RBRupert Bond
What the fuck just happened?
Whatever it is, they don't teach it in law school.
S5 E7Took
PPhelan
Gets himself elected on law and order ticket, crime doesn't go down much, and then uh, couple o' weeks before he starts gearing up for Governor, some wing-nut starts killin' people, takin' photographs, sendin' 'em to the newspaper. You know something, you might wanna check up on the governor's alibi's.
S5 E8Clarifications
THTerry Hanning
A lie ain't a side of a story. It's just a lie.
All the guys at the bar, Jimmy, all the girls; they don't show up at your wake. Not because they don't like you. But because, they never knew your last name. Then a month later, someone tells them, "Oh, Jimmy died." "Jimmy who?" "Jimmy the Cop." "Ohhh," they say, "him". And all the people on the job, all those people you spent all the hours in the radio cars with, the guys with their feet up on the desk, tellin' stories, who shorted you on your food runs, who signed your overtime slips. In the end, they're not gonna be there either. Family, that's it. Family, and if you're lucky, one or two friends who are the same as family. That's all the best of us get. Everything else is just...
You start to tell the story, you think you're the hero, and then when you get done talking...
You miss what you had though?
I still got too much dog in me to be settled like that.
You workin' a Stanfield corner, which means you workin' for a straight up punk! Ya' feel me? I'm out here in these streets every day, me and my lonesome, and where he at? Huh? A'yo, ya'll put it in his ear, Marlo Stanfield is not a man for this town, ya' digg?
Bad news gentlemen, as we're actually gonna have to catch this motherfucker. Good news is that our Mayor finally needs a police department more than he needs a school system.
S5 E9Late Editions
[To McNulty] From everything we've given you, fire should be shootin' outta your ass. But there you sit, like a genital wart.
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!
S5 E10-30-
I wished I was still at the newspaper so I could write on this mess. It's too fucking good.
I can do it, if that's what you want. And I don't even care about the money. But understand I'm gonna go down to B.C.C.C. in a few days and find out if you're enrolled. And if you are, I'm gonna say, 'Great. Duquan can come past with his certificate when he gets it and we're still friends. And he can still rely on me.' But if you aren't enrolled, then... well, I imagine I'm not gonna see you again, am I?
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