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Clips from The Wire - Lessons (S01E01)

"I mean, shit ain't right, Dee."
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"You might consult with him some."
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"What the fuck, man? lf he don't wanna be down here, that's on him."
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"I mean, ain't like nobody holding no gun to his head or nothing."
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"All right."
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"Be right back."
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"What if Little Man ain't working in the 221 today?"
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"Yo, Herc, what if your mother and father never met?"
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"-How's shop doing? -Steady rolling."
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"All right, let's take a ride."
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"-Beef run. -Beef run, where at?"
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"Pulaski, baby, the good shit."
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"Get in the car, man."
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"I don't understand that, never did."
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"Damn, Bey, how can you stand that shit with all that hot shit on it?"
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"So what? My uncle's cut y'all loose today?"
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"I heard about that. How much is yours in the package?"
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"We gotta run off the niggers that been down there."
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"Ain't no thing. Bunch of off-brand niggers is all."
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"You keep running that pit the way you been, you gonna see points, too."
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"Yeah, I been talking to Orlando, right?"
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"He said he got this good coke connect from New Orleans."
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"He want me to put what he can get out into the court, a little extra on the side."
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"-Yeah, definitely. -Hear that?"
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"Yeah, I'm gonna see what he say on it. Yeah."
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"Bring some of Orlando's good pussy over there by Little Man's."
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"-Yeah. -Yeah."
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"-Yeah, he up. -You up."
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"Nigger, I'm up! You don't gotta ask twice."
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"-What's wrong? -No."
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"Go around to my partner, here."
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"-Man, look, I'm already late. -Put your hands on the roof, please, sir."
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"Sir, you were observed in one of the city's designated drug-free, anti-loitering zones..."
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"where a drug suspect leaned into your vehicle..."
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"-beneath the passenger seat. -Look, enough of this shit, now."
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"-Is there something beneath that seat, sir? -No."
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"Fuck y'all. This is some bullshit."
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"You rang?"
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"-Who's he? -Damien Lavell Price."
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"He takes $20,000 in cash out of the 221 building."
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"Stringer Bell to someone on a tower phone."
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"We thought we were gonna come up with drugs."
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"Got money instead."
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"Orioles won last night. Bullpen stood up to Boston."
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"You get that money cracking cribs, or what?"
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"I'd like to speak to my attorney."
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"He was driving for a politician at this fundraiser I went to."
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"-Which one? -Someone from Annapolis..."
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"-What do we charge here? -He say the money's his?"
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"Keep the cash, write him a receipt."
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"He wants to put a claim in to the city solicitor, he can."
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"Major Reed, lID."
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"Lieutenant, a word."
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"What's up?"
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"-How you doing? -Me?"
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"Yeah, you. Everything is good?"
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"I mean, you fixed for cash or something, man?"
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"'Cause if you need a little something..."
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"really, the thing to do is just to ask for it."
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"and make sure you don't stray from the nest!"
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"Listen, the last motherfucking thing I need is for the clean name on my liquor license..."
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"to be dirtied the fuck up by you. You understand that?"
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"Do your fucking job!"
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"I checked with the state Personnel Department."
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"He's on the payroll of Senator Davis' district office..."
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"He did four years in Hagerstown for daytime B and E."
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"Before that, drug charges and a PBJ on a check charge."
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"with $20,000 in manicured, banded money."
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"You brought him in here on what charge?"
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"Until he tells us a legitimate source for that money, we keep it."
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"So you have no criminal charge."
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"Give it back."
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"-Sir? -Give the man back his money."
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"with one of our suspects telling another to expect a pick-up."
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"-It's drug money in that car. -Give him back his money."
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"Write it up as an unwarranted car stop."
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"Now I ask you to put a charge on a drug dealer, Lieutenant."
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"That's all I ask."
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"And now I got wiretaps, pager clones, affidavits coming out of my ass."
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"And you're in people's shit where you're not supposed to be."
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"You charge what you can, and you do it by the end of the week."
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"And though there's no criminal charge, you think it wise to try to keep it."
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"You shit all over yourself..."
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"Now, I told you, no surprises, remember?"
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"$20,000, even."
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"So I can leave now?"
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"Will somebody please tell me what the fuck that was about?"
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"This is bullshit."
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"We just gave back 20 large of Barksdale's money."
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"Hey, what the fuck?"
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"Let me guess, the Deputy? How's he got onto this so quick?"
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"Why would you be telling him?"
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"Have you noticed there hasn't been a complaint from the senator?"
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"Give the man back his money and go the fuck away?"
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"Like how he was shutting us down this week."
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"-The fuck he is. -We're done."
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"I go past Friday, and I'm buried. He told me that."
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"He's gonna bury you? For what? You're doing your fucking job."
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"Chain-of-command. That's all I got from the Deputy, today."
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"Chain-of-command?"
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"Did you tell your major about the senator's driver? Or the Colonel?"
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"No? Then where's your chain-of-command?"
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"-What are you saying? -Nothing."
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"Why, he got something on you?"
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"You say you got the Deputy's ear. What the fuck's he got on you?"
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"Yo, Stink. What about the rules, yo?"
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"Special occasion, yo."
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"Yo, Bey."
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"He said this to you?"
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"-You need to explain then-- -Explain what?"
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"Today, it was some senator's driver."
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"Two days from now, a city councilman, maybe."
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"He asked for a charge on Barksdale. That's all he asked for."
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"This thing with the legislative aide, who could've foreseen it?"
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"He saw it. Burrell."
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"You follow the drugs, you get a drug case."
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"You start following the money, you don't know where you're going."
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"That's why they don't want wiretaps or wired Cls or anything they can't control."
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"Because once that tape starts rolling, who the hell knows what's going to be said?"
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"He actually asked me that."
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