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Clips from The Wire - Slapstick (S03E03)

"- I was just asking. - Just telling."
The Wire
"- It can't be done. - Excuse me?"
The Wire
"The activation information you're gonna want?"
The Wire
"That stuff's not accessible from the business office until it goes to billing..."
The Wire
"But, more than that, we have dozens of law enforcement inquiries every month."
The Wire
"Thirty days?"
The Wire
"Your company is in business selling disposable cell phones..."
The Wire
"to people who don't have to give any subscriber information..."
The Wire
"- at the time of purchase, correct? - Correct."
The Wire
"They buy these phones and as far as you're concerned..."
The Wire
"they use them anonymously, pre-paying for their minutes..."
The Wire
"From the retailers, yes."
The Wire
"And while they're using these phones anonymously, for whatever purpose..."
The Wire
"can't react within a month to a court order for a wiretap?"
The Wire
"- We do the best we can. - This is bullshit."
The Wire
"You're selling a phone that you know is effective for drug trafficking."
The Wire
"Lieutenant, our prepaid inventory is there for young people..."
The Wire
"college students and such, people who can't afford a permanent cell phone plan."
The Wire
"What college student can't afford a cell phone?"
The Wire
"I resent the suggestion."
The Wire
"Just so I'm clear, you're telling me that even if by some miracle we are able..."
The Wire
"to get up on a drug dealer's disposable cell phone in time to catch him talking..."
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"you're gonna take as much as a month to activate our tap."
The Wire
"Well, if you have a problem with that, your office can contact our general counsel."
The Wire
"That's all I can say."
The Wire
"How about this? How about the State's Attorney for Baltimore City..."
The Wire
"Bay Wireless is in league with the most violent drug traffickers in the city..."
The Wire
"preventing their apprehension and arrest by law enforcement."
The Wire
"Four to five days turnaround. Best we can do."
The Wire
"I swear, I felt like a damn balloon with air rushing out my ass..."
The Wire
"going from desk to desk."
The Wire
"- Frank Reid. - Dennis Wise."
The Wire
"Reverend, our man Dennis spent all day..."
The Wire
"down at the Benton Building, trying for permits."
The Wire
"- On the new gym? - Yeah."
The Wire
"You use my name?"
The Wire
"No, look, man, I'm just saying, how y'all regular folk get it done in this town?"
The Wire
"- Yellow tops, yellow tops. - Obliged, man, obliged."
The Wire
"Keeping it close, you know? You tell a friend, okay?"
The Wire
"Too hot for them black tees, right?"
The Wire
"All right, let me get 30. Thirty pills."
The Wire
"come up with $300 in motherfucking cash, man?"
The Wire
"Well, I've been selling these T-shirts for weeks now, you know."
The Wire
"I mean, I might be raggedy, but I'm in a cash business."
The Wire
"You want my money or no?"
The Wire
"Yeah, we out. All right."
The Wire
"Shouldn't be long."
The Wire
"- That'll work. - Bubs just made another $25."
The Wire
"- Theresa D'Agostino, please. - I'm sorry, but she's not in."
The Wire
"- Can I take a message? - No, I'll call back."
The Wire
"- So, how's that working? - What?"
The Wire
"- Your new ho. - So far, so good."
The Wire
"- You got the receipts, man? - Yeah, most of them."
The Wire
"A few blew out the damn window on the interstate."
The Wire
"Good, y'all made it."
The Wire
"Yeah, we putting in some work. Come on upstairs so we can talk."
The Wire
"Back with numbers."
The Wire
"- How many? - Twenty-four Trac phones."
The Wire
"- He went out l-70 this time. - Can you blame him? The scenery's better."
The Wire
"We're gonna have a lot of DNRs up. But with any luck..."
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"- You wanna call Pearlman? - All right."
The Wire
"Who's hungry?"
The Wire
"- How about Chinese? - Sounds good to me."
The Wire
"- You guys call it in and I'll go. - Let me have some of that lo mein."
The Wire
"You take a turn typing this shit and I'll go with him."
The Wire
"Be willing to soldier up for us on retainer. Milton put me up on them."
The Wire
"Man, we gonna be back where we was, String. You know, I can smell it."
The Wire
"We just got to get this boy Marlo and then we spread out like we do."
The Wire
"Them co-op boys, man, they ain't too happy about this situation, man."
The Wire
"Yeah. They say they got cops on corners where they wouldn't have otherwise."
The Wire
"- Everybody nervous. - Man, fuck them niggas."
The Wire
"I mean, Prop Joe said he'd mediate. You know what I mean?"
The Wire
"Go to Marlo, talk on it."
The Wire
"Yeah, well, if he take a gun with him, maybe it could work."
The Wire
"Let me ask you something, though."
The Wire
"Did you tell them discount-ass niggas that they could pop off at Omar grandma?"
The Wire
"Oh, man. Sham come to me in the middle of the meeting..."
The Wire
"They say nothing about no grandma. No church hat, nothing like that."
The Wire
"I hear the cocksucker's name, I say, "go.""
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"- On a Sunday morning? - Yo, I don't give a fuck, man."
The Wire
"I hear that cocksucker's name, man, I ain't thinking about a church day."
The Wire
"The Sunday truce been around long as the game itself, man."
The Wire
"I mean, you know what I'm saying, you can do some shit..."
The Wire
"and be like "what the fuck," but, hey, just never on no Sunday, man."
The Wire
"I mean, it's just like people was talking on us and all..."
The Wire
"and the stories are getting bigger and bigger."
The Wire
"Like, I swear to God, Fatface Rick heard that our people went and shot..."
The Wire
"Omar granny in the ass on purpose, and all that."
The Wire
"And that pulled their dicks out, pissed on her crown and shit."
The Wire
"No, I mean, I heard the same bullshit."
The Wire
"Prop Joe gave me an earful. But, yo, what can I say, man?"
The Wire
"Good help is hard to find."
The Wire
"If it wasn't, you think I'd be paying East Side niggas for shit?"
The Wire
"Yeah. Yo, we still off them corners?"
The Wire
"Yeah, got to be."
The Wire
"Yeah, maybe we should put a couple more crews..."
The Wire
"on them free zones them cops got."
The Wire
"You know what I mean? Take the profit where we can."
The Wire
"- You trust that shit? - I mean, so far."
The Wire
"And if they running game, man, they ain't gonna get..."
The Wire
"What you gonna do with them two niggas you got waiting downstairs?"
The Wire
"I gonna make them buy the lady a new hat."
The Wire
"What're we waiting for? Sweet and sour?"
The Wire
"What's the difference?"
The Wire
""A new friend makes himself known.""
The Wire
"If it was "herself," then you'd have a fortune."
The Wire
"Shit, I'm married with lawn furniture, man."
The Wire
"But that's nothing new."
The Wire
"The way these guys are using disposables nowadays..."
The Wire
"we cannot get a working wire up in time."
The Wire
"They're dumping phones."
The Wire
"Cellular carriers tell them they need nearly a week to process the paperwork."
The Wire
"They're only half-scared of us, but a visit from the Feds?"
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"- You all have profile enough to push them. - I don't know."
The Wire
"Once again, guys, the Bureau's a little busy with counter-terrorism."
The Wire
"he only touches himself at the mention of political corruption."
The Wire
"Ghetto drug stuff just doesn't rate. I'm sorry to say."
The Wire
"Unit 13. In the alley in the rear, East Side, 800 North Montford."
The Wire
"- That's five blocks, up and over. - Go."
The Wire
"What's the cross street? What's the cross street?"
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