Refugees

The Wire 4×4

Judy Pryzbylewski: Who's winning?
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: ... And over here, this is your desk.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: It's clean.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: You'll fix that. A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Lester.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: I believe you two refugees know each other well.

Col. Raymond Foerster: Burrell wants this case stalled until everybody votes.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: And Rawls?
Col. Raymond Foerster: How the fuck I know what Rawls wants? He never said shit. Let me tell you something, he knows this is fucked up.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: I have this correct? We are pulling a veteran off a pending case and giving it to a rook so as not to make timely progress on said case?

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: So, Major Crimes is dead, huh?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Yeah, Lester killed it good. Went looking for the money. Guys like you, you never learn.
Det. Lester Freamon: Guys like me?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Yeah, 13 years...
Det. Lester Freamon: Four months.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Four months.

Mayor Clarence V. Royce: African colors. Subtle.
Chief of Staff Coleman Parker: Tony Gray is pulling 24% now. You need new colors and a new message, Clarence. You need to rally the base.
Mayor Clarence V. Royce: You want me to start wearing dashikis? Go all Marion Barry and shit?
Chief of Staff Coleman Parker: I'll tell you what I would like - another 75 in cash for walk-around money.
Mayor Clarence V. Royce: 75, huh? Call another game.

Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: They endorse Royce, fine. The hell else they gonna do? But what they say and don't say from the pulpit that Sunday before the primary, we still got a dog in that fight. I do this right, they'll respect it.
Norman Wilson: And if they don't, at least they get to see a begging-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.

Det. Lester Freamon: She too young for you, boy.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Young?
Det. Lester Freamon: They get younger, William. Skinnier too. We don't.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Younger, skinnier - where's Jimmy?
Det. Lester Freamon: That's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, and nature is nature.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Pitiful.
Det. Lester Freamon: And pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: You know what you need at a crime scene?
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Rubber gloves.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Soft eyes.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Like I'm supposed to cry and shit?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: You got soft eyes, you can see the whole thing. You got hard eyes, you're staring at the same tree, missing the forest.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Oh, Zen shit.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Soft eyes, grasshopper.

Grace Sampson: You can tell the days by their faces. The best day is Wednesday. That's the farthest they get from home, from whatever's going on in the streets. You see smiles then. Monday is angry. Tuesdays, they're caught between Monday and Wednesday, so it could go either way. Thursdays... they're feeling that weekend coming. Friday, it's bad again.

Lt. Charles Marimow: Which one of you is Sergeant Hauk?
Sgt. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Sir.
Lt. Charles Marimow: And you must be Dozerman. Welcome to Major Crimes. I'm Lieutenant Marimow.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: You're the primary on the Braddock case. The dead witness. Norris is back in the rotation.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: What?
Sgt. Jay Landsman: You caught your first murder. Kudos.

Marlo Stanfield: That's my money.
Omar Little: Man, money ain't got no owners, only spenders.

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