@DVMsis You think that's what the show's about, who's tough and who's not? Most of those hood characters in the show were pieces of garbage, especially S. Bell. There's nothing romantic or noble about them.
@mjonas10 A) I'm sure you'd be a big man if someone stuck a gun in your face. B) Wallace was one of the few in the hood who showed any promise of being a real human (intelligence, sensitivity, etc.). Most of those characters were royal pieces of shit, to say the least.
At this point I hated bodie and poot , o never grew to like poot on Bodie , after his first killing and Dee leaving the pit Bodie reconsidered things .. My question was where was poots gun when Bodie was on the corner? Smfh.
Wtfuk?! .. Poot busted shots like he had no remorse. Wallace was still coughing. Those were two hard shots that poot let go. Smfh ,Bodie cldnt believe he let go one but,poot?! My goodness hardest thing for me to watch
this is what made it a little easier for me to take bodie's death. he was a punk here...all talk but when it came down to it, he could barely pull the trigger. poot had to be the one to finish him off and he didn't even want wallace to die.
I love The Wire, its so deep yet simple. It really does show the consequences of being in "the game": Once you are in, you have no-one to turn to, not even your close friends. Also, everyone on this show who was in the drug game and went anywhere near the police to talk got clipped. Even Bodie got clapped, and he didn't even get the chance to talk.
Was Wallace going to testify against Stringer and the organisation?I know he went to the cops but it seemed like he wanted to get back into the game instead...
@mahmoudyzadeh He already gave up Stringer to the cops earlier in the season. He gave them a name at least. I don't think he was willing to give them up at this point, as he wanted back into the game. Stringer wanted him killed because he posed a threat to the group, as everyone was paranoid. They had a feeling he was talking to the cops, so they silenced him.
Just like Henry Hill said in GoodFellas: your killers are your friends, they come at you with smiles. Bodie & Poot might not be smiling but the principle's the same. Such a sad moment on a great show!
One of the hardest scenes in the whole show to watch, along with when Randy gets beat up in his foster home, Dukie starts shooting up in the final montage, Bodie gets killed defending his corner, and Butchie gets killed for refusing to give up Omar. RIP Wallace.
@theajroseshow Yeah those were pretty much the hardest moments for me.. especially when Dukie shoots up. Shows that in baltimore nobody gets away from nothing.. Bad shit happens, even to good people
It's kind of interesting to compare the Barksdale method of a hit with the Stanfield method. Remember how Chris Partlow at various times said that you should always hold the gun straight, with two hands; go for the head and a clean kill; and the first victim should be someone the killer doesn't know? Stringer Bell and Bodie did none of those things. I think it's a great contrast between the two organizations.
Never understood people who like Bodie. Could never forgive him for this. This scene is ust horrible and Bodie killed his own friend just for stature within some bullshit drug orginization
@eirikwegga I hear ya. I see the Wallace/Bodie/Poot storyline as a metaphor for how it's inescapable that any institution designed to dehumanize others inevitably dehumanizes the people WITHIN its ranks as well. Although Bodie and Poot were just soldiers following orders - just like in the military and prison industries - that doesn't excuse their behavior.
And speaking of the banality of evil, it was such a mindtrip to see a former murderer and drug runner (Poot) working an ordinary job at a bootleg Foot Locker lol, like nothing ever happened. Meanwhile, his buddy Bodie met such a violent death.
AHHH!! I remember this shocked me I kept talking to myself in that squeaky voice going NO DONT DO IT NOT WALLACE! & then he died :'( he died, he's a kid!
Don't forget Wallace... Wallace's situation was a mix of all the season 4 kids'. He cared for kids like Michael, wasn't into "the game" like Namond, had to support himself like Dukie and in every other way he was like Randy lol. They all had fucking hopeless parents.
At first I hated Bodie because of this scene, but as the series went along he became one of my favorite characters. He was truly loyal to the game. I liked Wallace, but he was in over his head from day one.
@Mattraction513 but in later season they show McNulty staring at Wallace's crime scene photos. it bothered him, he just didn't say anything aloud. he KNEW Stringer ordered it.
It's us man... Stringer a smart dude, when you play the game, you know snitchin gets you this. They done up little man too cause he deserved it. No mistakes.
In the drug game either way your going end up dead anyway from rival gangs, dealers, your own customer, or if your stupid enough doing your own supply. They should show this to all kids because no one is your friend and they eventually will turn on you. If your lucky enough you might get busted, but then you got the prison gangs to deal with. Like many of the gangs codes go blood in and blood out.
@SeanDezzle By the last season Bodie really becomes one of my favourite characters. Watching him grow through the regime changes as just another soldier...really deep character.
I've just started with this show (took me a while, and I gave the pilot a go years back and didn't really like it) and one might argue that I hadn't seen much when this came on, because it was just late season 1, but I sat like this through out the whole scene: ":' O"
Luckily I didn't cry, but I really sat there with my mouth open, knowing what was going to happen. That's how involved I'd already gotten by that point. It's more poignant because it's young, promising, nice Wallace.
Potie shoulda told Stringer that Wallace was his boy and he couldn't do him like that but I guess Poot was closer to him, that's why Poot puts Wallace out of his misery. He shot him to make it go by faster, since Bodie's single shot would have taken longer. Poot did that shit out of love.
@Flugufrelsarinn7 Go way outta that! If Wallace was his boy they would have given him a pass. Told him to head to the country and never look back. Wallace could easily have just disappeared, especially if Poot had told him there was a price on his head. Poot was as much an instigator in that as Bodie.
@DM1387 Bodie realized that for all his bravado that the actual act of killing someone was much harder than he ever anticipated. The fact that it was someone he knew and worked with made it even harder to carry it out .
@Bill1789 Poot knew how much the kids loved Wallace so he probably sent them away to their foster homes or parents to avoid traumatizing them by killing Wallace in front of them.
This scene felt awful, how the two could just end the life of Wallace over nothing, it's not like he is ever coming back to make up. It's disturbing how murder has been programmed into our minds, you rack up 'kills' in games for fun, but that never shows the truth of it, that once you have murdered someone they are not coming back. All that was them is gone. In this case it was all just some crackheads could through away the life the two assholes in the video took from Wallace.
Make a lot of great points but Bodie is an asshole? I've thought that about Poot sometimes though he did get out. But Bodie, Bodie goes through arguably the most transformation of any character on the show, his changes are phenomenal and show how later on he is not an asshole
@USCHoodman He was loyal to his crew and a 'leader', I'll give him that, but I wouldn't trust him at all. He never really evolved that much IMHO, he was always rash (starting a shootout that killed the boy) and never really matured, he just became 'wiser' to the game as he 'moved up' in the game. Poot matured more as a person.
His murder of Wallace still made him a cold blooded murderer who should be rotting in a prison, so I wasn't all that sad to see him go in season four.
@mrmootheirrev i don't think that's true. i think his sense of moral vs. immoral grows throughout the show. come the rise of the stanfield organization, he starts to question the senseless killings that partlow and snoop carried out. plus, imo, he looked far more affected by killing wallace then poot. first of all, he's not even able to pull the trigger until poot tells him to do it. and then poot takes the gun from him and does it without hesitation.
Reminds me of a scene from Goodfellass. Henry says "See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help".
No lies you get alotta money hustlin but in the end it ain't worth it if your own friends kill you.
Wallace never made alotta money, he supported children who were clearly homeless otherwise and never rose to any position past the money. Your point is solid though, and good quote.
@Numonkei Look at Avon and Stringer though they made tons of money and Avon set Omar and Muzzone loose on Stringer. It happens on every level of the game.
What was great about this scene- and really the whole show- was its realness. They toggled this scene with McNulty and Daniels trying to find Wallace. When I first saw that, I was hoping that McNulty and Daniels would find Wallace in the nick of time. But that is not how real life happens. In real life rarely do the police arrive in time to save a life. That is what separates The Wire from other shows.
Yall stop with this soft shit, this nigga was weak, soft link breaks the chain. He wanted the throw the rock and hide his hand, this time he got caught, had to go, if wallace and deangelo were your favorite two then that says alot about you.
Yall stop with this soft shit, this nigga was weak, soft link breaks the chain. He wanted the throw the rock and hide his hand, this time he got caught, had to go, if wallace and deangelo were your favorite two then that says alot about you.
@dbw0322 It's an inefficient system created by an insane "War on Drugs" policy that leads to non-loyalty and backstabbing at every opportunity with financial and legal punishments instead of financial or legal benefits. As D'Angelo correctly pointed out, everything else in the world gets sold without people killing each other over product, competition, etc. If you really think murder is a justifiable option towards employees in the exchange of goods and services, what does that say about YOU?
@dbw0322 umm...it's a tv show. that you take it seriously and take the side of the heartless and cold blooded killers actually says a lot about you. but it was 7 months ago that you wrote this comment....ur probably dead behind some bs just like this. hoodrat.
Yall stop with this soft shit, this nigga was weak, soft link breaks the chain. He wanted the throw the rock and hide his hand, this time he got caught, had to go
@1TtidnaB man i swear i hated the way wallace died. they was supposed to be boys, n they abt to kill one of his friends. i mean, i wouldnt wanna die with one of my friends cornerin me with a gun, while im beggin for mercy. poot n bodie are the "weak-ass niggas."
for everybody callin those kids wallace's brothers and sisters ur wrong. first there r no sisters those r just boys with long hair and 2nd they're not related to him. those kids r just homeless drug dealers same as wallace. wallace was the only 1 wit enuff heart & compassion to look after da lil niggas. & he's 16 not 12. but yeah easily 1 of the most heart breaking scenes in the whole show
Love it how they use that line, "do it goddamnit!" throughout the series. Espcially at the death of Stringer. You may be different while you're alive, but once the game catches up to you, you all die the same.
Also, I noticed how Poot was always the sympathetic of the two. He never confronted Wallace up front, and how when he was suffering and bleeding out, he took it upon himself to end it quick.
This is the sadest scene i've ever seen. It's even more dramatic than the tragic death of Frank Sobotka at the end of the second season. Wonder is there many people like me, who seen this scene once and don't want to see it anymore.
@tciof that scene killed me man.. Wallace and D'angelo were my favourith charecters in season 1 it took me up untill season 4 b4 i could forgive Bodie..
i like the part at 0:19 where bodie nods at poot to come up the stairs to kill wallace...theres a similar scene when daniels and mcnulty arrest avon but leave stringer there; daniels goes back downstairs after the arrest but mcnulty hesitates at the top of the stairs, wanting to go back in the room and bust stringer too but daniels nods like no dont do it....kinda the same shit in both scenes but opposite meanings...one is like "lets get this mother fucker" the other is scene is "no dont do it"
one of my favorite scenes because it lets people know that this how the drug game is really run..it ain't like know rap video where every one is just havin a good time and livin it up..young kids dedicate their life to this and get nothing back ..they still livin in the projects and they die in the projects..by the people who they thought was their friends..thats how grimey this drug business is
@IcarusXFnord I didn't cry. The show was about drugs and crime. What do you think is gonna happen. This could have been avoided if Wallace would have stayed in school.
@azrepublican1 he's like 12 or 13 years old. he's not exactly blessed with the type of foresight decades of life experience brings. he's a kid and this is all he ever knew.
Mannn ive always loved bodie 2 u haters, but on wallace part poot killed wallace not bodie, bodie knew what was up, and told poot, but poot was a follower not a leader, poot killed wallace not bodie ppl!!! damn!!!
This may be a reason why Bodie was never a heavy hitter in the series. His first kill was his friend, he needed a stranger to make him a cold blooded killer like in Marlo's crew.
I just remembered that during season 5 Poot was seen working at that shoe store when Dukie came looking for a job. And to think the average person walking in wouldn't know they were talking to a killer. Poot also escaped death when snoop came by on the back of that motorcycle shooting at them. I thought that at some point in time during the series Poot would have been killed.
I was in tears over this scene, and my familiarity with this way of life and with so many young men like Bodie and Wallace are just a couple of reasons why watching the Wire, although a brilliant show, is so difficult for me to watch. There are certain episodes I can't seem to bring myself to watch in its entirety, and I find myself skipping over them just to get to the stuff I can bear.
I was disgusted at first reading all these comments about how Wallace was a snitch and had to die but I remembered its fiction. People are probably looking at it from that perspective. This child didnt really die. If it was real life, people wouldnt be saying things like this or am I giving people too much credit?
Still, Im new to the show, just started watching season 1 and I knew this scene would wreck me and it did. Stringer Bell is a ruthless monster.
Smh this is just too painful once again who the fuck made them God and their decission who lives and who dies smh not even cool jump him but don't take a young life because what comes around goes around
@MsiJuStDoNtCare and thts how you know this is good television, the show elicited a response from you as if the dudes actually dead in real life, dont get me wrong its a fucked up scene though
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Yo.!..Ok Wallace was a lil nigga carin fo errbody an all dat shit...but yaw still forget da fact dat da lil nigga SNITCHED...he knew betta dan dat...like Bodie said, he brought dat on himself
I hated that Wallace died simply because he was the truly a child when it came to the game, but he was the biggest man of the bunch simply through his caring (like a father) for the younger kids.
I always thought he was 14 (doesn't look close to 16). A heartbreaking scene.
@mk741 For real, he took care of those kids and helped them retain their innocence because he still had this. Great scene and yes, it's amazing after all this you grow to care about Bodie
Wallace was the shit in the wire and while the show progressed so was Bodie and Poot....This scene rite here shows they really didnt wanna do it, but they had no choice other wise they'd be dead like Wallace. Stringer was cold hearted like a muthafucka
michael b. jordan was one of the rawest actors in this series even if he was only around for season one......bodies hand trembling holding the gun makes you think that he dont want to kill wallace but he know string will take em both out if it come to that....and the tupac poster.....i'm not sure if there was any symbolism in it but i'm glad he was referenced in the show
Crazy how the deeper he walks in, he eventually ends up in a corner that he can't get out of...he was toying around and when he made it in the corner, it was no way out....hella symbolism in this show.
One more thing I can spot is when he got to the corner, he said, "Game Over." Also, the episode's quote was "This is me yo. Right here.", meaning that all he knew was the Westside (or those low rises)...how he lived and ultimately, how he died.
It wasn't him being cold, it was just him putting Wallace out of his misery. He was dying a slow death when Bodie popped him in the chest so Poot wanted to bring it to an end...sad stuff.
Got damn ! This shit is too real ! !
OmegaWeaponFFVIII 8 hours ago
@DVMsis You think that's what the show's about, who's tough and who's not? Most of those hood characters in the show were pieces of garbage, especially S. Bell. There's nothing romantic or noble about them.
hotfingersandwich 14 hours ago
@mjonas10 A) I'm sure you'd be a big man if someone stuck a gun in your face. B) Wallace was one of the few in the hood who showed any promise of being a real human (intelligence, sensitivity, etc.). Most of those characters were royal pieces of shit, to say the least.
hotfingersandwich 14 hours ago
At this point I hated bodie and poot , o never grew to like poot on Bodie , after his first killing and Dee leaving the pit Bodie reconsidered things .. My question was where was poots gun when Bodie was on the corner? Smfh.
queenieimpossible 1 day ago
Wtfuk?! .. Poot busted shots like he had no remorse. Wallace was still coughing. Those were two hard shots that poot let go. Smfh ,Bodie cldnt believe he let go one but,poot?! My goodness hardest thing for me to watch
queenieimpossible 1 day ago
i don't want to be hyperbolic or anything... but this might be the saddest thing that has ever happened ever
merrychrimbus 1 day ago
sad..cause things like this happen in real life.....damn, really didn't expect this..just damn.
MrSkinnynerd03 1 day ago
1:21 - "yo you my.. I'm a nigga yo..."
Wallace deserved to die because he acted like a bitch there.
mjonas10 2 days ago
Bodie looked tough as fuck walking up those stairs but he got shook after one shot.
Devious12253 4 days ago in playlist Bodie: The Wire
Wallace was a good kid he didn't have to go like this.
chadrageus 4 days ago
a quick background of this scene please?
tammyx423 5 days ago
@tammyx423 Wallace (shot kid) was accused of being a snitch (which he was) so a leader of the gang (Stringer) told Bodie to take care of it for him.
Devious12253 4 days ago in playlist Bodie: The Wire
most depressing thing i have ever seen on TV, shit.
utkua 1 week ago
Where the fuck is Wallace, String?!
JDreamM23 1 week ago
This is how degenerate niggers handle situations.
This is some real shit.
Gives black people a bad name.
OriginalMindTrick 1 week ago
this is what made it a little easier for me to take bodie's death. he was a punk here...all talk but when it came down to it, he could barely pull the trigger. poot had to be the one to finish him off and he didn't even want wallace to die.
DVMsis 2 weeks ago
this was some haunting television right here
Fatioman333 2 weeks ago
I can't help but stare at that Tupac poster in the background....Damn man,smh. This fucks me up everytime I see it.
LuLusQueen 1 month ago
believe it or not Poot is my cousin. yeah go ahead and say no he is not but yes he is.
007ajez 1 month ago
@007ajez yeah and mcnaulty is my dad
JSasRays 3 weeks ago
@JSasRays Hello, I am Idris Elba (Stringer Bell from The Wire). Isn't it funny how internet connects people like this?
ttarkus 3 weeks ago
@ttarkus if you are idris...where's your british accent?? hmmm....?? (lmao)
DVMsis 2 weeks ago
BC remember that!
RRC6 1 month ago
This the deepest scene of the season! The look on bodie face after he let off was Powerful!
RRC6 1 month ago
I love The Wire, its so deep yet simple. It really does show the consequences of being in "the game": Once you are in, you have no-one to turn to, not even your close friends. Also, everyone on this show who was in the drug game and went anywhere near the police to talk got clipped. Even Bodie got clapped, and he didn't even get the chance to talk.
01342663563 1 month ago
i was so bummed when i saw this.
253joshskates 1 month ago
Bodie likes OKC's PG Russell Westbrook.
diplomats101 2 months ago
i never forgave bodie & poot for doin this.
KnightsSportsLeader 2 months ago
@KnightsSportsLeader They had no choice tho
KennaOkoye 1 month ago
@KennaOkoye stringers punk ass wasnt gonna do nothin tho. the only thing he ever did wasput in hits for ppl.
KnightsSportsLeader 1 month ago
Was Wallace going to testify against Stringer and the organisation?I know he went to the cops but it seemed like he wanted to get back into the game instead...
mahmoudyzadeh 2 months ago
@mahmoudyzadeh He already gave up Stringer to the cops earlier in the season. He gave them a name at least. I don't think he was willing to give them up at this point, as he wanted back into the game. Stringer wanted him killed because he posed a threat to the group, as everyone was paranoid. They had a feeling he was talking to the cops, so they silenced him.
themongboy 2 months ago 2
Where's Wallace, String? Huh? Stringer! Where the fuck is Wallace?
LavaLampBlob 3 months ago
Saddest part is that the kids were all gone... he really cared about 'em.
tommyt1971 3 months ago
Just like Henry Hill said in GoodFellas: your killers are your friends, they come at you with smiles. Bodie & Poot might not be smiling but the principle's the same. Such a sad moment on a great show!
tommyt1971 3 months ago
It's sad not to see Poot get killed like Brodie for this horrible crime.
DowJones19 3 months ago
The fact that you grow to like Bodie after this is a testament to how great the show is
WillMorebucks 3 months ago 4
@WillMorebucks My thoughts exactly!
mrjonz72 3 months ago
deeamm. So cold. Great scene though.
bigGTAfan 3 months ago
One of the hardest scenes in the whole show to watch, along with when Randy gets beat up in his foster home, Dukie starts shooting up in the final montage, Bodie gets killed defending his corner, and Butchie gets killed for refusing to give up Omar. RIP Wallace.
theajroseshow 3 months ago
@theajroseshow Yeah those were pretty much the hardest moments for me.. especially when Dukie shoots up. Shows that in baltimore nobody gets away from nothing.. Bad shit happens, even to good people
Tommmaaah 3 months ago
This has got to be one of the greatest murder scenes in TV history. Has there ever been a more like-able character than Wallace?
hdtwoodsman 4 months ago 4
did the writers mean to add so much irony to the scene, what with wallace getting shot and killed right under a 2pac poster?
iitsAsHBasH 4 months ago
This scene still sticks with me, several years later .
rvolk86 4 months ago 2
i really liked wallace. it just tore me up when they killed shorty like that.
arnieiam 4 months ago 2
just noticed the 2pac poster behind wallace..... interesting
hamsterdam92 4 months ago
It's kind of interesting to compare the Barksdale method of a hit with the Stanfield method. Remember how Chris Partlow at various times said that you should always hold the gun straight, with two hands; go for the head and a clean kill; and the first victim should be someone the killer doesn't know? Stringer Bell and Bodie did none of those things. I think it's a great contrast between the two organizations.
zoaxanthellae 4 months ago
I just saw the actor the played Bodie in a FedEx commerical. It was weird to see "Bodie" working for FedEx
aqinthe 4 months ago
SHIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT! Wallace became a scapegoat for the whole damn machine!
DickieM92 4 months ago
Awww :'( did u hear the way bodie said "straight" he sound like he wuz holding back the tears ahhhh this scene made me cry!
Lvl60Slayer 4 months ago
Bodie a soldier in the game
edwin1697 4 months ago
Never understood people who like Bodie. Could never forgive him for this. This scene is ust horrible and Bodie killed his own friend just for stature within some bullshit drug orginization
eirikwegga 4 months ago
@eirikwegga I hear ya. I see the Wallace/Bodie/Poot storyline as a metaphor for how it's inescapable that any institution designed to dehumanize others inevitably dehumanizes the people WITHIN its ranks as well. Although Bodie and Poot were just soldiers following orders - just like in the military and prison industries - that doesn't excuse their behavior.
onometopoeia 3 months ago
And speaking of the banality of evil, it was such a mindtrip to see a former murderer and drug runner (Poot) working an ordinary job at a bootleg Foot Locker lol, like nothing ever happened. Meanwhile, his buddy Bodie met such a violent death.
onometopoeia 3 months ago
AHHH!! I remember this shocked me I kept talking to myself in that squeaky voice going NO DONT DO IT NOT WALLACE! & then he died :'( he died, he's a kid!
iWafa311 4 months ago
Don't forget Wallace... Wallace's situation was a mix of all the season 4 kids'. He cared for kids like Michael, wasn't into "the game" like Namond, had to support himself like Dukie and in every other way he was like Randy lol. They all had fucking hopeless parents.
DickieM92 5 months ago 29
At first I hated Bodie because of this scene, but as the series went along he became one of my favorite characters. He was truly loyal to the game. I liked Wallace, but he was in over his head from day one.
jrabino707 5 months ago 5
Bodie kinda looks like Russell Westbrook
diplomats101 5 months ago
@diplomats101 Yeah. He sure does.
TheMFED84 5 months ago
@diplomats101 i thought i was the only one who thought that hah
chibidi0 4 months ago
Later on when mcnulty found he was dead he said there goes the case not giving a shit that a young man died
Mattraction513 5 months ago
@Mattraction513 but in later season they show McNulty staring at Wallace's crime scene photos. it bothered him, he just didn't say anything aloud. he KNEW Stringer ordered it.
Swiffness 5 months ago
2pac lookin like dont kill yo brother
young6loon4 5 months ago
It's us man... Stringer a smart dude, when you play the game, you know snitchin gets you this. They done up little man too cause he deserved it. No mistakes.
shegwin 5 months ago
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Kristinamere1 5 months ago
i wish he woulda stayed in the county, fuck man wallace had a heart i wasnt ready for that
Kristinamere1 5 months ago 41
i hated this part but this how shit goes. I hated this part cuz wallace was my nigga
Poot & Bodie are fagz, they fuckin sold out dey own nigga
Mackanomics103 6 months ago
WALLLLACE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
buttmonger96 6 months ago 2
9 people were shot dead by their former best friends.
andyheydt 6 months ago
When i had to shoot a man like that he told me he would suck my dick if i let him go
blackericdenice 6 months ago
very powerfull scene
southroadowl 6 months ago
415 people like dead niggers! No im not racist, its a statistical fact!
popdani 6 months ago
@popdani bull. 415 ppl now know what happens if you do something you know ur not supposed to do, and in the end you get killed.
KnightsSportsLeader 6 months ago
@popdani faggot.
DoubleAssClown 6 months ago
@DoubleAssClown so i guess your a nigger too huh>? :D
popdani 6 months ago
In the drug game either way your going end up dead anyway from rival gangs, dealers, your own customer, or if your stupid enough doing your own supply. They should show this to all kids because no one is your friend and they eventually will turn on you. If your lucky enough you might get busted, but then you got the prison gangs to deal with. Like many of the gangs codes go blood in and blood out.
redmustang03 6 months ago
man thats one powerful scene
stanconsidine 6 months ago 2
i think bodie thought he had it in him to kill wallace until wallace was standing right in front of him.
gunsnroses0000 6 months ago 5
Wallace should have killed poot and body
SeanDezzle 6 months ago
@SeanDezzle By the last season Bodie really becomes one of my favourite characters. Watching him grow through the regime changes as just another soldier...really deep character.
koffinglol 6 months ago
i dont even have to watch the in-betweens to know that this shit was intense. i love the wire.
hoodboi718 6 months ago
I've just started with this show (took me a while, and I gave the pilot a go years back and didn't really like it) and one might argue that I hadn't seen much when this came on, because it was just late season 1, but I sat like this through out the whole scene: ":' O"
Luckily I didn't cry, but I really sat there with my mouth open, knowing what was going to happen. That's how involved I'd already gotten by that point. It's more poignant because it's young, promising, nice Wallace.
Mrster 6 months ago 3
This is the realest scene I have ever seen in any T.V. show or movie. It sends shivers down my spine.
Pattheog 6 months ago
His wimpering made me laugh. BUT thats when I broke the wall while I was in the episode I was becuase of the kids bros and sisters
cidcash 6 months ago
Potie shoulda told Stringer that Wallace was his boy and he couldn't do him like that but I guess Poot was closer to him, that's why Poot puts Wallace out of his misery. He shot him to make it go by faster, since Bodie's single shot would have taken longer. Poot did that shit out of love.
Flugufrelsarinn7 6 months ago in playlist The Wire
@Flugufrelsarinn7 Go way outta that! If Wallace was his boy they would have given him a pass. Told him to head to the country and never look back. Wallace could easily have just disappeared, especially if Poot had told him there was a price on his head. Poot was as much an instigator in that as Bodie.
brownsey1 5 months ago
i cried
TheKidninja 6 months ago
How poetic...how shakespearean...cold blooded!
gasly130 7 months ago
Damn man, Ive seen this scene countless times & never noticed how much Bodies hand was shaking at 1:44. I don't know why but that fucks me up hard.
DM1387 7 months ago
@DM1387 Bodie realized that for all his bravado that the actual act of killing someone was much harder than he ever anticipated. The fact that it was someone he knew and worked with made it even harder to carry it out .
davydmx 5 months ago
This was the most fucked up scene in the show.
CertifiedGooner729 7 months ago 5
where were the kids?
Bill1789 7 months ago
@Bill1789 Poot knew how much the kids loved Wallace so he probably sent them away to their foster homes or parents to avoid traumatizing them by killing Wallace in front of them.
davydmx 5 months ago
This scene felt awful, how the two could just end the life of Wallace over nothing, it's not like he is ever coming back to make up. It's disturbing how murder has been programmed into our minds, you rack up 'kills' in games for fun, but that never shows the truth of it, that once you have murdered someone they are not coming back. All that was them is gone. In this case it was all just some crackheads could through away the life the two assholes in the video took from Wallace.
mrmootheirrev 7 months ago
@mrmootheirrev
Neither Poot or Bodie were ever shown in the show to be crackheads, or users of any kind.
Numonkei 7 months ago
@Numonkei Nah, but they were working just to make the crackheads high, and Wallace was caring for the kids who's parents were getting fucked up.
mrmootheirrev 7 months ago
@mrmootheirrev
Make a lot of great points but Bodie is an asshole? I've thought that about Poot sometimes though he did get out. But Bodie, Bodie goes through arguably the most transformation of any character on the show, his changes are phenomenal and show how later on he is not an asshole
USCHoodman 6 months ago
@USCHoodman He was loyal to his crew and a 'leader', I'll give him that, but I wouldn't trust him at all. He never really evolved that much IMHO, he was always rash (starting a shootout that killed the boy) and never really matured, he just became 'wiser' to the game as he 'moved up' in the game. Poot matured more as a person.
His murder of Wallace still made him a cold blooded murderer who should be rotting in a prison, so I wasn't all that sad to see him go in season four.
mrmootheirrev 6 months ago
@mrmootheirrev i don't think that's true. i think his sense of moral vs. immoral grows throughout the show. come the rise of the stanfield organization, he starts to question the senseless killings that partlow and snoop carried out. plus, imo, he looked far more affected by killing wallace then poot. first of all, he's not even able to pull the trigger until poot tells him to do it. and then poot takes the gun from him and does it without hesitation.
gunsnroses0000 6 months ago
Reminds me of a scene from Goodfellass. Henry says "See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help".
No lies you get alotta money hustlin but in the end it ain't worth it if your own friends kill you.
SonnyA89 7 months ago 5
@SonnyA89
Wallace never made alotta money, he supported children who were clearly homeless otherwise and never rose to any position past the money. Your point is solid though, and good quote.
Numonkei 7 months ago
@Numonkei Look at Avon and Stringer though they made tons of money and Avon set Omar and Muzzone loose on Stringer. It happens on every level of the game.
SonnyA89 7 months ago
What was great about this scene- and really the whole show- was its realness. They toggled this scene with McNulty and Daniels trying to find Wallace. When I first saw that, I was hoping that McNulty and Daniels would find Wallace in the nick of time. But that is not how real life happens. In real life rarely do the police arrive in time to save a life. That is what separates The Wire from other shows.
cmjohnson61 7 months ago
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Yall stop with this soft shit, this nigga was weak, soft link breaks the chain. He wanted the throw the rock and hide his hand, this time he got caught, had to go, if wallace and deangelo were your favorite two then that says alot about you.
dbw0322 7 months ago
Yall stop with this soft shit, this nigga was weak, soft link breaks the chain. He wanted the throw the rock and hide his hand, this time he got caught, had to go, if wallace and deangelo were your favorite two then that says alot about you.
dbw0322 7 months ago
@dbw0322 It's an inefficient system created by an insane "War on Drugs" policy that leads to non-loyalty and backstabbing at every opportunity with financial and legal punishments instead of financial or legal benefits. As D'Angelo correctly pointed out, everything else in the world gets sold without people killing each other over product, competition, etc. If you really think murder is a justifiable option towards employees in the exchange of goods and services, what does that say about YOU?
BlackMoonLilith 7 months ago 5
@BlackMoonLilith That was extremely well put. Methinks the other commenter didn't get the point of this scene or even the whole of this show.
chewbacca1010 7 months ago
@dbw0322 u be so hard on the internets......
justsaynotodrugs 3 months ago
@dbw0322 umm...it's a tv show. that you take it seriously and take the side of the heartless and cold blooded killers actually says a lot about you. but it was 7 months ago that you wrote this comment....ur probably dead behind some bs just like this. hoodrat.
DVMsis 2 weeks ago
Yall stop with this soft shit, this nigga was weak, soft link breaks the chain. He wanted the throw the rock and hide his hand, this time he got caught, had to go
dbw0322 7 months ago
I came to really like Bodie over the seasons, but I never forgave him for this.
juanbuenostiempos 7 months ago
Wallace, D and Frank Sobodka(or however you write his name) were three good people in bad situations
1TtidnaB 8 months ago
@1TtidnaB man i swear i hated the way wallace died. they was supposed to be boys, n they abt to kill one of his friends. i mean, i wouldnt wanna die with one of my friends cornerin me with a gun, while im beggin for mercy. poot n bodie are the "weak-ass niggas."
KnightsSportsLeader 8 months ago
ma nwallace was my mans i hated this part
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KnightsSportsLeader 8 months ago
David Simon has said on many occasions that this was the most painful scene that they ever filmed on the Wire and that even the actors got upset.
Anu291 8 months ago
This part was tough to watch.
smoothcriminal7033 8 months ago
for everybody callin those kids wallace's brothers and sisters ur wrong. first there r no sisters those r just boys with long hair and 2nd they're not related to him. those kids r just homeless drug dealers same as wallace. wallace was the only 1 wit enuff heart & compassion to look after da lil niggas. & he's 16 not 12. but yeah easily 1 of the most heart breaking scenes in the whole show
avonb1 8 months ago
Love it how they use that line, "do it goddamnit!" throughout the series. Espcially at the death of Stringer. You may be different while you're alive, but once the game catches up to you, you all die the same.
Also, I noticed how Poot was always the sympathetic of the two. He never confronted Wallace up front, and how when he was suffering and bleeding out, he took it upon himself to end it quick.
Zokly581 8 months ago 2
he's doin the voice of jace in gears 3 haha weird
Perfected123 8 months ago
Wallace should have stay in school. Plain and simple.
azrepublican1 8 months ago
This is the sadest scene i've ever seen. It's even more dramatic than the tragic death of Frank Sobotka at the end of the second season. Wonder is there many people like me, who seen this scene once and don't want to see it anymore.
tciof 9 months ago 4
@tciof that scene killed me man.. Wallace and D'angelo were my favourith charecters in season 1 it took me up untill season 4 b4 i could forgive Bodie..
3000solo 8 months ago 2
wallace is to stupid he should stay on the country !!
TIGRE95100 9 months ago
i like the part at 0:19 where bodie nods at poot to come up the stairs to kill wallace...theres a similar scene when daniels and mcnulty arrest avon but leave stringer there; daniels goes back downstairs after the arrest but mcnulty hesitates at the top of the stairs, wanting to go back in the room and bust stringer too but daniels nods like no dont do it....kinda the same shit in both scenes but opposite meanings...one is like "lets get this mother fucker" the other is scene is "no dont do it"
GanjikaAranyaka 9 months ago
@GanjikaAranyaka wtf man, spoiler?!
justsaynotodrugs 3 months ago
@justsaynotodrugs ...my apologies..im a grimey bastard
GanjikaAranyaka 3 months ago
Wallace's face at 1:00 breaks. my. heart.
sweetcherryit 9 months ago
wheres' wallace, string?! where the fuck is wallace
ch4p2 9 months ago
one of the best scenes of the wire...
Vladimiros92 9 months ago
One of the saddest moments in any TV show, ever.
defenestration1000 9 months ago 18
man poot ddnt even wanna go up the steps... u can tell neither one of em wanted that burden...
JayFiend85 9 months ago
one of my favorite scenes because it lets people know that this how the drug game is really run..it ain't like know rap video where every one is just havin a good time and livin it up..young kids dedicate their life to this and get nothing back ..they still livin in the projects and they die in the projects..by the people who they thought was their friends..thats how grimey this drug business is
704Hustle 10 months ago 72
@704Hustle thats right. There is no surviving in the drug game unless you get out at the right time....
mr0182online 5 months ago
@704Hustle The Wire is the best
DavKellar 5 months ago
After watching this, watch the scene where D asks Stringer where Wallace is. If you didn't cry after that, you are one cold-hearted bastard.
IcarusXFnord 10 months ago 6
@IcarusXFnord I didn't cry. The show was about drugs and crime. What do you think is gonna happen. This could have been avoided if Wallace would have stayed in school.
azrepublican1 8 months ago
@azrepublican1 he's like 12 or 13 years old. he's not exactly blessed with the type of foresight decades of life experience brings. he's a kid and this is all he ever knew.
MrFlowside 8 months ago
@azrepublican1 LOL then whos gonna take care of his brothers and sisters? whos gonna feed em, his drunk mother?
audiocable 8 months ago
Not afraid to admit a few tears came to my eyes. What a powerful scene....
jdterrell 10 months ago
Mannn ive always loved bodie 2 u haters, but on wallace part poot killed wallace not bodie, bodie knew what was up, and told poot, but poot was a follower not a leader, poot killed wallace not bodie ppl!!! damn!!!
MegaBabygirl30 10 months ago
@MegaBabygirl30 They both killed him. Wallace was already dying painfully from the shot to the gut Bodie gave him. Poot just quickened it.
KCohere33 10 months ago
"Where-a-who? Shhhhhheeeeeiitttt" haha
CaptainCranch 10 months ago
This scene has Cidade De Deus written all over it.
BaileysBeads 10 months ago
This may be a reason why Bodie was never a heavy hitter in the series. His first kill was his friend, he needed a stranger to make him a cold blooded killer like in Marlo's crew.
bendyplywood 10 months ago 17
@bendyplywood yeah but it makes you even more coldhearted to kill a friend
MuggaReik 4 months ago
this was the saddest scene in t.v history
bandstand1234 11 months ago
I just remembered that during season 5 Poot was seen working at that shoe store when Dukie came looking for a job. And to think the average person walking in wouldn't know they were talking to a killer. Poot also escaped death when snoop came by on the back of that motorcycle shooting at them. I thought that at some point in time during the series Poot would have been killed.
youontwantnonnadis 11 months ago 2
I was in tears over this scene, and my familiarity with this way of life and with so many young men like Bodie and Wallace are just a couple of reasons why watching the Wire, although a brilliant show, is so difficult for me to watch. There are certain episodes I can't seem to bring myself to watch in its entirety, and I find myself skipping over them just to get to the stuff I can bear.
RinnyRin69 11 months ago
I was disgusted at first reading all these comments about how Wallace was a snitch and had to die but I remembered its fiction. People are probably looking at it from that perspective. This child didnt really die. If it was real life, people wouldnt be saying things like this or am I giving people too much credit?
Still, Im new to the show, just started watching season 1 and I knew this scene would wreck me and it did. Stringer Bell is a ruthless monster.
KCohere33 11 months ago
This breaks my heart ever single time
WokenWildly 11 months ago
Dang, Wallace was my favorite character too. Definitely was a heartfelt moment for me. All the kid had to do was stay at his Gma's...
DreadfulControversy 11 months ago 2
yo, when wallace starts pleadin' i felt my stomach do turns, and i ain't a nigga to feel for characters usually.
and i didn't expect Poot to grab the gun when i first seen it, and on top of that puts a quick 2 in him, some raaaaaw shit.
hiphopheadism 11 months ago 6
this was ever more sad than ziggy killing the greek in season two
njirem 11 months ago
that was fucked up u cant just kill some one for that dumb shit what ever happend to geting beat up your shoes coat and your hat takin
roxy091988 11 months ago
@roxy091988 That's nothing to Marlo, now that dude was ruthless.
JohnBrody23 11 months ago
bodie had to go after what he did to wallace..
bobeagle007 11 months ago
the wire beats all every actot every word every scene Where's Wallace where the fuck is Wallace?
sjdinergrrl 1 year ago
If you make to this scene watching the show, they had you for the rest of the series.
arshort2 1 year ago
Smh this is just too painful once again who the fuck made them God and their decission who lives and who dies smh not even cool jump him but don't take a young life because what comes around goes around
MsiJuStDoNtCare 1 year ago
@MsiJuStDoNtCare and thts how you know this is good television, the show elicited a response from you as if the dudes actually dead in real life, dont get me wrong its a fucked up scene though
Free411 11 months ago
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Yo.!..Ok Wallace was a lil nigga carin fo errbody an all dat shit...but yaw still forget da fact dat da lil nigga SNITCHED...he knew betta dan dat...like Bodie said, he brought dat on himself
tj45445 1 year ago
@tj45445 Dumbass.
Hibbs4Prez 1 year ago
@tj45445
Learn English.
zzzak123 1 year ago
The way the scene unfolded makes you realize how The Wire is the greatest drama ever on the TV.
confroom1973 1 year ago
Where's the boy String
joeg19 1 year ago
I hated that Wallace died simply because he was the truly a child when it came to the game, but he was the biggest man of the bunch simply through his caring (like a father) for the younger kids.
I always thought he was 14 (doesn't look close to 16). A heartbreaking scene.
mk741 1 year ago 8
@mk741 For real, he took care of those kids and helped them retain their innocence because he still had this. Great scene and yes, it's amazing after all this you grow to care about Bodie
TheDarkKnight1985 1 year ago 6
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I can't re-watch this... too painful...
dolfan55aj 1 year ago
Wallace was the shit in the wire and while the show progressed so was Bodie and Poot....This scene rite here shows they really didnt wanna do it, but they had no choice other wise they'd be dead like Wallace. Stringer was cold hearted like a muthafucka
Louifie 1 year ago
michael b. jordan was one of the rawest actors in this series even if he was only around for season one......bodies hand trembling holding the gun makes you think that he dont want to kill wallace but he know string will take em both out if it come to that....and the tupac poster.....i'm not sure if there was any symbolism in it but i'm glad he was referenced in the show
big973e 1 year ago 5
Crazy how the deeper he walks in, he eventually ends up in a corner that he can't get out of...he was toying around and when he made it in the corner, it was no way out....hella symbolism in this show.
NicolasYates 1 year ago 23
@NicolasYates If you can highlight more symbolism, i'd be greatful :)
TheDarkKnight1985 1 year ago
One more thing I can spot is when he got to the corner, he said, "Game Over." Also, the episode's quote was "This is me yo. Right here.", meaning that all he knew was the Westside (or those low rises)...how he lived and ultimately, how he died.
NicolasYates 11 months ago
the king stay the king
therealmcnulty 1 year ago
it's poot who shocks me the most. Cold hearted muthafucker
zeightygeisty 1 year ago
@zeightygeisty
It wasn't him being cold, it was just him putting Wallace out of his misery. He was dying a slow death when Bodie popped him in the chest so Poot wanted to bring it to an end...sad stuff.
NicolasYates 1 year ago 3