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Season 5 Breakdown

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TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Season 5 Guide (2008)

	5x01 More With Less McNulty and the detail continue to stake out Marlo and his crew. Recently promoted Sergeant Carver is met with complaints concerning unpaid overtime. Meanwhile, ...	Jan. 06, 2008
	5x02 Unconfirmed Reports Freamon keeps a look out for Marlo, who is putting together a deal with Avon Barksdale. Davis goes to Burrell for help, but finds that the commissioner's ...	Jan. 13, 2008
	5x03 Not For Attribution Mayor Carcetti's police department plan is leaked. Marlo turns to Proposition Joe for help. Meanwhile, McNulty strikes up an unexpected ally -- Freamo ...	Jan. 20, 2008
	5x04 Transitions Omar plots his revenge for his former associates murder now that he's returned from exile. Gus stresses the need for a city-court reporter, after missing ...	Jan. 27, 2008
	5x05 React Quotes While the crew awaits a showdown with Omar, Marlo celebrates a business deal. Meanwhile, at the Sun, McNulty and Freamon take advantage of a development ...	Feb. 03, 2008
	5x06 The Dickensian Aspect Marlo's crew goes on full alert after Omar's mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, Carcetti concentrates on the plight of the homeless, while Bunk has an ...	Feb. 10, 2008
	5x07 Took After cooking up another scheme for the homeless case, McNulty and Lester become popular figures. Davis is set for his day in court by collecting the best ...	Feb. 17, 2008
	5x08 Clarifications A shift in the police department sends Carver to a new location. Meanwhile, Carcetti is forced to put his political future in jeopardy, Haynes digs deeper ...	Feb. 24, 2008
	5x09 Late Editions A promising lead makes Freamon's hard work worthwhile, although McNulty doesn't feel like a celebration.	Mar. 02, 2008
	5x10 -30- A damaging report by Pearlman and Daniels gets a reaction from Carcetti, while Haynes finds little support for his concerns about a reporters work from ...	Mar. 09, 2008

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Season 5 Characters

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty	played by Dominic West
Norman Wilson	played by Reg E. Cathey
Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti	played by Aidan Gillen
City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes	played by Clark Johnson
Asst. State's Atty. Rhonda Pearlman	played by Deirdre Lovejoy
Scott Templeton	played by Thomas McCarthy
Det. Lester Freamon	played by Clarke Peters
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland	played by Wendell Pierce
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins	played by Andre Royo
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs	played by Sonja Sohn
Sgt. Ellis Carver	played by Seth Gilliam
Omar Little	played by Michael K. Williams
Chris Partlow	played by Gbenga Akinnagbe
Marlo Stanfield	played by Jamie Hector
Chief of Staff Michael Steintorf	played by Neal Huff
Duquan 'Dukie' Weems	played by Jermaine Crawford
Det. Leander Sydnor	played by Corey Parker Robinson
Michael Lee	played by Tristan Wilds
Maurice 'Maury' Levy	played by Michael Kostroff
Alma Gutierrez	played by Michelle Paress
State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis	played by Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow	played by David Costabile
Reporter	played by Larry Carter

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Season 5 Videos

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Season 5 Quotes

Season 5 / Episode 10: - -30-

Walon: He's just putting it all out there, you know, the good and the bad.
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: You know what? The bad don't bother me to have out there. Shit, I know the bad. I ain't lying to no one about the bad.
Walon: Scared of somebody calling you good?
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: A lot of folks volunteer places. A lot of folks share at meetings. Plenty of motherfuckers wake up every day and not get high. Man making me sound special for doing what the fuck I need to be doing.

Season 5 / Episode 1: - More With Less

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I wonder what it feels like to work in a real police department!

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Season 5 Trivia

Episode 10 - The song that plays during the final montage is the version of "Way Down In The Hole" that was used in the opening credits of Season One.
Episode 07 - Det. Vernon Holley is seen reading "Generation Kill". Show writers David Simon (II) and Ed Burns, adapted this novel into an HBO mini-series ("Generation Kill" (2008)).
Episode 10 - In the series finale, Jeff Wincott, played the undercover cop, Johnny Weaver, who dressed as a bum and surprised McNulty. Wincott starred in the Canadian 80s cop series "Night Heat" (1985)' which also starred The Wire's Clark Johnson (I). Night Heat was a police drama about a Toronto ...
Episode 07 - As Gus (played by Clark Johnson (I)) enters the bar, he passes a man saying, "I used to own a bar". The man is played by Richard Belzer, who - as John Munsch in "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) co-owned a bar with Meldrick Lewis - played by Clark Johnson.
Episode 10 - The original title for this episode was "The Life of Kings" referencing the quote by H.L. Mencken.

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