Brother Mouzone

From The Wire

• Played by: Michael Potts
• Appears in:

Season two: "Stray Rounds"; "Storm Warnings"; "Bad Dreams" and "Port in a Storm".

Season three: "Reformation"; "Middle Ground" and "Mission Accomplished".

Brother Mouzone is a hitman from New York. "The Brother" does not fit the usual picture of a hitman, always wearing a suit, bowtie, and glasses, speaking politely, and reading magazines such as Harper's and The Nation. He acts in a manner typically associated with the Nation of Islam, more particularly its military wing, the Fruit of Islam, but is never specified to belong to either (usually anti-drug) organization. He is always accompanied by his bodyguard Lamar.

Avon Barksdale hired him to protect the weakened Barksdale operation from Proposition Joe's dealers, who were working the Barksdale towers as part of a secret agreement between Stringer Bell and Proposition Joe. Mouzone brought a team of soldiers in and promptly shot the dealers' leader "Cheese" with a rat shot (plastic pellets). He then informed cheese that the next bullet in the chamber was a copper jacketed hollow point bullet. Proposition Joe's dealers were so intimidated that, moving forward, all he had to do to keep them away was sit on a nearby bench reading magazines. To maintain his alliance with Proposition Joe, Stringer duped Omar Little into believing that Mouzone was responsible for the brutal murder of Omar's boyfriend Brandon. After Omar confronted Mouzone and shot him, he realized that he was tricked and called the ambulance for Brother Mouzone himself. Mouzone informed Stringer that their agreement was "absolved", and returned to New York.

In season three, Mouzone returned to Baltimore to search for Omar. He located Omar's boyfriend Dante with advice from Baltimore local Vinson. Mouzone beat Dante until he revealed Omar's whereabouts. After he tracked Omar down he suggested that they team up to kill Stringer Bell. Avon gave Mouzone a time and a place to find Stringer, realizing it was the only way to satisfy Mouzone's vengeance. Omar and Mouzone planned an ambush and killed Stringer together. Before returning to New York, Mouzone released Dante and gave Omar his weapon to dispose of.^[1][2]

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