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Clips from The Wire - Reformation (S03E03)

"Andre, I want you to crowd him."
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"Time!"
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"When those two stumbled in here, they was wild as wild."
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"Still pretty rough but, you know, with the right breaks, they gonna make it."
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"Well, try as they might, I won't let them fail."
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"What do you think of that?"
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"And I remember a lot about that girl."
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"Check this."
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"Buy you a drink?"
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"Bushy top."
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"Just getting ready for COMSTAT tomorrow."
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"So what's up, Major?"
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"- He's a player? - He's the main guy."
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"You know when or where? I could run it out quick."
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"Major, I'm gonna be straight with you. We're running wires into his people."
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"No shit."
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"Now, you get me a confirmation on that and call me back on the cell."
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"A read?"
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"All right."
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"And so we're gonna come at her like that."
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"The money comes back, Bubs."
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"All of it?"
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"Whoa, yo, you can't turn from this lane!"
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"I was just gonna say hey."
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"No, sir, they are not."
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"No, Deputy, I found another approach."
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"I mean, I..."
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"Now, at first..."
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"or they face the wrath of every able-bodied soul in my district."
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"Okay."
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"- Sister Squeak. - Bottom-end Bubbles."
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"Where you been, girl? Been a long time."
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"- What the hell kind of money is in T-shirts? - Girl, you just don't know."
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"I'll see you later on."
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"I'm fucking dead."
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"Jesus Christ."
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"from community associations, ministers, business people, citizens."
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"They're all happy that the dealers are off the corners."
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"About a week, tops."
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"I was with Superstroke on the pool circuit in the early days..."
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"I did the long-distance access card heist before cell phones got popular."
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"You crypt numbers?"
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"Yeah, I favored the airports, yeah."
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"- Can you still read numbers? - Whoa, whoa, what's up with this?"
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"91-7-7-8..."
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"3-1-2. Now, that last number might be a seven."
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"- He did it without our knowledge. - Without your knowledge."
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"Well, that's worse. You're the Commissioner."
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"Was the Commissioner."
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"You think the buck's gonna stop in this office, you're wrong."
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"these are letters from people in his district."
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"All glowing reports."
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"And there's the 14% reduction in crime in the Western."
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"Now, we can clean it up, make it go away."
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"The press might already have wind of it, but we can explain that..."
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"Trap high-end drug dealers."
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"If we handle this right, we might all get out from underneath."
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"I trusted you, Erv, I really did."
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"On this, you walk point."
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"The way it works is this."
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"the wireless company recycles the phone numbers."
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"I bring them in here to my niece, she jiggles the computer..."
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"juices them up another 200 minutes on a bogus account."
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"I double it or more on the street to make mine."
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"I charge you an even $100. You clear $50 on each phone."
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"That's if you can back them up with receipts."
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"I gotta show receipts looking like they from different places, or I can't play."
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"You might want to get the word out."
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"Then I'm back tomorrow."
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"I don't doubt it for a minute."
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"Need another bag."
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"Got it."
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"We are in Baltimore, Lamar. Baltimore, Maryland."
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"Stir up a hornet's nest, no telling who gonna get stung."
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"- All paranoid and shit. - Gotta be."
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"They got Latroy."
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"Get the fuck in the truck, man."
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"What happened to all them towers?"
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"Slow train coming."
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"Reform, Lamar. Reform."
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"We get a signature number on Bodie's phone, we will be."
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"Every time these fucking pen registers click out a call..."
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"it screams drug conspiracy."
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"I'm not the one taking the case to court."
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"Pearlman wants a specific link to a known drug trafficker."
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"These drug crews, they're dumping phones every couple of weeks at best."
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"So when we do get a wire up, it's gonna be a limited run."
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"the cellular company's definition of "exigent circumstance," right?"
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"What's your boss willing to do?"
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"Demper? He's a bit too focused on next year's re-election fight."
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"How about the feds?"
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"They say they can't do anything for us."
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"And if you look at how they use the Federal Communications Act..."
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"For national security stuff, they use the Patriot Act."
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"Everything else gets shorted."
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"The fact is, the industry has all of us by the balls."
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"Pardon my French, Your Honor."
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"All right, I'll tell you what. Best I can do for you is this."
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"You give me a boilerplate affidavit with the PC from the court report."
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"And then, as you get fresh numbers for the new disposables, you call me..."
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"anytime, day or night, to jump phones."
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"That helps."
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"But we're still gonna be getting up on their phones..."
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"- even as they're coming down. - Yeah, probably so."
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"- This is so totally... - Fucked up."
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"Judge Phelan has you on his mind. How long has that been going on?"
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"I bet you won all your motions."
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"I wanna thank you for the loyalty you showed..."
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"You're a good man, Sergeant."
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"and as far as I can tell, you're a decent supervisor."
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"But from where I sit..."
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"Don't take it personal."
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"Ain't just you, it's all our young police..."
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"No, you think about it."
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"You've been here over a year now, Carver."
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"You got nobody looking out for you, nobody willing to talk to you."
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"That about sum it up?"
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"Now, that's a problem."
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"And I didn't think there was any way I was ever gonna get my head around it..."
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"And that's when I about reach my limit."
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