Who is Wallace in The Wire?
The kid in the pit · Barksdale Organization
Wallace (The kid in the pit) is a character in The Wire, part of Barksdale Organization. Wallace is sixteen, runs a count in the low-rise pit, and parents a rowhouse full of younger kids on snack cakes and stolen electricity. Gentle in a trade with no gentle positions, he does his job well right up until the job shows him what it actually is. Of all the pit boys, Wallace is the one D'Angelo watches with something like recognition, and something like dread.
When does Wallace first appear?
Wallace first appears in Season 1, Episode 1 (“The Target”) of The Wire (2002–2008, HBO).
Who is Wallace connected to?
Relationships already established when Wallace first appears — nothing from later episodes.
- D'Angelo Barksdale — The pit's conscience, twice over
Which group does Wallace belong to?
By the time Wallace appears, Barksdale Organization also includes Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell, D'Angelo Barksdale.
Who else is introduced in this episode?
- Jimmy McNulty — Natural police, unnatural everything else
- Bunk Moreland — The other half of the double act
- Kima Greggs — The detail's best detective
- Cedric Daniels — Lieutenant between the fires
- Avon Barksdale — The name on the towers
- Stringer Bell — The economist of the corner
- D'Angelo Barksdale — The nephew in the pit
- Bubbles — The best CI in Baltimore
- Ellis Carver — Narcotics muscle, slowly learning
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