[to Stringer] I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you. You know, I'm just a gangster, I suppose. And I want my corners.
“Homecoming” · Season 3, Episode 6
In this episode: Avon Barksdale (2), Bunk Moreland (1), Omar Little (1), Slim Charles (1), Cutty (1)
DDealer
[while being thrown in the police truck] Hey, we in America!
SOfficer Santangelo
Nuh-uh, West Baltimore.
Shoot, the way y'all looking at things, ain't no victim to even speak on.
Bullshit, boy. No victim? I just came from Tosha's people, remember? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson, but I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man, I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory motherfuckers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.
How'd it go?
We got one out of two of the motherfuckers, y'know?
You mean you motherfuckers come strollin' in here, all walking tall and shit-
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-
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.
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-
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.
Hmm. Why not?
...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.
...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-
No, man. I ain't making myself clear... the game ain't in me no more. None of it.
[beat]
But you ain't done shit else, y'know what I'm saying? So what you gonna do?
I don't know. But it can't be this.
...A'ight, then. We straight.
[Avon and Slim Charles hug him. Cutty leaves]
B, he was a man in his time, you know?
Yeah... he a man today. He a man.
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