Johnny Weeks

From The Wire

Johnny Weeks
Johnny Weeks
First appearance	"The Target"
Last appearance	"Mission Accomplished"
Details
Gender	Male
Year of Death	2004
Occupation	Drug addict

Johnny is a young drug addict and often hangs around with Bubbles.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Behind the scenes 2.1 Appearances 3 References

[edit] Biography

In season one Johnny is Bubbles' best friend and a drug addict with notoriously bad luck. In the pilot episode he is beaten nearly to death by Bodie Broadus,Wallace,Poot Carr and other dealers after trying to pass counterfeit money to D'Angelo Barksdale's operation; this spurs Bubbles to become a police informant.

While in the hospital for that beating, Johnny discovers he is HIV positive. In the season three finale he dies from an overdose and his partially rat-eaten body is discovered in a vacant house in the "Hamsterdam" free zone that Major Colvin had set up.^[1]

Johnny is based on a young white homeless addict that David Simon met while researching The Corner, this man would follow Simon's subject, drug addict Gary McCullough, around.^[2]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Johnny is played by Leo Fitzpatrick

[edit] Appearances

Season one

• "The Target"
• "The Pager"
• "One Arrest"
• "Game Day"
• "Sentencing"

Season two

• "Hard Cases"
• "Port in a Storm"

Season three

• "Time After Time"
• "Dead Soldiers"
• "Straight and True"
• "Back Burners"
• "Middle Ground"
• "Mission Accomplished"

[edit] References