Tuesday, February 19, 2013

STRAY ROUNDS:  One trivia question as we prepare to wrap up The Wire tomorrow: list every time that a Baltimore police officer has discharged his weapon during the course of the series' five seasons.

8 comments:

  1. Are we counting Prez shooting his own squad car? Leaving those aside, he shoots a wall while demonstrating a weapon and later accidentally shoots a plain-clothes policeman.

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  2. I was just going to say - I can't think of any time other than Prez.

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  3. I can only think of one for sure: Prez shooting the other police officer.


    And one I'm unsure of: I think Kima may have shot her weapon during the shooting when she's in the back of the car and gets shot?

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  4. Adam B.10:47 AM

    I believe that's it. Did Prez fire a warning shot at the Towers in that early episode?

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  5. Jordan11:20 AM

    Police officer or Prez? Just kidding, Prezbo. But off the top of my head, I think, like you guys, that's all I got. Shooting the wall, the shot in the Towers, and killing the officer. Compare this to the average CBS procedural where the cops/scientists/whatever shoot and kill someone every single week.

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  6. Ooh, that's a possibility. And would be a plausible reason for discharging a weapon.

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  7. Wasn't Kima unable to reach the gun? Something about it being taped too far back or something?

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  8. Joseph Finn6:12 PM

    Going by Wiki, Randy seems to be right that she was shot before being able to reach her weapon.

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