Jon Bernthal Is a Wickedly Corrupt Cop in HBO Crime Trailer From ‘The Wire’ Team
Two decades after The Wire premiered on HBO, the network is gearing up for another gritty crime drama in the same vein as the acclaimed Emmy-nominated series. From The Wire creator David Simon comes We Own This City, which unveiled its first trailer on Wednesday.
Taking place, once again, in Baltimore, the series stars bruiser Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher) as a corrupt cop in the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.
“I just want to run a hypothetical by you,” Bernthal’s Sgt. Wayne Jenkins poses in the trailer. “Say we’re on an investigation and we find a big-time drug dealer, a real fuckin’ monster, right? We get wind of where he’s keeping his cash, and we actually come upon that cash. It’s right there in front of us. And we just, you know, we take it.”