Clarifications (The Wire)

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"Clarifications"
The Wire episode
Episode no.Season 5
Episode 8
Directed byAnthony Hemingway
Story byDavid Simon
Dennis Lehane
Teleplay byDennis Lehane
Original air dateFebruary 24, 2008 (2008-02-24)
Running time58 minutes
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"Clarifications" is the eighth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by Dennis Lehane from a story by David Simon and Dennis Lehane and was directed by Anthony Hemingway.[1] It aired on February 24, 2008.[2]

Plot

wiretap. While Carver assembles surveillance teams, McNulty helps Bunk take a request for DNA
matching to the crime lab.

McNulty arrives home to find that

psychological profile reflects his own personality. Back in Baltimore, Bunk finds himself investigating Omar's murder and realizes from a hit list that he was hunting Marlo's crew, with Savino's name the only one crossed out. Bunk delivers the list to McNulty, and reluctantly agrees to hold back on a murder warrant for Partlow so that Freamon
can make a break in the Stanfield investigation. McNulty pulls Greggs into an interview room and comes clean about fabricating the case. Greggs tells McNulty he cannot carry on with his plan, but McNulty tries to reassure her that it will all be over soon. Beadie eventually returns with her children and confronts McNulty, prompting him to confess to her as well. She walks away from the conversation in anger. Freamon intercepts a coded message from Marlo to organize a meeting with Partlow.

Freamon meets with the U.S. Attorney with the evidence from the Davis investigation, hoping to take the case federal now that local prosecution has failed. The U.S. Attorney refuses to take the case, since Davis is now a martyr to the black community.

When McNulty hands Freamon Omar's hit list, he recognizes Cheese's name. McNulty admits that he has told Greggs about the hoax, much to Freamon's dismay. While tracking Marlo, Sydnor pulls out a street atlas and realizes that the page numbers correspond to the clock messages. He then decodes the clock settings as codes for the

Cartesian coordinates
of the location on each indicated page.

Freamon tracks Davis to a bar and threatens him with the prospect of a new case at the federal level. Davis assumes Freamon is trying to

Malik "Poot" Carr
, who recommends that Dukie go back to the street for a while and then apply for a job when he is older. Dukie leaves the store and helps a junk man. Dukie is offered more work the next day.

To deflect from his weakness on crime in the upcoming campaign,

Campbell
and makes concessions to them in exchange for their support. At a homeless vigil, Carcetti gives a rousing speech as Campbell, Wilson and Steintorf look on approvingly. Upon returning home, he complains to his wife Jen about the compromises he has been forced to make, revealing that Upshaw demanded that half of Baltimore's federal funding be allocated to his county. Jen is horrified at the prospect of the city giving up that much funding, but Carcetti rationalizes that if he does not get elected, Baltimore will get nothing.

At

lede
from Templeton's story on the homeless vigil for including an unsourced anecdote. Templeton angrily turns to Klebanow, who overrides Gus's decision. Gus then leaves the newsroom.

Production

Title reference

The title refers to Haynes telling Templeton that he may have to submit a clarifications and corrections piece for Templeton's embellishing of Hanning's story. It may also refer to McNulty coming clean about his ruse. Additionally, the title refers to the mixed up identity tags on the bodies of Omar Little and the middle aged white man in the body bag next to his. The morgue attendant rectifies this by switching them back.

Epigraph

A lie ain't a side of a story. It's just a lie.

— Terry Hanning

Homeless Marine veteran Terry Hanning says this as a rebuttal to journalist Scott Templeton while they're arguing, cutting each other off, and Templeton wants to tell "[his] side of the story."

Credits

Starring cast

Although credited, Deirdre Lovejoy, Andre Royo, Domenick Lombardozzi, and Michael Kostroff do not appear in this episode.

Guest stars

Uncredited appearances

  • Kwame Patterson as Monk Metcalf
  • Jason Moffett as Tony – surveillance team
  • Brian E. McLarney as Brian McLarney – surveillance team
  • Marcus Hamm as Marcus – surveillance team
  • Sophia Ayoud as Cary Russell
  • Jimothy Jones as a henchman

References

  1. ^ "Season 5 crew". HBO. 2007. Retrieved December 12, 2007.
  2. ^ "HBO Schedule: THE WIRE 58: CLARIFICATIONS". HBO. 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2008.

External links

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