing. 598 00:39:28,499 --> 00:39:30,967 Y'all ain't never gonna reach more people in the same spot. 599 00:39:31,068 --> 00:39:33,263 So if the city doesn't know about it then that makes it... 600 00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,669 - Complicated. - That means temporary. 601 00:39:35,773 --> 00:39:37,741 You move it or you lose it, boss. 602 00:40:02,266 --> 00:40:03,790 That was nice. 603 00:40:06,137 --> 00:40:07,832 It worked for me. 604 00:40:10,474 --> 00:40:13,409 - You free tomorrow? - Tomorrow? 605 00:40:14,945 --> 00:40:18,676 You could come back to my crib. Nobody's there but my grandma. 606 00:40:19,483 --> 00:40:22,884 Get us a real bed. Take some time with it. 607 00:40:25,156 --> 00:40:26,885 Give me your number. 608 00:40:30,928 --> 00:40:33,021 The reason I'm saying tomorrow, not to push... 609 00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:35,997 but day after that I got to go visit my aunt in Florida. 610 00:40:37,368 --> 00:40:38,858 We hook up tomorrow... 611 00:40:38,969 --> 00:40:43,099 I got something real nice to think about on that long-ass bus ride. 612 00:40:46,577 --> 00:40:47,908 After you. 613 00:40:53,217 --> 00:40:55,515 - What was it again? - Devonne. 614 00:41:18,409 --> 00:41:21,207 This guy's running his route every five days. 615 00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:24,008 - That's a shitload of burners. - I don't get it. 616 00:41:24,181 --> 00:41:26,115 They were so careful spreading out the purchases... 617 00:41:26,217 --> 00:41:27,980 up and down the three states... 618 00:41:28,085 --> 00:41:31,145 you'd think they'd also switch up rental agencies. 619 00:41:31,255 --> 00:41:33,450 Maybe the guy felt bad for us. 620 00:41:34,124 --> 00:41:35,716 You got a copier, right? 621 00:41:51,775 --> 00:41:53,868 Damn, girl, what, you lose some weight? 622 00:41:53,978 --> 00:41:56,469 - Excuse me? - It's just a compliment. 623 00:42:26,310 --> 00:42:28,141 Yo, that's Mrs. Omar? 624 00:42:29,713 --> 00:42:31,408 Yeah, his grandmoms. 625 00:42:31,515 --> 00:42:33,847 So what, we jack her and make her talk? 626 00:42:33,984 --> 00:42:37,317 Fool, she probably got no clue where he lay his head. 627 00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:42,385 No, man, we sit and we wait, right? 628 00:42:44,595 --> 00:42:46,620 Man, wait on what? 629 00:42:49,967 --> 00:42:51,662 Stupid motherfucker. 630 00:42:52,703 --> 00:42:54,603 Now, see, if we go upstairs, we'll spook him. 631 00:42:55,272 --> 00:42:57,934 So he's coming down. All right? 632 00:43:12,056 --> 00:43:13,250 Russell Bell. 633 00:43:15,759 --> 00:43:18,751 I know B&B like I know a thousand other outfits... 634 00:43:18,896 --> 00:43:21,865 but I don't know him. Why should I talk to him? 635 00:43:21,966 --> 00:43:26,198 Because Russell's a good man. And he's ready to run. 636 00:43:27,471 --> 00:43:29,939 - Then let him run for you. - Hang on. 637 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:31,867 Wait a minute, partner. 638 00:43:31,976 --> 00:43:34,308 I don't think you know who you're dealing with here. 639 00:43:34,411 --> 00:43:35,901 You know who that is? 640 00:43:49,493 --> 00:43:52,485 Got your running shoes on? You're in. 641 00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:54,123 That's the faucet? 642 00:43:54,231 --> 00:43:57,223 Shit, as far as the federal money's concerned, he's everything. 643 00:43:57,334 --> 00:43:58,562 The faucet, the goose. 644 00:43:58,669 --> 00:44:01,900 - What goose? - The one that lays them golden eggs. 645 00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:21,723 Madison Square Garden it ain't. 646 00:44:22,459 --> 00:44:24,120 But it could work. 647 00:44:27,164 --> 00:44:29,428 You're gonna need a little help with the cleanup. 648 00:44:29,533 --> 00:44:31,524 I'll piece that together. 649 00:44:36,006 --> 00:44:37,633 This my trip, man. 650 00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:41,640 Need to go from A to B all by myself. 651 00:44:43,313 --> 00:44:45,781 ... am I likely to find less crime, or more incidents... 652 00:44:45,883 --> 00:44:47,976 that have been downgraded or unfounded? 653 00:44:48,085 --> 00:44:50,610 Because this kind of variation screams manipulation to me... 654 00:44:50,721 --> 00:44:52,348 Slow your words. 655 00:44:53,457 --> 00:44:56,153 Try to lock your eyes on whoever you talk to. 656 00:44:56,260 --> 00:44:58,285 Make them think they matter. 657 00:44:59,163 --> 00:45:02,758 Use open, warm phrases. Nothing sharp, nothing that bites. 658 00:45:02,866 --> 00:45:05,994 - Where's the fun in that? - Do you want this? 659 00:45:11,175 --> 00:45:14,611 What is this city willing to pay to make it possible for ordinary people... 660 00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:16,737 - It's me. - Hey. How you, Cat Eyes? 661 00:45:16,847 --> 00:45:18,712 - Yeah, when you say you leaving again? - Tomorrow. 662 00:45:18,816 --> 00:45:22,308 - Wanna get together tonight? - Yeah, we could hook up tonight. 663 00:45:22,419 --> 00:45:25,980 - How about coming over to my crib? - No, not your crib. 664 00:45:26,090 --> 00:45:28,558 - Where then? - Go to a motel. 665 00:45:28,992 --> 00:45:31,586 You want me to meet you? Which one? 666 00:45:31,695 --> 00:45:35,028 I don't know which one. I'll tell you when I see you. 667 00:45:35,299 --> 00:45:39,497 - I'd like to see you soon. - All right, you know Lake Trout? 668 00:45:39,603 --> 00:45:42,572 - Carry-out? Where? - On Woodland. 669 00:45:42,673 --> 00:45:44,971 - Off Reisterstown Road? - That one. 670 00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:47,009 Later this afternoon? 671 00:45:47,111 --> 00:45:51,207 - I'll be there. What time you want to meet? - Like 5:00. 672 00:45:52,149 --> 00:45:56,677 And 5:00 mean 5:00. I don't truck CP Time. 5:00 and change, I'm gone. 673 00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,252 - I ain't gonna be late. - All right, then. 674 00:45:59,456 --> 00:46:00,889 See you then. 675 00:46:05,496 --> 00:46:07,487 What you think about that? 676 00:46:12,002 --> 00:46:13,435 I don't know. 677 00:46:14,471 --> 00:46:17,372 Might be walking into something a little later. 678 00:46:17,474 --> 00:46:21,103 So I'm gonna need for you to go up there and get me a read up front. 679 00:46:30,087 --> 00:46:32,817 - Where's my brother? - Shut the door, man. 680 00:46:34,424 --> 00:46:38,485 - Yo, we at war right now, sis. So he on that. - I need to get with him. 681 00:46:38,729 --> 00:46:40,128 Well, he ain't on the cell phone. 682 00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:43,165 Soon as I speak to him, I'll get him to you, all right? 683 00:46:43,267 --> 00:46:45,258 I can't believe this shit. 684 00:46:46,036 --> 00:46:47,230 Look... 685 00:46:49,540 --> 00:46:53,203 Heard from this cop. He's saying D was murdered. 686 00:46:53,310 --> 00:46:55,642 Oh, that'd be McNulty. 687 00:46:56,713 --> 00:46:58,237 How you know? 688 00:46:58,782 --> 00:47:00,977 Well, Levy figured he couldn't talk you out of the meet... 689 00:47:01,084 --> 00:47:02,779 but I sure wish he tried. 690 00:47:03,687 --> 00:47:06,713 - I need to get with my brother. - Oh, come on. 691 00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:09,186 This fucking cop. 692 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:14,028 He trying to drive a wedge up in here, man. You can't see it? 693 00:47:19,736 --> 00:47:21,795 Look, I can imagine how hard it is for a mother... 694 00:47:21,905 --> 00:47:23,964 to have to deal with some shit like that. No doubt. 695 00:47:24,074 --> 00:47:27,373 But the fact is these places, they press on niggas. 696 00:47:28,378 --> 00:47:31,438 D just figured a way to get out of there early. 697 00:47:31,548 --> 00:47:34,346 Ain't nothing nobody can do about that. 698 00:47:36,353 --> 00:47:39,049 I mean, how do you protect a man from himself? 699 00:47:39,156 --> 00:47:41,624 Where Avon at? I'll go to him. 700 00:47:41,758 --> 00:47:43,817 I told you. We beefing for corners right now. 701 00:47:43,927 --> 00:47:47,522 As soon as I speak to him, I'll get him to you, I promise. 702 00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:53,299 A cop shouldn't mess with a mother's pain like that. 703 00:47:53,403 --> 00:47:54,870 No one should. 704 00:48:07,017 --> 00:48:10,919 Yeah, let me get four trout on white, extra mayo on one... 705 00:48:11,021 --> 00:48:13,581 hot sauce on two and the other with ketchup. 706 00:48:13,690 --> 00:48:15,351 And four orange sodas. 707 00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:58,629 This clown-ass nigga went and got four sandwiches and four sodas, man. 708 00:48:58,735 --> 00:49:00,635 - You heard me? - Cool. 709 00:49:06,209 --> 00:49:09,542 Niggas don't roll out in a few minutes, we onto something. 710 00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:16,351 Drop one, get one! 711 00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:20,685 - No, baby, this one's sentimental. - Here, it's bleach. 712 00:49:20,791 --> 00:49:23,123 Soak your works and you're good to go. 713 00:49:24,828 --> 00:49:26,489 Drop one, get one. 714 00:49:28,532 --> 00:49:30,193 Drop one, get one. 715 00:49:31,535 --> 00:49:33,799 Get the other girls to come by. 716 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:37,737 Wait. 717 00:49:38,942 --> 00:49:41,111 Just pass these out for me, okay? 718 00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:47,273 Yo, I just rolled for peanut butter. You got anything else? 719 00:49:47,384 --> 00:49:49,579 - The fuck I look like to you, Chef Boyardee? - Who? 720 00:49:49,686 --> 00:49:53,349 Hey, when all this bullshit falls apart, I'm gonna kick your fuck... 721 00:50:24,187 --> 00:50:25,745 Go by them slow. 722 00:50:46,109 --> 00:50:47,371 Oh, shit! 723 00:50:48,478 --> 00:50:49,877 Oh, my God! 724 00:50:50,981 --> 00:50:52,915 - You hit? - No. 725 00:50:53,016 --> 00:50:54,984 Drive, motherfucker, get out of here! 726 00:51:13,637 --> 00:51:17,471 Now your man better be as good as his word. Or your word. 727 00:51:21,711 --> 00:51:24,737 If you are still in possession of that kind of mentality... 728 00:51:24,848 --> 00:51:26,941 then you are definitely not ready. 729 00:51:27,517 --> 00:51:28,677 - String... - Not now. 730 00:51:28,785 --> 00:51:30,810 - It's Avon. - Shut the door. 731 00:51:35,492 --> 00:51:36,823 Let's do it. 732 00:51:41,698 --> 00:51:43,393 I'll be in touch, partner. 733 00:51:46,036 --> 00:51:47,560 - What is it, man? - Avon's been hit. 734 00:51:47,671 --> 00:51:48,899 - Where? - In the shoulder. 735 00:51:49,005 --> 00:51:52,736 Tater got killed. Avon still breathing, man. 736 00:51:53,076 --> 00:51:55,704 But Briana all over me, calling me, man. I need to tell her. 737 00:51:55,812 --> 00:51:57,302 - No, fuck Briana. - What? 738 00:51:57,414 --> 00:52:00,406 Just keep the bitch away from me, you hear me? 739 00:52:11,094 --> 00:52:14,825 If you put them pit bull-style stitches in me, the next patient's gonna be you. 740 00:52:14,931 --> 00:52:18,196 - For real. - What, you don't like rawhide? 741 00:52:19,302 --> 00:52:20,462 Marlo! 742 00:52:21,738 --> 00:52:24,332 We finna get back to old times, baby. 743 00:52:34,651 --> 00:52:37,347 Hey, Anthony. Where you at? 744 00:52:38,955 --> 00:52:41,822 First floor, 1034 North Mount, sir. 745 00:52:44,127 --> 00:52:45,094 Good. 746 00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:57,231 They're expecting us to hit back wild. 747 00:52:57,340 --> 00:53:00,867 That's what they're just waiting for, and we're gonna sit back on it for a while. 748 00:53:00,977 --> 00:53:03,241 - Let them sweat on it. - Yo, we got to talk. 749 00:53:03,346 --> 00:53:04,540 Hold on. 750 00:53:05,048 --> 00:53:08,211 I mean, he got to come out on his corners, that's how he make money, right? 751 00:53:08,318 --> 00:53:09,785 We gonna see who got the bigger war chest. 752 00:53:09,886 --> 00:53:10,944 Avon? 753 00:53:21,331 --> 00:53:24,323 - Straight to the mattresses, huh? - Whatever. What you want, man? 754 00:53:24,434 --> 00:53:28,234 - "War", man, we past this bullshit. - Yeah, I forgot. 755 00:53:28,338 --> 00:53:31,637 You know, I knew I forgot something. We the Trump brothers. 756 00:53:31,741 --> 00:53:33,504 Man, you don't give this shit up... 757 00:53:33,610 --> 00:53:36,044 you're gonna turn everything we built to shit. 758 00:53:36,146 --> 00:53:39,877 No. The Chump brothers. 759 00:53:41,451 --> 00:53:43,419 You know what the difference is between me and you? 760 00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:48,321 I bleed red, you bleed green. What you been building for us? 761 00:53:49,025 --> 00:53:51,357 You know what, I look at you these days, you know what I see? 762 00:53:51,461 --> 00:53:53,691 I see a man without a country. 763 00:53:53,997 --> 00:53:58,263 Not hard enough for this, right here. And maybe, just maybe... 764 00:53:58,368 --> 00:54:01,394 - not smart enough for them out there. - Not hard enough? 765 00:54:01,671 --> 00:54:04,572 No offense, but I don't think you ever really were. 766 00:54:05,075 --> 00:54:07,873 - You got skills, yeah, no doubt, but... - What? 767 00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:12,947 What, 'cause I don't shoot up a block, indiscriminate, I ain't hard enough? 768 00:54:13,717 --> 00:54:18,245 Because I think before I snatch a life, I ain't into this bullshit? 769 00:54:18,888 --> 00:54:20,378 Snatch a life? 770 00:54:21,558 --> 00:54:23,549 What life you snatch, huh? 771 00:54:30,433 --> 00:54:34,028 You know, Briana went downtown, man, saw that detective. 772 00:54:34,638 --> 00:54:38,734 Man stoking her head saying that D'Angelo's death was no suicide. 773 00:54:39,976 --> 00:54:41,637 Yeah, so? 774 00:54:43,313 --> 00:54:45,372 Man ain't wrong about that. 775 00:54:49,286 --> 00:54:50,378 What? 776 00:54:52,022 --> 00:54:53,284 Yeah. 777 00:54:55,558 --> 00:54:57,685 I knew you couldn't do it... 778 00:54:58,328 --> 00:55:00,762 and Briana wouldn't do that shit. 779 00:55:03,466 --> 00:55:06,731 But there go a life that had to be snatched, Avon. 780 00:55:19,716 --> 00:55:22,116 Yo, man, I took that shit off you, and put it on me, man... 781 00:55:22,218 --> 00:55:24,652 because that motherfucker was out of pocket with that shit! 782 00:55:24,754 --> 00:55:26,847 Twenty years above his fucking head. 783 00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:29,690 He flip, man, they got you and me and fucking Briana! 784 00:55:29,793 --> 00:55:32,318 No fucking way, man. Hell no! 785 00:55:32,762 --> 00:55:35,492 Now, I know you're family. You loved that nigga. 786 00:55:35,598 --> 00:55:38,089 But you want to talk that "blood is thicker than water" bullshit... 787 00:55:38,201 --> 00:55:39,896 take that shit somewhere else, nigga! 788 00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:42,471 That motherfucker would have taken down the whole fucking show... 789 00:55:42,572 --> 00:55:44,267 starting with you, killer! 790 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:49,210 He was fucking everything and everybody! 791 00:55:55,418 --> 00:55:56,749 Let me up. 792 00:56:04,060 --> 00:56:05,391 Let me up. 793 00:56:09,332 --> 00:56:11,630 Oh, shit.