"The Pager" is the fifth episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Clark Johnson. It originally aired on June 30, 2002.
The title refers to the pagers used by the Barksdale organization and cloned by the police detail.
Avon uses this phrase in a speech he makes to D'Angelo about the random nature of their business and the constan...
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"The Pager" is the fifth episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Clark Johnson. It originally aired on June 30, 2002.
The title refers to the pagers used by the Barksdale organization and cloned by the police detail.
Avon uses this phrase in a speech he makes to D'Angelo about the random nature of their business and the constant danger involved. It also relates to the detail; as Freamon points out, they should have had the wire up in time to catch the discussion of Bailey's murder on the phones (and, if not that, certainly the kidnapping [and subsequent murder] of Brandon).
The conversation Bodie and Poot have about HIV/AIDS transmission is taken almost verbatim from the non-fiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood.
Although credited, John Doman and Frankie Faison do not appear in this episode.
Judge Phelan signs the wiretap...
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