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Clips from The Wire - Alliances (S04E04)

"I feel you, but I got some sixth-graders waiting on a special order."
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"All right."
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"But hey, listen. I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't believe"
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"So I gotta ask you,"
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"We got a warrant and a teletype for my boy Lex."
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"And beyond that, it's time for you to shine"
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"and I understand completely what you're saying."
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"And if you give me the opportunity, I will be able to do something to--"
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"Mr. Ricks, thank you for your time"
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"So uh, what makes me think you didn't just happen by and find us here?"
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"for this police department for a change."
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"weren't too keen on their wages."
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"before they found a way to get their due compensation."
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"A man learns best when he get burned."
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"Off the street,"
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"time it with the election, I guess,"
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"What do you think a man with a whole lot of money"
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"It's one thing to sit out the primary."
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"I'll keep away from any tickets you think I might harm."
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"Yo, turn it off-- the bulb might have got too hot."
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"- He dead? - He dead."
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"See, to cap a motherfucker,"
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"you put a pistol to his head, say, "pow," and he tagged."
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"- But when Chris and them do it-- - Yo, it ain't working, Na'."
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"- I know you making this up. - Word to my mother, yo. Lex ain't dead."
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"I seen him creeping in an alley last night near the playground."
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"Everybody know Lex is dead."
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"Nah, there's dead, and there's special dead."
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"Yeah, Chris working that juju shit."
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"Nah, man, what I'm saying is they zombies."
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"Why you think he take them into vacants? He need time to change them."
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"You don't believe me, yo, it's on you."
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"Yo, they funnin', ain't they, Michael?"
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"I don't know about that voodoo shit, man, but Chris"
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"Chris, he different. You can tell by them coon-ass country clothes"
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"that nigger be wearing."
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"Nah, too much bark."
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"Yeah, man, this is serious business."
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"So you saying Lex is a zombie?"
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"Pookie, Byron, all them niggers."
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"- And Chris? - Yeah, Chris-- Zombie Master."
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"I knew this wasn't going away."
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"That's what we've been trying to tell you, yo. Chris got the power."
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"He tell them to come, and they gotta come--"
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"What you think Chris got them doing?"
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"They're probably spies, man."
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"They came out at night, hunting."
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"- Hunting? - Yeah, man. They--"
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"Yeah, and in that movie they was snatching people up,"
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"stealing their warmth."
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"St. Jude, patron of lost causes."
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"Tell me you ain't been on bended knee"
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"whispering in his saintly ear each and every night"
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"before you close those peepers."
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"I know you have, Tommy, catch a break like this."
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"On my mother's soul. It's a lock."
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"Assigned a rookie-- a broad, no less--"
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"as lead detective."
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"Pulled a good man off, too, I heard."
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"Hmm. Tom."
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"Tommy, remember--"
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"He's a piece of work."
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"Valchek? Comes with the territory."
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"you make nice with whatever Polish or Greek commander"
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"No, there ain't enough of us left down there."
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"- You think he has this right? - That Royce tampered with the case?"
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"No way the mayor knows."
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"Fuck if the mayor knows or not. If it's true,"
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"we get it out there quick and bang him hard."
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"- I go public? - They can't spin this."
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"They sabotaged a criminal case."
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"No spin on a knuckleball, you still can't tell how it's gonna break."
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"We feed it to Tony Gray. We keep ourselves out of the line of fire,"
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"sting Royce, and as an added bonus,"
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"which comes at the expense of the mayor's base."
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"I'm a devious motherfucker once I get going."
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"So all told,"
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"we're looking at 13 warrants and six locations."
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"- A sector of uniforms if you need it. - Great."
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"or one of his lieutenants at one of these locations,"
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"- get them with dope on the table. - Marlo Stanfield--"
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"in a room, with dope on the table?"
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"I've kicked down doors and surprised bigger players than him."
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"Well, let me warn you, Lieutenant--"
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"I am not about to litigate a wiretap"
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"for a handful of street rips."
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"Well... that's on you, Counselor."
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"No, it's not."
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"Major, see you tomorrow."
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"Floaters-- you had any more?"
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"- No more than usual for the season. - What about decomps?"
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"What do you got in the decomp room?"
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"- Two or three unidentifieds. - Found in Baltimore?"
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"No. Actually, two from Prince George's,"
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"- one from Dorchester. - Nah, he wouldn't drive that far."
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"Let me get this straight:"
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"You're looking for extra bodies, no one in particular,"
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"other than this one kid you already put out on the teletype."
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"You fellas don't have enough work?"
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"If you do your classwork, homework,"
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"you earn stickers."
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"Dag, yo, every day you be changing it up."
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"You got us confused, Mr. P."
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"Behave in class, that's another sticker."
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"At the end of the week, the four with the most stickers get a prize"
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"Don't do your work,"
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"misbehave in class..."
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"...your name goes here."
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"Detention-- a full hour after school, no exceptions."
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"So it's up to you-- stickers for prizes"
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"Yo, Mr. P., why you do me detention, huh?"
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"Yo, when you first came in here, you was all treating us straight up,"
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"That ain't right, man."
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"When you're right, Namond, you're right."
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"Hey, Mr. P., I want me some of them stickers."
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"I want to, but I ain't got no pencils."
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"I don't want no damn welfare pencil!"
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"there are two kinds of kids walking in this building--"
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"stoop kids and corner kids."
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"stay on their front steps when their parents tell them."
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