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Season 3  "Time After Time"  3x1

Aired 20 years ago - Sep 19, 2004

"Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." -- Bodie A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers, forcing the Barksdale drug crew to find a new home on the streets of West Baltimore. Stringer Bell sets up shop using a new sales strategy for Bodie, Poot, Puddin and the rest of the gang, as he awaits the return of Avon from prison. McNulty, Greggs and the detail look to make a case against Stringer with a wiretap on a drug ring run by his ally, Proposition Joe. Assigned to the Western District drug unit, Carver and Herc notch up the pressure on street dealers. Burrell is caught in a power play by First District Councilman Tommy Carcetti, an ambitious young man with roots deep in the ethnic politics of Baltimore. Mayor Clarence Royce, facing re-election next year, puts Burrell on notice that crime stats, and murders in particular, must come down - whatever it takes. The order from on high has put police commanders on the hot seat during the new Comstat meetings, where they are held up to aggressive criticism by Rawls and others before their peers. Daniels, too, is confronted by the reach of City Hall, as his promotion to major appears to be derailed because of his estranged wife's political ambitions. A rash of murders cuts short Bunk's day at the ballpark, as Bubbles and Johnny lose big in their latest caper for cash. On the eve of his parole, Cutty Wise is offered a new start on the outside by Avon, but after being released, he finds the drug life has changed.

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'Cause I'm lookin' to, you know, saddle up
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What'r you seeing?
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Dozerman, what's your 20?
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catch you on a corner.
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Especially when you consider
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Poot did have the floor, man.
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move weight all day and not once did he go
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Yes, Sir. Officer Aaron Castor.
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He raised up when we hit his corner and he grabbed this bag.
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But I got someplace to be.
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on a seven-to-three shift in every eastern sector.
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The talkingest motherfucker I ever heard on a wiretap.
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That's good. That is good.
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Thanks.
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Time out.
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some things they stay the same, man.
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then picked up the phone,
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You got your unit and I sent your name over to the hall.
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I'm at the ball game.
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in a single fucking night people.
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Naw, man, ain't nuthin' light.
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The oxbow on Laurens, at Fulton.
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but it ain't even go like that.
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But, if that's it, come on with it.
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