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Eight Views of American Society from "The Wire"
Weston 2022-12-30 13:49:58
1. It is not only McNulty who can investigate cases. As the saying goes, "The achievement of an informant determines the quality of a policeman". Gemma has a very smart informant-Bubbles (Babbles, see my avatar) . From the very beginning of the Barksdale case, Brabus used his "hat trick" to help the task force build an organizational network map of the Barksdale Group. 2. In the second episode, once DeAngela and Stringer were talking in a bar, Stringer asked Dee to be a little more aggressive with the poisonous bugs who dared to deceive them (Brabus and a white guy tried to buy drugs with homemade fake money). , because as a drug dealer, "stringer: u can't show no weakness" (stringer: u can't show no weakness). After Stringer left, a TV screen suddenly appeared showing the United States starting the Iraq war. This detail is very important, because the Iraq war has led to an increase in the anti-terrorism pressure in the United States. The FBI (the police agency of the federal government, which is generally responsible for major national cases, and is independent of the state police and city police) has been recruited to counter terrorism, so The inability to cooperate with the anti-drug work of the Baltimore Police Department has caused a lot of inconvenience. The plot will be discussed again and again later. 3. In the third episode, there is a section where DiAngela teaches two horses (Bodie-Bodie and xxx) to play chess in the bungalow area. It is very exciting. Di introduced the king, queen, rook and pawn in chess one by one. The usage of , if Bodi has an understanding. By the end of the episode, the three people featured in the episode - pawns - are killed one after the other.
Extended Reading
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Det. William Moreland: Boy, them Greeks and those twisted-ass names.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Man, lay off the Greeks. They invented civilization.
Det. William Moreland: Yeah? Ass-fucking, too.
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Brother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.
Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'.