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The Wire 5×4

Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Have it say, "Butchie. Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil." Sign it, "Your true and loyal friend, Proposition Joe."
Slim Charles: You ain't thinking no kindly note gonna slow Omar coming at us.
Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: It's how I feel. He was a good man.

Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: 30 pieces of silver each, huh?
Council President Nerese Campbell: We'll have your back. I promise you. Full pension and a job on the mayor's criminal justice coordinating council, and from there, something down in Washington with one of the police associations, six figures guaranteed. Go the right way, and attention will be paid. But you go kicking and screaming, and no one - not the caucus, not the ministers, not me - will be there for you. Your choice.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: That there is the sickest idea yet. You know that?
Det. Lester Freamon: I'm just gilding your lily, son.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: You deserve it.
Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Sure, I deserve it, but not for doing the job. What I got, they gave me for carrying their water all these years. To Carcetti, I'm a hack. Royce was no different. Maybe I am. But every day they send over a new priority. Go after the bad guys. No, change that. Make quality-of-life cases. Get on top of the murders. On second thought, run the whores out of Patterson Park. You think the mayor tells the schools how to teach kids, or the health department how to do its job, or sanitation how to pick up trash? But get elected, and suddenly they know police work. You might think it'll be different... when you sit here... but it won't. You will eat their shit... Daniels, too, when he gets here.

City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes: Jesus. Remember the good old days when nobody would stage a perp walk without calling a daily newspaper? Nowadays, all they care about is a goddamn video.

Alma Gutierrez: How'd it go in Washington?
Scott Templeton: Buyer's market out there. Baltimore Sun ain't so bad.

Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Carcetti finally dumps Burrell... Ervin was a year before me at Dunbar.
Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: No shit.
Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: He was in the glee club.
Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: You're killing me. I got to ask.
Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Stone stupid.

Col. Cedric Daniels: Deputy ops... No, this is Daniels. Cedric Daniels... He's now in the commissioner's office... Yes.

Proposition Joe's nephew: What you see in this hole, man? All the money you got?
Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Your great-grandfather, first colored man to own his own house in Johnson Square. That means something, something you young 'uns lost.

Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Proposition, then. I just step out the way. You never hear from me again. I just disappear.

Marlo Stanfield: Close your eyes. It won't hurt none. There. There, now. Joe, relax. Breathe easy...

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