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Clips from The Wire - Back Burners (S03E03)

"- All quiet today? - Keeping it like that, boss."
The Wire
"We rule where we stand."
The Wire
"- Likely because we been dropping bodies. - Yeah, they do like that."
The Wire
"But, you know, tomorrow some other nigga'll stop a bullet somewhere else..."
The Wire
"Boy Marlo closed up shop."
The Wire
"Word is, he wholesaling his packages for now."
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"Nigga give up quick, didn't he?"
The Wire
"All right, listen. When them police roll out, y'all step in there and take my corners."
The Wire
"- Motherfucker's out already. - Why, what'd he pull?"
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"Bell, you recognize."
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"- What about Kintel Williamson? - That case is on hold for now."
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"so we can put together what we got on Kintel, you know?"
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"Otherwise, we wasted more than two months..."
The Wire
"Change of target comes to us from the Commissioner and the Deputy Ops."
The Wire
"The Department is in a reactive mode..."
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"Address, credit card details, whatever you can pull."
The Wire
"You keep showing up at the spot, I'll keep putting you on."
The Wire
"Good, 'cause I ain't got nothing else."
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"- Tried to. - Yeah. I had took you for gone."
The Wire
"Man, parole officers, employment agencies."
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"- You're asking? - I am."
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"Because I got no problem changing targets if that's what the bosses tell me to do."
The Wire
"And I understand that people above my pay grade..."
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"- And if they're wrong? - Then they're wrong."
The Wire
"Now, I'm asking you for the truth."
The Wire
"I know that, but now we're back on the right man."
The Wire
"Detective McNulty."
The Wire
"Yeah, went almost to Richmond for this here batch."
The Wire
"- You did like we say, right? - Yeah."
The Wire
"But shootings and agg assaults are both down."
The Wire
"That ain't pretty, but everywhere else it's down."
The Wire
"then use them and double up on the high crime posts."
The Wire
"we ought to do better with the crime we got, right?"
The Wire
"- Four for $180. - Just the two."
The Wire
"The late show out at Westview is 8:45."
The Wire
"It went a lot better before the Mayor's cabinet meeting, I can tell you that."
The Wire
"Your name does not get mentioned."
The Wire
"Mayor didn't say a word to me."
The Wire
"... is nothing. This is DC 's number one, WPGC 95.5."
The Wire
"Where the fuck we at now?"
The Wire
"It was used by Marlo's people and picked up off the ground by Kima's CI."
The Wire
"On the other hand..."
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"to make all kinds of connections."
The Wire
"Get us one good phone, we'll give you the network."
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"- Just the two? - Just the two."
The Wire
"Better still, spending it on me."
The Wire
"- Avon's home, so we tooling up. - You ain't the only one on parole."
The Wire
"- Fuck this, let's hit the bar. - Lester needs a phone, man."
The Wire
"Big white bag, got the big white bag."
The Wire
"- You told her about the cop? - What?"
The Wire
"I mean, ain't she got a right to know what's going on?"
The Wire
"you go running your mouth about nothing at all?"
The Wire
"I mean, what moms is not gonna believe her son didn't kill hisself?"
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"- String... - Huh? She gonna take that shit..."
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"- I just... - You just what?"
The Wire
"Sorry!"
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"- The lawyer. - Levy?"
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"What?"
The Wire
"If I lie down on this couch, do you charge by the hour?"
The Wire
"You're not naive. Neither am I."
The Wire
"Rip him now? With the primary next September?"
The Wire
"give him a chance to explain or maybe take action."
The Wire
"If he does do something, then a problem got fixed..."
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"Yeah."
The Wire
"Forgot this."
The Wire
"I got them T's. White, bright, one for $3, two for $5."
The Wire
"- I got this, man, $5. New. - No, thank you, man."
The Wire
"- It's only $5. - No, thank you."
The Wire
"I got them..."
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"Got the long white T's for the young ones."
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"You ain't got no candles? I'm looking to buy candles..."
The Wire
"Shit, Johnny, man."
The Wire
"Shit's got me all digging and scratching in my arms."
The Wire
"No, man, look around you."
The Wire
"Are you a Viking?"
The Wire
"Push it back. Get back, push it back."
The Wire
"- Should we cuff them, Sarge? - No, cut them loose."
The Wire
"The fuck we tell you about fighting down here?"
The Wire
"Only rule is no fighting, no cutting, no shooting!"
The Wire
"- Did I wake the baby? - You would know if you did."
The Wire
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
The Wire
"What's with the sarcasm? How come you can talk to everybody else but me?"
The Wire
"- I'm not blaming anybody. - I didn't do this by myself."
The Wire
"Too many damn children."
The Wire
"What do you need lookouts and runners for if the shit is legal?"
The Wire
"A lot of them have been cut loose by the dealers."
The Wire
"It's like one of those nature shows. When you mess with the environment..."
The Wire
"Shit, what's the point?"
The Wire
"and you're too damn greedy to take care of your workforce."
The Wire
"except for touts and runners..."
The Wire
"then it was cool to have them cut school and work out."
The Wire
"- Okay, new tax initiative, my brother. - Say what?"
The Wire
"This one, I think."
The Wire
"I can see y'all got some real ugly shit planned for me."
The Wire
"Oh, everybody in this world does what they going to."
The Wire
"I still feel like I owe something, Butch."
The Wire
"There ain't no call messing with Brianna with this bullshit."
The Wire
"Harassment?"
The Wire
"and now, he coming at Brianna with this bullshit?"
The Wire
"Yeah. All right. All right. That'll work too. All right."
The Wire
"At least, until these narcos roll up off some of these corners."
The Wire
"- Car stop, maybe? - Why not?"
The Wire
"Not yet, you fucking rodent!"
The Wire
"Package for sale."
The Wire
"This repays me."
The Wire
"This shit is like unemployment insurance. Every employer gotta pay in."
The Wire
"If I find out anybody been holding out..."
The Wire
"then he's out of here, back in the street getting his head busted."
The Wire
"What are you, a fucking communist?"
The Wire
"- That's right around the corner from here. - 10-4. Units responding."
The Wire
"Yo, we was on our way to Hamsterdam."
The Wire
"The man say we don't get no hassle coming in or going out. What's up?"
The Wire
"- What the fuck is Hamsterdam? - Lying-ass police!"
The Wire
"- and I was trying to tell these people... - Just shut the fuck up."
The Wire
"You know you did, man. This is some fucking bullshit."
The Wire
"- You sure that's the one? - Reesie say that was the one."
The Wire
"Who am I to say different?"
The Wire
"How about we make one more stop, you get six of them shits..."
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"and I suck your dick for the next 20 minutes."
The Wire
"- Bunk, line three. - All right."
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