1. Rise and shine! Come on, man, get up!Copy !req
2. Oh, boy. Come on, get up!
School day. Y'all gonna be late!Copy !req
3. Let's go. Get up for school.Copy !req
4. Go! Get up. Come on, man.Copy !req
5. - Damn, Wallace.
- "Damn, Wallace," nothing!Copy !req
6. Y'all know what happens
if you don't go to school?Copy !req
7. Soon enough, they're gonna be callin'
and all y'all gonna end up in foster care.Copy !req
8. If y'all want foster care,
climb your little black asses back into bed.Copy !req
9. Get outta my way, man.
Damn, it's too early for this shit.Copy !req
10. - Narcos?
- No, rollies.Copy !req
11. Yo, where's breakfast at?Copy !req
12. Here, man. You get two.Copy !req
13. - I want two bags.
- You don't get two.Copy !req
14. Come on, getting greedy. Take the chips!Copy !req
15. Come on. Take your juice.Copy !req
16. Come on, man.Copy !req
17. Where's mine?Copy !req
18. Go show your teacher. Come on, man.Copy !req
19. - Where's your book bag?
- Teacher ain't giving no homework.Copy !req
20. That's the worst case of suicide
I've ever seen.Copy !req
21. That's him.Copy !req
22. You see?Copy !req
23. That's him, right there.Copy !req
24. That's Omar's boy.Copy !req
25. - What the fuck can I tell him?
- Whatever the man wants to hear, Jimmy.Copy !req
26. Prodigal son.Copy !req
27. Major, we got a good shot
at clearing a couple of cases here.Copy !req
28. - One—
- We're not here to talk cases.Copy !req
29. I don't care about your cases. Sit.Copy !req
30. Relax.Copy !req
31. I'm a reasonable guy.Copy !req
32. In fact, everywhere I go, people say to me:Copy !req
33. "Bill Rawls, you are a
reasonable fucking guy."Copy !req
34. - Am I right, Jay?
- You are reasonable, sir.Copy !req
35. Yes. Yes, I am.Copy !req
36. And because your sergeant knows me
to be reasonable...Copy !req
37. he came in here a couple weeks ago
and reasoned with me. Right, Jay?Copy !req
38. We reasoned. We did.Copy !req
39. We reasoned that
despite his negligible lrish ancestry...Copy !req
40. and a propensity to talk out of turn,
Jimmy McNulty is a good worker.Copy !req
41. Probably worth saving.Copy !req
42. - Major, I'm not—
- He's a good-looking kid, huh?Copy !req
43. Do you know what we do here, McNulty?Copy !req
44. What we do here?Copy !req
45. That was one of them... What is it?
A question you don't have to—Copy !req
46. A rhetorical question.Copy !req
47. You were being rhetorical.
Rhetorical and reasonable, sir.Copy !req
48. We work murder cases here,
as they come in, one at a fucking time.Copy !req
49. It's called a rotation.Copy !req
50. You're up till you catch one,
then you step down, work it for a while...Copy !req
51. someone else steps up.Copy !req
52. It's a simple but effective way
to do business...Copy !req
53. in a town that has 250 to 300 cases a year.Copy !req
54. Yes, sir.Copy !req
55. But if someone gets it into his head
to leave the rotation...Copy !req
56. it puts an unfair burden on other detectives
who have to pick up their casework.Copy !req
57. Overworked cops make mistakes.Copy !req
58. Mistakes lower the unit-wide clearance rate.Copy !req
59. And that can make someone
who is otherwise as reasonable as me...Copy !req
60. Unreasonable.Copy !req
61. Detective McNulty, I expect to see
your ass back here next week...Copy !req
62. when your shift rotates to night work.Copy !req
63. - He's up early today.
- A lot of pager activity last night, too.Copy !req
64. No woman takes that long.Copy !req
65. Yeah. But I look good, right?Copy !req
66. Wow. You did all this?Copy !req
67. - Burned an egg or two. Ain't no thing.
- Yeah?Copy !req
68. My mama always said:
"Don't let them get to cooking.Copy !req
69. "Once they're in the kitchen, ain't nothing
left to do but give 'em a key to your house."Copy !req
70. I don't want no key. I don't want no house.Copy !req
71. And your mama don't know shit about me.Copy !req
72. Looks just like you.Copy !req
73. Yeah, he do.Copy !req
74. Where's his mother?Copy !req
75. Around the way.Copy !req
76. Yeah. You friends?Copy !req
77. You know, she want a key...Copy !req
78. she want a house, she want a car,
she wants some new clothes, a necklace...Copy !req
79. some pocket change, a trip to the shore,
she want a credit card with her name on it.Copy !req
80. Ain't no such thing as free, right?Copy !req
81. When it come to pussy, there ain't no free.Copy !req
82. I gotta go.Copy !req
83. Been working on this one.Copy !req
84. You'll get the lines
on the other two payphones tomorrow.Copy !req
85. - So we up?
- On the low-rise payphones, yeah.Copy !req
86. Let's hear it.Copy !req
87. See, what I'm talking about is he ain't
paid no one, hejust think it's right to do it.Copy !req
88. See how it goes?
So I ain't got shit. I ain't got it.Copy !req
89. Damn, for real?Copy !req
90. Thinking he all that
because he got his family back.Copy !req
91. - Hey, it was getting good.
- It's unmonitored.Copy !req
92. It's what?Copy !req
93. Unmonitored. We can't listen to a
conversation on an unmonitored payphone.Copy !req
94. - What's that mean?
- We got a tap on the courtyard payphone.Copy !req
95. By tomorrow,
we'll be up on two near the high-rises.Copy !req
96. But we can't listen to anything unless we
know one of our targets is using the phone.Copy !req
97. So we gotta be out there
on those rooftops for hours...Copy !req
98. watching these assholes talk on the phone?Copy !req
99. Yep.Copy !req
100. It's more bullshit.Copy !req
101. Detective, this right here, this is the job.Copy !req
102. Now, when you came downtown to CID,
what kind of work were you expecting?Copy !req
103. So what are you gonna do?Copy !req
104. I can't get back here in a week,
this case is taking off.Copy !req
105. You tell Rawls that?Copy !req
106. - No.
- McNulty, Line 3.Copy !req
107. Yeah?Copy !req
108. Where at?Copy !req
109. 800 block, in the rear. Yeah, I got it.Copy !req
110. Thanks. Yeah.Copy !req
111. We're still waiting on a lab unit.
Do you have an ETA?Copy !req
112. Negative. They're all out.Copy !req
113. - Damn dog got Norris, too.
- You didn't think to warn me?Copy !req
114. Too much fun not to.Copy !req
115. Damn.Copy !req
116. Is he one of yours?Copy !req
117. We found him with Kevlar,
like the one Worden caught last week.Copy !req
118. - We thought it might be a connection.
- Yeah, it connects.Copy !req
119. How so?Copy !req
120. Don't have a name,
but he's part of a stick-up crew.Copy !req
121. Don't have a name,
but he's part of a stick-up crew.Copy !req
122. Took off a stash house last month.
My guy, Barksdale, is coming back on them.Copy !req
123. - In a big way.
- They must've killed him four or five times.Copy !req
124. Cut him in a dozen places, burned him
with cigarettes. Torture-fest is what it was.Copy !req
125. Doesn't look like your scene, either.Copy !req
126. Fuck him up somewhere else,
dump him here for all to see.Copy !req
127. - Anything we can use?
- Not yet.Copy !req
128. We're up on some phones.
If I hear anything, I'll let you know.Copy !req
129. - Bring 22.
- 22.Copy !req
130. Anything yet? Or are we just gonna let
this guy go ripe on us?Copy !req
131. - You been waiting for crime lab?
- Over an hour.Copy !req
132. Only two units on the street. Both are up
at the City Council President's house.Copy !req
133. - What happened there?
- Someone stole his lawn furniture.Copy !req
134. They're taking pictures of an empty patio,
dusting the backyard gate for latents.Copy !req
135. I kid you not.Copy !req
136. I swear, you show me the son of a bitch
who can fix this police department...Copy !req
137. I'd give back half my overtime.Copy !req
138. He was all cut up and shit.Copy !req
139. His insides was hanging out.Copy !req
140. Fucked up, yo. I mean, damn.Copy !req
141. Sometimes you gotta send a message, yo.Copy !req
142. I mean, when you picked up that phone,
what did you think they were gonna do?Copy !req
143. - All that shit is in the game. You know that.
- Yeah.Copy !req
144. Like you and that girl, huh?Copy !req
145. - What girl?
- The one in the apartment.Copy !req
146. The one you told us about, remember?Copy !req
147. I mean, I like what you said
about all that killing, you know?Copy !req
148. Especially that part about
how it ain't gotta be like that.Copy !req
149. Just sell the shit and move on.Copy !req
150. Get me a ginger ale
and get something for yourself.Copy !req
151. Yeah, I remember that.
But it ain't like that, is it?Copy !req
152. Yeah, I know. I know it ain't.Copy !req
153. Thing about it was his eye.
His eye was blown out.Copy !req
154. And the other one was open.
And yo, Dee, it fucks me up.Copy !req
155. It's like he's looking out,
like he sees everything, you know?Copy !req
156. Don't think about it.Copy !req
157. - Fuck!
- Yo.Copy !req
158. Let that shit go.Copy !req
159. Just let it go.Copy !req
160. Barksdale kid on the line.Copy !req
161. He's beeping someone.Copy !req
162. - Yo.
- What up?Copy !req
163. Hold on.Copy !req
164. Yo, Strings! This is Dee.Copy !req
165. - Yeah.
- Yeah, you hit me?Copy !req
166. Yeah, I wanted to know if you know a
young hopper, the one they got down there.Copy !req
167. - Which one?
- The fool, drop in there with a punch.Copy !req
168. - Yeah, what about him?
- He got some problems, right?Copy !req
169. - What you mean?
- Enough to bring home, right?Copy !req
170. You know, man, whatever.Copy !req
171. All right.Copy !req
172. They're bringing Bodie home.Copy !req
173. A young boy who was with him,
light-skinned kid from the cemetery.Copy !req
174. Where?Copy !req
175. In the alley behind 800 block of Argyle,
across from the low-rises.Copy !req
176. Shot?Copy !req
177. - Stabbed, beaten, burned.
- Jesus.Copy !req
178. - Yeah, we gotta get with Omar.
- Yeah.Copy !req
179. Impressive.Copy !req
180. I don't often see a respondent come so
prepared for a juvenile commitment meeting.Copy !req
181. In addition to the signed statements
from Preston's sponsors...Copy !req
182. at the Police Athletic League...Copy !req
183. I also have a Photostatted copy
of a cashed check...Copy !req
184. which indicates that he is enrolled
in the GED program...Copy !req
185. at the Baltimore City Community College.Copy !req
186. Can I ask how this young man is able
to afford not one...Copy !req
187. - but two attorneys from your firm, Mr. Levy?
- This is pro bono, Your Honor.Copy !req
188. My firm is making it a priority to identify
a number of city youths...Copy !req
189. who are in crisis, and to undertake efforts
to reorder their lives.Copy !req
190. Excuse me, I can't help but notice that
your client is under a delinquent petition...Copy !req
191. for the sale of narcotics, and further,
for assault on a police officer.Copy !req
192. Beyond that,
he walked away from a JSA facility.Copy !req
193. You Honor, my client stands
ready to acknowledge...Copy !req
194. that he was involved for a time
in the sale of a small amount of drugs...Copy !req
195. a transaction for which
he received no remuneration...Copy !req
196. having been manipulated
by older traffickers in his neighborhood.Copy !req
197. - That was a mistake, Your Honor.
- So noted.Copy !req
198. We will contend that it was Preston who
was the victim of a brutal police beating...Copy !req
199. indications of which
are still evident on him, Your Honor.Copy !req
200. He struck back,
wildly and in self-defense, Your Honor.Copy !req
201. And the walk-away?Copy !req
202. Preston was heavily medicated
when he left the Cheltenham facility.Copy !req
203. In that state, Your Honor...Copy !req
204. he was simply trying to get back
to see his grandmother.Copy !req
205. Did you know what you were doing
when you left the Boys' Village, son?Copy !req
206. - No, I was messed up.
- Anything else you'd like to add?Copy !req
207. Just...Copy !req
208. I don't know...Copy !req
209. I'm ready to be good.Copy !req
210. Pending a hearing on these charges
to be scheduled within six months...Copy !req
211. I'm putting the respondent
on home monitoring with his grandmother.Copy !req
212. Your honor, I'm afraid Mrs. Brodus
doesn't have a telephone...Copy !req
213. for any monitoring calls.
She's on a fixed income, Your Honor.Copy !req
214. How about he calls his probation officer
twice a week?Copy !req
215. Cool. Whatever...Copy !req
216. Your Honor.Copy !req
217. - Yo, Bubbles, what's the game?
- Hey, Johnny.Copy !req
218. - Rubbing them down, huh?
- Yeah.Copy !req
219. - Rubbing them down, huh?
- Yeah.Copy !req
220. - What is the scam out here?
- Ain't no scam.Copy !req
221. Thank you, ma'am.Copy !req
222. What you got here is an honest day's work
for an honest day's pay. Right, Lavelle?Copy !req
223. Mr. Straight Time, Bubbles.Copy !req
224. Gotta give something back
when they least expect it.Copy !req
225. Me and Uck, here, we got something on, too.
We got a plan.Copy !req
226. - No shit.
- For real.Copy !req
227. Yo, we're gonna take off
on the copper house.Copy !req
228. Damn, your first two days out
and you get dramatic on me.Copy !req
229. - Copper house.
- Got to be got, homes.Copy !req
230. - What about the fence?
- Fuck the fence.Copy !req
231. - What about the dog?
- Fuck the dog.Copy !req
232. All that time I was resting,
it got me thinking. It got good to me, too.Copy !req
233. Copper house. Gracious.Copy !req
234. I gotta go, can you cash me out?Copy !req
235. If you ain't got dreams, Bubs,
what the fuck you got?Copy !req
236. Thank you. Come on, dreamer.Copy !req
237. Yeah.Copy !req
238. - One of ours on the line.
- Got him.Copy !req
239. - Is Carv still there?
- Hold a second.Copy !req
240. Carv, call for you!Copy !req
241. - Yeah, hello?
- You ain't gonna believe who I'm looking at.Copy !req
242. Again he walks off?Copy !req
243. Ding! Round three.Copy !req
244. - Yo.
- What up, man?Copy !req
245. - Yo, Stink, what up?
- Where are your manners, fool?Copy !req
246. - Oh, my bad, yeah.
- You need to keep your fucking head, boy.Copy !req
247. Forgot.Copy !req
248. - What's up? Where you at?
- Where you at?Copy !req
249. I'm down in the Pit. I just came home...Copy !req
250. I don't see nobody around,
I just wanted to know what was up.Copy !req
251. Ain't nothing going late, man.Copy !req
252. Just catch us tomorrow, man.Copy !req
253. - All right?
- All right, yeah.Copy !req
254. All right. Later.Copy !req
255. "Non-pertinent"?Copy !req
256. How do you log that non-pertinent?Copy !req
257. No drug talk.Copy !req
258. They use codes
that hide their pager and phone numbers.Copy !req
259. And when someone does use a phone,
they don't use names.Copy !req
260. And if someone does use a name,
he's reminded not to.Copy !req
261. All of that is valuable evidence.Copy !req
262. - Of what?
- Conspiracy.Copy !req
263. Conspiracy?Copy !req
264. We're building something here, detective.
We're building it from scratch.Copy !req
265. All the pieces matter.Copy !req
266. All right?Copy !req
267. Shit.Copy !req
268. Shit!Copy !req
269. Are you fucking serious?Copy !req
270. Fuck, man.Copy !req
271. You keep walking away from JSA,
we keep kicking your ass.Copy !req
272. - I'm all right with that if you are.
- I ain't walk away from nowhere, man.Copy !req
273. Check my back pocket.Copy !req
274. - "Home monitoring"?
- Yeah, man.Copy !req
275. If you ask questions before you start wildin'
on niggers, you might save some trouble.Copy !req
276. How the fuck are you home?Copy !req
277. You ain't bright, man.Copy !req
278. Juvenile judge, man.Copy !req
279. He saw my potential.
He expects big things from me.Copy !req
280. Yeah, like what?Copy !req
281. I don't know, college, law school,
medical school, all that good shit.Copy !req
282. - Seriously, how are you out?
- Look, I'm gonna tell you something.Copy !req
283. Okay, this is just my opinion, but...Copy !req
284. the juvenile system in this city is fucked up.
It's a big-ass fucking joke. No offense.Copy !req
285. Fucking fuck!Copy !req
286. You could give me a ride down
to my grandma's, we'll call it even.Copy !req
287. In back, fucknuts.Copy !req
288. Get outta the street!Copy !req
289. Bitch!Copy !req
290. - Hey.
- Hey.Copy !req
291. What's up? What you need?Copy !req
292. - Little late in the month for this shit, isn't it?
- What you mean?Copy !req
293. - For my aunt, she hit the Match Four.
- You stealing from me, Cass?Copy !req
294. What?Copy !req
295. You look fresh today.Copy !req
296. - Got laid last night, that's why.
- Oh, yeah? Your asshole still hurting?Copy !req
297. - Call Jimmy.
- What's up, boss?Copy !req
298. Rawls finally got around to reading the
office reports that McNulty tried to give him.Copy !req
299. He wants arrest warrants
for Diedre Kresson...Copy !req
300. and the two project murders
that match up to that gun.Copy !req
301. I know.Copy !req
302. - Come on, Jay, be right on this.
- I can't. It's Rawls, he wants warrants today.Copy !req
303. All right, no problem. So who the fuck
are we supposed to charge?Copy !req
304. You got a witness
that puts D'Angelo Barksdale...Copy !req
305. at the scene of the murder,
the night of the murder.Copy !req
306. You got a ballistics match between
the Kresson girl and the two dead mopes...Copy !req
307. in the project where Barksdale hangs.
Run with it.Copy !req
308. This weak-ass shit
is not gonna get past the Grand Jury.Copy !req
309. Charge the mope,
and work it more afterward.Copy !req
310. Call Jimmy, let him know.Copy !req
311. Yo.Copy !req
312. All right, listen up. New deal.Copy !req
313. Wallace, you're gonna be on the stash now
with Latroy and Peaches.Copy !req
314. What about Sterling?Copy !req
315. He's gonna be down on Crescent,
looking out for a while. Cassandra, too.Copy !req
316. - What happened?
- Nothing.Copy !req
317. - Why you wanna change up, then?
- Nigger, I gotta explain shit to you now?Copy !req
318. Stringer Bell's pager number?Copy !req
319. - Stinkum's too, I'm pretty sure.
- Very sweet.Copy !req
320. If they moved around,
then nobody would have problems.Copy !req
321. They're a little lazy, you know...Copy !req
322. tend to go to that one payphone
in the courtyard a little too much.Copy !req
323. Jesus.Copy !req
324. He's lit at 9:00 in the morning?Copy !req
325. Or from the night before.Copy !req
326. Detective.Copy !req
327. Detective Polk.Copy !req
328. Yeah, it's McNulty. Bunk paged me.Copy !req
329. All right.Copy !req
330. Why did you even come in today?Copy !req
331. - I had some...
- To pretend that you were here?Copy !req
332. To fill out a run sheet?Copy !req
333. I know I missed a couple of days
last week, Lieutenant, but—Copy !req
334. I got a run sheet from you every day
for the last two weeks.Copy !req
335. Twice in Carv's handwriting,
twice it was Prez, once it was McNulty.Copy !req
336. They covered for you.Copy !req
337. But I won't.Copy !req
338. Well, Lieutenant, l...Copy !req
339. I don't know. I'm not really
up for this drug thing, you know?Copy !req
340. Maybe if Mahone was here, I could...Copy !req
341. get into it more, learn some new tricks.Copy !req
342. Hell, why don't you just send me back
to Property and keep everyone happy?Copy !req
343. Send you back to Property Crimes
so you can binge for two more weeks?Copy !req
344. I'm not doing that.Copy !req
345. - Lieutenant, please—
- You were dumped on me, Augie.Copy !req
346. But it ends there. I don't dump people.Copy !req
347. You either go out on those rooftops today
to watch payphones with the others...Copy !req
348. or you go over to the medical office
and check yourself in.Copy !req
349. - Medical?
- For alcohol abuse.Copy !req
350. Either dry yourself out
or go up on those rooftops wet.Copy !req
351. Take a few minutes and think on it.Copy !req
352. - Where'd they go?
- Who?Copy !req
353. Lieutenant...Copy !req
354. we need a file cabinet or two.
The paperwork from this, I mean...Copy !req
355. there's a lot of it.Copy !req
356. Lieutenant...Copy !req
357. sir...Copy !req
358. I'm going to...Copy !req
359. Good luck with the case.Copy !req
360. Fucking Rawls,
he's fucking up the case to get to me.Copy !req
361. No, he's fucking it up for three paper
clearances on prior cases. It ain't personal.Copy !req
362. All he's got is D'Angelo
at the scene through hearsay...Copy !req
363. and a ballistics match to a couple unrelated
drug murders. How can he charge that?Copy !req
364. He can charge anything he wants
to get credit for clearance.Copy !req
365. Grand Jury doesn't indict,
he drops the case, keeps his stats.Copy !req
366. - I'll go tell him what the fuck he can do.
- No you don't.Copy !req
367. I'm trying to build something here.
Rawls just sticks a finger in my eye.Copy !req
368. - You talk to Landsman?
- Jay can't fix this.Copy !req
369. Rawls told him to have the warrants typed
and ready by morning.Copy !req
370. He's gonna charge murders he can't prove
just to get the stats?Copy !req
371. And fuck up our case in the process.Copy !req
372. We give up ballistics info and motive
for the Kresson killing...Copy !req
373. in the charging documents,
and Avon Barksdale is gonna change up.Copy !req
374. And what he don't change up he'll clean up.
Someone should tell Rawls.Copy !req
375. Rawls couldn't care less.
He wants me home, and the stats, that's all.Copy !req
376. - Then we take it to Daniels.
- Daniels?Copy !req
377. - It's his case, he'll fight for it.
- He won't do shit.Copy !req
378. He plays stiff every now and then,
but he's a good man.Copy !req
379. Are you kidding me?Copy !req
380. He's been trying to put the brakes on this
for weeks now.Copy !req
381. This'll be his new excuse to close shop.Copy !req
382. Look, you guys gotta make your move soon,
I'm sorry to say.Copy !req
383. - Freamon.
- All right, Bunk, take care.Copy !req
384. We tell Daniels.Copy !req
385. Fuck Daniels and his ass-kissing
up-the-chain-of-command ambition.Copy !req
386. What other choice you got, huh?Copy !req
387. We go to Daniels. If he fights, he fights.Copy !req
388. If he gives it up to Rawls, then fuck it,
we were never gonna do the case anyway.Copy !req
389. All right, come on.Copy !req
390. Fucking idiot!Copy !req
391. - Come on, get up, stupid.
- I'm hurt, man.Copy !req
392. What are you doing? Leave me alone!Copy !req
393. - What, are you on dope or something?
- Mostly, yes.Copy !req
394. Come on, get up.Copy !req
395. You trying to rip out my guts?Copy !req
396. - Fuck.
- What, are you trying to kill me, man?Copy !req
397. - Wait! Where are you going?
- Listen, I gotta get help.Copy !req
398. You can't leave me here.
You gotta stay with me.Copy !req
399. Let's go over to the curb.Copy !req
400. Just go get help, man! What are you doing?Copy !req
401. Stay there!Copy !req
402. - Damn, boy! What the hell come out of you?
- Onion soup. Campbell's.Copy !req
403. - Yeah, my plan!
- Run, Forrest, run!Copy !req
404. You could go to Foerster,
or the Deputy Ops.Copy !req
405. Why come crying to me?Copy !req
406. Why not go to your friend, the judge?Copy !req
407. I don't see a circuit court judge
being able to argue...Copy !req
408. the city homicide commander
out of three murders...Copy !req
409. even if the cases are all weak sisters.
It's put-up or shut-up time, Lieutenant.Copy !req
410. - Either you step up or you send us all home.
- So this is on me?Copy !req
411. I don't see anyone else
in charge of this detail.Copy !req
412. - Rawls is a major.
- Rawls is an asshole.Copy !req
413. My point is, he ranks me on this.Copy !req
414. Chain of command might mean
nothing to you, McNulty.Copy !req
415. What'd I tell you?Copy !req
416. - Yo, how we doing?
- We doing good.Copy !req
417. You know, if you say we doing good...Copy !req
418. So the word is out
about these stick-up boys, right?Copy !req
419. Yeah, y'all being heard.Copy !req
420. There goes shorty right there.Copy !req
421. What's up, man, you know...Copy !req
422. I'm a man of my word.
I said it would be $4,000 to Omar...Copy !req
423. $2,000 on each of the young ones,
this being a team effort.Copy !req
424. I'm putting $500 in the boy's hand
who's doing the scope...Copy !req
425. $500 in your hand for doing the relay...Copy !req
426. put $500 in Wee-Bey and Bird's hands
for doing the muscling up.Copy !req
427. - All right.
- How you doing with that other thing?Copy !req
428. What?Copy !req
429. Everybody a little depressed, right?Copy !req
430. Oh, yeah, you know, ain't no surprises yet.Copy !req
431. Cut everybody loose on Friday...Copy !req
432. and they all just a bunch
of begging-ass bitches.Copy !req
433. I mean, ain't nobody showed
no money since.Copy !req
434. - You gonna keep it humming, cuz?
- Yeah, you know.Copy !req
435. Oh! You got your hands up.Copy !req
436. You keep on doing like how you're doing
we'll talk about points on the package.Copy !req
437. - All right?
- All right.Copy !req
438. - Keep it humming.
- Yeah, most def.Copy !req
439. - All right, then.
- Take it light, but take it.Copy !req
440. Hotter than the Wu-Tang, killer bee.Copy !req
441. - 40 cents.
- Not 40 cents a foot, no sir.Copy !req
442. Look, respectfully, I gotta tell you...Copy !req
443. for 40 cents a foot, you might as well
go to Home Depot, pay them.Copy !req
444. They're gonna charge you
45 or 50 cents a foot.Copy !req
445. For copper that isn't stolen.Copy !req
446. Look, all right, 35 cents a foot.Copy !req
447. And that's in respect I have for y'all,
what you're doing in our community...Copy !req
448. with these quality domiciles here.Copy !req
449. Thirty cents a foot, take it or leave it.Copy !req
450. I understand the interest
in clearing these cases, I do.Copy !req
451. But charging those murders now...Copy !req
452. and putting the information that we have
into the charging documents...Copy !req
453. I just call them like I see them, Lieutenant.Copy !req
454. Three murders, same gun, we got this
Barksdale kid right at the scene on the one.Copy !req
455. We're up on the wire.
We're starting to pull good information.Copy !req
456. You charge these prematurely
and Barksdale will change up on us.Copy !req
457. - The work we've already done—
- Look...Copy !req
458. I can't tell you how to run your case,
I can only run my own.Copy !req
459. Major...Copy !req
460. I'm asking as a favor.Copy !req
461. - As a favor.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
462. A favor.Copy !req
463. In that case...Copy !req
464. no. Sorry.Copy !req
465. - You got home from work early today.
- Yep. Work sucks.Copy !req
466. - Are we eating dinner with you?
- Why not?Copy !req
467. - You promised we'd eat lasagna.
- So we'll go to Little ltaly.Copy !req
468. Get some lasagna at Sab's.Copy !req
469. - You never cook.
- Yeah, cooking sucks, too.Copy !req
470. - Who's this?
- Hey, yo, I wanna see him.Copy !req
471. - Who?
- Brandon, my boy.Copy !req
472. - Copper house, yo.
- Was the shit.Copy !req
473. My plan, Bubs.Copy !req
474. Johnny had a plan.Copy !req
475. Get out the way, motherfuckers.Copy !req
476. This here is White Boy Day.Copy !req
477. - I got a plan, too.
- What?Copy !req
478. We're gonna wait for that cheap-ass,
speculating motherfucker...Copy !req
479. to put that good copper line
back into them row houses he's fixing up.Copy !req
480. Then, before the drywall get up...Copy !req
481. we creep back in there,
and steal that shit right back.Copy !req
482. 30 cents a foot.Copy !req
483. Gotta come back at the motherfucker
for that, you know?Copy !req
484. Yeah.Copy !req
485. You good?Copy !req
486. I could top off with one more.Copy !req
487. - Yeah.
- Just one more.Copy !req
488. Johnny got it.Copy !req
489. I'll be back.Copy !req
490. It's my night with the kids.Copy !req
491. You ain't gonna find nothing,
because I didn't do nothing!Copy !req
492. Why don't you just leave me alone, man?Copy !req
493. A white man can't walk down the street?
What's that about? Come on, man!Copy !req
494. It's messed up, all right?Copy !req
495. Profiling!Copy !req
496. What? It's 'cause I'm white, right?
Why don't you let me...Copy !req
497. Oh, man, what the fuck's that? What's that?Copy !req
498. That boy ain't got no luck.Copy !req
499. All right. Hold up!Copy !req
500. - Hey.
- Hey.Copy !req
501. So, what are you going to do
with your money?Copy !req
502. You know what you should do?Copy !req
503. Take the whole roll
and do something nice for your girl.Copy !req
504. You do have a girl, right?Copy !req
505. Anyway, you've got enough money
to go get yourself one now.Copy !req
506. Why'd you punk Sterling like you did?Copy !req
507. I mean, he did get shot behind this shit.Copy !req
508. - I didn't punk him.
- So why are you dropping the lookout?Copy !req
509. Cass, too.Copy !req
510. 'Cause they was thieving. Both of them.Copy !req
511. They got pissed
'cause I wasn't paying them.Copy !req
512. So Sterling started shaking up the vials,
handing off to Cass.Copy !req
513. She was selling on the side.Copy !req
514. You didn't tell anybody? Stinkum, Bodie?Copy !req
515. They don't know?Copy !req
516. If I tell them,
what you think they're going to do?Copy !req
517. They're going to take a baseball bat
to Sterling. Cassandra, too.Copy !req
518. It's too much drama, right?Copy !req
519. So, I just took them both off the stash.Copy !req
520. So why didn't you pay us?Copy !req
521. That wasn't right.Copy !req
522. Listen, man...Copy !req
523. Stringer thought we had a snitch down here.Copy !req
524. You know, with the jump-out,
Omar, all that shit.Copy !req
525. So he told me to punk you all
for a little while.Copy !req
526. See who was still holding money
at the end of the week.Copy !req
527. Was they snitching?Copy !req
528. Sterling and Cass?Copy !req
529. No, man, just thieving.Copy !req
530. 2-0, Orioles, in the first inning.Copy !req
531. All right, going to Homicide.Copy !req
532. Okay, you two, you sit right here, okay?Copy !req
533. Don't wander off.Copy !req
534. - Dad?
- What?Copy !req
535. It's a school night. Mom said we had to—Copy !req
536. I know, I know. We will. Just stay there.Copy !req
537. Runners at second and third,
nobody out yet here in the first inning.Copy !req
538. Here's Mora at the plate,
and the pitch is high.Copy !req
539. Lopez on the mound. The pitch is outside.Copy !req
540. 15 pitches and 10 of them have been balls.Copy !req
541. It's a ground ball down the right-field line.Copy !req
542. 64-Charlie to Central K.Copy !req
543. You up to this?Copy !req
544. Pay it back, Omar. Pay it back.Copy !req
545. Why we ain't in a real police office?Copy !req
546. We're a little like you, Omar.Copy !req
547. Out here on our own,
playing the game for ourselves.Copy !req
548. Hard way to go sometimes.Copy !req
549. Sorry about your friend.Copy !req
550. Avon is one sick bastard.Copy !req
551. Of course, he had his reasons.Copy !req
552. For one thing, you all did take his stash.Copy !req
553. For another, he's looking for you, Omar.Copy !req
554. That's what all the cigarette burns
were about.Copy !req
555. The broken fingers and cracked forearms.Copy !req
556. He wanted your boy to give you up.Copy !req
557. An address, a street.Copy !req
558. Kid had heart.Copy !req
559. Yeah.Copy !req
560. I know you want to go to
wherever it is you lay your head...Copy !req
561. and pick up that sawed-off you like
so much, and go on the hunt.Copy !req
562. That's how a man like you wants to carry.Copy !req
563. - You wouldn't be wrong.
- No, you wouldn't.Copy !req
564. But one man with two barrels
ain't enough, Omar.Copy !req
565. Now, you're going to do
what you're going to do.Copy !req
566. But whatever else you can give us
on Barksdale and his people...Copy !req
567. that can go to hurting him, too.Copy !req
568. Just throw us what you can.Copy !req
569. Let me tell you all something, all right?Copy !req
570. What I do, I do, straight like that.Copy !req
571. Ain't no sense
in you all troubling yourselves over that...Copy !req
572. 'cause the way I feel right now, today...Copy !req
573. What do you all need from me?Copy !req
574. When did you last see Brandon?Copy !req
575. Tuesday around 7:00. Maybe later.Copy !req
576. He was on his way down to Mindamin...Copy !req
577. and the Greek's after that.Copy !req
578. Everybody's talking about
he got snatched up from there.Copy !req
579. The Greek's on Baltimore Street?Copy !req
580. Yeah, he liked to play
the pinball games to death.Copy !req
581. He go alone?Copy !req
582. Yeah, and I didn't like it none, neither.Copy !req
583. But you can only treat a young man
like a boy for so long before they book.Copy !req
584. When Bailey got killed...Copy !req
585. you must have figured
Barksdale was coming back on you?Copy !req
586. Bailey? Please.Copy !req
587. That nigger's enemies got enemies.Copy !req
588. I just figured he tried his hand
on the wrong corner and got dropped.Copy !req
589. But you were worried about Brandon, right?Copy !req
590. Look, in my game...Copy !req
591. you take some kid,
you play it the safest way you can.Copy !req
592. But it ain't about no hiding forever.Copy !req
593. You heard?Copy !req
594. Frankly, you been in it as long as me...Copy !req
595. you do the thing on your name.Copy !req
596. Anyone going to come after Omar,
they know Omar's coming after him.Copy !req
597. Oh, indeed.Copy !req
598. So, who came after Brandon?Copy !req
599. I heard it might have been Wee-Bey...Copy !req
600. his boy Stinkum...Copy !req
601. and Bird.Copy !req
602. He was down with the snatch, too.Copy !req
603. So, what can you give us on the job?Copy !req
604. 7:56 Tuesday night,
you had an incoming call...Copy !req
605. to D'Angelo Barksdale's,
giving him the number of a pay phone.Copy !req
606. Westside exchange.
Number's encoded, right?Copy !req
607. Three minutes later, we get another call
from the low-rises to that number.Copy !req
608. Then, a half-minute later,
you get another call from the low-rises...Copy !req
609. to a pager we know is Stringer Bell's.Copy !req
610. I'll be damned.Copy !req
611. Finally, you get another call.Copy !req
612. Probably from a pay phone.
Probably Stringer Bell calling back.Copy !req
613. Coming on into the low-rise courts.Copy !req
614. Forty-five minutes later, another call.Copy !req
615. This one from the same pay phone
that went to D'Angelo's pager...Copy !req
616. to start the whole thing off. You see that?Copy !req
617. This is the murder, right here.Copy !req
618. This first number,
the one they sent to D'Angelo...Copy !req
619. I'm thinking this comes from a pay phone
over by the Greek's.Copy !req
620. He's on you.Copy !req
621. We're up on those pay phones
Tuesday night...Copy !req
622. we catch that murder.
We get there before the murder.Copy !req
623. It's all here on the pen register.Copy !req
624. This one calling that one,
that one calling back.Copy !req
625. We're up on those pay phones
when we should be, and we have him cold.Copy !req
626. But we're not up in time, are we?Copy !req
627. In this case,
we're never where we need to be.Copy !req
628. Bad time for you all?Copy !req
629. He fight, but you arrest.Copy !req
630. You saw him get arrested?Copy !req
631. - On Tuesday?
- Tuesday, yes. Tuesday.Copy !req
632. By the police? The police arrested him?Copy !req
633. Cops, they handcuffed him?Copy !req
634. What about these guys?Copy !req
635. Were they there with him?Copy !req
636. No.Copy !req
637. - He fight, you arrest.
- Right.Copy !req
638. Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you.Copy !req
639. It's a match.Copy !req
640. No.Copy !req
641. I need help. Rawls ranks me.Copy !req
642. Lieutenant, think what you're doing here.Copy !req
643. You're going to cross Bill Rawls...Copy !req
644. as ruthless a fuck
as we have in this department?Copy !req
645. And to do what?Copy !req
646. To fight for a case the Deputy of Operations
doesn't even want.Copy !req
647. No.Copy !req
648. I like my career, thank you very much.Copy !req
649. In the cemetery, you were telling us that
a guy named Bird killed the working man.Copy !req
650. Yeah, the man who testified.Copy !req
651. William Gant. Right.Copy !req
652. Yeah, Bird did that one, for sure.Copy !req
653. - How do you know?
- Everybody knows, man.Copy !req
654. Nigger walked up behind the man
and shot him in the head.Copy !req
655. The whole blessed project saw that much.Copy !req
656. And Bird worked for Avon?Copy !req
657. Yeah, as one of his shooters.Copy !req
658. Liked to use this real sweet gun he got.Copy !req
659. A.380 from Austria or Australia.
Something like that.Copy !req
660. But I know he loved that gun.Copy !req
661. A.380.Copy !req
662. Yeah, a.380. You get him, you get the gun.Copy !req
663. 'Cause Bird's too dumb
to throw a gun like that off.Copy !req
664. - A gun alone ain't enough.
- Oh, no?Copy !req
665. He testifies he bought the gun on the street
after Gant was killed.Copy !req
666. - What would be enough, then?
- Eyeball witness.Copy !req
667. Some kind of corroboration
for what you're telling me here.Copy !req
668. - Okay.
- Okay, what?Copy !req
669. - I'm your man.
- You saw the murder?Copy !req
670. Yeah.Copy !req
671. You can ID this man, Bird,
as the shooter of William Gant?Copy !req
672. And you ain't afraid to go into court...Copy !req
673. and testify against
one of Barksdale's people?Copy !req
674. Omar don't scare.Copy !req
675. The fact is that while Lt. Daniels
and his merry band are lost in the swamps...Copy !req
676. playing with beepers and pay phones
and body mikes...Copy !req
677. my people have developed information
that ties Barksdale to three killings.Copy !req
678. - D'Angelo Barksdale, not Avon.
- D'Angelo on behalf of Avon.Copy !req
679. The victim is identified by our witnesses
as being involved with Avon Barksdale.Copy !req
680. Sir, we're developing—Copy !req
681. You're dancing around this thing.Copy !req
682. I'm charging three murders.Copy !req
683. You charge those cases,
my investigation folds.Copy !req
684. Not one of those cases is strong enough
for court. You know that.Copy !req
685. So we bring the Barksdale kid in...Copy !req
686. throw a little mindfuck at him
and the case becomes stronger.Copy !req
687. You've had him in the box twice before.
He's gonna go for less the third time.Copy !req
688. So we re-canvass, develop fresh witnesses.Copy !req
689. The case I charge on today
can be twice as strong by the trial date.Copy !req
690. We get a conviction...Copy !req
691. we roll Little Boy Barksdale
into Big Boy Barksdale...Copy !req
692. then we go home...Copy !req
693. like good old-fashioned cops
and pound some Budweiser.Copy !req
694. This is bullshit!Copy !req
695. It was McNulty who made
the ballistics match on these murders...Copy !req
696. and he's telling me to fight this.Copy !req
697. He knows you don't have
a viable prosecution...Copy !req
698. so do you, so do l.Copy !req
699. Enough.Copy !req
700. Look, I've got no love
for your wiretap, Lieutenant.Copy !req
701. I'm spending $2,000 a day...Copy !req
702. over the unit operating budget
to staff the case.Copy !req
703. over the unit operating budget
to staff the case.Copy !req
704. Now, Major Rawls here
is offering a chance...Copy !req
705. to leverage Barksdale
through a murder prosecution.Copy !req
706. Why not jump on this?Copy !req
707. Because if Major Rawls is right...Copy !req
708. then he will be just as right
a month from now.Copy !req
709. If the wire doesn't give us a case,
he can charge all the murders he has.Copy !req
710. We lose nothing.Copy !req
711. But if he's wrong...Copy !req
712. if he can't convict,
or if the Barksdale kid doesn't flip...Copy !req
713. then it's too late to do anything else.Copy !req
714. Avon Barksdale changes up his pattern,
and the wiretap dies.Copy !req
715. At that point,
there isn't going to be a thing...Copy !req
716. that you, or me, or Rawls here
is gonna be able to say to that judge.Copy !req
717. You wanted to see me, Major?Copy !req
718. McNulty does personal business
on the clock, I want to know.Copy !req
719. He cheats on a run sheet, I want to know.Copy !req
720. He runs any kind of game at all,
I want to know.Copy !req
721. Major, the man's an asshole...Copy !req
722. but he doesn't do much other than work.
He's got this case in his gut like it's cancer.Copy !req
723. He does no wrong?Copy !req
724. Doesn't drink anymore?Copy !req
725. Doesn't drink on duty?
Doesn't drink and drive, Detective?Copy !req
726. - Major...
- You've got to help me on this, Michael.Copy !req
727. The murder warrant's on hold.Copy !req
728. The Deputy gave us another month.Copy !req
729. Also, whoever that was
you brought in here today...Copy !req
730. gave himself up
as an eyewitness to the Gant murder.Copy !req
731. Who? Omar?Copy !req
732. Greggs said to tell you
she'd write it up in the morning.Copy !req
733. Lieutenant...Copy !req
734. thanks.Copy !req
735. It cost you?Copy !req