Resentment is like you taking poison and hoping the other guy's gonna die.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[the detectives are discussing Baltimore landmarks] Baltimore is a city of many splendors but the greatest architectural feat: Madonna's bra.
[incredulous] What?
Yeah, Madonna's bra. The sewage treatment plant on East Point. Them two golden cones just stickin' up outta nowhere.
Madonna's bra.
[chuckling] That's what the East Siders call it.
Two golden orbs shimmering in the moonlight, towering over the landscape.
I don't think I've ever seen it.
Are you serious?
To die without viewing it would mark an incomplete life.
If a Jamaican drug dealer falls in an alley and there's no one there to hear him, does he make a sound?
No way, no how, nobody's gonna beat my partner down like that, take her weapon, and use it to shoot up my lid. I ain't gonna hear that.
[Addressing a dance club full of West Indians] I'm Homicide. I'm workin' on a murder of a young brother who was killed this afternoon in an alley off the Heights. Now, I know what the talk is. I know a lot of people 'round the way are sayin' that maybe the police did this, maybe the police killed that boy. Well, I'm here to tell you right here, right now, I think that just might be true. And because I think that might be true, me and my partner was up on a house on Homeland Avenue lookin' for a witness, we were lookin' for somebody to tell us what might've happened to Paxton Smart. And if that witness up and puts in a police officer for killin' that young brother, then so be it. That's what we was workin' on when my partner got her ass kicked and her gun took. That sister was beat by a black man. And she's up in a hospital right now, coughin' up blood. Now one of two things can happen here. Number one, that gun comes back. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but tonight. And number two, we ain't never gonna see that weapon again. And if that's the case, every policeman in the world is gonna come down to lower Park Heights, and y'all gonna wish you had never heard of Baltimore, Maryland. That gun comes back to me, or my crew is gonna give y'all crew a real reason to riot. Hear me, I want that gun.
[to Sheppard] I got you covered. [Hands her her gun]
I have a discretionary slush fund.
I would kill to have a slush fund.
How do you think I got mine?
Life should come with a money-back guarantee- if not completely satisfied, return unused portion for a full refund.
I'm short detectives!
Translation, "Where are we on Cullen?"
Very good Bayliss, you speak Shift Lieutenant.
Well, I've had practice.
MMcCoy
Why did you have Purcell take the body to New York? Why not just leave it in Baltimore?
WBWalter Boyce
When you've got someone working for the White House telling you they want some bitch to be itched, the drama's going to be thick. I got business interests in Baltimore; you know that. I figured I drop the body somewhere else. Besides, Chesley wanted to see some show on Broadway. Uh, some musical thing with a lion. Part of the contract was that I got a hold of some seats for her.
You paid a hitter with tickets to "The Lion King"?
WBWalter Boyce
Third row, orchestra.
Get ready for a federal subpoena.
What are you talking about?
Well, they laid one on us in New York this morning. They took every bit of evidence we had on this case. I figure you folks are next.
You drove 200 miles south to tell us that? Good job, Paul Revere.
I'm on my way to Washington anyway. You got a cup of coffee?
What's going on there?
The Independent Counsel shanghaied Chesley Purcell's shooter. When they found out he had nothing to say about any of the President's men, they got bored with him. They're returning him to our custody, and McCoy wants me to transport him back to Rikers, put him on suicide watch.
You're telling me that Ned Burks killed Chesley Purcell over a lesbian's love lost? Yeah, and Jack Ruby was a grieving patriot.
A cancer-ridden, grieving patriot.
Lennie, you precious rube! Amazing how all those years on the mean streets of New York have had so little effect on your sweet, childlike brain.
Welcome back, Lennie!
Bayliss, right?
Yeah.
[they shake hands]
So, as a rule, you can only cross the Mason-Dixon line if you bring a really screwed-up case with you?
Hey; if it doesn't make sense, it belongs in Baltimore - right?
[referring to Ned Burks] I specifically asked the shift commander to put him on suicide watch. Unfortunately, at Rikers Island that seems to mean they stand around and watch you commit suicide.
MMcCoy
You son of a bitch! You offered Dawkins immunity to get whatever you can on the Administration.
But you refused immunity to Walter Boyce, who's already doing life in prison, just so you can torpedo our case.
WDWilliam Dell
There are larger issues at stake. This is more than a murder here.
[scoffs] More than a murder?
WDWilliam Dell
Corruption at the highest level.
MMcCoy
What proof do you have? Dawkins has no corroboration. All you've got is innuendo and allegation!
That's all he needs. He set it up so that is case will never get to court! You don't want a jury trial - a chance to determine who's guilty and who's not.
DKDennis Kohler
[about the temple having deadbolts on the doors] We're spiritual, we're not stupid.
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