[The Wire] 507: Took, with Brendan Sexton III

“This episode should have been called ‘Spite.’” - Brendan Sexton III

For the first time in the history of this pod, we have a guest who auditioned for a role on The Wire. In 2007 he nearly played Frog (one of the many people who rip Ziggy off), but this week actor Brendan Sexton III joins Matt and Vince to talk about season five episode seven, “Took.”

As our guest points out, this episode, like many, could have been called “Spite.” It’s what’s motivating the actions of our two favorite Baltimore murder poe-lees. Jimmy, out of spite for the bosses, and the whole damn system, is using his fake serial killer to single-handedly ensure funding for any cop who needs it and knows where to find him. In the process, he learns that you either die the cool philandering drunk detective, or live long enough to become one of the bosses. 

Bunk, meanwhile, is pounding the pavement, chasing old leads, and generally doing a lot of shoe-leather detective work – likely the best work he’s done in years, just out of spite for Jimmy and his outright fraudulent behavior. The police can not be reformed or re-trained. Instead, to fix America’s policing problem, we need to have a handful of cops who are so off the rails that their peers have no choice but to actually do their jobs out of spite for their own co-workers. 

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