Part Three - Recap

See below for a detailed **recap** of **"Part Three"** of *We Own This City*. (Still a work in progress)

## Allers with Lawyer

Summer 2016, Thomas Allers is escorted by John Sieracki to a room; they converse about John's time in the FBI before Allers is handed off to his lawyer, Gary Proctor. Proctor mentions how Allers will be made an example of since he built the corrupt unit, it is a federal case and it is in his best interest to cooperate but Allers feels like he can't.

## Hersl Reassignment

January 2016, Daniel Hersl is called into an office with Allers, Dean Palmere, and [not sure]. Aller's asks if this meeting is about the rap song, but Palmere dismisses it that he doesn't care about the rapper. Palmere them mentions about the numerous complaints about Hersl in the eastern district but doesn't blame him for it. He's then told that he's being pulled out of the eastern district but being reassigned to Gun Trace Task Force and Allers gives him a warm welcome. The group laugh.

## Allers with lawyer again

Proctor continues to explain the long sentences that Allers will be given for racketeering, conspiracy, and a $10,000 robbery and he asks Allers for more information about the robbery. Allers mentions how Momodu Gondo put them upto that one.

## Gun Trace Task Force robbery

In a car are Allers, Hersl, Gondo and Jemell Rayam, who make up part of the Gun Trace Task Force they mention Davon Robinson, streename "Wooda". Gondo explains how Wooda is well off. The group joke about Hersl's bowel movements until they spot Wooda entering a car. They tail him

## Authorising Gondo Wiretap

Sergeant John Sieracki and Special Agent Erika Jensen talk to a Judge as he authorises a wiretap for Gondo. They explain to him how he has been caught on multiple calls with Antonio "Brill" Shropshire. The judge asks the agents how far up the chain of command this illicit activity goes but they respond how they're not sure. Judge offers his contunuing aid after handing them the wiretap affadavit.

## Gun Trace Task Force robbery continued

We cut back to GTTF who are rummaging through a cuffed Wooda's car. Rayam antagonises him making up lies about Wooda not pulling over immediately, and having a gun hidden somewhere. He seems to get angry before Allers tells him to relax. Allers sits down with Wooda on the curb asking him again about a gun but Wooda denies it. Allers then mentions going to Wooda's residence to have a lookaround for a gun.

## Davis meets with Steele

Nicole Steele is sat in commissioner Kevin Davis's office where they discuss Steele's convo with Hersl the previous episode. Steele explains how Hersl didn't have much to say about the complains just that he was doing his job and Davis say's it's probably true how a cop who's doing his job will inevitably get complains. He then says if Hersl get's one more sustained case like Laronde that he too will be gone. He ends with saying how he's not defending Hersl and how he agrees to the consent decree but Steele says no one in the police department is going to be or has been cooperative.

Davis mentions how Baltimore is an extremely violent region but Steele questions what the police even think their job is meant to be. Davis mentions his issues with his department and work how he knows there are deep-rooted problems, constant mayoral changes, attorneys who have lost support of rank and file staff, police unions that resist changes, a job that isn't even permanent meaning anyone who he tries to discipline scoffs it off thinking they will have a new commisioner soon anyways. Davis still wants to change the department around.

## Gun Trace Task Force at Wooda's residence

Gondo is seen searching in Wooda's resisdence with his family huddled together. Rayam mentions how he's found a loaded pistol, Wooda tells his girlfriend to not say anything and that everything will be okay.

Gondo joins Rayam and Allers in overturning a bedroom looking for a gun, one of which has had the serial numbers scratched off. Gondo and Rayam leave the bedroom to go downstairs all excited and Allers is seen pocketing cash out of some shoeboxes belong to Wooda. Hersl comes in saying how he's not found anything and Allers says the same, but then continues pocketing cash.

## Allers with lawyer continued

Proctor asks if Allers shared the stolen money around but Allers says he was greedy and kept all the cash and Proctor explains maybe that's why he's being charged and perhaps his co-defendants in GTTF are talking.

## Gun Trace Task Force at a drive through

GTTF are at a fastfood drive through ordering food whilst Rayam is filing out a report about the gun seizure. He asks about how much money was found in the house but Allers jokes and says if there was money he'd know and that he always shares and he gets Hersl to affirm despite Allers lying about the stolen money.

## Gondo wiretap

Jensen is in an FBI room with another colleague monitoring Gondo's wiretap when a call comes in for her to listen to. It's Gondo conversing with his girlfriend who is complaining about him not being home. Jensen mentions it's a non-pertinent call but wants her colleague to listen in on the couple bickering before turning the wiretap off.

## Jenkins search and seizure

Jenkins run sheet for October 28th, 2005 shows he made a search and seizure. He's with his sergeant, Michael Fries discussing the drugs and money they found at a house when he receives a call from his wife about contractor issues for the new house. Jenkins starts leaving to go sort things out but Fries complains about all the evidence they must submit. Fries doesn't allow him to leave and Jenkins reluctantly agrees to help them bag up the evidence.

At evidence submission there's a long queue when Jenkins complains about having places to be and other uniformed cops says they all do and complains about plain clothed officers. Jenkin's sergeant, Fries, comes in and allows him to cut the line and he brags to the uniformed cops about it. Fries then lets him just sign a form and tells him to go help his wife.

## Gondo wiretap continued

Sieracki comes into the room and relieves Jensen of duty so she leaves to go flute practise.

## Suiter continues inquiry

Detective Sean M. Suiter walks into a station and greets a known man at the reception, Billy Finch. Finch says he's at this post to bide time before hitting 30 years at the force before retirement. Says he left plainclothes because he didn't appreciate the police work of getting paid without improving the community. He says "this job" has changed.

Suiter says hes here to inquire about Jaquan Dixon, and Finch says to check out back. Suiter approaches Dixon asking for help on a shots fired call he handled last week at Hilldale. Finch says shots were fired but no one was hit and by the time the police got to the scene everyone was gone. Suiter says he's asking about it because it was half a mile from the murder he's working on, the Fenwick case. Dixon knows about it and offers to ride Suiter to the scene. Dixon asks if he has the casings and mentions he himself submitted spent casings of bullets to ECU. Suiter is impressed by his policing skills.

## Steele at a Spoken Poetry gig

A man is stood at the front of a small audience reciting a poem about being black in a violent America. The audience applaud Tariq Toure and the rest of the poets. Steele then approaches Toure for a conversation. Steele says she was adviced to speak to him because of his outspoken work on racism and police violence. He mentions he put more effort into his work after the Freddie Gray incident. Mentions how people from Baltimore already knew how "trash" the police department was but after the killing the world gets to know.

She asks him for his opinion on the mayor's race and Toure expresses his disdain for politics. She asks him about Kevin Davis and Toure explain how Davis apparently has an open door policy for people of the community but in actuality it doesn't exist. He calls Davis a politician for keeping Gray's killers on payroll.

## Jenkins crime suppression

Jenkins run sheet for December 19th, 2005 for a crime suppression. He's with an officer in a car when they pull up on 2 men chilling outside their apartment and Jenkins tells them to go inside. The men aren't very receptive to it but Jenkins and co eventually drive off before suddenly pulling a u-turn when noticing the 2 men didn't listen to instructions. He violently apprehends the men, beats on one of them for no reason.

## Meeting with Jenkins and Fries

Jenkins is called into Fries office where he tells Jenkins off for beating up 2 people who then came with a complaint. Jenkins tries to explain himself when another officer says he could lose his job. Jenkins speaks troubled until Fries and the other officer start laughing and admit they were just busting his balls. Fries says Jenkins will always be protected because he is a hard working earner but advices that he could still get in trouble for what he did because he half-assed the paper work.

Fries gives more advice to mention in the paperwork that they have to make it seem like him and other officers were in danger. Jenkins says hes right and Fries tells him to rewrite the paperwork.

## Gondo wiretap caught

Jenkins is practising fruit playing when the wiretap goes off, Gondo is on the phone with a woman and they discuss pulling over a "white boy" that the girl says they talked about before. The girl says that the boy has guns and money. Jenkins realises that Gondo is making an illegal traffic stop when she calls Sieracki who is having lunch outdoors and tells him to rush to North Avenue where Gondo is conducting the traffic stop.

## GTTF traffic stop

Rayam is taking car documents from the aforementioned boy that got stopped. He takes it to a car where Gondo, Hersl, and Allers, who recieves the documents are sitting. Hersl says hes hungry and gets annoyed so he forces the situation at hand and forces the boy and the girl out of the car and put's the boy in handcuffs. Sieracki informs Jenkins of what is happening over the phone.

Gondo is still ont he phone with a girl who's telling him that theres definitely a gun with them. It takes a while and annoyance builds but Hersl eventually finds a gun just as his informant told him. The GTTF celebrate.

Back at the FBI office Jensen says she wants a recording of the first call of the boy who is getting arrested when he lands at central booking.

## Suiter at Dixon's crime scene

Suiter and Dixon are at the crime scene where Dixon shows him where the casings and bullets were found. He approaches a girl who wants to talk away. He points at a house and asks if she lives there she says its her boyfriends house. Shs apprehensive and says her boyfriends name is Tae, and her's is Ebony. He asks them if they own a gun and she refuses to answer and walks away after Suiter gives her his card. Dixon mentions that Ebony is hiding something.

We cut to the 2 at an old woman's house, Mrs Green, who complains about the neighbourhood and Dixon reassures her that he's trying to do good policing but she scoffs it off. Suiter tells the woman about how a good man died around the corner and builds rapport by mentioning a picture on the wall of a man who turns out to be the ladies husband. Suiter tells her they need her help and asks for more information about the shooting and eventually she mentions Miss Irene who lives on a corner house has a Grandson that she describes as a Devil which points the finger to Tae. She refuses to speak any further.

## Steele meets with Police Union head

Steele meets with Domenick Lombardozzi, President of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police which acts as a national union-like organisation consisting of hundreds of thousands of police. Steele says she's in Baltimore because there are a tonne of cash settlements paid out to victims of police misconduct. Another office with with Lambardozzi says that it's only claimed misconduct and none were proven to be fault of officers. Steele doubles down that settlements were made either way and how the mayor asked for the involvement of outside parties to conduct investigations.

Lombardozzi scoffs at the mayor's incompetence handing the Freddie Gray riots and Steele asks her if the new mayor will be any more sympathetic to the officers. Lombardozzi says if the mayor still ties up the department in the consent decree then the police won't be able to police effectively.

She then asks him if baltimore police are purpusefully engaged in a work slowdown because of the Freddie Gray riots and mentions the arrests numbers are down. He says the union doesn't endorse any slowing down but admits there are officers who don't want to risk getting in trouble for making arrests. He mentions the court keeps chaning their mind of what counts as appropriate policing. Lombardozzi complains about Marilyn Moseby, the states attorney who is charging for the Freddie Gray murder he feels unfairly.

She then asks if Lomardozzi could admit that if hypothetically a police officer commits misconduct that they should be fired for abusive behaviour to which he is certain. She then asks him if it has ever happened before and he avoids the answer stating the union is here to support officers.

## Sieracki and Jensen hear the tape

Sieracki and Jensen are with X listening to a recorded tape of the call the boy from the traffic stop made, from the city detention centre, to his girlfriend where the detectives explain how GTTF stole the boy's the money.

## Jenkins at a gentleman's club.

Jenkins run sheet for April 17th, 2007 for a shift change. He arrives at a plainclothes officer's BBQ outside the station where Hersl is sat down. He laments how they're drinking more high-end alcoholic beverages instead of beer as the group laugh at him for mis-pronouncing one of the names. Jenkins get's annoyed and insults another officer's police work.

Cut to the evening we see him arriving at a gentleman's club after drunk driving where he warmly greets Donald Stepp who is counting cash. Donny thanks Jenkins for helping him get a bondsman license to run the club. Stepp mentions how Jenkins is also doing well for himself and offers to go look at women.

We cut to inside the strip club where Donny pays for Jenkins to off to the back with a girl who caught his eye.

## Steele lunch at Washington

Steele is having lunch with a former colleague at D.C where she discusses baltimore's poor state where half of the police don't do anything where as the other half commit brutal beatings. Her former colleague asks weather the potential new mayor will be more cooperative but Steele doesn't know and mentions Davis is not sure whether the mayor will follow on with consent decree. Steele mentions how Davis says the right things but says he's not the right guy to fix the department. The colleague mentions how Davis told her privately about a few things including the suspicion that some cops are stealing.

## Suiter continues investigation

Suiter arrives at homicide office where he said he's got a bullet match for the fenwick case to the shot's fired around the corner, that Dixon handled and submitted evidence for.

We cut to to Suiter back at the shooting corner where he approaches Ebony who is trying to walk away. She is uncooperative when Suiter starts arresting her but Ebony get's scared and tells Suiter Tae's location. Suiter makes her call him to their current location.

## Sieracki and Jensen visit Wooda

Sieracki and Jensen enter Attorney Leo Wise's office. They explain to him how Gondo admitted that GTTF robbed Wooda and Allers didn't share any money. Wise wants Wooda to cooperate as a witness and Jenses says she doesn't think it's possible but Wise says how he cooperate if he knows the other GTTF members are locked up and the US Attorney's office will take care of him.

We cut to Sieracki and Jensen at Wooda's residence where his girlfriend holding their baby meet's them at the door and let's them in. Wooda is not present at the house as they look at photo frames of him.

## Suiter arrests Tae

Suiter and Dixon overlook Devante Brim (Tae) cuffed and being put in a police van. They agree to enter his house to look for weapons when they see Mrs Green overlooking the incident.

Cut's to late night where Suiter enters his home's bedroom where his wife is sleeping. He tells her he had a good day at work and how a murder is down because of him and Dixon who did a good job.

## Jenkins and Suiter at car wash.

Jenkins run sheet for August 10th, 2007 for approved off duty. He's at a bar with other cops celebrating when plainclothes Suiter walks in and he orders them shots. Suiter goes off to meet others and Jenkins asks a colleague whether they can trust Suiter.

We cut to Suiter and Jenkins in a car with vests on. They overlook a car wash which they say is committing illegal activites. Uniformed officer's pull and they all get ready to raid the car wash, guns drawn. They go in loud and forces all the employees to get into the ground when Jenkins and Suiter enter an office where Shawn Conley is detained. He plays a good cop and tells Conley to make this easy for everyone and to reveal where the narcotics and firearms are hidden. Conley refuses to comply as Jensen gets progressively more angry and starts trashing the place and breaking the property when Suiter disovers a table that doesn't seem right.

The 2 open up the table and find guns, drugs, and money to Conley's annoyance as this means a long jail sentence. Jenkins and Suiter are happy about their find. Jenkins mentions to Suiter on the sly about taking a cut of the $50,000 found for themselves when Suiter says it can't happen as there are officers right outside the premises. Jenkins then says to only admit to finding $4000 and that's how hes going to call it in. Suiter tries to intervene but Jenkins shut's it down, tells Suiter to call a camera crew for their success and fist bumps Suiter.

## Allers interrogation continued

Sieracki and Jensen are interrogating Allers with his lawyer who say's that Allers is a decorated officer, a family man, and has served the city well. Sieracki scoffs at it. Allers says he may have stolen some money but he's done a good job taking guns and drugs off the street and say's he's never hurt anyone. Jensen interrupts asking about Wooda and Aller's doesn't even remember who he is. Jensen reminds him of the $10,000 he stole off Wooda's residence in Kitmore Road.

Sieracki narrates over a scene outside Wooda's house. Sieracki mentions how the $10,000 that Allers stole, Wooda owed to his supplier. We see Wooda kissing his girlfriend and kids goodbye before getting executed from shooting.

We then see Allers reacting stoicly to the news but all he can say is "fuck you" to Sieracki as they leave the interrogation room.

## Jenkins and Suiter stolen cash

Later in the night after the car wash seizure Jenkins and Sutier are talking. Jenkins praises Suiter for finding the table. He offers some of the stolen money and says that he earned it. Suiter is unsure weather to take it when Jenkins mentions how they took a bad person off the streets and mentions how they could have died today at the seizure and the risk of that isn't worth their salary. We fade to black with money left in between the 2 unsure of whether Suiter took the money.