Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

The Wire, Season 2, Episode 2 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-12-13 01:05:46
Imported:
2026-06
Tags:
haven't archived this post yet. have a subscription? use the importer!

Content

Collateral Damage

Files

Previews only

Wire2 2

Comments

trenton gragg

You two nailed it on the head. This is a story of a city. The first season deals how police track and investigate the criminals. Season two is about how contraband of any kind gets into the country and other places. Without spoiling future seasons that will be the way seasons three, four and five go as well.

dys

The Francis Scott Key bridge McNulty found the body near, that they thought she might have jumped from, was the one that famously collapsed when a ship hit it earlier this year. In this episode they talk about cars being the major import at the port of Baltimore; that is still the case now and that was the main economic disruption of that collapse blocking the harbor.

Roland Cooke

> "Egg in beer" is a phrase that has multiple meanings, including a practice of cracking a raw egg into beer and an idiom that means something undeserved: Practice In the past, people would crack raw eggs into beer, especially light ales and lagers, to clarify the beer. The egg would sink to the bottom of the glass, dragging impurities to the bottom and leaving a clearer beer. This practice was common in the 19th century, and was especially popular in mining towns in the northeastern United States. A popular breakfast in these towns was called a "Miner's Breakfast" and consisted of two raw eggs cracked into a beer with a shot of whiskey. Idiom The phrase "what do you want, egg in your beer?" is an idiom that means someone is asking for something undeserved, or too much of a good thing. The idiom originated around 1940 and became popular during World War II. The origin of the phrase is unknown, as adding an egg to beer doesn't improve the taste. <

Jonathan

A note on these “special details”: while most don’t start for a reason as petty as a window almost all of them start for some political reason. Those come from the powers that be not the police. That’s why you had that scene with Stan and the guy from city hall. Stan has no power but that guy does. When these details are created squads are supposed to send guys but they aren’t going to get any leeway from accountability for their productivity because they had to send them and in a department with 500-700 unfilled staff positions at any one time the commanders send whoever they need least to get their work done. Ed Burns the co-creator of the show found himself in that position as a homicide cop sent to a detail which said where he stood in the department and eventually led to a career change.

Skinny_Obelix

In a previous life, I was a civilian consultant to a local police department for 2 years, and one of the things that surprised me the most is the reality of murder cases vs what we think murder cases are from entertainment. In entertainment these cases are written to be solved, while in reality there's a good chance you can't find evidence, no mcguffin that shows up, no witness that suddenly remembers something,.. There was a case where the mother was murdered, and the only suspects were father and son, who had their alibi tied to one another. One of our brass started on that case 18 years before I arrived, and at the time the statute of limitations was 20 years. And every day that file was on our dining table at work with us going over all the details trying to find something. We couldn't find anything, even though every fiber in our body was pointing to that father and son, and they walked. Watching my colleague carry that frustration of a career was a hard thing to watch. But it's also really well depicted in this show, there are murders you kinda know you're probably not going to clear, it's not as much not wanting to do the job, it's knowing you're going to spend a lot of effort for possibly years and come up with nothing when you could have been productive. So even though it's certainly about not wanting to do the job in certain cases, it's more than that in reality.

John Marnell

Am I the only one who can't look at Jay without seeing Fat John Cena?

Youtalkingtome
>>158153991

That's an interesting point you make. I never considered that and we really should have especially seeing how last season ended.

John Marnell
>>158154528

Once you see it you'll never unsee it....or....given the person we're talking about....once you can't see it you'll never can't unsee it?

that girl

That's a pretty good Fredo impression. By the way, can you think of an actor with a more stacked filmography than John Cazale? Guy was in five movies before he died, and they were all classics that were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Youtalkingtome
>>158162037

Nobody had a better run in a tragically short career than John Cazale. Michael Jordan wishes he had a hot streak like that guy. What an absolutely tragic legend.

Robert Bauman

Valchek is one of my least favorite characters; an embodiment of all the worst characteristics of the PD higher-ups; vain, thin-skinned, and self-interested, with his actual job way lower on the priorities list. Prez is a complicated character, but I feel for him having that guy as his father-in-law lol

MrRuss50
>>158154528

Seen two people mention this exact thing in recent reactions. James vs Cinema and Frank Freezy. So I guess you're not the only one.

IDoDabble

I'm surprised you're being so immediately harsh on Frank and taking him to be an absolute bad guy. I can't remember how I felt about him the first time I watched, but I'm pretty sure it was never that negative. I wonder why? Also, Nicky was so much colder about the dead women than Frank, who was quite obviously shocked and appalled.

Youtalkingtome
>>158218531

Like many TV characters, maybe Frank will grow on us over the season. But for me, the "I need to know in the future if anything is alive in the cans" line really signaled he is okay with taking part in human trafficking. Maybe he doesn't think to wonder who the women are or what they are going to be used for (maybe the context of the practice has changed since the show was on), but it's not great.

dys
>>158218531

It's also hard for me to remember how I felt about Frank on first watch but this is my third watch of this season (this is my least favorite, all the others I'd seen more than twice before) and on both my second watch and this one I've been on exactly the same page as Joe and Kevin. Frank sees himself as a good person, which I think they said in this episode reaction. He's completely genuine in wanting to take care of the guys in his union local, and probably started with letting them steal small stuff out of containers, then take bribes to smuggle small stuff, but it just kept escalating one step at a time. He was horrified for all of a day that he was facilitating human trafficking which he probably wouldn't have accepted a month ago, but he keeps redrawing his red line because he doesn't know how to keep his people afloat without this smuggling business. So now his line has moved one more notch to where he can accept human trafficking if nobody dies (that he knows about).

Youtalkingtome
>>158182429

Valchek sucks. Annoying in the first season and he hasn't slowed down at all. My guess is, this guy is gunna go lower and lower