The Wire, Season 2

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 »

McNulty:
You see the preliminary? Positives for oral, vaginal, anal. No IDs, no passports, no visas, no real money - and the girls are coming across the water like that.

Bunk:
Yeah.

Lester:
McNulty has a theory...

Bunk:
Does he now?

Lester:
You deductive motherf***er, you.

Bunk:
So he's gonna wander in here with some johnny-come-lately bullshit about how all these girls must be coming over here as prostitutes. Talking about how if they ain't got the cash to travel better than a container ship, then they sure as shit don't got the money to pay a plastic surgeon.

Lester:
Then he's gonna go past that. And say something about that one found dead in the water - being tossed off the ship after she's already dead from a beat-down?

Bunk:
But why did she get beat? He's gonna ask us that like we don't know.

Lester:
Then he's gonna answer his own question, and say her swabs are negative, right? F*** or fight with all them sailor boys - and she fought.

Bunk:
So, it got a little rough, she got banged around, she comes up dead. And then, somebody panics and tosses her in the harbour overnight before the ship ties up.

Beadie:
But the other girls saw.

Bunk:
So now the other girls, they get told to get back in that can. And our man, to cover this shit up, he gets up on top and bangs down the airpipe. [stands up, sighs dramatically] Anything else you wanna tell us?

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