1 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,851 Rise and shine! Come on, man, get up! 2 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:37,290 Come on, get up! School day. Y'all gonna be late! 3 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,283 Let's go. Get up for school. 4 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,761 Go! Get up. Come on, man. 5 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,808 - Damn, Wallace. - Damn, nothing! 6 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,486 Y'all know what happens if you don't go to school? 7 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,121 They're gonna be callin' and all y'all gonna end up in foster care. 8 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,249 If y'all want foster care, climb your asses back into bed. 9 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,728 Get outta my way, man. Damn, it's too early for this shit. 10 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,009 - Narcos? - No, rollers. 11 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,129 Yo, where's breakfast at? 12 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,328 Here, man. You get two. 13 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,160 - I want two bags. - You don't get two. 14 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,527 Come on, getting greedy. Take the chips! 15 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:43,768 Come on. Take your juice. 16 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,284 Come on, man. 17 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,765 Where mine? 18 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,807 Go show your teacher. Come on, man. 19 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,682 - Where's your book bag? - Teacher ain't give no homework. 20 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,727 That's the worst case of suicide I've ever seen. 21 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,643 That's him. 22 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,405 You see? 23 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,762 That's him, right there. 24 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,729 That's Omar's boy. 25 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,287 If you walk through the garden 26 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,011 You better watch your back 27 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,368 Well I beg your pardon 28 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,525 Walk the straight and narrow track 29 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,011 If you walk with Jesus 30 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:27,203 He'll save your soul 31 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:31,521 You gotta keep the devil 32 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,242 Down in the hole 33 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,401 All the angels sing 34 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,331 About Jesus' mighty sword 35 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,250 And they shield you with their wings 36 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,641 Keep you close to the Lord 37 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,930 Don't pay heed to temptation 38 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,128 For his hands are so cold 39 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,009 You gotta keep the devil 40 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,408 Way down in the hole 41 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,485 Way down in the hole 42 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,211 Way down in the hole 43 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,728 Way down in the hole 44 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,730 Way down in the hole 45 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,327 - What the fuck can I tell him? - Whatever the man wants to hear, Jimmy. 46 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:43,930 Prodigal son. 47 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,442 Major, we got a good shot at clearing a couple of cases here. 48 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,127 We're not here to talk cases. I don't care about your cases. Sit. 49 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:56,761 Relax. 50 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,651 I'm a reasonable guy. 51 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,207 In fact, everywhere I go, people say to me, 52 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:05,443 "Bill Rawls, you are a reasonable fucking guy." 53 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,166 - Am I right, Jay? - You are reasonable, sir. 54 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,686 Yes. Yes, I am. 55 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,247 Because he knows me to be reasonable, 56 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,891 he came in a few weeks ago and reasoned with me. Right, Jay? 57 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,008 We reasoned. We did. 58 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,122 We reasoned that despite his negligible Irish ancestry, 59 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,010 and a propensity to talk out of turn, Jimmy McNulty is a good worker. 60 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,770 Probably worth saving. 61 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:32,684 - Major, I'm not... - He's a good-looking kid. 62 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,720 Do you know what we do here, McNulty? 63 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,406 What we do here? 64 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,166 That was one of them... What is it? A question you don't have to... 65 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,962 A rhetorical question. You were being rhetorical. Rhetorical and reasonable, sir. 66 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,606 We work murder cases here, as they come in, one at a fucking time. It's a rotation. 67 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,923 You're up till you catch one, then you step down, work it, 68 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,490 someone else steps up. 69 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:07,564 It's a simple but effective way to do business in a town that has 250 to 300 cases a year. 70 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:08,880 Yes, sir. 71 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,089 But if someone gets it into his head to leave the rotation, 72 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,921 it puts an unfair burden on the detectives who have to pick up their casework. 73 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:21,969 Overworked cops make mistakes. Mistakes lower the unit-wide clearance rate. 74 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,529 And that can make someone who is otherwise as reasonable as me... 75 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:31,450 Unreasonable. 76 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,962 Detective McNulty, I expect to see your ass back here next week 77 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,646 when your shift rotates to night work. 78 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,882 Night shows up and the beat goes on like one of those nights that goes on too long 79 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,163 Maybe one of those songs that could have cut the fuck off a long time ago 80 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:09,201 My friend says at his stop Should have just followed 81 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,163 I read the laws, the hip-hop laws 82 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,681 You know those laws There's laws to the hip-hop game 83 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,967 Should have read that book that I recommended 84 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,840 - 'Cause if you did, you would see... 85 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,764 If you don't have a hip-hop license... 86 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,046 - He's up early today. - A lot of pager activity last night, too. 87 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,684 La Ia Ia Ia... 88 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,408 Respect Tell me one thing about respect 89 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:44,970 Can you mock respect? 90 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,088 Bad man, I respecting 91 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,164 La Ia Ia Ia... 92 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,445 Respect... 93 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,084 No woman takes that long. 94 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,325 Yeah. But I look good, right? 95 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,321 Wow. You did all this? 96 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,404 - Burned an egg or two. Ain't no thing. - Yeah? 97 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,010 My mama always said, "Don't let them get to cooking. 98 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,641 "Once they're in the kitchen, you have to give 'em a key to your house." 99 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,371 I don't want no key. I don't want no house. 100 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,171 And your mama don't know shit about me. 101 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,528 Looks just like you. 102 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,930 Yeah, he do. 103 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,081 - Where's his mother? - Around the way. 104 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,644 You friends? 105 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,441 You know, she want a key. 106 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,606 She want a house, she want a car, she want some new clothes, a necklace, 107 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:01,288 some pocket change, a trip to the shore, she want a credit card with her name on it. 108 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,488 Ain't no such thing as free, right? 109 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:06,484 When it come to pussy, there ain't no free. 110 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,769 I gotta go. 111 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,087 sometimes I wander under the sun I used to wonder 112 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,731 Were you the... 113 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,804 Been working on this one. You'll get the lines on the other two pay phones tomorrow. 114 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,770 - So we up? - On the low-rise pay phones. 115 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,410 Let's hear it. 116 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,168 'What I'm talking about is he ain't paid no one, he just think it's right to do it. 117 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,847 'See how it goes? So I ain't got shit. I ain't got it.' 118 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,411 (Man) 'Damn. For real?' 119 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,529 'Thinking he all that because he got his family back.' 120 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,522 - It was getting good. - It's unmonitored. 121 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,931 It's what? 122 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,447 We can't listen to a conversation on an unmonitored pay phone. 123 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,128 - What's that mean? - We got a tap on the courtyard pay phone. 124 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,760 By tomorrow, we'll be on two near the high-rises. 125 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,970 We can't listen to anything unless we know one of our targets is using the phone. 126 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,648 We gotta be on those rooftops for hours watching these assholes talk on the phone? 127 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,285 Yep. 128 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,005 It's more bullshit. 129 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,730 Detective, 130 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,282 this right here, this is the job. 131 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,571 Now, when you came downtown to CID, what other kind of work were you expecting? 132 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:34,524 So what are you gonna do? 133 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,922 I can't get back here in a week, this case is taking off. 134 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,444 You tell Rawls that? 135 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,561 - No. - McNulty, line three. 136 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,290 Yeah. 137 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,531 Where at? 138 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,080 800 block, in the rear. I got it. 139 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,247 Thanks. Yeah. 140 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,849 - Come in 22. - '22.' 141 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,251 We're still waiting on a lab unit. Do you have an ETA? 142 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,322 'Negative. They're all out.' 143 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,049 - Damn dog got Norris, too. - You didn't think to warn me? 144 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,122 Too much fun not to. 145 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,967 - Damn. - Yeah. Is he one of yours? 146 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,444 We found him with Kevlar, like the one Worden caught. 147 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,966 - We thought it was a connection. - It connects. 148 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,451 How so? 149 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,923 Don't have a name, but he's part of a stick-up crew. 150 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,686 Took off a stash house last month. My guy, Barksdale, is coming back on them. 151 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,850 - In a big way. - They must've killed him four or five times. 152 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,891 Cut him in a dozen places, burned him with cigarettes. Torture is what it was. 153 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,807 - Doesn't look like your scene. - Fuck him up, dump him here for all to see. 154 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,201 - Anything we can use? - Not yet. 155 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,727 We're up on some phones. if I hear anything, I'll let you know. 156 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,605 Bring 22. 157 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,809 Anything yet? Or are we just gonna let this guy go ripe on us? 158 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,850 - You been waiting for crime lab? - Over an hour. 159 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,641 Two units on the street. Both are at the City Council President's house. 160 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,929 - What happened there? - Someone stole his lawn furniture. 161 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,210 They're taking pictures of an empty patio, dusting the backyard gate for latents. 162 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,441 I kid you not. 163 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,563 You show me the son of a bitch who can fix this police department, 164 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,160 I'd give back half my overtime. 165 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,922 He was all cut up and shit. His insides was hanging out. 166 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,800 Fucked up, yo. I mean, damn. 167 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,885 Sometimes you gotta send a message. 168 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,129 I mean, when you picked up that phone, what did you think they were gonna do? 169 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,971 All that shit is in the game. You know that. 170 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,520 Yeah. Like you and that girl? 171 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,367 - What girl? - The one in the apartment. 172 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,126 The one you told us about, remember? 173 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,643 I mean, I like what you said about all that killing, you know? 174 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,210 Especially that part about how it ain't gotta be like that. 175 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:26,930 Just sell the shit and move on. 176 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,765 Get me a ginger ale and get something for yourself. 177 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,247 I remember that. But it ain't like that, is it? 178 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,802 - Yeah, I know it ain't. 179 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,361 Thing about it was his eye. His eye was blown out. 180 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,644 And the other one was open. And yo, Dee, it fucks me up. 181 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,651 It's like he's looking out, like he sees everything, you know? 182 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,131 Don't think about it. 183 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,449 I c... 184 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,962 - Fuck! - Yo. 185 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,004 Let that shit go. 186 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,971 Just... let it go. 187 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,922 Barksdale kid on the line. 188 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,842 He's beeping someone. 189 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,284 Go deep. 190 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,248 - 'Yo.' - 'What up?' 191 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:00,891 'Hold on.' 192 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,045 'Yo, Strings! This is Dee.' 193 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,801 'Yeah. You hit me?' 194 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,807 'I wanted to know if you know a young hopper, the one they got down there.' 195 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,289 - 'Which one?' - 'The fool, drop in there with a punch.' 196 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,728 - 'What about him?' - 'He got some problems, right?' 197 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,602 - 'What you mean?' - 'Enough to bring home, right?' 198 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,440 'You know, man, whatever. 199 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,481 'All right.' 200 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,602 They're bringing Bodie home. 201 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,444 The young, light-skinned kid from the cemetery. 202 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,567 Where?' 203 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,644 In the alley behind Argyle, across from the low-rises. 204 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:05,961 Shot? 205 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,005 - Stabbed, beaten, burned. - 'Jesus.' 206 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,321 - We gotta get with Omar. - 'Yeah.' 207 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,130 Impressive. 208 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:28,489 I don't often see a respondent come so prepared for a juvenile commitment meeting. 209 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,570 In addition to the statements from Preston's sponsors 210 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,529 at the Police Athletic League, 211 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,922 I also have a Photostatted copy of a cashed check 212 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,606 which indicates he is enrolled in the GED program 213 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,160 at the Baltimore City Community College. 214 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:49,965 Can I ask how this young man is able to afford not one but two attorneys from your firm? 215 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,008 This is pro bono, Your Honor. 216 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,402 My firm is making it a priority to identify a number of youths 217 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,963 who are in crisis, and to undertake efforts to reorder their lives. 218 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,245 I can't help but notice that your client is under a delinquent petition 219 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,688 for the sale of narcotics and for assault on a police officer. 220 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,571 Beyond that, he walked away from a JSA facility. 221 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,888 My client stands ready to acknowledge 222 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,760 that he was involved for a time in the sale of a small amount of drugs, 223 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,491 for which he received no remuneration, 224 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,691 having been manipulated by older traffickers in his neighborhood. 225 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,924 - That was a mistake, Your Honor. - So noted. 226 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,364 We will contend that it was Preston who was the victim of a brutal police beating, 227 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,246 indications of which are still evident on him. 228 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,847 He struck back, wildly and in self-defense, Your Honor. 229 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,321 And the walk-away? 230 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,882 Preston was heavily medicated when he left the Cheltenham facility. 231 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:48,729 In that state, Your Honor, he was simply trying to get back to see his grandmother. 232 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,443 Did you know what you were doing when you left the Boys' Village, son? 233 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,090 - No, I was messed up. - Anything else you'd like to add? 234 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:01,925 Erm... 235 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,401 Just... 236 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,364 I don't know... 237 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,204 I'm ready to be good. 238 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,842 Pending a hearing on these charges to be scheduled within six months, 239 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,561 I'm putting the respondent on home monitoring with his grandmother. 240 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,847 I'm afraid Mrs. Brodus doesn't have a telephone for any monitoring calls. 241 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,331 She's on a fixed income, Your Honor. 242 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,246 How about he calls his probation officer twice a week? 243 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,569 Cool. Whatever. 244 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,571 Your Honor. 245 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,804 - Yo, Bubbles, what's the game? - Hey, Johnny. 246 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,201 - Rubbing them down? - Yeah. 247 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,248 Bubbs. 248 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,405 - What is the scam out here? - Ain't no scam. 249 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,369 Thank you, ma'am. 250 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,286 What you got here is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Right? 251 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,408 Mr. Straight Time, Bubbles. 252 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,166 Gotta give something back when they least expect it. 253 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,528 Me and Uck, we got something on, too. We got a plan. 254 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,002 - No shit. - For real. 255 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,160 We're gonna take off on the copper house. 256 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,925 Your first two days out and you get dramatic on me. 257 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,968 - Copper house. - Got to be got, homes. 258 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,850 - What about the fence? - Fuck the fence. 259 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,803 - What about the dog? - Fuck the dog. 260 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,851 All that time I was resting, it got me thinking. It got good to me, too. 261 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,400 Copper house. Gracious. 262 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,161 I gotta go, can you cash me out? 263 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,085 If you ain't got dreams, Bubbs, what the fuck you got? 264 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,929 Thank you. Come on, dreamer. 265 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,041 Yeah? 266 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,887 - One of ours on the line. - 'Got him.' 267 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,841 - Is Carv still there? - Hold a second. 268 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,763 Carv, call for you! 269 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,811 - 'Hello?' - You ain't gonna believe who I'm looking at. 270 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,483 Again he walks off? 271 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,326 Ding! Round three. 272 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,404 - 'Yo.' - 'What up, man?' 273 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,484 - 'Yo, Stink, what up?' - 'Where are your manners, fool?' 274 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,007 - 'My bad.' - 'You need to keep your fucking head, boy.' 275 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,686 'Forgot. Erm... 276 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:19,084 - 'What's up? Where you at?' - 'Where you at?' 277 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,124 'I'm down in the Pit. I just came home... 278 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,608 'I don't see nobody around, I just wanted to know what was up.' 279 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,922 'Ain't nothing going late, man. 280 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,129 'Just catch us tomorrow, man.' 281 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,603 'All right? 282 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,485 'All right. Later.' 283 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,964 "Non-pertinent"? 284 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,287 How do you log that non-pertinent? 285 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,604 No drug talk. 286 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,610 They use codes that hide their pager and phone numbers. 287 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,567 And when someone does use a phone, they don't use names. 288 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,684 And if someone does use a name, he's reminded not to. 289 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,082 All of that is valuable evidence. 290 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,809 - Of what? - Conspiracy. 291 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,050 Conspiracy? 292 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,124 We're building something here, Detective. We're building it from scratch. 293 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,409 All the pieces matter. 294 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,209 All right? 295 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,163 Shit. 296 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,843 - Are you fucking serious? - Fuck, man. 297 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,083 You keep walking away from JSA, we keep kicking your ass. 298 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,767 - I'm all right with that if you are. - I ain't walking away from nowhere. 299 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,683 Check my back pocket. 300 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,164 - "Home monitoring"? - Yeah, man. 301 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,450 If you ask questions before you start wildin' on niggers, you might save trouble. 302 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,047 - How the fuck are you home? - You ain't bright, man. 303 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,964 Juvenile judge, man. 304 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,890 He saw my potential. He expects big things from me. 305 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,405 Like what? 306 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,286 I don't know, college, law school, medical school, all that good shit. 307 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:23,285 - Seriously, how are you out? - Look, I'm gonna tell you something. 308 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:27,729 This is just my opinion, but the juvenile system in this city is fucked up. 309 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,406 It's a big-ass fucking joke. No offence. 310 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,968 Fucking fuck! 311 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,850 Hey, you could give me a ride down to my grandma's, we'll call it even. 312 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,409 In back, fucknuts. 313 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:17,441 Jay. 314 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,282 - (Man) Get outta the street! 315 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:32,566 Bitch! 316 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,122 - Hey- - Hey- 317 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,729 What's up? What you need? 318 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:50,005 - Little late in the month for this shit, isn't it? - What you mean? 319 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,000 - For my aunt, she hit the Match Four. - You stealing from me, Cass? 320 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,006 What? 321 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,085 You look fresh today. 322 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,529 - Got laid last night, that's why. - Your asshole still hurting? 323 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,331 - Call Jimmy. - What's up, boss? 324 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,487 Rawls finally got around to reading the office reports that McNulty tried to give him. 325 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,126 He wants arrest warrants for Diedre Kresson 326 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,244 and the two project murders that match up to that gun. 327 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,564 I know. 328 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,726 - Come on, Jay. Be right on this. - I can't. It's Rawls, he wants warrants today. 329 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,846 All right. Who the fuck are we supposed to charge? 330 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,650 A witness that puts D'Angelo Barksdale at the scene of the murder, the night of the murder. 331 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,447 You got a ballistics match between the Kresson girl 332 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,730 and the two dead mopes in the project where Barksdale hangs. Run with it. 333 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,161 This weak-ass shit is not gonna get past a Grand Jury. 334 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,449 Charge the mope, and work it more afterward. 335 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,602 Call Jimmy, let him know. 336 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,811 Yo. 337 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,362 All right, listen up. New deal. 338 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,809 Wallace, you're gonna be on the stash now with Latroy and Peaches. 339 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,286 What about Sterling? 340 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,927 He's gonna be down on Crescent, looking out for a while. 341 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,889 - What happened? - Nothing. 342 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,045 - Then why you wanna change everything? - Nigger, I gotta explain shit to you now? 343 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,004 Stringer Bell's pager number? 344 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,041 - Stinkum's too, I'm pretty sure. - Very sweet. 345 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,126 If they moved around, we would have problems. 346 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,929 They're a little lazy, you know. 347 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,611 Tend to go to that one pay phone in the courtyard a little too much. 348 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,361 Jesus. 349 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,846 He's lit at 9:00 in the morning? 350 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:11,327 Or from the night before. 351 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,965 Detective. 352 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,208 Detective Polk. 353 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,286 It's McNulty. Bunk paged me. 354 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,491 All right. 355 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,888 Why did you even come in today? 356 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,730 - I had some... - To pretend that you were here? 357 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:56,651 To fill out a run sheet? 358 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,571 I know I missed a couple of days last week, but... 359 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,405 I got a run sheet from you every day for the last two weeks. 360 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,644 Twice in Carv's handwriting, twice it was Prez, once it was McNulty. 361 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,570 They covered for you. 362 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,645 But I won't. 363 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,451 Well, Lieutenant, I... 364 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,680 I don't know. I'm not really up for this drug thing, you know? 365 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:28,324 Maybe if Mahone was here, I could get into it more, learn some new tricks. 366 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,968 Why don't you send me back to Property and keep everyone happy? 367 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,884 Send you back so you can binge for two more weeks? 368 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:40,931 I'm not doing that. 369 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,408 - Lieutenant, please... - You were dumped on me, Augie. 370 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,042 But it ends there. I don't dump people. 371 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,406 You either go out on those rooftops today to watch pay phones with the others 372 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,850 or you go over to the medical office and check yourself in. 373 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,885 - Medical? - For alcohol abuse. 374 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,847 Either dry yourself out or go up on those rooftops wet. 375 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,406 Take a few minutes and think about it. 376 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,401 - Where'd they go? - Who? 377 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:35,441 Lieutenant, we need a file cabinet or two. The paperwork from this, I mean... 378 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:37,890 There's a lot of it. 379 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,446 Lieutenant? 380 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,600 Sir. 381 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,484 I'm going to... 382 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,924 Good luck with the case. 383 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,886 Fucking Rawls, he's fucking up the case to get to me. 384 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,409 He's fucking it up for three paper clearances on prior cases. It ain't personal. 385 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,120 All he's got is D'Angelo at the scene 386 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,966 and a ballistics match to unrelated drug murders. How can he charge that? 387 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,486 He can charge anything he wants to get credit. 388 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,410 Grand jury doesn't indict, he drops the case. 389 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,331 - I'll go tell him what he can do. - You don't. 390 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,081 I'm trying to build something. Rawls sticks a finger in my eye. 391 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,640 - You talk to Landsman? - Jay can't fix this. 392 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,531 Rawls told him to have the warrants by morning. 393 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,241 He's gonna charge murders he can't prove just to get the stats? 394 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,845 And fuck up our case. 395 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,720 We give up the motive for the Kresson killing in the documents, 396 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,802 and Avon Barksdale is gonna change up. 397 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,163 What he don't change he'll clean up. Somebody should tell Rawls. 398 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,449 Rawls couldn't care less. He wants the stats, that's all. 399 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,489 Then we take it to Daniels. 400 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,927 - He'll fight for it. - He won't do shit. 401 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,527 He plays stiff now and then, but he's a good man. 402 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,611 Are you kidding me? He's been trying to put the brakes on this for weeks now. 403 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,921 This'll be his new excuse to close shop. 404 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,368 You guys gotta make your move soon, I'm sorry to say. 405 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,565 - Freamon. - All right, Bunk, take care. 406 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,288 - We tell Daniels. - Fuck Daniels and his ass-kissing ambition. 407 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,362 What other choice you got? 408 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,722 We go to Daniels. If he fights, he fights. 409 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,965 If he gives it up to Rawls, then fuck it, we were never gonna do the case anyway. 410 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,444 All right, come on. 411 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,524 Fucking idiot! 412 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,331 - Come on, get up, stupid. - I'm hurt, man. 413 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,006 What are you doing? Leave me alone! 414 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,048 - What are you on, dope? - Mostly. 415 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,565 Come on, get up. 416 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,206 You trying to rip out my guts? 417 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,007 What, are you trying to kill me, man? 418 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,209 - Wait! Where are you going? - Listen, I gotta get help. 419 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,521 You can't leave me here. Stay with me. 420 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,443 Let's go over to the curb. 421 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,603 Just go get help, man! What are you doing? 422 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,409 Stay there! 423 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,206 - Damn, boy! What the hell come out of you? - Onion soup. Campbell's. 424 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,726 - My plan! - Run, Forrest, run! 425 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,410 You could go to Forester, or the Deputy Ops. 426 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,287 Why come crying to me? Why not go to your friend, the judge? 427 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:59,088 I don't see a judge being able to argue the city homicide commander out of three murders, 428 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,971 even if the cases are all weak sisters. It's put-up or shut-up time, Lieutenant. 429 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,449 - Either you step up or you send us all home. - So this is on me? 430 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,649 I don't see anyone else in charge of this detail. 431 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,609 - Rawls is a major. - Rawls is an asshole. 432 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,408 My point is, he ranks me on this. 433 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,683 Chain of command might mean nothing to you, McNulty. 434 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,483 What'd I tell you? 435 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,251 - Yo, how we doing? - We doing good. 436 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,970 We doing good. 437 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,566 You know, if you say we doing good... 438 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,762 So what's up? 439 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,566 So the word is out about these stick-up boys, right? 440 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,008 - Yeah, yeah. Y'all being heard. - All right. 441 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,688 There goes shorty, right there. 442 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,649 What's up, man? You know... 443 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,321 I'm a man of my word. I said it would be $4,000 on Omar, 444 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,166 $2,000 on each of the young ones, this being a team effort. 445 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:11,164 $500 in the boy hand who doing the scope, 446 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:13,925 $500 in your hand for doing the relay, 447 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,085 $500 in Wee-Bey hand, Bird hand for doing the muscling up. 448 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,480 - All right. - How you doing with that other thing? 449 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,528 What? 450 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,807 Everybody a little depressed, right? 451 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,884 You know, ain't no surprises yet. 452 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,411 Cut everybody loose on Friday and they all just a bunch of begging-ass bitches. 453 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,484 Ain't nobody showed no money since. 454 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,291 - You gonna keep it humming? - You know. 455 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,284 You got your hands up. 456 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,445 Keep on doing like how you're doing we'll talk about points on the package. 457 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,762 All right? 458 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,684 - Keep it humming. - Most def. 459 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,771 - All right, then. - Take it light, but take it. 460 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,643 Hotter than the Wu-Tang, killer bees, killer bees. 461 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,726 - 40 cents. - Not 40 cents a foot, no sir. 462 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,882 Look, respectfully, I gotta tell you, 463 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,601 for 40 cents a foot, you might as well go to Home Depot, pay them. 464 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,843 They're gonna charge you 45 or 50 cents a foot. 465 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,889 For copper that isn't stolen. 466 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,846 Look. All right. 35 cents a foot. 467 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,129 And that's in respect I have for what you're doing in our community 468 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,680 with these quality domiciles here. 469 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,327 30 cents a foot, take it or leave it. 470 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,727 I understand the interest in clearing these cases, I do. 471 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,167 But charging those murders now and putting information we have into the documents... 472 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,048 I just call them like I see them, Lieutenant. 473 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,603 Three murders, same gun, we got this Barksdale kid right at the scene on the one. 474 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,367 We're up on the wire. We're starting to pull good information. 475 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,963 You charge these prematurely and Barksdale will change up on us. 476 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,247 - The work we've done... - Look. 477 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,848 I can't tell you how to run your case, I can only run my own. 478 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,126 Major... 479 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,168 I'm asking as a favor. 480 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,489 - As a favor. - Yes, sir. A favor. 481 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,762 In that case... 482 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,565 No. Sorry. 483 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,686 - You got home from work early today. - Yep. Work sucks. 484 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,730 - Are we eating dinner with you? - Why not? 485 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,001 - You promised we'd eat lasagna. - So we'll go to Little Italy. 486 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,048 Get some lasagna at Sab's. 487 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,970 - You never cook. - Cooking sucks, too. 488 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,771 - Who's this? - 'Yo, I wanna see him.' 489 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,206 - Who? - 'Brandon, my boy.' 490 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,800 - Copper house, yo. - Was the shit. 491 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,489 My plan, Bubbs. 492 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,082 Johnny had a plan. 493 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,529 Get out the way, motherfuckers. 494 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,171 This here is White Boy Day. 495 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,483 - I got a plan, too. - What? 496 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,441 We're gonna wait for that cheap-ass, speculating motherfucker 497 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:24,202 to put that good copper line back into them row houses he fixing up. 498 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,086 Then, before the drywall get up... 499 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,206 we creep back in there and steal that shit right back. 500 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,683 30 cents a foot. 501 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,162 Gotta come back at a motherfucker for that, you know? 502 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,964 Yeah. 503 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:47,480 You good? 504 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,884 I could top off with one more. 505 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,724 Just one more. 506 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,370 Johnny got it. 507 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,330 I'll be back. 508 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,482 It's my night with the kids. 509 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,843 You ain't gonna find nothing because I didn't do nothing! 510 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,287 Why don't you just leave me alone, man? 511 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,007 A white man can't walk down the street? What's that about? Come on! 512 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,488 It's messed up, all right? 513 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,846 Profiling! What? It's 'cause I'm white, right? Why don't you let me... 514 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,491 Man, What the fuck's that? What's that? 515 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,002 That boy ain't got no luck. 516 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,044 (Man) All right. Hold up! 517 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,642 - Hey- - Hey- 518 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,328 So, what are you going to do with your money? 519 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,811 You know what you should do? Take the roll and do something nice for your girl. 520 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,048 You do have a girl, right? 521 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,526 Anyway, you've got enough money to go get yourself one now. 522 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,126 Why'd you punk Sterling like you did? 523 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,727 I mean, he did get shot behind this shit. 524 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,528 - I didn't punk him. - So why are you dropping the lookout? 525 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:13,404 Cass, too. 526 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,962 'Cause they was thieving. Both of them. 527 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,324 They got pissed 'cause I wasn't paying them. 528 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,882 So Sterling started shaking up the vials, handing off to Cass. 529 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,008 She was selling on the side. 530 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,687 You didn't tell anybody? Stinkum, Bodie? They don't know? 531 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,367 What you think they gonna do? 532 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,566 They gonna take a baseball bat to Sterling, probably Cassandra, too. 533 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:42,529 It's too much drama, right? So, I just took them both off the stash. 534 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,208 SO why didn't you pay us? 535 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,244 That wasn't right. 536 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,928 Listen, man. 537 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,401 Stringer thought we had a snitch down here. 538 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,646 You know, with the jump-out, Omar, all that shit. 539 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,009 So he told me to punk you all, 540 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,401 see who was holding money at the end of the week. 541 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,448 Was they snitching? 542 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,045 Sterling and Cass? 543 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,968 No, man, just thieving. 544 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,643 All right, I'm with Homicide. 545 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,606 OK, you two, you sit right here, OK? Don't wander off. 546 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,604 - Erm... Dad? - What? 547 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:32,326 It's a school night. Mom said we had to... 548 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,284 I know, I know. We will. Just stay there. 549 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,169 '64-Charlie to Central K.' 550 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,563 You up to this? 551 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,364 Pay it back, Omar. Pay it back. 552 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,606 Why ain't we in a real police office? 553 00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:26,368 We're a little like you. Out here on our own, playing the game for ourselves. 554 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,048 Hard way to go sometimes. 555 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,242 Sorry about your friend. 556 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,727 Avon is one sick bastard. 557 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,649 Of course, he had his reasons. 558 00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:51,567 - For one thing, you did take his stash. - For another, he's looking for you, Omar. 559 00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:54,242 That's what all the burns were about. 560 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,085 Broken fingers, cracked forearms. 561 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,689 He wanted your boy to give you up. 562 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,649 An address, a street. 563 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,449 Kid had heart. 564 00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:07,570 Yeah. 565 00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:12,166 I know you want to go to wherever it is you lay your head 566 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,687 and pick up that sawed-off you like so much and go on the hunt. 567 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,648 That's how a man like you wants to carry it. 568 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,326 - You wouldn't be wrong. - No, you wouldn't. 569 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,165 But one man with two barrels ain't enough, Omar. 570 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,001 You're gonna do what you're gonna do. 571 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,842 But whatever else you can give us on Barksdale and his people, 572 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,562 that can go to hurting him, too. 573 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,282 Just throw us what you can. 574 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,527 Let me tell you all something, all right? 575 00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:44,129 What I do, I do, straight like that. 576 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:49,605 Ain't no sense in you all troubling yourselves 'cause the way I feel right now, today... 577 00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,649 What do you all need from me? 578 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,047 When did you last see Brandon? 579 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,010 Tuesday around 7:00. Maybe later. 580 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,001 He was on his way down to Mindamin and the Greek's after that. 581 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,562 He got snatched up from there. 582 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,324 On Baltimore Street? 583 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,446 He liked to play them pinball games to death. 584 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,570 He go alone? 585 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,322 And I didn't like it none, neither. 586 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,929 But you can only treat a young man like a boy for so long before they buck. 587 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,920 When Bailey got killed, you must have figured Barksdale was coming back on you? 588 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,650 Bailey? Please. 589 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,842 That nigger's enemies got enemies. 590 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,687 I just figured he tried his hand on the wrong corner and got dropped. 591 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,605 But you were worried about Brandon, right? 592 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:50,130 Look, in my game, you take some kid, you play it the safest way you can. 593 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,761 But it ain't about no hiding forever. 594 00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:54,441 You heard? 595 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,645 Frankly, you been in it as long as me, you do the thing on your name. 596 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,162 Anyone going to come after Omar, they know Omar's coming after him. 597 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:04,049 Oh, indeed. 598 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,888 So, who came after Brandon? 599 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,802 I heard it might have been Wee-Bey, 600 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,525 boy Stinkum, 601 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,240 and Bird. 602 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,528 He was down with the snatch, too. 603 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,202 So, what can you give us on the job? 604 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,923 7:56 Tuesday night, you had an incoming call to Barksdale's, 605 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,684 giving him the number of a pay phone. 606 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,843 Westside exchange. Number's encoded, right? 607 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:41,082 Three minutes later, we get another call from the low-rises to that number. 608 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,006 A half-minute later, another call from the low-rises 609 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,048 to a pager we know is Stringer Bell's. 610 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,920 - I'll be damned. - Finally, we get another call. 611 00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,484 Probably from a pay phone. Probably Stringer Bell calling back. 612 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,847 Coming on into the low-rise courts. 613 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,322 45 minutes later, another call. 614 00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,850 This one from the same pay phone that went to D'Angelo's pager 615 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,922 to start the whole thing off. 616 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,161 This is the murder here. 617 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:11,006 This first number, the one they sent to D'Angelo. 618 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,603 I'm thinking this comes from a pay phone over by the Greek's. 619 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,611 He's on you. We're up on those pay phones, we catch that murder. 620 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,330 We get there before the murder. 621 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,849 It's all here on the pen register. This one calling that one, that one calling back. 622 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,282 We're up on those pay phones, and we have him cold. 623 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:42,446 But we're not up in time, are we? In this case, we're never where we need to be. 624 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,604 Bad time for you all? 625 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:14,370 - He fight, but you arrest. - You saw him get arrested? 626 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,247 - On Tuesday? - Tuesday, yes. Tuesday. 627 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,051 By the police? The police arrested him? 628 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,847 Cops, they handcuffed him? 629 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,203 What about these guys? Were they there with him? 630 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:29,967 No. 631 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,327 - He fight, you arrest. - Right. 632 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,362 Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you. 633 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:48,644 It's a match. 634 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:51,606 No. 635 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,281 I need help. Rawls ranks me. 636 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,648 Lieutenant, think what you're doing here. 637 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:03,207 You're gonna cross Bill Rawls, as ruthless a fuck as we have in this department? 638 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,649 And to do what? 639 00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,724 To fight for a case the Deputy of Operations doesn't even want. 640 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:14,361 No. 641 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,849 I like my career, thank you very much. 642 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,926 In the cemetery, you were telling us a guy named Bird killed the working man. 643 00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,361 The man who testified. 644 00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,485 William Gant. Right. 645 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,121 Bird did that one, for sure. 646 00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:35,561 - How do you know? - Everybody know, man. 647 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:41,006 Nigger walked up and shot him in the head. The whole project saw that much. 648 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,044 And Bird worked for Avon? 649 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:44,929 As one of his shooters. 650 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:50,001 Liked to use this real sweet gun. A.380 from Austria or Australia. Something like that. 651 00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,243 But I know he loved that gun. 652 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:53,367 A.380. 653 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,921 A.380. You get him, you get the gun. 654 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,686 'Cause Bird's too dumb to throw a gun like that off. 655 00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,807 - A gun alone ain't enough. - Oh, no? 656 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,804 He bought the gun on the street after Gant was killed. 657 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,850 - What would be enough, then? - Eyeball witness. 658 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,369 Some kind of corroboration for what you're telling me here. 659 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,241 - Okay. - Okay, what? 660 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,365 - I'm your man. - You saw the murder? 661 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,125 Yeah. 662 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,166 You can ID this man Bird as the shooter of William Gant? 663 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:31,170 And you ain't afraid to go into court and testify against one of Barksdale's people? 664 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,369 Omar don't scare. 665 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,487 While Daniels and his merry band are lost in the swamps 666 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,928 playing with beepers and pay phones and body mics, 667 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,449 my people have developed information that ties Barksdale to three killings. 668 00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,201 - D'Angelo Barksdale, not Avon. - On behalf of Avon. 669 00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:57,408 The victim is identified by our witnesses as being involved with Avon Barksdale. 670 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,485 - Sir, we're developing... - You're dancing around this thing. 671 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:06,684 - I'm charging three murders. - You charge them, my investigation folds. 672 00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:10,323 Not one of those cases is strong enough for court. 673 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:15,531 We bring the kid in, throw a mindfuck at him and the case becomes stronger. 674 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,525 You've had him twice before. He's gonna go for less the third time. 675 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,843 So we re-canvass, develop fresh witnesses. 676 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,450 The case I charge on today can be twice as strong by the trial date. 677 00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:32,602 We get a conviction. We roll Little Boy Barksdale into Big Boy Barksdale, 678 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:38,366 then we go home like good old-fashioned cops and pound some Budweiser. 679 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,289 This is bullshit! 680 00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:48,848 McNulty made the ballistics match on these murders and he's telling me fight this. 681 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,931 He knows you don't have a viable prosecution, so do you, so do I. 682 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:54,571 Enough. 683 00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,044 Look, I've got no love for your wiretap, Lieutenant. 684 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:06,127 I'm spending $2,000 a day over the unit operating budget to staff the case. 685 00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,286 Major Rawls is offering a chance to leverage Barksdale through a murder prosecution. 686 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,723 Why not jump on this? 687 00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:21,683 Because if Major Rawls is right then he will be right a month from now. 688 00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:26,047 If the wire doesn't give us a case, he can charge all the murders he has. 689 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,043 We lose nothing. 690 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:29,924 But if he's wrong, 691 00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,244 if he can't convict, or if the Barksdale kid doesn't flip, 692 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,842 then it's too late to do anything else. 693 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,971 Avon Barksdale changes up his pattern, and the wiretap dies. 694 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:45,644 At that point, there isn't gonna be a thing that you, or me, or Rawls here 695 00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:48,929 is gonna be able to say to that goddamn judge. 696 00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,450 You wanted to see me, Major? 697 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,163 McNulty does personal business on the clock, I wanna know. 698 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,761 He cheats on a run sheet, I wanna know. 699 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,367 He runs any kind of game at all, I wanna know. 700 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,171 Major, the man's an asshole, 701 00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:15,044 but he doesn't do much other than work. He's got this case in his gut like it's cancer. 702 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:19,285 He does no wrong? Doesn't drink any more? 703 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,443 Doesn't drink on duty? Doesn't drink and drive, Detective? 704 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,450 - Major... - You've got to help me on this, Michael. 705 00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:50,163 The murder warrant's on hold. 706 00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,846 The Deputy gave us another month. 707 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,407 Also, whoever that was you brought in today 708 00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,171 gave himself up as an eyewitness to the Gant murder. 709 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,289 Who? Omar? 710 00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,444 Greggs said to tell you she'd write it up in the morning. 711 00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,170 Lieutenant... 712 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:11,525 Thanks. 713 00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,209 It cost you?