1 00:00:09,177 --> 00:00:12,555 (Mcnulty) That's the witness, the one from the barksdale case. 2 00:00:12,638 --> 00:00:15,099 (Frazier) Gant, William. 41 years. 3 00:00:15,808 --> 00:00:20,271 Single headshot, close range. Bullet pancaked on the inner skull. 4 00:00:26,068 --> 00:00:28,279 - Ain't necessarily what it looks like. - No? 5 00:00:28,362 --> 00:00:30,531 A man's walking down the street in west Baltimore. 6 00:00:30,615 --> 00:00:33,242 That'll catch you a bullet for a half-dozen reasons. 7 00:00:33,326 --> 00:00:35,661 That it will. You run him for a sheet? 8 00:00:35,745 --> 00:00:39,457 Yeah, a couple of disorderlies. Works maintenance at poe homes. 9 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:42,168 Lives alone, no wife, no kids. 10 00:00:42,251 --> 00:00:44,670 Only time his name pops up on the computer 11 00:00:44,754 --> 00:00:46,714 is for being a state witness. 12 00:00:46,797 --> 00:00:48,966 Othennise I don't even make that connection. 13 00:00:49,050 --> 00:00:50,635 (Whirring) 14 00:00:53,471 --> 00:00:58,059 You've got to admit, it don't make sense to ace this motherfucker after he done testified. 15 00:00:58,142 --> 00:00:59,518 Sends a hell of a message. 16 00:00:59,602 --> 00:01:03,564 He's the one hardheaded fuck in the terrace you can't run off or buy out. 17 00:01:03,648 --> 00:01:07,735 If your audience is the high-rises, a move like this cuts through the shit. 18 00:01:07,818 --> 00:01:12,198 - What are you gonna tell the major? - That I caught a stone fucking whodunnit. 19 00:01:12,281 --> 00:01:15,117 - Don't soft-sell the witness angle. - Come on. 20 00:01:15,201 --> 00:01:18,204 Why get the bosses riled before we know for sure? 21 00:01:18,287 --> 00:01:20,706 If I start talking shit that a witness got killed... 22 00:01:20,790 --> 00:01:22,458 - Tell him. - Why? 23 00:01:22,541 --> 00:01:24,377 Just cover yourself on this. 24 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:27,880 Jimmy, you ain't gonna do what I think? 25 00:01:30,341 --> 00:01:32,260 Listen to me. 26 00:01:32,343 --> 00:01:35,221 This shit is gonna jump up and bite you in your ass. 27 00:01:35,304 --> 00:01:37,723 Just cover yourself. 28 00:01:37,807 --> 00:01:41,769 - What the hell was that about? - Nothing. 29 00:01:49,277 --> 00:01:52,363 If you walk through the garden 30 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:55,616 you better watch your back 31 00:01:56,659 --> 00:01:59,912 well, I beg your pardon 32 00:02:00,496 --> 00:02:02,915 walk the straight and narrow track 33 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:06,919 if you walk with Jesus 34 00:02:08,713 --> 00:02:11,549 he 7! Save your soul 35 00:02:12,883 --> 00:02:14,844 you gotta keep the devil 36 00:02:15,803 --> 00:02:17,680 down in the hole 37 00:02:19,598 --> 00:02:22,351 all the angels sing 38 00:02:23,269 --> 00:02:25,730 about Jesus' mighty sword 39 00:02:26,856 --> 00:02:29,734 and they shield you with their wings 40 00:02:30,526 --> 00:02:33,738 keep you close to the lord 41 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:37,325 don't pay heed to temptation 42 00:02:38,367 --> 00:02:41,912 for his hands are so cold 43 00:02:42,872 --> 00:02:45,374 you gotta keep the devil 44 00:02:45,791 --> 00:02:49,378 way down in the hole 45 00:02:57,511 --> 00:02:59,722 Way down in the hole 46 00:03:01,349 --> 00:03:03,601 way down in the hole 47 00:03:05,186 --> 00:03:08,230 way down in the hole 48 00:03:08,314 --> 00:03:11,442 way down in the hole 49 00:03:27,458 --> 00:03:29,627 - Morning. - (Elevator bell pings) 50 00:04:19,343 --> 00:04:21,178 Jesus Christ. 51 00:04:30,855 --> 00:04:33,107 Goddamn. 52 00:04:33,190 --> 00:04:36,569 Who do you got to fuck in this town to get a real office? 53 00:04:36,652 --> 00:04:39,738 - (Phone) - At least that works. 54 00:04:50,791 --> 00:04:53,544 - It was for mcnulty. - (Laughter) 55 00:04:56,172 --> 00:04:58,466 - (Mcnulty) I shouldn't be here. - Then you shouldn't. 56 00:04:58,549 --> 00:05:01,469 They killed a fucking witness out of your court. 57 00:05:01,552 --> 00:05:04,138 You told me. You did your civic duty. 58 00:05:04,221 --> 00:05:07,516 Under the power vested in me by the circuit court for Baltimore city, 59 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,810 I absolve you of your sins, detective. 60 00:05:09,894 --> 00:05:11,854 You are my sin, you know that? 61 00:05:11,937 --> 00:05:15,316 For talking to you, my major is ready to cut my throat. 62 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,568 Jimmy, you knew I was gonna make that call. 63 00:05:17,651 --> 00:05:21,697 I didn't think you would hang me out on the line in a shitstorm. 64 00:05:22,364 --> 00:05:24,742 It's not like it was when I was a prosecutor. 65 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:28,412 - I'm a judge now. The rules are different. - You missed a spot. 66 00:05:28,496 --> 00:05:30,498 Yeah, well, what's done is done. 67 00:05:31,582 --> 00:05:34,543 Question is, what do you want me to do now? 68 00:05:34,627 --> 00:05:38,589 - You can leverage the deputy ops with a call. - He's already detailed people. 69 00:05:38,672 --> 00:05:42,885 Some detail. Asshole lieutenant thinks he can buy-bust his way to avon barksdale. 70 00:05:42,968 --> 00:05:44,470 You want leverage? 71 00:05:44,553 --> 00:05:48,516 We give the dead-witness angle to the newspapers. Stir some real shit. 72 00:05:48,599 --> 00:05:50,684 That tips barksdale we're working him. 73 00:05:50,768 --> 00:05:53,354 - We don't want to go public. - No? 74 00:05:53,437 --> 00:05:57,274 Just put it to the deputy ops you lost a witness who testified in your court, 75 00:05:57,358 --> 00:06:00,319 forcing the department to commit to the investigation. 76 00:06:00,402 --> 00:06:04,365 And when you call burrell this time, will you forget my fucking name? 77 00:06:11,956 --> 00:06:15,209 - You missed a spot. - Why don't you fucking do it? 78 00:06:15,292 --> 00:06:16,961 Seniority. 79 00:06:30,975 --> 00:06:32,726 (Knocks) 80 00:06:32,810 --> 00:06:35,479 - You found us. - Wasn't easy. 81 00:06:35,563 --> 00:06:39,024 - You asked for these guys? - I asked for more manpower. 82 00:06:41,110 --> 00:06:42,945 Have a seat. 83 00:06:47,449 --> 00:06:48,659 (Gunshot) 84 00:06:51,370 --> 00:06:53,372 What the fuck... 85 00:06:55,165 --> 00:06:56,625 Sir, I... 86 00:06:56,709 --> 00:06:59,253 He was showing me the trigger pull on his glock. 87 00:06:59,336 --> 00:07:02,965 - And he was just... - Detective? 88 00:07:04,008 --> 00:07:06,677 Officer pryzbylewski shot the wall, lieutenant. 89 00:07:08,637 --> 00:07:11,140 Why did you shoot the wall, pryzbylewski? 90 00:07:11,223 --> 00:07:15,603 I was just showing carv how my trigger pull is light, you know. 91 00:07:15,686 --> 00:07:18,689 - I got it so it's real light. - He took the clip out, boss. 92 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,150 But not the one in the chamber. 93 00:07:21,233 --> 00:07:24,528 No, I forgot the one in the chamber 94 00:07:24,612 --> 00:07:27,323 and, uh... well... 95 00:07:27,406 --> 00:07:29,575 Shit, I'm sorry, lieutenant. 96 00:07:30,576 --> 00:07:32,953 - You want him to write on it? - Write on what? 97 00:07:33,037 --> 00:07:37,374 You let one go, you got to write. You got to justify the use of deadly force. 98 00:07:38,083 --> 00:07:39,585 Against a plaster wall. 99 00:07:41,503 --> 00:07:44,465 It's an accident, ok? Give me a fucking break. 100 00:07:45,132 --> 00:07:48,469 - Your name is what? - Pryzbylewski. 101 00:07:50,554 --> 00:07:53,557 From auto unit, right? Cantrell sent you. 102 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:56,393 Not exactly. 103 00:07:56,477 --> 00:08:01,440 Lieutenant cantrell sent me to casualty section a couple of months back. 104 00:08:01,523 --> 00:08:03,984 And I asked out of casualty. 105 00:08:04,068 --> 00:08:05,527 (Sniggering) 106 00:08:08,030 --> 00:08:10,574 You came here from casualty section? 107 00:08:12,785 --> 00:08:14,787 Man, these shits is right, yo. 108 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,790 - Mm-hm. - (Pager bleeps) 109 00:08:19,333 --> 00:08:22,544 - It's good with the hot sauce, too. - Most definite. 110 00:08:23,253 --> 00:08:26,590 - Yo, d, want some nuggets? - No, go ahead, man. 111 00:08:26,674 --> 00:08:29,718 Man, whoever invented these, he off the hook. 112 00:08:29,802 --> 00:08:31,261 Word! 113 00:08:31,345 --> 00:08:35,099 Mm. Motherfucker got the bone all the way out the damn chicken. 114 00:08:35,182 --> 00:08:38,018 Till he came along, niggers be chewing on drumsticks, 115 00:08:38,102 --> 00:08:40,062 getting they fingers all greasy. 116 00:08:40,145 --> 00:08:42,106 He said, "later," to the bone. 117 00:08:42,189 --> 00:08:44,566 Nugget that meat up, make some real money. 118 00:08:45,192 --> 00:08:47,444 - You think the man got paid? - Who? 119 00:08:47,528 --> 00:08:50,698 - Man who invented these. - He richer than a motherfucker. 120 00:08:50,781 --> 00:08:53,617 Why? You think he get a percentage? 121 00:08:54,368 --> 00:08:56,704 - Why not? - Nigger, please. 122 00:08:56,787 --> 00:09:01,083 The man who invented them, some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonald's 123 00:09:01,166 --> 00:09:03,711 thinking up shit to make money for the real players. 124 00:09:03,794 --> 00:09:06,463 - No man, that ain't right. - Fuck right. 125 00:09:06,547 --> 00:09:08,757 It ain't about right, it's about money. 126 00:09:08,841 --> 00:09:11,760 You think Ronald McDonald gonna go down that basement 127 00:09:11,844 --> 00:09:14,263 and say, "Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. 128 00:09:14,346 --> 00:09:17,349 "We selling chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. 129 00:09:17,433 --> 00:09:21,687 "So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you." 130 00:09:21,770 --> 00:09:23,105 Shit. 131 00:09:23,689 --> 00:09:27,609 The nigger who invented them things, still in the basement on regular wage 132 00:09:27,693 --> 00:09:31,280 thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better. 133 00:09:31,363 --> 00:09:33,198 Believe. 134 00:09:36,869 --> 00:09:38,871 He still had the idea, though. 135 00:09:42,791 --> 00:09:45,836 (Hip-hop playing, children chattering) 136 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:47,254 Who? 137 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:50,340 Polk and pat mahone. A couple of drunks from property. 138 00:09:50,424 --> 00:09:52,301 - I don't know them. - Why would you? 139 00:09:52,384 --> 00:09:54,762 - They haven't made a case in 10 years. - (Laughs) 140 00:09:54,845 --> 00:09:58,182 Also got handed some kid. Prezbelowski or prezbelewski... 141 00:09:58,265 --> 00:10:01,769 - Pryzbylewski. Him, I know. - Yeah? 142 00:10:01,852 --> 00:10:05,230 - Why was he in casualty section? - He shot up his own car. 143 00:10:05,314 --> 00:10:07,649 - You remember? - He did what? 144 00:10:07,733 --> 00:10:11,278 He fired two clips into an unmarked car, out in west Baltimore. 145 00:10:11,361 --> 00:10:15,324 Called in a signal 13 on the radio, like he was under fire from a sniper. 146 00:10:15,407 --> 00:10:17,451 You didn't hear about that? 147 00:10:17,534 --> 00:10:22,247 He stuck to his story until ballistics matched the bullet to his off-duty weapon. 148 00:10:22,331 --> 00:10:25,459 - We almost indicted him for false report. - Why didn't you? 149 00:10:25,542 --> 00:10:28,504 He's got some kind of suction with the mayor's office. 150 00:10:28,587 --> 00:10:31,632 My point is, I can't build much with the garbage they sent me. 151 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:35,177 So go to the deputy. You've got his ear on this. 152 00:10:36,887 --> 00:10:38,555 Why not? 153 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:40,641 I ask the deputy for manpower. 154 00:10:40,724 --> 00:10:44,144 He tells property to send two men, and special to send two more. 155 00:10:44,228 --> 00:10:47,606 Those shift lieutenants know it's a chance to dump their dead wood. 156 00:10:47,689 --> 00:10:49,983 The deputy, he knows this, too. 157 00:10:50,192 --> 00:10:52,361 He could have offered to let me pick but didn't. 158 00:10:52,444 --> 00:10:55,572 - He sent me a message on this. - And the message is? 159 00:10:55,656 --> 00:10:58,200 Don't dig in, don't get fancy. 160 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:00,911 Put a quick charge on this barksdale and then get out. 161 00:11:00,994 --> 00:11:04,248 If he sends me good police, I might do good police work. 162 00:11:05,874 --> 00:11:08,585 - But if the state's attorney's office... - No. 163 00:11:17,719 --> 00:11:19,930 (Daniels sighs) 164 00:11:21,473 --> 00:11:23,100 Rhonda, darling... 165 00:11:23,642 --> 00:11:27,563 It's bad protocol for me to ask for help and then trash the help I'm given. 166 00:11:27,646 --> 00:11:31,358 - You, on the other hand... - No way. My office doesn't play that way. 167 00:11:31,441 --> 00:11:34,278 You people staff your cases, you bring us casework. 168 00:11:34,361 --> 00:11:37,114 I cross that line, I like piss everyone off. 169 00:11:37,781 --> 00:11:39,491 (Sighs) 170 00:11:39,575 --> 00:11:42,494 Best I can do is tell my unit chief that you drew shit. 171 00:11:42,578 --> 00:11:46,206 He wants to call the deputy for operations, that's his choice. 172 00:11:46,290 --> 00:11:48,625 - That won't happen. - Probably not. 173 00:11:51,295 --> 00:11:53,297 Make lemonade. 174 00:11:56,592 --> 00:11:57,885 (Funky drumming) 175 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,239 - (Clattering) - Ah, fuck! 176 00:12:19,323 --> 00:12:21,867 Yo, kima, where you taking us? 177 00:12:21,950 --> 00:12:23,535 - Get down. - What? 178 00:12:23,619 --> 00:12:26,747 Jesus. You all ain't got no creep to you. 179 00:12:27,331 --> 00:12:29,583 Pair of goddamn elephants. 180 00:12:32,586 --> 00:12:35,213 A rusted nail just went through my shoe. 181 00:12:35,297 --> 00:12:38,800 I'm gonna need a tetanus to get behind this bullshit. 182 00:12:42,179 --> 00:12:44,806 - Hey, kima. - Hand me that bag. 183 00:12:50,187 --> 00:12:52,731 Kima, if you don't mind me asking, 184 00:12:52,814 --> 00:12:57,486 when was it that you first figured you liked women better than men? 185 00:12:57,569 --> 00:12:59,363 I mind you asking. 186 00:13:01,865 --> 00:13:04,409 (Drumming continues) 187 00:13:06,662 --> 00:13:09,665 Gentlemen, what's going on there, guys? 188 00:13:09,748 --> 00:13:12,459 - Testers, man, already out. - No. 189 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:16,171 I'm not in need of your services, I'm offering my services to y'all. 190 00:13:16,254 --> 00:13:17,547 What you got in the bag? 191 00:13:17,631 --> 00:13:21,885 One thing a gentleman of color like better than a new pair of downtown shoes 192 00:13:22,052 --> 00:13:24,096 is a downtown brim, right? 193 00:13:52,457 --> 00:13:54,126 What's with the hats? 194 00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:06,263 - (Boy) Five-o! - Five-o! 195 00:14:07,222 --> 00:14:08,807 Shut it down! 196 00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:13,687 Shut it down! 197 00:14:18,442 --> 00:14:19,943 Clean? 198 00:14:44,176 --> 00:14:46,595 (Sirens wailing) 199 00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:52,309 You ain't gonna put that one on me. He a witness. 200 00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:56,271 You picked that shit up off the ground, so don't be trying to put shit on me. 201 00:14:56,354 --> 00:14:58,482 Is that what you think I'm about? 202 00:14:59,649 --> 00:15:01,735 - Boy thinks I'm gonna dirty him. - Hm. 203 00:15:01,818 --> 00:15:04,196 Like y'all won't do it. 204 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:07,115 Western narcos come here, pick shit up off the ground 205 00:15:07,199 --> 00:15:09,201 put it on whoever you please. 206 00:15:09,284 --> 00:15:12,120 Do I know you? 207 00:15:12,204 --> 00:15:15,749 Let's understand each other. I'm not western district. 208 00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:18,335 I'm not a narco. I don't dirty people 209 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:20,629 'cause I don't care about a possession charge. 210 00:15:20,712 --> 00:15:24,174 I'm a murder police, I'm here about the bodies. 211 00:15:25,383 --> 00:15:28,553 D'Angelo here knows that. He remembers me from the trial. 212 00:15:28,637 --> 00:15:32,766 Sitting in back there, behind stringer, watching, listening. 213 00:15:32,849 --> 00:15:35,310 Y'all hassling me about that shit? 214 00:15:35,393 --> 00:15:37,395 I thought you heard what the jury said. 215 00:15:37,479 --> 00:15:40,899 - Fuck the jury. - Yeah, this is just us talking, right? 216 00:15:40,982 --> 00:15:44,444 Just you, me, my partner and... What did you say your name was? 217 00:15:44,528 --> 00:15:46,029 I didn't say shit. 218 00:15:46,196 --> 00:15:48,323 Just you, me, my partner and Mr. Shit here. 219 00:15:49,491 --> 00:15:51,827 We're just talking about how things go, right? 220 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:55,789 We're just sharing our thoughts. Bunk, a vial for your thoughts. 221 00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:59,626 I'm thinking it's one thing for one of you little niggers 222 00:15:59,709 --> 00:16:03,839 to shoot somebody in the 221 building, you know? Who gives a fuck? 223 00:16:03,922 --> 00:16:06,299 - But when you ace a witness... - A working man. 224 00:16:06,383 --> 00:16:08,552 Who ain't even in the game... 225 00:16:09,469 --> 00:16:11,221 You gonna act like this is news? 226 00:16:13,056 --> 00:16:16,810 I tell you this, I don't know shit about shit, but I do know this - 227 00:16:16,893 --> 00:16:20,814 anybody who spend time witnessing shit, you gonna get got. 228 00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:25,819 I know that sounds kinda harsh but that's the way things go around here... 229 00:16:25,902 --> 00:16:27,946 Officer. 230 00:16:29,573 --> 00:16:30,740 Let's roll. 231 00:16:42,627 --> 00:16:46,506 That how you see things, d'Angelo? Like your friend here? 232 00:16:52,095 --> 00:16:55,724 I'm here trying to outfit niggers with something to rile up some pussy. 233 00:16:55,807 --> 00:16:58,685 You don't want to know, bubbles used to get that pussy. 234 00:16:59,769 --> 00:17:02,480 I reckon pussy ain't worth what it used to be 235 00:17:02,564 --> 00:17:05,275 if you can do it without a proper brim. 236 00:17:28,048 --> 00:17:30,383 - Something's up. - What? 237 00:17:31,092 --> 00:17:32,469 Don't know. 238 00:17:35,513 --> 00:17:37,557 Yo, carv. Come here. 239 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,479 You see bubbs put a hat on anybody, you take some pictures. 240 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,564 - Yeah? - Especially the red one. 241 00:17:44,648 --> 00:17:47,734 If you see him put that red hat on anybody's head 242 00:17:47,817 --> 00:17:49,569 snap your fucking fingers off. 243 00:17:49,653 --> 00:17:51,655 Where you going? 244 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:55,367 Yo, carv. Notice that most of the time 245 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:58,161 it's like kima thinks she's above us or something? 246 00:17:58,245 --> 00:18:02,457 I don't see any stripes on her fucking sleeve. I don't see that. 247 00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:05,252 All I see is some stuck-up dyke bitch 248 00:18:05,335 --> 00:18:07,545 who ain't been in cid half the time you or me, 249 00:18:07,629 --> 00:18:10,048 and she's fucking telling us what to do. 250 00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:13,426 It ain't right. You think it's right? 251 00:18:13,510 --> 00:18:17,847 Shut up for just a minute. I'm trying to concentrate on this shit here. 252 00:18:23,436 --> 00:18:25,438 Nice truck. 253 00:18:26,856 --> 00:18:28,400 Uh-huh. 254 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:33,280 No? Makes your breath minty fresh. 255 00:18:33,363 --> 00:18:36,116 Is y'all gonna arrest me? Then arrest me. 256 00:18:36,199 --> 00:18:37,534 If not, shut the fuck up. 257 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,286 - You want to get arrested? - No. 258 00:18:39,369 --> 00:18:42,163 - Shut the fuck up your own self. - I'm outta here. 259 00:18:42,247 --> 00:18:45,875 Hey, hey! D'Angelo. You better bend the fuck over. 260 00:18:49,462 --> 00:18:53,133 - You ain't got nothing else to do today? - No, no, nothing. 261 00:18:53,758 --> 00:18:55,760 Y'all ain't got no charge. 262 00:18:59,347 --> 00:19:04,269 You getting awfully close, man. You new on the force or some shit? 263 00:19:14,696 --> 00:19:16,698 All right, d. 264 00:19:43,308 --> 00:19:44,642 Move it, move it. 265 00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:49,522 (Keypad bleeps) 266 00:19:54,527 --> 00:19:56,946 Hey, it's greggs. Get me the lieutenant. 267 00:20:02,285 --> 00:20:04,496 Prez? He's no good to anyone, he's a goof. 268 00:20:04,579 --> 00:20:08,208 How is he my problem? How is he still carrying a gun and badge? 269 00:20:08,291 --> 00:20:10,251 You know valchek in southeast? 270 00:20:10,335 --> 00:20:12,629 - Yeah. - Son-in-law. 271 00:20:13,213 --> 00:20:16,174 I can't carry him on this. You know who special sent me? 272 00:20:16,257 --> 00:20:18,635 - Who? - Polk and mahone. 273 00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:21,221 With them, I don't have a designated driver. 274 00:20:21,304 --> 00:20:25,600 - I gave you someone from pawnshop. - Lester freamon? A cuddly housecat. 275 00:20:25,683 --> 00:20:27,811 I don't think he can even find his gun. 276 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:31,940 Take pryzbylewski back. 277 00:20:32,023 --> 00:20:35,485 You know I can't. I would, but I can't. I gave valchek my word. 278 00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:38,321 I can't help it that Prez is fucking the guy's daughter. 279 00:20:38,405 --> 00:20:42,033 - If not for that, he's gone. - So, you got suction with valchek? 280 00:20:42,242 --> 00:20:45,662 If I cross him, I'm fucked on the next round of promotions. 281 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:48,456 I'm with you on the short list for major. 282 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:51,376 Valchek has suction with the Democratic club, 283 00:20:51,459 --> 00:20:55,505 they got suction with the mayor and I'm the runt without a tit here. 284 00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:57,590 I owe you, ok? 285 00:20:58,967 --> 00:21:00,927 - So, give me sydnor. - No way. 286 00:21:01,010 --> 00:21:04,264 - Give me sydnor and I'll keep Prez. - You can't take my best man. 287 00:21:04,347 --> 00:21:07,642 - I'm taking your worst, remember? - How about steinman? 288 00:21:07,725 --> 00:21:09,894 I'm working drugs in west Baltimore. 289 00:21:09,978 --> 00:21:13,731 - I need a black guy for surveillance. Sydnor. - (Pager beeps) 290 00:21:13,815 --> 00:21:16,860 - Know what Prez did this morning? - Tell me. 291 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:20,947 He put a bullet through a wall, dry-firing in the detail office. 292 00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:24,993 No promises. You give me sydnor, I'll carry pryzbylewski as long as I can. 293 00:21:25,076 --> 00:21:28,288 Fine, Cedric, fuck, whatever. Jesus Christ. 294 00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:36,463 How did you handle the judge? 295 00:21:36,546 --> 00:21:39,507 I told him we were looking closely at the situation. 296 00:21:39,591 --> 00:21:42,427 I asked him not to say anything publicly. 297 00:21:43,470 --> 00:21:46,306 So, then he's not gonna go public, right? 298 00:21:47,932 --> 00:21:49,559 Judge phelan called, 299 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:52,645 crying about a witness in his murder trial who was killed. 300 00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:54,898 Did the judge say where he heard it? 301 00:21:55,106 --> 00:21:59,360 He heard it from our man, mcnulty. That's his pipeline on this crap. 302 00:21:59,444 --> 00:22:04,324 Pardon my French, but I got no problem giving that asshole up at this point. 303 00:22:04,407 --> 00:22:07,327 - I don't need people I can't trust. - Yeah, who does? 304 00:22:07,410 --> 00:22:10,830 The newspapers get hold of this, it'll be a complete clusterfuck. 305 00:22:10,914 --> 00:22:14,083 So the thing to do is reassure the judge, 306 00:22:14,167 --> 00:22:16,669 keep him off his damn soapbox. 307 00:22:16,753 --> 00:22:18,880 An arrest or two would help. 308 00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:24,636 What if it's true? What if barksdale ordered the murder of a state's witness? 309 00:22:24,719 --> 00:22:26,179 Are you serious? 310 00:22:26,262 --> 00:22:28,806 Why would anyone do that after they testify? 311 00:22:28,890 --> 00:22:32,268 - It has no effect on the case. - Payback, plain and simple. 312 00:22:32,352 --> 00:22:34,354 Bullshit, plain and simple. 313 00:22:34,437 --> 00:22:38,733 I know there could be two dozen reasons for this man to be murdered but... 314 00:22:38,816 --> 00:22:43,196 No money for pretrial. No witness protection program. 315 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:46,741 Look, this is a poor fucking city, gentlemen. 316 00:22:46,824 --> 00:22:51,371 The last thing we ever need to do is to announce we lost a witness. 317 00:22:51,454 --> 00:22:55,542 It's hard enough pushing felony casework through that courthouse as it is. 318 00:22:55,625 --> 00:22:59,546 - You got to pull mcnulty off this. - Who caught the murder case? 319 00:22:59,629 --> 00:23:02,966 - Bunk moreland, mcnulty's partner. - You'd have to pull him, too. 320 00:23:03,174 --> 00:23:07,679 No, we pull mcnulty up, the judge will bring the press into this. 321 00:23:07,762 --> 00:23:10,181 I can see that a mile away. 322 00:23:10,265 --> 00:23:13,726 No, we're gonna sit tight, let mcnulty take his best shot 323 00:23:13,810 --> 00:23:16,646 and hope like hell he comes up short. 324 00:23:18,648 --> 00:23:22,151 - How do you wanna handle this? - We got nothing on him. 325 00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:25,905 - We try to front, he'll see right through us. - He's scared though. Soft. 326 00:23:27,198 --> 00:23:29,200 Go with the deuce? 327 00:23:30,201 --> 00:23:32,203 Hold up, hold up. 328 00:23:37,959 --> 00:23:40,378 - He part of my case? - No, sir. 329 00:23:40,461 --> 00:23:43,298 He's a potential suspect in my murder. 330 00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:46,884 Which might be part of my case. 331 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:52,932 I could use some coffee. You want some coffee? 332 00:23:57,937 --> 00:24:00,231 - I need a word with you. - We're about to... 333 00:24:00,315 --> 00:24:01,357 Now. 334 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,614 Remember all that bullshit I gave you about keeping me informed, 335 00:24:07,697 --> 00:24:09,616 about nothing happening that I don't know about? 336 00:24:09,699 --> 00:24:11,492 - Lieutenant. - Wasn't bullshit. 337 00:24:11,576 --> 00:24:15,038 My partner caught a murder. It may have nothing to do with barksdale. 338 00:24:15,246 --> 00:24:17,290 I just came from deputy ops' office 339 00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:19,959 where your own major's telling burrell to do you. 340 00:24:20,043 --> 00:24:22,295 You hear me? Rawls is giving you up. 341 00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:25,715 - What the fuck did I do? - You can't shut your mouth. 342 00:24:26,341 --> 00:24:29,469 You think that downtown judge is gonna bail your ass out? 343 00:24:29,552 --> 00:24:32,805 You really think that? You should have come to me. 344 00:24:32,889 --> 00:24:35,808 We bring this business to the deputy first, we got a shot. 345 00:24:35,892 --> 00:24:38,311 But you're out there all alone, jumping bad. 346 00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:40,647 - You got the deputy's ear? - On this case, I do. 347 00:24:40,730 --> 00:24:43,107 Then how come they sent every worthless hump? 348 00:24:43,191 --> 00:24:46,569 You ask for men, they send you drunks and fuck-ups. 349 00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:50,740 I want to do this case. 350 00:24:50,823 --> 00:24:52,283 So do I. 351 00:24:52,367 --> 00:24:54,869 Then you're gonna get all the way in, lieutenant. 352 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:59,248 If I see you get all the way in, then I know who you are, what you're about. 353 00:24:59,332 --> 00:25:03,002 - Who is he? - He's d'Angelo barksdale. 354 00:25:03,086 --> 00:25:05,004 Nephew to the king. 355 00:25:05,088 --> 00:25:08,257 - The one that beat the murder. - Yeah, him. 356 00:25:08,341 --> 00:25:10,218 Can you connect him to the dead witness? 357 00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:13,346 - Not a thing. - Why did you pick him up? 358 00:25:14,931 --> 00:25:18,601 Press him. See what kind of flex he shows. 359 00:25:19,477 --> 00:25:22,605 - She goes in with you. - We don't need her. 360 00:25:22,689 --> 00:25:24,649 Bunk and me, we got our own rhythm. 361 00:25:24,732 --> 00:25:28,569 You want me in, mcnulty? I thought you said you wanted me in. 362 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:34,784 You're along for this interview, but it's homicide's play, so let 'em lead. 363 00:25:39,497 --> 00:25:42,208 You might want to run tag and title on these trucks. 364 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:44,419 They scoped us when we jacked the kid. 365 00:25:44,502 --> 00:25:48,214 Been there. Info's already in the file. 366 00:25:48,798 --> 00:25:51,801 Y'all weren't the only lawmen down in the canyon today. 367 00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:55,221 - Really, where were you? - Where was she? 368 00:26:01,853 --> 00:26:05,898 I mean, the thing is, I can't see a reason for that man to be dead. 369 00:26:05,982 --> 00:26:08,901 I can't. I mean, hell, you beat us in court. 370 00:26:08,985 --> 00:26:10,987 - We don't take it personal. - Fuck, no. 371 00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:14,949 We get paid either way. And it's not like you did anything real bad, 372 00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:17,410 throwing a couple of hot ones at pooh Blanchard. 373 00:26:17,493 --> 00:26:19,454 No one's gonna miss that motherfucker. 374 00:26:19,537 --> 00:26:22,039 But you know the man who got killed this time? 375 00:26:22,123 --> 00:26:24,417 You know who that poor son of a bitch was? 376 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:25,626 A citizen. 377 00:26:25,710 --> 00:26:28,880 Worked every goddamn day of his life. You know that? 378 00:26:28,963 --> 00:26:32,759 He would get up every day, go out and do maintenance work. 379 00:26:32,842 --> 00:26:35,595 On the weekends, he was driving a cab. 380 00:26:35,678 --> 00:26:39,640 Two jobs. He volunteers what little time he has left at his church. 381 00:26:39,724 --> 00:26:43,269 - Churchgoing man. - A bethel man, a Deacon. 382 00:26:43,352 --> 00:26:47,482 Two jobs and three kids. Did you know that? 383 00:26:47,565 --> 00:26:50,109 (Mcnulty) Three kids. Young, too. 384 00:26:50,193 --> 00:26:53,321 (Bunk) Five, eight, eleven. 385 00:26:54,030 --> 00:26:58,451 Crying their little orphaned asses to sleep 'cause they lost their mama... 386 00:26:58,534 --> 00:27:01,162 -(Page0 - and now they out there on their own. 387 00:27:03,289 --> 00:27:05,750 - (Pager off) - (Mcnulty) He doesn't believe us. 388 00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:07,960 I know he don't believe it. 389 00:27:08,044 --> 00:27:11,214 We've been here two hours, telling you what's true 390 00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:12,924 and you sit like nothing happened. 391 00:27:13,007 --> 00:27:16,135 - Where my lawyer at? - When he gets here, we'll let you know. 392 00:27:16,219 --> 00:27:18,429 I got nothing to say. 393 00:27:18,513 --> 00:27:20,932 I'm sorry for the man but I got nothing to say. 394 00:27:21,015 --> 00:27:24,685 You sorry? You sorry for him? You fucking killed the man. 395 00:27:24,769 --> 00:27:26,813 - No. - Yes, you did. 396 00:27:26,896 --> 00:27:29,398 We don't think that you shot him or anything 397 00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:32,401 but if you weren't busy lighting folks up in a lobby, 398 00:27:32,485 --> 00:27:34,445 he ain't coming out and seeing it. 399 00:27:34,529 --> 00:27:38,991 He don't see anything, he doesn't testify and those kids still got a daddy. 400 00:27:39,075 --> 00:27:41,327 - Why he testify? - How should we know? 401 00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:44,622 - He didn't have to testify. - No, he didn't, but he did. 402 00:27:44,705 --> 00:27:46,749 And you still beat the charge. 403 00:27:46,833 --> 00:27:49,252 But it's not enough to beat the murder. 404 00:27:49,335 --> 00:27:51,629 They gotta send a cold message to everyone in the terrace. 405 00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:55,258 Fuck the working man. Fuck his kids, that shit don't count. 406 00:27:58,261 --> 00:28:00,805 That's what I don't get about the drug thing. 407 00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:04,225 Why can't you sell the shit and walk the fuck away? 408 00:28:06,102 --> 00:28:08,121 Know what I mean? Everything else in this country gets sold 409 00:28:08,145 --> 00:28:10,523 without people shooting each other. 410 00:28:10,606 --> 00:28:13,484 In the terrace, it's one body after another. 411 00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:16,070 Remember that little boy, 412 00:28:16,153 --> 00:28:19,782 got shot in the barbershop on west lombard last summer? 413 00:28:20,867 --> 00:28:24,161 One asshole chases another into a house, 414 00:28:24,245 --> 00:28:25,621 empties a 9. 415 00:28:25,705 --> 00:28:28,374 Bullshit argument over 20 missing gel caps. 416 00:28:30,251 --> 00:28:34,380 That little kid, instead of getting his first haircut, gets one in the eye. 417 00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:36,716 - (Door opens and closes) - Remember that? 418 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,635 - It's fucked up. - Yes, it is. 419 00:28:41,846 --> 00:28:44,098 They didn't have to do that. 420 00:28:44,181 --> 00:28:46,392 (Mcnulty) Shoot up a barbershop? 421 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:48,561 No, they did not have to do that. 422 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,482 That man was just... 423 00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:57,320 My thing. 424 00:28:59,238 --> 00:29:02,158 My thing, ain't had... 425 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:05,328 They ain't had to do that. 426 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:16,714 No mommy and no daddy. 427 00:29:17,715 --> 00:29:19,550 Lord Jesus! 428 00:29:24,221 --> 00:29:26,807 I'll tell you what I think you should do, d'Angelo, 429 00:29:28,059 --> 00:29:30,853 not because I think you wanted that man to get shot 430 00:29:30,937 --> 00:29:33,564 or had anything to do with shooting him. 431 00:29:33,648 --> 00:29:37,109 But I think you could just sit here 432 00:29:37,193 --> 00:29:41,322 for a moment or two, collect your thoughts, get your shit together. 433 00:29:42,490 --> 00:29:44,241 And then I think it might be a good thing 434 00:29:44,325 --> 00:29:47,828 for you to write a little letter to those children 435 00:29:47,912 --> 00:29:50,665 and you let 'em know you sorry... 436 00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:55,711 That they're not gonna have anyone left, you know? 437 00:29:56,796 --> 00:29:58,756 I mean, just say something. 438 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:01,926 Tell them how you personally think your uncle... 439 00:30:02,009 --> 00:30:03,552 Maybe he got it wrong, 440 00:30:03,636 --> 00:30:08,849 because it's wrong that they lost their daddy behind what happened, you know? 441 00:30:11,394 --> 00:30:15,398 It might mean something to 'em to know that you feeling for 'em. 442 00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:24,240 Man, I ain't got nothing to say. 443 00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:27,743 Just say what's in your heart. 444 00:30:49,515 --> 00:30:51,726 Church Deacon? That was thick. 445 00:30:51,809 --> 00:30:54,270 Got good to me, what can I say? 446 00:30:54,979 --> 00:30:58,065 It's sad enough with the kids being orphaned. 447 00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:00,818 Photo was from bunk's desk. 448 00:31:02,778 --> 00:31:05,322 - They're yours? - Yeah, afraid so. 449 00:31:06,782 --> 00:31:09,535 - Good thing they look like their mama. - Huh! 450 00:31:09,618 --> 00:31:12,955 Maurice Levy just posted. He's by the elevators. 451 00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:23,716 - The defense never rests. - Shame on you. 452 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:26,677 Dragging me from the family preserve on a Friday night. 453 00:31:26,761 --> 00:31:29,138 - My apologies. - Yvette made brisket. 454 00:31:29,221 --> 00:31:31,640 - Good? - When served hot. One or two? 455 00:31:32,558 --> 00:31:34,101 Your client. 456 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:36,312 What the fuck? Stop writing! Now! 457 00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:38,314 - I'm just... - Shut up! 458 00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:42,151 He calls his lawyer, that's supposed to be the end of the interview. 459 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:44,570 Your client gave no statement. 460 00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:48,532 He just decided, voluntarily, to write a letter to the victim's family. 461 00:31:48,657 --> 00:31:50,868 - To say that... - Shut up! 462 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,498 - Any charge here? - No charge. 463 00:31:55,581 --> 00:31:59,126 Good. Get up. Go! Walk! 464 00:32:02,088 --> 00:32:03,964 Listen to me, you don't say anything, 465 00:32:04,048 --> 00:32:06,425 don't do anything, don't write anything. 466 00:32:06,509 --> 00:32:08,094 Do you hear me? Shut up! 467 00:32:09,345 --> 00:32:13,474 How many fucking times do I have to tell you people the same fucking thing? 468 00:32:28,030 --> 00:32:30,032 What the fuck is that? 469 00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:36,705 It's an armoire. Louis xiv. 470 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,042 I mean, what is it, a toy? 471 00:32:41,752 --> 00:32:44,880 Some of you I know. Some of you I will know. 472 00:32:45,422 --> 00:32:48,551 If you've worked with me before, you know I don't want cowboy shit 473 00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:50,803 - or surprises. - (Toilet flushes) 474 00:32:50,886 --> 00:32:52,888 The task... 475 00:32:56,058 --> 00:33:00,146 Is avon barksdale, and avon barksdale only. 476 00:33:00,229 --> 00:33:01,772 No side trips, no sprawl. 477 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,486 Primary investigators are greggs from my unit and... 478 00:33:07,570 --> 00:33:09,363 (Clanking) 479 00:33:10,573 --> 00:33:14,118 Greggs from my unit and mcnulty from homicide. 480 00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:18,038 They keep the file. On the street, we work partners. 481 00:33:18,789 --> 00:33:21,709 Greggs and sydnor. Herc and carver. 482 00:33:21,792 --> 00:33:25,629 Mcnulty's with santangelo, mahone and polk. 483 00:33:25,713 --> 00:33:27,298 Pryzbylewski and freamon. 484 00:33:28,090 --> 00:33:29,717 To start with, we got nine... 485 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,720 (Man, echoing) How's that? Did that get it? 486 00:33:32,803 --> 00:33:36,140 - (2nd man) What? - Do you hear me? 487 00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:38,225 (2nd man) What? 488 00:33:39,852 --> 00:33:44,732 We have nine or ten open homicide files to work back through for leads. 489 00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:47,484 Mcnulty and santangelo, they're on that. 490 00:33:47,568 --> 00:33:52,031 Herc, carver, sydnor, and me, we'll be targeting street dealers 491 00:33:52,114 --> 00:33:54,575 and rolling them back up at barksdale's people. 492 00:33:54,658 --> 00:33:57,870 Polk and mahone are available to run down specific leads. 493 00:33:58,078 --> 00:34:02,041 Freamon, pryzbylewski, are gonna start in-office on clerical duty. 494 00:34:02,124 --> 00:34:05,628 - You need a prosecutor... - (Man) No, turn the shit off! 495 00:34:06,170 --> 00:34:08,505 (2nd man) What? 496 00:34:08,589 --> 00:34:10,382 You need a prosecutor. 497 00:34:10,466 --> 00:34:13,260 Rhonda Pearlman from narcotics is assigned. 498 00:34:14,303 --> 00:34:17,473 We don't have enough desks yet, so we gotta share... 499 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:20,351 - Y'all from purchasing? - No. 500 00:34:26,523 --> 00:34:30,819 We've been promised some computers and surveillance equipment. 501 00:34:30,903 --> 00:34:33,072 - Questions? - Yeah. 502 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:35,282 Who signs the overtime slips? 503 00:34:35,366 --> 00:34:37,826 No ot, unless prior authorization. 504 00:34:37,910 --> 00:34:41,455 A case goes from red to black by way of green, lieutenant. 505 00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:44,583 You people bring me something that needs ot, 506 00:34:44,667 --> 00:34:46,293 you'll get ot. 507 00:34:46,377 --> 00:34:49,838 Until then, live on your fucking salaries. 508 00:35:02,268 --> 00:35:06,522 "I'm very sorry for your father. If I could've stopped it, I would have." 509 00:35:07,815 --> 00:35:11,151 - What can you do with this? - Nothing legally. 510 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:15,114 He doesn't put himself in, or anyone else for that matter. 511 00:35:15,197 --> 00:35:16,949 You can't read that letter 512 00:35:17,157 --> 00:35:20,452 and think that man was killed for any other reason than he was a witness. 513 00:35:20,536 --> 00:35:23,539 Why apologize at all if you got nothing to do with it? 514 00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:31,964 We lost a state's witness. 515 00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:35,467 Even in Baltimore, that's supposed to mean something, right? 516 00:35:35,551 --> 00:35:37,803 Just go to the deputy, show him what's what 517 00:35:37,886 --> 00:35:39,763 and put something real together. 518 00:35:39,847 --> 00:35:43,517 This case needs informants, it needs long-term surveillance 519 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,477 and eventually, a title 3 wiretap. 520 00:35:45,561 --> 00:35:50,316 Most of all, it needs police who know how to work those things. 521 00:35:51,317 --> 00:35:54,653 You think it's good to put it out on the street that witnesses get killed? 522 00:35:54,737 --> 00:35:57,448 You think it's not on the street already? 523 00:36:00,409 --> 00:36:01,827 No grandstanding. 524 00:36:01,910 --> 00:36:04,955 Like I said, we get in and out. 525 00:36:22,014 --> 00:36:24,391 - Hey, aunt June. - Hey, sweetie. 526 00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:28,896 Yeah, I hope you're hungry. 527 00:36:28,979 --> 00:36:30,773 Starving. 528 00:36:30,856 --> 00:36:32,358 Hey, d! 529 00:36:33,609 --> 00:36:34,902 What's up, baby? 530 00:36:34,985 --> 00:36:37,654 - That your uncle? - Yeah. 531 00:36:37,738 --> 00:36:39,365 I thought he'd look different. 532 00:36:39,448 --> 00:36:42,409 My man, d. What's up, man? 533 00:36:42,493 --> 00:36:44,953 - This the little man? Whoo! - Yo. 534 00:36:45,662 --> 00:36:48,874 You see how shorty favor your nephew here? 535 00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:52,336 What's up, little man? You ain't gonna be able to deny that child. 536 00:36:52,419 --> 00:36:56,256 You wanna come to me? I know you tryin' to come to me. 537 00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:57,966 - Been napping. - Yeah? 538 00:36:58,050 --> 00:37:01,387 - Just woke up. - You got a grip? Let me see your grip. 539 00:37:01,470 --> 00:37:04,556 C'mon, give us a twirl, let's take a look. 540 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,893 - La, la, la. (Clicks tongue) - What you looking at? 541 00:37:07,976 --> 00:37:12,523 Go fix her a hot plate. Put everything on it. She's the skinniest thing in here. 542 00:37:12,606 --> 00:37:13,941 We gonna hook you up. 543 00:37:14,024 --> 00:37:16,318 Don't let that fool you, she can eat, man. 544 00:37:16,402 --> 00:37:20,322 - How y'all doing? You doing good? - Yeah, we all right. 545 00:37:20,406 --> 00:37:23,409 She want me to move in, I'm thinking about it. 546 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:25,911 Let's walk. 547 00:37:27,496 --> 00:37:29,832 Here you come. You gonna take my man from me? 548 00:37:29,915 --> 00:37:33,460 - Yeah. - Be careful with my little soldier. 549 00:37:34,420 --> 00:37:36,672 - Got a name for that one? - No. 550 00:37:37,756 --> 00:37:40,759 But he's one of the boys they use in the stain/veil. 551 00:37:40,843 --> 00:37:43,929 - What about him? - That's little man. 552 00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:45,681 He's muscle. 553 00:37:45,764 --> 00:37:48,350 You know his real name? 554 00:37:50,352 --> 00:37:52,813 - Cl? - Yeah. 555 00:37:52,896 --> 00:37:56,066 - You need some privacy? - No, it's all right. 556 00:37:57,025 --> 00:37:58,527 (Kima) He's cool. 557 00:38:00,654 --> 00:38:02,781 What's with the hat? 558 00:38:02,865 --> 00:38:05,325 Go ahead, tell him, bubbles. 559 00:38:05,993 --> 00:38:09,288 I go down the way with some hats that I'm selling. 560 00:38:09,371 --> 00:38:11,498 If someone is someone you need to know 561 00:38:11,582 --> 00:38:15,127 I put the red hat on them and kima here take the pictures. 562 00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:18,440 If they in the mix, they get another color. If they ain't shit, they don't get shit. 563 00:38:18,464 --> 00:38:21,508 Everyone in the hat's part of barksdale's crew? 564 00:38:21,592 --> 00:38:23,385 At the terrace. 565 00:38:23,469 --> 00:38:25,679 We haven't hit the low-rises yet. 566 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:29,808 That's sharp. I like that. 567 00:38:29,892 --> 00:38:31,643 Bubbs does not forget a face. 568 00:38:31,727 --> 00:38:34,938 Ain't so good with names, but faces I keep in my head. 569 00:38:35,022 --> 00:38:38,817 I used to take him to escape unit, let him look through the warrant books. 570 00:38:38,901 --> 00:38:43,405 He'd call me up that night, telling me to go to this corner, that corner. 571 00:38:44,490 --> 00:38:46,783 Yeah, paid $25 a pop. 572 00:38:46,867 --> 00:38:48,911 - That's good money. - Yeah. 573 00:38:49,328 --> 00:38:51,580 How much does the hat routine pay? 574 00:38:52,122 --> 00:38:53,832 Nothing. 575 00:38:53,916 --> 00:38:56,043 We free on this. 576 00:38:57,711 --> 00:39:01,089 - Motherfuckers beat my boy down. - Who? 577 00:39:01,173 --> 00:39:03,258 Little hoppers in the low-rises. 578 00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:06,512 - Who's your boy? - I got a friend. 579 00:39:07,888 --> 00:39:12,059 Younger white boy. Used to come down to the corners, real green. 580 00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:13,685 I was schooling him, you know? 581 00:39:13,769 --> 00:39:16,605 What happened? 582 00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:19,566 - They stomped him. - You see it? 583 00:39:22,611 --> 00:39:26,156 Fuck a man like that up for a couple of dollars, you know? 584 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,867 He still at university, tubes all up in his nose. 585 00:39:28,951 --> 00:39:31,286 Can't say but a fucking word or two. 586 00:39:33,455 --> 00:39:35,916 But you know, that's how it goes, right? 587 00:39:36,625 --> 00:39:38,710 How you feeling, bubbs? 588 00:39:38,794 --> 00:39:41,547 (Laughs) Restless. 589 00:39:42,881 --> 00:39:44,841 Yeah, I could tell. 590 00:39:44,925 --> 00:39:48,637 What the fuck? Can you hook a nigger up with $10 then till tomorrow? 591 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,557 I mean, you know, just to carry me, kima. 592 00:39:57,771 --> 00:39:59,648 Bubbs. 593 00:40:01,441 --> 00:40:03,277 Obliged. 594 00:40:04,486 --> 00:40:07,155 Stay out of the projects the next couple of days. 595 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,409 - Just to be safe. - This girl's always fretting over me. 596 00:40:12,202 --> 00:40:14,162 - Change it up, bubbs. - Yeah, yeah. 597 00:40:14,246 --> 00:40:15,831 Go eastside. 598 00:40:15,914 --> 00:40:18,333 (Bubbs) Yeah, yeah. (Whoops) 599 00:40:19,626 --> 00:40:20,794 Twenty dollars? 600 00:40:20,877 --> 00:40:23,589 You gonna spoil him with that shit. 601 00:40:23,672 --> 00:40:25,966 I respect the work. 602 00:40:27,593 --> 00:40:30,345 They used your name, stringer, 603 00:40:30,429 --> 00:40:32,180 wee-bey, 604 00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:34,016 savino, peanut... 605 00:40:35,267 --> 00:40:37,769 They knew a lot of names. They knew a lot. 606 00:40:37,853 --> 00:40:39,855 But you didn't say nothing? 607 00:40:41,231 --> 00:40:43,525 Shit, man, I don't know nothing. 608 00:40:43,609 --> 00:40:45,652 What was you writing then? 609 00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:50,574 They talked about the man who got killed, his kids - they asked me to write. 610 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:54,161 - What you got to do with them? - That's what I said. 611 00:40:54,244 --> 00:40:56,496 They cried about how the kids ain't doing good. 612 00:40:56,580 --> 00:41:00,292 It ain't gonna hurt for me to say I'm sorry the man got killed. 613 00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:02,753 Why the fuck you gotta say you sorry? 614 00:41:02,836 --> 00:41:05,422 Motherfuckers tried to put your ass in the stir. 615 00:41:05,505 --> 00:41:07,633 Yeah, but it didn't turn out that way. 616 00:41:07,716 --> 00:41:11,011 You know, that's what I'm saying, it's a shame that y'all... 617 00:41:13,472 --> 00:41:17,809 I'm saying, it's a shame what happened to that man, all right? 618 00:41:17,893 --> 00:41:23,065 He didn't do nothing but come off the elevator when I was doing that thing. 619 00:41:24,107 --> 00:41:26,360 What you think, cuz? 620 00:41:27,611 --> 00:41:28,904 About what? 621 00:41:28,987 --> 00:41:31,323 What you think about what happened to the man? 622 00:41:31,406 --> 00:41:33,575 You think we killed the motherfucker? 623 00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:37,996 Speak your mind. 624 00:41:40,707 --> 00:41:43,502 - Man, I don't know. - Exactly. 625 00:41:43,585 --> 00:41:45,504 And you don't need to know. 626 00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:48,924 And if we did, we had a reason. And if we didn't, we had a reason. 627 00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:52,094 Either way, you ain't got shit to do with it. 628 00:41:52,260 --> 00:41:54,471 It ain't on you, cuz. 629 00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:56,598 You feel me? It ain't on you. 630 00:41:57,599 --> 00:41:59,810 Now, if you getjacked again, 631 00:41:59,893 --> 00:42:03,271 I don't want to hear shit about you writing nothing to no one. 632 00:42:03,355 --> 00:42:05,691 - Got it? - Yeah. 633 00:42:07,609 --> 00:42:09,403 Come on, let's have some good times 634 00:42:09,486 --> 00:42:12,739 and get some ribs before they ate all the ribs up. 635 00:42:14,866 --> 00:42:17,619 - This case isn't shit, carv. - I know it. 636 00:42:17,703 --> 00:42:21,415 We're dancing around with this motherfucker, typing shit out, 637 00:42:21,498 --> 00:42:23,709 taking pictures of assholes in hats. 638 00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:26,086 - What the fuck is that? - It's bullshit. 639 00:42:26,169 --> 00:42:29,089 I say we go down there right now. Right fucking now. 640 00:42:29,172 --> 00:42:32,134 We go into those towers, and we let them know. 641 00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:34,594 I'm serious. 642 00:42:34,678 --> 00:42:37,848 You got to let these motherfuckers know who you are. 643 00:42:39,141 --> 00:42:41,143 You coming? 644 00:42:42,144 --> 00:42:45,313 - I'm with you. - Carv? 645 00:42:47,524 --> 00:42:49,234 What the hell? 646 00:42:49,317 --> 00:42:51,319 Let's do it. 647 00:42:55,949 --> 00:42:57,784 Come on. 648 00:43:10,255 --> 00:43:12,966 - Shut it down. - Five-o. 649 00:43:13,175 --> 00:43:16,636 - (Rock music on car radio) - Five-o, five-o, break up. 650 00:43:18,847 --> 00:43:20,682 (Loud rock music) 651 00:43:27,481 --> 00:43:28,815 (Music off) 652 00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:37,491 Come here, man. Where you going? 653 00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:40,410 Don't act like you don't know me. Get your hands up. 654 00:43:40,494 --> 00:43:41,828 Put that down. 655 00:43:41,912 --> 00:43:45,707 - Drop it! Kiss the fucking ground! - Put your hands up. 656 00:43:46,666 --> 00:43:48,919 Don't look at me like I ain't talking English. 657 00:43:49,002 --> 00:43:52,672 You got a needle on you? Got anything in here that's gonna stick me? 658 00:43:52,923 --> 00:43:55,342 No? What's that? 659 00:43:56,218 --> 00:43:57,969 What you got in your pockets? 660 00:43:58,053 --> 00:44:00,096 You know what? Put your pants down, man. 661 00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:02,265 Pants down and get down on the ground. 662 00:44:02,349 --> 00:44:04,351 Down on the fucking ground! 663 00:44:06,645 --> 00:44:09,481 All right, spread your shit out. 664 00:44:09,564 --> 00:44:12,400 - Nice shoes. - Think a happy thought. 665 00:44:15,153 --> 00:44:18,240 (Man) Why don't you go somewhere else with that bullshit? 666 00:44:20,617 --> 00:44:24,454 - (Man) No-good motherfuckers. - Stay down, man, stay down. 667 00:44:24,538 --> 00:44:27,457 Y'all let barksdale and them know who owns these towers. 668 00:44:27,541 --> 00:44:28,959 'Cause we coming back. 669 00:44:29,042 --> 00:44:31,169 - I'm sick of this shit. - (Man) Kiss my ass! 670 00:44:31,253 --> 00:44:34,339 We come back in an hour, catch everybody dirty. 671 00:44:35,298 --> 00:44:37,342 - That's bullshit, man. - Stay down, man. 672 00:44:37,425 --> 00:44:40,512 That's fucked up. Man ain't did nothing. 673 00:44:41,721 --> 00:44:44,307 Want something? 674 00:44:48,311 --> 00:44:51,106 - Move, shitbird. - I ain't doing nothing. 675 00:44:53,775 --> 00:44:56,361 Really? I got nothing for you. 676 00:44:58,655 --> 00:45:02,409 - My eye, my eye. - Who you gonna eyefuck now? 677 00:45:04,119 --> 00:45:06,371 - Aah! - Are you serious? 678 00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:08,707 You bleed on my car? Don't bleed on my car. 679 00:45:08,790 --> 00:45:11,334 Get your shit off my car. 680 00:45:17,299 --> 00:45:19,676 What the fuck's the matter with you? 681 00:45:40,071 --> 00:45:42,157 Got a visual? 682 00:45:42,824 --> 00:45:44,284 Fuck. 683 00:45:44,367 --> 00:45:46,369 Get the radio. 684 00:45:47,370 --> 00:45:50,498 1135, signal 13. 685 00:45:50,582 --> 00:45:53,335 771 Franklin, in the court. 686 00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:55,170 Son of a bitch! 687 00:45:55,253 --> 00:45:58,089 Shots fired, officers need assistance. 688 00:45:59,549 --> 00:46:01,384 I'm hit! Signal 13. 689 00:46:01,468 --> 00:46:03,720 Officer down. Officer down! 690 00:46:07,140 --> 00:46:09,476 (Gunshots) 691 00:46:11,227 --> 00:46:12,562 Shit! 692 00:46:19,527 --> 00:46:21,863 (Phone) 693 00:46:32,874 --> 00:46:35,627 - Hello? - (Bunk) 'You seen the paper?' 694 00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:38,421 - what? - 'The newspaper, get it.' 695 00:46:38,505 --> 00:46:40,298 (sighs) 696 00:46:51,893 --> 00:46:54,104 (Footsteps thudding) 697 00:46:56,356 --> 00:46:58,191 Hey, kids. 698 00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:21,589 Oh, no. 699 00:47:22,924 --> 00:47:24,843 'You happy now, bitch?' 700 00:47:27,178 --> 00:47:29,764 mcnulty! 701 00:47:29,848 --> 00:47:32,267 - Where in fuck is he? - Uh... 702 00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:35,103 He's detailed, major, to narcotics... 703 00:47:35,186 --> 00:47:38,356 I fucking know where he's detailed. I already know that! 704 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:39,566 Yes, sir. 705 00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:42,193 - Where is he right now? - I can page him, sir. 706 00:47:47,157 --> 00:47:49,117 Move that fucking desk out of my unit. 707 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,162 I do not want that fucking man's desk in my unit. 708 00:47:52,245 --> 00:47:54,289 That's crutchfield's desk. 709 00:47:56,708 --> 00:47:58,251 Crutchfield's? 710 00:47:58,334 --> 00:48:00,628 Mcnulty sits here. 711 00:48:07,469 --> 00:48:10,764 - What was that about? - Did you see today's paper? 712 00:48:10,847 --> 00:48:13,975 - Just sports. - You gotta check out the front page. 713 00:48:17,979 --> 00:48:19,898 Whoa! 714 00:48:19,981 --> 00:48:23,359 - What'll they do to him? - Let me tell you something. 715 00:48:23,443 --> 00:48:26,905 If he gets caught with his dick up the ass of the deputy's wife 716 00:48:26,988 --> 00:48:32,327 he's still gonna have more of a career than if they find out he's behind that story. 717 00:48:53,348 --> 00:48:54,682 Lieutenant. 718 00:48:55,975 --> 00:49:00,522 I saw the story in the paper. I want you to know I had nothing to do... 719 00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:24,671 - Theyjumped us, boss. - Who? 720 00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:26,297 Fucking project niggers. 721 00:49:26,381 --> 00:49:29,342 What are you doing here at two in the morning? 722 00:49:30,718 --> 00:49:32,846 Field interviews, police work. 723 00:49:32,929 --> 00:49:35,640 - Police work? - Yeah. 724 00:49:37,433 --> 00:49:41,646 I got a 14-year-old in critical but stable condition at university, 725 00:49:41,729 --> 00:49:43,648 and two witnesses who say one of you 726 00:49:43,731 --> 00:49:46,442 - cold-cocked him with a pistol. - No, sir. 727 00:49:46,526 --> 00:49:49,863 I got his mother over at iid filing a brutality charge, 728 00:49:50,071 --> 00:49:52,657 which for herc will make four in the last two years. 729 00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,659 - None sustained. - But all true. 730 00:49:54,742 --> 00:49:55,743 We thought that... 731 00:49:55,827 --> 00:49:58,496 I got one less crown Vic than I had last night, 732 00:49:58,580 --> 00:50:01,249 I'm out two kevlar vests that burned in the car, 733 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:03,585 two hand-held radios, a shotgun, 734 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:07,338 and I'm about to lose this idiot here for a week or two of medical. 735 00:50:07,422 --> 00:50:09,674 - And for what? - Lieutenant... 736 00:50:09,757 --> 00:50:12,677 What did you learn when you went at two in the morning 737 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,721 to conduct field interviews? 738 00:50:14,804 --> 00:50:19,267 What valuable information did we acquire from this situation? 739 00:50:21,269 --> 00:50:25,190 Lid is gonna be on all three of you by afternoon. 740 00:50:25,273 --> 00:50:27,734 If you don't get a story straight by then, 741 00:50:27,817 --> 00:50:32,280 you're gonna have a file thick enough to see the light of a trial board. 742 00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:37,118 Now tell me, who cold-cocked the kid? 743 00:50:53,635 --> 00:50:55,845 He pissed me off. 744 00:50:58,806 --> 00:51:02,393 No, officer pryzbylewski, he did not piss you off. 745 00:51:03,436 --> 00:51:07,565 He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers. 746 00:51:08,650 --> 00:51:10,652 I'm guessing now, but maybe... 747 00:51:10,735 --> 00:51:14,113 He was seen to pick up a bottle and menace officers hauk and carver 748 00:51:14,197 --> 00:51:17,408 who had already sustained injury from flying projectiles. 749 00:51:17,492 --> 00:51:20,286 Rather than use deadly force in such a situation, 750 00:51:20,370 --> 00:51:24,666 maybe you elected to approach the youth, ordering him to drop the bottle. 751 00:51:24,749 --> 00:51:27,502 Maybe when he raised the bottle, 752 00:51:27,585 --> 00:51:30,755 you used a kel-lite, not the handle of your service weapon, 753 00:51:30,838 --> 00:51:33,299 to incapacitate the suspect. 754 00:51:35,551 --> 00:51:36,886 Go practice. 755 00:51:37,845 --> 00:51:40,723 You fuck the bullshit up when you talk to internal, 756 00:51:40,807 --> 00:51:43,309 I can't fix it, you're on your own. 757 00:51:51,818 --> 00:51:55,113 - Push the arraignments back to three. - And the gillette case? 758 00:51:55,196 --> 00:51:57,865 The gillette trial goes back on the move docket. 759 00:51:57,949 --> 00:52:00,785 Come on, walk with me. I'm running late. 760 00:52:03,371 --> 00:52:05,331 - It wasn't me. - The story quoted you. 761 00:52:05,415 --> 00:52:08,459 Reporter has the story when he calls me about the quote. 762 00:52:08,543 --> 00:52:13,631 Am I gonna say he wasn't a witness? He didn't testify in my court last week? 763 00:52:13,715 --> 00:52:15,133 What? 764 00:52:15,216 --> 00:52:17,385 You don't think it's around about the witness? 765 00:52:17,468 --> 00:52:20,471 Lawyers, clerks, jurors, everybody talks. 766 00:52:20,555 --> 00:52:24,225 - I'm in the shit here, your honor. - What can I tell you? 767 00:52:24,309 --> 00:52:27,437 I called the deputy, not the newspapers. I gotta run. 768 00:52:32,275 --> 00:52:36,154 - You should have hung them. - Ifl hang them, I hang myself. 769 00:52:36,237 --> 00:52:38,406 I'm the man in charge, remember? 770 00:52:38,489 --> 00:52:41,576 Besides, you don't give your people up to iid. 771 00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:43,328 You don't do that. 772 00:52:43,411 --> 00:52:46,414 Even if they put a 14-year-old into critical care? 773 00:52:51,169 --> 00:52:53,504 This case, it's just... 774 00:52:53,588 --> 00:52:56,174 Get out of it. 775 00:52:56,257 --> 00:52:58,551 - How do I do that? - I don't know. 776 00:52:58,634 --> 00:53:01,304 But you can't lose if you don't play. 777 00:53:02,388 --> 00:53:05,600 I always heard it that you can't win if you don't play. 778 00:53:06,267 --> 00:53:08,686 The department puts you on a case it doesn't want. 779 00:53:08,770 --> 00:53:11,689 You're given people that are useless or untrustworthy. 780 00:53:11,773 --> 00:53:13,608 Correct. 781 00:53:13,691 --> 00:53:18,237 If you push too hard and any shit hits the fan, you'll be blamed for it. 782 00:53:18,321 --> 00:53:19,530 Correct. 783 00:53:19,614 --> 00:53:23,868 If you don't push hard enough and there's no arrest, you'll be blamed for that, too. 784 00:53:23,951 --> 00:53:25,370 Correct. 785 00:53:25,453 --> 00:53:27,747 The game is rigged. 786 00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:30,458 But you cannot lose if you do not play. 787 00:53:34,796 --> 00:53:36,881 (Thunder rumbles) 788 00:53:36,964 --> 00:53:39,926 (Radio plays Mickey and Sylvia: Love is strange) 789 00:53:42,303 --> 00:53:44,847 - 'Sylvia!' - 'yes, Mickey?' 790 00:53:44,931 --> 00:53:47,642 (Mickey) 'How do you call your lover boy?' 791 00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:49,560 (Sylvia) 'Come here, lover boy!' 792 00:53:49,644 --> 00:53:53,231 - 'and if he doesn't answer?' - 'Oh, lover boy.' 793 00:53:53,314 --> 00:53:56,734 - 'and if he still doesn't answer?' - 'I simply say... 794 00:53:58,611 --> 00:54:00,655 (Pulsating hip hop) 795 00:54:15,211 --> 00:54:16,546 In the hole, y'all. 796 00:54:34,981 --> 00:54:36,607 (Whistles) 797 00:54:48,369 --> 00:54:50,663 (Thunder rumbles) 798 00:54:52,373 --> 00:54:54,459 (Distant sirens) 799 00:55:07,889 --> 00:55:13,936 - 'Baby, my sweet baby... ' - (Banging) 800 00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:26,782 Hey, you fuckheads! 801 00:55:30,745 --> 00:55:32,455 Police! 802 00:55:34,749 --> 00:55:37,001 (Car alarm blaring) 803 00:55:56,020 --> 00:55:58,022 (Phone rings) 804 00:56:01,651 --> 00:56:03,277 - Hello. - 'Lieutenant Daniels?' 805 00:56:03,361 --> 00:56:04,695 yeah. 806 00:56:15,289 --> 00:56:16,707 Who was that? 807 00:56:16,791 --> 00:56:20,169 It was the duty officer down at university hospital. 808 00:56:20,253 --> 00:56:22,171 What happened? 809 00:56:23,214 --> 00:56:25,716 - He's blind in one eye. - Who? 810 00:56:27,260 --> 00:56:30,304 The kid. The 14-year-old.