Why wouldn't the people in the car be cops? Orlando show up with 25k right after getting popped. This would have never happened to Avon. The first thing he would have done is find out how much Orlando got popped trying to buy. He could used Boudie and Poot to hit Orlando. It never once crossed Stringers mind to sell territory CBS fought before it was taken for so they wouldn't look weak to the co-op.
@@bandzexpress " Camera person " " Cameraman/woman " ... Really ? O-o What's wrong with you people ? Cameraman is the word covering all the bases here and yet it's not enought nowadays ... Insane 🙄😶
Its timed so smoothly with his pivot. The camerawork really puts the "motion" in emotion. Theres this strange intimacy where we get his perspective, because it only moves when he does, but its subtle character movements exaggerated by the camera
This scene just shows the respect that Avon and Stringer have for Wee Bay, instead of clipping him too, they hide him. They know he's just too valuable an asset and from his arrest down the road they were right, he took a bunch of charges on top of his murder cuz he knew 1 life sentence or 20, he aint gonna see the outside world ever again.
@Brooke Emery little man broke the rules even Avon knew to never throw down with a cop remember when his safehouse got raided because of stringer snitching and one of his boys readied a shotgun and he told his boy not the police? There's a reason why crews don't hurt cops because it'll turn into a massive manhunt and you're done
@@Laneous14 even weebey knew shooting a cop is the one of the worst things you can do in the game because of the damage even a cop getting caught in the crossfire will cause that's why stringer told bey little man had to go
Also, when they're talking about Little Man "bugging out" they probably meant he talked to the cops at one point. They maybe forgave him if it was a long time ago. They don't forget though. But Wee Bey just ended up on the wrong side of a cop getting shot. He left a soda can with his DNA at the phone because he figured no one would care if he'd shot up Orlando (and no one would have if he wasn't state's evidence). He made the phone call from the pay phone at all because he thought it was just another 'routine' murder. And the fact is, even with Kima being a cop, if Bey could hide long enough, maybe moving drugs rather than doing murders, maybe opening a chapter in Philly where no one knows him, maybe working retainer, in a few years, maybe he could have come back. He just hit the end of his line.
@@oceandark3044 nah Avon wanted little man gone because he bugged out and shot a cop and Avon and string didn't wanna risk losing bey if he tried to open up shop in Philly that's why string told him no connections no noise the soda can wasn't even how they found bey D'Angelo sold him out
Excellent non-verbal acting by Hassan Johnson, with his stunned look at learning about Kima's being a cop. What's most revealing in this scene, though, is we see the first indication of Stringer's seething rage, which translates in later episodes into his classic rants. Here, notice how he pounds his fist in anger when recounting how Little Man is given to bugging out. Great scene.
Anyone thinking Wee-Bey didn't do anything is an idiot that didn't pay attention to the show. If they saw the scene where Bey was in jail and just eating murder chargers like they were a side to his burger they would know better. Or just look at the fear that D'Angelo had when Weebey took him to his crib so he could feed his fish. That was the terror someone had when they know they were in the presence of a killer that had put in work.
John Smith People dont realize he copped to every murder ever committed by him in order to stay off death row. If he did not he could get the needle later.
@@larrymcjones except that aint the right line... "No doubt" is the line you're looking for. "Oh indeed" comes after "if somebody comes after omar then they know that Omar is ganna be on them" C'mon rook
Word they be like “the reason why they gave weebey those Pit burgers because they really needed him to talk real G’s like Weebey don’t talk so easily that scene was powerful shows the tactics of the law” foh 😂
@@Taospark Its called a diagetic sound design, where all of your sound comes from within the scene (Music on the radio, news on the tv, a band playingetc) Its a very natural way of making movies.
+Master Yodai Wee-Bey, String and Slim Charles are my three favourite Barksdale members for various reasons - Wee-Bey beat Omar the Overrated in a one-to-one gunfight, String is always several steps ahead of the police in Season 1 and 2 , (3 to an extent - until he fucked up with Clay Davis, "not on the phone"), Slim Charles due to being honourable!
The biggest shame about the gif that this scene created is that it showed us how many people did not know the greatness of the Wire. The upside is that it got people to seek it out.
@Kimberly A For the record, avoid any other clips here on youtube like the bubonic plague until you finish. I re-watched a rather funny clip with some characters and lowkey spoiled myself. Be weary!
What’s crazy is how much respect stringer must’ve had for wee bey. He killed the kid cuz he might snitch, Dangelo cuz he might snitch , and little man cuz he might snitch. But wee bey did the most dirt at his direction and string didn’t even slightly consider killing him ever. Legit went outta his way to help him escape even.
Yeah, true, but honestly, who was he going to get to take out Bey? Who hits the hitter? Would you want to fuck that hit up and then have Bey gunning for you?
I didn't like Stringer after season one, but this was a great scene with him and Wee Bey. I like how he subtly says "Little Man gotta go!" Then he's like "YO YOU HEAR ME!" while Wee Bey is still in shock over Kima being a cop.
The emotional dynamics, the game theory, and the cold hard reality of the life they've chosen is beautifully illustrated in this scene. Simply exquisite.
I think the part with “yo you hear me” isn’t just about Bey still being in shock about Kima, it’s also maybe a little reluctance on Bey’s part to kill one of his own soldiers especially based on the situation. Bey was always more like Avon in terms of riding for his people and banging on his enemies whereas String was always more concerned with weeding out any possible weak points or threats to him from within. I think his perspective sometimes shocked or surprised the more traditional gangsters. And here he had to basically pull rank on Bey to make sure he’d go ahead with killing Little Man, not even because Little Man was or might have ratted but because of a guess he might fold later on. That’s how I read it anyway
Bey was so loyal. If Stringer would have accepted his position as number 2 and did what Avon told him too- Slim would have checkmated the entire Stanfield hierarchy outside of that rim shop. But Avon was busy getting raided because of the tip that Stringer gave Colvin. Ironically, I think Barksdale was set to resume control of the game if he could get released in a decent time frame. He still had the influence and Slim got ties with the connect at the end of the series. Avon was always the alpha.
Avon and Marlo that its not how hard you hit but how hard you get hit and keep it movin, that's what made them not only feared but respected. Stringer Understood that as well until he stop doing what he did best and started trying to balance his life out while blaming others for his shortcomings. That didn't work out so well for him, did it. Stringer failed to make a choice the streets or his new life and both ended up fucking him over because he lost the foundation that made him and in the end he loss badly: His friend, the organization he worked so hard to build, and his new life. Slim Charles started to understand that too as the seasons goes by slim didn't only realized the game is the game so you got to be more fierce but he realize no matter how fierce the game got, it's all about survival: Not how hard you hit but hard you get hit and keep it movin. Something slim tried to teach bodie but bodie ignored and kept on dwelling too much in the past instead of moving forward and that cost bodie his life.
@@blackknightdl Marlo's Ruthlessness was a strength, but he had a major weakness. He had the ego of a high school kid. Worried so much about his image, that if anyone even says something about him that's not a compliment, he'll kill them. When he found out that Omar called him out to step, and didn't hear about it until he was arrested in the holding cell, the fckn rage that took over when Chris was downplaying it and Marlo interrupts, like "Nah, he was just tal--" "WHAT THE FUCK DID HE SAY? MY NAMES ON STREETS?!" WHEN WE GET OUTTA HERE WE'RE GON LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT WORD DID NOT GET BACK TO ME, Marlo step to anybody, barksdale, omar" That was his downfall. He wanted to be avon so bad
The acting in this show was stellar. The little things. I love how when Stringer says 'Little Man gotta go" that you can see Weebay listening but still distracted because he was digesting the previous bit of news. 1:20 (or thereabouts) Good, solid stuff by Hassan Johnson as Weebay .
@@dapred00 .. Overstating my comment just a bit, don't you think? .. but seriously.. if you know of anything better to have ever hit the screen than The Wire, I'd love to see it.
Stringer is pissed you can tell but he also knows it's not beys fault . Also knows he's has to be calm to fix everything or try . Bey's face was priceless though
"little man gotta go" I was like, "go where ? into hiding or something ?" and later on when Bey was arrested and giving out the murders he did he says "yeah, I did little man" then I was like "wtf, is that what gotta go means ?? damn"
I know a ton of dudes just like Weebay that tell a story with they entire body. That bit of acting alone, a small detail that most won't even notice, most notice the classic face from the meme, but it makes everything feel that much more authentic.
I think it was a mistake to kill Lil Man. #1, Lil Man did what he was supposed to do, he let off on everybody. Kima just was lucky to survive. #2, when the war was on with Marlo and they were down soldiers, Lil Man was a shooter and they needed him then. It was no reason to kill him
This show is so fucking well-written. Here Wee-bay says he would've let Kima go, since "she wasn't the talking type". That hints that Wee-bay might not just be an amoral brute, but has some form of moral backbone. That is confirmed four years later with his relationship to his son.
@Brooke Emery Actually I think the issue was moreso the “Buggin out”/Panicking part. WeeBay is saying that Little Man fired off before they could assess the new situation and THATS probably why he had to go, because he didn’t think/asses the situation before he shot somebody not on his list AND he didn’t finish it so that left a witness for a positive ID on him. Stringer was more-so worried about reliability at that point than anything else, and like he said if LM is so quick to panic, then it’s easy to see him cracking in an interrogation (cops will lie/intimidate/ do WHATEVER to bring in a suspect, much less an attempted cop killer. The city lowkey went to war over this) Plus the crew KNEW who Orlando was. They knew who he knew, who’d miss him (if anybody) and probably had figured the cops would give up with less of a fight for a nobody with a prior. Fucking with random people in the streets is what got Herc AND Lex screwed over to name a few.. You NEVER know who knows who.
@Brooke Emery no u obviously didn't even watch it they are literally talking about how they shot the cop but didn't even kill her cause little man bugged out if they would've been on point they either 1 would've finished the job and killed her too or 2 not killed her cause in this scenario it wouldn't change anything to let a witness live when they didn't see anything besides the kid who took Orlando there but he got little time in prison with his charges so it really was little man's fault for not atleast properly Killing her
The piece of the copier that went flying after Stringer hit it at 1:17 was one of my favorite characters. Incredible acting by that little piece of plastic.
The odd syllable slips out (McNulty, too) but it's honestly not that noticeable unless you're really familiar with the accent and really looking for it, imo. I've seen clips of the accent slips, but never noticed them first time around and rarely notice them on re-watches.
@@defragsbin The thing is Baltimore Accents sound a bit like UK accents. So what you may perceive as a slip up, might just be Idris doing exactly what he's supposed to do.
D'angelo was still one of my favorite characters from the show. I mean he was as much as a main character as Mcnulty in the first season and even though he wasn't as hard as Bey or Avon, he was the most human. I actually felt like he had the biggest conscience and the most regret for his past actions in the end especially after what happend to Wallace. This is why he's my favorite Tragic Character from the show.
retro251 He is what I said about Wallace in another video. He was a good person, just not in the right line of work. I feel D' Angelo would've been doing something better in his life if it wasn't for his mother pushing him to be like his uncle Avon.
True, Namond was the same way. I could see Michael taking Bug and happily going to live with Bunny Colvin too. Doughnut, Kenard, and Sherrod were sad news articles waiting to be written.
Yea but having said that, Avon and Stringer should have treated D'Angelo better and not left him out to dry. I think D'Angelo would have gladly done the full stretch and not snitched if he truly believe his people were behind him. But them killing Wallace proved they didn't really give a shit about anyone but themselves.
So much subtext about these characters and their relationship in such a simple scene where hardly anything happens. The imprint of who they are and what they’ve been through is so tangible yet completely unsaid. Nothing is this well written anymore.
As the most feared stick up man in the entire city and the top muscle for the most powerful organization in the city, they were on equal levels in that sense. Omar does not fit in the traditional hierarchy of the chessboard because he works for no one but himself and disrupts the operations of Kings on a daily basis. He is a calculated hand that slaps pieces off the chess board when people least expect it and then taxes the players to be able to put the pieces back so the game can properly resume smoothly
TheRumpMan yes but up to that point Marlo was winning. Snoop killed that one dude on bike if you recall. Plus if you remember the plan that Cutty and slim had that went wrong. It proved Avon's muscle wasn't what it was before.
That camera move was as big of a visual flourish as you got in this show, which made it all the more impactful. You can feel that shot of fear adrenaline that Wee-Bey is experiencing.
It didn't make sense that Avon didn't view String as 'street' considering how many executions String ordered. Avon was basing it on a perception he formed after String wanted to be a legit, business, but the history didn't support it. Before Avon went to jail. String gave a lot of orders for people to 'go', being the COO of the organization. String was great at immediate, practical and tactical action and made a winning team with Avon, so long as they stayed on the same page. Trouble started when String got used yo being CEO and wasn't ready to go back to COO after Avon got out of jail - not for ego reasons, but a different philosophy of the future of the Barksdales. He should have lined up with Avon, got rid of Marlo, and then he might have convinced Avon to go more 'legit'.
(Keep in mind that I'm just beginning Season 2 and I don't know too much about the story yet) (Also please don't spoil anything for me) Avon didn't consider String 'street' because String is the guy that gets stuff done behind the scenes. He is more of a good general or commanding officer but he never really gets his hands dirty. Maybe he was saying that because previously throughout their youth String was a book smarts guy and Avon was more of a common sense or 'street smart guy.' On a side note a rivalry between Avon and String sounds interesting. This show is really underrated.
***** Yeah I wish I could but I'm the type of person that watches movies multiple times and watching clips on youtube is easier than looking for the exact time on the episode an event happened. But I really like this show and I'll follow your advise.
Benjot Sumal Hugh Jass is completely right. Do NOT watch any clips until you're done with the show. Even a title of another youtube clip or a short comment you glance at could spoil something huge. I know because I was doing the same thing you did until I accidentally read a huge spoiler on youtube, then I quit until I finished the show.
I don't think Stringer and Avon would ever be close again after what Stringer did. Avon was all about family, and even though he does admit later that String was right, I don't know if that particular scar would ever heal. Even if it did though, once Brianna found out it was over. But hey what's a story without conflict.
When it came to Weebay, you could tell that Stringer trusted him more than others. He knew that Weebay only does what he is told and doesn't stray away from the plan. Kima being there was just unfortunate. Stringer knew that little man didn't have the fortitude that Weebay did therefore had to be silenced just in case. He couldn't afford to lose Weebay so he sent him into hiding until he could figure something out. Bay is a true high level lieutenant integral and keeping drug operations protected.
Wee-Bey was a straight up G he did his job when he got caught he took the case without snitching a real friend a real man who knew the risks of the game
and even turned out to be a decent dad when he had to put his girl in check over what was happening with his son. or as he said to her, "it'll be my word that finds you".
Stringer: “Little man gotta go” Bey: “Yeah, whatever…” Lol, Weebey doesn’t think twice about Stringer giving him an order to kill someone, let alone a co-worker. To him, it’s just another task
Stringer: where you got your peoples at? Bey: um New York, Jersey, Cleveland Stringer: Aite so uh, Philly... D.C... DC? Philly? That's down the street. Man take him to Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky or some shit.
stringer was a the top of his game as a dope slinging businessman, but his ambitions to go legit put him in a world that was way over his head. rip stringer.
Most of the bodies he dropped were done off screen, implied that it was him who did it. While I would've liked to see Bey prove his badassery on screen, I still see the OG in him whenever he's in a scene. Dude was one of the game's best.
