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- "Know Your Place" List of episodes " Corner Boys " is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire.
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"Corner Boys" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Richard Price from a story by Ed Burns & Richard Price, and directed by Agnieszka Holland, it originally aired on November 5, 2006.
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"Corner Boys" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of The Wire. It is the forty-fifth episode of the series overall. It premiered on November 5, 2006. The episode was written by Richard Price and directed by Agnieszka Holland.
School
Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski takes his second class of the day. He sets them a problem requiring division of apples between people. Randy Wagstaff is distracted by his classmate Calvin. Prez asks Calvin the answer and Calvin guesses correctly. He explains his rationale to the class – Prez marked the correct answer on the blackboard for the earlier class. In the special class the corner kids are subdued. They have realized that whatever their behaviour they are stuck in school. Their teacher quizzes them about their views of themselves. Namond Brice explains that they are players in "the game." Albert Stokes says he hopes to be a kingpin in two years. The teacher has them write down where they see themselves in ten years. Namond and Markeith say they will end up dead. Albert changes his ambition – he wants to be a paediatric neurosurgeon like Ben Carson. Kwame and Darnell Tyson hope to join the NBA. Howard "Bunny" Colvin expresses his respect for the teacher to David Parenti and learns that she is a doctoral candidate in sociology. When Namond is caught with a magazine and denies ownership, Colvin recognizes the excuse from his police days and tells the class that he thinks they see school as a safe environment to practice for life on the corner. He asks them what they think makes a good corner boy and they enthusiastically bombard him with suggestions. After school Randy walks home with Michael Lee and his younger brother Bug. Michael quizzes Randy about how he was able to return to school and Randy keeps quiet about his involvement with the police. Michael warns him about getting involved with authority figures. Randy tells him it doesn’t matter as his foster mother, Miss Anna, now has him on a short leash. Michael points out that Randy is lucky to have a leash at all. The next day Prez takes his class through their state mathematics test – Calvin and Charlene struggle with the change in the particulars from their practice work but Duquan "Dukie" Weems is able to apply the skills he learned to the new problem. When he tries to explain it to Charlene she storms out of the classroom. Meanwhile Colvin continues his discussion of what makes a good corner boy with the special class. Namond and Kwame are emphatic about the need to prevent your people stealing from you because otherwise their thieving will spiral out of control. Zenobia Dawson is insistent that a beating for anyone caught is the way to prevent stealing. Darnell suggests that proof is needed before a beating – instead he suggests making the worker pay you back and if they complain you known they are stealing. Colvin asks why the beating is necessary and Darnell and Markeith tell him that someone is always watching on the street and you cannot appear weak. Namond tells Randy and Michael about the discussion on their way home from school. Michael asks Namond if he is coming to the gym and Namond tells him he has to work on selling off the rest of his last package. Dukie remains in class after school playing on the computer. When De'Londa Brice catches her son Namond working on his package in his bedroom she angrily tells him that the police could seize their house if the drugs are found there and insists he hand the task on to a lieutenant. Michael gets home to find that his mother has sold his grocery shopping for drug money. He gives her just ten dollars when she tells him she is going out and she threatens to take the DSS card from him. He calls the bluff and insists on keeping the card. When Michael gets home from the gym, Bug tells him that his father has returned. Michael is dismayed and repulsed when the man goes to touch him. He shares a disbelieving glance with his mother. Michael confronts his mother, telling her that she has broken her promise by allowing Bug’s father to return. She is unconcerned and tells Michael that things are going back to the way they were. Michael is stunned and she tries to comfort him by saying that people change. She tells Michael that Bug’s father will now hold the DSS card. In class the next day an energised Namond raises the hypocrisy of a system that promises to reward him for good behaviour when it fails to live by its own rules much of the time – he states steroids, liquor, cigarettes and Enron as examples. Darnell points out that Colvin's work as a police officer focused on drugs so in a way drugs paid his salary. Zenobia claims that the street life is just part of the larger system. Prez discusses his class' difficulty with the test with his colleagues. They reassure him that performance is low across all subjects. Mrs Hanson and Mrs Shapiro tell him he must follow the curriculum. Mrs Grace Sampson tells Prez to spend some time teaching the test and some time teaching more accessible subject matter. Ms Hanson offers typical sage advice – Prez's first year as a teacher has to be less about the children and more about him surviving. At lunch Prez watches Dukie show Crystal Judkins and her friends how to shop for jewellery on the internet. He notices that Michael is despondent at the back of the class. Prez asks if Michael is alright but Michael does not confide in him. Prez leaves his door open or suggests that Michael could talk to the school social worker. Michael goes to pick Bug up after school but learns from his teacher, Miss Ella, that his father has already taken him. Michael runs out of the school after them. He finds Bug doing homework with his father and insists that Bug stay away from him. Parenti, Colvin and the special class teacher discuss their teachers. The academics are impressed with their results but have noticed that some of the children are not participating – those with deeper problems in particular. The teacher has seen signs of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and believes that Chandra has real psychological problems. Parenti wonders whether they can convince the corner kids to take an interest in subjects beyond what they know about. Namond gives his package to Kenard and tells him that he is a lieutenant and warns him not to cheat him on the profits. Namond delivers his takings to his mother and she notices that he has made less than she would expect from a full package. He blames his territory and she leaves to convince Bodie to give Namond better territory.
Homicide
Sergeant Jay Landsman briefs his squad before their shift. He introduces them to Tommy Carcetti who will be observing them. He also announces the death of Colonel Raymond Foerster and the detectives wake that evening. Bunk Moreland, Lester Freamon, Kima Greggs, Ed Norris, Vernon Holley and Mike Crutchfield are all present for the briefing. When Carcetti finishes the coffee in the breakroom Greggs insists that he make another pot. Greggs is hostile towards Carcetti because of the political inferference in the Braddock case. Carcetti asks the detectives to continue as usual. Greggs, Freamon and Landsman immediately stop pretending to work. After the briefing Bunk tries to convince Holley and Crutchfield to revisit the scene of the shooting that Omar Little has been arrested for. He finds their witness, Old Face Andre, shady. They remain resistant to his efforts to get them to reopen the case. Carcetti approaches them and remarks on the case load they face. Crutchfield insists they can handle it. Crutchfield continues the conversation in an interview room and becomes enraged with Bunk. As the three detectives talk, Crutchfield claims that Omar is no historical figure like George Washington Carver, rather he is just another petty criminal whose name rings up on multiple open cases including two of Bunk's. Crutchfield becomes more enraged with Bunks' attempts to go back on the case thinking that he is doing so to discredit a clearance of his. After Crutchfield leaves Bunk appeals to Holley to look over the scene one more time. At Foerster’s wake Bunk is so drunk he vomits and on returning to the bar is disgusted to find his old partner Jimmy McNulty drinking club soda. Cedric Daniels, Ilene Nathan and Rhonda Pearlman are also in attendance. The next day Holley accompanies Bunk to Andre’s store. Holley asks Andre to retell the story on behalf of Bunk who finds holes in Andre leaving the bulletproof area being threatened by a 9 mm handgun. As Andre is explaining that he was trying to save the delivery woman's life, Bunk notices the back door, stock inventory, and cameras that are a part of his store. Bunk then notices bullet hole from the earlier robbery that Omar did perform and asks Andre about it – Andre claims the perpetrator wore a mask and he did not find time to report it. Bunk asks Andre to come in with them but he refuses. Outside Bunk claims that Andre's "whole story's fucked" as it makes no sense for Andre to have survived the robbery as a live witness and that there's no sense in him leaving his bulletproof register area to come out amongst other things. Bunk then states the store's main function is a "drug depot" having noticed the reinforced steel door, low inventory, and security cameras. Bunk tells Holley that Andre is lying about Omar performing the second robbery as why Omar would use a 9mm weapon in the second robbery when the first time he brought a high enough calibre weapon to shoot through Andre’s glass. Finally Bunk states that Andre did what he did only to get back at Omar for robbing his stash citing the motive for his lie convincing Holley that Andre ran a con on the police. Bunk returns to Andre’s store with a grand jury summons, finding him talking with a prostitute before bringing him in. Bunk and Holley then warn Andre that lying to the police is a much less serious charge than lying to the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury Prosecutor then tells Andre it's a ten year minimum for perjury on the stand that is sentenced "all the time" forcing Andre into retracting his story before he is even put before the witness stand. Bunk and Holley deliver the information to Landsman who is enraged that he has lost a clearance to Bunk’s interference. Landsman berates Bunk's interference and claims Holley should stand up for himself.
Major crimes
Lieutenant Charlie Marimow pulls up his sergeant Thomas "Herc" Hauk having just received a harassment complaint. The complaint is from the woman who Herc was tricked into stopping at a train station. Marimow reprimands Herc in front of his subordinate Officer Kenneth Dozerman. He asks Herc for the source of the tip that led him to making his stop. Herc claims it was from a confidential informant. Marimow demands the source's name and Herc uses the non-existent CI – Fuzzy Dunlop (Herc has been illegally pocketing the payments made to "Fuzzy" since season two). Herc and Dozerman make a traffic stop on Marlo. Herc insists that Marlo return his camera and Marlo promises nothing but takes Herc’s card. After Marlo leaves Dozerman urges Herc to come clean about the camera to Marimow. Herc persists in harassing Marlo hoping that he will convince him to give the camera back. He enlists the Western DEU squad in making a raid on Marlo’s courtyard hangout. Next Herc stops Chris and Snoop. They hide their guns in an electric hidden compartment in their vehicle's dashboard but Herc does find their lime and nail gun in the trunk. He fires a nail into the pavement and then tells them he wants his camera back. Herc and Dozerman discuss their next move now that has intimidation has failed. Herc remembers Randy’s information about Little Kevin and suggests they look for him to get information on Lex’s murder to get to Marlo.
•This is the second episode in which a "police wake" is held, where the deceased is laid out on the pool table in an Irish bar as the assembled sing The Pogues' song "The Body of An American." A previous such wake was held for Ray Cole (Robert F. Colesberry) in "Dead Soldiers". In both cases, the death of the character followed the real-life death of the actor. The police wake was filmed at The Sidebar, one of Baltimore's most unusual nightspots due to its reputation for being "a lawyer bar by day, a punk bar by night, and a karaoke bar the second Friday of every month."
•Michael goes to pick up Bug at a recreation center run by a "Miss Ella." Ella Thompson, who was known as "Miss Ella", organized a rec center in Baltimore in the early 1990s, and was played by Tyra Ferrell in the HBO miniseries The Corner, co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns and produced by Robert F. Colesberry prior to their creation of The Wire. In this instance Ell Thompson was portrayed by Denise Preddy - who herself attended the rec center in 1993 when Simon was observing the neighborhood. In both this show and The Corner the rec center was named the Martin Luther King recreation center. Fundraisers are held after every Wire season that benefit the Ella Fund, run by the Parks and Peoples in Baltimore.
1.Episode guide - episode 45 Corner Boys. HBO (2006). Retrieved on 2006-11-09.
2."Corner Boys". Ed Burns, Richard Price. The Wire. HBO. 2004-11-05. No. 08, season 4.
Nov 5, 2006 · Corner Boys: Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison, Aidan Gillen. To monitor the pulse on the street, Carcetti makes the rounds with members of the force.
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Corner Boys. TV-MA | 59 MIN. WATCH NOW. Carcetti makes the rounds; Colvin uses corner logic in class; Daniels sees his stock rising; Michael is unsettled by an unwanted guest. 1. Boys of Summer. Four boys from West Baltimore play out their summer vacation; Royce and Carcetti hit the campaign trail. 2.
Nov 6, 2006 · The Wire. Recap: Season 4, Episode 8, “Corner Boys”. Carcetti is keen to meddle, but knows what to leave be. by Barry Maupin. November 6, 2006. Eighth-grader Michael (Tristan Wilds) slams the cupboard and moves to where everybody in the house can hear him. “Where’s the Rice-a-Roni?” he demands.
When the boy won't open up, Prez offers to send him to see a school social worker and Michael pauses, thinking, but ultimately decides against it. Colvin, Parenti and the project class teacher debate whether the kids' focus can be brought to bear on regular learning.
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