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You go when you're supposed to go, and everything else is homicide.
— Det. Meldrick Lewis • Homicide: Life on the Street
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Det. Lewis states a blunt rule about mortality: everyone dies exactly when their time comes. Any death outside that natural timing, he insists, counts as homicide instead. The line reduces his job's moral universe to one simple, hardened distinction.
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