Time After Time

The Wire 3×1

Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Shit, no matter how many times you get burnt, man, you just keep on doing the same. Nigger do not learn.

Major Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: Now, which way is north? Point... That's east. Now, if you're in foot pursuit it might help your backup to know what direction you're running. Even numbers tell you north and west. Odds, south and east... Compasses. Until you learn that much, you carry one.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Hey, Carv, where you at?
Det. Ellis Carver: I'm at a desk outside the roll call room on the first floor of 1034 North Mount. My feet are facing west and my dick is pointing south-southwest.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Bunny Colvin's been giving that speech as long as you guys been sucking air.

Major Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: So, what did we learn? Using half my district K-9 and the copter to bring a 14-year-old to bay. What did we learn?
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: That you can't raise up and run from a drug corner in Sector One without my boot finding your ass. Right?

Det. Lester Freamon: What makes you think they'll promote the wrong man?
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: We do it all the time.

Johnny Weeks: It'll be better tomorrow, Bubs.
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Well... What kind of dope fiend be talking about tomorrow? Tomorrow ain't shit. Today, Johnny. Today.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: I'm thinking of becoming a woman.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Can you believe this? They caught five tonight. They're telling me to come in on my day off.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Five, huh? City's jumping bad, man.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: Here's a fun fact for you. If Baltimore had New York's population, we'd be clocking 4,000 murders a year at this rate.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: There is no excuse I will accept. I don't care how you do it. Just fucking do it.
Maj. Marvin Taylor: Er, Deputy... as familiar as we all are with the urban crime environment, I think we all understand there are certain processes by which you can reduce the number of overall felonies. You can reclassify an agg assault, or you can unfound a robbery, but, er, how do you make a body disappear?
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: ... There isn't one of you in this room who isn't here by appointment. If you want to continue wearing those oak clusters, you will shut up and step up. Any of you who can't bring in the numbers we need, will be replaced by someone who can.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: We don't have the manpower. Not to mention the money. And for what? We're still a long way from a quality target. I say we come down off the wire, charge what we can, and move on.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: We come down early two years ago, we left a real bastard on the street. We're gonna let that same son of a bitch beat me again? How many times do you let Stringer Bell go around the board? Collect another fucking 200... Million.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: There's other fish in the barrel, McNulty. ...
Det. Lester Freamon: It's you against the world, is it?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What the fuck did I do?!

Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: What the hell is all this?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You don't look at what you did before, you do the same shit all over.

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