1 00:01:28,222 --> 00:01:31,089 Rise and shine! Come on, man, get up! 2 00:01:33,627 --> 00:01:37,188 Oh, boy. Come on, get up! School day. Y'all gonna be late! 3 00:01:37,598 --> 00:01:39,259 Let's go. Get up for school. 4 00:01:39,867 --> 00:01:41,801 Go! Get up. Come on, man. 5 00:01:41,969 --> 00:01:43,903 -Damn, Wallace. -"Damn, Wallace," nothing! 6 00:01:44,005 --> 00:01:46,496 Y'all know what happens if you don't go to school? 7 00:01:46,607 --> 00:01:50,168 Soon enough, they're gonna be callin' and all y'all gonna end up in foster care. 8 00:01:50,277 --> 00:01:53,576 If y'all want foster care, climb your little black asses back into bed. 9 00:01:53,681 --> 00:01:56,548 Get outta my way, man. Damn, it's too early for this shit. 10 00:02:26,881 --> 00:02:29,941 -Narcos? -No, rollies. 11 00:02:31,485 --> 00:02:33,009 Yo, where's breakfast at? 12 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,311 Here, man. You get two. 13 00:02:37,024 --> 00:02:39,151 -I want two bags. -You don't get two. 14 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:41,660 Come on, getting greedy. Take the chips! 15 00:02:41,762 --> 00:02:43,855 Come on. Take your juice. 16 00:02:46,567 --> 00:02:48,034 Come on, man. 17 00:02:49,503 --> 00:02:50,800 Where's mine? 18 00:02:52,573 --> 00:02:54,905 Go show your teacher. Come on, man. 19 00:03:08,189 --> 00:03:11,681 -Where's your book bag? -Teacher ain't giving no homework. 20 00:03:28,275 --> 00:03:31,335 That's the worst case of suicide I've ever seen. 21 00:03:32,313 --> 00:03:33,644 That's him. 22 00:03:36,951 --> 00:03:38,316 You see? 23 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,654 That's him, right there. 24 00:03:41,922 --> 00:03:43,549 That's Omar's boy. 25 00:05:34,568 --> 00:05:38,800 -What the fuck can I tell him? -Whatever the man wants to hear, Jimmy. 26 00:05:42,509 --> 00:05:43,908 Prodigal son. 27 00:05:45,980 --> 00:05:48,972 Major, we got a good shot at clearing a couple of cases here. 28 00:05:49,083 --> 00:05:51,176 -One-- -We're not here to talk cases. 29 00:05:51,285 --> 00:05:53,082 I don't care about your cases. Sit. 30 00:05:55,623 --> 00:05:56,715 Relax. 31 00:05:58,325 --> 00:05:59,849 I'm a reasonable guy. 32 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:02,360 In fact, everywhere I go, people say to me: 33 00:06:02,463 --> 00:06:05,626 "Bill Rawls, you are a reasonable fucking guy." 34 00:06:05,733 --> 00:06:08,224 -Am I right, Jay? -You are reasonable, sir. 35 00:06:08,335 --> 00:06:10,098 Yes. Yes, I am. 36 00:06:10,971 --> 00:06:13,371 And because your sergeant knows me to be reasonable... 37 00:06:13,474 --> 00:06:16,602 he came in here a couple weeks ago and reasoned with me. Right, Jay? 38 00:06:16,710 --> 00:06:18,575 We reasoned. We did. 39 00:06:18,679 --> 00:06:22,445 We reasoned that despite his negligible lrish ancestry... 40 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:27,282 and a propensity to talk out of turn, Jimmy McNulty is a good worker. 41 00:06:28,422 --> 00:06:29,855 Probably worth saving. 42 00:06:29,957 --> 00:06:32,687 -Major, I'm not-- -He's a good-looking kid, huh? 43 00:06:36,330 --> 00:06:38,890 Do you know what we do here, McNulty? 44 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:40,393 What we do here? 45 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:45,127 That was one of them.... What is it? A question you don't have to-- 46 00:06:45,239 --> 00:06:46,433 A rhetorical question. 47 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:50,101 You were being rhetorical. Rhetorical and reasonable, sir. 48 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:54,510 We work murder cases here, as they come in, one at a fucking time. 49 00:06:54,615 --> 00:06:55,809 It's called a rotation. 50 00:06:55,916 --> 00:06:59,283 You're up till you catch one, then you step down, work it for a while... 51 00:06:59,386 --> 00:07:00,819 someone else steps up. 52 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:03,048 It's a simple but effective way to do business... 53 00:07:03,157 --> 00:07:07,526 in a town that has 250 to 300 cases a year. 54 00:07:07,861 --> 00:07:08,919 Yes, sir. 55 00:07:09,029 --> 00:07:12,396 But if someone gets it into his head to leave the rotation... 56 00:07:12,499 --> 00:07:16,401 it puts an unfair burden on other detectives who have to pick up their casework. 57 00:07:16,503 --> 00:07:18,698 Overworked cops make mistakes. 58 00:07:18,972 --> 00:07:21,873 Mistakes lower the unit-wide clearance rate. 59 00:07:22,242 --> 00:07:26,406 And that can make someone who is otherwise as reasonable as me.... 60 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:31,583 Unreasonable. 61 00:07:37,825 --> 00:07:41,090 Detective McNulty, I expect to see your ass back here next week... 62 00:07:41,195 --> 00:07:43,789 when your shift rotates to night work. 63 00:08:29,243 --> 00:08:33,111 -He's up early today. -A lot of pager activity last night, too. 64 00:08:58,539 --> 00:09:00,336 No woman takes that long. 65 00:09:07,748 --> 00:09:10,216 Yeah. But I look good, right? 66 00:09:17,224 --> 00:09:19,419 Wow. You did all this? 67 00:09:20,661 --> 00:09:23,528 -Burned an egg or two. Ain't no thing. -Yeah? 68 00:09:24,231 --> 00:09:26,961 My mama always said: "Don't let them get to cooking. 69 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:31,060 "Once they're in the kitchen, ain't nothing left to do but give 'em a key to your house." 70 00:09:31,171 --> 00:09:33,731 I don't want no key. I don't want no house. 71 00:09:33,841 --> 00:09:36,309 And your mama don't know shit about me. 72 00:09:36,777 --> 00:09:38,506 Looks just like you. 73 00:09:39,580 --> 00:09:40,706 Yeah, he do. 74 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:44,574 Where's his mother? 75 00:09:45,152 --> 00:09:46,414 Around the way. 76 00:09:47,221 --> 00:09:48,950 Yeah. You friends? 77 00:09:50,257 --> 00:09:52,191 You know, she want a key... 78 00:09:53,060 --> 00:09:56,791 she want a house, she want a car, she wants some new clothes, a necklace... 79 00:09:56,897 --> 00:10:01,459 some pocket change, a trip to the shore, she want a credit card with her name on it. 80 00:10:01,568 --> 00:10:03,695 Ain't no such thing as free, right? 81 00:10:03,804 --> 00:10:06,602 When it come to pussy, there ain't no free. 82 00:10:10,110 --> 00:10:11,441 I gotta go. 83 00:10:29,696 --> 00:10:30,754 Been working on this one. 84 00:10:30,864 --> 00:10:34,061 You'll get the lines on the other two payphones tomorrow. 85 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:37,000 -So we up? -On the low-rise payphones, yeah. 86 00:10:37,104 --> 00:10:38,537 Let's hear it. 87 00:10:39,773 --> 00:10:44,233 See, what I'm talking about is he ain't paid no one, hejust think it's right to do it. 88 00:10:44,678 --> 00:10:47,772 See how it goes? So I ain't got shit. I ain't got it. 89 00:10:48,248 --> 00:10:49,306 Damn, for real? 90 00:10:49,650 --> 00:10:52,585 Thinking he all that because he got his family back. 91 00:10:55,589 --> 00:10:57,955 -Hey, it was getting good. -It's unmonitored. 92 00:10:58,058 --> 00:10:59,047 It's what? 93 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:02,890 Unmonitored. We can't listen to a conversation on an unmonitored payphone. 94 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:06,295 -What's that mean? -We got a tap on the courtyard payphone. 95 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,960 By tomorrow, we'll be up on two near the high-rises. 96 00:11:09,069 --> 00:11:13,267 But we can't listen to anything unless we know one of our targets is using the phone. 97 00:11:13,373 --> 00:11:15,864 So we gotta be out there on those rooftops for hours... 98 00:11:15,976 --> 00:11:18,137 watching these assholes talk on the phone? 99 00:11:18,245 --> 00:11:19,371 Yep. 100 00:11:19,780 --> 00:11:21,042 It's more bullshit. 101 00:11:21,148 --> 00:11:26,017 Detective, this right here, this is the job. 102 00:11:26,787 --> 00:11:30,587 Now, when you came downtown to CID, what kind of work were you expecting? 103 00:11:33,226 --> 00:11:34,659 So what are you gonna do? 104 00:11:34,761 --> 00:11:38,060 I can't get back here in a week, this case is taking off. 105 00:11:38,865 --> 00:11:40,526 You tell Rawls that? 106 00:11:41,401 --> 00:11:43,631 -No. -McNulty, Line 3. 107 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,864 Yeah? 108 00:11:50,110 --> 00:11:51,304 Where at? 109 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,045 800 block, in the rear. Yeah, I got it. 110 00:11:56,183 --> 00:11:57,844 Thanks. Yeah. 111 00:12:31,485 --> 00:12:34,420 We're still waiting on a lab unit. Do you have an ETA? 112 00:12:34,521 --> 00:12:36,455 Negative. They're all out. 113 00:12:37,958 --> 00:12:41,121 -Damn dog got Norris, too. -You didn't think to warn me? 114 00:12:41,228 --> 00:12:42,923 Too much fun not to. 115 00:12:44,531 --> 00:12:45,657 Damn. 116 00:12:46,867 --> 00:12:48,334 Is he one of yours? 117 00:12:48,435 --> 00:12:51,461 We found him with Kevlar, like the one Worden caught last week. 118 00:12:51,571 --> 00:12:54,165 -We thought it might be a connection. -Yeah, it connects. 119 00:12:54,274 --> 00:12:55,332 How so? 120 00:12:55,842 --> 00:12:56,777 Don't have a name, but he's part of a stick-up crew. 121 00:12:56,777 --> 00:12:59,007 Don't have a name, but he's part of a stick-up crew. 122 00:12:59,112 --> 00:13:02,878 Took off a stash house last month. My guy, Barksdale, is coming back on them. 123 00:13:02,983 --> 00:13:06,851 -In a big way. -They must've killed him four or five times. 124 00:13:06,953 --> 00:13:10,946 Cut him in a dozen places, burned him with cigarettes. Torture-fest is what it was. 125 00:13:11,058 --> 00:13:12,719 Doesn't look like your scene, either. 126 00:13:12,826 --> 00:13:15,920 Fuck him up somewhere else, dump him here for all to see. 127 00:13:16,029 --> 00:13:18,259 -Anything we can use? -Not yet. 128 00:13:18,365 --> 00:13:21,664 We're up on some phones. If I hear anything, I'll let you know. 129 00:13:22,235 --> 00:13:24,601 -Bring 22. -22. 130 00:13:24,705 --> 00:13:27,902 Anything yet? Or are we just gonna let this guy go ripe on us? 131 00:13:28,141 --> 00:13:30,871 -You been waiting for crime lab? -Over an hour. 132 00:13:30,977 --> 00:13:34,879 Only two units on the street. Both are up at the City Council President's house. 133 00:13:34,981 --> 00:13:38,007 -What happened there? -Someone stole his lawn furniture. 134 00:13:38,118 --> 00:13:42,578 They're taking pictures of an empty patio, dusting the backyard gate for latents. 135 00:13:42,689 --> 00:13:43,986 I kid you not. 136 00:13:44,257 --> 00:13:47,886 I swear, you show me the son of a bitch who can fix this police department... 137 00:13:47,994 --> 00:13:49,689 I'd give back half my overtime. 138 00:13:50,464 --> 00:13:51,988 He was all cut up and shit. 139 00:13:52,532 --> 00:13:54,193 His insides was hanging out. 140 00:13:55,502 --> 00:13:57,970 Fucked up, yo. I mean, damn. 141 00:13:58,305 --> 00:14:00,330 Sometimes you gotta send a message, yo. 142 00:14:01,641 --> 00:14:06,305 I mean, when you picked up that phone, what did you think they were gonna do? 143 00:14:06,413 --> 00:14:09,940 -All that shit is in the game. You know that. -Yeah. 144 00:14:10,050 --> 00:14:11,847 Like you and that girl, huh? 145 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,384 -What girl? -The one in the apartment. 146 00:14:15,756 --> 00:14:17,656 The one you told us about, remember? 147 00:14:18,792 --> 00:14:21,761 I mean, I like what you said about all that killing, you know? 148 00:14:22,362 --> 00:14:25,297 Especially that part about how it ain't gotta be like that. 149 00:14:25,532 --> 00:14:27,056 Just sell the shit and move on. 150 00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:29,658 Get me a ginger ale and get something for yourself. 151 00:14:30,937 --> 00:14:33,531 Yeah, I remember that. But it ain't like that, is it? 152 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,972 Yeah, I know. I know it ain't. 153 00:14:37,043 --> 00:14:39,637 Thing about it was his eye. His eye was blown out. 154 00:14:39,746 --> 00:14:43,739 And the other one was open. And yo, Dee, it fucks me up. 155 00:14:43,850 --> 00:14:47,217 It's like he's looking out, like he sees everything, you know? 156 00:14:49,022 --> 00:14:50,319 Don't think about it. 157 00:14:52,926 --> 00:14:54,860 -Fuck! -Yo. 158 00:14:56,463 --> 00:14:57,725 Let that shit go. 159 00:14:58,632 --> 00:15:00,623 Just let it go. 160 00:15:25,992 --> 00:15:27,482 Barksdale kid on the line. 161 00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:30,619 He's beeping someone. 162 00:15:56,289 --> 00:15:57,847 -Yo. -What up? 163 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:00,885 Hold on. 164 00:16:01,494 --> 00:16:03,792 Yo, Strings! This is Dee. 165 00:16:05,365 --> 00:16:07,526 -Yeah. -Yeah, you hit me? 166 00:16:08,134 --> 00:16:12,901 Yeah, I wanted to know ifyou know a young hopper, the one they got down there. 167 00:16:13,306 --> 00:16:16,400 -Which one? -The fool, drop in there with a punch. 168 00:16:16,509 --> 00:16:19,740 -Yeah, what about him? -He got some problems, right? 169 00:16:20,180 --> 00:16:22,910 -What you mean? -Enough to bring home, right? 170 00:16:24,251 --> 00:16:26,082 You know, man, whatever. 171 00:16:28,388 --> 00:16:29,548 All right. 172 00:16:50,710 --> 00:16:52,234 They're bringing Bodie home. 173 00:16:57,751 --> 00:17:00,743 A young boy who was with him, light-skinned kid from the cemetery. 174 00:17:00,854 --> 00:17:01,843 Where? 175 00:17:01,955 --> 00:17:05,152 In the alley behind 800 block of Argyle, across from the low-rises. 176 00:17:05,258 --> 00:17:06,247 Shot? 177 00:17:06,526 --> 00:17:08,824 -Stabbed, beaten, burned. -Jesus. 178 00:17:08,929 --> 00:17:10,954 -Yeah, we gotta get with Omar. -Yeah. 179 00:17:21,574 --> 00:17:22,905 Impressive. 180 00:17:24,244 --> 00:17:28,647 I don't often see a respondent come so prepared for a juvenile commitment meeting. 181 00:17:28,748 --> 00:17:31,717 In addition to the signed statements from Preston's sponsors... 182 00:17:31,818 --> 00:17:33,683 at the Police Athletic League... 183 00:17:33,787 --> 00:17:36,915 I also have a Photostatted copy of a cashed check... 184 00:17:37,023 --> 00:17:39,617 which indicates that he is enrolled in the GED program... 185 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:42,024 at the Baltimore City Community College. 186 00:17:44,798 --> 00:17:47,892 Can I ask how this young man is able to afford not one... 187 00:17:48,001 --> 00:17:52,062 -but two attorneys from your firm, Mr. Levy? -This is pro bono, Your Honor. 188 00:17:52,172 --> 00:17:55,539 My firm is making it a priority to identify a number of city youths... 189 00:17:55,642 --> 00:17:59,908 who are in crisis, and to undertake efforts to reorder their lives. 190 00:18:00,146 --> 00:18:04,378 Excuse me, I can't help but notice that your client is under a delinquent petition... 191 00:18:04,484 --> 00:18:08,045 for the sale of narcotics, and further, for assault on a police officer. 192 00:18:08,154 --> 00:18:10,748 Beyond that, he walked away from a JSA facility. 193 00:18:10,857 --> 00:18:13,121 You Honor, my client stands ready to acknowledge... 194 00:18:13,226 --> 00:18:17,094 that he was involved for a time in the sale of a small amount of drugs... 195 00:18:17,197 --> 00:18:19,859 a transaction for which he received no remuneration... 196 00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:23,800 having been manipulated by older traffickers in his neighborhood. 197 00:18:23,903 --> 00:18:26,838 -That was a mistake, Your Honor. -So noted. 198 00:18:27,107 --> 00:18:31,567 We will contend that it was Preston who was the victim of a brutal police beating... 199 00:18:31,678 --> 00:18:34,511 indications of which are still evident on him, Your Honor. 200 00:18:34,614 --> 00:18:38,072 He struck back, wildly and in self-defense, Your Honor. 201 00:18:38,351 --> 00:18:39,511 And the walk-away? 202 00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:43,077 Preston was heavily medicated when he left the Cheltenham facility. 203 00:18:43,189 --> 00:18:45,020 In that state, Your Honor... 204 00:18:45,125 --> 00:18:48,652 he was simply trying to get back to see his grandmother. 205 00:18:50,130 --> 00:18:54,294 Did you know what you were doing when you left the Boys' Village, son? 206 00:18:56,102 --> 00:19:00,198 -No, I was messed up. -Anything else you'd like to add? 207 00:19:02,308 --> 00:19:03,468 Just... 208 00:19:04,978 --> 00:19:06,468 I don't know... 209 00:19:06,679 --> 00:19:08,442 I'm ready to be good. 210 00:19:11,551 --> 00:19:14,952 Pending a hearing on these charges to be scheduled within six months... 211 00:19:15,055 --> 00:19:18,183 I'm putting the respondent on home monitoring with his grandmother. 212 00:19:18,291 --> 00:19:22,057 Your honor, I'm afraid Mrs. Brodus doesn't have a telephone... 213 00:19:22,328 --> 00:19:25,491 for any monitoring calls. She's on a fixed income, Your Honor. 214 00:19:25,598 --> 00:19:29,329 How about he calls his probation officer twice a week? 215 00:19:31,871 --> 00:19:33,361 Cool. Whatever... 216 00:19:34,374 --> 00:19:35,705 Your Honor. 217 00:20:04,003 --> 00:20:06,870 -Yo, Bubbles, what's the game? -Hey, Johnny. 218 00:20:06,973 --> 00:20:07,073 -Rubbing them down, huh? -Yeah. 219 00:20:07,073 --> 00:20:08,836 -Rubbing them down, huh? -Yeah. 220 00:20:11,611 --> 00:20:14,375 -What is the scam out here? -Ain't no scam. 221 00:20:14,747 --> 00:20:16,044 Thank you, ma'am. 222 00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:20,341 What you got here is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Right, Lavelle? 223 00:20:20,453 --> 00:20:22,421 Mr. Straight Time, Bubbles. 224 00:20:22,522 --> 00:20:25,355 Gotta give something back when they least expect it. 225 00:20:25,458 --> 00:20:28,359 Me and Uck, here, we got something on, too. We got a plan. 226 00:20:28,895 --> 00:20:30,829 -No shit. -For real. 227 00:20:37,904 --> 00:20:40,065 Yo, we're gonna take off on the copper house. 228 00:20:40,173 --> 00:20:42,971 Damn, your first two days out and you get dramatic on me. 229 00:20:43,076 --> 00:20:45,101 -Copper house. -Got to be got, homes. 230 00:20:45,211 --> 00:20:47,771 -What about the fence? -Fuck the fence. 231 00:20:48,982 --> 00:20:50,847 -What about the dog? -Fuck the dog. 232 00:20:50,950 --> 00:20:54,545 All that time I was resting, it got me thinking. It got good to me, too. 233 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:58,287 Copper house. Gracious. 234 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,053 I gotta go, can you cash me out? 235 00:21:03,396 --> 00:21:06,229 If you ain't got dreams, Bubs, what the fuck you got? 236 00:21:06,332 --> 00:21:08,095 Thank you. Come on, dreamer. 237 00:21:34,294 --> 00:21:35,261 Yeah. 238 00:21:35,562 --> 00:21:37,996 -One of ours on the line. -Got him. 239 00:21:39,566 --> 00:21:41,659 -Is Carv still there? -Hold a second. 240 00:21:42,302 --> 00:21:43,769 Carv, call for you! 241 00:21:44,103 --> 00:21:47,698 -Yeah, hello? -You ain't gonna believe who I'm looking at. 242 00:21:48,741 --> 00:21:50,231 Again he walks off? 243 00:21:50,977 --> 00:21:53,104 Ding! Round three. 244 00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:05,347 -Yo. -What up, man? 245 00:22:05,525 --> 00:22:08,323 -Yo, Stink, what up? -Where are your manners, fool? 246 00:22:08,428 --> 00:22:11,886 -Oh, my bad, yeah. -You need to keep your fucking head, boy. 247 00:22:12,098 --> 00:22:13,122 Forgot. 248 00:22:14,801 --> 00:22:18,328 -What's up? Where you at? -Where you at? 249 00:22:19,505 --> 00:22:22,235 I'm down in the Pit. Ijust came home... 250 00:22:22,342 --> 00:22:25,641 I don't see nobody around, ljust wanted to know what was up. 251 00:22:26,112 --> 00:22:27,773 Ain't nothing going late, man. 252 00:22:30,483 --> 00:22:32,075 Just catch us tomorrow, man. 253 00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:34,615 -All right? -All right, yeah. 254 00:22:35,154 --> 00:22:36,519 All right. Later. 255 00:22:42,095 --> 00:22:43,392 "Non-pertinent"? 256 00:22:43,931 --> 00:22:45,694 How do you log that non-pertinent? 257 00:22:47,901 --> 00:22:49,232 No drug talk. 258 00:22:49,536 --> 00:22:52,300 They use codes that hide their pager and phone numbers. 259 00:22:52,806 --> 00:22:56,298 And when someone does use a phone, they don't use names. 260 00:22:56,577 --> 00:22:59,705 And if someone does use a name, he's reminded not to. 261 00:22:59,813 --> 00:23:02,043 All of that is valuable evidence. 262 00:23:02,449 --> 00:23:05,213 -Of what? -Conspiracy. 263 00:23:07,354 --> 00:23:08,685 Conspiracy? 264 00:23:09,590 --> 00:23:13,492 We're building something here, detective. We're building it from scratch. 265 00:23:13,961 --> 00:23:16,794 All the pieces matter. 266 00:23:17,397 --> 00:23:18,455 All right? 267 00:23:31,011 --> 00:23:32,069 Shit. 268 00:23:36,450 --> 00:23:37,417 Shit! 269 00:23:37,718 --> 00:23:39,117 Are you fucking serious? 270 00:23:39,419 --> 00:23:40,511 Fuck, man. 271 00:23:40,988 --> 00:23:43,752 You keep walking away from JSA, we keep kicking your ass. 272 00:23:43,857 --> 00:23:47,520 -I'm all right with that if you are. -I ain't walk away from nowhere, man. 273 00:23:47,628 --> 00:23:49,391 Check my back pocket. 274 00:23:58,171 --> 00:24:00,765 -"Home monitoring"? -Yeah, man. 275 00:24:01,375 --> 00:24:05,436 If you ask questions before you start wildin' on niggers, you might save some trouble. 276 00:24:05,545 --> 00:24:07,240 How the fuck are you home? 277 00:24:07,347 --> 00:24:08,871 You ain't bright, man. 278 00:24:08,982 --> 00:24:10,711 Juvenile judge, man. 279 00:24:10,851 --> 00:24:13,752 He saw my potential. He expects big things from me. 280 00:24:13,854 --> 00:24:15,116 Yeah, like what? 281 00:24:15,389 --> 00:24:19,052 I don't know, college, law school, medical school, all that good shit. 282 00:24:19,159 --> 00:24:22,617 -Seriously, how are you out? -Look, I'm gonna tell you something. 283 00:24:22,729 --> 00:24:24,890 Okay, this is just my opinion, but... 284 00:24:25,299 --> 00:24:29,895 the juvenile system in this city is fucked up. It's a big-ass fucking joke. No offense. 285 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:33,597 Fucking fuck! 286 00:24:36,610 --> 00:24:40,307 You could give me a ride down to my grandma's, we'll call it even. 287 00:24:42,549 --> 00:24:43,914 In back, fucknuts. 288 00:25:28,829 --> 00:25:30,592 Get outta the street! 289 00:25:30,998 --> 00:25:31,987 Bitch! 290 00:25:35,836 --> 00:25:37,804 -Hey. -Hey. 291 00:25:39,673 --> 00:25:41,641 What's up? What you need? 292 00:25:45,779 --> 00:25:49,681 -Little late in the month for this shit, isn't it? -What you mean? 293 00:25:56,023 --> 00:25:59,823 -For my aunt, she hit the Match Four. -You stealing from me, Cass? 294 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,566 What? 295 00:26:18,612 --> 00:26:19,874 You look fresh today. 296 00:26:19,980 --> 00:26:24,314 -Got laid last night, that's why. -Oh, yeah? Your asshole still hurting? 297 00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:28,113 -Call Jimmy. -What's up, boss? 298 00:26:28,455 --> 00:26:33,290 Rawls finally got around to reading the office reports that McNulty tried to give him. 299 00:26:33,393 --> 00:26:35,987 He wants arrest warrants for Diedre Kresson... 300 00:26:36,096 --> 00:26:39,497 and the two project murders that match up to that gun. 301 00:26:40,801 --> 00:26:41,995 I know. 302 00:26:42,269 --> 00:26:47,206 -Come on, Jay, be right on this. -I can't. It's Rawls, he wants warrants today. 303 00:26:47,974 --> 00:26:50,944 All right, no problem. So who the fuck are we supposed to charge? 304 00:26:51,178 --> 00:26:53,908 You got a witness that puts D'Angelo Barksdale... 305 00:26:54,014 --> 00:26:56,744 at the scene of the murder, the night of the murder. 306 00:26:56,850 --> 00:27:00,616 You got a ballistics match between the Kresson girl and the two dead mopes... 307 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,883 in the project where Barksdale hangs. Run with it. 308 00:27:04,491 --> 00:27:07,085 This weak-ass shit is not gonna get past the Grand Jury. 309 00:27:07,194 --> 00:27:09,719 Charge the mope, and work it more afterward. 310 00:27:12,365 --> 00:27:13,923 Call Jimmy, let him know. 311 00:27:17,204 --> 00:27:18,262 Yo. 312 00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:25,271 All right, listen up. New deal. 313 00:27:25,378 --> 00:27:28,779 Wallace, you're gonna be on the stash now with Latroy and Peaches. 314 00:27:28,882 --> 00:27:30,247 What about Sterling? 315 00:27:30,350 --> 00:27:33,751 He's gonna be down on Crescent, looking out for a while. Cassandra, too. 316 00:27:33,854 --> 00:27:35,549 -What happened? -Nothing. 317 00:27:35,655 --> 00:27:39,591 -Why you wanna change up, then? -Nigger, I gotta explain shit to you now? 318 00:27:46,066 --> 00:27:47,658 Stringer Bell's pager number? 319 00:27:48,201 --> 00:27:51,398 -Stinkum's too, I'm pretty sure. -Very sweet. 320 00:27:52,205 --> 00:27:54,901 If they moved around, then nobody would have problems. 321 00:27:55,008 --> 00:27:56,771 They're a little lazy, you know... 322 00:27:57,544 --> 00:28:01,503 tend to go to that one payphone in the courtyard a little too much. 323 00:28:03,016 --> 00:28:04,040 Jesus. 324 00:28:06,153 --> 00:28:08,087 He's lit at 9:00 in the morning? 325 00:28:08,955 --> 00:28:10,820 Or from the night before. 326 00:28:18,265 --> 00:28:19,562 Detective. 327 00:28:22,068 --> 00:28:23,535 Detective Polk. 328 00:28:33,547 --> 00:28:35,947 Yeah, it's McNulty. Bunk paged me. 329 00:28:37,817 --> 00:28:38,977 All right. 330 00:28:48,695 --> 00:28:50,663 Why did you even come in today? 331 00:28:51,665 --> 00:28:54,361 -I had some.... -To pretend that you were here? 332 00:28:55,202 --> 00:28:56,601 To fill out a run sheet? 333 00:28:57,604 --> 00:29:00,232 I know I missed a couple of days last week, Lieutenant, but-- 334 00:29:00,340 --> 00:29:03,275 I got a run sheet from you every day for the last two weeks. 335 00:29:03,376 --> 00:29:07,437 Twice in Carv's handwriting, twice it was Prez, once it was McNulty. 336 00:29:08,715 --> 00:29:10,080 They covered for you. 337 00:29:10,850 --> 00:29:11,976 But I won't. 338 00:29:12,752 --> 00:29:14,379 Well, Lieutenant, l.... 339 00:29:18,625 --> 00:29:22,527 I don't know. I'm not really up for this drug thing, you know? 340 00:29:22,629 --> 00:29:24,563 Maybe if Mahone was here, I could... 341 00:29:25,532 --> 00:29:28,160 get into it more, learn some new tricks. 342 00:29:32,372 --> 00:29:35,830 Hell, why don't you just send me back to Property and keep everyone happy? 343 00:29:35,942 --> 00:29:39,309 Send you back to Property Crimes so you can binge for two more weeks? 344 00:29:39,412 --> 00:29:40,709 I'm not doing that. 345 00:29:40,947 --> 00:29:43,711 -Lieutenant, please-- -You were dumped on me, Augie. 346 00:29:44,651 --> 00:29:47,085 But it ends there. I don't dump people. 347 00:29:48,355 --> 00:29:52,519 You either go out on those rooftops today to watch payphones with the others... 348 00:29:52,626 --> 00:29:55,561 or you go over to the medical office and check yourself in. 349 00:29:57,030 --> 00:29:59,590 -Medical? -For alcohol abuse. 350 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,431 Either dry yourself out or go up on those rooftops wet. 351 00:30:11,711 --> 00:30:13,645 Take a few minutes and think on it. 352 00:30:23,923 --> 00:30:25,788 -Where'd they go? -Who? 353 00:30:29,029 --> 00:30:30,462 Lieutenant... 354 00:30:31,431 --> 00:30:35,390 we need a file cabinet or two. The paperwork from this, I mean... 355 00:30:36,169 --> 00:30:37,431 there's a lot of it. 356 00:30:38,305 --> 00:30:39,533 Lieutenant... 357 00:30:41,107 --> 00:30:42,199 sir... 358 00:30:43,576 --> 00:30:45,134 I'm going to.... 359 00:30:49,115 --> 00:30:50,742 Good luck with the case. 360 00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:01,693 Fucking Rawls, he's fucking up the case to get to me. 361 00:31:01,795 --> 00:31:06,164 No, he's fucking it up for three paper clearances on prior cases. It ain't personal. 362 00:31:06,266 --> 00:31:08,791 All he's got is D'Angelo at the scene through hearsay... 363 00:31:08,902 --> 00:31:12,736 and a ballistics match to a couple unrelated drug murders. How can he charge that? 364 00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:15,535 He can charge anything he wants to get credit for clearance. 365 00:31:15,642 --> 00:31:18,440 Grand Jury doesn't indict, he drops the case, keeps his stats. 366 00:31:18,545 --> 00:31:21,105 -I'll go tell him what the fuck he can do. -No you don't. 367 00:31:21,214 --> 00:31:24,911 I'm trying to build something here. Rawls just sticks a finger in my eye. 368 00:31:25,018 --> 00:31:27,282 -You talk to Landsman? -Jay can't fix this. 369 00:31:27,487 --> 00:31:30,479 Rawls told him to have the warrants typed and ready by morning. 370 00:31:30,590 --> 00:31:33,957 He's gonna charge murders he can't prove just to get the stats? 371 00:31:34,060 --> 00:31:35,550 And fuck up our case in the process. 372 00:31:35,662 --> 00:31:38,597 We give up ballistics info and motive for the Kresson killing... 373 00:31:38,698 --> 00:31:41,724 in the charging documents, and Avon Barksdale is gonna change up. 374 00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:45,100 And what he don't change up he'll clean up. Someone should tell Rawls. 375 00:31:45,205 --> 00:31:48,436 Rawls couldn't care less. He wants me home, and the stats, that's all. 376 00:31:48,541 --> 00:31:50,338 -Then we take it to Daniels. -Daniels? 377 00:31:50,443 --> 00:31:52,911 -It's his case, he'll fight for it. -He won't do shit. 378 00:31:53,012 --> 00:31:55,446 He plays stiff every now and then, but he's a good man. 379 00:31:55,548 --> 00:31:56,913 Are you kidding me? 380 00:31:57,016 --> 00:31:59,541 He's been trying to put the brakes on this for weeks now. 381 00:31:59,652 --> 00:32:01,779 This'll be his new excuse to close shop. 382 00:32:01,888 --> 00:32:04,948 Look, you guys gotta make your move soon, I'm sorry to say. 383 00:32:05,592 --> 00:32:07,890 -Freamon. -All right, Bunk, take care. 384 00:32:09,529 --> 00:32:10,655 We tell Daniels. 385 00:32:10,764 --> 00:32:13,995 Fuck Daniels and his ass-kissing up-the-chain-of-command ambition. 386 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:15,863 What other choice you got, huh? 387 00:32:16,169 --> 00:32:18,660 We go to Daniels. If he fights, he fights. 388 00:32:18,772 --> 00:32:22,765 If he gives it up to Rawls, then fuck it, we were never gonna do the case anyway. 389 00:32:25,478 --> 00:32:26,945 All right, come on. 390 00:33:02,882 --> 00:33:04,213 Fucking idiot! 391 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,154 -Come on, get up, stupid. -I'm hurt, man. 392 00:33:10,256 --> 00:33:12,747 What are you doing? Leave me alone! 393 00:33:13,026 --> 00:33:15,256 -What, are you on dope or something? -Mostly, yes. 394 00:33:15,361 --> 00:33:16,919 Come on, get up. 395 00:33:18,064 --> 00:33:20,430 You trying to rip out my guts? 396 00:33:20,533 --> 00:33:22,728 -Fuck. -What, are you trying to kill me, man? 397 00:33:22,836 --> 00:33:26,135 -Wait! Where are you going? -Listen, I gotta get help. 398 00:33:26,239 --> 00:33:28,571 You can't leave me here. You gotta stay with me. 399 00:33:28,675 --> 00:33:30,267 Let's go over to the curb. 400 00:33:30,376 --> 00:33:33,573 Just go get help, man! What are you doing? 401 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,147 Stay there! 402 00:33:37,250 --> 00:33:40,708 -Damn, boy! What the hell come out of you? -Onion soup. Campbell's. 403 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:43,721 -Yeah, my plan! -Run, Forrest, run! 404 00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:48,953 You could go to Foerster, or the Deputy Ops. 405 00:33:50,497 --> 00:33:52,192 Why come crying to me? 406 00:33:52,332 --> 00:33:54,033 Why not go to your friend, the judge? 407 00:33:54,334 --> 00:33:56,894 I don't see a circuit court judge being able to argue... 408 00:33:57,003 --> 00:33:59,471 the city homicide commander out of three murders... 409 00:33:59,873 --> 00:34:03,866 even if the cases are all weak sisters. It's put-up or shut-up time, Lieutenant. 410 00:34:03,977 --> 00:34:07,208 -Either you step up or you send us all home. -So this is on me? 411 00:34:07,313 --> 00:34:09,747 I don't see anyone else in charge of this detail. 412 00:34:11,217 --> 00:34:14,152 -Rawls is a major. -Rawls is an asshole. 413 00:34:14,821 --> 00:34:17,312 My point is, he ranks me on this. 414 00:34:19,692 --> 00:34:22,456 Chain of command might mean nothing to you, McNulty. 415 00:34:28,334 --> 00:34:29,767 What'd I tell you? 416 00:35:35,501 --> 00:35:37,867 -Yo, how we doing? -We doing good. 417 00:35:39,872 --> 00:35:42,397 You know, if you say we doing good.... 418 00:35:45,945 --> 00:35:48,413 So the word is out about these stick-up boys, right? 419 00:35:48,514 --> 00:35:50,539 Yeah, y'all being heard. 420 00:35:52,518 --> 00:35:54,349 There goes shorty right there. 421 00:35:58,424 --> 00:35:59,857 What's up, man, you know... 422 00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:03,918 I'm a man of my word. I said it would be $4,000 to Omar... 423 00:36:04,263 --> 00:36:07,721 $2,000 on each of the young ones, this being a team effort. 424 00:36:08,101 --> 00:36:11,036 I'm putting $500 in the boy's hand who's doing the scope... 425 00:36:11,137 --> 00:36:13,765 $500 in your hand for doing the relay... 426 00:36:13,873 --> 00:36:17,536 put $500 in Wee-Bey and Bird's hands for doing the muscling up. 427 00:36:19,912 --> 00:36:22,073 -All right. -How you doing with that other thing? 428 00:36:22,415 --> 00:36:23,404 What? 429 00:36:24,484 --> 00:36:26,645 Everybody a little depressed, right? 430 00:36:26,753 --> 00:36:29,745 Oh, yeah, you know, ain't no surprises yet. 431 00:36:30,289 --> 00:36:32,382 Cut everybody loose on Friday... 432 00:36:32,492 --> 00:36:35,256 and they all just a bunch of begging-ass bitches. 433 00:36:35,495 --> 00:36:37,395 I mean, ain't nobody showed no money since. 434 00:36:37,497 --> 00:36:39,897 -You gonna keep it humming, cuz? -Yeah, you know. 435 00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:42,633 Oh! You got your hands up. 436 00:36:43,536 --> 00:36:47,302 You keep on doing like how you're doing we'll talk about points on the package. 437 00:36:47,707 --> 00:36:49,402 -All right? -All right. 438 00:36:49,776 --> 00:36:52,244 -Keep it humming. -Yeah, most def. 439 00:36:55,848 --> 00:36:58,316 -All right, then. -Take it light, but take it. 440 00:37:05,324 --> 00:37:08,020 Hotter than the Wu-Tang, killer bee. 441 00:37:32,952 --> 00:37:35,443 -40 cents. -Not 40 cents a foot, no sir. 442 00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:37,416 Look, respectfully, I gotta tell you... 443 00:37:37,523 --> 00:37:41,459 for 40 cents a foot, you might as well go to Home Depot, pay them. 444 00:37:41,561 --> 00:37:44,724 They're gonna charge you 45 or 50 cents a foot. 445 00:37:44,831 --> 00:37:46,662 For copper that isn't stolen. 446 00:37:48,101 --> 00:37:50,592 Look, all right, 35 cents a foot. 447 00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:54,503 And that's in respect I have for y'all, what you're doing in our community... 448 00:37:54,607 --> 00:37:56,905 with these quality domiciles here. 449 00:37:57,810 --> 00:37:59,903 Thirty cents a foot, take it or leave it. 450 00:38:05,051 --> 00:38:08,316 I understand the interest in clearing these cases, I do. 451 00:38:09,021 --> 00:38:10,784 But charging those murders now... 452 00:38:10,890 --> 00:38:14,656 and putting the information that we have into the charging documents.... 453 00:38:14,761 --> 00:38:16,888 I just call them like I see them, Lieutenant. 454 00:38:16,996 --> 00:38:21,524 Three murders, same gun, we got this Barksdale kid right at the scene on the one. 455 00:38:21,634 --> 00:38:25,195 We're up on the wire. We're starting to pull good information. 456 00:38:25,772 --> 00:38:28,832 You charge these prematurely and Barksdale will change up on us. 457 00:38:28,941 --> 00:38:31,171 -The work we've already done-- -Look... 458 00:38:31,277 --> 00:38:34,610 I can't tell you how to run your case, I can only run my own. 459 00:38:34,714 --> 00:38:35,874 Major... 460 00:38:38,918 --> 00:38:40,351 I'm asking as a favor. 461 00:38:42,255 --> 00:38:44,155 -As a favor. -Yes, sir. 462 00:38:44,524 --> 00:38:45,513 A favor. 463 00:38:45,691 --> 00:38:46,851 In that case... 464 00:38:48,728 --> 00:38:51,253 no. Sorry. 465 00:38:56,736 --> 00:39:00,433 -You got home from work early today. -Yep. Work sucks. 466 00:39:01,574 --> 00:39:04,236 -Are we eating dinner with you? -Why not? 467 00:39:06,412 --> 00:39:09,677 -You promised we'd eat lasagna. -So we'll go to Little ltaly. 468 00:39:09,782 --> 00:39:11,477 Get some lasagna at Sab's. 469 00:39:11,884 --> 00:39:14,910 -You never cook. -Yeah, cooking sucks, too. 470 00:39:33,072 --> 00:39:35,336 -Who's this? -Hey, yo, I wanna see him. 471 00:39:36,309 --> 00:39:38,743 -Who? -Brandon, my boy. 472 00:39:55,027 --> 00:39:57,518 -Copper house, yo. -Was the shit. 473 00:39:59,465 --> 00:40:00,693 My plan, Bubs. 474 00:40:01,868 --> 00:40:03,233 Johnny had a plan. 475 00:40:05,371 --> 00:40:07,271 Get out the way, motherfuckers. 476 00:40:07,373 --> 00:40:09,807 This here is White Boy Day. 477 00:40:12,445 --> 00:40:14,242 -I got a plan, too. -What? 478 00:40:14,413 --> 00:40:18,645 We're gonna wait for that cheap-ass, speculating motherfucker... 479 00:40:19,552 --> 00:40:23,852 to put that good copper line back into them row houses he's fixing up. 480 00:40:25,358 --> 00:40:27,792 Then, before the drywall get up... 481 00:40:29,395 --> 00:40:32,660 we creep back in there, and steal that shit right back. 482 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,124 30 cents a foot. 483 00:40:36,535 --> 00:40:39,766 Gotta come back at the motherfucker for that, you know? 484 00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:42,198 Yeah. 485 00:40:45,912 --> 00:40:47,140 You good? 486 00:40:48,981 --> 00:40:50,539 I could top off with one more. 487 00:40:50,650 --> 00:40:52,413 -Yeah. -Just one more. 488 00:40:59,659 --> 00:41:01,126 Johnny got it. 489 00:41:02,795 --> 00:41:04,228 I'll be back. 490 00:41:29,155 --> 00:41:31,055 It's my night with the kids. 491 00:41:47,139 --> 00:41:50,006 You ain't gonna find nothing, because I didn't do nothing! 492 00:41:50,109 --> 00:41:52,100 Why don't you just leave me alone, man? 493 00:41:52,211 --> 00:41:55,703 A white man can't walk down the street? What's that about? Come on, man! 494 00:41:57,283 --> 00:41:58,910 It's messed up, all right? 495 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:00,743 Profiling! 496 00:42:00,853 --> 00:42:04,414 What? It's 'cause I'm white, right? Why don't you let me.... 497 00:42:05,524 --> 00:42:08,152 Oh, man, what the fuck's that? What's that? 498 00:42:11,664 --> 00:42:13,757 That boy ain't got no luck. 499 00:42:27,179 --> 00:42:28,840 All right. Hold up! 500 00:42:38,524 --> 00:42:40,116 -Hey. -Hey. 501 00:42:42,895 --> 00:42:46,058 So, what are you going to do with your money? 502 00:42:47,733 --> 00:42:48,927 You know what you should do? 503 00:42:49,035 --> 00:42:51,765 Take the whole roll and do something nice for your girl. 504 00:42:51,871 --> 00:42:53,839 You do have a girl, right? 505 00:42:55,474 --> 00:42:59,137 Anyway, you've got enough money to go get yourself one now. 506 00:43:02,415 --> 00:43:04,940 Why'd you punk Sterling like you did? 507 00:43:05,184 --> 00:43:07,448 I mean, he did get shot behind this shit. 508 00:43:08,087 --> 00:43:10,885 -I didn't punk him. -So why are you dropping the lookout? 509 00:43:11,590 --> 00:43:12,818 Cass, too. 510 00:43:13,192 --> 00:43:16,161 'Cause they was thieving. Both of them. 511 00:43:17,363 --> 00:43:19,297 They got pissed 'cause I wasn't paying them. 512 00:43:19,398 --> 00:43:22,629 So Sterling started shaking up the vials, handing off to Cass. 513 00:43:22,735 --> 00:43:24,828 She was selling on the side. 514 00:43:25,638 --> 00:43:28,573 You didn't tell anybody? Stinkum, Bodie? 515 00:43:29,542 --> 00:43:30,600 They don't know? 516 00:43:30,709 --> 00:43:33,269 If I tell them, what you think they're going to do? 517 00:43:33,779 --> 00:43:37,010 They're going to take a baseball bat to Sterling. Cassandra, too. 518 00:43:37,883 --> 00:43:39,817 It's too much drama, right? 519 00:43:40,286 --> 00:43:42,720 So, I just took them both off the stash. 520 00:43:42,822 --> 00:43:44,619 So why didn't you pay us? 521 00:43:46,559 --> 00:43:48,186 That wasn't right. 522 00:43:49,628 --> 00:43:51,095 Listen, man... 523 00:43:51,797 --> 00:43:54,630 Stringer thought we had a snitch down here. 524 00:43:54,767 --> 00:43:57,998 You know, with the jump-out, Omar, all that shit. 525 00:43:58,771 --> 00:44:01,365 So he told me to punk you all for a little while. 526 00:44:01,474 --> 00:44:04,102 See who was still holding money at the end of the week. 527 00:44:04,210 --> 00:44:05,802 Was they snitching? 528 00:44:06,212 --> 00:44:07,440 Sterling and Cass? 529 00:44:08,781 --> 00:44:10,578 No, man, just thieving. 530 00:44:16,155 --> 00:44:18,680 2-0, Orioles, in the first inning. 531 00:44:18,791 --> 00:44:21,055 All right, going to Homicide. 532 00:44:21,427 --> 00:44:24,123 Okay, you two, you sit right here, okay? 533 00:44:24,230 --> 00:44:25,822 Don't wander off. 534 00:44:27,666 --> 00:44:29,293 -Dad? -What? 535 00:44:29,401 --> 00:44:32,131 It's a school night. Mom said we had to-- 536 00:44:32,238 --> 00:44:35,036 I know, I know. We will. Just stay there. 537 00:44:35,341 --> 00:44:38,868 Runners at second and third, nobody out yet here in the first inning. 538 00:44:39,812 --> 00:44:43,043 Here's Mora at the plate, and the pitch is high. 539 00:44:44,383 --> 00:44:47,409 Lopez on the mound. The pitch is outside. 540 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,178 15 pitches and 10 of them have been balls. 541 00:45:03,035 --> 00:45:06,095 It's a ground ball down the right-field line. 542 00:45:35,868 --> 00:45:38,428 64-Charlie to Central K. 543 00:45:42,508 --> 00:45:43,998 You up to this? 544 00:45:46,345 --> 00:45:48,836 Pay it back, Omar. Pay it back. 545 00:46:18,877 --> 00:46:21,402 Why we ain't in a real police office? 546 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,272 We're a little like you, Omar. 547 00:46:23,382 --> 00:46:26,681 Out here on our own, playing the game for ourselves. 548 00:46:31,857 --> 00:46:34,223 Hard way to go sometimes. 549 00:46:37,997 --> 00:46:39,828 Sorry about your friend. 550 00:46:41,267 --> 00:46:43,235 Avon is one sick bastard. 551 00:46:44,603 --> 00:46:46,264 Of course, he had his reasons. 552 00:46:46,372 --> 00:46:48,602 For one thing, you all did take his stash. 553 00:46:48,707 --> 00:46:51,267 For another, he's looking for you, Omar. 554 00:46:51,910 --> 00:46:54,140 That's what all the cigarette burns were about. 555 00:46:54,246 --> 00:46:56,908 The broken fingers and cracked forearms. 556 00:46:58,617 --> 00:47:00,414 He wanted your boy to give you up. 557 00:47:00,519 --> 00:47:02,248 An address, a street. 558 00:47:03,522 --> 00:47:05,012 Kid had heart. 559 00:47:05,958 --> 00:47:06,982 Yeah. 560 00:47:09,295 --> 00:47:12,093 I know you want to go to wherever it is you lay your head... 561 00:47:12,197 --> 00:47:15,598 and pick up that sawed-off you like so much, and go on the hunt. 562 00:47:16,302 --> 00:47:18,497 That's how a man like you wants to carry. 563 00:47:18,604 --> 00:47:21,232 -You wouldn't be wrong. -No, you wouldn't. 564 00:47:21,340 --> 00:47:24,309 But one man with two barrels ain't enough, Omar. 565 00:47:24,410 --> 00:47:27,106 Now, you're going to do what you're going to do. 566 00:47:27,212 --> 00:47:31,114 But whatever else you can give us on Barksdale and his people... 567 00:47:31,350 --> 00:47:33,477 that can go to hurting him, too. 568 00:47:33,852 --> 00:47:35,877 Just throw us what you can. 569 00:47:37,156 --> 00:47:39,852 Let me tell you all something, all right? 570 00:47:40,659 --> 00:47:43,651 What I do, I do, straight like that. 571 00:47:43,829 --> 00:47:46,627 Ain't no sense in you all troubling yourselves over that... 572 00:47:46,732 --> 00:47:49,496 'cause the way I feel right now, today.... 573 00:47:57,443 --> 00:47:59,536 What do you all need from me? 574 00:48:01,580 --> 00:48:03,775 When did you last see Brandon? 575 00:48:04,950 --> 00:48:07,817 Tuesday around 7:00. Maybe later. 576 00:48:09,254 --> 00:48:11,154 He was on his way down to Mindamin... 577 00:48:11,256 --> 00:48:12,746 and the Greek's after that. 578 00:48:12,858 --> 00:48:15,520 Everybody's talking about he got snatched up from there. 579 00:48:15,627 --> 00:48:17,561 The Greek's on Baltimore Street? 580 00:48:17,663 --> 00:48:20,655 Yeah, he liked to play the pinball games to death. 581 00:48:20,766 --> 00:48:22,199 He go alone? 582 00:48:22,935 --> 00:48:25,403 Yeah, and I didn't like it none, neither. 583 00:48:26,405 --> 00:48:30,603 But you can only treat a young man like a boy for so long before they book. 584 00:48:30,943 --> 00:48:32,308 When Bailey got killed... 585 00:48:32,411 --> 00:48:35,005 you must have figured Barksdale was coming back on you? 586 00:48:35,114 --> 00:48:36,445 Bailey? Please. 587 00:48:36,548 --> 00:48:38,641 That nigger's enemies got enemies. 588 00:48:39,017 --> 00:48:42,453 I just figured he tried his hand on the wrong corner and got dropped. 589 00:48:42,554 --> 00:48:45,216 But you were worried about Brandon, right? 590 00:48:45,624 --> 00:48:46,989 Look, in my game... 591 00:48:47,092 --> 00:48:50,084 you take some kid, you play it the safest way you can. 592 00:48:50,262 --> 00:48:52,730 But it ain't about no hiding forever. 593 00:48:53,098 --> 00:48:54,190 You heard? 594 00:48:54,299 --> 00:48:56,631 Frankly, you been in it as long as me... 595 00:48:56,735 --> 00:48:58,396 you do the thing on your name. 596 00:48:58,604 --> 00:49:01,937 Anyone going to come after Omar, they know Omar's coming after him. 597 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,371 Oh, indeed. 598 00:49:04,543 --> 00:49:06,602 So, who came after Brandon? 599 00:49:07,579 --> 00:49:09,911 I heard it might have been Wee-Bey... 600 00:49:10,716 --> 00:49:12,206 his boy Stinkum... 601 00:49:12,818 --> 00:49:14,012 and Bird. 602 00:49:14,219 --> 00:49:16,449 He was down with the snatch, too. 603 00:49:22,961 --> 00:49:25,452 So, what can you give us on the job? 604 00:49:27,299 --> 00:49:29,597 7:56 Tuesday night, you had an incoming call... 605 00:49:29,701 --> 00:49:32,602 to D'Angelo Barksdale's, giving him the number of a pay phone. 606 00:49:32,704 --> 00:49:35,366 Westside exchange. Number's encoded, right? 607 00:49:36,175 --> 00:49:40,771 Three minutes later, we get another call from the low-rises to that number. 608 00:49:40,879 --> 00:49:44,110 Then, a half-minute later, you get another call from the low-rises... 609 00:49:44,216 --> 00:49:46,150 to a pager we know is Stringer Bell's. 610 00:49:46,251 --> 00:49:47,240 I'll be damned. 611 00:49:47,352 --> 00:49:49,616 Finally, you get another call. 612 00:49:50,189 --> 00:49:53,386 Probably from a pay phone. Probably Stringer Bell calling back. 613 00:49:53,492 --> 00:49:55,619 Coming on into the low-rise courts. 614 00:49:55,727 --> 00:49:59,185 Forty-five minutes later, another call. 615 00:49:59,431 --> 00:50:03,060 This one from the same pay phone that went to D'Angelo's pager... 616 00:50:03,168 --> 00:50:05,329 to start the whole thing off. You see that? 617 00:50:05,437 --> 00:50:06,927 This is the murder, right here. 618 00:50:07,072 --> 00:50:10,599 This first number, the one they sent to D'Angelo... 619 00:50:11,210 --> 00:50:14,839 I'm thinking this comes from a pay phone over by the Greek's. 620 00:50:23,489 --> 00:50:24,649 He's on you. 621 00:50:24,756 --> 00:50:26,724 We're up on those pay phones Tuesday night... 622 00:50:26,825 --> 00:50:29,191 we catch that murder. We get there before the murder. 623 00:50:29,294 --> 00:50:30,693 It's all here on the pen register. 624 00:50:30,796 --> 00:50:33,822 This one calling that one, that one calling back. 625 00:50:33,932 --> 00:50:37,129 We're up on those pay phones when we should be, and we have him cold. 626 00:50:37,236 --> 00:50:38,999 But we're not up in time, are we? 627 00:50:39,104 --> 00:50:41,766 In this case, we're never where we need to be. 628 00:50:53,585 --> 00:50:55,348 Bad time for you all? 629 00:51:10,035 --> 00:51:12,060 He fight, but you arrest. 630 00:51:12,571 --> 00:51:14,402 You saw him get arrested? 631 00:51:14,773 --> 00:51:17,139 -On Tuesday? -Tuesday, yes. Tuesday. 632 00:51:17,242 --> 00:51:19,836 By the police? The police arrested him? 633 00:51:20,345 --> 00:51:22,279 Cops, they handcuffed him? 634 00:51:24,783 --> 00:51:26,614 What about these guys? 635 00:51:26,852 --> 00:51:28,683 Were they there with him? 636 00:51:28,787 --> 00:51:29,776 No. 637 00:51:33,692 --> 00:51:35,853 -He fight, you arrest. -Right. 638 00:51:37,029 --> 00:51:39,327 Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you. 639 00:51:46,605 --> 00:51:48,004 It's a match. 640 00:51:50,042 --> 00:51:51,066 No. 641 00:51:51,777 --> 00:51:54,177 I need help. Rawls ranks me. 642 00:51:54,279 --> 00:51:57,248 Lieutenant, think what you're doing here. 643 00:51:58,116 --> 00:52:00,482 You're going to cross Bill Rawls... 644 00:52:00,786 --> 00:52:03,914 as ruthless a fuck as we have in this department? 645 00:52:04,756 --> 00:52:06,383 And to do what? 646 00:52:07,659 --> 00:52:11,026 To fight for a case the Deputy of Operations doesn't even want. 647 00:52:13,031 --> 00:52:14,055 No. 648 00:52:14,533 --> 00:52:17,161 I like my career, thank you very much. 649 00:52:20,806 --> 00:52:25,038 In the cemetery, you were telling us that a guy named Bird killed the working man. 650 00:52:25,911 --> 00:52:28,038 Yeah, the man who testified. 651 00:52:28,714 --> 00:52:30,477 William Gant. Right. 652 00:52:30,682 --> 00:52:32,912 Yeah, Bird did that one, for sure. 653 00:52:33,018 --> 00:52:35,680 -How do you know? -Everybody knows, man. 654 00:52:35,787 --> 00:52:38,415 Nigger walked up behind the man and shot him in the head. 655 00:52:38,523 --> 00:52:40,753 The whole blessed project saw that much. 656 00:52:41,193 --> 00:52:42,751 And Bird worked for Avon? 657 00:52:42,861 --> 00:52:44,920 Yeah, as one of his shooters. 658 00:52:45,063 --> 00:52:46,928 Liked to use this real sweet gun he got. 659 00:52:47,032 --> 00:52:50,126 A .380 from Austria or Australia. Something like that. 660 00:52:50,235 --> 00:52:52,066 But I know he loved that gun. 661 00:52:52,170 --> 00:52:53,137 A .380. 662 00:52:53,338 --> 00:52:55,738 Yeah, a .380. You get him, you get the gun. 663 00:52:55,841 --> 00:52:58,901 'Cause Bird's too dumb to throw a gun like that off. 664 00:52:59,211 --> 00:53:01,611 -A gun alone ain't enough. -Oh, no? 665 00:53:01,713 --> 00:53:04,807 He testifies he bought the gun on the street after Gant was killed. 666 00:53:04,916 --> 00:53:07,441 -What would be enough, then? -Eyeball witness. 667 00:53:07,552 --> 00:53:10,919 Some kind of corroboration for what you're telling me here. 668 00:53:14,826 --> 00:53:16,851 -Okay. -Okay, what? 669 00:53:17,396 --> 00:53:19,887 -I'm your man. -You saw the murder? 670 00:53:20,599 --> 00:53:21,623 Yeah. 671 00:53:22,234 --> 00:53:25,931 You can ID this man, Bird, as the shooter of William Gant? 672 00:53:26,905 --> 00:53:29,032 And you ain't afraid to go into court... 673 00:53:29,141 --> 00:53:31,803 and testify against one of Barksdale's people? 674 00:53:33,311 --> 00:53:35,176 Omar don't scare. 675 00:53:37,616 --> 00:53:41,484 The fact is that while Lt. Daniels and his merry band are lost in the swamps... 676 00:53:41,586 --> 00:53:44,521 playing with beepers and pay phones and body mikes... 677 00:53:44,623 --> 00:53:48,320 my people have developed information that ties Barksdale to three killings. 678 00:53:48,427 --> 00:53:52,090 -D'Angelo Barksdale, not Avon. -D'Angelo on behalf of Avon. 679 00:53:52,531 --> 00:53:56,900 The victim is identified by our witnesses as being involved with Avon Barksdale. 680 00:53:57,335 --> 00:53:58,962 Sir, we're developing-- 681 00:53:59,071 --> 00:54:01,437 You're dancing around this thing. 682 00:54:02,207 --> 00:54:03,606 I'm charging three murders. 683 00:54:03,709 --> 00:54:06,769 You charge those cases, my investigation folds. 684 00:54:07,045 --> 00:54:10,139 Not one of those cases is strong enough for court. You know that. 685 00:54:10,248 --> 00:54:12,375 So we bring the Barksdale kid in... 686 00:54:12,484 --> 00:54:15,419 throw a little mindfuck at him and the case becomes stronger. 687 00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,456 You've had him in the box twice before. He's gonna go for less the third time. 688 00:54:19,558 --> 00:54:22,459 So we re-canvass, develop fresh witnesses. 689 00:54:23,195 --> 00:54:27,097 The case I charge on today can be twice as strong by the trial date. 690 00:54:27,699 --> 00:54:29,166 We get a conviction... 691 00:54:29,267 --> 00:54:32,532 we roll Little Boy Barksdale into Big Boy Barksdale... 692 00:54:33,004 --> 00:54:34,631 then we go home... 693 00:54:34,773 --> 00:54:38,174 Iike good old-fashioned cops and pound some Budweiser. 694 00:54:39,978 --> 00:54:42,913 This is bullshit! 695 00:54:44,116 --> 00:54:47,210 It was McNulty who made the ballistics match on these murders... 696 00:54:47,319 --> 00:54:48,843 and he's telling me to fight this. 697 00:54:48,954 --> 00:54:50,979 He knows you don't have a viable prosecution... 698 00:54:51,089 --> 00:54:52,886 so do you, so do l. 699 00:54:52,991 --> 00:54:54,219 Enough. 700 00:54:58,029 --> 00:55:01,021 Look, I've got no love for your wiretap, Lieutenant. 701 00:55:01,133 --> 00:55:02,930 I'm spending $2,000 a day... 702 00:55:03,034 --> 00:55:04,870 over the unit operating budget to staff the case. 703 00:55:04,870 --> 00:55:06,235 over the unit operating budget to staff the case. 704 00:55:07,105 --> 00:55:09,369 Now, Major Rawls here is offering a chance... 705 00:55:09,474 --> 00:55:12,568 to leverage Barksdale through a murder prosecution. 706 00:55:12,677 --> 00:55:14,440 Why not jump on this? 707 00:55:15,647 --> 00:55:18,411 Because if Major Rawls is right... 708 00:55:19,084 --> 00:55:22,076 then he will be just as right a month from now. 709 00:55:22,420 --> 00:55:25,856 If the wire doesn't give us a case, he can charge all the murders he has. 710 00:55:25,957 --> 00:55:27,481 We lose nothing. 711 00:55:28,126 --> 00:55:29,753 But if he's wrong... 712 00:55:29,961 --> 00:55:33,453 if he can't convict, or if the Barksdale kid doesn't flip... 713 00:55:33,565 --> 00:55:35,863 then it's too late to do anything else. 714 00:55:36,868 --> 00:55:40,804 Avon Barksdale changes up his pattern, and the wiretap dies. 715 00:55:40,906 --> 00:55:43,340 At that point, there isn't going to be a thing... 716 00:55:43,441 --> 00:55:47,673 that you, or me, or Rawls here is gonna be able to say to that judge. 717 00:55:56,688 --> 00:55:58,679 You wanted to see me, Major? 718 00:55:58,890 --> 00:56:02,189 McNulty does personal business on the clock, I want to know. 719 00:56:02,294 --> 00:56:04,785 He cheats on a run sheet, I want to know. 720 00:56:04,896 --> 00:56:07,262 He runs any kind of game at all, I want to know. 721 00:56:07,365 --> 00:56:09,663 Major, the man's an asshole... 722 00:56:10,502 --> 00:56:14,734 but he doesn't do much other than work. He's got this case in his gut like it's cancer. 723 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,398 He does no wrong? 724 00:56:17,976 --> 00:56:19,204 Doesn't drink anymore? 725 00:56:19,311 --> 00:56:22,769 Doesn't drink on duty? Doesn't drink and drive, Detective? 726 00:56:23,281 --> 00:56:26,216 -Major.... -You've got to help me on this, Michael. 727 00:56:47,906 --> 00:56:49,897 The murder warrant's on hold. 728 00:56:51,176 --> 00:56:53,337 The Deputy gave us another month. 729 00:56:54,779 --> 00:56:57,213 Also, whoever that was you brought in here today... 730 00:56:57,315 --> 00:57:00,284 gave himself up as an eyewitness to the Gant murder. 731 00:57:00,518 --> 00:57:01,815 Who? Omar? 732 00:57:02,287 --> 00:57:05,620 Greggs said to tell you she'd write it up in the morning. 733 00:57:07,359 --> 00:57:08,792 Lieutenant... 734 00:57:10,095 --> 00:57:11,289 thanks. 735 00:57:18,103 --> 00:57:19,468 It cost you?