History Recap / TheWireS01E06TheWire

* NobodyPoops: Averted; Santangelo is taking a leak while on stakeout on the roof, so he misses Avon and Stringer visiting the Pit.

-->'''Rawls:''' Do you know what we do here, [=McNulty=]?
-->'''[=McNulty=]:''' What we do here?
-->'''Rawls:''' That was one of them, what is it, a question you don't have to...
-->'''Jay:''' A rhetorical question. [[ShapedLikeItself You were being rhetorical.]] Rhetorical and reasonable, sir.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Daniels catches Polk coming in drunk, he gives him two choices; check into a place for alcohol abuse, or straighten up and do the work. Polk decides to take the first choice, confessing he's not cut out for the type of work the squad is doing.

[[Recap/TheWireS01E05ThePager As might have been guessed from the end of last episode]], Brandon has been killed, and [[ColdBloodedTorture he was tortured before he was killed]] - he refused to give up Omar, though - and both Omar and Wallace are shaken by it (Wallace getting paid the money promised to him for fingering Brandon doesn't help). D'Angelo discovers two of the people on his crew are stealing from him, and deals with it by rearranging his crew on the stash. Also, to the disgust of Carver and Herc, Bodie gets released (thanks to Levy).

* TheDanza: Edward T. Norris, a former police commissioner, plays Detective Edward Norris, the primary on Brandon's murder.

* TheScream: Omar's reaction when he sees Brandon's corpse in the morgue. [=McNulty=]'s kids, who are in a waiting area upstairs, can even hear it, and are a little freaked out.

-->'''Jay:''' A rhetorical question. [[ShapedLikeItself You were being rhetorical.]] Rhetorical and reasonable, sir.

-->'''[=McNulty=]:''' (''slams a file on Daniels' desk'') He's on you. We're up on those payphones Tuesday night, we catch that murder - shit, we get there before the murder. It's all here on the pen register. This one calling that one, that one calling back. We're up on those pay phones when we should be, and we have him cold. But we're not up in time, are we? In this case, we're never where we need to be.

* {{Epigraph}}: "And all the pieces matter," said by Lester, of course, when he explains to Prez the kind of case they're trying to build against the Barksdale crew.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Wallace's reaction to seeing Brandon's dead and tortured body, which leads to his later FaceHeelTurn.

[[Recap/TheWireS01E05ThePager As might have been guessed from the end of last episode]], Brandon has been killed, and [[ColdBloodedTorture he was tortured before he was killed]] - he refused to give up Omar, though - and both Omar and Wallace are shaken by it (Wallace getting paid the money promised to him for fingering Brandon doesn't help). D'Angelo discovers two of the people on his crew are stealing from him, and deals with it by rearranging his crew on the stash.

[[Recap/TheWireS01E05ThePager As might have been guessed from the end of last episode]], Brandon has been killed, and [[ColdBloodedTortured he was tortured before he was killed]] - he refused to give up Omar, though - and both Omar and Wallace are shaken by it (Wallace getting paid the money promised to him for fingering Brandon doesn't help). D'Angelo discovers two of the people on his crew are stealing from him, and deals with it by rearranging his crew on the stash.