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**Lt. Daniels**
For now, we'll work out of Narcotics,
with Kima keeping the file.
We'll copy everything to Ronnie
at the courthouse and your people.
**Santangelo**
Fine with us.
**Lt. Daniels**
McNulty and Santangelo will work
on the open murders...
see if anything can be manufactured.
Kima and my people will do
hand-to-hand stuff in the Terrace.
Buy-bust, quick and dirty.
We put years over top of
some of these people, we'll roll a few.
**McNulty**
You're not gonna get
Avon Barksdale or Stringer Bell...
or anyone else above the street,
not on street rips.
**Lt. Daniels**
You don't know that.
**McNulty**
These guys are good.
They're deep and organized.
They've got everyone running scared.
**Lt. Daniels**
What do you suggest?
**McNulty**
Surveillance teams,
DNRs, asset investigation.
Keep gathering string
till we can find a way in.
Either a wired CI or a Title III.
That's what makes this case.
**Lt. Daniels**
Is that what you told the judge?
**McNulty**
Okay, so I'm an asshole for that.
But I'm right about this much.
**Lt. Daniels**
No mics, no wires.
We do this fast and clean and simple.
**McNulty**
Then you don't do it at all.
**Lt. Daniels**
What the fu-
**Rhonda Pearlman**
Seems to me you all could've had this fight
before calling the State's Attorney's office.
**McNulty**
Let me ask you something.
What do we know about Avon Barksdale?
**Greggs**
What do we know?
**McNulty**
The guy's owned
all of Franklin Terrace for a year.
What do we have on him right now?
A DOB? A sheet?
A B of I photo?
We don't even have
a fucking photo of the guy.
**Santangelo**
Gimme a break, Jimmy.
Two days ago no one on this fucking floor
knew this mope's name.
Now he's some kinda criminal mastermind.
**Herc**
Shit, I say we go down to the Terrace
and fuck some people up.
**Rhonda Pearlman**
You all don't need a prosecutor,
you need a fucking referee.
When you know how
you're playing this, give a yell.
**Lt. Daniels**
We know how we're playing it.
My people are going down
to do some hand-to-hands.
Detectives McNulty and Santangelo are
going to the hall to review old murder files...
and try to manufacture a fresh prosecution.
As things heat up, I'll go to the deputy
and get us more manpower...
but this case is not going to sprawl.
A month from now,
we're all gonna be back at our day jobs.
**Rhonda Pearlman**
Fine. Bring me your hand-to-hands.
Anything on the murders, you can take
to Ilene Nathan in violent crimes.
I'll clue her in.
**Lt. Daniels**
Anything else?
**Lt. Daniels**
One last thing:
No one does anything at all on the street
without me knowing about it first.
**Lt. Daniels**
Chain-of-command, Detective.
That's how we do things
down this end of the hall.
Credits
David Simon

David Simon

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