This game is rigged, man

[leopoldleoleo]

I love the chess reference, takes me back to season 1

[buggeazy102]

Bodie is from the same city im from his mom still lives there right off of 18th ave. Brick City stand up!!

[thetafarm]

Such an epic scene. "For that to happen, someone's gotta step up." Little did McNulty know, Bodie would get killed and it would be his own self stepping up with the homeless killings charade. Bodie gave his life and McNulty gave up his career to take down Stanfield.

[24leonb]

6t6rt

[Allupnu4sho]

Suck my d&&&k ngr!!!!

[Allupnu4sho]

What movie is this ???

[BAGAKOOS]

@Allupnu4sho this aint no movie you bitchass motha fucka damn get wit it where da fuck u been at fool? this aint a movie nigga fuck outta here

[antipyrene]

@Allupnu4sho Its an HBO series, called "The Wire"...probably the best TV series ever made

[FlakoFino23]

damn bodie should have joined the army lol he had that mentality........

[Knickmet2]

im doing this monolouge for my speech class

[rvcda]

:´( i miss bodie

[kierang06]

If you think about it, Bodie could have done the Marlo thing and try and do it his way or even take the Cheese way of bein with the "Player" of that time, but he stayed loyal no matter what, all things considered Bodie is one of the best in the whole series

[johowe7771]

@youngking4life94 you missed the whole point

[asciibaron]

nothing is in the camera view unintentionally

[ravenouscolonelhart]

The Wire - the saddest and truest drama ever filmed

[704Hustle]

mcnulty definately wasn't expecting this type of conversation with bodie..but mcnulty could relate cause..like bodie said.."when shit goes bad where they at"...mcnulty knew what it was like cause of the shit in how own police department that why he said bodie was a solder cause even he was also

[MrFoxah]

1 dislike from marlo's crew.

[SODEMO2007]

I fucking hated it when they killed off Bodie. Just got angry for some reason.

[bweiner89]

lol I wonder who the idiot is that actually dislikes this

[china4151986]

@bweiner89 probrably marlo lol

[falconsfan1982]

Crazy scene, bodie was around 16 when the show started, which makes him about 21 here. 21, and he's already dinosaur. dope boys grow up fast

[Clownface125]

@falconsfan1982 are u talking in show or in rl? cuz he was born in like the seventies

[danielhiryu]

"I feel old."

[dholmes974]

Like being at the top of shit hill, son...

[ThePrinceII]

McNultly's dialogue with the black characters was so well written. They way he drops into black slang every now and again to help conversation feels natural, unlike so many other characters and people who are white but try to be black.

[youngking4life94]

Don't get it twisted because he snitched thats why his punk ass is dead, He a fucking cry baby. nigga sounding like a lil bitch because shit aint going good for him. the game wasnt ment to be fair its cheat in life. When u in the game u aim to be number 1. not no fucking punk ass soilder thats not proper.

[stemurtagh]

@youngking4life94 yeah because id say you are the hardest gangsta out there. get a grip. youd probably shit your pants and rat on your mother if you were arrested

[youngking4life94]

@stemurtagh matter fact i did get arrested and i dont put no 1 else to blaim. i wouldnt be able to go sleep and live with my self if i rat ed on some 1 thats in the game, so u telling u would rat? if not then y the fuck u replying

[deeder747]

i wish Bodie, Bey, Poot and them learned what ACTUALLY happened to D..

[TWill800]

@deeder747 Amen to that

[jakestanley52]

Watch Bodie's face when McNulty says "Pawns." He's remembering what D taught him and Wallace.

[youngking4life94]

bodie was a fucking snitch ass nigga Snitching aint ok for nun he need handle that problem by himself

[fukafred]

@youngking4life94 you need to watch the series again you cant be more wrong. Game is the Game but like Omar said a mans got to have a code

[SunRys1]

@youngking4life94

And then what? You realize if Bodie killed any of the people in Marlo's organization straight up, they'd go kill Poot, and everyone else he was close to after he dies? Snitching was the only way for him to stay secluded, and for him to get blamed on if the truth wears out. This way, Marlo would only target Bodie. Not to mention Bodie changed, and his mentality became more softer. He didn't have that sharp raggedness in him.

[youngking4life94]

@SunRys1 the thing is boogie could had just made a way to killing marlo and snoop and monk but he decided to snitch if he really wanted them gone, he would had handled it like any other gangster would had done it. like a great man say strike the shepered and the sheep will scatter. he can kill the little boy but he cant kill that nigga thats fucking with him that makes no sense. i aint gon lie the nigga was real but at the same time i see that snitchin shit was not neccesery.

[lincoln3000]

Bodie was the real motherfucka on the series!

[drktigger]

Man, it must have been the shit watching all this stuff unfold while it was still on the air. I just blasted through all 5 seasons on netflix over a few months. I mean the impact of seeing a guy you've been seeing for years getting killed must have been huge.

[europeanbeast]

"you're a soldier Bodie" ... "Hell yeah om nom nom nom" lol

[Mumra95]

At the end of the scene, when McNulty says "your a solider Bodie", he gives Bodie this look, a look of admiration almost. He mine as well have said "your a solider Bodie, and I am not".

[lsimmons24]

The key to Bodie's character is when Stringer pulled him aside and told him"In this game you gotta have flex" Flex is a key word throughout the wire that alot of ppl slept on. You can be smart, rich, tough, etc..but in the game as in life the most important of all is you must have flex. You must be able to bend and be flexible without snapping during hard and trying times. Bodie had no flex. He snapped and broke the unbreakable rule of the streets when times got ruff. Snitched. Death

[soulofshiver]

That last shot makes them both look like a couple of pawns on a chessboard.

[madrespectvolleyball]

@soulofshiver yup! and notice the statue of the king that seems to be "looming" over Bodie...and the way the sun shifts, makes it look like a chessboard...crazy imagery

[wonyov]

@madrespectvolleyball Exactly! The subtle message Simon was probably trying to communicate. "You're a soldier, Bodie." And you see the admiration on McNulty's face. Then the camera highlights the lawn reminiscent of a chess board with nothing but the King. No soldiers. All forgotten. This show was amazing.

[ScienceAperture]

Just finished watching The Wire for the second time, and I'm speechless again. The Wire has ruined TV for me: nothing comes even close.

[icannotfly]

even if he is living a life of crime, he's still the salt of the motherfucking earth.

i'm starting to like bodie more than omar.

[bceaser1]

powerful scene...metaphoric on so many levels of life now...you play by the rules your given...work hard..do the right thing, and expect to have your back protected...only to have the same people..take your home or layed of from work... not return the love......meanwhile we bail out banks for fucking up money and not charge them the way we do our everyday people...the game is rigged...

[oldschoolruler]

@bceaser1 excellent call...right on point.

[thecalistallion]

If you removed Bodie with Sgt. Carver and he was talkin about colegelo & Herc...

The dialog... epic.

[thestranger4812]

He will always be a cunt in my eyes for shooting Wallace, but this is a great, great scene.

[nonnynay]

"They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions."

I think that quote from Carver rings out here. Bodie was a loyal soldier for years, but the moment he turned his back on the bosses he got killed. Mcnulty spent years with his ass in Rawls' face and got out with a future ahead of him.

[dholmes974]

I thought Bodie was a knuclehead in the beginning. True survivors know that you must be able to change with the times. The "game" bullshit is just that; "bullshit". He was evolving when it ended for him. Once your eyes are opened, no way to go back...

[hiphopheadism]

I was rockin' with Bodie forever 'til i found out he was gon' rat on Marlo.

Can't be doin' that shit when you in the game, like Bodie said to Wallace before killin' him for the exact same reason (snitchin) "you brought this on ya self man"

bodie, why?

[ravenouscolonelhart]

it really sucks that Bodie was killed... if he had lived a little longer, he would have seen Slim Charles - an old ally - take over. He would have finally moved up, gotten off the corner, and not be facing death (whether it's rival gangs or Omar-type guys) every day. Charles would have helped him out, Charles was reasonable like Joe but ruthless like Avon.

[jerdg55]

Amazing. This is the truest 1:40 in the history of TV

[thecalistallion]

In the game,...the pawn, and the King go back in the same

box. -thecalistallion

[echolalia48]

This scene took my breath away.

[HaroldEarlMusic]

so sad when he dies :(

[thecalistallion]

"The game is RigGed... but you can-not-lose-if-you-do-NOT-PLA­Y." -Marla Danials

[sachmoney]

"You're a soldier Bodie."

"Hell Yeah."

[pandasweater]

Lieutenant Daniels and his wife also have a conversation about how "the game is rigged." Daniels was given a shitty police detail that had to investigate a difficult situation, The unsolved Barksdale murders that no other Lieutenant wanted to oversee. If Daniels played hard and discovered more murders possibly related to Barksdale but cant be pinned on him, the murder clearance rate goes down. If he plays soft, it will seem he isn't doing his job right. However, you don't lose if you don't play.

[pandasweater]

@pandasweater I learned a lot of shit by watching The Wire

[mmizzie]

if there was ever a scene that came close to summing up the message of this show, this would be that scene. bodie is one of the characters who lives by a code that dictates his ideas of morality, fairness, and order. he understands that the game is rigged, and realizes that despite his adherence to his code, the infastructure he resides within makes his standard generally irrelevant

[badassindo]

the pawn metaphor was perfect for Bodie, at the beginning of season 1 I always thought he would be the pawn to make it to the other side of the board which made his fate that much more shocking... perfect character though and the fate he suffered was probably much more realistic 

[PAvver]

its really incredible that bodie does look old but when you think of it he's in his mid 20's

[GhostofJC]

Bodie looks old. His face looks almost sagelike.

[RashHunt]

Bodie is fucking key to the Wire; all bout the rise and the fall of the game.

[malkani17]

bodie went the way he would have wanted to. not living on his knees, but dying on his feet.

[bs20sanders]

bodie/mcnulty>randy/carver

[kingofpoms69]

bodie was always my fav from the begining. he had the greatest death, he stood his coner till the end. fuckin omar my was probably along side him but moar didnt have the big show down death i was hoping for thats what let his character down in the end.

[Videosofwolves]

@kingofpoms69 I think Omar's death illustrated the brutality of the street perfectly, any mother fucker can get got, and by anybody. Although I was gutted when it happened.

[mkvl1490]

Thats a note for all the lil niggas that think they tough and want to jump in the game

All the love u show the game, it shows u nothin in return

[DocSkribblez]

"We're like them little bald head bitches on the chessboard"

[gsian187]

Love how he still remembers D'Angelo with the chess board, and how McNulty remembered him by mentioning how the game is rigged in the next season.

[pzman84]

Favorite scene in the series

[2415benji]

cant see him being a rat but i guess if u cant kill them get them sent to jail

[readigo]

Bodie was not that under-rated. I think his role was proportional to his importance.

A soldier? HELL YEAH!

[ThatFire9oNe6]

For me..

1. Bodie - He hung tough since season one, and we seen him mature.

2. Omar- Even tho he was homo, no one would fuck wit him.

3. Avon - Always a G, took care of his people (cuddie scene) not like that snake Stringer.

4. McNulty - A cop wit a conscious, he knew his place but wanted to do more.

5. Michael - What he went through as a child made his heart cold, but still had soul. He matured strongly through season 4 & 5.

[hdtwoodsman]

the most under-rated actor in the series

[oneworldkingdom]

He was old. 25 is old in that game. It was Bodie's time.

[fatfuck231]

Of the 4 young barksdale kids of season 1 only poot remained and at the end he was out the game to.

[markmittens]

The reference to the pawn goes a lot deeper in the wire. Early, I believe season 2, D'angelo was breaking down how to play chess to the youngsters He explained the pieces to them and in a moment for a slight second they realized that they were pawns expendable, Bodie being smart and ambitious, asked but a pawn can make it all the way, and D'angelo said thats what they would like you to think. GREAT SHOW!!!!!

[SlimCharles68]

That final shot always reminds me of a chess board (with that King looking statue in the foreground). McNulty and Bodie are right there in the middle of the board, right where the pawns are at the start of a chess game. I always wondered if that was intentional.

[FreezeKick]

Good eye man! It's these little touches that make the Wire so genius.

[FreezeKick]

Moreover it's interesting because it's where the pawns from both sides would meet too. McNulty a pawn in the cop game sitting on one side of the bench and Bodie a pawn in the drug game sitting on the other side of the bench.

[getz21]

@SlimCharles68 fucking right man, i wish i saw that,

[cool70200]

McNulty called him a soldier in pity because he knew Bodie also had loyalty, dignity and some sense of limits just like himself.

McNulty knew personally how that can come into conflict with "new" rules or "new" politics.

And that Bodie, like himself, would become "obsolete" in the "newer" ways of doing business.

the game is originally a lie, but it gets more costly to keep that lie going, so the old timers eventually see the things change for the worse around them

[kobesucks92]

top 5 characters

1. Omar

2.Wee-Bey

3.Bodie

4.McNulty

5.Michael

[MikefromMadrid]

wtf

[1NiK1]

@kobesucks92 where do Avon, Carver or Cutty come there?

[clewis650]

Wobbothe3rd you are so right! Good shit on lookin deeper into this show

[Wobbothe3rd]

Bodie is such a good metaphor for the average american worker.

Listen to what he says in this scene! He might as well be a Detroit auto worker, or a steelmaker, or a transportation worker, or ....

[tommybrown187]

agreed!

we are more alike than we realize

[bebo3ful]

@Wobbothe3rd It all comes back to when snoop says "deserve got nothin to do with it"

[bceaser1]

@Wobbothe3rd ..word...could not have said it better brother...

[pegelatrin]

Yeah.. A good comparison with the american working/middle class.. Who lived their life honestly and law abiding.. But never got rewarded for it, only exploited because of it..

[nts4906]

@Wobbothe3rd That's what The Wire is all about. It shows us that everyone is the same, no matter what part of the city you represent.

[drktigger]

@nts4906 Good point. People are people wherever they're from, whatever they believe in.

[dlr1241]

@Wobbothe3rd that is actually a great point. Never thought of that. might even fit that of a soldier....or a cop.

[Theghot791]

ok look I have to admit Bodie was my fav character on the wire until dis moment and I started to 2nd guess him

eventhuogh marlo was kinda off da edge wit his kills dat doesn't mean yu snitch

[Lionel4482]

Marlo killed his homie Kevin, that was Bodie's breaking point. Bodie couldn't take him out. Barksdale's crew wasn't strong enough with Stringer dead and Avon locked up. He went another route of getting rid of Marlo.

[Yehbytheway]

Reminds of the graphic novel by Alan Moore.From hell. About London during the times of jack the ripper and how fucked up the whole thing was.

Moore's a big wire fan as well.

[jowston100]

Have much much love for Bodie.

[raggamm]

You gotta love the character development throughout the wire, shit is sick.

[TheJerseyChimpmunk]

top 5 characters are:

1.Omar

2.snoop

3.bodie

4.Chris

5.Michael

[arkedysvidrigailov]

D'angelo

[2pacflife]

I have to say:

1. Omar

2. Avon

3. Colvin

4. McNulty

5. Michael

[sirgoodtimes]

Bubbs? By the way after working in the public school system in NYC for a few years...That game is rigged

[TubeGhost]

I don't know. Snoop is a psychopath, she's not much of a character. All the other ones you listed have actual emotions, sensitivity, humanity. I'd put Avon or D' in there before I'd put Snoop. I like Dookie too.

[TheJerseyChimpmunk]

thats why u gotta love snoop. shes the only one who will get the job done. too bad michael beat her to it

[jkwon220]

"I'll do what i gotta,i dont give a fuck! just dont ask me to live on my fuckin knees"

bodie was 1 of the realest characters

[jeromemilton]

Life is rigged!!!!

[Stobo718]

Later on in Season 5 McNulty said the same thing about the police force

[blap316]

man so sad seeing bodie die

one of the hardest workin' and loyal niggas, and just left to rot

much like the rest of baltimore

[therightword]

I love how they cultivated his frustration throughout all of the season. this is the first scene bodie ever showed vulnerability.

[mrcpt316V3]

Shame Bodie wasn't around to see Marlo fall & be forgotten.

[chanrobi]

Haha, pawns, nice reference to season 1 with d'angelo.

[tommybrown187]

u a soilder bodie HELL YEA

[youngTaharka]

Bodie was that dude

[MMaRsu]

@youngTaharka Man I used to like Bodie a lot, I mean he's a great character but he still shot Wallace. But then again that shit was just orders.

[caseloads]

it wasn't til like season 4 or 5, i saw him in a new light. he started fucking that police car up

[Eazy2Remember]

yo that was fuckin hilarious :P the mirror just went flyin

[TubeGuest5178]

:30 - :43 HAHAHAAAA...bodie talkin about our congressman and senators again? lmao!

[supercollider23]

Hell yes.

[brandongrimm05]

as true as you can get lilhomey learn the rules to this shit

[blap316]

the world is fucked up and unpredictable, and the wire shows it. the people with the most heart sometimes don't make it (wallace, D'angelo, bodie)

[analboi]

bodie was a soldier

[TijucaWeirdo]

Bodie, was true as you can get.

[kevsul47]

just dont ask me to live on my fuckin' knees...like wee bey, a soldier.

[pussypopanum1]

wee bay that nigga