The Inner Harbor subway station - MIND THE GAP
In this episode, Detective Pembleton, with the help of Detective Bayliss, investigates whether or not a man, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, has fallen or was pushed off the platform of the Inner Harbor subway station pinning him between the platform and the train, or whether he was pushed. The episode shows scenes in and around Downtown Baltimore, including the harbour and Federal Hill as Detectives Lewis and Falsone, search for the victim's girlfriend so that she can say goodbye.
In the foreword to the 2006 edition of the book Homide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Richard Price describes David Simon’s portrayal of Baltimore as a war story in which the “theatre of engagement stretches from the devastated rowhouses of East and West Baltimore to the halls of the state legislature in Annapolis” and as a “realpolitik examination of a municipality in the midst of a slow-motion riot.” He credits him with illuminating the patterns within the chaos. “Baltimore, in fact, is Chaos Theory incarnate.” He likens Simon’s perceptiveness to Edith Wharton’s saying that if she “came back from the dead, developed a bent for municipal power brokers, cops, crackheads and reportage, and didn’t really care what she wore to the office, she’s probably look a little like David Simon.”
