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giggirl - you are in here at your peril! Or you don't mind spoilers I guess...


Keef - The scene I mean is when Brother M's flunky is looking for Omar and visits a gay bar - something he is incredibly bothered by. Anyway dramatic scene follows, with flunky leaving as he is watched by the regular customers - including an alone, on the pull Rawls in a not-very-festching sweater

Aaah, one of the great quotes of the show


Brother Mouzone: You're the perfect bait. They will view you as conflicted, you're homophobia is so visceral.

Lamar: See that. I haven't even walked in the place yet and you're already calling me a cocksucker.

I'm here!


Ahhh, The Wire. I'm currently reading David Simon's Homicide and some of the characters are obviously the basis for future Wire characters.


I'm not sure where to begin on here though.


Favourite character? Spiros.

Favourite scene? Tough one, but probably in Series 5 where the opening events show Michael being chased through a deserted warehouse and you think he's going to get killed, he ends up shooting Snoop and the whole thing turns out to be a training exercise. Gripping stuff.

Keef beat me to it.


Ooh, am reading homicide too, it feels weirdly like watching (err in word form) a documentary about the making of the wire.

But it's very cool!!


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Back to characters.

Does Herc have any good points? There are times I really want to kill him, but he's earnest I guess, just stupid, and he does actually catalyse Marlow's downfall.

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