Nah Bunk got it, he had to take a step back to think because he realized if Marlo was stashing bodies in abandoned houses then there must have been countless more all across Baltimore.
@@johnsnow8186 this....and he knew how his office would handle the notion of "finding" bodies from the girls in the can from season 2...he knew the bureaucratic nightmare and the shit from his bosses they would get...really is a great show to analyze structures and organizational culture and outcomes
@@joshuathompson4571 Bro watch it and you'll be trying to convert your girlfriend and friends to watch it like a Jehovah's witness would.. cuz it's that good
The best part is that Lester figured it out because Snoop used better quality hardware than public works did. If you're going to imitate government work, you gotta work with scraps.
@@StayAlert_StayAlive ultimately tho there downfall was killing lex at that playground and not taking him further away Lester stood in the spot where they shot lex and seen all the vacants and priced it together
I imagin if dmx was playing a villain teaming up with marlo crew similar to his role in belly and closed as avon and stringer was it will be great.... And if... Tupac was playing birdie character teaming up with omar wow the wire will be more and more underatted as series... Larenz tate the actor who was played ho dogg in menace to society forming a trio with snoop and chris.... And lil romeo playing a villain closed to michael wow just an idea but thats will be great
I couldn't agree with you more...What's even more chilling is how he said it and then walked away because he realized exactly what the next sequence of events would have to be...Ergo, ripping off the boards, finding all those bodies and then needing real "poh-lice" to start fitting all the pieces together..Yikes!
He said lex is in there like if lex was still alive just sitting inside. He said it so casually but we the audience all know what happened to lex and everyone else chris and snoop murdered.
employing street kids is brilliant actually. they can't get charged as hard and they are easy to dupe with promises of wealth that will never materialize. But you have some grown as man facing 20-30 years and then they flip easy.
Nah. It would have taken weeks to do street busts to show exhaustion, and the better part of a month to get the surveillance warrants. Then it would take him at least two weeks to read the patterns and suss out the flows of communications and command. THEN it would take him about 20 minutes to build his case. :)
The greatness of this scene is that there are few words. The writers want you to figure out how Lester Freamon knows that Lex's body is in the abandoned building the same way that Bunk Moreland comes to the exact conclusion when he examines the difference in the nails on the doors for himself. And when the camera pulls back and shows the entire building, it reveals the totality of what else is inside there: a cemetery.
Even you yourself got it right when you put “A Cemetery” it holds a far greater significance than to just put “building full of dead bodies” this scene is just too magnificent
One of the greatest scenes in The Wire, so by default one of the greatest TV scenes of all time, so harrowing, desperate, perfectly encapsulates the scale of the evil and how far lost the streets have truly became
And they made sure attentive viewers can get what's going on, even though they're not 1/10 as perceptive as a competent homicide detective, by having that scene with Snoop shopping for power drills much earlier in the season.
Lester's talent was attention to detail. He was able to look through mountains of financial records and see patterns. McNulty' s talent was visualization. He visualized D'Angelo's "suicide" and put himself there, realizing that D'Angelo was murdered.
Lester had to go through many "dumping grounds" before Prez tip about Lex. Lots of leg work, lots of failure but oh baby when a case comes together...... i could die happy.
Absolute genius. It takes the work of truly great writers and directors to pull off a scene that says so much with the actors saying very little. There were only about four lines of dialogue in that entire sequence, and yet the audience feels the full weight of its significance, and how critical of a juncture it is in the season. It's scenes like this that remind me why The Wire is my absolute favorite TV show of all time.
Yes. The writing is amazing. Just look at all the chains of events that lead to an incredible twist. My favorites are the death of Wallace and the fate of Randy.
In a lesser show that treats the audience like idiots they would've had Lester (played by a white male model looking dude) explain to Bunk (played by a hot blonde chick), "Hey, wait a second! These nails don't match up! And didn't Herc say something about finding a nailgun in Chris and Snoop's SUV? Why, I bet they killed Lex, dumped him in this house and boarded him up with the nailgun!" And that scene would be nominated for an Emmy.
And to think, the majority of his career was spent on useless busy work because he pissed off the wrong people. Just another example of The Wire showing us the consequences of the system.
Almost every scene he just walks off, after figuring all the shit out. It always kills me when he does it. At the office, he'll appear, spit facts and walks away. Although here he went to the Car, probably to grab a Crow or something.
You gotta appreciate the sound design. The distant presence of barking dogs and horns blaring from a city train as it rhythmically pushes along the tracks. It truly gives a an added layer to the character of the city while heightening the drama of the scene.
@@magetaaaaaa Usually it's dubbed in. They'll note the sounds of a certain environment when prepping for a scene and then dub it in post production. For actual ambient use questions you would have to look up who the Sound Editor was.
Indeed. There's no sirens, no sounds of people on the street talking etc. It really makes the area seem like a graveyard with it being so quiet and subtly suggests why they chose to murder and conceal lex there as it makes it feel so out of the way. It really makes lex's death feel lonely and being another person 'dissappeared' in a huge city
I think Bunk got it as soon as Lester said Lex is in there, because he reached for the nails immediately after Lester left, but didn't look at them at the prior gates. All that confusion after was a mixture of figuring out how Lester got to the answer and awe.
@@SimunSansa It’s the horrifying realization that Snoop and Chris have been busy filling the vacants with bodies and how many bodies you could fit into just one vacant building if you had a mind to.
It's like Bunk is an eager student watching a teacher solve a difficult problem. He observers Lester from afar and even mimics his actions. After Freamon figures it out Bunk takes a minute to go over the steps Lester made in drawing his conclusions. These are signs of a great student. And probably one of the reasons Bunk was a great cop
True of a few characters, the Wire is fun because it's a perfect storm, without McNulty, Phelan, hell even Prez, they don't get a lot of the clearances in Season 1 which means no major crimes later which means all the fun never happens Well actually without Phelan there's nothing ever at all
@@perfectlycalm3635 pretty sure Mcnulty is a genius at solving crime. Even Bunk said Early on in Jimmys Career he was solving cases at an alarming rate.
This scene more than any other makes you realize that Chris and Snoop are killing m************. No matter how nice they are about it no matter how good of characters they are they are taking lives and then boarding up the bodies like freaking serial killers. It's hard to buff it up and this scene is just creepy.
I love how small Bunk looks in the final frame, like he's looking at a vast, inscrutable monster so big it appears as landscape. This is the moment, and the case, that ultimately ties together the abandonment of Baltimore's people by America with the abrogation of morality and decency: the people of Baltimore were cast off, and so too were their homes, and so too were their young people, and finally those social failures are united in a crime that is at once pedestrian and yet novel in its cruelty: the entombment of murder victims in the empty rowhouses.
The actor who played Lester is so supreme -- It's a wonder with all the folks (Amazon, Disney, Apple) looking for programing that no one has given him his own detective vehicle.
Every time I see a clip from the Wire, I see the DVD cover with McNulty. Yet every scene where something is UNCOVERED, it s Lester Freamon. HE should be on that damn box cover
mcnulty got the cover because he starts the whole series in motion by bitching to the jusge in episode 1-he also the one that pushes for and gets the wiretap which to be fair is the name of the show-its clearly not a white black things cuz literally all the best and beloved characters are blck Mcnulty isnt even likeable by the end
@@pa1832 Yeah, Lester was a damned genius but if not for McNutty and Phelan he'd still be wiling away his time in a basement making miniatures getting rich.
Man, i've probably watched all of the seasons of The Wire about 5 times. 5 seasons n all. This is in my top 3 scenes i think. Lester, Bunk, detective work, the realness of it all.
Fav scenes: this one, the Bodie death scene, the Stringer death scene, the high noon showdown/parlay scene between Omar and Brother Mouzone, the Omar/Marlo card game robbery, the snoop Home Depot nailgun scene, the Kenard getting his ass whipped by Mike scene (one of the greatest) the Weebay murder confession/Laketrout/horseradish scene, the Bird interrogation room/locked door scene, the scene where mcnulty confesses to the crooked newspaper guy that they’re both liars, basically every scene with Omar especially the “Out of Time” prop joe scene, the Marlo “my name is my name” scene, the Cheese last speech/ “That was for Joe” scene, any scene with Theresa D’agostino (she was so hot.) Most hate scenes: most dock scenes from season 2, scenes were Namond talked shit, scenes where Namonds Mama talked shit on Namond, especially when she’d say “you’re Daddy Weebay” like they had to remind us, Kenard killing Omar.....
Not that any season was lighthearted or jovial, but this was by far the heaviest season. It was a very dark season literally and figuratively. The setting for much of it was at night in dark situations I think to show the metaphorical darkness of fear and the ominous reign over the west end that marlo and crew had. The fear street level characters had of ending up in those vacant houses was persistent throughout the entire season. The stories of chris being a witch doctor and turning the dead into zombies, the disappearances for these characters to be discovered in their individual tombs, all so heavy and unnerving but so masterfully done.
Lester Freamon: Natural Po-lice This scene of Lester seeing through the camouflage, remembering the conversation with Herc about Chris and Snoop bring pulled over with a nailgun, coupled with the last shot when the vacants suddenly change from just rundown background scene of urban decay into a sinister, looming collection of crypts for murdering psychopaths is one of so many amazingly crafted scenes that made this series a masterpiece.
This scene is so fucking well done. Love how they seamlessly tied it in with Lester's intrigue about Chris and Snoop's nail gun earlier when Herc is explaining the shit to him in the same episode.
I love how the story is told for us too. Knowing what we know, and knowing Lester’s mannerisms, the camera puts us in his head and we get to see him put it all together, “where would I hide a body? Why are these vacants boarded up differently?”
This was the moment we have all been waiting for. The way this scene ends is so great it gives off a “justice will be served” type of tone. When Bunk said “Lester you really starting to scare me man” I assumed Bunk was starting to realize…”that it all made sense why they had no bodies on record in months, and he bagan to think “how could we have missed these obvious hiding spots”
If this was an anime, this scene would have been 10 minutes long while both characters took turns explaining how some nails were rusted and other weren't. and some doors were solid and others were loose.
Kruppt808 chris only got jammed up with one Murder. Bugs daddy cause of the DNA when he spit on him. He didn't get caught up with the bodies in the vacants cause him and Snoop did keep it clean
In the end when the lawyers were making deals Chris did end up eating all those murders, Marlo didn't go to jail but if he get back into the game later he'd have charges against him as well.
@@Anzomax2 Yeah the irony there is that he was the coldest most ruthless killer, but he made ONE kill out of passion (clearly he was abused when young and so felt very strongly about it) and that's what got him
Bunk wasn't there when Herc told Lester about the nailing machine. So he had 1 less piece of information. Nonetheless, he got it as soon as he touched the nail. All the pieces matter.
Got to love bunk he genuinely cares. Its not that Lester and McNulty don't care its just they're egotistical and get a kick out of the work they do. For bunk though this is personal you can see the devastation on his face once he discovers whats going on.
Alexander Lee and he looks upset because he knows there’s probably a shit ton more bodies in all them other vacants which means more red names on the board. And since most of them are decomposed, they’ll be John Does until they get identified somehow
First time i watched this show i couldnt help but get creeped out at the thought of how many dead bodies were probably dumped in abandoned houses in every major city in north America.
Being a "witness' of what Marlo's Crew were doing with the bodies in the Vacants, I found this scene incredibly rewarding! PS: Lester Freamon at his finest!
I love the structure and placement of this scene. About 3 scenes before this, a throwaway line by Herc when Lester was interviewing him about the Randy case where Herc mentions how he randomly finds a nail gun in the back of Chris' car and thinks nothing of it with Lester giving a puzzled look. Leads to this scene where Lester puts 2 and 2 together..
@@Tuelz... I think it's on topic really, the reason Chris and Snoop could do this is all these vacant houses were up there, miles and and miles of them. Shit I've seen some stats that if we took every homeless person and gave them an entire currently vacant house to themselves, we'd run out of homeless people when we still had something like 80% of vacant homes remaining. Wild
Ganu Rocks i doubt that. Yes, the tip was the breaking point. However, the cops were already all over Marlo for his killing. They would eventually have something to catch Marlo, no matter how careful he is.
Lester is so damn good at detective work whoever assigned him to the pawnshop division should have been fired for negligent misuse of human resources. If Lester was still homicide the whole time the city would have far fewer unsolved murders.... Ok, time to re watch the wire. I did it with Band of Brothers after watching a few clips... Quality
***** See, I think Bunk is the intellectual detective. He's smart and uses the gift of gab and his ability to read people to solve murders. E.G. using the copier as a lie detector machine and how he got Fat Face Rick to admit it wasn't Omar who murdered the civilian in the deli. Lester is the more analytical, attention to detail, deductive reasoning type detective ala Sherlock or Monk. He leaves no stone unturned and is able to see the whole situation. They make a great team because they have all the bases covered.
