The Wire - Lester finds Lex

[@TerraRyzinglives]

"This is a tomb...Lex is in there" Superb fucking line

[@treythegod38]

True even though that's not where it was, remember they had to go down stairs when they left out of his

[@denniss8644]

That's good poh-leece . . .

[@truthserum6808]

@@treythegod38 Actually Lex was in there. In that very house….please rewatch the next episode…

[@lilantt9319]

How he kno he was in there tho?

[@vinnie245]

@@lilantt9319 Herc told him about how Lex got set up in the park by Chris and Snoop, he also told him about the nailgun they had.

[@paulozhan]

Draws conclusion, leaves partner clueless, walks away. Lester style.

[@Siyko]

Bunk is no fool. He got it.

[@queenanacaona8531]

Cool Lester Smooth

[@benjaminodonnell258]

Yeah, Bunk got it. And then he extrapolated the implications in his head - hence "Fuck me!"

[@sanyatesGRIA]

Nah Bunk got it, he had to take a step back to think because he realized if Marlo was stashing bodies in abandoned houses then there must have been countless more all across Baltimore.

[@ariefraiser140]

Better word to use instead if clueless was dumbfounded but yea I get what you were trying to say.

[@aceron2]

That last shot with Bunk staring at all those houses, realizing what was coming, is amazing.

[@LE-ii3ul]

@@johnsnow8186 he knew half the vacants in the town was gravesites

[@Kruppt808]

he thought finally, i don't have to go on anymore wild goose chases with Lester looking for Marlo bodies.

[@SpindicateAudio]

goosebumps every time

[@afatkidwithabeard]

@@johnsnow8186 this....and he knew how his office would handle the notion of "finding" bodies from the girls in the can from season 2...he knew the bureaucratic nightmare and the shit from his bosses they would get...really is a great show to analyze structures and organizational culture and outcomes

[@marcdavis9263]

Definitely!!!!!!!

[@chrissennfelder7249]

After watching The Wire clips for two days, I've finally decided to rewatch the whole series.

[@Imperialspy]

I just finished yesterday and I’m most definitely rewatching the show for a second time

[@annparks6492]

only 2 days huh?

[@dmoney2163]

@@joshuathompson4571 Bro watch it and you'll be trying to convert your girlfriend and friends to watch it like a Jehovah's witness would.. cuz it's that good

[@ceechubbyhands5908]

I always fall into this same rabbit hole every couple years I love this show

[@andrewt836]

I was just thinking the exact same thing

[@BrianSchmitz]

My favorite part is Lester has a walking stick like a goddamn folk hero.

[@Filmfiend27]

Mine’s how Lester refers to the vacant as a tomb, just a word you hardly hear anymore but nonetheless accurate for the situation.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Should be humming.

[@Lazyguy22]

He's Tannhauser, and the Pawn Shop Unit is his Venusberg.

[@punchnazis3498]

i think its a body-poking stick. He's looking for a body, and it might be hidden under the weeds/garbage

[@PhiltheMoko]

@@Lazyguy22 Thanks for the culture but after a quick Google I still don't get the parallel, care to enlighten me?

[@Maino88]

Natural Po-Liceeeeeeeee

[@SankofaNYC]

forreal

[@knight7se7en]

Maino1: Damn right 👍🏿

[@DocSkribblez]

POOOOOOO-lice LOL

[@BlaneNostalgia]

Dont let Lester fool you

[@raoulhery]

13 years...

[@Fever2113]

The best part is that Lester figured it out because Snoop used better quality hardware than public works did. If you're going to imitate government work, you gotta work with scraps.

[@postsniper-7532]

Double edged sword no random could get in those vacants because of the screws

[@StayAlert_StayAlive]

It was better quality cause it was new. Them screws in those vacants been there for YEARS.

[@postsniper-7532]

@@StayAlert_StayAlive ultimately tho there downfall was killing lex at that playground and not taking him further away Lester stood in the spot where they shot lex and seen all the vacants and priced it together

[@jackalsmalls4995]

What random would go into the vacant, they shouldve just went with the crappy nails.

[@postsniper-7532]

@@jackalsmalls4995 dukie went into the vacants he was literally the one who showed randy

[@SYN4456]

Lester's talent was attention to detail. He was able to look through mountains of financial records and see patterns. McNulty' s talent was visualization. He visualized D'Angelo's "suicide" and put himself there, realizing that D'Angelo was murdered.

[@Tres_Nueve]

Good comment

[@righteousduke2704]

That’s a brilliant analysis. Well said.

[@brandonethereal1084]

Great points. Lester and Jimmy were a powerful duo.💯

[@zhuzhong74]

Jimmy is also very good at getting into people's mind and fuck with them. A necessary skill for interrogation, in and out of the box.

[@Kruppt808]

Lester had to go through many "dumping grounds" before Prez tip about Lex. Lots of leg work, lots of failure but oh baby when a case comes together...... i could die happy.

[@BurnoutDurb]

And to think, the majority of his career was spent on useless busy work because he pissed off the wrong people. Just another example of The Wire showing us the consequences of the system.

[@nickm8874]

That line gives me chills, to this day. “This is a tomb. Lex is in there”

[@BROTHAFLYNSOLO]

I couldn't agree with you more...What's even more chilling is how he said it and then walked away because he realized exactly what the next sequence of events would have to be...Ergo, ripping off the boards, finding all those bodies and then needing real "poh-lice" to start fitting all the pieces together..Yikes!

[@BrainDeadNed]

He said lex is in there like if lex was still alive just sitting inside. He said it so casually but we the audience all know what happened to lex and everyone else chris and snoop murdered.

[@Far592]

@@BrainDeadNed he said “tomb. he knew they were dead.

[@Kruppt808]

we been waiting for this all season

[@positivevibesandmorelife7307]

@@BrainDeadNed lmaoo lex was sitting in there like this 🧘🏿‍♂️

[@CurtisBond]

Absolute genius. It takes the work of truly great writers and directors to pull off a scene that says so much with the actors saying very little. There were only about four lines of dialogue in that entire sequence, and yet the audience feels the full weight of its significance, and how critical of a juncture it is in the season. It's scenes like this that remind me why The Wire is my absolute favorite TV show of all time.

[@cmjohnson61]

Curtis, you hitt the nail on the head. The writing was awesome. I have not seen anything that comes near it...even to this day.

[@CurtisBond]

I should also mention that the acting was absolutely top notch with the tag team of Clarke Peters and Wendell Pierce.

[@Ratchet2431]

Yes. The writing is amazing. Just look at all the chains of events that lead to an incredible twist. My favorites are the death of Wallace and the fate of Randy.

[@demondmccray8582]

I agree...The Tap Tap investigation in the apart was awesome too. The only word they said was F%#k

[@ajbahus]

In a lesser show that treats the audience like idiots they would've had Lester (played by a white male model looking dude) explain to Bunk (played by a hot blonde chick), "Hey, wait a second! These nails don't match up! And didn't Herc say something about finding a nailgun in Chris and Snoop's SUV? Why, I bet they killed Lex, dumped him in this house and boarded him up with the nailgun!" And that scene would be nominated for an Emmy.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Freamon would have put away Tony Soprano and his whole crew in about 20 minutes.

[@DreadPages]

Fabisch Factor Tony and his crew always mentioned informants in the police department. They also didn't employ street level kids.

[@kevinamaral5816]

employing street kids is brilliant actually. they can't get charged as hard and they are easy to dupe with promises of wealth that will never materialize. But you have some grown as man facing 20-30 years and then they flip easy.

[@RobFieldFlorida]

Nah. It would have taken weeks to do street busts to show exhaustion, and the better part of a month to get the surveillance warrants. Then it would take him at least two weeks to read the patterns and suss out the flows of communications and command. THEN it would take him about 20 minutes to build his case. :)

[@kdizzle901]

kevin amaral plus they’re juvenile goes away when they turn 18

[@ianthorpe1925]

Two completely different games.

[@misterstarks8448]

Freemon is the LAST cop you want on yo ass.

[@xKiLLa_Carter]

Mister Starks nahh Mcnulty! You should've seen how long it took him to solve his very last case. He's that good

[@AndyinMTL]

Mister Starks amen

[@Carmine_Lupertazzi]

I go with Colombo every time

[@emmettler]

truly, if you made one typo on one page of a document 30 years ago he's the kinda man to find out and make it your problem

[@ojlott-w4n]

Or mcnulty cuz he don't stop until he get u

[@Ballardgeonte]

The way Chris and Snoop made people disappear in this show was horror movie like. All Marlo had to do was point and somebody was dead.

[@phuturephunk]

They really were like the perfect horror movie duo. I could totally see them in a gothic or steampunk type horror story as two serial killer bandits.

[@didiermongo-gouala3770]

I imagin if dmx was playing a villain teaming up with marlo crew similar to his role in belly and closed as avon and stringer was it will be great.... And if... Tupac was playing birdie character teaming up with omar wow the wire will be more and more underatted as series... Larenz tate the actor who was played ho dogg in menace to society forming a trio with snoop and chris.... And lil romeo playing a villain closed to michael wow just an idea but thats will be great

[@xChemistryFTWx]

"Don't fret boss. I got you covered. Quick and clean, I promise."

[@qualicumjack3906]

@@didiermongo-gouala3770 Good thing you’re not in charge of that kind of stuff

[@billruption26]

It's absolutely chilling how casual they were.

[@oldschoolruler]

Lester had the most significant line in the entire series... 'ALL the pieces matter.'

[@leonbrooks2107]

100%

[@absentstars474]

And “follow the money” as well as “you got that pepper steak?”

[@damitrimoore]

@@absentstars474 "I'm just the pooo-lease"

[@dxwallace55]

I was about to type this, I remember that line when he was trying to find some pattern of the movement of those shipping containers.....

[@dxwallace55]

@@absentstars474 "Pepper Steak" I forgot that one, that was funny.....

[@rannxerox1644]

The greatness of this scene is that there are few words. The writers want you to figure out how Lester Freamon knows that Lex's body is in the abandoned building the same way that Bunk Moreland comes to the exact conclusion when he examines the difference in the nails on the doors for himself. And when the camera pulls back and shows the entire building, it reveals the totality of what else is inside there: a cemetery.

[@DLSacks]

"Fuck me." By the end of Season 4 they trusted us to follow along a silent investigation with only one 'fuck' instead of dozens.

[@brianconner3222]

That is...thanks to BODIE!!

[@Saturdayz_In_The_Fall]

Even you yourself got it right when you put “A Cemetery” it holds a far greater significance than to just put “building full of dead bodies” this scene is just too magnificent

[@TC8787-yq7og]

One of the greatest scenes in The Wire, so by default one of the greatest TV scenes of all time, so harrowing, desperate, perfectly encapsulates the scale of the evil and how far lost the streets have truly became

[@threenumbnuts]

And they made sure attentive viewers can get what's going on, even though they're not 1/10 as perceptive as a competent homicide detective, by having that scene with Snoop shopping for power drills much earlier in the season.

[@reddavis4808]

I like the wide out view at the end. Bunk finally realizing where all his bodies are located.

[@SimunSansa]

I think Bunk got it as soon as Lester said Lex is in there, because he reached for the nails immediately after Lester left, but didn't look at them at the prior gates. All that confusion after was a mixture of figuring out how Lester got to the answer and awe.

[@dash1141]

“... Fuck me”

[@mixererunio1757]

I think wide shot indicated that Bunk realized how many vacants there are and every single one of them could be a "tomb"

[@mjolnir4639]

@@SimunSansa It’s the horrifying realization that Snoop and Chris have been busy filling the vacants with bodies and how many bodies you could fit into just one vacant building if you had a mind to.

[@theerealatm]

That's the first place I'd look is in vacants. When I'd ride to the city with my parents I'd see all the boarded up buildings and wonder how many street walkers been up in there and how bad it must smell.

[@carlosandzs]

You gotta appreciate the sound design. The distant presence of barking dogs and horns blaring from a city train as it rhythmically pushes along the tracks. It truly gives a an added layer to the character of the city while heightening the drama of the scene.

[@magetaaaaaa]

You think they dubbed that in or just happened to grab the ambient sounds of the city when they were shooting on site?

[@jpjpjp6328]

@@magetaaaaaa Usually it's dubbed in. They'll note the sounds of a certain environment when prepping for a scene and then dub it in post production. For actual ambient use questions you would have to look up who the Sound Editor was.

[@magetaaaaaa]

@@jpjpjp6328 If they dubbed it in that's pretty impressive.

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

Indeed. There's no sirens, no sounds of people on the street talking etc. It really makes the area seem like a graveyard with it being so quiet and subtly suggests why they chose to murder and conceal lex there as it makes it feel so out of the way. It really makes lex's death feel lonely and being another person 'dissappeared' in a huge city

[@carlosandzs]

@@oneandonlyjaybee Damn. Great description! On the money!

[@johnnyblaze1476]

Nothing will ever compare to this show. Scenes like this will never happen again. This was one of the best scenes in the whole show.

[@magetaaaaaa]

I've watched a fair bit of TV an you are correct in your analysis - nothing will ever come close.

[@bryanedwards187]

Yep

[@bersalazar]

Indeed. But don’t be so dramatic. There may be something as good or better.

[@VincentWhite-zp4xn]

​@@bersalazarname one or dont object to it

[@jwm6314]

The scene where they walk through the house saying 'fuck' a lot is pretty damned good.

[@fleshcookie]

It's like Bunk is an eager student watching a teacher solve a difficult problem. He observers Lester from afar and even mimics his actions. After Freamon figures it out Bunk takes a minute to go over the steps Lester made in drawing his conclusions. These are signs of a great student. And probably one of the reasons Bunk was a great cop

[@FireAngelChris]

Well stated

[@AirrumSirhc]

Natural poh leece

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

The Wire is 99.9% dialog driven so a visual scene really stands out. And this is one of the best in TV.

[@sean2914]

And yet still has one of the best lines: “this is a tomb, Lex is in there”

[@tbaumgar1]

I love how Lester just walks off haha. A true badass!

[@signoresantinoburnett1169]

Almost every scene he just walks off, after figuring all the shit out. It always kills me when he does it. At the office, he'll appear, spit facts and walks away. Although here he went to the Car, probably to grab a Crow or something.

[@RobFieldFlorida]

He went to get the crowbar!

[@NateOrsini]

He could wait for Bunk to get the crowbar for him, but that would rob Lester of his discovery

[@franciscominaca3239]

The entire city is a tomb...

[@dennislittle9724]

Francisco Miñaca America 🇺🇸in general flows with blood.

[@damonrobinson3606]

Nah. Just white America.

[@BxCortez2050]

Correct

[@josephzanes7334]

Not just literally, but metaphorically as well - the entire city is dead & lifeless

[@PogueMahone1]

You must be a Steelers fan...

[@dakritic]

I remember watching this scene when it first aired. When Lester said, “This is a tomb.... Lexs is in there”, I got chills.

[@celticsF4N]

lester freeman just solving shit like sherlock holmes!

[@knivez786]

Literally a modern day American version of Sherlock Holmes

[@noelburton4143]

Lester is way better than Sherlock who would make some grandiose degree about how awesome he is. Lester was all quiet, smooth big dick, smarts.

[@michaelfinlay6341]

Natural police.

[@PocoMelons]

The wide shot of the vacant was creepy as well. Made the viewer assume that there are tons of dead bodies in there. Probably was true.

[@BxCortez2050]

Yes

[@shinlanten]

Didn't they drag out a shit ton of bodies from the vacants?

[@PeaceIsAlwaysBeautiful92]

@@shinlanten yeah, think it was 17 of them...

[@elahosun2101]

@@PeaceIsAlwaysBeautiful92 make that 22

[@StayAlert_StayAlive]

21 bodies

[@mikelomez9313]

Lester, the best god damn detective Baltimore has ever seen.

[@roll14tideroll]

Mcnulty?

[@Huyle18]

@@perfectlycalm3635 pretty sure Mcnulty is a genius at solving crime. Even Bunk said Early on in Jimmys Career he was solving cases at an alarming rate.

[@hereef1]

Naw, can’t leave out Frank Pembleton. From Homicide Life on the Street.

[@aaronbutler9373]

​@@hereef1 Yes, Frank.

[@ArvinYorro]

I remember the writers saying that Lester is the only character that isn’t based on a real person in Baltimore

[@chasecross6063]

I love how small Bunk looks in the final frame, like he's looking at a vast, inscrutable monster so big it appears as landscape. This is the moment, and the case, that ultimately ties together the abandonment of Baltimore's people by America with the abrogation of morality and decency: the people of Baltimore were cast off, and so too were their homes, and so too were their young people, and finally those social failures are united in a crime that is at once pedestrian and yet novel in its cruelty: the entombment of murder victims in the empty rowhouses.

[@knight7se7en]

Chase Cross: that’s deep and well articulated....kudos 👏🏿

[@DrNickRiveria]

and who the fuck are you? Charles Dickens?

[@deb7457]

DrNickRiveria 😂😂Sounds like it!

[@thomasdr08]

+1

[@jamesdungan4426]

Chase Cross n

[@antoniomontgomery859]

Crazy writing. Even the dog barking, to hearing the squeaky sound of swing set..

[@brettbewley5798]

Fucking yes! Accuracy to ah T

[@jonmacie7581]

I've a feeling it was already happening and they just added it. Those vacants are real

[@b8IIin]

Such an eerie scene, kind of got True Detective S1 vibes from it

[@Gem_Am_I]

The way Lester said, “This is a tomb. Lex is in there.” And then he just smoothly walks away gave me chills.

[@kweefsweat5628]

Natural Po-lice

[@kendallhicks7109]

Without Lester they wouldn’t have solved most of the crimes.

[@JB-xl2jc]

True of a few characters, the Wire is fun because it's a perfect storm, without McNulty, Phelan, hell even Prez, they don't get a lot of the clearances in Season 1 which means no major crimes later which means all the fun never happens Well actually without Phelan there's nothing ever at all

[@dawkinfreak20]

this scene is so eerie

[@ericlewis450]

dawkinfreak20 there a body behind each door crazy shit

[@ontariobuds]

I think it’s because of the lack of background noise.

[@kingkoko8602]

@@ericlewis450 not each door. that’s kinda the point of how he found out. he basically said “why is there only new nails on THESE doors?@

[@SDSOverfiend]

Lester Freeman a Columbo ass Nigga 😂😂😂 He got a walking stick like a Sage.. You just knew he was gonna put it together.

[@BackhandURmother]

Bunk has the greatest "fuck me" ever.

[@Beemer917]

This scene more than any other makes you realize that Chris and Snoop are killing m************. No matter how nice they are about it no matter how good of characters they are they are taking lives and then boarding up the bodies like freaking serial killers. It's hard to buff it up and this scene is just creepy.

[@jwm6314]

I loved the wire because the good guys were flawed but good, the bad guys were charismatic but bad, and everyone talked about how much they loved the bad guys. It was stunning to watch people I worked with day to day show how morally pliable they were. It wasn't just a show, it was a reveal on the character of the viewer. Sopranos too. Same problem revealed. Made me damned sure I never want to see a jury if these are my peers.

[@bigtravis1968]

lester shoulda been on the biggie 2pac murders

[@imnotwatchin]

epic

[@aaronfairbanks5968]

Orlando Anderson killed tupac

[@Rambomob662]

LmAo instead of Bunk

[@rellrell1377]

@@aaronfairbanks5968 the fact people really believe that funny asf the elites did him in

[@aaronfairbanks5968]

@rell Rell.... who are the elites an why??

[@walterm.robertsiiiphd2157]

The actor who played Lester is so supreme -- It's a wonder with all the folks (Amazon, Disney, Apple) looking for programing that no one has given him his own detective vehicle.

[@gr1mrea9er82]

Clarke Peters. He played him so well too.

[@JELZ617]

man Bunk always had the freshest Ties...

[@thomasdr08]

facts

[@finnkdy]

John Snow, minor. Ch4.

[@ThyJovan]

This scene is so fucking well done. Love how they seamlessly tied it in with Lester's intrigue about Chris and Snoop's nail gun earlier when Herc is explaining the shit to him in the same episode.

[@winniedabish8116]

Man, i've probably watched all of the seasons of The Wire about 5 times. 5 seasons n all. This is in my top 3 scenes i think. Lester, Bunk, detective work, the realness of it all.

[@ReggieCox]

It's the backdoor.

[@bobbysealejunior6590]

Fav scenes: this one, the Bodie death scene, the Stringer death scene, the high noon showdown/parlay scene between Omar and Brother Mouzone, the Omar/Marlo card game robbery, the snoop Home Depot nailgun scene, the Kenard getting his ass whipped by Mike scene (one of the greatest) the Weebay murder confession/Laketrout/horseradish scene, the Bird interrogation room/locked door scene, the scene where mcnulty confesses to the crooked newspaper guy that they’re both liars, basically every scene with Omar especially the “Out of Time” prop joe scene, the Marlo “my name is my name” scene, the Cheese last speech/ “That was for Joe” scene, any scene with Theresa D’agostino (she was so hot.) Most hate scenes: most dock scenes from season 2, scenes were Namond talked shit, scenes where Namonds Mama talked shit on Namond, especially when she’d say “you’re Daddy Weebay” like they had to remind us, Kenard killing Omar.....

[@BROTHAFLYNSOLO]

Absolutely!...This scene and the scene where Bunk and McNulty find that bullet all while only saying, "Muthafuck!"

[@GeraldHarris-cf2zh]

@@bobbysealejunior6590 i cried like i lost a family member when Bodie got it.

[@pouihurmen]

Bobby Seale Junior don’t forget Avon visiting the pit, Cutty saying goodbye to the game and the fucking chess scene

[@Lordofthegeeks108]

Lester Freamon: Natural Po-lice This scene of Lester seeing through the camouflage, remembering the conversation with Herc about Chris and Snoop bring pulled over with a nailgun, coupled with the last shot when the vacants suddenly change from just rundown background scene of urban decay into a sinister, looming collection of crypts for murdering psychopaths is one of so many amazingly crafted scenes that made this series a masterpiece.

[@drewpowers7236]

Lester walking around with that stick like a Black Gandalf. Just casually being the baddest man out there yet keeping it understated and unassuming

[@jonmacie7581]

Every time I see a clip from the Wire, I see the DVD cover with McNulty. Yet every scene where something is UNCOVERED, it s Lester Freamon. HE should be on that damn box cover

[@deathrager2404]

he aint white enough bro

[@pa1832]

mcnulty got the cover because he starts the whole series in motion by bitching to the jusge in episode 1-he also the one that pushes for and gets the wiretap which to be fair is the name of the show-its clearly not a white black things cuz literally all the best and beloved characters are blck Mcnulty isnt even likeable by the end

[@michaelfinlay6341]

Agreed. Lester was the Major Crimes Unit. The rest of them were just learning from the best police The Wire ever had.

[@jonmacie7581]

@@michaelfinlay6341 If it wasn't for him, they wouldn't even know who Avon Barksdale was.

[@JB-xl2jc]

@@pa1832 Yeah, Lester was a damned genius but if not for McNutty and Phelan he'd still be wiling away his time in a basement making miniatures getting rich.

[@edwinlopez1922]

No talking, no cut scenes, no extra bs just straight up cutthroat acting ! Wire is definitely the best show in the world

[@brohan914]

Lester be like "my poh-lice senses be tingling!"

[@Gapeaches77able]

rideordie Lester is the most articulate character in the show. And here you have him sounding like a field hand.

[@KianoUyMOOP]

Marvel's Pohlice-Man

[@mistermister3122]

Gfy

[@absoleet]

Lester teaching Bunk about real police work.

[@TheDMB411987]

Not that any season was lighthearted or jovial, but this was by far the heaviest season. It was a very dark season literally and figuratively. The setting for much of it was at night in dark situations I think to show the metaphorical darkness of fear and the ominous reign over the west end that marlo and crew had. The fear street level characters had of ending up in those vacant houses was persistent throughout the entire season. The stories of chris being a witch doctor and turning the dead into zombies, the disappearances for these characters to be discovered in their individual tombs, all so heavy and unnerving but so masterfully done.

[@xy2109]

The final shot of Bunk understanding that he's looking at a necropolis. Chilling.

[@Vercingetorix.Rising]

The wire has so many great moments with little to no dialogue . That is expert acting

[@satevo462]

Lester figuring out what nails to look for when searching abandons was just so good.

[@pablo_giustiniani]

That final shot was beautiful. It's like Bunk was standing at a graveyard and the vacants are mausoleums

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Takes a brave man to walk through the Baltimore projects (post 1970s) wearing a pink silk tie.

[@tommyt1971]

“Lester, you really startin’ to scare me, man.” He should, the guy’s intuition is INCREDIBLE.

[@poodymeiner3125]

“This is a tomb. Lex is in there” SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH

[@kylejohnson8447]

Im trying to finish the last 2 seasons of the sopranos, yet i keep finding myself spending my free time rewatching Wire clips

[@thedeauxcrew476]

In my opinion Lester was one of my favorite and best characters on the show.

[@villavelli]

The way he pulled back on the wiggly door. His jesture said “Just like I thought” without sayin it. 👏🏾

[@MegaTurnstyle]

His use of the word 'Tomb' Somehow cuts through

[@aidacailar1126]

Lester Freamon, the smartest detective Baltimore has ever seen.

[@chikawambu774]

The Wire was a master of subtle story telling

[@tonydejesus2134]

I’d watch a show simply about Lester freamon.

[@jonmacie7581]

YES!!

[@z363652798]

I love how the story is told for us too. Knowing what we know, and knowing Lester’s mannerisms, the camera puts us in his head and we get to see him put it all together, “where would I hide a body? Why are these vacants boarded up differently?”

[@tebacm100]

Bunk wasn't there when Herc told Lester about the nailing machine. So he had 1 less piece of information. Nonetheless, he got it as soon as he touched the nail. All the pieces matter.

[@ComputerJunkie00]

"Fuck me!" Come on Bunk, you know only JIMMAYYY has that honor.

[@alexanderlee5669]

Got to love bunk he genuinely cares. Its not that Lester and McNulty don't care its just they're egotistical and get a kick out of the work they do. For bunk though this is personal you can see the devastation on his face once he discovers whats going on.

[@sickofguysnamedtodd2293]

Alexander Lee and he looks upset because he knows there’s probably a shit ton more bodies in all them other vacants which means more red names on the board. And since most of them are decomposed, they’ll be John Does until they get identified somehow

[@DMVHipHopStop]

Nice angle

[@kamiioo3289]

If this is the case, then you're only talking about McNulty. Lester is just doing police work.

[@dmcrun3572]

Bunk is upset because he understand you do not willingly or voluntarily put red on the board

[@asadzafar9912]

I kust finished watching it for the second time. One of my all time favorites!!

[@stephengrigg5988]

This scene reminds me of the "fuck" scene, where everything is conveyed visually. Why cant more shows/movies be written like this?

[@egod555]

Yeah I always felt like the "fuck me" at the end was a call back to that.

[@Saturdayz_In_The_Fall]

This was the moment we have all been waiting for. The way this scene ends is so great it gives off a “justice will be served” type of tone. When Bunk said “Lester you really starting to scare me man” I assumed Bunk was starting to realize…”that it all made sense why they had no bodies on record in months, and he bagan to think “how could we have missed these obvious hiding spots”

[@sickofguysnamedtodd2293]

The best place to hide something is in plain sight.

[@Saturdayz_In_The_Fall]

@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293facts! I am getting ready to rewatch this in a couple months. This series is great

[@Zamolxes77]

How good are the writers on "The Wire" ? They made an entire scene where the only uttered words are "fuck ...fuck ....fuck ...motherfucker" and the scene kicks ass lol.

[@anthonybarber3918]

that's the actors

[@GideonKSays]

+Anthony Barber It's the writers too. The actors would no doubt say the same thing.

[@GideonKSays]

+Anthony Barber It's the writers too. The actors would no doubt say the same thing.

[@papasmurf441]

BEST SHOW ON TV!!!! Finally got my wife watching it. It is so co to watch her reaction as the episodes go by.

[@flisko123]

looks like a nice neighbourhood with well maintaned garbage disposal project and top of the range toys for the younglings, i think i will move there

[@OnochieAfigbo]

"He's (Lester's) real police." - Bunk Moreland

[@kingroosta]

If this was an anime, this scene would have been 10 minutes long while both characters took turns explaining how some nails were rusted and other weren't. and some doors were solid and others were loose.

[@kingkoko8602]

lmao exactly why anime is shit

[@naruto1coolestfan]

heeeey, theres some pretty good mature anime out there, and lets not act like most of regular tv/streaming shows aint trash too

[@kingkoko8602]

@@naruto1coolestfan - anime loving ass nigga

[@tentailmadara2500]

@@kingkoko8602 who is this idiot

[@325Bam]

🤣🤣🤣

[@onlythequestion]

0:22 Lester employs what he taught Kima: for this job you need soft eyes. You gotta defocus and look at the bigger picture.

[@pouihurmen]

Bunk taught her that

[@onlythequestion]

@@pouihurmen You gotta have soft ears to remember so well.

[@santonior2]

Scene brought me chills on how good this show was written and filmed.

[@coolworx]

I just re-watched this series in 2019. Damn, but if this isn't just about the best television there ever was.

[@GildedWarrior331]

"This is tomb lex is in there" I know everyone who saw this episode live all screamed deadass when he called it 😭

[@monkigrass]

Snoop sittin on that seesaw and it being the loudest thing when they confront Lex let’s us know Lester in the right spot.

[@Festoniaful]

This was such a satisfying moment, after such a long time waiting for them to find the bodies

[@shatterjack]

2:27 thought the Bunk was gonna go All-Metro Attack on that vacant door

[@earthsign28]

So much was said without saying much. This is what makes a great show

[@antoniomontgomery859]

Chris was super smart to ditch that nail gun

[@Kruppt808]

Antonio Montgomery , but still got tied to the murders in the end anyways, Snoop didn't fair to well either but yes they did ditch the nail gun

[@Anzomax2]

Kruppt808 chris only got jammed up with one Murder. Bugs daddy cause of the DNA when he spit on him. He didn't get caught up with the bodies in the vacants cause him and Snoop did keep it clean

[@Kruppt808]

In the end when the lawyers were making deals Chris did end up eating all those murders, Marlo didn't go to jail but if he get back into the game later he'd have charges against him as well.

[@gregorylibra5114]

Chris copped out on ( 19) murders, i think!

[@JB-xl2jc]

@@Anzomax2 Yeah the irony there is that he was the coldest most ruthless killer, but he made ONE kill out of passion (clearly he was abused when young and so felt very strongly about it) and that's what got him

[@viniciuseneas4036]

Being a "witness' of what Marlo's Crew were doing with the bodies in the Vacants, I found this scene incredibly rewarding! PS: Lester Freamon at his finest!

[@cwdoby]

😂 Man I love reading KZbin comments on the wire. We all love this show so much

[@phuturephunk]

I love how Bunk is just in awe of him at the end. Legend.

[@JohnDoe-ix6my]

you mean hes in awre of him?

[@keithmichael112]

the irony was that that most cops would have been perfectly happy ignoring the bodies in the row houses, like hiding a 40 in a paper bag

[@insignificantaftermathPROJECTS]

I love the structure and placement of this scene. About 3 scenes before this, a throwaway line by Herc when Lester was interviewing him about the Randy case where Herc mentions how he randomly finds a nail gun in the back of Chris' car and thinks nothing of it with Lester giving a puzzled look. Leads to this scene where Lester puts 2 and 2 together..

[@1450JackCade]

Bunk is a great detective, "natural police," as they say but Lester is one of the greatest detectives in television history.

[@kazimierzgarshin3924]

"Lester, you really startin to scare me man." I like that line. It shows respect for Lesters intellect.

[@Cunnysmythe]

I think that was just his confusion at Lester appearing to act erratically

[@bc1406]

It’s 3 minutes long this scene. Beautifully written and beautifully executed by the production team

[@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883]

I do love the thought of Omar and Bunk in the same high school at some point in time

[@Kruppt808]

Probably one of my favorite scenes, McNulty was the main character for the Police but Lester stole the show imo.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Colvin in season 3: "How do you make a body disappear?" Chris and Snoop: "Hold my nailgun."

[@ekt5188]

Walter White: "fucking amateurs"

[@C.O-EDITS]

Ghost and Tommy: "Amateurs"

[@vibezworldwide]

@@C.O-EDITS Thanos appears “Noobs”

[@baltimoremike9161]

😂😂😂

[@jonathannagel7427]

That stick Lester was walking with was an actual homicide “divining rod”

[@Czeckie]

you don't need dialogue to tell a story

[@mattmcevedy9982]

Fuck?

[@Ryder-wt9tk]

@@mattmcevedy9982 Fuck.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

I remember cheering at my TV when Lester finally discovered what Marlo was up to and what happened to Lex (along with many more)

[@WhatevrNevrmnd]

Lester MF Freemon. The best detective on the whole series.

[@paulbrown4625]

Unquestionably and undoubtably one of the best scenes in television history. I agree, when you can have very little if any dialogue and still keep the audience riveted that is magical. There is no equal, in my opinion, to the Wire, writing, casting, location, directing, acting, everything! As real as it gets! Nothing comes close ( Sorry Sopranos) not even a close second, again, my opinion!

[@BTG514]

Lester is so damn good at detective work whoever assigned him to the pawnshop division should have been fired for negligent misuse of human resources. If Lester was still homicide the whole time the city would have far fewer unsolved murders.... Ok, time to re watch the wire. I did it with Band of Brothers after watching a few clips... Quality

[@karriemamos2882]

Lester is the reason why I wanted to become a detective. I couldn't get passed the background but man Lester was great at putting things together.

[@galicredstone]

You should have kept quiet about the bodies you stuck in the vacants and you could have been a cop!.

[@jasonarthurconsulting]

lololol@@galicredstone