Slim Charles quotes from The Wire

Slim Charles

[when Stringer asks him to kill Clay Davis] Shit, murder ain't no thing, but this here is some assassination shit!

Slim Charles

Don't matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war and now there ain't no goin' back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.

Slim Charles

Yeah, now, well, the thing about the old days: they the old days.

Slim Charles

But what if they don't cop our re-up, though?

Stringer

Well, I'ma worry about that when it happen. Until then, Mr. Charles, we're going to handle this shit like businessmen, sell the shit, make the profit and later for that gangsta bullshit. [Poot raises his hand.] Yeah.

Poot

Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?

Stringer

Motherfucker, I will punk your ass for sayin such shit!

Yo, String, Poot did have the floor, man.

Stringer

Shut the fuck up, this nigga too ignorant to have the fuckin' floor!

Cutty

Game done changed.

Slim Charles

Game's the same, just got more fierce.

Slim Charles

Man, that's him right there in the G35, man.

Cutty

Wearing it retro.

That shit is tight!

Slim Charles

For $130, it better be.

Hell yeah! I'mma get me one of those motherfuckers!

(snort) You must be going to get that Muggsy Bogues, then. Your Mini-Me ass gonna be swimmin' in that Unseld.

Slim Charles

As usual, man, y'all fools are missing my point. That boy came up short on that money last week, and y'all see he out here grinding. So where that money at?

Cutty

You need to look beyond what he drivin' or wearing on his back. That boy got a girlfriend?

He run with this little freak up at the high school.

Cutty

She wearing ice?

She wearing an onion. (high-fives Sapper) That's about all I can remember!

(laughing) Hell yeah.

Cutty

Yo, check out the girl. High school girl with platinum around her neck? Only one place it came from.

Slim Charles

Give my man his thing.

Slim Charles

Sig Sauer. That ain't no Lorcin, dawg.

Cutty

I'm used to revolvers, man. .38 don't jam.

Slim Charles

Don't hold 15, neither.

Cutty

...The game done changed.

Slim Charles

Game the same, just got more fierce.

Avon

How'd it go?

Slim Charles

We got one out of two of the motherfuckers, y'know?

Avon

You mean you motherfuckers come strollin' in here, all walking tall and shit-

Slim Charles

Yo, B. I'm saying man, we was blazing on them dudes, you know what I'm sayin'? Just got in the heat, man. We was blazing, though, it was like-

Avon

Alright, alright, relax, man. I already heard, go sit down. I'm not tweaking behind none of this - that's one less motherfucker that's breathing than there was yesterday, you know what I'm sayin'? So we all good. [to Cutty] But I'm surprised at you though, man. Shit didn't get by you, back when.

Slim Charles

Wasn't my man's fault, man. I unloaded on the young'un too soon, gave him enough room to buck and run, man. I fucked up that shit up myself, y'know-

Cutty

Hold on... it's on me. I had that kid in my sights, close enough to take off his Kangol and half his dome with it... couldn't squeeze the trigger. Couldn't do it, man.

Avon

Hmm. Why not?

Cutty

...Wasn't in me, I guess. You know, whatever it is in you, that lets you flow like you flowing? Do that thang? It ain't in me no more.

Avon

...A'ight. So you done soldiering, but you ain't done; could use you for what you got in your head. We gonna put you on a corner, you could be inside-

Cutty

No, man. I ain't making myself clear... the game ain't in me no more. None of it.

Avon

But you ain't done shit else, y'know what I'm saying? So what you gonna do?

Cutty

I don't know. But it can't be this.

Avon

...A'ight, then. We straight.

Slim Charles

B, he was a man in his time, you know?

Avon

Yeah... he a man today. He a man.

Stringer

Where Avon at?

Slim Charles

He'll be along shortly.

Stringer

That's good, 'cuz I came to see you anyway.

Slim Charles

What'chu need?

Stringer

...I need you to hit somebody.

Slim Charles

Who we hittin'?

Stringer

Clay Davis.

Slim Charles

The Clay Davis? Downtown Clay Davis?

Stringer

That supposed to mean somethin' to me, man? That nigga need to be got.

Slim Charles

Shit, String, murder ain't no thing... but this here is some assassination shit, man!

Stringer

Listen, I tell you you gettin' somebody, you gettin' them. I ain't askin'!

Slim Charles

Damn, String, I don't know-

Stringer

Nigga, I gotta remind you who the fuck you work for?!

Avon

Ayo. I think Slim gon' have to sit this one out, boss. So you finna go hit a state senator now, huh? Yo, you kill a downtown nigga like that, the whole world gon' stand up and take notice. I'm talkin' about the state police, federals, all of that! You need a Day of the Jackal-type mothafucka, basically, to do some shit like that, not a rumble-tumble nigga like Slim.

Stringer

That nigga took our money, man.

Avon

I seen it comin'.

Stringer

Well, heh... he gotta go.

Avon

Nah, you a fuckin' businessman! You wanna handle it like that, you don't wanna get all gangsta wild and shit with it, right? What'd I tell you about playin' them fuckin' away games? Yeah. They saw your ghetto ass comin' from miles away, nigga. You got a fuckin' beef with them?! That shit is on you!

Shit, nigga, we was good when your uncle had it. You had to go ahead and put up with Marlo...

Cheese

See that? See now, that's just the wrong way to look at it. 'Cause Joe had his time and Omar put an end to that. Then Marlo had his time, short as it was, and the police put an end to that. And now, motherfucker, it's our time. Mines and yours. But instead of just shutting up and kicking in, you gon' stand there, crying that back in the day shit.

Cheese...

Cheese

There ain't no back in the day, nigga! Ain't no nostalgia to this shit here. There's just the street, the game, and what happen here today.

You right.

Cheese

When it was my uncle, I was with my uncle. When it was Marlo, I was with him. But now, nigga--

What the fuck you do that for?! Now we short the nine!

Slim Charles

That was for Joe.

Motherfucker had it comin'.

This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money!