The Wire

Joe will be missed.

Very much missed.

We liked Joe.

A hard man not to like.

Tomorrow ain't promised to no one.

Meanwhile, we go on.

In business-- in life--

What you learn to appreciate the most is a dependable man.

One day, same as the next.

Yeah, I learned a lot from watching Joe.

We deal with you or your second.

No one else.

No one else knows our names.

No one else contacts us.

Understand?

To contact us, use this... only.

I don't talk on no cellphones.

Here. To call for lunch, you can talk.

To call your girl, you can talk.

To call your lawyer even, you can talk--

The law says that is between you and the laer.

All right?

To find out what movie is playing down the street,

You can talk.

All of that is good because all of that tells them there

there is nothing good to hear.

But for business,

we do not talk on the phone.

Never.

Right.

I mean, Joe taught me that.

But what about-- What is...

How that play?

Man overcame his grief.

Do it feel like a crown on your head right now?

Do it?

'Cause that's what I'm wearin' on my head.

We should celebrate.

Yeah?

Atlantic city.

Can't play like that now.

Omar gonna make a move. We know this.

Yo, I need to go past home. You mind a ride?

Naw. You know I like your peoples.

Fact is, I gotta tell 'em I'm not gonna be comin' round for a time.

You stepped up and made your play.

Now I gotta make mine.

- At least 4. - Got it .

We're going back through the old cases, so we could find more than that.

What else?

And the motive now seems sexual.

What do you mean sexual?

Is someone sodomizing homeless men?

I can't get that specific.

How can I not get specific?

I'm just saying the killer is acting from sexual compulsions.

Anything more detailed than that we need to keep in the case file.

I don't know, detective. Last time, I couldn't get it out front on metro.

But let me run it by my desk and call you back. All right?

All right.

Anything late from copshop?

Follow-ups on the recent murders.

An arrest on one, which was the domestic cutting from Hampden.

No arrests in a couple of drug-relateds from east Baltimore.

Give me a bit for the budget line.

Domestic was a Patricia boggus, found in her car.

Drug-Relateds were one Joseph Stewart, found in his dining room,

and one Nathaniel Manns, found in an alley garage.

A couple grafs on each. Write it as a single short.

Also, I got word on another homeless murder.

The detective on it says it's related.

He says it's sexual.

Sexual?

- They being raped? - He wouldn't confirm that.

He just says that the killings are sexual in nature.

Write what you got.

I'll run it by the 4:00, see if it takes.

This indictment is the result of an 18-month investigation

by the state's attorney's office

and the Baltimore police department.

And it shines a light on a cornerstone issue

for any representative government--

Public trust

of public servants.

Senator Davis abused that trust.

He traded on his power and influence so that he could use

local businesses

and campaign donors as his personal A.T.M. machine.

He created a network of charitable

and non-profit organizations

whose purpose was to accumulate cash for his private use,

- betraying the goodwill... - Ronnie Pearlman?

Bill Zorzi, covering federal court for the "Sun."

Right. How do you do?

Not to be all petulant on your special day here,

But since when does a prosecutor of this town

stage a perp walk and not call the daily newspaper?

We called Gail Gibson. Left a message on her voice mail.

Gail left for a freelance gig 4 months ago.

Well, her voice mail still works.

Who's replacing her on city courts?

From now on,

just don't jam me like that again.

...he must be he accountable

for his fraudulent actions.

Senator Davis has opened our legislative body

to monetary persuasions.

He has done this knowingly and with complete disregard

for the office that he represents.

- It is this kind of impropriety... - How's it feel, Clay?

Not much fun on the ass end, is it?

You said it, Norman.

There's the short Con and the long Con.

You're gonna need a statement.

Nothing too joyful.

You don't dance on Clay's grave until you're sure the motherfucker's dead.

Clay ain't getting up from this.

Also you don't want to piss off his base,

being too gleeful about it.

That guy still has a base?

After all this shit he's pulled?

I'll tell you one thing. That fella right there

is looking pretty damn mayoral.

More than Nerese, definitely.

With the profile he gets from this, I'd say it's Mr. Bond's race to lose.

...and remain under common court.

Senator Davis will have to account for that money.

- What'd you tell your girl? - That I'm goin' away on business.

I won't be around for a couple weeks.

- Shouldn't be more than that. - Better not.

... and miss Trainor say we gonna learn a problem like that

once every day for this year and the next.

You mean memorize 'em?

Learn it by heart. Learn the question.

Learn the answer, too.

'Cause them questions gonna all been the M.S.A. test you all take next year.

She tell you all that?

Miss Trainor say if the scores don't go up before the selection

all the teachers gonna get fired.

Selection? What she mean?

When the people vote for whoever.

You mean the election.

Nigga think you all that.

Why you gonna go and do that?

- Dukie about to cry. - Fuck is wrong with you?

Ain't nothin' wrong with me! I'm out here gettin' stuff done.

You up in some house somewhere playin' Mike's lil' bitch.

Smacked his little ass.

... and finally, we've got that 40-inch thumbsucker on Bud Selig

and baseball's halfhearted response

to the latest recommendations on steroid use.

Bottom line is the owners think bud is swell,

The players union is staying mum, Bondsashe home run record, and

everyone's pretending the issue will go away.

And there's news in there?

What do you like for the front?

Clay Davis indictment, obviously. The congressional hearings on Iraq.

Price's piece on how much Carcetti raise for his gubernatorial run is solid.

And the feature on John Waters

filming again in Baltimore could go out front if the art is good.

We have him on the film set, posing with a couple of child actors.

Is that allowed?

Now. Let's not confuse the auteur with his art.

- Anyone like anything else? - This came in late, but

this business at the bottom of the metro budget

about another homeless man being murdered-- That might have some play.

There were other homeless men murdered?

We ran a short piece a week ago about possible connections in 3 cases.

- Inside metro. - The motive's said to be sexual,

but the cops are being cryptic about what exactly That means.

Well, we could run it inside, but you might want to Report it some more,

see where it goes. Right now, it's a little vague for A-1.

OK, then, we'll see where we are in a couple hours.

I told you, duke.

I fuck 'em up good. Just say the word, man.

Naw, man. I can't have you steppin' up for me anymore, you know?

Yeah, well. Talk to the man.

He'll set you straight.

- Yo, Mr. Dennis. - Hey.

I need to train with you some.

See that.

What happened?

It ain't no thing. I'm just kinda gettin' a little tired of it.

All right, son.

Go get some gloves on and let's see where you at.

It's all pretty straightforward. I'm surprised the lawyers

you were paying went to the trouble of getting it postponed.

Maybe 'cause we was payin' by the hour.

In any event, you got a lot going for you here.

Car registered to a front, guns in a secreted compartment.

The woman we registered it to, She can't do no time.

Just a name we used.

Then get someone who can.

Preferably someone without priors, someone you trust to Stand the charge.

Also came past with this here.

More money made clean.

When you figure out what we gonna do with that there,

- Holler at me. - How do I do that?

0909.

Anything else?