3. Not for Attribution (第5季)【完整台词】

Truth is, looking at numbers like those, I'm thinking you could do a lot worse than give me a run as acting commissioner.

I know you couldn't make me permanent, maybe six months while you keep grooming your boy Daniels.

I'd get a pension bump, and you'd get a head start on clearing out deadwood, beginning with Burrell and Rawls.

Thanks, Stan.

- Let me think on it.

- You do that, Tommy.

Even on an acting basis, can you imagine Nerese and the ministers dealing with Commissioner Valchek? - What are you gonna do about the numbers? - Fuck can I do? I cut the department budget to the bone, right? Can't very well complain when their crime rate bumps.

Burrell comes in here and owns these, I got to give him a pass, at least until I can fix his money problems.

Your piece took a bad bite there.

Yeah, well, it's my fault for giving it up to the A-section.

Page-one editor made noises like it was gonna go out front and then he tossed it back to Metro before the double-dot.

Night editor didn't have room to take it back, so Story deserved better.

- Sorry.

- Three people murdered in a house, and it gets 12 inches below the fold.

Explain that to me.

There's no explaining it.

Advertising's down, we got a smaller news hole, we're not managing it well.

We messed up.

That's all.

Wrong zip code.

They're dead where it doesn't count.

If they were white and murdered in Timonium, you'd have had 30 inches off the front.

Would have been my first front-pager where I didn't share a byline.

Yeah? I drove down to the Port Covington plant this morning to get a copy.

You ain't the first to do that.

Our 10-7 on the floor yet? He's by the overhead camera.

I need to grab prints, get him ID'd.

Don't you want to wait for the post, keep his hands clean for trace? I need to know who my victim is.

That's the priority.

Finish your breakfast.

I got plenty of time.

There's nothing under the nails that I can see.

I think we can risk prints.

Something's up.

Please.

Gather round.

Steve, could someone get word across the hall to Features and Sports? - Sure.

- We want everyone on this.

What, did we get sold again? First the LA Times buys us up, then the Tribune.

Law of the fish.

- We're the minnow.

- Maybe we won a Pulitzer.

Pulitzers are still a week away.

It just turned April.

Nah.

Look at Whiting's pants.

If we won a Pulitzer, the executive editor would be tumescent.

Tum-what? Speak English.

I'm just a police reporter.

Tumescent.

Engorged.

Exactly.

It's a bad time for newspapers, as you all know.

The news hole is shrinking as advertising dollars continue to decline.

Our circulation numbers are also down as we compete with a variety of media.

Technology is driving distribution and the internet is a free source of news and opinions.

Seeking a balance in this new world, we're now faced with hard choices.

We opened our first foreign bureau in London in 1924.

The Sun's foreign coverage has been a source of pride ever since.

So it is with tremendous regret that I tell you that Chicago has made it clear that the bureaus in Beijing, Moscow, Jerusalem, Johannesburg and London will all be shuttered.

Elsewhere in the newsroom, there will be a fresh round of buyouts.

Chicago has given us some specific budgetary targets that will require some hard choices throughout the newsroom.

We are, quite simply, going to have to find ways to do more with less.

So I guess I will turn this over to Tom, who will get into the specifics.

I know some of you have questions.

If you could hold them for me until after I've had a chance to speak.

Pull your clip book together.

Time to find a new home.

Chicago has sent us a memo outlining options that are available to those of you The aorta should have elasticity to it, but it's rock-hard.

Whoever strangled him could've just waited a month or two more.

This guy was on his last legs.

It is what it is.

In addition to the fractured hyoid and the bruising, I got signs of a struggle around the body, a couple of witnesses who thought they heard sounds of a struggle inside the house.

Also that ribbon you snipped off, it might tie to other cases.

The ribbon my own investigator missed at the scene.

It happens.

It was high on the wrist.

Cause and manner is homicide by strangulation.

Good hunting, Detective.

"Anyone requiring additional information "on COBRA benefits and pension payout "as part of the voluntary separation plan "can schedule an appointment with human resources.

" Some of you will migrate into new positions while others will, of course, be moving on to other opportunities beyond the Sun, but everyone in this room has done excellent work and should be proud of their contributions.

- How many buyouts are there? - That hasn't been determined yet.

We'll talk to the union today.

How will this affect the upcoming contract negotiations with the guild? Badly.

Kiss any raise goodbye.

How come there's cuts in the newsroom when the company's still profitable? There's nobody that feels worse about this than I do.

I've seen the excellent work we've done here in Baltimore.

The sooner we start meeting with you individually, the sooner I can answer all of your questions.

Not O'Mara.

Aw, no.

Good luck, everybody.

No increase in felonies and a one per cent bump in total crime.

Do you vouch for these figures? - Sir? - No increase in crime even after I cut you guys to the bone.

This is what you're telling me? Because the one thing I'm asking of you guys, the one thing that I'm asking above all, is that you bring me clean numbers.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor.

You made that clear.

Very good, then.

Burrell is done.

He just killed himself.