Reginald " Bubbles " Cousins ​​is a fictional character in the HBO drama The Wire , played by actor Andre Royo. Bubbles is a newly recovered heroin addict. His real name was not revealed until the fourth season episode when he was called "Mr. Cousins" and in the fifth season premiere when he was called "Reginald". Bubbles has a son named KeyShawn, who lives with his mother.
Bubbles is an important CI police throughout the series because of his extraordinarily detailed knowledge of Baltimore's streets and its inhabitants. Bubbles is an intelligent and affectionate man who really cares about his friend Johnny Weeks and Sherrod, the teenager he "adopts". His struggle to overcome his addiction and make a better life for himself is a major sub-plot during the series.
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Overview
Season one
Bubbles was first seen as a homeless addict, best friend and mentor to Johnny Weeks. Both run a scam creating counterfeit money using copier and coffee staining. Bubbles managed to use the money to buy medicine from a group of dealers working for the Barksdale organization. However, when the money was forwarded to D'Angelo Barksdale, it was recognized as a fake. Next time they try a fraud, a nervous Johnny does not work. He was stopped and beaten by drug dealer Barksdale, after which he ended up in hospital.
Bubbles offers to inform the Barksdale gang for Detective Kima Greggs, to get some measure of retaliation for Johnny's beating. Bubbles' knowledge of the road proved invaluable to Lt. Cedric Daniels's unit as they investigated the Barksdale organization. He helps identify crew members who run Barksdale holes and those who work in high-rise towers. When Omar Little grabbed Barksdale's stash, Bubbles was present, and gave the number of van Omar's car plate to Greggs, which helped detail tracing the surviving man.
After nearly being killed while attempting to steal drugs, he tried to release the drugs, but returned to his old habit when Greggs was shot: he scratched the pages of Greggs after he promised to help him stay clean, unaware that he was hospitalized with life - Injuries threaten after a failed sting. When police search for suspect murder, Bubbles was mistaken as a suspect and brutally beaten by Vernon Holley until Jay Landsman and other officers arrested Holley, calling Jimmy McNulty to fix the problem.
Season two
McNulty recruited Bubbles to find Omar Little, whom Bunk needed as a witness in William Gant's murder. Bubbles reluctantly agrees, and in a nervous encounter with Omar carrying a shotgun, gives McNulty a message. At the end of the second season, he was arrested by Michael Santangelo while trying to steal needles and morphine from the ambulance; in exchange for his release, he tipped Greggs and McNulty for a new alliance between Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell.
Season three
Bubbles again helps the Main Crime Unit once again. Bubbles is a former fellow Squeak, girlfriend of Bernard, a runner assigned by the Barksdale gang to pick up their burner phone. Bubbles put them in touch with Lester Freamon in disguise, allowing units to sell pre-tapped burner phones directly to the gang. During this time, the ongoing cooperation of Bubbles with police began to create a rift between Bubbles and Johnny, which prompted Bubbles to end his career as an informer - eventually Bubbles left Johnny to fend for himself.
As the investigation progressed, Bubbles began to supplement his income as an informer by collecting mobile phones and disposable T-shirts for sale out of the shopping cart; after discovering the "Hamsterdam" zone of Major Howard's "Rabbit" Colvin, he expanded his inventory to meet the needs of dealers and addicts there. While in Hamsterdam, Bubbles also re-connected with Johnny and, after learning that his friend's health failed due to drug abuse, drove him to leave - his fear materialized at the end of the season, when Johnny died of an overdose.
Season four
Bubble shared garage left with a teenager, hawking small items from a shopping cart to support themselves. Sherrod has a problem with the arithmetic involved. Bubbles failed in his attempt to push the boy back to school. After Sherrod fell short, back to Bubbles. In the absence of Sherrod, however, Bubbles has been the daily victim of another street addict who continues to rob him and beat him. To stop these daily attacks, Bubbles makes a hot shot of heroin and sodium cyanide which he thinks homeless will steal from him and then consume. However, Sherrod uses a tainted medication while Bubbles sleeps and Bubbles awakes to discover that Sherrod has died. Consumed by guilt and sadness, Bubbles goes to the police and confesses his actions, before failing to try to commit suicide in the Murder Interrogation room. Jay Landsman saw that the death was unintentional, felt sorry for Bubbles, and had sent him to a state psychiatric facility instead of accusing him of murder.
Season five
When the fifth season begins Bubbles has been clean for over a year. She lives in her brother's basement and sells The Baltimore Sun to make money. Narcotics Anonymous's sponsor is Walon. Walon encourages Bubbles to open up about Sherrod's death in the meeting, but Bubbles is not ready to take that step. Walon suggested that Bubbles should find outlets elsewhere and Bubbles started to volunteer in the soup kitchen of a local Catholic Worker called Viva House. Eventually Bubbles came to terms with his role in the death of Sherrod and has his life story published in an article in Baltimore's . In the final scene of this series, she is seen being brought back into the life of her sister when she allows her to go upstairs from the crypt to have dinner with her and her son.
Key loyalties in the previous season, hers and Greggs, were no longer presented in any way after Bubbles rehabilitated, especially after Greggs could not finally help him. The terms of their friendship and whether they relate after the events of season 4 are not disclosed.
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Origin
Bubbles is based on a real police informant known as "Possum", whose true identity has not been made public at the request of his family. The recorded possum has an amazing memory for the face, and is often very helpful in pointing drug traffickers to the police. David Simon met him twice, shortly before the death of Possum of AIDS, intending to write an article about him. He finally turned it into an obituary.
Trivia
While filming, Royo was approached by Baltimore residents, who gave him a package of heroin and said he seemed in need of repair. Royo calls this the "Oscar street."
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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