1 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,100 Hey, now. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,400 We called earlier, they said you were up... 3 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,300 and by the time we get here, you're back asleep. 4 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:42,500 -Been there long? -No. 5 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:45,600 20 minutes. 6 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,500 You know, we didn't want to exactly disturb you. 7 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:52,800 I'm bored, is all. 8 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,000 Yeah, but still. 9 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,100 So, what you got for me? 10 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:02,200 -Spreads? -Yeah. 11 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,400 Little Man. For sure. 12 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:14,200 That's good. Are you able to write? 13 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,200 Okay. Number two. 14 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:41,000 I can make Little Man, because he's in the front... 15 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:44,600 trying to snatch the cash off the dashboard. 16 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:51,400 But the other one, he's outside in the dark. 17 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:56,500 -So.... -So, you know, it's okay. 18 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,400 Is there anyone here that you do recognize? 19 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,500 Sure. Wee-Bey. 20 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:13,600 All right. 21 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:18,500 Let me tell you where we're coming from with the shooters. 22 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,400 We tracked their escape route, and Landsman came up with their hoodies. 23 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:24,800 Now, DNA matched... 24 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,500 human hair from one of the hoodies to Wee-Bey. 25 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:30,500 Freamon, he tracked a call from the pay phone... 26 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,200 near the scene, to Stringer Bell's pager. 27 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,000 Now, the caller was using Bey's beeper code. 28 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Crime lab, they lift a print... 29 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,600 off a soda can near that phone, and that matches Little Man. 30 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:49,600 You know, so, you know, I'm saying.... 31 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,100 Okay, hear me out. 32 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,400 There's a downside here. 33 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,100 We don't have the guns... 34 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:08,500 no prints from the scene, no witnesses. 35 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,100 But worse, we're going to be dealing with a Baltimore city jury... 36 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,700 and a good man is hard to find in this town. 37 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,500 Twelve of them together, especially. 38 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:29,000 An ID of both your shooters... 39 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,400 will play a whole lot easier come trial. 40 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:39,900 Yeah. 41 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,000 Sometimes things just got to play hard. 42 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:36,700 We got everyone on our list except C.C.O. 43 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:38,700 We hit his mama's house... 44 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,900 and she says that he went up to Wabash for some court date. 45 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,400 You can get on the computer and see if any of the Sheriff's deputies... 46 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:47,800 can snatch him up in some courtroom. 47 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:52,900 Yeah. No, we got Ronnie Moe. 48 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,700 I'm looking at him go in the jail van right now. 49 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,800 All right. 50 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,900 -Fished our limit. Let's go home. -"Sir." 51 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:06,500 -Huh? -"Let's go home, sir." 52 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,400 You're looking at a soon-to-be-made sergeant. 53 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,300 So what I'm saying is, when we're around the troops... 54 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,900 you got to get used to showing the proper respect. 55 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,200 So, "Let's go home, sir." All right? 56 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,700 What's the count? 57 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:39,200 So far we've picked up 1 2. That leaves seven on the wing. 58 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,400 Anything worthwhile? 59 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:47,300 Some phone numbers that match, scraps of nicknames, not much else. 60 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:48,400 We need something now. 61 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:52,400 They'll shut us down unless we come up with something fresh to run with right now. 62 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:55,500 The wires are dead. The bug in the club is useless. 63 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,200 They're moving out of there even as we got up on them. 64 00:06:58,300 --> 00:06:59,900 -To where? -No clue. 65 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,600 But they're going to have to set up again. 66 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:05,100 Either Barksdale moves to reset his distribution... 67 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,400 or he gives up the towers. 68 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:09,100 -If not Avon, then Stringer. -And why not Avon? 69 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,200 With no priors, he's out two hours after the bail review. 70 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,400 What we put on Barksdale barely makes him break stride. 71 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,200 Okay, so we get a hint of where they're setting back up. 72 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:20,200 We ask the State's Attorney for a new bug... 73 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:22,000 maybe even a wire if we get onto a phone. 74 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:23,700 Not while the deputy breathes air. 75 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,700 We'll be reassigned before you finish typing up your affidavit. 76 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,300 How about the feds? 77 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,700 You think the Deputy's going to let you take this mess federal? 78 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,600 Why does the Deputy need to know? 79 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:39,200 McNulty, you are a piece of work. 80 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:41,900 McNulty. 81 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:45,100 Yeah? 82 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,000 No shit. 83 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:54,300 No fucking shit. 84 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,000 It's Rhonda Pearlman. 85 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,500 She just got a call from an assistant public defender in North Jersey... 86 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,700 who claims to represent a man by the name of D'Angelo Barksdale. 87 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:07,000 Meet me in Homicide. Bring a tape recorder. 88 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,300 No drug lawyers? No Levy? 89 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,300 -Case got some legs on her, don't she? -Don't she? 90 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,000 Quarter of a million dollars bail. You believe that shit? 91 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:20,100 It hurts to even show that kind of money. 92 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,500 -Where Levy at? He ain't at the club, is he? -No, club's out. We can't talk there no more. 93 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,500 -Come on, man, let's get out of here. -What's up, baby? 94 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:36,000 So, this is it? 95 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:39,400 Look, before you go anyplace else, before you talk anyplace else... 96 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:41,800 we got to think this through. 97 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:45,100 We're up to almost 20 arrests at last count. 98 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,500 And if you look at the probable cause, they all read just like yours: 99 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,600 Information from a confidential source. 100 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:53,300 Don't this seem way too much for one snitch? 101 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,800 I agree. My gut tells me a wire. 102 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:01,400 Either a phone or two, or maybe something in a room somewhere. 103 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,200 Talked to your nephew on the phone about the Jersey thing? 104 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:06,100 No. Of course not, man. No phones. 105 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,400 When I talk to him, I talk to him face-to-face, in my office, in the back of the club. 106 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,100 -Fuck. -It's good you moved out of there. 107 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,000 I don't know, man. I mean, if they got a mike up in there... 108 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:19,400 they got you and me saying all kind of shit. 109 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:23,200 That reminds me. He said he'd be in tonight. 110 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,900 -Thing is, they take you and leave me? -That's what's fucking me up, too, man. 111 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,600 Look, we'll know soon enough, as soon as I start pressing for discovery. 112 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,200 What do you want to do about the people they locked up? 113 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,200 -We got to pull them. -That's showing a lot of money. 114 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:41,200 If we don't, we run the risk of making them enemies. 115 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:43,700 Speaking of which, where are you with your nephew? 116 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,700 Is he going to see the light or what? 117 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,600 Let me tell you something, man. He family, all right? 118 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:50,000 He not going to buck. 119 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,900 A day or two in the New Jersey bullpen, he gonna be crying... 120 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,200 waiting for bail money like the rest of them. 121 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:56,300 All right. 122 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,400 So, let's run the money through the families, that'll hide it some. 123 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:03,500 -And don't use the same bondsman. -All right. 124 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,300 Look, gentlemen, I know it's early... 125 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,800 I want you to start thinking about who was charged... 126 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:09,700 and what kind of time they can do. 127 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,900 One of the ways to limit your exposure is what's called a structured plea. 128 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 That means that you're going to have to deliver your people... 129 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:19,300 all of them, down to a man. 130 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,200 I saw your girl today, for the idents. 131 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,300 How's she doing? 132 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,300 Okay, I guess. 133 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,300 She's out of the ICU. 134 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,700 Moving slow, but moving, you know? 135 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,800 Jimmy, you ain't been to see her? 136 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,700 No. I couldn't go in. 137 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,600 This ain't about you, right? 138 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I get back from Jersey, I will. 139 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:49,600 I will. 140 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:54,600 You know, Cole and me, we showed her the spreads. 141 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:56,600 Picked out Little Man, no problem. 142 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:59,400 Wouldn't go for Wee-Bey. So, I tried the fat finger. 143 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:02,000 Damn near down on my knees begging her... 144 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:04,700 to make this play easier in court. You know what she said? 145 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:07,700 "Sometimes things got to play hard." 146 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:11,600 Real police. 147 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,000 Oh, yeah. 148 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,100 -What the fuck did you do to her? -I don't know. 149 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:30,500 You two in the same car going to make for a long-ass drive to Jersey. 150 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:31,900 Shit. 151 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:13,400 Damn, man, it's just too still in here. 152 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:31,100 You know what? We can-- 153 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:37,300 This place will be fine. 154 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,400 All we really got to do is put a little safe in here someplace... 155 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:43,000 and let them know the count comes here from now on. 156 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,400 Period. 157 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:48,900 Damn, boy, when y'all change up, y'all-- 158 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,900 Y'all that paranoid? You ain't even been up in there before. 159 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,100 I'm telling you, sis, this shit is different. 160 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,400 We are not going to talk about nothing indoors. It's a new day. 161 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:02,300 Thing is, man, we got to get back on our feet. 162 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,400 You know, I mean, the longer we hold off... 163 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:06,700 the harder it's going to be to maintain the towers. 164 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,100 You want to get it back up, you lean to me and String here. 165 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,300 -No, I ain't down yet. -You need to step back. 166 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,000 She's right, bro. You can't take a second chance here. 167 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:16,700 You know what I'm saying? 168 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,300 Until you fixed, sis going to handle that money... 169 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,200 I'm going to handle the products. 170 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:23,200 -We're here for you. -All right. 171 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:27,300 But you tell Roberto, he got to make it a serious smoker. 172 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,700 I want them motherfucking fiends in the projects.... 173 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,100 I want them dropping like flies. You feel me? 174 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,700 You send out the word, you let them know we ain't dead yet. 175 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,100 -What about my nephew? -Don't fret. 176 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,500 Give me a chance to get with Roberto, and I'll get up to Dee. 177 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,300 Do what needs doing. 178 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,900 Tell him I'm sorry for putting him out there like that. 179 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:53,100 And that I'm going to make it up to him. 180 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:54,900 You going to make it up. 181 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,100 Most def. 182 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,000 But again, I want to make it clear... 183 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:08,400 that all of this cooperation is contingent on a commitment... 184 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:10,500 that my client finds acceptable. 185 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,600 Failing that... 186 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:15,100 -everything said in here, stays in here. -Damn straight. 187 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,600 I'm sure a proffer in Maryland plays much the same in Jersey, counselor. 188 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,800 And I do agree that with regard to matters... 189 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:23,900 involving drug trafficking, your client has been helpful. 190 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,100 He's indicated a willingness to testify that he was a lieutenant... 191 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,000 in Avon Barksdale's drug distribution organization... 192 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:34,000 sold large quantities of drugs for his uncle. 193 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,700 Delivered money, attended organizational meetings... 194 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,700 and on one occasion made a trip to New York on the behest of his uncle. 195 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,700 All of which corroborates much of what we already know. 196 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:47,200 What else is there? 197 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:49,100 The murders. 198 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:51,600 Man, why do you keep on that? 199 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:53,800 I already told you... 200 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:56,300 I don't know nothing about that witness being killed. 201 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:57,800 Which witness? 202 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:00,900 Remember her? 203 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Jesus. 204 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,700 -They did her? -Yeah, about the same time they did the boy. 205 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:18,700 All of them bodies. 206 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:26,300 -They covering up, man. -Yeah, that's what we think. 207 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,300 -No loose ends. -I can understand the guard. 208 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:31,700 She got paid, so she had to go. 209 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:36,100 Orlando, he knew too much, got to snitching, so he had to go. 210 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:39,200 But then there's the kid... 211 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:41,300 Wallace. 212 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:46,900 But I need to go past Argyle Street tonight. Check in with Wallace. 213 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Wallace? 214 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:50,200 He off the hook since we helped the tower crew... 215 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:51,300 get that stick-up boy. 216 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,200 I'm telling you, man, Wallace is bugging. 217 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:55,700 Don't hardly even come out of that room no more. 218 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,900 -Now, why he be like that? -I'm thinking he might be getting high. 219 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,300 -Wallace? -The boy's scaring me with his shit. 220 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,900 -All right, holler at me later. -That'll work. 221 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:08,000 You got that shit on tape? 222 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:16,600 -God! -His name is Brandon Wright. 223 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,700 Burned him, broke fingers, gouged an eye out, all kinds of fun. 224 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,000 Wallace was the one who saw. 225 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,600 He saw the boy. 226 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,100 But he really didn't think about what they'd do. 227 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,900 You must have known. You were standing there by that pay phone. 228 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,900 -You knew. -What was I going to do? 229 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,200 I don't call String, word get back uptown, what's going to happen then? 230 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:45,400 So, you told Wallace to wait, then you called Stringer... 231 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:47,700 and Stringer, he gathered the troops. 232 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Yeah. 233 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,900 And down at the Greek's, they got Wallace to point the finger, right? 234 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,700 Then they went in like cops with handcuffs, so they could take their time on Brandon. 235 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,300 They dropped the body where we'd see it. 236 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,800 "Send a message to the 'jects," they said. 237 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:05,200 Wallace... 238 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:08,400 he couldn't handle that. 239 00:17:09,100 --> 00:17:11,500 After seeing that, he wanted to get out... 240 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,100 go back to school. 241 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:19,000 We even joked about it, him being 16 and all... 242 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,500 needing to go start back over again as a freshman. 243 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,200 About a week ago, my uncle and String, they called me down to the club. 244 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,600 Stringer, he's all worried about Wallace, and I told him. 245 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:32,900 I said, "Wallace ain't no snitch." 246 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,900 Plus, he's out the fucking game. 247 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,600 I told him that. 248 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:41,600 But I needed to do more. 249 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:44,500 I should've done more... 250 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,900 but I didn't, and, fuck, that's on me. 251 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,800 Any idea who they sent at Wallace? 252 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,500 Come on, Dee, wild guess. 253 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:04,000 Man, I don't know, could've been anybody. You know, shooters come cheap. 254 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,600 I don't think so. Not in the Pit. 255 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,300 Not in his crib. I counted seven beds when I was up there. 256 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:15,200 -Where were the young'uns? -Look, if I knew, I would tell you. 257 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,700 All right? I swear to God, I would tell you. 258 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,100 They've charged with Orlando and the undercover cop... 259 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,200 but we're still hunting. 260 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:32,300 Him, he in Philly. 261 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:36,900 -How you know? -I know 'cause I dropped him there. 262 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Where? 263 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:41,300 I don't know, a corner, North end, I don't know where he be staying. 264 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,000 Did Wee-Bey say anything to you about the shootings? 265 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:47,700 We don't talk shop in the car. It's a rule we got. 266 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,400 So, is that it? 267 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:56,100 Your client must realize that any agreement... 268 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,100 is dependent on his full cooperation. 269 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,800 There ain't nothing else. 270 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,100 Deidre. 271 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:18,000 Tap, tap, tap. 272 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:25,800 She was one of my uncle's girls. 273 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:29,000 But we got people who put you with her the night she's killed. 274 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:31,500 Yeah, I didn't know that he was going to do her. 275 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,600 I swear. They played me. 276 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:35,200 How so? 277 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,800 My uncle gave me an eight-ball of coke. 278 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,100 Told me to take it over there to her. 279 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,100 I was surprised, 'cause, you know, I thought he dumped her. 280 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,500 But he said, no, it wasn't like that no more. 281 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,300 So, he had Wee-Bey take me over there. 282 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:56,100 You know, I walked up, knocked on the door... 283 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,600 she came to the door, all naked and shit, with this little-ass robe on. 284 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:03,000 So, she's your uncle's girl, but she comes to the door for you naked? 285 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:05,600 She used to do that shit with me all the time, man. 286 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:09,200 Teasing. You know how girls do. Maybe you don't. 287 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,200 I don't know. 288 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:16,800 Anyway, I'm like, "Ain't you going to let me come in?" 289 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:19,000 She says "No," because she got to get ready... 290 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:20,800 for my uncle to come by later. 291 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:23,200 So, I give her the coke. 292 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,300 She laughs about how she's going to put that shit on ice, for later on. 293 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,000 Refrigerate it. 294 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:35,300 I don't know shit about no refrigerator. Like I said, I didn't go in. 295 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:37,800 I turned around, started walking back to the truck... 296 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:39,300 and I heard this shot. 297 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,200 Wee-Bey, he come running back with this big-ass .45 he liked to use so much. 298 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:46,100 Tells me how he was tapping on the window, real soft. 299 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,800 How with the lights on, she had to walk all the way up... 300 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:51,700 because she couldn't see what was on the outside. 301 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,500 And when she gets up to the window and looks out.... 302 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,300 You did good, D'Angelo. 303 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:07,000 Yeah, you did. 304 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,600 Y'all don't understand, man. 305 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,500 Y'all don't get it. 306 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,500 You grow up in this shit. 307 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 My grandfather was Butch Stamford. 308 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,400 You know who Butch Stamford was in this town? 309 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,800 All my people, man, my father, my uncles, my cousins... 310 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,400 it's just what we do. 311 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:55,000 You just live with this shit... 312 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:57,700 until you can't breathe no more. 313 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:04,300 I swear to God, I was courtside for eight months... 314 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:09,100 and I was freer in jail than I was at home. 315 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,800 What are you looking for? 316 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:16,600 I want it to go away. 317 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,700 -I can't-- -I want what Wallace wanted. 318 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:23,000 I want to start over. 319 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:26,600 That's what I want. I don't care where. 320 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:28,800 Anywhere. I don't give a fuck. 321 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:33,000 I just want to go somewhere where I can breathe like regular folk. 322 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,500 You give me that... 323 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,600 and I'll give you them. 324 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:45,600 No, that's great. Really great. 325 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,500 No, that's great. Really great. 326 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:50,700 Yeah. 327 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:54,400 That's our move. 328 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Okay. 329 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:13,800 We broke it open tonight. Wide open. 330 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:16,300 I'm bringing this case in big. 331 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,200 So, this squares things with Burrell, right? 332 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,700 To hell with the man. 333 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,600 But I think we might have enough to reach out to the feds... 334 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:34,500 try to run this thing through them. 335 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:35,600 Cedric. 336 00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:38,000 He knows about the money, Marla. 337 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:40,200 He's known for a long while. 338 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:44,100 Fact is, I wouldn't be surprised if it's why he picked me for this case. 339 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,500 What does he.... What are you going to-- 340 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,800 He's got me if he wants me. Thing is, I don't think he wants me. 341 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:54,300 Too much at stake. 342 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:56,800 Too much mess. 343 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,600 Kind of like this case. 344 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,000 I have to admit it, Jimmy, this is a great case. 345 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:14,500 Not just because of Greggs, because it goes to that and answers that... 346 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,200 but because of how deep it goes. 347 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:19,800 I mean, the murders, the money-- 348 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,300 Jesus, I feel like I've been drunk ever since that kid started talking to us. 349 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,900 You okay to drive? 350 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,500 I can drop you home. You can pick up your car tomorrow. 351 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,500 No, I'm good. I'm great, this was fucking great! 352 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:38,300 You want to try to go federal with this? I am up for it. 353 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,100 I get cross-designated as an AUSA, and we can really run with it, you know? 354 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:47,800 Career fucking case. 355 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:54,900 Anyway.... 356 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:03,900 Ronnie, the thing at... 357 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,100 Levy's the other day, I was.... 358 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,600 I was-- 359 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,700 Jesus, Ronnie, not here. What are you doing? 360 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,600 Like you never did it in the headquarters garage before? 361 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,800 Jesus, Mary and Joseph. 362 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:48,700 Look what just walked in without a fucking escort. 363 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:52,300 Downtown Roy Brown, the living legend... 364 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:54,500 in his own mind. 365 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,600 Uptown Lester Freamon. 366 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,200 Fuck me, how long's it been? 367 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,000 Your retirement party, wasn't it? And this is retirement? 368 00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:06,100 Yeah. Nice fucking digs? 369 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,600 I asked my supervisor when I'll see a little sunlight. 370 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:13,300 Runt cocksucker says, "When your unit turns a profit." 371 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,500 But enough of my joy. 372 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,900 What do you guys need? 373 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,100 We need a trap and trace, but not in Maryland. 374 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,100 -Pennsylvania, Philly. -You got to go through them. 375 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,000 We try that, we lose a week, they tell us it can't be done... 376 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,100 then another week to okay our subpoena. 377 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,000 It's a little more complicated than just a straight-up trace. 378 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,300 We actually need a list of phones in Philly that called this number in the past week. 379 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,600 -What's the number? -Drug lawyer, downtown office. 380 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,300 Thought Billing would be the place to look. 381 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,500 If we can do it, and I'm not saying we can... 382 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,200 it's going to be a fucking week, maybe two. 383 00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:56,600 Thanks, Roy. 384 00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:59,500 Lester, isn't this supposed to be the time... 385 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,600 you tell me how all-fired fucking important this is? 386 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,200 The Philly number gives us the mope who shot that female undercover. 387 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:21,900 I'm telling you, Fitz, it's the perfect case. 388 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 -You'll love it. -It sounds great. 389 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,900 But like I said, Jimmy, we're not fishing for drug cases anymore. 390 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,600 Try DEA. 391 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,100 No, that field office is too close to our CID. 392 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,100 We go there, our bosses know it before a meeting is scheduled. 393 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,600 Your bosses don't know you're doing this? 394 00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:41,100 Who'll be coming? 395 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:44,200 Me, a detective name of Freamon, and Daniels. 396 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,400 I can speak for Daniels, brother. He's played this thing out with real heart. 397 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,000 Come on, set something up. 398 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:56,500 All right. 399 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,800 Could I get 10 copies? 400 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,400 -10 copies? -10, right. 401 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,300 No problems? 402 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:25,500 No. 403 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:27,900 No? 404 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,400 All right, man, I'll get at you. 405 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:46,000 You locked that door, right? 406 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:50,600 Yeah? All right, so listen. It's not street-ready, all right? 407 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,400 So, everybody got to work on their own cut and vial up. 408 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:56,700 Now, listen to me, tell them to get this straight. 409 00:28:57,900 --> 00:29:02,800 Three parts of this, all right? To one of raw, all right? 410 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:05,400 And that's how we gonna do until we get the new stash. 411 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,800 And I want you to put the word out there that we're back up. 412 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,900 Understand me? 413 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:12,300 We're back up. 414 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,100 It's a good target. 415 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:16,800 You guys have a pretty good case here. 416 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:18,200 Look at the violence alone. 417 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:21,600 There's at least a dozen murders, including state's witnesses. 418 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,600 If you can help us squeeze the Barksdale kid into a witness protection program... 419 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:27,100 we can run wild with this thing. 420 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,900 -No suppliers though. -We're still looking for a way into that. 421 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,200 There was nothing on the wire that took us toward New York. 422 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:38,700 The trouble is, we have these post-9l1 1 protocols. 423 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:41,200 We can't pick up any new narcotics work... 424 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:44,000 unless it goes to priority organized-crime targets. 425 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:48,000 Meaning Cosa Nostra or Colombians. Or Russians maybe. 426 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:50,000 We don't have any Colombians in Baltimore. 427 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:51,400 We don't have any wise guys. 428 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:55,100 All we got is a whole lot of locals a little busy tearing the Westside apart. 429 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:58,200 I hear you, but the Bureau-wide protocol applies. 430 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,600 To run with you on this, we need a recognized OC target... 431 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,800 or, even better, a connect to counterterrorism or corruption. 432 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:06,500 You go near stuff like that... 433 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,000 we have something we can bring to our ASAC. 434 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:10,800 What kind of corruption? 435 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:12,300 Don't know. 436 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,000 What kind you got? 437 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,800 Poot, we up yet? 438 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:22,100 -Where Roc-Roc at with the shit? -Package in. 439 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:24,100 Who is it? 440 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,800 -Onion and them off-brand niggers. -Onion? 441 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:32,000 -What the fuck they got? -Some shit they call yellow tops. 442 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,600 Yellow tops? 443 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,000 Got them yellow tops, y'all, yellow tops. 444 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,800 Yellows tops. 445 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:47,800 -Got them yellow tops. -Motherfucker, what the fuck is up? 446 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,000 Fuck is y'all doing? 447 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,900 Do what you feel. But be ready to finish what you start. 448 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,900 What you doing? This ain't no open market, you know that. 449 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,200 Ain't no market at all, nigger. 450 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:01,300 You ain't got shit to sell. Back that ass up for those that do. 451 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:03,400 -You know what? -What? 452 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:05,600 Get the fuck out of here, bitch! 453 00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:13,800 -See, that's why we can't win. -Why not? 454 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:19,100 -They fuck up, they get beat. -We fuck up, they give us pensions. 455 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,000 Close it! Get the fuck out of here! 456 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:45,200 Heard you ain't much as an eyeball witness. 457 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:48,400 Bad as any civilian. 458 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,000 Guess so. 459 00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:56,800 Where we at? 460 00:31:57,900 --> 00:31:59,200 With what? 461 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:01,000 With the case, fool. 462 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,000 Jesus, give it a rest. 463 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:05,900 What's on the wire? 464 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:12,900 -Come on, man. -Wire's dead. 465 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,200 They changed up after we hit them with raids. 466 00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:19,200 Daniels didn't tell you? 467 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,000 Hell, no. 468 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,200 He only talks to me about the good shit. 469 00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:27,800 About how y'all were onto my shooters and stuff. 470 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:32,500 Yeah, well, we lost the wire, but the good news is D'Angelo's flipped... 471 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,700 -and we're talking to the feds about maybe-- -Fuck both y'all. 472 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,500 She wants me to quit. 473 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,300 Says there ain't nothing worth this. 474 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:51,300 So, I promised her I'd think about it. 475 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,300 What do you say? 476 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,300 I don't know. 477 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,600 I guess you should do what you need to. 478 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,600 But she's right. 479 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:10,800 It isn't worth it. 480 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:14,700 No? 481 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,000 Yeah. Probably not. 482 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:30,600 Anyway, what took you so long getting up in here? 483 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,200 Shit, no cards, no flowers. 484 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:37,400 I mean, what the fuck, Jimmy? 485 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:38,800 I couldn't, l... 486 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,500 I felt.... 487 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,700 A case like this, it's always you or Sydnor... 488 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,000 or some other black cop who ends up going undercover. 489 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:58,100 I swear, if I could do it over.... 490 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:03,100 If l.... 491 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,000 If I could do it over... 492 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,100 you know what I'd do? 493 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:15,300 Put more tape on that fucking gun. 494 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:20,400 I'm sorry, Kima. 495 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,000 I'm sorry. 496 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,800 Anyway, since I got you up in here... 497 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:32,600 acting like my bitch and shit... 498 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,600 with all your guilty-ass crying and whatnot... 499 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,400 maybe you can do something for me. 500 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:45,700 She said you were doing good. Said she was proud of you. 501 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,500 How's she doing? 502 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,100 Still shook. 503 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,200 But she wanted you to have that... 504 00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:59,400 and told me to tell you she's sorry to be late with it. 505 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:02,900 Girl got such heart, you know? 506 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:04,600 Yeah. 507 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:10,700 This is enough for what I got going now, man. 508 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,800 You give the rest back to her. 509 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:17,100 Are you sure? 510 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:28,400 Give her my love. 511 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:30,300 Right. 512 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:34,900 McNulty. 513 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:40,300 Don't tell her. 514 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,300 -What you got, man? -Over there, man. 515 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,200 Un-fucking-believable. Five guys got jumped. Not just you. 516 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,600 -Four other guys jumped me. -I'm sorry, man. 517 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000 It's got to be all the brutality complaints... 518 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:06,600 which means it ain't never gonna matter how well I do on no fucking test. 519 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:09,500 You don't know that. You might make the next list, you know? 520 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:11,200 You don't know. 521 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,400 Guess I ain't leadership material. 522 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:17,100 -Congratulations, Carv. -Thanks. 523 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,900 Yeah? 524 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,100 The world is on its ass. 525 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,300 Guy called for you from the phone company. 526 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,300 Says he's got the number you wanted for a house in Philadelphia. 527 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,700 Beautiful, thank you. 528 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:01,300 -Good casework. -Thank you. 529 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:03,300 I don't think I'm giving anything away... 530 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,200 by telling that Arnold here has had a file on Senator Davis... 531 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:07,200 for two and a half years. 532 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,600 It took us a while to see it, but the quid pro quo is right there... 533 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:13,000 in that Westside redevelopment mess. 534 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:16,400 Barksdale, or his fronts, grease enough city politicians... 535 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:20,500 and word comes back years in advance where the development zone's going to be. 536 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,100 He buys up every piece of garbage real estate he can... 537 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,700 flips it three or four times, exaggerating the values. 538 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,300 The city's gonna pay him millions... 539 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,700 to condemn the properties for the renewal project. 540 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,300 It's a lot to work with, but we're willing. 541 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:36,300 The question is, can your cooperator give us the senator... 542 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,000 or any other political figure? 543 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,800 -The cooperator? -D'Angelo Barksdale. 544 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,100 What does he have for us on the money? 545 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:49,500 Nothing. 546 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,400 He gives you the drugs and the violence. 547 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:54,700 He gives you Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell. 548 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,100 -And they give us the senator. -Maybe, yeah. 549 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,300 You're talking about turning Barksdale and Bell into cooperators... 550 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,500 and making the politicians the primary target? 551 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:04,800 Of course. 552 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:05,100 No, fuck the politicians. It's Barksdale and Bell. 553 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:07,800 No, fuck the politicians. It's Barksdale and Bell. 554 00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:10,800 Those guys have turned West Baltimore into a free-fire zone. 555 00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:12,200 No one's saying they walk. 556 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,800 What you are saying is that if we bring you the case... 557 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:18,000 it's your intention to let Barksdale and Bell reduce any sentence... 558 00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:19,500 they get through cooperation? 559 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,900 Jesus Christ, are you kidding? You're seeing all this ass-backwards. 560 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,700 Detective, in this office we have a mandate to pursue political corruption. 561 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,200 Can you believe these guys? 562 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:30,100 -Jimmy, look. -What? 563 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,000 Drugs and murder don't cut it anymore? How about terrorism? 564 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:38,400 These guys have dropped 14, 15 bodies. The witnesses, cooperators-- 565 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,200 That kind of hyperbole doesn't serve anyone, detective. 566 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:54,200 I think we're going with a different direction on this. 567 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,000 Thank you for your time. 568 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:01,300 West Baltimore is dying, and you empty suits... 569 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,100 are running around trying to pin some politician's pelt to the wall. 570 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,000 Thought you was real police, brother. 571 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,300 So, they got you all the way out here? 572 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,600 I started out thinking you was in Jersey. 573 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,000 You ain't in Jersey. 574 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:47,300 I figured they still got you down in Central Booking. 575 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,300 But, all the way out here.... 576 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,000 Do send a message, though. 577 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:55,600 Yeah, a message needs sending. 578 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,600 How y'all even find me? 579 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,300 Ain't no one going to keep a mother from her son, right? 580 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:11,900 You know, he's always talking family. 581 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,600 "Family is the heart," he say. 582 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,200 Well, I'm family... 583 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:20,400 ain't l? 584 00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:24,400 What about me for once? 585 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,300 It ain't right. 586 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,200 What's right? 587 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,200 You like for him to step up, take all the weight, and let you walk? 588 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,600 Because he will. You know he will. 589 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:42,600 But if he got to go away... 590 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:45,400 that mean you got to step up and fill his shoes. 591 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,400 You ready for that? 592 00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:49,900 Ma, you know I ain't. 593 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,300 I ain't ready, and I'm never gonna be ready for this game. 594 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,900 -Dee, come on. -Look. 595 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,500 They're giving me a chance to walk away... 596 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000 to start again someplace else. 597 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,900 And what you giving them? 598 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:12,100 Look.... 599 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,200 He messed up, Dee, he knows it. 600 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:21,900 Now if you want to get even with him, you can. 601 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:25,800 But if you hurt him, you hurt this whole family. 602 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,600 All of us. Me and Trina and the cousins. 603 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,200 And Donette, too. And your baby. 604 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:35,300 Your own baby boy. 605 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,600 This right here is part of the game, Dee. 606 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,500 And without the game... 607 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,100 this whole family would be down in the fucking Terrace... 608 00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:45,400 Iiving off scraps. 609 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,200 Shit, we probably wouldn't even be a family. 610 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,100 Start over? 611 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,400 How the fuck you going to start over without your peoples? 612 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,300 Without your own child, even? 613 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:04,600 If you ain't got family in this world... 614 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,800 what the hell you got? 615 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,500 This motherfucker Wee-Bey twitches, there won't even be a trial. 616 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,600 Detective Carver, a word? 617 00:42:28,100 --> 00:42:29,400 Shut the door. 618 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,300 What's up, Lieutenant? 619 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,600 Anything you want to tell me? 620 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,000 Been weeks now... 621 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,100 the Deputy Ops knows what's going on in this unit almost before I do. 622 00:42:57,300 --> 00:42:59,600 Except last week... 623 00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:02,700 we run the bug up into Barksdale's club office... 624 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:06,800 and Burrell, for once, he's a step behind. 625 00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:09,000 You see it? 626 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:14,500 -Maybe he-- -I see it. 627 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,100 I look around the office... 628 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,200 and I see that one of my people is at the academy for in-service. 629 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,600 Lieutenant, I swear, it wasn't my idea. 630 00:43:28,900 --> 00:43:31,200 I'm minding my business, doing my fucking job... 631 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:33,600 when the man calls me for coffee and a Danish. 632 00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:37,200 I mean, I never even been on the eighth floor of that fucking building. 633 00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:39,000 And there's the Deputy fucking Ops... 634 00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:41,600 telling me how concerned he is about the case... 635 00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:45,000 how he needs to be informed. 636 00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:50,000 I mean, he's the Deputy fucking Ops, man. 637 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,300 Couple weeks from now... 638 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,700 you're gonna be in some district somewhere... 639 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,100 with 1 1 or 1 2 uniforms looking to you for everything. 640 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,500 And some of them are going to be good police. 641 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:18,200 Some of them are going to be young and stupid. 642 00:44:18,300 --> 00:44:20,200 A few are going to be pieces of shit. 643 00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:23,800 But all of them will take their cue from you. 644 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,900 You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. 645 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,800 You show them it's about the work, it'll be about the work. 646 00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:34,800 You show them some other kind of game, then that's the game they'll play. 647 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,400 I came on in the Eastern... 648 00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:50,200 and there was a piece-of-shit lieutenant hoping to be a captain... 649 00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:52,600 piece-of-shit sergeants hoping to be lieutenants. 650 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:57,200 Pretty soon we had piece-of-shit patrolmen trying to figure the job for themselves. 651 00:44:57,300 --> 00:45:01,300 And some of what happens then is hard as hell to live down. 652 00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:19,400 Comes a day you're going to have to decide whether it's about you or about the work. 653 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,200 Grand jury came in Tuesday. 654 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,700 But you knew that, right? 655 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:42,400 We're working a flight warrant today. 656 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,600 There's a lot to do here, in-office. 657 00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:50,700 I'd be careful with that, though. 658 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,600 I understand the trigger pull used to be light. 659 00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:27,400 Keep him down, keep him down. 660 00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:32,000 You got him? Get him up there, get him up. 661 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,300 Bunch of low-bottom bitches. 662 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,800 -Get his wrists. -Y'all didn't have to fuck with my ride. 663 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,400 Motherfuckers got lucky. 664 00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:03,900 Yeah? 665 00:47:09,100 --> 00:47:11,800 Podunk lawyer in Denton's giving the guards a hard time... 666 00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:14,700 about moving D'Angelo from original jurisdiction. 667 00:47:15,300 --> 00:47:16,800 Put the call through. 668 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:18,800 Okay. 669 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:25,300 Officer Mace, ASA Pearlman, you got a problem with the lawyer? 670 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:30,700 Okay, put the asshole on. 671 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:34,600 This is he. 672 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:49,000 You do not make it easy, Jimmy. I have to admit, I am deeply ambivalent. 673 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:51,700 -Excuse me? -Sit. 674 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:53,700 Sit! 675 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,400 -Here. -I heard from Bunk. 676 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,000 Philly. Great work. 677 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:04,100 You all did great work. 678 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,200 And the number of clearances I'm looking at here... 679 00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:11,700 Christ, for the first time this year, we got the clearance rate up over 40%. 680 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,100 That's on the one hand. 681 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:17,100 On the other hand, I know the Deputy Ops got a call from the first deputy... 682 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:18,700 U.S. Attorney this morning... 683 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,300 asking whether an asshole such as yourself really works for us. 684 00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:26,500 Of course, this is the first the Deputy hears his troops... 685 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,000 are creeping behind his back to take a case federal... 686 00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:32,200 when they've already been told the case is closed. 687 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:35,600 You're a good detective. 688 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,700 And I've got to admit you got some stones on you. 689 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,300 Did you actually call the first deputy an empty suit? 690 00:48:47,100 --> 00:48:49,100 I want to see you land okay, Jimmy. 691 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,800 So, tell me, where don't you want to go? 692 00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:00,800 You all know that Baltimore city jurors are capable of just about anything. 693 00:49:00,900 --> 00:49:03,400 Now, look, you want to sit around for months on end... 694 00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,300 going through a bunch of half-heard... 695 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,600 half-said telephone conversations and see how well you do... 696 00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:12,200 -I'll certainly respect the effort. -It's not just talk on the wire. 697 00:49:12,300 --> 00:49:14,700 We've got seized money and lot of dope on the table. 698 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:15,800 And a lot of violence. 699 00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:18,200 All of which stops way short of Mr. Barksdale. 700 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:19,300 You know this. 701 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,100 All of it except for the New Jersey bust. That one he eats. 702 00:49:23,900 --> 00:49:25,300 Maybe he does. 703 00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:28,400 Maybe he pleads to one count of attempted possession... 704 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:30,900 and takes, I don't know, maybe three, four. 705 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,000 Maybe he can arrange for everyone you have... 706 00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:35,900 on those tapes to follow suit. 707 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,400 Maybe you get five-year pleas from those with no prior felony convictions... 708 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:44,200 10 years for those with one prior, 15 for two or more. 709 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:45,900 What about the murders? 710 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,400 Maybe we acknowledge you've got Mr. Brice cold for... 711 00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:51,300 murder of Orlando Blocker and wounding of the police officer. 712 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,600 -Who? -Wee-Bey. 713 00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:55,500 Representing Mr. Brice... 714 00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:58,300 I'm fairly confident that to avoid the death penalty... 715 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,400 he'll proffer to at least a half dozen of your open murders. 716 00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:04,400 Naming co-conspirators? 717 00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:07,900 For that kind of cooperation, I'd be willing to consider straight life. 718 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:08,900 No, indeed. 719 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,700 I believe Mr. Brice is ready to take sole responsibility... 720 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,300 for all of his crimes. 721 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,800 Still, you walk away with at least a half-dozen clearances. 722 00:50:17,900 --> 00:50:18,900 Assets. 723 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,900 You take the strip club, you take whatever trucks and cars... 724 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,600 you can link to the drug trafficking, and also whatever cash you've seized. 725 00:50:25,700 --> 00:50:29,700 He's got dozens of other properties: the funeral parlor, the towing company. 726 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:30,400 No. You get the cars, because you can tie them to illegal activity. 727 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,700 No. You get the cars, because you can tie them to illegal activity. 728 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:35,600 But there's nothing else of his to take. 729 00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:38,300 So, you keep most of the money, most of the real estate... 730 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:42,200 and Stringer Bell stays on the street with his hand on the throttle. 731 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,500 If you have a charge against Mr. Bell, file it. 732 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:50,100 Otherwise, I understand that nothing in all those hours of tape implicates him. 733 00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:57,000 Three or four years ain't enough, Maury. 734 00:50:57,700 --> 00:50:59,600 Not for Avon Barksdale. 735 00:50:59,700 --> 00:51:00,700 No? 736 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,000 Make an offer. 737 00:51:06,100 --> 00:51:09,400 Part 14 of the circuit court of Baltimore City now in session. 738 00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:10,700 -Be seated. -First up. 739 00:51:10,700 --> 00:51:11,700 -Be seated. -First up. 740 00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,700 State versus Avon Randolph Barksdale, Your Honor. 741 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,300 One count of possession with intent to distribute... 742 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:18,700 to wit, a kilogram of heroin. 743 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,100 -You have a statement of facts? -Yes, Your Honor. 744 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,300 Mr. Barksdale is offering a plea of guilty... 745 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,100 in exchange for a maximum of seven years in DOC... 746 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,800 in consideration of the following agreed-upon facts: 747 00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:31,500 On or about the date of September 17, 2002... 748 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,100 in the jurisdiction of Essex County, New Jersey... 749 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,800 Trooper Robert Warren of the Newark barracks... 750 00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:39,400 effected a traffic stop on a rented Ford Taurus... 751 00:51:39,500 --> 00:51:41,600 traveling southbound near Exit 13. 752 00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:44,200 That traffic stop resulted from information gleaned... 753 00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:48,300 from electronic surveillance of Mr. Barksdale and his nephew, D'Angelo Barksdale... 754 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,400 by detectives assigned to a special detail... 755 00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:53,000 under the command of a city narcotics supervisor. 756 00:51:53,100 --> 00:51:56,800 A search of the vehicle, rented from the Avis location at B.W.I. Airport... 757 00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:59,000 revealed that a kilogram of nearly pure heroin... 758 00:51:59,100 --> 00:52:02,000 was concealed beneath the spare tire in the car trunk. 759 00:52:02,100 --> 00:52:05,600 In accepting this plea, Mr. Barksdale acknowledges his role in procuring... 760 00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:09,800 those drugs with the intent to dilute, package, and sell retail amounts of heroin.... 761 00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:13,900 Deidre Kresson, Roland Leggett, Toreen Boyd, all tied to the same gun. 762 00:52:14,100 --> 00:52:17,800 Plus, we got the stick-up boys, Brandon Wright, John Bailey. 763 00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:20,100 With Orlando, that makes six. 764 00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,200 Plus the attempted murder on a police. 765 00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:23,600 That it? 766 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,600 -I do better if I give them more? -Life, no parole, means what it says. 767 00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:30,300 This proffer keeps you off death row. That's all it does. 768 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,300 You were on the wrong side of a cop getting shot, Mr. Brice. 769 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,000 You want to dream about straight life for these bodies... 770 00:52:36,100 --> 00:52:38,300 you got to wake up talking about Avon Barksdale... 771 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,500 -and Stringer Bell. -No. 772 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,400 But for murders, you might as well give them what you have... 773 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,400 because anything you leave out is outside the deal. 774 00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:49,100 If they learn about it later, they can charge you later. 775 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:50,200 Fuck it then. 776 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,000 For another pit sandwich and some potato salad... 777 00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:54,800 I'll go a few more. 778 00:52:57,100 --> 00:53:00,500 -How you want that? -Medium rare, a lot of horseradish. 779 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,600 All right, I did Little Man... 780 00:53:07,700 --> 00:53:10,200 thinking he might get weak on that cop getting shot. 781 00:53:10,300 --> 00:53:12,300 Yeah? Where's the body? 782 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,100 Druid Hill. Behind the reptile house. 783 00:53:15,300 --> 00:53:18,700 You get back in them weeds, you might could find what's left of him. 784 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,400 All right, that's seven. What else you got? 785 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,300 How about them witnesses? 786 00:53:25,900 --> 00:53:30,500 The security lady, and what's his name, the maintenance man? 787 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:32,600 Gant? 788 00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:34,500 Yeah, Gant. 789 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,800 You did Gant alone? 790 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,900 They're out of potato salad. How about slaw? 791 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,400 Information gleaned from electronic surveillance... 792 00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:52,100 would also show that Mr. Watkins, a.k.a. Ronnie Moe... 793 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:56,400 was integrally involved in the distribution of heroin and cocaine in the high-rises... 794 00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:59,600 at 734 Fayette and 221 North Fremont. 795 00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:02,800 In exchange for his pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy... 796 00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:06,300 he agrees to a sentence not to exceed 15 years in DOC. 797 00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,400 Mr. Watkins, who is on probation for a drug distribution charge... 798 00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:12,500 that was adjudicated in judge Prevas' court in August, 2001 .... 799 00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:19,300 Cedric! 800 00:54:21,100 --> 00:54:22,600 Major Cantrell. 801 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,500 -Congrats. -Thanks. 802 00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,800 -So, where they sending you? -Northwest. Spurgeon's retiring. 803 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,400 -I heard that was going to happen. -Ever feel like a change, give a yell. 804 00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:35,100 I could use a good shift lieutenant. 805 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,800 I mean, right now, the whole fucking district's a mess. 806 00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:39,300 What isn't? 807 00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,700 -Good seeing you. -You, too. 808 00:54:48,500 --> 00:54:51,600 You see, this ain't no DEU. It ain't like that. 809 00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:55,200 When you all came downtown, the job changed. 810 00:54:55,300 --> 00:54:58,500 Down here, we make big cases, big hairy-balled cases... 811 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,400 Iike this Barksdale thing, right? 812 00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:03,600 And all that mess you call police work down in the districts... 813 00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:07,300 all that fuck-somebody-up and rip-and-run bullshit... 814 00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:08,900 it won't play down here. 815 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,600 You think I'm kidding. This is what makes cases, gentlemen. 816 00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:13,700 This! 817 00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:16,900 Remember that. 818 00:55:32,100 --> 00:55:33,400 Nicely done. 819 00:55:43,100 --> 00:55:46,000 Motherfucker, I been here since lunch, waiting. 820 00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:48,300 Ain't nobody been through here. 821 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,300 You hear me? I been waiting and y'all ain't about shit. 822 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,500 Yeah, listen, listen to me. 823 00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:58,500 Look, if you feel like that, then get off this phone... 824 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,000 come down here and step to me then, nigger. 825 00:56:01,300 --> 00:56:02,800 Yeah, all right. 826 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,500 Yo, if Roc-Roc ain't here in 10 minutes with my re-up... 827 00:56:06,700 --> 00:56:08,300 whoop his ass, man. 828 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,300 I understand you did a tour in Homicide years ago... 829 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,400 but let me tell you how I run this unit, because how I run it is how it runs. 830 00:56:29,500 --> 00:56:32,500 We work on a strict rotation. You're up until you catch a call... 831 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,100 then you step down, work your case, and someone else steps up behind you. 832 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,000 This is the way we do business in a town with 250, 300 murders a year. 833 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:41,800 And it works. 834 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,100 You do not play the game for yourself, you play it for us. 835 00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:49,100 If you remember these few rules... 836 00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,000 you'll find me to be supportive and reasonable. 837 00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:53,800 Very reasonable, sir. 838 00:56:54,900 --> 00:56:58,100 -That's what they say about me. -They say that, they do. 839 00:57:24,100 --> 00:57:25,300 Yo, Dink! 840 00:57:30,100 --> 00:57:32,100 What the fuck was that? 841 00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,000 You take a nigger's money, then you serve him? 842 00:57:35,100 --> 00:57:36,500 What the fuck? 843 00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:43,000 I'm saying, you take their money... 844 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,900 then you send them round and let some other nigger serve. 845 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,400 The way you doing it... 846 00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:49,800 someone snapping pictures got the whole deal. 847 00:57:49,900 --> 00:57:51,200 You hear? 848 00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,400 We got to tighten up around here, yo! 849 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,100 Jimmy. 850 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,100 Hell of a case. 851 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,700 Read all about it in the papers. 852 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:17,500 You done good, kiddo. 853 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,000 I gotta.... 854 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,200 D'Angelo Barksdale supervised distribution... 855 00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:36,000 in the low-rise courtyards and was also involved... 856 00:58:36,100 --> 00:58:38,100 in the violence attributed to the organization. 857 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,700 Further, he was arrested by authorities in New Jersey... 858 00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:45,000 in possession of a kilo of raw heroin intended for distribution in Baltimore. 859 00:58:45,100 --> 00:58:47,400 He acknowledges his role as a leading conspirator... 860 00:58:47,500 --> 00:58:50,500 and is already on parole for two earlier counts of distribution... 861 00:58:50,700 --> 00:58:52,600 dating from March, 1999. 862 00:58:52,700 --> 00:58:54,300 What are you asking here? 863 00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,900 As Mr. Barksdale has two prior convictions and is insisting that the effort to purchase... 864 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,500 and transport the kilo was done on his own behest... 865 00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,700 and is refusing to cooperate against others in the conspiracy... 866 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:08,600 the state is offering only the maximum allowable 20 years, Your Honor. 867 00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:13,300 Mr. Levy, this is your understanding of the plea agreement? 868 00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,200 -Yes, sir. -Very well then, Mr. Barksdale. 869 00:59:16,300 --> 00:59:19,200 -Can you hear me distinctly? -Yes. 870 00:59:19,500 --> 00:59:21,500 Are you now under the influence of alcohol.... 871 00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:23,600 -Wee-Bey, man. -How'd it go? 872 00:59:23,700 --> 00:59:27,200 For life, no parole, he puts himself in for Orlando... 873 00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,400 and the attempt murder on Greggs. 874 00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:32,400 Then he also takes Nakeisha Lyles... 875 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,600 Deidre Kresson, the two project murders that match that gun... 876 00:59:36,700 --> 00:59:39,600 both the stick-up boys, and Little Man. 877 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,000 Little Man? 878 00:59:41,100 --> 00:59:44,200 Yeah, body found up behind the reptile house in Druid Hill. 879 00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,800 He gave us that one just for fun, I think. He also takes William Gant. 880 00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:53,400 I know, it's bullshit. 881 00:59:53,500 --> 00:59:55,100 How'd he tell it? 882 00:59:58,300 --> 01:00:00,100 -Boom. -He said a contact wound? 883 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,300 It doesn't play. Gant had no compression, no stippling. 884 01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,800 Wound was to the front. Bey's talking out of his ass. 885 01:00:06,900 --> 01:00:10,500 I know, but this motherfucker's just taking murders just to take them. 886 01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,500 He's taking life, no parole, for shooting a cop, what the fuck? 887 01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:15,800 Might as well try to spring Bird for killing Gant. 888 01:00:15,900 --> 01:00:17,000 All rise. 889 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,700 Jesus, what the fuck did I do? 890 01:00:52,300 --> 01:00:54,100 You happy now, bitch? 891 01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,800 Are you the man with them jumbo sixes? 892 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:57,900 -How many you fucking want? -Take about three or four hundred. 893 01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:00,700 Damn. 894 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:07,800 All in the game, yo. 895 01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:15,500 Right, but I didn't think-- 896 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:21,800 For sure.