Jimmy McNulty quotes from The Wire

Bunk

You're going to jail behind this shit. Yes, you are. You know what they do to police in jail? Pretty police like yourself? Motherfucker, we have kids. Houses. Car payments. Furniture--Jimmy, I just bought brand new lawn chairs and a glass patio table. Now you don't buy no shit like that if you planning to lose your job and go to prison. You won't even get past the ME.

McNulty

Watch me.

Bunk

You're dumpin' murders on us that we can't solve, you're fucking the squad's clearance rate.

McNulty

Fuck the fucking numbers already! The fucking numbers destroyed this fucking department. Landsman and his clearance rate can suck a hairy asshole.

Bunk

Marlo ain't worth it, man. Nobody is.

McNulty

Marlo's an asshole. He does not get to win. WE get to win!

McNulty

Explain it to me again, because I tell ya, I think I'm a smart guy, but this shit makes my head hurt.

They think they're up on your killer's cellphone, but they'll never catch a call because this goes nowhere. And meanwhile, using the same court authorization, I'm up on the live wire down at the detail office, listening to Marlo. Every day, you file office and court reports saying there's been no further contact with the serial killer. I file exactly nothing, but use what I hear to rig the case on our real target. - And when it goes to court -

McNulty

There's no mention of a wiretap - It's all based on a C.I.

Bunk

You called the reporter huh?

McNulty

No, actually. That asshole's making up his own shit. Brass called a press conference for this afternoon. They'll be shovellin' so much money at my bullshit it'll make your head spin.

McNulty

You miss what you had though?

Kima

I still got too much dog in me to be settled like that.

McNulty

You lying motherfucker, you're as full of shit as I am. And you've got to live with it and play it out as far as it goes, right? Trapped in the same lie. Only difference is, I know why I did it. But fuck if I can figure out what it gets you in the end. But, hey, I'm not part of your tribe.

You're not serious?

McNulty

No, no, I'm a fucking joke. And so are you.