The Wire (TV Series)

Collateral Damage (2003)

Chris Bauer: Frank Sobotka

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• Det. Ellis Carver : Word comes down this morning. We're supposed to ride past your union hall twice a day and paper the cars.

  [i.e. put tickets on them] 

  Frank Sobotka : You work for a gaping asshole!

  Det. Ellis Carver : More than one, actually.

• [Valchek confronts Frank at the union hall] 

  Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek : Kinda empty in here.

  Frank Sobotka : Everyone's workin'.

  Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek : Ha. You get the message?

  Frank Sobotka : Message?

  Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek : I had people workin' on a window for the nave up St. Casimir's since Easter. You know that? I took money from half a dozen different people, told 'em where it was gonna go.

  Frank Sobotka : You tell Father Lewandowski?

  Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek : I was gonna surprise him.

  Frank Sobotka : Yeah, you surprised everybody. Now there's one window too many, right?

  Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek : Well, here's the thing, Father Lew says he could take another window in the rectory. On the second floor.

  Frank Sobotka : Good for you.

  Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek : No, good for *you*, Frank. You don't want my finger in your eye. You better do what's right here.

  Frank Sobotka : What's right, huh? What's right would be for you to come down here to my house like a decent human being and ask with common courtesy. But that's not you, it's not your way. My old man always said you were a half-ass punk over at Holy Redeemer as a kid. And my sister said you were a pain-in-the-ass pest at all them CYO dances when none of the girls would even look at you. And damn near everyone down the Point said when you got your badge, it was too much for anybody named Valchek to have even a patrolman's drag, and sure enough, you been an official asshole every day since!

  [Valchek glares at him, then hawks, spits on the floor, and walks out] 

  Frank Sobotka : Fuck you! And your window!