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Look, I've got no lovefor your wiretap, lieutenant. I'm spending $2,000 a day over theunit operating budget to staff the case. Major rawls is offering a chance to leveragebarksdale through a murder prosecution. Why not jump on this? Because if major rawls is rightthen he will be right a month from now. If the wire doesn't give us a case,he can charge all the murders he has. We lose nothing. But if he's wrong, if he can't convict,or if the barksdale kid doesn't flip, then it's too late to do anything else. Avon barksdale changes up his pattern,and the wiretap dies. At that point, there isn't gonna be a thingthat you, or me, or rawls here is gonna be able to sayto that goddamn judge
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Look I've got no love for your wiretap lieutenant
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I'm spending 2 000 a day over the unit operating budget to staff the case
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Major rawls is offering a chance to leverage barksdale through a murder prosecution
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Why not jump on this
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Because if major rawls is right then he will be right a month from now
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If the wire doesn't give us a case he can charge all the murders he has
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We lose nothing
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But if he's wrong
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if he can't convict or if the barksdale kid doesn't flip
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then it's too late to do anything else
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Avon barksdale changes up his pattern and the wiretap dies
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At that point there isn't gonna be a thing that you or me or rawls here
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is gonna be able to say to that goddamn judge
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Movie Summary
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
