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In the closing montage, Nick mourns his uncle's death by staring over the water near the docks; U.S. Marshals close the union hall; Johnny Fifty urinates on The Greek's last container full of drugs and makes an obscene gesture at the watching cops; Pearlman prosecutes Eton and Horseface; Rawls and Landsman celebrate the clearance of their Jane ...
Nick has a girlfriend, Aimee, with whom he has a daughter, Ashley. They want to move in together, but are unable to afford a place of their own. The fact that Nick lives with his parents and lacks a steady income leads to tension between the two. Since Nick is one of the younger stevedores, seniority prevents him from getting enough work at the ...
Spamanto assists Nick and Ziggy in stealing from the docks for The Greek. He refuses to get involved in the drug trade with Nick and Ziggy. Spamanto was indicted by a grand jury as part of the investigation into smuggling at the docks but gave very little information and escaped uncharged.
Ziggy is Frank Sobotka's son and Nick's cousin. He is a Baltimore dock worker and is involved in his father's stevedores union, but is also involved in criminal activity. Like most of the dock workers, Ziggy frequents Delores' bar, where he amuses the other customers with his drunken antics, such as publicly exposing himself. His work on the ...
Frank is a respected Polish-American treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores at the Baltimore docks. As the pater familias for the docks' longshoremen population, he manages the finances of the labor union and ensures that workers are taken care of—a task made harder by the decline of the local shipping industry and lack of available hours.
When port authority police officer Beadie Russell finds 13 dead women in a shipping container on the Baltimore docks, McNulty again intervenes and, with the help of the medical examiner, proves that the deaths were not accidental: the air pipe to the container was deliberately closed off, and, with the help of a mining engineer, the ...
Vondas tells Nick Sobotka that he has "many names, many passports." Vondas' actual name and nationality are unknown; his main alias is Greek in origin, but he laughs to his superior that his name is not really his name. The name Spiros Vondopoulos is one of a range of identities that he has available to him.
When Nick arrives later, a drunk and distraught Ziggy tries to start a fight with him. In the bar, Nick discovers that Ziggy had accidentally killed his pet duck via alcohol poisoning. Ziggy meets with Glekas and offers him stolen cars from the docks to sell abroad. Glekas is initially reluctant but eventually agrees to give Ziggy a chance ...