Wire season 5 episode 7 4
Let’s start with the ending. Stylistically, The Wire has never been particularly flashy or self-conscious, which owes something to its roots in no-nonsense, unembellished journalism. Its creators openly resent the “purple prose” of Scott Templeton-types who favor empty style over hard truth, and it’s rare to see the show indulge in poetic sequences when the straight dope will do. So the sweet “ Goodnight, Moon” coda that ended tonight’s episode stands out for its surprising theatricality, a rare and touching moment where the show removes itself from the fray and looks at the city from above—at the po-pos, the hoppers, the scammers, and the thieves. I wonder if David Simon and company would have allowed any other writer to end an episode with such a flourish, but this episode was written by the great crime fiction author Richard Price, and the man deserves a little leeway. During the “ Goodnight, Moon” sequence, it struck me how closely The Wire’s M. O. resembles Price’s novel Clockers, with its perfectly balanced and sympathetic depiction of protagonists on both sides of the law—a hard-living detective with a young child at home and a low-profile drug dealer who soothes his bleeding ulcer by drinking his weight in Yoo- Hoo every day. For the show to pause from its larger story threads to spend time with Kima as she tries earnestly to connect with the child she’s neglected is very Clockers-esque, a reminder of how the job can consume things that are more important. It seems doubtful that occasional visits and a piece of cheap, shoddily constructed furniture will cement Kima’s place in this child’s heart, but the effort is heartening given what we know about her. The “late-night tuck-in” scene is a cliché in cop dramas, but in Clockers and here, Price infuses it with real emotional resonance. I have extra respect for the Kima subplot, because with the series heading down.
Mc Nulty's Serial Killer Jimmy Mc Nulty, Lester Freamon, and Leander Sydnor devise a plan to have Mc Nulty call Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Templeton acting as the faux homeless serial killer and act upset about his articles painting him in a sexual light and declaring that no more bodies will be found in the city, instead he will simply send pictures of his victims (via cell phone). In both the newspaper and police offices the bosses tell their troops that they have been assured that they will have the resources to follow the case/story to its end and that it is a top priority. Freamon is given technology to intercept the cell phone images which he uses on his illegal Marlo tap, running up against a tougher code than he expected consisting of nothing but a stopped clock face and he needs more man power for surveillance to see what they're doing and where they're going after they receive these messages from The Greek. Mc Nulty, knowing the case is one big facade, sends the surveillance teams to Freamon while allocating the extra man power assigned to (and forced on) him to allow other detectives to get real police work done; giving the detectives the overtime they have sorely needed. Unfortunately, the added attention begins to be too much for Mc Nulty as the bosses offer him more and more men and, eventually, the fact that he's giving away time gets out and people come looking for it. Bunk Detective Bunk Moreland refuses to attend a mandatory meeting about the homeless murders, knowing their true nature, opting instead to work on his 22 open murders going back to the previous year. Sergeant Ellis Carver takes Michael Lee off of his corner, giftwrapping him for Bunk so he can ask about his dead stepfather. Michael provides Bunk with nothing new which only adds to Bunk's unhappiness with everything going on with Mc Nultyâincluding his inability to get lab results back due to.
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“ They don't teach it in law school.”— Pearlman The Wire is usually pretty good about not talking down to its audience, but early in “ Took” there's a scene in which Lester Freamon goes over the whole scheme involving the tap on Marlo's cellphone and that on the phone of the “homeless killer” in which he and Mc Nulty are pretty much telling each other stuff they already know. It's a little annoying, and while I'm generally a big fan of Richard Price, I think it's a scene that other Wire writers ( David Simon and Edward Burns, for example) might not have made so obvious: Price is perhaps more used to writing for a general audience than for a cadre of obsessives; here he seems to be erring on the side of safety. It's the one scene that feels like a clunker in an otherwise fine episode that ratchets the momentum up even further, yet manages to end on one of the most peaceful and introspective moments in the series' run. When Mc Nulty calls Scott Templeton to fuck with the reporter's head, pretending to be the killer he's invented, it seems the game may be over for a second when Homicide's Vernon Holley intercepts the call. It's soon clear that Mc Nulty intended for the call to be recorded at homicide; even so, it's the first of several moments in “ Took” in which the house of cards seems about to crash down on Mc Nulty. At the Sun, when he meets with Klebanow, Haynes and Templeton once again, Mc Nulty is peppered with questions from Haynes that leave him scrambling for quick answers and suggest that the city editor would see right through Mc Nulty if he wasn't so distracted by his problems with Templeton. When Mc Nulty and Rhonda Pearlman meet with Judge Phelan again, the jurist observes that the killings coincided with the tough-on-crime governor gearing up for a reelection campaign. “ You may want to check the governor's alibi,” Phelan says, making a wisecrack which reminds us.
Contact the Show Creators on IMDb Pro » More at IMDb Pro » TV Episode | TV- MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller 8.7 Your rating: /10 X Ratings: from 779 users Reviews: write review | 3 critic An unexpected call puts Templeton back in the spotlight-and gets Mc Nulty more attention than he expected. Bunk bucks at Landsman when ordered to help with the force's most recent red ball. Director: Dominic West Writers: David Simon (created by Richard Price (teleplay by 2 more credits » Stars: Dominic West, Reg E. Cathey, John Doman | See full cast and crew » 0 Check in X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Please try again! Added to Your Check- Ins. View 0 Share. X Share Facebook Twitter E-mail Check in Watch Now [text_sites_2-6_
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