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Clips from The Wire - Corner Boys (S04E04)

"we've got to cobble together a citywide turnaround,"
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"call it the "Baltimore Miracle" or some shit."
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"Which starts with a 10% drop in crime."
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"- you want the double digits. - No doubt."
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"Denny's got to do a bricks-and-mortar project downtown,"
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"put his name on something."
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"We're flushed with stadiums,"
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"got hotels out of the ass."
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"get the sign on it that says,"
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""Brought to you by Tommy Carcetti"
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"and the citizens of Baltimore.""
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"Well, think on it, but you don't have"
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"Education always polls good."
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"Oh no, we've got to stay away from schools."
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"Our last four administrations"
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"We get involved, start talking shit,"
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"it becomes our mess."
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"Gotta respect the depths."
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"One, you get the drop in crime;"
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"And, four, you keep your boyish good looks."
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"You do all that, you might be running for governor in 2008,"
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"maybe take back that statehouse for us, hmm?"
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"- Can you get him a square corner? - Easy."
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"Yeah."
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"- Come on. - I said no."
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"Okay."
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"If there's ever anything you want to talk about..."
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"there's me, but if you'd rather,"
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"Michael, do you want to see the social worker?"
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"No."
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"this animated in a classroom."
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"Focused-- the corner culture kids, at least."
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"The ones with deeper problems, they opted out of that."
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"Deeper problems:"
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"We're not just up against corner logic in there."
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"clinical depression, post traumatic stress,"
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"With those type of problems,"
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"But the corner kids, yeah, they really came alive."
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"they talk from here, and they stay on point."
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"Question is: Can we get them"
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"in that kind of mindset on stuff they don't know?"
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"Can we have them learn on faith alone?"
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"In all honesty, this is uncharted territory."
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"Where do you go from here?"
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"How about we just let this ride,"
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"see where it takes us?"
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"All right, see, here's the thing:"
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"Once you got it, it's all you."
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"Anything happen, I'm gonna have to fuck you up."
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"Yeah, but that's nothing."
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"'Cause the guy trusting me on this-- Marlo--"
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"So don't go shaking the bottles"
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"'cause Marlo weighs that shit every time."
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"'cause if you do fuck with it, I'm gonna know."
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"All right, that's good."
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"All right, it's good."
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"All right, see, you're under 13 and shit."
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"So you're safe from everybody but me and Marlo."
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"- So I'm a lieutenant now? - Yeah."
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"You're my lieutenant."
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"Yeah, you do this good, and we'll talk."
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"See this guy here?"
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"That's the grand jury prosecutor."
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"I ain't telling lies."
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"Hey, Gary, let me ask you this hypothetically:"
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"Are you kidding? As much as I can get him."
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"- What's the max? - 10 years."
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"Oh, you've got people going away for 10 years?"
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"Oh, hell yeah, all the time."
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"I couldn't even see straight."
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"Which motherfucker are we talking about?"
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"It made me groggy as shit."
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"Then this man starts working at me--"
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"- Fuck I did! - I mean, shit!"
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"I'm still groggy now. I mean, I got to--"
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"is there a washroom around:"
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"- Lying motherfucker. - For real."
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"Shit."
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"Step out of the car, please."
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"Step out of the car."
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"Put your hands on the car."
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"Got anything on you?"
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"Cross your feet. Put your hands on your head."
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"What the fuck is this powder?"
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"Lime from my mama's garden."
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"What are you building, a clubhouse?"
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"Oh, that shoot nails. Be cool."
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"Oh, I know what it does."
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"I want my fucking camera."
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"I heard what you said at Comstat the other day."
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"I also hear you're a commander who knows police work."
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"That's what people are saying."
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"- So what am I thinking? - My guess:"
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"You witnessed a waste of time, money, energy,"
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"and, in few cases, talent."
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"Rawls says it's Burrell and his numbers game."
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"See a return of high-end police work,"
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"says it'll be the dawning of a new day."
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"- Rawls said that? - Yeah."
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"Says he's just following orders,"
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"What do you say?"
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"about what happens in the street"
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"or what goes on under me in the Western,"
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"I'll talk your ear off."
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"But I'm a soldier too."
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"I don't go up the chain with my opinions."
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"I can respect that."
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"I will say this though:"
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"We did have one unit doing high-end stuff--"
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"Major Crimes working out of an offsite"
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""Did" is past tense. What wrecked it?"
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"Good question, Mr. Mayor."
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"With Ray Foersters' passing,"
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"Would you object to being made colonel working under Rawls?"
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"Under Rawls?"
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"He is deputy ops, is he not:"
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"What I'm really asking is: How for real are you?"
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"Colonel Daniels?"
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"What the fuck do we do?"
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"I don't know. These guys don't scare."
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