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The Hunt (The Wire episode)
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"The Hunt" is the eleventh episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire
. The episode was written by Joy Lusco
from a story by David Simon
& Ed Burns
and was directed by Steve Shill
. It originally aired on August 18, 2002.
This episode was the last acting appearance of Dick Stilwell (commissioner Warren Frazier) who died in a car accident soon afterwards.
and Sergeant Jay Landsman
inspect the crime scene of the Kima Greggs
and Wendell "Orlando" Blocker shooting. Detective Ray Cole and Detective Ed Norris are the primary investigators. Rawls harshly orders all non-homicide personnel away from the crime scene. Bunk Moreland
finds Greggs' weapon and realizes it must have come unstuck from its place concealed under the seat during the journey. Rawls turns the street signs that were shifted (and caused Greggs to misreport her position) back to their correct orientation.
Bunk finds some fresh footprints. Landsman and Bunk follow them to some hooded sweatshirts. They see the footprints disappear in the middle of the road and realize that the perpetrators got into a car; Bunk radios for a jackhammer to save the section of road. DEA agents question Rawls about the money lost to Savino in the failed operation, but he dismisses them profanely. Rawls finds detective Jimmy McNulty
covered in Greggs' blood and in a state of shock, and guides him over to his car. Detective Lester Freamon
arrives at the scene and marshals the detail to get back to working the wiretap so any discussion of the shooting can be used as evidence. Ellis Carver
goes to tell Kima's family what has happened and finds Cheryl at their apartment.
At the hospital Commissioner Warren Frazier finds Lieutenant Cedric Daniels
being interviewed by Norris and goes on to see Greggs. The commissioner shakes Norris's hand mistaking him for Lieutenant Daniels. Detective Vernon Holley plays a tape of Greggs' last report. Major Raymond Foerster is distressed and McNulty vomits into a waste bin. Rawls tells McNulty in characteristic fashion that Greggs' shooting is in no way his responsibility. Cheryl and Carver travel to the hospital and Burrell misunderstands Cheryl's relationship with Kima. Daniels tells him they are roommates and Burrell asks the commissioner if he wants to talk to her. He declines and Burrell is left to go alone. Carver is disappointed in the Commissioner for passing on the responsibility. Cheryl returns home and breaks down in tears.
and Little Man phone in a report on their completed mission. The next day Wee-Bey reports in to Stringer Bell
. He tells him about the unexpected passenger and says he would have left her alive, but that Little Man killed her. Stringer already knows that Greggs was a cop and orders Wee-Bey to kill Little Man. He tells Wee-Bey that he might need to leave town if the police begin to close in.
At the Barksdale organization's territory in the low rise projects ("the pit"), D'Angelo Barksdale
discusses the shooting with drug dealers Poot Carr
and Bodie Broadus
. They mistakenly believe that the shooting was unrelated to their organization and performed by local drug dealers.
Observing from a nearby church roof, Michael Santangelo and Thomas "Herc" Hauk watch Bodie receiving a resupply of narcotics from the tower buildings. Herc notes the window the stash is being dropped from. Wallace
telephones Poot from the country, but is simply homesick and has little to say. Bodie and D'Angelo continue to discuss the situation. Bodie has noticed that Savino is wanted and that Little Man has disappeared. They realize the shooting must be tied to them. Bodie theorizes that someone has made mistakes and Avon Barksdale
will order their deaths.
D'Angelo receives an unexpected summons from Stringer. At Orlando's, Stringer orders D'Angelo to go with Wee-Bey. D'Angelo is afraid for his safety, as neither Wee-Bey nor Stringer will tell them where they are going. When they arrive at Wee-Bey's, he is certain he will be killed. Wee-Bey has actually brought him there to ask him to feed his fish while he's in hiding.
Wallace phones Poot to ask for money to come home. The call is marked non-pertinent, as Wallace's informant status is all but forgotten following the shootings.
The homicide squad has a meeting to discuss the evidence collected so far. Bunk and Landsman suspect that it was either a street stick-up or a setup by the Barksdale organization. Cole reports that the autopsy on Orlando confirms the cause of death as shooting. Bunk confirms that the two types of shell casing found are from two different guns. Freamon arrives with the fingerprint report; it matches a known Barksdale enforcer from the 221 Franklin tower building: Little Man, full name Wintell Royce.
Bubbles
pages Greggs. As yet unaware of the shooting, he is expecting to meet according to their plan to get his own place in order to help him stay clean. When Greggs's pager goes off, Bubbles is quickly picked up by two uniformed officers. At homicide, Detective Holley interrogates Bubbles assuming he is a suspect. Bubbles does not understand what is going on though and angers Holley who claims "You have exactly three seconds to explain yourself to me, asshole." When he fails to answer Holley’s question, the much larger detective begins beating on Bubbles who is handcuffed to the desk. Bubbles begs to talk to McNulty instead as Sergeant Landsman restrains Holley from permanently injuring Bubbles. Landsman calls for McNulty to come clear the situation up and as Jimmy comes upstairs, Holley lies that Bubbles had threatened him as for the reason of his beating. McNulty is snapped out of his shock by having to tell Bubbles what happened. He asks Bubbles to return to the Barksdale's territory and gives him money to buy drugs, not realizing that he is trying to stay clean. Bubbles quickly gathers that Wee-Bey and Little Man are the likely shooters and reports in to McNulty, who passes the information on to Bunk. Bubbles again tries to tell McNulty he is clean but is cut off when McNulty has to leave. He is left holding the money McNulty gave him.
Next, McNulty meets with Barksdale attorney Maurice Levy
with Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman
in tow. He insists that Levy hand over Savino by the afternoon and threatens to investigate his finances. Pearlman berates McNulty for forcing her to threaten Levy because he is a powerful figure in Baltimore law. McNulty, filled with self-righteous anger, tells her that if half of the ASAs were not aiming to be judges, then the police would be able to make far more convictions. Hurt, Pearlman tells him that she believes he will use anyone. Levy brings Savino in and manages the interview so that Savino will only be charged for an attempt to distribute false narcotics. He has a package of baking soda brought in and claims that Savino had planned to defraud Orlando and is not connected to the shooting.
) before walking away.
Raids are made against the stash house, Savino's home, and the tower. Carver and Herc are alone when they find a pile of cash and keep some for themselves. Vast quantities of guns, narcotics, and cash are seized and Commissioner Warren Frazier gets his photo opportunity. At the detail, work has all but ceased. No-one is on surveillance and Prez is monitoring light phone traffic. Greggs remains on life support at the hospital as the episode ends.
The WIRE
the WIRE is the student-run College radio station at the University of Oklahoma, broadcasting in a freeform format. The WIRE serves the University of Oklahoma and surrounding communities, and is staffed by student DJs. The WIRE broadcasts at 1710 kHz AM in Norman, Oklahoma...
. The episode was written by Joy Lusco
Joy Lusco
Joy Lusco, also known as Joy Kecken and Joy Lusco Kecken, is an American film and television director and writer. She often works with her husband, Scott Kecken. She has worked on the HBO drama series The Wire as a writer on the show's first three seasons....
from a story by David Simon
David Simon
David Simon is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns...
& Ed Burns
Ed Burns
Ed Burns is a producer, screenwriter, and novelist. He has worked closely with writing partner David Simon. They have collaborated on The Corner and The Wire . Burns is a former Baltimore police detective for the Homicide and Narcotics divisions, and a public school teacher...
and was directed by Steve Shill
Steve Shill
Steve Shill is a British television and film director, actor, screenwriter, and television producer.-Career:He attended Keswick Grammar School in Keswick,Cumbria,England in the 70's....
. It originally aired on August 18, 2002.
Title reference
The title refers to the knee-jerk police effort to identify the shooter(s) of Detective Greggs.Epigraph
The epigraph refers to the commissioner's desire to seize drug dealers' assets in response to the shooting of a police officer, irrespective of how it will affect larger cases. The episode picture shows the results of this desire - a press conference with plenty of seized drugs to show off in a photo-op. It also serves as scathing sarcasm to the progress of the war on drugs.Guest stars
- Peter GeretyPeter GeretyPeter Gerety is an American actor.Gerety began acting while a student at Boston University, participating in productions at the Charles Playhouse. In 1965, he joined the Trinity Square Repertory Company, a resident theater company in Providence, Rhode Island where he appeared in over 125...
as Judge Daniel Phelan - Seth GilliamSeth GilliamSeth Gilliam is an American actor. He is known for his HBO television roles, first as corrections officer-turned-prisoner Clayton Hughes on Oz, and later as Baltimore police detective promoted to sergeant Ellis Carver on The Wire. On both of these series, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D....
as Detective Ellis CarverEllis CarverEllis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Seth Gilliam. Carver is an African American lieutenant and formerly in command of the Baltimore Police Department's Western District Drug Enforcement Unit... - Domenick LombardozziDomenick LombardozziDomenico "Domenick" Lombardozzi is an American actor best known for his role as Thomas "Herc" Hauk on The Wire. Lombardozzi was inspired to act by the film State of Grace.-Filmography:...
as Detective Thomas "Herc" Hauk - Clarke PetersClarke PetersClarke Peters is an American actor, singer, writer and director best known for his role as Detective Lester Freamon on the HBO drama The Wire.-Early life:...
as Detective Lester FreamonLester FreamonLester Freamon is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Clarke Peters. Freamon is a detective in the Baltimore Police Department's Major Crimes Unit... - Jim True-FrostJim True-FrostJim True-Frost, born Jim True, is an American stage, television and screen actor. He is most known for his portrayal of Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski on all five seasons of the HBO program The Wire.-Biography:...
as Detective Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski - Hassan JohnsonHassan JohnsonHassan 'Iniko' Johnson is an American actor/producer from Staten Island, NY, born November 19, 1976. His most noted performance was appearing on the HBO program The Wire as Roland Wee-Bey Brice. His first acting role was in the 1995 Spike Lee film Clockers. He also had a significant role in the...
as Roland "Wee-Bey" BriceWee-Bey BriceRoland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Hassan Johnson. Wee-Bey was the Barksdale Organization's most trusted soldier before being sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple homicides.... - Corey Parker RobinsonCorey Parker RobinsonCorey Parker Robinson is an American actor. He may be best known for appearing on the HBO program The Wire as Detective Leander Sydnor. He also appeared in Wire creator David Simon's earlier The Corner as R.C., a young drug dealer and in ER in episode 19 of Season 5 as student Antoine Bell...
as Detective Leander SydnorLeander SydnorLeander Sydnor is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Corey Parker Robinson. Sydnor is a young, married Baltimore Police detective who was a member of the Barksdale detail and later worked in the Major Crimes Unit.-Season 1:... - Michael B. JordanMichael B. JordanMichael Bakari Jordan is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage drug dealer Wallace on the HBO drama television series The Wire, for his role as Reggie Montgomery in All My Children, as quarterback Vince Howard on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights, and since...
as WallaceWallace (The Wire)Wallace is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Michael B. Jordan. Wallace is a 16-year-old drug dealer for the Barksdale Organization, who works in the low-rise projects crew known as "The Pit" with his friends and fellow dealers Bodie Broadus and Poot Carr... - J. D. WilliamsJ. D. WilliamsDarnell "J.D." Williams is an American actor with starring roles in the HBO television programs Oz and The Wire, in which he appeared as Preston "Bodie" Broadus...
as Preston "Boadie" BroadusBodie BroadusPreston "Bodie" Broadus is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor J. D. Williams. Bodie is initially a Barksdale organization drug dealer in "The Pit" who slowly rises through the ranks... - Tray ChaneyTray ChaneyTray Chaney is an American actor. He appeared on the HBO program The Wire as Poot Carr.Chaney began his entertainment career as a dancer at the age of four winning competitions at the Apollo Theater. He appeared in the 2003 music video "My Baby" by rap artist Bow Wow. He later appeared in The Wire...
as Malik "Poot" CarrPoot CarrMalik "Poot" Carr is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Tray Chaney. Poot is a drug dealer in the Barksdale Organization who slowly rises through the ranks, but ends up serving time in prison as his institution collapses around him... - Richard DeAngelis as Major Raymond Foerster
- Michael Salconi as Detective Michael Santangelo
- Michael KostroffMichael KostroffMichael Kostroff is an American actor. He appeared on the HBO program The Wire as defense attorney Maurice Levy. Kostroff starred in the fifth season of the series and appeared in all four earlier seasons as a guest star.- Biography :...
as Maurice LevyMaurice Levy (The Wire)Maurice "Maury" Levy is a fictional lawyer on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Michael Kostroff. He is a skilled defense attorney and was kept on retainer by the drug-trafficking Barksdale Organization, representing the organization's members at trials and advising Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell... - Melanie Nicholls-King as Cheryl
- Delaney WilliamsDelaney WilliamsDelaney Williams is an American actor from Washington, D.C. He appears on the HBO drama The Wire as a recurring guest star playing homicide sergeant Jay Landsman. He also had a small role on HBO's mini-series The Corner which brought him to the attention of the producers, who worked on The prior to...
as Sergeant Jay LandsmanJay Landsman (The Wire)Jay Landsman is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Delaney Williams.-Policing method:Landsman's role in the police department is that of a supervisory detective sergeant who doesn't participate in much investigation work... - Chris ClantonChris ClantonChris Clanton is an American actor. He has a recurring role as Savino Bratton in season 1 and 5 of The Wire. He is credited as Christopher J. Clanton in the fifth series. He also had an uncredited role in The Corner as a street kid...
as Savino - Micaiah Jones as Little Man
- Curtis Montez as Sterling
- Tony D. Head as Major Bobby Reed
- Clayton LeBouefClayton LeBouefClayton LeBouef is an African American actor, best known for his recurring role as Colonel George Barnfather in Homicide: Life on the Street...
as Wendell "Orlando" Blocker - Edward NorrisEd NorrisEdward T. Norris is an American radio host and former law enforcement officer in Maryland. His talk show, the Ed Norris Show, airs on WJZ-FM in Baltimore, Maryland. Norris, a 20-year veteran of the New York Police Department, served as police commissioner for Baltimore from 2000 to late 2002...
as Detective Ed Norris - Dick Stilwell as Commissioner Warren Frazier
- Katana Lazet Hall as Savino's mother
- Susan Rome as Assistant State's Attorney Ilene Nathan
- Brian Anthony WilsonBrian Anthony WilsonBrian Anthony Wilson is an American film and television actor. He first appeared in the 1997 film The Postman as Woody....
as Detective Vernon Holley - Christopher Glenn Wilson as DEA Agent
This episode was the last acting appearance of Dick Stilwell (commissioner Warren Frazier) who died in a car accident soon afterwards.
Uncredited appearance
- Derren M. Fuentes as QRT Leader Torret
- Robert F. ColesberryRobert F. ColesberryRobert F. "Bob" Colesberry, Jr. was an American film and television producer and first assistant director notable for his work as a producer on the Emmy Award winning miniseries The Corner, the Peabody Award winning television series The Wire for HBO, and the Oscar-nominated movie Mississippi...
as Detective Ray Cole
Aftermath
Homicide Major William RawlsWilliam Rawls
William A. "Bill" Rawls is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor John Doman. Over the course of the series he ascends to the rank of Superintendent of the Maryland State Police.-Season 1:...
and Sergeant Jay Landsman
Jay Landsman (The Wire)
Jay Landsman is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Delaney Williams.-Policing method:Landsman's role in the police department is that of a supervisory detective sergeant who doesn't participate in much investigation work...
inspect the crime scene of the Kima Greggs
Kima Greggs
Detective Shakima "Kima" Greggs is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Sonja Sohn. Greggs is a police detective in the Baltimore Police Department who is a dedicated officer and capable detective with some off-the-job issues. Openly lesbian, she has had problems...
and Wendell "Orlando" Blocker shooting. Detective Ray Cole and Detective Ed Norris are the primary investigators. Rawls harshly orders all non-homicide personnel away from the crime scene. Bunk Moreland
Bunk Moreland
William "Bunk" Moreland is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Wendell Pierce. Bunk's character is based on a retired Baltimore City Police Detective named Rick Requer and nicknamed "the Bunk", an officer who joined the force in 1964 as a Western District patrolman who...
finds Greggs' weapon and realizes it must have come unstuck from its place concealed under the seat during the journey. Rawls turns the street signs that were shifted (and caused Greggs to misreport her position) back to their correct orientation.
Bunk finds some fresh footprints. Landsman and Bunk follow them to some hooded sweatshirts. They see the footprints disappear in the middle of the road and realize that the perpetrators got into a car; Bunk radios for a jackhammer to save the section of road. DEA agents question Rawls about the money lost to Savino in the failed operation, but he dismisses them profanely. Rawls finds detective Jimmy McNulty
Jimmy McNulty
Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by British actor Dominic West. McNulty is an Irish American detective in the Baltimore Police Department...
covered in Greggs' blood and in a state of shock, and guides him over to his car. Detective Lester Freamon
Lester Freamon
Lester Freamon is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Clarke Peters. Freamon is a detective in the Baltimore Police Department's Major Crimes Unit...
arrives at the scene and marshals the detail to get back to working the wiretap so any discussion of the shooting can be used as evidence. Ellis Carver
Ellis Carver
Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Seth Gilliam. Carver is an African American lieutenant and formerly in command of the Baltimore Police Department's Western District Drug Enforcement Unit...
goes to tell Kima's family what has happened and finds Cheryl at their apartment.
At the hospital Commissioner Warren Frazier finds Lieutenant Cedric Daniels
Cedric Daniels
Cedric Daniels is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Lance Reddick. He is a well regarded officer in the department whose focus is on good police work and quality arrests...
being interviewed by Norris and goes on to see Greggs. The commissioner shakes Norris's hand mistaking him for Lieutenant Daniels. Detective Vernon Holley plays a tape of Greggs' last report. Major Raymond Foerster is distressed and McNulty vomits into a waste bin. Rawls tells McNulty in characteristic fashion that Greggs' shooting is in no way his responsibility. Cheryl and Carver travel to the hospital and Burrell misunderstands Cheryl's relationship with Kima. Daniels tells him they are roommates and Burrell asks the commissioner if he wants to talk to her. He declines and Burrell is left to go alone. Carver is disappointed in the Commissioner for passing on the responsibility. Cheryl returns home and breaks down in tears.
Barksdale organization
Wee-Bey BriceWee-Bey Brice
Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Hassan Johnson. Wee-Bey was the Barksdale Organization's most trusted soldier before being sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple homicides....
and Little Man phone in a report on their completed mission. The next day Wee-Bey reports in to Stringer Bell
Stringer Bell
Russell "Stringer" Bell is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by English actor Idris Elba. Bell served as drug kingpin Avon Barksdale's second in command, assuming direct control of the Barksdale Organization during Avon's imprisonment...
. He tells him about the unexpected passenger and says he would have left her alive, but that Little Man killed her. Stringer already knows that Greggs was a cop and orders Wee-Bey to kill Little Man. He tells Wee-Bey that he might need to leave town if the police begin to close in.
At the Barksdale organization's territory in the low rise projects ("the pit"), D'Angelo Barksdale
D'Angelo Barksdale
D'Angelo "D" Barksdale is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Larry Gilliard Jr. D'Angelo is the nephew of Avon Barksdale and a lieutenant in his drug dealing organization which controls most of the trade in West Baltimore...
discusses the shooting with drug dealers Poot Carr
Poot Carr
Malik "Poot" Carr is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Tray Chaney. Poot is a drug dealer in the Barksdale Organization who slowly rises through the ranks, but ends up serving time in prison as his institution collapses around him...
and Bodie Broadus
Bodie Broadus
Preston "Bodie" Broadus is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor J. D. Williams. Bodie is initially a Barksdale organization drug dealer in "The Pit" who slowly rises through the ranks...
. They mistakenly believe that the shooting was unrelated to their organization and performed by local drug dealers.
Observing from a nearby church roof, Michael Santangelo and Thomas "Herc" Hauk watch Bodie receiving a resupply of narcotics from the tower buildings. Herc notes the window the stash is being dropped from. Wallace
Wallace (The Wire)
Wallace is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Michael B. Jordan. Wallace is a 16-year-old drug dealer for the Barksdale Organization, who works in the low-rise projects crew known as "The Pit" with his friends and fellow dealers Bodie Broadus and Poot Carr...
telephones Poot from the country, but is simply homesick and has little to say. Bodie and D'Angelo continue to discuss the situation. Bodie has noticed that Savino is wanted and that Little Man has disappeared. They realize the shooting must be tied to them. Bodie theorizes that someone has made mistakes and Avon Barksdale
Avon Barksdale
Avon Randolph Barksdale is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire portrayed by actor Wood Harris. Avon is the dominant drug dealer of Baltimore's West Side, running the Barksdale Organization...
will order their deaths.
D'Angelo receives an unexpected summons from Stringer. At Orlando's, Stringer orders D'Angelo to go with Wee-Bey. D'Angelo is afraid for his safety, as neither Wee-Bey nor Stringer will tell them where they are going. When they arrive at Wee-Bey's, he is certain he will be killed. Wee-Bey has actually brought him there to ask him to feed his fish while he's in hiding.
Wallace phones Poot to ask for money to come home. The call is marked non-pertinent, as Wallace's informant status is all but forgotten following the shootings.
Back to work
Meanwhile, warrants are served on all known addresses for Savino, the Barksdale lieutenant identified by Greggs before the shooting. Freamon and Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski monitor traffic over the wiretap but there is nothing definitive. Checking the pages the night before, they find one made from a payphone in the area of the shooting to Stringer Bell twenty minutes after the incident. Freamon organizes crime scene technicians to meet him there and has them dust the payphone and a nearby discarded drink can for prints. At the detail office, McNulty arrives and begins drinking heavily. When Daniels arrives back at the office, he orders McNulty to stop drinking. McNulty asks Daniels what he'd give up to take back Gregg's shooting and Daniels replies that he would give back all of their work on the Barksdale organization. McNulty tells Daniels the case was not worth it.The homicide squad has a meeting to discuss the evidence collected so far. Bunk and Landsman suspect that it was either a street stick-up or a setup by the Barksdale organization. Cole reports that the autopsy on Orlando confirms the cause of death as shooting. Bunk confirms that the two types of shell casing found are from two different guns. Freamon arrives with the fingerprint report; it matches a known Barksdale enforcer from the 221 Franklin tower building: Little Man, full name Wintell Royce.
Bubbles
Bubbles (The Wire)
Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Andre Royo. Bubbles is a recovering heroin addict. His real name is not revealed until a fourth-season episode when he is called "Mr. Cousins" and in the fifth-season premiere when he is called "Reginald"...
pages Greggs. As yet unaware of the shooting, he is expecting to meet according to their plan to get his own place in order to help him stay clean. When Greggs's pager goes off, Bubbles is quickly picked up by two uniformed officers. At homicide, Detective Holley interrogates Bubbles assuming he is a suspect. Bubbles does not understand what is going on though and angers Holley who claims "You have exactly three seconds to explain yourself to me, asshole." When he fails to answer Holley’s question, the much larger detective begins beating on Bubbles who is handcuffed to the desk. Bubbles begs to talk to McNulty instead as Sergeant Landsman restrains Holley from permanently injuring Bubbles. Landsman calls for McNulty to come clear the situation up and as Jimmy comes upstairs, Holley lies that Bubbles had threatened him as for the reason of his beating. McNulty is snapped out of his shock by having to tell Bubbles what happened. He asks Bubbles to return to the Barksdale's territory and gives him money to buy drugs, not realizing that he is trying to stay clean. Bubbles quickly gathers that Wee-Bey and Little Man are the likely shooters and reports in to McNulty, who passes the information on to Bunk. Bubbles again tries to tell McNulty he is clean but is cut off when McNulty has to leave. He is left holding the money McNulty gave him.
Next, McNulty meets with Barksdale attorney Maurice Levy
Maurice Levy (The Wire)
Maurice "Maury" Levy is a fictional lawyer on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Michael Kostroff. He is a skilled defense attorney and was kept on retainer by the drug-trafficking Barksdale Organization, representing the organization's members at trials and advising Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell...
with Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman
Rhonda Pearlman
Rhonda Pearlman is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Deirdre Lovejoy. Pearlman has been the legal system liaison for all of Lieutenant Cedric Daniels' investigations on the show...
in tow. He insists that Levy hand over Savino by the afternoon and threatens to investigate his finances. Pearlman berates McNulty for forcing her to threaten Levy because he is a powerful figure in Baltimore law. McNulty, filled with self-righteous anger, tells her that if half of the ASAs were not aiming to be judges, then the police would be able to make far more convictions. Hurt, Pearlman tells him that she believes he will use anyone. Levy brings Savino in and manages the interview so that Savino will only be charged for an attempt to distribute false narcotics. He has a package of baking soda brought in and claims that Savino had planned to defraud Orlando and is not connected to the shooting.
Dope on the table
Burrell meets with Rawls, Foerster, and Daniels and tells them to organize citywide raids to seize as much drug product as possible. Burrell tells them they must let the city know who they are in the wake of Greggs's shooting. Daniels is skeptical of the message this will send. He meets with the detail to discuss possible locations for raids. He tells them they will not hit all of their targets as ordered, as this would jeopardize the wire. Freamon introduces Herc's find and they decide that this is the best opportunity to seize a sizable amount of drugs. They decide to hide the cutting house they recently discovered to protect their case. Later, Major Reed arrives and tells Daniels that they know he is withholding targets. The meeting descends into a shouting match and Reed storms out. Daniels tells Freamon and McNulty that Burrell must have an insider in the detail. McNulty visits Phelan at a campaign fundraiser to ask for his help with Burrell, but Phelan is reluctant. He has been reinstated on the ticket and does not want to upset other politicians by continuing to make waves. McNulty asks Phelan, "Who's my daddy now?" (a reference to a comment Phelan made in the episode "Lessons"Lessons (The Wire episode)
"Lessons" is the eighth episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Gloria Muzio. It originally aired on July 21, 2002.-Production:...
) before walking away.
Raids are made against the stash house, Savino's home, and the tower. Carver and Herc are alone when they find a pile of cash and keep some for themselves. Vast quantities of guns, narcotics, and cash are seized and Commissioner Warren Frazier gets his photo opportunity. At the detail, work has all but ceased. No-one is on surveillance and Prez is monitoring light phone traffic. Greggs remains on life support at the hospital as the episode ends.