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Clips from The Wire - -30- (S05E05)

"C'mon with it. They gonna put out testers up on Poplar Grove."
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"We gonna be late for it."
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"Deputy."
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"To be continued."
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"- Fuck, fuck, fucking fuck. - What's the matter?"
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"Cottage cheese for lunch again there, Carl?"
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"Just because it happened doesn't mean it's news."
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"There's always a salmonella outbreak somewhere."
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"I don't see why we have to cover this one..."
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"What's the first rule of rewrite, Spry?"
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"Shoot it down."
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"Did you read this?"
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"with changing the Governor's mind?"
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"I'm already to the jump"
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"and there's not a quote from anyone"
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"crediting us with anything of the sort."
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"The guv is restoring funding, all right."
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"That's 'cause Carcetti's been beating the shit out of him on this issue."
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"We're just an afterthought."
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"Whiting can smell the public service Pulitzer?"
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"- Seems so. - You get a chance yet?"
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"Beautiful."
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"You got some real Joe Mitchell stuff on the page there."
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"You just pulled it all through the keyhole."
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"Thanks, Gus."
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"We get some good art, I'm gonna push for the Sunday front."
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"Well, I gotta make sure the guy is good with it."
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"What do you mean?"
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"When he told me about it, he was just talking..."
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"I wanna feel clean about it. You know what I'm sayin'?"
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"I remember clean."
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"Obviously, they're not in a hurry to go public 'cause we ain't cuffed."
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"They're pretending on this case like we're pretending. Why?"
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"Carcetti. He's exposed on this."
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"How? Just blame it all on us, on the department."
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"It's his police department."
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"So he opens himself up right when he's out there, running for governor."
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"Six months from now, after the election,"
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"they might decide to open up and grand jury us."
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"We could still go to jail and, if not,"
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"I expect to be back in the pawn shop unit and you are gonna ride the boat."
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"So what? It was worth it."
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"Wasn't it?"
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"Depends."
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"Are they gonna let the case against Marlo and his people stand,"
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"knowing what they know?"
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"Why wouldn't they? It still works on the seizures and cellphones."
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"And they made a big deal about dropping Marlo."
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"They called that press conference and linked him to all the bodies."
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"You know, you think about it,"
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"we've got almost as much on them as they do on us."
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"That Tom Wolfe wannabe"
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"thinks he's gonna get a phrase like that past me?"
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"No fuckin' way, motherfucker."
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"asked if they really said those things."
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"You know what the city housing commissioner told me"
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"about the quotes in the flipping story?"
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"He wished he'd said some of them but that he'd never been that smart in his life."
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"I don't know, Robert. I don't know."
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"Keep my name out of it."
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"No bail."
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"They're claiming a propensity for violence and witness intimidation at the bail review,"
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"trying to have you held as the kingpin."
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"- They can do that? - They can try."
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"Depends on which judge they draw."
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"So they ain't got no bail for Chris, right? I mean, he got the murder one."
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"Monk neither."
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"Too much weight in his car and he's on parole from the '04 charge."
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"Best I could do was spring Mr. Wagstaff on 300,000."
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"Right now, the important thing is not bail, the important thing is this..."
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"I need you to tell me who else knew your clock code."
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"I told you."
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"Me, Cheese, Monk, Chris"
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"- and the supply. That's it. - No one else?"
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"No one else even had my cell number, except you."
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"What?"
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"- There's a lie in here somewhere. - I ain't lying."
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"that you were re-upping on the day"
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"and word of that might have slipped out. That's possible."
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"If you were wholesaling all over town..."
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"They only grab your cells when they arrest you and then they have to go get warrants"
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"before they can look at the photos on the phones."
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"And it's only when they get to the photos"
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"and break the code that they have enough"
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"I mean, you aren't caught with drugs."
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"But they had the arrest warrants on both of you within a couple hours."
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"Which means that they broke the code almost instantly,"
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"no time at all."
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"My investigator thinks so."
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"But he doesn't know for sure which unit ran the tap or who manned it."
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"It doesn't add up."
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"You gettin' out."
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"You hit the streets, you round up as much muscle as possible"
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"and get that boy."
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"He did Snoop 'cause he knew we was on him."
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"He knew we was on him 'cause he the one talked about the re-up."
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"Man, you got a dollar?"
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"C'mon."
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"Pal."
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"Pal, you all right?"
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"OK, here it comes,"
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"the dreaded crab claw."
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"You know what happens when crab claw goes..."
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"- It's all crab tonight... - No crab claw!"
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"Yeah."
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"Where?"
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"You're fucking kidding me."
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"It's more bull..."
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"It's bogus, Jay. I'm telling you..."
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"OK."
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"I gotta go."
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"I have to keep running the string out. I've no choice."
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"You said the bosses know."
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"Some do, some don't. The ones that do want us to keep pretending."
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"We stop pretending, then..."
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"I'll see you in a bit."
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"What do you think?"
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"I mean, puttin' my shit in the streets?"
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"Well, it's you."
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"He's got you."
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