Kima Greggs
First appearance	The Target (episode 1.01)
Statistics
Gender	Female
Age	30
Occupation	Baltimore Police Detective
Title	Detective
Spouse	Cheryl (former)
Portrayed by	Sonja Sohn
Created by	David Simon

Detective Shakima "Kima" Greggs is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actress Sonja Sohn. Image File history File links The_Wire_Kima. ... The Target is the first (pilot) episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Sonja Sohn is an American actress of African and Korean-American heritage. ... David Simon is the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which described his life traveling with members of the Baltimore, Maryland Police Department. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... The Wire is an American television drama set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Sonja Sohn is an American actress of African and Korean-American heritage. ...

The character of Greggs is a police detective in the Baltimore Police Department who is a dedicated officer and capable detective with some off the job issues. An "out" lesbian, when off the job, she has had problems involving infidelity, alcohol and relationships. Greggs has played a key role in all of the show's main cases. The Baltimore Police Department, or BPD, provides police services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland and was officially established by the Maryland Legislature on March 16 1845. ... A lesbian is a female emotionally and/or sexually attracted only to other females. ... In a religious context, infidelity is an absence of faith in the beliefs or teachings of a religion, such that one who lacks such faith is an infidel. ... Functional group of an alcohol molecule. ...

Biography

Character History

Greggs is a lesbian officer whose first contribution in the department came under Cedric Daniels' narcotics' squad. She has been highly regarded by Daniels who has been like a mentor to her and provided for her when in the department. She proves to be an effective detective early on in the show when she demonstrates proper survelliance of the Barksdale organization's drug trade through both rooftop survelliance and usage of street level informants. She has a good history with her C.I. Bubbles, a heroin addict who has helped her make quality arrests in the past. Under Daniels she commands two future seargents Ellis Carver and Thomas "Herc" Hauk who are more unethical and looking for the adrenaline rush in police work. With her sexual partner Cheryl, she finds difficulty in the relationship as Cheryl is interested in being a lesbian parent while Greggs is just interested in their sexual relationship. Eventually Cheryl breaks up with Kima after she sees other women and gets nearly killed working as a police officer. Kima learns some bad habits from male officer Jimmy McNulty who advises her how to commit acts involving adultery and alcohol abuse. On the force, she remains a pivotal officer in the major crimes unit until she leaves it voluntaringly under the watch of Lieutenant Marimow. At Daniels request, she transfers into homicide where she quickly proves herself as a capable investigator. Cedric Daniels is a fictional Police Lieutenant for the Baltimore Police Department played by Lance Reddick on the HBO drama The Wire. ... Sergeant Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Seth Gilliam. ... Detective Herc Hauk is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Domenick Lombardozzi. ... Officer James Jimmy McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by British actor Dominic West. ...

Season one

Kima was a narcotics detective working alongside Detectives Ellis Carver and Thomas "Herc" Hauk and under shift lieutenant Cedric Daniels in Major Foerster's narcotics division. She outshone her colleagues on several occasions - Carver was sometimes embarrassed at her abilities as she was the junior detective in the trio. However, she struggled with the paperwork their duties necessitated. She cultivated a relationship with Bubbles, a Baltimore drug addict, who became a useful confidential informant. Sergeant Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Seth Gilliam. ... Detective Herc Hauk is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Domenick Lombardozzi. ... Cedric Daniels is a fictional Police Lieutenant for the Baltimore Police Department played by Lance Reddick on the HBO drama The Wire. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Bubbles is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Andre Royo. ...

Greggs lived with her partner Cheryl, a nurse. Greggs was studying for a law degree from home. This article is becoming very long. ...

Greggs' was assigned the task of putting a file together on the Barksdale organization in the controversy generated by the acquittal of D'Angelo Barksdale. She was then assigned to the Barksdale detail and made lead detective by Lt. Daniels. DAngelo Barksdale is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Larry Gilliard Jr. ...

Greggs' informant Bubbles was invaluable in identifying Barksdale organization members on the street and working out the methods of their operation.

Detective Jimmy McNulty and Kima worked closely together during the Barksdale case. They spent hours together in surveillance and put in still more time trying to track down the legendary stick-up man Omar Little. They managed to get Omar's attention after he got into a war with the Barksdale organization and persuaded him to testify against Barksdale soldier Bird for the murder of William Gant. Greggs became friends with McNulty and introduced him to Bubbles. McNulty made an advance on Kima, not realising that she was gay. Greggs told him being open about her sexuality kept attention from male colleagues away. McNulty admitted that she had reformed his opinion of female detectives through her strong case work. Officer James Jimmy McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by British actor Dominic West. ... Omar Devone Little, played by Michael K. Williams, is a character on the HBO drama The Wire. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

Greggs provided a second useful confidential informant while working with Lester Freamon. They persuaded D'Angelo's new new girlfriend Shardene Innes to turn against him by providing her with evidence that the Barksdale crew were responsible for the death of a friend of hers. Shardene met D'Angelo through working as a hostess at Orlando's, a strip club and front for the Barksdale organization. Detective Lester Freamon is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Clarke Peters. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

Greggs was shot and wounded in an undercover buy bust operation ordered by Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrel. The sting relied on Wendell "Orlando" Blocker, a front man for the Barksdale organization and licence holder for Orlando's. Orlando was arrested by narcotics police and turned over to the Barksdale detail when they diligently checked to see if any of the names Orlando gave them were under investigation. Orlando was killed in the failed sting and Greggs' was shot before she could retrieve the weapon she had hidden in the vehicle they were using. By the time her backup arrived on the scene the shooters had fled. The Barksdale details' wiretaps identified those responsible as the soldiers Savino, Wee-Bey and Little Man. Both Savino and Wee-Bey were arrested and Little Man was murdered before the police could reach him. Ervin Burrell is a fictional officer in the Baltimore Police Department played by Frankie Faison on the HBO drama The Wire. ... This article is becoming very long. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Roland Wee-Bey Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Hassan Johnson. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

Season two

Greggs recovered fully from her injuries and took a desk job in the narcotics unit, at the request of her girlfriend Cheryl, who feared her getting injured again and hoped to start a family. Greggs was teased by her old partner Herc and missed the action of street work.

She joined the investigation of Frank Sobotka under Lieutenant Daniels at his request. Her return to street duty caused major friction between herself and Cheryl, now pregnant with a child. Frank Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Chris Bauer. ...

Greggs worked with Prez to investigate the vice aspects of the smuggling ring linked to Frank Sobotka. They located a whore house operating out of a high class apartment building usuing women illegally brought into the country and held like prisoners. Greggs' contact Shardene Innes was useful in providing links to the exotic dancing world that pointed them towards the whorehouse. Cheryl insisted on accompanying Kima to the strip clubs, showing a jealous streak. When Kima showed Cheryl photo's of the girls killed in a failed attempt to smuggle them into the country Cheryl began to be more understanding. Cheryl also makes a decision to become pregnant through artificial insemination this season and asks for Kima's support in raising the child. Greggs however is not interested in parenting and only goes through reluctantly.

Later McNulty rejoined the team and Greggs worked with him to infiltrate the apartment building by setting him up as a potential customer. Their hard work resulted in the arrest of the madam and other members of the detail solved the deaths of the other girls.

Greggs moved on to trying to investigate the leaders of the smuggling ring but the detail found the trail ran dry just as they were closing on "The Greek" and his lieutenant Spiros Vondas. The Greek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Bill Raymond. ... Spiros Vondas Vondopoulos is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Paul Ben-Victor. ...

Bubbles was arrested near the end of Sobotka case and called on his connection to Greggs to get out of trouble. He turned Greggs and McNulty onto investigating the link between East side drug kingpin Proposition Joe and their old target Stringer Bell. Greggs and McNulty soon acquired photos of the two meeting together.^[1][2] Proposition Joe is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Robert F. Chew. ... Stringer Bell, played by Idris Elba, is a character on the HBO TV series The Wire who serves as drug kingpin Avon Barksdales second in command. ...

Season three

Greggs continued working with Lieutenant Daniels when the Major Case Unit was formed. The unit initially tried to build a case against Proposition Joe. They found that they made little progress through their wiretaps because the key members of Joe's organization did not talk on the phone. The case broke down when the unit arrested Melvin "Cheese" Wagstaff on suspicion of murder when in reality he was taking about shooting his pet dog over the wiretap. With Proposition Joe aware of the wiretaps Daniels decided the unit had to move on.

Greggs became something of a rogue element alongside McNulty. The two pursued the Barksdale organization even when the unit was supposed to be focused on East side drug dealer Kintel Williamson. Freamon became exasperated with Greggs lack of respect for Daniels. Greggs also became dissatisfied with her personal life now that Cheryl had her baby and began to cheat on her. Eventually Greggs decided she had made a mistake and the two reconciled.

The Barksdales became involved in a turf war with Marlo Stanfield and the unit shifted their focus back to them. The unit infiltrated the Barksdale organization with wiretaps and had many of their key players tied in a case including Stringer Bell. Bell escaped arrest because he was murdered having been given up by Avon as their friendship broke down. Avon was arrested, but on the basis of a tip from Bell before his death rather than the units casework. At the close of the season Daniels was promoted to Major and left the unit.^[3] Marlo Stanfield is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Jamie Hector. ...

Season four

Greggs and Freamon became the de facto leaders of the unit when Daniels was promoted to commander of the Western District. Their new commander Lieutenant Jimmy Asher was a friend of Freamon's and was a leniant commander focused on his retirement and building a beach house. As a result, Asher did not mind what they did leaving them to go about the investigation without any chain of command interference. As elections approached Freamon picked up the investigation of the Barksdale money trail and served subpoenas for financial records on many political figures. Greggs was responsible for delivering the subpoena to campaign fundraiser Andy Krawczyk. Freamon convinced the others that they would be protected from the politicians because they were under close scrutiny at election time. This article is becoming very long. ...

The unit focused on Marlo Stanfield's organization now that he had control of West Baltimore. They quickly gathered probable cause for wiretaps on key Stanfield lieutenants Fruit and Monk Metcalf. Fruit was murdered but Bunk Moreland from homicide faithfully delivered his cellphone to the unit allowing them to establish more of the Stanfield network. Greggs was responsible for surveillance of a drug dealer supplied by Stanfield, Old Face Andre. She determined that his re-supply was delivered to a convenience store that he ran. The detail felt they were making progress when they recorded Marlo talking to Andre on Monk's phone. Greggs even recognised the sound of gunshots in the background and wondered why Marlo was taking shooting practice when they had been unable to tie him to any drug murders. Marlo Stanfield is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Jamie Hector. ... This article is becoming very long. ... William Bunk Moreland is a fictional African American Baltimore homicide detective played by Wendell Pierce on the television series The Wire. ...

Because of the subpoenas Deputy Commissioner William Rawls decided that the unit needed better supervision and installed Lieutenant Charles Marimow as the new commander. Marimow ordered the unit to stop investigating the Barksdale money trail and to close down their investigation of Stanfield. Marimow reasoned that they should be making faster cases against street level dealers tied to violence. Dismayed at this change in direction Greggs decided to transfer out of the unit. She went to Major Daniels to ask for a position in his district. Daniels insisted that Greggs was too skilled an investigator for district work but offered to help her move laterally. He secured Greggs a position in the homicide unit by asking Rawls. William Rawls is a fictional Police officer in the Baltimore Police Department played by John Doman on the HBO drama The Wire. ...

Greggs transfers into Jay Landsman's squad and is joined by Freamon. She faces merciless teasing from her colleagues. Greggs is further embarrassed when she is ordered to take over the investigation of a murdered witness because of pressure to slow the investigation. A further indignity occurs when the story of the reassignment is leaked to the press and the original investigator, Ed Norris, is reassigned as the primary. Greggs, Norris and Landsman attend a press conference intended to diffuse the story with the facade that Greggs and Norris were working together all along. Jay Landsman is a fictional character played by Delaney Williams on the television series The Wire. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

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