In "The Wire" we get like a 3 minutes scene before the opening and the scene of this episode has in it D'Angelo saying to his pas stuff like "you can't tell me this can't get done without people beating each other, killing each other, doing each other like dogs", is a really great scene with D'Angelo and his friends that ends in a funny way for all of them thanks to Bubbles coming to sell hats but of course is funny since they don't know what Greggs or any other detective do each time Bubbs puts on to somebody the red hat (of those scenes with D'Angelo, Wallace (Michael B. Jordan, doing a superb work as a really memorable character) and Bodie (J. D. Williams) here we have the fantastic "chess scene" also which is D'Angelo teaching Wallace and Bodie how to play chess since they have a chess set and play checkers. With D'Angelo explaining the rules of chess and the boys understanding them like "the king is Avon and the queen is like Stringer" the boys will learn).
Here we have the introduction to very important and great characters, Omar certainly and also Detective Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters). Unlike Omar (played by Michael K. Williams and who together with his men robs Barksdale drugs) Lester has not his very first appearance during this episode (he appears for the first time in the previous one) however here you can say is his real introduction, quiet man, doing his hobby all day but McNulty and company at one point will get a real and pleasant surprise. This episode has the detail getting some more information, nothing big enough though however the Deputy wants some action but, what they have by the end of the day? "we ain't got s***" says Greggs after the action, after beating Bodie for hitting a detective (one of the incompetents) and that was the biggest thing that happened during their attempt to get something from the projects, well behind what happened with Lester. McNulty didn't go to the projects, he said he didn't want t do something that may hurt the case, and of course he was right. Mainly the big thing that happens with McNulty during this hour is that he finds stuff about Daniels thanks to FBI Special Agent Terrence "Fitz" Fitzhugh (Doug Olear): at this point we have in Daniels someone who knows how to do the Barksdale case fine but also someone who has to give stuff to the damn Deputy and after this our we have that Daniels is dirty, Fitzhugh did the investigation and gave it to the Deputy who said that they will take it from there however that was a year if not more ago and certainly Daniels is still a lieutenant.
I'm writing this comment after just finishing watching all of the 13 episodes of Season 1, truly engaging, terrific show. Overall this episode isn't one of the most memorable hours.
Here we have the introduction to very important and great characters, Omar certainly and also Detective Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters). Unlike Omar (played by Michael K. Williams and who together with his men robs Barksdale drugs) Lester has not his very first appearance during this episode (he appears for the first time in the previous one) however here you can say is his real introduction, quiet man, doing his hobby all day but McNulty and company at one point will get a real and pleasant surprise. This episode has the detail getting some more information, nothing big enough though however the Deputy wants some action but, what they have by the end of the day? "we ain't got s***" says Greggs after the action, after beating Bodie for hitting a detective (one of the incompetents) and that was the biggest thing that happened during their attempt to get something from the projects, well behind what happened with Lester. McNulty didn't go to the projects, he said he didn't want t do something that may hurt the case, and of course he was right. Mainly the big thing that happens with McNulty during this hour is that he finds stuff about Daniels thanks to FBI Special Agent Terrence "Fitz" Fitzhugh (Doug Olear): at this point we have in Daniels someone who knows how to do the Barksdale case fine but also someone who has to give stuff to the damn Deputy and after this our we have that Daniels is dirty, Fitzhugh did the investigation and gave it to the Deputy who said that they will take it from there however that was a year if not more ago and certainly Daniels is still a lieutenant.
I'm writing this comment after just finishing watching all of the 13 episodes of Season 1, truly engaging, terrific show. Overall this episode isn't one of the most memorable hours.