1 00:00:05,229 --> 00:00:06,500 See, to cap a motherfucker, 2 00:00:06,566 --> 00:00:09,833 you put a pistol to his head, say, "pow," and he tagged. 3 00:00:09,893 --> 00:00:12,268 - But when Chris and them do it-- - It ain't working, nay. 4 00:00:12,308 --> 00:00:13,410 I know you making this up. 5 00:00:13,450 --> 00:00:14,752 Word to my mother, yo. 6 00:00:15,085 --> 00:00:18,351 Lex ain't dead. I seen him creeping in an alley last night near the playground. 7 00:00:18,431 --> 00:00:19,899 Everybody know Lex is dead. 8 00:00:20,050 --> 00:00:22,399 Nah, there's dead, and there's special dead. 9 00:00:22,563 --> 00:00:24,693 Yeah, Chris working that juju shit. 10 00:00:24,753 --> 00:00:27,318 Nah, man. What I'm saying is they zombies. 11 00:00:27,607 --> 00:00:29,341 Why you think he take them into vacants? 12 00:00:29,421 --> 00:00:30,884 He need time to change them. 13 00:00:31,107 --> 00:00:33,171 You don't believe me, yo, it's on you. 14 00:00:33,432 --> 00:00:34,956 Yo, they funnin', ain't they, Michael? 15 00:00:35,016 --> 00:00:37,133 I don't know about that voodoo shit, man, 16 00:00:37,266 --> 00:00:39,399 but Chris is definitely doing something. 17 00:00:39,531 --> 00:00:40,899 Get a nigger to walk up in there 18 00:00:40,966 --> 00:00:42,565 knowing he about to get capped, man. 19 00:00:42,632 --> 00:00:43,870 Chris, he different. 20 00:00:43,930 --> 00:00:46,990 You can tell by them coon-ass country clothes that nigger be wearing. 21 00:00:49,094 --> 00:00:50,093 9? 22 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,765 Nah, too much bark. Probably a 40-cal. 23 00:00:55,507 --> 00:00:57,398 Yeah, man, this is serious business. 24 00:00:57,543 --> 00:00:58,965 So you saying Lex is a zombie? 25 00:00:59,126 --> 00:01:01,330 Pookie, Byron, all them niggers. 26 00:01:01,530 --> 00:01:03,222 - And Chris? - Yeah, Chris-- 27 00:01:03,523 --> 00:01:04,535 zombie master. 28 00:01:06,097 --> 00:01:07,531 I knew this wasn't going away. 29 00:01:07,598 --> 00:01:09,523 That's what we've been trying to tell you, yo. 30 00:01:09,583 --> 00:01:10,825 Chris got the power. 31 00:01:10,998 --> 00:01:12,931 He tell them to come, and they got to come, 32 00:01:12,998 --> 00:01:14,831 like the devil do with the damned. 33 00:01:14,973 --> 00:01:16,631 What you think Chris got them doing? 34 00:01:18,033 --> 00:01:19,295 Probably spies, man. 35 00:01:20,051 --> 00:01:22,530 Can't figure any other way Marlo knows so much. 36 00:01:22,597 --> 00:01:23,830 Yeah, that's what it is. 37 00:01:23,897 --> 00:01:25,898 Like in this movie, "zombie killer" or something, 38 00:01:25,938 --> 00:01:28,033 they came out at night, hunting. 39 00:01:28,169 --> 00:01:29,631 - Hunting? - Yeah, man. They... 40 00:01:34,534 --> 00:01:37,298 yeah, and in that movie, they was snatching people up, 41 00:01:37,463 --> 00:01:39,031 stealing their warmth. 42 00:02:07,983 --> 00:02:10,487 4x05 - Alliances 43 00:03:47,335 --> 00:03:50,640 St. Jude, patron of lost causes. 44 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,325 Tell me you ain't been on bended knee 45 00:03:53,392 --> 00:03:56,168 whispering in his saintly ear each and every night 46 00:03:56,248 --> 00:03:57,659 before you close those peepers. 47 00:03:57,823 --> 00:04:00,625 I know you have, Tommy, catch a break like this. 48 00:04:01,297 --> 00:04:02,740 Stan, you're sure about this? 49 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,458 On my mother's soul, it's a lock. 50 00:04:04,567 --> 00:04:06,497 Assigned a rookie-- a broad, no less-- 51 00:04:06,557 --> 00:04:07,908 as lead detective. 52 00:04:08,273 --> 00:04:10,225 Pulled a good man off, too, I heard. 53 00:04:11,893 --> 00:04:12,914 Tom. 54 00:04:13,434 --> 00:04:17,461 Tommy, remember, anything you need. 55 00:04:23,055 --> 00:04:24,190 He's a piece of work. 56 00:04:24,332 --> 00:04:26,355 Valchek? Comes with the territory. 57 00:04:26,996 --> 00:04:28,683 You want the first district council seat, 58 00:04:28,723 --> 00:04:30,926 you make nice with whatever polish or greek Commander 59 00:04:30,986 --> 00:04:33,022 - they dump in the southeast. - Not Italian. 60 00:04:33,062 --> 00:04:34,732 There ain't enough of us left down there. 61 00:04:34,772 --> 00:04:35,895 You think he has this right? 62 00:04:35,948 --> 00:04:38,704 - That Royce tampered with the case? - No way the mayor knows. 63 00:04:39,914 --> 00:04:42,358 You're right. This one has Ervin Burrell written all over it. 64 00:04:42,398 --> 00:04:43,685 Fuck if the mayor knows or not. 65 00:04:43,725 --> 00:04:46,089 If it's true, we get it out there quick and bang him hard. 66 00:04:46,129 --> 00:04:47,151 I go public? 67 00:04:47,211 --> 00:04:49,862 They can't spin this. They sabotaged a criminal case. 68 00:04:49,902 --> 00:04:51,104 No spin on a knuckleball, 69 00:04:51,184 --> 00:04:53,282 you still can't tell how it's gonna break. 70 00:05:00,694 --> 00:05:02,096 We feed it to Tony Gray. 71 00:05:02,449 --> 00:05:05,174 We keep ourselves out of the line of fire, sting Royce, 72 00:05:05,214 --> 00:05:08,460 and as an added bonus, give Gray's campaign a boost 73 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,319 which comes at the expense of the mayor's base. 74 00:05:14,296 --> 00:05:16,920 I'm a devious motherfucker once I get going. 75 00:05:18,123 --> 00:05:19,727 So, all told, 76 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,644 we're looking at 13 warrants and 6 locations. 77 00:05:23,013 --> 00:05:25,017 And given my staffing situation... 78 00:05:25,367 --> 00:05:26,589 not a problem. 79 00:05:27,222 --> 00:05:30,027 I can give you my D.E.U., flex, and ops squads. 80 00:05:30,155 --> 00:05:31,689 A sector of uniforms if you need it. 81 00:05:31,810 --> 00:05:33,553 - Great. - The problem is, 82 00:05:33,653 --> 00:05:36,023 you're wasting a wiretap on street-level arrests. 83 00:05:36,089 --> 00:05:37,255 We do these raids right, 84 00:05:37,322 --> 00:05:40,555 we might catch Marlo or one of his lieutenants at one of these locations, 85 00:05:40,665 --> 00:05:41,955 get them with dope on the table. 86 00:05:42,022 --> 00:05:43,063 Marlo Stanfield. 87 00:05:43,123 --> 00:05:45,122 In a room. With dope on the table. 88 00:05:45,187 --> 00:05:46,454 I've kicked down doors 89 00:05:46,521 --> 00:05:48,502 and surprised bigger players than him. 90 00:05:49,233 --> 00:05:50,655 Well, let me warn you, Lieutenant, 91 00:05:50,716 --> 00:05:54,738 I am not about to litigate a wiretap for a handful of street rips. 92 00:05:55,179 --> 00:05:57,998 Well... that's on you, Counselor. 93 00:05:58,299 --> 00:05:59,801 No, it's not. 94 00:06:00,187 --> 00:06:01,972 Major, see you tomorrow. 95 00:06:10,739 --> 00:06:12,963 Floaters. You had any more? 96 00:06:13,635 --> 00:06:15,220 No more than usual for the season. 97 00:06:15,286 --> 00:06:16,353 What about decomps? 98 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:17,954 What do you got in the decomp room? 99 00:06:18,083 --> 00:06:20,303 - 2 or 3 unidentifieds. - Found in Baltimore? 100 00:06:20,363 --> 00:06:22,802 No, actually, two from Prince George's, one from Dorchester. 101 00:06:22,862 --> 00:06:24,353 Nah, he wouldn't drive that far. 102 00:06:24,542 --> 00:06:25,687 Let me get this straight. 103 00:06:25,754 --> 00:06:27,948 You're looking for extra bodies, no one in particular, 104 00:06:27,988 --> 00:06:30,381 other than this one kid you already put out on the teletype. 105 00:06:30,421 --> 00:06:31,784 Yeah. You on it. 106 00:06:32,591 --> 00:06:34,314 You fellas don't have enough work? 107 00:06:36,987 --> 00:06:39,488 If you do your classwork, homework, 108 00:06:39,753 --> 00:06:40,930 you earn stickers. 109 00:06:41,010 --> 00:06:43,514 Dag, yo, every day you be changing it up. 110 00:06:43,878 --> 00:06:45,560 You got us confused, Mr. P. 111 00:06:46,856 --> 00:06:49,601 Behave in class, that's another sticker. 112 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:52,621 At the end of the week, the 4 with the most stickers 113 00:06:53,082 --> 00:06:54,053 get a prize 114 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,622 and are eligible for a grand drawing at the end of the month. 115 00:06:57,969 --> 00:07:01,935 Don't do your work, misbehave in class... 116 00:07:04,343 --> 00:07:05,765 your name goes here. 117 00:07:07,053 --> 00:07:08,053 Detention. 118 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,671 A full hour after school, no exceptions. 119 00:07:10,785 --> 00:07:11,885 So it's up to you: 120 00:07:12,012 --> 00:07:16,019 stickers for prizes or stay with me after school. 121 00:07:16,085 --> 00:07:18,132 Yo, Mr. P. Why you do me detention? 122 00:07:18,785 --> 00:07:20,218 You interrupted the class, Namond. 123 00:07:20,284 --> 00:07:21,585 Yo, when you first came in here, 124 00:07:21,652 --> 00:07:23,355 you was all treating us straight up, 125 00:07:23,415 --> 00:07:26,163 and now you just dog me before I even know the rules. 126 00:07:26,303 --> 00:07:27,605 That ain't right, man. 127 00:07:33,283 --> 00:07:36,207 When you're right, Namond, you're right. 128 00:07:36,365 --> 00:07:38,829 Hey, Mr. P., I want me some of them stickers. 129 00:07:38,951 --> 00:07:41,018 Zenobia, you have to do your work. 130 00:07:41,184 --> 00:07:44,229 I want to, but I ain't got no pencils. 131 00:07:50,537 --> 00:07:52,701 I don't want no damn welfare pencil! 132 00:08:07,644 --> 00:08:08,866 It seems to me 133 00:08:09,857 --> 00:08:12,261 there are two kinds of kids walking in this building: 134 00:08:13,044 --> 00:08:15,083 stoop kids, corner kids. 135 00:08:15,149 --> 00:08:16,949 - Excuse me? - You know, stoop kids. 136 00:08:17,010 --> 00:08:19,745 The ones who stay on their front steps when their parents tell them. 137 00:08:19,805 --> 00:08:21,208 The others go down to the corners. 138 00:08:21,268 --> 00:08:23,179 They can't sit still in the class. 139 00:08:23,259 --> 00:08:24,583 The others can and do. 140 00:08:24,725 --> 00:08:25,983 So separate the two. 141 00:08:26,435 --> 00:08:28,283 - That's tracking. - Excuse me? 142 00:08:28,816 --> 00:08:30,050 Tracking students. 143 00:08:30,117 --> 00:08:32,175 It's a nasty phrase in educational circles. 144 00:08:32,341 --> 00:08:35,627 It refers to the grouping of children based on expected performance. 145 00:08:35,687 --> 00:08:36,789 Well, what's wrong with it? 146 00:08:36,829 --> 00:08:39,707 It says you have reduced expectations for certain students, 147 00:08:39,748 --> 00:08:42,413 that you expect less from them academically. 148 00:08:43,459 --> 00:08:45,288 So you pretend to teach all these kids, 149 00:08:45,349 --> 00:08:47,366 and the truth is, you ain't teaching any of them. 150 00:08:47,406 --> 00:08:49,569 but what if the stoop kids could be in classrooms 151 00:08:49,649 --> 00:08:51,925 - where there was no disruptions? - And the corner kids? 152 00:08:51,965 --> 00:08:53,648 They're the ones you're after, right? 153 00:08:53,693 --> 00:08:55,256 That's why you got the grant money. 154 00:08:55,316 --> 00:08:57,849 As long as this doesn't involve warehousing children, 155 00:08:58,019 --> 00:09:00,148 I'm for anything that allows me to do my job. 156 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:02,248 Every teacher here will tell you the same. 157 00:09:02,357 --> 00:09:04,315 The trick for you is to come up with a program 158 00:09:04,382 --> 00:09:06,887 that actually addresses itself to the corner kids. 159 00:09:06,927 --> 00:09:09,071 I don't know. If we pull kids out of regular classes, 160 00:09:09,131 --> 00:09:10,381 won't they be stigmatized? 161 00:09:10,447 --> 00:09:13,214 There's not a stigma at being booted out of class every other day? 162 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:14,581 Question is, 163 00:09:15,048 --> 00:09:16,648 how do we identify the corner kids? 164 00:09:16,714 --> 00:09:18,040 That won't be a problem. 165 00:09:19,727 --> 00:09:20,829 Ok. 166 00:09:31,664 --> 00:09:32,986 You understand the work? 167 00:09:36,930 --> 00:09:39,935 Come on, this is easy. I know you can do it. 168 00:09:44,017 --> 00:09:46,722 You're not giving me a choice. You have detention. 169 00:09:47,097 --> 00:09:49,181 Yo, nay, Mrs. D. shaking bushes. 170 00:09:50,653 --> 00:09:51,915 Back to your seats. 171 00:09:54,354 --> 00:09:56,346 What the fuck? She got my blade, yo. 172 00:09:56,413 --> 00:09:58,217 I said, back to your seats. 173 00:10:05,774 --> 00:10:07,216 Yo, Mrs. D. Be stealing shit. 174 00:10:07,276 --> 00:10:09,019 I ain't never gonna get my blade back. 175 00:10:12,254 --> 00:10:14,638 Yo, you all up on me for? I do my work. 176 00:10:14,977 --> 00:10:17,421 I'm not your yo. Show me your work. 177 00:10:23,088 --> 00:10:24,110 Yeah, I see. 178 00:10:25,270 --> 00:10:27,133 Yo, my hand hurting from all this learning. 179 00:10:27,193 --> 00:10:28,435 You got some tylenol? 180 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:31,803 What I got for you is detention. 181 00:10:33,657 --> 00:10:35,159 Yo, fuck you, Prezbo. 182 00:10:35,878 --> 00:10:38,282 Fucking gimpy-assed, big-grill motherfucker. 183 00:10:38,646 --> 00:10:40,249 That's it. You're out of here! 184 00:10:44,376 --> 00:10:45,377 Go! 185 00:10:53,912 --> 00:10:56,043 Get your police stick out your desk and beat me. 186 00:10:56,123 --> 00:10:57,718 You know you fucking want to. 187 00:11:02,277 --> 00:11:03,599 Everyone back in your seat. 188 00:11:03,659 --> 00:11:05,382 The fuck you looking at, bitch? 189 00:11:07,535 --> 00:11:08,957 Ms. Sampson, I-- 190 00:11:09,058 --> 00:11:11,844 Namond Brice, if you weren't headed to the main office, 191 00:11:11,910 --> 00:11:12,934 you are now. 192 00:11:12,994 --> 00:11:14,056 Yeah, I was just... 193 00:11:18,002 --> 00:11:19,564 one of the corner kids, huh? 194 00:11:21,077 --> 00:11:23,645 Yeah, they do step up when you need them, don't they? 195 00:11:23,777 --> 00:11:26,862 Look, what? You want me to say you right, you right. 196 00:11:27,848 --> 00:11:29,810 Should have had protection at the card game. 197 00:11:29,982 --> 00:11:31,204 Done is done. 198 00:11:31,407 --> 00:11:33,646 Now we need to decide what we're gonna do about Omar. 199 00:11:33,708 --> 00:11:34,975 You make the price right, 200 00:11:35,089 --> 00:11:37,954 somebody gonna get a whiff of that bushwhacker's ass. 201 00:11:38,901 --> 00:11:40,363 Now, you take it from there. 202 00:11:40,807 --> 00:11:41,929 You think so? 203 00:11:43,145 --> 00:11:44,643 I ain't saying Omar can't be got. 204 00:11:44,709 --> 00:11:45,980 Any nigger can be got. 205 00:11:46,175 --> 00:11:47,809 But once we put word to ear 206 00:11:47,876 --> 00:11:49,776 and he learn that we pricing out his head, 207 00:11:49,843 --> 00:11:51,845 he's gonna be trying us like we're trying him. 208 00:11:53,255 --> 00:11:54,743 You saying I should let it slide? 209 00:11:54,942 --> 00:11:57,506 Nah. Nah, we get at him another way. 210 00:11:58,750 --> 00:12:01,614 Get at him without no bounties, no bullshit like that. 211 00:12:01,699 --> 00:12:04,109 I mean, Barksdale turned this town upside down hunting him, 212 00:12:04,174 --> 00:12:05,717 and all he ended up looking was weak. 213 00:12:05,777 --> 00:12:07,308 I ain't no Barksdale. 214 00:12:07,375 --> 00:12:09,172 I'm just saying talk is cheap. 215 00:12:09,975 --> 00:12:12,608 We sit on it, We gonna figure out a way to get that faggot. 216 00:12:12,682 --> 00:12:16,358 But till then, we don't say a mumbling word. 217 00:12:22,235 --> 00:12:24,599 I got me 6 now, and I'll give you the 4 later, 218 00:12:24,675 --> 00:12:26,043 all right? Come on! 219 00:12:26,103 --> 00:12:27,813 Nah. I'm gonna need the whole 10 now. 220 00:12:27,913 --> 00:12:28,931 Sherrod! 221 00:12:30,523 --> 00:12:31,593 You ain't in school? 222 00:12:31,653 --> 00:12:33,356 I'm half a day. Teachers' meeting. 223 00:12:33,474 --> 00:12:36,008 Come on, I told you about those lame excuses, man. 224 00:12:36,074 --> 00:12:37,251 I was talking to him first. 225 00:12:37,311 --> 00:12:38,520 Ain't no need for physical-- 226 00:12:38,580 --> 00:12:40,463 you got $4.00 for me? I'm short $4.00. 227 00:12:40,574 --> 00:12:42,153 What the fuck are you talking! 228 00:12:43,335 --> 00:12:44,774 Got a cart full of shit, nigga. 229 00:12:44,841 --> 00:12:47,056 What you got for me? I know you holding. 230 00:12:47,465 --> 00:12:49,268 Where's it at? You ain't hear? 231 00:12:51,265 --> 00:12:53,328 It's in my shoe. My shoe. 232 00:13:00,138 --> 00:13:01,660 Don't need the 4 now, son. 233 00:13:15,148 --> 00:13:16,931 Damn, yo, where the shovel at? 234 00:13:17,028 --> 00:13:18,291 Bury that nigger, man. 235 00:13:40,661 --> 00:13:41,953 Here you go, sir. Thank you. 236 00:13:42,013 --> 00:13:44,277 - Tommy Carcetti, running for mayor. - Good luck, Tommy. 237 00:13:44,317 --> 00:13:46,122 - Mr. Carcetti, you got my vote. - Thanks. 238 00:13:46,210 --> 00:13:48,014 - Tom Carcetti. - Hey. Thank you very much. 239 00:13:48,074 --> 00:13:49,096 Good luck, councilman. 240 00:13:49,156 --> 00:13:51,180 How you doing? Tommy Carcetti, running for mayor. 241 00:13:51,260 --> 00:13:53,748 Ok, councilman, time to hit the west side. 242 00:14:06,607 --> 00:14:08,030 Pretty motherfucker. 243 00:14:08,571 --> 00:14:10,811 Gonna make me go to my game face. 244 00:14:13,704 --> 00:14:16,836 Ok. I'll take 25 of the honeysuckle incense cones. 245 00:14:16,988 --> 00:14:18,471 Keep me healthy for next week. 246 00:14:18,991 --> 00:14:20,073 Tommy! 247 00:14:20,474 --> 00:14:21,536 Excuse me. 248 00:14:23,815 --> 00:14:26,570 Tony Gray's people say 20 minutes atheir place. 249 00:14:29,868 --> 00:14:31,190 Shit, Clarence. 250 00:14:31,250 --> 00:14:34,303 Look like you did in '98 when you surprised the hell out of everyone. 251 00:14:34,370 --> 00:14:35,601 Bring 'em on. 252 00:14:39,664 --> 00:14:40,726 Why give it to us? 253 00:14:40,786 --> 00:14:42,469 Why don't you stick it to Royce yourself? 254 00:14:42,509 --> 00:14:44,378 Because after what Tommy did at the debate, 255 00:14:44,418 --> 00:14:47,637 it'll seem like more of the same if it comes from him. 256 00:14:47,817 --> 00:14:51,343 And if we use it to take 4 or 5 points out of Royce's base, 257 00:14:51,971 --> 00:14:53,494 helps him as much as us. 258 00:14:54,251 --> 00:14:55,653 Once bitten, twice shy. 259 00:14:55,796 --> 00:14:58,435 With Tommy Carcetti, I got to always think a step ahead. 260 00:14:58,563 --> 00:15:00,927 Look, Tony. You ain't gonna win. 261 00:15:01,357 --> 00:15:02,588 So the only question is 262 00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:06,044 whether you want to lose with 24% of the vote or 28%. 263 00:15:07,103 --> 00:15:08,567 You bring the numbers up, 264 00:15:09,090 --> 00:15:11,034 you look good for the legislature. 265 00:15:11,293 --> 00:15:13,076 Maybe a congressional run. 266 00:15:14,261 --> 00:15:15,423 Albert stokes. 267 00:15:15,483 --> 00:15:17,069 Here. Mr. P., can I go? 268 00:15:17,135 --> 00:15:19,702 My moms told me to go straight home after school. 269 00:15:19,769 --> 00:15:21,235 - Mine, too. - Mine, too. 270 00:15:22,175 --> 00:15:25,521 You should have thought of that before y smeared ink all over my desk. 271 00:15:25,727 --> 00:15:27,509 Weren't my fault. My pen exploded. 272 00:15:29,568 --> 00:15:32,052 Michael. Michael Lee? 273 00:15:33,075 --> 00:15:35,119 Mr. P., please, can I go? 274 00:15:35,234 --> 00:15:38,068 I ain't eat no lunch, and my stomach making all these noises. 275 00:15:38,238 --> 00:15:42,368 Look. I won't ever disrespect your pencil again, I promise. 276 00:15:42,434 --> 00:15:44,635 Zenobia, it wasn't about the pencil. 277 00:15:44,813 --> 00:15:46,415 Please, Mr. P. 278 00:15:57,428 --> 00:15:58,710 Ok. Ok. 279 00:15:59,034 --> 00:16:01,157 - All right. - All right. 280 00:16:01,218 --> 00:16:03,181 Just this one time, I'll make an exception. 281 00:16:04,964 --> 00:16:08,495 But next time, expect to stay the full hour. 282 00:16:21,539 --> 00:16:22,641 Why are you here? 283 00:16:22,701 --> 00:16:23,733 Came to say sorry. 284 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:26,197 I didn't mean to get all up in your face like that. 285 00:16:28,101 --> 00:16:29,383 I appreciate that, Namond. 286 00:16:29,443 --> 00:16:31,366 It takes courage to admit when you're wrong. 287 00:16:31,551 --> 00:16:32,633 What I can't understand, 288 00:16:32,673 --> 00:16:34,933 I've seen you in Ms. Sampson's class doing your work. 289 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,464 Why can't you do the same in here? 290 00:16:36,524 --> 00:16:37,808 I mean to, I do. 291 00:16:38,699 --> 00:16:41,731 It's just the evil get in me, and before I know it, I go off. 292 00:16:44,225 --> 00:16:45,266 Well... 293 00:16:46,077 --> 00:16:48,081 tomorrow we'll see if we can't do better. 294 00:16:48,332 --> 00:16:50,493 Can't tomorrow. Mrs. D. Put me out. 295 00:16:51,299 --> 00:16:53,216 I got to bump. Later, Mr. P. 296 00:16:56,966 --> 00:16:58,349 If you can wait outside... 297 00:16:59,196 --> 00:17:00,438 it's ok. He can stay. 298 00:17:05,331 --> 00:17:06,529 Thank you. 299 00:17:08,048 --> 00:17:11,353 Mr. P., you know Michael can't make it to detention. 300 00:17:11,498 --> 00:17:13,365 I know he didn't. Now it's double. 301 00:17:13,431 --> 00:17:14,770 He's got two days to serve. 302 00:17:14,810 --> 00:17:16,221 Nah. I mean he can't. 303 00:17:16,276 --> 00:17:18,447 He got to go pick up his little brother from school. 304 00:17:18,487 --> 00:17:21,380 Well, he'll just have to find somebody else to do that. 305 00:17:22,308 --> 00:17:24,364 It--It ain't like that. 306 00:17:24,430 --> 00:17:26,074 I mean, Michael would come if he could, 307 00:17:26,134 --> 00:17:28,778 but wouldn't have nobody else to pick up his little brother bug. 308 00:17:28,838 --> 00:17:31,503 You know, his mother, she on that stuff. 309 00:17:38,619 --> 00:17:40,061 We walking home. You coming? 310 00:17:40,597 --> 00:17:42,571 Oh, no. I'm waiting on Alpo. 311 00:17:42,651 --> 00:17:44,194 Ms. Sampson got him doing detention. 312 00:17:44,234 --> 00:17:45,697 You gonna be here till, like, 5:00. 313 00:17:45,764 --> 00:17:46,935 Yeah. She a hard lady. 314 00:17:46,996 --> 00:17:48,731 She don't ever give a brother no play. 315 00:17:48,811 --> 00:17:50,775 Well, all right, man. I'll holla at you later. 316 00:17:50,855 --> 00:17:52,060 All right, yo. 317 00:17:55,112 --> 00:17:56,955 So you're not gonna be in the NBA? 318 00:17:57,097 --> 00:17:58,641 Then it must be the NFL? 319 00:18:00,137 --> 00:18:02,663 I thought all the boys in class were gonna join the pros. 320 00:18:02,851 --> 00:18:04,795 Nah, that's just something we say. 321 00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:06,449 So what about you? 322 00:18:07,563 --> 00:18:09,647 What do you want to be when you grow up? 323 00:18:10,148 --> 00:18:11,691 I'm gonna own my own store. 324 00:18:12,205 --> 00:18:13,307 That's smart. 325 00:18:13,477 --> 00:18:15,412 You're gonna need to know a lot of math. 326 00:18:19,639 --> 00:18:20,961 You left them in there. 327 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,724 Hey, don't worry, Mr. P. We got you. 328 00:18:25,795 --> 00:18:26,845 Hey, donut! 329 00:18:27,905 --> 00:18:31,771 Yo, donut's crazy with cars. He can open anything. 330 00:18:32,676 --> 00:18:33,638 What up, man. 331 00:18:34,050 --> 00:18:35,693 He locked his keys in there. 332 00:18:40,151 --> 00:18:41,929 It's ok. I can call AAA. 333 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:43,496 Oh, no problem, chief. 334 00:19:26,270 --> 00:19:28,259 Feel the need to work them corners, huh? 335 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:32,811 I'm just asking because you don't need to be doing what you're doing. 336 00:19:32,871 --> 00:19:35,015 I need to learn some shit on my own. 337 00:19:35,484 --> 00:19:37,407 I'm trying to help you, Sherrod, 338 00:19:38,109 --> 00:19:39,631 but you making it so I can't. 339 00:19:39,821 --> 00:19:41,922 I didn't even know the man who beat on you, Bubs. 340 00:19:42,022 --> 00:19:43,693 He was short money on the corner. 341 00:19:43,925 --> 00:19:45,491 I swear he wasn't nothing to me. 342 00:19:45,569 --> 00:19:48,436 Yeah, but when the shit start, There's nothing to be done, right? 343 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,504 What would I have done if he started wailing on you? 344 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,442 Same kind of nothing, see? 345 00:19:54,683 --> 00:19:56,205 That's how the corners be. 346 00:19:57,643 --> 00:19:59,466 They gonna use you up, Sherrod. 347 00:20:05,059 --> 00:20:06,557 You welcome to stay tonight, 348 00:20:06,918 --> 00:20:09,093 but you ain't in school tomorrow morning, 349 00:20:09,247 --> 00:20:10,990 this partnership need to be done. 350 00:20:40,241 --> 00:20:42,891 These two precincts are the bellwether for the fifth. 351 00:20:42,997 --> 00:20:46,223 If you can take even 18% out of Carcetti in these, 352 00:20:46,365 --> 00:20:48,824 it's a good guess he won't have the numbers citywide. 353 00:20:48,998 --> 00:20:51,082 And who are we ticketed with over here? 354 00:20:51,388 --> 00:20:53,171 The N.D.O., I hope, because... 355 00:20:55,911 --> 00:20:57,092 ...this amid allegations 356 00:20:57,132 --> 00:20:59,457 ...that high-ranking police officials intervened 357 00:20:59,663 --> 00:21:03,469 to have a veteran police detective removed from the controversial case. 358 00:21:03,657 --> 00:21:06,624 the Braddock murder became a focal point in the mayoral campaign 359 00:21:06,825 --> 00:21:08,936 when councilman Thomas Carcetti alleged 360 00:21:09,109 --> 00:21:10,851 the west Baltimore man was killed 361 00:21:11,132 --> 00:21:12,857 because he was a witness in the case. 362 00:21:12,924 --> 00:21:14,072 Because they were afraid 363 00:21:14,132 --> 00:21:16,048 the police would prove what they most fear, 364 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:17,550 that Fredro Braddock was murdered 365 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:20,456 because he was a witness and the city failed to protect him. 366 00:21:22,718 --> 00:21:24,389 It's on all 3 channels. 367 00:21:24,569 --> 00:21:27,434 And the "sun" and the "post" are both calling for comment. 368 00:21:31,410 --> 00:21:34,154 And my sources within the department say the rank-and-file officers 369 00:21:34,194 --> 00:21:36,589 are simply aalled by this blatant political manipulation. 370 00:21:36,758 --> 00:21:37,960 Damn. Turn it up. 371 00:21:38,389 --> 00:21:40,704 Hey, Greggs, you're famous. 372 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,122 ...is to remove a highly decorated veteran, 373 00:21:43,236 --> 00:21:45,316 15 years experience as a murder investigator, 374 00:21:45,356 --> 00:21:46,389 without reason... 375 00:21:46,409 --> 00:21:48,232 - That'd be me. - Then replaced with a rookie 376 00:21:48,272 --> 00:21:50,463 who has yet to handle a single homicide investigation. 377 00:21:50,523 --> 00:21:51,521 That'd be you. 378 00:21:51,588 --> 00:21:53,960 - then we need to rethink... - the fuck I ever do to him? 379 00:21:58,301 --> 00:21:59,855 You gonna make it too heavy, yo. 380 00:22:00,020 --> 00:22:01,853 It might work if we make it bigger. 381 00:22:01,892 --> 00:22:04,936 It would work if we had balsa wood, you know. It's really light and strong. 382 00:22:04,976 --> 00:22:06,386 Man, you so full of... 383 00:22:07,153 --> 00:22:08,375 oh, shit. 384 00:22:14,820 --> 00:22:16,242 Zombie master. 385 00:22:22,382 --> 00:22:23,944 Need to take us a little walk. 386 00:22:25,368 --> 00:22:26,490 Nah, I'm good here. 387 00:22:28,508 --> 00:22:30,031 Young'uns need to move along. 388 00:22:31,879 --> 00:22:33,521 Sure, Chris, we'll bump. 389 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,354 Yo, Snoop, your sister in my class. 390 00:22:41,420 --> 00:22:43,353 What the fuck? You high or something, nay? 391 00:22:45,208 --> 00:22:46,920 You boys be smoking that shit? 392 00:22:51,292 --> 00:22:52,894 Hearing good things about you. 393 00:22:53,354 --> 00:22:55,324 Say you straight up, take care of your people, 394 00:22:55,404 --> 00:22:56,805 not begging no handouts. 395 00:22:58,227 --> 00:23:00,449 Motherfucker, you hear the nigger talking to you, 396 00:23:00,549 --> 00:23:01,987 giving you praises and shit. 397 00:23:02,178 --> 00:23:03,879 You standing here looking fucking stupid. 398 00:23:03,953 --> 00:23:05,061 Yo, chill. 399 00:23:06,888 --> 00:23:08,453 Sometimes, she get a little hot. 400 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:10,683 I'm just saying the boy ain't right! 401 00:23:11,349 --> 00:23:13,833 Yo, we always in the market for a good solider. 402 00:23:14,218 --> 00:23:17,317 When we see one we like, we take care of the situation. 403 00:23:17,879 --> 00:23:20,404 Take him in, school him, make him family. 404 00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:22,886 And if you're with us, you're with us, 405 00:23:22,946 --> 00:23:25,144 just like we'd be with you all the way. 406 00:23:25,686 --> 00:23:27,129 You have a mind, you're in. 407 00:23:27,983 --> 00:23:30,026 Look, man. I already got a family. 408 00:23:30,863 --> 00:23:33,366 My moms and my little brother-- 409 00:23:33,426 --> 00:23:34,802 Yeah. Heard that. 410 00:23:36,220 --> 00:23:37,518 But think on it. 411 00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:43,803 We'll be around if you need something. 412 00:23:58,316 --> 00:23:59,985 He saw me, yo. I knew it. 413 00:24:00,051 --> 00:24:02,072 I knew Chris was asking Michael about me. 414 00:24:02,173 --> 00:24:03,855 I knew it, man. I'm dead. 415 00:24:06,576 --> 00:24:08,018 Yo, man, good looking out. 416 00:24:08,476 --> 00:24:10,319 - I thought they was gonna-- - Yeah, I know. 417 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:12,440 What did he ask about me? I know he asked about me. 418 00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:13,502 What'd you tell him? 419 00:24:13,562 --> 00:24:15,296 Calm down. It weren't even about you, man. 420 00:24:15,336 --> 00:24:17,841 For real, man, you need to tell me. What did he ask you? 421 00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:20,917 Yo, you right, man. 422 00:24:20,984 --> 00:24:23,068 Chris was all up in your business. 423 00:24:23,404 --> 00:24:25,788 He down on you for some deep shit, man. 424 00:24:26,036 --> 00:24:27,498 I don't even know what. 425 00:24:30,705 --> 00:24:32,408 Nah, I'm just fucking with you, man. 426 00:24:32,692 --> 00:24:34,454 He didn't even speak your name. 427 00:24:41,686 --> 00:24:42,848 Oh, man. 428 00:24:46,521 --> 00:24:48,083 So, Erv, what's next? 429 00:24:48,249 --> 00:24:50,415 Your officers gonna shoot a couple of tourists? 430 00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:53,084 Maybe fly a helicopter into harbor place? 431 00:24:53,339 --> 00:24:56,816 What can we expect the last week of my reelection campaign? 432 00:24:56,950 --> 00:24:59,176 Sir, I did what you asked-- no more, no less. 433 00:24:59,256 --> 00:25:01,749 Hamsterdam-- legalized drug zone? 434 00:25:01,816 --> 00:25:03,182 He takes responsibility for that. 435 00:25:03,248 --> 00:25:05,470 - The subpoenas all over town. - That, too. 436 00:25:05,530 --> 00:25:08,888 The leak about the witness murder. I mean, that was his shop, too, right? 437 00:25:08,928 --> 00:25:11,256 - Hell, yeah. - And now, this last thing, 438 00:25:11,441 --> 00:25:14,687 transferring detectives off the case. 439 00:25:15,073 --> 00:25:16,247 What is that? What is that? 440 00:25:16,314 --> 00:25:18,008 Scuttling the investigation. 441 00:25:18,048 --> 00:25:19,872 Yeah, right. Yeah, that's awful. Jesus. 442 00:25:19,948 --> 00:25:23,017 Mr. Mayor, you asked me to slow that investigation down. 443 00:25:24,392 --> 00:25:25,554 Subtle, Ervin? 444 00:25:26,615 --> 00:25:28,448 You hold a few facts for a few weeks. 445 00:25:29,112 --> 00:25:31,556 You put a report or two in a desk drawer. 446 00:25:32,062 --> 00:25:34,626 But the transferring of people off a case? 447 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,648 Look. You told me 448 00:25:36,715 --> 00:25:38,477 you specifically wanted me to not-- 449 00:25:38,538 --> 00:25:40,761 Ervin, you may leave. 450 00:25:41,713 --> 00:25:45,520 - Mr. Mayor-- - That will be all, commissioner. 451 00:25:58,703 --> 00:26:01,806 No, I need a word or two with your deputy, Ervin. 452 00:26:14,999 --> 00:26:16,279 Have a seat. 453 00:26:24,187 --> 00:26:25,249 I tried to warn him. 454 00:26:25,693 --> 00:26:28,127 I mean, if it leaked out of homicide about the dead witness, 455 00:26:28,167 --> 00:26:30,431 why wouldn't it leak that we bumped a detective? 456 00:26:30,540 --> 00:26:32,512 Why didn't you come to us beforehand? 457 00:26:34,213 --> 00:26:36,236 I'm a loyal subordinate, Mr. Mayor, 458 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,079 and Ervin is a good man working under considerable pressure. 459 00:26:40,270 --> 00:26:41,612 He's a hack. 460 00:26:41,652 --> 00:26:44,176 You're not bothered by the pressure, deputy? 461 00:26:44,474 --> 00:26:45,676 Not in the least. 462 00:26:51,637 --> 00:26:53,609 I need you to make this go away, Bill. 463 00:26:53,969 --> 00:26:55,872 I won't forget, believe me. 464 00:27:08,149 --> 00:27:11,196 Another thing-- Slim Charles got up with me. 465 00:27:11,362 --> 00:27:12,777 Said the fat man want a sitdown. 466 00:27:12,875 --> 00:27:14,978 Nah. I did that already. 467 00:27:15,681 --> 00:27:18,711 Well, Slim say the fat man knew the card game was gonna get took. 468 00:27:18,867 --> 00:27:20,009 He did, did he? 469 00:27:21,242 --> 00:27:22,324 Set it up. 470 00:27:22,944 --> 00:27:24,428 Why you always be back here? 471 00:27:24,548 --> 00:27:26,712 Quiet. And I can see what comes. 472 00:27:27,277 --> 00:27:28,836 But you out in the weather and shit. 473 00:27:28,916 --> 00:27:30,511 I don't like to speak in no rooms. 474 00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:31,732 Yeah. 475 00:27:31,792 --> 00:27:33,755 Yo. You ain't staying long. 476 00:27:36,947 --> 00:27:39,443 So you know, I almost got that for you. 477 00:27:39,608 --> 00:27:41,409 I just need a couple of days more. 478 00:27:41,531 --> 00:27:43,033 You can keep my money for now. 479 00:27:43,225 --> 00:27:44,676 I got something that needs doing. 480 00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:46,310 Anything, Marlo. Your call. 481 00:27:46,443 --> 00:27:50,032 Omar gonna come in your store, stick it up, rob you. 482 00:27:50,343 --> 00:27:52,570 You gonna call the police, make a report. 483 00:27:53,843 --> 00:27:56,121 - You feel me? - Yeah, that'll work, but... 484 00:27:56,242 --> 00:27:58,765 you know when he get out, he's coming right at me. 485 00:27:58,829 --> 00:28:01,012 I ain't scared or nothing. I'm just saying, you know? 486 00:28:01,052 --> 00:28:02,274 He ain't gonna get out. 487 00:28:10,006 --> 00:28:11,588 A man make bail on robbery. 488 00:28:13,201 --> 00:28:14,503 Make it no bail. 489 00:28:17,931 --> 00:28:19,233 If you have a problem, 490 00:28:19,727 --> 00:28:21,630 like you can't make it to detention, 491 00:28:22,042 --> 00:28:23,188 you need to tell me. 492 00:28:24,044 --> 00:28:25,466 That's your responsibility. 493 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:28,044 People will be more than willing to help you out, 494 00:28:28,605 --> 00:28:30,208 but it's up to you to ask. 495 00:28:32,506 --> 00:28:34,341 You can go back to the cafeteria.... 496 00:28:35,803 --> 00:28:37,065 or hang up here. 497 00:28:47,483 --> 00:28:49,808 Duquan. Could you come here? 498 00:29:01,770 --> 00:29:03,589 I thought maybe you could help me out. 499 00:29:04,082 --> 00:29:05,304 I packed too much. 500 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,397 Take this down to the cafeteria 501 00:29:27,437 --> 00:29:29,720 and get yourself something to drink from the machine. 502 00:29:30,339 --> 00:29:31,503 Thank you. 503 00:29:40,561 --> 00:29:42,284 Crystal, you got a second? 504 00:29:46,394 --> 00:29:47,636 What's up with Duquan? 505 00:29:47,823 --> 00:29:50,104 I gave him some new clothes. I was expecting-- 506 00:29:50,177 --> 00:29:51,339 He might have lost them. 507 00:29:52,331 --> 00:29:53,493 That fast? 508 00:29:55,934 --> 00:29:57,097 It weren't that. 509 00:29:57,186 --> 00:29:59,930 His people take his clothes, sell it on the corners. 510 00:30:00,237 --> 00:30:01,278 You're kidding. 511 00:30:01,318 --> 00:30:03,220 No, sir. Everybody knows. 512 00:30:07,873 --> 00:30:09,636 Which brings me to what we're proposing. 513 00:30:09,676 --> 00:30:11,381 Different kids, different approaches. 514 00:30:11,421 --> 00:30:14,171 You tell us who we need to touch at north avenue to get the go-ahead. 515 00:30:14,237 --> 00:30:15,475 The puzzle palace? 516 00:30:15,749 --> 00:30:18,174 Look. If y'all still want to jump in and help, 517 00:30:18,234 --> 00:30:19,404 I'm fine with it. 518 00:30:19,616 --> 00:30:21,638 That's about all the ok you need in my house. 519 00:30:23,535 --> 00:30:26,200 The stricker street situation is waiting in the office. 520 00:30:29,128 --> 00:30:31,972 Neighborhood squabbles, and my babies bring it in here. 521 00:30:32,176 --> 00:30:33,378 Two fights yesterday, 522 00:30:33,878 --> 00:30:35,962 all because the mothers can't get along. 523 00:30:36,598 --> 00:30:37,600 I got to go. 524 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,964 Mrs. Donnelly will work out the nuts and bolts. 525 00:30:41,688 --> 00:30:43,811 But, just so you hear it, thank you. 526 00:30:44,764 --> 00:30:48,290 It'll be the only time anyone in this system will think to say it. 527 00:30:51,902 --> 00:30:53,836 He's a good man. You need to protect him. 528 00:30:53,876 --> 00:30:54,878 Protect him? 529 00:30:54,918 --> 00:30:57,103 Principal Withers just went out on a limb for you, 530 00:30:57,284 --> 00:30:59,903 and in this system, they know how to handle a chainsaw. 531 00:31:00,765 --> 00:31:01,786 Excuse me? 532 00:31:02,828 --> 00:31:06,228 Anyone has a problem with what we're doing, it's on him. 533 00:31:06,539 --> 00:31:09,164 So, you specified eighth-graders? 534 00:31:09,740 --> 00:31:13,686 We have 256 on roll. 535 00:31:13,869 --> 00:31:16,159 241 attend on a regular basis. 536 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,402 Of those, 40 or so would fit your Bill of corner kids. 537 00:31:19,780 --> 00:31:20,782 40? 538 00:31:23,109 --> 00:31:24,431 Pretty workable. 539 00:31:27,535 --> 00:31:28,832 What would you suggest? 540 00:31:28,892 --> 00:31:30,134 Start with 10 or so. 541 00:31:30,223 --> 00:31:31,868 Ms. Sampson has enough to get you going. 542 00:31:31,935 --> 00:31:33,602 One of them named Namond Brice? 543 00:31:33,750 --> 00:31:35,032 Pick of the litter. 544 00:31:35,201 --> 00:31:37,835 But you'll have to wait. He's on a 3-day suspension. 545 00:31:47,817 --> 00:31:49,209 Remember when I was a cadet, 546 00:31:49,269 --> 00:31:51,234 I was up here on a cadaver search. 547 00:31:51,394 --> 00:31:53,189 Instructor gets on the radio to say, 548 00:31:53,229 --> 00:31:55,468 we're looking for one body in particular. 549 00:31:56,878 --> 00:31:58,979 "If you go grabbing everyone you see, 550 00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:00,915 we'll be here all day," he says. 551 00:32:01,837 --> 00:32:03,099 Leakin park, 552 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:05,722 where west Baltimore brings out its dead. 553 00:32:06,068 --> 00:32:08,242 Not anymore, from the look of things. 554 00:32:08,901 --> 00:32:10,678 Not by the roadside, anyway. 555 00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:14,967 If he's dumping them here, 556 00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:17,349 he's dumping them deep in the woods. 557 00:32:20,267 --> 00:32:21,414 Come on. 558 00:32:21,567 --> 00:32:23,014 At each raid site, 559 00:32:23,329 --> 00:32:27,396 we're anticipating dope or cash or guns. 560 00:32:27,862 --> 00:32:32,666 All warrants are for prime locations linked to high-level violators. 561 00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:35,664 Weeks-old addresses linked to low-level corner boys. 562 00:32:35,744 --> 00:32:38,132 We'll also be sweeping drug corners at these locations. 563 00:32:38,264 --> 00:32:40,833 Wagons wl hold in this location here. 564 00:32:41,004 --> 00:32:43,168 Jump-off time, 1500 hours. 565 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,605 We take our position 10 minutes before the assault, here. 566 00:32:47,132 --> 00:32:48,880 The go is on my say-so. 567 00:32:50,812 --> 00:32:52,635 Questions? Excellent. 568 00:32:53,050 --> 00:32:55,134 We'll hold the rec room till it's time to stage. 569 00:33:02,411 --> 00:33:03,673 Warrants are one thing, 570 00:33:03,733 --> 00:33:05,765 but street sweeps on Marlo Stanfield's crews? 571 00:33:05,832 --> 00:33:06,830 Are you guys serious? 572 00:33:06,870 --> 00:33:09,093 Carv, you give these hoodleheads too much credit. 573 00:33:09,198 --> 00:33:10,689 Trust me on this, boy wonder. 574 00:33:11,863 --> 00:33:13,666 Never mind this horseshit. 575 00:33:14,119 --> 00:33:15,901 So what've they got you doing for your man? 576 00:33:15,941 --> 00:33:17,303 Who, the Lieutenant? 577 00:33:17,804 --> 00:33:18,906 No, Royce. 578 00:33:19,610 --> 00:33:21,265 Herc, the mayor's your meal ticket. 579 00:33:21,332 --> 00:33:23,888 He gets another 4 years, you're liable to wear the Gold braids. 580 00:33:23,948 --> 00:33:26,491 Shouldn't you be out waving a campaign sign or some shit? 581 00:33:31,534 --> 00:33:34,779 And so ends the last crusade of the major crimes unit. 582 00:33:35,526 --> 00:33:36,608 With a whimper. 583 00:33:37,063 --> 00:33:40,849 Lester would cry to see his wiretap cannibalized for that crap. 584 00:33:41,601 --> 00:33:44,286 Street sweeps on Marlo Stanfield? 585 00:33:47,723 --> 00:33:48,998 So what else you got cooking? 586 00:33:49,065 --> 00:33:50,272 Narcotics cases? 587 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,301 C.I.D. Has the burman indictment coming in. 588 00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:53,643 Nothing past that. 589 00:33:54,850 --> 00:33:58,235 As wars go, this drug thing seems to rate less and less. 590 00:33:59,167 --> 00:34:02,232 If demper wins and manages to forgive my trespasses, 591 00:34:02,704 --> 00:34:04,667 maybe I'll go in and beg for something new. 592 00:34:05,012 --> 00:34:06,134 I don't know. 593 00:34:06,234 --> 00:34:08,478 Just... feels like enough's enough. 594 00:34:10,891 --> 00:34:13,034 Crutchfield. Line two. Intake. 595 00:34:17,266 --> 00:34:19,763 - Sergeant, you were looking for me? - I was, yeah. 596 00:34:19,926 --> 00:34:22,831 Curly fry? Chicken doohickey? 597 00:34:23,862 --> 00:34:24,929 Sit down. 598 00:34:31,144 --> 00:34:33,067 Norris is back on the Braddock case. 599 00:34:34,544 --> 00:34:36,329 It's by order of the deputy ops. 600 00:34:36,395 --> 00:34:40,029 In fact, we're gonna go with a story that says he was never off the case, 601 00:34:40,193 --> 00:34:42,596 that you and he are partnered, a task force of two, 602 00:34:42,757 --> 00:34:44,179 working it together. 603 00:34:46,324 --> 00:34:47,666 Fuck you, fat man. 604 00:34:49,562 --> 00:34:52,361 Not original, but succinct. I like your approach. 605 00:34:52,428 --> 00:34:55,373 Y'all humiliate me once by dropping me into this thing, 606 00:34:55,495 --> 00:34:58,517 and now you're gonna shame me again by bringing Norris back. 607 00:35:13,196 --> 00:35:14,598 This is homicide, detective. 608 00:35:14,828 --> 00:35:16,428 This is not some boiler room unit 609 00:35:16,540 --> 00:35:19,691 where no one pays attention to whatever the fuck it is you call police work. 610 00:35:19,771 --> 00:35:22,266 The bosses? They know our names up here. 611 00:35:23,727 --> 00:35:26,042 Now, I didn't like it when they came to me 612 00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:27,560 and told me to dump Norris, 613 00:35:27,703 --> 00:35:28,961 but dump him I did. 614 00:35:29,027 --> 00:35:31,131 And it's not like I want to carry water for them now 615 00:35:31,192 --> 00:35:33,759 that they're pretending they never told me to do any such thing, 616 00:35:33,799 --> 00:35:36,064 but carry the water I will. And in the end, 617 00:35:36,163 --> 00:35:39,088 when everyone else in this unit is buried and beshitted, 618 00:35:39,327 --> 00:35:42,092 this detective Sergeant will still be standing. 619 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:47,479 So... get the story straight. 620 00:35:47,872 --> 00:35:49,427 Norris was always the primary, 621 00:35:49,487 --> 00:35:51,638 and you are now assisting on an investigation 622 00:35:51,704 --> 00:35:53,967 which is progressing even as we speak. 623 00:35:54,977 --> 00:35:56,900 Does the Colonel know about this? 624 00:35:58,271 --> 00:35:59,553 He's in the hospital. 625 00:36:00,092 --> 00:36:01,466 Chemo didn't work. 626 00:36:06,328 --> 00:36:08,326 Press conference is upstairs in half an hour. 627 00:36:08,392 --> 00:36:09,593 So don't be late. 628 00:36:09,871 --> 00:36:11,053 Press conference? 629 00:36:18,891 --> 00:36:20,774 I ain't mean to laugh at you none. 630 00:36:21,593 --> 00:36:24,091 I know it sound crazy, but I ain't joking. 631 00:36:24,734 --> 00:36:26,236 For real, Lex a zombie. 632 00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:28,858 I knew it way before what nay and them was saying. 633 00:36:29,747 --> 00:36:30,909 Listen. 634 00:36:31,539 --> 00:36:34,124 They had me tell Lex to go up to the playground. 635 00:36:34,252 --> 00:36:36,336 I told him to go up there and see some girl. 636 00:36:36,676 --> 00:36:38,399 He ain't never come back down. 637 00:36:39,053 --> 00:36:41,717 So what they gonna do to me when they get mad at me? 638 00:36:41,959 --> 00:36:44,224 It makes sense Chris taking them into the vacants-- 639 00:36:44,349 --> 00:36:46,592 to change them... and you know what else. 640 00:36:46,776 --> 00:36:48,157 That ain't what he's doing. 641 00:36:48,332 --> 00:36:52,319 Chris and the vacants... changing them? 642 00:36:53,257 --> 00:36:55,052 He ain't changing them; he killing them. 643 00:36:55,153 --> 00:36:56,859 That's all. They're getting killed. 644 00:36:57,279 --> 00:36:58,341 How you know? 645 00:37:01,933 --> 00:37:03,324 Can't tell nobody. 646 00:37:05,526 --> 00:37:06,724 I seen it. 647 00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:11,625 I seen them walk a boy up into one house over there on calhoun. 648 00:37:12,595 --> 00:37:13,797 You seen that? 649 00:37:15,505 --> 00:37:16,507 Yeah. 650 00:37:17,638 --> 00:37:18,823 That's just false. 651 00:37:19,021 --> 00:37:21,371 Detective Norris has been working this case nonstop, 652 00:37:21,452 --> 00:37:23,483 and given her narcotics expertise, 653 00:37:23,563 --> 00:37:27,323 detective Greggs was assigned to augment rather than to replace him. 654 00:37:27,389 --> 00:37:28,690 But for two days, 655 00:37:28,755 --> 00:37:30,656 sources inside the department were saying-- 656 00:37:30,717 --> 00:37:33,658 I'm inside the department, and I'm telling you that's not true. 657 00:37:34,014 --> 00:37:36,718 We do not play politics with a criminal investigation. 658 00:37:36,827 --> 00:37:39,122 And how do you explain councilman Gray's allegations? 659 00:37:39,267 --> 00:37:41,690 I think you should ask councilman Gray that question. 660 00:37:48,681 --> 00:37:50,343 Police! Search warrant! 661 00:37:50,689 --> 00:37:51,739 Take the back. 662 00:37:52,087 --> 00:37:53,121 On the ground, now! 663 00:37:53,188 --> 00:37:54,422 Police! Search warrant! 664 00:37:54,488 --> 00:37:55,622 Two upstairs. 665 00:37:59,567 --> 00:38:01,088 - Don't move! - Check that back room. 666 00:38:01,128 --> 00:38:02,556 I said, get your ass on the ground. 667 00:38:02,589 --> 00:38:03,718 - Get down! - Get down! 668 00:38:13,984 --> 00:38:15,767 This is the 1300 block, right? 669 00:38:15,888 --> 00:38:17,342 No, this is the 12. 670 00:38:17,490 --> 00:38:18,921 Are we on the right corner? 671 00:38:21,059 --> 00:38:23,623 - We had this as a stash house? - According to the wiretap. 672 00:38:23,672 --> 00:38:25,836 How long ago? They move them around, you know. 673 00:38:33,356 --> 00:38:34,621 Zeroes on the warrants. 674 00:38:34,688 --> 00:38:36,613 Minor arrests on the designated corners, sir. 675 00:38:36,673 --> 00:38:38,767 - They were tipped! - You think? 676 00:38:38,828 --> 00:38:41,820 For us to come up this empty at all these locations, It has to be. 677 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:44,036 This cocksucker Marlo thinks he's smarter than us? 678 00:38:44,096 --> 00:38:45,155 He is not. 679 00:38:45,215 --> 00:38:46,965 Sergeant, I want to know where he hangs. 680 00:38:47,045 --> 00:38:48,553 You mean like him personally? 681 00:38:49,245 --> 00:38:50,848 He moves around, Lieutenant. He floats. 682 00:38:50,888 --> 00:38:53,112 But I have seen him in the concrete park behind Fulton. 683 00:38:53,152 --> 00:38:54,715 - In a park? - If the weather's right, 684 00:38:54,755 --> 00:38:56,623 he sits out there in lawn chairs, holds court. 685 00:38:56,653 --> 00:38:59,653 He's got people covering every approach so there's no creeping up on him. 686 00:38:59,693 --> 00:39:01,395 My guess is that he likes to talk outdoors 687 00:39:01,436 --> 00:39:03,018 so no one can drop a microphone on him. 688 00:39:03,058 --> 00:39:05,292 Sergeant, what can we do with that? 689 00:39:13,595 --> 00:39:15,678 I admit I've made some mistakes. 690 00:39:16,359 --> 00:39:18,303 Burrell being one of the biggest. 691 00:39:18,519 --> 00:39:20,783 He's got a job for about 10 more days. 692 00:39:21,542 --> 00:39:25,228 After the primary, he's gone, believe me. 693 00:39:25,686 --> 00:39:28,319 And that last stunt-- pulling a detective. 694 00:39:28,501 --> 00:39:29,719 What'd you expect? 695 00:39:29,907 --> 00:39:30,989 Not that. 696 00:39:32,847 --> 00:39:35,919 Hey. I had nothing to do with that nonsense. 697 00:39:35,986 --> 00:39:37,319 Now, that's a straight-up lie. 698 00:39:37,385 --> 00:39:39,301 I was at that damn meeting when you told him, 699 00:39:39,371 --> 00:39:40,904 "Slow the case down." 700 00:39:40,944 --> 00:39:42,019 I didn't mean-- 701 00:39:42,085 --> 00:39:44,810 Who the hell knows what you mean anymore, Clarence? 702 00:39:45,711 --> 00:39:46,851 Look at this. 703 00:39:48,297 --> 00:39:49,319 Look at it! 704 00:39:50,702 --> 00:39:52,665 You gave me your word on this. 705 00:39:53,375 --> 00:39:55,118 Your word, Clarence. 706 00:39:55,551 --> 00:39:58,705 But here you are ticketed up with Eunetta in her best precincts 707 00:39:58,933 --> 00:40:01,317 and then ticketed up with my girl Daniels, 708 00:40:01,377 --> 00:40:02,885 where she's running strong. 709 00:40:03,090 --> 00:40:04,933 Odell, this is the first I've seen this. 710 00:40:05,136 --> 00:40:08,576 Come on, now! This is probably Eunetta's people pulling this shit. 711 00:40:08,636 --> 00:40:11,245 With a "citizens for Royce" authority line? 712 00:40:12,666 --> 00:40:15,017 Look at you, Clarence. Just look at you. 713 00:40:15,213 --> 00:40:18,650 You've forgotten your agenda. You've forgotten your base. 714 00:40:18,818 --> 00:40:21,692 You think a shave and some Marcus Garvey posters 715 00:40:21,752 --> 00:40:22,917 are gonna get you over? 716 00:40:23,052 --> 00:40:25,331 Do you think that's gonna make up for jumping in bed 717 00:40:25,391 --> 00:40:26,979 with every damn developer? 718 00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:30,985 Shit. You're even on Clay Davis' tit. 719 00:40:31,142 --> 00:40:34,017 Now, don't you go getting all self-righteous with me, Odell. 720 00:40:34,221 --> 00:40:36,336 Campaign runs on dollars. You know it. 721 00:40:36,416 --> 00:40:37,521 Whose dollars? 722 00:40:37,581 --> 00:40:40,515 Those sons of bitches you got around your card table every month 723 00:40:40,575 --> 00:40:41,693 feeding your kitty? 724 00:40:41,753 --> 00:40:42,895 Oh, yeah. 725 00:40:43,492 --> 00:40:44,874 I know about that, too. 726 00:40:45,115 --> 00:40:47,220 You-- trouble with you-- 727 00:40:47,985 --> 00:40:49,507 fuck you, Clarence. 728 00:40:49,649 --> 00:40:51,638 I'm gonna sit what's left of this one out. 729 00:40:51,698 --> 00:40:53,694 - I'm gonna sit it out. - Sit it out. 730 00:40:54,416 --> 00:40:56,236 - The primary? - Sit it out! 731 00:40:57,182 --> 00:40:58,185 Odell! 732 00:41:00,082 --> 00:41:02,211 Who the hell do you think you are, huh? 733 00:41:02,433 --> 00:41:04,804 Come November, I'm still gonna be the only game in town! 734 00:41:04,924 --> 00:41:07,288 Odell, turn your back on me now, I won't forget! 735 00:41:07,328 --> 00:41:08,716 We can't afford this. 736 00:41:08,924 --> 00:41:11,731 We need his organization on Tuesday. Go after him! 737 00:41:11,851 --> 00:41:15,605 Fuck that holier-than-thou... motherfucker! 738 00:41:16,963 --> 00:41:18,105 Delegate Watkins. 739 00:41:19,066 --> 00:41:20,228 Delegate Watkins! 740 00:41:21,101 --> 00:41:22,202 Wait sir. 741 00:41:22,882 --> 00:41:25,617 I'm sure we can work this out. 742 00:41:26,139 --> 00:41:27,882 You and the mayor can talk this out. 743 00:41:38,922 --> 00:41:40,164 Deputy Rawls, please. 744 00:41:41,740 --> 00:41:43,683 It's Lieutenant Hoskins at the hall. 745 00:42:05,921 --> 00:42:07,804 You're gonna use the hole in the wall, right? 746 00:42:07,844 --> 00:42:10,528 Yeah, I'm gonna rub some dog shit on the front of this thing. 747 00:42:10,628 --> 00:42:12,349 I don't want nobody touching it. 748 00:42:15,928 --> 00:42:16,970 Got it? 749 00:42:26,734 --> 00:42:28,013 You need to raise it a bit. 750 00:42:36,814 --> 00:42:38,812 Yeah, that's good. Right there, that works. 751 00:42:43,377 --> 00:42:45,319 - Thought I heard something. - Rats. 752 00:42:46,161 --> 00:42:47,860 - How we doing? - We need to go. 753 00:43:29,092 --> 00:43:31,891 He ain't nothing but a skanky-ass bitch to begin with, 754 00:43:32,011 --> 00:43:34,906 and besides, he ex-police, so you know what that like. 755 00:43:36,146 --> 00:43:37,710 I'm going to the ladies room. 756 00:43:37,876 --> 00:43:39,518 Bey, you need to talk to him. 757 00:43:44,421 --> 00:43:46,124 Yo, daddy, don't even go there, 758 00:43:46,264 --> 00:43:49,328 with you all the time telling me how you dropped out in the sixth grade, 759 00:43:49,405 --> 00:43:51,332 went up on the corner with Avon and Stringer. 760 00:43:51,372 --> 00:43:53,856 Earned cheese for the family, saying how it made you a man-- 761 00:43:53,916 --> 00:43:55,498 all right, all right. You right. 762 00:43:55,808 --> 00:43:57,852 Can't throw rocks. But I'm just saying. 763 00:43:58,058 --> 00:44:01,002 You know how your mother be, with all the fussing. 764 00:44:01,143 --> 00:44:02,752 Maybe you just need to slow it up. 765 00:44:02,812 --> 00:44:04,154 You know what I'm saying? 766 00:44:04,610 --> 00:44:06,642 Yo, you heard how Marlo punked Bodie? 767 00:44:06,709 --> 00:44:09,143 Said he either got to work for him or give up his corner. 768 00:44:09,243 --> 00:44:11,242 Don't you know, his sorry ass buckled. 769 00:44:12,264 --> 00:44:13,713 You'd have gone about it different? 770 00:44:13,773 --> 00:44:15,852 Yeah, I'd have stood tall, like you. 771 00:44:16,493 --> 00:44:18,236 Got my 9. Fuck Chris and them. 772 00:44:18,580 --> 00:44:20,784 Listen to you, all spit and fire. 773 00:44:21,108 --> 00:44:23,474 You'd have gone to the mattress all by your lonesome 774 00:44:23,534 --> 00:44:25,475 and went up against half of the west side. 775 00:44:25,598 --> 00:44:27,001 You got it where it counts, 776 00:44:27,061 --> 00:44:29,107 and I respect that more than anything. 777 00:44:29,244 --> 00:44:30,497 But shit out there now? 778 00:44:30,617 --> 00:44:32,709 It ain't like it was when we was coming up. 779 00:44:32,894 --> 00:44:34,171 Back in the day, 780 00:44:34,251 --> 00:44:36,123 a punk nigger like Marlo steps out, 781 00:44:36,243 --> 00:44:37,656 breaking the rules and shit, 782 00:44:37,717 --> 00:44:39,737 he find himself in the back of a car trunk 783 00:44:39,817 --> 00:44:41,056 on the way to leakin park. 784 00:44:41,136 --> 00:44:43,303 No doubt. We did that shit right. 785 00:44:43,523 --> 00:44:44,785 Word was your bond. 786 00:44:44,926 --> 00:44:47,975 Man looked out for his own, knowing he in a family. 787 00:44:48,224 --> 00:44:49,588 Dig where I'm coming from? 788 00:44:49,668 --> 00:44:51,952 But today, it's all fucked up. 789 00:45:09,667 --> 00:45:10,809 These steps. 790 00:45:11,916 --> 00:45:13,176 Thank you, baby. 791 00:45:13,256 --> 00:45:14,507 You're good to go. 792 00:45:39,416 --> 00:45:41,279 Say "Omar." 793 00:45:42,260 --> 00:45:43,402 Omar. 794 00:45:55,521 --> 00:45:56,603 Nothing? 795 00:45:58,721 --> 00:46:00,288 We checked both sides of the street 796 00:46:00,328 --> 00:46:01,717 from here up to Monroe. 797 00:46:01,797 --> 00:46:04,672 - Nothing? - Nothing that don't belong in no sewer. 798 00:46:04,794 --> 00:46:05,876 Thanks. 799 00:46:12,750 --> 00:46:13,992 Other ideas? 800 00:46:20,412 --> 00:46:23,577 Blood, bump me off that nigger up the skreet. 801 00:46:23,872 --> 00:46:25,499 Motherfucker in the bruick? 802 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,724 That be him. I be saying, 803 00:46:27,838 --> 00:46:30,620 No motherfucker gonna run off with my hair-ron. 804 00:46:31,005 --> 00:46:32,304 Oh, this is fucking great. 805 00:46:32,424 --> 00:46:35,904 Get somebody who reads lips, this motherfucker's history. 806 00:46:36,069 --> 00:46:38,866 Is this legal? I mean, intercepting what they're saying? 807 00:46:38,926 --> 00:46:40,288 Don't go Freamon on me. 808 00:46:43,134 --> 00:46:44,856 Shit. I got to run. 809 00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:47,762 Hey, man, what about some fucking relief? 810 00:46:47,822 --> 00:46:49,270 I been here all morning. 811 00:47:10,774 --> 00:47:12,016 You heard? 812 00:47:13,123 --> 00:47:14,505 They making movies. 813 00:47:14,804 --> 00:47:16,527 Yeah. How you want to play it? 814 00:47:17,636 --> 00:47:20,060 I ain't sure. Let's see the fat man. 815 00:47:22,224 --> 00:47:23,847 How'd the other thing turn out? 816 00:47:24,442 --> 00:47:25,570 All good. 817 00:47:30,901 --> 00:47:32,667 Yo. What up, boy? 818 00:47:32,728 --> 00:47:34,640 - If you want some, I got Reese's. - Nah, man. 819 00:47:34,690 --> 00:47:36,253 You trying to make some real cheese? 820 00:47:36,333 --> 00:47:38,115 - $5.00? - What you need? 821 00:47:38,355 --> 00:47:40,419 Me and Paul gonna get it on with Tiff. 822 00:47:41,417 --> 00:47:42,427 Keep an eye out. 823 00:47:42,487 --> 00:47:44,268 I don't want Mrs. D creeping up. Feel me? 824 00:47:44,335 --> 00:47:47,140 I feel you, but I got some sixth-graders waiting on a special order. 825 00:47:47,180 --> 00:47:48,201 Let them wait, man. 826 00:47:48,268 --> 00:47:50,168 It ain't like we gonna be all day. 827 00:47:54,617 --> 00:47:55,639 All right. 828 00:47:58,567 --> 00:47:59,854 No, ma'am, it says right here, 829 00:47:59,914 --> 00:48:03,501 His honor had the bureau of solid waste conduct a clean sweep along Tivoly. 830 00:48:03,568 --> 00:48:05,302 But it took 6 months before they showed up. 831 00:48:05,362 --> 00:48:07,437 Well, yeah, ok. Well, nobody's perfect. 832 00:48:07,634 --> 00:48:10,740 But, listen. I wouldn't be sitting here If I didn't believe Clarence Royce 833 00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:12,864 wasn't truly committed to this city and its people. 834 00:48:12,904 --> 00:48:14,443 What about crime in our neighborhood? 835 00:48:14,503 --> 00:48:16,326 I admit that's another good point. 836 00:48:16,485 --> 00:48:18,949 But, lady, between you and me, 837 00:48:19,455 --> 00:48:21,078 I can tell from your voice you're black 838 00:48:21,118 --> 00:48:22,941 and you can tell from my voice I'm white. 839 00:48:23,026 --> 00:48:24,328 So I got to ask you, 840 00:48:24,968 --> 00:48:27,668 when do you think the last time a white man voted for a black man 841 00:48:27,769 --> 00:48:29,667 when there was another white man in the race? 842 00:48:29,730 --> 00:48:31,748 I don't know, but you must really believe in him. 843 00:48:31,808 --> 00:48:35,073 Well, ain't that what I been saying? He's just the best candidate. 844 00:48:35,365 --> 00:48:36,572 So you'll go with my man? 845 00:48:36,607 --> 00:48:37,614 I'll think about it. 846 00:48:37,668 --> 00:48:39,689 All right, that's great. Thank you for your time. 847 00:48:39,728 --> 00:48:41,010 - All right. - All right. 848 00:48:51,727 --> 00:48:52,789 I have a hall pass. 849 00:48:52,849 --> 00:48:54,034 Yeah, good for you. 850 00:49:38,537 --> 00:49:39,678 Mine's down. 851 00:49:39,718 --> 00:49:40,880 Attaboy. 852 00:49:42,949 --> 00:49:44,512 You need bodies, Lester... 853 00:49:45,684 --> 00:49:46,746 here you go. 854 00:49:49,181 --> 00:49:53,008 We got a warrant and a teletype for my boy Lex. 855 00:49:53,896 --> 00:49:56,540 So, dead or alive, he's on file. 856 00:49:56,931 --> 00:50:00,697 And beyond that, it's time for you to shine that mighty intellect of yours 857 00:50:01,115 --> 00:50:02,717 on some real murders. 858 00:50:02,898 --> 00:50:04,921 Give up the hypotheticals and shit. 859 00:50:05,864 --> 00:50:07,363 Yeah, I suppose. 860 00:50:09,964 --> 00:50:11,511 This is my issue--crime-- 861 00:50:11,571 --> 00:50:14,130 and I understand completely what you're saying, 862 00:50:14,403 --> 00:50:15,905 and if you give me the opportunity, 863 00:50:15,966 --> 00:50:17,898 I will be able to do something to help you out 864 00:50:17,958 --> 00:50:20,302 and, you know, other people in this neighborhood. 865 00:50:24,850 --> 00:50:27,482 Mr. Ricks, thank you for your time and for your attention. 866 00:50:27,522 --> 00:50:28,613 - No problem. - Thank you. 867 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:29,742 Thank you. 868 00:50:30,896 --> 00:50:32,204 Pretty brazen, 869 00:50:32,284 --> 00:50:34,407 shaking hands with the enemy in broad daylight. 870 00:50:35,385 --> 00:50:36,696 Werner's deli, this isn't. 871 00:50:36,931 --> 00:50:38,162 Definitely not. 872 00:50:38,229 --> 00:50:40,629 Though here you are, councilman, leaving no door unopened. 873 00:50:40,808 --> 00:50:42,462 Shoe leather-- our secret weapon. 874 00:50:42,620 --> 00:50:44,896 You surprised me. You've made this a horse race. 875 00:50:45,097 --> 00:50:47,686 So, ah, what makes me think you didn't just happen by 876 00:50:47,746 --> 00:50:48,896 and find us here? 877 00:50:51,574 --> 00:50:53,517 Watkins is breaking with the mayor. 878 00:50:54,054 --> 00:50:55,175 How do you know? 879 00:50:56,124 --> 00:50:57,266 I know. 880 00:50:57,556 --> 00:51:00,033 I've carried the mayor's water because I had to, councilman. 881 00:51:00,113 --> 00:51:02,261 I'love to see some new blood in this city. 882 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:03,862 And I'd love the chance 883 00:51:04,161 --> 00:51:07,154 to do the right thing for this police department for a change. 884 00:51:26,434 --> 00:51:28,397 Wait until he turns the corner. 885 00:51:32,624 --> 00:51:35,028 District office for Watkins. Gilmor street. 886 00:51:35,561 --> 00:51:37,312 And fuck them red lights, man, 887 00:51:44,710 --> 00:51:47,414 not a place you expect to find any gangsters. 888 00:51:48,226 --> 00:51:49,668 Police, for that matter. 889 00:51:51,492 --> 00:51:53,234 Heard you knew something I didn't. 890 00:51:53,426 --> 00:51:54,753 Told you before, 891 00:51:55,364 --> 00:51:58,027 I make it my busess to keep an ear to the ground. 892 00:51:58,223 --> 00:52:00,459 I make it my business to do business. 893 00:52:00,667 --> 00:52:02,793 We doing business, or are we just talking? 894 00:52:02,935 --> 00:52:04,393 If it's talk, I'm-a walk. 895 00:52:04,459 --> 00:52:06,778 I heard the people pulling security at the card game 896 00:52:06,818 --> 00:52:08,800 weren't too keen on their wages. 897 00:52:09,626 --> 00:52:11,170 Figured it was only a matter of time 898 00:52:11,230 --> 00:52:14,413 before they found a way to get their due compensation. 899 00:52:14,868 --> 00:52:16,411 And you didn't think to tell me? 900 00:52:17,073 --> 00:52:19,217 Man learns best when he get burned. 901 00:52:20,384 --> 00:52:22,233 How do I know you ain't making this shit up? 902 00:52:22,293 --> 00:52:24,697 You don't. Things happen on the street. 903 00:52:25,541 --> 00:52:27,043 Proof is hard to come by. 904 00:52:31,859 --> 00:52:33,823 Go ahead, open it. 905 00:52:39,049 --> 00:52:41,893 Off the street, there's all kind of proof. 906 00:52:42,430 --> 00:52:44,694 They planning on executing those Friday. 907 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,231 Time it with the election, I guess, 908 00:52:47,554 --> 00:52:49,138 show they doing their job, 909 00:52:49,199 --> 00:52:51,837 cleaning up the city, taking down a kingpin. 910 00:52:52,426 --> 00:52:53,658 How did you come by this? 911 00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,470 Told you before, I keep my ear to the ground. 912 00:52:56,824 --> 00:52:58,245 What are you gonna do with it? 913 00:52:58,683 --> 00:52:59,965 Maybe nothing. 914 00:53:00,555 --> 00:53:02,699 Charlie's not part of the co-op. 915 00:53:04,232 --> 00:53:06,255 Or maybe I tip him for a fee. 916 00:53:07,689 --> 00:53:10,031 What do you think a man with a whole lot of money 917 00:53:10,091 --> 00:53:12,335 would pay for his freedom? 918 00:53:14,455 --> 00:53:16,298 You know, lately, 919 00:53:17,591 --> 00:53:20,223 I come to find out someone trying to take pictures on me. 920 00:53:20,489 --> 00:53:21,584 Pictures? 921 00:53:22,165 --> 00:53:23,167 Video. 922 00:53:23,947 --> 00:53:26,356 You heard anything about me through your travels? 923 00:53:27,785 --> 00:53:29,468 Had no incentive to listen. 924 00:53:33,442 --> 00:53:34,590 You do now. 925 00:53:49,951 --> 00:53:51,649 It's one thing to sit out the primary. 926 00:53:51,809 --> 00:53:55,087 It's another for me to turn on Clarence Royce. 927 00:53:55,788 --> 00:53:56,789 Granted. 928 00:53:56,856 --> 00:54:00,234 And if I did jump, why not land behind Tony Gray? 929 00:54:01,264 --> 00:54:03,255 At least he's from my side of the tracks. 930 00:54:03,460 --> 00:54:05,824 Tony can't win. I can. 931 00:54:08,601 --> 00:54:10,817 Look. The truth is, whatever I can do for you, 932 00:54:10,857 --> 00:54:12,940 the mayor can match or double. 933 00:54:13,341 --> 00:54:15,224 I have a pretty good grass roots organization, 934 00:54:15,284 --> 00:54:17,423 but nothing even close to his kind of money. 935 00:54:17,663 --> 00:54:19,921 Now, I'll ticket up with anyone you want me to. 936 00:54:19,981 --> 00:54:23,106 I know you want Daniels in the 11th and stokes in the 10th. 937 00:54:23,492 --> 00:54:26,054 I'll keep away from any tickets you think I might harm. 938 00:54:26,173 --> 00:54:29,127 I know I'm not everyone's idea of a bargain on your side of town. 939 00:54:30,151 --> 00:54:32,936 But right now, a week from the primary, 940 00:54:33,741 --> 00:54:36,606 the fact is, Royce and I both need you. 941 00:54:37,410 --> 00:54:38,688 After the election, 942 00:54:38,873 --> 00:54:41,655 the equation changes for him, but not for me. 943 00:54:41,839 --> 00:54:44,421 I'm a white mayor in a majority-black city, 944 00:54:44,563 --> 00:54:46,018 and if I'm gonna do anything-- 945 00:54:46,078 --> 00:54:48,625 and, delegate, I am so serious about fixing this city-- 946 00:54:48,705 --> 00:54:50,954 I'm gonna have to govern by consensus. 947 00:54:51,303 --> 00:54:54,158 And if you support me, you will have a voice within my administration 948 00:54:54,199 --> 00:54:55,992 simply because I'm gonna need it. 949 00:54:59,698 --> 00:55:01,702 Last poll that Clarence showed me, 950 00:55:02,468 --> 00:55:04,171 he was up by 7 points. 951 00:55:05,364 --> 00:55:07,668 Bullshit. I'm within 4. 952 00:55:13,359 --> 00:55:14,721 You won't be needing that. 953 00:55:15,153 --> 00:55:16,253 I know. 954 00:55:19,072 --> 00:55:20,815 - Here? - Yeah, here. 955 00:55:59,254 --> 00:56:00,316 Dag. 956 00:56:00,746 --> 00:56:03,330 Yo, turn it off. The bulb might have got too hot. 957 00:56:03,747 --> 00:56:05,069 Or the batteries dying. 958 00:56:06,957 --> 00:56:08,199 We should go back. 959 00:56:12,247 --> 00:56:13,809 Yo, man, it stinks, man. 960 00:56:14,030 --> 00:56:15,317 Ain't like it was. 961 00:56:29,953 --> 00:56:31,395 You see he ain't move. 962 00:56:35,171 --> 00:56:36,273 Yeah. 963 00:56:37,848 --> 00:56:39,431 Blood still stuck to his hair. 964 00:56:40,526 --> 00:56:41,648 He dead? 965 00:56:42,904 --> 00:56:43,986 He dead. 966 00:56:45,005 --> 00:56:46,187 Lex, too. 967 00:56:46,697 --> 00:56:48,079 He dead. They all is. 968 00:56:49,547 --> 00:56:50,629 Feel better? 969 00:56:51,994 --> 00:56:53,256 Donut wrong, yo. 970 00:56:54,275 --> 00:56:55,677 Ain't no special dead. 971 00:56:58,862 --> 00:57:00,464 There's just dead. 972 00:57:21,452 --> 00:57:25,799 Transcript: FRM Team - Synchro: Sixe The Wired Team - www.thewire-france.com