William "Bunk" Moreland is a fictional character in The Wire, played by Wendell Pierce.
21 Facts About Bunk Moreland
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Bunk Moreland is portrayed as a generally competent, if profane and curmudgeonly detective.
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Bunk Moreland had gotten in an argument with a cab driver.
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Bunk Moreland attended Edmondson High School in West Baltimore, where he played lacrosse well enough to make the all-city team.
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Bunk Moreland worked as a patrolman in Baltimore's Southwestern District before becoming a homicide detective.
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Bunk Moreland is a frequent cigar smoker, and has been described by McNulty as being unable to "hold his liquor".
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Bunk Moreland serves as Jimmy McNulty's lone ally in the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit, informing him of its happenings while chiding him for getting involved in the Barksdale case.
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Bunk Moreland is the primary investigator for the murder of William Gant, who testified against D'Angelo Barksdale.
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Bunk Moreland quickly recognizes the scene of Omar's drug robberies and mistakenly believes one of the shootout victims, Tosha Mitchell, was a civilian.
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The brass consider the weapon's recovery a top priority, but Bunk Moreland thinks it is a frivolous use of his abilities.
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Later, Bunk Moreland is one of the investigators of Stringer Bell's murder.
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Bunk Moreland investigates the murder of Fruit, one of Marlo Stanfield's drug dealers.
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Bunk Moreland is unable to find his main suspect, Curtis "Lex" Anderson.
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Freamon manages to find Lex's body and, in the process, more than 20 other bodies, all of which are linked to Stanfield after Bunk Moreland gets key testimony from Lex's mother.
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Later, Bunk Moreland learns that McNulty is altering old case files in order to advance the deception.
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Bunk Moreland enlists Freamon to talk sense into McNulty, but this plan backfires when Freamon decides the plan could work and makes suggestions to improve it by sensationalizing the killer.
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Bunk Moreland refocuses his attention on the Stanfield murders and delivers a report to Landsman that is placed immediately into a desk drawer.
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Landsman points out that Bunk Moreland is simply changing the date while submitting essentially the same report.
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Bunk Moreland angrily asserts that he is forced to repeat his requests as he is still waiting for the crime lab to process evidence.
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Bunk Moreland finally gets a DNA match on Partlow for the unrelated murder of Michael Lee's stepfather, but agrees to delay his case in order to allow the Stanfield wiretap to continue.
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Bunk Moreland is last seen investigating a homicide with Greggs, engaging in jovial conversation similar to that he used to share with McNulty.