![]() Prez sees the smart but hopelessly exposed Dukie dealing drugs on a street corner, after he’s forced to graduate middle school too early, just so the school can make their graduate statistics look a little rosier. Carver, as he pounds on his steering wheel after being forced to take Randy back to an orphanage, realises that even his position in the police can’t help him protect a child from his own inept department. Bodie, while having an ill-advised lunch with McNulty just hours before he dies, realises that there is no future for him and that he’s just a pawn in the drug trade. Many characters learn that lesson here for themselves. If the entire point of David Simon’s story is that class, capitalism and racism sets many up to fail, regardless of individual talent, then this episode is his grand thesis. ![]() Its conclusion should be considered a masterpiece. The Wire season four is not just the show’s best season, but possibly the best season in television history.
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