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Season 5  "Not For Attribution"  5x3

Aired 16 years ago - Jan 20, 2008

"They're dead where it doesn't count." - Fletcher Mayor Carcetti's master plan for the police department is leaked to the press, sending the brass into a panic; Marlo turns to Proposition Joe for help with an enviable problem; executive editor Whiting and managing editor Thomas Klebanow drop a bombshell on the newspaper staff; Michael finds temporary respite from his life on the corner by taking Dukie and Bug on a trip; McNulty shares some inside info with Gutierrez, but her subsequent story doesn't cause the splash either envisioned; McNulty, undaunted, looks for a new ally in Freamon.

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It's my first time out front. I want to see it.
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I'll get a lift over from one of the central cars.
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I wrote a ribbon into his office reports.
#7
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You ain't seen those yet, huh?
#8
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That's all.
#10
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we're now faced with hard choices.
#13
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I know some of you have questions.
#14
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Some of you will migrate into new positions
#15
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even after I cut you guys to the bone. This is what you're telling me?
#16
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organizational, with 5013 designation.
#19
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What's the problem?
#20
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they can hire one-and-a-half 20-somethings
#21
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For the love of God, I'm working a serial killer.
#23
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- none of that. - You pay 10 on the dollar.
#25
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We ain't had a labor reporter around here in 3 years.
#26
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Down Six Flags.
#28
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after they shitcanned Bunny Colvin.
#29
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your money, the money you bring me,
#30
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I caught a vagrant months back had a red ribbon tied around his wrist.
#31
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- I'd let sleeping dogs lie, son. - Oh, I know you would, Joe.
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Put some backspin on it, or else it'll bank off the box and not in it.
#33
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Don't say I didn't warn you.
#34
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He's been critical of Burrell since the election."
#35
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earning 30,000 a year, is that correct?
#37
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That's 400 in your own account down in the islands.
#39
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reading the newspaper with a cup of coffee,
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"and have thought to please my ghost,
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If you stack it with the domestic beer, then I won't know.
#43
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it's-- it's Jimmy Mcnulty's ripper.
#44
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How much could even be in that file? An assets investigation?
#45
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We gonna change up.
#47
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OK, monsieur Marlo.
#49
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It's got to grip the hearts and minds,
#50