React Quotes
| "React Quotes" | |
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| The Wire episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Agnieszka Holland |
| Story by |
David Simon David Mills |
| Teleplay by | David Mills |
| Original air date | February 3, 2008 |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
"React Quotes" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Mills from a story by David Simon & David Mills and was directed by Agnieszka Holland. It first aired on February 3, 2008.
Although credited, John Doman, Neal Huff, and Corey Parker Robinson do not appear in this episode.
Brendan Walsh's name is misspelled in the credits as Brandon Walsh. Tony Small is miscredited as Tony Smalls. Guest stars Denise Francine Boyd, known as Fran Boyd, and Larry Andrews, known as Donnie Andrews, married in August 2007. Andrews was a convicted murderer who in 2007 worked for a gang outreach program at the AME Bethel Church. His criminal past is part of the inspiration for the Omar Little character and the two share several scenes in this episode. Fran Boyd, a recovering drug addict who works for an AIDS prevention clinic, appears in the episode as a nurse taking blood from Bubbles for an AIDS test. Boyd was one of the subjects of the non-fiction book The Corner written by series creator David Simon and writer Ed Burns. Former state legislator Larry Young, who was expelled from the Senate in 1998, appears as a talk-show host interviewing Senator Clay Davis on WOLB-AM, the Baltimore station where Young now works as a host.
Marlo Stanfield assumes Proposition Joe's position as The Greek's narcotics distributor in Baltimore. Stanfield is given a phone and is shown how to communicate with The Greeks without speaking by Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos. Stanfield continues to use Maurice Levy to launder money and gives Levy his new cell phone number. Levy is optimistic, seeing Stanfield's use of cell phones as an indicator of future wiretap cases, which Levy would profit from defending. Defense investigator Thomas "Herc" Hauk copies the number after hours.
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