- [McNulty takes Bodie to lunch]
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: We still in the city?
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Cylburn Arboretum. Pimlico's right up the hill.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: This is nice.
- [pause]
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: I ain't no snitch.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Didn't say you were.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop.
- [pause, then Bodie sighs and rubs his face]
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: I feel old. I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never fucked up a count, never stole off a package, never did some shit that I wasn't told to do. I been straight up. But what come back? Hm? You think if I get jammed up on some shit, they be like, "A'ight, yeah, Bodie been there, Bodie hang tough. We got his pay lawyer, we got a bail"? They want me to stand with 'em, right? So where the fuck are they at when they supposed to be standin' by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man. We like them little bitches on the chessboard.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Pawns.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Yo, I'm not snitchin' on none of my boys. Not my corner, and not no Barksdale people, or what's left of 'em. But Marlo, this nigga, his kind, man, they... they gotta fall. They gotta.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Well, for that to happen, somebody's gotta step up.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: I'll do what I gotta. I don't give a fuck. Just don't ask me to live on my fuckin' knees, you know?
- [McNulty is silent for a moment]
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You're a soldier, Bodie.
- [Bodie gives a wistful half-smile without looking at McNulty]
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Hell yeah.
- Chris Partlow: You can look him in the eye now... no matter who he is or what he done you look him right in the eye.
- Lt. Dennis Mello: All right, listen up, you mutts, this is complicated. I mean, it isn't complicated if you went to college or, I don't know, your mothers actually stopped drinking for a minute while they was pregnant. But for Baltimore City Police, this is complicated.
- Sgt. Jay Landsman: All that from overnight?
- Det. Ed Norris: All that from Freamon. He's out early today, rooting through empties.
- Sgt. Jay Landsman: You know what he is? He is a vandal. He is vandalizing the board. He is vandalizing this unit. He is a Hun, a Visigoth, a barbarian at the gate, clamoring for noble Roman blood and what's left of our clearance rate.
- Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: [Herc has been ranting about IID charges] Herc, What the fuck did you do exactly?
- Sgt. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I lost a surveillance camera that I took without my Lieutenant's permission and the evidence that I had found, I it attributed to a made up informant.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Son, They gonna beat on your White ass like it was a Rented Mule.
- Sgt. Jay Landsman: [about Freamon who is discovering bodies in the vacants] You know what he is? He is a vandal. He is vandalizing the board. He is vandalizing this unit. He is a Hun, a Visigoth, a Barbarian at the gate clamoring for noble roman blood and what's left of our clearance rate.
- Omar Little: Well, it just so happens I got some heroine for sale. Marketwise, you fellas look like buyers, you feel me?
- Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff: This some shameless shit.