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Clips from The Wire - Not for Attribution (S05E05)

"Ain't the point, and you know it. Chris already heard about this shit."
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"Nice dolphin, nigga."
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"Let's go home, man. I'll deal with this bullshit later."
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"That's 400 in your own account down in the islands."
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"There no hurricane, department of justice,"
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"You check it online any time you like."
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"On a computer?"
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"- If I can't hold it in my hand... - A'ight. You got any prior convictions?"
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"No, nothing that rate."
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"Take a trip."
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"Ain't easy civilizing this motherfucker."
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"We chose poorly, Gus."
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"Yeah."
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"At this rate, there won't be much to call a newspaper in 10 years."
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"You know my father worked over at Armco, right?"
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"he'd sit at the table, reading the newspaper with a cup of coffee,"
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"And I remember watching him, thinking,"
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""What the hell is so important about that damn paper?"
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"One day, I was cutting class at Patterson,"
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"folding his broadsheet just so."
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"And the way that man folded that paper"
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"and concentrated on reading those pages"
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"made him look like the smartest son of a bitch on the bus."
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"It was just one of those moments."
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""Lf, ever I depart this vale,"
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""and you ever remember me"
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""and have thought to please my ghost,"
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""and wink your eye at some homely girl.""
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"Fuck Henry Mencken."
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"Oh, my God."
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"You see that quote from somebody about me stabbing Burrell in the back?"
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"That's a damn lie."
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"This is good news. How is this not good news?"
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"Cheap motherfucker."
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"then I won't know, huh?"
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"Cut a blind man some slack, hear?"
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"Y'all servin'?"
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"If you got some ID on you."
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"- Who was that? - Little girl."
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"Cash is in the register."
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"Fuck the register, old man."
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"They all up in your shit."
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"They going after every damn thing. Do you hear me?"
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"We going to jail."
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"Focus, motherfucker, focus!"
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"Look here."
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"Back in the girdle ads"
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"underneath the story about the..."
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"the school board approving a name change for PS 114,"
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"You know why they call them homeless, Jimmy?"
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"Because nobody gives a good fuck."
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"Shake it for another day or two, and then you're back in the rotation."
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"You done with this stupid shit?"
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"Who the fuck do you need to hear it from, Jimmy?"
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"You have to let Burrell know that this isn't coming from you."
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"That won't matter. After what he read today, I'm the threat."
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"that you don't want his chair."
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"And he believes me?"
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"The alternative is that he goes public with what he knows,"
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"whatever he has about the old days."
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"He sat on it this long."
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"You said yourself he'd rather bury that file"
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"than to embarrass the department on his watch,"
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"but if it's between you and him surviving,"
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"what do you think he'll do then?"
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"How much could even be in that file?"
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"It was so long ago. Most of those guys have moved on."
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"He only needs smoke."
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"He doesn't even need fire to drag you down, to drag me down."
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"Everything that we have worked so hard for."
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"We've already lost enough."
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"What other people Omar got?"
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"Cocksucker the one got the trouble."
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"It don't have to be messy."
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"You a tough old man."
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"When word get to Omar, make sure he hear everything."
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"We still ain't got no line on the man,"
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"and now he comin' at us."
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"We gonna change up. Marlo got to move indoors."
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"- The rest of us need to live on the run. - Fucked-up plan, you ask me."
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"Marlo wants Omar. What else you need to know?"
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"You making your move on Burrell, and I don't blame you,"
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"and the thing is, I can help with that."
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"The ministers, Nerese, black legislative caucus -"
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"I can bring them around for you."
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"All I need is some help with this grand jury nonsense."
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"You go to Bond, you tell Bond that..."
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"I can't help you with that."
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"Story's been out all day, and our phone isn't ringing."
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"The ministers, Nerese, the caucus, they're willing to live with Daniels apparently."
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"Thanks anyway."
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"Thinking you can cut Clay loose, huh?"
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"Thinking I'm done."
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"Came to see my account."
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"Y'all got my money in here?"
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"This mine. Y'all got my money."
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"Yeah."
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"So you string together Barlow's murder and Cole's"
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"unconnected case and yours, which is natural to begin with..."
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"Instant serial killer,"
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"which I thought would get the brass to begin kicking out some money to work real cases."
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"- Like Marlo. - Like Marlo."
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"He has all the wisdom you need."
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"Joke of it is, no one gives a fuck about a serial killer,"
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"not unless he's carving up some pretty coed or some shit."
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"Sun papers put the story in their back pages."
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"You fucked up."
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"Yeah. Tell him."
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"No. I mean, if you want to do it right, a straight-up strangle's not enough."
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"Sensationalize it."
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"Give the killer some fucked-up fantasy,"
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"give the people what they want from a serial killer."
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"You fly this mess right, you can give it to me."
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"Who gives a damn if we fake a couple of murders"
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"that we're never gonna solve, huh?"
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"But if it's gonna get the bosses to throw down enough coin to do police work..."
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"We got to give your killer a name."
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"- Yeah, right on. - Nice little dinner."
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"Omar, Omar, Omar!"
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"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on."
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