The Wire · Season 2, Episode 1
“Ebb Tide” · Season 2, Episode 1
In this episode: Kima Greggs (2), Jay Landsman (2), Herc (2), Bodie Broadus (1), William Rawls (1), Shamrock (1), Frank Sobotka (1)
Sergeant! Your floater's come back. County boards are puttin' her on our side of the bridge.
No fuckin' way.
Yeah, some useless fuck in our marine unit faxed 'em a report on the early morning tides and wind currents. Shows the body went into the water west of the bridge and drifted out.
McNulty.
[laughs] Fuckin' Jimmy. Fuckin' with us for the fun of it. I gotta give the son of a bitch some credit for wit on this one. [laughs] Cocksucker.
Motherfucker.
How about you come on the raids tomorrow? Take a few doors for ol' time sake.
You takin' doors?
Yeah. Two houses an' a bar on Kane Street. C'mon Kima, mount up wit' us. I know you miss it.
I'm done rollin' around the gutter. I am inside now.
Oh, you're a house cat now, huh?
I made a promise.
I gotta say Kima, if you were a guy, and actually in some ways you're better than most of the guys I know. But if you were a guy, friends would buy you a beer and let you know.
Let me know what?
You're fuckin' whipped.
Whipped?
Pussy whipped within an inch of your life. I kid you not.
Damn, Frank.
We just sat here and watched Nat Coxson take a shit all over you.
And the shrivelled dick motherfucker that you are, you take it.
For your information, I wake up every morning with an angry blue vein diamond cutter. I was gonna enlighten the President of the local 47 on this particular point, and he chose to depart. Blue steel gentlemen. Three and a half inches of hard blue steel.
We done gone so far from Baltimore, we're losing the station. Yo', try a Philly station or some shit like that.
The radio in Philly is different?
Nigga, please. You gotta be fucking with me, right? You ain't never heard a station outside of Baltimore?
Yo' man, I ain't never left Baltimore except that Boys Village shit one day, and I wasn't tryin' to hear no radio up in that bitch.
It's all about self-preservation, Jimmy. Something you never learned.
Fucking white boys, I love 'em. I fucking love 'em.
Yeah?
Dumb as a box of rocks.
Who?
White boys. Talking about the brain-deads in my Kane Street case. I call him up, I tell him I wanna buy some drugs. You know what he says? Says "Okay, I'll sell you the drugs. How much drugs do you want?" I swear to God, Kima, they don't code it, they don't ask for a meet, nothin'. And then when you make the deal, there's no runner, no bullshit. It's the guy himself walking up to you in the parking lot, saying: "I brought the drugs. Did you bring the money?" [Kima chuckles] I'm not kidding. I have much respect for black people after working with these idiots for two weeks. Seriously, white boys wanna sell drugs in Baltimore, they'll have to make different laws for it. Like even it out for them.
Affirmative action.
Leave no white man behind.
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