1 00:01:22,445 --> 00:01:25,172 - Who's got the scene ? - Massey and Crutchfield are working it. 2 00:01:25,220 --> 00:01:28,066 Norris is on his way to the morgue. He'll beat the bodies there. 3 00:01:30,046 --> 00:01:31,942 He's getting the full treatment, boss. 4 00:01:33,233 --> 00:01:35,046 We're good there. 5 00:01:35,296 --> 00:01:37,983 Just one witness so far. 6 00:01:38,987 --> 00:01:42,538 You know what that means. Right now it's all BNBG. 7 00:01:42,756 --> 00:01:44,726 It's Andy Kraw's big adventure. 8 00:01:45,314 --> 00:01:48,587 Mayor's office already called twice, worried sick about the man. 9 00:01:48,621 --> 00:01:50,085 You're kidding me. 10 00:01:50,326 --> 00:01:52,267 That's a whole lotta campaign contributions 11 00:01:52,281 --> 00:01:54,267 sitting on the back of that ambo. 12 00:01:54,406 --> 00:01:56,017 So what's the scene say ? 13 00:01:56,169 --> 00:01:59,266 Two shooters. Shotgun, semiauto. 14 00:01:59,303 --> 00:02:02,656 One vic is a West Side soldier with a pretty healthy sheet 15 00:02:03,319 --> 00:02:07,061 the other is a major player in Daniel's wiretap case. 16 00:02:07,146 --> 00:02:09,152 So a hit. Drug related. 17 00:02:09,295 --> 00:02:11,011 With a big time developer in the middle ? 18 00:02:11,026 --> 00:02:12,444 What's the fit ? 19 00:02:12,454 --> 00:02:14,659 Second vic, Russell Bell 20 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,007 owner and co-developer of this here. 21 00:02:18,454 --> 00:02:20,625 And other downtown real estate. 22 00:02:21,428 --> 00:02:24,188 Well propertied man, he was. 23 00:02:26,107 --> 00:02:27,846 But you were aware that Russell Bell 24 00:02:27,906 --> 00:02:30,398 was regarded as a major narcotic violator. 25 00:02:31,643 --> 00:02:34,284 Well, how do you think he made his money ? 26 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,460 I didn't inquire. 27 00:02:36,508 --> 00:02:39,038 You never got a look at either of the gunmen. 28 00:02:39,062 --> 00:02:42,961 I told you. I saw only the one of them. He was black 29 00:02:43,495 --> 00:02:47,235 big, I thought, with a large weapon. 30 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:50,131 BNBG. 31 00:02:56,545 --> 00:02:58,845 Big negro, big gun. 32 00:03:19,571 --> 00:03:22,102 Two more like it upstairs. 33 00:03:22,108 --> 00:03:23,157 Yeah. 34 00:03:26,645 --> 00:03:31,340 Have ballistics rush comparisons. Drug-relateds for the last six months. 35 00:04:42,794 --> 00:04:44,234 I caught him, Bunk. 36 00:04:46,215 --> 00:04:47,727 On the wire. I caught him. 37 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:52,421 He doesn't fuckin'know it. 38 00:06:29,724 --> 00:06:31,020 Mission Accomplished 39 00:06:36,663 --> 00:06:38,525 Boxing, yeah. 40 00:06:39,177 --> 00:06:40,387 I know you loved that. 41 00:06:40,577 --> 00:06:44,059 Ugh, I hated it. I hated watching it. 42 00:06:44,152 --> 00:06:45,520 Yeah, I know you did. 43 00:06:45,613 --> 00:06:47,727 So you're doing good, huh ? 44 00:06:48,797 --> 00:06:51,177 Day to day, I am. 45 00:06:51,231 --> 00:06:53,036 'Cause I was thinking maybe... 46 00:06:59,937 --> 00:07:02,770 I'm proud of you, Dennis. Be well. 47 00:07:16,271 --> 00:07:17,910 Shut that fuckin'door. 48 00:07:31,334 --> 00:07:32,393 Man, fuck it. 49 00:07:33,016 --> 00:07:34,106 I'm ready for this shit. 50 00:07:34,134 --> 00:07:36,643 These niggers are snappin'on us. You see ? 51 00:07:36,738 --> 00:07:38,918 Do you believe this fucking shit ? 52 00:07:39,022 --> 00:07:42,019 Some shit like this woulda never happened with the old Barksdale. 53 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,525 Yo, Slim, man. Say the motherfuckin'word. 54 00:07:52,504 --> 00:07:53,386 Shit is on. 55 00:08:01,405 --> 00:08:02,269 'Sup, B ? 56 00:08:10,302 --> 00:08:11,137 You a'ight ? 57 00:08:11,964 --> 00:08:14,953 We gonna bounce back on the motherfucker, no question. 58 00:08:15,033 --> 00:08:16,227 Bounce back on who ? 59 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,298 Marlo, boss. Oh, he gonna fall. 60 00:08:19,349 --> 00:08:21,555 Marlo, Marlo ain't got shit to do with it. 61 00:08:21,734 --> 00:08:23,528 Marlo couldn't get String like that. 62 00:08:23,753 --> 00:08:25,930 String died'cause of some other shit. 63 00:08:27,725 --> 00:08:28,336 What ? 64 00:08:28,406 --> 00:08:30,571 He died because of some other shit, nigger. 65 00:08:32,939 --> 00:08:34,937 I couldn't fix it. I tried. 66 00:08:35,650 --> 00:08:38,111 That nigger String was right about this shit, man. 67 00:08:39,059 --> 00:08:40,045 That nigger was right. 68 00:08:40,066 --> 00:08:44,162 Fuck Marlo. Fuck this fucking war. 69 00:08:44,163 --> 00:08:47,200 All this beef over a couple of fuckin'corners. 70 00:08:49,011 --> 00:08:51,811 Don't matter who did what to who at this point. 71 00:08:51,833 --> 00:08:53,460 Fact is, we went to war 72 00:08:53,475 --> 00:08:55,684 and now there ain't no going back. 73 00:08:55,743 --> 00:08:57,318 I mean, shit 74 00:08:57,398 --> 00:08:58,957 it's what war is, you know. 75 00:08:59,363 --> 00:09:02,242 Once you in it, you in it. 76 00:09:04,448 --> 00:09:07,121 If it's a lie then we fight on that lie 77 00:09:07,976 --> 00:09:09,448 but we gotta fight. 78 00:09:15,699 --> 00:09:18,241 Got this out of his pocket. 79 00:09:21,827 --> 00:09:22,899 I got no idea. 80 00:09:24,377 --> 00:09:25,876 It's a cell chip from a phone. 81 00:09:28,128 --> 00:09:29,526 What elsedid you get off him ? 82 00:09:29,684 --> 00:09:32,796 200 cash, set of keys, license. 83 00:09:33,010 --> 00:09:34,225 President Street address ? 84 00:09:35,605 --> 00:09:37,981 I got Landsman bangin'out a warrant for the place. 85 00:09:40,681 --> 00:09:42,262 Fuck the politics for a minute. 86 00:09:43,220 --> 00:09:44,891 What if the man happens to be right ? 87 00:09:44,907 --> 00:09:46,387 Legalizing drugs ? 88 00:09:46,414 --> 00:09:48,355 Crime is down in his district and 89 00:09:48,369 --> 00:09:50,480 people on that side of town, they're okay with it. 90 00:09:50,499 --> 00:09:52,968 Look, if you don't exist, what happens here ? 91 00:09:53,033 --> 00:09:54,237 If there's no Tommy Carcetti 92 00:09:54,238 --> 00:09:55,914 in this thing, what's likely to happen ? 93 00:09:55,974 --> 00:09:58,193 The mayor and Burrell, they shut this thing down. 94 00:09:58,194 --> 00:09:59,888 I figure the Mayor's trying to find a way 95 00:09:59,896 --> 00:10:02,388 to shuit down to make it look like it was an enforcement plan 96 00:10:02,446 --> 00:10:03,483 in case it goes public 97 00:10:03,587 --> 00:10:06,527 otherwise he'd have moved to end it already. 98 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:10,212 Makes sense. But no matter what 99 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:12,270 Colvin's little experiment is finished. 100 00:10:14,062 --> 00:10:15,145 Come on, Tommy. 101 00:10:15,908 --> 00:10:17,266 They dealt you a winning hand 102 00:10:17,267 --> 00:10:19,206 and you're acting like you forgot how to play. 103 00:10:22,903 --> 00:10:26,468 Mr. Mayor, call it legalization and my office can't live with it. 104 00:10:26,539 --> 00:10:28,218 Agreed. No one can. 105 00:10:28,306 --> 00:10:29,563 But harm reduction. 106 00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:32,643 That could sell provided there's a reduction in the crime rate. 107 00:10:32,690 --> 00:10:35,189 Harm reduction. Sounds good. 108 00:10:35,356 --> 00:10:38,197 Steven, what if we were able to suggest 109 00:10:38,229 --> 00:10:41,237 limiting our street level enforcement 110 00:10:41,257 --> 00:10:45,236 we were concentrating our resources on high-level traffickers. 111 00:10:45,332 --> 00:10:46,334 How would that play ? 112 00:10:46,350 --> 00:10:49,008 Well, if I could show off that kind of casework, yeah, maybe. 113 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,308 But they've been doing street rips for so long now 114 00:10:51,419 --> 00:10:52,830 I don't think a high level exists. 115 00:10:52,831 --> 00:10:55,148 What if we were able to say that no major traffickers 116 00:10:55,199 --> 00:10:57,726 were allowed in the free zone-- 117 00:10:59,580 --> 00:11:02,556 That the major violators were still being targeted, huh ? 118 00:11:02,937 --> 00:11:05,070 Are you suggesting some kind of admissions 119 00:11:05,086 --> 00:11:07,065 criteria for the zones ? How would that work ? 120 00:11:07,093 --> 00:11:08,220 I don't know that it would. 121 00:11:08,248 --> 00:11:10,567 I'm just saying that for the sake of public perception. 122 00:11:10,584 --> 00:11:12,876 Come on, people, work with me on this thing. 123 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:14,647 Fucked up, ain't it ? 124 00:11:14,722 --> 00:11:17,444 Marlo need to get his ass dropped, him and all his crew. 125 00:11:17,492 --> 00:11:19,179 They gonna fall. You'll see. 126 00:11:19,370 --> 00:11:21,359 All right, let me know. 127 00:11:21,470 --> 00:11:23,730 That's the word on the wire, anyway. 128 00:11:23,985 --> 00:11:26,961 Every mention puts it on Marlo Stanfield's crew 129 00:11:27,062 --> 00:11:30,086 which means the war's gonna ratchet up, no question. 130 00:11:30,325 --> 00:11:31,662 Where's Jimmy ? 131 00:11:31,741 --> 00:11:34,638 He went with Bunk Moreland to rifle Stringer's spot downtown. 132 00:11:34,892 --> 00:11:39,046 - How'd he take it ? - Like Stringer was kin. 133 00:11:40,987 --> 00:11:42,348 - Yeah ? - Bushy Top 134 00:11:42,491 --> 00:11:45,818 - need to pull your coat up. - Hey, what's up, Major ? 135 00:11:45,913 --> 00:11:49,354 I got somethin'for y'all. Mount Vernon Square in about an hour. 136 00:11:49,621 --> 00:11:51,424 I'm there. 137 00:12:16,491 --> 00:12:17,583 This is Stringer's ? 138 00:12:20,465 --> 00:12:21,085 Yeah. 139 00:12:48,867 --> 00:12:50,828 Who in fuck was I chasing ? 140 00:13:18,045 --> 00:13:20,969 What's done is done. 141 00:13:32,310 --> 00:13:35,834 Gay ass gangsters. Please. 142 00:13:47,022 --> 00:13:49,843 I took it for as long as I could. 143 00:13:53,844 --> 00:13:55,095 Let's go, man. 144 00:13:56,894 --> 00:13:57,586 Let's go. 145 00:14:16,633 --> 00:14:20,353 It being your town, I trust you to do it proper. 146 00:14:32,278 --> 00:14:33,662 You off today, boss ? 147 00:14:34,191 --> 00:14:36,191 Every day, at this point. 148 00:14:36,206 --> 00:14:39,206 I told 'em over at COMSTAT about my little experiment. 149 00:14:39,726 --> 00:14:41,699 Bosses went crazy, huh ? 150 00:14:42,336 --> 00:14:44,898 Anyway, that's why I called you. 151 00:14:45,487 --> 00:14:48,208 That there is a wartime lay-up for your man Barksdale. 152 00:14:48,470 --> 00:14:50,067 My sources tell me the man's there 153 00:14:50,104 --> 00:14:51,775 most of the time with a lot of muscle : 154 00:14:51,870 --> 00:14:54,238 sawed-offs, semiautos, Mac-11s. 155 00:14:54,913 --> 00:14:56,913 Whole lot of good shit if you hit it right. 156 00:14:58,131 --> 00:15:00,014 - That's a hell of a tip. - Shit. 157 00:15:01,823 --> 00:15:04,157 That right there might be the last bit of police work 158 00:15:04,176 --> 00:15:05,554 in a long and storied career. 159 00:15:06,394 --> 00:15:08,160 I'll talk to you, Bushy Top. 160 00:15:15,513 --> 00:15:16,913 Which one is Ali ? 161 00:15:17,964 --> 00:15:19,667 In the white trunks, boy. 162 00:15:20,287 --> 00:15:22,133 - Damn, he look young. - He was. 163 00:15:22,205 --> 00:15:24,736 This the Patterson fight right here. Old school. 164 00:15:25,221 --> 00:15:27,130 Who Patterson ? He soft. 165 00:15:27,194 --> 00:15:29,088 Ali whippin'his ass. 166 00:15:29,243 --> 00:15:31,004 He was a champ too. 167 00:15:31,138 --> 00:15:33,899 Look, any man still standing at the end of a round 168 00:15:34,054 --> 00:15:37,093 you can't call him soft. That's a rule, all right ? 169 00:15:43,173 --> 00:15:44,844 From Stringer's place downtown. 170 00:15:44,971 --> 00:15:48,489 B and B shit, college papers, real estate stuff. 171 00:15:48,823 --> 00:15:51,719 There's no phone extension in the place, just these. 172 00:15:51,799 --> 00:15:54,091 Cell phone chips.'Bout 100 of them. 173 00:15:54,157 --> 00:15:56,396 So that's why he wasn't taking any phones 174 00:15:56,410 --> 00:15:57,769 from our man Bernard, huh ? 175 00:15:57,813 --> 00:15:58,947 Stringer had his own phone 176 00:15:58,962 --> 00:16:01,392 he just changed the number every time he changed the chip. 177 00:16:01,411 --> 00:16:04,161 Shamrock too, probably, with whatever phone he used to call Bell. 178 00:16:04,198 --> 00:16:05,036 Cautious man. 179 00:16:06,666 --> 00:16:07,557 Yes and no. 180 00:16:07,875 --> 00:16:11,313 Have a look in here. All different manufacturers. 181 00:16:18,366 --> 00:16:20,149 Before Stringer Bell got aced 182 00:16:21,244 --> 00:16:23,946 he went out of his way to put in his good friend Avon Barksdale. 183 00:16:25,766 --> 00:16:27,214 That's a Barksdale safe house. 184 00:16:28,972 --> 00:16:30,201 Where'd you get this ? 185 00:16:34,736 --> 00:16:35,398 Colvin. 186 00:16:37,002 --> 00:16:39,740 - Calls to the Western. - Where's Daniels ? 187 00:16:40,427 --> 00:16:43,228 He's got this thing downtown. It's for his wife. 188 00:16:43,661 --> 00:16:44,718 You should raise him. 189 00:16:47,252 --> 00:16:49,161 It's not enough to make up for Stringer. 190 00:16:50,587 --> 00:16:51,937 It'll do for now. 191 00:16:54,204 --> 00:16:55,458 Because the neighborhoods 192 00:16:55,518 --> 00:16:57,592 and the residents in this district are among 193 00:16:57,698 --> 00:17:00,614 the poorest in our city. And it is these residents 194 00:17:00,849 --> 00:17:03,689 who most need a strong voice at City Hall. 195 00:17:04,397 --> 00:17:06,135 Time has come for a change. 196 00:17:06,136 --> 00:17:08,906 And I believe I can bring about that change 197 00:17:09,601 --> 00:17:13,178 by providing a strong voice for the new 11th District 198 00:17:14,582 --> 00:17:15,840 if you will do me the honor-- 199 00:17:15,935 --> 00:17:18,893 It's kind of cool, the lieutenant's wife running for office, you know. 200 00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:23,185 Well, as you just heard, West Baltimore City 201 00:17:23,186 --> 00:17:26,208 Council woman Eunetta Perkins is going to have her hands full 202 00:17:26,224 --> 00:17:28,198 in next September's Democratic finals. 203 00:17:29,757 --> 00:17:31,619 Stringer Bell. Damn. 204 00:17:33,201 --> 00:17:34,395 Who could have got to him ? 205 00:17:34,611 --> 00:17:36,664 I mean, if it wasn't y'all on it. 206 00:17:37,069 --> 00:17:38,986 You know Avon's gonna put it on you, right ? 207 00:17:39,273 --> 00:17:41,103 Shit, let him take it on my jacket. 208 00:17:41,286 --> 00:17:42,607 Don't make me no never mind. 209 00:17:43,005 --> 00:17:45,695 I'm thinkin'it might be what you call one of them good problems. 210 00:17:47,135 --> 00:17:48,042 Yeah. 211 00:17:53,939 --> 00:17:56,215 I heard Colvin's in deep shit downtown. 212 00:17:57,106 --> 00:17:58,650 Looking at this right here 213 00:18:00,830 --> 00:18:02,215 he might not be the only one. 214 00:18:04,132 --> 00:18:05,613 Anything comes up, I'm on the radio. 215 00:18:08,223 --> 00:18:11,199 My man, my man, my man. Yo, you think I could get like $5 ? 216 00:18:11,310 --> 00:18:14,079 - I need like $5 to get on the bus. - I look like a tourist to you ? 217 00:18:14,207 --> 00:18:16,483 - Man, I swear to God. - Lookin'like that 218 00:18:16,538 --> 00:18:18,097 walking into an open-air drug market 219 00:18:18,134 --> 00:18:20,134 why the hell would I think you'll spend my $5 220 00:18:20,164 --> 00:18:21,343 on bus fare ? 221 00:18:22,658 --> 00:18:25,188 Shit,'cause I already got my blast, man. 222 00:19:18,151 --> 00:19:23,513 All night you been drinking like your ass is candy. 223 00:19:24,776 --> 00:19:25,949 That's shameful shit. 224 00:19:32,643 --> 00:19:33,973 12-gauge pumpkin balls. 225 00:19:37,227 --> 00:19:40,297 Last time I saw that kind of load was the Pimlico double 226 00:19:40,763 --> 00:19:44,805 and I fuckin'know that motherfucker was in the middle of that mess. 227 00:19:46,048 --> 00:19:47,867 And if I remember your boy 228 00:19:47,885 --> 00:19:50,719 he had no love for the Barksdale people. 229 00:19:50,929 --> 00:19:53,349 Execution style, that don't play like Omar Little. 230 00:19:54,988 --> 00:19:58,394 Besides, the word on our wire is that Marlo's people did Stringer. 231 00:19:58,988 --> 00:20:01,599 - Marlo Stanfield ? - The heir apparent. 232 00:20:02,270 --> 00:20:03,638 This city's going to hell, man. 233 00:20:06,249 --> 00:20:08,912 We're gonna push past 300 murders before New Year's. 234 00:20:09,084 --> 00:20:11,884 Shit is fucked. 235 00:20:15,623 --> 00:20:18,275 Oh, hey, Cheryl. 236 00:20:18,919 --> 00:20:22,500 No ? My guess is she's, uh, picking up a prisoner. 237 00:20:22,866 --> 00:20:25,038 Yeah, I spoke to her about ten minutes ago. 238 00:20:25,301 --> 00:20:27,966 Yeah, well, they make you check your stuff. 239 00:20:28,652 --> 00:20:31,675 Cell phone, money, weapon. 240 00:20:32,145 --> 00:20:34,659 Well, she'll call when she gets the message. 241 00:20:35,209 --> 00:20:37,183 Not at all. 242 00:20:38,034 --> 00:20:40,198 I need more, Jimmy. 243 00:20:55,548 --> 00:20:56,694 More ! 244 00:20:58,397 --> 00:20:59,893 Motherfucker. 245 00:21:00,291 --> 00:21:01,166 I'm tired, Bunk. 246 00:21:12,290 --> 00:21:13,088 Let's go. 247 00:21:16,032 --> 00:21:17,473 I heard the vanguard met. 248 00:21:18,144 --> 00:21:20,769 Heard they voted to have a civilian review board look at it. 249 00:21:20,798 --> 00:21:24,725 It wasn't unanimous. And there were people there speaking for you. 250 00:21:25,059 --> 00:21:26,253 I heard that too. 251 00:21:27,470 --> 00:21:31,911 So six out of ten black officers think I'm just an asshole racist. 252 00:21:32,324 --> 00:21:34,179 On the other hand 253 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,537 four out of ten think you're just an asshole. 254 00:21:40,879 --> 00:21:45,001 It's an administrative charge. You can fight it and win 255 00:21:45,033 --> 00:21:46,163 if you want. 256 00:21:46,362 --> 00:21:49,672 Failure to properly identify myself as a police officer. 257 00:21:51,669 --> 00:21:54,307 Sounds like what I was guilty of most of my career, actually. 258 00:21:57,637 --> 00:21:59,579 I'm not sure I was supposed to be a police. 259 00:22:01,966 --> 00:22:03,144 Not really. 260 00:22:05,070 --> 00:22:06,779 What were ya supposed to be, huh ? 261 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:16,255 This is from Major Colvin's CI ? 262 00:22:16,868 --> 00:22:18,348 What's the corroboration ? 263 00:22:18,762 --> 00:22:22,120 Well, the source knew that Barksdale had a waterfront condo in his own name 264 00:22:22,231 --> 00:22:24,443 gave the accurate location, and title info 265 00:22:24,467 --> 00:22:25,931 down to deed of transfer. 266 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,462 Well, that's good, but it puts him on the legitimate side of things. 267 00:22:29,751 --> 00:22:32,074 What corroboration is there for illegal activities ? 268 00:22:33,236 --> 00:22:34,796 Sorry I'm late. 269 00:22:34,955 --> 00:22:36,212 I had to stop in at a friend. 270 00:22:36,308 --> 00:22:38,424 The source knew that Barksdale was shot last month 271 00:22:38,425 --> 00:22:39,491 wounded in the shoulder. 272 00:22:39,722 --> 00:22:42,204 - Emergency room ? - No, no hospital reports. 273 00:22:43,450 --> 00:22:44,564 We're gonna need better. 274 00:22:44,628 --> 00:22:47,779 Either Colvin goes back to the CI or we sit on this address for a while. 275 00:22:47,891 --> 00:22:50,246 - we can see. - Well, fuck it, then. 276 00:22:50,922 --> 00:22:53,226 Let's name the source. Put him right in the affidavit. 277 00:22:53,254 --> 00:22:55,658 - It's Colvin's call, isn't it ? - It's Stringer Bell. 278 00:22:57,940 --> 00:22:59,865 Lester figured it out from the DNRs. 279 00:23:00,575 --> 00:23:02,707 Bell was snitching out Barksdale. 280 00:23:03,193 --> 00:23:05,628 - You're sure of this ? - Maybe that explains the murder. 281 00:23:05,707 --> 00:23:06,837 What's in the wire ? 282 00:23:07,434 --> 00:23:09,296 Loose talk about how it was Marlo's people 283 00:23:09,312 --> 00:23:11,190 but nothing past rumor. 284 00:23:11,269 --> 00:23:13,943 With Bell gone, Barksdale might have to come down a notch 285 00:23:13,967 --> 00:23:16,895 to oversee the day to day, and maybe that puts him in contact 286 00:23:16,911 --> 00:23:19,251 with some of our monitored cell phones. 287 00:23:19,410 --> 00:23:22,227 If he's as cautious as Stringer, maybe not. 288 00:23:22,975 --> 00:23:25,330 My guess is Barksdale never touches a cell phone. 289 00:23:25,919 --> 00:23:27,622 Safe house might be our best shot. 290 00:23:29,230 --> 00:23:30,137 All right. 291 00:23:31,163 --> 00:23:33,167 We stay on the wires until this batch of burners 292 00:23:33,168 --> 00:23:35,373 goes dead, hoping we have Barksdale 293 00:23:35,508 --> 00:23:37,036 but meanwhile, we get a warrant 294 00:23:37,052 --> 00:23:38,877 for that safe house and wait on him there. 295 00:23:48,469 --> 00:23:50,777 Thanks for the cover last night. 296 00:23:56,208 --> 00:23:59,471 This is Greggs, Major Case Unit. Who's the shift leader ? 297 00:24:31,186 --> 00:24:33,896 Holy Christ. 298 00:24:48,283 --> 00:24:50,312 - They're all over it, Commissioner. - Right 299 00:24:52,382 --> 00:24:54,112 That was Foxtrot. 300 00:24:54,222 --> 00:24:56,768 The cameras have found our little shit pile. 301 00:24:56,888 --> 00:24:59,653 Your fuckin'councilman took his sweet time, didn't he ? 302 00:25:02,030 --> 00:25:03,860 Everyone's a critic. 303 00:25:04,248 --> 00:25:06,945 If this doesn't go, what line of work are you gonna try next ? 304 00:25:09,630 --> 00:25:10,938 We're here in West Baltimore-- 305 00:25:16,105 --> 00:25:18,784 For more than a month, police from Baltimore's Western District. 306 00:25:18,803 --> 00:25:20,601 It's just an outrageous development. 307 00:25:27,452 --> 00:25:30,635 It's something I never thought I'd see from this or any other administration. 308 00:25:31,073 --> 00:25:33,271 Frankly, this is one of the reasons we need a change 309 00:25:33,299 --> 00:25:34,426 in leadership in this city. 310 00:25:34,454 --> 00:25:36,877 Did the Mayor know ? What about the Police Commissioner ? 311 00:25:36,905 --> 00:25:39,356 These are questions for the Mayor and Police Commissioner. 312 00:25:39,384 --> 00:25:41,337 These are central issues of crime and safety. 313 00:25:41,356 --> 00:25:43,252 The Royce administration is simply bankrupt. 314 00:25:43,290 --> 00:25:45,365 You still gonna announce for mayor next month ? 315 00:25:45,444 --> 00:25:47,147 Standing here today looking at this ? 316 00:25:47,282 --> 00:25:49,822 I can't see I can do anything but put it out there right now. 317 00:25:49,850 --> 00:25:52,231 All I can tell you is that for more than four weeks now 318 00:25:52,271 --> 00:25:54,109 the Baltimore Police Department surrendered 319 00:25:54,128 --> 00:25:56,184 portions of the police district to the drug trade 320 00:25:56,203 --> 00:25:57,842 and the Council was not informed. 321 00:25:57,969 --> 00:26:02,091 Fuck me. I fuckin' had this story all to myself a week ago. 322 00:26:02,974 --> 00:26:05,314 Police officers for weeks have turned a blind eye... 323 00:26:05,378 --> 00:26:07,367 What the fuck was I thinking ? 324 00:26:09,236 --> 00:26:11,035 ..sanctioning open-air drug markets. 325 00:26:11,846 --> 00:26:12,590 'Scuse us. 326 00:26:12,591 --> 00:26:18,101 ...in the so called free zones, drug dealers routinely ply... 327 00:26:18,133 --> 00:26:20,122 Mr. Mayor, Commissioner Burrell is here. 328 00:26:20,170 --> 00:26:22,812 Tell the Commissioner the Mayor will be with him shortly. 329 00:26:22,907 --> 00:26:25,263 And young children run the streets alone. 330 00:26:26,114 --> 00:26:28,151 The inhabitants of what has come to be known 331 00:26:28,167 --> 00:26:31,676 as Hampsterdam have little to say for the camera. 332 00:26:31,740 --> 00:26:33,793 But channel 5 has learned that the police were... 333 00:26:36,188 --> 00:26:36,809 Yeah ? 334 00:26:36,889 --> 00:26:38,050 What are you seein'? 335 00:26:38,194 --> 00:26:40,995 Coupla people in and out. No sign of Barksdale, though. 336 00:26:41,247 --> 00:26:42,355 It's quiet here too. 337 00:26:42,618 --> 00:26:43,668 Okay. 338 00:26:44,576 --> 00:26:45,801 Need to look at the back. 339 00:26:46,215 --> 00:26:48,761 Our friend Carcetti's gonna run wild with this. 340 00:26:49,716 --> 00:26:52,756 And from the sound of things, Gray is gonna run with him. 341 00:26:52,923 --> 00:26:56,010 Tony Gray thinks he's gonna get my chair behind this bullshit 342 00:26:56,917 --> 00:26:58,659 We're throwin'you out of the boat, Ervin. 343 00:26:58,669 --> 00:27:00,030 This shit is on you alone. 344 00:27:03,029 --> 00:27:04,477 Not necessarily. 345 00:27:04,628 --> 00:27:07,000 Not if I talk about how we were under pressure 346 00:27:07,093 --> 00:27:08,371 to keep the crime down 347 00:27:08,372 --> 00:27:10,554 to juke the stats district by district... 348 00:27:10,753 --> 00:27:11,827 You never said that. 349 00:27:11,867 --> 00:27:15,010 About how Colvin under pressure, lost his way 350 00:27:15,077 --> 00:27:16,764 about how I came to you weeks ago... 351 00:27:16,966 --> 00:27:18,558 - Days ago. - Weeks ago 352 00:27:18,575 --> 00:27:20,963 to tell you what he had done and to assure you that 353 00:27:21,053 --> 00:27:22,858 we were on top of the situation 354 00:27:22,873 --> 00:27:26,078 that Colvin would be relieved and his plan aborted. 355 00:27:26,269 --> 00:27:27,892 You lyin'motherfucker. 356 00:27:27,987 --> 00:27:31,218 But you heard about the drop in Colvin's felony rate 357 00:27:31,361 --> 00:27:33,080 and you sent me packing. 358 00:27:33,414 --> 00:27:36,993 Brought in your liberal-ass do-gooders to seriously consider 359 00:27:36,994 --> 00:27:38,632 this horseshit 360 00:27:38,855 --> 00:27:41,227 while Colvin's mistake grew and grew. 361 00:27:41,807 --> 00:27:44,727 My hands were tied, Mr. Mayor 362 00:27:44,975 --> 00:27:47,410 my department thwarted. 363 00:27:48,213 --> 00:27:51,221 I was a prisoner of the goddamn politicians. 364 00:27:52,049 --> 00:27:53,007 Or... 365 00:27:57,428 --> 00:28:01,502 I leave your office right now willing to say a lot less than that. 366 00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:04,822 I put what I can on crazy-ass Bunny Colvin 367 00:28:05,175 --> 00:28:10,526 and I take the hit. And if Carcetti or Gray holds hearings 368 00:28:11,103 --> 00:28:14,724 I'm the wall between them and you. 369 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:18,901 In which case, I am your commissioner 370 00:28:19,051 --> 00:28:21,955 for the full five-year term. 371 00:28:31,767 --> 00:28:34,005 Unit one to unit two. 372 00:28:34,315 --> 00:28:38,070 - Unit two standing by. - Deal's made. 373 00:28:40,096 --> 00:28:43,528 Unit two to sector three, move on the Winchester Homes. 374 00:28:43,652 --> 00:28:45,303 Ten-four. We're moving. 375 00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:47,109 Unit two to sector two. 376 00:28:47,332 --> 00:28:48,740 Move on the Koppers plant. 377 00:28:48,844 --> 00:28:49,918 Roger that. 378 00:28:53,225 --> 00:28:55,190 Over the top, gentlemen. 379 00:29:15,999 --> 00:29:17,616 'Bout fucking time. 380 00:29:28,951 --> 00:29:31,640 Man, g outaigo re-up. 381 00:29:32,086 --> 00:29:34,712 - Where Tuckie at ? - I don't know. 382 00:29:39,017 --> 00:29:41,148 - Yo, where Tuckie at, man ? - He rolled out. 383 00:29:41,228 --> 00:29:43,122 - He said the police comin'. 384 00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:51,406 - D'oh. - Here they come. Let's roll. 385 00:30:17,053 --> 00:30:18,931 Hold it right there 386 00:30:25,996 --> 00:30:28,240 White jacket ! Stop right there ! Stop ! 387 00:30:35,123 --> 00:30:37,256 Freeze ! Police, don't move ! 388 00:30:39,979 --> 00:30:42,336 Outstanding, red team. Oustanding. 389 00:30:42,778 --> 00:30:44,449 Give you a case of beer for that one. 390 00:31:04,614 --> 00:31:06,985 Son, this nigga Stringer Bell, man 391 00:31:07,502 --> 00:31:09,364 was beggin'Chris, yo, for real. 392 00:31:09,693 --> 00:31:10,768 Like know what I mean ? 393 00:31:10,797 --> 00:31:13,394 Diggin'in his pockets, talkin' 'bout how much cheese 394 00:31:13,494 --> 00:31:16,311 he gonna give us, I mean, if we just let him walk. 395 00:31:16,366 --> 00:31:19,188 My man Chris holler, "Man, bitch, you gonna die." 396 00:31:19,463 --> 00:31:21,594 This nigga just dropped to his fuckin' knees like 397 00:31:21,610 --> 00:31:24,355 a little cocksucker, man, start cryin'. 398 00:31:24,435 --> 00:31:26,568 That shit was worse than fuckin' pathetic. 399 00:31:29,073 --> 00:31:33,020 - Yo, that's Marlo. - Get on yo'burner, man. 400 00:31:40,485 --> 00:31:43,191 - Got a line on him. - The number one ? Where at ? 401 00:31:43,254 --> 00:31:45,554 Tall man says to tell y'all to soldier up. 402 00:31:45,629 --> 00:31:48,685 They up at the rim shop. 403 00:31:50,905 --> 00:31:53,738 - Boss, you okay ? - What you want ? 404 00:31:53,833 --> 00:31:56,229 Slim said they got their eye on Marlo. 405 00:31:57,450 --> 00:32:00,760 I'm just sayin', you know, all the boys, they all waitin'on you. 406 00:32:01,958 --> 00:32:03,470 Go ahead, man. 407 00:32:04,066 --> 00:32:05,108 I'm behind you. 408 00:32:28,425 --> 00:32:30,380 What else you need from us, Deputy ? 409 00:32:30,395 --> 00:32:32,259 City Hall wants the bulldozers through here 410 00:32:32,278 --> 00:32:34,529 at dawnand then fencing all around the site. 411 00:32:34,635 --> 00:32:36,927 Winchester Homes and the Koppers plant as well. 412 00:32:37,380 --> 00:32:38,781 We got it. 413 00:32:40,643 --> 00:32:42,553 Come tomorrow, the television reporters 414 00:32:42,648 --> 00:32:44,988 get nothing they can stand in front of. 415 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,314 'Scuse me, Deputy, sir, we found a body. 416 00:32:59,009 --> 00:33:00,108 Any trauma ? 417 00:33:00,728 --> 00:33:03,067 Can't tell for sure with all the rat bites. 418 00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:06,147 Take him to OCME in a jail wagon. 419 00:33:06,218 --> 00:33:09,019 I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. 420 00:33:10,842 --> 00:33:11,937 Shit. 421 00:33:22,801 --> 00:33:25,554 He just landed. Him plus one. 422 00:33:25,809 --> 00:33:27,496 Got it. Sit tight. 423 00:33:27,544 --> 00:33:28,658 That makes how many ? 424 00:33:31,045 --> 00:33:33,496 Including Barksdale, Sydnor counted ten in 425 00:33:33,576 --> 00:33:35,645 and one comin'out, so that's ten at least. 426 00:33:40,256 --> 00:33:41,865 2301 to KGA. 427 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,018 Go ahead, 2301. 428 00:33:44,807 --> 00:33:48,686 We need QRT to meet us at our 20 for a search and seizure. 429 00:33:48,748 --> 00:33:52,602 Location has multiple suspects and may contain automatic weapons. 430 00:33:52,638 --> 00:33:53,653 Ten-four. 431 00:34:02,261 --> 00:34:03,615 Word travels fast, huh ? 432 00:34:04,947 --> 00:34:05,620 Shit. 433 00:34:08,167 --> 00:34:10,592 Burrell called Johns Hopkins personally this morning. 434 00:34:14,681 --> 00:34:16,302 Dragged your name into the gutter. 435 00:34:16,303 --> 00:34:18,536 Johns Hopkins doesn't need the notoriety. 436 00:34:18,597 --> 00:34:21,631 The chief academic officer of a major research university 437 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:23,643 doesn't want to hear that some new hire 438 00:34:23,644 --> 00:34:25,461 makes up the rules as he goes along. 439 00:34:31,403 --> 00:34:32,522 Yeah, Colvin. 440 00:34:38,727 --> 00:34:40,222 COMSTAT tomorrow. 441 00:34:46,351 --> 00:34:46,814 I'm up. 442 00:34:54,205 --> 00:34:55,330 Y'all taking a door ? 443 00:34:56,043 --> 00:34:56,992 Where's tactical ? 444 00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,433 I called for QRT. 445 00:35:00,006 --> 00:35:00,983 You ain't heard ? 446 00:35:01,035 --> 00:35:03,722 They're a little busy tonight tearin'down Colvin's fuck up. 447 00:35:03,905 --> 00:35:06,754 With all that goin'on, you're lucky you even got us. 448 00:35:06,873 --> 00:35:09,928 - Who he hittin' on this ? - Avon Barksdale and crew. 449 00:35:10,111 --> 00:35:13,629 I fuckin' told you he was out. Did i fuckin' tell you ? 450 00:35:14,138 --> 00:35:16,207 I fuckin' told her. 451 00:35:16,342 --> 00:35:19,787 For more than four weeks, the Baltimore Police Department... 452 00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:24,061 By tomorrow, the story goes national and Washington reacts. 453 00:35:26,154 --> 00:35:28,149 Save the best questions for Tony Gray. 454 00:35:29,161 --> 00:35:31,370 He needs to shine even more than you. 455 00:35:40,642 --> 00:35:42,239 I can't believe he wants us to knock. 456 00:35:42,277 --> 00:35:44,090 Well, you can' flush guns, now, can you ? 457 00:35:44,157 --> 00:35:46,172 Well, fuck that. What if they open up on us ? 458 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,224 These guys are at war with another crew. 459 00:35:48,322 --> 00:35:50,932 We go chargin'in there, chances are we will get lit up. 460 00:36:05,718 --> 00:36:06,788 Yo, B. 461 00:36:07,611 --> 00:36:10,222 Sham sayin'that Charles sayin'they still up at the rim shop. 462 00:36:10,365 --> 00:36:13,357 Marlo, his boy Chris, and Vinson, they still eatin' 463 00:36:13,436 --> 00:36:15,999 but the rest of the muscle, they rolled out. 464 00:36:25,214 --> 00:36:25,872 Police ! 465 00:36:27,636 --> 00:36:28,200 No. 466 00:36:29,352 --> 00:36:30,427 Not the police. 467 00:36:30,450 --> 00:36:33,330 - Narco's out back too. - Shit. 468 00:36:33,791 --> 00:36:37,242 Let us in ! We know you're in there. 469 00:36:40,113 --> 00:36:42,322 Open the door, you fucking cocksuckers ! 470 00:36:42,350 --> 00:36:43,347 Fucked up, man. 471 00:36:43,423 --> 00:36:45,160 Y'all ask me 472 00:36:45,892 --> 00:36:47,835 y'all ugly ass niggers shouldn't be in here 473 00:36:47,836 --> 00:36:49,639 fucking around with all these guns and shit 474 00:36:52,169 --> 00:36:53,064 Open it. 475 00:36:57,676 --> 00:37:00,795 Come on, Avon. Enough with this shit. Open the fucking door. 476 00:37:04,045 --> 00:37:07,145 Open the fucking door, you cocksuckers. 477 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,862 Police ! 478 00:37:13,670 --> 00:37:15,262 - Search warrant ! - I'm clean, man. 479 00:37:15,874 --> 00:37:18,325 Open the fucking door. 480 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:22,430 Get down ! 481 00:37:22,431 --> 00:37:24,500 Face that shit tight. Greggs. 482 00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:25,980 I'm opening up. 483 00:37:32,736 --> 00:37:34,439 That'd be mine. 484 00:37:34,463 --> 00:37:36,246 In fact, all that's mine. 485 00:37:36,317 --> 00:37:38,959 You got a law degree ? 486 00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:42,580 Take him. 487 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,956 You fall on the parole violation. No matter whatever else happens 488 00:37:46,988 --> 00:37:48,937 you do every day of what's left of your seven 489 00:37:48,955 --> 00:37:49,857 without seeing a jury. 490 00:37:49,866 --> 00:37:52,002 Maybe even conspiracy to murder. 491 00:37:52,017 --> 00:37:55,678 We take this federal, see if we can get you ten to life... no parole. 492 00:37:55,853 --> 00:37:57,962 Whatever. 493 00:37:58,292 --> 00:38:01,284 Shit, you only do two days no how. 494 00:38:01,499 --> 00:38:04,793 - That's the day you go in. - And the day you come out. 495 00:38:05,087 --> 00:38:07,220 Yeah, well, here's the warrant. 496 00:38:13,933 --> 00:38:15,042 You read it slow. 497 00:38:17,374 --> 00:38:19,771 In between them two days, give you something to think on. 498 00:38:39,295 --> 00:38:39,963 Damn. 499 00:38:40,541 --> 00:38:41,877 Missed our shot. 500 00:38:43,575 --> 00:38:44,215 Roll, man. 501 00:38:47,404 --> 00:38:49,413 You bend over for us, or I swear to God 502 00:38:49,442 --> 00:38:51,145 I will spend what's left of my career 503 00:38:51,177 --> 00:38:53,692 shitting on every last supervisor in your district. 504 00:38:53,739 --> 00:38:56,404 From shift commanders down to sector sergeants, not one of them 505 00:38:56,433 --> 00:38:59,906 will have any rank at all if we hear so much as a bark out of you. 506 00:39:00,073 --> 00:39:02,652 Look, my people saw this as a tactical deployment only. 507 00:39:02,978 --> 00:39:04,514 The responsibility is mine alone. 508 00:39:04,515 --> 00:39:06,415 Well, you won't fall alone 509 00:39:07,004 --> 00:39:10,506 unless you're willing to fall exactly as we want you to. 510 00:39:11,007 --> 00:39:13,888 After COMSTAT, you go to retirement services 511 00:39:13,943 --> 00:39:16,665 and drop papers, going out at a lieutenant's grade 512 00:39:16,705 --> 00:39:19,967 That's right, you're busted back. We can't take your EOD away 513 00:39:20,134 --> 00:39:22,314 but you're not going out on a major's pay. 514 00:39:22,315 --> 00:39:24,272 I can retire before you bust me. 515 00:39:24,686 --> 00:39:26,564 I got vacation time enough to make my 30. 516 00:39:26,691 --> 00:39:28,863 Fuck your vacation time. 517 00:39:29,596 --> 00:39:32,540 You're out today, at the lower grade. 518 00:39:32,580 --> 00:39:34,744 That's against the goddamn contract. 519 00:39:34,864 --> 00:39:36,956 What part of bend over didn't you understand ? 520 00:39:40,434 --> 00:39:41,866 Avon locked up ? 521 00:39:41,930 --> 00:39:43,601 With most of his muscle, yeah. 522 00:39:43,617 --> 00:39:46,084 Good day to get back out on them corners, ain't it ? 523 00:39:47,596 --> 00:39:49,697 Make some money. 524 00:39:49,713 --> 00:39:51,050 You bet. 525 00:40:01,558 --> 00:40:03,842 It's not just the 17 millions in federal funding 526 00:40:03,976 --> 00:40:06,481 for Baltimore law enforcement that you've jeopardized. 527 00:40:06,505 --> 00:40:09,484 Take off another 200 million of federal money in your operating budget 528 00:40:09,512 --> 00:40:12,035 another 75 in capital expenditures, 529 00:40:12,457 --> 00:40:15,529 plus untold millions in pass-through federal dollars from Annapolis. 530 00:40:16,483 --> 00:40:18,441 All told, we're talking about 531 00:40:18,911 --> 00:40:21,600 half a billion a year that Baltimore will be doing without. 532 00:40:21,696 --> 00:40:24,433 Furthermore, the U.S. Attorney here will use all the resources 533 00:40:24,521 --> 00:40:26,724 of the Justice Department to interdict and destroy 534 00:40:26,769 --> 00:40:28,410 any attempt to establish 535 00:40:28,428 --> 00:40:32,072 a geographic entity where drugs are legal. 536 00:40:32,582 --> 00:40:35,192 Washington should know that what happened in West Baltimore 537 00:40:35,335 --> 00:40:38,391 in no way reflects the policies of my administration. 538 00:40:38,701 --> 00:40:40,371 That was an aberration, Mr. Talmadge. 539 00:40:40,372 --> 00:40:42,664 The work of one misguided police official. 540 00:40:42,839 --> 00:40:44,669 We understand your concerns 541 00:40:44,717 --> 00:40:47,979 but for the deputy drug czar 542 00:40:48,099 --> 00:40:50,613 to take the time out to drive 30 miles north 543 00:40:50,629 --> 00:40:53,080 to deliver that message, hardly necessary. 544 00:40:54,958 --> 00:40:56,533 Rest assured. 545 00:41:00,695 --> 00:41:02,080 What up, G ? 546 00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:04,944 Where the older ones at ? 547 00:41:05,314 --> 00:41:07,351 Marlo got his package back out. 548 00:41:18,569 --> 00:41:21,593 Fire Burrell. This nonsense began in his shop 549 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,521 without him knowing it. Fire the man and move on. 550 00:41:24,768 --> 00:41:27,171 Odell, I respect your opinion. 551 00:41:28,190 --> 00:41:29,034 But right now 552 00:41:29,972 --> 00:41:32,956 Tony Gray, Carcetti maneuvering 553 00:41:33,004 --> 00:41:35,360 now is not the time. 554 00:41:36,688 --> 00:41:40,002 We get past the primary, then I'll drive a stake in his heart. 555 00:41:40,103 --> 00:41:41,639 But right now I need him where he is 556 00:41:41,658 --> 00:41:42,983 for no other reason than to 557 00:41:43,118 --> 00:41:45,164 well, to take the hit for this thing right here. 558 00:41:45,182 --> 00:41:46,953 But I tell you what I'm gonna do, though. 559 00:41:47,113 --> 00:41:49,739 I'm gonna shine on that new girl you like in the 11th. 560 00:41:51,124 --> 00:41:53,259 Give her a spot on the ticket. Cut Eunetta loose. 561 00:41:53,287 --> 00:41:54,348 Eunetta's had her day. 562 00:41:56,368 --> 00:41:59,264 I respect the fact that you stood by me, Odell. 563 00:41:59,304 --> 00:42:00,611 I respect loyalty. 564 00:42:02,670 --> 00:42:05,758 And did so without properly informing his superior officers 565 00:42:06,432 --> 00:42:09,584 and without regard to the criminal statutes he was sworn to enforce 566 00:42:10,053 --> 00:42:12,918 thereby disgracing himself and his command. 567 00:42:15,671 --> 00:42:17,988 Is any of that subject to any contradiction 568 00:42:17,989 --> 00:42:20,355 or argument whatsoever, Major Colvin ? 569 00:42:20,684 --> 00:42:21,257 No, sir. 570 00:42:21,671 --> 00:42:22,975 No argument at all, Bunny ? 571 00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:25,147 Not much you can say, is there ? 572 00:42:25,148 --> 00:42:26,835 Not to real police. 573 00:42:27,703 --> 00:42:29,910 - Get on with it,motherfu-- - 'Scuse me, major ? 574 00:42:32,062 --> 00:42:34,306 Is the admin lieutenant present ? 575 00:42:36,112 --> 00:42:38,165 Major Colvin is relieved of duty. 576 00:42:38,253 --> 00:42:41,340 You are now the acting commander of the Western District. 577 00:43:15,789 --> 00:43:17,989 - Hey, Bunk. - Hey, Freamon. 578 00:43:18,053 --> 00:43:20,630 - Who is that ? Crutchfield ? 579 00:43:20,631 --> 00:43:22,254 - Naw, Norris. 580 00:43:22,278 --> 00:43:23,933 Sleeping on a stakeout. 581 00:43:24,015 --> 00:43:26,413 Damn, Bernard, didn't I tell you about these guys ? 582 00:43:29,241 --> 00:43:31,676 Yeah, that's everyone we heard on the wire. 583 00:43:31,737 --> 00:43:33,812 McNulty's over there in number one with Pearlman. 584 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,472 Why don't you say hey ? 585 00:43:39,807 --> 00:43:42,130 You got to be the stupidest motherfucker 586 00:43:42,178 --> 00:43:44,024 that I've ever gone out with. 587 00:43:44,327 --> 00:43:46,157 I can't wait to go to jail. 588 00:43:47,104 --> 00:43:48,727 What ? What you say ? 589 00:43:48,783 --> 00:43:51,361 What the fuck did you say, Bernard ? 590 00:44:02,549 --> 00:44:03,870 Hey, Donald. 591 00:44:08,970 --> 00:44:10,906 - You heard the tapes. - Look, he came to me 592 00:44:11,024 --> 00:44:13,648 and said we could sell drugs if we move down to Vincent Street 593 00:44:13,657 --> 00:44:15,028 and that's where I moved my crew. 594 00:44:15,047 --> 00:44:17,929 And you know I did because you the one that popped me with the G-pack 595 00:44:17,930 --> 00:44:20,404 on my way to the spot, and let me go, remember ? 596 00:44:20,730 --> 00:44:23,309 You were selling drugs in Major Colvin's free zone ? 597 00:44:23,476 --> 00:44:25,974 - You can prove that. - Ask him. He know. 598 00:44:26,762 --> 00:44:28,927 This must be one of them contrapment things. 599 00:44:29,006 --> 00:44:30,626 You mean entrapment. 600 00:44:30,627 --> 00:44:33,025 Kid's got a point. 601 00:44:40,099 --> 00:44:42,470 19 in bracelets from Barksdale on down. 602 00:44:42,478 --> 00:44:44,197 Another eight wanted on warrants. 603 00:44:44,205 --> 00:44:48,009 Any way you can tie your case to this mess with Colvin ? 604 00:44:48,010 --> 00:44:51,150 Make it like what he was doing led to your thing ? 605 00:44:51,151 --> 00:44:52,139 I don't see it. 606 00:44:52,330 --> 00:44:56,521 Well, it's good work nonetheless, Major Daniels. 607 00:44:59,778 --> 00:45:01,911 Call came in from the Mayor's office 608 00:45:01,967 --> 00:45:04,943 half hour ago approving your promotion. 609 00:45:05,022 --> 00:45:07,802 And now with Colvin, there's a new vacancy. 610 00:45:10,393 --> 00:45:12,813 - What about my wife ? - What about her ? 611 00:45:12,932 --> 00:45:15,415 The Mayor. Eunetta's seat. 612 00:45:15,431 --> 00:45:17,687 - Why would the Mayor... - Good police work maybe. 613 00:45:21,566 --> 00:45:24,017 Not everything is politics. 614 00:45:28,569 --> 00:45:30,574 Hey, I'll take two. Western alumni. 615 00:45:30,614 --> 00:45:31,982 All right, you got it. 616 00:45:32,794 --> 00:45:33,593 Major. 617 00:45:36,272 --> 00:45:37,020 I heard. 618 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,570 How's your family take it ? 619 00:45:46,330 --> 00:45:49,103 Lolita done dropped herself 30 pounds and got herself 620 00:45:49,135 --> 00:45:50,484 a real estate license 621 00:45:51,852 --> 00:45:53,674 so I guess she's fixin'to leave me. 622 00:46:02,547 --> 00:46:05,531 I just wanted you to know that last tip you gave me 623 00:46:05,532 --> 00:46:06,876 was a winner. 624 00:46:07,361 --> 00:46:08,603 Yeah, I heard. 625 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,015 That's good work. 626 00:46:13,966 --> 00:46:16,687 Also, I don't know if you know, Stringer Bell was shot to death 627 00:46:16,688 --> 00:46:17,770 two days ago. 628 00:46:19,696 --> 00:46:22,926 So anyway, I put his name on the paper 629 00:46:23,101 --> 00:46:24,172 to tighten the PC. 630 00:46:26,276 --> 00:46:28,648 I figured what the fuck once he's aced, right ? 631 00:46:32,292 --> 00:46:34,504 You always did cut them corners, didn't you ? 632 00:46:40,162 --> 00:46:42,215 Seems like you cut a few yourself, Major. 633 00:46:46,305 --> 00:46:48,247 However it ends, you're good police. 634 00:46:48,589 --> 00:46:50,149 I just did what I did. 635 00:46:51,987 --> 00:46:52,932 It felt right. 636 00:46:55,767 --> 00:46:56,781 I'm fine with that. 637 00:47:40,334 --> 00:47:41,813 I don't understand. 638 00:47:45,024 --> 00:47:46,019 Drink your wine. 639 00:47:52,846 --> 00:47:53,869 You and me in public. 640 00:47:56,023 --> 00:47:58,245 - But your wife. - She wins without me. 641 00:48:01,954 --> 00:48:05,137 On the Mayor's ticket, she wins. 642 00:48:05,198 --> 00:48:06,360 And you make major ? 643 00:48:09,326 --> 00:48:11,956 I think she was waiting for this day more than I ever was. 644 00:48:14,175 --> 00:48:15,445 And now she's not here. 645 00:48:17,060 --> 00:48:17,645 No. 646 00:48:19,389 --> 00:48:20,159 She's not. 647 00:48:28,024 --> 00:48:29,382 From out of nowhere, huh ? 648 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:31,758 Nowhere is right. 649 00:48:33,953 --> 00:48:34,733 Why me ? 650 00:48:37,033 --> 00:48:38,517 I guess you don't live right. 651 00:48:44,140 --> 00:48:46,495 - Kari, what was that ? - Nothing. 652 00:48:46,527 --> 00:48:48,068 - What broke ? - Nothing, Mama. 653 00:48:55,066 --> 00:48:56,005 So... 654 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:57,628 Yeah. 655 00:48:58,877 --> 00:49:00,708 You just drive over here. 656 00:49:01,273 --> 00:49:01,957 I did. 657 00:49:03,533 --> 00:49:06,015 Why tonight ? What happened ? 658 00:49:09,053 --> 00:49:11,401 I was in my old district tonight 659 00:49:11,421 --> 00:49:13,834 which is where I used to feel pretty good, I think. 660 00:49:14,755 --> 00:49:16,651 I wasn't so angry when I was there anyway. 661 00:49:18,344 --> 00:49:20,504 I don't know, someone said something, I guess 662 00:49:22,506 --> 00:49:23,856 and, uhit doesn't make sense. 663 00:49:27,535 --> 00:49:28,936 I guess I finished something today. 664 00:49:29,765 --> 00:49:30,469 A case ? 665 00:49:31,793 --> 00:49:32,638 More than that. 666 00:49:34,887 --> 00:49:36,654 It's like everything I poured into a glass 667 00:49:36,758 --> 00:49:38,269 came out the bottom 668 00:49:38,930 --> 00:49:41,094 and I just kept on pouring. 669 00:49:41,445 --> 00:49:43,425 Like the thing had a hole in it, you know. 670 00:49:45,025 --> 00:49:46,740 Things that make me right for this job 671 00:49:46,741 --> 00:49:48,766 maybe they're the same things that make me wrong 672 00:49:48,785 --> 00:49:50,333 for everything else. 673 00:49:51,893 --> 00:49:53,787 Do you want to come inside for a drink ? 674 00:49:58,144 --> 00:49:58,906 Not tonight. 675 00:50:02,787 --> 00:50:04,649 But if it's not too late, I wouldn't mind 676 00:50:05,031 --> 00:50:05,881 meeting your kids. 677 00:51:05,003 --> 00:51:08,130 Major Colvin misled his officers. 678 00:51:08,176 --> 00:51:11,938 They thought that his initiative was a tactical deployment 679 00:51:12,186 --> 00:51:14,300 to entrap narcotics traffickers. 680 00:51:14,659 --> 00:51:17,063 There was no mention whatsoever 681 00:51:17,118 --> 00:51:19,792 of the initiative to any superior officer. 682 00:51:19,832 --> 00:51:22,687 And for five weeks, all evidence 683 00:51:22,688 --> 00:51:25,681 of what he was doing managed to elude the entire command staff. 684 00:51:27,105 --> 00:51:28,472 Are you kidding, Commissioner ? 685 00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:29,984 I take full responsibility 686 00:51:30,304 --> 00:51:33,153 and indeed, after I first learned of the matter 687 00:51:33,312 --> 00:51:35,323 I informed the Mayor, and together 688 00:51:35,381 --> 00:51:36,781 we moved immediately 689 00:51:36,877 --> 00:51:39,869 to relieve Major Colvin 690 00:51:39,995 --> 00:51:41,502 I'm under the impression that 691 00:51:41,503 --> 00:51:43,725 this administration gave serious consideration 692 00:51:43,738 --> 00:51:45,314 with Colvin's initiative. 693 00:51:45,361 --> 00:51:46,491 No, sir. 694 00:51:46,499 --> 00:51:49,093 Major Colvin informed you of his effort at a COMSTAT meeting 695 00:51:49,189 --> 00:51:50,430 more than a week ago. 696 00:51:50,438 --> 00:51:52,674 His free zones stayed up for six days after that. 697 00:51:52,737 --> 00:51:55,300 That's my responsibility, Councilman. 698 00:51:55,355 --> 00:51:57,648 We needed the time to conclude an ongoing investigation 699 00:51:57,667 --> 00:51:59,839 by the Major Crime Unit, a wiretap case 700 00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,841 that would have been disrupted 701 00:52:01,849 --> 00:52:04,952 Correct, Mayor Royce was aware of the pending case 702 00:52:05,008 --> 00:52:08,191 and allowed us to delay our response accordingly. 703 00:52:08,246 --> 00:52:10,475 But the Mayor was unequivocal 704 00:52:10,689 --> 00:52:13,634 in his opposition to what Major Colvin did. 705 00:52:13,832 --> 00:52:16,494 What we have here, I'm afraid, is nothing more complicated 706 00:52:16,495 --> 00:52:19,554 than a solitary police commander who, under great pressure 707 00:52:19,571 --> 00:52:23,916 proved to be amoral, incompetent, and unfit for command. 708 00:52:24,369 --> 00:52:25,054 No. 709 00:52:26,748 --> 00:52:27,847 It's about more than that. 710 00:52:27,902 --> 00:52:30,417 This is more important than who knew what when 711 00:52:30,624 --> 00:52:32,438 or who falls on his sword 712 00:52:32,542 --> 00:52:34,706 or whether someone can use this disaster 713 00:52:34,730 --> 00:52:36,481 to make a political point or two. 714 00:52:36,528 --> 00:52:37,420 Mr. Chairman-- 715 00:52:37,491 --> 00:52:40,340 We can forgive Major Colvin who, out of his frustration 716 00:52:40,507 --> 00:52:42,921 and despair, found himself condoning something which 717 00:52:42,922 --> 00:52:46,420 can't possibly be condoned. We can do that much. 718 00:52:47,534 --> 00:52:50,414 But, gentlemen, what we can't forgive, 719 00:52:50,573 --> 00:52:53,235 what I can't forgive ever 720 00:52:54,258 --> 00:52:55,451 is how we... 721 00:52:57,727 --> 00:53:00,634 you, me, this administration, all of us 722 00:53:01,857 --> 00:53:05,643 how we turned away from those streets in West Baltimore. The poor, the sick 723 00:53:05,892 --> 00:53:09,401 the swollen underclass of our city trapped in the wreckage of neighborhoods 724 00:53:09,433 --> 00:53:12,186 which were once so prized. Communities which 725 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,226 we've failed to defend, which we have surrendered 726 00:53:15,250 --> 00:53:17,430 to the horrors of the drug trade. 727 00:53:17,573 --> 00:53:20,629 And if this disaster demands anything of us as a city 728 00:53:20,971 --> 00:53:22,786 it demands that we say enough. 729 00:53:22,794 --> 00:53:25,770 Enough to the despair which makes policemen even think about surrender. 730 00:53:25,778 --> 00:53:28,213 Enough to the fact that these neighborhoods are not saved 731 00:53:28,332 --> 00:53:31,722 or are beyond the saving. Enough to this administration's 732 00:53:31,778 --> 00:53:34,015 indecisiveness and lethargy 733 00:53:34,385 --> 00:53:36,544 to the garbage which goes uncollected 734 00:53:36,592 --> 00:53:38,995 the lots and row houses which stay vacant 735 00:53:39,162 --> 00:53:41,279 the addicts who go untreated 736 00:53:41,303 --> 00:53:43,050 the working men and women who every day 737 00:53:43,051 --> 00:53:44,884 are denied a chance at economic freedom. 738 00:53:47,712 --> 00:53:49,473 Enough to the crime, which every day 739 00:53:49,474 --> 00:53:51,952 chokes more and more of the life from our city. 740 00:53:53,823 --> 00:53:54,668 And... 741 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,062 the thing of it is, if we don't take responsibility and step up 742 00:53:59,112 --> 00:54:01,448 not just for the mistakes and the miscues 743 00:54:01,638 --> 00:54:04,505 but for whether or not we're gonna win this battle for our streets 744 00:54:04,533 --> 00:54:05,535 if that doesn't happen 745 00:54:05,770 --> 00:54:08,972 we're gonna lose these neighborhoods and ultimately this city forever. 746 00:54:09,010 --> 00:54:10,853 If we don't have the courage 747 00:54:10,877 --> 00:54:13,912 and the conviction to fight this war they way it should be fought 748 00:54:13,913 --> 00:54:16,471 the way it needs to be fought, using every weapon 749 00:54:16,487 --> 00:54:19,495 that we can possibly muster, if that doesn't happen 750 00:54:21,548 --> 00:54:23,126 well, then we're staring at defeat. 751 00:54:25,924 --> 00:54:27,882 And that defeat should not and cannot 752 00:54:27,977 --> 00:54:29,911 and will not be forgiven. 753 00:54:38,191 --> 00:54:39,253 It was a good case 754 00:54:39,890 --> 00:54:40,961 I'm not denying that 755 00:54:41,959 --> 00:54:43,582 but I need to trust my people. 756 00:54:44,577 --> 00:54:47,235 Unless you can give your word, there's no way-- 757 00:54:47,434 --> 00:54:49,518 That's more than fair. 758 00:54:49,996 --> 00:54:51,540 Thanks. 759 00:54:52,009 --> 00:54:54,524 But it's better for me if I do something else. 760 00:54:58,694 --> 00:55:00,317 Detective. 761 00:55:02,924 --> 00:55:04,107 It's not you, it's me. 762 00:55:06,286 --> 00:55:08,694 - But where-- - The western, I think. 763 00:55:09,957 --> 00:55:12,384 Western feels like home. 764 00:55:26,737 --> 00:55:28,894 You showed something today. 765 00:55:29,230 --> 00:55:31,063 Just felt like it needed to be said. 766 00:55:34,434 --> 00:55:36,387 Sounds like you're running for something. 767 00:55:40,378 --> 00:55:41,167 Eunetta. 768 00:55:42,227 --> 00:55:42,941 Been a while. 769 00:55:58,240 --> 00:55:59,646 Thought y'all was in training. 770 00:56:15,534 --> 00:56:18,042 So what time you want us to be there tomorrow, coach ? 771 00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:20,608 3:30 would be good. 772 00:56:21,397 --> 00:56:23,406 - Hope to see you all then. - A'right. 773 00:56:40,349 --> 00:56:42,266 What the fuck y'all standing around for ? 774 00:56:43,059 --> 00:56:44,050 Man, get to work. 775 00:57:48,586 --> 00:57:50,138 That's a seed. 776 00:57:51,806 --> 00:57:52,528 Yeah. 777 01:01:12,056 --> 01:01:13,614 What do you see right here? 778 01:01:14,274 --> 01:01:16,693 It's bulk metal. 10¢ a pound. 779 01:01:17,086 --> 01:01:17,499 Here. 780 01:01:18,300 --> 01:01:19,252 Aluminum. 781 01:01:19,399 --> 01:01:21,738 Right you are. 30¢ a pound 782 01:01:22,446 --> 01:01:24,308 no problem. 783 01:01:25,223 --> 01:01:28,884 in these modern times a man gotta keep one eye on the ground 784 01:01:29,003 --> 01:01:30,849 pick up what he find, feel me ? 785 01:01:31,573 --> 01:01:33,738 There's money to be made if you know where to look. 786 01:01:35,464 --> 01:01:38,131 I hope you listenin','cause I'm tryin'to school you here. 787 01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,329 Yeah, you don't want to know. 788 01:01:41,330 --> 01:01:43,565 You see, You think you brown, but you still green. 789 01:01:52,133 --> 01:01:52,968 How ya doin'? 790 01:01:58,906 --> 01:01:59,962 That's somethin', huh ? 791 01:02:00,504 --> 01:02:03,416 It's like they took a big eraserand rubbed across it. 792 01:02:04,978 --> 01:02:05,483 Yaeh ! 793 01:02:08,675 --> 01:02:11,189 Yeah, but before a dope fiend come down here 794 01:02:11,424 --> 01:02:14,982 cop a little somethin', ain't nary a soul hassle him. 795 01:02:15,687 --> 01:02:18,494 Hoppers and police, they just let him be. 796 01:02:22,739 --> 01:02:24,103 Was a good thing, huh ? 797 01:02:28,312 --> 01:02:29,588 I'm just sayin'. 798 01:02:30,833 --> 01:02:33,218 You probly don't know, but it's rough out there, baby. 799 01:02:33,678 --> 01:02:37,328 Cops be back bangin'on you. Hoppers be messin' with you. 800 01:02:41,655 --> 01:02:42,509 Thank you. 801 01:02:43,977 --> 01:02:44,622 Aw, shit. 802 01:02:45,221 --> 01:02:46,956 That's a dime here. That's a seed. 803 01:02:49,467 --> 01:02:50,065 Come on, boy. 804 01:03:04,588 --> 01:03:07,245 Transcript par Raceman 805 01:03:07,246 --> 01:03:10,055 Sous-titres par la Wired Team : Occeane et El Uploador. 806 01:03:10,169 --> 01:03:16,763 www.thewire-france.com www.forom.com