The rest of the detail is introduced, but Daniels dismisses them all as useless "humps", especially after Officer Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski accidentally discharges his weapon indoors.
When Daniels visits Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman to complain, she tells him that Prez was nearly indicted for shooting his own patrol car.
Carver, Greggs and Herc photograph Bubbles from a rooftop as he marks Barksdale dealers by pretending to sell them red hats.
Now free, D'Angelo takes his girlfriend, Donette, and their infant son to a family party, where Avon rebukes him for the letter.
Prez pistol-whips a teenager, Kevin Johnston, for leaning on his car and mouthing off, prompting a hail of projectiles and gunshots from the high-rise projects.
Bunk informs McNulty that the Gant murder has made the front page and that Phelan appears to be the source.
Extended to the episode as a whole, the quote can also mean that if you do not become involved with the drug trade, commonly referred to as "The Game", you will not lose your life.
Poot and Wallace speculate that the man who invented Chicken McNuggets must be rich, and D'Angelo explains to them that McDonald's owns the rights to the McNugget, and the man who invented it likely received nothing for it and is now probably "working in the basement for regular wage thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better."