1 00:00:09,176 --> 00:00:12,553 That's the witness, the one from the Barksdale case. 2 00:00:12,638 --> 00:00:15,098 Gant, William. 41 years. 3 00:00:15,808 --> 00:00:20,269 Single headshot, close range. Bullet pancaked on the inner skull. 4 00:00:26,068 --> 00:00:28,277 - Ain't necessarily what it looks like. - No? 5 00:00:28,362 --> 00:00:30,530 A man's walking down the street in West Baltimore. 6 00:00:30,614 --> 00:00:33,241 That'll catch you a bullet for a half-dozen reasons. 7 00:00:33,325 --> 00:00:35,660 That it will. You run him for a sheet? 8 00:00:35,744 --> 00:00:39,455 Yeah, a couple of disorderlies. Works maintenance at Poe Homes. 9 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:42,166 Lives alone, no wife, no kids. 10 00:00:42,251 --> 00:00:44,669 Only time his name pops up on the computer 11 00:00:44,753 --> 00:00:46,713 is for being a state witness. 12 00:00:46,797 --> 00:00:48,965 Otherwise I don't even make that connection. 13 00:00:53,470 --> 00:00:58,057 You've got to admit, it don't make sense to ace this motherfucker after he done testified. 14 00:00:58,142 --> 00:00:59,517 Sends a hell of a message. 15 00:00:59,601 --> 00:01:03,563 He's the one hardheaded fuck in the Terrace you can't run off or buy out. 16 00:01:03,647 --> 00:01:07,734 If your audience is the high-rises, a move like this cuts through the shit. 17 00:01:07,818 --> 00:01:12,196 - What are you gonna tell the major? - That I caught a stone fucking whodunnit. 18 00:01:12,281 --> 00:01:15,116 - Don't soft-sell the witness angle. - Come on. 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,202 Why get the bosses riled before we know for sure? 20 00:01:18,287 --> 00:01:20,705 If I start talking shit that a witness got killed... 21 00:01:20,789 --> 00:01:22,457 - Tell him. - Why? 22 00:01:22,541 --> 00:01:24,375 Just cover yourself on this. 23 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:27,879 Jimmy, you ain't gonna do what I think? 24 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:32,258 Listen to me. 25 00:01:32,342 --> 00:01:35,219 This shit is gonna jump up and bite you in your ass. 26 00:01:35,304 --> 00:01:37,722 Just cover yourself. 27 00:01:37,806 --> 00:01:41,768 - What the hell was that about? - Nothing. 28 00:01:49,276 --> 00:01:52,361 If you walk through the garden 29 00:01:53,238 --> 00:01:55,615 You better watch your back 30 00:01:56,658 --> 00:01:59,911 Well, I beg your pardon 31 00:02:00,496 --> 00:02:02,914 Walk the straight and narrow track 32 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:06,918 If you walk with Jesus 33 00:02:08,712 --> 00:02:11,547 He'll save your soul 34 00:02:12,883 --> 00:02:14,842 You gotta keep the devil 35 00:02:15,803 --> 00:02:17,678 Down in the hole 36 00:02:19,598 --> 00:02:22,350 All the angels sing 37 00:02:23,268 --> 00:02:25,728 About Jesus' mighty sword 38 00:02:26,855 --> 00:02:29,732 And they shield you with their wings 39 00:02:30,526 --> 00:02:33,736 Keep you close to the Lord 40 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:37,323 Don't pay heed to temptation 41 00:02:38,367 --> 00:02:41,911 For his hands are so cold 42 00:02:42,871 --> 00:02:45,373 You gotta keep the devil 43 00:02:45,791 --> 00:02:49,377 Way down in the hole 44 00:02:57,511 --> 00:02:59,720 Way down in the hole 45 00:03:01,348 --> 00:03:03,599 Way down in the hole 46 00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:08,229 Way down in the hole 47 00:03:08,313 --> 00:03:11,440 Way down in the hole 48 00:03:27,457 --> 00:03:29,625 Morning. 49 00:04:19,343 --> 00:04:21,177 Jesus Christ. 50 00:04:30,854 --> 00:04:33,105 Goddamn. 51 00:04:33,190 --> 00:04:36,567 Who do you got to fuck in this town to get a real office? 52 00:04:36,652 --> 00:04:39,737 At least that works. 53 00:04:50,791 --> 00:04:53,542 It was for McNulty. 54 00:04:56,171 --> 00:04:58,464 - I shouldn't be here. - Then you shouldn't. 55 00:04:58,548 --> 00:05:01,467 They killed a fucking witness out of your court. 56 00:05:01,551 --> 00:05:04,136 You told me. You did your civic duty. 57 00:05:04,221 --> 00:05:07,515 Under the power vested in me by the circuit court for Baltimore city, 58 00:05:07,599 --> 00:05:09,809 I absolve you of your sins, Detective. 59 00:05:09,893 --> 00:05:11,852 You are my sin, you know that? 60 00:05:11,937 --> 00:05:15,314 For talking to you, my major is ready to cut my throat. 61 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,566 Jimmy, you knew I was gonna make that call. 62 00:05:17,651 --> 00:05:21,696 I didn't think you would hang me out on the line in a shitstorm. 63 00:05:22,364 --> 00:05:24,740 It's not like it was when I was a prosecutor. 64 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:28,411 - I'm a judge now. The rules are different. - You missed a spot. 65 00:05:28,495 --> 00:05:30,496 Yeah, well, what's done is done. 66 00:05:31,581 --> 00:05:34,542 Question is, what do you want me to do now? 67 00:05:34,626 --> 00:05:38,587 - You can leverage the Deputy Ops with a call. - He's already detailed people. 68 00:05:38,672 --> 00:05:42,883 Some detail. Asshole lieutenant thinks he can buy-bust his way to Avon Barksdale. 69 00:05:42,968 --> 00:05:44,468 You want leverage? 70 00:05:44,553 --> 00:05:48,514 We give the dead-witness angle to the newspapers. Stir some real shit. 71 00:05:48,598 --> 00:05:50,683 That tips Barksdale we're working him. 72 00:05:50,767 --> 00:05:53,352 - We don't want to go public. - No? 73 00:05:53,437 --> 00:05:57,273 Just put it to the Deputy Ops you lost a witness who testified in your court, 74 00:05:57,357 --> 00:06:00,317 forcing the department to commit to the investigation. 75 00:06:00,402 --> 00:06:04,363 And when you call Burrell this time, will you forget my fucking name? 76 00:06:10,829 --> 00:06:11,871 Hey! 77 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:15,207 - You missed a spot. - Why don't you fucking do it? 78 00:06:15,292 --> 00:06:16,959 Seniority. 79 00:06:32,809 --> 00:06:35,478 - You found us. - Wasn't easy. 80 00:06:35,562 --> 00:06:39,023 - You asked for these guys? - I asked for more manpower. 81 00:06:41,109 --> 00:06:42,943 Have a seat. 82 00:06:51,369 --> 00:06:53,370 What the fuck... 83 00:06:55,165 --> 00:06:56,624 Sir, I... 84 00:06:56,708 --> 00:06:59,251 He was showing me the trigger pull on his Glock. 85 00:06:59,336 --> 00:07:02,963 - And he was just... - Detective? 86 00:07:04,007 --> 00:07:06,675 Officer Pryzbylewski shot the wall, Lieutenant. 87 00:07:07,511 --> 00:07:08,552 Why? 88 00:07:08,637 --> 00:07:11,138 Why did you shoot the wall, Pryzbylewski? 89 00:07:11,223 --> 00:07:15,601 I was just showing Carv how my trigger pull is light, you know. 90 00:07:15,685 --> 00:07:18,687 - I got it so it's real light. - He took the clip out, boss. 91 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:21,148 But not the one in the chamber. 92 00:07:21,233 --> 00:07:24,527 No, I forgot the one in the chamber 93 00:07:24,611 --> 00:07:27,321 and, uh... well... 94 00:07:27,405 --> 00:07:29,573 Shit, I'm sorry, Lieutenant. 95 00:07:30,575 --> 00:07:32,952 - You want him to write on it? - Write on what? 96 00:07:33,036 --> 00:07:37,373 You let one go, you got to write. You got to justify the use of deadly force. 97 00:07:38,083 --> 00:07:39,583 Against a plaster wall. 98 00:07:41,503 --> 00:07:44,463 It's an accident, OK? Give me a fucking break. 99 00:07:45,132 --> 00:07:48,467 - Your name is what? - Pryzbylewski. 100 00:07:50,554 --> 00:07:53,556 From Auto Unit, right? Cantrell sent you. 101 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:56,392 Not exactly. 102 00:07:56,476 --> 00:08:01,438 Lieutenant Cantrell sent me to Casualty Section a couple of months back. 103 00:08:01,523 --> 00:08:03,983 And I asked out of Casualty. 104 00:08:08,029 --> 00:08:10,573 You came here from Casualty Section? 105 00:08:12,784 --> 00:08:14,785 Man, these shits is right, yo. 106 00:08:16,079 --> 00:08:17,788 Mm-hm. 107 00:08:19,332 --> 00:08:22,543 - It's good with the hot sauce, too. - Most definite. 108 00:08:23,253 --> 00:08:26,589 - Yo, D, want some nuggets? - No, go ahead, man. 109 00:08:26,673 --> 00:08:29,717 Man, whoever invented these, he off the hook. 110 00:08:29,801 --> 00:08:31,260 Word! 111 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:35,097 Mm. Motherfucker got the bone all the way out the damn chicken. 112 00:08:35,182 --> 00:08:38,017 Till he came along, niggers be chewing on drumsticks, 113 00:08:38,101 --> 00:08:40,060 getting they fingers all greasy. 114 00:08:40,145 --> 00:08:42,104 He said, "Later," to the bone. 115 00:08:42,189 --> 00:08:44,565 Nugget that meat up, make some real money. 116 00:08:45,192 --> 00:08:47,443 - You think the man got paid? - Who? 117 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:50,696 - Man who invented these. - He richer than a motherfucker. 118 00:08:50,780 --> 00:08:53,616 Why? You think he get a percentage? 119 00:08:54,367 --> 00:08:56,702 - Why not? - Nigger, please. 120 00:08:56,786 --> 00:09:01,081 The man who invented them, some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonald's 121 00:09:01,166 --> 00:09:03,709 thinking up shit to make money for the real players. 122 00:09:03,793 --> 00:09:06,462 - No man, that ain't right. - Fuck right. 123 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:08,756 It ain't about right, it's about money. 124 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,759 You think Ronald McDonald gonna go down that basement 125 00:09:11,843 --> 00:09:14,261 and say, "Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. 126 00:09:14,346 --> 00:09:17,348 "We selling chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. 127 00:09:17,432 --> 00:09:21,685 "So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you." 128 00:09:21,770 --> 00:09:23,103 Shit. 129 00:09:23,688 --> 00:09:27,608 The nigger who invented them things, still in the basement on regular wage 130 00:09:27,692 --> 00:09:31,278 thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better. 131 00:09:31,363 --> 00:09:33,197 Believe. 132 00:09:36,868 --> 00:09:38,869 He still had the idea, though. 133 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:47,253 Who? 134 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:50,339 Polk and Pat Mahone. A couple of drunks from Property. 135 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:52,299 - I don't know them. - Why would you? 136 00:09:52,384 --> 00:09:54,760 They haven't made a case in 10 years. 137 00:09:54,844 --> 00:09:58,180 Also got handed some kid. Prezbelowski or Prezbelewski... 138 00:09:58,265 --> 00:10:01,767 - Pryzbylewski. Him, I know. - Yeah? 139 00:10:01,851 --> 00:10:05,229 - Why was he in Casualty Section? - He shot up his own car. 140 00:10:05,313 --> 00:10:07,648 - You remember? - He did what? 141 00:10:07,732 --> 00:10:11,277 He fired two clips into an unmarked car, out in West Baltimore. 142 00:10:11,361 --> 00:10:15,322 Called in a signal 13 on the radio, like he was under fire from a sniper. 143 00:10:15,407 --> 00:10:17,449 You didn't hear about that? 144 00:10:17,534 --> 00:10:22,246 He stuck to his story until Ballistics matched the bullet to his off-duty weapon. 145 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:25,457 - We almost indicted him for false report. - Why didn't you? 146 00:10:25,542 --> 00:10:28,502 He's got some kind of suction with the Mayor's office. 147 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:31,630 My point is, I can't build much with the garbage they sent me. 148 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:35,175 So go to the deputy. You've got his ear on this. 149 00:10:36,886 --> 00:10:38,554 Why not? 150 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:40,639 I ask the deputy for manpower. 151 00:10:40,724 --> 00:10:44,143 He tells Property to send two men, and Special to send two more. 152 00:10:44,227 --> 00:10:47,604 Those shift lieutenants know it's a chance to dump their dead wood. 153 00:10:47,689 --> 00:10:49,982 The deputy, he knows this, too. 154 00:10:50,191 --> 00:10:52,359 He could have offered to let me pick but didn't. 155 00:10:52,444 --> 00:10:55,571 - He sent me a message on this. - And the message is? 156 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:58,198 Don't dig in, don't get fancy. 157 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:00,909 Put a quick charge on this Barksdale and then get out. 158 00:11:00,994 --> 00:11:04,246 If he sends me good police, I might do good police work. 159 00:11:05,874 --> 00:11:08,584 - But if the State's Attorney's office... - No. 160 00:11:21,473 --> 00:11:23,098 Rhonda, darling... 161 00:11:23,641 --> 00:11:27,561 it's bad protocol for me to ask for help and then trash the help I'm given. 162 00:11:27,645 --> 00:11:31,357 - You, on the other hand... - No way. My office doesn't play that way. 163 00:11:31,441 --> 00:11:34,276 You people staff your cases, you bring us casework. 164 00:11:34,361 --> 00:11:37,112 I cross that line, I like piss everyone off. 165 00:11:39,574 --> 00:11:42,493 Best I can do is tell my unit chief that you drew shit. 166 00:11:42,577 --> 00:11:46,205 He wants to call the deputy for operations, that's his choice. 167 00:11:46,289 --> 00:11:48,624 - That won't happen. - Probably not. 168 00:11:51,294 --> 00:11:53,295 Make lemonade. 169 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,238 Ah, fuck! 170 00:12:19,322 --> 00:12:21,865 Yo, Kima, where you taking us? 171 00:12:21,950 --> 00:12:23,534 - Get down. - What? 172 00:12:23,618 --> 00:12:26,745 Jesus. You all ain't got no creep to you. 173 00:12:27,330 --> 00:12:29,581 Pair of goddamn elephants. 174 00:12:32,585 --> 00:12:35,212 A rusted nail just went through my shoe. 175 00:12:35,296 --> 00:12:38,799 I'm gonna need a tetanus to get behind this bullshit. 176 00:12:42,178 --> 00:12:44,805 - Hey, Kima. - Hand me that bag. 177 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:52,729 Kima, if you don't mind me asking, 178 00:12:52,814 --> 00:12:57,484 when was it that you first figured you liked women better than men? 179 00:12:57,569 --> 00:12:59,361 I mind you asking. 180 00:13:06,661 --> 00:13:09,663 Gentlemen, what's going on there, guys? 181 00:13:09,747 --> 00:13:12,458 - Testers, man, already out. - No. 182 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:16,170 I'm not in need of your services, I'm offering my services to y'all. 183 00:13:16,254 --> 00:13:17,546 What you got in the bag? 184 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:21,884 One thing a gentleman of color like better than a new pair of downtown shoes 185 00:13:22,051 --> 00:13:24,094 is a downtown brim, right? 186 00:13:52,457 --> 00:13:54,124 What's with the hats? 187 00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:06,261 - Five-O! - Five-O! 188 00:14:07,222 --> 00:14:08,805 Shut it down! 189 00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:13,685 Shut it down! 190 00:14:18,441 --> 00:14:19,942 Clean? 191 00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:52,307 You ain't gonna put that one on me. He a witness. 192 00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:56,270 You picked that shit up off the ground, so don't be trying to put shit on me. 193 00:14:56,354 --> 00:14:58,480 Is that what you think I'm about? 194 00:14:59,649 --> 00:15:01,733 - Boy thinks I'm gonna dirty him. - Hm. 195 00:15:01,818 --> 00:15:04,194 Like y'all won't do it. 196 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:07,114 Western narcos come here, pick shit up off the ground 197 00:15:07,198 --> 00:15:09,199 put it on whoever you please. 198 00:15:09,284 --> 00:15:12,119 Do I know you? 199 00:15:12,203 --> 00:15:15,747 Let's understand each other. I'm not Western District. 200 00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:18,333 I'm not a narco. I don't dirty people 201 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:20,627 'cause I don't care about a possession charge. 202 00:15:20,712 --> 00:15:24,172 I'm a murder police, I'm here about the bodies. 203 00:15:25,383 --> 00:15:28,552 D'Angelo here knows that. He remembers me from the trial. 204 00:15:28,636 --> 00:15:32,764 Sitting in back there, behind Stringer, watching, listening. 205 00:15:32,849 --> 00:15:35,309 Y'all hassling me about that shit? 206 00:15:35,393 --> 00:15:37,394 I thought you heard what the jury said. 207 00:15:37,478 --> 00:15:40,897 - Fuck the jury. - Yeah, this is just us talking, right? 208 00:15:40,982 --> 00:15:44,443 Just you, me, my partner and... What did you say your name was? 209 00:15:44,527 --> 00:15:46,028 I didn't say shit. 210 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:48,322 Just you, me, my partner and Mr. Shit here. 211 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:51,825 We're just talking about how things go, right? 212 00:15:51,909 --> 00:15:55,787 We're just sharing our thoughts. Bunk, a vial for your thoughts. 213 00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:59,625 I'm thinking it's one thing for one of you little niggers 214 00:15:59,709 --> 00:16:03,837 to shoot somebody in the 221 Building, you know? Who gives a fuck? 215 00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:06,298 - But when you ace a witness... - A working man. 216 00:16:06,382 --> 00:16:08,550 ...who ain't even in the game... 217 00:16:09,469 --> 00:16:11,219 You gonna act like this is news? 218 00:16:13,056 --> 00:16:16,808 I tell you this, I don't know shit about shit, but I do know this - 219 00:16:16,893 --> 00:16:20,812 anybody who spend time witnessing shit, you gonna get got. 220 00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:25,817 I know that sounds kinda harsh but that's the way things go around here... 221 00:16:25,902 --> 00:16:27,944 Officer. 222 00:16:29,572 --> 00:16:30,739 Let's roll. 223 00:16:42,627 --> 00:16:46,505 That how you see things, D'Angelo? Like your friend here? 224 00:16:52,095 --> 00:16:55,722 I'm here trying to outfit niggers with something to rile up some pussy. 225 00:16:55,807 --> 00:16:58,684 You don't want to know, Bubbles used to get that pussy. 226 00:16:59,769 --> 00:17:02,479 I reckon pussy ain't worth what it used to be 227 00:17:02,563 --> 00:17:05,273 if you can do it without a proper brim. 228 00:17:28,047 --> 00:17:30,382 - Something's up. - What? 229 00:17:31,092 --> 00:17:32,467 Don't know. 230 00:17:35,513 --> 00:17:37,556 Yo, Carv. Come here. 231 00:17:38,599 --> 00:17:42,477 You see Bubbs put a hat on anybody, you take some pictures. 232 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,563 - Yeah? - Especially the red one. 233 00:17:44,647 --> 00:17:47,733 If you see him put that red hat on anybody's head 234 00:17:47,817 --> 00:17:49,568 snap your fucking fingers off. 235 00:17:49,652 --> 00:17:51,653 Where you going? 236 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:55,365 Yo, Carv. Notice that most of the time 237 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:58,160 it's like Kima thinks she's above us or something? 238 00:17:58,244 --> 00:18:02,456 I don't see any stripes on her fucking sleeve. I don't see that. 239 00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:05,250 All I see is some stuck-up dyke bitch 240 00:18:05,334 --> 00:18:07,544 who ain't been in CID half the time you or me, 241 00:18:07,628 --> 00:18:10,046 and she's fucking telling us what to do. 242 00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:13,425 It ain't right. You think it's right? 243 00:18:13,509 --> 00:18:17,846 Shut up for just a minute. I'm trying to concentrate on this shit here. 244 00:18:23,436 --> 00:18:25,437 Nice truck. 245 00:18:26,856 --> 00:18:28,398 Uh-huh. 246 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,278 No? Makes your breath minty fresh. 247 00:18:33,362 --> 00:18:36,114 Is y'all gonna arrest me? Then arrest me. 248 00:18:36,199 --> 00:18:37,532 If not, shut the fuck up. 249 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,284 - You want to get arrested? - No. 250 00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:42,162 - Shut the fuck up your own self. - I'm outta here. 251 00:18:42,246 --> 00:18:45,874 Hey, hey! D'Angelo. You better bend the fuck over. 252 00:18:49,462 --> 00:18:53,131 - You ain't got nothing else to do today? - No, no, nothing. 253 00:18:53,758 --> 00:18:55,759 Y'all ain't got no charge. 254 00:18:59,347 --> 00:19:04,267 You getting awfully close, man. You new on the force or some shit? 255 00:19:14,695 --> 00:19:16,696 All right, D. 256 00:19:43,307 --> 00:19:44,641 Move it, move it. 257 00:19:54,527 --> 00:19:56,945 Hey, it's Greggs. Get me the lieutenant. 258 00:20:02,285 --> 00:20:04,494 Prez? He's no good to anyone, he's a goof. 259 00:20:04,579 --> 00:20:08,206 How is he my problem? How is he still carrying a gun and badge? 260 00:20:08,291 --> 00:20:10,250 You know Valchek in Southeast? 261 00:20:10,334 --> 00:20:12,627 - Yeah. - Son-in-law. 262 00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:16,172 I can't carry him on this. You know who Special sent me? 263 00:20:16,257 --> 00:20:18,633 - Who? - Polk and Mahone. 264 00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:21,219 With them, I don't have a designated driver. 265 00:20:21,304 --> 00:20:25,599 - I gave you someone from Pawnshop. - Lester Freamon? A cuddly housecat. 266 00:20:25,683 --> 00:20:27,809 I don't think he can even find his gun. 267 00:20:30,479 --> 00:20:31,938 Take Pryzbylewski back. 268 00:20:32,023 --> 00:20:35,483 You know I can't. I would, but I can't. I gave Valchek my word. 269 00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:38,320 I can't help it that Prez is fucking the guy's daughter. 270 00:20:38,404 --> 00:20:42,032 - If not for that, he's gone. - So, you got suction with Valchek? 271 00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:45,660 If I cross him, I'm fucked on the next round of promotions. 272 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:48,455 I'm with you on the short list for major. 273 00:20:48,539 --> 00:20:51,374 Valchek has suction with the Democratic Club, 274 00:20:51,459 --> 00:20:55,503 they got suction with the Mayor and I'm the runt without a tit here. 275 00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:57,589 I owe you, OK? 276 00:20:58,966 --> 00:21:00,926 - So, give me Sydnor. - No way. 277 00:21:01,010 --> 00:21:04,262 - Give me Sydnor and I'll keep Prez. - You can't take my best man. 278 00:21:04,347 --> 00:21:07,641 - I'm taking your worst, remember? - How about Steinman? 279 00:21:07,725 --> 00:21:09,893 I'm working drugs in West Baltimore. 280 00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:13,730 I need a black guy for surveillance. Sydnor. 281 00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:16,858 - Know what Prez did this morning? - Tell me. 282 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:20,946 He put a bullet through a wall, dry-firing in the detail office. 283 00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:24,991 No promises. You give me Sydnor, I'll carry Pryzbylewski as long as I can. 284 00:21:25,076 --> 00:21:28,286 Fine, Cedric, fuck, whatever. Jesus Christ. 285 00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:36,461 How did you handle the judge? 286 00:21:36,545 --> 00:21:39,506 I told him we were looking closely at the situation. 287 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:42,425 I asked him not to say anything publicly. 288 00:21:43,469 --> 00:21:46,304 So, then he's not gonna go public, right? 289 00:21:47,932 --> 00:21:49,557 Judge Phelan called, 290 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:52,644 crying about a witness in his murder trial who was killed. 291 00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:54,896 Did the judge say where he heard it? 292 00:21:55,106 --> 00:21:59,359 He heard it from our man, McNulty. That's his pipeline on this crap. 293 00:21:59,443 --> 00:22:04,322 Pardon my French, but I got no problem giving that asshole up at this point. 294 00:22:04,407 --> 00:22:07,325 - I don't need people I can't trust. - Yeah, who does? 295 00:22:07,410 --> 00:22:10,829 The newspapers get hold of this, it'll be a complete clusterfuck. 296 00:22:10,913 --> 00:22:14,082 So the thing to do is reassure the judge, 297 00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:16,668 keep him off his damn soapbox. 298 00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:18,878 An arrest or two would help. 299 00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:24,634 What if it's true? What if Barksdale ordered the murder of a state's witness? 300 00:22:24,719 --> 00:22:26,177 Are you serious? 301 00:22:26,262 --> 00:22:28,805 Why would anyone do that after they testify? 302 00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:32,267 - It has no effect on the case. - Payback, plain and simple. 303 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:34,352 Bullshit, plain and simple. 304 00:22:34,437 --> 00:22:38,732 I know there could be two dozen reasons for this man to be murdered but... 305 00:22:38,816 --> 00:22:43,194 No money for pretrial. No witness protection program. 306 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:46,740 Look, this is a poor fucking city, gentlemen. 307 00:22:46,824 --> 00:22:51,369 The last thing we ever need to do is to announce we lost a witness. 308 00:22:51,454 --> 00:22:55,540 It's hard enough pushing felony casework through that courthouse as it is. 309 00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:59,544 - You got to pull McNulty off this. - Who caught the murder case? 310 00:22:59,628 --> 00:23:02,964 - Bunk Moreland, McNulty's partner. - You'd have to pull him, too. 311 00:23:03,174 --> 00:23:07,677 No, we pull McNulty up, the judge will bring the press into this. 312 00:23:07,762 --> 00:23:10,180 I can see that a mile away. 313 00:23:10,264 --> 00:23:13,725 No, we're gonna sit tight, let McNulty take his best shot 314 00:23:13,809 --> 00:23:16,644 and hope like hell he comes up short. 315 00:23:18,647 --> 00:23:22,150 - How do you wanna handle this? - We got nothing on him. 316 00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:25,904 - We try to front, he'll see right through us. - He's scared though. Soft. 317 00:23:27,198 --> 00:23:29,199 Go with the deuce? 318 00:23:30,201 --> 00:23:32,202 Hold up, hold up. 319 00:23:37,958 --> 00:23:40,376 - He part of my case? - No, sir. 320 00:23:40,461 --> 00:23:43,296 He's a potential suspect in my murder. 321 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,883 Which might be part of my case. 322 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:52,931 I could use some coffee. You want some coffee? 323 00:23:57,937 --> 00:24:00,230 - I need a word with you. - We're about to... 324 00:24:00,314 --> 00:24:01,356 Now. 325 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,612 Remember all that bullshit I gave you about keeping me informed, 326 00:24:07,696 --> 00:24:09,614 about nothing happening that I don't know about? 327 00:24:09,698 --> 00:24:11,491 - Lieutenant. - Wasn't bullshit. 328 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:15,036 My partner caught a murder. It may have nothing to do with Barksdale. 329 00:24:15,246 --> 00:24:17,288 I just came from Deputy Ops' office 330 00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:19,958 where your own major's telling Burrell to do you. 331 00:24:20,042 --> 00:24:22,293 You hear me? Rawls is giving you up. 332 00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:25,713 - What the fuck did I do? - You can't shut your mouth. 333 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:29,467 You think that downtown judge is gonna bail your ass out? 334 00:24:29,552 --> 00:24:32,804 You really think that? You should have come to me. 335 00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:35,807 We bring this business to the deputy first, we got a shot. 336 00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:38,309 But you're out there all alone, jumping bad. 337 00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:40,645 - You got the deputy's ear? - On this case, I do. 338 00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:43,106 Then how come they sent every worthless hump? 339 00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:46,568 You ask for men, they send you drunks and fuck-ups. 340 00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:50,738 I want to do this case. 341 00:24:50,823 --> 00:24:52,282 So do I. 342 00:24:52,366 --> 00:24:54,868 Then you're gonna get all the way in, Lieutenant. 343 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:59,247 If I see you get all the way in, then I know who you are, what you're about. 344 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:03,001 - Who is he? - He's D'Angelo Barksdale. 345 00:25:03,085 --> 00:25:05,003 Nephew to the king. 346 00:25:05,087 --> 00:25:08,256 - The one that beat the murder. - Yeah, him. 347 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:10,216 Can you connect him to the dead witness? 348 00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:13,344 - Not a thing. - Why did you pick him up? 349 00:25:14,930 --> 00:25:18,600 Press him. See what kind of flex he shows. 350 00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:22,604 - She goes in with you. - We don't need her. 351 00:25:22,688 --> 00:25:24,647 Bunk and me, we got our own rhythm. 352 00:25:24,732 --> 00:25:28,568 You want me in, McNulty? I thought you said you wanted me in. 353 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:34,782 You're along for this interview, but it's Homicide's play, so let 'em lead. 354 00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:42,207 You might want to run tag and title on these trucks. 355 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:44,417 They scoped us when we jacked the kid. 356 00:25:44,501 --> 00:25:48,213 Been there. Info's already in the file. 357 00:25:48,797 --> 00:25:51,799 Y'all weren't the only lawmen down in the Canyon today. 358 00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:55,220 - Really, where were you? - Where was she? 359 00:26:01,852 --> 00:26:05,897 I mean, the thing is, I can't see a reason for that man to be dead. 360 00:26:05,981 --> 00:26:08,900 I can't. I mean, hell, you beat us in court. 361 00:26:08,984 --> 00:26:10,985 - We don't take it personal. - Fuck, no. 362 00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:14,948 We get paid either way. And it's not like you did anything real bad, 363 00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:17,408 throwing a couple of hot ones at Pooh Blanchard. 364 00:26:17,493 --> 00:26:19,452 No one's gonna miss that motherfucker. 365 00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:22,038 But you know the man who got killed this time? 366 00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:24,415 You know who that poor son of a bitch was? 367 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:25,625 A citizen. 368 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:28,878 Worked every goddamn day of his life. You know that? 369 00:26:28,963 --> 00:26:32,757 He would get up every day, go out and do maintenance work. 370 00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:35,593 On the weekends, he was driving a cab. 371 00:26:35,678 --> 00:26:39,639 Two jobs. He volunteers what little time he has left at his church. 372 00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:43,268 - Churchgoing man. - A Bethel man, a deacon. 373 00:26:43,352 --> 00:26:47,480 Two jobs and three kids. Did you know that? 374 00:26:47,564 --> 00:26:50,108 Three kids. Young, too. 375 00:26:50,192 --> 00:26:53,319 Five, eight, eleven. 376 00:26:54,029 --> 00:26:58,449 Crying their little orphaned asses to sleep 'cause they lost their mama... 377 00:26:58,534 --> 00:27:01,160 ...and now they out there on their own. 378 00:27:03,289 --> 00:27:05,748 He doesn't believe us. 379 00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:07,959 I know he don't believe it. 380 00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:11,212 We've been here two hours, telling you what's true 381 00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:12,922 and you sit like nothing happened. 382 00:27:13,007 --> 00:27:16,134 - Where my lawyer at? - When he gets here, we'll let you know. 383 00:27:16,218 --> 00:27:18,428 I got nothing to say. 384 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:20,930 I'm sorry for the man but I got nothing to say. 385 00:27:21,015 --> 00:27:24,684 You sorry? You sorry for him? You fucking killed the man. 386 00:27:24,768 --> 00:27:26,811 - No. - Yes, you did. 387 00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:29,397 We don't think that you shot him or anything 388 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:32,400 but if you weren't busy lighting folks up in a lobby, 389 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:34,444 he ain't coming out and seeing it. 390 00:27:34,528 --> 00:27:38,990 He don't see anything, he doesn't testify and those kids still got a daddy. 391 00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:41,326 - Why he testify? - How should we know? 392 00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:44,620 - He didn't have to testify. - No, he didn't, but he did. 393 00:27:44,705 --> 00:27:46,748 And you still beat the charge. 394 00:27:46,832 --> 00:27:49,250 But it's not enough to beat the murder. 395 00:27:49,335 --> 00:27:51,627 They gotta send a cold message to everyone in the Terrace. 396 00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:55,256 Fuck the working man. Fuck his kids, that shit don't count. 397 00:27:58,260 --> 00:28:00,803 That's what I don't get about the drug thing. 398 00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:04,223 Why can't you sell the shit and walk the fuck away? 399 00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:08,061 Know what I mean? Everything else in this country gets sold 400 00:28:08,145 --> 00:28:10,521 without people shooting each other. 401 00:28:10,606 --> 00:28:13,483 In the Terrace, it's one body after another. 402 00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:16,069 Remember that little boy, 403 00:28:16,153 --> 00:28:19,781 got shot in the barbershop on West Lombard last summer? 404 00:28:20,866 --> 00:28:24,160 One asshole chases another into a house, 405 00:28:24,244 --> 00:28:25,620 empties a 9. 406 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:28,373 Bullshit argument over 20 missing gel caps. 407 00:28:30,250 --> 00:28:34,379 That little kid, instead of getting his first haircut, gets one in the eye. 408 00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:36,714 Remember that? 409 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,634 - It's fucked up. - Yes, it is. 410 00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:44,097 They didn't have to do that. 411 00:28:44,181 --> 00:28:46,391 Shoot up a barbershop? 412 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:48,559 No, they did not have to do that. 413 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,481 That man was just... 414 00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:57,318 my thing. 415 00:28:59,238 --> 00:29:02,156 My thing, ain't had... 416 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:05,326 They ain't had to do that. 417 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:16,712 No mommy and no daddy. 418 00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:19,549 Lord Jesus! 419 00:29:24,221 --> 00:29:26,806 I'll tell you what I think you should do, D'Angelo, 420 00:29:28,058 --> 00:29:30,852 not because I think you wanted that man to get shot 421 00:29:30,936 --> 00:29:33,563 or had anything to do with shooting him. 422 00:29:33,647 --> 00:29:37,108 But I think you could just sit here 423 00:29:37,192 --> 00:29:41,320 for a moment or two, collect your thoughts, get your shit together. 424 00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:44,240 And then I think it might be a good thing 425 00:29:44,324 --> 00:29:47,827 for you to write a little letter to those children 426 00:29:47,911 --> 00:29:50,663 and you let 'em know you sorry... 427 00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:55,710 that they're not gonna have anyone left, you know? 428 00:29:56,795 --> 00:29:58,754 I mean, just say something. 429 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:01,924 Tell them how you personally think your uncle... 430 00:30:02,009 --> 00:30:03,551 maybe he got it wrong, 431 00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:08,848 because it's wrong that they lost their daddy behind what happened, you know? 432 00:30:11,393 --> 00:30:15,396 It might mean something to 'em to know that you feeling for 'em. 433 00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:24,238 Man, I ain't got nothing to say. 434 00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:27,742 Just say what's in your heart. 435 00:30:49,515 --> 00:30:51,724 Church deacon? That was thick. 436 00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:54,268 Got good to me, what can I say? 437 00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:58,064 It's sad enough with the kids being orphaned. 438 00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:00,816 Photo was from Bunk's desk. 439 00:31:02,778 --> 00:31:05,321 - They're yours? - Yeah, afraid so. 440 00:31:06,782 --> 00:31:09,534 - Good thing they look like their mama. - Huh! 441 00:31:09,618 --> 00:31:12,954 Maurice Levy just posted. He's by the elevators. 442 00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:23,714 - The defense never rests. - Shame on you. 443 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:26,676 Dragging me from the family preserve on a Friday night. 444 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,136 - My apologies. - Yvette made brisket. 445 00:31:29,221 --> 00:31:31,639 - Good? - When served hot. One or two? 446 00:31:32,558 --> 00:31:34,100 Your client. 447 00:31:34,309 --> 00:31:36,310 What the fuck? Stop writing! Now! 448 00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:38,312 - I'm just... - Shut up! 449 00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:42,149 He calls his lawyer, that's supposed to be the end of the interview. 450 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:44,569 Your client gave no statement. 451 00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:48,531 He just decided, voluntarily, to write a letter to the victim's family. 452 00:31:48,657 --> 00:31:50,866 - To say that... - Shut up! 453 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,496 - Any charge here? - No charge. 454 00:31:55,581 --> 00:31:59,125 Good. Get up. Go! Walk! 455 00:32:02,087 --> 00:32:03,963 Listen to me, you don't say anything, 456 00:32:04,047 --> 00:32:06,424 don't do anything, don't write anything. 457 00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:08,092 Do you hear me? Shut up! 458 00:32:09,344 --> 00:32:13,472 How many fucking times do I have to tell you people the same fucking thing? 459 00:32:28,030 --> 00:32:30,031 What the fuck is that? 460 00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:36,704 It's an armoire. Louis XIV. 461 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,041 I mean, what is it, a toy? 462 00:32:41,752 --> 00:32:44,879 Some of you I know. Some of you I will know. 463 00:32:45,422 --> 00:32:48,549 If you've worked with me before, you know I don't want cowboy shit 464 00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:50,801 or surprises. 465 00:32:50,886 --> 00:32:52,887 The task... 466 00:32:56,058 --> 00:33:00,144 is Avon Barksdale, and Avon Barksdale only. 467 00:33:00,228 --> 00:33:01,771 No side trips, no sprawl. 468 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,485 Primary investigators are Greggs from my unit and... 469 00:33:10,572 --> 00:33:14,116 Greggs from my unit and McNulty from Homicide. 470 00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:18,037 They keep the file. On the street, we work partners. 471 00:33:18,789 --> 00:33:21,707 Greggs and Sydnor. Herc and Carver. 472 00:33:21,792 --> 00:33:25,628 McNulty's with Santangelo, Mahone and Polk. 473 00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:27,296 Pryzbylewski and Freamon. 474 00:33:28,090 --> 00:33:29,715 To start with, we got nine... 475 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,718 How's that? Did that get it? 476 00:33:32,803 --> 00:33:36,138 - What? - Do you hear me? 477 00:33:36,598 --> 00:33:38,224 What? 478 00:33:39,851 --> 00:33:44,730 We have nine or ten open homicide files to work back through for leads. 479 00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:47,483 McNulty and Santangelo, they're on that. 480 00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:52,029 Herc, Carver, Sydnor, and me, we'll be targeting street dealers 481 00:33:52,114 --> 00:33:54,573 and rolling them back up at Barksdale's people. 482 00:33:54,658 --> 00:33:57,868 Polk and Mahone are available to run down specific leads. 483 00:33:58,078 --> 00:34:02,039 Freamon, Pryzbylewski, are gonna start in-office on clerical duty. 484 00:34:02,124 --> 00:34:05,626 - You need a prosecutor... - No, turn the shit off! 485 00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:08,504 What? 486 00:34:08,588 --> 00:34:10,381 You need a prosecutor. 487 00:34:10,465 --> 00:34:13,259 Rhonda Pearlman from Narcotics is assigned. 488 00:34:14,302 --> 00:34:17,471 We don't have enough desks yet, so we gotta share... 489 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:20,349 - Y'all from Purchasing? - No. 490 00:34:26,523 --> 00:34:30,818 We've been promised some computers and surveillance equipment. 491 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:33,070 - Questions? - Yeah. 492 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:35,281 Who signs the overtime slips? 493 00:34:35,365 --> 00:34:37,825 No OT, unless prior authorization. 494 00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:41,454 A case goes from red to black by way of green, Lieutenant. 495 00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:44,582 You people bring me something that needs OT, 496 00:34:44,666 --> 00:34:46,292 you'll get OT. 497 00:34:46,376 --> 00:34:49,837 Until then, live on your fucking salaries. 498 00:35:02,267 --> 00:35:06,520 "I'm very sorry for your father. If I could've stopped it, I would have." 499 00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:11,150 - What can you do with this? - Nothing legally. 500 00:35:11,234 --> 00:35:15,112 He doesn't put himself in, or anyone else for that matter. 501 00:35:15,197 --> 00:35:16,947 You can't read that letter 502 00:35:17,157 --> 00:35:20,451 and think that man was killed for any other reason than he was a witness. 503 00:35:20,535 --> 00:35:23,537 Why apologize at all if you got nothing to do with it? 504 00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:31,962 We lost a state's witness. 505 00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:35,466 Even in Baltimore, that's supposed to mean something, right? 506 00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:37,802 Just go to the deputy, show him what's what 507 00:35:37,886 --> 00:35:39,762 and put something real together. 508 00:35:39,846 --> 00:35:43,516 This case needs informants, it needs long-term surveillance 509 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,476 and eventually, a Title 3 wiretap. 510 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:50,314 Most of all, it needs police who know how to work those things. 511 00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:54,652 You think it's good to put it out on the street that witnesses get killed? 512 00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:57,446 You think it's not on the street already? 513 00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:01,826 No grandstanding. 514 00:36:01,910 --> 00:36:04,954 Like I said, we get in and out. 515 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:24,390 - Hey, Aunt June. - Hey, sweetie. 516 00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:28,894 Yeah, I hope you're hungry. 517 00:36:28,979 --> 00:36:30,771 Starving. 518 00:36:30,856 --> 00:36:32,356 Hey, D! 519 00:36:33,608 --> 00:36:34,900 What's up, baby? 520 00:36:34,985 --> 00:36:37,653 - That your uncle? - Yeah. 521 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:39,363 I thought he'd look different. 522 00:36:39,447 --> 00:36:42,408 My man, D. What's up, man? 523 00:36:42,492 --> 00:36:44,952 - This the little man? Whoo! - Yo. 524 00:36:45,662 --> 00:36:48,873 You see how shorty favor your nephew here? 525 00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:52,334 What's up, little man? You ain't gonna be able to deny that child. 526 00:36:52,419 --> 00:36:56,255 You wanna come to me? I know you tryin' to come to me. 527 00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:57,965 - Been napping. - Yeah? 528 00:36:58,049 --> 00:37:01,385 - Just woke up. - You got a grip? Let me see your grip. 529 00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:04,555 C'mon, give us a twirl, let's take a look. 530 00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:07,892 - La, la, la. - What you looking at? 531 00:37:07,976 --> 00:37:12,521 Go fix her a hot plate. Put everything on it. She's the skinniest thing in here. 532 00:37:12,606 --> 00:37:13,939 We gonna hook you up. 533 00:37:14,024 --> 00:37:16,317 Don't let that fool you, she can eat, man. 534 00:37:16,401 --> 00:37:20,321 - How y'all doing? You doing good? - Yeah, we all right. 535 00:37:20,405 --> 00:37:23,407 She want me to move in, I'm thinking about it. 536 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:25,910 Let's walk. 537 00:37:27,495 --> 00:37:29,830 Here you come. You gonna take my man from me? 538 00:37:29,915 --> 00:37:33,459 - Yeah. - Be careful with my little soldier. 539 00:37:34,419 --> 00:37:36,670 - Got a name for that one? - No. 540 00:37:37,756 --> 00:37:40,758 But he's one of the boys they use in the stairwell. 541 00:37:40,842 --> 00:37:43,928 - What about him? - That's Little Man. 542 00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:45,679 He's muscle. 543 00:37:45,764 --> 00:37:48,349 You know his real name? 544 00:37:50,352 --> 00:37:52,811 - CI? - Yeah. 545 00:37:52,896 --> 00:37:56,065 - You need some privacy? - No, it's all right. 546 00:37:57,025 --> 00:37:58,525 He's cool. 547 00:38:00,654 --> 00:38:02,780 What's with the hat? 548 00:38:02,864 --> 00:38:05,324 Go ahead, tell him, Bubbles. 549 00:38:05,992 --> 00:38:09,286 I go down the way with some hats that I'm selling. 550 00:38:09,371 --> 00:38:11,497 If someone is someone you need to know 551 00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:15,125 I put the red hat on them and Kima here take the pictures. 552 00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:18,379 If they in the mix, they get another color. If they ain't shit, they don't get shit. 553 00:38:18,463 --> 00:38:21,507 Everyone in the hat's part of Barksdale's crew? 554 00:38:21,591 --> 00:38:23,384 At the Terrace. 555 00:38:23,468 --> 00:38:25,678 We haven't hit the low-rises yet. 556 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:29,807 That's sharp. I like that. 557 00:38:29,891 --> 00:38:31,642 Bubbs does not forget a face. 558 00:38:31,726 --> 00:38:34,937 Ain't so good with names, but faces I keep in my head. 559 00:38:35,021 --> 00:38:38,816 I used to take him to Escape Unit, let him look through the warrant books. 560 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:43,404 He'd call me up that night, telling me to go to this corner, that corner. 561 00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:46,782 Yeah, paid $25 a pop. 562 00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:48,909 - That's good money. - Yeah. 563 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:51,578 How much does the hat routine pay? 564 00:38:52,122 --> 00:38:53,831 Nothing. 565 00:38:53,915 --> 00:38:56,041 We free on this. 566 00:38:57,711 --> 00:39:01,088 - Motherfuckers beat my boy down. - Who? 567 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:03,257 Little hoppers in the low-rises. 568 00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:06,510 - Who's your boy? - I got a friend. 569 00:39:07,887 --> 00:39:12,057 Younger white boy. Used to come down to the corners, real green. 570 00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:13,684 I was schooling him, you know? 571 00:39:13,768 --> 00:39:16,603 What happened? 572 00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:19,565 - They stomped him. - You see it? 573 00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:26,155 Fuck a man like that up for a couple of dollars, you know? 574 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,866 He still at University, tubes all up in his nose. 575 00:39:28,950 --> 00:39:31,285 Can't say but a fucking word or two. 576 00:39:33,455 --> 00:39:35,914 But you know, that's how it goes, right? 577 00:39:36,624 --> 00:39:38,709 How you feeling, Bubbs? 578 00:39:38,793 --> 00:39:41,545 Restless. 579 00:39:42,881 --> 00:39:44,840 Yeah, I could tell. 580 00:39:44,924 --> 00:39:48,635 What the fuck? Can you hook a nigger up with $10 then till tomorrow? 581 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,555 I mean, you know, just to carry me, Kima. 582 00:39:57,771 --> 00:39:59,646 Bubbs. 583 00:40:01,441 --> 00:40:03,275 Obliged. 584 00:40:04,486 --> 00:40:07,154 Stay out of the projects the next couple of days. 585 00:40:07,238 --> 00:40:10,407 - Just to be safe. - This girl's always fretting over me. 586 00:40:12,202 --> 00:40:14,161 - Change it up, Bubbs. - Yeah, yeah. 587 00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:15,829 Go eastside. 588 00:40:15,914 --> 00:40:18,332 Yeah, yeah. 589 00:40:19,626 --> 00:40:20,793 Twenty dollars? 590 00:40:20,877 --> 00:40:23,587 You gonna spoil him with that shit. 591 00:40:23,671 --> 00:40:25,964 I respect the work. 592 00:40:27,592 --> 00:40:30,344 They used your name, Stringer, 593 00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,179 Wee-Bey, 594 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:34,014 Savino, Peanut... 595 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,768 They knew a lot of names. They knew a lot. 596 00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:39,853 But you didn't say nothing? 597 00:40:41,231 --> 00:40:43,524 Shit, man, I don't know nothing. 598 00:40:43,608 --> 00:40:45,651 What was you writing then? 599 00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:50,572 They talked about the man who got killed, his kids - they asked me to write. 600 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:54,159 - What you got to do with them? - That's what I said. 601 00:40:54,244 --> 00:40:56,495 They cried about how the kids ain't doing good. 602 00:40:56,579 --> 00:41:00,290 It ain't gonna hurt for me to say I'm sorry the man got killed. 603 00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:02,751 Why the fuck you gotta say you sorry? 604 00:41:02,836 --> 00:41:05,420 Motherfuckers tried to put your ass in the stir. 605 00:41:05,505 --> 00:41:07,631 Yeah, but it didn't turn out that way. 606 00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:11,009 You know, that's what I'm saying, it's a shame that y'all... 607 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:17,808 I'm saying, it's a shame what happened to that man, all right? 608 00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:23,063 He didn't do nothing but come off the elevator when I was doing that thing. 609 00:41:24,107 --> 00:41:26,358 What you think, cuz? 610 00:41:27,610 --> 00:41:28,902 About what? 611 00:41:28,987 --> 00:41:31,321 What you think about what happened to the man? 612 00:41:31,406 --> 00:41:33,574 You think we killed the motherfucker? 613 00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:37,995 Speak your mind. 614 00:41:40,707 --> 00:41:43,500 - Man, I don't know. - Exactly. 615 00:41:43,585 --> 00:41:45,502 And you don't need to know. 616 00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:48,922 And if we did, we had a reason. And if we didn't, we had a reason. 617 00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:52,092 Either way, you ain't got shit to do with it. 618 00:41:52,260 --> 00:41:54,469 It ain't on you, cuz. 619 00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:56,597 You feel me? It ain't on you. 620 00:41:57,599 --> 00:41:59,808 Now, if you get jacked again, 621 00:41:59,893 --> 00:42:03,270 I don't want to hear shit about you writing nothing to no one. 622 00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:05,689 - Got it? - Yeah. 623 00:42:07,609 --> 00:42:09,401 Come on, let's have some good times 624 00:42:09,485 --> 00:42:12,738 and get some ribs before they ate all the ribs up. 625 00:42:14,866 --> 00:42:17,618 - This case isn't shit, Carv. - I know it. 626 00:42:17,702 --> 00:42:21,413 We're dancing around with this motherfucker, typing shit out, 627 00:42:21,497 --> 00:42:23,707 taking pictures of assholes in hats. 628 00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:26,084 - What the fuck is that? - It's bullshit. 629 00:42:26,169 --> 00:42:29,087 I say we go down there right now. Right fucking now. 630 00:42:29,172 --> 00:42:32,132 We go into those towers, and we let them know. 631 00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:34,593 I'm serious. 632 00:42:34,677 --> 00:42:37,846 You got to let these motherfuckers know who you are. 633 00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:41,141 You coming? 634 00:42:42,143 --> 00:42:45,312 - I'm with you. - Carv? 635 00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:49,233 What the hell? 636 00:42:49,317 --> 00:42:51,318 Let's do it. 637 00:42:55,949 --> 00:42:57,783 Come on. 638 00:43:10,255 --> 00:43:12,965 - Shut it down. - Five-O. 639 00:43:13,174 --> 00:43:16,635 Five-O, five-O, break up. 640 00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:37,489 Come here, man. Where you going? 641 00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:40,409 Don't act like you don't know me. Get your hands up. 642 00:43:40,493 --> 00:43:41,827 Put that down. 643 00:43:41,911 --> 00:43:45,706 - Drop it! Kiss the fucking ground! - Put your hands up. 644 00:43:46,666 --> 00:43:48,917 Don't look at me like I ain't talking English. 645 00:43:49,002 --> 00:43:52,671 You got a needle on you? Got anything in here that's gonna stick me? 646 00:43:52,922 --> 00:43:55,340 No? What's that? 647 00:43:56,217 --> 00:43:57,968 What you got in your pockets? 648 00:43:58,052 --> 00:44:00,095 You know what? Put your pants down, man. 649 00:44:00,179 --> 00:44:02,264 Pants down and get down on the ground. 650 00:44:02,348 --> 00:44:04,349 Down on the fucking ground! 651 00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:09,479 All right, spread your shit out. 652 00:44:09,564 --> 00:44:12,399 - Nice shoes. - Think a happy thought. 653 00:44:15,153 --> 00:44:18,238 Why don't you go somewhere else with that bullshit? 654 00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:24,453 - No-good motherfuckers. - Stay down, man, stay down. 655 00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:27,456 Y'all let Barksdale and them know who owns these towers. 656 00:44:27,540 --> 00:44:28,957 'Cause we coming back. 657 00:44:29,042 --> 00:44:31,168 - I'm sick of this shit. - Kiss my ass! 658 00:44:31,252 --> 00:44:34,338 We come back in an hour, catch everybody dirty. 659 00:44:35,298 --> 00:44:37,341 - That's bullshit, man. - Stay down, man. 660 00:44:37,425 --> 00:44:40,510 That's fucked up. Man ain't did nothing. 661 00:44:41,721 --> 00:44:44,306 Want something? 662 00:44:48,311 --> 00:44:51,104 - Move, shitbird. - I ain't doing nothing. 663 00:44:53,775 --> 00:44:56,360 Really? I got nothing for you. 664 00:44:58,654 --> 00:45:02,407 - My eye, my eye. - Who you gonna eyefuck now? 665 00:45:04,118 --> 00:45:06,370 - Aah! - Are you serious? 666 00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:08,705 You bleed on my car? Don't bleed on my car. 667 00:45:08,790 --> 00:45:11,333 Get your shit off my car. 668 00:45:17,298 --> 00:45:19,674 What the fuck's the matter with you? 669 00:45:40,071 --> 00:45:42,155 Got a visual? 670 00:45:42,824 --> 00:45:44,282 Fuck. 671 00:45:44,367 --> 00:45:46,368 Get the radio. 672 00:45:47,370 --> 00:45:50,497 1135, signal 13. 673 00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:53,333 771 Franklin, in the Court. 674 00:45:53,709 --> 00:45:55,168 Son of a bitch! 675 00:45:55,253 --> 00:45:58,088 Shots fired, officers need assistance. 676 00:45:59,549 --> 00:46:01,383 I'm hit! Signal 13. 677 00:46:01,467 --> 00:46:03,718 Officer down. Officer down! 678 00:46:11,227 --> 00:46:12,561 Shit! 679 00:46:32,874 --> 00:46:35,625 - Hello? - 'You seen the paper?' 680 00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:38,420 - What? - 'The newspaper, get it.' 681 00:46:56,355 --> 00:46:58,190 Hey, kids. 682 00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:21,588 Oh, no. 683 00:47:22,924 --> 00:47:24,841 'You happy now, bitch?' 684 00:47:27,178 --> 00:47:29,763 McNulty! 685 00:47:29,847 --> 00:47:32,265 - Where in fuck is he? - Uh... 686 00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:35,101 He's detailed, Major, to Narcotics... 687 00:47:35,186 --> 00:47:38,355 I fucking know where he's detailed. I already know that! 688 00:47:38,439 --> 00:47:39,564 Yes, sir. 689 00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:42,192 - Where is he right now? - I can page him, sir. 690 00:47:47,156 --> 00:47:49,115 Move that fucking desk out of my unit. 691 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,160 I do not want that fucking man's desk in my unit. 692 00:47:52,245 --> 00:47:54,287 That's Crutchfield's desk. 693 00:47:56,707 --> 00:47:58,250 Crutchfield's? 694 00:47:58,334 --> 00:48:00,627 McNulty sits here. 695 00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:10,762 - What was that about? - Did you see today's paper? 696 00:48:10,846 --> 00:48:13,974 - Just sports. - You gotta check out the front page. 697 00:48:17,979 --> 00:48:19,896 Whoa! 698 00:48:19,981 --> 00:48:23,358 - What'll they do to him? - Let me tell you something. 699 00:48:23,442 --> 00:48:26,903 If he gets caught with his dick up the ass of the deputy's wife 700 00:48:26,988 --> 00:48:32,325 he's still gonna have more of a career than if they find out he's behind that story. 701 00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:54,681 Lieutenant. 702 00:48:55,975 --> 00:49:00,520 I saw the story in the paper. I want you to know I had nothing to do... 703 00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:24,669 - They jumped us, Boss. - Who? 704 00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:26,296 Fucking project niggers. 705 00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:29,341 What are you doing here at two in the morning? 706 00:49:30,718 --> 00:49:32,844 Field interviews, police work. 707 00:49:32,928 --> 00:49:35,639 - Police work? - Yeah. 708 00:49:37,433 --> 00:49:41,645 I got a 14-year-old in critical but stable condition at University, 709 00:49:41,729 --> 00:49:43,647 and two witnesses who say one of you 710 00:49:43,731 --> 00:49:46,441 - cold-cocked him with a pistol. - No, sir. 711 00:49:46,525 --> 00:49:49,861 I got his mother over at IID filing a brutality charge, 712 00:49:50,071 --> 00:49:52,656 which for Herc will make four in the last two years. 713 00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,658 - None sustained. - But all true. 714 00:49:54,742 --> 00:49:55,742 We thought that... 715 00:49:55,826 --> 00:49:58,495 I got one less Crown Vic than I had last night, 716 00:49:58,579 --> 00:50:01,247 I'm out two Kevlar vests that burned in the car, 717 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:03,583 two hand-held radios, a shotgun, 718 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:07,337 and I'm about to lose this idiot here for a week or two of medical. 719 00:50:07,421 --> 00:50:09,673 - And for what? - Lieutenant... 720 00:50:09,757 --> 00:50:12,676 What did you learn when you went at two in the morning 721 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,719 to conduct field interviews? 722 00:50:14,804 --> 00:50:19,265 What valuable information did we acquire from this situation? 723 00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:25,188 IID is gonna be on all three of you by afternoon. 724 00:50:25,272 --> 00:50:27,732 If you don't get a story straight by then, 725 00:50:27,817 --> 00:50:32,278 you're gonna have a file thick enough to see the light of a trial board. 726 00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:37,117 Now tell me, who cold-cocked the kid? 727 00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:47,627 Me. 728 00:50:50,631 --> 00:50:52,632 Why? 729 00:50:53,634 --> 00:50:55,844 He pissed me off. 730 00:50:58,806 --> 00:51:02,392 No, Officer Pryzbylewski, he did not piss you off. 731 00:51:03,436 --> 00:51:07,564 He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers. 732 00:51:08,649 --> 00:51:10,650 I'm guessing now, but maybe... 733 00:51:10,735 --> 00:51:14,112 he was seen to pick up a bottle and menace officers Hauk and Carver 734 00:51:14,196 --> 00:51:17,407 who had already sustained injury from flying projectiles. 735 00:51:17,491 --> 00:51:20,285 Rather than use deadly force in such a situation, 736 00:51:20,369 --> 00:51:24,664 maybe you elected to approach the youth, ordering him to drop the bottle. 737 00:51:24,749 --> 00:51:27,500 Maybe when he raised the bottle, 738 00:51:27,585 --> 00:51:30,754 you used a Kel-Lite, not the handle of your service weapon, 739 00:51:30,838 --> 00:51:33,298 to incapacitate the suspect. 740 00:51:35,551 --> 00:51:36,885 Go practice. 741 00:51:37,845 --> 00:51:40,722 You fuck the bullshit up when you talk to Internal, 742 00:51:40,806 --> 00:51:43,308 I can't fix it, you're on your own. 743 00:51:51,817 --> 00:51:55,111 - Push the arraignments back to three. - And the Gillette case? 744 00:51:55,196 --> 00:51:57,864 The Gillette trial goes back on the move docket. 745 00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:00,784 Come on, walk with me. I'm running late. 746 00:52:03,370 --> 00:52:05,330 - It wasn't me. - The story quoted you. 747 00:52:05,414 --> 00:52:08,458 Reporter has the story when he calls me about the quote. 748 00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:13,630 Am I gonna say he wasn't a witness? He didn't testify in my court last week? 749 00:52:13,714 --> 00:52:15,131 What? 750 00:52:15,216 --> 00:52:17,383 You don't think it's around about the witness? 751 00:52:17,468 --> 00:52:20,470 Lawyers, clerks, jurors, everybody talks. 752 00:52:20,554 --> 00:52:24,224 - I'm in the shit here, Your Honor. - What can I tell you? 753 00:52:24,308 --> 00:52:27,435 I called the deputy, not the newspapers. I gotta run. 754 00:52:32,274 --> 00:52:36,152 - You should have hung them. - If I hang them, I hang myself. 755 00:52:36,237 --> 00:52:38,404 I'm the man in charge, remember? 756 00:52:38,489 --> 00:52:41,574 Besides, you don't give your people up to IID. 757 00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:43,326 You don't do that. 758 00:52:43,410 --> 00:52:46,412 Even if they put a 14-year-old into critical care? 759 00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:53,503 This case, it's just... 760 00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:56,172 Get out of it. 761 00:52:56,257 --> 00:52:58,550 - How do I do that? - I don't know. 762 00:52:58,634 --> 00:53:01,302 But you can't lose if you don't play. 763 00:53:02,388 --> 00:53:05,598 I always heard it that you can't win if you don't play. 764 00:53:06,267 --> 00:53:08,685 The department puts you on a case it doesn't want. 765 00:53:08,769 --> 00:53:11,688 You're given people that are useless or untrustworthy. 766 00:53:11,772 --> 00:53:13,606 Correct. 767 00:53:13,691 --> 00:53:18,236 If you push too hard and any shit hits the fan, you'll be blamed for it. 768 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:19,529 Correct. 769 00:53:19,613 --> 00:53:23,867 If you don't push hard enough and there's no arrest, you'll be blamed for that, too. 770 00:53:23,951 --> 00:53:25,368 Correct. 771 00:53:25,452 --> 00:53:27,745 The game is rigged. 772 00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:30,456 But you cannot lose if you do not play. 773 00:53:42,303 --> 00:53:44,846 - 'Sylvia!' - 'Yes, Mickey?' 774 00:53:44,930 --> 00:53:47,640 'How do you call your lover boy?' 775 00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:49,559 'Come here, lover boy!' 776 00:53:49,643 --> 00:53:53,229 - 'And if he doesn't answer?' - 'Oh, lover boy.' 777 00:53:53,314 --> 00:53:56,733 - 'And if he still doesn't answer?' - 'I simply say... 778 00:53:56,817 --> 00:53:58,526 ' Baby... ' 779 00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:16,544 In the hole, y'all. 780 00:55:07,888 --> 00:55:13,935 ' Baby, my sweet baby... ' 781 00:55:22,486 --> 00:55:24,696 Hey! 782 00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:26,781 Hey, you fuckheads! 783 00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:32,453 Police! 784 00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:03,276 - Hello. - 'Lieutenant Daniels?' 785 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:04,694 Yeah. 786 00:56:15,289 --> 00:56:16,706 Who was that? 787 00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:20,168 It was the duty officer down at University Hospital. 788 00:56:20,252 --> 00:56:22,170 What happened? 789 00:56:23,213 --> 00:56:25,715 - He's blind in one eye. - Who? 790 00:56:27,259 --> 00:56:30,303 The kid. The 14-year-old.