1 00:00:19,645 --> 00:00:21,604 We need another bag. 2 00:00:21,689 --> 00:00:24,399 - Where you at? - Over here. 3 00:00:25,067 --> 00:00:27,360 - Drug war? - Mm-hm. 4 00:00:30,572 --> 00:00:33,157 Barksdale's coming back on my boy Marlo, huh? 5 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:36,661 - Shit. - Got it. 6 00:00:45,003 --> 00:00:47,463 Man, I don't know where we at. 7 00:00:47,548 --> 00:00:51,926 We are in Baltimore, Lamar. Baltimore, Maryland. 8 00:01:59,703 --> 00:02:03,331 That's the second crib of mine they cracked this week. 9 00:02:03,415 --> 00:02:07,001 Stir up a hornet's nest, no telling who gonna get stung. 10 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,722 - All paranoid and shit. - Gotta be. 11 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:36,823 Whoa. 12 00:02:36,907 --> 00:02:38,741 They got Latroy. 13 00:02:40,619 --> 00:02:45,498 What the fuck is y'all on the streets for? There's a fucking war going on. 14 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:47,583 Get the fuck in the truck, man. 15 00:03:19,575 --> 00:03:21,993 What happened to all them towers? 16 00:03:22,077 --> 00:03:24,912 - Slow train coming. - Huh? 17 00:03:27,749 --> 00:03:31,419 Reform, Lamar. Reform. 18 00:03:42,764 --> 00:03:45,057 When you walk through the garden 19 00:03:46,602 --> 00:03:48,978 You gotta watch your back 20 00:03:50,397 --> 00:03:52,857 Well, I beg your pardon 21 00:03:53,859 --> 00:03:56,068 Walk the straight and narrow track 22 00:03:56,153 --> 00:03:57,528 Walk the straight and narrow track 23 00:03:57,613 --> 00:04:01,574 If you walk with Jesus 24 00:04:01,658 --> 00:04:03,868 He's gonna save your soul 25 00:04:05,495 --> 00:04:07,830 You gotta keep the devil 26 00:04:09,458 --> 00:04:11,918 Way down in the hole 27 00:04:13,170 --> 00:04:15,588 He got fire and the fury 28 00:04:15,672 --> 00:04:17,423 Fire and fury 29 00:04:17,507 --> 00:04:20,051 At his command 30 00:04:21,053 --> 00:04:24,305 Well, you don't have to worry 31 00:04:24,389 --> 00:04:27,934 Hold on to Jesus' hands 32 00:04:28,018 --> 00:04:31,020 Oh, we'll be safe from Satan 33 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:34,565 When the thunder rolls 34 00:04:34,650 --> 00:04:35,608 Oh 35 00:04:35,692 --> 00:04:39,111 You gotta keep the devil 36 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:42,740 Way down in the hole 37 00:04:50,958 --> 00:04:54,168 You gotta keep the devil 38 00:04:54,878 --> 00:04:57,129 Way down in the hole 39 00:05:00,842 --> 00:05:02,301 Way down 40 00:05:02,386 --> 00:05:04,887 Way down in the hole 41 00:05:26,994 --> 00:05:29,662 We should be up on this, hearing voices. 42 00:05:29,746 --> 00:05:32,164 Get Bodie's phone, we will be. 43 00:05:32,374 --> 00:05:34,375 We got enough PC off the burners. 44 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:38,004 These pen registers click, it screams drug conspiracy. 45 00:05:38,088 --> 00:05:40,006 I'm not taking the case to court. 46 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:43,884 Pearlman wants a specific link to a known drug trafficker. 47 00:05:49,933 --> 00:05:53,602 These drug crews dump phones every couple of weeks at best. 48 00:05:53,687 --> 00:05:56,105 So when we do get a wire up, it's a limited run. 49 00:05:56,189 --> 00:06:01,694 That doesn't meet the cellular company's definition of "exigent circumstance"? 50 00:06:01,778 --> 00:06:03,654 What's your boss willing to do? 51 00:06:03,739 --> 00:06:07,700 Demper? He's a bit too focused on next year's re-election fight. 52 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:10,995 - How about the feds? - They say they can't do anything for us. 53 00:06:11,079 --> 00:06:14,874 Look at how they use the Federal Communications Act. 54 00:06:14,958 --> 00:06:20,379 For national security stuff, they use the Patriot Act. Everything else gets shorted. 55 00:06:20,464 --> 00:06:23,049 The industry has all of us by the balls. 56 00:06:24,593 --> 00:06:27,928 Pardon my French, Your Honor. 57 00:06:28,638 --> 00:06:31,849 I'll tell you what. Best I can do for you is this. 58 00:06:31,933 --> 00:06:36,395 You give me a boilerplate affidavit with the PC from the court report. 59 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,149 And as you get numbers for the new disposables, you call me. 60 00:06:40,901 --> 00:06:43,819 Anytime, day or night, to jump phones. 61 00:06:43,904 --> 00:06:46,906 But we're still gonna be getting up on their phones 62 00:06:46,990 --> 00:06:49,700 - even as they're coming down. - Probably. 63 00:06:49,785 --> 00:06:52,536 - This is so totally... - Fucked up. 64 00:06:53,955 --> 00:06:55,748 Je parle français bien. 65 00:06:55,832 --> 00:07:01,837 Et tu es...très charmant aujourd'hui. 66 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,013 Judge Phelan has you on his mind. How long has that been going on? 67 00:07:11,765 --> 00:07:13,766 Started with... 68 00:07:13,850 --> 00:07:16,018 my first jury trial in his court, I think. 69 00:07:16,103 --> 00:07:17,895 I bet you won all your motions. 70 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:25,945 - You wanted to see me, sir? - Have a seat. 71 00:07:30,492 --> 00:07:34,829 I wanna thank you for the loyalty you showed moving that body. 72 00:07:35,872 --> 00:07:39,708 It wasn't the most sensible thing but I appreciate it. 73 00:07:40,836 --> 00:07:42,461 You're a good man, Sergeant. 74 00:07:42,546 --> 00:07:47,383 You got good instincts, and as far as I can tell, you're a decent supervisor. 75 00:07:48,885 --> 00:07:53,097 But from where I sit, you ain't shit when it come to policing. 76 00:07:54,141 --> 00:07:58,644 Don't take it personal. Ain't just you, it's all our young police 77 00:07:58,728 --> 00:08:00,146 Whole generation of y'all. 78 00:08:01,148 --> 00:08:03,440 Now, you think about it. 79 00:08:03,525 --> 00:08:05,776 You've been here over a year now, Carver. 80 00:08:05,861 --> 00:08:10,197 You got nobody looking out for you, nobody willing to talk to you. 81 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:13,659 That about sum it up? 82 00:08:13,743 --> 00:08:15,828 And that's a problem. 83 00:08:15,912 --> 00:08:19,206 I didn't think there was any way I'd get my head around it, 84 00:08:19,416 --> 00:08:22,126 but then Dozerman gets shot for some bullshit. 85 00:08:23,628 --> 00:08:26,172 And that's when I about reach my limit. 86 00:08:26,381 --> 00:08:29,717 That's when the idea of the free zone, come to me, 87 00:08:29,801 --> 00:08:33,470 because this drug thing, this ain't police work. 88 00:08:33,555 --> 00:08:35,764 No, it ain't. 89 00:08:35,849 --> 00:08:39,476 I can send any fool with a badge and a gun up on them corners, 90 00:08:39,561 --> 00:08:43,731 and jack a crew and grab vials. But policing? 91 00:08:45,483 --> 00:08:47,526 I mean, you call something a war, 92 00:08:47,611 --> 00:08:51,697 and pretty soon everybody gonna be acting like warriors 93 00:08:51,781 --> 00:08:54,033 running around on a crusade, 94 00:08:54,117 --> 00:08:58,495 storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. 95 00:08:58,580 --> 00:09:01,790 And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. 96 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:06,629 And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. 97 00:09:07,130 --> 00:09:09,965 And soon the neighborhood you police, 98 00:09:10,050 --> 00:09:12,426 that's just occupied territory. 99 00:09:13,845 --> 00:09:16,889 - You follow this? - I think so. 100 00:09:16,973 --> 00:09:19,892 Look here, the point I'm making, Carver, is this. 101 00:09:19,976 --> 00:09:22,853 Soldiering and policing, ain't the same thing. 102 00:09:22,938 --> 00:09:27,858 And before we went and took the wrong turn and started up with these war games, 103 00:09:27,943 --> 00:09:31,445 the cop walked a beat, and he learned that post. 104 00:09:32,489 --> 00:09:34,949 And if things happened up on that post, 105 00:09:35,033 --> 00:09:37,910 whether they be a rape or robbery or shooting, 106 00:09:37,994 --> 00:09:41,914 he had people out there helping him, feeding him information. 107 00:09:41,998 --> 00:09:45,626 But every time I come to you, my DEU Sergeant, 108 00:09:45,710 --> 00:09:50,422 for information, to find out what's going on out there in them streets, 109 00:09:50,507 --> 00:09:52,925 all that came back was some bullshit. 110 00:09:54,386 --> 00:09:57,513 You had your stats, your arrests, your seizures. 111 00:09:57,597 --> 00:09:59,515 But that don't amount to shit 112 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:03,686 when you talking about protecting the neighborhood, now, do it? 113 00:10:09,693 --> 00:10:13,904 You know the worst thing about this... so-called drug war, 114 00:10:14,656 --> 00:10:16,532 to my mind... 115 00:10:19,369 --> 00:10:22,871 It just... It ruined this job. 116 00:10:24,874 --> 00:10:26,542 - Major... - What you got? 117 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:31,964 Incoming. Sun paper reporter. Been to the free zones, all three of them. 118 00:10:34,050 --> 00:10:36,051 Meet you at the car. 119 00:10:40,015 --> 00:10:41,932 We rewrite the affidavit, 120 00:10:42,017 --> 00:10:45,894 add stuff from the pen registers, take it to the judge. 121 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:49,648 You have a law degree? If you did, it would be your call to make. 122 00:10:49,733 --> 00:10:52,651 Who would pretend to be a lawyer that wasn't? 123 00:10:52,736 --> 00:10:54,987 I think we're being too cautious on this. 124 00:10:55,071 --> 00:10:59,700 We're going the extra mile for Phelan. A short cut now could cost us later. 125 00:10:59,784 --> 00:11:04,038 We drew Phelan on this wiretap? That two-faced hack sold me out last time. 126 00:11:04,122 --> 00:11:07,750 He's not running for a new term. He'll be fine. 127 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:08,834 He's a piece of shit. 128 00:11:08,918 --> 00:11:14,089 We're all pieces of shit when we're in your way. That goes with the territory. 129 00:11:23,933 --> 00:11:25,768 Point taken. 130 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:30,356 So it's these warehouses, the old Winchester Homes, 131 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,983 and the dead blocks down by Vincent Street? 132 00:11:33,068 --> 00:11:35,110 All three. 133 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:36,945 They're just supposed to let it go on like this? 134 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:40,532 Colvin told us to push the street dealing in these areas, 135 00:11:40,617 --> 00:11:44,578 then start locking people up, but so far, not a single arrest. 136 00:11:44,662 --> 00:11:47,873 - And they know about this downtown? - I don't think so. 137 00:11:47,957 --> 00:11:51,168 But I'd love to be there when you pop the question. 138 00:11:52,796 --> 00:11:56,006 - This is just... - Tell me about it. 139 00:12:04,516 --> 00:12:07,059 - Got the place looking good. - Yeah. 140 00:12:07,143 --> 00:12:10,479 Now all that needs doing is to go out and get you some kids. 141 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:13,690 Come on, man. You making it sound easy, 142 00:12:13,775 --> 00:12:18,946 but, tell you the truth, I ain't got no idea how to go at these hoppers. 143 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:23,659 I wouldn't lose any sleep over that. Nobody else does, neither. 144 00:12:31,459 --> 00:12:32,751 We got one. 145 00:12:33,837 --> 00:12:35,879 - His grandmother. - Looking for me? 146 00:12:35,964 --> 00:12:40,717 There's no reason to leave your clothes in the washer. 147 00:12:40,802 --> 00:12:45,931 I'm sorry. I just forgot, OK? But I did pick up the laundry soap. 148 00:12:46,015 --> 00:12:47,933 That's definitely a code. 149 00:12:48,017 --> 00:12:53,105 Let's listen to an intercept we made of Bodie a couple of years back. 150 00:12:53,857 --> 00:12:57,484 I'm telling y'all, I saw the boy. He saying he ain't got that thing. 151 00:12:57,569 --> 00:13:00,737 - Same voice, no question. - I'll let the judge know. 152 00:13:00,822 --> 00:13:02,990 Reference the voice comparison. 153 00:13:03,074 --> 00:13:05,075 We're up! 154 00:13:05,994 --> 00:13:09,455 Yeah. 155 00:13:09,539 --> 00:13:11,707 Got it right here, yo. Yeah, that's right. 156 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:15,711 - Major Colvin, Western District. - Banisky, Sun papers. 157 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:17,754 - So, this your idea? - Got one, get one! 158 00:13:21,593 --> 00:13:23,594 Mind if we...walk? 159 00:13:23,678 --> 00:13:28,015 Apocalypse. Got that Apocalypse. Right here, shorty. 160 00:13:28,099 --> 00:13:30,726 You got dealers selling with impunity, 161 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:32,978 addicts shooting up on the street, 162 00:13:33,062 --> 00:13:36,773 people down here doing outreach, giving out needles an' all. 163 00:13:36,858 --> 00:13:41,361 - Who knows about this at headquarters? - Command is well aware of the situation. 164 00:13:41,446 --> 00:13:46,492 While there was some initial concern, they feel that the cases we're gonna bring in... 165 00:13:46,576 --> 00:13:48,994 - Cases? - Yeah, prosecutions, sure. 166 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:51,788 Your officers say no one's being locked up. 167 00:13:51,873 --> 00:13:55,959 My troops are only pushing the trafficking to designated areas. 168 00:13:56,044 --> 00:13:59,838 They're ignorant of the investigation. That's run out of CID. 169 00:13:59,923 --> 00:14:02,591 Yeah? Who's the lead detective? 170 00:14:03,051 --> 00:14:07,137 Look. I already said more than I should. 171 00:14:07,222 --> 00:14:11,475 The bottom line is, you start throwing calls around now, 172 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,435 they're gonna think there's a leak. 173 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,940 They'll come up on the case and we won't get all we can out of this good work. 174 00:14:18,024 --> 00:14:22,528 You're telling me all this is an enforcement strategy? 175 00:14:22,612 --> 00:14:25,197 What the hell else could it be? 176 00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:28,617 You think we would actually let this happen otherwise? 177 00:14:28,701 --> 00:14:32,663 Come on, Banisky. I mean, look. Look at this mess. 178 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:35,624 Any other reporter gets on it... 179 00:14:37,085 --> 00:14:41,922 I give it to you, and you run with it right then. Absolutely. 180 00:14:42,674 --> 00:14:46,051 A week. But then I gotta run something, no matter what. 181 00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:49,972 - Purple Haze, Purple Haze. - It's understood. 182 00:14:53,142 --> 00:14:55,936 So, brother, what brought you back? 183 00:14:56,020 --> 00:14:59,565 It disturbs me to leave business unfinished. 184 00:14:59,649 --> 00:15:03,068 Heard you was shot before you even got started down here. 185 00:15:03,152 --> 00:15:04,987 Not like you to get played. 186 00:15:05,071 --> 00:15:06,905 Betrayed, you mean. 187 00:15:06,990 --> 00:15:09,074 I am looking for the man they sent. 188 00:15:09,158 --> 00:15:12,869 From his accent, he's home-grown, raised on the street. 189 00:15:12,954 --> 00:15:16,415 Skilled, intelligent, late 20s, dark, 190 00:15:16,499 --> 00:15:19,793 but with a scar across his face, like so. 191 00:15:21,004 --> 00:15:24,006 - You down with this nigger? - I know him. 192 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:25,716 Not to speak to. 193 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,636 But you can't be anywhere near the game and not know the motherfucker. 194 00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,180 He with Barksdale? 195 00:15:32,390 --> 00:15:33,890 He with himself. 196 00:15:33,975 --> 00:15:37,102 Except for when he running with a young boy or two. 197 00:15:38,896 --> 00:15:42,065 It should be all about money. 198 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:44,192 I know. Dialling for dollars. 199 00:15:44,402 --> 00:15:49,072 Don't stop until you hit your numbers. We'll need a million just for television. 200 00:15:49,157 --> 00:15:53,660 - You really think this is doable? - The odds aren't great, but, yeah. 201 00:15:53,745 --> 00:15:57,956 As long as the thousand things that can go wrong don't go wrong. 202 00:15:58,041 --> 00:16:01,084 - Even for a white guy? - Even for a white guy. 203 00:16:01,169 --> 00:16:03,086 Speaking of which, 204 00:16:03,171 --> 00:16:06,632 I notice a certain monochromatic effect here. 205 00:16:06,716 --> 00:16:10,177 One thing we're gonna need is black faces 206 00:16:10,261 --> 00:16:12,429 and we're gonna need them in prominent positions. 207 00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:15,766 Right. Start thinking about endorsement by black leaders. 208 00:16:15,850 --> 00:16:18,769 Ministers, community people, elected officials. 209 00:16:18,853 --> 00:16:20,604 Here comes the hard part. 210 00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:24,024 Splitting the black vote is the only way to make the math work. 211 00:16:24,651 --> 00:16:29,488 So, Tony Gray's gotta get in the race and he's gotta stay viable in the race. 212 00:16:29,572 --> 00:16:32,658 - Guy's a lightweight, ain't he? - He's a good guy. 213 00:16:32,742 --> 00:16:37,496 Great. He's a good guy, but we need him to siphon votes from Royce. 214 00:16:37,580 --> 00:16:40,207 I don't know. This thing with Tony... 215 00:16:40,416 --> 00:16:43,460 It's not personal, Tommy. It's politics. 216 00:16:44,545 --> 00:16:46,755 Live with it, or lose. 217 00:16:49,592 --> 00:16:53,845 Hey, yo. That boy with the sharp nose, he going to the Apollo. 218 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:56,890 - The Apollo? - He need two tickets. 219 00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:59,142 Tweety Bird working that. 220 00:16:59,227 --> 00:17:02,062 How many times I tell you not to use names? 221 00:17:02,146 --> 00:17:05,440 - So I holler at you? - Yeah. All right. 222 00:17:06,693 --> 00:17:09,861 - Apollo, like the theater? - Like 125th Street. 223 00:17:09,946 --> 00:17:13,699 125 grams. Two tickets means "twice that". 224 00:17:13,783 --> 00:17:16,868 - The only new code is Hamsterdam. - Hamsterdam. 225 00:17:16,953 --> 00:17:20,497 It might have something to do with the stash house. 226 00:17:20,581 --> 00:17:24,126 I'm gonna hook up with Kima, catch the Tweety Bird meet. 227 00:17:24,836 --> 00:17:28,839 - You're happy with what we're getting? - Another week of this 228 00:17:28,923 --> 00:17:34,094 and we'll have their network fleshed out and plenty more phones to go up on. 229 00:17:34,178 --> 00:17:37,013 I need a moment with the detectives. 230 00:17:37,098 --> 00:17:38,598 Sure. 231 00:17:42,228 --> 00:17:43,979 IID picked up Prez's shooting. 232 00:17:44,063 --> 00:17:47,691 The racial thing alone is tense enough that they gotta react. 233 00:17:47,775 --> 00:17:49,735 No luck at all to that boy. 234 00:17:51,154 --> 00:17:53,572 For the supervisor's report, 235 00:17:53,656 --> 00:17:55,907 I need to ask if either of you had any indication 236 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:58,368 that Prez harbored racial prejudices. 237 00:17:58,453 --> 00:18:02,497 Well, he harbored some weird shit, no doubt, but I never got a racial vibe. 238 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:05,500 Lieutenant, you seriously asking? 239 00:18:12,008 --> 00:18:15,093 You think Waggoner gets shot if he's white? 240 00:18:15,178 --> 00:18:19,931 - Description called for a number one male. - I'm just saying. 241 00:18:22,185 --> 00:18:26,563 The good Lord set Sunday morning aside for churchgoing. 242 00:18:26,647 --> 00:18:31,985 Even Kenny Bird and Peanut had the good sense to respect the truce. 243 00:18:32,612 --> 00:18:35,030 You know them Barksdales sent a hat? 244 00:18:36,073 --> 00:18:37,824 A church crown? 245 00:18:37,909 --> 00:18:40,786 Walked up, rang the bell, and set it down on the porch. 246 00:18:40,870 --> 00:18:42,788 Cos they shamed. 247 00:18:44,665 --> 00:18:49,503 - Is Miss Josephine mending? - She bruised up still, but she all right. 248 00:18:49,587 --> 00:18:53,048 - But you ain't. - Not until I settle this for good. 249 00:19:00,181 --> 00:19:02,933 I want you to go inside my bank and spread the word. 250 00:19:03,017 --> 00:19:05,811 Omar paying cash to get at them people, you feel me? 251 00:19:05,895 --> 00:19:08,438 - Save your money. - I got to do this. 252 00:19:08,523 --> 00:19:11,066 I'm saying you ain't got to pay. 253 00:19:13,903 --> 00:19:15,904 Thomkins, up on McCulloh. 254 00:19:17,573 --> 00:19:20,408 - What, the funeral home? - Mm. 255 00:19:21,911 --> 00:19:25,247 You mean all this time you had a scope on them clowns, 256 00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:29,209 - and you ain't let loose a word. - I was looking out for you. 257 00:19:29,418 --> 00:19:33,672 Fact is, your chances of going up against that mob and coming back 258 00:19:33,756 --> 00:19:35,966 is as slim as a garter snake. 259 00:19:39,971 --> 00:19:41,972 I can't help that now, Butch. 260 00:19:47,937 --> 00:19:49,980 What the fuck? Where's my people? 261 00:19:50,064 --> 00:19:52,566 Slim Charles pulled them. Hired new muscle. 262 00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:54,985 Slim Charles? When the fuck did he...? 263 00:19:56,779 --> 00:20:00,156 - How's the count? - Down bad for the third straight week. 264 00:20:00,241 --> 00:20:04,578 And the shelf life of the shit we got, it ain't gonna last, String. 265 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:14,462 I know. Slim said they're to stick to you for protection. 266 00:20:19,802 --> 00:20:22,220 - Give it here! - Nice shot. 267 00:20:22,430 --> 00:20:26,766 - Dribble it back out. Get your dribble on. - Fucking hack. 268 00:20:26,851 --> 00:20:30,812 Yo, yo, easy, easy. Y'all just hacking my man up. 269 00:20:30,897 --> 00:20:32,731 Foul machine. 270 00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:36,902 Nice drive. 271 00:20:39,822 --> 00:20:43,867 - Kind of unschooled, ain't they? - You cherry-picking! 272 00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:46,494 That meant as just a casual, "Fuck you", 273 00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:49,539 or are you looking to maybe help out here? 274 00:20:49,624 --> 00:20:51,583 I'm gonna give it a try. 275 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:54,794 I'm looking to get some kids interested in boxing. 276 00:20:56,172 --> 00:20:57,213 Boxing? 277 00:20:59,467 --> 00:21:02,928 Look here. This is my time-out corner. 278 00:21:03,012 --> 00:21:06,681 Where I send children who can't play nice together. 279 00:21:06,766 --> 00:21:09,517 Listen up. This man's starting a boxing program. 280 00:21:09,602 --> 00:21:12,520 Looking at y'all, signing on might be a good thing. 281 00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:13,939 You need it. 282 00:21:14,023 --> 00:21:17,067 The only thing he know how to do with his fist is wrap it around his cock. 283 00:21:17,151 --> 00:21:19,194 Fuck you, man! Gonna kick your ass! 284 00:21:19,403 --> 00:21:23,615 - Come on, motherfucker, you ain't shit. - Sit down, sit down. 285 00:21:23,699 --> 00:21:26,493 - Fucking faggot! - Don't call me a faggot, faggot! 286 00:21:26,577 --> 00:21:28,536 Sit down. 287 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:33,583 Come on, man. Sit down, man. Sit down. 288 00:21:35,878 --> 00:21:41,716 My man, you dropping your right. If young 'un there was trained, he'd whip you. 289 00:21:41,801 --> 00:21:43,885 Look like he the one that got beat. 290 00:21:46,055 --> 00:21:48,515 Stand up, let me show you something. 291 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,726 Come on, man. I ain't gonna hurt you. 292 00:21:53,437 --> 00:21:57,065 Yellow tops, yellow tops, got them yellow tops. Yellow tops. 293 00:21:58,234 --> 00:22:02,070 See that? All right, sit down. 294 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:05,156 Look, if y'all wanna learn more... 295 00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:08,952 I got a gym down on Gilmor in the old tire plant. 296 00:22:09,745 --> 00:22:12,163 Y'all are all welcome. All right? 297 00:22:28,055 --> 00:22:30,890 I saw Tweety Bird parked up there. 298 00:22:30,975 --> 00:22:33,226 All we gotta do is wait for the re-up. 299 00:22:33,436 --> 00:22:37,647 I hope these fucks don't dick around and make us sit here all day. 300 00:22:37,732 --> 00:22:39,190 What, this is eating at you? 301 00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:42,736 No, I'm good. 302 00:22:44,030 --> 00:22:45,864 Yeah, I can see that. 303 00:22:49,118 --> 00:22:51,703 Remember that woman I was talking about? 304 00:22:51,787 --> 00:22:54,873 Politician woman? How's it going? 305 00:22:54,957 --> 00:22:56,958 It ain't. Turned to shit. 306 00:23:00,796 --> 00:23:04,841 Feel like I don't even belong to any world that even fucking matters. 307 00:23:04,925 --> 00:23:07,135 Cos you're a cop? 308 00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:09,220 No, it's not just that. 309 00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:14,559 I went to meet her once. She was in a hotel room, the top floor. 310 00:23:14,643 --> 00:23:16,394 I punched the button on the elevator. 311 00:23:16,479 --> 00:23:19,230 It doesn't even go there, you need some special key 312 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,400 to even get to that special fucking floor. 313 00:23:22,485 --> 00:23:25,987 So I go to the front desk, some sneering fuck calls upstairs, 314 00:23:26,072 --> 00:23:28,656 to give me permission to go get laid. 315 00:23:30,159 --> 00:23:31,910 I listen to the shit she talks about, 316 00:23:31,994 --> 00:23:35,413 first time in my life, I feel like a fucking doormat. 317 00:23:35,498 --> 00:23:39,959 Like anyone with any smarts would do something else with his life, you know? 318 00:23:40,044 --> 00:23:42,378 Earn money or... 319 00:23:42,463 --> 00:23:43,963 get elected. 320 00:23:44,757 --> 00:23:48,426 Like I'm just a breathing machine for my fucking dick. 321 00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:52,472 I'm serious. 322 00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:56,893 I'm the smartest asshole in three districts and she looks at me like I'm stupid, 323 00:23:56,977 --> 00:24:01,147 playing some stupid game for stupid penny-ante stakes. 324 00:24:03,067 --> 00:24:05,568 She fucking looks through me, Kima. 325 00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:19,499 - Stay in the car. - Tall man said to stick to you like... 326 00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:22,919 Tall man gonna be there when I stomp on your fucking head? 327 00:24:23,003 --> 00:24:24,838 Stay in the car. 328 00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:38,476 Yo, make it short, man, I got a meet to make. 329 00:24:38,561 --> 00:24:40,103 Fuck the meet! 330 00:24:40,187 --> 00:24:42,689 You harder to get at than my fat wife's cunt. 331 00:24:42,773 --> 00:24:46,985 Yeah, you high-and-mighty Barksdales can afford to sit back and play low-key. 332 00:24:47,069 --> 00:24:49,070 But some of us work for a living. 333 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:51,823 Think this mess ain't fucking up our business? 334 00:24:51,907 --> 00:24:56,119 So Avon's willing to sit down and talk with Marlo, work this shit out? 335 00:24:58,956 --> 00:25:02,417 Well, if that don't happen, String, I got you some bad news. 336 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,169 Me and the boys had us a sit-down. 337 00:25:04,253 --> 00:25:08,173 Got a quorum and took a vote that says if y'all don't quit this war, 338 00:25:08,257 --> 00:25:10,008 we have a mind to shut you out. 339 00:25:10,092 --> 00:25:12,844 And when I say out, String, I mean out the package. 340 00:25:12,928 --> 00:25:15,054 The boys don't wanna extend the good shit 341 00:25:15,139 --> 00:25:18,016 if it keeps your people out on them corners, banging. 342 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:22,020 - What about the boy? What he say? - Vinson say Marlo willing to talk 343 00:25:22,104 --> 00:25:23,897 if he can keep his corners. 344 00:25:25,983 --> 00:25:28,735 Now hear me on this, String, we ain't no ingrates. 345 00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:31,529 We all recognize your contribute to the co-op. 346 00:25:31,614 --> 00:25:33,656 But the feeling is this. 347 00:25:33,741 --> 00:25:39,913 It ain't right for you to be at the head of our table when you can't call off your dog. 348 00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:43,041 Call it a crisis of leadership. 349 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:50,798 You're gonna tell 'em? 350 00:25:50,883 --> 00:25:56,095 Got to. Between the health workers, the reporter and my own pissed-off troops, 351 00:25:56,180 --> 00:26:00,141 it's gonna come out. Either tomorrow or the next day. 352 00:26:00,226 --> 00:26:03,728 We should make a few arrests, make it look tactical. 353 00:26:03,812 --> 00:26:05,521 No. 354 00:26:05,606 --> 00:26:09,984 You know what happens if we start locking people up in Hamsterdam? 355 00:26:10,069 --> 00:26:14,072 The whole rest of the district goes back to being a shithole. 356 00:26:14,156 --> 00:26:15,657 No. 357 00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:19,744 If Rawls is gonna hand me my ass, 358 00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:22,830 at least give me a chance to tell the man my story first. 359 00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:40,139 Devonne! 360 00:26:44,103 --> 00:26:47,438 What was that? 361 00:26:55,781 --> 00:26:58,074 It needed doing. 362 00:26:58,158 --> 00:27:00,451 Somebody just got shot! 363 00:27:03,789 --> 00:27:06,791 I should give the snitch that clued us to the Denali. 364 00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:09,794 I mean, we didn't get Marlo, but still... 365 00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:12,922 No, he kept his end up. Go it all. 366 00:27:13,007 --> 00:27:18,094 - Avon, I need a word, man. - Get them niggers out of here, man. 367 00:27:19,722 --> 00:27:23,641 Check it out. This shit got the kill range of, like, 50 metres. 368 00:27:24,518 --> 00:27:28,062 Slim got this from some soldier coming back from wherever. 369 00:27:32,234 --> 00:27:34,944 You know, I spoke to Prop Joe's people. 370 00:27:35,029 --> 00:27:37,822 - They think we can work this out. - A sit-down? 371 00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:42,493 It's the perfect time for it, man. You done represented yourself, man. 372 00:27:42,578 --> 00:27:47,081 Your name ringing out now that you taken Marlo down a notch or two. 373 00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:51,127 Just let me get this right. Then we get back to business as usual. 374 00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:55,548 They gonna cut us out! Prop Joe and them voted. They gonna cut us out. 375 00:27:55,632 --> 00:28:00,845 So even if we win, we lose, cos we ain't gonna have no product to put on them corners. 376 00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:05,641 Look at you. Fucking shooting dope without a fucking needle right now, man, 377 00:28:05,726 --> 00:28:08,895 getting high on a power trip, playing fucking soldier. 378 00:28:08,979 --> 00:28:13,191 You gotta sit back and think about our business. What the fuck you want? 379 00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:22,450 That motherfucker. He good. 380 00:28:23,077 --> 00:28:25,244 What happened? 381 00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:33,878 You know, you gotta think about what we got in this game for, man. 382 00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:39,175 Was it so our names could ring out on some fucking ghetto street corners, man? 383 00:28:39,259 --> 00:28:42,261 No, there's games beyond the fucking game. 384 00:28:43,514 --> 00:28:46,474 Avon, look, you and me, we brothers, B. 385 00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:49,185 We didn't think we'd make it this fucking far 386 00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:52,647 but we standing here with the whole world at our feet. 387 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:55,608 The whole world, man, not these fucking corners. 388 00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:57,902 The whole world, B. 389 00:28:57,986 --> 00:28:59,862 You know what Slim just told me? 390 00:29:01,782 --> 00:29:04,158 Devonne come up dead. 391 00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:08,871 She was shot, one in the mouth, one in each tit. 392 00:29:12,126 --> 00:29:14,627 You still wanna talk truce, String? 393 00:29:17,673 --> 00:29:23,761 You right when you say I need to learn more discipline. But this? You could do this better. 394 00:29:23,846 --> 00:29:27,765 You're the perfect bait, Lamar. They'll see you as conflicted. 395 00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:30,393 Your homophobia is so visceral. 396 00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:35,690 You see that? I ain't even stepped inside the joint and you calling me a cocksucker already. 397 00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:06,637 You in the right place? 398 00:30:06,722 --> 00:30:09,056 I'm looking for someone named Omar. 399 00:30:09,141 --> 00:30:12,059 No last name. Scar across his face and shit. 400 00:30:12,144 --> 00:30:13,978 Scarface named Omar? 401 00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:16,481 Sounds different, but I can't help you. 402 00:30:16,565 --> 00:30:18,232 You drinking? 403 00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:25,948 Maybe you wait four years. 404 00:30:26,909 --> 00:30:29,660 No. It has to be now. 405 00:30:30,704 --> 00:30:34,248 It's gonna be a three-way, and Tony's gonna go this time. 406 00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:38,544 I'm just... 407 00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:43,090 Tony's my oldest friend on the council. 408 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:45,885 Couldn't you go talk to him first? 409 00:30:45,969 --> 00:30:49,722 Put it on the table? You know, "May the best man win"? 410 00:30:49,806 --> 00:30:51,807 Truth is... 411 00:30:53,143 --> 00:30:56,604 he can't win alone against Royce, either. 412 00:30:57,439 --> 00:31:00,691 He's got the bumper stickers but not much else. 413 00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:02,777 Wants to run on education. 414 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:07,573 I mean, where do you go with that? 415 00:31:09,535 --> 00:31:12,787 If I level with Tony and he gets out, then I can't win. 416 00:31:13,789 --> 00:31:15,790 I need him in the race. 417 00:31:22,756 --> 00:31:25,925 I feel like shit. I really do. 418 00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:55,621 Don't look like much. 419 00:31:55,706 --> 00:31:57,915 - This don't look like shit. - Hell, yeah. 420 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,501 - This some weak-ass shit right here. - Yeah. 421 00:32:00,586 --> 00:32:03,254 Man, we got lockers, got gear. 422 00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:05,756 - It's all peeling and shit. - Go long. 423 00:32:07,009 --> 00:32:09,176 Pass it here. 424 00:32:12,889 --> 00:32:16,767 - You getting me all dirty and shit. - Fuck your jeans. 425 00:32:16,852 --> 00:32:18,269 - Fuck you. - Bitch. 426 00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:21,105 We clocked the meet with Tweety Bird, 427 00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:25,568 tracked him to a possible stash house, then home to nest in Woodlawn. 428 00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:27,028 Got photos, his tags... 429 00:32:29,698 --> 00:32:32,408 - What happened? - They ditched their phones. 430 00:32:32,492 --> 00:32:36,078 The DNRs and the wire all died around 3:00. 431 00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:38,748 We were online just shy of 30 hours. 432 00:32:40,709 --> 00:32:43,127 I thought we had them for a couple of weeks. 433 00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:46,088 Not anymore. It's a week at best. 434 00:32:46,173 --> 00:32:50,176 We just spent $9,000 and change for 18 intercepts, 435 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:52,637 five of them non-pertinent. 436 00:32:53,847 --> 00:32:56,474 That's close to $700 per drug call. 437 00:32:56,558 --> 00:32:59,977 Shouldn't we get back on Bernard and his girl? 438 00:33:00,062 --> 00:33:01,854 I mean, get a line on the new phones at least. 439 00:33:01,938 --> 00:33:05,900 But that'll only give us what we just had, 30 hours. 440 00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:10,571 Any way to get ourselves ahead of the curve? 441 00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:13,866 If there were some way to pre-wiretap the burners. 442 00:33:14,242 --> 00:33:16,827 What then? Stick them on a rack at Baba-whatever 443 00:33:16,912 --> 00:33:19,497 and wait for Bernard to show up? 444 00:33:19,581 --> 00:33:21,248 The problem is the wireless people. 445 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:24,460 They claim it takes four days to process a court order, 446 00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:27,672 and that's only after I threatened to go public on them. 447 00:33:27,756 --> 00:33:30,716 Four days to hit a couple of keystrokes. Bullshit. 448 00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:34,053 Well, what if... 449 00:33:36,556 --> 00:33:38,015 No way. 450 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:42,478 I know what you're thinking. I just thought the same fucking thing. 451 00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:47,983 All right, when I tell you, put your left foot out, boy. 452 00:33:48,902 --> 00:33:52,029 Unc patting my man's feet. He smelling up my ass, too. 453 00:33:52,114 --> 00:33:54,824 Stop with the clowning, man. 454 00:33:54,908 --> 00:33:57,493 How the fuck you gonna learn something, acting like a fool? 455 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:01,664 Ain't no big mystery why your face got tattooed. 456 00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:05,960 He can't talk to you like that. I seen his raggedy ass at the spot, copping vials. 457 00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,129 Yeah, probably pimps his ass, too. 458 00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:11,882 - Listen, motherfucker... - Yeah, bitch, touch me. 459 00:34:11,967 --> 00:34:13,968 Touch a juvenile, see what happen. 460 00:34:15,637 --> 00:34:18,597 Let's bounce. Bitch-ass motherfucker. 461 00:34:18,682 --> 00:34:19,807 Faggot. 462 00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:22,518 - Punk-ass nigger. - Chump ass. 463 00:34:31,153 --> 00:34:33,112 - Lester! - Mm? 464 00:34:38,827 --> 00:34:42,705 - First time I seen him smoking. - Tough habit. 465 00:34:42,789 --> 00:34:44,957 And pacing like a motherfuck, too. 466 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:49,128 Heavy is the head that wears the crown. 467 00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:41,055 Bay Wireless Connect 411. What city and state? 468 00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:43,182 Baltimore, Maryland. 469 00:35:45,227 --> 00:35:49,146 - How may I help you? - Baltimore police. 470 00:35:49,231 --> 00:35:53,192 - Any particular department? - Western District police. 471 00:35:54,236 --> 00:35:58,072 - Is this an emergency? - No. Non-emergency. 472 00:35:59,533 --> 00:36:01,784 Man, they did you with the bum rush. 473 00:36:02,744 --> 00:36:07,039 That's what they do. They past experts at plucking nerves. 474 00:36:08,041 --> 00:36:10,584 You just gotta remember they barely house-broke. 475 00:36:10,669 --> 00:36:15,923 I'm telling you, man, you wouldn't believe it. They was all wild and shit. Wouldn't listen. 476 00:36:16,007 --> 00:36:18,133 Andre, I want you to crowd him. 477 00:36:18,218 --> 00:36:19,969 Yes, sir. I'll crowd him. 478 00:36:28,562 --> 00:36:30,521 Time! 479 00:36:32,107 --> 00:36:35,067 You just gotta set your mind to stick with it. 480 00:36:36,611 --> 00:36:39,864 When those two stumbled in here, they was wild as wild. 481 00:36:39,948 --> 00:36:44,118 Now they come in every day. "Yes, sir. No, sir." 482 00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:47,955 Still pretty rough, but with the right breaks, they gonna make it. 483 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:52,626 - How? - Well, try as they might, I won't let them fail. 484 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,881 When you do that, it messes with their mind. 485 00:36:56,965 --> 00:37:01,176 Pretty soon, they run out of their little bag of tricks. 486 00:37:03,763 --> 00:37:05,973 What do you think of that? 487 00:37:08,894 --> 00:37:13,147 - Pretty weak. - He ain't weak. That's the starting point. 488 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:22,573 No, no, I can't put a name on him. 489 00:37:23,283 --> 00:37:25,951 But I seen him around. He's off the West Side. 490 00:37:26,036 --> 00:37:29,413 He ain't no drug dealer, unless he's doing it on the QT. 491 00:37:29,497 --> 00:37:31,749 You can't go at him, game him? 492 00:37:31,833 --> 00:37:34,877 I don't know, Kima. I mean, it'd be pressing. 493 00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:36,420 What about her? 494 00:37:36,504 --> 00:37:38,923 Little Squeak off of Lanvale. 495 00:37:39,007 --> 00:37:42,968 Yeah, she used to boost for Turtle Wells' old mob. 496 00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:47,473 She's lost a bit of weight, too. Looking a lot better than I remember. 497 00:37:47,557 --> 00:37:49,767 And I remember a lot about that girl. 498 00:37:49,851 --> 00:37:53,437 Bubs, is there anybody West Side you don't know? 499 00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:55,522 Just citizens and shit. 500 00:37:58,026 --> 00:38:00,945 - My CI knows the girl. - He can work her? 501 00:38:01,029 --> 00:38:04,156 - He's smooth, yeah. - Check this. 502 00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:10,663 That's Western District. 503 00:38:10,747 --> 00:38:14,541 - Stringer's calling the Western? - Maybe he's surrendering. 504 00:38:14,626 --> 00:38:18,796 After all the work we've done, I'd never forgive the son of a bitch. 505 00:38:21,591 --> 00:38:24,259 Go down. Go down and out. 506 00:38:28,598 --> 00:38:30,599 Sweet! Look at the hands! 507 00:38:36,982 --> 00:38:41,944 - What's up? My knuckleheads didn't post? - Yeah, they did, but they left. 508 00:38:44,072 --> 00:38:45,906 Over here! 509 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:51,662 Looking for a discount, old man? 510 00:38:52,247 --> 00:38:55,874 - No, I'm looking for you. - Why, something come up missing? 511 00:38:55,959 --> 00:38:58,502 Came past to apologize. 512 00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:02,464 I'm new at this coaching thing and got us off on the wrong foot. 513 00:39:02,549 --> 00:39:06,844 I ain't gonna leave it between us, with you thinking I gave up on y'all. 514 00:39:06,928 --> 00:39:10,806 Motherfucker's memory weak as shit. We the one bailed out on him. 515 00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:15,269 Anyway, I'm here now. 516 00:39:20,942 --> 00:39:24,695 You wanna sell drug traffickers cellphones 517 00:39:24,779 --> 00:39:26,989 that are pre-approved for telephonic intercepts. 518 00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:31,702 And you want me to sign off on court-ordered taps on phones that, 519 00:39:31,786 --> 00:39:33,787 at the time I'm signing the order, 520 00:39:33,872 --> 00:39:37,708 have not been used for any illegal activity whatsoever. 521 00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:43,630 If you're looking for precedents, Your Honor, there aren't any. It's circumstantial PC at best. 522 00:39:48,553 --> 00:39:50,596 What the hell, let's do it. 523 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:55,142 Let the Court of Appeals sort it out, if it even gets that far. 524 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:06,070 Quite the legal mind. 525 00:40:06,154 --> 00:40:07,654 Hmm. 526 00:40:32,013 --> 00:40:33,597 Buy you a drink? 527 00:40:33,681 --> 00:40:36,975 - Why the fuck you coming up behind me? - I'm sorry. 528 00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:59,123 - Bushy top. - I didn't know if I'd find you here so late. 529 00:40:59,207 --> 00:41:01,583 Just getting ready for COMSTAT tomorrow. 530 00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:03,752 So what's up, Major? 531 00:41:07,549 --> 00:41:10,592 So your unit is still working a drug war, right? 532 00:41:10,677 --> 00:41:12,219 Working it hard. 533 00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:16,056 Does the name Avon Barksdale do anything for you? 534 00:41:17,058 --> 00:41:19,143 - He's a player? - He's the main guy. 535 00:41:19,227 --> 00:41:22,020 We thought he was down but he popped up in September. 536 00:41:22,105 --> 00:41:26,525 You add him to the equation, it goes a long way to explaining the violence. 537 00:41:26,609 --> 00:41:30,070 - So it wouldn't be a stretch if he got shot? - You heard he got shot? 538 00:41:31,072 --> 00:41:33,073 You know where? I could run it out. 539 00:41:33,158 --> 00:41:34,408 Ain't gonna make no difference. 540 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:37,995 He didn't post up at any emergency room from what I hear. 541 00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:43,750 I'll be straight with you. We're running wires into his people. 542 00:41:44,627 --> 00:41:49,131 But we're barely above the street. We haven't even put an eyeball on him. 543 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,264 Supposed to be laying his head there. I need you to check that out, 544 00:41:57,473 --> 00:42:00,017 - get back to me as soon as you can. - You got a CI? 545 00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:03,770 You wanna see if your man's creds are bona fide. 546 00:42:03,855 --> 00:42:08,567 Don't try to play me, bushy top. I didn't say male. I didn't say female. 547 00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:11,862 All right. I'll get surveillance going right away. 548 00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:15,532 - Barksdale's name is on the paperwork. - No shit. 549 00:42:17,869 --> 00:42:21,705 Now, you get me a confirmation on that and call me back on the cell. 550 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:26,627 - Good luck tomorrow. - Yeah, right. 551 00:42:56,074 --> 00:42:57,574 Sham. 552 00:42:59,494 --> 00:43:00,702 Shamrock. 553 00:43:02,497 --> 00:43:05,916 Run these over to Levy for me. Tell him I want a read on it. 554 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,918 A read? 555 00:43:08,002 --> 00:43:11,546 Fresh eyes. Tell him I'll call him tomorrow. 556 00:43:11,631 --> 00:43:13,298 All right. 557 00:43:19,264 --> 00:43:21,098 Come on, Mr. Bodyguard. 558 00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:53,297 So we're gonna come at her like that. 559 00:43:53,506 --> 00:43:55,549 You're giving me phones to sell? 560 00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:58,760 - The money comes back, Bubs. - All of it? 561 00:44:01,806 --> 00:44:03,140 Hey. 562 00:44:03,850 --> 00:44:06,643 - Is that Beadie Russell? - Looks like. 563 00:44:08,688 --> 00:44:10,939 Yo, you can't turn from this lane! 564 00:44:16,612 --> 00:44:18,822 Sweet Beatrice Russell...! 565 00:44:22,535 --> 00:44:24,536 I was just gonna say hey. 566 00:44:29,125 --> 00:44:31,501 North and Pulaski. 567 00:44:31,586 --> 00:44:35,756 That photo was taken at 4pm, prime time for the street-level dealer. 568 00:44:36,924 --> 00:44:38,759 That is Riggs and Calhoun. 569 00:44:40,011 --> 00:44:41,845 Mount and Fayette. 570 00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:45,932 Edmondson and Brice. That's your old foot post, Deputy. 571 00:44:46,017 --> 00:44:48,185 I know where it is, Major. 572 00:44:48,269 --> 00:44:51,021 What I don't know and very much want to know 573 00:44:51,105 --> 00:44:53,732 is where is the West Baltimore drug trade? 574 00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:58,487 I hope, Major, these are not staged photographs you're showing us. 575 00:44:58,571 --> 00:45:03,200 No, sir, they are not. No, Deputy, I found another approach. 576 00:45:03,284 --> 00:45:05,452 I'm all ears, Bunny. 577 00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:10,207 - I moved them off the corners. - God damn it! Major, I can see that. 578 00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:13,960 What I want to know is how the fuck you managed to move them 579 00:45:14,045 --> 00:45:15,796 and where the fuck they are now. 580 00:45:17,048 --> 00:45:18,715 Deputy... 581 00:45:19,967 --> 00:45:23,053 I don't know quite how to put this, but we... 582 00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:25,764 I mean, I... 583 00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:31,019 I began by identifying those areas where drug trafficking was least harmful. 584 00:45:31,104 --> 00:45:34,564 I pushed all street-level dealing towards those areas. 585 00:45:34,649 --> 00:45:40,487 Now, at first, dealing with the juveniles on them corners, I had little success. 586 00:45:41,072 --> 00:45:43,740 But ultimately, 587 00:45:43,825 --> 00:45:47,327 by rounding up all the mid-level dealers in my district, 588 00:45:47,495 --> 00:45:49,996 and making them an offer they couldn't refuse, I... 589 00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:53,500 - You made them an offer? - Yes, sir. 590 00:45:56,546 --> 00:46:01,174 Either they move their people to one of three designated areas 591 00:46:02,009 --> 00:46:05,220 where drug enforcement was not a district priority, 592 00:46:05,847 --> 00:46:09,182 or they face the wrath of every able-bodied soul in my district. 593 00:46:12,812 --> 00:46:14,729 Major, I don't understand. 594 00:46:14,814 --> 00:46:19,067 The only time we can hold a drug corner is when we assign officers to stand there. 595 00:46:19,152 --> 00:46:23,071 Your slides don't suggest any concerted deployment on any corners. 596 00:46:23,156 --> 00:46:27,659 - How were you able to... - You nit, don't you see what he's done? 597 00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:30,162 He's legalised drugs! 598 00:46:30,246 --> 00:46:33,457 Actually, I elected to ignore them. 599 00:46:33,541 --> 00:46:37,043 You lost your fucking mind. He's lost his fucking mind. 600 00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:41,465 You, in my office. Now! 601 00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:43,550 OK. 602 00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:44,968 That's it, gentlemen. 603 00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:14,247 - She's a go. - Showtime, Bubs. 604 00:47:27,512 --> 00:47:29,846 Oh, shit. 605 00:47:29,931 --> 00:47:32,682 - Sister Squeak. - Bottom-end Bubbles. 606 00:47:32,767 --> 00:47:35,018 Where you been, girl? Been a long time. 607 00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:36,061 T-shirts? 608 00:47:36,145 --> 00:47:39,981 - What the hell kind of money is in T-shirts? - Girl, you just don't know. 609 00:47:40,066 --> 00:47:43,193 How's your game? I heard you was locked up. 610 00:47:43,277 --> 00:47:45,737 Shit, I got some things going. 611 00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:48,532 - I can see that. - How's he doing? 612 00:47:48,616 --> 00:47:52,994 - Talk a cat off a fish cart. - All right, Bubs, I gotta get. 613 00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:55,622 I'll see you later on. 614 00:47:56,999 --> 00:47:58,792 Yo, Squeak, Squeak. 615 00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:03,505 I about forgot. I can sell you one of these real cheap, if you got use for the shit. 616 00:48:07,301 --> 00:48:09,719 I'm fucking dead. 617 00:48:09,804 --> 00:48:13,557 You mean, we're fucking dead. We're all dead behind this shit. 618 00:48:13,641 --> 00:48:14,975 Jesus Christ! 619 00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:18,144 What I did, I did knowingly and on my own. 620 00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:20,897 My men had nothing to do with this. 621 00:48:20,982 --> 00:48:23,858 They thought it was part of some elaborate trap. 622 00:48:24,735 --> 00:48:28,029 So if you need me to fall on that sword, I'm good with that. 623 00:48:28,114 --> 00:48:29,948 You're good with it? 624 00:48:30,491 --> 00:48:34,578 You know I got my vacation time, and that's 30 in a couple of months. 625 00:48:34,662 --> 00:48:37,831 So if you need me to fall, I'm ready. 626 00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:42,711 But don't let me hear that you're taking any action against my people. 627 00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:45,463 Because I can lie as good as the next man. 628 00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:47,299 If I have to. 629 00:48:47,508 --> 00:48:49,718 Are you threatening me? 630 00:48:51,721 --> 00:48:54,306 I believe I am, sir. 631 00:48:54,515 --> 00:48:56,099 My apologies. 632 00:48:56,183 --> 00:49:00,312 You cocksucker, I gotta give it to you! A brilliant idea! 633 00:49:00,521 --> 00:49:04,566 Insane and illegal, but stone-fucking brilliant, nonetheless. 634 00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:10,322 After putting my foot up people's asses to decrease the numbers, 635 00:49:10,531 --> 00:49:14,743 he comes in and, in one stroke, gets a fucking 14% decrease. 636 00:49:15,578 --> 00:49:19,205 Fucking shame it's gonna end our careers, but still... 637 00:49:20,249 --> 00:49:23,543 Look, y'all probably tired of hearing from me, but... 638 00:49:28,132 --> 00:49:30,967 I brought these...letters... 639 00:49:31,969 --> 00:49:36,765 from community associations, ministers, business people, citizens. 640 00:49:36,849 --> 00:49:39,476 And they're all positive. 641 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,979 They're all happy that the dealers are off the corners. 642 00:49:43,064 --> 00:49:47,942 You think that's gonna save our asses, do you? 643 00:49:49,028 --> 00:49:54,074 No, I guess not. But that and my badge is all I got. 644 00:49:54,158 --> 00:49:58,536 I might have your badge, Major, but not today. 645 00:49:58,621 --> 00:50:04,751 I don't wanna draw any attention to this shit before we're ready to speak to it. 646 00:50:05,836 --> 00:50:08,004 So if you have any vacation time, 647 00:50:08,089 --> 00:50:09,923 you're taking it now. 648 00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:15,679 Do not report for a shift until notified. 649 00:50:26,107 --> 00:50:28,233 Oh, er... 650 00:50:28,317 --> 00:50:30,694 One more thing, sir. 651 00:50:31,237 --> 00:50:34,614 A Sun reporter is aware of my deployment. 652 00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:37,826 I told him an investigation was pending. 653 00:50:37,910 --> 00:50:39,828 He promised to delay the article. 654 00:50:39,912 --> 00:50:41,663 How long? 655 00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:44,290 About a week, tops. 656 00:50:50,089 --> 00:50:53,174 I was a superstroke on the pool circuit in the early days, 657 00:50:53,259 --> 00:50:56,094 but mostly it was pickpocketing and short cons. 658 00:50:56,178 --> 00:51:00,098 I did the long-distance card heist before cellphones got popular. 659 00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:04,310 - You crypt numbers? - Yeah, I favored the airports, yeah. 660 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,855 - Can you still read numbers? - What's up? 661 00:51:06,939 --> 00:51:11,776 Your man think I brought bad merchandise? Then we can beat feet right now. 662 00:51:11,861 --> 00:51:15,739 Damn, Bernard, why you acting all CIA? We trying to make money here. 663 00:51:15,823 --> 00:51:19,617 If you had to answer to the people I do, you would be more cautious, too. 664 00:51:19,702 --> 00:51:23,580 I appreciate caution, cos I'm hanging out here, too. 665 00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,667 Give it a go. Use a cellphone. 666 00:51:37,970 --> 00:51:42,515 Marlene, you send that copy off to Paris? Thank you, darling. 667 00:51:43,142 --> 00:51:46,311 I'm not at work. I'm at the airport. The shuttle, yes. 668 00:52:05,539 --> 00:52:08,082 3-1-0... 669 00:52:08,167 --> 00:52:11,085 44-8-16, 670 00:52:11,879 --> 00:52:15,048 91-77-8 671 00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:17,467 3-1-2. 672 00:52:17,551 --> 00:52:19,219 Now, that last number might be a seven. 673 00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:22,096 I'm not too sure with these small keypads and all. 674 00:52:22,181 --> 00:52:23,723 We can do business. 675 00:52:23,808 --> 00:52:25,642 Mm-hm. 676 00:52:27,895 --> 00:52:31,606 That's it. One-two, one-two, one-two. 677 00:52:32,233 --> 00:52:34,108 One-two, that's it. 678 00:52:34,193 --> 00:52:36,194 One-two, there you go. 679 00:52:36,278 --> 00:52:41,157 All right, there it is. Now you getting it. Keep that left hand up. 680 00:52:44,245 --> 00:52:46,120 - All right. - Hey. 681 00:52:47,706 --> 00:52:50,625 All right. Watch your balance. Don't lean forward. 682 00:52:50,709 --> 00:52:53,503 Don't lean too much. Don't lean too forward. Let's go. 683 00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:56,756 Don't lean too forward, that's right. One-two, pivot. 684 00:52:56,841 --> 00:53:00,802 You're kidding. Tell me he's kidding. 685 00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:04,180 You're kidding, right? 686 00:53:04,265 --> 00:53:09,060 - He did it without our knowledge. - Without your knowledge. 687 00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:11,813 Well, that's worse. You're the Commissioner. 688 00:53:11,897 --> 00:53:13,773 Was the Commissioner. 689 00:53:14,650 --> 00:53:18,027 You think the buck's gonna stop in this office, you're wrong. 690 00:53:18,112 --> 00:53:20,029 If I might... 691 00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:23,616 These are letters from people in his district. 692 00:53:23,701 --> 00:53:26,327 Ministers, business people, voters. 693 00:53:27,121 --> 00:53:28,872 All glowing reports. 694 00:53:28,956 --> 00:53:33,293 And there's the 14% reduction in crime in the Western. 695 00:53:34,169 --> 00:53:36,880 That's not an anomaly. 696 00:53:36,964 --> 00:53:38,798 It's hard data. 697 00:53:39,592 --> 00:53:42,218 Now, we can clean it up, make it go away. 698 00:53:42,303 --> 00:53:44,220 The press might already have wind of it 699 00:53:44,305 --> 00:53:48,975 but we can explain that as some sort of a new initiative. 700 00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:51,060 Trap high-end drug dealers. 701 00:53:52,021 --> 00:53:54,105 14%. 702 00:53:54,732 --> 00:53:58,818 If we handle this right, we might all get out from underneath. 703 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:00,987 No mud on anybody. 704 00:54:03,657 --> 00:54:05,658 No. No. 705 00:54:06,827 --> 00:54:11,039 I trusted you, Erv. I really did. You let me down. 706 00:54:11,123 --> 00:54:15,501 Now, this thing goes wrong, no telling the damage. On this, you walk point. 707 00:54:15,586 --> 00:54:19,672 That's the way things work, Erv. You know it as well as I do. 708 00:54:25,095 --> 00:54:27,513 Thank you, Ervin. 709 00:54:27,598 --> 00:54:32,685 I'll be over shortly to see the detailed plan on how this shit gets cleaned up immediately. 710 00:54:48,911 --> 00:54:52,455 If you could call this something other than what it is... 711 00:54:52,539 --> 00:54:54,248 Don't even think it. 712 00:55:00,047 --> 00:55:01,631 The way it works is this. 713 00:55:01,715 --> 00:55:05,093 If you don't re-up the minutes on your cell phone before 60 days, 714 00:55:05,177 --> 00:55:08,888 the wireless company recycles the numbers. That's where I get them. 715 00:55:08,973 --> 00:55:13,476 I put the word out on the street that I'm buying tossed-off burners, paying $2 a pop. 716 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,603 Street people bring me hundreds. 717 00:55:15,688 --> 00:55:21,150 I bring them here to my niece, she juices them up another 200 minutes on a bogus account. 718 00:55:21,235 --> 00:55:25,780 And that automatically extends the life of the phone for another 60 days. 719 00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:29,117 She charges me 20 on each phone on her end. 720 00:55:29,201 --> 00:55:31,744 I double it or more on the street to make mine. 721 00:55:31,829 --> 00:55:33,746 So what you saying? 722 00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:37,834 Baby, a standard Trac phone with 200, maybe 400 minutes on it, 723 00:55:37,918 --> 00:55:39,836 gonna run you 150, 200 easy. 724 00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,673 I charge you an even 100. You clear 50 on each phone. 725 00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:46,175 That's if you got receipts. 726 00:55:46,260 --> 00:55:51,514 I gotta show receipts looking like they from different places, or I can't play. 727 00:55:51,598 --> 00:55:56,310 - Can we accommodate the good man? - Damn, you know I got the bingo tonight. 728 00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:11,034 Look, I ain't sure you wanna be around here, 729 00:56:11,118 --> 00:56:14,162 and I'm damn sure we're getting tired of having you. 730 00:56:14,246 --> 00:56:17,707 I don't wanna be around no bunch of cocksucking faggots. 731 00:56:17,791 --> 00:56:22,003 But I won't stop coming till I run up on Omar. You might want to get the word out. 732 00:56:22,087 --> 00:56:25,715 - For the last time, I don't know him. - Then I'm back tomorrow. 733 00:56:51,033 --> 00:56:53,034 Maybe I can help you? 734 00:56:57,539 --> 00:56:59,499 I don't doubt it for a minute.