4x01 Boys of Summer - The Wire Episode Guide

The Wire

- Episode 04x01

Episode: 04x01
Title: Boys of Summer
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 401
First Aired: Sep. 10, 2006

Season 4 » Episode #01 - Boys of Summer

Summary: Four West Baltimore teens get a summer education on the streets with school on the horizon. Meanwhile, Councilman Carcetti campaigns for mayor, Prez prepares for his new career as a teacher and Freamon is puzzled by the lack of violence between drug gangs.

Who appeared in this episode?

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty	played by Dominic West
Maj. Cedric Daniels	played by Lance Reddick
Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski	played by Jim True-Frost
Preston Broadus	played by J.D. Williams (II)
Duquan 'Dukie' Weems	played by Jermaine Crawford
Randy Wagstaff	played by Maestro Harrell
Namond Brice	played by Julito McCullum
Assistant Principal Marcia Donnelly	played by Susan Duvall
School lecturer	played by Henri Edmonds

Season 4 / Episode 1: - Boys of Summer

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: [after Council President Nareese Campbell walks by] Council President's hot as balls!
Security Detail Officer: I'd fuck you to fuck her.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: You don't think that means your a fag or nothin.
Security Detail Officer: It's just an expression.

Season 4 / Episode 1: - Boys of Summer

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: God... damn.
Hardware Store Employee: I see you got the Dewalt cordless. Your nailgun, Dewalt 410.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Yeah. The trouble is, you leave it in a truck for a while, need to step up and use the bitch, the battery don't hold up, you know?
Hardware Store Employee: Yeah, cordless'll do that. You might want to consider the powder-actuated tool. The Hilti DX 460 MX or the Simpson PTP. These two are my cadillacs. Everything else on this board is second best, sorry to say. Are you contracting, or just doing some work around the house?
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: No, we work all over.
Hardware Store Employee: Full time?
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: No, we had about 5 jobs last month.
Hardware Store Employee: At that rate, the cost of the powder-actuated guns justifies itself.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: You say power?
Hardware Store Employee: Powder.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Like gunpowder?
Hardware Store Employee: Yeah. The DX 460 is fully automatic, with a .27 caliber charge. Wood, concrete, steel to steel... She'll throw a fastener into anything, and for my money, she handles recoil better than the Simpson or the P3500. Now, you understand what I mean by recoil ?
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Yeah, the kickback. I'm with you.
Hardware Store Employee: That's right.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: .27 caliber, huh?
Hardware Store Employee: Yeah, not large ballistically, but for driving nails, it's enough. Any more than that, you'd add to the recoil.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Man, shit. I seen a tiny-ass .22 round-nose drop a nigger plenty of days, man. Motherfuckers get up in you like a pinball, rip your ass up. Big joints, though... Big joints, man, just break your bones, you say, "fuck it." I'm gonna go with this right here, man. How much do I owe you?
Hardware Store Employee: Six-sixty-nine plus tax. [Snoop counts out a stack of cash] No, no, you just pay at the register.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Nah, man, you go ahead and handle that for me, man. And keep the rest for your time.
Hardware Store Employee: This is $800.
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: So what, man? You earned that buck like a motherfucker, man. Keep that shit.

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