The Wire · Season 2, Episode 11
“Bad Dreams” · Season 2, Episode 11
In this episode: Jimmy McNulty (2), Bunk Moreland (2), Frank Sobotka (2), The Greek (2), Spiros Vondas (1)
Name names, and come clean. You help yourself, and your union.
Help my union? For 25 years we've been dyin' slow down there. Dry dock's rustin', piers standin' empty. My friends and their kids like we got the cancer. No life-line got thrown all that time, nothin' from nobody, and now you wanna help us? Help me?
[about Nick Sobotka] You don't have to worry about Nicko...
You are fond of him Spiros. You should have had a son.
But then I would have had a wife.
A different look for our boy.
Yeah, Perry Ellis, or something.
Now, how would a just-rolled-out-of-bed-looking motherfucker like you, know the designer?
[pauses] Okay, I'm guessing.
It's a Joseph Abboud. He puts dark buttons instead of brass on his blazers. That's the Abboud signature.
You know what they call a guy who pays that much attention to his clothes, don't you?
Mm-hmm, a grown-up.
You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.
Boy, them Greeks and those twisted-ass names.
Man, back off the Greeks. They invented civilization.
Yeah? Ass-fucking, too.
[To Spiros] Your way, it won't work.
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