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Clips from The Wire - A New Day (S04E04)

"Oh, no no."
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"At all hazards, a man must keep up appearances."
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"Dignity, I say. Dignity above all,"
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"Governor. Hear, hear!"
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"What's up?"
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"Wagstaff? He one of mine?"
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"shot someone outside a nightclub a couple of three months back."
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"This kid knew about Lex getting killed."
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"Herc brought him to you."
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"Herc:"
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"This kid is a witness, and Herc was supposed"
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"I'm gonna skin that motherfucker."
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"Jesus, Herc. The fuck did you do?"
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"Something happen to that boy?"
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"Well, young man, your wish has come true."
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"So this mean I can finally get out of here?"
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"Yes, Monnel, paperwork was slow coming in from North Avenue,"
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"but you five are at the age"
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"where we feel it's to your advantage"
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"to join your peers in the ninth grade."
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"- When we bump? - The end of this marking period."
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"Congratulations."
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"You're excused."
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"Mr. Johnson, you have a visitor in the front office."
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"Mr. Johnson, please come down to the front office."
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"Plenty more to go around."
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"As I've been saying this week at every roll call"
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"in every damn district, if I could scrape together any more, I would."
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"But for starters, it's a 5% salary year, and that's a given."
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"I know it's not half what you deserve,"
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"Mr. Mayor,"
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"my dog thanks you."
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"Hey, Santy, how you able to tell your wife from your mutt?"
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"fleas would be an improvement."
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"At ease. We got the mayor here, gentlemen."
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"When they sit in one place too long they get a little feisty."
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"I'm not going to stand here and pretend I know how to do your job."
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"I don't. But what I can tell you is that during the past few weeks"
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"with your union reps, with the representatives of the FOP,"
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"and the biggest single complaint I'm hearing"
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"concerns the department's obsession with stats."
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"The fucking numbers game."
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"Well, under my watch the numbers game is over."
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"You will no longer be under the gun to meet monthly quotas"
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"of ineffective, meaningless arrests and citations."
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"Excuse me, Your Worship. You're not the first person"
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"who stood at the podium making promises."
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"Jimmy, I'm sure the mayor has some pressing business."
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"who pitches a bitch about the corner activity"
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"aren't we gonna go right back to rounding up bodies?"
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"Yeah, well, we need to educate our citizens to the new approach."
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"We got bosses that wouldn't know police work if it bit 'em in the ass."
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"They been juking stats for years, and they'll do it again"
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"once the neighborhoods complain. It's all they know."
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"Well, if the old dogs can't get the job done,"
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"I'll find new ones who can."
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"and watched our city deteriorate."
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"It was business as usual with the same old ideas"
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"producing the same old results."
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"to put aside your reservations and give it a go."
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"All told."
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"You did good."
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"You got 'em pumped. They love you."
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"Carv said the kid had something on it. I talked to him."
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"He had nothing, just a bunch of hearsay"
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"The boy was to come to me."
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"You know the goddamn GO-- it's Homicide's call."
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"Hey! You're talking to a sergeant."
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"Oh, fuck your fucking stripes!"
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"Whoa whoa, take it easy, Bunk."
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"Man, he messed in my murder, he pays."
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"Give him a chance. We can work something out."
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"That's easy for you to say. You ain't the primary on this."
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"He's emotional."
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"He's been working this case for a long time."
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"So the thing right now is for you to remember"
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"everything you did on this case..."
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"from the beginning."
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"He's out there, hat in hand, literally."
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"Well, he can wait till hell freezes over."
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"A wise man does not burn his bridges"
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"until he first knows he can part the waters."
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"Norman, you grew up in Catonsville."
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"Show the motherfucker in."
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"Mr. Mayor,"
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"I don't want to take time out of your busy schedule."
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"No, sir. You should proceed as you feel the situation warrants."
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"Overall, policing strategies may not be my strongest suit."
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"I'm here about what I do know."
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"A recommendation from Sergeant Hauk's commander"
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"will cross your desk tomorrow."
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"Colonel Daniels, with Rawls concurring,"
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"It may be a fair decision,"
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"it may even be the right decision."
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"But we both know it won't fly with the ministers,"
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"not even with Daniels behind it."
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"Hmm."
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"600 pages of rules,"
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"regulations, directives, orders."
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"You fire a white police for a bad car stop"
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"on a black minister, you'll lose the rank and file."
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"It's not cause enough. But if a commander can't find"
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"grounds for firing a saint in here..."
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"The man has worked Narcotics for six years,"
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"and in Narcotics there are no virgins."
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"And herein lies your expertise?"
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"Hmm."
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"It's what the Deputy Ops is for."
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"Me, I know what a mayor needs."
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"- It was a Chevy Tahoe. - Mm-hmm."
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"License Mike-460-654."
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"And I searched it good, figuring I'd find some iron, but--"
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"How'd they react?"
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"Chris and Snoop? They didn't do shit."
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"Was there anything in the car?"
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"Registration and crap in the glove box,"
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"empty chicken boxes, trash."
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"They had one of those plastic milk crates--"
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"Mm-hmm."
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"--in the back with some tools in it."
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