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BIG news for Wire fans who watched the episode on On Demand last night. For the protection of those who haven’t seen it yet (the show airs on HBO Sunday), this week’s blog is again written in invisible ink. To read about “Corrections,” highlight the text between the arrows. -- >

O, Omar.

I knew it was coming, but had trouble accepting that the life of my favorite character of all time had ended, and so abruptly. So I went to bed imagining Omar’s after-life. Neither Heaven nor Hell would have a soul akin to his and it’s hard to imagine either admitting him.

The stick-up man who stole from drug dealers and murdered only those staking their lives in the game has throughout all five seasons remained what David Simon has called a “perversely moral” character. He cleared the Baltimore streets, Western style, merely by approaching them. His scar gave him the mark of a survivor, and the fact that he was the only central character never to swear on the show gave him an intense aura of invulnerability. The fact that he was openly gay made him somehow just a little more awesome.

His charm and wit on the witness stand in Season Two was enough to earn him, as far as I’m concerned, a ticket to a beach-side town in the hereafter where the streets are paved with Honey Nut.

But the place this lover of mythology belongs is Mount Olympus, where he could take a place among the gods and demigods who combine awesome power with dubiously human ethics. There was doubtless something heroic in Omar’s ability to stand outside of things, measure them up, and maneuver within them, with seeming invincibility, to make the world slightly more just. And even while he laid out dead at the crime scene, Omar’s vengeance has a little life in it yet, as the note he carried tipped the cops to Marlo’s scheme.

In other developments: Dookie can’t find work; the psychological profile of the “serial killer” fits McNulty to a tee; Bunk gets DNA evidence to nab Chris on a murder charge; McNulty confesses to Beady and Kima and it looks like Greggs seems like she might not let it slide, and Gus is finally getting confirmation that Scott is full of it. -- >