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Season 2  "Collateral Damage"  2x2

Aired 21 years ago - Jun 08, 2003

"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out." -- McNulty After the case gets dumped back in Russell's lap, McNulty offers to help, ensuring that it boomerangs back to Rawls; after Sobotka chews the Greeks out about the bodies in the containers, the Greeks do a little investigating of their own and discover that McNulty's floater was killed by a ship's crewman in front of the other girls, who were then killed to ensure their silence; Brianna urges her brother to take care of business, especially D'Angelo; Valchek strikes a deal with Burrell in exchange for his help in waging war on Sobotka, and Sobotka strikes back by handing the BPD a major embarrassment; Daniels decides to put in his papers; Wee-Bey complains to Avon about his treatment at the hands of C.O. Tilghman; Bunk and Lester are ready to kill McNulty after Landsman puts the fourteen whodunits under their names on the Board.

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Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 1
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I understand how you feel...
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 4
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 5
They saying they have to be sure before they get back with us.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 6
Yeah, I'm gonna put Stringer on that, too.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 7
You're not the run-of-the-mill kind of asshole, are you?
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 8
Port police has jurisdiction over Patapsco.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 9
-A couple of cases? -Yeah, it was four.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 10
we're to ride past your union hall twice a day and paper cars.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 11
No, you see, they plastic, they got little motors and all, man.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 12
I had people working on a window for the nave up St. Casmir's since Easter...
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 13
And sure enough, you've been an official asshole every day since.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 14
Can't figure the name or the address...
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 15
I called the morgue this morning...
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 16
That's what the medical examiner said anyway.
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You know what I think?
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 19
That's for the mayor to decide. I'd have to clear the council, too.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 20
-Frank Sobotka, you heard the name? -No.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 21
If they buried you any deeper, you'd be under the damn building.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 22
No, came down here to have breakfast with you duper-faced fucks.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 23
-So why the fuck you coming to me? -I want you to come in on it with me.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 24
It's 8:00 in the goddamn morning.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 25
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I gotta get him back to maximum security by 6:00, all right?
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 27
I'm gonna set it straight. All right?
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 28
Okay, we got 13 adult females, breathing at a normal to elevated rate...
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 29
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and if they're further down the bay, then you fellows with the Coast Guard can take it.
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I mean, he gonna do what need to be done, man.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 34
Rawls, I swear to God, the man stayed in his office all day.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 35
-Fourteen. -He did it.
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 36
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Beatrice Russell. She pretty at least?
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Am I your girlfriend? No. Your wife? No. Your soul mate? No.
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-This is where our taxes go. -I do good work, don't l?
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This area's restricted. Yes, sir, no problem.
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-What up, man? -Yeah, he left that in here.
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-Anybody speak English? -What you're asking them about...
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Why you run from ship?
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I understand how you feel...
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They saying they have to be sure before they get back with us.
#5
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 6
Yeah, I'm gonna put Stringer on that, too.
#6
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 7
You're not the run-of-the-mill kind of asshole, are you?
#7
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 8
Port police has jurisdiction over Patapsco.
#8
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 9
-A couple of cases? -Yeah, it was four.
#9
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 10
we're to ride past your union hall twice a day and paper cars.
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Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 11
No, you see, they plastic, they got little motors and all, man.
#11
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 12
I had people working on a window for the nave up St. Casmir's since Easter...
#12
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 13
And sure enough, you've been an official asshole every day since.
#13
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 14
Can't figure the name or the address...
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I called the morgue this morning...
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That's what the medical examiner said anyway.
#16
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You know what I think?
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That's for the mayor to decide. I'd have to clear the council, too.
#19
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-Frank Sobotka, you heard the name? -No.
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If they buried you any deeper, you'd be under the damn building.
#21
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No, came down here to have breakfast with you duper-faced fucks.
#22
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-So why the fuck you coming to me? -I want you to come in on it with me.
#23
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It's 8:00 in the goddamn morning.
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I gotta get him back to maximum security by 6:00, all right?
#26
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 27
I'm gonna set it straight. All right?
#27
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 28
Okay, we got 13 adult females, breathing at a normal to elevated rate...
#28
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and if they're further down the bay, then you fellows with the Coast Guard can take it.
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I mean, he gonna do what need to be done, man.
#33
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Rawls, I swear to God, the man stayed in his office all day.
#34
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-Fourteen. -He did it.
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Beatrice Russell. She pretty at least?
#37
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Am I your girlfriend? No. Your wife? No. Your soul mate? No.
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-This is where our taxes go. -I do good work, don't l?
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This area's restricted. Yes, sir, no problem.
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-What up, man? -Yeah, he left that in here.
#46
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 47
-Anybody speak English? -What you're asking them about...
#47
Recap of The Wire Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) - 48
Why you run from ship?
#48
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