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Post by nowimnothing on Jan 16, 2014 15:37:20 GMT -5
Summary: We open with Brandon's body on a car. Wallace is getting a whole gaggle of smaller kids off to school. Wallace is upset about the role he played in getting Brandon killed, but D'Angelo tells him to let it go. They both get $500 from Avon.
Bubbles and Johnny steal some copper pipe and get high. Johnny gets arrested on the street and Bubbles remarks on his bad luck.
The lawyer gets Bodie released from juvenile detention.
McNulty's boss wants to charge D'Angelo with 3 murders and try to lean on him to get to Avon. Mcnulty convinces Daniels to push back and get them more time to work the wire.
Freamon puts the pieces together with the pager activity and Brandon's murder.
McNulty takes Omar to see Brandon's body. Omar agrees to testify against Bird on the Gant killing (D'Angelo's murder witness from Ep. 1)
Random thoughts: Daniels is obviously in a tough spot here, so I am not sure what finally prompts him to back McNulty so forcefully. Is it recognition of the merits of the case, is it some kind of guilt, maybe it is his way of not playing the game.
I loved that Santangelo was taking a long piss just as Avon was walking around the pit. Just goes to show how much luck is involved.
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Post by Dr. Dastardly on Jan 6, 2015 10:33:14 GMT -5
Oh, Brandon. His fucked-up face still haunts me.
Y'know, re. Freamon's comment that "All the pieces matter," that's one thing that this show does incredibly well. Brandon's torture murder makes sense as a plot point on its own; it develops Omar significantly, and it also works into the main plot: the cops caught some of it with the pager clone, and they realize how much better it would've been if they'd had the phones too. Everything is connected here. Man, it's so good.
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