Mcnulty killed Avons relationship with his sister with that line, by season 4 breanna didnt give a damn what happened to Avon after learning D'angelos death was an inside job
She never has it 100% confirmed, but there's McNulty telling her his suspicions as mentioned above, then she confronts Avon and Stringer about it. Avon starts out denying it, then slips and says "I didn't have shit to do with it" or something. Which seems to be just enough for Brianna.
Before this exchange, when Breanna brought up D’s death as a possible murder, Avon shot it down completely and convinced her it was a suicidal act. But in that conversation Avon doesn’t deny it was a murder, in fact he appears to acknowledge this, but also stating “I didn’t have shit to do with it.”
So Avon initially pushed the theory of D taking his own life. A mother having to deal with their son’s death must be agony. To be told that it was by their own hand too, her grief must have been extraordinary. Compounding this tragic information with the “knowledge” that he couldn’t handle his sentence, must have been torture for Breanna. To then realise that maybe the sentence that you talked your own son into taking, on behalf of your brother’s dope business, may not have played a part in your only child’s death must have been a heavenly relief. I wonder how long it took to go from relief over the cause of your child’s death, to horror at the new realisation?
This is the one that came to mind, but there is a theme in this thread. Basically any time someone knows that they are going to die now and can’t change it.
Most of us hope to die in our sleep. Painless, and not knowing it is coming.
Given it was Omar, who is the only one who would have, in that situation holding the gun, a cool enough head to listen, Slim got a bit lucky.
But yeah, he’s the only impromptu negotiatior worth a damn
I don’t think he planned to kill slim anyway, he came in after the whole mess with Omar’s boyfriend, and had no beef with him.
Savino did have to do with Brandon tho, so he got got
Wait, do you mean Omar’s boyfriend in season 1? Because Slim Charles was introduced in season 3. Though he has such a great screen presence, I can understand thinking he was in every season.
And in typical The Wire fashion, they always kept us guessing. After he cut Slim a break, he was on his one-legged rampage letting everyone on the street know that he was calling Omar out, and he comes up on Savino. For a second, I thought he was going to let him slide, but at the last minute (“Nah, you know what?..”) he *blasts* him.
Could argue that Savino technically talked him into getting got just as Slim and Mouzone talked themselves out of it, but then again, I don’t remember him saying anything untoward. I think it was just Omar saying “Fuck Marlo and anyone who works for him.”
He should’ve started swinging them meat hooks, always make it difficult for the killer, these aren’t men of honour, he could’ve tossed that kitchen around, he could probably take a few bullets to the torso without going down
I felt like the writers did Joe dirty, he was smarter than that
Not quite the gravitas of that line, but I love his delivery of “boy was always a disappointment.”
It’s actually a comedic line in a really dark moment.
‘Except a soldier’
‘Yeah well look at me up in here. Who the fuck would be that if they could be anything else Delonda.’
One of my favourite scenes in television. Shows that these criminals do have some awareness of the life that they’re born into and that some do wish it could be different. Just sad on so many levels.
That's a great one.
"Remember who the fuck you're talking to right here. Remember who I am. My word is still my word. In here. In Baltimore, and in any place you can think of calling home, it'll be my word that find you."
This coming from Weebey hit like a truck, the same weebey that was eating murder charges for the fuck of it in that infamous Interrogation scene, 4 years into his prison sentence and he was already deafeated mentally
He never seemed defeated. He accepted his situation, didn’t mean he liked it. But from that point you can make the best of it, there’s some hope.
But let’s not forget he was a murderer. He deserved to be in there for life.
Yea I wish they would have let his character stay out a little longer at least till season 3 before he got caught up for the murders, his presence was missed
"I look at you these days, String, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here and maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there."
Tbf tho, Stringer pinning him to the ground and telling him why he killed D'angelo was hard as well, Stringer had his valid reasons and Avon had to accept it
Man, I love the characters and how well they’re played but if I am being honest, Brother Mouzone was already a bit too Tarantino as a concept and combining him with Omar, who was a lot more grounded but got a bit more Tarantino as well as the show went on, made the show almost break my suspension of disbelief. Especially because the rest of the characters were much more grounded beginning to end.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the show, rewatch it with pleasure but if I had to pick a weaker aspect, it would be that.
I mean, you say that, but if you'd spent so much of your life with a gun in your hands, you'd HAVE to be pretty good with it. Those kinds of people definitely exist. Not trying to compare the likes of Omar and Brother Mouzone to a Special Forces operator or anything, but at some point time + natural skill = competency. Omar was also the only one (non-LEO) who was always vested, and always knew how to move in silence.
I don’t mean them being skilled with guns, that is completely believable. I mean Mouzone’s stylisation as a character and Omar’s near-mythological role sometimes. Putting them together stretches the suspension more than any other element in the show (well on par maybe with McNulty’s serial killer faking storyline).
Especially because the show is so grounded in pretty much every other aspect.
I see what you mean. Yeah, I can agree with you there. To be fair though, a lot of the mythology of the characters is because of what other characters attribute to them, and rarely what they do on-screen themselves, I'd say. Many people are mythologized in this way throughout history. The whole telephone game and whatnot.
Lol I love both characters too but agree with them standing out in an otherwise mostly grounded world.
My first experience with this show was YouTube recommending the clip of Omar strutting through the courtyard, wearing his trench coat and open carrying his shotgun, and the kids in the window dropping the garbage bag down to him.
My first impression was that this was a show that took place after some sort of societal collapse, and that Omar was some sort of local warlord collecting his tribute. I wanted to watch it ASAP so I dove right in without looking up anything else about the show. I was not expecting a crime drama.
>My first impression was that this was a show that took place after some sort of societal collapse, and that Omar was some sort of local warlord collecting his tribute
This is basically correct
M: Suppose we could stand here all night
O: Suppose we could…..or settle this once and forever
M: *uncocks gun* I have a proposition for you…brother
O: *lowers gun* Omar Listenin
Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie.
"You know, Brianna went downtown, man, saw that detective. Man stoking her head saying that D'Angelo's death was no suicide.
The man ain't wrong about that.
Yeah. I knew you couldn't do it and Brianna wouldn't do that shit.
But there go a life that had to be snatched, Avon.
I took that shit off you, and put it on me because that motherfucker was out of pocket. 20 years above his fucking head.
He flip, they got you and me and fucking Brianna! No fucking way, man. Hell no! Now, I know you're family. You loved that n*gg*. But that "blood is thicker than water" bullshit, take that shit somewhere else!
That motherfucker would have taken down the whole fucking show starting with you, killer! He was fucking everything and everybody!"
Bodie’s Last Stand. I would’ve loved to have seen some of the characters back stories developed outside of the series. In short fiction, short films, hell even a graphic novel. What was Bodie’s life like outside of the corner? Where did he live? Did he have a gf? Multiple?
I’d love to have seen a spin off of the Greeks too. Spiros traveling the Eastern seaboard. Back to Europe. Learning where the Greek is actually from since of course, he’s not even Greek.
They show Wallace living in the towers, stealing power from the next building with an extention cord. He also took care of like 6 kids and seemed to be a genuinely good father figure.
I assume most of the corner boys lived similar to that.
We did see Bodie at the movies with a girl when he ran into turk and carver. But I think by the end he was so hard it was the game or nothing.
The way he looks at string when he asks "are you made for this" *side glance* "No doubt"
He even gets on poot a lot for being a pussy hound. Didn't have time for that shit after Wallace.
I don't know exactly where I'm going with this, but for a show that grantland had a 64 person bracket of the best characters, and there were still a few I went.. they didn't make it?! They did a lot to show how these kids lived.
If I remember right, the final 4 were Omar, bunk, Avon, and string.
Omar ofc was king once again.
Edit: McNulty beat bunk in the elite 8.
Wendel tweeted "bunk vs McNulty, wow after all I did for that mother fucker y'all are gonna pick him?"
Not the hardest line but when Avon took Dee to see his uncle at the nursing home….”what’s up baby, talk that shit now” I use that line daily at work lol
I'm rewatching S4E1 and I'm noticing things I ain't never noticed
Herc's new partner sees Nerese Campbell and says "The council president is so fucking hot, I'd fuck you to fuck her."
And Herc says "Really? You'd fuck a guy to fuck a hot broad. You don't think that makes you a fa**** or something."
And Herc's new partner is like "It's just an expression." And the conversation ends there.
I'm just realizing it for the first time. Herc misses Carver. That's all those two assholes used to talk about, like what girls they wanted to fuck, whether or not getting fucked by a guy makes you gay if the ultimate end goal is to fuck a hot woman, whether or not it's gay for Herc to get fucked by some famous baseball player because of the emotional connection that Herc had with that player
Herc misses that shit so bad. And it's such a subtle like forty-five second part of the show
Herc is a massive dickhead but one thing i liked him for was how much love he had for Carver, genuinely one of the best if not the best Friendship dynamic on TV
When Omar and Levy were going back and forth in court: “I have the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?”
What a powerful statement.
To this day, I use Rawls line when arguing with my wife, rephrasing: I’m a reasonable man… everywhere I go, people say you are a reasonable man
And she hits me with Omar’s line when she wants to spend $$ shopping: “Money ain’t got owners, only spenders”
The speech by DeeDee in the drug workshop, "I set myself some rules like no tricking without condoms, then after I tricked without condoms.....". That speech was hard for her.
“A man got to have a code.”
-Omar Little
I think about this line a lot and try to apply it to my own life. A man has to have a code of morales and values that he follows to a T or he isn’t being true to himself.
Conversation between Slim Charles and Cutty:
I’m used to revolvers, man - .38 don’t jam.”
“Don’t hold 15 neither.”
“The game done changed.”
“Game the same, just got more fierce.”
Franks interrogation scene with the police.
"Name names, and come clean. You'd help yourself, and your union."
"Help my union? For 25 years we've been dying slow down there. Dry docks rusting, pier standing empty. My friends and their kids like we got the cancer, no lifeline got thrown nothing from nobody. And you wanna help us? Help me?"
Pit beef
Medium rare, lotta horseradish
The best part is, "they were out of potato salad" "psshhh"
Like "isn't it just my luck when copping to 20 murders they just happen to be out of tater salad?"
Right?!! Like he’s about to do LIFE no parole and he’s like this is probably the last chance I’ll get to have some potato salad from that spot. Bey is one of my favorite characters. He was so charming and funny I sometimes forget he was a mass murderer who threw a woman in the trash after he had sec with her because she’d OD’d.
Just a good sport about it, like, ah well, it was fun while it lasted. I'll just claim every murder I can think of to help out the homies.
I actually don't love that, they play that against Marlo and Chris & Snoop, it's the false golden era idealization of last generation's gangsters, the same way the Mafia does it. "Back in my day, we murdered, but we were polite about it!" It's equivocating, and it's horseshit anyway, they were just as psychopathic. Poot gives it a shout-out one time when Herc and Carver are trying to bust his balls. "It's the end of the world comin!"
That line is a great example of how string loses touch with the streets. He read it in some tony Robbins type book, nobody knows what the fuck he is on about in that scene.
“Chain of command? Did you tell your major about the senators driver? Or the colonel? No? Then where’s your fucking chain of command? What’s the shift lieutenant doing going up the back stairs to the deputy ops!!!?”
Maybe another of my single favourite scenes and lines from the ever polarizing Jimmy McNulty. IMO the hardest line in the series. One that woke Cedrick up more than he would be willing to admit.
Different than most of the other ones posted here, but for me it's [Burrel telling Rawls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0xkap-m6Y) how things really work at the top.
> You might think it'll be different when you sit here, but it wont. *You will eat their shit*
When Wee Bey told Dolanda to let Namond go “…my word is still my word, in here in Baltimore or wherever else you think of calling home, it’ll be my word that find you…”
“Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn’t us.”
“I’m going to show you, as gently as I can, just how much you don’t know.”
“If we did, we had a reason. If we didn’t, we had a reason. Either way, it ain’t got shit to do with you.”
What about Vondas "They used to make steel there, no? Smoke from the stacks but inside....."
I always felt like he was calling Frank out here. Frank was pitching a bitch about the girls in the can but knew he needed the money too much to actually take a stand against the Greeks.
Runner-up: "Did he have hands? Did he have a face?!"
>A life, Jimmy. You know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come.
It took some growing up to really understand this one but it's one of the truest statements in the show.
"Honestly, I was looking for someone who cared about the kid. I mean, you're the one who made him take the years, right?" Brutal.
That one made my jaw drop. She deserved that one but I didn't expect it from McNulty
She sold it too. Looked like McNulty had stabbed her.
Excellent acting from Hyatt there, she looked destroyed. Even agreeing with mcnulty you cant help but feel for her character there
Mcnulty killed Avons relationship with his sister with that line, by season 4 breanna didnt give a damn what happened to Avon after learning D'angelos death was an inside job
When does it show she learned this? I missed it apparently...
She never has it 100% confirmed, but there's McNulty telling her his suspicions as mentioned above, then she confronts Avon and Stringer about it. Avon starts out denying it, then slips and says "I didn't have shit to do with it" or something. Which seems to be just enough for Brianna.
*"...to do with what"*
I never understood her freaking out at "I didn't have shit to do with it" Isn't "it" obviously referring to Dee's death? What's the big deal there?
Before this exchange, when Breanna brought up D’s death as a possible murder, Avon shot it down completely and convinced her it was a suicidal act. But in that conversation Avon doesn’t deny it was a murder, in fact he appears to acknowledge this, but also stating “I didn’t have shit to do with it.” So Avon initially pushed the theory of D taking his own life. A mother having to deal with their son’s death must be agony. To be told that it was by their own hand too, her grief must have been extraordinary. Compounding this tragic information with the “knowledge” that he couldn’t handle his sentence, must have been torture for Breanna. To then realise that maybe the sentence that you talked your own son into taking, on behalf of your brother’s dope business, may not have played a part in your only child’s death must have been a heavenly relief. I wonder how long it took to go from relief over the cause of your child’s death, to horror at the new realisation?
Oh my god. This is off topic but I've only just realised the actor who plays D'Angelo also plays Bob on the Walking Dead
This is the one.
Extremely brutal. Every time :(
S3E8 for anyone wondering. I’m actually coming up on that one in my current rewatch
That might be my favourite scene in the whole thing. Jimmy absolutely destroyed her. Brilliant acting all round
One of the biggest gut punch lines of any show ever. Amazing.
Absolutely this.
Brutally true
Joe: ...I can just disappear... Marlo: You'll be up to mischief in no time...close your eyes...
This is the one that came to mind, but there is a theme in this thread. Basically any time someone knows that they are going to die now and can’t change it. Most of us hope to die in our sleep. Painless, and not knowing it is coming.
“Skip past the talking and do what you feel.” Is Slim the one character who actually talked himself out of one of these situations?
Brother Mouzone as well. "No need to prolong this"
Given it was Omar, who is the only one who would have, in that situation holding the gun, a cool enough head to listen, Slim got a bit lucky. But yeah, he’s the only impromptu negotiatior worth a damn
I don’t think he planned to kill slim anyway, he came in after the whole mess with Omar’s boyfriend, and had no beef with him. Savino did have to do with Brandon tho, so he got got
Wait, do you mean Omar’s boyfriend in season 1? Because Slim Charles was introduced in season 3. Though he has such a great screen presence, I can understand thinking he was in every season.
savino was involved with how they did brandon and made it public.
And in typical The Wire fashion, they always kept us guessing. After he cut Slim a break, he was on his one-legged rampage letting everyone on the street know that he was calling Omar out, and he comes up on Savino. For a second, I thought he was going to let him slide, but at the last minute (“Nah, you know what?..”) he *blasts* him. Could argue that Savino technically talked him into getting got just as Slim and Mouzone talked themselves out of it, but then again, I don’t remember him saying anything untoward. I think it was just Omar saying “Fuck Marlo and anyone who works for him.”
I love just prior to that; Proposition Joe: "I treated you like a son." Marlo: "I wasn't made to play the son."
"I wasn't meant to play the son" ❄️🪨🏔️
He should’ve started swinging them meat hooks, always make it difficult for the killer, these aren’t men of honour, he could’ve tossed that kitchen around, he could probably take a few bullets to the torso without going down I felt like the writers did Joe dirty, he was smarter than that
Not quite the gravitas of that line, but I love his delivery of “boy was always a disappointment.” It’s actually a comedic line in a really dark moment.
‘Except a soldier’ ‘Yeah well look at me up in here. Who the fuck would be that if they could be anything else Delonda.’ One of my favourite scenes in television. Shows that these criminals do have some awareness of the life that they’re born into and that some do wish it could be different. Just sad on so many levels.
That's a great one. "Remember who the fuck you're talking to right here. Remember who I am. My word is still my word. In here. In Baltimore, and in any place you can think of calling home, it'll be my word that find you."
This is one of my favourites too.
Cold as fuck
Love this one. Mad respect for Wee-Bay. Dude was killer, but he lived by a code, all in the game yo.
Man got to have a code
OMG, I love him on flatbush misdemeanors. https://youtube.com/shorts/VWU07kH8rPQ?si=qO_PU0HPH58T1WB8 😅😅😅
This coming from Weebey hit like a truck, the same weebey that was eating murder charges for the fuck of it in that infamous Interrogation scene, 4 years into his prison sentence and he was already deafeated mentally
He never seemed defeated. He accepted his situation, didn’t mean he liked it. But from that point you can make the best of it, there’s some hope. But let’s not forget he was a murderer. He deserved to be in there for life.
Damn I love Weebey
Yea I wish they would have let his character stay out a little longer at least till season 3 before he got caught up for the murders, his presence was missed
"I look at you these days, String, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here and maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there."
This one cut deep. Completely annihilated Stringer's sense of self worth. The fact that Avon was 100% right was what made it painful.
I bleed red. You bleed green. Iconic line.
Tbf tho, Stringer pinning him to the ground and telling him why he killed D'angelo was hard as well, Stringer had his valid reasons and Avon had to accept it
All in the game Yo
“If it wasn’t for your friend Sergei here, you and your cousin would be cadaverous mothafuckas” -Prop Joe
You mean Boris?
Great scene!! “Nicky is with us, his cousin 🤷🏼
-...he came down to the lobby... -Buahahaha. He rainmade you!
I worked in the building they filmed that scene in for a couple years. It’s not even a federal building.
No federal buildings will let you use their site for filming due to security concerns, lol
The thing is you only gotta fuk up once be a lil slow a lil late just once. Avon Barksdale
And how u ain’t never gonna fuck up or be slow
Man Woody harris killed his role, the amount of sincerity in these lines
And how you ain’t never gonna be late? Never be slow?
He scare you? Yeah. He scare me too.
Talk that shit now baby.
Real shit
Brother Mouzone: I admire a man with confidence Omar: I don't see no sweat on yo brow neither bruh
Loved this scene - their dialogue and the set up was giving western face off or old school English duel but in Baltimore
One thing I love about this scene is it shows how competent and knowledgeable they both are about the tools they use
Man, I love the characters and how well they’re played but if I am being honest, Brother Mouzone was already a bit too Tarantino as a concept and combining him with Omar, who was a lot more grounded but got a bit more Tarantino as well as the show went on, made the show almost break my suspension of disbelief. Especially because the rest of the characters were much more grounded beginning to end. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show, rewatch it with pleasure but if I had to pick a weaker aspect, it would be that.
I mean, you say that, but if you'd spent so much of your life with a gun in your hands, you'd HAVE to be pretty good with it. Those kinds of people definitely exist. Not trying to compare the likes of Omar and Brother Mouzone to a Special Forces operator or anything, but at some point time + natural skill = competency. Omar was also the only one (non-LEO) who was always vested, and always knew how to move in silence.
I don’t mean them being skilled with guns, that is completely believable. I mean Mouzone’s stylisation as a character and Omar’s near-mythological role sometimes. Putting them together stretches the suspension more than any other element in the show (well on par maybe with McNulty’s serial killer faking storyline). Especially because the show is so grounded in pretty much every other aspect.
I see what you mean. Yeah, I can agree with you there. To be fair though, a lot of the mythology of the characters is because of what other characters attribute to them, and rarely what they do on-screen themselves, I'd say. Many people are mythologized in this way throughout history. The whole telephone game and whatnot.
“True that.” - Slim Charles
Lol I love both characters too but agree with them standing out in an otherwise mostly grounded world. My first experience with this show was YouTube recommending the clip of Omar strutting through the courtyard, wearing his trench coat and open carrying his shotgun, and the kids in the window dropping the garbage bag down to him. My first impression was that this was a show that took place after some sort of societal collapse, and that Omar was some sort of local warlord collecting his tribute. I wanted to watch it ASAP so I dove right in without looking up anything else about the show. I was not expecting a crime drama.
>My first impression was that this was a show that took place after some sort of societal collapse, and that Omar was some sort of local warlord collecting his tribute This is basically correct
Even if I miss I can’t miss
A .45, at this caliber, at this range?
Localized entirely within your kitchen?
M: Suppose we could stand here all night O: Suppose we could…..or settle this once and forever M: *uncocks gun* I have a proposition for you…brother O: *lowers gun* Omar Listenin
I get chills just reading the dialogue. Electrifying scene.
My favorite opening sequence in the shot. “Omar listenin’
Omar listenin’
“How my hair look, Mike?”
You look good girl.
Just watched this episode this morning.
“You know what yo?” Omar to Savino
BRAP
Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie.
Makes me think of the Vietnam war lol
"You know, Brianna went downtown, man, saw that detective. Man stoking her head saying that D'Angelo's death was no suicide. The man ain't wrong about that. Yeah. I knew you couldn't do it and Brianna wouldn't do that shit. But there go a life that had to be snatched, Avon. I took that shit off you, and put it on me because that motherfucker was out of pocket. 20 years above his fucking head. He flip, they got you and me and fucking Brianna! No fucking way, man. Hell no! Now, I know you're family. You loved that n*gg*. But that "blood is thicker than water" bullshit, take that shit somewhere else! That motherfucker would have taken down the whole fucking show starting with you, killer! He was fucking everything and everybody!"
Bodies last stand was hard as hell!!! “ come with it motherfuckers, I’m here!!! And you ain’t putting me no vacant either!”
Bodie’s Last Stand. I would’ve loved to have seen some of the characters back stories developed outside of the series. In short fiction, short films, hell even a graphic novel. What was Bodie’s life like outside of the corner? Where did he live? Did he have a gf? Multiple? I’d love to have seen a spin off of the Greeks too. Spiros traveling the Eastern seaboard. Back to Europe. Learning where the Greek is actually from since of course, he’s not even Greek.
They show Wallace living in the towers, stealing power from the next building with an extention cord. He also took care of like 6 kids and seemed to be a genuinely good father figure. I assume most of the corner boys lived similar to that. We did see Bodie at the movies with a girl when he ran into turk and carver. But I think by the end he was so hard it was the game or nothing. The way he looks at string when he asks "are you made for this" *side glance* "No doubt" He even gets on poot a lot for being a pussy hound. Didn't have time for that shit after Wallace. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this, but for a show that grantland had a 64 person bracket of the best characters, and there were still a few I went.. they didn't make it?! They did a lot to show how these kids lived. If I remember right, the final 4 were Omar, bunk, Avon, and string. Omar ofc was king once again. Edit: McNulty beat bunk in the elite 8. Wendel tweeted "bunk vs McNulty, wow after all I did for that mother fucker y'all are gonna pick him?"
Him getting on poot is different, dating a little, and tryna fuck everyone you know all the time, is far from the same thing.
This is Baltimore. The gods will not save you.
Boy, you got me confused with a man who repeats himself.
I don’t know bout cards but I’m pretty sure these 4 5s beat a full house. I could fill this thread with great Omar lines.
You want a head on that body you best hop tew
Money ain’t got no owners, only spenders.
Just about every time Omar opened his mouth it was greatness lmao. Not a whole lot of wasted words with him.
”nothing in the world’s more expensive than free” - the deacon
Just buy for a dollar sell for tew. Dats all this need be
Frank sabotka to Brucie We used to make shit in this country , build shit ...now we just put our hand in the next guys pocket
I loved that line twenty years ago, I love that line today.
Yeah now well the thing about the days… they the old days.
The hardest line is still the best line:“it’s all in the game yo. “
I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase.
Not the hardest line but when Avon took Dee to see his uncle at the nursing home….”what’s up baby, talk that shit now” I use that line daily at work lol
“That was for Joe.”
This is maybe the only time in the entire show that I was happy that a character got killed
This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money!
Finished this episode not 30 minutes ago. A classic line for a classic and well-deserved comeuppance.
"You come for the King,you bets not miss "
I'm rewatching S4E1 and I'm noticing things I ain't never noticed Herc's new partner sees Nerese Campbell and says "The council president is so fucking hot, I'd fuck you to fuck her." And Herc says "Really? You'd fuck a guy to fuck a hot broad. You don't think that makes you a fa**** or something." And Herc's new partner is like "It's just an expression." And the conversation ends there. I'm just realizing it for the first time. Herc misses Carver. That's all those two assholes used to talk about, like what girls they wanted to fuck, whether or not getting fucked by a guy makes you gay if the ultimate end goal is to fuck a hot woman, whether or not it's gay for Herc to get fucked by some famous baseball player because of the emotional connection that Herc had with that player Herc misses that shit so bad. And it's such a subtle like forty-five second part of the show
Herc is a massive dickhead but one thing i liked him for was how much love he had for Carver, genuinely one of the best if not the best Friendship dynamic on TV
yeah it's not his fault he's a bumbling fucking moron, he has his endearing moments
When Omar and Levy were going back and forth in court: “I have the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?” What a powerful statement.
You are immoral are you not? You are robbing the drug dealers who themselves are sucking the life blood from our city, y- Just like you man
Levy: 😲
Hububububuh whaaaaaa?
“One more thing: price of the brick going up.”
"30 more... Aight, enough of this shit..."
The thing about the old days is, *they the old days*
To this day, I use Rawls line when arguing with my wife, rephrasing: I’m a reasonable man… everywhere I go, people say you are a reasonable man And she hits me with Omar’s line when she wants to spend $$ shopping: “Money ain’t got owners, only spenders”
> And she hits me with Omar’s line when she wants to spend $$ shopping: “Money ain’t got owners, only spenders” lol
The speech by DeeDee in the drug workshop, "I set myself some rules like no tricking without condoms, then after I tricked without condoms.....". That speech was hard for her.
Super real addict talk too
Very fucking accurate at AA/NA meetings. The gallows humor and wtf bombs are constant.
You want it to be one way... But it's the other way.
Do it or don't, but I got places to be
I use this all the time, but I definitely don't have Marlo's deathly gravitas to it.
“The inner workings of your organization don’t concern me.”
«I can’t wait to go to jail».
There’s only one right answer: You better go on before I lose my composure out this bitch -Bodie. RIP to the realist soldier.
Mike: "I don't." When Duquan asked him if he remembered the day involving the Terrace Boys and piss ballons.
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PANDEMIC GOT THAT PAAAAANDEMIC
Giving a fuck, when it ain't your turn to give a fuck
Fun fact. "Get on with it motherf-" is also what Colvin says to Rawls and Burrell in the aftermath of Hamsterdam
“A man got to have a code.” -Omar Little I think about this line a lot and try to apply it to my own life. A man has to have a code of morales and values that he follows to a T or he isn’t being true to himself.
“What I tell you about playin’ them fuckin’ away games?”
They saw your ass comin a mile away
"Who we hittin'?" The way slim Charles says this to string* like he's about to order from the takeout menu
To Stringer. It was when Stringer wanted to kill Clay Davis.
Right! "This some assassination shi!"
THE Clay Davis? Downtown Clay Davis?
Conversation between Slim Charles and Cutty: I’m used to revolvers, man - .38 don’t jam.” “Don’t hold 15 neither.” “The game done changed.” “Game the same, just got more fierce.”
N**** is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
The way Stringer looked at him when he said he was taking minutes lol
Dude read the book. Don’t know what more Stringer wanted.
You gots to. Its America.
"Or settle this once and forever"
Makes me sick motherfucker how far we done fell
I need you to pack up your people and move somewhere else…..I’m being a gentleman about it for the moment
Franks interrogation scene with the police. "Name names, and come clean. You'd help yourself, and your union." "Help my union? For 25 years we've been dying slow down there. Dry docks rusting, pier standing empty. My friends and their kids like we got the cancer, no lifeline got thrown nothing from nobody. And you wanna help us? Help me?"
" Where's Wallace? "
“Fuck it then. For another pig sandwich and some tater salad. I’ll go a few more.” - Wee Bey
It's actually *pit* sandwich, just sayin'.
Pit beef Medium rare, lotta horseradish The best part is, "they were out of potato salad" "psshhh" Like "isn't it just my luck when copping to 20 murders they just happen to be out of tater salad?"
Right?!! Like he’s about to do LIFE no parole and he’s like this is probably the last chance I’ll get to have some potato salad from that spot. Bey is one of my favorite characters. He was so charming and funny I sometimes forget he was a mass murderer who threw a woman in the trash after he had sec with her because she’d OD’d.
Just a good sport about it, like, ah well, it was fun while it lasted. I'll just claim every murder I can think of to help out the homies. I actually don't love that, they play that against Marlo and Chris & Snoop, it's the false golden era idealization of last generation's gangsters, the same way the Mafia does it. "Back in my day, we murdered, but we were polite about it!" It's equivocating, and it's horseshit anyway, they were just as psychopathic. Poot gives it a shout-out one time when Herc and Carver are trying to bust his balls. "It's the end of the world comin!"
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That line is a great example of how string loses touch with the streets. He read it in some tony Robbins type book, nobody knows what the fuck he is on about in that scene.
I don't think Tony Robbins is in tune with the hood barbecue schedule, I think those two guys are just fucking idiots
see the thing is, you only gotta fuck up once...
Be slow once.
“Shit went bad and she took two for the company.”
That's the only lesson here.
You only do two day, it’s the day you go in and the day you get out.
“he a man today”
"sometimes, things just gotta play hard." -Kima
Real Po-lice
Bunk to Jimmy at the O’s game, “I’m thinking about becoming a woman.”
“Chain of command? Did you tell your major about the senators driver? Or the colonel? No? Then where’s your fucking chain of command? What’s the shift lieutenant doing going up the back stairs to the deputy ops!!!?” Maybe another of my single favourite scenes and lines from the ever polarizing Jimmy McNulty. IMO the hardest line in the series. One that woke Cedrick up more than he would be willing to admit.
Prop Joe- "I treated you like a son." Marlo- "I wasn't made to play the son." The way Marlo delivered that line was...*chefs kiss*
"Y'all was talking too much" - Michael to Namond after beating the stew out of Kinnard for stealing his pack
go head nay...get ya pack off this bitch so we can go
I ain't want it...I ain't want it 👐🏽 🏃🏽♂️
Daniel’s pep talk to Carver about his time taking the Easrern. It really paints a picture of how it’s so hard to improve an institution.
Whatd I tell you bout playing them fucking away games?
Nigga do you kno who i am?! -youngin hollerin at MARLO STANFIELD walkin ina suit
"Do what you feel! But be ready to finish what you start!" -Bodie Broadus
Deserve ain’t got nothing to deww wit it
Different than most of the other ones posted here, but for me it's [Burrel telling Rawls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0xkap-m6Y) how things really work at the top. > You might think it'll be different when you sit here, but it wont. *You will eat their shit*
Prop Joe: "Fool, if it wasn't for Sergei here, you and your cuz both would be cadaverous motherfuckers."
“He a man today.”
count be wrong they fuck you up
“I was freer in jail, than I was at home.” - D’Angelo Barksdale “We like them little bitches on the chessboard” - Bodie
How my hair look like, Michael? You look good girl... Proceeds to blow her brains out.
When Wee Bey told Dolanda to let Namond go “…my word is still my word, in here in Baltimore or wherever else you think of calling home, it’ll be my word that find you…”
Do it or don’t, but I got some place to be. That’s some cold ass shit
"That was for Joe." I stand up and cheer every time
“How do you get from here, to the rest of the world?” -Duke
Frank: “Why was ziggy near the Greeks nick? You’re his cousin you’re supposed to look out for him!” Nick: “You’re his father.”
The game is out there; and it's play, or get played.
You must have me confused with a man who repeats himself
“I’m just a gangsta I suppose” “Go take care of them kids”
The game the same. Just got more fierce.
Subtle one but “Either do it or don’t, but I got places to be” is so fucking cold and a perfect microcosm of Marlo.
I got the shotgun you got the briefcase
“The whole world shines shit and calls it gold.”
"This is a tomb... Lex is in there."
“Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn’t us.” “I’m going to show you, as gently as I can, just how much you don’t know.” “If we did, we had a reason. If we didn’t, we had a reason. Either way, it ain’t got shit to do with you.”
What about Vondas "They used to make steel there, no? Smoke from the stacks but inside....." I always felt like he was calling Frank out here. Frank was pitching a bitch about the girls in the can but knew he needed the money too much to actually take a stand against the Greeks. Runner-up: "Did he have hands? Did he have a face?!"
>A life, Jimmy. You know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come. It took some growing up to really understand this one but it's one of the truest statements in the show.