Omar's in bed with Renaldo (Ramon Rodriguez), his new boyfriend, when a loud clatter wakes him up. Reflexively, he grabs a giant handgun off his nightstand and goes straight to the window -- totally nude, of course -- and sees that the noise was just an aluminum trash can being dropped on the ground by a garbageman. Omar relaxes in somewhat disappointed relief, which gives me an opportunity to assess his nudity (ass: A; peen: B-).
Omar throws on a blue silk robe and matching pyjama pants, heads to the kitchen, and takes a quart of milk out of the little bar fridge. He pulls a box of Honey Nut Cheerios off the shelf, but some thoughtless boor has put it back either empty or close enough to it. Oh, the worst! Glark does that all the time -- he never buys himself any kind of snacks in the "sweet" family, and then he eats all of mine, leaving a token four Froot Loops in the box to cover his perfidy. BOO. Omar is not impressed, and bellows at Renaldo, waking him up to tell him that he needs to tell Omar the next time he finishes a box. And, I mean, honestly. Omar picks up his gun again and tries to put it in his waistband, as usual, but he's evidently not confident that his drawstring will keep it from sliding down his leg and ending up shooting him in the foot, and finally just leaves it (even though his robe totally has pockets he could put it in -- those aren't just for used Kleenexes, you know!) and grabs something out of a little dish on top of a cabinet.
Downstairs, Omar pushes open the "IF ANIMAL TRAPPED" plank, looks up and down the road, and sneaks out, satisfied that no one's seen him (and tearing down a Royce poster, hee; I assume he's more in tune with Carcetti's law-and-order stance).
Omar strides down an alley -- still in his jammies -- with people calling out his name in warning as he goes, and scattering, so that by the time he gets out to the street, it's completely desolate.
Omar gets to a convenience store, taking a box of the (far inferior) regular Cheerios since the store doesn't have any Honey Nut. Why he doesn't opt for Frosted Flakes instead, I am sure I don't know. He also buys a pack of Newports -- regular, not Honey Nut.
Back in the street, Omar is announced again as he heads back to his squat. He stops in the street to light a cigarette, whereupon an unseen hand drops a plastic bag of drugs from an upstairs window to land at his feet.
Inside the squat, Omar empties out the drug bags, and sets the cereal next to it. Ramon: "They didn't have the Honey Nut?" Heh. Omar complains that he doesn't even want the drugs. Ramon doesn't get it, so Omar explains, "It ain't what you taking, it's who you taking it from -- you feel me?" Ramon shrugs uncomprehendingly, so Omar adds, "How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sporting with the puppies?" Very sage. On the other hand: free drugs.













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