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The Wire » Season 2 » Hard Cases
00:58:35
Idris Elba, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West, John Doman, Wendell Pierce, Seth Gilliam, Domenick Lombardozzi, Clarke Peters, Andre Royo, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jim True-Frost, Frankie Faison, Corey Parker Robinso, Delaney Williams, J.D. Williams, Wood Harris
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Nouns
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shotty
Anyone got a line on that wild boy who likes to pop the shotty?
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polack
- Some kind of beef that Valchek has. - Two Polacks pissing on each other's leg.
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permanganate
"Acetone, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate."
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floater
13 homicides - 14 if we connect the floater - and all of them red.
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scapegoat
if I have to throw Burrell a scapegoat or two, I got one to throw.
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motherfucker
Not just for me, for you, too. They're looking for the motherfucker that brought it in here.
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acetone
"Acetone, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate."
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8)
infirmary
Five in one night, eight more in the infirmary? We need to show the flag on this.
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9)
nigger
You be talking to that nigger soon enough.
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10)
frat
We'll be there in five minutes and they'll still be dumb-ass frat boys.
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11)
informant
This case gets made from an informant
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12)
heed
needs to take heed of the latest fashions but yous ain't got no fuckin' style neither.
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13)
shipper
I'm serious. They come back today. We tell the shipper we lost the can in the stacks.
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interrogation
they needed to see the inside of an interrogation room.
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steward
And then I wanna talk to my shop steward and he can have an IBS lawyer go with me.
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dope
You can't make a case on some con's say-so. We need the dope on the table.
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17)
stash
The stash is across the street in the low-rises?
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18)
stunt
Say cheese. You pull another stunt, I'll have your card. I don't care who your mother is!
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19)
pardon
Well, I beg your pardon
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20)
scar
I'm looking for a stick-up boy, name of Omar. Dark-skinned guy with a scar down his face.
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21)
inmate
...has led to drug distribution charges against three inmate,
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installment
I can tell people I'm paying for it on installment or whatever.
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circumstance
I think what we're asking is reasonable under the circumstance.
Verbs
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incapacitate
one who himself was incapacitate by the tainted narcotics
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2)
indict
I indict this piece-of-shit case because you swore we had an eyeball wit...
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smuggle
He can identify the method by which contraband is smuggle in here,
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4)
taint
My client will provide information as to the source of the taint narcotics.
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5)
starve
If it wasn't for the car-ships, we'd be starving. The cameras come back.
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resemble
Nothing that even resemble the son of a bitch.
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7)
instruct
I'm instruct by the Corrections Commissioner
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8)
beg
Well, I beg your pardon
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9)
toss
Yo, Dee, you want any Silver Surfers? They toss shit Tae had in his cell.
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10)
haul
We haul it down to the scrap yard and we're good.
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11)
swear
I indicted this piece-of-shit case because you swore we had an eyeball wit...
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owe
The fact is I came into some back pay I was owe from about a month ago.
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13)
spike
You can tell yourself I spike it but be grateful that you still standing.
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steal
- Like you never stole nothing back in the day. - We ain't back in the day, Nicky.
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smell
I smell fresh police work. OK, be like that.
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patrol
I patrol. I write traffic tickets.
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shake
- Like what? - We shook things up snatching the cameras.
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18)
mess
To make sure your cargo isn't mess with, you'd wanna get with one of the checkers.
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19)
dig
You dig?
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20)
grab
- So why are you grab? - They were staring right at me.
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21)
blame
McNulty, they really hate. Not that I blame 'em.
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nail
will up and steal anything that isn't nail down.
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23)
quit
- That bad, huh? - He quit or he drowns.
Adverbs
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practically
You practically running this place. Who else could it be?
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2)
whatsoever
He has no priors whatsoever.
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nowhere
The container itself leads us nowhere. Fake addresses on either end.
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somewhere
Nothing moves without them putting it down somewhere.
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twice
He'd put it to your head and steal your shit without thinking twice.
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neither
needs to take heed of the latest fashions but yous ain't got no fuckin' style neither.
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nearly
I took tolls at the Fort McHenry tunnel which, I'm happy to say, wasn't nearly as much fun.
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alone
When you're alone, the going gets rough
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fucking
It's fucking picturesque is what it is.
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forward
to move Mr. Barksdale's first parole hearing forward 12 months
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almost
After 25 years, I'm still ahead almost 7,000.
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12)
inside
There's a computer chip inside. You load the pictures onto the computer.
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13)
soon
You be talking to that nigger soon enough.
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14)
enough
Fair enough. Just keep Valchek stroked
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later
- All right. See you later. - See you.
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though
Look, man, I ain't had nothing to do with it. I mean... I might know who did, though.
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far
As far as DOC is concerned, this is a fair deal if it takes the overdoses off our plate.
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fast
Unless you know your cargo's gonna move fast and clean through the port.
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together
We got a kid together. What's the big deal if we spend the night in your folks' basement?
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else
You practically running this place. Who else could it be?
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ago
The fact is I came into some back pay I was owed from about a month ago.
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ever
You ever miss it, Pop?
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least
You're loyal to your people. I respect that, at least.
Adjectives
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extant
And I would only add that Mr. Barksdale's extant conviction is his first.
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laced
Toxicology's coming back positive for strychnine. 10%, 12%. It's pretty well laced.
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tainted
one who himself was incapacitated by the tainted narcotics
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ouch
Ooh. Ouch!
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tempting
- Too tempting. - Just once.
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arrogant
Look, you're arrogant and disloyal
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dope
My boy down the infirmary say the shit was more rat poison than it was dope.
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picturesque
It's fucking picturesque is what it is.
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intentional
- This was intentional? - That's the ME's call.
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mute
Him and this lady have this daughter who's born a mute.
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investigative
This may be Valchek's creation but the detail is investigative and comes under CID.
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dumb
We'll be there in five minutes and they'll still be dumb-ass frat boys.
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upset
I realize it's your weekend but Sean would be upset if he missed it. OK? Great.
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grateful
You can tell yourself I spiked it but be grateful that you still standing.
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metric
Metric tons. Five or ten tons. Check and you'll see, they make these things here.
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lightweight
Shit, if it was a hotshot, they was after some real lightweight motherfucks.
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decent
They're decent people.
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fake
The container itself leads us nowhere. Fake addresses on either end.
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specialized
A promotion and a specialized unit isn't enough?
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damn
Think my woman's gonna give a big cheer when she hears? I was out the damn door.
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rough
When you're alone, the going gets rough
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weak
Don't use too much, you give a weak package some kick.
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institutional
We'd like to trim that to a year and have your assurances of institutional support
