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re: Rewatching The Wire: Season 4 thought
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:13 am to Dire Wolf
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:13 am to Dire Wolf
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Lester is the only one that cares enough to be looking for it
The rest of the department is happy to not have the extra murders
Yea I guess so, but Bunk is looking for Lex the whole season and Kima is on the streets with her witness murder a lot too. They’re cops that I would put in the care category.
The biggest issue is probably that the main cop chasing Marlo is Herc, and he’s not the brightest
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:57 am to Tiger1242
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Not in season 4, almost every episode there is a cop commenting about how Marlo has to be dropping bodies somewhere. I mean they’re looking for Lex the whole season and nobody ever thought to check the vacants until Lester finally goes out there to look?
Not everybody can be natural po-leese like Lester.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:15 pm to Tiger1242
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Yea I guess so, but Bunk is looking for Lex the whole season and Kima is on the streets with her witness murder a lot too. They’re cops that I would put in the care category.
The biggest issue is probably that the main cop chasing Marlo is Herc, and he’s not the brightest
and bunk would have found out about the bodies in vacants had Herc passed randy to him like he was supposed too
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:19 pm to Dire Wolf
Herc was too busy fantasizing about Gus Triandos.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:57 pm to CocomoLSU
Lester’s start on the show was funny. IIRC, 17 years in pawn shops and working on miniature furniture to sell.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 1:01 pm to Dire Wolf
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and bunk would have found out about the bodies in vacants had Herc passed randy to him like he was supposed too
Good point
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:09 pm to Dire Wolf
The fate of Randy and Dookie are the two saddest parts of the show.
Well, and Omar getting shot.
Whereas Snoop getting shot warmed the cockles in my heart.
Well, and Omar getting shot.
Whereas Snoop getting shot warmed the cockles in my heart.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 2:12 pm to TygerTyger
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The fate of Randy and Dookie are the two saddest parts of the show.
Wallace too.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:35 pm to Obtuse1
One of my favorite scenes in the entire series.
"you earn't that buck lika muh-fuka main."
"you earn't that buck lika muh-fuka main."
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:59 pm to Tiger Vision
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Wallace too.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 4:56 pm to BluegrassBelle
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This. There's a whole legitimate angle there of not wanting "bodies" on the role that will be unsolved.
The amount of effort 5 agencies put in to not taking the dead floater (trafficked girl) at the beginning of season 2 shows how it all becomes a stats game, nobody wants a red ball on the board.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:26 pm to Obtuse1
The whole point of the show (as I saw it) was the endless cycle of crime for any of a number of reasons.
To borrow a line from BoyzInThaHood, “don’t know, don’t show, don’t care”
Some people knew they were putting those bodies in the vacants, but nobody was talking.
The police would have no reason to look there. To say so is (obtuse).
It’s a good point that Herc really f’d the whole thing with how he handled Randy. Bunk could have been on that.
I thought the show handled it well. It really came down to to a really smart detective having a stroke of luck.
To borrow a line from BoyzInThaHood, “don’t know, don’t show, don’t care”
Some people knew they were putting those bodies in the vacants, but nobody was talking.
The police would have no reason to look there. To say so is (obtuse).
It’s a good point that Herc really f’d the whole thing with how he handled Randy. Bunk could have been on that.
I thought the show handled it well. It really came down to to a really smart detective having a stroke of luck.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 12:18 pm to Chipand2Putts
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It’s a good point that Herc really f’d the whole thing with how he handled Randy. Bunk could have been on that.
Herc really became unlikeable in season 4. Other seasons he was just a regular cop trying to swim with the big fish and falling short. Season 4 he really turned almost into a bad guy the way he ignored Bubs, passed off Randy, and only cared about himself. Herc needed Carver to keep him in line
Posted on 8/29/25 at 1:34 pm to Tiger1242
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The cops know Omar can’t be holding all those corners without dropping bodies but nobody thought to check the vacants. I don’t think anybody actually thought Omar was killing people.
I know you meant Marlo, no problem there.
So Major Crimes was on it and would have figured it out in a few weeks, probably by the end of episode 3. But it was probably 6-8 weeks before the election, Clay Davis got subpoenaed, he got pissed and got Rawls to move Lieutenant Charles Marimow to Major Crimes, and that was that.
It was 6-8 month later (guessing) when Freamon came back to Major Crimes, took him a few days to figure it out.
Question is how many murders happened during those 6-8 months that Clay Davis was indirectly responsible for? Also, how many of those would have happened anyway?
Posted on 8/29/25 at 6:51 pm to Obtuse1
And I imagine there are quite a few vacant houses in Baltimore.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 8:41 pm to Havoc
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IIRC, 17 years
It was 13 years
and four months.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 10:31 pm to Wally Sparks
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and four months.
Haha yeah! I was wondering if someone would pick it up.
Watching S3 now. I love the epic exchanges with Avon and Stringer when he gets out and they’re realizing they’re world apart. Stringer trying to talk business but Avon stuck in the hood.
And that poor old lady that got left in the middle of Hamsterdam. Damn.
This post was edited on 8/29/25 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 8/30/25 at 11:38 am to CocomoLSU
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natural po-leese like Lester.
Beside being natural po-leese, Lester turned sexy arse Shardene into a housewife.
Well GF lol
Wire thread for me is like a moth to a flame lol
This post was edited on 8/30/25 at 11:40 am
Posted on 8/30/25 at 5:35 pm to rebelrouser
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Another thing they may have thought was how stupid it would be to store murdered bodies in an abandoned house. Eventually someone is going to find them and the transportation and entombment would likely cause forensic evidence to be left behind. That's why the Italian mob would totally get rid of bodies that would never be found unless they wanted to send a message.
It’s mind boggling to me how they could show Idris Elba buying a funeral home, yet none of the big money gang bangers like Marlo thinks to buy one with a cremation oven?
Cremation has been growing in popularity for decades. Script writers should step up.
Posted on 9/12/25 at 10:21 am to Chipand2Putts
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It’s a good point that Herc really f’d the whole thing with how he handled Randy. Bunk could have been on that.
Almost finished another rewatch.
I’m just now realizing (if I’m understanding it correctly) that Herc double crossed the police by alerting his lawyer boss of the illegal wiretap on Marlo, which he himself had facilitated by giving them his number. What a shitbag.
Such a great series.
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