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The Wire

By David H. Melnick and Shamit Choksey - Television series

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  • Detective Lester Freamon - Male

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Lester Freamon instructs his detectives on how investigate the Barksdale's drug empire

Summary

Detective Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters) gives intructions to his two young detectives on how to investigate the drug empire of Avon Barksdale, who runs a big drug dealing business on the streets of Baltimore. He also owns various businesses but his name never comes up in ownership documents. This monologue is a very detailed and technical description of how they have to investigate all the documents and firms tied to Barskdale...

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