Monthly Archives: November 2014

Morning in Baltimore – notes on episode 11

The title of this episode is “A New Day.” In the script, it specifically refers to the new mayoral administration and to the New Day Co-op that Prop Joe runs with the other drug kingpins. The epigraph is “You play … Continue reading

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Acting Commissioner Burrell

Earlier in his career, before he acted as Commissioner of the Baltimore Police, Ervin Burrell had a number of other jobs, including truck driver and apartment building superintendent. He also worked for the New Orleans PD. Here we see him in Cat … Continue reading

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Busted on Wire106

Lamar: What happened to all them towers? Brother Mouzone: Slow train comin’. Reform, Lamar. Reform. (from The Wire Episode Scripts) On Friday, Jim, Desa and I had a good conversation about episode 10 of season 3 of The Wire. We … Continue reading

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