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Clips from The Wire - Not for Attribution (S05E05)

"What time did McNulty leave last night?"
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"Bunk, this can work."
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"Transient locales, no nearest, no dearest. No one gives a fuck."
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"Houses. Car payments. Furniture."
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"You won't even get past the ME."
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"that we can't solve, you're fucking the squad's clearance rate."
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"The fucking numbers destroyed this fucking department."
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"This case doesn't go away just because the bosses can't find the money to pay for it."
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"My name is nowhere in the file."
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"I want to see my story."
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"Why pay for it when I get it for free at the office?"
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"Be back."
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"Brother Ray."
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"When does the Sun get here?"
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"Anybody got a working car?"
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"I'll get a lift over from one of the central cars."
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"You see Greggs out there, bagging evidence alone,"
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"a home invasion, and she's working it alone."
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"I guess she's lucky she has a car."
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"- This shit won't work. - Then we're no worse than before."
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"Barlow had an open strangle a few years back."
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"Upstairs wouldn't jump on a real serial killer -"
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"fuckin' Marlo, who's got bodies all over him."
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"Well, maybe they need the make-believe."
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"Yeah, maybe you're the asshole just lost his fucking mind."
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"- Yeah, I'm locked in the box. - In the box?"
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"- It's no joke. Let me out. - Be right there."
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"but mostly he just fucks himself."
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"you couldn't pull a pin from it with a John Deere tractor."
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"Here you're promising a double-digit drop,"
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"and he gives you a 4% bump for two quarters in a row."
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"- Thanks for bringing these by, Stan. - I wanted to give you a heads-up."
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"and the ministers dealing with Commissioner Valchek?"
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"Burrell comes in here and owns these,"
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"Your piece took a bad bite there."
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"Advertising's down, we got a smaller news hole,"
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"we're not managing it well."
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"That's all."
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"Wrong zip code."
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"I drove down to the Port Covington plant this morning to get a copy."
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"You ain't the first to do that."
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"Finish your breakfast. I got plenty of time."
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"Steve, could someone get word across the hall to Features and Sports?"
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"What, did we get sold again?"
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"First the LA Times buys us up, then the Tribune."
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"Look at Whiting's pants."
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"Tum-what?"
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"Tumescent. Engorged."
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"Exactly."
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"Our circulation numbers are also down as we compete with a variety of media."
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"Technology is driving distribution,"
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"and the internet Is a free source of news and opinions."
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"Elsewhere in the newsroom,"
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"going to have to find ways to do more with less."
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"a couple of witnesses who thought they heard sounds of a struggle"
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"Good hunting, Detective."
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""can schedule an appointment with human resources.""
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"Some of you will migrate into new positions"
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"Aw, no."
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"No increase in felonies and a 1% bump in total crime."
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"Because the one thing I'm asking of you guys,"
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"Burrell is done."
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"And replace him with who? Rawls?"
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"The ministers won't live with Rawls. Neither will Nerese."
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"A year will do in a pinch."
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"The Russian sent me."
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"Just let him know Marlo came past with a gift."
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"I have meetings scheduled."
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"Yes, it is, for a nonprofit, interest-bearing account,"
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"Medical examiner says so."
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"Weird thing about my case, Bunk."
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"What does a homeless guy have to remember"
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"Nice out."
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"Ain't enough mattresses, is there, now?"
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"Cut back people and pages, you increase revenue."
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"If we're lucky, they'll just get rid of deadwood."
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"How'd it go?"
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"Without being explicit, they gave me a choice -"
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"Apparently, they can hire 1.5 twentysomethings"
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"for what it costs to keep me in print, so..."
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"Have a seat."
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"There's still going to be excellent talent out there that needs to be developed."
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"Doing more with less."
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"Go home? For the love of God, I'm working a serial killer."
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"We should do something, Mike."
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"That shit's taking forever."
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"Complicated stuff, I suppose."
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"Definitely not."
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"He down with all kind of missionary work going on down in the islands."
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"You know, building a church for some folk,"
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"a schoolhouse for some other folks, all kind of good shit like that."
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"- A hospital. - Hospital, yeah."
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"Again."
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"You got out just at the right time too."
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"He's talking to people and considering replacements."
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"Rawls, deputy for operations, might have the job for a few months,"
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"His ex-wife got herself elected to the council last go-round."
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"I always liked photos with my stories."
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"And this is aimed at who? Huh?"
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"The ministers? Nerese?"
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"A'ight."
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"From one whore to another."
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"Beautiful."
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"Where y'all need to go?"
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"Down Six Flags."
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"that won the council seat in '06."
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"they gave him the Western, hoping to clean up that district"
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"Since getting separated, he's been shacked up with Ronnie Pearlman"
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"- You sure? - Yeah, what the hell?"
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"It's Roger Twigg with the Sun papers."
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"Hey, an hour or two, I'd have had it surrounded."
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"No doubt."
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"A generous gift, but your money,"
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"the money you bring me, I don't need."
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"It's dirty money."
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"They're dirty, you understand?"
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"Ain't a problem."
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"Can I see your file?"
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"All lookin' nice."
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"See, people ain't right. Here you are tryin' to pay a motherfucker,"
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