Thought maybe I could get with Chris... I--I've got a problem I can't bring to no one else.
S4 E9Know Your Place
[as he is leaving prison] You my ride?
I'm your mother fucking savior is what I am.
I like to think that until the handcuffs actually fit, there's still talking to be done.
Proposition Joe (To Andre) You know the problem with these here machines? They too cheap to begin with. Some people think for what it's worth to fix it, make the shit work right, you might as well dump 'em and get another.
Mr. Mayor, about Ervin -- if you don't mind me asking -- why keep him as a puppet commissioner when you can just fire the guy?
[Carcetti & Norman look at each other]
We mind you asking.
Man gotta live what he know, right?
S4 E10Misgivings
You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs. They know exactly what it is they're training for and what it is everyone expects them to be. It's not about you or us or the test or the system. It's what they expect of themselves. Every single one of them know they're headed back to the corners. Their brothers and sisters, shit, their parents. They came through these same classrooms. We pretended to teach them, they pretended to learn and where'd they end up? Same damn corners. They're not fools, these kids. They don't know our world but they know their own. They see right through us.
Bunny?
Only my friends call me Bunny.
Yeah, but why?
You don't need to know. And if you tell anybody, I'll cut your balls off.
[after Chris beats a man to death] Damn... you ain't even wait to get the nigga in the house!
The young man seems to think highly of you boss. He invoked your name with a measure of respect.
It wasn't but a few weeks ago when I was in a room with him being called everything but a child of God. "Mr. Colvin sir. Fuck you."
Yo' at least I said mister.
[about Marlo] He's a cold motherfucker.
It's a cold world Bodie.
Thought you said it was getting warmer.
The world goin' one way, people another yo'.
[Bodie and Poot are talking about the cold weather.]
Bodie Damn... I oughta go somewhere warm for the Winter.
Where?
I saw on Animal Planet... marlin fishin'. Like Florida, the Bahamas... that shit look sweet. The water was like this... this color, man.
Tsk, man, it ain't gon' be that cold this year.
[scoffs] How you know?
Global warmin'.
So why is it so cold already?
Yo, we just gettin' old.
Yeah, true that.
S4 E11A New Day
Now Joe, you been so busy being devious, you done messed around and got yourself caught up in a web.
The Bunk is strictly a suit-and-tie motherfucker.
Detective Freamon, you have carte blanche in picking your squad. In fact, you can pick your supervisor, for all I care. Motherfucker, as far as I'm concerned, you are the Major Crimes Unit. It's morning in Baltimore, Lester. Wake up and smell the coffee.
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