1 00:00:08,301 --> 00:00:11,012 - Who's got the scene? - Massey and crutchfield. 2 00:00:11,095 --> 00:00:14,015 Norris is on his way to the morgue. He'll beat the bodies there. 3 00:00:14,098 --> 00:00:16,118 - How about the crime lab? - Can he get enough oxygen? 4 00:00:16,142 --> 00:00:18,936 He's getting the full treatment, boss. 5 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:21,022 We're good there. 6 00:00:21,105 --> 00:00:23,274 Just one witness so far. 7 00:00:24,942 --> 00:00:28,362 And you know what that means. Right now, it's all bnbg. 8 00:00:28,446 --> 00:00:30,448 It's Andy kraw's big adventure. 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,327 Mayor's office already called twice, worried sick about the man. 10 00:00:34,410 --> 00:00:35,995 You're kidding me. 11 00:00:36,078 --> 00:00:39,498 That's a whole lot of campaign contributions sitting on the back of that ambo. 12 00:00:40,166 --> 00:00:45,046 - So, what's the scene say? - Two shooters. Shotgun, semi-auto. 13 00:00:45,129 --> 00:00:49,425 One Vic is a West Side soldier with a pretty healthy sheet. 14 00:00:49,508 --> 00:00:52,845 The other is a major player in Daniels' wiretap case. 15 00:00:52,929 --> 00:00:54,889 So, a hit. Drug related. 16 00:00:54,972 --> 00:00:58,309 But a big-time developer in the middle? What's the fit? 17 00:00:58,392 --> 00:01:01,229 Second Vic, Russell bell. 18 00:01:01,312 --> 00:01:04,148 Owner and co-developer of this here. 19 00:01:04,232 --> 00:01:06,150 And other downtown real estate. 20 00:01:07,276 --> 00:01:09,278 Well-propertied man he was. 21 00:01:12,323 --> 00:01:16,494 But you were aware that Russell bell was regarded as a major narcotic violator? 22 00:01:17,912 --> 00:01:19,914 How do you think he made his money? 23 00:01:20,831 --> 00:01:22,166 I didn't inquire. 24 00:01:22,250 --> 00:01:24,919 So, you never got a look at either of the gunmen? 25 00:01:25,002 --> 00:01:27,838 I told you, I saw only the one of them. 26 00:01:27,922 --> 00:01:30,424 He was black. Big, I thought. 27 00:01:31,759 --> 00:01:33,761 With a large weapon. 28 00:01:34,929 --> 00:01:36,514 Bnbg. 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,855 Big negro, big gun. 30 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:07,461 Two more like it upstairs. 31 00:02:08,045 --> 00:02:09,213 Yeah? 32 00:02:12,550 --> 00:02:17,179 Have ballistics rush comparisons. Drug-relateds for the last six months. 33 00:03:28,793 --> 00:03:30,294 I caught him, bunk. 34 00:03:32,129 --> 00:03:34,298 On the wire. I caught him. 35 00:03:36,926 --> 00:03:38,928 And he doesn't fucking know it. 36 00:03:52,817 --> 00:03:55,152 When you walk through the garden 37 00:03:56,487 --> 00:03:59,031 you gotta watch your back 38 00:04:00,324 --> 00:04:02,952 well, I beg your pardon 39 00:04:03,911 --> 00:04:06,080 walk the straight and narrow track 40 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:07,474 walk the straight and narrow track 41 00:04:07,498 --> 00:04:11,419 if you walk with Jesus 42 00:04:11,502 --> 00:04:13,879 he's gonna save your soul 43 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:17,550 you gotta keep the devil 44 00:04:19,301 --> 00:04:21,971 way down in the hole 45 00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:25,558 he got fire and the fury 46 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:27,309 fire and fury 47 00:04:27,393 --> 00:04:30,104 at his command 48 00:04:31,105 --> 00:04:34,191 well, you don't have to worry 49 00:04:34,275 --> 00:04:37,945 hold on to Jesus' hands 50 00:04:38,028 --> 00:04:41,031 oh, we'll be safe from Satan 51 00:04:41,782 --> 00:04:44,410 when the thunder rolls 52 00:04:45,536 --> 00:04:49,123 you gotta keep the devil 53 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:52,751 way down in the hole 54 00:05:01,010 --> 00:05:04,180 You gotta keep the devil 55 00:05:04,930 --> 00:05:07,183 way down in the hole 56 00:05:10,895 --> 00:05:12,188 way down 57 00:05:12,271 --> 00:05:14,899 way down in the hole 58 00:05:22,573 --> 00:05:24,366 Boxing, yeah. 59 00:05:25,451 --> 00:05:28,287 I know you loved that. I hated it. 60 00:05:28,370 --> 00:05:29,997 I hated watching it. 61 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,791 Yeah, I know you did. So you're doing good, huh? 62 00:05:34,919 --> 00:05:39,256 - Day to day, I am. - Because I was thinking, maybe... 63 00:05:45,930 --> 00:05:49,016 I'm proud of you, Dennis. Be well. 64 00:06:02,112 --> 00:06:04,114 Shut that fucking door. 65 00:06:17,253 --> 00:06:19,046 Man, fuck it. 66 00:06:19,129 --> 00:06:21,882 I'm ready for this shit. These niggers is snapping on us. 67 00:06:21,966 --> 00:06:24,343 You see? Do you believe this fucking shit? 68 00:06:25,261 --> 00:06:28,055 Some shit like this would've never happened with... 69 00:06:29,098 --> 00:06:32,893 Yo, slim, man. Just say the word. Say the motherfucking word. 70 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:40,150 Shit is on. 71 00:06:47,283 --> 00:06:48,951 What's up, b? 72 00:06:56,041 --> 00:06:58,085 You all right? 73 00:06:58,168 --> 00:07:00,879 We gonna bounce back on the motherfucker no question. 74 00:07:00,963 --> 00:07:03,340 - Bounce back on who? - Marlo, boss. 75 00:07:03,424 --> 00:07:07,261 - Oh, he gonna fall. - Marlo ain't got shit to do with it. 76 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:12,016 Marlo couldn't get string like that. String died cos of some other shit. 77 00:07:13,851 --> 00:07:18,063 - What? - He died because of some other shit, nigger. 78 00:07:18,939 --> 00:07:21,025 I couldn't fix it. I tried. 79 00:07:21,525 --> 00:07:24,945 That nigger, string, was right about this shit, man. 80 00:07:25,029 --> 00:07:28,157 That nigger was right. Fuck marlo. 81 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,284 Fuck this fucking war. 82 00:07:30,367 --> 00:07:33,537 All this beef over a couple of fucking corners. 83 00:07:34,955 --> 00:07:37,833 Don't matter who did what to who at this point. 84 00:07:37,916 --> 00:07:41,795 Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. 85 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:45,341 I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? 86 00:07:45,424 --> 00:07:48,302 Once you in it, you in it. 87 00:07:50,554 --> 00:07:53,849 If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. 88 00:07:53,932 --> 00:07:56,226 But we gotta fight. 89 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:03,942 Got this out of his pocket. 90 00:08:07,905 --> 00:08:09,406 Igotnoidea. 91 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:13,869 - It's a cell chip from a phone. - Ah. 92 00:08:13,952 --> 00:08:18,999 - What else did you get off him? - 200 cash, set of keys, license. 93 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:21,293 President street address? 94 00:08:21,377 --> 00:08:24,797 I got landsman banging out a warrant for the place. 95 00:08:26,757 --> 00:08:28,425 Fuck the politics for a minute. 96 00:08:28,509 --> 00:08:32,179 - What if the man happens to be right? - Legalising drugs? 97 00:08:32,262 --> 00:08:36,100 Crime is down in his district and the people there are ok with it. 98 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:38,936 Look, if you don't exist, what happens here? 99 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:41,897 If there's no Tommy carcetti, what's likely to happen? 100 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:44,066 The mayor and burrell shut this thing down. 101 00:08:44,149 --> 00:08:46,860 I figure the mayor's trying to find a way to shut it down 102 00:08:46,944 --> 00:08:49,405 to make it look like it was an enforcement plan. 103 00:08:49,488 --> 00:08:53,200 Othennise he'd have moved to end it already. 104 00:08:53,283 --> 00:08:56,036 Makes sense, but no matter what, 105 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,247 Colvin's little experiment is finished. 106 00:08:59,998 --> 00:09:01,750 Come on, Tommy. 107 00:09:01,834 --> 00:09:06,797 They dealt you a winning hand and you're acting like you forgot how to play. 108 00:09:08,799 --> 00:09:12,386 Mr. Mayor, call it iegalisation and my office can't live with it. 109 00:09:12,469 --> 00:09:15,389 - Agreed. No one can. - But harm reduction? 110 00:09:15,472 --> 00:09:18,726 That could sell, provided there's a reduction in the crime rate. 111 00:09:18,809 --> 00:09:21,353 Harm reduction. Sounds good. 112 00:09:21,437 --> 00:09:24,231 Steven, what if we were able to suggest 113 00:09:24,314 --> 00:09:27,109 limiting our street-level enforcement? 114 00:09:27,192 --> 00:09:29,153 We were concentrating our resources 115 00:09:29,236 --> 00:09:32,114 on high-level traffickers. How would that play? 116 00:09:32,197 --> 00:09:34,908 If I could show off that kind of casework, maybe. 117 00:09:34,992 --> 00:09:38,871 But they've been doing street rips for so long, I don't think a high level exists. 118 00:09:38,954 --> 00:09:42,249 What if we said no major traffickers were allowed in the free zone, 119 00:09:42,332 --> 00:09:43,834 that all major... 120 00:09:45,461 --> 00:09:48,255 That the major violators were still being targeted? 121 00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:51,925 Are you suggesting some kind of admissions criteria for the zones? 122 00:09:52,009 --> 00:09:54,028 - How would that work? - I don't know that it would. 123 00:09:54,052 --> 00:09:56,430 I'm just saying that for the sake of public perception. 124 00:09:56,513 --> 00:09:59,016 Come on, people, work with me on this thing! 125 00:09:59,099 --> 00:10:03,187 Fucked up, man. Marlo need to get his ass dropped, him and all his crew. 126 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:07,441 - They gonna fall, son. You'll see. - All right, let me know. 127 00:10:07,524 --> 00:10:09,568 That's the word on the wire, anyway. 128 00:10:09,777 --> 00:10:12,488 Every mention puts it on marlo Stanfield's crew, 129 00:10:12,571 --> 00:10:16,241 which means the war's gonna ratchet up, no question. 130 00:10:16,325 --> 00:10:18,577 - Where's Jimmy? - He went with bunk moreland 131 00:10:18,786 --> 00:10:21,121 to rier stringer's spot downtown. 132 00:10:21,205 --> 00:10:25,250 - How'd he take it? - Like stringer was kin. 133 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,837 - Yeah? - Bushy top. 134 00:10:28,921 --> 00:10:31,715 - Need to pull on your coat, boy. - Hey, what's up, major? 135 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:33,342 I got something for y'all. 136 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:35,302 Mount Vernon square in about an hour. 137 00:10:35,385 --> 00:10:37,221 I'm there. 138 00:11:02,329 --> 00:11:04,289 This is stringer's? 139 00:11:06,333 --> 00:11:08,544 Yeah. 140 00:11:34,820 --> 00:11:36,864 Who the fuck was I chasing? 141 00:12:03,974 --> 00:12:06,101 What's done is done. 142 00:12:18,155 --> 00:12:21,992 Gay-ass gangsters. Please. 143 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:35,464 I tell you, I took it for as long as I could. 144 00:12:39,593 --> 00:12:41,386 Let's go, man. 145 00:12:42,971 --> 00:12:44,473 Let's go. 146 00:13:02,449 --> 00:13:06,954 It being your town, I trust you to do it proper. 147 00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:22,135 - You off today, boss? - Every day at this point. 148 00:13:22,219 --> 00:13:25,555 I told them over at comstat about my little experiment. 149 00:13:25,764 --> 00:13:27,557 Bosses went crazy, huh? 150 00:13:28,392 --> 00:13:31,061 Anyway, that's why I called you. 151 00:13:31,144 --> 00:13:34,314 That there is a wartime lay-up for your man barksdale. 152 00:13:34,398 --> 00:13:38,151 My sources tell me the man's there most of the time with a lot of muscle. 153 00:13:38,235 --> 00:13:40,570 Sawed-offs, semi-autos, Mac-11s. 154 00:13:40,779 --> 00:13:42,781 Whole lot of good shit if you hit it right. 155 00:13:44,074 --> 00:13:46,493 - That's a hell of a tip. - Shit. 156 00:13:47,577 --> 00:13:52,416 That right there might be the last bit of police work in a long and storied career. 157 00:13:52,499 --> 00:13:54,334 Glad I talked to you, bushy top. 158 00:14:01,466 --> 00:14:03,176 Which one is Ali? 159 00:14:04,136 --> 00:14:06,013 In the white trunks, boy. 160 00:14:06,096 --> 00:14:09,850 - Damn, he look young. - He was. This the Patterson fight. 161 00:14:09,933 --> 00:14:13,270 - Old school. - Who Patterson? He soft. 162 00:14:13,353 --> 00:14:16,857 - Ali whipping his ass. - He was a champ too. 163 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:21,278 Look, any man still standing at the end of a round, you can't call him soft. 164 00:14:21,361 --> 00:14:23,572 That's a rule, all right? 165 00:14:29,161 --> 00:14:34,791 From stringer's place downtown. B&b shit, college papers, real estate stuff. 166 00:14:34,875 --> 00:14:37,878 There's no phone extension in the place, just these... 167 00:14:37,961 --> 00:14:40,464 Cellphone chips. About a hundred of them. 168 00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:43,800 So that's why he wasn't taking any phones from Bernard, huh? 169 00:14:43,884 --> 00:14:47,137 Stringerjust changed the number every time he changed the chip. 170 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:50,974 - Shamrock too, probably. - Cautious man. 171 00:14:52,601 --> 00:14:55,353 - Yes and no. - Have a look in here. 172 00:14:55,437 --> 00:14:57,814 All different manufacturers. 173 00:14:58,482 --> 00:15:00,317 Thank you. 174 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:06,990 Before stringer bell got aced, 175 00:15:07,074 --> 00:15:10,577 he went out of his way to put in his good friend, avon barksdale. 176 00:15:11,536 --> 00:15:13,789 That's a barksdale safe house. 177 00:15:14,956 --> 00:15:16,875 Where'd you get this? 178 00:15:20,796 --> 00:15:22,297 Colvin. 179 00:15:23,006 --> 00:15:26,218 - Calls to the western. - Where's Daniels? 180 00:15:26,301 --> 00:15:29,471 He's got this thing downtown. It's for his wife. 181 00:15:29,554 --> 00:15:31,181 You should raise him. 182 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:35,185 It's not enough to make up for stringer. 183 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:38,188 It'll do for now. 184 00:15:40,232 --> 00:15:42,859 Because the neighborhoods and the residents 185 00:15:42,943 --> 00:15:44,945 are among the poorest in our city, 186 00:15:45,028 --> 00:15:50,117 and it is these residents who most need a strong voice at city hall. 187 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,035 Time has come for a change. 188 00:15:52,119 --> 00:15:55,330 And I believe I can bring about that change 189 00:15:55,413 --> 00:15:59,376 by providing a strong voice for the new 11th district, 190 00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:01,878 if you will do me the honor... 191 00:16:01,962 --> 00:16:05,465 It's kind of cool, the lieutenant's wife running for office, you know? 192 00:16:06,466 --> 00:16:07,843 As you just heard, 193 00:16:07,926 --> 00:16:10,595 west Baltimore city councilwoman eunetta Perkins 194 00:16:10,804 --> 00:16:14,141 is going to have her hands full in next September's Democratic primary. 195 00:16:15,767 --> 00:16:18,311 Stringer bell. Damn. 196 00:16:19,062 --> 00:16:22,858 Who could've gotten to him? I mean, if it wasn't y'all on it. 197 00:16:22,941 --> 00:16:25,152 You know avon's gonna put it on you, right? 198 00:16:25,235 --> 00:16:28,864 Shit, let him take it on myjacket. Don't make me no never mind. 199 00:16:28,947 --> 00:16:32,576 I'm thinking it might be what you call one of them good problems. 200 00:16:33,118 --> 00:16:35,162 - Yeah. - Mm-hm. 201 00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:42,794 I heard Colvin's in deep shit downtown. 202 00:16:43,336 --> 00:16:45,338 Looking at this right here... 203 00:16:46,965 --> 00:16:48,925 He might not be the only one. 204 00:16:50,093 --> 00:16:52,095 Anything comes up, I'm on the radio. 205 00:16:54,139 --> 00:16:58,768 My man. Yo, you think I could get like $5? I need like $5 to get on the bus. 206 00:16:58,852 --> 00:17:01,354 - I look like a tourist to you? - Man, I swear to god. 207 00:17:01,438 --> 00:17:04,065 Looking like that in an open-air drug market, 208 00:17:04,149 --> 00:17:07,277 why the hell would I think you'll spend my $5 on bus fare? 209 00:17:08,612 --> 00:17:11,948 Shit, because I already got my blast, man. 210 00:18:04,084 --> 00:18:08,463 All night, you been drinking like your ass is candy. 211 00:18:10,465 --> 00:18:12,467 That's shameful shit. 212 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:20,558 12-Gauge pumpkin balls. 213 00:18:23,019 --> 00:18:26,147 Last time I saw that kind of load was the pimlico double. 214 00:18:26,231 --> 00:18:31,069 And I fucking know that motherfucker was in the middle of that mess. 215 00:18:31,903 --> 00:18:36,491 And if I remember your boy, he had no love for the barksdale people. 216 00:18:36,574 --> 00:18:39,536 Execution style, that don't play like Omar little. 217 00:18:40,954 --> 00:18:44,833 Besides, the word on our wire is that marlo's people did stringer. 218 00:18:44,916 --> 00:18:47,919 - Marlo Stanfield? - The heir apparent. 219 00:18:48,003 --> 00:18:50,005 This city's going to hell, man. 220 00:18:52,048 --> 00:18:55,468 We're gonna push past 300 murders before new year's. 221 00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:57,887 Shit is fucked. 222 00:19:01,975 --> 00:19:03,393 Hey, Cheryl. 223 00:19:04,936 --> 00:19:08,815 No? My guess is she's picking up a prisoner. 224 00:19:08,898 --> 00:19:11,151 I spoke to her about ten minutes ago. 225 00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:14,404 Yeah, well, they make you check your stuff. 226 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:17,240 Cellphone, money, weapon. 227 00:19:18,158 --> 00:19:20,994 She'll call when she gets the message. 228 00:19:21,077 --> 00:19:22,579 Not at all. 229 00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:25,957 I need more, Jimmy. 230 00:19:41,389 --> 00:19:43,016 More! 231 00:19:44,184 --> 00:19:47,479 - Motherfucker. - I'm tired, bunk. 232 00:19:58,281 --> 00:20:00,116 Let's go. 233 00:20:01,576 --> 00:20:04,204 I heard the vanguard met. 234 00:20:04,287 --> 00:20:06,873 Heard they voted to have a civilian review board look at it. 235 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:10,835 It wasn't unanimous, and there were people there speaking for you. 236 00:20:10,919 --> 00:20:12,420 I heard that too. 237 00:20:13,338 --> 00:20:18,134 So, six out of ten black officers think I'm just an asshole racist. 238 00:20:18,218 --> 00:20:23,306 On the other hand, four out of ten think you're just an asshole. 239 00:20:26,893 --> 00:20:29,229 It's an administrative charge. 240 00:20:29,312 --> 00:20:32,107 You can fight it and win if you want. 241 00:20:32,190 --> 00:20:35,985 Failure to properly identify myself as a police officer. 242 00:20:37,529 --> 00:20:41,282 Sounds like what I was guilty of most of my career, actually. 243 00:20:43,451 --> 00:20:46,037 I'm not sure I was supposed to be a police. 244 00:20:47,997 --> 00:20:49,916 Not really. 245 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,002 What were you supposed to be, huh? 246 00:21:00,552 --> 00:21:04,222 This is from major Colvin's ci? What's the corroboration? 247 00:21:04,848 --> 00:21:08,101 The source knew that barksdale had a waterfront condo in his own name. 248 00:21:08,184 --> 00:21:11,896 Gave the accurate location and title info down to deed of transfer. 249 00:21:12,397 --> 00:21:15,525 That's good, but it puts him on the legitimate side of things. 250 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:18,987 What corroboration is there for illegal activities? 251 00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:22,031 Sorry I'm late. I had to stop in at a friend. 252 00:21:22,115 --> 00:21:25,869 The source knew that barksdale was shot last month, wounded in the shoulder. 253 00:21:25,952 --> 00:21:28,371 - Emergency room? - No. No hospital reports. 254 00:21:28,455 --> 00:21:32,250 We're gonna need better. Either Colvin goes back to the cl, 255 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:34,586 or we sit on this address for a while. 256 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,796 Well, fuck it, then. 257 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,882 Let's name the source in the affidavit. 258 00:21:38,965 --> 00:21:41,217 - It's Colvin's call, isn't it? - It's stringer bell. 259 00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:45,972 Lester figured it out from the dnrs. 260 00:21:46,431 --> 00:21:48,516 Bell was snitching out barksdale. 261 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,227 - You're sure of this? - Maybe that explains the murder. 262 00:21:51,311 --> 00:21:53,188 What's in the wire? 263 00:21:53,271 --> 00:21:56,858 Loose talk about how it was marlo's people, but nothing past rumor. 264 00:21:56,941 --> 00:22:01,321 With bell gone, barksdale might have to oversee the day-to-day, 265 00:22:01,404 --> 00:22:05,200 and maybe that puts him in contact with some of our monitored cellphones. 266 00:22:05,283 --> 00:22:08,870 If he's as cautious as stringer, maybe not. 267 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:11,789 My guess is barksdale never touches a cellphone. 268 00:22:11,873 --> 00:22:14,292 Safe house might be our best shot. 269 00:22:15,210 --> 00:22:17,003 All right. 270 00:22:17,086 --> 00:22:19,756 We stay on the wires until this batch of burners goes dead, 271 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:21,382 hoping we have barksdale. 272 00:22:21,466 --> 00:22:25,386 But meanwhile, we get a warrant for that safe house and wait on him there. 273 00:22:34,938 --> 00:22:36,940 Thanks for the cover last night. 274 00:22:42,111 --> 00:22:45,365 This is greggs, major case unit. Who's the shift leader? 275 00:22:53,164 --> 00:22:55,333 Get a wildcat right now! 276 00:23:01,422 --> 00:23:05,260 Brown! What's up? Anybody want to buy? 277 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:15,019 Blue John! Get yo ass caught, boy! 278 00:23:16,980 --> 00:23:18,982 Holy Christ. 279 00:23:34,205 --> 00:23:36,499 - They're all over it, commissioner. - Right. 280 00:23:38,251 --> 00:23:43,047 That was foxtrot. The cameras have found our little shit pile. 281 00:23:43,131 --> 00:23:45,842 Your fucking councilman took his sweet time. 282 00:23:47,844 --> 00:23:50,054 Everyone's a critic. 283 00:23:50,138 --> 00:23:53,600 If this doesn't go, what line of work are you gonna try next? 284 00:23:55,518 --> 00:23:57,520 We're here in west Baltimore... 285 00:24:00,815 --> 00:24:04,527 For more than a month, police from Baltimore's western district... 286 00:24:11,451 --> 00:24:13,536 It's an outrageous development. 287 00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:17,498 It's something I never thought I'd see from this administration. 288 00:24:17,582 --> 00:24:19,959 We need a change in leadership in this city. 289 00:24:20,043 --> 00:24:22,503 Did the mayor or the police commissioner know? 290 00:24:22,587 --> 00:24:24,881 Ask the mayor and the police commissioner. 291 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:28,468 On crime and safety, the Royce administration is simply bankrupt. 292 00:24:28,551 --> 00:24:31,012 You gonna announce for mayor next month? 293 00:24:31,095 --> 00:24:35,767 Standing here today looking at this, I'm gonna put it out there right now. 294 00:24:35,850 --> 00:24:39,187 For more than four weeks the Baltimore police department 295 00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:43,524 surrendered areas to the drug trade, and the council was not informed. 296 00:24:43,608 --> 00:24:47,945 Fuck me. I fucking had this story all to myself a week ago. 297 00:24:49,072 --> 00:24:51,240 Police officers have turned a blind eye... 298 00:24:51,324 --> 00:24:53,868 What the fuck was I thinking? 299 00:24:54,535 --> 00:24:57,747 Apparently sanctioning open-air drug markets. 300 00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:59,290 Excuse us. 301 00:24:59,374 --> 00:25:04,003 In the so-called free zones, drug dealers routinely ply their trade. 302 00:25:04,087 --> 00:25:06,047 Mr. Mayor, commissioner burrell is here. 303 00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,841 The mayor will be with him shortly. 304 00:25:08,925 --> 00:25:11,928 And young children run the streets alone. 305 00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:15,390 The inhabitants of what has come to be known as hamsterdam 306 00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:17,433 had little to say for the camera. 307 00:25:17,517 --> 00:25:19,894 But channel 5 has learned that the police were... 308 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:24,107 - Yeah? - What are you seeing? 309 00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:27,110 Couple of people in and out. No sign of barksdale, though. 310 00:25:27,193 --> 00:25:29,362 - It's quiet here too. - Ok. 311 00:25:30,405 --> 00:25:32,198 Need to look at the back. 312 00:25:32,281 --> 00:25:35,493 Our friend carcetti's gonna run wild with this. 313 00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:38,871 And from the sound of things, gray is gonna run with him. 314 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:42,625 Tony gray thinks he's gonna get my chair behind this bullshit. Uh-uh. 315 00:25:42,792 --> 00:25:46,879 We're throwing you out of the boat, ervin. This shit is on you alone. 316 00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:50,383 Not necessarily. 317 00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:54,220 Not if I talk about how we were under pressure to keep the crime down. 318 00:25:54,303 --> 00:25:57,890 - To juke the stats district by district. - We never said that. 319 00:25:57,974 --> 00:26:00,727 About how Colvin, under pressure, lost his way. 320 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:02,895 About how I came to you weeks ago... 321 00:26:02,979 --> 00:26:05,022 - Days ago. - Weeks ago to tell you 322 00:26:05,106 --> 00:26:08,735 what he had done and to assure you that we were on top of the situation, 323 00:26:08,818 --> 00:26:11,904 that Colvin would be relieved and his plan aborted. 324 00:26:11,988 --> 00:26:13,906 You lying motherfucker. 325 00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:17,243 But you heard about the drop in Colvin's felony rate 326 00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:18,911 and you sent me packing. 327 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:24,250 Brought in your liberal-ass do-gooders to seriously consider this horseshit 328 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:27,754 while Colvin's mistake grew and grew. 329 00:26:27,837 --> 00:26:30,256 My hands were tied, Mr. Mayor. 330 00:26:31,007 --> 00:26:33,342 My department thwarted. 331 00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:37,889 I was a prisoner of the goddamn politicians. 332 00:26:43,352 --> 00:26:47,774 I leave your office right now willing to say a lot less than that. 333 00:26:47,857 --> 00:26:51,068 I put what I can on crazy-ass bunny Colvin. 334 00:26:51,152 --> 00:26:53,780 And I take the hit. 335 00:26:53,863 --> 00:26:57,116 And if carcetti or gray holds hearings, 336 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,620 I'm the wall between them and you. 337 00:27:01,370 --> 00:27:03,164 In which case, 338 00:27:03,247 --> 00:27:07,376 I am your commissioner for the full five-year term. 339 00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:21,516 - Unit one to unit two. - Unit two standing by. 340 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:23,309 Deal's made. 341 00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:29,357 Unit two to sector three, move on the Winchester homes. 342 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,359 10-4. We're moving. 343 00:27:31,442 --> 00:27:34,904 Unit two to sector two, move on the koppers plant. 344 00:27:34,987 --> 00:27:36,489 Roger that. 345 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,202 Over the top, gentlemen. 346 00:28:02,431 --> 00:28:04,100 About fucking time. 347 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:15,945 Yo, man. 348 00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:18,072 We gonna run out if we don't got no re-up. 349 00:28:18,155 --> 00:28:20,449 - Where's tuckie at? - I don't know. 350 00:28:24,954 --> 00:28:26,998 - Yo, where tuckie at, man? - He rolled out. 351 00:28:27,081 --> 00:28:29,041 - Huh? - He said the police coming. 352 00:28:35,006 --> 00:28:37,049 Here they come. Let's roll. 353 00:28:37,133 --> 00:28:38,342 Let's go! 354 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,150 Hold it right there! 355 00:28:55,401 --> 00:28:57,236 Get the fuck off me! 356 00:29:02,491 --> 00:29:04,493 Stop right there! 357 00:29:12,627 --> 00:29:14,462 Stop right there! Stop! 358 00:29:21,010 --> 00:29:24,305 Freeze! Freeze! Don't move! Hold it right there. Freeze. 359 00:29:26,015 --> 00:29:30,519 Outstanding, red team, outstanding. Give you a case of beer for that one. 360 00:29:50,373 --> 00:29:55,461 Son, this nigger, stringer bell, man, was begging Chris, yo, for real. 361 00:29:55,544 --> 00:30:00,132 Like, digging in his pockets, talking about how much cheese he gonna give us 362 00:30:00,216 --> 00:30:02,259 I mean, if we just let him walk. 363 00:30:02,343 --> 00:30:05,388 My man, Chris, hollering, "man, bitch, you gonna die." 364 00:30:05,471 --> 00:30:09,141 This niggerjust dropped to his fucking knees like a little cocksucker, man. 365 00:30:09,225 --> 00:30:12,812 Start crying. That shit was worse than fucking pathetic. 366 00:30:15,189 --> 00:30:18,985 - Yo, that's marlo. - Get on your burner, man. 367 00:30:26,534 --> 00:30:29,161 - Got a line on him. - The number one? Where at? 368 00:30:29,245 --> 00:30:32,540 Tall man says to tell y'all to soldier up. They up at the rim shop. 369 00:30:32,623 --> 00:30:34,417 Yeah, all right. 370 00:30:36,919 --> 00:30:38,879 Boss, you ok? 371 00:30:38,963 --> 00:30:41,924 - What you want? - Slim said they got their eye on marlo. 372 00:30:43,259 --> 00:30:46,971 I'm just saying, you know, all the boys, they all waiting on you. 373 00:30:47,972 --> 00:30:51,142 Go ahead, man. I'm behind you. 374 00:31:14,415 --> 00:31:16,208 What else you need from us, deputy? 375 00:31:16,292 --> 00:31:18,377 City hall wants the bulldozers through here at dawn 376 00:31:18,461 --> 00:31:20,379 and fencing all around the site. 377 00:31:20,463 --> 00:31:23,257 Winchester homes and the koppers plant as well. 378 00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:25,009 We got it. 379 00:31:26,343 --> 00:31:31,098 Come tomorrow, the television reporters get nothing they can stand in front of. 380 00:31:31,182 --> 00:31:34,477 Excuse me, deputy, sir, we found a body. 381 00:31:45,196 --> 00:31:48,991 - Any trauma? - Can't tell for sure with all the rat bites. 382 00:31:49,825 --> 00:31:52,078 Take him to the ocme in a jail wagon. 383 00:31:52,161 --> 00:31:55,081 I don't want the fucking reporters seeing any ambos. 384 00:31:56,916 --> 00:31:58,459 Shit. 385 00:32:09,095 --> 00:32:11,180 He just landed. Him plus one. 386 00:32:12,014 --> 00:32:14,600 - Got it. Sit tight. - That makes how many? 387 00:32:17,019 --> 00:32:20,314 Including barksdale, sydnor counted ten in and none coming out, 388 00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,399 so that's ten at least. 389 00:32:26,237 --> 00:32:30,116 - 2301 to kga. - Go ahead, 2301. 390 00:32:30,825 --> 00:32:34,537 We need qrt to meet us at our 20 for a search and seizure. 391 00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:38,457 Location has multiple suspects and may contain automatic weapons. 392 00:32:38,541 --> 00:32:40,376 10-4. 393 00:32:48,175 --> 00:32:52,012 - Word travels fast, huh? - Shit. 394 00:32:54,056 --> 00:32:56,976 Burrell called Johns Hopkins personally this morning. 395 00:33:00,521 --> 00:33:04,316 Dragged your name into the gutter. Johns Hopkins doesn't need the notoriety. 396 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,486 The chief academic officer of a major research university 397 00:33:07,570 --> 00:33:11,490 doesn't want to hear that some new hire makes up the rules as he goes along. 398 00:33:17,580 --> 00:33:20,332 - Yeah, Colvin. - Yeah, major, you're on first. 399 00:33:25,171 --> 00:33:26,839 Comstat tomorrow. 400 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:34,096 I'm up. 401 00:33:40,102 --> 00:33:43,189 - You all taking the door? - Where's tactical? 402 00:33:44,273 --> 00:33:46,859 - I called for qrt. - You ain't heard? 403 00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:49,904 They're a little busy tonight tearing down bunny Colvin's fuck-up. 404 00:33:49,987 --> 00:33:52,907 With all that going on, you're lucky you even got us, man. 405 00:33:52,990 --> 00:33:56,035 - Who we hitting on this? - Avon barksdale and crew. 406 00:33:56,118 --> 00:33:59,246 I fucking told you he was out. Didn't I fucking tell you? 407 00:34:00,331 --> 00:34:02,166 I fucking told them. 408 00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:04,436 For more than four weeks the Baltimore police department 409 00:34:04,460 --> 00:34:07,046 surrendered areas to the drug trade. 410 00:34:07,129 --> 00:34:10,507 By tomorrow, the story goes national, and Washington reacts. 411 00:34:12,176 --> 00:34:14,511 Save the best questions for Tony gray. 412 00:34:15,137 --> 00:34:17,139 He needs to shine even more than you. 413 00:34:26,482 --> 00:34:30,277 - I can't believe he wants us to knock. - You can't qush guns, can you? 414 00:34:30,361 --> 00:34:32,071 What about if they open up on us? 415 00:34:32,154 --> 00:34:34,198 These guys are at war with another crew. 416 00:34:34,281 --> 00:34:37,159 We go charging in there, chances are we will get lit up. 417 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,384 Yo, b. 418 00:34:53,467 --> 00:34:56,262 Sham saying that Charles saying they still up at the rim shop. 419 00:34:56,345 --> 00:34:59,431 Marlo, his boy Chris and vinson, they still eating. 420 00:34:59,515 --> 00:35:02,184 But the rest of the muscle, they rolled out. 421 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:13,445 Police. 422 00:35:13,529 --> 00:35:15,406 No. Shh. 423 00:35:15,489 --> 00:35:18,117 - Not the police. - Narcos out back too. 424 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,535 Shit. 425 00:35:20,369 --> 00:35:22,955 Let us in! We know you're in there. 426 00:35:24,623 --> 00:35:26,000 Shit. 427 00:35:26,083 --> 00:35:29,962 - Open the door, you fucking cocksuckers! - Fucked up, man. 428 00:35:30,045 --> 00:35:33,424 Y'all ask me, y'all ugly-ass niggers shouldn't be in here 429 00:35:33,507 --> 00:35:38,095 with all these guns and shit, you know what I'm talking about? 430 00:35:38,178 --> 00:35:39,847 Open it. 431 00:35:43,350 --> 00:35:46,979 Come on, avon. Enough with this shit. Open the fucking door. 432 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,609 Open the fucking door, you cocksuckers! 433 00:35:53,986 --> 00:35:56,238 - Police! - Police! Police! 434 00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:01,327 Search warrant! 435 00:36:06,582 --> 00:36:08,917 - I'm clean, man. - Get down! 436 00:36:09,001 --> 00:36:11,962 - Lace them shits tight. - Greggs, I'm opening up. 437 00:36:18,927 --> 00:36:22,264 That'd be mine. In fact, all that's mine. 438 00:36:22,348 --> 00:36:24,600 You got a law degree? 439 00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:27,353 A fuckin' hand grenade. 440 00:36:27,436 --> 00:36:29,480 Take him. 441 00:36:29,563 --> 00:36:32,524 You fall on the parole violation, no matter whatever else happens, 442 00:36:32,608 --> 00:36:35,903 you do every day of what's left of your seven without seeing a jury. 443 00:36:35,986 --> 00:36:37,988 Maybe even conspiracy to murder. 444 00:36:38,072 --> 00:36:40,908 We take this federal, see if we can't get you ten to life. 445 00:36:40,991 --> 00:36:42,993 - No parole. - Whatever. 446 00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:48,540 Shit, you only do two days nohow - that's the day you go in... 447 00:36:48,624 --> 00:36:50,334 And the day you come out. 448 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:53,545 Yeah, well, here's the warrant. 449 00:36:59,927 --> 00:37:01,929 You read it slow. 450 00:37:03,305 --> 00:37:05,641 In between them two days, give you something to think on. 451 00:37:25,327 --> 00:37:27,996 Damn. Missed our shot. 452 00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,458 Roll, man. 453 00:37:33,335 --> 00:37:36,964 You bend over for us, or I will spend what's left of my career 454 00:37:37,047 --> 00:37:39,258 shitting on every supervisor in your district. 455 00:37:39,341 --> 00:37:41,969 From shift commanders down to sector sergeants, 456 00:37:42,052 --> 00:37:45,973 not one of them will have any rank at all if we hear anything out of you. 457 00:37:46,056 --> 00:37:48,934 Look, my people saw this as a tactical deployment only! 458 00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:52,938 - The responsibility is mine alone! - Well, you won't fall alone, 459 00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:56,942 unless you're willing to fall exactly as we want you to. 460 00:37:57,025 --> 00:38:00,904 After comstat, you go to retirement services and drop papers, 461 00:38:00,988 --> 00:38:04,241 going out at a lieutenant's grade. That's right, you're busted back. 462 00:38:04,324 --> 00:38:07,828 We can't take your eod away, but you're not going out on a major's pay. 463 00:38:07,911 --> 00:38:10,497 I can retire with my 30 right now before you bust me! 464 00:38:10,581 --> 00:38:15,419 - I got vacation time enough to make my 30! - Fuck your vacation time. 465 00:38:15,502 --> 00:38:18,547 You're out today at the lower grade. 466 00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:20,966 That's against the goddamn contract! 467 00:38:21,049 --> 00:38:24,011 What part of "bend over" didn't you understand? 468 00:38:26,555 --> 00:38:29,975 - Avon locked up? - With most of his muscle, yeah. 469 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:32,936 Good day to get back out on them corners, ain't it? 470 00:38:34,188 --> 00:38:36,899 - Make some money. - You bet. 471 00:38:47,576 --> 00:38:51,997 It's not just the 17 million in federal funding for law enforcement that you've jeopardised. 472 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,250 Take off another 200 million of federal money in your operating budget, 473 00:38:55,334 --> 00:38:58,212 another 75 in capital expenditures, 474 00:38:58,295 --> 00:39:01,924 plus untold millions in pass-through federal dollars from Annapolis. 475 00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:04,843 All told, we're talking about... 476 00:39:04,927 --> 00:39:07,429 Half a billion a year that Baltimore will be doing without. 477 00:39:07,513 --> 00:39:10,432 Furthermore, the us attorney here will use all the resources 478 00:39:10,516 --> 00:39:13,435 of the justice department to interdict and destroy any attempt 479 00:39:13,519 --> 00:39:18,190 to establish a geographic entity where drugs are legal. 480 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:19,900 Washington should know 481 00:39:19,983 --> 00:39:22,611 that what happened in west Baltimore in no way reercts 482 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,613 the policies of my administration. 483 00:39:24,821 --> 00:39:28,784 That was an aberration, Mr. Thomas, the work of one misguided police official. 484 00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:32,037 We understand your concerns, but, you know... 485 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,166 For the deputy drug czar to take the time out to drive 30 miles north 486 00:39:36,250 --> 00:39:38,961 to deliver that message, hardly necessary. 487 00:39:41,004 --> 00:39:42,965 Rest assured. 488 00:39:46,510 --> 00:39:50,138 What up, g? Where the older ones at? 489 00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:53,559 Marlo got his package back out. 490 00:40:04,111 --> 00:40:09,032 Fire burrell. This nonsense began in his shop without him knowing it! 491 00:40:09,116 --> 00:40:11,577 - Fire the man and move on. - Odell. 492 00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:15,872 I respect your opinion, but right now, 493 00:40:15,956 --> 00:40:20,460 Tony gray, carcetti manoeuvring, now is not the time. 494 00:40:20,544 --> 00:40:21,545 Mm-mm. 495 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:25,924 No. We get past the primary, then I'll drive a stake in his heart. 496 00:40:26,008 --> 00:40:29,011 But right now I need him where he is, if for no other reason than to... 497 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:33,056 Well, to take the hit for this thing right here, but I tell you what I'm gonna do, though. 498 00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:36,852 I'm gonna shine on that new girl you like in the 11th. Yeah. 499 00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:40,897 Give her a spot on the ticket. Cut eunetta loose. Eunetta's had her day. 500 00:40:42,149 --> 00:40:44,651 I respect the fact that you stood by me, odell. 501 00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:46,862 I respect onalty. 502 00:40:48,363 --> 00:40:52,242 And did so without properly informing his superior officers 503 00:40:52,326 --> 00:40:55,912 and without regard to the criminal statutes he was sworn to enforce, 504 00:40:55,996 --> 00:40:59,124 thereby disgracing himself and his command. 505 00:41:01,543 --> 00:41:04,212 Is any of that subject to any contradiction 506 00:41:04,296 --> 00:41:06,381 or argument whatsoever, major Colvin? 507 00:41:06,465 --> 00:41:09,051 - No, sir. - No argument at all, bunny? 508 00:41:09,926 --> 00:41:13,513 Not much you can say, is there? Not to real police. 509 00:41:13,597 --> 00:41:16,975 - Get on with it, motherfucker. - Excuse me, major? 510 00:41:18,018 --> 00:41:20,395 Is the admin-lieutenant present? 511 00:41:22,022 --> 00:41:24,066 Major Colvin is relieved of duty. 512 00:41:24,149 --> 00:41:27,611 You are now the acting commander of the western district. 513 00:41:56,098 --> 00:41:59,059 Damn, Bernard, didn't I tell you about these guys? 514 00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:04,272 - Hey, bunk. - Hey, freamon. 515 00:42:05,607 --> 00:42:09,903 - Who's that, crutchfield? - No, Norris. Sleeping on a stakeout. 516 00:42:15,158 --> 00:42:17,536 Yeah, that's everyone we heard on the wire. 517 00:42:17,619 --> 00:42:21,623 Mcnulty's in number one with Pearlman. Why don't you say hey? 518 00:42:25,627 --> 00:42:29,881 You got to be the stupidest motherfucker that I've ever gone out with. 519 00:42:29,965 --> 00:42:31,967 I can't wait to go to jail. 520 00:42:33,176 --> 00:42:36,972 What? What'd you say? What the fuck did you say, Bernard? 521 00:42:41,977 --> 00:42:43,228 Hmm. 522 00:42:48,483 --> 00:42:50,235 Hey, Donald. 523 00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:57,409 - You heard the tapes. - He said we could sell drugs 524 00:42:57,492 --> 00:43:00,912 if we move down to Vincent street, and that's where I moved my crew. 525 00:43:00,996 --> 00:43:03,915 You were the one that popped me with the g-pack 526 00:43:03,999 --> 00:43:06,293 on my way to the spot, and let me go, remember? 527 00:43:06,376 --> 00:43:09,296 You were selling drugs in major Colvin's free zone? 528 00:43:09,379 --> 00:43:12,758 - You can prove that? - Ask him. He know. 529 00:43:12,841 --> 00:43:14,926 This must be one of them contrapment things. 530 00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:18,013 - You mean entrapment? - Kid's got a point. 531 00:43:24,853 --> 00:43:25,937 Ha! 532 00:43:26,021 --> 00:43:28,398 19 in bracelets from barksdale on down, 533 00:43:28,482 --> 00:43:30,108 another eight wanted on warrants. 534 00:43:30,192 --> 00:43:34,154 Any way you can tie your case to this mess with Colvin? 535 00:43:34,237 --> 00:43:36,990 Make it like what he was doing led to your thing? 536 00:43:37,073 --> 00:43:38,408 I don't see it. 537 00:43:38,492 --> 00:43:42,496 Well, it's good work nonetheless, major Daniels. 538 00:43:45,957 --> 00:43:50,629 Call came in from the mayor's office half-hour ago approving your promotion. 539 00:43:50,837 --> 00:43:54,007 And now with Colvin, there's a new vacancy. 540 00:43:56,259 --> 00:43:58,887 - What about my wife? - What about her? 541 00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:01,264 The mayor. Eunetta's seat. 542 00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:04,017 - Why would the mayor... - Good police work maybe. 543 00:44:07,521 --> 00:44:09,606 Not everything is politics. 544 00:44:14,528 --> 00:44:17,948 - Hey, I'll take two. Western alumni. - All right, you got it. 545 00:44:19,032 --> 00:44:20,408 Major. 546 00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:23,954 I heard. 547 00:44:25,163 --> 00:44:27,165 How's your family take it? 548 00:44:28,834 --> 00:44:30,335 Yeah. 549 00:44:32,128 --> 00:44:37,843 Lolita done dropped herself 30 pounds and got herself a real estate license, so... 550 00:44:37,926 --> 00:44:40,095 I guess she's fixing to leave me. 551 00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:52,816 I just wanted you to know that last tip you gave me was a winner. 552 00:44:52,899 --> 00:44:56,319 Yeah, I heard. That's good work. 553 00:44:59,948 --> 00:45:05,829 Also, I don't know if you know, stringer bell was shot to death two days ago. 554 00:45:05,912 --> 00:45:10,166 So, anyway, I put his name on the paper to tighten the PC. 555 00:45:12,252 --> 00:45:15,171 I figured, what the fuck. Once he's aced, right? 556 00:45:18,174 --> 00:45:21,219 You always did cut them corners, didn't you? 557 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:28,935 Seems like you cut a few yourself, major. 558 00:45:32,063 --> 00:45:34,816 However it ends, you're good police. 559 00:45:34,900 --> 00:45:36,902 Look, I just did what I did. 560 00:45:37,986 --> 00:45:39,988 It felt right. 561 00:45:41,615 --> 00:45:43,450 I'm fine with that. 562 00:46:05,221 --> 00:46:07,307 Tony, where's my vest, man? 563 00:46:24,157 --> 00:46:25,659 - Thank you. - Thanks. 564 00:46:26,368 --> 00:46:28,328 I don't understand. 565 00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:32,874 Drink your wine. 566 00:46:38,922 --> 00:46:40,882 You and me in public. 567 00:46:42,008 --> 00:46:44,970 - But your wife... - She wins without me. 568 00:46:48,014 --> 00:46:52,477 - On the mayor's ticket, she wins. - And you make major? 569 00:46:55,271 --> 00:46:58,400 I think she was waiting for this day more than I ever was. 570 00:47:00,193 --> 00:47:02,320 And now she's not here. 571 00:47:03,113 --> 00:47:06,616 No. She's not. 572 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,042 From out of nowhere, huh? 573 00:47:16,918 --> 00:47:19,087 Nowhere is right. 574 00:47:20,005 --> 00:47:22,132 Why me? 575 00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:25,010 I guess you don't live right. 576 00:47:30,265 --> 00:47:32,392 - Kari, what was that? - Nothing. 577 00:47:32,475 --> 00:47:35,186 - What broke? - Nothing, mama. 578 00:47:40,942 --> 00:47:42,527 So... 579 00:47:42,610 --> 00:47:44,863 Yeah. 580 00:47:44,946 --> 00:47:48,408 - You just drive over here. - I did. 581 00:47:49,409 --> 00:47:52,537 Why tonight? What happened? 582 00:47:55,081 --> 00:47:57,292 I was in my old district tonight, 583 00:47:57,375 --> 00:48:00,628 which is where I used to feel pretty good, I think. 584 00:48:00,837 --> 00:48:02,964 I wasn't so angry when I was there, anyway. 585 00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:07,469 I don't know, someone said something, I guess, and_. 586 00:48:08,636 --> 00:48:10,638 That doesn't make sense. Er... 587 00:48:13,475 --> 00:48:17,145 - I guess I finished something today. - A case? 588 00:48:17,937 --> 00:48:19,439 More than that. 589 00:48:21,066 --> 00:48:24,819 It's like everything I poured into a glass came out the bottom. 590 00:48:24,903 --> 00:48:29,365 And I just kept on pouring, like the thing had a hole in it, you know? 591 00:48:30,992 --> 00:48:32,786 The things that make me right for this job, 592 00:48:32,869 --> 00:48:36,414 maybe they're the same things that make me wrong for everything else. 593 00:48:37,999 --> 00:48:40,168 Do you want to come inside for a drink? 594 00:48:44,130 --> 00:48:45,507 Not tonight. 595 00:48:48,635 --> 00:48:52,013 But if it's not too late, I wouldn't mind meeting your kids. 596 00:49:51,072 --> 00:49:54,117 Major Colvin misled his officers. 597 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,121 They thought that his initiative was a tactical deployment 598 00:49:58,204 --> 00:50:00,373 to entrap narcotics traffickers. 599 00:50:00,456 --> 00:50:05,920 There was no mention whatsoever of the initiative to any superior officer. 600 00:50:06,004 --> 00:50:07,922 And for five weeks, 601 00:50:08,006 --> 00:50:12,010 all evidence of what he was doing managed to elude the entire command staff? 602 00:50:13,011 --> 00:50:16,014 - Are you kidding, commissioner? - I take full responsibility. 603 00:50:16,097 --> 00:50:20,852 And indeed, after I first learned of the matter, I informed the mayor, 604 00:50:20,935 --> 00:50:22,896 and together we moved immediately 605 00:50:22,979 --> 00:50:26,024 to relieve major Colvin of his command. 606 00:50:26,107 --> 00:50:29,485 I'm under the impression that this administration gave serious consideration 607 00:50:29,569 --> 00:50:32,280 - to proceeding with Colvin's initiative. - No, sir. 608 00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:36,826 Major Colvin informed you of his effort at comstat more than a week ago. 609 00:50:36,910 --> 00:50:38,870 His free zones stayed up for six days after that. 610 00:50:38,953 --> 00:50:41,247 That's, er, my responsibility, councilman. 611 00:50:41,331 --> 00:50:44,876 We needed to conclude an investigation by the major crimes unit, 612 00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:47,837 a wiretap case that would have been disrupted had we moved immediately. 613 00:50:47,921 --> 00:50:50,924 Correct, mayor Royce was aware of the pending case 614 00:50:51,007 --> 00:50:54,135 and allowed us to delay our response accordingly. 615 00:50:54,219 --> 00:50:56,554 But the mayor was unequivocal 616 00:50:56,638 --> 00:50:59,849 in his opposition to what major Colvin did. 617 00:50:59,933 --> 00:51:02,143 What we have here is nothing more complicated 618 00:51:02,227 --> 00:51:05,480 than a solitary police commander who, under great pressure, 619 00:51:05,563 --> 00:51:10,151 proved to be amoral, incompetent and unfit for command. 620 00:51:10,235 --> 00:51:13,863 No. It's about more than that. 621 00:51:13,947 --> 00:51:18,034 This is more important than who knew what when, or who falls on his sword 622 00:51:18,117 --> 00:51:22,372 or whether someone can use this disaster to make a political point or two. 623 00:51:22,455 --> 00:51:24,666 - Mr. Chairman... - We can forgive major Colvin, 624 00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,001 who, out of his frustration and despair, 625 00:51:27,085 --> 00:51:30,588 found himself condoning something which can't possibly be condoned. 626 00:51:30,672 --> 00:51:32,507 We can do that much. 627 00:51:33,466 --> 00:51:36,552 But, gentlemen, what we can't forgive, 628 00:51:36,636 --> 00:51:40,181 what I can't forgive... ever 629 00:51:40,265 --> 00:51:47,021 is how we - you, me, this administration, all of us - 630 00:51:47,647 --> 00:51:50,233 how we turned away from those streets in west Baltimore, 631 00:51:50,316 --> 00:51:53,152 the poor, the sick, the swollen underclass of our city 632 00:51:53,236 --> 00:51:56,823 trapped in the wreckage of neighborhoods which were once so prized, 633 00:51:56,906 --> 00:51:59,534 communities which we've failed to defend, 634 00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:03,413 which we have surrendered to the horrors of the drug trade, 635 00:52:03,496 --> 00:52:06,666 and if this disaster demands anything of us as a city, 636 00:52:06,874 --> 00:52:08,960 it demands that we say "enough." 637 00:52:09,043 --> 00:52:11,838 Enough to the despair which makes policemen think about surrender. 638 00:52:11,921 --> 00:52:15,967 Enough to the fact that these neighborhoods are beyond saving. 639 00:52:16,050 --> 00:52:20,263 Enough to this administration's indecisiveness and lethargy, 640 00:52:20,346 --> 00:52:25,018 to the garbage which goes uncollected, the lots and row houses which stay vacant, 641 00:52:25,101 --> 00:52:27,145 the addicts who go untreated, 642 00:52:27,228 --> 00:52:31,566 the working men and women who every day are denied a chance at economic freedom. 643 00:52:33,526 --> 00:52:38,031 Enough to the crime which every day chokes more life from our city. 644 00:52:39,907 --> 00:52:45,038 And the thing of it is, if we don't take responsibility and step up, 645 00:52:45,121 --> 00:52:47,373 not just for the mistakes and the miscues, 646 00:52:47,457 --> 00:52:51,836 but for whether or not we're gonna win this battle for our streets, 647 00:52:51,919 --> 00:52:55,381 we're gonna lose these neighborhoods and ultimately this city forever. 648 00:52:55,465 --> 00:52:57,967 If we don't have the courage and the conviction 649 00:52:58,051 --> 00:53:00,970 to fight this war the way it should and needs to be fought, 650 00:53:01,054 --> 00:53:04,432 using every weapon that we can possibly muster, 651 00:53:04,515 --> 00:53:07,393 if that doesn't happen, 652 00:53:07,477 --> 00:53:09,479 well, then we're staring at defeat. 653 00:53:12,023 --> 00:53:15,985 And that defeat should not and cannot and will not be forgiven. 654 00:53:23,951 --> 00:53:27,163 It was a good case, I'm not denying that. 655 00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:30,041 But I need to trust my people. 656 00:53:30,541 --> 00:53:33,378 Unless you can give your word, there's no way that I can... 657 00:53:33,461 --> 00:53:36,839 That's more than fair. Thanks. 658 00:53:38,466 --> 00:53:40,593 But it's better for me if I do something else. 659 00:53:44,597 --> 00:53:46,307 Detective. 660 00:53:48,976 --> 00:53:50,395 It's not you, it's me. 661 00:53:52,230 --> 00:53:54,315 - But where... - The western, I think. 662 00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:58,027 Yeah, the western feels like home. 663 00:54:12,959 --> 00:54:16,587 - You showed something today. - Just felt like it needed to be said. 664 00:54:20,383 --> 00:54:22,427 Sounds like you're running for something. 665 00:54:26,347 --> 00:54:29,058 Eunetta. Been a while. 666 00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:46,325 Thought y'all was in training. 667 00:55:01,466 --> 00:55:05,219 So what time you want us to be there tomorrow, coach? 668 00:55:05,303 --> 00:55:07,263 3:30 would be good. 669 00:55:07,346 --> 00:55:09,974 - Hope to see y'all then. - All right. 670 00:55:26,407 --> 00:55:30,369 What the fuck y'all standing around for? Man, get to work. 671 00:55:48,596 --> 00:55:52,517 To the false promise that our schools are providing a future for our children. 672 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,561 This administration and its top-heavy schools system... 673 00:56:00,107 --> 00:56:03,945 Oh, you've been on a fast train 674 00:56:04,028 --> 00:56:07,823 and it's going off the rails 675 00:56:07,907 --> 00:56:13,287 and you can't come back can't come back again 676 00:56:15,248 --> 00:56:18,334 and you start breaking down 677 00:56:19,126 --> 00:56:23,047 in the pouring rain 678 00:56:23,130 --> 00:56:26,008 oh, you've been on a fast train 679 00:56:27,843 --> 00:56:29,845 on a fast train 680 00:56:31,847 --> 00:56:34,141 when your lover has gone away... 681 00:56:34,225 --> 00:56:35,434 That's it. That's it. 682 00:56:35,518 --> 00:56:37,645 Don't it make you feel sad? 683 00:56:37,853 --> 00:56:40,314 - Yeah. - And you've gone on a journey 684 00:56:40,398 --> 00:56:42,108 way into the land... 685 00:56:42,191 --> 00:56:43,859 All right. One-two. 686 00:56:43,943 --> 00:56:50,449 Then you start breaking down, cos you're under strain 687 00:56:50,533 --> 00:56:53,661 and you're jumping on 688 00:56:53,869 --> 00:56:57,665 yes, you're jumping on a fast train 689 00:56:57,873 --> 00:57:00,626 jumping on a fast train 690 00:57:02,003 --> 00:57:04,630 got to go on the I am 691 00:57:05,506 --> 00:57:07,967 stuck in no-man's land 692 00:57:09,051 --> 00:57:12,305 ain't nobody here on your waveband 693 00:57:13,139 --> 00:57:17,435 ain't nobody gonna lend you a helping hand 694 00:57:17,518 --> 00:57:20,438 and you start breaking down 695 00:57:20,521 --> 00:57:23,524 then you go to the sound 696 00:57:24,442 --> 00:57:27,987 but you hear that fast train 697 00:57:28,070 --> 00:57:31,365 ooh, fast train 698 00:58:02,188 --> 00:58:05,232 And you keep on moving 699 00:58:06,108 --> 00:58:09,236 unto the sound of the wheels 700 00:58:09,987 --> 00:58:11,906 oh, deep down in your heart 701 00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:17,495 do you really know how you feel? 702 00:58:17,578 --> 00:58:21,248 Then you start breaking down 703 00:58:21,332 --> 00:58:25,002 go into the pain 704 00:58:25,086 --> 00:58:28,172 keep on moving on a fast train 705 00:58:29,507 --> 00:58:31,384 moving on a fast train 706 00:58:32,593 --> 00:58:36,263 way, way over the line 707 00:58:36,347 --> 00:58:39,183 next thing you're out of your mind 708 00:58:40,351 --> 00:58:42,019 and you're out of your depth 709 00:58:43,854 --> 00:58:46,607 as through the window she crept 710 00:58:47,483 --> 00:58:51,404 oh, there's nowhere to go, in the sleet and snow 711 00:58:51,487 --> 00:58:54,365 just keep on moving 712 00:58:54,448 --> 00:58:56,075 ooh-oh 713 00:58:56,158 --> 00:58:59,161 on a fast train 714 00:58:59,245 --> 00:59:01,580 moving on a fast train 715 00:59:02,665 --> 00:59:04,667 you've got to go on the I am 716 00:59:06,877 --> 00:59:10,131 stuck in no-man's land 717 00:59:10,214 --> 00:59:14,301 ain't nobody on your waveband 718 00:59:14,385 --> 00:59:17,555 gonna lend you a helping hand 719 00:59:18,139 --> 00:59:20,182 and you're all alone 720 00:59:21,308 --> 00:59:25,062 can you really make it on your own? 721 00:59:25,146 --> 00:59:29,066 Keep on moving on a fast train 722 00:59:29,150 --> 00:59:31,402 before you're going nowhere fast 723 00:59:36,365 --> 00:59:40,244 somebody lend a helping hand, I can't understand 724 00:59:40,327 --> 00:59:42,246 going through this crazy land 725 00:59:42,329 --> 00:59:47,251 I'm a crazy man, lord help me on a fast train... 726 00:59:47,334 --> 00:59:52,089 In the cases of Malik carr, aka poot, 727 00:59:53,007 --> 00:59:57,011 Herbert derodd Johnson, aka puddin', Arthur carroll... 728 00:59:58,137 --> 01:00:00,222 What do you see right here? 729 01:00:00,306 --> 01:00:03,017 It's bulk metal, ten cent a pound. 730 01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:04,143 Here. 731 01:00:04,226 --> 01:00:06,562 - Aluminum. - Right you are. 732 01:00:06,645 --> 01:00:09,648 30 cent a pound. No problem. 733 01:00:11,192 --> 01:00:13,152 You see, in these modern times, 734 01:00:13,235 --> 01:00:17,323 a man got to keep one eye on the ground, pick up what he find, feel me? 735 01:00:17,406 --> 01:00:20,242 There's money to be made if you know where to look. 736 01:00:21,452 --> 01:00:23,454 I hope you listening cos I'm trying to school you. 737 01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:25,164 - _ uh? - Uh-huh. 738 01:00:25,247 --> 01:00:29,877 Yeah, you don't want to know. You think you're brown, but you still green. 739 01:00:38,177 --> 01:00:40,179 How you doing? 740 01:00:45,059 --> 01:00:46,435 That's something, huh? 741 01:00:46,519 --> 01:00:50,689 Like they just took a big eraser and rubbed across it. 742 01:00:50,898 --> 01:00:52,107 Yeah. 743 01:00:54,652 --> 01:00:57,279 Yeah, but before, a dope fiend come down here, 744 01:00:57,363 --> 01:01:01,534 cop a little something, ain't nary a soul hassle him. 745 01:01:01,617 --> 01:01:04,036 Hoppers and police, they just let him be. 746 01:01:06,121 --> 01:01:07,957 Mm-hm. 747 01:01:08,582 --> 01:01:10,543 Was a good thing, huh? 748 01:01:14,296 --> 01:01:16,173 I'm just saying. 749 01:01:16,924 --> 01:01:19,468 You probably don't know, but it's rough out there, baby. 750 01:01:19,552 --> 01:01:23,430 Cops be back banging on you, hoppers be messing with you. 751 01:01:27,518 --> 01:01:29,186 Yeah, thank you. 752 01:01:30,062 --> 01:01:33,691 Oh, shit. There's a dollar here. That's a seed. 753 01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:37,278 Come on, boy.