@@gideonpotok8592the first season is a bit like a stage play sometimes.. it’s great but it’s still finding its legs. Barely anything ever feels scripted again after this. But I agree - if only cause it’s an old school line n everything since ripped off the wire so it feels even more cliche
I love it when McNulty asks, "what'd you do to piss'em off?" And Lester just looks at him and says "Police work." You can see it on McNulty's face, he's thinking "I think I just met my best friend."
Exactly! Together a ying and yang, McNulty obviously a young punk, Freamon a dignified elder statesmen, and both happen to be the best police in Baltimore.
I also like Lester's comment at the end: "When they ask you where you want to go, keep your mouth shut". McNulty obviously, rightfully so, had immense respect for Lester, but that comment showed Lester also saw himself in Jimmy and had respect for him. Lester was my favorite character on the police side.
It was only on the second watch-through of Season 1 that I realized McNulty does indeed say the last place he wants to go is on the boats, several episodes before this scene, when the judge starts things. The writing in this show was just so tight.
Only two times have I heard All Blues by Miles Davis in television. In this episode and in The Line of Fire with Clint Eastwood (before he gets the first call)
I recall one episode in the first season when LT. Daniels is working with "Fleurette Africaine" by Ellington/Mingus/Roach in the background. great choice of Music, only The Sopranos can compete
I thought that was Coletrane. Lol! I literally just told a friend, Lester looks like one of those cool older brothers that drives to work with leather gloves, a leather coat, a broken down kango and Miles playing in the whip
What really amazes me about Lester is the unbelievable patience he has: tells McNulty in a casual tone that he was stuck in the pawn shop unit for over 13 yrs. Later he has part of the team collecting paperwork & records all over town -- daunting task but Lester knows it'll lead somewhere, he doesn't mind the effort. Hell, even the way he takes down Bird while acting like a drunk on the street is calm, cool, collected. Great acting by Clarke Peters and great writing.
The funniest part about this scene is Lester warns McNulty not to say anything when a supervisor asks "Where don't you wanna go." At this point in the show, Landsman already asked him that in a previous episode. McNulty realizes he's fucked.
In the last episode of Season 1, Rawls asks McNulty where he doesn't want to go, McNulty grins, and the scene cuts. I took this to be McNulty taking Lester's advice, but Rawls finds out from Landsman where he really doesn't want to go, so he ends up on the boat anyway. He calls Landsman out for telling Rawls in the first episode of Season 2, which shows that he didn't expect Landsman to say anything, and that he did what Lester said to do when Rawls asked him the question.
Even the way they drink their beers tells something about their characters. Lester drinks his beer slowly and holds it in his mouth for a few seconds as if to ponder the flavor while Jimmy just opens his mouth and pours his beer down his throat.
Stuck in my own version of the Pawnshop Unit, I console myself with the thought that Lester Freamon rolled away the stone. In 13 years... and 4 months.
Buddy, we're all in the Pawnshop Unit. You just have to figure out how to make dollhouse furniture while you're whittling away the time you're being paid for.
Miles Davis in the background at the bar - loud enough to hear the trumpet line, too. The Wire sure knew how to frame a character so the audience understood exactly where they fit into the world.
13 years and 4 months. The amount of good that he could have done for the city in that time but some asshole wanted to prove a point and throw some weight around because he did his job. 2020 UPDATE Should note that the move is what made Lester a far more dangerous investigator. I'm sure he wasn't bad before but now even the smallest thing doesn't get by him. There's a clip from 'First 48' on UA-cam of cops working a murder case out of New Orleans. It's Mardi Gras and there's trash everywhere of all kinds and one of the detectives sees a random hat on the ground among the trash and picks it up and sends it to forensics. Later on after they're watching video of the murder that same random hat falls off the head of the murderer. They got him on his DNA. Something random doesn't go by these guys, like a telephone number written on the stash house wall with the letter D next to it which everyone else missed. Lester didn't want to get tied down with "paper shuffle" as he calls it, but we see later on how paper shuffling is exactly how the really sophisticated crimes are done. Watch the scene where he schools Prez and Sydnor on following the money and paper trails and ask yourself who else in the entire department could do that. I talk about the good work he could have done being on the street, looking back now he's impossible to beat while sitting at a desk.
+Hermit574 It has nothing to do with following chain of command. It has EVERYTHING to do with the incompetent and/or corrupt "bosses" keeping their status/rank and positions safe from true police like McNulty and Lester.
Cool Lester Smooth. Love these two, and this show is the greatest. I frequently wish I could go back to before I watched it the first time and have it all to unfold in front of me. It's pure and perfect.
Jimmy McNulty is a hell of a character and a great detective, but Lester Freamon arguably beats him in both categories. And the end of this scene is sad, where Freamon is like "you do realize where this is all going to end up, don't you?" Pure arrogance fuels McNulty, he looks so young and self-assured here, he has no idea about 13 years in the pawn shop unit lol...
+Colonel Hart inarguably. Lester is the brilliant detective McNulty aspires to be, and he's grounded, too. He's like Ben Kenobi or Gandalf without any magic, just consistent policework. At this point, the conversation where Landsman had determined to put McNulty on a boat had already happened and been quickly forgotten.
+Colonel Hart hmm and yet i can't help but think mcnulty might mature and become the new freamon. After all, it's heavily implied mcnulty can't be kicked out of the job, but he's buried so deep he's never seeing real police work again. who knows, 13 years down the line after the wire ended, mcnulty might be put into a proper detail out of sheer accident just like lester was put into the barksdale case
+HighLordBlazeReborn Yea, I think that is what the writers are going for. McNulty is a young Freamon full of fire and not willing to play by the rules. And then...... the boat.
mcnutty wouldnt be mcnutty without the blind arrogance freamon wouldnt be freamon without the stubbornness levels of detection and instinct...theres not a lot between them
Also loved after the end of the season when McNaulty is getting disciplined and I think its rawles or jay ask him "where don't you want to go" he just smirks and remembers this convo
@@Onigirli At the very start of the season, when the judge starts making noise and McNulty is taking heat for it, Jay and Bunk are ribbing him about where he's going to end up, and McNulty says that the last place he'd want to work is the docks (because of the fumes). In Season 2, McNulty comes back and makes a few comments at Jay about telling Rawles about the docks. Jay claims he honestly thought Rawles wanted to make sure McNulty landed all right.
Holy shit, you can literally find every fucking scene from this show on UA-cam. This one of McNulty and Freamon in the bar as Miles Davis blares out of the bar radio is one of my favourites from the series, I've been trying to find it for weeks with no luck.
It's fascinating, the concept of "natural police" in the show. As dirty as the streets are, as much as back-dealing and corruption are just a generally accepted part of life, there's still an ideal of what a good cop would do, even if no one actually behaves that way. It's a firm devotion to a model that does not exist; where the people acting as "natural police" have no reason to hold so firmly to the rules--except that they're devoted to the idea of being a good cop.
Yeah. It's fictional and it still pisses me off. Guy's a fucking savant detective and that's how they do him. Sad thing I'm sure it's happening to a lot of real police out there. The shitheads always win.
Nah old Lester has that experience; that life knowledge. I bet he was actually a little bit like McNulty in his youth. Probably why they connect so well. Old Lester is king.
It's like making prequel to House MD, and saying he was probably doper before he's leg injury. Both of these characters are build, and written around these events. Without it, they're diffrent characters, not the one you loved.
@TheNikolatesla34 ah, I'd never considered that possibility. But I don't know if it's part of landsman's m.o. to rat McNulty out. He seemed like the guy who would always cover for his people. And it's not like McNulty was ever concerned with self preservation; in season 2 he spends hours just calculating the tides so he can stick his old unit with fourteen murders, even though he knows it would come back to him. I still wouldn't put it past mcnulty to put himself on the boat just out of spite
I use too sneak in the kitchen at night when my parents watch this 😂😂😂 it’s crazy I’m 29 now! In 2015 I had the entire shows dvd set but I’ve lost it 😢 now UA-cam is my refresher
Great visual of Jimmy appearing and the bar and then we get Lester's slow reveal....almost like a curtain rising and one of the most important characters in the show's history appears...God I love this show 👏🏾
Glad someone caught Miles Davis playing in the background. It is "All Blues." After "Freddie Freeloader" it is my fav work on the classic, "Kind of Blue" album.
The dialogue is so great. the banter, the chemistry. Between so many characters. Weebey and stringer, stringer and avono, omar and mouzone, omar and everybody, lester and mcnulty, prop joe and everyoneo...sheeeeeeeeet. I really can't choose just one.
When Mcnulty in his genius created the phantom ribbon serial killer to drum up unlimited overtime for his buddies it forced the forensic psychologists to get involved. When they layer out the imaginary killers profile it was point by point match of of Mcnulty. He was even trying to duck down and hide his face. I was roflmao!!!!!
@@beav1962 it wasn't just about getting overtime, it was about getting the resources to take down Marlowe Stanfield (which includes overtime). The police budget was slashed to the bone by Carcetti after he refused the Governor's (poisoned chalice) offer for financial support to Baltimore. Lester went along because he was past the point of really giving a shit (in my view) and knew this was their shot to catch Marlowe and put a true monster away.
I wish I knew bars that played Miles Davis. All I got are some disco shit, pop rap, classic rock and sports bars around here. I'd instantly switch where I'd go!
the classic rock part im fine with (thats part of what makes a bar) altho I don't like bars to begin with but...pop rap ? in bars ? wtf kinda bar is that ? some gay ass night club ? lol electronic dance pop music or some rap hybrid ...eh ok...classic bars = classic rock OR (maybe some jazz instrumentals for the artsy-fartsy older crowd) tho I respect miles davis n bitches brew but...sports bars aren't playing radiohead, or leadbelly LOL or anything in between...disco shit (even that I could see) but pop rap that still gets me...could you imagine a smoke-filled bar w/ some Trina or Nelly ? LOL
Something tells me you live in middle america. Top 40 rap in bars is pretty ordinary in cities on either coast. It won't be smoke filled, though....don't remember the last time I was in a bar where you could smoke.
Pawn shop life taught Lester to pay attention to the little things and that's what he did. Nothing was too small of a detail. That's how he found out info while the others were scratching their heads. He entertained all the details not just some. On crime scenes he had everything dusted.
One of the most intimate moments in the entire series, as we learn through Freamon's story much of his motivations and what he wants to do in this conversation. On the surface, it is just barroom talk between two detectives, but there are lessons learned and taught within this conversation.
The opening shot in the bar sets up the moment perfectly. The pan over to McNulty standing before a silhouetted wall, dark and inscrutable, which then slowly recedes to reveal Lester is just artful.
By far my favorite character in the Wire! (although, in all honesty, the character development in this show and the acting was just at such a high level).
the background music the bar scene man conversation legend type of thangs ... it's like yo dad and grandpa sitting back reminiscing on some past happening and ya the little kid running about ,mom screaming go down to the bar get yo dad and grandpa dinner time ... the WONDER YEARS ..
If anyone is wondering what the music is in the background is when Mcnulty and Lester are talking its the brilliant All Blues from the album Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis. Perfectly sums up Lesters character, one of the smartest and coolest people on the show but largely forgotten about, just like the music of Jazz.
I was already invested in the show from the first few episodes - but it was Lester's emergence in episodes 3 and 4 that really had me on the edge of my seat. Ep 4 is one of the best of the whole series, in fact.
Saw this scene when the show was just in the HBO rotation and a hundred times since and it still gives me chills to think of all that is yet to come with Jimmy , Lester and the boys...:)...Great show! Arguably one of the best. ..Raw and pure and living 80 miles north of B-more; in philly, which makes b-more look like Beverly Hills...I appreciate the portrayal of the game.
In Lester I see The personification of The Myth of Sisyphus thesis. He does his job knowing that his higher ups will not reward him, for all his hard work he has been shoved to the corner of Baltimore police. Yet he still does it not with a smile or scowl but with a persistence and faith he that is in him alone and perhaps a wonder to those around him. I might be taking to far a leap ( given I did not watch the show in it's entirety, but the only time he cuts a corner is when he and McNulty team up to invent the Red Ribbon Killer to bring down Marlo, and that's all I got.
@@spoda81 4868.67 Days (including at least 2 leap years in that calculation) in the 13 years and 4 months 6,835,680 minutes (In 13 years and 4 months) 410,971,000 (Est due to calculator not having room to process)
My goal in life is to be as smooth as Lester Freamon, unfortunately I'll be lucky to be as smooth McNulty in season 4 when he was a good boy for a bit.
Really enjoyed these little vignettes in this series. I watched this a long time ago and seeing clips makes me nostalgic. Always thought Lester having his own series would’ve worked well. I think the actor said he was told it was a possibility in an interview (I think)
Watching this for the third or fourth time and realised just how nasty the bosses' sense of humour is. Lester defied them on not charging the editor's son with handling stolen goods. So what better desk job to exile him to than one in which he spends all day dealing with potentially stolen goods? "They got me good." indeed 😄
Chalk and cheese characters. I love the slow pan and reveal camera work to introduce Lester as he opens up. Excellent storytelling, with the visual medium, in the instance you have to tell and not show.
I love that "...and four months". You know that Lester is patient and precise. He doesn't forget and doesn't forgive.
Well, except at the end of the show
Seemed too scripted to me
You're a generic gimmick NPC here to play the contrarian for attention🤡@@gideonpotok8592 🤡
@@gideonpotok8592the first season is a bit like a stage play sometimes.. it’s great but it’s still finding its legs. Barely anything ever feels scripted again after this. But I agree - if only cause it’s an old school line n everything since ripped off the wire so it feels even more cliche
Precisely.
I love it when McNulty asks, "what'd you do to piss'em off?" And Lester just looks at him and says "Police work." You can see it on McNulty's face, he's thinking "I think I just met my best friend."
Exactly! Together a ying and yang, McNulty obviously a young punk, Freamon a dignified elder statesmen, and both happen to be the best police in Baltimore.
And both of them have to "resign" over same "police work".
Nope...it was when McNulty ask to buy him a drink and Lester replies "Just one?"
Lester is too refined to be Jimmy's best friend. Only Bunk can match his degeneracy and be a true soul mate.
I also like Lester's comment at the end: "When they ask you where you want to go, keep your mouth shut". McNulty obviously, rightfully so, had immense respect for Lester, but that comment showed Lester also saw himself in Jimmy and had respect for him. Lester was my favorite character on the police side.
Lester Freamon has joined your party.
I've updated my journal.
Jeezus, how'd I never think of a "The Wire" rpg?
@@daOriGinooGrapeBeer that would never even work.. lmao u dumbfuck
ahem ua-cam.com/video/IAiZ2Y4UJ6U/v-deo.html
@@travisgold3160 "AHEM" its a college humor video, so they are making fun of that it will never work.. therefore that video shows that im correct.
The two coolest people on this show was Lester and Slim Charles
I believe it's pronounced "Slim Chahwles". haha
Don't forget Frog
Weebay has more groove than Slim Charles bro
Omar
Omar the best in my opinion
"And four months," is my favorite Wire gag
Naaaaaah 😂
Sheeeeet
@@TheDCGuitar13 it’s shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit…..
@@markvonschober6872 According to Isiah Whitlock who plays Clay Davis, it is 'Sheeeeeeeeeit' with exactly 9 e's and 1 i, lmao I am totally serious.
That look on McNulty's face when he realizes that Lester's right and the same thing is going to happen to him....priceless.
"What the fuck did I do?"
"So, where don't you want to go?"
It was only on the second watch-through of Season 1 that I realized McNulty does indeed say the last place he wants to go is on the boats, several episodes before this scene, when the judge starts things. The writing in this show was just so tight.
Afalstein: took me till the fourth watch-through to realize Landsman didn't dime him out. Say what you will about the fat man, he's not disloyal.
William May so who did dime him out?
Miles blowin in the background is icing on the cake.
The Wire didn't just have great acting and great writing, it had great music.
Only two times have I heard All Blues by Miles Davis in television. In this episode and in The Line of Fire with Clint Eastwood (before he gets the first call)
And on the movie "Sideways" had lots of Miles.
I recall one episode in the first season when LT. Daniels is working with "Fleurette Africaine" by Ellington/Mingus/Roach in the background. great choice of Music, only The Sopranos can compete
I thought that was Coletrane. Lol! I literally just told a friend, Lester looks like one of those cool older brothers that drives to work with leather gloves, a leather coat, a broken down kango and Miles playing in the whip
What really amazes me about Lester is the unbelievable patience he has: tells McNulty in a casual tone that he was stuck in the pawn shop unit for over 13 yrs. Later he has part of the team collecting paperwork & records all over town -- daunting task but Lester knows it'll lead somewhere, he doesn't mind the effort. Hell, even the way he takes down Bird while acting like a drunk on the street is calm, cool, collected. Great acting by Clarke Peters and great writing.
tommyt1971 ....and 4 months. :)
"We're building something here, and all these pieces matter."
And 4 months.
McNulty couldnt make even ONE year on the boat looolll
He did a good job in The Corner, too, as Fat Kurt
"What'd you do to piss 'em off?"
"Police work."
The writing on this show is so perfect.
The funniest part about this scene is Lester warns McNulty not to say anything when a supervisor asks "Where don't you wanna go."
At this point in the show, Landsman already asked him that in a previous episode. McNulty realizes he's fucked.
wow I forgot about that he really was screwed lol
I completely forgot about that 😂
That's what I love about Wire clips. Always people around who have a clearer understanding of the timeline than I do and can point this stuff out.
Haha I forgot that he was asked prior to hearing this story.
In the last episode of Season 1, Rawls asks McNulty where he doesn't want to go, McNulty grins, and the scene cuts. I took this to be McNulty taking Lester's advice, but Rawls finds out from Landsman where he really doesn't want to go, so he ends up on the boat anyway. He calls Landsman out for telling Rawls in the first episode of Season 2, which shows that he didn't expect Landsman to say anything, and that he did what Lester said to do when Rawls asked him the question.
Even the way they drink their beers tells something about their characters. Lester drinks his beer slowly and holds it in his mouth for a few seconds as if to ponder the flavor while Jimmy just opens his mouth and pours his beer down his throat.
Yeah definitely. They live and breathe the characters
damn bro thats a brilliant catch. what a fucking show
Good pull Detective, you are?
I think it’s just because McNulty is Irish. We don’t fuck around with a pint.
Lester is just worried the bubbles will hurt him. Being old and shit.
Acting in this show is on another level. The Wire is like The Godfather of TV shows.
Fuckin' A right!
@@tommyt1971 most definitely
not really, no way its on godfather level
@@be4unvme its better than godfather
@@soldatheero as far as acting nah man
Absolutely love the detail David Simon puts by playing Miles Motherfucking Davis "All Blues" in the bar scene.
@Rodney Pierce Coltrane did play on that album.
Bill Strohler Yes he did.
Good ear yo
Stuck in my own version of the Pawnshop Unit, I console myself with the thought that Lester Freamon rolled away the stone. In 13 years... and 4 months.
and 4 months.
Did you make it out?
Buddy, we're all in the Pawnshop Unit. You just have to figure out how to make dollhouse furniture while you're whittling away the time you're being paid for.
@Akshay Natu Thanks!
Same here. Spoke up for my team and got buried..smh
Lester Freamon is the coolest guy on the show. Soft spoken badass.
He instantly won me with this scene.
+TheJaviferrol Wmd, got that WMD right here right here
It's almost like the show was trying to do that
TheJaviferrol which guy won you?
And 4 months
@@rickdabagian9100 smartass
Miles Davis in the background at the bar - loud enough to hear the trumpet line, too. The Wire sure knew how to frame a character so the audience understood exactly where they fit into the world.
Him adding the “and four months” every time is soooo fire
"Just one?" haha, Lester is the man.
Word! Lol such a smart ass 😂
13 years and 4 months. The amount of good that he could have done for the city in that time but some asshole wanted to prove a point and throw some weight around because he did his job.
2020 UPDATE
Should note that the move is what made Lester a far more dangerous investigator. I'm sure he wasn't bad before but now even the smallest thing doesn't get by him. There's a clip from 'First 48' on UA-cam of cops working a murder case out of New Orleans. It's Mardi Gras and there's trash everywhere of all kinds and one of the detectives sees a random hat on the ground among the trash and picks it up and sends it to forensics. Later on after they're watching video of the murder that same random hat falls off the head of the murderer. They got him on his DNA. Something random doesn't go by these guys, like a telephone number written on the stash house wall with the letter D next to it which everyone else missed. Lester didn't want to get tied down with "paper shuffle" as he calls it, but we see later on how paper shuffling is exactly how the really sophisticated crimes are done. Watch the scene where he schools Prez and Sydnor on following the money and paper trails and ask yourself who else in the entire department could do that. I talk about the good work he could have done being on the street, looking back now he's impossible to beat while sitting at a desk.
Thank you.
+Hermit574 Morality > chain of command
+Hermit574 It has nothing to do with following chain of command. It has EVERYTHING to do with the incompetent and/or corrupt "bosses" keeping their status/rank and positions safe from true police like McNulty and Lester.
+Capcoor You probably hold a management position and are either corrupt or incompetent and fear true men of character like McNulty and Lester.
Bob Raubaugh Damn right. That's how you wind up with such lovely practices like "juking the stats." "Shining up shit and calling it gold."
Cool Lester Smooth. Love these two, and this show is the greatest. I frequently wish I could go back to before I watched it the first time and have it all to unfold in front of me. It's pure and perfect.
Jimmy McNulty is a hell of a character and a great detective, but Lester Freamon arguably beats him in both categories. And the end of this scene is sad, where Freamon is like "you do realize where this is all going to end up, don't you?"
Pure arrogance fuels McNulty, he looks so young and self-assured here, he has no idea about 13 years in the pawn shop unit lol...
+Colonel Hart inarguably. Lester is the brilliant detective McNulty aspires to be, and he's grounded, too. He's like Ben Kenobi or Gandalf without any magic, just consistent policework. At this point, the conversation where Landsman had determined to put McNulty on a boat had already happened and been quickly forgotten.
+Colonel Hart And 4 months!
+Colonel Hart hmm and yet i can't help but think mcnulty might mature and become the new freamon. After all, it's heavily implied mcnulty can't be kicked out of the job, but he's buried so deep he's never seeing real police work again. who knows, 13 years down the line after the wire ended, mcnulty might be put into a proper detail out of sheer accident just like lester was put into the barksdale case
+HighLordBlazeReborn Yea, I think that is what the writers are going for. McNulty is a young Freamon full of fire and not willing to play by the rules. And then...... the boat.
mcnutty wouldnt be mcnutty without the blind arrogance
freamon wouldnt be freamon without the stubbornness
levels of detection and instinct...theres not a lot between them
Also loved after the end of the season when McNaulty is getting disciplined and I think its rawles or jay ask him "where don't you want to go" he just smirks and remembers this convo
I forgot why that turned out badly for McNulty, how did they still know where he didn't want to go? Did he accidentally tell someone before?
@@Onigirli At the very start of the season, when the judge starts making noise and McNulty is taking heat for it, Jay and Bunk are ribbing him about where he's going to end up, and McNulty says that the last place he'd want to work is the docks (because of the fumes).
In Season 2, McNulty comes back and makes a few comments at Jay about telling Rawles about the docks. Jay claims he honestly thought Rawles wanted to make sure McNulty landed all right.
Holy shit, you can literally find every fucking scene from this show on UA-cam. This one of McNulty and Freamon in the bar as Miles Davis blares out of the bar radio is one of my favourites from the series, I've been trying to find it for weeks with no luck.
Follow the money man
And you won't know where the fuck it's going to take you
I followed the money once - no idea where I ended up.
I've been trying to find it for 13 weeks... .and 4 months.
"All Blues" by Miles Davis
It's fascinating, the concept of "natural police" in the show. As dirty as the streets are, as much as back-dealing and corruption are just a generally accepted part of life, there's still an ideal of what a good cop would do, even if no one actually behaves that way. It's a firm devotion to a model that does not exist; where the people acting as "natural police" have no reason to hold so firmly to the rules--except that they're devoted to the idea of being a good cop.
"I think I need to buy your a drink"...."Just one?".....Classic shit! Spoken like a real muhfukka!
13 years and 4 months of wasting probably the finest detective in the series/department. Criminal mismanagement of resources.
kevin amaral 💯
Real shit
Yeah. It's fictional and it still pisses me off. Guy's a fucking savant detective and that's how they do him. Sad thing I'm sure it's happening to a lot of real police out there. The shitheads always win.
This shit happens in literally every job where politics are involved.
They should do a Young Lester show, I'm sure Lester in the 80's was even doper.
Nah old Lester has that experience; that life knowledge. I bet he was actually a little bit like McNulty in his youth. Probably why they connect so well. Old Lester is king.
@@calluminkster6892 whomp whomp
It's like making prequel to House MD, and saying he was probably doper before he's leg injury. Both of these characters are build, and written around these events. Without it, they're diffrent characters, not the one you loved.
Homicide was close to a prequel. It’s even referenced in some episodes and a lot of the actors from it are on this.
Ol bushy top couldn't keep his mouth shut. That's why he ended up on the boat.
I always thought McNulty deliberately put himself there...like he knew to say the opposite of where he'd end up.
@@Raphie009 It wasn't deliberate. He probably did tell them the opposite. But he'd already let slip to Landsman, and Landsman told Rawls.
@TheNikolatesla34 ah, I'd never considered that possibility. But I don't know if it's part of landsman's m.o. to rat McNulty out. He seemed like the guy who would always cover for his people. And it's not like McNulty was ever concerned with self preservation; in season 2 he spends hours just calculating the tides so he can stick his old unit with fourteen murders, even though he knows it would come back to him. I still wouldn't put it past mcnulty to put himself on the boat just out of spite
@TheNikolatesla34 Yeah he tells Landsman "those fumes make me sick" or something along those lines
@TheNikolatesla34 , You are like me. I have watched the series so many times that I know the show, backwards and forwards..
Notice how Lester says "I gotta take a tinkle." In season 5, Bunny freaks out when the Johns Hopkins guys say that. Interesting.
Rob Laird Is that scene on UA-cam? Because I've been trying to find it to no avail.
+hkgcgsdhjgd
Follow the money man.
+Rob Laird im sure that is accidental
+Rob Laird Classic Freamon tweedy impertinence.
Damn it I was just about to comment on that. Only 2 years late.
Lester Freamon make you want to be good at your job!
That Miles Davis during the bar scene.... So perfect 👍👍👍
I use too sneak in the kitchen at night when my parents watch this 😂😂😂 it’s crazy I’m 29 now! In 2015 I had the entire shows dvd set but I’ve lost it 😢 now UA-cam is my refresher
Four minutes that beat whole seasons of other crime stuff. Condensed heaven.
Great visual of Jimmy appearing and the bar and then we get Lester's slow reveal....almost like a curtain rising and one of the most important characters in the show's history appears...God I love this show 👏🏾
It's a great shot alright!
Glad someone caught Miles Davis playing in the background. It is "All Blues." After "Freddie Freeloader" it is my fav work on the classic, "Kind of Blue" album.
such a great scene with Miles in backround. NAILED IT
13 years and 4 months in purgatory for doing his job. It makes all of his achievements later on in the show that much sweeter.
Natural po-lice.
Lester was the ❤ of this epic series.
My favorite character!
The dialogue is so great. the banter, the chemistry. Between so many characters. Weebey and stringer, stringer and avono, omar and mouzone, omar and everybody, lester and mcnulty, prop joe and everyoneo...sheeeeeeeeet. I really can't choose just one.
bunk and mcnulty ? Slim Charles and Stringer
“I got a take a tinkle.” Whoa call forward to a moment 2 seasons later. Amazing writing. Every line.
When Mcnulty in his genius created the phantom ribbon serial killer to drum up unlimited overtime for his buddies it forced the forensic psychologists to get involved. When they layer out the imaginary killers profile it was point by point match of of Mcnulty. He was even trying to duck down and hide his face. I was roflmao!!!!!
nubian47 he did it to get overtime? Lmao
I’ve only watched the wire videos on UA-cam but I thought he did it to get a wire on someone.
I never understood why Lester went along with McNulty. He was smarter than that.
@@beav1962 it wasn't just about getting overtime, it was about getting the resources to take down Marlowe Stanfield (which includes overtime). The police budget was slashed to the bone by Carcetti after he refused the Governor's (poisoned chalice) offer for financial support to Baltimore.
Lester went along because he was past the point of really giving a shit (in my view) and knew this was their shot to catch Marlowe and put a true monster away.
I just began watching it for the time and Lester is my favorite character. He’s too real man.
Three of the coolest dudes you’ll ever meet in this scene. Jimmy, Lester, and Miles Davis.
Im from Philly but Baltimore and Philly look so much alike it some parts. Its crazy
"when they ask you where you wanna go..." too late
I wish I knew bars that played Miles Davis. All I got are some disco shit, pop rap, classic rock and sports bars around here. I'd instantly switch where I'd go!
So what
the classic rock part im fine with (thats part of what makes a bar) altho I don't like bars to begin with but...pop rap ? in bars ? wtf kinda bar is that ? some gay ass night club ? lol electronic dance pop music or some rap hybrid ...eh ok...classic bars = classic rock OR (maybe some jazz instrumentals for the artsy-fartsy older crowd) tho I respect miles davis n bitches brew but...sports bars aren't playing radiohead, or leadbelly LOL or anything in between...disco shit (even that I could see) but pop rap that still gets me...could you imagine a smoke-filled bar w/ some Trina or Nelly ? LOL
Something tells me you live in middle america. Top 40 rap in bars is pretty ordinary in cities on either coast.
It won't be smoke filled, though....don't remember the last time I was in a bar where you could smoke.
@@Itzsfo0 stfu karen
I really enjoyed watching him wind his way through a case.
Pawn shop life taught Lester to pay attention to the little things and that's what he did. Nothing was too small of a detail. That's how he found out info while the others were scratching their heads. He entertained all the details not just some. On crime scenes he had everything dusted.
One of the most intimate moments in the entire series, as we learn through Freamon's story much of his motivations and what he wants to do in this conversation. On the surface, it is just barroom talk between two detectives, but there are lessons learned and taught within this conversation.
Well said!
The opening shot in the bar sets up the moment perfectly. The pan over to McNulty standing before a silhouetted wall, dark and inscrutable, which then slowly recedes to reveal Lester is just artful.
By far my favorite character in the Wire! (although, in all honesty, the character development in this show and the acting was just at such a high level).
I really, really miss "The Wire"!
Me too!
Damn I need to rewatch this show and relive the magic alllllll over
When you go back and watch the show, I think THIS is the moment where The Wire becomes The Wire.
the background music the bar scene man conversation legend type of thangs ...
it's like yo dad and grandpa sitting back reminiscing on some past happening and ya the little kid running about ,mom screaming go down to the bar get yo dad and grandpa dinner time ...
the WONDER YEARS ..
My Favorite show on tv ever😁
If anyone is wondering what the music is in the background is when Mcnulty and Lester are talking its the brilliant All Blues from the album Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis. Perfectly sums up Lesters character, one of the smartest and coolest people on the show but largely forgotten about, just like the music of Jazz.
Narrator: He did not, in fact, do himself a favor
Probably my favorite scene of The Wire.
I was already invested in the show from the first few episodes - but it was Lester's emergence in episodes 3 and 4 that really had me on the edge of my seat. Ep 4 is one of the best of the whole series, in fact.
Ostensibly this scene is about Lestor, but it's really about Jimmy. God this series was so good!
Great fucking show! Everyone played an awesome character
Lester Freamon the true legend.
"... and four months"
"Just one?"
COOL Lester SMOOTH as shit
When they ask you where you wanna go, and they are going to ask you where you want to go.....awesome line
The song playing in the bar is, Miles Davis "All Blues"
gimme some of that Kind Of Blue while they talk lol unreal scene
His tweedy impertinence always makes me smile ❤
Only Lester could pull off a hobby of making little figurines and still be cooler than anyone I've ever met
What’s funny is when Lester warns him not to tell them where he wants to go, he had already told Jay. That’s the look of dread in his eyes.
Lester....natural pooolice....
the Greatjon I think it would be better rendered "pOHlice"
I thought two of the smartest detectives on the show
Saw this scene when the show was just in the HBO rotation and a hundred times since and it still gives me chills to think of all that is yet to come with Jimmy , Lester and the boys...:)...Great show! Arguably one of the best. ..Raw and pure and living 80 miles north of B-more; in philly, which makes b-more look like Beverly Hills...I appreciate the portrayal of the game.
When McNulty finally realized that he wasn’t the smartest person in that room 🤣
- "What'd you do to piss them off?"
- "Police work"
Damn I love this scene so much xD
All these years later, and I STILL CANNOT BELIEVE Lester said "I need to go *take a tinkle."*
That look on McNulty's face at 2:33. "Yeah, I saw that comparison coming."
it's funny how mcnulty forgets about that advice later and responds honestly when he's asked where he'd like to go
I like how there's just a tinge of campiness in the first season
didnt notice it first time, but this scene really is, that porn music is the magic touch
That's not porn music. That's Miles Davis, from the absolute classic album Kind of Blue.
are you 1000% positive its never been used in porn? because it should, a really classy porn joint
peter klaven fucking ignorant:)
jazz is like a fart it can only be appreciated by those who make it
lester’s voice and that trumpet playing in the air.. damn!
Bar scene. Miles Davis "All Blues" is playing in the background. Just to add to awesome-ness of the scene and this show.
In Lester I see The personification of The Myth of Sisyphus thesis. He does his job knowing that his higher ups will not reward him, for all his hard work he has been shoved to the corner of Baltimore police. Yet he still does it not with a smile or scowl but with a persistence and faith he that is in him alone and perhaps a wonder to those around him. I might be taking to far a leap ( given I did not watch the show in it's entirety, but the only time he cuts a corner is when he and McNulty team up to invent the Red Ribbon Killer to bring down Marlo, and that's all I got.
You've gotta watch the entire series!! It's AWESOME
mathew idicula
What an apt metaphor, kudos.
Clarke Peters really is a fabulous actor
The way Cool Lester Smooth says "...and four months" cracks me up every single time.
Just to be clear... Lester’s been working the Pawn Shop Unit for 13 Years AND 4 MONTHS!!!
Every single answer of his in the first minute was gold
13 years?
And four months
and 4 months.
The real question im wondering is how many days,hours,minutes and seconds
Get out a calculator and figure it out it's not that complicated
@@spoda81 4868.67 Days (including at least 2 leap years in that calculation) in the 13 years and 4 months
6,835,680 minutes (In 13 years and 4 months)
410,971,000 (Est due to calculator not having room to process)
Love the Miles background, great touch for how cool Lester is
My goal in life is to be as smooth as Lester Freamon, unfortunately I'll be lucky to be as smooth McNulty in season 4 when he was a good boy for a bit.
Really enjoyed these little vignettes in this series. I watched this a long time ago and seeing clips makes me nostalgic. Always thought Lester having his own series would’ve worked well. I think the actor said he was told it was a possibility in an interview (I think)
Wine + Wire clips=My TGIF
Watching this for the third or fourth time and realised just how nasty the bosses' sense of humour is. Lester defied them on not charging the editor's son with handling stolen goods. So what better desk job to exile him to than one in which he spends all day dealing with potentially stolen goods? "They got me good." indeed 😄
3:54 is when Jimmy realized he already fucked up by telling Rawls he didn't wanna go to the Marine unit.
He never told rawls.. Lansman gave him up
More or less, but you get what I'm saying
"...And four months." He's counting every day. He isn't going to let anyone forget that. :D
Clarke Peters can be in everything I watch
Man the writing and the dialogues in this show were so damn good.
Love the ambiance of this scene...
Chalk and cheese characters. I love the slow pan and reveal camera work to introduce Lester as he opens up. Excellent storytelling, with the visual medium, in the instance you have to tell and not show.
Just noticed, these early scenes with Lester all have miles Davis playing in the background. I think from the same album?
Such a great show