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The Wire showed many parallels and story arcs that inform the viewer where characters might be had The Wire kept airing.
The situations the characters faced shape their future selves. In inner-city Baltimore during The Wire, options were limited but anything could happen. The Game was out there. It was either play or get played.
McNulty, if he ever rises out of the ashes of The Wire, may have had his mess kept so low that some po-dunk, po-lease department in a small town hired him as a cop. Baltimore did report McNulty put down almost all assigned cases.
It’s also possible that he is a drunk private investigator. Either way, Beadie kicked him out and he only sees his kids when he wants to force money on them, or they want it to goof off.
Lester Freamon is old, working on a hobby, and thankful he sent his wife through nursing school. Lester really thought it all out.
Daniels took that easy gig that Colvin passed on at Hopkins. He has a nice stash from the dirty days, a law degree, and got to keep that pension. Rhonda Perlman enjoys coming home to him when she is done working the circuit court bench.
Mahone, Santangelo, and Polk are all dead of a heart attack suffered while being retired. The movie store went out of business when the internet became popular.
Signor and Dozerman made rank. Some rookie with a compass is still messing with that ladies’ coupons.
Prezbo is still teaching, maybe even became an authoritarian vice principal.
The politicians were shown how they all failed up. It was when Norman presented Rawls with his come to Jesus moment. Rawls got to be the head cop of the state and kept quiet. The same perpetual cycle keeps dredging up the old types going from City Council to Congress.
Another dirty cop was found to smuggle drugs into prison. Bunk got sick of it all and went to New Orleans where he got back into music and teaching following Prezbo’s advice. Kima Greggs is retired and drunk in The Chi but did marry a man.
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Mike became the new Omar of The Wire, giving Marlo’s new crew all kinds of problems like Omar gave Avon.
Dook is the new Bubbles, using kindness and math smarts to hustle his daily fix. Carv is still trying to become decent police, like Colvin or his mentor Daniels, who also took some mattress money.
Marlo didn’t take that corner, he punked some young bucks to get his name back not that corner. Marlo had money. He tried to hustle up a new crew and either caught one or got locked up for a time. Small felony, he comes out after a 26-month stretch (Avon’s time) and stays in the game.
Bug is at his aunt’s house, Mike steadily delivering money for school clothes. Slim Charles finally realized he could assume a bigger role in the game and retired years later to a house in the county.
Poot spent some time learning a new game before going into full-time shoe customization for ladies.
Cutty has developed a few decent fighters and helped a local MMA guy with his striking. This has helped Cutty find purpose and respect, along with some dates with all those moms throwing him lunch plates.
Randy with the candy now owns a small shop for retail of some sort and possibly works as a front for the new Prop Joe character. Randy was a businessman and he was hard after the house fire that hospitalized his foster mother.
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Avon, real and fiction, comes after doing every day of his sentence and goes motivational doing community outreach. Nicky got some seniority and inherited his folks’ place. His kid wants to be a cop and his wife does hair in the basement. They were married at the bar.
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Gus found a new job managing a paper in middle America. A nice Bi-weekly with not as much stress. Fletch and Bubbles kept in touch which Fletch used to get the stories of the street.
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