The Wire: Difference between revisions

* [[Derailed for Details]]: In season 4, Prez tries to set his class a [[Train Problem]] and they pester him for details that would be relevant to an actual journey (which station it's leaving from, what the purpose of this guy's trip is, etc.), but not to the basic maths problem he has in mind.

* [[Despite the Plan]]: In season three, an otherwise simple robbery by Omar and his crew turns deadly when they realize that the house is more heavily guarded than they were expecting, and they have to shoot their way out, resulting in deaths on both sides of the gunfight.

* [[Disposable Vagrant]] : {{spoiler|1=McNulty brilliantly fabricates a fraudulent serial-killer case around or inverting this trope using forsaken vagrant victims in order to atract media and political attention and divert funds to real police work. He even "abducts" one live vagrant to further drive the point home.}}

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In the 5th season, Marlo gets wind of someone spreading rumors that he's gay. His reaction? {{spoiler|Order the guy who started the rumor murdered, ''along with his wife and kids.''}}