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Episode

Epigraph

Attributed to

"The Target"

when its not your turn.

McNulty

"The Detail"

You cannot lose if you do not play.

Marla Daniels

"The Buys"

The king stay the king.

D'Angelo

"Old Cases"

It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here

Bubbles

"The Pager"

a little slow, a little late.

Avon Barksdale

"The Wire"

and all the pieces matter.

Freamon

"Lessons"

A man must have a code.

Bunk

"One Arrest"

Come at the king, you best not miss.

Omar

"Game Day"

Maybe we won.

Herc

"The Cost"

And then he dropped the bracelets

Greggs

"The Hunt"

Dope on the damn table.

Daniels

"Cleaning Up"

This is me, yo, right here.

Wallace

"Sentencing"

All in the game...

"Ebb Tide"

Ain't never gonna be what it was.

"Collateral

They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you

Damage"

out.

"Hot Shots"

What they need is a union.

Russell

"Hard Cases"

If I hear music, Im gonna dance.

Greggs

"Undertow"

They used to make steel there, no?

Vondas

"All Prologue"

It dont matter that some fool say he different D'Angelo

"Backwash"

Dont worry kid. Youre still on the clock.

Horseface

"Duck and Cover"

How come they dont fly away?

Ziggy

"Stray Rounds"

The world is a smaller place now.

The Greek

"Storm Warnings"

It pays to go with the union card every time.

Ziggy

"Bad Dreams"

I need to get clean.

Sobotka

Traditional West
Baltimore
Little Big Roy
McNulty

"Port in a Storm"
"Time After Time"

Don't matter how many times you get burnt,

you just keep doin' the same.

The Greek
Bodie

"All Due Respect"

There's never been a paper bag.

Colvin

"Dead Soldiers"

The Gods will not save you.

Burrell

"Amsterdam"

Why you gotta go and fuck with the program?

Fruit

"Straight and True"

I had such fucking hopes for us.

McNulty

"Homecoming"

Just a gangster, I suppose.

Avon Barksdale

"Back Burners"

Conscience do cost.

Butchie

"Moral Midgetry"

Crawl, walk, and then run.

Clay Davis

"Slapstick"

while youre waiting for moments that never

come.

Freamon

"Reformation"

Call it a crisis of leadership.

Proposition Joe

"Middle Ground"

We ain't gotta dream no more, man.

Stringer Bell

We fight on that lie.

Slim Charles

"Boys of Summer"

Lambs to the slaughter here.

Marcia Donnelly

"Soft Eyes"

I still wake up white in a city that ain't.

Carcetti

"Mission
Accomplished"
4

Business. Always business.

"Home Rooms"

I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly

an' shit

Namond Brice

"Refugees"

No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.

Prez

"Alliances"

If you with us, you with us.

Chris Partlow

"Margin of Error"

Don't try this shit at home.

Norman Wilson

"Unto Others"

Aw yeah. That golden rule.

Bunk

"Corner Boys"

We got our thing, but its just part of the big

thing.

Zenobia

"Know Your Place"

Might as well dump 'em, get another.

Proposition Joe

"Misgivings"

World goin' one way, people another.

Poot

"A New Day"

You play in dirt, you get dirty

McNulty

"That's Got His

That all there is to it?

Bubbles

Own"
If animal trapped call 410-844-6286

"More with Less"

The bigger the lie, the more they believe.

Bunk

This ain't Aruba, bitch.

Bunk

"Not for Attribution"

They're dead where it doesn't count.

Fletcher

"Transitions"

Buyer's market out there.

Templeton

"Unconfirmed
Reports"

Baltimore,

"Final Grades"

"React Quotes"

Just 'cause theyre in the street doesn't mean

that they lack opinions.

traditional

Haynes

"The Dickensian

If you have a problem with this, I understand

Aspect"

completely.

"Took"

They don't teach it in law school.

Pearlman

"Clarifications"

A lie ain't a side of the story, it's just a lie.

Terry Hanning

"Late Editions"

Deserve got nuthin' to do with it.

Snoop

"30"

The Life of Kings

H. L. Mencken

Freamon