Hot Shots (15 Jun. 2003)

Lt Cedric Daniels lets it be known he is going to leave the department. McNulty pursues the identity of the Jane Doe found floating in the harbor. A pair of young longshoremen, Frank ... See full summary »

Director:

Elodie Keene

Writers:

David Simon (creator), David Simon (teleplay),

Stars:

Dominic West, Chris Bauer, Paul Ben-Victor

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Dominic West	...	Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty
Chris Bauer	...	Frank Sobotka
Paul Ben-Victor	...	Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos
John Doman	...	Col. William A. Rawls (credit only)
Idris Elba	...	Russell 'Stringer' Bell
Frankie Faison	...	Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.	...	D'Angelo Barksdale (as Larry Gilliard Jr.)
Wood Harris	...	Avon Barksdale
Deirdre Lovejoy	...	Asst. State's Atty. Rhonda Pearlman (credit only)
Clarke Peters	...	Det. Lester Freamon
Wendell Pierce	...	Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
Lance Reddick	...	Lt. Cedric Daniels
Amy Ryan	...	Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell
Sonja Sohn	...	Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs (credit only)
Seth Gilliam	...	Sgt. Ellis Carver (credit only)

Storyline

Lt Cedric Daniels lets it be known he is going to leave the department. McNulty pursues the identity of the Jane Doe found floating in the harbor. A pair of young longshoremen, Frank Sobotka's son Ziggy and nephew Nick, heist a container and sell its contents, digital cameras, to men working for The Greek.

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Plot Keywords:

wiretapping | title spoken by character

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

15 June 2003 (USA)

Company Credits

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Quotes

Chinese Seaman: [Speaking foreign language]
Moreland: Hey, hey.
Chinese Seaman: ...English.
Middle Eastern Seaman: No English.
Eastern European Seaman: ...English.
Arab Seaman: English...
Moreland: Kunta kinte, yabbdabba dabba do.
African Seaman: Huh...?
Freamon: Hah mishy gishy gushy gushy mishy meshy mushy, motherfucker.
African Seaman: Eh?
[...]

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Connections

References Roots (1977)

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Soundtracks

"Get Busy"
by Sean Paul

User Reviews

"Avon is Avon"

Just a look of how Avon is still Avon no matter that he is locked up, no matter that his s*** isn't as strong as it used to be. Here is the first real talk between Avon and D'Angelo in prison and of course D'Angelo knows everything can be easy for him if he does his part, here he listens to Avon, he will do what Avon asked him "out of love" and again, Avon is Avon then by the end of the day D'Angelo will be fine. During the previous hour Avon talked with Stringer Bell mainly about two things: that officer that is being nothing but a damn pain in the ass for Wee-Bey and D'Angelo's girl Donette so here is Stringer taking care of this stuff. The Tilghman stuff will deliver a damn fine move but I will write more of that soon, here I better mention that scene with Stringer and D'Angelo's girl. Is Stringer saying to Donette the importance of the family, that D'Angelo needs to see her, you know is Stringer saying how difficult the time is for D'Angelo and how she has practically forget him. And she will go to see D'Angelo but of course she won' mention to him what's going on between her and Stringer, what began after that talk in which Stringer said to her what he had to. Talking about family, well is time to meet Nick's girl and kid, is abut plans, about having finally something of their own, about start to live together. Nick and his cousin Ziggy will do a damn fine business, easy stuff, lots of money of course. Still about family, well what about Stan Valchek and his son-in-law Prez, you know about the detail, about how things are going on, about what Prez and company have already on Fran Sobotka however there's not much to talk about, Stan will hear more about the Barksdale case, pretty much Prez just makes Stan know about that the way things were done by Daniels, Lester and company in the Barksdale case is the way things need to be done, about what happened with Burrell when they began to go after the money so we will have Stan with Burrell's balls in his hands ready to ask for anything and Stan will be asking, now that he knows more about the Barksdale case, for a fine detail, for Daniels. More about family? Well here we have the first appearance in Season 2 of McNulty's ex wife and kids, we know that McNulty wants to return with Elena but anyway McNulty also wants to give a name to the dead girl he found floating, to find her family. And what about Bunk, Lester and Russell? Well, before McNulty said to them his ideas they already came with how things happened, they know exactly what the Greek knew after talking with one of the men of the Atlantic Light. Good hour, and did I mention Omar is back?