[To McNulty] From everything we've given you, fire should be shootin' outta your ass. But there you sit, like a genital wart.
“Late Editions” · Season 5, Episode 9
In this episode: Jay Landsman (1), Howard Colvin (1), Marlo Stanfield (1), Snoop (1), Chris Partlow (1), Tommy Carcetti (1), Bubbles (1), Michael Lee (1)
You know, I always wanted to say how sorry I am about how things turned out. There wasn't anything I could have done with your experiment in the Western District, there wasn't anything that anyone could have done with that.
Yeah, well, I guess, Mr. Mayor, there's nothing to be done.
Ain't no shame in holdin' on to grief, as long as you make room for other things too.
Why? What I do wrong?
Chris locked up behind somethin' he done for you. And you downtown wit' the police.
I ain't say a word.
Yeah, that's what you say. But it's how you carry yourself. Always apart. Always aksin', "Why?". When you should be doin' what you're told. You was never one of us. And you never could be [...] How my hair look, Mike?
You look good girl. [gunshot]
Omar tried calling you out by name, but shit, no one --
What he say about me?
Nothing, man. Just talking shit.
He used my name? In the street?
[Pause]
Talk, motherfucker!
MMonk
He just, you know, say that you need to step to and that . . . I don't know. He just running his mouth some.
He call me a punk?
It was bullshit, man. You ain't need that on your mind.
What the fuck you know about what I need on my mind, motherfucker? My name was on the street? When we bounce from this shit here, y'all going to go down on them corners and let the people know: Word did not get back to me. Let them know Marlo step to any motherfucker -- Omar, Barksdale, whoever. My name is my name!
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