- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: God... damn.
- Hardware Store Employee: I see you got the Dewalt cordless. Your nailgun, Dewalt 410.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Yeah. The trouble is, you leave it in a truck for a while, need to step up and use the bitch, the battery don't hold up, you know?
- Hardware Store Employee: 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 doing some work around the house?
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: No, we work all over.
- Hardware Store Employee: Full time?
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: No, we had about 5 jobs last month.
- Hardware Store Employee: At that rate, the cost of the powder-actuated guns justifies itself.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: You say power?
- Hardware Store Employee: Powder.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Like gunpowder?
- Hardware Store Employee: Yeah. The DX 460 is fully automatic, with a .27 caliber charge. Wood, concrete, steel to steel... She'll throw a fastener into anything, and for my money, she handles recoil better than the Simpson or the P3500. Now, you understand what I mean by recoil ?
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Yeah, the kickback. I'm with you.
- Hardware Store Employee: That's right.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: .27 caliber, huh?
- Hardware Store Employee: Yeah, not large ballistically, but for driving nails, it's enough. Any more than that, you'd add to the recoil.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Man, shit. I seen a tiny-ass .22 round-nose drop a nigger plenty of days, man. Motherfuckers get up in you like a pinball, rip your ass up. Big joints, though... Big joints, man, just break your bones, you say, "fuck it." I'm gonna go with this right here, man. How much do I owe you?
- Hardware Store Employee: Six-sixty-nine plus tax.
- [Snoop counts out a stack of cash]
- Hardware Store Employee: No, no, you just pay at the register.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Nah, man, you go ahead and handle that for me, man. And keep the rest for your time.
- Hardware Store Employee: This is $800.
- Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: So what, man? You earned that buck like a motherfucker, man. Keep that shit.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: The hell with Norris. You my real partner, Lester. My life partner.
- Det. Lester Freamon: Don't tease, bitch.
- Off. Michael Santangelo: [to speaker of Western District's briefing on counter-terrorism] No disrespect to your appendix, but if them terrorists do fuck up the Western, could anybody even tell?
- [All the other officers laugh]
- Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: [after Council President Nareese Campbell walks by] Council President's hot as balls!
- Security Detail Officer: I'd fuck you to fuck her.
- Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: You don't think that means your a fag or nothin.
- Security Detail Officer: It's just an expression.
- [Carver and Colicchio pull up to Bodie's corner and get out of the car]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Where's the love, Bodie? Where is the muthafuckin' love?
- [to Colicchio]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: I go back so far with this kid, I was chasin' him through juvy.
- [to Bodie]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: But does any of that matter when we roll up here? I get so much as a wave, a nod, a smile? Nothin'?
- [Bodie hawks and spits, but says nothing]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: How 'bout just "hello"?
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Hello.
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: See? That wasn't so hard, was it?
- [he turns to Lex, who is sweeping the sidewalk and trying hard not to be noticed]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Lex, my man, how's your day goin'? Not to criticize or anything, but I think you missed a spot there.
- [he turns to Little Kevin and Reesy]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Little Kevin, how's it hangin'? Reesy, you look like someone just shot your dog. You all right, man? You okay?
- [he turns back to Bodie]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Reesy still messin' up the count?
- Little Kevin: [to Reesy] You hear what he said?
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Yo, dawg, you send him up to Lamelle next month, I'll make sure Ms. Davis puts him in remedial math, and we'll have done some good here today.
- [Bodie chuckles]
- Reesy: [chuckling] He's fuckin' got me.
- [McNulty pulls up in his squad car and gets out]
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Everything good?
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Yeah, just words.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: [to Bodie] Mr. Entrapment. How you doin'?
- [Bodie sighs and rolls his eyes]
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Don't look like that, I'm still dining out on that story.
- [to Carver]
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You know how he beat the wiretap a year ago? Claimed entrapment when he was clockin' in Bunny Colvin's Hamsterdam. Shit you not. Smart kiddo. I loved it.
- [to Bodie]
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: When I roll back in an hour, this corner's bone-dry. Your people are done for the day.
- [he gets back in his car and drives away]
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Okay, so let's try this again: I say, "Have a good evening, Mr. Broadus."
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: And a good evening to you, Sergeant Carver.
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: See?
- [he taps his forehead, and he and Colicchio walk back to their car]
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: [sarcastically] And a very good evening to you, Officer Colicchio.
- Off. Anthony Colicchio: [viciously] Fuck yourself with a forty, shitbreath.
- [to Carver]
- Off. Anthony Colicchio: The fuck was all that about?
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Can't bust every head, Tony.
- Off. Anthony Colicchio: [chuckling] I can't?
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: Bust every head, who you gonna talk to when the shit happens?
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: You really think they're gonna vote for the white guy?
- Norman Wilson: Black folks been voting white for a long time. You come correct, we listen. It's y'all that don't never vote black.
- Carcetti's Driver: Shit, you got my vote, anyway.
- [Norman chuckles]
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I don't have your vote, Norman?
- [Norman just gives him a sly look and laughs]
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: You're my deputy campaign manager and I don't have your vote?
- Norman Wilson: Last white man I could vote for was Bobby Kennedy. And you ain't no Bobby K.
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: I thought you just said...
- Norman Wilson: I was speakin' in general about the kindly nature of black folks. In particular, I ain't all that kindly.
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: So you're gonna take my fuckin' check, and run with my fuckin' campaign...
- Norman Wilson: Well, I do know who pays me, yassuh! Oh, yassuh, boss!
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: Who you gonna fuckin' vote for? Royce? Tony Gray?
- Norman Wilson: One of them brothers.
- [Norman and the driver crack up laughing; Carcetti smiles as he realizes they're just messing with him]
- Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: Yeah, yeah, yeah...