1 00:00:08,558 --> 00:00:09,558 You see now? 2 00:00:09,933 --> 00:00:11,354 I'm here to tell you, 3 00:00:11,951 --> 00:00:13,933 this remaining silent shit ain't nothing like 4 00:00:14,186 --> 00:00:15,727 they make it out to be. 5 00:00:17,654 --> 00:00:19,925 You up in here all tight with it, 6 00:00:20,527 --> 00:00:22,194 waiting for your paid lawyer, 7 00:00:23,256 --> 00:00:25,621 thinking you all wise, ain't you? 8 00:00:26,997 --> 00:00:28,312 No. See, 9 00:00:29,701 --> 00:00:32,813 that worked when you some kind of criminal mastermind... 10 00:00:33,781 --> 00:00:36,312 When you ain't been seen runnin' from the deed. 11 00:00:37,390 --> 00:00:39,152 When your own fuckin' running partner 12 00:00:39,325 --> 00:00:40,913 ain't in the next room, 13 00:00:41,597 --> 00:00:42,830 putting you in. 14 00:00:54,859 --> 00:00:57,142 He's telling it like a little bitch. 15 00:00:58,578 --> 00:01:01,429 We even went to mickey d's for him because he was so motherfucking helpful. 16 00:01:03,639 --> 00:01:05,800 2 quarter pounders, big fries, 17 00:01:06,203 --> 00:01:08,336 McDonaldland cookies, 18 00:01:08,515 --> 00:01:09,842 Dr. Pepper. 19 00:01:10,202 --> 00:01:12,123 That's how your boy roll, right? 20 00:01:20,328 --> 00:01:21,978 All right. Step out. 21 00:01:22,704 --> 00:01:24,824 - Where are we going? - Break room. 22 00:01:25,157 --> 00:01:26,686 So you can enjoy that, huh? 23 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:29,224 All right. But I still ain't sayin' shit to you. 24 00:01:30,703 --> 00:01:32,018 Marnell, what the fuck? 25 00:01:41,059 --> 00:01:43,470 How many years you figure we've been doing the same shit? 26 00:01:43,696 --> 00:01:44,785 20 at least. 27 00:01:48,298 --> 00:01:49,298 True. 28 00:01:50,924 --> 00:01:51,924 True. 29 00:01:53,923 --> 00:01:54,923 False. 30 00:01:55,579 --> 00:01:56,530 Load him up. 31 00:01:56,754 --> 00:01:58,576 - Some shit actually works, huh? - Hell yeah. 32 00:01:58,744 --> 00:02:00,566 Americans are a stupid people, by and large. 33 00:02:00,754 --> 00:02:03,288 We pretty much believe whatever we're told. 34 00:02:08,885 --> 00:02:10,498 So it can feel my heart beat? 35 00:02:10,815 --> 00:02:11,849 Pulse? Yeah. 36 00:02:13,188 --> 00:02:15,094 If Marnell say I had the gun, he lying. 37 00:02:16,651 --> 00:02:18,477 The machine tells the tale, son. 38 00:02:19,210 --> 00:02:20,299 We ready, professor? 39 00:02:22,429 --> 00:02:23,844 We'll start with an easy one. 40 00:02:24,519 --> 00:02:27,164 Is your name in fact DeShawn Fredericks? 41 00:02:27,850 --> 00:02:28,850 Yeah. 42 00:02:35,473 --> 00:02:36,473 True. 43 00:02:37,098 --> 00:02:39,531 And do you reside in fact 44 00:02:40,315 --> 00:02:42,014 the 1200 block of woodyer street 45 00:02:42,256 --> 00:02:43,617 in west Baltimore? 46 00:02:43,875 --> 00:02:44,713 Yeah. 47 00:02:50,723 --> 00:02:52,508 - True. - And did you and Marnell 48 00:02:52,676 --> 00:02:54,624 shoot your boy Pookie down on Cary Street 49 00:02:54,813 --> 00:02:56,298 just like Marnell said you did? 50 00:02:56,650 --> 00:02:57,636 No. No. 51 00:03:06,413 --> 00:03:07,396 Lie. 52 00:03:07,556 --> 00:03:09,105 You lying motherfucker. 53 00:03:10,286 --> 00:03:11,919 Machine is never wrong, son. 54 00:03:13,689 --> 00:03:14,689 Fuck, man! 55 00:03:15,428 --> 00:03:17,906 Nigger can't never keep his damn mouth shut. 56 00:03:18,219 --> 00:03:21,344 I should've busted a cap in Pookie ass my own self. 57 00:03:21,875 --> 00:03:23,601 Left Marnell home and shit. 58 00:03:24,251 --> 00:03:25,730 He just a bitch, is all. 59 00:03:33,367 --> 00:03:34,825 The bigger the lie, 60 00:03:35,124 --> 00:03:36,697 the more they believe. 61 00:05:26,277 --> 00:05:27,910 First the BlackBerry. 62 00:05:29,109 --> 00:05:30,761 Oh, he brought his tunes. 63 00:05:31,548 --> 00:05:33,291 All the running shit pay, don't it? 64 00:05:39,802 --> 00:05:42,043 We got one coming in. Unidentified number-one male. 65 00:05:42,377 --> 00:05:45,050 - You got him, Jimmy? - Yeah. More face-to-face. 66 00:05:49,835 --> 00:05:50,966 Oh, man. 67 00:05:51,149 --> 00:05:54,146 You know, this would be more fun if we were actually getting paid. 68 00:05:54,859 --> 00:05:56,852 Hey, you know, I heard a story about you, 69 00:05:57,174 --> 00:05:59,485 - when I was back in the west. - It's not true. 70 00:06:00,184 --> 00:06:02,970 - Haven't even told it yet. - Whatever it is, it's not true. 71 00:06:03,719 --> 00:06:05,900 You run a Vice undercover one time, 72 00:06:06,085 --> 00:06:08,870 and instead of pulling up, you went ahead and closed the deal. 73 00:06:09,211 --> 00:06:11,382 I read this report where you got blowed by this whore, 74 00:06:11,587 --> 00:06:13,514 and you actually wrote it that you got blowed. 75 00:06:13,982 --> 00:06:15,464 You believe everything you read? 76 00:06:21,642 --> 00:06:22,642 Look, man. 77 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:24,640 All I'm saying, 78 00:06:25,015 --> 00:06:28,065 if I'm gonna take your package, split me and be fair. 79 00:06:28,452 --> 00:06:31,305 I got to pay all my people the same, and here you're upping the price on me. 80 00:06:31,619 --> 00:06:33,949 - Pay your people less. - They my people, though. 81 00:06:34,270 --> 00:06:35,556 Then short yourself. 82 00:06:36,918 --> 00:06:38,015 Split is 60/40. 83 00:06:38,390 --> 00:06:40,500 You want better? You need to tool up. 84 00:06:40,730 --> 00:06:42,022 And wait for Chris, Snoop, 85 00:06:42,231 --> 00:06:44,430 and the rest of my people come pay a call on your people. 86 00:06:44,614 --> 00:06:47,005 We will be brief with all you motherfuckers. 87 00:06:47,636 --> 00:06:48,963 I think you know. 88 00:06:52,912 --> 00:06:53,833 All right. 89 00:07:14,705 --> 00:07:16,095 Northbound on Fulton. 90 00:07:17,073 --> 00:07:18,689 Lester. Coming your way. 91 00:07:25,203 --> 00:07:26,146 I see him. 92 00:07:26,644 --> 00:07:27,825 Roger that. 93 00:07:29,512 --> 00:07:31,310 Every day, same shit. 94 00:07:36,089 --> 00:07:38,472 - Look at this pretty bitch. - Ten-hut! 95 00:07:45,449 --> 00:07:46,965 Just sit the fuck down. 96 00:07:47,339 --> 00:07:49,432 I'm not gonna stand up here and pretend to be insulted 97 00:07:49,621 --> 00:07:51,653 because you all are pretending to respect the rank. 98 00:07:51,862 --> 00:07:53,171 Today, he's an S.I.C. 99 00:07:53,387 --> 00:07:55,785 Tomorrow, he might be a newly minted Lieutenant. 100 00:07:56,290 --> 00:07:59,326 You never know with these career-minded motherfuckers, do you? 101 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,007 If I was minding my career, would I be in the western in command 102 00:08:02,174 --> 00:08:03,535 of you useless fucking humps? 103 00:08:05,288 --> 00:08:07,549 Okay, let's go to the readouts and the warrants first. 104 00:08:07,728 --> 00:08:09,634 - Fuck the readouts. - Fuck the warrants. 105 00:08:09,839 --> 00:08:11,712 What the fuck is going on with our hours? 106 00:08:13,386 --> 00:08:15,783 Easy, easy. If I had an answer, you'd have an answer. 107 00:08:16,019 --> 00:08:17,715 I'm in the same boat as you are. 108 00:08:18,059 --> 00:08:21,321 2-odd weeks since I've seen overtime or court pay, 109 00:08:21,615 --> 00:08:23,418 and I gotta pay the credit union, 110 00:08:23,645 --> 00:08:25,584 the archdiocese for my kid's tuition, 111 00:08:25,810 --> 00:08:27,801 and my ex-wife so she can pay... 112 00:08:28,699 --> 00:08:31,872 Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down! 113 00:08:32,576 --> 00:08:34,065 In your fucking seats. 114 00:08:38,124 --> 00:08:39,590 We're still authorizing overtime 115 00:08:39,779 --> 00:08:41,969 and the state's attorneys are still signing court slips. 116 00:08:42,136 --> 00:08:43,571 But you ain't fucking paying us. 117 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,704 The union says we're going down to the NLRB 118 00:08:46,018 --> 00:08:48,156 - and deal with this shit. - Word coming down 119 00:08:48,381 --> 00:08:50,787 is that when the city's budget situation is improved, 120 00:08:50,954 --> 00:08:53,017 we'll all see that as back pay or comp time. 121 00:08:53,187 --> 00:08:55,292 - Every last hour. - Back pay my ass. 122 00:08:55,778 --> 00:08:57,401 This shit here is just paper. 123 00:08:58,189 --> 00:09:01,150 65 hours of worthless paper right here! 124 00:09:01,515 --> 00:09:03,379 Officer brown, sit your ass. 125 00:09:05,824 --> 00:09:06,824 Sit! 126 00:09:18,263 --> 00:09:19,827 We're all professionals. 127 00:09:20,581 --> 00:09:22,526 We're about to police the roughest district 128 00:09:22,694 --> 00:09:24,641 in one of the roughest cities in the world. 129 00:09:25,512 --> 00:09:26,818 Show some pride. 130 00:09:28,482 --> 00:09:31,099 If promises were made, promises will be kept. 131 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,687 The situation in the city right now is bad, 132 00:09:34,386 --> 00:09:35,786 but it won't stay bad forever. 133 00:09:36,146 --> 00:09:39,376 We wait this out like professionals. 134 00:09:42,699 --> 00:09:43,699 Now, then. 135 00:09:44,448 --> 00:09:45,827 Back to the readouts. 136 00:09:51,267 --> 00:09:53,152 First item is from motor pool. 137 00:09:53,699 --> 00:09:56,424 No marked or unmarked units can be shopped on dickman street 138 00:09:56,780 --> 00:09:58,853 - until further notice. - What? 139 00:09:59,091 --> 00:10:01,609 Cutbacks and fleet budgeting require that all districts 140 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,264 make do with vehicles in their current state of affairs. 141 00:10:04,511 --> 00:10:05,629 So that means-- 142 00:10:07,197 --> 00:10:08,996 Shitbox cars are falling apart. 143 00:10:09,295 --> 00:10:10,615 Fucking know that? 144 00:10:23,247 --> 00:10:24,323 Where you at? 145 00:10:25,013 --> 00:10:26,068 On his ass. 146 00:10:29,189 --> 00:10:30,466 You guys got the eyeball. 147 00:10:30,893 --> 00:10:32,024 All good, Lester. 148 00:10:32,389 --> 00:10:33,465 It's all good. 149 00:10:40,636 --> 00:10:42,494 Officer castor, you have a call on line 79... 150 00:10:42,704 --> 00:10:44,484 - Natives are restless, huh? - I don't know 151 00:10:44,647 --> 00:10:46,736 how long we go before the wheels fall off the car. 152 00:10:46,908 --> 00:10:49,542 A year ago, they were promised pay raises, pension bumps, 153 00:10:49,744 --> 00:10:51,378 better equipment, better cars. 154 00:10:51,598 --> 00:10:53,089 Now we can't even pay the o.t. 155 00:10:53,312 --> 00:10:55,029 Gave them the professionalism bit, right? 156 00:10:55,281 --> 00:10:57,019 In the real world, they pay professionals. 157 00:10:57,186 --> 00:10:59,439 - That's why we call them pros. - Major. 158 00:10:59,837 --> 00:11:01,889 There's a problem on the back lot. 159 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:05,250 If it bothers you, clean them up. 160 00:11:05,468 --> 00:11:07,250 - Fuck you, son. - Fuck you right back. 161 00:11:07,543 --> 00:11:09,692 That thing was all fucked up when I got it for midnight. 162 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,528 - You ask anyone. - Then, you clean it, 163 00:11:11,695 --> 00:11:13,480 or you get the midnight shift to clean it. 164 00:11:13,652 --> 00:11:14,835 Clean this. 165 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:18,207 Fuck you, Gene. You don't leave it like that for the next man. 166 00:11:18,571 --> 00:11:21,210 You're the one whining like a little bitch, Bobby. 167 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:28,575 As S.I.C., should I stop this? 168 00:11:31,202 --> 00:11:32,383 That's my car. 169 00:11:34,258 --> 00:11:36,841 What, you think this is good for morale or something? 170 00:11:37,465 --> 00:11:40,336 These guys haven't had an honest paycheck in weeks. 171 00:11:41,198 --> 00:11:43,376 We have no fucking morale, Sergeant. 172 00:11:55,582 --> 00:11:57,948 Kid ran us around for half an hour. 173 00:11:58,323 --> 00:11:59,781 Amazing, ain't it? 174 00:12:03,247 --> 00:12:04,323 Here we go. 175 00:12:15,822 --> 00:12:16,930 He got a meeting. 176 00:12:17,175 --> 00:12:18,156 Want me to come? 177 00:12:18,953 --> 00:12:21,504 You go check on your corner. I'll send word if it's on. 178 00:12:34,369 --> 00:12:35,932 - He's moving. - All right. 179 00:12:43,147 --> 00:12:44,613 Lester, are you there? 180 00:12:46,323 --> 00:12:47,780 Up on Reisterstown with Chris. 181 00:12:48,119 --> 00:12:49,312 Marlo's on the move. 182 00:12:51,078 --> 00:12:52,272 Should we follow him? 183 00:12:52,575 --> 00:12:55,354 Why? We know where he's going. 184 00:12:59,951 --> 00:13:01,995 No, sir. We've cut it to the bone already. 185 00:13:02,203 --> 00:13:04,154 Cars are gonna go in service for the next month. 186 00:13:04,364 --> 00:13:06,238 And for as long as we can get away with it, 187 00:13:06,458 --> 00:13:08,238 we're deferring all overtime and court pay. 188 00:13:08,435 --> 00:13:10,278 How's crime? How are your stats? 189 00:13:10,802 --> 00:13:14,414 It's a double-digit decline you wanted. Not possible with these cuts. 190 00:13:14,744 --> 00:13:17,059 For God sake, you got to show us some kind of reduction. 191 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:18,850 I campaigned on that. 192 00:13:19,103 --> 00:13:20,401 All this deferred overtime. 193 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,507 We'll pay it as we can. And the pay raises I promised? 194 00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:25,709 They're still coming, just a year late. 195 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,555 Right now I got to throw every dollar at the schools, 196 00:13:28,870 --> 00:13:31,886 but you tell your people I know I made promises. 197 00:13:32,375 --> 00:13:33,997 Where else can you guys trim? 198 00:13:35,804 --> 00:13:36,880 Well, we... 199 00:13:37,669 --> 00:13:40,391 We've been running a prolonged investigation... 200 00:13:40,926 --> 00:13:42,242 into all the-- 201 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:44,908 the bodies we pulled out of those houses last year. 202 00:13:45,101 --> 00:13:46,348 Months of surveillance. 203 00:13:46,508 --> 00:13:47,700 Thousands of man-hours. 204 00:13:48,052 --> 00:13:50,462 At this point, we're not close to an arrest. 205 00:13:50,672 --> 00:13:52,689 You're saying you want us to come down on a case 206 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,532 in which 22 people were murdered 207 00:13:54,721 --> 00:13:56,249 and left to rot in city houses? 208 00:13:56,501 --> 00:13:58,727 We caught national news coverage on those murders. 209 00:13:58,915 --> 00:13:59,925 Last year. 210 00:14:00,208 --> 00:14:02,814 I don't want anyone saying we're giving up on those murders. 211 00:14:03,105 --> 00:14:04,613 I don't want to see that headline. 212 00:14:04,802 --> 00:14:07,315 But given our fiscal situation, we could... 213 00:14:07,985 --> 00:14:10,496 temporarily suspend the investigation 214 00:14:11,028 --> 00:14:12,369 pending new developments. 215 00:14:15,742 --> 00:14:17,807 - Anything else? - We need to take away 216 00:14:18,029 --> 00:14:20,290 the 10-hour cap on secondary employment. 217 00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:23,543 You do that and your police aren't doing police work, 218 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,324 they're guarding liquor stores, bouncing nightclubs, putting up drywall. 219 00:14:27,649 --> 00:14:29,806 Respectfully, morale is at rock bottom. 220 00:14:30,211 --> 00:14:31,907 You need to throw our people a bone. 221 00:14:32,864 --> 00:14:34,574 Or you could lose them for good. 222 00:14:41,741 --> 00:14:43,104 Hold the line now... 223 00:14:43,423 --> 00:14:45,932 And we'll get to a better place. I promise. 224 00:14:58,373 --> 00:14:59,575 Say it, Norman. 225 00:15:00,119 --> 00:15:01,438 You're thinking it. 226 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:04,267 Truth to power, Norman. 227 00:15:04,622 --> 00:15:06,318 Isn't that what I keep you around for? 228 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:09,479 When the governor threw that 50-some million on the table, 229 00:15:09,678 --> 00:15:12,118 - you should've picked that shit up. - He takes the state bailout 230 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,236 - and he never becomes governor. - He shorts 231 00:15:14,425 --> 00:15:16,351 the police department, the crime rate stays up, 232 00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:18,048 he ain't no governor, neither, 233 00:15:18,257 --> 00:15:20,729 just a weak-ass Mayor of a broke-ass city. 234 00:15:22,937 --> 00:15:23,837 Feel better? 235 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,256 A little bit. You? 236 00:15:45,605 --> 00:15:46,869 Boy folded it up. 237 00:15:48,107 --> 00:15:49,717 He taking our shit 60/40. 238 00:15:51,816 --> 00:15:53,749 - Nigger showed no heart at all. - So more people 239 00:15:54,045 --> 00:15:56,540 - could stand down there, right? - Definitely. 240 00:15:56,769 --> 00:15:59,198 Won't be needing no drama behind his nonsense. 241 00:15:59,839 --> 00:16:01,472 And po-po's still up on you, huh? 242 00:16:01,682 --> 00:16:03,390 You are hot all the time, man. 243 00:16:04,382 --> 00:16:06,681 Today they got the white boy with black hair up on the roof 244 00:16:06,932 --> 00:16:08,210 on Booker T. Washington. 245 00:16:08,883 --> 00:16:10,546 Watching with his spyglass. 246 00:16:12,476 --> 00:16:14,822 The young 'uns saw him climbing up. Yeah. 247 00:16:15,883 --> 00:16:17,272 So we do like this, then. 248 00:16:33,072 --> 00:16:34,072 That's it. 249 00:16:35,142 --> 00:16:37,498 All of that so he could swap a few words. 250 00:16:38,196 --> 00:16:39,759 How do you wiretap that? 251 00:16:40,508 --> 00:16:41,346 Lester? 252 00:16:41,660 --> 00:16:43,042 Are we done for the day, man? 253 00:16:43,297 --> 00:16:45,478 You don't want to stay on Chris, see where he goes next? 254 00:16:47,170 --> 00:16:48,729 We've been on this guy for months. 255 00:16:48,981 --> 00:16:52,014 - He doesn't slip. - And no one's kicking our O.T. 256 00:16:54,011 --> 00:16:55,011 Yeah. 257 00:16:56,008 --> 00:16:57,008 We're done. 258 00:16:57,444 --> 00:16:58,444 Copy that. 259 00:17:00,197 --> 00:17:01,769 Greenhouse Gas right here. 260 00:17:05,009 --> 00:17:07,160 Hey, Marcus, you got a count for me? 261 00:17:08,933 --> 00:17:11,687 - Spider, you got a count for me? - For you? No. 262 00:17:19,809 --> 00:17:20,751 How we do? 263 00:17:22,258 --> 00:17:23,574 I can't say for sure. 264 00:17:26,444 --> 00:17:27,771 They short, huh? 265 00:17:28,383 --> 00:17:29,968 Man, I just know they ain't tell me. 266 00:17:35,012 --> 00:17:36,193 Greenhouse Gas. 267 00:17:38,656 --> 00:17:39,588 Go home, man. 268 00:17:39,946 --> 00:17:42,069 Bug'll be out of school pretty soon. 269 00:17:42,416 --> 00:17:43,714 I ain't you, Michael. 270 00:17:44,703 --> 00:17:45,703 Go get Bug. 271 00:17:46,012 --> 00:17:47,117 I'll see you tonight. 272 00:17:54,638 --> 00:17:55,923 Greenhouse Gas right here. 273 00:17:56,931 --> 00:17:57,931 Yo, we short? 274 00:17:58,183 --> 00:18:01,622 No, we good. Got 60 left from about 1,400. 275 00:18:01,869 --> 00:18:02,869 We own it, Mike. 276 00:18:03,556 --> 00:18:05,006 So why don't you tell Duke? 277 00:18:05,572 --> 00:18:07,226 Why you fucking with Duke, nigger? 278 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,344 I ain't fucking with nobody, man. 279 00:18:09,575 --> 00:18:11,648 He just acting like a bitch, that's all. 280 00:18:13,830 --> 00:18:15,309 Greenhouse Gas is hot. 281 00:18:26,514 --> 00:18:28,455 They're getting a little sloppy. 282 00:18:28,828 --> 00:18:30,439 Did that meet in the same lot 283 00:18:30,762 --> 00:18:32,584 they've used twice in the last week. 284 00:18:32,789 --> 00:18:34,041 The one on McCulloh. 285 00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:37,183 That's pretty thin considering how long we've been on these guys. 286 00:18:38,678 --> 00:18:40,269 They're gonna get lazy. 287 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:42,207 Fall into a pattern. 288 00:18:43,071 --> 00:18:44,357 They all do, over time. 289 00:18:45,071 --> 00:18:46,221 Someone say overtime? 290 00:18:46,381 --> 00:18:49,046 Seriously, we did 14 hours and we're only gonna get paid for 8. 291 00:18:49,328 --> 00:18:50,522 Case has gotta go green 292 00:18:50,794 --> 00:18:52,762 before they go black. That's how I was taught. 293 00:18:53,986 --> 00:18:55,514 180 hours and counting. 294 00:18:55,924 --> 00:18:57,862 Couple more weeks and you get a month's work. 295 00:18:58,071 --> 00:19:01,827 Couple more weeks, I'll be in jail for late payment of child support. 296 00:19:04,584 --> 00:19:05,946 Who needs a taste? 297 00:19:06,392 --> 00:19:08,185 Shit. Who's buying, motherfucker? 298 00:19:08,493 --> 00:19:09,865 I'll cover a round or two. 299 00:19:10,291 --> 00:19:12,322 Then I guess I'm drinking a round or two. 300 00:19:13,571 --> 00:19:15,255 Oh, yeah, and a boat dock, huh? 301 00:19:15,567 --> 00:19:18,850 Yeah. And the gazebo here? For my wife. 302 00:19:20,808 --> 00:19:22,282 You get any word from downtown 303 00:19:22,459 --> 00:19:24,584 on when they're gonna start paying out the O.T. again? 304 00:19:24,752 --> 00:19:27,139 Because we going double shift on these surveillances. 305 00:19:27,384 --> 00:19:29,032 They haven't told me anything. 306 00:19:29,820 --> 00:19:31,352 Guess I ain't in the loop. 307 00:19:36,515 --> 00:19:38,002 They have to shut it down, Colonel. 308 00:19:38,275 --> 00:19:40,569 Explain to me how we come up on 22 bodies. 309 00:19:40,820 --> 00:19:43,354 - Explain that to me. - This comes straight from the hall. 310 00:19:43,558 --> 00:19:46,350 You're talking about a year's worth of work by my best people. 311 00:19:46,574 --> 00:19:48,115 To just give up on all of that? 312 00:19:48,309 --> 00:19:51,387 Colonel, we haven't made an honest payroll in over a month. 313 00:19:51,706 --> 00:19:53,298 Where the fuck is Carcetti? 314 00:19:53,571 --> 00:19:55,003 The man promised us a new day. 315 00:19:55,187 --> 00:19:56,932 He's tangled up with the schools, 316 00:19:57,460 --> 00:19:58,837 and we're on hold. 317 00:20:01,331 --> 00:20:03,393 The Mayor's made a few commitments to me personally. 318 00:20:03,567 --> 00:20:05,983 If you want to call in a martyr on behalf of this department, 319 00:20:06,737 --> 00:20:08,644 - feel free. - And while you're at it, 320 00:20:09,263 --> 00:20:11,190 see if you can get your take-home car back. 321 00:20:11,820 --> 00:20:13,549 Budget officer called an hour ago 322 00:20:13,981 --> 00:20:17,185 telling us to relieve colonels and below of take-home vehicles. 323 00:20:32,583 --> 00:20:35,121 Hold on. Hold on. See, if you move it here, 324 00:20:35,414 --> 00:20:36,699 then I got you. 325 00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:42,250 Little man bringing it. 326 00:20:46,678 --> 00:20:47,712 Yo, dude... 327 00:20:49,902 --> 00:20:51,266 I've been thinking. 328 00:20:52,023 --> 00:20:54,647 You ain't need to put in time on the corner if you don't want to. 329 00:20:55,032 --> 00:20:57,734 I mean, you're doing enough here with Bug to get paid. 330 00:20:58,325 --> 00:20:59,401 How you mean? 331 00:21:00,023 --> 00:21:02,074 I'm saying looking out for him, 332 00:21:03,586 --> 00:21:05,784 and I've been thinking, like, 333 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:07,823 if you were to get locked up for some shit, 334 00:21:08,648 --> 00:21:10,160 how'd it be for Bug, you know? 335 00:21:12,709 --> 00:21:14,887 So, who's gonna watch your corner in the morning? 336 00:21:16,403 --> 00:21:18,354 Thought I might promote Spider, 337 00:21:18,772 --> 00:21:20,826 see how he doing for a week or so. 338 00:21:22,654 --> 00:21:24,420 So, I'd be like a nanny and shit? 339 00:21:25,856 --> 00:21:28,356 What am I gonna do before Bug get home from school, 340 00:21:28,681 --> 00:21:30,398 clean the stove and bake some cookies? 341 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,066 Do what you want here, yo. 342 00:21:34,666 --> 00:21:36,279 Before he get home, time is your own. 343 00:21:43,333 --> 00:21:44,339 You beat me. 344 00:21:45,466 --> 00:21:47,979 Oh, snap, you beat me. 345 00:21:51,904 --> 00:21:54,364 They're fucking liars, motherfucking liars. 346 00:21:54,748 --> 00:21:55,803 Easy, boy. 347 00:21:57,081 --> 00:21:59,197 I was happy on patrol. I was fine. 348 00:21:59,851 --> 00:22:00,920 You were bored. 349 00:22:01,205 --> 00:22:02,566 Fuck no. I was happy. 350 00:22:04,828 --> 00:22:06,864 Motherfuckers come to me and say, 351 00:22:07,553 --> 00:22:08,816 "it's a new day, Jimmy," 352 00:22:09,297 --> 00:22:11,076 talking shit about how it was gonna change. 353 00:22:11,354 --> 00:22:12,748 Shit never fucking changes. 354 00:22:13,104 --> 00:22:15,994 If they had left me up and running when Marlo was on them cell phones, 355 00:22:16,203 --> 00:22:17,616 I'd have had him a year ago. 356 00:22:17,837 --> 00:22:18,821 See? 357 00:22:19,508 --> 00:22:22,044 But they can't do the right thing. It ain't in them. 358 00:22:22,748 --> 00:22:25,692 Now we're back on Marlo's ass. We need to be on him 24/7. 359 00:22:25,965 --> 00:22:27,619 The motherfuckers cut our overtime, 360 00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:29,804 and they shopped our best surveillance van. 361 00:22:30,134 --> 00:22:32,111 Don't even think about trying to... 362 00:22:32,545 --> 00:22:34,337 requisition a new fucking 363 00:22:34,666 --> 00:22:37,417 - digital camera. - They want to do it on the cheap. 364 00:22:38,239 --> 00:22:39,514 Bunko on the prowl. 365 00:22:39,823 --> 00:22:41,959 Hey, bunky Bunk, come here! 366 00:22:42,428 --> 00:22:44,978 - Jimmy. - Come here, you virile beast. 367 00:22:45,349 --> 00:22:46,355 Hey, you... 368 00:22:47,411 --> 00:22:48,730 Buy me a drink, you whore. 369 00:22:48,993 --> 00:22:50,187 With what? 370 00:22:54,803 --> 00:22:56,143 I'd have thought the bosses 371 00:22:56,443 --> 00:22:58,880 would've at least figured out how to keep paying Homicide. 372 00:23:00,128 --> 00:23:01,133 Pete, come on. 373 00:23:01,611 --> 00:23:02,826 Take these slips off me. 374 00:23:03,029 --> 00:23:05,323 I'll pay you 50 cents on the dollar against my tab. 375 00:23:05,598 --> 00:23:07,128 - Cash only. - When we get paid, 376 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:09,182 - you double your money. - City's never gonna 377 00:23:09,421 --> 00:23:11,327 be healthy enough to go all that back pay. 378 00:23:11,642 --> 00:23:13,482 How the fuck are we gonna pay the bar tab? 379 00:23:13,662 --> 00:23:15,715 We could always knock off a liquor store-- 380 00:23:16,078 --> 00:23:17,900 G & L on Edmondson, thin plexi. 381 00:23:18,251 --> 00:23:19,806 I'll take out the counter man. 382 00:23:20,766 --> 00:23:23,305 - I'll cover you. - I got the door, no problem. 383 00:23:25,017 --> 00:23:26,994 Who's gonna be our wheel man? 384 00:23:35,225 --> 00:23:37,591 Every plan, a weak link. 385 00:23:39,206 --> 00:23:41,101 I heard they're closing the foreign bureaus-- 386 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:42,979 Joburg, Beijing, everything. 387 00:23:43,470 --> 00:23:45,488 I heard layoffs as bad as in Philly. 388 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,415 Bullshit. They're not gonna lay off. 389 00:23:47,708 --> 00:23:49,048 They'll offer buyouts first. 390 00:23:49,284 --> 00:23:51,847 If they don't get enough of those, they'll go right to layoffs. Watch. 391 00:23:52,015 --> 00:23:54,381 What the fuck you care? You got all the seniority in the world. 392 00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:56,408 Be a shame if they have to get rid of all them 393 00:23:56,576 --> 00:23:59,306 - twentysomethings in the newsroom. - Degenerate motherfucker. 394 00:24:01,147 --> 00:24:04,141 Kleppner sure do like to hire them sweet, young things, don't he? 395 00:24:04,334 --> 00:24:06,700 23, 24 years old; model-thin; 396 00:24:07,053 --> 00:24:09,445 long, straight hair; and big, traffic-light eyes. 397 00:24:09,879 --> 00:24:11,966 And half of them can write a lick, can they? 398 00:24:12,233 --> 00:24:14,453 Yeah. Our esteemed managing editor 399 00:24:15,070 --> 00:24:16,964 certainly does favor a certain type, don't he? 400 00:24:18,659 --> 00:24:19,591 Gentlemen... 401 00:24:20,222 --> 00:24:21,222 Question mark. 402 00:24:24,722 --> 00:24:25,824 Someday... 403 00:24:26,264 --> 00:24:29,778 I want to find out what it feels like to work for a real newspaper. 404 00:24:49,108 --> 00:24:51,511 What? I've got calls out. You start writing now, 405 00:24:51,801 --> 00:24:54,394 and I'm not here 10:00 tonight reworking your lead. 406 00:24:54,717 --> 00:24:56,601 - Reworking my lead? - Come on, Fletch. 407 00:24:56,936 --> 00:24:59,085 Try to make the e-dot deadline for once in your life. 408 00:25:00,971 --> 00:25:03,103 - Any matter for the council meeting? - Yeah. 409 00:25:03,554 --> 00:25:06,053 I'll top it with whatever smells fresh, make the double-dot. 410 00:25:06,406 --> 00:25:08,393 They're gonna vote on a homeless ordinance, right? 411 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,435 Maybe not. Naresse is making noises 412 00:25:10,620 --> 00:25:12,903 like she might throw it back to committee. 413 00:25:13,679 --> 00:25:16,222 Yeah? Well, find me some news somewhere. 414 00:25:17,852 --> 00:25:18,962 North Avenue? 415 00:25:22,164 --> 00:25:23,596 Something is burning. 416 00:25:25,164 --> 00:25:26,089 You... 417 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:28,497 You wonder what it might be? 418 00:25:28,787 --> 00:25:30,429 I'm not the police reporter. 419 00:25:31,188 --> 00:25:33,114 But you called Twig, though, right? 420 00:25:38,161 --> 00:25:40,469 At least he's a columnist. He's paid to sit on his ass. 421 00:25:40,658 --> 00:25:42,560 What's your excuse? Just left him in 422 00:25:42,748 --> 00:25:44,450 the smoking lounge. Hit him on his cell. 423 00:25:44,659 --> 00:25:47,319 What kind of people stand around watching a fire? 424 00:25:47,786 --> 00:25:49,633 Some shameful shit right here. 425 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,852 Where else would you rather be, huh, kids? 426 00:25:57,739 --> 00:25:58,815 I got it, sir. 427 00:26:09,153 --> 00:26:10,075 Hey, Jay. 428 00:26:11,327 --> 00:26:14,025 A.P. Has got something on more cutbacks in city bus lines. 429 00:26:14,395 --> 00:26:16,112 - You don't say. - Daily Record 430 00:26:16,384 --> 00:26:18,536 had it this morning, MTA trial balloon. 431 00:26:19,038 --> 00:26:20,428 State desk is covering. 432 00:26:21,461 --> 00:26:22,383 Daily Record. 433 00:26:22,809 --> 00:26:24,862 All right, people. It's 2:00. 434 00:26:25,224 --> 00:26:27,248 I need budget lines in case anybody is threatening 435 00:26:27,423 --> 00:26:29,048 to commit and act of daily journalism. 436 00:26:34,012 --> 00:26:35,095 City desk. Haynes. 437 00:26:36,454 --> 00:26:37,739 You didn't, huh? 438 00:26:37,990 --> 00:26:40,767 What the fuck are we supposed to do for centerpiece art? 439 00:26:41,699 --> 00:26:43,068 Great. Wonderful. 440 00:26:45,308 --> 00:26:47,193 Photo didn't get out for the racetrack piece. 441 00:26:47,406 --> 00:26:49,842 What about art for the Hopkins press conference? Did we get that? 442 00:26:50,114 --> 00:26:51,591 Scratched it for racetrack. 443 00:26:51,779 --> 00:26:53,036 Hey, Swag, it's me again. 444 00:26:53,604 --> 00:26:55,772 Something is on fire over in east Baltimore. 445 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,278 Surprise me with a nice, pretty picture, huh? 446 00:26:58,761 --> 00:27:01,649 Look. What we have is drug violence 447 00:27:01,838 --> 00:27:03,283 and plenty of it. What you have 448 00:27:03,564 --> 00:27:06,965 is federal gun statutes that come with a 5-year minimum, no parole, and, 449 00:27:07,468 --> 00:27:09,128 we need to lower our murder rate. 450 00:27:09,349 --> 00:27:11,947 Especially since you shorted your police department budget. 451 00:27:12,155 --> 00:27:14,353 It's no secret we have budget problems, 452 00:27:14,628 --> 00:27:17,011 all the more reason for the U.S. Attorney to pitch in. 453 00:27:17,266 --> 00:27:19,737 Officially, my priorities are counterterrorism 454 00:27:19,905 --> 00:27:21,131 and political corruption. 455 00:27:21,362 --> 00:27:23,066 So you told me when I asked you for help 456 00:27:23,293 --> 00:27:25,115 on those bodies in the vacant houses. 457 00:27:25,407 --> 00:27:28,452 But I'm inclined to provide you with a dozen FBI agents 458 00:27:28,659 --> 00:27:31,572 and all the wherewithal they need to work that case, 459 00:27:32,131 --> 00:27:34,602 but we want Clay Davis to go federal. 460 00:27:35,707 --> 00:27:37,625 Our state's attorney has developed that case. 461 00:27:37,981 --> 00:27:39,615 He decides what to do with it. 462 00:27:40,057 --> 00:27:43,009 He seems inclined to keep Mr. Davis local at this point, 463 00:27:43,596 --> 00:27:46,396 but if you could convince Mr. Bond to reconsider, 464 00:27:46,584 --> 00:27:48,197 we might find the resources 465 00:27:48,406 --> 00:27:50,302 not only for the probe of the row house bodies, 466 00:27:50,490 --> 00:27:52,543 but the time to run some of those gun cases for you. 467 00:27:52,856 --> 00:27:55,605 But unless you get Clay Davis, you're willing to let the killing continue. 468 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:58,389 Look. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office 469 00:27:58,593 --> 00:28:01,618 are not here to do the job that your police department can't. 470 00:28:01,905 --> 00:28:03,579 Don't blame us for your ineffectiveness. 471 00:28:03,779 --> 00:28:05,953 Baltimore is knee deep in blood. Unless this guy can hang 472 00:28:06,155 --> 00:28:07,662 a democratic legislator, 473 00:28:08,158 --> 00:28:11,076 - he couldn't give a damn. - And to protect that legislator, 474 00:28:11,391 --> 00:28:13,129 who happens to be one of the most corrupt 475 00:28:13,338 --> 00:28:15,097 extortion artists in the state, 476 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,783 you'll burn every last bridge. 477 00:28:17,035 --> 00:28:20,009 Do you think I give a shit about Clay Davis? I am not protecting him. 478 00:28:20,549 --> 00:28:22,276 - Then give him up. - It's Bond's call. 479 00:28:22,528 --> 00:28:23,867 - Talk to him. - I have. 480 00:28:24,087 --> 00:28:26,546 And he told your Republican ass to go fuck itself, huh? 481 00:28:26,776 --> 00:28:28,952 Well, let me double down on that. 482 00:28:37,993 --> 00:28:40,045 Good luck with your crime problem. 483 00:28:47,252 --> 00:28:48,328 That go well? 484 00:28:48,953 --> 00:28:51,505 You know why he wants the Clay Davis investigation so bad? 485 00:28:51,893 --> 00:28:53,749 So he can stomp all over the Democratic party 486 00:28:54,054 --> 00:28:57,278 and help give his asshole Republican golf buddy another 4 years 487 00:28:57,607 --> 00:28:59,659 - in the Governor's mansion. - So, Bond 488 00:28:59,911 --> 00:29:02,096 is keeping the case local to help the party, huh? 489 00:29:02,439 --> 00:29:03,381 No. 490 00:29:03,844 --> 00:29:06,531 Bond is keeping the case so that Clay Davis can be a trophy for bond. 491 00:29:06,943 --> 00:29:09,192 My guess is, our newly elected state's attorney 492 00:29:09,485 --> 00:29:11,024 wants to, one day, run for Mayor. 493 00:29:11,317 --> 00:29:12,966 Cuts both ways for you, Naresse. 494 00:29:13,299 --> 00:29:16,609 If the feds get Clay Davis, then the case doesn't give bond any profile, 495 00:29:16,986 --> 00:29:18,948 but if they get him and flip him, 496 00:29:19,521 --> 00:29:21,788 Clay might take half the Royce administration with him. 497 00:29:22,187 --> 00:29:23,800 You included maybe. 498 00:29:25,899 --> 00:29:27,269 Don't you worry about me. 499 00:29:27,654 --> 00:29:29,923 You, on the other hand, just slammed the door on the feds, 500 00:29:30,124 --> 00:29:31,711 and we need all the help we can get. 501 00:29:34,713 --> 00:29:35,915 That's on them. 502 00:29:48,211 --> 00:29:49,211 Pussy call. 503 00:29:49,813 --> 00:29:52,014 I'm just glad to know Marlo has a hobby. 504 00:29:54,749 --> 00:29:56,676 Here. Take her to her room, 505 00:29:57,836 --> 00:30:00,920 you know, let her hit the mini bar, watch tv. 506 00:30:01,770 --> 00:30:04,550 When she's settled, go take care of the other thing. 507 00:30:05,179 --> 00:30:06,708 I use Monk for my ride. 508 00:30:12,266 --> 00:30:14,232 All right. Then moving on to new business, 509 00:30:15,159 --> 00:30:16,966 with John Hopkins buying up everything 510 00:30:17,248 --> 00:30:19,611 north of Monument Street and tearing the shit down, 511 00:30:20,124 --> 00:30:23,050 I think we all see the writing on the wall in East Baltimore. 512 00:30:23,289 --> 00:30:24,973 Yeah. They moving the 'hood out. 513 00:30:26,064 --> 00:30:28,519 Niggers are going across the line to Baltimore County. 514 00:30:28,749 --> 00:30:31,307 Pretty soon, East Baltimore won't be in Essex. 515 00:30:31,614 --> 00:30:34,959 There's a market already along route 40 and down at Turner Station. 516 00:30:35,258 --> 00:30:38,150 - And new territory go to who claim it. - No. Ordinarily so, 517 00:30:38,883 --> 00:30:41,967 but here, we got some of our east side people being displaced, right? 518 00:30:42,728 --> 00:30:45,471 I think we need to take care of those most affected. 519 00:30:46,395 --> 00:30:47,484 Meaning you. 520 00:30:50,471 --> 00:30:53,285 Well, I am east side, 521 00:30:53,797 --> 00:30:55,048 for the most part, 522 00:30:55,593 --> 00:30:58,833 but I'm talking about Hungry Man and Parker and Ghost, 523 00:30:59,209 --> 00:31:01,513 you know, others beside myself. 524 00:31:02,435 --> 00:31:05,306 Hopkins ain't gonna affect your market share, Marlo, 525 00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:09,095 - so for those of us who suffer-- - All right. I see that. 526 00:31:09,580 --> 00:31:11,427 Won't you let one of your juniors get a shot 527 00:31:11,707 --> 00:31:12,940 to open the county up? 528 00:31:13,129 --> 00:31:14,616 Let a fresh face get a shot at it. 529 00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:16,374 No disrespect, son, 530 00:31:16,544 --> 00:31:19,883 but how I delegate to my lieutenants is not a co-op concern. 531 00:31:22,375 --> 00:31:24,479 Yeah, but how Slim feel about that, though? 532 00:31:25,664 --> 00:31:26,921 How you feel, tall man? 533 00:31:27,582 --> 00:31:29,103 Ready to pioneer out there for us? 534 00:31:29,499 --> 00:31:31,154 Naw. I'm good where I am. 535 00:31:31,780 --> 00:31:32,847 Marlo, man, 536 00:31:33,942 --> 00:31:35,429 you're a little out of order here. 537 00:31:35,681 --> 00:31:36,812 Yeah. Well, 538 00:31:37,438 --> 00:31:39,365 - it's just a thought. - Look, man. 539 00:31:39,718 --> 00:31:42,320 - What's the percentage breakdown... - Don't sleep on Marlo. 540 00:31:43,305 --> 00:31:44,792 He up to some shit here. 541 00:31:45,166 --> 00:31:47,257 That puts me out 8 corners at least. 542 00:31:47,645 --> 00:31:49,567 Hungry Man, that was some prime real estate. 543 00:31:50,132 --> 00:31:52,667 It took me 6 years to build up them corners. 544 00:32:15,038 --> 00:32:16,038 Reginald. 545 00:32:20,790 --> 00:32:21,790 Reginald. 546 00:32:29,046 --> 00:32:31,976 I'm going to work. You know I got night shift all this week. 547 00:32:32,591 --> 00:32:36,256 You know if you stay down here quiet like, you ain't need to sweat. 548 00:32:36,646 --> 00:32:39,543 You don't stay here when I'm not around. That's our rule. 549 00:32:41,437 --> 00:32:43,803 I'm your brother, right? I got nowhere to go when I leave here. 550 00:32:43,971 --> 00:32:45,688 Last time I left you alone in my home, 551 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:47,803 you dragged half my kitchen to a pawn shop. 552 00:32:48,101 --> 00:32:49,177 Remember that? 553 00:32:51,915 --> 00:32:53,776 But you can keep the door locked, right? 554 00:32:54,049 --> 00:32:55,221 I'm down here. 555 00:32:56,578 --> 00:32:57,583 My rules. 556 00:32:58,944 --> 00:32:59,866 You said. 557 00:33:39,265 --> 00:33:41,398 The courthouse? What the fuck? 558 00:33:41,790 --> 00:33:42,790 I'll go in. 559 00:33:44,287 --> 00:33:45,287 Rupert. 560 00:33:48,539 --> 00:33:49,539 What now? 561 00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:52,056 Major Crimes is being disbanded. 562 00:33:52,336 --> 00:33:54,477 The detectives return to regular rotation. 563 00:33:54,664 --> 00:33:56,438 I got the word yesterday from command. 564 00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:58,105 The Mayor signed off. 565 00:33:58,290 --> 00:34:00,990 They're quietly deep-sixing the investigation into the bodies 566 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,354 and to Marlo Stanfield. 567 00:34:02,585 --> 00:34:04,758 - A money thing? - They're pulling back on everything-- 568 00:34:04,989 --> 00:34:07,563 Man hours, equipment, lab work, motor pool. 569 00:34:08,091 --> 00:34:09,442 Every last dollar we can find 570 00:34:09,609 --> 00:34:11,548 is being shipped over to plug the school budget. 571 00:34:11,778 --> 00:34:13,956 Cedric thought he would try to reason with Carcetti, 572 00:34:14,156 --> 00:34:16,760 maybe see if we can keep the Stanfield detail, at least. 573 00:34:16,964 --> 00:34:19,288 Wait. What about Clay Davis? That's going to grand jury soon. 574 00:34:19,466 --> 00:34:22,678 If they ship Freamon back to homicide, I don't have him on that, either, 575 00:34:22,890 --> 00:34:25,593 - and Lester pretty much is that case. - Excuse me. 576 00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:28,293 - You know where the clerk's office at? - Criminal or civil? 577 00:34:28,645 --> 00:34:29,943 Criminal, definitely. 578 00:34:30,416 --> 00:34:31,735 End of the hall, last door. 579 00:34:36,090 --> 00:34:38,283 - When are you meeting with the Mayor? - About an hour. 580 00:34:38,636 --> 00:34:40,603 They gave me a few minutes on the end of his day. 581 00:34:40,964 --> 00:34:42,207 I'll go with you. 582 00:34:42,587 --> 00:34:44,240 Come by my office and get me. 583 00:34:48,465 --> 00:34:49,949 So, where you off to now? 584 00:34:50,243 --> 00:34:52,128 Motions hearing in part 18. 585 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,841 It's the last thing on my sched. 586 00:35:01,430 --> 00:35:02,547 And for state desk? 587 00:35:02,743 --> 00:35:05,689 Additional cutbacks are said to be coming in the city MTA routes, 588 00:35:06,019 --> 00:35:07,464 trail balloon from the governor. 589 00:35:07,956 --> 00:35:09,985 - Affects a lot of people, no? - If it happens. 590 00:35:10,174 --> 00:35:11,893 - They floated this once before. - Still, 591 00:35:12,208 --> 00:35:14,762 we can go outside and give them the potential impact. 592 00:35:17,042 --> 00:35:19,576 The truth is we're following the Daily Record on this one. 593 00:35:21,088 --> 00:35:23,411 Why don't we have that? If it's a trial balloon-- 594 00:35:23,621 --> 00:35:26,260 We've been without a transport reporter since the last round of buyouts, 595 00:35:26,490 --> 00:35:27,938 - so-- - We should pick that up. 596 00:35:28,252 --> 00:35:29,823 - Probably so, but-- - Just because 597 00:35:30,119 --> 00:35:32,851 Chicago does a little belt-tightening, there's no reason for us to fall down. 598 00:35:33,186 --> 00:35:34,359 Their cutbacks there 599 00:35:34,589 --> 00:35:36,893 shouldn't affect our ability to put out an excellent product. 600 00:35:37,123 --> 00:35:38,610 Simply have to do more with less. 601 00:35:38,793 --> 00:35:40,965 Certainly, we have more resources than the Daily Record. 602 00:35:41,330 --> 00:35:43,047 Though not a transport reporter. 603 00:35:46,096 --> 00:35:47,353 Your Eminence, 604 00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:49,270 slumming at the Metro meeting today? 605 00:35:49,837 --> 00:35:51,714 - What do you know? - City desk. 606 00:35:52,188 --> 00:35:54,060 State's attorney complains about the decline 607 00:35:54,230 --> 00:35:55,831 in quality police case work 20 inches 608 00:35:56,124 --> 00:35:58,079 from warm castle. Got the city council tonight. 609 00:35:58,288 --> 00:36:00,334 Probably won't get a vote on the homeless initiative, 610 00:36:00,502 --> 00:36:02,353 but we'll scratch some news out of it somehow. 611 00:36:02,604 --> 00:36:05,774 Two-car fatal on the Beltway, two overnight murders in the city, 612 00:36:06,090 --> 00:36:09,808 and a fire ongoing in a Baltimore city row house 613 00:36:10,017 --> 00:36:11,860 for which we may or may not have art. 614 00:36:12,118 --> 00:36:13,152 Regional affairs. 615 00:36:13,401 --> 00:36:15,876 We have the Hopkins piece on biomed, though 616 00:36:16,128 --> 00:36:18,655 I'm told we didn't get art on today's press conference, 617 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:20,180 and we have 15 inches 618 00:36:20,348 --> 00:36:22,310 from the college park stringer on U.M. 619 00:36:22,550 --> 00:36:24,799 - not making it's deseg goals again. - I'm told that, 620 00:36:25,136 --> 00:36:29,020 numbers aside, the campus has become much more hospitable to minorities. 621 00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:31,172 I'm told that things have changed for the better. 622 00:36:31,365 --> 00:36:32,852 - Really? - As you may know, 623 00:36:33,465 --> 00:36:35,756 Gene Robbins is dean of journalism there. 624 00:36:36,090 --> 00:36:37,687 I had lunch with him the other day... 625 00:36:37,917 --> 00:36:39,926 - Nevertheless, they haven't-- - And he was saying 626 00:36:40,177 --> 00:36:42,958 how the last few years have really transformed 627 00:36:43,126 --> 00:36:46,427 the school's reputation with black faculty and students. 628 00:36:46,822 --> 00:36:48,036 He's a white guy, right? 629 00:36:48,289 --> 00:36:50,384 - Who? - Journalism fellow-- 630 00:36:50,614 --> 00:36:52,649 Dean Wormer, Dean Martin, whatever his name is. 631 00:36:52,853 --> 00:36:53,759 I worked with 632 00:36:54,136 --> 00:36:56,337 Gene Robbins in Philadelphia. 633 00:36:56,605 --> 00:36:59,307 He is an excellent journalist and a reliable source. 634 00:37:00,014 --> 00:37:01,820 I think race is beside the point, 635 00:37:03,055 --> 00:37:05,536 so why don't we hold on the deseg story 636 00:37:05,766 --> 00:37:08,434 until we can assign someone to do some more reporting, 637 00:37:08,706 --> 00:37:12,053 get a real sense of how U.M. Is perceived by minorities? 638 00:37:13,306 --> 00:37:14,961 All right, then. Let's firm things up, 639 00:37:15,170 --> 00:37:17,913 take a look at where we stand an hour from now. 640 00:37:20,649 --> 00:37:22,223 Why poke him with a stick? 641 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,220 You know who Gene Robbins is. 642 00:37:24,461 --> 00:37:25,381 Who's poking? 643 00:37:25,592 --> 00:37:28,272 If I think something about a story, I'm gonna speak on it. 644 00:37:28,594 --> 00:37:30,437 You know what a healthy newsroom is? 645 00:37:30,772 --> 00:37:34,137 It's a magical place where people argue about everything all the time. 646 00:37:34,387 --> 00:37:36,544 - I'm not poking anyone here. - "Dean Martin"? 647 00:37:36,730 --> 00:37:38,115 Yeah, a little poke. 648 00:37:38,649 --> 00:37:39,649 Thank you. 649 00:38:47,025 --> 00:38:48,636 I know that wasn't no court date-- 650 00:38:48,839 --> 00:38:51,183 He already got the gun charge postponed twice-- 651 00:38:51,402 --> 00:38:53,020 So what the fuck was that about? 652 00:38:53,273 --> 00:38:55,382 Remember that Russian we locked up for murder, 653 00:38:55,928 --> 00:38:57,456 part of the port case a year back? 654 00:38:57,773 --> 00:39:01,138 I didn't work that case with you, man, so, no, I don't remember. 655 00:39:01,397 --> 00:39:03,282 Well, Chris Partlow does. 656 00:39:27,843 --> 00:39:29,086 Miss Gutierrez. 657 00:39:33,900 --> 00:39:35,458 Get your ass over here. 658 00:39:38,139 --> 00:39:40,590 You say that 120 people were evacuated. 659 00:39:40,930 --> 00:39:43,547 - Yeah. They were. - You can't evacuate people. 660 00:39:43,775 --> 00:39:46,450 I mean, you can, if you want, but that's not what you want to say here. 661 00:39:46,711 --> 00:39:48,421 A building can be evacuated. 662 00:39:49,004 --> 00:39:52,187 To evacuate a person is to give that person an enema. 663 00:39:52,838 --> 00:39:54,506 The details, Miss Gutierrez. 664 00:39:55,150 --> 00:39:58,388 At the Baltimore Sun, God still resides in the details. 665 00:39:59,711 --> 00:40:01,808 - You teach them, Spry. - What are we gonna do 666 00:40:02,107 --> 00:40:03,740 with these children today? 667 00:40:08,773 --> 00:40:09,912 Fuckety-fuck. 668 00:40:11,224 --> 00:40:12,454 Another burnt doll. 669 00:40:13,423 --> 00:40:14,523 Carlyle again. 670 00:40:19,164 --> 00:40:20,373 - Photo. - Hey, Swag, 671 00:40:20,540 --> 00:40:24,295 I'm looking at fire from east baltimore and I got a burnt barbie in foreground. 672 00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:28,960 And I might actually believe you if it wasn't Carlyle who took the shot. 673 00:40:29,169 --> 00:40:31,660 No fuckin' way I believe in this picture. Print me something else. 674 00:40:31,905 --> 00:40:32,821 All right. 675 00:40:34,024 --> 00:40:37,017 Every fire photo he brings in has got to be some burnt doll 676 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:38,566 somewhere in the debris. 677 00:40:38,859 --> 00:40:40,571 I can see that cheating motherfucker now 678 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,184 with his fucking harem of dolls pouring lighter fluid on each one. 679 00:40:44,064 --> 00:40:46,898 You check his fucking truck, you'll find a whole collection of them. 680 00:40:47,409 --> 00:40:48,641 What's your lead? 681 00:40:48,833 --> 00:40:51,984 Council delays vote on the homeless initiative at Carcetti's behest. 682 00:40:52,278 --> 00:40:55,151 He doesn't want it looks like the city's running the homeless out of downtown, 683 00:40:55,392 --> 00:40:57,747 so he asked Naresse to redraft the measure. 684 00:41:00,148 --> 00:41:01,148 He's right. 685 00:41:02,150 --> 00:41:03,518 You don't evacuate people. 686 00:41:04,988 --> 00:41:06,775 - What? - Never mind. 687 00:41:09,211 --> 00:41:11,595 - Working on anything good? - Just what day cops missed. 688 00:41:11,909 --> 00:41:14,440 A fatal in Charles County and a gas leak downtown. 689 00:41:14,899 --> 00:41:15,954 Briefs, huh? 690 00:41:16,329 --> 00:41:17,714 A quiet day so far. 691 00:41:17,943 --> 00:41:19,325 It's a shit news town. 692 00:41:19,526 --> 00:41:20,526 You think? 693 00:41:20,710 --> 00:41:23,583 How many stories go national out of here? Not many. 694 00:41:23,811 --> 00:41:26,645 Those bodies in the houses last year. That got a lot of play. 695 00:41:27,033 --> 00:41:28,645 And they didn't even solve it, right? 696 00:41:29,149 --> 00:41:30,530 The story had no legs at all. 697 00:41:30,836 --> 00:41:32,974 Since then, what else? 698 00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:34,460 Jeff. 699 00:41:34,865 --> 00:41:35,891 Jeffy-Jeff. 700 00:41:36,773 --> 00:41:37,723 What? 701 00:41:39,112 --> 00:41:40,665 Come here. Jesus Christ. 702 00:41:40,916 --> 00:41:41,881 What now? 703 00:41:42,041 --> 00:41:43,726 Did you stay for the zoning bills? 704 00:41:43,962 --> 00:41:45,443 No. I came back here to write. 705 00:41:45,793 --> 00:41:47,141 Check the fucking library. 706 00:41:47,338 --> 00:41:49,348 Shit, check the clips, too. It goes back a ways. 707 00:41:50,628 --> 00:41:53,252 No. Check that. You go back to the hall, you get the vote on this thing. 708 00:41:53,591 --> 00:41:56,125 Find out who sponsored this. Find out whether Carcetti or 709 00:41:56,423 --> 00:41:59,159 - Naresse or whoever's behind it. - You buttonhole them, find out 710 00:41:59,454 --> 00:42:01,030 - what the hell's going on. - Why? 711 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:02,653 Who's Ricardo Hendrix? 712 00:42:02,835 --> 00:42:03,883 A drug dealer. 713 00:42:04,114 --> 00:42:05,915 Fatface Rick. Alma, Scott. 714 00:42:06,812 --> 00:42:08,738 This property on Baltimore Street is a titty bar 715 00:42:09,032 --> 00:42:11,084 the city wants for the Howard Street enterprise zone, 716 00:42:11,272 --> 00:42:13,304 but this other property they want to trade with him, 717 00:42:13,492 --> 00:42:15,215 I want to find out what that's all about. 718 00:42:15,404 --> 00:42:17,603 This is a drug dealer they're trading properties with? 719 00:42:17,811 --> 00:42:20,419 Yeah. He's got a record as long as your arm. A couple convictions, too. 720 00:42:20,739 --> 00:42:22,246 Go, go. Get some good quotes. 721 00:42:24,212 --> 00:42:25,762 I want you to go to this address. 722 00:42:26,525 --> 00:42:28,702 It's a strip club called Desperado. 723 00:42:29,273 --> 00:42:30,907 You ask around for the owner. 724 00:42:31,148 --> 00:42:32,643 His name's Ricardo Hendrix. 725 00:42:33,186 --> 00:42:34,795 You tell them until we get a comment, 726 00:42:34,971 --> 00:42:37,253 we're gonna put ricky's picture on the front page every day. 727 00:42:37,521 --> 00:42:38,521 Who is he? 728 00:42:38,858 --> 00:42:41,455 He's a drug dealer. But from the look of this, 729 00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:44,130 he's run some sort of game at city hall. 730 00:42:44,768 --> 00:42:47,584 We want a comment as to why he's trading property with the city, 731 00:42:47,898 --> 00:42:49,639 what he stands to make off the deal. 732 00:42:51,838 --> 00:42:53,490 What do you want from me? 733 00:42:54,459 --> 00:42:56,733 Pull clips, check the morgue files, 734 00:42:57,459 --> 00:42:59,477 write the "A" matter on Ricardo's history. 735 00:42:59,797 --> 00:43:02,813 Wait. She goes to strip clubs and I'm pulling clips in the morgue? 736 00:43:03,418 --> 00:43:05,034 You guys late for the council meeting? 737 00:43:05,204 --> 00:43:07,225 - Looking for you, sir. - Me? I'm racing them out. 738 00:43:07,395 --> 00:43:09,295 I'm late for some charity thing at the Walters. 739 00:43:09,483 --> 00:43:11,326 I was told I could get a few minutes tonight. 740 00:43:11,539 --> 00:43:13,608 - You're on my schedule? - Everything ran late today. 741 00:43:13,798 --> 00:43:15,549 They were supposed to ring you, I think. 742 00:43:15,737 --> 00:43:17,322 Do it quick or do we reschedule? 743 00:43:17,525 --> 00:43:20,584 Burrell's disbanded the unit that's working the bodies in the houses. 744 00:43:20,818 --> 00:43:22,857 When we're fat with money, you can come back on it. 745 00:43:23,027 --> 00:43:24,670 Investigations are not like that. 746 00:43:24,852 --> 00:43:27,419 You can't just drop one and then pick it up down the road without-- 747 00:43:27,737 --> 00:43:29,908 We got no money. We've got no fucking money at all. 748 00:43:30,075 --> 00:43:32,002 There's nothing we can do until the new fiscal. 749 00:43:32,169 --> 00:43:32,986 But, Tommy, 750 00:43:33,185 --> 00:43:34,731 that kills Clay Davis for me. 751 00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:36,634 We're about to go to grand jury on it. 752 00:43:36,799 --> 00:43:39,781 - Same unit is doing Clay? - I need some profile for my shop. 753 00:43:41,566 --> 00:43:43,702 How much of that unit do you need to bring the case in? 754 00:43:44,345 --> 00:43:45,714 A couple of detectives. 755 00:43:47,449 --> 00:43:49,418 I'll tell Rawls you can keep 2 men for Clay. 756 00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:52,768 The rest of it is shut down until we're able to dig out, OK? 757 00:43:53,933 --> 00:43:55,072 I got to run. 758 00:43:59,183 --> 00:44:03,628 So one thieving politician trumps 22 dead bodies. 759 00:44:06,308 --> 00:44:07,447 Good to know. 760 00:44:10,901 --> 00:44:11,892 To save money, 761 00:44:12,053 --> 00:44:14,064 they're not even putting ops cars in the street. 762 00:44:14,252 --> 00:44:15,404 No more 2-man patrols. 763 00:44:15,822 --> 00:44:18,241 - Jesus, where did the money go? - Schools. 764 00:44:18,461 --> 00:44:21,341 Carcetti didn't want to lay off teachers, so he fucks us instead. 765 00:44:21,572 --> 00:44:23,538 Seems like you got out at the right time, huh? 766 00:44:24,306 --> 00:44:25,403 Look at you. 767 00:44:25,869 --> 00:44:27,912 Here's our boy Thomas sporting the latest 768 00:44:28,178 --> 00:44:29,895 in downtown businesswear, 769 00:44:30,742 --> 00:44:33,649 an understated ensemble that puts the "be" in subtle. 770 00:44:34,443 --> 00:44:35,756 There's a "b" in subtle? 771 00:44:37,306 --> 00:44:38,306 Seriously, 772 00:44:39,115 --> 00:44:40,221 you look well, Herc. 773 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,127 I'm doing good, man. I got more work than I can get to. 774 00:44:43,316 --> 00:44:44,879 It's like once word got around, 775 00:44:45,062 --> 00:44:47,219 these fucking lawyers came out of the fucking woodwork. 776 00:44:47,746 --> 00:44:48,943 Which reminds me, 777 00:44:49,216 --> 00:44:51,012 I need one of you guys to run a name for me. 778 00:44:52,124 --> 00:44:53,503 Tags, registration, and phone. 779 00:44:53,777 --> 00:44:55,892 While you're at it, run a sheeting photo. 780 00:44:57,446 --> 00:44:59,101 Cause, hey, I'm buying the next round, right? 781 00:44:59,837 --> 00:45:01,305 About fucking time! 782 00:45:04,894 --> 00:45:06,934 Not used to having money. Kind of forget. 783 00:45:07,164 --> 00:45:08,232 Let's get a round. 784 00:45:12,609 --> 00:45:13,852 How's the brief? 785 00:45:14,356 --> 00:45:15,919 It's clean and it bites. 786 00:45:16,461 --> 00:45:19,187 - Deserves a front, off-lead, maybe. - And we're saying what? 787 00:45:19,373 --> 00:45:20,714 That it's a sweetheart deal 788 00:45:20,923 --> 00:45:22,955 for a titty bar owner with a big criminal history. 789 00:45:23,498 --> 00:45:26,735 He sells his existing location to the city for 1.2 million 790 00:45:27,063 --> 00:45:28,969 and they sell him a better piece of real estate 791 00:45:29,158 --> 00:45:31,084 to relocate his club 5 blocks west for 200,000. 792 00:45:33,219 --> 00:45:35,113 He clears a million for laying in the cut. 793 00:45:35,323 --> 00:45:37,506 - What's the quid pro quo? - We're going through donors 794 00:45:37,716 --> 00:45:39,608 in Naresse's campaign committee as we speak. 795 00:45:39,989 --> 00:45:42,404 So far, we got 40,000 from Ricardo Hendrix 796 00:45:42,606 --> 00:45:45,247 and a bunch of people all using the same address as the bar. 797 00:45:45,498 --> 00:45:47,893 - Why wasn't this on your budget? - Well, we found it-- 798 00:45:48,418 --> 00:45:51,593 Actually, Jeff Price found it hidden in the zoning bills, 799 00:45:51,811 --> 00:45:53,613 bottom of the council agenda. 800 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,045 He caught it late, but he caught it. 801 00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,636 All right, front page, below the fold. 802 00:46:00,733 --> 00:46:02,183 Metro desk, Phelps. 803 00:46:03,919 --> 00:46:05,389 Gus, Rrice 804 00:46:05,687 --> 00:46:08,008 for you, line 2, and he's got Naresse with him. 805 00:46:08,374 --> 00:46:10,173 Aw, shit, here it comes. 806 00:46:12,357 --> 00:46:13,789 Gus? It's Jeff. 807 00:46:14,523 --> 00:46:16,614 The council president would like a word with you. 808 00:46:16,970 --> 00:46:18,046 On the record? 809 00:46:18,242 --> 00:46:19,624 No. She's given me her quote. 810 00:46:19,857 --> 00:46:22,301 - She wants to talk off the record. - Put her on. 811 00:46:26,999 --> 00:46:28,926 This is all perfectly above board. 812 00:46:29,256 --> 00:46:30,701 No doubt, madam president. 813 00:46:31,049 --> 00:46:32,785 We need this property for redevelopment 814 00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:35,951 and it's in the city's interest to allow Mr. Hendrix to relocate. 815 00:46:36,289 --> 00:46:38,490 And is it in the city's interest to give him a property 816 00:46:38,659 --> 00:46:40,146 with twice as much floor space 817 00:46:40,308 --> 00:46:42,722 and give him a million dollars for his trouble? 818 00:46:45,620 --> 00:46:47,767 Do you think he might have made it clear to the council 819 00:46:47,934 --> 00:46:49,549 that Mr. Hendrix donated 820 00:46:49,804 --> 00:46:52,359 $60,000 to your campaign committee? 821 00:46:55,174 --> 00:46:56,618 I don't know, Ma'am. 822 00:46:56,798 --> 00:46:59,876 Where I live, 60,000 buys a lot of good will. 823 00:47:03,801 --> 00:47:05,233 Hey, Jeff, is that you? 824 00:47:05,550 --> 00:47:07,363 I'm putting you on hold for Spry. 825 00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:09,449 Yeah, give me your on the record for Naresse. 826 00:47:09,725 --> 00:47:10,982 - Ready? - Yeah. 827 00:47:11,154 --> 00:47:12,998 Shame we couldn't use what she just gave us. 828 00:47:13,801 --> 00:47:15,024 What do you got? 829 00:47:15,863 --> 00:47:17,846 Keep running through that campaign finance shit. 830 00:47:18,254 --> 00:47:21,479 There's at least $20,000 in contributions we haven't found yet. 831 00:47:23,050 --> 00:47:24,912 Naresse all but confirmed it. 832 00:48:05,015 --> 00:48:06,230 Yeah, it's me. 833 00:48:07,830 --> 00:48:09,463 We're going late tonight. 834 00:48:10,674 --> 00:48:11,674 I'm fine. 835 00:48:12,286 --> 00:48:13,522 No, I'm not. 836 00:48:14,614 --> 00:48:16,124 I'm just tired is all. 837 00:48:17,864 --> 00:48:19,374 I slur when I'm tired. 838 00:48:20,766 --> 00:48:21,918 That's all. 839 00:48:23,737 --> 00:48:24,737 Yeah. 840 00:48:26,674 --> 00:48:27,674 Night. 841 00:49:19,882 --> 00:49:20,699 Bubs. 842 00:49:21,256 --> 00:49:22,239 Hauk? 843 00:49:38,737 --> 00:49:40,924 That was a great pull at deadline. 844 00:49:41,112 --> 00:49:43,260 Hey, any night a Baltimore politician 845 00:49:43,470 --> 00:49:46,171 calls you a son of a bitch is a good night. Am I right? 846 00:49:46,888 --> 00:49:48,792 That was a good pull by Alma, 847 00:49:49,085 --> 00:49:51,996 getting that quote from Fatface Rick for the home final. 848 00:49:52,226 --> 00:49:54,167 "I'm a businessman. City wants to help me out, 849 00:49:54,364 --> 00:49:56,163 "I ain't gonna argue." Sweet. 850 00:49:56,512 --> 00:49:58,580 - Thank you. - How'd you get him to talk to you? 851 00:49:58,768 --> 00:50:00,925 I just walked in, sat down, 852 00:50:01,441 --> 00:50:04,726 watched the dancers for a few minutes, and he came over to me. 853 00:50:05,287 --> 00:50:07,040 Thought I was looking for a job. 854 00:50:11,034 --> 00:50:13,817 You deserve more than a contributing line for that. 855 00:50:14,786 --> 00:50:16,435 I don't know. A contrib line is cool. 856 00:50:18,062 --> 00:50:20,052 You can't go far on contrib lines. 857 00:50:21,248 --> 00:50:22,560 Where do you want to go? 858 00:50:23,828 --> 00:50:25,655 Times or Post. Where else? 859 00:50:26,517 --> 00:50:28,693 I don't know. This is still a pretty good paper. 860 00:52:07,050 --> 00:52:09,241 I brought it to the Mayor personally, 861 00:52:10,243 --> 00:52:13,702 but they're throwing their last dollars into patrol and crime suppression. 862 00:52:13,993 --> 00:52:16,241 You think being on Marlo and his people every damn day 863 00:52:16,531 --> 00:52:18,457 for a year isn't crime suppression? 864 00:52:18,871 --> 00:52:21,280 We lowered the body count just by sitting on these people. 865 00:52:21,724 --> 00:52:24,237 - They knew they're hot, huh? - After a year? 866 00:52:28,301 --> 00:52:30,210 Look. Promises were made to me, as well. 867 00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,182 I was told a new day was coming. 868 00:52:34,707 --> 00:52:36,215 Clearly, this isn't it. 869 00:52:40,148 --> 00:52:41,668 Well, where are we going, then? 870 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:45,303 You and McNulty are back to the Homicide rotation. 871 00:52:46,125 --> 00:52:48,004 Dozerman is temporarily assigned to Tactical. 872 00:52:50,076 --> 00:52:52,797 Lieutenant. You're going to fill a vacancy in the northern, 873 00:52:53,093 --> 00:52:54,476 4:00-12:00 shift. 874 00:52:54,711 --> 00:52:56,017 Freamon, Sydnor, 875 00:52:56,540 --> 00:52:58,613 you two are assigned to the State's attorney's office 876 00:52:58,915 --> 00:53:01,022 to help grand-jury the Clay Davis thing. 877 00:53:09,289 --> 00:53:10,989 When the money starts to flow, 878 00:53:12,069 --> 00:53:14,268 I'll get you all back on this somehow. 879 00:53:17,479 --> 00:53:18,479 Sorry. 880 00:53:22,729 --> 00:53:26,297 Wonder what it feels like to work in a real fucking police department. 881 00:53:36,923 --> 00:53:38,041 50 cent. 882 00:53:45,838 --> 00:53:46,927 50 cent. 883 00:53:51,164 --> 00:53:52,164 Obliged. 884 00:54:05,850 --> 00:54:07,542 When did this break last night? 885 00:54:07,868 --> 00:54:10,559 Gus saw it on the council agenda around 9:30. 886 00:54:12,664 --> 00:54:14,489 It's a good fucking story. 887 00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,194 Who's doing the react piece? 888 00:54:35,443 --> 00:54:36,707 Jeff will. Why? 889 00:54:37,505 --> 00:54:38,539 I'm just-- 890 00:54:39,381 --> 00:54:41,085 I need a story. I'm up. 891 00:54:42,163 --> 00:54:45,108 Yeah. Stay hungry like that. 892 00:54:46,474 --> 00:54:48,499 Good things come when they come. 893 00:55:02,475 --> 00:55:04,019 It's 2:00, people. 894 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:05,930 I need budget lines. 895 00:55:06,326 --> 00:55:09,006 There are a million stories in the naked city, 896 00:55:09,524 --> 00:55:12,707 but today you poor mooks only need to throw me 3 or 4. 897 00:55:20,855 --> 00:55:22,195 Good afternoon... 898 00:55:32,066 --> 00:55:33,867 The Orioles will not pay for pitching. 899 00:55:34,219 --> 00:55:36,376 -I should have never left the Bronx. - You see this? 900 00:55:36,912 --> 00:55:38,568 - What? - One of our clients 901 00:55:38,873 --> 00:55:40,297 on the front page. 902 00:55:41,474 --> 00:55:43,005 Represent Tiger Woods? 903 00:55:47,816 --> 00:55:49,806 All it cost me was a round of beers. 904 00:55:50,038 --> 00:55:51,771 They fucking love me in the department. 905 00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:53,498 I'm a fucking martyr is what I am. 906 00:55:54,225 --> 00:55:56,657 Pull over some black minister, piss him off, 907 00:55:57,100 --> 00:55:58,821 and I lose my fucking job. 908 00:55:59,412 --> 00:56:00,551 One round? 909 00:56:01,486 --> 00:56:03,487 You, a prominent defense investigator, 910 00:56:03,715 --> 00:56:06,081 let these other guys buy a round of drinks ever? 911 00:56:08,039 --> 00:56:08,953 OK. 912 00:56:10,033 --> 00:56:13,196 It's time you learned a little something about the expense account. 913 00:56:39,546 --> 00:56:40,635 That's my desk. 914 00:56:42,206 --> 00:56:43,609 What the fuck you say? 915 00:57:16,774 --> 00:57:18,199 The prodigal son. 916 00:57:26,909 --> 00:57:29,102 Subtitles: www.thewire-france.com 917 00:57:29,430 --> 00:57:31,412 Synchronization: Sixe Corrections: KB