He was in Season 1 a few times when Bubble's first met him at NA.

From Wikipedia
Walon

* Played by: Steve Earle
* Appears in:

Season one: "One Arrest;" "Game Day" and "The Cost."
Season four: "Final Grades."

Walon is a recovering drug addict who Bubbles and Johnny see speaking at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. They see Walon again in the projects trying to get his nephew to give up drugs. Bubbles' conversations with Walon help him realise that he wants to get clean. When he makes a serious attempt, Walon gives him advice on keeping clean, which Bubbles is unable to stick with. Years later, when Bubbles is locked in a medical rehab facility, Walon visits him to again help him with his sobriety and grief.

Walon is played by singer/songwriter and recovering heroin addict Steve Earle.

a.k.a. Walon, who also appeared in season 1. He's played by Steve Earle, a great singer/songwriter -- his song "I Feel Alright" was featured in the final episode of season 2. Earle's latest album also includes a great cover of "Way Down in the Hole" which I'm hoping will be the version used for season 5.

Thanks for posting the teasers! Can't wait for the new season.

[oops, just beat by CKMorpheus!]

Marlo is the best addition to a series. Ever.

I prefer Chris and Snoop to Marlo but I couldn't have them without Marlo so...

Snoop is the one character I could do with out.

Can't Wait!!!

At some point doesn't Omar have to get killed. The fact that he's lived this long is kind of hard to believe.

Still disappointed that we lost Bodie last year. Of course, that served as the impetus to get McNulty on the task force, and more McNulty is a always a good thing (though to be fair season 4 worked perfectly fine w/o him in a lead role.). Maybe Bodie's death will give Poot a bigger part.

Since the schools won't be the focus I wonder how they'll work Prez in this year. And hopefully Carver has found a way to help Randy out. Herc really screwed the pooch on that. It's funny how they started out as basically equals but Bunny's influence has made Carver a better man.

Really looking forward to it, but I'm sure the end will be bittersweet. Much more than the Sopranos which really had run it's course before it actually ended.

Nice to see Clark Johnson in the "Invitation to the Set" short. Looks like he'll be busy on both sides of the camera this season.

This season is gonna be so wicked awesome.

I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop on this for years, but somehow he's stayed alive. I was sure that they were going to do it in prison last year, but he made it out of that one, too. Here's hoping that the cheese does stand alone in the end.

OHHH Snap!!!! Been a long time.. Cannot wait!

This show will single-handedly get me through the writers' strike. If this season is as good as it looks, this will be the one show I can think of that literally had a "perfect" run of television. Screw the award shows - best show on television, hands down.


-Doc

I stumbled across some Wire prequels on Amazon, never heard of these before, and Google yields no results. Young Prop Joe was awesome, I saw it twice.

Young Prop Joe

Bunk and McNulty

Young Omar

Those were great. Nice seeing Bunk and McNulty meeting for the first time.

Those are great, thanks a lot. Bunk and McNulty meeting, and Omar starting out were great to see. He had that scar even when he was that young, I really wanna know how he got it.

Thanks! Those were great. I will truly miss this show when S5 comes to a close. It really is one of the best shows around. Cheers.

I can't wait either. I think HBO is putting season 4 on demand soon, so I may cycle through some of those episodes as I don't recall all of the events correctly.

Thanks for the links!!

Omaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

They should have shown young Omar snacking on some Honey Nut Cheerios.

I'm about to see the finale of S3, and then start S4...saw 8 eps of S3 yesterday, didn't think I could do that with this show.

With season 3 that would be very easy to do.

Does anyone know if season 5 will feature the kids introduced to us in season 4?

I think 2 of their stories have been told. I'm sure we'll see Micheal and Dukkie though.

I think there is still story left for Randy. I'm sure Carver is at least going to try not to let him rot there. I would say Namond will be involved to the extent that Bunny Colvin fits into the plot.

I just finished Season 4 after a marathon viewing tonight. By far the best season, in my opinion. There were some scenes that I was literally afraid to see how they were going to be played out. This show just grabs you and doesn't let go.

The fact that this show has been consistently ignored from the award shows is guilty of more crimes then Chris & Snoop combined. But whatever, it's still the BEST show on
television, period.

From what I heard, this will be the season 5 version of "Way Down In The Hole", performed by Steve Earle

http://undercoverblackman.vox.com/li...cf7710005.html