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Clips from The Wire - More with Less (S05E05)

"and Lester pretty much is that case."
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"Excuse me. Y'all know where the clerk's office at?"
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"- Criminal or civil? - Criminal, definitely."
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"End of the hall, last door."
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"- When are you meeting the mayor? - About an hour."
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"They gave me a few minutes on the end of his day."
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"I'll go with you. Come by my office and get me."
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"So, where you off to now?"
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"Motions hearing in part 18. It's the last thing on my sched."
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"And for state desk?"
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"Additional cutbacks are said to be coming in the city M.T.A. Routes."
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"- Trial balloon from the governor. - Affects a lot of people, no?"
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"If it happens. They floated this once before."
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"Still, we can go outside and give them the potential impact."
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"Well, the truth is, we're following the Daily Record on this one."
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"Why don't we have that? If it's a trial balloon..."
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"- We should still pick that up. - Probably so, but..."
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"Just because Chicago tightens its belt, it's no reason for us to fall down."
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"Their cutbacks there shouldn't affect our ability to put out an excellent product."
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"Simply have to do more with less."
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"We have more resources than the Daily Record."
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"Though not a transport reporter."
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"Your eminence, slumming at the Metro meeting today?"
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"State's attorney complains about the decline in quality police casework,"
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"20 inches from Warmcastle. Got the city council tonight."
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"Won't get a vote on the homeless initiative, but we'll scratch some news out somehow."
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"Two-car fatal on the Beltway, two overnight murders in the city,"
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"and a fire ongoing in a Baltimore City row house"
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"for which we may or may not have art."
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"Regional affairs."
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"We have the Hopkins piece on biomed,"
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"though I'm told we didn't get art on today's press conference."
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"And 15 inches from the college park stringer on UM not making it's deseg goals again."
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"the campus has become much more hospitable to minorities."
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"- I'm told things have changed for the better. - Really?"
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"As you may know, Gene Robbins is dean of journalism there."
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"how the last few years have really transformed the school's reputation"
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"with black faculty and students."
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"- He's a white guy, right? - Who?"
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"I worked with Gene Robbins in Philadelphia."
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"So why don't we hold on the deseg story"
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"get a real sense of how UM is perceived by minorities?"
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"All right, then. Let's firm things up,"
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"Take a look at where we stand an hour from now."
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"Why poke him with a stick? You know who Gene Robbins is."
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"If I think something about a story, I'm gonna speak on it."
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"You know what a healthy newsroom is?"
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"It's a magical place where people argue about everything all the time."
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"Thank you."
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"I know that wasn't no court date."
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"So what the fuck was that about?"
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"part of the port case years back?"
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"Miss Gutierrez."
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"Gutierrez!"
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"Yeah."
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"Yeah. They were."
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"I mean, you can, if you want, but that's not what you want to say here."
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"A building can be evacuated."
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"To evacuate a person is to give that person an enema."
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"You teach them, Spry."
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"Fuckety-fuck."
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"Another burnt doll."
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"- Oh, yeah? - Yeah."
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"Every fire photo he brings in"
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"there's got to be some burnt doll somewhere in the debris."
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"pouring lighter fluid on each one."
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"You check his fucking trunk, you'll find a whole collection."
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"What's your lead?"
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"Council delays vote on the homeless initiative at Carcetti's behest."
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"He's right. You don't evacuate people."
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"- What? - Never mind."
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"- Working on anything good? - Just what day cops missed."
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"Briefs, huh?"
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"Quiet day so far."
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"- It's a shit news town. - You think?"
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"How many stories go national out of here? Not many."
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"And they didn't even solve it, right?"
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"Jeff. Jeffy-Jeff."
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"Come here. Jesus Christ."
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"What now?"
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"Shit, check the clips too. It goes back a-ways."
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"Check that. You go back to the hall, you get the vote on this thing."
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"Why? Who's Ricardo Hendrix?"
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"Alma, Scott, this property on Baltimore Street is a titty bar"
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"the city wants for the Howard Street enterprise zone,"
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"This is a drug dealer they're trading properties with?"
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"He's got a record as long as your arm. Couple of convictions too."
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"Go, go. Get some good quotes."
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"Alma... I want you to go to this address."
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"It's a strip club called Desperado."
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"Who is he?"
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"But from the look of this, he's running some sort of game at city hall."
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"We want a comment as to why he's trading property with the city,"
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"Pull clips, check the morgue files,"
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"write the A-matter on Ricardo's history."
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"Wait, she goes to strip clubs and I'm pulling clips in the morgue?"
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"- You late for the council meeting? - Looking for you."
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"Mr. Mayor, I was told I could get a few minutes tonight."
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"- You're on my schedule? - Everything ran late today."
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"- They were supposed to ring you, I think. - What, do it quick or do we resched?"
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"Burrell's disbanded the unit that's working the bodies in the houses."
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"When we're fat with money, you can come back on it."
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"Investigations are not like that."
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"Colonel, we got no money. No fucking money at all."
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"There's nothing we can do until the new fiscal."
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"But, Tommy, that kills Clay Davis for me and we're about to go to grand jury on it."
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"I need some profile for my shop."
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"How much of that unit do you need to bring the case in?"
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"A couple of detectives."
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"I'll tell Rawls you can keep two men for Clay. The rest is shut down until we can dig out."
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"I got to run."
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"So one thieving politician trumps 22 dead bodies."
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"Good to know."
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"No more two-man patrols."
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"Schools."
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"Seems like you got out at the right time, huh?"
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"I'm doing good, man."
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"I got more work than I can get to."
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"It's like once word got around,"
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"these fucking lawyers came out of the fucking woodwork."
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