Det. James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty: So your boy’s name was what?
Kid: Snot.
McNulty: You called the guy “Snot”?
Kid: Snot Boogie. Yah.
McNulty: God. Snot Boogie. He like the name?
Kid: What?
McNulty: Snot Boogie?
[beat]
McNulty: This kid, whose mama went to the trouble to christen him Omar Isaiah Betts… You know, he forgets his jacket, so his nose starts running and some asshole, instead of giving him a Kleenex, he calls him “Snot.” So he’s Snot forever. Doesn’t seem fair.
Kid: Life just be that way, I guess.
McNulty: So, who shot Snot?
Kid: I ain’t goin’ to no court… motherfucker didn’t have to put no cap in him though.
McNulty: Definitely not.
Kid: He coulda just whooped his ass like we always whoop his ass.
McNulty: I agree with you.
Kid: Kill Snot. Snot been doing the same shit since I don’t know how long. Kill a man over some bullshit. I’m sayin’, every Friday night in an alley behind the Cut Rate, we rollin’ bones, you know? I mean all them boys around the way, we roll til