We Own This City Proves The Dark True Meaning Of The Wire's Ending
Warning: This article contains spoilers for We Own This City.
We Own This City, David Simon's spiritual sequel to The Wire, proves the dark truth of its predecessor's ending. Based on the real-life story of the corruption case against Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, We Own This City reunites David Simon with his The Wire collaborators George Pelecanos and Ed Burns. HBO's new miniseries dramatizes the federal investigation into the extortion and robbery carried out by Baltimore Police Department officers including Sergeant Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal).
This focus on the federal investigation against the Gun Trace Task Force subverts the premise of The Wire. First airing on HBO in 2002, The Wire focused on a federal investigation into Avon Barksdale's Baltimore drug empire. It's the same methods of wiretapping and vehicle tracing that are deployed to investigate the police corruption carried out by the Gun Trace Task Force in the true story of We Own This City. The Wire was also a series about the widespread corruption and institutional rot at the heart of modern America, told through the prism of the city of Baltimore. With We Own This City, the creative team behind The Wire is revisiting the city and the same troubling themes.
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The federal investigation into Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force took place between 2015 and 2017, eight years after The Wire ended. As with previous seasons, "-30-", The Wire's feature-length finale ends with key scenes and a montage showing where the surviving characters have ended up. Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) and Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters) may have left the police force, but their fight continues through the efforts of Detective
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