THE WIRE, WTF, They killed Omar!!?

Question

Do u think he's really dead? What was that tag mix-up about in the morgue, and where was the scar on his face? Twin? maybe? I know I know wishful thinking!!

Answer 1

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He is dead, but did anyone catch how he was walking perfectly fine? (a screw up on behalf of hbo)

mcnuddy----you are thinking a little to hard.....they would not do an autopsy on Omar, it was very clear he was shot, they fact that it said "gunshot" as cause of death and was signed by the medical examiner should have been enough considering it was also clear the other man had a large scar crossing his chest.
Omar was a street legend, the young boy didnt kill him because he had anything to do with Marlo, it gave him street cred. Marlo doesnt care for the boy. Omar was a ruthless killer, people who followed the wire liked him because he was respected and feared by everyone. In the first season you would laugh as the years went by you started to wonder. People who followed the show from the 1st season also dislike Marlo and wish it were still the Barksdales on the streets, and Weebay doing the killings. Marlo has nothing, he is dumb and without his muscle he is weak. The moral of "The Wire" is not to break down person by person and make up some crazy reason why they are dead......it is simply life in the drug game, no one wins, not the good guy who sells drugs, or the good guy who steals drugs or the bad guy killing for drugs.....it doesnt matter in the end you wind up dead or in jail......you guys must remember this was based on stories and a time line from real situations from real narc's

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This was a tough choice, I love " The Wire" and I'm glad to see so many thorough and informative answers from real fans of the show. Thanks!!

Answer 2

Omar's dead? those bastards. Don't worry Bunk and Mcnulty will catch em

Answer 3

Sadly he is dead. As the last scene showed he was getting too emotional and obsessed with Marlo and he dropped his guard and got dropped (what was the kid doing with that cat??). The tag mix up just showed how imperfect and chaotic the system is - mistakes are made more often than we realize. I also think his tag being mixed up with a white male also shows while there are great inequalities in life in death we're all equal . . .

Answer 4

He was probably my favorite character but you had to know Omar was going to get it sooner or later. In one interview Michael K Williams was saying that the producers told him not to expect Omar to live through the 2nd season.

As for the cat that sick little brat was pouring lighter fluid on it. I think you can draw your own conclusions as to where that was going.

Answer 5

They were going to torch the kitty. The hidden undertone of a lot of this season is that every bad guy starts out somewhere, re: the scene where the mother was going to hit her children in the soup kitchen, the scene where the kid was thrown into a house in front of a stakeout while the mother did her thing on the road, the scene where the kid was getting ready to fire a cat.

Bad kids can become bad adults. I think that is what was going down there.

Answer 6

fools dead , cigarettes kill.

Answer 7

omar was my favorite character too.....sucks to see him go but thats why the wire is so damn good.......the thing in the morgue at the end with the tag mix up was just to show that everyone knew who omar little was.......the white guys name could have easily been omar little but even the mortician knew who omar was and what he was all about........probably a joke played on him by another mortician

Answer 8

O.K....I really can't believe that no one gets this but here's the deal with the tag mix-up. Remember in an early episode when Bunk was asking for the lab data on the sweep from the vacant murders and the lab guy told him the "the labels got mixed up"....so now all that evidence was garbage. Well the lab guy passed it off on budget cuts which caused them to hire new, inexperienced employee's, saying someone was just dumb and screwed up. Which was an ingenious bit of writing because that explanation fits perfect with the plot and the budget crisis Carcetti is facing. BUT...we now know it was just to distract the viewer and the truth is either Marlo or the Greeks have someone on the inside at the morgue. The label mix up from the vacant murders was not some accident as the lab guy thought, but an intentional move by the label switch guy to damage that evidence, thus protecting Chris and Snoop. Now he's doing the same thing to Omar. Someone will run the autopsy on the wrong guy, the evidence gets mixed up. They'll eventually figure it out but ole' drug lawyer Levi would have a field day with that in court and would get it thrown out. However, where label switch guy slipped up, and where Chris eventually gets pinched is on the murder of Michael's dad. He had no reason to dirty that because he didn't think anyone knew about it. The evidence was processed long ago and Bunk reworked it with honest, good policing (the main theme of the show, things go well when you actually care enough to take the time to do them right, you cut corners and cheat and you will die/get pinched). The other theme of the show, is exemplified well in why Chris will go down for this. You wanna be dirty, fine. You can be smart and get away with it for a little while. But somewhere along the line your emotions will get the better of you and you'll slip up. Chris and Snoop killed everyone smart, except Mike's dad who he just bludgeoned because his emotions related to his own history of abuse got in the way. Emotions overriding you logic is something that humans cannot control and is the reason not to be dirty. Think about it...it's the same thing that brought down Omar (trying to get revenge for Butchie and going crazy on Marlo rather than keeping his game tight or staying out of it), the same thing that got String and Avon (String getting caught up in his insecure feeling of just being a thug, and wanting to prove he could be a smart, legit business guy. When he got played by Clay and Avon wouldn't play along...he tried to marginalize Avon and eventually sold him out. But it was his lying to Brother Mazzone, because he had to hide things from Avon to marginalize him, that eventually got him got). Now Avon got emotionally caught up in the war with Marlo and pissed off his best friend on earth, who eventually sold him out. There are more examples...Sobotka etc. but you get the picture.
The only way to be successfully dirty is to have no emotions. To be truly psychopathic and not give a crap about anyone or anything (see Marlo or the Greek). Also see Kennard. Hence the reason they showed the cat burning scene, cruelty to animals is an obvious sign of a conduct disorder, that untreated will develop into an anti-social personality disorder. If Marlo does get pinched, look for the show to end with Kennard being the heir to the throne. This is also why Michael will get out. He's hard, given his abuse and his upbringing and all, but he's not an emotionless psycho, as evidenced by his love and care for Bug. Now McNulty has shown us he can be good and bad, and whatever choice he makes with Beattie (to straighten and sober up again or keep whoring and lying) will determine his outcome. I predict he goes down and down hard. I could go on all day, God I love this show....but this is too long already.

Answer 9

**** that made me want to cry, omar's the second best character after clay "sheeeeeet" davis. i cooled down a little though after remember the episode from last season when kenard had the **** kicked out of him by michael. i sort of thought from kenard's usual reaction to omar and his presence that he would try to pull something, but i had no idea it woul dbe anything like what he actually did. sheeeeet.

Answer 10

The tag on the body indicated that the victim (Omar) died of a gunshot wound. I assumed that the guy in the morgue noted the gunshot wound in Omar's head and the absence of a gunshot wound in the head of the body labeled Omar. Thus, he recognized the mix up in the tagging. Omar was my favorite character (indeed), but this kind of story writing is why this is the best show on television.

Answer 11

Sorry man, he's really dead. Kennard has always been one mean little jerk.

Answer 12

I think the morgue label-switch is just about how anonymous Omar is outside his neighborhood. The guy switched the label based upon the description on the label not because of any conspiracy. Omar's anonymity is also reflected in the scene showing how the reporting of his murder was cut by the Baltimore Sun editors. Omar is nothing (unknown) outside the game that he operates within. I think that's the point; and I think that contrasts with the emotion we feel because he is our hero and a legend on the corners of B'more.