1 00:00:07,041 --> 00:00:08,540 Namond: See, to cap a motherfucker, 2 00:00:08,542 --> 00:00:10,075 you put a pistol to his head, 3 00:00:10,077 --> 00:00:11,410 and say, "Pow," and he tagged. 4 00:00:11,412 --> 00:00:12,711 But when Chris and them do it-- 5 00:00:12,713 --> 00:00:14,013 Dukie: Yo, it ain't working, Nay. 6 00:00:14,015 --> 00:00:15,214 I know you making this up. 7 00:00:15,216 --> 00:00:17,249 Namond: Word to my mother, yo. Lex ain't dead. 8 00:00:17,251 --> 00:00:20,452 I seen him creeping in an alley last night near the playground. 9 00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:21,653 Everybody know Lex is dead. 10 00:00:21,655 --> 00:00:24,323 Nah, there's dead, and there's special dead. 11 00:00:24,325 --> 00:00:26,425 Yeah, Chris working that juju shit. 12 00:00:26,427 --> 00:00:29,395 Nah, man. What I'm saying is they zombies. 13 00:00:29,397 --> 00:00:30,763 Why you think he take them into vacants? 14 00:00:30,765 --> 00:00:32,731 He need time to change them. 15 00:00:32,733 --> 00:00:35,334 You don't believe me, yo, it's on you. 16 00:00:35,336 --> 00:00:36,735 Yo, they funnin', ain't they, Michael? 17 00:00:36,737 --> 00:00:39,138 I don't know about that voodoo shit, man, 18 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:41,407 but Chris is definitely doing something. 19 00:00:41,409 --> 00:00:42,741 Get a nigger to walk up in there 20 00:00:42,743 --> 00:00:44,410 knowing he about to get capped, man. 21 00:00:44,412 --> 00:00:46,378 Chris, he different. You can tell by them 22 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:48,680 coon-ass country clothes that nigger be wearing. 23 00:00:48,682 --> 00:00:50,082 ( gunshots ) 24 00:00:50,084 --> 00:00:52,084 ( dogs barking ) 25 00:00:52,086 --> 00:00:52,418 9? 26 00:00:52,420 --> 00:00:56,555 Nah, too much bark. Probably a 40-cal. 27 00:00:57,291 --> 00:00:59,391 Yeah, man, this is serious business. 28 00:00:59,393 --> 00:01:00,559 So you saying Lex is a zombie? 29 00:01:00,561 --> 00:01:04,063 Pookie, Byron, all them niggers. 30 00:01:04,065 --> 00:01:04,596 And Chris? 31 00:01:04,598 --> 00:01:07,366 Yeah, Chris, Zombie master. 32 00:01:08,069 --> 00:01:09,368 I knew this wasn't going away. 33 00:01:09,370 --> 00:01:11,637 That's what we've been trying to tell you, yo. 34 00:01:11,639 --> 00:01:12,704 Chris got the power. 35 00:01:12,706 --> 00:01:14,606 He tell them to come, and they got to come, 36 00:01:14,608 --> 00:01:16,775 like the devil do with the damned. 37 00:01:16,777 --> 00:01:19,411 What you think Chris got them doing? 38 00:01:20,114 --> 00:01:21,613 Probably spies, man. 39 00:01:21,615 --> 00:01:24,416 Can't figure any other way Marlo knows so much. 40 00:01:24,418 --> 00:01:25,417 Yeah, that's what it is. 41 00:01:25,419 --> 00:01:27,786 Like in this movie, "Zombie Killer" or something, 42 00:01:27,788 --> 00:01:29,822 they came out at night, hunting. 43 00:01:29,824 --> 00:01:31,623 - Hunting? - Yeah, man. They... 44 00:01:31,625 --> 00:01:34,126 ( sirens ) 45 00:01:35,796 --> 00:01:39,331 Yeah, and in that movie, they was snatching people up, 46 00:01:39,333 --> 00:01:41,333 stealing their warmth. 47 00:01:41,335 --> 00:01:42,367 ( bottle rattling ) 48 00:01:42,369 --> 00:01:44,536 ( bottle breaks ) 49 00:01:47,541 --> 00:01:50,542 ( footsteps ) 50 00:02:09,430 --> 00:02:11,897 ( theme music playing ) 51 00:03:39,553 --> 00:03:42,854 ( bell rings ) 52 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:44,790 ( indistinct chatter ) 53 00:03:49,430 --> 00:03:52,764 St. Jude, patron of lost causes. 54 00:03:52,766 --> 00:03:54,900 Tell me you ain't been on bended knee 55 00:03:54,902 --> 00:03:58,237 whispering in his saintly ear each and every night 56 00:03:58,239 --> 00:03:59,404 before you close those peepers. 57 00:03:59,406 --> 00:04:02,608 I know you have, Tommy, catch a break like this. 58 00:04:02,610 --> 00:04:06,378 - Stan, you're sure about this? - Valchek: On my mother's soul, it's a lock. 59 00:04:06,380 --> 00:04:08,747 Assigned a rookie-- a broad, no less-- 60 00:04:08,749 --> 00:04:10,382 as lead detective. 61 00:04:10,384 --> 00:04:12,751 Pulled a good man off, too, I heard. 62 00:04:12,753 --> 00:04:13,986 Hmm. 63 00:04:13,988 --> 00:04:21,360 Tommy, remember, anything you need. 64 00:04:25,332 --> 00:04:26,265 He's a piece of work. 65 00:04:26,267 --> 00:04:28,734 Valchek? Comes with the territory. 66 00:04:28,736 --> 00:04:30,002 You want the first district council seat, 67 00:04:30,004 --> 00:04:32,771 you make nice with whatever Polish or Greek commander 68 00:04:32,773 --> 00:04:34,439 - they dump in the Southeast. - Not Italian. 69 00:04:34,441 --> 00:04:37,376 - No, there ain't enough of us left down there. - You think he has this right? 70 00:04:37,378 --> 00:04:40,812 - What, that Royce tampered with the case? - No way the mayor knows. 71 00:04:41,348 --> 00:04:43,915 You're right. This one has Ervin Burrell written all over it. 72 00:04:43,917 --> 00:04:46,385 Fuck if the mayor knows or not. If it's true, 73 00:04:46,387 --> 00:04:48,487 we get it out there quick and bang him hard. 74 00:04:48,489 --> 00:04:48,987 I go public? 75 00:04:48,989 --> 00:04:51,390 They can't spin this. They sabotaged a criminal case. 76 00:04:51,392 --> 00:04:55,961 No spin on a knuckleball, you still can't tell how it's gonna break. 77 00:05:02,703 --> 00:05:03,835 We feed it to Tony Gray. 78 00:05:03,837 --> 00:05:06,772 We keep ourselves out of the line of fire, sting Royce, 79 00:05:06,774 --> 00:05:09,875 and as an added bonus, give Gray's campaign a boost 80 00:05:09,877 --> 00:05:13,879 which comes at the expense of the mayor's base. 81 00:05:16,016 --> 00:05:19,951 I'm a devious motherfucker once I get going. 82 00:05:20,621 --> 00:05:21,586 So, all told, 83 00:05:21,588 --> 00:05:24,890 we're looking at 13 warrants and 6 locations. 84 00:05:24,892 --> 00:05:27,759 And given my staffing situation... 85 00:05:27,761 --> 00:05:28,927 Not a problem. 86 00:05:28,929 --> 00:05:31,830 I can give you my DEU, flex, and ops squads. 87 00:05:31,832 --> 00:05:33,932 - A sector of uniforms if you need it. - Great. 88 00:05:33,934 --> 00:05:37,769 The problem is, you're wasting a wiretap on street-level arrests. 89 00:05:37,771 --> 00:05:38,970 Marimow: We do these raids right, 90 00:05:38,972 --> 00:05:41,473 we might catch Marlo or one of his lieutenants 91 00:05:41,475 --> 00:05:42,607 at one of these locations, 92 00:05:42,609 --> 00:05:43,809 Get them with dope on the table. 93 00:05:43,811 --> 00:05:44,843 Daniels: Marlo Stanfield. 94 00:05:44,845 --> 00:05:47,012 In a room. With dope on the table. 95 00:05:47,648 --> 00:05:48,513 I've kicked down doors 96 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:50,816 and surprised bigger players than him. 97 00:05:50,818 --> 00:05:51,850 Well, let me warn you, Lieutenant, 98 00:05:51,852 --> 00:05:57,089 I am not about to litigate a wiretap for a handful of street rips. 99 00:05:57,091 --> 00:06:00,659 Well, that's on you, counselor. 100 00:06:00,661 --> 00:06:02,027 No, it's not. 101 00:06:02,463 --> 00:06:05,530 Major, see you tomorrow. 102 00:06:09,670 --> 00:06:10,936 ( sigh ) 103 00:06:12,706 --> 00:06:15,540 Floaters. You had any more? 104 00:06:15,542 --> 00:06:16,908 No more than usual for the season. 105 00:06:16,910 --> 00:06:18,009 Freamon: What about decomps? 106 00:06:18,011 --> 00:06:19,578 What do you got in the decomp room? 107 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:22,414 - Coroner: 2 or 3 unidentifieds. - Found in Baltimore? 108 00:06:22,416 --> 00:06:24,716 No, actually, two from Prince George's, one from Dorchester. 109 00:06:24,718 --> 00:06:26,418 Nah, he wouldn't drive that far. 110 00:06:26,420 --> 00:06:27,419 Let me get this straight. 111 00:06:27,421 --> 00:06:29,054 You're looking for extra bodies, no one in particular, 112 00:06:29,056 --> 00:06:32,891 other than this one kid you already put out on the teletype. 113 00:06:32,893 --> 00:06:34,526 Yeah. You on it. 114 00:06:34,528 --> 00:06:37,396 You fellas don't have enough work? 115 00:06:38,699 --> 00:06:41,066 If you do your classwork, homework, 116 00:06:42,035 --> 00:06:42,968 you earn stickers. 117 00:06:42,970 --> 00:06:45,871 Dag, yo, every day you be changing it up. 118 00:06:45,873 --> 00:06:47,739 You got us confused, Mr. P. 119 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:48,807 ( overlapping chatter ) 120 00:06:48,809 --> 00:06:50,976 Behave in class, that's another sticker. 121 00:06:50,978 --> 00:06:54,146 At the end of the week, the four with the most stickers 122 00:06:54,148 --> 00:06:55,881 get a prize 123 00:06:55,883 --> 00:06:58,116 And are eligible for a grand drawing 124 00:06:58,118 --> 00:06:59,151 at the end of the month. 125 00:06:59,153 --> 00:07:02,087 Don't do your work, misbehave in class... 126 00:07:04,124 --> 00:07:06,691 ( indistinct chatter ) 127 00:07:06,693 --> 00:07:08,693 Your name goes here. 128 00:07:08,695 --> 00:07:12,063 Detention. A full hour after school, no exceptions. 129 00:07:12,566 --> 00:07:15,100 So it's up to you. Stickers for prizes 130 00:07:15,736 --> 00:07:18,036 or stay with me after school. 131 00:07:18,038 --> 00:07:19,604 Yo, Mr. P. Why you do me detention, huh? 132 00:07:19,606 --> 00:07:22,174 You interrupted the class, Namond. 133 00:07:22,176 --> 00:07:23,575 Yo, when you first came in here, 134 00:07:23,577 --> 00:07:24,843 you was all treating us straight up, 135 00:07:24,845 --> 00:07:28,013 and now you just dog me before I even know the rules. 136 00:07:28,015 --> 00:07:30,882 That ain't right, man. 137 00:07:34,855 --> 00:07:38,123 When you're right, Namond, you're right. 138 00:07:38,125 --> 00:07:40,859 Hey, Mr. P., I want me some of them stickers. 139 00:07:40,861 --> 00:07:42,894 Zenobia, you have to do your work. 140 00:07:42,896 --> 00:07:47,065 I want to, but I ain't got no pencils. 141 00:07:52,606 --> 00:07:54,539 I don't want no damn welfare pencil! 142 00:07:54,541 --> 00:07:56,675 ( laughter ) 143 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:11,122 It seems to me 144 00:08:11,124 --> 00:08:14,659 there are two kinds of kids walking in this building. 145 00:08:14,661 --> 00:08:16,161 Stoop kids, corner kids. 146 00:08:16,997 --> 00:08:18,797 - Excuse me? - You know, stoop kids. 147 00:08:18,799 --> 00:08:20,599 They're the ones who stay on their front steps 148 00:08:20,601 --> 00:08:21,766 when their parents tell them. 149 00:08:21,768 --> 00:08:23,268 The others go down to the corners. 150 00:08:23,270 --> 00:08:25,504 They can't sit still in the class. 151 00:08:25,506 --> 00:08:26,972 The others can and do. 152 00:08:26,974 --> 00:08:28,940 So separate the two. 153 00:08:28,942 --> 00:08:29,841 That's tracking. 154 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:30,942 Colvin: Excuse me? 155 00:08:30,944 --> 00:08:31,843 Tracking students. 156 00:08:31,845 --> 00:08:33,712 It's a nasty phrase in educational circles. 157 00:08:33,714 --> 00:08:36,047 It refers to the grouping of children 158 00:08:36,049 --> 00:08:37,516 based on expected performance. 159 00:08:37,518 --> 00:08:38,583 Well, what's wrong with it? 160 00:08:38,585 --> 00:08:41,286 It says you have reduced expectations for certain students, 161 00:08:41,288 --> 00:08:43,889 that you expect less from them academically. 162 00:08:43,891 --> 00:08:47,259 So you pretend to teach all these kids, 163 00:08:47,261 --> 00:08:49,060 and the truth is, you ain't teaching any of them. 164 00:08:49,062 --> 00:08:50,095 But what if the stoop kids 165 00:08:50,097 --> 00:08:53,632 - could be in classrooms where there was no disruptions? - And the corner kids? 166 00:08:53,634 --> 00:08:56,568 I mean, they're the ones you're after, right? I mean, that's why you got the grant money. 167 00:08:56,570 --> 00:08:59,704 Sampson: As long as this doesn't involve warehousing children, 168 00:08:59,706 --> 00:09:01,973 I'm for anything that allows me to do my job. 169 00:09:01,975 --> 00:09:03,975 Every teacher here will tell you the same. 170 00:09:03,977 --> 00:09:05,944 The trick for you is to come up with a program 171 00:09:05,946 --> 00:09:08,580 that actually addresses itself to the corner kids. 172 00:09:08,582 --> 00:09:10,682 I don't know, we start pulling kids out of regular classes, 173 00:09:10,684 --> 00:09:11,750 won't they be stigmatized? 174 00:09:11,752 --> 00:09:15,854 There's not a stigma at being booted out of class every other day? 175 00:09:15,856 --> 00:09:16,955 Question is, 176 00:09:16,957 --> 00:09:18,990 how do we identify the corner kids? 177 00:09:18,992 --> 00:09:21,059 That won't be a problem. 178 00:09:22,129 --> 00:09:25,730 Ok. Ok. 179 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:36,074 You understand the work? 180 00:09:38,612 --> 00:09:43,048 Come on, this is easy. I know you can do it. 181 00:09:43,817 --> 00:09:45,050 ( sigh ) 182 00:09:45,719 --> 00:09:48,853 You're not giving me a choice. You have detention. 183 00:09:48,855 --> 00:09:54,326 - Kareem: Yo, Nay, Mrs. D. shaking bushes. - Back to your seats. 184 00:09:56,129 --> 00:09:58,630 Michael: What the fuck? She got my blade, yo. 185 00:09:58,632 --> 00:10:00,265 I said, back to your seats. 186 00:10:01,068 --> 00:10:02,901 ( students talking at once ) 187 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,276 Yo, Mrs. D. be stealing shit. I ain't never gonna get my blade back. 188 00:10:14,014 --> 00:10:16,815 Yo, you all up on me for? I do my work. 189 00:10:16,817 --> 00:10:20,719 I'm not your yo. Show me your work. 190 00:10:25,192 --> 00:10:26,691 Yeah, I see. 191 00:10:26,693 --> 00:10:27,258 ( laughter ) 192 00:10:27,260 --> 00:10:29,094 Yo, my hand hurting from all this learning. 193 00:10:29,096 --> 00:10:32,163 - You got some Tylenol? - ( laughter ) 194 00:10:32,165 --> 00:10:34,299 What I got for you is detention. 195 00:10:34,301 --> 00:10:35,967 Ohh! 196 00:10:35,969 --> 00:10:37,736 Yo, fuck you, Prezbo. 197 00:10:37,738 --> 00:10:38,169 Ohh! 198 00:10:38,171 --> 00:10:40,805 Fucking gimpy-assed, big-grill motherfucker. 199 00:10:40,807 --> 00:10:43,341 That's it. You're out of here! 200 00:10:46,413 --> 00:10:47,946 Go! 201 00:10:55,756 --> 00:10:57,756 Get your police stick out your desk and beat me. 202 00:10:57,758 --> 00:11:00,425 You know you fucking want to. 203 00:11:00,427 --> 00:11:02,227 Ooh! 204 00:11:04,331 --> 00:11:05,797 Prez: Everyone back in your seat. 205 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:08,667 The fuck you looking at, bitch? 206 00:11:08,669 --> 00:11:11,336 - Ooh, Ms. Sampson, I-- - Namond Brice, 207 00:11:11,338 --> 00:11:14,339 if you weren't headed to the main office, 208 00:11:14,341 --> 00:11:15,674 you are now. 209 00:11:15,676 --> 00:11:17,242 Yeah, I was just... 210 00:11:19,980 --> 00:11:22,280 One of the corner kids, huh? 211 00:11:22,716 --> 00:11:25,016 Yeah, they do step up when you need them, don't they? 212 00:11:25,018 --> 00:11:28,353 Look, what? You want me to say you right, you right. 213 00:11:29,356 --> 00:11:32,157 Should have had protection at the card game. 214 00:11:32,159 --> 00:11:32,924 Done is done. 215 00:11:32,926 --> 00:11:35,427 Now we need to decide what we're gonna do about Omar. 216 00:11:35,429 --> 00:11:36,361 You make the price right, 217 00:11:36,363 --> 00:11:40,865 somebody gonna get a whiff of that bushwhacker's ass. 218 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:43,134 Now, you take it from there. 219 00:11:43,136 --> 00:11:44,269 You think so? 220 00:11:44,271 --> 00:11:47,038 I ain't saying Omar can't be got. 221 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,073 Any nigger can be got. 222 00:11:48,075 --> 00:11:49,774 But once we put word to ear 223 00:11:49,776 --> 00:11:51,176 and he learn that we pricing out his head, 224 00:11:51,178 --> 00:11:54,279 he's gonna be trying us like we're trying him. 225 00:11:55,048 --> 00:11:56,781 You saying I should let it slide? 226 00:11:56,783 --> 00:12:00,085 Nah. Nah, we get at him another way. 227 00:12:00,087 --> 00:12:03,088 Get at him without no bounties, no bullshit like that. 228 00:12:03,090 --> 00:12:05,890 I mean, Barksdale turned this town upside down hunting him, 229 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:07,992 and all he ended up looking was weak. 230 00:12:07,994 --> 00:12:09,127 I ain't no Barksdale. 231 00:12:09,129 --> 00:12:12,130 I'm just saying talk is cheap. 232 00:12:12,132 --> 00:12:12,897 We sit on it, 233 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:14,199 we gonna figure out a way to get that faggot. 234 00:12:14,201 --> 00:12:19,270 But till then, we don't say a mumbling word. 235 00:12:23,810 --> 00:12:27,045 I got me six now, and I'll give you the four later, 236 00:12:27,047 --> 00:12:28,046 all right? Come on! 237 00:12:28,048 --> 00:12:29,848 Nah. I'm gonna need the whole 10 now. 238 00:12:29,850 --> 00:12:33,752 Sherrod! You ain't in school? 239 00:12:33,754 --> 00:12:35,153 Um, half a day. Teachers' meeting. 240 00:12:35,155 --> 00:12:37,889 Come on, I told you about those lame excuses, man. 241 00:12:37,891 --> 00:12:39,090 I was talking to him first. 242 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:40,792 All right, this ain't no-- ain't no need for physical-- 243 00:12:40,794 --> 00:12:42,293 you got $4.00 for me? I'm short $4.00. 244 00:12:42,295 --> 00:12:44,929 What the fuck are you talking-- 245 00:12:45,265 --> 00:12:46,765 Got a cart full of shit, nigga. 246 00:12:46,767 --> 00:12:49,434 What you got for me? I know you holding. 247 00:12:49,436 --> 00:12:51,436 Where's it at? You ain't hear? 248 00:12:52,272 --> 00:12:53,805 Unh! Ok. 249 00:12:53,807 --> 00:12:56,775 It's in my shoe. My shoe. 250 00:12:57,177 --> 00:12:58,943 ( Bubbles groaning ) 251 00:13:01,948 --> 00:13:04,983 Don't need the four now, son. 252 00:13:06,353 --> 00:13:08,853 ( laughter ) 253 00:13:16,930 --> 00:13:19,063 Boy: Damn, yo, where the shovel at? 254 00:13:19,065 --> 00:13:21,833 Boy 2: Bury that nigger, man. 255 00:13:42,823 --> 00:13:44,022 Here you go, sir. Thank you. 256 00:13:44,024 --> 00:13:46,224 - Tommy Carcetti, running for mayor. - Good luck, Tommy. 257 00:13:46,226 --> 00:13:47,458 Hey, Mr. Carcetti, you got my vote. 258 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:48,459 Thanks. Tommy Carcetti. 259 00:13:48,461 --> 00:13:49,460 Hey. Thank you very much. 260 00:13:49,462 --> 00:13:51,029 - Here you go. - Good luck, Councilman. 261 00:13:51,031 --> 00:13:52,897 How you doing? Tommy Carcetti, running for mayor. 262 00:13:52,899 --> 00:13:56,601 Wilson: Ok, Councilman, time to hit the west side. 263 00:14:08,915 --> 00:14:10,481 Pretty motherfucker. 264 00:14:10,483 --> 00:14:14,185 Gonna make me go to my game face. 265 00:14:15,155 --> 00:14:18,389 Ok. I'll take 25 of the honeysuckle incense cones. 266 00:14:18,525 --> 00:14:20,525 Keep me healthy for next week. 267 00:14:21,127 --> 00:14:23,094 Wilson: Tommy! 268 00:14:23,096 --> 00:14:24,896 Excuse me. 269 00:14:25,298 --> 00:14:29,567 Tony Gray's people say 20 minutes at their place. 270 00:14:31,872 --> 00:14:32,570 Shit, Clarence. 271 00:14:32,572 --> 00:14:36,908 Look like you did in '98 when you surprised the hell out of everyone. 272 00:14:36,910 --> 00:14:38,409 Bring 'em on. 273 00:14:38,411 --> 00:14:39,410 Huh? 274 00:14:39,412 --> 00:14:41,613 ( laughing ) 275 00:14:41,615 --> 00:14:42,513 Why give it to us? 276 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:44,249 Why don't you stick it to Royce yourself? 277 00:14:44,251 --> 00:14:45,917 Because after what Tommy did at the debate, 278 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:49,087 it'll seem like more of the same if it comes from him. 279 00:14:49,089 --> 00:14:54,158 And if we use it to take four or five points out of Royce's base, 280 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,560 helps him as much as us. 281 00:14:55,562 --> 00:14:57,161 Once bitten, twice shy. 282 00:14:57,163 --> 00:15:00,465 With Tommy Carcetti, I got to always think a step ahead. 283 00:15:00,467 --> 00:15:02,967 Look, Tony. You ain't gonna win. 284 00:15:02,969 --> 00:15:05,136 So the only question is whether you want to lose 285 00:15:05,138 --> 00:15:08,239 with 24 percent of the vote or 28 percent. 286 00:15:08,241 --> 00:15:11,109 You bring the numbers up, 287 00:15:11,111 --> 00:15:13,177 you look good for the legislature. 288 00:15:13,179 --> 00:15:16,347 Maybe a congressional run. 289 00:15:16,349 --> 00:15:17,682 Prez: Albert stokes. 290 00:15:17,684 --> 00:15:18,917 Here. Mr. P., can I go? 291 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:22,086 My moms told me to go straight home after school. 292 00:15:22,088 --> 00:15:22,954 Mine, too. Mine, too. 293 00:15:22,956 --> 00:15:24,022 ( students talking at once ) 294 00:15:24,024 --> 00:15:25,223 You should have thought of that 295 00:15:25,225 --> 00:15:27,592 before you smeared ink all over my desk. 296 00:15:27,594 --> 00:15:30,094 Weren't my fault, my pen exploded. 297 00:15:30,096 --> 00:15:31,696 ( laughter ) 298 00:15:31,698 --> 00:15:35,199 Michael. Michael Lee? 299 00:15:35,201 --> 00:15:36,567 Mr. P., please, can I go? 300 00:15:36,569 --> 00:15:39,504 I ain't eat no lunch, and my stomach making all these noises. 301 00:15:39,506 --> 00:15:44,342 Look. I won't ever disrespect your pencil again, I promise. 302 00:15:44,344 --> 00:15:46,945 Zenobia, it wasn't about the pencil. 303 00:15:46,947 --> 00:15:48,646 Zebobia: Please, Mr. P. 304 00:15:48,648 --> 00:15:50,515 ( all talking at once ) 305 00:15:59,592 --> 00:16:01,659 Ok. Ok. All right. 306 00:16:01,661 --> 00:16:06,064 - Boy: All right. - Just this one time, I'll make an exception. 307 00:16:06,633 --> 00:16:11,202 But next time, expect to stay the full hour. 308 00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:25,416 - Why are you here? - Came to say sorry. 309 00:16:25,418 --> 00:16:28,286 I didn't mean to get all up in your face like that. 310 00:16:29,756 --> 00:16:31,055 I appreciate that, Namond. 311 00:16:31,057 --> 00:16:32,991 It takes courage to admit when you're wrong. 312 00:16:32,993 --> 00:16:37,028 What I can't understand, I've seen you in Ms. Sampson's class doing your work. 313 00:16:37,030 --> 00:16:38,730 Why can't you do the same in here? 314 00:16:38,732 --> 00:16:40,698 I mean to, I do. 315 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:42,166 It's just the evil get in me, 316 00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:44,569 and before I know it, I go off. 317 00:16:46,573 --> 00:16:47,772 Well... 318 00:16:47,774 --> 00:16:49,574 tomorrow we'll see if we can't do better. 319 00:16:49,576 --> 00:16:53,111 Can't tomorrow. Mrs. D. Put me out. 320 00:16:53,380 --> 00:16:56,681 I got to bump. Later, Mr. P. 321 00:16:59,052 --> 00:17:00,685 If you can wait outside... 322 00:17:01,388 --> 00:17:03,121 It's ok. He can stay. 323 00:17:07,761 --> 00:17:09,327 Thank you. 324 00:17:10,163 --> 00:17:13,431 Mr. P., you know Michael can't make it to detention. 325 00:17:13,433 --> 00:17:15,533 I know he didn't. Now it's double. 326 00:17:15,535 --> 00:17:17,035 He's got two days to serve. 327 00:17:17,037 --> 00:17:18,069 Nah. I mean he can't. 328 00:17:18,071 --> 00:17:20,104 He got to go pick up his little brother from school. 329 00:17:20,106 --> 00:17:23,641 Well, he'll just have to find somebody else to do that. 330 00:17:24,477 --> 00:17:26,077 It-- it ain't like that. 331 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:27,378 I mean, Michael would come if he could, 332 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:30,548 but wouldn't have nobody else to pick up his little brother, Bug. 333 00:17:30,550 --> 00:17:34,619 You know, his mother, she on that stuff. 334 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:42,627 We walking home. You coming? 335 00:17:42,629 --> 00:17:44,629 Oh, no. I'm waiting on Alpo. 336 00:17:44,631 --> 00:17:46,397 Ms. Sampson got him doing detention. 337 00:17:46,399 --> 00:17:47,732 You gonna be here till, like, 5:00. 338 00:17:47,734 --> 00:17:48,699 Yeah. She a hard lady. 339 00:17:48,701 --> 00:17:50,134 She don't ever give a brother no play. 340 00:17:50,136 --> 00:17:52,837 Well, all right, man. I'll holla at you later. 341 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:55,306 Donut: All right, yo. 342 00:17:56,843 --> 00:17:59,410 So you're not gonna be in the NBA? 343 00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:01,345 Then it must be the NFL? 344 00:18:01,347 --> 00:18:02,313 ( chuckles ) 345 00:18:02,315 --> 00:18:03,581 I thought all the boys in class 346 00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:04,715 were gonna join the pros. 347 00:18:04,717 --> 00:18:07,452 Nah, that's just something we say. 348 00:18:07,454 --> 00:18:09,387 So what about you? 349 00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:11,656 What do you want to be when you grow up? 350 00:18:11,658 --> 00:18:14,559 I'm gonna own my own store. 351 00:18:14,561 --> 00:18:15,426 That's smart. 352 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:18,162 You're gonna need to know a lot of math. 353 00:18:21,534 --> 00:18:24,268 You left them in there. 354 00:18:25,238 --> 00:18:25,803 ( groan ) 355 00:18:25,805 --> 00:18:28,339 Hey, don't worry, Mr. P. We got you. 356 00:18:28,341 --> 00:18:29,540 Hey, Donut! 357 00:18:29,542 --> 00:18:34,145 Yo, Donut's crazy with cars. He can open anything. 358 00:18:34,147 --> 00:18:35,580 - Donut: Hey. - Randy: Hey. 359 00:18:35,582 --> 00:18:36,314 What up, man. 360 00:18:36,316 --> 00:18:38,749 Yo, he locked his keys in there. 361 00:18:42,222 --> 00:18:44,355 It's ok. I can call AAA. 362 00:18:44,357 --> 00:18:46,724 Oh, no problem, chief. 363 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:30,768 Bubbles: Feel the need to work them corners, huh? 364 00:19:31,538 --> 00:19:34,672 I'm just asking because you don't need to be doing what you're doing. 365 00:19:34,674 --> 00:19:37,175 I need to learn some shit on my own. 366 00:19:37,177 --> 00:19:40,278 I'm trying to help you, Sherrod, 367 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,746 but you making it so I can't. 368 00:19:41,748 --> 00:19:43,814 I didn't even know the man who beat on you, Bubs. 369 00:19:43,816 --> 00:19:45,650 He was short money on the corner. 370 00:19:45,652 --> 00:19:46,951 I swear he wasn't nothing to me. 371 00:19:46,953 --> 00:19:50,288 Yeah, but when the shit start, there's nothing to be done, right? 372 00:19:50,456 --> 00:19:53,424 What would I have done if he started wailing on you? 373 00:19:53,426 --> 00:19:58,796 Same kind of nothing, see? That's how the corners be. 374 00:19:59,532 --> 00:20:02,633 They gonna use you up, Sherrod. 375 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,372 You welcome to stay tonight, 376 00:20:08,374 --> 00:20:11,209 but you ain't in school tomorrow morning, 377 00:20:11,211 --> 00:20:13,644 this partnership need to be done. 378 00:20:41,674 --> 00:20:44,442 These two precincts are the bellwether for the fifth. 379 00:20:44,444 --> 00:20:47,812 If you can take even 18 percent out of Carcetti in these, 380 00:20:47,814 --> 00:20:50,748 it's a good guess he won't have the numbers citywide. 381 00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:53,451 Well, who are we ticketed with over here? 382 00:20:53,453 --> 00:20:56,487 The N.D.O., I hope, because-- 383 00:20:57,023 --> 00:21:00,625 ...this amid allegations that high-ranking police officials intervened 384 00:21:00,627 --> 00:21:04,528 to have a veteran police detective removed from the controversial case. 385 00:21:04,530 --> 00:21:08,532 The Braddock murder became a focal point in the mayoral campaign 386 00:21:08,534 --> 00:21:10,868 when councilman Thomas Carcetti alleged 387 00:21:10,870 --> 00:21:12,703 the West Baltimore man was killed 388 00:21:12,705 --> 00:21:14,538 because he was a witness in the case. 389 00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:17,575 ...because they were afraid the police would prove what they most fear, 390 00:21:17,577 --> 00:21:18,909 that Fredro Braddock was murdered 391 00:21:18,911 --> 00:21:23,447 because he was a witness and the city failed to protect him. 392 00:21:24,717 --> 00:21:25,883 It's on all three channels. 393 00:21:25,885 --> 00:21:29,920 And the "Sun" and the "Post" are both calling for comment. 394 00:21:31,991 --> 00:21:34,392 ...and my sources within the department say the rank and file officers 395 00:21:34,394 --> 00:21:38,996 are simply appalled by this blatant political manipulation. 396 00:21:38,998 --> 00:21:40,598 Damn. Turn it up. 397 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,667 Hey, Greggs, you're famous. 398 00:21:42,669 --> 00:21:44,769 Gray: ...is to remove a highly decorated veteran, 399 00:21:44,771 --> 00:21:46,704 15 years experience as a murder investigator, 400 00:21:46,706 --> 00:21:47,905 - without reason... - That'd be me. 401 00:21:47,907 --> 00:21:51,942 Then replaced with a rookie who has yet to handle a single homicide investigation. 402 00:21:51,944 --> 00:21:53,010 That'd be you. 403 00:21:53,012 --> 00:21:56,881 - Gray: Then we need to re-think... - The fuck I ever do to him? 404 00:21:56,883 --> 00:21:58,983 ( chuckling ) 405 00:22:00,086 --> 00:22:01,886 You gonna make it too heavy, yo. 406 00:22:01,888 --> 00:22:03,754 It might work if we make it bigger. 407 00:22:03,756 --> 00:22:05,723 It would work if we had balsa wood, you know. 408 00:22:05,725 --> 00:22:06,724 It's really light and strong. 409 00:22:06,726 --> 00:22:10,995 Man, you so full of-- oh, shit. 410 00:22:17,070 --> 00:22:18,936 Zombie master. 411 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:26,977 Need to take us a little walk. 412 00:22:27,613 --> 00:22:29,513 Nah, I'm good here. 413 00:22:29,515 --> 00:22:33,818 Yo. Young'uns need to move along. 414 00:22:33,820 --> 00:22:36,654 Sure, Chris, we'll bump. 415 00:22:41,561 --> 00:22:43,127 Yo, Snoop, your sister in my class. 416 00:22:43,129 --> 00:22:46,030 What the fuck? You high or something, nigga? 417 00:22:47,133 --> 00:22:49,800 You boys be smoking that shit? 418 00:22:53,072 --> 00:22:54,905 Hearing good things about you. 419 00:22:54,907 --> 00:22:57,608 Say you straight up, take care of your people, 420 00:22:57,610 --> 00:22:59,777 not begging no handouts. 421 00:22:59,779 --> 00:23:02,646 Motherfucker, you hear the nigger talking to you, 422 00:23:02,648 --> 00:23:03,848 giving you praises and shit. 423 00:23:03,850 --> 00:23:06,584 You standing here looking fucking stupid. 424 00:23:06,586 --> 00:23:08,119 Yo, chill. 425 00:23:08,121 --> 00:23:09,754 Sometimes, she get a little hot. 426 00:23:09,756 --> 00:23:12,957 Snoop: I'm just saying the boy ain't right! 427 00:23:12,959 --> 00:23:15,826 Yo, we always in the market for a good solider. 428 00:23:15,828 --> 00:23:19,397 When we see one we like, we take care of the situation. 429 00:23:19,399 --> 00:23:22,767 Take him in, school him, make him family. 430 00:23:22,769 --> 00:23:24,502 And if you're with us, you're with us, 431 00:23:24,504 --> 00:23:27,071 just like we'd be with you all the way. 432 00:23:27,540 --> 00:23:29,673 You have a mind, you're in. 433 00:23:29,876 --> 00:23:32,877 Look, man. I already got a family. 434 00:23:32,879 --> 00:23:35,713 My moms and my little brother 435 00:23:35,715 --> 00:23:38,649 Yeah. Heard that. 436 00:23:38,651 --> 00:23:40,518 But think on it. 437 00:23:43,790 --> 00:23:46,690 We'll be around if you need something. 438 00:24:00,473 --> 00:24:01,839 He saw me, yo. I knew it. 439 00:24:01,841 --> 00:24:04,108 I knew Chris was asking Michael about me. 440 00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:05,976 I knew it, man. I'm dead. 441 00:24:05,978 --> 00:24:08,512 ( exhales ) 442 00:24:08,748 --> 00:24:10,047 Yo, man, good looking out. 443 00:24:10,049 --> 00:24:11,148 Yeah. I thought they was gonna-- 444 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:12,183 Yeah, I know, I know. 445 00:24:12,185 --> 00:24:14,051 What did he ask about me? I know he asked about me. 446 00:24:14,053 --> 00:24:15,619 What'd you say? What'd you tell him? 447 00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:17,021 Calm down. It weren't even about you, man. 448 00:24:17,023 --> 00:24:18,989 Yo, for real, man, you need to tell me. 449 00:24:18,991 --> 00:24:21,091 What did he ask you? 450 00:24:21,761 --> 00:24:22,760 Yo, you right, man. 451 00:24:22,762 --> 00:24:25,196 Chris was all up in your business. 452 00:24:25,198 --> 00:24:27,832 He down on you for some deep shit, man. 453 00:24:27,834 --> 00:24:29,934 I don't even know what. 454 00:24:31,904 --> 00:24:34,071 Nah, I'm just fucking with you, man. 455 00:24:34,073 --> 00:24:36,774 He didn't even speak your name. 456 00:24:44,150 --> 00:24:45,950 Oh, man. 457 00:24:48,588 --> 00:24:49,687 Royce: So, Erv, what's next? 458 00:24:49,689 --> 00:24:52,056 Your officers gonna shoot a couple of tourists? 459 00:24:52,058 --> 00:24:54,725 Maybe fly a helicopter into harbor place? 460 00:24:54,727 --> 00:24:59,029 What can we expect the last week of my reelection campaign? 461 00:24:59,031 --> 00:25:01,131 Sir, I did what you asked no more, no less. 462 00:25:01,133 --> 00:25:03,234 Hamsterdam legalized drug zone? 463 00:25:03,236 --> 00:25:04,969 Oh, he takes responsibility for that. 464 00:25:04,971 --> 00:25:07,605 - The subpoena's all over town. - That, too. 465 00:25:07,607 --> 00:25:09,540 Royce: The leak about the witness murder. 466 00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:10,908 I mean, that was his shop, too, right? 467 00:25:10,910 --> 00:25:11,742 Hell, yeah. 468 00:25:11,744 --> 00:25:13,043 Royce: And now, this last thing, 469 00:25:13,045 --> 00:25:16,847 transferring detectives off the case. 470 00:25:16,849 --> 00:25:18,516 What is that? What is that? 471 00:25:18,518 --> 00:25:19,850 Scuttling the investigation. 472 00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:21,986 Yeah, right. Yeah, that's awful. Jesus. 473 00:25:21,988 --> 00:25:25,256 Mr. Mayor, you asked me to slow that investigation down. 474 00:25:25,258 --> 00:25:26,924 Mmmmm. Mmmmm. 475 00:25:26,926 --> 00:25:28,626 Subtle, Ervin. Hmm? 476 00:25:28,628 --> 00:25:30,227 You hold a few facts for a few weeks. 477 00:25:30,229 --> 00:25:33,797 You put a report or two in a desk drawer. 478 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:36,233 But the transferring of people off a case? 479 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:38,702 Burrell: Look. You told me 480 00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:40,804 you specifically wanted me to not-- 481 00:25:40,806 --> 00:25:43,641 Ervin, you may leave. 482 00:25:43,643 --> 00:25:44,174 Mr. Mayor 483 00:25:44,176 --> 00:25:48,712 That will be all, Commissioner. 484 00:25:58,558 --> 00:26:00,157 Uh... 485 00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:04,929 No, I need a word or two with your deputy, Ervin. 486 00:26:16,909 --> 00:26:18,943 Have a seat. 487 00:26:26,152 --> 00:26:27,117 I tried to warn him. 488 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,753 I mean, if it leaked out of homicide about the dead witness, 489 00:26:29,755 --> 00:26:32,823 why wouldn't it leak that we bumped a detective? 490 00:26:32,825 --> 00:26:34,925 Why didn't you come to us beforehand? 491 00:26:35,928 --> 00:26:38,095 I'm a loyal subordinate, Mr. Mayor, 492 00:26:38,331 --> 00:26:41,932 and Ervin is a good man working under considerable pressure. 493 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,100 Parker: He's a hack. 494 00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:46,770 You're not bothered by the pressure, Deputy? 495 00:26:46,772 --> 00:26:48,772 Not in the least. 496 00:26:53,145 --> 00:26:55,679 I need you to make this go away, Bill. 497 00:26:55,681 --> 00:26:59,149 I won't forget, believe me. 498 00:27:09,895 --> 00:27:12,997 Another thing Slim Charles got up with me. 499 00:27:12,999 --> 00:27:14,765 Said the fat man want a sit-down. 500 00:27:14,767 --> 00:27:16,367 - Nah. I did that already. - ( whistle ) 501 00:27:16,369 --> 00:27:20,070 Chris: Well, Slim say the fat man knew the card game 502 00:27:20,072 --> 00:27:20,971 was gonna get took. 503 00:27:20,973 --> 00:27:24,408 He did, did he? Set it up. 504 00:27:24,410 --> 00:27:26,777 Old Face Andre: Yo, why you always be back here? 505 00:27:26,779 --> 00:27:28,679 Quiet. And I can see what comes. 506 00:27:28,681 --> 00:27:31,081 But you out in the weather and shit. 507 00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:33,150 I don't like to speak in no rooms. 508 00:27:33,152 --> 00:27:34,685 Yeah. 509 00:27:34,687 --> 00:27:36,387 Yo. You ain't staying long. 510 00:27:38,658 --> 00:27:41,425 So you know, I almost got that for you. 511 00:27:41,427 --> 00:27:43,227 I just need a couple of days more. 512 00:27:43,229 --> 00:27:44,962 You can keep my money for now. 513 00:27:44,964 --> 00:27:46,897 But I got something that needs doing. 514 00:27:46,899 --> 00:27:48,065 Anything, Marlo. Your call. 515 00:27:48,067 --> 00:27:51,268 Omar gonna come in your store, stick it up, rob you. 516 00:27:51,737 --> 00:27:56,674 You gonna call the police, make a report. You feel me? 517 00:27:56,676 --> 00:27:58,375 Yeah, that'll work, but, uh, you know when he 518 00:27:58,377 --> 00:28:00,010 get out, he's coming right at me. 519 00:28:00,012 --> 00:28:04,915 - I ain't scared or nothing. I'm just saying, you know? - He ain't gonna get out. 520 00:28:11,957 --> 00:28:14,391 A man make bail on robbery. 521 00:28:14,393 --> 00:28:17,428 Make it no bail. 522 00:28:19,965 --> 00:28:21,465 If you have a problem, 523 00:28:21,467 --> 00:28:24,334 like you can't make it to detention, 524 00:28:24,336 --> 00:28:26,103 you need to tell me. 525 00:28:26,105 --> 00:28:27,237 That's your responsibility. 526 00:28:27,239 --> 00:28:29,473 People will be more than willing to help you out, 527 00:28:29,475 --> 00:28:33,143 but it's up to you to ask. 528 00:28:34,046 --> 00:28:39,750 You can go back to the cafeteria, or hang up here. 529 00:28:49,328 --> 00:28:52,796 Duquan. Could you come here? 530 00:29:03,042 --> 00:29:07,911 I thought maybe you could help me out. I packed too much. 531 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:28,932 Take this down to the cafeteria 532 00:29:28,934 --> 00:29:32,002 and get yourself something to drink from the machine. 533 00:29:32,805 --> 00:29:34,204 Thank you. 534 00:29:42,782 --> 00:29:45,449 Crystal, you got a second? 535 00:29:48,487 --> 00:29:49,787 What's up with Duquan? 536 00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:52,256 I gave him some new clothes. I was expecting 537 00:29:52,258 --> 00:29:54,825 He might have lost them. 538 00:29:54,827 --> 00:29:56,894 That fast? 539 00:29:57,963 --> 00:29:58,796 It weren't that. 540 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:02,800 His people take his clothes, sell it on the corners. 541 00:30:02,802 --> 00:30:03,567 You're kidding. 542 00:30:03,569 --> 00:30:06,170 No, sir. Everybody knows. 543 00:30:09,842 --> 00:30:11,341 Which brings me to what we're proposing. 544 00:30:11,343 --> 00:30:12,843 Different kids, different approaches. 545 00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:16,180 You tell us who we need to touch at North Avenue to get the go-ahead. 546 00:30:16,182 --> 00:30:20,250 The puzzle palace? Look. If y'all still want to jump in and help, 547 00:30:20,252 --> 00:30:21,218 I'm fine with it. 548 00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:23,987 That's about all the ok you need in my house. 549 00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:25,556 ( knock on door ) 550 00:30:25,558 --> 00:30:29,426 The Stricker Street situation is waiting in the office. 551 00:30:29,428 --> 00:30:30,327 ( exhales ) 552 00:30:30,329 --> 00:30:34,364 Neighborhood squabbles, and my babies bring it in here. 553 00:30:34,366 --> 00:30:35,365 Two fights yesterday, 554 00:30:35,367 --> 00:30:38,168 all because the mothers can't get along. 555 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:40,237 I got to go. 556 00:30:40,239 --> 00:30:43,473 Mrs. Donnelly will work out the nuts and bolts. 557 00:30:43,475 --> 00:30:46,009 But, just so you hear it, thank you. 558 00:30:46,011 --> 00:30:51,148 It'll be the only time anyone in this system will think to say it. 559 00:30:53,552 --> 00:30:56,086 He's a good man. You need to protect him. 560 00:30:56,088 --> 00:30:56,587 Protect him? 561 00:30:56,589 --> 00:30:58,522 Principal Withers just went out on a limb for you, 562 00:30:58,524 --> 00:31:02,125 and in this system, they know how to handle a chainsaw. 563 00:31:02,127 --> 00:31:03,260 ( chuckle ) 564 00:31:03,262 --> 00:31:04,261 Parenti: Excuse me? 565 00:31:04,263 --> 00:31:07,130 Anyone has a problem with what we're doing, 566 00:31:07,132 --> 00:31:08,398 it's on him. 567 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,135 So, you specified eighth graders? 568 00:31:12,137 --> 00:31:16,073 We have 256 on roll. 569 00:31:16,075 --> 00:31:17,608 241 attend on a regular basis. 570 00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:22,045 Of those, 40 or so would fit your bill of corner kids. 571 00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:24,481 40? 572 00:31:24,483 --> 00:31:27,651 Pretty workable. 573 00:31:27,653 --> 00:31:29,553 Ahem. 574 00:31:29,555 --> 00:31:30,554 What would you suggest? 575 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:33,891 Start with 10 or so. Ms. Sampson has enough to get you going. 576 00:31:33,893 --> 00:31:35,559 One of them named Namond Brice? 577 00:31:35,561 --> 00:31:36,660 Pick of the litter. 578 00:31:36,662 --> 00:31:39,997 But you'll have to wait. He's on a three day suspension. 579 00:31:49,675 --> 00:31:51,174 Remember when I was cadet, 580 00:31:51,176 --> 00:31:53,143 I was up here on a cadaver search. 581 00:31:53,145 --> 00:31:55,012 Instructor gets on the radio to say, 582 00:31:55,014 --> 00:31:57,347 we're looking for one body in particular. 583 00:31:57,349 --> 00:32:00,984 "If you go grabbing everyone you see, 584 00:32:00,986 --> 00:32:03,053 we'll be here all day," he says. 585 00:32:03,055 --> 00:32:05,322 Heh heh heh! Leakin park, 586 00:32:05,324 --> 00:32:08,125 where West Baltimore brings out its dead. 587 00:32:08,127 --> 00:32:10,594 Not anymore, from the look of things. 588 00:32:11,063 --> 00:32:14,031 Not by the roadside, anyway. 589 00:32:15,334 --> 00:32:17,167 If he's dumping them here, 590 00:32:17,169 --> 00:32:19,970 he's dumping them deep in the woods. 591 00:32:21,173 --> 00:32:23,941 - ( sigh ) - Come on. 592 00:32:23,943 --> 00:32:25,208 At each raid site, 593 00:32:25,210 --> 00:32:29,613 we're anticipating dope or cash or guns. 594 00:32:29,615 --> 00:32:32,182 All warrants are for prime locations 595 00:32:32,184 --> 00:32:34,184 linked to high-level violators. 596 00:32:34,186 --> 00:32:37,321 Weeks old addresses linked to low-level corner boys. 597 00:32:37,323 --> 00:32:40,090 We'll also be sweeping drug corners at these locations. 598 00:32:40,092 --> 00:32:42,626 Wagons will hold in this location here. 599 00:32:43,128 --> 00:32:44,594 Jump-off time, 1500 hours. 600 00:32:44,596 --> 00:32:49,132 We take our position 10 minutes before the assault, here. 601 00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:51,601 The go is on my say-so. 602 00:32:52,705 --> 00:32:54,571 Questions? Excellent. 603 00:32:54,573 --> 00:32:58,408 We'll hold the rec room till it's time to stage. 604 00:33:04,383 --> 00:33:05,315 Warrants are one thing, 605 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:08,018 but street sweeps on Marlo Stanfield's crews? 606 00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:08,685 Are you guys serious? 607 00:33:08,687 --> 00:33:11,254 Carv, you give these hoodle-heads too much credit. 608 00:33:11,256 --> 00:33:13,623 Trust me on this, boy wonder. 609 00:33:13,625 --> 00:33:16,059 Never mind this horseshit. 610 00:33:16,061 --> 00:33:18,128 So what've they got you doing for your man? 611 00:33:18,130 --> 00:33:20,263 Who, the Lieutenant? 612 00:33:20,265 --> 00:33:21,331 No, Royce. 613 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:22,532 Herc, the Mayor's your meal ticket. 614 00:33:22,534 --> 00:33:25,035 He gets another four years, you're liable to wear the gold braids. 615 00:33:25,037 --> 00:33:29,039 Shouldn't you be out waving a campaign sign or some shit? 616 00:33:33,145 --> 00:33:37,381 And so ends the last crusade of the major crimes unit. 617 00:33:37,383 --> 00:33:38,482 With a whimper. 618 00:33:38,484 --> 00:33:43,453 Lester would cry to see his wiretap cannibalized for that crap. 619 00:33:43,455 --> 00:33:47,424 I mean, Street sweeps on Marlo Stanfield? 620 00:33:50,162 --> 00:33:51,395 So what else you got cooking? 621 00:33:51,397 --> 00:33:52,162 Narcotics cases? 622 00:33:52,164 --> 00:33:54,698 C.I.D. Has the Burman indictment coming in. 623 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,266 Nothing past that. 624 00:33:56,268 --> 00:33:59,469 As wars go, this drug thing seems to rate less and less. 625 00:33:59,638 --> 00:34:04,541 If Demper wins and manages to forgive my trespasses, 626 00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:07,277 maybe I'll go in and beg for something new. 627 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:08,378 I don't know. 628 00:34:08,380 --> 00:34:10,714 Just...feels like enough's enough. 629 00:34:11,350 --> 00:34:12,616 ( telephone ringing ) 630 00:34:12,618 --> 00:34:16,386 Officer: Crutchfield. Line two. Intake. 631 00:34:19,191 --> 00:34:20,824 Sergeant, you were looking for me? 632 00:34:20,826 --> 00:34:21,825 I was, yeah. 633 00:34:21,827 --> 00:34:26,196 Curly fry? Chicken doohickey? 634 00:34:26,198 --> 00:34:27,531 Sit down. 635 00:34:32,771 --> 00:34:36,173 Norris is back on the Braddock case. 636 00:34:36,175 --> 00:34:37,507 It's by order of the Deputy Ops. 637 00:34:37,509 --> 00:34:41,411 In fact, we're gonna go with a story that says he was never off the case, 638 00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:45,115 that you and he are partnered, a task force of two, 639 00:34:45,117 --> 00:34:47,350 working it together. 640 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,420 - Fuck you, fat man. - Heh heh! 641 00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:54,257 Not original, but succinct. I like your approach. 642 00:34:54,259 --> 00:34:57,594 Y'all humiliate me once by dropping me into this thing, 643 00:34:57,596 --> 00:34:59,196 and now you're gonna shame me again 644 00:34:59,198 --> 00:35:01,398 by bringing Norris back. 645 00:35:13,812 --> 00:35:15,312 ( sigh ) 646 00:35:15,314 --> 00:35:16,513 This is homicide, Detective. 647 00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:17,614 This is not some boiler room unit 648 00:35:17,616 --> 00:35:21,418 where no one pays attention to whatever the fuck it is you call police work. 649 00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:25,522 The bosses? They know our names up here. 650 00:35:25,524 --> 00:35:27,824 Now, I didn't like it when they came to me 651 00:35:27,826 --> 00:35:29,392 and told me to dump Norris, 652 00:35:29,394 --> 00:35:30,427 but dump him I did. 653 00:35:30,429 --> 00:35:31,795 And it's not like I want to carry water for them 654 00:35:31,797 --> 00:35:35,565 now that they're pretending they never told me to do any such thing, 655 00:35:35,567 --> 00:35:37,167 but carry the water I will. 656 00:35:37,169 --> 00:35:37,801 And in the end, 657 00:35:37,803 --> 00:35:40,904 when everyone else in this unit is buried and beshitted, 658 00:35:40,906 --> 00:35:45,375 this Detective Sergeant will still be standing. 659 00:35:46,645 --> 00:35:49,779 So...get the story straight. 660 00:35:49,781 --> 00:35:51,281 Norris was always the primary, 661 00:35:51,283 --> 00:35:53,517 and you are now assisting on an investigation 662 00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:56,453 which is progressing even as we speak. 663 00:35:56,455 --> 00:35:59,222 Does the Colonel know about this? 664 00:36:00,292 --> 00:36:04,594 He's in the hospital. Chemo didn't work. 665 00:36:07,733 --> 00:36:10,433 Press conference is upstairs in half an hour. 666 00:36:10,435 --> 00:36:13,336 - So don't be late. - Press conference? 667 00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:15,338 Mm-hmm. 668 00:36:20,846 --> 00:36:23,580 I ain't mean to laugh at you none. 669 00:36:23,582 --> 00:36:26,750 I know it sound crazy, but I ain't joking. 670 00:36:26,752 --> 00:36:28,318 For real, Lex a zombie. 671 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,921 I knew it way before what Nay and them was saying. 672 00:36:30,923 --> 00:36:33,256 Listen. 673 00:36:33,258 --> 00:36:35,959 They had me tell Lex to go up to the playground. 674 00:36:35,961 --> 00:36:38,595 I told him to go up there and see some girl. 675 00:36:38,597 --> 00:36:40,497 He ain't never come back down. 676 00:36:40,499 --> 00:36:43,633 So what they gonna do to me when they get mad at me? 677 00:36:43,635 --> 00:36:46,203 It makes sense Chris taking them into the vacants 678 00:36:46,205 --> 00:36:48,638 to change them... and you know what else. 679 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,273 Dukie: That ain't what he's doing. 680 00:36:50,275 --> 00:36:52,876 Chris and the vacants... changing them? 681 00:36:55,247 --> 00:36:56,746 He ain't changing them, he killing them. 682 00:36:56,748 --> 00:36:59,416 That's all. They're getting killed. 683 00:36:59,418 --> 00:37:00,817 How you know? 684 00:37:04,256 --> 00:37:06,323 Can't tell nobody. 685 00:37:07,926 --> 00:37:09,593 I seen it. 686 00:37:09,595 --> 00:37:14,831 I seen them walk a boy up into one house over there on Calhoun. 687 00:37:14,833 --> 00:37:17,367 You seen that? 688 00:37:17,369 --> 00:37:19,369 Yeah. 689 00:37:19,371 --> 00:37:20,503 Rawls That's just false. 690 00:37:20,505 --> 00:37:23,340 Detective Norris has been working this case nonstop, 691 00:37:23,342 --> 00:37:24,608 and given her narcotics expertise, 692 00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:29,346 Detective Greggs was assigned to augment rather than to replace him. 693 00:37:29,348 --> 00:37:31,815 But for two days, sources inside the department were saying-- 694 00:37:31,817 --> 00:37:35,819 I'm inside the department, and I'm telling you that's not true. 695 00:37:35,821 --> 00:37:37,621 We do not play politics with a criminal investigation. 696 00:37:37,623 --> 00:37:40,523 Reporter: And how do you explain Councilman Gray's allegations? 697 00:37:40,525 --> 00:37:44,628 Rawls: I think you should ask Councilman Gray that question. 698 00:37:45,530 --> 00:37:46,997 ( tires screech ) 699 00:37:50,702 --> 00:37:52,636 Police! Search warrant! 700 00:37:52,838 --> 00:37:53,637 Take the back. 701 00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:55,839 - Officer: On the ground, now! - Police! Search warrant! 702 00:37:55,841 --> 00:37:57,707 Officer 2: Two upstairs. 703 00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:02,412 - Officer 3: Don't move! - Officer 4: Check that back room. 704 00:38:02,414 --> 00:38:04,047 Officer 5: I said, get your ass on the ground. 705 00:38:04,049 --> 00:38:06,449 - Officer 4: Get down! - Officer 5: Get down! 706 00:38:10,322 --> 00:38:12,355 ( tires screeching ) 707 00:38:15,594 --> 00:38:18,361 Officer 6: This is the 1300 block, right? 708 00:38:18,363 --> 00:38:19,462 No, this is the 12. 709 00:38:19,464 --> 00:38:21,831 Officer 7: Are we on the right corner? 710 00:38:22,934 --> 00:38:24,501 We had this as a stash house? 711 00:38:24,503 --> 00:38:25,502 According to the wiretap. 712 00:38:25,504 --> 00:38:28,471 How long ago? They move them around, you know. 713 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,479 Zeroes on the warrants. 714 00:38:36,481 --> 00:38:38,682 Minor arrests on the designated corners, sir. 715 00:38:38,684 --> 00:38:40,550 - They were tipped! - You think? 716 00:38:40,552 --> 00:38:41,918 Marimow: For us to come up this empty 717 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,453 at all these locations, it has to be. 718 00:38:43,455 --> 00:38:46,556 This cocksucker Marlo thinks he's smarter than us? 719 00:38:46,558 --> 00:38:47,490 He is not. 720 00:38:47,492 --> 00:38:48,958 Sergeant, I want to know where he hangs. 721 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,493 You mean like him personally? 722 00:38:50,495 --> 00:38:53,396 He moves around, Lieutenant. He floats but I have seen him 723 00:38:53,398 --> 00:38:55,065 - in the concrete park behind Fulton. - In a park? 724 00:38:55,067 --> 00:38:57,701 If the weather's right, he sits out there in some lawn chairs, holds court. 725 00:38:57,703 --> 00:39:00,103 He's got people covering every approach so there's no creeping up on him. 726 00:39:00,105 --> 00:39:04,674 My guess is that he likes to talk outdoors so no one can drop a microphone on him. 727 00:39:04,676 --> 00:39:08,712 Sergeant, what can we do with that? 728 00:39:10,949 --> 00:39:13,116 ( sirens ) 729 00:39:15,620 --> 00:39:18,421 I admit I've made some mistakes, 730 00:39:18,423 --> 00:39:20,023 Burrell being one of the biggest, 731 00:39:20,025 --> 00:39:23,460 but he's got a job for about 10 more days. 732 00:39:23,462 --> 00:39:27,030 After the primary, he's gone, believe me. 733 00:39:27,032 --> 00:39:30,767 And that last stunt pulling a detective. 734 00:39:30,769 --> 00:39:32,469 What'd you expect? 735 00:39:32,471 --> 00:39:34,070 Not that. 736 00:39:34,606 --> 00:39:37,907 Hey. I had nothing to do with that nonsense. 737 00:39:37,909 --> 00:39:39,075 Now, that's a straight up lie. 738 00:39:39,077 --> 00:39:41,611 I was at that damn meeting when you told him, 739 00:39:41,613 --> 00:39:42,846 "slow the case down." 740 00:39:42,848 --> 00:39:43,780 Royce: I didn't mean-- 741 00:39:43,782 --> 00:39:47,550 Who the hell knows what you mean anymore, Clarence? 742 00:39:47,552 --> 00:39:49,819 Look at this. 743 00:39:50,522 --> 00:39:52,422 Well, look at it! 744 00:39:52,424 --> 00:39:55,625 You gave me your word on this. 745 00:39:55,627 --> 00:39:56,860 Your word, Clarence. 746 00:39:56,862 --> 00:40:00,497 But here you are ticketed up with Eunetta in her best precincts 747 00:40:00,499 --> 00:40:03,099 and then ticketed up with my girl Daniels, 748 00:40:03,101 --> 00:40:04,801 where she's running strong. 749 00:40:04,803 --> 00:40:06,603 Odell, this is the first I've seen this. 750 00:40:06,605 --> 00:40:07,537 Come on, now! 751 00:40:07,539 --> 00:40:10,440 This is probably Eunetta's people pulling this shit. 752 00:40:10,442 --> 00:40:12,876 With a "Citizens for Royce" authority line? 753 00:40:12,878 --> 00:40:16,513 Eh. Look at you, Clarence. Just look at you. 754 00:40:16,515 --> 00:40:19,749 You've forgotten your agenda. You've forgotten your base. 755 00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:24,754 You think a shave and some Marcus Garvey posters are gonna get you over? 756 00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:25,855 Do you think that's gonna make up 757 00:40:25,857 --> 00:40:28,758 for jumping in bed with every damn developer? 758 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,495 Shit. You're even on Clay Davis' tit. 759 00:40:32,497 --> 00:40:35,598 Now, don't you go getting all self-righteous with me, Odell. 760 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,768 - Campaign runs on dollars. You know it. - Whose dollars? 761 00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:42,572 Those sons of bitches you got around your card table every month 762 00:40:42,574 --> 00:40:45,074 feeding your kitty? Oh, yeah. 763 00:40:45,076 --> 00:40:46,910 I know about that, too. 764 00:40:46,912 --> 00:40:50,480 You-- trouble with you-- 765 00:40:50,482 --> 00:40:51,448 Fuck you, Clarence. 766 00:40:51,450 --> 00:40:54,083 I'm gonna sit what's left of this one out. 767 00:40:54,085 --> 00:40:55,452 I'm gonna sit it out. 768 00:40:55,454 --> 00:40:56,553 Sit it out. 769 00:40:56,555 --> 00:40:59,055 - The primary? - Odell: Sit it out! 770 00:40:59,858 --> 00:41:01,491 Odell! 771 00:41:01,493 --> 00:41:01,925 Odell! 772 00:41:01,927 --> 00:41:03,893 Who the hell do you think you are, huh? 773 00:41:03,895 --> 00:41:06,963 Come November, I'm still gonna be the only game in town! 774 00:41:06,965 --> 00:41:09,232 Odell, turn your back on me now, I won't forget! 775 00:41:09,234 --> 00:41:10,233 We can't afford this. 776 00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:13,536 We need his organization on Tuesday. Go after him! 777 00:41:13,538 --> 00:41:18,208 Fuck that holier-than-thou-- motherfucker! 778 00:41:19,211 --> 00:41:20,944 Delegate Watkins. 779 00:41:21,613 --> 00:41:23,713 Delegate Watkins! 780 00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:24,848 Wait, sir. 781 00:41:24,850 --> 00:41:27,917 I'm sure we can work this out. 782 00:41:27,919 --> 00:41:30,653 You and the mayor can talk this through. 783 00:41:40,899 --> 00:41:43,700 Deputy Rawls, please. 784 00:41:43,702 --> 00:41:46,970 It's Lieutenant Hoskins at the hall. 785 00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:09,592 Dozerman: You're gonna use the hole in the wall, right? 786 00:42:09,594 --> 00:42:11,094 Herc: Yeah, I'm gonna rub some dog shit 787 00:42:11,096 --> 00:42:12,629 on the front of this thing. 788 00:42:12,631 --> 00:42:15,131 I don't want nobody touching it. 789 00:42:18,537 --> 00:42:20,770 Got it? 790 00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,613 You need to raise it a bit. 791 00:42:38,223 --> 00:42:42,091 Yeah, that's good. Right there, that works. 792 00:42:45,263 --> 00:42:46,863 Thought I heard something. 793 00:42:46,865 --> 00:42:49,065 Rats. How we doing? 794 00:42:49,067 --> 00:42:50,733 We need to go. 795 00:43:30,709 --> 00:43:33,610 He ain't nothing but a skanky-ass bitch to begin with, 796 00:43:33,612 --> 00:43:37,080 and besides, he ex-police, so you know what that like. 797 00:43:38,183 --> 00:43:39,983 I'm going to the ladies room. 798 00:43:39,985 --> 00:43:42,719 Bey, you need to talk to him. 799 00:43:46,625 --> 00:43:48,191 Yo, Daddy, don't even go there, 800 00:43:48,193 --> 00:43:49,325 with you all the time telling me 801 00:43:49,327 --> 00:43:50,927 how you dropped out in the sixth grade, 802 00:43:50,929 --> 00:43:52,629 went up on the corner with Avon and Stringer. 803 00:43:52,631 --> 00:43:55,765 Earned cheese for the family, saying how it made you a man-- 804 00:43:55,767 --> 00:43:57,700 All right, all right. You right. 805 00:43:57,702 --> 00:43:59,669 Can't throw rocks. But I'm just saying. 806 00:43:59,671 --> 00:44:02,372 You know how your mother be, with all the fussing. 807 00:44:02,374 --> 00:44:05,008 Maybe you just need to slow it up. 808 00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:06,643 You know what I'm saying? 809 00:44:06,645 --> 00:44:08,077 Yo, you heard how Marlo punked Bodie? 810 00:44:08,079 --> 00:44:10,947 Said he either got to work for him or give up his corner. 811 00:44:10,949 --> 00:44:13,883 Don't you know, his sorry ass buckled. 812 00:44:13,885 --> 00:44:15,852 Ohh. You'd have gone about it different? 813 00:44:15,854 --> 00:44:18,221 Yeah, I'd have stood tall, like you. 814 00:44:18,356 --> 00:44:20,156 Got my 9. Fuck Chris and them. 815 00:44:20,158 --> 00:44:22,759 Listen to you, all spit and fire. 816 00:44:22,761 --> 00:44:24,861 You'd have gone to the mattress all by your lonesome 817 00:44:24,863 --> 00:44:27,764 and went up against half of the West Side. 818 00:44:27,766 --> 00:44:28,965 You got it where it counts, 819 00:44:28,967 --> 00:44:31,034 and I respect that more than anything. 820 00:44:31,036 --> 00:44:32,068 But shit out there now? 821 00:44:32,070 --> 00:44:35,238 It ain't like it was when we was coming up. 822 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:36,172 Back in the day, 823 00:44:36,174 --> 00:44:38,174 a punk nigger like Marlo steps out, 824 00:44:38,176 --> 00:44:39,375 breaking the rules and shit, 825 00:44:39,377 --> 00:44:41,944 he find himself in the back of a car trunk 826 00:44:41,946 --> 00:44:42,945 on the way to Leakin park. 827 00:44:42,947 --> 00:44:45,381 No doubt. We did that shit right. 828 00:44:45,383 --> 00:44:46,315 Word was your bond. 829 00:44:46,317 --> 00:44:50,119 Man looked out for his own, knowing he in a family. 830 00:44:50,121 --> 00:44:51,688 Dig where I'm coming from? 831 00:44:51,690 --> 00:44:55,224 But today, it's all fucked up. 832 00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:58,461 ( music playing ) 833 00:45:12,110 --> 00:45:13,843 These steps. 834 00:45:13,845 --> 00:45:16,946 - Thank you, baby. - You're good to go. 835 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:25,788 ( music playing ) 836 00:45:41,773 --> 00:45:44,340 Say "Omar." 837 00:45:44,342 --> 00:45:46,209 Omar. 838 00:45:57,956 --> 00:45:59,355 Nothing? 839 00:46:00,492 --> 00:46:02,191 We checked both sides of the street 840 00:46:02,193 --> 00:46:04,227 - from here up to Monroe. - Nothing? 841 00:46:04,229 --> 00:46:06,929 Nothing that don't belong in no sewer. 842 00:46:06,931 --> 00:46:08,131 Thanks. 843 00:46:08,133 --> 00:46:10,933 ( music playing on radio ) 844 00:46:15,006 --> 00:46:17,106 Bunk: Other ideas? 845 00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:20,810 Whoo! Ha ha ha! 846 00:46:22,180 --> 00:46:25,815 Blood, bump me off that nigger up the "skreet." 847 00:46:25,817 --> 00:46:27,850 Motherfucker in the "Bruick?" 848 00:46:27,852 --> 00:46:29,318 That'd be him. I be saying, 849 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,555 no motherfucker gonna run off with my "hairron." 850 00:46:32,557 --> 00:46:33,956 Oh, this is fucking great. 851 00:46:33,958 --> 00:46:38,060 Get somebody who reads lips, this motherfucker's history. 852 00:46:38,062 --> 00:46:39,195 Sydnor: Is this legal? 853 00:46:39,197 --> 00:46:40,897 I mean, intercepting what they're saying? 854 00:46:40,899 --> 00:46:42,999 Herc: Don't go Freamon on me. 855 00:46:43,001 --> 00:46:45,434 ( sniffs ) 856 00:46:45,436 --> 00:46:48,104 Shit. I got to run. 857 00:46:48,106 --> 00:46:49,972 Hey, man, what about some fucking relief? 858 00:46:49,974 --> 00:46:52,241 I been here all morning. 859 00:46:54,546 --> 00:46:57,313 ( music playing ) 860 00:47:13,298 --> 00:47:15,464 You heard? 861 00:47:15,466 --> 00:47:16,899 They making movies. 862 00:47:16,901 --> 00:47:19,569 Yeah. How you want to play it? 863 00:47:19,571 --> 00:47:23,606 I ain't sure. Let's see the fat man. 864 00:47:24,142 --> 00:47:27,009 How'd the other thing turn out? 865 00:47:27,011 --> 00:47:28,477 All good. 866 00:47:32,884 --> 00:47:33,916 Monell: Yo. 867 00:47:33,918 --> 00:47:36,018 What up, boy? If you want some, I got Reese's. 868 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:38,955 Nah, man. You trying to make some real cheese? 869 00:47:38,957 --> 00:47:39,889 $5.00? 870 00:47:39,891 --> 00:47:40,523 What you need? 871 00:47:40,525 --> 00:47:43,059 Me and Paul gonna get it on with Tiff. 872 00:47:43,061 --> 00:47:45,962 Keep an eye out. I don't want Mrs. D creeping up. Feel me? 873 00:47:45,964 --> 00:47:47,864 I feel you, but I got some sixth graders 874 00:47:47,866 --> 00:47:49,999 - waiting on a special order. - Let them wait, man. 875 00:47:50,001 --> 00:47:53,169 It ain't like we gonna be all day. 876 00:47:57,141 --> 00:47:58,441 All right. 877 00:48:00,511 --> 00:48:01,878 No, ma'am, it says right here, 878 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,346 his honor had the Bureau of Solid Waste 879 00:48:03,348 --> 00:48:05,181 conduct a clean sweep along Tivoly. 880 00:48:05,183 --> 00:48:07,216 Woman: But it took 6 months before they showed up. 881 00:48:07,218 --> 00:48:09,418 Well, yeah, ok. Well, nobody's perfect. 882 00:48:09,420 --> 00:48:10,987 But hey, listen. I wouldn't be sitting here 883 00:48:10,989 --> 00:48:12,321 if I didn't believe Clarence Royce 884 00:48:12,323 --> 00:48:14,490 wasn't truly committed to this city and its people. 885 00:48:14,492 --> 00:48:16,525 Woman: What about the crime in our neighborhood? 886 00:48:16,527 --> 00:48:18,494 I admit, that's another good point. 887 00:48:18,496 --> 00:48:21,397 But, lady, between you and me, 888 00:48:21,399 --> 00:48:22,932 I can tell from your voice you're black 889 00:48:22,934 --> 00:48:25,167 and you can tell from my voice I'm white. 890 00:48:25,169 --> 00:48:26,335 So I got to ask you, 891 00:48:26,337 --> 00:48:29,405 when do you think the last time a white man voted for a black man 892 00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,173 when there was another white man in the race? 893 00:48:31,175 --> 00:48:33,643 Woman: I don't know, but you must really believe in him. 894 00:48:33,645 --> 00:48:35,311 Well, ain't that what I been saying? 895 00:48:35,313 --> 00:48:37,280 He's just the best candidate. 896 00:48:37,282 --> 00:48:38,347 So you'll go with my man? 897 00:48:38,349 --> 00:48:39,515 Woman: I'll think about it. 898 00:48:39,517 --> 00:48:41,684 All right, that's great. Thank you for your time. 899 00:48:41,686 --> 00:48:44,954 - Woman: All right. - All right. 900 00:48:54,032 --> 00:48:55,164 I have a hall pass. 901 00:48:55,166 --> 00:48:57,066 Yeah, good for you. 902 00:49:41,012 --> 00:49:42,278 Mine's down. 903 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,547 Atta boy. 904 00:49:45,016 --> 00:49:47,483 Bunk: You need bodies, Lester... 905 00:49:47,485 --> 00:49:49,585 here you go. 906 00:49:50,588 --> 00:49:55,691 We got a warrant and a teletype for my boy Lex. 907 00:49:55,693 --> 00:49:57,994 So, dead or alive, he's on file. 908 00:49:57,996 --> 00:50:03,466 And beyond that, it's time for you to shine that mighty intellect of yours 909 00:50:03,468 --> 00:50:04,567 on some real murders. 910 00:50:04,569 --> 00:50:08,371 Give up the hypotheticals and shit. 911 00:50:08,373 --> 00:50:11,340 Yeah, I suppose. 912 00:50:12,143 --> 00:50:13,376 This is my issue-- crime 913 00:50:13,378 --> 00:50:16,012 and I understand completely what you're saying, 914 00:50:16,014 --> 00:50:17,313 and if you give me the opportunity, 915 00:50:17,315 --> 00:50:19,415 I will be able to do something to help you out 916 00:50:19,417 --> 00:50:22,752 and, you know, other people in this neighborhood. 917 00:50:26,524 --> 00:50:29,492 Mr. Ricks, thank you for your time and for your attention. 918 00:50:29,494 --> 00:50:30,526 Ricks: No problem. 919 00:50:30,528 --> 00:50:32,695 - Thank you. - Wilson: Thank you. 920 00:50:33,297 --> 00:50:34,063 Pretty brazen, 921 00:50:34,065 --> 00:50:36,432 shaking hands with the enemy in broad daylight. 922 00:50:36,434 --> 00:50:37,466 ( chuckle ) 923 00:50:37,468 --> 00:50:39,301 Werner's Deli, this isn't. 924 00:50:39,303 --> 00:50:40,302 Definitely not. 925 00:50:40,304 --> 00:50:41,704 Though here you are, Councilman, 926 00:50:41,706 --> 00:50:42,705 leaving no door unopened. 927 00:50:42,707 --> 00:50:44,273 Shoe leather our secret weapon. 928 00:50:44,275 --> 00:50:46,609 You surprised me. You've made this a horse race. 929 00:50:46,611 --> 00:50:49,745 So, ah, what makes me think you didn't just happen by 930 00:50:49,747 --> 00:50:51,414 and find us here? 931 00:50:53,351 --> 00:50:55,718 Watkins is breaking with the mayor. 932 00:50:56,220 --> 00:50:58,521 - How do you know? - I know. 933 00:50:58,523 --> 00:51:01,690 Rawls: I've carried the mayor's water because I had to, Councilman. 934 00:51:01,692 --> 00:51:04,627 I'd love to see some new blood in this city. 935 00:51:04,629 --> 00:51:05,494 And I'd love the chance 936 00:51:05,496 --> 00:51:09,832 to do the right thing for this police department for a change. 937 00:51:28,619 --> 00:51:31,287 Wait until he turns the corner. 938 00:51:34,325 --> 00:51:37,626 District office for Watkins. Gilmor street. 939 00:51:37,628 --> 00:51:40,496 And fuck them red lights, man, 940 00:51:43,468 --> 00:51:45,601 Wilson: ( laughing ) 941 00:51:45,603 --> 00:51:50,306 Not a place you expect to find any gangsters. 942 00:51:50,308 --> 00:51:52,808 Police, for that matter. 943 00:51:53,377 --> 00:51:55,678 Heard you knew something I didn't. 944 00:51:55,847 --> 00:51:57,146 Told you before, 945 00:51:57,148 --> 00:52:00,182 I make it my business to keep an ear to the ground. 946 00:52:00,184 --> 00:52:02,151 I make it my business to do business. 947 00:52:02,153 --> 00:52:04,887 We doing business, or are we just talking? 948 00:52:04,889 --> 00:52:06,222 And if it's talk, I'ma walk. 949 00:52:06,224 --> 00:52:08,691 I heard the people pulling security at the card game 950 00:52:08,693 --> 00:52:11,427 weren't too keen on their wages. 951 00:52:11,429 --> 00:52:12,628 Figured it was only a matter of time 952 00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:16,265 before they found a way to get their due compensation. 953 00:52:16,267 --> 00:52:18,134 And you didn't think to tell me? 954 00:52:18,136 --> 00:52:21,637 Man learns best when he get burned. 955 00:52:22,173 --> 00:52:24,140 How do I know you ain't making this shit up? 956 00:52:24,142 --> 00:52:27,443 You don't. Things happen on the street. 957 00:52:27,645 --> 00:52:30,412 Proof is hard to come by. 958 00:52:34,185 --> 00:52:37,219 Go ahead, open it. 959 00:52:40,424 --> 00:52:44,326 Off the street, there's all kind of proof. 960 00:52:44,328 --> 00:52:47,196 They planning on executing those Friday. 961 00:52:47,198 --> 00:52:49,465 Time it with the election, I guess, 962 00:52:49,467 --> 00:52:50,866 show they doing their job, 963 00:52:50,868 --> 00:52:54,503 cleaning up the city, taking down a kingpin. 964 00:52:54,505 --> 00:52:55,538 How did you come by this? 965 00:52:55,540 --> 00:52:58,908 Told you before, I keep my ear to the ground. 966 00:52:58,910 --> 00:53:00,342 What are you gonna do with it? 967 00:53:00,344 --> 00:53:05,347 Maybe nothing. Charlie's not part of the co-op. 968 00:53:05,950 --> 00:53:07,716 Or maybe I tip him for a fee. 969 00:53:07,718 --> 00:53:12,188 What do you think a man with a whole lot of money 970 00:53:12,190 --> 00:53:16,192 would pay for his freedom? 971 00:53:16,727 --> 00:53:19,195 You know, lately, 972 00:53:19,197 --> 00:53:22,698 I come to find out someone trying to take pictures on me. 973 00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:24,433 Pictures? 974 00:53:24,435 --> 00:53:25,868 Video. 975 00:53:25,870 --> 00:53:29,271 You heard anything about me through your travels? 976 00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:32,508 Had no incentive to listen. 977 00:53:35,746 --> 00:53:37,479 You do now. 978 00:53:51,629 --> 00:53:53,495 It's one thing to sit out the primary. 979 00:53:53,497 --> 00:53:57,766 It's another for me to turn on Clarence Royce. 980 00:53:57,768 --> 00:53:58,434 Granted. 981 00:53:58,436 --> 00:54:02,871 And if I did jump, why not land behind Tony Gray? 982 00:54:02,873 --> 00:54:05,608 At least he's from my side of the tracks. 983 00:54:05,610 --> 00:54:09,445 Tony can't win. I can. 984 00:54:10,248 --> 00:54:12,715 Look. The truth is, whatever I can do for you, 985 00:54:12,717 --> 00:54:14,717 the Mayor can match or double. 986 00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:16,852 I have a pretty good grass roots organization, 987 00:54:16,854 --> 00:54:18,954 but nothing even close to his kind of money. 988 00:54:18,956 --> 00:54:21,290 Now, I'll ticket up with anyone you want me to. 989 00:54:21,292 --> 00:54:24,893 I know you want Daniels in the 11th and Stokes in the 10th. 990 00:54:24,895 --> 00:54:27,563 I'll keep away from any tickets you think I might harm. 991 00:54:27,565 --> 00:54:29,765 I know I'm not everyone's idea of a bargain 992 00:54:29,767 --> 00:54:31,734 - on your side of town. - Hmm. 993 00:54:31,736 --> 00:54:35,571 But right now, a week from the primary, 994 00:54:35,573 --> 00:54:39,575 the fact is, Royce and I both need you. 995 00:54:39,577 --> 00:54:40,643 After the election, 996 00:54:40,645 --> 00:54:43,012 the equation changes for him, but not for me. 997 00:54:43,014 --> 00:54:45,881 I'm a white mayor in a majority-black city, 998 00:54:45,883 --> 00:54:47,449 and if I'm gonna do anything 999 00:54:47,451 --> 00:54:50,519 and, delegate, I am so serious about fixing this city 1000 00:54:50,521 --> 00:54:52,988 I'm gonna have to govern by consensus. 1001 00:54:52,990 --> 00:54:53,856 And if you support me, 1002 00:54:53,858 --> 00:54:55,758 you will have a voice within my administration 1003 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,861 simply because I'm gonna need it. 1004 00:55:01,399 --> 00:55:04,700 Last poll that Clarence showed me, 1005 00:55:04,702 --> 00:55:07,469 he was up by 7 points. 1006 00:55:07,471 --> 00:55:11,006 Bullshit. I'm within 4. 1007 00:55:12,443 --> 00:55:15,010 ( thunder ) 1008 00:55:15,479 --> 00:55:17,780 You won't be needing that. 1009 00:55:17,782 --> 00:55:19,348 I know. 1010 00:55:21,319 --> 00:55:22,551 Here? 1011 00:55:22,553 --> 00:55:24,053 Yeah, here. 1012 00:56:01,525 --> 00:56:02,624 Dag. 1013 00:56:02,626 --> 00:56:05,728 Yo, turn it off. The bulb might have got too hot. 1014 00:56:05,730 --> 00:56:08,397 Michael: Or the batteries dying. 1015 00:56:09,367 --> 00:56:11,533 We should go back. 1016 00:56:14,004 --> 00:56:16,472 Michael: Yo, man, it stinks, man. 1017 00:56:16,474 --> 00:56:18,407 Ain't like it was. 1018 00:56:31,956 --> 00:56:34,123 You see he ain't move. 1019 00:56:37,561 --> 00:56:39,561 Yeah. 1020 00:56:39,563 --> 00:56:42,531 Blood still stuck to his hair. 1021 00:56:42,533 --> 00:56:44,466 He dead? 1022 00:56:44,468 --> 00:56:46,969 He dead. 1023 00:56:46,971 --> 00:56:48,771 Lex, too. 1024 00:56:48,773 --> 00:56:50,839 Dukie: He dead. They all is. 1025 00:56:50,841 --> 00:56:53,142 Feel better? 1026 00:56:54,445 --> 00:56:56,578 Donut wrong, yo. 1027 00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:58,747 Ain't no special dead. 1028 00:57:01,051 --> 00:57:03,819 There's just dead. 1029 00:57:23,574 --> 00:57:27,142 ( theme music playing )