what is a "clearance"?

Solving a case -- McNulty reports to Landsman, and he gets the job done better than anyone else in the squad, so Landsman is going to keep an eye out for him in spite of his tendency to show up in exactly the wrong fantasy.

The floater would be impressive because it's damned hard to even identify the body, let alone hunt down any evidence.

Simon's homicide police are obsessed with their clearance rates, going back to Homicide -- wherever they stand on the job, whether they're idealists or utterly dirty or (almost always) in between, there's a lot of competition between them, and a lot of personal pride, in turning the red names on the board to black.

Real po-lice never "solve murders" they "close cases".Jay's cool, for being so disgusting, isn't he?

Ha, and now it's Pres's turn to be secretly awesome! He cracked the telephone code with his magical word search skillz! I love it.

And I just realized that the woman McNulty paid a visit to a couple episodes ago is the legal lady. Huh. Wonder what their history is.

So Omar knows Bubbles is a snitch, but the people Bubs is actually snitching on don't? That's ripe.

While it's a lower percentage than Deadwood, there are still times I have no idea what's going on. And I don't know whether I'm supposed to or not.

Post deleted for jacked-up wf. Now, move along, nothing to see here.

DS makes you work for it, doesn't he? He's my fake husband, but he's a total son-of-a-bitch. (What does that make me, besides being fucked up enough to be proud that if he ever saw that, he'd know I placed the hyphens properly.Ink-stained wretch love, it's quite a thing) I could help, but someday you'll be glad I didn't.

MAJOR RAWLS IS A MAJOR PAIN IN MY ASS.

Seriously, it's so irritating that no one else in the goddamn police department is supporting this case! When it's an awesome case with secret codes and pay-phone surveillance and murder-by-pagers.

They killed Omar's boyfriend! And now I'm warming up to him. Omar don't scare!

I groaned and writhed in agony at the fact that AVON FUCKING BARKSDALE WAS WALKING AROUND IN THE PIT AND NO ONE FUCKING SAW HIM. GODDAMN YOU, URINATION.

(Also, it's maddeningly interesting that no one onscreen has ever addressed Avon by name. And, in fact, the only reason I'm positive that he is Avon Barksdale is because he got an epigraph.)

This show just keeps getting better, doesn't it? Because it can't really help it?

This show just keeps getting better, doesn't it? Because it can't really help it?

Oh, yes, my young friend. It most certainly does!

(and, I believe there was some discussion earlier about Season 2? And talk of how it is not considered as good as some of the other seasons? I love it. AND it features an appearance by my friend's now-husband's penis! Baltimore is a small town.)

AND it features an appearance by my friend's now-husband's penis!

What? I didn't sign up for penises! I signed up for BOOBS.

Also, when Keamy and Omar were talking, it sounded like Bailey had died. I assumed Bailey was the third guy in the trio that robbed the stash. When did he die?? I didn't see that at all.