The Wire Season 1 Episode 01 Subtitles

At 00:00:02,000, Character said: Cleaned, corrected & sync adjusted by Tronar

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At 00:00:25,126, Character said: - So, your boy's name is what?
- Snot.

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At 00:00:29,030, Character said: - You called the guy Snot?
- Snotboogie, yeah.

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At 00:00:32,767, Character said: "Snotboogie."

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At 00:00:34,902, Character said: He like the name?

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At 00:00:36,337, Character said: - What?
- Snotboogie.

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At 00:00:41,042, Character said: This kid whose mama went to the trouble
of christening him Omar lsaiah Betts?

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At 00:00:46,481, Character said: You know, he forgets his jacket...

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At 00:00:50,685, Character said: so his nose starts running,
and some a***e...

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At 00:00:54,589, Character said: instead of giving him a Kleenex,
he calls him "Snot."

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At 00:00:58,292, Character said: So, he's "Snot" forever.

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At 00:01:02,296, Character said: Doesn't seem fair.

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At 00:01:03,998, Character said: Life just be that way, I guess.

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At 00:01:09,804, Character said: So who shot Snot?

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At 00:01:11,372, Character said: I ain't going to no court.

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At 00:01:21,682, Character said: Motherfucker ain't have
to put no cap in him though.

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At 00:01:24,152, Character said: Definitely not.

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At 00:01:25,286, Character said: He could've just whipped his a***s,
like we always whip his a***s.

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At 00:01:28,222, Character said: - I agree with you.
- He gonna kill Snot.

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At 00:01:30,324, Character said: Snot been doing the same s***t
since I don't know how long.

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At 00:01:33,294, Character said: Kill a man over some bullshit.

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At 00:01:38,566, Character said: I'm saying, every Friday night...

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At 00:01:42,270, Character said: in the alley behind the cut-rate,
we rolling bones, you know?

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At 00:01:45,239, Character said: All the boys from around the way,
we roll till late.

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At 00:01:48,009, Character said: Alley crap game, right?

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At 00:01:49,877, Character said: And like every time,
Snot, he'd fade a few shooters.

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At 00:01:54,982, Character said: Play it out till the pot's deep.
Then he'd snatch and run.

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At 00:02:00,288, Character said: - Every time?
- Couldn't help hisself.

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At 00:02:04,725, Character said: Let me understand you.

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At 00:02:06,360, Character said: Every Friday night,
you and your boys would shoot crap, right?

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At 00:02:09,597, Character said: And every Friday night,
your pal Snotboogie...

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At 00:02:12,433, Character said: he'd wait till there was cash on the ground,
then grab the money and run away?

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At 00:02:17,305, Character said: - You let him do that?
- We catch him and beat his a***s.

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At 00:02:20,107, Character said: But ain't nobody ever go past that.

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At 00:02:24,579, Character said: I gotta ask you.

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At 00:02:26,981, Character said: If every time Snotboogie
would grab the money and run away...

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At 00:02:32,486, Character said: why'd you even let him in the game?

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At 00:02:34,589, Character said: What?

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At 00:02:35,890, Character said: If Snotboogie always stole the money,
why'd you let him play?

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At 00:02:40,595, Character said: G***t to. This America, man.

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At 00:04:28,436, Character said: - Guess what he says.
- What?

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At 00:04:30,271, Character said: "Gotta let him play, this America."

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At 00:04:32,440, Character said: No f***g way.

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At 00:04:33,541, Character said: - Would I make it up?
- He give you the shooter?

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At 00:04:35,643, Character said: Three Newports and a Grape Nehi
he's grand juried.

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At 00:04:37,912, Character said: It's down, Bunk.
Barksdale's in Part 12, right?

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At 00:04:41,115, Character said: Project murder, Westside.

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At 00:04:42,516, Character said: - Which one, now?
- Never mind.

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At 00:04:45,019, Character said: Gonna sit in on it for a bit.
Where you gonna be?

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At 00:04:48,522, Character said: I'm gonna drop this off on Nathan,
then I'm going to the office.

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At 00:04:51,592, Character said: - Don't answer no phones, Bunk.
- Yeah, yeah.

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At 00:04:56,664, Character said: And is that your signature
on that photo array card?

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At 00:04:59,967, Character said: Yes.

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At 00:05:01,068, Character said: And those are your initials as well,
next to the photo you identified?

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At 00:05:04,705, Character said: Yes.

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At 00:05:06,207, Character said: Mr. Gant, do you see the man you identified
from that photo array card...

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At 00:05:11,712, Character said: sitting in the courtroom today?

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At 00:05:27,061, Character said: He's right there.

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At 00:05:28,863, Character said: For the record, the witness
has identified the defendant...

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At 00:05:31,932, Character said: D'Angelo Barksdale.

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At 00:05:34,335, Character said: - Your witness.
- Thank you.

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At 00:05:38,205, Character said: Just one question, Mr. Gant.

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At 00:05:40,608, Character said: Have you ever seen this young man
before the day in question?

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At 00:05:46,747, Character said: - No.
- No further questions, your honor.

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At 00:05:53,054, Character said: You're excused, Mr. Gant.
Call your next witness.

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At 00:05:57,391, Character said: State calls Nakeisha Lyles, Your Honor.

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At 00:06:13,674, Character said: Do you promise to tell
the truth, the whole truth...

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At 00:06:16,077, Character said: and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

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At 00:06:18,112, Character said: I do.

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At 00:06:22,483, Character said: - Ma'**, can you state your name, please?
- Nakeisha Lyles.

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At 00:06:26,587, Character said: - And are you employed?
- Yes, I **.

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At 00:06:29,590, Character said: - And what is your occupation, Ms. Lyles?
- I'm a security guard.

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At 00:06:33,594, Character said: And were you employed as a security guard
on May 4, the day of the shooting?

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At 00:06:38,766, Character said: - What were your duties on that date?
- I was in the booth of 221.

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At 00:06:43,838, Character said: And is that the guard booth in the lobby
of the Fremont Avenue high-rise?

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At 00:06:48,442, Character said: Yes.

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At 00:06:49,643, Character said: And you're behind bullet-proof glass,
with a clear view of the lobby?

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At 00:06:53,681, Character said: - Yeah.
- Good.

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At 00:06:56,650, Character said: Now, Ms. Lyles, I know
this may be difficult for you...

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At 00:06:59,220, Character said: but can you tell us what you saw?

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At 00:07:01,355, Character said: A man, you know,
he was waiting for the elevator...

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At 00:07:04,825, Character said: and when another man
just starts beating on him...

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At 00:07:07,528, Character said: and like, the one man,
he g***t knocked down...

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At 00:07:10,464, Character said: - The victim g***t knocked down?
- No, the man with the gun.

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At 00:07:14,301, Character said: The man who was knocked down had a gun.

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At 00:07:17,538, Character said: And do you see that man
in the courtroom today?

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At 00:07:26,680, Character said: Nope.

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At 00:07:30,584, Character said: Excuse me?

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At 00:07:34,622, Character said: He ain't here.

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At 00:07:39,226, Character said: You don't...

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At 00:07:42,062, Character said: You testified.

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At 00:07:45,866, Character said: Ms. Lyles, do you remember
when Detective Barlow...

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At 00:07:48,269, Character said: showed you this photo array?

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At 00:07:50,304, Character said: - Yeah.
- Good.

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At 00:07:52,540, Character said: I call your attention to your initials
which identify this photo...

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At 00:07:56,443, Character said: as the man who shot Mr. Blanchard.

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At 00:08:00,281, Character said: Did you write your initials
above that photograph?

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At 00:08:06,654, Character said: He ain't the one that did the shooting.

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At 00:08:09,223, Character said: But you identified him.

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At 00:08:11,158, Character said: That's 'cause
he looked like the boy that did it.

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At 00:08:13,861, Character said: See, the one that did it,
I saw him come in the building a week later.

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At 00:08:18,933, Character said: You saw someone else
you thought did the shooting?

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At 00:08:22,670, Character said: Right, a week later.

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At 00:08:26,273, Character said: Ms. Lyles, when you spoke
with the detectives...

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At 00:08:28,776, Character said: you never said anything about...

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At 00:08:30,177, Character said: I tried. I called Detective...

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At 00:08:36,417, Character said: Yeah, Detective Barlow on May 13th at 2:00.

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At 00:08:43,157, Character said: - But he didn't call me back.
- Nicely done.

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At 00:08:45,893, Character said: - You called Detective Barlow?
- Yeah, twice.

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At 00:08:50,397, Character said: Yeah, I wrote it down in the log.

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At 00:08:53,467, Character said: - I need a price for pressure-treated.
- $14.

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At 00:08:57,271, Character said: That's the price that
you were going to quote me?

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At 00:09:00,341, Character said: Do you feel that, Mikey, do you feel it?

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At 00:09:02,276, Character said: 'Cause I swear to God
that is my f***g d***k in your ear.

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At 00:09:05,045, Character said: - That's nice.
- Hang on, you f***g thief.

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At 00:09:07,715, Character said: What's up?

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At 00:09:08,916, Character said: - You been down the hall lately?
- What?

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At 00:09:11,252, Character said: Your case just hit the wall.
Barksdale's crew, they turned it.

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At 00:09:14,655, Character said: Two eyewitnesses and a statement.
No f***g way, pal.

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At 00:09:19,059, Character said: You listen to me, you little s***t,
there is no way in hell I ** paying that.

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At 00:09:23,030, Character said: No.

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At 00:09:24,398, Character said: You use my goddamn car
to chauffeur that dusty bitch around.

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At 00:09:27,201, Character said: - Yo, ease up.
- You don't understand.

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At 00:09:29,270, Character said: - I did it for that man and he do this.
- Getting heated ain't gonna help.

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At 00:09:33,207, Character said: - Greggs,...