Post by nowimnothing on Jan 23, 2014 8:57:54 GMT -5
Summary:
Avon and Stringer find a ringer for their basketball game. Stringer wants to pull back on Omar and get him after he relaxes, but Avon is worried about their reputation.
Herc and Carver pull over Wee-Bey and find $22,000 thanks to the wire. They do not arrest him, but take the money.
Omar walks up to one of Barksdale's stash houses with a shotgun. The dealers throw out a bag of drugs after he threatens to huff and puff.
Bubbles runs into a guy from the N.A. meeting. He uses a fishing line to steal a baggie of drugs but it turns out to be baking soda, another junkie is mistakenly beaten by the dealers he stole from. Later he manages to convince his sister to let him get clean in her basement.
Greggs and McNulty bring in the stripper who is dating D'Angelo. She breaks down when they show her the body of the dead stripper from Stinkum's party.
The project is mysteriously empty, Herc and Carver happen upon a basketball game between the East side and the West side. Avon is going up against another dealer. They both have ringers, but Avon's side seems to be winning so he agrees to increase the bet to $100,000. The other side pulls out a second ringer and they win. The cops take a while to identify Avon, after they do and follow him he spots the tail and wags his finger at Daniels.
The money taken from Wee-Bey does not match what is on the wire. Daniels confronts Herc and Carver about stealing it. They search their car and find the extra money in the trunk.
Omar uses the drugs to get Avon's pager number from the other dealer in the basketball game. He waits outside Orlando's as he calls it. He walks toward Avon, but before he is able to shoot him Wee-Bey pulls up. In the ensuing gunfight Omar is shot in the shoulder and backs off.
Random thoughts:
Barksdale's organization seems to go a lot further than it seems. $1 million a month, donations to politicians, etc.
Omar gets a bit of bad luck here, but it seems he was not as careful as he has been in his past actions. He broke his own rule, "If you go after the king, you best not miss." It is also the first time I recall seeing fear in Omar's face, not sure how that fits with his walking right into gunfire style.
Interesting that Carver talks about why they would get caught stealing money before they are caught that same way, presumably innocently. Not sure what I am saying here, it was just interesting and not what I would have expected. It did expose some more tension between Herc and Carver. Herc continues to come off as a lunk-head who would be dumb enough to do that right after being told by Carver that he would get caught, but Herc also continues to surprise us such as when he did not study and seemed much less fazed by the police test than Carver.
Avon and Stringer find a ringer for their basketball game. Stringer wants to pull back on Omar and get him after he relaxes, but Avon is worried about their reputation.
Herc and Carver pull over Wee-Bey and find $22,000 thanks to the wire. They do not arrest him, but take the money.
Omar walks up to one of Barksdale's stash houses with a shotgun. The dealers throw out a bag of drugs after he threatens to huff and puff.
Bubbles runs into a guy from the N.A. meeting. He uses a fishing line to steal a baggie of drugs but it turns out to be baking soda, another junkie is mistakenly beaten by the dealers he stole from. Later he manages to convince his sister to let him get clean in her basement.
Greggs and McNulty bring in the stripper who is dating D'Angelo. She breaks down when they show her the body of the dead stripper from Stinkum's party.
The project is mysteriously empty, Herc and Carver happen upon a basketball game between the East side and the West side. Avon is going up against another dealer. They both have ringers, but Avon's side seems to be winning so he agrees to increase the bet to $100,000. The other side pulls out a second ringer and they win. The cops take a while to identify Avon, after they do and follow him he spots the tail and wags his finger at Daniels.
The money taken from Wee-Bey does not match what is on the wire. Daniels confronts Herc and Carver about stealing it. They search their car and find the extra money in the trunk.
Omar uses the drugs to get Avon's pager number from the other dealer in the basketball game. He waits outside Orlando's as he calls it. He walks toward Avon, but before he is able to shoot him Wee-Bey pulls up. In the ensuing gunfight Omar is shot in the shoulder and backs off.
Random thoughts:
Barksdale's organization seems to go a lot further than it seems. $1 million a month, donations to politicians, etc.
Omar gets a bit of bad luck here, but it seems he was not as careful as he has been in his past actions. He broke his own rule, "If you go after the king, you best not miss." It is also the first time I recall seeing fear in Omar's face, not sure how that fits with his walking right into gunfire style.
Interesting that Carver talks about why they would get caught stealing money before they are caught that same way, presumably innocently. Not sure what I am saying here, it was just interesting and not what I would have expected. It did expose some more tension between Herc and Carver. Herc continues to come off as a lunk-head who would be dumb enough to do that right after being told by Carver that he would get caught, but Herc also continues to surprise us such as when he did not study and seemed much less fazed by the police test than Carver.