Yeah, but Marlo was difficult to get up on in the first place. He was mostly low tech so a long-term operation was difficult. Plus, the city didn't want to pay for a long-term operation.
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Yeah, but Marlo was difficult to get up on in the first place. He was mostly low tech so a long-term operation was difficult. Plus, the city didn't want to pay for a long-term operation.
That's true. But for a long time the police didn't know who he was or anything about his operation. He's on the radar now, though, in a big way; he won't be able to get that advantage of anonymity back.
Justin
On the old bodies, no. But the only way Marlo is going to stay out of trouble is to keep out of the game completely, and his last scene implied that won't be possible for him, it's all he knows. The good police of Baltimore will never forget about him, so if he gets back in it will just be a matter of time.
But The Wire isn't poetry.The Wire had a message, and that message is that things are messed up, and they'll continue to be messed up for a long time. Killing Marlo would provide the audience with a false sense of victory, a false hope that the world is just, and a false impression that five years of fighting those gangs was making Baltimore a better place. That's not the story that The Wire was trying to tell.
Right, some of the players moved up, some down, some left the game. But what nobody could change was The System. And without some kind of fundamental shifts there, the whole thing repeats itself on and on with new names and faces.
Justin
It's not just that.
It's kinda implied that marlo's reputation has been destroyed.
He's lost his position.
His one early advantage youth and being unknown is somewhat gone.
Going to prison would of just made him a bigger gangster, death would of made him a great gangster, by coast him his name, he's suffered a form of death.
