Thomas Hauk
First appearance	The Target (episode 1.01)
Information
Aliases	Herc
Gender	Male
Age	30
Occupation	Baltimore Police Sergeant
Title	Sergeant
Portrayed by	Domenick Lombardozzi
Created by	David Simon

Sergeant Thomas "Herc" Hauk is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Domenick Lombardozzi. Herc is a sergeant in the Baltimore Police Department's Major Case Unit. He is a capable officer but tends towards brutality and often acts without thinking. He is an unfailingly loyal partner to Ellis Carver. He enjoys the adrenaline rush of physical policing and is not above cutting ethical corners to get ahead. Image File history File links The_Wire_Herc. ... The Target is the first (pilot) episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. ... Domenico Domenick Lombardozzi (born on March 25, 1976, in Bronx, New York) is an actor. ... 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). ... This article is about the television series. ... Domenico Domenick Lombardozzi (born on March 25, 1976, in Bronx, New York) is an actor. ... 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. ... Sergeant Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Seth Gilliam. ...

Biography

Season one

Herc and Ellis Carver typically worked as a pair in Narcotics, and both were intimidated by Kima Greggs' ability and annoyed at her superior attitude towards them. They all joined the Barksdale detail because their shift lieutenant Cedric Daniels was assigned to command the detail. Herc and Carver got into trouble early on in the investigation when they drunkenly raided the Barksdale organizations tower operation and nearly incited a riot. Herc was slightly injured, but returned early from his sick leave to take part in raids on the Barksdale's operation. Sergeant Ellis Carver is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Seth Gilliam. ... Detective Shakima Kima Greggs is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actress Sonja Sohn. ... Cedric Daniels is a fictional Police Lieutenant for the Baltimore Police Department played by Lance Reddick on the HBO drama The Wire. ...

When young dealer Bodie Brodus punched detective Patrick Mahone, Herc, Carver and Greggs were unrelenting in punishing him with a beating. After Bodie escaped from a juvenile dentention centre, Herc spotted him in the low rise projects and arrested him. Finding that he remained defiant, Herc and Carver gave him another beating. While waiting to hand him over, they softened toward him and the three shared a game of pool. Preston Bodie Broadus is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor J.D. Williams. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ...

When Herc and Carver intercepted the Barksdale crew's profits for a day by tailing Wee-Bey Brice, Herc considered keeping some of the money, but Carver realised the wiretap might leave them exposed to the bosses. Some of the money went missing by accident, which led Carver to doubt Herc until it turned up. This also got both of them on the wrong side of Lt. Daniels. Roland Wee-Bey Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Hassan Johnson. ...

Herc took his sergeant's exam and passed, his score was likely high enough to get a position ahead of Carver, but his past brutality allegations came back to haunt him and he was denied the promotion. Carver, who got a lower score, got a promotion by betraying Daniels to Deputy Commissioner Burrell. Ervin Burrell is a fictional officer in the Baltimore Police Department played by Frankie Faison on the HBO drama The Wire. ...

Season two

When the detail is disbanded Herc moves back to Narcotics, investigating stupid East Side white dealers. Daniels brings Herc into his detail investigating Frank Sobotka, recognising Herc's stomach for the tedium of surveillance work. At Herc's request, he also brings Carver back but refused to recognise his promotion; Greggs remains lead detective. Frank Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Chris Bauer. ...

Herc is again partnered with Carver and the two investigate drug dealing around the docks area. Herc plays the key undercover role, dealing with mostly with the white drug dealers in the Polish docks neighborhood of Baltimore. They fabricate a confidential informant ("Fuzzy Dunlop") using a listening device concealed within a tennis ball, and take payments meant for the informant to cover the cost when the device is damaged. However, they do establish a link between Frank's nephew and the drug trade. Nick Sobotka is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Pablo Schreiber. ...

Herc felt unappreciated, as they were constantly relied upon to do the leg work for the detail, even having to install an air conditioner in the home of a judge. After being left out in the rain waiting for a suspect who has already turned himself in, Herc convinces Carver they will never be respected in Daniels' unit, and they put in for a transfer.^[1]

Season three

Herc returned to Narcotics with Carver and worked in the Western District under Major Colvin. Together they were responsible for running the district's Drugs Enforcement Unit and commanding a squad of dedicated narcotics police including officers Kenneth Dozerman, Lloyd "Truck" Garrick and Anthony Colicchio. Howard Bunny Colvin, played by Robert Wisdom, is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, and was a Major for the Baltimore Police Department before his retirement. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ...

The DEU squad was responsible for policing Colvin's unsanctioned free drug trade zone, nicknamed "Hamsterdam". Herc was most critical of the Major's pet project and eventually informed the Baltimore Sun reporters as to what was happening. When the national media began covering the story the fall of the Hamsterdam soon followed.^[2][3] The Baltimore Sun is the major newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, with a daily press run of about 430,000 copies, and a Sunday run of 540,000 copies. ...

Season four

Herc was working the security detail for Mayor Clarence Royce during his campaign stops, when he stumbled across the mayor receiving oral sex from his assistant in his office. Major Valchek advised Herc how to turn the mishap to his advantage and quickly make rank. The Mayor quickly surmises Herc's desire for promotion and demonstrates his willingness to help Herc's career in exchange for his discretion. Royce calls Burrell and demands that Herc be promoted to the first available Sergeant's job. He received the sergeant's post with the Major Crimes Unit under Lieutenant Charlie Marimow, but soon loses the ally as Royce loses the Democratic mayoral primary. He and Marimow clash over methods, and Herc shows no respect for his leadership abilities. Clarence Royce is the fictional mayor of Baltimore played by Glynn Turman on the HBO drama The Wire. ... Stanislaus Stan Valchek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ...

Herc took a police camera to spy on Marlo Stanfield without Marimow or a court's approval (though Marimow does request that they go after Marlo, neither he nor Pearlman would approve surveillance). Stanfield's crew saw through this, giving fake information which prompted Herc to arrest an innocent woman, and then stole the camera. Trying to postpone trouble, Herc attributes the fake information to the fictitious informant "Fuzzy Dunlop." In trying to get the camera back, Herc interviewed Randy Wagstaff, who has knowledge about the murder of Fruit, one of Marlo's drug dealers. He later slipped and revealed Randy's cooperation; this quickly spread around, and ultimately had dire consequences for Randy. Still attempting to retrieve the camera, Herc pulled over Chris and Snoop and found a nail gun which ultimately proved to be an important clue to Lester Freamon's investigation into the murders of Lex and Fruit. Marlo Stanfield is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Jamie Hector. ... Randy Wagstaff is a fictional character played by Maestro Harrell on the television drama The Wire. ... On the fictional television drama The Wire, the Stanfield Organization is a criminal organization led by Marlo Stanfield. ... On the fictional television drama The Wire, the Stanfield Organization is a criminal organization led by Marlo Stanfield. ... Detective Lester Freamon is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Clarke Peters. ...

Herc thinks he will look good to Marimow if he ties a murder to Stanfield, and Greggs, now in Homicide, gets Bubbles in touch with Herc. Herc agrees to help him with his problems if he helps Herc find a witness to Fruit's murder. Herc repeatedly blows Bubbles off; to get back at Herc, Bubbles provides him with bad information, leading him to attempt to arrest a church minister. Since the minister is African American and part of a coalition that is on good terms with Commissioner Burrell, Herc is accused of harassment and racial profiling. The ministers apply pressure to newly elected Mayor Carcetti, and Commissioner Burrell pushes the internal affairs division to look into Herc's wrongdoings with an eye toward finding a palatable excuse for discharging him. Herc is then suspended with pay following Marimow's departure and is then pending a full trial with the I.I.D. division. Bubbles is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Andre Royo. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Ervin Burrell is a fictional officer in the Baltimore Police Department played by Frankie Faison on the HBO drama The Wire. ... Racial profiling is the inclusion of race as a primary determinant in the characterization of a persons considered likely to commit a particular type of crime (see Offender Profiling). ... Tommy Carcetti is a fictional Baltimore politician played by Aidan Gillen on the HBO drama The Wire. ...

Herc's future

Pending a Internal Investigation Division trial, Herc's record within the department currently includes (among other possible things): A minimum of four brutality complaints, two harassment accusations with the Jamaican woman and the minister (who also accused him of brutality and racial profiling), falsified paper work credited to a made-up informant going back several years (a true accusation Marimow is trying to prove), and the loss of a survelliance camera that was illegally used without a warrant or an administrative approval. He has (with Carver) taken drug money on raids for his own personal usage, but it has never been established that the Internal Investigation Division is aware of this.

Prior to being reassigned, Lieutenant Marimow intended to inform the Internal Investigation Division of Herc's actions, something he may have done off-camera; additionally, to regain the favor of Mayor Carcetti, Commissioner Burrell instructed the IID to look deeply into Herc's activities. Herc was suspended from the department with pay pending the full trial hearing. Tommy Carcetti is a fictional Baltimore politician played by Aidan Gillen on the HBO drama The Wire. ... Ervin Burrell is a fictional officer in the Baltimore Police Department played by Frankie Faison on the HBO drama The Wire. ...

Herc's future is unclear; the ending of season four shows, during a montage, Herc standing in front of the IID trial board with a few slightly audible words such as "misconduct" and "dishonorable". His fate will not be known until the start of Season five, but characters repeatedly speculate that he will, at the minimum, lose his position as a sergeant.

Critical response and analysis

Salon described Herc and Carver as providing needed comic relief to the show and acting as a "bickering couple."^[1]

David Simon has commented that actor Domenick Lombardozzi was incapable of concealing or modulating his native South Bronx accent; hence, at some point the program will explain how Herc ended up in Baltimore. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Trivia

Herc likes rap music and has mobile ringtone of Stay Fly by Three 6 Mafia and P.I.M.P. by 50 Cent. Stay Fly or Stay High is the first single from rap group Three 6 Mafias 2005 album Most Known Unknown. ... Three 6 Mafia (formerly known as Triple Six Mafia), is the first hip hop group from Memphis, Tennessee to go platinum, the second hip-hop act to be nominated for and win an Oscar. ... P.I.M.P. is the third single from 50 Cents debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin. Released in 2003, it reached #3 in the USA becoming 50 Cents fourth Top 10 single; it also peaked at #5 in the UK. The song was written by 50... For the U.S. currency value, see Half dollar (United States coin). ...

Herc is often seen in a throwback Orioles baseball hat with the letter "B" on it.

Herc has shown a sexual interest in African American women on numerous occassions throughout the show. Most notably he has shown interest in squadmate Dozerman's girlfriend, City council president Naresse Campbell, and Shardene Innes, a stripper turned informant in Season 1. An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Law enforcement characters of The Wire. ... In the fictional TV series The Wire,The Barksdale Organization led by Avon Barksdale was the most powerful and violent drug crew in Baltimore, Maryland and was the main focus of investigation in Seasons 1 and 3. ...

References

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