The Wire, Season 1

The Wire (2002-2008) is an American television drama set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland. The creator, David Simon, has said that despite its presentation as a crime drama, the show is "really about the American city, and about how we live toget… more »

Heroin addict:
Got any testers, man?

Bodie:
Nigga, it ain't even 9:00 and you fiendin' on it. Get the fuck outta here, man! Damn.

D'Angelo:
Yo, why you act like that, yo?

Bodie:
What, for these junkie motherfuckers?

D'Angelo:
So you just gonna take his money all day and treat him like a dog?

Bodie:
How I'm supposed to treat him?

D'Angelo:
I don't know. But you ain't gotta punk him like that.

Poot:
He punked hisself. He a goddamn drug addict.

D'Angelo:
And you a goddamn drug dealer.

Bodie:
So? So what? Oh, what, the 'customer's always right'?

Wallace:
Yo, we in the projects. The customer be fucked up. You can't give these niggers shit, man.

D'Angelo:
Why not? Why can't you? Shit, everything else in the world gets sold without people taking advantage, scamming, lying, doing each other dirty. Why it got to be that way with this?

Poot:
'Cause they DOPE fiends.

D'Angelo:
Yeah, but the game ain't gotta be played like that, yo. You can't tell me this shit can't get done without people beatin' on each other, killing each other, doing each other like dogs. And without all that, you ain't got 5-0 down here on our backs every five minutes. Throwing us around and shit.

Wallace:
Sheeit, man.

D'Angelo:
You think 5-0 care about niggers gettin' high? In the projects? Man, 5-0 be down here about the bodies, yo. That's what they be down here about. The bodies.

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