3x09 Slapstick - The Wire Episode Guide

The Wire

- Episode 03x09

Episode: 03x09
Title: Slapstick
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 309
First Aired: Nov. 21, 2004

Season 3 » Episode #09 - Slapstick

Summary: McNulty and Prez turn up in the wrong alley and it ends up not being good news for Prez. Cutty finds help in an unlikely ally. Bubbles is wired up. Pearlman and Daniels confront a cell phone company in the hopes of easily gaining a wiretap.

Who appeared in this episode?

Russell 'Stringer' Bell	played by Idris Elba
Avon Barksdale	played by Wood Harris
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski	played by Jim True-Frost
Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin	played by Robert Wisdom
Preston Broadus	played by J.D. Williams (II)
Off. Lloyd 'Truck' Garrick	played by Ryan Sands
Off. Michael Santangelo	played by Michael Salconi
Sean McNulty	played by Eric G. Ryan
FBI Spec. Agent Terrance 'Fitz' Fitzhugh	played by Doug Olear

Season 3 / Episode 9: - Slapstick

Slim Charles: Ain't enough y'all done violated the Sunday morning truce. No, I'm standing here holding a torn-up church crown of a bona fide colored lady. Do you know what a colored lady is? Not your moms, for sure. 'Cause if they was that, y'all would've known better than that bullshit. Y'all trifling with Avon Barksdale reputation, you know that?

Season 3 / Episode 9: - Slapstick

Omar Little: I damn near got that woman killed, yo. Y'all should've seen me in Sinai Hospital while they stitching her up, lying about why somebody wanna shoot me down the street. That woman think I work in a cafeteria.
Kimmy: Cafeteria?
Omar Little: At the airport, yeah.
Kimmy: The airport? Why the airport?
Omar Little: 'Cause I know she ain't gonna never go down there to go dining, that's why! Hey, yo, Kimmy, this ain't funny, yo! That woman raised me! And for as long as I been grown, once a month I been with her on a church Sunday, telling myself ain't no need to worry, 'cause ain't nobody in this city that lowdown to disrespect a Sunday morning!

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McNulty proclaims, "How many out there can do what we do? Don Warden, Ed Burns, Gary Childs out in the county, John O'Neil and Steve Cleary over in Woodlawn, oh they bring it in, but there's not many". This is a winking reference to Ed Burns, one of the writer's and show's creator, also a police officer for many years.