LIEUTENANT DANIELS
I’m not sending my people out in protective gear purchased with drug money.

CLAY DAVIS
You want the masks, the gloves, the hand sanitizer? Sheeeeiit. You gotta take the money where the money comes from. You ain't gonna find a hog don't got a little mud on it.
CORNER BOY
Red tops, red tops! That’s that COVID-19!

BUBBLES approaches with $10.

BUBBLES
Yo, let me get—

BODIE flashes steel.

BODIE
Man, step the fuck back. Damn. You ain’t see the tape?

He SHOUTS at the JUNKIES.

BODIE
Six feet! Y’all ain’t ever heard of social distancing?
TOMMY CARCETTI
We need ventilators. We need hospital beds. There are people dying in Baltimore and guys like Mayor Royce still want to play politics.

BALTIMORE SUN REPORTER
You’re saying you’d do a better job?

TOMMY CARCETTI
I’m saying it’s bullshit. That's on the record.
Masked in a bandana, OMAR strides up to the COVID-19 TESTING TENT.

OMAR
Take a couple of them nasal swabs.

MEDICAL TECH
Do you have a fever, cough, or shortness of breath?

OMAR
Not to speak of.

MEDICAL TECH
Do you have health insurance?

OMAR
(drawing shotgun)
Oh, indeed.
HERC and CARVER hand out masks to DEALERS and JUNKIES.

CARVER
Harm reduction, gentlemen.

BUBBLES
Man, these masks are no good. See this stitching? Sloppy. Them folks over in City Hall don't give a fuck about no fuckin' kimonovirus in West Baltimore.

HERC
Put 'em on, shitbirds.
FRANK
We got two goddamned ships last week, Nick! You and Ziggy keep making containers full of ventilators disappear, it's gonna be zero! The port's dying!

NICK
You want us to die with it, quarantined in the basement while my father is upstairs hacking his fucking lungs out?
BUNNY COLVIN
If a pandemic can't clear these boys off the corner, nothing can.

HERC
Give the proud men of the Western District a spray bottle of coronavirus and a few body bags and we'll get the job done, sir.

The precinct erupts in laughter. Bunny shakes his head and sighs.
SLIM CHARLES
I’ll take a bullet but I’m not dyin’ from no flu.

PROP JOE
The esteemed trigger man from the Westide's got a point. Can’t take care of business if we don’t take care of our own. Let's vote.

STRINGER
All in favor of going in on a package of masks and a ventilator?
D'ANGELO moves chess pieces on a board.

BODIE
Do the pawns gotta keep grinding even if they catch the bug?

POOT
Coronavirus got me thinking we should be getting some type of paid sick leave or some shit.

WALLACE
Yeah and a 400k.

D'ANGELO
You mean a 401k.

WALLACE
Even better.
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