The Wire · Season 5, Episode 5
“React Quotes” · Season 5, Episode 5
In this episode: Spiros Vondas (2), Jimmy McNulty (1), Bunk Moreland (1), Marlo Stanfield (1), Cutty (1), Walon (1)
Man, I don't talk on no cell phones.
Here. To call for lunch, you can talk. To call your girl, you can talk. To call your lawyer even, you can talk--the law says that is between you and the lawyer. Alright? To find out what movie is playing down the street, you can talk. All of that is good because all of that tells them... there is nothing good to hear.
I guess what I'm tryin' to say is... not everything comes down to how you carry it in the street. I mean, it do come down to that if you gonna be in the street. But that ain't the only way to be.
Round here it is.
Yeah. Round here it is. World is bigger than that, at least, that's what they tell me.
Like... how do you get from here to the rest of the world?
I wish I knew.
Just because they're in the street doesn't mean they lack opinions.
Where am I going to find homeless people?
Not at home, I imagine.
You've lost your fucking mind, Jimmy. Look at you. Half-lit every third night, dead drunk every second. Nut deep in random pussy. What little time you are sober and limp-dicked, you're working murders that don't even exist!
You're disappointed. Shit, this ain't about the bug, is it? This is you trying to make the past be everything, mean everything. You don't even want to think about the here and now. Sorry, Bubs. Shame ain't worth as much as you think. Let it go.
In business...Life...What you learn to appreciate is a dependable man...One day same as the next...
Explain it to me again, because I tell ya, I think I'm a smart guy, but this shit makes my head hurt.
They think they're up on your killer's cellphone, but they'll never catch a call because this goes nowhere. And meanwhile, using the same court authorization, I'm up on the live wire down at the detail office, listening to Marlo. Every day, you file office and court reports saying there's been no further contact with the serial killer. I file exactly nothing, but use what I hear to rig the case on our real target. - And when it goes to court -
There's no mention of a wiretap - It's all based on a C.I.
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