We tried to layer in these innocuous shots of surveillance throughout the first season to give you a sense of a world that is increasingly watched, even watched with a certain indifference. We were trying to create a world not where there were little nuggets of information that were precious and that’s all there was—which is often the way of so many police procedurals on TV—[but] where there was almost too much information being thrown at the detectives, and it was their job to sift. It was almost as if there was so much garbage coming in, and the detectives’ challenge was to separate the wheat from chaff.

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I belong to my ancestors. I am them. And they are me.

The Wire Idris Elba as Stringer Bell in Season 3

"If you look at Cassian and Maarva in the first season, she teaches Cassian about love. When he says, “I’ll be worried about you all the time,” she says, “That’s just love.” But nobody has ever told Dedra what love is, or what it means when you look at a person and you’re happy for them. In 205, when she says, “It’s good to see you happy,” she doesn’t say it in a way that’s like, “Oh, it’s so good to see you happy!” She [coolly] says, “It’s good to see you happy,” and she doesn’t know what that is doing. So Syril being the person that she sends into Ghorman and uses like that is what makes her feel bad about that whole Ghorman situation. It’s not really the massacre, unfortunately. It’s not that she sees that she’s wiped out all these people; it’s that she’s lost Syril." - Denise Gough

DENISE GOUGH as DEDRA MEERO

The Wire S3.E10 ∙ Reformation

"I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest. This Chamber’s hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza. What took place yesterday… what happened yesterday on Ghorman was unprovoked genocide! Yes! Genocide! And that truth has been exiled from this chamber! And the monster screaming the loudest? The monster we’ve helped create? The monster who will come for us all soon enough is Emperor Palpatine!"