And thinking of soft spoken Chris telling most I got your back before blowing their heads off… in many ways the ultimate grim reaper escorting those from this mortal sphere to the unknown where there memories are stored in houses lost.
I love how the first two minutes of the scene there’s no dialogue just Bunk being mesmerized by Lester in action reminds of the scene from the first season when Bunk and Mcnulty investigate the crime scene
One quality all great movies and TV shows have is knowing when to let a scene breathe. When to take it slow and just let the actors act with their body and not some clumsy exposition where they explain thoughts that should be played out on their faces. The Wire was naturally a masterpiece in that aspect. And you know every other ones too.
That reminds me of that scene in season 1 when Bunk and McNulty say nothing but variations on 'fuck' while they investigate the murder of the girl Barksdale had killed.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 yep very reminiscent of each other. That scene is still to this day one of my absolute favorite tv scenes ever. Bunk is amazing
It looks like they're walking through some weird, surrealist, graveyard in the middle of Baltimore before Lester clicks and puts it together with "this is a tomb, Lex is in there". Goosebumps every time.
I know. This scene is so perfectly executed. Just ambient city noise. Minimal dialogue. You know where the bodies are but somehow watching them put it together is still incredibly tense and unsettling.
Wendell Pierce fucking killed that slow realization. You could see him piece everything together, the walk back and gaze at the vacants... Perfection 👌
@@MrBellsa61 Bunk can be pretty great on the detective work himself (his dismantling of Old Face Andre's bullshit is pretty impressive.) But even he is awestruck by Lester's brilliance. And yes. that reaction is amazing. Almost as great as his shock at Lester going along with McNulty's insane scheme (still my alltime favorite Bunk reaction shot)
Freamon was by far the best detective on show. He really gave a shit about the people and the job. Regardless of the policies and politics that got in the way.
Really a sad scene. Also just goes to show how neglected these parts of Baltimore are. They knew to dump bodies there cause these places will never get fixed
Marlo Stanfield was a cold-hearted and ruthless SOB, but mix that with high intelligence and you got yourself a terrifying, mass-murdering psychopath who is difficult to stop.
That's the kind of thing you only notice when you just look at something not even thinking just noticing everything you possibly can about a thing. Eventually you start to notice all the little details that make that thing unique, the pattern in the grain of the wood, the differences in the bricks, the nails in the boards.
What I’ve learned watching HBO shows for several decades? Different methods of disposing of bodies. Examples include: - Pigs (Deadwood) - Pies (Game of Thrones) - Vacants (The Wire)
What’s telling is how city hall and the police brass react to them finding the bodies. They would have rather they be hidden in the vacants and not on their stats. Goes to show where their priorities were.
Lester was bad. His intuition, mixed with knowledge, just uncanny. Flip side, I know this is just a show, but Chris and Snoop weren't gonna walk me in no abandoned house
I just don't get it how those 2 were able to kill so many people and nobody did anything against them? When Chris was about to kill someone's he always did the same thing, sat on the same car in a corner waiting for a moment to hit the person
I remember when the rumors of where the bodies where going hit the streets and it became less about fearing Chris & Snoops trigger game and more of simply saying, “I’m not trying to end up in one of those vacant houses”
I was a police and Baltimore Police Department for 20 years. I can tell that these stats games really happened. We would've solved way more murders if the higher ups let us. There is a saying within cops: "Don't piss on cops boots because the boots get wet and it's rude anyway". I think that explains this scene very well.
Most of us like to pretend something this morbid could never exist, but there are folks like Lester who seek out the true horrors of the world because they need to be brought to light.
That’s why despite people criticizing the plot of season 5 being far fetched it is leaning on portraying this notion. In the end an elaborate hoax is more believable than what Marlo was doing to people.
@@dreamsprayanimation A psycopath killing people is so much more 1 and done than a community of black people getting slaughteted for drug sway. It's cowardice but the police are very fear driven anyway.
Also it's like, was Chris Partlow not scary enough to be considered a serial killer?? Like sure it was systemic but goddamn those vacants were like some Chicago Gacy shit.
It looks like it was done originally with a regular old hammer and nails. That would have taken far to much time to fix the door after doing the deed and drawn attention of others; especially rollies or knock-o’s out driving around
Nah most people don't know where the bodies are but they know the people disappearing were done in by Chris and Snoop. Dukie knew where it was because he saw Chris one night but kept his mouth shut about it except to tell Randy and Mike.
@@laxjoh if you watched the show almost every side corner boy mentions the vacants. He ain’t wrong most of the hood knew but there wasn’t no way they’d snitch about it
Goosebumps every time. I have a coworker named Lex, so instinctively whenever i see his name I automatically whisper "Lex is in there". The wire is still best show of all time in my book.
I think this is the best scene in The Wire, there’s so much going on. If anything captures the entire show in a scene it is either this or the chess scene.
Worst thing about the Wire was the end of the show when the Music 🎵 Starts playing that's when you knew Dammm I gotta wait til next week for the next episode 😢
Da Bunk to bushy top: i'll show u sloppy. Also Da Bunk, to Freamon: Lester, you're really starting to scare me, man. My favorite: Da Bunk hearing Jimmy s serial killer idea with Freamon upgrading it back to bushy top: Lester WHAT daPHUCK? (For maximum wire-wow-effect, read as whispered and fed up as Da Bunk was then) Me: The End.
I was hoping the tvbshow The Chi would revolve mostly around street ceime like the wire but the show ended up being a coming of age story. Still a good show but I was kinda dissapointed about that when it first came out.
Marlo's system of subtly disposing bodies was almost perfect, so perfect that the police would actively look the other way just to maintain their low homicide numbers, Lester and the team were the anomaly of their system.
Nah it was far from perfect, man. Marlo put his crown on a timer, maxxed out at a few years maybe. Those vacants didn't stay vacant forever irl, and during The Wire there is a lot of talk from dealers who want to buy vacants as investment opportunities and Marlo always was on edge whenever he heard about it@@FatGouf
"This is a tomb, Lex is in there...." Actually it was Rawls and some other fine gentleman with poppers, lubricants and the like They knew it was now time to find another spot.
True, but some departments waste money on stupid toys rather than real crime solving tools. In NY, they were about to spend 70k a piece on spot robot dogs. What police work were those units targeting?
The one thing I found very unlikely about the Vacant situation was the fact that the police were not going to do anything about the bodies. It was so unrealistic because one decaying body would cause a huge stinch. A Vacant full and the whole neighborhood would be ringing and banging on the PD doors demanding they look into it. Not to mention all of those bodies belong to someones family so people would have been livid mad at the PD if they somehow learned that they were going to do nothing about all those bodies locked that complex.
There's a lot about Baltimore you don't know. First off throwing Kitty Litter on it (which they do) can muzzle a smell so it smells like a dead rat. Secondly there are blocks and blocks and blocks of East and West Bmore that are completely abandoned, where nobody lives, period. Fourth the Wire covered every season how people don't go to the police even when a loved one is gone, if they're even connected to that love one any more anyways. This isn't some Hollywood producer either making this up, this is from a guy who spent his whole career covering crime in West Baltimore in David Simon.
@@axx012 educate yourself and stop being so naïve, the world is Rand by those in control. And if those in control would look bad due to a specific situation happening, they’ll do whatever it takes to cover it up. You should Google Watergate and stop talking out of your behind.
@@axx012how you telling him to educate himself but talking about they didn’t smell anything obviously snoop poured cat litter every time and covered with a tarp… now go educate yourself
Bunk should've said the line Lester you're starting to scare me, my man, at the end of this scene. Not in the middle, when its just loose boards coming off the condemned buildings. Bc thats just what is EXPECTED! And the viewer along with Lester hasn't figured out the meaning of loose vs tightly secured boarded up doors and windows.
Lester walks away from their search area without a word, pulls off a plywood door then walls past WITHOUT going inside... yeah, I'm with Bunk. You can definitely see the gears click into place when Freamon looks up and sees the houses. The question in his eyes changes from "Where is Lex's body" to "Where would they use a nailgun?"
And then the end when the camera pans up to all the other row houses in the vicinity as Bunk says “F^ck me”. Because he catches on to two things. One how much of a genius Lester is to figure that shit out, but also the way Baltimore is set up with them empty row houses, just how many bodies could potentially be hidden. Remember when they said Marlo was quiet for a time, yet he practically owned west Baltimore but nobody could find out how he could have so much real estate without the bodies to show for it?? Well now they know the answer. And it was hidden in plain sight all along. Marlo turned the West Baltimore vacants (and even a few on the east side for them New York boys) into his own personal masoleum.
He killed fruit. So due to eyeball witnesses. The detectives were looking for lex. But lex was killed and put in the abandoned houses by snoop and chris in retaliation for killing fruit. Great thing about the wire is one thing connects to the rest.
People had been going missing since the beginning of the season. They knew Marlo was dropping bodies but didn't know how. Lex was not only one of the first murdered ( since Marlo took over Westside bmore) he was among the sloppiest as way too many people knew about his murder. By the end of the season chris and snoop hit their stride and dropping bodies became easy
That final shot is beautiful. It's like he was standing in front of a giant mausoleum
And thinking of soft spoken Chris telling most I got your back before blowing their heads off… in many ways the ultimate grim reaper escorting those from this mortal sphere to the unknown where there memories are stored in houses lost.
bravo vince
Why The Wire is the champion of tv shows.
Bunk's humorous "Ah, F me" remark also puts it into perspective; he just realized this might be the start of finding more bodies.
For a show with amazing cinematography it’s probably my single favorite shot
Bunk was a master, but Lester "Pawn Shop Unit for Thirteen Years and Four Months" Freamon was a wizard.
NATURAL POH LEESE.
Damn my memory
Fuck yeah, natural poh leese
Indeed
Natural Police....
And four months
I love how the first two minutes of the scene there’s no dialogue just Bunk being mesmerized by Lester in action reminds of the scene from the first season when Bunk and Mcnulty investigate the crime scene
One quality all great movies and TV shows have is knowing when to let a scene breathe. When to take it slow and just let the actors act with their body and not some clumsy exposition where they explain thoughts that should be played out on their faces. The Wire was naturally a masterpiece in that aspect. And you know every other ones too.
The sound design, too. It's perfect. Just ambient city noise.
The discipline learning from the master
That reminds me of that scene in season 1 when Bunk and McNulty say nothing but variations on 'fuck' while they investigate the murder of the girl Barksdale had killed.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 yep very reminiscent of each other. That scene is still to this day one of my absolute favorite tv scenes ever. Bunk is amazing
That police work is about persistence and luck. Sometimes you have to find the haystack BEFORE you find the needle.
And sometimes you have to make sure it is the RIGHT haystack. Life, man...
Magnets
Real estate, amiright?
Read this in Lester's voice lol
For a show with great dialogue, it knows how to do scenes with almost no dialogue so masterfully
It looks like they're walking through some weird, surrealist, graveyard in the middle of Baltimore before Lester clicks and puts it together with "this is a tomb, Lex is in there". Goosebumps every time.
It’s the graveyard of the post industrial American inner city
This is one of the best scenes that's why I'm here
I know. This scene is so perfectly executed. Just ambient city noise. Minimal dialogue. You know where the bodies are but somehow watching them put it together is still incredibly tense and unsettling.
Ruger - Absolutely. (and Walther is better lol ;)
Yeah this scene is GOATed frfr
Its rare to see bunk gets in awe of lester’s police work.....,,,,, seriously Lester is on another level.
Wendell Pierce fucking killed that slow realization. You could see him piece everything together, the walk back and gaze at the vacants... Perfection 👌
His intuition is otherworldly.
@@MrBellsa61 Bunk can be pretty great on the detective work himself (his dismantling of Old Face Andre's bullshit is pretty impressive.) But even he is awestruck by Lester's brilliance. And yes. that reaction is amazing. Almost as great as his shock at Lester going along with McNulty's insane scheme (still my alltime favorite Bunk reaction shot)
He isn't in awe of Lester's police work. He's realizing just how many bodies are probably hidden in all the vacants around the West Side.
Yep, I wholeheartedly agree! Good acting!@@MrBellsa61
"this is a tomb lex is in there" chilling line from my favorite natural police on the show then he walks away Epic scene
The way he said it, like Lex was just up in the vacant hanging out. One of the most chilling and best scenes of the entire series
Such an incredible and timeless scene
Gorgeous cinematography
This scene was the first time in my life I feared how smart someone was.
Freamon was by far the best detective on show. He really gave a shit about the people and the job. Regardless of the policies and politics that got in the way.
No suspense built by music or camera angles or pretending to be figuring out something big, yet this is so much more than all that
“…Lex is in there.”
🥶🥶🥶
The symbolism of it all; the abandoned houses, casting those dark shadows representing the decay of the city.
That’s not symbolism, that’s just the reality
Yeah I know I wonder if Baltimore was ever a nice city it looks like it’s always been a shit hole.
@@ahmadpcgaminghush troll
Really a sad scene. Also just goes to show how neglected these parts of Baltimore are. They knew to dump bodies there cause these places will never get fixed
Marlo Stanfield was a cold-hearted and ruthless SOB, but mix that with high intelligence and you got yourself a terrifying, mass-murdering psychopath who is difficult to stop.
I love when he’s looking he’s looking for new screws to see which one the bodies are in
That's the kind of thing you only notice when you just look at something not even thinking just noticing everything you possibly can about a thing. Eventually you start to notice all the little details that make that thing unique, the pattern in the grain of the wood, the differences in the bricks, the nails in the boards.
This has to be my favorite scene. Lester drops the mic. The mystery is solved.
Natural POH-LEECE
This scene always gives me chills.
Fr . It’s so many bodies in there . U feel the daunting spirit
The shot at 2:50 is such a great shot. This show was sooooo ahead of it’s time.💯💯
What I’ve learned watching HBO shows for several decades? Different methods of disposing of bodies. Examples include:
- Pigs (Deadwood)
- Pies (Game of Thrones)
- Vacants (The Wire)
What’s telling is how city hall and the police brass react to them finding the bodies. They would have rather they be hidden in the vacants and not on their stats.
Goes to show where their priorities were.
The greatest detective work in the History of Crime shows...
This is the exact moment Lester became Heisenberg.
Na, more like the Robert Downey Jr version of Sherlock Holmes
Question who is Heisenberg
More like Jack Torrance here some Real Police 🔪🚓
@@asimhusain8087 the greatest meth cook in the world
@@Aleehondro tony soprano birthed walter white . remember that
Gotta love the moment of realization on Lesters face. Genius. "Soft Eyes"
Lester was bad. His intuition, mixed with knowledge, just uncanny.
Flip side, I know this is just a show, but Chris and Snoop weren't gonna walk me in no abandoned house
Just have to kill my ass in the open 🤣
Facts bro
Yu Yu hy up hu
I just don't get it how those 2 were able to kill so many people and nobody did anything against them? When Chris was about to kill someone's he always did the same thing, sat on the same car in a corner waiting for a moment to hit the person
@@travischina5041 unless you take them out first.
What a classy fadeout to a classic scene
I can't believe how old this show is now.
And good ole' common sense and deduction in reasoning! Great scene!
I remember when the rumors of where the bodies where going hit the streets and it became less about fearing Chris & Snoops trigger game and more of simply saying, “I’m not trying to end up in one of those vacant houses”
If they listened to the rumours would have found bodies sooner.
I was a police and Baltimore Police Department for 20 years. I can tell that these stats games really happened. We would've solved way more murders if the higher ups let us. There is a saying within cops: "Don't piss on cops boots because the boots get wet and it's rude anyway". I think that explains this scene very well.
Hidden in plain sight.
I like how Bunk walked up and touched the first door like Lester but you knew he didn’t know wtf he was touching it for.
Most of us like to pretend something this morbid could never exist, but there are folks like Lester who seek out the true horrors of the world because they need to be brought to light.
That’s why despite people criticizing the plot of season 5 being far fetched it is leaning on portraying this notion. In the end an elaborate hoax is more believable than what Marlo was doing to people.
@@dreamsprayanimation A psycopath killing people is so much more 1 and done than a community of black people getting slaughteted for drug sway. It's cowardice but the police are very fear driven anyway.
Also it's like, was Chris Partlow not scary enough to be considered a serial killer?? Like sure it was systemic but goddamn those vacants were like some Chicago Gacy shit.
Lester should went into business for himself as a Private investigator.
McNulty/Freamon Private Detective Agency
@@HEAVYDIAPER They would have been better than Herc, that's for sure.
Dude was raking it in off dollhouse miniatures
kudos for letting the end credits music run
Lester is major crimes unit. It’s all in the small details.
I love the cerebral approach of detective work.
It's ironic how, had Snoop bought a shittier model, Lester would've never cracked the case
It looks like it was done originally with a regular old hammer and nails. That would have taken far to much time to fix the door after doing the deed and drawn attention of others; especially rollies or knock-o’s out driving around
Still would’ve been fresh nails in some
Nah, it was that they were inconsistent with the other doors
Its not the model but about materials, they used new nails where before they used screws that got rusted.
The fucked Up thing is everyone knows where the bodies are except the police
It’s so obvious too all them damn vacants in the city
Nah most people don't know where the bodies are but they know the people disappearing were done in by Chris and Snoop. Dukie knew where it was because he saw Chris one night but kept his mouth shut about it except to tell Randy and Mike.
@@laxjoh if you watched the show almost every side corner boy mentions the vacants. He ain’t wrong most of the hood knew but there wasn’t no way they’d snitch about it
@@laxjoh the corner kids and drug dealers all mention snoop and Chris walking people into the vacants.
A lot of the Co op crew didn't know about the vacants. Slim Charles guessed it but no one knew for sure.
Lester was the best of all of them hands down
Baltimore always looks like such a hellscape in The Wire.
Because it is, especially south Fulton.
Coolest show ever.
Lester the corpse whisperer
This is when he became one of my favorite characters
Lester is top 5 wire characters
Top three
His actor plays probably the best character in The Corner as well
Goosebumps every time. I have a coworker named Lex, so instinctively whenever i see his name I automatically whisper "Lex is in there". The wire is still best show of all time in my book.
Cool Lester Smooth
HEY shaawwttyyyy 😅
I think this is the best scene in The Wire, there’s so much going on. If anything captures the entire show in a scene it is either this or the chess scene.
Soft eyes
Finding a needle in haystack
If only they listened to the "street", they would have found bodies sooner. Rumours were swirling about where the bodies were hidden.
They don't want to know.
One of the best scenes ever...
I remember when i first saw this scene
This is why you need humans writing. A.I. couldn't write this.
I love this show so much. This scene felt so much like a first season McNulty/Bunk moment.
Best cop show EVER.
Season 4 was the closest this show came to gothic horror.
Yep definitely
Man I luv that ending intro luckily snoop n3m wasn't there when Lester them was there it would been over
And yet there's still jokes, first door Lester checks is 1312, ACAB. But then, with all these vacants to choose from, why tempt fate?
Bunk was shocked and sick to his stomach. Great directing.
Lester was so effective at his job.
Worst thing about the Wire was the end of the show when the Music 🎵 Starts playing that's when you knew Dammm I gotta wait til next week for the next episode 😢
Bunk finally figuring it out and the paperwork to follow
Da Bunk to bushy top: i'll show u sloppy.
Also Da Bunk, to Freamon: Lester, you're really starting to scare me, man.
My favorite:
Da Bunk hearing Jimmy s serial killer idea with Freamon upgrading it back to bushy top: Lester WHAT daPHUCK? (For maximum wire-wow-effect, read as whispered and fed up as Da Bunk was then)
Me: The End.
Lester… the old sage with the stick.
Chicago couldn’t never made a or witnessed a tv show like the wire 😊❤
I was hoping the tvbshow The Chi would revolve mostly around street ceime like the wire but the show ended up being a coming of age story. Still a good show but I was kinda dissapointed about that when it first came out.
Natural PO-lease.
One of the best with one of the worst, I loved the wire
All goes back to that damn nail gun
Snoop bought that expensive ass nail gun and it cost her lol
Marlo's system of subtly disposing bodies was almost perfect, so perfect that the police would actively look the other way just to maintain their low homicide numbers, Lester and the team were the anomaly of their system.
Nah it was far from perfect, man. Marlo put his crown on a timer, maxxed out at a few years maybe. Those vacants didn't stay vacant forever irl, and during The Wire there is a lot of talk from dealers who want to buy vacants as investment opportunities and Marlo always was on edge whenever he heard about it@@FatGouf
"This is a tomb, Lex is in there...."
Actually it was Rawls and some other fine gentleman with poppers, lubricants and the like They knew it was now time to find another spot.
It’s crazy stuff like this is still happening
Kinda like how they use the dollhouse miniatures to represent the kind of character lester really is. Attention to detail down to the grain.
This is a tomb 😳😳😳
What?
I'm in ORE of yew!
Lester was the best character
Ahhh man this was it for me the wind spoke to Wesley
Was this the end of the season? Or was there an episode after?
Lester u really starting to scare me man…
Why so many vacants in Baltimore
don’t they have cadaver dogs ..
Lime and bleach covers the decay scents, iirc
True, but some departments waste money on stupid toys rather than real crime solving tools. In NY, they were about to spend 70k a piece on spot robot dogs. What police work were those units targeting?
Lester was natural po-leece....
Those didn't look like they were from a nail gun though.
ramset gun. powder actuated
I always wondered could lester and his crew captured the Sopranos mob ?
The one thing I found very unlikely about the Vacant situation was the fact that the police were not going to do anything about the bodies. It was so unrealistic because one decaying body would cause a huge stinch. A Vacant full and the whole neighborhood would be ringing and banging on the PD doors demanding they look into it. Not to mention all of those bodies belong to someones family so people would have been livid mad at the PD if they somehow learned that they were going to do nothing about all those bodies locked that complex.
There's a lot about Baltimore you don't know. First off throwing Kitty Litter on it (which they do) can muzzle a smell so it smells like a dead rat. Secondly there are blocks and blocks and blocks of East and West Bmore that are completely abandoned, where nobody lives, period. Fourth the Wire covered every season how people don't go to the police even when a loved one is gone, if they're even connected to that love one any more anyways. This isn't some Hollywood producer either making this up, this is from a guy who spent his whole career covering crime in West Baltimore in David Simon.
YEAH YOU WASNT PAYIN ATTENTION THEY WAS POURING THAT POWDER ON THE BODIES SO THEY WOULD NOT SMELL
@@ericlewis450 the powder is called lime, educate yourself.
@@axx012 educate yourself and stop being so naïve, the world is Rand by those in control. And if those in control would look bad due to a specific situation happening, they’ll do whatever it takes to cover it up. You should Google Watergate and stop talking out of your behind.
@@axx012how you telling him to educate himself but talking about they didn’t smell anything obviously snoop poured cat litter every time and covered with a tarp… now go educate yourself
Location location location.
The sound guy or gal made this scene gold. You hear the whole neighborhood but nothing is too loud
Soooo nobody is gon talk abt Bunks necktie…
Da Bunk s strictly a suit and tie mophocko.
Natural po-lice
Natral Poe Leese
Natural pooooh leese
Bunk should've said the line Lester you're starting to scare me, my man, at the end of this scene. Not in the middle, when its just loose boards coming off the condemned buildings. Bc thats just what is EXPECTED! And the viewer along with Lester hasn't figured out the meaning of loose vs tightly secured boarded up doors and windows.
Lester walks away from their search area without a word, pulls off a plywood door then walls past WITHOUT going inside... yeah, I'm with Bunk.
You can definitely see the gears click into place when Freamon looks up and sees the houses. The question in his eyes changes from "Where is Lex's body" to "Where would they use a nailgun?"
And then the end when the camera pans up to all the other row houses in the vicinity as Bunk says “F^ck me”. Because he catches on to two things. One how much of a genius Lester is to figure that shit out, but also the way Baltimore is set up with them empty row houses, just how many bodies could potentially be hidden. Remember when they said Marlo was quiet for a time, yet he practically owned west Baltimore but nobody could find out how he could have so much real estate without the bodies to show for it?? Well now they know the answer. And it was hidden in plain sight all along. Marlo turned the West Baltimore vacants (and even a few on the east side for them New York boys) into his own personal masoleum.
What was special about lex
He killed fruit. So due to eyeball witnesses. The detectives were looking for lex. But lex was killed and put in the abandoned houses by snoop and chris in retaliation for killing fruit. Great thing about the wire is one thing connects to the rest.
Lex killing Fruit set everything in motion.
Yep touched Randy too. Wire is so wise and ahead of it’s time
People had been going missing since the beginning of the season. They knew Marlo was dropping bodies but didn't know how. Lex was not only one of the first murdered ( since Marlo took over Westside bmore) he was among the sloppiest as way too many people knew about his murder. By the end of the season chris and snoop hit their stride and dropping bodies became easy
@@emmanuelcruz5003 In hindsight Marlo should really have left Lex alone, his life might have been easier
Cool Lester Smooth