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back to my channel movie files elliott
back again breaking down episode five
part five of we own this city pretty
much an episode showing us the final
days of the task force before they get
arrested and we see how nicole still
played us that narrative we're going to
be discussing that and so much more in
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of the way full spoilers ahead as we
open the episode mid conversation with
gondo aka g money he's talking about his
time with wayne now as the conversation
pivots he talks about his time robbing
people in 2008 one time he got shot in
2006 but then as we're noticing in this
conversation the corruption just isn't
on the streets but it's also amongst the
police department as these so-called
friends between gondo and jamal they
have many different stories to share
here as we transition to over to jemele
he goes into a flashback in which we see
his early days in uniform and his time
with his side piece who gave him
critical information on things that were
shaken out in the streets and this is
where jamal gets questioned about his
side of the story we learn more about
jamal in these sequences more in
particularly he was responsible for not
one not two but multiple killings on
duty and he got off due to his deputy
keeping himself protected and during his
time he got a pass he was only put on
suspension with pay before being
transferred over to the task force now
within learning more about jemele we see
that when he came back from suspension
it kind of went downhill from him but
also the biggest thing in this account
is that they were seeing that both of
these men jemele as well as gondo
they're selling each other off they're
really not there for each other they're
really not friends but more particularly
we see in this scene as the fbi points
out the fact that these officers
continue to get promoted after all their
terrible acts as they call it cream
rises to the top now transitioning into
a time where jamal describes a robbery
back in 2014 with his supervisor thomas
and his son and g-money we see that they
cleaned house over
416 thousand dollars and i might have
got this wrong but when jamal was
talking about this story he said when
the county came in they only saw 350.
now i don't know if they were taking 416
minus the 350 which would give them like
66 000 roughly or he was saying they
only left and they only found
350 dollars which if that's the case i
mean number one they're robbing people
so it doesn't matter the schematics or
the logistics they're robbing people
which is wrong but
if they only left 350 and they bank it
and pocketed the rest of that money whoo
highway robbery but i think he's saying
that they only took 66 000 correct me if
i'm wrong but like i said the just the
meat of this is they were just out here
robbing people and then thomas had his
son involved just showing you not only
were these cops giving bad advice and
doing things that were just terrible
within the department they're showing
you that even people that was involved
in other people's families like thomas
for example he's showing his son these
terrible corrupted things which just
kind of shows you how deep this
corruption actually went let me know
your thoughts on all that following up
with ward in this episode we get more
stories of his time with wayne and he
brings up this particular number one fan
that went by k-stop now we go into this
whole situation about last week can we
trust ward where there's a particular
scene as you all can see on the screen
now in which we see ward talking to
gondo and really praising wayne and more
particularly how he might have some kind
of unorthodox ways but at the end of the
day you end up getting paid when you
work with wayne now like i said in my
review last week can we trust ward when
it came to him dumping the money not
taking the money well the way he was
talking to gondo to me kind of gives it
off like he knew what was going on he
took some of that money and he didn't
just throw away money like he said in
last week's episode i might be wrong but
let me thought let me know your thoughts
on how he was essentially praising wayne
in this situation when he was talking to
gondo about oh you about to be really
set up when you're working with wayne
let's talk about that in the comments
but getting back into the conversation
we see that the fbi has tapped their
phones and this is where they're talking
about wayne being off the chains and
this is where the fbi is like yep this
is just one more tally one more tally
ultimately leading to tax fraud and we
get a lot more other things that they
get convicted with but again just
hearing ward talking to gondor at that
moment just really kind of sold to me
that he wasn't as mr clean-cut and all
that different stuff that he kind of
portrayed last week but let's get back
into the breakdown here as we check in
with wayne on july 15
2016 jamal recalls a particular story in
which they turned over and they busted a
drug dealer in which wayne pretended to
be a us attorney in which we see another
robbery take place it is detailed that
they were really in there to get it and
they were not only stealing that drug
dealers money which ultimately they said
they only found fifty dollars when they
kind of when the actual county police
came to his house and looked at his
mansion but that's what we're calling to
see they were robbing each other and we
kind of knew that very early on when we
saw thomas taking the money and not
telling herself about it so again it
just kind of goes to show
they claim to be brothers in arms and
i'm just talking about this group of
people these seven um you know plain
sights police officers but they were
really just looking out for themselves
at the end of the day and just going
back to that scene wayne him pretending
to be a u.s attorney to get this person
who they're busting to try to give him
more information
man like it was just so like just like
mind-boggling to see them just that's
like just lying impersonating a u.s
attorney to get information so you can
rob them it's just some really messed up
stuff but let's let's talk about wayne a
little bit more because we spent a
little bit of time with him in this
episode with him with his family but
also we see his affairs off site and
when he's not with his wife and his
newborn kid again i have in these five
episodes and this is where kind of my
criticism kind of comes in this episode
and we'll talk about a little bit more
further in review
when we're focused on one character like
we have been in episodes three and four
which wayne was kind of the central
character in those two episodes and then
every now and then we would pivot to
sean and nicole and see what's going on
with herschel and stuff like that but
this episode we really didn't shine too
much light on one central character and
in this case i i guess you can say
nicole had a little bit more to do in
this episode as well as the fbi angle
but again just spinning those couple
scenes with wayne and me really didn't
do much for me as far as just like the
narrative being focused but again let me
know what you all thought of wayne and
his you know escapades off you know with
his wife and cheating on his wife and
also his uh you know online browser with
his dog being there that was a little
weird if you ask me but let's get back
into going over to january 10 2017
we see that k-stop again you got to
remember that he was the mentor and
loved wayne and looked up to him he
wasn't a dirty cop he wasn't corrupt as
we see wayne and herschel and k-stop you
know they're talking on the side of the
road and we're seeing wayne tested him
and he did not pass the test in a good
way right because we see that not all
the cops were corrupt not all cops want
to rob people and steal from people and
as we see in this scene even though that
he uh looked up to wayne he told him the
truth that no that's not right what you
know if he gave him scenario
if we came across some money and doing
this then the third would you take and
he says no we're police we're supposed
to police these streets which was the
right answer but not the right answer
for wayne as we find out that he had him
transferred from the department so he
wouldn't mess up his overtime game so
shout out to the good cops out there and
particularly in this scene shout out to
k-stop saying the right things and you
know ultimately doing the right thing
too so getting back into it all we
transition over to may 2016 and this is
where we kind of focus a little bit more
on suitor in this episode as he's on
another crime case and an unknown victim
he comes across a man who grew up in a
neighborhood who doesn't particularly
like to talk to cops because of him
calling them the jump boys aka robbing
people jumping people stealing from
people and based on his experience with
the baltimore police department we
understand why he doesn't want to talk
to cops because again they've robbed him
they've done him wrong in the past just
many many examples and more particularly
an example from sean's perspective in
this episode we see many times in this
episode especially towards the end of
this uh this particular uh breakdown
we'll talk about
i think sean might turn himself in
because of all the stuff he experienced
and kind of just swept under the rug and
didn't tell anyone what's really going
on with wayne and going on in the
plainclothes department we're going to
talk about that here in a second but
getting back into what's going on with
this particular character he's having a
conversation about his experience with
the task force and he's seen some things
that he's definitely not proud of and
we're going to talk about sean when we
get down to that point in the review but
let's transition over to nicole steele
he's investigating an individual by the
name of james otis who was someone that
was actually robbed by the police now he
goes into a situation in which he came
across herschel and we see this
despicable move by herschel we seen him
do this before early in the season where
he pretends that the person hit him and
he has them arrested he goes around to
searching james's car and he ultimately
steals 658 dollars from james which he
worked hard for and we get more details
into this situation in which james tells
us that he was locked up not only for
two days he lost his job and only
received fifty dollars that was stolen
from him but also when you add into all
the different things that he went
through now getting into the police
aspect as he's arrested and he gets
screwed over even more times here
they give him the choice hey we'll throw
out your case as long as you sign this
paper saying that you weren't falsely
arrested which just kind of he's caught
between a rock and a hard spot right
because if he gets arrested and doesn't
sign this they're going to find some
type of way to screw him over i mean the
man at this point has lost his job lost
the money he worked hard for
it's just so despicable to see what was
done to these people on the streets i
just feel so bad for him and his family
and it's just like this is just so effed
up on so many different accounts let me
know what you all thought of that scene
with james but getting back to what
nicole was doing in this episode we see
that she now has the investigation of
the baltimore city police department by
her division based on the information
she's gathered so far and it's time to
get the commissioner's response and we
see the commissioner
he's all game for this he's just like
you know what this is true we need to
change the streets and this kind of
leads us into one of the more bigger
scenes in this episode in which we see
having her meet with trent williams who
i'm a big fan of as an actor he makes
his appearance and he kind of shares his
honest opinions on what he did he was
someone that taught police how to be
honest how to be good and it's really up
to the police to be those good honest
cops after that point when they leave
his class but he also goes into more
about the discussion on the war on drugs
and details the alarming arrest rate
also as we know is just a tally to get
statistics but i really enjoyed that
scene with them kind of discussion how
the war on drugs what does that really
mean and how does that affect you know
people in america and obviously again
the crime rates and the italians and the
statistics just to put a number on
something before they can get paid and
how that plays into the politics i
really enjoyed that narrative and that
scene there let me know what you all
thought of of it but this is a really
big moment here as it is time to meet
the mayor on the decree now the
commissioner he's full game on this new
police reform but this scene just kind
of blew my mind as we see the mayor's
team essentially just brings up all the
negative things about how expensive this
is going to be and how much management
is going to be and in particular
speaking of management one of the
gentleman says this is more so just an
internal issue how many commissioners
have you had in the past 10 years what
three he says it's more of a management
issue like are you serious and we just
kind of see where their dollars being
allocated and how they want to spend the
money it just really blew my mind and
just again from not just a police
department perspective but it's the
politicians and again it's just a rebel
it's just kind of a ripple effect of how
it starts from the top and then works
its way all the way down to ultimately
the people that's getting screwed over
is the people they're working for which
is the citizens which is the community
and how it's just like the money the
dollars and and the mayor even talking
about i want to make sure my grandson's
safe but you don't want to make sure
that if something happens to your
grandson he's a black man as we know
because she was black he gets pulled
over oh where's those money going to go
when you wish you would have had
invested in you know cameras and more
equipment and better training it that
scene to me spoke just highly of again
it's not it is the police but it's also
the politician so let me know what you
all thought about that scene as we
transition over to the time has come
which is march 1st 2017
we cut back to the day in which wayne
was taken in but we also see the seven
other police officers in their
plainclothes unit who gets charged with
racketeering to conspiracy and robbery
transition over to sean who sees the
news and he kind of replays the the
scene that we saw when the old man died
he replays the conversation he had with
wayne in his car talking about taking
the money and i think and i might be
wrong again i didn't look up all this
true stuff i haven't read the book like
i mentioned in my review one but i'm
assuming that he's gonna his conscience
is catching up to him and i don't know
if he's gonna like like turn himself in
or talk about other things that he
witnessed but we'll talk about that here
in a second let's kind of wrap it up and
talk about what we go from here to
closing out with nicole as she's having
a conversation about how she got
involved in a civil rights division and
she talks about a particular story in
which her younger brother who was kind
of on the same path as her but kind of
straight away and kind of did his own
thing but this was a particular incident
where he got pulled over by the police
and there was obviously discrimination
going on and profiling going on and it
was kind of that moment she didn't like
explicitly say that was the moment but i
kind of got the gist that that was kind
of the moment that kind of made her go
from not being attorney and she talked
about how she was fed up putting black
people in jail but i think it was that
moment when she kind of hit home right
and we all kind of know certain things
where people
kind of not ignore but they don't really
see what's going on until they see it in
front of them and it happens to either
themselves or someone close to them in
this case it was her brother and i think
that was the moment she wanted to kind
of switch over to civil rights but we
see that she kind of mentioned something
in this scene where she says to uh her
co-worker there where i don't know if
any of this really gonna matter but hey
someone has to make a change they just
have to try and that's all we ask for
right in today's society
with corruption with politicians with
police force someone just has to make
that move someone has to call out the
hypocrisy the discrimination the
injustices and there's people like
nicole and everyone that we're seeing
trying to make this change that can make
actual change happen so a small scene
but i really kind of enjoyed that and we
wrap up the episode with seeing sean in
the middle of night after learning his
you know people he worked when the past
are now being arrested he looks out in
the window and like i said i don't know
what takes place after this in the real
you know story and of course you know we
know this is based on true events is he
going to turn himself in is he going to
come to the fbi with some more
information i guess we'll find out in
next week's finale overall like i said
as far as the review goes
i thought that this was i don't want to
say a step back but episodes three and
four to me were so much more focused
because we were following what's going
on with wayne seeing all the corrupt
stuff that he was involved with and then
we would every now and then pivot over
to different scenarios and different
characters but this episode to me kind
of fell more in line with episodes one
and two where we were just kind of
bouncing it wasn't as jarring as those
first two episodes but it wasn't just it
wasn't as cohesive as episodes three and
four but overall i enjoyed the episode
for what it was and we ultimately saw
them getting arrested which i would
imagine next week we're gonna see them
in court and see them going to jail and
just trying to see this police reform
being uh you know implemented in the
baltimore police department so hey i'll
be back next week but let me know in the
comments your pros your cons your
thoughts on what shook down this episode
and of course what you all hope to see
in next week's finale if you stuck
around to this point in review i
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