The Wire - McNulty Finds Out What Happened to Bodie

[trick29420]

all in the game.

[whatsgoingon07]

Bodie and McNulty would've been best friends in an alternate reality

[bridgetown1966]

that was so depressing to see poot put up no resistance... he was just spiritually crushed by that point.

[jositoxxx1]

mcnulty is my hero! he fucked the hottest girls of this show!

[danielhiryu]

@jositoxxx1 I don't know... when it comes to hottest girls, McNulty probably had the highest amount.

But when it comes to numbers, it's probably a close tie between Poot and McNulty.

Those two were whores.

[83UtrechtNL]

McNulty respected Bodie because he was smart and hard. McNulty fights the game, he doesn't hate the player.

[NACROPOSSE]

He cared because he was one of the only guys left from the old days before Marlo's crew showed up... they where enemies but they both wish it hadn't got even more fucked up and I think losing Bodie was like losing one of the final links to the way it was and a sign a new regime had began.

Thats how I see it anyway, this show is great and its really makes you feel for the characters.

[chibangin007]

he shouldve told him we just were hangin out and bought a sandwich.

[davidkingworld]

we needed to see marlow get shot or shoot somebody or shit......hey y'all its only acting.......bodie thought he was a hard nigger until real motherfuckers showed up...hhmmmm....interesting....­people's views....lol

[LeBronForTheWin]

@davidkingworld 3v1 with guns. Yea... some real motherfuckers

[lovejah100]

bodie was one of the realest niggaz on the wire along side michael!

[deadlylyrx]

Mcnulty did not give a fuck about Bodie it was all about getting him to flip.

[dejonal]

@deadlylyrx I disagree, after Bode's death, in season 5 McNulty rejoined MCU and stage a fake serial killer just to try and bring down Marlo (who was responsible for Bodie getting killed)

[88naka]

@dejonal Dude if you think McNulty pulled the serial killer bullshit to avange Boodie you undertood nothing about the show.

[dejonal]

@88naka I understood the show completely, can u give me a reason why he did it besides to try and take down Marlo.

[88naka]

@dejonal are serious ? the whole show the keep banging the "natural police" term in your head. McNulty wanted Marlo for the same reason he wanted Stringer , because hes police. Jesus dude , who naive can you be ?

[dejonal]

@88naka it had nothing to do with him being "natural police" , McNulty was feeling guilty for Bodie's death, that's the reason why he re-joined Major Crimes Unit (MCU), he was working as a patrolman prior to Bodie getting killed, look at what he tells Poot "I'm trying to do right for your boy". Stringer and Marlo was two different targets, McNulty didn't really give a damn about Marlo til he put the hit on Bodie.

[waterloo995]

Wallace Omar Bodie...

[mikehsu12345]

you'd think they woulda scripted omar's death a little better. just a little

[DakeyrastheSlayer]

@mikehsu12345 lol mate you missed the point entirely

[mikehsu12345]

@DakeyrastheSlayer i got the point brah, it was just anti climactic for such a deep character

[DakeyrastheSlayer]

@mikehsu12345 to be honest it was better for ,as you say, such a deep character as Omar to die in that way. If he had been killed in some Mexican stand-off with Chris or Marlo it would have been cliched, and wouldn't have done justice to the character.

[mikehsu12345]

@DakeyrastheSlayer true true, i see what you're saying. i just think he really should've died up in that apartment rather than be shown being crippled and pretty much belittled to a shade of his former self

[jacksaynor]

RIP Wallace, D'angelo, Omar & Bodie

[paulius1616]

d angelo was sad the whole great gatsby thing

[Mattraction513]

Bodie broke rule 9 in biggie 10 crack commandments

[LMAN5150]

thats why i hate da police they neva help they just fuck erthang up

[2daguru77]

Police will get you killed in the game.

[almostshana]

Pause it @ 0:31 it says Bodie's "female" on the report lol

[16stChico]

thats dry snitching tho still knockin marlos grind like that thats a green light out here

[Kapernakus07]

I was well sad when bodie died

[CWill103]

He died exactly like a Pawn. He couldn't turn back and run, he had to stand his ground and fight, he even shoots at Chris and Snoop diagonally from where he's standing, not to mention both of them are attacking like Bishops, and finally O-Dog steps forward out of the doorway, then walks straight to Bodie and kills him, like a Knight's L shape attack. And of course Marlo, the King, is nowhere to be seen, he stays out of the battles. A great callback to season 1's chess scene.

[jts3792]

@CWill103 you copied and pasted someone elses comment...i saw it on the video where bodie is killed cmon dude thats weak

[acebpd]

@CWill103 i saw it too suck dude THUMBS DOWN!!!

[Sharana17]

@CWill103 Great correlation! Gives the scene a whole new meaning.

[OfficialDimitriChin]

@Sharana17 No, he copied that comment there's nothing great about that.

[dbw0322]

bodie didnt care though tell you the truth, he was very aware of what he was getting his self into just didnt give a fuck, cause he didnt like marlo and his style anyway, he was his own man after barksdale and stringer days, just didnt care anymore, he had his own moral and values in the game

[kamthewire]

#1 was Wallace that was rough. But man Bodie and Omar were hard ones.

[generationkill791]

bodie was also in OZ he was cool there he played Kenny bodie was still the best in the show r.i.p brotha you were the man dies like a real soilder

[weeleon81]

Mcnulty had major respect for bodie, he knew he wasnt no snitch, but at the same time he didnt agree wit the way marlos mob ran shit, he was a smart nigga who knew marlos way wasnt the way to play ball

[MrHennessy30]

Bodie broke the rules. It doesn't matter if the rules are fair or not. He broke them and he died because of it. Probably the one constant in the wire is that people suffer unjustly, all the time. That's a large part of what David Simon is saying with this show. Unjust institutions rule our lives and destroy us if we threaten them. Just look at Wallace, Bodie, DeAngelo, Stringer, Colvin. The list is endless.

[GoldeneyePwner]

I wish more people took this show literally. It seems like people take it as too much of a story rather than a, for the most part, true glimpse of the inner city that much of society has left behind.

[AccountForWhat]

Carver: "McNulty. Hey... How do you spell paraphernalia?"

[oliverheartt]

i felt bad for Poot, him and Bodie were real friends, after bodie was gone poot realized he was alone with noone in his corner. you could really feel poot's pain at the first of this scene

[lubui2583]

he had it coming to him. he was going to rat on marlo anyway.

[OcelotNow67]

This was the saddest scene to me. When Wallace died in S1, McNulty said "well, that opens up Stringer Bell" or something. He didn't care. It was all business. But in this scene it was clear: He cared about Bodie. It wasn't highlighted like the others, but I think that was one of the father-figure relationships of S4, like Namond and Colvin or Dukie and Prez. They didn't spend much time together, but McNulty and Bodie had a respect, and even friendship. You just don't really notice it until here.

[Propz74]

@OcelotNow67 I think what it was that McNulty took his policing very personal, and he was responsible for Bodie's death b/c he got too close. He didn't realize that the streets were watching, and he put Bodie in the line of fire b/c he thought he had a personal relationship. McNulty effed up, and Bodie had to pay the price.

[Lingxor]

I always felt like Carver took Bodie's death too lightly in this scene. They seemed to have a mutual respect for one another in all the episodes before, but Carver seems pretty apathetic about the whole thing.

[capncrunch10]

@Lingxor

Yeah Carver (and Herc) have had just as much interaction with Bodie as anyone. Even played pool with him once. Maybe he just had more time to get used to it since he heard about it first.

[QGF1]

almost as sad as d angelo

[QGF1]

almost as depressing as d angelo

[hiphopheadism]

@fjfljlsfj you idiot...you're saying he shoulda let Wallace live? To bring down all of West Side? You rat lover. The show is crazy because it makes you feel for everyone...i mean everyone has a scene that brings you closer to them..that's why anyone would take Bodie's death hard. But he was about to snitch...and i don't co-sign. It's almost like when he killed Wallace, they don't really wanna do it but it has to be done, just business.

[megahiphopshop]

@hiphopheadism no bro if someone ratted me out to the cops i'd be pissed but what happened to bodie was wrong.

[Clownface125]

Shit started when bodie cared to much about what chris and snoop were doing, when he kicked that police car, if he hadn't have done that, shit would've never happened

[Antrizzle2009]

@Clownface125 He cared because they killed his boy Lil Kevin over nothing. Dude wasn't even snitching, they just killed him cuz they could.

[Clownface125]

@Antrizzle2009 Yea but if he didn't kick that car, mcnulty didn't have to get him out of central booking and monk wouldn't have seen it and he would still live at THAT point, they might have killed him later anyway, but I don't think chris was to happy about that

[Antrizzle2009]

@Clownface125 He let his emotion get the better of him. The lil Kevin thing was the last draw, it was culmination of how he and probably all the street level dealers felt about Marlo and his organization. Remember he was with the Barksdales and say what you want about them, but Avon had a certain way of doing things and the street guys respected him at least. There was none of that for Marlo.

[Clownface125]

@Antrizzle2009 True true, I just remember I saw a spoiler of bodie getting killed and when I saw him kick that police car I was like, damn, he shoudln't have done that.. And yes, Marlo was ice cold, The barksdale crew was the real deal!

[mcdeath789]

one of my saddest days seeing that soldier get it the way he did

[GoldeneyePwner]

Good kid caught in some shameless shit.

[jmoneynyc]

this scene with mcnulty goes back to when lester dont him "you set bushes on fire and walk away from it" he was the reason bodie got killed by being so careless by getting bodie out of bookings and i think thats what hurt him the most

[AdamLazzara77]

I DON'T GET WHY MCNULTY REACTED LIKE THAT WITH BODIE BUT WITH OMAR HE JUST WAS LIKE "Oh, well..."

[Giefbeef]

@AdamLazzara77 Mcnulty was responsible for Bodie's death which is why he took it so hard.

[fjfljlsfj]

that's what bodie get for killing wallace he should have let him go

[mastdark81]

Poot is about 4'11" lmao

[kierang06]

McNulty does care for Bodie not just because he is a witness but also that talk they have where Bodies telling him about the game being rigged, McNulty also uses that line later, they were both alike in some ways except they were on opposite sides

[facewear77]

mcnut dont give a fuck about bodie only thing he cares about is busting big time drug dealers rip bodie true soldier

[bree21709]

tttrtrr

[jstewart0420]

go on, git!

[xdir]

Mcnulty took Bodies death hard, probably the reason why he broke the law with the Marlo wiretap.

[MartialWondo08]

Bodie & Omar were true people in tha game and yet they were murdered by low classed and weak people O-Dog & Kenard.

[Reqrezentin]

I would think Carver would care a bit too.

I shed a tear when Bodie died.

[afterapplepicking]

This was one of the saddest deaths in the series, along with Prop Joe, Omar, Wallace, and especially Butchie.

I did NOT like seeing Butchie get killed. And especially not in the way he got killed.

[Jgjekaj]

@afterapplepicking

[mastdark81]

@afterapplepicking Prop Joe, Omar, Butchie I didn't care for no way but Bodie was a tough one...i thought he would survive. Wallace death was played the best though because they developed that angle for awhile and his own men took him out.

[elvero666]

McNulty is a pig man... he only was mad because his snitch got killed. Aint like he cared about hin or anything... its just the case for him...

[Philly2dabone]

@elvero666 mcnnulty was the coolest cop on the show. bodie was his informant but still...whether or not he cared about bodie i don't know. but he and bodie developed a respect for one another and i do believe mcnulty intended to do right behind him.

[benpg]

The producers of the show attempted to make a point that mcnulty is a sociopath who cares for no one and nothing other than himself. Mcnulty was not upset that bodie was dead. To him, bodies death was another impediment into his investigation against marlo. The show makes constant comparisons to sociopaths like Mcnulty, and how they are not all that different to sociopaths like marlo Stanfield. The scene where the FBI profiler describes the serial killer in season five is very telling.

[Philly2dabone]

@benpg don't get me wrong....im not sayin mcnulty should have cried over bodies death but like i said they developed a respect for one another, thats all im sayin. at the same time im aware of everything you said. however the one thing they both had in common was they both wanted marlo and his crew to fall. may have been for two different reasons but still they had the same goal. and i doubt bodie would be sad if mcnulty died.

[MartialWondo08]

@elvero666 in the same way, he kinda had cared for him a bit but the other half is that he couldent get any more info from no 1 else. He was counting on Bodie

[getreadytotube]

Lets remember that bodie did kill Wallace in season one for the exact same thing he was killed for: talking to police. Bodie got what he deserved. I did not shed a tear when he got dropped. I guess what goes around comes around. You all need to remember this the next time you all want to cry when ever someone gets dropped on the show. They are all dirty!

[Philly2dabone]

@getreadytotube you might be right but bodie killin wallace was a kill or be killed situation. stringer ordered that hit so bodie had no choice. in this business if you refuse to do what the boss tells you will lose your life. im not excusing what he did but if you saw that scene you can tell he didn't wanna kill wallace with how he hesitated to pull the trigger. but still you make a good point. death and prison are all this game has to offer.

[baby287girl]

@Philly2dabone you always have a choice. you reap what you sew and that's why Bodie was murdered as well.

[Philly2dabone]

@baby287girl i agree, im not sayin bodie was right in killin wallace but the game is the game. like i said before he did NOT want to kill wallace but if he refused his assignment im sure the consequences would have been deep. however his death was inevitable...karma is no joke.

[baby287girl]

@Philly2dabone Yup you're exactly right. By the way, after watching this I couldn't sleep for like 2 days smh.

[senjahcore]

@baby287girl powerful show, yes

[chibangin007]

bodies death was really fucked up. bodie was a soldier tho.

[robertmurray7782]

Does McNulty care because he lost someone useful to his case or because a person has died or a mix of both? I've struggled with Mcnulty's morals throughout all 5 seasons.

[kdub31]

McNulty realizes that Bodie is anotehr person in his orbit who's life he inadvertently destroyed.

You can question McNulty's morals on a lot of things, but he and Bodie had a legit respect for each other.

[theliterarycritic]

I think it's a legit mix of both. The case crumbles without Bodie and that has to be devastating to McNulty on multiple levels: first because police work is the only thing in his life, and second because that case was the only way he had to do right by Bodie as a person.

Also, I think he really cared about Bodie as an individual and like kdub31 said, he inadvertently destroyed him. So it's also that Irish Catholic guilt working on him.

[robertmurray7782]

@theliterarycritic - agree actually, good points from you both. He had a lot of empathy and affection for Bodie. I just find that McNulty's character was written such that when there's a case, all else falls by the way side and that takes over. Rare are those he doesn't trample on (even Bunk to a degree in Season 5 suffers by not playing the serial killer game). However, do agree, in this instance, that he was genuinely moved by Bodie's passing,

[TheGuyWithDaFace]

Body shouldn't have went in the car with McNulty.. Because Monk saw them together and told Marlo..

WHY DID THEY KILL BODIE?!?!? MY face character..

[Dannyb0y24]

i had a feeling bodie would die just because of his name "bodie" "Body"

[lildwayne21]

Bodie was a rebel. Mcnulty saw a lot of himself in Bodie.

[tahthedon]

i hated it when bodie, wallace, omar, joe, Deangelo, and stringer died.

i guess snoop too

[thegreenblazer1]

@tahthedon

with you all except stringer and joe.

it was kinda good seeing em go in that you grew to love hating their characters.

[thegreenblazer1]

@tahthedon

in my eyes sherrod was the worst death to deal with because the boy literally HAD nothing, even less than Dukie had and he looke so innocent.

reminds me of lenny from of Mice and Men,

[BigUG23]

didnt even feel no way when stringer and joe got popped.

[TBIGMIL]

i know that shit hurt McNulty!

[RubyRoadkill]

Booodie <3 Best freakin character on the show!

[lildwayne21]

I miss Bodie

[PurpleHarlemWorld]

Bodie Was Foundd Talkinqq Too Mccnulty right ?

[TheGatman101]

yep

[makenson09]

Bodie's death fucked me up too. And Wallace, Omar was the worse tho

[lildwayne21]

Man, Bodie's death fucked everybody up

[mufc187]

@makenson09

but bodie killed wallace for exactly the same reason marlo's crew killed him. what goes around..

[makenson09]

@mufc187

True. Wallace was worse cuz he got killed by his boys. Bodie went out like a man tho

[Killoea]

@mufc187

it's not like if Bodie & Poot didn't kill Wallace that Wallace would have lived, I think Bodie & Poot knew this.

And for those who quesiton McNultys morals.... Remember when Kima got shot, and how McNulty handled it? He threw up in a trash can and acknowledged that the barskdale case wasn't worth Kima getting shot.

[gauchebag]

@mufc187 and he had the nerve to get upset about fat kevin being killed for snitching, he was getting soft

[BadNewz4]

@gauchebag fat dude aint snitch tho

[gauchebag]

@BadNewz4 fat kevin is the kid who fucked up by telling randy to setup lex

then when herc was interogating kevin, he was tricked into mentioning randy to the police

so maybe he didnt snitch purposely but he fucked up bad

[Doze67]

@makenson09

stupid mothafucka, u spoil me, thanks.

[nnsiio]

Bodie's death was 1 of the lowest points in the show. I could care less about D'angelo, but Bodie was cool.

We saw him grow up.

[131untouchable]

@nnsiio

it was fukin bullshittttttt

[MrBigraw]

@nnsiio This is what made it a realistic show.Like in real life there is no guarantee to live forever(Not even if you are a favorite.They killed Stringer at his peak.GREATEST SERIES EVER----The Wire!!!!

[JaneLame]

@nnsiio What about killing Wallace, that little kid who was a friend of his? Do you still sympathize him after that?

[thestranger4812]

@nnsiio

You "could care less" about D'angelo? (I think you mean "couldn't", by the way)

What the hell is wrong with you. D'angelo was a much more kind-hearted and empathetic character than Bodie.

[Sozlled]

@nnsiio If one could care less for something it means they have some degree of care for the subject, however if one "could not care less" this mean they never cared for it at all and caring less is impossible.

Let us use a different example..

I could have less food.

I couldn't have less food.

Which statement above means "I have at least some food", and which means "I don't have any food"?

Google "I could [not] care less] to have a look at the care continuum.

OK THEN GREAT!!

[nnsiio]

@Sozlled I bet you felt you couldn't fall asleep ever again unless you got that off your chest.

[Sozlled]

@nnsiio Even after telling you that i still couldn't sleep. I was kept awake wondering if you would ever see the "Caring Continuum" which using a handy chart to help visualise what i am talking about.

So as i said put this search term in to Google - "I could [not] care less" exactly as i have typed it and it should be the first result. Until you let me know if you have seen i doubt i will get much sleep.

OK THEN, GREAT!!!!

[falconsfan1982]

@nnsiio the producers tried to make us like bodie, but i could never get over him killing wallace. didn't take much convincing either, popped his friend to impress stringer. even stringer struggled with killing D'angelo more than bodie did with wallace

[erozpl01]

@falconsfan1982 no that was the point about bodie he didnt give a shit he was just a soldier and he did what he was told everytime just like a pawn on the chess peice he took wallace out and then he was taken out