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Mackey knew different. June Bug wasn't a drug slaying or a robbery gone wrong. June Bug was a CI—a confidential informant—who had been feeding Mackey low-level dirt on a West Baltimore crew run by a ghost named Marlo Stanfield. Two weeks ago, June Bug stopped calling. Three days later, they found him in a leaky rowhouse on Fulton Avenue, a bullet behind his ear, execution style.

Chris was quiet for a long time. Then he reached out, not to hit, but to straighten Dukie's crooked cap. "Then you need to find new boys. The old ones are a liability. You understand liability?" the-wire

He drove into the night, the city sprawling around him like a crime scene that would never close. Mackey knew different