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* CanAlwaysSpotACop: Despite Sydnor having a reputation as one of the best undercover cops in Baltimore, his junkie disguise quickly gets holes punched in it by Bubbles. Justified in that Sydnor probably hasn't gone undercover in a narcotics investigation before, having worked in the auto theft department.
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* AbsenteeActor: Although credited, Creator/WoodHarris does not appear in this episode. This is the first episode of the series not to feature the entire starring cast.
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* ChessMotifs: The chess scene.

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* ChessMotifs: The Bodie and Wallace play checkers with a chess scene.set. D'Angelo comes over and tries to teach them chess in terms of the drug trade and the characters, with plenty of subtext. He likens himself and his fellow hoppers to pawns, who can make it to the edge of the board to become more powerful Queens, but will never get to be King. He admits with some regret that pawns are chumps and get killed fast, but his youthful audience has faith that [[HardWorkFallacy "smart-ass" pawns can get ahead]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the show, everyone in the conversation has been killed in conflicts between greater forces then themselves, and shortly before his death the last surviving member of the trio makes a CallBack and explicitly says that they really were pawns]].
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Bodie gets brutally beaten by Carver, Kima and other police officers after he punches Mahon.

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