Line #28 Recap/TheWireS03E02AllDueRespect


1	'''Season 3, Episode 2'''
2	!All Due Respect
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5	->''"There's never been a paper bag."''
6	-->-- '''Colvin'''
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9	The Major Case squad/detail are finally able to get Cheese [[Recap/TheWireS03E01TimeAfterTime on the wire]], and even better, they hear him talking about what they think is a murder that he feels remorse about. Unfortunately, when Bunk and [=McNulty=] interrogate him, it turns out when Cheese was talking about his "dawg", he meant that literally; he entered his dog in a [[BeastlyBloodsports dog-fighting contest]], but it was badly mauled when the other dog's owner cheated by rubbing some chemical on his own animal, and Cheese [[MercyKill shot his own dog out of mercy]]. This ended up sparking a war between Cheese and the other owner, which was picked up on the wire, so the squad manages to solve those murders, but they let Cheese slip through their fingers, and with that, according to Daniels, their last chance at getting at Proposition Joe and even Stringer. [=McNulty=], of course, doesn't want to hear that, and he's approaching from another angle; when he finds out [[Recap/TheWireS02E06AllPrologue D'Angelo allegedly committed suicide]], he starts to investigate with the help of Frazier (who has his doubts from what he's seen of the autopsy photos), and even tries to bluff Donette about it.
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11	Stringer continues to try and get his crew to sell the idea of working with other crews so they can sell the best product, instead of settling things through violence (he also tries to convince Avon of that when he visits him in prison, though Avon isn't convinced). Some have more luck than others; Bodie, for example, can't find Marlo until he puts his crew on the other side of the street from Fruit's crew, at which point Marlo comes by and tells Bodie to move his crew off the street ("I'm being a gentleman about it for the moment").
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13	While on a buy-and-bust, Officer Dozerman gets shot in the face, and those responsible also take his service weapon when he drops it. This is the last straw as far as Colvin is concerned, and to his squad's dismay, he declares there will no longer be anymore buy-and-busts for the rest of his tenure.
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15	Carcetti continues to press Burrell, though he does it in more subtle ways this time; he has Valchek arrange a meeting between the two of them, and Carcetti again offers to help Burrell get whatever he needs. Burrell asks for police cars to get back from the repair shop faster, and because Carcetti knows someone in that department, it gets done, so Burrell then asks for help in getting money for the police academy.
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17	Cutty decides to try and go on the straight and narrow, and gets a job mowing lawns, among other things.
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19	!!This episode contains examples of:
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21	* BoomHeadshot: One of Cheese's men, Triage, does this to Jelly, one of the men who cheated against Cheese in the dogfight.
22	* ButtMonkey: Herc actually asks Justin, who's wearing his baseball cap sideways, where he gets hats like that.
23	** SelfPlagiarism: Richard Price took this from a bit in the novel version of ''Film/{{Clockers}}''.
24	* TheConsigliere: Vinson (Norris Davis), who owns a rim shop, seems to be this for Marlo.
25	* ContinuityNod: Rawls continues to rake Major Taylor over the coals regarding his district, and Kima continues to be estranged from both Cheryl and their baby. Also, when he gathers with the other officers after Dozerman is shot, Colvin drinks a beer and throws the empty on top of the roof of the station.
26	* DawnOfAnEra: At least as far as Colvin is concerned, after he announces there'll be no more buy-and-busts:
27	-->'''Colvin:''' Somewheres back in the dawn of time this district had itself a civic dilemma of epic proportions. The city council had just passed a law that forbid alcoholic consumption in public places, on the streets and on the corners. But the corner is, and it was, and it always will be the poor man's lounge. It's where a man wants to be on a hot summer's night. It's cheaper than a bar, catch a nice breeze, watch the girls go by. But the law's the law and the western cops rollin' by, what were they gonna do? If they arrested every dude out there for tipping back a high life there'd be no other time for any other kind of police work. And if they looked the other way? They'd open themselves to all kinds of flaunting, all kinds of disrespect. Now, this is before my time when it happened but, somewheres back in the 50's or 60's, there was a small moment of goddamn genius by some nameless smokehound who comes out the cut-rate one day and on his way to the corner, he slips that just-bought pint of Elderberry into a paper bag. A great moment of civic compromise; that small wrinkled-ass paper bag allowed the corner boys to have their drink in peace and gave us permission to go and do police work. The kind of police work that's actually worth the effort, that's worth actually taking a bullet for. Dozerman, he got shot last night trying to buy three vials; three! [[{{Epigraph}} There's never been a paper bag]] for drugs...until now.
28	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: When Colvin gives his MyGodWhatHaveIDone speech, the Deacon (Melvin Williams) responds, "You're talking about drugs. That's a force of nature. That's sweeping leaves on a windy day whoever the hell you are."
29	** RealitySubtext: Williams, the inspiration for Avon Barksdale, was once a major drug dealer in Baltimore until he was arrested, after which he reformed.
30	* FlippingTheBird: Herc does this to Dozerman when Dozerman drives by Carver and Herc in their car and mimes going down on someone (see HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday below).
31	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Academy class Burrell mentions will become important, as will the feud between Marlo and Stringer's crews. Also, we find out more about what Colvin meant in his DawnOfAnEra speech.
32	* GoryDiscretionShot: We see the dogs circling each other, but never actually attacking, nor do we see how Cheese's dog is eventually mauled or shot.
33	* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]: a RunningGag this episode is Carver trying to get Herc to answer the question of which guy he would have sex with if, before that, he could sleep with any woman in the world, and Herc is afraid to answer because, "The minute I name a guy, you're gonna be like, 'I knew you were a cocksucker from the first time I laid eyes on you. [[Creator/SteveMcqueenActor Steve [=McQueen=],]] huh? That's your fantasy, you closet-case motherfucker?'"
34	** Later, after Herc has made his pick ([[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} former Baltimore Orioles catcher Gus Triandos]], because Herc feels sorry for the fact he had to catch knuckleball pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm all those years), and he's in the police parking lot with Carver, Dozerman walks by:
35	-->'''Dozerman:''' You know, I actually looked up the stats on Gus Triandos. Power hitter, right?
36	-->'''Herc:''' Fuck the both of you. (''Carver and Dozerman laugh'')
37	* HistoryRepeats: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Poot:
38	-->'''Herc:''' You best watch your ass, cause the slingers out here? They're like the crack babies' babies.
39	-->'''Poot:''' Man, every year, everybody's like: "Yeah, these kids out here, they're a new breed. I ain't never seen nothing like this before. This the end of the world now."
40	-->'''Carver:''' Look around, fuckhead; this seem like the dawn of a new day to you?
41	* INeedAFreakingDrink: After Colvin gets back from the hospital and tells his squad about Dozerman's condition, he sees Carver holding a case of beer. Carver tries to hide it, but Colvin says, "Give me one of those."
42	* IronicEcho: When Daniels is TemptingFate by gloating about Cheese's (apparent) confession, he says to Rhonda, "You ever have one of those 'have your cake and eat it too' days? I believe this could be my first." Rhonda says the same thing when she picks him up at the bar later.
43	* ItsAllMyFault: Carver blames himself for Dozerman getting shot, because he let him drive alone.
44	* LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: Mello congratulates one of his subordinates for being able to juke the stats (cutting down the number of armed robberies, for example, when the victim couldn't quite make out the weapon in question). Colvin mutters, "[[SarcasmMode Wine into water.]]"
45	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: More like a My God, What Have I Been Doing: Colvin is like this with the Deacon:
46	-->''You know what I was thinking? Tonight's a good night. Why? Because my shot cop didn't die. And it hit me, this is what makes a good night on my watch; absence of a negative, that was a good night. Here's the thing. Six months from now? I'm gone. I put in my 30 and the only thing that'll be left of me on that job is an eight-by-eleven framed picture in the western hallway. But you know what? The shit out there, the city, is worse than when I first came on. So what does that say about me? About my life.''
47	** This is what leads him to become an InternalReformist.
48	* NothingPersonal: Carcetti claims [[Recap/TheWireS03E01TimeAfterTime his hammering Burrell on crime]] was never this.
49	* OutOfCharacterMoment: Omar never swears, but when one of the Barksdale crew recognizes Omar and says, "[[OhCrap Oh, shit!]]", Omar says the same thing back to him.
50	* ShoutOut:
51	** The confused tourist the Barksdale stash guards talk about at the beginning was looking for the house where Creator/EdgarAllanPoe lived.
52	** The women Herc wants to have before he answers Carver's question about which guy he would sleep with are [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen the Olsen twins]] and [[Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow Mary Tyler Moore]]. He also wants to know why he can't choose an older woman instead of a guy, such as [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Sophia Petrillo]] or [[Series/TheJeffersons Louise Jefferson]].
53	** Before he gets shot, Jelly is telling some of the other members of his crew about Bumpy Johnson, the famous Harlem gangster (portrayed [[Film/{{Hoodlum}} on film]] and [[Series/GodfatherOfHarlem on TV]]).
54	** The movie Carver, Dozerman and Herc go to (see VillainsOutShopping below) is the original Italian version of ''The Last Kiss''.
55	* ShutUpKiss: When Daniels takes Rhonda back to his apartment, he starts to tell her he hasn't quite unpacked yet, but he's interrupted by her kissing him.
56	* ShootTheDog: a very literal example of the trope, as Cheese shoots Dawg after it was injured in a fight and is broken up about.
57	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Dozerman (Rick Otto) is only in three episodes in the third season, but it's his being shot that drives the major plotline of the season, of Colvin becoming an InternalReformist and trying to change the way the police deal with the drug problem in the city. His shooting also drives the plotline of Bunk trying to find his gun.
58	* TemptingFate: The Major Case squad is like this when they hear Cheese on the wire talking about shooting his dawg, assuming now they can nail him to the wall; only Prez (and, to a lesser extent, [=McNulty=]) is cautious). And when they see Bunk and [=McNulty=] interrogating Cheese, Foerster, Rawls, Rhonda and even Daniels allow themselves to smile in triumph, until [[OhCrap Bunk and [=McNulty=] give Daniels and Rhonda the bad news.]]
59	* TitleDrop: [[RuleOfThree Done three times]], Shamrock says this about Omar ("All due respect, but unless you step to him, it's gonna be like this") Burrell says this to Carcetti ("All due respect, councilman, you're fucking with me because, what, you're bored?"), and a guard at the Barksdale stash house says this to Omar (see WithDueRespect below).
60	* TrojanHorse: Omar and his crew get inside the Barksdale stash house by having Omar pretend to be [[ObfuscatingDisability a wheelchair bound relative of one of the neighbors]] (with Kimmy as his nurse), and [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy even getting the guards to help him inside.]] The guards do frisk Omar in the wheelchair, and do realize something's wrong when they hear Omar say, "Thank you, young man", but by then, it's too late.
61	* VillainsOutShopping: Carver, Herc and their girlfriends come out from seeing a movie when they run into Bodie and Poot with their girlfriends coming out of a different movie. HilarityEnsues:
62	-->'''Poot:''' Oh, shit; y'all go to the movies? And you must be the lovely Mrs. Herc! How'd you like your movie.
63	-->'''Herc's girlfriend:''' (''hesitantly'') Okay.
64	-->'''Bodie:''' (''to his girlfriend'') Herc and Carver here, they try to snatch us up every day. Like, "Where the shit? Who got the shit?"
65	-->'''Poot:''' But they never get nothin'. So y'all go to the movies. Damn!
66	-->'''Bodie:''' [[PunchClockVillain All right, then. See you tomorrow.]]
67	** SelfPlagiarism: Richard Price also took this from a bit in the novel version of ''Film/{{Clockers}}''.
68	* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Subverted; the lesbian bar Kima goes to looks like any other bar.
69	* WhosOnFirst: Twicce. In the beginning with the tourist trying to find the Poe house, and later, the police confuse Cheese talking about his fighting dog, Dawg, to be a reference to a human friend.
70	* WithDueRespect: When Omar and his crew have successfully held up a Barksdale stash house.
71	-->'''Stash Guard:''' Hey, yo, Omar. Yo, [[TitleDrop all due respect]], but this, right here? This a Barksdale joint, man.
72	-->'''Omar:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Do tell.]]

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