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Clips from The Wire - Transitions (S05E05)

"Senator, please, over here."
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"Senator, would you care to make a statement?"
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"- Senator, please, senator! - Over here, senator."
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"Did you appear before the grand jury?"
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"Jane, I insisted that I be called."
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"Senator, aren't you the target of an investigation into theft and fraud?"
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"No, pardon, no. Some people are confused about some things."
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"But that's why I came here, to set them straight."
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"Happy to do it, too. Happy to avail myself of the..."
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"Mr. Bond, our state's attorney..."
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"Laying claim to the senator before anybody else can."
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"There just seemed to be a little bit of a misunderstanding"
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"Yo, as soon as this newspaper stink get off my ass,"
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"There you go. Like a real player."
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"It's a whole new world, man. Buy some property."
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"Hold onto it till white people show up, you make a killing."
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"- Got convicts fixing up his house. - Motherfuckers..."
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"shut the fuck up."
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"I'm sick of listening to your shit."
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"Have we got business? If we ain't, we gonna bounce."
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"Marlo here seems pressed for time."
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"So y'all can pick back up on this after the meeting."
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"Junior here took it upon himself to make unlawful incursions"
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"into county territory marked for my people."
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"Keep talking, you gonna get spanked."
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"Like you got the heart. Motherfucker piss like a bitch."
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"All right, shut it down."
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"Last I look, you wasn't no charter member."
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"I apologize."
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"My nephew gonna heed the boundaries, I assure you."
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"A'ight, meeting's adjourned."
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"- Just like I told you, right? - Yeah."
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"I pulled some of it out, brought it back home."
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"I was..."
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"I was thinking..."
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"what next with this?"
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"You clear some time tomorrow, I'll open the door for you. That work?"
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"Son..."
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"you need to focus a bit more on what can be gained by working with people."
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"That's just a thought, now."
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"Yeah."
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"Thanks."
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"Come to see a dead man walking?"
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"I hear Carcetti's gonna do right by you."
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"- You deserve it. - Sure, I deserve it,"
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"What I got, they gave me for carrying their water all these years."
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"To Carcetti, I'm a hack."
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"Royce was no different."
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"Maybe I am. But every day they send over a new priority."
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"Go after the bad guys. No, change that."
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"On second thought, run the whores out of Patterson Park."
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"You think the mayor tells the schools how to teach kids,"
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"or the health department how to do its job, or sanitation how to pick up trash?"
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"You might think it'll be different..."
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"when you sit here..."
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"but it won't."
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"You will eat their shit."
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"I wonder how you get the ladder to go up."
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"How do you do that?"
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"This is a wonderful fire truck."
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"I wonder where all the firemen are."
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"Think they could fit in here?"
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"I wonder what kind of siren sound this makes."
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"Cheryl, hey."
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"I was thinking I might want to swing by and see Elijah, you know?"
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"No, I can get off."
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"Yeah. Sure."
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"I'll be right back."
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"- I'm sorry. I just don't think... - No, it's OK."
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"Right now, he's too withdrawn to revisit the event."
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"How do you come back from something like that?"
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"You look nervous, Deputy."
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"Relax."
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"You once told me that if I was gonna do you, you'd be done already. Remember?"
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"Shit, I don't even remember what was in that file."
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"Something about the eastern district."
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"So long ago,"
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"who can remember?"
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"and about Ervin H. Burrell."
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"During my time on the city council, Erv was no stranger to me."
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"I chaired the public safety subcommittee, and I called upon him many times."
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"We worked closely and when I became mayor, we formed a strong relationship..."
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"He feared and hated me, and I merely wanted him dead."
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"Don't stray from the inner harbor."
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"It took a while, but I finally put his ass out to pasture."
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"Plaques for hacks."
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"Prerogative of any big-city mayor."
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"and they would shit all over a dog-and-pony show like that."
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"What about Price at the hall?"
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"No, a veteran in the cop shop gets us over on a story like this,"
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"but civility is important."
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"I've been meaning to talk to you about your profanity."
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"My profanity?"
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"A collegial atmosphere is essential."
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"Collegial? I fucking failed out of journalism school."
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"- What the fuck do "collegial" mean? - Christ, we don't have this?"
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"Prosecutors would not comment on a possible grand jury investigation,"
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"but sources familiar with the case say the senator has been under investigation"
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"Assistant state's attorney Rhonda Pearlman..."
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"Clay Davis was grand-juried today."
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"He's been under investigation for a year."
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"We haven't had daily city court coverage since Doug Strock took the buyout before last."
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"You want one reporter covering two courthouses, fine."
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"All right. Just get caught up, OK?"
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"See if you can get a quote from Davis."
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"Scott, chase a courthouse story with Zorzi."
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"- What do you need? - Find the state's attorney."
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"He set up Clay Davis outside the grand jury today."
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"Get hold of Bond, he'll catch us up on this shit."
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"Remember the good old days when nobody would stage a perp walk"
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"without calling a daily newspaper?"
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"Nowadays, all they care about is a goddamn video."
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"- They've forgotten. - I don't know why we're doing this."
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"I can write a report like this in my sleep."
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"Jimmy, a lot rides on this."
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"Work it like a real case, it'll feel like a real case,"
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"and more importantly, it'll read like a real case."
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"I was in the squad room today,"
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"- Landsman barely noticed. - We crank this up,"
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"Landsman's not the only one who's gonna be thumbing through this H-file."
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