The Wire - The Ruthless Chris Partlow 

they were never able to take Omar out

James O'Bryan yeah but that fucking kid did

You are so damn right

When you see those two, you already know what it is

"Yo, Chris, I didn't..." "Yeah. It's good."

😂😂😂😂😂😂

i dont get the reference

*Correction* He had 350 Black Tims with 50 pairs of jeans shorts and 30 dingy tank tops.

@@yaboy3186 #itsaidso

Vaughn Voth New pair a day

How about his rage

fr. he ain’t play around

the one time he got emotional he got busted. that says something

There should be a spin-off movie called “Meet Chris Black” where he hangs out with a rich old white man for the last few days of his life bettors he takes him out to a vacant and shoots him I’m the head

Figuratively

Todd alquist from breaking bad could also meet that description

@@maxkrystal7403 chris would solo Todd tbh,he’s probably on par with mike even though mike has better feats

@@jayyy1677As far as just being a complete psychopath Todd worse than Chris Todd have zero emotions at all

@@allaboutthemurzic in terms of combat,Todd is by far worse

@@jayyy1677 yeah, Todd isn't a good shooter, in shootout between Neo Nazis and Hank + Gomez Todd is visible shooting like a girl

LMAO

MuffMuff36 Chris and Marlow are gentlemen killers! 😂 😂 😂 They do their best to make their victims calm down just before their demise...

This shit needs way more likes😄😄😄

And when he's 'got your back' he means two rounds in the back.

Bruh what if this legit what he meant, mind blown lmao

Lmao

Danny C the button up shirt and the hoody yo 😭😭😭😭

@@jaysmith61 lmao, he was getting some crazy looks off.

LMFAO. You bet'd not let Chris see your comment.

And he always buttoned up every button to the top. He used to be in the military.

Roy White that was one time and Marlo loved Michael and was sad about it

I think chris liked michael because he related with michael. The way chris killed his father makes me think that chris was sexually assaulted when he was younger, just like michael.

Norman Getsinger yeah but Marlo loved him too. Marlo had a code as well. Chris did not. When Marlo ordered Mike’s hit it wasn’t personal. The issue was Mike was already on the police’s radar. Michael was a link to bug’s dad’s murder. Marlo has a rule if they had evidence of you dealing with the police or you were linking them to a crime then you had to go.

I don’t think the kids were really sexually assaulted. Mike just wanted him gone for being a low life. The mother was a fiend but Mike didn’t want her dead only him so she’ll clean up

no, he would have done nothing. Marlo odered the hit and Chris would have done it. Chris would have never stepped up to Marlo. He was his underling through and through and did his bidding.

Lmao 😂🤣 I'm done with you 😆😂🤣😂😅

Don’t worry, Chris has your back

No fret boss, Chris got you

Gotta go out with a fight

Everyone glorifies this mess now look at us nation wide we’re killing each other this crap and GTA

😂😂😂😂

LOLL

It speaks to the overall pragmatic behavior of the whole stansfield crew

Lmao customer service.

Right!? Lol

That line was the coldest from Chris

Snoop: YUURTT

He’s enforcing the discipline that Marlo’s people must have

I would've asked him why lol

Chris pimped slapped the boy Bodie w/ words when he said that.

c dubba u Cheese was a dog prop Joe should’ve kept on a tight leash .

Smfh it SHOULDA been Cheese snake ass

leonard green prop almost got his whole crew smoked

I don't understand why he asks Chris, Chris does Marlo bidding, he didn't chose who he killed.

That whole scene rec

I've known a few. Thing about is you'd never know with a lot of them. Some of them are mild mannered and polite. Some are charismatic and seem friendly. You'd never know they were killers unless you got on their bad side. And that's the issue, they're unstable people. Doesn't take much for them to snap. Say the wrong thing, make the wrong joke and it could be the last thing you say. Even if you're a friend you're not safe.

COLD BLOODED KILLERS ARE AROUND YOU EVERYDAY MAN!!! YOU WON'T KNOW A KILLER TILL HE KILLS YOU!!!

CALCULATION NOTHING PERSONAL

​@@hoviksmail stay safe brother😮

Stay away from the usual suspects and you should be good

annihilates lmaooo

The one where he's torturing the blind dude was good too. Some great acting from everyone in the room.

Do you understand the implication of that scene? Chris losing his cool, doing a sloppy job, this is the murder that gets him arrested for DNA evidence. When the man admitted to raping boys in jails Chris snapped. The implication is Chris was locked up as a young man and sexually assaulted in prison.

@@edgarramos1499 Why are you explaining this to me?

Honestly the reason why he's my favorite character. Lost a friend to a weirdo that did that to her. I wish I could of got to him before the police. Rip K kocham cie.

It's one of my favorite scenes. It shows that characters like this come from somewhere like all things, these people aren't in a vacuum.

roger w yeah the 4th season was tha deadliest.

Hands down!

Yes, even Snoop was freaking out.

Yup

+Leon Delvechio Ramirez hahaha

I. lo ve. tve. wire

Lmao that's why he did that

lmfao!

Thaank you for 30 seconds of laughter.

I sure he was killing ppl there too😂

“don’t worry boss. you know I keep it quick.” “Chris I really don’t think we’re on the same page about the objections I have to what’s happening rn”

Power is D-league for the Wire. And it's not that Power is a bad show,but Wire is the best of all times.

The Wire is a modern classic. It's raw, authentic, intense, in your face, no bullshit, no gimmick, type of show 💯

Jay 88 Facts!

Lol I was done with power after season 3. Became too predictable. The acting became weak as well...

MONIQUE 2631 WHAT'S MESSED UP ABOUT GHOST CHARACTER IS ALL THA MONEY HE MADE DURING THA SHOW HE NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO ENJOY ANY OF IT I KNOW THAT;S CHANGIN THA TOPIC BUT I JUS THOUGHT I'D MENTION IT

YURRR

Here is good is my favorite

Oh aight

some fuckin' punchline there... damn! hahahah

The best

they should have made her say nothing. THAT would ve been the true horror capture of the hood.

Death Rager naw because they've seen so much that nothings really new to them

It also is an important plot detail because that's how he eventually goes down. Leaving the body out, it was almost like a plot hole in my opinion because they had taken care of every other body. That one they just left out.

voteZDLR No its not. I haven’t watched but its clear chris had been raped before. And he was in his feelings when beating his ass

@Jordan Jacobs Are you responding to me? Cause I didn't say anything about whether he got raped or not. I think it's VERY clear that Chris took that kill SUPER personally, with how intensely and like you said "in his feelings" while doing it. That was pure, unadulterated hatred what he did to him. Even Snoop herself was shocked. So yeah I believe, too, and always have that Chris WAS a victim of sexual abuse. Either that or he's just already got it ingrained in him the prison culture thing where like for example if you are a sex offender who goes to prison who hurt children especially you might as well get ready to do all your time in solitary. Cause in prison the people who harm children in anyway especially sexually are marked men. Plain and simple. But yeah I agree, Chris has never showed as much hatred in the entire show and I've seen it twice. The Devil was in him when he did that, and honestly IMO for a good reason, fuck that piece of shit.

Well said

And when stringer tells Bodie to kill Wallace he says it in a subtle ass way I didn't even know he wanted him dead my first time watching

I didn’t get that Chris was necessarily molested. He was a father and maybe he had a general disgust for child molesters because he had children. Not that he was molested. Some say he’s had military training and combat experience and business is why he is in a mercenary type position in the game.

they pretty much said it when Bunk was reviewing the file on Michael's dad. He says "you baby-bumping motherfucker" while he's reading it.

I mean its not a bad thing when show tells you the problem. Some people dont pay attention to details and just want entertainment.

Absolutely right bro

Xavier Vega actually I think most killers had a real sense of professionalism: Wee Bey, Sergei, Slim and Cutty (although he didn't kill anyone), and I can't think of any other designated killer. There were many gangsters who committed an occasional homicide or two, but that didn't make them killers in the way Chris and the others are.

Xavier Vega plus he was real as fuck ...no snitching

Brother Mouzune

"Quick and clean, boss" Chris has exceptional customer service skills.

He was raped and abused as a child

😂 foreal tho

Im going out fighting...bite his face off

Jimmy Lopez yeah you gone be biting a bullet too... lots of them

@@TheBlackGuyGaming Either way, you're going to die. Might as well fight back and possibly get a chance to live.

@@XtoCee #easygoing

You may as well like Dre he just walked down there fuck that I would make them kill me in the street

rkn Chris is the kinda guy that made the curriculum

Y’all some semper fi niggas ain’t ya? Where cheese go to enlist ?

Military, maybe. But what can teach military skills is survival better than the streets. Gotta know what it takes to survive. Chris has years of experience.

@@donnaprince9109 surviving in the streets is different than being taught how to survive in the military. Surviving in the streets does not give you the ruthless efficiency that Chris has. Also the tactics and level headed ability to be an advisor. You can tell he's also educated by the way he talks.

The way he trains his soldiers also. Mike wouldn’t have been the replacement Omar if it wasn’t for Chris and snoops training

Are calm and intimidating supposed to be opposites here?

generic username calm is an emotion and intimidating is more of an adjective

@@kahlilpittman8404 Doesn't matter in the context of the comment. A person can still be both simultaneously.

generic username I never said they couldn’t be, you did

@@kahlilpittman8404 When was that? That's what the original comment implied, not me. It's what started this whole comment chain.

nucky thompson Werd. Thats why I love The Wire. The character development is so good. Showed how cold Chris was.

Seth Stone i think it can go both ways. chris is about to murder someone and yet he's casually talking to him. he's cold. if he was sympathetic, i think he'd be a lot more hesitant before the deed was done and remorseful afterwards.

Omar Little Chris is just straight up fake, that's what it's called. Just like u said. He casually talks to people like he's cool, then he murders them. He just truly ruthless and don't care ! He's terrible!.

pretty much everyone they took into those vacants knew they were going to get killed. that's why they're stone cold killers. these people were so terrified of snoop and Chris that they willingly walked to their own deaths

Stephen Grigg And that's why they were crazy. Ain't no way in the world. smh

He fucked up and shot the lady with a 9

666% agree for Omar & Chis ;)

and Chris kinda feared him a little too. When Omar escaped from the shootout in Monks apartment, Chris was paranoid to visit his family because he thought Omar might be watching him.

Chris understood that Omar's greatest advantage was that you never knew when or where he would attack you. It's impossible to keep your guard up 24/7. That's why Chris told Omar to let it slide and then attack Omar later. Chris wanted to turn Omar's advantage into his advantage. That was excellent advice. Chris was a solid number two for Marlo.

@@iLoveLalisa20 He was never scared of Omar..he respected him..Shooters respect shooters.

That’s the thing that saved him too cuz Mcnulty knew it was fishy because omar doesn’t kill civilians. He they set him up by killing someone in the game, the cops wouldn’t care as much but it might have slid past Mcnulty that Omar finally finally made a mistake.

You can’t reason with a psychopath

It also revealed how Chris had such a fundamental misunderstanding of Omar and how he rolled. Omar wouldn't involve anyone who wasn't in the game, hence how Chris fucked up forcing Old Face Andre to pin that lady's murder on Omar.

Right

@@carlosmark9840 socialpath he only talk to snoop Marlo and Michael everyone else is like a target lol

Factory 💯💯

Oh Indeed

the punisher will give him a run for his money, shiiit, every bodies money on that show lol

He did have emotion, he wasn't a psychopath like Marlo. It's just that he was really, really professional.

You clearly don't know the clinical definition of a psychopath. And most of the people he killed were not innocent. Psychopath are incapable of empathy, or emotion. They care about nothing and no one, family included. not the case with him. That is the reason the army weeds them out, and they make crap teammates.

jimmd56 i only seen Chris show emotion one time, and that was with Bugs father. To be honest i don't really know if u can call that emotion.

That was because Michael told him Bugs father molested him. The way he killed him was totally unprofessional, and it was heavily implied that he reacted the way he did, because the same was done to him. that may even be why he become a killer in the first place. If that isn't emotion, I don't know what is. that and the fact that he took Michael under his wing and mentored him like that. Psychopaths cannot do that. and the other time he showed emotion was when at the apartment, they failed to kill Omar. he was worried that he would go after his family. that scene where he throws that knife to the floor. He may be morally reprehensible, but he is not a psychopath. Marlo on the other hand, definitely is.

😥

Butchie.

U hell

Plot twist.the mufucka blind .u crazy

DICK LONG Chances are they worded it "blind guy" to emphasize the joke?

Your right there mate. Very powerful scene

djwestbrook36 beat the crap outta him? lol that's a understatement. He literally beat him to death!

That was the reason Chris went to jail. His DNA was all over that dude he killed.

did that guy who was beaten to death molested that guy who killed snoop?

i must say i didnt understood that untill i read on internet, i really though dad was trying to get better from prison and get along with kids, but damn this is dark stuff

You mean wrong place wrong time.

It was an intimidation tactic

The vendor lady's murder wasn't random at all. It was part of the setup to frame Omar for robbing the store. Old faced Andre was to be the victim and also ID Omar as the shooter. The lady was completely innocent though.

When he said "say Omar" to the guy that witnessed the shooting, it implied that they wanted Omar to be charged with the murder. They had to kill a regular person in order to muster up interest from the police. They would not have cared about someone in the game getting killed. It was very cold blooded, but not without purpose.

It was to frame Omar

I saw that, I was tripping

Word ima look for that.

Paul Ward can you link to a pic? couldnt find it

Pablo Santiago You can look for "The Wire Casting" video, it shows not just the actors talking about what roles they read for but also a few stand-ins such as Partlow and Bill Zorzi

Paulo Zhan Still coudnt find it :(

***** Right, but you never get to see the extent of that. They leave it up to ones imagination, which I think is brilliant. You could only ever tell from the look in his eyes or the way he spoke. He respected and feared no one, not even the cops. Had Carver not been smart enough to retreat, Marlo would have probably had him and Herc, killed. He would have probably killed Chris without a second thought if Chris was in his way.

+Erick Santos marlo would never kill 2 armed cops, it would be even worse for them than the time the force hunted down wee-bey.

How do you know what Marlo would or would not do? They never show you how crazy the guy really is.

***** Exactly

+Erick Santos Actually, I think Marlo eventually found someone to grudgingly respect, if not fear, towards the end of the series. That one scene when Marlo visits Avon in prison is a textbook example of an imbalance in power dynamics. I believe that Marlo didn't initially take Avon too seriously, calling him weak and, yes, even running him off the streets and into prison. But that time when he visited Avon truly made him change. It showed that if Avon had been the one to deal with the up-and-coming Marlo instead of Stringer all those years ago, Marlo might have met his match. Avon, from the beginning, knew how to push Marlo's buttons, toying with the latter's sense of pride by insinuating that he was working for some "white man in a suit", whereas Stringer had tried unsuccessfully to appeal to Marlo's (probably nonexistent) non-aggressively businessman-like side. And then there's the fact that Avon has influence even over the corrections officers. It was clear that although Marlo stole the crown from Avon and had his fifteen minutes of fame, he was still crude in his power, relying more on fear than a respect-imposing demeanor, and never going to be as respected as Avon. I think Avon had it bad because of having had Stringer take on Marlo, but in the end I still think Avon was more of an experienced and well-respected leader than Marlo was.

Not really, aside from beating Michaels father to death he showed no character at all

Got it so 27 punches and 26 kicks to not kill someone.

@@gopet400 😂😂😂exactly. Don't go over your allotted kicks and punches!

Thats the way child molesters should die!

@@michaelcuff5780 hell yes

He must have lost count on the kicks, surely he meant it to be an even number of each.

Omar Little hell yeah

lmfao he was yelping like tho hahahah and the bottle to the head had him going lol

Dat Shit Broke My Young Heart In 07

Was just about to say that

Lets be real, if you had to choose between one cold hearted killer and another cold hearted killer, you might as well be loyal to the one you know.

thatonedrewguy he got arrested because he spit on him lol and didn’t put him in the vacant

Facts he reacted off the emotion and didn’t follow his routine

the only nigga chris snoop an marlo was scared of was omar that punk ass marlo went into hidin after omar got away in monk's apt. anlook how relieved chris an snoop looked when he told em omar was bagged up. cause they knew he was comin for them next. i just wish omar would've got some back up maybe called kimmie or somebody.

@@antoineemory6772 Marlo never got word, remember the jail scene where he got mad because nobody told him, he was very insecure about his name

It's because he was molested by a male relative when he was a child. David Simon has talked about it.

He sound like a little kid lol

Same 😂😂😂😂

“I got u covered Andre” “Chris no!!” 😂😂

I didn't find it funny. That boy was saved but, living the street life. He wanted a Christian burial.

Well, that's the whole point dumbass! Nobody is supposed to be able to find you!😂😂😂

BatDevilSpawn om

I wish he had a spin off or something

Chris didn't have a family

@@Jay-jb2vr he had "his people" which were his family in one way or another.

He was a cop in season one episode one...he's In the courtroom during DeAngelo's trial..him and Marlo been watching Avon crew from the begining lol

No witnesses man.

yea that shit was fucked up

Mike C He did'nt have to kill her, it was not about witnesses. It was about pinning a murder on Omar.

Dima Shinder hes a solider that duz what he's told ..in the game thats what matters

***** his boss told him too do it ...he done it

B..b..but my people! They WON’T KNOW!!

One of my favorite scenes. "Here's good."

😂😂😂😂

He’s more worried on where he’s going to be killed, than actually BEING killed

Andre is an interesting character. He knows he's dead, and he accepts it. He's just worried about where it goes down.

😂😂😂😂😂

Crazy lol

If he fought right then... He woulda had a chance. Not a good chance, but a chance.

Always found it a bit hard to believe Andre was so resigned to his fate like that without putting up any resistance.

@@matthewmochan3161 LOL yeah like he's so passive about it. No fight whatsoever he's more upset on where he's dying 😂

You know he was in taking Pelham 123 , and John Travoltas character shoots him on the subway train

What’s he been in since? Guy killed it on this show.

@@tucko11 Hah! I did not know that!

That's what makes him such a great character. Very few people know someone or have someone like Chris Partlow in their life. He does something on a regular basis that "normal" people consider heinous, and it's just a regular part of his life, like picking up milk from the grocery store. For us "normal" folks, that makes him intriguing because we have a hard time wrapping our mind around someone living a life where killing people is pretty much an everyday "errand". We're voyeuristic, we like to peek into the lives of individuals that live outside the realm of what "we" think is "normal society". It's why Breaking Bad was/is such a popular show.

@@Se7enDuece Which is basically also Todd.

@@kennydrew6886 yes

Saw when Chris spit on him? THAT'S what got him busted. Fucking sad, because that's the one kill that was done for an arguably good reason.

kilahchris it would've been both...the spit, and blood from him punching the chomo barehanded.

It was the kick. Blood on his boots.

Snoop was the best sidekick ever. If she was carrying a bucket . . .

@kilahchris it was the spit

yurrrrrp lol

^^^.........cU!!!!!

Comfort!

jeremy brown cold motherfunking comfort.

Chris is not a boss.

Ousamah Younoss Soliman Chris isn't the Lead type he's the hands-on type

Controlling people like snoop and Chris means spilting equal means of production. He let them get the retail corner sales and marlo took in wholesale money. And Marlo wasn't scared to do what he asked them to do and they knew that

deharleyva depends on the organization. The mob will tax you even if you got the connect.

Ousamah Younoss Soliman facts....but you've got to be a thinker..not a reactor..

No shit bro. That’s the best statement I’ve heard regarding this series. Straight up.

live the life..accept the limited outcomes: jail or murder...

Jus Me "Here❔" "Here is good"

actually i like the way it sounds, hes already (in moments) accepted his fate, his fat ass aint running, and chris and snoop are not only much more limber, younger, and LOADED and ready...and what is Old Face gonna do ? so he wants his people to you know find his body, know what happened, hes scared, upst, but he aint gonna break down n start crying most of these guys accept the reality of death/prison simply put...hell it comes for us all (in 1 form or another, death that is) and for these guys usually sooner, and more violent I mean HEAR Old Face's voice "chris...NoooO" it sounds scared, upset, all those emotions all at once, HERE, but ...the rats....ill be alone with the rats I dont think that sounds fake...it was well done. fat man scared, but accepts his fate, whats he gonna do run ? and take 3 in the back ? he still doesn't stand a chance so walk like a man, and chill chris will make it quick...you'd be surprised what a human is willing to do when he knows his circumstances and he has no options (like Stringer knew). lol i still like Snoops "wahts the difference" like shit your fat ass gonna rott no matter where we dump yo carcass, so whats the fuckin difference lol its brutal, and funny at the same time

Chris tells him that he has his back while he's about to kill him! 😂 😂 😂

Lol W

Why wear a mask if pretty much everybody they meet... They intend to assassinate. The only ones they let live are to leave a message and that lady on the bed.

+MrSilksoul Her accent kills it.

+demejiuk enhances

+demejiuk fuckin' STOUPID

+MrSilksoul She was 100% right.

MrSilksoul Snoop and Chris the best partners on the show

+Lopata991 Hahaha Yea

+Lopata991 lmao honestly quite possibly my favorite line in the entire show

"Nice dolphin nigga" Best line of the show hands down.

How come black people cant pluralize words or use the word (is) or (they’re) and many others. I always wanted to know why that is?

@@dbodooley T'cho ass up, fool.

That was so damn powerful and chilling at the same time.

That was the coldest murder in the series...

I never catch those details

sam yeah that was fucked up.

the delivery lady, whateva happened theah.

Puffy & Mase 97 facts lol I don’t see him play in many things

@@D4C413 he was a priest in an episode of SVU

U seriod

@Chicano Hennessey nigga?

@Lord Rufus Crabmiser . HE A MAAAAAYNE

😂💯

Damn,..I never thought of it that way. Good thought my bro. 👌🏾

Dang great analogy I never thought of it, It makes sense

Chris had a family to take care of. Marlo had the money. It's simple. Guys like Chris never rat. They just take the payment and get the job done. No questions asked.

Chris was Marlo's silent partner. It was revealed towards the end of the show

Sean D what you mean silent partner?

Snoop ain’t a dude tho

​@@jerisanders3014 she harder than most though.

@@stevencoates3382 Anyone can be hard with a gun. Take it away and she's a fugly midget chick you wouldn't fuck with a stolen dick.

MrEnjoyBeats that is scary alright, but you cannot compare ghetto hitmen with proper mafia made men. In their world, people like Chris and Snoop would rarely have a professional career past 30. They would either be dead or locked up.

MrEnjoyBeats You realize best soldiers are teenagers, 16-18 right? Very easy to indoctrinate, plus they have no fear, no realization of the consequences of their actions.

Angelo Gerpel running the drug trade in the United States is better the running vegas, 5 billion a year.

+MrEnjoyBeats The actor was 28 - 29 at the time.. so not too young. People can have kids in elementary by that age..

+MrEnjoyBeats Many gang hitmen are around 14-16 especially in places like Chicago. They try to take advantage of the fact that their record is likely to be cleaned at a certain age.

Brother Walton Marlo never wanted Stringer's death added to his rep. When his handler told Marlo what the streets is saying which is that Marlo killed Stringer. What was Marlo's response? "It don't make me no never mind." Which means he don't care. If the streets is saying that then add it to his jacket, he's not gonna correct them, so let them keep talking.

Brother Walton I agree but I guess he'll rather fear more than respect because it last longer

Which is funny as by the end of the show even though he enjoys taking a corner on his own, he is truly on his own with no muscle to do his work for him.

Sephjnr obviously if Marlo needed muscle he wouldn't have walked across the street to approach the guys on the corner. FOH!

nomad17 Not true at all. He wanted his death on his jacket. As you can recall, Snoop was spreading rumors that Stringer pissed himself when she and Chris killed him and Fruit and the rest were like oh word?. Marlo wanted fame and the only one that read him correctly was Avon and Omar.

Tomas Montilla Exactly, that would be the only dude I would be afraid of 😂

@@masterjustin2246 Because you're not a drug dealer working a stash house. In that contest, you'd be more scared of Omar.

I think it's because Cheese knows Marlo and his crew kill indiscriminately and proactively which makes working with/for them soo scary.

Thank you for your reply. Have a nice life.

Body did... and became the first Michael kill. Remember?

bodie was killed by O Dogg and not Michael, why does everyone think it was Michael?! damn

Ooooohhh shit! You're right ! I guess that makes me a f**** racist mothe****

a lot of these people know their time is coming due to the lifestyle they live.

Season 3 Barksdale Organization takes down Stanfield Organization too. They were about to ambush Marlo with grenades and all that shit. The only reason the Barksdale Organization fell is because Stringer snitched on Avon. Marlo just got lucky that's all.

ucantknockthehustle Yeah but he wouldn't have made it past 2 episodes with Season 1's crew. Remember, the Barksdales actually almost killed Omar after he set them up while Chris and company set up Omar and still couldn't hit him.

**(might contain some spoilers)** i agree, barksdale season 1 probably had enough muscle to take down marlo in season 3, but by mid season 5, marlo owned all of baltimore with enough muscle to keep it in check. the thing is, marlo had the pride of avon, and the coldness of stringer, but he was also more cautious, more businesslike (more so than stringer), and more efficient than them. after omar broke into marlo's card game, marlo joined the co-op, while when the barksdale organization was in trouble mid-season 2, avon refused to take prop joe's package until stringer went behind his back. marlo listened enough to take good advice then did away with his enemies like prop joe and hungryman to assume control of baltimore also, for as ruthless as chris was, he was loyal to marlo and served good advice and oversight when needed. stringer wanted it his way while chris never stood out against marlo avon got ambushed by omar and shot by chris. marlo knew how to play the game better than anyone else and came close to getting hit once at the end of season 3

Sam61493 *****SPOILERS***** I think you should say the Stanfield Organisation as a collective was more efficient and businesslike because there were times when Marlo made silly mistakes like his card games -- which was apparently his only vice -- and when he was thinking of going to celebrate in AC after topping Prop Joe. Chris on both occasions warns him against both of these impulses (reacts negatively when Marlo suggests using more money for gambling and says he's needs to prepare for Omar respectively). Without Chris, Marlo would have slipped, and those two situations were possibly fatal. But then Marlo was indeed a clever player, knew how to war and knew how to manipulate and intimidate people and was sociopathic in his quest for power. Also, bear in mind that the Barksdale Organisation had the drop on the top 3 (Marlo, Chris & Snoop) just before Avon got arrested (which was a result of a "crisis of leadership" in his crew thus showing that he was definitely on his way out), so it was also a fair bit of luck that lead to Marlo to being the -- very brief -- kingpin of Baltimore.

Sooftah I don't know on both counts. I don't think they were as efficient as they were pragmatic. They tended to kill just in case and Chris had an ingenious way of disposing of the bodies but that caused fear and enmity among those they worked with which makes people react to you irrationally like what Bodie did. It wouldn't have been long before everyone turned on Marlo. Also, Marlo wasn't as business orientated as one would think, he was just power hungry, there was no reason for him to raise the price of the package once he got control of it. All that would've managed to do was force members of the Co-op out since price was a large reason for joining it. I think the only thing Marlo really had going for him was viciousness.

The actor that plays him is. The actor is also Wale's cousin

joe 727 no lie u can see they are related .... a little bit lol

Jay Bonnie 🇳🇬

Dowhat Iwant start seasoning your food the secret will come to you

You got a couple of letters right.

That was a ruff scene!

Mike valenzula

You always stand tall for your friends Mike you idiot.

+Pragmatic1 Ultramagnetic just quoting Chris's logic watch the full clip with butchie dying

+Pragmatic1 Ultramagnetic You're the idiot if you expect people to die for their friends....

He can’t be military or he’d be locked up way earlier for killing Michael’s step father. Dude spit on him and your dna is in the system if you military

The man had the most common sense amongst Marlo's crew (more so than Marlo himself, on occasion), no doubt. Also, what he did for his family, was very admirable.

Cole Samoth Yeah, and at lease he didn't kill people in a brutal way, except Micheal's dad because he thought he molested him.

Ethan MJ Speaking of that scene, is it true that one of the reasons for him killing Michael's dad, was because he, himself, actually had experience with getting molested in his younger years?

Cole Samoth I have definitely heard that reasoning before. I am not sure if its true though.

Ethan MJ Yeah, I can't even remember where I heard that theory in all honesty. Maybe he reacted that way because he had a kid of his own, who knows?

Cold af

Yep. The one and only time he didn't shoot a victim of his.

The only body they could truly link

they remind me of a pair of killers not two funny kids, a couple I would -never- want to meet!

huey and riley........lol wut?

xyz2theb yeah, they have the same speech patterns, huey silent but smart, riley be the "nigga" so i can see what he see's

right on man. you nailed it

Dumb

I think you are 100% correct

Brilliant break down

I actually like this analysis and comparison.

this entire show draws parallels between the different legal and illegal organizations...its kinda the point

Interesting

😅😂😅😂 that was crazy it's like he was ok with dying 😅😂

Yea I wouldve been cracking up low key 🤣