DAVID SIMON (CREATOR): We didn’t see that as being a statement about Stringer and death. You’re dead, you’re dead. We saw it as being a moral lapse in code by Omar, which we thought would have been an interesting addition and would have countered some of the mythos of Omar Little. And that’s what George argued for, and that’s what I argued for. But Idris said, “I don’t want to do that. I really don’t want to do that.” And he was utterly unconvinced by everything George and I said.
