Now to go right from happy news about the Giants winning and the strike ending and cute commercials to the streets of B'more.Episode 5: "React Quotes"
Marlo gets a Blackberry from Vondas for business uses. He and Chris have a chat about how nice it feels to have the crown – Marlo actually appears to express happiness, but Chris is a bit more realistic. He realizes that Omar will be coming for them. Later, we see Chris saying goodbye to a girl and two young kids (which…Chris has a family?!? I feel like I should have seen that coming.) as the Stanfield crew gets ready to spring their trap on Omar. Marlo knows Omar is stalking his lieutenants, so he sets Monk up as bait. (Something Monk is not all that excited about, understandably) When Omar and Donnie see their opening, they run into all of Marlo’s muscle, including Chris, Snoop, and Michael (Noooo!). Donnie takes a shot right to the forehead. Omar gets pinned down behind the couch, but escapes by jumping out of the 6th story window. There’s no sign of his mangled body in the bushes below, so Omar lives for another day. I’m sure Marlo will be just thrilled to hear that four of his shooters had Omar pinned down and he escaped anyway.
The Blackberry comes into play when Marlo goes to see Levy and drops off his new cell phone number. Herc (illegally) takes the number and passes it on to Carver. Carver gives it to Lester, who, after making a hilarious prank call to confirm it’s Marlo’s number, goes to Daniels to beg for a wiretap and some surveillance. Daniels gets as angry as we have ever seen him, letting out his frustration with the system and telling Lester that there is no money to be had for anything he needs. Lester, because he is awesome, understands that Daniels can do no more. So wherever will Lester’s wiretap come from?
McNulty may be some help, as he amps up his efforts to get someone to notice his serial killer. With the new “sexual” twist (the “killer” bites his victims); the story (now with Scott along with Alma on the byline) gets front page play. However, McNulty doesn’t get what he wants: there’s still no money for the police, so Carcetti can only allow overtime for two detectives: Kima and McNulty. Unfortunately, this means that Kima gets pulled off of working her triple homicide home invasion. Bunk reams Jimmy out about that, and finally gets through to McNulty, who tells Kima to keep working her own case. Lester comes to Jimmy with Marlo’s number, and the two talk about faking a phone call from the killer to Jimmy to get a wiretap in the case.
At the Sun, Scott gets a hold of the story, and like the little weasel he is, starts making up quotes to go along with his react piece. He even takes an extra step this time and fakes a call from the “killer” to his cell phone. McNulty has a meeting with Scott and the newspaper brass to discuss this new development. When McNulty lets it known that another call has been made to the police, there’s a hilarious moment when both Scott and McNulty look at one another – each knowing that something’s not right—and I totally think McNulty knows that Scott is a big, fat liar.
Armed with two “phone calls,” McNulty and Lester get their wiretap, and they use Marlo’s cell phone number instead of the phone booth where the “calls” originated. The episode ends with Lester back in the detail office, seeing a phone number come in, but no sound comes – it’s got to be a text message, right? Lester is confused, too. I thought they had already figured out the secret to text messaging in the second season – you just have to point the thingy (scientific term) at the cell tower and then you get the text messages made from that phone.
In case your heart needed more breaking this week, Dukie and Michael are still around to do it for us. Dukie gets beat up in front of Bug, and he feels like he has to defend himself. So he goes to Cutty’s gym, but surprise! he’s no good at fighting. Later, Michael tries to teach him how to fire a gun, but poor Dukie just looks terrified. Is there any way this story ends well? Knowing this show, no.
On the crooked politician front, Bond indicts Clay Davis by making a sweeping speech, looking “pretty mayoral” in Norman and Carcetti’s estimation. Clay doesn’t want to go down alone, however. Narese tries to tell him that it’ll be better for him (like it was for Burrell) if he goes quietly. Clay expresses his dislike for that idea with the longest “Sheeeeeet” we’ve heard out of him yet. He later demonstrates his unwillingness to go quietly by appearing on local radio shows to remind the citizenry of how much he has done in the city, and how the investigation is more of a racial witch hunt than a legitimate investigation.
Quick Hits:
There’s trouble still on the home front, and Beadie looks like she’s ready to throw McNulty out.
Allie and I are taking a class on “The Wire,” and our professor mentioned this week that he was getting increasingly anxious about the final five episodes. There’s a feeling of foreboding growing about the people we care about. Will any of them make it out? The more I see of this season, the less confidence I have in Simon’s willingness to give anyone a happy ending.
Bubbles gets tested for HIV, and gets a clean bill of health. But the thing I took out of that storyline is that I can’t look at Walon for longer than a couple seconds because of the two strands of greasy hair that are combed across his forehead.
The Blackberry comes into play when Marlo goes to see Levy and drops off his new cell phone number. Herc (illegally) takes the number and passes it on to Carver. Carver gives it to Lester, who, after making a hilarious prank call to confirm it’s Marlo’s number, goes to Daniels to beg for a wiretap and some surveillance. Daniels gets as angry as we have ever seen him, letting out his frustration with the system and telling Lester that there is no money to be had for anything he needs. Lester, because he is awesome, understands that Daniels can do no more. So wherever will Lester’s wiretap come from?
McNulty may be some help, as he amps up his efforts to get someone to notice his serial killer. With the new “sexual” twist (the “killer” bites his victims); the story (now with Scott along with Alma on the byline) gets front page play. However, McNulty doesn’t get what he wants: there’s still no money for the police, so Carcetti can only allow overtime for two detectives: Kima and McNulty. Unfortunately, this means that Kima gets pulled off of working her triple homicide home invasion. Bunk reams Jimmy out about that, and finally gets through to McNulty, who tells Kima to keep working her own case. Lester comes to Jimmy with Marlo’s number, and the two talk about faking a phone call from the killer to Jimmy to get a wiretap in the case.
At the Sun, Scott gets a hold of the story, and like the little weasel he is, starts making up quotes to go along with his react piece. He even takes an extra step this time and fakes a call from the “killer” to his cell phone. McNulty has a meeting with Scott and the newspaper brass to discuss this new development. When McNulty lets it known that another call has been made to the police, there’s a hilarious moment when both Scott and McNulty look at one another – each knowing that something’s not right—and I totally think McNulty knows that Scott is a big, fat liar.
Armed with two “phone calls,” McNulty and Lester get their wiretap, and they use Marlo’s cell phone number instead of the phone booth where the “calls” originated. The episode ends with Lester back in the detail office, seeing a phone number come in, but no sound comes – it’s got to be a text message, right? Lester is confused, too. I thought they had already figured out the secret to text messaging in the second season – you just have to point the thingy (scientific term) at the cell tower and then you get the text messages made from that phone.
In case your heart needed more breaking this week, Dukie and Michael are still around to do it for us. Dukie gets beat up in front of Bug, and he feels like he has to defend himself. So he goes to Cutty’s gym, but surprise! he’s no good at fighting. Later, Michael tries to teach him how to fire a gun, but poor Dukie just looks terrified. Is there any way this story ends well? Knowing this show, no.
On the crooked politician front, Bond indicts Clay Davis by making a sweeping speech, looking “pretty mayoral” in Norman and Carcetti’s estimation. Clay doesn’t want to go down alone, however. Narese tries to tell him that it’ll be better for him (like it was for Burrell) if he goes quietly. Clay expresses his dislike for that idea with the longest “Sheeeeeet” we’ve heard out of him yet. He later demonstrates his unwillingness to go quietly by appearing on local radio shows to remind the citizenry of how much he has done in the city, and how the investigation is more of a racial witch hunt than a legitimate investigation.
Quick Hits:
There’s trouble still on the home front, and Beadie looks like she’s ready to throw McNulty out.
Allie and I are taking a class on “The Wire,” and our professor mentioned this week that he was getting increasingly anxious about the final five episodes. There’s a feeling of foreboding growing about the people we care about. Will any of them make it out? The more I see of this season, the less confidence I have in Simon’s willingness to give anyone a happy ending.
Bubbles gets tested for HIV, and gets a clean bill of health. But the thing I took out of that storyline is that I can’t look at Walon for longer than a couple seconds because of the two strands of greasy hair that are combed across his forehead.
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