1 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:11,010 - Who's got the scene? - Massey and Crutchfield. 2 00:00:11,095 --> 00:00:14,013 Norris is on his way to the morgue. He'll beat the bodies there. 3 00:00:14,098 --> 00:00:16,057 - How about the crime lab? - Can he get enough oxygen? 4 00:00:16,141 --> 00:00:18,935 He's getting the full treatment, boss. 5 00:00:19,019 --> 00:00:21,020 We're good there. 6 00:00:21,105 --> 00:00:23,272 Just one witness so far. 7 00:00:24,942 --> 00:00:28,361 And you know what that means. Right now, it's all BNBG. 8 00:00:28,445 --> 00:00:30,446 It's Andy Kraw's big adventure. 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,325 Mayor's office already called twice, worried sick about the man. 10 00:00:34,410 --> 00:00:35,993 You're kidding me. 11 00:00:36,078 --> 00:00:39,497 That's a whole lot of campaign contributions sitting on the back of that ambo. 12 00:00:40,165 --> 00:00:45,044 - So, what's the scene say? - Two shooters. Shotgun, semi-auto. 13 00:00:45,129 --> 00:00:49,424 One vic is a West Side soldier with a pretty healthy sheet. 14 00:00:49,508 --> 00:00:52,844 The other is a major player in Daniels' wiretap case. 15 00:00:52,928 --> 00:00:54,887 So, a hit. Drug related. 16 00:00:54,972 --> 00:00:58,307 But a big-time developer in the middle? What's the fit? 17 00:00:58,392 --> 00:01:01,227 Second vic, Russell Bell. 18 00:01:01,311 --> 00:01:04,147 Owner and co-developer of this here. 19 00:01:04,231 --> 00:01:06,149 And other downtown real estate. 20 00:01:07,276 --> 00:01:09,277 Well-propertied man he was. 21 00:01:12,322 --> 00:01:16,492 But you were aware that Russell Bell was regarded as a major narcotic violator? 22 00:01:17,911 --> 00:01:19,912 How do you think he made his money? 23 00:01:20,831 --> 00:01:22,165 I didn't inquire. 24 00:01:22,249 --> 00:01:24,917 So, you never got a look at either of the gunmen? 25 00:01:25,002 --> 00:01:27,837 I told you, I saw only the one of them. 26 00:01:27,921 --> 00:01:30,423 He was black. Big, I thought. 27 00:01:31,759 --> 00:01:33,760 With a large weapon. 28 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:36,512 BNBG. 29 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:44,854 Big negro, big gun. 30 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:07,460 Two more like it upstairs. 31 00:02:08,045 --> 00:02:09,212 Yeah? 32 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:17,178 Have ballistics rush comparisons. Drug-relateds for the last six months. 33 00:03:28,792 --> 00:03:30,293 I caught him, Bunk. 34 00:03:32,129 --> 00:03:34,297 On the wire. I caught him. 35 00:03:36,925 --> 00:03:38,926 And he doesn't fucking know it. 36 00:03:52,816 --> 00:03:55,151 When you walk through the garden 37 00:03:56,486 --> 00:03:59,030 You gotta watch your back 38 00:04:00,324 --> 00:04:02,950 Well, I beg your pardon 39 00:04:03,911 --> 00:04:06,078 Walk the straight and narrow track 40 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:07,413 Walk the straight and narrow track 41 00:04:07,497 --> 00:04:11,417 If you walk with Jesus 42 00:04:11,501 --> 00:04:13,878 He's gonna save your soul 43 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:17,548 You gotta keep the devil 44 00:04:19,301 --> 00:04:21,969 Way down in the hole 45 00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:25,556 He got fire and the fury 46 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:27,308 Fire and fury 47 00:04:27,392 --> 00:04:30,102 At his command 48 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:34,190 Well, you don't have to worry 49 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:37,944 Hold on to Jesus' hands 50 00:04:38,028 --> 00:04:41,030 Oh, we'll be safe from Satan 51 00:04:41,782 --> 00:04:44,408 When the thunder rolls 52 00:04:44,493 --> 00:04:45,451 Oh 53 00:04:45,535 --> 00:04:49,121 You gotta keep the devil 54 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:52,750 Way down in the hole 55 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:04,178 You gotta keep the devil 56 00:05:04,930 --> 00:05:07,181 Way down in the hole 57 00:05:10,894 --> 00:05:12,186 Way down 58 00:05:12,270 --> 00:05:14,897 Way down in the hole 59 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:24,365 Boxing, yeah. 60 00:05:25,450 --> 00:05:28,285 I know you loved that. I hated it. 61 00:05:28,370 --> 00:05:29,996 I hated watching it. 62 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,790 Yeah, I know you did. So you're doing good, huh? 63 00:05:34,918 --> 00:05:39,255 - Day to day, I am. - Because I was thinking, maybe... 64 00:05:45,929 --> 00:05:49,015 I'm proud of you, Dennis. Be well. 65 00:06:02,112 --> 00:06:04,113 Shut that fucking door. 66 00:06:17,252 --> 00:06:19,045 Man, fuck it. 67 00:06:19,129 --> 00:06:21,881 I'm ready for this shit. These niggers is snapping on us. 68 00:06:21,965 --> 00:06:24,341 You see? Do you believe this fucking shit? 69 00:06:25,260 --> 00:06:28,054 Some shit like this would've never happened with... 70 00:06:29,097 --> 00:06:32,892 Yo, Slim, man. Just say the word. Say the motherfucking word. 71 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:40,149 Shit is on. 72 00:06:47,282 --> 00:06:48,949 What's up, B? 73 00:06:56,041 --> 00:06:58,084 You all right? 74 00:06:58,168 --> 00:07:00,878 We gonna bounce back on the motherfucker no question. 75 00:07:00,962 --> 00:07:03,339 - Bounce back on who? - Marlo, boss. 76 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:07,259 - Oh, he gonna fall. - Marlo ain't got shit to do with it. 77 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:12,014 Marlo couldn't get String like that. String died cos of some other shit. 78 00:07:13,850 --> 00:07:18,062 - What? - He died because of some other shit, nigger. 79 00:07:18,939 --> 00:07:21,023 I couldn't fix it. I tried. 80 00:07:21,525 --> 00:07:24,944 That nigger, String, was right about this shit, man. 81 00:07:25,028 --> 00:07:28,155 That nigger was right. Fuck Marlo. 82 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,282 Fuck this fucking war. 83 00:07:30,367 --> 00:07:33,536 All this beef over a couple of fucking corners. 84 00:07:34,955 --> 00:07:37,832 Don't matter who did what to who at this point. 85 00:07:37,916 --> 00:07:41,794 Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. 86 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:45,339 I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? 87 00:07:45,423 --> 00:07:48,300 Once you in it, you in it. 88 00:07:50,554 --> 00:07:53,848 If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. 89 00:07:53,932 --> 00:07:56,225 But we gotta fight. 90 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:03,941 Got this out of his pocket. 91 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:09,405 I got no idea. 92 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:13,868 - It's a cell chip from a phone. - Ah. 93 00:08:13,952 --> 00:08:18,998 - What else did you get off him? - 200 cash, set of keys, license. 94 00:08:19,082 --> 00:08:21,292 President Street address? 95 00:08:21,376 --> 00:08:24,795 I got Landsman banging out a warrant for the place. 96 00:08:26,756 --> 00:08:28,424 Fuck the politics for a minute. 97 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:32,178 - What if the man happens to be right? - Legalising drugs? 98 00:08:32,262 --> 00:08:36,098 Crime is down in his district and the people there are OK with it. 99 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:38,934 Look, if you don't exist, what happens here? 100 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:41,896 If there's no Tommy Carcetti, what's likely to happen? 101 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:44,064 The mayor and Burrell shut this thing down. 102 00:08:44,149 --> 00:08:46,859 I figure the mayor's trying to find a way to shut it down 103 00:08:46,943 --> 00:08:49,403 to make it look like it was an enforcement plan. 104 00:08:49,487 --> 00:08:53,199 Otherwise he'd have moved to end it already. 105 00:08:53,283 --> 00:08:56,035 Makes sense, but no matter what, 106 00:08:56,119 --> 00:08:58,245 Colvin's little experiment is finished. 107 00:08:59,998 --> 00:09:01,749 Come on, Tommy. 108 00:09:01,833 --> 00:09:06,795 They dealt you a winning hand and you're acting like you forgot how to play. 109 00:09:08,798 --> 00:09:12,384 Mr. Mayor, call it legalisation and my office can't live with it. 110 00:09:12,469 --> 00:09:15,387 - Agreed. No one can. - But harm reduction? 111 00:09:15,472 --> 00:09:18,724 That could sell, provided there's a reduction in the crime rate. 112 00:09:18,808 --> 00:09:21,352 Harm reduction. Sounds good. 113 00:09:21,436 --> 00:09:24,230 Steven, what if we were able to suggest 114 00:09:24,314 --> 00:09:27,107 limiting our street-level enforcement? 115 00:09:27,192 --> 00:09:29,151 We were concentrating our resources 116 00:09:29,236 --> 00:09:32,112 on high-level traffickers. How would that play? 117 00:09:32,197 --> 00:09:34,907 If I could show off that kind of casework, maybe. 118 00:09:34,991 --> 00:09:38,869 But they've been doing street rips for so long, I don't think a high level exists. 119 00:09:38,954 --> 00:09:42,248 What if we said no major traffickers were allowed in the free zone, 120 00:09:42,332 --> 00:09:43,832 that all major... 121 00:09:45,460 --> 00:09:48,254 That the major violators were still being targeted? 122 00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:51,924 Are you suggesting some kind of admissions criteria for the zones? 123 00:09:52,008 --> 00:09:53,968 - How would that work? - I don't know that it would. 124 00:09:54,052 --> 00:09:56,428 I'm just saying that for the sake of public perception. 125 00:09:56,513 --> 00:09:59,014 Come on, people, work with me on this thing! 126 00:09:59,099 --> 00:10:03,185 Fucked up, man. Marlo need to get his ass dropped, him and all his crew. 127 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:07,439 - They gonna fall, son. You'll see. - All right, let me know. 128 00:10:07,524 --> 00:10:09,566 That's the word on the wire, anyway. 129 00:10:09,776 --> 00:10:12,486 Every mention puts it on Marlo Stanfield's crew, 130 00:10:12,570 --> 00:10:16,240 which means the war's gonna ratchet up, no question. 131 00:10:16,324 --> 00:10:18,575 - Where's Jimmy? - He went with Bunk Moreland 132 00:10:18,785 --> 00:10:21,120 to rifle Stringer's spot downtown. 133 00:10:21,204 --> 00:10:25,249 - How'd he take it? - Like Stringer was kin. 134 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,836 - Yeah? - Bushy top. 135 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,714 - Need to pull on your coat, boy. - Hey, what's up, Major? 136 00:10:31,798 --> 00:10:33,340 I got something for y'all. 137 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:35,301 Mount Vernon Square in about an hour. 138 00:10:35,385 --> 00:10:37,219 I'm there. 139 00:11:02,329 --> 00:11:04,288 This is Stringer's? 140 00:11:06,333 --> 00:11:08,542 Yeah. 141 00:11:34,819 --> 00:11:36,862 Who the fuck was I chasing? 142 00:12:03,973 --> 00:12:06,100 What's done is done. 143 00:12:18,154 --> 00:12:21,990 Gay-ass gangsters. Please. 144 00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:35,462 I tell you, I took it for as long as I could. 145 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:41,385 Let's go, man. 146 00:12:42,971 --> 00:12:44,471 Let's go. 147 00:13:02,449 --> 00:13:06,952 It being your town, I trust you to do it proper. 148 00:13:18,339 --> 00:13:22,134 - You off today, boss? - Every day at this point. 149 00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:25,554 I told them over at COMSTAT about my little experiment. 150 00:13:25,763 --> 00:13:27,556 Bosses went crazy, huh? 151 00:13:28,391 --> 00:13:31,059 Anyway, that's why I called you. 152 00:13:31,144 --> 00:13:34,313 That there is a wartime lay-up for your man Barksdale. 153 00:13:34,397 --> 00:13:38,150 My sources tell me the man's there most of the time with a lot of muscle. 154 00:13:38,234 --> 00:13:40,569 Sawed-offs, semi-autos, MAC-11s. 155 00:13:40,778 --> 00:13:42,779 Whole lot of good shit if you hit it right. 156 00:13:44,073 --> 00:13:46,492 - That's a hell of a tip. - Shit. 157 00:13:47,577 --> 00:13:52,414 That right there might be the last bit of police work in a long and storied career. 158 00:13:52,499 --> 00:13:54,333 Glad I talked to you, bushy top. 159 00:14:01,466 --> 00:14:03,175 Which one is Ali? 160 00:14:04,135 --> 00:14:06,011 In the white trunks, boy. 161 00:14:06,095 --> 00:14:09,848 - Damn, he look young. - He was. This the Patterson fight. 162 00:14:09,933 --> 00:14:13,268 - Old school. - Who Patterson? He soft. 163 00:14:13,353 --> 00:14:16,855 - Ali whipping his ass. - He was a champ too. 164 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:21,276 Look, any man still standing at the end of a round, you can't call him soft. 165 00:14:21,361 --> 00:14:23,570 That's a rule, all right? 166 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:34,790 From Stringer's place downtown. B&B shit, college papers, real estate stuff. 167 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:37,876 There's no phone extension in the place, just these... 168 00:14:37,961 --> 00:14:40,462 cellphone chips. About a hundred of them. 169 00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:43,799 So that's why he wasn't taking any phones from Bernard, huh? 170 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:47,135 Stringer just changed the number every time he changed the chip. 171 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:50,973 - Shamrock too, probably. - Cautious man. 172 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,352 - Yes and no. - Have a look in here. 173 00:14:55,436 --> 00:14:57,813 All different manufacturers. 174 00:14:58,481 --> 00:15:00,315 Thank you. 175 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:06,989 Before Stringer Bell got aced, 176 00:15:07,073 --> 00:15:10,576 he went out of his way to put in his good friend, Avon Barksdale. 177 00:15:11,536 --> 00:15:13,787 That's a Barksdale safe house. 178 00:15:14,956 --> 00:15:16,873 Where'd you get this? 179 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:22,296 Colvin. 180 00:15:23,006 --> 00:15:26,216 - Calls to the Western. - Where's Daniels? 181 00:15:26,301 --> 00:15:29,469 He's got this thing downtown. It's for his wife. 182 00:15:29,554 --> 00:15:31,179 You should raise him. 183 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:35,183 It's not enough to make up for Stringer. 184 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:38,186 It'll do for now. 185 00:15:40,231 --> 00:15:42,858 Because the neighborhoods and the residents 186 00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:44,943 are among the poorest in our city, 187 00:15:45,028 --> 00:15:50,115 and it is these residents who most need a strong voice at City Hall. 188 00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:52,034 Time has come for a change. 189 00:15:52,118 --> 00:15:55,329 And I believe I can bring about that change 190 00:15:55,413 --> 00:15:59,374 by providing a strong voice for the new 11th District, 191 00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:01,877 if you will do me the honor... 192 00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:05,464 It's kind of cool, the lieutenant's wife running for office, you know? 193 00:16:06,466 --> 00:16:07,841 As you just heard, 194 00:16:07,925 --> 00:16:10,594 West Baltimore City Councilwoman Eunetta Perkins 195 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:14,139 is going to have her hands full in next September's Democratic primary. 196 00:16:15,767 --> 00:16:18,310 Stringer Bell. Damn. 197 00:16:19,062 --> 00:16:22,856 Who could've gotten to him? I mean, if it wasn't y'all on it. 198 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:25,150 You know Avon's gonna put it on you, right? 199 00:16:25,234 --> 00:16:28,862 Shit, let him take it on my jacket. Don't make me no never mind. 200 00:16:28,946 --> 00:16:32,574 I'm thinking it might be what you call one of them good problems. 201 00:16:33,117 --> 00:16:35,160 - Yeah. - Mm-hm. 202 00:16:39,957 --> 00:16:42,793 I heard Colvin's in deep shit downtown. 203 00:16:43,336 --> 00:16:45,337 Looking at this right here... 204 00:16:46,964 --> 00:16:48,924 he might not be the only one. 205 00:16:50,093 --> 00:16:52,094 Anything comes up, I'm on the radio. 206 00:16:54,138 --> 00:16:58,767 My man. Yo, you think I could get like $5? I need like $5 to get on the bus. 207 00:16:58,851 --> 00:17:01,353 - I look like a tourist to you? - Man, I swear to God. 208 00:17:01,437 --> 00:17:04,064 Looking like that in an open-air drug market, 209 00:17:04,148 --> 00:17:07,275 why the hell would I think you'll spend my $5 on bus fare? 210 00:17:08,611 --> 00:17:11,947 Shit, because I already got my blast, man. 211 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:08,462 All night, you been drinking like your ass is candy. 212 00:18:10,465 --> 00:18:12,466 That's shameful shit. 213 00:18:18,514 --> 00:18:20,557 12-gauge pumpkin balls. 214 00:18:23,019 --> 00:18:26,146 Last time I saw that kind of load was the Pimlico double. 215 00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:31,067 And I fucking know that motherfucker was in the middle of that mess. 216 00:18:31,903 --> 00:18:36,490 And if I remember your boy, he had no love for the Barksdale people. 217 00:18:36,574 --> 00:18:39,534 Execution style, that don't play like Omar Little. 218 00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:44,831 Besides, the word on our wire is that Marlo's people did Stringer. 219 00:18:44,916 --> 00:18:47,918 - Marlo Stanfield? - The heir apparent. 220 00:18:48,002 --> 00:18:50,003 This city's going to hell, man. 221 00:18:52,048 --> 00:18:55,467 We're gonna push past 300 murders before New Year's. 222 00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,886 Shit is fucked. 223 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:03,391 Hey, Cheryl. 224 00:19:04,936 --> 00:19:08,814 No? My guess is she's picking up a prisoner. 225 00:19:08,898 --> 00:19:11,149 I spoke to her about ten minutes ago. 226 00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:14,402 Yeah, well, they make you check your stuff. 227 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:17,239 Cellphone, money, weapon. 228 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:20,992 She'll call when she gets the message. 229 00:19:21,077 --> 00:19:22,577 Not at all. 230 00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:25,956 I need more, Jimmy. 231 00:19:41,389 --> 00:19:43,014 More! 232 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:47,477 - Motherfucker. - I'm tired, Bunk. 233 00:19:58,281 --> 00:20:00,115 Let's go. 234 00:20:01,576 --> 00:20:04,202 I heard the vanguard met. 235 00:20:04,287 --> 00:20:06,872 Heard they voted to have a civilian review board look at it. 236 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:10,834 It wasn't unanimous, and there were people there speaking for you. 237 00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:12,419 I heard that too. 238 00:20:13,337 --> 00:20:18,133 So, six out of ten black officers think I'm just an asshole racist. 239 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:23,305 On the other hand, four out of ten think you're just an asshole. 240 00:20:26,893 --> 00:20:29,227 It's an administrative charge. 241 00:20:29,312 --> 00:20:32,105 You can fight it and win if you want. 242 00:20:32,189 --> 00:20:35,984 Failure to properly identify myself as a police officer. 243 00:20:37,528 --> 00:20:41,281 Sounds like what I was guilty of most of my career, actually. 244 00:20:43,451 --> 00:20:46,036 I'm not sure I was supposed to be a police. 245 00:20:47,997 --> 00:20:49,915 Not really. 246 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,001 What were you supposed to be, huh? 247 00:20:53,836 --> 00:20:55,503 Hm? 248 00:21:00,551 --> 00:21:04,220 This is from Major Colvin's CI? What's the corroboration? 249 00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:08,099 The source knew that Barksdale had a waterfront condo in his own name. 250 00:21:08,184 --> 00:21:11,895 Gave the accurate location and title info down to deed of transfer. 251 00:21:12,396 --> 00:21:15,523 That's good, but it puts him on the legitimate side of things. 252 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:18,985 What corroboration is there for illegal activities? 253 00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:22,030 Sorry I'm late. I had to stop in at a friend. 254 00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:25,867 The source knew that Barksdale was shot last month, wounded in the shoulder. 255 00:21:25,952 --> 00:21:28,370 - Emergency room? - No. No hospital reports. 256 00:21:28,454 --> 00:21:32,248 We're gonna need better. Either Colvin goes back to the CI, 257 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:34,584 or we sit on this address for a while. 258 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,795 Well, fuck it, then. 259 00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:38,880 Let's name the source in the affidavit. 260 00:21:38,965 --> 00:21:41,216 - It's Colvin's call, isn't it? - It's Stringer Bell. 261 00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:45,971 Lester figured it out from the DNRs. 262 00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:48,515 Bell was snitching out Barksdale. 263 00:21:48,599 --> 00:21:51,226 - You're sure of this? - Maybe that explains the murder. 264 00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:53,186 What's in the wire? 265 00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:56,856 Loose talk about how it was Marlo's people, but nothing past rumor. 266 00:21:56,941 --> 00:22:01,319 With Bell gone, Barksdale might have to oversee the day-to-day, 267 00:22:01,404 --> 00:22:05,198 and maybe that puts him in contact with some of our monitored cellphones. 268 00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:08,868 If he's as cautious as Stringer, maybe not. 269 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:11,788 My guess is Barksdale never touches a cellphone. 270 00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:14,290 Safe house might be our best shot. 271 00:22:15,209 --> 00:22:17,002 All right. 272 00:22:17,086 --> 00:22:19,754 We stay on the wires until this batch of burners goes dead, 273 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:21,381 hoping we have Barksdale. 274 00:22:21,465 --> 00:22:25,385 But meanwhile, we get a warrant for that safe house and wait on him there. 275 00:22:34,937 --> 00:22:36,938 Thanks for the cover last night. 276 00:22:42,111 --> 00:22:45,363 This is Greggs, Major Case Unit. Who's the shift leader? 277 00:22:53,164 --> 00:22:55,331 Get a wildcat right now! 278 00:23:01,422 --> 00:23:05,258 Brown! What's up? Anybody want to buy? 279 00:23:12,558 --> 00:23:15,018 Blue John! Get yo ass caught, boy! 280 00:23:16,979 --> 00:23:18,980 Holy Christ. 281 00:23:34,205 --> 00:23:36,498 - They're all over it, Commissioner. - Right. 282 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:43,046 That was Foxtrot. The cameras have found our little shit pile. 283 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:45,840 Your fucking councilman took his sweet time. 284 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:50,053 Everyone's a critic. 285 00:23:50,137 --> 00:23:53,598 If this doesn't go, what line of work are you gonna try next? 286 00:23:55,518 --> 00:23:57,519 We're here in West Baltimore... 287 00:24:00,815 --> 00:24:04,526 For more than a month, police from Baltimore's Western district... 288 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:13,535 It's an outrageous development. 289 00:24:13,619 --> 00:24:17,497 It's something I never thought I'd see from this administration. 290 00:24:17,581 --> 00:24:19,958 We need a change in leadership in this city. 291 00:24:20,042 --> 00:24:22,502 Did the mayor or the police commissioner know? 292 00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:24,879 Ask the mayor and the police commissioner. 293 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:28,466 On crime and safety, the Royce administration is simply bankrupt. 294 00:24:28,551 --> 00:24:31,010 You gonna announce for mayor next month? 295 00:24:31,095 --> 00:24:35,765 Standing here today looking at this, I'm gonna put it out there right now. 296 00:24:35,850 --> 00:24:39,185 For more than four weeks the Baltimore Police Department 297 00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:43,523 surrendered areas to the drug trade, and the council was not informed. 298 00:24:43,607 --> 00:24:47,944 Fuck me. I fucking had this story all to myself a week ago. 299 00:24:49,071 --> 00:24:51,239 Police officers have turned a blind eye... 300 00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:53,867 What the fuck was I thinking? 301 00:24:54,535 --> 00:24:57,745 ..apparently sanctioning open-air drug markets. 302 00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:59,289 Excuse us. 303 00:24:59,373 --> 00:25:04,002 ..in the so-called free zones, drug dealers routinely ply their trade. 304 00:25:04,086 --> 00:25:06,045 Mr. Mayor, Commissioner Burrell is here. 305 00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,840 The mayor will be with him shortly. 306 00:25:08,924 --> 00:25:11,926 ..and young children run the streets alone. 307 00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:15,388 The inhabitants of what has come to be known as Hamsterdam 308 00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:17,432 had little to say for the camera. 309 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,893 But Channel 5 has learned that the police were... 310 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:24,105 - Yeah? - What are you seeing? 311 00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:27,108 Couple of people in and out. No sign of Barksdale, though. 312 00:25:27,193 --> 00:25:29,360 - It's quiet here too. - OK. 313 00:25:30,404 --> 00:25:32,197 Need to look at the back. 314 00:25:32,281 --> 00:25:35,491 Our friend Carcetti's gonna run wild with this. 315 00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:38,870 And from the sound of things, Gray is gonna run with him. 316 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:42,624 Tony Gray thinks he's gonna get my chair behind this bullshit. Uh-uh. 317 00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:46,878 We're throwing you out of the boat, Ervin. This shit is on you alone. 318 00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:50,381 Not necessarily. 319 00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:54,219 Not if I talk about how we were under pressure to keep the crime down. 320 00:25:54,303 --> 00:25:57,889 - To juke the stats district by district. - We never said that. 321 00:25:57,973 --> 00:26:00,725 About how Colvin, under pressure, lost his way. 322 00:26:00,809 --> 00:26:02,894 About how I came to you weeks ago... 323 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,021 - Days ago. - Weeks ago to tell you 324 00:26:05,105 --> 00:26:08,733 what he had done and to assure you that we were on top of the situation, 325 00:26:08,817 --> 00:26:11,903 that Colvin would be relieved and his plan aborted. 326 00:26:11,987 --> 00:26:13,905 You lying motherfucker. 327 00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:17,242 But you heard about the drop in Colvin's felony rate 328 00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:18,910 and you sent me packing. 329 00:26:18,994 --> 00:26:24,249 Brought in your liberal-ass do-gooders to seriously consider this horseshit 330 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:27,752 while Colvin's mistake grew and grew. 331 00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:30,255 My hands were tied, Mr. Mayor. 332 00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:33,341 My department thwarted. 333 00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:37,887 I was a prisoner of the goddamn politicians. 334 00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:39,389 Or... 335 00:26:43,352 --> 00:26:47,772 I leave your office right now willing to say a lot less than that. 336 00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:51,067 I put what I can on crazy-ass Bunny Colvin. 337 00:26:51,151 --> 00:26:53,778 And I take the hit. 338 00:26:53,862 --> 00:26:57,115 And if Carcetti or Gray holds hearings, 339 00:26:57,199 --> 00:27:00,618 I'm the wall between them and you. 340 00:27:01,370 --> 00:27:03,162 In which case, 341 00:27:03,247 --> 00:27:07,375 I am your commissioner for the full five-year term. 342 00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:21,514 - Unit one to unit two. - Unit two standing by. 343 00:27:21,598 --> 00:27:23,308 Deal's made. 344 00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:29,355 Unit two to sector three, move on the Winchester Homes. 345 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,357 10-4. We're moving. 346 00:27:31,442 --> 00:27:34,902 Unit two to sector two, move on the Koppers Plant. 347 00:27:34,987 --> 00:27:36,487 Roger that. 348 00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:41,200 Over the top, gentlemen. 349 00:28:02,431 --> 00:28:04,098 About fucking time. 350 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:15,943 Yo, man. 351 00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:18,071 We gonna run out if we don't got no re-up. 352 00:28:18,155 --> 00:28:20,448 - Where's Tuckie at? - I don't know. 353 00:28:24,953 --> 00:28:26,996 - Yo, where Tuckie at, man? - He rolled out. 354 00:28:27,081 --> 00:28:29,040 - Huh? - He said the police coming. 355 00:28:35,005 --> 00:28:37,048 Here they come. Let's roll. 356 00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:38,341 Let's go! 357 00:28:52,439 --> 00:28:54,148 Hold it right there! 358 00:28:55,401 --> 00:28:57,235 Get the fuck off me! 359 00:29:02,491 --> 00:29:04,492 Stop right there! 360 00:29:12,626 --> 00:29:14,460 Stop right there! Stop! 361 00:29:21,009 --> 00:29:24,303 Freeze! Freeze! Don't move! Hold it right there. Freeze. 362 00:29:26,014 --> 00:29:30,518 Outstanding, red team, outstanding. Give you a case of beer for that one. 363 00:29:50,372 --> 00:29:55,460 Son, this nigger, Stringer Bell, man, was begging Chris, yo, for real. 364 00:29:55,544 --> 00:30:00,131 Like, digging in his pockets, talking about how much cheese he gonna give us 365 00:30:00,215 --> 00:30:02,258 I mean, if we just let him walk. 366 00:30:02,342 --> 00:30:05,386 My man, Chris, hollering, "Man, bitch, you gonna die." 367 00:30:05,471 --> 00:30:09,140 This nigger just dropped to his fucking knees like a little cocksucker, man. 368 00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:12,810 Start crying. That shit was worse than fucking pathetic. 369 00:30:15,189 --> 00:30:18,983 - Yo, that's Marlo. - Get on your burner, man. 370 00:30:26,533 --> 00:30:29,160 - Got a line on him. - The number one? Where at? 371 00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:32,538 Tall man says to tell y'all to soldier up. They up at the rim shop. 372 00:30:32,623 --> 00:30:34,415 Yeah, all right. 373 00:30:36,919 --> 00:30:38,878 Boss, you OK? 374 00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:41,923 - What you want? - Slim said they got their eye on Marlo. 375 00:30:42,007 --> 00:30:43,174 Mm? 376 00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:46,969 I'm just saying, you know, all the boys, they all waiting on you. 377 00:30:47,971 --> 00:30:51,140 Go ahead, man. I'm behind you. 378 00:31:14,414 --> 00:31:16,207 What else you need from us, Deputy? 379 00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:18,376 City Hall wants the bulldozers through here at dawn 380 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,378 and fencing all around the site. 381 00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:23,256 Winchester Homes and the Koppers Plant as well. 382 00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:25,007 We got it. 383 00:31:26,343 --> 00:31:31,097 Come tomorrow, the television reporters get nothing they can stand in front of. 384 00:31:31,181 --> 00:31:34,475 Excuse me, Deputy, sir, we found a body. 385 00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:48,990 - Any trauma? - Can't tell for sure with all the rat bites. 386 00:31:49,825 --> 00:31:52,076 Take him to the OCME in a jail wagon. 387 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,079 I don't want the fucking reporters seeing any ambos. 388 00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,457 Shit. 389 00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:11,178 He just landed. Him plus one. 390 00:32:12,014 --> 00:32:14,599 - Got it. Sit tight. - That makes how many? 391 00:32:17,019 --> 00:32:20,313 Including Barksdale, Sydnor counted ten in and none coming out, 392 00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,398 so that's ten at least. 393 00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:30,114 - 2301 to KGA. - Go ahead, 2301. 394 00:32:30,824 --> 00:32:34,535 We need QRT to meet us at our 20 for a search and seizure. 395 00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:38,456 Location has multiple suspects and may contain automatic weapons. 396 00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:40,374 10-4. 397 00:32:48,175 --> 00:32:52,011 - Word travels fast, huh? - Shit. 398 00:32:54,056 --> 00:32:56,974 Burrell called Johns Hopkins personally this morning. 399 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,315 Dragged your name into the gutter. Johns Hopkins doesn't need the notoriety. 400 00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:07,485 The chief academic officer of a major research university 401 00:33:07,569 --> 00:33:11,489 doesn't want to hear that some new hire makes up the rules as he goes along. 402 00:33:17,579 --> 00:33:20,331 - Yeah, Colvin. - Yeah, Major, you're on first. 403 00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:21,916 Mm. 404 00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:26,837 COMSTAT tomorrow. 405 00:33:32,177 --> 00:33:34,095 I'm up. 406 00:33:40,102 --> 00:33:43,187 - You all taking the door? - Where's tactical? 407 00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:46,857 - I called for QRT. - You ain't heard? 408 00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:49,902 They're a little busy tonight tearing down Bunny Colvin's fuck-up. 409 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:52,905 With all that going on, you're lucky you even got us, man. 410 00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:56,033 - Who we hitting on this? - Avon Barksdale and crew. 411 00:33:56,118 --> 00:33:59,245 I fucking told you he was out. Didn't I fucking tell you? 412 00:34:00,330 --> 00:34:02,164 I fucking told them. 413 00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:04,375 For more than four weeks the Baltimore Police Department 414 00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:07,044 surrendered areas to the drug trade. 415 00:34:07,129 --> 00:34:10,506 By tomorrow, the story goes national, and Washington reacts. 416 00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:14,510 Save the best questions for Tony Gray. 417 00:34:15,137 --> 00:34:17,138 He needs to shine even more than you. 418 00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:30,276 - I can't believe he wants us to knock. - You can't flush guns, can you? 419 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,069 What about if they open up on us? 420 00:34:32,154 --> 00:34:34,196 These guys are at war with another crew. 421 00:34:34,281 --> 00:34:37,158 We go charging in there, chances are we will get lit up. 422 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,382 Yo, B. 423 00:34:53,467 --> 00:34:56,260 Sham saying that Charles saying they still up at the rim shop. 424 00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:59,430 Marlo, his boy Chris and Vinson, they still eating. 425 00:34:59,514 --> 00:35:02,183 But the rest of the muscle, they rolled out. 426 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:13,444 Police. 427 00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:15,404 No. Shh. 428 00:35:15,489 --> 00:35:18,115 - Not the police. - Narcos out back too. 429 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,533 Shit. 430 00:35:20,368 --> 00:35:22,953 Let us in! We know you're in there. 431 00:35:24,623 --> 00:35:25,998 Shit. 432 00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:29,960 - Open the door, you fucking cocksuckers! - Fucked up, man. 433 00:35:30,045 --> 00:35:33,422 Y'all ask me, y'all ugly-ass niggers shouldn't be in here 434 00:35:33,507 --> 00:35:38,093 with all these guns and shit, you know what I'm talking about? 435 00:35:38,178 --> 00:35:39,845 Open it. 436 00:35:43,350 --> 00:35:46,977 Come on, Avon. Enough with this shit. Open the fucking door. 437 00:35:49,439 --> 00:35:52,608 Open the fucking door, you cocksuckers! 438 00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:56,237 - Police! - Police! Police! 439 00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:01,325 Search warrant! 440 00:36:06,581 --> 00:36:08,916 - I'm clean, man. - Get down! 441 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,961 - Lace them shits tight. - Greggs, I'm opening up. 442 00:36:18,927 --> 00:36:22,263 That'd be mine. In fact, all that's mine. 443 00:36:22,347 --> 00:36:24,598 You got a law degree? 444 00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:27,351 A fuckin' hand grenade. 445 00:36:27,435 --> 00:36:29,478 Take him. 446 00:36:29,563 --> 00:36:32,523 You fall on the parole violation, no matter whatever else happens, 447 00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:35,901 you do every day of what's left of your seven without seeing a jury. 448 00:36:35,986 --> 00:36:37,987 Maybe even conspiracy to murder. 449 00:36:38,071 --> 00:36:40,906 We take this federal, see if we can't get you ten to life. 450 00:36:40,991 --> 00:36:42,992 - No parole. - Whatever. 451 00:36:45,078 --> 00:36:48,539 Shit, you only do two days nohow - that's the day you go in... 452 00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:50,332 And the day you come out. 453 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:53,544 Yeah, well, here's the warrant. 454 00:36:59,926 --> 00:37:01,927 You read it slow. 455 00:37:03,305 --> 00:37:05,639 In between them two days, give you something to think on. 456 00:37:25,327 --> 00:37:27,995 Damn. Missed our shot. 457 00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,457 Roll, man. 458 00:37:33,335 --> 00:37:36,962 You bend over for us, or I will spend what's left of my career 459 00:37:37,047 --> 00:37:39,256 shitting on every supervisor in your district. 460 00:37:39,341 --> 00:37:41,967 From shift commanders down to sector sergeants, 461 00:37:42,052 --> 00:37:45,971 not one of them will have any rank at all if we hear anything out of you. 462 00:37:46,056 --> 00:37:48,933 Look, my people saw this as a tactical deployment only! 463 00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:52,937 - The responsibility is mine alone! - Well, you won't fall alone, 464 00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:56,941 unless you're willing to fall exactly as we want you to. 465 00:37:57,025 --> 00:38:00,903 After COMSTAT, you go to retirement services and drop papers, 466 00:38:00,987 --> 00:38:04,239 going out at a lieutenant's grade. That's right, you're busted back. 467 00:38:04,324 --> 00:38:07,826 We can't take your EOD away, but you're not going out on a major's pay. 468 00:38:07,911 --> 00:38:10,496 I can retire with my 30 right now before you bust me! 469 00:38:10,580 --> 00:38:15,417 - I got vacation time enough to make my 30! - Fuck your vacation time. 470 00:38:15,502 --> 00:38:18,545 You're out today at the lower grade. 471 00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:20,965 That's against the goddamn contract! 472 00:38:21,049 --> 00:38:24,009 What part of "bend over" didn't you understand? 473 00:38:26,554 --> 00:38:29,974 - Avon locked up? - With most of his muscle, yeah. 474 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:32,935 Good day to get back out on them corners, ain't it? 475 00:38:34,187 --> 00:38:36,897 - Make some money. - You bet. 476 00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:51,996 It's not just the 17 million in federal funding for law enforcement that you've jeopardised. 477 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,249 Take off another 200 million of federal money in your operating budget, 478 00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:58,210 another 75 in capital expenditures, 479 00:38:58,294 --> 00:39:01,922 plus untold millions in pass-through federal dollars from Annapolis. 480 00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:04,842 All told, we're talking about... 481 00:39:04,926 --> 00:39:07,428 half a billion a year that Baltimore will be doing without. 482 00:39:07,512 --> 00:39:10,431 Furthermore, the US attorney here will use all the resources 483 00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:13,434 of the Justice Department to interdict and destroy any attempt 484 00:39:13,518 --> 00:39:18,188 to establish a geographic entity where drugs are legal. 485 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:19,898 Washington should know 486 00:39:19,983 --> 00:39:22,609 that what happened in West Baltimore in no way reflects 487 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,611 the policies of my administration. 488 00:39:24,821 --> 00:39:28,782 That was an aberration, Mr. Thomas, the work of one misguided police official. 489 00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:32,036 We understand your concerns, but, you know... 490 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,165 for the Deputy Drug Czar to take the time out to drive 30 miles north 491 00:39:36,249 --> 00:39:38,959 to deliver that message, hardly necessary. 492 00:39:41,004 --> 00:39:42,963 Rest assured. 493 00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:50,137 What up, G? Where the older ones at? 494 00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:53,557 Marlo got his package back out. 495 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:09,031 Fire Burrell. This nonsense began in his shop without him knowing it! 496 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:11,575 - Fire the man and move on. - Odell. 497 00:40:11,659 --> 00:40:15,871 I respect your opinion, but right now, 498 00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:20,459 Tony Gray, Carcetti manoeuvring, now is not the time. 499 00:40:20,543 --> 00:40:21,543 Mm-mm. 500 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:25,923 No. We get past the primary, then I'll drive a stake in his heart. 501 00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:29,009 But right now I need him where he is, if for no other reason than to... 502 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:33,055 well, to take the hit for this thing right here, but I tell you what I'm gonna do, though. 503 00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:36,850 I'm gonna shine on that new girl you like in the 11th. Yeah. 504 00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:40,896 Give her a spot on the ticket. Cut Eunetta loose. Eunetta's had her day. 505 00:40:42,148 --> 00:40:44,650 I respect the fact that you stood by me, Odell. 506 00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:46,860 I respect loyalty. 507 00:40:48,363 --> 00:40:52,241 And did so without properly informing his superior officers 508 00:40:52,325 --> 00:40:55,911 and without regard to the criminal statutes he was sworn to enforce, 509 00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:59,123 thereby disgracing himself and his command. 510 00:41:01,543 --> 00:41:04,211 Is any of that subject to any contradiction 511 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,380 or argument whatsoever, Major Colvin? 512 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:09,049 - No, sir. - No argument at all, Bunny? 513 00:41:09,926 --> 00:41:13,512 Not much you can say, is there? Not to real police. 514 00:41:13,596 --> 00:41:16,974 - Get on with it, motherfucker. - Excuse me, Major? 515 00:41:18,017 --> 00:41:20,394 Is the admin-lieutenant present? 516 00:41:22,021 --> 00:41:24,064 Major Colvin is relieved of duty. 517 00:41:24,149 --> 00:41:27,609 You are now the acting commander of the Western District. 518 00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:59,057 Damn, Bernard, didn't I tell you about these guys? 519 00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:04,271 - Hey, Bunk. - Hey, Freamon. 520 00:42:05,607 --> 00:42:09,902 - Who's that, Crutchfield? - No, Norris. Sleeping on a stakeout. 521 00:42:15,158 --> 00:42:17,534 Yeah, that's everyone we heard on the wire. 522 00:42:17,619 --> 00:42:21,622 McNulty's in number one with Pearlman. Why don't you say hey? 523 00:42:25,627 --> 00:42:29,880 You got to be the stupidest motherfucker that I've ever gone out with. 524 00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,965 I can't wait to go to jail. 525 00:42:33,176 --> 00:42:36,970 What? What'd you say? What the fuck did you say, Bernard? 526 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:43,227 Hmm. 527 00:42:48,483 --> 00:42:50,234 Hey, Donald. 528 00:42:55,114 --> 00:42:57,407 - You heard the tapes. - He said we could sell drugs 529 00:42:57,492 --> 00:43:00,911 if we move down to Vincent Street, and that's where I moved my crew. 530 00:43:00,995 --> 00:43:03,914 You were the one that popped me with the G-pack 531 00:43:03,998 --> 00:43:06,291 on my way to the spot, and let me go, remember? 532 00:43:06,376 --> 00:43:09,294 You were selling drugs in Major Colvin's free zone? 533 00:43:09,379 --> 00:43:12,756 - You can prove that? - Ask him. He know. 534 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,925 This must be one of them contrapment things. 535 00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:18,011 - You mean entrapment? - Kid's got a point. 536 00:43:24,852 --> 00:43:25,936 Ha! 537 00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:28,397 19 in bracelets from Barksdale on down, 538 00:43:28,481 --> 00:43:30,107 another eight wanted on warrants. 539 00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:34,152 Any way you can tie your case to this mess with Colvin? 540 00:43:34,237 --> 00:43:36,989 Make it like what he was doing led to your thing? 541 00:43:37,073 --> 00:43:38,407 I don't see it. 542 00:43:38,491 --> 00:43:42,494 Well, it's good work nonetheless, Major Daniels. 543 00:43:45,957 --> 00:43:50,627 Call came in from the mayor's office half-hour ago approving your promotion. 544 00:43:50,837 --> 00:43:54,006 And now with Colvin, there's a new vacancy. 545 00:43:56,259 --> 00:43:58,885 - What about my wife? - What about her? 546 00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:01,263 The mayor. Eunetta's seat. 547 00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:04,016 - Why would the mayor... - Good police work maybe. 548 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,604 Not everything is politics. 549 00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:17,946 - Hey, I'll take two. Western alumni. - All right, you got it. 550 00:44:19,032 --> 00:44:20,407 Major. 551 00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:23,952 I heard. 552 00:44:25,163 --> 00:44:27,164 How's your family take it? 553 00:44:28,833 --> 00:44:30,334 Yeah. 554 00:44:32,128 --> 00:44:37,841 Lolita done dropped herself 30 pounds and got herself a real estate license, so... 555 00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:40,093 I guess she's fixing to leave me. 556 00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:52,814 I just wanted you to know that last tip you gave me was a winner. 557 00:44:52,899 --> 00:44:56,318 Yeah, I heard. That's good work. 558 00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:05,827 Also, I don't know if you know, Stringer Bell was shot to death two days ago. 559 00:45:05,912 --> 00:45:10,165 So, anyway, I put his name on the paper to tighten the PC. 560 00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:15,170 I figured, what the fuck. Once he's aced, right? 561 00:45:18,174 --> 00:45:21,218 You always did cut them corners, didn't you? 562 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:28,934 Seems like you cut a few yourself, Major. 563 00:45:32,063 --> 00:45:34,815 However it ends, you're good police. 564 00:45:34,899 --> 00:45:36,900 Look, I just did what I did. 565 00:45:37,985 --> 00:45:39,986 It felt right. 566 00:45:41,614 --> 00:45:43,448 I'm fine with that. 567 00:46:05,221 --> 00:46:07,305 Tony, where's my vest, man? 568 00:46:24,157 --> 00:46:25,657 - Thank you. - Thanks. 569 00:46:26,367 --> 00:46:28,326 I don't understand. 570 00:46:31,038 --> 00:46:32,873 Drink your wine. 571 00:46:38,921 --> 00:46:40,881 You and me in public. 572 00:46:42,008 --> 00:46:44,968 - But your wife... - She wins without me. 573 00:46:48,014 --> 00:46:52,476 - On the mayor's ticket, she wins. - And you make major? 574 00:46:55,271 --> 00:46:58,398 I think she was waiting for this day more than I ever was. 575 00:47:00,193 --> 00:47:02,319 And now she's not here. 576 00:47:03,112 --> 00:47:06,615 No. She's not. 577 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,041 From out of nowhere, huh? 578 00:47:16,918 --> 00:47:19,085 Nowhere is right. 579 00:47:20,004 --> 00:47:22,130 Why me? 580 00:47:23,007 --> 00:47:25,008 I guess you don't live right. 581 00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:32,390 - Kari, what was that? - Nothing. 582 00:47:32,475 --> 00:47:35,185 - What broke? - Nothing, Mama. 583 00:47:40,942 --> 00:47:42,526 So... 584 00:47:42,610 --> 00:47:44,861 Yeah. 585 00:47:44,946 --> 00:47:48,406 - You just drive over here. - I did. 586 00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:52,536 Why tonight? What happened? 587 00:47:55,081 --> 00:47:57,290 I was in my old district tonight, 588 00:47:57,375 --> 00:48:00,627 which is where I used to feel pretty good, I think. 589 00:48:00,836 --> 00:48:02,963 I wasn't so angry when I was there, anyway. 590 00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:07,467 I don't know, someone said something, I guess, and... 591 00:48:08,636 --> 00:48:10,637 That doesn't make sense. Er... 592 00:48:13,474 --> 00:48:17,143 - I guess I finished something today. - A case? 593 00:48:17,937 --> 00:48:19,437 More than that. 594 00:48:21,065 --> 00:48:24,818 It's like everything I poured into a glass came out the bottom. 595 00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:29,364 And I just kept on pouring, like the thing had a hole in it, you know? 596 00:48:30,992 --> 00:48:32,784 The things that make me right for this job, 597 00:48:32,868 --> 00:48:36,413 maybe they're the same things that make me wrong for everything else. 598 00:48:37,999 --> 00:48:40,166 Do you want to come inside for a drink? 599 00:48:44,130 --> 00:48:45,505 Not tonight. 600 00:48:48,634 --> 00:48:52,012 But if it's not too late, I wouldn't mind meeting your kids. 601 00:49:51,072 --> 00:49:54,115 Major Colvin misled his officers. 602 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,119 They thought that his initiative was a tactical deployment 603 00:49:58,204 --> 00:50:00,372 to entrap narcotics traffickers. 604 00:50:00,456 --> 00:50:05,919 There was no mention whatsoever of the initiative to any superior officer. 605 00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:07,921 And for five weeks, 606 00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:12,008 all evidence of what he was doing managed to elude the entire command staff? 607 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:16,012 - Are you kidding, Commissioner? - I take full responsibility. 608 00:50:16,097 --> 00:50:20,850 And indeed, after I first learned of the matter, I informed the mayor, 609 00:50:20,935 --> 00:50:22,894 and together we moved immediately 610 00:50:22,978 --> 00:50:26,022 to relieve Major Colvin of his command. 611 00:50:26,107 --> 00:50:29,484 I'm under the impression that this administration gave serious consideration 612 00:50:29,568 --> 00:50:32,278 - to proceeding with Colvin's initiative. - No, sir. 613 00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:36,825 Major Colvin informed you of his effort at COMSTAT more than a week ago. 614 00:50:36,909 --> 00:50:38,868 His free zones stayed up for six days after that. 615 00:50:38,953 --> 00:50:41,246 That's, er, my responsibility, Councilman. 616 00:50:41,330 --> 00:50:44,874 We needed to conclude an investigation by the Major Crimes Unit, 617 00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:47,836 a wiretap case that would have been disrupted had we moved immediately. 618 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,922 Correct, Mayor Royce was aware of the pending case 619 00:50:51,006 --> 00:50:54,134 and allowed us to delay our response accordingly. 620 00:50:54,218 --> 00:50:56,553 But the mayor was unequivocal 621 00:50:56,637 --> 00:50:59,848 in his opposition to what Major Colvin did. 622 00:50:59,932 --> 00:51:02,142 What we have here is nothing more complicated 623 00:51:02,226 --> 00:51:05,478 than a solitary police commander who, under great pressure, 624 00:51:05,563 --> 00:51:10,150 proved to be amoral, incompetent and unfit for command. 625 00:51:10,234 --> 00:51:13,862 No. It's about more than that. 626 00:51:13,946 --> 00:51:18,032 This is more important than who knew what when, or who falls on his sword 627 00:51:18,117 --> 00:51:22,370 or whether someone can use this disaster to make a political point or two. 628 00:51:22,455 --> 00:51:24,664 - Mr. Chairman... - We can forgive Major Colvin, 629 00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,000 who, out of his frustration and despair, 630 00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:30,587 found himself condoning something which can't possibly be condoned. 631 00:51:30,671 --> 00:51:32,505 We can do that much. 632 00:51:33,466 --> 00:51:36,551 But, gentlemen, what we can't forgive, 633 00:51:36,635 --> 00:51:40,180 what I can't forgive...ever 634 00:51:40,264 --> 00:51:47,020 is how we - you, me, this administration, all of us - 635 00:51:47,646 --> 00:51:50,231 how we turned away from those streets in West Baltimore, 636 00:51:50,316 --> 00:51:53,151 the poor, the sick, the swollen underclass of our city 637 00:51:53,235 --> 00:51:56,821 trapped in the wreckage of neighborhoods which were once so prized, 638 00:51:56,906 --> 00:51:59,532 communities which we've failed to defend, 639 00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:03,411 which we have surrendered to the horrors of the drug trade, 640 00:52:03,496 --> 00:52:06,664 and if this disaster demands anything of us as a city, 641 00:52:06,874 --> 00:52:08,958 it demands that we say "Enough." 642 00:52:09,043 --> 00:52:11,836 Enough to the despair which makes policemen think about surrender. 643 00:52:11,921 --> 00:52:15,965 Enough to the fact that these neighborhoods are beyond saving. 644 00:52:16,050 --> 00:52:20,261 Enough to this administration's indecisiveness and lethargy, 645 00:52:20,346 --> 00:52:25,016 to the garbage which goes uncollected, the lots and row houses which stay vacant, 646 00:52:25,100 --> 00:52:27,143 the addicts who go untreated, 647 00:52:27,228 --> 00:52:31,564 the working men and women who every day are denied a chance at economic freedom. 648 00:52:33,526 --> 00:52:38,029 Enough to the crime which every day chokes more life from our city. 649 00:52:39,907 --> 00:52:45,036 And the thing of it is, if we don't take responsibility and step up, 650 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,372 not just for the mistakes and the miscues, 651 00:52:47,456 --> 00:52:51,835 but for whether or not we're gonna win this battle for our streets, 652 00:52:51,919 --> 00:52:55,380 we're gonna lose these neighborhoods and ultimately this city forever. 653 00:52:55,464 --> 00:52:57,966 If we don't have the courage and the conviction 654 00:52:58,050 --> 00:53:00,969 to fight this war the way it should and needs to be fought, 655 00:53:01,053 --> 00:53:04,430 using every weapon that we can possibly muster, 656 00:53:04,515 --> 00:53:07,392 if that doesn't happen, 657 00:53:07,476 --> 00:53:09,477 well, then we're staring at defeat. 658 00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:15,984 And that defeat should not and cannot and will not be forgiven. 659 00:53:23,951 --> 00:53:27,161 It was a good case, I'm not denying that. 660 00:53:28,038 --> 00:53:30,039 But I need to trust my people. 661 00:53:30,541 --> 00:53:33,376 Unless you can give your word, there's no way that I can... 662 00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:36,838 That's more than fair. Thanks. 663 00:53:38,465 --> 00:53:40,592 But it's better for me if I do something else. 664 00:53:44,597 --> 00:53:46,306 Detective. 665 00:53:48,976 --> 00:53:50,393 It's not you, it's me. 666 00:53:52,229 --> 00:53:54,314 - But where... - The Western, I think. 667 00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:58,026 Yeah, the Western feels like home. 668 00:54:12,958 --> 00:54:16,586 - You showed something today. - Just felt like it needed to be said. 669 00:54:20,382 --> 00:54:22,425 Sounds like you're running for something. 670 00:54:26,347 --> 00:54:29,057 Eunetta. Been a while. 671 00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:46,324 Thought y'all was in training. 672 00:55:01,465 --> 00:55:05,218 So what time you want us to be there tomorrow, Coach? 673 00:55:05,302 --> 00:55:07,261 3:30 would be good. 674 00:55:07,346 --> 00:55:09,973 - Hope to see y'all then. - All right. 675 00:55:26,407 --> 00:55:30,368 What the fuck y'all standing around for? Man, get to work. 676 00:55:48,595 --> 00:55:52,515 ..to the false promise that our schools are providing a future for our children. 677 00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:55,560 This administration and its top-heavy schools system... 678 00:56:00,107 --> 00:56:03,943 Oh, you've been on a fast train 679 00:56:04,028 --> 00:56:07,822 And it's going off the rails 680 00:56:07,906 --> 00:56:13,286 And you can't come back Can't come back again 681 00:56:15,247 --> 00:56:18,332 And you start breaking down 682 00:56:19,126 --> 00:56:23,046 In the pouring rain 683 00:56:23,130 --> 00:56:26,007 Oh, you've been on a fast train 684 00:56:27,843 --> 00:56:29,844 On a fast train 685 00:56:31,847 --> 00:56:34,140 When your lover has gone away... 686 00:56:34,224 --> 00:56:35,433 That's it. That's it. 687 00:56:35,517 --> 00:56:37,643 Don't it make you feel sad? 688 00:56:37,853 --> 00:56:40,313 - Yeah. - And you've gone on a journey 689 00:56:40,397 --> 00:56:42,106 Way into the land... 690 00:56:42,191 --> 00:56:43,858 All right. One-two. 691 00:56:43,942 --> 00:56:50,448 Then you start breaking down, cos you're under strain 692 00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:53,659 And you're jumping on 693 00:56:53,869 --> 00:56:57,663 Yes, you're jumping on a fast train 694 00:56:57,873 --> 00:57:00,625 Jumping on a fast train 695 00:57:02,002 --> 00:57:04,629 Got to go on the lam 696 00:57:05,506 --> 00:57:07,965 Stuck in no-man's land 697 00:57:09,051 --> 00:57:12,303 Ain't nobody here on your waveband 698 00:57:13,138 --> 00:57:17,433 Ain't nobody gonna lend you a helping hand 699 00:57:17,518 --> 00:57:20,436 And you start breaking down 700 00:57:20,521 --> 00:57:23,523 Then you go to the sound 701 00:57:24,441 --> 00:57:27,985 But you hear that fast train 702 00:57:28,070 --> 00:57:31,364 Ooh, fast train 703 00:58:02,187 --> 00:58:05,231 And you keep on moving 704 00:58:06,108 --> 00:58:09,235 Unto the sound of the wheels 705 00:58:09,987 --> 00:58:11,904 Oh, deep down in your heart 706 00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:17,493 Do you really know how you feel? 707 00:58:17,578 --> 00:58:21,247 Then you start breaking down 708 00:58:21,331 --> 00:58:25,001 Go into the pain 709 00:58:25,085 --> 00:58:28,171 Keep on moving on a fast train 710 00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:31,382 Moving on a fast train 711 00:58:32,593 --> 00:58:36,262 Way, way over the line 712 00:58:36,346 --> 00:58:39,182 Next thing you're out of your mind 713 00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:42,018 And you're out of your depth 714 00:58:43,854 --> 00:58:46,606 As through the window she crept 715 00:58:47,482 --> 00:58:51,402 Oh, there's nowhere to go, in the sleet and snow 716 00:58:51,486 --> 00:58:54,363 Just keep on moving 717 00:58:54,448 --> 00:58:56,073 Ooh-oh 718 00:58:56,158 --> 00:58:59,160 On a fast train 719 00:58:59,244 --> 00:59:01,579 Moving on a fast train 720 00:59:02,664 --> 00:59:04,665 You've got to go on the lam 721 00:59:06,877 --> 00:59:10,129 Stuck in no-man's land 722 00:59:10,214 --> 00:59:14,300 Ain't nobody on your waveband 723 00:59:14,384 --> 00:59:17,553 Gonna lend you a helping hand 724 00:59:18,138 --> 00:59:20,181 And you're all alone 725 00:59:21,308 --> 00:59:25,061 Can you really make it on your own? 726 00:59:25,145 --> 00:59:29,065 Keep on moving on a fast train 727 00:59:29,149 --> 00:59:31,400 Before you're going nowhere fast 728 00:59:36,365 --> 00:59:40,243 Somebody lend a helping hand, I can't understand 729 00:59:40,327 --> 00:59:42,245 Going through this crazy land 730 00:59:42,329 --> 00:59:47,250 I'm a crazy man, Lord help me on a fast train... 731 00:59:47,334 --> 00:59:52,088 In the cases of Malik Carr, aka Poot, 732 00:59:53,006 --> 00:59:57,009 Herbert DeRodd Johnson, aka Puddin', Arthur Carroll... 733 00:59:58,136 --> 01:00:00,221 What do you see right here? 734 01:00:00,305 --> 01:00:03,015 It's bulk metal, ten cent a pound. 735 01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:04,141 Here. 736 01:00:04,226 --> 01:00:06,560 - Aluminum. - Right you are. 737 01:00:06,645 --> 01:00:09,647 30 cent a pound. No problem. 738 01:00:11,191 --> 01:00:13,150 You see, in these modern times, 739 01:00:13,235 --> 01:00:17,321 a man got to keep one eye on the ground, pick up what he find, feel me? 740 01:00:17,406 --> 01:00:20,241 There's money to be made if you know where to look. 741 01:00:21,451 --> 01:00:23,452 I hope you listening cos I'm trying to school you. 742 01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:25,162 - Uh? - Uh-huh. 743 01:00:25,247 --> 01:00:29,875 Yeah, you don't want to know. You think you're brown, but you still green. 744 01:00:38,176 --> 01:00:40,177 How you doing? 745 01:00:45,058 --> 01:00:46,434 That's something, huh? 746 01:00:46,518 --> 01:00:50,688 Like they just took a big eraser and rubbed across it. 747 01:00:50,897 --> 01:00:52,106 Yeah. 748 01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:57,278 Yeah, but before, a dope fiend come down here, 749 01:00:57,362 --> 01:01:01,532 cop a little something, ain't nary a soul hassle him. 750 01:01:01,616 --> 01:01:04,035 Hoppers and police, they just let him be. 751 01:01:06,121 --> 01:01:07,955 Mm-hm. 752 01:01:08,582 --> 01:01:10,541 Was a good thing, huh? 753 01:01:14,296 --> 01:01:16,172 I'm just saying. 754 01:01:16,923 --> 01:01:19,467 You probably don't know, but it's rough out there, baby. 755 01:01:19,551 --> 01:01:23,429 Cops be back banging on you, hoppers be messing with you. 756 01:01:27,517 --> 01:01:29,185 Yeah, thank you. 757 01:01:30,062 --> 01:01:33,689 Oh, shit. There's a dollar here. That's a seed. 758 01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:37,276 Come on, boy.