Mission Accomplished (19 Dec. 2004)

Avon readies his troops for a seemingly endless war against Marlo. The detail works towards the top rungs of the Barksdale organization with the information garnered from the wire. While ... See full summary »

Director:

Ernest R. Dickerson

Writers:

David Simon (creator), David Simon (teleplay),

Stars:

Dominic West, John Doman, Idris Elba

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Dominic West	...	Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty
John Doman	...	Dep. Comm. for Operations William A. Rawls
Idris Elba	...	Russell 'Stringer' Bell
Frankie Faison	...	Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell
Aidan Gillen	...	Councilman Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti
Wood Harris	...	Avon Barksdale
Deirdre Lovejoy	...	Asst. State's Atty. Rhonda Pearlman
Clarke Peters	...	Det. Lester Freamon
Wendell Pierce	...	Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland
Lance Reddick	...	Lt. Cedric Daniels
Andre Royo	...	Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins
Sonja Sohn	...	Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs
Jim True-Frost	...	Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski
Robert Wisdom	...	Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin
Seth Gilliam	...	Sgt. Ellis Carver

Storyline

Avon readies his troops for a seemingly endless war against Marlo. The detail works towards the top rungs of the Barksdale organization with the information garnered from the wire. While Royce continues to grapple with Amsterdam, Burrell offers a deal to minimize the fallout. Carcetti's political plans become obvious to his friend and fellow councilman Tony Gray. Bubbles offers his view of the world. McNulty changes tack.

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Plot Keywords:

wiretapping

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 December 2004 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blown Deadline Productions, Home Box Office (HBO)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

61 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

According to David Simon, the title is a reference to President George W. Bush's speech in which he declared the end of major combat in Iraq in May 2003. The war in Iraq continued until December 2011. Also, Slim Charles's statement "If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie." is a reference to the Bush administration alleging that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction but no such weapons were ever found there.

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Goofs

When Bunk and the crime scene photographer are standing over the body of Stringer's body guard at the construction site, the supposedly dead man can clearly be seen breathing.

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Quotes

Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: "Failure to properly identify myself as a police officer." Sounds like what I was guilty of most of my career, actually.

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Connections

References Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Soundtracks

"Fast Train"
Written by Van Morrison
Performed by Solomon Burke

User Reviews

Season Three- Another powerful story told with depth and realism...

The Wire's third season continues to develop this story that was brought upon in the first season. It is true that one cannot go into any of these seasons without having first seen from the beginning.

The last 5 episodes of this season are just incredible. There is a death of a major character in one of those episodes, and it will be truly sad to not see that character again, simply because the actor portraying him did a great job. From the finales, this was probably a bit below Season 2's finale, but still great nonetheless.

Overall, I give this season a 9/10. That would seem that it is higher than Season 1 and 2 (since I gave those an 8/10 and 8.5/10) but with each season my admiration and appreciation of the seasons before it also goes up, which is why Season 1 is now a 8.5 and Season 2 on par with Season 3.