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Detective Lester Freamon is a Fictional Character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Clarke Peters . Freamon is an older African American detective in the Baltimore Police Department 's Major Crimes Unit. He is a slow and methodical detective who quietly makes major contributions to the series investigations. BIOGRAPHY Detective Lester Freamon is a twenty year veteran of the force who established a reputation early on as "natural police" for his tenacity and intelligence. His first major unit was Homicide, but in 1989 , acting against the orders of the Deputy Commissioner, he charged a politically connected stolen goods fence to coerce his testimony in a homicide case. Though the case was successfully closed, the Deputy still had Freamon transferred to the Pawnshop unit as a punishment. Freamon wound up spending thirteen years and four months in the assignment, until he had been completely forgotten by the higher brass. Deskbound in an office for more than a decade, Freamon began making dollhouse furniture, a hobby which provides him great supplemental income, but also contributes to his eccentric reputation among fellow police. Season one When the initial Barksdale detail was formed, Freamon was transferred in because he was viewed as a useless "hump", and the higher-ups had no wish to provide good detectives who would make a large case. After he overheard an offhand comment by Detective Greggs , Freamon tracked down the only known photo of Avon Barksdale , finally giving the unit a face to put to the name. He further impressed his colleagues when he found D'Angelo Barksdale 's pager number at an abandoned stash house. Impressed by Freamon's capabilities, fellow detective Jimmy McNulty inquires about him in a conversation with Bunk Moreland who claims Freamon is an ex-homicide detective. McNulty then at the bar with Lester inquiring into his history finding out that Freamon was sent to the Pawn Shop unit for angering the Deputy Ops. McNulty is then warned about how his superior officers will send him to an undesirable unit at the conclusion of the case.
After Detective Greggs is shot, Freamon tracked a page made by Wee-Bey Brice , one of the shooters, to a pay phone where he found evidence implicating the other shooter, Little Man . He then used a contact from his pawn shop days (now working for a phone company) to trace call patterns and pinpoint Wee-Bey's whereabouts, leading to his arrest and conviction. Following the dissolution of the detail, Major Rawls noted Freamon's effectiveness as a detective and transferred him into Homicide, to which Freamon happily returned. Rawls had made room for Freamon in Homicide by dumping McNulty to the Marine Unit in the exacting fashion that Freamon described. Season two Freamon was partnered with Bunk Moreland , and they were quickly recognised as the best detectives in Homicide. Landsman assigned them a seemingly impossible case involving the deaths of fourteen Jane Doe s. They were detailed the officer from the Port Authority, Beatrice "Beadie" Russell , who had initially found the bodies in a Shipping Container on the docks. The girls suffocated after the air pipe was deliberately closed off (other than one girl who was murdered and thrown overboard on the previous night). Freamon and Bunk held the vessel that delivered the container at a Philadelphia port while they tried to question the crew. None of the crew would admit to speaking English, and they let the ship go after learning that two crewmen had jumped ship after Baltimore. Based on the few sparse facts they knew, Freamon and Bunk deduced that the women were prostitutes being smuggled in from overseas, that one of the girls was murdered by a sailor after refusing sex, and the rest were killed for witnessing the crime. The murderer was one of those who fled, so the investigation was at an impasse, and Freamon and Bunk came under heavy criticism from a frustrated Rawls for releasing the ship without getting statements. Freamon was relieved to be requested by Daniels for the detail assigned to Frank Sobotka and the dockworker union. Though he continued to assist Bunk and Russell in the Homicide investigation, his primary focus became investigating smuggling through the Baltimore ports. On Russell's advice, Freamon convinced Daniels to clone the port's computers to track container movements. They were able to follow containers being moved illegally to a warehouse, ultimately linking Sobotka to the criminal activities of The Greek . The investigation closed with several arrests and, in the process, Freamon matched a dismembered body killed by The Greek's crew as one of the crewmen who jumped ship. Bunk and Freamon solved the Jane Doe homicides after Sergei filled them in on the details they needed, and Landsman and Rawls were again content with the Homicide unit's clearance rate. Season three Season four | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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