1 00:01:28,130 --> 00:01:30,840 Rise and shine! Come on, man, get up! 2 00:01:34,303 --> 00:01:37,263 Come on, get up! School day. Y'all gonna be late! 3 00:01:37,347 --> 00:01:39,265 Let's go. Get up for school. 4 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:41,768 Go! Get up. Come on, man. 5 00:01:41,852 --> 00:01:43,811 - Damn, Wallace. - Damn, nothing! 6 00:01:43,896 --> 00:01:46,481 Y'all know what happens if you don't go to school? 7 00:01:46,565 --> 00:01:50,109 They're gonna be callin' and all y'all gonna end up in foster care. 8 00:01:50,194 --> 00:01:53,237 If y'all want foster care, climb your asses back into bed. 9 00:01:53,363 --> 00:01:56,699 Get outta my way, man. Damn, it's too early for this shit. 10 00:02:26,897 --> 00:02:29,982 - Narcos? - No, rollers. 11 00:02:31,318 --> 00:02:33,110 Yo, where's breakfast at? 12 00:02:33,278 --> 00:02:35,321 Here, man. You get two. 13 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:39,158 - I want two bags. - You don't get two. 14 00:02:39,243 --> 00:02:41,536 Come on, getting greedy. Take the chips! 15 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:43,746 Come on. Take your juice. 16 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:48,292 Come on, man. 17 00:02:49,419 --> 00:02:50,753 Where mine? 18 00:02:52,506 --> 00:02:54,799 Go show your teacher. Come on, man. 19 00:03:08,272 --> 00:03:11,691 - Where's your book bag? - Teacher ain't give no homework. 20 00:03:28,292 --> 00:03:31,711 That's the worst case of suicide I've ever seen. 21 00:03:31,795 --> 00:03:33,629 That's him. 22 00:03:36,884 --> 00:03:38,384 You see? 23 00:03:39,678 --> 00:03:41,762 That's him, right there. 24 00:03:41,847 --> 00:03:43,723 That's Omar's boy. 25 00:04:05,662 --> 00:04:09,290 If you walk through the garden 26 00:04:09,458 --> 00:04:12,001 You better watch your back 27 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:16,339 Well I beg your pardon 28 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:19,508 Walk the straight and narrow track 29 00:04:21,345 --> 00:04:24,013 If you walk with Jesus 30 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:27,183 He'll save your soul 31 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:31,520 You gotta keep the devil 32 00:04:32,147 --> 00:04:34,231 Down in the hole 33 00:04:35,984 --> 00:04:38,402 All the angels sing 34 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:42,323 About Jesus' mighty sword 35 00:04:43,367 --> 00:04:46,243 And they shield you with their wings 36 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:50,623 Keep you close to the Lord 37 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,918 Don't pay heed to temptation 38 00:04:54,753 --> 00:04:58,130 For his hands are so cold 39 00:04:58,882 --> 00:05:02,009 You gotta keep the devil 40 00:05:02,135 --> 00:05:05,388 Way down in the hole 41 00:05:13,814 --> 00:05:16,482 Way down in the hole 42 00:05:17,567 --> 00:05:20,194 Way down in the hole 43 00:05:21,363 --> 00:05:24,699 Way down in the hole 44 00:05:24,908 --> 00:05:27,702 Way down in the hole 45 00:05:34,418 --> 00:05:39,338 - What the fuck can I tell him? - Whatever the man wants to hear, Jimmy. 46 00:05:42,426 --> 00:05:43,926 Prodigal son. 47 00:05:45,971 --> 00:05:49,432 Major, we got a good shot at clearing a couple of cases here. 48 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:53,102 We're not here to talk cases. I don't care about your cases. Sit. 49 00:05:55,605 --> 00:05:56,772 Relax. 50 00:05:58,233 --> 00:05:59,650 I'm a reasonable guy. 51 00:05:59,901 --> 00:06:02,194 In fact, everywhere I go, people say to me, 52 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,448 "Bill Rawls, you are a reasonable fucking guy." 53 00:06:05,574 --> 00:06:08,159 - Am I right, Jay? - You are reasonable, sir. 54 00:06:08,243 --> 00:06:10,661 Yes. Yes, I am. 55 00:06:10,871 --> 00:06:13,247 Because he knows me to be reasonable, 56 00:06:13,331 --> 00:06:15,875 he came in a few weeks ago and reasoned with me. Right, Jay? 57 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:18,002 We reasoned. We did. 58 00:06:18,628 --> 00:06:22,131 We reasoned that despite his negligible Irish ancestry, 59 00:06:22,883 --> 00:06:27,011 and a propensity to talk out of turn, Jimmy McNulty is a good worker. 60 00:06:28,263 --> 00:06:29,764 Probably worth saving. 61 00:06:29,848 --> 00:06:32,683 - Major, I'm not... - He's a good-looking kid. 62 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:38,731 Do you know what we do here, McNulty? 63 00:06:38,815 --> 00:06:41,400 What we do here? 64 00:06:41,485 --> 00:06:45,154 That was one of them... What is it? A question you don't have to... 65 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:49,950 A rhetorical question. You were being rhetorical. Rhetorical and reasonable, sir. 66 00:06:50,535 --> 00:06:55,581 We work murder cases here, as they come in, one at a fucking time. It's a rotation. 67 00:06:55,665 --> 00:06:58,918 You're up till you catch one, then you step down, work it, 68 00:06:59,002 --> 00:07:00,461 someone else steps up. 69 00:07:00,837 --> 00:07:07,551 It's a simple but effective way to do business in a town that has 250 to 300 cases a year. 70 00:07:07,636 --> 00:07:08,886 Yes, sir. 71 00:07:08,970 --> 00:07:12,098 But if someone gets it into his head to leave the rotation, 72 00:07:12,182 --> 00:07:15,935 it puts an unfair burden on the detectives who have to pick up their casework. 73 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:21,941 Overworked cops make mistakes. Mistakes lower the unit-wide clearance rate. 74 00:07:22,150 --> 00:07:26,529 And that can make someone who is otherwise as reasonable as me... 75 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:31,450 Unreasonable. 76 00:07:37,541 --> 00:07:40,960 Detective McNulty, I expect to see your ass back here next week 77 00:07:41,044 --> 00:07:43,629 when your shift rotates to night work. 78 00:07:57,477 --> 00:08:00,896 Night shows up and the beat goes on like one of those nights that goes on too long 79 00:08:00,981 --> 00:08:04,150 Maybe one of those songs that could have cut the fuck off a long time ago 80 00:08:04,317 --> 00:08:09,196 My friend says at his stop Should have just followed 81 00:08:09,322 --> 00:08:11,157 I read the laws, the hip-hop laws 82 00:08:11,366 --> 00:08:13,659 You know those laws There's laws to the hip-hop game 83 00:08:13,743 --> 00:08:15,953 Should have read that book that I recommended 84 00:08:16,037 --> 00:08:19,832 'Cause if you did, you would see... 85 00:08:19,916 --> 00:08:22,751 If you don't have a hip-hop license... 86 00:08:29,217 --> 00:08:33,053 - He's up early today. - A lot of pager activity last night, too. 87 00:08:36,766 --> 00:08:39,685 La la la la... 88 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:43,397 Respect Tell me one thing about respect 89 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:44,940 Can you mock respect? 90 00:08:45,025 --> 00:08:47,067 Bad man, I respecting 91 00:08:48,236 --> 00:08:51,155 La la la la... 92 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:54,450 Respect... 93 00:08:58,413 --> 00:09:00,080 No woman takes that long. 94 00:09:07,631 --> 00:09:10,299 Yeah. But I look good, right? 95 00:09:17,098 --> 00:09:19,308 Wow. You did all this? 96 00:09:20,477 --> 00:09:23,395 - Burned an egg or two. Ain't no thing. - Yeah? 97 00:09:24,105 --> 00:09:26,982 My mama always said, "Don't let them get to cooking. 98 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:30,653 "Once they're in the kitchen, you have to give 'em a key to your house." 99 00:09:30,737 --> 00:09:33,364 I don't want no key. I don't want no house. 100 00:09:33,448 --> 00:09:36,158 And your mama don't know shit about me. 101 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:38,535 Looks just like you. 102 00:09:39,371 --> 00:09:40,913 Yeah, he do. 103 00:09:42,374 --> 00:09:46,085 - Where's his mother? - Around the way. 104 00:09:47,045 --> 00:09:48,629 You friends? 105 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:52,424 You know, she want a key. 106 00:09:52,842 --> 00:09:56,595 She want a house, she want a car, she want some new clothes, a necklace, 107 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:01,267 some pocket change, a trip to the shore, she want a credit card with her name on it. 108 00:10:01,351 --> 00:10:03,477 Ain't no such thing as free, right? 109 00:10:03,561 --> 00:10:06,480 When it come to pussy, there ain't no free. 110 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:11,777 I gotta go. 111 00:10:21,621 --> 00:10:25,082 ...sometimes I wander under the sun I used to wonder 112 00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:27,710 Were you the... 113 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:33,799 Been working on this one. You'll get the lines on the other two pay phones tomorrow. 114 00:10:33,883 --> 00:10:36,760 - So we up? - On the low-rise pay phones. 115 00:10:36,845 --> 00:10:38,387 Let's hear it. 116 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:44,143 'What I'm talking about is he ain't paid no one, he just think it's right to do it. 117 00:10:44,227 --> 00:10:47,855 'See how it goes? So I ain't got shit. I ain't got it.' 118 00:10:48,064 --> 00:10:49,398 'Damn. For real?' 119 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:52,526 'Thinking he all that because he got his family back.' 120 00:10:55,363 --> 00:10:57,531 - It was getting good. - It's unmonitored. 121 00:10:57,615 --> 00:10:58,907 It's what? 122 00:10:58,992 --> 00:11:02,453 We can't listen to a conversation on an unmonitored pay phone. 123 00:11:02,829 --> 00:11:06,123 - What's that mean? - We got a tap on the courtyard pay phone. 124 00:11:06,291 --> 00:11:08,751 By tomorrow, we'll be on two near the high-rises. 125 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:12,963 We can't listen to anything unless we know one of our targets is using the phone. 126 00:11:13,048 --> 00:11:17,634 We gotta be on those rooftops for hours watching these assholes talk on the phone? 127 00:11:17,761 --> 00:11:19,261 Yep. 128 00:11:19,471 --> 00:11:21,013 It's more bullshit. 129 00:11:21,097 --> 00:11:22,723 Detective, 130 00:11:22,807 --> 00:11:26,268 this right here, this is the job. 131 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:30,564 Now, when you came downtown to CID, what other kind of work were you expecting? 132 00:11:32,901 --> 00:11:34,526 So what are you gonna do? 133 00:11:34,611 --> 00:11:37,905 I can't get back here in a week, this case is taking off. 134 00:11:38,740 --> 00:11:40,449 You tell Rawls that? 135 00:11:41,326 --> 00:11:43,577 - No. - McNulty, line three. 136 00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:48,290 Yeah. 137 00:11:50,126 --> 00:11:51,502 Where at? 138 00:11:52,587 --> 00:11:55,089 800 block, in the rear. I got it. 139 00:11:56,049 --> 00:11:58,258 Thanks. Yeah. 140 00:12:27,622 --> 00:12:30,833 - Come in 22. - '22.' 141 00:12:31,501 --> 00:12:34,253 We're still waiting on a lab unit. Do you have an ETA? 142 00:12:34,337 --> 00:12:36,338 'Negative. They're all out.' 143 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:41,051 - Damn dog got Norris, too. - You didn't think to warn me? 144 00:12:41,136 --> 00:12:43,137 Too much fun not to. 145 00:12:44,347 --> 00:12:47,975 - Damn. - Yeah. Is he one of yours? 146 00:12:48,435 --> 00:12:51,437 We found him with Kevlar, like the one Worden caught. 147 00:12:51,521 --> 00:12:53,939 - We thought it was a connection. - It connects. 148 00:12:54,023 --> 00:12:55,441 How so? 149 00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:58,902 Don't have a name, but he's part of a stick-up crew. 150 00:12:58,987 --> 00:13:02,698 Took off a stash house last month. My guy, Barksdale, is coming back on them. 151 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:06,827 - In a big way. - They must've killed him four or five times. 152 00:13:06,911 --> 00:13:10,873 Cut him in a dozen places, burned him with cigarettes. Torture is what it was. 153 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:15,794 - Doesn't look like your scene. - Fuck him up, dump him here for all to see. 154 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:18,213 - Anything we can use? - Not yet. 155 00:13:18,298 --> 00:13:21,717 We're up on some phones. If I hear anything, I'll let you know. 156 00:13:21,926 --> 00:13:24,595 Bring 22. 157 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,806 Anything yet? Or are we just gonna let this guy go ripe on us? 158 00:13:27,891 --> 00:13:30,851 - You been waiting for crime lab? - Over an hour. 159 00:13:30,935 --> 00:13:34,646 Two units on the street. Both are at the City Council President's house. 160 00:13:34,731 --> 00:13:37,900 - What happened there? - Someone stole his lawn furniture. 161 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:42,196 They're taking pictures of an empty patio, dusting the backyard gate for latents. 162 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,447 I kid you not. 163 00:13:44,407 --> 00:13:47,576 You show me the son of a bitch who can fix this police department, 164 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:50,162 I'd give back half my overtime. 165 00:13:51,748 --> 00:13:53,916 He was all cut up and shit. His insides was hanging out. 166 00:13:55,335 --> 00:13:57,794 Fucked up, yo. I mean, damn. 167 00:13:58,129 --> 00:14:00,881 Sometimes you gotta send a message. 168 00:14:01,758 --> 00:14:06,136 I mean, when you picked up that phone, what did you think they were gonna do? 169 00:14:06,221 --> 00:14:08,972 All that shit is in the game. You know that. 170 00:14:09,057 --> 00:14:11,517 Yeah. Like you and that girl? 171 00:14:13,061 --> 00:14:15,354 - What girl? - The one in the apartment. 172 00:14:15,605 --> 00:14:18,106 The one you told us about, remember? 173 00:14:18,566 --> 00:14:21,652 I mean, I like what you said about all that killing, you know? 174 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:25,197 Especially that part about how it ain't gotta be like that. 175 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:26,907 Just sell the shit and move on. 176 00:14:26,991 --> 00:14:29,743 Get me a ginger ale and get something for yourself. 177 00:14:30,954 --> 00:14:33,247 I remember that. But it ain't like that, is it? 178 00:14:33,331 --> 00:14:36,792 Yeah, I know it ain't. 179 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,378 Thing about it was his eye. His eye was blown out. 180 00:14:39,462 --> 00:14:43,632 And the other one was open. And yo, Dee, it fucks me up. 181 00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:47,636 It's like he's looking out, like he sees everything, you know? 182 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:50,138 Don't think about it. 183 00:14:50,557 --> 00:14:52,432 I c... 184 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:54,977 - Fuck! - Yo. 185 00:14:56,312 --> 00:14:57,980 Let that shit go. 186 00:14:58,314 --> 00:15:00,941 Just...let it go. 187 00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:27,926 Barksdale kid on the line. 188 00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:30,846 He's beeping someone. 189 00:15:47,530 --> 00:15:49,281 Go deep. 190 00:15:56,122 --> 00:15:58,248 - 'Yo.' - 'What up?' 191 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:00,876 'Hold on.' 192 00:16:01,377 --> 00:16:04,046 'Yo, Strings! This is Dee.' 193 00:16:05,381 --> 00:16:07,799 'Yeah. You hit me?' 194 00:16:07,884 --> 00:16:12,804 'I wanted to know if you know a young hopper, the one they got down there.' 195 00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:16,266 - 'Which one?' - 'The fool, drop in there with a punch.' 196 00:16:16,351 --> 00:16:19,728 - 'What about him?' - 'He got some problems, right?' 197 00:16:20,104 --> 00:16:23,607 - 'What you mean?' - 'Enough to bring home, right?' 198 00:16:23,941 --> 00:16:26,443 'You know, man, whatever. 199 00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:29,488 'All right.' 200 00:16:50,593 --> 00:16:52,594 They're bringing Bodie home. 201 00:16:57,517 --> 00:17:00,435 The young, light-skinned kid from the cemetery. 202 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,561 'Where?' 203 00:17:01,646 --> 00:17:04,648 In the alley behind Argyle, across from the low-rises. 204 00:17:04,816 --> 00:17:05,941 Shot? 205 00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:08,985 - Stabbed, beaten, burned. - 'Jesus.' 206 00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:11,321 - We gotta get with Omar. - 'Yeah.' 207 00:17:21,499 --> 00:17:23,125 Impressive. 208 00:17:24,127 --> 00:17:28,463 I don't often see a respondent come so prepared for a juvenile commitment meeting. 209 00:17:28,589 --> 00:17:31,550 In addition to the statements from Preston's sponsors 210 00:17:31,634 --> 00:17:33,510 at the Police Athletic League, 211 00:17:33,594 --> 00:17:36,930 I also have a Photostatted copy of a cashed check 212 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:39,599 which indicates he is enrolled in the GED program 213 00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:42,144 at the Baltimore City Community College. 214 00:17:44,647 --> 00:17:49,943 Can I ask how this young man is able to afford not one but two attorneys from your firm? 215 00:17:50,027 --> 00:17:51,987 This is pro bono, Your Honor. 216 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:55,407 My firm is making it a priority to identify a number of youths 217 00:17:55,491 --> 00:17:59,953 who are in crisis, and to undertake efforts to reorder their lives. 218 00:18:00,163 --> 00:18:04,249 I can't help but notice that your client is under a delinquent petition 219 00:18:04,333 --> 00:18:07,669 for the sale of narcotics and for assault on a police officer. 220 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,547 Beyond that, he walked away from a JSA facility. 221 00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:12,883 My client stands ready to acknowledge 222 00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:16,762 that he was involved for a time in the sale of a small amount of drugs, 223 00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:19,473 for which he received no remuneration, 224 00:18:19,724 --> 00:18:23,685 having been manipulated by older traffickers in his neighborhood. 225 00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:26,938 - That was a mistake, Your Honor. - So noted. 226 00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:31,359 We will contend that it was Preston who was the victim of a brutal police beating, 227 00:18:31,652 --> 00:18:34,237 indications of which are still evident on him. 228 00:18:34,405 --> 00:18:37,824 He struck back, wildly and in self-defense, Your Honor. 229 00:18:38,159 --> 00:18:39,326 And the walk-away? 230 00:18:39,410 --> 00:18:42,871 Preston was heavily medicated when he left the Cheltenham facility. 231 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:48,710 In that state, Your Honor, he was simply trying to get back to see his grandmother. 232 00:18:49,962 --> 00:18:54,424 Did you know what you were doing when you left the Boys' Village, son? 233 00:18:55,968 --> 00:19:00,096 - No, I was messed up. - Anything else you'd like to add? 234 00:19:00,556 --> 00:19:01,932 Erm... 235 00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:04,392 Just... 236 00:19:04,769 --> 00:19:06,353 I don't know... 237 00:19:06,437 --> 00:19:08,188 I'm ready to be good. 238 00:19:11,526 --> 00:19:14,820 Pending a hearing on these charges to be scheduled within six months, 239 00:19:14,904 --> 00:19:18,573 I'm putting the respondent on home monitoring with his grandmother. 240 00:19:18,908 --> 00:19:23,829 I'm afraid Mrs. Brodus doesn't have a telephone for any monitoring calls. 241 00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:25,330 She's on a fixed income, Your Honor. 242 00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:29,251 How about he calls his probation officer twice a week? 243 00:19:31,754 --> 00:19:33,547 Cool. Whatever. 244 00:19:34,257 --> 00:19:35,549 Your Honor. 245 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:06,788 - Yo, Bubbles, what's the game? - Hey, Johnny. 246 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:09,207 - Rubbing them down? - Yeah. 247 00:20:09,292 --> 00:20:11,251 Bubbs. 248 00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:14,379 - What is the scam out here? - Ain't no scam. 249 00:20:14,463 --> 00:20:16,339 Thank you, ma'am. 250 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:20,260 What you got here is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Right? 251 00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:22,387 Mr. Straight Time, Bubbles. 252 00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:25,140 Gotta give something back when they least expect it. 253 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:28,518 Me and Uck, we got something on, too. We got a plan. 254 00:20:28,853 --> 00:20:30,979 - No shit. - For real. 255 00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:40,155 We're gonna take off on the copper house. 256 00:20:40,239 --> 00:20:42,908 Your first two days out and you get dramatic on me. 257 00:20:42,992 --> 00:20:44,951 - Copper house. - Got to be got, homes. 258 00:20:45,036 --> 00:20:47,829 - What about the fence? - Fuck the fence. 259 00:20:48,956 --> 00:20:50,790 - What about the dog? - Fuck the dog. 260 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:54,836 All that time I was resting, it got me thinking. It got good to me, too. 261 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:58,381 Copper house. Gracious. 262 00:21:00,843 --> 00:21:03,178 I gotta go, can you cash me out? 263 00:21:03,304 --> 00:21:06,097 If you ain't got dreams, Bubbs, what the fuck you got? 264 00:21:06,182 --> 00:21:07,933 Thank you. Come on, dreamer. 265 00:21:33,876 --> 00:21:35,043 Yeah? 266 00:21:35,503 --> 00:21:37,879 - One of ours on the line. - 'Got him.' 267 00:21:39,507 --> 00:21:41,841 - Is Carv still there? - Hold a second. 268 00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:43,760 Carv, call for you! 269 00:21:43,844 --> 00:21:47,806 - 'Hello?' - You ain't gonna believe who I'm looking at. 270 00:21:48,557 --> 00:21:50,475 Again he walks off? 271 00:21:50,893 --> 00:21:53,311 Ding! Round three. 272 00:22:03,739 --> 00:22:05,407 - 'Yo.' - 'What up, man?' 273 00:22:05,491 --> 00:22:08,493 - 'Yo, Stink, what up?' - 'Where are your manners, fool?' 274 00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:11,997 - 'My bad.' - 'You need to keep your fucking head, boy.' 275 00:22:12,081 --> 00:22:14,666 'Forgot. Erm... 276 00:22:14,750 --> 00:22:19,087 - 'What's up? Where you at?' - 'Where you at?' 277 00:22:19,213 --> 00:22:22,132 'I'm down in the Pit. I just came home... 278 00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:25,593 'I don't see nobody around, I just wanted to know what was up.' 279 00:22:25,928 --> 00:22:27,929 'Ain't nothing going late, man. 280 00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,100 'Just catch us tomorrow, man.' 281 00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:34,602 'All right? 282 00:22:34,979 --> 00:22:36,479 'All right. Later.' 283 00:22:42,278 --> 00:22:43,945 "Non-pertinent"? 284 00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:46,281 How do you log that non-pertinent? 285 00:22:47,992 --> 00:22:49,617 No drug talk. 286 00:22:49,702 --> 00:22:52,579 They use codes that hide their pager and phone numbers. 287 00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:56,541 And when someone does use a phone, they don't use names. 288 00:22:56,751 --> 00:22:59,669 And if someone does use a name, he's reminded not to. 289 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,088 All of that is valuable evidence. 290 00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:05,800 - Of what? - Conspiracy. 291 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:09,054 Conspiracy? 292 00:23:09,805 --> 00:23:14,100 We're building something here, Detective. We're building it from scratch. 293 00:23:14,268 --> 00:23:17,395 All the pieces matter. 294 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,189 All right? 295 00:23:31,327 --> 00:23:33,161 Shit. 296 00:23:37,666 --> 00:23:40,835 - Are you fucking serious? - Fuck, man. 297 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,089 You keep walking away from JSA, we keep kicking your ass. 298 00:23:44,173 --> 00:23:47,759 - I'm all right with that if you are. - I ain't walking away from nowhere. 299 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:49,677 Check my back pocket. 300 00:23:58,312 --> 00:24:01,147 - "Home monitoring"? - Yeah, man. 301 00:24:01,398 --> 00:24:05,443 If you ask questions before you start wildin' on niggers, you might save trouble. 302 00:24:05,528 --> 00:24:09,030 - How the fuck are you home? - You ain't bright, man. 303 00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:10,949 Juvenile judge, man. 304 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:13,868 He saw my potential. He expects big things from me. 305 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:15,411 Like what? 306 00:24:15,538 --> 00:24:19,290 I don't know, college, law school, medical school, all that good shit. 307 00:24:19,375 --> 00:24:23,294 - Seriously, how are you out? - Look, I'm gonna tell you something. 308 00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:27,715 This is just my opinion, but the juvenile system in this city is fucked up. 309 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,385 It's a big-ass fucking joke. No offence. 310 00:24:32,012 --> 00:24:33,972 Fucking fuck! 311 00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:39,853 Hey, you could give me a ride down to my grandma's, we'll call it even. 312 00:24:42,606 --> 00:24:44,399 In back, fucknuts. 313 00:25:16,432 --> 00:25:17,432 Jay. 314 00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:31,279 Get outta the street! 315 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:32,572 Bitch! 316 00:25:36,118 --> 00:25:38,119 - Hey. - Hey. 317 00:25:39,914 --> 00:25:41,706 What's up? What you need? 318 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:50,006 - Little late in the month for this shit, isn't it? - What you mean? 319 00:25:56,180 --> 00:26:00,016 - For my aunt, she hit the Match Four. - You stealing from me, Cass? 320 00:26:13,739 --> 00:26:14,989 What? 321 00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:20,078 You look fresh today. 322 00:26:20,162 --> 00:26:24,499 - Got laid last night, that's why. - Your asshole still hurting? 323 00:26:25,668 --> 00:26:28,336 - Call Jimmy. - What's up, boss? 324 00:26:28,712 --> 00:26:33,466 Rawls finally got around to reading the office reports that McNulty tried to give him. 325 00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:36,135 He wants arrest warrants for Diedre Kresson 326 00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:39,222 and the two project murders that match up to that gun. 327 00:26:40,975 --> 00:26:42,558 I know. 328 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:47,730 - Come on, Jay. Be right on this. - I can't. It's Rawls, he wants warrants today. 329 00:26:48,232 --> 00:26:50,858 All right. Who the fuck are we supposed to charge? 330 00:26:51,277 --> 00:26:56,656 A witness that puts D'Angelo Barksdale at the scene of the murder, the night of the murder. 331 00:26:57,241 --> 00:26:59,450 You got a ballistics match between the Kresson girl 332 00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:03,705 and the two dead mopes in the project where Barksdale hangs. Run with it. 333 00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:07,166 This weak-ass shit is not gonna get past a Grand Jury. 334 00:27:07,251 --> 00:27:10,420 Charge the mope, and work it more afterward. 335 00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:14,590 Call Jimmy, let him know. 336 00:27:17,469 --> 00:27:18,803 Yo. 337 00:27:23,183 --> 00:27:25,351 All right, listen up. New deal. 338 00:27:25,602 --> 00:27:28,813 Wallace, you're gonna be on the stash now with Latroy and Peaches. 339 00:27:28,981 --> 00:27:30,273 What about Sterling? 340 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:33,901 He's gonna be down on Crescent, looking out for a while. 341 00:27:33,986 --> 00:27:35,862 - What happened? - Nothing. 342 00:27:36,030 --> 00:27:40,033 - Then why you wanna change everything? - Nigger, I gotta explain shit to you now? 343 00:27:46,248 --> 00:27:47,999 Stringer Bell's pager number? 344 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:52,045 - Stinkum's too, I'm pretty sure. - Very sweet. 345 00:27:52,588 --> 00:27:55,131 If they moved around, we would have problems. 346 00:27:55,215 --> 00:27:56,924 They're a little lazy, you know. 347 00:27:57,718 --> 00:28:01,596 Tend to go to that one pay phone in the courtyard a little too much. 348 00:28:03,182 --> 00:28:04,349 Jesus. 349 00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:08,853 He's lit at 9:00 in the morning? 350 00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:11,314 Or from the night before. 351 00:28:18,614 --> 00:28:19,947 Detective. 352 00:28:22,242 --> 00:28:24,202 Detective Polk. 353 00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:36,297 It's McNulty. Bunk paged me. 354 00:28:38,092 --> 00:28:39,467 All right. 355 00:28:48,852 --> 00:28:50,895 Why did you even come in today? 356 00:28:51,855 --> 00:28:54,732 - I had some... - To pretend that you were here? 357 00:28:55,317 --> 00:28:56,651 To fill out a run sheet? 358 00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:00,571 I know I missed a couple of days last week, but... 359 00:29:00,656 --> 00:29:03,408 I got a run sheet from you every day for the last two weeks. 360 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:07,620 Twice in Carv's handwriting, twice it was Prez, once it was McNulty. 361 00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:10,540 They covered for you. 362 00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:12,625 But I won't. 363 00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:15,420 Well, Lieutenant, I... 364 00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:22,677 I don't know. I'm not really up for this drug thing, you know? 365 00:29:22,845 --> 00:29:28,307 Maybe if Mahone was here, I could get into it more, learn some new tricks. 366 00:29:32,688 --> 00:29:35,940 Why don't you send me back to Property and keep everyone happy? 367 00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:38,860 Send you back so you can binge for two more weeks? 368 00:29:39,528 --> 00:29:40,903 I'm not doing that. 369 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:44,407 - Lieutenant, please... - You were dumped on me, Augie. 370 00:29:44,867 --> 00:29:47,034 But it ends there. I don't dump people. 371 00:29:48,579 --> 00:29:52,415 You either go out on those rooftops today to watch pay phones with the others 372 00:29:52,875 --> 00:29:55,835 or you go over to the medical office and check yourself in. 373 00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:59,881 - Medical? - For alcohol abuse. 374 00:30:00,382 --> 00:30:03,843 Either dry yourself out or go up on those rooftops wet. 375 00:30:11,977 --> 00:30:14,395 Take a few minutes and think about it. 376 00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:26,407 - Where'd they go? - Who? 377 00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:35,458 Lieutenant, we need a file cabinet or two. The paperwork from this, I mean... 378 00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:37,877 There's a lot of it. 379 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:39,420 Lieutenant? 380 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:42,590 Sir. 381 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,468 I'm going to... 382 00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:50,932 Good luck with the case. 383 00:30:59,358 --> 00:31:01,859 Fucking Rawls, he's fucking up the case to get to me. 384 00:31:01,944 --> 00:31:06,405 He's fucking it up for three paper clearances on prior cases. It ain't personal. 385 00:31:06,657 --> 00:31:09,116 All he's got is D'Angelo at the scene 386 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:12,954 and a ballistics match to unrelated drug murders. How can he charge that? 387 00:31:13,038 --> 00:31:15,498 He can charge anything he wants to get credit. 388 00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:18,417 Grand jury doesn't indict, he drops the case. 389 00:31:18,669 --> 00:31:21,337 - I'll go tell him what he can do. - You don't. 390 00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:25,091 I'm trying to build something. Rawls sticks a finger in my eye. 391 00:31:25,175 --> 00:31:27,635 - You talk to Landsman? - Jay can't fix this. 392 00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:30,513 Rawls told him to have the warrants by morning. 393 00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:34,225 He's gonna charge murders he can't prove just to get the stats? 394 00:31:34,309 --> 00:31:35,851 And fuck up our case. 395 00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:39,730 We give up the motive for the Kresson killing in the documents, 396 00:31:39,815 --> 00:31:41,816 and Avon Barksdale is gonna change up. 397 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:45,152 What he don't change he'll clean up. Somebody should tell Rawls. 398 00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:48,447 Rawls couldn't care less. He wants the stats, that's all. 399 00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:50,491 Then we take it to Daniels. 400 00:31:50,576 --> 00:31:52,910 - He'll fight for it. - He won't do shit. 401 00:31:53,245 --> 00:31:55,538 He plays stiff now and then, but he's a good man. 402 00:31:55,622 --> 00:31:59,584 Are you kidding me? He's been trying to put the brakes on this for weeks now. 403 00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:01,919 This'll be his new excuse to close shop. 404 00:32:02,004 --> 00:32:05,339 You guys gotta make your move soon, I'm sorry to say. 405 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,551 - Freamon. - All right, Bunk, take care. 406 00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:14,265 - We tell Daniels. - Fuck Daniels and his ass-kissing ambition. 407 00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:16,350 What other choice you got? 408 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,728 We go to Daniels. If he fights, he fights. 409 00:32:18,895 --> 00:32:22,940 If he gives it up to Rawls, then fuck it, we were never gonna do the case anyway. 410 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:27,445 All right, come on. 411 00:33:02,773 --> 00:33:04,523 Fucking idiot! 412 00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:10,321 - Come on, get up, stupid. - I'm hurt, man. 413 00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:12,990 What are you doing? Leave me alone! 414 00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:15,034 - What are you on, dope? - Mostly. 415 00:33:15,118 --> 00:33:16,577 Come on, get up. 416 00:33:17,746 --> 00:33:20,206 You trying to rip out my guts? 417 00:33:20,624 --> 00:33:23,000 What, are you trying to kill me, man? 418 00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:26,212 - Wait! Where are you going? - Listen, I gotta get help. 419 00:33:26,296 --> 00:33:28,506 You can't leave me here. Stay with me. 420 00:33:28,590 --> 00:33:30,424 Let's go over to the curb. 421 00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:33,594 Just go get help, man! What are you doing? 422 00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:35,388 Stay there! 423 00:33:37,432 --> 00:33:41,185 - Damn, boy! What the hell come out of you? - Onion soup. Campbell's. 424 00:33:41,269 --> 00:33:43,729 - My plan! - Run, Forrest, run! 425 00:33:46,525 --> 00:33:49,402 You could go to Forester, or the Deputy Ops. 426 00:33:50,696 --> 00:33:54,281 Why come crying to me? Why not go to your friend, the judge? 427 00:33:54,491 --> 00:33:59,078 I don't see a judge being able to argue the city homicide commander out of three murders, 428 00:33:59,996 --> 00:34:03,958 even if the cases are all weak sisters. It's put-up or shut-up time, Lieutenant. 429 00:34:04,251 --> 00:34:07,420 - Either you step up or you send us all home. - So this is on me? 430 00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:10,631 I don't see anyone else in charge of this detail. 431 00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:14,593 - Rawls is a major. - Rawls is an asshole. 432 00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:18,389 My point is, he ranks me on this. 433 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,685 Chain of command might mean nothing to you, McNulty. 434 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:30,484 What'd I tell you? 435 00:35:35,509 --> 00:35:38,219 - Yo, how we doing? - We doing good. 436 00:35:38,303 --> 00:35:39,970 We doing good. 437 00:35:40,055 --> 00:35:42,556 You know, if you say we doing good... 438 00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:45,768 So what's up? 439 00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:48,562 So the word is out about these stick-up boys, right? 440 00:35:48,647 --> 00:35:51,982 - Yeah, yeah. Y'all being heard. - All right. 441 00:35:52,567 --> 00:35:54,693 There goes shorty, right there. 442 00:35:58,740 --> 00:36:00,658 What's up, man? You know... 443 00:36:00,742 --> 00:36:04,328 I'm a man of my word. I said it would be $4,000 on Omar, 444 00:36:04,412 --> 00:36:08,165 $2,000 on each of the young ones, this being a team effort. 445 00:36:08,250 --> 00:36:11,168 $500 in the boy hand who doing the scope, 446 00:36:11,253 --> 00:36:13,921 $500 in your hand for doing the relay, 447 00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:18,092 $500 in Wee-Bey hand, Bird hand for doing the muscling up. 448 00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:22,471 - All right. - How you doing with that other thing? 449 00:36:22,556 --> 00:36:24,515 What? 450 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:26,809 Everybody a little depressed, right? 451 00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:29,895 You know, ain't no surprises yet. 452 00:36:30,272 --> 00:36:35,401 Cut everybody loose on Friday and they all just a bunch of begging-ass bitches. 453 00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:37,486 Ain't nobody showed no money since. 454 00:36:37,571 --> 00:36:40,281 - You gonna keep it humming? - You know. 455 00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:43,284 You got your hands up. 456 00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:47,454 Keep on doing like how you're doing we'll talk about points on the package. 457 00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:49,748 All right? 458 00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:52,668 - Keep it humming. - Most def. 459 00:36:56,131 --> 00:36:58,757 - All right, then. - Take it light, but take it. 460 00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:08,642 Hotter than the Wu-Tang, killer bees, killer bees. 461 00:37:33,209 --> 00:37:35,711 - 40 cents. - Not 40 cents a foot, no sir. 462 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:37,880 Look, respectfully, I gotta tell you, 463 00:37:37,964 --> 00:37:41,592 for 40 cents a foot, you might as well go to Home Depot, pay them. 464 00:37:41,676 --> 00:37:44,845 They're gonna charge you 45 or 50 cents a foot. 465 00:37:45,013 --> 00:37:46,889 For copper that isn't stolen. 466 00:37:48,308 --> 00:37:50,851 Look. All right. 35 cents a foot. 467 00:37:50,936 --> 00:37:54,104 And that's in respect I have for what you're doing in our community 468 00:37:54,189 --> 00:37:56,690 with these quality domiciles here. 469 00:37:58,026 --> 00:38:00,319 30 cents a foot, take it or leave it. 470 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,702 I understand the interest in clearing these cases, I do. 471 00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:14,166 But charging those murders now and putting information we have into the documents... 472 00:38:14,918 --> 00:38:17,044 I just call them like I see them, Lieutenant. 473 00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:21,590 Three murders, same gun, we got this Barksdale kid right at the scene on the one. 474 00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:25,344 We're up on the wire. We're starting to pull good information. 475 00:38:25,804 --> 00:38:28,973 You charge these prematurely and Barksdale will change up on us. 476 00:38:29,057 --> 00:38:31,225 - The work we've done... - Look. 477 00:38:31,476 --> 00:38:34,853 I can't tell you how to run your case, I can only run my own. 478 00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:36,105 Major... 479 00:38:39,192 --> 00:38:41,151 I'm asking as a favor. 480 00:38:42,445 --> 00:38:45,489 - As a favor. - Yes, sir. A favor. 481 00:38:45,740 --> 00:38:47,741 In that case... 482 00:38:48,785 --> 00:38:51,578 No. Sorry. 483 00:38:56,835 --> 00:39:00,671 - You got home from work early today. - Yep. Work sucks. 484 00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:04,717 - Are we eating dinner with you? - Why not? 485 00:39:06,344 --> 00:39:10,014 - You promised we'd eat lasagna. - So we'll go to Little Italy. 486 00:39:10,098 --> 00:39:12,057 Get some lasagna at Sab's. 487 00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:14,977 - You never cook. - Cooking sucks, too. 488 00:39:33,121 --> 00:39:35,748 - Who's this? - 'Yo, I wanna see him.' 489 00:39:36,583 --> 00:39:39,209 - Who? - 'Brandon, my boy.' 490 00:39:55,310 --> 00:39:57,811 - Copper house, yo. - Was the shit. 491 00:39:59,606 --> 00:40:01,482 My plan, Bubbs. 492 00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:04,068 Johnny had a plan. 493 00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:07,529 Get out the way, motherfuckers. 494 00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:10,157 This here is White Boy Day. 495 00:40:12,577 --> 00:40:14,495 - I got a plan, too. - What? 496 00:40:14,579 --> 00:40:19,458 We're gonna wait for that cheap-ass, speculating motherfucker 497 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:24,213 to put that good copper line back into them row houses he fixing up. 498 00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:28,092 Then, before the drywall get up... 499 00:40:29,511 --> 00:40:33,180 we creep back in there and steal that shit right back. 500 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:36,683 30 cents a foot. 501 00:40:36,768 --> 00:40:40,145 Gotta come back at a motherfucker for that, you know? 502 00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:42,940 Yeah. 503 00:40:46,236 --> 00:40:47,486 You good? 504 00:40:49,114 --> 00:40:50,864 I could top off with one more. 505 00:40:51,032 --> 00:40:52,699 Just one more. 506 00:40:59,874 --> 00:41:01,375 Johnny got it. 507 00:41:02,836 --> 00:41:04,336 I'll be back. 508 00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:31,488 It's my night with the kids. 509 00:41:46,754 --> 00:41:49,840 You ain't gonna find nothing because I didn't do nothing! 510 00:41:49,924 --> 00:41:52,259 Why don't you just leave me alone, man? 511 00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:56,013 A white man can't walk down the street? What's that about? Come on! 512 00:41:57,515 --> 00:41:59,474 It's messed up, all right? 513 00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:04,855 Profiling! What? It's 'cause I'm white, right? Why don't you let me.... 514 00:42:05,773 --> 00:42:08,483 Man, what the fuck's that? What's that? 515 00:42:11,905 --> 00:42:13,989 That boy ain't got no luck. 516 00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:29,046 All right. Hold up! 517 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,641 - Hey. - Hey. 518 00:42:42,977 --> 00:42:46,313 So, what are you going to do with your money? 519 00:42:47,857 --> 00:42:51,818 You know what you should do? Take the roll and do something nice for your girl. 520 00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:54,029 You do have a girl, right? 521 00:42:55,698 --> 00:42:59,534 Anyway, you've got enough money to go get yourself one now. 522 00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:05,123 Why'd you punk Sterling like you did? 523 00:43:05,375 --> 00:43:07,709 I mean, he did get shot behind this shit. 524 00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:11,505 - I didn't punk him. - So why are you dropping the lookout? 525 00:43:11,714 --> 00:43:13,382 Cass, too. 526 00:43:13,466 --> 00:43:16,969 'Cause they was thieving. Both of them. 527 00:43:17,553 --> 00:43:19,304 They got pissed 'cause I wasn't paying them. 528 00:43:19,389 --> 00:43:22,891 So Sterling started shaking up the vials, handing off to Cass. 529 00:43:23,059 --> 00:43:25,018 She was selling on the side. 530 00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:30,691 You didn't tell anybody? Stinkum, Bodie? They don't know? 531 00:43:30,984 --> 00:43:33,360 What you think they gonna do? 532 00:43:33,861 --> 00:43:37,572 They gonna take a baseball bat to Sterling, probably Cassandra, too. 533 00:43:38,074 --> 00:43:42,536 It's too much drama, right? So, I just took them both off the stash. 534 00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:45,205 So why didn't you pay us? 535 00:43:46,541 --> 00:43:48,250 That wasn't right. 536 00:43:49,877 --> 00:43:51,920 Listen, man. 537 00:43:52,005 --> 00:43:54,381 Stringer thought we had a snitch down here. 538 00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:58,635 You know, with the jump-out, Omar, all that shit. 539 00:43:58,886 --> 00:44:02,014 So he told me to punk you all, 540 00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:04,391 see who was holding money at the end of the week. 541 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:06,435 Was they snitching? 542 00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:08,020 Sterling and Cass? 543 00:44:08,938 --> 00:44:10,939 No, man, just thieving. 544 00:44:19,782 --> 00:44:21,658 All right, I'm with Homicide. 545 00:44:21,743 --> 00:44:25,579 OK, you two, you sit right here, OK? Don't wander off. 546 00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:29,583 - Erm...Dad? - What? 547 00:44:29,709 --> 00:44:32,336 It's a school night. Mom said we had to... 548 00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:35,297 I know, I know. We will. Just stay there. 549 00:45:36,025 --> 00:45:39,152 '64-Charlie to Central K.' 550 00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:44,574 You up to this? 551 00:45:46,536 --> 00:45:49,371 Pay it back, Omar. Pay it back. 552 00:46:19,068 --> 00:46:21,611 Why ain't we in a real police office? 553 00:46:21,821 --> 00:46:26,366 We're a little like you. Out here on our own, playing the game for ourselves. 554 00:46:32,081 --> 00:46:34,040 Hard way to go sometimes. 555 00:46:38,087 --> 00:46:40,255 Sorry about your friend. 556 00:46:41,507 --> 00:46:43,717 Avon is one sick bastard. 557 00:46:44,927 --> 00:46:46,636 Of course, he had his reasons. 558 00:46:46,721 --> 00:46:51,558 - For one thing, you did take his stash. - For another, he's looking for you, Omar. 559 00:46:52,226 --> 00:46:54,227 That's what all the burns were about. 560 00:46:54,395 --> 00:46:57,063 Broken fingers, cracked forearms. 561 00:46:58,816 --> 00:47:00,692 He wanted your boy to give you up. 562 00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:02,652 An address, a street. 563 00:47:03,738 --> 00:47:05,447 Kid had heart. 564 00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:07,574 Yeah. 565 00:47:09,702 --> 00:47:12,162 I know you want to go to wherever it is you lay your head 566 00:47:12,246 --> 00:47:15,665 and pick up that sawed-off you like so much and go on the hunt. 567 00:47:16,501 --> 00:47:18,627 That's how a man like you wants to carry it. 568 00:47:18,878 --> 00:47:21,338 - You wouldn't be wrong. - No, you wouldn't. 569 00:47:21,464 --> 00:47:24,174 But one man with two barrels ain't enough, Omar. 570 00:47:24,592 --> 00:47:27,010 You're gonna do what you're gonna do. 571 00:47:27,428 --> 00:47:30,847 But whatever else you can give us on Barksdale and his people, 572 00:47:31,557 --> 00:47:33,558 that can go to hurting him, too. 573 00:47:34,101 --> 00:47:36,269 Just throw us what you can. 574 00:47:37,313 --> 00:47:39,523 Let me tell you all something, all right? 575 00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:44,110 What I do, I do, straight like that. 576 00:47:44,278 --> 00:47:49,616 Ain't no sense in you all troubling yourselves 'cause the way I feel right now, today... 577 00:47:57,750 --> 00:47:59,626 What do you all need from me? 578 00:48:01,754 --> 00:48:04,047 When did you last see Brandon? 579 00:48:05,049 --> 00:48:08,009 Tuesday around 7:00. Maybe later. 580 00:48:09,428 --> 00:48:13,014 He was on his way down to Mindamin and the Greek's after that. 581 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:15,559 He got snatched up from there. 582 00:48:15,643 --> 00:48:17,310 On Baltimore Street? 583 00:48:17,853 --> 00:48:20,438 He liked to play them pinball games to death. 584 00:48:20,982 --> 00:48:22,566 He go alone? 585 00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:25,318 And I didn't like it none, neither. 586 00:48:26,654 --> 00:48:30,907 But you can only treat a young man like a boy for so long before they buck. 587 00:48:31,117 --> 00:48:34,911 When Bailey got killed, you must have figured Barksdale was coming back on you? 588 00:48:34,996 --> 00:48:36,621 Bailey? Please. 589 00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:38,832 That nigger's enemies got enemies. 590 00:48:39,166 --> 00:48:42,669 I just figured he tried his hand on the wrong corner and got dropped. 591 00:48:42,837 --> 00:48:45,589 But you were worried about Brandon, right? 592 00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:50,135 Look, in my game, you take some kid, you play it the safest way you can. 593 00:48:50,511 --> 00:48:52,762 But it ain't about no hiding forever. 594 00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:54,431 You heard? 595 00:48:54,557 --> 00:48:58,643 Frankly, you been in it as long as me, you do the thing on your name. 596 00:48:58,853 --> 00:49:02,147 Anyone going to come after Omar, they know Omar's coming after him. 597 00:49:02,231 --> 00:49:04,024 Oh, indeed. 598 00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:06,860 So, who came after Brandon? 599 00:49:07,737 --> 00:49:09,779 I heard it might have been Wee-Bey, 600 00:49:10,990 --> 00:49:12,532 boy Stinkum, 601 00:49:12,992 --> 00:49:14,242 and Bird. 602 00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:16,536 He was down with the snatch, too. 603 00:49:23,210 --> 00:49:25,211 So, what can you give us on the job? 604 00:49:27,757 --> 00:49:30,925 7:56 Tuesday night, you had an incoming call to Barksdale's, 605 00:49:31,010 --> 00:49:32,677 giving him the number of a pay phone. 606 00:49:32,762 --> 00:49:35,847 Westside exchange. Number's encoded, right? 607 00:49:36,349 --> 00:49:41,061 Three minutes later, we get another call from the low-rises to that number. 608 00:49:41,395 --> 00:49:43,980 A half-minute later, another call from the low-rises 609 00:49:44,065 --> 00:49:46,024 to a pager we know is Stringer Bell's. 610 00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:49,903 - I'll be damned. - Finally, we get another call. 611 00:49:50,488 --> 00:49:53,490 Probably from a pay phone. Probably Stringer Bell calling back. 612 00:49:53,574 --> 00:49:55,825 Coming on into the low-rise courts. 613 00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:59,329 45 minutes later, another call. 614 00:49:59,622 --> 00:50:03,833 This one from the same pay phone that went to D'Angelo's pager 615 00:50:03,918 --> 00:50:05,919 to start the whole thing off. 616 00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:07,170 This is the murder here. 617 00:50:07,254 --> 00:50:11,007 This first number, the one they sent to D'Angelo. 618 00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:14,594 I'm thinking this comes from a pay phone over by the Greek's. 619 00:50:23,646 --> 00:50:27,607 He's on you. We're up on those pay phones, we catch that murder. 620 00:50:27,692 --> 00:50:29,317 We get there before the murder. 621 00:50:29,402 --> 00:50:33,822 It's all here on the pen register. This one calling that one, that one calling back. 622 00:50:33,948 --> 00:50:37,283 We're up on those pay phones, and we have him cold. 623 00:50:37,451 --> 00:50:42,455 But we're not up in time, are we? In this case, we're never where we need to be. 624 00:50:53,926 --> 00:50:55,593 Bad time for you all? 625 00:51:10,234 --> 00:51:14,362 - He fight, but you arrest. - You saw him get arrested? 626 00:51:14,947 --> 00:51:17,240 - On Tuesday? - Tuesday, yes. Tuesday. 627 00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:20,034 By the police? The police arrested him? 628 00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:22,829 Cops, they handcuffed him? 629 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,209 What about these guys? Were they there with him? 630 00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:29,961 No. 631 00:51:34,133 --> 00:51:36,301 - He fight, you arrest. - Right. 632 00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:39,345 Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you. 633 00:51:46,896 --> 00:51:48,646 It's a match. 634 00:51:50,316 --> 00:51:51,608 No. 635 00:51:51,942 --> 00:51:54,277 I need help. Rawls ranks me. 636 00:51:54,361 --> 00:51:57,655 Lieutenant, think what you're doing here. 637 00:51:58,282 --> 00:52:03,203 You're gonna cross Bill Rawls, as ruthless a fuck as we have in this department? 638 00:52:04,914 --> 00:52:06,623 And to do what? 639 00:52:07,875 --> 00:52:10,710 To fight for a case the Deputy of Operations doesn't even want. 640 00:52:13,214 --> 00:52:14,339 No. 641 00:52:14,799 --> 00:52:17,842 I like my career, thank you very much. 642 00:52:21,096 --> 00:52:24,933 In the cemetery, you were telling us a guy named Bird killed the working man. 643 00:52:26,101 --> 00:52:28,353 The man who testified. 644 00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:30,480 William Gant. Right. 645 00:52:30,815 --> 00:52:33,107 Bird did that one, for sure. 646 00:52:33,234 --> 00:52:35,568 - How do you know? - Everybody know, man. 647 00:52:35,986 --> 00:52:40,990 Nigger walked up and shot him in the head. The whole project saw that much. 648 00:52:41,450 --> 00:52:43,034 And Bird worked for Avon? 649 00:52:43,118 --> 00:52:44,911 As one of his shooters. 650 00:52:45,204 --> 00:52:49,999 Liked to use this real sweet gun. A .380 from Austria or Australia. Something like that. 651 00:52:50,334 --> 00:52:52,252 But I know he loved that gun. 652 00:52:52,336 --> 00:52:53,378 A .380. 653 00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:55,922 A .380. You get him, you get the gun. 654 00:52:56,090 --> 00:52:58,675 'Cause Bird's too dumb to throw a gun like that off. 655 00:52:59,593 --> 00:53:01,803 - A gun alone ain't enough. - Oh, no? 656 00:53:01,887 --> 00:53:04,806 He bought the gun on the street after Gant was killed. 657 00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:07,851 - What would be enough, then? - Eyeball witness. 658 00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:11,354 Some kind of corroboration for what you're telling me here. 659 00:53:14,984 --> 00:53:17,235 - Okay. - Okay, what? 660 00:53:17,611 --> 00:53:20,363 - I'm your man. - You saw the murder? 661 00:53:20,614 --> 00:53:22,115 Yeah. 662 00:53:22,408 --> 00:53:26,160 You can ID this man Bird as the shooter of William Gant? 663 00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:31,165 And you ain't afraid to go into court and testify against one of Barksdale's people? 664 00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:35,378 Omar don't scare. 665 00:53:37,882 --> 00:53:41,467 While Daniels and his merry band are lost in the swamps 666 00:53:41,552 --> 00:53:44,929 playing with beepers and pay phones and body mics, 667 00:53:45,306 --> 00:53:48,433 my people have developed information that ties Barksdale to three killings. 668 00:53:48,642 --> 00:53:52,186 - D'Angelo Barksdale, not Avon. - On behalf of Avon. 669 00:53:52,813 --> 00:53:57,400 The victim is identified by our witnesses as being involved with Avon Barksdale. 670 00:53:57,484 --> 00:54:01,487 - Sir, we're developing... - You're dancing around this thing. 671 00:54:02,364 --> 00:54:06,659 - I'm charging three murders. - You charge them, my investigation folds. 672 00:54:07,244 --> 00:54:10,330 Not one of those cases is strong enough for court. 673 00:54:10,414 --> 00:54:15,501 We bring the kid in, throw a mindfuck at him and the case becomes stronger. 674 00:54:15,586 --> 00:54:19,505 You've had him twice before. He's gonna go for less the third time. 675 00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:22,842 So we re-canvass, develop fresh witnesses. 676 00:54:23,385 --> 00:54:27,430 The case I charge on today can be twice as strong by the trial date. 677 00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:32,602 We get a conviction. We roll Little Boy Barksdale into Big Boy Barksdale, 678 00:54:33,270 --> 00:54:38,358 then we go home like good old-fashioned cops and pound some Budweiser. 679 00:54:40,152 --> 00:54:43,279 This is bullshit! 680 00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:48,826 McNulty made the ballistics match on these murders and he's telling me fight this. 681 00:54:49,036 --> 00:54:52,914 He knows you don't have a viable prosecution, so do you, so do I. 682 00:54:53,165 --> 00:54:54,540 Enough. 683 00:54:58,212 --> 00:55:01,047 Look, I've got no love for your wiretap, Lieutenant. 684 00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:06,135 I'm spending $2,000 a day over the unit operating budget to staff the case. 685 00:55:07,262 --> 00:55:12,266 Major Rawls is offering a chance to leverage Barksdale through a murder prosecution. 686 00:55:12,810 --> 00:55:14,727 Why not jump on this? 687 00:55:15,896 --> 00:55:21,693 Because if Major Rawls is right then he will be right a month from now. 688 00:55:22,611 --> 00:55:26,030 If the wire doesn't give us a case, he can charge all the murders he has. 689 00:55:26,115 --> 00:55:28,032 We lose nothing. 690 00:55:28,325 --> 00:55:29,909 But if he's wrong, 691 00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:33,246 if he can't convict, or if the Barksdale kid doesn't flip, 692 00:55:33,747 --> 00:55:35,832 then it's too late to do anything else. 693 00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:40,962 Avon Barksdale changes up his pattern, and the wiretap dies. 694 00:55:41,380 --> 00:55:45,633 At that point, there isn't gonna be a thing that you, or me, or Rawls here 695 00:55:45,718 --> 00:55:48,928 is gonna be able to say to that goddamn judge. 696 00:55:56,895 --> 00:55:58,438 You wanted to see me, Major? 697 00:55:59,064 --> 00:56:02,150 McNulty does personal business on the clock, I wanna know. 698 00:56:02,443 --> 00:56:04,777 He cheats on a run sheet, I wanna know. 699 00:56:05,154 --> 00:56:07,363 He runs any kind of game at all, I wanna know. 700 00:56:07,448 --> 00:56:10,158 Major, the man's an asshole, 701 00:56:10,701 --> 00:56:15,038 but he doesn't do much other than work. He's got this case in his gut like it's cancer. 702 00:56:15,205 --> 00:56:19,292 He does no wrong? Doesn't drink any more? 703 00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:22,420 Doesn't drink on duty? Doesn't drink and drive, Detective? 704 00:56:23,464 --> 00:56:26,424 - Major.... - You've got to help me on this, Michael. 705 00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:50,156 The murder warrant's on hold. 706 00:56:51,325 --> 00:56:53,826 The Deputy gave us another month. 707 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,413 Also, whoever that was you brought in today 708 00:56:57,581 --> 00:57:00,166 gave himself up as an eyewitness to the Gant murder. 709 00:57:00,417 --> 00:57:02,293 Who? Omar? 710 00:57:02,503 --> 00:57:05,421 Greggs said to tell you she'd write it up in the morning. 711 00:57:07,508 --> 00:57:09,175 Lieutenant... 712 00:57:10,177 --> 00:57:11,511 Thanks. 713 00:57:18,310 --> 00:57:20,186 It cost you?