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D'Angelo Barksdale : Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple. See this? This the kingpin, a'ight? And he the man. You get the other dude's king, you got the game. But he trying to get your king too, so you gotta protect it. Now, the king, he move one space any direction he damn choose, 'cause he's the king. Like this, this, this, a'ight? But he ain't got no hustle. But the rest of these motherfuckers on the team, they got his back. And they run so deep, he really ain't gotta do shit.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : Like your uncle.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Yeah, like my uncle. You see this? This the queen. She smart, she fast. She move any way she want, as far as she want. And she is the go-get-shit-done piece.
Wallace : Remind me of Stringer.
D'Angelo Barksdale : And this over here is the castle. Like the stash. It can move like this, and like this.
Wallace : Dog, stash don't move, man.
D'Angelo Barksdale : C'mon, yo, think. How many time we move the stash house this week? Right? And every time we move the stash, we gotta move a little muscle with it, right? To protect it.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : True, true, you right. All right, what about them little baldheaded bitches right there?
D'Angelo Barksdale : These right here, these are the pawns. They like the soldiers. They move like this, one space forward only. Except when they fight, then it's like this. And they like the front lines, they be out in the field.
Wallace : So how do you get to be the king?
D'Angelo Barksdale : It ain't like that. See, the king stay the king, a'ight? Everything stay who he is. Except for the pawns. Now, if the pawn make it all the way down to the other dude's side, he get to be queen. And like I said, the queen ain't no bitch. She got all the moves.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : A'ight, so if I make it to the other end, I win.
D'Angelo Barksdale : If you catch the other dude's king and trap it, then you win.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : A'ight, but if I make it to the end, I'm top dog.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Nah, yo, it ain't like that. Look, the pawns, man, in the game, they get capped quick. They be out the game early.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : Unless they some smart-ass pawns.
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Russell 'Stringer' Bell : Doin' good out there, D.
D'Angelo Barksdale : We'll be doing even better when we get that new package.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell : [laughs] New package same as old, man.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Say what?
Russell 'Stringer' Bell : Ain't no new package. Just gonna put that same shit out in a different colored gelcap is all. Might spike that shit with some procaine or some caffeine, but otherwise it's the same.
D'Angelo Barksdale : String, man, people already coming back on us tellin' us that shit is weak.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell : I know; shit *is* weak, but, y'know, shit is weak all over. The thing is, no matter what we call heroin, it's gonna get sold. Shit is *strong*, we gonna sell it; shit is *weak*, we gonna sell twice as much. You know why? 'Cause a fiend, he gonna chase that shit no matter what. It's crazy, you know. We do worse, and we get paid more. The govermnent do better, and it don't mean no nevermind.
[pointing to the money]
Russell 'Stringer' Bell : This shit right here, D, is forever.
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heroin addict : Got any testers, man?
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : Nigga, it ain't even 9:00 and you fiendin' on it. Get the fuck outta here, man! Damn.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Yo, why you act like that, yo?
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : What, for these junkie motherfuckers?
D'Angelo Barksdale : So you just gonna take his money all day and treat him like a dog?
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : How I'm supposed to treat him?
D'Angelo Barksdale : I don't know. But you ain't gotta punk him like that.
Malik 'Poot' Carr : He punked hisself. He a goddamn drug addict.
D'Angelo Barksdale : And you a goddamn drug *dealer*.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : So? So *what*? Oh, what, the 'customer's always right'?
Wallace : Yo, we in the projects. The customer be fucked up. You can't give these niggers shit, man.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Why not? Why can't you? Shit, everything else in the world gets sold without people taking advantage, scamming, lying, doing each other dirty. Why it got to be that way with this?
Malik 'Poot' Carr : 'Cause they DOPE fiends.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Yeah, but the game ain't gotta be played like that, yo. You can't tell me this shit can't get done without people beatin' on each other, killing each other, doing each other like dogs. And without all that, you ain't got 5-0 down here on our backs every five minutes. Throwing us around and shit.
Wallace : Sheeit, man.
D'Angelo Barksdale : You think 5-0 care about niggers gettin' high? In the *projects*? Man, 5-0 be down here about the *bodies*, yo. That's what they be down here about. The bodies.
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D'Angelo Barksdale : Yo, what was that?
Wallace : Hm?
D'Angelo Barksdale : Castle can't move like that. Yo, castle move up and down and sideways like.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : Nah, we ain't playing that.
Wallace : Yeah, look at the board. We playing checkers.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Checkers?
Wallace : Yeah, checkers.
D'Angelo Barksdale : Yo, why you playing checkers on a chess set?
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus : Yo, why you give a shit?
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[epigraph]
D'Angelo Barksdale : The king stay the king.
