1 00:00:23,065 --> 00:00:25,067 Hey, now. 2 00:00:30,948 --> 00:00:34,202 We called earlier. They said you were up 3 00:00:34,285 --> 00:00:37,246 but by the time we get here, you back asleep. 4 00:00:40,499 --> 00:00:43,377 - Been there long? - Nah. 5 00:00:45,129 --> 00:00:47,256 20 minutes. 6 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:51,052 You know, we didn't want to, uh, exactly disturb you. 7 00:00:52,094 --> 00:00:54,222 I'm bored, is all. 8 00:00:54,639 --> 00:00:56,641 Yeah, but still. 9 00:00:57,308 --> 00:00:59,310 So what you got for me? 10 00:01:00,478 --> 00:01:02,104 Spreads? 11 00:01:02,188 --> 00:01:03,564 Yeah. 12 00:01:09,487 --> 00:01:12,448 Little man. For sure. 13 00:01:12,990 --> 00:01:14,992 That's good. Are you able to write? 14 00:01:24,835 --> 00:01:27,880 Ok. Number two. 15 00:01:37,598 --> 00:01:39,225 I can make little man. 16 00:01:39,850 --> 00:01:45,064 Cos he's, uh... in the front trying to snatch the cash off the dashboard. 17 00:01:48,985 --> 00:01:52,154 But the other one, he's outside in the dark. 18 00:01:54,198 --> 00:01:58,619 - So... - So, you know, it's ok. It's ok. 19 00:02:00,663 --> 00:02:04,125 Is there anyone here that you do recognize? 20 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:07,086 Sure. Wee-bey. 21 00:02:13,509 --> 00:02:14,885 All right. 22 00:02:15,803 --> 00:02:19,348 Let me tell you where we're coming from with the shooters. 23 00:02:19,682 --> 00:02:24,228 We tracked their escape route. Landsman came up with their hoodies. 24 00:02:24,312 --> 00:02:28,441 Now, DNA matched human hair from one of the hoodies to wee-bey. 25 00:02:29,317 --> 00:02:34,739 Freamon tracked a call from the pay phone near the scene to stringer bell's pager. 26 00:02:35,656 --> 00:02:38,242 The caller was using bey's beeper code. 27 00:02:38,868 --> 00:02:42,788 Crime lab, they lift a print off a soda can 28 00:02:42,872 --> 00:02:45,583 near that phone and that matches little man. 29 00:02:46,834 --> 00:02:50,588 You know, so, I'm saying, uh... 30 00:02:57,261 --> 00:03:00,139 Ok, hear me out. 31 00:03:00,723 --> 00:03:02,725 There's a downside here. 32 00:03:04,435 --> 00:03:09,607 We don't have the guns, no prints from the scene, no witnesses. 33 00:03:11,108 --> 00:03:14,028 Worse, we're going to be dealing with a Baltimore jury. 34 00:03:14,111 --> 00:03:16,614 A good man is hard to find in this town. 35 00:03:18,282 --> 00:03:20,659 12 of them together, especially. 36 00:03:27,291 --> 00:03:30,294 An ID of both your shooters 37 00:03:31,796 --> 00:03:34,131 will play a whole lot easier come trial. 38 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,389 You know... 39 00:03:43,140 --> 00:03:45,518 Sometimes niggers just gotta play hard. 40 00:04:02,827 --> 00:04:05,830 If you walk through the garden 41 00:04:06,414 --> 00:04:08,916 you'd better watch your back 42 00:04:10,167 --> 00:04:13,170 well, I beg your pardon 43 00:04:14,088 --> 00:04:16,507 walk the straight and narrow track 44 00:04:18,008 --> 00:04:20,511 if you walk with Jesus 45 00:04:21,554 --> 00:04:24,140 he 7! Save your soul 46 00:04:25,641 --> 00:04:28,644 you gotta keep the devil 47 00:04:28,853 --> 00:04:31,522 down in the hole 48 00:04:33,107 --> 00:04:35,443 all the angels sing 49 00:04:36,527 --> 00:04:39,530 about Jesus' mighty sword 50 00:04:40,197 --> 00:04:43,367 and they shield you with their wings 51 00:04:44,118 --> 00:04:47,580 keep you close to the lord 52 00:04:48,038 --> 00:04:51,083 don't pay heed to temptation 53 00:04:51,459 --> 00:04:54,795 for his hands are so cold 54 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:58,924 you gotta keep the devil 55 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,845 way down in the hole 56 00:05:10,978 --> 00:05:13,314 Way down in the hole 57 00:05:14,857 --> 00:05:17,193 way down in the hole 58 00:05:18,486 --> 00:05:21,947 way down in the hole 59 00:05:22,072 --> 00:05:25,075 way down in the hole 60 00:05:34,835 --> 00:05:37,713 We got everyone on our list except cco. 61 00:05:38,088 --> 00:05:42,801 We hit his mama's house and she says that he went up to wabash for some court date. 62 00:05:43,010 --> 00:05:47,598 Get on the computer and see if the sheriff's deputies can snatch him up in a courtroom. 63 00:05:49,558 --> 00:05:51,101 Yeah. 64 00:05:51,435 --> 00:05:56,106 No, we got Ronnie mo. I'm looking at him go in the jail Van right now. 65 00:05:57,608 --> 00:05:59,109 All right. 66 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:03,489 - Fished our limit. Let's go home. - Sir. 67 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:07,701 - Huh? - "Let's go home, sir." 68 00:06:07,910 --> 00:06:10,621 You're looking at a soon-to-be-made sergeant. 69 00:06:10,704 --> 00:06:15,251 What I'm saying is, when we're around troops, get used to showing respect. 70 00:06:16,043 --> 00:06:19,046 So, "let's go home, sir." All right? 71 00:06:34,270 --> 00:06:36,063 What's the count? 72 00:06:36,313 --> 00:06:41,068 So far we've picked up 12. That leaves seven on the wing. 73 00:06:42,736 --> 00:06:44,280 Anything worthwhile? 74 00:06:44,363 --> 00:06:47,992 Some phone numbers that match, scraps of nicknames. 75 00:06:48,158 --> 00:06:53,289 We need something. They'll shut us down unless we come up with something fresh. 76 00:06:53,372 --> 00:06:56,250 The wires are dead. The bug in the club is useless. 77 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:58,377 They're moving out. 78 00:06:58,669 --> 00:07:00,671 - To where? - No clue. 79 00:07:00,796 --> 00:07:03,382 But they're going to have to set up again. 80 00:07:03,757 --> 00:07:06,969 Either barksdale moves to reset his distribution or he gives up. 81 00:07:07,052 --> 00:07:09,847 - If not avon, then stringer. - Why not avon? 82 00:07:10,264 --> 00:07:12,850 With no priors, he's out two hours after the bail review. 83 00:07:13,350 --> 00:07:16,353 What we put on barksdale barely makes him break stride. 84 00:07:16,437 --> 00:07:18,564 So we get a hint of where they're setting up. 85 00:07:18,814 --> 00:07:20,691 We ask for a new bug, 86 00:07:21,025 --> 00:07:22,860 maybe even a wire if we get onto a phone. 87 00:07:22,943 --> 00:07:24,612 Not while the deputy breathes air. 88 00:07:24,737 --> 00:07:27,281 We'll be reassigned before you finish your affidavit. 89 00:07:27,364 --> 00:07:29,575 How about the feds? 90 00:07:29,825 --> 00:07:32,119 You think the deputy'll let you take this federal? 91 00:07:32,453 --> 00:07:34,371 Why does the deputy need to know? 92 00:07:37,374 --> 00:07:39,835 Mcnulty, you are a piece of work. 93 00:07:39,918 --> 00:07:41,211 Yep. 94 00:07:41,503 --> 00:07:43,130 Mcnulty. 95 00:07:45,382 --> 00:07:48,385 Yeah? 96 00:07:49,511 --> 00:07:51,513 No shit. 97 00:07:53,432 --> 00:07:54,725 No fucking shit. 98 00:07:56,226 --> 00:07:58,145 It's Rhonda Pearlman. 99 00:07:58,228 --> 00:08:01,315 She just got a call from a public defender in north Jersey 100 00:08:01,398 --> 00:08:04,109 who claims to represent d'Angelo barksdale. 101 00:08:05,027 --> 00:08:07,237 Meet me in homicide. Bring a tape recorder. 102 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,740 No drug lawyers? No Levy? 103 00:08:12,451 --> 00:08:15,120 - Case got some legs on her, don't she? - Don't she? 104 00:08:15,913 --> 00:08:18,957 Quarter of a million dollars bail. You believe that shit? 105 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:21,752 It hurts to show that kind of money. 106 00:08:21,835 --> 00:08:23,587 Where Levy at? He ain't at the club, is he? 107 00:08:23,671 --> 00:08:26,006 Club's out. We can't talk there no more. 108 00:08:28,008 --> 00:08:30,969 - Come on, man, let's get out of here. - What's up, baby? 109 00:08:35,599 --> 00:08:36,850 So, this is it? 110 00:08:36,975 --> 00:08:41,939 Before you go anyplace, before you talk anyplace, we got to think this through. 111 00:08:43,357 --> 00:08:45,859 We're up to almost 20 arrests at last count. 112 00:08:46,068 --> 00:08:49,071 And if you look at the probable cause, they read like yours - 113 00:08:49,613 --> 00:08:51,323 information from a confidential source. 114 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:53,909 This seems too much for one snitch. 115 00:08:54,284 --> 00:08:57,621 I agree. My gut tells me a wire. 116 00:08:57,788 --> 00:09:02,167 Either a phone or two, or maybe something in a room somewhere. 117 00:09:02,876 --> 00:09:04,795 You talk to your nephew on the phone? 118 00:09:04,962 --> 00:09:10,509 Of course not. No phones. When we talk, it's face-to-face, in the back of the club. 119 00:09:12,344 --> 00:09:14,805 - Fuck. - It's good you moved out. 120 00:09:14,972 --> 00:09:19,393 I don't know. I mean, if they got a mic in there, they got you and me saying all kinds of shit. 121 00:09:20,310 --> 00:09:24,481 That reminds me. He said he'd be in tonight. 122 00:09:25,274 --> 00:09:29,570 - Thing is, they take you and leave me? - That's what's fucking me up too, man. 123 00:09:29,653 --> 00:09:32,489 We'll know as soon as I start pressing for discovery. 124 00:09:33,407 --> 00:09:35,826 What about the people they locked up? 125 00:09:35,909 --> 00:09:39,037 - We got to pull them. - That's showing a lot of money. 126 00:09:39,204 --> 00:09:41,915 If we don't, we run the risk of making them enemies. 127 00:09:42,166 --> 00:09:44,668 Speaking of which, where are you with your nephew? 128 00:09:45,043 --> 00:09:46,378 Is he going to see the light? 129 00:09:46,503 --> 00:09:50,674 Let me tell you something, man. He's family, all right? He not going to buck. 130 00:09:50,924 --> 00:09:55,804 A day or two in the bullpen, he's gonna be crying, waiting for bail like the rest of them. 131 00:09:56,096 --> 00:09:57,514 All right. 132 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:01,185 Let's run the money through the families, that'll hide it some. 133 00:10:01,810 --> 00:10:04,313 - And don't use the same bondsman. - All right. 134 00:10:04,646 --> 00:10:08,525 Look, gentlemen. I want you to start thinking about who was charged 135 00:10:08,650 --> 00:10:10,360 and what kind of time they can do. 136 00:10:11,153 --> 00:10:14,156 One way to limit your exposure is what's called a structured plea. 137 00:10:15,032 --> 00:10:19,995 That means you have to deliver your people, all of them, down to a man. 138 00:10:20,329 --> 00:10:22,748 I saw your girl today, for the idents. 139 00:10:25,042 --> 00:10:26,543 How's she doing? 140 00:10:26,752 --> 00:10:30,881 Ok, I guess. She's out of the icu. 141 00:10:31,298 --> 00:10:32,800 Moving slow, but moving, you know? 142 00:10:34,676 --> 00:10:37,596 Jimmy, you ain't been to see her? 143 00:10:37,763 --> 00:10:39,598 No. I couldn't go in. 144 00:10:40,307 --> 00:10:41,892 This ain't about you, right? 145 00:10:43,727 --> 00:10:45,479 When I get back from Jersey, I will. 146 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:50,818 I will. 147 00:10:52,736 --> 00:10:55,572 You know, Cole and me, we showed her the spreads. 148 00:10:55,656 --> 00:11:00,118 Picked out little man, no problem. Wouldn't go for wee-bey. So I tried the fat finger. 149 00:11:01,078 --> 00:11:04,706 Damn near begging her to make this play easier in court. You know what she said? 150 00:11:06,416 --> 00:11:08,710 "Sometimes niggers gotta play hard." 151 00:11:11,171 --> 00:11:13,590 - Real police. - Oh, yeah. 152 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,103 - What the fuck did you do to her? - I don't know. 153 00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:31,108 You two in the same car gonna make for a long-ass drive to Jersey. 154 00:11:31,817 --> 00:11:33,318 Shit. 155 00:11:51,128 --> 00:11:54,506 - Is this mahogany? - This isn't mahogany, for Christ's sake. 156 00:11:54,798 --> 00:11:56,508 "Is this mahogany?" 157 00:12:11,023 --> 00:12:14,151 Damn, man, it's just... It's too still in here. 158 00:12:23,327 --> 00:12:25,037 Slow down! 159 00:12:29,750 --> 00:12:32,127 You know what? We can... 160 00:12:36,298 --> 00:12:38,008 This place will be fine. 161 00:12:38,258 --> 00:12:41,136 All we really got to do is put a little safe in here some place 162 00:12:41,303 --> 00:12:45,182 and let them know the count comes here from now on. Period. 163 00:12:46,516 --> 00:12:49,478 - Damn, boy. When y'all change up, y'all... - Shh. 164 00:12:51,647 --> 00:12:54,483 Y'all that paranoid? You ain't even been up in there before. 165 00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:56,944 I'm telling you, this shit is different. 166 00:12:57,027 --> 00:12:59,696 We are not going to talk about nothing indoors. It's a new day. 167 00:13:01,406 --> 00:13:04,201 We got to get back on our feet. 168 00:13:04,409 --> 00:13:07,412 The longer we hold off, the harder it's going to be to maintain them towers. 169 00:13:07,496 --> 00:13:10,749 You want to get it back up, lean to me and string. 170 00:13:11,041 --> 00:13:13,081 - I ain't down yet. - You need to step back. 171 00:13:13,627 --> 00:13:17,255 You can't take a second chance here. You know what I'm saying? 172 00:13:17,464 --> 00:13:21,510 Until you fixed, sis going to handle that money, I'm going to handle the products. 173 00:13:22,094 --> 00:13:24,221 - We here for you. - All right. 174 00:13:25,514 --> 00:13:28,141 But you tell Roberto, he got to make it a serious smoker. 175 00:13:28,225 --> 00:13:32,562 I want them motherfucking fiends in the projects dropping like flies. You feel me? 176 00:13:32,980 --> 00:13:35,232 You send out the word, let them know we ain't dead yet. 177 00:13:38,777 --> 00:13:40,737 - What about my nephew? - Don't fret. 178 00:13:41,947 --> 00:13:44,658 Give me a chance to get with Roberto, and I'll get up to d. 179 00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:46,743 Do what needs doing. 180 00:13:47,327 --> 00:13:50,414 Tell him I'm sorry for putting him out there like that 181 00:13:51,665 --> 00:13:53,265 and that I'm going to make it up to him. 182 00:13:54,084 --> 00:13:55,419 You going to make it up. 183 00:13:55,919 --> 00:13:57,421 Most def. 184 00:14:04,052 --> 00:14:08,974 I want to make it clear that the cooperation is contingent on a commitment 185 00:14:09,099 --> 00:14:11,226 that my client finds acceptable. 186 00:14:11,435 --> 00:14:14,813 Failing that, everything said in here stays in here. 187 00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:15,896 Damn straight. 188 00:14:15,939 --> 00:14:19,359 A proffer in Maryland plays much the same in Jersey. 189 00:14:19,943 --> 00:14:24,740 I agree that with regard to matters involving drug trafficking, your client has been helpful. 190 00:14:25,157 --> 00:14:28,910 He's indicated a willingness to testify that he was a lieutenant 191 00:14:28,994 --> 00:14:31,747 in avon barksdale's drug organization, 192 00:14:31,872 --> 00:14:34,958 sold large quantities of drugs for his uncle. 193 00:14:35,083 --> 00:14:37,502 Delivered money, attended meetings, 194 00:14:37,586 --> 00:14:41,173 and, on one occasion, made a trip to New York on the behest of his uncle. 195 00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:44,468 All of which corroborates much of what we already know. 196 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:47,387 What else is there? 197 00:14:48,388 --> 00:14:49,639 The murders. 198 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,184 Man, why do you keep on that? 199 00:14:53,602 --> 00:14:56,938 I already told you, I don't know nothing about that witness being killed. 200 00:14:57,022 --> 00:14:58,148 Which witness? 201 00:15:00,067 --> 00:15:01,693 Remember her? 202 00:15:02,652 --> 00:15:04,488 Jesus. 203 00:15:05,197 --> 00:15:08,700 - They did her? - About the same time they did the boy. 204 00:15:18,210 --> 00:15:19,961 All them bodies. 205 00:15:24,508 --> 00:15:27,010 - They covering up, man. - That's what we think. 206 00:15:27,302 --> 00:15:30,055 - No loose ends. - I can understand the guard. 207 00:15:30,514 --> 00:15:32,182 She got paid, so she had to go. 208 00:15:33,725 --> 00:15:36,603 Orlando, he knew too much, got to snitching, so he had to go. 209 00:15:38,105 --> 00:15:40,273 But then there's the kid... 210 00:15:41,066 --> 00:15:42,484 Wallace. 211 00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:47,614 'I need to go past argyle street tonight. Check in with Wallace. 212 00:15:48,698 --> 00:15:51,993 'He off the hook since we helped the tower crew, get that stick-up boy. 213 00:15:52,077 --> 00:15:53,995 'Wallace is bugging. 214 00:15:54,079 --> 00:15:56,498 'Don't hardly even come out of that room no more.' 215 00:15:56,665 --> 00:15:59,501 - 'Why he be like that?' - 'He might be getting high. 216 00:16:00,544 --> 00:16:02,129 'The boy's scaring me with his shit.' 217 00:16:02,212 --> 00:16:04,923 - 'all right, holler at me later.' - 'That'll work.' 218 00:16:07,217 --> 00:16:08,510 you got that shit on tape? 219 00:16:09,219 --> 00:16:10,387 Mm-hm. 220 00:16:14,724 --> 00:16:17,227 - God! - His name is Brandon Wright. 221 00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:21,189 Burned him, broke fingers, gouged an eye out, all kinds of fun. 222 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:23,650 Wallace was the one who saw. 223 00:16:27,112 --> 00:16:28,405 He saw the boy. 224 00:16:29,823 --> 00:16:31,575 But he didn't think about what they'd do. 225 00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:35,328 You must have known. You were by that pay phone. 226 00:16:35,871 --> 00:16:38,206 - You knew. - What was I going to do, huh? 227 00:16:38,999 --> 00:16:41,918 I don't call string, word get back uptown, what's going to happen then? 228 00:16:43,086 --> 00:16:48,425 So you told Wallace to wait, then you called stringer and he gathered the troops. 229 00:16:49,259 --> 00:16:50,594 Yeah. 230 00:16:50,677 --> 00:16:53,680 And down at the Greek's, they got Wallace to point the finger. 231 00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:57,123 Then they went in like cops with handcuffs, so they could take their time on Brandon. 232 00:16:58,643 --> 00:17:00,243 They dropped the body where we'd see it. 233 00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:03,773 "Send a message to the 'jects," they said. 234 00:17:04,941 --> 00:17:08,612 Wallace... he couldn't handle that. 235 00:17:09,863 --> 00:17:14,492 After seeing that, he wanted to get out, go back to school. 236 00:17:16,244 --> 00:17:19,706 We even joked about it, him being 16 and all, 237 00:17:20,874 --> 00:17:22,959 needing to go start back over again as a freshman. 238 00:17:24,461 --> 00:17:27,422 About a week ago, my uncle and string called me down to the club. 239 00:17:28,465 --> 00:17:30,967 Stringer, he's all worried about Wallace, and I told him. 240 00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:33,553 I said, "Wallace ain't no snitch." 241 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:36,348 Plus, he's out the fucking game. 242 00:17:38,266 --> 00:17:39,434 I told him that. 243 00:17:40,393 --> 00:17:42,187 But I needed to do more. 244 00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:45,232 I should've done more. 245 00:17:47,651 --> 00:17:50,487 But I didn't, and, fuck, that's on me. 246 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:54,324 Any idea who they sent at Wallace? 247 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,163 Come on, d. Wild guess. 248 00:18:00,538 --> 00:18:04,542 Man, I don't know, could've been anybody. You know, shooters come cheap. 249 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:07,295 I don't think so. Not in the pit. 250 00:18:07,671 --> 00:18:11,007 Not in his crib. I counted seven beds when I was up there. 251 00:18:11,508 --> 00:18:15,971 - Where were the young 'uns? - Look, if I knew, I would tell you. 252 00:18:16,638 --> 00:18:19,307 All right? I swear to god, I would tell you. 253 00:18:22,185 --> 00:18:24,437 They're charged with Orlando and the undercover cop 254 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:26,856 but we're still hunting. 255 00:18:31,194 --> 00:18:33,280 Him, he in Philly. 256 00:18:35,657 --> 00:18:37,659 - How you know? - Cos I dropped him there. 257 00:18:38,285 --> 00:18:41,871 - Where? - A corner, north end, I don't know. 258 00:18:42,205 --> 00:18:44,499 Did wee-bey say anything to you about the shootings? 259 00:18:45,792 --> 00:18:48,378 We don't talk shop in a car. It's a rule we got. 260 00:18:51,089 --> 00:18:52,966 So, is that it? 261 00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:59,806 Your client must realize that any agreement is dependent on his full cooperation. 262 00:18:59,889 --> 00:19:01,391 There ain't nothing else. 263 00:19:11,026 --> 00:19:12,235 Diedre. 264 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:18,742 Tap, tap, tap. 265 00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:26,541 She was one of my uncle's girls. 266 00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:28,960 We got people who put you with her the night she's killed. 267 00:19:29,836 --> 00:19:34,257 I didn't know that he was gonna do her. I swear. They played me. 268 00:19:34,924 --> 00:19:36,217 How so? 269 00:19:40,305 --> 00:19:45,310 My uncle gave me an eight-ball of coke. Told me to take it over there to her. 270 00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:49,022 I was surprised, cos I thought he dumped her. 271 00:19:49,105 --> 00:19:50,940 But he said it wasn't like that no more. 272 00:19:51,816 --> 00:19:53,860 So, he had wee-bey take me over there. 273 00:19:54,736 --> 00:20:00,200 I walked up, knocked on the door, she came to the door naked, with this little robe on. 274 00:20:00,575 --> 00:20:03,453 She's your uncle's girl but she comes to the door naked? 275 00:20:03,912 --> 00:20:05,997 She used to do that shit with me all the time, man. 276 00:20:06,623 --> 00:20:09,876 Teasing. You know how girls do. Maybe you don't. 277 00:20:11,753 --> 00:20:13,338 I don't know. 278 00:20:14,381 --> 00:20:17,467 Anyway, I'm like, "ain't you going to let me come in?" 279 00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:20,970 She's like, no. She gotta get ready for my uncle to come by later. 280 00:20:21,888 --> 00:20:23,890 So, I give her the coke. 281 00:20:24,808 --> 00:20:27,977 She laughs about how she's going to put that shit on ice, for later on. 282 00:20:29,396 --> 00:20:31,106 - Refrigerate it. - Uh-huh. 283 00:20:32,232 --> 00:20:35,360 I don't know shit about no refrigerator. Like I said, I didn't go in. 284 00:20:36,486 --> 00:20:39,489 I turned around, started walking back to the truck and I heard this shot. 285 00:20:40,323 --> 00:20:43,910 Wee-bey came running back with this big-ass .45 he liked so much. 286 00:20:43,993 --> 00:20:46,246 Tells me how he was tapping on the window, real soft. 287 00:20:47,455 --> 00:20:51,459 She had to walk all the way up cos she couldn't see what was on the outside. 288 00:20:53,294 --> 00:20:55,296 And when she gets up to the window and looks out... 289 00:21:04,431 --> 00:21:07,434 - You did good, d'Angelo. - Yeah, you did. 290 00:21:23,366 --> 00:21:25,243 Y'all don't understand, man. 291 00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:27,871 Y'all don't get it. 292 00:21:29,873 --> 00:21:31,291 I grew up in this shit. 293 00:21:33,877 --> 00:21:35,753 My grandfather was butch stamford. 294 00:21:37,046 --> 00:21:38,806 You know who butch stamford was in this town? 295 00:21:39,757 --> 00:21:40,967 Mm-hm. 296 00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:46,139 All my people, man, my father, my uncles, my cousins... 297 00:21:47,724 --> 00:21:49,350 It's just what we do. 298 00:21:52,645 --> 00:21:58,109 You just live with this shit until you can't breathe no more. 299 00:22:00,570 --> 00:22:05,033 I swear to god, I was courtside for eight months 300 00:22:05,825 --> 00:22:09,829 and I was freer in jail than I was at home. 301 00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:13,374 What are you looking for? 302 00:22:16,044 --> 00:22:17,212 I want it to go away. 303 00:22:18,505 --> 00:22:21,424 - I can't. - I want what Wallace wanted. 304 00:22:22,342 --> 00:22:23,718 I want to start over. 305 00:22:24,552 --> 00:22:29,224 That's what I want. I don't care where. Anywhere. I don't give a fuck. 306 00:22:29,724 --> 00:22:33,520 I just want to go somewhere where I can breathe like regular folk. 307 00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:37,524 You give me that... 308 00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:41,194 And I'll give you them. 309 00:22:46,533 --> 00:22:49,285 No, that's great. Really great. 310 00:22:50,495 --> 00:22:51,996 Yeah. 311 00:22:54,165 --> 00:22:55,959 That's our move. 312 00:22:56,167 --> 00:22:57,877 Mm-hm. 313 00:23:01,172 --> 00:23:02,799 Ok. 314 00:23:11,933 --> 00:23:16,938 We broke it open tonight. Wide open. I'm bringing this case in big. 315 00:23:22,277 --> 00:23:24,037 So, this squares things with burrell, right? 316 00:23:28,992 --> 00:23:30,285 To hell with the man. 317 00:23:30,827 --> 00:23:34,497 But we might have enough to reach out to the feds. Try to run this thing through them. 318 00:23:35,498 --> 00:23:37,667 - Cedric. - He knows about the money, Marla. 319 00:23:38,835 --> 00:23:40,253 He's known for a long while. 320 00:23:41,337 --> 00:23:44,177 Fact is, I wouldn't be surprised if it's why he picked me for this case. 321 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:49,178 What does he...? What are you going to...? 322 00:23:49,262 --> 00:23:53,516 He's got me if he wants me. Thing is, I don't think he wants me. 323 00:23:53,808 --> 00:23:55,184 Too much stink. 324 00:23:56,311 --> 00:23:57,854 Too much mess. 325 00:24:03,067 --> 00:24:05,069 Kind of like this case. 326 00:24:08,489 --> 00:24:11,701 I have to admit it, Jimmy. This is a great case. 327 00:24:11,784 --> 00:24:15,830 Not just because of greggs, it goes to that and answers that. 328 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,041 Because of how deep it goes. 329 00:24:18,124 --> 00:24:20,877 I mean, the murders, the money... 330 00:24:21,586 --> 00:24:25,089 I feel like I've been drunk since that kid started talking to us. 331 00:24:25,173 --> 00:24:28,968 You ok to drive? I can drop you home. You can pick up your car tomorrow. 332 00:24:29,052 --> 00:24:30,970 No, I'm good, I'm good. 333 00:24:31,054 --> 00:24:34,515 I'm great, I'm great. This was fucking great! 334 00:24:36,059 --> 00:24:38,978 You want to try to go federal with this? I am up for it. 335 00:24:39,187 --> 00:24:43,733 I get cross-designated as an ausa, and we can really run with it, you know? 336 00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:48,488 Career fucking case. 337 00:24:54,786 --> 00:24:56,621 Anyway... 338 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:08,966 Ronnie, the thing at, um... Levy's the other day, I was, uh... 339 00:25:09,425 --> 00:25:10,760 I was... 340 00:25:19,686 --> 00:25:22,855 Jesus, Ronnie, not here. What are you doing? 341 00:25:23,147 --> 00:25:25,817 Like you never did it in the headquarters garage before? 342 00:25:44,377 --> 00:25:46,671 Jesus, Mary and Joseph. 343 00:25:46,754 --> 00:25:49,298 Look what just walked in without a fucking escort. 344 00:25:49,716 --> 00:25:54,762 Downtown Roy brown, the living legend in his own mind. 345 00:25:56,389 --> 00:25:58,266 Uptown Lester freamon. 346 00:25:58,933 --> 00:26:00,977 Fuck me, how long's it been? 347 00:26:01,310 --> 00:26:04,647 Your retirement party, wasn't it? And this is retirement? 348 00:26:04,856 --> 00:26:06,899 Yeah. Nice fucking digs, huh? 349 00:26:07,483 --> 00:26:10,319 I asked my supervisor when I'll see a little sunlight. 350 00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:13,990 Runt cocksucker says, "when your unit turns a profit." 351 00:26:14,282 --> 00:26:16,659 But enough of myjoy. 352 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:18,995 What do you guys need? 353 00:26:19,996 --> 00:26:22,874 We need a trap and trace but not in Maryland. 354 00:26:23,583 --> 00:26:26,961 - Pennsylvania, Philly. - You got to go through them. 355 00:26:27,503 --> 00:26:31,883 They'll tell us it can't be done. Then another week to ok our subpoena. 356 00:26:32,258 --> 00:26:34,510 It's more complicated than a straight-up trace. 357 00:26:35,011 --> 00:26:38,681 We need a list of phones in Philly that called this number in the past week. 358 00:26:40,641 --> 00:26:43,561 - What's the number? - Drug lawyer, downtown office. 359 00:26:44,437 --> 00:26:46,157 Thought billing would be the place to look. 360 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:50,526 Well, if we can do it, and I'm not saying we can, 361 00:26:51,611 --> 00:26:53,821 it's going to be a fucking week, maybe two. 362 00:26:56,032 --> 00:26:57,200 Thanks, Roy. 363 00:26:57,617 --> 00:26:59,035 Hey, Lester. 364 00:26:59,202 --> 00:27:02,914 Isn't this supposed to be the time you tell me how fucking important this is? 365 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:13,716 The Philly number gives us the mope who shot that female undercover. 366 00:27:20,515 --> 00:27:22,558 I'm telling you, it's the perfect case. 367 00:27:22,683 --> 00:27:24,811 - You'll love it. - It sounds great. 368 00:27:25,228 --> 00:27:28,231 But like I said, we're not fishing for drug cases anymore. 369 00:27:29,106 --> 00:27:30,650 Try DEA. 370 00:27:30,733 --> 00:27:35,363 It's too close to our cid. Our bosses would know we've gone there before a meeting. 371 00:27:35,488 --> 00:27:37,128 Your bosses don't know you're doing this? 372 00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:42,203 Who'll be coming? 373 00:27:42,286 --> 00:27:44,580 Me, a detective name of freamon, and Daniels. 374 00:27:46,082 --> 00:27:49,961 I can speak for Daniels, brother. He's played this thing out with real heart. 375 00:27:51,295 --> 00:27:53,631 Come on, set something up. 376 00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:57,802 All right. 377 00:28:08,354 --> 00:28:09,856 Could I get ten copies? 378 00:28:10,314 --> 00:28:13,109 - Ten copies? - Ten, right. 379 00:28:23,536 --> 00:28:24,704 No problems? 380 00:28:34,964 --> 00:28:37,550 All right, man, I'll get at you. 381 00:28:45,433 --> 00:28:47,977 Yo, you locked that door, right? Yeah? 382 00:28:48,436 --> 00:28:51,188 All right, so listen. It's not street-ready, all right? 383 00:28:51,564 --> 00:28:54,108 Everybody's gonna work on their own cut. 384 00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:57,486 Now, listen to me, tell them to get this straight. 385 00:28:58,738 --> 00:29:03,492 Three parts of this, all right? To one of raw, all right? 386 00:29:03,826 --> 00:29:06,245 That's how we gonna do until we get the new stash. 387 00:29:06,329 --> 00:29:09,081 I want you to put the word out there that we back up. 388 00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:12,501 Understand me? We back up. 389 00:29:13,377 --> 00:29:17,548 It's a good target. You guys have a pretty good case here. 390 00:29:17,632 --> 00:29:22,428 Look at the violence alone. There's a dozen murders, including state's witnesses. 391 00:29:22,887 --> 00:29:26,098 If you help us squeeze the barksdale kid into a witness protection program, 392 00:29:26,182 --> 00:29:27,725 we can run wild. 393 00:29:27,892 --> 00:29:31,312 - No suppliers though. - We're still looking for a way into that. 394 00:29:32,188 --> 00:29:34,523 There was nothing on the wire that took us toward New York. 395 00:29:35,024 --> 00:29:39,362 The trouble is, we have these post-9/11 protocols. 396 00:29:39,862 --> 00:29:44,659 We can't pick up any new narcotics work unless it goes to priority crime targets. 397 00:29:44,742 --> 00:29:48,579 Meaning cosa nostra or Colombians. Or Russians maybe. 398 00:29:48,871 --> 00:29:52,291 - We don't have Colombians in Baltimore. - We don't have any wise guys. 399 00:29:52,458 --> 00:29:55,670 All we got is locals busy tearing the westside apart. 400 00:29:55,878 --> 00:29:58,881 Ihearyou but the bureau-wide protocol applies. 401 00:29:59,548 --> 00:30:02,259 To run with you on this, we need a recognized oc target 402 00:30:02,468 --> 00:30:05,596 or a connect to counterterrorism or corruption. 403 00:30:05,805 --> 00:30:09,058 You go near stuff like that, we have something we can bring to our asac. 404 00:30:09,892 --> 00:30:14,188 - What kind of corruption? - Don't know. What kind you got? 405 00:30:18,317 --> 00:30:20,736 Yo, poot, we up yet? 406 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:23,698 - Where roc-roc at with the shit? - Package in. 407 00:30:23,781 --> 00:30:26,867 - Who is it? - Onion and them off-brand niggers. 408 00:30:26,993 --> 00:30:29,203 Onion? 409 00:30:29,453 --> 00:30:32,248 - What the fuck they got? - Some shit they call yellow tops. 410 00:30:36,210 --> 00:30:38,587 Got them yellow tops, y'all. Yellow tops. 411 00:30:44,051 --> 00:30:45,594 Yellow tops, yellow tops. 412 00:30:46,262 --> 00:30:49,515 Motherfucker, what the fuck is up? Huh? 413 00:30:49,598 --> 00:30:54,603 What the fuck is y'all doing? Do what you feel. But be ready to finish what you start. 414 00:30:55,438 --> 00:30:57,606 What you doing? This ain't no open market. 415 00:30:57,690 --> 00:31:01,777 Ain't no market at all. You ain't got shit to sell. Back your ass up for those that do. 416 00:31:01,944 --> 00:31:04,113 - You know what? - What? 417 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,949 Get the fuck out of here, bitch! Get your ass outta here! 418 00:31:11,454 --> 00:31:14,582 - See, that's why we can't win. - Why not? 419 00:31:16,333 --> 00:31:19,795 They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions. 420 00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:23,716 Close it! Get the fuck out of here! 421 00:31:43,486 --> 00:31:45,654 Heard you ain't much as an eyeball witness. 422 00:31:47,656 --> 00:31:49,533 Bad as any civilian. 423 00:31:50,659 --> 00:31:52,703 Guess so. 424 00:31:56,165 --> 00:31:57,500 Where we at? 425 00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:02,171 - With what? - With the case, fool. 426 00:32:03,047 --> 00:32:04,340 Jesus, give it a rest. 427 00:32:05,382 --> 00:32:07,051 What's on the wire? 428 00:32:11,847 --> 00:32:13,682 - Come on, man. - Wire's dead. 429 00:32:15,226 --> 00:32:17,026 They changed up after we hit them with raids. 430 00:32:18,020 --> 00:32:19,271 Daniels didn't tell you? 431 00:32:20,356 --> 00:32:22,358 Hell, no. 432 00:32:22,525 --> 00:32:24,610 He only talks to me about the good shit. 433 00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:27,947 About how y'all were onto my shooters and stuff. 434 00:32:28,656 --> 00:32:33,160 Yeah, well, we lost the wire, but the good news is d'Angelo's flipped. 435 00:32:33,911 --> 00:32:35,412 We're talking to the feds about... 436 00:32:35,871 --> 00:32:37,540 Fuck both y'all. 437 00:32:42,878 --> 00:32:44,505 She wants me to quit. 438 00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:48,884 Says there ain't nothing worth this. 439 00:32:49,969 --> 00:32:52,471 So, I promised her I'd think about it. 440 00:32:54,974 --> 00:32:56,600 What do you say? 441 00:32:58,769 --> 00:32:59,937 I don't know. I... 442 00:33:01,063 --> 00:33:05,568 I guess you should do what you need to. 443 00:33:07,153 --> 00:33:08,362 But she's right. 444 00:33:10,072 --> 00:33:11,532 It isn't worth it. 445 00:33:17,371 --> 00:33:18,414 Yeah. 446 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:20,499 Probably not. 447 00:33:27,548 --> 00:33:31,177 Anyway, what took you so long getting up in here? 448 00:33:32,595 --> 00:33:35,764 Shit. No cards, no flowers. 449 00:33:36,098 --> 00:33:37,725 I mean, what the fuck, Jimmy? 450 00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:39,768 I couldn't, I... 451 00:33:41,562 --> 00:33:43,272 Ifelt, uh... 452 00:33:45,191 --> 00:33:47,484 A case like this, it's always you or sydnor 453 00:33:47,568 --> 00:33:50,738 or some other black cop who ends up going undercover. 454 00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:58,621 I swear, if I could do it over... 455 00:34:02,875 --> 00:34:04,418 If I... 456 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,879 If I could do it over... 457 00:34:09,089 --> 00:34:10,466 You know what I'd do? 458 00:34:13,677 --> 00:34:15,804 Put more tape on that fucking gun. 459 00:34:19,808 --> 00:34:21,477 I'm sorry, kima. 460 00:34:23,646 --> 00:34:25,147 I'm sorry. 461 00:34:27,316 --> 00:34:33,155 Anyway, since I got you up in here acting like my bitch and shit... 462 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,326 With all your guilty-ass crying and whatnot... 463 00:34:40,454 --> 00:34:42,373 Maybe you can do something for me. 464 00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:47,336 She said you were doing good. Said she was proud of you. 465 00:34:49,838 --> 00:34:51,340 How's she doing? 466 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,260 Still shook. 467 00:34:55,803 --> 00:34:59,765 But she wanted you to have that and told me to tell you she's sorry to be late with it. 468 00:35:01,558 --> 00:35:03,352 Girl got such heart, you know? 469 00:35:04,478 --> 00:35:05,813 Yeah. 470 00:35:08,399 --> 00:35:11,610 This is enough for what I got going on now, man. 471 00:35:12,152 --> 00:35:14,488 You give the rest back to her. 472 00:35:16,824 --> 00:35:17,908 Are you sure? 473 00:35:27,918 --> 00:35:29,044 Give her my love. 474 00:35:29,962 --> 00:35:31,547 Right. 475 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:36,176 Hey, mcnulty. 476 00:35:39,930 --> 00:35:41,432 Don't tell her. 477 00:35:50,190 --> 00:35:51,900 - What you got, man? - Over there, man. 478 00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:56,822 UN-fucking-believable. Five guys got jumped. Not just you. 479 00:35:56,905 --> 00:36:00,200 - Four other guys jumped me. - I'm sorry, man. 480 00:36:01,952 --> 00:36:06,915 It's got to be all the brutality complaints. It'll never matter how well I do on no test. 481 00:36:06,999 --> 00:36:10,836 You don't know that. You might make the next list, you know? 482 00:36:10,919 --> 00:36:13,422 - You don't know. - Yeah. 483 00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:16,550 Guess I ain't leadership material. Congratulations, carv. 484 00:36:17,551 --> 00:36:19,261 Thanks. 485 00:36:20,596 --> 00:36:22,222 Yeah. 486 00:36:39,281 --> 00:36:40,991 The world is on its ass. 487 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,955 Guy called for you from the phone company. 488 00:36:47,498 --> 00:36:49,833 He's got the number for a house in Philadelphia. 489 00:36:50,209 --> 00:36:51,377 Beautiful, thank you. 490 00:36:59,968 --> 00:37:02,012 - Good casework. - Thank you. 491 00:37:02,304 --> 00:37:03,847 I don't think I'm giving anything away 492 00:37:04,014 --> 00:37:07,810 by telling that Arnold has had a file on senator Davis for two years. 493 00:37:07,976 --> 00:37:09,561 It took us a while, 494 00:37:09,728 --> 00:37:13,482 but the quid pro quo is in that westside redevelopment mess. 495 00:37:13,816 --> 00:37:17,069 Barksdale or his fronts grease enough city politicians 496 00:37:17,152 --> 00:37:21,240 and word comes back years in advance where the development zone's gonna be. 497 00:37:21,448 --> 00:37:26,453 He buys every piece of garbage real estate he can, exaggerates the values. 498 00:37:26,537 --> 00:37:30,290 The city's gonna pay him millions to condemn the properties. 499 00:37:30,499 --> 00:37:33,043 It's a lot to work with, but we're willing. 500 00:37:34,044 --> 00:37:38,590 The question is, can your cooperator give us the senator or any other political figure? 501 00:37:39,341 --> 00:37:41,343 - The cooperator? - D'Angelo barksdale. 502 00:37:42,428 --> 00:37:43,948 What does he have for us on the money? 503 00:37:49,184 --> 00:37:50,477 Nothing. 504 00:37:51,019 --> 00:37:52,646 He gives you the drugs and the violence. 505 00:37:53,188 --> 00:37:55,357 He gives you avon barksdale, stringer bell. 506 00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:58,735 - And they give us the senator. - Maybe. 507 00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:02,197 Whoa, whoa, you're making barksdale and bell cooperators 508 00:38:02,281 --> 00:38:04,158 and the politicians the target? 509 00:38:04,366 --> 00:38:05,534 Of course. 510 00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:08,495 Fuck the politicians. It's barksdale and bell. 511 00:38:08,912 --> 00:38:11,540 They turned west Baltimore into a free-fire zone. 512 00:38:11,707 --> 00:38:13,041 No one's saying they walk. 513 00:38:13,292 --> 00:38:15,627 But if we bring you the case, 514 00:38:15,711 --> 00:38:20,215 you'll let barksdale and bell reduce any sentence they get through cooperation? 515 00:38:20,299 --> 00:38:23,719 Jesus Christ, are you kidding? You're seeing all this ass-backwards. 516 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:27,097 We have a mandate to pursue political corruption. 517 00:38:27,556 --> 00:38:29,808 - Can you believe these guys? - Jimmy, look. 518 00:38:31,101 --> 00:38:34,646 Drugs and murder don't cut it anymore? How about terrorism? 519 00:38:35,397 --> 00:38:39,151 These guys have dropped 14, 15 bodies. The witnesses, cooperators. 520 00:38:39,443 --> 00:38:41,603 That kind of hyperbole doesn't serve anyone, detective. 521 00:38:52,331 --> 00:38:54,491 I think we're going with a different direction on this. 522 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:56,502 Thank you for your time. 523 00:38:59,421 --> 00:39:01,924 West Baltimore is dying and you empty suits 524 00:39:02,090 --> 00:39:04,770 are running around trying to pin some politician's pelt to the wall. 525 00:39:08,347 --> 00:39:10,599 Thought you was real police, brother. 526 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,544 So, they got you all the way out here? 527 00:39:40,295 --> 00:39:42,089 I started out thinking you was in Jersey. 528 00:39:43,257 --> 00:39:46,927 You ain't in Jersey, I figured they still got you down in central booking. 529 00:39:49,471 --> 00:39:50,806 All the way out here... 530 00:39:52,307 --> 00:39:56,311 - Do send a message, though. - A message needs sending. 531 00:39:57,980 --> 00:39:59,481 How y'all even find me? 532 00:40:01,483 --> 00:40:03,683 Ain't no one going to keep a mother from her son, right? 533 00:40:09,491 --> 00:40:12,828 You know, he always talking family. 534 00:40:14,413 --> 00:40:16,540 "Family is the heart," he say. 535 00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:20,794 Well, I'm family, ain't I? 536 00:40:22,796 --> 00:40:25,090 Well, what about me for once? 537 00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:28,260 It ain't right. 538 00:40:28,510 --> 00:40:30,429 What's right? 539 00:40:33,223 --> 00:40:36,685 You like for him to step up, take all the weight, and let you walk? 540 00:40:38,228 --> 00:40:40,355 Because he will. You know he will. 541 00:40:41,398 --> 00:40:46,028 But if he got to go away that mean you got to step up and fill his shoes. 542 00:40:46,278 --> 00:40:48,030 You ready for that? 543 00:40:49,031 --> 00:40:50,324 Ma, you know I ain't. 544 00:40:51,408 --> 00:40:53,869 I ain't ready, and I'm never gonna be ready. 545 00:40:54,077 --> 00:40:55,579 - D, come on. - Look. 546 00:40:56,747 --> 00:41:01,668 They're giving me a chance to walk away to start again some place else. 547 00:41:03,962 --> 00:41:05,631 And what you giving them? 548 00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:12,888 Look... 549 00:41:15,515 --> 00:41:17,809 He messed up, d. He knows it. 550 00:41:19,686 --> 00:41:22,564 Now if you want to get even with him, you can. 551 00:41:23,357 --> 00:41:28,070 But you hurt him, you hurt this whole family. All of us. 552 00:41:28,487 --> 00:41:30,405 Me and trina and the cousins. 553 00:41:31,031 --> 00:41:35,744 And donette too. And your baby. Your own baby boy. 554 00:41:37,913 --> 00:41:40,248 This right here is part of the game, d. 555 00:41:41,249 --> 00:41:44,836 And without the game, this whole family would be down in the fucking terrace 556 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,254 living off scraps. 557 00:41:46,338 --> 00:41:48,006 We probably wouldn't even be a family. 558 00:41:50,092 --> 00:41:52,094 Start over, huh? 559 00:41:53,095 --> 00:41:55,376 How the fuck you going to start over without your peoples? 560 00:41:56,431 --> 00:41:57,808 Without your own child, even? 561 00:42:02,896 --> 00:42:06,733 You ain't got family in this world, what the hell you got? 562 00:42:12,447 --> 00:42:15,909 This motherfucker wee-bey twitches, there won't even be a trial. 563 00:42:18,787 --> 00:42:21,206 Detective carver, a word. 564 00:42:29,047 --> 00:42:30,173 Shut the door. 565 00:42:41,518 --> 00:42:43,270 What's up, lt? 566 00:42:45,731 --> 00:42:47,149 Anything you want to tell me? 567 00:42:51,486 --> 00:42:52,863 Been weeks now. 568 00:42:53,572 --> 00:42:56,575 The deputy ops knows what's going on in this unit almost before I do. 569 00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:03,373 Except last week, we run the bug up into barksdale's club office 570 00:43:04,166 --> 00:43:07,335 and burrell, for once, he's a step behind. 571 00:43:08,628 --> 00:43:10,172 You see it? 572 00:43:12,466 --> 00:43:15,552 - Maybe... he... - I see it. 573 00:43:17,137 --> 00:43:18,430 I look around the office 574 00:43:19,139 --> 00:43:22,100 and I see that one of my people is at the academy for in-service. 575 00:43:26,146 --> 00:43:28,106 Lieutenant, I swear, it wasn't my idea. 576 00:43:29,775 --> 00:43:32,027 I'm minding my business, doing my job 577 00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:34,279 when the man calls me for coffee and a Danish. 578 00:43:34,404 --> 00:43:36,907 I never been on the eighth floor of that fucking building. 579 00:43:38,492 --> 00:43:42,329 And there's the deputy fucking ops telling me how concerned he is about the case, 580 00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:45,832 how he needs to be informed. 581 00:43:48,210 --> 00:43:50,128 I mean, he's the deputy fucking ops, man. 582 00:44:04,518 --> 00:44:08,146 Couple weeks from now you're gonna be in some district somewhere 583 00:44:08,230 --> 00:44:11,775 with 11 or 12 uniforms looking to you for everything. 584 00:44:14,236 --> 00:44:15,996 And some of them are going to be good police. 585 00:44:17,072 --> 00:44:20,742 Some of them will be stupid, a few will be pieces of shit. 586 00:44:20,826 --> 00:44:24,496 But all of them will take their cue from you. 587 00:44:26,206 --> 00:44:28,750 You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. 588 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,586 Show them it's about the work, it will be. 589 00:44:31,711 --> 00:44:35,257 Show them some other kind of game, then that's the game they'll play. 590 00:44:45,725 --> 00:44:47,185 I came on in the eastern. 591 00:44:47,811 --> 00:44:50,522 A piece-of-shit lieutenant was hoping to be a captain, 592 00:44:51,189 --> 00:44:53,275 piece-of-shit sergeants hoping to be lieutenants. 593 00:44:53,483 --> 00:44:56,778 Pretty soon we had piece-of-shit patrolmen trying to figure the job for themselves. 594 00:44:58,029 --> 00:45:01,992 And some of what happens then is hard as hell to live down. 595 00:45:15,630 --> 00:45:19,384 Comes a day you're going to have to decide whether it's about you or about the work. 596 00:45:34,065 --> 00:45:35,442 Grand jury came in Tuesday. 597 00:45:36,902 --> 00:45:38,236 But you knew that, right? 598 00:45:41,031 --> 00:45:42,511 We're working a flight warrant today. 599 00:45:43,491 --> 00:45:44,826 There's... 600 00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:47,996 There's a lot to do here, in-office. 601 00:45:49,331 --> 00:45:51,541 I'd be careful with that, though. 602 00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:53,668 I understand the trigger pull used to be light. 603 00:46:26,618 --> 00:46:27,953 Keep him down, keep him down. 604 00:46:30,538 --> 00:46:33,875 You got him? Get him up there, get him up there. 605 00:46:33,959 --> 00:46:36,711 Oh! Oh! 606 00:46:36,878 --> 00:46:38,505 Bunch of low-bottom bitches. 607 00:46:38,588 --> 00:46:41,758 - Get his wrists. - You didn't have to fuck with my ride. 608 00:46:47,389 --> 00:46:49,099 You motherfuckers got lucky. 609 00:47:03,822 --> 00:47:05,115 Yeah? 610 00:47:09,911 --> 00:47:12,455 Podunk lawyer in denton's giving the guards a hard time 611 00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:15,500 about moving d'Angelo from original jurisdiction. 612 00:47:15,959 --> 00:47:17,460 Put the call through. 613 00:47:21,589 --> 00:47:26,094 Officer mace, Asa Pearlman. You got a problem with the lawyer? 614 00:47:29,556 --> 00:47:31,307 Ok, put the asshole on. 615 00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:35,812 This is he. 616 00:47:45,071 --> 00:47:49,576 You do not make it easy, Jimmy. I have to admit, I am deeply ambivalent. 617 00:47:50,493 --> 00:47:52,454 - Excuse me? - Sit. 618 00:47:53,288 --> 00:47:54,622 Sit. 619 00:47:56,624 --> 00:48:00,128 - Here. - I heard from bunk. 620 00:48:00,462 --> 00:48:02,881 Philly. Great work. 621 00:48:03,465 --> 00:48:08,011 You all did great work. And the number of clearances I'm looking at here... 622 00:48:08,094 --> 00:48:11,473 Christ, for the first time this year, we got the clearance rate up over 40%. 623 00:48:12,724 --> 00:48:14,017 That's on the one hand. 624 00:48:15,101 --> 00:48:18,688 On the other hand, the deputy ops got a call from the deputy us attorney 625 00:48:18,855 --> 00:48:23,026 asking whether an asshole such as yourself really works for us. 626 00:48:24,903 --> 00:48:28,406 This is the first the deputy hears his troops are creeping behind his back 627 00:48:28,490 --> 00:48:31,493 to take a case federal when they were told it was closed. 628 00:48:34,662 --> 00:48:36,164 You're a good detective. 629 00:48:36,790 --> 00:48:38,833 And I've got to admit you got some stones on you. 630 00:48:40,168 --> 00:48:42,545 Did you actually call the first deputy an empty suit? 631 00:48:48,009 --> 00:48:49,552 I want to see you land ok, Jimmy. 632 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,139 So, tell me, where don't you want to go? 633 00:48:57,393 --> 00:49:01,523 You all know that Baltimore cityjurors are capable of just about anything. 634 00:49:02,482 --> 00:49:07,862 If you want to spend months going through a bunch of half-heard telephone conversations 635 00:49:07,987 --> 00:49:11,032 and see how well you do, I'll certainly respect the effort. 636 00:49:11,199 --> 00:49:15,245 It's not just talk on the wire. We've got money and lot of dope on the table. 637 00:49:15,328 --> 00:49:16,538 And a lot of violence. 638 00:49:16,621 --> 00:49:19,999 All of which stops way short of Mr. Barksdale. You know this. 639 00:49:20,208 --> 00:49:23,419 All of it except for the New Jersey bust. That one he eats. 640 00:49:24,671 --> 00:49:28,967 Maybe he does. Maybe he pleads to one count of attempted possession 641 00:49:29,259 --> 00:49:31,469 and takes, I don't know, maybe three, four. 642 00:49:32,220 --> 00:49:36,057 Maybe he can arrange for everyone you have on those tapes to follow suit. 643 00:49:37,225 --> 00:49:40,979 Maybe you get five-year pleas from those with no prior felony convictions. 644 00:49:41,396 --> 00:49:44,649 Ten years for those with one prior, 15 for two or more. 645 00:49:45,108 --> 00:49:46,192 What about the murders? 646 00:49:46,734 --> 00:49:50,113 We acknowledge you've got Mr. Brice cold for the murder of Orlando 647 00:49:50,196 --> 00:49:52,407 - and the wounding of the police officer. - Who? 648 00:49:53,533 --> 00:49:54,617 Wee-bey. 649 00:49:54,701 --> 00:49:58,830 Representing Mr. Brice, I'm fairly confident that to avoid the death penalty, 650 00:49:58,913 --> 00:50:03,084 he'll proffer to at least a half-dozen of your open murders. 651 00:50:03,251 --> 00:50:04,961 Naming co-conspirators? 652 00:50:05,253 --> 00:50:08,548 For that kind of cooperation, I'd consider straight life. 653 00:50:08,631 --> 00:50:14,262 I believe Mr. Brice is ready to take sole responsibility for all of his crimes. 654 00:50:15,263 --> 00:50:17,765 Still, you walk away with at least a half-dozen clearances. 655 00:50:18,433 --> 00:50:19,684 Assets. 656 00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:24,314 Take the strip club, whatever trucks and cars you can link to the drugs, 657 00:50:24,439 --> 00:50:26,191 and whatever cash you've seized. 658 00:50:26,441 --> 00:50:30,403 He's got dozens of other properties. The funeral parlor, the towing company. 659 00:50:30,528 --> 00:50:34,365 You get the cars, because you can tie them to illegal activity. 660 00:50:34,741 --> 00:50:36,284 There's nothing else of his to take. 661 00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:38,661 So you keep the money, the real estate, 662 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,800 and stringer bell stays on the street with his hand on the throttle. 663 00:50:43,458 --> 00:50:45,585 If you have a charge against Mr. Bell, file it. 664 00:50:46,502 --> 00:50:50,256 Othennise, I understand that nothing in all those hours of tape implicates him. 665 00:50:55,303 --> 00:50:57,597 Three or four years ain't enough, Maury. 666 00:50:58,473 --> 00:51:00,016 Not for avon barksdale. 667 00:51:05,772 --> 00:51:06,856 Make an offer. 668 00:51:07,106 --> 00:51:10,026 'Part 14 of the circuit court of Baltimore city now in session.' 669 00:51:10,151 --> 00:51:12,278 - be seated. - First up. 670 00:51:12,528 --> 00:51:14,989 State versus avon Randolph barksdale, your honor. 671 00:51:15,865 --> 00:51:19,535 One count of possession with intent to distribute, to wit, a kilogram of heroin. 672 00:51:19,786 --> 00:51:23,790 - You have a statement of facts? - Mr. Barksdale is offering a plea of guilty 673 00:51:23,873 --> 00:51:26,668 in exchange for a maximum of seven years in doc 674 00:51:26,834 --> 00:51:29,170 in consideration of the following facts - 675 00:51:29,754 --> 00:51:32,590 on or about the date of September 17, 2002, 676 00:51:32,674 --> 00:51:34,926 in the jurisdiction of essex county, 677 00:51:35,009 --> 00:51:37,512 trooper Robert Warren of the New York barracks 678 00:51:37,595 --> 00:51:42,350 effected a traffic stop on a Ford Taurus traveling southbound near exit 13. 679 00:51:42,433 --> 00:51:46,729 It resulted from information gleaned from surveillance of Mr. Barksdale 680 00:51:46,896 --> 00:51:49,148 and his nephew, d'Angelo barksdale, 681 00:51:49,232 --> 00:51:53,444 by detectives assigned to a detail under the command of a narcotics supervisor. 682 00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:57,448 A search of the vehicle, rented from the avis location at bwi airport, 683 00:51:57,532 --> 00:52:02,161 revealed that a kilogram of pure heroin was concealed beneath a spare tire in the trunk. 684 00:52:02,996 --> 00:52:06,791 Mr. Barksdale acknowledges his role in procuring those drugs 685 00:52:06,874 --> 00:52:10,211 with the intent to dilute, package, and sell retail amounts of heroin. 686 00:52:10,712 --> 00:52:14,173 Diedre kresson, Roland leggett, toreen Boyd, all tied to the same gun. 687 00:52:14,799 --> 00:52:18,469 Plus, we got the stick-up boys, Brandon Wright, John Bailey. 688 00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:22,765 With Orlando, that makes six. Plus the attempted murder on a police. 689 00:52:23,099 --> 00:52:24,225 That it? 690 00:52:24,559 --> 00:52:28,021 - I do better if I give them more? - Life, no parole, means what it says. 691 00:52:28,563 --> 00:52:30,898 This proffer keeps you off death row but that's all. 692 00:52:31,024 --> 00:52:33,776 You were on the wrong side of a cop getting shot. 693 00:52:34,068 --> 00:52:35,862 You want to dream about straight life, 694 00:52:35,945 --> 00:52:39,824 you got to talk about avon barksdale and stringer bell. 695 00:52:40,616 --> 00:52:43,828 - Nah. - You might as well give them what you have. 696 00:52:44,412 --> 00:52:46,873 Anything you leave out is outside the deal. 697 00:52:47,415 --> 00:52:50,918 - They can charge you later. - Fuck it then. 698 00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:55,173 For another pit sandwich and some potato salad, I'll go a few more. 699 00:52:57,967 --> 00:53:00,511 - How you want that? - Medium rare, a lot of horseradish. 700 00:53:06,476 --> 00:53:11,064 All right. I did little man, thinking he might get weak on that cop getting shot. 701 00:53:11,147 --> 00:53:12,940 Yeah? Where's the body? 702 00:53:13,191 --> 00:53:15,276 Druid hill. Behind the reptile house. 703 00:53:16,110 --> 00:53:18,550 You get back in them weeds, you might find what's left of him. 704 00:53:19,739 --> 00:53:21,459 All right, that's seven. What else you got? 705 00:53:22,450 --> 00:53:23,826 Mmm. 706 00:53:24,118 --> 00:53:25,453 How about them witnesses? 707 00:53:26,746 --> 00:53:31,250 The security lady, and whatshisname, the maintenance man? 708 00:53:32,585 --> 00:53:35,129 - Gant? - Yeah. Gant. 709 00:53:35,963 --> 00:53:37,298 You did gant alone? 710 00:53:42,261 --> 00:53:43,861 They're out of potato salad. I got slaw. 711 00:53:46,849 --> 00:53:52,897 Information gleaned from surveillance shows that Mr. Watkins, a.K.A. Ronnie mo, 712 00:53:53,106 --> 00:53:57,235 was involved in the distribution of heroin and cocaine in the high-rises 713 00:53:57,318 --> 00:54:00,321 at 734 fayette and 221 north fremont. 714 00:54:00,488 --> 00:54:03,366 In exchange for his pleading guilty to conspiracy, 715 00:54:03,491 --> 00:54:06,828 he agrees to a sentence not to exceed 15 years in doc. 716 00:54:07,078 --> 00:54:10,039 Mr. Watkins is on probation for a drug distribution charge 717 00:54:10,123 --> 00:54:13,167 adjudicated in judge prevas's court in August, 2001 718 00:54:18,464 --> 00:54:20,007 Cedric, hey. 719 00:54:21,884 --> 00:54:23,219 Major cantrell. 720 00:54:24,595 --> 00:54:26,013 - Congrats. - Thanks. 721 00:54:26,222 --> 00:54:28,850 - Where are they sending you? - Northwest. Spurgeon's retiring. 722 00:54:30,810 --> 00:54:33,980 - I heard that was happening. - If ever you want a change, give a yell. 723 00:54:34,188 --> 00:54:38,025 I could use a good shift lieutenant. Right now, the whole fucking district's a mess. 724 00:54:38,484 --> 00:54:40,611 - What isn't? - Hey, 725 00:54:40,903 --> 00:54:42,488 - good seeing you. - You too. 726 00:54:49,370 --> 00:54:52,123 You see, this ain't no deu. It ain't like that. 727 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,668 When you came downtown, the job changed. 728 00:54:56,085 --> 00:55:01,048 Down here, we make big cases, big hairy-bailed cases like this barksdale thing. 729 00:55:01,299 --> 00:55:04,260 All that mess you call police work down in the districts, 730 00:55:04,510 --> 00:55:09,265 all that fuck-somebody-up and rip-and-run bullshit. It won't play down here. 731 00:55:10,057 --> 00:55:14,145 You think I'm kidding. This is what makes cases, gentlemen. This! 732 00:55:16,272 --> 00:55:17,440 Remember that. 733 00:55:32,830 --> 00:55:33,956 Nicely done. 734 00:55:43,925 --> 00:55:46,219 Motherfucker, I been here since lunch, waiting. 735 00:55:46,594 --> 00:55:48,596 Ain't nobody been through here. 736 00:55:49,263 --> 00:55:52,558 You hear me? I been waiting and y'all ain't about shit. 737 00:55:54,602 --> 00:55:58,981 Yeah, listen to me. Look, if you feel like that, then get off this phone. 738 00:55:59,065 --> 00:56:01,817 Come down here and step to me then, nigger. 739 00:56:01,901 --> 00:56:03,611 All right. 740 00:56:04,570 --> 00:56:09,116 Yo, if roc-roc ain't here in ten minutes with my re-up, whoop his ass, man. 741 00:56:23,839 --> 00:56:26,008 You did a tour in homicide years ago 742 00:56:26,092 --> 00:56:30,096 but let me tell you how I run this unit, because how I run it is how it runs. 743 00:56:30,429 --> 00:56:33,266 We work on rotation. You're up until you catch a call. 744 00:56:33,349 --> 00:56:36,519 Then you step down and someone else steps up behind you. 745 00:56:36,727 --> 00:56:40,481 This is the way we do business in a town with 250, 300 murders a year. 746 00:56:41,190 --> 00:56:42,775 And it works. 747 00:56:44,527 --> 00:56:47,154 You do not play the game for yourself, you play it for us. 748 00:56:48,114 --> 00:56:52,660 If you remember these few rules, you'll find me to be supportive and reasonable. 749 00:56:52,868 --> 00:56:54,328 Very reasonable, sir. 750 00:56:54,745 --> 00:56:58,416 - That's what they say about me. - They say that. They do. 751 00:57:24,692 --> 00:57:26,027 Yo, d. 752 00:57:30,698 --> 00:57:32,992 - What the fuck was that? - Huh? 753 00:57:33,159 --> 00:57:36,412 You take a nigger's money, then you serve him? What the fuck? 754 00:57:41,709 --> 00:57:43,919 I'm saying, take their money, 755 00:57:44,003 --> 00:57:46,631 then send them round and let some other nigger serve. 756 00:57:46,714 --> 00:57:51,302 The way you doing it, someone snapping pictures got the whole deal. You hear? 757 00:57:57,933 --> 00:57:59,769 We got to tighten up around here, yo. 758 00:58:08,736 --> 00:58:10,321 Jimmy. 759 00:58:12,365 --> 00:58:18,079 Hell of a case. Read all about it in the papers. You done good, kiddo. 760 00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:24,043 I gotta... 761 00:58:32,009 --> 00:58:35,137 D'Angelo barksdale supervised distribution in the low-rise courtyards 762 00:58:35,513 --> 00:58:38,766 and was also involved in the violence attributed to the organization. 763 00:58:39,684 --> 00:58:45,272 He was arrested in New Jersey possessing heroin intended for distribution in Baltimore. 764 00:58:45,981 --> 00:58:47,942 He acknowledges his role as a conspirator 765 00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:53,239 and is on parole for two earlier counts of distribution dating from march, 1999. 766 00:58:53,447 --> 00:58:57,243 - What are you asking? - As he has two prior convictions 767 00:58:57,326 --> 00:59:02,248 and is insisting the effort to transport the kilo was undertaken on his own behest, 768 00:59:02,415 --> 00:59:05,543 and is refusing to cooperate against others, 769 00:59:05,626 --> 00:59:09,088 the state is offering only the maximum allowable 20 years, your honor. 770 00:59:10,464 --> 00:59:13,968 Mr. Levy, this is your understanding of the plea agreement? 771 00:59:14,135 --> 00:59:16,804 - Yes, sir. - Very well then, Mr. Barksdale. 772 00:59:17,096 --> 00:59:20,266 - Can you hear me distinctly? - Yes. 773 00:59:20,349 --> 00:59:22,351 Are you under the influence of alcohol? 774 00:59:22,435 --> 00:59:24,270 - Wee-bey, man. - How'd it go? 775 00:59:24,353 --> 00:59:29,567 Life, no parole. He puts himself in for Orlando and the attempt murder on greggs. 776 00:59:30,735 --> 00:59:37,575 He also takes nakeisha lyles, diedre kresson, the two project murders that match that gun, 777 00:59:37,658 --> 00:59:40,494 both the stick-up boys, and little man. 778 00:59:40,661 --> 00:59:41,829 Little man? 779 00:59:41,996 --> 00:59:44,623 Body found up behind the reptile house in druid hill. 780 00:59:46,292 --> 00:59:50,671 He gave us that one just for fun, I think. He also takes William gant. 781 00:59:52,798 --> 00:59:55,009 - I know. It's bullshit. - How'd he tell it? 782 00:59:55,468 --> 00:59:57,470 Man. 783 00:59:59,054 --> 01:00:02,057 - Boom. - He said a contact wound? It doesn't play. 784 01:00:02,850 --> 01:00:04,935 Gant had no compression, no stippling. 785 01:00:05,311 --> 01:00:07,646 Wound was to the front. He's talking out of his ass. 786 01:00:07,730 --> 01:00:10,316 But this motherfucker's just taking murders just to take them. 787 01:00:11,525 --> 01:00:14,028 He's taking life for shooting a cop, what the fuck? 788 01:00:14,153 --> 01:00:17,239 - Might as well spring bird for killing gant. - All rise. 789 01:00:46,018 --> 01:00:48,270 Jesus, what the fuck did I do? 790 01:00:52,858 --> 01:00:54,693 You happy now, bitch? 791 01:01:17,424 --> 01:01:19,009 Step by step 792 01:01:19,093 --> 01:01:22,388 all the happy saints go marching in 793 01:01:23,264 --> 01:01:25,724 and if those saints step out of line 794 01:01:25,808 --> 01:01:28,060 you have to start again 795 01:01:28,561 --> 01:01:30,855 cos Jacob's golden ladder 796 01:01:31,146 --> 01:01:33,691 gets slippery at the top 797 01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:39,363 and many a happy-go-lucky Saint has made that long, long drop 798 01:01:39,488 --> 01:01:42,283 if I'm late, don't wait 799 01:01:42,616 --> 01:01:45,244 go on without me 800 01:01:45,870 --> 01:01:49,498 I may tarry a while 801 01:01:50,666 --> 01:01:53,419 cos I need to know 802 01:01:53,502 --> 01:01:56,255 before I go 803 01:01:56,338 --> 01:02:00,926 how come the devil smiles... 804 01:02:24,199 --> 01:02:27,286 How's it going, man? How you doing? 805 01:02:27,411 --> 01:02:29,538 If I'm late, don't wait 806 01:02:29,830 --> 01:02:32,499 go on without me 807 01:02:33,208 --> 01:02:36,795 I may tarry a while 808 01:02:38,255 --> 01:02:40,925 cos I need to know 809 01:02:41,008 --> 01:02:43,844 before I go 810 01:02:44,011 --> 01:02:48,432 how come the devil smiles 811 01:02:52,728 --> 01:02:55,522 free from care, free from fear 812 01:02:55,689 --> 01:02:57,691 the saints are trooping in 813 01:02:58,192 --> 01:03:01,111 children play all around the throne 814 01:03:01,195 --> 01:03:03,572 innocent of sin 815 01:03:03,656 --> 01:03:06,700 a trillion voices sing the name 816 01:03:06,784 --> 01:03:08,702 the mortal may not know 817 01:03:09,286 --> 01:03:14,124 and heaven's walls too high to hear the trouble down below 818 01:03:14,208 --> 01:03:17,127 if I'm late, don't wait 819 01:03:17,211 --> 01:03:20,297 go on without me 820 01:03:20,714 --> 01:03:24,051 I may tarry a while 821 01:03:25,678 --> 01:03:28,389 I need to know 822 01:03:28,472 --> 01:03:31,225 before I go 823 01:03:31,558 --> 01:03:35,688 how come the devil smiles 824 01:03:37,231 --> 01:03:39,650 I need to know 825 01:03:39,900 --> 01:03:42,653 before I go 826 01:03:42,736 --> 01:03:44,029 how come... 827 01:03:52,079 --> 01:03:53,706 Are you the man with them jumbo sixes? 828 01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:58,585 - How many you fucking want? - Take about three or four hundred. 829 01:04:00,254 --> 01:04:01,755 Damn. 830 01:04:06,802 --> 01:04:08,512 All in the game, yo. 831 01:04:10,347 --> 01:04:12,016 All in the game. 832 01:04:14,393 --> 01:04:16,103 Right, but I didn't think... 833 01:04:18,689 --> 01:04:19,940 'Mm-mm-mm. 834 01:04:21,567 --> 01:04:23,277 'For sure.'