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Clips from The Wire - The Dickensian Aspect (S05E05)

"Absolutely. Where? On my way."
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"Why don't we go buy up a bunch of toys and take 'em to your kids?"
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"It's Omar!"
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"Tell that boy he ain't man enough to come down to the street with Omar."
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"a camera or two, and in a couple of weeks, we'd have them. That's what you said."
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"So I cranked up my bullshit to pay for that"
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"but no, then you needed a wiretap."
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"Then you ask for surveillance teams,"
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"I gotta tell you, Lester, I don't want to hurt your feelings,"
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"But the truth is, I'm running Sydnor ragged"
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"We can't make another murder."
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"Thanks for the milk."
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"What's a donut without milk?"
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"So you were talking about your second tour..."
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"- The bad one. - Yeah."
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"M-niner-niner-eight?"
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"It was all good. Then, bam..."
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"The blast tore the M-fifty gunner in half."
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"It's the laughing I can't shake."
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"Weird."
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"What happened next?"
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"Nothing really. We pushed out, secured the perimeter."
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"Corpsman did what he could, an' we waited for the casevac."
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"to hear about school zoning and this woman talked my ear off about this."
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"Yeah. Good stuff. Listen,"
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"- A scholarship fund we wrote up. - So?"
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"- and kids never saw a dime. - Christ, who the fuck..."
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"I know. It's probably some old biddy talkin' about stuff she don't know,"
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"but maybe you should go back and check with the family,"
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"No, no. Not now. After you file. Just make a couple calls, huh?"
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"They'll write it off as some fraternity prank."
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"- How do you know he's nuts? - First of all, just look at him."
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"He's fucking bouncing off the walls. Second of all... I got his scrip."
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"I called the university ER. It's an anti-psychotic."
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"I took his I.D.,"
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"I got that one from the first homeless death Oscar gave us."
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""I ain't no pervert," or whatever. Now, the killer says,"
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"By the looks of it, we got a whole lot of DNA outta this mess."
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"- Now, motherfucker. Right now. - Top of my list."
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"And best of all, I gave you cash money just for walking in the door."
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"We should start with our witness list. See if we can pare that down any,"
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"The deputy ops brought me those."
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"Baltimore."
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"Donald, do you have identification?"
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"Donald, why don't we get you something to eat?"
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"No extra color. No puffy adjectives."
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"read it and weep. And I mean that literally."
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"OK."
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"Is there anything else I can do for him?"
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"Most people, they just ignore them."
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"I just want to get your paperwork taken care of."
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"Gotta be somewhere. You wanna keep goin'?"
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"Officer Smith, ma'am."
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"- Heard anything unusual? - No, sorry."
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"- We don't have anyone by that name. - He was kinda high."
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"Probably messed up his name. Real dark, got himself a scar."
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"Legs should be busted up real bad."
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"No one with that type of injury came in last night."
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"Not a goddamn thing. Been in every trash can, dumpster, vacant for three blocks 'round."
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"- Nothin'. - We even checked down the sewers."
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"- Marlo wanna meet. - So what you want us to do?"
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"- Don't seem possible. - It don't."
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"That some Spiderman shit there."
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"We missed our shot."
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"Usually, my staff tries to keep sharp objects out of my hands."
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"You know, it all started with Charles Center and Tommy d'Alesandro"
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"and it continued with William Donald Schaefer and Harborplace."
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"And following that, there were mayors Schmoke and O'Malley with Inner Harbor East."
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"Well, today it is my administration's turn to lay claim to the middle branch of the Patapsco"
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"revitalizing another waterfront area of our great city. Thank you."
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"Say goodbye to Locust Point South."
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"Yeah, fuck you, greedhead motherfucker."
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"Fuck you for tearing down the port of Baltimore"
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"- C'mon, buddy. - This is bullshit."
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"- Who the hell's that? - That's nobody, Mr. Mayor. It's nobody at all."
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"- You happy now, bitch? - I am content, yes."
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"- You called the reporter? - No, actually."
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"Brass called a press conference for this afternoon."
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"They'll be shoveling so much money at my bullshit it'll make your head spin."
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"- Some still missing lab work. - Pathetic..."
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"And some of them have been worked pretty good."
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"You know why? Because I'm a murder police."
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"I catch a murder and I work it."
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"Working this shit like I'm supposed to."
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"Well, let me know if you need anything, all right?"
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"Cars, some OT, some lab work... Anything you need."
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"Whatever you need, I'm probably gonna have more of it than even Lester could use."
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"To be that close to a serial killer. It must be weird."
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"Kinda. Yeah."
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"- Wonderful story, Scott. - Yeah, well, it kinda wrote itself."
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"It's lucky to have the guy call me like he did..."
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"It comes from pounding the pavement, right? That's more than luck."
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"That's putting yourself in the place where the story comes to you."
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"What do you have for tomorrow?"
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"I was thinking that if I spent a night with the homeless, you know."
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"Did what they did. Saw what they saw."
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"That's great. That could be the perfect follow. I'll speak to Gus."
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"We've been taking calls from some of the networks and cable outlets."
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"I'd avoid locals, but if you can do the national stuff responsibly..."
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"Sure, yeah. I mean, I'm just not all that comfortable"
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"having myself in the center of the story like this."
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"Of course not. But there is a way of handling this responsibly."
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"Just remember you're an ambassador for the paper."
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"How about that?"
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"- Homelessness? - Our coverage should reflect"
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"the Dickensian aspect of the homeless."
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"Scott will lead it off, spending a night on the streets"
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"He's the lead on your education project. We need to get him back on the..."
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"I don't see the school project as yielding the same kind of impact"
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"- Yeah, but... - From now till the end of the year,"
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"let's focus not only on covering the murders,"
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"The Dickensian aspect of it. Yeah."
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"to address myself to the needs of the system within which we work."
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"- I'm tired. - You're gonna quit?"
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"Not yet. Not just yet."
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"When they took us off Marlo this last time,"
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"I regarded that decision as illegitimate."
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"- Illegitimate? - And so..."
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"against Marlo Stanfield without regard to the usual rules."
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"- Fuck. Lester? - If you have a problem with this,"
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