• Charapaso@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    One of the most on the nose scenes in the Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6r2a2PaQPI

    The conversation (copied from IMDB)

    Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : Guy leaves two dozen bodies scattered all over the city, no one gives a fuck.

    Detective Lester Freamon : It’s because who he dropped.

    Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : True that. You can go a long way in this country killin’ black folk. Young males especially. Misdemeanor homicides.

    Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : If Marlo was killin’ white women…

    Detective Lester Freamon : White children.

    Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : Tourists.

    Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : One white ex-cheerleader tourist missin’ in Aruba.

    Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : Trouble is, this ain’t Aruba, bitch.

    Detective Lester Freamon : You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn’t send the 82nd Airborne? Negro, please.