You got it right,Rollin.

Yours, just by the dialogue is two older Black characters from the "law" characters. I wanna say Mayor Royce and Burrell, Burrell and Clay Davis or Royce and Davis.

Pretty close, it was Colvin and the Deacon

"Respectfully, did you just fuck me over without giving me even half a chance to clear this case?"

"Let's be clear, When I fuck you over, you'll know it. You'll be so goddamn certain, you won't need to ask the question. "

the second part is DEFINITELY Rawls.....I wanna say Daniels and Rawls...

lol that was absolutely rawls, can't mistake that brand of asshole anywhere. but it was to freamon not daniels, but you were close enough.

I'm taking partial L's today,Rollin.


You go again.

Rollin,
this is the outfit Marlo wore leaving the card game the first time, same episode where he is robbed by Omar.

Don't know if you are old enough to have ever heard of a show called Laverne & Shirley...but Marlo's gear is on some Laverne sh*t.




As you can see...either it's a big coincidence or they are trying to foreshadow that he's gonna talk an L later in the show.

Also

since I got the Rawls part of the answer...I'll go now



cop 1 "wanna take a door with us?"

cop 2"I'll take the back"

cop 1" you know what they say, cops who take the back, have to buy (drinks)

thats mcnulty who takes the back... can't remember if its bunk or freamon who he's talking to.. maybe both? it's when he's going through his sober mcnulty phase lol.

and thats an interesting catch Gets, the brand of that suit is LRG, which Marlo wore pretty often in the show. I wonder if the people who worked on the show were familiar with the phrase "take an L" though.. one of my few complaints about the wire is the dialogue some of the street guys use.. especially in season 1 it came off a little forced.. but i understand the show was written by guys who were mainly interacting with the streets in the 80s/early 90s..

"You call something a war, and pretty soon everybody gonna running around acting like warriors. They gonna be runnin' around on a damn crusade stormin' corners, slappin' on cuffs, rackin' up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fuckin' enemy. And pretty soon damn near everybody on every corner is your fuckin' enemy and soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policin' that's just occupied territory."

Rollin,

right, it was McNulty to Freamon

I hear your point about the slang. I think what threw me off was that because nobody repping B-more was in the public eye...their slang wasn't as well known to us as say...NY,L.A. or even say New Orleans during no limit/cash money era.
Wasn't used to people pronouncing "do" as "dew" or hearing that "it weren't that"

Yours is a talk Colvin is giving to his men...or at the police meetings with the police bosses.


cop rips up a photo
prisoner " a yo come on man, take off the cuff..make it a fair fight.....owww......ohh....uhhhhh, you fat F"

Yeah I was talking to a dude from Baltimore and he was telling me how you could tell which actors were from Baltimore and which weren't. Said of all the non-Baltimore actors the only one who sounded like they were even trying was Omar, and I definitely heard the accent in his voice.

Yours is Bird.. Landsman who rips up the photo.. Classic scene right there..

I was watching season 2 again and man Stringer really had no choice but to fuck with Prop Joe.. He made a good point telling Avon's sister that he didn't have muscle like Bird, Wee Bey and Stinkum.. Doubtful that if they were all still out Marlo would have been able to take over like that.

"The job isn't about picking the stories we like best."

Agree about that.I just recently caught on to the sub plot about their NY connect backing off because Avon got a light sentence and them being afraid he was co-operating. Watched each episode at least 5 times and just noticed and understood that. String was a practical guy...it was the smart thing to do to get with Joe. With the hitters on the street like Weebey...Stringer's overall plans would have worked out. Without the muscle...all that businessman, co-op stuff was bound to fail. Weebey was more fierce than Chris....and the only character to hold his own against Omar.


Yours is Bunk trying to get his fellow detective to back up off the bogus story that Old Face Andre gave him about the delivery lady murder.


cops talking to drug crew

cop1"you're gonna go in because I said so ,shitbird"

cop2(looking around...sensing danger )...you know what, we're gonna give you guys a pass this time.Let's go.

Herc n Carver when they were gonna get jumped trying to get some hustlers to relocate to Hamsterdam... Always love that one cause Herc tries to flex on Marlo saying "remember the face cocksucker" and Marlo eventually gets Herc fired thru the camera in s4.

"You built up a right sized nest over the years, don't you think it's about time to retire?"

"Retire to what?"

Herc and Carver are like comic relief on the show. Just that scene alone shows it, rolling up on a crew that's 20 deep with no backup trying that John Wayne/Clint Eastwood bull.


Yours is Butchie to Omar.


cop "if you don't want my finger in your eye, you'll do the right thing and take it down"

guy "the right thing? the right thing would be for you to come to my house like a decent human being....."

thats a tough one im not sure.. valchek and frank sobotka? that finger in your eye definitely sounds like valchek.

Correct,Rollin.

good lol i wasn't sure. i know rawls had said something similar but the only time we see him not on police business is at that gay bar.


"I knew I was wrong. But in my head, I thought I was wrong for the right reasons, you know?"

"There are different kinds of wrong."

guessing..but it sounds like McNulty to Bunk in season 5 after he gets found out.

Gotcha on that one, Gets.. That's Frank Sobotka and Beadie Russell towards the end of season 2 after Frank gets taken down.

"I swear to God, I was courtside for eight months and I was freer in jail than I was at home."

got me on the last one...i almost never get season 2 quotes


Yours is definitely D'angelo....spilling his guts to the cops.One of the top scenes of the series.

1"what happened to our man on the door?"

2"Siesta, papa"

That's Prop Joe and Omar's Latino boyfriend.. They shoulda just stayed in Puerto Rico when Butchie got killed.

"I think this is a tragic motherfuckin' miscarriage of justice. I think it deserves a special grand jury and if not, the president should appoint an independent prosecutor... Oh, no, no, no, actually I think Kofi Bryant and the United fucking Nations should get involved."

(Agree that Omar should stayed in P.R.....looking back, after they robbed the entire shipment.. and sold it back ..Butchie said "steal this much..it ain't over"....gotta admit, it's a sad line knowing what happens later)

yours is definitely Bunk. I remember hearing "Kofi Bryant" and screaming ....he said it to another cop which is all i remember.

GUNSHOT

guy 1"no need to prolong this"

guy 2 "oh, no we got time"

Lol yeah it was Bunk and McNulty. Always killed me how they just slid Kofi Bryant in there on the low.

Yours is Omar and Brother Mouzone in the hotel, when Omar decides not to kill him.

"For me, leastways the difference between East and West goes back to one man, Frank Matthews."

"Pee Wee Matthews?"

"Yeah, the brother went up New York and got in bed with them Italians. The only one from this town got a piece of that French Connection."

"What the hell Pee Wee got to do with anything?"

"Cause Frank was Westside. The dope flowed West. And when you got a steady supply, you run shit like a business. Somebody gets hurt, there's a reason."

That's Butchie settling a bet that a few bar patrons had about the difference between East and West Baltimore.


"No wonder we can't beat them. If they F up, they get beat...we F up we get promoted"

Yup.. Interesting to hear them name Frank Matthews, I know he was supplying guys all over the east coast but didn't know about his ties to Baltimore..

Pretty sure that's Carver, can't remember the season but it's a poignant quote.

"Of course, he said you would be paying my fee rather than his own self."

"Your fee?"

"I'm doing like one of them marriage counselors. Charge by the hour to tell some fool he need to bring some flowers home, then charge another hour telling the bitch she ought to suck some cock every little once and a while. To keep a marriage strong like that."

"......speaking of c*ck suckers"

That's Prop Joe to Stringer...first hint that he is super crooked.Bringing up the "fee", right before Omar shows up, so String can't dispute it. Later in convo....Omar tells Stringer to give the cease fire money to Joe for him, String says if we give it to Joe....you won't see 2,000 of it it.
It bothers me that a guy as clever as Joe didn't make it to the end.

I also didn't know about Matthews being from Baltimore until I saw that scene with Butchie. There's a doc. on youtube about FM...and one of the guys speaking is the gangster that gave ZERO F's about Cheese getting hit, just worried about it messing up the money for connect.


Yes....it was Carver to Herc.


guy 1"Why don't you front me the package and we could do an even split?"

guy 2"No...I'm a union guy...which means I don't work without a contract.Money up front"

I wanna say Nick Sobotka and Frog. Mighta been Ziggy though but I don't see Ziggy speaking with that authority lol.

"Our guy's dead from a stray. He was shooting at 40s and Clorox bottles blocks away Using potatoes for a silencer."

"Bite me. That's ridiculous. So our guy's dead because a bullet misses a bleach bottle, and this fuck Carcetti gets to be the mayor behind the stupidity... I fucking love this town."

You got it,Rollin....Nick to Frog...definitely not Ziggy, like you said...he didn't have any authority to speak to anybody like that...he's the king of L's.

Yours is Kima to the bald White detective(don't know his name but he's the one who helped Bunk & Landsman do the fake lie detector test on the stupid suspect)


"I heard your pup stood tall for snitching boy.........yeah"

Marlo to Chris, talking about Mike defending Randy.

I can't recall if I ever asked you this Gets but have you ever seen the mini prequels to the wire? There were 3 featuring mcnulty, Omar, and prop joe.

"Fecal gravity"

"You beat on the right people and the shit rolls down hill"

Rollin, I did see the pre-quels and thought they were well done.Wish they would have done some for some more characters.



I have no idea who said the exchange you posted.Shit rolling down hill sounds like something Freamon would say though.

Yeah same here. I just read what you wrote about Prop Joe not making it til the end when I remembered his prequel scene. He had really been wheeling and dealing his entire life. Only thing that took him out was trusting his own family.

My quote was Major Colvin and Lieutenant Mello at one of the Comstat meetings in season 3.

"Don't go making any furtive moves"

"No doubt. Don't break a pencil point"