At that moment Lester visits Daniels to tell him that they re about to catch Marlo very dirty.
Marlo, Chris and another member of the gang sit in a holding cell and compare their charge sheets. The only key figure to have avoided arrest is Snoop. The charge sheets avoid mention of the illegal wire tap by referring to an anonymous source of information and then there’s the matter of Chris and his murder charger. Could Michael be the snitch? We know that Michael was arrested and said nothing to Bunk – when all’s said and done Chris was doing a favour for Michael – but Marlo’s people aren’t sure. ‘You willing to bet your future on that?’ Marlo asks Chris.
The word goes out to Snoop that she has to take care of Michael which segues into a series of scenes that are familiar to anyone who has watched The Godfather, any Scorsese picture with Joe Pesci or The Sopranos. Snoop tells Michael that he has to kill a guy. Michael asks why and wonders whether the guy deserves his fate. ‘Deserve got nuthin’ to do with it’ says Snoop. She will supply Michael with a clean gun so he is to come unarmed.
‘You look good girl’
You look less good with your brains hanging out of the side of your skull, of course. Michael knows Marlo’s people will be coming after him so he collects Dukie and Bug and leaves his apartment for the last time. Bug is left with an aunt for safety’s sake and Dukie goes to see the junk dealer he’s been working with while Michael plans to vanish. As things stand the corner boys and dealers have run their course in The Wire.
Gus continues his investigation into Templeton by visiting a veteran of Iraq who served with Terry Hanning. He leaves the hospital convinced that Templeton invented a fire fight when the platoon had been hit by a roadside bomb and nothing more.
Kima Greggs talks to Carver. She is appalled by what McNulty has done and wants to get her thoughts straight before she goes to talk to Daniels. That evening Daniels talks to Rhonda. They know that the serial killer is a fake so the phone calls and picture message must also be a fiction. That leaves the wire tap. They check the phone number listed on the wiretap and head to the evidence store. When they dial the number a cell phone starts to ring so it is clear that McNulty has not been tapping the phone for which he has a warrant. Which phone has he been tapping?
Meanwhile Levy is also thinking about wire taps and sends Herc to have a drink with his ex-colleagues to find out the source of the anonymous tip. Herc reports that no-one’s saying anything but Lester’s modus operandi is to work a phone to death.
With a single hour left to run on The Wire the only question centres around McNulty and the wire tap on Marlo. Daniels is going to have to do something with McNulty and, presumably, with Lester but what can he do without destroying the case?
We’ll find out next week.
