| Character
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Number
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Epigraph
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Episode
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| James McNulty
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4
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...when it's not your turn.
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1.01 "The Target"
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| They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out.
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2.02 "Collateral Damage"
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| I had such fucking hopes for us.
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3.05 "Straight and True"
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| You play in dirt, you get dirty
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4.11 "A New Day"
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| William Moreland
|
4
|
A man must have a code.
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1.07 "Lessons"
|
| Aw yeah. That golden rule.
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4.07 "Unto Others"
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| The bigger the lie, the more they believe.
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5.1 "More with Less"
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| This ain't Aruba, bitch.
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5.2 "Unconfirmed Reports"
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| Lester Freamon
|
3
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…and all the pieces matter.
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1.06 "The Wire"
|
| …while you're waiting for moments that never come.
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3.09 "Slapstick"
|
| If you have a problem with this, I understand completely.
|
5.6 "The Dickensian Aspect"
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| D'Angelo Barksdale
|
2
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The king stay the king.
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1.03 "The Buys"
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| It don't matter that some fool say he different…
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2.06 "All Prologue"
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| Bubbles
|
2
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It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here
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1.04 "Old Cases"
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| That all there is to it?
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4.12 "That's Got His Own"
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| Avon Barksdale
|
2
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...a little slow, a little late.
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1.05 "The Pager"
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| Just a gangster, I suppose.
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3.06 "Homecoming"
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| Shakima Greggs
|
2
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And then he dropped the bracelets…
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1.10 "The Cost"
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| If I hear music, I’m gonna dance.
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2.04 "Hard Cases"
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| Chester "Ziggy" Sobotka
|
2
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How come they don’t fly away?
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2.08 "Duck and Cover"
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| It pays to go with the union card every time.
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2.10 "Storm Warnings"
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| The Greek
|
2
|
The world is a smaller place now.
|
2.09 "Stray Rounds"
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| Business. Always business.
|
2.12 "Port in a Storm"
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| Proposition Joe
|
2
|
Call it a crisis of leadership.
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3.10 "Reformation"
|
| Might as well dump 'em, get another.
|
4.09 "Know Your Place"
|
| Marla Daniels
|
1
|
You cannot lose if you do not play.
|
1.02 "The Detail"
|
| Omar Little
|
1
|
Come at the king, you best not miss.
|
1.08 "One Arrest"
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| Thomas "Herc" Hauk
|
1
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Maybe we won.
|
1.09 "Game Day"
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| Cedric Daniels
|
1
|
Dope on the damn table.
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1.11 "The Hunt"
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| Wallace
|
1
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This is me, yo, right here.
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1.12 "Cleaning Up"
|
| [[|Roy Pelzman|Roy "Little Big Roy" Pelzman]]
|
1
|
Ain't never gonna be what it was.
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2.01 "Ebb Tide"
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| Beadie Russell
|
1
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What they need is a union.
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2.03 "Hot Shots"
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| Spiros Vondopoulos
|
1
|
They used to make steel there, no?
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2.05 "Undertow"
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| Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa
|
1
|
Don't worry kid. You're still on the clock.
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2.07 "Backwash"
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| Frank Sobotka
|
1
|
I need to get clean.
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2.11 "Bad Dreams"
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| Preston "Bodie" Broadus
|
1
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Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same.
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3.01 "Time After Time"
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| Howard "Bunny" Colvin
|
1
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There's never been a paper bag.
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3.02 "All Due Respect"
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| Ervin Burrell
|
1
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The Gods will not save you.
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3.03 "Dead Soldiers"
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| Fruit
|
1
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Why you gotta go and fuck with the program?
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3.04 "Amsterdam"
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| Butchie
|
1
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Conscience do cost.
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3.07 "Back Burners"
|
| R. Clayton "Clay" Davis
|
1
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Crawl, walk, and then run.
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3.08 "Moral Midgetry"
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| Russell "Stringer" Bell
|
1
|
We ain't gotta dream no more, man.
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3.11 "Middle Ground"
|
| Slim Charles
|
1
|
We fight on that lie.
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3.12 "Mission Accomplished"
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| Marcia Donnelly
|
1
|
Lambs to the slaughter here.
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4.01 "Boys of Summer"
|
| Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti
|
1
|
I still wake up white in a city that ain't.
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4.02 "Soft Eyes"
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| Namond Brice
|
1
|
I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit
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4.03 "Home Rooms"
|
| Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski
|
1
|
No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.
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4.04 "Refugees"
|
| Christopher "Chris" Partlow
|
1
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If you with us, you with us.
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4.05 "Alliances"
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| Norman Wilson
|
1
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Don't try this shit at home.
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4.06 "Margin of Error"
|
| Zenobia Dawson
|
1
|
We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing.
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4.08 "Corner Boys"
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| Malik "Poot" Carr
|
1
|
World goin' one way, people another.
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4.10 "Misgivings"
|
| Michael Fletcher
|
1
|
They're dead where it doesn't count.
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5.3 "Not for Attribution"
|
| Scott Templeton
|
1
|
Buyer's market out there.
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5.4 "Transitions"
|
| Gus Haynes
|
1
|
Just 'cause they’re in the street doesn't mean that they lack opinions.
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5.5 "React Quotes"
|
| Rhonda Pearlman
|
1
|
They don't teach it in law school.
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5.7 "Took"
|
| Terry Hanning
|
1
|
A lie ain't a side of the story, it's just a lie.
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5.8 "Clarifications"
|
| Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
|
1
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Deserve got nuthin' to do with it.
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5.9 "Late Editions"
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