1 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,200 Gotta be somewhere. You wanna keep goin'? 2 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:09,900 Officer Smith, ma'am. 3 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,400 We're looking for a man went after a woman last night at Esplanda Apartments. 4 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:19,100 - Heard anything unusual? - No, sorry. 5 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:21,700 Oh my God, that's terrible. Is the woman all right? 6 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:25,100 - The woman, is she all right? - Yeah, she good. 7 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:35,100 Excuse me. My brother, Omar Little, came here last night. He fell out the damn window. 8 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,100 - We don't have anyone by that name. - He was kinda high. 9 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,400 Probably messed up his name. Real dark, got himself a scar. 10 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,200 Legs should be busted up real bad. 11 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,200 No one with that type of injury came in last night. 12 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:00,400 Not a goddamn thing. Been in every trash can, dumpster, vacant for three blocks 'round. 13 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,100 - Nothin'. - We even checked down the sewers. 14 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,100 - Marlo wanna meet. - So what you want us to do? 15 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:24,700 Which one? 16 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,400 - Don't seem possible. - It don't. 17 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,100 That some Spiderman shit there. 18 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:45,400 We missed our shot. 19 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:48,700 Now he gonna be at us. 20 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:44,000 Usually, my staff tries to keep sharp objects out of my hands. 21 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:55,100 You know, it all started with Charles Center and Tommy d'Alesandro 22 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:58,600 and it continued with William Donald Schaefer and Harborplace. 23 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:03,200 And following that, there were mayors Schmoke and O'Malley with Inner Harbor East. 24 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,500 Well, today it is my administration's turn to lay claim to the middle branch of the Patapsco 25 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:10,500 and what will soon become known as New Westport, 26 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:15,200 revitalizing another waterfront area of our great city. Thank you. 27 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,400 Say goodbye to Locust Point South. 28 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:24,100 Fuck you, Krawczyk. 29 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:27,400 Yeah, fuck you, greedhead motherfucker. 30 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,800 Fuck you for tearing down the port of Baltimore 31 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,600 and selling it to some yuppie assholes from Washington. 32 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:34,600 - C'mon, buddy. - This is bullshit. 33 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,600 - Who the hell's that? - That's nobody, Mr. Mayor. It's nobody at all. 34 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:24,700 - You happy now, bitch? - I am content, yes. 35 00:07:24,700 --> 00:07:27,300 - You called the reporter? - No, actually. 36 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,300 That asshole's making up his own shit. 37 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:34,600 Brass called a press conference for this afternoon. 38 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:38,200 They'll be shoveling so much money at my bullshit it'll make your head spin. 39 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,700 - What's with all the casework? - Bodies from the vacants. 40 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:44,600 - Some still missing lab work. - Pathetic... 41 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:47,500 And some of them have been worked pretty good. 42 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,500 You know what, Jimmy? I'm gonna go back to the beginning 43 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:53,600 and work every one of them again. Back to square one. 44 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:56,500 You know why? Because I'm a murder police. 45 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,500 I work murders. I don't fuck with no make-believe, I don't jerk shit around. 46 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:03,100 I catch a murder and I work it. 47 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,900 Working this shit like I'm supposed to. 48 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:09,400 Well, let me know if you need anything, all right? 49 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,500 Cars, some OT, some lab work... Anything you need. 50 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,400 Because in three or four hours the money's gonna flow on my case. 51 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:20,800 Whatever you need, I'm probably gonna have more of it than even Lester could use. 52 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,300 To be that close to a serial killer. It must be weird. 53 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:33,000 Kinda. Yeah. 54 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:37,000 - Wonderful story, Scott. - Yeah, well, it kinda wrote itself. 55 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,300 It's lucky to have the guy call me like he did... 56 00:08:39,300 --> 00:08:42,100 It comes from pounding the pavement, right? That's more than luck. 57 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:44,800 That's putting yourself in the place where the story comes to you. 58 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,400 What do you have for tomorrow? 59 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:51,000 This is not the kind of thing we let go of after a day or two. 60 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:55,100 I was thinking that if I spent a night with the homeless, you know. 61 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,500 Did what they did. Saw what they saw. 62 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:01,700 If it's an overnight thing, I couldn't get it for tomorrow, but the next day, sure... 63 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:06,300 That's great. That could be the perfect follow. I'll speak to Gus. 64 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:09,800 We've been taking calls from some of the networks and cable outlets. 65 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:12,400 - They're looking for you to go on-camera. - Me? On television? 66 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,900 I'd avoid locals, but if you can do the national stuff responsibly... 67 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:18,700 Sure, yeah. I mean, I'm just not all that comfortable 68 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:21,500 having myself in the center of the story like this. 69 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:24,200 Of course not. But there is a way of handling this responsibly. 70 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,500 Just remember you're an ambassador for the paper. 71 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,900 Star time. 72 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:36,300 How about that? 73 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,800 - Homelessness? - Our coverage should reflect 74 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,300 the Dickensian aspect of the homeless. 75 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:42,600 The human element. 76 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,200 Scott will lead it off, spending a night on the streets 77 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,000 and writing from that perspective. 78 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,300 He's the lead on your education project. We need to get him back on the... 79 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:55,000 I don't see the school project as yielding the same kind of impact 80 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,500 as our attention to homelessness can. 81 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,700 These murders, the phone call to our reporter. 82 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:02,300 It really opens up the issue. 83 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,000 - Yeah, but... - From now till the end of the year, 84 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:07,400 let's focus not only on covering the murders, 85 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,300 but on the nature of homelessness itself. 86 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:13,400 The Dickensian aspect of it. Yeah. 87 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,400 I've reached a point, Detective Sydnor, 88 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,900 where I no longer have the time or patience left 89 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,300 to address myself to the needs of the system within which we work. 90 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,500 - I'm tired. - You're gonna quit? 91 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:34,200 Not yet. Not just yet. 92 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:36,000 So what are you talking about? 93 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:39,200 When they took us off Marlo this last time, 94 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,700 when they said they couldn't pay for further investigation, 95 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:46,300 I regarded that decision as illegitimate. 96 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,100 - Illegitimate? - And so... 97 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:50,900 I'm responding in kind. I'm going to press a case 98 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:54,600 against Marlo Stanfield without regard to the usual rules. 99 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:10,800 I'm running an illegal wiretap on Marlo Stanfield's cellphone. 100 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:14,200 - Fuck. Lester? - If you have a problem with this, 101 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,400 I understand completely 102 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,900 and I urge you to get as far fucking away from me as you can. 103 00:11:44,300 --> 00:11:46,200 You remember this one here? 104 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:51,900 I backed away from jackin' the boy up outta respect for that goofy motherfucker Prez. 105 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,600 Wonder what the young man might tell me a year later, though... 106 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:00,100 - What the fuck is this? - Vernon here did a search warrant 107 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,900 on his dead guy's appliance store, pulled all of that out of the desk drawer. 108 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:07,300 - Grand jury shit? - Transcripts, sealed indictments... 109 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:10,100 - Who's your murder? - Eastside dealer by the name of Joe Stewart. 110 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:12,200 Caught one in the back of his head the other night. 111 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,900 Somebody finally touched Prop Joe. 112 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:18,400 You remember when Narcotics indicted Charlie Burman last year? 113 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,800 Motherfucker ran a couple days before the raids, still on the wing. 114 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:25,500 The sealed indictments are all in there. Every one of 'em. 115 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:29,700 Who don't we trust at the courthouse? 116 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:32,600 - They put cheese on them fries? - They can. Chili too. 117 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,800 - All right, then. - You want a drink with that? 118 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,700 - Strawberry lemonade. - All right, I'm on it. 119 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:39,200 They're back on cellphones. After more than a year? 120 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,100 - That they are. - Tell me they're talking in code, Lester. 121 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:47,100 I wanna go to jail for snatchin' something better than Marlo's lunch order. 122 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,000 There's no code that I can tell. Half dozen calls. 123 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:54,400 All routine. No drug talk, no numbers, no times... 124 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:55,900 Nothing but what they seem. 125 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,100 So he ain't doing business with the phone then. 126 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,400 Take this mess down. Let's get outta here. 127 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,100 I also have five calls, 30 to 40 seconds' duration, 128 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,300 each one picked up on the first ring, each one with nothing whatsoever 129 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:13,600 said between parties. You see? When they talk, it's bullshit. 130 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,700 But there are calls where no one says a thing. 131 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:20,000 Thirty seconds, without conversation. 132 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:26,600 Is he... 133 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,000 We talked it through, he knows the risks. 134 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,100 I'm in. If it makes the fucking case, I'm in all the way. 135 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,700 So, what's up now? They talking dirt? 136 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:39,500 - No. - Lester. Fuck. 137 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:42,900 Marlo's not gonna talk dirt on the phone, but there's something to this. 138 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,100 I just haven't figured it out. 139 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,500 We could use some more manpower, a couple of surveillance teams 140 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:52,400 to get on these guys to see how they using the phones. 141 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,400 You see the newspaper today? 142 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:59,300 Headline like that, the bosses are gonna start throwing money at the homeless murders. 143 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:03,600 When they do, I'll peel off a couple detectives, throw them your way. 144 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,800 The homeless murders? How does that case tangle in with this? 145 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,600 Hard to explain. 146 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,100 Remember what the DNC folks told me two years ago? How to take the statehouse? 147 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:27,800 Build something downtown and stick your name on it, 148 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:30,900 get the crime to go down, and stay away from schools. 149 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:34,400 - And keep my boyish good looks. - One out of four ain't bad. 150 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,900 Jesus. 151 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,500 Did we have to schedule this the same day as New Westport? 152 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,300 My news isn't even going to make the front of the local section. 153 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:47,300 The ribbon-cutting was scheduled two weeks ago. No one saw the homeless thing coming. 154 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:56,500 First of all, I'm surprised to see so much media here. 155 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:59,600 A press event held earlier today to announce the revitalization 156 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,500 of yet another part of our city was not so well attended. 157 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,700 It would appear that media attention is always focusing on the negatives in Baltimore, 158 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,500 but you aren't around when we're making real progress. 159 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:11,500 Still, I'm glad to see so many of you here. 160 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,200 Some of you representing not just our local media, 161 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,000 but national attention to this problem. 162 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,300 Thank you for caring enough about our most vulnerable citizens 163 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:21,400 to address yourselves to this tragedy. 164 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,800 Our homeless citizens, those who have fallen through the cracks of our society, 165 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,500 those who command the least of our attentions and efforts, 166 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,700 they seemingly have little to endear themselves to politicians. 167 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,100 They don't vote, by and large. They don't contribute to campaigns. 168 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,100 They offer little to a city's tax base, 169 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,000 and to the extent that our government is made aware of their existence, 170 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,400 it responds by trying to mitigate the damage done by their presence. 171 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,700 We open a food bank here, a shelter there. 172 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:49,800 We try to move them away from downtown, 173 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,000 away from our communal areas, away from our schools, away from our homes. 174 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,800 If you were to judge our society by the manner in which we treat those lost on our streets, 175 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,200 we would have cause to be shamed. 176 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,000 Well, I am, God forgive me, a politician. 177 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:08,800 But I ran for public office because I believe that there is a different way of governing. 178 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,800 And I believe that in the end we will be judged not by the efforts we make on behalf 179 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:15,600 of those who vote for us, who contribute to our campaigns, 180 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,800 or those who provide for our tax base. 181 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,700 I believe that we will be judged by what we provide to the weakest and most vulnerable. 182 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:24,600 That is the test. That is my test. 183 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,300 Somebody is killing homeless men in this city. 184 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:33,300 Taking the lives of fellow citizens who do not have the means or the strength 185 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:36,400 to properly protect themselves. They will be stopped. 186 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:40,600 We will do everything in our power to stop them. You have my word on this. 187 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:45,900 Thank you, Mr. Mayor. 188 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,600 - What got into you? - What? 189 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:52,600 I want to assure the public that we are doing everything possible in our power 190 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,100 to apprehend this subject. 191 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:56,100 Homicide detectives are working non-stop. 192 00:16:56,100 --> 00:17:00,700 District officers are in contact with the agencies that work with the homeless. 193 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:06,500 I cannot go into specifics of the investigation but, with that caveat, I will take questions. 194 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:09,800 Commissioner, is there any connection 195 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,100 between these murders and those in the vacant homes last year? 196 00:17:13,100 --> 00:17:14,600 No connection. 197 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:19,600 Commissioner, are you asking the FBI to join in the investigation? 198 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:23,900 I think deputy commissioner Daniels is in a position to elaborate on that. 199 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:34,000 We'll take whatever help is offered. 200 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:38,300 Our detectives will work closely with the behavioral analysis unit at Quantico... 201 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:41,100 Deputy, even with all the resources at your disposal, 202 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:44,000 isn't it extremely difficult to catch a serial killer? 203 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:48,000 Our ability to secure genetic material and the growing DNA data bank 204 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,500 are assets unavailable to us even a few years ago. 205 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,500 Our ability to effectively use resources 206 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:55,700 has been increased with the aid of sophisticated computer software. 207 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:59,800 And we have some of the best criminal investigators in the nation working 24/7. 208 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:04,900 As the mayor made very clear a moment ago, this is now a priority for the department. 209 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,300 Has a note been found at any of the scenes? 210 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:12,300 I'm not at liberty to go into any details of the investigation at this time. 211 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,700 You want me to hang? 212 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:40,600 He told you who I am, right? 213 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:48,400 Son, the thing about murder is it never goes off the books. 214 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,600 I mean, we work on 'em for weeks, months, years. 215 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,700 We keep on with it until finally someone decides they've had enough, 216 00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:00,900 until we get the right word from the right person. 217 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:02,900 And you know what happens then? 218 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,600 When a case does go down... 219 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,400 all those people who kept quiet about it, who lied about it, 220 00:19:19,500 --> 00:19:22,100 all of them who thought it wasn't coming back on 'em, 221 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:26,400 they end up catchin' a charge. And they get time behind that. 222 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,500 Time? You gonna give me time? 223 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:43,000 If you know something about that boy Lex getting shot, 224 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:45,300 now is your last chance to speak to that. 225 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,200 - You gave a statement last year... - Why don't you promise to get me outta here? 226 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:55,300 That's what y'all do, ain't it? Lie to dumbass niggers? 227 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,100 Yo, y'all need to get this police out my face before I bank his ass. 228 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:19,800 You're a natural, kiddo. You had them eating out of your hand. 229 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,800 Shit, I was just following the mayor's lead. He wants a full-court press, right? 230 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,800 We can add a detective or two. 231 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:33,500 And you can ask patrol to concentrate on posts where vagrants congregate. 232 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,600 But other than that, deputy, the cupboard is bare. 233 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:38,300 - But Carcetti... - Make no mistake. 234 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,300 He wants us to solve the murders. He just doesn't want it to cost. 235 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,700 Don't look so shocked. You're runnin' with the big dogs now. 236 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,800 Isn't it enough that we're up on the killer's cellphone? 237 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,100 Couldn't you track him on the GPS chip? 238 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:58,900 He's using a burner and we suspect he's taking out the battery between calls. 239 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,600 And there's nothing to stop him from changing phones, 240 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,400 calling the reporter from a new number. 241 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,900 So you want to tap the reporter's phone as well. 242 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:09,700 It stands to reason that we should monitor this thing from both ends. 243 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:13,100 - It's what we would normally do. - Nothing about this is normal. 244 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:16,100 A Baltimore Sun reporter's phone is problematic. 245 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,400 We need to strike a balance between your needs 246 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,200 as investigators and the First Amendment rights of the Sun and its sources. 247 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,900 The First Amendment does not guarantee privacy, your Honor. 248 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:27,900 Legal precedent clearly indicates... 249 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:30,900 - Look I'm not saying that we can't, but... - But what? 250 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:38,400 Until we get the sense that your suspect is changing phones, 251 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:45,000 I'm not inclined to look with favor on tapping the Baltimore Sun's telecommunications. 252 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:47,300 - We're afraid to piss them off? - Never pick a fight 253 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,900 with anyone who buys ink by the barrel-full. 254 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,100 - Christ. - Very well, judge. 255 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:04,100 How many enemies do you need? 256 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:08,900 Deputy. 257 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:29,300 - Where did you get all this? - Darling, you do not want to know. 258 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,300 What's up with you? 259 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:39,300 Got all 22 out of the drawer? 260 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,700 - Workin' the whole mess at once. - I'm trying to see 'em fresh. 261 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,600 25. My triple. It comes back to Marlo and his people. 262 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,100 For sure? 263 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,200 A good informant tells me so. 264 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,400 Says one of my vics was talking bad about Mr. Stanfield, who took it personal. 265 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:57,400 Killed him, his girl, his muscle. 266 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,400 Left the little kids alive, so I guess he ain'tall bad. 267 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,500 People out there so scared of this motherfucker, 268 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,400 I can't get close to an eyewitness on any of it. 269 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:11,000 - Where you at with the rest of these cases? - We don't even have lab work 270 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,600 on 14 of these bodies? 271 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,100 A year later I'm still walking in written requests into Landsman, 272 00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:16,900 who just files them away in his drawer. 273 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,000 McNulty would've called a news reporter. 274 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,300 I am not him. 275 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:25,700 Well, what would the Bunk do? Take no for a fucking answer? 276 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,800 We had cutbacks, you know that. 277 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:34,700 We lost three or four trace examiners. Lost half our clerical. 278 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:37,600 The freezer went bad, we lost four months of blood samples. 279 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,700 Did you know that? Four months of evidence 280 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,400 and they still haven't replaced my damn icebox. 281 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,500 My heart pumps purple piss for you. 282 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,300 Now, I got the worst mass murder in B-more history 283 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,500 and you can't get the trace work back to me inside of a year? C'mon, Ron... 284 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:53,200 Look... 285 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,800 You can't go to the press. 286 00:23:55,900 --> 00:24:00,200 I mean, heads will roll if this gets out. It isn't anyone's fault. 287 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,900 In fact, it's a little bit on you, in a way. 288 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:04,600 The fuck you say? 289 00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:10,100 After Annette took retirement, the casework got backed up worse than ever, right? 290 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:12,700 Well, we put in to fill the lab assistant slot, 291 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:15,100 but with the cutbacks, the best they could give us was a temp. 292 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:18,400 - A temp? - Yeah. No medical. No pension. 293 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,500 A temp hire to get us over for a while. 294 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,500 Look, I'll show you something... 295 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,800 She was assigned to sort and file the individual trace elements... 296 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:30,800 Hair, fiber mostly... 297 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,600 You know, from each of the 14 scenes. 298 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:39,000 So what's the problem? 299 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,300 In the initial paperwork, you wrote out all 22 CC numbers, right? 300 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:45,300 - Right. - But in the supplemental requests, 301 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,000 you put all the incidents under the initial CC 302 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,600 and then you wrote, "et al," remember? 303 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,900 - So? - She didn't know what "et al" meant. 304 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:57,300 And she sorted everything under the single complaint number. 305 00:24:57,300 --> 00:24:59,000 You don't fuckin' mean... 306 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:02,300 We have no idea which one of your scenes any of this shit came from. 307 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,800 We don't have a clue. 308 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:15,000 Actually, except for this she's been a pretty good employee. 309 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,100 - Surveillance teams. - Two each on 12-hour shifts. 310 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:32,300 I need them to set up on certain locations common to our cases. 311 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:35,800 C'mon, Jay. You heard the mayor. This case is a red ball. 312 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:38,800 That it is. You can have Greggs, if you want. 313 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,800 The last time I offered her up, you kicked her back to her own casework. 314 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,700 Other than a second detective, you are on your own. 315 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,200 - So it's all bullshit. - I dunno. 316 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,400 I thought the mayor gave a very nice speech. 317 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,100 I, for one, was moved. Much like the bull to which you just referred. 318 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,400 - Tell you one thing... - What's that? 319 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,900 Motherfucker whose got the connect, he the one that did Joe. 320 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:13,400 Oh, no doubt. 321 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:34,200 Y'all know the co-op took some hits. Joe. Hungry Man. 322 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:38,900 Good people, especially Joe. Their passin' was for real, cold blooded. 323 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:41,900 I know what you thinkin', so I'm a put it out there... 324 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:45,200 I'm responsible. 325 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,600 A week or so back, I made a move on Omar, with Joe's approval. 326 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,100 The faggot ain't had heart enough to come at me, so he come at those close to me. 327 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:56,500 Now I'm doublin' the bounty... 328 00:26:56,500 --> 00:27:00,300 Hundred large for a whiff of that dicksuck. 329 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,500 Two hundred fifty for his head. 330 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,700 - What about the connect? - I got that covered. 331 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:09,700 And in light of that fact, I'm a take it upon myself to conduct this meet. 332 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,500 Slim, I want you take over Hungry Man's slice of the cake. 333 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,500 Meanin' no disrespect, but I ain't cut out to be no CEO. 334 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:27,900 - Cheese, then. - No problem, man. Got you covered. 335 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,300 Until we settle up with Omar, I think it's best we suspend these meets. 336 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,600 In fact, I ain't really one for meets no how. 337 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,300 Anybody got a problem here on out, bring it to me, or sit on that shit. 338 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:43,500 Those of you on the Westside who need to re-up, holler at my man Monk. 339 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:47,400 He gonna handle supply over there. On the Eastside, Cheese. 340 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,400 One more thing. 341 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,700 Price of the brick going up. 342 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,400 Thirty more. 343 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:57,800 All right. Enough of this shit. 344 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,400 What? 345 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,900 Next year for the schools. From now until December, 346 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,300 we're all about the plight of the homeless. The great whiting has spoken. 347 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,700 I appealed to Klebanow half hour ago but he gave me the thumbs down. I'm sorry. 348 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:31,500 Check it out, people. Our Metro desk has some national profile. 349 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,700 We're being careful to cooperate with the investigators in every way. 350 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:40,300 My newspaper has no desire to get between the police and the suspect. 351 00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:44,200 But still, wouldn't you agree it's an incredible moment for any journalist 352 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,300 to come face to face with that type of pure evil like the son of Sam. 353 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:51,500 That makes you the Jimmy Breslin of Baltimore. 354 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,100 Well, no, I wouldn't say that. I mean... 355 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,500 But knowing you have been in contact with a killer, 356 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,100 are you at all concerned about continuing to report from the street? 357 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,100 No, not at all. I mean, this is what we do. 358 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:07,500 As a reporter, you expect to be in harm's way at some points. 359 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,500 - It's what we do. - Agreed. It's what we do. 360 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:15,000 But very rarely does a reporter end up being in the middle of a story - 361 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:16,800 an ongoing story - 362 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:22,700 about a murderer who is still at large and posing a severe and deadly risk to the... 363 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,200 You shoulda heard Phelan this morning. 364 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:30,100 Too scared to tap the newspaper phones they might shit on him for it. 365 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,900 Fuckin' hack judge. 366 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:35,500 What would you want with more wires? We got all we need. 367 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:38,500 I don't want another wire. It's the principle of the thing... 368 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,600 It just pissed me off listening to him. 369 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,800 Oh yeah, no surveillance cars. 370 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,300 They won't go beyond me and Greggs. 371 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:52,700 You and Sydnor will have to work it as best you can for right now. 372 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,300 Assholes. 373 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:01,300 They need another body, don't they? 374 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,100 I'll call our man in the Southern. 375 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:16,300 I can take it from here. Y'all can bounce. 376 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:17,800 All right, boss. 377 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:28,600 What up, Rick? 378 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,500 Just like ol' times for me and you. 379 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,700 - Whatever you want it's yours, all right? - Tonight, I'm just gonna take yo' jump... 380 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:39,600 - And leave you with a little something. - What's that? 381 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,400 My word in your ear. 382 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,600 I'm callin' Marlo a straight bitch. 383 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:47,600 I'm sayin' it don't take much to shoot down a blind man. 384 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:52,500 And as for him steppin' to me, you tell that dude he ain't got the heart. 385 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:53,900 All right. 386 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,200 You tell that man I'm in the street, waiting. 387 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,200 Just like a little bitch, he ain't nowhere to be found. 388 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,800 I'll tell him. I will. 389 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,800 Pick up your keys and go on inside, yo. 390 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,400 You kill Joe? 391 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:17,700 Hungry? 392 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,600 Didn't think so. 393 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:33,100 What now? 394 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,200 There's more than one way to skin a case. 395 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,200 Already ran them for priors, right? 396 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,300 Priors, yeah. But I'm gonna run every name you guys developed 397 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:54,900 through the entire database. 398 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:58,500 Not just for priors, but for anything at all in the miles system. 399 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:01,400 Court appearances, parole, probation, 400 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:04,000 gun permits, DOC, open bails. 401 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:09,000 - You're playing long shots, huh? - Darlin', I'm playin' the hand I've been dealt. 402 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:11,200 An H-file? 403 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,300 - Who caught the case? - Worden. Other shift. 404 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,400 Stepfather. Beaten to death. 405 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,700 They interviewed the mother, but no one else in the household. 406 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,900 Doesn't exactly fit with the others, does it? 407 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:34,100 A straight up ass-whoopin' in an alley doesn't seem like Marlo Stanfield. 408 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,100 - No, it doesn't. - But you're gonna work it anyway. 409 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,100 In the Pentecostal church where I was given religion, 410 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,100 it would have been said the spirit was on you yesterday. 411 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,400 - It got good to me. - Let praises be. 412 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,900 It pissed me off that on top of everything else I gotta deal with, 413 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:54,300 some nutjob starts killing homeless guys. Fuck already, how many shitbowls are there? 414 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:58,100 He's right though. You were great. That passion was just the thing. 415 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,400 - You think... - We step out on this issue, 416 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,300 it could provide some national presence... 417 00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:08,600 Didn't the governor scrap the emergency medical and housing program last year? 418 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,100 What was it, TEMHA? 419 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:13,800 Replaced it with T-Dap, which cuts funding to anyone who doesn't qualify for federal support. 420 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,700 It's worse than that: He froze eligibility by disallowing new applications, 421 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,700 which put all kinda folks out on the street. 422 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,400 So we slam the Republican for sticking it to the poor. 423 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:26,000 It plays. Nationally, you're taking up the cause of the forgotten... 424 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:28,400 And no one is ever in favor of homelessness... 425 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,800 Statewide, you're going up against the fella who tore up the safety net. 426 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,600 Homelessness. 427 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,800 I'll be damned. 428 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,600 - Base to 2306. - Go ahead, Lester. 429 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,100 - You see anybody using a cellphone? - Wait one. 430 00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:58,000 Negative. 431 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:00,900 Hold on. Somebody's here. 432 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:04,900 Lester? 433 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,700 Can't get used to how empty this place feels nowadays. 434 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:19,300 True, but you'd be surprised what you can get done when no one's looking. 435 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:22,300 You'll need to serve these. Running out of time. 436 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:23,700 I'll get right on it. 437 00:34:23,700 --> 00:34:26,300 There's a couple of loose ends we should cover as well. 438 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:28,300 - Now? - If not now, when? 439 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,500 The trial date is coming up on us fast. 440 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,800 Right. But it's... 441 00:34:34,700 --> 00:34:38,300 - Is it something I said? - No... 442 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,300 Sydnor is bringing in a CI. And if you're here... 443 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:45,000 Oh, shit. 444 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:47,300 I'm sorry... 445 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:50,800 I'll leave you my list, OK? 446 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:53,200 No problem. We'll get right on it. 447 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,900 I'm sorry, Lester, if I was intruding. 448 00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:59,500 You couldn't know. 449 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,700 So why you here? 450 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:09,400 If this about Michael and what he into, 451 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,100 y'all should know he don't live here no more. 452 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,900 Actually, I'm following up on your man's case. 453 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000 You spoke to Detective Worden when it happened. 454 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,900 He was your boyfriend, right? 455 00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:25,800 When he weren't in jail... 456 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:28,700 Father to my youngest. 457 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,300 But you know how he died. 458 00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:37,100 Beaten bad. Crime of passion, as we say. 459 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,200 Didn't seem like he was home long enough 460 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:42,200 to get somebody that riled at him. 461 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,400 Unless, of course, it was over you. 462 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,200 You sayin' I know somethin' about that? 463 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,800 Lady, let's put our cards on the table. 464 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,600 I been in this game longer than a little bit, and there's one thing I know. 465 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,900 A murder like this, there's a woman at the center of it. 466 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,700 I don't know nothin'. 467 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,200 You know my gut tells me that you do. 468 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:05,400 And I'll tell you what... 469 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,500 We're gonna take a ride downtown, let you talk to the grand jury. 470 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,600 You're not straight with them, they'll give you a material witness warrant. 471 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:16,300 And you sit over at woman's detention for a couple of weeks. 472 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:19,600 It's amazing what it does for the grieving process. 473 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:21,800 - Get your things. - I ain't goin' nowhere. 474 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,600 It's me or the wagon. 475 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,100 Detective, I swear, I ain't in this. 476 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,200 It ain't me you wanna talk to. 477 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,600 It's the boy, he know. 478 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:39,200 - He runnin' with them who did it. - You just tryin' to put me off the scent. 479 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,900 You gotta believe me. 480 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:49,100 He told me Devar wasn't comin' home, 'fore we even knowed he was dead. 481 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,800 You said he's runnin' with them? Runnin' with who? 482 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,300 Chris, Snoop, all them gangsters. Who else doin' all the killin' around here? 483 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:05,200 Let me see your camera. 484 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,600 - Add a minute-six to your times. - Got it. 485 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,100 Here it is. Look at this. 486 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:19,800 Single ring. Connection. Silence. 487 00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:21,600 What do you have? 488 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:24,700 I took these three. They're just hangin' around. 489 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,800 What time did Monk leave? 490 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,600 1:24. Two minutes later. 491 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,600 It's not what Marlo's sayin', it's what he's sendin'. 492 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,600 - Look at Monk. - Yeah. Text message. 493 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,700 Text? Need I remind you, Detective, 494 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,700 these young men are products of Baltimore City schools. 495 00:37:56,700 --> 00:38:00,700 Besides, look how far away he's holding his phone. Too far away to be reading a text. 496 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:03,500 Nah, son. Pictures. 497 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:07,500 Pictures... 498 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,600 What the fuck you lookin' at? 499 00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:48,600 You know what they do, right? They tease you. 500 00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:52,000 They let you get close and just when you're about to pull the case, 501 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:54,700 they rip the fuckin' rug out from under you. 502 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,200 I'm not lying. We got a fuckin' serial killer on the loose. 503 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,400 You didn't know that? 504 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,300 It's in the goddamn paper. 505 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:15,800 What support do I get? One fuckin' detective. 506 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,300 They wanna play their simple-ass games, fine. But I gotta do what I gotta do. 507 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:22,900 Excuse me. 508 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,500 Yeah, Oscar. 509 00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:30,700 Beautiful. 510 00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:34,800 Absolutely. Where? On my way. 511 00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:07,100 Man, you can't let it get to you like this. 512 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:13,300 Why don't we go buy up a bunch of toys and take 'em to your kids? 513 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:16,500 You ain't hearin' me. How can I go near my people with Omar on us? 514 00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:18,400 How he gonna find out about them? 515 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,600 How we find out about the blind man? 516 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,400 Get. 517 00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:59,200 It's Omar! 518 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,100 You too, shorty. 519 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:13,700 Omar! It's Omar! 520 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,900 Money a little late today. 521 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,500 That buckshot in your leg should help you explain yourself to Marlo. 522 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,400 As for them other two they gonna wish that I'd peppered them a bit. 523 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:43,400 Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 524 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:45,100 'Cause it ain't about that paper. 525 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,300 It's about me hurtin' his people, messin' with his world. 526 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:53,200 Tell that boy he ain't man enough to come down to the street with Omar. 527 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:55,400 You tell him that! 528 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:06,100 My sergeant and two side partners got here before me. 529 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:09,400 Then the shift commander showed. Now the duty officer is on his way. 530 00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:11,000 For a DOA? 531 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:13,800 Well, you and Lester started some shit here, son. 532 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,500 Now a DOA call brings everyone in a heartbeat. 533 00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:09,200 God bless. 534 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,500 - Pictures? - Photographs on cellphones. 535 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,600 Now that means new PC to capture the photos 536 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:28,800 and new equipment that could do it. 537 00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:34,300 How do I write that into my bullshit homeless killer's MO? 538 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,800 When we started this, you said all we needed were some bugs, 539 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,000 a camera or two, and in a couple of weeks, we'd have them. That's what you said. 540 00:43:44,900 --> 00:43:47,000 So I cranked up my bullshit to pay for that 541 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,700 but no, then you needed a wiretap. 542 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,700 So I went along, I got you the wiretap. 543 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:53,700 Then you ask for surveillance teams, 544 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,300 but before I can get to that, you came to me with this. 545 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:58,300 I mean, what the fuck? 546 00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:04,700 I gotta tell you, Lester, I don't want to hurt your feelings, 547 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,500 but I can see why Daniels cringed every time you opened your fucking mouth. 548 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,700 You're a supervisor's nightmare. 549 00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:12,700 I'm just following the thread. 550 00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:30,900 Say we get you the intercept on your pictures, will that give us Marlo? 551 00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:35,500 It'll be coded, probably, but I'm sure we can break it. 552 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,600 That'll tell us how they do business, 553 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,500 and usually, that's enough. 554 00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:41,200 Or not. 555 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:44,300 But the truth is, I'm running Sydnor ragged 556 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:47,000 just staying on a couple of mopes and monitoring calls. 557 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,700 Now, when we're up on their code, 558 00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:52,000 we're gonna need more manpower to run down a stash or a re-up. 559 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,900 - We can't do it all. - I can't juke this thing any more than I have. 560 00:44:55,900 --> 00:44:58,000 Last night, half the police department turned up 561 00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:00,700 at Oscar's crime scene before I could get there. 562 00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:04,900 We can't make another murder. 563 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,200 Thanks for the milk. 564 00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:19,300 What's a donut without milk? 565 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,100 So you were talking about your second tour... 566 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,300 - The bad one. - Yeah. 567 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,100 Second tour fucked me up good. But they don't wanna hear it. 568 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:34,200 Who doesn't? 569 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,900 Mostly, it's command and the senior EMS. 570 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:39,800 They put it down that marines don't get P.T.S.D. 571 00:45:39,900 --> 00:45:41,900 But they do. 572 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,200 Can you tell me what happened? 573 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:50,800 Terry, can you talk about it? 574 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,400 We had a month left on the tour, 575 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,500 working an S-and-A mission outside Fallujah. 576 00:45:57,500 --> 00:46:00,200 I was assistant team leader. 577 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,000 Our M-niner-niner-eights were retrofitted with up-armor kits. 578 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,300 M-niner-niner-eight? 579 00:46:05,300 --> 00:46:07,900 A humvee, sorry. 580 00:46:07,900 --> 00:46:09,700 They're big on nomenclature. 581 00:46:11,500 --> 00:46:14,500 Anyway we finished our sweep, headed back in, right? 582 00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:16,600 It was all good. Then, bam... 583 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,400 Our lead vehicle was hit with an elevated I.E.D. 584 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,200 The blast tore the M-fifty gunner in half. 585 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:25,300 Flipped the humvee like a matchbox car. 586 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,100 Driver lost both his hands. 587 00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:29,900 Blood shooting out all over. He's fuckin' laughin'. 588 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000 Saying over and over, "Look, Ma, no hands." 589 00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:42,000 It's the laughing I can't shake. 590 00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:45,000 Weird. 591 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,000 'Cause he's OK, you know? I mean, he's better than me. 592 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,600 Got himself a couple of prosthetic mitts, eighty thousand apiece. 593 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,700 What happened next? 594 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:09,400 Nothing really. We pushed out, secured the perimeter. 595 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,100 Corpsman did what he could, an' we waited for the casevac. 596 00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:04,800 I'm not looking to shit on another guy's copy, 597 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,600 I just wanted you to know this was out there. 598 00:48:06,700 --> 00:48:08,500 I'm at a community meeting in Bel Air-Edison 599 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,300 to hear about school zoning and this woman talked my ear off about this. 600 00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:14,300 She said the kids never saw a dime. 601 00:48:17,100 --> 00:48:19,600 I mean, I'm hoping this is all bullshit. 602 00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:23,100 - Hey, Scott. How's it coming? - Pretty good. You seen the art? 603 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,200 Yeah. Good stuff. Listen, 604 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,900 got a complaint about a story you wrote a couple weeks ago. 605 00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:30,800 The woman who died from an allergic reaction to seafood. 606 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,200 - Remember? - What about it? 607 00:48:32,300 --> 00:48:35,900 Lady knows the dead woman sister says our story made a lot of money for those kids. 608 00:48:35,900 --> 00:48:38,000 - A scholarship fund we wrote up. - So? 609 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:42,400 She says the sister has a history of fraud, convictions on it. 610 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,900 She says all the money went to Atlantic City casinos 611 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:47,600 - And kids never saw a dime. - Christ, who the fuck... 612 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,400 I know. It's probably some old biddy talkin' about stuff she don't know, 613 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,900 but maybe you should go back and check with the family, 614 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,600 see if we don't get took on this, huh? 615 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,000 No, no. Not now. After you file. Just make a couple calls, huh? 616 00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:16,200 - This is kidnapping. - Actually, I'm not sure. 617 00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:19,900 I asked him if he wanted $100 to go some place for dinner and talk 618 00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:22,900 - And he walked to my car. - You give him the hundred? 619 00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:26,000 Stuffed it in his jacket. 620 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,600 He's fine, Lester. He's great. 621 00:49:30,700 --> 00:49:33,800 - Think he'll find his way back home? - Eventually. 622 00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:36,800 By then, we'll be done with Marlo, we'll have shut this thing down. 623 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,900 As far as what happened to this guy... 624 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,300 They'll write it off as some fraternity prank. 625 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,500 - Does he know we're cops? - No. 626 00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:49,100 Even if he figures it out, who's gonna believe him? He's nuts. 627 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,000 - How do you know he's nuts? - First of all, just look at him. 628 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,700 He's fucking bouncing off the walls. Second of all... I got his scrip. 629 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,000 I called the university ER. It's an anti-psychotic. 630 00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:00,900 So... 631 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,100 I took his I.D., 632 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:07,900 I'll scratch his name off the scrip and leave him with this... 633 00:50:07,900 --> 00:50:11,700 I got that one from the first homeless death Oscar gave us. 634 00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:14,500 The one that was too rigored. Donald somebody or other. 635 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:17,100 It had him in a Cleveland, Ohio shelter. 636 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:21,600 McNulty, you are deserving of serious psychological study. 637 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,000 You need PC to intercept cellphone photos. 638 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,100 Well here it is, right here. 639 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,100 We send photos of this guy 640 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,100 all ribboned up from a dry cellphone 641 00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,800 to that goofy reporter, along with a message bitching about his stories. 642 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,900 "I ain't no pervert," or whatever. Now, the killer says, 643 00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:40,600 you ain't gonna find no more bodies. Only photos of the victims... 644 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,600 Before they disappear. 645 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,600 Look at this poor sucker. I don't believe we're gonna do this. 646 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,500 He disappears, the city goes batshit. You get your photo intercepts, 647 00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:56,500 and when we need to run down one of Marlo's re-ups, 648 00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:58,500 you got all the manpower you need. 649 00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:01,200 - And Marlo falls. - Falls hard. 650 00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:27,200 Don't fucking tell me you mislabeled this, too. 651 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:31,000 I want comparisons between known suspects 652 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,700 and the DNA from this scene. 653 00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:36,200 By the looks of it, we got a whole lot of DNA outta this mess. 654 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,900 - Now, motherfucker. Right now. - Top of my list. 655 00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:44,200 As soon as we work through all the trace from the homeless killings. 656 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,800 That's the priority, Bunk. 657 00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:52,500 - The homeless killings. - Everything is backed up behind that, sorry. 658 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,900 Your boy McNulty has everyone's attention right now. 659 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,400 So it's Larry, huh? 660 00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:19,700 OK, Larry. You're with good people here. It's all gonna be great. 661 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,400 You're gonna like this place. It's warm, they got nice beds. 662 00:52:28,100 --> 00:52:32,100 And best of all, I gave you cash money just for walking in the door. 663 00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,400 Come on, Larry. 664 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:42,900 It's gonna be fine. I promise. 665 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,200 You feel up for trying Clay yourself? 666 00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,300 I mean, it's been a while since you tried a criminal case personally. 667 00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:01,200 It sends a statement, I think. 668 00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:04,500 We should start with our witness list. See if we can pare that down any, 669 00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,500 out of respect for the distracted nature of a Baltimore jury. 670 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,400 First, there's something else I need to bring up. 671 00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:20,200 - Old grand jury stuff? - Sealed indictments. 672 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,400 Sealed transcripts. Dozens of them. 673 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:27,400 Pulled from the desk of a shot-to-death drug dealer in east Baltimore. 674 00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:30,000 The deputy ops brought me those. 675 00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:32,100 We have a leak. 676 00:53:54,700 --> 00:53:57,800 And he showed up, outside where I work. 677 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,600 He was confused. Lost I think. So I brought him here. 678 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,800 Donald, where you from? 679 00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:10,600 Tell the lady, Donald. 680 00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:16,000 Baltimore. 681 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,700 But he told me he came from Cleveland. 682 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,300 Donald, do you have identification? 683 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:47,500 This does say Cleveland. 684 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,500 Donald, why don't we get you something to eat? 685 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,400 It's OK. Come on. 686 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,400 - We're good to go? - It's great, Gus. 687 00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:07,400 It sings. 688 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,900 - Hey, Scotty boy. - Hey. 689 00:55:09,900 --> 00:55:13,300 Hey. Great piece. I mean this one really feels like the real deal. 690 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,400 - It's great work. - Thanks. 691 00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:18,300 What I like most about it is that you didn't overwrite it. 692 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,300 No extra color. No puffy adjectives. 693 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:25,100 Just tight, declarative sentences. You really let this ex-marine tell his story. 694 00:55:25,100 --> 00:55:27,900 - Thanks, Gus. - Hey, Mr. Slot man, 695 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:31,400 read it and weep. And I mean that literally. 696 00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:36,300 Oh, Scott. Did you get a chance to drop a couple calls on that complaint? 697 00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,100 It's bullshit. I talked to people in the neighborhood. 698 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:43,900 Sister's good people, but there's another woman up there, unrelated, 699 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,500 keeps getting arrested for kiting checks and stuff. 700 00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,300 She uses the sister's name every time she gets locked up. 701 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,800 She's done it like three or four times now. Yeah, it's crazy. 702 00:55:53,900 --> 00:55:56,600 But sister's clean. Everyone says so. 703 00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,000 OK. 704 00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,300 Is there anything else I can do for him? 705 00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,200 No, we've got it. But thanks for bringing him in. 706 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,800 Most people, they just ignore them. 707 00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:55,200 I just want to get your paperwork taken care of.