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Clips from The Wire - Slapstick (S03E03)

"What?"
The Wire
"You started something. You ain't gonna finish it?"
The Wire
"- What do you mean? - On a battlefield you can't do much..."
The Wire
"And making the game street legal takes the heart out of it."
The Wire
"Keep it going, we gonna reach some of those people..."
The Wire
"But what happens when you turn your district over to the next man?"
The Wire
"Or people get wind of this thing and there's no one to defend it? What then?"
The Wire
"- How's the contrast on that? - Good for daylight."
The Wire
"On a Sunday? What the fuck, Lester?"
The Wire
"Could say the same of you."
The Wire
"No life, no marriage, no kids."
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"No problem."
The Wire
"What's with the video?"
The Wire
"Catch him coming and going."
The Wire
"- Hey, you need help? - You're a known face."
The Wire
"I figure me and Prez do it on a Sunday, shop is closed..."
The Wire
"you know, looking like working men."
The Wire
"You know something, Lester? I do believe there aren't five swinging dicks..."
The Wire
"I'm not saying, like, all chest-out and shit. It's just, I mean, you think about it..."
The Wire
"there's maybe, what, 3,000 sworn, right?"
The Wire
"Hundred or so are bosses, so there's not a fucking clue there."
The Wire
"Few more hundred is sergeants and lieutenants."
The Wire
"Most of them wanna be bosses one day, so they're just as fucked."
The Wire
"Then there's 600 or 700 fucking housecats, you know?"
The Wire
"that's 1,500 guys chasing calls and clearing corners."
The Wire
"And CID's the same."
The Wire
"Catching calls, chasing quick clearances, keeping everything in the shallow end."
The Wire
"I mean, who is there out there, can do what we can do with a case?"
The Wire
"How many are there really?"
The Wire
"Don Worden, Ed Burns, Gary Childs out in the county..."
The Wire
"John O'Neil and Steve Cleary over at Woodlawn."
The Wire
"We're good at this, Lester. In this town, we're as good as it gets."
The Wire
"- Natural police. - Fuck, yes, natural police."
The Wire
"Tell me something, Jimmy. How exactly do you think it all ends?"
The Wire
"- What do you mean? - A parade? A golden watch?"
The Wire
"A shining Jimmy-McNulty-Day moment when you bring in a case..."
The Wire
"so sweet everybody gets together and says..."
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"It won't make you whole, it won't fill your ass up."
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"- I don't know. A good case... - Ends. They all end."
The Wire
"and the next morning it's just you in your room with yourself."
The Wire
"Until the next case."
The Wire
"Boy, you need something outside of this here."
The Wire
"Like what? Dollhouse miniatures?"
The Wire
"Hey, hey, hey. A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is?"
The Wire
"- On a Sunday morning? - We called to ask."
The Wire
"And Shamrock said to go."
The Wire
"On a Sunday morning, y'all try to hit a nigga..."
The Wire
"when he taking his wrinkle-ass grandmas to pray."
The Wire
"And y'all don't hit the nigga, neither."
The Wire
"And by the time Sham say go, Omar damn near in the cab."
The Wire
"Ain't enough y'all done violated the Sunday morning truce."
The Wire
"No! I'm standing here holding a torn-up church crown..."
The Wire
"of a bona fide colored lady."
The Wire
"Do you know what a colored lady is? Not your moms, for sure."
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"'Cause if they was that..."
The Wire
"y'all would've known better than that bullshit."
The Wire
"Y'all trifling with Avon Barksdale reputation here."
The Wire
"You know that?"
The Wire
"Is she all right, though?"
The Wire
"She got cut on her face from the glass and she sore from where I fell on her."
The Wire
"I damn near got that woman killed, yo."
The Wire
"Y'all should've seen me in Sinai Hospital while they stitching her up..."
The Wire
"- Cafeteria? - At the airport, yeah."
The Wire
"The airport? Why the airport?"
The Wire
"'Cause I know she ain't never gonna go down there to go dining, that's why."
The Wire
"Hey, yo, Kimmy, this ain't funny, yo. That woman raised me!"
The Wire
"And, for as long as I been grown, once a month I been with her on a church Sunday."
The Wire
"Telling myself ain't no need to worry 'cause there ain't nobody..."
The Wire
"Y'all know I was gonna walk away, right? Y'all know that, right?"
The Wire
"I mean, after Tosha, I was gonna leave them people be, yo."
The Wire
"- Avon home now. - Oh, Barksdale got to go."
The Wire
"I mean, no shame, them niggas! Man, y'all feel me?"
The Wire
"I'm out."
The Wire
"If you back to dealing with Barksdale people, I'm out, yo."
The Wire
"I'm in it for the money. It's easier out there than that."
The Wire
"Just you and me then. Like it was."
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"No, yo. This one about me."
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"- And nobody else. - Hey, I'm with you."
The Wire
"Okay, guys."
The Wire
"We are maybe a step and a half away from being up on a wire on these people."
The Wire
"showing the disposable phones are being used in a drug conspiracy."
The Wire
"McNulty and Greggs, you're on that angle."
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"You need to walk either an undercover or a wired CI..."
The Wire
"because when the probable cause comes in..."
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"Detective, you're the chaser on our boy Bernard."
The Wire
"When he goes out for cell phones, we're right behind."
The Wire
"The faster we get ahold of the new numbers..."
The Wire
"the faster we're up on those phones."
The Wire
"Now, when Caroline comes back off vacation..."
The Wire
"she's gonna be on the mini-cam."
The Wire
"and we keep an eye out for Mr. Barksdale as well."
The Wire
"Try to get a line on where he spends his days."
The Wire
"As for me, I'm off to do battle with the wireless company."
The Wire
"They a problem?"
The Wire
"Have been since the damn things were invented."
The Wire
"Remember that with this wire, everything is a race against the clock."
The Wire
"Anything we get up on is only temporary."
The Wire
"- Lee, where's the DNR log? - What?"
The Wire
"The log."
The Wire
"Never mind, I got it right here."
The Wire
"All Stringer, all the time."
The Wire
"Theresa D'Agostino, please."
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"No, I left one already."
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"- A boxing gym? - For kids and all. An athletic club."
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""Gyms, reducing salons, public baths are permitted only in properties zoned..."
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""B2, B3, B4 or B5.""
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"All signed and sealed by a registered architect and engineer..."
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"Hydronic piping and equipment layouts."
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"with emergency exits and sprinkler system noted."
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"Health Department since it's a physical culture and health service."
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"- Mid-size or full? - Mid-size."
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"They got that XM radio and all."
The Wire
"I'm saying if we gonna be in that damn car all damn day, it's worth it, Bernard."
The Wire
"You do that to me."
The Wire
"I hear you."
The Wire
"So, down there on Vincent Street, they don't even hide the ground stash anymore."
The Wire
"and ask for 30 or so. Enough so that they have to call for a quick re-up."
The Wire
"That's the important thing. We want him to use his burner."
The Wire
"- All right. I get to keep the 30. - Thirty'd kill you, Bubs."
The Wire
"once you come back here with all of that product."
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