The Wire

Fuck is he doing?

Cops still parked right up the block.

What are we, invisible?

Stupid fucking yos.

Think just fucking with him, man.

You want to wait for him to serve somebody?

Fuck it.

They're dirty either way.

Hands on the wall, fuckers.

We ain't done nothing!

Seriously. I was just sitting in my chair reading a magazine, is all.

Watching your crew work a ground stash, you mean?

What the fuck?

Asshole!

Y'all still taking a charge for this, you know that?

- You're a truant. - Today's Saturday.

Try Wednesday.

Why you don't page truancy? Why y'all locking me up?

Hey, Colicio.

Officer Colicchio, shitbird.

We need to block every lane here?

Hey, shut it down. It's a police operation.

Let's get back to your post. Back these vehicles up.

- Officer. - I'm not telling you again.

Tony, calm down.

Officer, if you could just move your car forward Just a little bit,

I'm gonna get right down the road.

We're the police!

What are you doing? Let me go!

Fuck!

- Problem? - I spent all day

trying to trace this $80,000 withdrawal from Clay's personal account...

Figuring it was dirty.

Turns out he's repaying a loan from his mother-in-law.

A loan?

Has to be. I mean, she gives him the same amount in 2002.

He uses it as a down payment on a property that he buys the same week.

See?

He bought a weekend house down in Calvert county 6 years ago.

You pulled the loan application on the property, right?

Just a second.

Here you go.

Got him.

The head shot.

What?

And if anyone is suggesting that I've broken chain of command,

That I've gone behind your back,

that I've lobbied against you in any way, they're lying.

I don't know who told the newspaper that,

but they were lying when they said it.

Yeah.

Respectfully, sir,

I don't know where this shit is coming from.

Sir...

no one has spoken to me--

Not Carcetti, not anyone.

But if I'm approached,

My answer will be to decline the position

And say I serve at your pleasure.

Sir?

Sir?

Go with the preakness piece Or this one about the firefighter death?

- What are you interviewing for? - Metro position, Virginia bureau.

Firefighter, I think. Got to show something I wrote on deadline.

Burrell might get the axe today.

- Who told you that? - Picked it up on my calls.

Desk Sergeant in the eastern says it's all over the department.

Wish me luck.

Good luck.

Got a rumor that Burrell is gonna get fired today if not tomorrow.

Yeah?

- Work it. - What about Twigg?

With his sources, you know?

I can't throw one at a guy on his last day, can I?

You work it as best you can.

You are now my new Senior cop reporter.

Unclaimed.

So far this year... 11.

13 if we add the two in the freezer I ain't I.D.'ed yet.

Run it for no fixed address.

Jimmy, it'd help if I knew what the fuck you were looking for.

Body wise, I just want to know where we're pulling most of the homeless from.

With or without O.D.'s?

Numbers are way up since Fentanyl showed up.

Throw them in. The more, the merrier.

All right.

Damn!

They're all dead and no fixed address?

Dropping like flies in the southern lately.

Hey, Lester, it's me.

Yeah, in the morgue.

Some 4:00 to 12:00 with a lot of midnight,

And a lot of them in south Baltimore.

So who do we know working 12:00 to 8:00 in the southern?

2300 in the district. That'll work.

Jimmy, am I missing something here?

How does this help you?

Don't want none of that phony gangster shit.

He was old-school.

Funny, I feel like I should know Butchie,

But I can't place him.

Came up under teensy.

Caught him a slug early. Took his sight.

Dabbled now and then, but kept it quiet as a puppy walking on cotton.

This here do just fine.

Have it say,

"Butchie. Woe to them that call evil good and good evil."

Sign it, "your true and loyal friend,

"Proposition Joe."

You ain't thinking no kindly note gonna slow Omar coming at us.

It's how I feel. He was a good man.

- And Marlo? - Marlo is Marlo, man.

He weren't the one that put me in this trick bag.

The motherfucker who snuggled up and whispered in Marlo's ear did that.

I know what you thinking,

And I ain't making a move against no kin,

Not till I got more to go on than words.

And knowing my sister's son the way I do,

If the boy got 50 grand in his pocket,

It ain't gonna be long before it jump out and find itself

in some salesman hand.

And that kind of goody, we know.

In the meantime, if Omar coming for any of us, He coming for me,

And out of respect for that man's skill set,

I'm gonna take myself out of the lineup after the meet tomorrow.

Till this shit sort itself out,

Cheese gonna watch the shop.

You gonna watch cheese.

Very clean. Very nice.

But this is unnecessary.

It was not our intent to mislead.

When I spoke before about the condition of your money,

I was lking... in symbols.

The money, it came from the street, And so I thought

you came... from the street.

I did.

I do.

It was not the money that concerned me.

You have been more than generous,

and this is a gift of an honorable man, clearly.

But, in accepting such a gift,

we would give you the wrong impression.

You come from the street, hmm?

The street... doesn't concern us.

We know him down here, and we trust him.

But... to know more people,

to learn more names,

to have them learn our names...

I'm not here to badmouth Prop Joe.

But people depend on me.

Now, last year, there was a robbery.

I'm saying, you know, what? What if this happens again?

Where do that put my people?

That's for you to discuss with Joe.

All I'm asking for is an insurance policy.

You know, something covers me

- and covers you. - And covers Joe.

The young man makes a point.

You're right.

These are volatile times.

It is not unreasonable to carry insurance.

Who can say what tomorrow will show us?

You go.

Be safe.

Your case.

Oh, y'all came a ways. Put it to expenses.

If we were to tell him no,

he will still come back.

This he shows us.

But he is not Joe.

He is not Joe.

If I follow this,

the senator's mother-in-law gave him $80,000

that he used as a down payment on some property.

Later, he paid the money back, which makes it a loan.

Which falsifies the loan application.

The moment he signs the application, he's exposed.

Title XVIII of the U.S. Code, chapter 47, section 10-14,

Loan and credit applications. 30 years

and not to exceed $1 million.

Over at the U.S. Attorney's office, they call it "the head shot."

30 years for something

that every kid two years out of college does with a starter home.

daddy loans you money to qualify; a couple years later, you pay him back.

30 years.

With leverage like that,

this case needs to go federal.

Outstanding work, detective.

Let me have some time to digest this.

Counselor,

a moment?

Is there another way to go at this?

- How strong are our theft counts? - Straightforward document cases,

4 counts. They're a lock. He stole from his own charities.

We convict, that's 10 years per count.

Nothing to sneeze at, even without the bank charge.

You think it might be, OK for me to sit in

- on one of your budget meetings? - On our good days.

Ed? This is Scott Templeton.

Good to meet you. Have a seat.