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Clips from The Wire - Not for Attribution (S05E05)

"I wrote a ribbon into his office reports."
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"- So there's three. - Our guy didn't have a red ribbon."
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"- That's where I'm headed. - Jesus. Listen to yourself."
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"Jimmy."
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"He fuck you?"
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"He tried..."
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"You ain't seen those yet, huh?"
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"I'll bet you didn't."
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"Fucking Burrell's asshole must be so tight"
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"Truth is, looking at numbers like those,"
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"I'm thinking you could do a lot worse"
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"than give me a run as acting commissioner."
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"I know you couldn't make me permanent,"
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"maybe six months while you keep grooming your boy Daniels."
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"I'd get a pension bump,"
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"and you'd get a head start on clearing out deadwood,"
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"Thanks, Stan."
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"- Let me think on it. - You do that, Tommy."
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"Even on an acting basis, can you imagine Nerese"
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"- What are you gonna do about the numbers? - Fuck can I do?"
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"I cut the department budget to the bone, right?"
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"Can't very well complain when the crime rate bumps."
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"35 inches down to 12?"
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"Yeah, well, it's my fault for giving it up to the A-section."
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"Page-one editor made noises like it was gonna go out front"
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"and then he tossed it back to Metro before the double-dot."
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"Night editor didn't have room to take it back, so..."
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"Story deserved better. Sorry."
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"Three people murdered in a house,"
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"and it gets 12 inches below the fold. Explain that to me."
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"There's no explaining it."
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"We messed up."
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"They're dead where it doesn't count."
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"If they were white and murdered in Timonium,"
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"you'd have had 30 inches off the front."
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"Would have been my first front-pager where I didn't share a byline."
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"Yeah?"
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"Our 10-7 on the floor yet?"
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"I need to grab prints, get him ID'd."
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"Don't you want to wait for the post, keep his hands clean for trace?"
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"I need to know who my victim is. That's the priority."
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"There's nothing under the nails that I can see."
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"I think we can risk prints."
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"Something's up."
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"Please. Gather round."
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"- Sure. - We want everyone on this."
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"Law of the fish."
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"- We're the minnow. - Maybe we won a Pulitzer."
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"Pulitzers are still a week away. It just turned April."
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"If we won a Pulitzer, the executive editor would be tumescent."
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"Speak English. I'm just a police reporter."
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"It's a bad time for newspapers, as you all know."
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"The news hole is shrinking as advertising dollars continue to decline."
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"Seeking a balance in this new world,"
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"we're now faced with hard choices."
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"We opened our first foreign bureau in London in 1924."
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"The Sun's foreign coverage has been a source of pride ever since."
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"So it is with tremendous regret..."
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"that I tell you that Chicago has made it clear that the bureaus in Beijing,"
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"Moscow, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, and London"
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"will all be shuttered."
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"there will be a fresh round of buyouts."
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"Chicago has given us some specific budgetary targets"
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"We are, quite simply,"
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"So I guess I will turn this over to Tom,"
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"who will get into the specifics."
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"I know some of you have questions."
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"If you could hold them for me until after I've had a chance to speak."
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"Pull your clip book together. Time to find a new home."
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"The aorta should have elasticity to it,"
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"but it's rock hard."
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"Whoever strangled him could've just waited a month or two more."
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"This guy was on his last legs."
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"It is what it is."
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"In addition to the fractured hyoid and the bruising,"
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"I got signs of a struggle around the body,"
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"inside the house."
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"Also that ribbon you snipped off,"
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"it might tie to other cases."
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"The ribbon my own investigator missed at the scene."
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"It happens. It was high on the wrist."
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"Cause and manner is homicide by strangulation."
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""And anyone requiring additional information"
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""on COBRA benefits and pension payout"
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""as part of the voluntary separation plan"
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"while others will of course be moving on to other opportunities"
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"beyond the Sun, but everyone in this room has done excellent work"
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"and should be proud of their contributions."
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"- How many buyouts are there? - That hasn't been determined yet."
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"We're talking to the union later today."
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"How will this affect the upcoming contract negotiations with the guild?"
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"Badly. Kiss any raise goodbye."
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"How come there's cuts in the newsroom when the company's still profitable?"
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"There's nobody that feels worse about this than I do."
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"I've seen the excellent work we've done here in Baltimore."
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"The sooner we start meeting with you individually,"
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"the sooner I can answer all of your questions."
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"Not O'Mara."
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"Good luck, everybody."
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"Do you vouch for these figures?"
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"- Sir? - No increase in crime"
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"even after I cut you guys to the bone. This is what you're telling me?"
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"the one thing that I'm asking above all,"
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"is that you bring me clean numbers."
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"Yes, Mr. Mayor. You made that clear."
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"Very good, then."
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"He just killed himself."
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"We leak the real stats, hold the cooked ones in case he won't go quietly."
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"He came in with the same stats."
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"If I know Bill Rawls, he'll be calling over here"
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"as soon as he gets back to his office,"
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"telling us he warned Burrell against cooking the books."
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"As acting commissioner, they will for a few months at least,"
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"if we've got a black candidate to sell them."
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"Daniels isn't ready. He's only been colonel for a year."
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"You float it with one of your bunkies on Calvert Street."
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"See how it plays."
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"Burrell reads that, he'll shit melons."
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"I fucking hope so."
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"It's Baltimore."
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