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The Wire 5×3

Det. Michael Crutchfield: He fuck you?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: He tried... but mostly he just fucks himself.

Mike Fletcher: Wrong zip code. They're dead where it doesn't count. If they were white and murdered in Timonium, you'd have had 30 inches off the front.

Norman Wilson: Burrell reads that, he'll shit melons.
Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I fucking hope so. It's Baltimore. No one lives forever.

Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: What's the problem?
Marlo Stanfield: I got too much money.
Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Son, believe me, you ain't alone.

Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: What to do with the shit we sell ain't no thing. In Baltimore, dope and coke sell themselves, but the money that come back? Ain't enough mattresses, is there, now?

Col. Cedric Daniels: You see that quote from somebody about me stabbing Burrell in the back? That's a damn lie.
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: So what? You're going to be named commissioner. This is good news! How is this not good news?

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Lester, what the fuck?
Det. Lester Freamon: No. You're onto something. I only need a few weeks to pull down Marlo Stanfield. You fly this mess right, you can give it to me. Who gives a damn if we fake a couple of murders that we're never gonna solve, huh? The dead men don't care. No one cares. But if it's gonna get the bosses to throw down enough coin to do police work...

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: We have to kill again...

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