1 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,032 Type quieter, asshole. 2 00:00:42,876 --> 00:00:46,004 Early relief. So get the fuck out of here. 3 00:00:46,046 --> 00:00:47,946 Jesus, Bunk. What time is it? 4 00:00:47,981 --> 00:00:49,539 4:30. 5 00:00:49,582 --> 00:00:52,710 I couldn't sleep, so get the fuck gone. 6 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:55,446 What time did McNulty leave last night? 7 00:00:55,488 --> 00:00:57,683 Never did. He's in number one. 8 00:00:57,724 --> 00:01:00,056 Pulling his hair out over some shit. 9 00:01:10,403 --> 00:01:12,496 Think again about what the fuck you're doing. 10 00:01:12,539 --> 00:01:14,598 Bunk, this can work. 11 00:01:15,375 --> 00:01:16,467 It can. 12 00:01:16,509 --> 00:01:19,603 Fuck you. I mean that. 13 00:01:19,646 --> 00:01:22,376 Jimmy, four in the fuckin' morning? 14 00:01:22,415 --> 00:01:23,905 So it is. 15 00:01:27,287 --> 00:01:31,246 All of these? Homeless murders from the last five years. 16 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:35,326 Everything before that is on microfilm, but we got enough right here. 17 00:01:35,361 --> 00:01:37,420 - Jimmy. - Most of it open. 18 00:01:37,464 --> 00:01:39,728 We don't do so well with homeless killings. 19 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:43,224 Transient locales, no nearest, no dearest. No one gives a fuck. 20 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:45,169 Cases stay open forever. 21 00:01:45,205 --> 00:01:48,174 You're going to jail behind this shit. Yes, you are. 22 00:01:48,208 --> 00:01:52,042 You know what they do to police in jail? Pretty police like yourself? 23 00:01:52,078 --> 00:01:54,638 Motherfucker, we have kids. 24 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:57,241 Houses. Car payments. Furniture. 25 00:01:57,283 --> 00:02:01,276 Jimmy, I just bought brand-new lawn chairs and a glass patio table. 26 00:02:01,321 --> 00:02:04,722 Now, you don't buy no shit like that if you planning to lose your job and go to prison. 27 00:02:04,757 --> 00:02:06,349 You won't even get past the ME. 28 00:02:06,392 --> 00:02:08,451 - Watch me. - You're dumping murders on us 29 00:02:08,495 --> 00:02:11,123 that we can't solve, you're fucking the squad's clearance rate. 30 00:02:11,164 --> 00:02:13,257 Fuck the fucking numbers already. 31 00:02:13,299 --> 00:02:15,961 The fucking numbers destroyed this fucking department. 32 00:02:16,002 --> 00:02:18,698 Landsman and his clearance rate can suck a hairy asshole. 33 00:02:18,738 --> 00:02:22,367 - Marlo ain't worth it, man. Nobody is. - Marlo's an asshole. 34 00:02:22,408 --> 00:02:24,808 He does not get to win. We get to win. 35 00:02:24,844 --> 00:02:28,837 This case doesn't go away just because the bosses can't find the money to pay for it. 36 00:02:28,882 --> 00:02:30,850 These are fucking murders - 37 00:02:30,884 --> 00:02:33,148 ghetto murders, but still, 38 00:02:33,186 --> 00:02:35,313 I came back out of the Western to work this case 39 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:37,050 because they said it would be worked. 40 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:40,856 I came back out on a promise, and they're gonna keep that promise. 41 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:42,418 Whether they know it or not. 42 00:02:42,462 --> 00:02:44,123 I'm gonna tell Landsman. 43 00:02:45,098 --> 00:02:48,590 Yeah. You keep on with it, I'm gonna rat you out. 44 00:02:49,636 --> 00:02:52,400 Well, you do what you got to do. 45 00:02:55,241 --> 00:02:57,471 My name is nowhere in the file. 46 00:02:57,510 --> 00:03:00,172 I don't want fuck to do with this. 47 00:03:04,417 --> 00:03:05,509 Hey, Bunk. 48 00:05:09,142 --> 00:05:11,975 - What are you doing? - Final is out. 49 00:05:12,011 --> 00:05:13,603 I want to see my story. 50 00:05:13,646 --> 00:05:15,705 - Now? - It's my first time out front. 51 00:05:15,748 --> 00:05:18,717 - I want to see it. - This is why we should get home delivery. 52 00:05:18,751 --> 00:05:22,084 Why pay for it when I get it for free at the office? 53 00:05:23,723 --> 00:05:25,315 Be back. 54 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:35,828 Brother Ray. 55 00:05:36,669 --> 00:05:38,330 God rest ye. 56 00:06:25,885 --> 00:06:28,149 When does the Sun get here? 57 00:06:28,187 --> 00:06:29,882 Around now usually. 58 00:08:09,055 --> 00:08:10,613 Anybody got a working car? 59 00:08:10,656 --> 00:08:14,285 I got one, but I'm going back out to my crime scene for a canvass. 60 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:16,295 Drop me at the ME? 61 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:18,854 Jimmy. 62 00:08:18,898 --> 00:08:21,924 My office, now. 63 00:08:23,436 --> 00:08:26,564 I'll get a lift over from one of the central cars. 64 00:08:31,377 --> 00:08:35,074 This is way past any shit you ever pulled in your life, Jimmy. Think on it. 65 00:08:35,114 --> 00:08:37,981 You see Greggs out there, bagging evidence alone, 66 00:08:38,017 --> 00:08:41,214 then going back out to recanvass on a triple? A triple fucking murder, 67 00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:44,985 a home invasion, and she's working it alone. 68 00:08:45,024 --> 00:08:47,754 They pulled Crutchfield this morning, put him back in the rotation. 69 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:50,284 - That's on them, but you can't... - Fucking right, that's on them. 70 00:08:50,329 --> 00:08:55,062 A triple murder, and 12 hours later they leave one detective alone on it? 71 00:08:55,101 --> 00:08:57,365 I guess she's lucky she has a car. 72 00:08:57,403 --> 00:09:00,395 - This shit won't work. - Then we're no worse than before. 73 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:03,567 - Extra red name or two on the board. - Yeah, unless you got caught. 74 00:09:03,609 --> 00:09:05,600 Who in this fucking unit is gonna catch me? 75 00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:09,775 Most of the guys up here couldn't catch the clap in a Mexican whorehouse. 76 00:09:09,815 --> 00:09:11,510 What's with the red ribbon? 77 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:16,822 Barlow had an open strangle a few years back. 78 00:09:16,856 --> 00:09:19,654 Homeless guy with a red ribbon tied around his wrist. 79 00:09:19,692 --> 00:09:21,216 So that's two. 80 00:09:21,260 --> 00:09:25,629 Also, I found an open homeless case which Ray Cole worked. 81 00:09:25,665 --> 00:09:28,691 I wrote a ribbon into his office reports. 82 00:09:28,734 --> 00:09:31,862 - So there's three. - Our guy didn't have a red ribbon. 83 00:09:34,273 --> 00:09:38,767 - That's where I'm headed. - Jesus. Listen to yourself. 84 00:09:38,811 --> 00:09:41,473 Upstairs wouldn't jump on a real serial killer - 85 00:09:41,514 --> 00:09:44,483 fuckin' Marlo, who's got bodies all over him. 86 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:46,246 Well, maybe they need the make-believe. 87 00:09:46,285 --> 00:09:49,948 Yeah, maybe you're the asshole just lost his fucking mind. 88 00:10:05,304 --> 00:10:08,000 - Yeah, I'm locked in the box. - In the box? 89 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,702 - It's no joke. Let me out. - Be right there. 90 00:10:11,744 --> 00:10:13,006 Jimmy. 91 00:10:17,783 --> 00:10:19,444 He fuck you? 92 00:10:20,653 --> 00:10:22,587 He tried... 93 00:10:23,389 --> 00:10:25,357 but mostly he just fucks himself. 94 00:10:29,395 --> 00:10:31,454 You ain't seen those yet, huh? 95 00:10:31,497 --> 00:10:33,362 I'll bet you didn't. 96 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:36,835 Fucking Burrell's asshole must be so tight 97 00:10:36,869 --> 00:10:40,669 you couldn't pull a pin from it with a John Deere tractor. 98 00:10:41,607 --> 00:10:44,940 Here you're promising a double-digit drop, 99 00:10:44,977 --> 00:10:50,381 and he gives you a 4% bump for two quarters in a row. 100 00:10:50,416 --> 00:10:53,817 - Thanks for bringing these by, Stan. - I wanted to give you a heads-up. 101 00:10:54,854 --> 00:10:57,880 Truth is, looking at numbers like those, 102 00:10:57,923 --> 00:11:00,915 I'm thinking you could do a lot worse 103 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,952 than give me a run as acting commissioner. 104 00:11:03,996 --> 00:11:06,260 I know you couldn't make me permanent, 105 00:11:06,298 --> 00:11:12,862 maybe six months while you keep grooming your boy Daniels. 106 00:11:12,905 --> 00:11:14,634 I'd get a pension bump, 107 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:18,633 and you'd get a head start on clearing out deadwood, 108 00:11:18,678 --> 00:11:22,512 beginning with Burrell and Rawls. 109 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:24,209 Thanks, Stan. 110 00:11:24,250 --> 00:11:27,083 - Let me think on it. - You do that, Tommy. 111 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:39,196 Even on an acting basis, can you imagine Nerese 112 00:11:39,231 --> 00:11:43,031 and the ministers dealing with Commissioner Valchek? 113 00:11:43,736 --> 00:11:46,569 - What are you gonna do about the numbers? - Fuck can I do? 114 00:11:46,605 --> 00:11:49,005 I cut the department budget to the bone, right? 115 00:11:49,041 --> 00:11:51,737 Can't very well complain when the crime rate bumps. 116 00:11:51,777 --> 00:11:54,837 Burrell comes in here and owns these, 117 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,839 I got to give him a pass, at least until I can fix his money problems. 118 00:12:02,655 --> 00:12:04,782 Your piece took a bad bite there. 119 00:12:04,824 --> 00:12:06,815 35 inches down to 12? 120 00:12:06,859 --> 00:12:10,158 Yeah, well, it's my fault for giving it up to the A-section. 121 00:12:10,196 --> 00:12:13,029 Page-one editor made noises like it was gonna go out front 122 00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:16,796 and then he tossed it back to Metro before the double-dot. 123 00:12:16,836 --> 00:12:19,634 Night editor didn't have room to take it back, so... 124 00:12:19,672 --> 00:12:23,335 Story deserved better. Sorry. 125 00:12:23,375 --> 00:12:25,240 Three people murdered in a house, 126 00:12:25,277 --> 00:12:29,543 and it gets 12 inches below the fold. Explain that to me. 127 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,140 There's no explaining it. 128 00:12:31,183 --> 00:12:34,118 Advertising's down, we got a smaller news hole, 129 00:12:34,153 --> 00:12:35,552 we're not managing it well. 130 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:37,283 We messed up. 131 00:12:37,323 --> 00:12:38,984 That's all. 132 00:12:44,363 --> 00:12:46,354 Wrong zip code. 133 00:12:46,398 --> 00:12:48,798 They're dead where it doesn't count. 134 00:12:48,834 --> 00:12:51,701 If they were white and murdered in Timonium, 135 00:12:51,737 --> 00:12:53,329 you'd have had 30 inches off the front. 136 00:12:53,372 --> 00:12:56,671 Would have been my first front-pager where I didn't share a byline. 137 00:12:56,709 --> 00:12:57,698 Yeah? 138 00:12:59,078 --> 00:13:02,946 I drove down to the Port Covington plant this morning to get a copy. 139 00:13:02,982 --> 00:13:05,177 You ain't the first to do that. 140 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:09,611 Our 10-7 on the floor yet? 141 00:13:09,655 --> 00:13:11,885 He's by the overhead camera. 142 00:13:11,924 --> 00:13:13,915 I need to grab prints, get him ID'd. 143 00:13:13,959 --> 00:13:16,928 Don't you want to wait for the post, keep his hands clean for trace? 144 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:20,227 I need to know who my victim is. That's the priority. 145 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:23,864 Finish your breakfast. I got plenty of time. 146 00:14:09,882 --> 00:14:12,715 There's nothing under the nails that I can see. 147 00:14:12,751 --> 00:14:14,946 I think we can risk prints. 148 00:14:30,002 --> 00:14:31,469 Something's up. 149 00:14:31,503 --> 00:14:33,368 Please. Gather round. 150 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:38,305 Steve, could someone get word across the hall to Features and Sports? 151 00:14:38,344 --> 00:14:40,335 - Sure. - We want everyone on this. 152 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:51,349 What, did we get sold again? 153 00:14:51,390 --> 00:14:54,052 First the LA Times buys us up, then the Tribune. 154 00:14:54,093 --> 00:14:55,185 Law of the fish. 155 00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,695 - We're the minnow. - Maybe we won a Pulitzer. 156 00:14:57,730 --> 00:15:01,097 Pulitzers are still a week away. It just turned April. 157 00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:04,295 Look at Whiting's pants. 158 00:15:04,870 --> 00:15:09,466 If we won a Pulitzer, the executive editor would be tumescent. 159 00:15:09,508 --> 00:15:10,634 Tum-what? 160 00:15:10,676 --> 00:15:13,008 Speak English. I'm just a police reporter. 161 00:15:13,045 --> 00:15:15,343 Tumescent. Engorged. 162 00:15:15,381 --> 00:15:16,780 Exactly. 163 00:15:16,815 --> 00:15:20,979 It's a bad time for newspapers, as you all know. 164 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:26,686 The news hole is shrinking as advertising dollars continue to decline. 165 00:15:26,725 --> 00:15:32,027 Our circulation numbers are also down as we compete with a variety of media. 166 00:15:32,064 --> 00:15:36,626 Technology is driving distribution, 167 00:15:36,669 --> 00:15:41,402 and the internet Is a free source of news and opinions. 168 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,638 Seeking a balance in this new world, 169 00:15:45,678 --> 00:15:48,545 we're now faced with hard choices. 170 00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:53,017 We opened our first foreign bureau in London in 1924. 171 00:15:53,052 --> 00:15:58,251 The Sun's foreign coverage has been a source of pride ever since. 172 00:16:00,092 --> 00:16:04,426 So it is with tremendous regret... 173 00:16:05,965 --> 00:16:11,631 that I tell you that Chicago has made it clear that the bureaus in Beijing, 174 00:16:11,670 --> 00:16:16,130 Moscow, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, and London 175 00:16:16,175 --> 00:16:18,166 will all be shuttered. 176 00:16:19,244 --> 00:16:22,077 Elsewhere in the newsroom, 177 00:16:22,114 --> 00:16:24,548 there will be a fresh round of buyouts. 178 00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:29,378 Chicago has given us some specific budgetary targets 179 00:16:29,421 --> 00:16:34,120 that will require some hard choices throughout the newsroom. 180 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:36,889 We are, quite simply, 181 00:16:36,929 --> 00:16:40,296 going to have to find ways to do more with less. 182 00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:43,563 So I guess I will turn this over to Tom, 183 00:16:43,602 --> 00:16:46,162 who will get into the specifics. 184 00:16:48,507 --> 00:16:49,974 I know some of you have questions. 185 00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:53,206 If you could hold them for me until after I've had a chance to speak. 186 00:16:53,245 --> 00:16:55,736 Pull your clip book together. Time to find a new home. 187 00:16:55,781 --> 00:16:59,182 First, Chicago has sent us a memo outlining options that are available to those of you... 188 00:16:59,218 --> 00:17:01,652 The aorta should have elasticity to it, 189 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:03,678 but it's rock hard. 190 00:17:03,722 --> 00:17:07,351 Whoever strangled him could've just waited a month or two more. 191 00:17:07,393 --> 00:17:09,156 This guy was on his last legs. 192 00:17:09,194 --> 00:17:11,128 It is what it is. 193 00:17:11,163 --> 00:17:13,393 In addition to the fractured hyoid and the bruising, 194 00:17:13,432 --> 00:17:15,525 I got signs of a struggle around the body, 195 00:17:15,567 --> 00:17:18,627 a couple of witnesses who thought they heard sounds of a struggle 196 00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:20,661 inside the house. 197 00:17:20,706 --> 00:17:23,641 Also that ribbon you snipped off, 198 00:17:23,675 --> 00:17:25,074 it might tie to other cases. 199 00:17:25,110 --> 00:17:27,806 The ribbon my own investigator missed at the scene. 200 00:17:27,846 --> 00:17:31,441 It happens. It was high on the wrist. 201 00:17:31,483 --> 00:17:35,385 Cause and manner is homicide by strangulation. 202 00:17:35,421 --> 00:17:37,082 Good hunting, Detective. 203 00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:43,158 "And anyone requiring additional information 204 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:45,356 "on COBRA benefits and pension payout 205 00:17:45,397 --> 00:17:47,991 "as part of the voluntary separation plan 206 00:17:48,033 --> 00:17:51,002 "can schedule an appointment with human resources." 207 00:17:51,036 --> 00:17:53,664 Some of you will migrate into new positions 208 00:17:53,705 --> 00:17:57,664 while others will of course be moving on to other opportunities 209 00:17:57,709 --> 00:18:02,544 beyond the Sun, but everyone in this room has done excellent work 210 00:18:02,581 --> 00:18:05,573 and should be proud of their contributions. 211 00:18:06,852 --> 00:18:09,719 - How many buyouts are there? - That hasn't been determined yet. 212 00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:11,313 We're talking to the union later today. 213 00:18:11,356 --> 00:18:15,156 How will this affect the upcoming contract negotiations with the guild? 214 00:18:15,194 --> 00:18:17,492 Badly. Kiss any raise goodbye. 215 00:18:17,529 --> 00:18:21,192 How come there's cuts in the newsroom when the company's still profitable? 216 00:18:21,233 --> 00:18:24,168 There's nobody that feels worse about this than I do. 217 00:18:24,203 --> 00:18:27,070 I've seen the excellent work we've done here in Baltimore. 218 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:29,574 The sooner we start meeting with you individually, 219 00:18:29,608 --> 00:18:32,099 the sooner I can answer all of your questions. 220 00:18:36,615 --> 00:18:38,344 Not O'Mara. 221 00:18:39,485 --> 00:18:41,043 Aw, no. 222 00:18:42,321 --> 00:18:44,414 Good luck, everybody. 223 00:18:44,456 --> 00:18:48,517 No increase in felonies and a 1% bump in total crime. 224 00:18:51,897 --> 00:18:53,888 Do you vouch for these figures? 225 00:18:53,932 --> 00:18:55,900 - Sir? - No increase in crime 226 00:18:55,934 --> 00:18:58,960 even after I cut you guys to the bone. This is what you're telling me? 227 00:18:59,004 --> 00:19:00,904 Because the one thing I'm asking of you guys, 228 00:19:00,939 --> 00:19:03,533 the one thing that I'm asking above all, 229 00:19:03,575 --> 00:19:05,770 is that you bring me clean numbers. 230 00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:09,474 Yes, Mr. Mayor. You made that clear. 231 00:19:11,717 --> 00:19:13,708 Very good, then. 232 00:19:26,298 --> 00:19:27,765 Burrell is done. 233 00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:29,426 He just killed himself. 234 00:19:29,468 --> 00:19:33,234 We leak the real stats, hold the cooked ones in case he won't go quietly. 235 00:19:33,272 --> 00:19:36,036 And replace him with who? Rawls? 236 00:19:36,074 --> 00:19:38,008 He came in with the same stats. 237 00:19:38,043 --> 00:19:40,409 If I know Bill Rawls, he'll be calling over here 238 00:19:40,445 --> 00:19:42,345 as soon as he gets back to his office, 239 00:19:42,381 --> 00:19:44,747 telling us he warned Burrell against cooking the books. 240 00:19:44,783 --> 00:19:48,150 The ministers won't live with Rawls. Neither will Nerese. 241 00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:51,520 As acting commissioner, they will for a few months at least, 242 00:19:51,557 --> 00:19:53,252 if we've got a black candidate to sell them. 243 00:19:53,292 --> 00:19:56,261 Daniels isn't ready. He's only been colonel for a year. 244 00:19:56,295 --> 00:19:58,286 A year will do in a pinch. 245 00:19:59,998 --> 00:20:02,967 You float it with one of your bunkies on Calvert Street. 246 00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:04,366 See how it plays. 247 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:07,429 Burrell reads that, he'll shit melons. 248 00:20:07,472 --> 00:20:08,996 I fucking hope so. 249 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:10,770 It's Baltimore. 250 00:20:12,311 --> 00:20:14,370 No one lives forever. 251 00:20:30,762 --> 00:20:32,229 Andreas, right? 252 00:20:34,866 --> 00:20:36,857 The Russian sent me. 253 00:20:39,371 --> 00:20:41,362 Need you to get a word to Vondas. 254 00:20:41,406 --> 00:20:43,237 He got a new friend. 255 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:44,902 I never hear the name. 256 00:20:45,377 --> 00:20:48,039 Just let him know Marlo came past with a gift. 257 00:20:51,149 --> 00:20:53,174 Be at you same time tomorrow. 258 00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:14,631 Any idea how long this could take? 259 00:21:14,673 --> 00:21:17,233 Don't know. Might be here all day. 260 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:19,904 I have meetings scheduled. 261 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:22,311 We've got to lay the foundation carefully, 262 00:21:22,347 --> 00:21:25,441 make it so the grand jurors understand all the ins and outs 263 00:21:25,484 --> 00:21:28,214 so they don't get lost in the details. 264 00:21:32,224 --> 00:21:34,556 Mr. Howard? 265 00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:42,024 Is there any way I could go earlier? 266 00:21:42,067 --> 00:21:44,433 If you're important enough, sure. 267 00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:48,799 I'm the vice president of a major financial institution. 268 00:21:49,775 --> 00:21:52,243 Who the fuck isn't? 269 00:21:54,112 --> 00:21:57,206 Now, sir, directing your attention to the document in your hand, 270 00:21:57,249 --> 00:21:59,046 is that also an account statement? 271 00:21:59,084 --> 00:22:02,747 Yes, it is, for a nonprofit, interest-bearing account, 272 00:22:02,788 --> 00:22:06,280 organizational, with 501 (c)3 designation. 273 00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:10,785 Can you begin by slowly explaining in the most basic terms 274 00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:15,323 each of those things, beginning with the word nonprofit? 275 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:18,595 - Hey, is box two open? - Not yet. 276 00:22:18,637 --> 00:22:19,968 What about three? 277 00:22:20,005 --> 00:22:22,064 Someone's killing homeless men. 278 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:24,665 Medical examiner says so. 279 00:22:31,917 --> 00:22:34,511 Weird thing about my case, Bunk. 280 00:22:35,887 --> 00:22:39,323 Dead man was homeless, but he had a red ribbon 281 00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:41,053 tied around his wrist. 282 00:22:41,093 --> 00:22:42,924 What does a homeless guy have to remember 283 00:22:42,961 --> 00:22:45,896 that he should have a red ribbon tied around his wrist? 284 00:22:49,735 --> 00:22:51,965 - Barlow. - What? 285 00:22:52,003 --> 00:22:53,095 Nice out. 286 00:22:53,138 --> 00:22:56,437 Like Chanel No. 5 comes out of your ass, Moreland. 287 00:23:01,313 --> 00:23:04,510 If you got a problem, then I got a problem. 288 00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,177 That's how the co-op work. 289 00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:08,686 What's the problem? 290 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,381 I got too much money. 291 00:23:11,456 --> 00:23:15,654 Son, believe me, you ain't alone. 292 00:23:17,028 --> 00:23:19,895 What to do with the shit we sell ain't no thing. 293 00:23:19,931 --> 00:23:23,560 In Baltimore, dope and coke sell themselves, 294 00:23:23,602 --> 00:23:26,503 but the money that come back? 295 00:23:26,538 --> 00:23:29,336 Ain't enough mattresses, is there, now? 296 00:23:29,374 --> 00:23:31,035 You got any ideas? 297 00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:36,906 A few. If you askin'. 298 00:23:38,517 --> 00:23:40,917 - Not Twigg. - Damn. 299 00:23:40,952 --> 00:23:44,046 Guy gives 20 years to the paper, and this how it ends? 300 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:46,819 Fact of the matter is, it's more profitable these days 301 00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:48,883 to run a worse paper for less money. 302 00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:52,226 Cut back people and pages, you increase revenue. 303 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,960 If we're lucky, they'll just get rid of deadwood. 304 00:23:57,302 --> 00:23:58,496 How'd it go? 305 00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:02,831 "You've done excellent work." 306 00:24:02,874 --> 00:24:06,002 Without being explicit, they gave me a choice - 307 00:24:06,044 --> 00:24:09,207 - either the copy desk or the buyout. - You're kidding, right? 308 00:24:09,247 --> 00:24:11,681 Apparently, they can hire 1.5 twentysomethings 309 00:24:11,716 --> 00:24:14,378 for what it costs to keep me in print, so... 310 00:24:14,419 --> 00:24:16,284 Damn, Roger. 311 00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:17,583 Sorry, man. 312 00:24:17,622 --> 00:24:21,615 Fuck it. I might as well get to work on that great American novel. 313 00:24:26,431 --> 00:24:29,093 - Yeah. - Gus, come on in. 314 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:45,176 Have a seat. 315 00:24:48,186 --> 00:24:51,553 Relax, Gus. We need you here. 316 00:24:57,395 --> 00:25:00,887 We value your dedication. You've done excellent work. 317 00:25:00,932 --> 00:25:04,095 We're counting on you to transition the new team. 318 00:25:04,135 --> 00:25:07,229 There's still going to be excellent talent out there that needs to be developed. 319 00:25:07,272 --> 00:25:09,331 What kind of team's going to be left? 320 00:25:09,374 --> 00:25:11,399 We're losing good people, 321 00:25:11,443 --> 00:25:14,640 but we expect to retain the core of a solid staff. 322 00:25:14,679 --> 00:25:17,113 Doing more with less. 323 00:25:17,148 --> 00:25:20,140 That's what we have to contemplate going forward. 324 00:25:20,719 --> 00:25:22,846 More with less, huh? 325 00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:25,152 Look at this. 326 00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:27,522 A red ribbon in one of Ray Cole's files. 327 00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:33,429 Cole left a note with it. "Found on left wrist of victim. 328 00:25:33,465 --> 00:25:35,695 "Check against other cases." 329 00:25:36,801 --> 00:25:40,635 Hey, hon. How's the stain look on the cabinets? They dry yet? 330 00:25:41,573 --> 00:25:44,303 Great. I'm on my way. 331 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:07,289 This is the hard part, getting these guys to give a shit. 332 00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:08,890 Let's get a taste. I'm buying. 333 00:26:11,836 --> 00:26:13,497 You think I'm drinking with you? 334 00:26:13,538 --> 00:26:16,473 Go home, Jimmy. Think your weak shit through, man. 335 00:26:16,508 --> 00:26:20,000 Go home? For the love of God, I'm working a serial killer. 336 00:26:31,923 --> 00:26:33,515 You want to talk on it? 337 00:26:39,464 --> 00:26:44,197 Went with Chris and them, set up on this family. 338 00:26:51,209 --> 00:26:53,234 Everything so serious now. 339 00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:58,139 Yo, little man, you finish your homework? 340 00:26:58,183 --> 00:27:02,051 'Cause it's late now, and it's only gonna get later if we don't roll home soon. 341 00:27:02,087 --> 00:27:04,954 Ain't no school tomorrow. Teacher meetings. 342 00:27:04,990 --> 00:27:07,185 We should do something, Mike. 343 00:27:08,927 --> 00:27:10,588 Got my corner to run, man. 344 00:27:12,597 --> 00:27:14,565 What? 345 00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:16,328 What, nigga? 346 00:27:17,369 --> 00:27:19,530 Six Flags be open again. 347 00:27:23,375 --> 00:27:25,434 That shit's taking forever. 348 00:27:26,711 --> 00:27:28,702 Complicated stuff, I suppose. 349 00:27:28,747 --> 00:27:31,238 It's more like Joe make it complicated. 350 00:27:31,282 --> 00:27:33,773 That nigga got a thing for conversation. 351 00:27:34,686 --> 00:27:36,347 Not like Marlo. 352 00:27:37,722 --> 00:27:39,587 Definitely not. 353 00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:45,861 Now, see, pastor here, he one of about three I like to give money to. 354 00:27:45,897 --> 00:27:47,888 Help with his good works and all that. 355 00:27:47,932 --> 00:27:49,297 Good works? 356 00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:53,600 He down with all kind of missionary work going on down in the islands. 357 00:27:53,638 --> 00:27:56,129 You know, building a church for some folk, 358 00:27:56,174 --> 00:28:00,167 a schoolhouse for some other folks, all kind of good shit like that. 359 00:28:00,211 --> 00:28:01,769 And what else y'all building? 360 00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:04,646 - A hospital. - Hospital, yeah. 361 00:28:05,617 --> 00:28:08,586 Except they been building that mess for about ten years now, 362 00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:10,884 and nothing ever actually get finished. 363 00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:12,412 How you gonna clean my money? 364 00:28:12,457 --> 00:28:15,358 Got accounts at some of the banks down there. 365 00:28:15,393 --> 00:28:19,887 Donations come in as cash, cashier's checks come out. 366 00:28:19,931 --> 00:28:22,764 Tiny-ass Caribbean island don't truck with no subpoenas, 367 00:28:22,801 --> 00:28:24,393 no court orders, none of that. 368 00:28:24,436 --> 00:28:26,165 You pay ten on the dollar. 369 00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:29,037 Anything beyond that depends on your generosity, 370 00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:31,542 to save those who want to be saved. 371 00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:01,528 I'm back. 372 00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:03,234 I can see that. 373 00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:12,747 Again. 374 00:29:15,253 --> 00:29:17,517 I saw your text message on my cellphone today, 375 00:29:17,555 --> 00:29:19,546 it took me a minute to remember who the hell you were. 376 00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:20,819 It ain't been that long. 377 00:29:20,859 --> 00:29:24,989 Shit. When you left, I was still covering the labor beat. 378 00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:27,589 We ain't had a labor reporter around here in three years. 379 00:29:27,632 --> 00:29:30,260 Yeah, well, now you the big, bad city editor, 380 00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:34,237 and I'm whoring myself for politicians. 381 00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:36,502 You got out just at the right time too. 382 00:29:36,541 --> 00:29:39,533 - That bad, huh? - Chicago is killing us. 383 00:29:39,577 --> 00:29:41,841 One buyout after another. 384 00:29:42,747 --> 00:29:45,978 I can't even begin to think what our next round of guild negotiations 385 00:29:46,017 --> 00:29:48,144 is gonna be like. 386 00:29:48,186 --> 00:29:50,654 Enough of me crying. 387 00:29:50,688 --> 00:29:53,816 What are you selling tonight, dear Norman? 388 00:29:53,858 --> 00:29:56,292 Carcetti's planning to shitcan Burrell. 389 00:29:56,327 --> 00:29:59,387 He's talking to people and considering replacements. 390 00:29:59,430 --> 00:30:01,421 City hall source? 391 00:30:02,534 --> 00:30:04,058 Who's the leading candidate? 392 00:30:04,102 --> 00:30:08,004 Rawls, deputy for operations, might have the job for a few months, 393 00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:10,837 but there's a front runner from deeper In the department. 394 00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:12,240 Cedric Daniels. 395 00:30:12,277 --> 00:30:14,973 It's been a while since I've been on the street there, Norman. 396 00:30:15,013 --> 00:30:17,914 - Who's this Daniels? - Chief of detectives. Polished. 397 00:30:17,949 --> 00:30:19,280 Holds a law degree. 398 00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:21,615 Brought closure to some high-level cases. 399 00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:25,612 His ex-wife got herself elected to the council last go-round. 400 00:30:26,357 --> 00:30:29,349 I always liked photos with my stories. 401 00:30:32,197 --> 00:30:34,688 And this is aimed at who? Huh? 402 00:30:34,732 --> 00:30:37,132 The ministers? Nerese? 403 00:30:37,168 --> 00:30:40,331 You want to see if they can live with this fella here, right? 404 00:30:41,306 --> 00:30:42,898 A'ight. 405 00:30:44,175 --> 00:30:46,166 From one whore to another. 406 00:30:54,085 --> 00:30:56,519 Whoa, what the fuck? 407 00:30:56,554 --> 00:30:57,851 Check this shit out. 408 00:30:59,324 --> 00:31:00,689 Beautiful. 409 00:31:00,725 --> 00:31:03,455 Holy shit. Look at this motherfucker. 410 00:31:04,662 --> 00:31:06,323 Hit him with the spot. 411 00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:17,038 CID. Figures, don't it? 412 00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:32,584 Where y'all need to go? 413 00:31:32,624 --> 00:31:33,886 Down Six Flags. 414 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:36,223 You talkin' round trip? 415 00:31:36,261 --> 00:31:38,491 Run you 200 plus gas. 416 00:31:39,430 --> 00:31:41,227 Where you at? 417 00:31:44,969 --> 00:31:48,871 I got 150, gas included if it even get us there. 418 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:52,570 Don't be fretting on the ride now. This motherfucker tried and true. 419 00:31:54,178 --> 00:31:55,839 A'ight. 420 00:31:56,514 --> 00:31:59,244 I got half when we get there and half on the way back. 421 00:32:05,290 --> 00:32:07,349 I guess you're not up for a story. 422 00:32:09,460 --> 00:32:12,657 - I need something worked on right away. - What do you got? 423 00:32:12,697 --> 00:32:15,165 Mayor's thinking about firing the police commissioner. 424 00:32:15,199 --> 00:32:18,430 - He's floating the idea anyway. - No problem. I'm all over it. 425 00:32:18,469 --> 00:32:20,266 What do you know about Daniels? 426 00:32:22,373 --> 00:32:24,671 - Who is he? - CID commander. 427 00:32:24,709 --> 00:32:27,337 Came out of the Eastern DEU, married to the Daniels 428 00:32:27,378 --> 00:32:29,471 that won the council seat in '06. 429 00:32:29,514 --> 00:32:31,744 Brought in a couple of big wiretap cases, 430 00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:34,616 they gave him the Western, hoping to clean up that district 431 00:32:34,652 --> 00:32:36,643 after they shitcanned Bunny Colvin. 432 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:39,953 Since getting separated, he's been shacked up with Ronnie Pearlman 433 00:32:39,991 --> 00:32:43,757 over at the state's attorney's office. No suction early in his career, 434 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:45,854 but now that he's got Carcetti's ear, 435 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:47,888 now the brass stay out of his way. 436 00:32:47,932 --> 00:32:50,093 What's the man's favorite color? 437 00:32:57,075 --> 00:32:59,441 - You sure? - Yeah, what the hell? 438 00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:01,468 I'm already on the clock. 439 00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:12,180 Ops bureau. 440 00:33:12,223 --> 00:33:13,383 Hi, darlin'. 441 00:33:13,424 --> 00:33:16,018 It's Roger Twigg with the Sun papers. 442 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:17,960 - Hey, Roger. - Is the deputy around? 443 00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,930 - Sure. - Thanks, hon. 444 00:33:19,964 --> 00:33:22,762 Hey, an hour or two, I'd have had it surrounded. 445 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,927 No doubt. 446 00:33:24,969 --> 00:33:29,065 While Mr. Deadwood here's working the story, 447 00:33:29,107 --> 00:33:31,769 see if you can feed him some react quotes. 448 00:33:34,545 --> 00:33:39,107 A generous gift, but your money, 449 00:33:39,150 --> 00:33:42,176 the money you bring me, I don't need. 450 00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:44,654 Money is money. 451 00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:47,157 What's the difference who bring it to you? 452 00:33:52,397 --> 00:33:53,989 It's dirty money. 453 00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:57,061 It stinks. 454 00:33:58,536 --> 00:34:01,664 - We ain't in the same business? - The bills are from the street. 455 00:34:01,706 --> 00:34:04,903 They're dirty, you understand? 456 00:34:04,942 --> 00:34:06,773 Everything runs through Joe. 457 00:34:06,811 --> 00:34:10,110 Everything is clean with Joe. 458 00:34:11,783 --> 00:34:13,216 Ain't a problem. 459 00:34:13,251 --> 00:34:15,515 Good. 460 00:34:15,553 --> 00:34:16,781 Goodbye. 461 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:32,700 Hey, Bunk. What kind of knot you say was on that red ribbon? 462 00:34:32,737 --> 00:34:36,969 - The one on the homeless guy's wrist. - Fuck yourself with your red ribbon. 463 00:34:38,976 --> 00:34:40,204 Just thought of something. 464 00:34:40,244 --> 00:34:43,839 I caught a vagrant months back had a red ribbon tied around his wrist. 465 00:34:43,881 --> 00:34:45,872 You remember that? 466 00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:48,408 Hell of a catch, Detective. Hell of a catch. 467 00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:50,182 Can I see your file? 468 00:34:50,888 --> 00:34:52,788 Homicide? 469 00:34:52,824 --> 00:34:54,587 Nope, just missed him. 470 00:34:54,625 --> 00:34:57,685 Won't be back until about four. 471 00:34:57,728 --> 00:34:59,161 Clean bills? 472 00:34:59,197 --> 00:35:03,099 You mean laundered, right? I just showed you how. 473 00:35:03,134 --> 00:35:05,159 Nah, nah. He mean clean, 474 00:35:05,203 --> 00:35:07,501 like the money straight out the bank and shit. 475 00:35:07,538 --> 00:35:09,005 All lookin' nice. 476 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,669 See, people ain't right. Here you are tryin' to pay a motherfucker, 477 00:35:12,710 --> 00:35:14,735 an' all he worried about is what the money look like. 478 00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:17,873 Normally, my fee for this would be 20 on the dollar. 479 00:35:17,915 --> 00:35:19,746 40,000 to make it look nice. 480 00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:21,843 You need this back today too. 481 00:35:22,553 --> 00:35:25,113 Might ordinarily charge more, 482 00:35:25,156 --> 00:35:28,523 But seeing as how we co-op, no charge. 483 00:35:30,928 --> 00:35:32,418 Speaking of co-op, 484 00:35:32,463 --> 00:35:34,226 tell them niggas that got burnt 485 00:35:34,265 --> 00:35:36,733 I'm givin' away 50 for a line on Omar's people. 486 00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:41,227 His sister, his me-maw, some faggy he be with. 487 00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:43,035 All that shit count, you hear me? 488 00:35:43,074 --> 00:35:44,871 I'd let sleeping dogs lie, son. 489 00:35:44,909 --> 00:35:46,376 I know you would, Joe. 490 00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:48,469 You smart like that. 491 00:35:48,513 --> 00:35:50,811 Yeah. Me? 492 00:35:50,848 --> 00:35:53,043 Anyway, pass that offer on. 493 00:35:53,084 --> 00:35:54,915 Come back for this here in an hour. 494 00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:06,395 That boy want Omar bad. 495 00:36:06,430 --> 00:36:09,422 Man, I ain't giving him a thing on Omar. 496 00:36:09,467 --> 00:36:11,867 Omar been gone. 497 00:36:11,903 --> 00:36:15,168 Took a lot of bad history with him too. 498 00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:18,903 Why in the hell would I want that motherfucker back? 499 00:36:18,943 --> 00:36:21,434 How fast you think we were going on that first drop? 500 00:36:21,479 --> 00:36:23,470 - 75 an hour. - That's it? 501 00:36:23,514 --> 00:36:25,744 Felt like I was coming out of my seat, man. 502 00:36:25,783 --> 00:36:27,648 You always knowing stuff like that. How? 503 00:36:27,685 --> 00:36:29,346 Over there! 504 00:36:34,492 --> 00:36:36,153 Y'all throwin' some bricks. 505 00:36:37,495 --> 00:36:39,326 Put a little touch on it. 506 00:36:40,698 --> 00:36:42,063 Watch. 507 00:36:48,306 --> 00:36:52,140 Put some backspin on it, or else it'll bank off the box and not in it. 508 00:36:56,714 --> 00:36:57,942 Hold this. 509 00:36:57,982 --> 00:37:00,507 - So where Fairfax at? - Northern Virginia. 510 00:37:00,551 --> 00:37:02,883 - How about you? - I live up Baltimore. 511 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,387 That's so cool. 512 00:37:04,422 --> 00:37:06,151 You two have your own place? 513 00:37:06,190 --> 00:37:08,522 - Yeah, and Bug. - That's tight. 514 00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:37,480 Madman on the loose, huh? 515 00:37:37,521 --> 00:37:39,751 Three linked cases and counting. 516 00:37:40,858 --> 00:37:42,985 He's killing vagrants, is he? 517 00:37:50,234 --> 00:37:52,225 Don't say I didn't warn you. 518 00:37:55,906 --> 00:37:58,704 Who covers us for the Sun papers nowadays? Twigg? 519 00:37:58,743 --> 00:38:02,042 Him or this new girl. Alma something. 520 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,111 Baltimore Sun. Gutierrez. 521 00:38:24,969 --> 00:38:27,767 OK. Can I meet you? 522 00:38:28,572 --> 00:38:31,268 Do you know Al Pacino's? 523 00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:33,800 How about half an hour? 524 00:38:33,844 --> 00:38:35,778 OK. See you then. 525 00:38:35,813 --> 00:38:37,940 Good react quote from me in Metro Write. 526 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:45,979 Scott, come here. 527 00:38:48,059 --> 00:38:49,253 This quote here - 528 00:38:49,293 --> 00:38:52,626 "Carcetti may be holding the knife, but Daniels sharpened it for him. 529 00:38:52,663 --> 00:38:56,258 "He's been critical of Burrell since the election." 530 00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:57,767 Good shit, huh? 531 00:38:57,802 --> 00:39:00,703 Yeah, from a high-ranking city hall source? 532 00:39:00,738 --> 00:39:02,899 You feel comfortable telling me where you got that? 533 00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:04,601 Not really, it being a source. 534 00:39:05,743 --> 00:39:11,147 It's a great quote, but if you're gonna slam somebody anonymously, 535 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:13,446 I at least have to be sure that the quote comes from... 536 00:39:13,484 --> 00:39:14,781 Nerese Campbell. 537 00:39:14,819 --> 00:39:17,447 She's not gonna slam the mayor's choice publicly, 538 00:39:17,488 --> 00:39:19,854 but not-for-attribution, that's her quote. 539 00:39:20,391 --> 00:39:22,723 You got Nerese to say that, huh? 540 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,456 Twigg's not the only guy who's game around here. 541 00:39:42,713 --> 00:39:46,376 Let Vondas know I ain't mean no misunderstanding earlier. 542 00:40:02,266 --> 00:40:04,029 How do you know they're connected? 543 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:06,935 Is there DNA evidence or a signature? 544 00:40:06,971 --> 00:40:08,404 We can't release that yet. 545 00:40:08,439 --> 00:40:09,838 You know, copycats. 546 00:40:09,874 --> 00:40:11,739 So there is a signature. 547 00:40:12,977 --> 00:40:14,672 What? 548 00:40:14,712 --> 00:40:16,373 You're good. 549 00:40:17,448 --> 00:40:19,643 - You're new, right? - Five months. 550 00:40:19,683 --> 00:40:23,141 I worked at the Sun-Sentinel in Lauderdale before this. 551 00:40:23,187 --> 00:40:25,246 I've read your stories. They're good. 552 00:40:25,289 --> 00:40:27,723 Bullshit, but thanks. 553 00:40:28,893 --> 00:40:31,361 You're gonna run something right away, right? 554 00:40:31,395 --> 00:40:33,386 We got to get the word out on this. 555 00:40:35,966 --> 00:40:37,433 What kind of name is Alma? 556 00:40:37,468 --> 00:40:39,333 I have a boyfriend, Detective. 557 00:40:39,370 --> 00:40:42,771 Yeah? He bigger than me? 558 00:40:42,807 --> 00:40:45,071 Can I ask you why on the day in question 559 00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:48,510 you were operating the senator's car when you were detained by city police 560 00:40:48,546 --> 00:40:51,037 with $20,000 in cash? 561 00:40:51,081 --> 00:40:54,278 On advice of my attorney, I ain't gonna answer that. 562 00:40:54,318 --> 00:40:56,843 Y'all trying to criminate me here. 563 00:40:56,887 --> 00:41:00,653 Mr. Price, you are employed as a driver for Senator Davis, 564 00:41:00,691 --> 00:41:04,058 earning 30,000 a year, is that correct? 565 00:41:04,094 --> 00:41:05,288 Yeah, so? 566 00:41:05,329 --> 00:41:07,729 Yet it is my understanding 567 00:41:07,765 --> 00:41:11,758 that you are also drawing a $40,000 salary 568 00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:15,636 as the executive director of the West Baltimore hoops charity 569 00:41:15,673 --> 00:41:19,165 and another 30,000 as the fundraising director 570 00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:21,440 for the senator's day-care initiative. 571 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:25,176 How are you able to earn three salaries, 572 00:41:25,216 --> 00:41:28,583 working three jobs at the same time, Mr. Price? 573 00:41:36,894 --> 00:41:38,885 You have a nice day. 574 00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:42,763 Blind motherfucker. 575 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,258 His joint on Collington on the east side of the street. 576 00:41:46,303 --> 00:41:49,363 If he give up Omar, though, I want in on that shit. 577 00:41:49,406 --> 00:41:51,840 Nigga put a gun in my face, man. 578 00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:54,504 - Joe know about Butchie? - Motherfucker, I know about him. 579 00:41:54,545 --> 00:41:56,570 Joe don't know shit about this here, 580 00:41:56,614 --> 00:41:58,411 and he ain't need to know. 581 00:41:58,449 --> 00:42:00,440 Now where my cheese at, man? 582 00:42:26,176 --> 00:42:27,643 The fuck you been at, nigga? 583 00:42:27,678 --> 00:42:30,647 Wasn't no school today, so we took Bug to do something. Ain't no thing. 584 00:42:30,681 --> 00:42:32,342 It is when you don't tell no one. 585 00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:35,819 Now I had to come down here all day long to make sure your shit is straight. 586 00:42:35,853 --> 00:42:37,115 This your corner or what, nigga? 587 00:42:37,154 --> 00:42:41,318 I'm checking now to make sure shit's right at the end of the day, a'ight? 588 00:42:42,793 --> 00:42:45,318 - Yo, count right? - Yeah. All straight. 589 00:42:45,362 --> 00:42:49,059 Ain't the point, and you know it. Chris already heard about this shit. 590 00:42:52,336 --> 00:42:53,963 Nice dolphin, nigga. 591 00:42:54,838 --> 00:42:57,705 Let's go home, man. I'll deal with this bullshit later. 592 00:43:05,316 --> 00:43:09,412 That's 400 in your own account down in the islands. 593 00:43:09,453 --> 00:43:12,013 There no hurricane, department of justice, 594 00:43:12,056 --> 00:43:14,854 or nigga with a gun can tap that. 595 00:43:15,693 --> 00:43:17,024 How I even know it's there? 596 00:43:17,061 --> 00:43:19,052 You check it online any time you like. 597 00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:21,257 On a computer? 598 00:43:21,298 --> 00:43:25,667 - If I can't hold it in my hand... - A'ight. You got any prior convictions? 599 00:43:25,703 --> 00:43:27,364 No, nothing that rate. 600 00:43:27,404 --> 00:43:30,339 We get you a passport, then. 601 00:43:31,742 --> 00:43:33,232 Take a trip. 602 00:43:46,523 --> 00:43:49,014 Ain't easy civilizing this motherfucker. 603 00:43:51,428 --> 00:43:53,419 We chose poorly, Gus. 604 00:43:54,431 --> 00:43:55,659 Yeah. 605 00:43:55,699 --> 00:43:59,760 At this rate, there won't be much to call a newspaper in 10 years. 606 00:44:00,738 --> 00:44:04,572 You know my father worked over at Armco, right? 607 00:44:04,608 --> 00:44:07,042 And every morning before he went to work, 608 00:44:07,077 --> 00:44:11,343 he'd sit at the table, reading the newspaper with a cup of coffee, 609 00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:17,886 and no one could interrupt him for that 15 minutes before he walked out the door. 610 00:44:19,723 --> 00:44:21,850 And I remember watching him, thinking, 611 00:44:21,892 --> 00:44:25,453 "What the hell is so important about that damn paper? 612 00:44:27,431 --> 00:44:29,592 "I want to be part of that." 613 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:33,162 Made me want to be a newspaperman. 614 00:44:37,341 --> 00:44:40,833 One day, I was cutting class at Patterson, 615 00:44:40,878 --> 00:44:43,039 and there was this man on the downtown bus 616 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,049 folding his broadsheet just so. 617 00:44:48,318 --> 00:44:50,912 And the way that man folded that paper 618 00:44:50,954 --> 00:44:53,548 and concentrated on reading those pages 619 00:44:54,391 --> 00:44:57,588 made him look like the smartest son of a bitch on the bus. 620 00:44:58,162 --> 00:45:00,153 It was just one of those moments. 621 00:45:06,737 --> 00:45:09,797 "Lf, ever I depart this vale, 622 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,467 "and you ever remember me 623 00:45:11,508 --> 00:45:13,738 "and have thought to please my ghost, 624 00:45:15,312 --> 00:45:17,803 "forgive some sinner, 625 00:45:17,848 --> 00:45:20,840 "and wink your eye at some homely girl." 626 00:45:20,884 --> 00:45:23,216 Fuck Henry Mencken. 627 00:45:27,891 --> 00:45:29,825 I forgive you, Gus. 628 00:46:13,704 --> 00:46:15,695 Oh, my God. 629 00:46:17,207 --> 00:46:21,234 You see that quote from somebody about me stabbing Burrell in the back? 630 00:46:21,278 --> 00:46:22,870 That's a damn lie. 631 00:46:22,913 --> 00:46:24,847 So what? 632 00:46:25,349 --> 00:46:27,909 You're going to be named commissioner. 633 00:46:29,086 --> 00:46:32,021 This is good news. How is this not good news? 634 00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:43,699 Thanks. 635 00:46:43,734 --> 00:46:45,702 Cheap motherfucker. 636 00:47:14,865 --> 00:47:16,799 No, no, see. 637 00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:19,029 If you stack it with the domestic beer, 638 00:47:19,069 --> 00:47:21,162 then I won't know, huh? 639 00:47:21,205 --> 00:47:23,673 Cut a blind man some slack, hear? 640 00:47:27,611 --> 00:47:28,873 Y'all servin'? 641 00:47:28,912 --> 00:47:30,573 If you got some ID on you. 642 00:47:34,151 --> 00:47:36,949 - Who was that? - Little girl. 643 00:47:47,064 --> 00:47:48,361 Cash is in the register. 644 00:47:48,398 --> 00:47:50,127 Fuck the register, old man. 645 00:47:53,971 --> 00:47:56,667 They all up in your shit. 646 00:47:56,707 --> 00:47:59,870 They going after every damn thing. Do you hear me? 647 00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:01,468 We going to jail. 648 00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:09,644 Focus, motherfucker, focus! 649 00:48:10,687 --> 00:48:12,154 Look here. 650 00:48:12,189 --> 00:48:14,054 Back in the girdle ads 651 00:48:14,091 --> 00:48:16,423 underneath the story about the... 652 00:48:16,460 --> 00:48:20,294 the school board approving a name change for PS 114, 653 00:48:20,330 --> 00:48:23,857 it's Jimmy McNulty's ripper. 654 00:48:24,801 --> 00:48:26,792 You know why they call them homeless, Jimmy? 655 00:48:26,837 --> 00:48:30,136 Because they ain't got a pot to piss in, and you know why they ain't got a pot? 656 00:48:30,173 --> 00:48:32,300 Because nobody gives a good fuck. 657 00:48:33,377 --> 00:48:37,370 Shake it for another day or two, and then you're back in the rotation. 658 00:48:41,351 --> 00:48:43,342 You done with this stupid shit? 659 00:48:44,021 --> 00:48:46,683 Who the fuck do you need to hear it from, Jimmy? 660 00:48:49,626 --> 00:48:52,424 You have to let Burrell know that this isn't coming from you. 661 00:48:52,462 --> 00:48:55,761 That won't matter. After what he read today, I'm the threat. 662 00:48:55,799 --> 00:48:57,858 Then you have to tell him that you won't take the job, 663 00:48:57,901 --> 00:48:59,562 that you don't want his chair. 664 00:48:59,603 --> 00:49:01,070 And he believes me? 665 00:49:01,104 --> 00:49:04,232 The alternative is that he goes public with what he knows, 666 00:49:04,274 --> 00:49:06,936 whatever he has about the old days. 667 00:49:06,977 --> 00:49:08,808 He sat on it this long. 668 00:49:08,845 --> 00:49:11,507 You said yourself he'd rather bury that file 669 00:49:11,548 --> 00:49:14,312 than to embarrass the department on his watch, 670 00:49:14,351 --> 00:49:16,546 but if it's between you and him surviving, 671 00:49:16,586 --> 00:49:18,577 what do you think he'll do then? 672 00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:27,658 How much could even be in that file? 673 00:49:27,698 --> 00:49:30,360 An assets investigation? Some loose talk? 674 00:49:30,934 --> 00:49:33,903 It was so long ago. Most of those guys have moved on. 675 00:49:33,937 --> 00:49:35,996 He only needs smoke. 676 00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:40,100 He doesn't even need fire to drag you down, to drag me down. 677 00:49:40,143 --> 00:49:42,941 Everything that we have worked so hard for. 678 00:49:44,581 --> 00:49:46,572 We've already lost enough. 679 00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:56,056 What other people Omar got? 680 00:49:58,362 --> 00:50:01,763 Cocksucker the one got the trouble. 681 00:50:01,798 --> 00:50:03,925 No need for you to stand tall on it. 682 00:50:09,306 --> 00:50:11,137 It don't have to be messy. 683 00:50:11,174 --> 00:50:13,972 Ain't no other way. I can see that. 684 00:50:26,890 --> 00:50:28,881 Where I find Omar? 685 00:50:38,135 --> 00:50:40,000 Where Omar at? 686 00:50:47,844 --> 00:50:49,835 You a tough old man. 687 00:51:15,439 --> 00:51:19,273 When word get to Omar, make sure he hear everything. 688 00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:29,647 We still ain't got no line on the man, 689 00:51:29,686 --> 00:51:31,551 and now he comin' at us. 690 00:51:31,588 --> 00:51:34,455 We gonna change up. Marlo got to move indoors. 691 00:51:34,491 --> 00:51:38,120 - The rest of us need to live on the run. - Fucked-up plan, you ask me. 692 00:51:38,161 --> 00:51:41,153 Marlo wants Omar. What else you need to know? 693 00:51:45,402 --> 00:51:48,030 You making your move on Burrell, and I don't blame you, 694 00:51:48,071 --> 00:51:50,232 and the thing is, I can help with that. 695 00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:54,073 The ministers, Nerese, black legislative caucus - 696 00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:56,409 I can bring them around for you. 697 00:51:56,446 --> 00:51:57,708 Feel free. 698 00:51:57,747 --> 00:52:01,274 All I need is some help with this grand jury nonsense. 699 00:52:01,318 --> 00:52:03,616 You go to Bond, you tell Bond that... 700 00:52:03,653 --> 00:52:04,984 I can't help you with that. 701 00:52:05,021 --> 00:52:08,081 Story's been out all day, and our phone isn't ringing. 702 00:52:08,125 --> 00:52:11,925 The ministers, Nerese, the caucus, they're willing to live with Daniels apparently. 703 00:52:11,962 --> 00:52:13,486 Thanks anyway. 704 00:52:20,303 --> 00:52:22,430 Thinking you can cut Clay loose, huh? 705 00:52:23,306 --> 00:52:25,001 Thinking I'm done. 706 00:52:53,336 --> 00:52:55,395 Came to see my account. 707 00:52:57,741 --> 00:52:59,265 Y'all got my money in here? 708 00:53:06,983 --> 00:53:09,144 This mine. Y'all got my money. 709 00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:25,092 What? 710 00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:28,937 Yeah. 711 00:53:42,686 --> 00:53:46,349 So you string together Barlow's murder and Cole's 712 00:53:46,389 --> 00:53:49,620 unconnected case and yours, which is natural to begin with... 713 00:53:49,659 --> 00:53:51,650 Instant serial killer, 714 00:53:51,695 --> 00:53:55,153 which I thought would get the brass to begin kicking out some money to work real cases. 715 00:53:55,198 --> 00:53:57,223 - Like Marlo. - Like Marlo. 716 00:54:01,605 --> 00:54:04,665 Shit like this actually goes through your fucking brain? 717 00:54:04,708 --> 00:54:07,609 If you don't want to listen to your partner, then listen to Lester. 718 00:54:07,644 --> 00:54:09,009 He has all the wisdom you need. 719 00:54:09,045 --> 00:54:12,503 Joke of it is, no one gives a fuck about a serial killer, 720 00:54:12,549 --> 00:54:15,416 not unless he's carving up some pretty coed or some shit. 721 00:54:15,452 --> 00:54:18,353 Sun papers put the story in their back pages. 722 00:54:18,388 --> 00:54:19,878 You fucked up. 723 00:54:19,923 --> 00:54:21,788 Yeah. Tell him. 724 00:54:21,858 --> 00:54:26,124 No. I mean, if you want to do it right, a straight-up strangle's not enough. 725 00:54:26,730 --> 00:54:28,721 Not if it's some vagrant. 726 00:54:32,202 --> 00:54:34,033 Sensationalize it. 727 00:54:34,070 --> 00:54:36,971 Give the killer some fucked-up fantasy, 728 00:54:37,007 --> 00:54:39,840 something bad, real bad. 729 00:54:39,876 --> 00:54:41,969 It's got to grip the hearts and minds, 730 00:54:42,012 --> 00:54:44,537 give the people what they want from a serial killer. 731 00:54:44,581 --> 00:54:47,880 - Lester, what the fuck? - No. You're onto something. 732 00:54:47,917 --> 00:54:50,784 I only need a few weeks to pull down Marlo Stanfield. 733 00:54:50,820 --> 00:54:53,653 You fly this mess right, you can give it to me. 734 00:54:53,690 --> 00:54:56,352 Who gives a damn if we fake a couple of murders 735 00:54:56,393 --> 00:54:58,725 that we're never gonna solve, huh? 736 00:54:58,762 --> 00:55:00,696 The dead men don't care. 737 00:55:00,730 --> 00:55:02,357 No one cares. 738 00:55:02,399 --> 00:55:06,028 But if it's gonna get the bosses to throw down enough coin to do police work... 739 00:55:06,069 --> 00:55:08,435 I'm out. I'm out of here. 740 00:55:15,412 --> 00:55:17,539 We got to give your killer a name. 741 00:55:17,580 --> 00:55:19,775 We have to kill again. 742 00:55:36,433 --> 00:55:38,799 Poppy, we've got to cook one of these one night. 743 00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:41,167 - Yeah, right on. - Nice little dinner. 744 00:55:41,771 --> 00:55:44,001 Omar, Omar, Omar! 745 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:49,244 Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. 746 00:55:49,946 --> 00:55:51,811 All right, all right. Here you go. 747 00:55:53,583 --> 00:55:55,073 - Tomorrow, OK? - Tomorrow. 748 00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:41,087 Hey, 'Naldo, cous' got to find out where they got Honey Nut, yo, 749 00:56:41,131 --> 00:56:43,793 if they expect us to call this spit o' land home.