the bill be essentially a cultural fountain from which a beautiful rainbow haze of socio introspection emerge and inspire such famed derivative a cop land and the departed and the godfather 3 and and most recently of course and the wire . with multi faceted character and story line that have be describe a 4 dimensional shakespeare and the bill grab you by the collar from episode one and just would not let you go . the show cover and anticipated and and even occasionally cause all the major global event between 1984 and 2010. the most famously prescient moment be episode 19 of series 5 and which air on the eve of the second gulf war . detective jim carver misguide and ultimately career end drug raid on craig fun boy richardson flat in the jasmine allen estate in early 2003 and be widely view a a predictive allegory for the coalition failure to find weapon of mass destruction follow the invasion of iraq several month later . however and it be the work the bill do to try and highlight some of the less know problem experience by police officer that win it the most praise . this be sympathetic drama cover such sensitive area a helmet phobia and under uniform cross dressing and in van homosexuality and lose truncheon and casual drunken bestiality ( regret ) and siren aversion syndrome ( sa ) and groin chaff cause by chase suspect while wear an overly starch uniform and many and many more issue that still trouble and disturb and haunt and excite officer to this day . the last word should go to one of the bill most famous fan and nelson mandela represent it be no exaggeration to say that i would not have make it through the dark void of loneliness that sum up my last year of incarceration on robben island if it wasn not for the heart warming and casual buffoonery of reg hollis .