The Wire Season 5 Episode 9

The show starts with a series of clocks that Lester is using to break the code. They figure out that the clock times coincide with the map grids. *Picture mail is the best BTW*. as soon as the codes are sent they are interpreted by Lester and the crew. They are on to Marlo and the Greek’s connect. Lester meets with Sidnor to get the info on the latest code. they are meeting at a warehouse that looks to be the meeting place for the re up. Chris meets up with the supplier at the warehouse to pick up the re up. Dukie is helping the trash man pick up steel pipes and such. Looks to be a steady gig for him. Now everybody seems to be showing up at the warehouse. When Chris leaves, Cheese shows up. Now the Mayor’s office is asking the cops for a 10% drop in crime stats this quarter. Probably because of his push for governor. sidnor pulls over some of Marlo’s crew and gets some of the re up while Lester asks Daniels for arrest warrants on Marlo, Chris and Cheese and raids the warehouse. The mayor holds a press conference to showcase the $16 million in dope that was seized. While in jail Marlo, Monk, Chris and Cheese were talking and think that Mike or Snoop snitched. Marlo gets pissed when he finds out that Omar was talking bad about him in the streets and he wasn’t informed. McNulty is trying to slowly shut down the serial killer case now that Marlo is locked up. The paper is going to put Scott the liar up for a Pulitzer. Now McNulty is feeling horrible about making up the serial killer story to get Marlo. Remember Wee-Bey’s son Namond? Well, he is doing well now that he’s off the corners and with Colvin and his family. Marlo and Chris are denied bail. Chris because of the murder and Marlo because he’s fingered as the ring leader. Now they have McNulty running to every homeless they find dead. Lester Meets with Clay Davis to talk about how these dealers are laundering the money and how to prove it. Sen. Davis puts him on to Levy and other lawyers to get him off his federal case (the one the feds don’t want anyway). Gus (from the paper) goes down to Walter Reed and finds out that the story Scott wrote wasn’t true and exaggerated. Michael follows Snoop around because he gets suspicious about her motives. Bubs celebrates his one year anniversary of being clean. He cleaned up nice. He finally opens up and comes to terms about what happened to Sherod (the youngin’ he accidentally killed last year trying to get back at somebody that was constantly messing with them). Greggs goes and talks to Daniels about what is happening with McNulty. Snoop picks up mike to go drop somebody she said Marlo wanted done. He tells her he has to piss but when she pulls over he pulls out his gun. he tells her he knew she was setting him up (think “the student becomes the teacher” type thing) and puts one in her head. Crazy! So now Snoop’s dead and Chris and Marlo are in jail. What next? Now Mike, Dukie and Junebug pack up and leave. He sends Junebug to stay with his aunt and Dukie gets dropped off at the copper spot. Mike is officially on the run.

Until next week…