"Anybody in plumbing, please go to aisle four." "God damn!" "I see you got the DeWalt cordless." "Your nail gun" " DeWalt 410." "Yeah." "The trouble is, you leave it in the trunk for a while, need to step up and use the bitch, the battery don't hold up, you know?" "Yeah, cordless'll do that." "You might want to consider the powder-actuated tool." "The Hilti DX 460 MX or the Simpson PTP - these two are my Cadillacs." "Everything else on this board is second-best, sorry to say." "Are you contracting, or just working on the house?" " No, we work all over." " Full time?" "No, we had about five jobs last month." "Well, the cost of the powder-actuated guns justifies itself." " You say "power"?" " Powder." " Like gunpowder?" " Yeah." "The DX 460 is fully automatic, with a .27-calibre charge." "Wood, concrete, steel to steel, she'll throw a fastener into anything." "For my money, she handles recoil better than the Simpson or the P3500." " You understand recoil?" " Yeah, the kickback. I'm with you." " That's right." " .27 calibre, huh?" "Not large ballistically but enough for driving nails." "Any more, you'd add to the recoil." "Man, shit. I seen a tiny-ass .22 round-nose drop a nigga plenty of days, man." "Mothertuckers get in you like a pinball, rip your ass up." "Big joints, though, just break your bones, you say, "Fuck it."" "I'm gonna go with this right here, man." "How much I owe you?" "$669 plus tax." "No, you just pay at the register." "Nah, you handle that for me, man." "And keep the rest for your time." " This is $800." " So what, man?" "You earned that buck like a mothertucker." "Keep that shit." " We good?" " Yeah, man." "The man said if you want to shoot nails, this here is the Cadillac, man." "He meant Lexus but he ain't know it." " Hold the charge better?" " Man, fuck the charge." "This here is gunpowder-activated, .27 calibre, full auto, no kickback, nail-throwing mayhem, man." "Shit right here is tight." "Fuck just nailing up boards." "We could kill a couple mothertuckers right here." "You laughing. I've been schooled, dog." " All right." " For real." "Seven and counting." "All of them caught on the wire." "We're not above the corners yet but we will be." " They're not dumping phones?" " Every month." "Sloppy enough that we can track one to Marlo or the people he keeps close." "Truth is, if they're still using cellphones, they're mine." "And if Marlo Stanfield is on a cell, he'll be mine too." "Cool Lester smooth." "That's not trash talk, that's simple fact." "Marlo may have a lot of heart and a lot of corners, but he's a babe in the woods when it comes to this." "I was proud to chase those Barksdales, but Stanfield..." "Not as fierce as we thought." "There hasn't been a body we can put to him." "You two sound disappointed." "This unit needs good, hard targets, or it'll go soft." "I'll assume you want another 30 days on your taps." "At least." "We've got subpoenas to go out as well." " Subpoenas?" " Asset investigations." " On Marlo Stanfield?" " Come here." "All this is from the Barksdale money trail." "We've been running down all the paper from Stringer's apartment" " and the B  B office." " l miss Prez, man. I do." "I hear you." "Those guys had money going everywhere - investments, political donations, consulting fees..." " You want to do this now?" " l wanted to do this a year ago, but fresh cases got in the way." "And your lieutenant's gonna OK this?" "Our lieutenant has a fearless heart." "This will get you started." "Wait right there." "My coupons." "You were gonna give her my coupons." "Been clipping them for two days and you nearly lost them." " Why are they in my pile?" " That's my workspace." " l'm doing real work!" " Working my nerves is what you do." "Four weeks before the Baltimore City primary, you hand me drug-money subpoenas for a dozen key political figures." "There's an election?" "Who's running?" "And they think I can." "Shit, we can't take four more years of this." "This city's in the toilet." " They said that during my term too." " You got dealt a bad hand," " with the riots and all." " Yeah, sure." "I'll squeeze in if Tony Gray draws off 25% of the vote out of Royce's base." "25% is a big number for Gray, don't you think?" "Royce's negatives are up, even among black voters." "Yeah. ln a minute, Norman." "You know what I think, Tommy?" "You got your name out there, and it'll help you down the road if you want to step up to the legislature." "But as one paisan to another, the day of the white mayor is over." "Your Eminence, you're due at the Belair-Edison Senior Center, and I don't want to lie to them because you wanted to talk shop." "Seniors, huh?" "They vote, Tommy." "Got to run." "Sorry." "He's on your clock, don't ever let him forget it." "No, indeed." "Need your sig on vehicle logs and a corrected court report and office memo subpoena requests and a requisition to City Purchasing for a large fan." "A fan, huh?" "Caroline says it stays hot in the wire room with the door closed." "It's beautiful, Lieutenant." "Never seen a beach house so fine." " Think so?" " Shit. I'm thinking of retirement, and I only got nine years on." "When do you break ground?" "Next March, if I have my permits." "Which reminds me - on Tuesday I have to see my contractor." "No problem." "Me and Lester, we'll cover for you." "No problem at all." "Cake." "That's my baby's mother we talking about, yo." "But y'all been broke up, right?" "Man, I ain't living with her but I still be giving her a couple dollars, you know, stopping past." "Pandemic!" "Look at this." "Namond!" "What the fuck am I paying you for, nigga?" "My fault, B." "Damn!" "And do something with that ponytail." "Cops can make his ass a mile away." "Braid it or something!" "Me and Patrice been together for a long time." "But you say she running with Fruit now?" "Yeah. lf he don't back the fuck off, I'm gonna fill his ass with some hot ones, yo." "Shit." "You don't think I will?" "I got that pandemic." "Man, do what you gonna do." "What's up, big man?" "You ain't real with us all week, man." "You stepping on that package?" "Everything's been slow since we moved here from Fayette Street." "Yeah, well, Marlo wanted Fayette." "Man, I do not like backing down from niggas, man." "I feel like a punk, like doing shit." "Ain't like the old days, dog." "Nary a Barksdale left." "You out here on your own, dog." "Give it up." "B, let's roll." "Lex, man, I'm gonna give you the truth because you need the truth." "Marlo got the world by the ass." "And Fruit work for Marlo." "So I'm saying, fuck that bitch." "And move on." " That's just the way it is." " Yeah." " That's just the way it is, man." " Pandemic!" "Thank you, sir." "Just one moment, ma'am." " You seen Hoskins?" " Lieutenant went upstairs already." "Step through, please." "Madam President." "Council president's hot as balls." " l'd fuck you to fuck her, man." " Yeah?" "You'd fuck a guy for a chance to fuck a hot broad?" "You don't think that makes you a faggot?" "It's just an expression, man." "Been on this detail how long?" "Eight months." "Eight months with Clarence Royce." "So let me ask, are you ready to take a bullet for the Mayor of Baltimore?" "Lieutenant, sir. ls the truck OK, or do we want to call one?" "No, the truck works." "He said he needs just 10 minutes." "No, not now." "Maybe tomorrow." "is that Krawczyk again?" "Every time he writes another cheque he calls for something just to see that he can." "Carcetti's people want one debate for crime and safety, the other on economics and schools, Tony Gray crying the same." "Want the whole night to smack me with the crime rate." "I told The Sun we're open to any forum now which will be for another couple of days in which time we'll say, "Fuck you." "One debate."" "Two debates." "Shit!" "That lost-ball-in-high-grass mothertucker Carcetti." "He needs to get used to life in the wilderness." "Not just downtown but your communities here on the East Side." "We stand or we fall together, and I'm here today to ask for the chance to stand with you." "Thank you for your time." "Questions?" "Yes, ma'am?" "is it the Salisbury steak for lunch today, or is they doing tacos?" "It's developments like this one, planned residential towers with waterside retail space and restaurants that grow Baltimore's tax base and help rebuild our city." "I want to thank Ed Bowers for his vision, but more important, for his commitment." "For his commitment to the City of Baltimore." "Ed?" "Mr Mayor, I want to thank you and your administration, for making this next stage of redevelopment for Baltimore's harbour a reality." "You talk about vision and commitment," "Mayor Clarence Royce." "Pandemic!" "What up, Nay?" "Yo, what up?" " What you got?" " Nothing." "A story about AJ from North  Woods." "Yo, you know they gave him 700 years?" "Read this shit, son." "This corner is dead, man." "You still working?" "Yeah, we was gonna catch some fresh birds." "I don't know." "Let me see if I can bounce." "Hold up." " What's up?" " Can I leave early to go down to Mondawmin for some back-to-school stuff." "What you need back-to-school stuff for?" "Come on, stop playing, B." "Without social promotion, your ass would still be in pre-K, mothertucker." "Probably daycare up this bitch." "Pandemic right here!" "Fuck it." "Pay this late-to-work, early-to-play nigger for five hours." "You owe me extra time tomorrow, though." "Lex!" "Did you hear me?" "Damn, y'all!" "Young'uns don't got a scrap of work ethic." "If it wasn't for his pops, I wouldn't even bother." "Make sure you come early tomorrow because it ain't always this slow." "Pandemic!" "At least I hope it ain't." "Mr Mayor." "Mr Mayor, excuse me." "I just want to make sure we're still OK for that median cut on Boston Street." "I need that access to make the site viable." "Right. I'll get my people on it." "Thank you, sir." "Something going on with his median?" "Not once he ponies up." "I think he can do a lot better than the 4,000, don't you?" "I don't even want to know." "No, Chris, please, man." " We're low on quicklime, man." " Doesn't matter." "We got vacants on both sides." "He'll stink is all." "Chris, please." "Don't fret, boss. I got you covered." "Quick and clean, I promise." "Man, shit like that don't even work in cartoons." "The roadrunner just snatch the birdseed and book." " We ain't in no cartoon." " Yeah, you is." " Be still." " You scaring away the birds." "I'm talking to both y'all." "Took me off the clock for this craziness?" " What you thinking?" " We're serious." " This bird could be worth 400." " Nigga, please." "Nemo worked Marlo's pigeon coop." "Said he got 400 for a white homing bird." " That's a homer?" " l mean, it's white." " So that makes it a homer, right?" " lt could be." "Damn!" "Use hamburger meat." "That shit would've been got." "Shut your mouth, it'd have been got." "I'm gonna fuck this nigga up." "What the fuck is wrong with you, throwing bottles and shit?" " You just cost us cash money." " l ain't done nothing." "You're a seriously backwards dude." "Playing with bugs like he's still in Pampers." " That wasn't even necessary." " You the one that need Pampers." "Put them over that mouth, catch all that shit." "Y'all be stinking like rat fart." "There you go!" "Get him!" "All right." "Come on." " Y'all acting like bitches." " You seen my man Duke?" " Got him upside his head." " Didn't want to touch the dirty mothertucker." "Could have come up with aids." "Dukie fight like a bitch, yo." "I'd whip that ass if I didn't feel sorry for him." "Duke, you scared away the birds." "I blew me up a bug bomb." "You want to see the pieces?" "Nah, I'm good. I got to go." "All right." "That pigeon wasn't a homer." "Homers got metal things around their leg." "You can tell them from the other birds." "How you know that?" "Nemo let me clean out his coop sometimes." "So...he was schooling me." "Which leaves us a total of 54." "No surprises on who's coming back - all the regulars." "We lost Mr Parker and Ms Bowles." " Gregory's leaving?" " Hired by the county." "I knew Bowles was going, the way they tore up her classroom." "So we're short two in math and four in science." "Man at the door." "No system id but says he's new here." "Buzz him in before he changes his mind." "All the way on the left." "Pull it hard." " Hard!" " lt's locked." "All right. I'll be right down." "Not a goddamn thing up in here works like it should." "Turn to the cafeteria assignments, and that leaves Ernest alone, and he can't handle it alone." "You tell them, I ain't even gonna try to pronounce it." "Everyone just calls me "Prez"." " Claudell Withers, principal here." " New in math." "I won't have my certificate until next year but they said I'd be getting classes because of staff shortages?" "Jesus." "Lambs to the slaughter here." "What did you do before you decided to teach, Mr Pryzbylewski?" "I was a police...in the city." "Marcia Donnelly, Assistant Principal." "Welcome to Edward Tilghman Middle." "That leaves Tullman for the 12th." "Can he handle the whole shift?" "Which one's Tullman, again?" "Goofy redhead, looks like Opie from Mayberry but less fierce." "Jimmy, Major wants to see you." "Jimmy, come on in." "I know I offered when I first came over here, and I know your answer then, but I'm still asking." " Can I get you out of a radio car?" " No thank you, Major." "McNulty, I'm short two men in Ops, and my follow-up squad can't make a case." "You're too damn good to be humping calls." "Thanks for the offer, though." "You don't think I asked him ten times when I was acting commander?" " He's in the wrong fucking place." " For us, yeah." "For him..." "Yo, po-po, man." "Po-po." "Shut it down." "Where's the love, Bodie?" "Where is the mothertucking love?" "I go back so far with this kid, I was chasing him through juvie." "But does any of that matter?" "I get so much as a wave, a nod, a smile?" "Nothing." " How about just hello?" " Hello." "See?" "That wasn't so hard, was it?" "Lex, my man, how's your day going?" "Not to criticise or anything but I think you missed a spot there." "Little Kevin, how's it hanging?" "Reesey, you look like someone just shot your dog." "You OK?" " Reesey still messing up?" " You hear what he said?" "You send him to Lamelle next month." "put him in remedial math and we'll have done some good today." "He's fucking got me." " Everything good?" " Yeah." "Just words." "Mr Entrapment, how you doing?" "Don't look like that." "I still dine out on that story." "You know how he beat the wiretap a year ago?" "Claimed entrapment in Bunny Colvin's Hamsterdam." "Shit you not." "Smart kiddo. I loved it." "When I roll back in an hour, this corner's bone-dry." "Your people are done for the day." "OK." "So let's try this again." "I say, "Have a good evening, Mr Broadus."" "And a good evening to you, Sergeant Carver." "See?" "We're right here." "And a very good evening to you, Officer Colicchio." "Fuck yourself with a 40, shitbreath." "What the fuck was all that about?" " You can't bust every head, Tony." " l can't?" "Bust every head, who are you gonna talk to when shit happens?" "Hi, Rachel." " Tim, thanks for doing that yesterday." " Yeah, no problem." "You ran late all morning - late for the seniors, the Stonewall meeting." " Late for the Gay-Lesbian Alliance." " Them seniors talk slow." "Bullshit. lt was breakfast with Young Tony and swapping stories." " Young Tony, huh?" " l was getting sage advice." " From a one-term mayor?" " He takes over in '67, sees the city burn." "That was an opportunity." "Spiro Agnew made his career on the '68 riots." "One man's shithead's another man's vice president." " True as ever." " ls that polling data?" "Raw numbers. lt's incomplete." "You need to be in the call room dialling for dollars." "Fuck!" "I can't do it any more!" "I hate it. I hate it more than anything." "I fucking hate it!" "You don't do this, you can't pay for TV spots in the last two weeks." "Mothersucking cockfuckers." "Jesus. I fucking hate this." "Hey, Jim, Tom Carcetti here, remember me?" "We met at your sister's - the one that's married to that Republican cunt." "I know you don't remember me or have any use for fucking politicians, and frankly, I don't give a flying fuck about what you think, but I do care about what your cute blonde wife thinks about." "But, Jim, the reason I'm calling is because I want you to write me out a cheque for $4,000, the maximum allowed by law, and because we don't trust you to mail that cheque," "we're gonna send over some DPW workers to beat the cheque out of you." "All finished?" "You need $30,000... in the next three hours." "No bullshit, Tommy." "You hit your number or die in this room." "Yeah, whatever." "So what are you watching, then?" "Anything on the tube?" "No fucking way." "They got enough power in the line-up." "What they need is pitching." "What you looking at?" "Fucking crazy." "Like I'm really gonna give that mothertucker a ride to Woodlawn." "Shit." "Help!" "Somebody help!" "What's up, Patrice?" "You're letting it ring, right?" "You're not hanging up after a ring or two?" "I'm making the calls, Terri." "Nobody's home." "30,000, Tommy." "Lex?" "The boy who used to go with Patrice?" " He her baby's daddy." " He ain't the first one to get it." " Don't talk like that." " Nigga just walked up to him and served him up." "One to the face." "Shoot." "He was real cute." "Lex took all the cute out of that lazy-eye mothertucker." " Anything on Fruit's phone?" " Nothing outgoing for two hours." "Sure." "Sure. I really need your help." " Put me down for four." " Yeah." "What about your wife?" "Can she come up with four?" " l don't think we can do eight." " Kids?" " They're in strollers." " l know, I was kidding." " That's funny." " Never mind. 4,000 is good." "Thanks." "One to the left temple." "Close range in a lot full of club trash, nobody sees a thing." "We hear your shooter goes by "Lex"." "We were up on your victim's cellphone too." "We'll send you whatever's there." "Got this from his pocket." "Pull the numbers from that as a consolation prize." "This fucks you guys up." "Losing a guy you had wired?" "We're up on several phones at street level." "With or without Mr Fruit, we're on our way." "You know, it's strange." "We're not seeing bodies." "This is the first drug hit in months, and it's Marlo's boy who falls." " l thought Marlo was the new power." " He is." "Shit, he's got everything from MLK to Fulton now." "How do you hold that much real estate without making bodies?" "You hear anything more about this on your wire, Lester, the Bunk expects a call." "Yeah, I know he does." "The hell with Norris." "You're my real partner, Lester." "My life partner." "Don't tease, bitch." "Look at that bowlegged mothertucker." "I made him walk like that." "So who the fuck is Lex?" "Dontrelle's cousin." "Used to be with Cantel's people." "He working some corner over Hilltop now." "Ain't more connected than that and he coming near one of mine?" "Wasn't about no business." "Pussy, man." "Fruit was into something that Lex thought was his own." "You say the word, we take off that whole mothertucking corner." "What corner are we talking about?" "Rag-tag shit up on Pacer." "They get their shit from Joe, but they're mostly independent." "They gone, Marlo." "Just say so." "That what you think?" "Just do them all?" "Take their fucking corner too." "What do I want with some off-brand corner?" "And why be stacking bodies when there ain't no one trying to war with us?" " Just Lex." " He did one of ours, so he got to fall." "Get out, Tommy." "You're done." "Get up, Tommy!" "Come on, pretty boy." "Come on." "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." " That's home?" " Yeah." "That's it." "There we go, little trouper." "6:30 tomorrow morning." "Don't make me drag you out of bed like you did yesterday." "Damn, boy, what happened to you?" "Terrace Boys banged me coming across the tracks by Ramsey Street." "Teron, Manny, Herbie." "Man, all them Terrace niggas." " They can't whoop on Dukie like that." " Yeah." "Only we can whoop on Dukie like that." " We've got to even this out." " Nah." "Fuck even." "We gonna hurt them twice as bad." "Give 'em a whoop-ass they ain't gonna never forget." "If we straight-up fight them, there's more of them than there is us." " So what?" "You scared?" " Nah, I'm just saying, if we're gonna hurt them, we need to think on it." "Do something go past beating on each other." "You talking guns and shit." "Nah, I ain't talking guns." "What?" "Aw, shit." "Randy got an idea." "Hey, Norman, you know what I had for dinner last night?" "Tuna sub. I ate in the car." "When I write my memoirs, that shit'll be in there, no doubt." "You see what I just ate?" "In the car?" "A fucking tuna sub." "In order to prevent distemper you must vary the candidate's menu." "If you're done chewing, let's give these new radio spots a listen." "We've seen what Tommy Carcetti can do as a councilman." "While the administration bent to special interests, Tommy Carcetti..." " What?" " ..that is protecting jobs at the fort by preventing the overdevelopment of... 300,000." "Great." "Thanks for sharing." "..home ownership." "That prevented budget cuts to vital city services..." "Three and five zeroes - mayor's latest TV buy." " Turn that shit off!" " You don't like the spots?" " l think they're strong." " They're bullshit!" "Weak bullshit!" "I wouldn't vote for me." "Fuck!" "Fuck Royce!" "Fuck Tony Gray!" "Fuck me!" "Where am I going again?" "One of those neighbourhoods between Oliver and Middle East." "Middle East." "Now, that's a good name for it - fucking Fallujah." "Command pertormance." "Ms Victorina Simmons." "She rules two big vote precincts, no matter who the EDC is with." "Fucking Royce!" "300,000 like it's fucking water." "Also the Reverend Garnett." "What are they complaining about today?" "Fucking shithole city." "Whining bastards, bitching about trash or crime or this or that." "Like it's my fucking fault." "These mothertuckers." " Boss." " They can bite my white ass." "Ms Simmons." "Reverend Garnett." "Good to see you again." "I had a meeting go long but I know there's things to see." "We called and called downtown, and ain't nothing gets done." "OK." "Show me." "Right this way, Councilman." "The first thing to look at..." "Drink a lot." "Think about water running." "And that way, you know..." "How the fuck you know what water running be like?" "Water been off in your house since last year." " Man, that's cold." " Yeah, Nay." "Shit. I'm ready." "Can't go with niggers watching, yo." "When we call, he'll send somebody, most times, and they write it all down just like he doing now." "But nothing ever gets done." "Come here, Councilman, I want you to see this." "Now, see them drug boys?" "They block the alleys so the police won't chase them there." "All this trash." "Rats everywhere." "Houses vacant." "We keep trying to get them to come and clean this up." "I guess that's too much like right." "Well, Royce won't let the city agencies take any of my constituent calls." "But let me see what I can do." "Come on, let me show you this down here." "Y'all Terrace niggas know that boy who go by the name "Deez"?" " Deez?" " Yeah, Deez nuts." " Fuck." " Damn." "Come on." "Yeah, come on, get him, y'all!" "Damn!" "I knew those bitches was gonna set us up." " Yeah, fucking say it, bitches." " Don't ever disrespect Terrace." "Damn!" " l fucking pissed myself." " Fuck!" "Over here!" "Kick him right behind." "This way." "He went in there!" "Remember that phrasing is a cornerstone in communicating with your students." "This applies not only to the questions you ask or their comprehension of the lesson, but how they perceive you as an educator." "And where does that begin?" "Out loud and enthusiastically." "l.A.L.A.C." "Let's go." "Once again." "And what are we telling ourselves?" "I am loveable and capable." "Now I see those smiling faces." "Where the listing on the lower half of the page indicates some typical soft-target locations." "An officer alert to the terrorist threat must ask himself," ""Do I know the location of my soft targets," ""those where large numbers of civilians congregate?"" "Train terminals, office buildings, stadiums." "Another hot zone in the classroom is the pencil sharpener, where children tend to congregate... I had a pencil sharpener in my class once." "Antoine Granderson ripped it off and threw it at me." "I'd like to know what your plan suggests when Harold Hounchell sends a set of textbooks through a closed window." "Thank you." "Settle down, everybody." "And for emergency procedures in the event of biochemical agents, you can refer to Appendix B." "No disrespect to your appendix, but if terrorists do fuck up the Western, could anybody even tell?" "Al-Qaeda were up on Baltimore Street to blow up the chicken joint." "Apex's crew jacked them up, and buried their ass in Leakin Park." "At least that's what I heard." "Y'all want some real terrorists?" "Go to Pencey and Gold." "Hey, guys, let's maintain our..." "Brownie, you're doing one heck of a job." "Not another fucking word." "Thank you." "So, supervising the scene of a terrorist attack." "You beast." "I can't help it." "You stirred my manhood." " Little Boy Blue." " What the fuck are you doing here?" "I caught one." "Got a street dealer who goes by the name of Lex." " Lester heard it on the wire." " Lester's on the wire?" "Shit, boy, you are out of the loop." "You know this mutt?" "Goes by Lex?" "Yeah, he's familiar." "You know who you should ask?" "Carver." "He'd love the job, man." "All right." "Carver it is." "I still feel the need to pull your coat." " For what?" " The taste, Jimmy." "The taste." "How about you and me hit a few of our favourite spots?" "You know, me on the Glenlivet, you on the Jamey?" "Go see if that train is still on the track." "Why don't you come round some night for dinner?" "Say hey to Beadie and the ankle-biters." "Dinner?" "..located in high-rise structures, as well as residences are detailed alongside..." "Thanks, Santy." "This horseshit?" "You serious?" "Back to school for the kids." " Namond, I'll pay you back." " You gonna never have no money." " Yo, Michael, they got you?" " Nothing but a scuffle, man." "Everybody made it back, though, right?" "No, Keith had to go for some stitches." "He got hit with a brick." " l see you changed clothes." " He had to." "He was stinking." "Yo, Randy, man, that was the stupidest thing you ever thought of." "But it was kind of funny." "You know what I'm saying?" "You want something before he bounce?" "I'm buying." "One for every soldier that stood tall." " l was down there." " Yeah, fuck you, Duke." "You get out all right?" "Hurt my ankle going around the corner but..." "But you got away, then?" "The lieutenant governor is up in arms because two Democratic..." " l know, we're late..." " Ain't no thing." "You did good here." "Turn that bullshit off." "You think they'll vote for the white guy?" "Black folk been voting white for a long time." "You come correct, we listen." "It's y'all that don't never vote black." "Shit, you got my vote, anyway." "I don't have your vote, Norman?" "You're my deputy campaign manager." "Last white man I could vote for was Bobby Kennedy," " and you ain't no Bobby K. - l thought you just said... I was speaking in general about the kindly nature of black folks." "In particular, I ain't all that kindly." "So you're gonna take my cheque and run with my fucking campaign..." "Well, I do know who pays me." "Yes, sir!" "Oh yes, sir, boss!" "Who are you gonna vote for?" "Royce?" "Tony Gray?" "One of them brothers." "Yeah." "Don't make me tell you again." "It's nine sharp, boy." "I'm smelling what has to be urine." "What you been at, boy?" "Well, we were playing with Dukie today." "You know how he be with his clothes and all." "Well, it's good that child has friends, I suppose." " Yes, ma'am." " Get in there." "Come on, give me a break..." "Dougie, I got to come backdoor like this, or the agencies won't do shit." " You know that as well as I do." " Come on, Tommy." "Hustle." "I can't help you." "Give me a break..." "Look, Dougie, I'm sorry to bug you but this asshole Royce won't help me, and I need some alleys cleaned." " Which ones?" " 1200 block of Federal Street," " Chester and Collington off that..." " Jesus, Tommy." "I know, you'll be back again in a couple of days." "Send a truck" " Federal Street's a fucking tank trap." " Yeah." " Great." "Thanks." "Love to Denise." "Hustle up, Tom." "How you doing?" "Good evening." "Hi." "You're late, Tommy." "You ain't gonna win disrespecting your base." "Hold up, Tony." "Look, man." "We got to talk." "I feel the bad about the way things have turned out, but if you're elected then I'll do whatever I can to help you, and if I get in, I'm gonna need your help." "I mean, it's not personal, Tony." "Fuck you, Tommy." "So this is me?" "This is you." "Pandemic!" "Pandemic!" "Got that pandemic right here!" " What's up?" " What's up, man?" "I got all this from the Koreans at a discount." "I'll be selling it for three times that." "Tell you what, let me get them Skittles." "Naw." "Do me a favour for the rest." "Go and tell Lex a girl wants to see him" " at the playground behind Fort." " Girl?" "Patrice say to come to the playground after eight." "Why don't you tell him yourself?" "I don't want to be taking none of Bodie's shit about cutting work." "Just do me that favour." "For a skinny mothertucker, he sure do sweat some." "Keep an extra change in the car so we don't have to come home." "We're way past late now, so..." " Damn it!" " Here, let me." "Maybe I'll go to clip-on for a while." " Terri got new polling data." " Did you get a bump?" "She won't show me till it's all broke down, but, yeah, I deserve a bump, don't I?" "Four more weeks, Jen." "Quality time with the wife and kids." " That's what, four minutes?" " More like six." "Six." "Shit, I could have got laid." " Chris, I didn't..." " Yeah. lt's good." "No Lex." "Where's that skinny mope?" "He was here earlier." "Well, fuck it, we'll jack him tomorrow, no problem." "All right." "Yeah, let me get these bad boys up." "This shit be cool, dog." "Share the sodas too." "What's up?" " Let me holler at you real quick." " What up?" " You did like I said?" " Yeah." "Yeah, you must have, because the nigga went up." "He ain't never coming back down." "Chris and Snoop - pow!" " What?" " Look." "Just be cool, all right?" " Our heroes back from the wars." " Got those poll numbers yet?" "Not too bad, either." "Royce 35, you 26, Gray 20. 19% undecided." "We haven't moved more than that?" "I need to be at 30, and I need Tony taking 25 of his points." "Royce's negatives are way up." "34% unfavourable to 43% favourable?" " He's vulnerable." " Geri, understand this." "To win, I need Tony Gray to take a huge bite out of Royce's lead." "Tony's moved, what?" "Two points in the last month?" "That poll says one in five voters hasn't decided yet." "Yeah." "The radio spots worked magic." "How much money we piss away on those?" "Look at these First District figures." "That's my base, and I'm polling 37% with 24% undecided?" " Fuck me!" "I'm done!" " Nobody's focused on this race yet." " We're gonna own the First." " Look at Royce in the Fourth." " Tony needs West Baltimore." " He needs to be rounding 25% and headed for 30." "And, by the way, who can tell me when the fuck did the Sixth District become 64% black?" "About five years ago in the last redistricting, mostly as I recall, to give your ass more white votes in the First." "What the fuck was I thinking?" "A lot can happen between now and election day." "I've been ahead further than Royce is and lost." "I can't win this." "Tommy, where the fuck you going?" "I'm your ride home, man." "The man can read a poll." " You been drinking?" " l'm fine." "Well, you need to be fine somewhere else." "Park curtew is midnight." "City's averaging a murder a day, and you're quoting park rules?" " What are you, a smart ass?" " Sorry. I didn't mean nothing." "Don't I know you?" "I'm running for mayor." "Tommy Carcetti, First District." "I'll be coming back through in about 20, Councilman." "Do me a favour and take it down the road." "Randy?" "Yes, ma'am." "English"