what's going on to all my hbo fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again breaking down this fourth part episode four of we own this city which is an episode that
really highlights how corrupt wayne is all from the perspective of a new character by the name
of ward and we find out who really wants this city we're breaking that down and so much more
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i mean this was truly a wayne focused episode seeing him robbing people the corruption the greed
the riot situation i mean there's a lot of despicable things that he does in this episode
i want to know your thoughts on what was the most despicable thing that he did in this episode
and where do you rank this fourth part amongst the other three because i think as we've moved
along especially these last two weeks the stories are starting to be more cohesive we're starting to
focus on more individuals versus kind of spreading all out like we got in the first two episodes and
i personally like that storytelling of focusing on one narrative and how it affected other people so
let me know your thoughts on all that in the comments below as you always know full spoil
is ahead as we open the episode on april 19 2010 in which we open with a very well put together
very realistic car chase involving wayne and sean as wayne makes a horrible call in chasing
these two black individuals who end up being clean but unfortunately this bad call leads to
an elderly couple being hit and one of them died unfortunately and it was just really sad to see
because this goes back to a terrible call policing the community not racially profiling as we see
wayne does in a situation just a lot of terrible decisions horrible leadership and terrible
policing by this main character and a lot of other characters in this episode but getting back into
it we kind of get a little bit more insight on why this was the wrong call narcotics aren't supposed
to be involved in this type of car chase as we see this being resulted into the cover-up now we saw
this back in episode one wayne feels like he's superman he's untouchable he's the golden child
and we see multiple i mean multiple examples of that in this episode this being one of them we
see the cover up where we see wayne makes eye contact with another police officer who clearly
planted drugs in the gentleman's car which we see sean finds it and the men end up getting arrested
now this is just one of many examples of cover-ups bad policing blaming people because wayne made a
bad call like i said he racially profiled them assuming they were drug dealers knowing that he
messed up which resulted in someone and dying he needed someone to cover his ass and who did
he call and who did he rely on his brothers and sisters in arms another fellow police officer
and we see this again later in the episode this episode had me just so frustrated seeing all this
despicable decision making and horrible policing by wayne but getting back into the conversation
we officially meet rob brown's character who goes by the name of maurice ward he tells the fbi that
he was involved he made some bad decisions and he apologizes now i'm going to talk about ward a
little bit later by the end of this review because i personally don't know if he was being genuine
if he was being honest or if he was just trying to save face and try to get a lesser sentence let's
start having those conversations in the comments now did you believe ward i'll tell you my thoughts
a little bit later but let's get back into the narrative here as we learn how he got involved
with wayne back in 2015 he was brought into this new team led by wayne and ward was told by sean
to learn what he can by wayne but as soon as he can get out of the squad but another thing sean
told him about wayne he's always protected and we see that protection a lot in this episode getting
back into it all we see ward gives us a little bit more insight on bt spring of 2015. this is a
hot spot we see wayne instructing war to disable a camera just in case they find something they want
to keep again the robbery mindset that wayne was in this episode was ridiculous as they take the
money they split it amongst wayne and we see ward another police officer and he tells them how to
handle the money don't go and paying off your debts buying crazy cars be very you know again
at this point it's 2015. we met wayne almost 10 years ago from the flashbacks we got in
episode two and three so he now all the stuff that barbara taught him like i mentioned that review
he's now giving them game he's now showing them how to be corrupt how to get away
with crime which is just crazy to see but back into it all we hear that ward was scared of the
situation he talks about that his wife is actually a police officer she's a clean police officer and
he just didn't feel comfortable taking that large amount of money again let's have the conversation
do you believe ward was he being genuine or was he just lying so he can get a lesser sentence
let's go ahead and discuss it again i'm going to share my thoughts in this review but let's
get back into the conversation at hand as we head back to wayne going to get a private lap dance at
the strip club and he immediately runs out and we find out that he robs a stripper now i'm gonna be
honest with you all at first i'm like this is the most it felt like uh out of left field scene it
was almost it was very comedic like it played very comedic like she was a you know um a stripper who
was a dwarf and he took advantage of her took her money and it just it played like just really weird
to me but the more i thought about it i think the intent was to kind of show us how out of control
how in control wayne thought he was that he's literally just robbing people he's robbing a
stripper at a strip club and he can get away with it i think that's that's the intent of the
scene but i just thought it was a little bit over the top the way it was just kind of like
very goofy the way it was handled but let me know what you all thought about that in the comments
below let's get back into the breakdown as we transition to october 14 2012 which they call
wayne jenkins day we see that wayne pulls up to a bus that has herschel there and he gets the
good news that he is the new sergeant and he's ready to celebrate now basing that off of 2012
he's been a police officer correct me from wrong for over 10 years and within that 10-year span
we've seen him rob people we saw him at the beginning episode get someone killed and the
cover-ups and all this stuff obviously they didn't know about the cover-ups but there's
so many examples of him being a bad police officer and he gets a promotion to become a
sergeant it's messed up but getting back into the conversation august 15 2013 wayne pays a visit to
that same strip club where we've met donny before and this is where they want to kind of make an
under the deal table they want to work together again the corruption is just crazy with wayne
he's a drug dealer now he wants to be in the drug industry he wants to help donny who seems to work
with cocaine and marijuana and sell these drugs off the streets essentially saying when wayne
finds these drugs on the streets doing his job he's taking the drugs not putting in evidence or
he's putting some in the evidence and then taking some off you know taking money taking drugs off
the top and then selling it to donny making this kind of ecosystem of his as he calls it overtime
it's it's just so crazy seeing all this stuff again this is obviously in a show format but this
is stuff that really happens and it just shows how corrupt and how messed up not all police
officers but how certain police officers do their policing jobs which is becoming the criminals are
trying to take off the streets it's some really messed up stuff that they highlighted in this
episode in a really good way but getting back into it march 26 2014 yet another car accident that we
see wayne get involved in and yet again we see him make a call the gentleman i think they said wayne
ran him over just to make matters worse he makes the call to another police officer he says that's
the guy pulled the gun out on him again wouldn't barbara tell him you changed oh not barbara it was
his supervisor in that time of sergeant make the narrative like you were the victim so he tells the
police officers i pulled him over he pulled the gun out on me the gun got thrown out somewhere and
again that's where we see wayne god comes in put the gun under the truck and okay you're telling
the truth wayne protected his ass yet again and again not only that but the gentleman he just got
ran over he just got profiled he just got claimed to have pulled a gun that he did not have on wayne
it's just so messed up it is so messed up seeing all this stuff transpire in this episode but let's
check in with sean suiter who really didn't have a lot to do in this episode but we see him going to
a court situation in which the jurors have their experiences with the baltimore police and they
don't want to be part of the juror because they have a very bias and a very much so deservingly
so biased opinion on the baltimore police because they're liars so they don't want to be involved
in being in this case because they're going to be they're not going to believe what the police
have to say and funny story side story your boy attended his very first jury duty and uh
it wasn't fun it's a lot of sitting a lot of sitting but getting back into the conversation
we see in this scene multiple people end up raising their hand and saying they've had
a very similar situation in which they cannot trust the police that's supposed to protecting
protecting their community but let's check in with nicole still you see her getting more information
showing that there is proof that police officers were caught lying in court only to be put back in
the streets and whenever they make arrests they never go to court as we see that she makes a trip
down to the commissioner's office and here pretty much tells her that the commissioner before him
allowed these things to happen the commissioner before him allowed this to happen so it just kind
of goes to show this commissioner that's in his position right now he's trying to make a change
and by all accounts it seems like he seems to be want to do the right thing but it's hard to make a
change when it's just a history of corruption and greed and there's just been this kind of you know
handbook of how to police your community by doing greed by being the criminals on the streets so
it does just kind of continue that narrative and that's really kind of the only thing that we get
with the coldness episode but i thought it was important to kind of show that it's hard to make
a change when you don't have people backing you up but getting back into what that can actually lead
to when you don't make those changes we cut into the fbi and we get a you know small appearance
from mcdougall as while all this stuff is going on with supervisor thomas the fbi learns about
wayne getting the promotions to replace thomas and it's it was almost a phone call away from
this whole investigation blowing up we see jansen she believes and they believe the fbi that wayne's
a good guy he's a bit of a cowboy but he's not a corrupt police officer this is where mcdougal and
scott they look at each other and say well look we've never like worked with him before but we've
heard some things about him which leads us into them actually doing some more investigation on
wayne they find a video of him lying about finding drugs and wayne scaring the prosecutor and what he
got in this in return it was supposed to be a 20-day suspension no please give him a verbal
discipline and he's back on the streets but what happens when you just give them a verbal
discipline and don't actually get them off the streets and fire them we cut to april 27 2015 just
a few weeks after the killings of freddie gray we see wayne is getting riled up with the other
police officers preparing for war they're talking about forget freddie gray forget this forget that
let's go out there and show them who runs this city and it just kind of goes to show you again
a very interesting this is kind of the big set piece of this episode like the way that they
put the riots together was pretty well done kind of reenacting what we saw during that time and
seeing the perspective of how police are and i'm not a police officer correct me if i'm wrong but
from what i know about from people that i know are in the police force they're there to de-escalate
the situation make the situation not as hostile as it can be that's not what we see in the situation
they're actually riling people up they're actually trying to watch you say not them because they're
and so let me backtrack a little bit there are police that are there that are trying to
calm down a situation trying to not have you know black businesses other people businesses and and
the neighborhood be destroyed but it only takes that one police officer in this case we see wayne
is the one that's getting them excited getting them frustrated as we cut to the actual moments
here wayne arrives on the scene he stands in line he gets a brick thrown at him and then he
takes it to the next level we don't see what he does with the guy that threw a brick at him which
again i don't condone throwing bricks at police officer but you got to understand the frustration
of seeing freddie gray and not just freddie gray but uh so many black men black women minorities
getting injustices getting murdered on the streets for no reason there's frustration
there but we don't see what happens to the black gentleman but it's safe to assume he they beat
him up you know we see wayne and they pull them aside and they you know like i said we don't see
the scene but it's pretty safe to assume that they they showed them what they believe is justice so
we go from that to seeing the crowd chanting i can't breathe which of course alludes to
eric gardner of 2014 and then we see a shot of wayne taking prescription drugs from a
rite aid and he drops it off at donny's house which ties back to his whole under the table
selling drugs like donald didn't know what to do with it but it just kind of goes you again
that's a police officer who found people trying to steal prescription drugs he steals them himself
just to try to make money off of it it's really disgusting stuff that we see from way in this
episode but we also cut back to seeing wayne his crew reacting to the news that the police officer
involved in that case will be charged with murder and again we're just seeing them upset
mad you know just using this as like fuel to their fire to like hey we're gonna go on
the streets and really show them who runs this town but now we cut to and kind of wrapping up
the episode the big payday we see ward tells the fbi about this bus which involved over a hundred
thousand dollars we see wayne tries to cover their asses and i thought this scene was just
so just crazy to see he tells them let's reenact the situation so they found the money like over
thousand dollars and probably close to 200 they take their cut he says reenact it i'ma come in
reopen the safe they do that they open the safe and he's like oh there's five thousand dollars
like listen guys so according to the book whenever you see five thousand dollars you gotta call like
trying to be the good cop playing by the rules i thought that scene to me just took me back so
far like oh my goodness just seeing this this this reenactment seeing how they trying to come
up with these ways to cover their asses and they get away with it for now what's hidden in the dark
eventually comes to light at least that's what you hope to do especially cases like this but
going back into ward's conversation he says that he threw the money away and he claims that he just
felt like the bad outweigh the good he didn't want to look like a snitch and he decided to keep quiet
which leads us to our final scene june 23 2016 off-site you see wayne with his team and they're
going over their overtime pay aka robbing people wayne goes over how he is the golden boy how
he's always protected how they ask him how do you keep your team motivated he says overtime
no more eight to fours but shorter days we're gonna start at two and they come in to hunt and
as long as they get the numbers they know who runs this town re-run this city we own this city as we
end with seeing ward who he claims again he threw the money outside he he didn't take any of it
now just review process here kind of reviewing the episode and just kind of posing a question
i i want to believe ward that he did take like put the money he didn't take the money you know once
he saw the money in the back of the truck when they hired it you know when they took it away
and had hit the camera situation he put it back in the bag and then this time he said that he threw
his 20 000 in the grass now i hope to believe him but when they shout show that shot of the money
that didn't look like 20 now of course he threw the money and it could have went over where and
we don't know how long ago that shot was like obviously the money could have been blown away
someone could have picked up the money whatever the case would be but i want to believe him but
i go back to the beginning episode when he looks at his lawyer his attorney is like you know i
just want to let you all know i did make some bad decisions i made some bad moves and i apologize
i want to believe war but something inside of me especially seeing all this corruption going on
i think he's just saying this just to get a lesser uh you know sentence now i could be completely
wrong but i don't know again showing all this corruption doesn't i don't have the benefit of the
doubt right now so let me know if you believe ward if he did take the money didn't take the money
i don't know why they would show that shot if he was lying but again it could have been
he could have took some who knows but more particularly going back to my thoughts in episode
this is a great episode again from the reenactment scene that was just so despicable to see the riots
you know broke my heart see we can't breathe alluding to everything that went on during that
time period but i thought the way that they put the scene together set the stage was really well
well done from a production standpoint um the the car accident when the older
man died really kind of broke my heart uh but again this show was just really highlighting
how police were protected how there are some good cops that do want to make a change but
unfortunately they get the whole perspective of i don't want to be a snitch i don't want to be maybe
even potentially taken out by a police officer by giving up you know giving them up so it kind of
really shows you how deep this corruption goes so another great episode in my opinion episodes three
and four are to me are way better than one and two and i'm not trying to be funny but i think
it's just better storytelling focusing more on the narrative and really kind of focusing in on
key characters right and not just going all over the place so really good episode in my opinion but
hey that's just my thoughts i want to know your thoughts in the comments let me know things i
missed things that how you felt about the episode about what wayne did in the episode do you believe
ward and let's have those conversations in the comments below can't thank you guys enough for
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