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Clips from The Wire - Backwash (S02E02)

"-Where's your friend? -Who's that?"
The Wire
"-The black fellow, the Homicide guy. -Case is done, for all I know."
The Wire
"Yeah?"
The Wire
"You all didn't go for nothing, and no one on the ship did either."
The Wire
"So, he sent me back and moved on to new business."
The Wire
"Starting tomorrow, I'm down at the Fairfield Terminals."
The Wire
"Yeah, bosses want another car patrolling the chemical plants."
The Wire
"Because of terrorism, I guess."
The Wire
"You need to be uptown here with us."
The Wire
"You got stripes in the Southeast..."
The Wire
"and can't pull Valchek's spy van to work his own detail?"
The Wire
"Man, I've never seen that thing."
The Wire
"-Snug. -As a bug."
The Wire
"In a rug."
The Wire
"Let's go."
The Wire
"You make a show of it?"
The Wire
"Is that the Valparaiso?"
The Wire
"It ain't a Talco Line ship, doesn't have Horseface working."
The Wire
"Probably wasting half a day watching it offload."
The Wire
"-Yeah, we should be at the bar by now. -Nothing's wasted."
The Wire
"I've been getting a feel for this shit. How it plays and works without the dirt."
The Wire
"-So when they lose a can-- -I see it go."
The Wire
"Gentlemen. Ladies."
The Wire
"and to deliver those goods faster, cheaper and safer..."
The Wire
"modern robotics do much of the work in the world's largest seaport, Rotterdam."
The Wire
"Moving cargo is a traditional strength of the Dutch..."
The Wire
"who shuttle more freight in fewer man-hours than any port in the world."
The Wire
"Completely containerized cargo arrives and departs..."
The Wire
"on ships a third of a mile long, 24 hours a day, with short turnaround."
The Wire
"and improved accountability, with no need for unreliable human surveillance."
The Wire
"and I want to have the package right for once."
The Wire
"Hey, Carver."
The Wire
"Isn't technology the fucking bomb?"
The Wire
"...and global positioning systems guide each container..."
The Wire
"to its proper spot, on board or on the docks..."
The Wire
"while state-of-the-art-computers track shipments in every part--"
The Wire
"Rotterdam now works 350 million tons of cargo annually..."
The Wire
"Ieaving Singapore a distant second."
The Wire
"What kind of man-hours are the stevedores clocking over there?"
The Wire
"I don't have those figures handy. I'm sorry."
The Wire
"But Rotterdam does employ 4,000 people."
The Wire
"4,000 people to move 350 million tons a year?"
The Wire
"-That's right. -That's efficiency, Nat."
The Wire
"the Rotterdam technologies have reduced..."
The Wire
"employee work-related accidents and injuries by 60%."
The Wire
"I think we can all be happy with that, can't we?"
The Wire
"Question? Yes?"
The Wire
"The GPS readings, are they exact...."
The Wire
"You can't get hurt if you ain't working, right?"
The Wire
"No, they work with all kinds of cargo, in all kinds of weather."
The Wire
"-Hey, Jackie. -String. You, too?"
The Wire
"How you holding up?"
The Wire
"Bri."
The Wire
"-Nicky boy, you get days this week? -No."
The Wire
"Four ships on Thursday. You could've pulled a day for sure."
The Wire
"That's your half on the last two packages, plus what Frog owed you on your own shit."
The Wire
"What did Frog say?"
The Wire
""Here's a couple of hundred extra, make the little goof happy"?"
The Wire
"The packages were my thing, Nick."
The Wire
"Fuck, if you ain't handle that business better, too."
The Wire
"Zig, we're making money."
The Wire
"It's your move, Nicky."
The Wire
"Fuck it. I got other issues right now."
The Wire
"Paternity?"
The Wire
"Priscilla Katlow."
The Wire
"Jesus, Zig. You knocked up Prissy Katlow?"
The Wire
"I only fucked her once."
The Wire
"Christ, everybody down the point fucked her the once."
The Wire
"How do you know it's yours?"
The Wire
"You call this lawyer?"
The Wire
"Figured I'd get drunk first."
The Wire
"-Russians? -Lot of girls. Pretty ones."
The Wire
"Shardene's friend hooked us up good. Who's in charge?"
The Wire
"She looks a little bit older."
The Wire
"I couldn't get close enough to say much about her."
The Wire
"She looks about 40."
The Wire
"Grab any ass, Prez?"
The Wire
"What I'm saying is, I've sorted it out for us."
The Wire
"-I have. -For us?"
The Wire
"But once Burrell reached out--"
The Wire
"But Burrell is the one that you crossed. He's not likely to forget that, is he?"
The Wire
"and you'll still think that scratching out a case or two will save you."
The Wire
"It isn't about the casework, I know that."
The Wire
"Just today, Rawls calls me up to CID..."
The Wire
"asks me to take his homicides from the dead girls on that shipping container."
The Wire
"I told him, no shot. That case is a loser."
The Wire
"If I'm looking out for number one..."
The Wire
"I'm gonna bring Burrell exactly what he asked for..."
The Wire
"and exactly what he needs to make Stan Valchek go away."
The Wire
"No more, no less. I'm playing their game this time."
The Wire
"Look, it's one thing you taking a run at this dredging thing."
The Wire
"Fucked-up as you are, we can let that slide for a while..."
The Wire
"but now, you're asking too much."
The Wire
"One more year, Nat."
The Wire
"-Not for me, for the fucking union. -The election's been scheduled."
The Wire
"You knew last year, when we gave you the votes..."
The Wire
"that this time would be Ott's turn. You knew that."
The Wire
"So Ott runs next time. He'll take that year and the next."
The Wire
"It's our turn, Frank."
The Wire
"Black, White, what's the difference, Nat?"
The Wire
"Until we get that fucking canal dredged, we're all niggers, pardon my French."
The Wire
"Or Polacks, pardon mine."
The Wire
"You know what I'm saying, this ain't about Ott."
The Wire
"I just want one more year to finish what I started here."
The Wire
"Then Ott stays Secretary-Treasurer for the next two, no problem."
The Wire
"-Frankie Sobotka, how's it hanging? -You talk to the presiding officers yet?"
The Wire
"-When did you get served with these? -I got them in the mail this morning."
The Wire
"-In the mail? -Yeah, this morning."
The Wire
"When Pokey Barber got hit with paternity..."
The Wire
"a sheriff had to come to his house and serve him with papers."
The Wire
"Dolores, can I use the bar phone?"
The Wire
"What? Ain't no fucking law firm open in the middle of the goddamn night."
The Wire
"Shyster, Shyster and Shyster."
The Wire
"-He got you, Zig. -Who got me?"
The Wire
"Maui?"
The Wire
"Love child, never meant to be"
The Wire
"Love child, never meant to be"
The Wire
"There's no restroom in the lobby, and if you're not an approved visitor..."
The Wire
"I just don't have the authorization."
The Wire
"Okay."
The Wire
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