The Best The Wire, Season 3, Episode 9 Quotes

State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: Sometimes with the bureaucracy, one hand doesn't know what the other hand is all about.
Russell: Yeah, well. you know what i see? / I see one hand in my pocket, well the other hand seems to have grabbed a dick.

- Let the lawyer talk for you.
- Lieutenant...
- Tell Lester I'm sorry.

- Have you ever known avon barksdale to back down from anything?
[Valchek] Of course you do.
- Get statements from responding officers.
- A plain-clothes man in a dark alley with his gun out and shots fired.
- No one wants to burn anybody but there's a racial component to consider.
- The appearance...
- Has he seen a lawyer?

- Stringer, too. This thing got to end, man.
- I swear to god, on a Sunday morning, they near shot her best crown off, yo.
- I mean, no shame, them niggers, man!
- Y'all feel me?
- I'm out.
- If you're back to dealing with barksdale people, I'm out, yo.
- I'm in it for the money.
- It's easier out there than that.

- That I had something to do with it,
- I could do that to my own kin?
- Is that what you fucking think?
- What the fuck is in your head?
- I didn't do nothing to Dee.
- I ain't had shit to do with it.
- To do with what?
- To do with what?
- Whatever happened.
- Whatever it is that happened, Brianna.

- They sure it's him?
- Omar, yeah.
- All right, do it.
- Do it.
- Gerard. They right there, come on.
- All right, here you go.
- Oh, my goodness! My goodness!

- You paying those guys out of pocket?
- Mm-hm.
- Boiler in there's working and the pipes are ok.
- I should have it all cleaned out by tomorrow, I think.
- All you gonna need is the permits.
[Man] Chamo, hermano, tienes que dejar...
- Permits?
- Yeah. Permits.

- Whenever he's done here, you need to send someone home with him.
- For tonight at least, he's a suicide watch.
- Lieutenant. Er... you'll back him?
- What I mean is, if this thing should turn into some kind of a black-white thing, you're his unit commander.
- He can count on you, right?

- I saw the gun as he turned.
- It's Derrick. Jesus Christ.
- You killed Derrick. It's waggoner.
- You fucking killed waggoner!

- Colvin?
- From the western.
- Sham, who is this kid?
- Some young boy from tucky's crew.
- Is he connected? Kin to anybody?
- No, he only been on for a few months.
- What did he use the whistle for?
- Some nigger in one of ghost Kane crews laughed at his shoes.
- Do it.

- You say you worked with this guy?
- "Three shots, no warnings."
- Is he scared of black people or something?
- Shit.
- The shit's gone too far.
- You're telling me.
- Yeah, I need the number to the newspaper, the sun.
- Yeah, the number for the reporters, the newsroom, yeah.

Slim: Ain't enough y'all done violated the Sunday morning truce. No, I'm standing here holding a torn-up church crown of a bona fide cutter lady. Do you know what a cutter lady is? Not your moms, for sure. 'Cause if they was that, y'all would've known better than that bullshit. Y'all trifling with Avon Barksdale reputation here, you know that?

[Man] What's the cross street?
- What's the cross street?
- Shots fired.
- Sounded like it was west of Milton.

- I do think it!
- Was it some beef he had?
- Someone on the inside?
- The cop said it was someone who didn't want you to know and so they made it look like it did?
- Nobody did nothing.
- But the cop said...
- He's lying.
- He paid to lie.

- On the new gym?
- Yeah.
- You use my name?
- You use anybody's name?
- Hell, man, there was a time
- I'd have used a Smith & Wesson.
- Nah, look, man, I'm just saying, how do regular folk get it done in this town?
- Doreen, ring delegate Watkins, please.

- I'm police! He's 10-7, call it in.
- A glock.

Det. Lester Freamon: Hey, hey, hey. A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.

- Floor framing plan, including load criteria.
- Piping layouts.
- Six copies of your fire protection plan with emergency exits and sprinkler system noted.
- Health department since it's a health service.
- A license from the state athletic commission up on calvert street.

- Greggs.
[Mcnulty] Prez shot another cop.
- What?
- It was an accident in an alley a while ago.
- No.
- I'll call you back.

- you gotta keep the devil way down in the hole
- You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole way down way down in the hole

- Lieutenant.
- What?
- You can't compel a statement out of him until you read him his rights and we haven't yet.
- I'm his commanding officer.
- I just want to know if he's all right.
- Ok, ok, there's just...
- It's a legal question at this point.

- Y'all waiting to see avon?
- I hear y'all shot the crown off an old lady's head yesterday.
- Mm-mm-mm.
- Good, y'all made it.
- Yeah.
- We're putting in some work.
- Come on upstairs so we can talk.

Det. Lester Freamon: The job will not save you, Jimmy.

- You need to be cuddled, mcnulty?
- No, but we make a date, I don't feel like I have to charge by the hour.
- A date, huh?
- I'll call you.
- In the daytime.
- I think we can all agree that foreign policy and with...

Omar: I damn near got that woman killed, yo. Y'all should've seen me in Sinai Hospital while they stitching her up, lying about why somebody wanna shoot me down the street. That woman think I work in a cafeteria.
Kimmy: Cafeteria?
Omar: At the airport, yeah.
Kimmy: The airport? Why the airport?
Omar: 'Cause I know she ain't gonna never go down there to go dining, that's why! Hey, yo, Kimmy, this ain't funny, yo! That woman raised me! And for as long as I been grown, once a month I been with her on a church Sunday, telling myself ain't no need to worry, 'cause ain't nobody in this city that lowdown to disrespect a Sunday morning!

- And a couple of them whiteys.
- That'll work.
[Bubs] That'll work.
- Bubs just made another 25.
- Theresa d'agostino, please.
Woman: I'm sorry, but she's not in.
- Can I take a message?
- No, I'll call back.
- So how's that working?
- What?
- Your new ho.
- So far, so good.

- Mid-size or full?
- Mid-size.
- You should upgrade and get one of them escalades.
- They got the xm radio an' all.
- I'm saying, if we gonna be in that damn car all damn day, it's worth it, Bernard.

- Tope, Gil, help me move this guy out of hamsterdam.
- I'll be first officer at the scene.
- It's my responsibility.
- Don't forget the casings.
- Make sure you call me.
- I will. Thank you.
- Take care.
- All right.
- Yes!

- Our us attorney here, he only touches himself for political corruption.
- Ghetto drug stuffjust doesn't rate,
- I'm sorry to say.
- This shit always smells best in the car going home.
[Woman on radio] Unit 13.
- In the alley in the rear, east side,
- 800 north montford.
- That's five blocks, up and over.
- Go.

- Where are you?
- Same place as before.
- Peabody.
- Are you sure you're not sleeping?
- No, no, I was up.
- You liar. Come on, get your ass over here.
- Yeah, ok. I mean, yeah, what the hell.
- Room 210.
- Fine.

- Pretty much the exact opposite of that goof in there.
- You know what's in that guy's jacket?
- Motherfucker flaked out, shot up his own radio car.
- They were gonna charge him with false report until valchek weighed in.
- You know he married valchek's daughter, right?
- Fucking goof had nine lives behind that shit.

- I was thinking maybe you would ticket your white ass up with me.
- Run for council president.
- Me an emerging black leader, handsome, well spoken.
- You, the great white hope, the new voice of civic reform.
- We could give Royce a run, man.
- What makes you think I'm interested?
- What the hell else have you got going?
- Think about it.

- Never mind, I got it right here.
- All stringer, all the time.
- Er, Theresa d'agostino, please.
Woman: Can you hold, please?
- Yeah, I'll hold.
- She's not in the office.
- You wanna leave a message?
- No, I left one already.

[Man] ...1942, the us 1st marine division stormed the shore at guadalcanal, seizing a nearly complete airfield at lunga point, which was renamed Henderson field, and an Anchorage at nearby tulagi that would later be known as iron bottom sound because of the ships sunk there in battle.
- The landings of the first day put nearly 11,000 marines on the island...

Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: [reading from a fortune cookie] "A new friend makes himself known."
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: "Himself"? If it was "herself," then you'd have a fortune.
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Shit, I'm married. With lawn furniture, man.

- That's all.
- Did he have kids? A wife?
- I don't know.
- They won't say.
- They won't talk to me about him.
- Call the fop. Get a lawyer, Roland.
- No, sir.
- I'm done.