Benjamin Busch
The Wire Season 3 Episode 1 8.0 ”Don’t matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin’ the same.” — Bodie A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers,…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 3 8.4 ”The gods will not save you.” — Burrell Colvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comstat assessment of his district’s felony numbers; a blown wiretap forces Daniels’s…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 4 8.4 West Baltimore residents get surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin. Bubbles finds gainful employment; Stringer lunches uptown; and Bunk dangles the promise of immunity to a…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 5 8.5 ”I had such fuckin’ hopes for us.” — McNulty Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms himself with intelligence from Daniels’s detail and personally delivers a message to the…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 6 8.6 ”Just a gangster, I suppose.” — Avon Barksdale Stringer Bell gets an education in construction management; Bunk uses shoe-leather to catch up with Omar and deliver a searing message; a…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 7 8.5 ”Conscience do cost.” — Butchie Herc discovers a blast from the past, which he belatedly reveals to his ex-colleagues. Daniels blows a gasket over the real reason the detail was…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 8 8.9 ”Crawl, walk, and then run.” — Clay Davis With Amsterdam running full-tilt, Carver and Truck discover there really is no honor among thieves. Prez impresses the detail with what he’s…
The Wire Season 3 Episode 9 8.7 ”…while you’re waiting for moments that never come.” — Freamon Responding to an officer’s call for help, McNulty and Prez turn down the wrong alley, with unanticipated results. A Barksdale…
The Wire Season 4 Episode 1 8.3 ”Lambs to the slaughter here.” – Marcia Donnelly Four West Baltimore boys wrestle with what to do with the rest of their summer vacation as the new fall school year…
The Wire Season 4 Episode 6 8.7 Carcetti responds to a campaign smear. Randy is accused of a serious transgression. Colvin’s special class gets its first enlistees.
The Wire Season 4 Episode 8 8.5 ”We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing.” – Zenobia Prez wants to teach off curriculum. Carcetti visits the Homicide Department and goes on ride-a-longs for…
The Wire Season 5 Episode 1 8.0 ”The bigger the lie, the more they believe.” – Bunk Moreland. McNulty and the detail continue to stake out Marlo and his crew. Recently promoted Sergeant Carver is met with…
The Wire Season 5 Episode 4 8.8 ”Buyer’s market out there.” – Templeton Omar plots his revenge for his former associates murder now that he’s returned from exile. Gus stresses the need for a city-court reporter, after…
Roswell Season 1 Episode 14 7.8 Maria enters Liz in a blind date contest; Max and Kyle commiserate about their shared feelings for Liz; Michael and Isabel send a signal to the fourth alien.
Homicide: Life on the Street Season 7 Episode 22 8.8 Sheppard and Bayliss await the trial of Luke Ryland, the Internet killer. A number of delays keep the hearing from being held; the last time it is because Danvers can’t…
Homicide: Life on the Street Season 7 Episode 13 7.2 The Internet is stage for a ritual murder, which was staged — which was staged, or was it? The body is found the following morning and Sheppard takes the call,…