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- [intense music plays] - [siren wailing]

[officer] 721.

Where'd he go?

He must have ducked into one of the alleys.

[officer] I'm in the rear of the 900 block.

- I got nothing. - [Deutsch] 10-4 that.

I'm on the north side of you. Nothing here.

He's playing possum.

[intense music plays]

[siren wailing]

[helicopter buzzing]

[Burundi] Jimmy, this is Burundi.

I need a favor.

No more favors?

No, we're not done.

You and me, Jimmy, we been through too much.

We ain't ever gonna be done.

- [siren wailing] - [dogs barking]

[pilot] This is Foxtrot.

We've got your boy running north out of the alley behind Arlington.

He's making for Mulberry.

All units, he's on Mulberry, heading for Carrollton.

Repeat, Mulberry, heading for Carrollton.

[*]

[helicopter buzzing]

[siren wailing]

[brakes screeching]

- Five-O is after me. - I see that.

[brakes screeching]

Police! Open the door!

[banging on door]

Open the damn door!

- [banging on door] - You have a warrant?

Open the door! I'm not gonna ask you again!

We'll honor a search warrant. You have one?

If not, then you're trespassing!

I know your business! I used to be a cop!

I'm not taking responsibility for this nonsense. Radio for Homicide.

[theme song playing]

- [phone rings] - [Giardello] Homicide.

is recalling all models of its patented salad-shredding machine

following the deaths of restaurant workers in Chattanooga and Charlotte.

In an unrelated incident last week,

two men were caught in Amalgamated machines and eviscerated."

[laughing] Slawed to death. I love it.

- You're doing Munch's job now? - What?

Finding bizarre news on page D12 of the newspaper,

reading it out loud to the squad room?

- That's Munch's job. - Frank's apprenticing.

Good content, nice delivery, set-up was a little slow.

- I'm working on it. - [phone ringing]

Yeah, Homicide. Pembleton.

I don't know, John, with somebody else to deliver our daily weirdness,

what exactly do we need you around here for?

- Police work. - [Giardello] Did I hear you say police work, Munch?

I am a little red right now, Gee, but I am working through it.

We got one down on the ground at Saratoga and Carey.

The Western troops have already identified a suspect.

A dunker. Give me, mine!

- Pembleton's up. He's primary. - Where's Bayliss?

He's not back yet. He left on an errand over an hour ago.

An errand? On midnight shift?

I'm telling you, Detective Munch,

give the call to Detective Munch.

Do you think I'm gonna hand you a murder

with the suspect already identified?

A little charity, Frank. I need some black under my name.

You won't miss the clearance.

Okay, you're the primary.

Consider this my contribution to the Save-A-Munch foundation.

You're a gentleman, Frank, and I've always said that.

- [Lewis] No, I'm serious. - No way. I don't know.

- [Lewis] Hey. - [Kellerman] Hello.

Haven't lost any appetite, huh?

What's that supposed to mean?

I haven't slept in a week.

I can't keep anything down in my stomach.

Here, sit down.

[siren wailing in the distance]

Look, Terri...

Terri, it's over, okay?

The State's Attorney's Office called it a good shooting.

Well, I'm having second thoughts.

Well, then have third thoughts.

We all turned in the same report.

We all wrote it up that Luther Mahoney raised his gun, my gun.

No, look, listen, do you want me to get inside your head and tell you what you saw?

Mike, if there was a shadow of doubt in my mind,

you know I would carry this, but I didn't see--

I didn't see Mahoney raise that gun.

Then you just weren't looking in the right place.

The gun was down.

He was pointing a gun at my partner.

Now, he could've got shot. You could've got shot. I protected you.

- You didn't have to shoot. - He was garbage.

- And that makes it right? - It was clean.

[sighing] She'll be fine.

[indistinct police radio chatter]

Personally, I feel if somebody gets killed after 2:00 a.m.,

they have no right to a quality death investigation.

We have an expression in Homicide.

- Our day begins when yours ends. - [laughing]

Our victim here is Kenya Merchant.

Where's the suspect?

[officer] He's holed up in a row house, about eight blocks from here.

He's not in custody?

We got half the district around that house, but we haven't gone in.

Well, why the hell not?

It's the African Revival Movement headquarters on Carrollton.

- Okay, where's your sergeant? - At the house, waiting for you guys.

And over there, in the back of the squad car,

- is the witness. - A witness?

Saw the murder, waited around to talk to the police.

A witness in West Baltimore. What are the chances?

Okay, how about you work the crime scene

and I'll head over to Carrollton.

[shutter clicking]

What's going on here?

They've barricaded themselves inside.

We've set up a perimeter.

- You saw the suspect run inside? - We did.

The occupant asked to see our warrant.

Oh, you're in hot pursuit. You don't need a warrant. Take the door.

No, no, no, no. Pull your people back.

- What? - I'm overruling you.

I don't want this getting out of hand.

The African Revival Movement has a lot of support in this community,

so we need to calm down.

- And a warrant would be prudent. - Deutsch, take the door.

- Chain of command, Detective. - [Pembleton] Exactly, Colonel.

Departmental regulations explicitly state that at a crime scene,

the investigating detective has supremacy of rank.

Given that the suspect ran directly inside this building,

in possession of evidence from a murder,

this is de facto an extension of the crime scene.

Take the door, please.

[indistinct police radio chatter]

[suspenseful music plays]

Colonel...

what are you doing down here at four o'clock in the morning?

[Deutsch] Let's go!

Name's Joseph Malawi?

Other way. Malawi Joseph.

Okay, Mr. Joseph. What did you see tonight?

I saw Kenya shot down like a dog in the street.

I saw the boy who did it.

I know why he did it.

I'll tell you everything.

I'll do anything I have to do to make this right.

Tell me, Mr. Joseph, are there any more like you at home?

You recognize the suspect?

I know how hard it can be,

seeing as we all look alike.

Him.

Now, Sergeant, are you absolutely sure?

I do not want to be wrong on this.

I'm sure. He was wearing gray Fila sweats when we chased him, though.

And he had the gun. A semi-auto.

Okay, he goes Downtown.

We're gonna conduct a plain-view search for the sweatsuit and the gun.

Stay out of the drawers, stay out of the closets.

For that we need a search warrant,

which will be here, typed and signed, within the hour.

Okay, let's do it.

[tense music plays]

[indistinct police radio chatter]

[keys clicking]

Wake up, ace detective John Munch.

This is, no doubt, the murder weapon.

- I'm gonna take this down to the lab. - Good.

Hey, Gee. What do you know about this African Revival Movement?

Only what I read in the papers.

Well, according to the eyewitness at the scene,

he says the murder stems from some rift within the group.

And that it was ordered by the leader,

- someone named Robinson. - Burundi Robinson.

He says this Robinson wanted Kenya Merchant dead

because the kid broke from the group.

What did the shooter say?

Where is Benin Crown?

Come on, Benin Crown, the suspect in the murder of Kenya Merchant.

- Where is he? - Maybe he's in The Box.

- Why? - I need to speak with him, in private.

[Giardello] Wait a minute. Just a second.

Hold it.

Let go of the door, Al.

Gaffney, this is inappropriate.

I'm in command of the Homicide Unit.

That kid in there is a homicide suspect.

If you think you can keep me out of that room, Lieutenant,

you are a bigger jackass than I think you are.

You looking for a transfer to Motor Pool, hmm?

[Munch] The hell is going on here, Gee?

You know, I had Barnfather down at the African Revival

trying to put a squelch on the arrest, and now we got Gaffney...

Yeah, when's the last time we had Gaffney and Barnfather show up

at a midnight shift?

I'm not saying anything to you guys!

I don't waive my right to counsel!

My lawyer's on his way down here right now!

[tense music plays]

[Giardello] What the hell was Gaffney doing here?

This case is lousy with bosses, Gee.

[Pembleton] Maybe this is because of Burundi Robinson.

What do we really know about this guy?

He's West Baltimore's reigning community activist.

He's a bit messianic, but then again,

- he's doing good for the people. - Used to be a cop?

Narcotics detective, Tactical Operations in the projects.

Before my time. I came in as a rookie in '68.

He left a few years later.

- Resigned? - [Giardello] Yeah.

Does he still have drag in the department?

Could he be pushed around with people like Barnfather and Gaffney?

Uh, he left without a rank a quarter century ago. Where's the drag in that?

Something's making the bosses jumpy, Gee.

I understand that something got you out of bed early this morning.

- [Barnfather] Something did. - [water running]

[Giardello] What the hell's going on?

- I can't talk about it, Al. - You and Gaffney both.

Gaffney's in this?

He came into our unit early this morning,

demanding to speak to our suspect.

The next thing you know, the kid's asking for a lawyer.

He must be out of his mind.

Who? Who's behind this?

Look, I've done a lot of things I don't agree with. That comes with the rank.

But this...

You were supposed to come down there early this morning

and pull us off that arrest, weren't you?

I was on the spot, Al.

Can't imagine how relieved I was when Pembleton started quoting chapter and verse

from the general orders at a crime scene.

I was wondering why you let him win that argument.

I'm not going to jail for anyone.

George, who wants this case thrown?

[suspenseful music plays]

[teacher] It's in this area of the Belgian Congo

that we can see the effects of white colonialism...

See, it's about credibility, not ideology.

People are tired of demagogues who don't deliver,

who make speeches and then walk away from the problems.

I know West Baltimore. I was born here. I'm going to die here.

We started this movement four years ago with just a handful of families.

- Now we number 120. - [Dawn] And you all live within this commune?

Oh, some families choose to live here. Some do not.

But in joining,

all of our members acknowledge each other as family.

All of us exchange our given names

for the names of African nations.

You were Marvin Lee Robinson.

Now I am Burundi Robinson. But that isn't the important thing.

What's important is that we are here every day,

and we will be here every day with our soup kitchen,

our shelter, our job training programs.

We are trying to do the right things for people in West Baltimore.

Thank you. I'm grateful just for the chance.

You did what we talked about, right?

- Three days clean. - [Burundi] Good luck, then.

Give it your best shot.

[Dawn] What was that about?

He was homeless last week.

Today he has a job interview.

We provided him with shelter, food and a new suit of clothes.

And if he gets that job?

Ms. Daniels, if he gets the job, he will keep that job.

- We'll pay for his detox, drug counseling and aftercare. - [Dawn] But that's expensive.

As I said, we are not about making speeches.

We are not walking away from problems.

This Robinson used to be a cop, huh?

Doesn't sound like a cop.

You meant that as a compliment?

I don't know, I don't trust anybody who walks through this world

claiming to be an answer.

There are no answers except for disorder and miscalculation,

unless you work for Disney.

Okay, I got Malawi Joseph primed.

[man] ...it's an idea as old as Marcus Garvey.

Why exactly would one Revival member

shoot another one down in the street?

That's what I told them before.

This thing, it's bigger than Benin Crown.

This is about Burundi Robinson.

Well, why would Burundi Robinson have his people shooting each other?

Kenya found out some things going on in the movement.

Wanted to go public.

Robinson couldn't have that,

especially since he'd gone high profile,

getting all that airtime on the TODAY show

and Montel Williams.

What exactly did he find out?

Robinson had been whoring sisters in the movement.

Some of the little kids you see running around Carrollton Avenue,

they're his.

And you heard Robinson give the order

to have Kenya Merchant killed?

No.

Well, then how do you know Benin Crown wasn't acting on his own?

That's just not the way it happens over there.

Ed, if we can't prove Robinson gave the order--

You need more? I'll get you more.

[Giardello] A wire?

We're going to send a wire into Burundi Robinson?

How do we know the witness isn't lying?

We put him on the polygraph. He passed with flying colors.

We're going to wire Malawi Joseph

and send him in to a prominent Black leader,

in the hopes of catching the man discussing his sexual improprieties

on tape?

Am I the only person here that sees a problem?

We're not doing it because of the sexual improprieties,

and we're not doing it because he's a Black leader.

30 years ago, Hoover and the feds

had the entire Civil Rights Movement bugged,

claiming that he doing it because he was serving the national interest,

when in fact, J. Edgar Hoover was nothing more

- than a low-bottom blackmailer. - This is not the same.

But it seems that we're rushing to tear down Robinson and his group,

on the basis of a single allegation.

I agree with you, Al.

We can drop this investigation now,

and still have the case against Crown.

So, if our witness is telling the truth,

then race and altruism gives Burundi Robinson a free pass.

Robinson brought hope to West Baltimore. Let's give the man that much.

When this all shakes out, Gee, it's still a murder.

Hook him up.

But we keep the name of the witness secret,

we keep this entire thing quiet, we keep it right here in this office.

Burundi, may I speak with you?

This is my day to serve the noon meal.

They came to my mother's house.

Once again, you save lunch.

Police heard that me and Kenya were close, so they want to know--

I don't worry about them. But you, I thought you'd given up on the movement.

- I needed time. - Welcome back.

Thank you.

[Burundi] The police wanted to know what, about you and Kenya?

I don't know.

What about Kenya's arrangements? Are they taken care of?

His people are on public assistance.

Kenya left the movement.

You know that's not gonna play out in the community,

us not burying one of our own.

You've got to stop thinking on Kenya Merchant.

Sacrifices have to be made here.

Oh, and uh, Kenya was a sacrifice?

Kenya made a choice. He chose.

What's important now is the future of this movement.

We have to go on. You understand that?

[Malawi] Yes.

[Danvers] It's not enough.

That business about Kenya making himself a sacrifice,

that's as close as he comes, and it's still way too cryptic for a jury.

You're saying we need to send a wire in again?

I need Robinson talking about the murder in direct terms.

What's that?

A tape recorder.

What's on it?

My legal notes.

Oh, yeah? Interesting listening?

It's property of the State's Attorney's Office.

You have a problem with that, Captain?

I understand that we've got a co-operating witness on the Merchant shooting.

Incident reporting the case said there was a witness at the crime scene,

but the name's been omitted from the case folder.

[tense music plays]

I need the name.

[Giardello sighing]

This is a direct order. Give me the name.

When you look in the mirror, Gaffney, what do you see?

I see a cop who knows how to follow orders.

Would you like a lesson on that, Lieutenant?

[*]

This is the second time you've pulled rank on me.

There won't be a third.

Give him the name.

[*]

Give me a sound level.

Testing. One, two.

You need to get Robinson to talk in detail about having Kenya killed.

You want to get him to acknowledge planning and ordering the murder.

- [Joseph sighing] - You all right?

I'm scared. I feel like a walking microphone.

Well, it's natural. If you weren't scared, you'd be stupid.

Or dead.

[tense music plays]

I need the man.

[*]

- Burundi? - Malawi! Come in, have a seat.

Something to drink? Tea, water, coffee?

No. No, thank you. Are you busy?

Not at all. I always have time for family.

I'm having trouble with what happened to Kenya.

[Burundi] It's terrible. I agree.

[Malawi] Did we have to carry it that far?

[Burundi] What do you mean?

[Malawi] Killing him.

[Burundi] You think I had anything to do

- with Kenya's death? - [Pembleton snorting]

God, no!

I had no idea what was in Benin's mind

when he did that.

How can you think such a thing?

- He knew the kid was wired. - Damn right he did.

At every point in this investigation,

we have been betrayed by our own.

Barnfather at the arrest. Gaffney at the interrogation.

Now this.

Gaffney is the Commander of Crimes Against Persons.

If he wants the details of a homicide case, he has an absolute right.

What's clear is that we're working in a fishbowl.

Our every move is being telegraphed.

Which ends this proactive investigation.

We've got all the evidence we're ever gonna get.

I say we take Benin Crown to trial and get him some serious time.

Down the road, he might agree to testify against Robinson.

He'll agree now.

[sighing] He lawyered up.

We can't even conduct a legal interview with Crown at this point.

We're not gonna talk to Benin Crown.

We wouldn't dream of talking to Benin Crown.

What we're gonna do...

we're gonna talk to each other.

[Giardello sighing]

[handcuffs clicking]

Yo, why you bring me back in here?

- My lawyer says you can't talk to me. - Your lawyer's absolutely right.

- I can't say a thing to you. - That's right.

Benin, how long have you been here in this room?

What, five minutes or so?

Until you spoke to me a moment ago,

- did I say anything to you? - No.

- Ask any questions? - No.

Acknowledge your existence?

This is not an interview.

We are not talking.

There is absolutely nothing that you are going to say in this room

that we will remember you saying.

- You understand? - Not really.

Okay. I'm gonna talk to my good friend John Munch here.

Hi. John Munch here.

- Good work on the Merchant case. - Thank you, Frank.

- Your investigation has wrapped itself up nicely? - Uh-huh.

- The lab has made a match on the murder weapon. - [Pembleton] Mm-hmm.

An eyewitness has identified our suspect.

And our suspect, seen fleeing the crime scene by police officers,

has offered nothing to me in the way of mitigation or alibi.

I, being the primary detective assigned to the case,

- am decidedly content. - [Pembleton] Mm.

- [Giardello] Damn shame. - [table bangs]

- What's that, Gee? - About the suspect.

Good kid, good mother.

Good grades at City College.

Graduates, joins the African Revival,

and then finds himself a suspect to murder.

- End of story. - There's no way around this one.

Murder, life, no parole.

Can you imagine that, being incarcerated for life? Huh?

I mean, no woman to keep you warm,

no chance of, uh, of fathering children?

I understand children are the secret to eternal life.

Oh, yeah, it's a marvelous feeling.

You know what I'm talking about, to be a man.

Uh, to-- to have the opportunity to hand your name down to your child.

- It's marvelous. - I guess Benin Crown is the last of his line, huh?

- Oh, no, no, no, he has a sister. - Oh, yeah, his sister.

- She's pregnant, right? - [Pembleton] Yeah.

What did I hear about that?

Come on, man.

- What? - [Pembleton laughing]

- You-- you know, don't you? - [Munch] Know what?

- They say it's Robinson's kid. [laughing] - [Giardello laughing]

Benin's pimping his own sister to Robinson?

You got no right talking about my sister!

- Benin, please. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

You want to speak with us, your attorney must be present

and in agreement that you waive your Miranda rights.

- There's no way that's gonna happen. - Hey, look! It's Ed.

Ed Danvers, Assistant State's Attorney for the City of Baltimore.

I happened to notice you walking through our humble squad room.

- Can I ask you a question? - What is he doing in here? You can't talk to him.

- We're not talking to him. - No, we're talking to you.

- We are? - Yeah, about this Crown case. What are we looking at?

Munch is talking life, no parole.

Probably. Could be straight life.

Which means parole in about 15, if Crown's lucky.

Does Crown seem lucky to you?

If he was, he'd have a good public defender working for him,

trying to get him the sweetest deal possible.

Instead he's got an attorney hired by the African Revival Movement.

- [detectives laughing] What's wrong with that, man?

- Hey, did you guys hear something? - Not a word.

As I was saying, he's got an attorney

- courtesy of Burundi Robinson. - [detectives laughing]

You mean that Robinson is paying some legal eagle cash money to keep Crown silent,

and that this same legal eagle, who knows where his check is coming from,

will keep Crown silent, even if it means sending the kid to Jessup

- for the rest of his natural life? - [Danvers] It's a good deal.

- Wait. Wait. Wait. - Sounds like a conflict of interest to me.

No, it's-- it's not a conflict to Robinson's interests.

He gets to play prophet and, uh, oh, have his fun.

[detectives laughing]

Of course, if Crown were to give up

any co-conspirators in the murder, I mean,

he'd be looking at 15 to 20.

- [Pembleton] Whoa! - Possible parole in seven.

[Pembleton] Seven years?

- [Danvers] Yeah. - For what, co-operation?

He'd still be young enough to have a life of his own.

- [Giardello] Hmm. - [Danvers] Hmm.

I'll give you what you want.

Sorry, I can't-- I can't talk to you.

- Wait, wait, wait, I want to talk to you! - Sorry.

[Danvers] If you want to talk,

you go back to pre-trial detention

and you use your first chance at the phone

to call the Public Defender's Office.

Get yourself a lawyer who talks for you, not for Robinson.

[suspenseful music plays]

Tell him you want to cut a deal.

O-- okay. Yeah, okay!

[intense music plays]

Okay. You fellas go round back, take the alley.

[indistinct police radio chatter]

Gentlemen. An arrest warrant, I take it?

- Mr. Robinson, let's do this the easy way. - Can I see the probable cause?

You'll get a statement of charges from the Court Commissioner.

No matter. I know what it says already.

I know that Benin Crown fired the attorney I provided for him.

- Sir, if you'll just come with us. - No!

- [people shouting] - [intense music plays]

- Take it easy. Guys, guys, relax. - [indistinct]

[man] Come on! Come on!

Signal 13! Officer needs assistance!

Over at 200 block of Carrollton, in the alley!

[indistinct shouting]

- Back off! - No, no, no! No, no!

No!

[indistinct police radio chatter]

Get back! [grunts]

[groans]

[man, indistinct]

- Back! Stand back! - [man] Go back!

Officer needs assistance, Signal 13.

We need an ambo here. Don't move! Don't move!

Everybody just stay where you are.

- It's all right. - [officer] Signal 13. Signal 13.

- [glass smashing] - [Pembleton] Okay, okay, I'm calling for backup.

- Hey, holster your weapons. - [officer] Look out!

[indistinct], holster your weapon.

- [horn honking] - [siren wailing]

- What the hell happened? - They beat him down!

- [Pembleton] Who hit him? - [paramedic] We gotta get him out of here right now!

Come on, let's move. Let's get him out of here, put him out of here.

Get him out! Okay, we need tactical QRT.

Come on, let's go, let's move! Look out!

Let's make a move, let's go!

Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!

[officer] There's a riot here, that's what's going on.

We need tactical help right away.

[dispatcher] 10-4, 731.

All units, Signal 13 at Carrollton and Mulberry.

Officers in need of assistance. QRT is on the way.

[*]

[siren wailing]

This guy Robinson, he wants to talk to Harris.

- Deputy Commissioner Harris? - He's been called, but he's not on the scene.

[Jasper] What do you want me to tell Robinson?

The Deputy Commissioner's en route.

- Is that true? - How should I know?

[intense music plays]

Hey.

- Hey, where-- where you-- where you-- where you been? - Yeah, huh?

You disappeared at the beginning of last night's shift. I haven't seen you since.

- Right. - Stay out of this.

I had something I had to do.

All night?

Yeah, yeah, Frank, I took some personal time.

- What did I miss? - Nothing much.

[*]

The Deputy Commissioner for you.

What's Harris saying?

He gave me the go to storm the compound.

He wants this guy Robinson taken out.

- He's out of his mind. - [Giardello] No!

He knows exactly what he wants, and I'm not gonna let that happen.

[*]

[officer] Somebody take these guys around the truck and cover Giardello.

[*]

[quiet suspenseful music plays]

I'm not carrying.

[dog barking]

I'm Al Giardello. I'm a shift commander with Homicide.

I remember you.

A long time ago, you were with Tac.

So, Lieutenant, what can I do for you under these circumstances?

Talk to me.

How about them O's?

Uh, big series with Cleveland coming up at the end of the month.

I was hoping to get to a game.

How about you and me? We could, um, go and sit in a couple of good seats.

- Good seats, huh? - [Giardello] I like third row.

Behind the dugout, out on first base line.

No, it's got to be along third.

I like to look into the dugout and watch the home team circulate.

[both laughing]

You could've gotten yourself shot coming in here, Lieutenant.

What do you want?

What you want.

For everything to be all right.

How do we do that?

Give yourself up.

I can't.

You and me,

we can just walk out that door

and all this will be ended.

What, I still have friends in the department, huh?

[laughing] Uh-huh?

They're all outside for what, to throw me a party?

Jimmy Harris, is he out there yet?

[quiet suspenseful music plays]

Harris owes you, doesn't he?

My boy Jimmy.

He should be standing here with me today, not you.

He's where he is today because of me.

How does he owe you?

'72, my last year with the department.

The O's that year, Buford, Baylor, Palmer, McNally,

Boog, and Brooks covering the corners.

Brooks Robinson, the supreme glove man, the hands of a magician.

I resigned.

Ten years in, halfway to a pension,

- I still resigned. - Harris told you about the wire.

You actually thought you were gonna get me on tape saying, what,

that I had Kenya Merchant murdered?

Harris told you.

In '72, me and Jimmy Harris,

we were working a two-man Tac car.

We'd been partnering for five years,

since we'd both come up from patrolmen.

We owned Lexington Terrace.

Remember how wild those projects were?

But me and Jimmy, we kept the lid on.

Anything got nuts, we were the glove men, the magicians.

You were doing good work, and then you resigned.

Jimmy and me, one night we catch a drug dealer.

He's coming up the stairwell with 15 large worth of heroin on him.

Not big by today's numbers, but back then it was a heavy bust.

We're going to go to court on this jamoke,

so Jimmy checks the dope out of Evidence Control.

The dealer pleads out.

Me and Jimmy, we take the dope back to Evidence Control.

- Two weeks later-- - The heroin is gone.

Missing.

Jimmy and me, we swear up and down

we don't know how it comes up baking soda,

but it's our names on the inventory receipt,

and the brass, they gonna bust us out.

The only two names they got are Harris and Robinson.

I don't know what happened to that dope.

Jimmy swears his word he doesn't either.

[laughing]

- Swears his word. - Harris switched the dope.

He sold the heroin back to the dealer for ten grand.

Why didn't you go to the brass with that?

My word against his? What does that give me?

Jimmy Harris came on in '56. He has a veteran's credibility.

[siren wailing in the distance]

Jimmy tells me we can both take the charge.

We can go down together as partners,

or we can save what we can.

- Damage control. - [Burundi] Oh, yeah.

I let that bastard drop $5,000 in my pocket,

and then you know what it comes down to?

Me and Jimmy standing on a corner, flipping a coin.

Heads, he takes the weight. Tails, I do.

He flips a quarter, and you see how it came up.

Your coin?

You offer to resign on the condition

that you will not admit to anything on the record.

I resign, all them problems go away.

[Giardello] You flipped a coin, you covered him.

Far as I'm concerned, you covered yourself. I don't know, I wasn't there.

But I am standing in front of you now. Harris isn't.

Now, I want you to do what's best for you.

I want you to do what's best for everyone.

You think Deputy Commissioner of Police James C. Harris

is gonna let me walk into open court and speak my piece?

My boy Jimmy isn't taking prisoners today.

All that happened here today can be made right.

Where do we go, Al?

Where's our place in the world, as Black men?

We're either a Michael Jordan or an O. J. Simpson, godhead or pariah.

Otherwise we're Bojangles,

we're standing outside the Harborplace Pavilion begging for spare change.

But if we don't go hat in hand for some white benevolence, then we're a threat, a danger.

Something has to be done about us.

I can live with that. What's new about that?

But for someone who is one of us,

for us to be betrayed from within the family,

that's the true evil.

When that happens, we have to prove our self-reliance.

We have to take care of our problems ourselves.

And you took care of Kenya Merchant.

- [Burundi] My family is gone. - No one needs to get hurt.

No one needs to get hurt here today, and we all win the day.

- I just flipped a coin. - What?

- I flipped a coin. Call it. - What?

- In my head. It's flipping. Heads or tails? Call it. - Heads.

- You lose. - [tense music plays]

What about the children?

[helicopter buzzing]

Coming out! Coming out!

All right, come on, hurry. Right to the truck. Hurry.

Please, as fast as you can.

Where's Deputy Commissioner Harris?

I want to talk to the son of a bitch.

Quit while you're ahead, Lieutenant.

I know everything. He gave up the witness we had wired.

- [Gaffney] He did what? - [Giardello] Robinson told me everything.

I know all about his and Robinson's history.

You listen to that madman in there?

You think he has any sense of reality?

He is wanted on a murder warrant, Lieutenant.

I'm gonna write this up.

There'll be a full report

on the Mayor's desk tomorrow, Gaffney.

That's big of you.

Don't get writer's cramp and put in for a medical, all right?

Gaffney, listen, Gaffney!

- [Gaffney] Lieutenant Jasper. - [Jasper] Yes, sir.

- Take Robinson out. - What?

This is a command decision from Deputy Commissioner Harris.

- Lives are on the line here. - I've got my orders.

This is a direct command?

If you have to ask, you're out of the loop.

If you're out of the loop, you're not long for the job.

Any clear line of sight on Robinson, we have a go.

That was Munch. No changes in the last hour.

No parlay. No demands.

- What's going on? - Anybody's guess.

Drop mics are picking up conversations within the compound.

[indistinct police radio chatter]

It's been hours.

No lights have come on inside the compound.

They don't want to present themselves as a target.

[Barnfather] Anything on the night scopes?

[helicopter buzzing]

Robinson let the women and children go free.

He's trying to find a way out of this without losing face.

[phone ringing]

Yeah, Homicide.

No, Lieutenant Giardello's at the scene now.

No. Bye.

[suspenseful music plays]

What did Robinson and you talk about?

- We're not picking up any sounds anymore. - What do you mean?

Not a sound for the last hour.

What do you mean? There are 16 men inside.

How can none of them be making a sound?

[music intensifies]

- [intense music plays] - [officer] Go, go, go, go!

[eerie music plays]

[reporters shouting indistinctly]

[reporter] Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Lieutenant, please!

Lieutenant, you were the last man to speak to him.

Why? Why did he do it?

I'm not sure.

But I can tell you one thing.

There's gonna be hell to pay.

[overlapping chatter]

[Dawn] As you can see, the removal of the bodies of the victims

is underway tonight,

even as police detectives continue to search

the group's compound.

This is Dawn Daniels for WBALTV.

[reporter] ...the 16 male members of the West Baltimore cult.

They have not yet been identified by authorities...

[host] From Kittery to Kennebunk,

the coast of Southern Maine is home

to a unique variety of marine life

that thrives in cooler waters,

away from the Gulf Stream current.

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