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Clips from The Wire - Slapstick (S03E03)

"see if he's willing to throw sunshine on your ass."
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"- I like that. We should do that. - We?"
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"I was thinking maybe you would ticket your white ass up with me."
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"an emerging black leader, handsome, well-spoken."
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"You, the great white hope, the new voice of civic reform."
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"We could give Royce a run, man."
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"What the hell else you got going? Think about it."
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"- What's it look like? - Head and torso."
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"- You got two casings over here. - Hold the call."
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"Herc..."
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"- help them move the body. - What?"
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"Just up the block, just out of the free zone."
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"Carv, you lost your fucking mind?"
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"Before the ambo gets here to pronounce him, we can do it."
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"if they do any kind of canvass..."
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"- Good. - Herc, come on."
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"No way, man. No way."
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"Fuck those stripes. Fuck them."
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"Hey, Toke, Gil, help me move this guy out of Hamsterdam."
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"I'll be first officer at the scene. It's my responsibility."
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"Make sure that you call me."
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"- I will. Thank you. - Let me know, okay?"
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"- Take care. - All right."
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"7-60 to KGA."
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"Go ahead, 7-60."
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"Have 700, 10-11 me on Vincent Street, below Fayette."
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"10-4, Vincent south of Fayette."
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"Hey. You say you worked with this guy?"
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"Three shots, no warnings. He scared of black people or something?"
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"Shit."
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"- The shit's gone too far, man. - Hey, you're telling me."
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"Yeah, I need the number to the newspaper, The Sun."
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"Yeah, the number for the reporters. The newsroom, yeah."
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"- So, you ain't gonna say nothing on it? - What is there to say?"
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"- Avon, this is blood. Family. - I know it."
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"- To our family. - The cop's just saying that shit."
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"- To mess with your head. - Exactly."
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"Why?"
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"That cop don't know me for shit. What the hell am I to him?"
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"He know you're gonna wanna think this thing..."
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"that D, you know, he wouldn't do what he did."
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"I do think it!"
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"Was it some beef he had? Someone on the inside?"
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"That cop said it was someone who didn't want you to know..."
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"and so they made it look like it did."
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"Avon, you are my brother."
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"I need to know this more than anything."
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"He came to the edge, but he turned around and walked away."
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"And I know he was willing to do what he had to for his family."
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"For us."
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"But I need to know that you know that."
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"That you saw him that way."
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"What? What you trying to say?"
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"- Lf something happened... - The fuck are you even thinking?"
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"That I had something to do with it? I could do that to my own kin?"
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"Is that what you fucking think? The fuck is in your head?"
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"- To do with what? - Whatever happened."
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"Whatever it is that happened, Brianna."
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"You think I don't know my business? Is that what you think?"
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"I can get him to you tomorrow morning. Just let me see if I can find him."
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"Look, I'll make good on this."
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"What'd he say?"
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"They found a blood trail going back up the block."
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"- So maybe... - Smeared, with drag marks."
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"And they also found a third casing at the other end."
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"The deal is, we turn this into a dunker by tomorrow morning..."
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"or he starts typing a report for ISD and the Deputy Ops."
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"- Fuck me. - No, fuck me!"
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"I moved the body. You understand?"
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"Look, I respect that you did what you did on behalf..."
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"of what I'm trying to do down here, but the responsibility is mine."
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"Well, so what do we do?"
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"He basically said he wasn't gonna commit any new resources..."
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"of the Coordinating Council on Criminal Justice, for what that's worth."
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"Poor Clarence. He's looking tired."
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"So we're looking for help from the State House."
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"If the city could get a couple hundred thousand..."
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"we could afford an overtime detail to protect these folks."
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"- Could you convince him? - Clarence?"
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"- He barely listens anymore. - Jesus, tell me about it."
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"that's a long fucking time to be ignored."
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"I'm saying the rules got broke. My people kept their promises..."
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"Y'all, y'all ain't keep up your end of it."
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"Wasn't my people."
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"Look, I ain't making those distinctions right now."
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"The fact is, somebody brought a gun up in the free zone and used it."
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"And both those things against the promises made."
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"Now, I can't justify this shit if I got dead bodies up in there."
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"So, what I'm saying is this, come tomorrow..."
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"if I don't have a shooter in bracelets..."
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"I'm gonna take my people back up on the corners..."
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"and we gonna fuck y'all every way we can."
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"You hear me? Yeah, it was good while it lasted, huh?"
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"You had cash on the barrel and you ain't never need no bail money."
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"And hell, I had clean corners everywhere I looked."
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"You think that'll work?"
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"Do you?"
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"That's good food."
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"This and the Red Sage. Now it's all steakhouses and cigar bars."
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"So you live here, but you spend a lot of time in Baltimore, right?"
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"I have work up there."
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"And the alumni stuff with St. Mary's on the Hill."
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"I went to UM Law, so I still have connections there, too."
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"- Actually, I grew up in Homeland. - Yeah?"
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"Lauraville for me."
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"- Where'd you go to college? - Loyola. Only one year."
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"So you became a cop in Baltimore."
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"- How's that working for you? - It's pretty good."
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"Prolonged investigations of violent offenders, that kind of stuff."
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"Fact is, there's not a lot of guys in the department..."
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"who can do that kind of thing. You know, it takes a certain..."
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"I don't know, you gotta love it."
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"Thrill of the chase and all that."
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"- So, you do what in politics? - I do political campaigns."
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"- You mean like a campaign manager? - More of a strategist really."
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"Not so much the day-to-day stuff..."
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"A consultant of sorts."
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"I mean, he hasn't officially announced anything yet."
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"Hey, if you're for him, I'll throw the guy a vote. What the hell."
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"Who'd you vote for this time?"
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