 An earlier version of the Omar Little character appears in a season 3 episode of "NYPD Blue", entitled "Hollie and the Blowfish".The episode, written by future-"Wire" creator David Simon, featured a character named Ferdinand Hollie who, like Omar, was a stickup artist who made his living boldly and brazenly robbing (often-powerful) drug-dealers, but still lived his life by a code of honor, and was willing to cooperate with the police.However, unlike Omar, Hollie's thefts were largely in support of his own drug addiction, and he is infected by HIV.