The wire
Season 1.Episode 08
Lessons.
- Daniels:- I checked with the state Personnel Department. He's on the payroll of Senator Davis' district office for more than a year. He did four years in Hagerstown for daytime B and E. Before that, drug charges and a PBJ on a check charge. And now we catch him coming out of the towers with $20,000 in manicured,banded money.
- Burrel:- You brought him in here on what charge?
- Daniels:- Civil forfeiture. Until he tells us a legitimate source for that money, we keep it.
- Burrel:- So you have no criminal charge.
- Daniels:-No, just the money.
- Burrel:-Give it back.
- Daniels:--Sir?
- Burrel: -Give the man back his money.
- Daniels:- Sir, we pulled this off the wire with one of our suspects telling another to expect a pick-up. It's drug money in that car.
- Burrel:-Give him back his money. Write it up as an unwarranted car stop. Now I ask you to put a charge on a drug dealer, Lieutenant. That's all I ask. And now I got wiretaps, pager clones, affidavits coming out of my ass. And you're in people's shit where you're not supposed to be.
- Daniels:- Sir.
- Burrel:-I'm shutting this down, Lieutenant. You charge what you can, and you do it by the end of the week.
- Daniels:- We did nothing wrong here.
- Burrel:-You jacked up a senatorial aide. You went into his pocket, pulled out $20,000. And though there's no criminal charge, you think it wise to try to keep it.You shit all over yourself all over me, all over this department. Now, I told you, no surprises, remember?
