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| “ | This is me, yo, right here. | „ |
| ~ Wallace pledging his loyalty. |
Wallace is a supporting character in the first season of the TV crime drama The Wire. He is a teenage drug dealer working for the crime lord Avon Barksdale.
He was portrayed by Michael B. Jordan, who also played Erik Kilmonger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Nemesis in gen:LOCK.
Biography[]
Background[]
Wallace was born into a poor African-American family in the Low Rise Projects in Baltimore, Maryland, to an alcoholic mother and an unknown father. Eventually, his mother got tired of raising him and his younger siblings, and left him alone to raise them. The sole breadwinner of a family at age 15, he dropped out of high school and started dealing drugs so he and his siblings could survive.
He found work under Baltimore drug lord Avon Barksdale, who told his nephew D'Angelo to mentor him. D'Angelo made Wallace one his "corner boys", selling heroin to addicts in the neighborhood and bringing the money back to D'Angelo, who gave him a small percentage.
Season 1[]
Wallace is first seen selling heroin to addicts Bubbles and Johnny Weeks. He brings the money to D'Angelo, who quickly sees that it is counterfeit and berates him for falling for the scam. The next day, Weeks tries to pass off more counterfeit money, prompting Wallace's fellow dealer Preston "Bodie" Broadus to beat Weeks within an inch of his life. Wallace is horrified and begs Broadus to stop, but Broadus ignores him. Finally, Wallace reluctantly hits Weeks over the head with a glass bottle.
After stick-up man Omar Little steals a stash of Avon's drugs that Wallace is supposed to be guarding, it results in a police raid in which Broadus is arrested. He escapes, however, and beats Wallace up for his failure. The next day, Wallace, Broadus, and Malik "Poot" Carr are playing video games in an arcade when they see Little's lover Brandon Wright. Wallace calls D'Angelo, who brings Avon's second-in-command Russell "Stringer" Bell with him to the arcade. Soldiers Wee-Bey Brice, Bird, and Stinkum kidnap Wright and torture him to death in retaliation for Little stealing their drugs.
They leave Wright's mutilated body on the hood of his car in front of Wallace's house as a warning to any other potential thieves, and the sight fills Wallace with remorse and horror for his role in the man's death. D'Angelo tells Wallace to try to forget about it, dismissing Wright's murder as "part of the game", but Wallace's is still wracked with guilt, especially when Avon personally gives him his percentage of the bounty he put on Little and Wright's lives. Wallace tells D'Angelo that he wants to go back to school, and sympathetic D'Angelo gives him money and lets him go.
When Wallace returns to school, however, he finds himself so far behind his classmates that he eventually stops going. With no job skills to speak of, Wallace returns to dealing, this time working for Carr. Still feeling guilty for his part in Wright's death, Wallace begins using heroin to numb his pain, which results in his quota falling short, angering Carr.
Wallace is eventually arrested for dealing, and, with no provocation from the police, reveals that Avon, Bell, and Brice murdered Wright. Fearing for the boy's life, D'Angelo bails Wallace out of jail and sends him to live with his grandmother in rural Cambridge, Maryland. He soon grows bored with life in the country, however, and returns to Baltimore, where he reaffirms his loyalty to the Barksdale Organization. Avon welcomes him back, but Bell fears he will inform on the Organization again, and orders Broadus and Carr to kill him.
Broadus and Carr spend the day with Wallace, taking him out to eat and accompanying him home. Wallace is surprised to find his siblings gone, unaware that Bell had them sent to their grandmother's house. Broadus then pulls a gun on Wallace, and announces that he is going to die for being a "snitch". Wallace begs for his life, pleading with Broadus and Carr to let him go for the sake of their friendship, but an unmoved Broadus shoots him in the head, killing him instantly.
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| The Wire Villains | ||
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The Barksdale Organization The Stanfield Organization The New Day Co-Op The Greeks Others | ||