All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire

by Jonathan Abrams

KWAME PATTERSON (“MONK” METCALF): Season One, they said they were shooting a scene with the cops, and somebody had just robbed somebody. He was being chased by the police, and he had pretty much got away, and he turned a corner and he was on The Wire set. He saw all these “police officers,” and he just lay down on the ground and gave himself up, and he didn’t realize until the other cops caught up that those [“police officers”] were actors. I know he felt so stupid when he was in jail, because they say he had gotten away. The real cops were so far behind him that he was gone.