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Clips from The Wire - Clarifications (S05E05)

"That was, like, 16 years, right?"
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"Homeless is in at 30 inches."
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"It's good shit there."
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"No, really. There was a real sense of place, especially under the Hanover Bridge"
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"when the police came up under there to give the warning."
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"- Truth is, I had a tour guide. - Yeah?"
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"Yeah, fella I met at a soup kitchen."
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"Volunteer there. Ex-addict."
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"There's something about this guy. I mean, he's just..."
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"I don't know, the more he talked, the more I felt like it was him I really wanted to write about."
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"- Yeah? - But he's not homeless."
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"- He's got a name? - Reginald Cousins."
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"Sells the Baltimore Sun every morning out by Light Street."
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"- Shit. Not exactly a growth industry. - He lives in his sister's basement."
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"She'll take a plate down to him now and then but won't let him upstairs."
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"- Spend some time with him. - What about the homeless coverage?"
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"You're covered. Take a couple weeks, see what you see. A'ight?"
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"- and a homicide from the city. - Ettlin, what do we got room for?"
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"We're shy one brief in the metro digest."
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"Four paragraphs'll fill."
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"What's the homicide?"
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"A 34-year-old black male shot dead in West Baltimore grocery."
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"So what we conclude from a behavioral analysis"
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"of the known forensics is the following:"
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"The suspect is likely a white male, in his late 20s to late 30s."
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"but feels nonetheless superior to those with advanced education,"
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"and he is likely employed in a bureaucratic entity,"
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"possibly civil service or quasi-public service,"
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"from which he feels alienated. He has a problem with authority"
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"and a deep-seated resentment of those who he feels"
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"have impeded his progress professionally. The minimized sexual activity suggests"
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"that this is not a primary motive for the killings."
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"In fact, the bite marks in the last found victim lacking the DNA of saliva,"
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"indicate to us possible post-mortem staging."
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"The suspect has trouble with lasting relationships"
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"and is possibly a high-functioning alcoholic,"
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"with alcohol being utilized as a trigger in the commission of these crimes."
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"His resentment of the homeless may stem from a personal relationship"
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"might merely present an opportunity for him"
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"to assert his superiority and intellectual prowess."
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"If you get more, fax it down, and we can update the profile."
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"So, what do you think?"
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"They're in the ballpark."
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"Congressman, I'll do whatever it takes to make things right between us,"
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"- You mean hurt you. - I'm the only viable candidate"
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"to beat that Republican prick, and I know you know that."
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"At the end of the day, isn't that what it's all about?"
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"dump-it-on-the-counties, ass-kiss-every-business-interest governor."
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"P.G. County has 100 murders a year,"
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"and worse rush-hour traffic than Atlanta."
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"And the man in Annapolis wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire."
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"- Don't hold back, congressman. - I'm tired of these fuckin' Republicans."
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"I fucked up, not coming to see you earlier. But between the votes I can pull out of Baltimore,"
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"Montgomery and your county, I am gonna take the statehouse."
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"And then the frustration that you feel is gonna end."
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"I know you've heard this from every other son of a bitch,"
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"but congressman, I give you my word."
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"You know, you're right. I have heard that before."
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"You wanna keep P.G. County in your camp,"
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"it's gonna cost you a lot more than your word."
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"Your victim had an address."
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"A home. Paid rent, so we assume. Maybe even a mortgage."
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"But not homeless, in any case. No strangulation, no red ribbon."
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"A lesser man might get pissy because you jumped the line, Bunk."
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"Me?"
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"But..."
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"don't fuck with me like this again."
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"Yeah."
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"He lied on his mortgage application, huh?"
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"- We have a name for that over here. - The headshot. I know."
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"On a mortgage charge, he's certain to plead out."
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"- Billy doesn't plead his clients. - Then he's looking at a lot of years."
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"A federal jury is a very different animal than what they see on Calvert Street."
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"I tried to tell him that."
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"Yeah, but Mr. Bond wanted to try this himself,"
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"see if he couldn't grandstand his way to City Hall."
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"Well, you have the headshot, detective, but no gun with which to fire it."
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"- We can't take this case. - It's all on paper."
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"You had canceled cheques. You had bank accounts."
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"You had his bag man on the stand."
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"We've been gathering string on Clay Davis for six years, detective."
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"Six years, we've had a file open on that shakedown artist."
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"And now, after you city sons of bitches"
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"have managed, in a single week, to transform Clay fucking Davis"
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"into Martin Luther King Jr., you now come to me with this,"
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"which you had in your back pocket all along,"
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"looking for the federal jury of mostly white faces to remedy the problem?"
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"Thank you."
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"Omar? Dead?"
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"- Slow to the draw, he was. - No shit."
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"One to the back of the head. Norris and Crutchfield caught it."
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"They're looking for a juvenile. He was hunting Stanfield and crew."
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"- And this was on him? - Yep."
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"Thought of you and Lester when I saw it."
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"Payback for you getting me back some great lab."
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"Positive DNA on Chris Partlow."
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"Motherfucker. You have all kinds of news today, don't you?"
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"Hey, can you wait to serve it?"
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"'Cause this is an honest fuckin' murder prosecution."
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"I'll talk to Lester. Congrats."
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"Yeah. No shuckin', no jivin'. Just good ol' police work. How about that, Jimmy?"
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"Listen, Jimmy, the Conaway shooting from Westport?"
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"The transvestite? I go to ViCAP, there's another one just like it,"
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"down in Carolina, four months ago."
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"For a road car and two nights in a hotel, I can put this down."
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"What are you talking about? Yours is a 9mm, this one's a.32."
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"Yours was a bar pick-up, this one's a home invasion."
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"You ever played Hilton Head?"
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"I get a call from my brother-in-law a few days ago."
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"He managed to swing a tee-time for this weekend."
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"Jimmy, I'm going, goddammit."
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"The fuck do I care? Go."
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"You know, this is some real cute shit you're pulling here."
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"Taking the detail money and doling it around like a priest passing wafers."
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"I don't know what you're up to but I know this."
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"If someone picked up a phone around here, your shit is critically fucked."
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"Two nights and a road car."
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"Leander, I'm showing 10:55 and 34 from Marlo's phone."
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"I got him coming eastbound on Baltimore Street at Calhoun."
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"- Who's on Monk? - Wait one."
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