The Wire · Season 2
Family cannot be helped.
Who you tellin'? I got motherfuckin' nephews and in-laws fucking all my shit up all the time and it ain't like I can pop a cap in their ass and not hear about it Thanksgivin' time. For real, I'm livin' life with some burdensome niggers.
...
Thanks for bein' straight on this.
Fool, if it wasn't for Sergei here, you and your cuz' both would be cadaverous motherfuckers.
[about D'Angelo's death] But did your man Avon even knew about it? [Stringer shakes his head] You on your own here huh?
You right, it ain't none of your business. And if I were you, I wouldn't let a word of this mess end up in Avon's ear.
Baltimore nigga's off the hook, I swear. All ya'll.
What if they're not sneaking anything off this time? What then?
Ah then, tragically, you will have wasted yet another day in a life you've already misspent in the service of the City of Baltimore.
[about Herc, modeling sunglasses] His name is Head. Dick Head.
It’s you Lester, it’s gotta be you.
Me, huh?
We need to bring in the Lieutenant, his detail and all of the manpower and toys that go with it. Daniels listens when you talk. You got the smell of wisdom on you brother. Now look, we all got roles to play.
What’s your role?
I’m just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick.
You give yourself too much credit
OK then, I ain’t all that humble.
The thing of it is, Lieutenant... Jimmy McNulty, when he ain't policing he's a picture postcard of a drunken, self-destructive fuck-up. And when he is policing... he's pretty much the same motherfucker. But on a good case, he runnin' in front of the pack. That's as close as the man comes to bein' right.
[about McNulty] You ever see how a dog gets when he smells a bone buried in the yard?
Yeah, and I seen one take a shit on my carpet, too. And don't give me that he's-got-that-fire-in-the-belly garbage, either. The answer is no.
[reading an affadavit] You all cannot spell for shit.
Well, would we be police if we could?
[to Frank, while looking at a porn mag] Let me ask you something important. You like fake tits? I can't decide. Thus far, I'm undecided on fake tits.
[Bunk comes into detail room wearing lacrosse sweats]
Lacrosse?
What, a brother can't run with a stick? Jim Brown was an All-American midfielder at Syracuse.
You putting yourself beside Jim Brown?
Lester, um, I'm, I'm just saying...
I thought you were born in pinstripes!
Lieutenant, I was under the impression that, uh, when detailed against his will to some backwards-ass, no-count, out-in-the-district, lost ball/tall-grass drug investigation, a veteran police of means and talent can wear whatever the fuck he damn well pleases.
[to Bodie] This here game is more than the rep you carry, the corner you hold. You gotta be fierce, I know that, but more than that, you gotta show some flex, give and take on both sides.
[about Brother Mouzone] You don't think I'm gonna send any of my people up against Brother? Shit, That nigga got more bodies on him than a Chinese cemetery.
Now the votes are in, and you're movin' your damn golf trophies upstairs to the Commissioner's office, now you're freezin' me out, huh? Fuckin' rat-fucker's, all of ya'. This is my case, mine! And now you're gonna tell me who the target is? Well not fuckin' likely.
[during extended surveillance detail, Herc takes a picture of Carver]
Hey, don't waste film.
We've been here so fucking long that you're startin' to look good to me.
McNulty [about the two hookers in the sting operation] There were two of them. I was outnumbered.
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