1x03 The Buys - The Wire Episode Guide

The Wire

- Episode 01x03

Episode: 01x03
Title: The Buys
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 103
First Aired: Jun. 16, 2002

Season 1 » Episode #03 - The Buys

Summary: Bubbles ends up giving Sydnor fashion tips to help him go undercover and score drugs in the projects. The detectives inquiries end up causing a riot and leave a young boy without an eye. D'Angelo decides to teach Bodie and Wallace how to play chess. Greggs reveals something personal to McNulty. Daniels sends his crew on an ill-advised raid in The Towers.

Who appeared in this episode?

Maj. William A. Rawls	played by John Doman
Russell 'Stringer' Bell	played by Idris Elba
Dep. Comm. for Operations Ervin H. Burrell	played by Frankie Faison
D'Angelo Barksdale	played by Larry Gilliard Jr.
Avon Barksdale	played by Wood Harris
Preston Broadus	played by J.D. Williams (II)
Det. Ellis Carver	played by Seth Gilliam
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski	played by Jim True-Frost
Roland 'Wee-Bey' Brice	played by Hassan Johnson

Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Buys

D'Angelo Barksdale: Now look, check it, it's simple, it's simple. See this? This the kingpin, a'ight? And he the man. You get the other dude's king, you got the game. But he trying to get your king too, so you gotta protect it. Now, the king, he move one space any direction he damn choose, 'cause he's the king. Like this, this, this, a'ight? But he ain't got no hustle. But the rest of these motherfuckers on the team, they got his back. And they run so deep, he really ain't gotta do shit.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Like your uncle.
D'Angelo Barksdale: Yeah, like my uncle. You see this? This the queen. She smart, she fast. She move any way she want, as far as she want. And she is the go-get-shit-done piece.
Wallace: Remind me of Stringer.
D'Angelo Barksdale: And this over here is the castle. Like the stash. It can move like this, and like this.
Wallace: Dog, stash don't move, man.
D'Angelo Barksdale: C'mon, yo, think. How many time we move the stash house this week? Right? And every time we move the stash, we gotta move a little muscle with it, right? To protect it.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: True, true, you right. All right, what about them little baldheaded bitches right there?
D'Angelo Barksdale: These right here, these are the pawns. They like the soldiers. They move like this, one space forward only. Except when they fight, then it's like this. And they like the front lines, they be out in the field.
Wallace: So how do you get to be the king?
D'Angelo Barksdale: It ain't like that. See, the king stay the king, a'ight? Everything stay who he is. Except for the pawns. Now, if the pawn make it all the way down to the other dude's side, he get to be queen. And like I said, the queen ain't no bitch. She got all the moves.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: A'ight, so if I make it to the other end, I win.
D'Angelo Barksdale: If you catch the other dude's king and trap it, then you win.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: A'ight, but if I make it to the end, I'm top dog.
D'Angelo Barksdale: Nah, yo, it ain't like that. Look, the pawns, man, in the game, they get capped quick. They be out the game early.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Unless they some smart-ass pawns.

Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Buys

D'Angelo Barksdale: The king stay the king.

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