“Transitions” 1
“Unconfirmed Reports” 1, 2
“Undertow” 1
Wendell Pierce as 1
Morgan, S. Robert 1
Morse, George 1
Mother Teresa of Calcutta 1
Mott the Hoople 1
Mouzone, Brother 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n, 11, 12, 13, 14
Multiple Maniacs (John Waters) 1
Murphy, Bill 1, 2
Muzio, Gloria “Lessons” 1
Narcotics Anonymous 1, 2
Neal, Donald 1
Neville Brothers 1, 2, 3
New Charles 1, 2
New Day Co-op 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
New York Times 1, 2, 3, 4
New York Times Sunday Magazine 1, 2
New Yorker 1, 2
Newark Star-Ledger 1
NewsHour (PBS) 1
Nighthawks 1
Nightline (ABC) 1
Noble, Nina Kostroff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nonesuch Records 1, 2
Norris, Detective Ed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Norris, Edward T. 1 as Detective Ed Norris 1
Nutter, Michael 1
NYPD Blue (ABC) 1, 2, 3, 4
O-Dog (Stanfield rookie) 1, 2, 3
Obama, Barack 1, 2
O’Connell, Patrick 1
“Old Face Andre” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Olear, Doug 1, 2, 3
Olesker, Michael 1, 2, 3
O’Malley, Martin, Mayor (subsequently Governor) 1, 2
Omar see Little, Omar
On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan film) 1
Orange, Rashad 1
Ottawa Globe Report 1
Overmyer, Eric “Margin of Error” 1
“Misgivings” 1
Pais, Noah Bonaparte 1
Pakula, Alan 1
Parenti, Professor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Parker, Alan 1, 2, 3
Parsons, Gram 1
Partlow, Chris 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 “Alliances” 1, 2, 3, 4
bonehouse work 1, 2
“Boys of Summer” 1
“Corner Boys” 1, 2
“Final Grades” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
fingered for Michael’s stepfather’s murder 1
“Home Rooms” 1
“Misgivings” 1, 2
“More with Less” 1
murder of Andre 1
“A New Day” 1
“Not for Attribution” 1, 2
positive match with Manigault 1
“Refugees” 1, 2
surveillance on 1
“Unconfirmed Reports” 1, 2
Patrice (Fruit’s girlfriend) 1
Patterson, Kwame 1
Peanut Butter and Jelly (street kid) 1, 2, 3
Pearlman, Asst. State’s Attorney Rhonda 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 “All Due Respect” 1
“Alliances” 1
“Backwash” 1, 2
“Bad Dreams” 1
“Boys of Summer” 1
“Duck and Cover” 1
“Final Grades” 1
plea bargaining 1
“Port in a Storm” 1
“Reformation” 1
“Sentencing” 1
serial killer fairy tale exposed 1
woman of The Wire 1, 2
Pearson, Cora and Levi 1
Pearson, Felicia 1, 2
Peckinpah, Sam 1
Pelecanos, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8 “Bad Dreams” 1
“Cleaning Up” 1
“Duck and Cover” 1
“Hamsterdam” 1
“Late Editions” 1
“Middle Ground” 1
“Slapstick” 1
“That’s Got His Own” 1
“The Writer’s Ambition” 1
Pelosi, Speaker Nancy 1, 2
Pembleton, Detective Frank 1
Peranio, Vince 1, 2, 3, 4
Peroni, Geraldine 1
Perry, Tyler 1
Phelan, Judge Daniel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pierce, Wendell 1, 2
Pinochet, Augusto 1
Platt, David “Alliances” 1
Poetics (Aristotle) 1
The Pogues 1, 2
Police Story (Columbia) 1
Polk, Detective Augustus “Augie” 1
Poot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 “Final Grades” 1, 2
“Misgivings” 1
sentence served 1
“Time After Time” 1
Porter, Jill 1
Porterfield, Katherine 1
Porterfield, Matthew 1
Price, Brandon 1
Price, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 “All Due Respect” 1
“Corner Boys” 1
“Home Rooms” 1
“Moral Midgetry” 1
“Took” 1
Price III, G. Jefferson 1
Prine, John 1
Pryor, Richard 1
Pryzbylewski, Detective Ronald “Prez” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 as teacher “Prezbo” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
neglect, feelings of 1
working the pager codes 1, 2
Rados, Stephen 1
Ralston, Jen 1
Randy see Wagstaff, Randy
Rangel, U.S. Rep. Charles B. 1
Ransome, Joyce 1, 2
Ransone, James “P. J.” 1
Rawls, Major (later Colonel) William A. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 “All Due Respect” 1, 2
“Alliances” 1, 2
“Backwash” 1
“Collateral Damage” 1, 2
“Corner Boys” 1
“Dead Soldiers” 1
“Duck and Cover” 1
“Final Grades” 1
“Hard Cases” 1, 2
“Home Rooms” 1, 2
“Hot Shots” 1
“Middle Ground” 1
“Misgivings” 1
“Moral Midgetry” 1
“More with Less” 1
“A New Day” 1
“Not for Attribution” 1
“Port in a Storm” 1
“Reformation” 1
“Refugees” 1
“Sentencing” 1
serial killer fairy tale exposed 1
“Time After Time” 1
“Transitions” 1
Reagan, Ronald 1, 2
Reed, Lou 1
Renaldo (Omar’s lover and protégé) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Requer, Detective Oscar 1, 2, 3
Ricardo, Ricky 1, 2
Rickman, Alan 1
Rico (Barksdale soldier) 1
Ritter, John 1
Ritz, David 1
The Road (John Hillcoat film) 1
Robinson, Brooks 1
Robinson, Corey Parker 1, 2
Robinson, Frank 1
Rockefeller, John D. 1
Rockwell, Norman 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1
Roth, Philip 1
Rourke, Mickey 1
Royce, Mayor Clarence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ahead in the polls 1
“All Due Respect” 1
“Alliances” 1, 2
“Back Burners” 1
“Boys of Summer” 1, 2
“Dead Soldiers” 1
“Home Rooms” 1
“Margin of Error” 1
“Middle Ground” 1
“Reformation” 1
“Soft Eyes” 1
“Time After Time” 1, 2
Royo, Andre 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Royo, Jane 1
Ruby, Robert 1
Rudacille, Deborah 1
Russell, Officer Beatrice “Beadie” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 “Bad Dreams” 1
“Collateral Damage” 1, 2
“Duck and Cover” 1
“Hard Cases” 1
“Home Rooms” 1
“Hot Shots” 1
“Port in a Storm” 1
tears for Frank Sobotka 1
“Undertow” 1
Ruth, George Herman “Babe” 1, 2
Ryan, Amy 1
Ryb, Matt 1
St Louis Post-Dispatch 1, 2
St Petersburg Times 1
Salsbury, Julius “Lord” 1, 2
Sampson, Grace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sandburg, Carl 1
Sanford, Kate 1, 2
Santangelo, Detective Michael 1, 2
Sapper (Barksdale soldier) 1
Savage, Louis “Cookie” 1, 2
Scalies, Charley 1, 2
Schaefer, Mayor William Donald 1
Schmoke, Mayor Kurt L. 1, 2, 3
Schoettler, Carl 1
Scorsese, Martin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sepinwall, Alan 1
Shakur, Tupac 1
Shamrock 1, 2
Shane, Scott 1
Shardene (stripper) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sharpton, Rev. Al 1
Shelley, Mary 1
Sherman, Dormowa 1
Sherrod 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Shill, Steve 1 “All Due Respect” 1
“All Prologue” 1
“The Hunt” 1
“Undertow” 1
Simon, David 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n “-30-” 1
“A New Day” 1
“All Due Respect” 1
“All Prologue” 1
“Alliances” 1
average reader 1, 2
“Back Burners” 1
“Backwash” 1
“Bad Dreams” 1
and Baltimore politics 1
best man for Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews 1
“Boys of Summer” 1
“The Buys” 1
casting The Wire 1, 2, 3
“Clarifications” 1
on class and race 1
“Cleaning Up” 1
“Collateral Damage” 1
“The Cost” 1
“Dead Soldiers” 1
on demolition of projects 1
“The Detail” 1
“The Dickensian Aspect” 1
drugs, perspective on war on 1, 2
“Duck and Cover” 1
on Duvall’s role 1
“Ebb Tide” 1
favourite films 1
“Final Grades” 1
“Game Day” 1
“Hamsterdam” 1
“Hard Cases” 1
“Homecoming” 1
“Hot Shots” 1
on humor and horror 1
“The Hunt” 1
interview with Nick Hornby 1
introduction to The Wire 1
on Jamie Hector as Marlo Stanfield 1
on Kurt Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore 1
“Late Editions” 1
“Lessons” 1
Maceo’s Lounge, Monroe Street 1
Melvin Williams, meeting with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
“Middle Ground” 1
“Mission Accomplished” 1
“Moral Midgetry” 1
“More With Less” 1
music of The Wire 1, 2, 3
newspaperman 1
“Not For Attribution” 1
as obnoxious reporter 1
“Old Cases” 1
“One Arrest” 1
“The Pages” 1
on Pearson as Snoop 1
people and places, casting considerations 1
pitching The Wire to HBO 1
political criticisms of The Wire (and responses) 1, 2, 3
“Port in a Storm” 1
as prankster 1
“React Quotes” 1
“Reformation” 1
on Robert F. Chew 1
on S. Robert Morgan 1
“Sentencing” 1
“Slapstick” 1
“Storm Warnings” 1
“Straight and True” 1
“Stray Rounds” 1
“The Target” 1
“the conversation between desks” 1
“Time After Time” 1
“Took” 1
“Transitions” 1
Treme (HBO pilot) 1
“Unconfirmed Reports” 1
“Undertow” 1
verisimilitude, standard for 1, 2
“The Wire” 1
writing for closure 1
Simon, Sofia 1
Slim Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Smith, Adam 1
Snoop 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 “Alliances” 1
bonehouse work 1, 2
“Boys of Summer” 1
“Corner Boys” 1, 2
“Final Grades” 1, 2, 3
fingered for Michael’s stepfather’s murder 1
“Home Rooms” 1
“Misgivings” 1, 2
“More with Less” 1
murder of Andre 1
“A New Day” 1
“Not for Attribution” 1, 2
“Unconfirmed Reports” 1
Snotboogie 1, 2
Sobotka, Frank 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 “Backwash” 1, 2
“Bad Dreams” 1
clean, need to get 1
“Collateral Damage” 1, 2
“Duck and Cover” 1, 2
“Ebb Tide” 1, 2, 3
“Hard Cases” 1
“Hot Shots” 1
murder of 1
“Storm Warnings” 1, 2
“Undertow” 1, 2, 3
Sobotka, Louis 1, 2
Sobotka, Nick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Sobotka, Ziggy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Sohn, Sonja 1, 2
Solondz, Todd 1
Somerville, Frank P. L. 1
Sophocles 1
The Sopranos (HBO) 1
Spacey, Kevin 1
Spider 1, 2, 3
Spry, Jay 1
Squeak (Bernard’s girlfriend) 1
Stanfield, Marlo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 “All Due Respect” 1
“Alliances” 1, 2, 3
auctioning drug connection 1
“Back Burners” 1
bail denied 1
“Boys of Summer” 1, 2
Caribbean holiday 1
“clock code” broken 1
coldness of 1
complications from investigation of 1
“Corner Boys” 1, 2
“Dead Soldiers” 1
“Final Grades” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
“Home Rooms” 1, 2
“Homecoming” 1, 2, 3
“Margin of Error” 1
‘Milton’s Satan 1
“Misgivings” 1, 2, 3
“Moral Midgetry” 1, 2
“More with Less” 1, 2, 3
“A New Day” 1, 2
“Not for Attribution” 1, 2, 3
phone tapped 1
pins Prop Joe’s death on Omar 1
prosecution dodged 1
“Reformation” 1
“Refugees” 1
“Soft Eyes” 1
“Straight and True” 1
surveillance on 1, 2, 3
threat from Omar 1
“Transitions” 1, 2, 3
“Unconfirmed Reports” 1, 2
Stapleton, Jean “Edith Bunker” 1
Steele, Markel 1
Steiger, Rod 1
Stewart, “Proposition Joe” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 “All Due Respect” 1
“Alliances” 1, 2
“Backwash” 1
betrayed and murdered 1
“Corner Boys” 1, 2
double-cross on Andre 1
“Duck and Cover” 1
“Final Grades” 1, 2, 3, 4
“Home Rooms” 1
“More with Less” 1
“A New Day” 1, 2, 3
“Not for Attribution” 1, 2
“Port in a Storm” 1
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“Reformation” 1, 2
“Refugees” 1
“Slapstick” 1
“Storm Warnings” 1, 2, 3
“Stray Rounds” 1
“Time After Time” 1
“Transitions” 1
“Unconfirmed Reports” 1
Stinkum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Strauss, Carolyn 1, 2, 3
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) 1
Strother, Frederick 1
Sunday American 1
Swank, Hilary 1
Swayze, Patrick 1
Sydnor, Detective Leander 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Taylor, Commander Marvin 1
Teenager Homelessness in America: A Change is Gonna Come (Jermaine Crawford) 1
Templeton, Scott 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Terinoni, Gene 1
Thatcher, Margaret 1
Thomas, Bill 1
Thompson, Ella 1
Thorson, Karen L. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tiffany (rape victim) 1
Tilghman (prison guard) 1, 2, 3, 4
The Tokens 1
Toronto Star 1
Tosha 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Travis, Merle 1
Triage (dope dealer) 1
Turman, Glynn 1
Twigg, Roger 1, 2
Tyler, Ann 1, 2
Tyreeka (mother of De’Andre McCullough’s son) 1
Tyson, Darnell 1
Ullman, Tracey 1
Valchek, Major Stan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Van Patten, Tim 1 “Back Burners” 1
“Sentencing” 1
“Stray Rounds” 1
Vanderberg, Marcus 1
Variety 1
Veil (Woodward, B.) 1
Velvet Underground 1
Vetter, Kimberly M. 1
Vinson (Marlo’s mentor) 1, 2
Virgo, Clement “Cleaning Up” 1
“Old Cases” 1
Vondopoulos, Spiros “Vondas” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Waggoner, Officer Derrick 1
Wagstaff, Randy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 “Alliances” 1, 2, 3
“Corner Boys” 1
“Final Grades” 1, 2, 3, 4
“Home Rooms” 1
“Margin of Error” 1
“Misgivings” 1
“A New Day” 1, 2, 3
“Refugees” 1
“Soft Eyes” 1
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