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Clips from The Wire - The Dickensian Aspect (S05E05)

"For sure?"
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"Says one of my vics was talking bad about Mr. Stanfield, who took it personal."
The Wire
"Killed him, his girl, his muscle."
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"- Where you at with the rest of these cases? - We don't even have lab work"
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"on 14 of these bodies?"
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"who just files them away in his drawer."
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"McNulty would've called a news reporter."
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"I am not him."
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"Well, what would the Bunk do? Take no for a fucking answer?"
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"We had cutbacks, you know that."
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"We lost three or four trace examiners. Lost half our clerical."
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"The freezer went bad, we lost four months of blood samples."
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"Did you know that? Four months of evidence"
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"and they still haven't replaced my damn icebox."
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"My heart pumps purple piss for you."
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"Now, I got the worst mass murder in B-more history"
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"and you can't get the trace work back to me inside of a year? C'mon, Ron..."
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"Look..."
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"You can't go to the press."
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"I mean, heads will roll if this gets out. It isn't anyone's fault."
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"In fact, it's a little bit on you, in a way."
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"After Annette took retirement, the casework got backed up worse than ever, right?"
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"Well, we put in to fill the lab assistant slot,"
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"but with the cutbacks, the best they could give us was a temp."
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"Look, I'll show you something..."
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"She was assigned to sort and file the individual trace elements..."
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"Hair, fiber mostly..."
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"You know, from each of the 14 scenes."
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"So what's the problem?"
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"In the initial paperwork, you wrote out all 22 CC numbers, right?"
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"- Right. - But in the supplemental requests,"
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"you put all the incidents under the initial CC"
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"and then you wrote, "et al," remember?"
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"- So? - She didn't know what "et al" meant."
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"And she sorted everything under the single complaint number."
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"You don't fuckin' mean..."
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"Actually, except for this she's been a pretty good employee."
The Wire
"I need them to set up on certain locations common to our cases."
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"C'mon, Jay. You heard the mayor. This case is a red ball."
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"That it is. You can have Greggs, if you want."
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"The last time I offered her up, you kicked her back to her own casework."
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"Other than a second detective, you are on your own."
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"I, for one, was moved. Much like the bull to which you just referred."
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"Motherfucker whose got the connect, he the one that did Joe."
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"Oh, no doubt."
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"Y'all know the co-op took some hits. Joe. Hungry Man."
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"Good people, especially Joe. Their passin' was for real, cold blooded."
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"I know what you thinkin', so I'm a put it out there..."
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"A week or so back, I made a move on Omar, with Joe's approval."
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"The faggot ain't had heart enough to come at me, so he come at those close to me."
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"Hundred large for a whiff of that dicksuck."
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"Two hundred fifty for his head."
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"And in light of that fact, I'm a take it upon myself to conduct this meet."
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"Slim, I want you take over Hungry Man's slice of the cake."
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"Meanin' no disrespect, but I ain't cut out to be no CEO."
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"- Cheese, then. - No problem, man. Got you covered."
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"Until we settle up with Omar, I think it's best we suspend these meets."
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"Those of you on the Westside who need to re-up, holler at my man Monk."
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"He gonna handle supply over there. On the Eastside, Cheese."
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"Price of the brick going up."
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"Thirty more."
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"What?"
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"we're all about the plight of the homeless. The great whiting has spoken."
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"Check it out, people. Our Metro desk has some national profile."
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"We're being careful to cooperate with the investigators in every way."
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"My newspaper has no desire to get between the police and the suspect."
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"But still, wouldn't you agree it's an incredible moment for any journalist"
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"to come face to face with that type of pure evil like the son of Sam."
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"That makes you the Jimmy Breslin of Baltimore."
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"But knowing you have been in contact with a killer,"
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"are you at all concerned about continuing to report from the street?"
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"No, not at all. I mean, this is what we do."
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"As a reporter, you expect to be in harm's way at some points."
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"- It's what we do. - Agreed. It's what we do."
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"But very rarely does a reporter end up being in the middle of a story -"
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"an ongoing story -"
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"about a murderer who is still at large and posing a severe and deadly risk to the..."
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"You shoulda heard Phelan this morning."
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"Too scared to tap the newspaper phones they might shit on him for it."
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"What would you want with more wires? We got all we need."
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"I don't want another wire. It's the principle of the thing..."
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"They won't go beyond me and Greggs."
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"You and Sydnor will have to work it as best you can for right now."
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"They need another body, don't they?"
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"I'll call our man in the Southern."
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"I can take it from here. Y'all can bounce."
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"All right, boss."
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"What up, Rick?"
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"Just like ol' times for me and you."
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"- Whatever you want it's yours, all right? - Tonight, I'm just gonna take yo' jump..."
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"- And leave you with a little something. - What's that?"
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"My word in your ear."
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"I'm callin' Marlo a straight bitch."
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"And as for him steppin' to me, you tell that dude he ain't got the heart."
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"All right."
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"You tell that man I'm in the street, waiting."
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"I'll tell him. I will."
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"Pick up your keys and go on inside, yo."
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"You kill Joe?"
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"Hungry?"
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"Didn't think so."
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"What now?"
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"Priors, yeah. But I'm gonna run every name you guys developed"
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"through the entire database."
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"Not just for priors, but for anything at all in the miles system."
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"Court appearances, parole, probation,"
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"gun permits, DOC, open bails."
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"- You're playing long shots, huh? - Darlin', I'm playin' the hand I've been dealt."
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"- Who caught the case? - Worden. Other shift."
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"Stepfather. Beaten to death."
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"They interviewed the mother, but no one else in the household."
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"Doesn't exactly fit with the others, does it?"
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"A straight up ass-whoopin' in an alley doesn't seem like Marlo Stanfield."
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"- No, it doesn't. - But you're gonna work it anyway."
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"In the Pentecostal church where I was given religion,"
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"it would have been said the spirit was on you yesterday."
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"- It got good to me. - Let praises be."
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"It pissed me off that on top of everything else I gotta deal with,"
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"some nutjob starts killing homeless guys. Fuck already, how many shitbowls are there?"
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"- You think... - We step out on this issue,"
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