The Wire The Pager (2002–2008) watch online HD

Things get moving as the first season of The Wire gets to the practical part of the drug-fighting business, not to mention some violent reactions on the dope kingpins' part. It's slow-burning as usual, but it's never dull.

The main issue at the center of the episode is Avon's growing paranoia, which leads to Stringer telling D'Angelo to cut payments for the week in order to spot possible snitches. Also, the search for Omar and his boy continues without mercy. Meanwhile, Judge Phelan gives Daniels' detail the green light for the cloned beeper operation, and McNulty and Greggs have a meeting with Omar to discuss their common problem: Barksdale. Caught in the middle is the detail's regular informant, Bubbles, who has to deal with the hospitalization of his partner Johnny.

In keeping with the tradition of previous episodes, it's the little moments that matter. In this case, standout bits include every scene with Omar, the operation being put in action, Prez's brief moment in the spotlight and the tragic epilogue, which sets the tone for some characters' development over the course of the next eight episodes. Most revealing, though, is a scene where McNulty talks about his ex-wife with Greggs and says "a lesser man would just call her a c*nt". It's a rough, uncompromising line, just like the series. No sanitized drama here: this show looks, sounds and feels real.

So the cloned pager is working but the weeks of wait are not being worthy since the people of Barksdale use some kind of code then the numbers that McNulty and company are getting are simply useless. This hour of "The Wire" is one of my favourites of Season 1 and it has one of the best final scenes. Omar appears more; first we see him and his men doing their job but this time is easier since they are doing it in the East, no Barksdale and soon we see him and his boyfriend with the stolen stuff wondering why their friend John Bailey (Lance Williams) is not with them. They say the enemies of your enemies are your friends, Omar and McNulty and company have a problem in common of course and here we have the first hit to Omar and the first talk between Omar and McNulty and Greggs. Our detectives will be able to know the message activity hat D'Angelo had and in a big part thanks to Prez. We know Prez since episode 2 and mostly you will really dislike until this episode since he is only someone who once shot his own car and said it was a sniper and leaved blind of one a 14-year-old kid but also someone with protection from a superior. However here McNulty will kiss Prez since he found the code of the criminals. The last 5 minutes of this hour are just superb, practically that last scene shows how was the whole thing but not for our detectives, only if the wire was in time: Wallace and Poot just by coincidence are in the place where Omar's boyfriend Brandon is, Poot recognize him and the moves are done, the first talk is with D'Angelo and is soon after when Stringer will call D'Angelo to say that everything is now fine. This is when Wallace begins to change, here is will be finally recognized by Stringer, here he does a good job but, as D'Angelo will say at one point, he is intelligent and different, he has heart.