Episode 2: Unconfirmed Reports
"This Aint Aruba, Bitch" - Bunk
Although he tells Sydnor the Davis investigation could be a "career case," Freamon keeps a wary eye out for Marlo, who takes care of some unfinished business and strikes a business deal with Barksdale. Carcetti throws the police a bone by removing the cap on secondary employment, sending the detectives into fantasy-job reveries. With an eye on the state house, Chief of Staff Steintorf tries to find good news for the mayor while blaming the Royce administration for the Campbell revelation. Davis turns to Burrell for help with his problem, but the commissioner's hands are tied. At the newspaper, Executive Editor Whiting outlines a Pulitzer-worthy series in broad strokes, trumping Haynes while liberating the ambitious Templeton. Fed up with broken-down cars and unsolved serial murders, McNulty decides to take matters into his own hands.
Thoughts
-Jimmy finally went over the edge, He was acting a fool bigtime at the end and that is not gonna end well for him. There's a big difference between going behind the bosses backs as he's always been willing to do, and tampering with crime scenes.
-Marlo is a little too eager to make some noise and make it quickly. I understand why he'd be confident and feeling pretty entrenched with the MCU off his crew, but you go that hard that quickly and you start getting attention again, Marlo coming after Omar...it may finally be Omar's time...I got a bad feeling about that.
-Clay Davis was sounding real rattled last night. He knows that shit is rolling hard and he's got no chance on it. It'll be real nice to see that dirty motherfucker get taken down. Of course, it's horrifying that they can't do that while managing to keep working the 22.
-The scene where Avon pops out at Jessup was pretty fucking cool, although something about it seemed wrong to me, like Avon was being too friendly and shit. I know Avon had no love for the east side, but it also seemed like him and Prop Joe weren't any kind of sworn enemies, and considering how hard he went after Marlo, that turn made me pause.
-Avon throwing up the "W" to Marlo? Way out of character. Also, the way Avon was acting super friendly and forced towards Marlo...did that even look or sound anything like Avon? I didn't recognize him at all. Prison could have changed Avon, but he still seems to have a lot of respect in Jessup.
-Also, the "Business Never Personal" stance was what Stringer Bell was all about. Not Avon. Avon was always the gangster and Stringer Bell was the businessman. Remember how Avon mocked Stringer Bell constantly in season 3 by referring to him as a businessman?