1 00:00:08,708 --> 00:00:11,040 You know how that go, right? 2 00:00:11,077 --> 00:00:15,673 Gave myself all these little rules about what I wouldn't do. 3 00:00:15,715 --> 00:00:18,843 Like, I told myself I'd do a lot of shit to get high, 4 00:00:18,885 --> 00:00:21,376 but I swore I wouldn't never trick. 5 00:00:23,890 --> 00:00:25,881 So, after I'm trickin'... 6 00:00:25,925 --> 00:00:28,450 I thought, "This ain't so bad. I'll do this for a while 7 00:00:28,495 --> 00:00:31,521 "except I'll make some more rules for myself, like... 8 00:00:31,564 --> 00:00:34,294 "I'm gonna use condoms, and I'm never gonna go 9 00:00:34,334 --> 00:00:37,462 "with more than one guy at the same time," and... 10 00:00:37,504 --> 00:00:41,201 Well, let's just say there are certain things I told myself 11 00:00:41,241 --> 00:00:43,232 I wouldn't never do. 12 00:00:44,477 --> 00:00:47,469 You know what my disease did to my rules, right? 13 00:00:49,115 --> 00:00:54,985 Yeah. Whatever it is you tell yourself you won't do to get high, 14 00:00:55,021 --> 00:00:57,819 you're pretty much making a list of everything you will do 15 00:00:57,857 --> 00:00:59,882 as soon as your inner addict tells you to. 16 00:00:59,926 --> 00:01:03,760 I mean, that bitch wants to kill me. 17 00:01:06,332 --> 00:01:08,163 She does. 18 00:01:08,868 --> 00:01:12,326 Even on my way here today, she was telling me not to come. 19 00:01:12,372 --> 00:01:16,069 She was tellin' me that I was all right on the street, that it was all good. 20 00:01:22,715 --> 00:01:24,706 I'm about done. 21 00:01:25,985 --> 00:01:28,385 I want to thank you all for letting me share. 22 00:01:28,421 --> 00:01:29,752 Amen. 23 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:36,862 Thanks for sharing, Dee-Dee. 24 00:01:36,896 --> 00:01:39,262 Always lift us. 25 00:01:42,302 --> 00:01:44,395 We got finished a little early. 26 00:01:44,437 --> 00:01:46,735 Anybody else feel like sharing? 27 00:01:48,908 --> 00:01:52,366 How about you, Bubs? Haven't heard from you in a while. 28 00:01:53,446 --> 00:01:55,505 Get up there! 29 00:01:55,548 --> 00:01:57,413 Come on, Bubs. 30 00:02:01,221 --> 00:02:03,018 All right, Bubbles. 31 00:02:07,627 --> 00:02:09,891 Hi... 32 00:02:09,929 --> 00:02:12,796 - You know who I am. - Hey, Bubs. 33 00:02:12,832 --> 00:02:15,733 - Bubs. Bubbles. - What's up, Bubbles? 34 00:02:15,768 --> 00:02:18,965 - I'm a grateful addict. - Hi, Bubbles. 35 00:02:19,939 --> 00:02:22,271 Been clean 15 months Thursday. 36 00:02:26,179 --> 00:02:28,204 This is the longest I been off. 37 00:02:31,751 --> 00:02:33,241 I... 38 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:37,847 Hey, yo! Let's go! 39 00:02:39,859 --> 00:02:43,192 I used to get so high, you know. I used to love to be high. 40 00:02:44,464 --> 00:02:46,728 Y'all see me out there on Monroe and Fayette 41 00:02:46,766 --> 00:02:48,631 doin' the dope-fiend lean, right? 42 00:02:48,668 --> 00:02:50,659 Be like this here. 43 00:02:52,205 --> 00:02:55,641 I come out of it, get a little more upright. 44 00:02:56,776 --> 00:02:58,801 Realize people treatin' me like a lamppost, 45 00:02:58,845 --> 00:03:00,870 hangin' fliers on me an' shit. 46 00:03:02,415 --> 00:03:06,875 Come winter, little kids hangin' Christmas balls on me like a damn tree. 47 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:10,287 Summertime, they'd walk me over to the garden, where the 9-till-9 used to be. 48 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:13,383 Make me a scarecrow. 49 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:23,599 Yeah. I used to love to get high. 50 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:32,241 Got to the point... 51 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:41,914 You know, I'm not in the right place to talk about this right now. 52 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:43,820 Keep comin' back, Bubs. 53 00:03:48,928 --> 00:03:51,624 Thanks, Bubs. Thanks for sharing. 54 00:03:51,664 --> 00:03:55,998 Is there anybody else with a burning desire to share? 55 00:03:58,071 --> 00:03:59,436 Marvin? 56 00:05:51,217 --> 00:05:53,117 It's quiet up in here. 57 00:05:55,121 --> 00:05:57,783 You got the Bank of America accounts? 58 00:06:02,261 --> 00:06:03,922 That pile there. 59 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:14,902 So, he claims to be raising money for some basketball program 60 00:06:14,941 --> 00:06:16,272 or day-care center. 61 00:06:16,309 --> 00:06:19,301 And the money comes in, and the money goes out. 62 00:06:20,246 --> 00:06:22,646 But no hoops, no day care. 63 00:06:22,682 --> 00:06:27,051 OK, so say we get Clay Davis, and say he flips... 64 00:06:27,086 --> 00:06:29,418 - Well, then he takes us up the ladder. - To who? 65 00:06:29,455 --> 00:06:31,446 If Clay is stealing from his own nonprofits... 66 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:34,517 That's an easy case for us to make with all the paperwork we got here. 67 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,393 That's a straight-up theft, maybe a tax charge or two, 68 00:06:37,430 --> 00:06:41,298 but there's money that all this paperwork only hints at, 69 00:06:41,334 --> 00:06:44,428 money that doesn't show up on a campaign finance report. 70 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:48,065 My guess is that Clay Davis knows about that too. 71 00:06:48,107 --> 00:06:50,905 I don't know, man. I like street work more. 72 00:06:50,943 --> 00:06:53,844 You'd rather sit in a surveillance van days on end 73 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,043 waiting to catch Tater handing Pee Wee a vial? 74 00:06:57,083 --> 00:06:59,813 This, Detective, is what you're telling me? 75 00:06:59,852 --> 00:07:04,346 A case like this here, where you show who gets paid 76 00:07:04,390 --> 00:07:08,019 behind all the tragedy and the fraud, 77 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:11,894 where you show how the money routes itself, 78 00:07:11,931 --> 00:07:15,924 how we're all, all of us vested, all of us complicit? 79 00:07:17,537 --> 00:07:19,402 Career case, huh? 80 00:07:20,106 --> 00:07:23,872 Baby, I could die happy. 81 00:07:25,044 --> 00:07:30,778 Still, man, I wonder what Marlo is up to right fucking now. 82 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:35,678 Celebrating. 83 00:07:35,721 --> 00:07:37,689 Yeah, but they still taking pictures? 84 00:07:37,723 --> 00:07:40,590 No. I ain't feel nothing in a while. 85 00:07:40,626 --> 00:07:43,686 We took care that thing over the Eastside. They ain't on me. 86 00:07:43,729 --> 00:07:45,822 Snoop, she been rolling around all week. 87 00:07:45,865 --> 00:07:48,459 Nothing, no cars, no vans, no helicopters. 88 00:07:48,501 --> 00:07:51,061 Monk, he checked after the re-up, no problem. 89 00:07:51,103 --> 00:07:53,799 - We wore 'em down. - Well, what about cameras? 90 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,105 Nothing since the camera we took out the wall back at the place. 91 00:07:57,143 --> 00:07:59,805 My overnight man, he been watchin', he ain't seen nothing either. 92 00:07:59,846 --> 00:08:02,644 'Sides, I think we good as long as we movin' around like this. 93 00:08:02,682 --> 00:08:05,310 Back to bidness, I say. 94 00:08:05,351 --> 00:08:08,616 She ain't had no work in a few months. She somewhat eager. 95 00:08:08,654 --> 00:08:10,246 Goddamn right. 96 00:08:10,289 --> 00:08:13,156 Too much fuckin' talkin' around here lately, man. 97 00:08:13,192 --> 00:08:15,558 Niggers need to shut the fuck up. For real. 98 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:17,119 A'ight, first thing. 99 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:19,063 We go hard at Webster Franklin's crew. 100 00:08:19,098 --> 00:08:22,295 Gave 'em the chance to get on our tit, he passed. 101 00:08:22,335 --> 00:08:25,133 Now we bang on his corners a couple of times till he fold. 102 00:08:25,171 --> 00:08:26,661 Now you talkin'. 103 00:08:26,706 --> 00:08:30,904 Yeah. Next, we step to June Bug for talkin' that shit. 104 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:35,710 He was a dead man when he opened his mouth. He just walkin' around not knowing it. 105 00:08:36,682 --> 00:08:38,445 An' I want that dicksucker. 106 00:08:38,484 --> 00:08:41,851 Took my money and the whole world know? 107 00:08:41,888 --> 00:08:43,822 Nah. He got to fall. 108 00:08:43,856 --> 00:08:46,791 Omar rolled out in retirement and shit. 109 00:08:46,826 --> 00:08:50,318 - I'm hearin' somewheres south. - Bring his ass back out of retirement. 110 00:08:51,931 --> 00:08:53,626 - A'ight. - Yeah, a'ight. 111 00:08:53,666 --> 00:08:55,725 We can step that shit up, 112 00:08:55,768 --> 00:08:57,861 but he's goin' to be comin' at us like we comin' at him. 113 00:08:57,904 --> 00:09:00,134 I mean, Joe and them, they said let that be. 114 00:09:00,172 --> 00:09:02,163 The crown ain't worth much 115 00:09:02,208 --> 00:09:05,735 if the nigger wearin' it always gettin' his shit took, 116 00:09:05,778 --> 00:09:07,541 and Joe oughta know that. 117 00:09:07,580 --> 00:09:10,242 Let him come. Yeah. 118 00:09:12,018 --> 00:09:14,486 What up with that thing down at Jessup? 119 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,511 You on the list. 120 00:09:17,290 --> 00:09:19,986 Go on down there any time you want. No problem. 121 00:09:20,026 --> 00:09:22,153 That's the dude right there. 122 00:09:24,263 --> 00:09:26,458 Ya hear? 123 00:09:26,499 --> 00:09:28,933 Time for y'all to earn your pay, niggers. 124 00:09:37,877 --> 00:09:39,504 Hey, Walon. 125 00:09:39,545 --> 00:09:43,174 I'm like, "What the fuck? What the hell do I look like?" 126 00:09:43,215 --> 00:09:45,206 Funny how you started out. 127 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:48,982 - What you mean? - Dope-fiend lean and all. 128 00:09:51,824 --> 00:09:54,258 Why didn't you keep going? 129 00:09:54,293 --> 00:09:58,662 You know, you hear a lot of funny shit in these rooms, 130 00:09:58,698 --> 00:10:03,465 people makin' fun of their mistakes, makin' people laugh, 131 00:10:03,502 --> 00:10:08,439 but in between all the jokes, there's a lot of truth to be spoke. 132 00:10:09,809 --> 00:10:13,336 Like that girl today. She damn near bled out, didn't she? 133 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:15,447 Yeah. 134 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:18,541 For a second there, I thought you might actually stand up 135 00:10:18,584 --> 00:10:20,882 and talk about Sherrod. 136 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,378 "A searching and fearless moral inventory." That's the step. 137 00:10:24,423 --> 00:10:28,189 Don't tell me about that. I live with that every fuckin' day, man. 138 00:10:28,227 --> 00:10:30,991 You got to let it out to let it go. 139 00:10:31,030 --> 00:10:34,397 I'm your sponsor, and I'm telling you, you got to get out of your head, 140 00:10:34,433 --> 00:10:36,196 - outside yourself. - I ain't never missed a meeting. 141 00:10:36,235 --> 00:10:37,759 I'm not talking about the meetings. 142 00:10:37,803 --> 00:10:40,101 I'm talking about where you go after the meetings. 143 00:10:40,139 --> 00:10:45,543 I'm talking about what you do, what you think, what you feel. 144 00:10:46,145 --> 00:10:47,908 I don't feel nothing. 145 00:10:47,947 --> 00:10:49,915 That was never your problem. 146 00:10:49,949 --> 00:10:53,510 Not even as a low-bottom dope fiend, that was never the problem. 147 00:10:53,552 --> 00:10:56,919 It would be a fuckin' shame to make it the problem now. 148 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:02,692 So Carcetti threw us a bone, huh? 149 00:11:02,728 --> 00:11:04,719 Took the cap off secondary employment. 150 00:11:04,764 --> 00:11:08,723 Yeah. Even I may have to go out and find honest work. 151 00:11:08,768 --> 00:11:11,328 There's no money to be made in this policing shit. 152 00:11:11,370 --> 00:11:13,634 They made that clear enough. 153 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:15,334 What are you qualified to do? 154 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:18,974 Aside from that, I mean. 155 00:11:19,011 --> 00:11:21,275 You know I got an in on the eight-to-four gig over 156 00:11:21,313 --> 00:11:24,180 at Friedman's Jewelry, you know, off of Reisterstown. 157 00:11:24,216 --> 00:11:26,741 Yeah, 20 an hour. 158 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:29,220 Stand around with some shiny shit and get paid. 159 00:11:29,255 --> 00:11:31,189 Work murders and starve. 160 00:11:31,223 --> 00:11:32,747 Fuck kind of shit is that? 161 00:11:32,792 --> 00:11:35,090 Anything from overnight or this morning? 162 00:11:35,127 --> 00:11:37,220 Yeah, midnight shift caught one. 163 00:11:37,263 --> 00:11:39,754 - Solved? - Open. 164 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:43,633 Bar cutting from Curtis Bay. Fahlteich's over at the morgue now. 165 00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:45,432 Slow night. 166 00:11:45,471 --> 00:11:47,462 Oh, I'm sure things will be picking up 167 00:11:47,506 --> 00:11:50,771 now we're no longer sitting on Marlo Stanfield. 168 00:11:51,510 --> 00:11:54,308 It wasn't my call to suspend the investigation, Jimmy. 169 00:11:54,346 --> 00:11:56,211 That decision came from your shop. 170 00:11:56,982 --> 00:11:59,883 Yeah, but nobody from the SA's office objected, did they? 171 00:11:59,919 --> 00:12:02,444 Just like nobody objected when Chris and Snoop 172 00:12:02,488 --> 00:12:04,786 got their gun charges postponed a couple of times. 173 00:12:04,824 --> 00:12:08,783 A postponement or two is pro forma on Calvert Street. You know that. 174 00:12:08,828 --> 00:12:12,025 Pro forma, from the Latin, 175 00:12:12,064 --> 00:12:14,328 meaning lawyers jacking each other off. 176 00:12:14,366 --> 00:12:15,890 Rules are the rules, Jimmy. 177 00:12:15,935 --> 00:12:17,926 There are no fucking rules. 178 00:12:18,971 --> 00:12:21,132 Fucking game's rigged. 179 00:12:22,374 --> 00:12:23,705 Gentlemen. 180 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:33,651 Why the fuck chew on Ronnie's arm, huh? She ain't the problem. 181 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,579 Tired of being jerked around. 182 00:12:38,457 --> 00:12:40,482 I think I'm gonna get me a secondary job 183 00:12:40,526 --> 00:12:42,858 at that high-end cigar shop on Baltimore Street. 184 00:12:42,895 --> 00:12:45,921 As what? The Indian out front? 185 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:48,399 I'd like to scalp your ass, motherfucker. 186 00:12:48,434 --> 00:12:50,061 Got it. 187 00:12:50,102 --> 00:12:51,433 Who's up? 188 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,771 There you go, givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck. 189 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:02,380 He's a pissy little bitch today. 190 00:13:02,948 --> 00:13:04,939 I'm worried for the boy. 191 00:14:32,204 --> 00:14:35,298 Some good news for a change, the test scores for third-graders 192 00:14:35,341 --> 00:14:37,172 going up a good 15 points. 193 00:14:37,209 --> 00:14:39,200 That's what I get for 54 million? 194 00:14:39,245 --> 00:14:42,840 Hey, you can run on that. 15 points is a nice, solid number. 195 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:45,578 Whatever bump in the test scores I get, I got to run on it. 196 00:14:45,618 --> 00:14:47,950 I sure as hell can't campaign on the crime rate. 197 00:14:47,987 --> 00:14:50,649 Burrell already told us we don't have a double-digit decline. 198 00:14:50,689 --> 00:14:52,179 A small drop, most likely. 199 00:14:52,224 --> 00:14:55,193 Until we take back the statehouse, this city will starve. 200 00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,821 I get to Annapolis, and whoever I leave behind as mayor - 201 00:14:57,863 --> 00:15:00,127 Bond, Campbell, or who knows - 202 00:15:00,165 --> 00:15:01,962 they're gonna have a better time of it. 203 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,992 It's not gonna be Nerese if she keeps goin' like she has. 204 00:15:04,036 --> 00:15:05,833 Sun papers made her look bad. 205 00:15:05,871 --> 00:15:10,399 Yeah. She tells me this real estate flip was a holdover from the last administration. 206 00:15:10,442 --> 00:15:13,639 True as far as it goes, but she got herself paid as well. 207 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:15,874 She looked bad enough that it'll cost you votes, 208 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:17,507 people who don't want to make you governor 209 00:15:17,549 --> 00:15:21,007 if that means Nerese finishes your term as mayor. She makes you vulnerable. 210 00:15:21,053 --> 00:15:23,681 What, can I ask, makes the governor vulnerable? 211 00:15:23,722 --> 00:15:26,589 He looked like a petulant little bitch with that diatribe on Olesker. 212 00:15:26,625 --> 00:15:28,058 He looked paranoid too. 213 00:15:28,093 --> 00:15:29,890 What about his failure on slots? 214 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:33,695 With a Democratic assembly, everyone expects a GOP governor will take his lumps. 215 00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:37,065 Besides, voters are split on legalizing slots. 216 00:15:39,672 --> 00:15:42,266 It has to hit him directly. 217 00:15:42,308 --> 00:15:46,108 Well, I'll see what's on the mind of the PG County boys tonight. 218 00:15:46,145 --> 00:15:49,046 I got dinner with Steny, Miller and Maloney down in Upper Marlboro, 219 00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:51,675 - which reminds me... - You're late to meet Jen. 220 00:16:00,025 --> 00:16:02,016 Doesn't this seem a little thin to you, 221 00:16:02,061 --> 00:16:05,258 running for governor two years into a four-year term? 222 00:16:05,297 --> 00:16:07,390 Everything's thin. 223 00:16:08,334 --> 00:16:10,928 The whole world shines shit and calls it gold. 224 00:16:15,674 --> 00:16:19,007 So Somerville, he keeps going back to ask Tommy the elder follow-ups, right? 225 00:16:19,044 --> 00:16:21,877 One question after another his editor wants him to ask him. 226 00:16:21,914 --> 00:16:26,874 Somerville, knocking on big Tommy's door, blaming the city desk, 227 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:30,355 saying, "I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Mayor, but my desk wants to know." 228 00:16:30,389 --> 00:16:33,222 - Shit, I see it coming. - So, three or four times, right? 229 00:16:33,258 --> 00:16:36,887 "My desk is wondering... I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Mayor, 230 00:16:36,929 --> 00:16:38,328 "but my desk wants to know." 231 00:16:38,364 --> 00:16:40,889 So finally, finally, Tommy D'Alesandro, 232 00:16:40,933 --> 00:16:43,663 he puts his ear down to his desk like this, and he says... 233 00:16:44,903 --> 00:16:47,269 "My desk tells your desk to go fuck itself." 234 00:16:49,141 --> 00:16:52,235 - That really happen? - Too good a story to check out. 235 00:16:52,277 --> 00:16:57,044 Hey. What's my favorite GA reporter have today for his favorite editor? 236 00:16:57,082 --> 00:16:59,175 Heartbreaker from Eastside. 237 00:16:59,218 --> 00:17:04,212 Salt-of-the-earth single mother of four dies from allergic reaction to blue crabs. 238 00:17:04,256 --> 00:17:07,589 Ate them all her life but goes face down in a lump backfin platter, 239 00:17:07,626 --> 00:17:09,594 pronounced an hour later at Hopkins, 240 00:17:09,628 --> 00:17:12,153 and the sister is starting a scholarship fund for the kids. 241 00:17:12,197 --> 00:17:14,290 Interviewed the whole family. Photos, the works. 242 00:17:14,333 --> 00:17:15,391 Attaboy. 243 00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:18,961 Round it off with some medical stuff on seafood toxicity, huh? 244 00:17:19,004 --> 00:17:22,371 - Growing incidence, all that good shit. - All right, cool. 245 00:17:25,744 --> 00:17:29,680 You ever notice how mother of four is always catching hell? 246 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:32,513 Murder, hit-and-run, burned up in row-house fire, 247 00:17:32,551 --> 00:17:33,984 swindled by bigamists. 248 00:17:34,019 --> 00:17:35,281 Tough gig, mother of four. 249 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,551 Innocent bystander is worse. He's always getting the short end. 250 00:17:38,590 --> 00:17:41,058 Not a lot of them around any more. 251 00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:43,152 Not a lot of innocence either, you ask me. 252 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:46,130 You know who there's less of? Statuesque blondes. 253 00:17:46,165 --> 00:17:49,657 You don't read about statuesque blondes in the newspapers any more. 254 00:17:49,701 --> 00:17:51,362 Buxom ones, neither. 255 00:17:51,403 --> 00:17:53,963 They're like a lost race. 256 00:17:54,006 --> 00:17:55,997 What do you got next? 257 00:17:56,041 --> 00:17:59,204 School project meeting. 258 00:17:59,244 --> 00:18:01,405 Mr. Whiting builds his Pulitzer. 259 00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:16,490 OK. Now I've seen everything. 260 00:18:30,776 --> 00:18:32,835 Why not call a cab, at least? 261 00:18:32,878 --> 00:18:35,745 If I thought these motherfuckers would reimburse me, I would have. 262 00:18:35,781 --> 00:18:37,772 So Homicide can't shop cars neither. 263 00:18:37,816 --> 00:18:39,716 We're down to two working units. 264 00:18:39,751 --> 00:18:43,744 One was at the morgue with Fahlteich, the other was on a fresh call. 265 00:18:43,789 --> 00:18:46,587 Jesus. What a joke. 266 00:18:47,926 --> 00:18:52,363 67-year-old female, mother of four, grandmother to many, 267 00:18:52,397 --> 00:18:54,331 lived alone. 268 00:18:54,366 --> 00:18:56,891 Not seen in two days, so the neighbor called. 269 00:18:56,935 --> 00:18:59,904 - No forced entry. - You the first officer? 270 00:18:59,938 --> 00:19:01,838 Had to kick in the back door. 271 00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:04,570 - You call for crime lab? - We're on the list. 272 00:19:04,610 --> 00:19:06,077 Today's list? 273 00:19:06,111 --> 00:19:09,808 Fucking crime lab too, huh? They've cut everything to the bone. 274 00:19:13,118 --> 00:19:15,450 Been here maybe a couple of days. 275 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:20,148 If it was warmer, she'd have bloated. 276 00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:23,161 Yeah, it's probably natural. 277 00:19:23,195 --> 00:19:27,393 I just didn't like the way she looked laying there with the pillow and all. 278 00:19:27,432 --> 00:19:30,162 Yeah, I bet she died in her sleep. 279 00:19:30,202 --> 00:19:33,000 You ever wake up with a pillow over your face? 280 00:19:33,038 --> 00:19:36,235 There's mornings with a hangover I hold the pillow over my face, 281 00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:38,539 just to keep the light out and the pain down. 282 00:19:38,577 --> 00:19:42,274 Me, I just throw up once or twice and go to work. 283 00:19:43,448 --> 00:19:45,348 The Western District way. 284 00:20:13,378 --> 00:20:17,439 The word I'm thinking about is Dickensian. 285 00:20:17,482 --> 00:20:21,043 We want to depict the Dickensian lives of city children 286 00:20:21,086 --> 00:20:23,850 and then show clearly and concisely 287 00:20:23,889 --> 00:20:25,686 where the school system has failed them. 288 00:20:25,724 --> 00:20:29,023 Not to defend the school system, but a lot of things have failed those kids. 289 00:20:29,061 --> 00:20:31,621 They're marginalized long before they walk into class. 290 00:20:31,663 --> 00:20:33,597 You want to look at who these kids really are, 291 00:20:33,632 --> 00:20:35,657 the parenting, or lack of it, in the city. 292 00:20:35,701 --> 00:20:38,465 The drug culture, the economics of these neighborhoods. 293 00:20:38,503 --> 00:20:40,801 Yet the schools are something that we can address. 294 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:42,739 Sure, we can beat up on city schools. 295 00:20:42,774 --> 00:20:45,299 Lord knows they deserve to be beat on every once in a while, 296 00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:48,507 but then we're just as irrelevant to these kids as the schools are. 297 00:20:48,547 --> 00:20:50,242 I mean, it's like you're up on a corner of a roof 298 00:20:50,282 --> 00:20:53,718 and you're showing some people how a couple of shingles came loose, 299 00:20:53,752 --> 00:20:56,380 and meanwhile, a hurricane wrecked the rest of the damn house. 300 00:20:56,421 --> 00:20:59,686 You don't need a lot of context to examine what goes on in one classroom. 301 00:20:59,725 --> 00:21:03,718 Really? I think you need a lot of context to seriously examine anything. 302 00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:07,220 No. I think Scott is on the right track. 303 00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:10,235 We need to limit the scope, not get bogged down in details. 304 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:13,204 To do what? To address the problem or to win a prize? 305 00:21:13,238 --> 00:21:14,535 I mean, what are we doing here? 306 00:21:14,573 --> 00:21:17,041 Look, Gus, I know the problems. 307 00:21:17,075 --> 00:21:19,703 My wife volunteers in a city school, 308 00:21:19,745 --> 00:21:22,441 but what I want to look at is the tangible, 309 00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:25,541 where the problem and solution can be measured clearly. 310 00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:28,314 There's more impediments to learning than a lack of materials 311 00:21:28,353 --> 00:21:32,016 - or a dysfunctional bureaucracy. - But who's going to read that? 312 00:21:32,791 --> 00:21:34,759 What is this series about in a sentence? 313 00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:36,283 What's the budget line? 314 00:21:37,729 --> 00:21:40,527 Johnny can't write 'cause Johnny doesn't have a fucking pencil. 315 00:21:40,565 --> 00:21:44,194 Augustus, I'm not as simple-minded as you might think. 316 00:21:44,236 --> 00:21:48,002 Now what do you want, an educational project or a litany of excuses? 317 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:53,307 I don't want some amorphous series detailing society's ills. 318 00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:56,212 If you leave everything in, soon you've got nothing. 319 00:21:57,683 --> 00:21:59,651 I think the schools are ripe for exploration, 320 00:21:59,685 --> 00:22:03,314 and I think Scott might be the man to lead the charge. 321 00:22:18,203 --> 00:22:20,694 You ain't doin' nothin' but aggravatin' me now. 322 00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:23,867 Get up in this house before I beat the black off your ass. 323 00:22:25,377 --> 00:22:27,436 Get up in here, fool. Come on. 324 00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:29,842 Treena. 325 00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:32,543 Treena. Wait for me. I'm-a come back out. 326 00:22:32,584 --> 00:22:34,449 Stay right here. Don't move. 327 00:22:34,486 --> 00:22:35,851 Come on, girl. 328 00:22:53,705 --> 00:22:56,401 Wooton, you dump in the numbers from the port story yet? 329 00:22:56,441 --> 00:22:57,840 Shit. I forgot. You want... 330 00:22:57,876 --> 00:23:01,471 - Give them to me. I'll put them in. - Overall, cargo is down by 12 points, 331 00:23:01,513 --> 00:23:05,005 but roll-on, roll-off gained 6.4% last year. 332 00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:08,247 A'ight. Drop 12, ro-ro's up 6.4. Thanks, got it. 333 00:23:08,286 --> 00:23:09,310 Boss man on your six. 334 00:23:09,354 --> 00:23:12,221 - Whiting? - Worse. Klebanow. 335 00:23:12,257 --> 00:23:13,884 Augustus. 336 00:23:13,925 --> 00:23:17,827 Who's the lead for opening day tomorrow? Not the game story but the color piece. 337 00:23:17,863 --> 00:23:19,854 Luxenberg wanted to go with McGuire. 338 00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:22,958 I think Scott would do an excellent job with the color piece. 339 00:23:23,001 --> 00:23:25,697 I'd really like to find some chaw-chewing old-timer 340 00:23:25,737 --> 00:23:27,967 who'd die rather than miss the O's opener, 341 00:23:28,006 --> 00:23:30,133 someone who says "baseball", you know? 342 00:23:30,175 --> 00:23:32,166 You're the boss. 343 00:23:32,210 --> 00:23:34,269 Scott, put your special touch on it, 344 00:23:34,312 --> 00:23:37,406 like you did with your Preakness piece last year. 345 00:23:37,449 --> 00:23:39,644 - Good luck to you. - Thanks. 346 00:24:24,329 --> 00:24:25,660 Fuck. 347 00:24:28,166 --> 00:24:31,431 - What's wrong? - It's all right, go back to sleep, baby. 348 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,637 - Metro desk. - Hey, Spry, it's me. 349 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:38,870 Hey, is the night man still on the copy desk? 350 00:24:38,910 --> 00:24:40,844 Sure is. You need to make a change? 351 00:24:40,879 --> 00:24:43,871 Yeah, yeah, I just want to check on the port story. 352 00:24:43,915 --> 00:24:46,076 I think I might have transposed some numbers. 353 00:24:46,117 --> 00:24:48,312 Andy, can I get port back? 354 00:24:48,353 --> 00:24:49,843 Yeah, sure. 355 00:24:49,888 --> 00:24:52,049 We got time on the final. Go ahead. 356 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:54,081 Yeah. Somewhere down in the A-matter, 357 00:24:54,125 --> 00:24:56,821 a graph about the cargo trends with percentages. 358 00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:59,160 - Ro-ro, cargo... - Read that back to me. 359 00:24:59,197 --> 00:25:02,223 Cargo down 12%, ro-ro up 6.4. 360 00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:05,998 12-point decrease and a 6.4 bump on the ro-ro? 361 00:25:06,037 --> 00:25:07,629 Yep, that's it. 362 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:11,938 Shit. I woke up in a sweat 'cause I thought I'd fucked that up. You sure? 363 00:25:11,977 --> 00:25:16,880 Tonight, you had the usual deadline nightmare to no actual purpose. 364 00:25:17,716 --> 00:25:19,741 I guess you're better at this than you thought. 365 00:25:19,784 --> 00:25:21,445 Yeah, I guess. 366 00:25:22,721 --> 00:25:25,656 - Thanks, Jay. - Anytime. Good night. 367 00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:28,853 The husband's thinking, "Gosh." I mean, the police show up at his door 368 00:25:28,894 --> 00:25:31,362 and say, "The lady you married from the Ukraine, 369 00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:35,628 "A, she's dead, B, she's got a 2005 gold Mercedes..." 370 00:25:47,178 --> 00:25:49,544 How long till my old lady? 371 00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:54,009 It's gonna be a while. Got my hands full. 372 00:25:54,052 --> 00:25:56,043 I'm across the street for breakfast. 373 00:25:56,087 --> 00:25:58,180 - There's only one way to rule. - Come on. Bullshit. 374 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:00,350 This is not a murder. He overdosed. 375 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:02,383 Look, we found his gear on the bathroom floor, 376 00:26:02,427 --> 00:26:05,624 and his girlfriend, who called 911, said the two of them were firing. 377 00:26:05,664 --> 00:26:08,030 I don't have the tox results yet, but even if they find heroin, 378 00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:10,057 it'd be a secondary cause. 379 00:26:10,101 --> 00:26:12,194 I've got petechials, I've got bruising around the neck. 380 00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:14,933 My preliminary is homicide by mechanical asphyxia. 381 00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:17,407 OK, fine. I'll fucking bring the paramedic in here, 382 00:26:17,442 --> 00:26:20,275 and he'll fucking explain it to you himself. Yeah, that's right. 383 00:26:20,312 --> 00:26:22,473 I'm going to go all the way out to Dundalk, drag his ass in here 384 00:26:22,514 --> 00:26:26,211 so you can hear it from him, 'cause I ain't taking this as a murder. 385 00:26:27,185 --> 00:26:29,176 Hey, Jimmy. 386 00:26:29,220 --> 00:26:31,211 Hey, Nancy. How's tricks? 387 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:33,850 - Heard you were working murders again. - Yeah. 388 00:26:33,892 --> 00:26:36,588 - How's life in the County? - Worse every year. 389 00:26:36,628 --> 00:26:39,153 You guys can't keep all the dirt on your side of the line. 390 00:26:39,197 --> 00:26:40,892 What's Kevin so hot about? 391 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:44,299 Oh, new cutter's dug her heels in, says it's a murder. 392 00:26:44,336 --> 00:26:47,328 It's not, but I can see why she'd think strangulation. 393 00:26:47,372 --> 00:26:50,830 Guy's got a fractured hyoid, petechiae in both eyes, 394 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:52,570 But it's a freak thing. 395 00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:55,808 If we weren't there to see it, I wouldn't have believed it myself. 396 00:26:55,847 --> 00:26:57,508 It's all postmortem. 397 00:26:57,549 --> 00:26:59,949 He fires up a speedball, then blacks out, 398 00:26:59,985 --> 00:27:01,680 falls between toilet and bathtub, 399 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,188 manages to get himself wedged back pretty good. 400 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:06,213 I couldn't make this shit up. 401 00:27:06,257 --> 00:27:08,953 Medics come, pronounce him right then and there. 402 00:27:08,994 --> 00:27:13,863 But get this - they can't pry the guy out without grabbing hold of his neck for leverage. 403 00:27:13,898 --> 00:27:15,195 We watched them do it. 404 00:27:15,233 --> 00:27:19,829 This Dundalk medic and the morgue guy just grab his neck and start yanking. 405 00:27:19,871 --> 00:27:23,398 Finally they get him out, he comes down here looking like a strangle job. 406 00:27:23,441 --> 00:27:25,466 They can't tell that it's postmort? 407 00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:27,375 On a fresh body, no one can. 408 00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:29,812 Grab a guy too hard, and you can cause petechiae, 409 00:27:29,848 --> 00:27:32,783 break a hyoid, even leave bruising, 410 00:27:32,817 --> 00:27:34,284 all after death. 411 00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:35,684 Fuck me. 412 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,985 Yeah. So Infante's about to lose his mind 413 00:27:39,024 --> 00:27:41,492 if he can't talk this thing out of becoming a murder. 414 00:27:41,526 --> 00:27:44,359 Either that or charge the paramedic. 415 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:46,956 You goin' across the street for breakfast? 416 00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:49,330 - Buy me some scrapple, sailor? - Come on. 417 00:27:54,272 --> 00:27:56,035 Number two. 418 00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:39,206 Surprise. 419 00:28:41,586 --> 00:28:45,420 My man Sergei thought we should talk first. 420 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:47,118 Talk about what? 421 00:28:47,158 --> 00:28:48,591 That's on you, young 'un. 422 00:28:48,626 --> 00:28:50,560 Whatever business you tryin' to do through the Russians, 423 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:52,028 you got to go through me first. 424 00:28:52,063 --> 00:28:53,860 - Yeah? - Yeah. 425 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:57,925 'Cause up in this bitch here, I'm what you might consider... 426 00:28:59,170 --> 00:29:01,331 an authority figure. 427 00:29:01,372 --> 00:29:04,205 You know, everybody got to get my help or ask my advice, 428 00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:06,039 like, on all kinds of shit. 429 00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:09,808 Sergei step to me the other day sayin' this nigger Marlo, 430 00:29:09,848 --> 00:29:13,682 who he don't even know, just be sending him cash money 431 00:29:13,718 --> 00:29:15,652 to get on his visiting list. 432 00:29:15,687 --> 00:29:17,484 So, then he ask me if I knew Marlo. 433 00:29:17,522 --> 00:29:20,889 I tell him, "Hell, yeah, I know Marlo real well." 434 00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:24,486 You know? Over Westside, everybody know everybody, right? 435 00:29:26,798 --> 00:29:28,459 Let me help you find your tongue. 436 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,992 You tryin' to get to the Russian so you can get a line to his people. 437 00:29:32,036 --> 00:29:34,470 You tryin' to get to the Greek motherfuckers 438 00:29:34,506 --> 00:29:38,067 because if you can you want to cut Proposition Joe 439 00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:41,601 and all them other Eastside bitches out the connect. 440 00:29:41,646 --> 00:29:45,013 I mean, you a natural businessman, right? 441 00:29:45,049 --> 00:29:47,142 But this is the thing, though, and I mean, you know, 442 00:29:47,185 --> 00:29:49,380 I'm with you on all that as far as it goes, you know? 443 00:29:49,420 --> 00:29:52,617 Westside definitely need to stick together, you know what I mean? 444 00:29:52,657 --> 00:29:55,626 And all the fuss about you comin' at me - 445 00:29:55,660 --> 00:30:00,529 I say let bygones be bygones, but fuck all them Eastside bitches. 446 00:30:01,232 --> 00:30:03,757 That's just the way I feel about it. 447 00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:06,703 I got nothin' but love in my heart for Westside niggers, 448 00:30:06,738 --> 00:30:08,069 nothin' but love. 449 00:30:08,106 --> 00:30:11,598 Of course, I mean, you know, 450 00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:14,237 I got to have my taste too. 451 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:15,644 Figured that. 452 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,480 So send my sister a hundred large, 453 00:30:19,517 --> 00:30:23,851 and the next time you come to Jessup, it won't be my grill talkin' at you. 454 00:30:23,888 --> 00:30:26,322 My word on that. 455 00:30:26,357 --> 00:30:28,348 A hundred large, huh? 456 00:30:29,494 --> 00:30:32,486 So what's up, man? What's up with you otherwise, you know? 457 00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:34,293 The game is the game. 458 00:30:36,067 --> 00:30:37,466 Always. 459 00:30:38,670 --> 00:30:42,401 They do not. You're making that shit up. 460 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,204 - I'm looking for you, Jimmy. - Hey, what's up? 461 00:30:45,243 --> 00:30:47,234 You know Nancy Porter from the County? 462 00:30:47,278 --> 00:30:49,337 - Lester Freamon. - Good to meet you. 463 00:30:50,481 --> 00:30:52,244 Well, thanks for breakfast. 464 00:30:52,283 --> 00:30:54,217 I'll see you downstairs. 465 00:30:55,486 --> 00:30:58,717 I spent last night sitting on that same McCulloh Street lot. 466 00:30:58,756 --> 00:31:00,883 - They went back there? - Twice. 467 00:31:00,925 --> 00:31:04,258 Once in the early evening and once again after three. 468 00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:08,992 They're getting sloppy, Jimmy, especially now they think we've backed away. 469 00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:15,331 You know, a few good bugs, a couple of small surveillance cameras, 470 00:31:15,373 --> 00:31:19,139 some man hours, two weeks, three the most. 471 00:31:19,177 --> 00:31:21,611 That's all this fucking case needs. 472 00:31:21,646 --> 00:31:25,173 Daniels can't give us that. He made that pretty fucking clear. 473 00:31:26,751 --> 00:31:28,742 Then we go elsewhere. 474 00:31:30,021 --> 00:31:33,957 Right field, number 21, Nick Markakis. 475 00:31:33,992 --> 00:31:37,359 Going to the game? Long-time O's fan? 476 00:31:37,395 --> 00:31:39,363 I could care less about opening day at this point. 477 00:31:39,397 --> 00:31:42,730 Between Bud Selig and Barry Bonds, they've ruined baseball for me. 478 00:31:42,767 --> 00:31:44,962 - You have a minute to talk? - Late to meet somebody. 479 00:31:45,003 --> 00:31:48,530 How can you commit to a sport where the commissioner justifies a labor lockout 480 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:50,234 and cancels the World Series? 481 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:52,038 How long you been an O's fan? 482 00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:56,911 Actually, I grew up with the Cubs, but my son, he kind of likes them so... 483 00:31:56,948 --> 00:32:00,907 And then on steroids, which has destroyed what's left of baseball's credibility, 484 00:32:00,952 --> 00:32:02,351 he's nowhere to be found. 485 00:32:02,387 --> 00:32:04,981 So, you an Orioles fan? 486 00:32:05,023 --> 00:32:08,186 Are you excited that it's opening day because something like that is... 487 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,484 Fuck baseball! 488 00:32:12,363 --> 00:32:14,695 Peanuts! Get your peanuts! 489 00:32:23,541 --> 00:32:26,999 51, 52, 53. 490 00:32:32,216 --> 00:32:35,481 Hey, Bubs, how you doin'? Have a seat all the way around the other side. 491 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,885 Much obliged. 492 00:32:57,342 --> 00:32:59,810 Stop crying. Don't grab stuff off my plate. 493 00:32:59,844 --> 00:33:01,675 Mommy's going to whup you. 494 00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:04,975 Do you need some help here? 495 00:33:05,016 --> 00:33:07,177 Because we don't do that here. 496 00:33:07,218 --> 00:33:11,086 In our house, there's no hitting anyone, especially children. 497 00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:12,817 Do you understand me? 498 00:33:29,307 --> 00:33:32,003 Sorry I'm late. Traffic's a nightmare. 499 00:33:47,158 --> 00:33:50,127 Think you're funny, huh? Think I still don't have... 500 00:33:57,735 --> 00:34:00,067 All right, I get the point, fuckholes. 501 00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:10,813 Fuck you both, already. 502 00:34:10,848 --> 00:34:13,510 A couple more years of this, you'll be ready for a radio car. 503 00:34:13,551 --> 00:34:16,111 Why is it you can't come up to my office and do this like grown-ups? 504 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:19,783 They still make you sign in at the front desk out Woodlawn? 505 00:34:19,824 --> 00:34:21,553 Who'd you knuckleheads piss on this time? 506 00:34:21,592 --> 00:34:25,187 We're still working the edges of something the bosses shut down. 507 00:34:25,229 --> 00:34:28,062 - Yeah, what are we talking about? - The bodies in the vacants. 508 00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:29,794 They shut that down? 509 00:34:29,834 --> 00:34:33,133 Jesus Christ. What, 22 murders doesn't rate? 510 00:34:33,171 --> 00:34:35,230 Not any more. 511 00:34:35,273 --> 00:34:37,935 You were on it more than a year. Where were you? 512 00:34:37,975 --> 00:34:40,443 Too close to quit. 513 00:34:40,478 --> 00:34:45,643 You know Marlo Stanfield, Chris Partlow, Snoop Pearson? 514 00:34:45,683 --> 00:34:47,344 Those names ring out. 515 00:34:47,385 --> 00:34:50,149 Well, we got nothing back from any lab work, 516 00:34:50,188 --> 00:34:53,282 there's no witnesses, nothing to make a murder prosecution, 517 00:34:53,324 --> 00:34:56,657 so we settled in, sat on them for about a year. 518 00:34:56,694 --> 00:34:59,094 - You got a pattern? - A good one. 519 00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:01,928 Two or three weeks with some good FBI cameras and wires, 520 00:35:01,966 --> 00:35:03,058 maybe a half-dozen agents... 521 00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:05,569 Like we tell you boys when the case broke, 522 00:35:05,603 --> 00:35:08,003 we aren't much into ghetto drug shit any more. 523 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:10,371 Most of our guys are counter-terror and political stuff. 524 00:35:10,441 --> 00:35:12,136 We already did all the long legwork. 525 00:35:12,176 --> 00:35:14,371 Two or three weeks, you guys end up with a big headline. 526 00:35:14,412 --> 00:35:16,676 You federal fucks like headlines. 527 00:35:18,149 --> 00:35:20,140 I'll run it up the flagpole. 528 00:35:20,918 --> 00:35:22,783 - I'm gonna drive away now. - All right. 529 00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:24,811 If it's OK with you two suckholes. 530 00:35:31,395 --> 00:35:32,384 Welcome back to Camden Yards. 531 00:35:32,430 --> 00:35:34,125 As we mentioned a moment ago, the Orioles know... 532 00:35:34,165 --> 00:35:35,462 I got good stuff. 533 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:39,061 Hang on. Come here and tell me, so I can put it on the budget. 534 00:35:39,103 --> 00:35:41,037 I got a kid in a wheelchair outside the stadium, 535 00:35:41,072 --> 00:35:42,266 wanting to go to the game 536 00:35:42,306 --> 00:35:44,604 but unable because he didn't have the money for a scalped ticket. 537 00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:46,633 Sounds pretty good. You got art? 538 00:35:46,677 --> 00:35:49,111 Photo said they were too booked with the game. 539 00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:50,671 This is your main color piece. 540 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:53,275 You got to have a picture of the kid if he's your lead. 541 00:35:53,317 --> 00:35:55,114 - Can we send them out now? - I guess. 542 00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:58,316 - He probably rolled out, but you can try. - Shit. 543 00:35:58,356 --> 00:35:59,880 - How old is this fella? - 13. 544 00:35:59,924 --> 00:36:01,915 What's with his parents? Why wasn't he in school? 545 00:36:01,959 --> 00:36:03,756 What, in this city? He just cut. 546 00:36:03,794 --> 00:36:06,092 - So what about his parents? - Both dead. No shit. 547 00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:08,963 - He lives with his aunt in West Baltimore. - How'd he get in the wheelchair? 548 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,628 Something about a stray gunshot. It was all pretty vague. 549 00:36:11,669 --> 00:36:13,068 You got a date when it happened? 550 00:36:13,104 --> 00:36:15,038 He was a little hinky with telling me much. 551 00:36:15,072 --> 00:36:17,063 Fact is, he would only let me go with his nickname. 552 00:36:17,108 --> 00:36:20,134 Look. I got to start writing if you want it for the e-dot. 553 00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:23,909 Yeah. Why don't you work in Metro Write so I can read over your shoulder? 554 00:36:23,948 --> 00:36:26,439 Hey, Scott. What he go by, the nickname? 555 00:36:26,484 --> 00:36:28,782 - E.J. - E.J. 556 00:36:30,755 --> 00:36:32,518 Hey, Jane, come here a minute. 557 00:36:34,492 --> 00:36:36,426 Check clips for the last three years. 558 00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,827 See if we got anything on a kid in the city wounded by a stray bullet. 559 00:36:39,864 --> 00:36:43,459 He'd be 13 now. Nickname of E.J. Could be his initials. 560 00:36:43,501 --> 00:36:44,490 Who is he to us? 561 00:36:44,535 --> 00:36:47,766 He's the lead of our opening-day piece. I'd love to get art on the kid. 562 00:36:47,805 --> 00:36:49,102 Don't hold your breath. 563 00:36:56,447 --> 00:36:58,415 It's a hell of a case, really. 564 00:36:58,449 --> 00:37:01,441 And God knows they could use the help. 565 00:37:19,503 --> 00:37:22,131 - Sorry I'm late. - Anything up? 566 00:37:22,173 --> 00:37:24,266 - Just the usual. You all right? - Yeah. 567 00:37:25,676 --> 00:37:27,906 We do this right, it is like a spiral. 568 00:37:27,945 --> 00:37:31,608 We start on the outside of the circle, and we work our way around the edges, 569 00:37:31,649 --> 00:37:35,517 pick up everything we can before we get to Clay and the people he keeps close. 570 00:37:35,553 --> 00:37:37,214 You think Clay knows the indictment's coming? 571 00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:41,555 Clay Davis has been waiting for the other shoe to drop his whole life. 572 00:37:43,561 --> 00:37:45,426 He knows. 573 00:37:45,463 --> 00:37:47,363 And it's your people up in my shit. 574 00:37:47,398 --> 00:37:50,424 Not no feds, not no state people from Annapolis. 575 00:37:50,468 --> 00:37:52,402 It's motherfuckers from my own city. 576 00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:54,199 My hands are tied here, Clayton. 577 00:37:54,238 --> 00:37:56,502 It's a new mayor, a new state's attorney. 578 00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:59,941 I'm out there doing the Lord's work for you, Erv. You know it. 579 00:37:59,977 --> 00:38:02,343 Who got that pay raise through the council? 580 00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:04,541 Just enough for you to get that new patio 581 00:38:04,582 --> 00:38:07,380 but not enough for that guy from Pittsburgh to take your place. 582 00:38:07,418 --> 00:38:08,908 I wish I could. 583 00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:12,980 You know I wish I could, but with Carcetti in, people are watching. 584 00:38:13,024 --> 00:38:14,389 I got eyes on me now. 585 00:38:14,425 --> 00:38:16,222 You the commissioner still, right? 586 00:38:16,260 --> 00:38:18,091 Yeah, but it ain't like it was. 587 00:38:18,129 --> 00:38:19,858 If you don't control it, who does? 588 00:38:19,897 --> 00:38:24,197 On this, I got to reach around Daniels, and he's Carcetti's boy. 589 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:29,002 Look. This is a grand jury investigation, for God's sake. 590 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,942 We could both be charged with obstruction of justice. 591 00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:34,137 God damn it, Erv. 592 00:38:34,178 --> 00:38:37,238 I been there for you, carried water for you, and you do me like this? 593 00:38:37,281 --> 00:38:40,648 Clay, I can't. Nobody could. 594 00:38:41,952 --> 00:38:44,250 You think I'm goin' down, don't you? 595 00:38:44,288 --> 00:38:47,382 You think I'm done. 596 00:38:47,425 --> 00:38:50,952 All y'all ungrateful bitches thinkin' you can throw me out the boat. 597 00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:53,122 - Clay. - A'ight! 598 00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:55,189 I'm gonna remember this moment, Erv. 599 00:38:55,232 --> 00:38:58,360 I'm gonna hold on to this moment. Yeah. 600 00:39:09,213 --> 00:39:10,703 Clay crying to you? 601 00:39:10,748 --> 00:39:13,148 Like I could put brakes on this mess. 602 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:14,378 Is that... 603 00:39:14,418 --> 00:39:16,682 Yeah. Straight from P and R. 604 00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:20,289 And that's with the numbers bent as far as we dare. 605 00:39:20,324 --> 00:39:24,556 With city hall asking for clean stats, there's only so much we can do. 606 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:26,586 The hell are we gonna tell the mayor? 607 00:39:31,402 --> 00:39:34,235 I sat there for half an hour with him and his deputy. 608 00:39:34,271 --> 00:39:35,761 He knows what he's saying no to. 609 00:39:35,806 --> 00:39:38,138 - Then how the fuck... - It's personal, Jimmy. 610 00:39:38,175 --> 00:39:40,666 Somebody at city hall really pissed off the US Attorney. 611 00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:43,703 - You're kidding me. - No, and I got an earful. 612 00:39:43,748 --> 00:39:46,842 You tell Lester I'm still trying to figure out what the problem is, 613 00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:50,342 but for right now, you forget about shopping this case anywhere. 614 00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:54,984 DEA, ATF, Customs - you guys are shut out across the board. 615 00:39:56,093 --> 00:39:58,220 Fish and fucking Wildlife couldn't help you. 616 00:39:58,262 --> 00:39:59,593 Sorry, brother. 617 00:40:02,867 --> 00:40:04,858 The kid is nowhere to be found. 618 00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:07,871 I sent photo down there to try to dig him up. Nothing. 619 00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:09,429 - Probably left. - OK. 620 00:40:09,473 --> 00:40:12,636 So we got a poor black kid in a wheelchair with no ticket. 621 00:40:12,676 --> 00:40:15,440 He rolls himself from somewhere in West Baltimore to... 622 00:40:15,479 --> 00:40:19,210 to "the shadow of the mighty brick-faced coliseum known as Oriole Park, 623 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:23,084 "listening to the cheers from the crowd, which told the whole tale." 624 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,056 We're gonna give good play to a 13-year-old known only as E. J, 625 00:40:27,091 --> 00:40:29,321 who declines to give his name because he skipped school, 626 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,385 he's got no parents, he lives with his aunt. 627 00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:34,262 I'm not saying that this kid isn't everything you say he is, 628 00:40:34,298 --> 00:40:36,129 but, Scott, damn, as an editor, 629 00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:38,761 I need a little more to go on if I'm gonna fly this thing. 630 00:40:38,803 --> 00:40:40,100 I resent the implication. 631 00:40:40,137 --> 00:40:42,765 I'm not implying anything. I'm on your side. 632 00:40:42,807 --> 00:40:44,468 But the standard for us has to be... 633 00:40:44,508 --> 00:40:47,375 Scott, just finished your story. 634 00:40:47,411 --> 00:40:50,380 Good read. I'm putting it out front. 635 00:40:50,414 --> 00:40:54,111 I think you've really captured the disparity of the two worlds in this city 636 00:40:54,151 --> 00:40:56,881 in a highly readable narrative. I wouldn't change a word. 637 00:40:56,921 --> 00:41:00,049 Thanks, but I'm not sure everyone shares your enthusiasm. 638 00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:01,853 Jim, aren't you just a little bit concerned 639 00:41:01,892 --> 00:41:03,860 that we don't even have a last name for this kid? 640 00:41:03,894 --> 00:41:05,725 I thought we held ourselves up to a... 641 00:41:05,763 --> 00:41:08,095 It's not an ideal situation, no, 642 00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:10,726 but the boy's reluctance to give his last name 643 00:41:10,768 --> 00:41:14,431 clearly stems from his fear of being discovered as a truant. 644 00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:16,064 You have a problem with it? 645 00:41:16,106 --> 00:41:19,507 A little bit, yeah. I'm just saying that the standards that... 646 00:41:19,543 --> 00:41:21,534 I think we're on terra firma here. 647 00:41:25,149 --> 00:41:26,446 Gotcha. 648 00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:29,009 The man made a call. You're good to go. 649 00:41:29,053 --> 00:41:30,520 Thanks, Scott. 650 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:37,552 The nigger Webster's shop right there. 651 00:41:37,595 --> 00:41:42,191 So look, I'm gonna roll up, and y'all gonna pop out and pop off. 652 00:41:42,233 --> 00:41:43,461 Drop who you can. 653 00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:47,460 Yo. Let's go all West Coast with this. 654 00:41:50,274 --> 00:41:51,605 Say what? 655 00:41:51,642 --> 00:41:54,406 Drive-by. That's how they do. 656 00:41:54,445 --> 00:41:56,777 Drop a motherfucker and not slow down. 657 00:41:56,814 --> 00:41:59,180 Like Boyz N The Hood. 658 00:41:59,216 --> 00:42:00,649 Shit was tight, remember? 659 00:42:07,725 --> 00:42:09,659 - Yo, there you go. - What's up? 660 00:42:17,501 --> 00:42:20,026 Man, I ain't even hit near one of them. 661 00:42:20,070 --> 00:42:21,935 This nigger's wound. 662 00:42:28,612 --> 00:42:30,045 Fuck them West Coast niggers, 663 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,049 'cause in B-more, we aim to hit a nigger, you heard. 664 00:42:40,057 --> 00:42:42,753 Guy leaves two dozen bodies scattered all over the city, 665 00:42:42,793 --> 00:42:45,023 no one gives a fuck. 666 00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:47,121 It's because who he dropped. 667 00:42:47,164 --> 00:42:48,461 True that. 668 00:42:48,499 --> 00:42:52,435 You can go a long way in this country killing black folk. 669 00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:54,767 Young males especially. 670 00:42:54,805 --> 00:42:56,534 Misdemeanor homicides. 671 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,371 If Marlo was killing white women. 672 00:42:58,409 --> 00:42:59,671 White children. 673 00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:00,836 Tourists. 674 00:43:03,047 --> 00:43:06,847 One white ex-cheerleader tourist missing in Aruba. 675 00:43:06,884 --> 00:43:09,409 Trouble is, this ain't Aruba, bitch. 676 00:43:11,055 --> 00:43:15,151 You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, 677 00:43:15,192 --> 00:43:18,958 they wouldn't send the 82nd Airborne? 678 00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:20,520 Negro, please. 679 00:43:20,564 --> 00:43:22,725 There's got to be some way to make them turn on the faucet. 680 00:43:22,766 --> 00:43:26,395 Come on, Jimmy. You're the smartest boy in the room. 681 00:43:26,437 --> 00:43:28,997 You come up with something in this broke-ass city. 682 00:43:39,350 --> 00:43:41,511 Isn't he married or some shit now? 683 00:43:47,825 --> 00:43:50,055 Did you edit this opening-day piece? 684 00:43:51,295 --> 00:43:55,925 Whiting himself blessed it as written before I could take a meat ax to it. 685 00:43:55,966 --> 00:43:58,696 Did it bother you that we don't have the boy's full name? 686 00:43:58,736 --> 00:44:00,829 Yes, Rebecca, it did. 687 00:44:03,207 --> 00:44:04,799 Don't give me that "huh". 688 00:44:04,842 --> 00:44:06,605 Whiting wasn't buying any problem I had. 689 00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:08,805 No art of the kid? 690 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:12,646 None. 691 00:44:19,256 --> 00:44:20,848 How long we been here? 692 00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:24,885 More than a hour. 693 00:44:24,928 --> 00:44:26,919 Why you think we sitting here? 694 00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:33,531 See who home and who not, who on the block, 695 00:44:33,570 --> 00:44:35,231 police and whatnot. 696 00:44:35,272 --> 00:44:37,035 That's right. 697 00:44:37,074 --> 00:44:40,271 You don't ever want to be the last man to a party. You feel me? 698 00:44:42,212 --> 00:44:45,773 That's why I show up to a job an hour before. 699 00:44:45,816 --> 00:44:47,647 Sometimes two. 700 00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:52,284 I don't want nobody settin' up on me while I'm settin' up on them. 701 00:44:53,257 --> 00:44:58,194 'Cause there ain't no good thing about motherfuckin' surprises in this line of work. 702 00:44:59,963 --> 00:45:02,124 Why we doin' June Bug anyway? 703 00:45:02,766 --> 00:45:05,257 Heard he called Marlo a dicksuck. 704 00:45:05,302 --> 00:45:07,793 Talkin' shit like that. 705 00:45:07,838 --> 00:45:10,932 You heard? You ain't sure? 706 00:45:10,974 --> 00:45:13,169 People say he said it. 707 00:45:13,844 --> 00:45:17,439 Don't matter if he said it or not. People think he said it. 708 00:45:17,481 --> 00:45:19,142 Can't let that shit go. 709 00:45:19,183 --> 00:45:21,344 Why not? 710 00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:24,877 I mean, Marlo ain't suck no dick, right? 711 00:45:26,590 --> 00:45:29,957 So, if Marlo knows he ain't suck dick, 712 00:45:29,993 --> 00:45:32,325 then what the fuck he care what June Bug say? 713 00:45:32,362 --> 00:45:34,353 What anybody say? 714 00:45:35,833 --> 00:45:38,267 Why this boy got to get dead, just for talking shit? 715 00:45:38,302 --> 00:45:41,100 'Cause he got a big motherfuckin' mouth, that's why, 716 00:45:41,138 --> 00:45:44,471 and you need to stop runnin' your own mouth, young 'un. 717 00:45:48,679 --> 00:45:50,874 There it is. 718 00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:52,882 And all the muscle he got. 719 00:45:52,916 --> 00:45:56,044 - See it? - You ready? 720 00:45:57,321 --> 00:45:59,380 Now you handle that thing. 721 00:45:59,423 --> 00:46:01,414 You give me a sign, meet me out front. 722 00:46:01,458 --> 00:46:03,323 Michael, you go round the alley. 723 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,352 Body come bustin' out the back, you drop that shit. 724 00:46:39,329 --> 00:46:41,126 Shitfuck. 725 00:46:41,999 --> 00:46:44,866 Bunk's usually the one throwing up. 726 00:46:44,902 --> 00:46:46,699 You took aspirin? 727 00:46:46,737 --> 00:46:48,136 Six. 728 00:46:49,273 --> 00:46:51,764 How was that brunette? 729 00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,937 Must have been a decent ride 'cause he never went home. 730 00:46:56,446 --> 00:46:58,437 Same shirt as yesterday, Jimmy. 731 00:47:03,287 --> 00:47:05,551 You catchin' hell from Beadie? 732 00:47:06,490 --> 00:47:07,616 No. 733 00:47:07,658 --> 00:47:09,091 Just asking. 734 00:47:09,126 --> 00:47:10,821 Gentlemen. 735 00:47:10,861 --> 00:47:12,658 DOA, Central and Baltimore. 736 00:47:12,696 --> 00:47:15,927 - I took a call two days ago. - The old lady? 737 00:47:15,966 --> 00:47:18,196 That wasn't a call. That came back natural. 738 00:47:18,235 --> 00:47:20,226 Look. I'm hung over, Jay. 739 00:47:24,041 --> 00:47:26,441 Both of you. You're up. 740 00:47:49,633 --> 00:47:52,431 Mommy. Mommy! 741 00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:22,358 'Sup, Boris? 742 00:48:23,367 --> 00:48:24,561 You know who I am? 743 00:48:24,601 --> 00:48:28,367 I'm that rich uncle been putting all that money in your canteen account. 744 00:48:32,109 --> 00:48:35,806 In my country, I was in jail four years. 745 00:48:36,980 --> 00:48:41,041 In my country, this is not prison. 746 00:48:42,552 --> 00:48:44,543 This is nothing. 747 00:48:45,522 --> 00:48:47,922 I don't need money. 748 00:48:47,958 --> 00:48:50,392 I don't need fucking canteen. 749 00:48:52,529 --> 00:48:54,053 I don't need you. 750 00:48:58,869 --> 00:49:01,463 - Gangbanger. - A'ight. I feel that. 751 00:49:01,505 --> 00:49:05,202 I feel that, but Avon over there, 752 00:49:05,242 --> 00:49:08,609 he thinks you might be able to help get a message to the Greeks, 753 00:49:08,645 --> 00:49:10,306 to Vondas. 754 00:49:16,453 --> 00:49:18,921 I mean, seeing as you don't need my money, 755 00:49:21,325 --> 00:49:23,418 Vondas might be happy to have it. 756 00:49:26,229 --> 00:49:29,790 He don't want to see me, he won't, 757 00:49:29,833 --> 00:49:34,361 but if he do, it's you that made it happen. 758 00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,351 Hey. Hey, man. 759 00:50:04,201 --> 00:50:06,601 Sonny Mays is running late. 760 00:50:06,636 --> 00:50:08,627 Can you fill in as speaker? 761 00:50:09,906 --> 00:50:11,897 It's time to share, Bubs. 762 00:50:12,709 --> 00:50:15,974 Nah, I don't think so. I'm not feeling so good today, you know? 763 00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:18,573 As your sponsor, I'm telling you, 764 00:50:18,615 --> 00:50:20,845 you got to step up for something. 765 00:50:20,884 --> 00:50:24,320 I don't care what, I don't care if it's in these rooms or not, 766 00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:27,323 but there ain't no laying in the cut on this shit. 767 00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:29,325 You got to step up somewhere. 768 00:50:42,539 --> 00:50:44,439 Detective, can I get a word? 769 00:50:44,474 --> 00:50:46,704 Anything? Anything on the suspects? 770 00:50:48,245 --> 00:50:50,236 Maybe on your way out, then. 771 00:50:58,121 --> 00:51:00,214 Back door was open. 772 00:51:00,257 --> 00:51:02,851 Can't tell if he ran through and out the rear. 773 00:51:03,927 --> 00:51:06,760 They. Unless the shooter put a bullet in her head 774 00:51:06,797 --> 00:51:08,560 for good measure after the shotgun. 775 00:51:08,598 --> 00:51:12,056 Also, two of our street cameras were disabled. Wires ripped. 776 00:51:12,102 --> 00:51:14,400 Fuck. That's a whole lot of thinking 777 00:51:14,438 --> 00:51:16,998 for any motherfucker to do something like this. 778 00:51:30,454 --> 00:51:32,285 How the fuck? 779 00:51:35,826 --> 00:51:37,521 How? 780 00:51:37,561 --> 00:51:40,894 He must have been in that closet the whole time. No one heard shit. 781 00:51:40,931 --> 00:51:43,491 Call DSS. Now. 782 00:51:44,568 --> 00:51:46,763 Any media out back? 783 00:51:46,803 --> 00:51:48,668 Bring a cage car around. 784 00:52:06,756 --> 00:52:09,247 Hey. How you doing? 785 00:52:09,292 --> 00:52:11,817 Look, I don't know what I can do to help. 786 00:52:11,862 --> 00:52:13,386 I'm just tryin' to find my way. 787 00:52:13,430 --> 00:52:17,662 Seein' how crowded it is, maybe I could help you hand out tickets. 788 00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:21,398 That's fine, Bubs, really, but wouldn't you rather serve? 789 00:52:22,405 --> 00:52:23,895 Serve lunch. 790 00:52:23,940 --> 00:52:25,601 You mean give the food to people? 791 00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:27,735 Isn't that the best part? 792 00:52:27,777 --> 00:52:29,438 Nah, I can't. No. 793 00:52:29,479 --> 00:52:31,879 All right. Come on. 794 00:52:31,915 --> 00:52:33,906 We can always use an extra set of hands. 795 00:52:38,855 --> 00:52:40,755 He fell out. 796 00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:43,122 Last bottle of smoke probably did him in. 797 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,287 Another drunk found him, pulled me off post. 798 00:52:45,328 --> 00:52:47,853 10-7 when I arrived. 799 00:52:47,898 --> 00:52:52,130 - You call for a crime lab? - The wait's two to three hours. 800 00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:54,160 Shit gets worse every day. 801 00:53:02,145 --> 00:53:03,942 Jimmy? 802 00:53:05,482 --> 00:53:06,915 You OK? 803 00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:13,152 Go get yourself a coffee, do your paperwork, get back on the street. 804 00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:14,987 We got it from here. 805 00:53:15,025 --> 00:53:17,960 We're gonna wait on them anyway. Go ahead. 806 00:53:17,994 --> 00:53:19,586 Thanks. 807 00:53:22,065 --> 00:53:23,794 Don't let this guy go anywhere. 808 00:53:23,833 --> 00:53:25,994 I forgot something in the car. 809 00:53:27,137 --> 00:53:29,162 Bring the paper in, will you? 810 00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:32,105 We're gonna be here a while. 811 00:54:53,990 --> 00:54:55,548 Hey. 812 00:55:02,098 --> 00:55:03,759 Little early for that, ain't it? 813 00:55:12,575 --> 00:55:14,270 What the fuck you doing? 814 00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:16,006 Just watch the door, Bunk. 815 00:55:18,181 --> 00:55:19,580 Shit. 816 00:55:23,486 --> 00:55:24,953 Come on, Jimmy. 817 00:55:24,988 --> 00:55:26,785 Get a fuckin' grip. 818 00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:37,098 Jimmy. 819 00:55:44,774 --> 00:55:46,674 Have you lost your fucking mind? 820 00:56:10,333 --> 00:56:13,097 Jesus Christ, you sick fuck. 821 00:56:24,314 --> 00:56:26,305 There's a serial killer in Baltimore. 822 00:56:27,717 --> 00:56:29,981 He preys on the weakest among us. 823 00:56:30,019 --> 00:56:32,010 He needs to be caught. 824 00:56:36,359 --> 00:56:38,293 I'm going. 825 00:56:38,328 --> 00:56:40,319 I don't want a part of this.