Loading...
You're not connected to the Internet. Please check your connection.

Clips from The Wire - The Dickensian Aspect (S05E05)

"You remember this one here?"
The Wire
"I backed away from jackin' the boy up outta respect for that goofy motherfucker Prez."
The Wire
"Wonder what the young man might tell me a year later, though..."
The Wire
"- What the fuck is this? - Vernon here did a search warrant"
The Wire
"- Grand jury shit? - Transcripts, sealed indictments..."
The Wire
"- Who's your murder? - Eastside dealer by the name of Joe Stewart."
The Wire
"Caught one in the back of his head the other night."
The Wire
"Somebody finally touched Prop Joe."
The Wire
"You remember when Narcotics indicted Charlie Burman last year?"
The Wire
"Motherfucker ran a couple days before the raids, still on the wing."
The Wire
"The sealed indictments are all in there. Every one of 'em."
The Wire
"Who don't we trust at the courthouse?"
The Wire
"- They put cheese on them fries? - They can. Chili too."
The Wire
"- All right, then. - You want a drink with that?"
The Wire
"- Strawberry lemonade. - All right, I'm on it."
The Wire
"They're back on cellphones. After more than a year?"
The Wire
"I wanna go to jail for snatchin' something better than Marlo's lunch order."
The Wire
"There's no code that I can tell. Half dozen calls."
The Wire
"All routine. No drug talk, no numbers, no times..."
The Wire
"Take this mess down. Let's get outta here."
The Wire
"I also have five calls, 30 to 40 seconds' duration,"
The Wire
"But there are calls where no one says a thing."
The Wire
"Thirty seconds, without conversation."
The Wire
"Is he..."
The Wire
"We talked it through, he knows the risks."
The Wire
"I'm in. If it makes the fucking case, I'm in all the way."
The Wire
"So, what's up now? They talking dirt?"
The Wire
"- No. - Lester. Fuck."
The Wire
"to get on these guys to see how they using the phones."
The Wire
"You see the newspaper today?"
The Wire
"Headline like that, the bosses are gonna start throwing money at the homeless murders."
The Wire
"When they do, I'll peel off a couple detectives, throw them your way."
The Wire
"The homeless murders? How does that case tangle in with this?"
The Wire
"Hard to explain."
The Wire
"Build something downtown and stick your name on it,"
The Wire
"get the crime to go down, and stay away from schools."
The Wire
"- And keep my boyish good looks. - One out of four ain't bad."
The Wire
"Jesus."
The Wire
"Did we have to schedule this the same day as New Westport?"
The Wire
"My news isn't even going to make the front of the local section."
The Wire
"The ribbon-cutting was scheduled two weeks ago. No one saw the homeless thing coming."
The Wire
"First of all, I'm surprised to see so much media here."
The Wire
"Still, I'm glad to see so many of you here."
The Wire
"Some of you representing not just our local media,"
The Wire
"to address yourselves to this tragedy."
The Wire
"those who command the least of our attentions and efforts,"
The Wire
"they seemingly have little to endear themselves to politicians."
The Wire
"They don't vote, by and large. They don't contribute to campaigns."
The Wire
"They offer little to a city's tax base,"
The Wire
"and to the extent that our government is made aware of their existence,"
The Wire
"it responds by trying to mitigate the damage done by their presence."
The Wire
"We open a food bank here, a shelter there."
The Wire
"away from our communal areas, away from our schools, away from our homes."
The Wire
"If you were to judge our society by the manner in which we treat those lost on our streets,"
The Wire
"we would have cause to be shamed."
The Wire
"But I ran for public office because I believe that there is a different way of governing."
The Wire
"And I believe that in the end we will be judged not by the efforts we make on behalf"
The Wire
"of those who vote for us, who contribute to our campaigns,"
The Wire
"or those who provide for our tax base."
The Wire
"I believe that we will be judged by what we provide to the weakest and most vulnerable."
The Wire
"That is the test. That is my test."
The Wire
"Taking the lives of fellow citizens who do not have the means or the strength"
The Wire
"to properly protect themselves. They will be stopped."
The Wire
"I want to assure the public that we are doing everything possible in our power"
The Wire
"Homicide detectives are working non-stop."
The Wire
"District officers are in contact with the agencies that work with the homeless."
The Wire
"Commissioner, is there any connection"
The Wire
"between these murders and those in the vacant homes last year?"
The Wire
"No connection."
The Wire
"Commissioner, are you asking the FBI to join in the investigation?"
The Wire
"I think deputy commissioner Daniels is in a position to elaborate on that."
The Wire
"Our detectives will work closely with the behavioral analysis unit at Quantico..."
The Wire
"Deputy, even with all the resources at your disposal,"
The Wire
"isn't it extremely difficult to catch a serial killer?"
The Wire
"are assets unavailable to us even a few years ago."
The Wire
"has been increased with the aid of sophisticated computer software."
The Wire
"And we have some of the best criminal investigators in the nation working 24/7."
The Wire
"As the mayor made very clear a moment ago, this is now a priority for the department."
The Wire
"I'm not at liberty to go into any details of the investigation at this time."
The Wire
"You want me to hang?"
The Wire
"Son, the thing about murder is it never goes off the books."
The Wire
"I mean, we work on 'em for weeks, months, years."
The Wire
"We keep on with it until finally someone decides they've had enough,"
The Wire
"until we get the right word from the right person."
The Wire
"When a case does go down..."
The Wire
"all of them who thought it wasn't coming back on 'em,"
The Wire
"they end up catchin' a charge. And they get time behind that."
The Wire
"Time? You gonna give me time?"
The Wire
"If you know something about that boy Lex getting shot,"
The Wire
"now is your last chance to speak to that."
The Wire
"- You gave a statement last year... - Why don't you promise to get me outta here?"
The Wire
"That's what y'all do, ain't it? Lie to dumbass niggers?"
The Wire
"Yo, y'all need to get this police out my face before I bank his ass."
The Wire
"You're a natural, kiddo. You had them eating out of your hand."
The Wire
"Shit, I was just following the mayor's lead. He wants a full-court press, right?"
The Wire
"We can add a detective or two."
The Wire
"And you can ask patrol to concentrate on posts where vagrants congregate."
The Wire
"But other than that, deputy, the cupboard is bare."
The Wire
"- But Carcetti... - Make no mistake."
The Wire
"He wants us to solve the murders. He just doesn't want it to cost."
The Wire
"Don't look so shocked. You're runnin' with the big dogs now."
The Wire
"Isn't it enough that we're up on the killer's cellphone?"
The Wire
"Couldn't you track him on the GPS chip?"
The Wire
"He's using a burner and we suspect he's taking out the battery between calls."
The Wire
"And there's nothing to stop him from changing phones,"
The Wire
"It stands to reason that we should monitor this thing from both ends."
The Wire
"- It's what we would normally do. - Nothing about this is normal."
The Wire
"A Baltimore Sun reporter's phone is problematic."
The Wire
"We need to strike a balance between your needs"
The Wire
"as investigators and the First Amendment rights of the Sun and its sources."
The Wire
"The First Amendment does not guarantee privacy, your Honor."
The Wire
"Legal precedent clearly indicates..."
The Wire
"Until we get the sense that your suspect is changing phones,"
The Wire
"I'm not inclined to look with favor on tapping the Baltimore Sun's telecommunications."
The Wire
"- We're afraid to piss them off? - Never pick a fight"
The Wire
"- Christ. - Very well, judge."
The Wire
"Deputy."
The Wire
"- Where did you get all this? - Darling, you do not want to know."
The Wire
"Got all 22 out of the drawer?"
The Wire
"25. My triple. It comes back to Marlo and his people."
The Wire
Show more clips