Butchie

{{Short description|Character from The Wire}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2013}} {{other uses}} {{Infobox character | name = Butchie | series = [[The Wire]] | caption = [[S. Robert Morgan]] as Butchie | image = File:Butchie_The_Wire.jpg | family = Hayward (Nephew) | occupation = Bar owner | portrayer = [[S. Robert Morgan]] | creator = [[David Simon (writer)|David Simon]] | gender = Male | first = "[[Hot Shots (The Wire)|Hot Shots]]" (2003) | last = "[[Not for Attribution]]" (2008) }} '''Butchie''' is a fictional character on the [[HBO]] drama series ''[[The Wire (TV series)|The Wire]]'', portrayed by [[S. Robert Morgan]]. A blind man, he runs an East-Side Baltimore bar, and is [[Omar Little]]'s bank and advisor. Like his character, actor [[S. Robert Morgan]] is blind; he lost his sight to [[macular degeneration]] in his twenties.<ref name="MLK Library">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201374.html|title=A Haven for Sightless Readers|accessdate=2008-01-22|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Ryan, Lindsay | date=July 13, 2005}}</ref>

==''The Wire''== ===Season 2=== Butchie is first seen supplying [[Law enforcement characters of The Wire#Dwight Tilghman|Corrections Officer Tilghman]] with the narcotics he sells inside the prison and later negotiating with [[Stringer Bell]] over supplying Tilghman with the poisoned drugs that will kill several prisoners and hospitalize others. Later in the season, it becomes apparent that Butchie is a connection to Omar, as [[Proposition Joe]] arranges a face-to-face meeting between Omar and Stringer by talking to him.

===Season 3=== Butchie's connection to Omar is more apparent, as several scenes show Omar getting advice from Butchie. Omar enlists Butchie to find [[Police of The Wire#Kenneth Dozerman|Officer Dozerman's]] missing gun, and Omar returns it to Detective [[Bunk Moreland]] through Butchie. Butchie later provides Omar with [[Avon Barksdale]]'s hideout location. Butchie had known the information all along but hoped to protect Omar by withholding it. In the end, Avon is arrested before Omar can use Butchie's tip.

===Season 4=== [[Proposition Joe]] again contacts Butchie to set up a meeting with Omar, this time pitting Omar against [[Marlo Stanfield]] by convincing Omar to rob a card game that Stanfield will attend. When Stanfield contrives to have Omar framed for murder, Butchie is Omar's first phone call after Omar is arrested. Omar escapes the charge and steals an entire shipment of drugs from the New Day Co-Op, getting revenge on both Stanfield and Joe ("[[That's Got His Own]]"). Butchie suggests that Omar sell the shipment back to Joe, and Omar leaves Baltimore to retire on the profits. ("[[Final Grades]]")

===Season 5=== Butchie is tortured in his bar by Stanfield enforcers [[Chris Partlow]] and [[Snoop (The Wire)|Snoop]] in an effort to lure Omar from retirement. Butchie refuses to give information about Omar's whereabouts and is killed by Chris; his death prompts Omar to return to Baltimore for revenge. ("[[Not for Attribution]]")

==See also== * [[Omar Little and associates]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * {{cite book|author=Alvarez, Rafael |title=The Wire: Truth Be Told|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozwbjrf3thIC&pg=PT206|date=24 November 2009|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=978-1-4391-8452-3|page=206}} * {{cite book|author1=Beilenson, Peter L. |author2=McGuire, Patrick A. |title=Tapping into The Wire: The Real Urban Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=De5Yt_hRgD0C&pg=PA176|date=15 August 2012|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0750-0|pages=176, 189}} * {{cite web|url=http://discoveringthewire.com/characters-of-the-wire-butchie/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701104732/http://discoveringthewire.com/characters-of-the-wire-butchie/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-01 |title=Characters of ''The Wire'': Butchie|website=Discovering The Wire}} * {{cite book|author1=Lury, Celia |author2=Wakeford, Nina |title=Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKfiJYCN6BYC&pg=PT181|date=25 June 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-99396-1|page=181}} * {{cite book|author1=Potter, Tiffany |author2=Marshall, C.W. |title=''The Wire'': Urban Decay and American Television|url=https://archive.org/details/wireurbandecayam0000unse|url-access=registration |date=10 December 2009|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-3804-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/wireurbandecayam0000unse/page/119 119]}} * {{cite book|author=Vest, Jason P. |title=''The Wire, Deadwood, Homicide,'' and ''NYPD Blue'': Violence Is Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u9yrKT5-fBwC&pg=PA268|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37819-5|page=268}}

==External links== * {{cite news|url=http://www.hbo.com/the-wire/cast-and-crew/butchie/index.html |title=Butchie|work=The Wire|publisher= HBO}} * {{Cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0054955/ |title=Butchie|work=The Wire|publisher=IMDb}}

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