1 00:00:08,475 --> 00:00:10,466 See, to cap a motherfucker, 2 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:12,501 you put a pistol to his head, say, "pow," and he tagged. 3 00:00:12,545 --> 00:00:15,070 - But when Chris and them do it-- - Yo, it ain't working, Na'. 4 00:00:15,115 --> 00:00:18,812 - I know you making this up. - Word to my mother, yo. Lex ain't dead. 5 00:00:18,852 --> 00:00:21,685 I seen him creeping in an alley last night near the playground. 6 00:00:21,721 --> 00:00:23,348 Everybody know Lex is dead. 7 00:00:23,390 --> 00:00:25,950 Nah, there's dead, and there's special dead. 8 00:00:25,992 --> 00:00:28,256 Yeah, Chris working that juju shit. 9 00:00:28,294 --> 00:00:30,660 Nah, man, what I'm saying is they zombies. 10 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:34,258 Why you think he take them into vacants? He need time to change them. 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:36,825 You don't believe me, yo, it's on you. 12 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:38,428 Yo, they funnin', ain't they, Michael? 13 00:00:38,471 --> 00:00:40,598 I don't know about that voodoo shit, man, but Chris 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,098 is definitely doing something-- get a nigger to walk up in there 15 00:00:44,144 --> 00:00:45,907 knowing he about to get capped, man. 16 00:00:45,945 --> 00:00:48,743 Chris, he different. You can tell by them coon-ass country clothes 17 00:00:48,782 --> 00:00:50,977 that nigger be wearing. 18 00:00:51,017 --> 00:00:53,383 Nine? 19 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:55,786 Nah, too much bark. 20 00:00:55,822 --> 00:00:57,084 Probably a.40-cal. 21 00:00:58,825 --> 00:01:00,725 Yeah, man, this is serious business. 22 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,523 So you saying Lex is a zombie? 23 00:01:02,562 --> 00:01:04,962 Pookie, Byron, all them niggers. 24 00:01:04,998 --> 00:01:07,831 - And Chris? - Yeah, Chris-- Zombie Master. 25 00:01:09,269 --> 00:01:11,134 I knew this wasn't going away. 26 00:01:11,171 --> 00:01:14,197 That's what we've been trying to tell you, yo. Chris got the power. 27 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,003 He tell them to come, and they gotta come-- 28 00:01:16,042 --> 00:01:18,442 Iike the devil do with the damned. 29 00:01:18,478 --> 00:01:19,945 What you think Chris got them doing? 30 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:23,244 They're probably spies, man. 31 00:01:23,283 --> 00:01:25,808 Can't figure any other way Marlo knows so much. 32 00:01:25,852 --> 00:01:29,185 Yeah, that's what it is. Like in this movie, "Zombie Killer" or something. 33 00:01:29,222 --> 00:01:31,122 They came out at night, hunting. 34 00:01:31,157 --> 00:01:33,057 - Hunting? - Yeah, man. They-- 35 00:01:37,797 --> 00:01:40,357 Yeah, and in that movie they was snatching people up, 36 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,425 stealing their warmth. 37 00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:54,327 St. Jude, patron of lost causes. 38 00:03:54,367 --> 00:03:56,665 Tell me you ain't been on bended knee 39 00:03:56,703 --> 00:03:59,365 whispering in his saintly ear each and every night 40 00:03:59,405 --> 00:04:00,997 before you close those peepers. 41 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,009 I know you have, Tommy, catch a break like this. 42 00:04:05,044 --> 00:04:06,136 Stan, you're sure about this? 43 00:04:06,179 --> 00:04:07,771 On my mother's soul. It's a lock. 44 00:04:07,814 --> 00:04:09,873 Assigned a rookie-- a broad, no less-- 45 00:04:09,916 --> 00:04:11,850 as lead detective. 46 00:04:11,884 --> 00:04:13,476 Pulled a good man off, too, I heard. 47 00:04:13,519 --> 00:04:16,113 Hmm. Tom. 48 00:04:16,155 --> 00:04:18,851 Tommy, remember-- 49 00:04:18,891 --> 00:04:21,291 anything you need. 50 00:04:25,732 --> 00:04:27,597 He's a piece of work. 51 00:04:27,634 --> 00:04:29,966 Valchek? Comes with the territory. 52 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:31,766 You want the First District council seat, 53 00:04:31,804 --> 00:04:33,863 you make nice with whatever Polish or Greek commander 54 00:04:33,906 --> 00:04:36,670 - they dump in the southeast. - Not ltalian. 55 00:04:36,709 --> 00:04:38,176 No, there ain't enough of us left down there. 56 00:04:38,211 --> 00:04:40,805 - You think he has this right? - That Royce tampered with the case? 57 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:43,213 No way the mayor knows. 58 00:04:43,249 --> 00:04:45,683 You're right. This one has Ervin Burrell written all over it. 59 00:04:45,718 --> 00:04:47,686 Fuck if the mayor knows or not. If it's true, 60 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,347 we get it out there quick and bang him hard. 61 00:04:49,389 --> 00:04:51,414 - I go public? - They can't spin this. 62 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:53,516 They sabotaged a criminal case. 63 00:04:53,559 --> 00:04:57,120 No spin on a knuckleball, you still can't tell how it's gonna break. 64 00:05:03,536 --> 00:05:07,472 We feed it to Tony Gray. We keep ourselves out of the line of fire, 65 00:05:07,507 --> 00:05:09,941 sting Royce, and as an added bonus, 66 00:05:09,976 --> 00:05:11,603 give Gray's campaign a boost 67 00:05:11,644 --> 00:05:14,374 which comes at the expense of the mayor's base. 68 00:05:17,750 --> 00:05:21,413 I'm a devious motherfucker once I get going. 69 00:05:21,454 --> 00:05:23,081 So all told, 70 00:05:23,122 --> 00:05:25,989 we're looking at 13 warrants and six locations. 71 00:05:26,025 --> 00:05:28,550 And given my staffing situation... 72 00:05:28,594 --> 00:05:30,459 Not a problem. 73 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:33,397 I can give you my D.E.U., Flex, and Ops squads. 74 00:05:33,433 --> 00:05:35,799 - A sector of uniforms if you need it. - Great. 75 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:39,430 The problem is, you're wasting a wiretap on street-level arrests. 76 00:05:39,472 --> 00:05:41,497 We do these raids right, we might catch Marlo 77 00:05:41,541 --> 00:05:43,907 or one of his lieutenants at one of these locations, 78 00:05:43,943 --> 00:05:46,241 - get them with dope on the table. - Marlo Stanfield-- 79 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,770 in a room, with dope on the table? 80 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:52,307 I've kicked down doors and surprised bigger players than him. 81 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:54,047 Well, let me warn you, Lieutenant-- 82 00:05:54,087 --> 00:05:56,487 I am not about to litigate a wiretap 83 00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:58,149 for a handful of street rips. 84 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:01,285 Well... that's on you, Counselor. 85 00:06:01,327 --> 00:06:03,318 No, it's not. 86 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:05,923 Major, see you tomorrow. 87 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:16,802 Floaters-- you had any more? 88 00:06:16,843 --> 00:06:19,505 - No more than usual for the season. - What about decomps? 89 00:06:19,545 --> 00:06:21,206 What do you got in the decomp room? 90 00:06:21,247 --> 00:06:23,442 - Two or three unidentifieds. - Found in Baltimore? 91 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:25,144 No. Actually, two from Prince George's, 92 00:06:25,184 --> 00:06:27,209 - one from Dorchester. - Nah, he wouldn't drive that far. 93 00:06:27,253 --> 00:06:28,777 Let me get this straight: 94 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:31,119 You're looking for extra bodies, no one in particular, 95 00:06:31,157 --> 00:06:33,785 other than this one kid you already put out on the teletype. 96 00:06:33,826 --> 00:06:35,623 Yeah. You on it. 97 00:06:35,661 --> 00:06:37,754 You fellas don't have enough work? 98 00:06:40,166 --> 00:06:42,566 If you do your classwork, homework, 99 00:06:42,602 --> 00:06:44,229 you earn stickers. 100 00:06:44,270 --> 00:06:47,000 Dag, yo, every day you be changing it up. 101 00:06:47,039 --> 00:06:49,769 You got us confused, Mr. P. 102 00:06:49,809 --> 00:06:52,835 Behave in class, that's another sticker. 103 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:57,339 At the end of the week, the four with the most stickers get a prize 104 00:06:57,383 --> 00:07:00,750 and are eligible for a grand drawing at the end of the month. 105 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:03,551 Don't do your work, 106 00:07:03,589 --> 00:07:05,523 misbehave in class... 107 00:07:07,693 --> 00:07:10,161 ...your name goes here. 108 00:07:10,196 --> 00:07:14,030 Detention-- a full hour after school, no exceptions. 109 00:07:14,066 --> 00:07:17,001 So it's up to you-- stickers for prizes 110 00:07:17,036 --> 00:07:19,698 or stay with me after school. 111 00:07:19,739 --> 00:07:22,003 Yo, Mr. P., why you do me detention, huh? 112 00:07:22,041 --> 00:07:23,736 You interrupted the class, Namond. 113 00:07:23,776 --> 00:07:26,768 Yo, when you first came in here, you was all treating us straight up, 114 00:07:26,813 --> 00:07:29,145 and now you just dog me before I even know the rules. 115 00:07:29,182 --> 00:07:31,173 That ain't right, man. 116 00:07:36,422 --> 00:07:39,755 When you're right, Namond, you're right. 117 00:07:39,792 --> 00:07:42,124 Hey, Mr. P., I want me some of them stickers. 118 00:07:42,161 --> 00:07:44,288 Zenobia, you have to do your work. 119 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:47,595 I want to, but I ain't got no pencils. 120 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:57,137 I don't want no damn welfare pencil! 121 00:08:10,756 --> 00:08:12,917 It seems to me 122 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:15,655 there are two kinds of kids walking in this building-- 123 00:08:15,695 --> 00:08:18,425 stoop kids and corner kids. 124 00:08:18,464 --> 00:08:20,398 - Excuse me? - You know, stoop kids 125 00:08:20,433 --> 00:08:23,027 stay on their front steps when their parents tell them. 126 00:08:23,069 --> 00:08:24,764 The others go down to the corners. 127 00:08:24,804 --> 00:08:27,898 They can't sit still in the class. The others can and do. 128 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:30,932 - So separate the two. - That's tracking. 129 00:08:30,977 --> 00:08:33,377 - Excuse me? - Tracking students. 130 00:08:33,412 --> 00:08:35,607 It's a nasty phrase in educational circles. 131 00:08:35,648 --> 00:08:38,674 It refers to the grouping of children based on expected performance. 132 00:08:38,718 --> 00:08:41,744 - What's wrong with it? - It says you have reduced expectations 133 00:08:41,787 --> 00:08:45,314 for certain students, that you expect less from them academically. 134 00:08:46,626 --> 00:08:48,423 So you pretend to teach all these kids, 135 00:08:48,461 --> 00:08:50,452 and the truth is, you ain't teaching any of them. 136 00:08:50,496 --> 00:08:52,293 But what if the stoop kids 137 00:08:52,331 --> 00:08:54,595 could be in classrooms where there was no disruptions? 138 00:08:54,634 --> 00:08:56,727 - And the corner kids? - They're the ones you're after, right? 139 00:08:56,769 --> 00:08:58,498 That's why you got the grant money. 140 00:08:58,538 --> 00:09:01,132 As long as this doesn't involve warehousing children, 141 00:09:01,173 --> 00:09:03,437 I'm for anything that allows me to do my job. 142 00:09:03,476 --> 00:09:05,535 Every teacher here will tell you the same. 143 00:09:05,578 --> 00:09:08,046 The trick for you is to come up with a program 144 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,344 that actually addresses itself to the corner kids. 145 00:09:10,383 --> 00:09:13,716 We start pulling kids out of regular classes-- won't they be stigmatized? 146 00:09:13,753 --> 00:09:16,449 There's not a stigma in being booted out of class every other day? 147 00:09:16,489 --> 00:09:18,252 Question is, 148 00:09:18,291 --> 00:09:20,088 how do we identify the corner kids? 149 00:09:20,126 --> 00:09:21,593 That won't be a problem. 150 00:09:23,162 --> 00:09:26,131 Okay. Okay. 151 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:36,605 You understand the work? 152 00:09:39,812 --> 00:09:42,713 Come on, this is easy. I know you can do it. 153 00:09:47,420 --> 00:09:50,514 You're not giving me a choice. You have detention. 154 00:09:50,556 --> 00:09:52,820 Yo, Na', Mrs. D. shaking bushes. 155 00:09:53,926 --> 00:09:56,224 Back to your seats. 156 00:09:57,697 --> 00:09:59,631 What the fuck? She got my blade, yo. 157 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:01,690 I said, "Back to your seats." 158 00:10:08,574 --> 00:10:10,667 Yo, Mrs. D. be stealing shit. 159 00:10:10,710 --> 00:10:12,940 I ain't never gonna get my blade back. 160 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:18,211 Yo, what are you all up on me for? I do my work. 161 00:10:18,250 --> 00:10:21,151 I'm not your yo. Show me your work. 162 00:10:26,225 --> 00:10:28,955 Yeah, I see. 163 00:10:28,995 --> 00:10:31,327 Yo, my hand hurting from all this learning. You got some Tylenol? 164 00:10:33,165 --> 00:10:35,065 What I got for you is detention. 165 00:10:35,101 --> 00:10:36,830 Oh-hh! 166 00:10:36,869 --> 00:10:39,667 - You know what? Fuck you, Prezbo. - Oh-hh! 167 00:10:39,705 --> 00:10:41,900 Fucking gimpy-assed, big-grill motherfucker. 168 00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:43,772 That's it. You're out of here! 169 00:10:46,712 --> 00:10:48,373 Go! 170 00:10:56,288 --> 00:10:58,882 Get your police stick out your desk and beat me. 171 00:10:58,924 --> 00:11:03,793 - You know you fucking want to. - Oh-hh. 172 00:11:05,264 --> 00:11:07,061 Everyone, back in your seat. 173 00:11:07,099 --> 00:11:09,090 The fuck you looking at, bitch? 174 00:11:10,269 --> 00:11:12,237 Oh-hh, Ms. Sampson, l-- 175 00:11:12,271 --> 00:11:15,138 Namond Brice, if you weren't headed to the main office, 176 00:11:15,174 --> 00:11:17,904 - you are now. - Yeah, I was just-- 177 00:11:21,147 --> 00:11:24,116 One of the corner kids, huh? 178 00:11:24,150 --> 00:11:26,744 Yeah, they do step up when you need them, don't they? 179 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:30,688 Look, what? You want me to say you right? You right. 180 00:11:30,723 --> 00:11:33,089 I should have had protection at the card game. 181 00:11:33,125 --> 00:11:34,683 Done is done. 182 00:11:34,727 --> 00:11:36,695 Now we need to decide what we're gonna do about Omar. 183 00:11:36,729 --> 00:11:38,219 You make the price right, 184 00:11:38,264 --> 00:11:41,631 somebody gonna get a whiff of that bushwhacker's ass. 185 00:11:41,667 --> 00:11:43,931 Now you take it from there. 186 00:11:43,969 --> 00:11:45,698 You think so? 187 00:11:45,738 --> 00:11:49,265 I ain't saying Omar can't be got. Any nigger can be got. 188 00:11:49,308 --> 00:11:50,935 But once we put word to ear 189 00:11:50,976 --> 00:11:52,739 and he learn that we pricing out his head, 190 00:11:52,778 --> 00:11:54,803 he's gonna be trying us like we're trying him. 191 00:11:56,248 --> 00:11:58,910 - You saying I should let it slide? - Nah. 192 00:11:58,951 --> 00:12:01,977 Nah, we get at him another way, 193 00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:04,683 get at him without no bounties, no bullshit like that. 194 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:07,249 Barksdale turned this town upside down hunting him, 195 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:09,261 and all he ended up looking was weak. 196 00:12:09,295 --> 00:12:10,455 I ain't no Barksdale. 197 00:12:10,496 --> 00:12:12,987 I'm just saying talk is cheap. 198 00:12:13,032 --> 00:12:15,830 We sit on it, we gonna figure out a way to get that faggot. 199 00:12:15,868 --> 00:12:19,804 But till then we don't say a mumbling word. 200 00:12:25,544 --> 00:12:29,207 I got me six now, and I'll give you the four later, all right? Come on! 201 00:12:29,248 --> 00:12:31,808 - Nah. I'm gonna need the whole 10 now. - Sherrod! 202 00:12:33,719 --> 00:12:36,620 - You ain't in school? - I'm half a day-- teachers' meeting. 203 00:12:36,655 --> 00:12:39,089 Come on, I told you about those lame excuses, man. 204 00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:42,117 - I was talking to him first. - Ain't no need for physical contact-- 205 00:12:42,161 --> 00:12:43,753 You got $4 for me? I'm short $4. 206 00:12:43,796 --> 00:12:46,424 What the fuck are you talking-- 207 00:12:46,465 --> 00:12:49,025 Got a cart full of shit, nigger. What you got for me? 208 00:12:49,068 --> 00:12:51,002 I know you holding. 209 00:12:51,036 --> 00:12:52,936 Where's it at? You ain't hear? 210 00:12:52,972 --> 00:12:54,303 Okay. 211 00:12:54,340 --> 00:12:57,002 It's in my shoe-- my shoe. 212 00:13:03,182 --> 00:13:05,446 Don't need the four now, son. 213 00:13:18,297 --> 00:13:21,323 Damn, yo, where the shovel at? Bury that nigger, man. 214 00:13:43,956 --> 00:13:45,821 Here you go, sir, thank you. 215 00:13:45,858 --> 00:13:47,883 - Tommy Carcetti, running for mayor. - Good luck, Tommy. 216 00:13:47,927 --> 00:13:49,554 - Hey, Mr. Carcetti, you got my vote. - Thanks. 217 00:13:49,595 --> 00:13:51,153 - Tom Carcetti. - Hey, thank you very much. 218 00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:52,562 - Here you go. - Good luck, Councilman. 219 00:13:52,598 --> 00:13:54,429 How you doing? Tommy Carcetti, running for mayor. 220 00:13:54,466 --> 00:13:57,435 Okay, Councilman, time to hit the West Side. 221 00:14:09,648 --> 00:14:11,775 Pretty motherfucker-- 222 00:14:11,817 --> 00:14:14,513 he's gonna make me go to my game face. 223 00:14:16,822 --> 00:14:19,916 Okay, I'll take 25 of the honeysuckle incense cones-- 224 00:14:19,959 --> 00:14:21,893 they'll keep me healthy for next week. 225 00:14:21,927 --> 00:14:25,488 - Tommy! - Excuse me. 226 00:14:26,999 --> 00:14:31,299 Tony Gray's people say 20 minutes at their place. 227 00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:35,636 Shit, Clarence. Look like you did in '98 228 00:14:35,674 --> 00:14:37,904 when you surprised the hell out of everyone. 229 00:14:37,943 --> 00:14:39,570 Just bring 'em on. 230 00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:45,380 Why give it to us? Why don't you stick it to Royce yourself? 231 00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:47,442 Because after what Tommy did at the debate, 232 00:14:47,486 --> 00:14:50,546 it'll seem like more of the same if it comes from him. 233 00:14:50,589 --> 00:14:54,923 And if we use it to take four or five points out of Royce's base, 234 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,791 it helps him as much as us. 235 00:14:56,829 --> 00:14:58,990 Once bitten, twice shy. 236 00:14:59,031 --> 00:15:01,761 With Tommy Carcetti, I got to always think a step ahead. 237 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,634 Look, Tony, you ain't gonna win. So the only question is 238 00:15:05,671 --> 00:15:08,265 whether you wanna lose with 24% of the vote 239 00:15:08,307 --> 00:15:10,207 or 28%. 240 00:15:10,242 --> 00:15:12,142 You bring the numbers up, 241 00:15:12,177 --> 00:15:14,338 you look good for the legislature-- 242 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:17,577 maybe a congressional run. 243 00:15:17,616 --> 00:15:19,311 - Albert Stokes. - Here. 244 00:15:19,351 --> 00:15:22,946 Mr. P., can I go? My moms told me to go straight home after school. 245 00:15:22,988 --> 00:15:25,047 Mine too. 246 00:15:25,090 --> 00:15:27,615 You should have thought of that before you smeared ink 247 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:29,287 all over my desk. 248 00:15:29,328 --> 00:15:30,852 Weren't my fault. My pen exploded. 249 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:34,428 Michael. 250 00:15:34,466 --> 00:15:36,161 Michael Lee? 251 00:15:36,201 --> 00:15:38,431 Mr. P., please, can I go? 252 00:15:38,470 --> 00:15:41,462 I ain't eat no lunch, and my stomach making all these noises. 253 00:15:41,507 --> 00:15:46,001 Look, I won't ever disrespect your pencil again, I promise. 254 00:15:46,045 --> 00:15:48,013 Zenobia, it wasn't about the pencil. 255 00:15:48,047 --> 00:15:51,039 Please, Mr. P. 256 00:16:00,392 --> 00:16:04,260 - Okay okay, all right. - All right. 257 00:16:04,296 --> 00:16:06,491 Just this one time, I'll make an exception. 258 00:16:08,834 --> 00:16:11,667 But next time, expect to stay the full hour. 259 00:16:24,583 --> 00:16:26,915 - Why are you here? - Came to say sorry. 260 00:16:26,952 --> 00:16:29,546 I didn't mean to get all up in your face like that. 261 00:16:30,889 --> 00:16:32,516 I appreciate that, Namond. 262 00:16:32,558 --> 00:16:35,152 It takes courage to admit when you're wrong. 263 00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:38,357 What I can't understand-- I've seen you in Ms. Sampson's class doing your work. 264 00:16:38,397 --> 00:16:41,560 - Why can't you do the same in here? - I mean to, I do. 265 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,127 It's just the evil get in me and before I know it, I go off. 266 00:16:47,072 --> 00:16:49,097 Well... 267 00:16:49,141 --> 00:16:51,075 tomorrow we'll see if we can do better. 268 00:16:51,110 --> 00:16:53,772 Can't tomorrow. Mrs. D. put me out. 269 00:16:53,812 --> 00:16:57,145 I gotta bump. Later, Mr. P. 270 00:17:00,152 --> 00:17:02,586 If you can wait outside... 271 00:17:02,621 --> 00:17:04,612 It's okay. He can stay. 272 00:17:08,627 --> 00:17:09,616 Thank you. 273 00:17:11,096 --> 00:17:14,623 Mr. P., you know Michael can't make it to detention. 274 00:17:14,666 --> 00:17:16,691 I know he didn't. Now it's doubled. 275 00:17:16,735 --> 00:17:19,568 - He's got two days to serve. - Nah, I mean, he can't. 276 00:17:19,605 --> 00:17:21,937 He got to go pick up his little brother from school. 277 00:17:21,974 --> 00:17:24,169 Well, he'll just have to find somebody else to do that. 278 00:17:25,544 --> 00:17:28,206 It-- it ain't like that. 279 00:17:28,247 --> 00:17:29,874 I mean, Michael would come if he could, 280 00:17:29,915 --> 00:17:32,850 but wouldn't have nobody else to pick up his little brother Bug. 281 00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:35,115 You know, his mother, she on that stuff. 282 00:17:41,827 --> 00:17:43,761 We walking home. You coming? 283 00:17:43,796 --> 00:17:47,357 Oh, no, I'm waiting on Alpo. Ms. Sampson got him doing detention. 284 00:17:47,399 --> 00:17:49,697 - You gonna be here till, like, 5:00. - Yeah, she a hard lady. 285 00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:51,600 She don't ever give a brother no play. 286 00:17:51,637 --> 00:17:55,505 - All right. I'll holla at you later. - All right, yo. 287 00:17:57,609 --> 00:18:00,237 So you're not gonna be in the NBA? 288 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:03,180 Then it must be the NFL? 289 00:18:03,215 --> 00:18:05,843 I thought all the boys in class were gonna join the pros. 290 00:18:05,884 --> 00:18:07,442 Nah, that's just something we say. 291 00:18:08,454 --> 00:18:10,718 So what about you? 292 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:12,986 What do you wanna be when you grow up? 293 00:18:13,025 --> 00:18:15,425 I'm gonna own my own store. 294 00:18:15,461 --> 00:18:18,555 That's smart. You're gonna need to know a lot of math. 295 00:18:22,167 --> 00:18:24,499 You left them in there. 296 00:18:25,871 --> 00:18:28,135 - Oh-hh. - Hey, don't worry, Mr. P. 297 00:18:28,173 --> 00:18:31,165 We got you. Hey, Donut! 298 00:18:31,210 --> 00:18:33,838 - Yo, yeah. - Donut's crazy with cars. 299 00:18:33,879 --> 00:18:35,346 He can open anything. 300 00:18:35,380 --> 00:18:36,711 - Hey. What up, man? - Hey. 301 00:18:36,748 --> 00:18:39,876 Yo, he locked his keys in there. 302 00:18:43,589 --> 00:18:45,853 It's okay, I can call AAA. 303 00:18:45,891 --> 00:18:47,518 Oh, no problem, chief. 304 00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:31,666 Feel the need to work them corners, huh? 305 00:19:33,739 --> 00:19:36,469 I'm just asking 'cause you don't need to be doing what you're doing. 306 00:19:36,508 --> 00:19:38,442 I need to learn some shit on my own. 307 00:19:38,477 --> 00:19:41,310 I'm trying to help you, Sherrod, 308 00:19:41,346 --> 00:19:43,439 but you making it so I can't. 309 00:19:43,482 --> 00:19:45,416 I didn't even know the man who beat on you, Bubs. 310 00:19:45,450 --> 00:19:47,077 He was short money on the corner. 311 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,053 I swear he wasn't nothing to me. 312 00:19:49,087 --> 00:19:52,318 Yeah, but when the shit start, there's nothing to be done, right? 313 00:19:52,357 --> 00:19:55,292 What would I have done if he started whaling on you? 314 00:19:55,327 --> 00:19:59,320 Same kind of nothing, see? That's how the corners be. 315 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,097 They going to use you up, Sherrod. 316 00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:12,572 You welcome to stay tonight, but you ain't in school tomorrow morning, 317 00:20:12,611 --> 00:20:14,670 this partnership need to be done. 318 00:20:43,709 --> 00:20:46,269 These two precincts are the bellwether for the Fifth. 319 00:20:46,311 --> 00:20:49,747 If you can take even 18% out of Carcetti in these, 320 00:20:49,781 --> 00:20:52,249 it's a good guess he won't have the numbers citywide. 321 00:20:52,284 --> 00:20:54,377 And who are we ticketed with over here? 322 00:20:54,419 --> 00:20:57,479 The N.D.O., I hope, because... 323 00:20:59,224 --> 00:21:02,716 ...this amid allegations that high-ranking police officials intervened 324 00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:06,754 to have a veteran police detective removed from the controversial case. 325 00:21:06,798 --> 00:21:10,029 The Braddock murder became a focal point in the mayoral campaign 326 00:21:10,068 --> 00:21:12,400 when Councilman Thomas Carcetti alleged 327 00:21:12,437 --> 00:21:14,428 the West Baltimore man was killed 328 00:21:14,473 --> 00:21:16,703 because he was a witness in the case. 329 00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:18,642 ...Because they were afraid the police would prove 330 00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:20,770 what they most fear, that Fredro Braddock was murdered 331 00:21:20,812 --> 00:21:24,077 because he was a witness, and the city failed to protect him. 332 00:21:25,917 --> 00:21:27,782 It's on all three channels. 333 00:21:27,819 --> 00:21:30,515 And "The Sun" and "The Post" are both calling for comment. 334 00:21:34,826 --> 00:21:37,454 And my sources within the department say the rank-and-file officers 335 00:21:37,496 --> 00:21:39,896 are simply appalled by this blatant political manipulation. 336 00:21:39,931 --> 00:21:41,558 Damn, turn it up. 337 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,296 Hey, Greggs, you're famous. 338 00:21:44,336 --> 00:21:46,600 ...is to remove a highly-decorated veteran 339 00:21:46,638 --> 00:21:49,698 with 15 years' experience as a murder investigator without reason... 340 00:21:49,741 --> 00:21:51,538 - That'd be me. - Then replaced with a rookie 341 00:21:51,576 --> 00:21:53,510 who has yet to handle a single homicide investigation... 342 00:21:53,545 --> 00:21:55,911 - That'd be you. -...then we need to rethink... 343 00:21:55,947 --> 00:21:57,244 - The fuck I ever do to him? 344 00:22:01,753 --> 00:22:03,345 You gonna make it too heavy, yo. 345 00:22:03,388 --> 00:22:05,219 It might work if we make it bigger. 346 00:22:05,257 --> 00:22:07,282 It would work if we had balsa wood, you know? 347 00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:10,090 - It's really light and strong. - Man, you so full of-- 348 00:22:10,128 --> 00:22:12,562 oh, shit. 349 00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:19,428 Zombie Master. 350 00:22:25,444 --> 00:22:27,435 Need to take us a little walk. 351 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,614 Nah, I'm good here. 352 00:22:30,649 --> 00:22:33,243 Yo. Young'uns need to move along. 353 00:22:34,953 --> 00:22:37,217 Sure, Chris, we'll bump. 354 00:22:42,794 --> 00:22:44,921 - Yo, Snoop, your sister in my class. - What the fuck? 355 00:22:44,963 --> 00:22:46,555 You high or something, nigger? 356 00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:50,967 You boys be smoking that shit? 357 00:22:54,406 --> 00:22:56,636 Hearing good things about you. 358 00:22:56,675 --> 00:22:58,836 Say you straight up, take care of your people, 359 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:01,402 not begging no handouts. 360 00:23:01,446 --> 00:23:03,710 Motherfucker, you hear the nigger talking to you, 361 00:23:03,749 --> 00:23:07,310 giving you praises and shit. You standing here looking fucking stupid. 362 00:23:07,352 --> 00:23:09,650 Yo, chill. 363 00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,417 Sometimes she get a little hot. 364 00:23:11,456 --> 00:23:14,482 I'm just saying the boy ain't right! 365 00:23:14,526 --> 00:23:17,461 Yo, we always in the market for a good soldier. 366 00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:20,897 When we see one we like, we take care of the situation-- 367 00:23:20,932 --> 00:23:24,129 take him in, school him, make him family. 368 00:23:24,169 --> 00:23:25,932 And if you're with us, you're with us, 369 00:23:25,971 --> 00:23:28,667 just like we'd be with you all the way. 370 00:23:28,707 --> 00:23:30,299 You have a mind, you're in. 371 00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:33,971 Look, man. I already got a family-- 372 00:23:34,012 --> 00:23:36,640 my moms and my little brother. 373 00:23:36,681 --> 00:23:39,582 Yeah, heard that. 374 00:23:39,618 --> 00:23:41,609 But think on it. 375 00:23:44,823 --> 00:23:47,121 We'll be around if you need something. 376 00:24:01,239 --> 00:24:03,207 He saw me, yo. I knew it. 377 00:24:03,241 --> 00:24:05,141 I knew Chris was asking Michael about me. 378 00:24:05,177 --> 00:24:06,804 I knew it, man. I'm dead. 379 00:24:09,748 --> 00:24:11,181 - Yo, man, good looking out. - Yeah. 380 00:24:11,216 --> 00:24:13,184 - I thought they was gonna-- - Yeah, I know, I know. 381 00:24:13,218 --> 00:24:15,550 What-what he ask about me? I know he asked about me. 382 00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:17,487 - What'd you say? What'd you tell him? - Calm down, 383 00:24:17,522 --> 00:24:19,114 - it weren't even about you. - Yo, for real, 384 00:24:19,157 --> 00:24:21,751 you need to tell me. What did he ask you? 385 00:24:23,161 --> 00:24:26,653 Yo, you right, man. Chris was all up in your business. 386 00:24:26,698 --> 00:24:28,962 He down on you for some deep shit, man. 387 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,696 I don't even know what. 388 00:24:33,271 --> 00:24:35,466 Nah, I'm just fucking with you, man. 389 00:24:35,507 --> 00:24:38,203 He didn't even speak your name. 390 00:24:44,883 --> 00:24:46,874 Oh, man. 391 00:24:49,788 --> 00:24:53,724 So, Erv, what's next? Your officers gonna shoot a couple of tourists? 392 00:24:53,758 --> 00:24:56,659 Maybe fly a helicopter into Harbor Place? 393 00:24:56,695 --> 00:25:00,563 What can we expect the last week of my re-election campaign? 394 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:02,464 Sir, I did what you asked-- no more, no less. 395 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,696 Hamsterdam-- legalized drug zone? 396 00:25:04,736 --> 00:25:06,499 Oh, he takes responsibility for that. 397 00:25:06,538 --> 00:25:08,836 - The subpoenas all over town. - That, too. 398 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:12,002 Well, then the leak about the witness murder. That was his shop too, right? 399 00:25:12,043 --> 00:25:14,568 - Hell, yeah. - And now this last thing, 400 00:25:14,613 --> 00:25:19,380 transferring detectives off the case-- what is that? What is that? 401 00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:21,885 - Scuttling the investigation. - Yeah, right. 402 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,684 - Yeah, that's awful-- Jesus! - Mr. Mayor, you asked me 403 00:25:24,723 --> 00:25:27,521 - to slow that investigation down. - Mm-mmm, mm-mmm. 404 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:29,823 Subtle, Ervin. Hmm? 405 00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:32,159 You hold a few facts for a few weeks. 406 00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:35,166 You put a report or two in a desk drawer. 407 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,532 But the transferring of people off a case?! 408 00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:40,436 Look, you told me... 409 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:42,303 you specifically wanted me to not-- 410 00:25:42,340 --> 00:25:44,433 Ervin, you may leave. 411 00:25:44,476 --> 00:25:49,175 - Mr. Mayor-- - That will be all, Commissioner. 412 00:25:59,324 --> 00:26:01,588 Nuh-uh. 413 00:26:01,626 --> 00:26:05,426 No, I need a word or two with your deputy, Ervin. 414 00:26:17,776 --> 00:26:19,437 Have a seat. 415 00:26:27,218 --> 00:26:29,186 I tried to warn him. 416 00:26:29,220 --> 00:26:31,688 I mean, if it leaked out of Homicide about the dead witness, 417 00:26:31,723 --> 00:26:33,748 why wouldn't it leak that we bumped a detective? 418 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:35,350 Why didn't you come to us beforehand? 419 00:26:37,128 --> 00:26:40,359 I'm a loyal subordinate, Mr. Mayor, 420 00:26:40,398 --> 00:26:43,265 and Ervin is a good man working under considerable pressure. 421 00:26:43,301 --> 00:26:44,700 He's a hack. 422 00:26:44,736 --> 00:26:47,170 You're not bothered by the pressure, Deputy? 423 00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:49,196 Not in the least. 424 00:26:54,579 --> 00:26:56,877 I need you to make this go away, Bill. 425 00:26:56,915 --> 00:26:59,679 I won't forget, believe me. 426 00:27:11,496 --> 00:27:14,431 Another thing-- Slim Charles got up with me. 427 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:16,297 Said the fat man want a sitdown. 428 00:27:16,334 --> 00:27:18,359 Nah. I did that already. 429 00:27:18,403 --> 00:27:22,271 Well, Slim say the fat man knew the card game was gonna get took. 430 00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,242 He did, did he? Set it up. 431 00:27:25,276 --> 00:27:27,767 Why you always be back here? 432 00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:30,042 Quiet. And I can see what comes. 433 00:27:30,081 --> 00:27:32,413 But you out in the weather and shit. 434 00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:35,010 - I don't like to speak in no rooms. - Yeah. 435 00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:36,953 Yo, oh-oh, you ain't staying long. 436 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:42,889 So you know, I almost got that for you. 437 00:27:42,927 --> 00:27:44,519 I just need a couple of days more. 438 00:27:44,562 --> 00:27:46,496 You can keep my money for now. 439 00:27:46,531 --> 00:27:49,762 - I got something that needs doing. - Anything, Marlo-- your call. 440 00:27:49,801 --> 00:27:53,498 Omar gonna come in your store, stick it up, rob you. 441 00:27:53,538 --> 00:27:57,907 You gonna call the police, make a report. You feel me? 442 00:27:57,942 --> 00:28:00,706 Yeah, that'll work, but, uh, you know when he get out, 443 00:28:00,745 --> 00:28:03,179 he's coming right at me, I ain't scared or nothing. 444 00:28:03,214 --> 00:28:05,375 - I'm just saying, you know? - He ain't gonna get out. 445 00:28:13,291 --> 00:28:15,418 A man make bail on robbery. 446 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:17,985 Make it no bail. 447 00:28:20,999 --> 00:28:23,399 If you have a problem, 448 00:28:23,435 --> 00:28:25,335 Iike you can't make it to detention, 449 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:27,361 you need to tell me. 450 00:28:27,405 --> 00:28:29,032 That's your responsibility. 451 00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:31,872 People will be more than willing to help you out, 452 00:28:31,910 --> 00:28:33,901 but it's up to you to ask. 453 00:28:35,313 --> 00:28:37,304 You can go back to the cafeteria... 454 00:28:38,483 --> 00:28:40,144 or hang up here. 455 00:28:50,528 --> 00:28:53,497 Duquan, could you come here? 456 00:29:04,576 --> 00:29:08,376 I thought maybe you could help me out-- I packed too much. 457 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,327 Take this down to the cafeteria 458 00:29:30,368 --> 00:29:32,427 and get yourself something to drink from the machine. 459 00:29:32,470 --> 00:29:34,665 Thank you. 460 00:29:43,748 --> 00:29:46,717 Crystal, you got a second? 461 00:29:48,486 --> 00:29:50,852 What's up with Duquan? 462 00:29:50,889 --> 00:29:53,323 I gave him some new clothes. I was expecting-- 463 00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:55,451 He might have lost them. 464 00:29:55,493 --> 00:29:57,484 That fast? 465 00:29:58,496 --> 00:30:00,259 It weren't that. 466 00:30:00,298 --> 00:30:03,495 His people take his clothes, sell it on the corners. 467 00:30:03,535 --> 00:30:05,469 - You're kidding. - No, sir. 468 00:30:05,503 --> 00:30:07,494 Everybody knows. 469 00:30:11,242 --> 00:30:13,039 Which brings me to what we're proposing-- 470 00:30:13,077 --> 00:30:14,840 different kids, different approaches. 471 00:30:14,879 --> 00:30:17,473 You tell us who we need to touch at North Avenue to get the go-ahead. 472 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:19,244 The "Puzzle Palace"? 473 00:30:19,284 --> 00:30:22,913 Look, if y'all still wanna jump in and help, I'm fine with it. 474 00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:24,979 That's about all the okay you need in my house. 475 00:30:26,891 --> 00:30:30,292 The Stricker Street situation is waiting in the office. 476 00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:35,393 Neighborhood squabbles, and my babies bring it in here. 477 00:30:35,433 --> 00:30:39,028 Two fights yesterday-- all because the mothers can't get along. 478 00:30:39,070 --> 00:30:40,833 I gotta go. 479 00:30:40,872 --> 00:30:43,534 Mrs. Donnelly will work out the nuts and bolts. 480 00:30:45,009 --> 00:30:47,910 But just so you hear it, thank you. 481 00:30:47,946 --> 00:30:51,609 It'll be the only time anyone in this system will think to say it. 482 00:30:55,086 --> 00:30:57,077 He's a good man. You need to protect him. 483 00:30:57,121 --> 00:30:59,214 - Protect him? - Principal Withers 484 00:30:59,257 --> 00:31:00,884 just went out on a limb for you, 485 00:31:00,925 --> 00:31:04,053 and in this system they know how to handle a chainsaw. 486 00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:05,824 Excuse me? 487 00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:07,889 Anyone has a problem with what we're doing, 488 00:31:07,932 --> 00:31:09,900 it's on him. 489 00:31:09,934 --> 00:31:12,903 So you specified eighth-graders? 490 00:31:12,937 --> 00:31:17,169 We have 256 on roll. 491 00:31:17,208 --> 00:31:19,403 241 attend on a regular basis. 492 00:31:19,444 --> 00:31:22,709 Of those, 40 or so would fit your bill of corner kids. 493 00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:24,647 40? 494 00:31:26,317 --> 00:31:28,478 Pretty workable. 495 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:30,714 Ahem. 496 00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:33,485 - What would you suggest? - Start with 10 or so. 497 00:31:33,524 --> 00:31:35,151 Ms. Sampson has enough to get you going. 498 00:31:35,193 --> 00:31:37,957 - One of them named Namond Brice? - Pick of the litter. 499 00:31:37,996 --> 00:31:40,396 But you'll have to wait. He's on a three-day suspension. 500 00:31:40,431 --> 00:31:43,025 Tilghman Middle School. Can I help you? 501 00:31:50,975 --> 00:31:54,570 Remember when I was a cadet, I was up here on a cadaver search. 502 00:31:54,612 --> 00:31:56,375 Instructor gets on the radio to say, 503 00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:58,848 "We're looking for one body in particular. 504 00:31:58,883 --> 00:32:02,250 If you go grabbing everyone you see, 505 00:32:02,287 --> 00:32:04,482 we'll be here all day," he says. 506 00:32:04,522 --> 00:32:06,820 Leakin Park... 507 00:32:06,858 --> 00:32:09,292 where West Baltimore brings out its dead. 508 00:32:09,327 --> 00:32:12,125 Not anymore, from the look of things. 509 00:32:12,163 --> 00:32:14,324 Not by the roadside, anyway. 510 00:32:16,567 --> 00:32:18,398 If he's dumping them here, 511 00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:20,301 he's dumping them deep in the woods. 512 00:32:23,041 --> 00:32:24,838 Come on. 513 00:32:24,876 --> 00:32:28,710 At each raid site, we're anticipating dope 514 00:32:28,746 --> 00:32:31,044 or cash or guns. 515 00:32:31,082 --> 00:32:33,448 All warrants are for prime locations 516 00:32:33,484 --> 00:32:35,975 Iinked to high-level violators. 517 00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:39,046 Weeks-old addresses linked to low-level corner boys. 518 00:32:39,090 --> 00:32:41,456 We'll also be sweeping drug corners at these locations. 519 00:32:41,492 --> 00:32:44,188 Wagons will hold in this location here. 520 00:32:44,228 --> 00:32:46,822 Jump-off time-- 1500 hours. 521 00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:50,197 We take our position 10 minutes before the assault here. 522 00:32:50,234 --> 00:32:52,202 The go is on my say-so. 523 00:32:54,072 --> 00:32:56,131 Questions? Excellent. 524 00:32:56,174 --> 00:32:58,938 We'll hold in the rec room till it's time to stage. 525 00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:07,181 Warrants are one thing, 526 00:33:07,218 --> 00:33:09,948 but street sweeps on Marlo Stanfield's crews? Are you guys serious? 527 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:11,956 Carv, you give these hoodleheads too much credit. 528 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,651 Trust me on this, Boy Wonder. 529 00:33:13,691 --> 00:33:16,854 Never mind this horseshit. 530 00:33:16,894 --> 00:33:18,828 So what've they got you doing for your man? 531 00:33:18,863 --> 00:33:20,990 Who, the lieutenant? 532 00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:24,195 No, Royce. Herc, the mayor's your meal ticket. 533 00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:26,829 He gets another four years, you're liable to wear the gold braid. 534 00:33:26,871 --> 00:33:29,431 Shouldn't you be out waving a campaign sign or some shit? 535 00:33:34,712 --> 00:33:38,273 And so ends the last crusade of the Major Crimes Unit-- 536 00:33:38,316 --> 00:33:40,250 with a whimper. 537 00:33:40,284 --> 00:33:44,721 Lester would cry to see his wiretap cannibalized for that crap. 538 00:33:44,756 --> 00:33:47,919 Street sweeps on Marlo Stanfield? 539 00:33:51,329 --> 00:33:53,627 - So what else you got cooking? - Narcotics cases? 540 00:33:53,664 --> 00:33:57,862 C.I.D. has the Burman indictment coming in. Nothing past that. 541 00:33:57,902 --> 00:34:01,463 As wars go, this drug thing seems to rate less and less. 542 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:06,034 If Demper wins and manages to forgive my trespasses, 543 00:34:06,077 --> 00:34:08,102 maybe I'll go in and beg for something new. 544 00:34:08,146 --> 00:34:12,412 I don't know. Just feels like enough's enough. 545 00:34:14,185 --> 00:34:16,653 Crutchfield, line two, lntake. 546 00:34:20,324 --> 00:34:23,225 - Sergeant, you were looking for me? - I was, yeah. 547 00:34:23,261 --> 00:34:27,197 Curly fry? Chicken doohickey? 548 00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:29,665 Sit down. 549 00:34:34,305 --> 00:34:36,865 Norris is back on the Braddock case. 550 00:34:37,975 --> 00:34:39,875 It's by order of the deputy ops. 551 00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:41,970 In fact, we're gonna go with a story that says 552 00:34:42,013 --> 00:34:45,073 he was never off the case, that you and he are partnered, 553 00:34:45,116 --> 00:34:47,812 a task force of two, working it together. 554 00:34:49,220 --> 00:34:52,189 Fuck you, fat man. 555 00:34:52,223 --> 00:34:56,091 Not original, but succinct. I like your approach. 556 00:34:56,127 --> 00:34:58,789 Y'all humiliate me once by dropping me into this thing, 557 00:34:58,830 --> 00:35:01,890 and now you're gonna shame me again by bringing Norris back. 558 00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:17,971 This is Homicide, Detective. 559 00:35:18,015 --> 00:35:20,813 This is not some boiler room unit where no one pays attention 560 00:35:20,852 --> 00:35:22,843 to whatever the fuck it is you call police work. 561 00:35:22,887 --> 00:35:25,685 The bosses? They know our names up here. 562 00:35:25,723 --> 00:35:29,318 Now I didn't like it when they came to me 563 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,295 and told me to dump Norris, but dump him I did. 564 00:35:32,330 --> 00:35:34,298 And it's not like I wanna carry water for them 565 00:35:34,332 --> 00:35:36,892 now that they're pretending they never told me to do any such thing, 566 00:35:36,934 --> 00:35:39,368 but carry the water I will. And in the end, 567 00:35:39,403 --> 00:35:42,600 when everyone else in this unit is buried and beshitted, 568 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,132 this detective sergeant will still be standing. 569 00:35:48,112 --> 00:35:51,138 So get the story straight: 570 00:35:51,182 --> 00:35:52,877 Norris was always the primary, 571 00:35:52,917 --> 00:35:54,976 and you are now assisting on an investigation 572 00:35:55,019 --> 00:35:57,817 which is progressing even as we speak. 573 00:35:57,855 --> 00:35:59,686 Does the colonel know about this? 574 00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,619 He's in the hospital-- 575 00:36:03,661 --> 00:36:05,652 chemo didn't work. 576 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:11,894 Press conference is upstairs in half an hour. 577 00:36:11,936 --> 00:36:14,063 - So don't be late. - Press conference? 578 00:36:14,105 --> 00:36:16,266 Mm-hmm. 579 00:36:22,046 --> 00:36:24,776 I ain't mean to laugh at you none. 580 00:36:24,815 --> 00:36:27,909 I know it sound crazy, but I ain't joking. 581 00:36:27,952 --> 00:36:29,852 For real, Lex a zombie. 582 00:36:29,887 --> 00:36:31,787 I knew it way before what Na' and them was saying. 583 00:36:31,822 --> 00:36:34,416 Listen, 584 00:36:34,458 --> 00:36:37,120 they had me tell Lex to go up to the playground. 585 00:36:37,161 --> 00:36:39,061 I told him to go up there and see some girl. 586 00:36:39,096 --> 00:36:42,259 He ain't never come back down. 587 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:45,167 So what they gonna do to me when they get mad at me? 588 00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:47,694 It makes sense Chris taking them into the vacants-- 589 00:36:47,738 --> 00:36:49,968 to change them. And you know what else? 590 00:36:50,007 --> 00:36:51,634 That ain't what he doing-- 591 00:36:51,676 --> 00:36:54,736 Chris in the vacants. 592 00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:56,542 Changing them? 593 00:36:56,581 --> 00:36:58,310 He ain't changing them, he killing them. 594 00:36:58,349 --> 00:37:00,510 That's all. They're getting killed. 595 00:37:00,551 --> 00:37:02,542 How you know? 596 00:37:04,789 --> 00:37:07,189 Can't tell nobody. 597 00:37:08,526 --> 00:37:11,256 I seen it. 598 00:37:11,295 --> 00:37:13,855 I seen them walk a boy up into one house 599 00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:15,525 over there on Calhoun. 600 00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:17,557 You seen that? 601 00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:20,901 Yeah. 602 00:37:20,938 --> 00:37:22,462 That's just false. 603 00:37:22,506 --> 00:37:24,667 Detective Norris has been working in this case nonstop. 604 00:37:24,709 --> 00:37:26,836 And given her narcotics expertise, 605 00:37:26,877 --> 00:37:29,402 Detective Greggs was assigned to augment 606 00:37:29,447 --> 00:37:31,142 rather than to replace him. 607 00:37:31,182 --> 00:37:33,946 But for two days sources inside the department were saying-- 608 00:37:33,985 --> 00:37:36,647 I'm inside the department, and I'm telling you that's not true. 609 00:37:36,687 --> 00:37:39,747 We do not play politics with a criminal investigation. 610 00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:42,418 And how do you explain Councilman Gray's allegations? 611 00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:45,156 I think you should ask Councilman Gray that question. 612 00:37:51,636 --> 00:37:55,436 - Police! Search warrant! - Take the back. 613 00:37:55,473 --> 00:37:58,203 - On the ground, now! - Police! Search warrant! 614 00:37:58,242 --> 00:37:59,937 Two upstairs. 615 00:38:02,813 --> 00:38:04,542 - Don't move! - Check that backroom. 616 00:38:04,582 --> 00:38:05,810 I said, get your ass on the ground. 617 00:38:05,850 --> 00:38:06,874 - Get down! - Get down! 618 00:38:17,161 --> 00:38:21,120 - This is the 1300 block, right? - No, this is the 12. 619 00:38:21,165 --> 00:38:22,894 Are we on the right corner? 620 00:38:24,568 --> 00:38:26,900 - We had this as a stash house? - According to the wiretap. 621 00:38:26,937 --> 00:38:28,905 How long ago? They move them around, you know. 622 00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:38,741 - Zeroes on the warrants. - Minor arrests 623 00:38:38,783 --> 00:38:41,445 - on the designated corners, sir. - They were tipped! 624 00:38:41,485 --> 00:38:43,510 - You think? - For us to come up this empty 625 00:38:43,554 --> 00:38:45,044 at all these locations, it has to be. 626 00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:47,353 This cocksucker Marlo thinks he's smarter than us? 627 00:38:47,391 --> 00:38:50,189 He is not. Sergeant, I want to know where he hangs. 628 00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:52,320 You mean like him personally? 629 00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:54,388 He moves around, Lieutenant. He floats. 630 00:38:54,432 --> 00:38:56,662 But I have seen him in the concrete park behind Fulton. 631 00:38:56,701 --> 00:38:58,362 - In a park? - If the weather's right, he sits 632 00:38:58,402 --> 00:38:59,733 out there in some lawn chairs, holds court. 633 00:38:59,770 --> 00:39:01,601 He's got people covering every approach 634 00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,472 so there's no creeping up on him. My guess is that he likes to talk outdoors 635 00:39:04,508 --> 00:39:06,237 so no one can drop a microphone on him. 636 00:39:06,277 --> 00:39:09,974 Sergeant, what can we do with that? 637 00:39:17,121 --> 00:39:19,749 I admit I've made some mistakes, 638 00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:21,621 Burrell being one of the biggest. 639 00:39:21,659 --> 00:39:24,719 But he's got a job for about 10 more days. 640 00:39:24,762 --> 00:39:28,596 After the primary, he's gone, believe me. 641 00:39:28,632 --> 00:39:31,726 And that last stunt-- pulling a detective. 642 00:39:31,769 --> 00:39:34,670 - What'd you expect? - Not that-- huh-uh. 643 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,567 Hey, I had nothing to do with that nonsense. 644 00:39:39,610 --> 00:39:42,636 Now, that's a straight-up lie. I was at that damn meeting when you told him, 645 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,308 - "Slow the case down." - I didn't mean-- 646 00:39:45,349 --> 00:39:48,375 Who the hell knows what you mean anymore, Clarence? 647 00:39:48,419 --> 00:39:50,410 Look at this. 648 00:39:51,455 --> 00:39:53,719 Look at it! 649 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:56,522 You gave me your word on this-- 650 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,619 your word, Clarence. 651 00:39:58,662 --> 00:40:01,927 But here you are ticketed up with Eunetta in her best precincts 652 00:40:01,966 --> 00:40:04,434 and then ticketed up with my girl Daniels 653 00:40:04,468 --> 00:40:06,095 where she's running strong. 654 00:40:06,137 --> 00:40:08,401 Odell, this is the first I've seen this. 655 00:40:08,439 --> 00:40:12,136 Come on, now! This is probably Eunetta's people pulling this shit. 656 00:40:12,176 --> 00:40:14,576 With a "Citizens for Royce" authority line? 657 00:40:14,612 --> 00:40:18,309 Eh, look at you, Clarence. Just look at you. 658 00:40:18,349 --> 00:40:22,080 You've forgotten your agenda. You've forgotten your base. 659 00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:24,087 You think a shave 660 00:40:24,121 --> 00:40:26,351 and some Marcus Garvey posters are gonna get you over? 661 00:40:26,390 --> 00:40:28,449 Do you think that's gonna make up for jumping in bed 662 00:40:28,492 --> 00:40:30,153 with every damn developer? 663 00:40:30,194 --> 00:40:34,324 Shit. You're even on Clay Davis's tit. 664 00:40:34,365 --> 00:40:37,357 Now don't you go getting all self-righteous with me, Odell. 665 00:40:37,401 --> 00:40:39,835 Campaign runs on dollars-- you know it. 666 00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:43,135 Whose dollars?! Those sons of bitches you got around your card table 667 00:40:43,174 --> 00:40:46,302 every month feeding your kitty? Oh, yeah, 668 00:40:46,343 --> 00:40:50,439 I know about that too. You-- trouble with you-- 669 00:40:50,481 --> 00:40:54,975 fuck you, Clarence. I'm gonna sit what's left of this one out. 670 00:40:55,019 --> 00:40:57,544 - I'm gonna sit it out. - Sit it out. 671 00:40:57,588 --> 00:41:00,557 - The primary? - Sit it out! 672 00:41:00,591 --> 00:41:03,458 Odell! Odell! 673 00:41:03,494 --> 00:41:05,689 Who the hell do you think you are, huh? 674 00:41:05,729 --> 00:41:08,163 Come November, I'm still gonna be the only game in town! 675 00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:10,793 Odell, turn your back on me now, I won't forget! 676 00:41:10,835 --> 00:41:13,998 We can't afford this. We need his organization on Tuesday. 677 00:41:14,038 --> 00:41:16,006 - Go after him! - Fuck that 678 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,838 holier-than-thou motherfucker! 679 00:41:20,211 --> 00:41:24,409 Delegate Watkins. Delegate Watkins! 680 00:41:24,448 --> 00:41:26,177 Wait, sir. 681 00:41:26,217 --> 00:41:29,277 I-I'm sure we can work this out. 682 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,083 You and the mayor can talk this through. 683 00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:43,823 Deputy Rawls, please. 684 00:41:44,902 --> 00:41:47,496 It's Lieutenant Hoskins at the Hall. 685 00:42:08,826 --> 00:42:10,885 You're gonna use the hole in the wall, right? 686 00:42:10,928 --> 00:42:13,795 Yeah, I'm gonna rub some dogshit on the front of this thing. 687 00:42:13,831 --> 00:42:15,822 I don't want nobody touching it. 688 00:42:18,836 --> 00:42:21,464 Got it? 689 00:42:29,246 --> 00:42:31,077 You need to raise it a bit. 690 00:42:40,090 --> 00:42:41,785 Yeah, that's good. Right there, that works. 691 00:42:46,597 --> 00:42:49,464 - Thought I heard something. - Rats. 692 00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:51,195 - How we doing? - We need to go. 693 00:43:32,409 --> 00:43:34,969 He ain't nothing but a skanky-ass bitch to begin with. 694 00:43:35,012 --> 00:43:36,639 And besides, he ex-police. 695 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,410 So you know what that like. 696 00:43:39,450 --> 00:43:41,315 I'm going to the ladies' room. 697 00:43:41,352 --> 00:43:43,786 Bey, you need to talk to him. 698 00:43:44,822 --> 00:43:47,450 Visiting hours end in 30 minutes. 699 00:43:47,491 --> 00:43:49,618 - Visiting hours... - Yo, Daddy, don't even go there, 700 00:43:49,660 --> 00:43:52,686 with you all the time telling me how you dropped out in the sixth grade, 701 00:43:52,730 --> 00:43:54,561 went up on the corner with Avon and Stringer, 702 00:43:54,598 --> 00:43:56,930 earned cheese for the family, saying how it made you a man-- 703 00:43:56,967 --> 00:43:58,901 All right, all right. You right. 704 00:43:58,936 --> 00:44:01,302 Can't throw rocks. But I'm just saying, 705 00:44:01,338 --> 00:44:03,806 you know how your mother be, with all the fussing. 706 00:44:03,841 --> 00:44:07,743 Maybe you just need to slow it up. You know what I'm saying? 707 00:44:07,778 --> 00:44:09,973 Yo, you heard how Marlo punked Bodie? 708 00:44:10,014 --> 00:44:12,414 Said he either got to work for him or give up his corner. 709 00:44:12,449 --> 00:44:14,917 Don't you know? His sorry ass buckled. 710 00:44:14,952 --> 00:44:17,011 Oh-hh, you'd have gone about it different? 711 00:44:17,054 --> 00:44:19,682 Yeah, I'd have stood tall, like you. 712 00:44:19,723 --> 00:44:21,520 Got my nine-- fuck Chris and them. 713 00:44:21,558 --> 00:44:24,391 Listen to you, all spit and fire. 714 00:44:24,428 --> 00:44:26,328 You'd have gone to the mattress all by your lonesome 715 00:44:26,363 --> 00:44:28,888 and went up against half of the West side. 716 00:44:28,932 --> 00:44:32,424 You got it where it counts, and I respect that more than anything. 717 00:44:32,469 --> 00:44:35,996 But shit out there now ain't like it was when we was coming up. 718 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,601 Back in the day, a punk nigger like Marlo steps out, 719 00:44:39,643 --> 00:44:43,010 breaking the rules and shit, he find himself in the back of a car trunk 720 00:44:43,047 --> 00:44:45,311 on the way to Leakin Park. No doubt. 721 00:44:45,349 --> 00:44:48,182 We did that shit right. Word was your bond. 722 00:44:48,218 --> 00:44:51,346 Man looked out for his own, knowing he in a family. 723 00:44:51,388 --> 00:44:53,083 Dig where I'm coming from? 724 00:44:53,123 --> 00:44:56,286 But today it's all fucked up. 725 00:45:12,743 --> 00:45:15,075 These steps. 726 00:45:15,112 --> 00:45:17,410 - Thank you, baby. - You're good to go. 727 00:45:42,139 --> 00:45:45,131 Say "Omar." 728 00:45:45,175 --> 00:45:46,699 Omar. 729 00:45:59,022 --> 00:46:01,582 Nothing? 730 00:46:01,625 --> 00:46:03,593 We checked both sides of the street 731 00:46:03,627 --> 00:46:05,686 - from here up to Monroe. - Nothing? 732 00:46:05,729 --> 00:46:07,663 Nothing that don't belong in no sewer. 733 00:46:07,698 --> 00:46:09,290 Thanks. 734 00:46:16,006 --> 00:46:18,099 Other ideas? 735 00:46:18,142 --> 00:46:19,803 Whoo! 736 00:46:23,514 --> 00:46:27,109 Blood, bump me off that nigger up the "skreet." 737 00:46:27,151 --> 00:46:29,119 Motherfucker in the "Bruick"? 738 00:46:29,153 --> 00:46:31,018 That be him. I be saying, 739 00:46:31,054 --> 00:46:33,818 no motherfucker gonna run off with my "hairon." 740 00:46:33,857 --> 00:46:35,722 Oh, this is fucking great. 741 00:46:35,759 --> 00:46:39,456 Get somebody who reads lips, this motherfucker's history. 742 00:46:39,496 --> 00:46:42,192 Is this legal-- I mean, intercepting what they're saying? 743 00:46:42,232 --> 00:46:44,826 Don't go Freamon on me. 744 00:46:46,503 --> 00:46:49,404 Shit. I got to run. 745 00:46:49,439 --> 00:46:52,169 Hey, man, what about some fucking relief? I been here all morning! 746 00:47:13,964 --> 00:47:17,991 You heard? They making movies. 747 00:47:18,035 --> 00:47:20,833 Yeah. How you wanna play it? 748 00:47:20,871 --> 00:47:24,238 I ain't sure. Let's see the fat man. 749 00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:27,670 How'd the other thing turn out? 750 00:47:27,711 --> 00:47:29,702 All good. 751 00:47:33,884 --> 00:47:35,852 - Yo. - What up, boy? 752 00:47:35,886 --> 00:47:37,979 - If you want some, I got Reeses. - Nah, man. 753 00:47:38,021 --> 00:47:40,717 You trying to make some real cheese? $5? 754 00:47:40,757 --> 00:47:45,023 - What you need? - Me and Paul gonna get it on with Tiff. 755 00:47:45,062 --> 00:47:47,394 Keep an eye out. I don't want Mrs. D creeping up. Feel me? 756 00:47:47,431 --> 00:47:50,332 I feel you, but I got some sixth-graders waiting on a special order. 757 00:47:50,367 --> 00:47:53,962 Let them wait, man. It ain't like we gonna be all day. 758 00:47:57,975 --> 00:47:59,966 All right. 759 00:48:01,945 --> 00:48:04,846 No, ma'am, it says right here-- His Honor had the Bureau of Solid Waste 760 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:06,543 conduct a clean sweep along Tivoly. 761 00:48:06,583 --> 00:48:08,778 But it took six months before they showed up. 762 00:48:08,819 --> 00:48:10,810 Well yeah, okay, but nobody's perfect. 763 00:48:10,854 --> 00:48:13,414 But hey, listen. I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't believe 764 00:48:13,457 --> 00:48:16,255 Clarence Royce wasn't truly committed to this city and its people. 765 00:48:16,293 --> 00:48:18,056 What about the crime in our neighborhood? 766 00:48:18,095 --> 00:48:19,722 I admit that's another good point. 767 00:48:19,763 --> 00:48:23,358 But, lady, between you and me, I can tell 768 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,267 from your voice you're black and you can tell from my voice I'm white. 769 00:48:26,303 --> 00:48:28,271 So I gotta ask you, 770 00:48:28,305 --> 00:48:31,001 when do you think the last time a white man voted for a black man 771 00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:33,032 when there was another white man in the race? 772 00:48:33,076 --> 00:48:34,976 I don't know, but you must really believe in him. 773 00:48:35,012 --> 00:48:38,448 Well, ain't that what I been saying? He's just the best candidate. 774 00:48:38,482 --> 00:48:41,110 - So you'll go with my man? - I'll think about it. 775 00:48:41,151 --> 00:48:43,085 All right, that's great. Thank you for your time. 776 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,350 - Goodbye. - All right. 777 00:48:55,165 --> 00:48:58,032 - I have a hall pass. - Yeah, good for you. 778 00:49:41,111 --> 00:49:44,239 - Mine's down. - Attaboy. 779 00:49:46,083 --> 00:49:50,076 You need bodies, Lester? Here you go. 780 00:49:52,289 --> 00:49:56,692 We got a warrant and a teletype for my boy Lex. 781 00:49:56,727 --> 00:50:00,060 So dead or alive, he's on file. 782 00:50:00,097 --> 00:50:02,156 And beyond that, it's time for you to shine 783 00:50:02,199 --> 00:50:04,429 that mighty intellect of yours 784 00:50:04,468 --> 00:50:05,992 on some real murders, hmm? 785 00:50:06,036 --> 00:50:08,937 Give up the hypotheticals and shit. 786 00:50:08,972 --> 00:50:11,372 Yeah, I suppose. 787 00:50:13,310 --> 00:50:15,540 This is my issue-- crime, 788 00:50:15,579 --> 00:50:17,672 and I understand completely what you're saying. 789 00:50:17,714 --> 00:50:20,581 And if you give me the opportunity, I will be able to do something to-- 790 00:50:20,617 --> 00:50:23,381 to help you out and, you know, other people in this neighborhood. 791 00:50:26,957 --> 00:50:30,051 Mr. Ricks, thank you for your time 792 00:50:30,093 --> 00:50:31,685 - and for your attention. - No problem. 793 00:50:31,728 --> 00:50:34,196 - Thank you. - Thank you. 794 00:50:34,231 --> 00:50:37,325 Pretty brazen, shaking hands with the enemy in broad daylight. 795 00:50:37,367 --> 00:50:41,394 - Werner's Deli this isn't. - Definitely not. 796 00:50:41,438 --> 00:50:43,963 Though here you are, Councilman, leaving no door unopened. 797 00:50:44,007 --> 00:50:45,838 Shoe leather-- our secret weapon. 798 00:50:45,876 --> 00:50:48,242 You surprised me. You've made this a horse race. 799 00:50:48,278 --> 00:50:51,839 So uh, what makes me think you didn't just happen by and find us here? 800 00:50:54,751 --> 00:50:56,946 Watkins is breaking with the mayor. 801 00:50:56,987 --> 00:50:59,285 How do you know? 802 00:50:59,322 --> 00:51:03,258 I know. I've carried the mayor's water because I had to, Councilman. 803 00:51:03,293 --> 00:51:05,761 I'd love to see some new blood in this city. 804 00:51:05,796 --> 00:51:08,196 And I'd love the chance to do the right thing 805 00:51:08,231 --> 00:51:10,563 for this police department for a change. 806 00:51:29,686 --> 00:51:31,677 Wait until he turns the corner. 807 00:51:34,758 --> 00:51:37,192 District office for Watkins-- 808 00:51:37,227 --> 00:51:38,854 Gilmore Street. 809 00:51:38,895 --> 00:51:40,863 And fuck them red lights, man. 810 00:51:47,170 --> 00:51:51,334 Not a place you expect to find any gangsters-- 811 00:51:51,374 --> 00:51:54,673 police, for that matter. 812 00:51:54,711 --> 00:51:58,613 - Heard you knew something I didn't. - Told you before-- 813 00:51:58,648 --> 00:52:01,412 I make it my business to keep an ear to the ground. 814 00:52:01,451 --> 00:52:03,612 I make it my business to do business. 815 00:52:03,653 --> 00:52:05,985 We doing business, or are we just talking? 816 00:52:06,022 --> 00:52:07,683 And if it's talk, I'ma walk. 817 00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:10,124 I heard the people pulling security at the card game 818 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,651 weren't too keen on their wages. 819 00:52:12,696 --> 00:52:14,664 I figured it was only a matter of time 820 00:52:14,698 --> 00:52:17,565 before they found a way to get their due compensation. 821 00:52:17,601 --> 00:52:19,501 And you didn't think to tell me? 822 00:52:19,536 --> 00:52:22,334 A man learns best when he get burned. 823 00:52:22,372 --> 00:52:25,535 How do I know you ain't making this shit up? 824 00:52:25,575 --> 00:52:28,635 You don't. Things happen on the street. 825 00:52:28,678 --> 00:52:31,545 Proof is hard to come by. 826 00:52:34,918 --> 00:52:37,682 Go ahead, open it. 827 00:52:42,292 --> 00:52:43,691 Off the street, 828 00:52:43,727 --> 00:52:45,456 there's all kind of proof. 829 00:52:45,495 --> 00:52:48,521 They planning on executing those Friday-- 830 00:52:48,565 --> 00:52:50,533 time it with the election, I guess, 831 00:52:50,567 --> 00:52:53,434 show they doing their job, cleaning up the city, 832 00:52:53,470 --> 00:52:55,631 taking down a kingpin. 833 00:52:55,672 --> 00:52:58,106 - How did you come by this? - Told you before-- 834 00:52:58,141 --> 00:53:00,439 I keep my ear to the ground. 835 00:53:00,477 --> 00:53:02,945 - What are you gonna do with it? - Maybe nothing. 836 00:53:02,979 --> 00:53:05,777 Charlie's not part of the co-op. 837 00:53:07,450 --> 00:53:09,384 Or maybe I tip him for a fee. 838 00:53:09,419 --> 00:53:13,321 What do you think a man with a whole lot of money 839 00:53:13,356 --> 00:53:16,655 would pay for his freedom? 840 00:53:17,727 --> 00:53:20,787 You know, lately 841 00:53:20,830 --> 00:53:23,526 I come to find out someone trying to take pictures of me. 842 00:53:23,567 --> 00:53:25,398 Pictures? 843 00:53:25,435 --> 00:53:27,198 Video. 844 00:53:27,237 --> 00:53:30,866 You heard anything about me through your travels? 845 00:53:30,907 --> 00:53:33,034 Had no incentive to listen. 846 00:53:36,112 --> 00:53:37,977 You do now. 847 00:53:53,096 --> 00:53:54,961 It's one thing to sit out the primary. 848 00:53:54,998 --> 00:53:56,727 It's another 849 00:53:56,766 --> 00:53:58,996 for me to turn on Clarence Royce. 850 00:53:59,035 --> 00:54:01,629 - Granted. - And if I did jump, 851 00:54:01,671 --> 00:54:04,435 why not land behind Tony Gray? 852 00:54:04,474 --> 00:54:06,738 At least he's from my side of the tracks. 853 00:54:06,776 --> 00:54:09,939 Tony can't win. I can. 854 00:54:11,581 --> 00:54:13,208 Look, the truth is, 855 00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:16,310 whatever I can do for you, the mayor can match or double. 856 00:54:16,353 --> 00:54:18,583 I have a pretty good grass-roots organization, 857 00:54:18,622 --> 00:54:20,613 but nothing even close to his kind of money. 858 00:54:20,657 --> 00:54:23,217 Now, I'll ticket up with anyone you want me to. 859 00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:26,525 I know you want Daniels in the 11th and Stokes in the 10th. 860 00:54:26,563 --> 00:54:29,259 I'll keep away from any tickets you think I might harm. 861 00:54:29,299 --> 00:54:32,462 I know I'm not everyone's idea of a bargain on your side of town. 862 00:54:32,502 --> 00:54:34,800 - Hmm. - But right now, 863 00:54:34,838 --> 00:54:36,829 a week from the primary, 864 00:54:36,873 --> 00:54:40,468 the fact is, Royce and I both need you. 865 00:54:40,510 --> 00:54:44,810 After the election, the equation changes for him but not for me. 866 00:54:44,848 --> 00:54:47,874 I'm a white mayor in a majority-black city, 867 00:54:47,917 --> 00:54:49,885 and if I'm gonna do anything-- 868 00:54:49,919 --> 00:54:52,444 and, Delegate, I am so serious about fixing this city-- 869 00:54:52,489 --> 00:54:54,480 I'm gonna have to govern by consensus. 870 00:54:54,524 --> 00:54:57,322 And if you support me, you will have a voice within my administration 871 00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,920 simply because I'm gonna need it. 872 00:55:02,465 --> 00:55:05,434 Last poll that Clarence showed me, 873 00:55:05,468 --> 00:55:07,129 he was up by seven points. 874 00:55:08,438 --> 00:55:11,601 Bullshit. I'm within four. 875 00:55:16,813 --> 00:55:20,214 - You won't be needing that. - I know. 876 00:55:22,218 --> 00:55:24,948 - Here? - Yeah, here. 877 00:56:02,058 --> 00:56:04,390 Dag. 878 00:56:04,427 --> 00:56:06,395 Yo, turn it off-- the bulb might have got too hot. 879 00:56:06,429 --> 00:56:08,090 Or the battery's dying. 880 00:56:09,232 --> 00:56:11,223 We should go back. 881 00:56:15,438 --> 00:56:18,965 - Yo, man, it stinks, man. - Ain't like it was. 882 00:56:33,356 --> 00:56:34,721 See he ain't move. 883 00:56:38,461 --> 00:56:40,827 Yeah. 884 00:56:40,864 --> 00:56:43,264 Blood still stuck to his hair. 885 00:56:43,299 --> 00:56:47,793 - He dead? - He dead. 886 00:56:47,837 --> 00:56:50,032 Lex too? 887 00:56:50,073 --> 00:56:53,770 He dead. They all is. Feel better? 888 00:56:55,245 --> 00:56:57,475 Donut wrong, yo. 889 00:56:57,514 --> 00:56:59,277 Ain't no special dead. 890 00:57:01,451 --> 00:57:04,852 There's just dead.