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'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

"The Detail"

'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Jemele Hill and Van Lathan look at the second episode of ‘The Wire’ and discuss the assembly of the detail (03:00), what makes Jimmy McNulty tick (11:00), the McNugget scene (25:30), the interrogation of D’Angelo Barksdale (34:15), the “We Love This Show … But” moment of the episode (40:30), Stringer Bell’s flirtatious actions (48:30), the late-night visit from Herc, Carver, and Pryzbylewski (55:15), a shocking fact (59:30), and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:10.5

Tell you this, I don't know shit about shit, but I do know this.

1:15.5

Anybody who spends their time witnessing shit, you're gonna get got it.

1:20.5

I know that sounds kinda hard for them. That's the way things go around here, officer.

1:26.5

Alright, welcome back everybody to Way Down in the Hole with Jamel Hill. That would be me and Van Lathan.

1:38.5

We here as we are continuously for the next, I don't know, 50 or so episodes breaking down every single episode of The Wire in a way that it has never been broke.

1:49.5

So, yes.

1:51.5

Breaking it down in a way so it can forever be broke, I should say.

1:55.5

So, gonna jump right in by starting with just a brief recap of what happens in episode two, which is called The Detail, by the way.

2:05.5

And here's a basic overview of what happens.

2:08.5

Alright, Reginald Gantt, who was the witness, he saw the Angelo Barc Stale kill Old Boy at the High Riders.

2:15.5

He's murdered, and that's pretty much where this episode begins, and pretty much the rest of this episode is kind of the ripple effect that this has.

2:25.5

That's the witness alright, welcome from the Barc Stale case.

2:29.5

Gantt, William, 41 years. I think my head shot closed range. Bull of Pancake down in her skull.

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