1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,700 That's the witness all right, the one from the Barksdale case. 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,500 Gant, William. 41 years. 3 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:19,100 Single headshot, close range. Bullet pancaked on the inner skull. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,200 -Ain't necessarily what it looks like. -No? 5 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:29,500 A man's walking down a street in West Baltimore. 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,900 That'll catch you a bullet for a half-dozen reasons. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,700 -Yeah, that it will. -You run him for a sheet? 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,700 Yeah, a couple of disorderlies is all. 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,800 Guy works maintenance down at Poe Homes. 10 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:41,100 Lives alone, no wife, no kids. 11 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,700 Only time his name pops up on the courthouse computer... 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,900 is for being a state witness in Barlow's case. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,500 Otherwise, I don't even make that connection. 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,700 I mean, you've got to admit... 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,000 it don't make sense to ace this motherfucker after he done testified. 16 00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:58,500 Sends a hell of a message though. 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,500 He's one hardheaded fuck in the Terrace you can't run off or buy out, right? 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,700 If your audience is the high-rise projects, a move like this cuts right through the shit. 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,300 What are you gonna tell the major? 20 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,000 That I caught a stone fucking whodunit. 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,000 -Don't soft-sell the witness angle. -Come on. 22 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,300 Why get the bosses riled before we know for sure? 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,700 If I start talking shit that a witness got killed-- 24 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,400 -Bunk, tell him. -Why? 25 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:23,300 Just cover yourself on this. 26 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,900 Jimmy, you ain't gonna do what I think? 27 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:30,700 Listen to me. 28 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:34,100 This shit is gonna jump up and bite you in your ass. 29 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,900 Just cover yourself. 30 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,700 -What the hell was that about? -Nothing. 31 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,200 Morning. 32 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:19,900 Jesus Christ. 33 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,500 Goddamn. 34 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:35,500 Who do you got to fuck in this town to get a real office? 35 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:38,400 At least that works. 36 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:51,600 It was for McNulty. 37 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,500 -I shouldn't be here. -Then you shouldn't. 38 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,100 They killed a fucking witness out of your court. 39 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,900 Yeah, you told me. You did your civic duty. 40 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,400 Under the power vested in me by the circuit court for Baltimore city... 41 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:08,900 I absolve you of all your sins, Detective McNulty. 42 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,800 You are my sin, you know that? 43 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,400 For talking to you, my major is ready to cut my throat. 44 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,500 Jimmy, you knew I was gonna make that call. Admit it. 45 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,500 I didn't think you would straight-up hang me out on the line in a shitstorm. 46 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,100 Look, it's not like it was when I was a prosecutor. 47 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,200 -I'm a judge now, the rules are different. -You missed a spot. 48 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:29,300 Yeah, what's done is done. 49 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,900 Question is, what do you want me to do now? 50 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,100 I think you can leverage the Deputy Ops with a phone call. 51 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,400 -He's already detailed people. -Some detail. 52 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:41,800 Asshole lieutenant thinks he can buy-bust his way to Avon Barksdale. 53 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:43,300 You want leverage? 54 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,100 We give the dead-witness angle to the newspapers. 55 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,400 Stir some real shit. 56 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,800 No, that tips Barksdale that someone's working him. 57 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:52,200 -We don't want to go public. -No? 58 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:53,800 Just put it to the Deputy Ops... 59 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:56,100 you lost a witness who testified in your court. 60 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,000 That forces the department to commit to the investigation. 61 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:02,800 And when you call Burrell this time, will you forget my fucking name? 62 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,100 -You missed a spot. -Why don't you fucking do it? 63 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,500 Seniority. 64 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:33,600 -You found us. -Wasn't easy. 65 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,900 -You asked for these guys? -I asked for more manpower. 66 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,500 Have a seat. 67 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:52,100 What the fuck.... 68 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:55,900 Sir, l-- 69 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,500 He was showing me the trigger pull on his Glock. 70 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,100 -And he was just-- -Detective? 71 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,700 Officer Pryzbylewski shot the wall, Lieutenant. 72 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:07,700 Why? 73 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,500 Why did you shoot the wall, Officer Pryzbylewski? 74 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,100 I was just showing Carv how my trigger pull is light, you know. 75 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:18,000 -I got it so it's real light. -He took the clip out, boss. 76 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:20,000 But not the one in the chamber. 77 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:24,300 No, I forgot the one in the chamber, and.... 78 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,100 Shit, I'm sorry, lieutenant. 79 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,100 -You want him to write on it? -Write on what? 80 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,300 You let one go, you got to write. You got to justify the use of deadly force. 81 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:38,900 Against a plaster wall. 82 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,900 It's an accident, okay? Give me a fucking break already. 83 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 -Your name is what? -Pryzbylewski. 84 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,400 From Auto Unit, right? Cantrell sent you. 85 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:55,400 Not exactly. 86 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:59,900 Lt. Cantrell sent me to Casualty Section a couple months back. 87 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,900 And I asked out of Casualty. 88 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,500 You came here from Casualty Section? 89 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,000 Man, these shits is right, yo. 90 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,500 -It's good with the hot sauce, too. -Most definite. 91 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,600 -Dee, want some nuggets? -No, go ahead, man. 92 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:28,700 Man, whoever invented these, he off the hook. 93 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:29,900 Word! 94 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:33,900 Motherfucker got the bone all the way out the damn chicken. 95 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,900 Till he came along, niggas be chewing on drumsticks and shit... 96 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,900 getting their fingers all greasy. 97 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,800 He said "Later" to the bone. 98 00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:44,000 Nugget that meat up and make some real money. 99 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:46,400 -You think the man got paid? -Who? 100 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,700 -Man who invented these. -Shit, he richer than a motherfucker. 101 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,400 Why? You think he get a percentage? 102 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:54,200 Why not? 103 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,500 Nigga, please, the man who invented them things... 104 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,100 just some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonald's... 105 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,700 thinking up some shit to make money for the real players. 106 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,200 -No man, that ain't right. -Fuck right. 107 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,700 It ain't about right, it's about money. 108 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,300 You think Ronald McDonald gonna go down that basement... 109 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,100 and say, "Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. 110 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,800 "We selling chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. 111 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,800 "So, I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you." 112 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:21,600 Shit. 113 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,300 The nigger who invented them things... 114 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,600 still working in the basement for regular wage... 115 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:30,000 thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better. 116 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:31,500 Believe. 117 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,000 He still had the idea, though. 118 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:46,100 Who? 119 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,300 Polk and Pat Mahone. A couple of drunks from Property. 120 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,100 -I don't know them. -Why would you? 121 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,700 They haven't made a case in 10 years. 122 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,000 Also got handed some kid named Prezbelowski or Prezbelewski-- 123 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,200 -Pryzbylewski, him, I know. -Yeah? 124 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,100 -Why was he in Casualty Section? -He shot up his own car. 125 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,600 -You remember? -He did what? 126 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:10,100 He fired two clips into an unmarked car, somewhere out in West Baltimore. 127 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,100 Called in a Signal 13 on the radio, like he was under fire from a sniper. 128 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,000 You didn't hear about that? 129 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,700 He stuck to his story for half a day, until Ballistics matched the bullet... 130 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,200 to his off-duty weapon. 131 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:24,100 -We almost indicted him for false report. -Why didn't you? 132 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,400 He's got some kind of suction with the Mayor's office. I'm not sure. 133 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:30,600 My point is, I can't build much with the garbage they sent me. 134 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,800 So, go to the deputy, right? You've got his ear on this. 135 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Why not? 136 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:39,400 I ask the deputy for manpower. 137 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:42,900 He then tells Property to send me two men, and Special to send two more. 138 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,300 And those shift lieutenants... 139 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,500 they know it's a chance to dump their deadwood. 140 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,900 The deputy, he knows this, too. 141 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,700 He could have offered to let me pick but he didn't. 142 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,400 -He sent me a message on this. -And the message is? 143 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:56,700 Don't dig in, don't get fancy. 144 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:00,000 Put a quick charge on this Barksdale and then get out. 145 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:03,200 If he sends me good police, I might do good police work. 146 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,300 -But if the state's attorney's office were to-- -No, no. 147 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,100 Rhonda, darling... 148 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:26,500 it's bad protocol for me to ask for help and then trash the help I'm given. 149 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,500 -You, on the other hand-- -No way. 150 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,500 My office doesn't play that way. 151 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,200 You people staff your cases, you bring us casework. 152 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:36,200 I cross that line, I only piss everyone off. 153 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:41,500 Best I can do is tell my unit chief that you drew shit. 154 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:42,800 He wants to take it upstairs... 155 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,100 call the deputy for operations, that's his choice. 156 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,600 -That won't happen. -Probably not. 157 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,700 Make lemonade. 158 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:17,900 Fuck! 159 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,400 Yo, Kima, where you taking us? 160 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:22,600 -Get down. -What? 161 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,800 Jesus. You all ain't got no creep to you. 162 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,200 Pair of goddamn elephants. 163 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:34,100 A rusted nail just went through my shoe. 164 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,500 I'm gonna need a tetanus to get behind this bullshit. 165 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,700 -Kima. -Hand me that bag. 166 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,600 Kima, if you don't mind me asking... 167 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:56,100 when was it that you first figured you liked women better than men? 168 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,300 I mind you asking. 169 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:08,800 Gentlemen, what's going on there, guys? 170 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:11,400 -Testers, man, already out. -No. 171 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:15,200 I'm not in need of your services, bro. I'm offering my services to y'all. 172 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:16,600 What you got in the bag, man? 173 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:20,900 One thing a gentleman of color like better than a new pair of downtown shoes... 174 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 is a downtown brim, right? 175 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,200 What's with the hats? 176 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,600 -Five-o! -Five-o! 177 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:07,500 Shut it down! 178 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:18,400 Clean? 179 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,200 You ain't gonna put that one on me. He a witness. 180 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:55,100 You picked that shit up off the ground, so don't be trying to put shit on me. 181 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,600 Is that what you think I'm about? 182 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:00,800 Boy thinks I'm gonna dirty him. 183 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Like y'all won't do it. 184 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:06,000 You Western knockos come here, picking shit up off the ground... 185 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,100 putting it on whoever you damn well please. 186 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,700 Do I know you? 187 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,400 Let's understand each other. I'm not Western District. 188 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:17,200 I'm not a knocko. I don't dirty people... 189 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:19,500 because I don't care about a possession charge. 190 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,900 I'm a Murder Police, I'm here about the bodies. 191 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,400 D'Angelo here knows that. He remembers me from the trial, right? 192 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:31,400 I'm sitting in back there, behind Stringer, watching, listening. 193 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,000 Y'all hassling me about that shit? 194 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,100 I thought you heard what the jury had to say. 195 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,200 -Fuck the jury. -Yeah, fuck the jury. 196 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:39,800 This is just us talking, right? 197 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:43,400 Just you, me, my partner and.... What did you say your name was? 198 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:44,800 I didn't say shit. 199 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,800 Just you, me, my partner and Mr. Shit here. 200 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,500 We're just talking about how things go, right? 201 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,100 We are just sharing our thoughts here. 202 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,400 -Bunk, a vial for your thoughts. -I'm thinking it's one thing for one of you... 203 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:00,200 Iittle Terrace niggers to shoot somebody in the lobby... 204 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:02,800 of the 221 building, you know? Who gives a fuck? 205 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:05,000 -But when you ace a witness... -A working man. 206 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:07,200 ...who ain't even in the game.... 207 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,700 You gonna act like this is news? 208 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:15,600 I tell you this, I don't know shit about shit, but I do know this... 209 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:19,400 anyone who spend time witnessing shit, you gonna get got. 210 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,600 I know that sounds kind of harsh, but that's the way things go around here... 211 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:25,900 officer. 212 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:29,800 Let's roll. 213 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,200 That how you see things, D'Angelo? Like your friend here? 214 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,500 I'm here trying to outfit niggers with something to rile up some pussy. 215 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,600 You don't want to know, Bubbles used to get that pussy. 216 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:01,100 I reckon the pussy ain't worth what it used to be... 217 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,300 if you can do it without a proper brim, right? 218 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,000 Come on, big man. 219 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,000 -Something's up. -What? 220 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:31,400 Don't know. 221 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,500 Yo, Carv. Come here. 222 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,900 Listen, you see Bubbs put a hat on anybody... 223 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,400 you take some pictures, all right? 224 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:43,500 -Yeah? -Especially the red one. 225 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,800 If you see him put that red hat on anybody's head... 226 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:48,500 snap your fucking fingers off. 227 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:50,200 Where you going? 228 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:54,200 Yo, Carv. Notice that most of the time... 229 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:57,100 it's like Kima thinks she's above us or something? 230 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,900 I mean, I don't see any stripes on her fucking sleeve... 231 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,500 I don't see that. 232 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 All I see is some stuck-up dyke bitch... 233 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:06,500 who ain't been in CID half the time of you or me... 234 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,900 and she's fucking telling us what to do. 235 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,300 It ain't right. You think it's right? 236 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,300 Shut up for just a minute. I'm trying to concentrate on this shit here. 237 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,700 Nice truck. 238 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,200 No? Makes your breath minty fresh. 239 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:35,300 Is you all gonna arrest me? Then go the fuck ahead and arrest me. 240 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:36,400 If not, shut the fuck up. 241 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:38,100 -You want to get arrested? -No. 242 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,000 -Shut the fuck up your own self. -I'm out of here. 243 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Hey, D'Angelo. You better bend the fuck over. 244 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:47,000 Shit. 245 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:51,900 -You ain't got nothing else to do today? -No, no, nothing. 246 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,100 Y'all ain't got no charge. 247 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,000 You're getting awfully close, man. You new on the force or some shit? 248 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:15,400 All right, Dee. 249 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:43,700 Move it. 250 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,600 It's Greggs. Get me the lieutenant. 251 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,200 Prez? He's no good to anyone, he's a goof. 252 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:06,500 How is he my problem then? How is he still carrying a gun and badge? 253 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,800 You know Valchek in Southeast? 254 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:10,900 -Yeah. -Son-in-law. 255 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:14,800 I can't carry him on this. You know who Special sent me? 256 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:16,800 -Who? -Polk and Mahoney. 257 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,700 Between the two of them I don't have a designated driver. 258 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,500 I heard you have someone from Pawnshop. 259 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,000 Lester Freamon? A cuddly housecat. 260 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,000 I don't think he can even find his gun. 261 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,600 Look, take Pryzbylewski back. 262 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:34,200 You know I can't. I would, but I can't. I gave Valchek my word on it, okay? 263 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,900 I can't help it that Prez is fucking the guy's daughter. 264 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,700 -If not for that, he's gone, no question. -So, you got suction with Valchek? 265 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,600 If I cross him, I'm fucked on the next round of promotions. 266 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:47,000 For Christ's sake, I'm with you on the short list for major. 267 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:49,900 Valchek has suction with the First District Democratic Club... 268 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000 and they got suction with the Mayor, and I'm the runt without a tit here. 269 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,800 I owe you, okay? 270 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,700 -So, give me Sydnor. -No way. 271 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,200 Give me Sydnor and I'll keep Prez. 272 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:03,100 He's my best man, you can't take him. 273 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:06,300 -I'm taking your worst, remember? -How about Steinman? 274 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,900 I'm working drugs in West Baltimore, I need a black guy for surveillance. 275 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,400 I need Sydnor. 276 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:15,600 -Jesus, know what Prez did this morning? -Tell me. 277 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,300 He put a bullet through a wall, dry-firing in the detail office. 278 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:20,700 Look, no promises. 279 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,600 You give me Sydnor, I'll carry Pryzbylewski as long as I can. 280 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:26,600 Fine, Cedric, fuck, whatever. Jesus Christ. 281 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,900 How did you handle the judge? 282 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,000 I told him we were looking closely at the situation. 283 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:40,900 I asked him not to say anything publicly. 284 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,800 So, then he's not gonna go public, right? 285 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,100 Judge Phelan called this morning... 286 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,400 crying about a witness in his murder trial who was killed. 287 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:53,700 Did the judge say where he heard it? 288 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,200 He heard it from our man, McNulty. 289 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:58,300 That's his pipeline on this crap. 290 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,800 Pardon my French, but I got no problem giving that asshole up at this point. 291 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,900 -I don't need people I can't trust. -Yeah, who does? 292 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,200 The newspapers get hold of this, it'll be a complete clusterfuck. 293 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:12,600 Okay, so the thing to do is reassure the judge... 294 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,000 keep him off his damn soapbox. 295 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,600 An arrest or two would help. 296 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:20,500 What if it's true? 297 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,700 What if Barksdale ordered the murder of a state's witness? 298 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:24,800 Are you serious? 299 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:27,600 Why would anyone do that after the witness testifies? 300 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:30,600 -It has no effect on the case. -Payback, plain and simple. 301 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:32,300 Bullshit, plain and simple. 302 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,400 Look, I know there could be two dozen other reasons... 303 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:37,700 for this man to be murdered, but what if-- 304 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,300 No money for pretrial. No witness protection program. 305 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,400 Look, this is a poor fucking city, gentlemen. 306 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,700 The last thing we ever need to do is to announce we lost a witness. 307 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,700 I mean, it's hard enough pushing felony casework... 308 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,200 through that courthouse as it is. 309 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:58,300 -You got to pull McNulty off this. -Who caught the murder case? 310 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,600 -Bunk Moreland, McNulty's partner. -Then you'd have to pull him, too. 311 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:06,200 No, we pull McNulty up, the judge will bring the press into this. 312 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:08,400 I can see that a mile away. 313 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:12,500 No, we're gonna sit tight, let McNulty take his best shot... 314 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,200 and hope like hell he comes up short. 315 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,700 How do you wanna handle this? We got nothing on him. 316 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,700 We try to front, he'll see right through us. 317 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,800 He's scared though. Soft. 318 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,400 Go with the deuce? 319 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,100 Hold up, hold up. 320 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,800 -He part of my case? -No, sir. 321 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:41,700 He's a potential suspect in my murder. 322 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:45,700 Which might be part of my case. 323 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,600 I could use some coffee. You want some coffee? 324 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,800 -I need a word with you. -We're just about to go-- 325 00:23:58,900 --> 00:23:59,900 Now. 326 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,100 You remember all that bullshit I gave you about keeping me informed... 327 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,800 about nothing happening that I don't know about? 328 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:10,200 -Lieutenant-- -Wasn't bullshit. 329 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:13,800 My partner caught a murder. It may have nothing with Barksdale at all. 330 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:15,800 I just came from Deputy Ops' office... 331 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,400 where your own major's telling Burrell to do you. 332 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,900 You hear me? Rawls is giving you up. 333 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,200 -What the fuck did I do? -You can't shut your mouth. 334 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,200 You think that downtown judge is gonna bail your ass out on this? 335 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:31,500 You really think that? You should have come to me. 336 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,400 We bring this business to the deputy first, we got a shot. 337 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,800 But no, you're out there all alone, jumping bad. 338 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:39,100 -You got the deputy's ear? -On this case, I do. 339 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,000 Then how come they sent every worthless hump in plainclothes? 340 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:45,300 You ask for men, they send you drunks and fuck-ups. 341 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,400 I want to do this case. 342 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,700 So do l. 343 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,500 Then you're gonna get all the way in, Lieutenant. 344 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,000 If I see you get all the way in, then I know who you are, what you're about. 345 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:01,500 -Who is he? -D'Angelo Barksdale. 346 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,000 -Nephew to the king. -That's the one that beat the murder? 347 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:06,400 Yeah, him. 348 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:09,000 What do you have to connect him to the dead witness? 349 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:12,100 -Not a thing. -Why did you pick him up? 350 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:16,500 Press him. See what kind of flex he shows. 351 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,000 -She goes in with you. -We don't need her. 352 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:23,300 Bunk and me, we got our own rhythm. 353 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,200 You want me in, McNulty? I thought you said you wanted me in. 354 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,400 You're along for this interview, but it's Homicide's play, so let him lead. 355 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,800 You might want to run tag and title on these two trucks. 356 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:44,200 -They scoped us when we jacked the kid. -Been there. 357 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Info's already in the file. 358 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,500 Y'all weren't the only lawmen down in the Canyon today. 359 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,700 -Really, where were you? -Where was she? 360 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,500 I mean, the thing is, I can't see a reason for that man to be dead. 361 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,700 I can't. I mean, hell, you beat us in court. 362 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,700 -We don't take it personal. -Fuck, no. 363 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,600 We get paid either way. And it's not like you did anything real bad... 364 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:16,200 throwing a couple of hot ones at Pooh Blanchard. 365 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:18,200 No one's gonna miss that motherfucker. 366 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:20,800 But you know the man who got killed this time? 367 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:23,000 You know who that poor son of a bitch was? 368 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:24,300 A citizen. 369 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,600 Worked every goddamn day of his life. You know that? 370 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,400 He would get up every day, go out and do maintenance work. 371 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,300 Then on the weekends, he was driving a cab out to the airport. 372 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,600 Two jobs. 373 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,600 And he volunteers what little time he has left at his church. 374 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:41,500 -Church-going man. -A bethel man, a deacon. 375 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,800 Two jobs and three kids. Did you know that? 376 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,400 Three kids. Young, too. 377 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:51,700 Five, eight, eleven. 378 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,100 Crying their little orphaned asses to sleep... 379 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,500 'cause they lost their mama some years ago... 380 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,100 and now they out there on their own. 381 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,500 -He doesn't believe us. -I know he don't believe it. 382 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:09,700 We've been here two hours, telling you what's true in the world... 383 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:11,500 and you sit like nothing happened. 384 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:12,700 Where my lawyer at? 385 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,000 We called him. When he comes, we'll let you know. 386 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:16,900 I got nothing to say. 387 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,800 I mean, I'm sorry for the man, but I ain't got nothing to say. 388 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:23,500 You sorry? You sorry for him? You fucking killed the man. 389 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,400 -No. -Yes, you did. 390 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:29,100 We don't think that you shot him, but if you weren't so busy... 391 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,900 Iighting folks up in high-rise lobby... 392 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,300 he ain't coming out of the elevator and see it happen. 393 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,200 He don't see anything, he doesn't testify. 394 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:38,000 He doesn't testify, those kids still got a daddy to lean on. 395 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:39,900 -Why'd he testify? -How would we know? 396 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,200 -He didn't have to testify. -No, he didn't, but he did. 397 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,100 And you still beat the charge, didn't you? 398 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,000 But that wasn't enough. It's not enough to beat the murder. 399 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:50,700 They gotta send a cold message to everyone in the Terrace. 400 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,500 Fuck the working man. Fuck his kids, that shit don't count. 401 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,500 See, that's what I don't get about the drug thing. 402 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,200 Why can't you sell the shit and walk the fuck away? 403 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:06,800 You know what I mean? Everything else in this country gets sold... 404 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:09,100 without people shooting each other behind it. 405 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,100 In the Terrace, it's one body after another. 406 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,600 You remember that little boy... 407 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,500 got shot in the barbershop on West Lombard last summer? 408 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,800 One asshole chases another into a house... 409 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:24,500 empties a 9. 410 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,500 Bullshit argument over 20 missing gelcaps... 411 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,300 and that little kid, instead of getting his first haircut... 412 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,200 he gets one in the eye. 413 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,300 You remember that? 414 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:37,500 -It's fucked up. -Yes, it is. 415 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:38,300 -It's fucked up. -Yes, it is. 416 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,700 They didn't have to do that. 417 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,700 Shoot up a barber shop? 418 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:47,500 No, they did not have to do that. 419 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,000 That man was just... 420 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:55,800 my thing. 421 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,900 My thing, they ain't had.... 422 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:04,300 They ain't had to do that. 423 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:15,300 No mama and no daddy. 424 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,800 Lord Jesus! 425 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,100 I'll tell you what I think you should do, D'Angelo... 426 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,600 not because I think you wanted that man to get shot... 427 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,200 or had anything to do with shooting him. 428 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:35,700 But I think you could just sit here... 429 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:38,000 for a moment or two, collect your thoughts... 430 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:40,500 you know, get your shit together. 431 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,100 And then I think it might be a good thing... 432 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,500 for you to write a little letter to those children... 433 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,300 and you let them know you're sorry... 434 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,000 that they're not gonna have anyone left, you know? 435 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:57,400 I mean, just say something. 436 00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:00,600 Tell them how you personally think your uncle... 437 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:03,800 maybe he got it wrong this time, because it's wrong... 438 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:07,600 that they lost their daddy behind what happened, you know? 439 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,800 It might mean something to them to know that you're feeling for them. 440 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,000 Man, I ain't got nothing to say. 441 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,600 Just say what's in your heart. 442 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,700 Church deacon? That was thick. 443 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,000 Got good to me, what can I say? 444 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:56,900 It's sad enough with the kids being orphaned and everything. 445 00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:59,500 Photo was from Bunk's desk. 446 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,100 -They're yours? -Yeah, afraid so. 447 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,000 Good thing they look like their mama. 448 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,800 Maurice Levy just posted. He's by the elevators. 449 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,300 -The defense never rests. -Shame on you, McNulty. 450 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,200 Dragging me from the Levy family preserve on a Friday night. 451 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,800 -My apologies. -Yvette made brisket. 452 00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:30,400 -Good? -When served hot. One or two? 453 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,200 Your client. 454 00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:35,200 What the fuck! Stop writing! Now! 455 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:37,000 -I'm just-- -Shut up! 456 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:40,900 He calls his lawyer, that's supposed to be the end of the interview. 457 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,400 Your client gave no statement, we took no statement. 458 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:47,300 He just decided, voluntarily, to write a letter to the victim's family. 459 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,600 -To say that-- -Shut up! 460 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:54,000 -Any charge here? -No charge. 461 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,700 Good, get up. Go! Walk! 462 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,500 Listen to me, you don't say anything... 463 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,200 you don't do anything, you don't write anything. 464 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:06,300 Do you hear me? 465 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,600 Shut up! 466 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,900 How many times do I have to tell you people the same fucking thing? 467 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,200 What the fuck is that? 468 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,200 Armoire. Louis Quatorze. 469 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,600 I mean, what is it, a toy? 470 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,500 Some of you I know. Some of you I will know. 471 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,300 If you've ever worked with me before, you know I don't want cowboy shit... 472 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,200 and I don't want surprises. 473 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,000 The task... 474 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:58,400 is Avon Barksdale, and Avon Barksdale only. 475 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,900 No sidetrips, no sprawl. 476 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,900 Primary investigators are Greggs from my unit and-- 477 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,600 Greggs from my unit and McNulty from Homicide. 478 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:16,700 They keep the file. On the street, we work partners. 479 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:20,300 Greggs and Sydnor. Herc and Carver. 480 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:24,000 McNulty's with Santangelo, Mahone and Polk. 481 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:26,300 Pryzbylewski and Freamon. 482 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,700 To start with, we got nine-- 483 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,200 How's that? Did that get it? 484 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,600 What? Do you hear me? 485 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:36,400 What? 486 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:41,400 To start with, we have nine or ten open homicide files... 487 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:43,600 to work back through for leads. 488 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,600 McNulty and Santangelo, they're on that already. 489 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:50,700 Herc, Carver, Sydnor, and me, we'll be targeting street dealers... 490 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:53,400 and rolling them back up at Barksdale's people. 491 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:56,700 Polk and Mahone are available to run down specific leads. 492 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,200 Freamon, Pryzbylewski, are gonna start in-office... 493 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,700 on clerical duty. 494 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,200 -You need a prosecutor-- -No, turn the shit off! 495 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:06,000 What? 496 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:09,100 You need a prosecutor. 497 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,900 Rhonda Pearlman from Narcotics is assigned. 498 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:16,300 Now, we don't have enough desks yet, so we gotta share-- 499 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,800 -Y'all from Purchasing? -No. 500 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:27,700 Like I was saying, we've been promised some computers... 501 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,600 and surveillance equipment. 502 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:33,700 -Questions? -Yeah, who signs the overtime slips? 503 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,600 No OT, unless prior authorization. 504 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:40,300 A case goes from red to black by way of green, Lieutenant. 505 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,300 You people bring me something that needs OT... 506 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,000 you'll get OT... 507 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:48,600 until then, live on your fucking salaries. 508 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:05,300 "I'm very sorry for your father. If I could've stopped it, I would have." 509 00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:08,200 What can you do with this? 510 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:09,800 Nothing legally. 511 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,400 He doesn't put himself in, or anyone else for that matter. 512 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,500 You can't read that letter... 513 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,900 and think that man was killed for any other reason... 514 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,100 than he was a witness. 515 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,600 Why apologize at all if you got nothing to do with it? 516 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,600 We lost a state's witness. 517 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,200 Even in Baltimore, that's supposed to mean something, right? 518 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:36,500 Just go to the deputy, show him what's what... 519 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,500 and let's put something real together. 520 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,100 This case needs informants. It needs long-term surveillance. 521 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,600 And eventually, it's gonna need a Title 3 wiretap. 522 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:48,600 Most of all, it needs police who know how to work those things. 523 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,200 You think it's good for business to put it out on the street... 524 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:53,500 that our witnesses get killed? 525 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,100 You think it's not on the street already? 526 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,800 No grandstanding, no red balls. 527 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:03,600 Like I said, we get in and out. 528 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:22,000 Aunt June. 529 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,500 Yeah, I hope you're hungry. 530 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,800 Starving. 531 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:30,800 Hey, Dee! 532 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,400 What's up, baby? 533 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:35,500 -That your uncle? -Yeah. 534 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:37,900 I thought he'd look different. 535 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000 My man, Dee. What's up, man? 536 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:42,900 This the little man? 537 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:46,800 Yo, you see how shorty favor your nephew here? 538 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:50,800 What's up, little man? You ain't gonna be able to deny that child. 539 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,800 You wanna come to me? I know you tryin' to come to me. 540 00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:56,700 -Been napping. -Yeah? 541 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:57,800 Just woke up. 542 00:36:57,900 --> 00:36:59,800 You got a grip, let me see your grip. 543 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:02,400 C'mon, give us a twirl, let's take a look. 544 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,000 What you looking at? 545 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,100 -Go fix her a hot plate. -All right. 546 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,900 Put everything on it. She's the skinniest thing in here. 547 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,500 Come on, girl, we gonna hook you up. 548 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:14,800 Don't let that fool you, she can eat, man. 549 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:18,800 -How y'all doing? You doing good? -Yeah, we all right. 550 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:21,900 She want me to move in, I'm thinking about it. 551 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:23,300 Let's walk. 552 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:23,900 Let's walk. 553 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,400 Here you come. You gonna take my man from me? 554 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:29,600 Yeah. 555 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,400 Be careful with my little soldier. 556 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,400 -Got a name for that one? -No. 557 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,300 But he's one of the boys they use in the stairwell. 558 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,900 -What about him? -That's Little Man. 559 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,200 He's muscle. 560 00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,400 You know his real name? 561 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,300 -Cl? -Yeah. 562 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:54,600 -You need some privacy? -No, it's all right. 563 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,100 He's cool. 564 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,200 What's with the hat? 565 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,500 Go ahead, tell him, Bubbles. 566 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,900 I go down the way with some hats that I'm selling. 567 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,400 If someone is someone you need to know... 568 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,700 I put the red hat on them and Kima here take the pictures. 569 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:15,800 If they in the mix, they get another color. 570 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,600 If they ain't shit, they don't get shit. 571 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,200 Everyone in the hat's part of Barksdale's crew? 572 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:21,700 At the Terrace. 573 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,500 We haven't hit the low-rises yet. 574 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:26,900 That's sharp. 575 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:28,500 I like that. 576 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,300 Bubbles does not forget a face. 577 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,700 Ain't so good with names, but, you know, faces I keep in my head. 578 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,500 I used to take him down to Escape Unit, let him look through the warrant books. 579 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,000 He'd call me up that night, telling me to go to this corner, that corner. 580 00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:44,900 Yeah, paid $25 a pop. 581 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,600 -That's good money. -Yeah. 582 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,500 How much does the hat routine pay? 583 00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:52,200 Nothing. 584 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,400 We free on this. 585 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,900 -Motherfuckers beat my boy down. -Who? 586 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,300 Little hoppers in the low-rises. 587 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,800 Who's your boy? 588 00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:05,400 I got a friend. 589 00:39:06,700 --> 00:39:08,000 Younger white boy. 590 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:10,700 Used to come down to the corners, real green. 591 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,700 I was schooling him, you know? 592 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,300 What happened? 593 00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:18,500 -They stomped him. -You see it? 594 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,000 Fuck a man like that up for a couple dollars, you know? 595 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,900 He still at University, tubes all up in his nose. 596 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,500 Can't say but a fucking word or two. 597 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,900 But you know, that's how it goes, right? 598 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,600 How you feeling, Bubbles? 599 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:39,700 Restless. 600 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,500 Yeah, I could tell. 601 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:44,900 What the fuck? 602 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,500 Can you hook a nigger up with $10 then till tomorrow? 603 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,400 I mean, you know, just to carry me, Kima. 604 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:57,800 Bubbles. 605 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,400 Obliged. 606 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,800 Stay out of the projects the next couple of days... 607 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:07,100 just to be safe. 608 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,500 Girl's always fretting over me. 609 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,100 -Change it up, Bubs. -Yeah, yeah. 610 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,600 Go Eastside. 611 00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:16,200 Yeah, yeah. 612 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:19,500 $20? 613 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,900 -You gonna spoil him with that shit. -I respect the work. 614 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:30,600 They used your name, Stringer, Wee-Bey... 615 00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:33,000 Savino, Peanut.... 616 00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:36,700 They knew a lot of names. They knew a lot. 617 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,800 But you didn't say nothing? 618 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,000 Shit, man, I don't know nothing. 619 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:44,500 What was you writing then? 620 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,000 Yo, they was talking about the man who got killed... 621 00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:49,700 and his kids, they asked me to write. 622 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,000 -What you got to do with them, Dee? -Yeah, that's what I said. 623 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,600 Then they cried about how the kids ain't doing so good. 624 00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:59,100 I'm like, it ain't gonna hurt for me to say I'm sorry the man got killed. 625 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,600 Why the fuck you gotta say you're sorry? 626 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:04,200 Motherfuckers tried to put your ass in the stir. 627 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,500 Yeah, but it didn't turn out that way. 628 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,900 You know, that's what I'm saying, it's a shame that y'all.... 629 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:16,300 I'm saying, it's a shame what happened to that man, all right? 630 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,000 'Cause he didn't do anything but come off the elevator... 631 00:41:19,100 --> 00:41:22,000 when I was doing that thing that I was doing. 632 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:25,400 What you think, cuz? 633 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,600 About what? 634 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:30,300 I'm saying, what you think about what happened to the man? 635 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,900 You think we killed the motherfucker? 636 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,400 Speak your mind. 637 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,100 -Man, I don't know. -Exactly. 638 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,300 You don't know, and you don't need to know. 639 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,800 And if we did, we had a reason. And if we didn't, we had a reason. 640 00:41:47,900 --> 00:41:50,800 But either way, you ain't got shit to do with it. 641 00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:52,900 It ain't on you, cuz. 642 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:55,600 You feel me? It ain't on you. 643 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,900 Now, if you get jacked again... 644 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,200 I don't want to hear shit about you writing nothing to no one. 645 00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:04,300 -Got it? -Yeah. 646 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,300 Come on, let's have some good times... 647 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,900 and get some ribs before they done ate all the ribs up. 648 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:16,600 -This case isn't shit, Carv. -I know it. 649 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,400 We're dancing around with this motherfucker, typing shit out... 650 00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:22,700 taking pictures of assholes in hats. 651 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,000 -What the fuck is that? -It's bullshit. 652 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:28,000 I say we go down there right now. Right fucking now. 653 00:42:28,100 --> 00:42:30,700 We go into those towers, and we let them know. 654 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,500 I'm serious. 655 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,900 You got to let these motherfuckers know who you are. 656 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,400 You coming? 657 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,200 -I'm with you. -Carv? 658 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,500 What the hell? 659 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:49,600 Let's do it. 660 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,200 Come on. 661 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:11,900 Shut it down. Five-O. 662 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,500 Five-O, five-O, break out. 663 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,900 Yo, come here, man. Come here, where you going? 664 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,300 Don't act like you don't know me. Get your hands up. 665 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,800 Put that down. 666 00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:44,600 -Drop that shit! Kiss the fucking ground! -Put your hands up. 667 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,900 Don't look at me like I ain't talking English. 668 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,600 You got a needle on you? Got anything in here that's gonna stick me? 669 00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:54,400 No? What's that? 670 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,900 What you got in your pockets? 671 00:43:57,100 --> 00:43:59,200 You know what? Put your pants down, man. 672 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:01,400 Put your pants down and get down on the ground. 673 00:44:01,500 --> 00:44:03,800 Get down on the fucking ground! 674 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,100 All right, spread your shit out. 675 00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:11,100 Nice shoes. Think a happy thought. 676 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,400 Why don't you go somewhere else with that bullshit? 677 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,100 No-good motherfuckers. 678 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,500 Stay down, man, stay down. 679 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:26,600 Y'all can let Barksdale and them know who owns these towers. 680 00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:28,100 'Cause we're coming back. 681 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,100 -I'm sick of this shit. -Kiss my ass! 682 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,900 We roll out, come back in an hour, catch everybody dirty. 683 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,100 You'll see how that goes. 684 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,500 -That's bullshit, man. -Yo, stay down, man. 685 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,600 That's fucked up. Man ain't did nothing. 686 00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:42,400 Want something? 687 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,300 -Move, shitbird. -I ain't doing nothing. 688 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,400 Really? I got nothing for you. 689 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,400 -My eye, my eye. -Who you gonna eyefuck now? 690 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:05,400 Are you serious? 691 00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:07,800 You bleed on my car? Don't bleed on my car. 692 00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:09,800 Get your shit off my car. 693 00:45:16,300 --> 00:45:18,600 What the fuck's the matter with you? 694 00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:40,500 Got a visual? 695 00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:43,000 Fuck. 696 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,100 Get the radio. 697 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,400 1 1 :35, Signal 13. 698 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,100 771 Franklin, in the Court. 699 00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:53,900 Son of a bitch! 700 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,000 Shots fired, shots fired. Officers need assistance. 701 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,400 I'm hit! Signal 13. 702 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:02,600 Officer down, Officer down! 703 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,200 Shit! 704 00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:34,300 -Hello? -You seen the paper? 705 00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:37,400 -What? -The newspaper, get it. 706 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,600 Hey, kids. 707 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:20,100 Oh, no. 708 00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:23,100 You happy now, bitch? 709 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,200 McNulty! 710 00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:30,100 Where in fuck is he? 711 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,900 He's detailed, Major, to Narcotics-- 712 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,400 I fucking know where he's detailed. I fucking already know that! 713 00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:38,500 Yes, sir. 714 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,500 -Where is he right now? -I can page him, sir. 715 00:47:45,900 --> 00:47:47,900 Move that fucking desk out of my unit. 716 00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:50,900 I do not want that fucking man's desk in my unit. 717 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,200 That's Crutchfield's desk. 718 00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:57,100 Crutchfield's? 719 00:47:57,500 --> 00:47:59,100 McNulty sits here. 720 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,700 -What the fuck was that about? -Did you see today's paper? 721 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,800 -Just sports. -You gotta check out the front page. 722 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:22,100 -What do you think they'll do to him? -Let me tell you something. 723 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,800 If he gets caught with his dick up the ass of the deputy's wife... 724 00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:30,700 he's still gonna have more of a career than if they find out he's behind that story. 725 00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:53,600 Lieutenant. 726 00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:59,300 I saw the story in the paper. I want you to know I had nothing to do.... 727 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,500 -They jumped us, Boss. -Who? 728 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,000 Fucking project niggers. 729 00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:28,100 What are you doing here at 2:00 in the morning? 730 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:31,700 Field interviews, sir, police work. 731 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,900 -Police work? -Yeah. 732 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,600 I got a 14-year-old in critical but stable condition at University... 733 00:49:40,700 --> 00:49:42,700 and two witnesses who say one of you princes... 734 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,800 cold-cocked him with the butt-end of a pistol. 735 00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:46,700 -No, sir. -I got his mother over at lID... 736 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,900 filing a formal brutality charge... 737 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,700 which for Herc will make an even four in the last two years. 738 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,700 -None sustained. -But all of them true. 739 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:54,900 We thought that-- 740 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,500 I got one less Crown Vic than I had last night. 741 00:49:57,700 --> 00:50:00,100 I'm out two Kevlar vests that burned in the car... 742 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,600 two hand-held radios, a shotgun... 743 00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:06,100 and I'm about to lose this idiot here for a week or two of medical. 744 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:07,700 And for what? 745 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:11,000 What did you all learn when you went to the Terrace... 746 00:50:11,100 --> 00:50:13,600 at 2:00 in the morning to conduct field interviews? 747 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:17,500 What valuable information did we acquire from this situation? 748 00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:23,600 IID is gonna be on all three of you by afternoon... 749 00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:26,700 and if you don't get a story straight by then... 750 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:31,200 you're gonna have a file thick enough to see the light of a trial board. 751 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,100 Now tell me, who cold-cocked the kid? 752 00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:46,000 Me. 753 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:50,600 Why? 754 00:50:52,700 --> 00:50:54,300 He pissed me off. 755 00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:00,900 No, Officer Pryzbylewski, he did not piss you off. 756 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,500 He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers. 757 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,600 I'm guessing now, but maybe... 758 00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:13,000 he was seen to pick up a bottle and menace officers Hauk and Carver... 759 00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:16,300 both of whom had already sustained injury from flying projectiles. 760 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,000 Rather than use deadly force in such a situation... 761 00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:23,500 maybe you elected to approach the youth, ordering him to drop the bottle. 762 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,400 Maybe when he raised the bottle in a threatening manner... 763 00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:29,900 you used a Kel-Light, not the handle of your service weapon... 764 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,200 to incapacitate the suspect. 765 00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:35,900 Go practice. 766 00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:39,500 You fuck the bullshit up when you talk to lnternal... 767 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,100 I can't fix it, you're on your own. 768 00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:53,900 -Push the arraignments back to 3:00. -And the Gillette case? 769 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,000 The Gillette trial goes back on the move docket. 770 00:51:57,100 --> 00:51:59,700 Come on, walk with me. I'm running late. 771 00:52:02,100 --> 00:52:04,300 -It wasn't me. -The story quoted you. 772 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,500 Reporter has the story confirmed when he calls me about the quote. 773 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:08,800 What am I gonna say? 774 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,700 No, he wasn't a witness? No, he didn't testify in my court last week? 775 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:13,900 What? 776 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,300 You don't think it's around about the witness? 777 00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:19,400 Lawyers, clerks, jurors, everybody talks. 778 00:52:19,500 --> 00:52:23,000 -I'm in the shit here, Your Honor. -What can I tell you? 779 00:52:23,100 --> 00:52:26,400 I called the deputy, not the newspapers. I gotta run. 780 00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:34,700 -You should have hung them. -If I hang them, I hang myself. 781 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,200 I'm the man in charge, remember? 782 00:52:37,300 --> 00:52:40,300 Besides, you don't give your people up to lID. 783 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,200 You don't do that. 784 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,700 Even if they put a 14-year-old kid into Critical Care? 785 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,800 This case, it's just.... 786 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:53,900 Get out of it. 787 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,400 -How do I do that? -I don't know. 788 00:52:57,500 --> 00:53:00,000 But you can't lose if you don't play. 789 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,700 I always heard it that you can't win if you don't play. 790 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,500 The department puts you on a case it doesn't want. 791 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,700 You're given people that are useless or untrustworthy. 792 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,000 Correct. 793 00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:14,800 If you push too hard, and any shit hits the fan... 794 00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:16,900 you'll be blamed for it. 795 00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:18,200 Correct. 796 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,800 If you don't push hard enough, and there's no arrest, you'll be blamed for that, too. 797 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,200 Correct. 798 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,100 The game is rigged. 799 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,400 But you cannot lose if you do not play. 800 00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:15,600 In the hole, y'all. 801 00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:22,300 Hey! 802 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,200 Hey, you fuckheads! 803 00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:30,600 Hey, police! 804 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,100 -Hello. -Lieutenant Daniels? 805 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:03,300 Yeah. 806 00:56:14,100 --> 00:56:15,500 Who was that? 807 00:56:15,700 --> 00:56:19,000 It was the duty officer down at University hospital. 808 00:56:19,100 --> 00:56:20,600 What happened? 809 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,600 -He's blind in one eye. -Who? 810 00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:29,700 The kid. The 14-year-old.