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- [intense music plays]
- [siren wailing]

[officer] 721.

Where'd he go?

He must have ducked
into one of the alleys.

[officer] I'm in the rear
of the 900 block.

- I got nothing.
- [Deutsch] 10-4 that.

I'm on the north side of you.
Nothing here.

He's playing possum.

[intense music plays]

[siren wailing]

[helicopter buzzing]

[Burundi]
Jimmy, this is Burundi.

I need a favor.

No more favors?

No, we're not done.

You and me, Jimmy,
we been through too much.

We ain't ever gonna be done.

- [siren wailing]
- [dogs barking]

[pilot] This is Foxtrot.

We've got your boy running north
out of the alley
behind Arlington.

He's making for Mulberry.

All units, he's on Mulberry,
heading for Carrollton.

Repeat, Mulberry,
heading for Carrollton.

[*]

[helicopter buzzing]

[siren wailing]

[brakes screeching]

- Five-O is after me.
- I see that.

[brakes screeching]

Police! Open the door!

[banging on door]

Open the damn door!

- [banging on door]
- You have a warrant?

Open the door!
I'm not gonna ask you again!

We'll honor a search warrant.
You have one?

If not, then you're trespassing!

I know your business!
I used to be a cop!

I'm not taking responsibility
for this nonsense.
Radio for Homicide.

[theme song playing]

- [phone rings]
- [Giardello] Homicide.

is recalling all models
of its patented
salad-shredding machine

following the deaths
of restaurant workers
in Chattanooga and Charlotte.

In an unrelated incident
last week,

two men were caught
in Amalgamated machines
and eviscerated."

[laughing] Slawed to death.
I love it.

- You're doing Munch's job now?
- What?

Finding bizarre news
on page D12 of the newspaper,

reading it out loud
to the squad room?

- That's Munch's job.
- Frank's apprenticing.

Good content, nice delivery,
set-up was a little slow.

- I'm working on it.
- [phone ringing]

Yeah, Homicide. Pembleton.

I don't know, John,
with somebody else to deliver
our daily weirdness,

what exactly
do we need you around here for?

- Police work.
- [Giardello] Did I hear you say
police work, Munch?

I am a little red
right now, Gee,
but I am working through it.

We got one down on the ground
at Saratoga and Carey.

The Western troops
have already identified
a suspect.

A dunker. Give me, mine!

- Pembleton's up. He's primary.
- Where's Bayliss?

He's not back yet.
He left on an errand
over an hour ago.

An errand? On midnight shift?

I'm telling you,
Detective Munch,

give the call
to Detective Munch.

Do you think
I'm gonna hand you a murder

with the suspect
already identified?

A little charity, Frank.
I need some black under my name.

You won't miss the clearance.

Okay, you're the primary.

Consider this my contribution
to the Save-A-Munch foundation.

You're a gentleman, Frank,
and I've always said that.

- [Lewis] No, I'm serious.
- No way. I don't know.

- [Lewis] Hey.
- [Kellerman] Hello.

Haven't lost any appetite, huh?

What's that supposed to mean?

I haven't slept in a week.

I can't keep anything down
in my stomach.

Here, sit down.

[siren wailing in the distance]

Look, Terri...

Terri, it's over, okay?

The State's Attorney's Office
called it a good shooting.

Well, I'm having
second thoughts.

Well, then have third thoughts.

We all turned in
the same report.

We all wrote it up
that Luther Mahoney
raised his gun, my gun.

No, look, listen, do you want me
to get inside your head
and tell you what you saw?

Mike, if there was
a shadow of doubt in my mind,

you know I would carry this,
but I didn't see--

I didn't see
Mahoney raise that gun.

Then you just weren't looking
in the right place.

The gun was down.

He was pointing a gun
at my partner.

Now, he could've got shot.
You could've got shot.
I protected you.

- You didn't have to shoot.
- He was garbage.

- And that makes it right?
- It was clean.

[sighing] She'll be fine.

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

Personally, I feel
if somebody gets killed
after 2:00 a.m.,

they have no right to a quality
death investigation.

We have an expression
in Homicide.

- Our day begins when yours ends.
- [laughing]

Our victim here
is Kenya Merchant.

Where's the suspect?

[officer] He's holed up
in a row house,
about eight blocks from here.

He's not in custody?

We got half the district
around that house,
but we haven't gone in.

Well, why the hell not?

It's the African
Revival Movement headquarters
on Carrollton.

- Okay, where's your sergeant?
- At the house,
waiting for you guys.

And over there,
in the back of the squad car,

- is the witness.
- A witness?

Saw the murder, waited around
to talk to the police.

A witness in West Baltimore.
What are the chances?

Okay, how about you work
the crime scene

and I'll head
over to Carrollton.

[shutter clicking]

What's going on here?

They've barricaded
themselves inside.

We've set up a perimeter.

- You saw the suspect run inside?
- We did.

The occupant asked
to see our warrant.

Oh, you're in hot pursuit.
You don't need a warrant.
Take the door.

No, no, no, no.
Pull your people back.

- What?
- I'm overruling you.

I don't want
this getting out of hand.

The African Revival Movement
has a lot of support
in this community,

so we need to calm down.

- And a warrant would be prudent.
- Deutsch, take the door.

- Chain of command, Detective.
- [Pembleton] Exactly, Colonel.

Departmental regulations
explicitly state
that at a crime scene,

the investigating detective
has supremacy of rank.

Given that the suspect ran
directly inside this building,

in possession of evidence
from a murder,

this is de facto
an extension of the crime scene.

Take the door, please.

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

[suspenseful music plays]

Colonel...

what are you doing down here
at four o'clock in the morning?

[Deutsch] Let's go!

Name's Joseph Malawi?

Other way. Malawi Joseph.

Okay, Mr. Joseph.
What did you see tonight?

I saw Kenya shot down
like a dog in the street.

I saw the boy who did it.

I know why he did it.

I'll tell you everything.

I'll do anything I have to do
to make this right.

Tell me, Mr. Joseph,
are there any more like you
at home?

You recognize the suspect?

I know how hard it can be,

seeing as we all look alike.

Him.

Now, Sergeant,
are you absolutely sure?

I do not want
to be wrong on this.

I'm sure.
He was wearing gray Fila sweats
when we chased him, though.

And he had the gun. A semi-auto.

Okay, he goes Downtown.

We're gonna conduct
a plain-view search for
the sweatsuit and the gun.

Stay out of the drawers,
stay out of the closets.

For that we need
a search warrant,

which will be here,
typed and signed,
within the hour.

Okay, let's do it.

[tense music plays]

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

[keys clicking]

Wake up,
ace detective John Munch.

This is, no doubt,
the murder weapon.

- I'm gonna take this
down to the lab.
- Good.

Hey, Gee.
What do you know about
this African Revival Movement?

Only what I read in the papers.

Well, according
to the eyewitness at the scene,

he says the murder stems
from some rift within the group.

And that it was ordered
by the leader,

- someone named Robinson.
- Burundi Robinson.

He says this Robinson wanted
Kenya Merchant dead

because the kid broke
from the group.

What did the shooter say?

Where is Benin Crown?

Come on,
Benin Crown, the suspect
in the murder of Kenya Merchant.

- Where is he?
- Maybe he's in The Box.

- Why?
- I need to speak with him,
in private.

[Giardello] Wait a minute.
Just a second.

Hold it.

Let go of the door, Al.

Gaffney, this is inappropriate.

I'm in command
of the Homicide Unit.

That kid in there
is a homicide suspect.

If you think you can keep me
out of that room, Lieutenant,

you are a bigger jackass
than I think you are.

You looking for a transfer
to Motor Pool, hmm?

[Munch] The hell
is going on here, Gee?

You know, I had Barnfather
down at the African Revival

trying to put a squelch
on the arrest,
and now we got Gaffney...

Yeah, when's the last time
we had Gaffney
and Barnfather show up

at a midnight shift?

I'm not saying anything
to you guys!

I don't waive
my right to counsel!

My lawyer's on his way
down here right now!

[tense music plays]

[Giardello] What the hell
was Gaffney doing here?

This case
is lousy with bosses, Gee.

[Pembleton] Maybe this is
because of Burundi Robinson.

What do we really know
about this guy?

He's West Baltimore's
reigning community activist.

He's a bit messianic,
but then again,

- he's doing good for the people.
- Used to be a cop?

Narcotics detective,
Tactical Operations
in the projects.

Before my time.
I came in as a rookie in '68.

He left a few years later.

- Resigned?
- [Giardello] Yeah.

Does he still have drag
in the department?

Could he be pushed around
with people like Barnfather
and Gaffney?

Uh, he left without a rank
a quarter century ago.
Where's the drag in that?

Something's making
the bosses jumpy, Gee.

I understand that something
got you out of bed early
this morning.

- [Barnfather] Something did.
- [water running]

[Giardello]
What the hell's going on?

- I can't talk about it, Al.
- You and Gaffney both.

Gaffney's in this?

He came into our unit
early this morning,

demanding to speak
to our suspect.

The next thing you know,
the kid's asking for a lawyer.

He must be out of his mind.

Who? Who's behind this?

Look, I've done a lot of things
I don't agree with.
That comes with the rank.

But this...

You were supposed
to come down there
early this morning

and pull us off that arrest,
weren't you?

I was on the spot, Al.

Can't imagine how relieved I was
when Pembleton started quoting
chapter and verse

from the general orders
at a crime scene.

I was wondering
why you let him win
that argument.

I'm not going to jail
for anyone.

George, who wants
this case thrown?

[suspenseful music plays]

[teacher] It's in this area
of the Belgian Congo

that we can see the effects
of white colonialism...

See, it's about credibility,
not ideology.

People are tired of demagogues
who don't deliver,

who make speeches
and then walk away
from the problems.

I know West Baltimore.
I was born here.
I'm going to die here.

We started this movement
four years ago
with just a handful of families.

- Now we number 120.
- [Dawn] And you all live
within this commune?

Oh, some families
choose to live here.
Some do not.

But in joining,

all of our members
acknowledge each other
as family.

All of us exchange
our given names

for the names
of African nations.

You were Marvin Lee Robinson.

Now I am Burundi Robinson.
But that
isn't the important thing.

What's important
is that we are here every day,

and we will be here every day
with our soup kitchen,

our shelter,
our job training programs.

We are trying to do
the right things
for people in West Baltimore.

Thank you.
I'm grateful
just for the chance.

You did
what we talked about, right?

- Three days clean.
- [Burundi] Good luck, then.

Give it your best shot.

[Dawn] What was that about?

He was homeless last week.

Today he has a job interview.

We provided him with shelter,
food and a new suit of clothes.

And if he gets that job?

Ms. Daniels, if he gets the job,
he will keep that job.

- We'll pay for his detox,
drug counseling and aftercare.
- [Dawn] But that's expensive.

As I said,
we are not about
making speeches.

We are not walking away
from problems.

This Robinson
used to be a cop, huh?

Doesn't sound like a cop.

You meant that as a compliment?

I don't know,
I don't trust anybody
who walks through this world

claiming to be an answer.

There are no answers
except for disorder
and miscalculation,

unless you work for Disney.

Okay, I got
Malawi Joseph primed.

[man] ...it's an idea as old
as Marcus Garvey.

Why exactly
would one Revival member

shoot another one down
in the street?

That's what I told them before.

This thing,
it's bigger than Benin Crown.

This is about Burundi Robinson.

Well, why would Burundi Robinson
have his people
shooting each other?

Kenya found out some things
going on in the movement.

Wanted to go public.

Robinson couldn't have that,

especially since he'd gone
high profile,

getting all that airtime
on the TODAY show

and Montel Williams.

What exactly did he find out?

Robinson had been whoring
sisters in the movement.

Some of the little kids
you see running around
Carrollton Avenue,

they're his.

And you heard
Robinson give the order

to have Kenya Merchant killed?

No.

Well, then how do you know
Benin Crown wasn't acting
on his own?

That's just not the way
it happens over there.

Ed, if we can't prove
Robinson gave the order--

You need more?
I'll get you more.

[Giardello] A wire?

We're going to send a wire
into Burundi Robinson?

How do we know
the witness isn't lying?

We put him on the polygraph.
He passed with flying colors.

We're going to wire
Malawi Joseph

and send him in
to a prominent Black leader,

in the hopes
of catching the man discussing
his sexual improprieties

on tape?

Am I the only person here
that sees a problem?

We're not doing it because
of the sexual improprieties,

and we're not doing it
because he's a Black leader.

30 years ago,
Hoover and the feds

had the entire
Civil Rights Movement bugged,

claiming that he doing it
because he was serving
the national interest,

when in fact, J. Edgar Hoover
was nothing more

- than a low-bottom blackmailer.
- This is not the same.

But it seems
that we're rushing to tear down
Robinson and his group,

on the basis
of a single allegation.

I agree with you, Al.

We can drop
this investigation now,

and still have the case
against Crown.

So, if our witness
is telling the truth,

then race and altruism
gives Burundi Robinson
a free pass.

Robinson brought hope
to West Baltimore.
Let's give the man that much.

When this all shakes out, Gee,
it's still a murder.

Hook him up.

But we keep the name
of the witness secret,

we keep this entire thing quiet,
we keep it right here
in this office.

Burundi, may I speak with you?

This is my day
to serve the noon meal.

They came to my mother's house.

Once again, you save lunch.

Police heard
that me and Kenya were close,
so they want to know--

I don't worry about them.
But you, I thought
you'd given up on the movement.

- I needed time.
- Welcome back.

Thank you.

[Burundi] The police wanted
to know what,
about you and Kenya?

I don't know.

What about Kenya's arrangements?
Are they taken care of?

His people
are on public assistance.

Kenya left the movement.

You know
that's not gonna play out
in the community,

us not burying one of our own.

You've got to stop thinking
on Kenya Merchant.

Sacrifices have to be made here.

Oh, and uh,
Kenya was a sacrifice?

Kenya made a choice. He chose.

What's important now
is the future of this movement.

We have to go on.
You understand that?

[Malawi] Yes.

[Danvers] It's not enough.

That business
about Kenya making himself
a sacrifice,

that's as close as he comes,
and it's still way too cryptic
for a jury.

You're saying
we need to send a wire in again?

I need Robinson
talking about the murder
in direct terms.

What's that?

A tape recorder.

What's on it?

My legal notes.

Oh, yeah? Interesting listening?

It's property of the State's
Attorney's Office.

You have a problem
with that, Captain?

I understand that we've got
a co-operating witness
on the Merchant shooting.

Incident reporting the case
said there was a witness
at the crime scene,

but the name's been omitted
from the case folder.

[tense music plays]

I need the name.

[Giardello sighing]

This is a direct order.
Give me the name.

When you look in the mirror,
Gaffney, what do you see?

I see a cop
who knows how to follow orders.

Would you like
a lesson on that, Lieutenant?

[*]

This is the second time
you've pulled rank on me.

There won't be a third.

Give him the name.

[*]

Give me a sound level.

Testing. One, two.

You need to get Robinson
to talk in detail
about having Kenya killed.

You want to get him
to acknowledge planning
and ordering the murder.

- [Joseph sighing]
- You all right?

I'm scared.
I feel
like a walking microphone.

Well, it's natural.
If you weren't scared,
you'd be stupid.

Or dead.

[tense music plays]

I need the man.

[*]

- Burundi?
- Malawi! Come in, have a seat.

Something to drink?
Tea, water, coffee?

No. No, thank you. Are you busy?

Not at all.
I always have time for family.

I'm having trouble
with what happened to Kenya.

[Burundi] It's terrible.
I agree.

[Malawi] Did we have to
carry it that far?

[Burundi] What do you mean?

[Malawi] Killing him.

[Burundi] You think
I had anything to do

- with Kenya's death?
- [Pembleton snorting]

God, no!

I had no idea
what was in Benin's mind

when he did that.

How can you think such a thing?

- He knew the kid was wired.
- Damn right he did.

At every point
in this investigation,

we have been betrayed
by our own.

Barnfather at the arrest.
Gaffney at the interrogation.

Now this.

Gaffney is the Commander
of Crimes Against Persons.

If he wants the details
of a homicide case,
he has an absolute right.

What's clear
is that we're working
in a fishbowl.

Our every move
is being telegraphed.

Which ends
this proactive investigation.

We've got all the evidence
we're ever gonna get.

I say we take
Benin Crown to trial
and get him some serious time.

Down the road,
he might agree to testify
against Robinson.

He'll agree now.

[sighing] He lawyered up.

We can't even conduct
a legal interview
with Crown at this point.

We're not gonna talk
to Benin Crown.

We wouldn't dream
of talking to Benin Crown.

What we're gonna do...

we're gonna talk to each other.

[Giardello sighing]

[handcuffs clicking]

Yo, why you bring me
back in here?

- My lawyer says
you can't talk to me.
- Your lawyer's absolutely right.

- I can't say a thing to you.
- That's right.

Benin, how long have you been
here in this room?

What, five minutes or so?

Until you spoke to me
a moment ago,

- did I say anything to you?
- No.

- Ask any questions?
- No.

Acknowledge your existence?

This is not an interview.

We are not talking.

There is absolutely nothing
that you are going to say
in this room

that we will remember
you saying.

- You understand?
- Not really.

Okay. I'm gonna talk
to my good friend
John Munch here.

Hi. John Munch here.

- Good work on the Merchant case.
- Thank you, Frank.

- Your investigation
has wrapped itself up nicely?
- Uh-huh.

- The lab has made a match
on the murder weapon.
- [Pembleton] Mm-hmm.

An eyewitness has identified
our suspect.

And our suspect,
seen fleeing the crime scene
by police officers,

has offered nothing to me
in the way of mitigation
or alibi.

I, being the primary detective
assigned to the case,

- am decidedly content.
- [Pembleton] Mm.

- [Giardello] Damn shame.
- [table bangs]

- What's that, Gee?
- About the suspect.

Good kid, good mother.

Good grades at City College.

Graduates,
joins the African Revival,

and then finds himself
a suspect to murder.

- End of story.
- There's no way around this one.

Murder, life, no parole.

Can you imagine that,
being incarcerated for life?
Huh?

I mean, no woman
to keep you warm,

no chance of, uh,
of fathering children?

I understand children
are the secret to eternal life.

Oh, yeah,
it's a marvelous feeling.

You know what
I'm talking about, to be a man.

Uh, to-- to have the opportunity
to hand your name
down to your child.

- It's marvelous.
- I guess Benin Crown
is the last of his line, huh?

- Oh, no, no, no,
he has a sister.
- Oh, yeah, his sister.

- She's pregnant, right?
- [Pembleton] Yeah.

What did I hear about that?

Come on, man.

- What?
- [Pembleton laughing]

- You-- you know, don't you?
- [Munch] Know what?

- They say
it's Robinson's kid. [laughing]
- [Giardello laughing]

Benin's pimping his own sister
to Robinson?

You got no right
talking about my sister!

- Benin, please.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

You want to speak with us,
your attorney must be present

and in agreement
that you waive
your Miranda rights.

- There's no way
that's gonna happen.
- Hey, look! It's Ed.

Ed Danvers,
Assistant State's Attorney
for the City of Baltimore.

I happened to notice
you walking through
our humble squad room.

- Can I ask you a question?
- What is he doing in here?
You can't talk to him.

- We're not talking to him.
- No, we're talking to you.

- We are?
- Yeah, about this Crown case.
What are we looking at?

Munch is talking life,
no parole.

Probably.
Could be straight life.

Which means parole in about 15,
if Crown's lucky.

Does Crown seem lucky to you?

If he was, he'd have
a good public defender
working for him,

trying to get him
the sweetest deal possible.

Instead he's got
an attorney hired
by the African Revival Movement.

- [detectives laughing]
What's wrong with that, man?

- Hey, did you guys
hear something?
- Not a word.

As I was saying,
he's got an attorney

- courtesy of Burundi Robinson.
- [detectives laughing]

You mean that Robinson is paying
some legal eagle cash money
to keep Crown silent,

and that this same legal eagle,
who knows
where his check is coming from,

will keep Crown silent,
even if it means
sending the kid to Jessup

- for the rest
of his natural life?
- [Danvers] It's a good deal.

- Wait. Wait. Wait.
- Sounds like a conflict
of interest to me.

No, it's--
it's not a conflict
to Robinson's interests.

He gets to play prophet
and, uh, oh, have his fun.

[detectives laughing]

Of course, if Crown
were to give up

any co-conspirators
in the murder, I mean,

he'd be looking at 15 to 20.

- [Pembleton] Whoa!
- Possible parole in seven.

[Pembleton] Seven years?

- [Danvers] Yeah.
- For what, co-operation?

He'd still be young enough
to have a life of his own.

- [Giardello] Hmm.
- [Danvers] Hmm.

I'll give you what you want.

Sorry, I can't--
I can't talk to you.

- Wait, wait, wait,
I want to talk to you!
- Sorry.

[Danvers] If you want to talk,

you go back
to pre-trial detention

and you use your first chance
at the phone

to call
the Public Defender's Office.

Get yourself a lawyer
who talks for you,
not for Robinson.

[suspenseful music plays]

Tell him you want to cut a deal.

O-- okay. Yeah, okay!

[intense music plays]

Okay.
You fellas go round back,
take the alley.

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

Gentlemen.
An arrest warrant, I take it?

- Mr. Robinson,
let's do this the easy way.
- Can I see the probable cause?

You'll get
a statement of charges
from the Court Commissioner.

No matter.
I know what it says already.

I know that Benin Crown
fired the attorney
I provided for him.

- Sir, if you'll just
come with us.
- No!

- [people shouting]
- [intense music plays]

- Take it easy.
Guys, guys, relax.
- [indistinct]

[man] Come on! Come on!

Signal 13!
Officer needs assistance!

Over at 200 block of Carrollton,
in the alley!

[indistinct shouting]

- Back off!
- No, no, no! No, no!

No!

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

Get back! [grunts]

[groans]

[man, indistinct]

- Back! Stand back!
- [man] Go back!

Officer needs assistance,
Signal 13.

We need an ambo here.
Don't move! Don't move!

Everybody just stay
where you are.

- It's all right.
- [officer] Signal 13. Signal 13.

- [glass smashing]
- [Pembleton] Okay, okay,
I'm calling for backup.

- Hey, holster your weapons.
- [officer] Look out!

[indistinct],
holster your weapon.

- [horn honking]
- [siren wailing]

- What the hell happened?
- They beat him down!

- [Pembleton] Who hit him?
- [paramedic] We gotta
get him out of here right now!

Come on, let's move.
Let's get him out of here,
put him out of here.

Get him out!
Okay, we need tactical QRT.

Come on, let's go, let's move!
Look out!

Let's make a move, let's go!

Let's go, let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go, let's go!

[officer] There's a riot here,
that's what's going on.

We need tactical help
right away.

[dispatcher] 10-4, 731.

All units, Signal 13
at Carrollton and Mulberry.

Officers in need of assistance.
QRT is on the way.

[*]

[siren wailing]

This guy Robinson,
he wants to talk to Harris.

- Deputy Commissioner Harris?
- He's been called,
but he's not on the scene.

[Jasper] What do you want me
to tell Robinson?

The Deputy Commissioner's
en route.

- Is that true?
- How should I know?

[intense music plays]

Hey.

- Hey, where-- where you--
where you-- where you been?
- Yeah, huh?

You disappeared at the beginning
of last night's shift.
I haven't seen you since.

- Right.
- Stay out of this.

I had something I had to do.

All night?

Yeah, yeah, Frank,
I took some personal time.

- What did I miss?
- Nothing much.

[*]

The Deputy Commissioner for you.

What's Harris saying?

He gave me the go
to storm the compound.

He wants this guy Robinson
taken out.

- He's out of his mind.
- [Giardello] No!

He knows exactly what he wants,
and I'm not gonna
let that happen.

[*]

[officer] Somebody take
these guys around the truck
and cover Giardello.

[*]

[quiet suspenseful music plays]

I'm not carrying.

[dog barking]

I'm Al Giardello.
I'm a shift commander
with Homicide.

I remember you.

A long time ago,
you were with Tac.

So, Lieutenant,
what can I do for you
under these circumstances?

Talk to me.

How about them O's?

Uh, big series with Cleveland
coming up
at the end of the month.

I was hoping to get to a game.

How about you and me?
We could, um, go and sit
in a couple of good seats.

- Good seats, huh?
- [Giardello] I like third row.

Behind the dugout,
out on first base line.

No, it's got to be along third.

I like to look into the dugout
and watch
the home team circulate.

[both laughing]

You could've gotten
yourself shot
coming in here, Lieutenant.

What do you want?

What you want.

For everything to be all right.

How do we do that?

Give yourself up.

I can't.

You and me,

we can just walk out that door

and all this will be ended.

What, I still have friends
in the department, huh?

[laughing] Uh-huh?

They're all outside for what,
to throw me a party?

Jimmy Harris,
is he out there yet?

[quiet suspenseful music plays]

Harris owes you, doesn't he?

My boy Jimmy.

He should be standing here
with me today, not you.

He's where he is today
because of me.

How does he owe you?

'72, my last year
with the department.

The O's that year,
Buford, Baylor, Palmer, McNally,

Boog, and Brooks
covering the corners.

Brooks Robinson,
the supreme glove man,
the hands of a magician.

I resigned.

Ten years in,
halfway to a pension,

- I still resigned.
- Harris told you about the wire.

You actually thought
you were gonna get me on tape
saying, what,

that I had
Kenya Merchant murdered?

Harris told you.

In '72, me and Jimmy Harris,

we were working
a two-man Tac car.

We'd been partnering
for five years,

since we'd both come up
from patrolmen.

We owned Lexington Terrace.

Remember how wild
those projects were?

But me and Jimmy,
we kept the lid on.

Anything got nuts,
we were the glove men,
the magicians.

You were doing good work,
and then you resigned.

Jimmy and me, one night
we catch a drug dealer.

He's coming up the stairwell
with 15 large worth of heroin
on him.

Not big by today's numbers,
but back then
it was a heavy bust.

We're going to go to court
on this jamoke,

so Jimmy checks the dope
out of Evidence Control.

The dealer pleads out.

Me and Jimmy, we take the dope
back to Evidence Control.

- Two weeks later--
- The heroin is gone.

Missing.

Jimmy and me,
we swear up and down

we don't know
how it comes up baking soda,

but it's our names
on the inventory receipt,

and the brass,
they gonna bust us out.

The only two names
they got are Harris
and Robinson.

I don't know
what happened to that dope.

Jimmy swears his word
he doesn't either.

[laughing]

- Swears his word.
- Harris switched the dope.

He sold the heroin
back to the dealer
for ten grand.

Why didn't you go to the brass
with that?

My word against his?
What does that give me?

Jimmy Harris came on in '56.
He has a veteran's credibility.

[siren wailing in the distance]

Jimmy tells me
we can both take the charge.

We can go down
together as partners,

or we can save what we can.

- Damage control.
- [Burundi] Oh, yeah.

I let that bastard
drop $5,000 in my pocket,

and then you know
what it comes down to?

Me and Jimmy
standing on a corner,
flipping a coin.

Heads, he takes the weight.
Tails, I do.

He flips a quarter,
and you see how it came up.

Your coin?

You offer to resign
on the condition

that you will not admit
to anything on the record.

I resign,
all them problems go away.

[Giardello] You flipped a coin,
you covered him.

Far as I'm concerned,
you covered yourself.
I don't know, I wasn't there.

But I am standing
in front of you now.
Harris isn't.

Now, I want you to do
what's best for you.

I want you to do
what's best for everyone.

You think Deputy Commissioner
of Police James C. Harris

is gonna let me walk
into open court
and speak my piece?

My boy Jimmy
isn't taking prisoners today.

All that happened here today
can be made right.

Where do we go, Al?

Where's our place
in the world, as Black men?

We're either a Michael Jordan
or an O. J. Simpson,
godhead or pariah.

Otherwise we're Bojangles,

we're standing outside
the Harborplace Pavilion
begging for spare change.

But if we don't go hat in hand
for some white benevolence,
then we're a threat, a danger.

Something has to be done
about us.

I can live with that.
What's new about that?

But for someone
who is one of us,

for us to be betrayed
from within the family,

that's the true evil.

When that happens,
we have to prove
our self-reliance.

We have to take care
of our problems ourselves.

And you took care
of Kenya Merchant.

- [Burundi] My family is gone.
- No one needs to get hurt.

No one needs to get hurt
here today,
and we all win the day.

- I just flipped a coin.
- What?

- I flipped a coin. Call it.
- What?

- In my head. It's flipping.
Heads or tails? Call it.
- Heads.

- You lose.
- [tense music plays]

What about the children?

[helicopter buzzing]

Coming out! Coming out!

All right, come on, hurry.
Right to the truck. Hurry.

Please, as fast as you can.

Where's Deputy Commissioner
Harris?

I want to talk
to the son of a bitch.

Quit while you're ahead,
Lieutenant.

I know everything.
He gave up
the witness we had wired.

- [Gaffney] He did what?
- [Giardello] Robinson
told me everything.

I know all about
his and Robinson's history.

You listen
to that madman in there?

You think he has
any sense of reality?

He is wanted
on a murder warrant, Lieutenant.

I'm gonna write this up.

There'll be a full report

on the Mayor's desk
tomorrow, Gaffney.

That's big of you.

Don't get writer's cramp
and put in for a medical,
all right?

Gaffney, listen, Gaffney!

- [Gaffney] Lieutenant Jasper.
- [Jasper] Yes, sir.

- Take Robinson out.
- What?

This is a command decision
from Deputy Commissioner Harris.

- Lives are on the line here.
- I've got my orders.

This is a direct command?

If you have to ask,
you're out of the loop.

If you're out of the loop,
you're not long for the job.

Any clear line of sight
on Robinson, we have a go.

That was Munch.
No changes in the last hour.

No parlay. No demands.

- What's going on?
- Anybody's guess.

Drop mics
are picking up conversations
within the compound.

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

It's been hours.

No lights have come on
inside the compound.

They don't want
to present themselves
as a target.

[Barnfather] Anything
on the night scopes?

[helicopter buzzing]

Robinson let the women
and children go free.

He's trying to find a way
out of this without losing face.

[phone ringing]

Yeah, Homicide.

No, Lieutenant Giardello's
at the scene now.

No. Bye.

[suspenseful music plays]

What did Robinson
and you talk about?

- We're not picking up
any sounds anymore.
- What do you mean?

Not a sound for the last hour.

What do you mean?
There are 16 men inside.

How can none of them
be making a sound?

[music intensifies]

- [intense music plays]
- [officer] Go, go, go, go!

[eerie music plays]

[reporters shouting
indistinctly]

[reporter] Lieutenant,
Lieutenant, Lieutenant, please!

Lieutenant,
you were the last man
to speak to him.

Why? Why did he do it?

I'm not sure.

But I can tell you one thing.

There's gonna be hell to pay.

[overlapping chatter]

[Dawn] As you can see,
the removal of the bodies
of the victims

is underway tonight,

even as police detectives
continue to search

the group's compound.

This is Dawn Daniels for WBALTV.

[reporter]
...the 16 male members
of the West Baltimore cult.

They have not yet
been identified
by authorities...

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to Kennebunk,

the coast of Southern Maine
is home

to a unique variety
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that thrives in cooler waters,

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