All Due Respect (The Wire)
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"All Due Respect" | |
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The Wire episode | |
Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 2 |
Directed by | Steve Shill |
Story by |
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Teleplay by | Richard Price |
Original air date | September 26, 2004 |
Running time | 58 minutes |
"All Due Respect" is the second episode of the third season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by Richard Price from a story by David Simon & Richard Price and was directed by Steve Shill. It originally aired on September 26, 2004.
Plot
McNulty visits medical examiner Randall Frazier, skeptical that D'Angelo Barksdale's death in prison was a suicide. Frazier reports that D'Angelo's death could have been a homicide, citing bruises on his neck and back. McNulty visits D'Angelo's ex-girlfriend Donette, who doesn't tell him anything. Meanwhile, Cheese executes his dog when it loses in a dogfight. Soon afterwards, Tree, a drug dealer attending the dogfight, approaches and kills another dealer named Jelly. The MCU hears chatter about the murder over the wire, assuming a gang war has erupted.
Herc, Carver and
Bell visits
Production
Title Reference
The phrase "all due respect" is spoken by several characters, starting with a drug dealer addressing Omar Little as Omar is robbing him. "Respect" is a recurring theme in the episode, in which many characters, on either side of the law (e.g., McNulty and Bodie), struggle against authority figures. In particular, a strong contrast is drawn between the cordial meeting between police (Herc, Carver, and Dozerman) and drug dealers (Bodie and Poot) at the movie theater, when they are all "off-duty", and their more fraught interactions during a typical day.
Epigraph
There's never been a paper bag
โ Colvin
Colvin makes the comment "There's never been a paper bag for drugs" in a speech in reference to an unofficial policy of declining to arrest people concealing open alcohol containers in paper bags in public, technically a violation of open container laws, in order to focus on more significant crimes. This is a prelude to his forthcoming policy of non-enforcement of narcotics laws in unofficial free zones, which will become a significant part of the season's storyline.
Colvin's "paper bag" speech is very similar to an extended discussion of the same topic in David Simon's book The Corner.[1]
References
- ^ "The Corner by David Simon, Edward Burns: 9780767900317 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
External links
- "All Due Respect" at HBO.com
- "All Due Respect" at IMDb