Questions tagged [the-wire]
A critically-acclaimed, ensemble television drama that originally aired from 2002-2008 on HBO. Taking place in Baltimore, the show explores the inner-working and relationships among the police department, seaports, illegal drug trade, city government, public schools and print media.
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Is Sheena Barksdale a.k.a 'Cass' from The Wire the actual daughter of the real life Barksdale?
Sheena Barksdale, aka 'Cass' appears in The Wire first season as an uncredited character who is part of D' Angelo Barksdale's crew, however that is her only on screen appearance in the show. The Wire ...
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How did Omar and Butch originally meet?
I am almost finished with season 4 of the wire - on the season finale - I am wanting to know how Omar and Butch originally met or how they know each other. They have a unique bond and Omar can always ...
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Why use a slide rule and not an electronic calculator?
In Season 2 Episode 2 of The Wire at around 31:30, we see a guy (forensic medical examiner?) use a slide rule. Why not use a normal electronic calculator? I'm not really familiar with the show - is ...
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Why is Omar Little's body a white male?
By the end of The Wire, Season 5, Ep 8, a body bag marked as Omar Little is opened in a morgue, and a white male body is discovered.
What does this scene mean?
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Did The Wire invent the "Jump 5" cipher?
This is a version of a question I asked on Security.SE, this time with a focus on the TV side of it.
In S01E05 of The Wire, at around the 45:00 mark, it's revealed that:
In more detail:
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In The Wire, how did they film the scene where the Franklin Terrace towers are collapsing?
I'm referring to the intro of Season 3.
Did they actually collapse an old building for the sake of the series? Or did they film the collapse of a different building that was going to be destroyed ...
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What is that attachment on the telephone?
In The Wire, I noticed there was an attachment on the telephone set. What is it? I encircled it with a polygon.
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Camera manipulating actor's heights? (Chris Bauer height? The Wire vs For All Mankind)
I've started watching For All Mankind and was pleased to see Chris Bauer in a strong supporting role playing Deke Slayton. I hadn't seen him in anything since he played Frank Sobotka in The Wire
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Why does Nick Sobotka have a pi tattoo?
Nick Sobotka is a major character in the second season of The Wire. In many scenes we can see that he has a very large letter pi (π) tattooed on the back of his neck. Why does he have this rather ...
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Are those apartments in The Wire abandoned?
In the tv show, The Wire, people live in apartments with barricaded doors and broken windows. One example is shown below:
Are those apartments abandoned or simply out of maintenance due to any reason?...
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What is the significance of this photo?
In The Wire Season 2 Episode 7 "Backwash." in Frank's office there is a dart board with a black and white photo of someone. This implies the photo is someone that Frank hates/despises.
Who is the ...
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D'Angelo tap, tap, tap murder reference
In The Wire, Season 1, Episode 13 (The Sentencing), there's a scene where D'Angelo (Dee) is in the interview room with his own lawyer (not Levy) about 19 mins into the episode:
PEARLMAN: Your ...
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What happened to the children Wallace was looking after?
In The Wire Wallace takes care of quite a few children. When he returns to the house at the end of series 1, they're all gone. Where?
Poot and Bodie didn't kill them (they weren't wild about killing ...
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Did Vince Gilligan or other major Breaking Bad participants acknowledge the Wire as an inspiration? Did any Wire people comment on Breaking Bad?
The two shows are often compared, and it's easy to see why. They have some common themes. They're both about the drug trade. They both deal with failing institutions: law enforcement on one BB side, ...
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Why didn't Bubbles face any consequences for his work as an informant?
In The Wire, Bubbles was a drug addict who was a grass for Detective Greggs and other Balitmore cops. He was instrumental in providing evidence to help convict members of the Barksdale gang.
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Did Stringer Bell plan on having Avon killed?
I missed this part of the plot: the major incriminating thing the police got on String was talk about "two hitters", which the got on wiretap. I assume these hitters were put on Avon by Bell.
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Why didn't they go through with taking the case to the feds?
When the high command is about to shut down the Season 1 case on Avon Barksdale, McNulty comes up with taking the case to the FBI and he goes to them along with Daniels and Freamon to tell them about ...
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The Wire: Payphone Code
In S01E05 of The Wire, why did they need to crack the code the way they did?
Freamon said they got the pages and the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls of the payphones as well as the duration.
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The Wire: Pager Cloning
In S01E05 the police finally gets all the paperwork to clone Dee's pager.
I'm wondering how exactly they cloned the pager, as they had him in earlier episodes but did lack the paperwork. Was it ...
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What exactly was the "dirt" on Daniels in The Wire?
Now that I am rewatching the whole series, I don't recall that I ever fully understood what Cedric Daniels in "The Wire" did while working in the Eastern District.
What was in the file that Deputy ...
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The meaning of the intro to S01E01 of The Wire
In the intro of season 1, episode 1 of The Wire, detective McNulty and some random dude talk about the Snot Boogie being murdered because of a craps game. What's the meaning behind this intro scene ...
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What happened to "The Greek" in the Wire?
"The Greek" managed to board a plane with Vondas at the end of season 2 therefore avoiding being arrested.
I remember a scene in season 5 where Marlo meets Vondas on a park bench which leads to a ...
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How did Bunk cross McNulty?
In Season 1, Episode 7, there is funny, heart-warming bar scene between McNulty and Bunk.
They're both drunk and McNulty's laying on all kinds of compliments. Then he closes with "you know why I ...
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Detective Leander Sydnor - What was the point?
You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of 'The Wire' than me. The writing was superlative; amongst the very best ever.
Having said that, I always struggled with Detective Leander Sydnor's ...
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