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Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)
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James George Jimmy Snyder, Sr. better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker. Snyder was born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos in Steubenville, Ohio, according to his New York Times obituary of April 22,1996, Snyders family roots were in the village of Tholopotami, on the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. As a teenager in Ohio, he acquainted with bookmakers. Snyder and his wife Joan lost three of their five children to cystic fibrosis, according to his autobiography Jimmy the Greek, Snyder bet US$10,000 on the 1948 election between Thomas Dewey and Harry S. Truman, getting 17–1 odds for Truman to win. In a later interview he indicated that he knew Truman was going to win because Dewey had a mustache and he invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro-football betting line. The sports line eventually led to a 12-year stint on the CBS Sunday morning show, The NFL Today, known simply as Jimmy the Greek, he would appear in segments with sportscaster Brent Musburger and predict the results of that weeks NFL games. While already famous in gambling circles, his rough charm made him into a minor celebrity and he had fairly major conflicts with Musburger and Phyllis George, but the core group was able to overcome them and continue CBS massive Sunday ratings success for several years. As sports betting was illegal in most of the United States, instead, Jimmy the Greek would predict the score of each game, for example, he would say the Los Angeles Raiders would beat the Los Angeles Rams 31-21. On January 16,1988, he was fired by the CBS network after commenting to WRC-TV reporter Ed Hotaling at Duke Zeiberts Washington and his CBS co-workers publicly stated that they did not agree with Snyders theories and that they did not oppose CBS decision to fire him. Black former NFL player Irv Cross said in the 30 for 30 documentary about Snyder that he worked alongside Jimmy for a long time and didnt consider him to be a racist at all. Snyder also commented during the WRC-TV interview that if blacks take over coaching jobs, like everybody wants them to, in 1991, Snyder sued the CBS network for age discrimination, defamation and breach of contract. Snyder maintained that his firing aggravated his health problems, according to court papers. Snyders attorney, Jeffery L. Liddle, stated that by firing and repudiating Mr. Snyder, CBS quashed his dream, his dignity, Snyder appeared in a cameo in the 1981 comedy film The Cannonball Run as a bookie. In the movie, he offered 50–1 odds against Formula One driver Jamie Blake, Snyder and Dean Martin were childhood acquaintances in Steubenville, Ohio. On November 10,2009, ESPN aired a show in their 30 for 30 series titled The Legend of Jimmy the Greek, which was produced by Fritz Mitchell. Commentary was provided by, among others, Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Phyllis George from The NFL Today, plus Anthony Snyder, as well as his brother Johnny, the show also acknowledges his role in the first sportcasts of poker tournaments. Although Snyder was largely unknown outside of the United States, in 1974, after beating George Foreman to regain the world heavyweight championship, Muhammad Ali, in the midst of an interview with David Frost, looked into the camera and addressed his doubters. If you wanna know any thing about boxing, dont go to no boxing experts in Las Vegas
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Greek Theatre (Los Angeles)
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Greek Theatre is a 5, 870-seat music venue located at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1929, opening on September 29 of that year, the Greek Theatre is owned by the city of Los Angeles, and is operated by SMG. Designed by architect Samuel Tilden Norton, the stage is modeled after a Greek temple. The idea for the Greek Theatre originated with wealthy landowner Griffith J. Griffith, in his will he left money for the construction of a Greek theatre. A canyon site was chosen because of its good acoustics, the cornerstone was laid in 1928 and the building was officially dedicated on September 25,1930. The first performance took place on June 26,1931, attended by a capacity crowd of 4,000, during its first decades the theatre was rarely used, and it was used as a barracks during World War II. In the late 1940s a San Francisco producer brought touring shows to the venue, in the 1950s James Doolittle, a Los Angeles showman, leased the theatre and upgraded it with better seating and backstage equipment. Between 1975 and 2015, the theatre was managed by the Nederlander Organization, the theatre underwent an earthquake retrofit in 1995. In 2006 the facade was renovated in celebration of the venues 75th anniversary. In 1983, the Greek Theatres seating capacity was expanded to 6,187, in 2009 the Los Angeles Fire Marshal permitted the addition of two more rows in the pit, bringing full capacity at the Greek to 5,870 seated and 5,900 general admission. The theatre was managed and promoted by the Nederlander Organization for 40 years, in 2015, SMG became the new venue manager. The Greek Theatre is used for concerts, stage shows, and graduation ceremonies for Thomas Starr King Middle School and John Marshall High School, among others. The Greek Theatre won the Best Small Outdoor Venue award seven times in the past eight years, awarded by Pollstar Magazine, the annual Bell-Jeff Invitational cross country running event starts adjacent to the theater. List of contemporary amphitheaters Official website
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Ebb Tide (The Wire)
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Ebb Tide is the first episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon, from a story by Simon and Ed Burns and it originally aired on June 1,2003. It also refers to the body that drifted from the tide and was picked up by McNultys police boat. The episodes epigraph is Here Little Big Roy refers to the ports and it also refers to the fortune of heavy industries as a whole, where manpower is replaced by automated machinery, a point alluded to throughout the season. The line could also be applied to the Barksdale crew, as after Avons arrest his organization never fully regains the power it enjoyed during season one. While Bodie and Shamrock are driving and changing radio stations they hear A Prairie Home Companion, later in the van they hear Kool & the Gang -99 44/100% In Dolores bar, the longshoremen dance to The Nighthawks performing Sixteen Tons. A montage of Baltimores decaying ports is interspersed into the song, when Nick wakes up at home, he plays the song Search And Destroy by The Stooges. When he and Ziggy return from the Greeks, they are listening to My Sharona by The Knack. As McNulty is calculating tidal drift, Waylon Jennings My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys can be heard in the background, gimme The Light by Sean Paul is playing while Bodie is discussing the re-up in the pit. Paul Ben Victor, Clarke Peters, Amy Ryan and Chris Bauer are all new additions to the opening credits this season, despite his credit Clarke Peters does not appear in this episode. Credited stars Frankie Faison, Larry Gilliard, Jr. Deirdre Lovejoy, Officer Jimmy McNulty, who has been demoted and reassigned to the Baltimore police department marine unit, complains to his new partner Claude Diggins about the cold. They are called to a ship with engine trouble that is hosting a party, the party organizer bribes McNulty to tow them out of the shipping lanes but not to shore so that they can continue their festivities. The next day McNulty discovers a corpse in the harbor and identifies it as relatively fresh. Ray Cole is the detective who gets the case - he meets McNulty on the shore. McNulty visits his old homicide unit looking for Bunk Moreland and he checks in with Sergeant Landsman and asks if he is to blame for him getting his nightmare assignment in the marine unit. Landsman denies any malicious intent in letting Rawls know about McNultys aversion to the job, Rawls and Landsman immediately realize McNultys involvement when the case is passed back to them. Detective Roland Prez Pryzbylewski meets with Major Valchek, his father-in-law, Prez wants to stay in narcotics and work cases like the recently finished Barksdale investigation. Valchek wants him to progress through the ranks and have a career in the department, valcheks office is filled with newly delivered stained glass decorations
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David Simon
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David Judah Simon is an American author, journalist, writer, and producer. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years and wrote Homicide, A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner, A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns. The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide, Life on the Street, Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The Corner. He was the creator, executive producer, head writer, and he adapted the non-fiction book Generation Kill into a television mini-series, and served as the show runner for the project. He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows and named an Utne Reader visionary in 2011, Simon also created the HBO series Treme with Eric Overmyer, which aired for four seasons. Following Treme, Simon wrote the HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero with journalist William F. Zorzi, a colleague at The Baltimore Sun, in August 2015, HBO commissioned two pilots from Simons company Blown Deadline Productions. The first drama, The Deuce, about the New York porn industry in the 1970s and 1980s, would star Maggie Gyllenhaal, the second drama is an untitled program exploring a detailed examination of partisanship and money in Washington politics, to be co-produced with Carl Bernstein. Simon was born in Washington, D. C. the son of Dorothy Simon, a homemaker, and Bernard Simon, Simon was raised in a Jewish family with roots that originated in Eastern Europe and Hungary. He has a brother, Gary Simon, and a sister, Linda Evans, Simon graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and wrote for the school newspaper, The Tattler. In 1983, he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, while at college he wrote for The Diamondback and became friends with contemporary David Mills. Upon leaving college, Simon worked as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun from 1982 to 1995. He spent most of his career covering the crime beat, a colleague has said that Simon loved journalism and felt it was Gods work. Simon says that he was initially altruistic and was inspired to enter journalism by the Washington Posts coverage of Watergate, later in his career he aimed to tell the best possible story without cheating it. Simon was a captain when the writing staff went on strike in 1987 over benefit cuts. He remained angry after the strike ended and began to feel uncomfortable in the writing room and he searched for a reason to justify a leave of absence and settled on the idea of writing a novel. I got out of journalism because some sons of bitches bought my newspaper and it stopped being fun, in an interview in Reason in 2004, Simon said that since leaving the newspaper business he has become more cynical about the power of journalism. One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism, the best journalism would manage to outrage people
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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The Wire
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The Wire is an American crime drama television series set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland. Created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the Wire premiered on June 2,2002, and ended on March 9,2008, comprising 60 episodes over five seasons. Each season of The Wire introduces a different institution in the city of Baltimore and its relationship to law enforcement, while retaining characters and advancing storylines from previous seasons. In chronological order these are, the drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and bureaucracy, the school system. The large cast consists mainly of actors who are known for their other roles, as well as numerous real-life Baltimore and Maryland figures in guest. Simon has said that despite its framing as a drama, the show is really about the American city. Its about how institutions have an effect on individuals, whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed. The Wire is lauded for its themes, its uncommonly acute exploration of society and politics. Simon has stated that he set out to create a police drama loosely based on the experiences of his writing partner Ed Burns. Simon chose to set the show in Baltimore because of his familiarity with the city, Simon wanted to avoid a repeat of these conflicts and chose to take The Wire to HBO, because of their working relationship from the miniseries The Corner. HBO was initially doubtful about including a drama in its lineup. Simon approached the mayor of Baltimore, telling him that he wanted to give a bleak portrayal of aspects of the city. He hoped the show would change the opinions of some viewers, the casting of the show has been praised for avoiding big-name stars and using character actors who appear natural in their roles. The looks of the cast as a whole have been described as defying TV expectations by presenting a range of humanity on screen. Most of the cast is African-American, consistent with the demographics of Baltimore, the initial cast was assembled through a process of auditions and readings. Lance Reddick received the role of Cedric Daniels after auditioning for other parts. Michael K. Williams got the part of Omar Little after only a single audition, Jay Landsman, a longtime police officer who inspired the character of the same name, played Lieutenant Dennis Mello. Baltimore police commander Gary DAddario served as the technical advisor for the first two seasons and has a recurring role as prosecutor Gary DiPasquale
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Spiros Vondas
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Spiros Vondas Vondopoulos is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Paul Ben-Victor. Vondas is The Greeks second-in-command and acted as a buffer between The Greek and his activities, using a small cafe as his base of operations. The name Spiros Vondopolous is one of a range of identities that he has available to him and he holds Hungarian and Croatian passports but it is unclear if he is really a citizen of these countries. He is later shown destroying his Hungarian passport during a meal with The Greek and his Hungarian name is Janos Kovats and he comes from Budapest. His Croatian identity is Kirko Skaddeng and he is ostensibly a medical assistant from Osijek and he tells Nick Sobotka that he has many names, many passports. Vondass actual name and nationality are unknown, though his alias is Greek in origin, Vondas manages all aspects of the Greeks illicit shipping business, but keeps a low, surveillance-conscious profile. He is Frank Sobotkas point of contact for his smuggling with The Greek and he was even-tempered and patient, often having to soothe an increasingly angry and frightened Sobotka as the Baltimore police began a serious investigation into Sobotkas union. He also handled much less savory tasks, when a sailor in the Greeks employ, Sam, Vondas managed the Greeks drug dealing through their Israeli lieutenant Eton Ben-Eleazer. His own personnel involved in the operation included driver and enforcer Sergei Serge Malatov. He often met with Nick Sobotka, who served as Franks go-between. Impressed with Nicks intelligence, he gave him the task of stealing a shipment of chemicals and he intervened in a dispute over a debt between Nicks cousin Ziggy Sobotka and a drug dealer supplied by the Greek, Cheese Wagstaff. Despite a personal dislike for Ziggy he ordered Serge to argue his case to Proposition Joe, Cheeses uncle, Vondas distrust of Ziggy proved correct when Ziggy killed Glekas in an argument over payment for stolen goods. Ziggy was arrested soon afterwards and Vondas distanced the murder from the rest of the operation by removing all evidence of the business from the warehouse, when Lieutenant Danielss port detail began investigating the Greeks activity Frank Sobotka realized and tipped Vondas. During the finale outsets of the investigation, the detail finally got a photo of Spiros when he was meeting drug lieutenant Eton on the waterfront of Baltimore, the detail then surveilled his home and followed him to meetings at hotel rooms and the diner where he met with associates. The Greek ordered Vondas to shut down the smuggling temporarily and replaced all of his personnels telephones, the Greek withdrew from their meeting place at the cafe and began meeting Vondas in hotel rooms. When the detail began rounding up the members of the Greeks smuggling ring, when Sobotka was arrested Vondas suggested that they could broker his loyalty by having a witness against Ziggy change his story. He put the proposition to Frank through Nick, Frank had already agreed to testify against the Greeks crew, but decided to meet with them for Ziggys sake. The Greek learned of Franks agreement through his inside man at the FBI, agent Koutris, following the murder Vondas left the country under a fake Croatian passport with the Greek, using the alias Kirko Skaddeng
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Nick Sobotka
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Nickolas Andrew Nick Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Pablo Schreiber. Nick is cousin to Ziggy Sobotka, the wayward and rebellious son to his uncle Frank Sobotka, Nick is a dockworker, and works for his uncle Frank Sobotka, the secretary treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores. He often has to keep his cousin Ziggy out of trouble, despite his disdain for Ziggys antics, Nick shows considerable patience and seems to genuinely care about him. Involved in his uncles smuggling operation, Nick often serves as Franks go-between in meetings with Spiros Vondas Vondopoulos, at the diner Vondas uses as an office, Nick acquires the serial numbers of cargo containers being smuggled in by The Greek. Nick has a girlfriend, Aimee, with whom he has a daughter and they want to move in together, but they are unable to afford a place of their own. The fact that Nick lives with his parents and lacks a steady income leads to tensions between the two, since Nick is one of the younger stevedores, seniority prevents him from getting enough work at the docks. Desperate for cash, he and Ziggy steal a full of cameras and sell it to the Greeks front man. This brings Nick to the attention of Vondas who asks for large quantities of chemicals, Nick accepts this job after learning that the chemicals are useful in the processing of drugs but not bombs. Nick enters the trade to help relieve Ziggy from the debt he owes to Proposition Joes nephew Cheese. Cheese co-operates when Nick arrives with Sergei Serge Malatov to threaten him at gunpoint, later, Nick sells heroin to a drug dealer named Frog after receiving it as payment from Vondas. Nick begins dealing with White Mike McArdle in order to continue supplying Frog, Nick is distraught when Ziggy is arrested for killing Glekas. Knowing that Ziggys stature and temperament make him ill-suited for prison, Nick descends into a drunken depression, eventually, police obtain a warrant for Nicks arrest. His parents are aghast to see Nicks stash of money and drugs when their house is raided, knowing about Ziggys case, the Greeks make an offer of witness intimidation in hopes of buying Franks silence. Nick relays this offer prompting Frank to arrange a meeting with the Greeks alone, from their mole in the FBI, the Greeks learn that Frank cannot be trusted and kill him once he arrives. Grieving over his uncles death, Nick turns himself into the police in order to testify, at the end of season two, Nick, Aimee and Ashley enter federal witness protection. In the last scene, he sheds a tear looking at the decaying shipping shoreline, symbolizing the death of blue-collar work in American industry
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Proposition Joe
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Joseph Stewart, better known as Proposition Joe or Prop Joe, is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Robert F. Chew. Joe was an Eastside drug lord who preferred a solution to business disputes when possible. He was responsible for creating the lucrative New Day Co-Op with Stringer Bell, Joe was a portly and amiable presence, but was often a match in wits for rival drug lords Avon Barksdale and Marlo Stanfield, and was able to manipulate most situations to his advantage. His nickname stemmed from his trademark phrase Ive got a proposition for you, along with Poot Carr, Wee-Bey Brice, Omar Little, and Bubbles, he is one of the few characters from the drug trade to appear in every season. Joe first appears at a basketball game, the Eastside Projects team versus the Westside Projects. Joe plays on Avon Barksdales pride, goading him into doubling their wager on the outcome and that same day, he is visited by stick-up-man Omar Little, who gives Joe some of the Barksdale Organizations stolen narcotics in exchange for Barksdales pager number. Omar uses the information in an attempt on Barksdales life. Joe later serves as a neutral go-between, organizing a meeting between Barksdales business partner Stringer Bell and Omar to discuss a truce. In season two, Joes role is expanded, and it is revealed that Joe relies on the Greeks smuggling ring to him with heroin through the Baltimore ports. Joe says that he still has to source his cocaine from New York as the Greeks only deal in heroin. Joe accommodates Nick Sobotka at the request of Sergei Serge Malatov to resolve a dispute over a bad drug deal between Ziggy Sobotka and Joes nephew and lieutenant Calvin Cheese Wagstaff. Out of respect to Malatov, Joe resolves the dispute in Nicks favour by compensating him for Ziggys destroyed car, Joes heroin supply is the purest in Baltimore, but he lacks the territory to maximize profits. Due to Avon Barksdales arrest, the Barksdale Organization is cut off from their Dominican suppliers and is forced to sell weaker heroin, Joe offers Stringer Bell a portion of his product in exchange for the right to deal drugs in some of the Barksdale-controlled towers. Barksdale vehemently rejects the idea, but Bell secretly agrees and Cheeses crew moves into what was previously Barksdale territory, Barksdale is unaware of Bells move and brings in Brother Mouzone to protect the towers. Mouzone confronts Cheese and wounds him with a non-fatal gunshot, Joe fears Mouzones reputation and knows it would be a mistake to attack him directly. Joe sets up a meeting between Bell and Omar Little, and Bell tricks Omar into shooting Mouzone, Joe insulates himself against police investigation by maintaining a strict policy of only meeting face to face. His nephew Drac is targeted as a potential inroad for an investigation by Lieutenant Cedric Daniels major crimes unit, Daniels unit arrests Joes lieutenant Lavelle Mann in an undercover bust operation, hoping that Drac would be promoted to replace him. However Joe chooses someone more reliable, thwarting the units efforts inadvertently, Daniels tips his hand when he arrests Cheese, believing that he had him on tape discussing a murder
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Street-level characters of The Wire
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Street-level characters comprise a large part of the cast on the fictional HBO drama series The Wire. Characters in this range from homeless drug addicts up to drug king-pins in charge of entire criminal empires. Avon Barksdale was the head of the Barksdale organization in season one and he comes from the projects, lives in the projects and plans to stay in the projects. Avon is uniformly feared by all other drug dealing criminal organizations in Baltimore due to his ferocity, together with his closest friend Russell Stringer Bell, Avon and their enforcers hold a monopoly on the drug trade in West Baltimore through intimidation and murder. Together, they out of a strip club which is a front for money laundering owned and licensed under a clean member of their gang. Stringer is portrayed as more humble and quiet than Avon but is every bit as ruthless as his friend and he has aspirations to eventually leave the streets and drug life as a whole behind him despite his close and long relationship with Avon. In the third season Bell is killed by Omar and Brother Mouzone in his own building that was in development at the time. DAngelo Barksdale was Avons nephew and a lieutenant in his drug dealing organization and he was mainly responsible for leading the corner boys in their street dealings and coordinating their earnings and performance. He was the connection between the upper levels of the crew and the street kids that were selling the product. He struggles with the morality behind his trade and came close to informing on the crew because of it and he took the sentence and went to prison where he was killed by a hitman sent by Stringer Bell in season 2. Bodie was a dealer who came of age working for Avon Barksdale, after the Barksdale organization dissolves, he is briefly independent until Marlo forces him to join his crew. He is shot in the head by Michael Lee with Snoop and Chris providing a distraction after being seen having a conversation with McNulty, Poot is a loyal drug dealer for the Barksdale organization, who serves brief prison time for his crimes. By the end of the series he is working at a shoe store attempting to distance himself from the game after growing tired of it and reeling from the loss of many friends. Stanfield is a gang leader who gets into a turf war with the Barksdale Organization, becoming the key West Baltimore drug kingpin following Stringer Bells death. Stanfield is played by Jamie Hector, Partlow is Marlo Stanfields second-in-command and best friend in his drug dealing operation. He is played by Gbenga Akinnagbe, monk is a lieutenant in the Stanfield organization, and the third most recognized leader of the Stanfield Organization. Snoop is an enforcer in the Stanfield Organization, she is a mid-way gangster. Played by, Brandon Fobbs Appears in, Season three, Time after Time, All Due Respect, Dead Soldiers, Hamsterdam, Homecoming, Fruit is a prominent crew chief of one of Marlo Stanfields drug dealing crews, and works closely with Jamal and Justin
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Highlandtown, Baltimore
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Highlandtown is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The area currently known as Highlandtown was established in 1866 when the known as Snake Hill was established as a village outside of the Baltimore city limits. The first settlers of the community were primarily German Americans, in 1870 residents renamed the neighborhood Highland Town because of the views it offered over the city. The neighborhood was part of Baltimore City in 1919. The neighborhood today is bounded by Haven Street to the east, Baltimore Street to the north, Linwood Avenue to the west, the long stretch of Eastern Avenue that runs through the neighborhood is notable as the Highlandtowns main commercial thoroughfare. The area was designated as a Main Street District by a previous mayor Martin OMalley, in Baltimorese the neighborhood is pronounced Hollantown. The German, Polish, Czech, Italian, Irish, Greek, the headquarters of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society can be found on the northern edge of Highlandtown. Current United States Senator Barbara Mikulski grew up in Highlandtown, as of the census of 2010, there were 7,820 people residing in the neighborhood. The racial makeup of Highlandtown was 42. 3% white, 34% Hispanic,19. 7% African American, most of the Hispanic population consist of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorans, Dominicans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Cubans, and Colombians, among others. 59. 8% of occupied housing units were owner-occupied,15. 5% of housing units were vacant. 52. 0% of the population were employed,5. 0% were unemployed, the median household income was $28,813. About 14. 8% of families and 22. 6% of the population were below the poverty line
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Frank Sobotka
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Francis Frank Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Chris Bauer. Frank is a respected Polish-American secretary treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores at the Baltimore docks, desperate to return prosperity to the docks, Frank begins making overtures to lobbyists and politicians to support initiatives that will make the port a more attractive shipping location. His two main objectives are to have the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal dredged to increase the depth for incoming ships, bruce DiBiago, a lobbyist, serves as go-between for Sobotka and politicians such as Senator Clay Davis. In order to obtain the funds for paying the bribes, Sobotka makes an arrangement with European gangsters The Greek. Franks nephew Nick Sobotka, another member, acts as go-between for his uncle and Vondas by passing messages. Unbeknownst to Frank, his son, Chester Ziggy Sobotka. Suspicious of how a longshoreman could have so much disposable income, the investigation gains further traction with the discovery of 13 dead girls in a shipping container, who turn out to be prostitutes smuggled in by the Greek. Frank is enraged that human smuggling is taking place in his port and he confronts Vondas, asking why he wasnt informed about it so that he could have taken extra precautions that would have saved their lives. Vondas points out that Frank said he did not want to know what the Greeks were smuggling into the country, Frank says that if anything is breathing inside a container then he needs to know about it. He demands to meet The Greek and tells him he wants out, the Greek, who needs Franks system, objects. Nick then asks for money for them to take on the extra risk. The Greek and Frank agree to this arrangement - Frank needs the money — but Frank is ever more uneasy, towards the end of the season, Frank is arrested on smuggling charges after the detail is pressured into making arrests. Valchek personally escorts a compliant Frank out of the hall in handcuffs. With his efforts to save the port sunk, and his family facing legal charges, Sobotka decides to accept the advice of Beadie Russell and turn informant on The Greek. However, before passing information to the police, The Greek arranges for a meeting to be held, the following day Franks body is found in the harbor, with multiple stab wounds and his throat cut. Detectives remark that numerous defensive wounds indicate he died fighting and it is implied that Spiros slit Franks throat, echoing a murder earlier in the season. After his death, his fellow longshoremen, in tribute to Frank, re-elect him as treasurer in defiance of federal warnings, a picture of former Baltimore Colts owner Robert Irsay is pinned on Frank Sobotkas dartboard. Irsay moved the Colts from Baltimore to Indianapolis in 1984 and he is one of the most hated sports figures in Baltimore
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New Day Co-Op
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The New Day Co-Op is a fictional criminal organization on the HBO drama television series The Wire. The New Day Co-Op, commonly referred to as the Co-Op, is an alliance of drug dealers formed in the interests of promoting business. There are at least a dozen members of the Co-Op, many of whom are not named on screen and their attempts to reform drug dealing in Baltimore often fail but the organization persists through several changes in leadership. They run their organization by Roberts Rules of Order, when Bells business partner Avon Barksdale gets involved in a war with Marlo Stanfield in season three, the Co-Op votes to deny Bell the high quality heroin unless the violence stops. Ultimately, the Barksdale Organization dissolves, and with the death of Bell and they decide that their primary concern is the New York drug dealers and to try to convince Stanfield to join the Co-Op to help to drive them off. Despite being offered a far better supply to sell, Stanfield is initially reluctant but is convinced by two factors. First, Stewart engineers a conflict between Stanfield and Omar Little, secondly, Stanfield faces an ongoing police investigation. Stewart convinces Stanfield that joining the Co-Op would provide him more information on police activity. Stanfield then attempts to frame Omar for murder so that he could be killed in prison. However, Omar is released from prison after Bunk Moreland is able to prove that Omar had nothing to do with the murder, Omar gets revenge on Stanfield and Stewart by stealing the entire heroin shipment that Stewarts men are receiving from the Greeks. The other Co-Op members form a quorum and decide that Stewart should be responsible for replacing the lost heroin, Stewart threatens to cut them all off from the supply, since he is the only one with contact with The Greek, confirming his power over the group. Stanfield demands to meet Spiros Vondas, the second-in-command to the Greek to confirm Stewarts story about the robbery, Stewart is forced to agree as his nephew Calvin Cheese Wagstaff faces reprisal from Stanfield unless he can be exonerated. After this meeting, Stanfield begins investigating the Greeks role in importing the heroin into Baltimore, over a year later the Co-Op faces loss of territory in Eastern Baltimore due to redevelopment of the city. They decide to pursue territory in Baltimore County and Stanfield is annoyed when they rule to give East side kingpins first refusal on the new opportunities, Stanfield creates dissent in Stewarts organization by suggesting that his lieutenants be allowed to develop the new territory themselves. Stanfield also establishes communication with Vondas without Stewarts knowledge via incarcerated former Greek soldier Sergei Malatov, Stanfield makes repeated monetary offerings to The Greeks while using Stewart to train him to launder money. Stanfield plans to subvert the loyalty of Cheese, first by offering a bounty on the now retired Omar, Stewart is reluctant to enrage the dangerous stick-up artist and withholds information about Omars connection to mutual friend Butchie. Cheese reveals Butchies connection to Stanfield without Stewarts knowledge and Stanfield rewards him with the bounty and has Butchie tortured and killed, Cheese is embarrassed at a Co-Op meeting by complaints from charter member Hungry Man that he has been ignoring the agreed divisions of County territory. Stanfield capitalizes on this by kidnapping Hungry Man and delivering him to Cheese, Cheese responds in kind by giving away Stewarts whereabouts at a vulnerable time and Stanfield has Stewart murdered
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Omar Little
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Omar Devone Little is a fictional character on the HBO drama series The Wire, portrayed by Michael K. Williams. He is a notorious Baltimore stick-up man, frequently robbing off street-level drug dealers and he is legendary around Baltimore for his characteristic duster, bulletproof vest, facial scar, and habit of hauntingly whistling The Farmer in the Dell when stalking the streets. When people see or hear him approaching, they run away, Central throughout Omars trajectory is his steady descent into intractable conflict with both the Barksdale and Stanfield organizations, in both cases initiated by his robberies. Omar is also noted for his relationships with his partners. The character is based on Baltimore area robber and hitman Donnie Andrews, in Clarifications, it is stated that Omar is 34 years old. Omar was orphaned at an age, and raised by his grandmother Josephine. He attended Edmondson High School in West Baltimore, a few years behind Bunk Moreland, for more than ten years, Omar has made his living holding up drug dealers, and staying alive one day at a time. He repeatedly demonstrates exceptional skill at surveillance and as a stick-up man, Omar is highly intelligent and cunning, consistently executing well-laid plans, anticipating moves, and outsmarting his adversaries with effective strategic planning except for Wee-Bey. Once a month, he accompanies his grandmother to church. He has a brother, No Heart Anthony, who is incarcerated for a store robbery in the early 1990s. He often carries a shotgun or large caliber handguns in.44 Magnum.45 ACP semi-automatics, after Omar, his boyfriend Brandon, and John Bailey rob a stash house, Avon Barksdale puts out a contract on the trio. Bailey is killed, and Brandon is tortured, mutilated, and he is then left in a public place so as to be seen and quickly found. While meeting with the police, he observes information which he uses to further revenge against the Barksdale Organization, killing Stinkum. Omar even gets a shot at Avon himself, by giving stolen drugs to Eastside drug kingpin Proposition Joe for Avons pager number and he tails Avon to Orlandos strip club, pages him and waits for him to emerge into the open. Avon narrowly escapes when Wee-Bey arrives and shoots Omar in the shoulder, afterward, Stringer Bell offers Omar a truce, planning to kill him when he relaxes his guard. Omar realizes Stringers duplicity and leaves town, temporarily relocating to New York City, in the last scene of the first season, he is seen robbing a drug dealer in the Bronx, merely saying that its all in the game, yo. Omar returns to Baltimore with a new boyfriend, Dante and he quickly returns to his old business, targeting the Barksdales exclusively, and connects with Tosha and Kimmy, stick-up artists who join his crew. Omar provides false testimony against Bird in open court as he had promised to do, in the end, the jury accepts Omars testimony, and Bird is sent to prison for life
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Marlo Stanfield
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Marlo Stanfield is a fictional character on the HBO television drama The Wire, played by actor Jamie Hector. Stanfield is a young, ambitious, intelligent and extremely ruthless player and is head of the eponymous Stanfield Organization in the Baltimore drug trade. Marlos organization starts out small-time, operating in the left by the Barksdale Organization. A repeated theme in Marlos characterization is his demand for unconditional respect and he frequently orders the deaths of those who disrespect him or undermine his name on the streets, however unwittingly. He is arguably the most violent and ruthless of the drug kingpins portrayed in The Wire, In 2016, Marlos background prior to his drug empire is largely unexplored. He was a suspect in an unsolved case for Vernon Holley, Holley believed it was Marlo who killed his only witness as well as the original victims. The Barksdale Organization already had all the territory on the westside in the form of the public housing towers. Marlo is introduced in three as an up-and-coming drug player who controls many corners in West Baltimore. Marlo and his primary enforcer Chris Partlow wage war with the Barksdale crew over this territory and his ambition is to seek full control of the drug trade in West Baltimore. Marlo refuses to acknowledge Bodie, who has set up his own crew within Stanfield established territory, and insists that he move his people away. Marlo later has one of his dealers, Fruit, and his crew, give Bodies crew a beating, demonstrating that he is not going to lie down, Marlo listens to Stringer without comment, and shortly after Stringer leaves, he tells Chris to prepare for war. Greggs and McNulty pay a visit to the Homicide division to learn more about Marlo, Holley had built a case against Marlo using a key witness who was murdered before the case went to trial. Holley believes Marlo killed the witness and goes on to him as the spawn of the devil. The assault has been triggered by Avons parole, and Avons more confrontational approach to the war than Stringer. Marlo thinks that the failed assault shows a lack of strength in the Barksdale organization and discusses this with Chris and Vinson. Avon then orders an attack, carried out by Dennis Cutty Wise and Slim Charles, in which a Stanfield dealer named Boo is killed. Marlo feigns retreat, then organizes retaliatory attacks against Barksdale territory, Snoop kills Barksdale soldier Rico in a drive-by on Poot Carrs corner. Avon responds by hiring a woman named Devonne to seduce Marlo, though Marlo has sex with Devonne, he grows suspicious of her
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Slim Charles
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Slim Charles is a fictional character in the HBO drama The Wire, played by Anwan Glover. An enforcer for the Barksdale Organization and later the top lieutenant of kingpin Proposition Joe Stewart, he is portrayed as principled, loyal, and competent throughout his career. Slim Charles is hired as muscle by Stringer Bell, who is acting boss of the Barksdale Organization following the arrests of Avon Barksdale, Slim is first seen at the Barksdale strategy meeting following the demolition of the high rise projects. Shortly after, Omar Little attempts to rob a house that is under Slims charge. Omar detains three of its guards, but is surprised by Slim Charles and three others, who recover the drugs in a firefight, during which Tosha and Tank are killed. When Avon is released, Slim Charles is the person he consults upon making a decision to go to war with Marlo Stanfield. On Avons orders, Slim Charles puts together a team to strike against Marlos subordinates, although Charles proves himself a capable and loyal soldier on many occasions, the support he gathers around himself is not up to the task. He is involved at a level with the assassinations of Marlo and Omar. When the operation against Marlo backfires and Avon is wounded, Charles brings a surgeon to the warehouse where the Barksdales regroup, however, after this operation too is botched, Charles angrily reproves the pair before sending them to answer to Avon himself. Near the end of the war, he is taken aback by Stringers demand that he must kill Senator Clay Davis, protesting that. murder aint no thing, but this heres some assassination shit. Shown up as a gangster without the political sensitivity of even Slim Charles, Stringer storms off and is caught in an ambush set up by Omar. Slim Charles consoles Avon after Stringers death, shortly after, Slim Charles sees another opportunity to kill Stanfield when he finds him at Vinsons rimshop with little protection. He phones Avon, who is busy gathering weapons and soldiers at a stash house, the attempt fails, as the stash house is raided by the Major Crimes Unit, acting on a tip given by Stringer to Major Colvin. Avon and most of his men are arrested, Slim Charles escapes arrest and prosecution because he is still waiting outside the rimshop at the time of the raid. With the Barksdale organization in ruins, Slim begins working for Proposition Joe, with this product as a firm foundation, Bodie Broadus builds a successful operation, until Marlo effortlessly threatens the helpless Bodie to work for him or be killed. Bodie came to Slim Charles, who advised him not to stand up to Stanfield, Charles raised the problem at the next meeting of the Co-Op but they decided to negotiate with Stanfield and focus on problems with an incursion of New York dealers on the East side. Charles was doubtful that Stanfield would talk to them based on the Barksdales experience, during the meeting Charles explained to the Co-Op how Stanfield has been hiding corpses in vacant row houses. When Joes first meeting failed to convince Marlo he has Charles approach Partlow to arrange a second sit down, though he never says it directly, it is implied that Charles doesnt approve of Marlos murderous enforcement
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Port in a Storm
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Port in a Storm is the 12th and final episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Robert F. Colesberry and it originally aired on August 24,2003. The title refers to the taking place at the port. The storm includes the death of Frank Sobotka, the progression of the trials of several characters as well as U. S. Marshals taking over the checkers union hall. The title is also a reference to the proverb, Any port in a storm, the proverb tries to say that in an emergency, people will take any help from any source, regardless of the unpleasantness of it. In this quote The Greek refers to the fact that everything they do is for the business they are running, from the manipulation of the ports to their own names and lives. They are twisting the world to meet their own ends but they are also an institution in themselves, connected to the other such as the FBI. It also hints at the fact that the business cycle will continue. Hank Williams A Mansion on the Hill plays when Beadie and Bunk visit the Philadelphia port security office, a cover version of Creedence Clearwater Revivals Have You Ever Seen the Rain. by Joan Jett plays at the bar where the detail drown their sorrows. The Steve Earle song I Feel Alright plays over the closing montage, Earle has a small recurring role as a drug counselor named Walon, but does not appear in this season. Earle also sings Tom Waits Way Down in the Hole for the season opening credits of the show. Officer Claude Diggins pulls a corpse from the water and they all recognize the body as Frank Sobotka. Meanwhile, Nick Sobotka goes looking for Frank as he did not return from his meeting with The Greek and he sees Franks body brought ashore. In Franks office, Nick has to be restrained from going after The Greek and his father, Louis, arrives, and then takes Nick to Southeastern headquarters to turn himself in. Freamon happens to overhear Nicks processing, and brings him to the detail, the Greek meets with Spiros Vondas Vondopoulos and they discuss their plans. The Greek decides to leave Nick alone and that it is safest to walk away, later, the FBI visit the union hall and tell them that they need to change their leadership or the union will be decertified. Ott responds by withdrawing from the election and standing behind the deceased Sobotkas re-election and it leads to the unions decertification and the seizure of the local office by the US Marshals. Stringer Bell visits Brother Mouzones bedside at the hospital and tells him they will catch whoever was responsible for his shooting, Mouzone coolly informs Stringer that he needs no assistance from them and that he will find those responsible on his own
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Final Grades
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Final Grades is the 13th and final episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns, the running time of this episode is 78 minutes, making it the second longest episode of the series. This is printed on the doors used to close off the vacant houses in West Baltimore. The text has appeared several times in past seasons, the quote references many of the seasons characters, who appear hopelessly trapped by their environment. At the time of the episode the number connected with a message giving the local Baltimore time. That number was disconnected in June 2011, Paul Wellers I Walk On Gilded Splinters plays over the episodes closing montage. Cuttys hospital roommate is watching the episode E. B, was Left Out from another HBO series, Deadwood. Although credited, Glynn Turman does not appear in this episode and his Christmas spirit is rapidly dispelled when he sees several red names being added to the case board. He quizzes Detective Ed Norris about the board, Norris tells him that Lester Freamon is responsible, Landsman is angry at the sudden drop in his squad clearance rate and calls Freamon a Hun, a Vandal and a Visigoth. Landsman next asks what Norris is working on and is dismayed to find out that he is working a new case. Landsman is somewhat forgiving when Norris tells him that he has the perpetrator in custody as he came in, accompanied by Landsman, Norris returns to the interview room to discuss Bubbles confession. Bubbles is distraught and is undergoing withdrawal and he vomits all over the detectives and they leave the room to clean up. When they return Bubbles has attempted to hang himself from the ceiling, later, Landsman is pleased to learn that Bubbles survived. He spots Detective Crutchfield leaving the office and is downcast once again when he learns that Freamon has found yet another body. Landsman checks with the paramedics and then quizzes Bubbles about his actions, Bubbles tells him the entire story behind Sherrods death. Bubbles is filled with remorse and regret and pleads with Landsman to lock him up, Landsman orders Norris to let Bubbles go. Norris worries about losing the clearance and about Bubbless safety, Landsman tells him to send Bubbles to rehab. Later, Kima Greggs and Walon visit Bubbles at the rehab center, Walon comforts Bubbles but Greggs cannot bring herself to go in
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Unconfirmed Reports
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Unconfirmed Reports is the second episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by William F. Zorzi from a story by David Simon & William F. Zorzi and was directed by Ernest Dickerson and it originally aired on 13 January 2008. The title refers to Scott Templetons fabricated report, as well as McNultys imaginary serial killer, while discussing the situation in Baltimore with Lester and McNulty, Bunk sardonically remarks that Baltimore is not like Aruba, apparently referring to the Natalee Holloway case. Had McNultys killer garnered anywhere near as much coverage as the Holloway case. This was made in reference to the fact that the death of Black males in inner cities seem to be handled as less of a concern than that of Whites. Carcetti mentions the governor diatribe on Olesker, a Baltimore Sun journalist, David Simon also wrote an op-ed in the Baltimore City Paper to support Olesker over alleged plagiarism leading to his resignation. Olesker worked as an extra in season of The Wire. Although credited, Lance Reddick, Seth Gilliam, Domenick Lombardozzi, Michael K. Williams, Jermaine Crawford, and Michael Kostroff do not appear in this episode. Curt Boushell as Andy - Sun copy editor Louis Stancil - Unknown Corner Boy Kevin Infante and Nancy Porter are characters from novels by Laura Lippman, Bubbles attends a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. He follows a speaker named Dee-Dee who discusses her struggle with her inner addict, Bubbles is engaging and humorous but unable to discuss an emotional memory. Walon tries to convince Bubbles that he has to share the tragedy of Sherrods death in order to move on, walon convinces Bubbles to at least occupy his time and he volunteers at a local soup kitchen. Scott Templeton plans a piece about the Baltimore Orioles opening game. He fails to find a subject and returns with an unverifiable story about an orphaned wheelchair user truanting to attend. Gus Haynes is concerned about the lack of corroboration, implying that the story was fabricated. Later, Rebecca Corbett also questions the authentication of the story, Marlo Stanfield meets with Chris Partlow and Snoop about the withdrawal of the year-long police investigation. Stanfield decides to reassert his authority and orders several murders and the luring of Omar Little out of retirement, accompanied by Partlow and one of the young protégés they have been training, Snoop carries out the murder of a rival drug dealer. Afterwards, Snoop, Partlow and Michael Lee watch the house of one of Stanfields targets named June Bug, Marlo has ordered his murder merely because of rumors that June Bug has called Marlo a homosexual, even though no one believes its true. Michael questions the necessity of the murder of an entire family simply for a verbal insult
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Transitions (The Wire)
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Transitions is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. It first aired on January 27,2008, though Scott Templeton is lamenting the dwindling job market in journalism, there is also a noticeable resonance regarding the local drug trade. Oscar Requer also says, Its a buyers market, when talking to Jimmy McNulty, title 18 of the U. S. Code, chap. 47, section 10-14, Loan and credit applications, whoever knowingly makes false statements to obtain a property loan is liable to a fine of no more than $1,000,000 or 30 years in jail, or both. This section is used against Clay Davis, for borrowing from his mother the downpayment on a property, boys Village, since 1992 renamed Cheltenham Youth Facility. Ground rent stories, investigative article series from the Baltimore Sun about the ground rent business in Baltimore, the A further indicates a midnight shift. Although credited, Andre Royo and Jermaine Crawford do not appear in this episode, nathan James was hired to fill in for Sands as an unnamed officer. Jimmy McNulty and Lester Freamon collaborate on raising the profile of their serial killer. They conduct actual canvassing among the homeless as a cover, McNulty briefly meets and talks to Johnny Fifty Spamanto, a checker on the docks from Season 2, demonstrating how far the union has fallen since Season 2 and Frank Sobotkas death. Freamon sensationalizes the idea by adding a sexual motive and supplies a set of dentures to create bite marks, Freamon also recruits his old patrol partner to look out for bodies. They soon have their next victim and McNulty mocks up the crime scene. McNultys binge drinking and infidelity are noticed by his domestic partner Beadie Russell, kima Greggs finds the child survivor in her case too withdrawn to help and decides to spend more time with her ex-partner Cheryls son Elijah. Officer Anthony Colicchio attacks a motorist who irritates him while he tries to arrest Michael Lees drug dealing crew, the motorist turns out to be an elementary school teacher who then files a police brutality complaint against Colicchio. Sergeant Ellis Carver offers to help Colicchio through the subsequent internal investigation, Carver decides Colicchios behavior cannot continue unchecked and charges Colicchio himself. Thomas Herc Hauk later appeals to Carver for leniency but Carver explains his new philosophy that their actions as police are always important, Herc expresses regret over his own misdeeds leading to his dismissal. Michael is signed out of holding by his mother but refuses to give her money, leander Sydnor uncovers new evidence in the Clay Davis investigation. Rupert Bond decides not to file the new charge as it would mean allowing a federal prosecution, Bond has Rhonda Pearlman hold a grand jury deposition for Davis. Bond stages a photo opportunity as Davis leaves the house to mark Davis as his target
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React Quotes
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React Quotes is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Mills from a story by David Simon & David Mills and was directed by Agnieszka Holland and it first aired on February 3,2008. Although credited, John Doman, Neal Huff, and Corey Parker Robinson do not appear in this episode, brendan Walshs name is misspelled in the credits as Brandon Walsh. Tony Small is miscredited as Tony Smalls, guest stars Denise Francine Boyd, known as Fran Boyd, and Larry Andrews, known as Donnie Andrews, married in August 2007. Andrews was a murderer who in 2007 worked for a gang outreach program at the AME Bethel Church. His criminal past is part of the inspiration for the Omar Little character, Fran Boyd, a recovering drug addict who works for an AIDS prevention clinic, appears in the episode as a nurse taking blood from Bubbles for an AIDS test. Boyd was one of the subjects of the non-fiction book The Corner written by series creator David Simon, edward Green as Spider Marlo Stanfield assumes Proposition Joes position as The Greeks narcotics distributor in Baltimore. Stanfield is given a phone and is shown how to communicate with The Greeks without speaking by Spiros Vondas Vondopoulos, Stanfield continues to use Maurice Levy to launder money and gives Levy his new cell phone number. Levy is optimistic, seeing Stanfields use of cell phones as an indicator of future wiretap cases, defense investigator Thomas Herc Hauk copies the number after hours. Chris Partlow tells his family he is going away and then prepares an ambush in Monk Metcalfs apartment for Omar Little, duquan Dukie Weems gets beaten up by Spider when he punches Kenard for verbally insulting him while walking Bug home from school. Michael Lee takes him to Dennis Cutty Wises gym to learn how to defend himself, Cutty tries to explain to Dukie that his intelligence gives him some prospects and that even if he learns how to fight it wont necessarily stop him from being attacked. Michael also tries to teach Dukie how to shoot, but his ineptitude at target practice leads Michael to recommend that his friend avoid using guns, rupert Bond holds a press conference to announce the Clay Davis corruption charges. Nerese Campbell convinces Davis to take the weight of the charges himself, Bubbles is concerned about serving food at Viva House and takes an HIV test. He is disbelieving when he gets the all clear and Walon tells him to let go of his shame over Sherrods death, Herc gives Marlos cell phone number to his friend and old partner in the police department Ellis Carver. Carver delivers the number to Lester Freamon, but Freamon is unsuccessful in convincing Cedric Daniels to approach the Mayor, jimmy McNulty invents more details about his fake serial killer and leaks the story to Alma Gutierrez. Scott Templeton is assigned by Gus Haynes to canvass the homeless, the resulting story draws some attention to the case and Daniels appeals to Mayor Tommy Carcetti for resources. Carcetti is reluctant to spend money on it and only Kima Greggs is assigned to assist McNulty, under pressure from Bunk, McNulty tells Greggs to keep working her own cases. Freamon approaches McNulty with Stanfields cell phone number and the two decide to stage a phone call from the killer to give probable cause for a wiretap
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Jimmy McNulty
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James Jimmy McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Dominic West. McNulty is a detective in the Baltimore Police Department of Irish heritage, when off the job, he has frequent problems involving alimony, alcoholism, child support, and unstable relationships. McNulty is nonetheless a clever, resourceful police officer, and though not above manipulation and deceit and he is central to many of the successful high-end drug investigations that take place within the series. McNulty grew up in the Lauraville neighborhood of Baltimore and his father was an employee for Bethlehem Steel before being laid off in 1973. After a year of attending Loyola College in Maryland, McNulty joined the Baltimore Police Department when his girlfriend Elena became pregnant, in his first few years on the job, he proved himself to be an effective patrolman in the Western District under the command of Major Colvin. After assisting Ray Cole in solving a homicide, he was promoted to detective and assigned to the homicide unit, McNulty is responsible for the formation of the Barksdale detail following the trial of DAngelo Barksdale, who is found not guilty after a witness changes her story in court. In the Judges chambers, McNulty is frank about his observations, McNultys commander, Bill Rawls, is furious with him for going around the chain of command. McNulty tells Bunk that he hopes this investigation will lead to a case that something to him. Sergeant Jay Landsman asks McNulty what unit he would least like to be assigned to, because of McNultys conversation with Judge Phelan, a case unit is formed, initially consisting of Narcotics Lieutenant Cedric Daniels and his squad of Kima Greggs, Ellis Carver, and Herc Hauk. Deputy Burrell then asks his majors and shift lieutenants to send additional detectives for the investigative detail, as Burrell has made it clear that the case is no more than a cosmetic exercise, most of the officers sent are drunken or incompetent humps. McNulty himself is also assigned to the unit, soon after the investigation begins, McNulty learns from his friend in the FBI, Special Agent Fitzhugh that Daniels had been investigated for having a suspiciously large amount of liquid assets. McNultys relationship with Daniels continues to be complicated by their mutual distrust, the detail is assigned assistant states attorney Rhonda Pearlman as a prosecutor, with whom McNulty is having a casual sexual relationship. McNulty is officially separated from his wife, who limits his contact with his two sons, Sean and Michael, while shopping with them one afternoon, McNulty spots Stringer Bell, and sends his sons to tail him and get his license plate number. When Elena finds out, she seeks an order to stop him from seeing his sons. She is also angry that he continues to see Pearlman casually, Freamon often tries to temper McNultys aggressive attitude towards Lt. Daniels. Frustrated that Barksdales dealers do not use cell phones, they decide to clone the dealers pagers instead and they also work together to convince Daniels to allow them to do better police work. With the help of Kima Greggs, McNulty tracks down the elusive Omar Little, gaining his respect, Omar agrees to testify against Bird Hilton. Kima introduces McNulty to her CI Bubbles, when she is shot in a buy-bust sting operation gone wrong, McNulty is guilt-ridden, though even Rawls assures him that the shooting is not his fault
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Kima Greggs
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Shakima Kima Greggs is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Sonja Sohn. Greggs is a detective in the Baltimore Police Department who is a dedicated officer. Openly lesbian, she has had problems involving infidelity, alcohol, Greggs played a key role in all of the shows main cases. Kima was a detective working alongside Detectives Ellis Carver and Thomas Herc Hauk. She outshone her colleagues on several occasions, but was held in esteem by the two due to her abilities. She cultivated a relationship with her Confidential Informant, Bubbles, a Baltimore drug addict, Greggs lived with her partner Cheryl, a broadcast journalist, and was studying for a law degree from home, having been pressured to do so by Cheryl. Greggs was assigned the task of putting a file together on the Barksdale organization in the controversy generated by the acquittal of DAngelo Barksdale and she was then assigned to the Barksdale detail and made lead detective by Lt. Daniels. Greggs managed to obtain information from Bubbles, who correctly identified Barksdale Organization members on the street. Detective Jimmy McNulty and Kima worked closely together during the Barksdale case, Greggs became friends with McNulty and introduced him to Bubbles. When Bubbles confirmed to McNulty that Kima was a lesbian, Jimmy complimented Kima, McNulty jokingly added from there that they could both have fun talking about pussy. Greggs told him being open about her sexuality kept attention from male colleagues away and they spent hours together in surveillance and put in more time trying to track down the legendary stick-up man Omar Little. Greggs provided a second useful confidential informant while working with Lester Freamon and they persuaded DAngelos new girlfriend Shardene Innes to turn against him by providing her with evidence that the Barksdale crew were responsible for the death of a friend of hers. Shardene met DAngelo through working as a hostess at Orlandos, a strip club, Greggs was shot and wounded in an undercover buy bust operation ordered by Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell. The sting relied on Wendell Orlando Blocker, a front man for the Barksdale organization, Orlando was arrested by narcotics police and turned over to the Barksdale detail when they diligently checked to see if any of the names Orlando gave them were under investigation. Orlando was killed in the sting and Greggs was shot before she could retrieve the weapon she had hidden in the vehicle they were using. By the time her backup arrived on the scene the shooters had fled, the Barksdale details wiretaps identified those responsible as the soldiers Savino, Wee-Bey and Little Man. Both Savino and Wee-Bey were arrested and Little Man was murdered before the police could reach him. Greggs recovered fully from her injuries and took a job in the narcotics unit, at the request of her girlfriend Cheryl
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Bunk Moreland
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William The Bunk Moreland is a fictional character in The Wire, played by Wendell Pierce. Like his best friend Jimmy McNulty, Bunk is shown to be a competent and generally moral detective, with similar problems related to infidelity. He is however more mindful than McNulty of the chain of command. Bunk attended Edmondson High School in West Baltimore, where he played lacrosse and he lives in Randallstown, MD, a predominantly African American suburb of Baltimore, with wife Nadine and three children. Bunk worked as a patrolman in Baltimores Southwestern District before becoming a homicide detective, Bunk serves as Jimmy McNultys lone ally in the homicide unit, informing him of its happenings while chiding him for getting involved in the Barksdale case. He is also the primary investigator for the murder of William Gant, Omar Little informs Bunk that the shooter is a Barksdale soldier called Bird, and agrees to testify against him in court. Because of this, Bunk persuades his colleague Ray Cole not to arrest Omar for the murder of Stinkum, when Omar is at the police station, Bunk discovers they went to the same high school, beginning an ongoing association between the two. After one night of heavy drinking, McNulty has to pick Bunk up from a womans house. Bunk has locked himself in her bathroom and burned his clothing so that his wife will be unable to trace evidence of his having slept with the woman. Bunk is partnered with Lester Freamon in Homicide, and they are recognized as the squads best detectives. This reputation leads Landsman to assign them to investigate the deaths of fourteen Jane Does in a container on the docks. They are detailed with Officer Beadie Russell from the Port Authority, the women suffocated after an air pipe was deliberately closed off. Bunk and Freamon track down the ship carried the package. None of the crew admit to speaking English, and Bunk, Bunk also worries about the William Gant murder, states attorney Ilene Nathan threatens to drop the charges if the police cannot find key witness Omar Little. Bunk repeatedly reminds McNulty of this, and eventually McNulty finds Omar with help from Bubbles, Omar testifies, and Bird is imprisoned for a maximum term. When the city deals with five homicides in one night, Bunk must leave his son with McNulty at an Orioles game to investigate one and he quickly recognizes the scene of Omar Littles drug robberies, and believes one of the victims to be an innocent taxpayer. They all consider the weapons recovery a top priority, though he thinks it is a use of his abilities. Bunk meets with Omar, confronting him about the innocent victim, Omar informs him that she was part of his crew, and says he would never kill an innocent person
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Lester Freamon
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Lester Freamon is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Clarke Peters. Freamon is a detective in the Baltimore Police Departments Major Crimes Unit, Freamon is a veteran of the force who establishes reputation as what Bunk Moreland calls natural police for his instincts, tenacity and intelligence. Before joining the force he served in the military and it is revealed in season 2 that he had fought in the Vietnam War. His first major unit was Homicide, but in 1989, acting against the orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Freamon eventually spent thirteen years in the assignment, until he had been completely forgotten by management. At the end of the series it was revealed that Freamon had joined the department in 1974 or 1975, having worked 32½ years at his retirement. Coincidentally, Freamon had joined the department around the time as Bill Rawls, Ervin Burrell and Howard Bunny Colvin yet had never obtained rank. He further impresses his colleagues when he locates DAngelo Barksdales pager number at a stash house. Impressed by Freamons capabilities, Jimmy McNulty inquires about him in a conversation with Bunk who tells him Freamon is an ex-homicide detective. Later, while at the bar with Freamon, McNulty finds out that he was sent to the Pawn Shop unit for thirteen years because he angered the then-Deputy Ops, Freamon then warns McNulty that he will probably suffer a similar fate at the conclusion of the case. He also recruits Shardene Innes, one of the dancers in the Barksdales strip club, as an informant, beginning a romantic relationship with her in the process. After Greggs gets shot, Freamon tracks a page made by Wee-Bey Brice, one of the shooters, to a pay phone where he finds evidence implicating the other shooter, Little Man. He then uses a contact from his pawn shop days to trace call patterns and pinpoint Wee-Beys whereabouts, leading to his arrest, following the dissolution of the detail, Bill Rawls notes Freamons competence as a detective and transfers him back into Homicide. Rawls makes room for Freamon in Homicide by dumping McNulty to the Marine Unit in the fashion that Freamon had predicted, Freamon is now partnered with Bunk Moreland, and they are quickly recognized as the best detectives in Homicide. Landsman has them assigned to take on the case of fourteen Jane Does and they get detailed Beadie Russell, the officer from the Port Authority who had initially found thirteen of the bodies in a shipping container, as a liaison for the investigation. Freamon and Bunk travel to the Philadelphia port where they detain the vessel that had delivered the container to Baltimore and they attempt to question the crew, but none of whom admit to speaking English. They eventually let the ship go after learning that two crewmen had jumped ship after Baltimore, the killer is one of those who fled, leaving the investigation at a dead end. Freamon and Bunk are severely rebuked by a frustrated Rawls for releasing the ship without getting statements, Freamon is relieved to be assigned, at Daniels request, to the detail investigating Frank Sobotka and the dockworkers union. Though he continues to assist Bunk and Russell in the Jane Does, on Beadies advice, Freamon convinces Daniels to clone the ports computers to track container movements
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Ellis Carver
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Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Seth Gilliam. Carver is an African American police officer and former commander of the Baltimore Police Departments Western District Drug Enforcement Unit. Carver is a detective under Major Foerster in season one, he joins the Barksdale detail along with his colleagues from narcotics, detectives Kima Greggs. Cedric Daniels, his shift lieutenant from narcotics, is assigned to command the detail, Carver tells Bodie Broadus in season one, episode five, that he was raised in the Flag House Courts housing project. Herc and Carver typically work as a pair and they are intimidated by Greggs ability and annoyed at her superior attitude towards them. They get into trouble early on in the investigation when they and Roland Pryzbylewski drunkenly raid a Barksdale-controlled high rise tower, prez exacerbates the situation by pistol-whipping a teenager. Daniels is exasperated with his detectives immaturity and lack of forethought, the narcotics detectives takes part in raids on Barksdales low-rise projects. When one of the dealers, Bodie Broadus, punches the elderly Patrick Mahon, Carver, Herc. Carver and Herc are later given the task of travelling to Bodies juvenile detention centre to try to convince him to become an informant and they arrive just as Bodie escapes by hitchhiking. Finding that he has absconded, they raid his home, finding only his grandmother, Herc later finds Bodie in the low-rise projects while on surveillance with Carver, and they arrest him. Finding that he remains defiant the detectives give him another beating, later, waiting to hand him over their attitude softens the three share a game of pool. Bodie gets released from juvenile detention following the intervention of the Barksdale crews lawyer Maurice Levy, unaware of this Carver and Herc angrily pick him up the next time they see him, but after finding that he had been legitimately released they give him a lift home. Some of the money goes missing by accident, which leads Carver to doubt Herc until he finds the money in the well of their car. This also got both of them on Daniels bad side, otherwise, Carver and Herc are useful in performing tedious but essential surveillance work for the detail. Carver takes his sergeants exam and passes while in the detail, although Herc scores better on the exam, Carver gets placed ahead of him on the promotion list because hes been relaying information about the details activities to Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell. Daniels eventually realizes that Carver is acting as Burrells spy in the detail, with the detail disbanded, Carver is moved to the Southeastern District, where he works as a traffic sergeant under Major Stanislaus Valchek. His dissatisfaction with the post is apparent when Valchek assigns him to dock workers vehicles. Daniels only condition is that Carver wont be treated as a sergeant in the detail, as he feels that Carver had not earned his promotion, Carver is again partnered with Herc and the two investigate drug dealing around the docks area
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Herc
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Thomas Herc Hauk is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Domenick Lombardozzi. The series introduces Herc as a detective in the Baltimore Police Departments Narcotics Unit and he is also partner and loyal friend to Ellis Carver, the two rarely being unpaired until later seasons. Herc and Ellis Carver typically work as a pair in Narcotics, all three join the Barksdale detail headed by their shift lieutenant, Cedric Daniels. Herc and Carver get into trouble early on in the investigation when, along with Roland Pryzbylewski, they charge into a Barksdale-controlled housing project. While there, Prez pistol whips one of the youths, blinding him in one eye, when young dealer Bodie Broadus punches Pat Mahon during a raid, Herc, Carver and Greggs give him a beating. When Bodie later escapes from a detention center, Herc and Carver pursue and rearrest him. Even so, the three play together when they find themselves having to wait hours to hand Bodie over. Some of the money goes missing when the bag rips in their trunk. After Daniels confronts them about the money, Carver begins to suspect Herc has stolen it. This also gets both of them on the side of Daniels, who assumes they simply stole and then returned the money. Later, while raiding a drug stash in Pimlico, Herc, with little study, Herc takes and passes the sergeants exam, placing 18th on the list of ranked, passing officers. After celebrating he finds out that he not in fact be promoted. Carver, however, who ranks 37, is promoted to Sergeant after acting as Ervin Burrells spy within the detail, when the detail is disbanded, Herc moves back to Narcotics, investigating white East-Side dealers. Daniels brings Herc into Stan Valcheks detail investigating Frank Sobotka, recognizing Hercs stomach for the tedium of surveillance work, at Hercs request, Daniels also brings Carver back but refuses to recognize his promotion, Kima remains lead detective for the detail. Herc is again partnered with Carver and the two investigate drug dealing around the docks area, Herc plays the key undercover role, dealing with the mostly white drug dealers in the Polish docks neighborhood of Baltimore. Through their surveillance, they are able to establish a link between Franks nephew and the drug trade. Herc feels unappreciated, as he and Carver are constantly relied upon to do tedious leg work for the detail, even having to install an air conditioner in the home of a judge. After being left out in the waiting for Nick Sobotka after Nick has already turned himself in, Herc convinces Carver they will never be respected in Daniels unit
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Roland Pryzbylewski
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Roland Prez Pryzbylewski is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Jim True-Frost. Pryzbylewski is a detective of Polish heritage in the Baltimore Police Department, initially seen as incompetent, hapless, corrupt and hot-headed, he proves to function better behind the scenes as a talented code-cracker. Eventually, he leaves the Baltimore Police Department following a shooting of another officer and becomes a middle school math teacher. In some ways he is the foil to Herc, who also lost his job at the police department but went on to aid criminals. Prez has a history of incompetence in the department, an oft-recounted incident involved him shooting up his own squad car in a panic. He has been bounced around various units, and is considered an inept detective by many of the subordinates in the Police Department, because of his marriage to the daughter of senior officer Stanislaus Stan Valchek, he is protected from being discharged, despite their mutual animosity. Prior to the beginning of Season 1, Pryzbylewski had been working in the casualty division under Lieutenant Cantrell, Prez is portrayed as a sometimes intelligent and decent man, but lacks the necessary drive due to the often brutal realities of Baltimore police work. Despite eventually winning the respect of his colleagues in the Barksdale Detail through his code-breaking and paper-trail skills, by contrast, he later becomes a dedicated and capable teacher. Prez is sent to Lieutenant Daniels Barksdale detail because Deputy Commissioner Burrell allows the unit commanders to dump their most incompetent officers on Daniels, upon arrival at the detail, he accidentally shoots a wall while showing off modifications to his gun. Daniels is appalled, but agrees to keep Prez if Cantrell will also give him Leander Sydnor, later, Prez, Herc, and Carver drunkenly incite a near-riot at the Franklin Terrace Towers, and Prez pistol-whips a teenager with his service weapon, blinding him in one eye. Notably, even the brutality-prone duo of Herc and Carver think Prezs actions are uncalled for, stuck in the office, Prez grows bored and begins playing with the Barksdale organizations pager codes, eventually breaking them and making a major contribution to the case. Under Freamons mentorship, he discovers a gift for wiretap work and following the paper trail, Prez confesses to his father-in-law that his earlier problems had largely been due to dissatisfaction with his traffic police work. He tells him that detailed case work had become his passion, when Valchek starts feuding with Frank Sobotka, he requests a detail similar to the previous Barksdale detail. As in the case, Burrell gives him a team largely consisting of incompetent humps. Prez is given minor authority within the detail, but Lieutenant Grayson will not follow his recommendations on how to proceed, when the focus of the investigation shifts away from Sobotka, Valchek angrily confronts the detail, berating Prez specifically. Prez stands up for their work and punches Valchek, Valchek agrees that Prez can return to the detail following a written letter of apology and two months of working the midnight shift as a narcotics detective in his district. Prez joins Daniels newly formed Major Crimes Unit, when responding to a distress call, Prez fails to properly identify himself as an officer and fatally shoots a plain clothes officer in a case of night-time mistaken identity. He is brought up on charges and suspended because the officer was African American
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Leander Sydnor
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Leander Sydnor is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Corey Parker Robinson. Sydnor is a young, married Baltimore Police detective who was a member of the Barksdale detail, once in the detail, he is partnered with Lester Freamon and the pair work on following the Barksdale organisations paper trail. Sydnor also performs valuable undercover work, making hand-to-hand buys to build evidence, alongside Kima Greggs, sydnors initial attempt to disguise himself as a junkie is not credible to Bubbles, but he proves responsible for identifying Avon Barksdale at the annual West-Side versus East-Side basketball game. He later tells Freamon, who has something of a mentor to the young detective. Sydnor returns to working in his old district after the dissolution of the Barksdale detail, Sydnor takes up the offer and again works on investigating the Barksdale organization. In Season four, the Major Case Unit starts investigating Marlo Stanfield in addition to the Barksdale money trail, Davis angrily protests the subpoenas to Mayor Clarence Royce, who then orders Burrell to rein in the Major Crimes Unit. Bill Rawls suggests that proper supervision is all the unit needs, Marimow is a caustic commander with a reputation for being a unit killer. Marimows command style drove away Freamon and Greggs, leaving only Sydnor, Sydnor decides he wants to leave the unit at the first available opening. The unit is eventually reconstituted under the control of Freamon after Daniels gets promoted to CID colonel, under Freamons leadership, Asher is renamed Lieutenant again, and Jimmy McNulty and Kima Greggs transfer back into the unit. Dozerman remains with the unit while Herc is suspended pending an internal investigations division investigation, as the season ends, a new investigative strategy is mapped out against Marlo. After more than a year of investigation into the Stanfield Organization the unit still does not have a strong case to file charges. Sydnor and Lester are detailed to the States Attorneys office to prepare the case against Clay Davis. Sydnor and Freamon first prepare the paperwork on Davis and then assist Rhonda Pearlman in a series of Grand Jury depositions, Sydnor uncovers evidence of Davis having committed a federal crime when he finds that Davis borrowed money from his mother for a mortgage deposit. Freamon realizes the significance of the crime and knows that it could mean a thirty-year jail term, the detectives present the evidence to States Attorney Rupert Bond and he refuses to take the case federal as he wants to prosecute Davis himself for political reasons. In the series finale, Sydnor visits Judge Daniel Phelan in his chambers to apply pressure in order to advance an investigation
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Beadie Russell
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Beatrice Beadie Russell is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Amy Ryan. She was featured prominently in the season, after she discovered thirteen corpses in a container on the Baltimore docks. Russell is introduced into the series as a port authority officer, Russells parents often help her with the kids. She found the job unchallenging and spent most of her time patrolling the docks, in season two, Russell notices a broken customs seal on a container while on patrol and searches the container, finding a hidden compartment filled with thirteen dead bodies of young women. McNulty had previously fished out a body while working for the Marine Unit. McNulty largely proceeds with his intervention to spite Major Rawls, who sent him to the unit as a punishment on Season 1. Russell is subsequently detailed to Homicide to aid in the investigation, Russell moves into Lieutenant Daniels detail after he agrees to investigate the bodies, where she soon fends off an awkward advance from Herc. Her home life makes it difficult for her to work the long hours necessary for the investigation, McNulty visits Russells house one night, but he feels uncomfortable with the presence of family photos and childrens toys, and leaves before a more intimate relationship develops. Russells familiarity with the people and organization of the port proves invaluable to the investigation and she taps Maui, an old boyfriend in Frank Sobotkas union, to find out more about illegal activity in the port. When a suspicious Sobotka sends out a truck carrying normal goods to test the waters, Frank later checks with other port officers who tell him she is still working with the detail, contrary to what she previously told him, and confirming his suspicions that he is being investigated. Despite these mis-steps, Russell gains the respect of the officers in the Sobotka detail, at the end of their investigation, when the focus shifts past Sobotka, Russell is entrusted with following Spiros Vondas Vondopoulos to a key meeting with The Greek. She comes through, delivering the location of the meeting, and enables the crew to get a photograph of Vondas. Russell is able to convince Frank Sobotka to inform on The Greek once a case is built against him. Her emotional offer of a deal has Frank ready to give up everything he knows in order to help his family. Sobotka does meet with the officers and DA so he can give a statement and his nephew Nick approaches him with an offer from Vondas to help his recently convicted son Ziggy from a murder charge. Before Sobotka meets with Vondas, The Greek is tipped off with Sobotkas collaboration with the detail through an FBI mole, so they slit Sobotkas throat and dump him in the bay. His corpse is found by the Marine Unit and placed in the port, the detail is informed of the demise and Russell witnesses her former friends mortal remains with great grief. In Season three, McNulty is reminded of Russell and, feeling his life is missing something, he reinitiates their relationship, by season four, the two are living together and McNulty has overcome many of his personal demons
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Cedric Daniels
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Cedric Daniels is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Lance Reddick. He is reasonably well regarded in the department by making his subordinates focus on decent police work, Daniels has been investigated by the FBI for corruption, and was found to have a couple hundred thousand dollars more in liquid assets than any police Lieutenant should ever have. Although eight actors are billed in the credits for all 60 episodes. Daniels is a lieutenant in season one and the shift commander for Detectives Kima Greggs, Ellis Carver. Daniels commanding officer is Major Raymond Foerster, when Jimmy McNulty prompts Judge Phelan to start asking questions about the Barksdale Organization, Major Foerster comes to Daniels for more information. He wasnt able to offer much as the division were unaware of Avon Barksdale. He had Greggs write a report and, soon after, Daniels is given command of the Barksdale Detail and he nominates Greggs as lead detective and describes her as the best he had to Foerster. He meets with Deputy Commissioner Burrell who tells him the case should be made with buy busts in a fast, Daniels discusses his new assignment with his ambitious wife Marla. They worry that it might slow his progression and he promises that he run the investigation per the wishes of the higher-ups. Marlas own ambitions drive her to pursue a career in politics, at one such function he finds himself hiding with the politicians drivers in the kitchen. There, he meets Senator Clay Davis driver Damian Day-Day Price, Daniels has a difficult relationship with the insubordinate McNulty that begins at their first meeting. Foerster and Burrell both warn Daniels that McNulty is responsible for Phelans sudden interest, for his part, McNulty is warned by Bunk Moreland that Daniels is a career officer and next in line for his own district as soon as a position with a Majors rank opened up. Daniels initially tries to follow Burrells advice that the operation should be fast and he shoots down McNultys suggestions of a surveillance operation at their first meeting. Daniels also has difficulties with other detectives on the detail. He is initially assigned humps - detectives that other districts wanted to remove, augustus Polk, Patrick Mahon and Lester Freamon appeared to be aging detectives happy to see out their careers. Mahon is injured by Bodie during a raid and takes early retirement, following this, his partner Polk takes to drinking more heavily, Daniels insists that Polk either clean himself up or sign off sick, Polk opts for the latter. Freamon proves to be capable and a huge asset to Danielss detail. Roland Pryzbylewski is a trigger happy detective who had shot up his own patrol car before he is assigned to Danielss detail
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William Rawls
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William A. Bill Rawls is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor John Doman. When Rawls is promoted to Deputy Commissioner, he is put in charge of the weekly ComStat meetings, during these meetings, he often berates and chastises his Majors when they make mistakes or are unable to control crime rate in their respective jurisdictions. He proves to be a leader, although his tough demeanor is usually aided by his obstinance and crude wit. Little is disclosed of Rawls personal life aside from allusions to his homosexuality and his wife. Rawls is a Major and commanding officer of the Homicide unit in Season 1 and he is a careerist, concerned only with maintaining the case clearance record of his unit, and is extremely demanding of his detectives. He is upset when Jimmy McNulty bypasses him to Judge Phelan to encourage further investigation of the Barksdale organization and he confronts McNulty about his insubordination. At the request for manpower and instruction of Burrell, Rawls send McNulty, Santangelo is picked for failing to meet his clearance quotas and is then used as Rawls inside man in Cedric Daniels Barksdale detail. McNulty is a detective but was deemed insubordinate and disloyal due to the back-channeling. Rawls relies upon Sergeant Jay Landsman to handle much of his communication with the men under his command in homicide. McNulty attempts to placate Rawls by working several old murder cases, most notably the Deidre Kresson case, linking them all to the same gun, Rawls is delighted, and wants to immediately issue a warrant for DAngelo. When McNulty learns of this, he is dismayed, since arresting DAngelo was premature, the detail persuades Daniels to fight Rawls push for arrests. Eventually Daniels goes over Rawls head and meets with Burrell, convincing him to put the warrants on hold for the time being and this further infuriates Rawls, and he begins hounding Santangelo to bring him something on McNulty. Rawls demands that Sanny either clear a case by days end, inform on McNulty. McNulty and Bunk Moreland manage to save Santangelos skin by clearing one of his cases while sending Santangelo on a trip to a phony gypsy named Madame LaRue. Following the shooting of Detective Kima Greggs in a buy bust gone wrong and his first action is to order all non-essential personnel, including Greggs friends in her detail, to disperse from the crime scene. He later speaks to a distraught McNulty and reassured him that he was not ultimately responsible for the shooting, Rawls also transfers Santangelo to the Western District as a beat officer. Rawls transfers in Lester Freamon to replace McNulty, noticing his talent for detail in the Barksdale investigation, Rawls gets promoted to colonel, partly on the basis of McNultys work on the Barksdale case, but his former detective remains a thorn in his side. When McNulty comes across a floater while on patrol, Rawls manages to convince another department that the case belonged to them
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Ervin Burrell
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Ervin H. Burrell is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Frankie Faison. Burrell was an officer in the Baltimore Police Department who ascended from Deputy Commissioner of Operations to Commissioner over the course of the show and he was fired by Mayor Tommy Carcetti for falsifying crime statistics. Burrell is a careerist who believes in the BPDs chain of command, Burrell is a statistical bureaucrat who cares more about reducing crime on paper than building strong cases. He is conscious of the coverage of the BPD and is very sensitive to the newspaper headlines concerning its progress. Burrell attended Dunbar High School and was a member of the glee club. He was a year ahead of Proposition Joe Stewart, who described Burrell in high school as stone stupid, an ambitious Deputy Commissioner at the start of season 1, Burrell plans to ascend to Commissioner, a post held by Warren Frazier throughout the second season. Burrells primary responsibility is to ensure that Fraziers directives are obeyed throughout the department and he consistently shows more interest in making good headlines rather than good cases. When DAngelo Barksdale beats a murder charge by buying off a witness, Burrell faces criticism from the judge, Daniel Phelan. Burrell hastily assembles a force to placate Phelan, under the command of Lieutenant Cedric Daniels. From the beginning, Burrell is unsupportive of the unit, giving Daniels the worst officers available and he orders premature seizure raids that tip the Barksdale organization off to the details efforts and prompts them to change their operating structure, hindering further investigation. When the detail begins investigating donations from the Barksdale organization to local politicians and he is also upset to find that the case is becoming prolonged and that the detail has set up wiretaps. The detail seizes Barksdale money being carried by a driver for the state senator Clay Davis. Burrell next orders the detail to perform an operation, which ends in disaster. The high-profile shooting prompts more involvement from Frazier, who, along with Burrell, Burrell bribes Detective Ellis Carver with a promotion to sergeant in exchange for information from inside the detail. Daniels turns the back on Burrell by telling him that he was ready to face the charges. When the Barksdale case ends, Burrell reassigns Daniels to evidence control as punishment for defying him, Burrell also learns about Jimmy McNultys disclosure of information to Phelan, he approves McNultys reassignment to the harbor patrol unit as punishment. With Fraziers retirement, Burrell is named Acting Commissioner of the BPD, with the support of the mayor and many of the citys African American political figures, Burrells appointment to Commissioner is made a certainty. The only dissenting voices come from first district council members, Valchek is convinced that Sobotka, the local head of a stevedore union, is smuggling through the docks, he also holds a petty grudge against Sobotka
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Howard "Bunny" Colvin
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Howard Bunny Colvin is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Robert Wisdom. Colvin also concentrates policing in these areas and attracts important ground-level social services, such as needle, despite unprecedented statistical gains, Colvin meets reprimand, demotion and retirement, later to become a field researcher alongside academic Dr. David Parenti in Baltimore city schools. In this role, Colvin falls into the guardianship of Namond Brice, Colvin joined the Baltimore Police Department around 1973 patrolling his home neighborhood in the Western District, one of his early posts was at Pensey and Fremont. Over his tenure, he advanced to the rank of District Commander in the Western District, Colvins philosophy of policing involves protecting the community he serves by making quality arrests through the use of trusted informants on his foot post. As a commander he insists that his men learn their sense of direction, their foot post, toward the end of his career, he began seeing the war on drugs as an ineffective waste of time and resources in his district that brought about too many unnecessary deaths. During his conversation with Wee-Bey, it is implied that he was friends with members of the Barksdale organization from childhood, Colvin is first seen as a Major and commander of the Western district in Stray Rounds. He attends the scene of the shooting of a child during a drug turf war and is appalled at the senselessness of the killing. In season three, Colvin, months away from being eligible to retire on a Majors pension, decides to make a last effort to have a impact on the community he has been policing for thirty years. All of Baltimores district Majors are under pressure from the mayors office to reduce the citys violent crime rate in preparation for the mayoral primary campaign. Colvin refuses to do this, and his stats honestly reflected a 2% rise in felonies and he is quickly chewed out by Bill Rawls, while Burrell threatens to have him replaced and subject to the same fate as Taylor. This moves the drug trade into a controlled, uninhabited area to protect the rest of his district, one of these areas becomes known as Hamsterdam, after Amsterdams liberal drug laws. Because his retirement is imminent and he is guaranteed a Majors pension, although his project initially draws suspicion from the districts dealers, he convinces them to move their trade by brutally cracking down on any drug dealing outside of the free zones. Legalizing drugs in Hamsterdam allows Colvin to reassign police resources to solving quality felony cases elsewhere, after implementing the Hamsterdam plan for five weeks, Colvin delivers a cumulative 14% reduction in the felony rate, unheard of in the Western districts history. Colvin is forced to take his vacation time immediately after revealing his experiment to Rawls, Mayor Clarence Royce considers trying to spin Hamsterdam as an enforcement strategy because of its success in lowering the crime rate. However, in the meantime, Herc leaks the story of Hamsterdam to the press, Burrell offers Colvin to Royce as a sacrificial offering and scapegoat. He and Rawls convince Colvin to accept the responsibility silently by threatening to persecute his officers and they demote him to lieutenant and thus lower his pension. Burrell tops this by contacting Johns Hopkins University, and informs them of Colvins role with Hamsterdam, as a commanding officer, Colvin is well liked by his men. Colvin has an impact on Carver, convincing him to reassess his role as DEU sergeant
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Jay Landsman (The Wire)
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Jay Landsman is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Delaney Williams. Landsmans role in the department is that of a supervisory detective sergeant who rarely participates in investigative work. Landsman generally acts in the best interests of his subordinates especially those who give him the necessary clearances, as a supervisor, Landsman acts in accordance with the wishes of his superior officers even though in some cases, he does not necessarily agree with specific commands. Examples of this are when he is ordered to have Bunk Moreland find Kenneth Dozermans missing firearm in Season 3, throughout the series, he is shown as a commander attempting to strike a balance between loyalty to subordinates and superiors, most often favoring the latter. Landsman has only called to solve a few murders on his own as a supervisor. Landsman is generally jovial and provides a degree of relief in the series. He also possesses a shrewd understanding of the politics in the chain of command. He states that clearly to McNulty, during the first episode of season 2, by saying its all about self-preservation, however, he can be mildly bullying and tends to derive his good humor from schadenfreude though he is not generally malicious. He has the duty of ministering in the informal detective wakes held in honor of the deceased at Kavanaughs, wakes take place in Season 3, Season 4 and Season 5. Landsman is a sergeant in the homicide division of the Baltimore police department. His commanding officer was originally William Rawls, Landsmans squad consists of several of the shows characters - in season one it comprised Detectives Jimmy McNulty, Bunk Moreland, Michael Santangelo, Ray Cole, Ed Norris and Vernon Holley. Landsman finds the misfortune of the cops in his unit a constant source of amusement but is protective of them at times. He is loyal to Rawls and also pursues the high case clearance rates that Rawls aims for but is realistic about the capabilities of his detectives. When McNulty went around the chain of command and incurred Rawlss wrath by being detailed to another unit Landsman appeared unsympathetic and he insisted that McNultys work looking at old homicide cases for the detail be put to his advantage to make up for losing a detective. To this end, he insisted that McNulty look into the Deirdre Kresson murder case, Landsman was sure a link would be found and his intuition later proved correct. However, Landsman did argue McNultys case with Rawls and managed to get Rawls to agree that McNulty could return to homicide with a clean slate if the investigation was wrapped up quickly. Despite Landsmans best efforts McNulty remained out of favor with Rawls because he refused to end the case he was working on prematurely, Landsman always maintained a black and twisted humor about the work of his squad. When Rawls gave Detective Santangelo an ultimatum of clearing a whodunit case by days end Landsman recommended him a psychic and he claimed that the woman, Madame LaRue, was especially gifted in matters of death investigation
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Stan Valchek
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Stanislaus Stan Valchek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Al Brown. Valchek is the Polish-American commander of the Southeastern district, home to many of the white ethnic neighborhoods in Baltimore. His political savvy led to a quick and easy rise through the ranks, despite being disliked by commanding officers such as Commissioner Ervin Burrell, Valchek is Roland Prez Pryzbylewskis father-in-law. Valchek only appears once, in a meeting with Deputy Commissioner Burrell and Lieutenant Daniels, Valchek tells Daniels that if Daniels helps Prez, Valchek will owe him a favor. Both men want to donate stained glass windows to a local church, Valchek becomes curious as to how the struggling union can afford the expensive window. The union respond by stealing Valcheks valuable district surveillance van and shipping it from port to port, Valchek discusses the union with Krawczyk, who knows of Sobotka making numerous campaign contributions. Valchek feels there is a possibility of illegal activity, while at the same time noticing Burrells nomination for Acting Commissioner, Burrell has Rawls send an investigative team from CID to Valchek, all highly recommended officers, but in fact just dead-weight humps. Burrell obligingly recreates Daniels task force, as the investigation expands to cover Greek drug traffickers, Sobotka ceases to be the primary target, angering Valchek. Valchek goes to the FBI to try to refocus the investigation, turning it into a racketeering case, Valchek confronts Daniels team publicly, insulting and shoving Prez, who responds by punching Valchek in the face. Furious, he disowns Prez and threatens to have him expelled from the department, Daniels convinces him to reduce Prezs punishment, pointing out that any official action will have to mention that Valchek provoked the attack. Valchek grudgingly assigns Prez two months of duty on the shift of the districts narcotics unit and accepts a letter of apology in exchange for not charging him. At the close of the investigation, Valchek delights in making the arrest of Sobotka. Sobotka is later killed, but the van is still being shipped around the world. In the midst, Valchek is surprised and amused when Major Colvin stands up to Rawls, when talking with the other commanders, Valchek is amused by Colvins proposal of drug legalization to decrease the felonies in the Western District. Later, during the pursuit of a suspect, Prez accidentally kills a plainclothes officer, Valchek mentors Herc in political maneuvering, after Herc catches Royce receiving a blowjob from a secretary. Acting on Valcheks advice, Herc is promoted to sergeant, with Carcetti running for Mayor, Valchek supports his campaign, leaking him information such as the murder of a states witness. Before this happened, Carcetti gets elected Mayor, and Burrell manages to keep his position for the time being. At the promotion ceremony, Valcheks wife and daughter are present while Prez is conspicuously absent, Valchek is shown early in the season leaking the departments real police statistics over the increased crime rate to Carcetti
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Rhonda Pearlman
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Rhonda Pearlman is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actress Deirdre Lovejoy. Pearlman has been the legal system liaison for all of Lieutenant Cedric Daniels investigations on the show, later in the series, she begins a relationship with Cedric Daniels. As a leading Assistant States Attorney in the division, Pearlman has been a guiding legal presence through all of the wiretap details investigations. One of the most morally upright figures on the show, she is ambitious nonetheless, as the seasons progress, she becomes more obsessed with her own success and willing to cut legal and moral corners in order to advance her own career. She once had a spot for Jimmy McNulty, leading to an on-again-off-again affair that was eventually discovered by McNultys wife -. Although McNulty was honest enough to give Pearlman no hint of a future together and this ended when her relationship with Daniels began. She appears telling Daniels to make lemonade with the lack of quality police he has been given and she approves the units level of exhaustion of conventional means – a requirement to have a wiretap authorized – helping them make a case against Avon Barksdale. Throughout the season, she has a relationship with McNulty. As the States Attorney for Baltimore City Demper is more interested in his position than quality prosecutions and threatens her job. When Barksdales nephew DAngelo is arrested for possession, she. The attempt fails when his mother intervenes, and Avon Barksdale gets a lighter prison sentence, Pearlman continues her casual relationship with Jimmy McNulty but was not as involved with an investigation run by Daniels due to the lack of drug cases. As McNulty is attempting to rebuild his marriage and cope with his posting to the marine unit, he. When Daniels now-permanent Major Case Unit investigates Frank Sobotka and The Greeks illegal activities at the port, the case hits a dead end when the Greeks inside man in the FBI, Ernst Koutris, leaks information leading to the execution of Frank Sobotka. Pearlman is the first to notice Lieutenant Daniels is living in the detail office, Pearlman makes a pass at Daniels, beginning a relationship that continues throughout the season. Daniels however is skeptical about making their public, as he is still posing as Marlas husband in order to help her bid for city council. Daniels claims that it will look bad for Marlas political career if he is seen to be separated from her, the detail is now chasing a drug dealer, Kintell Williamson, who is suspected in a number of murders, a task that annoys McNulty. In the meantime, Avon Barksdale is granted parole despite Pearlmans recommendation to the contrary, when McNulty links a number of murders to Stringer Bell, the detail changes targets back to Bell and the Barksdale Organization. The detail sees disposable cell phones are being used and Pearlman and Daniels go to the wireless provider, eventually Pearlman relies on Daniels to use his FBI connections to get a wiretap
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Maurice Levy (The Wire)
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Maurice Maury Levy is a fictional character in the HBO drama The Wire, played by Michael Kostroff. Levy is corrupt and unscrupulous, willing to aid his clients in furtherance of their criminal activity, in the pilot episode, The Target, Levy represented Avons nephew DAngelo Barksdale at the Pooh Blanchard murder trial and successfully returned a not guilty verdict. Levys case was strengthened when Nakeesha Lyles, a key witness, changed her story, the next time DAngelo was arrested, Levy rebuked him for writing a letter of condolence – at McNulty and Bunks urging – to the family of a murdered witness. He was able to get the charges dropped against young Barksdale dealer Bodie Broadus in juvenile court, Levy also advised Stringer Bell and Avon on how to protect themselves when they suspected they were being investigated. His assertion that they should tie up any loose ends, particularly those not bound by ties of loyalty to them, led to the death of Nakeesha Lyles. When Barksdale front owner Orlando was arrested for attempting to purchase drugs, Levy visited him in prison, Levy later represented Barksdale soldier Savino when he was arrested following a failed undercover operation, in the course of which Orlando and Detective Greggs were shot. Levy was able to limit Savinos charge to a 3-year plea bargain for an attempt to supply fake narcotics, later, Levy was instrumental in damage-control when the Barksdale organization was struck by multiple arrests. He ensured that DAngelo was not kept in police protection, allowing his mother to him not to testify against the Barksdale organization. Levy successfully negotiated Avons first parole hearing in exchange for information on a corrupt guard following the deaths of several inmates, Avon had actually set up the deaths to frame the guard, with the reduced sentence as his goal. After Stringer is duped by Senator Clay Davis, Levy chastises him, Levy continued to defend Avon and most of his organization when a second wiretap investigation led to a mass prosecution. Levy also represented Poot Carr, who received a four-year sentence, Levy is seen briefly in season four, representing Anthony Wardell in the high-profile Braddock murder case. He allowed his client to undergo a polygraph test because he was convinced of his innocence on the charge, Levy hires ex-police officer Thomas Herc Hauk as an investigator. Levy encourages Herc to use the firms expense account to pay for officers tabs, after being introduced to Marlo Stanfield by Proposition Joe, Levy counsels Stanfield on money laundering. Levy later suspects that Marlos arrest is due to an illegal wiretap, Levy is last seen in the final episode of season five, socializing with Marlo Stanfield at a downtown evening event and introducing him to different businessmen. Levy is among The Wires least sympathetic characters, Slate writer David Plotz describes him as the most repulsive piece of garbage in the city of Baltimore and he is also the shows most explicitly Jewish character. Some writers have suggested that the character reflects some anti-semitic stereotypes, David Simon, who is himself Jewish, has explained and justified the characterization as authentic, Why did we make this guy Jewish. Because when I was covering the drug trade for 13 years for the Sun, some of them are now disbarred and others are not but came pretty close. Anyone who is anyone in law enforcement in Baltimore knows the three or four guys Maury Levy is patterned on, if I have people from every other tribe in Baltimore portrayed negatively, everyone is maligned in some way, how can I not do that to the Jewish guy
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Bubbles (The Wire)
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Reginald Bubbles Cousins is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Andre Royo. Bubbles is a heroin addict. His real name is not revealed until an episode when he is called Mr. Cousins. Bubbles has a son named KeyShawn, who lives with his mother, Bubbles is a crucial informant for the police throughout the series due to his extraordinarily detailed knowledge of the streets of Baltimore and their inhabitants. Bubbles is an intelligent and compassionate man who cares about his friend Johnny Weeks and Sherrod. His struggle to deal with his addiction and make a life for himself is a major sub-plot over the course of the series. Bubbles is first seen as an addict and best friend. The two run a scam creating counterfeit money using a photocopier and coffee staining, Bubbles successfully uses the money to purchase drugs from a crew of dealers working for the Barksdale organization. However, when the money is passed on to DAngelo Barksdale, the next time they try the scam, a nervous Johnny is unsuccessful. He is stopped and severely beaten by the Barksdale drug dealers, Bubbles offers to inform on the Barksdale gang for Detective Kima Greggs, to get some measure of revenge for Johnnys beating. Bubbles knowledge of the street proves invaluable to Lieutenant Cedric Daniels unit as they investigate the Barksdale organization and he helps identify the crew members who run the Barksdale pit and those who work in the high-rise towers. When Omar Little robs the Barksdale stash, Bubbles is present, and gives the license number of Omars van to Greggs. McNulty recruits Bubbles to find Omar Little, whom Bunk needs as a witness in the William Gant murder, Bubbles grudgingly agrees, and in a nervous encounter with a shotgun-wielding Omar, delivers McNultys message. Bubbles is back to assisting the Major Crimes Unit once again, Bubbles is a former associate of Squeak, the girlfriend of Bernard, the runner assigned by the Barksdale gang to pick up their burner phones. Bubbles puts them in touch with an undercover Lester Freamon, allowing the unit to sell pre-tapped burner phones directly to the gang, in season four, Bubbles shares an abandoned garage with teenaged Sherrod, peddling small goods from a shopping cart to support themselves. Sherrod had trouble with the involved and asked Bubbles to help re-enroll him in school. Sherrod never makes it to school, however, and after a brief fall-out with Bubbles he returns to help him sell goods from the shopping carts. In Sherrods absence, however, Bubbles has become the victim of another street addict
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Dennis "Cutty" Wise
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Dennis Cutty Wise is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Chad Coleman. Wise is a criminal who sets up a boxing gym for neighborhood children. The name Dennis Wise was taken from an actual Baltimore contract killer, the nickname Cutty originates from the character serving time in the Maryland State Penitentiary in Jessup, Maryland, which was nicknamed The Cut. Cutty is known as a soldier in Baltimores drug trade. Cutty is well respected by Avon and many others in his organization for the work he did before going to prison, Avon approaches Cutty with an offer of work shortly before his release. Barksdale lieutenant Shamrock gives him a gift of a package of narcotics. After observing a street dealer for a time, Cutty approaches him, the dealer, Fruit, takes Cutty up on his offer but refuses to pay him when Cutty returns for the profits. Fruit then takes out a gun and threatens Cutty, leading him to back down, Cutty turns to work as a day laborer with a landscaping crew to get by. He tracks down his ex-girlfriend, Grace Sampson, to reconnect and she puts him in touch with her church deacon to help him find work, but resists any other involvement. The deacon suggests that Cutty study to obtain his GED, but Cutty sees this as too difficult and, despite his initial hesitation and his effectiveness and intelligence as an enforcer is shown on several occasions when working for Avon. He quickly earns the respect of Avons primary enforcer Slim Charles and he works with young soldiers Sapper and Gerard to track down a thief in the Barksdale organization, and his experience and intelligence enables them to quickly identify the culprit. Cutty is appalled when the soldiers almost kill the young dealer, believing a warning beating sufficient to modify his behavior. A turf war between the Barksdales and new power Marlo Stanfield provides more work for Barksdale soldiers, Cutty and Slim Charles plan a raid on a Stanfield corner using a pincer movement. Their younger associates ruin their plan by striking too soon and Barksdale veteran Country is killed as a consequence, Cutty and Slim Charles later decide to strike back alone but when their moment comes Cutty is faced with Fruit and finds himself unable to fire. It becomes clear to Cutty that he no longer has the game in him, after which he tells Avon that hes leaving the crew, saying, Avon decides to let him leave, telling Slim Charles that Cutty still deserves their respect. Wise then begins to build a new life by returning to landscaping and, at the deacons suggestion, at first he is overwhelmed by the bureaucracy and red tape involved in opening the gym, but receives political backing from the deacons contact, Rev. Frank Reid. Reid puts Wise in touch with State Delegate Odell Watkins and Marla Daniels, Watkins has Daniels help Wise to get the permits he needs for the gym. Attempting to raise the funds to equip the gym, he approaches Avon to request the funding
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Johnny Weeks
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Johnny Weeks is a fictional character on the HBO drama series The Wire, portrayed by Leo Fitzpatrick. A heroin addict, he commits a series of petty crimes to afford his habit, in season one Johnny is Bubbles best friend and a drug addict with notoriously bad luck. He is naive and enthusiastic for the game, allowing Bubbles to play the role of teacher, in the pilot episode he is badly beaten by Bodie Broadus, Poot Carr and other dealers after trying to pass counterfeit money to DAngelo Barksdales operation. This spurs Bubbles to become an informant but Johnny disapproves and takes no part in it except when arrested by police. While in the hospital for that beating, Johnny discovers he is HIV positive, Johnny and Bubbles continue to steal from scrapyards, but Bubbles would rather inform detectives McNulty and Greggs about the street dealers. In the season three finale Johnny overdoses and his body is discovered in a vacant house in the Hamsterdam free zone that Major Colvin had set up, Johnny is based on a young white homeless addict that David Simon met while researching The Corner. This man would follow Simons subject, drug addict Gary McCullough, around
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Butchie
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Butchie is a fictional blind man on HBO drama season The Wire, portrayed by S. Robert Morgan. Mostly blind Butchie is Omar Littles bank and advisor and he runs an East-Side Baltimore bar. Later in the season it became apparent that he was a connection to Omar and his connection to Omar was more apparent, as several scenes showed Omar getting advice from Butchie. Omar enlisted Butchie to find Officer Dozermans missing gun, and returned it to Detective Bunk Moreland through Butchie, Butchie later provides Omar with Avon Barksdales hideout location. Butchie had known the information all along but hoped to protect Omar by withholding it, in the end Avon is arrested before Omar can use Butchies tip. Proposition Joe again contacted Butchie to meet with Omar, this time pitting Omar against Marlo Stanfield by convincing him to rob a card game that Stanfield attended, when Stanfield contrived to have Omar framed for murder in response, Butchie was Omars first phone call after he was arrested. Omar escaped the charge and stole a shipment of drugs from the New Day Co-Op. Butchie suggested that Omar sell the shipment back to Joe, Butchie was tortured and murdered in his bar by Stanfield enforcers Chris Partlow and Snoop to lure Omar from retirement. Butchie refused to give information as to Omars whereabouts, Omar was notified of Butchies death, like his character, actor S. Robert Morgan is blind. He lost his sight to macular degeneration in his twenties, Omar Little and associates Rafael Alvarez. Peter L. Beilenson, Patrick A. McGuire, tapping into The Wire, The Real Urban Crisis. Butchie, characters of The Wire Discovering The Wire, inventive Methods, The Happening of the Social. The Wire, Urban Decay and American Television, the Wire, Deadwood, Homicide, and NYPD Blue, Violence Is Power. Butchie, The Wire Butchie, The Wire
