Cleaning Up
"Cleaning Up" is the 12th episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by George Pelecanos from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Clement Virgo. It originally aired on September 1, 2002.
Plot summary
Clean up
Stringer Bell visits the low-rise projects and collects the whole crew's pagers (including D'Angelo Barksdale, Bodie Broadus, Poot Carr, Manny, Cass and Sterling). He gives mobile phones and three numbers to Bodie and D'Angelo, instructing them that they can use the phones to organize meetings, but that all business talk will now be conducted face to face.
Avon Barksdale and Stringer meet with their lawyer Maurice Levy. Levy tells them they need to clean up now that they know they are being investigated. He tells them to walk away from Orlando's club, as Orlando probably told the police about it before he died. Avon asks when the trouble started, and Stringer suggests that it was around the time of D'Angelo's trial. Levy suggests that Nakeesha Lyles, a female security guard that had planned to testify against D'Angelo Barksdale, may be a problem. After Levy departs, Stringer convinces Avon to insulate himself from their crew by passing all communication through him.
Cleaning Up (film)
Cleaning Up is a 1925 American comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle.
