Okay, since we didn’t have a thread for the last new episode two weeks ago, I thought I’d get this one started early. I haven’t seen the latest on (“Unto Others”) yet, but I’ll be back as soon as it’s over. (I have On Demand, but I just prefer to make The Wire my Sunday night habit.)
I hope you’ll join me.
Another great ep.
Chilling scene with Omar in the BCDC (Baltimore City Detention Center). Reminded me once again how glad I am not to be a killer of drug dealers. Great dialog between him and Bunk.
So Daniels will be the next commissioner, but how will Rawls handle being passed over by Carcetti? Will his homosexuality be someone’s ace in the hole to keep his mouth shut?
I’m guessing Cuddy’s going to come back to the school to have another run at his old flame. That’s pretty obvious. His apology to the kids for the womanizing was a strong move and seemed to get to Michael’s issues. But I’m not sure why. Was it that he didn’t live up to Michael’s ethical code? That kid’s one of the most interesting characters in the show, because he’s so damn mysterious.
Namond lucked out once, but he’s clearly a sheep among the wolves, and he’s gonna take a fall. Let’s hope it’s not too hard.
Poor Bubbs. I’m sure he was hoping Sherrod would come back and provide some muscle, but since it’s not happening, what’s he going to do about that thug? Start packing? This could get really bad.
Kima’s success, while welcome, was a little too pat. And her going into that house without any backup struck me as a really stupid thing to do.
Lots more to think and talk about. I’ll probably watch the 1 am rebroadcast.
Nice to have The Wire back. Two weeks seems like forever! Anyhow, going to be interesting to see Maj. Daniels become Carcetti’s man.
Not sure what to make of the “corner kid’s” class. While the stoop kids are shown to be blossoming I don’t see much progress on the other side.
Bubbles’ storyline is getting bleaker and bleaker. 
We’ve seen the beat cop who robbed Bubbles before right? Isn’t he the guy who shook down one of the kids for the $200 Marlo handed out. I didn’t rewind my DVR, but they showed him missing his pinky, correct? Can anyone right me of the significance of that?
Kima was brave, stupid, and lucky. Classic Wire…reminded me a little of the dog incident that sent Cheese to lockup at the beginning of last year.
We first saw him in season 3, shaking somebody down, although I can’t remember who. Bodie, maybe?
I’m not sure he has a missing pinky: I noticed what you were talking about in the rebroadcast, but it may have just been a trick of the camera angle. The point of the shot of his hands on the steering wheel is that he’s now wearing the gawdy ring he took off Omar when he busted him. Omar lifted it from Marlo in the poker game raid, and Marlo lifted it from the shop owner who couldn’t pay up after Omar hit him. I wonder how far that ring will go this season. Will it be on Carcetti’s finger in the last episode? 
I’m wondering if Herc is ever going to wise up. Carver got his act together, and is becoming a better cop, but Herc just keeps doing dumb stuff, while thinking he’s being smart.
I hadn’t realized until seeing the ep for the second time that the kid who roughed up Namond outside the gym was Sherrod.
I also noticed a couple of other points that slipped by the first time. When Herc goes to Carver for his help, he mentions that losing the camera is a big deal compared to the “Fuzzy Dunlop” incident. This is a reference to the time in Season 2 when the two of them put a wireless mike in a tennis ball (“fuzzy dunlop,” get it?) and left it on a corner to try and hear Nick Sobotka making a drug deal. Someone picked it up and threw it away, and Herc and Carver lost the expensive bug that they had borrowed from a police supply store. (They used Fuzzy Dunlop as the name of the fake CI they created to cover for using the unauthorized bug.)
A couple of little Baltimore things: Werner’s, where Tommy meets the old ex-mayor, is a real restaurant downtown. They’ve played a couple of scenes there before, but I’ve never been on that block and didn’t recognize the place. I may stop by for lunch sometime. (Minor nitpick about that old mayor character: if anyone in this show should have the classic Baltimore accent I’ve talked about in previous Wire threads, it’s him. He sounds like a New Yorker. It’s very distracting to a real Baltimorean.)
In the story the ex-mayor told about eating shit (great story, BTW), he said that the big silver bowls were “Stieff silver.” The Stieff Silver Company factory was located in north Baltimore for 75 years. More than just a major employer, it was a prestigious part of the community, and Baltimoreans were proud of the fact that people all over the world prized Stieff silver. Mentioning the Stieff name was a nice point that only a Baltimore native would have inserted into the script, and that has a special resonance for Baltimore natives of a certain age.
BTW, in searching for “Fuzzy Dunlop” I just came across the extensive Wikipedia pages on The Wire, including detailed pages on each episode. No surprise that they should be there, I guess. I just hadn’t thought to look. Now I’ve got lots of reading to do!
Are you positive about that? I hadn’t noticed.
Yup. He was wearing that heavy camo jacket and was still high the next morning when Bubbs found him and asked him to come back home.
Hmm. Thanks. That puts an unsavory spin on Sherrod’s character for sure.