DET. LESTER FREAMON Hey, hey, hey. A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY How long you been in the pawn shop unit?

DET. LESTER FREAMON Thirteen years and four months.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY Thirteen years?

DET. LESTER FREAMON And four months.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY I gotta ask you, what exactly does a police officer assigned to the pawn shop unit do?

DET. LESTER FREAMON You intake reports from registered pawn shops on all items valued over $50. Then you make an index card for that item. Then you file that index card. If someone wants to find out if something stolen has been pawned, we look to see if we have an index card. If we do, we do. If we don't, we don't.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY You did that for thirteen years?

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY Why'd you ask out of homicide?

DET. LESTER FREAMON Wasn't no "ask" about it.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY You got the boot?

DET. LESTER FREAMON Uh-huh.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY What'd you do to piss 'em off?

DET. LESTER FREAMON Police work.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY I think I need to buy you a drink.

DET. LESTER FREAMON Just one?

DET. LESTER FREAMON McNulty, you are deserving of serious psychological study.

DET. WILLIAM 'BUNK' MORELAND The hell with Norris. You my real partner, Lester. My life partner.

DET. LESTER FREAMON Don't tease, bitch.

DET. LESTER FREAMON What did he call Cole?

DET. WILLIAM 'BUNK' MORELAND Collateral damage.

DET. LESTER FREAMON I'm feelin' pretty damn collateral myself, I gotta say.

DET. LESTER FREAMON Shit like this actually goes through your fucking brain?

LT. CEDRIC DANIELS The murder warrant's on hold. The deputy gave us another month. Also, whoever that was you brought in here today gave himself up as an eyewitness in the Gant murder.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY Who, Omar?

LT. CEDRIC DANIELS And Greggs said to tell you she'd write it up in the morning.

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY Lieutenant - thanks. [McNulty leaves]

DET. LESTER FREAMON It cost you? [Daniels says nothing]

DET. JAMES 'JIMMY' MCNULTY The quicker we bring this in and shut it down, the safer we'll all be. I mean, Landsman wants me over to fucking Quantico, have the FBI do a profile.

DET. LESTER FREAMON [laughs] You might learn something about yourself.

DET. LESTER FREAMON Seems that Stringer Bell is worse than a drug dealer . . .

DET. ROLAND 'PREZ' PRYZBYLEWSKI He's a developer.

DET. LESTER FREAMON You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money... and you don't know where the fuck is going to take you.