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.