- FBI Spec. Agent Terrence 'Fitz' Fitzhugh: State your name.
- [Serge says nothing]
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: No name, huh? Well, for now, we'll just call you Boris.
- Sergei 'Serge' Malatov: Boris. Why always Boris?
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Boy, them Greeks and those twisted-ass names.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Man, lay off the Greeks. They invented civilization.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Yeah? Ass-fucking, too.
- Frank Sobotka: You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.
- [Bunk and McNulty are staking out Vondas' house; Vondas comes out wearing a suit]
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: A different look for our boy.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Yeah. Perry Ellis or somethin'.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Now, how would a just-rolled-outta-bed-lookin' muthafucka like you know the designer?
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Okay, I'm guessin'.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: It's a Joseph Abboud. He puts dark buttons instead of brass on his blazers. That's the Abboud signature.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You know what they call a guy who pays that much attention to his clothes, don't you?
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Mm-hmm. A grown-up.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: [McNulty has trouble loading up the camera] Maybe you ought to set up an easel on the sidewalk and do a sketch instead.
- Frank Sobotka: For 25 years we've been dying slow down there. Dry docks rusting and piers standing empty. My friends and their kids like we got the cancer. No life line got thrown all that time. Nothing from nobody. And now you want to help us? Help me?
- Frank Sobotka: You're more like me than you know. You're a Sobotka.
- Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka: [crying] Fucked is what I am.
- Omar Little: About a year ago a boy named Brandon got got here in Baltimore. Stuck and burned before he passed.
- Brother Mouzone: The game is the game.
- Omar Little: Indeed. But see, that boy was beautiful. Wasn't no need for you to do him the way y'all did. You feel me?
- Brother Mouzone: A year, you say?
- Omar Little: About that.
- Brother Mouzone: You got some wrong information.
- Omar Little: Man, you lyin' to live.
- Brother Mouzone: I'm at peace with my god. Do what you will.
- Frank Sobotka: You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.