Name: Not for Attribution
Released: 2016-10-13
Cast: Idris Elba, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West, John Doman

1) backspin

Put some backspin on it, or else it'll bank off the box and not in it.
2) cous

Hey, 'Naldo, cous' got to find out where they got Honey Nut, yo,
3) frontrunner

but there's a frontrunner from deeper in the department. Cedric Daniels.
4) broadsheet

folding his broadsheet just so.
5) vagrant

He's killing vagrant, is he?
6) motherfucker

Don't be fretting on the ride now. This motherfucker tried and true.
7) wiretap

Brought in a couple of big wiretap cases, they gave him the Western,
8) minnow

- We're the minnow. - Maybe we won a Pulitzer.
9) deadwood

and you'd get a head start on clearing out deadwood,
10) girdle

Back in the girdle ads
11) fella

You want to see if they can live with this fella here, right?
12) aorta

The aorta should have elasticity to it,
13) schoolhouse

a schoolhouse for some other folks, all kind of good shit like that.
14) nigger

What, nigger?
15) buyout

- How many buyout are there? - That hasn't been determined yet.
16) juror

make it so the grand juror understand all the ins and outs
17) dearest

Transient locales, no nearest, no dearest. No one gives a fuck.
18) sinner

"forgive some sinner,

1) launder

You mean launder, right?
2) askin

If you askin'.
3) strangle

Whoever strangle him could've just waited a month or two more.
4) aime

And this is aime at who? Huh?
5) detain

you were operating the senator's car when you were detain by city police
6) sharpen

"Carcetti may be holding the knife, but Daniels sharpen it for him.
7) fret

Don't be fret on the ride now. This motherfucker tried and true.
8) carve

not unless he's carving up some pretty co-ed or some shit.
9) comin

We still ain't got no line on the man, and now he comin' at us.
10) snip

Also that ribbon you snip off, it might tie to other cases.
11) lookin

like the money straight out the bank and shit. All lookin' nice.
12) beg

Well, I beg your pardon
13) toss

and then he toss it back to Metro before the double-dot.
14) fracture

In addition to the fracture hyoid and the bruising,
15) shack

Since getting separated, he's been shack up with Ronnie Pearlman
16) forgive

I forgive you, Gus.
17) react

see if you can feed him some react quotes.
18) warn

telling us he warn Burrell against cooking the books.

1) anonymously

It's a great quote, but if you're gonna... if you're gonna slam somebody anonymously,
2) ordinarily

Might ordinarily charge more,
3) nowadays

Who covers us for the Sun papers nowadays? Twigg?
4) quietly

We leak the real stats, hold the cooked ones in case he won't go quietly.
5) sooner

The sooner we start meeting with you individually,
6) poorly

We chose poorly, Gus.
7) badly

Badly. Kiss any raise goodbye.
8) nowhere

My name is nowhere in the file.
9) individually

The sooner we start meeting with you individually,
10) publicly

She's not gonna slam the mayor's choice publicly,
11) slowly

Can you begin by slowly explaining in the most basic terms
12) elsewhere

Elsewhere in the newsroom,
13) apparently

Apparently, they can hire 1 ½ twenty-somethings
14) definitely

Definitely not.
15) carefully

We've got to lay the foundation carefully,
16) forever

Cases stay open forever.
17) normally

Normally, my fee for this would be 20 on the dollar.
18) doubt

No doubt.

1) helluva

Helluva catch, Detective. Helluva of a catch.
2) vagrant

I caught a vagrant months back had a red ribbon tied around his wrist.
3) unconnected

So you string together Barlow's murder and Cole's unconnected case and yours,
4) homely

"and wink your eye at some homely girl."
5) budgetary

Chicago has given us some specific budgetary targets
6) missionary

He down with all kind of missionary work going on down in the islands.
7) transient

Transient locales, no nearest, no dearest. No one gives a fuck.
8) profitable

How come there's cuts in the newsroom when the company's still profitable?
9) generous

A generous gift...
10) tremendous

tremendous regret...
11) homeless

Homeless murders from the last five years.
12) overhead

He's by the overhead camera.
13) rid

If we're lucky, they'll just get rid of deadwood.
14) complicated

Complicated stuff, I suppose.
15) explicit

Without being explicit, they gave me a choice -
16) damn

"What the hell is so important about that damn paper?
17) organizational

organizational, with 501 3 designation.
18) weird

Weird thing about my case, Bunk.

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