1 00:00:09,342 --> 00:00:12,072 - Who's got the scene? - Massey and Crutchfield are working it. 2 00:00:12,178 --> 00:00:15,079 Norris is on his way to the morgue. He'll beat the bodies there. 3 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:16,876 - How about the crime lab? - Can he get enough oxygen here? 4 00:00:16,983 --> 00:00:18,951 He's getting the full treatment, boss. 5 00:00:20,086 --> 00:00:21,713 We're good there. 6 00:00:22,222 --> 00:00:24,315 Just one witness so far. 7 00:00:25,892 --> 00:00:29,328 And you know what that means. Right now, it's all BNBG. 8 00:00:29,462 --> 00:00:31,487 It's Andy Kraw's big adventure. 9 00:00:32,132 --> 00:00:35,329 Mayor's office already called twice, worried sick about the man. 10 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:36,800 You're kidding me. 11 00:00:37,137 --> 00:00:39,071 That's a whole lot of campaign contributions... 12 00:00:39,172 --> 00:00:40,662 sitting on the back of that ambo. 13 00:00:41,241 --> 00:00:45,905 - So, what's the scene say? - Two shooters. Shotgun, semi-auto. 14 00:00:46,212 --> 00:00:49,841 One vic is a West Side soldier with a pretty healthy sheet. 15 00:00:50,450 --> 00:00:53,886 The other is a major player in Daniels' wiretap case. 16 00:00:53,987 --> 00:00:55,921 So, a hit. Drug related. 17 00:00:56,256 --> 00:00:59,384 But a big-time developer in the middle? What's the fit? 18 00:00:59,492 --> 00:01:01,824 Second vic, Russell Bell. 19 00:01:02,328 --> 00:01:04,319 Owner and co-developer of this here. 20 00:01:05,265 --> 00:01:07,165 And other downtown real estate. 21 00:01:08,134 --> 00:01:10,261 Well-propertied man he was. 22 00:01:13,339 --> 00:01:17,469 But you were aware that Russell Bell was regarded as a major narcotic violator? 23 00:01:18,812 --> 00:01:20,609 How do you think he made his money? 24 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:23,215 I didn't inquire. 25 00:01:23,316 --> 00:01:25,682 So, you never got a look at either of the gunmen? 26 00:01:25,819 --> 00:01:28,481 I told you, I saw only the one of them. 27 00:01:28,955 --> 00:01:31,446 He was black, big, I thought... 28 00:01:32,659 --> 00:01:34,422 with a large weapon. 29 00:01:35,862 --> 00:01:37,523 BNBG. 30 00:01:43,570 --> 00:01:45,504 Big negro, big gun. 31 00:02:06,493 --> 00:02:08,120 Two more like it upstairs. 32 00:02:08,928 --> 00:02:10,054 Yeah. 33 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,162 Have ballistics rush comparisons. Drug-relateds for the last six months. 34 00:03:29,742 --> 00:03:31,232 I caught him, Bunk. 35 00:03:33,179 --> 00:03:35,272 On the wire. I caught him. 36 00:03:37,884 --> 00:03:39,715 And he doesn't fucking know it. 37 00:05:23,555 --> 00:05:25,318 Boxing, yeah. 38 00:05:26,091 --> 00:05:28,924 I know you loved that. I hated it. 39 00:05:29,394 --> 00:05:30,861 I hated watching it. 40 00:05:30,962 --> 00:05:34,159 Yeah, I know you did. So you're doing good, huh? 41 00:05:35,801 --> 00:05:40,067 - Day to day, I am. - Because I was thinking, maybe... 42 00:05:46,878 --> 00:05:50,041 I'm proud of you, Dennis. Be well. 43 00:06:03,061 --> 00:06:04,824 Shut that fucking door. 44 00:06:18,210 --> 00:06:19,268 Man, fuck it. 45 00:06:19,377 --> 00:06:22,778 Whatever, I'm ready for this shit. These niggas is snapping on us. 46 00:06:22,881 --> 00:06:25,315 You see? Do you believe this fucking shit? 47 00:06:26,251 --> 00:06:29,049 Some shit like this would've never happened with... 48 00:06:30,121 --> 00:06:33,818 Yo, Slim, man. Just say the word. Say the motherfucking word. 49 00:06:39,431 --> 00:06:40,625 Shit is on. 50 00:06:48,340 --> 00:06:49,602 What's up, B? 51 00:06:57,082 --> 00:06:58,481 You all right? 52 00:06:59,217 --> 00:07:01,845 We gonna bounce back on the motherfucker, no question. 53 00:07:01,953 --> 00:07:04,717 - Bounce it back on who? - Marlo, boss. 54 00:07:04,823 --> 00:07:08,486 - Oh, he gonna fall. - Marlo. Marlo ain't got shit to do with it. 55 00:07:08,593 --> 00:07:12,529 Marlo couldn't get String like that. String died 'cause of some other shit. 56 00:07:14,299 --> 00:07:15,357 What? 57 00:07:15,467 --> 00:07:17,731 He died because of some other shit, nigga. 58 00:07:19,804 --> 00:07:21,999 I couldn't fix it. I tried. 59 00:07:22,507 --> 00:07:25,032 That nigga, String, was right about this shit, man. 60 00:07:26,011 --> 00:07:29,139 That nigga was right. Fuck Marlo. 61 00:07:29,247 --> 00:07:31,272 Fuck this fucking war. 62 00:07:31,383 --> 00:07:34,477 All this beef over a couple of fucking corners. 63 00:07:35,921 --> 00:07:38,754 Don't matter who did what to who at this point. 64 00:07:38,857 --> 00:07:42,349 Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. 65 00:07:42,761 --> 00:07:45,855 I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? 66 00:07:46,298 --> 00:07:49,290 Once you in it, you in it! 67 00:07:51,569 --> 00:07:54,299 If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. 68 00:07:54,906 --> 00:07:56,396 But we gotta fight. 69 00:08:02,847 --> 00:08:04,576 Got this out of his pocket. 70 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,187 I got no idea. 71 00:08:11,256 --> 00:08:13,918 - It's a cell chip from a phone. - Oh. 72 00:08:15,060 --> 00:08:19,759 - What else did you get off him? - $200 cash, set of keys, license. 73 00:08:19,864 --> 00:08:21,798 President Street address? 74 00:08:22,434 --> 00:08:24,959 I got Landsman banging out a warrant for the place. 75 00:08:27,605 --> 00:08:29,300 Fuck the politics for a minute. 76 00:08:30,141 --> 00:08:33,269 - What if the man happens to be right? - Legalizing drugs? 77 00:08:33,378 --> 00:08:37,109 Crime is down in his district and people on that side of town, they're okay with it. 78 00:08:37,215 --> 00:08:39,877 Look, if you don't exist, what happens here? 79 00:08:39,985 --> 00:08:42,852 If there's no Tommy Carcetti in this thing, what's likely to happen? 80 00:08:42,954 --> 00:08:45,013 The Mayor and Burrell, they shut this thing down. 81 00:08:45,123 --> 00:08:48,217 I figure the Mayor's trying to find a way to shut it down to make it look like... 82 00:08:48,326 --> 00:08:50,726 it was an enforcement plan in case it goes public. 83 00:08:50,829 --> 00:08:53,730 Otherwise he'd have moved to end it already. 84 00:08:54,232 --> 00:08:57,065 Makes sense, but no matter what... 85 00:08:57,168 --> 00:08:59,295 Colvin's little experiment is finished. 86 00:09:00,872 --> 00:09:02,499 Come on, Tommy. 87 00:09:02,807 --> 00:09:06,402 They dealt you a winning hand and you're acting like you forgot how to play. 88 00:09:09,748 --> 00:09:13,343 Mr. Mayor, call it legalization and my office can't live with it. 89 00:09:13,451 --> 00:09:15,248 Agreed. No one can. 90 00:09:15,353 --> 00:09:16,377 But harm reduction? 91 00:09:16,488 --> 00:09:19,252 That could sell, provided there's a reduction in the crime rate. 92 00:09:19,624 --> 00:09:21,990 Harm reduction. Sounds good. 93 00:09:23,061 --> 00:09:25,086 Steven, what if we were able to suggest... 94 00:09:25,196 --> 00:09:28,097 limiting our street-level enforcement? 95 00:09:28,199 --> 00:09:32,067 We were concentrating our resources on high-level traffickers. 96 00:09:32,170 --> 00:09:33,194 How would that play? 97 00:09:33,304 --> 00:09:35,898 Well, if I could show off that kind of casework, yeah, maybe. 98 00:09:36,007 --> 00:09:39,807 But they've been doing street rips for so long now, I don't think a high-level exists. 99 00:09:39,911 --> 00:09:42,778 What if we were able to say that no major traffickers were allowed... 100 00:09:42,881 --> 00:09:44,974 in the free zone, that all major... 101 00:09:46,451 --> 00:09:49,579 That the major violators were still being targeted, huh? 102 00:09:49,687 --> 00:09:52,918 Well, are you suggesting some kind of admissions criteria for the zones? 103 00:09:53,024 --> 00:09:54,855 - How would that work? - I don't know that it would. 104 00:09:54,959 --> 00:09:57,484 I'm just saying that for the sake of public perception, huh? 105 00:09:57,595 --> 00:09:59,722 Come on, people, work with me on this thing! 106 00:10:00,565 --> 00:10:01,657 Fucked up, ain't it? 107 00:10:01,766 --> 00:10:04,234 Marlo need to get his ass dropped, him and all his crew. 108 00:10:04,335 --> 00:10:07,827 - Oh, they gonna fall, son. You'll see. - All right, let me know. 109 00:10:08,606 --> 00:10:10,767 That's the word on the wire anyway. 110 00:10:10,875 --> 00:10:13,673 Every mention puts it on Marlo Stanfield's crew... 111 00:10:13,778 --> 00:10:16,269 which means the war's gonna ratchet up, no question. 112 00:10:17,315 --> 00:10:18,373 Where's Jimmy? 113 00:10:18,483 --> 00:10:21,782 He went with Bunk Moreland to rifle Stringer's spot downtown. 114 00:10:22,153 --> 00:10:25,919 - How'd he take it? - Like Stringer was kin. 115 00:10:27,926 --> 00:10:29,553 - Yeah? - Bushy top. 116 00:10:29,861 --> 00:10:32,557 - Need to pull on your coat, boy. - Hey, what's up, Major? 117 00:10:32,797 --> 00:10:34,025 I got something for you all. 118 00:10:34,632 --> 00:10:36,361 Mount Vernon Square in about an hour. 119 00:10:36,468 --> 00:10:37,526 I'm there. 120 00:11:03,328 --> 00:11:04,625 This is Stringer's? 121 00:11:07,298 --> 00:11:08,356 Yeah. 122 00:11:35,693 --> 00:11:37,684 Who in fuck was I chasing? 123 00:12:04,923 --> 00:12:07,255 What's done is done. 124 00:12:19,170 --> 00:12:22,571 Gay-ass gangsters. Please. 125 00:12:33,885 --> 00:12:36,445 I took it for as long as I could. 126 00:12:40,625 --> 00:12:41,853 Let's go, man. 127 00:12:43,828 --> 00:12:44,852 Let's go. 128 00:13:03,448 --> 00:13:07,817 It being your town, I trust you to do it proper. 129 00:13:19,330 --> 00:13:22,561 - You off today, boss? - Every day at this point. 130 00:13:23,268 --> 00:13:25,862 I told them over at COMSTAT about my little experiment. 131 00:13:26,638 --> 00:13:28,572 Bosses went crazy, huh? 132 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,806 Anyway, that's why I called you. 133 00:13:32,143 --> 00:13:35,306 That there is a wartime lay-up for your man Barksdale. 134 00:13:35,413 --> 00:13:38,780 My sources tell me the man's there most of the time with a lot of muscle. 135 00:13:38,883 --> 00:13:41,443 Sawed-offs, semi-autos, MAC-11s. 136 00:13:41,819 --> 00:13:43,878 Whole lot of good shit if you hit it right. 137 00:13:45,123 --> 00:13:47,489 - That's a hell of a tip. - Shit. 138 00:13:48,626 --> 00:13:52,756 That right there might be the last bit of police work in a long and storied career. 139 00:13:53,398 --> 00:13:55,389 All right, I'll talk to you, bushy top. 140 00:14:02,473 --> 00:14:03,963 Which one is Ali? 141 00:14:05,143 --> 00:14:06,804 In the white trunks, boy. 142 00:14:07,078 --> 00:14:10,775 - Damn, he look young. - He was. This the Patterson fight right here! 143 00:14:10,882 --> 00:14:13,976 - Old school. - Who Patterson? He soft. 144 00:14:14,085 --> 00:14:17,714 - Ali whipping his ass. - He was a champ, too. 145 00:14:17,989 --> 00:14:22,255 Look, any man still standing at the end of a round, you can't call him soft. 146 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,521 That's a rule, all right? 147 00:14:30,168 --> 00:14:31,897 From Stringer's place downtown. 148 00:14:32,003 --> 00:14:35,632 B&B shit, college papers, real estate stuff. 149 00:14:35,740 --> 00:14:38,732 There's no phone extension in the place, just these. 150 00:14:38,843 --> 00:14:41,471 Cell phone chips. About 100 of them. 151 00:14:41,813 --> 00:14:44,611 So that's why he wasn't taking any phones from our man, Bernard, huh? 152 00:14:44,716 --> 00:14:45,876 Stringer had his own phone... 153 00:14:45,983 --> 00:14:48,042 he just changed the number every time he changed the chip. 154 00:14:48,152 --> 00:14:50,677 Shamrock, too, probably, with whatever phone he used to call Bell. 155 00:14:50,788 --> 00:14:52,085 Cautious man. 156 00:14:53,624 --> 00:14:56,184 - Yes and no. - Have a look in here. 157 00:14:56,294 --> 00:14:58,285 All different manufacturers. 158 00:14:59,464 --> 00:15:00,488 Thank you. 159 00:15:05,203 --> 00:15:07,364 Before Stringer Bell got aced... 160 00:15:08,039 --> 00:15:11,167 he went out of his way to put in his good friend, Avon Barksdale. 161 00:15:12,543 --> 00:15:14,568 That's a Barksdale safe house. 162 00:15:15,780 --> 00:15:17,213 Where'd you get this? 163 00:15:21,619 --> 00:15:22,916 Colvin. 164 00:15:23,888 --> 00:15:26,880 - Calls to the Western. - Where's Daniels? 165 00:15:27,291 --> 00:15:30,419 He's got this thing downtown. It's for his wife. 166 00:15:30,528 --> 00:15:31,756 You should raise him. 167 00:15:33,965 --> 00:15:36,365 It's not enough to make up for Stringer. 168 00:15:37,435 --> 00:15:39,164 It'll do for now. 169 00:15:41,072 --> 00:15:43,870 Because the neighborhoods and the residents in this district... 170 00:15:43,975 --> 00:15:46,136 are among the poorest in our city. 171 00:15:46,244 --> 00:15:50,874 And it is these residents who most need a strong voice at City Hall. 172 00:15:51,282 --> 00:15:53,011 Time has come for a change. 173 00:15:53,384 --> 00:15:56,182 And I believe I can bring about that change... 174 00:15:56,454 --> 00:16:00,413 by providing a strong voice for the new 11th District... 175 00:16:00,525 --> 00:16:02,720 if you will do me the honor... 176 00:16:02,827 --> 00:16:05,955 It's kind of cool, the Lieutenant's wife running for office, you know. 177 00:16:07,432 --> 00:16:08,626 Well, as you just heard... 178 00:16:08,733 --> 00:16:11,497 West Baltimore City Councilwoman Eunetta Perkins... 179 00:16:11,602 --> 00:16:15,094 is going to have her hands full in next September's Democratic primary. 180 00:16:16,607 --> 00:16:19,269 Stringer Bell. Damn. 181 00:16:20,144 --> 00:16:23,705 Who could've gotten to him? I mean, if it wasn't you all on it. 182 00:16:23,881 --> 00:16:26,076 You know Avon's gonna put it on you, right? 183 00:16:26,217 --> 00:16:29,812 Shit, let him take it on my jacket. Don't make me no never mind. 184 00:16:29,954 --> 00:16:33,082 I'm thinking it might be what you call one of them good problems. 185 00:16:33,991 --> 00:16:35,151 Yeah. 186 00:16:40,798 --> 00:16:43,596 I heard Colvin's in deep shit downtown. 187 00:16:44,168 --> 00:16:45,760 Looking at this right here... 188 00:16:47,772 --> 00:16:49,603 he might not be the only one. 189 00:16:50,942 --> 00:16:52,933 Anything comes up, I'm on the radio. 190 00:16:55,012 --> 00:16:55,979 My man, my man, my man. 191 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,846 Yo, you think I could get like $5? I need like $5 to get on the bus. 192 00:16:59,951 --> 00:17:02,442 - I look like a tourist to you? - Man, I swear to God. 193 00:17:02,553 --> 00:17:05,078 Looking like that, walking into an open-air drug market... 194 00:17:05,189 --> 00:17:08,215 why the hell would I think you'll spend my $5 on bus fare? 195 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,757 Shit, because I already got my blast, man. 196 00:18:04,882 --> 00:18:09,512 All night, you been drinking like your ass is candy. 197 00:18:11,422 --> 00:18:13,151 That's shameful shit. 198 00:18:19,497 --> 00:18:21,488 Twelve-gauge pumpkin balls. 199 00:18:23,968 --> 00:18:27,199 Last time I saw that kind of load was the Pimlico double. 200 00:18:27,338 --> 00:18:31,638 And I fucking know that motherfucker was in the middle of that mess. 201 00:18:32,743 --> 00:18:37,476 And if I remember your boy, he had no love for the Barksdale people. 202 00:18:37,582 --> 00:18:40,517 Execution style, that don't play like Omar Little. 203 00:18:41,852 --> 00:18:45,618 Besides, the word on our wire is that Marlo's people did Stringer. 204 00:18:45,756 --> 00:18:48,748 - Marlo Stanfield? - The heir apparent. 205 00:18:48,993 --> 00:18:50,858 This city's going to hell, man. 206 00:18:53,064 --> 00:18:56,033 We're gonna push past 300 murders before New Year's. 207 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:58,365 Shit is fucked. 208 00:19:02,974 --> 00:19:04,271 Hey, Cheryl. 209 00:19:05,843 --> 00:19:09,643 No? My guess is she's picking up a prisoner. 210 00:19:09,747 --> 00:19:11,874 Yeah, I spoke to her about 10 minutes ago. 211 00:19:12,149 --> 00:19:14,674 Yeah, well, they don't allow... They make you check your stuff. 212 00:19:15,453 --> 00:19:18,149 Cell phone, money, weapon. 213 00:19:19,056 --> 00:19:21,183 Well, she'll call when she gets the message. 214 00:19:22,059 --> 00:19:23,287 Not at all. 215 00:19:24,929 --> 00:19:26,419 I need more, Jimmy. 216 00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:43,574 More! 217 00:19:45,182 --> 00:19:48,447 - Motherfucker. - I'm tired, Bunk. 218 00:19:59,130 --> 00:20:00,427 Let's go. 219 00:20:02,833 --> 00:20:04,824 I heard the vanguard met. 220 00:20:04,935 --> 00:20:07,733 Heard they voted to have a civilian review board look at it. 221 00:20:07,838 --> 00:20:11,638 It wasn't unanimous, and there were people there speaking for you. 222 00:20:11,742 --> 00:20:13,141 I heard that, too. 223 00:20:14,345 --> 00:20:18,907 So six out of 10 black officers think I'm just an asshole racist. 224 00:20:19,183 --> 00:20:24,052 On the other hand, four out of 10 think you're just an asshole. 225 00:20:27,758 --> 00:20:29,589 It's an administrative charge. 226 00:20:30,294 --> 00:20:32,990 You can fight it and win if you want. 227 00:20:33,097 --> 00:20:36,999 Failure to properly identify myself as a police officer. 228 00:20:38,569 --> 00:20:41,470 Sounds like what I was guilty of most of my career, actually. 229 00:20:44,475 --> 00:20:47,035 I'm not sure I was supposed to be a police. 230 00:20:48,713 --> 00:20:49,941 Not really. 231 00:20:51,916 --> 00:20:54,043 What were you supposed to be, huh? 232 00:21:01,525 --> 00:21:05,188 This is from Major Colvin's CI? What's the corroboration? 233 00:21:05,663 --> 00:21:09,121 Well, the source knew that Barksdale had a waterfront condo in his own name. 234 00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:12,896 Gave the accurate location and title info down to deed of transfer. 235 00:21:13,370 --> 00:21:16,396 Well, that's good, but it puts him on the legitimate side of things. 236 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,268 What corroboration is there for illegal activities? 237 00:21:20,077 --> 00:21:23,103 Sorry I'm late. I had to stop in at a friend. 238 00:21:23,214 --> 00:21:26,479 The source knew that Barksdale was shot last month, wounded in the shoulder. 239 00:21:26,584 --> 00:21:29,553 - Emergency room? - No, no hospital reports. 240 00:21:30,321 --> 00:21:31,413 We're gonna need better. 241 00:21:31,522 --> 00:21:34,821 Either Colvin goes back to the CI, or we sit on this address for a while. 242 00:21:34,925 --> 00:21:37,655 - See what we can see. - Well, fuck it then. 243 00:21:37,762 --> 00:21:39,821 Let's name the source. Put him right in the affidavit. 244 00:21:39,930 --> 00:21:42,091 - It's Colvin's call, isn't it? - It's Stringer Bell. 245 00:21:44,769 --> 00:21:46,794 Lester figured it out from the DNRs. 246 00:21:47,404 --> 00:21:49,531 Bell was snitching out Barksdale. 247 00:21:50,074 --> 00:21:52,542 - You're sure of this? - Maybe that explains the murder. 248 00:21:52,643 --> 00:21:53,769 What's in the wire? 249 00:21:54,311 --> 00:21:58,145 Loose talk about how it was Marlo's people, but nothing past rumor. 250 00:21:58,249 --> 00:21:59,238 You know, with Bell gone... 251 00:21:59,350 --> 00:22:02,319 Barksdale might have to come down a notch to oversee the day-to-day... 252 00:22:02,419 --> 00:22:05,911 and maybe that puts him in contact with some of our monitored cell phones. 253 00:22:06,290 --> 00:22:09,691 If he's as cautious as Stringer, maybe not. 254 00:22:09,827 --> 00:22:12,227 My guess is Barksdale never touches a cell phone. 255 00:22:12,797 --> 00:22:14,628 Safe house might be our best shot. 256 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,228 All right. 257 00:22:18,002 --> 00:22:20,095 We stay on the wires until this batch of burners... 258 00:22:20,204 --> 00:22:22,297 goes dead, hoping we have Barksdale. 259 00:22:22,473 --> 00:22:25,738 But meanwhile, we get a warrant for that safe house and wait on him there. 260 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,751 Thanks for the cover last night. 261 00:22:43,127 --> 00:22:46,290 This is Greggs, Major Case Unit. Who's the shift leader? 262 00:23:17,928 --> 00:23:19,759 Holy Christ. 263 00:23:35,012 --> 00:23:36,980 - They're all over it, Commissioner. - Right. 264 00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:43,687 That was Foxtrot. The cameras have found our little shit pile. 265 00:23:43,787 --> 00:23:46,813 Finally, your fucking councilman took his sweet time, didn't he? 266 00:23:48,893 --> 00:23:50,793 Everyone's a critic. 267 00:23:51,061 --> 00:23:53,689 If this doesn't go, what line of work are you gonna try next? 268 00:23:56,533 --> 00:23:58,524 We're here in West Baltimore... 269 00:24:01,672 --> 00:24:04,766 For more than a month, police from Baltimore's Western district... 270 00:24:12,249 --> 00:24:14,479 It's just an outrageous development. 271 00:24:14,585 --> 00:24:17,918 It's something I never thought I'd see from this or any other administration. 272 00:24:18,055 --> 00:24:21,252 Frankly, this is one of the reasons we need a change in leadership in this city. 273 00:24:21,358 --> 00:24:23,383 Did the Mayor know? What about the Police Commissioner? 274 00:24:23,494 --> 00:24:25,758 These are questions for the Mayor and the Police Commissioner. 275 00:24:25,863 --> 00:24:27,626 On central issues of crime and safety... 276 00:24:27,731 --> 00:24:29,460 the Royce administration is simply bankrupt. 277 00:24:29,566 --> 00:24:31,295 You still gonna announce for mayor next month? 278 00:24:31,468 --> 00:24:33,766 I was gonna wait, but standing here today looking at this... 279 00:24:33,871 --> 00:24:36,704 I can't see how I can do anything else but put it out there right now. 280 00:24:36,807 --> 00:24:39,207 All I can tell you is that for more than four weeks now... 281 00:24:39,310 --> 00:24:41,244 the Baltimore Police Department surrendered portions... 282 00:24:41,345 --> 00:24:44,576 of the police district to the drug trade, and the Council was not informed. 283 00:24:44,682 --> 00:24:45,706 Fuck me. 284 00:24:46,116 --> 00:24:49,279 I fucking had this story all to myself a week ago. 285 00:24:50,054 --> 00:24:52,386 Police officers for weeks have turned a blind eye... 286 00:24:52,489 --> 00:24:54,684 What the fuck was I thinking? 287 00:24:55,726 --> 00:24:58,320 ... apparently sanctioning open-air drug markets. 288 00:24:58,696 --> 00:24:59,993 - Excuse us. - While uniformed police stood by... 289 00:25:00,698 --> 00:25:04,600 ... in the so-called free zones, drug dealers routinely ply their trade. 290 00:25:05,035 --> 00:25:07,003 Mr. Mayor, Commissioner Burrell is here. 291 00:25:07,104 --> 00:25:09,766 Tell the Commissioner the Mayor will be with him shortly. 292 00:25:09,873 --> 00:25:12,273 ... and young children run the streets alone. 293 00:25:12,977 --> 00:25:16,378 The inhabitants of what has come to be known as Hamsterdam... 294 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,471 had little to say for the camera. 295 00:25:18,582 --> 00:25:20,812 But Channel 5 has learned that the police were... 296 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,951 - Yeah? - What are you seeing? 297 00:25:25,055 --> 00:25:28,081 Couple of people in and out. No sign of Barksdale, though. 298 00:25:28,192 --> 00:25:30,319 - It's quiet here, too. - Okay. 299 00:25:31,395 --> 00:25:32,726 Need to look at the back. 300 00:25:33,130 --> 00:25:36,031 Our friend Carcetti's gonna run wild with this. 301 00:25:36,533 --> 00:25:39,798 And from the sound of things, Gray is gonna run with him. 302 00:25:39,903 --> 00:25:42,895 Tony Gray thinks he's gonna get my chair behind this bullshit. 303 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,973 We're throwing you out of the boat, Ervin. This shit is on you alone. 304 00:25:49,813 --> 00:25:51,371 Not necessarily. 305 00:25:51,482 --> 00:25:55,179 Not if I talk about how we were under pressure to keep the crime down. 306 00:25:55,285 --> 00:25:58,777 - To juke the stats district by district. - We never said that. 307 00:25:58,889 --> 00:26:01,858 About how Colvin, under pressure, lost his way. 308 00:26:01,959 --> 00:26:04,655 - About how I came to you weeks ago... - Days ago. 309 00:26:04,762 --> 00:26:07,959 Weeks ago to tell you what he had done and to assure you that... 310 00:26:08,065 --> 00:26:11,330 we were on top of the situation, that Colvin would be relieved... 311 00:26:11,435 --> 00:26:12,925 and his plan aborted. 312 00:26:13,037 --> 00:26:14,766 You lying motherfucker. 313 00:26:14,872 --> 00:26:17,841 But you heard about the drop in Colvin's felony rate... 314 00:26:18,242 --> 00:26:19,869 and you sent me packing. 315 00:26:20,244 --> 00:26:24,977 Brought in your liberal-ass do-gooders to seriously consider this horseshit... 316 00:26:25,716 --> 00:26:28,514 while Colvin's mistake grew and grew. 317 00:26:28,652 --> 00:26:31,678 My hands were tied, Mr. Mayor. 318 00:26:31,789 --> 00:26:34,257 My department thwarted. 319 00:26:35,092 --> 00:26:38,323 I was a prisoner of the goddamn politicians. 320 00:26:38,929 --> 00:26:40,021 Or... 321 00:26:44,334 --> 00:26:48,430 I leave your office right now willing to say a lot less than that. 322 00:26:48,672 --> 00:26:51,766 I put what I can on crazy-ass Bunny Colvin. 323 00:26:52,076 --> 00:26:54,601 And I take the hit. 324 00:26:54,711 --> 00:26:57,441 And if Carcetti or Gray holds hearings... 325 00:26:58,015 --> 00:27:01,542 I'm the wall between them and you. 326 00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:03,616 In which case... 327 00:27:04,555 --> 00:27:08,184 I am your commissioner for the full five-year term. 328 00:27:18,869 --> 00:27:22,862 - Unit one to unit two. - Unit two standing by. 329 00:27:23,107 --> 00:27:24,267 Deal's made. 330 00:27:26,944 --> 00:27:30,345 Unit two to sector three, move on the Winchester Homes. 331 00:27:30,447 --> 00:27:32,142 Ten-four. We're moving. 332 00:27:32,282 --> 00:27:35,683 Unit two to sector two, move on the Koppers Plant. 333 00:27:35,786 --> 00:27:37,048 Roger that. 334 00:27:40,057 --> 00:27:42,025 Over the top, gentlemen. 335 00:28:03,247 --> 00:28:04,908 About fucking time. 336 00:28:15,526 --> 00:28:16,720 Yo, man. 337 00:28:16,827 --> 00:28:18,886 We gonna run out if we don't got no re-up. 338 00:28:18,996 --> 00:28:21,396 - Where's Tuckie at? - I don't know. 339 00:28:25,903 --> 00:28:27,996 - Yo, where Tuckie at, man? - He rolled out. 340 00:28:28,105 --> 00:28:29,902 - What? - He said the police coming. 341 00:28:35,812 --> 00:28:37,541 Here they come. Let's roll. 342 00:28:53,430 --> 00:28:55,295 Hold it right there, white jacket! 343 00:28:56,333 --> 00:28:58,198 Get the fuck off me! 344 00:28:59,469 --> 00:29:00,436 Stop! 345 00:29:13,550 --> 00:29:15,177 Stop right there! Stop! 346 00:29:21,925 --> 00:29:25,417 Freeze! Freeze! Don't move! Hold it right there. Freeze. 347 00:29:26,997 --> 00:29:31,434 Outstanding, red team, outstanding. Give you a case of beer for that one. 348 00:29:51,588 --> 00:29:56,389 Son, this nigga, Stringer Bell, man, was begging Chris, yo, for real. 349 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:57,686 Like, know what I mean? 350 00:29:57,794 --> 00:30:01,195 Digging in his pockets, talking about how much cheese he gonna give us... 351 00:30:01,298 --> 00:30:03,163 I mean, if we just let him walk. 352 00:30:03,267 --> 00:30:06,361 My man, Chris, hollering, "Man, bitch, you gonna die." 353 00:30:06,470 --> 00:30:10,099 This nigga just dropped to his fucking knees like a little cocksucker, man. 354 00:30:10,207 --> 00:30:11,408 Start crying. That shit was worse than fucking pathetic. 355 00:30:11,408 --> 00:30:13,501 Start crying. That shit was worse than fucking pathetic. 356 00:30:15,946 --> 00:30:19,905 - Yo, that's Marlo. - Get on your burner, man. 357 00:30:27,524 --> 00:30:30,118 - Got a line on him. - The number one? Where at? 358 00:30:30,227 --> 00:30:33,526 Tall man says to tell you all to soldier up. They up at the rim shop. 359 00:30:33,630 --> 00:30:34,597 Yeah, all right. 360 00:30:37,801 --> 00:30:39,132 Boss, you okay? 361 00:30:40,003 --> 00:30:42,597 - What you want? - Slim said they got their eye on Marlo. 362 00:30:44,308 --> 00:30:47,869 I'm just saying, you know, all the boys, they all waiting on you. 363 00:30:48,845 --> 00:30:52,144 Go ahead, man. I'm behind you. 364 00:31:15,339 --> 00:31:17,204 What else you need from us, Deputy? 365 00:31:17,307 --> 00:31:19,434 City Hall wants the bulldozers through here at dawn... 366 00:31:19,543 --> 00:31:21,408 and then fencing all around the site. 367 00:31:21,511 --> 00:31:24,002 Winchester Homes and the Koppers Plant as well. 368 00:31:24,348 --> 00:31:25,610 We got it. 369 00:31:27,351 --> 00:31:31,583 Come tomorrow, the television reporters get nothing they can stand in front of. 370 00:31:32,189 --> 00:31:35,420 Excuse me, Deputy, sir, we found a body. 371 00:31:46,236 --> 00:31:49,933 - Any trauma? - Can't tell for sure with all the rat bites. 372 00:31:50,707 --> 00:31:53,107 Take him to the OCME in a jail wagon. 373 00:31:53,210 --> 00:31:56,077 I don't want the fucking reporters seeing any ambos. 374 00:31:57,781 --> 00:31:59,442 Shit! 375 00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:11,027 He just landed. 376 00:32:11,128 --> 00:32:12,095 Him plus one. 377 00:32:12,696 --> 00:32:15,529 - Got it. Sit tight. - That makes how many? 378 00:32:17,934 --> 00:32:21,335 Including Barksdale, Sydnor counted 10 in and none coming out... 379 00:32:21,438 --> 00:32:22,871 so that's 10 at least. 380 00:32:27,244 --> 00:32:31,078 - 2301 to KGA. - Go ahead, 2301. 381 00:32:31,648 --> 00:32:35,516 We need QRT to meet us at our 20 for a search and seizure. 382 00:32:35,619 --> 00:32:39,111 Location has multiple suspects and may contain automatic weapons. 383 00:32:39,289 --> 00:32:40,620 Ten-four. 384 00:32:49,166 --> 00:32:52,829 - Word travels fast, huh? - Shit. 385 00:32:55,105 --> 00:32:57,835 Burrell called Johns Hopkins personally this morning. 386 00:33:01,545 --> 00:33:05,379 Dragged your name into the gutter. Johns Hopkins doesn't need the notoriety. 387 00:33:05,482 --> 00:33:08,645 The chief academic officer of a major research university... 388 00:33:08,752 --> 00:33:12,347 doesn't want to hear that some new hire makes up the rules as he goes along. 389 00:33:18,328 --> 00:33:21,422 - Yeah, Colvin. - Yeah, Major, you're on first. 390 00:33:26,136 --> 00:33:27,501 COMSTAT tomorrow. 391 00:33:33,176 --> 00:33:34,268 I'm up. 392 00:33:41,117 --> 00:33:44,143 - You all taking the door? - Where's tactical? 393 00:33:45,088 --> 00:33:47,682 - I called for QRT. - You ain't heard? 394 00:33:47,791 --> 00:33:50,851 They're a little busy tonight tearing down Bunny Colvin's fuck-up. 395 00:33:50,961 --> 00:33:53,794 With all that going on, you're lucky you even got us, man. 396 00:33:53,897 --> 00:33:56,889 - Who we hitting on this? - Avon Barksdale and crew. 397 00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:00,201 I fucking told you he was out. Didn't I fucking tell you? 398 00:34:01,238 --> 00:34:02,603 I fucking told her. 399 00:34:02,706 --> 00:34:05,402 For more than four weeks now, the Baltimore Police Department... 400 00:34:05,509 --> 00:34:08,000 surrendered portions of the police district to the drug trade. 401 00:34:08,111 --> 00:34:11,171 By tomorrow, the story goes national, and Washington reacts. 402 00:34:13,049 --> 00:34:15,347 Save the best questions for Tony Gray. 403 00:34:16,052 --> 00:34:17,644 He needs to shine even more than you. 404 00:34:27,430 --> 00:34:31,264 - I can't believe he wants us to knock. - Well, you can't flush guns now, can you? 405 00:34:31,368 --> 00:34:32,995 Well, fuck that. What about if they open up on us? 406 00:34:33,103 --> 00:34:35,128 These guys are at war with another crew. 407 00:34:35,238 --> 00:34:38,002 We go charging in there, chances are we will get lit up. 408 00:34:52,656 --> 00:34:54,021 Yo, B. 409 00:34:54,357 --> 00:34:57,155 Sham saying that Charles saying they still up at the rim shop. 410 00:34:57,260 --> 00:35:00,252 Marlo, his boy Chris and Vinson, they still eating. 411 00:35:00,363 --> 00:35:02,888 But the rest of the muscle, they rolled out. 412 00:35:14,511 --> 00:35:15,478 No. 413 00:35:16,346 --> 00:35:19,076 - Not the police. - Narco's out back, too. 414 00:35:19,182 --> 00:35:20,308 Shit. 415 00:35:21,318 --> 00:35:23,946 Let us in! We know you're in there. 416 00:35:25,589 --> 00:35:26,556 Shit. 417 00:35:27,057 --> 00:35:30,857 - Open the door, you fucking cocksuckers! - Fucked up, man. 418 00:35:30,994 --> 00:35:34,725 You all ask me, you all ugly ass niggas shouldn't be in here fucking around... 419 00:35:34,831 --> 00:35:37,527 with all these guns and shit, you know what I'm talking about? 420 00:35:39,069 --> 00:35:40,263 Open it. 421 00:35:44,307 --> 00:35:47,936 Come on, Avon. Enough with this shit. Open the fucking door. 422 00:35:50,447 --> 00:35:53,575 Open the fucking door, you cocksuckers! 423 00:35:54,918 --> 00:35:57,216 - Police! - Police! Police! 424 00:35:59,589 --> 00:36:02,023 - On the floor! - Search warrant! 425 00:36:07,497 --> 00:36:09,795 - I'm clean, man. - Get down! 426 00:36:09,899 --> 00:36:12,732 - Lace them shits tight. - Greggs, I'm opening up. 427 00:36:19,709 --> 00:36:23,372 That'd be mine. In fact, all that's mine. 428 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,072 You got a law degree? 429 00:36:28,385 --> 00:36:29,409 Take him. 430 00:36:30,420 --> 00:36:33,446 You fall on the parole violation. No matter whatever else happens... 431 00:36:33,556 --> 00:36:36,855 you do every day of what's left of your seven without seeing a jury. 432 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,723 Maybe even conspiracy to murder. 433 00:36:38,862 --> 00:36:41,831 We take this federal, see if we can't get you 10 to life. 434 00:36:41,931 --> 00:36:43,592 - No parole. - Whatever. 435 00:36:46,036 --> 00:36:49,472 Shit, you only do two days no how. That's the day you go in... 436 00:36:49,572 --> 00:36:51,335 And the day you come out. 437 00:36:52,509 --> 00:36:54,443 Yeah, well, here's the warrant. 438 00:37:00,784 --> 00:37:02,046 You read it slow. 439 00:37:04,220 --> 00:37:06,518 In between them two days, give you something to think on. 440 00:37:26,209 --> 00:37:28,837 Damn. Missed our shot. 441 00:37:30,413 --> 00:37:31,971 Roll, man. 442 00:37:34,284 --> 00:37:37,913 You bend over for us or, I swear to God, I will spend what's left of my career... 443 00:37:38,021 --> 00:37:40,216 shitting on every last supervisor in your district. 444 00:37:40,323 --> 00:37:43,121 From shift commanders down to sector sergeants, not one of them... 445 00:37:43,226 --> 00:37:46,821 will have any rank at all if we hear so much as a bark out of you. 446 00:37:46,930 --> 00:37:49,660 Look, my people saw this as a tactical deployment only! 447 00:37:49,799 --> 00:37:53,530 - The responsibility is mine alone! - Well, you won't fall alone... 448 00:37:53,837 --> 00:37:57,739 unless you're willing to fall exactly as we want you to. 449 00:37:57,841 --> 00:38:01,777 After COMSTAT, you go to retirement services and drop papers. 450 00:38:01,878 --> 00:38:05,143 Going out at a lieutenant's grade. That's right, you're busted back. 451 00:38:05,248 --> 00:38:08,775 We can't take your EOD away, but you're not going out on a major's pay. 452 00:38:08,885 --> 00:38:11,353 I can retire with my 30 right now before you bust me! 453 00:38:11,554 --> 00:38:16,048 - I got vacation time enough to make my 30! - Fuck your vacation time. 454 00:38:16,426 --> 00:38:19,418 You're out today, at the lower grade! 455 00:38:19,529 --> 00:38:21,724 That's against the goddamn contract! 456 00:38:21,831 --> 00:38:24,095 What part of "bend over" didn't you understand? 457 00:38:27,504 --> 00:38:30,667 - Avon locked up? - With most of his muscle, yeah. 458 00:38:30,807 --> 00:38:33,207 Good day to get back out on them corners, ain't it? 459 00:38:34,944 --> 00:38:37,572 - Make some money. - You bet. 460 00:38:48,525 --> 00:38:50,652 It's not just the $17 million in federal funding... 461 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,126 for Baltimore Law Enforcement that you've jeopardized. 462 00:38:53,229 --> 00:38:56,198 Take off another $200 million of federal money in your operating budget. 463 00:38:56,299 --> 00:38:58,767 Another $75 in capital expenditures... 464 00:38:59,302 --> 00:39:02,635 plus untold millions in pass-through federal dollars from Annapolis. 465 00:39:03,573 --> 00:39:05,370 All told, we're talking about... 466 00:39:05,775 --> 00:39:08,505 half a billion a year that Baltimore will be doing without. 467 00:39:08,611 --> 00:39:11,341 Furthermore, the US attorney here will use all the resources... 468 00:39:11,447 --> 00:39:14,507 of the Justice Department to interdict and destroy any attempt... 469 00:39:14,617 --> 00:39:19,350 to establish a geographic entity where drugs are legal. 470 00:39:19,455 --> 00:39:20,752 Washington should know... 471 00:39:20,857 --> 00:39:23,485 that what happened in West Baltimore in no way reflects... 472 00:39:23,593 --> 00:39:25,561 the policies of my administration. 473 00:39:25,695 --> 00:39:29,688 That was an aberration, Mr. Thomas, the work of one misguided police official. 474 00:39:29,799 --> 00:39:32,996 We understand your concerns, but, you know... 475 00:39:33,102 --> 00:39:37,300 for the Deputy Drug Czar to take the time out to drive 30 miles north... 476 00:39:37,407 --> 00:39:39,671 to deliver that message, hardly necessary. 477 00:39:41,845 --> 00:39:43,142 Rest assured. 478 00:39:47,450 --> 00:39:51,011 What up, G? Where the older ones at? 479 00:39:52,188 --> 00:39:54,281 Marlo got his package back out. 480 00:40:05,068 --> 00:40:09,767 Fire Burrell. This nonsense began in his shop without him knowing it! 481 00:40:10,006 --> 00:40:12,668 - Fire the man and move on. - Odell. 482 00:40:12,942 --> 00:40:16,469 I respect your opinion, but right now... 483 00:40:16,813 --> 00:40:21,477 Tony Gray, Carcetti maneuvering, now is not the time. 484 00:40:22,619 --> 00:40:26,885 No. We get past the primary, then I'll drive a stake in his heart. 485 00:40:26,990 --> 00:40:29,959 But right now I need him where he is, if for no other reason than to... 486 00:40:30,059 --> 00:40:34,018 well, to take the hit for this thing right here, but I tell you what I'm gonna do, though. 487 00:40:34,130 --> 00:40:36,690 I'm gonna shine on that new girl you like in the 11th. 488 00:40:36,799 --> 00:40:37,766 Yeah. 489 00:40:37,901 --> 00:40:41,701 Give her a spot on the ticket. Cut Eunetta loose. Eunetta's had her day. 490 00:40:43,139 --> 00:40:45,767 I respect the fact that you stood by me, Odell. 491 00:40:46,209 --> 00:40:47,540 I respect loyalty. 492 00:40:49,512 --> 00:40:52,970 ... and did so without properly informing his superior officers... 493 00:40:53,283 --> 00:40:56,719 and without regard to the criminal statutes he was sworn to enforce... 494 00:40:56,853 --> 00:41:00,118 thereby disgracing himself and his command. 495 00:41:02,525 --> 00:41:05,221 Is any of that subject to any contradiction... 496 00:41:05,328 --> 00:41:07,489 or argument whatsoever, Major Colvin? 497 00:41:07,597 --> 00:41:09,963 - No, sir. - No argument at all, Bunny? 498 00:41:10,733 --> 00:41:13,258 Not much you can say, is there? Not to real police. 499 00:41:14,570 --> 00:41:17,130 - Get on with it, motherfuck... - Excuse me, Major? 500 00:41:18,908 --> 00:41:21,308 Is the admin-lieutenant present? 501 00:41:22,946 --> 00:41:25,005 Major Colvin is relieved of duty. 502 00:41:25,114 --> 00:41:28,550 You are now the acting commander of the Western District. 503 00:41:56,946 --> 00:41:59,676 Damn, Bernard, didn't I tell you about these guys? 504 00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,210 - Hey, Bunk. - Hey, Freamon. 505 00:42:06,556 --> 00:42:10,652 - Who's that, Crutchfield? - No, Norris. Sleeping on a stakeout. 506 00:42:16,132 --> 00:42:16,733 Yeah, that's everyone we heard on the wire. 507 00:42:16,733 --> 00:42:18,758 Yeah, that's everyone we heard on the wire. 508 00:42:18,868 --> 00:42:21,894 McNulty's over there in Number One with Pearlman. Why don't you say "Hey"? 509 00:42:22,005 --> 00:42:22,972 All right. 510 00:42:26,709 --> 00:42:30,702 You got to be the stupidest motherfucker that I've ever gone out with. 511 00:42:30,813 --> 00:42:32,474 I can't wait to go to jail. 512 00:42:33,916 --> 00:42:37,716 What? What'd you say? What the fuck did you say, Bernard? 513 00:42:49,465 --> 00:42:50,591 Hey, Donald. 514 00:42:55,838 --> 00:42:56,805 You heard the tapes. 515 00:42:56,906 --> 00:43:00,342 Look, he came to me and said we could sell drugs if we move down to Vincent Street. 516 00:43:00,443 --> 00:43:01,501 And that's where I moved my crew. 517 00:43:01,611 --> 00:43:04,808 And you know I did. Because you the one that popped me with the G-pack... 518 00:43:04,914 --> 00:43:07,439 on my way to the spot and let me go, remember? 519 00:43:07,583 --> 00:43:10,143 You were selling drugs in Major Colvin's free zone? 520 00:43:10,319 --> 00:43:12,651 - You can prove that? - Ask him. He know. 521 00:43:13,656 --> 00:43:15,817 You know, this... This must be one of them contrapment things. 522 00:43:15,925 --> 00:43:18,917 - You mean entrapment? - Kid's got a point. 523 00:43:26,936 --> 00:43:29,302 Nineteen in bracelets from Barksdale on down... 524 00:43:29,405 --> 00:43:30,997 another eight wanted on warrants. 525 00:43:31,107 --> 00:43:35,066 Any way you can tie your case to this mess with Colvin? 526 00:43:35,178 --> 00:43:37,874 Make it like what he was doing led to your thing? 527 00:43:38,047 --> 00:43:39,173 I don't see it. 528 00:43:39,482 --> 00:43:43,714 Well, it's good work nonetheless, Major Daniels. 529 00:43:46,756 --> 00:43:51,693 Call came in from the Mayor's office half-hour ago approving your promotion. 530 00:43:51,928 --> 00:43:54,920 And now with Colvin, there's a new vacancy. 531 00:43:57,266 --> 00:43:59,700 - What about my wife? - What about her? 532 00:43:59,802 --> 00:44:01,667 The Mayor. Eunetta's seat. 533 00:44:02,271 --> 00:44:04,762 - Why would the Mayor... - Good police work maybe. 534 00:44:08,444 --> 00:44:10,708 Not everything is politics. 535 00:44:15,451 --> 00:44:18,682 - Hey, I'll take two. Western alumni. - All right, you got it. 536 00:44:19,856 --> 00:44:20,948 Major. 537 00:44:23,092 --> 00:44:24,184 I heard. 538 00:44:26,095 --> 00:44:27,756 How's your family take it? 539 00:44:32,969 --> 00:44:37,429 Lolita done dropped herself 30 pounds and got herself a real estate license, so... 540 00:44:38,708 --> 00:44:40,198 I guess she's fixing to leave me. 541 00:44:49,385 --> 00:44:53,412 I just wanted you to know that last tip you gave me was a winner. 542 00:44:54,190 --> 00:44:57,353 Yeah, I heard. That's good work. 543 00:45:00,796 --> 00:45:01,854 Also, I don't know if you know... 544 00:45:01,964 --> 00:45:04,899 Stringer Bell was shot to death two days ago. 545 00:45:06,669 --> 00:45:11,072 So, anyway, I put his name on the paper to tighten the PC. 546 00:45:13,176 --> 00:45:16,077 I figured, what the fuck. Once he's aced, right? 547 00:45:19,115 --> 00:45:21,208 You always did cut them corners, didn't you? 548 00:45:27,123 --> 00:45:29,683 Seems like you cut a few yourself, Major. 549 00:45:33,095 --> 00:45:37,532 - However it ends, you're good police. - Look, I just did what I did. 550 00:45:38,968 --> 00:45:40,333 It felt right. 551 00:45:42,572 --> 00:45:44,005 I'm fine with that. 552 00:46:06,095 --> 00:46:08,188 Tony, where's my vest, man? 553 00:46:25,081 --> 00:46:26,548 - Thank you. - Thanks. 554 00:46:27,283 --> 00:46:28,841 I don't understand. 555 00:46:31,787 --> 00:46:33,152 Drink your wine. 556 00:46:39,695 --> 00:46:41,720 You and me in public. 557 00:46:42,932 --> 00:46:45,730 - But your wife... - She wins without me. 558 00:46:48,838 --> 00:46:53,400 - On the Mayor's ticket, she wins. - And you make major? 559 00:46:56,245 --> 00:46:59,112 I think she was waiting for this day more than I ever was. 560 00:47:01,150 --> 00:47:02,879 And now she's not here. 561 00:47:03,919 --> 00:47:07,286 No. She's not. 562 00:47:14,964 --> 00:47:16,454 From out of nowhere, huh? 563 00:47:17,667 --> 00:47:19,100 Nowhere is right. 564 00:47:20,803 --> 00:47:22,100 Why me? 565 00:47:23,773 --> 00:47:25,741 I guess you don't live right. 566 00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:33,375 - Kari, what was that? - Nothing. 567 00:47:33,482 --> 00:47:36,076 - What broke? - Nothing, Mama. 568 00:47:41,957 --> 00:47:44,790 - So... - Yeah. 569 00:47:45,695 --> 00:47:49,290 - You just drive over here. - I did. 570 00:47:50,266 --> 00:47:52,996 Why tonight? What happened? 571 00:47:56,038 --> 00:47:57,801 I was in my old district tonight... 572 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:01,266 which is where I used to feel pretty good, I think. 573 00:48:01,644 --> 00:48:04,078 I wasn't so angry when I was there anyway. 574 00:48:05,247 --> 00:48:07,772 I don't know, someone said something, I guess, and... 575 00:48:09,285 --> 00:48:11,253 That doesn't make sense. 576 00:48:14,423 --> 00:48:17,620 - I guess I finished something today. - A case? 577 00:48:18,661 --> 00:48:19,889 More than that. 578 00:48:21,697 --> 00:48:24,825 It's like everything I poured into a glass came out the bottom. 579 00:48:25,701 --> 00:48:30,263 And I just kept on pouring, like the thing had a hole in it, you know? 580 00:48:31,874 --> 00:48:33,569 The things that make me right for this job... 581 00:48:33,676 --> 00:48:36,975 maybe they're the same things that make me wrong for everything else. 582 00:48:38,948 --> 00:48:41,041 Do you want to come inside for a drink? 583 00:48:45,054 --> 00:48:46,248 Not tonight. 584 00:48:49,692 --> 00:48:52,923 But if it's not too late, I wouldn't mind meeting your kids. 585 00:49:51,921 --> 00:49:55,015 Major Colvin misled his officers. 586 00:49:55,124 --> 00:49:58,958 They thought that his initiative was a tactical deployment... 587 00:49:59,061 --> 00:50:01,461 to entrap narcotics traffickers. 588 00:50:01,597 --> 00:50:03,895 There was no mention whatsoever... 589 00:50:03,999 --> 00:50:06,695 of the initiative to any superior officer. 590 00:50:06,802 --> 00:50:08,565 And for five weeks... 591 00:50:08,904 --> 00:50:12,601 all evidence of what he was doing managed to elude the entire command staff? 592 00:50:13,909 --> 00:50:15,137 Are you kidding, Commissioner? 593 00:50:15,244 --> 00:50:17,974 I take full responsibility, and indeed... 594 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,675 after I first learned of the matter, I informed the Mayor... 595 00:50:21,784 --> 00:50:23,718 and together we moved immediately... 596 00:50:23,819 --> 00:50:26,811 to relieve Major Colvin of his command. 597 00:50:26,922 --> 00:50:28,219 I'm under the impression that... 598 00:50:28,324 --> 00:50:30,622 this administration gave serious consideration... 599 00:50:30,726 --> 00:50:33,058 - to proceeding with Colvin's initiative. - No, sir. 600 00:50:33,162 --> 00:50:36,029 Major Colvin informed you of his effort at a COMSTAT meeting... 601 00:50:36,131 --> 00:50:37,223 more than a week ago. 602 00:50:37,333 --> 00:50:39,563 His free zones stayed up for six days after that. 603 00:50:39,668 --> 00:50:42,136 That's my responsibility, Councilman. 604 00:50:42,238 --> 00:50:44,468 We needed the time to conclude an ongoing investigation... 605 00:50:44,573 --> 00:50:45,733 by the Major Crimes Unit... 606 00:50:45,841 --> 00:50:48,639 a wiretap case that would have been disrupted had we moved immediately. 607 00:50:48,744 --> 00:50:51,872 Correct, Mayor Royce was aware of the pending case... 608 00:50:51,981 --> 00:50:55,109 and allowed us to delay our response accordingly. 609 00:50:55,217 --> 00:50:57,447 But the Mayor was unequivocal... 610 00:50:57,553 --> 00:51:00,545 in his opposition to what Major Colvin did. 611 00:51:00,689 --> 00:51:03,249 What we have here, I'm afraid, is nothing more complicated... 612 00:51:03,359 --> 00:51:08,160 than a solitary police commander who under great pressure proved to be amoral... 613 00:51:08,264 --> 00:51:11,062 incompetent, and unfit for command. 614 00:51:11,267 --> 00:51:14,828 No. It's about more than that. 615 00:51:14,937 --> 00:51:19,397 This is more important than who knew what when, or who falls on his sword or... 616 00:51:19,508 --> 00:51:23,308 whether someone can use this disaster to make a political point or two. 617 00:51:23,412 --> 00:51:25,778 - Mr. Chairman... - We can forgive Major Colvin... 618 00:51:25,881 --> 00:51:28,042 who, out of his frustration and despair... 619 00:51:28,150 --> 00:51:31,586 found himself condoning something which can't possibly be condoned. 620 00:51:31,687 --> 00:51:33,314 We can do that much. 621 00:51:34,523 --> 00:51:37,287 But, gentlemen, what we can't forgive... 622 00:51:37,493 --> 00:51:42,294 what I can't forgive ever is how we... 623 00:51:44,633 --> 00:51:47,864 you, me, this administration, all of us... 624 00:51:48,671 --> 00:51:51,196 how we turned away from those streets in West Baltimore... 625 00:51:51,307 --> 00:51:54,708 the poor, the sick, the swollen underclass of our city trapped... 626 00:51:54,810 --> 00:51:57,711 in the wreckage of neighborhoods which were once so prized... 627 00:51:57,813 --> 00:52:00,543 communities which we've failed to defend... 628 00:52:00,649 --> 00:52:04,312 which we have surrendered to the horrors of the drug trade... 629 00:52:04,420 --> 00:52:07,685 and if this disaster demands anything of us as a city... 630 00:52:07,856 --> 00:52:09,585 it demands that we say "Enough." 631 00:52:09,692 --> 00:52:12,684 Enough to the despair which makes policemen even think about surrender. 632 00:52:12,795 --> 00:52:15,229 Enough to the fact that these neighborhoods are not saved... 633 00:52:15,331 --> 00:52:16,798 or are beyond the saving. 634 00:52:16,899 --> 00:52:20,960 Enough to this administration's indecisiveness and lethargy... 635 00:52:21,270 --> 00:52:25,900 to the garbage which goes uncollected, the lots and row houses which stay vacant... 636 00:52:26,008 --> 00:52:28,033 the addicts who go untreated... 637 00:52:28,177 --> 00:52:31,943 the working men and women who every day are denied a chance at economic freedom. 638 00:52:34,483 --> 00:52:36,644 Enough to the crime which every day chokes... 639 00:52:36,752 --> 00:52:38,811 more and more of the life from our city. 640 00:52:40,756 --> 00:52:45,523 And the thing of it is, if we don't take responsibility and step up... 641 00:52:45,961 --> 00:52:48,327 not just for the mistakes and the miscues... 642 00:52:48,430 --> 00:52:51,228 but for whether or not we're gonna win this battle for our streets... 643 00:52:51,333 --> 00:52:52,664 if that doesn't happen... 644 00:52:52,768 --> 00:52:56,397 we're gonna lose these neighborhoods and ultimately this city forever. 645 00:52:56,505 --> 00:52:58,837 If we don't have the courage and the conviction... 646 00:52:58,941 --> 00:53:00,875 to fight this war the way it should be fought... 647 00:53:00,976 --> 00:53:04,969 the way it needs to be fought, using every weapon that we can possibly muster... 648 00:53:05,447 --> 00:53:06,846 if that doesn't happen... 649 00:53:08,417 --> 00:53:10,282 well, then we're staring at defeat. 650 00:53:12,788 --> 00:53:16,884 And that defeat should not and cannot and will not be forgiven. 651 00:53:25,067 --> 00:53:28,059 It was a good case, I'm not denying that. 652 00:53:28,837 --> 00:53:30,828 But I need to trust my people. 653 00:53:31,473 --> 00:53:34,306 Unless you can give your word, there's no way that I can... 654 00:53:34,410 --> 00:53:37,902 That's more than fair. Thanks. 655 00:53:39,415 --> 00:53:41,849 But it's better for me if I do something else. 656 00:53:45,554 --> 00:53:46,885 Detective. 657 00:53:49,792 --> 00:53:51,487 It's not you, it's me. 658 00:53:53,128 --> 00:53:55,096 - But where... - The Western, I think. 659 00:53:56,832 --> 00:53:58,493 Yeah, the Western feels like home. 660 00:54:13,816 --> 00:54:17,843 - You showed something today. - Just felt like it needed to be said. 661 00:54:21,323 --> 00:54:23,257 Sounds like you're running for something. 662 00:54:27,262 --> 00:54:29,924 Eunetta. Been a while. 663 00:54:44,947 --> 00:54:46,642 Thought you all was in training. 664 00:55:02,364 --> 00:55:04,855 So what time you want us to be there tomorrow, Coach? 665 00:55:06,201 --> 00:55:07,930 3:30 would be good. 666 00:55:08,237 --> 00:55:10,262 - Hope to see you all then. - All right. 667 00:55:27,389 --> 00:55:31,325 What the fuck you all standing around for? Man, get to work. 668 00:55:49,278 --> 00:55:52,770 ... to the false promise that our schools are providing a future for our children. 669 00:56:35,324 --> 00:56:37,588 That's it. That's it. 670 00:56:38,727 --> 00:56:39,694 Yeah. 671 00:59:48,150 --> 00:59:52,951 In the cases of Malik Carr, a.k.a. "Poot"... 672 00:59:53,889 --> 00:59:57,916 Herbert DeRodd Johnson, a.k. A "Puddin'," Arthur Carroll... 673 00:59:58,827 --> 01:00:00,260 What do you see right here? 674 01:00:01,229 --> 01:00:03,424 It's bulk metal, 10 cent a pound. 675 01:00:03,965 --> 01:00:04,932 Here. 676 01:00:05,167 --> 01:00:07,465 - Aluminum. - Right you are. 677 01:00:07,569 --> 01:00:10,538 Thirty cent a pound. No problem. 678 01:00:12,140 --> 01:00:13,869 You see, in these modern times... 679 01:00:14,076 --> 01:00:17,170 a man got to keep one eye on the ground, pick up what he find, feel me? 680 01:00:18,346 --> 01:00:20,871 Well, there's money to be made if you know where to look. 681 01:00:22,384 --> 01:00:24,511 I hope you listening 'cause I'm trying to school you here. 682 01:00:26,188 --> 01:00:30,648 Yeah, you don't want to know. You think you're brown, but you still green. 683 01:00:39,034 --> 01:00:40,501 How you doing? 684 01:00:45,974 --> 01:00:47,100 That's something, huh? 685 01:00:47,409 --> 01:00:50,572 Looks like they just took a big eraser and rubbed across it. 686 01:00:51,913 --> 01:00:53,005 Yeah. 687 01:00:55,617 --> 01:00:58,142 Yeah, but before a dope fiend come down here... 688 01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,778 cop a little something, ain't nary a soul hassle him. 689 01:01:02,557 --> 01:01:04,855 Hoppers and police, they just let him be. 690 01:01:09,464 --> 01:01:10,988 Was a good thing, huh? 691 01:01:15,237 --> 01:01:17,068 I'm just saying. 692 01:01:17,639 --> 01:01:19,903 You probably don't know, but it's rough out there, baby. 693 01:01:20,475 --> 01:01:24,309 Cops be back banging on you, hoppers be messing with you. 694 01:01:28,450 --> 01:01:29,883 Yeah, thank you. 695 01:01:30,819 --> 01:01:31,786 Shit. 696 01:01:31,987 --> 01:01:34,581 That's a dollar here. That's a seed. 697 01:01:36,258 --> 01:01:37,486 Come on, boy.