- Recovering addict: You know how that go, right? Gave myself all these little rules about what I wouldn't do. Like I told myself I'd do a lot of shit to get high, but I swore I wouldn't ever trick. So, after I'm tricking, I thought, "This ain't so bad. I'll do this for a while, except I'll make some more rules for myself, like I'm going to use condoms, and I'm never going to go with more than one guy at the same time". Well, let's just say that there are some things that I told myself I would never do. You know what my disease did to my rules, right? Whatever it is you tell yourself you won't do to get high, you're pretty much making a list of everything you will do as soon as your inner addict tells you to. I mean, that bitch wants to kill me. She does.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Fuck them West Coast bitches! 'Coz in B-More, we aim to hit a nigga, y'herd?
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: ...and it's yo' people up in my shit! Not no feds, not no state people from Annapolis, it's muthafuckas from my own city!
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: My hands are tied here, Clayton. It's a new mayor, a new state's attorney.
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: I'm out there doin' the Lord's work for you, Erv! You know it! Who got that pay raise through the council? Just enough for you to get that new patio, but not enough for that guy from Pittsburgh to take yo' place!
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Look, I wish I could. You know I wish I could. But with Carcetti in, people are watchin'. I got eyes on me now.
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: You the commissioner still, right?
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Yeah, but it ain't like it was.
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: Well, if you don't control it, who does?
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: On this, I gotta reach around Daniels. And he's Carcetti's boy. Look, this is a grand jury investigation, for God's sake. We could both be charged with, uh, "obstruction of justice."
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: Oh, goddammit, Erv! I been there for you, carried water for you, and you do me like this?
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Clay, I can't. Nobody could.
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: You think I'm goin' down, don't you? Y-y-y-y-y-you think I'm done! All y'all ungrateful bitches thinkin' you can throw me out the boat!
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Clay...
- State Senator R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: A'ight! I'm gonna remember this moment, Erv. I'm gonna hold on to this moment. Yeah.
- [he leaves]
- Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Guy leaves two dozen bodies scattered all over the city, no one gives a fuck.
- Detective Lester Freamon: It's because who he dropped.
- Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland: True that. You can go a long way in this country killin' black folk. Young males especially. Misdemeanor homicides.
- Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty: If Marlo was killin' white women...
- Detective Lester Freamon: White children.
- Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland: Tourists.
- Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty: One white ex-cheerleader tourist missin' in Aruba.
- Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland: Trouble is, this ain't Aruba, bitch.
- Detective Lester Freamon: You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn't send the 82nd Airborne? Negro, please.
- Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty: There's gotta be some way to make 'em turn on the faucet.
- Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland: Well, come on, Jimmy, you're the smartest boy in the room. You come up with somethin' in this broke-ass city.
- [McNulty looks down the bar at a pair of women, then walks over to them and starts talking]
- Detective Lester Freamon: [leans over to Bunk] Isn't he married or some shit now?