Spoiler Warning Season 4!
Bodie Broadus of Barksdale’s crew has a firm following of fans. As a member of facebook, I recently joined the group Murdaland: forever home of Bodie Broadus, the realest G to run a corner. As of writing the group has attracted 321 members. So if you’re a Bodie fan, join in.
About the group:
From a loyal member of the Barksdale crew to an independent running his own corner, Bodie was a real G. He followed orders from above like a true soldier and never backed down even when he knew the hit was coming.This group is here to represent the realest character on The Wire: the realest show on TV, not just HBO.
And below’s a clip of his last chat with mcnulty, and ultimate fight for his corner with Chris and Snoop, and fatal shot by O-Dog (no, it wasn’t Mike)
And this is a clip from the moment from the season 1 when he and Poot had to kill Wallace, one of his own, for snitching.
5 Comments
June 15, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Do you think that Wallace was Bodie’s first kill? If so, Stringer does not have the same ethic as Chris, who advises Marlo not to have Michael kill Bodie–since it’s not a good idea to have his “first” be someone he knows. What do you think?
August 11, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I do not remember the episode where Chris mentions that Michael should not take care of Bodie…I really thought it was Mickael…
April 6, 2009 at 2:56 am
ah but wallace wasn’t a snitch in the end. so i wouldn’t praise bodie on that one
June 8, 2009 at 3:05 pm
bodie died with his finger on tha trigger
July 30, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Well,
Bodie was 16 at the time, and at the point of the series he was never above being the #2 for a crew. And assuming since all the known muscle of the Stanfield Organization weren’t teenagers, I would believe that Wallace was his first kill.
As for Partlow’s “ethics”, his saying a hitter’s first shouldn’t be someone he knows, I firmly believe that he says this only considering the success of the hit. For some, the more you know the person, the harder it is for the person to be a target. Thus, I think Chris was just making sure the job got done and nothing else.
And for Wallace, that hit was a justified hit, because Wallace was going to snitch. In a day or less, the police was going to take him to the Grand Jury and that’d be it. Sure, he decided to go back to work, but as a mindful and aware boss, Stringer Bell did what he had to do to protect the organization (or rather himself).