1 00:00:11,012 --> 00:00:13,014 (Dog barking) 2 00:00:16,559 --> 00:00:18,853 (People arguing, distant) 3 00:00:25,234 --> 00:00:27,695 (Radio playing, indistinct) 4 00:00:51,510 --> 00:00:53,596 (Radio alarm starts) 5 00:01:28,130 --> 00:01:30,841 Rise and shine! Come on, man, get up! 6 00:01:34,303 --> 00:01:37,265 Come on, get up! School day. Y'all gonna be late! 7 00:01:37,348 --> 00:01:39,267 Let's go. Get up for school. 8 00:01:39,350 --> 00:01:41,769 Go! Get up. Come on, man. 9 00:01:41,852 --> 00:01:43,813 - Damn, Wallace. - Damn, nothing! 10 00:01:43,896 --> 00:01:46,482 Y'all know what happens if you don't go to school? 11 00:01:46,565 --> 00:01:50,111 They're gonna be callin' and all y'all gonna end up in foster care. 12 00:01:50,194 --> 00:01:53,239 If y'all want foster care, climb your asses back into bed. 13 00:01:53,364 --> 00:01:56,701 Get outta my way, man. Damn, it's too early for this shit. 14 00:02:11,924 --> 00:02:14,302 (Sirens, distant) 15 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:22,560 (Siren nearby) 16 00:02:26,897 --> 00:02:29,984 - Narcos? - No, rollers. 17 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:33,112 Yo, where's breakfast at? 18 00:02:33,279 --> 00:02:35,323 Here, man. You get two. 19 00:02:36,699 --> 00:02:39,160 - I want two bags. - You don't get two. 20 00:02:39,243 --> 00:02:41,537 Come on, getting greedy. Take the chips! 21 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:43,748 Come on. Take yourjuice. 22 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:48,294 Come on, man. 23 00:02:49,420 --> 00:02:50,755 Where mine? 24 00:02:52,506 --> 00:02:54,800 Go show your teacher. Come on, man. 25 00:03:08,272 --> 00:03:11,692 - Where's your book bag? - Teacher ain't give no homework. 26 00:03:28,292 --> 00:03:31,712 That's the worst case of suicide I've ever seen. 27 00:03:31,796 --> 00:03:33,631 That's him. 28 00:03:36,884 --> 00:03:38,386 You see? 29 00:03:39,678 --> 00:03:41,764 That's him, right there. 30 00:03:41,847 --> 00:03:43,724 That's Omar's boy. 31 00:04:05,663 --> 00:04:09,291 If you walk through the garden 32 00:04:09,458 --> 00:04:12,002 you better watch your back 33 00:04:13,087 --> 00:04:16,340 well I beg your pardon 34 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:19,510 walk the straight and narrow track 35 00:04:21,345 --> 00:04:24,014 if you walk with Jesus 36 00:04:25,266 --> 00:04:27,184 he 7! Save your soul 37 00:04:29,270 --> 00:04:31,522 you gotta keep the devil 38 00:04:32,148 --> 00:04:34,233 down in the hole 39 00:04:35,985 --> 00:04:38,404 all the angels sing 40 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:42,324 about Jesus' mighty sword 41 00:04:43,367 --> 00:04:46,245 and they shield you with their wings 42 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:50,624 keep you close to the lord 43 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,919 don't pay heed to temptation 44 00:04:54,753 --> 00:04:58,132 for his hands are so cold 45 00:04:58,883 --> 00:05:02,011 you gotta keep the devil 46 00:05:02,136 --> 00:05:05,389 way down in the hole 47 00:05:13,814 --> 00:05:16,484 Way down in the hole 48 00:05:17,568 --> 00:05:20,196 way down in the hole 49 00:05:21,363 --> 00:05:24,700 way down in the hole 50 00:05:24,909 --> 00:05:27,703 way down in the hole 51 00:05:34,418 --> 00:05:39,340 - What the fuck can I tell him? - Whatever the man wants to hear, Jimmy. 52 00:05:42,426 --> 00:05:43,928 Prodigal son. 53 00:05:45,971 --> 00:05:49,433 Major, we got a good shot at clearing a couple of cases here. 54 00:05:49,517 --> 00:05:53,103 We're not here to talk cases. I don't care about your cases. Sit. 55 00:05:55,606 --> 00:05:56,774 Relax. 56 00:05:58,234 --> 00:05:59,652 I'm a reasonable guy. 57 00:05:59,902 --> 00:06:02,196 In fact, everywhere I go, people say to me, 58 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,449 "bill rawls, you are a reasonable fucking guy." 59 00:06:05,574 --> 00:06:08,160 - Am I right, Jay? - You are reasonable, sir. 60 00:06:08,244 --> 00:06:10,663 Yes. Yes, I am. 61 00:06:10,871 --> 00:06:13,249 Because he knows me to be reasonable, 62 00:06:13,332 --> 00:06:15,876 he came in a few weeks ago and reasoned with me. Right, Jay? 63 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,003 We reasoned. We did. 64 00:06:18,629 --> 00:06:22,132 We reasoned that despite his negligible Irish ancestry, 65 00:06:22,883 --> 00:06:27,012 and a propensity to talk out of turn, Jimmy mcnulty is a good worker. 66 00:06:28,264 --> 00:06:29,765 Probably worth saving. 67 00:06:29,848 --> 00:06:32,685 - Major, I'm not... - He's a good-looking kid. 68 00:06:33,602 --> 00:06:35,062 (Chuckles) 69 00:06:36,230 --> 00:06:38,732 Do you know what we do here, mcnulty? 70 00:06:38,816 --> 00:06:41,402 What we do here? 71 00:06:41,485 --> 00:06:45,155 That was one of them... what is it? A question you don't have to... 72 00:06:45,239 --> 00:06:49,952 A rhetorical question. You were being rhetorical. Rhetorical and reasonable, sir. 73 00:06:50,536 --> 00:06:55,583 We work murder cases here, as they come in, one at a fucking time. It's a rotation. 74 00:06:55,666 --> 00:06:58,919 You're up till you catch one, then you step down, work it, 75 00:06:59,003 --> 00:07:00,462 someone else steps up. 76 00:07:00,838 --> 00:07:07,553 It's a simple but effective way to do business in a town that has 250 to 300 cases a year. 77 00:07:07,636 --> 00:07:08,887 Yes, sir. 78 00:07:08,971 --> 00:07:12,099 But if someone gets it into his head to leave the rotation, 79 00:07:12,182 --> 00:07:15,936 it puts an unfair burden on the detectives who have to pick up their casework. 80 00:07:16,270 --> 00:07:21,942 Ovennorked cops make mistakes. Mistakes lower the unit-wide clearance rate. 81 00:07:22,151 --> 00:07:26,530 And that can make someone who is othennise as reasonable as me... 82 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:31,452 Unreasonable. 83 00:07:37,541 --> 00:07:40,961 Detective mcnulty, I expect to see your ass back here next week 84 00:07:41,045 --> 00:07:43,631 when your shift rotates to night work. 85 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:57,394 ( Hip-hop) 86 00:07:57,478 --> 00:08:00,898 Night shows up and the beat goes on like one of those nights that goes on too long 87 00:08:00,981 --> 00:08:04,151 maybe one of those songs that could have cut the fuck off a long time ago 88 00:08:04,318 --> 00:08:09,198 my friend says at his stop should have just followed 89 00:08:09,323 --> 00:08:11,158 I read the laws, the hip-hop laws 90 00:08:11,367 --> 00:08:13,661 you know those laws there's laws to the hip-hop game 91 00:08:13,744 --> 00:08:15,954 should have read that book that I recommended 92 00:08:16,038 --> 00:08:19,833 - 'cause if you did, you would see... - (Page0 93 00:08:19,917 --> 00:08:22,753 if you don't have a hip-hop license... 94 00:08:29,218 --> 00:08:33,055 - He's up early today. - A lot of pager activity last night, too. 95 00:08:36,767 --> 00:08:39,687 La la la la... 96 00:08:41,355 --> 00:08:43,399 Respect tell me one thing about respect 97 00:08:43,482 --> 00:08:44,942 can you mock respect? 98 00:08:45,025 --> 00:08:47,069 Bad man, lrespecting 99 00:08:48,237 --> 00:08:51,156 la la la la... 100 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:54,451 Respect... 101 00:08:58,414 --> 00:09:00,082 No woman takes that long. 102 00:09:07,631 --> 00:09:10,300 Yeah. But I look good, right? 103 00:09:17,099 --> 00:09:19,309 Wow. You did all this? 104 00:09:20,477 --> 00:09:23,397 - Burned an egg or two. Ain't no thing. - Yeah? 105 00:09:24,106 --> 00:09:26,984 My mama always said, "don't let them get to cooking. 106 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:30,654 "Once they're in the kitchen, you have to give 'em a key to your house." 107 00:09:30,738 --> 00:09:33,365 I don't want no key. I don't want no house. 108 00:09:33,449 --> 00:09:36,160 And your mama don't know shit about me. 109 00:09:36,410 --> 00:09:38,537 Looks just like you. 110 00:09:39,371 --> 00:09:40,914 Yeah, he do. 111 00:09:42,374 --> 00:09:46,086 - Where's his mother? - Around the way. 112 00:09:47,045 --> 00:09:48,630 You friends? 113 00:09:50,132 --> 00:09:52,426 You know, she want a key. 114 00:09:52,843 --> 00:09:56,597 She want a house, she want a car, she want some new clothes, a necklace, 115 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:01,268 some pocket change, a trip to the shore, she want a credit card with her name on it. 116 00:10:01,351 --> 00:10:03,479 Ain't no such thing as free, right? 117 00:10:03,562 --> 00:10:06,482 When it come to pussy, there ain't no free. 118 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:11,779 I gotta go. 119 00:10:21,622 --> 00:10:25,083 Sometimes I wander under the sun I used to wonder 120 00:10:25,167 --> 00:10:27,711 were you the... 121 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:33,801 Been working on this one. You'll get the lines on the other two pay phones tomorrow. 122 00:10:33,884 --> 00:10:36,762 - So we up? - On the low-rise pay phones. 123 00:10:36,845 --> 00:10:38,388 Let's hear it. 124 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:44,144 (Woman) 'What I'm talking about is he ain't paid no one, he just think it's right to do it. 125 00:10:44,228 --> 00:10:47,856 'See how it goes? So I ain't got shit. I ain't got it.' 126 00:10:48,065 --> 00:10:49,399 (man) 'Damn. For real?' 127 00:10:49,483 --> 00:10:52,528 'thinking he all that because he got his family back.' 128 00:10:55,364 --> 00:10:57,533 - it was getting good. - It's unmonitored. 129 00:10:57,616 --> 00:10:58,909 It's what? 130 00:10:58,992 --> 00:11:02,454 We can't listen to a conversation on an unmonitored pay phone. 131 00:11:02,830 --> 00:11:06,124 - What's that mean? - We got a tap on the courtyard pay phone. 132 00:11:06,291 --> 00:11:08,752 By tomorrow, we'll be on two near the high-rises. 133 00:11:08,836 --> 00:11:12,965 We can't listen to anything unless we know one of our targets is using the phone. 134 00:11:13,048 --> 00:11:17,636 We gotta be on those rooftops for hours watching these assholes talk on the phone? 135 00:11:19,471 --> 00:11:21,014 It's more bullshit. 136 00:11:21,098 --> 00:11:22,724 Detective, 137 00:11:22,808 --> 00:11:26,270 this right here, this is the job. 138 00:11:26,687 --> 00:11:30,566 Now, when you came downtown to cid, what other kind of work were you expecting? 139 00:11:32,901 --> 00:11:34,528 So what are you gonna do? 140 00:11:34,611 --> 00:11:37,906 I can't get back here in a week, this case is taking off. 141 00:11:38,740 --> 00:11:40,450 You tell rawls that? 142 00:11:41,326 --> 00:11:43,579 - No. - Mcnulty, line three. 143 00:11:46,707 --> 00:11:48,292 Yeah. 144 00:11:50,127 --> 00:11:51,503 Where at? 145 00:11:52,588 --> 00:11:55,090 800 block, in the rear. I got it. 146 00:11:56,049 --> 00:11:58,260 Thanks. Yeah. 147 00:12:13,817 --> 00:12:16,320 (Laughter) 148 00:12:27,623 --> 00:12:30,834 - Come in 22. - '22.' 149 00:12:31,501 --> 00:12:34,254 we're still waiting on a lab unit. Do you have an eta? 150 00:12:34,338 --> 00:12:36,340 'Negative. They're all out.' 151 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:41,053 - damn dog got Norris, too. - You didn't think to warn me? 152 00:12:41,136 --> 00:12:43,138 Too much fun not to. 153 00:12:44,348 --> 00:12:47,976 - Damn. - Yeah. Is he one of yours? 154 00:12:48,435 --> 00:12:51,438 We found him with kevlar, like the one worden caught. 155 00:12:51,521 --> 00:12:53,941 - We thought it was a connection. - It connects. 156 00:12:54,024 --> 00:12:55,442 How so? 157 00:12:55,776 --> 00:12:58,904 Don't have a name, but he's part of a stick-up crew. 158 00:12:58,987 --> 00:13:02,699 Took off a stash house last month. My guy, barksdale, is coming back on them. 159 00:13:02,783 --> 00:13:06,828 - In a big way. - They must've killed him four or five times. 160 00:13:06,912 --> 00:13:10,874 Cut him in a dozen places, burned him with cigarettes. Torture is what it was. 161 00:13:10,958 --> 00:13:15,796 - Doesn't look like your scene. - Fuck him up, dump him here for all to see. 162 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:18,215 - Anything we can use? - Not yet. 163 00:13:18,298 --> 00:13:21,718 We're up on some phones. If I hear anything, I'll let you know. 164 00:13:21,927 --> 00:13:24,596 Bring 22. 165 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,808 Anything yet? Or are we just gonna let this guy go ripe on us? 166 00:13:27,891 --> 00:13:30,852 - You been waiting for crime lab? - Over an hour. 167 00:13:30,936 --> 00:13:34,648 Two units on the street. Both are at the city council president's house. 168 00:13:34,731 --> 00:13:37,901 - What happened there? - Someone stole his lawn furniture. 169 00:13:37,985 --> 00:13:42,197 They're taking pictures of an empty patio, dusting the backyard gate for latents. 170 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,448 I kid you not. 171 00:13:44,408 --> 00:13:47,577 You show me the son of a bitch who can fix this police department, 172 00:13:47,661 --> 00:13:50,163 I'd give back half my overtime. 173 00:13:51,748 --> 00:13:53,948 He was all cut up and shit. His insides was hanging out. 174 00:13:55,335 --> 00:13:57,796 Fucked up, yo. I mean, damn. 175 00:13:58,130 --> 00:14:00,882 Sometimes you gotta send a message. 176 00:14:01,758 --> 00:14:06,138 I mean, when you picked up that phone, what did you think they were gonna do? 177 00:14:06,221 --> 00:14:08,974 All that shit is in the game. You know that. 178 00:14:09,057 --> 00:14:11,518 Yeah. Like you and that girl? 179 00:14:13,061 --> 00:14:15,355 - What girl? - The one in the apartment. 180 00:14:15,605 --> 00:14:18,108 The one you told us about, remember? 181 00:14:18,567 --> 00:14:21,653 I mean, I like what you said about all that killing, you know? 182 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:25,198 Especially that part about how it ain't gotta be like that. 183 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:26,908 Just sell the shit and move on. 184 00:14:26,992 --> 00:14:29,745 Get me a ginger ale and get something for yourself. 185 00:14:30,954 --> 00:14:33,248 I remember that. But it ain't like that, is it? 186 00:14:33,331 --> 00:14:36,793 - Yeah, I know it ain't. - (Pager beeping) 187 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,379 Thing about it was his eye. His eye was blown out. 188 00:14:39,463 --> 00:14:43,633 And the other one was open. And yo, Dee, it fucks me up. 189 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:47,637 It's like he's looking out, like he sees everything, you know? 190 00:14:48,722 --> 00:14:50,140 Don't think about it. 191 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:54,978 - Fuck! - Yo. 192 00:14:56,313 --> 00:14:57,981 Let that shit go. 193 00:14:58,315 --> 00:15:00,942 Just... let it go. 194 00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:27,928 Barksdale kid on the line. 195 00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:30,847 He's beeping someone. 196 00:15:47,531 --> 00:15:49,282 Go deep. 197 00:15:53,995 --> 00:15:56,039 (Phone) 198 00:15:56,123 --> 00:15:58,250 - 'Yo.' - 'what up?' 199 00:15:59,543 --> 00:16:00,877 'hold on.' 200 00:16:01,378 --> 00:16:04,047 'yo, strings! This is Dee.' 201 00:16:05,382 --> 00:16:07,801 'yeah. You hit me?' 202 00:16:07,884 --> 00:16:12,806 'i wanted to know if you know a young hopper, the one they got down there.' 203 00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:16,268 - 'which one?' - 'The fool, drop in there with a punch.' 204 00:16:16,351 --> 00:16:19,729 - 'what about him?' - 'He got some problems, right?' 205 00:16:20,105 --> 00:16:23,608 - 'what you mean?' - 'Enough to bring home, right?' 206 00:16:23,942 --> 00:16:26,444 'you know, man, whatever. 207 00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:29,489 'All right.' 208 00:16:50,594 --> 00:16:52,596 They're bringing bodie home. 209 00:16:57,517 --> 00:17:00,437 The young, light-skinned kid from the cemetery. 210 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,563 'Where?' 211 00:17:01,646 --> 00:17:04,649 in the alley behind argyle, across from the low-rises. 212 00:17:04,816 --> 00:17:05,942 Shot? 213 00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:08,987 - Stabbed, beaten, burned. - 'Jesus.' 214 00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:11,323 - we gotta get with Omar. - 'Yeah.' 215 00:17:21,499 --> 00:17:23,126 Impressive. 216 00:17:24,127 --> 00:17:28,465 I don't often see a respondent come so prepared for a juvenile commitment meeting. 217 00:17:28,590 --> 00:17:31,551 In addition to the statements from Preston's sponsors 218 00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:33,511 at the police athletic league, 219 00:17:33,595 --> 00:17:36,932 I also have a photostatted copy of a cashed check 220 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:39,601 which indicates he is enrolled in the ged program 221 00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:42,145 at the Baltimore city community college. 222 00:17:44,648 --> 00:17:49,945 Can I ask how this young man is able to afford not one but two attorneys from your firm? 223 00:17:50,028 --> 00:17:51,988 This is pro bono, your honor. 224 00:17:52,072 --> 00:17:55,408 My firm is making it a priority to identify a number of youths 225 00:17:55,492 --> 00:17:59,955 who are in crisis, and to undertake efforts to reorder their lives. 226 00:18:00,163 --> 00:18:04,251 I can't help but notice that your client is under a delinquent petition 227 00:18:04,334 --> 00:18:07,671 for the sale of narcotics and for assault on a police officer. 228 00:18:07,921 --> 00:18:10,548 Beyond that, he walked away from a jsa facility. 229 00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:12,884 My client stands ready to acknowledge 230 00:18:12,968 --> 00:18:16,763 that he was involved for a time in the sale of a small amount of drugs, 231 00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:19,474 for which he received no remuneration, 232 00:18:19,724 --> 00:18:23,687 having been manipulated by older traffickers in his neighborhood. 233 00:18:23,937 --> 00:18:26,940 - That was a mistake, your honor. - So noted. 234 00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:31,361 We will contend that it was Preston who was the victim of a brutal police beating, 235 00:18:31,653 --> 00:18:34,239 indications of which are still evident on him. 236 00:18:34,406 --> 00:18:37,826 He struck back, wildly and in self-defense, your honor. 237 00:18:38,159 --> 00:18:39,327 And the walk-away? 238 00:18:39,411 --> 00:18:42,872 Preston was heavily medicated when he left the cheltenham facility. 239 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:48,712 In that state, your honor, he was simply trying to get back to see his grandmother. 240 00:18:49,963 --> 00:18:54,426 Did you know what you were doing when you left the boys' village, son? 241 00:18:55,969 --> 00:19:00,098 - No, I was messed up. - Anything else you'd like to add? 242 00:19:00,557 --> 00:19:01,933 Erm... 243 00:19:02,142 --> 00:19:04,394 Just... 244 00:19:04,769 --> 00:19:06,354 I don't know... 245 00:19:06,438 --> 00:19:08,189 I'm ready to be good. 246 00:19:11,526 --> 00:19:14,821 Pending a hearing on these charges to be scheduled within six months, 247 00:19:14,904 --> 00:19:18,575 I'm putting the respondent on home monitoring with his grandmother. 248 00:19:18,908 --> 00:19:23,830 I'm afraid Mrs. Brodus doesn't have a telephone for any monitoring calls. 249 00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:25,353 She's on a fixed income, your honor. 250 00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:29,252 How about he calls his probation officer twice a week? 251 00:19:31,755 --> 00:19:33,548 Cool. Whatever. 252 00:19:34,257 --> 00:19:35,550 Your honor. 253 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:06,790 - Yo, bubbles, what's the game? - Hey, Johnny. 254 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:09,209 - Rubbing them down? - Yeah. 255 00:20:09,292 --> 00:20:11,252 Bubbs. 256 00:20:11,628 --> 00:20:14,381 - What is the scam out here? - Ain't no scam. 257 00:20:14,464 --> 00:20:16,341 Thank you, ma'am. 258 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:20,261 What you got here is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Right? 259 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:22,389 Mr. Straight time, bubbles. 260 00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:25,141 Gotta give something back when they least expect it. 261 00:20:25,225 --> 00:20:28,520 Me and uck, we got something on, too. We got a plan. 262 00:20:28,853 --> 00:20:30,980 - No shit. - For real. 263 00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:40,156 We're gonna take off on the copper house. 264 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,909 Your first two days out and you get dramatic on me. 265 00:20:42,992 --> 00:20:44,953 - Copper house. - Got to be got, homes. 266 00:20:45,036 --> 00:20:47,831 - What about the fence? - Fuck the fence. 267 00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:50,792 - What about the dog? - Fuck the dog. 268 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:54,838 All that time I was resting, it got me thinking. It got good to me, too. 269 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:58,383 Copper house. Gracious. 270 00:21:00,844 --> 00:21:03,179 I gotta go, can you cash me out? 271 00:21:03,304 --> 00:21:06,099 If you ain't got dreams, bubbs, what the fuck you got? 272 00:21:06,182 --> 00:21:07,934 Thank you. Come on, dreamer. 273 00:21:31,708 --> 00:21:33,585 (Phone) 274 00:21:33,877 --> 00:21:35,044 Yeah? 275 00:21:35,503 --> 00:21:37,881 - One of ours on the line. - 'Got him.' 276 00:21:39,507 --> 00:21:41,843 - ls carv still there? - Hold a second. 277 00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:43,761 Carv, call for you! 278 00:21:43,845 --> 00:21:47,807 - 'Hello?' - you ain't gonna believe who I'm looking at. 279 00:21:48,558 --> 00:21:50,477 Again he walks off? 280 00:21:50,894 --> 00:21:53,313 Ding! Round three. 281 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:01,070 (Phone) 282 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:05,408 - 'Yo.' - 'what up, man?' 283 00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:08,495 - 'yo, stink, what up?' - 'Where are your manners, fool?' 284 00:22:08,578 --> 00:22:11,998 - 'my bad.' - 'You need to keep your fucking head, boy.' 285 00:22:12,081 --> 00:22:14,667 'forgot. Erm... 286 00:22:14,751 --> 00:22:19,088 - 'What's up? Where you at?' - 'Where you at?' 287 00:22:19,214 --> 00:22:22,133 'I'm down in the pit. I just came home... 288 00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:25,595 'I don't see nobody around, I just wanted to know what was up.' 289 00:22:25,929 --> 00:22:27,931 'ain't nothing going late, man. 290 00:22:30,308 --> 00:22:32,101 'Just catch us tomorrow, man.' 291 00:22:32,769 --> 00:22:34,604 'all right? 292 00:22:34,979 --> 00:22:36,481 'All right. Later.' 293 00:22:42,278 --> 00:22:43,947 "Non-pertinent"? 294 00:22:44,072 --> 00:22:46,282 How do you log that non-pertinent? 295 00:22:47,992 --> 00:22:49,619 No drug talk. 296 00:22:49,702 --> 00:22:52,580 They use codes that hide their pager and phone numbers. 297 00:22:52,956 --> 00:22:56,543 And when someone does use a phone, they don't use names. 298 00:22:56,751 --> 00:22:59,671 And if someone does use a name, he's reminded not to. 299 00:22:59,921 --> 00:23:02,090 All of that is valuable evidence. 300 00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:05,802 - Of what? - Conspiracy. 301 00:23:07,554 --> 00:23:09,055 Conspiracy? 302 00:23:09,806 --> 00:23:14,102 We're building something here, detective. We're building it from scratch. 303 00:23:14,269 --> 00:23:17,397 All the pieces matter. 304 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,190 All right? 305 00:23:31,327 --> 00:23:33,162 Shit. 306 00:23:37,667 --> 00:23:40,837 - Are you fucking serious? - Fuck, man. 307 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,090 You keep walking away from jsa, we keep kicking your ass. 308 00:23:44,173 --> 00:23:47,760 - I'm all right with that if you are. - I ain't walking away from nowhere. 309 00:23:47,844 --> 00:23:49,679 Check my back pocket. 310 00:23:58,313 --> 00:24:01,149 - "Home monitoring"? - Yeah, man. 311 00:24:01,399 --> 00:24:05,445 If you ask questions before you start wildin' on niggers, you might save trouble. 312 00:24:05,528 --> 00:24:09,032 - How the fuck are you home? - You ain't bright, man. 313 00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:10,950 Juvenile judge, man. 314 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:13,870 He saw my potential. He expects big things from me. 315 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:15,413 Like what? 316 00:24:15,538 --> 00:24:19,292 I don't know, college, law school, medical school, all that good shit. 317 00:24:19,375 --> 00:24:23,296 - Seriously, how are you out? - Look, I'm gonna tell you something. 318 00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:27,717 This is just my opinion, but the juvenile system in this city is fucked up. 319 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,386 It's a big-ass fucking joke. No offence. 320 00:24:32,013 --> 00:24:33,973 Fucking fuck! 321 00:24:35,725 --> 00:24:39,854 Hey, you could give me a ride down to my grandma's, we'll call it even. 322 00:24:42,607 --> 00:24:44,400 In back, fucknuts. 323 00:25:16,432 --> 00:25:17,433 Jay. 324 00:25:27,944 --> 00:25:31,280 - (Tires screech, horn honks) - (Man) Get outta the street! 325 00:25:31,364 --> 00:25:32,573 Bitch! 326 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,121 - Hey. - Hey. 327 00:25:39,914 --> 00:25:41,708 What's up? What you need? 328 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:50,007 - Little late in the month for this shit, isn't it? - What you mean? 329 00:25:56,180 --> 00:26:00,017 - For my aunt, she hit the match four. - You stealing from me, cass? 330 00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:14,991 What? 331 00:26:18,703 --> 00:26:20,079 You look fresh today. 332 00:26:20,163 --> 00:26:24,500 - Got laid last night, that's why. - Your asshole still hurting? 333 00:26:25,668 --> 00:26:28,337 - Call Jimmy. - What's up, boss? 334 00:26:28,713 --> 00:26:33,468 Rawls finally got around to reading the office reports that mcnulty tried to give him. 335 00:26:33,593 --> 00:26:36,137 He wants arrest warrants for diedre kresson 336 00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:39,223 and the two project murders that match up to that gun. 337 00:26:40,975 --> 00:26:42,560 I know. 338 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:47,732 - Come on, Jay. Be right on this. - I can't. It's rawls, he wants warrants today. 339 00:26:48,232 --> 00:26:50,860 All right. Who the fuck are we supposed to charge? 340 00:26:51,277 --> 00:26:56,657 A witness that puts d'Angelo barksdale at the scene of the murder, the night of the murder. 341 00:26:57,241 --> 00:26:59,452 You got a ballistics match between the kresson girl 342 00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:03,706 and the two dead mopes in the project where barksdale hangs. Run with it. 343 00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:07,168 This weak-ass shit is not gonna get past a grand jury. 344 00:27:07,251 --> 00:27:10,421 Charge the mope, and work it more aftennard. 345 00:27:12,590 --> 00:27:14,592 Call Jimmy, let him know. 346 00:27:23,184 --> 00:27:25,353 All right, listen up. New deal. 347 00:27:25,603 --> 00:27:28,815 Wallace, you're gonna be on the stash now with latroy and peaches. 348 00:27:28,981 --> 00:27:30,274 What about sterling? 349 00:27:30,483 --> 00:27:33,903 He's gonna be down on Crescent, looking out for a while. 350 00:27:33,986 --> 00:27:35,863 - What happened? - Nothing. 351 00:27:36,030 --> 00:27:40,034 - Then why you wanna change everything? - Nigger, I gotta explain shit to you now? 352 00:27:46,249 --> 00:27:48,000 Stringer bell's pager number? 353 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:52,046 - Stinkum's too, I'm pretty sure. - Very sweet. 354 00:27:52,588 --> 00:27:55,132 If they moved around, we would have problems. 355 00:27:55,216 --> 00:27:56,926 They're a little lazy, you know. 356 00:27:57,718 --> 00:28:01,597 Tend to go to that one pay phone in the courtyard a little too much. 357 00:28:03,182 --> 00:28:04,350 Jesus. 358 00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:08,855 He's lit at 9:00 in the morning? 359 00:28:09,105 --> 00:28:11,315 Or from the night before. 360 00:28:18,614 --> 00:28:19,949 Detective. 361 00:28:22,243 --> 00:28:24,203 Detective polk. 362 00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:36,299 It's mcnulty. Bunk paged me. 363 00:28:38,092 --> 00:28:39,468 All right. 364 00:28:48,853 --> 00:28:50,897 Why did you even come in today? 365 00:28:51,856 --> 00:28:54,734 - I had some... - To pretend that you were here? 366 00:28:55,318 --> 00:28:56,652 To fill out a run sheet? 367 00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:00,573 I know I missed a couple of days last week, but... 368 00:29:00,656 --> 00:29:03,409 I got a run sheet from you every day for the last two weeks. 369 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:07,622 Twice in carv's handwriting, twice it was Prez, once it was mcnulty. 370 00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:10,541 They covered for you. 371 00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:12,627 But I won't. 372 00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:15,421 Well, lieutenant, I... 373 00:29:18,883 --> 00:29:22,678 I don't know. I'm not really up for this drug thing, you know? 374 00:29:22,845 --> 00:29:28,309 Maybe if mahone was here, I could get into it more, learn some new tricks. 375 00:29:32,688 --> 00:29:35,942 Why don't you send me back to property and keep everyone happy? 376 00:29:36,025 --> 00:29:38,861 Send you back so you can binge for two more weeks? 377 00:29:39,528 --> 00:29:40,905 I'm not doing that. 378 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:44,408 - Lieutenant, please... - You were dumped on me, augie. 379 00:29:44,867 --> 00:29:47,036 But it ends there. I don't dump people. 380 00:29:48,579 --> 00:29:52,416 You either go out on those rooftops today to watch pay phones with the others 381 00:29:52,875 --> 00:29:55,836 or you go over to the medical office and check yourself in. 382 00:29:57,213 --> 00:29:59,882 - Medical? - For alcohol abuse. 383 00:30:00,383 --> 00:30:03,844 Either dry yourself out or go up on those rooftops wet. 384 00:30:11,978 --> 00:30:14,397 Take a few minutes and think about it. 385 00:30:24,073 --> 00:30:26,409 - Where'd they go? - Who? 386 00:30:29,245 --> 00:30:35,459 Lieutenant, we need a file cabinet or two. The papennork from this, I mean... 387 00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:37,878 There's a lot of it. 388 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:39,422 Lieutenant? 389 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:42,591 Sir. 390 00:30:43,801 --> 00:30:45,469 I'm going to... 391 00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:50,933 Good luck with the case. 392 00:30:59,358 --> 00:31:01,861 Fucking rawls, he's fucking up the case to get to me. 393 00:31:01,944 --> 00:31:06,407 He's fucking it up for three paper clearances on prior cases. It ain't personal. 394 00:31:06,657 --> 00:31:09,118 All he's got is d'Angelo at the scene 395 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:12,955 and a ballistics match to unrelated drug murders. How can he charge that? 396 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,499 He can charge anything he wants to get credit. 397 00:31:15,583 --> 00:31:18,419 Grand jury doesn't indict, he drops the case. 398 00:31:18,669 --> 00:31:21,338 - I'll go tell him what he can do. - You don't. 399 00:31:21,422 --> 00:31:25,092 I'm trying to build something. Rawls sticks a finger in my eye. 400 00:31:25,176 --> 00:31:27,636 - You talk to landsman? - Jay can't fix this. 401 00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:30,514 Rawls told him to have the warrants by morning. 402 00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:34,226 He's gonna charge murders he can't prove just to get the stats? 403 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:35,853 And fuck up our case. 404 00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:39,732 We give up the motive for the kresson killing in the documents, 405 00:31:39,815 --> 00:31:41,817 and avon barksdale is gonna change up. 406 00:31:41,901 --> 00:31:45,154 What he don't change he'll clean up. Somebody should tell rawls. 407 00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:48,449 Rawls couldn't care less. He wants the stats, that's all. 408 00:31:48,616 --> 00:31:50,493 Then we take it to Daniels. 409 00:31:50,576 --> 00:31:52,912 - He'll fight for it. - He won't do shit. 410 00:31:53,245 --> 00:31:55,539 He plays stiff now and then, but he's a good man. 411 00:31:55,623 --> 00:31:59,585 Are you kidding me? He's been trying to put the brakes on this for weeks now. 412 00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:01,921 This'll be his new excuse to close shop. 413 00:32:02,004 --> 00:32:05,341 You guys gotta make your move soon, I'm sorry to say. 414 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,552 - Freamon. - All right, bunk, take care. 415 00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:14,266 - We tell Daniels. - Fuck Daniels and his ass-kissing ambition. 416 00:32:14,350 --> 00:32:16,352 What other choice you got? 417 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,729 We go to Daniels. If he fights, he fights. 418 00:32:18,896 --> 00:32:22,942 If he gives it up to rawls, then fuck it, we were never gonna do the case anyway. 419 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:27,446 All right, come on. 420 00:33:02,773 --> 00:33:04,525 Fucking idiot! 421 00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:10,322 - Come on, get up, stupid. - I'm hurt, man. 422 00:33:10,406 --> 00:33:12,992 What are you doing? Leave me alone! 423 00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:15,035 - What are you on, dope? - Mostly. 424 00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:16,579 Come on, get up. 425 00:33:17,746 --> 00:33:20,207 You trying to rip out my guts? 426 00:33:20,624 --> 00:33:23,002 What, are you trying to kill me, man? 427 00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:26,213 - Wait! Where are you going? - Listen, I gotta get help. 428 00:33:26,297 --> 00:33:28,507 You can't leave me here. Stay with me. 429 00:33:28,591 --> 00:33:30,426 Let's go over to the curb. 430 00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:33,596 Just go get help, man! What are you doing? 431 00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:35,389 Stay there! 432 00:33:37,433 --> 00:33:41,187 - Damn, boy! What the hell come out of you? - Onion soup. Campbell's. 433 00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:43,731 - My plan! - Run, forrest, run! 434 00:33:46,525 --> 00:33:49,403 You could go to forester, or the deputy ops. 435 00:33:50,696 --> 00:33:54,283 Why come crying to me? Why not go to your friend, the judge? 436 00:33:54,491 --> 00:33:59,079 I don't see a judge being able to argue the city homicide commander out of three murders, 437 00:33:59,997 --> 00:34:03,959 even if the cases are all weak sisters. It's put-up or shut-up time, lieutenant. 438 00:34:04,251 --> 00:34:07,421 - Either you step up or you send us all home. - So this is on me? 439 00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:10,633 I don't see anyone else in charge of this detail. 440 00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:14,595 - Rawls is a major. - Rawls is an asshole. 441 00:34:15,054 --> 00:34:18,390 My point is, he ranks me on this. 442 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,686 Chain of command might mean nothing to you, mcnulty. 443 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:30,486 What'd I tell you? 444 00:35:35,509 --> 00:35:38,220 - Yo, how we doing? - We doing good. 445 00:35:38,304 --> 00:35:39,972 We doing good. 446 00:35:40,055 --> 00:35:42,558 You know, if you say we doing good... 447 00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:45,769 So what's up? 448 00:35:45,978 --> 00:35:48,564 So the word is out about these stick-up boys, right? 449 00:35:48,647 --> 00:35:51,984 - Yeah, yeah. Y'all being heard. - All right. 450 00:35:52,568 --> 00:35:54,695 There goes shorty, right there. 451 00:35:58,741 --> 00:36:00,659 What's up, man? You know... 452 00:36:00,743 --> 00:36:04,330 I'm a man of my word. I said it would be $4,000 on Omar, 453 00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:08,167 $2,000 on each of the young ones, this being a team effort. 454 00:36:08,250 --> 00:36:11,170 $500 in the boy hand who doing the scope, 455 00:36:11,253 --> 00:36:13,922 $500 in your hand for doing the relay, 456 00:36:14,006 --> 00:36:18,093 $500 in wee-bey hand, bird hand for doing the muscling up. 457 00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:22,473 - All right. - How you doing with that other thing? 458 00:36:22,556 --> 00:36:24,516 What? 459 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,810 Everybody a little depressed, right? 460 00:36:26,894 --> 00:36:29,897 You know, ain't no surprises yet. 461 00:36:30,272 --> 00:36:35,402 Cut everybody loose on Friday and they all just a bunch of begging-ass bitches. 462 00:36:35,736 --> 00:36:37,488 Ain't nobody showed no money since. 463 00:36:37,571 --> 00:36:40,282 - You gonna keep it humming? - You know. 464 00:36:40,366 --> 00:36:43,285 You got your hands up. 465 00:36:43,369 --> 00:36:47,456 Keep on doing like how you're doing we'll talk about points on the package. 466 00:36:47,748 --> 00:36:49,750 All right? 467 00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:52,669 - Keep it humming. - Most def. 468 00:36:56,131 --> 00:36:58,759 - All right, then. - Take it light, but take it. 469 00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:08,644 (Pusher) Hotter than the wu-tang, killer bees, killer bees. 470 00:37:33,210 --> 00:37:35,712 - 40 cents. - Not 40 cents a foot, no sir. 471 00:37:35,796 --> 00:37:37,881 Look, respectfully, I gotta tell you, 472 00:37:37,965 --> 00:37:41,593 for 40 cents a foot, you might as well go to home depot, pay them. 473 00:37:41,677 --> 00:37:44,847 They're gonna charge you 45 or 50 cents a foot. 474 00:37:45,013 --> 00:37:46,890 For copper that isn't stolen. 475 00:37:48,308 --> 00:37:50,853 Look. All right. 35 cents a foot. 476 00:37:50,936 --> 00:37:54,106 And that's in respect I have for what you're doing in our community 477 00:37:54,189 --> 00:37:56,692 with these quality domiciles here. 478 00:37:58,026 --> 00:38:00,320 30 cents a foot, take it or leave it. 479 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,704 I understand the interest in clearing these cases, I do. 480 00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:14,168 But charging those murders now and putting information we have into the documents... 481 00:38:14,918 --> 00:38:17,045 I just call them like I see them, lieutenant. 482 00:38:17,129 --> 00:38:21,592 Three murders, same gun, we got this barksdale kid right at the scene on the one. 483 00:38:21,842 --> 00:38:25,345 We're up on the wire. We're starting to pull good information. 484 00:38:25,804 --> 00:38:28,974 You charge these prematurely and barksdale will change up on us. 485 00:38:29,057 --> 00:38:31,226 - The work we've done... - Look. 486 00:38:31,477 --> 00:38:34,855 I can't tell you how to run your case, I can only run my own. 487 00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:36,106 Major... 488 00:38:39,193 --> 00:38:41,153 I'm asking as a favor. 489 00:38:42,446 --> 00:38:45,491 - As a favor. - Yes, sir. A favor. 490 00:38:45,741 --> 00:38:47,743 Inthatcase_. 491 00:38:48,785 --> 00:38:51,580 No. Sorry. 492 00:38:56,835 --> 00:39:00,672 - You got home from work early today. - Yep. Work sucks. 493 00:39:01,757 --> 00:39:04,718 - Are we eating dinner with you? - Why not? 494 00:39:06,345 --> 00:39:10,015 - You promised we'd eat lasagne. - So we'll go to little Italy. 495 00:39:10,098 --> 00:39:12,059 Get some lasagne at sab's. 496 00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:14,978 - You never cook. - Cooking sucks, too. 497 00:39:15,062 --> 00:39:17,272 (Pager bleeping) 498 00:39:33,121 --> 00:39:35,749 - Who's this? - 'Yo, I wanna see him.' 499 00:39:36,583 --> 00:39:39,211 - who? - 'Brandon, my boy.' 500 00:39:55,310 --> 00:39:57,813 - Copper house, yo. - Was the shit. 501 00:39:59,606 --> 00:40:01,483 My plan, bubbs. 502 00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:04,069 Johnny had a plan. 503 00:40:04,152 --> 00:40:05,404 (Laughs) 504 00:40:05,654 --> 00:40:07,531 Get out the way, motherfuckers. 505 00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:10,158 This here is white boy day. 506 00:40:12,578 --> 00:40:14,496 - I got a plan, too. - What? 507 00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:19,459 We're gonna wait for that cheap-ass, speculating motherfucker 508 00:40:19,543 --> 00:40:24,214 to put that good copper line back into them row houses he fixing up. 509 00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:28,093 Then, before the drywall get up... 510 00:40:29,511 --> 00:40:33,181 We creep back in there and steal that shit right back. 511 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:36,685 30 cents a foot. 512 00:40:36,768 --> 00:40:40,147 Gotta come back at a motherfucker for that, you know? 513 00:40:41,273 --> 00:40:42,941 Yeah. 514 00:40:46,236 --> 00:40:47,487 You good? 515 00:40:49,114 --> 00:40:50,866 I could top off with one more. 516 00:40:51,033 --> 00:40:52,701 Just one more. 517 00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:01,376 Johnny got it. 518 00:41:02,836 --> 00:41:04,338 I'll be back. 519 00:41:10,302 --> 00:41:12,387 (Video game bleeping) 520 00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:31,490 It's my night with the kids. 521 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:49,841 (Johnny) You ain't gonna find nothing because I didn't do nothing! 522 00:41:49,925 --> 00:41:52,260 Why don't you just leave me alone, man? 523 00:41:52,386 --> 00:41:56,014 A white man can't walk down the street? What's that about? Come on! 524 00:41:57,516 --> 00:41:59,476 It's messed up, all right? 525 00:41:59,768 --> 00:42:04,856 Profiling! What? It's 'cause I'm white, right? Why don't you let me... 526 00:42:05,774 --> 00:42:08,485 Man, what the fuck's that? What's that? 527 00:42:11,905 --> 00:42:13,990 That boy ain't got no luck. 528 00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:29,047 (Man) All right. Hold up! 529 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,642 - Hey. - Hey. 530 00:42:42,978 --> 00:42:46,314 So, what are you going to do with your money? 531 00:42:47,858 --> 00:42:51,820 You know what you should do? Take the roll and do something nice for your girl. 532 00:42:51,987 --> 00:42:54,030 You do have a girl, right? 533 00:42:55,699 --> 00:42:59,536 Anyway, you've got enough money to go get yourself one now. 534 00:43:02,581 --> 00:43:05,125 Why'd you punk sterling like you did? 535 00:43:05,375 --> 00:43:07,711 I mean, he did get shot behind this shit. 536 00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:11,506 - I didn't punk him. - So why are you dropping the lookout? 537 00:43:11,715 --> 00:43:13,383 Cass, too. 538 00:43:13,467 --> 00:43:16,970 'Cause they was thieving. Both of them. 539 00:43:17,554 --> 00:43:19,306 They got pissed 'cause I wasn't paying them. 540 00:43:19,389 --> 00:43:22,893 So sterling started shaking up the vials, handing off to cass. 541 00:43:23,059 --> 00:43:25,020 She was selling on the side. 542 00:43:25,854 --> 00:43:30,692 You didn't tell anybody? Stinkum, bodie? They don't know? 543 00:43:30,984 --> 00:43:33,361 What you think they gonna do? 544 00:43:33,862 --> 00:43:37,574 They gonna take a baseball bat to sterling, probably Cassandra, too. 545 00:43:38,074 --> 00:43:42,537 It's too much drama, right? So, I just took them both off the stash. 546 00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:45,207 So why didn't you pay us? 547 00:43:46,541 --> 00:43:48,251 That wasn't right. 548 00:43:49,878 --> 00:43:51,922 Listen, man. 549 00:43:52,005 --> 00:43:54,382 Stringer thought we had a snitch down here. 550 00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:58,637 You know, with the jump-out, Omar, all that shit. 551 00:43:58,887 --> 00:44:02,015 So he told me to punk you all, 552 00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:04,392 see who was holding money at the end of the week. 553 00:44:04,476 --> 00:44:06,436 Was they snitching? 554 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,021 Sterling and cass? 555 00:44:08,939 --> 00:44:10,941 No, man, just thieving. 556 00:44:19,783 --> 00:44:21,660 All right, I'm with homicide. 557 00:44:21,743 --> 00:44:25,580 Ok, you two, you sit right here, ok? Don't wander off. 558 00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:29,584 - Erm... dad? - What? 559 00:44:29,709 --> 00:44:32,337 It's a school night. Mom said we had to... 560 00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:35,298 I know, I know. We will. Just stay there. 561 00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:39,511 (Game beeping) 562 00:45:28,977 --> 00:45:31,938 (Anguished screaming) 563 00:45:36,026 --> 00:45:39,154 (Radio) '64-Charlie to central k.' 564 00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:44,576 you up to this? 565 00:45:46,536 --> 00:45:49,372 Pay it back, Omar. Pay it back. 566 00:46:19,069 --> 00:46:21,613 Why ain't we in a real police office? 567 00:46:21,821 --> 00:46:26,368 We're a little like you. Out here on our own, playing the game for ourselves. 568 00:46:32,082 --> 00:46:34,042 Hard way to go sometimes. 569 00:46:38,088 --> 00:46:40,256 Sorry about your friend. 570 00:46:41,508 --> 00:46:43,718 Avon is one sick bastard. 571 00:46:44,928 --> 00:46:46,638 Of course, he had his reasons. 572 00:46:46,721 --> 00:46:51,559 - For one thing, you did take his stash. - For another, he's looking for you, Omar. 573 00:46:52,227 --> 00:46:54,229 That's what all the burns were about. 574 00:46:54,396 --> 00:46:57,065 Broken fingers, cracked forearms. 575 00:46:58,817 --> 00:47:00,694 He wanted your boy to give you up. 576 00:47:00,777 --> 00:47:02,654 An address, a street. 577 00:47:03,738 --> 00:47:05,448 Kid had heart. 578 00:47:06,074 --> 00:47:07,575 Yeah. 579 00:47:09,703 --> 00:47:12,163 I know you want to go to wherever it is you lay your head 580 00:47:12,247 --> 00:47:15,667 and pick up that sawed-off you like so much and go on the hunt. 581 00:47:16,501 --> 00:47:18,628 That's how a man like you wants to carry it. 582 00:47:18,878 --> 00:47:21,339 - You wouldn't be wrong. - No, you wouldn't. 583 00:47:21,464 --> 00:47:24,175 But one man with two barrels ain't enough, Omar. 584 00:47:24,592 --> 00:47:27,012 You're gonna do what you're gonna do. 585 00:47:27,429 --> 00:47:30,849 But whatever else you can give us on barksdale and his people, 586 00:47:31,558 --> 00:47:33,560 that can go to hurting him, too. 587 00:47:34,102 --> 00:47:36,271 Just throw us what you can. 588 00:47:37,313 --> 00:47:39,524 Let me tell you all something, all right? 589 00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:44,112 What I do, I do, straight like that. 590 00:47:44,279 --> 00:47:49,617 Ain't no sense in you all troubling yourselves 'cause the way I feel right now, today... 591 00:47:57,751 --> 00:47:59,627 What do you all need from me? 592 00:48:01,755 --> 00:48:04,049 When did you last see Brandon? 593 00:48:05,050 --> 00:48:08,011 Tuesday around 7:00. Maybe later. 594 00:48:09,429 --> 00:48:13,016 He was on his way down to mindamin and the Greek's after that. 595 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:15,560 He got snatched up from there. 596 00:48:15,643 --> 00:48:17,312 On Baltimore street? 597 00:48:17,854 --> 00:48:20,440 He liked to play them pinball games to death. 598 00:48:20,982 --> 00:48:22,567 He go alone? 599 00:48:23,318 --> 00:48:25,320 And I didn't like it none, neither. 600 00:48:26,654 --> 00:48:30,909 But you can only treat a young man like a boy for so long before they buck. 601 00:48:31,117 --> 00:48:34,913 When Bailey got killed, you must have figured barksdale was coming back on you? 602 00:48:34,996 --> 00:48:36,623 Bailey? Please. 603 00:48:36,748 --> 00:48:38,833 That nigger's enemies got enemies. 604 00:48:39,167 --> 00:48:42,670 I just figured he tried his hand on the wrong corner and got dropped. 605 00:48:42,837 --> 00:48:45,590 But you were worried about Brandon, right? 606 00:48:45,924 --> 00:48:50,136 Look, in my game, you take some kid, you play it the safest way you can. 607 00:48:50,512 --> 00:48:52,764 But it ain't about no hiding forever. 608 00:48:53,348 --> 00:48:54,432 You heard? 609 00:48:54,557 --> 00:48:58,645 Frankly, you been in it as long as me, you do the thing on your name. 610 00:48:58,853 --> 00:49:02,148 Anyone going to come after Omar, they know Omar's coming after him. 611 00:49:02,232 --> 00:49:04,025 Oh, indeed. 612 00:49:04,776 --> 00:49:06,861 So, who came after Brandon? 613 00:49:07,737 --> 00:49:09,781 I heard it might have been wee-bey, 614 00:49:10,990 --> 00:49:12,534 boy stinkum, 615 00:49:12,992 --> 00:49:14,244 and bird. 616 00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:16,538 He was down with the snatch, too. 617 00:49:23,211 --> 00:49:25,213 So, what can you give us on the job? 618 00:49:27,757 --> 00:49:30,927 7:56 Tuesday night, you had an incoming call to barksdale's, 619 00:49:31,010 --> 00:49:32,679 giving him the number of a pay phone. 620 00:49:32,762 --> 00:49:35,849 Westside exchange. Number's encoded, right? 621 00:49:36,349 --> 00:49:41,062 Three minutes later, we get another call from the low-rises to that number. 622 00:49:41,396 --> 00:49:43,982 A half-minute later, another call from the low-rises 623 00:49:44,065 --> 00:49:46,025 to a pager we know is stringer bell's. 624 00:49:46,109 --> 00:49:49,904 - I'll be damned. - Finally, we get another call. 625 00:49:50,488 --> 00:49:53,491 Probably from a pay phone. Probably stringer bell calling back. 626 00:49:53,575 --> 00:49:55,827 Coming on into the low-rise courts. 627 00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:59,330 45 minutes later, another call. 628 00:49:59,622 --> 00:50:03,835 This one from the same pay phone that went to d'Angelo's pager 629 00:50:03,918 --> 00:50:05,920 to start the whole thing off. 630 00:50:06,004 --> 00:50:07,172 This is the murder here. 631 00:50:07,255 --> 00:50:11,009 This first number, the one they sent to d'Angelo. 632 00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:14,596 I'm thinking this comes from a pay phone over by the Greek's. 633 00:50:23,646 --> 00:50:27,609 He's on you. We're up on those pay phones, we catch that murder. 634 00:50:27,692 --> 00:50:29,319 We get there before the murder. 635 00:50:29,402 --> 00:50:33,823 It's all here on the pen register. This one calling that one, that one calling back. 636 00:50:33,948 --> 00:50:37,285 We're up on those pay phones, and we have him cold. 637 00:50:37,452 --> 00:50:42,457 But we're not up in time, are we? In this case, we're never where we need to be. 638 00:50:53,927 --> 00:50:55,595 Bad time for you all? 639 00:51:10,235 --> 00:51:14,364 - He fight, but you arrest. - You saw him get arrested? 640 00:51:14,948 --> 00:51:17,242 - On Tuesday? - Tuesday, yes. Tuesday. 641 00:51:17,325 --> 00:51:20,036 By the police? The police arrested him? 642 00:51:20,495 --> 00:51:22,830 Cops, they handcuffed him? 643 00:51:25,041 --> 00:51:28,211 What about these guys? Were they there with him? 644 00:51:34,133 --> 00:51:36,302 - He fight, you arrest. - Right. 645 00:51:37,345 --> 00:51:39,347 Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you. 646 00:51:46,896 --> 00:51:48,648 It's a match. 647 00:51:51,943 --> 00:51:54,279 I need help. Rawls ranks me. 648 00:51:54,362 --> 00:51:57,657 Lieutenant, think what you're doing here. 649 00:51:58,283 --> 00:52:03,204 You're gonna cross bill rawls, as ruthless a fuck as we have in this department? 650 00:52:04,914 --> 00:52:06,624 And to do what? 651 00:52:07,875 --> 00:52:10,712 To fight for a case the deputy of operations doesn't even want. 652 00:52:14,799 --> 00:52:17,844 I like my career, thank you very much. 653 00:52:21,097 --> 00:52:24,934 In the cemetery, you were telling us a guy named bird killed the working man. 654 00:52:26,102 --> 00:52:28,354 The man who testified. 655 00:52:28,980 --> 00:52:30,481 William gant. Right. 656 00:52:30,815 --> 00:52:33,109 Bird did that one, for sure. 657 00:52:33,234 --> 00:52:35,570 - How do you know? - Everybody know, man. 658 00:52:35,987 --> 00:52:40,992 Nigger walked up and shot him in the head. The whole project saw that much. 659 00:52:41,451 --> 00:52:43,036 And bird worked for avon? 660 00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:44,912 As one of his shooters. 661 00:52:45,204 --> 00:52:50,001 Liked to use this real sweet gun. A .380 from Austria or Australia. Something like that. 662 00:52:50,335 --> 00:52:52,253 But I know he loved that gun. 663 00:52:52,337 --> 00:52:53,379 A .380. 664 00:52:53,588 --> 00:52:55,923 A .380. You get him, you get the gun. 665 00:52:56,090 --> 00:52:58,676 'Cause bird's too dumb to throw a gun like that off. 666 00:52:59,594 --> 00:53:01,804 - A gun alone ain't enough. - Oh, no? 667 00:53:01,888 --> 00:53:04,807 He bought the gun on the street after gant was killed. 668 00:53:04,891 --> 00:53:07,852 - What would be enough, then? - Eyeball witness. 669 00:53:08,311 --> 00:53:11,356 Some kind of corroboration for what you're telling me here. 670 00:53:14,984 --> 00:53:17,236 - Okay. - Okay, what? 671 00:53:17,612 --> 00:53:20,365 - I'm your man. - You saw the murder? 672 00:53:20,615 --> 00:53:22,116 Yeah. 673 00:53:22,408 --> 00:53:26,162 You can ID this man bird as the shooter of William gant? 674 00:53:27,038 --> 00:53:31,167 And you ain't afraid to go into court and testify against one of barksdale's people? 675 00:53:33,461 --> 00:53:35,380 Omar don't scare. 676 00:53:37,882 --> 00:53:41,469 While Daniels and his merry band are lost in the swamps 677 00:53:41,552 --> 00:53:44,931 playing with beepers and pay phones and body mics, 678 00:53:45,306 --> 00:53:48,434 my people have developed information that ties barksdale to three killings. 679 00:53:48,643 --> 00:53:52,188 - D'Angelo barksdale, not avon. - On behalf of avon. 680 00:53:52,814 --> 00:53:57,402 The victim is identified by our witnesses as being involved with avon barksdale. 681 00:53:57,485 --> 00:54:01,489 - Sir, we're developing... - You're dancing around this thing. 682 00:54:02,365 --> 00:54:06,661 - I'm charging three murders. - You charge them, my investigation folds. 683 00:54:07,245 --> 00:54:10,331 Not one of those cases is strong enough for court. 684 00:54:10,415 --> 00:54:15,503 We bring the kid in, throw a mindfuck at him and the case becomes stronger. 685 00:54:15,586 --> 00:54:19,507 You've had him twice before. He's gonna go for less the third time. 686 00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:22,844 So we re-canvass, develop fresh witnesses. 687 00:54:23,386 --> 00:54:27,432 The case I charge on today can be twice as strong by the trial date. 688 00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:32,603 We get a conviction. We roll little boy barksdale into big boy barksdale, 689 00:54:33,271 --> 00:54:38,359 then we go home like good old-fashioned cops and pound some budweiser. 690 00:54:40,153 --> 00:54:43,281 This is bullshit! 691 00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:48,828 Mcnulty made the ballistics match on these murders and he's telling me fight this. 692 00:54:49,036 --> 00:54:52,915 He knows you don't have a viable prosecution, so do you, so do I. 693 00:54:53,166 --> 00:54:54,542 Enough. 694 00:54:58,212 --> 00:55:01,048 Look, I've got no love for your wiretap, lieutenant. 695 00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:06,137 I'm spending $2,000 a day over the unit operating budget to staff the case. 696 00:55:07,263 --> 00:55:12,268 Major rawls is offering a chance to leverage barksdale through a murder prosecution. 697 00:55:12,810 --> 00:55:14,729 Why not jump on this? 698 00:55:15,897 --> 00:55:21,694 Because if major rawls is right then he will be right a month from now. 699 00:55:22,612 --> 00:55:26,032 If the wire doesn't give us a case, he can charge all the murders he has. 700 00:55:26,115 --> 00:55:28,034 We lose nothing. 701 00:55:28,326 --> 00:55:29,911 But if he's wrong, 702 00:55:30,328 --> 00:55:33,247 if he can't convict, or if the barksdale kid doesn't flip, 703 00:55:33,748 --> 00:55:35,833 then it's too late to do anything else. 704 00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:40,963 Avon barksdale changes up his pattern, and the wiretap dies. 705 00:55:41,380 --> 00:55:45,635 At that point, there isn't gonna be a thing that you, or me, or rawls here 706 00:55:45,718 --> 00:55:48,930 is gonna be able to say to that goddamn judge. 707 00:55:56,896 --> 00:55:58,439 You wanted to see me, major? 708 00:55:59,065 --> 00:56:02,151 Mcnulty does personal business on the clock, I wanna know. 709 00:56:02,443 --> 00:56:04,779 He cheats on a run sheet, I wanna know. 710 00:56:05,154 --> 00:56:07,365 He runs any kind of game at all, I wanna know. 711 00:56:07,448 --> 00:56:10,159 Major, the man's an asshole, 712 00:56:10,701 --> 00:56:15,039 but he doesn't do much other than work. He's got this case in his gut like it's cancer. 713 00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:19,293 He does no wrong? Doesn't drink any more? 714 00:56:19,377 --> 00:56:22,421 Doesn't drink on duty? Doesn't drink and drive, detective? 715 00:56:23,464 --> 00:56:26,425 - Major... - You've got to help me on this, Michael. 716 00:56:34,183 --> 00:56:36,978 (Tape playing jazz piano) 717 00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,157 The murder warrant's on hold. 718 00:56:51,325 --> 00:56:53,828 The deputy gave us another month. 719 00:56:55,121 --> 00:56:57,415 Also, whoever that was you brought in today 720 00:56:57,582 --> 00:57:00,167 gave himself up as an eyewitness to the gant murder. 721 00:57:00,418 --> 00:57:02,295 Who? Omar? 722 00:57:02,503 --> 00:57:05,423 Greggs said to tell you she'd write it up in the morning. 723 00:57:07,508 --> 00:57:09,176 Lieutenant... 724 00:57:10,177 --> 00:57:11,512 Thanks. 725 00:57:18,311 --> 00:57:20,187 It cost you? 726 00:57:25,192 --> 00:57:27,820 ( Jazz continues) 727 00:58:04,231 --> 00:58:05,608 (Tape clicks off)