1 00:00:08,342 --> 00:00:11,803 And not only do we hear and appreciate your input, 2 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:14,681 but we are fully committed to giving 110% 3 00:00:14,765 --> 00:00:17,225 in our efforts to fight this war against drugs 4 00:00:17,518 --> 00:00:19,310 and take back your streets. 5 00:00:19,478 --> 00:00:21,187 But we can't do it alone. 6 00:00:21,271 --> 00:00:24,607 So when you see illegal activity, we need you to pick up the phone 7 00:00:24,692 --> 00:00:26,693 - and call it in so that we can get... - Bullshit! 8 00:00:27,027 --> 00:00:28,653 Please hold your questions. 9 00:00:28,737 --> 00:00:33,032 I near wore out my phone dialing 685 DRUG, and for what? 10 00:00:33,117 --> 00:00:35,952 Those boys is back on the corner the next damn day! 11 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,622 The fact remains, the police department can't do it alone. 12 00:00:39,748 --> 00:00:41,207 We need your cooperation. 13 00:00:41,458 --> 00:00:45,712 My cousin Willy Gant cooperated. He went downtown and testified. 14 00:00:45,796 --> 00:00:47,296 He deader than 2Pac today. 15 00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:50,633 Look, I know the problem seems insurmountable, 16 00:00:50,926 --> 00:00:52,927 but we are making progress. 17 00:00:53,011 --> 00:00:57,598 - Take a look at this chart... - Nah, nah, uh-uh-uh. 18 00:00:57,808 --> 00:01:00,476 - I have the microphone, ma'am. - Let the woman speak. 19 00:01:00,686 --> 00:01:04,355 My kids, they can't play outside no more. 20 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,983 Some nights, when we hear these pops, 21 00:01:07,109 --> 00:01:10,236 - we got to sleep under our beds. - Right on. 22 00:01:10,487 --> 00:01:12,530 I come home from work, 23 00:01:12,656 --> 00:01:15,074 I can't even get up my front steps 24 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:18,661 - cos they occupied by the drug dealers. - You tell him! 25 00:01:18,746 --> 00:01:21,581 Is that in that picture you got up there? 26 00:01:25,002 --> 00:01:26,627 I don't see that no way. 27 00:01:26,712 --> 00:01:29,088 I'm Major Colvin. 28 00:01:29,173 --> 00:01:32,175 I apologize for giving you the wrong impression tonight. 29 00:01:32,259 --> 00:01:33,801 We mean no disrespect. 30 00:01:34,219 --> 00:01:37,638 I know what's going on in your neighborhoods. I see it every day. 31 00:01:37,723 --> 00:01:41,058 Ma'am, it pains me that you cannot enter your own front door 32 00:01:41,143 --> 00:01:44,479 in safety and with dignity. 33 00:01:44,563 --> 00:01:48,649 The truth is... I can't promise you it's gonna get any better. 34 00:01:48,734 --> 00:01:51,652 We can't lock up the thousands on the corners. 35 00:01:51,737 --> 00:01:53,863 There'd be no place to put them if we could. 36 00:01:54,072 --> 00:01:58,284 We show you charts and statistics like they mean something. 37 00:01:59,369 --> 00:02:02,747 But you're going back to your homes tonight, 38 00:02:02,831 --> 00:02:05,541 we're gonna be in our patrol cars 39 00:02:05,626 --> 00:02:08,586 and them boys still gonna be out there on them corners, 40 00:02:08,670 --> 00:02:10,338 deep in the game. 41 00:02:12,216 --> 00:02:13,633 This here is the world we got, people. 42 00:02:15,010 --> 00:02:18,596 And it's about time all of us had the good sense 43 00:02:19,181 --> 00:02:21,140 to at least admit that much. 44 00:02:21,225 --> 00:02:23,768 So, what's the answer? 45 00:02:26,271 --> 00:02:28,272 Well, I'm not sure. 46 00:02:29,358 --> 00:02:31,943 But whatever it is, 47 00:02:32,027 --> 00:02:33,361 it can't be a lie. 48 00:02:34,738 --> 00:02:36,614 First time I heard a cop say that. 49 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:38,699 It's all yours, Sergeant. 50 00:02:39,243 --> 00:02:40,701 Come on. 51 00:02:40,786 --> 00:02:42,245 As I was pointing out... 52 00:02:42,329 --> 00:02:45,414 Who gave him a can of gasoline and told him to put out the fire? 53 00:02:45,624 --> 00:02:48,751 - We are making progress... - Tommy Carcetti. 54 00:02:49,837 --> 00:02:53,714 - Marla Daniels. I'm running for... - Gonna take a run at Eunetta Perkins. 55 00:02:53,799 --> 00:02:55,007 I know who you are. 56 00:02:55,092 --> 00:02:59,053 I've seen you with Delegate Watkins a couple of times already. 57 00:02:59,137 --> 00:03:03,099 Well, this is not your home district. What brings you to the West Side? 58 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:05,852 I got the Public Safety Subcommittee so... 59 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:08,020 here I am. 60 00:03:08,105 --> 00:03:09,397 Anyway, good luck with Eunetta. 61 00:03:09,481 --> 00:03:12,650 And welcome to the noble calling of public service. 62 00:03:12,734 --> 00:03:15,361 Further west in your neighborhoods, 63 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:19,699 the numbers of crimes against merchants are way, way down. 64 00:03:19,783 --> 00:03:22,410 We're making significant... 65 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,038 - What the hell was that? - I'm tired of the bullshit. 66 00:03:26,123 --> 00:03:28,124 Tired make you lose your mind? 67 00:03:36,383 --> 00:03:38,843 When you walk through the garden 68 00:03:40,178 --> 00:03:42,763 You gotta watch your back 69 00:03:44,016 --> 00:03:46,642 Well, I beg your pardon 70 00:03:47,477 --> 00:03:49,812 Walk the straight and narrow track 71 00:03:49,897 --> 00:03:51,480 Walk the straight and narrow track 72 00:03:51,565 --> 00:03:55,192 If you walk with Jesus 73 00:03:55,277 --> 00:03:57,653 He's gonna save your soul 74 00:03:59,156 --> 00:04:01,324 You gotta keep the devil 75 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:05,703 Way down in the hole 76 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:09,248 He got fire and the fury 77 00:04:09,333 --> 00:04:11,083 Fire and fury 78 00:04:11,168 --> 00:04:13,878 At his command 79 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,965 Well, you don't have to worry 80 00:04:18,050 --> 00:04:21,761 Hold on to Jesus' hands 81 00:04:21,845 --> 00:04:25,056 Oh, we'll be safe from Satan 82 00:04:25,432 --> 00:04:28,184 When the thunder rolls 83 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:29,268 Oh 84 00:04:29,353 --> 00:04:32,939 You gotta keep the devil 85 00:04:33,398 --> 00:04:36,400 Way down in the hole 86 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:47,954 You gotta keep the devil 87 00:04:48,538 --> 00:04:50,998 Way down in the hole 88 00:04:54,544 --> 00:04:56,003 Way down 89 00:04:56,088 --> 00:04:58,714 Way down in the hole 90 00:05:22,948 --> 00:05:25,408 So, what do you need from Bubs? I mean, exactly? 91 00:05:25,492 --> 00:05:28,995 The lay of the land, who has what corners now that the Towers are down. 92 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:32,164 We wanna know what happened to the Barksdale people, especially. 93 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:33,457 And this pay how much? 94 00:05:33,542 --> 00:05:36,961 Let's treat it like a real job. Say five an hour. 95 00:05:37,045 --> 00:05:40,214 - 30 on a day, max. - That's less than minimum wage. 96 00:05:40,298 --> 00:05:43,509 But there's no withholding, Bubs. It's tax free. 97 00:05:43,593 --> 00:05:47,138 All right. It feels good to be out here. I mean, gainfully employed. 98 00:05:47,431 --> 00:05:50,099 - Thought your boy was coming too. - Johnny? 99 00:05:51,393 --> 00:05:53,644 He don't think much of this here with y'all. 100 00:05:53,729 --> 00:05:55,730 Besides, he happens to be 101 00:05:55,814 --> 00:05:59,567 one of the laziest white boys to ever shit between two shoes. 102 00:05:59,651 --> 00:06:03,696 - I've been working since I was a kid. - Yeah? What's your résumé like, Bubs? 103 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:07,700 - Just curious. - Well, I ain't claiming no payroll jobs, Kima. 104 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:09,952 It's been a while since I punched a clock. 105 00:06:10,037 --> 00:06:11,746 When was that? 106 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:13,873 Long time ago. 107 00:06:13,957 --> 00:06:15,750 Before I had a sheet. 108 00:06:15,834 --> 00:06:18,377 Shit, I was...I was still clean. 109 00:06:19,254 --> 00:06:21,047 I got one of those stock boy jobs, 110 00:06:21,131 --> 00:06:24,050 one of those "cheapest guys in town" stores. 111 00:06:24,134 --> 00:06:25,968 Unloading appliances... 112 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:30,973 taking air-conditioners and shit out to the customers' cars. 113 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:33,309 Like that. "How many you want?" 114 00:06:34,936 --> 00:06:35,978 What happened? 115 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,982 I put a clock radio in the trash can one day, trying to be cute, got caught. 116 00:06:41,359 --> 00:06:43,235 I didn't even need a clock radio. 117 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,738 See, that's me, though. Born fuck-up. 118 00:06:48,867 --> 00:06:50,785 All right, you know what? 119 00:06:50,869 --> 00:06:54,246 $5 an hour, $30 on the day. 120 00:06:54,331 --> 00:06:56,415 That'll work. Right? 121 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,016 Y'all do that bad stuff 122 00:07:14,101 --> 00:07:15,684 She like it rammed up 123 00:07:15,769 --> 00:07:17,269 Ropes and handcuffs What? 124 00:07:17,354 --> 00:07:18,938 Touch me 125 00:07:19,022 --> 00:07:20,689 I'm 'bout to throw some game 126 00:07:20,774 --> 00:07:22,233 They both one and the same 127 00:07:22,317 --> 00:07:24,110 Cupid's the one to blame Say it 128 00:07:24,194 --> 00:07:25,361 Make love to me 129 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:27,196 I'm 'bout to shed some light 130 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:28,948 Cos each and every night 131 00:07:29,032 --> 00:07:30,783 You gotta do it right What? 132 00:07:30,867 --> 00:07:32,660 Touch me... 133 00:07:32,869 --> 00:07:35,955 And this here is your "get out of jail free" card. 134 00:07:36,998 --> 00:07:39,917 On this card is my full name and phone number. 135 00:07:42,003 --> 00:07:45,464 A police officer was shot in this neighborhood a couple of weeks ago. 136 00:07:46,967 --> 00:07:49,677 You all know the incident I'm speaking of, right? 137 00:07:51,179 --> 00:07:53,722 I'm looking for the officer's gun. 138 00:07:54,474 --> 00:07:56,142 A Glock 9... 139 00:07:58,228 --> 00:08:01,397 which happened to misplace itself during this incident. 140 00:08:03,358 --> 00:08:05,276 Now, I don't care... 141 00:08:11,575 --> 00:08:13,701 I don't care who has it now. 142 00:08:16,705 --> 00:08:18,706 I just need it to find its way home. 143 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,965 Y'all don't happen to know a fellow by the name of Peanut, right? 144 00:08:30,093 --> 00:08:34,054 I didn't think so. Anyway, gentlemen, you know, one hand washes the other. 145 00:08:34,139 --> 00:08:38,601 You give me a good word on that gun and I can make almost any charge disappear. 146 00:08:40,437 --> 00:08:42,271 - Any questions? - Huh? 147 00:08:43,732 --> 00:08:45,149 Get them out. 148 00:08:49,070 --> 00:08:51,238 Shit, I had to try something. 149 00:09:07,339 --> 00:09:08,756 One each. 150 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,259 Keep it moving. Little boys. Yellow tops all day long. Right here. 151 00:09:12,344 --> 00:09:16,222 All right. Come and see him and get that knockout shit, all right? 152 00:09:16,306 --> 00:09:18,599 Much obliged. Good luck. 153 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:21,227 - Yo, he down across Fremont? - Yeah. 154 00:09:21,478 --> 00:09:24,230 - Now we're on this side. - And Barksdale is down the way. 155 00:09:24,314 --> 00:09:26,273 Got the red tops, y'all, red tops! 156 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:30,402 Spider bags here! 157 00:09:47,212 --> 00:09:49,088 My nigger. 158 00:09:53,468 --> 00:09:55,052 Yo, spider bags! 159 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:00,182 Come get the red tops, red tops! 160 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:02,393 - Major crimes unit. - Look. 161 00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:05,646 - It's slowly building up. Not enough. - He's not in right now. 162 00:10:05,855 --> 00:10:07,982 To what do we owe the honor? 163 00:10:08,066 --> 00:10:09,900 Just checking in. 164 00:10:10,652 --> 00:10:11,986 Why? You got something going on? 165 00:10:13,071 --> 00:10:15,406 Nothing too sexy. Just pushing a case uphill 166 00:10:15,490 --> 00:10:19,368 inch by inch on Kintel Williamson, our stated target. 167 00:10:19,869 --> 00:10:21,537 We're working too, Lester. 168 00:10:21,621 --> 00:10:23,330 Yeah, on your own thing. 169 00:10:25,292 --> 00:10:27,376 You even listening to me, McNulty? 170 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:29,461 I got a real case to bring in. Stringer Bell. 171 00:10:29,546 --> 00:10:32,047 - You might have heard of him. - You got a mouth on you, boy. 172 00:10:33,883 --> 00:10:36,969 He's still out there, Lester. He's got his corners, his money. 173 00:10:37,053 --> 00:10:40,306 Fuck it. For all you know, he's got all that downtown real estate. 174 00:10:40,515 --> 00:10:44,310 - Motherfucker probably owns half Baltimore. - That ain't the point. 175 00:10:44,394 --> 00:10:46,687 Do you even know what happened to all that real estate? 176 00:10:47,105 --> 00:10:50,190 All that downtown property Bell has title on? 177 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:51,775 Fuck, no. 178 00:10:52,694 --> 00:10:55,821 He's probably laughing his balls off right now. At all of us. 179 00:10:55,905 --> 00:10:58,866 You even pretending to speak for anyone other than yourself? 180 00:10:58,950 --> 00:11:02,328 - I'm speaking for the job. - You wanna talk about police work? 181 00:11:02,412 --> 00:11:05,956 I was doing the job when you was just dreaming it. Daniels was out there too. 182 00:11:06,041 --> 00:11:09,460 Now, you gonna fuck him when he pulled you off a goddamn boat? 183 00:11:09,669 --> 00:11:11,211 He's a boss. Fuck the bosses. 184 00:11:11,296 --> 00:11:13,172 Maybe Daniels plays a few games to get by 185 00:11:13,256 --> 00:11:16,759 but he's cost himself plenty for the sake of the job! 186 00:11:16,843 --> 00:11:20,012 - He's earned some loyalty. - Fuck loyalty and fuck you. 187 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:23,015 I never thought I'd hear that chain-of-command horseshit from you. 188 00:11:23,099 --> 00:11:26,477 Motherfucker, I've spent a lot of time in a lot of weak units. 189 00:11:26,561 --> 00:11:27,728 More than you. 190 00:11:27,937 --> 00:11:31,690 Now, this here may not be perfect, but it's a chance to be police. 191 00:11:31,775 --> 00:11:32,941 Well, then be one. 192 00:11:39,407 --> 00:11:42,534 You're not even worth the skin off my knuckles, junior. 193 00:11:42,619 --> 00:11:44,244 Jimmy, don't. 194 00:11:44,788 --> 00:11:46,789 You put fire to everything you touch, 195 00:11:46,873 --> 00:11:48,165 then you walk away while it burns. 196 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:53,337 I got nothing more to say to you. Nothing. 197 00:11:55,673 --> 00:11:57,049 And you... 198 00:11:57,133 --> 00:11:59,134 I'm surprised at you, girl. 199 00:12:00,136 --> 00:12:02,262 Daniels raised you from a pup. 200 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:09,853 Gotta get with Bubs. 201 00:12:21,658 --> 00:12:23,367 Check on those fucking properties. 202 00:12:27,997 --> 00:12:31,500 Well, Major Colvin, what do you think? 203 00:12:32,836 --> 00:12:34,920 Well, it all sounds good. 204 00:12:35,004 --> 00:12:37,756 But before I give you a final answer, I need to speak with my wife. 205 00:12:38,508 --> 00:12:40,717 I'm not talking about the position. 206 00:12:41,511 --> 00:12:42,719 Your cheesecake. 207 00:12:44,681 --> 00:12:45,889 The cheesecake's fine. 208 00:12:45,974 --> 00:12:49,101 They bring it in from Michael's, out on York Road. 209 00:12:49,185 --> 00:12:52,688 It's got a little cinnamon in the crust. None better. 210 00:12:53,231 --> 00:12:56,984 Of course, I'd like to think our offer's pretty damn good too. 211 00:12:58,528 --> 00:13:01,196 Excuse me while I go to the little boys' room, gentlemen. 212 00:13:01,364 --> 00:13:03,198 I need to tinkle. 213 00:13:07,537 --> 00:13:08,954 Tinkle? 214 00:13:09,038 --> 00:13:11,874 I never understood why a grown-ass man gotta talk like that. 215 00:13:11,958 --> 00:13:15,085 He need to take a piss, whether he know it or not. 216 00:13:15,170 --> 00:13:17,671 You'll get used to these academic types, Bunny. 217 00:13:17,755 --> 00:13:19,715 Especially when you get that first paycheck. 218 00:13:20,175 --> 00:13:23,969 I mean, 80K is nothing to sneeze at for a number-two security job. 219 00:13:24,262 --> 00:13:26,138 Full bennies on top of your pension. 220 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:28,265 Yeah, it's generous. 221 00:13:28,558 --> 00:13:30,726 And dull. In a good way. 222 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:32,603 I mean... 223 00:13:32,687 --> 00:13:34,271 the worst you'll ever see is a rape. 224 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:36,690 A date rape, maybe. 225 00:13:36,774 --> 00:13:38,609 Ready to take it down a notch, aren't you? 226 00:13:38,693 --> 00:13:42,154 - Hell, yes. - Yeah, that's how I felt. 227 00:13:42,238 --> 00:13:45,282 My only regret was that I didn't tell the Deputy Ops to stick it in his ass 228 00:13:45,366 --> 00:13:47,367 on my way out the fucking door. 229 00:13:48,286 --> 00:13:51,371 Hey, Johns Hopkins wants you, Bunny. 230 00:13:51,581 --> 00:13:53,290 And they wanna pay Johns Hopkins money. 231 00:13:53,374 --> 00:13:56,084 But what? You gotta ask your wife? 232 00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:57,920 No, I ain't gotta ask her nothing. 233 00:13:58,004 --> 00:14:02,216 I'm just letting Mr. Jenkins stew a little, is all. 234 00:14:03,635 --> 00:14:05,636 Wonder what's keeping him. 235 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,012 All he had to do was tinkle. 236 00:14:07,096 --> 00:14:09,681 I guess he felt the need to make a dookey too. 237 00:14:49,764 --> 00:14:52,683 They got corners up on Argyle 238 00:14:52,767 --> 00:14:54,726 and along Fremont up top. 239 00:14:56,854 --> 00:14:59,731 Avenue corners belong to everybody. 240 00:14:59,816 --> 00:15:02,651 Some who were with Barksdale and some independent-like. 241 00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:06,238 McHenry Street got some of Barksdale's people too. 242 00:15:06,322 --> 00:15:09,658 But Gangster Webster's crew is right beside them. 243 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:12,077 What about the Lower Avenue corners and the Poe Homes? 244 00:15:12,161 --> 00:15:14,371 They belong to this young boy named Marlo. 245 00:15:14,831 --> 00:15:16,832 - Go by the name of Black. - Marlo? 246 00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:21,211 Young boy. Got all that good real estate near downtown. 247 00:15:21,296 --> 00:15:23,630 Got himself the lunch-time trade. 248 00:15:23,715 --> 00:15:25,799 If Bell and Barksdale were gonna hold anything 249 00:15:25,883 --> 00:15:27,593 they'd hold on to the Homes and Avenue corners. 250 00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:29,845 Marlo one of Barksdale's people? 251 00:15:32,015 --> 00:15:33,849 Marlo what? 252 00:15:35,101 --> 00:15:36,935 Come on, you got anything else on this guy? 253 00:15:37,395 --> 00:15:40,022 You got another tip, maybe? 254 00:15:40,106 --> 00:15:42,190 So much for the hourly wage. 255 00:15:43,276 --> 00:15:46,737 107M703. Yeah. 256 00:15:49,657 --> 00:15:51,825 That's the tag on the truck he ride. 257 00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:54,786 107M703. 258 00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:02,294 Did you prime it? 259 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:06,757 That little rubber ball right there, next to the spark plug. 260 00:16:06,924 --> 00:16:09,843 You gotta push it in three times before you try to start it. 261 00:16:09,927 --> 00:16:12,596 Gets the gas going to the carb. 262 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,974 You want the truth? I ain't never used one of these. 263 00:16:16,059 --> 00:16:17,601 Never had no call to. 264 00:16:17,685 --> 00:16:20,979 Well, I didn't pick you up for your landscaping skills. 265 00:16:21,064 --> 00:16:24,316 All these Spanish? They own paper too. 266 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,443 I only use people like y'all. 267 00:16:26,569 --> 00:16:29,696 Sometimes it comes back on me, sometimes it works out fine. 268 00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:34,409 - For how long you been uptown? - Ten years. 269 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:37,788 Hotter than a motherfucker out here. 270 00:16:38,706 --> 00:16:41,249 Yeah, it's hot. Every day. 271 00:16:41,876 --> 00:16:47,172 You gonna be riding in the back of that hard truck, bouncing around, every day. 272 00:16:47,256 --> 00:16:50,759 And your back's gonna be yelling at you every day. 273 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:56,807 I used to drive an SL. Pretty gold convertible. Nice rims. 274 00:16:56,891 --> 00:16:58,558 I don't even think on that car no more. 275 00:16:59,811 --> 00:17:03,021 - You put it behind you, huh? - Some can. 276 00:17:03,940 --> 00:17:06,775 I'm just saying, you wanna stay on the straight, 277 00:17:07,068 --> 00:17:09,277 ain't gonna be no big reward to it. 278 00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:10,946 This is it, right here. 279 00:17:12,281 --> 00:17:14,783 Prime that bitch three times. She'll start right up. 280 00:17:30,675 --> 00:17:32,801 - Miss Pearlman? - Cedric. 281 00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:37,556 How goes Kintel Williamson? 282 00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:40,976 - Anything there for me yet? - No, not yet. 283 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:43,729 We'll get there. 284 00:17:44,147 --> 00:17:45,647 Is that all you came by to tell me? 285 00:17:46,566 --> 00:17:48,191 Just keeping the lines of dialogue open. 286 00:17:49,152 --> 00:17:50,861 So, what's on your plate? 287 00:17:50,945 --> 00:17:53,989 Oh, there's plenty of surprises around here. 288 00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:11,965 Parole hearing. This soon? 289 00:18:12,049 --> 00:18:14,843 He fingered a dirty guard up at Jessup, apparently. 290 00:18:15,011 --> 00:18:17,053 Got a big gold star next to his name. 291 00:18:17,221 --> 00:18:18,722 That's some bullshit. 292 00:18:18,806 --> 00:18:20,390 Yeah, well, not to worry. 293 00:18:20,475 --> 00:18:23,101 They send me the hearing notifications for a reason. 294 00:18:26,481 --> 00:18:30,525 "Mr. Barksdale ran a continuous violent criminal enterprise 295 00:18:30,651 --> 00:18:32,694 "and was a major drug trafficker. 296 00:18:33,696 --> 00:18:37,240 "During the years 1999 to 2002..." 297 00:18:39,035 --> 00:18:41,328 "he was strongly suspected to have ordered or caused 298 00:18:41,412 --> 00:18:43,789 "the deaths of over a dozen individuals." 299 00:18:43,873 --> 00:18:46,666 Parole Commission's not gonna walk him on his first trip to the plate. 300 00:18:46,751 --> 00:18:48,168 Not after a letter like that. 301 00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:51,087 - Good work. - I have my moments. 302 00:18:52,298 --> 00:18:53,632 Nice suit, by the way. 303 00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:56,885 Thanks. 304 00:18:58,513 --> 00:18:59,930 I see you dress left. 305 00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:09,356 Every day. 306 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:30,919 The number is no longer in service. 307 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:34,589 If you feel you've reached this in error, please check the number and dial... 308 00:19:38,427 --> 00:19:39,469 Nothing? 309 00:19:40,221 --> 00:19:43,348 That's an address up off of Reisterstown, same one he was showing two years ago 310 00:19:43,432 --> 00:19:45,350 when I ran the car he was using. 311 00:19:45,434 --> 00:19:48,937 - Stringer's a settled guy. - Not there, he ain't. 312 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:51,481 Woman living there, last time I checked. Just a front name. 313 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,024 His girl, maybe. 314 00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:56,444 Not unless he likes them over 50 and asshole-ugly. 315 00:19:58,614 --> 00:20:00,031 I'm sure she's real nice. 316 00:20:00,116 --> 00:20:01,992 Good school spirit. Always says hi in the halls. 317 00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:03,535 You think he met her in college? 318 00:20:07,957 --> 00:20:09,624 What? What did I say? 319 00:20:12,461 --> 00:20:15,046 - Huh. - What you got? 320 00:20:15,131 --> 00:20:18,008 Tag comes back to an address over on Dukeland. 321 00:20:18,092 --> 00:20:19,759 Female, 53 years. 322 00:20:19,844 --> 00:20:21,177 See? That's how they do. 323 00:20:21,262 --> 00:20:24,180 Yeah, but I got a hit on a Marlo, street name of Black. 324 00:20:24,265 --> 00:20:27,726 Marlo Stanfield. 22 years. 325 00:20:27,810 --> 00:20:32,147 - BPI number and a pretty good sheet. - You thought he'd be cherry? 326 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,901 I knew he'd have his cherry busted, but not like this. 327 00:20:35,985 --> 00:20:37,319 Check it out. 328 00:20:42,825 --> 00:20:45,911 Think I'm gonna take a ride to Homicide. Wanna come? 329 00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:47,871 Nope, got someplace to be. 330 00:20:48,998 --> 00:20:51,082 This thing with Lester... 331 00:20:51,167 --> 00:20:52,876 I feel like shit about it. 332 00:20:53,878 --> 00:20:55,211 Well, you'll get used to it. 333 00:21:01,886 --> 00:21:04,846 We get out of the car, crowd parts like the Red Sea, 334 00:21:04,931 --> 00:21:09,225 victim's on the ground, bleeding, screaming, "I'm gonna kill that fucking bitch." 335 00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:12,187 But it's like nothing's really wrong with him... 336 00:21:27,370 --> 00:21:29,245 Homicide. 337 00:21:31,582 --> 00:21:34,042 Ah, shit. 338 00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:36,252 You tried to sneak by me, didn't you? 339 00:21:36,337 --> 00:21:38,672 I was just coming in quiet and respectful. 340 00:21:38,756 --> 00:21:40,966 For a big man, you do have a dancer's grace. 341 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:43,301 But I, sir, I have the eyes of an eagle. 342 00:21:43,386 --> 00:21:46,805 And the fact that you tried to slither into work undetected 343 00:21:46,889 --> 00:21:50,725 does not bode well for the recovery prospect of our missing firearm, does it? 344 00:21:50,810 --> 00:21:52,435 - I'll get it. - Mm-hm. 345 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,020 What up, Mr. Bunk? 346 00:21:54,105 --> 00:21:57,023 - Hey, girlfriend. - Vernon Holley working tonight? 347 00:21:57,108 --> 00:22:01,361 Er, yeah, he's four to 12. You should try the coffee room. 348 00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:02,946 All right. 349 00:22:06,242 --> 00:22:09,285 Man, I would murder that... 350 00:22:09,370 --> 00:22:11,746 - if she wasn't... - Particular? 351 00:22:11,831 --> 00:22:14,541 Hey, Crossfield, that line that's blinking's for you. 352 00:22:14,625 --> 00:22:16,584 - Find that gun. - Yeah, OK. 353 00:22:21,424 --> 00:22:23,174 Motherfuck you too. 354 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:28,513 Marlo Stanfield, aka Black. 355 00:22:28,597 --> 00:22:31,641 - Boy's the spawn of the devil, Kima. - I see. 356 00:22:31,726 --> 00:22:33,852 And y'all damn near had him on this murder. 357 00:22:33,936 --> 00:22:36,563 - What happened? - We had a wit. 358 00:22:36,647 --> 00:22:40,025 Boy they called Pooh Bear, chubby fellow with braids. 359 00:22:40,109 --> 00:22:42,110 We stashed Pooh over in East Baltimore, 360 00:22:42,194 --> 00:22:44,863 even had him wear one of those electronic bracelets 361 00:22:44,947 --> 00:22:46,740 so we could find him quick. 362 00:22:46,824 --> 00:22:48,700 - You lost him? - Not exactly. 363 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:51,202 Boy went back to the West Side to cop some hydro. 364 00:22:51,287 --> 00:22:53,788 He could've bought the same weed where he was, right? 365 00:22:54,999 --> 00:22:57,292 We found him with two in his chest and one in his mouth. 366 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,047 The bracelet led us right to where he fell. Those things work. 367 00:23:02,131 --> 00:23:04,632 Yeah. Marlo's serious. 368 00:23:04,717 --> 00:23:06,760 That motherfucker's real. 369 00:23:07,053 --> 00:23:10,555 I don't know, I think a volcano's way better than a computer. 370 00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:14,059 You see computers every day. How often do you see a volcano? 371 00:23:14,143 --> 00:23:17,353 - Yeah, but that guy built the computer. - You built the volcano. 372 00:23:17,563 --> 00:23:18,772 Big whoop. 373 00:23:20,149 --> 00:23:21,733 Can I keep it? 374 00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:23,318 Yeah, if you want to. 375 00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:31,034 - Good night, Mikey. - Good night. 376 00:23:31,118 --> 00:23:32,827 - Sleep tight. - OK. 377 00:23:35,706 --> 00:23:37,040 It's good that you came. 378 00:23:37,124 --> 00:23:39,834 - He was very proud. - Glad to. 379 00:23:42,671 --> 00:23:46,174 Jimmy, um, there's a problem with the alimony. 380 00:23:46,509 --> 00:23:47,592 What's the problem? 381 00:23:48,302 --> 00:23:50,512 You're behind by, like, four months. 382 00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:53,723 What can I tell you? I'm paying 2,000 a month in support. 383 00:23:53,933 --> 00:23:56,017 - After that, there's nothing left. - Right. 384 00:23:56,102 --> 00:24:00,105 But you signed a separation agreement that gives me another 1,000 in alimony. 385 00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:03,274 I only signed that fucking thing cos I thought we'd be together. 386 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,361 Look at how much I make. I'm not even close to being able to pay that. 387 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,906 My lawyer says that we have to serve you. 388 00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:12,909 That suit of a boyfriend won't cough up any cash? 389 00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:18,748 Blood from a stone, darling. 390 00:24:26,382 --> 00:24:28,424 Beginning today, 391 00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:31,219 you can sell drugs in West Baltimore, 392 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,721 but only where we say you can. 393 00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:36,683 Push them...hard. 394 00:24:36,851 --> 00:24:39,102 Get to it, people, and don't get captured. 395 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,651 Hey. Stay right there. 396 00:24:46,735 --> 00:24:48,361 Get him up against the wall. 397 00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:50,029 Hey. Listen to what I'm telling you. 398 00:25:01,959 --> 00:25:03,418 You know, kids, 399 00:25:03,711 --> 00:25:05,920 this is a simple fucking thing we're saying. 400 00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:08,631 If you stay on this corner, you're going in a wagon. 401 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:11,676 If you move yourself down to the free zone, 402 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,012 down to the vacants along Vincent Street, 403 00:25:14,096 --> 00:25:15,763 then you can do whatever the fuck you want. 404 00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:17,932 How much fairer can we be? 405 00:25:18,017 --> 00:25:19,934 I saw that, you little fuck. What's your name? 406 00:25:20,102 --> 00:25:21,477 Huh? 407 00:25:21,604 --> 00:25:23,980 - You got a name? - Peanut Butter and Jelly. 408 00:25:24,982 --> 00:25:26,357 - Address? - Huh? 409 00:25:26,442 --> 00:25:29,652 - What's your address? - I stay over on Dolphin Street. 410 00:25:29,737 --> 00:25:31,487 - Your address, numb nuts. - Huh? 411 00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:33,865 Are there any numbers on the front of your fucking house? 412 00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:37,994 Listen up. 413 00:25:38,871 --> 00:25:41,122 This corner is indicted. 414 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:44,876 We're coming back tomorrow, and when we do, everybody wears bracelets 415 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,879 unless you move your shit down to Vincent Street, 416 00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:49,672 down where the houses are all vacant. 417 00:25:49,798 --> 00:25:52,008 You do that, we don't give a shit! 418 00:25:52,218 --> 00:25:55,720 Vincent Street is like Switzerland or Amsterdam. 419 00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:56,930 What the fuck is that? 420 00:25:57,014 --> 00:25:59,432 It's one of those countries where drugs are legal. 421 00:25:59,516 --> 00:26:02,101 Vincent Street is your Amsterdam in Baltimore. 422 00:26:02,186 --> 00:26:06,022 You go down there, we don't give a fuck. You stay here, you go to jail. 423 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,112 I ain't going to no Hamsterdam. 424 00:26:14,031 --> 00:26:17,158 - He killed a witness, huh? - The way that Vernon Holley told it, yeah. 425 00:26:17,785 --> 00:26:21,079 So Marlo's a hitter. Maybe he works with Stringer. 426 00:26:21,163 --> 00:26:22,497 Makes sense. 427 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:25,500 If you need me, I'm gonna be West Side. What about you? 428 00:26:25,626 --> 00:26:27,919 I gotta get the scent of my boy, Stringer. 429 00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:30,713 - We've been off him too long. - What's your first move? 430 00:26:30,798 --> 00:26:32,924 Something Prez said. 431 00:26:33,008 --> 00:26:34,759 P and P? 432 00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:36,636 B and B. Like the liquor. 433 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,763 You mean, liqueur, Plauzinski... 434 00:26:38,889 --> 00:26:41,140 - Pryzbylewski. - Bénédictine and brandy. 435 00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:43,977 That was invented by a bartender over at Club 21. 436 00:26:44,186 --> 00:26:45,853 All that good shit comes out of New York. 437 00:26:45,938 --> 00:26:49,732 I need every deed transfer involving that company, Harry. 438 00:26:49,817 --> 00:26:50,858 Today. 439 00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:12,714 I'm asking them corner boys if they know where the Barksdale package is. 440 00:27:12,798 --> 00:27:15,883 And they looking at me like I ain't even talking. 441 00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:18,219 On this strip, Marlo's the name ringing out. 442 00:27:19,179 --> 00:27:20,972 There he is. You see him? 443 00:27:32,985 --> 00:27:34,319 He didn't stay too long. 444 00:27:34,403 --> 00:27:36,904 Shit, yeah, Marlo's ghosting. 445 00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:41,659 We're sensitive about giving out personal data on matriculating students. 446 00:27:41,827 --> 00:27:43,911 Well, I could come back with a court order. 447 00:27:44,496 --> 00:27:46,706 - Then I'd have to give it to you. - Look. 448 00:27:48,042 --> 00:27:49,959 My man has serious issues with women. 449 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:53,838 Domestic violence, really ugly stuff. 450 00:27:58,802 --> 00:28:01,095 I can't show you any paper. 451 00:28:01,847 --> 00:28:03,473 But let me get my screen up. 452 00:28:08,354 --> 00:28:11,147 What did we tell you? What'd we fucking tell you, man? 453 00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:14,359 We told you to get yourselves down to the free zone, didn't we? 454 00:28:14,443 --> 00:28:16,778 We're trying to give you guys a break. 455 00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:20,031 We're offering you a... What's that? 456 00:28:20,199 --> 00:28:23,201 - Amnesty. - You take your crew down to Vincent Street. 457 00:28:23,285 --> 00:28:26,037 You do your dirt, nobody's gonna bother you. 458 00:28:26,121 --> 00:28:27,372 What do you say? 459 00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:31,959 You guys fucking brain-dead? What do you say? 460 00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:35,046 - Huh? Huh? - Hah? Hah? 461 00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:37,298 How you gonna come up here and try to game us? 462 00:28:37,383 --> 00:28:40,259 - Say what? - I'm saying you acting like we retarded. 463 00:28:40,344 --> 00:28:43,054 - Better we put a foot in your ass? - At least we'd understand. 464 00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:46,432 - This ain't a trick, shitbird! - We grind and y'all try to stop it. 465 00:28:46,517 --> 00:28:47,934 That's how we do. 466 00:28:48,143 --> 00:28:50,103 Why you got to go and fuck with the program? 467 00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:52,647 All due respect. 468 00:28:58,529 --> 00:29:00,571 Nothing but tumbleweeds. 469 00:29:02,991 --> 00:29:04,700 Get me some buses. 470 00:29:05,536 --> 00:29:07,829 Tomorrow we clean the corners. 471 00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:10,706 Put them all in one place and give them the news. 472 00:29:12,126 --> 00:29:13,835 And I'm not asking anymore. 473 00:29:22,886 --> 00:29:24,512 From here to Fremont, 474 00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:27,932 you got Barksdale's people, East Siders and freelancers too. 475 00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:30,184 - On the same corners? - Yup. 476 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:32,854 That shit don't make sense. 477 00:29:33,313 --> 00:29:34,814 Can we call it a day, Kima? 478 00:29:39,153 --> 00:29:42,238 - Bullshit, man. - You too? 479 00:29:42,573 --> 00:29:44,115 What the fuck is up with these phones? 480 00:29:44,199 --> 00:29:46,409 I've been seeing kids throw them away all day. 481 00:29:46,743 --> 00:29:48,744 They got cash like that to waste? 482 00:29:48,829 --> 00:29:52,206 Them shits be laying all over, man. Sometimes you find minutes on them, 483 00:29:52,291 --> 00:29:54,375 sell them for walking-around money. 484 00:29:54,835 --> 00:29:57,253 - They burners, Kima. - Burners? 485 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,674 Gunshots in this alley... 486 00:30:01,758 --> 00:30:05,511 Another murder. In Waverly, no less. You believe it? 487 00:30:05,596 --> 00:30:09,599 I would be fucking shocked if it was an African-American perpetrated the crime. 488 00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:11,100 It ain't even funny, Ash. 489 00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:16,147 This is why everyone is leaving this city, black and white. 490 00:30:16,231 --> 00:30:19,192 At a community meeting in West Baltimore, people were mad, 491 00:30:19,276 --> 00:30:20,526 and I don't blame them. 492 00:30:20,611 --> 00:30:24,155 They could move to a better neighborhood. If they were willing to work for it. 493 00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:26,741 I've heard that "my immigrant father made it 494 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:28,784 "so why can't the blacks?" bullshit my whole life. 495 00:30:28,869 --> 00:30:31,621 There's not good people on the West Side who want the same? 496 00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:33,623 OK, Mrs. Roosevelt. 497 00:30:33,707 --> 00:30:36,042 All's I'm saying is, it's not about color. 498 00:30:37,169 --> 00:30:39,170 So what's your next move, Tommy? 499 00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:42,590 The Sun says an Anderson State Senate seat is up for grabs. 500 00:30:42,883 --> 00:30:46,010 Fuck that, you could go after Ruppersberger in the second. 501 00:30:46,094 --> 00:30:47,386 He's only got one term. 502 00:30:52,893 --> 00:30:54,769 I'm gonna run for mayor. 503 00:30:58,941 --> 00:31:01,025 That's good. Mayor Tommy. 504 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:08,574 Is she in the right joint? 505 00:31:26,969 --> 00:31:29,637 She lets me sit next to her, I buy her a drink... 506 00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:32,557 - We each give you ten. - 20 if you fuck her. 507 00:31:32,641 --> 00:31:35,351 Please, Ash. Show just a little more class. 508 00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:37,812 Besides, I already had my day in the sun. 509 00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:40,231 Bullshit, Tommy. Once a gash-hound... 510 00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:44,068 The bet is the bet. You said I lost a step. I'm gonna prove I never did. 511 00:31:45,362 --> 00:31:47,446 - You in, Pete? - I'll pass. 512 00:31:55,664 --> 00:31:57,206 Can I have two Glenlivets? 513 00:31:58,834 --> 00:32:00,167 How you doing? 514 00:32:03,297 --> 00:32:06,173 - The son of a bitch did it. - He did you. 515 00:32:06,842 --> 00:32:10,094 That's Theresa D'Agostino. Mario D's kid? 516 00:32:10,178 --> 00:32:13,973 Yeah, she grew up all right. She's down in DC now with the national party. 517 00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:16,767 - A campaign fixer. - No shit. 518 00:32:17,019 --> 00:32:19,353 Tommy's known her ever since law school. 519 00:32:19,521 --> 00:32:22,440 Just hear me out, OK? One drink. 520 00:32:22,691 --> 00:32:24,483 Go ahead. You're paying for it. 521 00:32:24,568 --> 00:32:28,696 - Actually, they are. - Oh, you made a bet. 522 00:32:29,615 --> 00:32:32,199 Don't tell me we have to kiss or something. Not gonna happen. 523 00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:37,371 This isn't about ankle straps in a two-and-a-half star hotel, is it? 524 00:32:37,456 --> 00:32:39,290 The alumni dinner ended an hour ago 525 00:32:39,374 --> 00:32:41,709 - and I could be back in DC... - That's the old me, Terri. 526 00:32:41,835 --> 00:32:44,754 Everything I got now, my wife, my kids... 527 00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:49,425 I would not risk losing them. No way. 528 00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:53,137 Seeing you with your old gang made me think bad thoughts. 529 00:32:53,221 --> 00:32:54,805 Your friends cheapen you, Tommy. 530 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:57,892 You're just pissed off that they didn't recognize you when you walked in. 531 00:32:58,602 --> 00:32:59,810 And why would they? 532 00:33:00,062 --> 00:33:03,022 I mean, you're a Washingtonian now. 533 00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:05,733 That's Pete Sinopoli over there, isn't it? 534 00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:08,444 - Hear he's back to practicing law. - Yeah. 535 00:33:08,528 --> 00:33:10,571 He just didn't have it, did he? 536 00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:12,239 I have it, Terri. 537 00:33:13,450 --> 00:33:15,409 I'm going to make a run for mayor. 538 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:18,329 And you're gonna run my campaign. 539 00:33:20,207 --> 00:33:22,333 Give me one good reason why not to. 540 00:33:22,417 --> 00:33:25,378 I could give you ten, but here's the good one. 541 00:33:25,462 --> 00:33:28,297 You're the wrong color. You're not electable here. 542 00:33:28,382 --> 00:33:31,342 - And I never play the long shot. - You like to win. 543 00:33:31,426 --> 00:33:34,136 I don't like to lose. It's not the same thing. 544 00:33:34,221 --> 00:33:36,055 Where's the fun if you know you'll win? 545 00:33:36,139 --> 00:33:39,141 You handled that Democrat in East LA, what was his name... 546 00:33:39,226 --> 00:33:40,434 - Garcia... - Valdez. 547 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:42,478 Valdez. How hard was that? 548 00:33:46,983 --> 00:33:49,735 I need someone like you on my side. 549 00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:53,114 I need you. 550 00:33:55,409 --> 00:33:57,159 How big a win bonus? 551 00:33:57,244 --> 00:34:01,997 Get a white mayor elected in Baltimore, honey, you name your price. 552 00:34:02,624 --> 00:34:04,375 One drink was the deal. 553 00:34:05,752 --> 00:34:07,253 Go home, sleep it off. 554 00:34:07,337 --> 00:34:09,463 You'll wake up and realize you're making a mistake. 555 00:34:11,091 --> 00:34:12,967 I can do this. 556 00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:16,137 Question is, are you gonna come with me? 557 00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:47,251 B and B. 558 00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:51,756 Hello? 559 00:35:05,687 --> 00:35:08,939 Yo, how we not gonna throw a few hot ones at the motherfuckers? 560 00:35:09,024 --> 00:35:12,151 One ass-whupping and we back off like some bitches. 561 00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,278 Then we on this off-brand-ass strip. 562 00:35:14,362 --> 00:35:17,782 Ain't even enough trade for Poot and his crew. Bullshit, man! 563 00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:20,618 Look, man, Stringer gonna fix it, man, you'll see. 564 00:35:20,702 --> 00:35:22,787 Which one of y'all is Slim Charles? 565 00:35:22,871 --> 00:35:24,914 - Who asking? - That'd be Cutty. 566 00:35:24,998 --> 00:35:27,249 Your boy gave me a number, said to ring you up 567 00:35:27,334 --> 00:35:30,169 when I was ready to put in some work, but no answer. 568 00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:32,797 Took your time calling back, right? 569 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:35,090 The numbers don't play after a few days, man. 570 00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:37,176 - We change them up. - Ain't you know nothing? 571 00:35:37,552 --> 00:35:42,223 Respect, dawg, respect. Y'all don't know who y'all talking to, man. 572 00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:45,643 - You still ain't say your business. - I'm trying to get put on. 573 00:35:45,727 --> 00:35:48,896 - What you got in mind? - Whatever you got that pays. 574 00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:51,148 Yo, Poot. Come here, man. 575 00:35:53,902 --> 00:35:55,986 Man, look, man, call Shamrock, man, 576 00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:58,447 and tell him soldier's finally came into the camp. 577 00:35:59,699 --> 00:36:02,576 - You a soldier, huh? - Chill, Bodie, man, chill, man. 578 00:36:03,453 --> 00:36:06,831 - Bodie Broadus? - Yeah, that's right. 579 00:36:06,915 --> 00:36:09,792 Shit, I remember your little ass when you was still in diapers. 580 00:36:10,252 --> 00:36:12,378 I used to spar with your older brother, James. 581 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:14,922 That boy had a killer left. 582 00:36:16,550 --> 00:36:18,509 Yeah, when he ain't drop it. 583 00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:20,427 Yo, he still out here? 584 00:36:21,972 --> 00:36:23,347 James been dead. 585 00:36:29,312 --> 00:36:30,813 Fuck's up with that cheese box? 586 00:36:31,147 --> 00:36:33,691 What, you ain't never ridden no school bus before? 587 00:36:34,693 --> 00:36:36,819 I'm saying, what they doing with them niggers? 588 00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:40,698 Look, dawg, first thing we gonna need to do is get you some chrome. 589 00:36:41,283 --> 00:36:42,700 Look, come on, man. 590 00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:46,954 What's wrong with my fucking phone? Shit. 591 00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:55,421 Yo, TJ, you got one with some minutes left? 592 00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:59,466 Which is not to say you couldn't multi-use the Howard Street properties. 593 00:36:59,968 --> 00:37:03,012 - Residential-commercial could work. - On Howard Street? 594 00:37:03,096 --> 00:37:07,016 The whole point of the block grant is to bring the West Side back to make it high-end. 595 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,018 The Hippodrome project was just the start. 596 00:37:09,311 --> 00:37:11,103 But residential? 597 00:37:11,187 --> 00:37:13,272 With the stadium and the theater back on line, 598 00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:15,941 that area is like Inner Harbor East ten years ago. 599 00:37:16,276 --> 00:37:19,194 And the thing is, you're on the ground floor with what you're holding. 600 00:37:19,779 --> 00:37:23,198 - Yes, you are, String. - So we're still talking more return 601 00:37:23,283 --> 00:37:25,868 than just flipping the properties for the condemnation money. 602 00:37:26,286 --> 00:37:27,494 Way more. 603 00:37:27,829 --> 00:37:29,121 Excuse me. 604 00:37:31,499 --> 00:37:32,541 Yo. 605 00:37:33,126 --> 00:37:35,210 No. Not right now. 606 00:37:36,004 --> 00:37:37,671 A half-hour. 607 00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:41,800 No, so go ahead and fill it up. You got the order number, right? 608 00:37:48,767 --> 00:37:51,352 - Man, move your ass. - Man, this some bullshit. 609 00:38:12,624 --> 00:38:15,250 My mom's gonna be worried. Y'all kidnapping niggers. 610 00:38:15,335 --> 00:38:16,877 I'm Major Colvin. 611 00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:21,882 My name is Major Colvin. 612 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,134 - Major what? - Major these, motherfucker. 613 00:38:24,219 --> 00:38:27,096 We had to bring you down here this afternoon... 614 00:38:28,932 --> 00:38:31,684 because you've not been complying with our directives. 615 00:38:31,935 --> 00:38:33,018 Say what? 616 00:38:33,687 --> 00:38:35,437 You haven't been doing what we asked. 617 00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:40,651 - When I'm done. - I gotta pee now. 618 00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:46,490 He ain't playing. Smell like he already pissed in his drawers. 619 00:38:48,535 --> 00:38:49,576 All right, go ahead. 620 00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:55,916 Yo, I gotta go too. 621 00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:59,628 - You're gonna have to wait. - How you gonna discriminate? 622 00:38:59,713 --> 00:39:01,005 Yo, faggy, why you touch my butt? 623 00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:16,937 That's enough! 624 00:39:20,108 --> 00:39:21,525 The fun is over. 625 00:39:24,237 --> 00:39:27,614 Tyrell, why weren't you in school today? 626 00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:29,742 I couldn't make it out the bathroom. 627 00:39:29,826 --> 00:39:32,077 Stand up when I talk to you, young man. 628 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:35,122 I know your mother, Tyrell. 629 00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:40,044 She didn't raise any clowns, now, did she? 630 00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:41,712 No, ma'am. 631 00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:49,053 It's yours, Major. 632 00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:02,816 Now, ladies and gentlemen, we brought you down here because 633 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:07,237 you're here to learn about the new way... 634 00:40:07,322 --> 00:40:11,867 The new way that we're going to do things on the corners. 635 00:40:24,089 --> 00:40:26,006 - That's downtown. - Yeah. 636 00:40:31,221 --> 00:40:34,389 - Well, that makes no sense. - All four. 637 00:40:51,032 --> 00:40:55,285 Go ahead, rip me a new asshole. Ask me where I've been for two days. 638 00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:57,204 Tell us, hotshot. 639 00:40:58,081 --> 00:41:01,125 College registrar gives up Stringer's course schedule. 640 00:41:01,209 --> 00:41:04,419 I tail him to where he's laying his head. Downtown high-rise. 641 00:41:04,629 --> 00:41:07,214 Name's on the lease too. No attempt to hide it. 642 00:41:07,882 --> 00:41:09,967 I get up early, follow him from his door 643 00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:12,803 to a lunch meeting with the state senator. 644 00:41:13,429 --> 00:41:16,140 Same one with the bagman we bounced the last time around. 645 00:41:16,224 --> 00:41:18,642 Couple of white guys too, nobody I read. 646 00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:20,394 And all the while Stringer's using his cellphone, 647 00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:22,813 making calls like it ain't no thing. 648 00:41:22,897 --> 00:41:24,356 Shit, I even rang it up myself. 649 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,817 Got his number from an admissions form. 650 00:41:26,901 --> 00:41:30,362 The number wouldn't be 8447393? 651 00:41:32,198 --> 00:41:34,825 I had Prez pull the B and B property assessments 652 00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:37,327 and land transfers from Circuit Court. 653 00:41:37,412 --> 00:41:39,705 Some of the paperwork asked for a contact number. 654 00:41:39,789 --> 00:41:43,917 So I'm not surprised our boy's using his cellphone so freely. 655 00:41:44,669 --> 00:41:49,256 Those, right there, are the incoming and outgoing numbers on his phone. 656 00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:52,217 And damn near all of them are downtown exchanges. 657 00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:55,179 Architectural firms, city licensing, 658 00:41:55,263 --> 00:41:58,056 attorneys, zoning offices. 659 00:41:58,141 --> 00:42:00,893 Even campus exchanges over at BCCC. 660 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:06,190 - You saying he's right? - I'm saying the phone is right. 661 00:42:07,317 --> 00:42:12,988 Account information confirms he's had that number listed for quite a while. 662 00:42:17,118 --> 00:42:18,285 Nice work. 663 00:42:20,163 --> 00:42:22,873 Maybe the cellphone is clean because he's keeping it. 664 00:42:22,957 --> 00:42:25,959 If it was dirty, it'd probably be a burner. 665 00:42:27,212 --> 00:42:28,879 Hmm. 666 00:42:28,963 --> 00:42:30,797 Disposables. 667 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:33,884 The latest in yo-tech. 668 00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:36,887 They make a couple of calls with a burner, throw it away. 669 00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:38,889 Go on to the next phone, do the same. 670 00:42:38,973 --> 00:42:41,892 There's more of those things laying around West Baltimore 671 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:42,976 than empty vials. 672 00:42:43,102 --> 00:42:45,812 How the fuck you supposed to get a wire up on that? 673 00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:48,899 Yeah, well, first it was payphone and pagers. 674 00:42:48,983 --> 00:42:53,028 Then it was cellphones and face-to-face meets. Now this. 675 00:42:53,112 --> 00:42:54,738 The motherfuckers do learn. 676 00:42:54,822 --> 00:42:57,824 Every time we come at them, they learn and adjust. 677 00:42:58,493 --> 00:42:59,993 So... 678 00:43:01,329 --> 00:43:02,746 Stringer's out of reach. 679 00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:07,084 You know, a couple of years ago, when they were buying that downtown real estate, 680 00:43:07,168 --> 00:43:09,419 I thought they were buying it to flip it 681 00:43:09,504 --> 00:43:12,172 and get the cash when the federal payout money lands 682 00:43:12,257 --> 00:43:13,924 and the properties are condemned. 683 00:43:14,008 --> 00:43:15,801 Bell and Barksdale haven't sold any of it. 684 00:43:15,885 --> 00:43:19,012 They're buying more and applying for building permits. 685 00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:22,015 Seems Stringer Bell is worse than a drug dealer. 686 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,684 He's a developer. 687 00:43:23,935 --> 00:43:25,894 Jesus, fuck, he's really legit? 688 00:43:25,979 --> 00:43:28,021 Well, you real police. 689 00:43:28,106 --> 00:43:30,524 Now he's out in the open, why don't you pull him up and ask him? 690 00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,194 You need a few days, I'll stall Daniels. 691 00:43:34,362 --> 00:43:37,406 But after that, you come home with a case we can use 692 00:43:37,490 --> 00:43:40,701 or you swallow your goddamn pride and rejoin this unit. 693 00:43:51,421 --> 00:43:53,046 How you doing, Donette? 694 00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:02,306 "I'm fine, String. I missed you, baby." 695 00:44:05,351 --> 00:44:07,769 Look, I'm sorry for not returning them calls. 696 00:44:08,229 --> 00:44:09,938 "Sorry" don't keep my bed warm at night. 697 00:44:10,898 --> 00:44:12,691 Shorty, I been running. 698 00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:17,779 Ain't like I'm trying to shut you out. I just got business to attend to, you know? 699 00:44:18,573 --> 00:44:21,366 Do you know how it feels to be alone out here? 700 00:44:21,576 --> 00:44:24,619 Police coming to my door, and I got no one to stand beside me. 701 00:44:28,916 --> 00:44:31,793 You say the detective left you a card? 702 00:44:51,022 --> 00:44:53,732 Man say D'Angelo wasn't no suicide. 703 00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:55,609 Something about the way the marks was on his neck. 704 00:44:56,986 --> 00:44:59,613 He said Dee could have been murdered and shit. 705 00:45:04,827 --> 00:45:06,328 Sit down. 706 00:45:12,293 --> 00:45:14,419 Now listen to me. 707 00:45:14,629 --> 00:45:17,172 Everyone in them walls know who Avon is. 708 00:45:18,174 --> 00:45:20,467 Ain't nobody gonna do his nephew. 709 00:45:21,427 --> 00:45:22,969 All right? 710 00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:26,807 Now, as far as you and me go... 711 00:45:27,975 --> 00:45:30,852 I did you wrong by keeping you at arm's length 712 00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:33,647 but it ain't gonna be like that no more. 713 00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:11,852 Oh, yeah. 714 00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:15,230 God made that. 715 00:46:15,690 --> 00:46:17,190 Couldn't be no accident. 716 00:46:17,275 --> 00:46:20,694 So why am I on your tab tonight? Tell the truth. 717 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,322 I dare that to walk by me again. She better not. 718 00:46:24,407 --> 00:46:26,241 Why you buying, Bunk? 719 00:46:31,372 --> 00:46:33,206 I got two dead 720 00:46:33,708 --> 00:46:36,585 in what feels like a drug rip up in Pimlico. 721 00:46:38,921 --> 00:46:42,549 And the young 'uns out on the scene, they seem to know this Omar fella by sight. 722 00:46:46,429 --> 00:46:47,679 I need Omar, Jimmy. 723 00:46:49,056 --> 00:46:52,893 Again? Jesus, Bunk. 724 00:46:55,938 --> 00:46:57,272 Yeah. 725 00:46:58,149 --> 00:46:59,733 Fuck it, then. 726 00:47:02,528 --> 00:47:04,154 Number three? 727 00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:08,325 No, that worked for you last time. The blonde at the juke. 728 00:47:08,409 --> 00:47:09,701 Oh, I really liked her. 729 00:47:09,785 --> 00:47:11,661 Everybody likes everybody when they're kissing. 730 00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:15,332 But no, my friend down there... 731 00:47:15,416 --> 00:47:17,417 she's a number two, I think. 732 00:47:18,085 --> 00:47:21,755 And when it comes up, my mother passed. A week ago. 733 00:47:22,798 --> 00:47:25,342 And I'm having a little trouble getting over it. 734 00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,261 That's why I'm feeling so blue tonight. 735 00:47:28,513 --> 00:47:31,681 - OK, your mom's dead and you're sad. - Yeah. 736 00:47:34,769 --> 00:47:36,102 You my boy. 737 00:47:42,401 --> 00:47:43,985 The same way. 738 00:47:47,907 --> 00:47:51,326 My mom died about a week ago, and... 739 00:48:01,379 --> 00:48:03,380 Yo, what's up, boss? 740 00:48:07,802 --> 00:48:10,804 You got the phone receipts from the Virginia run? 741 00:48:13,891 --> 00:48:14,975 All right. 742 00:48:15,059 --> 00:48:17,477 From now on, I want you to deal with these. 743 00:48:17,562 --> 00:48:19,563 All right. 744 00:48:19,647 --> 00:48:22,691 If my man Bernard doing it like we said and making them runs, 745 00:48:22,775 --> 00:48:25,819 then I don't wanna have to deal with this no more. 746 00:48:26,654 --> 00:48:28,196 For sure. 747 00:48:28,281 --> 00:48:30,949 - And if Donette call me... - I know. 748 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:34,244 - Tell that bitch you busy. - No. 749 00:48:34,328 --> 00:48:36,329 I'm gonna take the call. 750 00:49:05,735 --> 00:49:07,027 Rhondie? 751 00:49:10,740 --> 00:49:12,365 Rhondie, Rhondie! 752 00:49:15,703 --> 00:49:17,203 Rhonda! 753 00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:50,737 "He was suspected to have ordered or caused the deaths 754 00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:53,490 "of over a dozen individuals." Suspected. 755 00:49:53,574 --> 00:49:54,658 It's rumor and innuendo. 756 00:49:55,660 --> 00:49:58,787 There isn't one allegation in this letter that wasn't raised 757 00:49:58,913 --> 00:50:01,081 by the Assistant State's Attorney at the trial. 758 00:50:01,791 --> 00:50:05,543 And given my client's superlative record during his incarceration 759 00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:10,048 and given his notable role in identifying the source of the overdose deaths 760 00:50:10,132 --> 00:50:12,300 at this facility last year, 761 00:50:13,386 --> 00:50:15,929 I ask that you honor our existing agreement 762 00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:18,807 - and approve Mr. Barksdale's early release. - Bullshit! 763 00:50:18,891 --> 00:50:22,852 - Hold your comments, Trooper. - We made a commitment, Counselor. 764 00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:25,855 Given what this institution was dealing with a year ago, 765 00:50:25,940 --> 00:50:27,899 this is the lesser evil. 766 00:50:28,776 --> 00:50:31,194 Rockefellers! Rockefellers on the spot! 767 00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:34,906 Man, that's him right there. In that G35, man. 768 00:50:35,199 --> 00:50:37,409 - Boy in the retro? - That shit is tight. 769 00:50:37,993 --> 00:50:40,120 $430, it better be. 770 00:50:40,204 --> 00:50:43,331 Hell, yeah. I'm gonna get me one of those motherfuckers. 771 00:50:43,416 --> 00:50:45,792 You must be going to get that Muggsy Bogues. 772 00:50:45,876 --> 00:50:47,877 You're gonna be swimming in that Unseld. 773 00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:50,588 As usual, man, y'all fools are missing my point. 774 00:50:51,215 --> 00:50:53,842 That boy came up short on that money last week 775 00:50:53,926 --> 00:50:57,387 and y'all see how he out here grinding, so where that money at? 776 00:50:57,471 --> 00:51:00,682 You need to look beyond what he driving or wearing on his back. 777 00:51:01,767 --> 00:51:03,059 That boy got a girlfriend? 778 00:51:03,227 --> 00:51:05,061 He run with this little freak at the high school. 779 00:51:05,312 --> 00:51:06,479 She wearing ice? 780 00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:09,107 She wearing a onion, that's all I can remember. 781 00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:10,275 Hell, yeah. 782 00:51:10,359 --> 00:51:11,818 Check out the girl. 783 00:51:12,319 --> 00:51:16,948 High-school girl with platinum around her neck, only one place it came from. 784 00:51:17,658 --> 00:51:19,075 Give my man his thing. 785 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,332 SIG Sauer. That ain't no Lorcin, dawg. 786 00:51:26,417 --> 00:51:29,836 I'm used to revolvers, man. .38 don't jam. 787 00:51:30,129 --> 00:51:32,172 Don't hold 15, neither. 788 00:51:33,883 --> 00:51:35,842 Game done changed. 789 00:51:35,968 --> 00:51:39,554 Game the same. Just got more fierce. 790 00:51:43,517 --> 00:51:47,520 - I'm not big on vacations. - Yeah, who has time? 791 00:51:50,024 --> 00:51:53,693 What about taking the boys down to Ocean City for a weekend or something? 792 00:51:56,113 --> 00:51:57,363 You ever been down the ocean? 793 00:52:09,668 --> 00:52:11,044 Listen. 794 00:52:13,672 --> 00:52:15,882 It wasn't like I was waiting for an opening with Rhonda. 795 00:52:17,593 --> 00:52:18,885 It just happened. 796 00:52:22,598 --> 00:52:23,973 I should have told you sooner. 797 00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:31,940 I need to know this isn't going to be a thing between us. 798 00:52:32,024 --> 00:52:34,275 No, I wish you both all the best. 799 00:52:39,281 --> 00:52:40,949 Was I very loud last night? 800 00:52:46,747 --> 00:52:48,581 Thanks for making this easy on me. 801 00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:03,179 You coming? 802 00:53:03,264 --> 00:53:07,225 No, I think I'll stay here a while, nurse this. 803 00:53:07,309 --> 00:53:08,935 Then I'll shove off. 804 00:53:23,117 --> 00:53:26,703 One more, and put a beer next to it. 805 00:53:26,787 --> 00:53:29,956 Nigger, what's up? You good? 806 00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:31,749 Yo. 807 00:53:31,834 --> 00:53:33,877 Look at you. 808 00:54:00,112 --> 00:54:03,239 Oh! You ain't gotta leave, huh? 809 00:54:10,789 --> 00:54:11,831 Shit is on. 810 00:54:12,917 --> 00:54:15,877 This what I'm talking about. Whoo! 811 00:54:15,961 --> 00:54:17,754 Drink that shit. 812 00:54:23,469 --> 00:54:26,262 I'm surprised Avon be letting y'all get your heads up. 813 00:54:26,764 --> 00:54:28,181 Sometimes you got to. 814 00:54:37,441 --> 00:54:38,900 Kiss the sky, nigger. 815 00:54:48,661 --> 00:54:51,120 - Ready to go? - Yeah. Are you all right to drive? 816 00:54:51,205 --> 00:54:54,123 I thought you were the designated driver tonight. 817 00:54:54,208 --> 00:54:56,876 No, I'm good, really. I'm good to go. 818 00:55:50,139 --> 00:55:51,389 Thanks! 819 00:55:53,142 --> 00:55:54,767 Bitch with one leg named Aaliyah. 820 00:55:55,102 --> 00:55:56,769 What kind of shit is that? 821 00:55:56,979 --> 00:55:58,479 Oh, shit. 822 00:56:14,496 --> 00:56:17,165 - You do still like females, don't you? - Shit. 823 00:57:02,961 --> 00:57:04,796 He home now.