I have no idea how this is going to play out, but I just think that there will be a scant few individuals, on either side of the law, who come out of this season unscathed.

can’t wait to see…

Marlo’s got nothing but enemies, *including* potentially Chris with a little nudging. He’s not a man you can do business with, everybody in the co-op knows that, the Barksdale’s know that. And Omar just wants his head.

The business goes best, in terms of money in people’s pockets, when it is in a reasonable steady state, like it was in Season 1 with Barksdale and Prop Joe having basically minor business differences about different details but not a huge amount of fighting over turf. Marlo is fucking up people’s money. So it is in everybody’s best interest for Marlo to be gone, for Omar to retire, and for everybody else to get back to slingin’ dope.

Note how none of the members of the co-op seem to be in a big hurry to claim that bounty on Omar’s head. Methinks they want Omar to take care of Marlo for them so they can relax again.

Meant to say earlier in response to Ray: Slim Charles has to play into this end-game mix, if only to take out Cheeze .

You know he KNOWS.

Whether he full-on aligns with Omar, who knows, or whether he lives long enough is another question.

and methinks Marlo hasn’t taken that same economics class that Stringer was in.

or maybe he has. That bump should more than cover those “insurance premiums” he paid out to Vondas

oh, and

SCOUT!!!!!

“I’m not going to say Butchie was an innocent but I think his refusal to talk wasn’t just him being a good soldier. Butchie was never Omar’s soldier. His exact relation is unclear, but what we do know is that they were family, bound by mutual devotion above and beyond the game, and Butchie kept the faith to the end. We see that borne out by the expression on Omar’s face when he gets the news about Butchie.

Which brings us to Marlo, Omar’s opposite god of war in the impending battle. Who among his crew has that kind of devotion to him, has faith in him, affection for him transcending the game? Likewise, is there a soul on earth that Marlo would shed a tear for, anyone or any ideal he wouldn’t give up if the price was right?”

Avon had a 401k, Marlo just has an AK. Chris is worried.

Probability is one thing, sure, but not in the way most of us would define it.

Random and chaotic mayhem is rapidly becoming the most probable outcome, in which case….?

However, I agree about Chris’s kids. They got airtime for a reason. I think they speak to his motivation, his stake, his identity. People depend on him. He has a reason to think about the future and something more than his own ego and money.

I can mos def see Snoop as a valued member of Omar’s crew.

Chris’s kids enter into this somehow, otherwise why do they exist on the show at all? There’s not enough time in the season to just add “family values” depth to Chris’s character, so I speculate that they figure more directly in the plot action.