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Clips from The Wire - Clarifications (S05E05)

"I get paid when I come back in a couple nights time with questions"
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"and you, sir, have answers. Or my next call will be to the US Attorney's office,"
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"and we will go again. But for real."
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"You can keep that copy. Ma'am."
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"Just to let you know, before the fireworks start, I'm spiking this lead."
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"- But you got my back? - As best I can."
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"a candlelight vigil at City Hall, in fact,"
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"where the lead anecdote and quote is from an unnamed homeless woman."
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"Scott, there were hundreds of homeless down there tonight."
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"People who voluntarily attended this event."
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"And I'd guess that any number of them would've let you put their names in the paper."
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"But her story is great. Look at that quote."
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"It's a perfect quote. Best quote I could ever ask for."
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"Jesus Christ."
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"To hell with you if you think I made it up."
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"We have a standard that we follow here. And I'm gonna follow it."
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"Yep."
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"Gus, you're retopping Scott's vigil copy?"
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"- I am. - But I thought..."
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"- Gus, let's discuss this. - Actually, I did discuss it"
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"Now, the story's on the copy desk,"
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"and as a line editor working this story, I feel I've done my job."
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"But we have a sourcing policy here, and I know it,"
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"and I do not feel comfortable bending the rules in this instance."
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"Night."
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"Listen, my case is down an' I wanted to thank you."
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"I couldn't have done it otherwise."
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"No problem."
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"- It went great. - Kids asleep?"
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"Yeah, but they saw you on W.B.A.L."
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"Anna said your hair looked funny."
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"C.N.N. Was there."
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"I wonder if they'll cycle any coverage through tonight."
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"- A good day for hizzoner, huh? - I don't know."
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"Nerese shook me down for a mayoral endorsement,"
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"and Clay Davis, back from the grave,"
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"took a couple of liquor board seats."
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"Just so as they won't join in Upshaw's war party in Prince George's."
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"I do, but this thing with Upshaw..."
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"God. What's he asking?"
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"- There. Look. - What's Upshaw asking?"
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"Half of any extra school or anti-crime money"
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"I get outta the legislature for Baltimore would go to P.G. County."
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"You take that deal and Baltimore's out"
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"Yeah, but if I don't win, Jen, I bring back exactly nothing."
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"Look."
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"Go on. Straight to bed."
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"Where'd you go to?"
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"None of your business really, Jimmy."
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"That's police work, son."
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"I pull the A.D.C. Book to find a location,"
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"and I'm on the same page number as the second hand."
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"And I remember we had a lotta clocks with 34 seconds."
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"That's the page for West Baltimore."
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"Longitude, A-through-K, is the hour,"
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"and for the latitude, they go by five-minute intervals."
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"Now they know the meeting spot in advance,"
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"and they code it by the grid square."
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"But if the clock has nothing to do with time,"
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"how do they know when to meet?"
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"Everything's less than a half hour of driving, even in traffic."
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"My guess is that the standing logic"
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"is that they meet within an hour or so."
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"You know what else makes sense?"
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"This clock face when no one was on the move?"
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"And that's the page for East Bawlmer."
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"- Cheese. - Cheese Wagstaff?"
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"Marlo's wholesaling westside through Monk, and eastside with Cheese."
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"- He's got the whole goddamn city. - How do we know it's Cheese?"
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"You, too, huh?"
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"You all are good with this?"
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"All the guys at the bar, Jimmy, all the girls,"
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"they don't show up at your wake."
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"Not because they don't like you"
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"A month later, someone tells 'em, "Oh, Jimmy died.""
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""Jimmy who?" "Jimmy the cop.""
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""Oh," they say. "Him.""
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"And all the people on the job,"
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"all the people you spent all those hours in the radio car with,"
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"the guys with their feet up on their desk telling stories,"
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"who shorted you on the food runs, who signed your overtime slips."
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"In the end, they're not gonna be there either."
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"Family. That's it. Family, and if you're lucky,"
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"one or two friends who are the same as family."
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"That's all the best of us get. Everything else is just..."
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"There is no serial killer."
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"There are no murders. I made it all up."
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"They were shutting us down. They were just..."
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"It's hard to explain."
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"I don't even know where the anger comes from, I don't know how to make it stop."
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"We took the money from the bullshit investigation,"
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"and rerouted it to Lester."
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"Now he's got the cake to take down Marlo Stanfield."
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"And now that I've done all this, now that I've watched myself do it,"
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"I can't even stand to..."
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"Lester says he's close."
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"Time will pass, and I'll be able to shut this thing down."
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"If you don't go to jail."
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"You had no fucking right."
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"You start to tell the story; you think you're the hero."
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"And then, when you get done talking, you..."
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"we have teletypes with every police agency in the mid-Atlantic,"
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"We should be able to eliminate many of our potentials through retroactive investigation."
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"That's enough to avoid any cuts in school funding for this quarter."
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"Pretty much blow you if you ask nice."
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"Request for a DNA comparison. Case 06H-271."
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"Man, get him outta my face."
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"We're just trying to find the pattern in the meets."
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"Stanfield has every corner between MLK and Monroe,"
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"What the hell. It's a chance to get the word out for the bureau."
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"Funny case you got here."
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"I don't see it. Sorry."
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"I'm OK, senator, thank you very much."
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"you made on the Calvert county property years back."
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"I'm spiking your lead."
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"and to all the other ills..."
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"Next time, you're gonna be out on your ass, because that's my fucking house."
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"Now, you as the M.E., if you want to go another way,"
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"Why me?"
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"Let me get one of them, too."
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