The Wire - McNulty and Pearlman Visit Levy's Office 

Fucking brilliant McNulty's script just described our entire judicial and political system.

For all of Jimmy's brashness, he's right on the money. He doesn't care about promotions, or the clearance rate - he cares about catching bad guys, period.

Man this show aged like wine. I watched this show when I was a teenager and some scenes like this definitely went over my head. Rewatching them with a mature eye and more knowledge just bring a different light to the show.

Dude playing Levy is an awesome actor

"Everybody stays friends, everybody gets paid, and everybody's got a effing future..." Omg

Can hear Dominic West’s British accent slipping out at times

But McNaulty was right. And she did want to be a Judge.

Levy was a past member of the bar association. Serious influence on Pearlman’s career. this writing was amazing. A police officer almost died and it stems down to exactly what Jimmy said: everybody stays friends and has a future.

This scene...for me...is one of the absolute greatest in TV (or movies for that matter). The depth of what McNulty is saying is so profound...its stunning. It literally explains virtually all the problems we have in actually solving societal problems.

Mcnulty is the dude that says what everyone thinks but has no balls to say.

Jimmy could be a massive prick at times, but you gotta hand it to him here. Nailed it.

Dominic West is such an underrated actor

Levy = OG Saul Goodman

If only more people had the courage to say what is real and true on the job! One of McNulty's admirable qualities.

lol the accent slipped a bit in this one. normally it was pretty legit

2:24 when McNulty gets mad he starts talking with a British accent LOL

ANOTHER CAREER IN THE BALANCE

"Everybody stays friends, Everybody gets paid, Everybody has fucking future." uff...the truth hurts doesn't it.

Jimmy McNulty: ZERO fucks given.

Man, both these scenes are amazing. West is astounding, especially on the street part of the scene, and Dierdre Lovejoy ices him down nicely too. What a series.

McNulty made the Wire one of the best characters

This is why Jimmy McNulty is a great character.

As much as everyone tries to reinforce the idea that Jimmys selfish, in reality hes the only person doing his job to the fullest, surrounded by ppl who are thinking about protecting their careers

Who cares that his accent slipped up. Such a righteous speech deservers an upper-class English accent IMO

Jimmy fed up with the system *_"69ing"_* each other and called it like it is.

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman

Levy played a good role as a defense attorney that makes us sick

Pearlman learned a lot from mcnulty, and from Daniels, too.. by the show's end, she managed to outsmart Levy and get a deal that managed to get Chris in jail and Marlo to retire, while McNulty and Lester get to retire and not go to jail (case didn't go to trial, their lies weren't exposed), while securing her position as a judge.

fuck Saul I want a miniseries with Levy

"You'll just use anyone, won't you?" Yeah, so did you.

“The System” in a nutshell. Everyone has something to gain and everything to lose if they don’t play ball.

The writing was amazing for McNultys line outside the courthouse. The whole show but that specifically put the judicial and executive branches under heavy fire for letting bad people get away with bad shit because the people who can stop them want to be promoted. Individual growth vs. community growth, a common theme of the show.

Stringer and Jimmy's accent always slip when they yell lol

The way he said savino "bratton" is when the accent slipped

Ricky Gervais watched McNultys burn Levy right before his last Golden globe speech lol

Love when Dominic West starts heating up and the British accent comes out lol

I can hear his British accent

The irony of her acting so indignant about him using her to pursue this case is laughable when you can tell he's absolutely right about how she's just working the job till she can climb the next rung.

I was in 8th grade and high school when this gem hit the screen. When i found out Mcnulty was a true British actor , I was blown back....

That's message at the end from McNulty, a powerful one at that!

This is one of the most important scenes of the show to me. First time you watch this you're in 100% agreement with McNulty. Fuck everyone. Burn it all down. Jimmy is the only one who has any moral compass in this twisted world. But every time I rewatch the show it becomes clearer McNulty doesn't give a shit about the system or mainly who operates in it. He is totally self serving and just wants the pd to lift him up on their shoulders, toast how he was right all along while singing a merry Irish tune giving his perpetually hung over life some validation. He'll gladly use anyone to his benefit even if it means they'll lose everything. Comes in stark contrast when kima is shot. You can see it on his face when they are all making the plan with Orlando that the plan is way too risky but at that point he was in too deep and his ability to see the situation clearly was clouded. The ends justified the means. Ofc barksdales people knew Orlando was a rat in a flooding tunnel looking for any way out. Jimmy should have realized levy would give word and barksdale would smoke Orlando the second he popped his head from the ground thus putting kima in danger. When Jimmy's greatest adversary comes over and pats his shoulder he's not only telling jimmy, but the audience that it isn't his fault. But Everytime I rewatch the series i buy that less and less. Jimmy's greatest adversary is himself and that's what got kima nearly killed. He's the smartest son of a bitch in the room and he didn't see it that day when his partner, the person that is a reflection of himself, needed it most. But that's the beauty of this show and what loops around back to pearlman having to eat Levy's shit while McNulty has a tirade showing he doesn't understand. When kima learns of Lester and McNulty's sick charade she immediately reports it. When she wakes up from the coma bunk puts a heavy finger on wee beys mugshot she won't lie that she remembers to make the case easy because sometimes it has to play hard. What she learned from Daniels and from McNultys mistakes is what will change the system in Baltimore. She sees how a little fly in the ointment can ruin McNulty's case against levy or Daniels shady past in the eastern district ruined him as the police commissioner. Change might be slow. But it will come. As Carver learned. As namond learned. As bubbles learned. As cutty learned. As alma and Mike Fletcher learned. As Rhonda in this scene knows. Yeah we could blow it all up and take some slimeball lawyer down a peg or two but what will that change? Sure, maybe one less bit of cancer in the Baltimore judicial system but no doubt pearlman will need to burn a lot of bridges and cost herself a chance at becoming a judge to do so. If Baltimore stands a chance it'll need someone like Rhonda and all the people I listed to be a force of change. To root out the cause and not the symptoms.

Could both be disbarred for this. Levy is not acting in his client's interest and Pearlman is blackmailing an officer of the court.

'If you want me to keep my nose close to your shit' LOL

How Levy survived the game will for ever be a mystery.

I watched the wire when I was a kid and when I was in college. Now that I’m an adult in corporate America, the Wire hits even harder. The system really is screwed up, it’s crazy how all that matters is politics.

The first time I watched the Wire I always thought Jimmy was a born & raised irishman that had moved to Baltimore

I get where she's coming from but she really ain't got a leg to stand on with McNulty, he would have rode the boat to see Stringer and Avon catch the years. Of course McNulty would have eventually gone crazy on the boat, point is he's willing to get the job done ahead of his own ambitions

part of the problem, all throughout the series. She even had the nerve to say "this ain't on me" in the end.

One of Many great scenes in The Wire

Thanks Simon

0:50 love how mcnulty refers to himself in the third person in his anger

Love this scene. Such great writing and acting.

mcnulty is right... why should he give a shit if levy is gonna affect pearlman's career

As someone who spent time working in both law enforcement and politics I completely agree with mcnulty’s assessment.

I love how pearlman takes this to heart. She becomes more ruthless and confident when pursuing anyone on the case. It takes time, lester tricking her but by the end, she's one of the few people actually fighting for justice in the system.

Jimmy, the best misfit ever

I was always happy when Levy popped up on screen. He was so great.

The most important scene in the entire show.

Oh the feeling of nostalgia I get from the 2000s vibe this show captures so well is awesome

Me, I wouldn't wipe my ass with a Balmer lawyer. No offense.

Nicely done

levy was a great actor he definitely could be a hotshot lawyer smug condescending great actor

Definitely a classic scene

This was 1 of my favorite scenes

Those windows are amazing.

God I just hope that bpd has somebody like mcNulty on the force!!!!

the best show ever I mean just my opinion as far as the script the realness of most of the show and one of the best people on there McNulty

The writing on this show is phenomenal

Damn I forgot McNulty threatened Levy like this. I need to rewartch

literally one of the best scenes in all tv show history in my opinion. Because everything he says about the Judicial system is extremely true.

I never knew he was English until yesterday. I wish I never knew, because now I'm searching for it every time I watch the show. You can really hear it here.

"Your twisted tribe"...has two distinct meanings.

His accent slips so much in this scene

Based McNulty using the word "tribe" around LEVY and PEARLMAN

The fact that she claims to be used by Jimmy in this scene is the perfect example of how fucked the top end of town is.

How Levy walked away from this with tie in place I don't get 🤣

Jimmy got so mad his accent slipped.

i've noticed with him, gary oldman, ewan mcgregor, etc. the accent comes out the most in those moments of anger

Nailed it Jimmy! Love Ya!

He's painfully HONEST.

Maurice Levy: The boss of the whole thing

His response at the end should have been "apparently you will too.".

surprised they didn't re-shoot this scene with his real accent slipping through

this scene is exactly why nothings ever solved or resolved it just hangs there so these idiots don't rock the boat and offend eachother out of a career, same goes with peer reviews and science nobody wants to say anything controversial cuz they still gotta work in the field.

You can feel the f bomb in the thumbnail 😂

McNulty FIGHTING that English accent in this clip. Hard.

How did the editing not catch the accidental accent changes going from a heavy English to American/East Coast? It sounds like a really weird mix when it switches back and forth.

I think McNulty is the only character on The Wire that really did put fear into Levy

Michael Kostroff (Levy) is one of the truly underrated actors on this show. You really do hate him. Him eating the peanuts is so funny to me for some reason

Jesus didn't realize how deep this scene was. Thought it was just about kima but they were telling us how it goes down in the real world

Lol McNulty is David Simon

This will always be my favorite mcnulty scene. It’s the perfect encapsulation of he’s completely right and yet he’s so self destructive it doesn’t matter.

This is why loved McNulty. And this is why everyone, including the people who worked with him, hated him with the exception of the handful that took down Barksdale

Levy is so even keeled in the face of all of this..

Jimmy had a point here. Kima was on death's door at the time and everyone kept wanting to play nice with everyone else so they could move up in their careers. I think that was the point of the Wire,. Everyone is complicit in how Baltimore's drug trade runs. Police only cared about stats so rarely anyone does good police work in order to make a real dent in the drug world. The politicians only care about how they're "tough" on crime so they have to show change in a short amount of time in order to get elected, so they put pressure on police to play the stat game. The lawyers wanna be judges and partners and they're in leagues with the politicians so they're pressured to let the people doing dirty stay dirty. It's all connected.

Dominic West getting British-er as he gets angrier is like cotton candy to me. I watch scenes where McNulty loses his cool the same way toddlers watch cocomelon, just giggling like an idiot.

Dominic West's (McNulty's actor) English accent really shines through at the start of this scene haha

Ooooo i hear his accent 😂😂😂😂 hes mad mad

Brilliant

Dominic West is a fantastic actor. His accent was really clean by the end of the series.