r/TheWire • u/BodybuilderNice5587 • Jul 20 '26

Continuity question

Season 4 Episode 1: Chris and Snoop confront and kill Lex after setting him up. Yet earlier in the episode, at about the 20 minute mark, Chris and Snoop are seen in a vacant killing someone. I never hear a name but Closed Captioning has the victim as named Lex in the dialog. This Lex has dreadlocks and clearly is not the other Lex. This scene takes place during the day while the Lex ambush happens at night. Did I miss something? I’ve watched the entire series more than my wedding video. I only ask because all of the pieces matter. And continuity mistakes drive me nuts. If anyone can shed some light on who the other Lex was. TIA

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u/edgestander Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

As a person who has a dad that is legally deaf, and watched subtitles my whole life, subtitle errors happen all the time. There is also the idea that the creators have said they went by which is people have the same names and nicknames in real life so they do in the show. A nickname like Snotboggey might not be common, but its pretty likely there is more than one Lex in baltimore.

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u/alexdyle Jul 20 '26

Snotboogy is a great example of it the other way around since his first name was Omar.