Pretty exciting ending. Was Omar wearing a BASE jumping chute on top of his vest?
And what was the fax-like noise Lester heard on Marlo’s phone? It’s obviously whatever Vondas showed Marlo about the phone at the beginning of the ep. But I’m not up on the latest cell phone technology. Some kind of encrypted text message?
I think Jimmy has fucked up and is going to get caught. When he met with Templeton, he had to think that whoever called Scott was a crank. But by confirming the details of Scott’s fake account, he let Templeton know that the case was bullshit. Now if (when) Templeton gets caught, he’s going to take Jimmy down with him. Am I wrong?
Joe was there to mourn Butchie, but no one cares much about Joe’s death.
Well, I should have guessed what Bubbs was worried about, but now we know. Sort of. Walon’s comments after he got the results were interesting and perceptive.
The scene with Beadie and Bunk was good.
What’s going to happen to Dukie? Can he get out of the street and use the skills that everyone sees in him?
I’m gonna assume Omar jumped to the lower balcony and left the building through someone else’s apartment. What was it – three floors up? That’d be risky though. I suppose he could hold out his arms like wings – his coat might slow his fall some. I hated to see Michael involved in the ambush.
I’m clueless about the fax-sounding noise on the wiretap too. Text messaging – you probably need a different kind of wiretap to pick that up.
Templeton and Jimmy have to get together, now that they each know the other is lying. If they want to save their jobs, they’ll figure something out, but I wouldn’t trust either one of them.
Good of Jimmy to tell Kima to go ahead and work her other case, the bastard.
No disrespect to you, AP, but I sure hope you’re wrong, because, based on they way he went out the window, that’s extremely implausible.
Jimmy doesn’t know that Templeton is lying; he probably assumed that some crank called Scott, and thinks it’s safe to bluff that the same guy called him. But Templeton knows that’s not possible. He may not have come to the conclusion that Jimmy is making the guy up, but if he hasn’t, he either thinks it’s an amazing coincidence that someone else called and mentioned 12 bodies, or that McNulty is for some reason lying to the paper about that. But I think he’ll figure out that it’s a sham. You can’t bullshit a bullshitter.
Rewatching last week’s episode, I noticed that Herc is driving a Mercedes now. Apparently in The Wire world, the corollary to “no good deal goes unpunished” is “every fuckup is rewarded.” No shortage of examples of that in recent shows. (It’s reassuring to know that that’s not the way things work in the real world!)
I said to my husband, “Omar is going to pull some Batman shit right here…” and then he did. I’m interested to see how he escaped, and how he will get his revenge now.
Kudos to Elena for telling Jimmy the truth. She turned out to be a decent friend to him after all. He’s just a terminal fuck up. Why does he bother to get into relationships with this nice women? He and Templeton will make a great pair, though-- both of them unrepentant liars.
I loved it when Herc stole Marlo’s # from Levy’s rolodex. It would be cool if Lester was able to bring him down with the wire now because of that, though they are running into some serious difficulties.
As for Joe’s death, I think we’ll start seeing the reactions next week. Marlo has to address them somehow, since he’s the new connect.
I tought that McNulty was testing him and being the experienced PO-leece that he is, saw the reporter about swallow his tounge when he mentioned the second call. I give the bullshitter edge to Jimmy.
The difference between them being that Templeton is only out for himself, where Jimmy is trying to do the right thing, and destroying himself in the process. That gives the moral edge to McNulty, IMHO.
I want to apologize to all here for mentioning something from the preview for next week’s show. I forgot that some people avoid them so as not to spoil the shows in advance. I won’t do it again.
Oh, Jimmy lies to the women who love him too. He’s a scumbag. Yes, he wants to fight crime, but this? Ain’t the way to do it. Those homeless men might have families. We saw the misallocation of resources that resulted from it. It’s just cracked.
Lester must be reaaaaally frustrated if he’s going down this road, because anything he gets off the wire is going to be inadmissable. He’s going to have to attribute it to a CI, but… we’ve seen what happens when people try to fabricate fake CI’s. Fuzzy Dunlop anyone? Of course Lester is 10x smarter than that, but still, how heartbreaking will it be if Lester thinks he’s nailed Marlo only to lose him because the paper isn’t right on what he gets?
Any theories on how there was no splattered Omar after that stunt? Is he the Baltimore Batman?
I agree that Jimmy’s a scumbag. I think he thinks his lies are serving a noble purpose, but in actuality I think he’s just giving the system a finger.
Jimmy’s always been my least favorite character in this show. I know way too many arrogant assholes like him in real life to enjoy them on TV.
I’m really hating him now that he’s brought Kimi into the circle. He’s now spreading the shame to complete innocents. Let’s hope she continues working on her own cases and doesn’t get tainted.
Omar, Omar, OMAR. How dare they leave us hanging like this? I cannot possibly see how he ducked into the balcony below, and part of me doesn’t want an improbable thing like that to happen anyway, but I don’t want him to be dead. Not yet.
I hope the storyline with Dukie gets more hopeful. That kid hurts my heart.
There was a flowerbed directly under the balcony, he landed in that and then had it on his toes, no great mystery. It was either duck out the window and risk a broken leg/ankle or take a bullet and possibly worse at the hands of Michael, Chris and Snoop.
The sound on the tap was a modem, I think Vondas showed Marlo how to use the phone to email, rather than text message. In the second season the unit managed to crack Vondas’ text messages and I don’t think your phone dials out when you send an SMS message.
If he’d broken his leg, how would he have been out of there so fast? He wasn’t limping away–he was nowhere to be seen. He might have been hiding somewhere, but if he’d busted his leg, wouldn’t he have trouble vacating the scene?
You’re probably right, of course, but it was shot to look like he ::GASP:: disappeared. God, I hope he gets up on Marlo by the end of the season.
ETA: monstro-- agree 100% on Dukie. I want him to be OK. I think he’s the character I most want to be OK, but I’m scared he’s going to get shot or something horrible will happen to him.
I’ve always had a lump in my throat when it came to Dukie’s situation in previous seasons. Cutty and Michael made me so proud and heartened by talking honestly Duke and pointing him in another direction, and Michael, especially, for trying to teach him. I’m so hopeful for him right now. I hope Simon doesn’t break my heart over this kid, who’s “never had nothing” (sic) but his good friends and Prezbo.
Jimmy is spiraling way out of control, he’s going down hard. Enough people have noticed and are pulling his coattail; he may redeem himself in the nick of time but I doubt it. Templeton is in deeper than McNutly right now and has to continue. He’ll sacrifice McNulty’s nuts before his own. If he and Templeton don’t end up complicit in this charade (or until they do), this could become very similar to The Departed, as in
the mole vs. mole setup (although they know about each other.
It also seems likes he wants to be HIV positive, as expiation for Sherrod’s death. What’s “sort of”?
The radio show that Clay Davis was on was the Larry Young show. Larry Young is a former Maryland senator who got brung down because of corruption, and now has his own radio show. It’s widely accepted that that is who Clay Davis is based on. It’s also noteworthy that former Police Commish Ed Norris, a somewhat regular on The Wire has his own show.
Also, the scene where Michael was teaching Dukie to shoot was filmed right behind my place. We take our dog to that stream. We went down there that day to see the taping. I saw McNulty, but he didn’t seem to be in character.
Anyway, good episode. This season is definitely more “regular TV” as opposed to classic Wire stuff, but I really enjoyed it. The scene with McNulty and the reporter priming each other’s pumps was hilarious.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see such blatant disregard for the integrity of their institutions end up working out in their favor. The question is whether the reporter KNOWS that McNuts is faking now.
Thanks for that update, Trunk. I went online and found the radio station’s Web site and saw that the host in the episode was Larry Young, a host on the real radio station. But even though I’ve lived in Maryland for 52 years, I had no idea about his past or the connection to the Clay Davis character. (There’s so much corruption in Maryland politics, I can’t keep up!)
Just that. His uneasiness for the last several episodes hasn’t merely been worrying about having AIDS. He knows he’s got to get up and say something about Sherrod.
I didn’t mean to say that Jimmy’s an angel. He’s definitely a shit in many ways. But he acts out of his pain and damage, and a certain lack of self-knowledge, where Templeton is knowingly lying and cheating for the prime purpose of benefiting himself. You can’t really say Jimmy’s doing that, and it puts Scott lower on my personal moral scale than Jimmy. McNulty has inflicted harm on many people close to him, and has much to account for, but somehow I see his faults as more forgivable than Templeton’s, at a certain level. But it’s easy for me to say that because I’m not Jimmy’s wife, girlfriend, or son.
Hot flash, *Wire *fans! I just noticed that Amy Ryan (Beadie Russell) is a guest on Craig Ferguson’s show on CBS, starting in about 10 minutes on the East Coast. I’m guessing she’ll talk about The Wire.
