The Detail (The Wire) Quotes

The Detail (The Wire) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . The Detail ended its run in 1970.

The Detail (The Wire) Quotes

• (Judge Daniel Phelan) "Under the power vested in me by the circuit court for Baltimore city,"
• (Judge Daniel Phelan) "I absolve you of all you sins, Detective McNulty."
• (Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty) "You are my sin, you know that?"

• (Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty) "See, that's what I don't get about the drug thing. Why can't you sell the s*** and walk the f*** away? You know what I mean? Everything else in this country gets sold without people shooting each other behind it."

• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "What're you doing here at two in the morning?"
• (Det. Ellis Carver) "Field interviews. Police work."
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) ""Police work." I got a 14-year-old kid in critical but stable condition at University and two witnesses who say one of you princes cold-cocked him with the butt end of a pistol."
• (Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk) "No sir."
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "I got his mother over at I.I.D. filing a formal brutality charge, which for Herc will make an even four in the last two years."
• (Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk) "Unsustained --"
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "But all of 'em true."
• (Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk) "Lieutenant, we thought that --"
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "I got one less Crown Vic than I had last night, I'm out two Kevlar vests that burned in the car, two hand-held radios, a shotgun and I'm about to lose this idiot here for a week or two of medical. And for WHAT?"
• (Det. Ellis Carver) "Lieutenant, we thought --"
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "What did you learn when you went into the Terrace at two in the morning to conduct field interviews? What valuable information did we acquire from this situation? I.I.D. is gonna be on all three of you by afternoon. If you don't get a story straight by then, you're gonna have a file thick enough to see the light of a trial board. Now, tell me, who cold-cocked the kid?"
• (Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski) "Me."
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "Why?"
• (Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski) "He pissed me off."
• (Lt. Cedric Daniels) "No, Officer Pryzbylewski, he did NOT piss you off. He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers."

• (Marla Daniels) "The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play."

• (Det. Ellis Carver) "Kima, if you don't my asking, when was it that you first figured that you liked women better than men?"
• (Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs) "I mind you asking."

• (Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs) "Who we got to f*** in this town to get a real office?"

Add or Update Quotes

If you have a quote to add or change and want to let us know, please fill in the form below. Include the time in the film/video if possible so we can find it.