Reader C.M. writes "You need to end our long national nightmare and open a new Wire thread." Consider it done. This is definitely making me miss the compression of the season into ten episodes rather than twelve, as I feel like I would have liked to see some of the characters' decision-making explored in a bit more depth than we got in episode nine. If anyone's OnDemanded the finale, please avoid spoilers.
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03 Mar 2008 11:41 am
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NOOOOOOOOOO....
I was planning on watching the finale today.
This is definitely making me miss the compression of the season into ten episodes rather than twelve,
"Miss" is not the verb you seek here.
All I know is that episode 9 was about the most poignant one this series has ever produced. Bubs Michael, and Dukie's scenes almost, ALMOST, redeem a deeply flawed season.
But still, Jesus, poor Dukie.
My prediction: McNulty gets found out and they put him on trial, resulting in a flashback episode with past characters coming out of the woodwork to testify against him.
Not having the finale OnDemandable makes the whole week early OnDemandability pointless. Now I have to wait two weeks to see the last episode when one week is already too long.
Yeah, re: motivation -- Both my gf and me wanted to know more than we got about Kima's motivation. I thought her brief exchange with Carver helped a lot, because I guess I'm ready to buy that she, like Carver, finds and identifies herself with a model of good policing that's neither too rule-bound nor self-absorbed (and so destructive). But still, I get traction understanding Kima here by just transferring over to her all the work done developing Carver's character in the last couple of seasons. And I'm doing that on the basis of a really quick conversation.
Oh, and on a totally different point, whoever edited last week's "Next week on the Wire" preview is a complete ass. That preview totally blew the suspense of the big Michael/Snoop scene. That was extremely obnoxious.
It wasn't until the scene with Clay and Lester in the bar that it occurred to me that Daniels is the leak from the grand jury (or is at least involved in it) -- that's the big secret that Burrell, the FBI, and his ex-wife all know, right? And the FBI won't let on until Carcetti has tapped Daniels as the new chief, at which point they have his (Democratic) nuts in a vice.
Sorry, I just can't reconcile Kima's betrayal in my head. It doesn't work. It doesn't make sense. That being said, McNulty creating the serial killer is the most unbelievable plot line this show has had. Its the only time I've been convinced that an aspect is totally unrealistic. What it lacks in plausibility, hopefully it makes up for in effect. It depends how the department handles it. Terrible mistake by the show, but they might make up for it with the end of the season. Episode 9 was sweet. Dukie becomes the next Bubbles? Awesome episode.
re Pesto-
That's a very good observation. I've been thinking a lot about who the leak is. Honestly though, I think there are bigger story lines to resolve in the final ep than the leak, and I just don't think it'll ever be revealed.
Also, I really doubt it was Daniels, for a few reasons. Clay Davis said Levy still has this leak, still gets grand jury documents. Daniels shady history from his Easten District days were years and years ago (even some years before the show started), and Levy's still getting fed these documents. And I think we can all agree Daniels has been clean for many years (definitey for the duration of the show). So while I could see that being the shady stuff in Daniel's closet, someone else is responsible for the past 5 years, and its not Daniels.
re Pesto-
That's a very good observation. I've been thinking a lot about who the leak is. Honestly though, I think there are bigger story lines to resolve in the final ep than the leak, and I just don't think it'll ever be revealed.
Also, I really doubt it was Daniels, for a few reasons. Clay Davis said Levy still has this leak, still gets grand jury documents. Daniels shady history from his Easten District days were years and years ago (even some years before the show started), and Levy's still getting fed these documents. And I think we can all agree Daniels has been clean for many years (definitey for the duration of the show). So while I could see that being the shady stuff in Daniel's closet, someone else is responsible for the past 5 years, and its not Daniels.
The leak is someone in the DA's office. What's been hinted at with Daniels is that he somehow got hold of dirty money when he was in the Eastern district.
Greggs's being the one who reveals McNulty's shenanigans to Daniels calls back to Season 1. First, the "sometimes things gotta play hard" line in the hospital, and again to her admonition that "a police is only as good as his CI."
So, Daniels is in a precarious position, with knowledge he doesn't want, and with one episode to go, very litte time left to reveal what exactly he did wrong as a DEU cop in the Eastern. Agreed with Pesto, btw. I think the tip is that Lester was never any good at politics, so might not see what Davis is trying to do.
Dukie. Man, oh man. I love how the show has played up the way crime and the schools are integrated, but Carcetti and Steinhoff and others are always treating them as trade-offs.
I am abolutely terrified that he's going to replace Bubbles, sorry, Reginald.
I'd like to see Herc get got -- he can't have it both ways. But, this is David Simon's Baltimore, and maybe he's got the skills that get rewarded. (I didn't like Carver taking the phone number from Herc, either. He must have known it came from the lawyer, and he's been set up in the latest few seasons to turn into a "good cop." I guess he has to take his punishment, too.)
The leak is someone in the DA's office. What's been hinted at with Daniels is that he somehow got hold of dirty money when he was in the Eastern district.
Re Angry Sam: you mean like the 'Seinfeld' finale?
I just can't reconcile Kima's betrayal in my head.
It's McNulty's and Freamon's betrayal, not Kima's. McNulty's the one wasting officers on a pointless manhunt for a killer who doesn't exist. The serial killer farce could collapse in a dozen different ways, and Levy is already starting to sniff around the holes in the case against Marlo. At least this way Daniels has advance warning and can take steps to protect the department. The best word for Kima is whistleblower, not snitch.
And honestly, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Rawls decides to keep the scam a secret, just as Royce did with Hamsterdam (and probably with similar results).
By the way, I have tons more Wire discussion going on right now at my blog, linked in my name below (end cheap plug).
The way the Kima character is acted is so contrived and phony to me that I've disliked the character for years. So now she does this and just goes over the top in terms of being annoying and ridiculous.
Couple salvageable moments among the wreckage of a misfired season. The Michael/Dukie storyline still totally compelling, Bubbles can't help but be loveable.
Well, the leak went to Levy clients in the Eastern -- the first time we saw grand jury info it was in the hands of Prop Joe. Daniels is dating someone in the DA's office, too.
And, whether or not there is a leak, Davis is definitely up to something.
I could see circumstances leading to Marlo walking, but either getting got because his pride causes him to forego his low profile, or the Greeks refusing to deal with him anymore, or both.
Where's Slim Charles been?
James, definitely Daniels wouldn't currently be the leak from the GJ, or even a recent one. But to Prop Joe (who was, in the immortal words of Mr. Barksdale, one of "those East Side bitches"), getting the leaks was similar, maybe, to getting the stash. He was the man who made the connections, and had unique access to people who could provide a product of crucial value to those in the Game. So maybe the leak is a game that many people have played, and Daniels just one in a long line of players. Being involved, even if he didn't come up with the idea, would be enough to end his career.
I can't think of anything else specific that it might be. I've always assumed it was just some deal with stealing money from a crime scene, or shaking down business people or something. And I totally didn't make the connection for all the shows this season that have talked about the leak. But it wouldn't contradict any of the evidence, and it would definitely fit well with an FBI investigation, wouldn't it?
The leak would almost certainly have to be someone if not from the DA's office, then within the judicial side of things. Otherwise how could they get their hands on sealed indictments? Pretty sure most on the police force wouldn't have access to that info. That being said, the only characters they've really introduced with any depth are Rhonda, Bond, and Judge Phelan. There's also the lady that gave Omar the get out of jail free card (I think she was promoted and Rhonda took her old job), and the white haired guy who they used to give Old Face Andre a tough time about perjury. So unless Simon comes out of left-field I think it has to be one of these 5.
Maybe Daniels is the kingpin of the Baltimore heroin supply - that would explain his otherworldly slim physique.
Maybe Daniels is the kingpin of the Baltimore heroin supply - that would explain his otherworldly slim physique.
Maybe Daniels is the kingpin of the Baltimore heroin supply - that would explain his otherworldly slim physique.
Maybe Daniels is the kingpin of the Baltimore heroin supply - that would explain his otherworldly slim physique.
"The best word for Kima is whistleblower, not snitch."-Marc
Sorry but I don't agree. She ratted on her own people for doing something that while foolish and dangerous, ultimately hurt no one and got a favorable result.
She's supposed to be good police. This is out of character for not only for Kima but for any cop in her position (recall her beating down Bodie for punching a cop in season 1).
Unrelated: "It look good girl"... priceless.
Whistleblower? Snitch? Who cares? While I don't agree with what Kima did, I wasn't arguing whether or not it was "right." I was simply saying that its unbelievable. I don't believe Kima would do that. And if she is, the writers should have shown McNulty and Kima's relationship deteriorating. They didn't. Therefore, I find this ending somewhat ridiculous.
David Simon once said in an interview that the story of Marlo's rise to kingpin was as close as he was ever going to come to writing about how Avon Barksdale came up. How utterly heartbreaking that it turns out that the proxy for Bubbles' backstory was Dukie.
I agree with Matt that the condensed season has led to some seemingly rushed and incomplete decision-making.
As for Kima there are a few justifications for her going to Daniels about McNulty:
*her experience interviewing a victims parents and seeing how the serial killer story caused them real anguish.
*having spent hours of work on something that you find out is a ruse must be frustrating.
*her transition into a parenting role is bound to give her a more long-range perspective on life.
*finally, Daniels is her mentor and she doesn't want to see him get hurt by this so she decides to let him in on it. What he and Rhonda do with the info will be interesting.
kima's not a whistleblower in the sense that she's a tattletale. she's not being motivated by a sanctimonious desire to do the right thing.
she's doing it because she's pissed off about the police work that will be wasted going forward. people who are trying to explain it as morally valent are missing the point.
djslippy,
Those actually are all pretty valid points. Again, though, that type of reasoning just seems a little rushed. Like most of this season. McNulty probably should have explained this in greater detail to Kima, and try to get her to understand.
djslippy does make the best case for a logic behinf Kima's betrayal, esp. the whole interviewing the victims thing, but to me it just doesn't fly. First of all, Kima has been as cynical as anybody on the show about how few good police there are, so she wouldn't care that a bunch of lumps are wasting their time.
At the same time, as much as she disdains worthless cops she's still loyal to them. I remember when they raided the lowrises and she took a nightstick to one of the hoppers who hit one of those alcoholic cops (this was the 1st season, I believe). So Kima has never been averse to bending the rules.
I'm never watching hbo on demand again.
...that's the big secret that Burrell, the FBI, and his ex-wife all know, right?
I thought a previous episode (from this season, IIRC) already alluded to Daniels's early career misdeed, and I thought it was something along the lines of pocketing confiscated drug money (or drugs) or something...
Am I dreaming this?
She ratted on her own people for doing something that while foolish and dangerous, ultimately hurt no one and got a favorable result
Eavsdropping without a warrant hurts no one? I think the Kima "betrayal" -- while somewhat painful to viewers who want to see Marlo get his comeuppance -- is a plausible development given the integrity the writers have imparted to her character.
It strikes me that the entire case against Marlo rests on an illegal wiretap (no warrant), which makes it likely that it will be thrown out. Of course, you shouldn't prosecture McNulty or Freamon for running the illegal wiretap, bec/ then they might not be inclined to do it again.
What I find interesting in this thread is that, on the one hand, you have people talking about how implausible the McNulty-serial killer fabrication plot is, and on the other, people saying they can't believe Kima turning him in for it. I don't know how the Venn diagram looks for these two groups of doubters, but I would advise the second to imagine Kima within the first: she finds McNulty's behavior just as ridiculous and off the reservation as so many viewers do, and reacts accordingly.
My other observation is that McNulty's behavior is of a piece with Bunny's attempt to legalize drugs, Stringer Bell's attempt to defuse the violence and establish cooperation between drug gangs, Michael's efforts to interpose some sense of fair play into street violence, and probably some others that I can't come up with. The ultimate theme of The Wire is "the game," i.e. the codes, usually arbitrary, according to which one lives, so as to distract oneself from the ultimate futility of existence. Cops have them, drug dealers have them, newspaper reporters have them, etc. And when someone tries to go outside the game, they are calling into question the validity of the illusions by which the other players live. Hence the resentment that the street-level cops felt toward Bunny, hence Snoop's telling Michael that he was never really "one of us," and hence Kima and Bunk recoiling from McNulty's extraordinarily unorthodox and disruptive approach.
She ratted on her own people for doing something that while foolish and dangerous, ultimately hurt no one and got a favorable result
Ask the families of the homeless "victims" if the scam hurt no one. Or the police whose time has been wasted on a snark-hunt. Or Bunk, whose legitimate case against Partlow was delayed when the fake serial killer case backed up the lab work. Or McNulty himself, who seemed pretty damned remorseful at the end of last week.
She's supposed to be good police. This is out of character for not only for Kima but for any cop in her position
Kima's the one who refused to finger Wee-Bey as her shooter back in season one, even after Bunk hinted that it would be easier to prosecute him if she did, because she couldn't make the ID. This is absolutely in character for her, and it's part of what makes her good police.
Charlie,
Are you saying most of the Wire's characters are absurdist heroes?
Kima's the one who refused to finger Wee-Bey as her shooter back in season one, even after Bunk hinted that it would be easier to prosecute him if she did, because she couldn't make the ID.
Nice snag!
I'm sure Kima will explain herself more directly next episode. But here's a scene, described by Alan Sepinwall on his blog, that shows why this is completely consistent with her character:
'One of the key Kima moments in the series takes place late in season one, after she's been shot by Barksdale's soldiers. Bunk brings a photo array to her hospital room, and when she can identify one of her shooters but not Wee-Bey, Bunk suggests that the trial might go a lot easier if she could identify both men. "Sometimes," Kima tells him, resolute, "things just got to play hard."'
The description is a bit unclear -- if you don't remember the scene, Bunk is actually POINTING to Wee Bey's picture in the photo array, implying, "This is the guy who shot you. We know it. Just pretend you saw him and he falls -- everyone's happy." Kima won't budge.
What do you all who hate Kima for snitching think about the Bush admin's warrantless wiretapping?
I thought a previous episode (from this season, IIRC) already alluded to Daniels's early career misdeed, and I thought it was something along the lines of pocketing confiscated drug money (or drugs) or something...
Am I dreaming this?
No, you're right. And for that matter, I thought we found out who the court leak was a couple seasons ago--a secretary in one of the offices--but I could be dreaming myself.
I don't know where all the hating on Kima comes from. Her motivations are pretty obvious, and her telling Daniels doesn't need any further explanation. I just re-watched Season 1 this week, and this is entirely consonant with her line (as alluded above) "sometimes it's just gotta play hard".
The case against Marlo is totally cooked now, as the p/c for the search came solely from the illegal wire. I can't imagine this not coming out, because you have to think Daniels will disclose this (knowing that Kima has already revealed it to him, which doesn't make it hard for her to do it again); but in any event, now Ronnie has an ethical obligation to disclose it. This pretty much fits with the Wire story-line: no clean endings, the good guys don't always win.
On that note, I'd be surprised if we get resolution to the grand jury leak. No way it can be Daniels - it's just not something he would have access to. The only way it could be Ronnie is if 5 seasons of the Wire have been a misdirection - remember how surprised she was to learn it? And then passing it on to Bond? Having just re-watched Season 1 I would put my money on Phelan's secretary. She was always very conspicuous and officious about having paperwork signed,with appropriate copies, etc...and the camera always seemed to linger on her just a moment too long.
Props to Bubbles (the character and the actor) - the glue that tied this series together.
Marc,
I was thinking the same thing. Also consistent with the overall themes of the show.
On Kima, besides the points you've all brought up ab0out her being frustrated by good police work not getting done and so on, I think you also have to remember her loyalty to Daniels, she isn't going to let him get burned by something like this without warning.
No Spoilers, this is just my guesses. I'm thinking Avon emerges in control again, Marlo whether he lives or dies is too compromised for the Greeks now. I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that Avon has been manipulating a lot of the action from prison all along.
Another comment, notice that episode 8 was written by Dennis Lehane, Episode 9 was George Peleconos (I think he was also playing the foreign corespondant) So I guess Episode 10 will be Richard Price? David Simon had the vision to create an incredible show, but it seems the best epsiodes are his vision interacting with some top notch novelists.
There have been rumors of a Wire movie, I have mixed feeligns about that, but one thing that would be great is if Simon could use his clout to get a movie deal for Peleconos, Lehane and Price have had great movies made from their books, Peleconos needs a shot:-) I'm thinking Robert Wisdom as Derek Strange.
Finding the serial killer plot unbelievable, and Kima's reaction surprising are not thoughts that are mutually exclusive. I find the ease with which McNulty has been unable to accomplish this completely unrealistic, and Kima's decision to turn in McNulty completely surprising. One has nothing to do with the other.
Re: Daniels
Why is this dirty secret in his background treated like such a mystery on Wire threads? In the first season, when Burrell is his boss for the first Barksdale task force, Burrell gets Daniels into his office and shows him a file full of FBI intercepts and talks about Daniels pocketing drug money. I forget the episode, but they have a five-minute conversation about it. It's not a secret to us. It's why Burrell chose Daniels in the first place.
I think it's Kima's timing that makes her motivation ultimately suspect. Why wait until after the big bust? She couldn't speak with Carver any earlier to "get in touch with her feelings"? I'd have been more open to her reaction had it been within a day or so of her being told. As it unfolded, not so much.
Anyway, we knew McNulty's house o' cards had to come down; if it was she who pulled out the first card, so be it.
Snoop gets hers; I suspect Chris will get his in the form of LWOP--Bunk's po-lice work pays off. The drug bust will fall apart, but I agree that Marlow's day is done even if he's sprung by his schyster attorney (which one has to give high odds for occurring--money well spent and all that). Perhaps we'll get to see who rushes in to fill the void.
Based on the preview, my most anticipated scene is McNulty and Templeton having a nice chat.
Definitely going to miss this show. Watched it religiously since season 1, having been a huge "Homicide..." fan. HBO's holding a pretty empty bag right now.
Richard Price wrote episode seven (one of my least favorite thanks to Clay Davis's half-hour trial). IMDB lists episode ten as being written by Simon and Ed Burns, just as it should be.
I don't think Kima's refusal to identify Weebey is at all in keeping with her decision to rat out McNulty...and Freeman. She has to know that her actions will at the very least end their careers, but no she goes ahead and does it after maybe two episodes of deliberation??? With Weebey she wasn't hurting any of her fellow cops, so how are these similar again?
Even if you think she's pissed at McNulty you have to recognize that she wouldn't do that to Lester.
RE: who was hurt, let's not forget "the schools." All that taxpayer money Jimmy's been redirecting for overtime and rental cars and the like was supposed to be spent on the public school system and its fifty-four million dollar hemorrhage.
Marc:
The homeless are dead either way, but I see your point about the families. As for police officers' time being wasted. Believe me from personal experience that much of a police officer's career is spent on meaningless exercises (ever seen a "surge drill" in NYC?), and in any event the cops were happy to have the OT. Also, from an operational perspective, having the extra presence probably prevented some crime. In short, while it may have caused heartache for the families, I don't think McNutty's storying caused much harm (as you point out much of the harm has been to McNulty himself).
I know that Kima refused to finger Wee-Bey as her shooter back in season one. But this is different than taking a principled position where your own friends' lives will be destroyed by it. I don't think this makes her good police, but our definitions obviously differ on that point.
So, when Dukie gets out of the car at the end of the episode, we see a man leading a horse into wherever it is he's going. Watching the man and the horse, Michael says, "I know what goes on in there...."
Am I the only one who didn't get that? There were junkies there - and horses? What's the connection?
I know that "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name" is all about heroin, but I don't think that this is some random America reference... or is it....?
And the set up on the grand jury thing is pretty clear. Lester knows that Levy is dirty. Levy suspects that Lester is breaking the law.
Any doubt over how that would play out?
Re: the leak, I've said it before here, but I say it's gotta be Bond. Among other things, he pulled a rising star, Rhonda, off of drugs and put her on homicide, where she'd be a lot less likely to go after Prop Joe.
And in the spirit of self-linking to Wire commentary, I invite everyone to click on my name for some amusing Wire-inspired drawings
Snitches get stitches and Kima knows this! Going behind McNulty and Freamon to give Daniels a "heads up" however noble, is still a stupid thing to do, as other commenters have noted, it disrupts the apple cart of arbitrary rules, all characters in The Wire have chosen to live by (and die by.)
Dukie's backstory as the inevitable prequel to Bubbles life is pure poetic genius and incredibly sad.
Is Michael the new Marlo?
" Watching the man and the horse, Michael says, 'I know what goes on in there....' Am I the only one who didn't get that? There were junkies there - and horses? What's the connection?"
It's nothing to do with horses. He just knows that the Arabers working out of there are a bunch of dope-fiends. It's a half-step up from dropping Dukie off to live in a crack house.
I took it as something slightly different, given Michael's backstory of abuse.
Snitches get stitches and Kima knows this!
I have no idea how anybody can watch the Wire and come away with an anti-snitching message, even in jest. One of the show's gentlest and most ethical characters, Bubbles, is an ex-CI. Even Omar played that role. Seriously, did you cheer when Randy's house got firebombed?
I get that Kima is putting her friends in jeopardy. The thing is, they put themselves in jeopardy by starting the scam. They are the guys who upset the apple cart, broke their professional code, and endangered the entire department. Kima is protecting her mentor (Daniels) and her protege (Carver) and her protege's proteges, just like all the good police on this show do.
I think Kima is telling Daniels not as a rat or a snitch, but as a person torn by friendship and professional obligation. She has three friends in the situation. Daniels, McNulty, and Freamon, whatever happens at least one of them will have be in deep trouble. She may have just decided whom she likes and respects more.
My question about the show, will Rawls be outed? Having the scene of him in the gay bar, seems rather pointless without something coming of it. Unless, Simon just wanted to make a point about the most vocally homophobic men having something to hide.
Oh boy, The Wire seems to have heightened the tolerance of some viewers for illegal wiretaps. Let me take a wild guess here and wager that this wasn't David Simon's intention.
A few people have mentioned the Bubbles/Dukie connection, but I haven't seen anyone talk about the equally compelling Omar/Michael connection. It seems to me that both are death/rebirth stories, but in a reverse sort of way. The old Bubbles dies as the new is reborn (positive) and the old Omar dies as the new Omar is reborn (positive or negative?).
DSG: it's probably a little too programmatic to assume that each of the 4 kids from season 4 is meant as a backstory to one of the major characters from the first season, but if Michael's story is meant to echo the early days of anyone, I'd say Stringer Bell rather than Marlo. Ruthless, cold-blooded and willing to kill, but also intelligent and self-aware enough to see some of the limitations of the game as played.
The parallels between Snoop's "you were never one of us" speech in the current episode and the arguments between Avon and Stringer toward the end of S3 at least hint in this direction.
I disagree, Dr. Memory. Michael parallels Omar more closely than Stringer Bell in a couple of ways:
First, his attachments to his friends (Bug, Dukie) mirror Omar's attachments to his group.
Secondly, Michael operates under or appears to be developing a certain moral code of behavior. He has, on several occasions this season questioned why we need to kill this guy or that guy, he even made the decision himself not to kill the kid during the hit earlier in the season. This moral code has now forced him out of the Stansfield crew. Similarly, Omar showed a similar reluctance to kill for reasons relating to some inner moral code and it kept him from being connected to any of the gang activity even as he participates in it.
Pooh:
Re:Michael's background, that makes sense, too.
Kenard is the new Marlo.
Also, does anyone think that Levy deliberately let Marlo's cell phone number fall in to Herc's hands? He was pretty ostentatious in revealing to Herc that he had it. It would be too obtuse of Levy not to understand what would happen once he let that information slip. On the other hand, my working theory seems like too much of a triple bank shot--that Levy, knowing that the walls would close in on Marlo sooner or later, was making sure that the bust, when it came, would be dirty. The other possibility (that Levy, finding Marlo too odious even for him, is doling out rough justice) is of course out of the question.
I don't think Levy intentionally set up Marlo, but if he did, I'd assume it was on behalf of Avon.
The thing about snitches is - everybody isn't one - until they walk out of the room.
This is how it goes in prison and almost certainly on the street as well:
Four guys in a room talking. One leaves.
The other three start talking, "Hey, you know he's a snitch."
Second guy leaves.
The remaining two say, "Hey, you know he's a snitch."
Third guy leaves.
Last guy says, "Lousy snitch! Now, gotta talk to my C.O (or contact at the PD)!"
At least on "Terminator", when Carlos casually mentioned how Sarah's old friend Enrique was a "ratta" in Spanish to his Crew, Sarah took it seriously. She confronted Enrique, who tried to bullshit his way out and almost made it - except Cameron didn't care and killed him anyway. She said, "Because you wouldn't have" when Sarah asked why she did it. And the last scene showed that she was right to do so as Enrique was a snitch about to sell out Sarah to agent Ellison.
The fun part was that it was just a coincidence that Ellison was Enrique's handler.
Unfortunately, the gun Cameron used was the gun Sarah picked up at the safe house on their initial visit - and that tied the Enrique killing to the Resistance fighters murders.
Also Cameron's blood sample from when an angry Sarah struck Cameron across the face at Enrique's was then tied to the synthetic blood at the safe house as well as to the blood sample found at the murder scene of the plastic surgeon.
Derek Reese's prints, taken when he was arrested for Andy's murder, then matched those he left at the safe house and tied him to everything. His break out of Federal custody by Sarah and Cameron led directly to the discovery of the Terminator hand - which in turn led directly to agent Ellison realizing that the Connors were still alive in the last episode. (He's been one clueless idiot so far.)
And tonight the FBI closes in on the Connors, Cameron and Reese - but the FBI has to compete with Chromartie, the "bad" Terminator. From the previews, this means lots of FBI SWAT team bodies.
Re: the leak in the DA's office
can someone explain why some commenter's think that Daniels' is the likely leak to Leavy's office regarding who's snitching/testifying?
I just assumed, and I think I also saw this in an episode of Law and Order, that it was some clerk or bailiff, who got paid a few bucks to drop some in
I can see where Kima is coming from. First of all, she has gotten closer to her kid, so money that is misdirected from the schools towards bullshit is taken out of her kid's potential future. In addition, she is supposed to stand up for law and order, yet McNulty and Lester are doing it in a way that is as much as about putting away a murderer as it is about satisfying their own obsessions and egos. They are breaking the law. Laws and warrants exist for a reason (I saw her beating the kid who hit the old cop more as sticking up for an older cop who couldn't really defend himself against a guy who acted violently without reason, as well as a form of cop solidarity, but even that has limits).
In addition, the fact that it was Lester of all people who was in on it has to be heartbreaking. While Daniels was the mentor, Lester was the father figure. He was supposed to be the guy who stood up on principle. Hell, Lester, Omar and Bubbles were always my favorite characters, yet seeing Lester do this (especially after chewing out McNulty for being self-destructively self-righteous a few years back) has been disappointing. Seeing Bunk toil doing things the way they should be done probably also let her know that there is someone who feels as she does. She is also smart enough to know Levy would probably know how to spot that something was wrong with the case built against them. I don't know if I would rat out my friends or if there is a greater good to be served here (especially considering the illegal wiretap was done on an ad hoc basis and wasn't government policy), yet I'm not sure that there is a clear-cut case against her telling what she knows, especially to protect Daniels.
Also, the fact that they just threw in "hey, Rawls is gay" and never followed up on that also always annoyed me.
Also hoping to seeing my favorite bit character, Brother, possibly dropping back into Bawlmore one last time.
Phialdelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is such a big fan of the show that he's holding a special open screening in City Hall for the finale.
Michael Nutter is your new bicycle.
Good call on the Michael/Omar Dukie/Bubbles.
WTF are people doing calling Kima a snitch? Go back to watching the Sopranos if you want to glorify criminal actions. Fuck all you people calling her a snitch. Take your omerta and shove it up your ass. Go back to playing GTAIII or whatever the fuck you amoral shitheads do. If you want to become human again go read Radley Balko. Fucking unbelievable.
Also, the fact that they just threw in "hey, Rawls is gay" and never followed up on that also always annoyed me.
They also didn't follow up on the "Landsman is straight" thread either. Lazy writing I guess.
Comments closed March 17, 2008.
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Heads in the Sand
The finale isn't available via OnDemand.
Posted by Kriston Capps | March 3, 2008 11:52 AM