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	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Det. Lester Freamon: We could still go to jail. And if not, I'd expect to be back in the pawn shop unit and you, my brother, are gonna ride the boat. Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: So what? It was worth it. [pause] Wasn't it? Det. Lester Freamon: Depends.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Sgt. Ellis Carver: They said you're leaving for family reasons. Dep. Comm. for Operations Cedric Daniels: Guess I got some kids somewhere I don't even know about.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes: Whiting, Klebanow, Templeton... They snatch a Pulitzer or two, and they are up and gone from this place. For them, that's what this is all about. Me? I'm too fuckin' simple-minded for that.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff: There ain't no back in the day, nigga. Ain't no nostalgia to this shit here. There's just the street and the game and what happen here today.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Sgt. Jay Landsman: He gave us thirteen years on the line. Not enough for a pension, but enough for us to know that he was, despite his negligible irish ancestry, his defects of personality and his inconstant sobriety and hygiene, a true murder police. Jimmy, I say this seriously. If I was laying there dead on some Baltimore street corner, I'd want it to be you standing over me, catching the case. Because, brother, when you were good, you were the best we had.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: You turning the world upside down with your bullshit. How are you not in jail? Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I don't know. The lie's so big, people can live with it, I guess. Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Jesus fucking Christ, Jimmy. I told you. I fuckin' told you it was gonna come to this. You played with fire, didn't you? And now we're all getting burned.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Walon: He's just putting it all out there, you know, the good and the bad. Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: You know what? The bad don't bother me to have out there. Shit, I know the bad. I ain't lying to no one about the bad. Walon: Scared of somebody calling you good? Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: A lot of folks volunteer places. A lot of folks share at meetings. Plenty of motherfuckers wake up every day and not get high. Man making me sound special for doing what the fuck I need to be doing.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Let's go home.
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30- Marla Daniels: The truth that doesn't bend, breaks, Cedric. Lt. Cedric Daniels: Bend too far, and you're already broken.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions Duquan 'Dukie' Weems: You remember that one day, summer past? When we threw them piss balloons at them Terrace boys? You remember, just before school started up again? You know, I took a beatdown from them boys. I don't even throw a shadow on it. That was a day. Y'all bought me ice cream off the truck. You remember, Mike? Michael Lee: [long pause] I don't.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions 'Monk' Metcalf: Boy been throwing up all kind of backtalk about shit. Buck wild about this and that. Marlo Stanfield: Like what? 'Monk' Metcalf: Crying about how Junebug and his people got lit up. Crying about how Omar on the street running his mouth, calling for you to step to. Marlo Stanfield: Omar say what? Chris Partlow: Nothing. [pause] Omar tried calling you out by name, but shit, no one -- Marlo Stanfield: What he say about me? Chris Partlow: Nothing, man. Just talking shit. Marlo Stanfield: He used my name? In the street? [pause] Talk, motherfucker! 'Monk' Metcalf: He just, you know, say that you need to step to and that . . . I don't know. He just running his mouth some. Marlo Stanfield: He call me a punk? Chris Partlow: It was bullshit, man. You ain't need that on your mind. Marlo Stanfield: What the fuck you know about what I need on my mind, motherfucker? My name was on the street? When we bounce from this shit here, y'all going to go down on them corners and let the people know: Word did not get back to me. Let them know Marlo step to any motherfucker -- Omar, Barksdale, whoever. My name is my name!
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions Sgt. Jay Landsman: From everything we've given you, fire should be shooting out your ass. But no, there you sit like a genital wart.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions Det. Lester Freamon: Drink with me, Jimmy! This is what you wanted, man! Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Then why do I feel like shit? Det. Lester Freamon: Postpartum depression.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: My name is . . . my name is . . . Reginald. Round the way, they call me Bubbles. I'm a drug addict. Celebrating my anniversary. My people couldn't make it here tonight. I left a trail of fire behind me. Time going to make it right, I guess.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Ain't no shame in holding on to grief . . . as long as you make room for other things too.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Late Editions Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: How my hair look, Mike? Michael Lee: Look good, girl.
	Season 5 / Episode 7: - Took State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: My brother, let's be fair. I'm providing you with the opportunity to go head to head with the state's attorney in a case that's going to be front page news. For all that profile? Sheeee-it, partner, you should be paying me a fee. Seriously, dog, for twenty thousand cash to my campaign committee, I'll get myself indicted federal, let you go to trial on that. Beat the feds like a stepchild and really make a name for yourself. Fuck you? Naw, son, I'm going to make you. Motherfuckers going to be wiping their ass with Johnnie Cochran's memory and carrying your business card in every damn pocket before we done.
	Season 5 / Episode 7: - Took Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: The quicker we bring this in and shut it down, the safer we'll all be. I mean, Landsman wants me over to fucking Quantico, have the FBI do a profile. Det. Lester Freamon: [laughs] You might learn something about yourself.
	Season 5 / Episode 7: - Took Reporter: What are you reading there, Senator? State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: Promethus Bound. An ancient play, one of the oldest we have. About a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people. In the words of [checks author] Ascyllius, "No good deed goes unpunished." I cannot tell you how much consolation I find in these slim pages.
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - The Dickensian Aspect Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I gotta tell you, Lester, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I can see why Daniels cringed every time you opened your fucking mouth. You're a supervisor's nightmare.
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - The Dickensian Aspect Det. Lester Freamon: McNulty, you are deserving of serious psychological study.
	Season 5 / Episode 3: - Not For Attribution Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You see Griggs out there, bagging evidence alone, then going back out there to recanvas on a triple? A triple fucking murder! A home invasion, and she's working it alone. They pulled Crutchfield this morning, put him back on the rotation. Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: That's on them! You can't come -- Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Fucking right, it's on them. A triple murder, and 12 hours later they leave one detective alone on it? I guess she's lucky she has a car! Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: This shit won't work. Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Well, then we're no worse than before. Extra red name or two on the board. Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Yeah, unless you got caught. Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Who in this fucking unit's going to catch me? Most of the guys up here couldn't catch the clap in a Mexican whorehouse.
	Season 5 / Episode 3: - Not For Attribution Det. Michael Crutchfield: Did he fuck you? Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: He tried. But mostly he just fucks himself.
	Season 5 / Episode 3: - Not For Attribution Det. Lester Freamon: Shit like this actually goes through your fucking brain?
	Season 5 / Episode 1: - More With Less Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I wonder what it feels like to work in a real police department!
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Final Grades Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: [Herc has been ranting about IID charges] Herc, What the fuck did you do exactly? Sgt. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I lost a surveillance camera that I took without my Lieutenant's permission and the evidence that I had found, I it attributed to a made up informant. Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Son, They gonna beat on your White ass like it was a Rented Mule.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Final Grades Chris Partlow: You can look him in the eye now... no matter who he is or what he done you look him right in the eye.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Final Grades Sgt. Jay Landsman: All that from overnight? Det. Ed Norris: All that from Freamon. He's out early today, rooting through empties. Sgt. Jay Landsman: You know what he is? He is a vandal. He is vandalizing the board. He is vandalizing this unit. He is a Hun, a Visigoth, a barbarian at the gate, clamoring for noble Roman blood and what's left of our clearance rate.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Final Grades Lt. Dennis Mello: All right, listen up, you mutts, this is complicated. I mean, it isn't complicated if you went to college or, I don't know, your mothers actually stopped drinking for a minute while they was pregnant. But for Baltimore City Police, this is complicated.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Final Grades Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: I been doing this a long time. I ain't never said nothing to no cop. [sighs] I feel old. I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never fucked up a count, never stole off a package, never did some shit that I wasn't told to do. I been straight up. But what come back? Hmm? You'd think if I get jammed up on some shit they'd be like, "A'ight, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got his pay lawyer. We got a bail." They want me to stand with them, right? But where the fuck they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man. We like the little bitches on a chessboard. Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Pawns.

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