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Joseph Stewart, better known as "Proposition Joe" or "Prop Joe", is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Robert F. Chew. Joe is an Eastside drug lord who prefers a peaceful solution to business disputes when possible. He is responsible for creating the lucrative New Day Co-Op with Stringer Bell, supplying much of Baltimore with heroin brought into the city by "The Greeks". Displaying a cunning, business-oriented demeanor, Joe is often a match in stature for rival drug lords Avon Barksdale and Marlo Stanfield, and is able to manipulate most situations to his advantage.[1]
His nickname stems from his trademark phrase, "I've got a proposition for you", going back to his days selling test answers on the schoolyard. Along with Poot Carr, Wee-Bey Brice, Omar Little, and Bubbles, he is one of the few characters from the drug trade to appear in every season.
^"'The Wire': Ranking 15 of the Most Notorious Villains". Uproxx. 2 June 2017.
better known as "PropositionJoe" or "Prop Joe", is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Robert F. Chew. Joe is an Eastside drug...
murdered. PropositionJoe teaches Stanfield how to launder money and evade investigation. Once Joe is no longer useful to him, Stanfield has Joe killed with...
the Barksdale Organization and later the top lieutenant of kingpin PropositionJoe, he is portrayed as principled, loyal, and competent throughout his...
shot at Avon himself, by giving stolen drugs to Eastside drug kingpin PropositionJoe for Avon's pager number. He tails Avon to Orlando's strip club, pages...
Greek to PropositionJoe's New Day Co-Op, Joe sets up a meeting with Vondas and Marlo Stanfield in order to assuage Marlo's suspicions that Joe had set...
operation from PropositionJoe's dealers, who are working the Barksdale towers as part of a secret agreement between Stringer Bell and PropositionJoe. Mouzone...
himself as Joe's replacement by convincing the Greek that he requires an insurance policy in the form of a replacement for PropositionJoe, in the event...
is unable to secure anything much better. Stringer tells Avon that PropositionJoe has offered to supply high-quality heroin from the Greeks in exchange...
past hatred of the Barksdale Organization. Cheese is the nephew of PropositionJoe and a crew chief in his Eastside drug crew. But later joins Marlo for...
back and secretly agrees to share Barksdale territory with PropositionJoe in exchange for Joe's higher-quality heroin, an idea Avon vehemently opposed....
money-tracing. "PropositionJoe" Stewart engineers a conflict between Marlo and Omar Little in an attempt to demonstrate the benefits of joining Joe's drug cartel:...
season. Many guest stars from the earlier seasons reprised their roles. PropositionJoe (Robert F. Chew), the East Side's cautious drug kingpin, became more...
season, it becomes apparent that Butchie is a connection to Omar, as PropositionJoe arranges a face-to-face meeting between Omar and Stringer by talking...
Johnny "Fifty" Spry, Jay "Squeak" Stanfield, Marlo Sterling Stewart, "Proposition" Joe Stokes, Albert Sydnor, Leander Tank Taylor, Marvin Templeton, Scott...
revealed Cheese to be Randy's biological father—which would also make PropositionJoe Randy's granduncle. In a dispute with a rival gang of children, Randy...
tries to build a case against PropositionJoe but makes little progress through their wiretaps, because the key members of Joe's organization do not talk on...
inferior to the high quality heroin Bodie had been purchasing from PropositionJoe Stewart. Chris asks Bodie about Michael, having noticed that Michael...
When Stringer entered a deal with Prop Joe to give away some of the Barksdale territory for PropositionJoe's superior heroin, Bodie tried to find new...
garage and calls Joe to advise him. As he leaves, Butchie warns Omar that the theft will have further repercussions. PropositionJoe hosts a meeting with...
Serge then arranges a meeting in which PropositionJoe agrees to compensate Ziggy for the torched car. However, Joe makes it clear that Ziggy and Nick would...
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