Rhonda Pearlman quotes from The Wire

Pearlman

[after having sex] You're an asshole McNulty.

McNulty

What the fuck did I do?

Pearlman

Let me understand. You're married and a date is a room at the Best Western with the blinds closed. Now you're single, and a date is you coming over unannounced to learn the legal requisites for a pager intercept.

McNulty

Pretty much.

D'Angelo

All my people, man, my father, my uncles, It's just what we do. You just live with this shit, until you can't breathe no more. I swear to God, I was courtside for eight months, and I was freer in jail than I was at home.

Rhonda

What are you looking for?

D'Angelo

I want it to go away.

Rhonda

I can't...

D'Angelo

I want what Wallace wanted. I want to start over. That's what I want. I don't care where. Anywhere. I don't give a fuck. I just want to go somewhere, where I can breathe like regular folk. You give me that... And I'll give you them.

Rhonda

[reading an affadavit] You all cannot spell for shit.

Bunk

Well, would we be police if we could?

McNulty

You heard the tapes.

Bodie

Look, he came to me and said we can sell drugs if we moved down to Vincent Street. And that's where I moved my crew. And you know I did! Because you the one that popped me with a G-pack on my way to the spot and let me go, remember?

Pearlman

You were selling drugs in Major Colvin's free zone? You can prove that?

Bodie

[motioning to McNulty] Ask him, he know... Man, this-this must be one of them contrapment things!

Pearlman

You mean "entrapment"?

McNulty

[amused and impressed] Kid's gotta point...

What the fuck just happened?

Rhonda

Whatever it is, they don't teach it in law school.