The Wire (TV Series)

Middle Ground (2004)

Michael Kenneth Williams: Omar Little

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Quotes 

• [Omar and Brother Mouzone have Stringer cornered, their guns turned on him] 

  Stringer Bell : I ain't strapped. Look, man. I ain't involved. I ain't involved in that gangster bullshit no more.

  [both gunmen are silent, Stringer is breathing hard from running] 

  Stringer Bell : What y'all niggers want, man? Huh? Money?

  [however, he just gets more silence] 

  Stringer Bell : IS THAT IT? Cause if it is, man, I can be a better friend to y'all alive.

  Omar : You still don't get it, do you? This ain't about your money, bro. Your boy gave you up. That's right. And we ain't had to torture his ass neither!

  [Stringer is silent, realizing that Omar now knows he had his lover Brandon tortured and killed. He then looks to Brother Mouzone, and with him there - realizes he now knows he tried to have him killed, and that both men have come for retribution] 

  Stringer Bell : [regrettably]  Seems like I can't say nothing to change y'all minds.

  [long silence] 

  Stringer Bell : Well, get on with it, motherfu...

  [Omar and Mouzone shoot him to death] 

• [Omar is walking down a dark alley at night, carrying his bag and whistling. Suddenly, he hears the click of a gun being cocked behind him] 

  Brother Mouzone : [offscreen]  That's far enough. Drop your laundry and turn slowly.

  [Omar drops his bag] 

  Omar : So you gonna rob me now. I need to remind you who I am?

  Brother Mouzone : Omar, isn't it?

  [Omar turns, revealing Brother Mouzone, pointing a pistol at him] 

  Brother Mouzone : Pull it slowly, then toss it.

  Omar : [slowly reaching for his own pistol]  Oh, I WILL move slow. But I ain't tossin' nothin'... Bow Tie. So whatever you gonna do, you might as well go ahead and make it quick. I knew you'd come back.

  Brother Mouzone : I trust you didn't lose sleep over it.

  Omar : Worryin' about you be like wonderin' if the sun gonna come up. Ain't about to wild out over it. What I wanna know is how you find me.

  Brother Mouzone : Your boy. He didn't give you up easy.

  Omar : Ain't no sugar water runnin' through them veins. You kill him?

  Brother Mouzone : He's resting.

  [Omar slowly pulls his gun out of his belt] 

  Brother Mouzone : I see you favor a .45.

  Omar : Tonight I do. And I keeps one in the chamber, in case you ponderin'. Nice show piece you got there.

  Brother Mouzone : Walther PPK, .380, double action.

  Omar : [slowly raising his gun so Mouzone can see it]  Hear them Walthers like to jump some.

  Brother Mouzone : As will you, with one in your elbow.

  Omar : That gun ain't got enough firepower to make my joint useless. It definitely won't stop me from emptyin' out half my mag.

  Brother Mouzone : You might not hit me.

  Omar : [chuckling]  This range? And this caliber? Even if I miss, I can't miss.

  Brother Mouzone : I admire a man with confidence.

  Brother Mouzone : [slowly leveling his gun, aiming it at Mouzone's chest]  I don't see no sweat on your brow neither, bruh.

  [long pause as the two men silently regard each other from across the alley] 

  Brother Mouzone : I suppose we could stand here all night.

  Omar : 'Spose we could. Or settle this once and forever.

  [another pause, then Mouzone releases the hammer on his gun and lowers it] 

  Brother Mouzone : I want to ask you something... brother.

  [Omar lowers his gun] 

  Omar : Omar listenin'.

• Brother Mouzone : Is there an alley entrance?

  Omar : Boarded up on both sides. We gonna have to go through the front.

  Brother Mouzone : That's a change for you, isn't it?