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Clips from The Wire - The Dickensian Aspect (S05E05)

"We're looking for a man went after a woman last night at Esplanda Apartments."
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"Oh my God, that's terrible. Is the woman all right?"
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"- The woman, is she all right? - Yeah, she good."
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"Excuse me. My brother, Omar Little, came here last night. He fell out the damn window."
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"Which one?"
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"Now he gonna be at us."
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"and what will soon become known as New Westport,"
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"Fuck you, Krawczyk."
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"and selling it to some yuppie assholes from Washington."
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"That asshole's making up his own shit."
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"- What's with all the casework? - Bodies from the vacants."
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"You know what, Jimmy? I'm gonna go back to the beginning"
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"and work every one of them again. Back to square one."
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"I work murders. I don't fuck with no make-believe, I don't jerk shit around."
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"Because in three or four hours the money's gonna flow on my case."
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"This is not the kind of thing we let go of after a day or two."
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"If it's an overnight thing, I couldn't get it for tomorrow, but the next day, sure..."
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"- They're looking for you to go on-camera. - Me? On television?"
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"Star time."
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"The human element."
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"and writing from that perspective."
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"as our attention to homelessness can."
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"These murders, the phone call to our reporter."
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"It really opens up the issue."
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"but on the nature of homelessness itself."
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"I've reached a point, Detective Sydnor,"
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"where I no longer have the time or patience left"
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"So what are you talking about?"
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"when they said they couldn't pay for further investigation,"
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"I'm responding in kind. I'm going to press a case"
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"I'm running an illegal wiretap on Marlo Stanfield's cellphone."
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"I understand completely"
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"and I urge you to get as far fucking away from me as you can."
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"on his dead guy's appliance store, pulled all of that out of the desk drawer."
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"- That they are. - Tell me they're talking in code, Lester."
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"Nothing but what they seem."
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"So he ain't doing business with the phone then."
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"each one picked up on the first ring, each one with nothing whatsoever"
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"said between parties. You see? When they talk, it's bullshit."
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"Marlo's not gonna talk dirt on the phone, but there's something to this."
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"I just haven't figured it out."
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"Remember what the DNC folks told me two years ago? How to take the statehouse?"
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"A press event held earlier today to announce the revitalization"
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"of yet another part of our city was not so well attended."
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"It would appear that media attention is always focusing on the negatives in Baltimore,"
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"but you aren't around when we're making real progress."
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"but national attention to this problem."
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"Our homeless citizens, those who have fallen through the cracks of our society,"
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"We try to move them away from downtown,"
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"Well, I am, God forgive me, a politician."
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"Somebody is killing homeless men in this city."
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"We will do everything in our power to stop them. You have my word on this."
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"Thank you, Mr. Mayor."
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"- What got into you? - What?"
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"to apprehend this subject."
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"I cannot go into specifics of the investigation but, with that caveat, I will take questions."
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"We'll take whatever help is offered."
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"Our ability to secure genetic material and the growing DNA data bank"
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"Our ability to effectively use resources"
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"Has a note been found at any of the scenes?"
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"He told you who I am, right?"
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"And you know what happens then?"
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"all those people who kept quiet about it, who lied about it,"
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"calling the reporter from a new number."
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"So you want to tap the reporter's phone as well."
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"with anyone who buys ink by the barrel-full."
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"How many enemies do you need?"
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"What's up with you?"
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"- Workin' the whole mess at once. - I'm trying to see 'em fresh."
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"Left the little kids alive, so I guess he ain't all bad."
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"People out there so scared of this motherfucker,"
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"I can't get close to an eyewitness on any of it."
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"A year later I'm still walking in written requests into Landsman,"
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"The fuck you say?"
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"- A temp? - Yeah. No medical. No pension."
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"A temp hire to get us over for a while."
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"We have no idea which one of your scenes any of this shit came from."
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"We don't have a clue."
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"- Surveillance teams. - Two each on 12-hour shifts."
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"- So it's all bullshit. - I dunno."
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"I thought the mayor gave a very nice speech."
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"- Tell you one thing... - What's that?"
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"I'm responsible."
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"Now I'm doublin' the bounty..."
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"- What about the connect? - I got that covered."
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"In fact, I ain't really one for meets no how."
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"Anybody got a problem here on out, bring it to me, or sit on that shit."
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"One more thing."
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"All right. Enough of this shit."
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"Next year for the schools. From now until December,"
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"I appealed to Klebanow half hour ago but he gave me the thumbs down. I'm sorry."
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"Well, no, I wouldn't say that. I mean..."
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"Fuckin' hack judge."
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"It just pissed me off listening to him."
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"Oh yeah, no surveillance cars."
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"Assholes."
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"I'm sayin' it don't take much to shoot down a blind man."
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"Just like a little bitch, he ain't nowhere to be found."
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"There's more than one way to skin a case."
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"Already ran them for priors, right?"
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"An H-file?"
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"He's right though. You were great. That passion was just the thing."
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"Replaced it with T-Dap, which cuts funding to anyone who doesn't qualify for federal support."
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"which put all kinda folks out on the street."
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"I'll be damned."
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"Negative."
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"Hold on. Somebody's here."
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"Can't get used to how empty this place feels nowadays."
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"The trial date is coming up on us fast."
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"When he weren't in jail..."
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"Beaten bad. Crime of passion, as we say."
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"I been in this game longer than a little bit, and there's one thing I know."
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"And I'll tell you what..."
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"It's amazing what it does for the grieving process."
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"- He runnin' with them who did it. - You just tryin' to put me off the scent."
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"- Add a minute-six to your times. - Got it."
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"Here it is. Look at this."
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"I took these three. They're just hangin' around."
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"Pictures..."
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"Excuse me."
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