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The Wire 1×5

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: How complex a code can it be if these knuckleheads are using it? Then again, what does it say about us if we can't break it?

Russell 'Stringer' Bell: When you're not happy, they ain't gettin' paid. Feel me?
D'Angelo Barksdale: But you don't pay a nigger, he ain't gonna work for you.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: You think a nigger's gonna get a job? These niggers gonna be like, "Fuck it, let me quit this game here and go to college"? They gonna buck a little, but they not gonna walk. And in the end, you gonna get respect.
D'Angelo Barksdale: Yeah.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: And when that money run out, they'll come up to you and roll on you and ask you for an advance and shit, when they flat-ass broke. Them the niggers that you strike off your list. But that nigger that stay eatin', the nigger that steady rollin', ain't askin' you for shit, that's the nigger I want to hear about. Understand?
D'Angelo Barksdale: Yeah, man. Shit, you know how to play a nigger into a corner, String.

Det. Ellis Carver: First, I go in, play nice. Then you come in, play bad.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I ain't playin'.

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