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Clips from The Wire - -30- (S05E05)

"Tell the Mayor his stats will be clean"
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"before the election, after the election."
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"You're right. They can't fire you."
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"Not without it bouncing back on City Hall."
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"If you don't mind being buried in some backroom unit,"
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"you can stay for as long as you can stand it."
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"But, at the same time, I can't let you do police work."
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"Not anything that's going to find its way into a courtroom."
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"I won't do that."
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"For both of you,"
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"So Marlo walks."
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"Or you go to jail."
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"And you couldn't do any better with Levy?"
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"when you decided to start colouring outside the lines."
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"This isn't on me."
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"- I'm sellin' the connect. - How much, yo?"
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"Or a high bid if I hear ten from more than one of y'all."
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"and y'all can go back to runnin' that stepped-on New York shit."
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"You don't mind me askin', why you sellin'?"
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"Case they got against me already fallin' apart."
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"But the truth is,"
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"I'm done with this gangsta shit."
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"You somethin' else other than a gangsta?"
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"Businessman. Yeah, Tall Man,"
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"Anyway, y'all can't get my price up, maybe y'all pool your money."
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"You've got a problem. I thought Daniels was your boy."
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"We both got a problem if crime doesn't drop."
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"And even if he wins, Nerese, you're stuck"
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"with a Police Commissioner that won't work with you."
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"I'm not stuck with anything."
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"Daniels either comes around or he's done."
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"We just anointed him. We can't go back on that now. He knows it."
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"Either he learns his place or he'll be offering to resign."
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"You ain't the only one knows how to play this game."
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"What to say about this piece of work?"
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"Fucked if I don't find myself without the right words."
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"Me, as gifted a golden throat as any of you cocksuckers"
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"being loosed from religion, are ever likely to hear."
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"- Too young. - Not even 40 years old."
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"Though, had it lived, his dick woulda been 134."
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"He was the black sheep,"
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"the permanent pariah."
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"He asked no quarter of the bosses and none was given."
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"he acknowledged no mistakes."
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"He was as stubborn a Mick as ever stumbled"
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"out of the Northeast parishes to take a patrolman's shield."
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"He brooked no authority."
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"He did what he wanted to do and he said what he wanted to say"
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"and, in the end, he gave you the clearances."
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"- He's natural police. - Yes, he was."
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"But Christ, what an asshole."
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"out of proportion to every other facet of his humanity chasm."
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"From whose borne, if I may quote Shakespeare,"
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"no traveler has ever returned."
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"- The fuck did I do? - Shut the fuck up."
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"You're dead to us now."
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"Here's his partner in crime."
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"I'm a civilian now. Be gentle."
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"Your papers went in?"
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"- Yeah, this afternoon. 32 years. - And four months."
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"He look to be about ten years younger than I remember."
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"Well, c'mon, there's enough room for both of you to be laid out."
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"You don't crowd a man at his own wake."
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"Come on, Lester. Come and snuggle."
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"Keep our secrets, Jimmy. I got Shardene with me tonight."
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"If you gentlemen will spare us this unfortunate homoerotic lapse,"
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"I will conclude my elegiac remarks."
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"Then do it, you gabby motherfucker."
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"To conclude. To conclude,"
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"I say he gave us 13 years on the line."
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"Not enough for a pension but enough for us to know that he was..."
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"Put the fucking song on."
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"his defects of personality,"
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"and his inconstant sobriety and hygiene,"
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"a true murder police."
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"I say this seriously."
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"If I was laying there dead on some Baltimore street corner,"
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"Bullshit."
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"Because, brother, when you were good, you were the best we had."
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"Fuck you! If you caught the case,"
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"you'd be standing there pissing in my ear."
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"How did Nerese Campbell get it?"
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"You think I asked? Do you think it even matters?"
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"So now they want me to go."
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"The way she expressed it is that she wanted you to stay"
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"if you could come to your senses."
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"Come to my senses."
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"She wants me to juke the stats for Carcetti, this quarter and the next,"
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"hide the crime, get him elected as governor"
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"and make her the Mayor."
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"So do it. Burrell juked them before you."
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"And, after you're gone, Rawls or whoever will juke them. So what?"
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"I'll swallow a lie when I have to."
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"But the stat games, that lie, it's what ruined this department."
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"Shining up shit and calling it gold,"
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"so majors become colonels and mayors become governors."
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"Pretending to do police work while one generation fucking trains the next"
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"how not to do the job. And then..."
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"I looked Carcetti in the eye."
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"I shook his hand. I asked him if he was for real."
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"This is the lie I can't live with."
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"If I do, then Nerese has me in her pocket whenever she wants me."
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"And I'm no good to anyone like that."
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"Then go."
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"Withdraw for personal reasons or health reasons."
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"Whatever."
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"You've got your law degree. You're not gonna starve."
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"But if you don't go, they'll wreck both of us."
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"There's not enough in here to indict me."
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"And the joke of it is,"
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"I've seen enough the last few days to have them indicted."
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"For what?"
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"Then use it, Cedric, or at least threaten to."
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"People will get hurt."
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"People I care about."
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"that you'll never make it through confirmation hearings."
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"And enough so that my career is dead before it even gets started."
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"The tree that doesn't bend breaks, Cedric."
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"Bend too far, you're already broken."
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"And the money, she gave that away, too."
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