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Clips from The Wire - Back Burners (S03E03)

"- Detective Moreland. - Heard you looking for something."
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"Let me get some of them Trac phones activated."
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"- Sector Three, the old Koppers plant. - And it's legal to sell here?"
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"and then we move."
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"Let me get a word with my old Commander."
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"Whenever you bust this place up, they'll go back to their same corners."
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"If this doesn't work, Jimmy, I mean, it's just back to usual."
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"Bosses don't know, huh?"
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"- What about Marlo's crew? - Look, Avon's home..."
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"- Avon ain't here now. - You got muscle."
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"Don't worry about that, little man."
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"Hey."
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"Just for a night or two till I can get my shit together."
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"What kind of business?"
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"I called the switchboard and she's listed."
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"I just..."
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"I've had this feeling for a long time..."
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"and it's like I'm standing outside myself..."
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"watching me do things I don't wanna do, you know?"
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"Just seeing me like I'm somebody else..."
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"but never, ever being able to stop the show."
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"It's Cutty, right?"
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"Dennis."
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"Tonight, yeah."
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"- Her plans may have changed. - Yeah, yeah, I know."
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"Too many damn scheduling conflicts, unfortunately."
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"of the Coordinating Council on Criminal Justice."
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"I'm not saying we should create new identities for these people..."
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"Let me tell you something, Councilman."
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"Or how about I reduce trash pickup to once a week citywide..."
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"put the witnesses up at the Hyatt Inner Harbor?"
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"I'm not trying to be difficult. Tommy, come on."
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"- Can I get a Jameson? - Bushmills okay?"
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"Make it neat."
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"- What are you doing here? - Just asking myself the same thing."
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"- This ain't my kind of crowd. - Definitely not."
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"Yeah, well, I made a mistake, so I better go."
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"- Give me two hours, McNulty? - What am I gonna do for two hours?"
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"Water fresh?"
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"You got squeakers nesting squabs."
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"I know he will."
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"That way we can identify the user when he switches to another phone."
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"- You can do that? - With these burners..."
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"It has a speed dial feature."
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"Hell, that's probably the only way these corner boys can remember all the numbers."
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"- When can we get up? - Get up on what?"
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"- Do we have a plan? - Not yet, we don't."
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"Damn, boy, you smell like sex."
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"3- 1 on shooting of this number one male."
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"- Roger, 700. - Back so soon?"
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"I thought you guys had enough of our happy district yesterday."
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"Missed the tags, but if I see him again..."
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"- Stringer? - No, the other guy."
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"Jesus, Herc. He's at Jessup, down for four or five at least."
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"- What, we all look alike to you? - Lf you don't believe me, fuck it."
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"Officer Dozerman, the citizens want you to have this back..."
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"Big joke."
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"Police sitting on all corners over these parts."
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"and then they'll go stand on a new spot."
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"He don't have no crews out here at all? How about his avenue corners?"
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"Damn, I was just beginning to respect the little motherfucker for showing heart."
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"- Cheese steaks from Bill's. - Nah, I did that Tuesday, man."
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"Fuck it then, you pick."
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"- No, fuck me. - What?"
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"- Mope in the truck. - What about him?"
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"Think I locked him up."
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"- Yeah? - Yeah. Avon what's-his-face?"
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"Big player from the projects. He was the target on that detail..."
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"I worked a couple of years back, the one I told you about."
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"Oh, six, eight years. Who the fuck can remember?"
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"And he's out in two?"
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"My point is, guy's an asshole. Locked him up, is all."
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"- Pit B from the market. - See, now you're thinking like police."
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"Change in plan."
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"Second target is a Marlo Stanfield..."
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"who's apparently warring with Bell for the West Side corners."
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"On hold? We just managed to ID the cell phones on two of his people."
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"- Be that as it may... - I mean, why not take a few more weeks..."
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"We send the case to grand jury and then we start up this West Side case."
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"trying to get the murder rate down by any means necessary."
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"Kintel was dropping bodies two months ago."
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"Look, I know y'all thought it was nothing for me to sit on that roof..."
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"day after 90-degree day..."
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"dodging swarms of cicadas and shit, but, damn, this is fucked up!"
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"And all the assets work I did on Kintel, his cars, his cash flow..."
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"just put that in a drawer?"
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"Someday, I wanna work for a real police department."
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"Just to see how the fuck they do it, you know?"
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"McNulty. In my office."
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"Hey, Prez, can you run something out for me?"
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"I need to know who rented this room in the downtown Hilton, Thursday before last."
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"Who rented the room?"
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"Hey, my man. I'm done mowing."
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"So?"
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"I figured I'd use this to edge the weeds around the fence."
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"- It's gas-powered. - Means I gotta prime it."
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"You ain't gotta school me but once."
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"Get some water before you go back out there."
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"You been going hard at it."
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"You walked back through them old doors, didn't you?"
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"Shit, I just felt like I was an interruption to their lunch break."
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"No family?"
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"None besides my grandmother. She put me up in her basement."
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"You could use somebody to talk to besides your grand-moms."
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"What about one of them social worker types?"
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"I hooked up with one dude. He was cool."
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"- But, I wasn't ready. - You look like you're ready now."
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"I mean, you found an ear to bend, you wouldn't have to talk to me."
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"Shit, I know you gonna get tired of looking at my ugly-ass grill."
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"Drink that too fast, you'll cramp up."
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"Lieutenant, I didn't..."
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"Unless it's personal, like when Kima got shot..."
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"I don't care where we spend our time and money."
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"have the right to make decisions that are theirs to make."
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"And time will tell, won't it?"
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"- You went to Colvin behind my back. - I'd have gone to the devil himself."
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"Which way you were standing, Lieutenant, had not a fucking thing to do with it."
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"You piece of shit."
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"I did it 'cause it had to be done."
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"Just like it had to be done two years ago when we were first detailed."
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