Name: Moral Midgetry
Released: 2016-10-11
Cast: Idris Elba, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West, John Doman

Words to remember

Nouns

1) ambo

Three OD's. Last one didn't look too good before the ambo came.
2) knucklehead

This is fucking cool. Check out these knucklehead on the Make-A-Face.
3) perp

You know what they call it when judge, jury and perp all go to the same family barbecue?
4) patter

All due respect, you can stow that patter right here and now.
5) carnivore

That shit worries me as much as any carnivore out there.
6) pauper

otherwise, hell, every pauper'd be a king.
7) motherfucker

That motherfucker Marlo.
8) rawhide

- For real. - What, you don't like rawhide?
9) ketchup

hot sauce on two and the other with ketchup.
10) nigger

Tried and true, that shit always bring a nigger back.
11) extradition

Just tell her I was on the road working an extradition.
12) chute

We got 50, 60 kids on the inside been fight or flight since they popped out the chute
13) gangster

and perform the civic duty of bearing witness against gangster and criminals?
14) deacon

The deacon thinks maybe some people should come in here
15) livelihood

and put their lives and livelihood at risk.
16) fugitive

Brought back something like 500 fugitive in a three-year period, I think.
17) mentality

I mean, forgive me but you still showing a little bit of that street corner mentality.
18) videotape

Unless there's an incident, we reuse those videotape every week.
19) bullshit

When all this bullshit falls apart, I'm gonna kick your butt...!
20) faucet

- What faucet? - The HUD faucet, the money faucet.
21) dime

Bugging about every dime you spend,
22) pardon

Well, I beg your pardon
23) injustice

- Poetic injustice. - I wanna file a report.

Verbs

1) cheekbone

- Get them cheekbone up a little bit. - No, she's looking like a pie tin with hair.
2) blee

I blee red, you blee green.
3) elude

about police work that elude the rest of your commanders?
4) downgrade

am I likely to find less crime or more incidents which have been downgrade or unfounded?
5) rewind

- Can we have the tape for that day? - No tape. I rewind every day.
6) sanction

So this is a sanction open-air drug market.
7) tout

Those ain't tout you're hearing, brother.
8) snatch

Because I think before I snatch a life, I ain't into this bullshit?
9) grind

And it grind me that no one ever spoke up for him.
10) beg

Well, I beg your pardon
11) scare

Sometimes you still scare me, you know that?
12) squeeze

I guess your son just got squeeze between the sides.
13) swear

I swear, as soon as the sun comes up, we grab that damn tape and go.
14) borrow

What the fuck. This thing is on borrow time, anyhow.
15) scream

Because this kind of variation scream manipulation to me,
16) bother

But, mostly at this point, I'm sorry I bother his girl
17) dare

Nobody would've dare.
18) assign

and six other numbers that are all assign to Trac disposable cellphones.
19) mess

Kids mess up the good hoop.
20) grab

I swear, as soon as the sun comes up, we grab that damn tape and go.
21) assure

Councilman, I assure you, these stats are not massaged. We don't do that.
22) acquire

Tuition will come back to him tenfold in acquire wisdom.
23) hang

and they hang onto it like a tit.

Adverbs

1) miserably

Miserably. And we need to do something about this.
2) genuinely

Our feeling is that it's genuinely an aberration.
3) barely

We're barely up on anything.
4) besides

Besides, nothing in the world's more expensive than "free."
5) somewhere

So somewhere down in them records
6) definitely

then you are definitely not ready.
7) apart

They see one more gun, Gandhi-world falls apart, this I guarantee.
8) doubt

- You got skills, yeah, no doubt, but... - What?
9) neither

- You want a drink? - No, I don't do that neither.
10) indeed

and if I'm wrong, if indeed there is no manipulation,
11) alone

You should lay back on this one. Let me go talk to Buford Pusser in there alone.
12) sometimes

Sometimes you still scare me, you know that?
13) fucking

This is fucking cool. Check out these knuckleheads on the Make-A-Face.
14) otherwise

otherwise, hell, every pauper'd be a king.
15) late

- I ain't gonna be late. - All right, then.
16) almost

Everything's along I-95, from here to almost Richmond.
17) actually

Actually, there's a lot of good ones.
18) kind

I kind of liked your son, you know?
19) inside

Y'all want some slamming ice, go inside and tell my man Rafik sent you.
20) soon

I swear, as soon as the sun comes up, we grab that damn tape and go.
21) near

- it ain't near close enough to here. - I wouldn't mind taking a look at it.
22) along

I'm gonna bring you along, String, but it ain't gonna be an overnight thing.
23) enough

- it ain't near close enough to here. - I wouldn't mind taking a look at it.

Adjectives

1) indiscriminate

What, 'cause I don't shoot up a block, indiscriminate, I ain't hard enough?
2) unfounded

am I likely to find less crime or more incidents which have been downgraded or unfounded?
3) nonstop

- Go nonstop hound on your ex like that. - It's easy.
4) sentimental

- No, baby, this one's sentimental. - Here, it's bleach.
5) sassy

Look at you now, you big sassy bitch.
6) ambitious

You're smart, and you're ambitious, and you've got a sharper tongue than most.
7) accountable

That I will hold people accountable based on the facts.
8) endangered

for any endangered witnesses?
9) mere

It's so tiny. No mere mortal can...
10) decent

All things considered, he was a pretty decent kid.
11) intensive

and an intensive reach-out into the community,
12) rat

- You know, little rat eyes. - Yeah, all right. Put a mole on there.
13) damn

You lose that, you lose every damn thing. Go on.
14) careful

They were so careful spreading out purchases up and down the three states,
15) overnight

I'm gonna bring you along, String, but it ain't gonna be an overnight thing.
16) weak

She's calling us on that weak shit?
17) thick

But that "blood is thick than water" bullshit, take that shit somewhere else!
18) stupid

Stupid motherfucker.
19) blind

You're like the blind man and the elephant.
20) liberal

Hell, every kind of liberal-ass project never got off the page it was written on.
21) expensive

Besides, nothing in the world's more expensive than "free."
22) statistical

of a statistical variation from the mean in his monthly stats.
23) bright

It's so big and clear and bright.

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