TLV: IC Inbox

[omar]

IC Inbox
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also during the VIP event

[rickitikitarr]

God damn it will you get back here? Fuck off, McNulty, don't answer this, I'm leaving a message.

[thefuckdidido]

Look, far be it for me to interrupt, especially after being asked so politely not to, but do you need a hand with anything?

[rickitikitarr]

No, no, everything's fine.

[thefuckdidido]

You're sure? They still let me have a gun up here, for some fucking reason.

[rickitikitarr]

...I could actually use that.

[thefuckdidido]

Your old boss come around again?

[rickitikitarr]

No, just on principle. They don't let us have them. I want to see if it'll stay behind when you head home.

[thefuckdidido]

Imagine that -- they don't let the prison inmates have their own guns. What is this place coming to?

[rickitikitarr]

Tell you what. We'll make a bet. You come over here, I'll tell you a story, and if you're convinced by the end of it, you let me borrow your gun.

[thefuckdidido]

Borrow -- if your theory is right, you get to keep it and I maybe get reamed out by my XO for the hundredth time this month.

[rickitikitarr]

Aren't you a gambling man?

[thefuckdidido]

Gambling is illegal in the state of Maryland, my gun-smuggling friend.

You notice how you're trying to smuggle a gun right now, by the way?

[rickitikitarr]

If I was trying to smuggle it, it'd already be gone. Notice how you're still wearing it? That's how you know I haven't made my move.

[thefuckdidido]

That ain't smuggling, Ricki -- that's just theft.

[rickitikitarr]

Well, when you actually get into the professional nitty gritty of it, the lines blur a lot more than you'd think. Come over here, I'll tell you the whole story.

[thefuckdidido]

Okay, but I want it on the fucking record that I'm agreeing to absolutely nothing.

[He'll probably wind up giving him the gun anyway -- if he's convinced, that is. But on the record...]

[rickitikitarr]

Let the record so note.

See you in the hall.

[thefuckdidido]

[As long as the walk is, it takes McNulty a while to get to Ricki.

Or he opens Omar's front door. Either way.]

[rickitikitarr]

[Ricki flags him down, with a whistle and a wave. He has a sort of easy energy to him, it's easy to see his potential to be engaging, vivid.]

I keep wanting to call you constable.

immediately after the event

[omar]

[Well, he left Ricki to go off after Haydon and came back three and a half days later to this.

There's some swearing involved in his immediate response, but he keeps that part of it off the line.]

I'm here, baby, I'm here. What happened?

immediately after the event

[rickitikitarr]

I'm fine. Check the network, you're paired.

[omar]

I'm--? Oh.

[He scrolls through quickly, blinks when he gets to it. Well, then.]

'Chu get me all riled up for like that, man? Had me worried.

[And because he's still looking through, and because part two of what Ricki said is catching up with him, his brows lift high.]

'Ayo, Ricki, am I seeing this right, or was y'all really getting tight with Jimmy McNulty?

[rickitikitarr]

I was trying to get him to leave me his service weapon.

[A long, sad sigh.]

I was so close.

[omar]

Seriously? Bold move.

[His eyes flicker as he keeps scrolling. He hesitates, bites his lip.]

You busy in, like... fifteen, twenty?

[rickitikitarr]

For you, my schedule is clear. I'll be home.

[Promising, warmly.]

Come over as soon as you can.