The Detail

The Wire 1×2

Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: You got to pull McNulty off this. Who caught the murder case?
Major William A. Rawls: Bunk Moreland, McNulty's partner.
Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: You'd have to pull him, too.
Major William A. Rawls: No, we pull McNulty up, the judge will bring the press into this. I can see that a mile away. No, we're gonna sit tight, let McNulty take his best shot and hope like hell he comes up short.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Twenty dollars? You gonna spoil him with that shit.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I respect the work.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: Why?
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: He pissed me off.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: No, Officer Pryzbylewski, he did not piss you off. He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers. I'm guessing now, but maybe... he was seen to pick up a bottle and menace Officers Hauk and Carver who had already sustained injury from flying projectiles. Rather than use deadly force in such a situation, maybe you elected to approach the youth, ordering him to drop the bottle. Maybe when he raised the bottle, you used a Kel-Lite, not the handle of your service weapon, to incapacitate the suspect... Go practice. You fuck the bullshit up when you talk to Internal, I can't fix it, you're on your own.

Marla Daniels: Get out of it.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: How do I do that?
Marla Daniels: I don't know. But you can't lose if you don't play.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: I always heard it that you can't win if you don't play...

Marla Daniels: The department puts you on a case it doesn't want. You're given people that are useless or untrustworthy.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Correct.
Marla Daniels: If you push too hard and any shit hits the fan, you'll be blamed for it.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Correct.
Marla Daniels: If you don't push hard enough and there's no arrest, you'll be blamed for that, too.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Correct.
Marla Daniels: The game is rigged. But you cannot lose if you do not play.

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