1 00:00:08,259 --> 00:00:11,053 To cap a motherfucker, put a pistol to his head, 2 00:00:11,137 --> 00:00:13,556 say, "pow," he tagged, but when Chris... 3 00:00:13,639 --> 00:00:16,267 It ain't working, na'. You making this up. 4 00:00:16,350 --> 00:00:20,354 Word to my mother. Lex ain't dead. I seen him in an alley last night 5 00:00:20,438 --> 00:00:23,024 - near the playground. - Everybody know Lex is dead. 6 00:00:23,107 --> 00:00:25,401 Nah, there's dead, and there's special dead. 7 00:00:25,484 --> 00:00:27,570 Yeah, Chris working thatjuju shit. 8 00:00:27,653 --> 00:00:30,489 Nah, man, what I'm saying is they zombies. 9 00:00:30,573 --> 00:00:33,993 Why you think he take them into vacants? He need time to change them. 10 00:00:34,076 --> 00:00:37,872 - You don't believe me, it's on you. - They funnin', ain't they, Michael? 11 00:00:37,955 --> 00:00:41,959 I don't know about voodoo shit, man, but Chris is definitely doing something - 12 00:00:42,418 --> 00:00:45,546 get a nigger to walk up in there knowing he about to get capped. 13 00:00:45,630 --> 00:00:47,256 Chris, he different. You can tell 14 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:50,426 by his coon-ass country clothes. 15 00:00:52,094 --> 00:00:55,473 - Nine? - Nah, too much bark. 16 00:00:55,556 --> 00:00:56,682 Probably a .40-Cal. 17 00:00:58,309 --> 00:01:01,562 - Yeah, man, this is serious business. - So you saying Lex is a zombie? 18 00:01:02,021 --> 00:01:04,482 Pookie, Byron, all them niggers. 19 00:01:04,690 --> 00:01:07,485 - And Chris? - Yeah, Chris - zombie master. 20 00:01:08,861 --> 00:01:10,571 I knew this wasn't going away. 21 00:01:10,655 --> 00:01:13,908 That's what we've been saying, yo. Chris got the power. 22 00:01:13,991 --> 00:01:17,870 He tell them to come, and they gotta come - like the devil do with the damned. 23 00:01:17,954 --> 00:01:19,538 What you think Chris got them doing? 24 00:01:20,957 --> 00:01:22,959 They're probably spies, man. 25 00:01:23,042 --> 00:01:25,461 Can't figure any other way marlo knows so much. 26 00:01:25,586 --> 00:01:28,881 Yeah, that's it. Like in this movie, zombie killer or something. 27 00:01:28,965 --> 00:01:30,675 They came out at night, hunting. 28 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:33,219 - Hunting? - Yeah, man. They... 29 00:01:37,390 --> 00:01:42,019 Yeah, and in that movie they was snatching people up, stealing their warmth. 30 00:02:18,556 --> 00:02:21,892 When you walk through the garden 31 00:02:22,184 --> 00:02:23,978 watch your back 32 00:02:24,061 --> 00:02:26,689 well, I beg your pardon 33 00:02:26,897 --> 00:02:29,483 walk the straight and narrow track 34 00:02:29,567 --> 00:02:32,570 if you walk with Jesus 35 00:02:32,820 --> 00:02:34,238 he 7! Save your soul 36 00:02:35,531 --> 00:02:39,952 gotta keep the devil down in the hole 37 00:02:40,036 --> 00:02:42,455 he's got fire and the fury 38 00:02:43,289 --> 00:02:45,249 at his command 39 00:02:45,499 --> 00:02:48,127 well, you don't got to worry 40 00:02:48,210 --> 00:02:50,463 hold on to Jesus' hand 41 00:02:50,546 --> 00:02:53,424 we 7! Be safe from Satan 42 00:02:53,507 --> 00:02:56,093 when the thunder rolls 43 00:02:56,177 --> 00:02:59,221 but you gotta keep the devil 44 00:02:59,430 --> 00:03:01,140 down in the hole 45 00:03:05,519 --> 00:03:08,272 Oh yeah, mm 46 00:03:12,193 --> 00:03:14,445 we 7! Be safe from Satan 47 00:03:18,115 --> 00:03:20,534 Gotta keep the devil 48 00:03:20,826 --> 00:03:23,120 down in the hole 49 00:03:24,872 --> 00:03:27,375 keep him in the hole in the hole 50 00:03:27,458 --> 00:03:30,211 down in the hole down in the hole 51 00:03:30,294 --> 00:03:32,838 keep him in the hole keep him in the... 52 00:03:32,922 --> 00:03:35,341 Down in the hole down in the hole 53 00:03:35,466 --> 00:03:38,052 keep him in the hole keep him in the... 54 00:03:38,135 --> 00:03:40,054 Down in the hole down in the hole 55 00:03:50,356 --> 00:03:53,567 St. Jude, patron of lost causes. 56 00:03:54,151 --> 00:03:56,362 Tell me you ain't been on bended knee 57 00:03:56,445 --> 00:03:59,198 whispering in his saintly ear each and every night 58 00:03:59,281 --> 00:04:00,658 before you close those peepers. 59 00:04:00,825 --> 00:04:03,911 I know you have, Tommy, catch a break like this. 60 00:04:04,328 --> 00:04:07,415 - Stan, you're sure about this? - On my mother's soul. It's a lock. 61 00:04:07,498 --> 00:04:11,043 Assigned a rookie - a broad, no less - as lead detective. 62 00:04:11,210 --> 00:04:13,045 Pulled a good man off too, I heard. 63 00:04:14,922 --> 00:04:18,175 Tom. Tommy, remember - 64 00:04:18,884 --> 00:04:20,719 anything you need. 65 00:04:25,975 --> 00:04:27,977 - He's a piece of work. - Valchek? 66 00:04:28,102 --> 00:04:31,439 Comes with the territory. You want the first district council seat, 67 00:04:31,522 --> 00:04:33,774 you make nice with whatever Polish or Greek commander 68 00:04:33,858 --> 00:04:36,193 - they dump in the southeast. - Not Italian. 69 00:04:36,277 --> 00:04:37,653 Ain't enough of us there. 70 00:04:37,736 --> 00:04:40,173 - You think he's this right? - That Royce tampered with the case? 71 00:04:40,197 --> 00:04:41,282 No way the mayor knows. 72 00:04:43,033 --> 00:04:45,303 You're right. This one has ervin burrell written all over it. 73 00:04:45,327 --> 00:04:48,956 Fuck if the mayor knows or not. If it's true, we get it out there quick and bang him hard. 74 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:51,083 - Go public? - They can't spin this. 75 00:04:51,167 --> 00:04:52,751 They sabotaged a criminal case. 76 00:04:52,835 --> 00:04:56,714 No spin on a knuckle ball, you still can't tell how it's gonna break. 77 00:05:03,554 --> 00:05:07,099 We feed it to Tony gray. We keep ourselves out of the line of fire, 78 00:05:07,183 --> 00:05:11,312 sting Royce, and as an added bonus, give gray's campaign a boost 79 00:05:11,395 --> 00:05:13,898 which comes at the expense of the mayor's base. 80 00:05:17,359 --> 00:05:20,237 I'm a devious motherfucker once I get going. 81 00:05:21,155 --> 00:05:25,493 So, all told, we're looking at 13 warrants and six locations. 82 00:05:25,910 --> 00:05:28,329 And, given my staffing situation... 83 00:05:28,412 --> 00:05:29,914 Not a problem. 84 00:05:30,122 --> 00:05:33,000 I can give you my deu, flex, and ops squads. 85 00:05:33,083 --> 00:05:35,586 - A sector of uniforms if you need it. - Gmm. 86 00:05:35,669 --> 00:05:39,006 The problem is, you're wasting a wiretap on street-level arrests. 87 00:05:39,089 --> 00:05:41,175 We do these raids right, we might catch marlo 88 00:05:41,258 --> 00:05:43,677 or one of his lieutenants at one of these locations, 89 00:05:43,761 --> 00:05:45,846 - get them with dope on the table. - Marlo Stanfield, 90 00:05:45,930 --> 00:05:48,015 in a room, with dope on the table? 91 00:05:48,098 --> 00:05:51,894 I've kicked down doors and surprised bigger players than him. 92 00:05:52,061 --> 00:05:56,065 Well, let me warn you, lieutenant - I am not about to litigate a wiretap 93 00:05:56,148 --> 00:05:57,983 for a handful of street rips. 94 00:05:58,067 --> 00:06:00,903 Well, that's on you, counselor. 95 00:06:01,195 --> 00:06:02,905 No, it's not. 96 00:06:03,072 --> 00:06:05,032 Major, see you tomorrow. 97 00:06:13,624 --> 00:06:18,128 - Floaters - you had any more? - No more than usual for the season. 98 00:06:18,212 --> 00:06:21,006 What about decomps? What do you got in the decomp room? 99 00:06:21,090 --> 00:06:23,092 - Two or three unidentifieds. - Found in Baltimore? 100 00:06:23,175 --> 00:06:25,594 No. Two from prince George's, one from Dorchester. 101 00:06:25,678 --> 00:06:29,557 - He wouldn't drive that far. - So you're looking for extra bodies, 102 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,060 no one in particular, other than this kid you already put on the teletype. 103 00:06:33,143 --> 00:06:34,311 Yeah. You on it. 104 00:06:35,479 --> 00:06:37,314 You fellas don't have enough work? 105 00:06:39,984 --> 00:06:43,696 If you do your classwork, homework, you earn stickers. 106 00:06:43,862 --> 00:06:46,657 Dag, yo, every day you be changing it up. 107 00:06:46,782 --> 00:06:49,326 You got us confused, Mr. P. 108 00:06:49,535 --> 00:06:52,454 Behave in class, that's another sticker. 109 00:06:52,663 --> 00:06:56,917 At the end of the week, the four with the most stickers get a prize 110 00:06:57,001 --> 00:07:00,337 and are eligible for a grand drawing at the end of the month. 111 00:07:00,838 --> 00:07:02,756 Don't do your work, 112 00:07:03,173 --> 00:07:05,009 misbehave in class... 113 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:09,179 Your name goes here. 114 00:07:10,014 --> 00:07:13,601 Detention - a full hour after school, no exceptions. 115 00:07:13,684 --> 00:07:16,395 So it's up to you - stickers for prizes 116 00:07:16,478 --> 00:07:18,939 or stay with me after school. 117 00:07:19,023 --> 00:07:23,193 - Yo, Mr. P, why you do me detention, huh? - You interrupted the class, namond. 118 00:07:23,277 --> 00:07:26,280 Yo, when you first came here, you was treating us straight up 119 00:07:26,363 --> 00:07:30,951 and now you just dog me before I even know the rules. That ain't right, man. 120 00:07:36,123 --> 00:07:39,084 When you're right, namond, you're right. 121 00:07:39,376 --> 00:07:41,795 Hey, Mr. P, I want me some of them stickers. 122 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:44,006 Zenobia, you have to do your work. 123 00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:47,176 I want to but I ain't got no pencils. 124 00:07:53,515 --> 00:07:56,644 I don't want no damn welfare pencil. 125 00:08:10,574 --> 00:08:15,079 It seems to me there are two kinds of kids walking in this building - 126 00:08:15,871 --> 00:08:17,998 stoop kids and corner kids. 127 00:08:18,082 --> 00:08:21,085 - Excuse me? - Stoop kids stay on their front steps 128 00:08:21,168 --> 00:08:24,004 when their parents tell them. The others go down to the corners. 129 00:08:24,088 --> 00:08:27,549 They can't sit still in the class. The others can and do. 130 00:08:27,633 --> 00:08:30,427 - So, separate the two. - That's tracking. 131 00:08:30,594 --> 00:08:32,930 - Excuse me? - Tracking students. 132 00:08:33,013 --> 00:08:36,850 It's a nasty phrase in educational circles. The grouping of children 133 00:08:36,934 --> 00:08:39,353 - based on expected performance. - What's wrong with it? 134 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:42,564 It says you have reduced expectations for certain students, 135 00:08:42,648 --> 00:08:44,817 that you expect less from them academically. 136 00:08:44,942 --> 00:08:49,988 So you pretend to teach all these kids. Truth is, you ain't teaching any of them. 137 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:54,159 What if the stoop kids could be in classrooms where there was no disruptions? 138 00:08:54,410 --> 00:08:56,763 - And the corner kids? - They're the ones you're after, right? 139 00:08:56,787 --> 00:09:00,749 - That's why you got the Grant money. - If it doesn't involve warehousing children, 140 00:09:00,916 --> 00:09:03,127 I'm for anything that allows me to do my job. 141 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:07,423 Every teacher here will say the same. The trick for you is to come up with a program 142 00:09:07,506 --> 00:09:10,092 that actually addresses itself to the corner kids. 143 00:09:10,175 --> 00:09:13,262 We pull kids out of classes - won't they be stigmatized? 144 00:09:13,345 --> 00:09:16,223 There's no stigma in being booted out of class every day? 145 00:09:16,306 --> 00:09:19,643 Question is, how do we identify the corner kids? 146 00:09:19,727 --> 00:09:22,646 That won't be a problem. 147 00:09:22,730 --> 00:09:24,982 Ok. Ok. 148 00:09:34,491 --> 00:09:36,160 You understand the work? 149 00:09:39,747 --> 00:09:42,332 Come on, this is easy. I know you can do it. 150 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,965 You're not giving me a choice. You have detention. 151 00:09:50,048 --> 00:09:52,342 Yo, na', Mrs. D shaking bushes. 152 00:09:53,510 --> 00:09:54,511 Back to your seats. 153 00:09:57,347 --> 00:09:59,266 Motherfuck! She got my blade, yo. 154 00:09:59,349 --> 00:10:01,310 I said, back to your seats. 155 00:10:08,776 --> 00:10:11,570 Yo, Mrs. D be stealing shit. I ain't never gonna get my blade back. 156 00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:17,701 Yo, what are you all up on me for? I do my work. 157 00:10:17,951 --> 00:10:20,370 I'm not your yo. Show me your work. 158 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:27,044 Yeah, I see. 159 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:31,022 Yo, my head hurting from all this learning. You got some Tylenol? 160 00:10:32,966 --> 00:10:36,178 - What I got for you is detention. - Oh! 161 00:10:36,804 --> 00:10:38,680 - Fuck you, prezbo. - Oh! 162 00:10:38,764 --> 00:10:41,058 Fucking gimpy-assed, big-girl motherfucker. 163 00:10:41,475 --> 00:10:42,810 That's it. You're out of here! 164 00:10:56,907 --> 00:10:58,787 Get your police stick out your desk and beat me. 165 00:10:58,992 --> 00:11:00,410 You know you fucking want to. 166 00:11:00,577 --> 00:11:01,912 Ooh! 167 00:11:05,332 --> 00:11:08,836 - Everyone, back in your seat. - The fuck you looking at, bitch? 168 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,881 - Oh, Ms. Sampson, I... - Namond Brice, 169 00:11:13,006 --> 00:11:15,676 if you weren't headed to the main office, you are now. 170 00:11:15,801 --> 00:11:17,344 Yeah, I was just... 171 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:22,516 One of the corner kids, huh? 172 00:11:23,892 --> 00:11:26,395 Yeah, they do step up when you need them, don't they? 173 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:28,605 Look, what? You want me to say you right? 174 00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:29,690 You right. 175 00:11:30,691 --> 00:11:32,651 I should have had protection at the card game. 176 00:11:32,860 --> 00:11:33,861 Done is done. 177 00:11:34,194 --> 00:11:36,274 Now we need to decide what we're gonna do about Omar. 178 00:11:36,530 --> 00:11:37,865 You make the price right, 179 00:11:37,948 --> 00:11:40,284 somebody gonna get a whiff of that bushwhacker's ass. 180 00:11:41,660 --> 00:11:43,161 Now you take it from there. 181 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:44,997 You think so? 182 00:11:46,081 --> 00:11:48,834 I ain't saying Omar can't be got. Any nigger can be got. 183 00:11:49,126 --> 00:11:52,462 But once we put word to ear and he learn that we pricing out his head, 184 00:11:52,796 --> 00:11:54,636 he's gonna be trying us like we're trying him. 185 00:11:56,049 --> 00:11:58,468 - You saying I should let it slide? - Nah. 186 00:11:58,677 --> 00:12:00,679 Nah, we get at him another way, 187 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:04,016 get at him without no bounties, no bullshit like that. 188 00:12:04,683 --> 00:12:06,852 Barksdale turned this town upside down hunting him. 189 00:12:07,185 --> 00:12:10,022 - All he ended up looking was weak. - I ain't no barksdale. 190 00:12:10,272 --> 00:12:12,149 I'm just saying talk is cheap. 191 00:12:13,025 --> 00:12:15,444 We sit on it, figure out a way to get that faggot. 192 00:12:15,611 --> 00:12:19,281 But till then we don't say a mumbling word. 193 00:12:25,162 --> 00:12:26,246 I got me six now, 194 00:12:26,330 --> 00:12:28,916 and I'll give you the four later, all right? Come on! 195 00:12:28,999 --> 00:12:31,668 - Nah. I'm gonna need the whole ten now. - Sherrod! 196 00:12:33,337 --> 00:12:36,006 - You ain't in school? - Half a day - teachers' meeting. 197 00:12:36,298 --> 00:12:38,842 I told you about those lame excuses, man. 198 00:12:38,926 --> 00:12:41,595 - I was talking to him first. - No need for physical contact. 199 00:12:41,678 --> 00:12:44,348 - You got $4 for me? I'm short $4. - What the fuck...? Oh! 200 00:12:46,308 --> 00:12:48,769 Got a cart full of shit, nigger. What you got for me? 201 00:12:48,852 --> 00:12:52,022 I know you holding. Where's it at? You ain't hear? 202 00:12:52,189 --> 00:12:56,026 Ok. It's in my shoe... my shoe. 203 00:13:03,033 --> 00:13:04,910 Don't need the four now, son. 204 00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:20,926 Damn, yo, where the shovel at? Bury that nigger, man. 205 00:13:43,657 --> 00:13:46,493 Here you go, sir. Tommy carcetti, running for mayor. 206 00:13:46,576 --> 00:13:48,537 - Good luck, Tommy. - You got my vote. 207 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:51,915 - Thanks. Tommy carcetti. Here you go. - Good luck, councilman. 208 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,042 How you doing? Tommy carcetti, running for mayor. 209 00:13:54,126 --> 00:13:56,253 Ok, councilman, time to hit the West Side. 210 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:13,687 Pretty motherfucker - he's gonna make me go to my game face. 211 00:14:16,565 --> 00:14:21,194 Ok, I'll take 25 of the honeysuckle incense cones - they'll keep me healthy for next week. 212 00:14:21,486 --> 00:14:24,114 - Tommy! - Excuse me. 213 00:14:26,658 --> 00:14:29,244 Tony gray's people say 20 minutes at their place. 214 00:14:32,789 --> 00:14:34,041 Shit, Clarence. 215 00:14:34,124 --> 00:14:37,127 Look like you did in '98 when you surprised the hell out of everyone. 216 00:14:37,294 --> 00:14:39,629 - Bring 'em on. - Huh? 217 00:14:42,716 --> 00:14:45,052 Why give it to us? Why don't you stick it to Royce? 218 00:14:45,135 --> 00:14:47,179 Because after what Tommy did at the debate, 219 00:14:47,262 --> 00:14:49,382 it'll seem like more of the same if it comes from him. 220 00:14:50,766 --> 00:14:53,977 And if we use it to take four or five points out of Royce's base, 221 00:14:54,811 --> 00:14:56,313 it helps him as much as us. 222 00:14:57,189 --> 00:14:58,607 Once bitten, twice shy. 223 00:14:58,690 --> 00:15:01,318 With Tommy carcetti, I got to always think a step ahead. 224 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:03,820 Look, Tony, you ain't gonna win. 225 00:15:04,321 --> 00:15:05,322 So the only question is 226 00:15:05,405 --> 00:15:08,950 whether you wanna lose with 24% of the vote or 28%. 227 00:15:09,993 --> 00:15:11,620 You bring the numbers up, 228 00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:13,747 you look good for the legislature - 229 00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:16,166 maybe a congressional run. 230 00:15:17,167 --> 00:15:19,920 - Albert Stokes. - Here. Mr. P, can I go? 231 00:15:20,003 --> 00:15:22,506 My mom told me to go straight home after school. 232 00:15:22,672 --> 00:15:24,049 - Mine, too. - Mine, too. 233 00:15:25,092 --> 00:15:28,386 You should have thought of that before you smeared ink all over my desk. 234 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:30,514 Weren't my fault. My pen exploded. 235 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:34,810 Michael. Michael Lee? 236 00:15:36,019 --> 00:15:37,979 Mr. P, please, can I go? 237 00:15:38,063 --> 00:15:41,024 I ain't eat no lunch and my stomach making all these noises. 238 00:15:41,149 --> 00:15:45,278 Look, I won't ever disrespect your pencil again, I promise. 239 00:15:45,362 --> 00:15:49,116 - Zenobia, it wasn't about the pencil. - Please, Mr. P. 240 00:15:57,874 --> 00:15:59,126 Come on, Mr. P. 241 00:16:00,335 --> 00:16:03,755 - Ok, ok, all right. - All right. 242 00:16:03,922 --> 00:16:05,924 Just this one time, I'll make an exception. 243 00:16:07,926 --> 00:16:11,221 But next time, expect to stay the full hour. 244 00:16:24,568 --> 00:16:26,528 - Why are you here? - Came to say sorry. 245 00:16:26,653 --> 00:16:28,655 I didn't mean to get all up in your face like that. 246 00:16:30,991 --> 00:16:32,242 I appreciate that, namond. 247 00:16:32,367 --> 00:16:34,087 It takes courage to admit when you're wrong. 248 00:16:34,411 --> 00:16:37,873 I can't understand - I've seen you in Ms. Sampson's class, working. 249 00:16:37,998 --> 00:16:40,709 - Why can't you do the same in here? - I mean to, I do. 250 00:16:41,668 --> 00:16:44,713 It's just the evil get in me and before I know it, I go off. 251 00:16:47,215 --> 00:16:50,594 Well, tomorrow we'll see if we can't do better. 252 00:16:51,261 --> 00:16:53,263 Can't tomorrow. Mrs. D put me out. 253 00:16:54,139 --> 00:16:56,099 I gotta bump. Later, Mr. P. 254 00:16:59,811 --> 00:17:01,438 If you can wait outside... 255 00:17:02,105 --> 00:17:03,648 It's ok. He can stay. 256 00:17:08,278 --> 00:17:09,362 Thank you. 257 00:17:10,822 --> 00:17:14,284 Mr. P, you know Michael can't make it to detention. 258 00:17:14,367 --> 00:17:16,161 I know he didn't. Now it's doubled. 259 00:17:16,286 --> 00:17:19,039 - He's got two days to serve. - Nah, I mean, he can't. 260 00:17:19,331 --> 00:17:21,267 He got to go pick up his little brother from school. 261 00:17:21,291 --> 00:17:23,668 He'll have to find somebody else to do that. 262 00:17:26,254 --> 00:17:29,049 It ain't like that. I mean, Michael would come if he could 263 00:17:29,132 --> 00:17:31,569 but wouldn't have nobody else to pick up his little brother bug. 264 00:17:31,593 --> 00:17:34,512 You know, his mother, she on that stuff. 265 00:17:41,519 --> 00:17:43,104 We walking home. You coming? 266 00:17:43,438 --> 00:17:46,900 No, I'm waiting on alpo. Ms. Sampson got him doing detention. 267 00:17:46,983 --> 00:17:49,736 - You gonna be here till five o'clock. - She a hard lady. 268 00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:53,573 - Don't ever give a brother no play. - All right. I'll holla at you later. 269 00:17:53,657 --> 00:17:54,824 All right, yo. 270 00:17:57,869 --> 00:17:59,621 So you're not gonna be in the NBA? 271 00:17:59,996 --> 00:18:02,207 Then it must be the NFL? 272 00:18:02,999 --> 00:18:05,418 I thought all the boys in class were gonna join the pros. 273 00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:07,212 Nah, that's just something we say. 274 00:18:08,129 --> 00:18:09,256 So what about you? 275 00:18:10,465 --> 00:18:14,511 - What do you wanna be when you grow up? - I'm gonna own my own store. 276 00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:16,179 That's smart. 277 00:18:16,346 --> 00:18:18,014 You're gonna need to know a lot of math. 278 00:18:22,477 --> 00:18:23,895 You left them in there. 279 00:18:26,856 --> 00:18:28,358 Hey, don't worry, Mr. P. We got you. 280 00:18:28,692 --> 00:18:29,693 Hey, donut! 281 00:18:30,777 --> 00:18:33,446 - Yo, yeah. - Donut's crazy with cars. 282 00:18:33,530 --> 00:18:35,365 - He can open anything. - Hey. 283 00:18:35,490 --> 00:18:38,243 - What up, man? - Yo, he locked his keys in there. 284 00:18:43,331 --> 00:18:46,209 - It's ok, I can call AAA. - Oh, no problem, chief. 285 00:19:29,252 --> 00:19:31,129 Feel the need to work them corners, huh? 286 00:19:32,964 --> 00:19:35,508 You don't need to be doing what you're doing. 287 00:19:35,717 --> 00:19:37,510 I need to learn some shit on my own. 288 00:19:38,345 --> 00:19:40,013 I'm trying to help you, sherrod, 289 00:19:40,889 --> 00:19:42,432 but you making it so I can't. 290 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:44,602 I didn't even know the man who beat on you, bubs. 291 00:19:44,934 --> 00:19:48,396 He was short of money on the corner. I swear he wasn't nothing to me. 292 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:50,841 But when the shit start, there's nothing to be done, right? 293 00:19:51,941 --> 00:19:53,981 What would I have done if he started whaling on you? 294 00:19:54,778 --> 00:19:56,321 Same kind of nothing, see? 295 00:19:57,572 --> 00:19:58,823 That's how the corners be. 296 00:20:00,450 --> 00:20:02,452 They going to use you up, sherrod. 297 00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:11,252 You welcome to stay tonight but you ain't in school tomorrow morning, 298 00:20:12,128 --> 00:20:13,963 this partnership need to be done. 299 00:20:42,992 --> 00:20:45,662 These two precincts are the bellwether for the fifth. 300 00:20:45,912 --> 00:20:49,082 If you can take even 18% out of carcetti in these, 301 00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:51,543 it's a good guess he won't have the numbers citywide. 302 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,213 Who are we ticketed with here? The ndo, I hope... 303 00:20:55,338 --> 00:20:56,923 Because... 304 00:20:58,842 --> 00:21:02,512 This amid allegations that high-ranking police officials intervened 305 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:06,349 to have a veteran police detective removed from the controversial case. 306 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:09,769 The braddock murder became a focal point in the mayoral campaign 307 00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:13,690 when councilman Thomas carcetti alleged the west Baltimore man was killed 308 00:21:14,065 --> 00:21:15,692 because he was a witness in the case. 309 00:21:16,234 --> 00:21:18,594 They were afraid the police would prove what they most fear, 310 00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:21,531 that fredro braddock was murdered because he was a witness 311 00:21:21,698 --> 00:21:24,617 and the city failed to protect him. 312 00:21:25,743 --> 00:21:27,328 It's on all three channels. 313 00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:30,039 And the sun and the post are both calling for comment. 314 00:21:34,544 --> 00:21:37,630 My sources in the department say rank-and-file officers are appalled 315 00:21:37,714 --> 00:21:40,800 - by this blatant political manipulation. - Damn, turn it up. 316 00:21:41,217 --> 00:21:45,930 - Hey, greggs, you're famous. - ..Is to remove a highly-decorated veteran 317 00:21:46,222 --> 00:21:49,142 with 15 years' experience as a murder investigator without reason... 318 00:21:49,309 --> 00:21:51,227 - That'd be me. - ..Replaced with a rookie 319 00:21:51,311 --> 00:21:53,313 yet to handle a single homicide investigation... 320 00:21:53,396 --> 00:21:55,166 - That'd be you. - ..Then we need to rethink... 321 00:21:55,190 --> 00:21:57,817 The fuck I ever do to him? 322 00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:04,741 - You gonna make it too heavy, yo. - It might work if we make it bigger. 323 00:22:05,116 --> 00:22:07,494 It'd work with balsa wood. It's light and strong. 324 00:22:07,577 --> 00:22:09,245 Man, you so full of... 325 00:22:09,954 --> 00:22:11,164 Oh, shit. 326 00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:18,922 Zombie master. 327 00:22:25,261 --> 00:22:26,679 Need to take us a little walk. 328 00:22:28,264 --> 00:22:29,599 Nah, I'm good here. 329 00:22:30,308 --> 00:22:32,560 Yo. Young 'uns need to move along. 330 00:22:34,771 --> 00:22:36,356 Sure, Chris, we'll bump. 331 00:22:42,570 --> 00:22:46,032 - Yo, snoop, your sister in my class. - What the fuck? You high, nigger? 332 00:22:48,117 --> 00:22:49,702 You boys be smoking that shit? 333 00:22:54,249 --> 00:22:55,667 Hearing good things about you. 334 00:22:56,251 --> 00:22:58,091 Say you straight up, take care of your people, 335 00:22:58,294 --> 00:22:59,837 not begging no handouts. 336 00:23:01,047 --> 00:23:03,383 Motherfucker, you hear the nigger talking to you, 337 00:23:03,466 --> 00:23:05,009 giving you praises and shit. 338 00:23:05,093 --> 00:23:07,804 - You standing here looking fucking stupid. - Yo, chill. 339 00:23:09,806 --> 00:23:13,434 - Sometimes she get a little hot. - I'm just saying the boy ain't right! 340 00:23:14,269 --> 00:23:16,604 Yo, we always in the market for a good soldier. 341 00:23:17,146 --> 00:23:20,233 When we see one we like, we take care of the situation - 342 00:23:20,817 --> 00:23:23,236 take him in, school him, make him family. 343 00:23:24,153 --> 00:23:25,673 And if you're with us, you're with us, 344 00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:27,740 just like we'd be with you all the way. 345 00:23:28,658 --> 00:23:29,867 You have a mind, you're in. 346 00:23:30,952 --> 00:23:32,996 Look, man. I already got a family - 347 00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:36,249 my moms and my little brother. 348 00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:37,834 Yeah, heard that. 349 00:23:39,168 --> 00:23:40,253 But think on it. 350 00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:46,509 We'll be around if you need something. 351 00:24:01,316 --> 00:24:04,736 He saw me, yo. I knew it. I knew Chris was asking Michael about me. 352 00:24:05,069 --> 00:24:07,488 I knew it, man. I'm dead. 353 00:24:09,449 --> 00:24:11,242 - Yo, man, good looking-out. - Yeah. 354 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:13,119 - I thought he was gonna... - I know. 355 00:24:13,411 --> 00:24:15,455 What he ask about me? I know he asked about me. 356 00:24:15,538 --> 00:24:16,978 - What did you tell him? - Calm down. 357 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,642 - It weren't even about you. - Yo, for real, 358 00:24:18,666 --> 00:24:20,627 you need to tell me. What did he ask you? 359 00:24:22,712 --> 00:24:25,548 Yo, you right, man. Chris was all up in your business. 360 00:24:26,299 --> 00:24:28,593 He down on you for some deep shit, man. 361 00:24:28,926 --> 00:24:30,094 I don't even know what. 362 00:24:33,264 --> 00:24:35,141 Nah, I'm just fucking with you, man. 363 00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:36,934 He didn't even speak your name. 364 00:24:44,567 --> 00:24:45,860 Oh, man. 365 00:24:49,739 --> 00:24:50,990 So, erv, what's next? 366 00:24:51,074 --> 00:24:53,076 Your officers gonna shoot a couple of tourists? 367 00:24:53,493 --> 00:24:55,912 Maybe fly a helicopter into harbor place? 368 00:24:56,162 --> 00:24:59,707 What can we expect the last week of my re-election campaign? 369 00:24:59,999 --> 00:25:01,959 Sir, I did what you asked - no more, no less. 370 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:06,172 - Hamsterdam - legalized drug zone? - He takes responsibility for that. 371 00:25:06,255 --> 00:25:08,257 - The subpoenas all over town. - That, too. 372 00:25:08,424 --> 00:25:11,678 The leak about the witness murder. That was his shop too, right? 373 00:25:11,761 --> 00:25:14,055 - Hell, yeah. - And now this last thing, 374 00:25:14,389 --> 00:25:17,517 transferring detectives off the case. 375 00:25:17,767 --> 00:25:19,102 What is that? What is that? 376 00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:21,437 - Scuttling the investigation. - Yeah, right. 377 00:25:21,521 --> 00:25:24,148 - Yeah, that's awful. Jesus! - Mr. Mayor, you asked me 378 00:25:24,232 --> 00:25:25,817 to slow that investigation down. 379 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:28,778 Subtle, ervin. Mm? 380 00:25:29,529 --> 00:25:31,197 You hold a few facts for a few weeks. 381 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:34,200 You put a report or two in a desk drawer. 382 00:25:35,201 --> 00:25:37,453 But the transferring of people off a case? 383 00:25:37,787 --> 00:25:41,374 Look, you told me... You specifically wanted me to not... 384 00:25:41,457 --> 00:25:43,793 Ervin, you may leave. 385 00:25:44,627 --> 00:25:48,464 - Mr. Mayor... - That will be all, commissioner. 386 00:26:01,477 --> 00:26:04,647 No, I need a word or two with your deputy, ervin. 387 00:26:17,827 --> 00:26:18,911 Have a seat. 388 00:26:27,170 --> 00:26:28,337 I tried to warn him. 389 00:26:28,796 --> 00:26:30,882 If it leaked out of homicide about the dead witness, 390 00:26:30,965 --> 00:26:32,845 why wouldn't it leak that we bumped a detective? 391 00:26:33,426 --> 00:26:35,011 Why didn't you come to us beforehand? 392 00:26:37,138 --> 00:26:38,848 I'm a loyal subordinate, Mr. Mayor, 393 00:26:40,183 --> 00:26:43,019 and ervin is a good man working under considerable pressure. 394 00:26:43,227 --> 00:26:44,312 He's a hack. 395 00:26:44,562 --> 00:26:46,814 You're not bothered by the pressure, deputy? 396 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:48,608 Not in the least. 397 00:26:54,572 --> 00:26:56,407 I need you to make this go away, bill. 398 00:26:56,824 --> 00:26:58,618 I won't forget, believe me. 399 00:27:11,214 --> 00:27:14,050 Another thing - slim Charles got up with me. 400 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,637 - Said the fat man want a sitdown. - No. I did that already. 401 00:27:18,638 --> 00:27:21,390 Slim say the fat man knew the card game was gonna get took. 402 00:27:21,766 --> 00:27:23,059 He did, did he? 403 00:27:24,018 --> 00:27:25,019 Set it up. 404 00:27:25,895 --> 00:27:29,565 - Why you always be back here? - Quiet. And I can see what comes. 405 00:27:30,233 --> 00:27:33,319 - But you out in the weather and shit. - Don't like to speak in no rooms. 406 00:27:33,694 --> 00:27:36,656 - Yeah. - Yo, you ain't staying long. 407 00:27:39,867 --> 00:27:42,411 So you know, I almost got that for you. 408 00:27:42,537 --> 00:27:45,998 - I just need a couple of days more. - You can keep my money for now. 409 00:27:46,165 --> 00:27:49,085 - I got something needs doing. - Anything, marlo, your call. 410 00:27:49,293 --> 00:27:53,089 Omar gonna come in your store, stick it up, Rob you. 411 00:27:53,256 --> 00:27:55,591 You gonna call the police, make a report. 412 00:27:56,551 --> 00:27:57,552 You feel me? 413 00:27:57,635 --> 00:28:00,221 Yeah, that'll work, but you know when he get out, 414 00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:02,932 he's coming right at me. I ain't scared or nothing. 415 00:28:03,057 --> 00:28:05,177 - I'm just saying, you know? - He ain't gonna get out. 416 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:14,402 A man make bail on robbery. 417 00:28:16,153 --> 00:28:17,321 Make it no bail. 418 00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:24,287 If you have a problem, like you can't make it to detention, 419 00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:26,205 you need to tell me. 420 00:28:26,956 --> 00:28:28,291 That's your responsibility. 421 00:28:28,791 --> 00:28:32,545 People will be more than willing to help you out but it's up to you to ask. 422 00:28:35,339 --> 00:28:37,341 You can go back to the cafeteria... 423 00:28:38,676 --> 00:28:40,052 Or hang up here. 424 00:28:50,479 --> 00:28:52,815 Duquan, could you come here? 425 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:07,914 I thought maybe you could help me out - I packed too much. 426 00:29:29,143 --> 00:29:30,996 Take this down to the cafeteria and get yourself something 427 00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:32,229 to drink from the machine. 428 00:29:33,356 --> 00:29:34,357 Thank you. 429 00:29:43,491 --> 00:29:45,242 Crystal, you got a second? 430 00:29:49,413 --> 00:29:50,623 What's up with duquan? 431 00:29:50,706 --> 00:29:52,959 I gave him some new clothes. I was expecting... 432 00:29:53,042 --> 00:29:54,210 He might have lost them. 433 00:29:55,211 --> 00:29:56,420 That fast? 434 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:00,049 It weren't that. 435 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:02,802 His people take his clothes, sell it on the corners. 436 00:30:03,219 --> 00:30:04,887 - You're kidding. - No, sir. 437 00:30:05,054 --> 00:30:06,222 Everybody knows. 438 00:30:10,893 --> 00:30:14,397 Which brings me to what we're proposing - different kids, different approaches. 439 00:30:14,522 --> 00:30:16,959 You tell us who we need to touch at north Avenue to get the go-ahead. 440 00:30:16,983 --> 00:30:18,192 The puzzle palace? 441 00:30:18,651 --> 00:30:21,988 Look, if y'all still wanna jump in and help, I'm fine with it. 442 00:30:22,530 --> 00:30:24,490 That's about all the ok you need in my house. 443 00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:28,911 The stricker street situation is waiting in the office. 444 00:30:30,121 --> 00:30:33,124 Neighborhood squabbles, 445 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:34,917 and my babies bring it in here. 446 00:30:35,084 --> 00:30:38,546 Two fights yesterday - all because the mothers can't get along. 447 00:30:39,422 --> 00:30:40,423 I gotta go. 448 00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:42,466 Mrs. Donnelly'll work out the nuts and bolts. 449 00:30:44,552 --> 00:30:46,929 But just so you hear it, thank you. 450 00:30:47,638 --> 00:30:50,641 It'll be the only time anyone in this system will think to say it. 451 00:30:54,895 --> 00:30:57,606 - He's a good man. You need to protect him. - Protect him? 452 00:30:57,773 --> 00:31:00,067 Principal withers just went out on a limb for you, 453 00:31:00,151 --> 00:31:02,445 and in this system they know how to handle a chainsaw. 454 00:31:03,738 --> 00:31:05,031 Excuse me? 455 00:31:05,781 --> 00:31:08,284 Anyone has a problem with what we're doing, it's on him. 456 00:31:09,410 --> 00:31:12,163 So, you specified eighth-graders? 457 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:16,625 We have 256 on roll. 458 00:31:16,792 --> 00:31:19,045 241 attend on a regular basis. 459 00:31:19,128 --> 00:31:22,173 Of those, 40 or so would fit your bill of corner kids. 460 00:31:22,590 --> 00:31:23,883 40? 461 00:31:25,968 --> 00:31:27,136 Pretty workable. 462 00:31:30,514 --> 00:31:33,059 - What would you suggest? - Start with ten or so. 463 00:31:33,142 --> 00:31:34,769 Ms. Sampson has enough to get you going. 464 00:31:34,852 --> 00:31:36,145 One of them named namond Brice? 465 00:31:36,604 --> 00:31:37,646 Pick of the litter. 466 00:31:38,064 --> 00:31:40,264 But you'll have to wait. He's on a three-day suspension. 467 00:31:50,785 --> 00:31:53,996 Remember when I was a cadet, I was up here on a cadaver search. 468 00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:58,375 Instructor gets on the radio to say, "we're looking for one body in particular. 469 00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:04,048 "If you go grabbing everyone you see, we'll be here all day," he says. 470 00:32:04,673 --> 00:32:06,175 Leakin park... 471 00:32:06,467 --> 00:32:08,469 Where west Baltimore brings out its dead. 472 00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:11,013 Not any more, from the look of things. 473 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,682 Not by the roadside, anyway. 474 00:32:16,185 --> 00:32:19,855 If he's dumping them here, he's dumping them deep in the woods. 475 00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:24,276 Come on. 476 00:32:24,443 --> 00:32:28,114 At each raid site, we're anticipating dope 477 00:32:28,364 --> 00:32:30,366 or cash or guns. 478 00:32:30,783 --> 00:32:35,538 All warrants are for prime locations linked to high-level violators. 479 00:32:35,663 --> 00:32:38,541 Weeks-old addresses linked to low-level corner boys. 480 00:32:38,624 --> 00:32:41,043 We'll also be sweeping drug corners at these locations. 481 00:32:41,127 --> 00:32:43,796 Wagons will hold in this location here. 482 00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:46,173 Jump-off time - 1500 hours. 483 00:32:46,382 --> 00:32:49,635 We take our position ten minutes before the assault here. 484 00:32:50,052 --> 00:32:51,971 The go is on my say-so. 485 00:32:53,722 --> 00:32:55,724 Questions? Excellent. 486 00:32:55,933 --> 00:32:57,935 We'll hold in the rec room till it's time to stage. 487 00:33:05,234 --> 00:33:06,610 Warrants are one thing, 488 00:33:06,694 --> 00:33:09,488 but street sweeps on marlo's crews? Are you guys serious? 489 00:33:09,572 --> 00:33:11,991 Carv, you give these hoodleheads too much credit. 490 00:33:12,074 --> 00:33:13,367 Trust me on this, boy wonder. 491 00:33:14,743 --> 00:33:18,497 Never mind this horseshit. What've they got you doing for your man? 492 00:33:18,581 --> 00:33:20,124 Who, the lieutenant? 493 00:33:20,583 --> 00:33:23,919 No, Royce. Herc, the mayor's your meal ticket. 494 00:33:24,253 --> 00:33:26,523 He gets another four years, you're liable to wear the gold braid. 495 00:33:26,547 --> 00:33:28,966 Shouldn't you be out waving a campaign sign or some shit? 496 00:33:34,513 --> 00:33:37,725 And so ends the last crusade of the major crimes unit - 497 00:33:38,309 --> 00:33:39,894 with a whimper. 498 00:33:40,019 --> 00:33:43,230 Lester would cry to see his wiretap cannibalized for that crap. 499 00:33:44,565 --> 00:33:46,984 Street sweeps on marlo Stanfield? 500 00:33:50,654 --> 00:33:53,282 - So what else you got cooking? - Narcotics cases? 501 00:33:53,407 --> 00:33:55,367 Cid has the burman indictment coming in. 502 00:33:55,451 --> 00:33:56,452 Nothing past that. 503 00:33:57,661 --> 00:34:00,873 As wars go, this drug thing seems to rate less and less. 504 00:34:02,082 --> 00:34:04,960 If demper wins and manages to forgive my trespasses, 505 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:07,546 maybe I'll go in and beg for something new. 506 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,175 I don't know. Just feels like enough's enough. 507 00:34:12,259 --> 00:34:16,013 Crutchfield, line two, intake. 508 00:34:20,267 --> 00:34:22,311 - Sergeant, you were looking for me? - I was, yeah. 509 00:34:22,770 --> 00:34:23,979 Curly fry? 510 00:34:24,647 --> 00:34:27,483 Chicken doohickey? Sit down. 511 00:34:34,031 --> 00:34:35,950 Norris is back on the braddock case. 512 00:34:37,534 --> 00:34:39,328 It's by order of the deputy ops. 513 00:34:39,411 --> 00:34:41,455 In fact, we're going with a story that says 514 00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:44,250 he was never off the case, that you and he are partnered, 515 00:34:44,541 --> 00:34:46,669 a task force of two, working it together. 516 00:34:49,296 --> 00:34:51,507 Fuck you, fat man. 517 00:34:52,466 --> 00:34:55,177 Not original, but succinct. I like your approach. 518 00:34:55,261 --> 00:34:58,180 Y'all humiliate me once by dropping me into this thing, 519 00:34:58,472 --> 00:35:01,267 and now you're gonna shame me again by bringing Norris back. 520 00:35:14,321 --> 00:35:17,616 This is homicide, detective. 521 00:35:17,783 --> 00:35:20,327 This is not some boiler room unit where no one pays attention 522 00:35:20,411 --> 00:35:22,331 to whatever the fuck it is you call police work. 523 00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:25,291 The bosses? They know our names up here. 524 00:35:26,667 --> 00:35:28,752 Now I didn't like it when they came to me 525 00:35:28,836 --> 00:35:31,672 and told me to dump Norris, but dump him I did. 526 00:35:31,922 --> 00:35:33,733 And it's not like I wanna carry water for them 527 00:35:33,757 --> 00:35:36,385 now they're pretending they never told me to do any such thing, 528 00:35:36,510 --> 00:35:37,845 but carry the water I will. 529 00:35:38,012 --> 00:35:39,054 And in the end, 530 00:35:39,138 --> 00:35:41,890 when everyone else in this unit is buried and beshitted, 531 00:35:42,224 --> 00:35:44,727 this detective sergeant will still be standing. 532 00:35:47,730 --> 00:35:52,276 So get the story straight - Norris was always the primary, 533 00:35:52,401 --> 00:35:54,611 and you are now assisting on an investigation 534 00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,572 which is progressing even as we speak. 535 00:35:57,823 --> 00:35:59,241 Does the colonel know about this? 536 00:36:01,118 --> 00:36:02,244 He's in the hospital. 537 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:04,413 Chemo didn't work. 538 00:36:09,168 --> 00:36:11,170 Press conference is upstairs in half an hour. 539 00:36:11,295 --> 00:36:13,630 - So don't be late. - Press conference? 540 00:36:14,089 --> 00:36:15,174 Mm-hm. 541 00:36:21,764 --> 00:36:23,349 I ain't mean to laugh at you none. 542 00:36:24,767 --> 00:36:26,810 I know it sound crazy but I ain'tjoking. 543 00:36:27,561 --> 00:36:29,104 For real, Lex a zombie. 544 00:36:29,438 --> 00:36:31,440 I knew it way before what na' and them was saying. 545 00:36:32,608 --> 00:36:36,570 Listen, they had me tell Lex to go up to the playground. 546 00:36:37,029 --> 00:36:38,789 I told him to go up there and see some girl. 547 00:36:39,406 --> 00:36:40,949 He ain't never come back down. 548 00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:44,078 So what they gonna do to me when they get mad at me? 549 00:36:44,870 --> 00:36:47,998 It makes sense Chris taking them into the vacants - to change 'em. 550 00:36:48,415 --> 00:36:50,918 - And you know what else? - That ain't what he doing, 551 00:36:51,085 --> 00:36:53,379 Chris in the vacants? 552 00:36:54,338 --> 00:36:55,506 Changing them? 553 00:36:56,131 --> 00:36:57,841 He ain't changing them, he killing them. 554 00:36:58,092 --> 00:37:00,844 - That's all. They're getting killed. - How you know? 555 00:37:04,807 --> 00:37:06,183 Can't tell nobody. 556 00:37:08,477 --> 00:37:09,603 Iseenit 557 00:37:11,188 --> 00:37:14,233 I seen them walk a boy up into one house over there on Calhoun. 558 00:37:15,401 --> 00:37:16,568 You seen that? 559 00:37:18,362 --> 00:37:19,488 Yeah. 560 00:37:20,447 --> 00:37:21,824 That's just false. 561 00:37:21,949 --> 00:37:24,159 Detective Norris has been working this case nonstop 562 00:37:24,326 --> 00:37:26,412 and, given her narcotics expertise, 563 00:37:26,495 --> 00:37:30,165 detective greggs was assigned to augment rather than to replace him. 564 00:37:30,374 --> 00:37:33,544 But for two days sources inside the department were saying... 565 00:37:33,627 --> 00:37:36,296 I'm inside the department, and I'm telling you that's not true. 566 00:37:36,797 --> 00:37:39,341 We do not play politics with a criminal investigation. 567 00:37:39,675 --> 00:37:41,844 And how do you explain councilman gray's allegations? 568 00:37:42,136 --> 00:37:44,346 I think you should ask councilman gray that question. 569 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,231 - Police! Search warrant! - Take the back. 570 00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:56,942 - On the ground, now! - Police! Search warrant! 571 00:37:57,443 --> 00:37:58,777 Two upstairs. 572 00:38:02,406 --> 00:38:04,116 - Don't move! - Check that back room. 573 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:06,452 - Get your ass on the ground. Get down! - Get down! 574 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,174 - This is the 1300 block, right? - No, this is the 12. 575 00:38:20,424 --> 00:38:21,717 Are we on the right corner? 576 00:38:23,969 --> 00:38:26,513 - We had this as a stash house? - According to the wiretap. 577 00:38:26,597 --> 00:38:28,599 How long ago? They move 'em around. 578 00:38:36,273 --> 00:38:39,485 Zeroes on the warrants. Minor arrests on the designated corners, sir. 579 00:38:39,568 --> 00:38:41,612 - They were tipped! - You think? 580 00:38:41,695 --> 00:38:44,656 For us to come up this empty at all these locations, it has to be. 581 00:38:44,781 --> 00:38:46,909 This cocksucker marlo thinks he's smarter than us? 582 00:38:46,992 --> 00:38:49,703 He is not. Sergeant, I want to know where he hangs. 583 00:38:49,870 --> 00:38:53,916 - You mean like him personally? - He moves around, lieutenant. He floats. 584 00:38:54,041 --> 00:38:56,144 But I have seen him in the concrete park behind fulton. 585 00:38:56,168 --> 00:38:59,254 - In a park? - He sits out there, holds court. 586 00:38:59,421 --> 00:39:02,233 He's got people covering every approach so there's no creeping up on him. 587 00:39:02,257 --> 00:39:05,552 My guess is that he likes to talk outdoors so no one can drop a microphone on him. 588 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,347 Sergeant, what can we do with that? 589 00:39:16,772 --> 00:39:18,941 I admit I've made some mistakes, 590 00:39:19,274 --> 00:39:21,276 burrell being one of the biggest. 591 00:39:21,443 --> 00:39:23,695 But he's got a job for about ten more days. 592 00:39:24,446 --> 00:39:28,116 After the primary, he's gone, believe me. 593 00:39:28,617 --> 00:39:31,119 And that last stunt - pulling a detective. 594 00:39:31,328 --> 00:39:33,622 - What'd you expect? - Not that. 595 00:39:35,707 --> 00:39:38,919 Hey, I had nothing to do with that nonsense. 596 00:39:39,002 --> 00:39:40,212 That's a straight-up lie. 597 00:39:40,295 --> 00:39:42,214 I was at that damn meeting when you told him, 598 00:39:42,297 --> 00:39:44,800 - "slow the case down." - I didn't mean... 599 00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:47,135 Who the hell knows what you mean any more, Clarence? 600 00:39:48,637 --> 00:39:49,805 Look at this. 601 00:39:51,139 --> 00:39:52,224 Look at it! 602 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,771 You gave me your word on this - your word, Clarence. 603 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,567 But here you are ticketed up with eunetta in her best precincts 604 00:40:01,775 --> 00:40:05,821 and then ticketed up with my girl Daniels where she's running strong. 605 00:40:05,946 --> 00:40:07,614 Odell, this is the first I've seen this. 606 00:40:07,948 --> 00:40:11,451 Come on, now! This is probably eunetta's people pulling this shit. 607 00:40:11,535 --> 00:40:14,162 With a "citizens for Royce" authority line? 608 00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:17,749 Look at you, Clarence. Just look at you. 609 00:40:18,041 --> 00:40:21,336 You've forgotten your agenda. You've forgotten your base. 610 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:25,882 You think a shave and some Marcus garvey posters are gonna get you over? 611 00:40:25,966 --> 00:40:29,720 You think that's gonna make up for jumping in bed with every damn developer? 612 00:40:30,012 --> 00:40:33,849 Shit. You're even on Clay Davis's tit. 613 00:40:34,099 --> 00:40:36,893 Don't go getting all self-righteous with me, odell. 614 00:40:37,060 --> 00:40:39,271 Campaign runs on dollars - you know it. 615 00:40:39,354 --> 00:40:40,439 Whose dollars? 616 00:40:40,522 --> 00:40:42,608 Those sons of bitches you got around your card table 617 00:40:42,691 --> 00:40:44,484 every month feeding your kitty? 618 00:40:44,568 --> 00:40:47,696 Oh, yeah, I know about that too. 619 00:40:48,071 --> 00:40:50,032 You - trouble with you... 620 00:40:50,824 --> 00:40:54,369 Fuck you, Clarence. I'm gonna sit what's left of this one out. 621 00:40:54,536 --> 00:40:56,455 - I'm gonna sit it out. - Sit it out. 622 00:40:57,456 --> 00:40:59,207 - The primary? - Sit it out! 623 00:41:00,042 --> 00:41:02,294 Odell. Odell! 624 00:41:03,003 --> 00:41:05,130 Who the hell do you think you are, huh? 625 00:41:05,339 --> 00:41:07,633 Come November, I'm still gonna be the only game in town! 626 00:41:07,716 --> 00:41:10,135 Turn your back on me now, I won't forget! 627 00:41:10,218 --> 00:41:11,553 We can't afford this. 628 00:41:11,845 --> 00:41:14,681 We need his organization on Tuesday. Go after him! 629 00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:18,310 Fuck that holier-than-thou motherfucker! 630 00:41:19,853 --> 00:41:21,104 Delegate Watkins. 631 00:41:21,938 --> 00:41:23,065 Delegate Watkins! 632 00:41:23,899 --> 00:41:25,359 Wait, sir. 633 00:41:25,651 --> 00:41:28,570 I'm sure we can work this out. 634 00:41:28,987 --> 00:41:30,587 You and the mayor can talk this through. 635 00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:43,251 Deputy rawls, please. 636 00:41:44,628 --> 00:41:46,380 It's lieutenant hoskins at the hall. 637 00:42:08,652 --> 00:42:10,452 You're gonna use the hole in the wall, right? 638 00:42:10,779 --> 00:42:13,139 Yeah, I'm gonna rub some dogshit on the front of this thing. 639 00:42:13,448 --> 00:42:14,783 I don't want nobody touching it. 640 00:42:18,912 --> 00:42:19,955 Got it? 641 00:42:29,506 --> 00:42:30,632 You need to raise it a bit. 642 00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:41,393 Yeah, that's good. Right there, that works. 643 00:42:46,356 --> 00:42:48,066 - Thought I heard something. - Rats. 644 00:42:48,817 --> 00:42:50,694 - How we doing? - We need to go. 645 00:43:32,277 --> 00:43:34,613 He ain't nothing but a skanky-ass bitch to begin with. 646 00:43:34,863 --> 00:43:37,115 And besides, he ex-police. So you know what that like. 647 00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:42,162 I'm going to the ladies' room. Bey, you need to talk to him. 648 00:43:44,748 --> 00:43:46,333 Visiting hour ends in 30 minutes. 649 00:43:46,875 --> 00:43:49,002 - Visiting hour... - Yo, daddy, don't even go there, 650 00:43:49,211 --> 00:43:52,051 with you all the time telling me how you dropped out in the sixth grade, 651 00:43:52,214 --> 00:43:54,174 went up on the corner with avon and stringer, 652 00:43:54,257 --> 00:43:56,802 earned cheese for the family, saying how it made you a man... 653 00:43:56,885 --> 00:43:58,220 All right, all right. You right. 654 00:43:58,637 --> 00:44:00,806 Can't throw rocks. But I'm just saying, 655 00:44:00,889 --> 00:44:03,350 you know how your mother be, with all the fussing. 656 00:44:04,017 --> 00:44:07,020 Maybe you just need to slow it up. You know what I'm saying? 657 00:44:07,604 --> 00:44:09,439 Yo, you heard how marlo punked bodie? 658 00:44:09,564 --> 00:44:12,067 Said he either got to work for him or give up his corner. 659 00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:13,902 Don't you know, his sorry ass buckled. 660 00:44:15,195 --> 00:44:16,547 You'd have gone about it different? 661 00:44:16,571 --> 00:44:18,698 Yeah, I'd have stood tall, like you. 662 00:44:19,407 --> 00:44:21,326 Got my nine - fuck Chris and them. 663 00:44:21,493 --> 00:44:23,745 Listen to you, all spit and fire. 664 00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:26,248 You'd have gone to the mattress all by your lonesome 665 00:44:26,414 --> 00:44:28,208 and went up against half of the West Side. 666 00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:31,586 You got it where it counts, and I respect that more than anything. 667 00:44:32,170 --> 00:44:35,090 But shit out there now ain't like it was when we was coming up. 668 00:44:35,757 --> 00:44:38,885 Back in the day, a punk nigger like marlo steps out, 669 00:44:39,094 --> 00:44:42,556 breaking the rules and shit, he find himself in the back of a car trunk 670 00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,724 on the way to leakin park. No doubt. 671 00:44:44,850 --> 00:44:47,644 We did that shit right. Word was your bond. 672 00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:50,856 Man looked out for his own, knowing he in a family. 673 00:44:51,106 --> 00:44:54,818 Dig where I'm coming from? But today it's all fucked up. 674 00:45:12,627 --> 00:45:13,920 These steps. 675 00:45:14,713 --> 00:45:16,965 - Thank you, baby. - You're good to go. 676 00:45:42,449 --> 00:45:44,492 Say "Omar". 677 00:45:45,201 --> 00:45:46,494 Omar. 678 00:45:58,632 --> 00:45:59,674 Nothing? 679 00:46:01,718 --> 00:46:04,554 We checked both sides of the street from here up to Monroe. 680 00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,057 - Nothing? - Nothing that don't belong in no sewer. 681 00:46:07,682 --> 00:46:08,850 Thanks. 682 00:46:15,649 --> 00:46:16,983 Other ideas? 683 00:46:17,692 --> 00:46:20,195 Woo! 684 00:46:23,323 --> 00:46:26,493 Blood, bump me off that nigger up the skreet. 685 00:46:26,868 --> 00:46:28,578 Motherfucker in the bruick? 686 00:46:28,662 --> 00:46:30,664 That'd be him. I be saying, 687 00:46:30,747 --> 00:46:33,333 no motherfucker gonna run off with my hairon. 688 00:46:33,959 --> 00:46:35,210 This is fucking great. 689 00:46:35,335 --> 00:46:38,797 Get somebody who reads lips, this motherfucker's history. 690 00:46:39,005 --> 00:46:41,692 Is this legal - I mean, intercepting what they're saying? 691 00:46:41,716 --> 00:46:43,176 Don't go freamon on me. 692 00:46:46,054 --> 00:46:47,639 Shit. I got to run. 693 00:46:49,182 --> 00:46:51,685 What about some fucking relief? I been here all morning! 694 00:47:13,665 --> 00:47:16,918 You heard? They making movies. 695 00:47:17,585 --> 00:47:19,170 Yeah. How you wanna play it? 696 00:47:20,505 --> 00:47:23,383 I ain't sure. Let's see the fat man. 697 00:47:25,093 --> 00:47:26,428 How'd the other thing turn out? 698 00:47:27,303 --> 00:47:28,596 All good. 699 00:47:33,768 --> 00:47:35,687 - Yo. - What up, boy? 700 00:47:35,770 --> 00:47:37,498 - If you want somethin', I got Reese's. - Nah, man. 701 00:47:37,522 --> 00:47:41,109 - You trying to make some real cheese? $5? - What you need? 702 00:47:41,234 --> 00:47:43,194 Me and Paul gonna get it on with tiff. 703 00:47:44,279 --> 00:47:46,990 Keep an eye out. I don't want Mrs. D creeping up. Feel me? 704 00:47:47,323 --> 00:47:50,003 I feel you, but I got some sixth-graders waiting on a special order. 705 00:47:50,076 --> 00:47:52,454 Let them wait, man. It ain't like we gonna be all day. 706 00:47:57,459 --> 00:47:58,585 All right. 707 00:48:01,463 --> 00:48:04,382 No, ma'am, it says right here - his honor had the bureau of solid waste 708 00:48:04,466 --> 00:48:06,301 conduct a clean sweep along tivoly. 709 00:48:06,384 --> 00:48:08,362 It took six months before they showed up. 710 00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:10,346 Well, yeah, ok, but nobody's perfect. 711 00:48:10,555 --> 00:48:12,992 But hey, listen. I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't believe 712 00:48:13,016 --> 00:48:15,977 Clarence Royce wasn't truly committed to this city and its people. 713 00:48:16,061 --> 00:48:18,813 - And crime in our neighborhood? - That's another good point. 714 00:48:19,314 --> 00:48:21,941 But, lady, between you and me, 715 00:48:22,484 --> 00:48:25,684 I can tell from your voice you're black and you can tell from my voice I'm white. 716 00:48:25,945 --> 00:48:27,405 So I gotta ask you, 717 00:48:27,739 --> 00:48:30,575 when do you think the last time a white man voted for a black man 718 00:48:30,658 --> 00:48:32,619 when there was another white man in the race? 719 00:48:32,702 --> 00:48:34,805 I don't know, but you must really believe in him. 720 00:48:34,829 --> 00:48:37,582 Ain't that what I been saying? He's just the best candidate. 721 00:48:38,208 --> 00:48:40,376 - So you'll go with my man? - I'll think about it. 722 00:48:40,502 --> 00:48:42,587 That's great. Thank you for your time. 723 00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:44,130 - Bye-bye. - All right. 724 00:48:54,682 --> 00:48:56,768 - I have a hall pass. - Yeah, good for you. 725 00:49:41,396 --> 00:49:43,314 - Mine's down. - Attaboy. 726 00:49:45,900 --> 00:49:49,070 You need bodies, Lester? Here you go. 727 00:49:52,157 --> 00:49:55,910 We got a warrant and a teletype for my boy Lex. 728 00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:59,706 So dead or alive, he's on file. 729 00:49:59,873 --> 00:50:01,833 And beyond that, it's time for you to shine 730 00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:05,170 that mighty intellect of yours on some real murders. 731 00:50:05,628 --> 00:50:07,505 Give up the hypotheticals and shit. 732 00:50:08,923 --> 00:50:10,341 Yeah, I suppose. 733 00:50:13,178 --> 00:50:16,890 This is my issue - crime, and I understand completely what you're saying. 734 00:50:17,390 --> 00:50:19,618 And if you give me the opportunity, I will be able to do something 735 00:50:19,642 --> 00:50:22,604 to help you out and, you know, other people in this neighborhood. 736 00:50:27,817 --> 00:50:30,737 Mr. Ricks, thank you for your time and for your attention. 737 00:50:30,945 --> 00:50:32,655 - Thank you. - Thank you. 738 00:50:33,907 --> 00:50:36,784 Pretty brazen, shaking hands with the enemy in broad daylight. 739 00:50:38,203 --> 00:50:40,747 - Werner's deli this isn't. - Definitely not. 740 00:50:41,122 --> 00:50:43,583 Though here you are, councilman, leaving no door unopened. 741 00:50:43,708 --> 00:50:45,210 Shoe leather - our secret weapon. 742 00:50:45,418 --> 00:50:47,629 You surprised me. You've made this a horse race. 743 00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:51,341 So what makes me think you didn't just happen by and find us here? 744 00:50:54,552 --> 00:50:56,179 Watkins is breaking with the mayor. 745 00:50:56,971 --> 00:50:58,097 How do you know? 746 00:50:59,015 --> 00:51:00,016 I know. 747 00:51:00,433 --> 00:51:02,810 I've carried the mayor's water because I had to, councilman. 748 00:51:02,977 --> 00:51:04,771 I'd love to see some new blood in this city. 749 00:51:05,313 --> 00:51:09,525 And I'd love the chance to do the right thing for this police department for a change. 750 00:51:29,337 --> 00:51:31,422 Wait until he turns the corner. 751 00:51:35,551 --> 00:51:37,887 District office for Watkins - gilmore street. 752 00:51:38,471 --> 00:51:39,931 And fuck them red lights, man. 753 00:51:47,689 --> 00:51:50,191 Not a place you expect to find any gangsters - 754 00:51:51,150 --> 00:51:52,610 police, for that matter. 755 00:51:54,362 --> 00:51:57,824 - Heard you knew something I didn't. - Told you before, 756 00:51:58,324 --> 00:52:00,702 I make it my business to keep an ear to the ground. 757 00:52:01,202 --> 00:52:03,162 I make it my business to do business. 758 00:52:03,413 --> 00:52:05,373 We doing business, or are we just talking? 759 00:52:05,832 --> 00:52:07,166 And if it's talk, I'm-a walk. 760 00:52:07,250 --> 00:52:08,668 I heard the people pulling security 761 00:52:08,751 --> 00:52:11,462 at the card game weren't too keen on their wages. 762 00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:14,066 I figured it was only a matter of time 763 00:52:14,090 --> 00:52:16,801 before they found a way to get their due compensation. 764 00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,053 And you didn't think to tell me? 765 00:52:19,721 --> 00:52:22,015 A man learns best when he get burned. 766 00:52:23,266 --> 00:52:25,026 How do I know you ain't making this shit up? 767 00:52:25,184 --> 00:52:27,603 You don't. Things happen on the street. 768 00:52:28,479 --> 00:52:29,981 Proof is hard to come by. 769 00:52:34,694 --> 00:52:36,738 Go ahead, open it. 770 00:52:41,909 --> 00:52:44,746 Off the street, there's all kind of proof. 771 00:52:45,330 --> 00:52:49,917 They planning on executing those Friday - time it with the election, I guess, 772 00:52:50,460 --> 00:52:54,422 show they doing their job, cleaning up the city, taking down a kingpin. 773 00:52:55,256 --> 00:52:56,466 How did you come by this? 774 00:52:56,549 --> 00:52:59,427 Told you before, I keep my ear to the ground. 775 00:52:59,761 --> 00:53:02,430 - What are you gonna do with it? - Maybe nothing. 776 00:53:03,348 --> 00:53:05,391 Charlie's not part of the co-op. 777 00:53:07,185 --> 00:53:09,062 Or maybe I tip him for a fee. 778 00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:13,566 What do you think a man with a whole lot of money would pay 779 00:53:14,233 --> 00:53:15,443 for his freedom? 780 00:53:17,153 --> 00:53:19,364 You know, lately... 781 00:53:20,531 --> 00:53:23,076 I come to find out someone trying to take pictures on me. 782 00:53:23,451 --> 00:53:25,745 - Pictures? - Video. 783 00:53:26,788 --> 00:53:28,790 You heard anything about me through your travels? 784 00:53:30,625 --> 00:53:32,210 Had no incentive to listen. 785 00:53:36,214 --> 00:53:37,465 You do now. 786 00:53:52,814 --> 00:53:57,902 It's one thing to sit out the primary. It's another for me to turn on Clarence Royce. 787 00:53:58,778 --> 00:54:00,905 - Granted. - And if I did jump, 788 00:54:01,322 --> 00:54:03,074 why not land behind Tony gray? 789 00:54:03,991 --> 00:54:05,910 At least he's from my side of the tracks. 790 00:54:06,327 --> 00:54:07,453 Tony can't win. 791 00:54:07,912 --> 00:54:08,913 I can. 792 00:54:11,374 --> 00:54:15,837 Look, the truth is, whatever I can do for you, the mayor can match or double. 793 00:54:16,129 --> 00:54:20,049 I have a pretty good grass-roots organization but nothing even close to his kind of money. 794 00:54:20,550 --> 00:54:22,677 Now, I'll ticket up with anyone you want me to. 795 00:54:22,844 --> 00:54:25,805 I know you want Daniels in the 11th and Stokes in the 10th. 796 00:54:26,347 --> 00:54:28,808 I'll keep away from any tickets you think I might harm. 797 00:54:29,350 --> 00:54:32,061 I know I'm not everyone's idea of a bargain on your side of town. 798 00:54:33,062 --> 00:54:35,898 But right now, a week from the primary, 799 00:54:36,566 --> 00:54:39,360 the fact is, Royce and I both need you. 800 00:54:40,319 --> 00:54:41,529 After the election, 801 00:54:41,654 --> 00:54:44,157 the equation changes for him but not for me. 802 00:54:44,699 --> 00:54:47,201 I'm a white mayor in a majority-black city, 803 00:54:47,368 --> 00:54:49,537 and if I'm gonna do anything - and, delegate, 804 00:54:49,620 --> 00:54:51,497 I am so serious about fixing this city - 805 00:54:51,581 --> 00:54:53,666 I'm gonna have to govern by consensus. 806 00:54:54,250 --> 00:54:56,810 If you support me, you will have a voice within my administration 807 00:54:56,836 --> 00:54:58,629 simply because I'm gonna need it. 808 00:55:02,592 --> 00:55:04,385 Last poll that Clarence showed me, 809 00:55:05,219 --> 00:55:06,554 he was up by seven points. 810 00:55:08,222 --> 00:55:10,558 Bullshit. I'm within four. 811 00:55:16,272 --> 00:55:19,233 - You won't be needing that. - I know. 812 00:55:21,944 --> 00:55:23,738 - Here? - Yeah, here. 813 00:56:02,235 --> 00:56:03,444 Dag. 814 00:56:03,611 --> 00:56:05,571 Yo, turn it off - the bulb might have got too hot. 815 00:56:06,614 --> 00:56:07,854 Or the battery's dying. 816 00:56:09,784 --> 00:56:10,785 We should go back. 817 00:56:14,997 --> 00:56:18,000 - Yo, man, it stinks, man. - Ain't like it was. 818 00:56:32,974 --> 00:56:34,600 See, he ain't move. 819 00:56:38,062 --> 00:56:39,188 Yeah. 820 00:56:40,773 --> 00:56:42,441 Blood still stuck to his hair. 821 00:56:43,317 --> 00:56:44,527 He dead? 822 00:56:45,736 --> 00:56:46,737 He dead. 823 00:56:47,989 --> 00:56:48,990 Lextoo? 824 00:56:49,574 --> 00:56:51,158 He dead. They all is. 825 00:56:52,326 --> 00:56:53,327 Feel better? 826 00:56:54,829 --> 00:56:56,163 Donut wrong, yo. 827 00:56:57,123 --> 00:56:58,499 Ain't no special dead. 828 00:57:01,919 --> 00:57:03,588 There's just dead.