Well…. Gifs….. We all know and love them, especially on Tumblr. I never thought I would be the one making them until i discovered Ds106. Yay! Well, they’re not as easy as everyone thinks. To summarize an episode of The Wire with Gifs, I chose my favorite episode which was episode 2 “The Detail”. The title says it all. It’s an episode that tells you everything you need to know about all the characters, at least for now. So the way I understood this episode was it introduced us to all the characters and problems which is how i based my summarization. Here we go!
The Detail
Here’s my first Gif. This basically sets up the whole show because with the murder of the witness who testified against D caught McNulty’s interest
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Alright, so where do we go from here? The next important scene to me was when Deputy Daniels asks Pearlman to get him some better officer’s so he can do REAL police work. So this just shows that he really does want to do good work, yo.
So now we get introduced to D, officially. When McNulty and Moreland bring D in for questioning, well, mostly to see if he’s guilty of the murder of the witness for his case. So here he is, getting REAL emotional over the murder and showing signs of guilt. I really like this part because it showed that he isn’t THAT bad, at least when compared to his uncle.
So, we now know D has a soul. Here, when he goes to a party and talks to Avon Barksdale, his uncle, he still feels bad about the witness’s death. Specifically in the part that I picked for the gif, he’s talking about the murder. If he DID have nothing to do with it, it didn’t involve D and if he DIDN’T have anything to do with it, then it STILL didn’t involve D. I don’t think D is convinced though..
Don’t be fooled, the case isn’t JUST about McNulty and D. There are other good cops working on this case. Well… i’m not sure if i should say good right away. Why would they feel the need to prove that they’re the bosses around town? You have a badge dude…
Finally, my favorite scene from this whole episode, maybe even season 1 ;). After a long day, you get a peek at McNulty after hours. I guess McNulty just had a really bad day, so he’s parked in his car, obviously drunk, and gets out of his car to scare away some kids and just straight up rolls down the hill. After an intense episode, I just thought this was super funny.
