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00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,That's the witness all right,
the one from the Barksdale case.

00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,Gant, William. 41 years.

00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:19,Single headshot, close range.
Bullet pancaked on the inner skull.

00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,-Ain't necessarily what it looks like.
-No?

00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:29,A man's walking down a street
in West Baltimore.

00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,That'll catch you a bullet
for a half-dozen reasons.

00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,-Yeah, that it will.
-You run him for a sheet?

00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,Yeah, a couple of disorderlies is all.

00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,Guy works maintenance
down at Poe Homes.

00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:41,Lives alone, no wife, no kids.

00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,Only time his name pops up
on the courthouse computer...

00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,is for being a state witness in Barlow's case.

00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,Otherwise,
I don't even make that connection.

00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,I mean, you've g***t to admit...

00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,it don't make sense to ace this motherfucker
after he done testified.

00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:58,Sends a hell of a message though.

00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,He's one hardheaded f***k in the Terrace
you can't run off or buy out, right?

00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,If your audience is the high-rise projects,
a move like this cuts right through the s***t.

00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,What are you gonna tell the major?

00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,That I caught a stone f***g whodunit.

00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,-Don't soft-sell the witness angle.
-Come on.

00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,Why get the bosses riled
before we know for sure?

00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,If I start talking s***t
that a witness g***t killed--

00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,-Bunk, tell him.
-Why?

00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:23,Just cover yourself on this.

00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,Jimmy, you ain't gonna do what I think?

00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:30,Listen to me.

00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:34,This s***t is gonna jump up
and b***e you in your a***s.

00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,Just cover yourself.

00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,-What the hell was that about?
-Nothing.

00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,Morning.

00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:19,Jesus Christ.

00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,Goddamn.

00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:35,Who do you g***t to f***k in this town
to get a real office?

00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:38,At least that works.

00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:51,It was for McNulty.

00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,-I shouldn't be here.
-Then you shouldn't.

00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,They killed a f***g witness
out of your court.

00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,Yeah, you told me. You did your civic duty.

00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,Under the power vested in me
by the circuit court for Baltimore city...

00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:08,I absolve you of all your sins,
Detective McNulty.

00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,You are my sin, you know that?

00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,For talking to you,
my major is ready to cut my throat.

00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,Jimmy, you knew I was gonna
make that call. Admit it.

00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,I didn't think you would straight-up
hang me out on the line in a shitstorm.

00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,Look, it's not like it was
when I was a prosecutor.

00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,-I'm a judge now, the rules are different.
-You missed a spot.

00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:29,Yeah, what's done is done.

00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,Question is,
what do you want me to do now?

00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,I think you can leverage the Deputy Ops
with a phone call.

00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,-He's already detailed people.
-Some detail.

00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:41,A***e lieutenant thinks
he can buy-bust his way to Avon Barksdale.

00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:43,You want leverage?

00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,We give the dead-witness angle
to the newspapers.

00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,Stir some real s***t.

00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,No, that tips Barksdale
that someone's working him.

00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:52,-We don't want to go public.
-No?

00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:53,Just put it to the Deputy Ops...

00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:56,you lost a witness
who testified in your court.

00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,That forces the department
to commit to the investigation.

00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:02,And when you call Burrell this time,
will you forget my f***g name?

00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,-You missed a spot.
-Why don't you f***g do it?

00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,Seniority.

00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:33,-You found us.
-Wasn't easy.

00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,-You asked for these guys?
-I asked for more manpower.

00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,Have a seat.

00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:52,What the f***k....

00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:55,Sir, l--

00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,He was showing me
the trigger pull on his Glock.

00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,-And he was just--
-Detective?

00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,Officer Pryzbylewski shot the wall,
Lieutenant.

00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:07,Why?

00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,Why did you shoot the wall,
Officer Pryzbylewski?

00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,I was just showing Carv
how my trigger pull is light, you know.

00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:18,-I g***t it so it's real light.
-He took the clip out, boss.

00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:20,But not the one in the chamber.

00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:24,No, I forgot the one in the chamber, and....

00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,S***t, I'm sorry, lieutenant.

00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,-You want him to write on it?
-Write on what?

00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,You let one go, you g***t to write.
You g***t to justify the use of deadly force.

00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:38,Against a plaster wall.

00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,It's an accident, okay?
Give me a f***g break already.

00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,-Your name is what?
-Pryzbylewski.

00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,From Auto Unit, right? Cantrell sent you.

00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:55,Not exactly.

00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:59,Lt. Cantrell sent me
to Casualty Section a couple months back.

00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,And I asked out of Casualty.

00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,You came here from Casualty Section?

00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,Man, these shits is right, yo.

00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,-It's good with the hot sauce, too.
-Most definite.

00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,-Dee, want some nuggets?
-No, go ahead, man.

00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:28,Man, whoever invented these,
he off the hook.

00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:29,Word!

00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:33,Motherfucker g***t the bone
all the way out the d***n chicken.

00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,Till he came along,
niggas be chewing on drumsticks and s***t...

00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,getting their fingers all greasy.

00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,He said "Later" to the bone.

00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:44,Nugget that meat up
and make some real money.

00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:46,-You think the man g***t paid?
-Who?

00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,-Man who invented these.
-S***t, he richer than a motherfucker.

00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,Why? You think he get a percentage?

00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:54,Why not?

00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,Nigga, please, the man
who invented them things...

00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,just some sad-a***s down
at the basement of McDonald's...

00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,thinking up some s***t
to make money for the real players.

00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,-No man, that ain't right.
-F***k right.

00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,It ain't about right, it's about money.

00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,You think Ronald McDonald
gonna go down that basement...

00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,and say, "Mr. Nugget, you the bomb.

00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,"We selling chicken faster
than you can tear the bone out.

00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,"So, I'm gonna write my clowny-a***s name
on this fat-a***s check for you."

00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:21,S***t.

00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,The nigger who invented them things...

00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,still working in the basement
for regular wage...

00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:30,thinking of some s***t
to make the fries taste better.

00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:31,Believe.

00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,He still had the idea, though.

00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:46,Who?

00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,Polk and Pat Mahone.
A couple of drunks from Property.

00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,-I don't know them.
-Why would you?

00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,They haven't made a case in 10 years.

00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,Also g***t handed some kid
named Prezbelowski or Prezbelewski--

00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,-Pryzbylewski, him, I know.
-Yeah?

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