<P> Marlo holds a meeting with two Co-Op members (including Fat - Face Rick and Slim Charles) from the prison and offers to sell them the connection to the Greeks for ten million dollars, claiming that he plans to become a businessman . The Co-Op raise the funds but Slim Charles murders Cheese--in revenge for his betrayal of Proposition Joe--before he can carry out Marlo's order . Fat - Face Rick and Slim Charles assume control of the connection . </P> <P> After Marlo's release, Levy introduces him to property developers and other prominent Baltimore businessmen at an evening event . However, he quietly slips out of the event and approaches two young corner boys--who are talking about Omar and mythologizing his death--and provokes a fight by asking "Do you know who I am?", the answer evidently being that they don't . One of the boys is armed with a gun, the other with a knife, but Marlo manages to drive them off . Marlo's arm is cut in the scuffle, and he is left standing alone on the corner, taking in the streets that he once ruled . </P> <P> Jamie Hector has commented that he sees the character as striving to obtain power rather than profit and revelling in using that power over others . The series' creator David Simon has also commented that Stanfield is driven by a desire for totalitarian power . Hector has said that much of his performance stems from trying to capture Stanfield as a man of power and economy using minimalist movement and speech . </P> <P> When critic Alan Sepinwall interviewed Simon about the fate of the character, Simon said he considers Stanfield's fate to be a kind of justice, as he is cut off from his power and reputation . Sepinwall hailed Stanfield's ending as defying the viewers' expectations to see the character incarcerated or murdered in the streets . </P>

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