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S1E5 · The Pager

Avon Barksdale Avon becomes more and more suspicious, he orders Wee-Bey to change phone lines in his apartment and promotes Stinkum to manage a new territory. He gets word that one of Omar's crew members has been "got". Stringer Bell warns D'Angelo that a snitch may be in his camp. The detectives get their affidavit approved for a cloned pager but they are puzzled when the numbers they receive are not regular Baltimore phone numbers.. Herc and Carver catch up with Bodie and attempt to interrogate him.

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Epigraph: "...a little slow, a little late." - Avon Barksdale Avon shows D'Angelo his brother, left vegetative after being shot in the head, and encourages D'Angelo to use the fear of ending up like him to work harder. Stringer recommends that D'Angelo withhold pay from his dealers to flush out a rat. He takes his girlfriend Donette to a ritzy steakhouse dinner, but is uncomfortable in the lavish atmosphere. A ballistics test connects the casing to two previous murders. Detectives Ellis Carver and Thomas "Herc" Hauk arrest Bodie and beat him when he insults them, but warm to him over a game of pool. Phelan approves the clone and the detail discovers that the Barksdales only send numerical codes, though Prez realizes through his love of puzzles that they are sending jumbled phone numbers. McNulty and Greggs track down Omar to inform him that one of his men was killed, and he reveals that Barksdale soldier Marquis "Bird" Hilton killed Gant. Pit boys Wallace and Malik "Poot" Carr spot Omar's boyfriend Brandon Wright and notify D'Angelo.

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