- Slim Charles: [Proposition Joe has just bought flowers for Butchie's funeral] You ain't thinkin' no kindly note gonna slow Omar comin' at us
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: It's how I feel. He was a good man
- Slim Charles: and Marlo?
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Marlo is Marlo man. He weren't the one that put me in this trick bag; the motherfucker who snuggled up an' whispered in Marlo's ear did that.
- [Slim gives Prop Joe a look, & Joe senses it without looking at Slim]
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: See I know what you thinkin', an' I ain't makin' a move against no kin', not 'til I got more to go on than words. And knowing my sister's son the way I do, if the boy got 50 grand in his pocket, it ain't gonna be long before it jump out and find itself in some salesman hand. And that kink of goody we know. In the meantime, if Omar coming for any of us, he coming for me, and out of respect for that man's skill set, I'm gonna take myself outa the lineup after the meet tomorrow.
- Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: [Proposition Joe brought Marlo to Attorney Levy, & Levy has led Marlo into a conference room, leaving Prop Joe with Herc to read the newspaper] Carcetti finally dumps Burrell...
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Ervin was a year before me at Dunbar
- Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: No shit
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: He was in the glee club
- Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: [after a pause, Herc looks up from his own section of the paper] You're killin' me. I gotta ask
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Stone stupid
- [Rawls knocks on Burrell's door as he is cleaning out his office]
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Come to see a dead man walking?
- Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: I hear Carcetti's gonna do right by you. Salary with the coordinating council, then a DC job. You deserve it.
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: Sure, I deserve it. But not for doing the job. What I got, they gave me for carrying their water all these years. To Carcetti, I'm a hack. Royce was no different. Maybe I am. But every day, they send over a new priority. Go after the bad guys. No, change that. Make quality-of-life cases. Get on top of the murders. On second thought, run the whores out of Patterson Park. You think the mayor tells the schools how to teach kids, or the health department how to do its job, or sanitation how to pick up trash? But, get elected, and suddenly, they know police work.
- [Rawls chuckles]
- Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: You might think it'll be different, when you sit here. But it won't. You will eat their shit. Daniels too, when he gets here.
- [Rawls stops smiling, and leaves]