Ext. night: Rivulets of blood creep across pavement, flashing in the lights of a police cruiser, we pan across a body, and police investigating. Overlooking the scene from a tenement stoop are a young black guy and a 30ish male cop, Det. McNulty, seated side by side.
DM: So your boy's name was what? YBG: Snot. DM: Called the guy Snot? YBG: Snot Boogie DM: God. Snot Boogie. You like the name? YBG: What? DM: Snot Boogie. YBG: quiet, looks on DM: This kid, whose mama went to the trouble to christen him Omar Isaah Betts... You know, he forgets his jacket, his nose starts running and some *******, instead of giving him a Kleenex, he calls him "Snot". So he's Snot forever. Doesn't seem fair. YBG: Life just be that way, I guess.
DM: So, who shot Snot? YBG: I ain't goin' to no court. pause, filled only by the barking of dogs, somewhere in the neighborhood YBG: Mother ****er didn't have to put no cap in him though. DM: Definitely not. YBG: He coulda just whooped his *** like we always whoop his ***. DM: I agree with you. YBG: He killed Snot. Snot been doing the same **** since I don't know how long. You don't kill a man over some bull****.
YBG: I'm sayin': every Friday night in an alley behind the Cut Rate, we rollin' bones, you know? I mean all them boys, we roll til late. DM: Alley crap game, right? YBG: Like every time, Snot, he'd fade a few shooters, play it out til the pot's deep. Snatch and run. DM: What, every time? YBG: Couldn't help hisself. DM: Let me understand. Every Friday night, you and your boys are shootin? crap, right? And every Friday night, your pal Snot Boogie... he'd wait til there's cash on the ground and he'd grab it and run away? You let him do that? YBG: We'd catch him and beat his *** but ain't nobody ever go past that.
DM: I've gotta ask you: if every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away... why'd you even let him in the game? YBG: What? DM: Well, if every time, Snot Boogie stole the money, why'd you let him play? YBG: Got to. It's America, man.
Discuss.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
No.
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
I see. =(
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I never much cared for The Wire...
We much prefer "Deadwood", or, as we call it "****sucker" after the word they use the most in the show.