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His Role: Bodie (legally Preston Broadus) is a dealer in HBO's The Wire who is initially in Avon Barksdale's organization. Bodie was the number two man in the lowrises under D'Angelo Barksdale and subsequently goes solo. Bodie was brought up by his grandma and first entered the game as a young hopper at 13 years old at which time he began dealing for Barksdale. He lives by the code of a dealer in the drug game and that gives him his sense of honor. He obeys instructions from the top (even the tough ones that are targetted at his friends), he doesn't talk to the police, and he is a hard worker trying to slowly go from a pawn to a queen (see chess game below). He is smart - managing to claim entrapment to avoid time in jail at the close of season 1, and he has a lot of pride and heart - deciding not to leave his corner even when Chris and Snoop (the deadliest murderers in the series) are upon him. As Jimmy McNulty tells him, he's a "true soldier." Actor: J.D. Williams What Seasons: Bodie is in seasons 1 - 4. Best Scene: In the first season, Wallace and Bodie are playing checkers using the pieces from a chess set and D'Angelo shows them how to actually play chess. He portrays the various pieces of the set as people in the game, and Bodie, seeming to understand how chess works, says to D'Angelo, "A'ight, so if I make it to the other end, I win.", referencing the ability of a pawn to become a powerful queen (or in this case, for Bodie to turn into Stringer). It is clear that Bodie is quite driven, but regrettably for him, the drug game is much more like how D'Angelo describes it, "the pawns, man, in the game, they get capped quick." My Favorite Line: "I feel old. I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never bleeped up a count, never stole off a package, never did some *expletive* that I wasn't told to do. But what come back? - This game is rigged man - be like them little bleeps on the chess board." Here is Bodie. He is a soldier, faithful to his organization, and prepared to do what it takes; but unfortunately, it's as D says - the soldiers don't make it very far in the game. Best Foil / Enemy: Bodie's friend Wallace. Bodie's tougher persona, his age (... you could even say a maturity), and his ready to do what it takes mindset are countered by the youth of Wallace, his baby looking face, his ethical quandries with the reprecussions of his actions, and his lack of faithfulness to the game. Analysis: (see analysis above) Get more on Bodie, The Wire, and pick-up The Wire DVD set.
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