Outside Carcetti's house, Norman and the driver wait by the car, talking about how much the candidate sweats. Lovely. Presently, Carcetti appears at the door, now in a fresh shirt, impatiently fussing with his tie until Jen fixes it for him. Walking back, he finds his shoe and tosses it to her, ruefully calling back, "Four more weeks!" Jen and her ill-fitting bra have no response to that -- such as, "I'm sure your schedule will calm down if you should actually succeed in getting elected." In the car, Carcetti bitches about what passes for "quality time" with the family, guessing that he was at the house for all of four minutes. The driver says it was more like six, and Carcetti cracks, "I could've gotten laid!" Laughs all around, because using your wife like she's your jerkoff tool is hilarious!
Lex ambles up to the playground, looking excited to see Patrice, because if we've learned anything in this episode, it's that he's not bright. He stops at the sight of a figure, leaning on a merry-go-round in the shadows, but when she steps into the light, he sees it's not Patrice at all, but Snoop. And I swear, it wasn't until I saw this moment -- possibly the first time we've ever seen her actual figure in silhouette -- that I realized Snoop was a woman and not just a very tall, fairly precocious boy. I don't know, I'm slow. Also, she's kind of...boyish. Anyway, Lex evidently recognizes her and realizes that this means nothing good, but when he turns to run away, he sees he's boxed in by Partlow. He tries to stammer out an apology, but Partlow just casually scratches his chin with the hand holding his gun: "Yeah. It's good."
Meanwhile, Carver and Bunk are parked in Carver's car, staking out what Carver knows to be Lex's corner, though it's currently manned only by Bodie. Bunk complains, "Where is that skinny mope?" Carver says they'll just jack him tomorrow. Bunk agrees, thoughts of Glenlivet already dancing in his head.
Randy's selling snacks to some guys playing dice in some kind of walkway when Little Kevin appears and pulls him aside, asking whether Randy did what Little Kevin had asked him to. Randy guardedly says that he did, and Little Kevin says that he must have: "The nigga went up the block, but he ain't never coming back down. Chris and Snoop?" He mimes holding out a gun and murmurs, "Pow!" Randy can barely react to this revelation, but Little Kevin calmly peels off another bill for him and tells him to "be cool" before moving along -- and without even taking any Skittles for the road.













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