A New Day

The Wire 4×11

Norman Wilson: Well, civilian review is a nonstarter. You go now there now, you'll be bending over for four years for the ministers.
Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: So what? I throw them a bone and fire some idiot cop? By pressing that, the average beat cop's gonna hate my guts, and I can't change anything without rank-and-file support.
Norman Wilson: You don't fire him, you're going to piss off most of the black political infrastructure.
Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: Yummy. My first bowl of shit.

Omar Little: Well, I'll be blessed, yo. Lookit.
Renaldo: This is good? We put him here? That tall man with Prop Joe?
Omar Little: Yo, for real, on this caper the more we learn, the less we know.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Sounds like a new day, don't it? Department's finally gonna get what it needs. State's attorney's office, too.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: A new day... They make a nice couple, anyway.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Hey, you play in dirt, you get dirty.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: What?
Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek: Smart move, accepting any ideas whatsoever come from the anointed fella... Daniels. The next commissioner... Any cocksucker that manages to go from lieutenant to full bird in a little more than a year is getting groomed... Wait. You didn't for a minute think that... Jesus, Bill, it's Baltimore. You ain't one of the natives, are ya?

Det. Lester Freamon: And?
Col. Cedric Daniels: And I want you to sign up.
Det. Lester Freamon: Colonel, there's the matter of...
Col. Cedric Daniels: You find yourself incompatible with a certain lieutenant? Detective Freamon, you have carte blanche in picking your squad. In fact, you can pick your supervisor for all I care. Motherfucker, as far as I'm concerned, you are the Major Crimes Unit. It's morning in Baltimore, Lester. Wake up and smell the coffee.

Det. Lester Freamon: I'm gonna miss you, too, bitch.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Lester do love listening to other people's phone calls, don't you? A bit of a pervert that way.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: You could use a wiretap case or two, broaden your horizons.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Oh, no, no. The Bunk is strictly a suit-and-tie motherfucker. At all hazards, a man must keep up appearances.

Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: I'm here about what I do know. A recommendation from Sergeant Hauk's commander will cross your desk tomorrow. Colonel Daniels, with Rawls concurring, recommends sensitivity training. It may be a fair decision, it may even be the right decision. But we both know it won't fly with the ministers, not even with Daniels behind it... 600 pages of rules, regulations, directives, orders. You fire a white police for a bad car stop on a black minister, you'll lose the rank and file. It's not cause enough. But if a commander can't find the grounds for firing a saint in here... The man has worked Narcotics for six years, and in Narcotics... there are no virgins.
Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: And herein lies your expertize?
Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: I've always been comfortable delegating strategic elements. It's what the Deputy Ops is for. Me, I know what a mayor needs.

Omar Little: See now, Joe, I need you to resist your natural inclination to do anything twisted up in this here play, you feel me?

Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Was you listening? Omar to one side holding a spade, and maybe Marlo to the other with a shovel. And just at this moment, I managed to crawl out my own damn grave. No way do I crawl back in.

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